Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3819, John Frey, Va.
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Service|*|Number
VA.|Frey, John or Fry|R3819
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 (crossed out)
Rejected (stamped
3819
John Frey
1852 List of Rejected and Suspended claims shows following cause of rejection.
"Did before the passage of the act".
(written on the left margin) 
1939 May 10-Distr. to Mr Edwin B. Graham - M C O (sic?) 
1939 Oct 11-Edwin B. Graham adv. only (sic?) John of Va. See neg. files under Frederick Fry
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John Frey (handwritten)
May 10, 1939
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Mr. Edwin B Graham
418 Fulton Building 
107 Sixth Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Moser of Northhampton County, Pennsylvania, who served under Captain Joseph Gogan an in Stephen Bullard's regiment, and that of John Frey or Fry, who according to a history of Rockingham County, Virginia, was granted a Revolutionary War claim, May 30, 1782.

The records of John Moser of Northhampton County, Pennsylvania, and John Freyor Fry, of Virginia, are furnished herewith.  No other Revolutionary War pension record of a John Frey of Virginia, under any spelling, is on file.  Your citation in regard to an allowance in 1782 does not pertain to the records of this office, but, possibly, to some Virginia state payment.

Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Pennsylvania Society Sons of the American Revolution (letterhead)

Mr. A. D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant,
to the Administrator,
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.

(Handwritten) due only Va.
(Handwritten) not one? Rockingham Co. 
(Handwritten) fact of here

Dear Mr. Hiller:

In re: John Fry or Frey

In History of Rockingham County Virginia, by Wayland I find: Revolutionary Claims were allowed, 5-30-1782 to JOHN FRY
This research comes along witht he other letter enclosed herewith, because a Musser married a Fry, and so I would like to know if any record of such claim having been paid, and if any mention is made of family.  Nothing esle is given by Wayland and the claim may have been for supplies or damage to property, and then it may have been a pension.  May I ask you to what is what and advise me.  

Thank you, Yours very truly,
E. B. Graham (handwritten)

STAMPED) Received Mar 4 1939
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Pennsylvania Society Sons of the American Revolution (letterhead)

March 3, 1939.

Mr. A. D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant,
to the Administrator,
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Hiller:

In re: JOHN MUSSER (or Mosser, Moser)

In the D.A.R. Lineage Book I find JOHN MOSER, of Pennsylvania, soldier in the Revolutionary War from Northhampton county, served under Capt. Joseph Gogan, and in Colonel Stephen Bullard's Regiment; that he was a pensioner when he died at age of 93 years.  According to this record his wife was nee, Catherine Kline.  

I am making research on Musser, or Moser, line and would like to know if in his pension papers mention is made of his children.  Also his death date so can compute about his birth date.

Thank you, Yours very truly,
E. B. Graham (handwritten)
Edwin B. Graham

STAMPED) Received Mar 4 1939 MAIL SUN DIV. VETS. ADM. READER 15 (sic?)
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No 28742
John Frey dec'd
NC.
Act 7 June 32
rejected
Benjamin Fry
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Stoke County North Carolina  SS (sic?)

On the 11th September Eighteen Hundred he (sic?) personally appeared in open court Benjamin Frye a resident of the county aforesaid and State of North Carolina, aged fifty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth say his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the providing made by the act of Congress dated March the Second One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Nine for the benefit and belief of the being of the continental soldiers.

