Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6099, for George Singley, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Singley, George.
NUMBER
S. 6099
carded
CONTENTS
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Pennsylvania 33,257
George Singley of Westmoreland Co. in the State of Penn. who was a Pr. & Sergt in the company commanded by Captain Addleman of the regt. commanded by Col. Karn in the Penn. line for 5 months | Private | 16.66 | 10 | " | Sergt. | 50.00 | $66.66

Inscribed on the [illegible] of Pittsburgh at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per ann[cut off] to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23. day of Dec. 1844, and sent to Hon. Joseph A Wright, House of Representatives 

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1844 | 899.91
[illegible] allowance ending 4 March 45 | 33.33 | $933:24

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E2. Vol. 7. Page /32.
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[Pennsylvania - Sturck Thru]
35.61
George Singley's
Pension Papers
Act of 7th June 1832
______________________
one year and three
months Revolutionary
service.
Aged 88 years
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March 7" 1844
Committee on
Revolutionary Pensioner
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March 18. 1844. Bill 230
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Decr 10th 1844
Refer to the Committee
on Revy Pensions
Mr Foster

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                              Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.

State of Pennsylvania 
Westmoreland County
              On this 4th day of November 1843 personally appeared before me, John Moorhead, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, George Singley, a resident of the Township of Perry in the County of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania, aged eighty eight years who being by me, the said Judge, first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits 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 & served as herein stated.

That he entered the service of the United States on the 15th or 16th of July 1776 as a drafted militiaman of Northampton County, Pennsylvania.  That he was drafted out of Capt Moyers Company of militia of Col Karns Regiment of Northampton County militia.  That he joined a company of drafted militia under Command of Capt Kuhn, a militia officer of said Regiment.
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And in obedience to orders, marched to Easton, and from there to New Brunswick, New Jersey, where we joined the Flying Camp militia under the command of General Mercer.  That this applicant served out his tour of two months for which he was drafted at New Brunswick and Elisabethtown, N.J., and was then discharged.

This applicant commenced another term for two months as a drafted militiaman and marched with Capt. Adeleman of said Regiment from Bethlehem to Coryell's Ferry on the Delaware where he was ordered to assist in guarding our boats from seizure by the enemy.  He also was down near Neshaminy river and served with Col. Codwalladers Battalion; That he began this term on the first of October 1776, and at its completion he went home by permission of his commanding officer.
That he served these two last mentioned tours as sergeant of the companies. 

This applicant further says he served as a volunteer for two months under Capt. Moyer & Lieut. Moyer of Col. Karn's Regiment aforesaid and was marched in obedience to general orders to the defence of the city of Philadelphia and joined the militia & regulars stationed their under General Putman, and assisted in placing said city in a state of defence and as a guard.  This service began on the 5th of December 1776, making a tour of two months as a private.
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And again he volunteered and served for one month at Bristol on the Delaware with Capt. Adleman's militia company of said Regiment in the month of May 1777; That there was a body of militia soldiers concentrated there for the reinforcement of Genl. Washington's Army.
That he served this month as a private.

On the 4th or 5th of June 1777 he commenced another period of duty as a drafted militiaman out of Capt. Moyer's Company aforesaid for two months and served the same under Capt. Kuhn of Col. Karn's regiment aforesaid, and served at Bristol and at Coryell's ferry on the Delaware, and was marched over to Amboy and served there a part of this period with Genl. Scott's and Genl. Conway's Brigades and Col. Reiss' militia regiment, and he served as a militiaman also at Newark N. Jersey and that he served this tour as the first sergeant of the Company, and at the expiration of said two months, he was  discharged by Major Wolf of Col. Karn's Regiment. 

And again on the 17th of August 1777 this applicant turned out as a volunteer under Capt. Kuhn for two months and marched to Chester on the Delaware and from there to Chad's Ford on the Brandywine, and there on the 11th of September Anno Domini 1777.
 He assisted
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in opposing the progress of the enemy, but was compelled to retreat with his other companies in arms back to Chester and from thence across the Schuylkill River on to Warwick Furnace; that he continued in service until after the Battle of  
Germantown, and then marched with the army to Skippack Creek, and after his term of service expired he was discharged by Col. Guyer.
That in this tour he served with Genl. Armstrong, Col. Smallwood, Major Wolf, Col. Boyer, Col. Wall, Capt. Farry, Col. Reese and many others now forgotten.  That he served this tour as a sergeant under Capt. Kuhn. 

