Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3771, Sebastian Frederick, Penn.
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(3-1776)

     SERVICE                                         NUMBER

Penn.          Frederick Sebastian         R. 3771.
                             or  Bastian
                                   Mary
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CONTENTS
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Declaration
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In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836 or other acts applicable.
          State of Indiana }
          Pike County       } Ss

On this 15th day of February A.D. 1839, formally appeared before the honorable James Hillman, an associate judge of the Circuit Court of the said county, Mary Frederick, a resident of Pike County, Madison Township, in the said state, aged 82 years last and who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pensions made by the Act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836, that she is the widow of Sebastian alias Bastian Frederick who was a private in Capt. Minter militia in the State of Pennsylvania and volunteered as a spy. Not recollected where he started or when he returned-- The second [word he crossed out] campaign he left home in the month of September and not returned untill [sic] after Christmas, and that he helped to build Logstown under the command of General Gipson. The widow is not certain how often the deceased entered the service ^ but three or four times, and she further states that he entered the service at the age of nineteen and continued in it untill [sic] after the close of the war.
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And was living at the time he entered the service, in the state of Pennsylvania, seven miles above Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River and continued there until about the year 1785, when he moved to the western country. And she further states that he had three or four discharges and served not less two years during the war. She further states that she was married to the said Sebastian Frederick about the year 1778-9. The 12th day of September in said year, and that said Sebastian departed this life on the 9th day of October 1827, and she has remained a widow ever since the death of [the words the claimant crossed out] her husband, and from this day she claims the pension of her deceased husband and further sayeth not
                                     Mary X Frederick  (seal)

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year from above, written before me the undernamed one of the Associate Judges- do hereby certify that the applicant cannot from old age and bodily infirmity attend the court and that no doubt is entertained in the neighbourhood [sic] of the revolution. Any services of the deceased & that the widow is credible and that no doubt should be entertained of the justice of the claim.
                                James Hillman  (seal)
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State of Indiana Pike County } Ss

I John McIntire Clerk of the Pike Circuit Court do hereby certify that the within named James Hillman is an associate Judge of the said Court and that the signature thereto annexed is his genuine signature. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Petersburg the 16th day of Feby AD 1839

John McIntire Clk P.C.

(written left lower side vertically)
4291
Mary Frederick
of Sebastian 
Indiana
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State of Indiana   Knox County SS.

On this 30th day of June 1842, personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Knox, Philip Catt an aged Revolutionary pensioner, who doth on his oath say and declare, that he was present in Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania, in the year 1778, and witnessed the marriage of Sabastian Frederick, then serving in another company of Militia on duty at that place, now deceased, to Mary Catt, and that the ceremony was performed by a person who was duly authorized whose name he cannot now call to mind, and said Mary, widow of said Sabastian now resides in this county; that he has been well acquainted with and not far distant from Sabastian and  Mary from that period to the present, and knows that said Sabastian served with the army and in the ranks, more than six months, but he cannot at this late day state the particular officers, marches, scouts, or campaigns more particularly than was set forth in a former deposition now on file in the Department. He seen said Sabastian on various occasions at encampments with his company about Fort Pitt and Redstone, and knows that he performed different tours of Militia duty before the peace of 1783, and went on two expeditions against the Indians. Said Mary Frederick, during the lifetime of her husband the said Sabastian was the mother of eleven children, whose ages and births can be related by Michael Frederick from a family record which he always heard of in the family. Said Mary is and has remained a widow since the death of her said husband Sabastian, and was a widow in the year 1836, and on the 4th of July of that year--

Philip his x mark Catt

Sworn to and subscribed on        }
the  day and year before written, }
before me

                                                          
   ------          Neely D. Stilwill JP  (seal)-------

His full name was Thomas Neel Stilwell, who was a Congressman.
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Indiana          Knox County, SS.

