Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15668, for Phineas Swartz, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE Penn.
Swartz, Phineas or Swarts, Phinehas
NUMBER S.15668
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19.605
Phnies Swartz
General
Huron Ohio

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AOU 1 year 9 months

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Lewis B Sturgis
Normand Ohio
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War Department, 
Pension Office
May 11th 1833

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832 has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

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Statement, showing the Service of Phineas Swarts
Period when the service was rendered| Duration of the claimant's service: Years| Months| Days| Rank of the Claimant| Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.| Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.|Proof by which the declaration is supported.
1780 draft|-|6|-|Pri| Cap Fouck|74|Chester 6 Pa|Traditionacy
Sub in Brookvill|-|6|-|Pri|Capt Haymaker
Sub for Jas McKenny|-|6|-|-|no Colonel
vol 1781|-|3|-|officers not stated
[Note: no braces used in table]
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I am, respectfully,
your obedient servant, 
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF jUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the "Continental Line", "State troops," 'militia' and 'volunteers', all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound  in military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries to Store Keepers, etc, Teamsters, Boatmen, etc. Persons who served on the board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4.  Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832
State, Territory, or District of County of} ss.
On this day of personally appeared (a)before A.B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following names officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officer; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, the country through which he marched.This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belong to the militia, volunteers, navy,  &c]
He hereby  relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.            : A.B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare the opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he state.
I     of the Court of                do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of      for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i)this day of     &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the    and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with...., who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be   years of age;  that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolutions, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a 
Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the    and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a 
resident in the   and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,   Clerk of the Court of  do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of   for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this   day of   &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to ell the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a soldier : Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
To an office: Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character
and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.
No pauments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity, in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he reides. If he should fail to do do, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rul.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim
cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so
definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the
loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
 "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason
of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his
recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: - For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months ia too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and orther particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Cour is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying offer the authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the cuds of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
Proof of Service.
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses
who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may adminster the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, 
and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule
note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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19005
Ohio Pittsburgh
______________________
Phineas Swartz 
of Heron Co. in the State of Ohio.
who as a Private in the Co. commanded
by Captain Fouch. of the Regt. commands 
by __________ in the Penna.
line for 21 months.

$70.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsbg.
at the rate of 70 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of Augt.
1833. and sent to L. B. 
Sturgis Norwalk. Ohio
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833.  140.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4Sept.'33  33.00
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175.00
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{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer, Clerk
Book E. Vol. 8. Page 127
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State of Ohio Huron County SS Norwalk

