Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3728, Matthias Fox, Penn.

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Service|Number.
Penn.|Fox, Matthias|R. 3728

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State of Ohio Geauga County [illegible] on this third day of December AD 1844 personally appeared before me Neri Wright an asociate [associate] Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Geauga in the State of Ohio. Matthias Fox a resident of Burton Township in said County of Geauga aged 81 years who being firmly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress pased [passed] on the seventh day of June in AD 1832 that he during the Revolutionary war resided in Reading Berks County and State of Pennsylvania that he in the year of 1777 in the [crossed out: and after that time] [illegible] war of the revolution for the term of nine months. Before he was discharged that he volunteered into a Rifle Company commanded by Captain Edward Bontal and Lieut Bice that two men serve in the company by the name of David and Anthony Fox. Main Generals [were - inserted] Washington and Wayne.  That he was in the Battle of Brandywine and Germantown. That they were stationed at different places in the State of Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] and New Jersey but were discharged at Philadelphia and that his dicharge is now lost that some [time - inserted] like eighteen years ago he came to said Burton and has resided in said Burton since that time that he is old and infirm and pray a Certificate my be granted him to draw said pension.
Matthias Fox

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the within declaration sworn to and subscribed on the day and year [illegible] before me and I hereby certify from common report that the said Fox is a person of [illegible] and [illegible] and from bodily infirmity is unable to attend court the words or after that time were [illegible] lined before signed
Nere Wright Assc Judge

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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT
Mr. John Fox Elisabeth Fox Jacob Fox and Nancy Stone of the County of Geauga State of Ohio
do herby constitute and appoint Thomas H Ford of Richland county and State of Ohio, Attorney both in law and in fact for us and for our use, and in our behalf, and in our name or in his own name, or otherwise at his discretion, to ask, apply for, recover and receive from the Secretary of War, the Commissioner of Pensions, the Pay Master General, or from any office or Department of the United States' Government, or any officer or person connected therewith, generally all sums of money, arrearages of pay, extra-pay, pensions, boutny lands, or claims, allowances or property of any kind, that may be due or become due to us for or on account of any military or other services rendered the United States, for which us have now, or may hereafter have any claim, under or by virtue of any law of the Congress of the United States, or in any way whatever: and particulary in right of our Father Matthias Fox [illegible] Cote a soldier of the Revolutionary War And we hereby fuly authorize and erapower our said Attorney to take all lawful means for the recovery of the aforesaid or any part therof; to attend to the final adjustment of all business now pending before either of the offices or officers, above mentioned, in which we are interested, and to make examination for us of all rolls and records, and proof filed therin; to give all necessary receipts, releases, discharges or other sufficient acquittnces upon payment of the same to him: to make compromises, if he deem it expedient, and to do all other acts and things in the premises tht we could do were we personally present, hereby revoking all former powers of attoney heretofore executed by us, and also hereby granting to our said Attoney Thomas H. Ford all our power, and authority, in the premises, firmly and irrevocably, and hereby ratifying and confirming  whatsoever he shall do lawfully by virtue herof. - Witness our hand and seal this seventeenth day of August A. D. 1853.
Signed sealed and executed in presence of 
P. Hitchcock D. Shellenbarger
John Fox
Elisabeth Fox
Jacob Fox
Nancy Stone

The State of Ohio | On the Seventeenth day of August
County of Geauga | A. D. 1853 personally appeared before me P. Hitchcock
a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, the above named John Fox, Elisabeth Fox, Jacob Fox, and Nancy Stone
to me well known, and ACKNOWLEDGED the foregoing power of attorney to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
P. Hitchcock Justice of the Peace.

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37.28
P.O.
Mathias Fox
Service: 
REJECTED [stamped diagonally across next two fields]

Enlisted:________, 18
Discharged: ______, 18

Application filed _____, 18
of Geauga Co Ohio

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3730
P. O. ___________________
Mathias Fox
Service: Consolidated June 17 1882 
with same soldier reg'd files
Enlisted: No 3728  J. N, Briod 18
Dicsharged:________________18
Application filed:____________18
Alleges:_________________________
Re-enlisted:______________________

Attorney:______________________
P. O. __________________________

______Recognized. _______Contract.

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35.967

Letter to Lewis Elliott March
17. 1845
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Matthew Fox
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Ohio

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Act-7th June 1832

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37.267.
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Mathias Fox
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Ohio
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Let to Elliott & Nathaway
July 24' 46.

