Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,291, for Bernhard Slaugh, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Penn.
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Slaugh, Bernhard or
Slauch, Bernhart or 
Stauch, Bernhard
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NUMBER
S. 15291
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Rev. Ear
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15.291
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INVALID
File No. {handwritten} 15.291
Bernhard Slaugh
Priv. War
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Act: ______
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 344
(Arrangement of 1870)
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x Bernhart Slauch
AoC Jany 3 1907
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Pennsylvania
Bernhard Slaugh, private in the army U. States
Inscribed in the roll of Pa at $5 increase to $8 by law of 24 Apr 1816 
Cert issued 14 July 1820 & sent to Jacob Hendel, Esq Carlisle, Pa.
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Pa Carlisle July 8th 1820

Sir:
Enclosed I send Bernhard Slaughs deposition, for the purpose of obtaining a Certificate-  You will please to forward it to me by mail -
& obliged, yours respectfully
Jacob Hendel

J.C. Calhoun Pn
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{stamp} Carlisle July 8
{upper right} Free
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J. C. Calhoun
Pension Office
Washington D.C.
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via Chambersburg
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Bernhard Slough
for
new certificate
recd 13 July 1820
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Cumberland County Ss. - 
On this seventh day of July 1820 before me the subscribed a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Cumberland personally appeared Bernhard Slough who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Henry Shade in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Miles in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Pennsylvania that he never received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; but now wishes to obtain a Certificate - 
Sworn & subscribed to before me, the day and year aforesaid. 
{signed} Elisha Doyle
{signed} Leonhart Mains
{signed} Bernhard Stauch
Translated by Mr. Von [illegible]
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Cumberland County, State of Pennsylvania - ss.
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W.B.&J. Underwood, Printers.
I, Robert McCoy, Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the county of Cumberland, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Do, by these Presents Certify that Elisha Doyle Esquire, before whom the foregoing deposition was taken, and who hath thereunto, in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such deposition and now is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the said county, duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts as such, due faith and credit is, and of right ought to be, given throughout the United States and elsewhere.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Carlisle, in the said county, this Eighth day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty and of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America, the forty fifth.
ATTEST
{signed} 
Robt McCoy
Prothonotary