Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,934, for Peter Sones, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
CONTENTS
Sones, Peter

NUMBER
S. 23.934.
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11.299
Pennsylvania
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Peter Jones
of Lycoming Co in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Mouser of the Rgt commanded
by Genl Washington in the Pennsylvania
une for-
7 Mo Private
$23.33
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 23. Dollars 33 - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of April
1833
and Sent to
W. Cox Ellis-Muncy.Pa

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 46.66
Semi anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 11.66
$58.32

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J. T. Sprague- Clerk
Book E Vol. 5 Page 52

W. G. Wade Aug 16 1853
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application of 
Peter Sones-for a 
Pension-

18547
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State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County Set
{in open Court
pleas for Lycoming County aforesaid}
On this sixth day of 
October AD 1832 Personally appeared before the judges of the court of common
Peter Sones a resident of Moreland township in the County of Lycoming in Pennsylvania aforesaid aged
about seventy seven 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed
June 7th 1832, That he enlisted in the army of the
United States in the year 1776 in the Company of Captain
Jacob Mouser, Col. Lutz of the flying camp. Hetherly
the commander of the Batalion was Major Filbert-
The Adjutant was Nathl Scull-- I was enlisted at
my Fathers house in Richmond Township in
Berks County in Pennsylvania - Our company
was formed & met together, to march, at the Tavern of
Danl Sevan in Maxatawney Township in Berks
County- our first Lieutenant was Stephen Baldy
the 2nd Lieutenant was Yos Suter we marched
to Bethlehem (corrected from Easton) & then to Easton (corrected from Bethlehem) in Penns- from there
we marched to Amboy in the (corrected from Jersey) State of Jersey home
then into the city of New York --from there to Long Island
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In the battle of Longisland, our Captain
Mousey -Lieutenant Baldy & Col Lutz
were taken prisoners by the Enemy and the adjutant Notts Scull
After this I was in a battle on Staten Island
the company was there under the command of our
2nd Lieutenant Suter - we even then under the
command of Col. Haller
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I think of the Militia
{strikethroughs}

I was afterwards in the Battle of White Plains, Genl Washington commanded in person at this Battle. I was frequently near him that day. 
This I believe because he was present
this was the
last Battle I was in. I continued in hard
service in the Jersey until after Fort Washington
on the North River
was taken. On one occassion we marched all
day & all night under Genl Lee, in order to
cross the north River, in advance of passing the English
Army afterwards we marched from Newark
to Trenton at which place I was taken sick
I had 8 days to serve out the term of my enlistment
I was allowed by a writing received from Col
Haller with 7 others of my company to go home- I got home 
on the 9th day after leaving Trenton--
The 7 men & myself were all sick- The writing that (unable to be seen)

was handed to one of our number
(unable to see) Col Mouser was
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to draw an army team I enlisted this time at 
Windsor Township in Berks county under our
Mr Vandersbici- what office he filled I do not
know- The Waggon master was Barney
Kepler- I went first to Reading- There I received 
my team- I was then under the Command of 
Col Morgan- I was kept at Reading 4 months
Then sent off with a Team in company with
5 other waggons under the waggon Master Kepler- We crossed the Delaware as Eastons- then to Amboy
toward the Nott River & went to the army
which lay on a place called Quaker Hill- We took our leave back to Bound Brook in the jersey and then had to leave there-
Afterwards I served a tour of duty as a 
Militia man in a company commanded by Captain 
McMurray, in the Pennsylvania Militia. I 
was drafter for 2 months & served the time our in guarding the Public stores at Reading--
Joseph Litchard of Muncy  creek Township in Lycoming County knows of my service in the army- was with the army at the same time with myself in the Battle of Long Island and White Plains- John Beaver of the same township and county, knows of my services as a militia
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
John Cummings
A Davidson
Joseph ditchard a resident of Muncy creek Township in Lycoming County aforesaid being duly sworn according to Law in open court of Common pleas of the said County on the 6th day of October AD 1832 doth declare and
say, that he served in the army at the same time as party the service of Peter Sones the above named applicant, that they
served together at the Battles of Long island and white plains
The first he saw of him was at Amboy
that he was afterwards in service with him at Fort Washington on the North river from which
place we marched to Long Island-- After the Battle of white plains we were seperated. I have known him before we entered the army and ever since. I have lived 4 years in
Northumberland and Lycoming Counties-- when I now live or nearly so during about 38 years of that time Peter Sones has lived near to me
He is considered a man of truth and veracity
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Joseph [his mark] Litchard
J. Wood Prot

