York County PA Archives Military Records.....Sype, Tobias November
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Tobias Sype, National Archives Microseries M804, Roll __, Application #W3366
York County, Pennsylvania
	Personally appeared before me, one of the judges of the Court of Common 
Pleas of said county, Tobias Sype:

	That he entered into the service of the United States about the 1st of 
July, 1776 in Captain Quiggles company in York County, Pennsylvania, Colonel 
Swopes’ Battalion for three months, he having been drafted for that term of 
time. That he marched through Lancaster and Chester Counties to Philadelphia, 
thence through Trenton, Princeton, Brunswick, Elizabethtown and Newark, to Fort 
Lee, where he remained in service until the 16th of November, 1776 and was then 
honorably discharged at Fort Lee immediately after the battle at Fort 
Washington, having served about four months and 16 days, which discharge he has 
lost.

	That he was again drafted in 1782 in Captain Pennington’s company at 
York to guard and keep secure the British prisoners at a place called Camp 
Security in the county of York, and served for two months and was honorably 
discharged by Captain Pennington, which discharge he has lost. That he actually 
served in the Revolutionary War ?over six months and a half, and that his name 
is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, and that he is 72 years 
old and that he has resided in York County from birth and that 
_________________________ [this line is obscured by a fold in the paper on the 
microfilm.] …Tobias Sype, his mark.

York County, Pennsylvania
	Philip Miller personally appeared before me, aged 72, who, being duly 
sworn, doth depose and say that the above mentioned Tobias Sype was drafted in 
York County about the 1st of July, 1776 in Captain Quiggles company, and that 
he did serve in the manner and for the length of time in Colonel Swopes’ 
Battalion by him mentioned in his declaration. That the deponent was drafted at 
the same time, and served in the same company for the same length of time…[ink 
fades away too faint.] Philip Miller, his mark

	The ink remains too faded to read the interrogatories.

York County, Pennsylvania
	Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, John Sype, who, 
being by me duly sworn according to law, says that he is the son of Tobias Sype 
and Aumney [or Anna Maria] is his mother, and that Tobias Sype was a United 
States pensioner at the rate of twenty-one dollars and 67 cents per annum, and 
that he died on May 20th, 1839 in York County, Pennsylvania, and that deponent 
is now fifty-two years of age, that he was born in October in the year 1791. 
May 14th, 1843.

Another page too faint to read.

His parents married in December 1783. Her widow’s pension was allowed in 1839, 
at which time she was about 74 years of age and living in York County, 
Pennsylvania.

From a Bible page translated from the German:
A daughter, born Sept. 17, 1784
A daughter, born Sept. 7, 1786
A daughter, born April 21, 1787
A son, born Nov. 20, 1789
A son born Oct. 2, 1791
A son born Jan. 3, 1793
A son born Jan. 5, 1795

In 1839, one daughter’s name was mentioned, Elizabeth, as being aged 54 years. 
No other children were named.

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