Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,193, for Frederick Stipe, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Stipe, Frederick
W. 10.193
Bank Penn
CONTENTS

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832 State of Indiana, } ss County of Daviess }
On this 25th day of March, 1837, personally appeared before the Daviess Circuit Court now in session, Frederick Stipe, a resident of the town of Washington in said County of Daviess, and State of Indiana, aged seventyseven years on the 11th of April last past, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832, That in the month of September 1780, and for a long time prior to that period, he resided near Winchester in Frederick County Virginia; that in that month and year, in the County last aforesaid he was drafted, (among other Virginia State troops) as a private, to serve for three months, in a contemplated expedition to Hillsborough, North Carolina, and immediately entered into service for that purpose; that the Captain of his Company was of the name of John Smith, his Lieutenant was of the name of Colarus (his Christian name not recollectd) and that there was another officer of the Company of the name of Bell, but whether he was an ensign, or some inferior officer, this declarant cannot remember; that after this declarant had, in manner aforesaid, entered into the service of the United States, and when he, in said Company, was ready to proceed on said expedition the Company was ordered by the Governor of Virginia (as declarant then understood) to march to Richmond Virginia, to which place, declarant, along with the rest of said Company, accordingly forthwith marched, passing on the way through the Counties of Loupiper and Orange. The Company staid but a few days at Richmond, and then marched (declarant in it) to Williamsburgh, Virginia, at which place they tarried also a few days. Declarant, then, along with his Company aforesaid, crossed James River at Williamsburgh, to a large church on the south side of the river, which church, he thinks, was called, ist of Wight  City Church, or some such name, and

where the company remained a short time — thence this declarant was marched in said company to Portsmouth, Virginia; before arriving at the latter place, they joined an army under General Clinton, and this declarant and his said company were attached to a regiment of regular soldiers to fill up the said regiment, as was said; but the names of any of the field officers of said regiment or army, except that of General Clinton, he cannot recollect. In this regiment and army declarant marched to Portsmouth and thence to Norfolk Virginia at which latter place he remained in his company from one to three weeks. He was in said regiment, in all about a month as near as he can remember; at the end of which time, he was marched back in his said company towards Richmond, keeping on the south side of James River, till they reached a little town on that side of said river, opposite Richmond, called Manchester he believes; and on their arrival at said town, the three months for which he had been drafted being expired, he (as well as all the company) was discharged, and returned home. He received a written discharge, and retained it in his possession till about the year 1831, or 1832, when it was, as he is informed and believes, accidentally destroyed, by a daughter of his who is an idiot, and into whose hands it casually got, and was by her torn up. The discharge was in printed form, and was filled up and given him by the aforesaid Bell, but whether it was signed by him or by said Captain Smith he does not now remember. He was discharged shortly before Christmas 1780, but he cannot recollect the day of the month either when he entered into the service or left — he knows, however, that he served fully three months, and that his time had been out a few days before he got his discharge — And indeed, he could scarcely recollect the month, were it not that he distinctly remembers that he was drafted just after fodder gathering time, and returned home on Christmas.
Declarant was born on the 11th. April 1759, eighteen miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but in what county he cannot tell. He has no record of his age. At seven years of age his parents removed from that place with him, to Frederick County Virginia, where he lived till about the year 1790, thence he removed to Jessamine County Kentucky, where he resided till