On he Twenty first day of May A D 1833 personally appeared before me Timothy Baker one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and forsaid County Phinehas Swartz  resident a part of his time in Adams township in Seneca County & a part of his time in Ridgefield in said County of Huron aged (??) Seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following second Supplementary declaration in addition to his former declaration made before the Supreme Court for said State of Ohio at their disposition in said Norwalk on the 27th of July AD 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832.
That he (word crossed out) entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated That owing to his old age & his broken constitution in consequence of wounds received at various times in the Revolutionary War & sickness his recollection & memory has become much impaired. But he now states & declares that this first time he served in the service of the United States he was drafted into the Militia in the year of Brandywine Battle. He then lived in Lamberton township Chester County State of Pennsylvania into a Company commanded by a Captain Murckle he thinks his Christian name was George in which Matthias Slaymaker was Lieutenant that he was drafted for six months & served that time out. He has endeavored all in his power to recollect the name of the Colonel of the Regiment but cannot prossibly recollect his name-that he was wounded in the Battle of Brandywine on the side of his face & his fore finger of his left hand was nearly cut off- both by a Sword of the Enemy that said finger is now entirely stiff & useless to him-which wounds he now
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exhibits to the Subscribing Magistrate-That after said Battle & the experation of said six months he returned to his home. He walk to Strasburgh in Lamberton County in said State of Pennsylvania-where he met a Militia Company command by a Captain Fouch his christian name he does not recollect, the name of the Lieutenant he don't recollect nor does he recollect the name of the Colonel of the Regiment into which company one John Blackbill was drafted for six months- that the Declarant entered & served as a substitute for said Blackbill for said period of six months at York Town in Virginia this he believes was the year before Lord Cornwallis was taken after the expiration of said six months he again returned to said Strasburgh where he again met with another Militia Company commanded by said Captain Slaymaker he cannot recollect the names of the Colonel of the Regiment (word crossed out) in said Company one James McKinney was drafted for six months and he the Declarant entered & served as a Substitute for said James McKinney for said period of six months. again at said Yorktown this the Declarant believes was in the year said Cornwallis was taken After said last six months had expired he the declarant volunteered for three months at said York Town when said Cornwallis was captured. He the Declarant was engaged in the Battle at York Town in which he was wounded in his right Leg-a little above his ankle by a musket Ball shot through & by a Bayonet & some of the Bones are missing & his leg stiff which just mentioned wounds he now exhibits to the subscribing Magistrate that he served out said (word crossed out) last mentioned three months- that after his said last mentioned wounds he was put into the Hospital at said York Town
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where he was  confined until he in a measure got better of his said wounds. he was then taken sick with what is called Camp distemper with which he was confined at said York for at least six months. That he did not serve less in the Revolutionary War than one year & nine months-besides his confinement on discount o his wounds & (word crossed out) sickness. That the Declarant has no wife or Family. She having died more than four years ago. That he partly resides in said Seneca County with his Son Nathan Swartz who is a resident there with a Family & he partly resides in Ridgefield in said Huron County. That he removed from Lancaster County in the said State of Ohio about two years ago where his sisters Sons John Swartz & James Swartz reside. That the reason he made his application before the Supreme Court of Ohio in said Huron County was that the roads from said Thompson in Seneca County to Tiffin in the County Seat in said Seneca was; that the roads are almost impassable from said Thompson to said Tiffin. There being nothing but an Indian Path through the woods-& there being many swamps on said road on the other hand the road is good from said Thompson to said Norwalk & the County well settled. Besides this the Declarant supposes the Supreme Court for the State of Ohio was according to the Spirit of the regulations of the war Department competent to receive applications Declarations rom applicants in every County
Phinehas his X mark Swartz

Attest.
Timothy Baker
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the within Statement sworn to and
subscribed before me at Norwalk this
twenty first day of May AD 1833
Timothy Baker
Judge of Huron fore Pleas

State of Ohio
Huron County F}
I David Gibbs Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas in said County of
Huron do certify that Timothy Baker Esq is a lawfull Judge of said Court as above & that the
Signature above purporting to be his is
genuine. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto subscribed my name &
affixed the Seal of said Court at Norwalk this 21st day of May AD 1833 
r Gibbs Clerk H.C. P.
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April 27, 1939.

Marjorie Cherry
2601 Milan Read
Sandusky, Ohio.

BA-J/ILL
Phineas Swarts
S. 15668

Dear Madam:
The data which follow are shown in the papers on file in pension claim, S.15868, based upon service of Phineas Swarts
in the Revolutionary War.

Phineas Swarts was born in Little Brandywine, Chester County, Pennsylvania; the date of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Lamberton Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted as private in Captain Marckle (s) (?)  company of Pennsylvania militia, was in the battle of Brandywine, in which engagement he was wounded on the side of his face and had
the fore finger on his left hand nearly cut off by a sword, length of this service six months. Sometime after his return home, he went to Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, enlisted and served six months as private in Captain Jacob Fouch's Pennsylvania company,
engaged principally in the vicinity of Yorktown, Virginia, he enlisted next in Captain Mathias Slaymaker's Pennsylvania company, was in the battle at Yorktown [with the troops under General Washington at and surrender Lord Cornwallis surrendered -- PREVIOUS LINED OUT AND REPLACED WITH "and surrender of"] during which he was wounded in his right ankle by a musket ball; he was in the hospital for some time
afterwards.

{HAND WRITTEN MARGIN NOTE "xx could not find. This may be Jacob Klatz"] 

The soldier resided after the war in Middletown, north of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, moved from there to Winchester, Frederick
County, Virginia, later lived in Rockingham, Virginia, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, then moved to Tennessee, eight miles from Abingdon, then moved back to Rockingham, Virginia, from which state he moved to New
Lancaster, Ohio, thence to Adams County, Seneca County, Ohio.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 21,
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1833, at which time he was aged
Ohio.


1833, at which time he was about seventy-four years. He stated then that he lived a part of the time in Ridgefield, Huron County, Ohio.

