Pennsylvania Pension Applications

Pennsylvania Pension Applications T HE first installment of these pension applications appeared in the last issue of this Magazine (Volume XXV, No. 4 (1968), 263 - 279, to which the interested reader is referred. The pension acts under which such applications were made were 1. The general Act of 18 March 1818, for the benefit of those surviving veterans of the Revolution who had rendered military or naval service of at least nine consecutive months in an organization on the Continental Establishment. 2. The Act of 1 May 1820, in which all pensioners not in indigent circumstances were dropped from the pension rolls. New applicants had to demonstrate their indigent circumstances. 3. The Act of 7 June 1832, which liberalized the service require Tents of previous acts, reducing the term of service from nine consecutive months to an aggregate length of at least six months; extended the benefits of the act to include the service of militia as well as the Continental Line, and deleted the "indigent circumstances" of the previous act. 4. The Act of 4 July 1836, the first act to include widows of veterans who had married prior to the close of the veteran's last war service. 5. The Act of 7 July 1838, providing for widows who had married the veteran prior to I January 1794. 6, 7. The Act of 2 February 1848, and the Act of 29 July 1848, which provided for those widows only who married the veteran prior to I January 1800. 8. The Act of 3 February 1853, which provided for widows whose marriage to the veteran took place after I January 1800. These last acts provided pensions which ran for a term of five years. Continued from time to time by acts of Congress, by the Act of 3 June 1858, they were extended for the life of the widow. Thirteen forms to be filled out by the applicant were established under the 1818, 1820 and 1832 Acts. It is from such of these forms as were found in the original files in the National Archives that Dr. W. F. Wagner, Union County, Pennsylvania, made the original transcripts some 15 16 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine thirty years ago, from which the present abstracts have been made. It is recommended that a searcher, interested in a particular application, obtain from the General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D. C., photocopies of the original papers in those files. Centre County Pension Applications HENRY GRENNINGER, SEN., aged 75 years past, last October, restdent of Logan Township, personally appeared in Centre County Court of Common Pleas on 24 June 1833, and being duly sworn, made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 June 1832: In the year 1777, in December, I volunteered under Captain Benjamin Weiser as a private; Christopher Snyder was my first Lieutenant. We met in Mahonay Township, flecks County, Pennsylvania. We marched from this place to Reading where we lay some time; we then marched to Germantown, where we again lay some firne; we were then marched to Philadelphia, where we encamped for a considerable length of time, and then returned home. The tour was for two months which we served in full. We got no charges [discharges] in written or printed form? After we returned home, Adam Sheafer was elected Captain of our company, and we were marched up the West Branch of the Susquehanna to Wallis' Farm, in the Muncy settlement, to guard the frontiers from the ravages of the Indians. This tour was commenced in the month of May, 1778.° I served six months in full during this tour and got a discharge, which I have lost. I again went out in 1779, in July. My Captain was Peter Feaster. We were during that tour kept as a scouting party between Sunbury and Money on the frontier, as a guard against the Indians. This tour lasted six months. I got no discharge this time. I was a private. I have no documentary evidence that I can produce, nor any person that I can procure who can testify to my services except Adam Sheafer who was my second Captain, and at another time my Lieutenant. I was born in Germany, do not recollect the year, but to the best of my knowledge I am 75 years of age, past since October last. When called into service I was living in Mahonay township, forks County, where I lived until I removed to Logan township, Centre County, where I now live. I was a volunteer every tour that I served. My Colonel was named Reichard in the first campaign. When we went up the West Branch of the Susquehanna to guard the Frontiers, at Wallis' Farm in Money settlement, we 'Early in July, 1776, Congress asked for four companies of Germans to be raised in Pennsylvania "for the Continental Service." Benjamin Weiser was one of the four men recommended for a captaincy. He recruited his company from the upper end of Berko County and the newly erected Northumberland County. Greninger was in error when he said he enlisted in 1777; it was late in 1776, and they were in Philadelphia at the end of January, 1777, when the company either stood muster or was discharged. See Pennsylvania Archives, tab Series, VIII, 661-662, 668-670; Minutes of she Provincial Council of Pennsylvania ..., (Harrisburg, 1852), X. 634. 'Adam Sheatfer had been 2nd Lieutenant under 'Weiser. For the officers of this Third Battalion of Northumberland Militia under Col. Peter Hosterman, see Pennsylvania Archives, Sob Series, VIII, 654. According to Dr. Wagner, Samuel Wallis had built near Muncy in 1769 a stone house; it may have been stockaded and used as a frontier post. Near it was built, perhaps about this time, or shortly thereafter, Ft. Muncy which, in July. 17711* was burnt or destroyed by the Indians. Pennsylvania Pension ApPlications 17 were under the command of Col. Peter Hosterman. George Heim (a Clergyman) and Ludwick Friedly can testify to my character for veracity. Henry (X) Greninger, Sen'r In To whom it may Concern: Personally came before me, Jno. N. Benck, Justice of the Peace in and for Centre County, on 22 January 1833, Adam Shefer, a respectable Farmer and Citizen of Miles Township in said County, and on his solemn Oath deposed and says that in the year 1778 he was a Captain in the militia of Northumberland County in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Peter Hosterman, duly elected and commissioned. That he was ordered for a two months tour to guard the Frontier settlements and protect the Frontier inhabitants from the Savages; that he performed the full Tour, and that Henry Greninger, of Logan Township, Centre County, was one of the private soldiers of his company, and served under the said Deponent said Term honestly and faithfully in full. /s/ Adam Shefer Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of $46.66 per annum, to commence 4 March 1831, under the Act of 7 June 1832, as private in the company commanded by Captain Sheffer of the Reg't commanded by Col. Hosterman in the Penn'a Troops for 14 months. Certificate issued 16 July 1833, and sent to James Gilliland, Clerk of the Court, Bellefonte, Pa. Arrears Co 4 March 1833: $93.32. Semi-an'l Allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833: $23.33. Total $116.65. [File: S 107641 *** RICHARD GUNSALUS, aged 76 years, resident of Howard Township, personally appeared in Centre County Court of Common Pleas on 1 October 1832, and being duly sworn, deposed that he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer under the following named