State of Kentucky
County of Rockcastle
On this 26th
day of April 1852 personally appeared before me Thos. J. Smith the undersigned,
an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State above
mentioned, Hector McKay aged 49 years a resident of the county and State
aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth state upon his
oath, that he is the Administrator of the estate of Jane McKay, deceased, who
was the wife of Alexander McKay, deceased, doth on his oath make and subscribe
to the following declaration on behalf of the heirs of the said Alexander and
Jane McKay, deceased, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisionary act of
Congress of the United States passed the 4 July 1836, or the provisions of such
acts of Congress as might apply to the following same case,
Doth declare on his
oath that the said Alexander McKay, deceased, is the identical man, who was a
soldier in the War of the Revolution, against Great Britain – From the County
of Rowan State of North Carolina, that the said McKay served a part of
the time as a private in the North Carolina Militia, and a part of the time in
the Continental North Carolina line, and is informed and [verily] believes in
some of the tours aforesaid. The said Alexander McKay served once under Captain
Pearl, and once under and belonged to the Company Commanded by Captain
Campbell, and was commissioned while in the service aforesaid a Sergeant or
Lieutenant, and acted in that capacity the greater portion of the time the said
McKay served in the war of the Revolution aforesaid, and computing the
different times in all was not less than two years, or there about, and that the
said Alexander McKay is the identical man that served as aforesaid, and after
serving out the different period for which he entered the service aforesaid
faithfully was honorably discharged in the war aforesaid, said discharge having
long since been lost, and that the said Alexander McKay is the identical man who
was married in the County of Rowan, State of North Carolina to Jane Munroe,
which took place the early part of the year 1779, and before the close of the
war of the Revolution, and is the identical parties mentioned in the annexed
Marriage Bond, that said McKay and wife aforesaid married in the County of
Rowan, State of North Carolina, after the close of the war aforesaid until the
year 1812, which time the said McKay and wife aforesaid migrated to Garrard
County, State of Kentucky, and there remained up to his death, never claiming
pension, being ignorant of his rights, his death happened in said County and State
the year 1830 leaving his wife, Jane, a widow and some children who survived
him, and shortly thereafter his said widow and children migrated from Kentucky
to Jefferson County, Indiana, and there remained a widow ignorant of her rights
to a pension, never claimed one up to her death which happened 5th
day of July 1845, leaving the following and only children who survive their
ancestors, the said McKay & wife, Viz: Alexander McKay,Jr., Margaret
Munroe, late Margaret McKay, Hugh McKay, William McKay, Hector McKay, that the
said Alexander McKay deceased having served his country faithfully in the war
aforesaid, that he presents this petition in right of his children to a pension
to the department of the United States that governs such causes at Washington City,
and reference to the North Carolina Revolutionary Rolls, and the proof in the
cause, which is herewith respectfully submitted, will doubtless award to the
heirs aforesaid their claim to a pension, as the law of the US direst.
Hector
McKay (Adm.)
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| Marriage Bond of Alexander McKay to Jean Munroe
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County of Rowan
Know all men by these
presents, that we, Alexander McKay and Robert McKay of the County and residence
aforesaid, are held and firmly bound unto said State in the just and full sum of
five hundred pounds for the true payment whereof, we jointly and severally bind
ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, and each of them firmly by
these presents, sealed with our seals and dated the 12th day of
March anno Dom. 1779.
The Condition of the
above obligation is such that whereas the above bound, Alexander McKay hath
made application for a license for a marriage to be celebrated between him and
Jean Munroe of the County aforesaid. Now, if it shall not appear at any time
hereafter that there is any lawful cause to obstruct said marriage, then this
obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in force and virtue.
Signed, sealed and
delivered,
Alexander X (his mark)McKay {Seal}
In presence of
Robert X McKay (his
mark) {Seal]
…Osborne
