Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22630, Jacob Bastian, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
Penn.

Bastian, Jacob

NUMBER
S. 22630

CONTENTS
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No. 11.723
Pennsylvania
Jacob Bastiau
of Lycoming Co. in the State of Penn. who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Moyer of the Regt. commanded by Rob. Craig in the Penn. Militia for12 months 
Private
$40.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 40 Dollars __  Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th
day of June 1833 and sent to Jos. Wood
Williamsport Pa.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833
80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833
20.00
=====
$100.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E.  Vol. 5 Page 3
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Jacob Bastiau
Application for Pennsylvania Act of June 7 1832

25/A.B.
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State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County

On this fifteenth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Lycoming at a Court now sitting in aforesaid County, Jacob Bastian a resident of {illegible}Township in the County of Lycoming 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 provision made by 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 herein stated.
I was drafted as a Militia man in the Company of Captain William Moyer of Northampton County in the year 1776 or 1777. Nicholas Kern was Colonel of the Regiment. I think Henry Bowman was Lieutenant of our Company.
We marched from Kreider's to the Lehigh Water Gap under Captain Moyer & thence behind the Blue Mountains where we occupied a Fort on land of Bowman & guarded the frontiers from the attacks of the Indians. I was frequently out in scouting parties while at the fort, endeavoring to find the Indians in the  neighborhood, but I was never in any battle or engagement. I remained six months at the fort performing duty as a private soldier and then returned home to Allen Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania where I resided when I entered the service. After I had been at home one or two months, upwards of
twenty men belonging to Northampton County were massacred by the Indians in the Nescopeck Valley and I was again called out as a Soldier under Captain Moyer & assisted to bury those men.  We found twenty seven men who had been killed, scalped & woefully mangled and buried them as well as we could. We returned to the fort, where I remained two months
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and again returned home, this was in the fall of the year-
In the Spring of the year 1777 or 1778 I was again drafted
as a militia man and served under Captain Jacob Glader
of Northampton County, four months,. Thomas Craig
was then Colonel.  We marched to Chestnut Hill in
the vicinity of Philadelphia.  I was on a scouting party
White Marsh at the time of the battle of
Germantown Shortly after the battle of Germantown
was discharged on Wissahiccon Creek in Philadelphia
County when my term of service expired & I returned
home to Northampton County.  The whole term of
my service as a private soldier is twelve months as
above stated; I knew the names of many other
officials than those above mentioned but through loss of 
memory I cannot at present recollect their names.

I have no documentary evidence relative to my service. 
My brothers Daniel Bastian of Union County Penna. 
and Peter Bastian of Lycoming County Penna. are 
acquainted with some of my services & can testify thereto
& I know of no other person whose testimony I can
procure, who can testify to my service.

To the questions propounded by the Court. I answer
as following--
1st.  I was born in Skippack Township, Philadelphia now
Montgomery County in the year 1759.

2d.  I have no record of my age, I formerly had a record thereof
but it is lost.

3d.  I was living in Allen Township, Northampton County
when called into service; since the Revolutionary War
I lived for sometime in Philadelphia County & then
removed to Selinsgrove Union County Penna. (then Northumberland 
County) and in the year 1814 I removed to
Lycoming Township Lycoming County Penna & lately
to Nippenose Township in the same County, where I now reside.
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4th.  I was called into service as a drafted militiaman &
never was a substitute.

5th.  I have already stated the name of the officers under whom
I served [illegible] Captain Moyer, Captain Glader Colonel
Kern & Colonel Craig.  I do not recollect the names of other
officers at present; the services rendered by me are
fully stated above.

6th.  I never received a written discharge from the service.
nor did I ever receive a Commission.

7th.  I am known for a number of years by his Honor John
Cummings. Judge of the Court of Lycoming County, Thomas
Hays Esquire, and the Reverend John Thomas
who can testify to my character for veracity & their belief
of my services as a soldier of the Revolution.
And the said Jacob Bastian hereby relinquishes every claim
whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and
declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the 
agency of any State to the best of his knowledge.
Jacob Bastian

Sworn & subscribed in open}
Court this 15th day of February}
A D 1833}
J Wood Proty.

