Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6,931, John Gross, Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                                   NUMBER

Penn.            Gross, John      S.6931
carded
CONTENTS
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02.944
Pennsylvania Phila
John Gross decd
of Adam Co, in the State of Penna who was a private in the company commanded by Cap- in the Revolution for  eleven month

Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate  of 36 Dollars 63 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. and ends at December 1846.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Nov. 1851 and sent to Edwards and Smith.
Arrears to the 4th of the Present
Semi-annual allowance ending
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by  HR Weightman Clerk
Book C2 Vol 5. Page 23
Pa. June 13/04
Records certificat SS

1890
July 16, SE Gross-gave a [illegible] prior
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State of Pennsylvania and County of Adams}

On this 13 day of November 1846 Personally appeared before the subscribe one of the Judges of Common Pleas (crossed out from one to Pleas)N Bushey a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Adams and State aforesaid Polly Gross in behalf of her (crossed out) John Gross a soldier in the Revolutionary war  Polly Gross who being first sworn  according to law doth on her oath  make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress June 7th 1832.
My father has lost his mind and become insain  By age and bodily infirmity many years ago when his mind was yet sound he told me his age he was ninety two years of age last August 1846.  He also told me that he served along time in the Revolutionary war he also told me he served three tures in the war.   The first ture he served was  compeled to take his fathers wagon and horse and headed for the army a ture  of of six months during the time of the flying camp.  He told me that he was drafted twice after that time and served out that time of six months  Each time he also told me the names of the officers that he served under but for my life I cannot think of there names  But I remember that he sed that he was in the Battle of Trenton town  and the Battle of Brandywine and that he crossed the Delaware on the ice and that he indured many hardships during his service in the war and that he served at least on year and a half in the Revolutionary war and for his services I claim a Pension from the United States for him the reason that he did not call on the Secretary of war sooner is that John Gross was not fit to do any Business for the last fifteen years and had no knowledge that the war intideled to  a Pension his nabours a few years ago got him a Pension from the Sate of Pennsylvania [illegible] and with that sade I could still support him on till he becomes intirely helpless and not only that  had no way to attent and see about his Pension for (crossed out illegible) us on till the present time
Polly Gross

Sworn and subscribed November the 23rd 1846 Before N. Bushey

I certify that I was called after this day to Court I examined John (crossed out) into the situation of John Gross in where behalf a Pension is about to be applied for, and that I was unable to attend  by reason of  [illegible]- I gave this certificate at the agent  of the gent of said Gross in my private capacity alone--and further that I am well acquainted with N. Bushey esq. before  whom the above paper purports to have been signed; that the remainder and the page-
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Know all men by these [illegible] that I Polly Gross of the County of Adams and State of Pennsylvania I do here make constitute and appoint George Horn of Bainbridge Lancaster County and State of Pennsylvania my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to ask demand and receive a Pension Certificate  from the Secretary of war of the United States for the Service of my Father John Gross a Soldier of the Revolution war in the time of Pennsylvania and in my name do every act and think in the law needful to be done in and about the promises all of which I will ratify and Conform as my own Act and Deed.  Here is testimony where of I have unto set my hand in a Seal this 13 day of November 1846.
Polly Gross

Henry Bender
N.Bushey

Adams County SS
Personally appeared before me the subscriber of [illegible] of this in and from the said county of [illegible] Polly  Gross and acknowledged the above Power of Attorney to be her act and Deed
N. Bushey