This applicant further declares that he was out as a volunteer and served for two months under Capt. Adleman and Lieut. Snelling of the Northampton County militia, Penn.  
That he was marched as he had before from Lehigh Township, the place of his nativity, to General Washington's Camp at Valley Forge
and there he was encamped.
That he left on the 1st of May 1778 and continued to serve for two months as a Sergeant in Capt. Adleman's Company aforesaid.  That he was marched with the main Army from Head Quarters in pursuit of the enemy on the Jersey side, and on to Monmouth and assisted
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in harrassing the British Army on their march through New Jersey.  That he was permitted to  return home at the expiration of his said term. 

The said George Singley further deposes that he was out in the service of the United States for another term as a drafted militiaman of the Northampton County militia and served for two months against the Indians under Capt. Moyer and Lieut. Moyer, officers of Col. Karn's Regiment aforesaid.  That he served this tour at Fort -illegible- on the Lehigh River.  
That the company were divided into two parties, and one of them went up the Delaware to where Col. Strout commanded, and the party to which this applicant belonged, up the Lehigh to said Fort.  That he performed duty on this tour as a sergeant of the company.
That he and his companions, while out on the scout had an engagement with the Indians at -illegible- Creek, not far from the fort, in which Lieut. Moyer was made a prisoner and a number of our men were killed and wounded by the Indians who lay in ambush. The Indians also killed a man by the name of Warner, and his wife, not far from said fort. 
Mrs. Warner was found brutally mangled. These Indians were immediately pursued by fresh troops, and some of them were killed.
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That this applicant, after he had served out his tour, was discharged.  
That he left home to serve on this tour the latter part of October 1778, and served two months as a sergeant. 

And he further says that he was in the service of the United States as a waggoner for the transportation of prisoners, military stores, and flour from Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA, to Morristown, N.J..   That he was employed by one Erwin, a wagon master General.  That he performed duty as such for two weeks in January 1777, and he also performed the same duty for one week in February 1778, and transported flour(& grain) from Bethlehem to Valley Forge.  He also transported flour from reading Penn. to Middlebrook, N.J. for the use of the army.  That he served in this capacity as much as two months in this aggregate.  
He was also employed by said Erwin to transport forage for the army at Morristown and at Valley Forge for two weeks in the winter 1777 & 1778, making altogether as much as two months and two weeks.  That he had the use of his father's horses and wagon during said service.  

The said applicant further states that in the above tours, he served as a sergeant for twelve months, and as a private for three months, making a period of fifteen
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months service as a militiaman of Pennsylvania of Northampton County aforesaid.  And that during the time he was engaged in the above militia duties he did not attend to any civil employment, but was wholly devoted to the service, and he served as a waggoner for two months and two weeks as above specified. 

Reason for delay -
And this applicant further declares that he thinks it was in 1835, he and two others of his militia comrades employed a man who professed to understand the Pension Laws to attend to drawing their requisite papers and to transact their pension business, but he failed in the undertaking as he never heard the result thereof, which greatly discouraged them.  And again this applicant employed a person to  do the business relating to the obtaining his pension. 
 While he was on a visit with his relations in Ohio; his papers he understood were transmitted to some department at Columbus Ohio instead of Washington D.C., 
and thus he was again greatly disappointed.
This applicant has lately heard that two of his comrades in the Revolutionary War have at last obtained their pensions, and he now makes another effort to obtain his pension. 
These, together with other reasons, which might be mentioned he hopes will be sufficient for delaying
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to present them sooner to the Department of War.

Interrogatories:

First.  Where and in what year were you born.

Ans.  I was born in the year 1755 in Lehigh Township in Northampton County in the State of Pennsylvania.

Second.  Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it.

Ans.  I have the record of my age taken from my father's Bible and from that record, I know my age to be Eighty Eight.

Third.  Where were you living when called into the service.  
Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live. 

Ans.  When called into the service, I lived in Lehigh Township in the County of Northampton in the State of Pennsylvania, and since the Revolutionary War, I have lived in the Township of Lehigh in Northampton County Pennsylvania and in Indiana County, Penn'., and in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where I at present live and have lived for the space of forty years past.
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4th.   How were you called into service.
Were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute, for whom. 

Ans.   I was drafted and I volunteered and served as I have above stated.  

5th.    State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental & militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service. 

