Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41527, John Faust, Penn
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Service                                               Number
Penn                    Faust, John             S.41527
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T 2  (5, 007)
Pennsylvania Roll
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John Faust,     Private
Col Butler 2yrs 6 months
Pennsylvania Line
The army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Scribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 15th of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26th of Sept. 1818
and sent to Jacob Hendel Esq
Carlisle Penna
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818                  37.33
Semi-anl. all'ee ending 4th Mar 1819   48.00
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Arrears 4 Mo 20/30                              $85.33

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Discontinued
Notification sent to Hon. A Boden
18 July 1820
Carlisle Cumberland Co
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State of Pennsylvania } ss
Cumberland County
     On the fifteenth day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and
for said county, personally appears John Faust, Senior aged between sixty and sixty-one years, resident in Carlisle in said county and state who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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: " That he the said John Faust, Senior enlisted in Cumberland County, State of Pennsylvania in the Company
called "The Major's company" commanded by Lieutenant Edward Butler of the ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Col Richard Butler, on the twelfth day of May 1778, to serve for three years or during the war; That
he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the 27th day of September 1780, when he was discharged from service in Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania by Colonel Nicola, Col. of the corps of Invalids; that he was disabled by building huts at Jockey Hollow in
Jersey in the winter of 1779 - 80.  That his discharge, together with the certificate of Col Caleb North that said John Faust had enlisted
for three years or during the war, & had regularly served in the Revolutionary army, have been mislaid among the papers of the Pennsylvania Legislature, having been forwarded there in the year 1800, for the purpose of obtaining a pension, which never was obtained. And that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of this
assistance of his country in support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.              John Faust 

Sworn to and declared before me
the day and year aforesaid:
Jacob Hendel
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I Jacob Hendel Judge and as aforsaid do certify that it appears
to my satisfaction that the within named John Faust Senior did serve
in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against 
the common enemy and I now transmit the preceding and testimony
taken that before me to the Secretary for the Department of war
pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of congress
April the 15th AD 1818
Jacob Handel
State of Pennsylvania
Cumberland County 
I Robert Mcoy Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common
pleas in for said county. Do certify that the aforesaid Jacob
Handel is a Judge of said court (the same being a court of record)
and his acts as such entitled to full faith and credit, of the name
Jacob Handel to the forgoing declaration and certificate signed is in the said Judges
hand writing
Witness my hand seal of office at  Carlilse
this fifteenth day of April 1818
Robert Mcoy Prothy
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John Faust Private
9th Pennsylv Rgt
delayed until the (Ineligible)
received
April 29 1768 (Crossed out)
E B
15 April
Pennsylvania (ineligible)  
Cumberland C
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section 
Septemer 18 1925
Sue I. Silliman
Three Rivers Free Public Library
Three Rivers, Michigan
Madam
I have to advise you that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim S. 41587 it appears
that John Faust enlisted May 12, 1778 in Cumberland
County Pennsylvania, served as private in Major Nich-
ols' Company, Colonel Richard Butler's Ninth Pennsylva-
nia Regiment until in February 1780, when on account of
injuries received during the winter of 1779 while build-
ing huts in Jockey Hollow, New Jersey, he was transfer-
red to Captain Wilbert's Company, Colonel Lewis Nicola's
Corps of Invalids and was discharged September 27, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 15, 1818 while a resident of Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pennsylvania.
In June 1820 he was aged sixty-two years and eight
months and referred to his wife Mary Magdalena aged fif-
ty years, daughter Polly aged twenty-two years, son
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(typed letter)
Anthony aged seventeen years and other children whose names are not stated.
The above noted is the only soldier named John Faust, under any spelling of that name, found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

(hand written)
The letters to Hon. H. Stevens, Ja. A. Shindel, Wm. Bigler and Paul Leidy were cut from the old books after both of these letters were written (the one of Mch. 23 & this) & they show that the wife survived & that he died before 1832 & refer to son Anthony--As Anthony is named in claim of sol- & I have no definite date of soldier's & widow's death nor her name and as sol-referred to his wife (Wife is underlined) and gave her name in 1820, I do not use anything in the four letters.
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41527
INVALID  ("Revy" hand-written)
File No. 41527
John Faust
____ ____ War
18 March 18
Index: Vol 3 Page 166
{Arrangement of 1870}

