Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13396, Conrad Hite, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn.
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Hite, Conrad
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NUMBER
S.13396

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N.11, 916
Pennsylvania

Conrad Hite

Somerset Co. in the State of Penna who was a Pr., Dr. Major in the company  commanded by Captain Irwin of the Regt commanded by Col. Brodhead in the Penna. Troops time for 
2 months & 10 days Pr. - 7.75
9 " Dr. Major - 40.50
$48.25
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 48 Dollars and 25 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of July 1833 and sent to S.G. Bailey, Somerset Pa.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 96.50
semi-anl. allowance ending Sep. 1833 $24.12
$120.62
Revolutionary Claim,
Act of June 7, 1832
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, 
Book E, Vol.5, Page 23
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Conrad Hite

2 mo 10 days Priv 7.75
9 months - Div Maj - 40.50
$48.25

Gen. Bard [crossed out]
H.R.
Bedford, Pa [crossed out]
S.G. Bailey, Esq
Somerset, Pa
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[Printed document with info filled in]
Brief in the case of Conrad Hite of Stoystown, County of Somerset in the State of Pennsylvania

(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  In open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 69 8/12, 11/30

4. State his services, as directed in the form annexed.

Period
Enlisted in 17
Discharged 19 March 1780

Duration of Service
-9 months
Rank
As a private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served
Gen. 
Col. George Broadhead
Capt. Joseph Irwin
8th Regt [illegible]

5. In what battles was he engaged?
With the Indians of the Muncy & Mingo Towns

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Bedford, Penna

7. Is his statement by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Living witness and traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Chas. G. Wilcox, Examining Clerk
5 July 1833
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress of the 7th April 1832

State of Pennsylvania}SS
Somerset County

On the eleventh day of September Eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Somerset and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania aforesaid Conrad Hite, a resident of Stoystown in Said County and state aged sixty nine years eight months and eleven days who after being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Acts of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he was born in the town of Bedford in the County of Bedford in Pennsylvania on the first day of January 1763. That he continued to reside in the town of Bedford with his fathers family until about the age of sixteen years, at which time he enlisted for nine months in the eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania State Troops commanded by Colonel George Broadhead in a company commanded by Captain Joseph Irvin, or Irons, First Lieutenant John Gimmerson and Second Lieutenant Henry Armstrong - That he marched to Pittsburg Pennsylvania where Colonel Broadhead and Colonel Gibson succeeded to the command of the Regiment. From Pittsburg he marched up the Allegany (Alleghany) River between two and three hundred miles to the Indian towns called the Muncey and Mingo Towns which the troops destroyed and where the detachment had a single engagement with the indians. Whence he returned to Pittsburg thence to Hannastown (now Greensbing) in
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Westmoreland in the same state where he was discharged the tenth day of March 1780. That his discharged was Signed by Captain Joseph Irwin. That he gave his discharge to Chauncey Forward Esquire to carry to Harrisburg for the purpose of making application to the State of Pennsylvania for a pension and that it is mislaid or lost. That this applicant returned to Bedford where he resided until the month of August 1793 when he moved to the Town of Cumberland in Maryland where he resided about four years when he moved to Stoney Creek Township Somerset County in the State of Pennsylvania where he lived about four years at which time he moved to Hagerstown where he has continued to reside ever since. That he has no documentary evidence of his service having lost his discharge as before stated.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the 
present and disclosed that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed - Conrad Hite
this day and year aforesaid
C. Forward Prothy [Prothonotary]

Pennsylvania 
Somerset County} SS

Personally appeared before the said Court Major George Graham a creditable witness  who being duly sworn according to law doth say and depose that in the year 1778 or 79 he resided in the Town of Bedford in Pennsylvania and at that time and for several years before, he was intimately acquainted with Conrad Hite who makes the forgoing declaration. That they were school boys together, that he well knows that Conrad Hite enlisted in the Revolutionary Army under the Captain Joseph Irwin who at that time was a recruiting officer in the Town of Bedford. That Conrad Hite marched with Captain Joseph Irwin
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and his troops to the west, that after an absence of nearly a year the said Conrad Hite returned to Bedford. That on his return deponent often conversed with him concerning his march and the events thereof and often heard Mr. Hite relate the scene through which he passed and particularly of the battle with the Indians at the Muncey and Mingo towns and the destruction  of those towns - and that he has lived as neighbors almost ever since- and that he is a man of undoubted veracity and integrity -
Sworn & subscribed
in open court this
11th day of September
1832 C Forward Prothy {prothonotary}
George Graham
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatives 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 Mayor George Graham who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing deposition and that the names of Philip Cocher and Norman M Bruce who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the County of Somerset and that they are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit -
I Chauncey Forward Prothonotary of the Common Pleas of the County of Somerset 
aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Conrad Hite for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of the Court aforesaid this eleventh day of September Anno Domini 1832 
C. Forward Prothonotary
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May 3, 1934.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

BA-J/ady
Conrad Hite
S. 13396

Mrs. N. E. Whedon
406 South G Street
Wellington, Kansas

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of Robert Height as described by you, all spellings of the surname searched.
The record of Conrad Hite is furnished you herein as found in the pension claim based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
Conrad Hite was born January 1, 1763 in Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. The names of his parents are not stated.
While residing with his father's family in Bedford, Pennsylvania, he enlisted about the first of April 1779, served in Captain Joseph Irwin's Company, Colonels Brodhead's and Gibson's Pennsylvania Regiments as rifleman and drum major; was in the expedition against the Indian Towns, Munsey and Mingo, and discharged March 10, 1780.
In August 1793 he moved from Bedford, Pennsylvania, to Cumberland, Maryland, and about four years later moved to Stony Creek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and
about four years later moved to Stoyestown, Pennsylvania.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 11, 1832 while a resident of Stoyestown, Somerset
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County, Pennsylvania.
There are no family data.
[handwritten comment upper right "Date of death not on A.B."]
This is the record of the only Conrad Hite, all spellings of the surname searched, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Very truly yours, 
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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Johnstown, Pa.
March 16, 1914