On this 30th day of June 1842, personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Knox, Michael Thorn, an aged revolutionary pensioner, who doth on his oath say and declare, that he was at Fort Pitt Pennsylvania in the year 1778 and was present and heard the marriage ceremony pronounced by an authorized officer at the marriage of Sabastian [sic] Frederick to Mary Catt, now Mary Frederick widow of said Sabastian, [sic] with whom he was and since has been well acquainted. That he is acquainted with the offspring of said marriage, and yet is not familiar with the separate ages of each of the eleven children composing it, but has understood there exists an exact record, that he knows that said Sabastian [sic] now deceased rendered two tours of duty, and having seen him at different times and places with the company of Militia to which he belonged, he firmly believes he served longer and oftener than two full tours. He is now unable to particularize the exact times and places, or the particular officers names, more satisfactorily than he done some years ago; for then he had more strength and a clearer memory. He said Sabastian [sic] was in service at and about Fort Pitt and Redstone and all the adjacent country, and visited the Indian country in two expeditions previous to the peace of 1783-that his time in service must have been over six months.  

Michael his x mark Thorn  
         
Sworn to and subscribed on      }
the day and year above written }
before me -
     Neely D. Stilwill JP  (seal)
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Indiana                   Knox County, SS.

Personally appeared before me, this 30th day of June 1842, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Michael F. Frederick, who being sworn doth declare, that on a paper record, in this handwriting of the late Sabastian [sic] Frederick, whose widow is now an applicant for a half pay pension, he left in his own house at the time he died. The statement of the births and names of his children of which the following is a true copy.
Bastian Frederick was married to Mary Catt, Aug 22d. 1778
Magnelean Frederick born Sept. 12th, 1779
Elizabeth Frederick     born May    5,    1781
Philip Frederick           born Feb    26,   1783
Susenna Frederick      born  Apr   17,   1785
Barberry Frederick      born   August 30,1787
Rebekkey Frederick    born   Dec. 23,    1789
Mary Frederick           born March 14th,1791
Mikel Frederick          born Apr. 24,        1794 
Daniel Frederick         born July 5,          1796
Anna Frederick           born Aug. 5,         1799
Sarah Frederick           born Feb. 20,       1802
and for and during the last twenty years of the life of said Sabastian, [sic] he the affiant was familiar and intimate with the said identical paper being used as a certain record of dates and ages of his children by said Sabastian [sic]

Michael F. Frederick

Sworn to and subscribed on
this 30th day of June 1842 
before me

Neely D. Stilwill JP seal (circled)
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State of Indiana }
Knox County     } Ss

I William R. McCord clk. of the Knox County County Court in said State of Indiana do hereby certify that Neely D. Stillwell [sic - should be Stilwil] Esq before whom the written and foregoing affidavit appears to have been made is now and was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit is due all his official acts as such

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Vincennes this 5th day of July
Anno Domini 1842

W R McCord Clk
[seal]
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Rev. War.
[initialed]


April 18, 1912.


Mrs. Samuel A. Jordan
903 Broadway,
Vincennes, Indiana.

Madam:

In response to your letter dated the 9th and received the 12th instant, you are advised that in the papers in claim R. File #3,771, Rev. War, it is stated that Sebastian alias Bastian Frederick was a resident of Pennsylvania, about seven miles above Pittsburgh, on the Monongahela, and nineteen years of age when he enlisted (year not given) and served in campaigns against the Indians: that he volunteered as a spy in Captain Minton's company: served under Captain Morgan and Colonel Gibson: also served as a Private under Captain Grimes and Colonel Morgan: and was in General McIntosh's expedition against the Shawnee and Delaware Indians.

Soldier married August 22, 1778, Mary Catt, he died October 9, 1827, and she applied for pension February 15, 1839, while eighty-two years of age and a resident of Madison Township, Pike County, Indiana, but her claim was rejected on the ground of insufficient proof that her husband performed six months actual service during the Revolutionary War, as required by the Act of July 4, 1836, under which she applied.
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R. File # 3,771.
(2)

Children of 'Bastian and Mary Frederick.

Magnelean        Born    September 12, 1779.
Elizabeth                "      May 5, 1781.
Philip                      "      February 26, 1783.
Susenna                 "      April 17, 1785.
Barberry                 "      August 3, 1787
Rebekkey               "      December 23, 1789
Mary                      "      March 14, 1791
Mikel                      "      April 24, 1794
Daniel                    "       July 5, 1796
Anna                      "       August 5, 1799
Sarah                     "       February 20, 1802.

Very respectfully,
J. L. Davenport.
Commissioner.
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1912 Apl. 18, History
to Mrs. Samuel A. Jordan

Crossed out [Acts of July 14, 1892, and March 3, 1873.]