John Beaver a resident of Muncy creek township in Lycoming County aforesaid in open Court of common pleas of the said County [illegible text between lines Apr. 1832] doth declare and say, that he was in service as a militia man in the Pennsylvania
militia, in the spring of the year 1780 in Reading in Berks County, and that while there, as such, he saw Peter Sones the above named applicant in service as a militia man in the Pennsyl [?] militia in a company commanded by Capt McMurray
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In answer to the interrogatories directed by the
War Department to be propounded to the said applicant as a militia man he answers as follows
1st  I was born in Richmond Township in Berks County in Pennsylvania on the 23rd day of November 1755 -
2nd  I have a record of my age taken out of the Family Bible, of my Fathers family and given to me when I moved from Berks County into Lycoming County
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3  I lived at Richmond Township in Berks County when I enlisted in the Continental Army, and also when I was drafted as a militia man
4  I enlisted in the army as I have stated, and was drafted as a militia man for two months when served as a militia man at Reading as I have stated
5  The names of the officers under whom I have served, both in the Army of the United States and in the Militia. I have stated to the best of my recollection in my declaration in chief-
To the interrogatory to be propounded to him as a soldier - he answers
that he never received any other writing or discharge
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Joseph Wood Prothonotary
We Samuel Shoemaker a Justice of the peace in and for said County and William Cox Ellis attorney Law residing in Lycoming County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Sones who has subscribed to the above declaration, that we believe him to be about 77 years, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood when he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & affirmed and subscribed the day and
year aforesaid
J. Wood Prot.
Saml Shoemaker
W. Cox Ellis
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 Samuel
Shoemaker and Wm Cox Ellis Esquires who have signed the preceding certificate are resident in
[illegible text and are credible persons]
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I Joseph Wood Prothonotary of the County
Commonpleas of Lycoming County aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing, contains the original proceeding of the said Court, in the matter of the application Peter Jones for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and the seal of the said Court that 6th
day of October AD 1832
J. Wood Prot
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Peter Sones
of Pa.
Pens act 32[die?] at Nov 3, 1850
An examination of papers is asked that the claimant may receive the proper allowance for 
[6?] months service as a [Teamster?] which at the time of adjustment of the claim was not
considered military service,
will
W. G. Wade attny
[Prase?]
NY
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lycoming
ss ⎬ J.M. Green Prothonotary
of the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming County aforesaid Clerk of the Court of Session
do hereby certify that at a County Court
of Common Pleas holden at Williamsport on the 10th day of February A.D. 1852, evidence satisfactory to said Court was adduced to show that Peter Sones, late a United States pensioner, at the rate of $23 33/100
died on the third day of November (1850) one
thousand eight hundred and fifty, that at
his decease he left no widow him surviving
but left the following named children him
surviving which are his only children him
surviving viz. George & John Sones of Pennsylvania Peter Jones of Michigan, Eliza Ritter Susanna Houseknect of Penn Catherine Hill also of the County of Lycoming aforesaid (the said Eliza, Susannah & Catharine being
daughters of the said Peter Jones deceased
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and that each are of the age of twenty one,
and upwards
I further certify that John J Crouse is the
administrator of Peter Jones late a pensioner of the U.S. [ted?] and authorized to act as such.
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State of Pennsylvania ⎬
Lycoming County 
I John Sones being being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is a son of Peter Sones who was a Soldier of the Revolution and was inscribed on the pension Roll about the year 1833 and that he has an interest in the claim of said
Peter Soans or Sones as he sometimes spelled his name
Sworn and subscribed this 7th day
of November 1861 before me

Jn J Crouse, Geo F Boal
John [his mark] Sones
State of Pennsylvania
County of Lycoming 
 Know all men by these presents, that
I John Sones do hereby constitute
and appoint W. G. Wade of Rose Wayne County my true and lawful Attorney
for me & in my name to prosecute an investigation of the claim of Peter Jones my
father late deceased for an increase of pension
due from the United States
Signed in presence of 
Jhn J Crouse
Geo F Boal
John [his mark] Soans
State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County
On the Seventh day of November, 1857 personally appeared before me John Sones
whom I know the person named in the above power of attorney & acknowledged the same to be his act and deed
Jhn J Crouse
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Peter Sones

