Huron County OhArchives Military Records.....Sifert Or Cypher, Peter June 25, 1818
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Peter Sifert [also Called Cypher], Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll #__, Application #S42304
25th of  June, 1818. “Peter Sifert, living in the township of Norwalk in the county
of Huron in the state of Ohio, on his solemn oath, declares and says as follows”
That he was born in the state of Pennsylvania, Little York County [probably York
County, Little York is the village]. That he is 63 years of age. That he enlisted
into the United States service in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain sometime
in the year 1775 in the above county and state under Captain Stinson of a ___ rifle
company and marched to Boston, and there served one year in fortifying Dorchester
Point, marched to New York and was discharged on Staten Island by the above said
Captain Stinson.”

“In the year 1777 he enlisted again into said service of the United States under
Captain Hopkins at Baltimore for the term of 3 years in the 4th regiment of Light
Horse commanded by Colonel Moylan and marched to New Jersey to guard the shore from
there to White Plains, and was in the Battle of Brandywine and Monmouth and guarded
the lines one year at Philadelphia, and was discharged at Colchester 1779 by Captain
Hopkins, and all the time was on the Continental establishment, but by the lapse of
time, his discharge he has lost…” 

“21st January, 1823, Cayuga County, New York, Peter Sifert or Cypher, aged 66 years
in the town of Genoa: That he enlisted into the service of the United States in the
Revolutionary War sometime in the year 1775 in York County, Pennsylvania under
Captain Stinson in a rifle company for the term of one year and was discharged on
Staten Island; and in the year 1777, he enlisted April 16th in Captain Hopkins
company of Light Dragoons in the 4th regiment and was discharged at Colchester in
the state of Connecticut. That he was in the battles of Brandywine and Monmouth…”

“That by reason of ill health, I am rendered unable to contribute to my support by
manual labor, and am wholly dependent upon my friends for any support, and I am
justly indebted to a considerable amount, which I am wholly unable to pay, and that
all the property that I possess is in the annexed schedule.”

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