3771
P.O. 
Mary Frederick
[stamped REJECTED]

Service: {blank]
Enlisted:  [blank]
Discharged: [blank]
Application filed:  [blank]
Alleges:  [blank]
Re-enlisted:  [blank]
Attorney:  [blank]
P.O.:  [blank]

Recognized. [blank]
Contract. [blank]
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[each line with handwriting on it is numbered]
Supplemental evidence in the matter of the application of Mrs Mary Frederick for a pension on account of the services of her husband in the Revolutionary War.
In the Probate Court of Knox County and State of Indiana August [May crossed out] Term in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine
State of Indiana
Knox County ss.
On this fifteenth day of August [May crossed out] in open court, before the Honorable Robert North Carnan the judge of the said Court, personly appeared Philip Catt who being sworn according to law says that his memory is much impaired by age, he was 80 years of age the 25th of last May but that he has a distinct recollection of having
word with Sebastian Frederick against the Indians some after the commencement of the Revolutionary War, under Colonel Morgan, in a different company, that he was in constant
intercourse with said Frederick and that his the said Frederick's services as the deponent well recollects, were, he would say, at least three months; that this service was long before
the year 1782; that said deponent is brother in law of said Sebastian and brother of said Mary Frederich: That said expedition was to the Muskingum and that if any thing contradictory of this statement was contained in the affidavit
in this case, made previous and remitted to the war department, said previous affidavit is erronious very either to misappersion of the person who served said affidavit, or to some accidental inattention
Sworn and subscribed in open
court this 15th of August A.D. 1839
Philip Catt his mark
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In the Probate Court of Knox county in the State of Indiana of May Term 1839
In the above case, to wit, in the case of Mary Frederick widow of Sebastian Frederick, an applicant for a pension &c
Before the Hon Robert Nath Carnan on the said Eighteenth day of May 1839 personally appeared Michael Thorn who was likewise previously examined touching
the above matter; and being sworn according to law says that he was born in Nov. 1763. that he well knows the services of the said Sebastian Frederick; that they were
out together as militiamen, under Colonel Gibson, the deponent being in the company of Capt. Ford, and the expedition being against the Indians on the Tuscarawas River, where they built a small fort; this expedition was under General McIntosh, and
started from Pittsburgh; That said deponent knew said Sebastian during the whole of the Revolutionary war, and that he served in the said expedition three or four months. this expedition was before the surrender of Conwallis; that said Sebastian and
deponent moved to Indiana in 1784, and that this expedition was several years before that period.  That said Sebastian and deponent afterwards served under Capt Evans before the taking of Cornwallis and long big before the year 1783, the object of the expedition was to
guard the [frontier?] and the service lasted two
months. That if any think contradicting this appears in his said first deposition, it was an [inadvertent?]
Michael Thorn
X his mark
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In the Probate Court of Knox County of the State of Indiana of
August Term A.D. 1839
I Robt N. Cannon the Judge now holding said court do certify my opinion that the above named Philip Catt and Michael Thorn are credible, ['and' crossed out]
R.N. Carnan

State of Indiana
Knox County SS
I William R. McCord Clerk of
the Probate Court of said County do certify that the above
are the original proceedings in the above matter in the said court of May and August terms respectively AD 1839
and that the erasures & alterations in the 5th. 9th, 13th & 14th lines
of the first page were regularly made before the proceedings were had
and deposition made, and that the proceedings in the altered
shape are the true proceedings.
Witness my hand
and the seal of the said Court this
15th day of August in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty nine.
Wm. R.M.McCord, Clk
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Mary Frederick
Indiana
---
Rejected
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See let, 4 March
1839. Hon John
Ewing - to 9 March
1839 dr. 30 Sep 39. let to dpt.
July 42---
husband did
not serve six month
during the Revoly War
3771
Act 4 July, 1836
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Free

JL Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
War Dept
Washington City

July 14 184[?]
[Illegible]
Mary Frederick

[Postal Stamp]
VINCENNES
V
6
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his
Vincennes July 5 1842
Sir,
Old Mrs. Frederick of this County handed me a letter of yours dated Sept 30. 1839 in which you require the services of her late husband
Sebastian, to be explicitly stated more satisfactory proof of the period of the marriage, and if there be a family record of the births of the children that it be exhibited. The old woman is now unable to move out of the house-- the marriage and the births of the children from an old record in Sabastions own writing, dispose of those requirements and the services rendered as explicit as the frail memory of very old men can now render it. I do conscientiously believe the case to be meritorious.
Very respy yours
Jno Ewing