In 1883, Phineas Swartz stated that his wife had been dead for more than four years, but he did not state her name, nor the date
and place of their marriage. His son, Nathan (Nathaniel ) Swartz lived then with his family in Seneca County, Ohio. The soldier had moved from New Lancaster, Ohio, about two years previously:  his sons, John and James, resided there.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of
this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General
Accounting Office, this city, and cite the 
following data:

Phineas Swartz
Certificate #19605
Issued August 1, 1833
Commenced March 4, 1831
Rate $70 per annum
Act of June 7, 1832
Ohio Agency.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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State of Ohio Huron County Ss Norwalk 4th December AD 1832
Personley appeared before me Timothy Baker - one of the
Judges of Huron Com Pleas
the within named Phinehas Swarts who being first duly sworn according to Law
doth on his oath make the following Supplementary declaration in addition to his
former declaration on the 27th July 1832 made  & sworn to before the Supreme Court of Ohio
then sitting in said Norwalk in said County in order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress passed 7 June 1832 that by reason of old age & consequent loss of memory
he did not then state as explicitly & particularly as he ought to have done respecting
all his services as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War But in addition thereto he
now declairs that in the month of April or may [illegible] before ^this year General
Cornwallis was captured at York Town he the Declarant was drafted into
the militia (then living at little Brandywine in Pennsylvania) for six months
that he went to & was at said York Town that he served on [illegible] six
months, on the expiration of his ^service returning to his home [illegible] a Militia
company commanded by Capt Jacob Fouch & took the place & served in the stead of one John Brockbill for six months longer & served the term and
at said York Town. he dont remember the name of the Lieutenant.
on his returning after he had [illegible] he said [illegible] at Shorburg in 
Lamberton County ^Penna he met another Company of Militia commanded by Capt Slaymaker 
& engaged to serve & did serve in [illegible]  stead of one James McKenney for six
months &  returned again to said York Town where he served out said last six
months after this the Declarant volunteered for three months in a company )
^he don't remember the names of the Captain or any of the officers he served out said three months
in which said last three months he was wounded as mentioned in his first
declaration of the 27th.) July 1832 that he received said wounds at the time
of the capture of said General Cornwallis.
Personally ^came before me the undersigned Phinehas Swartz who being duly sworn
deposeth & saith, that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory
he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his Service but according
to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned
below and in the following grades: For one year and nine months I served
as a Soldier and for which service I claim a Pension
Phineas X Swartz by 215 [illegible]
["his" written above "X" and "mark" written below]
State of Ohio
Huron County Ss Norwalk Dec 4th 1832 Personally came Phineas
Swartz who Subscribe & ^was Sworn to the above
facts before me
Timothy Baker
Judge of Huron Com Plea
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State of Ohio
Seneca County} [illegible] July 1832
We certify that we are acquainted with Phinehas Swartz a resident in our Neighborhood we consider him a good Citizen and of undoubted veracity. We also certify that it is his reputation of having been a Soldier & served for the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Daniel Whiteman
Benjamin Whiteman
[illegible] meyers
Thos. Longwith
Arthur Morrison
James Campbell
David Sutton
Abraham G. Whiteman
Samuel Whitman Esq.
David Stout Const.
L.C. Stewart
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John Pain Conpl
Michael Alspaugh
Henry [illegible]
Samul Elder
William Elder
Jona  Von [illegible]
Michael Swartz Chancellor
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and the Court further certify that personally appeared before them
who first being duly sworn did on their oath declare and testify that they are well acquainted with Phinehas Swarts of said
Seneca County and they have always considered him as a man of veracity. Subscribed and Sworn the day and year aforesaid
[ALL OF THE ABOVE HAS BEEN XXX'D OUT]

I D Gibbs Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
for the County of Huron, State of Ohio certify that Timothy Baker Esquire was on the 11th of December 1832 & several years before & ever since and now is one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within 
and for said County and the signature at the bottom of the fourth page of this Sheet purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed my seal of office and subscribed my
name this 14th of March A.D. 1833.
D. Gibbs Clerk
H.C. P.
[Illegible]
[Illegible]

