Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3291, John Detrich Aurandt, Penn.
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Service Penn.
Aurandt, John Detrich Number W3291
or Aurand,
or Ourandt,
or Ourhand,
Catharine
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15,034 Rc
Pennsylvania
Dedrich Ourhand
of Huntingdon in the state of Pa.
Who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel [illegible] of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of April, 1818
Certificate of pension issued the 27 of Sept. 1817 and sent to David [illegible] Yellow Springs Pa
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819, 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 mar '29
537.6+48=585.6
17439
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}
Discontinued
Notification sent May 30th 1821, to Jacob Hoffman Esq. Huntingdon, Pa
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Huntingdon County Ss.
Before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Personally appeared Detrich Ourhand late a soldier in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain and a Citizen of the County of Huntingdon aforesaid in which he doth reside, And after being duly sworn according to law by me. He doth depose and say that he was duly enlisted by Jacob Snyder a first Lieutenant in a Company commanded by Captain George Whitzel in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Walter Stewart in the Pennsylvania Line on or about the fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight that he was transfered to Captain Banksons Company in the same Regiment after the Battle of Monmouth in Jersy and continued in the Service of the United States until the fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one having served three years being the time for which he was enlisted and was discharged by General Anthony Wayne a Brigadier General of the Pennsylvania Line on that day. That this deponent will on the eighth day of next November be fifty seven years of age, that he labours under Rheumatic pains of a severe kind, which renders him unable to do any business for three or four months in a year, which disorder he apprehends he became subject to when a soldier as aforesaid, by being exposed to hardship and cold in the service in his youth. That he is reduced in his circumstances in life and stands in need of assistance from his Country for support for himself his wife and two youngest children. his elder children being employed for their own support. Sworn to
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and subscribed this first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Before David Stewart
[signed] Deitrich Aurand

Huntingdon County Ss
Before me the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Personally came John Aurand who being duly sworn by me according to law saith that his Father Detrich Ourhand or Aurand is reduced in his circumstances, and and unstable from a severe Rheumatic complaint that he is afflicted with, to support himself his wife and two youngest Children. That he this deponant verily believes he stands in need of assistance from his County for his support Sworn to and Subscribed this first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eigh hundred and eighteen.
Before : David Stewart
[signed] John Aurand

Huntingdon County Ss
The Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Doth Certify to the Honourable the Secretary of War for the United States, That he hath known Detrich Aurhand or Aurand for years and upwards that during that time Mr Detrich
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Ourhand and his son John hath always been considered men of truth and veracity, and it appears to the satisfaction of the Subscriber that the applicant Detrich Ourhand served in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain during the time mentioned in his affidavit hereby attached And that his circumstances in life are truly stated - In Testimony of which I the Subscriber have hereunto set my hand & seal this first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
[signed] David Stewart
[hand drawn seal]

And I do further Certify that the above applicant Detrich Ourhand or Aurand did declare before me at the time of his making the above declaration that he never was placed on the Pension List of the United States under any Law of Congress or the United States.
April 1st 1818
[signed] David Stewart

Huntingdon County Ss
Before me the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court, of Common Pleas for said county have Detrich Ourhand and do declare that if by any law of the United States he might have obtained a Pension heretofore he doth hereby fully & entirely release the same to the United States. Acknowleged this second day of May. --- AD 1818
Beofer David Stewart
[signed] Detrich Ourand

Huntingdon County Ss
Before me the subscriber and associate judge in and for the County aforesaid of the Court of Common pleas for said Count in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania personally came Detrich Ourand above named and being duly sworn by me recording to law doth declare and say that he gave this discharge to his Father many years ago to draw his
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back pay or arrearages of pay, rations and cloathing which his Father received but lost this deponents discharged and he could never since obtain it, and this deponant further saith, That he hath no pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States to his knowledge & if any such exists he doth hereby fully & entirely release the same to the United States
Sworn to and declared before me this second day of May A.D. 1818
Detrich Ourand
Before
David Stewart

1818
1761
    67

Dedrich Ourhand

State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County ss
I William Steel Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Huntingdon DO Certify that David Stewart Esquire before whom the following affidavit of Detrick Ourand & John Areyand appear to have been made & who has signed the above & foregoing Certificates was at the time of taking the said affidavits & making the said certificates one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas duly Commissioned sworn in & for said County of Huntingdon, and that to all his official acts as such full faith & credit is due
& ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said office at Huntingdon the 4th May AD 1818.
William Steel Proty
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Application of
Detrick Ourhand
15037
Mar. '20.
[illegible 2 words]
J.L.E.
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Western District of Pennsylvania
Huntington County, PA

On the twenty eighth day of February in this year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas of Huntington County before the Honorable Charles Huston Esq. President and David Stewart and Joseph McCune esquires associate judges of the said Court being a Court of Record for said same District Detrich Aurandt aged sixty years, Resident of Morris Township in the said County of Huntington in the said District who being duly sworn according to law doth declare on his oath that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz [sic]:
That he enlisted in the American army in January 1778 by Lieutenant Jacob Snyder Captain Wrigley's company, Colonel Stewart's Regiment Pennsylvania Line and after the Battle of Monmouth in Captain John Bankson's company. That his original declaration is dated the first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and lists the number of his certificate as a Pensioner as Mo 15037. And I so solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day 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 an intent thereby to diminish it so 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 the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not 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.

