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Pension
Records of Thomas
Downey
Submitted By:
Barbara O'Nan
DOWNEY, THOMAS
PENNSYLVANIA #S.35895
The said pensioner had enlisted on February 10 of
the year 1776 for a tour of one years duration to
serve under the command of Captain John Nelson in
his rifle company in the Fourth Regiment of the
Pennsylvania Line to serve under the command of
Colonel John Dekoss and they first made a march to
Lower Canada and then they marched from there back
to Ticonderoga. They then marched to Philadelphia
and there he received an honorable discharge by
Captain John Nelson between the twelfth or the
fifteenth of the month of March of the year
1777.
The said pensioner was born in Frederick County in
the state of Maryland in the year 1754. Thomas
Emerson swears that at one time they both well and
favorably acquainted with him and he also states
that in the neighborhood in which he resided he was
reputed to have served in the War of the Revolution
on the side of the United States of America. Thomas
Barr, assistant Judge of Pickaway county in the
state of Ohio, swears that at one time he was both
well and favorably acquainted with him and he also
states that in the neighborhood in which he resided
he was reputed to have served in the War of the
Revolution on the side of the United States of
America. He stated this in open court and upon his
oath.
At the time of this application the said pensioner
was at the age of 69 years. By trade he was a common
labourer. The said pensioner was on the Ohio roll of
Pensions at the rate of $8.00 per month to commence
on May 16 of the year 1818 and his certificate of
pension for that amount had been issued on November
12 of the year 1818 and it had there upon been sent
to Thomas Barr, esquire, at Pickaway county in the
state of Ohio.
SOURCE: Kentucky Historical Society Library,
Frankfort, Ky 40606 [Copied from a typed
transcription found in Henry County, Ky files.]
NOTE: Original document should be checked to confirm
dates and other information. This THOMAS DOWNEY came
to Henry County, Ky.
KENTUCKY PENSION ROLL OF 1835
THOMAS DOWNEY, HENRY COUNTY, PRIVATE, PENNSYLVANIA
LINE
$96.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE, $50.93 AMOUNT RECEIVED
NOVEMBER 12, 1818 PENSION STARTED, AGE 70
TRANSFERRED FROM OHIO
DIED SEPTEMBER 15, 1823
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