Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,259, Matthias Gast, Penn
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Penn
Gast, Matthias
Mathias
S. 22259
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Pennsylvania 18.962 
Mathias Gast  
of Dauphin Co. in the State of Penn’a who was a Pr in the Company commanded by Captain Barry of the Regt commanded by Col Grubb in the Pennsylvania Militia
15 Mo Private -  $50.00       
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 50 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.             
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Nov’r 1833 and Sent to Pensioner Harrisburg Pa    
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 125.00           
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar '34   25.00       
$150.00             
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}             
Recorded by  D. Brown    Clerk          
Book E    Vol. 5       Page 21
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Address Benjamin
Parke - Atty at Law
Harisburg
27.7.17
Matthias Gast
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State of Pennsylvania County of Dauphin} SS            
On this 15th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Hon. the judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Matthias Gast a resident of the Township of Susquehanna in the County of Dauphin and state of Pennsylvania aged seventy four years, who being first duly affirmed according to law doth on his solemn affirmations make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.            
That sometime after harvest in the year 1776 he was called out in the militia and marched out in the neighborhood of New York for two months under Captain Barry, and Col. Curtis Grubb -  when the two months were up he enlisted in what was called the flying Camp under Captain Aldenbrook and was out for five months in the Lines and about Philadelphia during this time he was in several skirmishes but no pitched battles at the end of his term of five months he came home.  In the month of April 1777 he again went out in the militia under Capt Abraham Smith, marched down to Lebanon was placed as guard over the British and Hessian prisoners, he took the prisoners down to Lancaster where I was discharged. I then went home, having been out ten months. Sometime in the later part of Summer or fore part of Autumn I again went out in the Militia under Captain Empigh we marched down to Chestnut hill. Here we stood guard, the Church at Chestnut hill being used for a hospital. I helped take care of the wounded - during this tour I was at the Battle of Germantown - at the end of two months I got my discharge and came home, which was the last time he was out during the war for himself - thereafter this he was out as a substitute for Martin Bahtorf and stood as a guard at Lebanon for the term of two months, and also, for the term of two months as a substitute for Nicholas Hawks and stood as guard at Lebanon over the prisoners and the stores of ammunition as kept there - Deponent states that he has no record of his age, but has understood he was born the fifteenth of May A.D. 1759 - that he was born in Heidelberg Township Lancaster county state of Pennsylvania and lived there till
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about thirty years age when he removed to the place where he at present resides, that he received a discharge at the end of his term of five months and perhaps one other at the expiration of one of his terms of service but that he has lost them all, not thinking them of any use after the close of the war. That he does not know of any person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service as aforesaid but that he is known to Abraham Fackler, Jacob Ziegler & others in his present neighbourhood who can testify to this character &c 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.                  Matthias Gast
Affirmed to and subscribed the day and her aforesaid in open Court            
For Jno Roberts Prot.           
C. A. Snyder             
We Augustus F Lochman a clergyman residing in the borough of Harrisburg and Jacob Ziegler residing in the same place and Abraham Fackler residing in the Township of Susquehanna County aforesaid hereby certify that they are well acquainted with Matthias Gast who has subscribed and affirmed to the above declaration and we believe him to be seventy-four years of age and that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.                
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court }     
Augustus F. Lochman          
Jacob Ziegler           
Abraham Frackler       
For Jno Roberts Prob.            
C. A. Snyder
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations proscribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Augustus A. Lochman who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Borough of Harrisburg and that Jacob Leigh and Abraham Fackler who have signed the same are residents as they have stated that they are credible witnesses and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Calvin Blythe
Pat Hummel
I John Roberts Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original preceding of the said court in the matter of the application of Matthias Gast for a pension.  In testimony. whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this day of October A D 1833
Hon. John Roberts Prothy [Prothonotary]
C. A. Snyder