I David Gibbs Clerk of the Supreme Court in said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of said Court in the matter of the application of Phinehas Swarts In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of
Office this 27 day of July AD 1832_
D. Gibbs Clerk S.G.
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State of Ohio
County of Huron Ss Norwalk July 27th A D 1832
at and before the Supreme Court for said State within and for
said County of Huron
On the 27th day of July AD 1832 personally appeared
in open Court before the Judges of said Court
now sitting Phinehas Swarts Resident of Adams Township Seneca
County in said State aged Seventy four years, who being first duly sworn
according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration, in order
to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th of June A D 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the
following named officers and served as herein stated. He was drafted
in the Militia in the year in which General Cornwallis was captured
with the British Army at York Town in Virginia to serve for six months
in a Company commanded by Capt Muckle Wane belonging to which was
Matthias Slay makes first Lieutenant. He don't recollect the Colonel or
Major of the Regiment. Marched by Land at the way to said York Town
& there joined his Regiment. was present and engaged in Battle in the
attack upon the redoubts & fortifications he thinks he was, but cannot say
certainly, commanded by Colonel Alexander Hamilton, General Washington
was present, whom he every day saw. that in said Battle he was wounded both in
his arm & Leg. his wrist bone was dislocated which to the present time
disenables him considerably for labor his wounded Leg hurt him some. his
finger was cut by a Sword which has occasioned it to be stiff ever since
that the wound on his Leg often break out in [illegible] Lore. That he was
drafted in May of April of the year in which Cornwallis was captured
He was honorably discharged that his discharge was burnt about sixteen years
ago with & within his home which was then burnt on the fifteenth of November
about six miles from Winchester in Virginia that about the time of the
expiration of the said six months while at said York Town he was taken
sick with the Camp distemper was first put into a Hospital on account of his
wounds & was continued there on account of said sickness that he remained
sick three months or more after he returned home. That he has no record of
his age - dont remember any other officers except those he has mentioned.
He knows of no person now living who can positively testify to his aforesaid
services. that he removed to said Seneca County some time last
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December. that he was born in little Brandywine Chester County State of
Pensylvania that since the Revolutionary War he has lived a
considerable time in Middletown North of Lancaster in said Pensylvania
west from thence to Winchester in Frederick County Virginia from thence
to Rockingham Harrisburgh County Pensylvania from thence to the State of
Tennesee eight miles from Abington then back to Buckingham in
Virginia from thence to New Lancaster State of Ohio from thence to said
Seneca County where has ever since lived. That the County in which he
now lives being [illegible] settled He knows of no Clergyman
who can testify in his behalf Phinehas ears with Phinehas X Swarts witness Lewis B Sturges
["his" written above the "X" and "mark" written below it]
Subscribed & sworn to the day & ^month year aforesaid
Attest D. Gibbs Clerk Sup Ct
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
Phineas Swarts X witness Lewis B Sturges
["his" written above the "X" and "mark" written below it]
sworn and subscribed the ^day ^month & year aforesaid
Attest W D Gibbs Clerk Sup Ct
We Thomas Longwith Nathan Swarts residing in Adams County
in Seneca County [crossed out] State of Ohio do
- hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Phinehas Swarts who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be about Seventy four years of age that he is
reputed and believed in the Neighborhood where he resides to have
been a Soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
& that he is also a man of veracity. Thomas Long with [illegible]
Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Attest D Gibbs Clerk Sup Ct
And the said Court do declare their opinion, after the investigation
of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories Inscribed
by the War Department that the above Applicant was a Revolution.
Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies
that it appears to them that Thomas Long with and Nathaniel Swarts
who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of Adams Co
adjoining Seneca County in a State of Ohio are credible persons & that their state
is entitled to credit
Attest G. Gibbs Clerk Sup: Ct.
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15.668
INVALID.
File No. 15.668 Swartz
Phineas Swartz
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:-- Vol. 1, Page 366

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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ROSS CHERRY
SANDUSKY SANDS
26OTMILAN ROAD
SANDUSKY, OHIO

A. D. Hiller
Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Our history says that Phineas Schwartz was a Revolutionary Soldier who is buried at Huron O. We have some confusion about Huron and Huron County. It seems that he owned land in Ridgfield which is in Huron County. Have you the record of this man's service and if he was
pensioned, and when and where he died?
Sincerely
Marjory Cherry

3 other letters. Misc. file with other carbon

[Round Stamp]
RECEIVED MAR 8 1939
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April 27, 1939.
BA-J/ILL
Phineas Swarts
S. 15668

