Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 631, John Bause, Penn.
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SERVICE   NUMBER
Penn.  Bause, John  R. 631
CONTENTS
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38.183

John Bause, 

PA
(illegible)

June 7, 1832
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38.183                                                  38.183
Jackson Berks                                 John Bause, dec
                                                         June 7, 1832
Petition of John Bause, a                   pa. 631
Soldier of the revolutionary war
praying for relief
AR. Jan. 8 1835
(illegible)
Gratuity & Annuity
Tho B. McElwee
Chairman
Jany  9, 1835
Bill

Sent by James M Jones             
Reading
PA.
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To the Honorable the Senate and House of 
Representatives in General Assembly met.
The Petition of John Bause humbly represents that
your Petitioner was a Volunteer Militia in the Revolutionary 
War in the Pennsylvania line that your Petitioner was  
drafted for two months under the command of Captain Nathanial
Potts' Company, and in Colo Thomas Potts regiment, at that
time in Philadelphia County, now Montgomery County, Formed
and Marched to the city of Philadelphia, from there through
tren-town, Prince-town, Brunswick to Amboy and after
that was discharged, ans came home.  Your Petitioner was drafted a second time for two months under the command
of Captain John Brooks' Company and in Colo. Daniel Hiesters
Regiment, also then in Philadelphia County. formed and Marched
to Bristol and laid there about three weeks, then Marched from
there to Connels ferry and Crossed the Delaware River, then Marched
to Mountmissery Hill, then laid there for some time, then
discharged and came home. Your Petitioner was drafted
a third time for two months under the command of Captain 
John Cleavers' Rifle Company after the English in Bucks County
Penn. and stood guard from time to time in that neighborhood.
in said county and after that time had expired was discharged.
Your Petitioner was drafted a fourth time the Captain and Colo is not recollected no more, then in Philadelphia
County
to fetch the prisoners , say Hessians, taken by our People, from Delaware river
near Trentown, and Marched with the prisoners to Reading, then Philadelphia
County, now Berks County Formed, and was then discharged and
came home.  Your Petitioner was drafted a fifth time to
trive a team under the command of Leonard Doll wagon
Master for the American Troops and had been in Services
about three months to haul provisions for said Army in 
the Pennsylvania Line. And that your Petitioner is 
now Eighty years of age, and is unable to perform any
Manual labor as to the necessities of life.
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And that your Petitioner is poor, therefore I humbly
pray that you take my are into consideration and grant me 
such relief as in you wisdom may think my claim
entitled to, and as in duty bound will ever pray for
Sworn and Subscibed before me     John Bause       
January 3rd, 1835
Adam Mensch
Penn, Berks County JS
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the
Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Berks, Joseph
Baughman and John Kuhns who deposeth and saith
that they are acquainted with John Bause the Petitioner
and that he is worthy of Credit and they believe his statements
to be true and that he is generally Reputed by those who have
known him to have been in the Revolutionary War and
further that the said Petitioner is poor and in Needy circumstances and further saith not
Sworn and Subscribed before me
January 3rd 1835                  Susannah Russas (?)
Adam Mensch                       Joseph Baughman
We do certify that John Kuhns and Joseph Baughman are Respectable citizens
and are entitled to credit witness on
hand and Seal this 3rd day of January A. D. 1835. 
Adam Mensch
Geor. K Rohrback Justice of the Peace
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I do certify that the foregoing petition
and documents have been on file in
the Clerks office of the House of Repre-
sentatives of Pennsylvania, and that
they have been regularly withdrawn 
by permission of the House by 
Mr. Feather, a member from Berks 
County.
[illegible] Jack Clerk
Harrisburg, Feb. 1 1837
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act if Congress
passed June 7th, 1832.
State of Pennsylvania
Berks County.        S.S
On this 24th day of Feb-
ruary Anno Domini 1851, personally appeared in open Court of
Common Pleas, here in the city of Reading, County
and state above said (?)-William Baus who being
first being duly sworn according to law on the oath says
that to best of his knowledge and belief his father
served as a solder of the War of the Revolution for
the particulars of said service, I would (?) respectfully refer
to the papers made out and sworn to by himself for
the papers of obtaining a Pension from the State of
Pennsylvania which will be herewith connected. I am
a son of the same John Baus - I make the 
declaration for the purpose of obtaining the pension check
he would have been entitled to if he has application in
his life time. I believe he never made application to the
United States for Pension. John Baus, my deceased
father died on the 18th day of January Anno Domini 
1835- in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. 
He had no widow when he died. The following are his children
that survived him and their are none others by: William Baus,
Jacob Baus and Catherine intermarried with Jacob Barlinger.        William Baus

Sworn to and subscribed
in Open Court the day and
year first above written
William High
a Judge of Berks County
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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County
On this 24th day of February A
D, 1851 personally appeared before me the subscriber one
of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County
Pennsylvania: William Baus and John Baus, who being 
first duly sworn according to the laws of their oaths, say that
John Baus, a Revolutionary Solder of Hereford (?) Township
Burks County - died on the eighteenth day of January
1835 - and that the following as his only surviving children
being: William Baus, Jacob Baus and Catharine inter-
married with Jacob Barlinger - and that he left no widow.
Sworn to and subscribed in open          William Bause
court the day and year first above         John Baus
written - 
William High
a Judge of Berks County
State of Pennsylvania. Berks County SS,
Michael K. Boyer  Prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas, in and for Berks County Penn.
do hereby certify that William High at the
time and date of this paper was the acting Judge
of said court duly appointed and commissioned
as such? and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are
true and genuine.  Also that Adam Mensch and George 
K. Rohrback are duly appointed and commissioned as Justices
of the Peace in and for Berks County Penn. and that the foregoing
signature purporting to be theirs are true and genuine. In
testimony whereof I have hereunto set my honor and affixed my
Seal of Office at Reading this 19th day of May A.D. 1851
Mich. R Boyer
Prothonotary
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ex'r Invalid
No. 631   Rejected

John Bause