Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S.22110, John Bain, N.C. Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Penn.

Number
S.2210
Bain, John

CONTENTS
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No. 11776
Pennsylvania
John Bain
of Philad. Co. in the State of Penna
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Sales of the Regt commanded by Col. Shipherd in the N.C. and Penna Militia line for 2 years Private $80.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 80 Dollars  Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of June 1833 and sent Penr care of the [unreadable] of the late Jonas Watson, decd/

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  160.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept 1833   40.00
$200

Revolution Act

Recorded by D Brown 
Book E Vol
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John Bain
J. Watson
Philidelphia
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On the Seventeenth of March 1832 personally appeared in open court before the District Court for the City & County of Philadelphia sitting in said City John Bain a resident of the said County aged ninety four or there about and being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, That he was born in the June 1738 in the in [unreadable] of Delaware & that in [unreadable] removed to Guilford County North Carolina - Where in in year 1776 he was called up as a militia Man to present against the Cherokee Indians, for in month which he served under Colonel Shipard [Sheppard] and Captain Fale - on his tour in 1777 is where in on [unreadable] Sharps Company in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Maybin of the Ninth North Carolina Regiment, and number to on the Americas Army at Glen March, there he continued during the winter months and part of summer of 1778 - Before several slight skirmishes the American Army went into winter get into at the Valley Forge, where all the Regiment he was attached to died, except Colonel Maybin Captain Sharp & himself who was so extremely ill, that he was sent to the General Hospital at the Yellow Springs where he recovered and was transferred to the 9th Pennsylvania Regiment Commanded by Colonel Davis Obaha Davis Company where he continued till finally discharged after peace at Trenton in New Jersey.   
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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The Deponent has no Documentary evidence by virtue of which these facts can be established and although he is acquainted with some persons who have a knowledge of this their remote location and his want of means precludes him from the probability of obtaining their Testimony. The Deponent hereby relinquishes any claim whatever pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.    
John Bain X his mark. 
Sworn and Subscribed in open Court Nov. 17, 1832 F. W. Hindman Pro Prothy      
Joseph Watson & Henry Witmer being sworn and affirmed respectively do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Bain - who here subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be about ninety four years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to be a soldier of the Revolution and that we
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concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and affirmed and subscribed the 8th day of December A.D. 1832
Joseph Watson
Henry Witmer

H. W. Hindman
Pro Prothy 

And the same Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he stated and the Court further certifies that it appears to 
Them that who has signed the proceeding Certificate is a Clergyman residing in the County of Philadelphia and that the Persons - who have also signed this same are Residents and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit 
I John Lisle Esquire Prothonotary of the [unreadable] Court for the City and County of
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Philadelphia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court on the matter of the application of John Bain for a pension. 
In Testimony whereof I have be [illegible] set my hand and the seal of said Court this twenty five day of December in the year One thousand Eight hundred and thirty two. 
John Lisle  Prothy 

John Bain
J. Watson
Philadelphia
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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into Alexandria and from thence to White Marsh the Regiment was there placed under the command of Col. Washington and in a skirmish while at that place your petitioner received a very severe wound on his right hand by an English Trooper which wound has been and is to this time a very great detriment to him incapacitating him in a great measure from work. At White Marsh Your petitioner on account of his wound and as a competent and trust-worthy person was placed by officers to take charge of a wagon as Wagoner - the officers had previously sustained great losses by the [unreadable] of the former one. From thence your petitioner was taken to Valley Forge where he staid during the remainder of the winter and on account of his wound was put in the General Hospital at Yellow springs -  after he was able to do duty again he was put in quarter master's department where he continued until peace was proclaimed. 
The National Archives United States        
Your petitioner served and was enlisted during the war. And with sentiments of honest pride says he was honorably discharged by Gen. Ashe. He and General Washington publicly thank him as a brave soldier - during the long lapse of time he lost his papers not expecting that he should ever become so low in circumstances as to crave a remuneration from his county did not take that pains in preserving them as he ought to have done. Your humble petitioner implores that your honorable bodies will grant him such relief as the will in their wisdom may think proper. in 
John Bain
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Lancaster County, Pa.

Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, John Bain, of the Township of Paradise, said county, who upon his solemn affirmation, saith, that he enlisted under Captain Sharp, in the North Carolina Line for these years or during the war- and that Capt. Sharp put him under Col. Davis, on the Penna line. 9th Regt that he Bain was transferred at White Marsh from Capt. Sharp to Davis in consequence of being sick as said Capt was called off to join the battle of Charlestown, and he said Bain was left, in consequence of said sickness with which he was afflicted at the time. He finally recovered and served under Gen. Washington, until the close of the Revolutionary War. He was engaged in five battles, one at Germantown, one at Paoli, Battle of Bunker Hill, Brandywine, &c. at which place (Brandywine) he was wounded. The cap of the elbow shot off- received a ball in the groin, below the hip, which ball was extracted. Also a wound in the right hand from a sword, hand split from the end of the finger to the wrist, and at the close of the war, was honourably discharged on the Penna. and Maryland line, but the certificated of said discharge has been lost. Said Bain further states that he served under Col. Shepherd against the Cherokees for the term of six months, for which he was to receive seventy five cents per day, but has never received any pay whatever for said services rendered. Served under Col. Shepherd before he was under Gen. Washington.
John Bain x his mark
Affirmed and subscribed to with his mark before me the 15th day of August A.D. 1849
John Quigley
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Lancaster County, Pa.

Personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace, in and for said county, Hannah Robbs, of the township of Paradise in said County of Lancaster, who upon her solemn affirmation saith that she is the daughter of John Bain (a Revolutionary soldier) and now about 60 years of age, that she has frequently seen the Certificate of her Father's discharge, has read it at different times. it purporting to be a discharge as a soldier of the Revolutionary War, but that said Certificate has been lost. She has seen and read it in and about 22 years ago, but not since that time
Hannah Robbs
Affirmed and subscribed to before me the 15th day of August AD 1849
John Quigley
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duplicate [unreadable]
Pct 1840 and Send to
[unreadable] Davis, [unreadable]
00
let to Hon Jere Brown Jan.
to paymt do to Hon. J Brown
842 Same June 11, 1842
letter to James P. Fatino
Esq of Philadelphia Penna.
1842
Triplicate Certificate
issued 5th July 1842 and
Sent to Hon Jeremiah Brown H. R.
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Revolution
22110
INVALID.

File No. 22,110
John Bain
Pri. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 21

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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J. L. Edwards
Washington City

J.C. Linn
June 27 1832

Order of Jno. Pane
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June 27 1832

Dear Sir
The papers in support of John banes Claim are herewith sent hoping that they will answer the purpose for my own and know that there always understood that he was wounded while defending the frontier from the Merciless Indians [illegible] I have understood at least 60 years ago
Your Most abet servant
J C Linn
Andrew Wharton
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John Bain, Pa NC Act June 7 1832
at $80 per annum.

Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid

Pension office
Jan 3 1842

pd. 4th March 1841 4th gr not in AB
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Oct 10 1840
Jno Bain 
Pa NC

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioners of Pensions 
Washington City
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Churchtown Land Co
Oct 6th 1840
Hon. J. S. Edwards
Dear Sir,
John Bain a soldier of the Revolution forwarded to me last winter among other papers his certificate of pension with a view of obtaining an increase of his pension or a grant of donation land.  His papers were laid before the Com. of Rev Pensions and by some means the certificate of Pension was lost or mislaid.  I have examined all my papers and applied to Mr. Carr a member of the Com. who examined the case without being able to find it.  My object in addressing you is to inquire whether a duplicate certificate could not be obtained for this old man as he informed me he cannot draw his pension without it.
Very respectfully yours,
Obt St.
Edwd Davies M.C.
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Free
E. Davies
M. C.

