MILITARY: John RHOADS, War of 1812 Pension Application, 1855, Dauphin County, PA 

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Application For Bounty Land
State of Pennsylvania
County of Dauphin

  On this 21st day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty 
five personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace, within and 
for the County and State aforesaid John Rhoads aged 75 years, a 
resident of Harrisburg in the State of Pennsylvania, who being duly 
sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical John Rhoads 
who was a private, in the company commanded by Captain Philip Cline in 
the first regiment of Pennsylvania Militia commanded by Col. Maxwell 
Kennedy in the war with Great Britain declared by the United States on 
the 18th day of June 1812 for the term of ten months and continued in 
actual service in said war for fourteen days: that he has heretofore 
made application for bounty land under the Act of September 28, 1850, 
and received a land Warrant No. ____ for 40 acres which he has since 
disposed of and cannot now return.
  He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the additional 
bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved the 3d 
day of March 1855. He also declares that he has never applied for nor 
received under this or any other act of Congress, any bounty land 
warrant except the one above mentioned.
  Jacob Fisher               his
  George Frey           John  X  Rhoads
                             Mark

We Jacob Fisher and George Frey residents of Dauphin County in the 
State of Pennsylvania upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing 
declaration was signed and acknowledged by John Rhoads, in our presence 
and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the 
applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
                        Jacob Fisher
                        George Frey

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed 
before me on the day and year above written: and I certify that I know 
the affiants to be credible persons: that the claimant is the person he 
represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
                        David Harris
                        Justice of the Peace

State of Pennsylvania
County of Dauphin
I, Jacob Shope, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County and 
State aforesaid, do certify that David Harris is a Justice of the Peace 
in and fore said county duly commissioned and qualified: and that his 
signature to the foregoing is genuine. Given under my hand and the seal 
of said County the 21 day of March A.D. 1855.
                         Jacob Shope 
                         Prothy

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