Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40410, for Ludwig Shoup, Pennsylvania
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(S-1776)

SERVICE NUMBER
Penn Shoup, Ludwig S. 40410
Lewis B L Wt 2149-100.

CONTENTS
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15.043   R
Pennsylvania
Ludwig Shoup
of Northampton Cty in the state of Pennsylvania
who was a Private in the regiment commanded Col. Bush of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of three years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 17 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Sept. 18
and Sent to John Cooper Esqr
Easton Penssylania

Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1819        $132.80
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Mary 1820  48.00
16 mos. 18/30                               $180.80

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

7 September 19
Continued
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notification sent November 4 1820 to
Henry Spring, Easton, Pennsylvania
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Ludwig Shoup

Ludwig Shoup

15043
Lower Mt. 
Bethel

CM
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Geo. W. Deshler, Printer, Easton, Penn.

 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, SS. 

On this 24th day of August 1820, personally appeared, in open court, at a court of Common Pleas, holden at Easton, in and for the aforesaid County of Northampton, The said court being a court of record proceeding according to the courts’ Ludwig Shoup of the common law with aged about fifty-six years resident of Lower Mount Bethel township, in said county, a pensioner of the United States, under the act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, his certificate being numbered 15.043 and then and there exhibited to the said court, the following Schedule, subscribed by him, and had and produced before the same, the following oath also taken and subscribed by him. 

I, Ludwig Shoup 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 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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 than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. Ludwig Shoup 
its proceeding to the Sworn and subscribed the 24th day of August 1830 In open Court H. Spring City 

Schedule of property, referred to in the foregoing oath necessary clothing and bedding excepted.) I have 2 cows, 1 Calf 1 Sheep & hogs 6 old chairs and a household and kitchen furniture worth 9 or 10 dollars 12 or 13 dollars. I have a wife living, aged seventy two years I have no children living. I cannot support myself by I have a life estate in a house and about 15 acres of land, which gives me no income, but affords me a home Ludwig Shoup
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, ss. 

I Henry Spering Esquire, Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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 fifty-four dollars and fifty cents

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, this first day of September 1820
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Lewis, alias Ludwig, Shoup
No. 2149
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Know all men by these Presents, that I, Ludwig Shoup, of Northampton County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby constitute and appoint Henry Northup of Louisville, Kentucky, but now at Washington City, my true and lawful attorney, with power of substitution, for me and in my name to prepare papers and collect all the proofs and vouchers necessary to establish my claim to Bounty Land from the United States, in right o my Services as a Soldier of the Pennsylvania Line of the Army of the Revolution, and to ask, demand, recover and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a Warrant for the Bounty Lands due me for my services as aforesaid, and to deposit the said Warrant, when so received, with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and ask, demands, receive and receipt for the Certificate on land scrip which may be issued on the same, and to assign, transfer and make Sale of the Same, and to do and preform all manner of things to doing the same, which I myself might or would do, were I personally present.
Witness my Hand and Seal, this twenty -eight day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
(Signed) Ludwig (his X mark) Shoup

Sealed & Delivered }
in the presence of }
(Signed) Henry S. Troxell
(Signed) J. Weygandt
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : }
Northampton County : } ss.
Personally appeared before me, the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Ludwig Shoup, signer of the withing written Power of Attorney, and acknowledge the same to be his act and deed, for the purpose therein mentioned; also, being duly sworn according to law, he saith, that he actually was an enlisted Soldier for the period of during the war, and that he faithfully served to the close of it, when he was honorably discharged by Col. Hampton at Philadelphia, being there at the time of his Discharge, in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col. Hampton; that he has never received a warrant from the United States for the Bounty Land due him, neither has he ever assigned or transferred his right to the same in any manner whatsoever.
(Signed) Ludwig (his X mark) Shoup

Sworn, Subscribed & acknowledged }
before me, this 28th Day of }
March, A.D. 1836 }
(Signed) J. Weygandt, J. P.

Also personally appeared before me, the Subscriber, as Justice of the Peace in and for said County, John Carey and John Myers old and credible Witnesses, who being duly sworn according to law, say that they have long been personally acquainted with Ludwig Shoup, who signed the withing Power of Attorney in their presence, and they say, that they have ever understood him to have been a revolutinonary Soldier, and do believe that he is the person he
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represents himself to be, and that he actually performed the military Services by him stated, in the manner therein set forth.
(Signed) John Carey
(Signed) John (his X mark) Myers

Sworn & Subscribed before }
on this 28th Day of }
March, A.D. 1836 }
(Signed) J. Weygandt, J. P. 


Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Northampton County ss.
I Samuel Yohe prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County do Certify that Jacob Weygandt Esqr before whom the above acknowledgement and affidavit were made and taken was at the time and still is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified to act and that full faith and credit are due and of right ought to be given to all his official acts as such and that his signature thereto is genuine.
Witness my hand and the Seal of the said Court this 28th day of March AD 1836
(Signed) Sam Yohe
Proty
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Pennsylvania
Northampton County ss.