Hon. J L Edwards
Commiss'r of Pensions
Washington City

Churchtown PA
October 14th
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Churchtown Oct. 14.1840

I do hereby certify that John Baine a soldier of the Revolution whose name is inscribed on the pension Roll in the War office of the U.S. entrusted to me among the papers his pension Certificate for the purpose of obtaining an increase of his pension, That the said papers were by me presented to the House of Representatives of the U. States and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and the pension Certificate by some means not known to me was lost or mislaid, I therefore request that a duplicate may be issued by the Department to enable the said Baine to collect his pension as formerly.
Edwd. Davies of the 26th Congress
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania }SS
Philadelphia County 
John Bahn, or Bain, being duly sworn says that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and that he applied for a pension from the United States in the year  at which time he was a resident of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania. That he has since removed into Philadelphia County where he now resides   October 10th 1832     
John Bain  his mark    
Sworn and Subscribed the 10th day of October, 1832, before} 
Wm L Norton    
Justice of the Peace 
For publication of his service, the Deponent refers to his papers on file in the War Department
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State of North Carolina         
Secretary of States Office     
I William Hill Suretary State in and for the State aforesaid, do certify that it appears from the masterrolls of the Continental line of this State in the revolutionary war, that John Bayne a private in Capt McCrory's Company of the 9th Regiment enlisted on the 9th day of July 1777 for 3 years, and was omitted in February 1779. That in Decr 1796, he received a land Warrant for three years service 
Given under my hand this 10th day of June 1833 
Wm Hill
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of the 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
Lancaster Aug 7 Pa.
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[unreadable]
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The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
 D. C.

Aug't 28/49
Addendum
John Bain
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Lancaster   Augt 27, 1849    
Hon. Sir       
Since I sent you two letters in relation to the claim of John Bain, I have recvd from him the enclosed papers which I now forward to you. John Bain was wounded in the Revolution and I think entitled to more than 80 $ per year. He was a soldier during the whole of the Revolution & fought in several land engagements. Those who fought with him and who would be proper witnesses to prove the fact of his service are now decd. & I trust the evidence of same will be satisfactory.      
Yr Res &c
George W. McElny
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Comms Pensions
Washington

Hon. Jere. Brown 
H R

June 11.1842
 
Jno Bain 
Pa NC
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Washington June10 1842
Dear Sir
I have recvd a letter from Adam R. Witmer on behalf of John Bain a Revolutionary pensioner informing me that he has lost the Certificate he recvd from the pension office in consequence of which he cannot draw the pension due him and request that you will renew his certificate agreeably with the one heretofore issued to him.  I therefore ask (if not inconsistent with existing laws) that you will please forward to me a certificate similar to his former one whereby he may be enabled to draw whatever he may be legally entitled to at the proper time.

Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Jeremiah Brown
JL Edwards Esq
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J L Edwards Esq
Commissions of Pensions
Washington

Hon Jere Brown
HR
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July 1, 1842
Mr. Evans
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Washington June 30th 1842
Dear Sir
I herewith inclose you the application of John Bain of Lan Co Penna a revolutionary soldier asking to be furnished with a Certificate in place of one lost & should this be found sufficient will you please forward it to me & if there is any additional cost I will pay it.
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Jeremiah Brown
MC Lan Co Pap
JL Edwards Esq
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Pension Agency
Philia. County 3 Sept 43
Sir: 
Your letters of the 3rd instant is received.  I have no knowledge of their being any difficulty in the collection of John Bains pension.  Payment to 4th September 1841 was made to his attorney Henry Burghardess on the 9th of the succeeding month. The person must therefore be in error who asserts at this time the pension was refused in the supposition that the Pensioner was deceased. 
I am sir very respectfully
Your Obt Sevt.
J Solms
P. A

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D. C.
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June 18 1842
Jno Davis
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Philad June 16th 1842
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Enclosed is Jno Bain's power of attorney for collecting his pension now due in this city, it was presented to the Agent some time since and on account of some informality in the execution of the same was returned for correction (which has been done as per certificate attached) and was again presented and the agent informed me that it could not be paid without an order from you on account of the 90 days the time allowed by law having expired before it was presented the second time my object in writing to you is to request you to forward an order to the agent to pay the same.
Yours Very Respectfully
James P Tatman