State of Pennsylvania
Adams County}
be it know that before me N. Bushey a Justice of the Peace one of the Judges of Common Pleas (cross out after the Peace) in and for the County aforesaid.  Personally appeared George Taylor and made oath in due form of law I have been acquainted with John Gross for the past thirty years  and I was informed  that  he was a Revolutionary Soldier many years ago he has lived on my Property for the last foreteen years and Since he lived with me it struck my mind that he was inttitled to a Pension from what conversation that I had with him he told me that his papers were lost and he did not kno if he could draw a Pension  or not and asked of me to make inquiry for him as he was not able to do so  [crossed out words all illegible] he told me that his fathers  teem was next and him also that he served as a wagoner during the time of the flying Camp: he told me that he lived in Northampton County ( crossed out; during the Revolutionary war) Pennsylvania during the  revolutionary war and that he serv ed two tures after that time and he told me t he officers names at that time  But they left my memory he was then sound mindet only a [illegible he requested  me to intersead for him to [illegible] a Pension from the  (of crossed out)State of Penn I then tuck him to the County seat and his [illegible] relating the names of the officers and the (and ben  in crossed out) Battles he had ben in during the war and his honesty and good varersity as a neighbor got him  a State pension and was believed him on his oath and was qualified to the same John Gross now has lost his mind now for the last six months when his mind was yet sound he told me the above named in the ( last sentence cut off)
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State of Pennsylvania
Adams County Set..
(Seal)
Be it remembered that on the 23rd day of April AD 1851 in the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County aforesaid appeared in open Court Polly Gross aged about fifty four years.Single woman, who being duly sworn according to law doth say that she is the daughter of John Gross deceased, late of said County and who was a Soldier in the war of the revolution-that she has heard her father in his lifetime speak of having performed three tours of Service in said war and that she often heard him speak of transactions which happening during said service, particularly of one occasion where he was nearly taken prisoner by the enemy-that her said father was according to his statement about ninety four years of age at the time of his death and that he died in December  1846 or 1847, and that she is the only surviving child of said John Gross.
This declaration is made for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress of June 1832- her said father having applied for but havifailed to obtain the benefit os said act
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in his lifetime but having failed to complete the necessary proof-she further states that her father was in receipt of a Pension  from the State of Pennsylvania at the time of his death.
Polly Gross

Sworn and Subscribed in open Court this 23 day of April 1851}
John Picking, Pro


(seal)
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House of Rep.
Febr 4th 1847

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Dear Sir
Will you have the goodness to inform me whether there is an application pending in your office by Jno. Gross of Adams County Pennd. a Revolutionary Soldier for a Pension and also, whether there is an obligation  on the part of Polly Gross stating herself to be the heir of the said Jno. Gross-
If both or either of said obligations are on file with you have the goodness to inform me what decision has been made upon them-
Your early attention is Respectfully solicited-

Respectfully
Moses McClean
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$78.00 (underlined)
No. 12940) B.
L. 10.10.0 Specie
I do hereby certify that the State of Pennsylvania is  indebted to John Gross of York Co. Militia, in the summer of ten pounds (ten shillings specie with lawful interest from the first day of duty one thousand seven hundred and eighty three; the same being due upon  an account 
settled in this office pursuant to an act of 
Assembly passed the first  day of April 1784.
Comptroller General's  Of 26 Oct. 1786}
Jno. Nicholson


L 17.1.8.specie
No.14629)A
I do Certify that the State of Pennsylvania is indebted to John Gross late of New Lewis in the sun of seventeen pounds one shilling and eight pence spies with lawful interest from the first day of July one thousand seven hundred and eighty three; the same being due upon an account settled in this office, pursuant to an Act of Assembly, passed the first day of April 1784.
Comptroller General's office 15" June 1787}
Jno. Nicholson

334.  The United States and the state of Pennsylvania for the pay of the following persons, seven months men enlisted in the Pennsylvania line in the Federal Army.
Name  John Gross
No. of Certificate  14.629
Amount of pay 17.1.8
Auditor General's Office

Harrisburg March 5th 1851}
I certify the above to be true copies and extracts from the originals on file in this Department.
Witness my hand and Seal of office the date aforesaid.
John N Purviance
Aud. Gen.l
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State of Pennsylvania
Adams County Feb

Be it remembered that in the 6th day of May AD 1851 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for Adams County aforesaid, came personally Solomon Taylor, a resident of said County, aged about twenty five years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that he was acquainted with John Gross, late of said County, who was reputed to have been a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and that he is also acquainted with Polly Gross a daughter of said John Gross and his only child  so far as this deponent have ever heard-that the said John Gross died at the County aforesaid sometime in the fall of the year 1846-that this deponent was present at the time of his death and had been helping to wait upon his acuity his last sickness, the  said Gross having his home in the same house with this deponent at the time of his death-and that he has frequently heard said Gross in his lifetime, speak of being in the war of the Revolution-
And further said  not
Sworn and subscribed this 6th day of May AD 1851 before me and I hereby certify that deponent is a man worthy  of  credit
Solomon Taylor
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State of Pennsylvania 
Adams County Ss-}
I, John Picking, Prothonotary of the Court of Common  Pleas of said County, Certify, that D.
 A. Buehler, Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was made, is and was, at the time of the doing of the same, one of our Commonwealth  Justices of the Peace, duly elected Commissioned and qualified as such; and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court being a Court of Record/ at Gettysburg, this 6th day of May A.D. 1851.
John Picking, Pro
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Brief in the case of John Gross, Dec.
 Adam County and State of Pennsylvania 
Act June 7, 1832

Claim, ("original" or  "for increase.")

