Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23873, for John Riblet, Pennsylvania
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3-1776
SERVICE Penn
Riblet, John 
NUMBER S23873
CONTENTS
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11490
Pennsylvania
John Riblet
of Erie Co in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain N Kearn of the Regt commanded by Col Keroline in the Pa Militia line for Six months
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20 Dollars    Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension Issued the first day of May 1833 and sent to T. H. Sill Erie Pena [Pennsylvania]
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $40.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th Sept. 33 10.00
$50.00

died
Aug 6 1835
Cer B
{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Geo B. Whiting Clerk
Book E  Vol. 5  Page 48
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State of Pennsylvania
Erie County SS
On this twenty first
day of Sept 1832 personally
appeared in open court before the judges of the Court of
Common Pleas being a court of Record now sitting
John Riblet of the Township of Mill Creek in the County of Erie and State of Pennsylvania aged seventy
five years who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on his oath make the following declaration
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as
herein stated. That at the time he performed the services herein after stated he was a resident of Allen
Township in Northampton County and State of Pennsylvania. That some time in the month of
June 1776 he enlisted to serve in what was called the Flying camp, to serve for the term of six months
that he enlisted in the Township of Allen aforesaid and he enlisted in the company commanded by Capt Nicholas Kearnen we were first marched to Easton in the State of
Pennsylvania at Easton another company of the Flying camp joined us. We then marched through
Bristol Burlington Princeton and Newark to New York and were encamped two days back of New York we built a battery back of N York near the East river Col Kuchline was our Colonel. Major
Barndamit was our Major. At New York we joined several other companies of the Flying Camp. The Flying camp then amounted to about five hundred men. We
were then taken over to Long Island from New York the Fort on Long Island was taken the same day we got over. In three or four days after we got over to
Long Island we were taken prisoners. I was put on
board the Roe Buck a prison ship, and remained there about five days. From thence we were taken on board another vessel where we remained a few days. We were then taken to the City of New York (the British then having obtained possession of it. We were there put into the Presbyterian meeting house as prisoners and were kept there seventeen weeks and five days. A great many
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of the prisoners died at that place. We were then taken to Burlington (N Jersey we marched to Burlington on foot and were taken from thence to Philadelphia in waggons. We were there put into a hospital (as it was
called. We had been discharged at N York on parol, I was in Philadelphia on New Years day of 1777. from Philadelphia I went home. Gen Washington was on Long Island at the time I was there. I remained at home for parol
[???] two years on parol for about when we were exchanged and received notice of our exchange
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to
a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
He has no documentary evidence and
knows of no persons by whom to prove
his services except the accompanying
depositions

The Court propounded the following interrogatories
the applicant
1st Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
3.Where were you living when called into service
4. where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?
4. When you were called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute. And if a substitute for whom? 
5.State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental and Militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service
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advice; and if so by whom was it given and what has
become of it.
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known
in your present neighbourhood, and who can
testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution We Robert Reed a Clergyman residing in the Bough County of Erie and State of Penn and Samuel Brow residing in the same
place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Riblet 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 where he resides
to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Robert Reid
S Brown
Sworn and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid I Brown
Edwin S. Kelso Pro
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 Robert Ried who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergy man resident in the Borough of the State of Penna
and that Samuel Brown who has also signed the
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the same is a resident in the the Same Place
and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
John Vincent
J Grubb
Fin Edwin J. Kelso CLK
I Edwin J Kelso the Clerk of the Court of Erie County Penna do hereby certify the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Riblet for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 21st day of Sept one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Edwin J. Kelso Clk

Text is upside down and paper seal is attached
State of Pennsylvania 
Erie County Ss
I Edwin J Kelso Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County do hereby certify that the foregoing (contained on the one sheet & a half of paper attached by a red ribbon on which the seal is affixed) contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Riblet for a pension the testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 25th March 1833
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State of Pennsylvania
Erie County Ss
I Edwin J Kelso Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County do hereby certify that the foregoing (contained on the one sheet & a half of paper attached by a red ribbon on which the seal is affixed) contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Riblet for a pension the testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 25th March 1833
[Paper seal attached]
[Text upside down]
the same is a resident in the the Same Place
and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
John Vincent
J Grubb
Fin Edwin J. Kelso CLK
I Edwin J Kelso the Clerk of the Court of Erie County Penna do hereby certify the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Riblet for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 21st day of Sept one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Edwin J. Kelso Clk
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He further states in answer to the Interrogatories put by the Court- That he was born in Northampton County State of Pennsylvania the year 1756 -- I have a record of my age in my family Bible which was entered by my Father. I was living in Allen Town at Northampton County Pa at the time
I was called in to the services  I lived their till
I was thirty one years of age when I removed
to the State of Maryland near Hagerstown and lived there about Seventeen
years, and [illegible] thence I removed to
the County of Erie and State of Pennsylvania where I have resided ever since
He was enlisted into the service He does not
recollect the names of any officers
excepting those he has mentioned
For evidence of his character he refers to
Judah Colt, Rufus T Reid, Mr. Robert Reid, 
Robert Mccelland Esq, Samuel Brown, and Robert Brown -
John Riblet
Sworn & Subscribed
in Open Court 21st
day of September 1832
Edwin J. Kelso Pro
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State of Pennsylvania 
County of Erie ss

Henry Riblet of township of Mill Creek in the county of Erie and state aforesaid being duly sworn according to law deposes and says - 
That to his own certain knowledge he remembers the fact of his brother John Riblet enlisting in the "Flying camp" during the revolutionary war in the company commanded by Capt Kearns with whom he was acquainted. That he was in the town of Bethlehem when his brother John Riblet marched from there to Easton in the "Flying camp"
This his brother John did not return home the same year in which he marched from Bethlehem and the ponent believes - from what he heard during the absence of his brother - that he was taken prisoner while serving in the "Flying camp" 
Henry Riblet 

Sworn and subscribed this 13th day of September 1832 - before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Erie
Giles Sanford 

State of Pennsylvania 
Erie County ss 

I Edwin J Kelso prothonotary of the Court of Common Please in and for the County of Erie, do hereby certify that Giles Sanford esquire before whom the above deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace in + for said county. Witness my hand + seal of office this 27th September 1832. 