Please direct to
Jas P. Tatman care of
Reynolds McFarland Co
No 105 Market St
Philad
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John Bain's application
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August 4 AD 1849
Know All Men by these presents, that I the undersigned John Bain have not received the full amount of my claim for services which I am entitled to receive having been a private soldier in the Revolutionary War.  My claim for services in the War 7 years of which I have received no part thereof is $400 and also 200 acres of lands.  Also my claim for an early pension from 1831 to this date having received but $80 per annum as the document from the Secretary of War will show.  Whereas I should in justice have received $96 per annum - therefore there is a ballance due me of $288 for pensions which with the above $400 amounts to $688 due me from the United States together with 200 acres of land.  Signed August 4 1849 by witness present.  
John Bain  his mark
Samuel Rods
John Quigley
Lancaster County
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally came the above named John Bain and being duly affirmed according to law saith upon his said solemn affirmation, that the above and foregoing statement of facts as set forth respecting his back pay for services as a Revolutionary soldier is just, true and correct.
Affirmed and subscribed to with his mark before me the 4th day of August, Anno Domini 1849
John Quigley

John Bain his mark
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I do certify that I have known John Bain as a pensioner for several years, and that he has received but $80 per annum. as a United States pension, and from his statement has never received his land from the United States, which statement may be relied on, I beleive, as far as his knowledge of the matter extends. Witness my hand the 4th day of August Anno Domini 1849
John Quigley

State of Pennsylvania
Lancaster County Ss.
I Henry Stock Prothonotary  of the Court of Common pleas of Lancaster County do certify that John Quigley Esq. before whom the above certificate is signed, is and was at that time a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Lancaster, duly commissioned and qualified and that the Signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of Said Court this Seventh day of August AD 1849
Henry Stock Prothy.
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The Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
City of Washington
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Philadelphia June [illegible] 3
Sir
[illegible] Peter [unreadable] John Bain or Bahen [unreadable] & ever since his wound has been extremely ill till [illegible] state, when she got something better & at her request wrote to [illegible] to know what has been done who said the Captain a Bell reported to the House from the Committee of Revolutionary Pensions; wherein his name with several others are directed to be placed on the List of Revolutionary Pensioners of the United States, by Secretary of War at the rate of [illegible] of Philadelphia. Mr Ever called a few days ago & said he would call again in two  weeks; he stated that he has been able to get along to is able well till in the a few years, being upwards of ninety years old, and cannot now be to work at his [illegible] Carpenter
Therefore if their is no [illegible] freely in your doing so as may his Pension Certificate, and what may be now due to  him for my care and of will send them to him when he oath; or at any rate I hope you will in the goodness to let him hear from one a. I am very respectfully
Yr. Obt. Servt.
Joseph Wilson
[illegible] 62 Spruce Street

20 May sent to Let first. st a let to her on if his papers
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Recd 18 Jany 1831.
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FREE 
Revolutionary Claim. 
Hon. Saml L. [illegible] m. Secretary of the Treasury
Washington City
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Mr. J. L. Edwards 
Pension Office
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Mr. J.L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington
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Philadelphia 18 September 1832
Mr. J. L. Edwards
Sir
I wrote you the 16 August and gave your all 
the Information I was able respecting Mr John Bain which I hope you found satisfactory and expected before this time he would have been
in the Receipt of what he is entitled to as he is very much in
want of it being unable to work and having no other resources
you will confer a great favor on him  to since his Business competiter
immediately as I presume there can be no further difficulty in this request. 
I am very respectfully
Yr. Obt. Servt. 
Joseph Watson

