Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 6519, Philip Ante, Penn.

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Penn.

Ante, Philip

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26.474
Pennsylvania
Philip Ante
of Lycoming County in the state of PA who was a Pr in the Company commanded by Captain Old of the reg commanded by Col ____ in the Penn line for ________

$26.66 1/2

Inscribed on the roll of Penn at the rate of 26 dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of July 1834  W. Cox Ellis Ly. Co. PA

Arrears to the 4th of March '34                      $80.00
Semi ani Allowance ending 4 Sep 1834         $13.33
                         $93.33

recorded by T J Spragen, Clerk
Book C Vol 5 Page 1

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State of Pennsylvania

Lycoming County on the 6th day of December AD 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming County aforesaid now sitting Philip Ante a resident of Fairfield Township in the said county of Lycoming aged about seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following names officers and served as herein stated.

I enlisted in the company of the Flying camp in the line of the Pennsylvania Troops, in the continental army commanded by Capn James Old, the First Lieutenant _____ Webb, cannot remember the names of the other officers of the company.  I enlisted in Berks County in Pennsylvania in the month of July 1776 for six months.  Our company was called part of the Flying camp, cannot remember the names of the Major or Colonel.  We marched to Eastin in Pennsylvania and then to New York city when we joined the army under Genl Washington.  We lay in New York a short time and then were marched over to Long Island under Genl Washington.  We only stayed one day on Long Island, our company was not engaged in the battle.  The next night we were back across the East River to New York.  We marched from New York into New Jersey or the time of the Battle of White Plains, our company was on duty between the place of the battle and Trenton, being then but about 16 years old and being in place to which I was a stranger.  I do not remember well the names of the places I continued in service under our enlistment in the Jersey

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until after the battle of Trenton and Princetown to the best of my recollection, when I got my discharge.  I never got a discharge in writing from any person.  We were discharged by Capn Old, we were discharged at Trenton I think about the middle of January 1777.  From then I returned home I was paid for my services in Continental money, which was nearly of no value.  In November 1777 I was drafted for two months in the Pennsylvania Militia.  I served as Ensign in the Company.  The company was commanded by Captain Wye.  I was drafted from Berks County East Township, then called west district.  Our tour of duty was two months, we served out the time mostly in the neighbortion of Barren _____ church on the ridge road about fourteen miles from Philadelphia.  After the time was out I returned home.  I think my commission as ensign was signed by Governor Mifflin.  I had three commissions since in the militia, my wife burnt them all, but one which I have yet from Gov McKean in 1802 as Captain of a company of Militia in Pennsylvania in Berks County.  I thought the commissions were of no use to me & I let my wife burn them.  I think the ensign was in the revolution in the place of the officer now called the 2nd lieutenant.  I held offices in the militia until the end of the war & from that time on till I was only the Muster caller & then I volunteered in the late war under Capn Danl Girtan in the Pennsylcvania Militia.  In the whole of the revolution I served six months as a private in the Flying camp under Capn Old and two months as Ensign in the Pennsylvania Militia under Capn Wye.

He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension

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or annuity except the present and delay that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

The applicant is now far advanced in years and lives in a part of Pennsylvania remote from the scenes of his youth, his compatriots of the Revolutionary War are many of then dead - few of them survive to certify to the serviceof their companion.  None of the applicants fellow soldiers have resided in this county to his knowledge.  So that he is unable to support the above statement by the testimony of witnesses, for his character is a man of truth & veracity he would refer to Samuel Shoemaker Esquire - Genl Joseph B Authery - Judge John Cummings - W.C. Ellis Esq - William A Petritrim Esq - Port Master at Muncy Charles & Peter Shoemaker merchants and with the whole county in which he lives - he would particularly refer to Samuel Shoemaker Esq an old settler in the county and to Peter & Charles Shoemaker the sons of one of the earliest settlers here for his character in this respect.

