Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,873, Henry Curtis, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
NEW YORK
Conuntis, Henry or Bass.
D. 40873
CONTENTS

16. 364
Pennsylvania
Henry Curtis, alias Henry Bass.
of Wayne County in the state of Penn a who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Schaick of the P ud South line, for the term of six years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 th of November, 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of Aug 1820 and sent to Abisha Woodward, Esq., Bethany Pa.
Arrears to 4th of Nov. 1820. 29. 03
Some and all
B. m. 15/4/31. $29. 03
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled
Not entitled to Pension as 16/1820 for J. Horton, Bethany, Wayne Co. Pa.

District of Pennsylvania } Mayne County } ss.
On this 30 th day of August Anno Domini 1820 personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Mayne & being a Court of Record for the said County created & expressly made such by the Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania See act of 22. May 1722 & Henry Curtis aged seventy six years resident in Canaan Township in the said County of Mayne, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. That he enlisted for during the war in Captain Aaron Austin's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Courtland, being the 1 st New York Regiment and served during the war, when he was honourably discharged.
Date of Original Declaration Number of Pension Certificate 16.361.
And I the said Henry Curtis do further swear, that I was a resident of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 th and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An Act of Congress to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed the 18 th of March 1818 th and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Sworn to and declared in { Henry J. Curtis open Court on the 30 th { In presence of day of August 1820 before { Garrison Mallery Abisha Woodward

Schedule of the property of Henry Curtis
I have an Improvement of about 25 acres on two hundred acres of land for which I have yet received no title although the land is paid for - I have due to me from Amos Brown $150. - from George Eustis abt $60. both of which are secured by their Notes, now due I have two horses, two cows, two calves -
Representing Garrison Mallory
Henry J. Curtis mark
I am wholly unable to labour; and the profits of my farm are very inadequate, to my support - I have done no kind of farming work for ten years - I have a wife 60 years of age very infirm and most of the time unable to labour - I have no children living with or who in any manner contribute to my support - except one of my sons who works my farm on shares - Sworn to and declared before me in open court on the 30th day of Augt 1820
Henry J. Curtis mark
Sheldon Norton Filed Augt 30. 1820
Pennsylvania Wayne County } ss
I Sheldon Norton Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Wayne do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court - and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one thousand and eighty six dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Bethany the 4th day of September 1820 -
Sheldon Norton Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne

Application for a Pension
Henry Curtis, Wayne Co. Penna. —
11 th . Nov. 1889.

Pennsylvania
Wayne County ss.
In this sixteenth day of November Anno Domini 1819, Before me Abisha Woodward Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Wayne personally appears Henry Curtis aged seventy years resident in the said County of Wayne who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision of the act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" That he the said Henry Curtis in the year 1773 he emigrated from Germany to Great Britain, that he was there pressed and put on board a British man of war vessel - that in the year 1774 he deserted from said vessel then lying off Boston and immediately assumed the name of "Henry Waz" under which assumed name, in the fall of the year 1777 he enlisted at Fort Stanwix in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Aaron Austin belonging to Colonel Courtland's Regiment, to serve during the war. That he continued in the said service or in the service of the United States until peace was declared when he was honorably discharged in the name of Henry Waz aforesaid, at or near Newburg in the State of New York which discharge is since lost or destroyed. That he was with General Sullivan in the Lake Country; and was at the taking of Cornwallis. That soon after being discharged from the said service he reassumed his original and proper name of Henry Curtis by which he has since been known, and which he still retains. That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support; And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. —
Sworn and declared before me the 16 day of November A.D. 1819
Abisha Woodward
Pennsylvania
Wayne County ss.
I Abisha Woodward Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Wayne as aforesaid Do hereby Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Henry Curtis above named did serve in the Revolutionary war as is set forth in his declaration against the Common Enemy. — And that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his Country for support. — And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War agreeably to the directions of the aforesaid mentioned act of Congress. —
Abisha Woodward

Pennsylvania
Wayne County 3 rd -
I Sheldon Norton Esquire Prothonotary of the court of common Pleas in and for the county of Wayne aforesaid Do hereby certify, That Abisha Woodward Esquire before whom the within declaration purports to have been made was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the court of common Pleas in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn as such; And that full faith and credit are and should be given to his acts as such. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Abisha Woodward and verily believe the name "Abisha Woodward" to the within declaration & certificate respectively subscribed to his own proper signature. —
In Witness whereof I have hereto set my Hand and the Seal of said county at Bethany the 29 th day of November Anno Domini 1819. —
Sheldon Norton Prot.

