Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3417, Philip Faks, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Faks, Philip [stamped star above name]
 or Facks, 
NUMBER 
R. 3417
CONTENTS
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[stamped] REJECTED  [initials] Our
3417.
P.O. 
Phillip Facks
Service:
Enlisted: , 18
Discharged: , 18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.  Contract
Cert. of Dis. Searched for , 18
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Jan 24 / 53
Letter from Philip
Facks rel: claim
of Philip Faks decd. 

Hon: C. J. Faulkner
Ho Resp. 
[the above was written over something illegible then} J W Cole

Official business
Chl Faulkner

Jas E Heath Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington
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Jan 24 / 53
Letter from Philip
Facks rel: claim
of Philip Faks decd.

Hon: C. J. Faulkner
Ho Resp.
[the above was written over something illegible then} J W Cole

Official business
Chl Faulkner

Jas E Heath Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington
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Phillip Facks
Va.
[illegible] J M Casey Sr
10 Feby 1834
Let Hon C J Faulkner 28 May / 53
G L White Feby 8 1855

1832
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3417
Phillip Facks
No. 29.644
J M Camp
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State of Virginia       }
Hampshire County   } Ss

Personally appeared before me the subscriber, an acting justice of the peace in and for the county of Hampshire in the state of Virginia, on this 16 day of December 1838, Philip Faks, a resident of the said county of Hampshire, aged 74 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 provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated; 

that in the fall of the year 1778 in the county of Bucks in the state of Pennsylvania he was drafted for a tour of three months and placed under the command of Captain Daniel Springer, Lt. John King.  Our company rendezvous at Newtown and after the brigade was complete, we marched to Philadelphia, being about one month after our draft.

At Philadelphia owing to a scarcity of wagons affiant was detailed from his company for a waggoner [sic] and was engaged in hauling forage for the army, but recollects that upon one occasion he hauled a load of mallets, axes, spades and shovels and other tools from Philadelphia to Morristown.  In this service applicant was retained one month after his tour had expired, when he was discharged at Philadelphia having served four months. 

That about the month of September 1779 he was again drafted for a tour of three months in the county of Philadelphia and state of Pennsylvania and placed under the command of Captain Yevast.  The other officers' names not recollected.  Affiant was a tradesman and had been settled in Philadelphia County but a short time previous to the draft and did not become (illegible) until before he was drafted, and from the length of time which has elapsed, has forgotten many of the occurrences of the time and the names of many of the persons with whom he served this tour.  The rendezvous of our company was at a place called the Crop Road at which place we remained until
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discharge and making affiant's time of service seven months.  Affiant hereby relinquishes all claims whatsoever 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 or territory.
Sworn to this day above written.
Signed: Philip Faks

The following affiant's answers to the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department.

I was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1760. 

I have a record of my age in my family Bible.

I was living in Bucks County in Pennsylvania when called into service, from thence I moved to Frederick County in Virginia,  thence to Hampshire where I now reside.  I was drafted. 

Being entirely with the militia and much of my time with the wagons.  I did not become acquainted with the officers of the regular army.

I did receive a written discharge but do not know by whom it was signed, having lost it.  

I can refer to John Wolford and John Heatt, two of my neighbors, who can testify to their belief of my being a Revolutionary soldier.
Signed and sworn to the day above written.  Signed: Philip Faks 

We, John Wolford and John Heatt, residents of the county of Hampshire hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Philip Faks, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 74 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.  
Subscribed and sworn to this day above.
Signed:  John Wolford, John Heatt
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And I, the said justice of the peace, do hereby declare my 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 I, the said justice, further certify that it appears to me that John Wolford and John Heatt, who has (have) signed the preceding certificate, are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and I, the said justice, further state that there is no clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the said applicant and that from bodily infirmity is unable to travel to the courthouse of the County of Hampshire, from which he resides 15 miles, and I, the said justice, further certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of myself in the matter of the Application of Philip Faks for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this day and year first written.
Signed:  Geo Sharf, J.P. [seal]

Virginia to wit:
I, John B. White, clerk of the county court of Hampshire County in the state aforesaid, do hereby certify that George Sharf, whose name is subscribed to the above certificate and before whom the foregoing declaration of Philip Faks appeared to have been made, was at the time of the making of said declaration and subscribing his name thereto, and now is, one of the Commonwealth's justices of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit is due to all his acts as such.  And that I believe the signature of "Geo Sharf" subscribed as aforesaid is the genuine signature of said justice.  

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the aforesaid court, at Romney this 19th of December 1833.
Signed:  John B. White
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Heirs of Philip
Facks
State of Va
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Suspended
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wish to see
papers
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Philip Faks
Power of Attorney

L. B. True
Attor  or 
Washington DC
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p 247
"For more direct proof"
He died 1848
Pa service
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[POWER OF ATTORNEY.]
Know all men by these presents, that I Philip Faks of the County of Hamshire, and State of
Virginia, for and in consideration of the confidence I repose in him...
do hereby make, constitute, and appoint,
L. BLANCHARD TRUE, of Washington City, D. C., my
true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my
name, to examine all
papers filed in any Department or Office of Government, upon which a
Pension was granted to or may be due
on account of the Revolutionary services of Philip Faks Decd my Father
and to obtain, by all lawful means, any and all additional amounts that may be due from the United States
to said Philip Faks, by virtue of said services, as
in the Company of Capt.
in the Regiment of
and in the
line of the forces
of
And for good and sufficient reasons I do hereby
REVOKE and CANCEL any and all other Powers of Attorney and authority which I may at any
former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes; and I do hereby vest the same irrevocably in my said Attorney herein appointed, said L. Blanchard
True.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
17th day of January
in the year A. D. 1854.
In presence of
[signature] Singleton Buck
[signature] John Moore 
[signature] Philip Faks 
[4 small dotted boxes for SEAL] 

STATE OF Virginia.
COUNTY OF Hampshire } ss. 

On this 17th day of January in the year A.D. 1854 
personally appeared before me Silas Milleson
duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgments
in and for the county aforesaid
Philip Faks subscriber to the above, and
acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his free act and deed, for the purposes
therein mentioned; and made oath in due form of law, that he is
personally interested
as Administrator and heir of John Faks in said claim.
And I further certify that he is personally known to me to be the identical individual
represented and also that he is
the son and heir of the above named Philip Faks and that he is a gentleman of good carater [sic]
worthing [sic] of confidence & ...
[signature] Silas Milleson J. P. [dotted box with SEAL]