York County PA Archives Military Records.....Calhoun, Andrew January 8, 1851
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Andrew Calhoun, National Archives Microseries M804, Roll __, Application #R1598
Franklin County, Ohio
	“On this 8th day of January, 1851, personally appeared before me, Rufus 
P. Halding, a Judge of the Superior Court of the state of Ohio, Anna Maria 
Calhoun, a resident of the city of Columbus in the county of Franklin and state 
aforesaid, aged 81 years…:

	“That she is the widow of Andrew Calhoun of York County and state of 
Pennsylvania, who served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War, and 
that her said husband, Andrew Calhoun entered the army by enlistment in the 
year 1778 or 1779, and for during the war, and served in said Revolutionary War 
for the term of three years. 

She further states that from the great length of time that has transpired since 
she was married to her deceased husband, Andrew Calhoun as aforesaid, that she 
cannot state the exact time of year that she was married to Andrew Calhoun, but 
that she knows that it was sometime during the year 1792. She further states 
that she was married to the said Andrew Calhoun in the year 1792 as aforesaid 
in the town of York, York County, Pennsylvania by the Reverend Campbell of the 
Episcopal Church. That her name before her marriage was Anna Maria Ford, 
daughter of Major Ford, who was also a soldier under George Washington in many 
hard-contested battles as he always stated, in the Revolutionary War. That her 
husband, Andrew Calhoun died in the town of York, York County, Pennsylvania 
sometime in the year 1804 and at which place he was also buried in the 
Episcopal Church graveyard in said town. 

She further states for the satisfaction of the department to which this claim 
is submitted as aforesaid, that the legislature of the state of Pennsylvania 
had her case under consideration during the session of that commonwealth of the 
years 1839 and 1840. And that on the 12 day of June, 1840, the Legislature of 
said state passed an Act which was subsequently approved by the governor of 
said commonwealth, granting to the said Anna Maria Calhoun the sum of $40 as a 
gratuity and also $40 of an annuity during her lifetime in consequence of the 
military services of her husband, Andrew Calhoun, in the Revolutionary War and 
also in the Indian War, which annuity has been regularly paid to the said Anna 
Maria Calhoun by the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the 
presentation of  her proper order half yearly ever since the passage of said 
Act by the Legislature as aforesaid, and in order more fully to satisfy the 
Department of the Commissioner of Pensions of the justice of her claims and the 
facts in the case, she has procured and attached the same to this her 
application, an attested copy of the Act of the Legislature of the state of 
Pennsylvania, as referred to in this, her declaration, and in which act the 
said Anna Mara Calhoun is clearly and explicitly recognized as the widow of a 
Revolutionary soldier, which act, No. 244, of the session 1839-40 of the 
legislature of that commonwealth, is hereby appended, attested by the librarian 
of the state of Ohio…Anna Maria Calhoun, her mark. 

Additional Comments:
It is stated in said claim that H. A. Rutter was her son, but there are no 
further data concerning her family.

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