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

[stamped] U.S. Pension Office Mar 17 1914

Dear Sir:-
The name of my ancestor, Conrad Hite, of Somerset Co., appears in the Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series, page 540, under a list of pensioners, as follows: - Conrad Hite,
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pr. and drum maj. P.M., July 12, 1833, 72.
Will you kindly send me a copy of his war record, if such exists.
Respectfully, 
Mrs. John H. Stephens
41 Osborne St.,
Johnstown, Penna.
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Revolutionary War Records Section.    3-525
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions.
Washington, D. C., ........., 19......

In reply to your request of ............., received ......... for a statement of the military history of Conrad Hite, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.        S. 13396

Dates of Enlistment        Length of Service.
or Appointment.
Apr. 1779                          Mch. 10, 1780

Rank.                     
 Officers Under whom                                                     
                                 Service was Rendered.
                               Captain.              Colonel.      
Pvt &                  Joseph Irwin         Brodhead
Drum Major                                       Gibson

State.
Penn
Battles engaged in, in engagement with Indians at Muncy & Mingo towns
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Bedford, Bedford Co. Penn.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 11, 1832.  His claim was allowed & issued July 12, 1833
Residence at date of application, Stoyertown, Somerset Co. Penn.
Age at date of application, born in Bedford, Bedford Co. Penn. Jan. 1, 1763
Remarks:  There is no family data on file.

Respectfully, 
                        Commissioner.
(Soldier says Col George Brodhead of the Pa is Daniel Brodhead)
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406 South G St
Wellington, Kans., Apr. 19-34

[stamped] Rec'd
Apr 23 1934
Mail Sub-div.
Vets Adm Reader #4

Director of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir - 
Will you kindly give me all the data you have regarding - 
Robert Height, Hight or Hite who was in the Lancaster Co., Penn. militia
and
Conrad Height, Hight or Hite who was in the Bedford County, Penn. militia both in the Revolutionary War?
I am trying to trace my ancestor for D.A.P. membership and for data about his family.
Thanking you, I am

Very truly, 
(Mrs) N.E. Whedon
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1934 Mch 25: Hist to Mrs.
John H. Stevens M.B.H.
__________________
1934 May 3 Hist. to Mrs.
N.E. Whedon, A.D.Y.

Rev War
13396
INVALID.
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File No. 13.396
Conrad Hite
Pri Rev. War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index: --Vol. 1, Page 174
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[Postal Stamp]
SOMERSET
May


Mail
Pa. Vet

FREE
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Somerset Pennsylvania 4.May.1833

Cl J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Sir
Enclosed you will [piece missing] an application of Conrad Hite of Somerset County Pennsylvania for a Pension for Revolutionary Service. Please send me the certificate of the allowance of his pension [illegible] to Somerset Penn[raised a] -

Respectfully yours
[signed] Samuel G. Bailey
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Conrad Hite
17469
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We Philip Cocher and Norman M. Bruce residing in the County of Somerset hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Conrad Hite who had Subscribed and Sworn to the foregoing declaration.  That we believe him to be about Seventy years of age.  That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
                    Norman M. Bruce
                    Philip Cocher

Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court the eleventh day of September A. D. 1832
C. Forward Proth'y
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Pennsylvania 
Somerset County ss.
Personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common pleas &c of Somerset County & State aforesaid now holding this 22nd day of April 1833 before the honorable Alexander Thomson & his associate Judges of the same Court, the above named Conrad Hite who having been duly sworn deposeth & saith & further taketh oath that in addition to the facts already stated in the above declaration & affidavit made by him the 11th day of September A D 1832.  That he enlisted as aforesaid in a Regiment of the Pennsylvania Troops as aforesaid commanded by Colonel Brodhead as aforesaid some time about the beginning of April in the year 1779 & served in a company commanded by Captain Joseph Irwin as aforesaid & served in said company & with others under the command of said Colonel Broadhead the period of his said enlistment until his discharge as aforesaid on the tenth day of March 1780 being a period to the best of his recollection & knowledge of eleven months & ten days, during the greater part of said period he acted as Drum Major of said Regiment except during the expedition against the Mingo and Muncy Towns when he served as a rifleman & not a musician
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In said company and with said troops commanded by said Colonel Broadhead. That the period which he acted and served as Drum major and was about nine months in the regiment commanded by said Col. Broadhead and the engagements which said detachments had with the enemy at the Muncey and Mingo towns is the only one that he was in during his said time of service.
Conrad Hite
Sworn and Subscribed this 22 April 1833
C Forward Prothy } Conrad Hite

Somerset County ss
     Personally came into Court the Reverend Frederick Heyer of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and a resident of Somerset Township Somerset County Pennsylvania who himself been duly sworn deposith and saith that he is well acquainted with the above named Conrad Hite the applicant above mentioned that he believes at the time of his application he was of the age which he therein represented and that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where here resides to have been a Revolutionary soldier and that he concur’s in that opinion. The next two words were lined through and illegible. F Heyer

Sworn to and subscribed 
this 22d April 1833}
C. Forward Prothy}