officers and served as follows: He volunteered in Captain McElhatton's company of Pennsylvania militia and marched to Carlisle, Cumberland County, where the company rendezvoused and where he was elected second Lieutenant of the company, under Col. Frederick Watts, 5 in August 1776; marched from Carlisle to Philadelphia, from thence to Amboy in Jersey, thence to Trenton, thence to Brunswick, and thence to New Ark in Jersey, thence to Paulus Hook near New York. About the first of December we were discharged and returned home to my residence on the Juniata above old Town,° then in Cumberland, now Main County. About 1 January 1777, the same company under the command of Captain Adams, their former Captain McElhatton having been taken prisoner near New York, marched again to Carlisle, and under the command of Colonel Watts, we marched again through Jersey and joined the general army under the command of General Washs The affidavits of J. George Heim, a clergyman residing in Union County and preacher to the congregation 'in Logan Township, and of Ludwick Friedly, for whose pension application its Volume XXV. 277, of this Magazine, were not abstracted by Dr, Wagner. 'Under the Militia Act of 1777 a two months' tour was all that was required at one time. It would appear, however, that Greninger elected to stay on longee i.e., for the six months he claimed to have served. `Fredrick Watts was Lieutenant Colonel of the Fourth Battalion of Cumberland County Associators in service in July, 1776. Pennsylvania Archives. lth Series, VI, 5. The present Lewistown, site of an old Shawnese Indian village known as "Chasson," according to Dr ■ Wagner. Gunsalus presumably belonged to the family of James (Jacobus) Gonsalus (Kinsaul, etc.), rated in Derry Township, then in Cumberland County, in 1779 on 200 acres of land. Pennsylvania Archives, lrd Series, XX, 141, 145, 276, 279, 417. For record of his service as a ranger on the frontiers, a ,. ibid., XXIII, 272, 450, 453. 18 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine ington and remained in the service until the fall of 1777, when we were discharged and returned to our homes. After that I served a tour of militia against the Indians, and laid an Potter's Fort, in Centre County, for about three months; again I served a tour up the Juniata to Franks Town against the Indians and tories under Captain John McDonald, and in company with Samuel Moore arrested two of the tories who was engaged with the Indians in committing aggressions on the Americans. He never had a written discharge and knows of no person now living whose testimony he can procure to testify to his services. He is not on any pension roll of any State. He was a resident of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, when he entered the service. I was born in Minismks, in the State of New York, on 2 March 1756; the record is in my father's Bible; my mother took it with her when she moved to the west, and I have not seen it for many years. I lived on the Juniata, then Cumberland, now Mafia County, when called into service. In 1784, I removed to the Bald Eagle, in now Howard Township, Centre County, where I now reside. I volunteered for service; General Washington was Commander in Chief; General Putnam held a distinguished command, and our division in 1776 was reviewed and under the command of General Mercer who was killed at Princeton. Lawrence Bathurst has known me for a number of years, and also John Maydin of the same neighborhood.' /s/ Rich'd Gunsalus 26 August 1833, personally appeared before Common Pleas Court of Centre County, Richard Gunsaulus [sic], resident of Howard Township, Centre County, aged 76 years, and made further declaration on oath. [Here follows his service as given in his first deposition, but with some additions.] When they rendezvoused at Carlisle f or six or seven days in August, 1776, the first lieutenant was Thomas Thompson. In the second tour as a volunteer under Captain Adams, they joined the main army under Washington at Middletown. In each of his first three tours he was second lieutenant of his company. In the fourth tour at Frankstown, he recalled the tories were commanded by a captain named Weston who was killed, and that the tories captured were named Hanpson (Hanson?) and Daily. All of his tours were for three months. He named William Tipton, Esq., and James Crawford, 8 a clergyman, as persons who could testify to his character and veracity. [From the following letter, it appears that Gunsalus's first deposition was returned to him for amendment, but instead of making the correction as requested, he made out the second declaration which was also sent to the Pension Office.] War Department, Pension Office, 8 October 1833 J. Bigler, Esq. Bellefonte, Pa. Sir: Farther proceedings cannot be had in the case of Richard Gunsalus, whose papers are filed, until he sends his original papers, returned to him for amendment, to this office. He must also state whether he ever received a commission, if so, by whom it was signed, and what has become of it. In claims of this nature and amount, applicants are expected to produce some proof. There is also another objection to the admission of his claim. There is no evidence in this office, that the militia of Pennsylvania were subject to terms of `Dr. Wagner did not abstract their affidavits. Far Bathorst's pension application, see Volume XXV, 266, of this Magazine. Their affidavits urn not abstracted by Dr. VW.. Pennsylvania Pension Applications 19 service as long as three months, at some of the periods of the war, during which he alleges such length of Service. This needs explanation. I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, /s/ J. L. Edwards, Comm'r of Pensions 25 November 1833, personally appeared before the subscriber, James Rothrock, Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Centre, State of Pennsylvania, Richard Gunsalus, resident of Howard Township, Centre County, who on his oath makes the following additional declaration: that he was elected second Lieutenant as stated in his former declaration, that he never asked for or received a written or printed commission signed by any person, that he cannot remember for what length of time he volunteered each time he was in service, but is positive that he served the length of time as stated in his former declaration. /s/ Rich'd Gunsalus Bellefonte, 26 Feb. 1834 Hon. Jos. Henderson Dear Sir: A few weeks since I sent you the papers of Evan Russel, an old soldier, to be handed to J. L. Edwards, Esq., Commissioner of Pensions. At the same time I sent him an answer to his enquiry, whether Richard Gunsalus, an old soldier, who claimed as a Lieutenant, would cement to be entered as a private.