Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5,599, for George Ivester, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE                                      NUMBER

Penn.           Ivester, George        S. 5599

                                                          carded
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CONTENTS
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5297
Pennsylvania
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George Ivester
of the state of Pennsylvania who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Halgate if the Reg. commanded by Col .Miles in the Penn. line for 12 mos.           $60.00
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 60 dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Feb 1833 and sent to Hon. Mr. Evans House of Reps.
======================Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832                                      $90.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending in Mar. 1833  30.00
                                                               $120.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Virial Lace  Clerk,
Book d.  Vol. 6   Page 63.
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No. 13892
George Ivester

See letter to the Hon'ble.
Joshua Evans 19 Jan. '33.

See letter to the same
31 July 1833


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Brief in the case of George Ivester
of Chester Co. in the state of Pennsylvania
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a court of a Judge?  Judge

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? bodily infirmity

3.  How old is he? believes he was born in 1750. Has no record of his birth.

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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Period/Duration of Service/Rank/Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

In 1776 July or Aug/3months/Sergeant/Captain Halgate, Colonel Miles/Pa. Mil.
In  1776 Nov/3months/Sergeant/Captain Halgate Colonel Miles/Pa. Mil.
In 1777 Aug/3months/Sergeant/Captain Halgate leaving Genl. Potter/Pa. Mil.  
In 1778 May/3months/Sergeant/Captain  Halgate - /Pa. Mil.

5. In what battles was he engaged? Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth.

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Roxbury, Pa.

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by rolls? Traditionary evidence, & living, not certified to be credible.

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  Improperly attached.

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 

                                       //s//
                                  D. Brown
                                           Examining Clerk
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania}
Chester County} ss.


    On this first day of September Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two personally appeared before Cromwell Pearce one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the said county of Chester and State of Pennsylvania George Ivester a resident of East-town Township in the county and state aforesaid, who being solemnly affirmed according to law doth on his said solemn affirmation make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June seventh one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. 
    That in the year 1776 and for several years afterwards he resided in Roxborough township in the county of Philadelphia and state aforesaid; and that in the latter end of the month of July or the beginning of August in the same year (1776) he was drafted and ordered to march with the militia to perform a tour of duty in the service of the United States and accordingly he marched from the said township of Roxborough and entered into the service under Captain Holgate whose company was attached to Colonel Miles' Regiment of drafted militia from Philadelphia county and he acted as a non-commissioned officer; viz a sergeant of said company; and the said regiment crossed the Delaware River and marched through the state of New Jersey to Perth-Amboy where a considerable army composed principally of drafted militia assembled under the command of General Robert Doe, and was encamped there at the time General Howe with the British Army landed on Staten Island near Perth-Amboy; and he with the militia continued in New Jersey until late in the fall of that year when they were ordered back again to Philadelphia where he with (next page)
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said regiment was discharged about the beginning of November in the same year having served three months; and in a very short time afterwards, about the middle of the same month of November he was again ordered into the service to perform a second tour of duty and after having been only a few days at home.  He accordingly left the said township of Roxborough and entered the service and again marched in Captain Holgate's company of drafted militia in the capacity of a sergeant into the state of New Jersey, it being at the time when the British forces had over-run that state and served for some time in the militia along with the regular troops under command of General Washington;  In the month of January 1777 he was at Trenton during the cannonading between the American & British armies, and marched from there in the night to Princeton and was engaged on the next day in a battle with the British Amry at that place.  Having served a second tour of three months he was with the aforesaid regiment ordered back again to Philadelphia where they were discharged about the middle of February in the same year.  The interval between the aforesaid two tour of service being extremely short, they may well be considered as one tour of six months.  In the latter end of the month of August in the same year (1777) he was again drafted and ordered into the service for a third tour of duty and he accordingly left the said township o Roxborough and marched and served as a sergeant in Captain Leavering;s Company of drafted militia attached to Colonel Potter's Brigade about the time the British Army landed at the head of Elk and he was with the militia & regular troops at the Battles of Brandywine.  Thence he accompanied the Army in its retreat to Old Chester and Philadelphia and again marched with it to Chester County and was present when they met the enemy in Whiteland and exchanged a few shots preparatory to an action which was prevented by a very heavy rain.  He was with the American Army in the retreat thence and when it encamped soon after at Whitemarch and accompanied it in its attack upon the British Army at Germantown in which severe and bloody (next page)
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engagement he bore a part.  Having served our his tour of duty of three months he was discharged about the first of December of the same year (1777).  In the latter part of the month of May A.D. 1778 he was again drafted and ordered into service and accordingly he left the said township of Roxborough and again entered as a sergeant in Captain Lavering's Company of militia a short time before the British evacuated Philadelphia.  He accompanied his regiment which joined the American Amry under General Washington, marched into the state of New Jersey and was engaged at the battle on Monmouth.  He remained in service until the end of August in the same year when the regiment being ordered back to Philadelphia. He there received his discharge. 
   And the said applicant further says that he never received any written discharge from the service; that he was born as he believes in the year 1750; that he has no record of his age and does not know that any such record exists; that the place of his birth was Germantown, Pennsylvania. 
   He further states he was always drafted & was never a volunteer or substitute.
   He further says that he has no documentary evidence of his services and that he knows but one person to wit Jonathan James residing in his neighborhood who was a witness to his being in the service and who can testify to his character for veracity and good behavior, but that he is known to the Rev. William Latta, General Joshua Evans, Col. Isaac Wayne and other gentlemen of high standing in the vicinity.
    The said applicant here relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll or agency of any state.
                                                     his
                                           George X Ivester 
                                                     mark
Affirmed and subscribed before
me a Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of said county the first day of 
September A.D. 1832.
                         //s//
              Cromwell Pearce.
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   I Cromwell Pearce one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Chester in the state of Pennsylvania do certify that George Ivester the applicant herein named cannot from bodily infirmity attend court, and I do further declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the said applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states' and I further certify that it appears to me that the Reverend William Latta and Colonel Isaac Wayne who have signed the annexed certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to every possible credit, the said William Latta being a clergyman resident in the township of East Whiteland in said county.
    Witness my hand and seal this 21st day of September Anno Domini 1832.