June 14, 1935.
Mrs. George D. Bush R.D. #2 Elyria, Ohio.
RA-7/ILL George Fauser W. 3967 Henry Curtis S. 40873
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of George Fauser, spelled also Faver, Favor and Favour, and Henrich Bass of New York.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Henrich Bass. The record has been found, however, of Henry Curtis who served under the assumed name, Henry Bass, during that war; his records is furnished herein as it may aid you in your research. The record of George Fauser is furnished also from pension claim, W. 3967.
HENRY CURTIS-S. 40873.
Henry Curtis emigrated from Germany in the year 1773 to Great Britain, where he was put on board a British man-of-war vessel and, while lying off Boston in the year 1774, he deserted from said vessel and immediately assumed the name, Henry Bass, under which he served in the Revolutionary War.
He enlisted in the fall of 1777, at Fort Stanwix, New York, as private in Captain Aaron Austin's company, Colonel Van Cortland's New York regiment and served until peace was declared, when he was discharged at Newburgh, New York; during this service he was with General Sullivan in the Erie Country, and at the taking of Cornwallis. Shortly after his discharge, he resumed his own name, Henry Curtis, and was known by that name subsequent to his service in the war.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November

16, 1819, at which time he was aged seventy years; the date and place of birth of Henry Curtis, alias Bass, are not shown, nor the names of his parents given. In 1819, he was a resident of Wayne County, Pennsylvania; his wife was then aged about sixty years; her name is not shown, nor the date and place of their marriage given.
In 1820, the soldier stated that his son, who worked the farm on shares, was the only one of his children living at home. He did not give the name of that son, nor names of any other children. There are no further data relative to soldier's family.
----- GEORGE FAUVER-W. 3967.
George Fauver was born in the year 1752, in Gloucester County, New Jersey; the names of his parents are not shown.
While a resident of Pittsgrove, Salem County, New Jersey, he enlisted sometime in April 1776, and served two tours of two months each as private in Captain Dubois' company, Colonel Cornelius Newkirk's New Jersey regiment, and in the summer of 1777, served another tour of two months under the same officers. From sometime in September 1777, he served six months in the wagon service under Captain Robert Patterson and Colonel Hugg, during which service his brother, Henry Fauver, was in charge of a wagon. He enlisted in the spring of 1778, and served one year as private in Captain Peck's company under Colonel Cornelius Newkirk.
George Fauver moved from Pittsgrove, New Jersey, in 1798 to Lansing, Tompkins County, New York, thence to Newfield in that same county.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 17, 1832, at which time he resided in Newfield, Tompkins County, New York. In December 1834, the soldier was a resident of Eaton Township, Lorain County, Ohio. He stated then that he had moved there recently from New York State to live with his son, also that he had children living in Ohio. His son, William Fauver, lived then with his family in said

Eaton Township, Ohio; his eldest child, a daughter, was then aged between sixteen and eighteen years. Her name not designated.
George Fauver, the soldier, died March 31, 1835, in Eaton Township, Ohio.
The soldier married March 24, 1780, in Pittsgrove, New Jersey, Elizabeth, whose maiden name is not shown; they were married by the Presbyterian Minister. The date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not shown. She died February 17, 1846 in Eaton Township, Ohio, aged then about eighty-three years.
George Fauver and his wife, Elizabeth, reared a large family of children. The following data regarding the births of said children are of record:
Robert Fauver born December 28, 1780 William F. " " May 23, 1791. George " " March 18, 1795 Samuel " " June 25 --- illegible Elizabeth " ----- -- " ----- ----- ----- -- "
In 1849, the names of the only surviving children of the soldier, George Fauver, were shown as -George Fauver of Eaton Township, Ohio; Samuel Fauver of Steuben County, New York, William Fauver of Perry County, Illinois, and Betsey Belding of Lake County, Illinois.
The pension which was due soldier's widow, Elizabeth Fauver, at the time of her death was paid to the surviving children, named above.
In 1845, one Elizabeth Fauver, a resident of Eaton Township, Ohio, stated that she had been acquainted with George and Elizabeth Fauver for forty-one years last March (1845); she did not state her relationship to the family. At that same time, one Ephraim Belding, also a resident of said Eaton Township, stated that he had been acquainted with the soldier and his wife for thirty years, and that they had lived in the same house for the past eighteen years; he did not state any relationship to the soldier, or to Betsey Belding, soldier's daughter. It is not

shown that this daughter, Betsey, was identical with the Elizabeth whose name is recorded as one of George Fauver's children, nor is the name of the husband of said Betsey designated.
There are no further data on file regarding any of the family of George Fauver, the soldier, nor is there a claim for pension on file based upon service of his brother, Henry Fauver, in the Revolutionary War.
All spellings of Lefever and Fauver were used in the search of the records of this office.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

1935 - June 14 - Hist. to Mrs. George D Bush - see letter in Rev. George Fawver - 7-3967 - SLL.
40 873
Rev INVALID.
File No. 40 873
Hanna Curtis alias Bass Rev Geo Fawver
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 8 , Page 190
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Fluorite data Kansan 16,361 Nov 20 not entered

5439 Case of Henry Curtis v Abisha Woodward Judge Bethany Pa Rec. Dec. 8. 1819.
The Honorable the Secretary of War
Autumn 1820 Nov. 27, 20