Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7851 1/2, for John Oyster, Pennsylvania
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(8-1776)

SERVICE - Penn
[Star stamp]
Oyster, John
Susan

NUMBER
R.7851-1/2
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32879

John Oyster

Application

Ohio.

Rejected, did not serve six months.

Charles T. Sherman
Agent
Mansfield Ohio
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The State of Ohio 
Richland County}   On this 27th day of November AD 1834 personally appeared before  the Hon. Court of Common Pleas in & for said County John Oyster a resident of Jefferson Township Richland County Ohio aged 76 years of age, 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 7, 1832.  That he was drafted in the Spring of the year 1776 in a company under the command of Capt. Anthony Shrader. The Colonels name I cannot now remember. That the Regiment was raised in Berks County Pennsylvania, in which County I was born and lived at the time I was drafted, that our Regiment marched from their houses into the State of New Jersey, to a place called Amboy. About a month after our Regiment arrived at Amboy my Captain & Colonel sent me back to Reading Pennsylvania to bring a blacksmith & gun smith by trade to work at my trade, for the purpose of making horse shoes and nails, [unreadable] tomahawks, [unreadable], halberts &c &c of which the army then stood in need -- that my officers assured and promised me that the time I worked there was to be taken as so much time spent in the service & that I was to continue under their command & liable to be remarched back into actual service to service for the time for which I was drafted, which was six months -At the end of the six months when my company returned, my Captain gave me a certificate of my service and a regular discharge - that I cannot recollect the names of any of the officers distinctly, neither I nor my Company were engaged in any battles during that term of service - that at the time of being drafted I resided in Rockland Township, Berks County, Penn.
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity whatsoever except the present and declared that his name is not on the pension rolls of any state or if any only that of the
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Agency of the State of Pennsylvania - 
John Oyster
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court 
Jared Irwin Clerk
We William Morrow & Timothy Evarts residents of Richland County Ohio do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Oyster who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 76 years of age, that he  reputed & believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution in the neighborhood where he resides and that we concur in that opinion 
William Morrow
Timothy Evarts
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court 
Jared Irwin Clerk 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the said Court further certifies, that it appears to them that William Morrow and Timothy Everts are residents of said Richland County Ohio, and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit 
I Jared Irwin Clerk Pro tem of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County of Rutland Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the as plication of John Oyster for a pension 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 27th day of Novr AD 1834 
Jared Irwin Clerk
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In answer to the interrogatories put by the Court I answer that was born in the year 1758 in Rockland township Berks County – 
That I have no record of my age nor do not know that any exists. 
That I lived in Rockland Township Berks County Penn at the time - from there moved to Frederick County Maryland from then removed to Stark County this from then in 1880 I removed to this County – 
When sented the Army I was drafted.  
I received a regular discharge from my Captain, but have since lost it – 
For character for veracity I refer to Hon Benj Jackson, William Morrow, Ephraim Walters, William Shuey, Christian Aungst, Daniel Cairns. 
John Oyster 
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court
Jared Irwin Clerk P.T.
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John Oyster

Rejected
See letter to
Charles T. Shierman
Mansfield, Ohio

19 March 1835
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(3-223.)
No. 7.851 1/2 Revy
REJECTED , Ex'r.

OLD WAR INVALID. 
REJECTED 

John Oyster of Ohio
P.O. Va. Troops

Service: REJECTED

Enlisted:       , 18.
Discharged:         , 18.

Application filed:         , 18.

Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.
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Dec. 8.
J. Oyster
Ohio 
32.879
Ohio

Rejected
Not serve six month

FREE

Hon James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Mansfield Nov’r 28 - 1834  
Sir
Enclosed is the declaration of Jno Oyster for a petition. Your early attention to the matter is respectfully hoped.
Yours &c
Ch T. Sherman 
Hon J L Edwards -
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Power of attorney
case of.
John Oyster.

Pennsylvania
or Ohio.


FE Hassler.

Present.
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Kirkwood & Burns Mansfield Ohio
POWER OF ATTORNEY 
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, Etc.* 
State of Ohio 
County of Richland } SS Be it known that before me David Wise a justice of the Peace personally appeared George Oyster aged 57 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that he is the son of John Oyster who was a revolutionary Soldier in the State of Pennsylvania and that he died on the 17th day. of October 1844 and that his mother, named Susan Oyster died on the 26th day of February 1846 and that they were married on the day of in the year 1791 and that they were residents of Adams Co., in the State of Pennsylvania and that they resided there for 12 years, and that he resides in Richland County, Ohio and that furthermore he BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F.E. Hassler, of Washington city, D.C., as the true and lawful Attorney for him and in his name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U.S. Government and State officers his rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land that may be due him as the heir of John Oyster who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law he may be entitled. 
In witness whereof, He has on this 13th day November 1852, hereunto signed his name, and affixed his seal. 
George Oyster [SEAL] 
Witness: B. Burns 
Witness: Samuel Levy his mark  
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify, that George Oyster has always by the community been known as the Son of John Oyster 
Dated on this 13th day of November 1852 
David Wise J.P. 
State of Ohio 
County of Richland } to wit: 
I hereby certify, That David Wise Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgement were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the court of Richland County, this 13th day of November one thousand eight hundred and fifty two 
C A Croninger Clerk. 
By Wm. R. Higgins Deputy
*If a Widow applies, state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband." 
+State under what act pensioned, or when pension commenced, if a pensioner--and amount of pension.