Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39959, Stephen Barth, Continental (Penn)
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Berks Country Penn.  SS

On the eighth day of November A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas held in the Borough of Reading County aforesaid, being a court of record, proceeding according to the courts of common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings, Stephen Barth, aged upwards of seventy-two years, a resident in Berks County in said district, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th day of March 1818 and the first day of May 1820.  

That he, the said Stephen Barth, enlisted in the year 1776 for the term of three years in the state of Pennsylvania in a company calvary commanded by Captain Vanhear in the Pennsylvania Line, on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the same corps until the expiration of said tour when he enlisted the same corps during the War.  That after the war he was discharged in the City of Philadelphia; that he had received an honorable discharge signed by Gen. Washington, which said discharge he gave to Joseph Heister Esquire, then a member of Congress, to obtain one hundred acres of military {illegible} and was informed that said discharge was filed in the War, a law office of the United States.  And in pursuance of the act of the first day of May A. D. 1820.  I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
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and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part of it with the intent thereby to diminish it or bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have no, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debits due to me nor have I any income, other than what is contained the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.  
Signed:  Stephen (his X mark) Barth

Sworn in open court
Signed:  P. B. Porter
President of the third judicial district of Pennsylvania

I have no property except my wearing apparel.  I have no trade, I have no family, that he has lost the use of his right arm, that he not able to support himself without the assistance of his country.
Signed:  Stephen (his X mark) Barth

Sworn in open court
Signed:  P. B, Porter
President of the third judicial district of Pennsylvania

On the third day of January A.D. 1826 personally, appeared the above named Stephen Barth in open Court of the Common Pleas of the county of Berks, who upon his solemn oath doth depose and say that in the year 1818, he resided with his father-in-law; that he was a man of wealth; that he did expect to receive part of his estate; that he has since died and left that part of his estate, which I did expect, to my children; that was the reason this deponent made no application under the law of the 18th day of March 1818 and that this deponent at this time has no estate whatever.
Signed:  Stephen (his X mark) Barth

Sworn in open court
Signed:  P. B. Porter
President of the third judicial district of Pennsylvania
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Berks County

On the eighth day of November A.D. 1825, personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas of Berks County, Adam Koch and David Fox, credible witnesses of the Borough of Reading County aforesaid and who upon their solemn oath, doth depose and say that they are well acquainted with the within named Stephen Barth, that he was enlisted in a troop of {illegible) commanded by Captain Vanhear in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, that the said deponents were also enlisted and served in the same corps.
Signed:  Adam Koch, David (his X mark) Fox

Sworn in open court
Signed:  P. B. Porter
President of the third judicial district of Pennsylvania

I, Robert Porter, president judge of the third judicial law district of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Stephen Barth was, as stated in the preceding declaration, on the continental establishment.  
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and cause the seal of the said court to be affixed this eighth day of November A.D. 1825.
Signed:  P. B. Porter
President of the third judicial district of Pennsylvania