Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County
On the eight day of July 1822
personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland
County being a Court of record for the Said County of Westmoreland
- Barney McGuire aged seventy eight years resident in Derry Township
in Said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth
on his oath declare - that he served in the Revolutionary war
as follows to wit that he was enlisted on the first day of July
1775 by Captain William Hendricks that he marched under Capt William
Hendricks for Quebeck in the Corps commanded by Col Benedict Arnold,
that he was enlisted for the term of one year, that on the thirty
first day of December 1775 he was taken prisoner by the British
at Quebeck, that being a prisoner he made his escape from the
British, that he went to the White Plains where he joined the
American Army, the regiment then commanded by Col. James Chambers
being again enlisted in Said Regiment by Captain Thomas Buchannan
in the year 1776, that he marched to and was engaged in the Battle
of the White Plains, that he then marched to and was engaged in
the Battle of Brandywine, that he then marched to and was engaged
in the Battle of Germantown, that he then marched to and was engaged
in the Battle of Monmouth, that he was at the Storming of Stony
Point, where he was wounded in the right thigh by a bayonet, that
he was also wounded at the Battle of Germantown, that he was at
the battle of the Greensprings in Virginia, that he was enlisted
as above by Capt. Thomas Buchanan for the term of three years
or during the war, that on account of wounds and disabilities
he was discharged on or about the twenty first day of August 1781.
that he drew a pension under a special act of Congress which he
has since relinquished, that his original declaration is dated
the day of 1818, that he received a pension, the number of his
certificate is 2,763.
And I do solemnly swear that I was
a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March
1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any
manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent
thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions
of an Act of Congrefs entittled an Act to provide for certain
persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States,
in the Revolutionary war, passed on the 18th day of March 1818,
and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property
or Securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income
other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and
by me subscribed viz. one cow, one sheep, four hogs, one table,
one pot, 2 Iron Skillets a few cups & saucers plates knives
& forks. I am a farmer but for many years have been unable
to pursue it or to perform any work or labour by which to contribute
to my support. my family consists of my wife aged about Seventy
five years, being lame and unable to help herself, two daughters,
one about Sixteen, and the other about twenty, and unable to contribute
to my support.
Sworn and declared in open court on the 8th day of July 1822
attest. Eli Coulter Prothy.
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Barney X McGuire
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State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County
I, Eli Coulter Prothonotary of the
Court of Common pleas for the County of Westmoreland, do hereby
certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed
are truly copied from the record of the said Court & I do
further certify that it is the oppinion of Said Court that the
total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid
schedules does not exceed Thirty dollars, In testimony whereof
I have hereto Set my hand and affixed the seal of said office
at Greensburgh on the Eighth day of July AD 1822.
Eli Coulter prothy.
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