Berks-Northampton County PA Archives Military Records.....FRIES, Peter November 14, 1832
   Revwar - Pension Northampton Militia
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  RW Pension Application S23640
  REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION:  S23640  Peter Fries, Penn.
  Pennsylvania, Berks Co, Court of Common Pleas, dated 11/6/1832:

  Personally appeared Peter Fries in an open Court held at Reading in and for 
  the county of Berks who upon his solemn oath doth depose and say that he is 75 
  years of age, maketh the following declaration, in order to obtain the 
  benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed 6/7/1832; that 
  he served in the militia of the State of Pennsylvania four tours, each two 
  months [sometimes more and some time less] in the service of the United 
  States, as follows, to wit:
  1) in the year 1776 two months, in a company commanded by Mathias Brobst, Col 
  Geiger, that he marched from Lynn Township, Northampton county, state 
  aforesaid, to Amboy in the state of New Jersey; 
  2) 4 months in 1777, the first two he served in a company commanded by Capt. 
  Slahler, Col. Stephen Balli and at the time the battle was at Brandywine and 
  Germantown; 
  3) and two months as a substitute for a certain Reidenauer, in a company 
  commanded by the said Slahler, Col. Kern;
  4) in the year 1778, two months marching toward Wyoming to quell the Indians 
  in a company commanded by the said Slahler, Col. Heinenu; that at the time he 
  resided in Lynn Township in the county of Northampton, state of Pennsylvania 
  aforesaid.  
  Signed Peter Fries
  Sworn and subscribed in the Court of Common Pleas, 11/6/1832, signed Garrick 
  Malling, judge.
  
  Interrogatives of the court:
  First:  Where and in what year were you born? (PF) I was born in the year 1757 
  in the Township of Albany, Berks County.
  Second: Have you any record of your age, and if so, whereabouts: (PF) It was 
  in my father's family Bible.
  Third: Where were you living when went into service? Where have you lived 
  since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?  (PF) I lived in Lynn 
  Township, Northampton County when I went into the service and lived there some 
  time after the War.  I now live in Albany Township, Berks County.
  Fourth:  How were you called into the service?  I was drafted three times, I 
  once was a substitute for  Reidenauer.
  signed: Peter Friess
  Sworn and subscribed in Open Court Nov 6 1832, Gerrick Melling
  
  On the same date, Valentine Brobst, a credible witness of the borough of 
  Reading,  Berks County, aged 69 years or thereabouts, upon his solemn oath 
  doth deform and say that he is well acquainted with the within named Peter 
  Frees, the applicant for a pension, that he has known the said Peter Frees 
  upwards of 60 years, that he also is known that the said Peter Frees served 4 
  tours in the Militia during the Revolutionary War and that the said Peter 
  Frees is a man of good character and as to veracity, I never heard it doubted.
  signed Valentine Probst
  sworn and subscribed in open court 11/6/1832, signed Garrick Melling
  
  Also on the same date personally came Henry Babb of the borough of Reading, 
  Berks County, a credible witness aged about 58 years who upon his solemn oath 
  doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Peter Frees, the applicant 
  for a pension for 30 years and upward, that he is a man of good moral 
  characted and as to veracity, never he and it doubted and is generally 
  esteemed by his neighbors.  signed Henry Babb
  Sworn in open court 11/6/1832, Garrick Melling,
  
  Jacob Sallade, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of 
  Berks, do certify that the foregoing contains the name of the applicant Peter 
  Fries for a pension, Nov 14, 1832
  
  Pension Approved Certificate issued 3/16/1833 and sent to Hon. H A Muhlenberg, 
  Reading
  Arrears to the first of March - $53.32
  Semi-annual allowance ending 9/1833 $13.33.
  Total $66.65
  Recorded Book E, Vol 5, p 19
  
  
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