Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22856, for Peter Justice, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn
Justice, Peter
NUMBER
S.22856
B.L. Wt. 407 - 100
CONTENTS
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20.249.
Pennsylvania
Peter Justice
Prudence Co. in the State of Pennsylvania, who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Thomas of the Regiment commanded by Col Mounts in the Pennsylvania line for Militia.
2 [illegible] $80.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 80 Dollars 0 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of April 1834 and sent to J. J. Young, Indiana, Pa.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1832 240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 40.00
$280.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by J. J. Spragen, Clerk
Book C, Vol. 5, Page 29
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[illegible] 413-
Adm 2 years
J.J. Young
Indiana, Pa.
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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 the reasons for the absence of the Certificate of a Clergyman as given in the foregoing declaration are true. That John Brady and William Bork who have signed the preceding certificate and are residents in Mahoning Township are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. Further that James Brady of Westmoreland County, who has signed the foregoing Deposition is a worthy and credible person and that his deposition is entitled to full credit.
I, Richard B. McCabe, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Peter Justice for a pension.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office as of the Twenty-fourth of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty three.
Richard B McCabe, Clerk
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Return of the Pennsylvania Line entitled to Donation Lands, reported by the late Comptroller General
┃ Rank | Regiment | Acres Land | No. |
Justice Peter | private | Stokly Company | 200 | | Patent See P.55 page 471, Lot No. 983 District 5,
I do hereby certify that the above is a correct extract from a Book marked "Return of the Pennsylvania line entitled to Donation Lands reported by the late Comptroller General" remaining in the office of the Secretary of the Land Office of Pennsylvania. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of said Office to be affixed at Harrisburg the 20th day of January 1834.
S. Workman, Secretary, Land Office
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District No 5
Donation Land
Lot No. 983 = 200 acres
Ret. [illegible] 30th March 1805
to Peter Justice
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Lot No. 04 of 250
drawn 28 Mar 1805 by Peter Justice

[ No. DCCCC L xxx 111 200 cares & allow 130x inside rectangle]
977 Lot NO. 978 S 2 1/2 C 130 [on left of rectangle]
Lot No. 992 & 993 No 87 1/2 W [on right of rectangle]
S 78 1/2 W. 260 [above rectangle]
Lot no. 984 No 87 1/2 E. 261 [below rectangle]
Maple
Beech
Hicky
Sassafras

In Pursuance of an Act of General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania
and passed the 24th day of February 1785. entitled an act for directing the mode of Distributing the Donation Lands promised the Troops of this Commonwealth," and by order of the Survy [Surveyor] General with the  approbation of the Honble [Honorable] the Executive Council". I have surveyed on the 6th day of October 1785. the above describes Tract of two hundred acres of land & allowance of six Cent for Roads [illegible] No DCCCCLXXXIII- Situate in District No 5 on the West side of the Allegany river in the County of Westmoreland
To John Lukens Esqr [Esquire] Sumr Genl [Surveyor General]}
Benj [Benjamin] Lodge D. S.
Don Lands
I certify the above to be a true copy of an original Draught remaining in the Surv [Surveyor] General's Office for which a patent Issued to Peter Justice as his Donation promised by the Commth [Commonwealth] of Pennsylvania, for his services as a soldier during the revolutionary war-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Office at Lancaster this 5th day of February 1808
Saml [Samuel] Cochran S. G.
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The Declaration of Peter Justice for the Benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of Pennsylvania}
Indiana County} ss
On this Twenty fourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in Open Court before the Honorable John Young and his associate Judges of a Court of Common pleas in and for the County aforesaid and in the State aforesaid now sitting Peter Justice a resident of Mahoning Township in the County and State aforesaid aged Seventy five 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 7th 1832-
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as hereinafter stated -
That this declarant in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania about the latter end of August Seventeen hundred and Eighty One Enlisted in [illegible] 
Company of Rangers under the command of Captain Thomas Stokely, First Lieutenant John Cummins, Ensign William Cooper and Sergeant William Stewart for the Term of three years or during the War. That from the time of his enlistment he with the Company generally rendevouzed [rendezvoused] at Hannahstown in Westmoreland until the Spring of Seventeen hundred and Eighty two, during which time they were employed in scouting along the frontiers. This Declarant was in the Fort adjoining Hannahstown when said Town was burnt, which was in the months of Harvest-in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty two. The Indians went away in the night and were followed on the next morning by companies under the command of Colonel
Mounts and James Wells, they returned to Hannahstown without having [illegible] taking the Indians - In the Summer of Seventeen hundred and Eighty two we was marched to Ligonier in Westmoreland County and there joined Scouted until the fall of the same year - then by orders were marched to the Virginia Line west of the mononghla [Monongahela] River near the mouth of what was then named "Cheat River" and was there employed in guarding the Surveyors & chain Carriers who were then running the lines between the State of Pennsylvania and Virginia -
There were in all, as this declarant thinks, about one hundred and
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fifty men employed to prevent the citizens of two States from intercepting the surveyors. This declarant with his Company went with the surveyors to the Ohio River and struck the same but a short distance about the mouth of Buffalo River after which this Declarant with the Company marched back to Hannahstown which this declarant thinks was in the month of October 1782 -- This Declarant with the Company again Rendervouzed [rendesvouzed] at Hannahstown until the spring of Seventeen hundred and Eighty tree during which time they were occasionally engaged in scouting on the frontier--
In the month of June seventeen hundred and eighty three this declarant was chosen with five other men under the command of Sergeant William Stewart from the Company to which they belonged to protect a new settlement that was making at Wallaces Mill in Westmoreland County And on the sixteenth of July 1783 he was notified by Captain Stokely to appear at Hannahstown to receive my discharge which this declarant accordingly did, and a discharge in writing from Captain Stokely on the seventeenth (17) day of the same month in the same year, which discharge this declarant has long since lost, when, ware, [where] or how he is unable to say - he never thought it of any importance at the time --
This declarant has no documentary evidence in his possession to establish any of the foregoing facts, but will, when it can be obtained, produce the most unequivocal proof in support of them-- The individuals who will prove the service of this declarant are living in Westmoreland County viz: William Hice and Peter Wallace whose depositions will be formally annexed to this Declaration when obtained --
This Declarant Claims a pension for Two years service although the same exceeded Two years --
This declarant further states that he is unable to procure the certificate as required by a Clergyman and gives as a Reason that the Clergyman of the Church to which he is attached only preaches occasionally in his neighborhood, and [illegible] so far distant as not to know the Reports of the same --
Hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not only the pension Roll of the agency of any state but receives from the State of Pennsylvania about 
his
Peter X Justice
mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid}
open Court} 
attest R. B. McCabe Prot [Prothonotary]
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Question 1. Where and in year were you born?
In Frederick County Maryland. - on the 12th of November 1758 -
2. Have you any Record of your age, and if so where is it?
I have not. I saw one my mother had in her life time
3d Where were you living when called into service where have you
lived in the Revolutionary and where do you now live?
In Westmoreland County of Jacob's Creek and there lived until the year 1807 and then lived ever since in Indiana County
4. How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
I enlisted --
5th State the names of some of the Regular officers who with the troops were you served; such continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect
and the general circumstances of your service?
I have stated all I believe that I can recollect in the forgoing declaration as regards the last question.
6 Did you to receive a discharge if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it?
I did  --It was given by Capt. Thomas Stokely, I do not now know
7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood [neighborhood] and who can testify as to your character for veracity and there belief of your services as a soldier in the Revolution?
Henry Kinter late Sheriff James Brady Esquire Peter Cratzer Esquire Reverend Jno. Reed of Indiana Daniel Stanard Esquire and Judge Taylor
his
Peter X  Justice
Mark
Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court- } 
attest R.B. McCabe Prot [Protonotary]
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We John Brady living Mahoning Township Indiana County and William Work living in the same hereby Certify that were well acquainted with Peter Justice who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood [neighborhood] where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that Opinion -
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in Open Court-}
attest R.B. Cabe Prot [Prothonotary]
Wm Work
John Brady

