State of Pennsylvania
County of Alleghany
On the third day of May of 1872 personally appeared before me Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas a court of Record within and for the County and State aforesaid Peter Shouse aged eighty three years, a resident of Wheeling, county of Ohio, State of West Virginia, who being duly affirmed according to the law, declares that he married, that his wifes name was Ellen C. Vandervort, to whom he was married (opposite Monongahela City) in Allegheny County aforesaid, on the 10th day of January 1810 and who died on the 2 day of May 1854, that he served the full period of sixty days in the military service of the United States in the war of 1812; that he is the identical Peter Shouse who was on or about the 10th day of October or November 1812 enlisted by Hezekiah Johnson Commander of Fort Fayette at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania together with nine
others as Boat builders. And was honorably discharged in the beginning of February 1813 at Lower Sandusky on account of illness contracted in the service : that he in company with Wm Sprague, S.. McGill, G. Guest, W. Hamilton, Eli Edmondson, R Moore Wm. Whiteacre, and Robert Beebe left Fort Fayette on or about the 12th day of October or November 1812 with five wagons and went to Wooster, Ohio where they stayed for a few days and left for Mansfield, Ohio from this place they
went to Bells Camp and went to Camp Avery on the Huron River where he was engaged in building boats: from this place he with said nine men was sent to Lower Sandusky, from this place they were ordered to the rapids of Maumee but were turned back on the road there, on account of Genl Winchester's defeat and returned to Lower Sandiesky; where becoming sick he was discharged and returned to Pittsburgh, Pa that in May 1813 having recovered his health he again went into the government service at Cleveland, Ohio, as a Boat builder where after a short time he again took sick and returned home;m that he at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of the United States adhered to the cause of the enemies of the government, giving them aid or comfort, or exercised the functions of any office whatever under any authority in hostility to the United States:
that he is not in receipt of a pension under any pension act; that he makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the pension roll of the United states under the provisions of the act approved February 14th, 1871, and he hereby constitutes and appoints Magnus Pflauser of Pittsburgh Penna his true and lawful attorney to prosecute his claim and procure the issuance
of pension certificate to him That his Post Office is Wheeling, Ohio County, State of West Virginia and his domicile or place of abode is Wheeling, W. Va
(Signed) Peter Shouse
Witness
Jn M D Crosan
William Means