° I would be much pleased if you would take the trouble of calling on Mr. Edwards and ascertaining whether he has acted on them, and if not, urge him to do so immediately. We are delighted with your votes in relation to the Banks '° — your constituents will sustain you —"go a bed" and all will be well. Yours, &c., /s/ John Bigler Pension granted 7 March 1834, at the rate of forty dollars per annum, to commence on 4 March 1831, as private in the company commanded by Captain of the Reg't commanded by Col. Watts, in the Prima line, for one year, under the act of 7 June 1832. [File: S 23246] JACOB KEHL, aged 76 years since September last, resident of Logan Township, personally appeared in Centre County Court of Common Pleas on 24 June 1833, and made the following declaration on his oath: In the month of August, 1776, I was drafted [sic] " into the service of the United States as a private under the command of CoL Christian Lower; Henry Spyker was Lieutenant Colonel; my Captain, George Miller; my first Lieutenant David Becker. We met at Womelsdorf and marched to Reading, where we deem our arms and accoutrments and camp equipage, and then marched to Easton, where we crossed the Delaware to the Jersey side, through which we marched to Amboy, and crossed the bay to South Amboy, where we remained to guard the British that then lay on Staten Island, and were dismissed *Gunsalus is listed as a private in Capt. Samuel Holliday', company, 6th Class, Fifth Battalion, "in service January, 1775," for which see Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XV. 590, 093, but as lieutenant in Capt. Robert Samuels' company of the Eighth Battalion .who performed a Tower of Duty in Kishacauquillis Valley in the Year 1782," for which see ibid., 3rd Series, tIXtil, 453. "The reference here presumably is to President Jackson's antagonism to the then existing United Smtes Bank. 'Kehl could not have been drafted in August, 1776; the Militia Act of March, 1777. which was a draft act, had not yrt been passed. Kehn was therefore an Associator at that 65.3. 20 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine at the latter place of encampment. I got no discharge. The Battalion were discharged at the same time. This tour was for two months, which I served in lull. The second time I was drafted was in the month of August, 1777. We met at Reading, leeks County; my captain was John Lesher. We marched to Chester where we were attached to Col. Yeager's Regiment, under command of General Potter. We were then marched to Wilmington, where we lay a few days. We were then marched to Brandywine and was at that memorable battle. The battle commenced about nine a.m. [11 September 1777] and lasted until sun-set. After the battle we were marched towards Philadelphia, and crossed the Schuylkill river on foot close to the British army. After night, General Washington had ordered a double line of horse to be stationed in the river Schuylkill to break the current of water, so that we were enabled to pass the river in safety. We then encamped near the mouth of the Pen Kioner [sic —Perkiomen] where it empties into the Schuylkill. I served two months in full during this tour I got no discharge. The third time I was called out, sometime in the fall of the year 1778. We met at Reading and marched from that place to George Boon's where we were stationed to guard some military stores, and were there dismissed. This tour was two months. I got no discharge. I was a private. I have no documentary evidence that I can produce, nor do I know of any person that I can procure who can testify to my services. I was born in the County of Bucks [sic -- Berko] in the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1756, and resided there until the year 1786. I have no record of my age except that which I wrote out of my father's Bible. 1 was living in Tulpehocken Township in the County of leeks when called into service. I lived sixteen years in Northumberland County, Pa., and thirty-one years in Logan Township, Centre County, where I now live. I was drafted each time I was called into service. I do not recollect who was our commanding officer at Amboy; we were under General Washington at Wilmington. Yeager was my officer at the Battle of Brandywine; I cannot remember the name or number of any of the Continental regiments. J. George Heim and John Schrock "can testify to my character. /s/ Jacob Kehl Pension granted 15 July 1833, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, to commence 4 March 1831, under the Act of 7 June 1832. [File: S 32359] 30 June 1838, personally appeared before Philip Wohlfant, Justice of the Peace of Centre County, Catharine Kehl, aged 80 years or thereabout, resident of Miles Township, Centre County, and made the following declaration on oath in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 4 July 1836: She is the widow of Jacob Kehl, late of said County, deceased, who was a pensioner of the United States for services during the war of the Revolution, and whose certificate was surrendered to the Treasury Department, when she drew the arrears of pension due him at the time of his decease. She was a Lesher was captain of the 1st Company, Sixth Battalion, Berk, County militia. When the company went on active duty, Col. Daniel Hunter was in command of the activated battalion. Kehl had here translated HULICer to . Yeager" (Doer), See also this Magazine, Volume XXIII, 170, 177-178. 185, 188. "Jacob Kehl does not , appear on any of the published assessment lists for Tulpehocken Township, but is rated for the first time m Heidelberg Township in 1780. In 1767 his father, John Michael Kehl, was rated in Berne Township; Jacob's birth and marriage, however, are entered in the registers of Christ Lutheran Church, Tulpehocken. Their affidavits were 005 abstracted by Dr. Wagner Pennsylvania Pension Applications 21 married to the said Jacob Kehl on 28 November 1780, by the Rev'd Emanuel Schultze" of Berks County; that her husband died 1 April 1836, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period. /s/ Catharine (X) Kehl. Witnesses: George Brungart, Jacob Strife 30 June 1838, Philip Wohlfant, Justice of the Peace, certifies that by reason of old age and bodily infirmity, the within Catharine Kehl is unable to appear in open Court to make the within declaration required of her. 17 January 1839, George Buchanan of Centre County, being duly sworn before Wm. G. Welch, Justice of the Peace, deposes that sometime during the past summer he was at the house of a certain George Brungart in Miles Township; that he there saw Catharine Kehl, widow of Jacob Kehl, deceased, hand this deponent a Bible which this deponent believes was the family Bible of the said Jacob; that this deponent saw written in the said Bible in fair legible German language the record of the marriage of the said Catharine with the said Jacob Kehl, which this deponent copied and embodied in English, and transmitted to the Commissioner of Claims. The said record was written along with other records relative to the family of the said Jacob Kehl, and appeared to this deponent 'm every respect to be a true and genuine record of said marriage. /s/ George Buchanan Bellefonte, 17 April 1839 Geo. W. Crump, Esq'r. Sir: I have received yours of the 12th inst. relative to Mrs. Catharine Kehl. I had drawn her declaration under the act of 1836, not knowing at the time, the period of her husband's service, and I believe before the act of 4 38 had passed.. You say the "original family record should be transmitted to the Pension office." Am I to understand by this, that the family Bible must be sent or will a certified copy or extract from the same be sufficient. It is in German and must, I presume, be translated. You do not object to the declaration made before a Justice of the Peace. Although I observe the rules required a Judge of the Court, this of ten is very inconveffient from the distance and their inability to attend Court I trust, Sir, you will not think me impertinent, but I should wish very much to conform to the rules. Have the declarations of