Ans.   General Mercer, Genl. Stephens, Serg. Sterling, Genl. Irvine, Col. Stephenson, Col. Moore, Capt. Dawson, Col. Cadwallader, 
were some of the Regular officers who were with the troops where I served.  Col. Irvin's Battalion, Capt. Doyle's Rifle Corp, Col. Mackay's and Cook's Battalions, Major Frazer's Regiment. Pennsylvania troops, Col. Boyer's militia Regiment, Col. Karn's Regiment, Col. Moore's Regiment.  My first tour was service at New Brunswick. My next term was served around different points on the Delaware. My 3rd tour was served in and about Philadelphia.  My 4th tour was served at Bristol as a militiaman. My 5th term was served on the Delaware, and in the State of New Jersey at different
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stations.  My 6th tour was served at Chester, Brandywine, and other places as mentioned above.  My seventh tour was served at Valley Forge & in Monmouth Count, N.J.
My 8th tour I served against the Indians on the Lehigh at Gnaudenhead Fort and elsewhere as I have above stated.  And I was in the service as a waggoner under Robert Ervine, Genl. Waggoner Master, in carrying forage, flour & other stores from different places to the main army as stated above. 

6th.   Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, 
and what has become of it. 

Ans.   I cannot remember, whether I received more than two written discharges during my service, which I have lost a great number of years ago. At the expiration of my other tours I was verbally discharged from the service.  

Did you ever receive a Commission, and if so by whom was it given & what has become of it. 

Ans.   I never did receive a Commission - 
I was appointed sergeant of the Companies with which I served, by my superior
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with which I served, by my superior
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officers. I served the periods above mentioned as a sergeant and as a private, making a Revolutionary service of fifteen months, and two months and two weeks as a waggoner or waggon master, as I have above mentioned.

Seventh. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for truth and veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Ans. Samuel Moorehead Esq Jacob Altman, William Baird, David Rankin, Joseph Barns, Christopher Libengood, Thomas Shannon Esq Nathaniel Doty, Robert Jellison.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me the said judge.
{signed} John Moorhead
{signed} George Singley

Relinquishment

I George Singley the applicant for a pension do hereby relinquish every claim, whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and I declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
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In above (Relinquishment sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me the said judge.
{signed} John Moorhead
{signed} George Singley

Traditionary Certificate
We the undersigned citizens of the County of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with George Singley, and  an aged and respectable in habitant of the county last mentioned, an applicant for a pension and who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty eight years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Revolutionary soldier and we  concur in that opinion - sworn to and subscribed the 6th day of November 1843.
Before me.
{signed} S. Shannon
{signed} [illegible]
{signed} James Culbertson
{signed} Robert Jellison
{signed} C Libengood.
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State of Pennsylvania 
Westmoreland County

    I Thomas Shannon a Magistrate within and for the said County of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby Certify that Nathaniel Doty, James Culbertson, Robert Jellison and Christopher Libengood - 

who have sworn to and subscribed the above Traditionary Certificate, are men of high respectability and worthy of Entire Credence - 

           In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal on the date of said 
Certificate - 

                 {signed}  Thomas Shannon  {Seal}
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State of Pennsylvania 
Westmoreland County 
            Personally appeared before me, the  
undersigned and acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Jacob Libengood, who being duly sworn deposes and says that he is intimately acquainted with George Singley, the above applicant for a pension - That the deponent and the said George Singley were both born and brought up together in Lehigh Township, Northampton County, Penn. 
That they were both out in the service of the United States as militiamen of Northampton County, Penn. That they both served with Capt. Kuhn and Capt. Moyer, Lieut. Moyer,
Capt. Aldeman, Lieut. Snelling, Major Wolf, and other militia officers of the County of Northampton, Penn.  That he, this deponent, has examined the above declaration of the said George Singley and finds the same to be correct in every particular-  
That this deponent and the said George Singley commenced their first tour of militia service about the middle of July, he thinks on the 17th of July 1776-  
That they both served for two months under and with Capt. Kuhn, or Capt. Frederick Kuhn, a militia officer of the Northampton County militia, Penn.
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That Lieut. Boyer, was with them in this said tour - That they belonged to Col. Karn's Regt. of Northampton County Militia-  That this deponent and the said applicant George Singley served this tour at Easton, and at New Brunswick and Elizabethtown, New Jersey-
That this deponent and said applicant served another tour commencing on the first of October 1776- That they served together at Coryell's Ferry and down about the Neshaminy River for two months longer- And this deponent is positive that the said George Singley served for two months in a third tour and was down with Capt. Moyer in assisting to protect the City of Philadelphia from invasion by the British- That this tour began the forepart of December 1776-   
This deponent was engaged as a waggoner during the major part of this tour from Bethlehem to said City and saw the said applicant in the service-  Knows when he started and when he returned which was the forepart of February 1777-
And further this deponent says, he knows that said Singley served one month as a militiaman of Col. Karn's regiment of Northampton County militia-  That he served this tour in May 1777 with Capt. Aldeman's company of militia of said Regiment-
That this deponent
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was at Bristol, Penn. and saw the said applicant there engaged in the service as a militiaman of Col. Nicholas Karn's Regt'. aforesaid .  And that he saw him when he returned from this said service, and this deponent is positive from his identical knowledge, that the said George Singley did serve for one month - vir. the month of May 1777 - as above specified. 