I Benjamin Fry son and only surviving heir of John Fry dec'd (deceased), who was a soldier of the Revolution, has made the following declaration as his father stated to him this applicant (viz) that he enlisted in the county of Albermarle and State of Virginia, in the United States service for the terms of eighteen months under Capt. Lewis Clout Ernest (smudged - sic?) when he marched locating (smudged - sic?) that service but was honorably discharged and returned home to the county where he first enlisted at which county he was born and raised and when he immediately enlisted again for the terms of three years. Don't know who he enlisted under but was attached to Col. Washington corps of Lighthorse, and served that term out and was again honorably discharged.  He was marched to the south & (cut off) was in the battle of the Utaw (Eutaw) Springs.
He again enlist (don't know who he enlisted for during the blaze (sic?) and was again attached to Lighthorse.  Don't know he was marched to but was at the taking of casualty. Don't recollect any of the fixed officiary. Don't recollect any place where he was discharged either time as the discharge are all either lost or distroyd (Destroyed).  this declared and further state that he has no record of
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his Father age but from the best information he can obtain he was about 83 years old when he died which was in March [1825] after the close of the Revolution. His father removed to Surry county North [illegible] now Stokes. When he lived and died at or about the age aforesaid, he married in the county of Stokes, N.C. where he lived with his wife until about the year 1815 when she died, then being no family [illegible] the day and date this declarant cannot now with [illegible] state and that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a [pension] of an annuity except the presentation he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state as only that of the agency of the State of N.C. and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension, that this applicant did not know that he was entitled to a pension until very recently sworn to and subscribed the day and date first written.
Sworn to and subscribed in their [illegible] [illegible]
Benjamine Fry his mark
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State of North Carolina Stokes County August 29th 1843.
This day Mildred Lawson personally appeared before me Frd Webb one of the acting justices of the peace of the court of pleas and [illegible] [illegible] in and for the county aforesaid and often being already sworn according to law deposeth and sayeth, that she was personally acquainted with John Fry citizen of the county of [illegible] in Virginia and that she knew of his enlisting [illegible] [illegible] of the revolutionary war under Capt Lewis for the term of eighteen months and at the expiration of that term he was discharged from the [illegible] and [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] but a short time when he again enlisted the officers name she does not recollect, but was attached to Colonel Washington's march to South Carolina, and after the close of the [illegible] he then returned home to Albemarle and from there he [illegible] to [Surry] County, North Carolina near Stokes where he lived and died in the first of the year of 1825 at or about the age of eighty three and she is personally acquainted with Benjamine Fry and has been from his birth, and knows him to be the only surviving heir of the [said] John, and that she is a resident of the county of Stokes N.C. then Surry and has been ever since the revolution, and that she has no register of her age but thinks she is about ninety one and further sayeth [illegible], sworn to and subscribed the date first mentioned Mildred Lawson her mark
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State of North Carolina Stokes County, August 29th 1843
I do hereby certify that Mildred Lawson whose name is [illegible] to the written affidavit is a woman of probity whose testimony can be [relied] on, given under my hand and seal the date above written [signature]
State of North Carolina Stokes County
I John Hill clerk of the court of pleas and quarter sessions for Stokes County [illegible line] name appears above is a duly [illegible] qualified and acting justice of peace in and for our said county and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony which I have herewith affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 11th September 1843. [signature John Hill]
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May 10, 1939
John Frey R. 3819 BA-J/MLB
Mr. Edwin B. Graham 418 Fulton Building 107 Sixth Street Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dear Sir: The data which follow in regard to John Frey (or Fry) were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 3819, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
John Frey was born and reared in Albemarle County, Virginia. The date of his birth and names of parents were not given.
After the Revolution, he moved from Albemarle County, Virginia to that part of Surry County which later became Stokes County, North Carolina. He married in Stokes County, date of marriage and name of his wife not shown. She died about 1815 and John Frey died in March 1825 , at the age of about eighty-three years, in Stokes County, North Carolina.
John Frey or Fry was survived by one child, only, namely, Benjamin Frey or Fry, who applied September 11, 1843, for pension which might have been due on account of the Revolutionary War service of his father. Benjamin was then aged fifty-four years, residing in Stokes County, North Carolina, and stated that his father, John Frey, while living in Albemarle County, Virginia, enlisted for a term of eighteen months, which he serve as private in Captain Lewis' company, then returned home; that soon afterward, he enlisted again for the term of three years and served that time in Colonel Washington's troop of light horse, that he marched to South Carolina and was in the battle of Eutaw Springs; that he again enlisted in the light horse, to serve during the war, names of officers not stated, and that he was at the surrender of [Cornwellis]; entire length of service and dates of enlistment not shown.
Benjamin Frey's claim for pension was not allowed as the soldier, John Frey, died before the passage of the set under which his son applied.
Very truly yours. A.D. Hiller executive Assistant to the Administrator