Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 635, Paul Baughman, Continental Penn.
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(S-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
[handwritten Continental Baughman, Paul R. 635
Penn.]

CONTENTS
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Copy of Proceedings & Evidence in the case of Paul Baughman - Copy of Commissions.

    Gunning Bradford Esqr. Judge of the United States in and for the District of Delaware -
     To Edward Roche and Ebenezer Smith.

Greeting Know Ye, that by virtue of the authority of an act of Congress passed on third day of March eighteen hundred and three entitled an act to make provision for person who have been disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, I do hereby nominate commission and appoint, you the said Edward Roche to take examination of such witnesses as shall be offered to you on the fact and behalf of the person claiming the benefit of the said act of Congress - and you the said Ebenezer Smith Physician & Surgeon to discharge the duties prescribed in the said acts to all and every person claiming the benefit of the same, you and each of you in all things conforming yourselves to the direction thereof.  

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five. 

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                             Gunning Bedford
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District of Delaware October 30, 1805.

    Before me Edward Roche the Commissioner duly authorized and affirmed by a commissioner under the had and seal of Gunny Beford Esquire Judge, Judge of the United States for the district of Delaware a copy of which is hereunto foregoing annexed personally came Paul Baugham who declares & avers, that he is now and about forty eight years and that he served in the several capacities if a soldier, Corporal, and Sergeant in the actual service of the United States during the Revolutionary War.  That he enlisted into the said service in the beginning of the month of March in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-seven as a soldier in the company commanded by Captain George Bush in one if the additional regiments whereof Colonel Hartley had the command.  That sometime after his enlistment, he was made Corporal in the said company.  That at the Battle of Brandywine, he was wounded by a musk bullet in the left leg and was take off the field and conveyed to the hospital then at Kensington and was removed on the advance of the British Army from thence to Trenton, where after having continued a considerable time under the care of the physicians he was removed to Princeton and was there cured and became fit for service, and joined the regiment to which he belonged then (next page)
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encamped at Whitemarsh sometime about the middle of November.

    That afterwards to wit; on the 17th day of March in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-eight at the town of Little York in Pennsylvania he being about to compel riotous to perform their duty was stabbed by one of them with a bayonet in his breast and after recovery of the wound was promoted to the rank of sergeant as a reward for his conduct.

    That sometime in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-eight he was appointed with others out of the regiment and company in which he had served as aforesaid, into a Company of Horse commanded by Captain Henry Carberry.

    That some time in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-nine the regiment to which he belonged, being reduced, and the horse dismounted, he was transferred to Captain Henry Carberry's Company of Foot in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment in which company he continued to serve as a sergeant until the 28th day of January 1781 at which time the term of his enlistment being concluded he obtained a discharge and returned home to the place of his nativity near the Borough of Wilmington.  That ever since his discharge he has continued to reside in and near the said borough and has maintained himself a wife and a family of four children by common daily labor until within a few years past, when the wound aforesaid which after being first  (next page)
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healed were no pediment to his labor or activity for many years became very painful and sensibly felt by him and continued so to do with increasing force and so as render him unable to support himself by manual labor.  And that he now conceives his case to be within the provisions of the act of Congress passed the 3d day of March 1805, and that he is thereby entitled an act to make provisions for persons disabled by known wounds and to be placed on the pension list and respectfully requests that he may be placed thereon.

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                                Paul Baughman 

   And further to prove the truth of the facts so as aforesaid alleged by the said Paul Baughman and substantiate his claim to a pension.  Before the said Commissioner personally came Theophiles Evan a Freeholder of the County of Mew Castle to the said Commissioner known to be a person of credibility who being duly sworn according to law on his solemn oath depose and says - that he is aged about fifty years and has known Paul Baughman aforesaid ever since his childhood, that the said Paul Baughman and himself were children together brought up in the same neighborhood, that he well remembers that the said Paul then a likely hearty young (man) did enlist into the service of the United States, as a soldier in Captain George Bush's company, that he this deponent being a waggoner driving teams in the service of the United States had opportunities and did know and frequently see the said (next page)
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Paul acting as a soldier in the Army of the United States.
    That after the Battle of Brandywine it was generally reported and believed among his acquaintances that the said Paul had been badly wounded in that battle.
    That some considerable time afterwards this deponent being at Trenton did there see the said Paul Baughman going on crutches with one of his legs bound.  That the said Paul there told this deponent that he had been wounded at the Battle of Brandywine by a musket bullet in the leg which was then tied up, that this deponent did no examine or look at the wound, but he verily & truly believes that the said Paul was so wounded as he alleged. 