We John Thomas a Clergyman residing in the County of 
Lycoming and John Cummings and Thomas Hayes Esquires 
also residing in the County of Lycoming aforesaid
do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob
Bastian who has subscribed and sworn to the above 
declaration, that we believe him to be Seventy four years of age
that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where
he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we
concur in that opinion.
John Cummings
Thos Hays
John Thomas

Sworn & Subscribed in open Court}
this 15th day of February 1833}
J Wood Proty.
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Lycoming County ss. Personally appeared in open Court of
Common Pleas in and for said County, Peter Bastian brother
of said Jacob Bastian, aged Sixty three years, who on his solemn
Oath Deposeth and saith, that he knows that his brother
Jacob was in the service of his Country in the Militia, the same
year of the Massacre of the inhabitants in Nescopeck
valley by the Indians. This deponent knows that his brother
was out for more than three months & may have been out
six or nine months, as it is so long ago, Deponent cannot recollect
the precise time.  Deponent was young & has no recollection of
his brother's services under Captain Glaser, though the Massacre
at Nescopeck strongly impressed itself on his mind & brings to his
recollection that his brother was out & assisted to bury the dead.
John Bastian

Sworn & Subscribed in open Court}
this 15th day of February AD 1833}
J Wood Prot.

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 John Thomas who
has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman residing in 
the County of Lycoming, and that John Cummings Esq & 
Thomas Hays Esq who have also signed the same are residents 
in the County of Lycoming, and are credible persons, and
that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. Chapman
John Cummings
A. Davidson
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State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County ss
I Joseph Wood Prothonotary 
of the Court of Common
Pleas of Lycoming County do hereby Certify
that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of the application of Jacob Bastian for
Pension In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court
at Williamsport this 9th day of May AD 1833
J Wood Prothy

[Round seal stamped over a round paper with serrated edges]
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No 25163
Jacob Bastian Lycoming
County Pennsylvania

admitted.
12 mo Private

Jopseph Wood pro Lycoming County
Penna.

[backwards number 3]
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WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Pension Office, 183 
Sir: The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

[Table entitled: ] A Statement, shewing the service of Jacob Bastian Lycoming County Pennsylvania 
[column headings: (1) Period when the service was rendered., 
(2) Duration of claimant’s service. - Years., Months., Days., 
(3) Rank of the claimant., 
(4) Names and Rank of the Field officers under whom he served., 
(5) Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.. 
(6) Proof by which the declaration is supported.]

Draft. {1776 or 1777 | 6 Months. | private | cap Moyer, Col Kern | 74 years County of Northampton Pennsylvania | Traditionary evidence & two
Witnesses papers correctly Attached - 

Called out [no date] | 2 Months. | " | Cap Moyer | [blank] | [blank] |

Draft. Sprg. {1777 or 1778 | 4 Months. | " | Cap Gladel, Colonel Craig | [blank] | [blank] |

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS.
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers," all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming 
 the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians [musicians] or privates, will, in the first
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss.
On this  ___  day of  ___   personally appeared (a) before  ___   A. B. a resident (b) of  ___  in the count of   
 ___ and State, Territory or District of ___ aged (c) ___ 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 (d) ___, with  ___ and served in the ___ (e) regiment of the ___ line, under the following named officers:  

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served
under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. [hand with right-pointing finger icon] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of ___
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid  ____  A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.
I _________ of the Court of _______
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of  _______ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
 _____ day of _____ & c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ 
and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
 _____ , who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ 
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

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 A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, 
resident in the _____  and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident 
in the _____ 
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, _____ 
Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
 _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this ____ day of _____ & c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission
; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration,(l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted ; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected . All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia. 1. 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; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live? 4. How were you 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 services. 6. {To a Soldier. {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? {To an Officer. {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?} 7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates. The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court. Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure , taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter. 

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance. [b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule. [c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned. [d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. [e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the apartment to determine to what amount of pension he is entited. In a case where the applicant, by by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: --For____year____months, and____days, I served as a ____. For____months and____days, I served as a ____; and for such service I claim a pension." It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase [in italics] "about three or four months". is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority ; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. [f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. [g] The opinion of the Court is always required. [h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case. [i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

[in italics] Mode of authenticating papers.  

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

[in italics] Proof of Service. 

 [j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. ☞ Then the notes from [a] to [i] area all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only. [k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases. [l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. [m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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July 23, 1934
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

NA-J/MCS [illegible handwritten initials]
Jacob Bastian, S.22630

Mrs. William M. Probst
40 Maple Avenue
Williamsport
Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for the record of Jacob Bastian,
a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data contained herein were obtained from papers on file in 
the pension claim, S. 22630, based upon the military service of Jacob 
Bastian, the only soldier by that name that is found in the Revolutionary 
War records of this office.

He was born in 1759, in Skippack Township, Philadelphia (which was
later Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania.