I lived in Berks County in this state after the revolutionary wart till 1804 or 1805 - then I removed to this county where I have lived ever since.
Philip Ante

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
J Wood, Prothy

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We, Samuel Shoemaker and Charles Shoemaker residing in the Borough of Muncy and Muncy Creek Township in Lycoming County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Captain Philip Ante who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be about 73 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbo9rhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year of record
Samuel Shoemaker
Charles Shoemaker

And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogation, prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Samuel Shoemaker Esquire a Justice of the Peace and that Charles Shoemaker are residents of the Borough of Muncy and Muncy Creek township in Lycoming County and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled credit.

Jeff Chapman
John Cummings
A David Jones

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Answers to the interrogation prescribed by the War Department:

1.  I was born in the year 1760 in Montgomery County

2.  I have a record of my age in my house

3.  I was living in East Township, Berks County when first called into service

4.  I lived in the revolutionary war in East Township Berks County until about the year 1805 when I moved into Lycoming County where I have lived ever since

5.  I was called into service and served as I have stated in my declaration

6.  I can answer no further as to this interrogation than as stated in my declaration

7.  I never received a written discharge.  I did receive a commission in the Penna Militia as Ensign as I have stated

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Lycoming County

I Joseph Wood prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming County in Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the annexed and foregoing proceedings in the matter of the application of Philip Ante for a pension, on the full and entire record of the same remaining in this court.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said court the 9th day of September 1833

J Wood

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14th Nov 1833

(form letter printed - no transcription necessary)

A statement showing the service of Philip Ante

July 1776       4 months       priv       Cap Old
Nov 1777       2 months       Ensign  Cap Wye

Present age: 73 years
Abode when joining service: Berks Co Pen.
Proof by which the declaration is supported: Traditionary

The regulations of the Department require all claimants as commisioned officers to produce their original commission and satisfactory proof they were duly commissioned and served in that capacity for the time alleged.  If proof cannot be obtained and he shall to adm____? the Dept the latter service can be admitted as a private

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27.734
Philip Ante
Penna

from 1776pn
8 mo   $26.66/100

W Cox Ellis
Muncy Lycoming County Penn

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Lycoming County

Personally came before me Simon Schuyler one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said county of Lycoming Capn Philip Ante the applicant for a pension under the act of congress of the 7th of June 1832 within named, who on his oath duly administered according to law saith that he is not able to make proof of his commission and service as an Ensign nor any other proof of his service, than as stated by him in his application for the said pension before the court of common pleas of Lycoming County aforesaid.  He will therefore accept a pension for his services as a Private agreeably to the statement hereto anncsced (?)

Sworn & subscribed before me the said Justice of the Peace the 19th of May 1834
Witness my hand and seal

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Rev War
6519
Invalid

File No. 6519
Philip Ante
Priv. Rev. War

June 7th 1832
Index Vol A Page 9

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J. S. Edwards Esquire
Commisioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City

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To J. S. Edwards Esquire
Commisioner of Pensions

Sir

Enclosed I forward the application of Capn Philip Ante - a revolutionary soldier for a pension.  It is unsupported by other evidence than his own oath.  I can only add y my own knowledge of y those of the people among whom he now lives that his reputation for truth and integrity I never heard questioned.  On the old man's account who is very poor I shall be glad to hear the application being successful.

I am respectfully Sir your obt servt
W Cox Ellis

Muncy Lycoming County Penna
17th Sept 1833

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J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commisioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

Penna returned
July 3d 1833

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Muncy Lycoming County
Penna   30th June 1834

To J. S. Edwards Esq
Commisioner of Pensions

Sir
Enclosed are the papers of Capn Philip Ante supporting his application for a Pension, being the same as received from you a annesed to the office Statement and remarks in relation to his service is his relinquishment of his pay as Ensign for that of a Private.

All who know this applicant will be much gratified at his receiving even so much of a Pension, as his relinquishment as above entitle him to.

I am respectfully your obt servt
W. Cox Ellis