Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9948, for Frederick Spahr, Pennsylvania
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Penn          Spahr, Frederick          R.9948
                   Spark
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Frederick Spark or Spahr

Prest.. cby.

Frances

Requested
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Frederick Spark, Applicant  serv 9 months

    I the undersigned Frederick Sparh at the request of the Secretary of War give the following statement of my age and service as a soldier in the (??)  Revolutionary War to wit:  I am ninety years old, and lived in York county in Pennsylvania & lived there sixty years -  about (??) years after war had commenced,  I cant (??) in what year I was drafted under Captain Daniel May for six months and marched from York County to Philadelphia & was then discharged after serving the six months - Martin Dele was Colonel & James Dele Major, whilst in service, capt. got sick & returned home. Lieut. Farrin succeeded to the command of the company, I think my Regt. was the 3rd but am not certain. this is all the I information (unintelligible) war, and it is all that I gave to Byrne who wrote my declaration - the writing above, I hereby subscribed my name.
                                                his
                                 Frederick F  Sparh
                                             mark

Witness
John Cupit.  Son in-law of Mr. Spahr has often heard his father in-law say before refer (unintelligible) the papers of the pension law. that he doth cert the letter for duty of six months.
                                        A copy
                                          //s//
                                 W. Singleton 

(??)  this old man claims for nine months in his declaration.  I am not by any means satisfied that he served the six months service (unintelligible).

                                     W. Singleton
                                      Nov. 25th 1834
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State of Virginia Preston County ss

    On this 23rd day of May in the year 1834 personally appeared before me William Glover a justice of the peace in and for said county of Preston and state aforesaid Frederick Spahr resident of said county of Preston aged ninety years, who being firt duly sworn according to law doth in his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed the 7th of June 1832.
    That the entered to service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated that under Col. Martin Deal Major James Deal Captain Daniel May Lieutenant Gaster Berbower and Ensign George Ensminger in the Pennsylvania militia in what was called the Flying Camp in the spring of year of 1776 and that he volunteered for nine months that he resided at the time that he entered the service in Dover Township in York County in the state of Pennsylvania that he joined his company in Little York and from there he marched to Amboy (Bay) and from there to Fort Lee and from thence to Fort Washington and from there to Philadelphia where his time expired and where he received his discharge and that he remained some time at each of said places with the exception of Fort Washington and that he was in no battles while in the service and that he was near Long Island when the battle took place there he but on the opposite side of the river and the British fired their cannon at us and I saw several balls strike in the water and we retreated from when we was stationed and that his Captain was taken sick and then Captain Samuel Farrow was appointed in his place and that he was commissary to his company and that it was his duty every morning to draw provisions for is company and that he served this time out and was discharged at Philadelphia is aforesaid and that he received a discharge which he has lost but does not recollect by who it was signed by and that he was born on ..(continues on next page)
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the 15th day of April in the year 1744 in York county and when called into service he lived in said County of York and that he has resided since the Revolutionary War in said county of York after the revolution war until the year 1804 and then he removed to the county of Monongalia in Virginia and he resided in said county until the year 1818 when this county was taken from said county of Monongalia and he has resided ever since in this county and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service and he thereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name in snot on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
                                         //s//
                               Frederick Spahr

We John Cuppett and John Scott residing in the said county of Preston and state of Virginia hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Frederick Sparh and has been for a number of years, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be ninety two years of age. that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion and the said John Cuppett further saith that he has been acquainted with the said Frederick Spahr for forty years and that he has heard him relate circumstances that took place while he the said Spahr was in the service in the Revolution and have heard him say that he was in the service nine or ten months as much as thirty years ago and several times since that time. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                         //s//
                                     John Scott
                                          //s//
                                   John Cuppet
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Frederick Spahr

Virginia

Rejected

Let 26 Mar 35 Jno. Byrne

9948
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9948

Frederick Spahr

Service:   (Blank)

REJECTED

Enlisted:  (Blank)
Discharged:  (Blank)

