Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4368, Lawrence Hipple, Penn.
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Penn
Hipple, Lawrence
4368
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File No. 4368
Lawrence Hipple
Regt Wash [illegible] Penn
[Regiment][Washington][??][Pennsylvania]
Act: Apl, 14, 1816
Index: Vol. A, Page 172
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25

J.L. Edwards:
Pension Office-
War Department-
Washington, D.C.

[Stamp]
PHIL
1 NOV
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W.J. Duane begs leave to enclose
another application respecting a
certificate of Pension.
Oct. 27-1819-
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Pennsylvania
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Lawrence Hipple
Yrs.
In the Army U. States
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Inscribed on the roll of Pa
at $2.50 per mo:
Old Pensioner
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Increased by Law of the
24th April, 1816.
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Certified 2 Nov 1819
& sent to care of Wm. J. Duane, Esqr. Philadelphia Pa
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Dear
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City of Philadelphia Ss.
Lawrence Hipple of Chester County, Pennsylvania, having been sworn says
that he was a soldier during the revolutionary war; that he severely wounded twice: that he has hereunto drawn a pension of forty-eight dollars per year, and is now unable to obtain it as usual by reason of his not having a Certificate: that he has regularly drawn the said pension in this city, and is well known to the gentlemen of the Loan Office
Lawrence Hipple

Sworn & acknowledged, Oct. 27, 1819.}
before me this subscriber an alderman}
of the City of Philadelphia}
J. Bridges
Ald.
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OWN
June 15, 1906
NJF
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Hipple, Lawrence
His name appears on a list of applicantsfor invalid pension returned by the District Court
for the District of Pennsylvania, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, pages 100 and 165
Rank: Private
4th Battalion of Pennsylvania militia.
Disability: Wounded by a musket shot which
passed through his body, in the fall of 1777, in
an engagement with a party of the British troops near the town of Derby, in Chester County.
When and where disabled: 1777, Derby,
Chester County
Residence: Pikeland, Chester County.
To what pension entitled: Half.
Remarks: There are no militia rolls in this office.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court incomplete as to the time of his leaving the service, as he did not belong to any regular troops; but the usual tour of duty was two months.
on page 165, it is stated that evidence had been completed