Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2171, George Deal, Md.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Md.
CONTENTS

Deal, George
NUMBER
S. 2171
carded
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5022
Pennsylvania

George Deal
in the State of Pennsylvania
was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Reynolds of the (illegible) commanded
by Col. Shyock-- in the ______
for 6 months Priv $20.00
9 mo Sargent $45.00
65.00

Md. Line. Records corrected Dec. 15 '03

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
the rate of 65 Dollars _____ Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 31st  day of January
1833 and sent to Hon Geo Burd
House Reps

Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832 - $97.50
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833- 32.50
$130.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Vinal Luce Clerk
Book D Vol. 6  Page 53
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Declaration
of
Geo: Deal
1894

Hon.  Wm. Bard
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the State of Pennsylvania Bedford ( County On this 29th day of August in year of an Lord one thousand 1 Eight hundred & thirty two persons appeared in open Court before the Honorable Alexander Thompson, this Associates Judges of the Courts of Common pleas of Bedford County now sitting of August term 1832, George Deal a resident of Providence Township Bedford County and State of Pennsylvania aged seventy four 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 the 7th 1832. That he entered in the service of his country of the united States in 1776 in the flying camp, under Captain John Reynolds, First Lieutenant Moses Chaplin, 2nd Lieutenant Christian Orindorff, Colonel Henry Shryock, General Bill. That he entered the army aforesaid in the month of June 1776 AD That he marched from Washington County Maryland first to Hagerstown then to Frederick then to Philadelphia from thence to New York that he was at the Battle of the White Plains was at a battle within mile was in the neighborhoods of Fort Washington of Fort Lee under General Washington when
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Fort Washington was taken That he served six months in the flying camp aforesaid. That afterward he enlisted under Captain Joseph Chaplin in a corps called minute men, which deponent believes were State’s troops this was in 1781. That said company to which he belonged were in part of the time employed in guarding the prisoners taken with Lord Cornwallis that this Deponent was with others his companions in arms discharged at Fredericktown Maryland in the fall of the year 1781- That he never received a discharge in writing He further relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he hereby declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State Sworn to & Subscribed this 29th August 1832 George Deal mark  In  Open Court Joe Mann Anthonotary Bedford County Frt  We William Caldwell C a name exercising of discharging the duties of preacher in the County of Bedford & embracing within my charge, the Township of Providence in which the said George Seal resides & Charles Ashcom one of the Commonwealth Pennsylvania Justices of the peace in & Township & County residing within the same  do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the above named George Deal who was subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to hand been a soldier of the Revolution & that we
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Answers to questions propounded by the Court that he was born in the year 1758 in Frederick County Maryland that he has no record of his age it having been lost that he lived in Maryland Frederick County aforesaid at the time of his enlistment. That he hath lived 40 years in Bedford County. Sworn & subscribed in open Court his the 29th day of August 1832 Job Mann Prothonotary George C. Deal his mark And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states- And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Coldwell who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the township of Providence, Bedford County State of Pennsylvania, and that Charles Ashcome Esquire who has also signed the same is a resident of the same township, County and State and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit-
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In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of office at
Bedford the 29th day of August in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty two.
Job Mann Prothonotary
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the State of Pennsylvania Bedford County Pa On this 29th day of August in year of an Lord one thousand 1 Eight hundred & thirty two persons appeared in open Court before the Honorable Alexander Thompson, this Associates Judges of the Courts of Common pleas of Bedford County now sitting of August term 1832, George Deal a resident of Providence Township Bedford County and State of Pennsylvania aged seventy four 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 the 7th 1832. That he entered in the service of his country of the united States in 1776 in the flying camp, under Captain John Reynolds, First Lieutenant Moses Chaplin, 2nd Lieutenant Christian Orindorff, Colonel Henry Shryock, General Bill. That he entered the army aforesaid in the month of June 1776 AD That he marched from Washington County Maryland first to Hagerstown then to Frederick then to Philadelphia from thence to New York that he was at the Battle of the White Plains was at a battle within mile was in the neighborhoods of Fort Washington of Fort Lee under General Washington when
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State of Pennsylvania Bedford County  personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in for said County George Deal who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he served six months in the flying camp in the year 1776- mentioned in his declaration above written and in the second tour in 1781 he served nine month & held the office of a 2d Sergeant during that time that he has no documentary of his service evidence & that there is no person whom he knows but his sister Margared Cumberland who can tell any thing about his services Sworn to & subscribed this 10th day of December AD 1832 his Deal mark Before me Charles Ashcome 5 Pennsylvania Bedford County Personally came before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for the County
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of Bedford aforesaid Margaret Chamberlain who being duly
sworn according to law saith that she was 
present in the year 1776 when her Brother
George Deal Inlisted [enlisted] in the flying camp under
Captain Reynolds Deponent sais [says] she
[illegible] him take this Bounty and to her certain
knowledge he the said George Deal was in
the service six month in the flying camp
Said he was very sick when he Returned
from camp and Deponent had to
Attend on him for several weeks
Deponent knows also that the said
George Deal was in the Service in Captain Chaplains Minute Men for nine
months Deponent Believes she was 18 
years old at that time
Margaret X ^her mark^ Chamberlain

