Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40221, for Robert Oldis, Pennsylvania
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Service
 Penn.                                 

Oldis, Robert  

NUMBER
 S.40221
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Contents
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12,742
Pennsylvania
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Robert Oldis
of Chester Co. in the state of Penna. who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel West of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 5 years.
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Inscribed in the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 10th of November 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of July 1819 and sent to Hon. William Darlington, West Chester, Chester Co.  Pennsylvania.
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Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819. 3 mos. 11/30 9/31
                                                                 27.96
Seni-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819.          48.00
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                                                              $75.96
24
  2.93
   1.  3
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                         {Revolutionary claim.}
                         {Act 18th March, 1818.}

[?] Continued
Notification sent October 28, 1820 to John G. Wersler, West Chester, Pa.
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Cash £2. [illegible]
1 pr shoes
1 shirt
1 pr Overalls

T. Harrison

Oldis, Robert
Penn. S 40221
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This is to certify that the Bearer Robert Oldis having served in the 14 regiment of Pennsylvania during the Term of his Enlistment, is now discharged the service of the United States of America.  Given at Trenton this 28 day of  [June?] 1781.

Philadelphia  June '81   [illegible] Wayne [?ly].

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Nathan J. Wallace
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Pension Office
Robert Oldis for pension

Penna Line
11 Regmt
[1776?]
[illegible]
Correct
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District of Pennsylvania ss:

    On this 10th day of November, AD 1818, before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Chester, personally appears robert Oldis, aged sixty seven years, resident in the County of Chester, in the said district, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"  that he the said Robert Oldis enlisted at the Paoli Tavern in Chester County in the State of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain William Wes in the 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment that he continued to serve in said Corps from the year 1776 until 1781 in the service of the United States when he was discharge from service in Trenton in the state of New Jersey as appears by the certified of his discharge hereunto annexed that he was in the battles of Monmouth, Brandywine and several others, that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support as appears by his pension dated 11th May 1818 hereunto annexed and that he relinquishes his claim to any pension which he may be entitled to from the United States, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service.

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
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John Ralston               Robert Oldis

I John Ralston Judge as aforesaid Do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that he the said Robert Oldis did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, that he is poor and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the direction of the aforesaid act of Congress.

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                                    John Ralston
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On this 10th day of November AD 1818 personally appeared before me Oliver Brown of the township of West Whiteland in the county of Chester, who in his solemn affirmation doth declare and say that he is well acquainted with the within named Robert Oldis, that he knows him to be poor, and that he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. 
Affirmed to before me the day and year aforesaid.

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John Ralston                    Oliver Bowen


Chester County ss

    I John G. Wersler Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Chester do certify that John Ralston before whom the aforesaid oath was taken is an acting Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said county and that full faith and credit is and ought to be due to all his official acts.  Witness my hand and seal of said court this 10th day of November 1818

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                              John G. Wersler Proth.
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District of Pennsylvania ss:

   On this 11th day of May A.D. 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Chester personally appeared Robert Oldis aged sixty-seven years, resident in the County of Chester, in the said district who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled; "An act fo provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War". that he the said Robert Oldis enlisted at the Paoli Tavern in Chester County in the state of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain William West in the 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment, that he continued to serve in said corps from the year 1776 until 1781 or 2 in the service of the United States when he was discharged from service in Trenton in the state of New Jersey.  That he was in the Battles of Monmouth Brandywine and several others.  That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he relinquishes his claim to any pension which he may be entitled from the United States and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service.

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.

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John Davis                       Robert Oldis


I John Davis a Judge &c as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that he the said Robert Oldis did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress.
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                                         John Davis
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Chester County Ss;

    I John G. Worsler Prothonotary for the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Chester, Do certify that John Davis before whom the aforesaid oath was taken is an acting associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, and that full faith and credit is and ought to be due to all his official acts. - Witness my hand and seal of said court this 11th day of May 1818.

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                          John G. Worsler  Proth
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Robert Oldis
12, 752

West Whiteland 

[illegible]
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,
CHESTER COUNTY, SS:

   On this thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty Personally appeared in open court of Common Pleas, held at Winchester, in and for the county of Chester, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; being a court of Record, proceeding according to the course of the Common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings,    Robert Oldis  aged seventy years and upwards, resident in the township of West Whiteland in the said county of Chester and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, and the 1st of May 1820; That he served in the Revolutionary War, in the Company of which William West was the Captain in the Regiment of which Col. Havley was commander on the Continental establishment, and has obtained a pension under the act of the 18th of March 1818, his certificate being number 12,742.

   And I the said Robert Oldis do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, :an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War,"  passed on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income; other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.                                //s//
                                          Robert Oldis

    Sworn to, declared and subscribed, on the thirty first day of July 1820, in open court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the said Court, being a Court of Record by the Laws of the said Commonwealth.

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                                       John G. Wersler                                     
                                         Prothonotary

Schedule of Property

I have no property, real, personal, as affixed.
I have a pension of forty dollars a year from the state of Pennsylvania.
I am a farmer by trade & from infirmity and age am unable to follow it.  I have no family.

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                                            Robert Oldis
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Chester County, ss:

I John S. Wersler Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, of the said county of Chester, the same being a Court of Record by the Laws of Pennsylvania; Do hereby Certify, that the foregoing Declaration and Oath and the Schedule thereto 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 value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is _____ dollars _____cents.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Westchester, this fifteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
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                         John G. Wersler Prothonotary
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40,221
INVALID
Revy

File No. 40,221
Robert Oldis
Priv.  Rev.  War

Act" 18 March 1818
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 372

{Arrangement of 1870.}