List of Declarant's Personal Property appraised by James Stewart and John Keller [illegible]
3 Cows at seven dollars each - $21.00
2 Yearling Calfs at four dollars each - 8.00
1 Mare 18 years of age  kept for a riding beast - 12.00
One Sow and five pigs - 6.00
One Stove and pipe - 14.00
One Smooth Rifle -  11.00
1 Saddle, Saddle Bags & Bridle - 4.00
1 Small Trunk - 1.50
2 Tables and 1 Chest - 3.00
A Lot of Iron Kettles & Pots - 8.00
1 Fund [sic] Stone - 1.00
Amount carried over - $99.50
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Amount brought over $99.50
1 Wind mill 8.00
Wheat in shaves 10.00
1 pair Stillyards 1.00
1 old butting Box .50
4 Old Chairs 2.00
1 Little Stands .75
1 Lot of Cups & Saucers Knives plates forks & Coffee Pot 2.00
1 Library of Books 15.00
1 Tin bucket & four Tins .50
1 Silver Watch 5.00
1 Coffee Mill .25
2 smoothing Irons .75
$145.25
Given under our hands this 22d day of Febuary 1821
James Stewart
John Keller Junr
Pennsylvania and
Huntingdon County ss
Before me the subscriber one of the associate
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania personally appeared James
Stewart and John Keller Junior two Creditable Citizens of said County and being first duly seven by me according to Law did depose
and say respectivly that on the twenty second day of February instant they did apprais and value the property of Detrick Ouriland of said County as exhibited to them at its just value according to the best of their knowledge and understanding, and that the amount of said appraisment is one hundred and forty five
Dollars and twenty five cents a list of which property and its valuation by them is hereto attached sworn to & subscribed this
twenty third day of Febuary A D 1821
Before
David Stewart
James Stewart
John Keller Jr
The following is a statement of the Declarants Credits viz Plantation sold to David Aurand at $1600 there being 110 acres part in dispute if lost in action. Commenced the above subject to an Exoneration in proportion per acre and payment in the following manner viz first payment $166 Received in May 1820 Second payment $300 due first May 1821 third payment first May 1822 $100 due yearly until all is paid the last payment falling due in 1833 Patent Deed to be paid out of the above 
Ballance Due $1434.00 Including the Patent fees
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" do from Winebrenners meeting house Bedford County - 50.00
" do Cannae Vally Congregation Huntingdon County 30.00
" do Huntingdon Congregation Huntingdon County 45.00
" do Woodcock Vally Congregation Huntingdon County 30.00
" do Trough Creek Congregation Huntingdon County 30.00
" do Clover Creek Congregation Huntingdon County 20.00
Seven acres of Land sold to John Aurandt 140.00
Cash due from Harts Log Congregation 25.00
Cash due from Jacob Truly 34.00
$1868.00
Detrich Ourhand
Sworn & Subscribed in open
Court Feby 28th AD 1821
William Steel Proty


A Statement of Declarants Debts to be paid on demand or due and recoverable at my creditors pleasure viz.
To John Hoover for Boarding & attendance in sickness - $42.00
To Conrad Bucher 37.00
To John Hewit 12.00
To Christian Garber 22. 40
To Jacob Truby 34.00
To Huntingdon Bank Intrest for 15 months 148.40
To Doctor Hoffman for medical aid in sickness 14.49 1/2
To John Keller Jr. 60.00
To James Sherley 18.55
To Tobias Hanline 42.40
To Doctor Jacob Wolf for medical aid in sickness 15.21
To Henry Bridenthal Esq. 5.00
To Philip Brown Cumberland County 112.00
To James Clark Union County 15.12 1/2
To Doctor Cain for Medicin 5.00
To Michael Bredenbaugh 40.00
To Adam Strayer 6.00
To Michael Henline 19.00
To Doctor Vanvolsey Union County Pa 141.60
To John Canan 10.21
To James Entriken 23.50
To Mathias Smith (money Borowed 190.00
To Sl Hemphill 23.00
To Peter Swoope 7.00
To Martin Funk 65.00
To Samuel Garrett 17.00
To John Aurandt for Cash pd to Wm Donaldson 247.61
A few small debts due to several persons amount to 40.75
$1414.25
Detrich Ourhand
Sworn & Subscribed in open
Court Feby 28th 1821
William Steel Proty
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That this declarant has a wife aged fifty six years a son being in his 20th year and a Daughter in her seventeenth year of her age
and that his wife is sickly and is unable to render but little support towards the family The said declarant is very much afflicted with
the Arthrodynia & is unable to render but little support towards the family.
Detrich Ourhand
Sworn to & Subscribed in
open Court Feby 28th AD 1821
Support towards the family
William Steel Proty

Huntingdon County The foregoing declaration been made on oath in open Court and the valuation of property being proved as therein set forth the Court approved of the same and concur therein.
By the Court
William Steel Proty
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May 25 46
J. L. Edwards Esqr
(Comr of Pensions)
Washington D.C.