Sept. 30 1905
His   ___ ___

1925 Mch 29
Hist to Mrs. John H Stephens-____

1925 Sept. 18
Hist to Sue G. Silliman-____
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Mr. McRea
You will oblige
me very much to give
(word crossed out) the desired information
in reference to enclosed
for Gov Bigler USS
Very Respectful
J. A. Shindel
______________________________
Please deliver 
answer to Mr Shindel

(Address on envelope)
Department of the Interior
Pension Office, Official Business
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Hon: Paul Leidy

Feb: 26/59
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Interior Office
Feb: 26" 1859

Sir:
In compliance with your request of the 21" inst: I have the honor to include herein the copies of the papers upon file in this office upon which a pension was allowed Jno. Faust of Pa: under the Act of 18" March. 1818.



Hon: Paul Leidy
Ho: Rep:
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Hon. Wm Bigler
Dec. 24/06
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Pension Office
Dec. 14, 1836

Sir:

In reply to the enclosed letter, I have to inform you that John Faust was allowed a pension under the act of 18 March 1818, and was paid on the 4 March, 1820 when his name was stricken from the rolls.  

As his widow died prior to the ___ of any law for her benefit, the children have no claim. 

Hon. Wm. Bigler
U. S. Senate
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Paper Copy:
Feb: 26.
I sent 
toHon. 
P. Leidy
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Washington Feb 21 1859
Geo C Whiting Esq.

Comm of Pensions

Will you please furnish to Com on Rev Pensions Copy of the application of John Faust a Revolutionary soldier for Pension with a copy of the Evidence and certificate of the fact that said Faust was a Pensioner- He is said to have drawn a Pension from March 1818 to March 1820
I think he belonged to the Pennsylvania line When he drew his Pension he resided in Cumberland Co Pa. and I think resided there at the time of the performance of his service.
Very Respectfully
Paul Leidy mem
of Com on Rev Pensions
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Dear Sir:
I inclose to you two pension cases to enquire into for me-I had some papers last Session in reference to the case of Anthony P Faust but I am not certain Whether I took them to the Dept or to the Senate

Your Resp.
Wm Bigler
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J. A. Shindel

Feb. 4. 1856
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Pension Office
Feb. 4 1856

Sir:

I herewith return the letter of Mefsn AP Faust and John Ware and have to inform you that the children of John Faust of Penna. have no claim to arrears of pension.  He received all he was entitled to under the Act of 1818, was dropped from the pension roll under the provisions of the Act of May 1 1820 and did not live to the passage of the Act of June 7 1832 under which alone he would have been entitled.

They are not entitled in sight of his widow as she did not live until the passage of any act of Congress under which she could have ___ a claim.

I would remark that the same information has been furnished the same parties before.
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Hon. J Findlay H. R.
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I do hereby certify that I have frequently attended Mr John Faust as his Physician; that he is severely afflicted with Hemorrhoids (Piles) & much disabled by a paralytic affliction of his left side affecting both extremities of said sides & that he is in addition largely ruptured on both sides; in short that he is altogether much disabled.
George D. Foulke MD

Pennsylvania
Cumberland County 
Set Before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County personally appeared the above named Doctor George D. Foulke and he being duly sworn according to law saith that the facts set forth in the above Certificate are true to which his signature is annexed-
Geo. D. Foulke MD
Sworn & Subscribed
before me 4th December
1821 
Elisha Doyle
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S) by
Certificate of the
taxable property of
John Faust
See letter to the Hon. J. Findlay H.R. 19 Jan 1812
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John Faust     Rate for 1808

1 house & lot late D. Lindsey.  $350.00

John Fausts      Rate for 1811
1 house & lot.                            $500.00

I Do certify to all whoome (whom) it may concern that the above is a true Copy taken from the rate Books of Codicil filed in the Commissioner office of Cumberland County & that the ammount (amount) of the property owned by John Faust is rated at three hundred and fifty dollars for 1808 & for 1811 at five hundred Dollars, as above stated.

