Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8958, for Frederick Piper, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE 
Penn.
Piper, Frederick
NUMBER S.8958.
CONTENTS

Carded
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Pittsburg  .753
Ohio - Pittsburg

Frederick Piper
Wayne Co in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Company commanded as Captain Kopp of the regt commanded by Col (Faded) in the Pennsylvania Militia.

6 Mo Pn'  $20.00

Inscribed on the roll of Ohio at the rate of 20 dollars -- cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834

Certificate of pension issued the 30th day of   Oct 1833 and sent to Hon Byron Jones - Ho of Rep

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833                50.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 34    10.--
                                                                   ______
                                                                 $60.00

                                        {Revolutionary Claim}
                                        {Act June 7, 1832}


Recorded by  //s// John T. Spraque clerk
Book 6 Col 8  Page 20 



March 27 - 1835 - Letter to Mr/ Tiernan Esq Penn Agent-Pittsburg. To drop this may name

April 10 - 1835. See let. to M. Tierran Esq. Pens. Agt to reinstate his name.

Same date: see let to S. H. Grossbeck Pen. Agt to drop his name from his rolls.

See letter 11 July 1833 J.C. (Perteel)  at the Pittsburg
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Adm T. Months


Hon. Beauf. Jones
As of Rep.
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8958
INVALID.
File No. 8958
Frederick Piper
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: — Vol. [indecipherable], Page 297
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of Ohio
Wayne County ⎬ On this 4 day of October 1832
Personally appeared in open
court before the Court of Common
tees of said Wayne County now sitting Frederick Piper a resident of Green township
in said County of Wayne aged to the best of his
knowledge eighty four 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 Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 — That he entered the service of the United States about the first day of October 1776 in Newmanstown Lancaster County Pennsylvania — he was then drafted as a private soldier under Captain Frederick Kopp, [Benj Strupler] Lieutenant 
[Nathan Lash] ensign 
a sergeant which not remembered —
Philip Greenawalt was the Colonel —
John Groninger was the major of the regiment
This time the applicant served in the militia
three months. The period of that draft he marched with the company to Reading Berks County Pa & from Reading marched with the forces, in to New Jersey. no places there remembered — Col Greenawalt was in service at the same time — after the period of the draft   was [illegible] applicant returned to Newmanstown with Capt. Kopp & the company — applicant was in no engagement during the period.
In the fall following the first draft, it was 
in 1777 applicant was again drafted into the
service at Newmanstown, the place of the first
draft, for the period of three months. This draft
was also in [retaliation?] for the purpose of 
keeping guard over the British & Hessian prisoners at Lebanon, near Lancaster County Pa. — directly after this draft applicant [proceeded] to duty & continued
in the service, guarding the prisoners till the
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three months of service. There was no engagement in the time —The company officers were the same as under the first draft —  ... Greenawalt was the Colonel over the guard — 

To the question: where & in what year were
you [crossed out] 
Applicant answered } I was born in Falkner's Meadow Bucks County, Pennsylvania in April the year 1748
Quest. - Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
Answer — There no record of my age
Quest. — Where were you living when called into service 
Where have you lived since the revolutionary war & where do you now live? 
Answer } In Newmanstown  up [illegible] 300 yard from it applicant lived where called into service — before the war ended he moved to Hagerstown Maryland — remained there a year or two after the war ended. Then moved to Woodstock, Shenandoah Co. Virginia 
lived there better then four years — then moved to Monongalia Co. Virginia about two miles from Morgantown. lived there about two years & then moved to Waynesborough Franklin County Pa lived there about three years — then moved to 
Green Township Wayne County Ohio where he has lived ever since & still lives —
Quest. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a [militiaman] & if a [militiaman] for which one?
Answer } I was drafted as a private.
To the following Quest. state the names of some of the regular
officers who were with the troops where you served, which continental militia regiment if you can recollect the general circumstances of your
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service —
Answer } Applicant remembers no regular
officers of the militia in the first draft he remembers none except Col Philip Greenawalt
Major John Groninger 
Capt. Frederick Ropp, Lieutenant Benj Stupler — & Ensign or Sergeant [Nathan] Lash – remembers nothing. He thinks in the service but the marches & returns — he received eight dollars a month continental money.
Quest. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given & what has become of it? 
Answer } Applicant never received a discharge as he can remember — 

State the names of persons to whom you are
known in your present [might behold], and who can testify as to your character for veracity
and their belief of your services as a veteran of the revolution }

Applicant answer } Samuel Wilford & Jacob Ihrig

Applicant has no documentary evidence & 
knows of no persons in this state whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service — He hereby relinquishes every claim whether to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the [illegible] of any state — he further says he has no property except a little [illegible] and furniture
& lives solely by his own labor — 

Frederick  X his make  Piper

Sworn & subscribed 
the day & year aforesaid
in open court.
J. Sloane
Clerk
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We Samuel Wilford — a clergyman residing in Green township in said Wayne County and Jacob Ihrig residing in Green township in said county herewith state we are well acquainted with Frederick Piper who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty four years of age, & he a man of truth & veracity, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides & has been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion. 

Samuel Wilford
Jacob Ihrig

Sworn & subscribed this day & year aforesaid
in open court 
J. Sloane 
Clerk

State of Ohio
Wayne County } I John Sloane Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne County Ohio do certify that the foregoing is an original proceeding heard in the matter of Frederick Piper's application for a pension
J. Sloane
Clerk

Frederick Piper 18619
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations
prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Samuel Wilford who has signed the preceeding certificate is a Clergyman resident in Green Township in said County of Wayne and that Jacob Ihrig who has also signed said certificate is a resident of said County
of Wayne in the State of Ohio and is a person of credit and their statement is entitled to credit.
I John Sloane, Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas of said County of
Wayne, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Frederick Piper for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office this 28th day
of June 1833
J. Sloane
Clerk