Mrs. Miller and Mrs. McEwen been received? I remain, Very respectf ally your Obt. Serv't, /s/ Geo. Buchanan 11 May 1839, George Brungart, being duly sworn before Philip Wohlfant, deposes and says that the late Jacob Kehl, at the time of his decease, was a resident in his family; that he is well acquainted with his hand-writing, and that in the family Bible of said deceased, now in the possession of his widow, there is a record of their marriage on 28 Nov'r 1780, written in the German language, in the proper hand-writing of the said Jacob Kehl. /s/ George Brungart 11 May 1839, Michael Kehl of Centre County, being duly sworn before Philip Wohlfant, deposes and says that he is now in his 58th year of his age, and he verily believes This was the Lutheran pastor, Christopher Emanuel Schultze, son-in-law of Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg. He served at Christ Lutheran Church at Stouchsburg for 39 years. Catherine Kehl was Catherine Weiser, daughter of Frederick Weiser. See H. M. M. Richards, "The Weiser Family," The Pennsylvania German Society Proceedings and Addresses, XXXII (1924), 63 ff. "Oesngart was a son-in-law of the Kehls. According to "The Weiser Family." Mc. ca., he married Salome Kehl, daughter of Jacob and Katherine, on 9 Apra ISM. " From this and the following documents, 5 5.1113 that the Widow Kehlt first application Wee rejected. 22 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine himself to be the son of the late Jacob Kehl, deceased, and Catharine his wife, now living, born in lawful wedlock. /s/ Michael Kehl 5 February 1840, personally appeared before Jacob Kryder, Associate Judge of Court of Common Pleas of Centre County, Catharine Kehl, aged 79 years, resident of Miles Township, who on oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of 7 July 1838: [here follows the same deposition she had previously made with no new information, except the statement] that she was not married to Jacob Kehl prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to I January 1794. /s/ Catherine (X) Kehl Jacob Kryder, Associate Judge, certifies that Catharine Kehl cannot from old age and bodily infirmity attend the Court, and that the Family Bible of Jacob Kehl, now in the possession of said Catharine, contains a record of their marriage in the German language, the leaf on which the same is written being hereto attached. /s/ Jacob Kryder 5 February 1840, George Brungart, being duly sworn before Jacob Kryder, further deposes and says that the leaf of the family Bible of Jacob Kehl, deceased, is the same herewith attached to this declaration, and was cut from the said Bible herein mentioned, and contains the record of the marriage of said Jacob Kehl and his wife Catharine. /s/ George Brungart [On an old worn and discolored plain sheet of paper, about five by six inches, is the family record, written in German. According to Dr. Wagner, who apparently could not translate it, it appeared to contain the dates of birth of Jacob and Catharine Kehl, the date of their marriage, 1780, and what apparently were the dates of birth of five children. 1781, 1784, 1787, 1789, 1792. Dr. Wagner did not include the names in his abstract.] Pension granted 24 June 1840, to commence 4 March 1836, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, under the Act of 7 July 1838. Treasury Department, Second Comptroller's Office, 19 June 1841 To Comm'r of Pensions Sir: Under the Act of 6 April 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of same at the Treasury of the United States," the Child'n of Catharine Kehl, dec'd, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburg, Pa. agency, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, under the law of 7 July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from 4 March 1836 to 16 Sept. 1840.. • • r • Respectfully yours, Albion K. Parris, Comptroller • WILLIAM KELLY, aged 77 years, resident of Half-moon Township, personally appeared in open Court in Centre County on 29 January 1833, and on his oath made the following declaration: In July, 1776, at Shippensburg, Cumberland County, he joined a company of volunteer Riflemen commanded by Captain McConnell, Lieutenant McClure and Sergeant Only 0 children are maned in "The Weiser Family," cited above: Michael, b. 1781; Clibirine, b. 1784: and Salome, b. 1787. .Prestunably the date of her death, given in "The Weiser Family" as "ab. 1840." Her papers are all filed with those of her lanabaed• Pennsylvania Pension Applications 23 Leathers; the company consisted of 100 men. From thence we marched in the said month of July by way of Lancaster to Philadelphia. Our company was then placed under the command of Colonel Watt." Immediately we were taken by water in a Row Galley, as it was called, to Trenton. We remained there one night, from thence to Princetown, Elizabethtown, to Amboy. We remained there two or three weeks, and were then marched to a place called Bergen Point. There we were stationed a month or more. From thence we were marched to Fort Lee,ai and if I recollect right, it was under the command of Colonel Bull. Our company was not taken within the garrison, but was stationed a small distance from it. We sheltered ourselves in little huts covered with Brush. We marched from Fort Lee immediately after the taking of Fort Washington in the middle of November, 1776, where my brother, Samuel Kelly, was taken prisoner. All the garrison of Fort Lee abandoned it also. The company to which I belonged then formed a part of the army on their retreat under General Washington, which marched to Trenton and crossed the Delaware. Our company remained with the army under the command of Colonel Watt until the day after Christmas, when the whole army was divided into three divisions to attack the Hessians on the opposite side at Trenton [26 December 1776]. The division to which our company belonged did not succeed in getting across on account of the great freezing during the night. The captive Hessians were brought over the next day, and Captain McConners company, to which I belonged, guarded part of them to Philadelphia. We then returned under Colonel Watt to Trenton, having remained only one night in Philadelphia. At Trenton I remained until January, when I returned home. I received no written discharge. My officers returned as well as the men. In April, 1778, I was drafted in the militia. I then resided in Cumberland County. My captain's name was Robert McCoy.. Only one company marched. We joined the Battalion at the Crooked Billet [Hatboro], 16 miles from Philadelphia, then m possession of the British. One of the Battalions was commanded by Colonel Watt, the other by Colonel Smith. Our company had arrived on the last day of April, and on the morning of 12 May the enemy attacked us. All the troops were dispersed and I was wounded with a sabre on the forehead, which fractured my skull, also on the arms. I was taken to Philadelphia and placed in the Hospital where my wounds were examined by the Surgeons, one of whom was Dr. Wilford. He dressed the wound on my head and took from it a part of the skull. This wound can be yet seen. When the British evacuated Philadelphia [18 June 1778] I, with others, was left, and as soon as I sufficiently recovered I returned home to Cumberland County. The wound I received on my head was from a Horse man. The name of one of the prisoners I can recollect was Abraham Smith, also Robert Leathers, James Calhoon, Wm. W. Griffollt, David Wills. These were in the Hospital with me. I was born in Cumberland County on 28 February 1755. The record of my age is in my possession. I lived in Cumberland County when called into service, and have lived for 46 years in Centre County, where I now live. I served first as a volunteer, and then was drafted as a militia man. Officers I can recollect were General Wash" See Note t above. Ft. Lee was on the west bank of the Hudson opposite Ft. Washington, above the upper end of Manhattan. McCoy was captain of the 7th Company, Null Battalion of Cumberland County Militia. Pennsylvania Archives, lab Series, VI, 367470. 