Given under my hand & the seal of the Commissioners office of Cumberland County this 23d day of June AD 1820

D. Fisher
Clerk to Commissioners
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-Hon TH : Stevens
Aug 17/.52
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236
Pension Office
Aug 17 1852
Sir
Therewith return the letters of Anthony G
Faust and John Ware and have the honor to inform you that Faust has no claim to any pension or arrearages of Pension. His father was dropt under the law of 1820, because he had too much property. he was pensioned for all the service performed by him to that date, under the law of 1818. His Mother died before any law was passed for the benefit of the widows of Revolutionary soldiers.
Hon TH Stevens
Hos Reps
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John Faust.. Senr.




3007
Not Entle

2 with 3 written over

John Faust (written bottom to top)
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State of Pennsylvania
Cumberland County}  Ss

On this twentieth day of June 1820 personaly[sp] appeared in open Court of Common Pleas for said County of Cumberland the same being a court of Records as well because it is expressly made such by the laws of the state as because it has the power of fine and imprisonment and for other reasons, John Faustt[sp] Senior, aged sixty two years and eight months, resident in the borough of Carlisle in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on this oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows ==
He enlisted for three years or during the war on the twelfth day of May 1778 in Cumberland County Pennsylvania under Lieutenant Stephen Stephenson[sp] in major Nicholass[sp] company commanded by Lieutenant Edward Butler in the ninth regiment of the line of Pennsylvania in the continental Establish Commands &c by Lt Col Cabel North- he joined said Regiment at the white plains immediately after the Battle of Monmouth In February 1780 he was transfered[sp] into the corps of Invalids at Philadelphia in captain Wilberts Company under the command of Col Lewis Nichola on account of a hurt received in buildg[sp] huts he was discharged on the twenty seventh of September 1780 at Philadelphia by Col Nichola at the instance[sp] of the Chevalier De La Lucern minister of France & of Mr Peters[,] Judge advocate of Pennsylvania Said discharge was laid before the Legislature of Pennsylvania in the year 1800 for the purpose of obtaining a pension (which was not then obtained) and remains among the state papers or is lost+==Deponant applied for a pension under the then existing laws of Congress on the fifteenth of April 1818 and received a pension agreeably thereto from that day till September 1819 the number of his pension certificate being 3007– and I do further solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed 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 & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War”— passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed==
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Deponant is by profession a millwright but is unable to pursue his trade by reason of infirmity of body
Deponant's wife Mary Magdalena aged fifty years resides with him and is unable to do any work except in the house his daughter Polly age 22 years, also resides with him and assists in the necessary business of the family, His son Anthony ages 17 years also resides with him and is going to a trade but it at  present unable to work. The rest of his children are working for themselves.

      Schedule of Declosants real and personal property: a town lot at the west end of Carlisle with an old log house and stable thereon - subject to lein of $121.25 with interest from 1808, one clock, one stove (broken), one settee, 6 chairs a broken [ illegible ], 2 small looking glasses, one old desk, some millwright tools, some kitchen furniture, two tables (walnut), one old harpsichord made by deponant himself, one old [illegible] a peusion granted by the State of Pennsylvania of forty dollars a year.
Deponant has a judgment against the estate of [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] for $12, some small [illegible] to deponant by different persons not exceeding in amount of $20 most of which he considers desperate.  Two bibles and some other religious books.

Sworn and subscribed in open court this 20th day of June 1820 (signed John Faust)
(signed)  James Armstrong

The court value the property mentioned in the foregoing schedule at $1055 subject to the lein and exclusive of the pension granted by the State of Pennsylvania.

