Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,910, for Friederich Sheibeler, Vermont
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Vt.

Sheibeler, Friederich
or
Sheibler Friderick

NUMBER
S 23.910

CONTENTS
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11.422
Pittsburgh Agency
Friderick Sheibler

of Westminster Co. in the State of Pennsylvania
Who was a Pri in the Company commanded
by Captain Stith of the Reg’t commanded
by Col
on the Va. [crossed out-”Pennsylvania“]
Militia

2 years Private $80

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh Agency
at the rate of 80 Dollars— cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension  issued the 29 day of April 1833
 and Sent to Hon R Coulter, Greensburg Pa

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00
Semi-ann’l. allowance ending 4 Sept " 40

Frederick Sheibeler $200.00
M. C. Feb 1, [89]

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by J.T. Sprague Clerk
Book E Vol. 5 Page 40
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Greensburg Apl 25 1833

Mr Edwards
I wrote to you four weeks past in relation
 to the application of Fred’h Sheibler for a
 pension. When I last saw you in Washington you 
[said] to me that it was allowed and that the certificate
 would reach him soon after my return - [fancy]
 that possibly a letter might have been [illegible]. I wrote 
to you four weeks after my return, and as I have received 
no answer, am induced to trouble you again.
I stated to the applicant on my return that his pension
 would be granted, and that his certificate was to
 be forwarded to him in a very short time. I did so on the
 strength of your own word. He is a respectable man, though
 poor - one with whose feelings I should be wary
to trifle. I must therefore inform [last of Easter] Co]
myself as well as to you, request the favor of
 soon answer to my enquiry. If you were
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mistaken in giving me the information, I will
wish to have the case disposed of because it
was one of the first applications from this
district sent on to your department in Aug. 
last
Very respectfully
Your Obd’t Srv’t
R. Coulter
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Sheibler
ap’n for Pension

April 11. 1831 On examination this 
Court are of opinion that the facts
& [illegible] within stated are true.

Certified Copy [illegible] M. Dow
 for F. Sheibler 23 [Apl] 1831

Adm’d

Hon R. Coulter H.R.
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Westmorland County ss
On the 11th day of Apl 1831 Personally appeared
in open Court John Gunnels who on his oath saith that
He served in the 3rd Regiment of light dragoons, first
 commanded by Col George Naylor,  afterwards by Col
 William Washington, commonly called Col Washington
Regiment of the Virginian Line, continental establishment, and I [knew]
 that Frederick Sheibler, now of Westmorland County, O.
belonged to said Regiment in Captain Stith’s Company and that
 he was commonly called in the Regiment the “dutch boy”.  He was in 
the Regiment when this deponent enlisted which was in May 1780.
The deponent does not know how the said Sheibler left
the army and further saith not.
John Gunnell

Sworn & subscribed in
open Court

attest
Randall McLaughlen Prot’y

I am well acquainted with John Gunnel
 the Witness and certify that he is an honest
credible and respectable man in his sphere
of life
R. Coulter
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Frederick Sheibler
 Declaration for pension
The affidavit of John Gunnel
[illegible-authenticated?] by the prothonotary
of the court authorized to
 administer oaths 

In answer to a former
 application [illegible-smudged]
that there was
some evidence of the
[part] of Sheibler in
the Department. The
[application] was under
 the [illegible] 
 for further [illegible] 
applicant’s
property.
R Coulter
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act
of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Penn’a West’d County ss
On the 20th Aug 1832 personally appeared in
open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now
sitting Frederick Sheiblerr a resident of Hempfield Township
in said Court & State aged sixty nine 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 June the Seventh 1832.
that he entered the service of the United States under the
following named officers & served as herein stated
That he entered at Frederick Town in the State of
Maryland in the law commanded by Captain
John Stith in the Regiment commanded by
Captain William Washington in the Virginia War
 about the last of the year 1779 or beginning 1780, he can’t
 exactly recollect for the term of three years. That he 
continued to serve in the said Corps until the
6th of May A.D. 1781 when he was taken prisoner
by the British on the Santee River and taken
 on board a prison ship in the harbor of Charleston,
 South Carolina and kept there as near as he
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recollect about a year and was then [pressed]
aboard of an English Frigate & taken to Kingston
Jamaica, and from that he escaped from the
[rest] and remained in the West Indies four
years before he got home, in which time
many misfortunes beset him. He therefore never
got a discharge. He was born near Philadelphia
in the State of Penn’a in the year 1763. He
has no record of his age.  After he was enlisted
he marched to Philadelphia. The Regiment of
Col Washington, with deponent, marched through
the Jerseys from Philadelphia, and from thence
went to Fredericksburg in Virginia, from that
to North Carolina, and from that marched into
South Carolina said joined Count Pulaski
hear the Santee river. The manner of Deponent
been made prisoner was he was out with a
scouting party which had taken fifteen Prisoners. 
And having stopped on the South Bank the
Santee in the night to refresh their horses, were
overtaken by a strong party of the British and
all captured. After Deponent returned to the
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United States he resided near Hagerstown in the State of
Maryland for two years and then removed to
Hempfield township West’d County where he has
resided ever since. Simon Drum, Esqr, Jacob Pugh
Esqr,  Jacob Hughes, Hon’ble John Young,
George [Mackay or Mechbury], William Van Dyke,
 & Rich’d Coulter, Esqr are well acquainted with my
character. Deponent has no documentary evidence
of his service. he hereby relinquishes every claim
whatsoever to 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

Friederich Sheibeler

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
20th August 1832 before Randal McLaughlen, Prot’y

We Nicholas Hacke a Clergyman and Simon Drum both citizens of
 Greensburg in the County of Westmorland, hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with Frederick Sheibler who has subscribed &
sworn to the above declaration.  that we believe him to be 69 years of 
Age.  That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood when he resides
 to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Nicolas P. Hacke
Simon Drum
Subscribed the day & year aforesaid. 20th Augt 1832
Before Randal McLaughlen Prot.
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[middle section of page is a copy of PDF #7, transposed vertically] 

Frederick Sheibler
 Declaration for pension
The affidavit of John Gunnel
[illegible-authenticated?] by the prothonotary
of the court authorized to
 administer oaths 

In answer to a former
 application [illegible-smudged]
that there was
some evidence of the
[part] of Sheibler in
the Department. The
[application] was under
 the [illegible] 
 for further [illegible] 
applicant’s
property.
R Coulter

[bottom half of page] 

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
within named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the
Court further certify that it appears to them that Nicolas P. Hacke who has signed
the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the Borough of Greensburgh and that
Simon Dunn who has also signed the same is a resident of the said Borough in the County
Westmorland and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Randal McLaughlen Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in and for the
County of Westmorland in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby Certify that the
foregoing within contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of
Frederick Sheibler for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand &
seal of Office at Greensburg, this twentieth day of August
 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
Randal McLaughlen Pro’y
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23910
Revolution
INVALID.

File No. 23910
Frederick Sheibler
Pri. Rev. War

Act:  June7 ' 32

Index: -- Vol. ___, Page ____

(Arrangement of 1870.]