While living in Allen Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania,
he enlisted in 1776
 [handwritten notation written in the left margin] (He said 1776 or 1777 
but would not be 1777 as his last enlistment was in spring of 1777)
and served six months as private in Captain William Moyer's 
company in Colonel Nicholas Kern's Pennsylvania regiment; he
occupied a "fort on the land of Bowman" and was engaged in guarding the
frontier against the attacks of the Indians.  One or two months after
returning home from his first enlistment some men belonging to Northampton County were massacred by the Indians in Nescopeck Valley and he
was called out under Captain Moyer and assisted in burying twenty-seven
of these men, then returned to the fort, serving during this enlistment,
two months as private.  He enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served four
months as private in Captain Jacob Glader's company in Colonel Thomas
Craig's Pennsylvania regiment.

After the Revolution he lived in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania,
then moved to Selinsgrove, Union (then Northumberland ) County, Pennsylvania.
In 1814 he moved to Lycoming Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and
from there to Nippenose Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, where he
was living in 1833.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed February 15, 1833.

In 1832 his brother, Daniel Bastian, was living in Union County,
Pennsylvania, aged sixty-nine years.  Another brother, Peter Bastian,
was sixty-three years of age in 1833.  The papers in this claim contain no
further data relative to the soldier's family.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

[handwritten note:] Soldier's death not
on agency book
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[Two-column page]

[left column]
[written diagonally, on the left] Revolution

22630
INVALID.
File No. 22,630
Jacob Bastian
Pri Rev. War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 21
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right column]
1934 July 23 hist. to
Mrs. Wm. M. Probst
M.C.L.
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Union County ss Pennsylvania
Before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace 
in and for the County of Union, came Daniel Bastian, aged about or
near [crossed out: ninety six] sixty nine years, who being sworn deposeth and saith, 
that to his certain knowledge, Jacob Bastian, aged about Seventy four years of
age, and having been a militia man in the Revolutionary war, and
was in the service against the Indians from the State of Pennsylvania
and was out on services for about Eight months at least, but he does
not recollect exactly ^know [illegible] he was nine months, but to his knowledge of
was eight months, at Nescopeck Vally, under Captain Klader and
William Moyer from Northampton County, in the state of Pennsylvania
Daniel Bastian

Sworn & subscribed
the 11th day of June
A.D. 1832
Before me
Joseph Fehrer J. P. 

I Joseph Fehrer do hereby certify that
the above named Daniel Bastian is a
credible person and that his statement
is entitled to credit. Witness my hand
& seal this 27 day of April AD 1833-
Joseph Fehrer
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Union County
State of Pennsylvania Ss} I Joseph Stillwell, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Union County [illegible] 
hereby Certify that Joseph Fehrer [illegible]
named is a Justice of the Peace of said C [illegible]
duly commissioned & was such on the [illegible]
day of June AD 1832. & that full faith a [illegible]
credit ought to be given to all his of [illegible]
acts as such as well for Courts as elsewhere-
That I am well acquainted with the hand
writing of the said Joseph Fehrer & that the
signature within Joseph Fehrer J.P.
is the proper hand writing of him the said
Joseph Fenner Justice of the Peace aforesaid-

Witness my & Seal of Office
at New Berlin this 14th day of March, 
AD 1833.
Joseph Stilwell Prothy
[flourish]
.
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April 9, 1934

Mrs. William M. Probst
40 Maple Avenue
Williamsport, Pa.

My dear Mrs. Probst:
Jack Bastian of Lycoming County was granted a gratuity
of forty dollars and an annuity of forty dollars for service in the
Revolutionary War, by the Act of Feb. 5, 1833, signed by Governor
George Wolf of Pennsylvania.  We have records of payments of the pension to June 1839. It is possible Jacob Bastian may have secured a
Federal pension.  Records of Federal pensions are in the office of
the Pension Commissioner, Veteran's Bureau, Washington, D. C.  The
record at Washington will probably contain some family data.  We are
led to believe that he was 76 years of age when he secured a pension
although the age does not appear on our record.  Jacob Bastian was
Sergeant in the company of Captain Paul Knous, 8th Company, 3rd
Batallion, Northampton County Militia.  Reference: Pennsylvania
Archives; Series, Volume 8, Page 289.

Very sincerely yours,
Gertrude MacKinney,
Director of the State Library.

By J. C. Ferguson,
Genealogist.

[handwritten note at the bottom of the page]
Pension Commissioner.
Sir.-
Have you any record of a Federal
pension given the mentioned Jacob Bastian.?
Where in Lycoming Co., did he enlist from.?
Is there any record there of his family.?

Thanking you
Mrs Probst
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Basto (or Barsto), Moses GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts

WARRANT NUMBER 3752 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Jan. 14, 1796
to Moses Bairsto - illegible - [letter "i" in the last name is underlined]
Interior Dept. Archives reported by phone that their records show "Junior"
Moses

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the application for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.