Proof exhibited, (if original.) Original

Is it documentary, traditionally, or supported by rools?  If either, State the substance.
Record evidence of service.

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?
Nov. 17. 1851.
Name and resident of Agent.
Edwards and Smith
Presat

Examining Clerk.
Ogden Miler
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State of Pennsylvania
Adams County SS

Be it known that in the Seventh day of April 1851 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid came personally John Lowed aged about fifty four years who being duly [illegible] according to law doth depose and say that he was acquainted John Gross late of said County and remembers him about thirty four years ago, that said Gross was said to have been a Soldier in the revolutionary war and that said John Gross died at the County aforesaid on or about the fifth day of December 1846, that this deponent is a Cabinet maker and made the coffin for said Gross and knows the date having an entry made in his day book at the time he further saith that he has been acquainted with Polly Gross for upwards of thirty years and that said Polly lived with and was said to be a daughter of said John Gross- that said John Gross usually resided in Menallen township in Adams County-but in, what was formerly a part of York County, and that said John Gross was a German, at least, spoke the German language- and further this deponent saith not 
John Lowed

affixed and subscribed this 7th April AD 1851 before me,}
A D Buehler
and I hereby certify that deponent is a person of good repute and worthy  of credit
A D Buehler
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State of Pennsylvania
Adams County SS}

I, John Picking, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, Certify that D.A. Buehler, Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit was made, is, and was, at the time of the doing of the same, one of our Commonwealth Justices of the peace, duly elected, Commissioned and qualified as such; and that the signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court (being a Court of Record) at  Gettysburg this 6th day of May A.D. 1851
John Picking, Pro
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Pension Office
November 6, 1851.

Gentlemen:
The additional testimony filed by you in the case of John Gross, Dec under the Act of June 7, 1832 is deemed sufficient to show that he entered the service from York County, Pa. but as only one of the certificates of the Auditor General of  that date shows the residence of the soldier of that name, credited upon his books, in [illegible] admit that he volunteered the service shown by the other certificate in: the seven months service  unless in an [illegible] with letter evidence of his identity that has yet been filed.  The papers upon which he was pensioner by the legislators of Pennsylvania may, perhaps furnish it; and if so certified copies of them should be filed in this office.

Very Respectfully,
your H J Wilson
[illegible] of Pensions

Messers Edwards and d Smith
Present

(in pencil on side these words: filed 13 Aug.)
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No. 4497
John Gross
29th  June 1780-ordered seven days rations
John Brooks A.C.


To Mr Wm Scott [illegible] of Y.C.
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I John Gross having engaged to serve as a Pennsylvania volunteer for the Company of the sixth Battalion of Militia of the County of York and the Province of Pennsylvania, do hereby engage to be true and faithful in the said service until the fifteenth day of January next untill sonner discharged, and be true to the authority of said state and my Superior Officers according to the rule and discipline of war, and the establishment of the corps in which I am now entered. June the 24 A.D. 1780.
Witness my hand this 29 day of June 1780
Daniel May, Capt
{endorsed]

Auditor Generals Office
Harrisburg Nov. 11th, 1851

I certify the above to be a true copy of the original now remaining on file in the department.
Witness my hand and seal of office the day and year aforesaid.
E. Banks
Aud. Gen
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Washington
Aug 13, 1837

Sir,
Enclosed are the affidavits of Robert Taylor, Edward Warren and Mary Taylor as added in the case of Polly Gross, which we believe fully meets the objections raised in yours of the 23' [illegible].
We would respectfully ask as early actions in due case as may be considered.
Very Respectfully
Edwards and Smith

J.E. Heath Esq
Comm Pens
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Washington 10 May 1851
Sir
Enclosed are the declarations and  [illegible] in the application of Polly Gross for the pension due her father John Gross at the time of his death for Revolutionary services.
Please report to us in the cause.
Very Respectfully
Edwards and Smith
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Polly Gross
daughter of John
app (crossed out)  addl evidence in Pension application