N. 62 Spruce Street
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Hon J. L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington
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Philadelphia 24 July 1832
Sir
in the Receipt of your Letter of the 20th of June
I have been informed that a general Pension law has been passed
I therefore hope you will have Mr. Bain placed on the List most to his advantage better under the  special act or under the general List to
transmit his Pension Certificate to me to hand to him [unreadable] file.  Alsoo to recollect that he also claims arrearages of pay which you now owe him along with his pension since my application on recd of John Bain Joseph A number [illegible] and on improper I fine with Sprat sent on to congress his petition [illegible] 
which will be found. Issued of the Clerk of the House  from these I presume one will be able to place him on the pension List as said his [illegible] Certificate to one for him she said he sent  [unreadable]
Obt. Serv. 
Joseph Watson
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Mr. J.L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington
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Philadelphia 10th October 1832    
Mr. J. L. Edwards
Sir
[unreadable] and him a pension [unreadable] conformity to the Declaration in the Department of War.  I am anxious to [unreadable] amount for his service in the War [unreadable] much in want [unreadable]  
The [unreadable] of  Joseph Bowen, with the Clerk of the House of Representatives; you have not stated whether you have received them, and whether they are sufficient to enable you to in in place him on the Pension list, if they are not, do please return them to me so that they may be completed. 
I am respectfully
Yr Obt Svt  
Joseph Watson
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Favourable
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Chester County SS
Personally came William Stapleton of West Chester township in the County of Chester state of Pennsylvania before me the subscriber [unreadable] Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Chester and on his solemn affirmation according to Law did [unreadable] and say that he was personally acquainted with John Bain from the year 1777 to the year 1782 [unreadable] as a soldier in the revolutionary war all that time and further states that the day he came by [unreadable] was by personal information that in the year 1776 Wm Stapleton was out in the Militia of Pennsylvania [unreadable] under Captain Richard and in the year 1777 he was out in the Militia of Pennsylvania under the command of Captain Christopher [unreadable] one year and [unreadable]  Isaac Melkers Regiment who was in command of all the Barrick of Penna and 
In the Company with John Bain which he [unreadable] Captain Thorpe’s Company Colonel Maybins Regiment of the North Carolina Militia while laying at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777 & 1778 he was often in Company with him and understood that most of the men of Col Maybin Dyed that winter and that John Bain was transferred to Captain John Irvines Company  
that the Mark men Dyed that winter and that John Bain for to Canton John Cavins Company Col [unreadable] North Regiment in the Pennsylvania line, where he in him to continue to the end of the [unreadable]  and he and another acquaintance [unreadable] and further saith not 
William Stapleton
Affirmed and Subscribed the 11th day of Feby 1825 before me
Saml Miller JP
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The papers in the care of John Bain a soldier of the Revolution pensioned 18th June 1833 - commencing 4 March 1831
Edw. Davis
Com. Rev pensions