Tho's H. Ford  Oct 3/53






3730
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Act of June 1832

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Hampfield Ohio August 29th 1855

Hon L. P. Waldo

Inclosed I forward you the application of the Heirs of Mathias Fox Dec'd late a soldier of the war of the Revolution. An Application was made in the Soldiers own right an on application was in the right of his widow Elizabeth Fox Suspended I wish to be informed of the cause of Suspension so that I may for the comfort of the  Heirs supply if Possible this Proof
Very Respectfully
your obt' servant
Thomas H. Ford

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37267
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Matthias Fox
Ohio
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7 June 1832

Upside down on bottom of sheet 
Postal stamp not completely on page
Pittsburg Pa May 7

10
Messrs Elliott & Hathaway

Chardon
Geanga County
Ohio

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State of Ohio
County of Geauga SS: On this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord, One thousand Eight Hundred and forty six, before the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Geauga in the State of Ohio, now sitting, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court aforesaid Matthias Fox a resident of Burton in the said County of Geauga, aged Eighty 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 in the service of the United States, and served as herein stated:-He was born at Oley about Seven miles from Reading in the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1763-In the year 1777, the fall of the year he thinks, he resided at Reading, and Volunteered to serve in a company of Riflemen volunteers raised at Reading under the command of Capt. Edward Bonsell. He is not able to specify with certainty the length of time said Company volunteered to serve, but he says that he served as hereinafter stated-that the Company was speedily raised, and in a few days after he volunteered, he with said Company marched to Philadelphia & from thence to a place which he thinks was called Strawberry Hill where he & the company to which he belonged joined the Army under General Washington, Gen'l. Wayne was there. The Company to which he belonged with another Rifle Company & an Infantry Company acted for some time on detached service reconnoitering (??) until the Battle of Brandywine in which Battle he was engaged. After the battle, the army retreated toward Lancaster part of the way & then turned & retreated to Valley Forge.-Shortly after he was engaged in the battle of Germantown-After this battle the

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Army, he with them, took up a position about two miles from Philadelphia, where he remained until the Army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge-But his Company, he with them, had their winter quarters at Flower town where they remained until after the British Evacuated Philadelphia, when they marched into Philadelphias, where he and the whole of his company were discharged-He received a written discharge signed by said Capt. Bonsell, but which discharge he has lost-Besides the Generals before mentioned, General Lafayette was with the Army while he served & engaged in the Battle of Brandywine-Captain Joseph Hester of the Continental troops, had been taken prisoner before he (this declarant) joined the army, but in consequence, as he was informed, of his having advanced money to procure provisions for his Company, General Washington procured his exchange & promotion to the rank of Colonel, and he acted as such during the service of this declarant & was in the battle at Germantown. The Lieutenant of the Company in which declarant served was Lieut' Abraham Byce.-And this declarant states that at this time he was thus discharged he had served as aforesaid, for the term of Nine months, at least, if not more-and by reason of old age & consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but he confidently states that he did not in said tour serve less than nine months as above stated, that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State. That he has no record of his age.-
Sworn & subscribed this day & year aforesaid 
Matthias Fox
Reuben St. John Clerk

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And the said declarant further states that the reason why he did not make this application sooner was that so long as he was able to labor, he did not feel disposed to apply foe a support from his country, but having recently become decripped & unable to labor, the necessity has become greater and his views on consequence changed
Matthias Fox
Sworn & subscribed the date aforesaid in open Court
Reuben St John Clerk of Ceauga Common Pleas

We Seabury Ford residing in Burton in the said County, and Neri Wright residing in Clariden near the boundary line of Burton, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Matthias Fox who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration, that (crossed out) we believe him to be 83 years old, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that belief. 
Seabury Ford
Neri Wright
Sworn & subscribed this day & year aforesaid
Reuben St. John Clerk of Ceauga Comm Pleas

I Erastus Spencer residing in Clariden in said County concur in the Statements made in the above affidavit of Seabury Ford & Neri Wright
Erastus Spencer
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Reuben St. John Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies, that the said Seabury Ford is a Senator

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in the Legislature of this State, the said Neri Wright an associate Judge of this Court, and the said Erastus Spencer who has signed the affidavit under that of said Ford & Wright, was the late Sheriff of said County, that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit

I Reuben St. John Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Geauga in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of Matthias Fox's application for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto my hand and seal of Office this 9th day of April A. D. 1846
Reuben St. John Clerk


(sideways bottom to top left side)
Matthias Fox's
Pension Declaration

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State of Ohio
Geauga County SS
I Matthias Fox a resident of Burton in the County of Geauga and State of Ohio Aged 83 years being first duly sworn according to law do on my said Oath depose and say that I made a Declaration for a pension before the Geauga County Court of Common Pleas on the 9th day of April 1846 and finding there was some omissions in my said Declarations made before the Court aforesaid I make this affidavit in order to make out a statement of what was omitted in my said Declaration In addition to my service in a volunteer Company in 1777 & 78 under Capt Bobsel I volunteer to serve two months under Capt Heartman Lightharzer of Reading Penn it was I think in the fall of the year 1779 or 80 there was two companies of Volunteers raised at Reading Pennsylvania to go to Wyoming to fight the Indians besides the company Volunteered under Capt Heartman Lightharzer one company Volunteered under Capt Peter Shoemaker that he this deposnont went to Wyoming under said Capt Lightharzer and served two months before discharge Capt Peter Shoemaker was there with his Company at the same time and both companies was discharged at the same time having served out the time for which they had volunteered I well remember that I arrived home at Reading the evening before New Years day I was not in any battles while in said two months service I resided in Pennsylvania till the year 1823 then moved to Burton Geauga County Ohio where I have since and now reside
Matthias Fox
his mark

Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 21st day of May A. D. 1846 and I hereby Certify from common report that the said Matthias Fox is a person of truth & probity
James Hathaway Justice of the Peace

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(This is a standardized form)

THE STATE OF OHIO
GEAUGA COUNTY, SS

I Reuben St. John, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Geauga, in the State of Ohio, do by these presents certify and make known, that James Hathaway Esquire, before whom the annexed and foregoing affidavit was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper, handwriting, subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such affidavit and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, agreeably to the laws of the State of Ohio, and all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Chardon, in the said county, this 22n day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
William N. Keeny Dep. Clerk

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Secretary's Office
Harrisburg May 4. 1846

Sir-
After a careful examination of the Records of this Department, no evidence can be found relative to any Service having been Rendered in the War of the Revolution by Matthias Fox-Some time Since many of the Records and papers relating to Soldiers of the Revolutionary War, were taken from this place to the City of Washington, And the evidence You desire may have been Amongst them. You said something in Your letter of the 9th (??), about Sending You a (??) Certificate. I am directed to inform You that this cannot be done. Enclosed I return Your $2 transmitted as fees. 
I am Very Respectfully Yours
J. A. Innes
Clk in Mil. Dept.

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(Form Letter)
THE STATE OF OHIO
(seal over name of County, ss)
I, Reuben St. John, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Geauga, in the State of Ohio, do by these presents certify and make known, that Neri Wright Esquire, before whom the annexed and foregoing declaration was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand-writing, subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such declaration and now is an Associate Judge of the Court of Com. Pleas in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, agreeably to the laws of the State of Ohio, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Chardon, in said county, this 10th day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
Reuben St. John, Clerk

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35969

Matthew Fox

Ohio

Act 7, June '32






3728

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(Form letter)

The State of Ohio
GEAUGA COUNTY, SS

I Albert H. Gotham Clerk of the court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Geauga, in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that Peter Hitchcock Esq, was at the date of executing of the instruments hereto annexed and now is an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn agreeably to the Statutes of said State of Ohio, to all whose Official acts as such, full faith and credit is and ought to be given, throughout the United States, and elsewhere, and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Peter Hitchcock Esq and verily believe the signature purporting to be his is genuine 
Witness my hand and Seal of Office, at Chardon, in said County, this 19th day of August Anno Domini 1853
Albert H. Gotham Clerk
By John French Dep CLERK

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The State of Ohio
Geauga Co. SS

Personally appeared before me at Burton this 17th day of August A. D. 1853, Harris Goold of the aforesaid County of lawful age who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and says that he was acquainted familiarly with Matthias Fox late of Burton in said County commonly refuted, and as he has always understood a soldier for a period of time in the Revolutionary War. That the said Matthias Fox died as he thinks about the 24th day of November A. D. 1846. He the said Goold living a rear neighbor to him at the time, That he (word crossed through) left John Fox, Elizabeth Fox, Sarah Fox and Nancy Stone, his children and heirs and as he the said Goold well however having often heard it from the lips of said Fox himself, these are all the children of said Fox (two words crossed off) living at his death and the same are now living neighbors to the said Goold.
Harris Goold
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day & year first above written.
P. Hitchcock Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the above named Harris Goold Is a respectable & credible witness-I further declare that I was acquainted with the above mentioned Matthias Fox. From the best of recollection should think his death occurred about the time mentioned in the above affidavit, am acquainted with the above (word crossed out) John Fox, Elizabeth Fox, Sarah Fox and Nancy Stone as children of Said Matthias Fox and believe them to be the only children of his living.
P. Hitchcock Justice of the Peace

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37267
WA 30146

10 Original

Matthias Fox

June 7. 1832

E.

(written bottom to top across above)
Hamden O
May 23
2

Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm of Pensions
Washington City,
D. C.

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Hamden O
May 23
2

Hon J. L. Edwards Comm of Pensions
Washington City, 
D. C.

(written sideways top to bottom over above)

37267
30146

Original 
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Matthias Fox

June 7. 1832

E.

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Chardon Geauga County Ohio
May 22nd 1846

Sir
We herewith send the Declaration of Matthias Fox made before Court and his affidavit made before James Hathaway a Justice of the Peace and a letter from the office of the Secretary of Pennsylvania.

Respectfully your OB. Servant
Elliot & Hathaway

P. S. The names of the officers that Mr Fox alleges that he served under may note be set forth in all respects as he intended, from the fact that Mr Fox is a dutchman and very hard to be understood.

E. & H.

Hon J. L. Edwards Comm of Pensions
Washington City,
D. C.

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OM. Dec 26 47

Matthias Fox

June 1 1832

(written top tp bottom across above)
Hampelen O

Free
Hon James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City DC

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Hambelen December 10th 1844
Non. James L Edwards 
Sir 
I have the honor of transmitting to you the declaration of Matthias Fox please to make Return to me at Hambelon geauga county Ohio 
Very Respectfully yours Lewis Elliot 
Hon. James L Edwards commissions of pensions