Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35772, John Barber, Continental Pa.
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SERVICE   Continental
Pa.
Barber, John
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NUMBER
S. 35772
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35772 
Revy INVALID 
File No. 35,772 
John Barber 
Pri Rev War
Act: 18” March 18” 
Index: - Vol. D, Page 28 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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10 120 
Dist of Columbia 
John Barber
Captain Stoddard
Maryland line 1777 3 years in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War 
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist. of Columbia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 30th of May 1818  
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th of Sept 1818 and delivered to the pensioner. 
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818   25.51
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar. 1819 48.00
$73.51 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
Dead: so informed by his daughter Elizabeth Clubb
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Hon’ble Buckner Thruston,
Judge &c
Capitol Hill, 
Washington
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DISTRICT OF Columbia SS. 
On this thirtieth day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the said district, personally appeared John Barber aged 65 years, resident in Washington  in the said district, 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 John Barber on the 4th day of April 1777 enlisted in Bladensburg in the state of Maryland - in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Stoddard of the eleventh Pensylvania Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Hartley of Little York State of Pennsylvania;   that he continued to the serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the January 28 1781 when he was discharged from service in Trenton state of New Jersey; that he was in the battles of Brandywine Germantown, & Paoli, & afterwards served against the Indians; 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 services, having left his charge in the comptrollers office in Philadelphia, 
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid. 
I B. Thruston Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said John Barber did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. 
May 30th 1818 B. Thruston 
[SEAL OF THE COURT.]  The Hon’ble The Secty at War
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though it is impossible to remember features, during an absence, from youth to old age, yet from various circumstances, which I well recollect and are so minutely related by the bearer John Barber, I can feel no difficulty in asserting that he is the Identical man he represents himself to be, and that he was actually a Serjeant in the 11th Pennsylvania regiment, and in the battles stated in the Instrument signed by Judge Thruston, to procure him a pension from his Country. 
H. Carbery 
D.C. 13 Sep: 1818
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To what period was John Barber, Revo pensioner act 18 March 1818. Dist. of Col. [unreadable]
 last paid? 
J L Edwards 
Sept. 13. 1834 
Not on auditor’s rolls
Paid to March 4, 1820 
John Sessford
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51 
12-5-41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives 
NAME   Barber, John    GRADE   Private     LINE  Hazen’s Regiment   
WARRANT NUMBER   12761   ACREAGE   100   ISSUED  March 25, 1790
To – not shown -
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 Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives. 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.