Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7,293, Andrew Fox, Penn.

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8-1776, Service, Penn   
Fox Andrew, Catharine
W. 7,293

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13.475
Pennsylvania
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Andrew Fox
Reading in the state of Pennsylvania who was a private in the company commanded Col. Vonhais of the _____ one, for the tern of two years
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nscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 of April 1818.
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certificate of Pension issued the 29 of July 1819 and sent to James Diemer Esq
Reading, Pennsylvania
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arrears to 4th of March 1819, 
$83.96 | semi-anl. all'ce ending @ Sept 1819 
10 mo. 15 days and.
$48.00 
$131.96
{Revolution claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

Continued

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Notification sent to Hon. J. Buchanan, H. R. 18 Feb: 1824

[written parallel to left margin of page is the following]
See letter to Hon. W. Mark, Jan 31. 1831.

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Notification sent to Hon: J. Buchanan, H. R. 18 Feb: 1824

[written parallel to left margin is the following:]
See letter to Hon. W. Mark, Jan. 31. 1831.

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67
nsylvania
_____________
tharine Fox wid Andrew Fox
eading in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a Private of  D reg in the company command by Captain Van Heer of the ---- command by ---- (Penn) in the Pennsylvania 
line for two years

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
the rate of 100 Dollars --- Cents per annu
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Octobe 1836 and sent to Hon. H A. Muhlenberg, Reading

Arrears to the 4th of Septr 1836             $550--
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March '37   50.--
                                                                $600--
{Revolutionary Claim
{Act June 7, 1832 [previous 3 words crossed out] 4 July 1836

Recorded by Wm S Allison Clerk
Book       Vol. 1----    Page 163

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(Folded letter with writing in every direction)

To the Secretary of War
City of Washington

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Two Cases 1867
Judge Diemer Penn
Reading
Endorsed
Rec'd (Crossed through) 1818

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Proof of
service wanted
Admitted

(Bottom top to bottom)
Andrew Fox
Private
Company of Dragoons
1784 2 years
_______________
The Col'or Corps 
Should be stated &
the service more 
particularly described

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(Folded letter with writing in every direction)  
To the Secretary of War 
City of Washington  

(left side bottom to top) 
Two Cases 1867 
Judge Diemer Penn 
Reading Endorsed 
Rec'd  (Crossed through) 1818  

(right side bottom to top) 
Proof of service wanted 
Admitted  

(Bottom top to bottom) 
Andrew Fox 
Private 
Company of Dragoons 
1784 2 years
 _______________ 
The Col'or Corps  
Should be stated & 
the service more  
particularly described

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(Folded letter with writing in every direction)  

To the Secretary of War 
City of Washington  

(left side bottom to top) 
Two Cases 1867 
Judge Diemer Penn 
Reading 
Endorsed 
Rec'd (Crossed through) 1818  

(right side bottom to top) 
Proof of
service wanted 
Admitted  

(Bottom top to bottom) 
Andrew Fox 
Private 
Company of Dragoons 
1784 2 years 
_______________ 
The Col'or Corps  
Should be stated & 
the service more  
particularly described

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Louis County
On the twentieth day of April, 1818. Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the third Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvaina Andrew Fox
an inhabitant of the Borough of Reading in the State of who in his solemn oath deposes and says that in the spring of the year 1781 he enlisted as a dragoon in a company commanded by Captain Bartholomew von Heer. That the other officers of the company were Lieutenant Philip Strubing.
Philip that he was kept continually at head the doing duty under the direction of General Washington and executing us from him that the Deponent received his discharge
at Newbury in the year 1783 but has since lost the same with other document in consequence of the sinking boat in the River Schuylkill in which he was proceeding to the City of Philadelphia for the purpose of obtaining the land to which he was entitled by the term of his enlistment
the Deponent further declares that he has never received any pension under the laws of the United States and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support.
Sworn & subscribed
Andrew Fox