about twelve years ago, at which time he removed to Knox County Indiana, where he has lived ever since till about a year ago, and thence he came to Daviess County, Indiana, where he has resided ever since, and still resides. He cannot give the names of any regular officers, who were with the troops with whom he served, nor of any Continental or Militia Regiments, other than above stated. The following persons, to wit Robert B. Wallace and Norval D. Marshall to whom he is known, in his present neighborhood, can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He knows of no persons whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service, except William Pollard of Anderson County Kentucky, whose deposition is hereto attached, with whom this declarant served in the Company aforesaid for three months, and with whom during all that time this declarant was intimately acquainted, and who, as this declarant has understood, draws a pension for his services in said three months tour.
This declarant never was in any battle. He hauled wood three months for 800 British, Scotch and Hessian prisoners who were kept at Winchester fort about the year 1778 — he was engaged 6 weeks, about the same time, in building barracks 4 miles from Winchester, for the United States — he was engaged a month in clearing out the well of the Fort at Winchester about the same time — and in the year 1777 (or about that time) being in Baltimore with his waggon & team, he was pressed, for a week, to haul provisions to Annapolis to the U.S. army — But as he is advised that he probably cannot be allowed for these services, he does not state them in detail. 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 the Agency any state.
Frederick Stipe
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
Geo. Vanderpool Clerk
We Norval D. Marshall and Robert B. Wallace residing both, in the neighborhood of Washington (in which the above named Frederick Stipe Resides,) in Daviess County, Indiana, hereby certify that we are

well acquainted with Frederick Stipe, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be about seventy eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution; that we concur in that opinion; and that we believe there is no clergyman residing in said town or neighborhood to whom the said Frederick Stipe personally known. Novval D. Marchand
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid. R. B. Wallace
Frederick Junior being duly sworn says that he is a son of the above applicant who has made the foregoing declaration, and that he has often seen the discharge named in said declaration, and that he believes it was lost as therein stated. Frederick Stipe, Jun.
Sworn and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid.
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; that they are of opinion that he is not personally known to any clergyman of his neighborhood, and that Novval D. Marchand & Robert B. Wallace, and Frederick Stipe, Jun. who have signed and sworn to the above certificate and affidavit, are residents of the neighborhood of said applicant, and are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit. Subscribed in open court this 25 th of March 1837
E. M. Huntington Pres. Judge of P. Court.
(Perkins) Assistant Clerk.
I, John Van Sress, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Daviess County, Indiana, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Frederick Stipe for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this twenty fifth day of March, 1837.
John Van Sress Clerk
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Acts of July 14, 1892, and March 3, 1893.
10,193
P. O.
Fredk Stipe
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

V Frederick Stipe Indiana
Rejected See letter 29 th April 1837 John Van Dree, Clk. Ltl 69 Van Dree Aug 29 '43
Served only three months,

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34.059 V Frederick Stipe Indiana
John B. and Sons, CLK Wabash, Ind

State of Kentucky } Subscribed By the man leaving
The foregoing deposition of William Patten was this day taken, subscribed and sworn to before me in Patten before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace at the place mentioned in the caption of this deposition - given under my hand as of this 23rd day of November 1836
William Patten
State of Kentucky Anderson County Set
I Jordan H. Walker Clerk of the Court of the County of Anderson do hereby certify that Johnson Stratton was an acting Magistrate at the time of signing the above certificate in for the County of Anderson, and that full and credit is to be given to all his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 23rd November 1836. In the 15th year of Commonwealth

The deposition of William Pollard taken before Wilson Malone in the County of Anderson State of Kentucky the deponent being of lawful age and first being duly sworn to be true as evidence in order to obtain a pension for his services from the United States Deposited and says that Deborah Gipe is to the best of the deponent's knowledge in the fall of the year 1780 that the month he and his son were received into the Company John Smith in Winchester Frederick County, Virginia and Lieutenant Gipe for the purpose of going to Fredericksburg in North Carolina, but the company was ordered by the Governor to march to Richmond, to which place the company marched - In marching to Richmond the paper brought Captain Gipe and Orange County to Richmond and the same Gipe and his deponent came General Greene in the South side of James River - This deponent states that he entered the service at the above station in and in the same company and offered with the said Gipe and that this deponent knew the said Gipe personally and that he and the said Gipe did serve the month with his deponent in the said company of John Smith and that the said Gipe and his deponent at the end of said month was discharged and went home together This deponent states that he is now about seventy five years of age and further this deponent saith not
Wm Pollard