Edwards and Smith
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State of Pennsylvania
Adams County Scb}
Before the subscribed  a Justice of the Peace in and for said County comes personally Mary Taylor, widow of George Taylor deceased, late of Menallen township Adams County aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that she is about fifty four years of age and upwards, and that she was well acquainted with John Gross late of said township and County, and remembers him from her early childhood, and that said Gross was a long understood to have been a Soldier in the Revolutionary war, that he has often talked with deponent about events and circumstances of which he was a witness in the Course of the[illegible] that she remembers to have heard him speak of having served several tours in the Army, once as a waggoner, and of other times with the militias: that he [illegible] is, from what said Gross told her, that he lived in York County, (that part which is now Adams  County,) at the time of the war, but that he was originally from Northampton County, as she has heard him speak of his father having lived in that County ,that said Gross was residing in a house of deponents husband, at the time of his death which took
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place in the latter part of the year 1847, and that she has often been in, and was well acquainted with the family of said Gross; and is well acquainted with Polly Gross the daughter of said John Gross, who, as deponent is informed, is now making application for a pension from the United States Government for the service rendered by the said father-she further states that her husband, George Taylor died in the Spring of the year Eighteen hundred and forty nine- And further said not
Mary Taylor X her mark

Sworn and subscribed this 1st day of August AD 1851 before me, and I hereby certify that deponent is a person of credit and worthy of belief}
DA Buehler, Pr
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State of Pennsylvania county of Adams} SS:
I, John Picking,  Prothonotary of Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State above mentioned, and hereby certify, that  D.A. Buehler, Esq, whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly elected, commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Court, is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.  
Given under my hand and Seal of office, at Gettysburg, this 7th day of August A.D. 1851.
John Picking, Pro

(Seal illegible)
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Philadelphia  (Pa)  Agency

John Gross, dec
who was a private in the Reg Pennsylvania  Troops
Act of June 7. 1832.
11 mos private
$36.63 per sum
Com March 4, 1831
[illegible] Dec 5, 1846, when he dies,

Pay all to Polly Gross
only child, [illegible]
Mess Edwards and Smith
Pro.
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No 37431
John Gross
Pa
Sent to Geo Horn Dec.14, '46
to [illegible] Feb 5 47
Edwards and Smith
July 23, 1851
Let same Nov. 6/51
Act 7 June 1832


For this letter see claim of Valentine Coleman
R.F. 2166 Rev. War
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6931
INVALID

File No. 6931
John Gross
Priv. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol.1 st, Page 150


[Arrangement of 1870.]

[illegible] of Northampton [illegible]
(York Co. that is now Adams county)

[illegible name?]
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State of Pennsylvania
Adams County Seb

Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said Court came  personally Robert Taylor a citizen of said County aged about Eighty five years, and known personally by the Subscriber to be a person of Good repute and [illegible] of Credit; who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with John Gross late of Adams County now deceased and remembers him from his boyhood, that said Gross worked for deponents  father in what was York (now Adams) County the time of the Revolutionary war, that he does not know personally, but has heard it said, that said Gross [illegible]originally   from Northampton County  Pennsylvania-that this deponent remembers well  of said Gross having gone into the  Army as a Soldier, on the said Revolutionary war, and that after  his term of service has expired, he returned said to said deponents fathers and worked for him as before, that said Gross enlisted in the army from York County (now Adams,) but deponent does not know for how long time-Deponent further said that he is well acquainted with Polly Gross, a daughter of said John Gross, and who
is as this deponent is informed, is now making  application
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for a pension from the United States for the services of her said father-
An further this deponent saith not
 Robert Taylor X his mark

Sworn and subscribed this 7th day of August 1851 before me- the deponent being too defective in aged to abe able to write his name}
D A.Buehler J. P