J. D. Ourhand
Pa Roll '18
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Huntingdon, May 21. 1846.
J.L. Edwards, Esqr
Commissioner of Pension
Dr. Sir J.D. Ourhand or Ouran or Auran drew a Pension from the U.S. a number of years for services rendered as a private in the Revolutionary War.  He resided in this County, (Huntingdon County, Pa.) where he died in 1831.
Will it be necessary for his widow (who yet lives in said county) to enable her to draw a pension under the act of 7th July 1838, to prove the service of her decd husband, agreeably to the 1st rule of evidence under that act or will the fact of his being a pensioner be sufficient, if in addition to that she proves the marriage, the death, and that she is the widow of said decd pensioner?
The true name of the pensioner was Revd John Detrick Aurandt, but his widow thinks his name on the pension roll was written as stated in the fore part of this letter.
An answer is desired
is desired.
Yrs. Resp
Theo H. Cremer
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13039 9080- 1245
Catharine Ourhand
Pa
Act 7 July 38
m 81 d 31
admd 2 yrs pri
$80
Also acts 43 & 44
T.H. Cremer
$80
Huntingdon
Pena
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County SS
On this tenth day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and forty six, personally appeared
before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Huntingdon, Catharine Ourhand, a resident of Porter Township, in the said County, aged eighty two years and three days, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty eight, entitled "An act granting half pay
and pensions to certain widows:" that she is the widow of Detrick Ourhand, who was a private soldier or volunteer in the army of the American Revolutionary war, and afterwards a pensioner for several years previous to the time of his death.-
She further declares that she was married to the said Detrick Ourhand on the fifth day of November A.D. Seventeen hundred and eighty two; that her husband, the aforesaid Detrick Ourhand, died on the twenty fourth day of
April A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty one; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated.
X her mark Catharine Ourhand
Sworn & subscribed in open Court on the day and year above written, before
A S Wilson President Judge 20th Judicial district
Penna
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County

I, James Steel, Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas of said County,
Do hereby certify that the Honorable Abraham S. Wilson, Esqr
is President Judge of said Court,
duly appointed and commissioned
according to the Constitution and laws
of this Commonwealth, and that the signature to the
acknowledgement of the within Declaration is the genuine
signature of him the said Judge. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the
said Court this 10th day of August A.D. 1846, at Huntington
James Steel Proty
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County ⎬ ss
Before me, John Albright, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, personally appeared, John Ourhand & Catharine Ourhand who being
duly sworn, according to law, did depose & say that the within (other side of this leaf) is the family record of Deitrich Ourhand, kept by him in his own hand writing, in the German Language; that the same has remained in the possession of the said Catharine Ourhand, widow of the said Deitrich Ourhand, (a revolutionary pensioner of the United States) even since the tijme of the death of the said Deitrich Ourhand, to wit: since the 24th day of April AD 1831; that to the best of their knowledge & belief, no other record of the Family of the said Deitrich was ever kept by him or by any other person for him, and that the said widow was never afterwards married.  And the said Catharine Ourhand did further depose & say that the marriage between her and the said Deitrich Ourhand took place on the 5th day of November AD seventeen hundred & eighty tow and that they were married by Rev. M. Handel, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania agreebly to the usages and customs of the German Reformed Church.
Sworn & subscribed this 11th day of August AD 1846, Before me.
John Albright
Catharine (X her mark) Ourhand
John Aurandt

State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County
Before me, John Albright, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared, John Porter, Esq. who being duly sworn, according to law, did depose & say that he is well acquainted with the hand writing of Deitrick Ourhand, a revolutionary pensioner of the United States (now deceased) & that the
within Family Record is in the proper hand writing of the said Deitrich
Ourhand, in the German language; that the said Catharine Ourhand, named in the above deposition is the widow of the said
Deitrich Ourhand; that the said Deitrich Ourhand died on or
about the 24th day of April 1831, and that he the said John
Porter, Esq. as agent of the said Deitrich Ourhand, drew his pension for him for a number of years at the pension office in Philadelphia, previous to the death of the said pensioner.
Sworn & subscribed this 11th day of
August A.D. 1846
John Albright
John Porter

