Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41550, Charles Francis, Penn.
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Service                                     Number
Penn.        Francis, Charles   S.41550
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41550
 Revy Invalid
File No. 41550
Charles Francis
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index:  Vol ___, Page 179

[Arrangement of 1870]
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4,211
Pennsylvania Roll
Charles Francis
Private
Pennsylvania line. Proctor ____
g the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War, 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 22nd of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of November 1818
and sent to Thomas Armstrong ___ Judge
Philadelphia
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 ______           _33.86
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819  _  48
                                                                   ______
                                                                       $81.86

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}
Continued

Germantown
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Notification sent to Jno. F Watson
Germantown Penn..a July 18, 182_
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Charles Francis
4211
Cont..d
6 Nov 1818
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District of Pennsylvania SS
On this 30th day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas, holden in the city of Philadelphia, for the county of Philadelphia, being a Court of Records, proceeding according to the court of the common law __________and_______ & keeping a record of it, proceeding, Charles Francis, aged 76 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declarations in order to claim the provisions made by the act of congress of H. 18 March 1818 & 1 May, 1820 that has the said Charles Francis, enlisted for the term of five years in the ___ of May ___ 177_ in the town of Germantown, County of Philadelphia, in the company commanded by Capt John Story service the artillery, then he was transferred to ____ _____ command in Col. Burgios regiment & finally landed  his service of this _____ of _______________ of Penna Artillery & got his honorable discharge at Brandywine ________ by Gen___ that he was in ________following _______. _________ & Trenton, & Germantown, 
And I do solemnly swear that he was a resident citizen of the United States .  ___18 day of March 1818, and that I have ______ ______ by gift, sale, or in any manner of my ____property, on any part thereof and my ______ though, with intent ______ so is ___ as to being myself within the _______ from act of congress for entitled _____________ for certain _____ engaged in this land, & named pension of the United States, in the revolutionary war _______
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on the 18 day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, my property or securities, ___ contract, or debt due to me, nor have I any incomehttps://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.png
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Philadelphia County ss
I Joseph B Norbury Proth'y of the court of common pleas for the city and county of Philadelphia - do hereby declare & certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in the (illegible) of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is 30 Dollars,   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 30th day of June 1820.
Jos. B. Norbury Proth'y
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State of Pennsylvania
City of Philadelphia
Personally appeared Charles Francis (late a private in Capt Hoy Company) of Germantown in the County of Philadelphia and  I take aforesaid and now a resident Citizen of the United States, and being duly sworn on his solemn oath, saith that he was enlisted by Capt Hoy serving the revolutionary war in teh City of Philadelphia in the year 1775 _____ to Col. Durgy's Reg..t the whole under the command of Genl Greene that he was in a number of Battles during the said war and he belonged to Co C artillery at the Battle of Germantown that he served more than four years during the revolutionary war and was honourably discharged by Genl Greene and that from his _____ circumstance in life he needs the assistance of his country for support.
 Charles (x, his mark) Francis
Sworn & subscribed before me Thomas Armstrong Esq this 28th day of April 1818.
Tho Armstrong
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I, Thomas Armstrong Esquire an Associate Judge of the Court of General Quarters Sessions of the Peace in & for the County of Philadelphia, certify that by the oath of teh within named Charles Francis it appears to my satisfaction he served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy more than nine months. 

Witness my hand at Phil..a this 28 day of April Anno Domini 1818
Tho Armstrong

I, William Kunkel, clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions,  certify that Thomas Armstrong Esq is an associate Judge of the said court and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as well in all courts as out of the same. 
Witness my. hand and the _____ of the above Court at Phil & this 28 day of April Anno Domini 1818. 
for Wm Kunkel __
Clerk
Henry Shoemaker