I Do Also Certify that Margaret
Chamerlain whose name is Attached to 
this Deposition is a person of Credibility
and worthy of Belief either on oath or
otherwise
December 10th 1832 Charles Ashcom
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Pennsylvania
Bedford County 
I Job Mann Prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Bedford in the
State of Pennsylvania, do certify that Charles Ashcom
Esquire before the foregoing depositions of George Deal & Margaret Chamberlain
appears to have been taken and who has made the foregoing
certificate was at that time and now is a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County of Bedford duly commissioned
and qualified by legal authority and acting as such -
and that the signature "Charles Asher" thereto are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Seal of
said Court at Bedford the 2nd day of
December A.D. 1832
Job Mann Prothy
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No 7894

Pennsylvania
(illegible)  Novr 19. 1832
Oly. 5. & 13
Admitted
Jan. 31. 1833
6 mo Private - 20.00
9 " Sergt 45
65.--

Nov George Burd Ho Reps

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BRIEF in the case of George Deal of Providence
County of Bedford in the State of Pennsylvania
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge? Court.

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 74

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[column headers: | Period. | Duration of Service. | [sub-headers here: | Years, | Months, | Days. |] | Rank. | [sub-header here: | As a |] | Names of General and field Officers under whom he served. | [sub-header here: | Gen. |]

| June In 1776 | [blank] | 6 | [blank] | Private | Capt Jno Reynolds. Col Henry Shryock, Genl Bell |
| 1781 | how long he served not stated | [blank] | Capt Jos. Chaplain |

5. In what battles was he engaged? White Plains

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Washington County, Maryland

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evience.
by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answeres agree with the evidence in the case
above mentioned.
Jas Wilson Examining Clerk.
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In reply to your request of _____ , received _____
for a statement of the military history of George Deal
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his application for pension
on file in this Bureau.

S.2171

[column headers: | DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | [sub-headers here: | CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. |] | STATE. |]

|June 1776 | 6 mos. | Private | John Reynolds | Henry Shryock. | "Flying Camp" Md. |
| 1781 | 9 mos. | 2d Sergt. | Joseph Chaplain | " | Md. |

Battles engaged in, "White Plains & a battle within 1 mile of Fort Washington"
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Frederick Co., Md.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 29, 1832. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Providence Township, Bedford Co., Penn.
Age at date of application, born in 1758 in Frederick Co, Md.
Remarks: soldiers sister Margaret Chamberlain also resided in
Bedford Co, Penn in 1832. No further family data.

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

6-2856
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Rev. War Section.

April 6, 1918.

Mrs. M.H. Garges,
1834 Calvert Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

Madam:

In response to your letter dated the first instant,
you are advised that in order to obtain the date of soldier's
death, and name of the person to whom the last payment was
made of the pension which was granted to
"George Deal, Certificate No. 5,022
Issued January 31, 1833 for $65 per
annum from March 4, 1831, under the
Act of June 7, 1832, at the Pennsylvania
Agency",
you should forward this letter to the
Auditor for the Interior Department,
Auditors' Building, 14th & B Sts., S. W.,
Washington, D. C. 

Very respectfully,
E.C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner.
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Apr. 1st 1918 

1834 Calvert St. N. W.
Wash. D.C.

Dept. of the Interior Rev Sec
Bureau of Pensions -

Gentlemen -
Will you kindly tell me
if the pension granted
George Deal, Rev. War
S. File 2171, L.S.C. was
granted to him or to his
widow, and when the last 
amount was paid.
I thank you in advance
Yours truly
M. H. Garges.
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pcls
Rev
Washington , D.C.
Mar. 23-1917

Commissioner of Pensions -
Dear Sir -
Will you kindly
inform me if pensions
were granted to 
George and Philip Deal
of Maryland or Penna.
for services rendered
during the Revolution.
If you will send me
their records it will
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be very much appreciated.
Thanking you in 
advance. I am
Yours truly
(Mrs) M.H. Garges
1316 Euclid St. N.W.
Washington 
D.C.
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RevWar.
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INVALID.
Vile No. 2171
George Deal
Privt rev War
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:-Vol. A., Page 92
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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