Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [Blank], for Philip Phile, [Blank]

SERVICE
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Phile, Philip
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No papers
Philadelphia Agency
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15822
3-2233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
..... Feb. 11. 1928
Chief, Rev. and 1812 Yrs. Section Division.
I have this day received from M. Atherton Leach ..... check ..... in the amount of $ 2 00 ....., requesting photostat copy as per letter herewith.
Mt. to be refunded, and mfd. Finance Div. mfd. Feb. 11, 1928
O. J. RANDALL Chief, Finance Division.
6-6 L.

2118 SPRUCE STREET PHILADELPHIA
February tenth, 1928.
Dear Sir:
I am desirous to obtain copies of any records your office may have filed under the Pension Claim of Philip Phile of Philadelphia, who died in Philadelphia during the Yellow Fever Epidemic, of 1793. My object is to obtain information for a brief biographical sketch I am writing of this Philip Phile.
I understand there is a small fee attached to such matters and I am enclosing a check as a guarantee of my good faith. Should this be inadequate, kindly advise me, and believe me,
Yours very sincerely,
M. Atherton Leach
To:
Commissioner of Pensions, Revolutionary Pension Division, Pension Office, Washington, D. C.
Enc.-1

77777
February 11, 1928
May Atherton Leach 2118 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Penna.
Madam:
I advise you that in the report of the Secretary of War printed in 1835, the name of Philip Phile appears on a list of Invalid Pensioners who were in receipt of pensions at the Philadelphia Agency and whose residences could not be ascertained in consequence of the destruction of papers when the War Office was burned in 1800, so there are no papers on file in this Bureau.
It appears from the above named list that Philip Phile was a Revolutionary War soldier pensioned under the Act of June 7, 1789 and that he was a private and his annual allowance of pension was $60. There is nothing further pertaining to him.
The amount of your check, $2.00, will be refunded to you in due course of time. No charge is made for this service.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.