Of Scott County, Kentucky, who was a Captain of the Regt. Commanded by Colonel Bradhea__ in the Pennsylvania Line for the term
of the war from 1776 - 1785.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 20 dollars per month to commence on the 12th day of January 1828
Certificate of Pension issued 4th day of Feb 1828 and sent to Hon. R. M. Johnson

Declaration in order to be placed on the pension list under the act of the 18th of March 1818

Scott County, Sct.
On the 3rd day of Nov 1827 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peach of said County being a court of record for
s'd county being a record for John McHatton, aged 87 years, who first being duly sworn according to law doth on this oath make the
following declaration to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 that in
1776 he was appointed a Captain by the state of Pennsylvania to command a company of Militia Volunteers in the service of the states
in the Revolutionary War, which company he commanded two months that on expiration of that time he was appointed a Captain in
the flying camp in the Pennsylvania Line or Continental establishment and in Col Watts Regiment.  That he was taken prisoner by the
enemy at the battle of Fort Washington and continued a prisoner about 2 years that he was 2 months of that time in the City of New
York then removed to Long Island and put on board the ___ prison ship then returned to Long Island and was exchanged that whilst he
was a prisoner he was commissioned a Captain in a Northern Regiment of Pennsylvania upon continental establishment but the name
of the Col of the regiment he does not now recollect as he was a prisoner and not with the army that he was exchanged about the time
of the capture of Cornwallis and was a  ____ officer and sent home and never afterwards called for but never resigned his commission
and belonged to the army at the close of the war.  That about the year 1818 he sent his two first commissions to the war department
with an application for a pension and that his last commission is lost or misplaced and cannot find it the reason why I have not pressed
my application further is that I was applying for bounty land and rather declined the idea of asking a pension from my government, but
being poor I feel it due to myself the same debt of gratitude awarded to others for similar services and in pursuance of the act of the first
of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not
since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to
bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or naval service
of the United State of the Revolutionary War passes on the 18th of March 1818 - And that I have not nor has any person in trust from
me any property as securities contracts or debts due to me nor Have I any income other than what is continued in this schedule
hereunto annexed and by me subscribed - that 12 years past he gave his title property to his children being unable to attend to his
business from age and debility.
Signed by - John McHatton

Pension stated soldier died February 21, 1831