Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 40500, for Philip Studer, Maryland
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Service
MD

Studer, Philip

Number
S.40500
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Left Side Page

Notification sent September 5th 1820 to T. Kennedy Hagerstown, Maryland

Let to Hon Job Mann HR May 21st 1836

Right Side Page

From 7505
Maryland to Pennsylvania

Philip Struder
of Allegany in the state of Maryland who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Housecker of the Maryland line for the term of 3 years to 1779

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 22 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Mar 1819 and sent to Wm McMaher, Cumberland MD

Arrears to 4th Mar 1819 $83.43
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 $48.00
$131.43

{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March 1818}

Continued
Allegany Cty, MD
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State of Maryland Allegany County

On the twenty-second day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred eighteen before me the subscriber one of the associate judges of the fifth judicial district of Maryland which districts comprised of the counties of Allegany, Washington and Frederick personally appeared Philip Studer aged sixty-six years resident in Bedford in the state of Pennsylvania who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war" that he is the same Philip Studer who enlisted in Frederick Town in the state of  Maryland in the company of Capt. Fister of the German Regt a part of the Maryland line in; that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States for three years or until the 24 July 1779 when he was discharged at Wyoming in the state of Pennsylvania by Capt. Bonner [illegible] of said Regt amending to the discharge now produced, that he was in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, German Town & Monmouth and that he is reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service except the authority of his discharge hereto annexed.

Sworn to & acknowledged before me the day & year aforesaid.

W. Buchanan

I Thomas Buchanan one of the associate judges of the Fifth Judicial district aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Philip Studer did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony and had before me to the secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of congress.

April 22, 1818

W. Buchanan
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Camp Wyoming July 24, 1779

The bearer Philip Studer from the state of Maryland having faithfully served as a good soldier in Capt. Richard Bayers in the German Regt for the space of three years being the time he enlisted and specified in his enlistment is hereby discharged from the same.

Jacob Bunner - Capt. commanding the German Regt

To Whom it May Concern

Settled the deprecation the 1st October 1783
C Richmond
Aud

October 17, 1717

In addition to my certificate of the 22 April 1818, I further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Philip Studer above named is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.

T.W. Buchanan
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Phillip Studer
Certificate

Admitted
3 years
Haussegger's
Regt
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State of Maryland Allegany County

I Aza Beall Clerk of Allegany County Court in the state of Maryland hereby certify that the honorable Thomas Buchanan Esquire who appears to have signed the foregoing deposition and certificate was at the time of taking and signing the same and now is one of the associate judges of the Fifth Judicial District composed of Allegany, Washington and Frederick Counties in the state aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts a such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in courts of justice as thereout.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of my office this twenty-fourth day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen.

Aza Beall Clerk
of Allegany County Court

SEAL
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Philip Studer
7505

30 acres of land in Richford Co PA with about [illegible]
Sept 7, 1819
[illegible] $150

Line scratched out illegible

Cont
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Schedule Of Property Etc.

30 Acres of land lying in Richford County Pennsylvania worth about 2 dollars per acre
1 horse saddle and bridle
1 steer
1 cow and calf
2 [illegible]
1 small sow and 4 pigs
1 wooden clock
1 tin pot
1 old chair
1 old still not fit for use

Has formerly been a rope maker but is now unable to follow any occupation = has a wife aged fifty-seven, a son John aged 23 and has to support two children by his present wife's first husband aged 13 and 18 years so that none of his family are of service to him.

Philip Studer
His X Mark

Test: Tho Kennedy

Sworn to and declared on the first day of August 1820 in open court.

Test O H Williams

I Otto H Williams clerk of Wahington County Court Maryland do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court founded on the evidence of Philip Studer who was sworn and declared in open court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and fifty dollars and blank cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this first day of August 1820.

O H Williams
Clerk of the Court for the County of Washington

SEAL
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State of Maryland Washington County

On the first day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said county Philip Studer aged sixty-eight years resident in said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That he entered in the year 1775 for three years under Capt. Fisker in the German Battalion Col Haussegger - and served that time and was discharged at Wyoming; Boyer commanded than Col Wittner the Battalion - that his original declaration was made on the 22nd of April 1818 and his pension certificate is number 7505 and bears the date March 9th, 1819. 

