Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1530, George Bush, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Bush, George.
R. 1530
CONTENTS

7530 SELECTED
P.O. George Bush
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P.O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Lot to McDavid April 19 th 1843
N o 35473 George Busk Pa
Suspended
Act 7 th June 1832

George Duke of Rouse. Act of 1832 Preliminary report Papers 2 pp.
Howe and Pickers Howard Neff

Mar 8 1843
Friend
1530
H. Sherman Esq. Bush
June 1832
si.
John Edwards Conner of P. & S. Washington City D.C.
1832

Shadsburg Allegheny Co Pa March 4 th 1843
J. L. Edwards Conner of Ohio
Inclosed I send you the ap- plication of George Bush & Henry Stunk for Ohio They think they are entitled and at their request I have prepared their papers for them - If there is any informality in the same, please inform thereof and how it should be rectified
Very Respectfully Your obed Servt
M c Davis

State of Pennsylvania Monroe County
3 rd
On this Second day of March personally appeared before Joseph Heller one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County George Bush a resident of the Township of Smithfield in the County of Monroe and State of Pennsylvania aged eighty three 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. 1832: That he was born in the Borough of Easton in the County of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania in the month of January in the year seventeen hundred and sixty. That he has not at this time any record of his age. That he was living in the Borough of Easton aforesaid when he entered into the service, that after the Revolutionary war, he continued to live at Easton, but that for the last forty years he has lived in Smithfield Township in the County of Monroe aforesaid where he now lives. That he volunteered as a private in the militia in the month of August in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six. That he volunteered for two months at a time and was standing guard at Easton at the time of the Battle of Long Island. That by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot mention the different periods of the war when he served. That he volunteered for two months at a time and served altogether not less than two years. That Matthias Miller was the first captain of the company of militia to which he belonged. After that John Deichman and John Blaymer were the captains. That during the term of his service he was principally engaged in standing guard at Easton and in riding express. That by order of Colonel Hooper who was Deputy Quarter Master General at Easton, he (in company with others belonging to the same company he did) took continental horses from Easton to White Plains where General Washington laid with his army. That he stood guard at Easton at the ferry across the Delaware to apprehend those who attempted to cross without a pass - and that he went as guard with deserters in the winter to Morristown New Jersey. That at the time of the Battle of Trenton

he was standing guard at the ferry across the Delaware at Easton That at another time by order of Colonel Hooper he went as an artificer with a train of artillery from Easton to New Windsor on the North River - That Abraham Lebar was Colonel of the militia to which he belonged - That at one time he went with the Com- pany from Easton to guard deserters to the army at Brandywine and remained with the army until it retreated to Philadelphia and then returned to Easton and there stood guard again - That at the time of the Battle of Brandywine he stood as one of the pro- bost guard - That he was standing guard at the ferry at Easton at the time the news arrived there of the capture of Bur- goynes army, and afterwards stood guard at the Jail and Court House to guard prisoners - At one time by order of Colonel Hooper he went as an express from Easton to Germantown a few days after the British had left it - At another time by order of Colonel Hooper he went express from Easton to Wallpack where General Putnam laid with his troops of horse At another time went with a drove of cattle to Sullivan's army when they laid at the valley of Wyoming - That he knew General Knox and General Sullivan - That the German Regiment lay at Easton at one time whilst he was in service and that he knew Captain Shrauder, Captain Hubley, Captain Rice and Colonel Melchner officers of said Regiment - That he also knew Colonel Proctor very well when he laid at Easton with his Regiment of Artillery - That he was twice on the fron- tier during the war, once with Captain Wolf at Brandenburg at a fort called Fort Penn and once at Buckkill at that time Northampton County now Pike County at Fort Smith under the command of Captain Horn
That he never received a regular discharge and that he knows of no surviving witness or witnesses, by whom he can prove that he was in the service - That he is known to Samuel  Philiply Hooper and Peter Treible who live in his neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every

claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present; and declared that his name is not on the pension-roll of the agency of any State
George Bush
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Joseph Heller Judge
State of Pennsylvania Monroe County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, George Bush who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear pos- itively to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grade. For two years I served as a private in the Militia, and for such service I claim a pension
George Bush
Sworn to and subscribed before me the Second day of March AD 1843
Joseph Heller Judge
We Philip Noack Peter Trickle residing in the Township of Smithfield in the County of Monroe and State of Penn- sylvania hereby certify that we are well acquainted with George Bush who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Eighty three 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 Sworn and subscribed before me the Second day of March AD 1843
Philip Noack Peter Trickle
Joseph Heller Judge

State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County ss. I, Joseph Keller, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the before named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And I do further certify that it appears to me that Philip Mack & Peter Tribble who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the Township of Smithfield in the County of Monroe and that their statement is entitled to credit. And I do also certify that George Bush the applicant before named cannot from bodily infirmity attend the court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Second day of March A.D. 1843
Joseph Keller Judge
State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County ss.
I James H. Stroud Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County do hereby certify that Joseph Keller is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this Fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
J. H. Stroud Prothonotary