Application Filed"  (Blank)

Alleges:  (Blank)

Attorney:  (Blank)

_______ Recognized.    ________Contract
________Cert of Dis    Search for _____
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(Addressed envelope)

Frederick Spahr

pa (??) /2
                                                  FREE
(Date Stamp)

WINCHESTER
       MAR
           2
         VA


Honorable Commissioner of Pension

Washington City, D.C.
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No. 31.153

Frederick Spahr 

             Va

Set J.P. Byrne Mar 15, 1854

    (??)                 "   16,   "

F.F.C. Triplett, Oct 27/54

99218

Act June 7, 1832
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Frederick Spahr
          or   Spark

of Virginia of Preston Co.

Suspended

9948

No letters
Hon E. T. Wilson
4 June 1834
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Act June 7, 1832

Frederick Spahr dec'd
         of    Spark

Va - sus 1832

Suspended file -

Preston Co. Va

John Soh or Sap - subsc....
Please (unintelligible) in this case to me -

 F.F.C. Triplett
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A Return of the Militia Officers, marching from York County.

    Andrew Melhorn 1st. Lieutenant the 4th Com of 1 Batt.
    Frederick Spahr, Ensign in the 4th Com of 1 Batt.

Certified in York the 24th August 1777. A.D.
                                   //s//
                              John Hay 
                               Robert Stevison Sub. Lieuts

1777 Sept. 15th Rec'd Commissions for the line officers, dated the 15th Sept

                                 Wm. (??)

York return of Militia April,1778.

                               4th Co(mpany)
                    Capt. Christian Lowman
                     Capt. Frederick Spahr 

The officers of the Second battalion of York County, Militia are William Rankin Col. John Ewing LtCol John Majour Mgr 1st,2nd,3rd,4th,5th,6th,7th,8th

     The 1st Batt.
     And'w Melhorn
     Fred'k Spahr

The above is a true copy of the returns of Officers of the 1st and 2d Battalion Made this day by Robt Stevison 1Lt & Wm Rankin led to

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York 1 Oct. 1777        Tho's Armor
                                                  Clerk
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(??) Office
Harrisburg Oct 19, 1834
Pennsylvania ss

I do certify that the foregoing and annexed are true and correct in truth from the original papers now on file in this office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Seal of the (??) Office this day and year above mentioned.

                         E.L. Goodrich
                            Deputy (??)
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Preston County Va to wit:

   This day personally appeared before me H. Hagary

 a justice of the peace in & for the county & state aforesaid John Cuppett Jun(ior) being fifty two years of age, who after being duly sworn deposith and saith that he was well acquainted with Frederick Spahr deceased - that he lived some ten years within a half mile of him in the county aforesaid and that in conversation with him, he has frequently heard him (said Frederick Spahr) say that he had a commission in the Penn'a line of the revolutionary army but what grade of commission deponent does not recollect.  Deponent further saith that said Frederick Spahr was, in his lifetime a man of veracity & further he saith not.
                                                    //s//
                                             John Cuppett
Sworn & subscribed before me
the 9th day of Sept. 1854.
                            //s//
                     H. Hagary 

    Also at the same time came Philip Burbower, who has heretofore testified before me in this  (??), & after being duly sworn, deposith and saith that his father & Frederick Sparh lived (as) neighbors in York  County Penn'a. & some forty five years ago both families moved to this county (then Monongahia) where they both lived to be very old men & died many years since Deponent was acquainted with Frederick Spahr in York County Pann'a & in this county up to his death. Believes him to have been a man of veracity & now knows either in York County as elsewhere a man of the same name except his son Frederick Spahr Jun(ior) , who was too young to have been in the revolutionary war. 

