Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 201, Samuel Anderson, Penn.
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Penn. 
Anderson, Samuel
R. 201
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lycoming

On this seventh day of September A.D 1832 personally appeared in open court before the honorable Seth Chapman and his associate Judges of the court of common pleas of Lycoming County now sitting Samuel Anderson a resident of Chapman Township in the County of Lycoming, and State of Pennsylvania, 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 7, 1832.

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

I was living in the state of New Jersey in the year 1776 when my father William Anderson was killed by the enemy in a battle fought near Philadelphia.  I then moved with my mother into into York County in the state of Pennsylvania, where in the spring of the year 1777. I enlisted in the Pennsylvania Line of the United States Troops, I belonged to the company commanded by Captain John Rippy and the Regiment of Col James Ross[? double s script letter?].  I marched to Lancaster in Pennsylvania when we arrived there I was informed by John Joseph Reed Forrage Master that there was a driver wanted for one of the United States teams, and he then said Reed being aquainted with me agreed to procur me that situation accordingly when the officers called
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our names for the purpose of entering them upon the registar Roll, the said Joseph Reed had my name entered upon his roll, and he assigned me the charge of a team during the continuation of the War, I was employed in hauling grain to the mills, flour and meat to the storehouses and commissary stores of the army until the summer of 1783 when I gave up the team at Lancaster, and the said Joseph Reed procured me a discharge from the commanding officer.  I was then young and not a very good scholar.  I do not recollect the name of the officer who signed my discharge.  I left the service having been in actual service for the term of six years.

And in reply to the interrogation prepared by the war Department and propounded by the Court, the said applicant saith

1st I was born in Oxford Township Sussex County in the state of New Jersey on the twenty first of August 1763

2nd I have no record of my age

3rd I was living in York County in the state of Pennsylvania in the year 1795.  I came to the County of Northumberland, and have lived in that, Centre, and Lycoming Counties in Penn ever since

4th I enlisted as stated in my declaration

5th I do not recollect the names of any officers, other than those stated in my declaration
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6th I received a discharge, but do not recollect by whom it was given - it is now lost

7th I am known to Samuel Keper who resides in my immediate neighborhood and has personal knowledge of my services, and to George Quigley Sr.  Both can testify as to my character for veracity and his belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution

And the said applicant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Samuel Anderson
in Open Court J Wood
Certificate
We Samuel Kepler of Chapman Township in the County of Lycoming, and George Quigley Sr of Wayne Township in said county, hereby certify that we are well aquainted with Samuel Anderson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion, sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Samuel Kepler - his mark
George Quigley Sr - his mark

in Open court
J. Wood, Prothy [court clerk]
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Certificate of the Court --
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories proscribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that is appears to them that Samuel Kepler who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident of the Chapman Township in the County of Lycoming and that George Quigley Sr, who has also signed the same is a resident of Wayne Township in said County, that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Seth Chapman
John Cummings
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5870  [5810?]

Samuel Andersons application for a Pension --
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State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County 

Personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas of said County Samuel Kepler aged 78 years who on his solemn oath doth depose and say that he is well aquainted with Samuel Anderson & has subscribed the foregoing declaration in order to attain his name to be placed on the Pension [???] roll that he knows the said Samuel Anderson when this deponent was stationed as a soldier in the revolutionary army -- 

That he frequently saw the same Samuel Anderson drawing a team belonging to and in the service of the United States that was during the years A.D. 1781, 1782, 1783 --

That when he first met with said Anderson he was recruiting & this deponent tried to [??at, *hat?] him, but said Anderson told him he was then enlisted - and because he was young had him put to drawing a team- that this deponent truly was that his statement was true and further saith not --

Sworn and subscribed in open court the 9th day of Sept 1832
J. Wood Prothy[clerk]

And J Wood do further certifythat the above named Samuel Kepler the witness above named is a credible witness & his statement is entitled to credit.  
J Wood Prothy[clerk]
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lycoming

Personally came before me the subscribe a Letter of Peace Samuel Anderson who having duly sworndeposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot positively swear as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the previous mentioned [illegible]in the following grades --

He enlisted in the month of March in the year 1777 - He enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain John Rippy in the regiment commanded  by Col John Ross (as stated in the foregoing declaration) when he was but 13 years of age and in the same month and year he was enrolled as a driver of a Continental Team under Joseph Reed forage Master.  I served in the capacity of a Teamster driving a continental team under said Reed for six years and three months and which service terminated in June AD 1783 - and for such service I claim a pension and further saith not.

