Re: MALONE-VA, 1600s
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In reply to:
Re: MALONE-VA, 1600s
1/08/99
THE FOLLOWING NOTE FROM LESLIE MALONE STATEING THAT JOSEPH ALEXANDER WAS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ELIGABLE FOR BENIFITS,Chris
Having the impress of the seal of this court over the place where atached by (&), to wit in the outside of the sheet upon wich this certificate begins.In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court at the place where this sheet is atached to the one above, this 10th day of october A.D. 1833. James Cunningham Clerk
State of Indiana/On the 8th of October 1833 personally appeared in open court Warren county P/In the Circuit Court of said County of Warren now sitting before a court of (?) having unlimited common law and (?) jurisdiction) before judges thereof.Leslie Malone aged sixty eight years, who being duly sworn (?) says that he was living with his fathers family at the comencment of the revolutionary war about seven miles from sunbury& five miles from northumberland, Northumberland County in the state of Pennsylvania & continued to reside thereduring the first few years of the war & untill he was taken a prisoner by the Indians as hereinafter named - That he was during that time & before, well aquainted with Joseph Alexander now of Montgomery County, State of Indiana, & whose declaration for a pension is hereto annexed, of the date of 19th March 1833, & supplemental declaration of 17th september 1833, both of wich Depondent has heard was, and from personal recollection & from(?) information he states his behalf of facts to be as therein set forth and has no doupt that said Joseph Alexander served in the revolutionary war for the terms & in the manner as stated by him - he recollects at the time to have heard that said Alexander was out under the officers he has named to wit Captains White & McMahan & Commandor Antis all of whom was personolly known to Depondent.Depondent knew his (&) in that service and has heard from them at the time the same statements - he lived about two & a half miles from said Alexander & although he does not now recollect actually to have seen him in the ranks he knows that he was absent for the terms wich he has stated from his fathers hous'e & that it was the current statement of the family of said Alexander & of the neighborhood that he was in the military service of the United States as above stated - From deponents recollection of the periods of said Alexanders absent his supports & believes the term of his service to have been as in his said declaration as set forth - he remembers about the time and afterwards in his return from Indian captivity to have heard of the boat service & campaign to the Ginapee County frequently mentioned in wich said Alexander served as Captain - he knows of the burning of his fathers house as he has stated & saw the smoke of the building in conflagation - shortly after said house was burnt deponent was herding cattle for his father about 25 miles from Northumberland & was then & there taken prisoner by the Indians to the quinnipee country thence to Catterange in lake Erie - On his return from captivity deponents father had had removed to Centre County Pennsylvania within he followed - deponent has been aquainted with said Alexander ever since that time - he knows him to a (&) man & states that he has always been reported in the several neighborhood when he has resided to have been a revolutionary soldier as he states - Deponent now resides in Fountain County Indiana about ten miles from Williamsport the place where he now lives & further said the Francis Malone (whose deposition is hereto annexed) was in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war.
Leslie Malone