[unreadable] 
Pa [unreadable]  
Jan 30.40
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Peter W. Sproat Esqr
Philadelphia
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Auditor Genl. office May 7th 1831 
Dear Sir
The enclosed is all the information respecting John Bain in the office.  There is no paper in his file [unreadable] we have of his enlistment, by whom or when discharged.  The only evidence the within gives is that John Bahin was in the service in 1780 & 81.  The certificate of which the Number 68247 is given is not in this office.  (It may possibly be in the war office at Washington).  It might give further information
Yours Respectfuly
Daniel Sturgeon
Peter W. Sprout Esquire
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Ninth Regiment 1780
We and each of us whose names are hereunto subscribed do acknowledge to have received from Major Thomas B Bowen and Captain Ercurius Beatty, Agents for the late Pennsylvania Line the several sums opposite to our names respectively in certificate dated July 1, 1784, bearing interest at six per cent from January the first 1781 signed by John Pierce Commissioner and described as below being for the Balance of a settlement between the United States and us for Pay &c to January the first 1781 
Date of Issue   No of Certificates  68,247  Letter D  Names   John Bahin  Sums  Dollars 33 90th 30  Signers   
Auditor Generals Office May 7th 1831   
I certify that the above is a true copy of the original remaining on file in this Department       
Witness my hand and seal of office the day & year aforesaid    
Danl Sturgeon
[unreadable]
May 13 1831  Danl Sturgeon
John Lightner
Philip Foster
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State of Ohio   Monroe County SS   
Personally appeared before me John Linn one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas of Monroe County John Dailey who being duly sworn according law Deposeth and saith that in the last of June or first of July and he thinks in the year of one thousand seven hundred and Ninety one that to his certain knowledge that John Bane and myself was in the service of Captain Pickens the said Bane was wounded in both thighs in the left thigh badly and right lightly and by certain is positive that was Indians the circumstances was (John Dailey) was at work tending corn at the mouth of Captins Creek near Baker Station on the Ohio River on the West side and Joseph Baker assist me in hoeing corn we went over the river in a canoe early on morning and the said Bane came over to explore round to see if any danger could be around now and about ten or ten oclock he came where we was it work and said he wished to go over to the Station we told him to go and take our canoe and the said he would and started away and in a few minutes we heard three guns go off and then almost instantly too or three more, we made preparations to cross the river over to the Station and just as we commenced crossing over a man by the Name of Henseley Behin hollored to us and said many over the Indians had bullets and shot at John Bane and we hurried over as fast as possible and went the Station about half mile distance and there was the said John Bane wounded in both thighs and the next Day we raised some men and went to the place they fired on him and followed them some distance and were positive it was Indians and that the said Bane was in the service of the said Brock untill discharge and further this deponent saith not.    Sworn and subscribed before me this nineteenth day of June A.D. 1832 
Attest John Linn             John Dailey seal
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State of Ohio    
Monroe County SS     
I Do hereby certify that the within John Daily is a creditable Witness and have reason to believe the within deposition to be just and true Given under my hand and seal this 19th day of June 1832  
John Linn [seal] one of the associate Judges of said County 
State of Ohio Henry County SS
I Robert F. Taylor Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for said County do Certify that John Linn Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken was at the time and now is an acting associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas in said County, duly commissioned and sworn according to law on that the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of  said Court at Woodshill the 20th day of June A.D. 1832 
R F. Taylor Clk
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster SS
I John F. Hays clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county State aforesaid do Certify that [unreadable] is the [unreadable] time [unreadable] aforesaid [unreadable] 
In testimony whereof I have  hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal fo the said court [unreadable] letters U. S. [unreadable] hundred & forty two  
John F. Hays Clerk
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State of Ohio 
Monroe County SS
Personally appeared to me John Linn one of the associate judges of the Court of Common pleas of the County [unreadable] John Yoho who being Sworn according to law depose and saith that as near as he can secret, that in the last of June first of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety one I was forted at Bakers Station on the his river about one mile below the mouth of Capton on the Virginia side. I was Sawing logs to the purpose of building a block house and I heard several guns on the Ohio side and I went to the fort and saw John Bane farming and several guns fired at him, and he continued farming and a man by the name of John got in his canoe to be his assistance was returned without going to him when he saw John Bane carried to the plan and his wounds addressed Joseph Biggs the left thigh was badly wounded and the right was lightly and as near as I can recollect the said Bane was in service of the United States and had been sent across the river for the purpose to be if their was any Indians as there was some people on the Ohio River at work and that the said Bane was under Captain Brock and continued untill Legally Discharged 
Sworn and subscribed before me this Seventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty four --- 
Test John Linn         John Yoho his mark
State of Ohio
Monroe County ss 
I do certify that the above named John Yoho is a Creditable Witness and have reason to beleive the above Deposition to be just and true    Given under my hand and seal this 20th day of June 1832.    
