Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 48,870, Abraham Best, Continental Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Continental
Best, Abraham.
$ 48,870.
Penn.
No papers.
CONTENTS

INVALID. (Series _____)
Cert. No. None
Name, Abraham Best
Rank, Pr ; Service, Rev War Pa
H 88 70 8
Agency. { Original Roll: Pen n { Transf'd _____, 18_____, to _____ { " _____, 18_____, to _____
Issued Soon after Rev war closed , 18_____, Mailed _____, 18_____, Rate and Period, $_____, from _____, 18_____
Original destroyed by fire Nov. 1800 or Aug. 1814
Deductions:
On Pen n Invalid roll
Disability: probably of leg in 1777
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Issued _____, 18_____, Mailed _____, 18_____, Rate and Period, $_____, from _____, 18_____
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Disability:
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Class. Issue.
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Issued _____, 18_____, Mailed _____, 18_____, Rate and Period, $_____, from _____, 18_____
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Class. Issue.
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Issued _____, 18_____, Mailed _____, 18_____, Rate and Period, $_____, from _____, 18_____
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ENDORSEMENTS.

Abraham Best Pa Old Revy Immanuel Congregational

Wrote Frank E. Best - Springboro, Crawford Co Penn June 10. 1889 -
It was claimed that he lost a leg at the battle of Germantown Penn Oct 4 1777 - but no paper for Invalid pension have been found - His name for total degree of disability (see) is on an old Invalid roll for Penn but the record of his death is not to be depended upon for the records of pay were made in advance, i.e. when funds were remitted &c - His name also appears in the list of pensioners in Penn Archives - & his name in Col Lewis Nicola Invalid regiment - Soldier Abraham Best -
If any papers were ever on file they were burnt in War Dept Nov 1800 or by the British invasion of Washington Augt 1814
Penn Military roll are supposed destroyed Nov 1800 -
Office Notes.
See Pa archives - 5 th series - Vol 3 - p. 176. 6 th Regt, " " " 5 th " " 4 p. 9. Inv. Regt.
His name appears on list of 1834; of Invalid pensions paid at Phila. Pa. Agency. Whose residence could not be ascertained owing to destruction of papers when War Office was burned in 1800 and 1814 Abraham Best. Pvt. Rev. Army. an allowance of 60. pension commenced Mar 4. 1789. Act. June 7. 1785. Dead -

FRANK E. BEST,
15016 1 18
✦ NOTARY PUBLIC. ✦ ◎◎
Springboro, Pa. May 20 th 1889
Hon James Tanner, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Sir:-
From the records of your office can you give me the residence of Abraham Best, a member of the Sixth Penna. Regt, Continental Line, who lost a leg at Germantown, Oct. 4/1777, for which he received a pension from the United States? He died about 1794.
I am,
Very truly, Frank E Best.