J L Edwards Esq
Com
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Fredreck papers
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War Department,
Pension Office,
March 9. 1839.
Sir,
Agreeably to your request,
a re-examination of the claim of Mrs Mary
Frederick, widow of Sebastian Frederick, decd
has been made.
One of the witnesses states
that he served two tours with the claimants
husband
against the Indians on the western frontier
of Pennsylvania, that the last tour
was in 1784.
The other witness states that
he served a tour with her husband near
the latter end of the revolutionary war, but
that he cannot tell the year
The militia
of Pennsylvania were not called out by competent authority to serve more than two
months under one engagement, and the war
terminated previous to the period of the
last alleged tour.
The witnesses were not
allowed pensions for any alleged service performed
after the termination of the revolutionary war.
Much of the service against
the Indians was performed after the termi-
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mation of the revolutionary war.
The Department is constrained to adhere to its 
decision.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your obt. Servt
J L Edwards

Hon. John Ewing
Vincennes, Indiana
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Hse of Reps Feby 27.39 
The application of Mary
Frederick of Pike County Ind'a [Indiana] for
a pension, is inclosed.  I was well
acquainted with old Mr Frederick,
her decd husband, in his life time
and I know all the persons witnesses
and officers, whose names
are affixed. I discover Col. Mc Intire
the Clk of Pike County, has placed
his certificate (which should have
followed Esqr Hillmans) on the
opposite side of the sheet and
there may be other informalities,
but know the claim has merit
and I hope will be found on
examination, to merit your
approval
Respy
Y.V.Ob Svt
Jno Ewing
James Edwards Esq.
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Vincennes Sept 26, 29
Sir
W. Thomas, the friend of Mrs Frederick whose claim I had the honor to present in March last has this moment handed the enclosed paper with a request to transmit the same to you
Very Respy Yours
Jno Ewing

J.L. Edwards Esq. 
Com of Pension
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Ack. Apr. 16, 1912