State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County

I, James Steel Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas
of said County, do certify that John Albright, Esq. before whom
the above depositions were taken is an acting Justice of the Peace and is duly stated and commissioned agreeably to the Constitution & laws of this Commonwealth, & that his acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere.  And further, I do certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice & that the signature annexed to said depositions,
purporting to be
the signature of the said Justice, is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the said Court this 11th day of August AD 1846, at Huntingdon.
James Steel Proty
(There is a note attached to this document, written in German)
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1785 September 22d. we had a daughter Born named Salome
1787 december 29th. we had a daugther Born named Catahrine
1789 March 2d we had a son born named John.
1791 February 22d. we had a son named David.
1797 February 12th. we had a son born named Jonathan.
1799 May 7th. we had a daugther Born named Hanna.
1801 October 7th we had a son born named Joshua.
John Dietrich Aurand[t crossed out] Father of the above mentioned Children was born November 8th in the year AD. 1761.
Catherine Reiber was born the 7th day of August in the year A.D. 1764. - She is the Mother of the above mentioned children - The above mentioned Detrich Aurand's weded wife.
The above conveys the True meaning contained in the German Family Record, Kept by the above J.D. Aurand in his Book of Accts. &c.
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{1 1785. The 22 day of September, we had a Daughter Born to this world, her [overwriting “whoes”sic] name is Salome.

{2 1787. The 29 day of December we had a Daughter Born to this world her [overwriting “whoes”sic] name is Catharine.

{3 1789 The 2d day of March we had a Son Born, his name is John & [underlined] is 21 years old the 2 day of March.

{4 1791. The 22d day of [written above: “# David is 21 years old today the 22 Feby. 1812.”] February, we had a Son Born, his name is David. (& is 19 years old Since 22d Feby. 1810
[sic without closing parenthesis]

{5 1797. The 12th February, we had a son Born, his name is Jonathan. [Long underline without words] 
     #Jonathan is 14 years old Since the 12 day of Feby 1810 
     #Jonathan is 21 years till the 12 Feby. 1818.

{6 1799 The 7th May, we had a Daughter Born to this world This morning between 5 & 6- whose [sic] [underlined] name is Hanna. 
(#Hanna is in her 12 year Since the 7th of May.

{7 1781 The 7th October we had a son Born at 10 minutes Past 12 in the afternoon. his name is Joshua. 
#Joshua is [no number] years old till the 7th oct.[sic] 1810
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{John Detrich Aurand [sic]. As Father of the above named children. was Born the 8th November in the year A.D. 1761
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{ Catharine Reiber was Born the 7th August in the year AD. 1764. She is the mother of the above Mentioned children. The above mentioned Dietrich Aurandts weded[sic] Wife.
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The 30th June 1804 we had a Daughter Born. her name is Elizabeth & 11 in the ?day
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The foregoing is as near the original, as may be & trying the ages at different times.
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section

November 11, 1927

Miss Ethel L. Glunt
Caps Charles, Va.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 3291 it appears that John Detrioh Aurandt (name also spelled Aurand, Ourandt, Ourhand) and pensioned Detrioh Ourhand, was born November 8, 1761. He was a German, and was referred to as Reverand John Detridh Aurandt.

He enlisted in Buffalo Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania January 14, 1778, served as a private in Captains George Whetzel's and John Bankson's Companies, Colonel Walter Stewart's Second Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the battles of Monmouth, Paulus Hook, Springfield, Salisbury, and in a number of skirmishes and was discharged January 14, 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818 while a resident of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, and in 1821 was living in Morris Township in said county. He died April 24, 1831 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
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[unintelligible mark]

He married November 5, 1782 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Catherine Reiber born August 7, 1764. She was allowed pension on her application executed August 10, 1846 while a resident of Porter Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Their children were:

Saloma born September 23, 1785.
Catherine " December 29, 1787.
John " March 2, 1789.
David " February 12, 1791.
Jonathan " February 12, 1797.
Hanna " May 7, 1799 ( a daughter).
Joshua " October 7, 1801.
Elizabeth " June 30, 1804.

