Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42671, John Dedier, Penn.

SERVICE
SERVICE Perm.
NUMBER _____
Dedier, John
S. 42671
CONTENTS

10.662
Pennsylvania
John Dedier sin? (744 th )
of Bristol township in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Craig of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of the war - (1778)
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 th of June 1821 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of June 1822 and sent to Matthew Randall Philadelphia
Arrears to 4th of March 1822 69. 29 emi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1822 48. 00
2 mts \frac{16}{30} \frac{4}{31}
$117.29
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
21 May 1820
Philadelphia Co. Pa.

Philadelphia County ss
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Philadelphia, John Bedier the Elder, of Bristol Town ship in said County, who says he has been an inhab- itant of said Township since the year 1783, which to my own knowledge I believe to be true — Witness my hand at Bristol Township the 7 th day of December A.D. 1821. Silas Wilson I believe the above statement to be true — Jacob Reaver, J.P.

John Dedier Jr.
Col. Craig's Penn a Reg t 1770 - for the war.
The residence of the Appli- cant must be stated in the declaration. -
17 June 1822 -
Residence is stated in paper marked A . within - Matthew Randall
Philad a

Philadelphia County ss
On this fifteenth day of June 1821 personally appeared in open Court before the Honourable John Hallowell Esq r President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia at being a Court of Record for the County of Philadelphia John De Dier aged Seventy four Years and blind near twelve Years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and the 1 st of May 1820 that he the said John De Dier Enlisted for during the Revolutionary War in the year 1778 in Pottsgrove in the State of Pennsylvania in the Company commanded by Captain John McDay in the Regiment commanded by Col r Thomas Craig in the line of the State of Pennsylvania on the Continental Establishment that he continued to serve in the same corps until the end of the War when he was honourably Discharged from the said service in Pottsgrove in the State aforesaid (he being in no engagements) and he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818. And that I have not since that time by Gift sale nor in any manner disposed of my property nor any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress or Entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 th day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighteen. And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities or contracts or debts due to me now have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed - and I do farther declare that I have no property whatever save the sum of

forty dollars a year granted me by the State of Pennsylvania.
The persons I have with me are my Wife Charlotta aged 76 and my son John aged 45 and his Wife Margaret aged 30 all of whom are entirely unable to contribute to my support.
Sworn and declared in Open Court on the sixteenth day of June - 1821 -
John his  X mark Deducin
Matthew Randall Protho
Philadelphia County ss
I, Matthew Randall Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia do hereby Certify the foregoing oath and the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court and I do further Certify it is the opinion of the said Court that he hath no property. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal affixed the seal of the Court aforesaid on this 16 th day of June - 1821.
Matthew Randall Protho.

42671
INVALID.
Rev-y ————— an
File No. 42,671
John Dedies Old New York
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 135
[Arrangement of 1870.]

18, 20 7c John Deder, PA Matthew Randall Phil a Rec d 3 Sept. 1827
Hon
Secretary of War Washington City

The Hon. Secretary will be kind e- nough to transmit the Return to M. Randall's Enquire, Prothonotary &c.
Philad. Aug. 30. 1821.

Auditor General's Office, 24th January 1822.
I do hereby certify, that on the 28th day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty, John Dedier, then living at Germantown, in the State of Pennsylvania was admitted, by the Board of Enquiry of said State, to receive a pension of forty dollars per annum, commencing the 10th April 1820, which pension has been regularly drawn, from that date up to the 10th October last.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of Office, the day and year above written
D. Davis, chief clk. for James Duncan Auditor General.

Philadelphia 2 d February 1822
Sir
I have the honor to return you the application of John Dedier for a pension which in the month of September last you sent back for further proof of service —
I have no personal knowledge of Dedier he is a very aged man — blind — and I believe at present supported by charity. The vouchers which accompany this Letter are I believe all the evidence he can give — the Persons who testify are respectable magistrates and respectable Citizens who speak more particularly to his actual service, he adds a voucher from the Auditor General's Office which will speak for itself — whether they are satisfactory will depend on your decision — I am fully satisfied that there is no fraud in the application — and that the bounty if granted goes at least to an honest man —
I am with great respect
Sir
Your Obedient Servt Matthew Randall
The Hon ble J. C. Calhoun Secy of War

John D. Dickerson

Philadelphia County ss.
Jacob Haas and Frederick Haas, both of the county of Philadelphia, the former aged fifty two years or thereabouts and the latter aged forty nine years, their depositions being duly sworn in open Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Philadelphia and their respective oaths say that John Deane now an applicant to the Government of the United States for a pension under the Act of Congress was to the knowledge of Deponents in actual service in the Revolutionary War which from their residence being contiguous to the said applicant they were enabled to ascertain, That he served to their knowledge shortly after the Battle of Germantown but the time of his service is to the Deponents unknown, on account of the length of time that has intervened between that period and the present time and not having any particular circumstance still retained in their memory by which they could be able to state the time of his first service or the continuance, That they are perfectly confident he was in actual service during the said Revolutionary War, tho'

they are unable to state the time & length thereof, Deponents further say that to their knowledge the said John Redick is in extreme poverty, with a family and is unable to work in consequence of being blind. That as far as the Deponents are able to say from their own knowledge and from general report the said applicant has always borne an excellent character, and his morality has has never been impeached.
Known in open Court February 2 d 1822.
Before me Matthew Randall.
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{ Jacob Haas " " Friedrich Haas
I Matthew Randall Prothonotary of the said Court of Common Pleas do certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Jacob Haas and Frederick Haas the Deponents in the above deposition as also with Elias Wilson and Jacob Reams Enquired whose names are subscribed to an affidavit hereto an-

used which two last-named are Justices of the peace in the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and know them to be persons of respectability and charac- ter and of undoubted veracity. —
Witness my hand this 2 nd February 1822. —
Matthew Randall
Esq