Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,142, Christopher Brey, Penn.
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Service                            Number
Penn.     Brey, Christopher   S.22,142

Contents
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11768
Pennsylvania
Christopher Brey
of Montgomery @ in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt: commanded by Col. Alister in the Pa [???} line for 12mo 20 d.
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State of Pennsylvania
Montgomery County ss
On this eight day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Montgomery aforesaid now sitting Christopher Brey a resident of Marlborough township in said county and state, aged seventy five 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 7.1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officer and served as herein stated.
He went out as a drafted militia man, a private in Captain Matthias Sheifily's company of Marlborough Militia belonging to Col. Antes's Regiment of this state of Pennsylvania about or on the 14th day of August 1776. Declarant and said company marched from the Captain's House in Marlborough township aforesaid day to Philadelphia, where they remained about two weeks quartered in a store in Water Street.  They then marched to Trenton N. Jersey thence to Amboy and remained encamped at Amboy till the last day of November 1776, when they were discharged and returned home. He does not recollect the name of any general officer at Amboy. Was out three months and a half.  3 1/2. Declarant went out again as a drafted militiaman as private in Capt. Schuyller's company of Marlborough Militia Col [illegible] Regiment, about the middle of June 1777 marched from Downingtown in said township to [illegible] in Bucks County Pa. thence to Trenton where, and in the neighborhood of which place, he and said company remained till the latter end of August when they were discharged and returned home about the first day of September 1777 and was out 2 1/2 two months and a half this time. He was called out again the next day after the Battle of Brandywine and marched out
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immediately as a private in Capt Andrew Reads company of militia Col Antes Regiment, toward Chestnut Hills, near which the company with some other forces got into a skirmish with some British troops  near Barnum Hill, just before the Battle of Germantown, after the British return to Philadelphia declarant and said company went into winter quarters at a place called Feather Bed Hill at the Whitemarsh Church at Whitemarsh township in the aforesaid county, then Philadelphia county and remained there till new years day, when the company were discharged and declarant returned home five days after.  Declarant was out three month and a half 3 1/2 and [illegible] this tour.
Declarant went out again a substitute for his brother George Brey, (a drafted militiaman) as a private in Captain Mellinger's company of Bedminster militia Bucks County PA. attached to Col Kechline's (sp. Kachline) Regiment. The declarant and company marched from Bedminster aforesaid the first of October 1778, to Brisbain's Ferry on the Delaware River to receive and guard some British prisoners to Maryland. There were several companies of Militia, the officers and militia companies were strangers to declarant.  The prisoners were taken and guarded in a squad some distance and time apart. Capt Mellinger's company received a squad of several Hessians and took them by Lancaster, Columbia, and Little York Pennsylvania, to a place called Tawny town in the State of Maryland, and delivered them over to the American forces and officers there and returned home and arrived home between Christmas and New Year's in December 1778 and was out three months this time excepting two or three days.  Declarant was out in the service at aforesaid not less than three months and a half in the year 1776 and not less than two months and a half in the year 1777 in the first tour and three months and then three quarters
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quarters of a month in the second tour in the year 1777 and upwards of two months and three quarters in the year 1778 and was out in the service in the several tours above mentioned together no less than twelve months and a half.
Declarant has no documentary evidence of his services and he now knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declared that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Declarant was bon in Marlborough township Montgomery county aforesaid on the seventh day of  April 1758. He has no record of his age except on a looseleaf in his Bible, hereto annexed. Declarant resides in Marlborough township aforesaid when called into the service and has lived in the same township and neighborhood ever since the Revolutionary war, where he now resides. Declarant went out as a drafted militiaman in 1776, and the first town in 1777, and was suddenly called out by the Captain the next day after the Battle of Brandywine to oppose the British in the second [illegible] in 1777. In the year 1778 he went out as a substitute for his brother George Brey, who was a drafted militiaman. He does not recollect the names of the officers who were in the troops where he served except those above named. He never received any written discharge. Declarant is known to the Reverend George Roeller, Michael Cope Esquire Abraham  Gerhard Esquire Col Philip Reed [illegible] Treas. and others who reside in this present neighborhood who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
These words remain "[illegible]" in the second term in 1777pm  the 3 page enter lined & the world "October" written on an [illegible] on 2d page [illegible] - Sworn and subscribed this day and year aforesaid
J. Fry  W. Prit
his
Christopher X Brey
mark
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and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. and the said Court further certify that it appears to them that George Roeller who has signed the annexed certificate is a clergyman residing in the same neighborhood with the applicant and that Daniel Freis who has also signed the same is a resident in the same neighborhood with the applicant and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. And further that in the opinion of the court that on account of the distance the said George Roeller and Daniel Freis could not be produced in court without too much expense and inconvenience to the application.
- witness in hand
John Fox-Pres Judge
Hiram McNeill Associate
Richard B. Jones, (illegible) Judy Montgomery County

