Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8748, for Christian Rice, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Perm.
Rice, Christian
P 8748
CONTENTS

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
8748 own
P. O. Christian Rice
Service: _____
Enlisted: REJECTED _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 1

Christian Reu Pennsylvania
Rejected
per let 14 Feb '38
Hon. C. Ogle.
8-748
service less than six months

V 34.376 Christian Rice Pennsylvania
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this Thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty eight.
William H. Southwick Prothonotary

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832
State of Pennsylvania } County of Somerset }
On this thirtieth day of January 1835 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset County, Christian Rice a resident of Milford Township, Somerset County and State of Pennsylvania aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his solemn oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832. "That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1777 - in the latter part of May, or first of June at Sunbury, Northumberland County Pennsylvania (where he then resided) in the company of Captain Thomas Gascon - first Lieutenant Moses Van Camp, Second Lieutenant John Meads, that he enlisted for six months & at the expiration of that time he received a written discharge signed by captain Thomas Gascon which was destroyed in his mother's house when the same was burned by the Indians - from Sunbury declarant marched with the principal part of his company to Wyoming on the Susquehanna River - where the company joined the Army; where it was assembled General Sullivan was the commander of the army at Wyoming the troops raised three officers who had been killed by the Indians a few days before and buried, and they were again buried with military honors - from Wyoming we marched to Tioga in Pennsylvania where we built a fort called Tioga fort between the Chemung and -

the north fork - from Tioga fort declarant marched with part of the army to Chemung where the Indians occupied a fort a severe action took place here, in which there were thirty four Indians killed and about the same number of our troops killed and wounded, the Indians were dislodged by throwing in bomb shells, and scaling the walls. declarant was sent back to Wyoming with the wounded - from Chemung we marched to Queen Esther town an Indian village from Queen Esther town declarant returned with part of the army to Tioga fort - from Tioga fort we marched to Wyoming - and from thence to Cox's town twelve miles above Harrisburg where declarant with many others was discharged - at the battle at Chemung, amongst others killed or wounded declarant remembers Lieutenant McCarthy killed and he thinks Lieutenant Davison shot through the knee - at Tioga fort declarant well recollects that the following circumstance occurred two soldiers who had been convicted of taking a bag of flour from some of the officers and were sentenced to run the gauntlet when they passed declarant he had broken his stick close to his hand so as not to be able to strike, a Lieutenant came up behind declarant and struck him three blows with a rattan at the same time using this expression - "You damn'd young rascal I will make an honest soldier of you" - from lapse of time and loss of memory consequent upon old age he is unable to state the names of any other general officers or circumstances than those mentioned already - declarant further states that the record of his age was lost at the burning of his mother's house - after his discharge he went to Lancaster Pennsylvania he resided between Lancaster & Columbia seven or eight years - from thence he removed to Somers

County where he has resided ever since declarant was unwilling to apply for a pension as long as he could work or live comfortably without it, but as he is old and has become a perfect cripple as he believes through the hardships endured while in the army he is compelled to ask aid from a generous country whom he has faithfully served declarant further states that he knows of no living witness who can prove his service - George Johnston Esquire who died about a year since and who was a pensioner was the only person declarant ever knew in this country who could have stated his service - since stating the foregoing facts declarant remembers that Patrick Sullivan was the commissary. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state or (if any only on that of the agency in the state of Pennsylvania. Declarant further states in answer to a sworn to & subscribed) question by the court that he the day & year aforesaid was born in the state of New York.
W. B. Pettebrowe Prothonotary Christian Rice
We George Gebhart & Michael Grease residing in Milford Township Somerset County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Christian Rice who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion sworn & subscribed before me in open court the day & year aforesaid George Gebhart Michael Grease W. B. Pettebrowe Prothonotary

And the said Court do hereby declare Their Opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the questions or interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the within named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states, and the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that George Gebhart & Michael Freese are residents in the township of Milford and are credible persons, and that their Statement is entitled to credit. A. Thomson President
I William H. Postlethwaite Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Christian Price for a pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this Thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty eight.
William H. Postlethwaite Prothonotary
V 34.376 Christian Price Pension
Hn. Ch. Ogle HR,