Richland County OhArchives Military Records.....Purdy, Patrick October 5, 1852
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Patrick Purdy, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll #__, Application #R8525
Richland County, Ohio, October 5th, 1852, Jane Purdy, aged 82 years: “That she is
the widow of Patrick B. Purdy, who was a private in the Revolutionary War and served
from 3 to six months (she thinks) in Captain Andrew Thompson’s company, in General
Potter’s brigade of Pennsylvania troops. Her said husband went out from Hopewell
Township, York Co, PA in 1776 or 1777. Benjamin Savage and Thomas Dickson were
privates in the same company and James Leper and James Proudfit [Proudfoot?] in the
same mess.”

“She further declares that she was lawfully married to said Patrick B. Purdy in the
County of York state of Pennsylvania, on or about the 22nd day of January, 1787 by
the Rev. James Clark, at the residence of Samuel Harper in Hopewell Township. That
her husband, the aforesaid Patrick B. Purdy on the 19th day of November, 1825, at
the county of Richland, state of Ohio, died at the age of 67 years…”

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