                                          The Evans

And further to prove the truth of the facts alleged by the said Paul Baughman and the to substantiate his claim to a pension also personally came before the said Commissioner Isaac Hendrickson Esquire a person of credibility to the said commissioner well known who being duly affirmed according to law declares & avers.  That he is aged about forty-eight years and has been personally acquainted with the said Paul Baughman a great many years and previous to the Revolutionary War.  That the said Paul was brought up in the service of this affirmant uncle and enlisted in the military service if the United States sometime in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy-seven.  That in the latter part of the said year, the terms of this affirmation having been impressed into the service of the United States, he attended them himself to Trenton where he saw and spoke to the said Paul Baughman.  The said Paul was then a (next page)
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cripple moving on crutches and one of his legs tied up with bandages that upon entering he was informed by the said Paul that he had been badly wounded in the leg at the Battle of Brandywine and was then cured at the hospital, and this affirmant declares and affirms that he believes the said Paul to be sober, discreet man of strict veracity and that he was so as he alleged really wounded in the leg at the Battle of Brandywine.
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                                  Isaac Hendrickson

   Also, before the said Commissioner personally came Peter Brynberg of the borough of Wilmington Esquire a person of credibility to the said Commissioner well known, who being duly affirmed according to Law, on his solemn affirmation declares and avers, that he has been for many years personally acquainted with the said Paul Baughman and he believes him to be a sober discreet and industrious man.  That the said Paul has resided in the borough of Wilmington and its vicinity ever since he was discharged from the Amry and has maintained himself and family hither to by manual labor frequently in the employ of his affirmant until a few years past that weaknesses & pains the consequence of wounds as this affirmant verily believes received in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, have rendered him in great measure unfit to perform the (next Page)
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duties of a common laborer.
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                                     Peter Brynberg

   Delivered sworn and affirmed & subscribed as above and in the preceeding pages before me the said Commissioner.

      In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this thirty first day of October A.D. 1805.

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                                         Edw. Roche 

    Be it known also that the aforesaid Paul Baughman was before the said commissioner duly sworn according to law to answer all such questions as should be proposed to him by Ebenezer Smith the Physician named in the Commission of which a copy is annexed and the said Paul Baughman having been examined by the said physician having completed the said examination and being duly sworn according to law did on his solemn oath make his report as follows to wit:

     That upon examination of Paul Baughman agreeably to law, I find that he served in Colonel Thomas Hartley Regiment under Captain George Bush.
    That the said Paul Baughman received two wounds in the execution of his duly one at the Battle of Brandywine in his leg by a musket ball, and another at Yorktown when about compelling soldier to his duty, which been the sources of general inquiry to his (next page)
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J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Washington City
D.C.
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Philadelphia July 25th, 1837

Dear Sir,

     Bye the request of D.C. J.B. Sutherland I hereby transmit to you a copy of the original petition of Paul Baughman for a pension, said original being in the office if not burned, said Paul having left a widow who was for a number of years depending in my for support who is the only child living now the object of this is to ascertain whether or not according to the Act of Congress making provisions for widows of deceased pensioners I would not be entitled to receive that which she would have been entitled to had she made application for it in her life time.
                                     Very Respectfully,
                                      Your Obedient Servant
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                                        Ann Culin
                                        34 Plumb Street

Hon'l. J.L. Edwards
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Ex'r.  INVALID
REJECTED
No. 630

Paul Baughman

P.O. ______
Service: ______
Enlisted: ____18, __
Discharged: _____, 18__

Application Filed: _______, 18__
Alleges: ________

Reenlisted: ______
Attorney: ________
P.O. ________
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Children of 
Paul Baughman del.

Act 4 July '36,
Penna.
On old Delaware 
Roll - died in 1810
let. to Ann Culin 
Sept 2, 1837