State of Pennsylvania
Adams County Sct}
be it remembered that on the  seventh day of August A.D. 1851 before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Court personally Edward Warren a citizen of said County (crossed out [illegible])the seventy seven years who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he was  well acquainted with John Gross late of said County now deceased who was a  Soldier in the war of the Revolution-that said Gross lived in Menallen township in what was formerly York ( now Adams County) but that he was originally from Northampton County and that said Gross has told deponent that the first time he went to the army he drove his fathers team from Northampton County, being these a bay of eighteen years of age; and that he afterward served as deponent think he said
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April 18, 1914.
Mch. 21, 1917.
Mch. 28, 1917.
Hon. W.E. Cox.
House of Representatives
My dear Mr. Cox:
In response to your letter of the sixteenth instant,  (requesting inf. for Mrs L.R.E. Mch 28, '17) I have the honor to advise you in the claim. R. File No. 9, 064. Rev. War. it is alleged that Charles Rudder was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia, where he resided when he volunteered in September or October 1780. as Private under Captain Thomas Threadgill and served under him and another captain whose name is not stated, at various times until after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.
On November 12, 1836. while seventy-six years old and a resident of Bath County, Kentucky, he made an application for pension which was rejected on account of insufficient proof of service as required by the Act of June 7, 1832, under which he applied. 
There is no data relative to wife or children.
Very truly yours,
G.M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
There is no copy of discharge on file in the claim. (Mch. 21 1917)
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Adams}SS:

I John Picking Prothonotary  of the Court of Common Pleas in and tor the county and  State above mentioned, do hereby certify that D. A. Buehler, Esq whose genuine Signatures appear to the foregoing, is and was at the time of Signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly elected, Commissioned and Sworn; that  all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit, and that the aforesaid Court is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.
Given under my hand and sent to Office at  Gettysburg, this 7th day of August A.D. 1857
John Picking, Pro.
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No.37.454
Michael Gross
Pa
Act 7 June 1832
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Hamburger Lancaster Co Pa
January the 11th 1847

Dear Sir
Your letter of the 14 of December  #1846 came to [illegible] in enclosed  a  sheet of the Pension laws for [illegible and illegible]  my thanks you  [illegible] State in your letter the application which I left with you for John Gross is filed but his service are not set forth as required by law
Sir I have taken that portion of law in drawing the aforesaid John Gross declaration of where I understood that the law appeared to provide in certain cases where it states  the declaration may be more a relative of a Claimant in case of insanity on of mental infirmity destroying the facilities [words inked out illegible] of the next relative of a person claiming a Pension may be received under oath recapitulating his own account of his Service as given prior to such incapacity you further State in your letter that the declaration should be made by the Claimant himself or by some  one appointed by a Court of record for that purpose must be filed and the service should be published at Harrisburg it is impossible for to take the aforesaid John Gross before a Court or for him to make a declaration because he is confined to his bed and is much of a job to move him from one bed to another and his mind is entirely destroyed so his daughter Polly is the only child that he's got and his wife is dead
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and for me to state any Person before a Court but Polly his daughter I would not know who now have and the witnesses in his behalf as he cannot be taken before a Court I thought would see him and could become before a Judge or Justice of the Peace at  his residence and as regards the tures that he served I will try if I can and will fully establish at Harrisburg
and if your honor please I would wish to have [illegible] how to proceed in getting the aforesaid John Gross's case before a Court as it is believed by his neighborhood that he is intitled to a pension I could bring Seventy of the most reputable [illegible]of his neighborhood that will certify that they believe that he is intitled to a pension if he  will able about obtain it or not
and in Valentins Colemans case I will try and will comply with your directions as near as I can I have in closed three claims and left them at our Post office to send to you for Examination and one Jacob Northammer Case two of his witnesses I am requested to in form you if please to call on James Buchanan the Secretary of State at your ? as they are well acquainted with him for him to vouch for the respectably John Zell and Robart Jinkins of[illegible]
Yours Respectfully
Geo Horn
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(check mark)
37.431
John Gross Pa
Act 7 June 1832
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is a Justice of the peace in the County of Adams State of Pennsylvania-and that Issac wideman and George Taylor are reputable citizens of the same County and State
WP 

(seal)
state of Pennsylvania
Adams County Ss}
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is a Justice of the peace in the County of Adams State of Pennsylvania-and that Isaac Widerman and George Taylor are respectable citizens of the same County and State-
WP Irvine

(state seal)
State of Pennsylvania
Adams County SS.}
I Anthony B. Kurtz Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County, do hereby certify that Nicholas Bushey Esquire before whom the fore going proceeding were had is and was at the time of doing the same one of Commonwealth Justices of the Peace duly elected Commissioned and qualified as such and that the Signature purporting to be his is genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Gettysburg this Twenty fourth day of November AD. 1846
A.B. Kurtz Prothy