Respectfully,

Winfield Scott
Commissioner.
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1927-Jan.13- Hist to Mrs
Huggins
1927 - Nov. 11. Hist. to Miss
Glunt MMHF
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3291
4909868
Cathl Ourhand
Widow
Dedrick Ourhand
Pri. Rev War
Act: Feb. 2. 1848.
Index:--Vol. M. Page 105.
Arrangement of 1870.]
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Revd
11113
Pennsylvania
Catharine Ourhand
Widow of Dedrick Ourhand
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 24th April 1831
of Huntingdon in the State of Penna
who was a private in the compy
commanded by Captain --- of the
Regt. commanded by Col Stewart in
the Penna line for 2 years-
Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia
at the rate of 80 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of
Oct. 1846 and sent to T.H
Cremer, Huntingdon, Pa
Total amount, $400.
Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by D. H. Wood Clerk,
Book D. Vol. A Page 22
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7982
Pennsylvania
Catharine Ourhand
widow of Dedrick Ourhand
who was a Private
in the Penna line
Husb. died 24th Apl. 1831
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
Eighty Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
fifteenth day of October 1846
and sent to
T.H. Cremer, Esq
Huntingdon, Pa
Acts of March 3, 1843.
and 17th June 1844
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2. Page 113.-
D H. Wood Clk
2 cetfs.
1838
1843 &
1844
Repd
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Pennsylvania
Dedrick Ourhand, private
From 1778 to 1781. Aged
62 years, afflicted with the arthrdynia
(one of the Terminations of acute rheumatism)
and which is yearly worsening
-wife aged 52 years, sickly.
Schedule dated Feby 1821.
Real Estate none
Personal amounts to $145.25.
The following is a statement of the
applicants credits, (viz) sold to
David Aurandt 110 acres of land
(a part of which is in dispute )
for $1600 and receives payment
in the following manner. First
payment $166 recd in May 1821
2 do $300, in May 1821. Third
due in May 1822 $100 and yearly
until the whole amount is paid
the last payment falling due in
1823. Patent deed to be paid out
of the above amount including the
patent fees. Balance due on the
sale of the said Land $1434
due for his ministerial
services - 260.
Due from J Truly - 34.
7 acres of land sold to
(illegible)
Total amt of debts due to
the applicant - $1868.00
Total amt due from him (names of his creditors
given) - $1414.25
Schedule under the act
March 1823 dated 14 Aug
1823
Contains no Real property.
Personal property amt - $133.50
Debts due him - 69.
Total 202.50
Indebted in the amount of
$425.23
the names the creditors given
States that all his Real Estate
has been sold by the Sheriff
and the proceeds 
arising from the sale thereof
applied to the payment of judgment debts.
See authenticated  certificate of the
Sheriff, under oath, filed
within, in which he states that the
proceeds arising from the
sale of said land were applied as
stated above - 101.67
M St.Claire, Clerk Esq
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and the money applied
in discharge of
Judgements."
aged 62 ys. afflicted
with the "Arthrodynia"
which is yearly increasing -  wife 58 ys.
sickly..
Suspended
see letter to
Saml Burch, Esq.
Ch. Clk in the Clk
Office H. Reps
Oct. 8. 1828
May 20
Pennsylvania
Dedrick Ourhand, priv
from 1778 to 1781
1st Sched: Feb 1821
Personal Property $145.25
Due him for sale of land - 1574
Due for ministerial
services - $294-
Total $2013.25
Indebted- $1.414.25
Sched: under Act Mar 1823
14 Augt 1823
Personal Property $133.50 
due to him - 69.
Total $202.50
Indebted- $425.23
States that all his
Real Estate, has been
sold by the Sheriff
over
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Copy of Record
Discharge of
Detrich Ourhand
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Dedrich Ourhand
Admitted
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Pennsylvania and 
Huntingdon County ss
On this sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred & eighteen before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the
Court of Common pleas in and for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid
Personally appears Detrich Ourhand aged fifty seven and upwards years
resident in Huntingdon County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 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
Detrick Ourhand enlisted in Northumberland County in Buffalo Township
with Lieutenant Jacob Snyder in the company commanded by Captain
George Whetzet and in the Regiment Comanded by Col. Walter Stewart in the
Pennsylvania line on or about the fourteenth day of January in the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight, that he continued to serve
in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the fourteenth day
of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, when he was discharged
from service in Trenton by General Anthony Wayne in the State of
New Jersey, which discharge he gave to his Father many years ago to draw his
back pay for arrearages of pay artions and cloathing to rich his father received
but lost this applicants discharge, but a copy thereof is herewith exhibited from
the Docket of the late Peter Spyker of Berks County Esquire wherein this
applicant had got it recorded Certified by Henry Spyker Esquire the
Son of the said Peter Spyker, that he was in the Battle of Monmouth Springfield
Salsburry and an engagement near Powlerhook and a number of skirmishes
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance 
of his Country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power
of his said service, except the Depositions hereto attached. That he hath no
pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States to his knowledge and if any such exists he doth hereby fully & entirely release the same to
the United States. Sworn to and declared before me, the day & year aforesaid.
Before
David Stewart
And subscribed by the said Detrich Ourhand.
Detrich Ourhand
Pennsylvania and Huntingdon County
I David Stewart an Associate Judge, of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said
Detrick Ourhand did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration
against the common enemy; and that he is poor, and stands in need of the assistance of his
Country for support and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and
had before me to the Honorable the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the
directions of the aforementioned act of Congress September 8th 1819.
David Stewart
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This is to certify that the Bearer Detrich Ourhand having served in the second Regiment of Pennsylvania, during the
Term of his Enlistment, is now discharged the service of the
United States of America, Given at Trenton, this 14th day Jan. 178?
a true Record of the Original
Andy Wayne B. G.
I do hereby certify that it appears upon the (illegible) of my
late Father Peter Spyker Esq. a Justice of the Peace in and for
Berks County, the above discharge was by her
Recorded or entered the 24th day of March 1781. Witness
Hand the 17th day of March 1803.
To all whom it
may Concern
Henry Spyker
Pennsylvania and
Huntingdon County ss
Before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Huntingdon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
spersonally appeared Michael Fink of said County and being first
duly sworn by me deposeth and saith that Detrick Ourhand the above
applicant for a pension served for two years and nine months & upwards
in the Revolutionary War in the Company of Grenadiers commanded by 
Captain John Bankson and in the second Regiment commanded by Col
Walter Stewart in the Pennsylvania line and in the Brigade commanded
by Brigadier General Anthony Wayne that this deponent served
in the same Company the whole time above mentioned Sworn to and
subscribed this third day of September AD. 1819
Before
David Stewart
Michael Fink
in English Michael Tink
Pennsylvania and
Huntingdon County Ss
Before me the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of
Common pleas in and for said County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
(illegible) Jacob Moyer 
of said County and being first duly sworn
he (the rest is cut off)
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Pennsylvania and
Huntingdon County ss
Before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Huntingdon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
personally appeared Michael Fink of said County and being first
duly sworn by me deposeth and saith that Detrick Ourhand the above
applicant for a pension served for two years and nine months & upwards
in the Revolutionary War in the Company of Grenadier Commanded by
Captain John Bankson and in the second Regiment commanded by Col
Walter Stewart in the Pennsylvania line and in the Brigade Commanded
by Brigadier General, Anthony Wayne that this deponent served in the same company the whole time above mentioned. sworn to and
subscribed this third day of September AD 1819
Before
David Stewart
Michael Fink
in english Michael Tink
Pennsylvania and 
Huntingdon County ss
Before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of
Common pleas in and for said County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
personally appeared Jacob (illegible) of said County and being first duly sworn
by me according to law saith that he was personally acquainted for
more than a year, with Detrick Ourhand the above applicant for a
pension whilst the said Detrick Ourhand served in the Revolutionary War
as a private in the Company of grenadiers commanded by Captain
John Bankson in the second Regiment commanded by Col. Walter Stewart in the Pennsylvania line and in the Brigade Commanded by
Brigadier General Anthony Wayne - Sworn to and subscribed
this third day of September A.D. 1819
Jacob Wayne
Before
David Stewart
Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County ss
I David Stewart an associate Judge of the Court of Common pleas in
and for said County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do Certify that
Michael Pink and Jacob Moyer are both citizens of the County of Huntingdon
and credible witnesses. In Testimony of which I have hereunto set my
hand and seal this 8th day of September A.D. 1819.
David Stewart
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13039
Sept 24, 1846


