York County PA Archives Military Records.....Murphy, John February 29, 1839
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John Murphy, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll #__, Application #W3152
       York County, Pennsylvania, February 29, 1839, Barbara Murphy, a resident 
of Chanceford Township, aged 83 years: 

       “That she is the widow of John Murphy, who was a private in Captain ____ 
McNeary’s [McNary] company of volunteers during the Revolutionary War; that he 
marched with said company from Chanceford Township aforesaid before her 
marriage took place, in the year 1776 (in the month of July to the best of her 
recollection, but does not recollect the exact date), from thence to Lancaster, 
Philadelphia, and New York, where he served a tour, she believes, of three 
months (yet she is not certain; but she is certain it was a full two months), 
and was then discharged.”

        “That after their marriage took place, in the year 1778, he was 
drafted, and marched in Captain John Laird’s company of militia as a private 
from said township, up the Susquehanna River to near Huntington (then called 
Standing Stone) against the Indians, where he served a tour of at least two 
months and was discharged. That she does note remember the month or the day 
that he entered the service, but is certain that it was some time after harvest 
of the said year 1778.”

      “That in the year 1781, he was again drafted and marched from the 
aforesaid township to Camp Security in the county and state aforesaid, as a 
private in the militia to guard prisoners, where he served a tour of two months 
and was then discharged, and shortly after he was discharged at Camp Security, 
he again entered the service at the same place as a substitute for Isaac 
Williams in the militia, and to the best of her recollection, served a tour of 
two months, and was again discharged. That she does not remember the months or 
the days on which he entered the service, the two last mentioned tours of his 
service, nor  does she remember the names of any of the officers under whom he 
served, by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory.”

	“And that she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim. 
Neither has she any record of her marriage, or the birth of her children as a 
family record, and in the church under the charge of the late Rev. Jacob 
Goering, by whom the marriage ceremonies were performed, there was no records 
kept for a number of years, including the time she was married, but that she 
ever since her marriage, had in her care jointly with her husband, a 
certificate of the time of her marriage in the handwriting of the said Jacob 
Goering, which was given to her and her husband at the time of their marriage, 
and will be hereto attached, transmitted.”

        “She further declares that she was married to the said John Murphy on 
the 7th day of June in the year 1778; that her husband, the aforesaid John 
Murphy, died on the 16the day of October in the year 1809, and that she was 
never married to any other person since the death of her said husband, etc…”

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