Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9619, for George Sipes, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE                                 NUMBER
Penn    Sipes, George             R9619
                         Rachel           BLVT 54117-160-6-6
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241.712 Col mar 3'55 C H Barkley Nov 21 1856
April 11 '56

Rachel Sipe Wid
George Sipes

Private PA Militia

Revy war

End July 38
$ 160 iss Jan 21/57
Dodge
C H Barkley
Louisville KY

Vol S-118
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Lawrence County Indiana Sct.

I Rachel Sipes of said county  aged from my best information 88 years do make the following Statement (Viz) "I am the widow of George Sipes deceased, who was in his lifetime engaged in the Military service of the United States in the Revolutionary War , Viz. He was a private drummer in the First Regiment Pennsylvania Militia of York County - Refer to the annexed memorandum which is the only memorandum that I know of anywhere relating to  his services aforesaid - He always told me that his discharge was destroyed by the burning of his father's house in Pennsylvania not long after the War.
 my said husband used often to talk of applying for a pension but he did and fully understand the pension laws and those with whom he conversed on the subject told him that they thought that he was not entitled to a pension because he was a substitute - He was a substitute for his father by the same  name
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He was in one battle (Brandywine I believe) and a skirmish or two (White Horse one of them) I cannot State clearly how long he told me that he served but it was a time and then kept a month afterwards or about that length of time.

He made an application within a year or so before he died for a Revolutionary pension- His agent was by the name of Rowe We have never had any report from him and know not what he has done or whether he ever even filed the papers or not 

I was married to said George Sipes in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania on the 15th day of April 1790 (Seventeen Hundred and ninety)by one --Miller - a magistrate and my name before said marriage was Rachel Mellinder 

My husband the above named George Sipes died in this County on the 22nd day of July A.D. , 1852 (Eighteen Hundred and fifty two) I have no memorandum in writing to shew the "date of his death-- His will was made a short time before his death; and that is recorded in our county seat so that the date of
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Lawrence County Indiana Sct 

I Charles Sipes of said County aged from my best information 49 or 50 years do make the following statement (Viz) " From my earliest recollection I was well and intimately acquainted with George Sipes who is above described-- During his life time and up to the time of his death, he and Mrs Rachel Sipes lived together as husband and wife and were reputed so to be among their neighbors and acquaintances-- I am the son of said George and Rachel and according to what I have always heard and believed and never above heard disputed my parents named were lawfully married in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania more than 65 years ago and that the name of my mother before said marriage was Rachel Mellinder- My father said George Sipes was a reputed revolutionary soldier of the service of the service of the United States and a private (and I believe also a dimmer S a
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and belonged to the First Regiment of Pennsylvania Troops (Militia I believe) and entered the service in month of July or August 1777 under Captain Laird, Col. Thompson Major  Bush (Killed) General Potter -, I refer to the annexed memorandum which I made several years ago

 At the time when I made this memorandum my father was alive and was about to prepare for applying for a pension through a Mr George W. Davis then of this County now of Illinois but my recollection is that there were no papers made out then  He afterwards as understand made out some papers for an application for a pension within a year or so before he died His agent then as I understood was a Mr Howe but we have never heard from him since The names of McHenry and McMahan and Douglas on the memorandum I believe were fellow soldiers-- Capt Laird (Killed )I believed was an acquaintance and of another Company of same or adjoining County 
My father said that he entered the army as a substitute for his father George Sipes the year 1777 in above named memorandum may be wrong he was in
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Mr Rachel Sipes
Widow
George Sipes
Bounty Land Claim
Act of 
March 3rd 1855
241.712
Attorney
C. H. Barkley
Louisville
Kentucky
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Bounty Land Claim
Rachel Sipes
Widow of
George Sipes
Claim Bounty Land
Act March 3 1855
No 241.712
Request of Special case
on account of her Old age
Boynton
Attorney
John Johnson
Washington
D, C,
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application executed March 31, 1856, at which time she was living in Lawrence County, Indiana.

Reference was made to the children of George and Rachel Sipes, the only name definitely stated being Charles Sipes, aged forty-nine or fifty years in 1856 and living in Lawrence County, Indiana. One John Sipes was living in 1856 in Lawrence County, Indiana, his relationship to the family not shown.

In order to obtain the location of the above noted bounty land, you should address The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D. C., citing the following:

Warrant No. 54117-160 acres- Act of 1855.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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C.H. Barkley
Feb. 23/57
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Louisville Ky
April 15 1856
Enclosed I send you the
papers
claiming pension for George
Sipes and widow
I wrote to Pennsylvania 
3 weeks
ago for proof in this
case but have
received no answer yet
-
Your Reply
C H Barkley
Hon J Minot
Commissioner
Washington
D. C
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To File with the
claim of Rachel Sipes
Widow of
George Sipes
Bounty Land Claim
Act of
March 3rd 1855
No 241.712
or 54117-160
act 55 
Boynton
Attorney
John Johnson
Washington
D, C,