?A

Catharine Ourhand
July 7, 1838


T. H. Cremer 
Huntingdon
pa.
Sept 22d ‘46


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T. H. Cremer,
Huntingdon,
Pa
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Huntingdon County Ss.
     Before me, a Justice of the Peace in & for said county, personally appeared Peter Witmer, aged eighty two years, who being duly sworn, did depose & say that Deitrich [sic] Ourhand [sic], late a pensioner of the United States, was married to Catharine Reiber, now Catharine Ourhand [sic], mentioned in and sworn to the foregoing memorial, sometime in the autumn of the year seventeen hundred & eighty two, in Dauphin county in the State of Pennsylvania , by Revd. Mr. Hendel, of the German Reformed Church.
       Peter his + mark Witmer

   Sworn & subscribed this 11th August AD. 1846, before me; and I hereby certify that the above named Peter Witmer is a respectable person of known credibility. 
     John Albright

State of Pennsylvania }
Huntingdon County    } Ss.

I, James Steel, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, do Certify that John Albright Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly elected & commissioned according to the Constitution & laws of this State & that all his acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere. And further, I do certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice, and that the above signature, purporting to be the signature of the saidJustice is his genuine signature.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 11th day of August A.D. 1846, at Huntingdon.
     James Steel Prothy
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To the Commissioner of Pensions:
     The memorial of the undersigned, the widow of the late Detrick [sic] Ourhand [sic], a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, respectfully shows: That her husband, the aforementioned said Deitrich [sic] Ourhand [sic], served in the army of the United States, in the revolutionary war, as a private; and that for several years previous to the time of his death, which occurred on the twenty fourth day of April eighteen hundred and thirty one, he drew a pension from the United States, for services rendered as aforesaid; and in proof thereof she refers to papers on file in the Pension Office, upon which he obtained the pension aforesaid.  She therefore claims the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838, entitled “an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows”, and of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1844, entitled “an act to continue the pensions of certain widows” and she requests that her name may be inscribed on the roll of pensioners under those acts, who are paid at Philadelphia, in State of Pennsylvania. 
     Catharine her X mark Ourhand [sic]

Sworn & subscribed
to, before me, on this 11th
day of August, in the year
eighteen hundred & forty six.
John Albright [name underlined]

