Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30719, for John Stipp, Pennsylvania
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Service                                     Number
 Penn.           Stipp, John          S.30719
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22375
Kentucky
John Stipp

(??) in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain (??) of the regiment commanded Col Cayger in the Pennsylvania line for 6 months.

Inscribed the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 20 Dollars 0 cents per annum to commence on 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of October 1823 and sent to Robert Scroger, Paris.

Arrears to the 4th January                      50.00
Semi-anl. Allowance ending 4 March     10.00
                                                               _______
                                                              $ 60.00
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27219
John Stipp
June 1776
Private 6 months
$20.






Robert Scroger
Paris
Kentucky
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State of Kentucky Bourbon County

    On this second day of September eighteen hundred and thirty three, personally appeared before the County Court of Bourbon, while in session John Stipp a citizen of said county and state. Aged eighty five years last March who being first duly sworn and according to law doth on his oath states and makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 viz.  That he enlisted as a private soldier & volunteer rifleman in the state of Pennsylvania for three months, that he resided at the of his said enlistment near Lehi or Lehigh  Northampton County in said state, that his said enlistment  (or enlistment) took place in the latter part of the summer in the year 1776 under the command of Col. Craygur ( or Kiger), Major Stephen Polyard (or Pollard) and Adjutant Jacob Young, (the name of the captain he has forgotten) that the said rifle regiment  commanded by Col. Criyger belonged to the militia or state line of Pennsylvania and was attached to the United States Army, and stationed a part of the time that he was in the service in New Jersey near Quibbletown and Morristwon and a part of the time in Phladelphia that after serving out his said enlistment for three months. He received his discharge from General Beull in Philadelphia but has lost his discharge, and returned to his family. But that very shortly after he got home, the news of the Battle of Trenton on 26th Dec 1776 reached him and pressing solicitations for volunteers were urged on the militia of his neighborhood to sustain General Washington in his victory over the enemy of Trenton & Princeton. He again entered the service early in the month of January 1777 for three months, a private soldier and a volunteer, under the same officers and marched into New Jersey and was on the lines under the immediate command of  General
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General Washington, while the British army lay at Amboy and Brunswick and the American army lay near Quibbletown and Morristown.  That he was in no general action during his being in the army of the United States.  That he was detached on a foraging party and aided in capturing seventeen wagons laden with grain & provided from the enemy and bring them safe to the American lines, in a time of deep snow, at the American detachment narrowly escaped being cut off by the British and that when his second tour of three months expired he received his second discharge for Col. Creyger and Major Pollard (or Polyard) at the American lines near Quibbletown, but has lost his second discharge also.  The the whole time he was in the service was six months.  That he has no documentary evidence and that he knows no person now living that could testify to his being in the service.  That in Northampton County in the spring of 1777 in the last of April ot beginning of May he moved from the place of his nativity was Lehi in Pennsylvania to Berkley (now Jefferson) County in the state of Virginia that in the year 1809 he removed from Virginia to Bourbon County  and in the State of Kentucky where he now resides.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any state.

Sworn to in open court and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
                                              //s//
                                       John Stipp
M Henry Curtright, Jacon Tevebaugh, John C. W. McKenny residing in the neighborhood of John Stipps do hereby certify that they have been well acquainted with the said John Stipps for a long time, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be eighty five years of age that he is reputed and believe have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion and that no clergyman does now, or has resided in his neighborhood since he resided there that is sufficiently acquainted with him to certify as required by the instructions of the
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War department. Subscribed and sworn to in open Court, the day aforesaid. 

Jacob Tevebaugh
Henry Curtright
John C. W. McKenny

And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations of prescribed by the War department that the above named John Stipp was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Henry Curtright Jacob Tevebaugh & John C. W. McKenny -- Who have signed and sworn to the above Certificate are residents of the neighborhood of the said John Stipp and that no Clergyman resides in the immediate Neighborhood of the applicant and that the said Henry Curtright Jacob Tevebaugh & John C. W. McKenny are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to Credit. 

John Hedges

I Thomas P Smith Clerk of the Bourbon County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original Proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Stipp for a pension, and that John Hedges who signed the above certificate was the presiding Justice of said Court at the time he signed said Certificate. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 2nd day of September 1833.

The Smith Clerk [sic]
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Any communication on the subject of the within application maybe addressed to the Clerk of Bourton County Court or to Robert Serogin Esq of Paris who is employed to attend to the business for the applicant.
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30719
Rev INVALID
File No. 30,719
John Stipp
Priv   Rev   War
Act: June 7th '32
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 396

{Arrangement of 1870}