John Linn [seal]
 one of the Associate Judges of said County
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State of Ohio 
Monroe County  ss  
 I Robert F. Taylor Clerk of the Court of Common and for said county to certify that John Linn Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the time and now is an acting Associate Judge of the Court of said duly commissioned & sworn according to Law and that the signature thereon purporting to be his is genuine 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of this Court at Woodford the 20 day of June AD. 1831 
R. F. Taylor Clerk
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Hamilton No. 147
Pen Doc
John Bain Oh
25 Jany 1826
Claims
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[unreadable] County Ss 
Personally came William Stapleton  of Township of Eastham in the County of Chester before the subscriber one of the Justices of the [unreadable] of the said County of Chester and on his Affirmation according to law did depose and by that he knew John Bain from the year the On thousand Seven Hundred and and seventy seven untill the year one thousand seven Hundred and Eighty two and knew him to be a Soldier the Revolutionary War during all that time and further saith not    
William Stapleton   
Pennsylvania Chester County Ss
Affirmed and subscribed the 4th day of January before me Samuel Miller Justice of the Peace
Pennsylvania
Chester County SS
I [unreadable] Prothy of the Cort of Common Pleas in the County of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do certify that Samuel Miller Esquire Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavid was made is and was at the time at which the [unreadable] was one of the Justices of the Peace of said Commonwealth duly commissioned and Qualified for the said County of Chester and all his acts as such are entitled to [unreadable] 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court in Chester in said Court of Chester on the  [unreadable] day of January [unreadable]  
[unreadable]
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[blank]
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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE. 
County of SS.    
On this twenty second day of June 1842 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of personally appeared who, on his affirmation, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel  the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of that he received a certificate of that put under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the day of 183 at or near Edward   
John Bain His mark
Affirmed and subscribed to before me, the day and year aforesaid. to [Unreadable]  Witney 
NOTES -- The last four blanks me left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.  
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated .  
If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the in the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics and insert in lieu threof “but has never received a formal certificate, and wishes now to attain one”  
The pensioner’s oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described as the above affidavit.  The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity.  This oath must be the authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the author may be made in a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be. 
When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as per above.  
In every case where the clerk of the Court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying  officer, should be sent with the papers. 
Mode of Authenticating of the papers – In every case where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or small ribbon 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    
No attention will be given to applications from persons who act as agents, unless they are known at the War Department or are vouched for as respectable persons by someone who is known to the Department
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John Bahin
Petition of
John Bahin
Jan 9 1832
Ref to Commr Rev Pensions
Mar 13 1832   
Bill  -- R. 464
[unreadable] rev pen
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X To the Honorable [unreadable] 
the County of York [unreadable]
in the Pennsylvania line during the Revolutionary war [unreadable]
will show that he had made application for a pension [unreadable]
at the time I was nearly ninety years of age worn down with the infirmity of age [unreadable] from [unreadable] and pain you [unreadable] to place him on the pension list without further delay for the short time he may live.  [unreadable]
January 3d 1832   John Bahin his mark
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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Commissioner of Pensions
War Office
Washington
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Philadelphia 21 December 1832
J. L. Edwards
[unreadable] having been [unreadable]  of the law to have the [unreadable] established 
Of which I was [unreadable] Witness from the Auditor of the State  that first of Lancaster County where Mr. Bain formerly resided and he says that he is Sober Honest & [unreadable] as long as he was able to work and that he has known him a great many years [unreadable] to Mr. Henry William Haskell Philadelphia
Respectfully 
Yr Obt Svt
Joseph Wilson
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Chester County 
[unreadable] County of Chester and State of Pennsylvania before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Chester on his sworn affirmation according to law did depose and say that he was acquainted with John Bain from the year 1777 to the year  1782 and [unreadable] him to be a soldier in the revolutionary war all that time, and further states that the way he came by this knowledge was by personal [unreadable] that in the year 1776 he Wm Stapleton was out in the Militia of Pennsylvania at Perth Amboy under the command of Col. Richard Thomas and in the year 1777 he was out in the Militia of Pennsylvania at Redbank under Col. John Hannum, and in July 1778 he Stapleton Inlisted under Captain Christopher Shafer for one year, in Cap Isaac Melhers Regiment who had them on all the Branch of Pennsylvania and was often in company of John Bain, while he was a soldier in Captain Sharps company, Col Maybins Regiment of the North Carolina line, while laying at the [unreadable] in the winter of 1777 to 1778 he was often in company with him and understood that the most of Col. Maybins men died that winter and that John Bain was transfered to Captain John Davis’s Company Col Carter Berths Regiment in the Pennsylvania line, where he know him to continue to the end of the war and was personally acquainted with all that time and ever since and further saieth not   