374. 24 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine ington, General Putnam, Colonel Bull, but our company being a Rifle company, we had not a very good opportunity of becoming acquainted in any way with the officers of the regular army. We were never paraded with the main body until we were retreating through the Jerseys. Then we were generally in the front or the rear, and whatever orders Colonel Watt received were obeyed. Captain McCoy, under whom I marched when drafted, was killed at the Crooked Billet. The last person who could have proved his service was Abraham Elder of Centre County, now deceased?. /s/ William Kelly 27 November ,1833, personally appeared in open Court William Kelly, resident of Half-moon Township, who made an additional declaration: the service from July, 1776, beginning at Sluppensburg, and ending at Trenton in January, 1777, was a continued service of six months. 'When he was drafted in the militia in April, 1778, under Captain McCoy, ending in the Hospital when the British evacuated Philadelphia, was of the term of two months. He further siith that when he marched in 1776, as a volunteer, his company furnished itself with arms, accoutrements, ammunition, knapsack, blankets, provisions, &c., until it arrived at Philadelphia. /s/ William Kelly The signed affidavit of Peter B. Gray, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Peter Gray, a class leader and exhorter of the said Church, residing in Centre County, certifies they are well acquainted with Col. [sir] Wm. Kelly, who has subscribed and sworn to the within declaration. Bellefonte, 36 Noy'r 1833 Sir; The infirrn;ty of Col. Kelly has been such, that his additional declaration could not be sooner procured. I enclose to you the printed paper sent to me with his first declaration returned, I believe all that was required has been supplied. 1st, he fixes with precision the time of his service in lus first campaign, and also m his second, when he was wounded. 2nd, he gives the Clergyman's certificate, with the order, &c., of the Court. Yours truly, /s/ J. M. Petrikin Pension granted 19 December 1833, at the rate of $26.66 per annum, to commence 4 March 1831, under the Act of 7 June 1832. [File: S 33313] 28 August 1846, personally appeared before George Boal, Judge of the Court, Jane Kelly, aged 87 years, resident of Halfmoon Township, Centre County, who on her oath made the following declaration That she is the widow of William Kelly, private soldier in the war of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the Act of 7 June 1832. She further declares she was married to said William Kelly on 8 May 1783, in Path Valley, Franklin County, by the Rev. Samuel Dougal, and that her husband died on 15 October 1837. She was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but was married to him previous to 1 January 1794. She is still a widow. She has no record of her marriage and knows of none. / 1/ Jane (X) Kelly 4 August 1846, personally appeared before J. McCartney, Justice of the Peace for Centre County, Mathew Elder, Sen., aged 82 years, resident of Fannet in said county who deposed on oath that when he was a small boy, or about seventy years ago, he became personally acquainted with Jane Moore, and not long after he became acquainted with John Thompson and David Fulton, neither of when is mentioned in Kelly's application, apparently signed affidavits as to Kelly's character. Ther however, were not abstracted by Dr. Wagner Pennsylvania Pension Applications 25 William Kelly, late of Halfmoon, Centre Co., who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States. That the said Jane Moore and William Kelly were married in Path Valley, Franklin County, by the Rev. Sam'l Dougal; that he has no means of fixing the precise date, but he knows that it occurred at least as much as five years previous to his own marriage, and that this deponent was married about fifty-five years ago, as ascertained by the ages of his children and his own age. This deponent was present at the marriage of Jane Moore and William Kelly, and saw them married. They lived several years after their marriage in Path Valley and then moved into Half moon, Centre County, where William Kelly died. /s/ Mathew (X) Elder 28 August 1846, personally appeared before George Boal, Judge of the Court, Robert Kelly, aged 49 years, of Halfmoon, Centre County, who deposed on oath that the above named Jane Kelly, widow of William Kelly, is this deponent's mother, and that the aforesaid William Kelly was this deponent's father. This deponent's father and mother had five children older than this deponent, all own brothers and sisters of the deponent, four of whom are now deceased. That William Kelly died 15 October 1837, and that Jane Kelly is still a widow. She has no family record, it having been destroyed by fire, when her house was burnt. /s/ Robert Kelly — August 1846, personally appeared William Kelly, aged 50 years, of Half moon, Centre County, who being duly sworn deposes that the widow Jane Kelly is this deponent's mother, and that William Kelly was this deponent's f other.' 17 August 1846, personally appeared before Jacob Pottsgrove, Justice of the Peace for Centre County, Ephraim Lamburn, aged 61 years, resident of Halfmoon, who deposed on oath that as early as the spring of the year 1793, he became personally acquainted with William Kelly, reputed to be a soldier of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States. He thinks he cannot be mistaken in regard to the iime he became acquainted with Jane Kelly from the fact that he knows that he and his father moved within two miles of the said Kelly in the spring of 1792. That Jane Kelly and William Kelly were then living together as husband and wife, and had the reputatiOn of being such, and had [three or four children, the oldest of wham was about the age of this deponent. He has always understood that the said Jane and William Kelly moved from Path Valley to Halfmoon Township; that William Kelly died in October, 1837, leaving the above named Jane Kelly who is still his widow. /s/ Ephraim Lamborn Pension granted 29 December 1846, at the rate of $26.66 per annum, to commence 15 October 1837, under the act of 7 June 1838. [File: W 3692; renewed under the Acts of 3 March 1843, and 17 June 1844] Washington, 8 April 1848 Hon. J. L. Edwards, Comm'r of Pensions Sir: Your communication relative to Mrs. Kelly, widow of Wm. Kelly, I understand the object of knowing that she has a pension, is to obtain a small pension from the State. She is now a pauper and very old, they state when they find an individual on the Pension list are United States Pensioners, grant them a State pension. She wishes to know that she is a Pensioner of the General Government and obtain some additional aid from the This deposition was not signed, or fully dated. 