Sworn & subscribed before me        ]
this 9th of Sept. 1854 

                                        his
                                Philip X Burbower
                                         mark

    I certify that the above John Cuppett Junior & Philip Burbower are residents of this county that I am well acquainted with both of these & that they are both men of unimpeachable veracity.
                                                //s//
   This 9th of Sept 1854      H. Hagary 

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named John Cuppett & Philip Burbower and that they are both men of undeniable veracity.     Sept 26th 1854

                                       //s//
                              Wm. G. Brown
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State of Virginia
Smith Crane Clerk of the County Court of said county in state aforesaid do certify that H. Hagan whose genuine signature is singed to the foregoing affidavit was at the time of singing the same Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly authorized to take affidavits & acknowledgements.
                     
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name affixed my official seal the 27 day of September 1834.

                                        //s//
                                 Smith Crane 
                                               Clerk
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And I the said William Glover a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Preston in the State of Virginia do hereby declare my opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War department that the above named Frederick Spanh an applicant for a pension was a revolutionary soldier and served in the states and I do further certify that John Scott and John Cuffel who has signed the proceeding certificate are residents of said county of Preston. and that they are credible persons and that their statements is entitled to credit. and I do further certify that there is no clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the said Frederick Sparh and I do further certify that from old age and bodily infirmity the said Sparh is unable to appear before the court of this county to make his declaration and I do further certify that from old age the said Spahr memory is much impaired and it is with difficulty to understand him. But his declaration is written as nearly as could be taken down from his statements.  Given under my hand and seal on the day and year aforesaid.
                                        //s//
                                    Wm. Glover

I Charles Byme clerk of the county court of Preston in the state of Virginia, do Hereby certify that William Clover Esq. is a justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified as such, and was duly acting as such on the 23rd of May 1834 and that the above is his genuine signature.

                    In testimony whereof I the said Charles Byme have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 27th day of May in the 1834 and in the 58th year of the commonwealth.

                                    //s//
                           Charles Byme
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Winchester 1st of March 1854

L.P. Waldo
Commissioner

Sir, 

    I have enclosed the affidavit of Philip Burbower as evidence in the case of Frederick Spahr suspended application from Virginia for a revolutionary pensions. I wish you would please to examine his application, I have no doubts as to his serving 9 months. H. G. Singleton Esq. reported six months which was doing the old man injustice as he was very old at the and he examined him but a time short time and not giving him significant time to remember fully all his services, so I was informed by some of his family he only lived one or two years after Fingleton's examination but if you think that he is only entitled to a pension for six months service you are the Judge to decide. I expect to have him in two weeks write to Ringwood, Preston County.

                              Your Obt. Servant
                                       //s//
                               John P. Byrne
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Additional evidence in the case of Frederick Spahr suspended application from Virgina for a Revolutionary pension



John P. Byrne Agent
Ringwood
Preston County, Va
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Virginia Preston County ss

   On the 18th day of February 1854 personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for said county and state of Virginia Philip Burbower a resident of said county who being duly sworn according to law says that he was personally well acquainted with Frederick Spahr, who lived in the same neighborhood with witness from the time that witness was a small boy, until the death of said Spahr that he had often heard said Spahr & his father now deceased, who served with him in the revolutionary war, relating incidents that occurred and hardships that they endured, whil they were in the revolutionary army; this was frequent occurrence as we lived near neighbors.  Witness verily believes that said Spahr served in the said war, but how long he does not know and farther witness declares that said Spahr was a trustful man and in good repute in the neighborhood and that he was intimately acquainted with him during the infirmities of old age and believes that during that period of his life if accosted suddenly by a stranger he might , without having time for reflection, or conferring with his familiarity make misstatements.  Witness is fifty five years of age, and has no interest in the application of said Spahr or his heirs for a pension.

                                                 his
                                        Philip  X  Burbower
                                                Mark

Subscribed and sworn to before me on the day and year above stated and I hereby certify that the said Philip Burbower is a credible witness.

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                                        H. Hagan ss
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State of Virginia
County of Preston

    I Smith Crane Clerk of the county court in the county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that H. Hogan Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit was made was at at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and that the name thereunto subscribed is his signature.

      Witness my signature and seal of office at
 Kingwood the 23 day of February 1834 

                                    //s//
                            Smith Crane
                                         Clerk