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
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a soldier of the revolutionary war you will find below the desired information as contained in his or his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau. Philip Studer Sur File 40500

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment - illegible
Length of Service - 3 years ending July 24, 1779
Rank - Pvt
Officers under whom service was rendered:
Captain - Fister, Jacob Bunner, Michael Boyer
Colonel - Haussegger
State - German Regt MD

Battles engage in - Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment - Frederick Town, Md
Date of Application for pension - Apr 22, 1818, his claim was allowed
Residence at date of application - Bedford Co Penn
Age at date of application - 66 years
Remarks: In 1820 his wife's name not stated was fifty-seven years old - son john was 23.
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State of Pennsylvania
Bedford County

Before me John Tod President Judge of he Court of Common Pleas in the sixteenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania composed of the counties of Franklin, Bedford, & Somerset personally appeared Philip Studer who on is oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Capt. Michael Boyer in the regiment commanded by Col Lewis Wettner in the service of the United states in the in the revolutionary war; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Maryland from whence he has lately moved; that he now resides in the state of Pennsylvania and wishes his pension to be there payable in future; and that his reason for removing to the state of Pennsylvania are an expectation of cheaper living and a hope of bettering his circumstances - also an offer of twenty acres of land at a low price.

Philip Studer
His X Mark

Sworn & subscribed the 30th November AD 1825 before me John Tod

at the same place and time above mentioned before me John Tod President Judge as above described personally came John Hershberger of Bedford County aforesaid who
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being duly sworn doth depose and say that he the deponent is well acquainted with Philip Studer who in the deponent's presence has sworn & subscribed to the within and aforegoing affidavit and that he the deponent well knows the said Philip Studer to be the person identically the same that is described in the said affidavit.

John Hershberger

Sworn & subscribed 30 Nov 1825 before me

John Tod

I John Tod above named do hereby certify that I have for many years been personally acquainted with the above deponent John Hershberger and that he the said John Hershberger is a person of veracity and entitled to the fullest credit.

30 November AD 1825.

John Tod

Pennsylvania
Bedford County

I Job Mann Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do certify that John Tod Esq before whom the foregoing deposition appears to have been taken and whose name appears thereto - as well as to the above certificate is President and Judge of
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the Court of Common Pleas of the Sixteenth Judicial District in the state of Pennsylvania composed of the Counties of Franklin, Bedford and Somerset, duly commissioned and qualified.

In testimony whereof i have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of said court at Bedford this 20th day of November AD 1825.

Jeb Mann
Prothy
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5002 11th Ave N.E. Seattle, Wa
Nov 18-1909

Commissioner of Patents
Dept of the Interior Washington DC

Dear Sir

Can you tell me whether there is any record of a pension granted to Philip Tudor or Studor or Estudor? Possibly the name may be spelled Studer or Estuder. He was a revolutionary soldier and drew a pension for a number of years while living in Marylan.

At present I have no written
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records of the name.

Thanking you in advance for any information you may be able to give me. I am
very truly
L.M. Sterling

5002 11th Ave N.E.
Seattle Wash
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40500
INVALID
Revy

File No 40500
Philip Studer
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March '18
Index Vol 5 Page 487
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1909 Dec 6 - Hist to L M Sterling
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May 21st

J Mann
H.R.

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

Hon Job Mann
H.R.
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Washington City, May 20th 1836

Hon J.L. Edwards,

Sir

I have been written to by one of my constituents to procure from your department a copy of Mr. Studer's pension certificate. I have not been furnished with his Christian name. Mr. Studer now resides in Southampton township Bedford County Penna, is a pensioner of the revolutionary war - I am under the impression he resided in Maryland at the time he was placed on the pension roll, which has been many years since. The person that prepared his papers & drew his pension for him for some time past has lost the certificate and affidavit of the loss can be procured if required by you - Your attention will much oblige the old man.

Very respectfully your obt servt.

Jeb Mann
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I am agreeable with Mr. Studer and under the impression his name is John Studor but of this I am not certain.

J Mann
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Free

Honorable 
James Parlour
Secretary of War
Washington City

Bedford PA
Mar 5th

Pension Department

Philip Studer 
for transfer
March 9 1826
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Bedford County 4th March 1826

Sir

I herewith forward to the War Department the enclosed affidavits of Philip Studer & John Hershberger taken before the Hon John Tod in order that said Studer may be transferred to the Pennsylvania agency. The certificate of said Studer is now in my possessions & is as follows aforesaid.

War Department
Revolutionary Claim 

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818 Philip Studer late a private in the army of the revolution is inscribed on the pension list roll of the Maryland Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the twenty second day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Given at the war office of the United States this ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

J C Calhoun
Secretary of War

SEAL
7505

"Endorsed

Philip Studer payable same annually the first payment on the certificate will be made on the 4th of September next at the branch bank of the U. States Baltimore, MD"

Recorded
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the pension office will please notify Mr. Studer of the change as early as convenient and addressed to me at this place.

Very respectfully
your obt servant

George Purdy

Hon. James Parlour