William Stapleton  
Affirmed and subscribed the 11th day of Feby 1825 before me 
Saml Miller J. P. 
Chester County SS  
Personally came William Stapleton of the township of East Oaks in the County of Chester before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Chester and in sworn affirmation according to law did depose and say that he knew John Bain from the year one thousand seven hundred
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and seventy seven until the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two and knew him to be solder in the revolutionary war during all that time and further saith not 
William Stapleton
Affirmed and subscribed the 4th day of February 1825 before me Samuel Miller Justice of the peace 
Pennsylvania 
Chester County SS} I William Williamson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Chester in the State of Pennsylvania I certify that Samuel Miller Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was made, is and was at the time at which it bears date was one of the Justices of the peace of said Commonwealth duly commissioned and qualified for the said County of Chester to whose acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Chester on the fifth day of January A.D. 1825 
Wm Williamson Prothy
[unreadable] of the County of Lancaster and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are well acquainted with the foregoing petitioner John Bain - We know her to be a man of sober temperate [unreadable] strict veracity and honor and we have no hesitation in saying as our firm belief that he the said John Bain did serve as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and that his wound is a great detriment to him in the supporting of her family knowing him to be a poor man and of honest integrity we sincerely pray the Honorable Senate & house of Representation
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of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant him relief in his old days. 
Jos S. Spencer
John Slaymaker     John C. Depover
John McCally        Michl Musselman
William M. Haymaker    Joel Lightner
Samuel Smelser      Wm. S. Lightner
Sample Haymaker    Isaac McCalister
Isaac Trout                John Seaman
Marten Shutts           Neal McCoy
Patrick McCoy        John McElny
Phillip Foster
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representation the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly with the humble petition of John Bain a Revolutionary Soldier [unreadable]  
transmitted to the [unreadable] his papers and vouchers with the deposition taken in the case, as well as his own [unreadable] before the Honorable Waite Franklin President Judge of the district of York and Lancaster, and countersigned by magistrate of Chester County, as well as the Prothonotary of both said Counties which papers the Honorable Secretary at War has thought insufficient to place me on the pension rolls owing to a [unreadable] inadvertency made by one of the witnesses in which he said your Petitioner was a Waggoner.   
The petitioner implores your Honorable bodies to take his case into consideration and grant to him a little of that Bounty, which you have so liberally bestowed on his fellow soldiers
Your Petitioner further [unreadable]
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with his [unreadable]  
General Washington and in a skirmish which took place your petitioner received a wound in his   right hand by an English trooper, which wound has been and is to this time a very good detriment to him incapacitating him in [unreadable] a whole month your petitioner on account of his wound, and as a competent and trusted person was placed by his officers to the charge of a wagon [unreadable] the officers had personally sent in a [unreadable] by the obliging of the pensioner, from thence your was taken to Valley Forge where he staid during the remainder of the winter and on account of his wounds was put in the was put in the General Hospital at Yellow Springs after he was able to do duty he was put into the Quarter Master Department  where he 
[unreadable]
he lost his papers not expecting that he should have been in such circumstances as to seek remuneration from his country [unreadable] in humble petition implores that your [unreadable]  will grant him such relief as then in their wisdom may think proper and he as in duty bound will ever pray 
John Bain his mark
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[faded illegible] Secretary of the Treasury, do certify that the annexed is a true copy, the original whereof is of record in the Treasury Department.

     Given under my hand and the seal of the said Department, this [n]inth day of [illegible] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [illegible] thirty one and[illegible] of the independence of the United States of America the [illegible]

         [signature faded] Lane
                  Secretary of the Treasury.
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[unreadable]
# 2241
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R. 147
Jno Bain   As
15 Jany 1826
Claims
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We the under signed citizens of the County of Lancaster and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are well acquainted with the forgoing person John Bain - We know him to be a man of sober temporal habits strict veracity and honor and we have no hesitation in saying as one [unreadable] that he the said John Bain did serve as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and that his wound is a great detriment to him in the supporting of his family - knowing him to be a Poor Man and of honest integrity we sincerely pray the Honorable Senate & House Representation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant him relief in his old days    
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
John Haymaker Jr.  [unreadable]
John McCally    Isaac McCallister   
William H. Slaymaker  
Samuel Parker 
Sample Slaymaker    
Isaac Trout    
Martin Shutts 
Jas S. Crase
Richd Musselman 
Joel Lightner