Pension Application of Patrick Maher R6831
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Virginia } to wit:
County of Rockbridge }
On this 30th day of April 1834 personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace for said county, Patrick Maher, a resident of Rockbridge County, State of Virginia, aged Eighty one, the 17th of last March, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1780, in the fall of the year he thinks, with Capt. David Lynn, and served in the third regiment of the Maryland line, under the following named officers: Col. [John Eager] Howard, Capt. David Lynn, Lieut. Jno. Lynn, Lieut. Lucket, Thos. Windham, orderly Sargeant, &c. he was in service when the peace was made, he served under but one term of enlistment. he resided in Frederick town Maryland when he entered the service; he was engaged in no battles. he was retained at Fredericktown for some length of time after enlisting. the first service he was sent upon was when the company, by the orders of General [William] Smallwood, went in search of Whayland the refugee, who burned a ship at Stuart shipyard, on West River, below Anapolis [sic: Annapolis]. he here remained for some time with Capt. Lynn’s company for the purpose of guarding and protecting a ship that was building. this ship when launched was I think called the Virginia or Virginian. he next returned to Frederick Town, and there drew 3 months pay in what was called Morris’s notes, also cloathing. on is return to Fredericktown he found there a number of prisoners taken from Cornwallace’s [sic: Cornwallis’s] army. he then, together with Capt. Lynn’s company were sent as a part of the escort, to convey said prisoners to Little York Pa. & to Philadelphia new Jail, which service being compleated, he with the said Lynn’s company again returned to Fredericktown Md. Capt. Lynn’s Company was next ordered to Fort Pitt [at present Pittsburgh PA], who then with said company he again marched, and remained at Fort Pitt in the performance of garrison duty until peace was declared. he was then re-marched to Frederick Town Md. & discharged. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, and that his discharge is lost, and that the testimony of no surviving witness can be obtained.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
before Sam’l. Patterson Patrick Maher
Patrick Maher a Soldier of the Maryland line in the Service of the United States during the revolutionary War was entitled to Lot No1404 of the land westward of Fort Cumberland which was given to him by the State of Maryland. David Lynn
NOTE: A letter from the Veterans Administration dated 10 Feb 1937 provides the following additional information from other documents in the complete file: “The place of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown. It was stated that he was an Irishman. The name appears, also, as Marhar. After the Revolution, date not given, the solder married in what was later Adams County, Pennsylvania, which county adjoined Frederick County, Maryland, Hanah. The date and place of her birth and the names of her parents are not shown. Between 1800 and 1802, Patrick Maher moved from Maryland to Rockbridge County, Virginia and lived in the neighborhood of Brownsburg, that county.