                                       //s//
                           Cromwell Pearce

Chester County ss.

   Jonathan James being sworn according to law deposes and says that he served in the Pennsylvania Militia during the war of the revolution and that he knows that the above-mentioned George Ivester was in the service of the United States during the revolution; having seen him in service and under arms and doing duty as a soldier at Perth-Amboy in the state of New Jersey in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy  six (next page)
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that he returned in company with the said George to Philadelphia and after their tour of duty was expired, that they the said deponent and the said George were both discharged; that the said George is reputed and believed in his neighborhood to have been a soldier of the revolution and is known it this deponent to have been such.  
                                    his
                       Jonathan X James
                                   mark

Sworn & subscribed before
me a Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas if said county April 21, A.D. 1832.
                             //s//
                   Cromwell Pearce 

We William Lata a clergyman residing in East Whiteland in the county of Chester and state of Pennsylvania and Isaac Wayne residing in the township of East Town in said county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with George Ivester who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to by eighty-two years of age, that he is believed and reputed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion.

                                       //s//
                                William Latta
                                 I. Wayne

Sworn & subscribe before me
a Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of Chester County. September
21st A.D. 1832.

                               //s//
                 Cromwell Pearce
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13,892
George Ivester
application for
a pension under the
Act of Congress of 1832.
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Pennsylvania
Chester County} ss.

  I John W. Cunningham Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do certify that Cromwell Pearce Esquire before whom the within affidavit was made is duly commissioned and qualified Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Chester in the commonwealth aforesaid. 

   In testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court at West Chester in said county the 11th day of October A.D. 1832.
                                           //s//
                                      James Davis 
                                                  Pro. Peast.
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Rev. War

5599
INVALID
File No. 5599
George Ivester
Sergt. Rev. War
\Act: June 7th, 1832
Index:-Vol. M Page 188

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Washington January 21, 1833
J. L. Edwards Esqr.

Dear Sir,

   In answer to your letter accompanying the papers of George Ivester's application for the benefits of the pension law of the last session of Congress - I do hereby certify, that the witnesses to said application- namely the Reverand William Latta and Colonel Isaac Wayne, both of Chester Co. Pa. are both highly respectable and worthy men and entitled to every possible credit, and I do further state, that I attended the funeral and internment of said Ivester some time between the middle and latter weeks of last November, say the 20th, and that he left a widow (whose name I believe is Jane) and to the best of my knowledge is still living.

                               I am very
                               respectfully yours,
                                      //s//
                               Joshua Evans


J. L. Edwards Esqr.
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War Department
Pension Officer
January 31, 1833

Sir,

   Your letter accompanying the returned declaration of George Ivester has been received.  It is positively necessary that the widow should prove her relationship to the deceased, and the precise day of his death, before a court of record, and produce a certificate from the Clerk of the Court to that effect, under his seal of office.   The credibility of the witnesses should be certified on the declaration.  His papers are herewith returned. 
                              I have the honor to be
                              Very respectfully
                               Your Obedient Servant
                                               //s//
                                       J. L. Edwards


Hon. J. Evans
House of Representatives