State of Pennsylvania }Ss
Huntingdon County     }

I, James Steel, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do Certify that John Albright, Esquire, before whom the above memorial was sworn to, is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said county, duly elected & commissioned agreeably to the Constitution & laws of this State, & that his acts as such, are entitled to full faith & credit as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere. And further, I do certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice of the Peace, and that the above signature, purporting to be the signature of the said Justice, is his genuine signature.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Huntingdon, this 11th day of August A.D. 1846.
        James Steel Prothy
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I do hereby certify that I have attended the Revd. W.  John. D. Aurandt, in the year 1820 from the 16th day of February until the 7th day of April and the Greater part of that time had not any Command of his limbs their Being pains with inflamation [sic]in his Joints his Disorder is incureable [sic] as their [sic] has never as yet any Specific Remedy Been Discribed [sic] to prevent the Return of his Disorder; the name of his disor [sic] is as follows {Arthrodynia; als [sic] Called; acute Rheumatism the  above Named disorder generally is more acute with the Said Aurandt, in the Spring and autumn But he is never intire [sic] without feeling Some Symtoms [sic] of the Disorder and when the Disorder comes to its most acute apearance [sic] it Generally Continues from Six to Eight weeks; and Some times three months and During that time he is Confined to bed and Deprived of all manner of ?censise —— the above is a true Statement of the Said Aurandts [sic] Disorder {Given from my hand

Huntingdon     Jacob Hoffman M.D.
            February 28th 1821
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Western District of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County as
On the fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County, Before the Honourable Charles Heyton Esquire President and David Stewart and Joseph McGuire Esquires associate Judges of said Court (being a Court of Record for the same District. Dietrich G
Aurhand aged sixty two years, Resident of Morris Township in the said County of Huntingdon in the said district who being duly sworn according to law doth declare on his oath, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows viz That he was enlisted in the American Army in January 1778 by Lieutenant Jacob Snyder, Captain Whetzels company, Colonel Coulter Stewarts Regiment Pennsylvania
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County Js

John Stewart Esquire and John Keller being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say (the said John Stewart and John Killer being two credible Citizens of said County,) that on the sixth day of August AD 1823 they did appraise and value the property of Detrick Ourhand as exhibited to them, at its just value according to the best of their knowledge and understanding, and that the amount of said appraisement is one hundred and thirty three dollars and fifty cents A list of which property and its valuation by them is before contained under their hands and further say not.
John Stewart
John Keller prot

Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 14th day of August AD 1823
Cor. Jno A Henderson Proty

The following is a statement of the Declarants credits Viz
Christian Winebrenner an account of $24.00

Tobias Harnish John Weight Henry Renode and Christian Shouty and Valentine Fink Junior for different congregations at which declarant preached- $45.00

$69.00

Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 14th day of August 1823

Cor. Jno A Henderson Protty
Detrick Ourhand-

A Statement of Declarants debts to be paid on demand (or due and recoverable at my creditors pleasure).
Valentine Fink Senior  18.00.
Doctor Benjamin Kanes  19.50.
John Hoover  30.00
John Keller Jnr   72.29
Martin Fink  76.32
Michael Britenbaugh  78.00
Doctor Jacob Wolf  11.00.
John Rule  6.71 1/2
John Scott Esquire  9.42
John Steel  1.59
Christian Garber  22.40.
Doctor Robert Vanawson  40.00
Henry Bridendall  10.00.
---------
425.23 1/2
Declarant further states that all his real estate mentioned in his former application, has been sold by the Sheriff and the money applied in discharge of Judgment.

Sworn and Subscribed to in open Court this 14th day of August A.D. 1823.
Co. Jno. A. Henderson Proty

Detrick Ourhands

That this Declarant has a wife aged about fifty eight years, and that his wife is sickly and is able to render very little support to herself. The said Declarant is very much afflicted with the Arthrdynia which is yearly increasing upon him, and is at present scarcely
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able to walk, which renders him unable to gain a livelihood for himself and wife
Detrick Ourhand

Sworn and Subscribed in open Court
14th August 1823
Cor. Jno A Henderson
Proth

Huntingdon County Js
On the within declaration being made on oath before the Court within mentioned and affidavit of John Stewart Esquire and John Kellar Junior, as to the value of Pensioners property being taken the Court approve of the value of the same at one hundred and thirty three dollars and fifty cents and concur in opinion therewith

By the Court 14th November 1823
Certified by John A Henderson Proty

Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County Js.
I John A Henderson Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas in and for said County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify that the within is a true Copy of the application of Detrick Ourhand for a Pension and of the list and valuation of his property Debts credits &c. and the approbation of the Court thereof as taken from and compared with the original remaining in file in my office. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this Seventeenth day of November AD one thousand eight hundred & Twenty Three
Jno A. Henderson Proty

