Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,551, for Paul Tharp, Pennsylvania
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(S-1776)

SERVICE NUMBER
Penn. Tharp, Paul S.22,551
or
Thorp. or Perry

CONTENTS
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22673
Pennsylvania
Paul Tharp
of Uniontown in the State of Penn
who was a Private in the Co commanded
by Captain Dowdle of the Regt. commanded
by Col Thompson on the Penn
line for two years

xPaul (alias Perry) Tharp
Inscribed on the roll of Penn.
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Nov.
1833 and sent to J. H. Deford Uniontown Pa

Arrears to the 4th of September 1833 - 200.
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 34. - 40
$240

[Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832)
Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer Clerk, 
Book 3. Vol. 5. Page 60.
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County of Fayette
Personally appeared, Isaac Hutchinson, and deposeth and saith that he has been intimately acquainted with Paul Tharp, an applicant for a pension for about twenty-seven years past; and from Paul Tharp's statement which is corroborated of the history of the Revolution, he thinks him justly entitled to a pension' and that Paul Tharp is an honest and poor old man and has a wife a cripple; and that his character is good and Tharp shows him this deponent a mark(?) in the side(?); which he says it was from a bayonet while in battle in the Revolution and many other things that convinces him that Tharp is fairly and honestly entitled to a pension and 
Signed:  Isaac Hutchinson

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of August 1830
Signed:  Samuel Smith, J.P

County of Fayette
Personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace, James McDonald and deposeth and saith that he has been intimately acquainted with Paul Tharp for at least twenty-years past; and that the said Paul Tharp has always sustained the character of an honest man and is now an applicant for a pension, which he thinks him entitled to from conversing with him.  He is a very old man with a (illegible) wife.
Signed:  James McDonald

Sworn to and subscribed this 18th day of August 1830 before
me Samuel Smith
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State of Pennsylvania
County of (     )

     I Paul
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Pennsylvania
Fayette County SS

Personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace in and for said county, Reuben Tharp, who deposeth and saith that his brother, Paul Tharp, was a soldier of the Revolution.  Tho (though) this deponent did not go out in the same service company or regiment with him, yet this deponent seen him in the service of the United States at New York in the year 1776 at which place they happened to meet.  Deponent believed he was in the service for a long time, but he never seen but this once.  And further that he is the identical Paul Tharp who he describes himself to be.
Signed:  Reuben Tharp

Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th day of August 1832.
Signed: Abraham Stewart J.P.

I certify that the deponent is a credible witness. Signed:  Abraham Stewart
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Fayette Ss

I Henry W Beeson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County do certify that Abraham Stewart Esq is a magistrate as within & that his written signature is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set mu hand & affixed the Seal of said court at Union town the 24th day of June 1833
Henry W Beeson Prothy

affidavit
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Pension office
16th June 30
Paul Sharp

old region 20.251
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Schedule
District of Pennsylvania
Fayette County Ss

On this tenth day of June 1829 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said County Paul Sharp aged 84 years resident in Fayette County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows. Enlisted first for one year under Capt Michael Dowdle 1st Lt. Henry Miller, James Watson 2nd Lt Col Thompson & Major McGaw in the year 1776 or 1777 after his time was out he enlisted for during the war under Col Nagle of the 2nd Pennsylvania regiment and that he was discharged at Fort Washington New York in the Spring of 1782 and that there had not been any changes in his property since the year 1818. was in the battle of Monmouth and other that he applied at least seven years ago for a pension and is told that his papers were handed to Gen Christian Garr & that he never heard of them since.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner discharge 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 & that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities or contracts or debts there to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed. One pot & skillet & dutch oven & some cupboard furniture worth about six dollars that by occupation a labourer his wife Isabella is about sixty - lives with his son in law.
Amount of Property $6.00
Sworn to & declared on the tenth day of June 1829 before James Todd Prothonotary
[signed] Paul Tharp x his mark
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Fayette County Ss
I Henry W Beeson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Fayette do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court. & I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is six dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court on this 30th day of June 1829
[signed] Henry W Beeson Prothonotary
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 the date of the marriage of the soldier is not stated and there are no further data on file relative to his wife and children.
                      respectfully,


                                       WINFIELD SCOTT
                                            commissioner