And this deponent, the said Jacob Libengood, further deposes and swears that he is positive the said Geoge Singley served another tour for two months as a drafted militiaman of Col Nicholas Karn's Regiment aforesaid.  That he commenced this said tour on the 4th of June 1777 as a drafted militiaman of said Regiment and served the said two months with this deponent under Capt. Kuhn aforesaid, and that his tour was served at Bristol and at Coryell's Ferry and at Amboy and at Newark in N. Jersey, as specified by said George Singley in his above detailed services. 

And this deponent further says that he was present and served with said applicant in his tour for two months under Capt Kuhn of said militia Regiment.  That this tour was commenced as near as this deponent now remembers
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on the 17th of August 1777 - That he, this deponent, was with the applicant all through the Battle of Brandywine and was with said applicant after the Battle of Germantown - That this deponent received a severe wound in the Battle of Brandywine in the right shoulder, from which he has been more or less disabled ever since - That this deponent is sure the said applicant served for two months in this last tour as he has above specified. 

And this deponent further testifies that said George Singley served another tour for two months with Capt Adleman aforesaid of the said Regiment - That this applicant was serving as a waggoner in the spring of 1778 and was at Valley Forge and saw the said Singley there engaged or encamped as a militiaman with his superior officers - That this said deponent was present when the said applicant returned from this last tour of two months after the Battle of Monmouth - And this deponent further says that the said George Singley served with him for two months longer,
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in the fall of the year 1778, if his memory now serves him - That this deponent and said applicant were out in the Pennsylvania Line for two months as militiamen of Col. Frederick Karn's regiment aforesaid and were marching up the Lehigh River from Lehigh Township, the usual place of starting from the Gnaudenhead fort, where this deponent and the said George Singley, the above applicant, were stationed under the militia officers of said County as a Guard against the Indians - That said George Singley served out his tour of two months to this deponent's certain knowledge - And this deponent further says that the aforesaid applicant served in his various tours of detailed services as above with the said mentioned militia officers of Northampton County militia, Penn., and with the following Continental or Regular officers as near as he now recollects viz.  
General Mercer, Lord Stirling, Col. Stephenson, General Stephens, Col. Moore, Col. Cadwallader, General Irvine, and with their respected Battalions or Corps of troops - Col Frazer's Reg't, Col Boyer's militia Regiment or Battalion, Col. Karn's Regiment-
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And this deponent also further deposes that the said George Singley served according to the best of this deponent's personal knowledge of his said services as much as fifteen months as a militiaman of said Northampton County militia - And in the said George Singley's tour above mentioned, he served as he has above stated as Sergeant for twelve months, and as a private for three months, making in all his Revolutionary services a period of fifteen months - This deponent is sure from his own personal knowledge that said George Singley did serve as he has above set forth in his declaration,
 a full period of fifteen months as a militia soldier of the Northampton County militia as above set forth - 
Sworn to and subscribed this first of November A.D. 1843.

[signed}  Thomas Shannon  J.P.
{signed}  Jacob Leibengrits

Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County
I Thomas Shannon one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County do hereby Certify that Jacob Libengood who had sworn to and signed the preceding Affidavit is a man of truth
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and veracity and entitled to credit.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this first day of November, Anno Domini 1843-

         {signed} Thomas Shannon  SEAL
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And I the said Judge do hereby declare my 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 I do further Certify that Nathaniel Doty, James Culbertson, Robert Jellison and Christopher Libengood,  residing in the neighborhood of said applicant in Westmoreland County aforesaid who have sworn to and subscribed the above Certificate, are residents of the said County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania -  That they are Credible persons and that their statement is entitled to Credit and there appears to be no doubts existed in the minds of his neighbors but that the said applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated - And I further Certify that from old age and bodily infirmity he cannot attend an open Court of Records. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 14th day of November 1843.