I Patrick Gwin Esquire High Sheriff of the County of Huntingdon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that by virtue of an Execution issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County to me directed, I sold the real estate of Detrich Ourhand in the foregoing application mentioned, on the eighteenth day of April A.D. 1823 - And applied the proceeds arising from the sale of the same in discharge of Judgments against the said applicant. Witness my hand this 17th day of November 1823
Patrick Gwin
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Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County Js

I John A Henderson Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas in and for said County of Huntingdon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify that Patrick Givin Esquire, who signed the within certificate was at the time of signing thereof, and at the time of making the sale of the Real Estate of Detrick Ourhand therein mentioned, High Sheriff of the County of Huntingdon aforesaid, duly commissioned appointed and sworn.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this seventeenth day of November AD one thousand eight hundred and Twenty three

John A. Henderson Proth
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1 March 1823, Pa

Detrick Durhand
(Pension Office)

Honble John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington

Rec'd 12 December 1823
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Washington
11th Dec 1823

Mr Parker
The enclosed was returned from your office for want of the certificate of the Sheriff showing the sale and appropriation of the proceeds of the property therein mentioned. This is now done and I hope all is in due form-

Very respectfully
Sir your Obt Sert
Mary Clair Clarke
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County Js

On this Third day of August A.D. One thousand eight hundred and forty eight, personally appeared before me Robert Kinkead a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Catharine Durhand, a resident of Morris Township in the County of Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d of February 1848 granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the widow of Dedrick Durhand who was a private in the Pennsylvania line and died the 24th day of April 1831. That she received an annual pension of eighty dollars under the acts of 3 March 1843 and 17 June 1844.  She further declares that she is still a widow.

Sworn and subscribed before me on the day and year above written

Robert Kinkead
John Porter Witness at signing

Catharine Durhand
her mark

I do hereby certify that the above named Catharine Durhand, Widow of Dedrick Durhand Deceased is personally known to me and that she is the same person who has received a pension under the act of 17 June 1844

Robert Kinkead Justice of the Peace
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County Js

I James Steel Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County. Do certify that Robert Kinkead Esq before whom the within affidavit of of Catharine Aurhandt, widow of Dedrick Durhand Deed was made, is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly elected and commissioned agreeably to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth and that all his acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere. And further I do certify that the signature annexed thereto purporting to be the signature of said Justice is his genuine signature.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Huntingdon the 15th day of August A.D. 1848

James Steel Prothonotary
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official

J.D. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pension Office
Washington City
D.G.
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Alexandria Huntingdon Co. Penna.
18 Aug. 1848
Sir
Enclosed I send you the declaration of Catharine Ourhand (widow of Dedrick Ourhand Died late a private in the Pennsylvania line in the army of the
Revolution) for the purpose of having her continued as a pensioner, in pursuance of an
act of Congress of 2d. February 1848. Mrs Ourhand received a pension under the Acts of 3d. Mar. 1843 and 17 June 1844. please forward certificate to me at this place
Yours very Respectfully
John Porter
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Hillsboro Ohio
Nov. 15, 1926

Pension Office

Dear Sirs
Will you please send the Pension Record of Rev. John Deter Aurandt of Lancaster Co Pennsylania Chaplin in the war of the Revolution. His wife Katie Rivers Aurandt also drew a pension. Thanking you in advance paid

Sincerely Yours
(Mrs W.P.) Alma Huggins
433 W. Walnut St
Hillsboro Ohio
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Cape Charles, So
June 15 1927

Commissioner of Pensions:

Dear Sir:
Will you kindly furnish me with information of Detrick Aurandt, fought in the Revolutionary War in a company designated at various times as Colonel Walter Stewart's and Capt Peter Gosner's Company.  Does his name appear on any of your records  He was my great-great-great grandfather

Very truly yours
Ethel L. Glunt
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

January 13, 1927

Mrs. W. P. Huggins
433 West Walnut St.,
Hillsboro, Ohio

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 3291 it appears that John Detrioh Aurandt (name also spelled Aurand, Ourandt, Ourhand) and pensioned Dedrioh Ourhand, was born November 8, 1761. He was a German, and was referred to as Reverend John Detrioh Aurandt.

He enlisted in Buffalo Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania January 14, 1778, served as a private in Captains George Whetzel's and John Bankson's Companies, Colonel Walter Stewart's Second Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the battles of Monmouth, Paulus Hook, Springfield, Salisbury, and in a number of skirmishes and was discharged January 14, 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818 while a resident of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, and in 1821 was living in Morris Township in said county. He died April 24, 1831 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

Soldier married November 5, 1782 in Dauphin County, Penn-
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sylvania, Catharine Reiber born August 7, 1764. She was allowed pension on her application executed August 10, 1846 while a resident of Porter Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Their children were:

Salome born September 22, 1785.
Catharine " December 29, 1787.
John " March 2, 1789.
David " February 22, 1791.
Johnathan " February 12, 1797.
Hanna " May 7, 1799 (a daughter).
Joshua " October 7, 1801.
Elizabeth " June 30, 1804.

Respectfully,

Winfield Scott
Commissioner