Pens Act 32
Penn.
[Exty?] Mr Wade
Dec 27-1857
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State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County
Lewis Martin Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming County aforesaid hereby certify that John J Crouse within and before whom the within affidavit and power of Attorney have here executed & acknowledged by John Soans, is a magistrate a Justice of the Peace in aforesaid County
Commissioned acting as such according to law and that his signature is genuine
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In testimony whereof I
have hereinto set my hand and
official seal at Williamsport in
said County this 10th day
of November AD 1837
Lewis Martin Protty
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Revolution
No.
23934
INVALID.

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23.934
Peter Sones
The Rev War
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Act: June 7" 32
Index: --Vol. 2, Page 387
Arrangement of 1870.)
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Rose New York
May of 1833
A reexamination of the papers of Peter Somes
per act 32 Penn, is requested
that service claimed as time service, but disallowed when his pension was
adjusted, may now be admitted
Enclosed is proof
of heirship,
I am Respectfully
[?]
W G Wade
Sir,
Hon L P Waldo
Com of Pensions
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State of Pennsylvania Lycoming County Set [seat?]
Be it remembered that upon the tenth day of
April-- AD 1833 personally appeared in open
Court before the Honourable John Kenedy in [illegible text] Esquire one of the associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the Circuit Court of Lycoming County aforesaid, Peter Sones a resident of
Moreland Township in the County of Lycoming aforesaid aged seventy seven years and over, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth upon his oath make the following
additional declaration to his declaration in chief made before the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in open Court upon the 6th day of October AD 1832, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act
of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. And in order to obviate and explain objections made by the War department to the said application to the best of his memory and belief he enlisted when he first entered the service of the United States, in the company of Captain Mowser, under Col. Lutz of the flying camp in the month of June 1776, in the month of July 1776 the company marched from the rendevous at the [Tavern?] of
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it is that Joseph Litchard, otherwise Joseph Ledyard has proved in his deposition annoted to his declaration in Chief that he knew the applicant as a fellow soldier at the Battles of Long island White Plains & other places-
Passing over the time of my being enlisted to
drew [dress?]team in the army for 6 months as stated in my declaration in chief, which until now I had supposed was employment under the authority of Congress, and in the Continental Army service, I further state as already stated in my declaration in Chief that I
was drafted and served a Tour of Two
months service as a soldier in the Pennsyvania militia in a company commanded by Capt McMurray, which service is proved by the deposition of John Beaver who was a fellow soldier with me in the
militia at that time. I cannot recollect [?] this service John Beaver
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in the company of Pennsylvania Militia of Captain McMurray for Two months, makes altogether Seven months service performed by me in the Revolutionary war as a Soldier and militia man
Sworn and Subscribed in open Court the day and year first above written-
[illegible name  Aham Litchard?]
J. Wood Clk

Abraham Taylor Esquire and Charles Shoemaker Resident citizens of Lycoming County, and respectively respectable
men and of truth and integrity, and both being credible witnesses being respectively sworn in open Court of the Circuit and Pennsylvania for Lycoming County before the Honorable John-- Kenedy Esquire one of the Justices
of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania holding the said Court open the 10th day of April 1833 according to law, upon their respective oaths do say that they are respectively well acquainted with John Beeber and Joseph Litchard residents of Muncy creek township in the said County who have been examined upon the 6th day of October 1832
as witnesses in the matter of the application of Peter Somes for a Pension hereto annexed, in open Court of Common pleas of the said County of Lycoming, are respectively [[creditable?] men of fair character for truth and integrity
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State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County Ss I, Joseph Wood Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of Lycoming County aforesaid and clerk of the Circuit Court of Pennsylvania for the said County, do hereby certify, that the annexed Papers connected together, and sealed with the seal of the said Court, on the full proceedings in the matter of the application of the within named Peter Sones for a Pension - respectively had in the said Court In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and the seal of the said Circuit Court the 10th day of April 1833.
J. Wood Clk. C.C.
$23.33 per annum