Test
     Robt. McCoy  Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania
Cumberland County Ss

I Robert McCoy Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County do hereby Certify that the foregoing oaths are truly Copied from the Records of said Court and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the Total amount in value of the Property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one Thousand and fifty five dollars

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Said Court at Carlisle the thirtieth day of June Announcement Domini 1820

Robt. McCoy Pro/ry
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Enlisted May 12, 1778 and in Cumb. Co Pa
Col Richard Butlers
9th regt. Penn. Line
Transferred Feby 1780
To Capt Wilberts co.
Col. Lewis Nicola’s[sp]
Corps of Invalids and
Discharged Sept. 27, 1780.

Date of appli-Apr. 15, 1818
Res- at  “ Carlisle Cumberland Co. Pa.
Age- bet. 60 & 61 years
Wife-Mary Magdalena 50 yrs in 1820
Daughter Polly 22 yrs. in 1820
Son Anthony 17 yrs.      “   “
Other children referred to
Names not stated-
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Three Rivers Free Public Library
Three Rivers, Michigan
R. R. LINSLEY, FRESIDENT
CARL KLOCKE, VIER PRESIDENT
MRS. JENNIE WALTON SECRETARY
MISS SUE I. SILLIMAN, LIBRARIAN
Directors:
R. S. LINSLEY
CARL KLOCKE
J. C. SHOWALTER
MRS. JENNIE WALTON

Commissioner of Pensions,
Pension Bureau.
Dept of Revolutionary Records
Washington, D. C.
July 8, 1925.

Dear sir: I am advised by the Pennsylvania State Library that a John Foust of Cumberland County applied for a pension Sept 26,1818 at the age of 62. Have you any data concerning him?
A Johnie Foust (Faust )- blind soldier of the Revolution is buried in the Moorepark Cemetery, St Joseph County, Michigan. He
is supposed to have come to Michigan about 1848(?) (born about [date illegible] and died ..7/8) 1853; aged 98yr---14da.
We shall be most appreciative of any information that you can give us.
Very truly,
Three Rivers Public Library
Sue L. Silliman [Signature]
Sue I. Silliman, Librn.
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41 Osborne St.
Johnstown, Pa.
Mar. 17, 1925.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C
Dear Sir:  -
Will you kindly send me a copy
of date of pension granted John Faust 
only one [Handwritten]
or Foust, who served in Revolutionary War.
Also of Peter Poorman, whose will
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is entered to probate at
Greensburg, Westmoreland Co.
in 1820, Rev. service
Respectfully
Mrs. John H. Stephens
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83 Willow Avenue, [Letterhead]
West Somerville, Mass [Letterhead]
August 31, 1906. [Stamped}
Chief of Pension Department,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I am anxious to obtain the military
record of a Revolutionary soldier, and take the
liberty of asking whether or not you can and will favor me with the same? if not kindly refer my request to the proper official. I refer to John Faust, who is referred to in the Penna. Archives (Page 692, vol. 15) as being a pensioner under the Act of Congress, March 10, 1818. If possible also state his residence at time of enlistment date of death, and residence at that time. Thanking you in advance for this anticipated favor.
Very respectfully,
W. W. Neifert
83 Willow Ave W. Somerville Mass
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
March 23, 1925
Mrs. John H. Stephens
Osborne St.,
Johnstown, Penn.
Madam:
Mutt [Handwritten]
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 41527 it appears that John Faust enlisted May 12, 1778 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, served as private in Major Nichols' Company. Colonel Richard Butler's Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment until in February 1780, when on
account of injuries received during the winter of 1779 while building huts in Jockey Hollow, New Jersey, he was transferred to Captain Wilbert's Company, Colonel Lewis
Nicola's Corps of Invalids and was discharged September 27, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 15, 1818 while a resident of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
In June 1820 he was aged sixty-two years and eight
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Date of
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months and referred to his wife Mary Magdalena
aged fifty years, daughter Polly aged twenty-two
years, Anthony aged seventeen years and other
children, names not given.
The above noted is the only soldier named
John Faust, under any spelling of that name, found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
Date of death not on atb(?) [Handwritten]