I Jacob Fry Jr.. Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Montgomery aforesaid do hereby certify that the Honorable John Fox whose signature is attached to the above certificate was at the time of signing the same and still is President Judge of the said court and that the Hon Richard B. Jones and Hiram McNeill whose signatures are also attached to the said certificate, was at the time of signing the same and still are associate Judges of the same court. And that the foregoing and annexed papers contain the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Christopher Brey for a pension. On testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office in ninth (illegible) day of April Anno Domini one thousand and eight hundred and thirty three.
J. Fry Jr, Proto.
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We George Roeller a clergyman residing in Upper Salford township Montgomery County, adjoining Marlborough township in said county, and Daniel Fries of Marlborough township aforesaid all in the state of Pennsylvania, hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Christopher Brey, of Marlborough township aforesaid, who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration that we believe him to be seventy five years of age That he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and served as he states. And we concur in that opinion. And further that he is a man of good character for sobriety and truth, and his statement entitles to entice confidence. 
George Roeller Daniel Freis
Sworn and subscribed Before me, April 8, 1833
Philip Reed, J.P
I do hereby certify that the above named  George Roeller and Daniel Freis are persons of credibility and worth of full confidence. Witness my hand and seal on the 8th day of April AD 1833
Philip Reed J.P.   (SEAL)
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I Adam Slemmer Prothonotary of the court of Common Please in and for the county of Montgomery in the State of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify that Philip Reed Esquire, Before whom the within deposition of George Roeller and Daniel Freas was taken and whose signature is thereto attached was at the time of taking the same and still is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, and that his said signature is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court the thirteenth day of April Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Adam Slemmer, Prot.
I Samuel D. Patterson Recorder
of Deeds in and for the County of
Montgomery aforesaid Do hereby
Certify that the above named
Adam Semmer Esquire whose
signature is attached to the foregoing
Certificate, was at the date of the said
-- certificate and still is Prothonotary of the Court of Common.
Teas of the County of Montgomery aforesaid that
he was duly commissioned, Prothonotary aforesaid and
-- sworn into the said office on the tenth day of April
-- instant in place of J. Fry I former Prothonotary of the
-- said Court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal office the 13th
day of April Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred
and thirty three
J. D. Patterson, Recd
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[foreign language?]

1. Johann Conrad [illegible] 24 November 1740
2. Jacob Son [?] 7 March 1742
3. [illegible] Son [?]10 May 1744
4. Johan [illegible] Son [?] 30 March 1746
5. [blank]
6. Johan Jacob Son [?] 27 February 1750
7. [illegible] Barbara [illegible] 1 May 1752
8. Johan Conrad Son [?] 13 January 1754
9. Maria Catharine [illegible] 4 January 1757
10. Johan [illegible] [illegible] 7 April 1758

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Revolution
22 142
INVALID
File No. 22,142
Christopher Brey
Pri Rev War
Act: June / 32
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 30
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Declaration 
of
Christopher Brey
For a pension
admitted 
12 mo 20 days Private, $42.22

Service 12 mo. 20 days
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Periods of Service                                    
                                                                Months
From 14th August 1776 to 30th Nov 1776 - 3 1/2
From middle of June 1777 to 1st Sept 1777-2 1/2
From 12th Sept 1777 to 5 January 1778  3 23 days
From 1st October 1778 to say 27th December 1778  2 m 27 
Duration of service  12/ "  20 days