[signed]  John Moorhead  [SEAL}
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State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County
S.S:
I David Fulwood, prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that the Honorable John Moorhead who has officiated as judge, and who has signed and sealed the above proceedings in the matter of the application of George Singley for a pension is an acting judge in and for said county of Westmoreland duly commissioned and qualified and that to all his official acts full faith and credit are and ought to be given and the signatures and seal thereto affixed is his genuine signatures and seal and I also certify that Thomas Shannon Esquire who has signed and sealed the above certificate of tradition is an acting justice of the peace in and for the said County of Westmoreland duly Commissioned and qualified and that his signature and seal thereto affixed is his genuine signature & seal in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said court to be affixed at Greensburg, Pa. On this 15 day of November Anno Domini 1848 - 
{signed} David Fullwood Prot
{seal with ribbon attached}
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28th Congress
1st Session

Rep. No. 822
Ho. of Reps.

GEORGE SINGLEY
(To accompany bill H.R. No. 930)

March 18, 1844

Mr. Mcilvaine, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following report:

The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George Singley, a soldier of the Revolution, praying for a pension under the act of June 7, 1832, made the following report:

The declaration of George Singley, made November 3rd, 1843, before a judge of the court of common pleas in the county of Westmoreland, State of Pennsylvania, represents that he is a resident of the township of Derry in said county, and that he is eighty-eight years of age; that he entered the service of the United States on the 15th or 16th of July, 1776, as a draughted militiaman of Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and served under Captain Kuhn in Colonel Kurn's regiment, having joined the flying camp militia at New Brunswick, New Jersey, under the command of General Mercer; that he here served out the period for which he was draughted, viz. two months; that he served another term of two months as a sergeant under Captain Addleman of the same regiment, at Coryell's ferry on the Delaware, and at Neshamony, in Col. Cadwalader's battalion; that he commenced this term on the 1st of October,1776; that he also served as a volunteer for two months under Captain or Lieutenant Moyer, of the aforesaid regiment, and marched to Philadelphia and joined the forces stationed there under General Putnam.  

This service commenced on the 5th of December,1776, as a private.  That he again served as a volunteer for one month, commencing in May, 1777, at Bristol on the Delaware with Captain Addleman aforesaid; that early in June of the same year, he commenced another period of service, as sergeant under Captain Kuhn, of Colonel Karn's regiment aforesaid and was stationed at Bristol, at Coryell's ferry and at Amboy, with General Scott's and General Conway's brigades, and Colonel Reiss's regiment; that he served two months at this time, and was discharged by Major Wolf, of Colonel Karn's regiment; that on the 17th of August, 1777, he volunteered under Captain Kuhn for two months, and marched to Chester on the Delaware; then to Chaddsford, on the Brandywine, and was in the battle which took place there in September of that year; that he retreated with his companions in arms to Chester, and then across the Schuylkill; that he continued in service until after the battle of Germantown, and was discharged at the expiration of his term 
(Blair & Rives printers)
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Rep. No. 822

by Colonel Guyer; that he served this tour as a sergeant; that he served for two months in the capacity of a sergeant, as a volunteer, under Captain Addleman and Lieutenant Snelling of the Northampton county militia, Pennsylvania, commencing on the 1st of the May, 1778, and joined General Washington's camp at Valley Forge; that he marched with the main army to Monmouth," and assisted in harassing the enemy on their march through Jersey."

And further; that he served another term of two months as sergeant, under Captain Moyer and Lieutenant Moyer, of Colonel Karn's regiment at Fort Gnaudenhead on the Lehigh, and was engaged on scouts against the Indians; that he commenced this service in the latter part of October,1778.

In corroboration of the above declaration, is the certificate of five respectable in habitants of the neighborhood in which the declarant now resides and has for the last forty years, who testify that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he lives to have been a revolutionary soldier and that they concur in that opinion.  

Also, the deposition of Jacob Leibengood, who testifies that he was born and raised in the same neighborhood with the declarant; that he has always been intimately acquainted with him; that they were in the army together in most of the above recited service, and that he knows the statement of the declarant to be correct. 

