Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4355, Nicholas Gross, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                    NUMBER
Penn         Gross, Nicholas      R4355


CONTENTS
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(Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 crossed out)

REJECTED

4355 
P.O. Nicholas Gross

Enlisted:------------------------,18
Discharged:--------------------------,18
Application filed:-----------------,18
Alleges:--------------------------------
Re-enlisted:---------------------------
Attorney:_________________
P.O.----------------------------------------
----------------Recognized.  ________Contract
-------------Cert. of Dis.  Searched for----------------,18
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No 37454
Nicholas Gross
Pen
Let  to Geo. Horn Feb. 5,47

4355 (in pencil)

Act 7 Mar 1832
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State of Pennsylvania
and County of Berks

On this 21st Day of December 1846 Personally appeared before me Adam Schoener  a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Berks and state  aforesaid Nigolas Grow a resident of Bethel Township and County of Berks and stated aforesaid a Soldier of the Revolutionary War aged Eighty eight years 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 the 7th 132.
I am now about to give a statement of a portion of my life I was born below Bommelsdorf in Berks County and state aforesaid that is my Parents have have informed me so I remained in the neighborhood and in [illegible] while I was keeping alongs comes an officer from Bommelsdorf I think it was Cat. Wommelsdorf and told me that I was drafted and must go to the War. I then whent along with him and [illegible]  whent on to New York there I enlisted under Capt. John Crow for six months I was then eighteen years of age I think it was in the year 1776 after some time when I had enlisted my Capt that I had enlisted under left there and went to Fort Washington and there lost his life [illegible} the loss of memory my Cornels name I cannot think of But he was taken by the English but he after words run of again from the British I served out my six months for which I had enlisted for; and then got my discharge and I then came home again and for such services I claim a Pension from the Secretary of war of the United States. I have since I have returned home from the revolutionary  war re resident in Berks County and State aforesaid I have lived in Bethel Township where I now for for the last thirty year that is in Bethel Township Berks County and State aforesaid not carried over
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no:1: Caried over

I am on the Pension Rool of the State of Pennsylvania and that only and the reason that I Did not apply sooner to the secretary of war of the United States for a Pension for services that I have done in the Revolutionary War I did not know how to apply and had nobody to do it for me sooner
Sworn + Subscribed to }                   Nicholas Groh
before me this 21st day}    
of December A.D. 1846 }
Adam Schoener             }
Justice of the Peace       }

I do certify that the above named Nicholas Groh is unable to attend court, owing to bodily infirmaties.
Witness my hand this 21st day of December A.D. 1846                                Adam Schoener[illegible]

Know all men by these Presents that I negulos Crow: of Bethel township Berks County and State of Pennsylvania do here by make Constitute and appoint George Horn of Bainbridge Lancaster County and State of Pennsylvania my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to ask demand and receive a Pension Certificate from the Secretary of War of the United States for my services a soldier of the Revolutionary War in the Pennsylvania line and in my name do Every act and thing in the law needful to be done in and about the Promises all of which I will ratify and confirm as my own act and deed in testimony where of I have here unto set my hand and seal
This 21st day of December 1846
Signed Sealed and delivered                       [Seal]
in the presence of us.               
Maria x her mark Groh   [Illegible word crossed out]
Adam Schoener                     Nicholas Groh
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[three words crossed out]

State of Pennsylvania}
and County of Berks}

Be it known that before me Adam Schoener a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared John Ebling and made oath in due form of law that Nigalos Crow is the Identical Person named in the above declaration I certify the following is a true Copy I have been acquanted with nigalos Crow for the last thirty years and when I first became acquanted with nigalos Crow I was informed by his nabours that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary War and by what I have herd of his nabours and herd himself talk about the Revolutionary war I always Did believe that nigalos Crow was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and it is a general a pinion of the nabourhood Where nigalos Crow Recites that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary and I belive him to Be of the age that he states in the above Declaration as regards his caracter for truth [crossed out word] is good
Sworn + Subscribed to} 
to me this 21st day}                    John Ebling                                        
of December A D 1846}
Adam Schoener           }
Justice of the Peace     }

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named John Ebling. and that he is a respectable citizen - and that he resides in the neighborhood of the said N. Groh and is of the age fifty two years
                             Witness My hand this 21st day 
                              of Decm 1846
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I do certify that I have Known the within named
Nicholas Groh upwards of twenty years. + I have always understood from the neighborhood that he was a soldier of the revolutionary war,+ always did believe that he was as represented above I know him to be on the Pension Roll of Pennsylvania and that only. and that the distance from the house were the said Nicholas Groh now lives , to the Borough of Reading is about twenty four miles and that he is Low in circumstances and feeble in person; and perhaps very difficult to get a Judge to his house, and for that reason I was called upon to take the forgoing declaration.
                                        Adam Schoener
                                       Justice of the Peace
Berks Count SS. I Peter Strohecker Prothonotary of
[Large Seal]     the Court of Common Pleas of Berks
                        County do certify that Adam Schoener
                         before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is an Acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected to +
commissioned+ that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are true + genuine and further that he has been a member of the Legislature of this Commonwealth~   
 Witness my hand + Seal of office, at Reading Jany. 4. 1847.                 Peter Strohecker  
                                            Pron
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THE NATION ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Gross, Peter
GRADE  Private
LINE New York

WARRANT NUMBER 7198
ACREAGE     100
ISSUED  July 6, 1791 to William W. Morris, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers  and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.