Sworn and subscribed before me the 27th of April AD 1833 
Wm Turner
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lycoming

I Joseph Wood Prost notary of the Court of Common Pleas of said Lycoming County do certify that William Turner the within named Justice is a regular acting Justice of the Peace & that full faith and credit is given to his official acts and that I may believe the above signature is his --

In testimony whereof has hereunto set my hand and affix my seal of office this 31st July 1833 
J. Wood  Prothy[clerk]
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Samuel Anderson
Suspended Case
Act 9 1832
Pennsylvania

J.R. Wise
Present
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.

STATE OF Pennsylvania
COUNTY OF Clinton

Be it known before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in said County personally appeared Nancy Anderson (now wife of Benj Blossom) aged fifty two years, who, being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states, that she is the Daughter & heir of Samuel Anderson (& Blanch his wife) who was an applicant for a pension and that she is entitled to whatever is due, and that the United States are still indebted to her, under the laws of Congress, for the pension that was due the said Samuel Anderson and that for the purpose of investigating and establishing her claims as aforesaid, she appoints  Tully R Wise, of Washington D.C. her true and lawful attorney with irrevocable powers, to examine all papers on file, and to do whatever she might do were she personally present to establish her claim.

In Witness whereof, I have on this First day February 1853 hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal.

Nancy Blossom - her mark

Witness: John M Floyd
Witness: Merry Mason

Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me ; and I further certify, that Nancy Anderson (Nancy Blossom) has always by the community been known as the Daughter of Samuel Anderson

Dated this first day of February, 1853
John M Floyd J.P.

State of Penna
County of Clinton - to wit:

I hereby certify that John M Floyd Esq. before whom the foregoing power of attorney was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.

In testimony  whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of Clinton County Court this fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and fifty three

[illegible signature - McGee?]
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201

[crossed out] Acts of July 14 1862 and March 3 1870

[stamp] REJECTED

Samuel Anderson

PA.
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No. 5810

Samuel Anderson dec.
Pa.
letter to -
Tully R Wise 6th July 1853

201

Act 7th June 1832
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March 25, 1853

Rec: to case of Saml AndersonPa
Act 7 June 1832

L R Wise
Present

The Commissioner of Pensions
Present
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Rev.
Sam. Anderson
Pennsylvania
Suspended under Act 7 Jun '32

See letter to

A. V. Parsons
Jeney[?] Shore
Pa
9 September 1833
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Pennsylvania
Suspended

[upside down]
Suspended
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Jersey Shore Lycoming Co
Pa August 10th 33 (1833?)

Dear Sir
Enclosed are the papers of Samuel Anderson for a Pension & I think the puruous obections are obviated.  In the certificate of Robert Covenhorn Please let those he examined & enclose the certificate to me -- and also inform me relation to the application of Mr. Clark.

I am yours truly

J. L. Edwards
A.N. Parsons
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Washington D.C. 24th March 1853
To
Hon L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
It appears to jme the case of Samuel Anderson is a good one.  W Anderson is one of those whose case has been suspended under the act of 7 June 1832, for Pennsylvania.  
Samuel Kepler, who is a pensioner swears [??] that Anderson did serve as a teamster.  The case is so clearly proved that it is difficult to imagine why his claim was rejected, except upon the ground that team service was not military service.  Those grounds being here overrulled.  We ask for its allowance

I am very respectfully your [Obt Sub - Obedient Subject seems kind of strange in this document]

Fully R Wise