The character of the above deponent for truth and veracity is supported by the certificate of the magistrate before whom his deposition was taken.  From the above facts, and the minuteness of the details of his service by the declarant, the committee are of opinion that he is entitled to a pension for ten months' service as a sergeant, and five months' as a private, in the revolutionary war.
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35612
Act 7 June 1832
Let to Hon H. D. Foster
H.R.
Jan. 22, 1844
Let to Hon H. D. Foster
26th Feby 1884, same
March 6. 1844
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6099
INVALID.
Rev War
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File No. 6099
George Tingley
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 342

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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George Singley
Penn Militia
Sergeant 10 months
Private 5 months
$66.00 per ann.
Act 7 June 1832
Pittsburgh Agency
Pennsylvania Roll

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Hon Joseph A. Wright
House of Rep
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The papers of George Singley who claims a pension under the Act of 7 June 1832 have been referred to the Committee of Revolutionary pensions.  This claim from the examination I have given it is brought clearly within the provisions of that Act. 
 The Commissioner of Pensions refuses to place him on the pension list as I understand on the ground that in his opinion it is impossible that the witnesses who substantiated his claim could recollect with certainty what they have testified to.
  I dissent utterly from this arbitrary decision of the Commissioner, calculated to destroy not only the right which this act of congress confers on the applicant, but the reputation of the persons who have testified in his favor. 
  I have (illegible) a personal acquaintance with the persons who testify & certify in favor of his claim, and know them to be men of integrity and good character, and not in the habit of either certifying or swearing to facts that are not strictly true - This decision of the Commissioner was (illegible)
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as I understand without any evidence or even allegation that the facts stated in the application were untrue but that he has chosen to act on mere suspicion without, as I conceive, any ground for it (illegible)
 
or from any other source.  

If the committee on examination of the papers 
(illegible)  think they make out such a case as was contemplated by the Act of 7, June 1832 - They will report a (illegible)

of War to place place his name on the Pension list and that (illegible)

for the length of service he performed - 
as provided for by that Act.  
 (illegible signers)
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{bifold paper}
{top left}
No 35612
George Singley
Pa act 1832
Supd.
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House of Rep 27th [illegible]
Sir,
I received your letter last night in which you communicated your decision on the application of George Singley from the information I have received. I am not satisfied that [6 words illegible] to Mr Singley. I therefore avail myself of this opportunity of bringing his case before congress. You will much oblige me therefore by furnishing me with the papers at as early a day as possible.
[signature]
[signature]
JL Edwards
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House of Reps 26 Jan 1844
Sir
I received your letter of the 22d last. relative to the application for a pension  by George Singley. Since which time I have received aletter which I now enclose you
You mention in your letter that the length of service and number of tours alleged to have been performed renders the application suspicious. More particularly on the lost ?? not ?? by what means. he is enabled to recollect the audacity of the service I only to ?? in reply. the amount of service is by now means unusual when performed not nly on his own account but on ??? for others. and to say the ?? of it the ones are not to serve or to authorize the rejection of the claim on the ground alone. I did not know until I received the letter I now enclose you who the ??? was. who proved the ?? I ?? ?? by this letter that the
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service is proven by Mr Libengood
who was himself in the same service and
a near neighbor and companion of the 
applicant & for which Mr Libengood
now receives a pension. I have the 
pleasure of knowing Mr Libengood
who lives in the county in which I
reside and if the claim of Mr Singley
is made by the evidence of Mr Libengood
I have no hesitation in saying that
his statements are entitled to the fullest
credit Mr Libengoods character
and standing as a man of veracity
would be vouched for by hundreds of
his fellow citizens at any time
If you are [ ] to [ ] 
the claim for any doubt on [ ] [ ]
I will be able to place in your
hands such testimonials [3 words]
altogether satisfactory. I hope you will
inform me as early as convenient of your
final decision
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Honorable J. L. Edwards
Comm. Pensions
Washington, DC.
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Blairsville Indiana Co Penna.
November 17, 1843.

Dear Sir
The papers in the case of George Singley, a Revolutionary soldier have just reached me from Greensburgh to Major C Libengood and I hasten to transmit them to you by this evening's mail. It appears that his efforts to obtain his pension have heretofore been unavailing. He has I believe other testimony not yet obtained which he purposes to forward as soon as possible. Owing to the urgent solicitation of the old soldiers friends I have omitted the business by attending to this, and I hope this applications will be "like the last of the Mohicans", the final only. The result of your investigation, plead transmit to me his Pension agent - and oblige
very respectfully
yours Obt
{signed} Gillis Doty

{lower left corner}
Honorabl J.L. Edwards.
Comm Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.
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Hon J. L. Edwards
Washington D.C.
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Blairsville, Penna Dec. 16 1843

Hon. J.L. Edwards Esq.