I Ludwig Shoup, now a resident of Lower Mount Bethel Township in the County of Northampton in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, upon my Solemn oath Declare, that I was a private Soldier in the War of the Revolution to the Ed of it, (illegible) as I think & believe, the first day of April in the Year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one until the conclusion of it in One thousand seven hundred and Eighty three (say 1783); that I was enlisted at Easton in the County of Northampton aforesaid by Captain John Bush, I think of the third Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line, and from that  company transferred to Captain Seely's (or Seeline) Company of the Second Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line, in which I remained as a Soldier in the United States Service until discharged in consequence of the Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and the United States of America; and that by (illegible) of my reduced circumstances in life I need assistance from my Country for Support, & that my regular discharge from the Second Regiment aforesaid has been accidently with other of my Papers, destroyed by fire, so that I cannot transmit it with this Declaration but believe it is registered in the Books of the Regiments which I believe and think was then commanded by Colonel Humpton.
(Signed) Ludwig Shoup

Sworn & Subscribed this 17th day
of January 1818 Before me
(Signed) W. Cooper a Judge C. C. of N. County

Pennsylvania
Northampton County ss.

Before me John Cooper Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of  Common Pleas of the County of Northampton in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, appeared John Shoup and being duly sworn according
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to Law on his oath declare, and say that he is well acquainted with Ludwig Shoup, by whom the foregoing Declaration is made and with his circumstances as stated by him and verily believes his Declaration to be correct and true.
(Signed) Johannes Shoup

Sworn & Subscribed this 17th day
of April Anno Domini
1818 Before me
(Signed) W. Cooper Judge C.C. & N. County


I John Cooper one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Northampton in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Do Certify to the Secretary of War of the United States of America, that it appears to my Satisfaction that the above named Ludwig Shoup Served in the revolutionary War against the Common Enemy and that the above Declaration of the said Ludwig Shoup and Deposition of John Shoup is the Testimony in the case and the proceedings therein as stated to me; from which I am of opinion that the Applicant for a Pension said Ludwig Shoup, comes within the provision of the 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".  Witness my Hand and Seal of the Borough of Easton in the County aforesaid, this Seventeenth day of April in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred & Eighteen.
(Singed) Jno Cooper
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Peensylvania
Northampton County to wit } ss.

In the Case of the Application of Ludwig Shoup, &c before the Hon. John  Cooper, Esqr, April, 17, 1818.

This 17th day of August AD 1819.  Before me personally appeared John Steidinger an inhabitant of the Borough of Easton in the County aforesaid, and a Pensioner under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818.  Who being duly sworn deposes and says, that he well knows the applicant above named, that h knows him as a Soldier of the same Regiment with himself during the War of the Revolution in the service of the U States; that the applicant while in the army was known by the name of  Shoof or Shufe and was always so called. - and further he saith not.
(Signed) John Steidinger

Sworn & Subs'd the day & }
year afores'd, before me. }
(Signed) Jno Cooper

As the same time & place personally appears the applicant named and being duly sworn deposes & says, that while he was in the service of the U. States, during the revolutionary war as stated in his annexed declaration, he was always called Shoof or Shufe or Shof - That as there can be no doubt from the annexed affidavit that he honorably served his country, he supposes that his name must be spelt in the muster roll, in a manner more agreeable to the pronunication (sic) of it above mentioned.
(Signed) Ludwig Shoup

Sworn & Sub'd as above 
(Signed) Jno Cooper
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40410
INVALID.
Revy

File No.  40.410
Ludwig Shoup
Pri  Rev War

Act:  18 March 18

Index: --Vol. T,  Page 457

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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Ludwig Shoup - of North Hampton County Penn. - Pensioner Act 1818 enrolled 7th September 1819

This soldier is considered as identified with Lewis Shoup , returned in the 2d Pennsyl'a regt. Lewis & Ludwig being Synonimous names
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April 17. 1818
Petition of Ludwig Shoup
to
Judge Cooper
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To the Honorable John Cooper, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Northampton in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The Petition of Ludwig Shoup of Lower Mount Bethel Township in the county and Commonwealth aforesaid Humbly Sheweth

That by an Act of Congress passed the 18th of March last, entitled "An Act ot provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary War" it is enacted i(illegible) that private Soldiers who served in the War of the revolution until the end thereof or for a Term of nine months or longer at any period of the War on the Continental establishment, may be placed on the pension list of the United States upon his making a Declaration under his oath before a Judge of any Court of Record withing the State & county in which he resides, that if he belonged to the Army to set forth the Company, Regiment and Line to which he belonged, and the time he entered the Service and the time  and manner of leaving the Service. 
Your Petitioner therefore Prays, that you will admit him to make the necessary Declaration in order if the same be satisfactory to you, (that you may Certify and transmit the said Testimony and your proceeding thereon to the Secretary of War, according to the intent and meaning of the said Act. 

And your Petitioner will Ever Pray
(Signed) Ludwig Shoup

April 17. 1818
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Ludwig Shoup
Private
81 to 83
6th Pennsylvania Regt.

ADMITTED

Inadmissible
Name not on the Rolls.
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Pennsylvania Northampton County, Va
 I Henry Spering Prothonotary of the county common pleas of the County of Northampton in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Certify that John Cooper Esq before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, at the time they were that full faith and credit is due to his acts as such In had was, and yet is, one of the Judges of the said Court and Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of the County aforesaid and Court aforesaid this Seventeenth day of April in the year one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen 
Spering Potter