Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3238, Philip Eckle, Md.
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SERVICE     Md.

Eckle, Philip

NUMBER     R. 3238

CONTENTS
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[line through] Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. [/line through]

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3238

P. O. _____
Philip Eckle
Service: _____

Enlisted:  _____, 18  .
Discharged: _____, 18  .

Application filed: _____, 18  .

Alleges: _____

Re-enlisted: _____

Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

_____ Recognized.  _____ Contract.
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Philip Eckle (31)
Virginia
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Suspended _____
Hon J. M. H. Beale -
18 December 1834

3238
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Philip Eckle
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Suspended

[written vertically - right margin] Hon. J. M. H. Beale [/written vertically -right margin]
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State of Virginia         }
County of Pendleton } S.S.                 (1)
On this 21st day of September 1834 personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, Philip Eckle, a resident of the said County of Pendleton, and state of Virginia, aged 97 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 under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. First he was drafted in Fredrick [Frederick] County in the state of Maryland to perform a tour of duty against the Indians; some time in the year 1778, he believes that he served said tour of duty under the command of Captain --- Wells, that he was marched to Fort Loudan {?] in the same state, where the object of [deleted words] the expedition being accomplished he was discharged, and that he continued in the service at that time about twenty days.  Second, that he was drafted in Fredrick [Frederick] County and state of Maryland, in the year 1781 (he believes) in the month of October, that he served under the Command of Captain James Smith, first Lieutenant Robert Smith, and second Lieutenant or Ensign Christain Eckle, that the Colonels name was Joseph Smith (he believes) they were all of the Maryland Militia, that he was marched from Fredrick [Frederick] County Maryland, through a part of Pennsylvania to the state of New Jersey, where he continued in the service untill [until] the close of the war, he returned home some time in the [deleted word] spring 1782, (he believes) in the month of May, while he was in the service he was in one skirmish in the state of New Jersey he was not acquainted with any of the Regular officers, that he has
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no written discharge, or other documentary evidence of his service and having a few years after his leaving the service removed from Maryland to Virginia, he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service, except that of Christain Eckle, his nephew who was at the time very young.  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.

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Philip X Eckle
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Sworn to and subscribed the }
day and year aforesaid           }
Th Jones J. P.

Pendleton County Virginia.  I Thomas Jones a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the  [deleted word] interrogatories prescribed by the [deleted word] War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And I further certify, that in my opinion the applicant from his advanced age, and the distance of his residence from the place where any Court is held (twenty two miles or upwards) is unable to attend any Court of Record.  Given under my hand this 21st day of September 1834.
Th Jones J.P.

Virginia Pendleton County to wit
On this day personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid Christain Eckle, [deleted words] aged fifty nine years, who after being sworn in due form of law deposeth, and saith, that he well remembers, that his father Christain Eckle was in the service of the Revolution about the year 1781 and 1782, that he left home in the fall of the year and returned in the spring, and that he believes he was gone six or seven months, that he has often heard his father say that his brother Philip was one of the
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(2)
Soldiers who served in the expedition; and this affiant further saith that it was always understood where his unkle [uncle] Philip was known that he the said Philip was a soldier of the Revolution as stated by him
Christain Eckle

Sworn to and subscribed this 22nd }
day of September 1834 before         } 
Th Jones J. P.

State of Virginia    }
Pendleton County }ss
I Zebulon Dyer Clerk of the Court of said County of Pendleton, certify that Thomas Jones is a Magistrate as above stated and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are Genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and Subscribed my name this [illegible] day of November 1834.
Z Dyer Clerk of the County Court of Pendleton -