26 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine State. If the information could be obtained soon, it would be agreeable, as our Legislature will soon adjourn.. Yours very respectfully, /s/ John Blanchard 16 December 1848, personally appeared before Michael Brown, Justice of the Peace of Centre County, Mrs. Jane Kelly, aged 89 years, resident of Worth Township in said County, who on oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed 2 February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served in the Revolutionary War. She is the widow of William Kelly, private in the Penn'a militia, and has drawn a pension at the rate of $26.66 per annum, under the Act of 17 June 1844. She declares she is still a widow. /s/ Jane (X) Kelly Pension granted 9 January 1849, at the rate of $26.66 per annum, to commence 4 March 1848, under the act of 2 February 1848." * * Pt • DAVID LAMB, aged nearly 79 years, resident of Walker Township, personally appeared on 26 November 1832, before the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County, and on oath made the following declaration: In the month of June, 1775, when George Washington was appointed Commander in Chief of the American army, he requested the Board of War to furnish him with a regiment of Riflemen, which was done and commissions issued to the following: To William Thompson of Cumberland Co., Pa., a Colonel's commission; to Dr. Hand of Lancaster Co., Pa., a Lieutenant-Colonel's commission; to Robert McGaw, a Major's commission, together with eight commissions for Captains, whose names the applicant could repeat if necessary. Among others, commissions for Captains were issued to James Chambers of the West end of Cumberland County, and William Hendricks of the east end of the same county.. I enlisted at or about 25 June 1775, in Carlisle, Pa. Major Robert McGaw enlisted me, and directed me to join Captain William Hendricks rifle company, then in Carlisle, which I did accordingly. About the first of July, same year, Captain Chambers marched his company to Carlisle where it united with Captain Hendricks, and about the fourth of July they marched from Carlisle together. We crossed the Susquehanna at Harris' Ferry, where the town of Harrisburg is now erected, and from thence marched to Reading, where we joined Captain Doodle's rifle company. The regiment to which we belonged was the First Rifle Regiment of Pennsylvania. From Reading we proceeded to Easton — the whole three companies together — where we crossed the Delaware. We proceeded through New Jersey to Sussex Court House where the companies separated. Hendricks' company, to which this deponent belonged, crossed the Hudson River at Fishkill ferry and took the road direct to Hartford in Connecticut. From thence we took the lower road, Captain Morgan of Virginia with his company taking the upper road, to Boston, and halted for a short time at Roxbury in sight of Boston, then in possession of the British troops. We shortly afterwards encamped on a pleasant Green between Roxbury and Cambridge, when we received tents and other camp equipage. Some two or a This rather unclear letter is transcribed exactly as Dr. Wagner presented it. "All Mn. Kelly's application papers are filed with those of her husband. "Foe this battalion of riflemen, see Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, X, 3 ff. For Lamb's company, no pages 23 - 28. As will be noted in the text, Lamb appears to have had almost total recall— a remarkable facility in a man nearly l years of age! Pennsylvania Pension Applications 27 three weeks after our arrival, an express from Cape Ann informed General Washington that a number of British vessels were off the Harbour. For the purposes of preventing serious consequences, every other man of the Regiment was detached and marched to Cape Ann until the militia could be collected to defend the place. On this service, with others, the applicant marched, where he remained about two weeks. On the return of the detachment, Arnold's expedition to Canada was projected. He requested three companies of Riflemen to accompany him. A drat t was made, and fell upon Capt. Daniel Morgan, Captain Smith, of Paxton, then Lancaster, now Dauphin County, and Captain William Hendricks' companies, to the latter of which this applicant belonged. We marched from Cambridge Green in September, 1775, straight to Newburyport, where we embarked on board vessels and from thence went to the mouth of the Kermebeck River, and up that river as far as it was navigable to a place called Fort Western [Augusta]. There we went on board batteaux and ascended the river 20 miles to a place called Fort Hallifax where we took in our provisions for the expedition. We then ascended the river till near the mountain [Mt. Bigelow], where we were obliged to land, and had 10 miles to carry our batteaux, provisions and baggage, with great labour and fatigue [known as the "Great Carrying Place"]. About three miles from where we left the Kennebeck we crossed a small lake and encamped on the shore. Here our Ensign, Matthew Irvin, who was also Surgeon for the three rifle companies, and had the care of the medicine chest, sent for me. I called on him and found him in a deplorable condition from sickness, viz: Rheumatism and Dysentry [sic]. It had been agreed among the officers that he had better remain there f or some time, and this applicant, with three others, was detailed to attend him. The next morning we built a Cabin and were furnished with provisions. We remained at the encampment until all the troops passed us, which consisted of two regiments, viz: Arnold's and [Lt. Col. RogerlEnos's [of Connecticut]. When the troops had all passed, we concluded, from a review of our condition, which was no very pleasant one, to follow after. We had our batteau, provisions, baggage, and Doctor Irvin to carry. This cost us four trips, the distance of portage being three miles. We reached Dead River which we ascended and encamped, and soon after discovered fires above us. We soon learned it was Enos's regiment turning back for want of provisions. At this place two sick riflemen, also on their return, delivered a letter from Captain Hendricks, with a request that if the Doctor was not able to proceed and carry his baggage, for us to take him back to the inhabited parts. We then descended the Dead River to the portage before mentioned and procured aid to carry to the Ketmebeck. We descended the last river to the settlements, procuring good quarters for the Doctor, left two men with him: Thomas Fry and Henry McKinney, and Isaac Thompson and the applicant set out for the Camp near Boston. We went by way of Portland, Portsmouth and Newburyport to the camp on Prospect Hill, where I arrived the day before Christmas, 1775. About this time General Charles Lee was ordered to take command of the army in Canada. There was a life-guard raised for him of 105 men commanded by CaptaTin James Greer, Lt. Taylow [sic], and Ensign How. Three of us: Isaac Thompson, Thomas Pry, and the applicant requested permission to be placed in the life-guard, that we might have an opportunity to rejoin our company in Canada. This was granted and we left Camp on 8 January 1776, took the road direct to Hartford, from thence to New Haven, from thence to New York. Whilst at New York the unfortunate news reached us of the death of General Montgomery," and the defeat of his He was killed at the attazk on Quebec, 33 December 1775. 