I James Brady of Westmoreland County Pennsylvania do hereby Certify that I knew Peters Justice some time in the year seventeen hundred and ninety six and that he was then reputed to be a soldier of the Revolution, and that he drew from the United States Bounty land for services during the Revolutionary
a soldier--
James Brady
Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid in Open Court attest
attest - R. McCabe Prot [Prothonotary]
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Deed poll
Peter Justice
To
James Brady
[illegible]
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Know all men by these presents, that I Peter Justice of Indiana County and State of Pennsylvania, late a Soldier in the Army of the United States of America, for and in consideration of the sum of thirty Dollars money of the State aforesaid to me in hand paid by James Brady of the borough of Greensburgh in the County of Westmoreland and State aforesaid, the receipt and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell release and confirm
unto the said James Brady his heirs and assigns, all my right to the interest property claim and demand, of in or to all land or lands to which I am entitled for my services as a soldier in the army of the said United States, during the revolutionary war with great Britain, To have and to hold, the said land and app[illegible torn]nances to the only proper use benefit and behoof of him the said James Brady his heirs and assigns forever, And I the said Peter Justice for myself my heirs Executors and administrators and every of them do hereby covenant and agree to and with the said James Brady his heirs executors administrators and assigns the the aforesaid land and every part thereof he the said Peter -
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Justice will warrant and forever defend to the said James Brady his heirs and assigns against all and every person or persons lawfully claiming or to claim the same, in through or under him in Witness whereof the parties aforesaid have hereunto set their hand and Seal this Eleventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven - -
Peter Justs [seal surrounded by squiggles]

Sealed and Delivered in presence of us }
Wm B. Brady
Hugh Brady

Received the day of the date of the within Instrument of writing of the within named James Brady the sum of thirty Dollars being in full of the consideration Money therein mentioned I say receive will by me
Petre Justs
Test
Wm W. Brady
Hugh Brady
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No 407.
Peter Justice -
private.
Penna. line
[illegible] issued 12 April 1808
& Delisd. [delivered] to Hon Wm. O Lindlay.
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Revolution
22856
INVALID.
File No. 22,856
Peter Justice
Pri [Private] Rev War
Act: June 7th 32"
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 214
[Arrangement of 1870]
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{Revolutionary Claim
Free
J L. Edwards Esqr [Esquire]
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City

Indiana Pa April 10th}

Penna. 
Original April 14 [illegible]

April 14th 1834
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Indiana April 10th 1834
Dear Sir
Enclosed is the declaration of Peter Justice which I have been requested to forward to you 
William Hines whose deposition it was expected would be obtained in support of the declaration, died shortly after the application was made to the Court -
Peter Wallaces deposition was also not taken by reason of his great debility of body as well as mind, being much advanced in years.
Your most Obt [Obedient] Servant
J.J. Young