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Commonwealth of Penn
Bates County
James Diemer one of the the Apociate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Baker & State and Do hereby certify that from the evidence produced it appears to my satisfaction that Andrew Fox the the foregoing deposition named did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy as stated in the said deposition and that from his reduced circumstances he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this 20th of April 1818.
Jas Dimes
On the 30th
Sworn the day of April 1819 Before me James Delmer Esquire One of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, personally appeared the within named Andrew Fox who upon his solemn oath doth depose and say that he enlisted in the spring 1781, for and during War in a company of Dragoons as within mentioned in the
Borough of Reading, that he went with said company to Easton, Pennsylvania and from thence exerted General Washington to Head quarter, a place called Newbrough from time remained with Genl Washington, until the end of the war that he then received an honorable discharge which
is but, that said Company being an Independant Corp attached to in regiment in line to
the best of his knowledge & belief.
Subscribed
day and year
Jas Diemer
Andrew Tok
Berks County on the 30th of April 1819 before me James Deliver Esquire one
the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared Henry But a credible Witness of the Borough of Reading County aforesaid who upon his solemn oath doth depose say that he hath been acquainted with Andrew Fox named in the above affidavit upwards of fifteen years that he is in indigent circumstances and stand in need of the assistance from his liberty for.
Sworn & Subscribed
Jas Diemer
Henry Bly
support

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Berks County. On the 16 day of June, 1879 Before me James Deliver Esquire, one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County personally appeared, the Claimant
Andrew Fox who upon his solemn oath unding how doth depose and say, that remained in Captain Parsons Company of Sagers, during the war that he among the others belonging
to said Cap were ____ by Gen Washington or ______as ____, in canning Message & Letters, to the different officers belonging of the United States
Sworn & Subscribed
Andrew Fox
Jas Diemer
I James Dering Esquire, do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the Claimant Andrew Fox upwards of twenty years that he is a citizen of the Borough of Reading
County of Berks and that he is a credible Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Reading June 16th 1819
Jas Diemer
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Berks County ⎬
 On the 19 day of June1819 Before one of the associate Judge of the Court from
Common Pleas____  who upon his solemn oath doth depose say that he is a desentioned
Witness that he personally vouches for Claimant Andrew Fox and
that he said Andrew Fox was private during the revolutionary War in a company of ____ commanded by Col ____that this deponent belonged to the same to company that said
Company was kept at General Washington's Quarters, as yet
in carrying messages for the Army of the United States
Sworn Subscribed

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No. 13475
Andrew Fox
July 19


See Caveat with original papers.

Cox (Crossed off)


Harty and able to work (?)

See letter to H Betz Esq. 
Reading, Pa Decr' 28. 1820

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DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, ss.
On the ninth day of August. 1820, personally ____ appeared in open Court of Common Pleas, holden in the borough of Reading, County of Berks, being a court of record, proceeding according to the course of the common Law, with a Jurisdiction, unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings. Andrew Fox, aged fifty nine years, resident in
the county of Berks, in said District, who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth on
his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the
Acts of Congress, of the 18th of March, 1818, and the first day of May, 1820. That he served
in the revolutionary War, in the company, commanded _____ an Independant troop of _____ in the regiment, commanded by_____in the line of the state of Pennsylvania, and has obtained
a pension, under the Act of the 18th day of March, 1818, his Certificate being numbered.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States
on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale,
or in any other manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with an intent thereby
so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled
an Act to provide for certain persons, engaged in the land and naval service of the United States
in the revolutionary war” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have
not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to
me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed.
and by me subscribed.

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I John Addams Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Berks Do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the schedule thereby annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court and I do further Certify that it is the Opinion of the said Court, that, the total amount in value of the Property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty Dollars. The testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this Eleventh day of Nov AD 1820
John Addams Proth.