28 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine troops. General Lee was soon afterwards ordered to the South. We started from New York, probably about the first of February, perhaps later, passed through New Jersey to Trenton, thence to Philadelphia, Lancaster, and to Little York [Pa.] where a number of the Yankee troops took sick with the small-pox and were left behind. Those that were able to march, including this applicant, proceeded onwards to Hanover, thence to Tarrytown [sic — Taneytown, Md.], Frederick, and crossed the Potomac at Howland's Ferry. Thence down the river to Leesburgh, thence to Fredericksburg in Virginia, to the south of the Rappahannoc River, thence westward for Williamsburg. Before we reached that place we were met by a deputation from that town, who were alarmed in consequence of the troops having had the small-pox amongst them, and by arrangement we encamped on James's Island. We lay there until a new lifeguard was enrolled to accompany General Lee further south. We marched back sometime in April, 1776, to New York, under the command of Captain Greer. Then we were ordered to join a rifle regiment on Long Island, commanded by Col. James Chambers in the First Rifle Regiment [of Pennsylvania], above noted. We crossed over and joined the Regiment, then lying between New Etrrick [sic — New Utrecht] and Flatbush, on the south side of the Island, where this applicant remained until the expiration of the time for which he was enlisted, viz: one year. The applicant then received his discharge from Col. James Chambers, but it has been long since lost. The day the applicant received his discharge, the British fleet came in sight [25 June 1776] and anchored opposite to the camp. The drums beat to arms and I joined the ranks, assumed my rifle, and continued doing duty until the fleet passed up to Staten Island and landed the British troops. There was at that time a new Regiment raising in New York and Long Island, to serve five months. I enlisted in the company of Capt. Thomas Mitchel and joined the regiment, aforesaid, commanded by Colonel Malcomb. I remained with it for about three months until we were driven from Long Island and also from New York. The army being In want of a Waggon-master, I was recommended by Captain Mitchel to the Quarter-Master General, Hugh Hughes, received a warrant of appointment, and performed the duty of a waggon-master for three years, or thereabouts, during the whole time in the command of General Israel Putnam. The foregoing is the nature and amount of the applicant's service. The eight companies belonging to the Regiment were commanded by Capt. Thomas Clugget [sic — Robert Cluggage], Capt. James Chambers, Capt. William Hendricks, Captain Donde!, Captain Smith, Captain Ross, Captain Craig of Northampton, and Captain Nogle [Nagel]. He also recollects Captain Loudon of Northumberland County, and Captain [Daniel] Morgan of Virginia who joined the regiment with his volunteer company. I was born in Cumberland County, Penn'a, 7 February 1754. The record of my age is at home, in my father's Bible. I was living in Cumberland County when I entered the service. I have lived 40 years in Nittany Valley, now Walker Township in Centre County, where I now live. I am known to William Pettit, Register and Recorder and Clerk of the Orphans Court of Centre County; to Henry Petrikin, member of the Senate of Pennsylvania; to Andrew Gregg, Esq., formerly of the U. S. Senate; to all the Judges of the Court, viz: the Hon. Thomas Burnside, Jacob Kryder, and Isaac McKenny, who can testify to my character and veracity. /s/ David Lamb 25 April 1833, David Lamb made in open Court an additional declaration that he knows of no man living who can prove either the time of the claimant's enlistment, the time and manner of leaving the same, or the regiment, company and line to which he Pennsylvania Pension Applications 29 belonged, except traditionary testimony. He undemands that his name is not found on the roll of Ma'comb's regiment, but that he did enlist on Long Island in Captain Mitchel's company; that he was enlisted by a man of the name of Noestrant. He further says he had the warrant of his appointment as waggon-master, but lost or mislaid it many years since, not believing its preservation of any importance. He commenced his duties as Waggonmaster about two miles from the White Plains at the house of a Mr. Young where he was on duty a short time. From that he moved with the army to a place higher up the Hudson called North Castle, from thence to Peekskill, from that to Fishkill, where he was in the capacity of Waggonmaster two different winters. The applicant recollects seeing at the time of this service the following named regular officers: Colonel Lamb of the Artillery,aa who had been wounded in the attack upon Quebec; Capt. William Powers of Cumberland County, Pa.; Captain Moodie. He ales saw General Washington at White Plains. He had the command of Ten horse teams, and in addition, was applied to and did furnish horses for the Artillery as they were wanted. 25 April 1833, Andrew Gregg in open Court, certifies that he was born in the neighborhood of the claimant, David Lamb. He is about three years older than I am. I was absent at school in the Academy at Newark, Delaware, when the enlistment took place in Captain Hendrick's company, but when I returned home in the fall of 1775, I heard the names of the young men who had enlisted in Hendrick's company, among them David Lamb. I do not recollect seeing him again until after the war was over, but my friends lived in the same neighborhood with Mr. Lamb, and I always heard them speak of him as having been employed in the service in one way or other. I have known him well for many years, and his reputation has been that he was a soldier of the Revolution, and I concur in that opinion. I believe him to be at least 79 years of age, as he states in his first declaration. /s/ Andrew Gregg 25 April 1833, Henry Petrikin and James M. Petrikin, certify in open Court that they are well acquainted with David Lamb. They of ten heard their deceased father speak of him as having served as a soldier in the Revolution. He was intimately acquainted with said Lamb, they having been married to two sisters. They also certify that they had heard many years since a fellow soldier in Hendrick's company, viz: Henry McEwen," relate the services of said Lamb, and heard him repeatedly state that they enlisted in the same company at or about the same time. McEwen is deceased. /s/ H. Petrikin, James M. Petrikin 25 April 1833, William Pettit, aged 61 years, certifies in open Court that he has been acquainted with David Lamb for the space of 39 years. He has repeatedly heard a fellow soldier, Henry McEwen, now deceased, state the fact of Lamb's enlistment, and relate the services of Lamb. He has no doubt he served as he states. He has known him as a member of the Presbyterian Church in full communion for near thirty years, and some twenty years a ruling elder, perhaps more. His character for truth he believes is unimpeached. /s/ W. Pettit 25 April 1833, James Linn, Pastor of the Presbyterian Churches of Bellefonte and Lick Run, certifies in open Court that he first became acquainted with Mr. Lamb in the year 1809. He was then a ruling elder in the Lick Run church of which he 'Presumably Col. John Lamb's 2nd Continental Artillery, stationed at Fort Montgomery in October, 1777. " Henry McEwen's pension appl'Ication will appear in a future 15555 of this Magazine. 