Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32540, for Sebastian Stonebraker, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Stonebraker, Sebastian
S 32540
CONTENTS

25746  Indiana
Sebastian Stonebraker of Montgom ry in the State of Indiana who was a private in the co mpany commanded by Captain Harris of the reg t commanded by Col. Eller in the Pennsylvania line for 6 months
Enrolled on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 20 Dollars & 4 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Nov r 1833 and John Wilson Crawfordsville
Arrears to the 1st of Sep r 20.00 Semi-annual allowance ending March 10 00  $60 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Sam l Boyd Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 1 Page 129

State of Indiana } Montgomery Circuit County of Montgomery } Court. Sep. Term 1833.
On this 18 th day of September 1833 Personally appeared before John R. Foster, President Judge of the Circuit Court of said County Sebastian of Boston Stone Broker, of Ripley Township in the County of Montgomery and State of Indiana aged seventy six 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 7 th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers & served as herein stated, to wit about 20 miles from Philadelphia in Pennsylvania as a private, a volunteer in the militia, under Capt. James Morris, Major Morris, Colonel, Elter or Elder, served this first tour of three months in Pennsylvania, which was before the British got possession of Philadelphia, thinks in 1776. That he received a discharge for this first tour, and after this by his Capt he thinks that about now certainly collect who has signed it. never he knows what has become of it. it is best because he was sick and unable to parade with the company was discharged. to which he belonged & never afterwards got his discharge. That after this he entered the service of the United States, as a private in the drafted militia in Pennsylvania, & served three months under Capt. James Clark & Col. Elter or Elder, during which time he was in a battle at a place then called Featherbet Hill or some such name, about 20 miles from Philadelphia in which twelve men were killed in the company of this applicant; this was in the year 1777, he thinks. That the British were in or about Philadelphia at the time of this second tour of service, and that for this last term of service this applicant obtained a (discharge)

discharge which he has preserved and which is herewith submitted as a part of his declaration & proof of his services.
That this applicant was never afterwards called into any regular or stated tour of service but was frequently called & went on scouts & guard parties that this applicant knows of no person other than himself by whom he can prove his said services, whose testimony he expects he could procure.
This applicant was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1757. was about 19 years old when called into service is now about seventy six years old since the Revolutionary War has lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio and now lives in Montgomery County in the State of Indiana. — He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state or territory to his knowledge.
Question By the Court. — { Where & in what year were you born }
Answer By the Applicant.
I was born in Pennsylvania in or about the year 1757.
Question By the Court. — Have you any record of your age if so where is it?
Answer By the Applicant.
I have none except the private family record at home in the Bible.
Question by the Court. — Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War & where do you now live?
Answer by applicant. — I lived in Pennsylvania when called into service and have lived in Virginia Pennsylvania Ohio, now live in Indiana

Question By the Court.
How were you called into service, were you drafted or did you volunteer, were you a substitute? and if a substitute for whom?
Answer By applicant. I volunteered the first tour of 3 months and was drafted the second tour of three months that I served -
21. By the Court - State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where you served - such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general Circumstances of your Service.
Answer By applicant. The names of the officers and general Circumstances of my service I have given in my foregoing declaration as fully as I can now recollect them to give a connected account.
2. By the Court Did you ever receive a Discharge from the Service if so by whom was it given and what became of it?
A. By applicant - Yes - for the last tour of three months which I served as a private in the drafted Militia I received a discharge from James Blodgett which discharge I yet have preserved and which is herewith shown & hereunto attached.
2 By the Court - State the names of some of the persons to whom you are known in your own present neighborhood & who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution?
A - By applicant. This applicant states there is no

clergymen living in his immediate vicinity but will give the names of credible persons who can so testify namely Henry Bake and Jacob Porter.
Sebastian Stonebraker
Sworn to subscribed
the day & year aforesaid in open court John Wilson, clk
We Henry Bake and Jacob Porter and Robert Taylor residing in Montgomery County in the State of Indiana and in the neighborhood of the above applicant Boston Stonebraker hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Sebastian or (nicked in english) Boston Stonebraker who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy six years of age, 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 opinion.
Henry Bake
Sworn to subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court John Wilson clk
Jacob Porter
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 Revolution- ary Soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that no clergyman reside in the immediate vicinity of the applicant, and that Henry Bake and Jacob Porter who signed the preceding certificate are residents in Montgomery county, Indiana, in the neighborhood of said applicant, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
John R. Porter.

Sebastian Stonebraker
Ind a Montgomery Co
from - private 6 months.
$20.
Morris Elder pa
John Wilson Crawfordville Clk.

State of Indiana, Montgomery County ss
I John Wilson Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing containing the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Boston, Stonebraker, otherwise called Sebastian Stonebraker, for a pension — In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 18 th day of September A. D. 1833.
John Wilson Clerk

Rev.&1812 Wars Section. ADY
May 13, 1929.
Mrs. James M. Vaugh, 401 East Wabash Avenue, Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 32540, it appears that Sebastian (sometimes called Boston) Stonebraker was born in 1757 in Pennsylvania, place not stated.
He enlisted about twenty miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1776 and served three months as a private in Captain James Morris' Company, Colonel Elder's Pennsylvania Regiment.
He enlisted and served three months as a private in Captain James Clark's Company of Lancaster County Pennsylvania Militia, Colonel Elder's Regiment, was in the battle of Featherbet (?) Hill and was discharged March 9, 1777.
He later served as scout and guard, no details of this service given.
After the Revolution he lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio and Indiana.
He was allowed pension on his application executed

September 18, 1833, while a resident of Ripley Township, Montgomery County, Indiana.
He died July 6, 1836.
There are no family data.
This is the history of the only Sebastian Stone- braker found on the Revolutionary War records of this bu- reau.
Respectfully,
(A.B.) E. S. MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.

White march 9 th 1777 This is To Certify that the Aaron Boston Bonebreaker of my Company of the 5 class of Lancaster County militia has done his duty faith- fully and is hereby Discharged according To Law by order of adj general Just given under my hand James Clark Captain

MRS. JAMES M. WAUGH STATE VICE REGENT D. A. R. 401 EAST WABASH AVENUE CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA
Nov. 9-25
Pension Dept
Washington D. C.
Desiring the Resolu- tionary War Record of Sebastian Stonemaker , with any data you may have concerning him as to locality where he enlisted children etc & am writing your Dept.
Have you record of two men by that name who were Pension- ers soldiers? One is buried in this county Montgomery.
Respectfully Julia D. Vaughn

32 540 Rev INVALID.
File No. 39 540
Sebastian Stonebraker
Rev Rev Rev
Act: June 1 st 1824
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 391
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Nov. 21 1902 Mrs. Eliza E. Bairdoo Crawfordsville Ind 1929 May 13. Writ to Mrs. James M. Waugh. QNY.