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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County SS
On this 24 day of September AD one Thousand eight hundred and thirty six before Me Matthias S. Richard a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berks, in the State of Pennsylvania Personally appeared Catherine Fox widow of Andrew Fox decd a resident of the County of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania Aged 73 years, who being first duly sworn, according to Law & doth on her oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 3rd 1836. That she is the widow of Andrew Fox who was formerly a private in the Company of Dragoons commanded by Captain Bartholomew Von Heer and in the force of the United States in the War of the revolution and that her said Husband Andrew Fox was duly enlisted as aforesaid and served and continued the Paid Services until he was Honorably discharged for his services, and that her said Husband was in the receipt of an annuity Pension of Eight Dollars per Month payable semi-annually 4th of March and 4th of September in every year and that the members of Von Heres Dragoons were not attached to Regiment and humbly requests that the officers of the War Department may refer to the records of the War Department in order to find the Service Rendered to the United States as aforesaid and She further Declares that she was Lawfully Married to the Said Andrew Fox On the 27th day of July Seventeen Hundred and eighty three and that her said Husband had obtained a written furlow from the hands of Captain Von Heer, for  short space of time and in Said furlow was mentioned in full meeting the entire approbation of Captain Von Heer vz. the bearer hereof Andrew Fox here by receives my consent to be married to Catherine Rohland which was my maiden Name; I was then joined into the bonds of Matrimony by the then Pastor William Boas a minister of the Gospel of the Presbyterian Congregation as will fully appear by the Certificate hereunto annexed and Copied from the Record of the said Congregations Church book Record, and that her Husband the aforesaid Andrew Fox Died on the first day of March One Thousand and eight hundred and thirty and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period as in

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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County SS

On this 24 day of September AD one Thousand eight hundred and thirty six before me Matthias S. Richard a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania personally appeared Samuel Levan a Resident Citizen of Reading in the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath depose and say that he knows to his certain knowledge That Catherine Fox above named has never been intermarried and the Said Catherine Fox has remained the widow of Andrew Fox ever since the decease of her said Husband Andrew Fox.
Sworn and Subscribed on this 24th day of September AD 1836 before me
Edward Levan
Matthias S. Richard
a Judge of Berks County

It appears from the Records of the German Reformed congregation of Reading, that Andrew Fox and Catherine Rohland were joined in the Bonds of Matrimony on the 27th day of July 1783 by Wm. Boas, then Paster of the said Congregation. In testimony whereof I have set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.
Wm. Pauli, present pastor of said congregation

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The Honorable 
J. C. Callhoun Secretary of War
City of Washington

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Caveat vs Sundry Pensioners
by
Sam'l Levan
Reading, Pa.

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The Honorable  
J. C. Callhoun Secretary of War City of Washington  



(written sideways top to botton) 
Caveat vs 
Sundry Pensioners 
by Sam'l Levan 
Reading, Pa.

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Pennsylvania August 9th 1820
Reading Berks County

The Honorable Secretary of War 
Sir
The sincere welfare of my Country Induces me a Second time to write to your honor where as an act of Congress passed the first day of May 1820 pensioners are to be considered as to be In such Indigant & circumstances as to be unable to support themselves without the Assistance of their Country or some public or private Charity I will therefore State the following facts to which I will always be answerable to the United States for, is as follows An new Face a Revolutionary Soldier should he send on an application for pension. I hope you will then take the Same into a strict Investigation he is no more Entitled to pension than I am If he swears that he cannot support himself without the assistance of his country I say then he swears false because he is a hearty man and can work a better days worth than any person in the Borough of Reading & his wife a healthy woman he makes a better living than any Mechanich in the Borough of Reading therefore I will give you all honorable Information

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he quarrels stones and sells them by the perch and is a good fisherman during fall & winter and earns more at that than any person in our District  Secondly Hartman Leightheiser officer if he sends on his application you can with safety crop him from the list he holds Land I will know the same my chief endeavor is Justice to the United States and all such as I mention you honor can with safety crop I must mention that John Fox of Alsace Township Berks county was enlisted as a mariner on the Ship called The Carolina I will vouch for every word in my Letter and the United States may hold me answerable
I know almost every Revolutionary Soldier in our County and their circumstances The following persons your honor can crop from the pension Role If Justice is to take place vz.
Andrew Fox Reading Berks Cdy.
Michael Shatz Reading, Berks Co.
George Haus Reading, Berks co.
George Price Reading Berks co.
John Adam Hoch Reading Berks co.
Hartman Leightheiser an officer Hamburg
Henry Lotz
John Fox Alsace

