Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5195, Samuel Hoof, Penn.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
Penn,
Hoof, Samuel
NUMBER
P5195
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CONTENTS - blank
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Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873
REJECTED
5195
P.O. Samuel Hoof
Service: blank
Enlisted: blank, 18__blank  .
Discharged: blank, 18__blank  .
Application filed:, 18__blank .
Alleges:  blank
Re-enlisted: blank
Attorney: blank
P.O. blank
blank_____Recognized.  
blank_____Contract.
blank_____Cert. of Dis.
Searched for _____blank, 18__blank.
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Samuel Hoof
Pennsylvania
Rejected
See Let. 3 April
1838 [illegible] M. Morris
J195

did not serve six months
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State of Pennsylvania 
Lycoming County
        On this 27th day of March A.D. 1838, personally appeared in open court, before 
me court of common pleas of said county now sitting Samuel Hoof, a resident of Muncy Creek township in the county of Lycoming and state of Pennsylvania aged eighty-two years, who being 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 June 7th 1832.
     That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.  That he was living in Hartford Township, Berks County, State aforesaid at the time he was first drafted which was just after harvest, he cannot recollect the month in the year 1777 - and marched under Colonel Abraham Sharp and Captain Frederick Harp directly to Trenton New Jersey and arrived there a short time after the British had left Trenton, and he was quartered in Trenton for the purpose of securing the place from further attack - he was engaged in no battle or skirmish while at Trenton and remained there four or five weeks and then marched towards Philadelphia which was in the possession of the British, and (was) discharged in that neighborhood, when the applicant went home to Berks County Penn., being out in all of three months - In the fall of the same year (1777) the applicant was again drafted and marched under the same officers to Brandywine and arrived there a few days after the Battle that was fought there - and
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were encamped there five or six weeks and
were marched to different places in that neighborhood
till the three months expired when
they were discharged by the captain and the
applicant returned home to Berks county -
where he remained until the Spring of 1775
when the applicant was again drafted, and
marched under the Same Officers to
chesnut (Chestnut) Hill near Philadelphia where the
main army under Washington were then
encamped where we arrived a few days
before the skirmishing (strikethrough 'took place') between
the army under Gen. Washington took place
while Clinton was evacuating Philadelphia
^in which the applicant was engaged till the British 
crossed the Delaware, the regular troops
 crossed, but none of the militia - This was
the only battle or skirmish in which the
applicant was engaged during the three terms
of his service When his three months were
expired for which he was drafted he returned
home - The applicants memory
is very bad and he is unable to recollect
month or days of the month precisely on
which he was drafted and discharged -
He had no written discharge at any time
that he recollects of they were generally discharged
verbally - He dont recollect the
number of the company or regiment in
which he served - He has no documentary
evidence, and he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to
his service - He knows of no clergyman
with whom he is acquainted at the present
time

(Strikethrough 'He hereby') Where and in what year and
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you born?

I was born in Southampton County
in the year 1756 -

2d Have you any record of your age;  and
if so where is it?

I have a record of my age in a Psalm Book
at home -

3d Where were you living when called into
service; where have you lived since the
Revolutionary War; and where do you
now live?

I was living in Berks County Penna
when first called into service - I left that about
1812 and moved to Luzerne County, same
State - and from there I moved to Lycoming
County where I now live  -

4th How were you called into service - were
you drafted, did you volunteer or were
you a substitute , and if a substitute for
whom?

I was drafted -

5th State the names of some of the Regular
officers who were with the troops where you
Served; such continental and militia
Regiments as you recollect, and the general 
circumstances of your service -

I can state nothing particular further -

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from
the service; if so, by whom was it given
and what has become of it?

I rec.d no written discharge. I was discharged orally -

7th 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 revo-
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(Continued from previous page)
(revo)lution?
I am personally acquainted with John Sevel and Samuel Hoof Jr who can testify to my character for veracity and their belief in my service as a soldier of the Revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension of the agency of any State, as (if any) only on that of the Agency of the State of Pennsylvania.
Sworn to & Subscribed the day and year of @/"}
J R Frederick Proth'y
Samuel Hoff

We John Neville, residing in Murray township & Samuel Hoff Jr. residing in Murray Creek township hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Hoof, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty-two years of age; that he is respected and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year 0/11  before me} Jno J Crouse
Johannes Carl
Samuel Hoof Jr.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogating prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he stated--And the court further cert
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tifies that it appears that John Nevill and Samuel Hoof (who have [illegible] the [illegible]certified all crossed out) are residents of the place above stated and that their statements are entitled to credits-
Ellis Lewis
President Judge

I Joseph R. Frederick, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Hoof for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 27th day of March A.D. 1838
J R Frederick Prothy