Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22096, Philip Bausher, Penn.
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Service                                    Number
Penn.         Bausher, Philip     S.22096
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Contents
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No.  11,018
Pennsylvania
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Philip Bausher

of Berks in the state of Pennsylvania who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Spangler of the Regt. commanded by Col. Baltzer in the Penna. troops for 6 months.

                                           Private   $20.00
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Inscribed on the roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20 dollars -- cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of March 1833 and sent to Hon. H. A. Muhlenberg, Reading, Pa.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833           40.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 10.00
                                                                $50.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 5 Page 3.

Paid at the treasury under the Act of the ^th Aoril 1838 from 4 Sep 1839 to 4 March 1840.  Agt. notified 9 Dec. 1840.
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Paid as above from 4 Sept 1840 to 4 March 1841. Agt. notified 20 Dec. 1841.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June7th 1832

Pennsylvania
Berks County

On the seventeenth day of January 1832 personally appeared in open court of common pleas in and for said county, before the Hon. Garrick M. Mery, president and associate judge, Phillip Bausher of the township of Albany Berks County and state of Pennsylvania, aged seventy-six 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 in the year 1776 he was drafted in the militia for a period of two months in a company commanded by Capt. Peter Spengler, Col. {illegible} Gehe's,(?) regiment and marched from Maxatawny Township, Berks County to Amboy in the state of New Jersey and there remained until the expiration of said period and where he was discharged.  

In the year 1777 he was drafted in the militia for a period of two months in a company commanded by the said {illegible} battalion that they were assembled with {illegible} of {illegible} Berks County {illegible} and from thence marched to New Town Bucks County from thence to {illegible} Ferry from thence to Morristown in the state of New Jersey from thence to {illegible} Hill and there remained under expiration of said periods and then discharged. 

That in the year 1779 or 1780 he was drafted in the militia for a period of two months in a company commanded by Capt. George Shatte in Col. Lindenmuth's regiment, that he marched in said company from Hamburgh Berks County for
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to Sunbury Northumberland County, from thence over Muncy Hills to Muncy Creek and there remained until the operation of said period expired and marched to Sunbury when they were discharged, hereby relinquishing ever 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.
Signed:  Phillip Bausher

Sworn and subscribed in open court
Signed:  Jac Sallade, Proth.

Berks County

Valentine Brobst and Peter Braucher, two credible witnesses of the county aforesaid, appeared in open court of common pleas who upon their solemn oaths doth depose and say that they are well acquainted with the above named Philip Bausher, the applicant for a pension, that they know  that the applicant served three tours of duty and to the best of their knowledge and belief that he served two months in each tour in the militia in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War and as to honesty and veracity of the applicant, never {illegible} or doubted. 

Signed:  Valentine Brobst, Peter Braucher

Sworn in open court
Jan. 17 1833
Signed:  Jac Sallade, Prothy.
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The Court with propounded the following interrogatories to the applicant,

Int.
1st.  Where and in what year was you born?  In Albany Township, Berks County in the year 1754.

2nd.  Have you any record of your age; if so, where is it?  It is per my father's family Bible from whence (illegible) it.

3rd.  Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived ever since the revolutionary war and were do you now live?  I lived in Albany Township aforesaid at the time and have lived there ever since.

4th.  How was you called into service?  I was drafted and served in the company and officers as stated in my application.

                                       //s//
                                Philip Bausher Junr.
Sworn in Open Court
January 17th AD 1833.
              //s//
        Jac.  Sallade  Proth.

The said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant, was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.
                                          //s//
                                Garrick Mallery
                                   Presdt. Judge
                                           //s//
                                    Mathias S. Richards
                                    a Judge of Nerks County
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I Jane Sallade Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berks do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original of the proceeding of the said court, in the matter of Philip Bauser for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Court to be affixed this seventeenth day of January AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

                                             //s//
                                       Jacob Sallade Prothon.


Adm. @
6 months
Private 
$20.00
Hon. H. A. Muhlenberg
Reading, Pa.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
December 5th, 1840.

Sir:

    Under the act of 6th of April 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same as the Treasury of the United States," Philip Bausher, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept 1839, to the 4th March 1840.
                                 Respectfully yours,
                                             //s//
                                 Albion K. Parris
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
                                          Present.
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TREASURY DAPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office.
Dec. 6th, 1841.

Sur:

   Under the date of the 6th April, 1838, entitled :An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, "Philip Bausher" a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of Twenty dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept. 1840
to the 4th March 1841.

                                         Respectfully yours,
                                                    //s//
                                            Albion K. Parris
                                                  Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
                                                  Present.
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22096
Revolutionary
INVALID

File No. 22,096
Philip Bausher
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7th, '32
Index:-Vol. 2 Page 21

{Arrangement of 1870.}