[Department Stamp]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE.
D
APR 12 1912
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Vincennes, Ind
April 9th 1912
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C
Dear
Sir: I want to know
if Jonathon Conger was a
soldier in the American
Revolution. It was some
where near
1780 or there
about and at the time
and during the siege
of
General George Rogers
Clark that Mr. Conger was in
the old Fort at Vincennes
I also want to know
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R 3771 
if Sebastian Frederick was a
soldier in the A. Revolution, he came from Fredericksburg Va. down into
Pennsylvania thence to
Vincennes in or near
1780. I trust
you can
give me some information concerning
these two
men and thanking
you I await your
earliest reply
 Respectfully
Mrs. Samuel A. Jordan,
Vincennes, Ind
903 Broadway
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In the Probate Court of Knox County and State of Indiana
Before Hon Rebel R. Carnan, Probate Judge
February Term1839
Knox County ss On this 14th day of February A.D. 1839 personally
appeared in open court Michael Thorn (a resident of the said County,
and as a witness to prove the claim of Sebastian Fredrick'S'
widow, Mary Frederick, formerly Catt to a pension, on behalf of her
said husband's military services) and on his solemn oath
says, that he was born in November 1763 in Virginia and
resided 12 miles below Pittsburg on the Ohio at place called
Malchure's bottom) at the time of General McIntosh's expedition from Pittsburg against the Shawnee and Delaware
Indians, which expedition took place near the latter end
of the revolutionary war. That he the said Deponent was in the
Militia service, in the said expedition. That he was personally acquainted with the above mentioned Sebastian
Fredrick and was upon intimate terms with him. That he
well knows that the said Sebastian was likewise in the same
service, and that he remained therein for six months, and
then returned home, after having been (as said deponent believes)
regularly discharged. That said Sebastian was in the said
expedition as a militia man, being a volunteer and was in the
in the regiment of Colonel Gibson or Colonel Broadhead first he is rather inclined to believe, in that of the former.
That he cannot tell the exact year of the service of the said Sebastian, neither can he tell the age of the said Sebastian but
believes he was from 21 to 25 years of age at the time of the
said expedition. That he was well acquainted with the above
named Mary Fredrick the widow of the said Sebastian
and well knew they were married about the time of the Revolutionary war having seen them living together after the war
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now as husband and wife, and having been intimate with the family they having lived three miles from the said deponent after the said expedition was finished, he the said deponent having removed from the above named
place 12 miles below Pittsburg on the Pennsylvania side of the said Ohio, to the place where the said Sebastian [lived?] at the time he went in the said expedition to wit on the Monongahela about 8 miles above Pittsburg near Braddock's field. that he knows of his having died in Pike County, Indiana about the year 1827 as he has been and left left a widow
who is still living in Pike County and who has never been married since the death of the said Sebastian. That the expedition [spoken?], or at least that part of was from Pennsylvania, and the said Sebastian served in the militia of that state. The deponent likewise states that he the said deponent is receiving a pension at the time of 20 dollars per annum for that and other services. He likewise stated that the said widow is disabled by age and sickness from attending court, as he knows from personal acquaintance & knowledge
Michael Thorn X
Mark [refers to X mark]
Likewise in the same open court, at the same time and before the same Judge, personally appeared Philip Catt resident of the same County, who being solemnly sworn according to law says that on the 25th of May next he will be Eighty nine years of age, and that he is brother of Mary Fredrick, formerly Catt, and now widow of Sebastian Fredrick, that he has a
full knowledge of the said deceased and of his revolutionary services; that this deponent lived during the revolutionary war
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he lived about eight miles below the mouth of Cheat River on the Monongahela, and that he is at this time in the receipt of a Pension from the United States of Forty Dollars per annum for services as a private: that he was a volunteer in the Pennsylvania Militia, in the expedition
of General McIntosh against the Indians, which expedition started as he believes in the year 1784; that of his own knowledge, Sebastian Fredrick was a volunteer in the Pennsylvania Militia, in that expedition and believes (altho his memory is weak from age) that he served under Colonel Gibson, as well as the deponent: that the said Sebastian as well as the said Deponent were Privates in the company of Captain Morgan of the Pennsylvania Militia, that at the close of the said expedition the said Sebastian Fredrick was regularly discharged; and that the said Deponent saw the discharge at the time (but upon reflection cannot remember that) 
The Deponent likewise states that the said Sebastian Fredrick, served as a volunteer, in the Pennsylvania Militia during an earlier part of the Revolutionary as a private in an expedition against the Indians under General Morgan
and Captain Grimes; that the said Sebastian and the said deponent were both privates in this expedition, the latter in the company of Capt. Jacob Feribaugh, that they were at that time personally acquainted, and that from such personal acquaintance the deponent is able to state positively his service, and state with
equal positiveness that said Sebastian was equally discharged because he saw this discharge at the time which discharge deponent believes and understands is lost. The deponent likewise from personal intimacy with the said Fredrick states positively (he means intimacy in actual service) that he served in the two expeditions more than six months
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The deponent likewise states that he as the brother of the said widow has a perfect knowledge of the marriage of her the said Mary Fredrick (formerly Catt) to the said Sebastian Fredrick and that the marriage took place before the expiration of the last period of the said Sebastian's service. That said Sebastian moved about the year 1784 into the country which now forms Knox County Indiana, and that the Deponent moved about the same time to the same place as well as his said sister. That they lived together to wit Sebastian and his said sister until the year 1827 when the said Sebastian died, and that she has not been
married since, and that she as well as himself are now living one in Knox County and the other in Pike Co and have been living in the same Section ever since their said removals.
Philip + Catt ["his" written about "+" and "mark" written below]
And the said Court do hereby declare its opinion that the said Michael Thorn and Philip Catt are entirely worthy of belief that the Sebastian Fredrick above
mentioned was a revolutionary soldier and served as above stated and also that the said Mary was his wife and is now his widow as stated above.
Rn. Carnan P.J.K.C.
I, William R. McCord Clerk of the Probate Court of Knox County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
Mary Fredrick for a pension in consequence of her said husband Sebastian Frederick's services in the revolutionary war. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and office this Sixteenth day of February A.D. 1839
W.R. McCord Clk
["4291" written sideways on right side of page]
["Hon J Ewing" and a mark under written sideways on the bottom left of the page]