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The United States wishes Justice to take place I know the most part of the people in the Different Counties, and If the United States would allow me a small compensation I could save them as much money as would save about Six or Seven Thousand Dollars by reporting such as get pension fraudulently
If a certain John Andrew Berks County sends on his application you will please crop his name from the list Andrew lives with his Son on a small plantation has a healthy wife & Daughter & Son who can Support him I say he has tricked the U States all in this my letter I will vouch to be truth and I will be answerable to the United States to be the truth in every respect. 
Respectfully yours
Samuel Levan
(?)The U States will save by me a handsome sum of money by revoking such characters

h Berks County
To the Honorable Secretary of War
J. C. Calhoun

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The Honorable J. C. Calhoun      Free
Secretary of War

City of Washington

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Rec'd 5 Jan. 1824

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W Edwards

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(side ways top top bottom)
The Honorable J. C. Calhoun         Free 
Secretary of War  
City of Washington 
 
(top) 
Rec'd 5 Jan. 1824 
 
(bottom upside down)
 W Edwards

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Dec'r 31st 1823
Reading Berks County Penna

The Honorable Secretary of War Hon J. C. Calhoun
Dear Sir. I am one of the Overseers or Guardians of the poor for the Borough of Reading in the County aforesaid, whereas a Captain Andrew Fox an Old Soldier of the Revolutionary War a resident of the Borough of Reading in the County aforesaid has become a charge for Support to the County of Berks on account of his weakly and sickly situation and is entirely unfit to do any business Permit me to ask the following favor of the Honorable Secretary of War having heard that Mr. Andrew Fox formerly Received a Pension from the United States but that he received no Pension these Several Years-I have to Inform the Honorable Secretary that the said A. Fox is very poor he has no more furniture than about the value of about $16. he never has had a pension of the State of Pennsylvania nor is he able to support himself without public or private Charity on the assistance of his Country nor has he any Sons or Daughters who can contribute to his support the all have enough to do for themselves under these lean curmstances I Humbly ask of the Honorable Secretary to Inform me by Letter if under the above lean circumstances Mr. A. Fox would

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be entitled to receive the Pension under the Recent Acts of Congress please inform me in three or four Days after receipt.

Remain Your Obedient & humble Sevt.
John Reightmeyer one of the 
Guardians of the Poor of the borough of Reading

NB please direct the Letter as above in the Care of Samuel Levan Esq.

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Reading
January 23rd 1824

To the Honorable
The Secretary of War

The Subscribers Inhabitants of the Borough of Reading by law respectfully to represent.

That they are well acquainted with Andrew Fox formerly a Pensioner of the United States but recently taken off the list. That he is considerably advanced in years and is a man of a weekly & infirm constitution & habit of body and has suffered severely from indisposition During the proceeding summer. A Fox is at present a pauper on the poor list of the borough of Reading, in destitute of property and unfit to earn a competent livelihood for himself & his wife by bodily labor.
We therefore humbly conceive that he is an fit person to be reinstated on the Pension list of the United States
With just consideration we remain
Your obedient Servants
Daniel Drinkle
Jacob Slichter
John Beyerle
Abraham (German script)
Jacob Lackford
Benj. Davis
Wm. Lewis
Wm. Witman
George D. Betum
Wm. Boyer
Lewis Reeves
Wm. James

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John Weldy
Philip Lotz
Thomas Mills
Wm Wilson
John Rightmeyer (Overseer of the Poor)
Peter Aurand
Matthias Richards
John Miller
Marks Jn. Biosh
John Mills
Peter Nagle
Benneville Stein

I certify that I am well acquainted personally with several of the subscribers & know (Crossed off) nearly all the rest by character. They are all respectable men & some of them bear as high a character for out standing worth as any gentlemen in the state of Pennsylvania
James Buchanan
18th Feb. 1824