Edwin J Kelco Prot
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State of Pennsylvania
Erie County

Polly Gook of the Township of Mill-Creek in the County of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, being duly sworn according to Law, deposeth and saith
That she is a sister of John Riblet of the said Township of Mill-Creek she well recollects that in the month of June or July in the year 1775 the said John Riblet enlisted in what was called the "Flying Camp", under Captain Kearns in the Regiment commanded by Col. Kachlein, to serve as a solder in the War of the Revolution. The said John Riblet then resided at Allen Township in Northampton County, in this state. The said John Riblet left home at the same time in company with several of the neighboring young men to join the troops; he was absent from home, as she understood and believes, in the said service, until sometime in the month of January following, when he returned home. I understood that he had been taken prisoner during his absence. He was unwell when he came home and was sick a good while during that Jan & winter
Polly (her mark) Gook

Sworn to and subscribed this 20th day of September 1832 before me one of the Justices of the Peace of the County of Erie

Ebenezer D Gunnison
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duly commissioned and sworn in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 27th September A. D. 1832
Edwin J. Kelso ___

I hereby certify that Polly Gook who signed the within deposition is a credible person and that her statement is entitled to full faith and credit 
__26 March 1833

Ebenezer D Gunnison 
Justice of the Peace
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Navy
Apr 28 1905
FILES.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

Mary Fox Englebry
1165 Granville Avenue
Brentwood Heights Station
West Los Angeles, California

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War Pension claim, S. 2__75, that John Riblet was born in 1756, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

While a resident of Allen Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in June, 1776, as a private in Captain Nicholas Kearn's Company, Colonel Kachkein's Pennsylvania Regiment; was taken prisoner on Long Island and confined on the prison ship, Roebuck, and in New York City, until he was paroled, reaching home in January, 1777.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 21, 1832, while a resident of Mill Creek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania.

He died August 6, 1835.

There are no data relative to wife and children.

The above noted is the history of the only John Riblet found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

Said records fail to show a claim on file on account of the services of any soldier surnamed Stiffler or Stifler, and Kiper.

In order to identify the records of particular soldiers of the Revolution named Kelsey and Van Benschoten, the full name is essential, with as much as possible of the following
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data pertaining to each: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service, and given name of widow.

Very truly yours

E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner
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23.873

Litchfield Mich.
May 10 1905

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
Your answer to my inquires in regard to John Riblet Rev soldier Cap. Nicholas Kearn, is received and am very grateful for same but is not quite as definitive as I hoped.
Can you not give No. of Reg. & ___ and was he discharged on account of wounds, an honorable discharge. Did length of service include the time he was a prisoner?
We thought he was imprisoned three years
Thanking you for information I have received & for what I hope
Very truly
Mrs. A. G. Conger
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There may be some discrepancy in the spelling of the names. In the pension rolls of the Kansas City Library is found the name John Ribert - Erie Co. Pa. and Christian Riblet of Richland Co. Ohio John & Christian were brothers might not the e in John Riblets name be intended for an L
As I can make two inquiries can you tell me from what place Peter Riblet enlisted 
He was in (This is crossed out: Steven Maryland) 4 th reg. light Dragoons Steven Mayland commanding. I think he received a pension
Mrs. A. G. Conger

SEAL
Pension Office
U. S.
Apr 26 1905
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1529 Monroe NW
Washington D. C.
Sept. 17, 1925

May I have a copy of the Revolutionary War record of my ancestor John Riblet?
I am his Great Great Grand Daughter. The records are for D. A. R. purposes.
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Can you also inform me as to date of his Death or when his pension ceased being sent to him.
Was it ever claimed by his wife?
Thank You sincerely
Mrs. C. J. McGuire
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
C. E. Riblet, Pastor
Derby, Kansas

December 5, 1929.

Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Revolutionary War Records Section.
Washington, D. C.

Honorable and Dear Sir:

I am interested in looking up the history of the Riblets. I shall appreciate it very much if you would kindly send me a copy of the statements made by John Riblet and Henry Riblet when they applied for their pension. They served in the Revolutionary War from Northampton Co. Pa. Did they make statements as to where they were born and where they lived afterwards?
I would also like to have the same date of Edward Walker, Ned Walker and Elijah Walker. They served in the same war from Luzerne Co. Pa.
The Pa. Archives give the name of Daniel Kiblet from Lancaster Co. Pa. Soldier in the Rev. War. I have thought perhaps, there might have been a typographical error, the "R" taken for a "K". Please look and see if you have the name of Daniel Kiblet, and if so send me his data. or Daniel Riblet.
Thanking you beforehand for your kindness, I am,
Yours Respectfully, 
C. E. Riblet
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June 17, 1927

E. D. Conger
Kent State Bank, Monroe & Lyon Office
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Sir:

I have to advise you that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 23873, That John Riblet was born in 1756 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
While a resident of Allen Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in June, 1776, as a private in Captain Nicholas Kern's Company, Colonel Kachlein's Pennsylvania Regiment; he was taken prisoner on Long Island and confined on the prison ship, Roebuck, and in New York City, until he was paroled, reaching home in January, 1777.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 21, 1832, while a resident of Mill Creek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania
He died August 6, 1835.
There are no data on file relative to wife and children.
Respectfully,


Winfield Scott
Commissioner