Marjorie Cherry
2601 Milan Road
Sandusky, Ohio.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Nathaniel Paynter, Spencer Phillips, Phineas Swarts who is buried in Huron County, Ohio,
and Kenlin Winslow who died in that same county,
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited clerical force available for furnishing such
information, it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of that war. The record of Phineas Swartz is furnished you herewith, as found in pension claim, S. 15668.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

Send one Mrs French
all in files
3 other letters with other carbon in
Miss. Correspondence
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Free [Stamped]
Ohio May
Ohio Pitts
James Le Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
NORWALK O [Round Stamp]
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Norwalk H. County Ohio 21 May 1833
J.L Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I again  now return to you Phinehas Swartz's  pension papers-which I hope are satisfactorily corrected.  I am sensible that there are some discrepancies between his  first supplementary declaration & his final declaration & also between his second supplementary and his first. They are attributed to the [crossed out] his old age, infirmaries  & confusion of mind.  There are however [illegible] important,  prominent facts that show he was an old Soldier and served at various time in the Revolutionary War.  [illegible] his wounds received in Battles at Brandywine & at York town which he has showed to on yourself. D to Judge Bakes who has certified to them Swartz is a poor  amenable old man . D wants very much some [illegible] as soon as Possible and you will such personally oblige one to decide on his case as early as possible... and  it will also very much obliged if  you will immediately decide in the following named cases which have been corrected in any [illegible] according to your requirements in  your 'brief objections' sent to one said Lambert Schaefer-Jonas Remifs-Robert Wells-Ephraim Fish-Irab Wright-Benjamin Doatie-Isaac  Curtifs- Philip Sutton-Solomon Parson-Eli Hathaway; Benjamin Reed-Morgan Young-James Headley-Joseph Ransom & Conrad Noffles
I have received the certificates of the allowance of Pensions in the care of Charles Eastman & Allen [illegible].
I am very respectfully your Obl Servant Lewis B Sturges
You will observe that by the first brief objections which you sent to one [illegible] was one objections as copied as to the  [illegible] [illeigble] a time which he served which has been sufficient I hope in your said objections.
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Phinehas Swartz
Ohio

Hon Secretary at War
Washington

Aug 30 '32

[Illegible]}
Augt 21}
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Norwalk Huron County Ohio August 21 1832

Hon Secretary at War
Sir
I now enclose a certificate of respectable credible
Men respecting the characters of Thomas Longweth & Nathaniel Swartz who testified in behalf of Phinehas Swartrz  an applicant
for a pension, whose papers I forwarded to you some time since, & also a certificate of Martin Olds Jus. Peace that there is no Clergyman in the vicinity of Applicant
I have the honor to be
respectfully 
Lawis B Sturges
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State of Ohio Seneca [Illegible] County & Adams [County - LINED OUT] Township 
August 1832
We the Subscribers of Adams Township Seneca County, Ohio do hereby certify and declare that we are acquainted with
Thomas Longwith and Nathaniel Swartz of Adams Township, Seneca County Ohio and that they are credible persons & of truth &
veracity and that we are also acquainted with Phinehas Swartz of Adams Township Seneca County Ohio who is a man of truth & veracity and that it is the reputation of and believes that he was a soldier in the American cause & served as such during the Revolutionary War & this
belief exists in his Neighborhood.

Asa Alexander
James Campbell
David Stout
Davis Sutton
Subscribed & sworn to the day and year aforesaid
Martin Olds J.P. in and for Adams To.
Seneca Co. Ohio
I do here by certify that there is no clergy within
The Immediate vicinity
Martin Olds J.P.
This is closed
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The State of Ohio Seneca County for
I Joseph Howard, Clerk of the court of common pleas in and for said Seneca County, do hereby certify that Martin Olds, before whom the within instrument of writing appears to have been sworn to and subscribed, and who has subscribed his name thereto as such, was at the time of subscribing the same and now is an acting Justice of the Peace of Seneca County
duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such Justice of the Peace and further I verily believe the written signature of the said Martin Olds to be genuine.
[ILLEGIBLE SEAL]

In testimony whereof, I the clerk aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court being a court of [ILLEGIBLE] in said county, this 20th day of August AD. 1832.
Joseph Howard
Clerk,