Dear Sir/

Enclosed herewith is the the testimony of Jacob Leibengood in the case of George Singley the applicant for a pension.

Very respectfully
yours
Gillis Doty
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Jacob Leibengood who belefs
in favor of the claim of George 
Singley has the reputation of being
a man of integrity and good character
I am acquainted with him and
many of his family who all pertain
the same character.
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Washington city
Dec 20th 1844

James L Edwards
Sir
I would call your attention to the case of George Singley, as I think by examination of the case with the [illegible] papers, then you will allow this case
Please to return me the [illegible] papers if you do not allow the same, if you do, send me the certificate of pension
Yours Respectfully
[signed] Joseph A Wright
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{bifold paper - upper left}
Affidavit of 
Jacob Leibengood
For
George Singley

Revolutionary claim.
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State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County

Before me the undersigned one of the justices of the peace in and for the said county, personally appeared Jacob Libengood (illegible) soldier of the Revolution who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and state that he is well and intimately acquainted with George Singley, another soldier of the Revolution.  That this deponent and the said George Singley together with Simon Ruffener, another soldier of the Revolution employed a person to make out their pension papers for the War Department for the purpose of procuring their pensions, but the person he employed did not (illegible) the instructions of the War Department in making out said papers, and that owing to the said George Singley's being so greatly disappointed in his efforts to procure his pension at that time which was in the year 1835, that he gave up the idea of obtaining his pension at that time.  

And this deponent further says that he was informed by the said Singley and by his friends that he again applied for his pension while he was in Ohio, but that his papers were sent to Columbus, Ohio and there left.  That this deponent and the said George Singley were both unacquainted with the pension business and did not know what further to do at that time. 

That this deponent is now informed by the said George Singley that he has again applied for his pension and that his papers are sent to Washington City and to the War Department, and being called on to make a statement of the reasons for delaying to apply sooner, he makes the aforesaid statement and
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further says that he is positive from which information he possesses on the subject, that the said George Singley could not officially apply sooner than he has, that he is very old and infirm and now is scarcely able to move about, and that owning to the above causes he did not as aforesaid apply sooner.

This deponent further says that he was well acquainted with the parents of the said George Singley who resided in the neighborhood of this deponent during the Revolutionary War and that he was informed by his parents, that their son, George Singley, was in the year 1776 in his twenty-first or twenty-second year.  That he is a little older than this deponent.

That this deponent is positive from the information he received from his parents and from seeing the said George Singley's name recorded in his father's Bible that the said George Singley is now in his eighty-eighth or eighty-ninth year. 

Sworn and subscribed on this 6th day of Dec. 1843.  Before me
Signed:  Jacob Libengood (illegible)
Thomas Shannon

I certify that the above named Jacob Libengood who has testified and subscribed to the above affidavit is a man of unimpeachable veracity and worthy of credit.  Given under my hand and seal on this 6th of December, A.D. 1843.
Signed:  Thomas Shannon (illegible)
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State of Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County SS:
David Fullwood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County do hereby certify that Thomas Shannon Esq who has signed and sealed the foregoing affidavit is an active Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Westmoreland duly elicited & commissioned and that to all his official acts full faith and credit are and ought to be given - that the signature Thomas c Shannon and the seal thereto annexed is his genuine signature and seal
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this fifteenth day of December A.D. 1843
{signed}
David Fullwood Prot
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23 Nov 1843

George Singley
Act 1832 Pa.

Revolutionary Claim

FREE
Honourable J L. Edwards Esq.
Commission of Pensions,
Washington. D. C.

Repub [Illegible]
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{bifold paper - top right side}
George Singley's
papers, applying
for a pension
{center}
Committee on
Revolutionary Pensions
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{Type set header}
28th Congress
1st Session

Congress of the United States
In the House of Representatives

March 7th, 1844

On motion of Mr Foster

Resolved - That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to enquire into the capediency of placing George Singley, a Revolutionary soldier, on the pension roll, under the act of June 1832, and that his papers be referred to that committee.

Attest
{signed} C J McNulty
Clerk