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Rec 29 Jan                  Free



The Honorable James Buchanan

City of Washington

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Reading 
January 23rd 1824

To the Honorable
James Buchanan

Sir

Copies (???) the War Department of two letters respecting the case of  Andrew Fox a Pensioner have been  exhibited to us with The request that we should express an opinion upon them.
With the respect to the one purporting to have been written by Samuel Levan of the Borough of Reading we do not hesitate to declare that no credit whatever is due to before sentences contained in it and that the writer Samuel Levan is man of no kind of standing or respectability in locally. He has never to our knowledge been the companion of a Justice of the Peace or held any other appointment that would enable him to the addition of Esquire to his name.
The John Rightmeyer whose name is signed to the other letter is no doubt the Overseer of the Poor of our Borough. Mr. Rightmeyer is a man of character & varasity but being a German prevaled himself probably of Levans knowledge of the English language to get the letter written without (???) me of the former letter written by Levan.
We have the honor to remain
With great respect
Your obediant servant
Sam Baird
Nat P Hobart

I am well acquainted with W. Baird & N. Hobart. They are both men of highly respectable character. The fact, therefore stated in this letter may be depended upon.
James Buchanan
18 Feb: 1824

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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 7293

Catharine Fox

Wid.

Andrew Fox

Pvt. Pa. line
________________

Act: July 4th 36

Index:--Vol. A, Page 245

[Arrangement of 1870]

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James L. Edwards Esquire.     Free
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
City  Washington D. C.

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222
Sept 30
Pa
4 July 1836
Al

(rubber stamped)
READING
SEP
26
PA.

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reading Hence September 26th 1836

James L Edwards, Esq. 
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir, 

I have enclosed the Declaration of Catherine Fox, widow of Andrew Fox dead who was formerly a private of Captain Von Heers Dragoons in the war of the revolution and of which is respectfully submitted as soon as the case has been opted when Mr Edwards wills there have the kindness to report the request to me on the 26th. Henry A Muhlenberg of Reading, for the marriage certificate is given by William Pauli from the church book record of the German Reformed Church of Reading, Mr. Pauli being the Pastor of said congregation. They leave here to state for your information the following having been informed that the widow of Jacob Bower dead who was formerly a Captain in the war of the Revolution that she has applied to the war department Pension office for a pension. In a conversation had by myself and John S Hiester Esq  of Reading he says thus Captain Bower was not married during the Revolutionary War. He was married a long time after the revolutionary struggle and again Catherine Fox has this day informed me that she had three children. That is that she said Catherine Fox had three children born and that after the birth of said children that Mrs. Bower was then married to Jacob Bower. In order to satisfy the War Department I would say that by addressing a letter to John S Hiester of Reading Pena, he will state the truth in attestations of Mrs Bwoer. Marriage my object is that jusice may be done to the married states live as form

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As the certificate mentioned heretofore in the case of Leurs Keisers widow can be obtained.
Send same to the War Department Pension Office that same certificate was sent to the Pena Legislature in order at that time to obtain a Pension for Mrs. Keiser the widow of Leurs Keiser who was formerly a private of Von Heers Dragoons. 
I am sir, respectfully your obedient humble servant
Samuel Levan

To J L Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

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State of Pennsylvania

Berks County 
J Matthias S. Richards a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the applicant Catherine Fox who has sworn and substitute her name to the foregoing Declaration is unable to attend a Court of Records on account of bodily infirmities. I have therefore in pursuance of the aid of Congress administered the foregoing oaths and and I do further certify that the parties hereunto Namely Catherine Fox and Samuel Levan that the are both credible persons and that in their oats and statements make made their credit is due each of them and ought of rights to be given in any court of Justice and in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and subserchege the same an reading in the county of Berks on this 24th day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. 
Matthias J Richards
a Judge of Berks County

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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card
Division of Veterans Administration Archives

Name Fox, Andrew
Grade  Private
Line Von Heer's Corps
Warrant Number 13066 
Acreage 100
Issued March 30, 1791 
to - not shown - 

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. 
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.