30 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine [Linn] became Pastor, and has ever since continued to be a member and ruling elder in said church. He has known him intimately and never had any reason to doubt his veractiy, never heard it doubted, or his moral character impeached. He has been faithful in the discharge of his religious duties as an officer of the Lick Run church. /s/ James Lim" Thomas Burnside, President Judge of the 4th Judicial District of Penn'a, certifies that he has known David Lamb for upwards of twenty-five years, last past. I -le well recollects that in the fall of 1812, David Lamb was a candidate for the General Assembly within the County of Centre. He was admitted on all hands at that time, to have been a Revolutionary soldier and having marched to Boston, I think m 1776. He is an amiable man in private life, exemplary in his conduct and has always been esteemed a man of truth and veracity' /s/ Th. Burnside Bellefonte, 27 April 1833 J. L. Edwards, Esq. Sir: Inclosed is the "Additional Declaration" and accompanying proof of David Lamb, a claimant under the act of Congress for a Pension. I also return his first Declaration .... In addition to the oath of Col. Gregg and others, he could procure the testimony of a vast number of others, but it would be attended with great inconvenience and expense and he is poor.. He resides 16 miles from the County town and is frail and feeble and could not bring to Court more of his old acquaintances than he did. He is anxious to have a decision as soon as Possible. May I solicit your early attention to his case. He states to me, that as Waggon master he ranked as Captain. I am unacquainted with the rank, but he says he received a Captain's pay and rations. For the kind and courteous treatment received at your hands whilst at Washington last winter, permit me to return you my thanks. I am most respectfully yours, Re., /s/ H. Petrikin 23 July 1933, before Charles Huston, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, now holding a Circuit Court in Centre County, personally appeared David Lamb, and being duly sworn on his oath makes the following explanatory declaration: Having stated in his first and second declaration that he served, in addition to other services, as Waggonrnaster in the army of the United States, now submits the papers marked A, B, C, D, which are the original papers preserved by him from the day of the date of their receipt until the present day. Since his last explanatory statement, in searching amongst his old papers the applicant discovered these papers. He was not aware of having them until within a few weeks. He has searched in vain for his warrant of appointment. But he belonged to and was Waggonmaster of the "Middle Department" of the army, commanded by General Israel Putnam, and there was no other Waggonmaster but the applicant belonging to or exercising any official duty it, said department. There were others called and ranked as "Conductors of Teams." The applicant received a Captain's pay and rations: forty dollars per month and three rations for the time he served in the station: upwards of three years. /s/ David Lamb Paper A The Come Gen' to Day. Lamb, Wag. Mast. — Dr. to two Rations pr Day Returnd from N' 23. 1776 to Sep ." 1st 1777, at eight Pence Pr Ration: £18.14.8 Lawfull Monny. Certified: In behalf of Hugh Hughes, DT Q.M.G., Jun Reese, AvQ.M.G. Pennsylvania Pension Applications 31 Paper B Reed Fishkill June 10°° 1777 of David Lamb Wag. Mat" two pounds for Harnass for the use of the Continental army. /s/ John Johnson Paper C Mr. David Lamb, Waggon Master, to the Qr. M. 0. — Dr. For the following Articles del' to him for the use of the Teamsters under his command: 1777 April 5tb 5 Cloth Vests at 32/ 2 pr yam Stockings at 16/ 1 p5 Shoes • • Novemr 8 6 Shirts at 4 Doll" ... 3 pr Shoes at 2-2/3 dr. 1778 1 p' Stockings Jan' 24' 2 Check Woolen Shirts at 58/8 2 Check Linen Shirts at 58/8 at 16/ 4 pr Stockings at 26/8 4 pr Shoes £ 8. 0.0 1.12.0 13.4 . . 24 Doll'. ..... . • • - . 9.12.0 3. 4.0 8 16.0 5 .17 .4 5 .174 3. 4.0 4. 6.8 £43. 2.8 Paper D Reed Peekskill Sep` 1777 of Capt Lamb Seven Dollars on account. Is/ Adam (X) Bendalf Bellefonte, 23 July 1833 J. L. Edwards Dear Sir: Enclosed you will receive the explanatory statement of David Lamb. He found some papers of importance in the matter to be decided. I will just state that Capt. Lamb, though very poor, stands high in society, is a man of most excellent moral and religious character. His own statement is entitled to more than ordinary credit, and did you know him personally, you would not hesitate to credit all he has said. May I be permitted to solicit your early attention and decision in this case. I am, with sentiments of high respect, yours, &c., /s/ F. C. Petrikin Pension granted 21 January 1834, to commence 4 March 1831, under the act of 7 June 1832, at the rate of $280 per annum. pile: S 22875] Washington City, D.C., 17 Jan'y 1851 Hon. James E. Heath, Commissioner of Pensions, Sir: I hereby request an examination of the case of David Lamb, deed, late of Pennsylvania, under act of 1832, for increase of Pension to $600 per annum. The evidence on file is abundant to establish the claim to this amount. I am, very respectfully yours, &c. /s/ S. A. Peugh 18 January 1851, Samuel Strohecker, Associate Judge of Centre County Orphans Court, certifies that David Lamb was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $280 per annum; that he died on 12 February 1837, leaving him surviving a widow who died 7 March 1845. and no children, and that this certificate is made to obtain 32 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine any arrears or increase of Pension that may be due to the said David Lamb, and that William Smyth, Jr., and Henry F. W. Schultze are the Executors of said Lamb's estate. Certificate of Pension issued 11 February 1851, and sent to S. A. Peugh, payable to Executors. Inscribed on the Roll of Phila. at the rate of $383.33 per annum, to commence 4 March 1831, ending 12 February 1837, deducting former payments at $280 per annum. Information Wanted Mrs. William B. Lawrence, Route 1, Box 170-A, Saluda, Ohio, 28773, is seeking the birthplace in Pennsylvania of her grandfather, JOHN HENRY WISE (Write), b. 21 July 1843; d. 21 April 1912, son of Benjamin Wise (Vice) and wife Sarah Butcher, both of whom were born in the United States. John Henry Wise married Sarah Jane Ames and lived at Elmore and Toledo, Ohio. William P. Kirby, Jr., 2826 Fuller St., Philadelphia, Pa., 19152, is searching for the parents of CALEB KIRBY, b. 1816; d. 1 December 1884, and of his wife DEBORAH JUSTICE, b. 18 February 1821; d. 1 November 1886. He also seeks the parents of RUTH FIRESTONE, b. 17 January 1830; d. 16 November 1900, who m. 14 February 1852, Albert Pedrick, b. 19 September 1829; d. 4 May 1901. In addition, he seeks the parents of THOMAS LEAP, b. 1782; d. 24 November 1822, who m. 26 October 1807, Frances Black, b. 17 October 1782; d. 23 August 1858. All of the above ancestors lived in South Jersey in Salem and Gloucester Counties. Mrs. Wm. Hepbron Gill, Jr., 15 Dogwood Lane, