REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - JOSEPH BEATTY

Contributed by:  Curt Beatty [curt@iglou.com]


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Original Claim

District of Kentucky
On the 22nd day of September 1823 personally appeared in open court being a 
court of record established by the legislature of Kentucky having power to fine 
and imprison for the county of Grayson, Joseph Beatty aged about 70 years who 
being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following 
declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of congress of the 
18th of March 1818 and the 1st May 1820, that he the said Joseph Beatty Sergeant 
enlisted for the term of three years in the month of August in the year 1776 in 
the state of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain Moses Carsey in 
the regimen commanded by Col. Eunis McCoy in the line of the state of 
Pennsylvania continental establishment that he continued to serve in the sad 
com/y until the end of the three years when he was discharged from the said 
service in Westmoreland County in the state of Pennsylvania that he was in the 
scrimmages of Woodbridge, the Scotch picket and Bonbrook, Broadhead and 
McIntushes campaigns against the Indians - and that he has no other evidence now 
in his power of the said service except the affidavits of Edward Dehaven and 
Jonathan Bozarth here annexed and in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820 
, do solemnly swear that I was a citizen resident citizen of the United States 
on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and now a 
citizen of Grayson County Kentucky and that I have not since that time by gift 
sale of in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with an intent 
thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of 
congress entitled 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 on thousand eight hundred eighteen and that I have not nor has any 
person fortune in trust for me nor have I any income other than what is 
contained in schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed two hear of horses 
worth $30 three head of cattle worth $25 four head of sheep worth $4 twenty six 
head of hoggs worth $ 30 Total Amount - - - $89

Joseph Beatty

and my occupation a farmer and very ill able to labour for my living and my 
family consists of myself and two unmarried women one 50 and the other 40 years 
of age and two children one boy named Wm H Hart aged 6 years one girl named 
Malinda Clark aged 7 years, and the said Joseph Beatty introduced Edward Dehaven 
and Jonathan Bozarth to prove his service in the Revolutionary War, who after 
being duly sworn -------------------- saith that he knows that Joseph Beatty was 
a Sergeant in the 8th Pennsylvania regiment commanded by Col. McCoy for the 
space of 3 years in the Revolutionary War as a tested soldier and Jonathan 
Bozarth states that he knows the statements made by Edward Dehaven as to Beattys 
being in the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment under the command of Col. McCoy for the 
term of 3 years in the Revolutionary War is true; as he was in the same regiment 
at the same time with the said Beatty
This court do also give it as their opinion that the total amount in value of 
the prop-erty exhibited in the above schedule is $18 --- and the court do 
further state that the witness-es introduced by the above named Joseph Beatty to 
prove his services in the revolutionary war is credible witnesses on oath which 
is ordered to be certified - and this court do further state that the said 
Beatty is a resident at this time of Grayson County Kentucky which is ordered to 
be certified
Matthew Cunningham
Abraham Neighbours
John Doran
William Stinson

I Jack Thomas clerk of the Grayson County Court in the State of Kentucky do 
certify that the above schedules, declaration, original claim, and evidence of 
the claim of Joseph Beatty has been admitted to the record of said Court and 
that the above and foregoing are truly copies therefrom, I do further certify 
that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount of the value of 
the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is $89

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the 
said court on this 23rd day of September 1823
Jack Thomas clerk
of the Grayson County
court in the state of
Kentucky