Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,653, John Hamilton, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Hamilton, John
S. 39,653
CONTENTS
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12.481 Q
Pennsylvania
John Hamilton 20
of Indiana County in the state of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hand of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of One year
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of June 1818 and sent to Charles Campbell Esq. Blacklick Pennsylvania
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar. 1819  77. 41    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  1 Sep 1819.  48. 00    7 Mo 21.      31       $125.41  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
D. Dec. 1, 1818 from a. B.

39 653
REGY INVALID.
File No. 39 653
John Hamilton Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 311
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Hamilton
15 May 1818
Private
In 1 st or Rifle Regt - Col. Hand
Served for One Year, ending 1 st July 1776
Hand (Burgoyne's Regt)
Judge Campbell
Blacksville Ind ty Penn.
Admitted
This declaration is too informal - A proper form is herewith sent -
Pension Office April 22 nd 1819

District of Pennsylvania ss
On this fifteenth day of May 1818. Before me the undersigned one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Indiana In and for said District Personally Appeared John Hamilton Aged Sixty three years Resident in the County of Indiana In said District Who being By one first sworn As Law Directs Dth on His Oath make the following Declaration In order to obtain the Provisions made by the late Act of Congress An Act entitled An Act to Pardon for Certain Persons Engaged In the Land and Naval Service of the United States In the Revolutionary War that He the said John Hamilton Enlisted in the year 1798 In July and served in Capt John Lawderin's Company for the term of one year As Will Appear By His Discharge Discharged By Col Edward Hand in July 1799 that He Was In a Service of Litchauer's Regiment and that He faithfully served out His time of enlistment and that Declarant is Now in Reduced Circumstance and stands in need of the Assistance of His Country for Support and that His Discharge is All the Evidence He hath of His Service In His Power at the time
Sworn to and Subscribed before John Hamilton the day above written
Chas Campbell
Indiana County Is
I Charles Campbell one of Associate Judges in and for the Aforesaid County in said District Do Certify that It Appears To my satisfaction that the aforesaid John Hamilton Did Did serve in the Revolutionary War Against the Common Enemy for More than the term of Nine months in the Continental Establishment and I now Invermet the Proceedings and Testimony and Had before me to the least any of the Department of War Pursuant to the Directions of the Aforementioned Act of Congress and John Hamilton is in Reduced Circumstance Stand and seal this fifteenth day of May 1818
Chas Campbell (cl)

Indiana County Pennsylvania ss
I John Taylor Clerk of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the peace of said the County of Indiana in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do Certify that Charles Campbell Esq r before whom the foregoing Declaration was made and at the signing of the Certificate hereto annexed was and still is a Judge of said County of Indiana duly commissioned and qualified to act and as such full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as well in Courts of Justice as otherwise —
John Taylor Clerk
In Testimony whereof I have here to set my hand and Seal of Office at Indiana this nineteenth day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
John Taylor Clerk

I Charles Campbell one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Indiana a in District of Pennsylvania do hereby and Make known that the within Declaration is in every Respect true to the best of my knowledge and belief Assistance and support of the Lord Jesus Christ My Hand and My Hand and Seal this 15 th of July 1818 Chas Campbell Esq.

By EDWARD HAND, Esquire, Colonel, commanding the First (or Rifle) Regiment, in the Service of the United American Colonies.
THESE ARE TO CERTIFY, That the Bearer hereof John Hamilton has served the American Continent in the above said Regiment and Captain John Lowdens Company, faithfully and honestly, for the Space of one year and the Term of Enlistment being expired, is discharged from the said Regiment; he having received all his Pay, and all other just Demands from the Time of his enlisting in the said Regiment, to this Day of his Discharge. GIVEN under my Hand and Regi- mental Seal, at Long Island this first Day of July 1776.
Edw. Hand Col.

John Hamilton . . . do acknowledge I to have received all my Pay, and all other just Demands, from the Day of my inlisting into the within named Regiment, to this Day of my Dis- charge.
John Hamilton
Witness Present
Wm McMurray
John Hamilton S.F 39,653. Penn. (found mutilated.)