Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,391, Robert Evans, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.

star [above Evans]
Evans, Robert 

NUMBER
R. 3,391

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CONTENTS
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Robert Evans
Indiana

Rejected

Let 12 Feby: 1835

W.A. Porter

3391
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[crossed out]  Act of July 14, 1962, and March 3, 1973

3391.

P.O.    Robert Evans
Service:__________

Enlisted: ____________, 18
Discharged: _________, 18

Application filed: ____________, 18

Alleges: _____________

Re-enlisted: ___________

Attorney: _____________
P.O. __________________

______________Recognized.     __________Contract
_________Cert. of Dis.   Searched for ______,18

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Nov 24

Wm. Woods
Robt. Evans
Inda [Indiana]

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Corydon Ia [Indiana]
Nov 16th

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April
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C. 

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3268
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Corydon 15th Nov 1834

Sir.
Enclosed are the applications of Robert Evans
and William Woods for pensions. In the case
of Mr Woods the same form of the declaration has been adopted which is prescribed for those who have served in the militia of those States, the rolls of which are not at the Department, not
knowing but that it might meet the manner
of proof which might be required in
case his name should not be found on the
rolls.

Yours very
respectfully
W.A. Porter [signature]
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State of Indiana}
County of Harrison}   sct

On this tenth day of November 1834 personally appeared in open court before the court of probate now sitting, Robert Evans, a resident of Franklin Township Harrison County State of Indiana aged seventy three 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 7th 1832; that he entered the service of the United States in the month of September 1777 in the County of Bucks, state of Pennsylvania, in a company of the Pennsylvania line commanded by Captain Jacob Bennett and continued in the service until the month of September 1780. 

He entered the service as a volunteer and private soldier, and served, as did all the company to which he belonged, on horseback. He states that the company in which he served was raised and continued in the service for the special purpose of suppressing and keeping in subjection the torries [sic] who at that time caused great alarm among the inhabitants of the counties of Bucks and Philadelphia and in the part of New Jersey adjacent thereto, in which places the operations of this company were principally confined, but in addition
to the purposes for which the company was raised it was frequently engaged in watching the movements of the British. 

This applicant states that he was not in any general engagement, nor in any skirmishes of any consequence. The colonel's name to whose regiment Captain Bennett's company was attached, was John Hart and the major's name
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was William Kennedy; he states also that he was well acquainted with Captains John McDowel and Jacob Humphreys who commanded companies in a regiment of the Pennsylvania line, the number of which he has now forgotten, commanded by Colonel George Smith. 
This applicant further states that he was born on the 7th day of September 1761 as appears by the record of ages kept by his father,
that he resided in the County of Bucks in the state of Pennsylvania when he entered the service of the United States and that he returned there after the expiration of his service and continued to reside there until the year 1788 when he moved to the State of Virginia where he resided until the year 1795 when he again moved to the State of Kentucky in which state he resided until the year 1824 when he moved to Harrison County State of Indiana where he now resides; 

he states also, that at the expiration of his term of service he received a written discharge signed by Captain Bennett, which has long since been lost, and that he has no documentary evidence, by which he can prove his services, nor does he know of any person now living whose testimony he can procure to prove the same. 

He also states here to the court the names of Craven Lynn, William Anderson and Tobias R. Riley, persons residing in his immediate vicinity and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to
a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 

Robert Evans  [signature]
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Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
H. W. Heth Clk [clerk] [signature]

We Craven Lynn a clergyman residing in Franklin township Harrison County Ia [Indiana] and William Anderson residing in Franklin township Harrison County Ia [Indiana] hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Robert Evans who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to be a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Craven Lynn [signature]
William Anderson [signature]

Sworn to and subscribed the day
and year aforesaid  HW Heth Clk [signature]

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 soldier of the Revolution and served as he states.
And the court further certifies that it appears
to them that Craven Lynn who has signed the
preceeding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the of Franklin and county of Harrison Ia [Indiana], and that William Anderson who has also signed the same is a resident in the township of Franklin county of Harrison Ia [Indiana] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
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Henry W Heth Clerk of the Probate Court of
the County of Harrison in the State of Indiana
do hereby certify that the foregoing Contains the
original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Robert Evans for a pension

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of Office at Corydon
this 16 day of November A.D. 1831

H. W. Heth Clk [clerk] [signature]

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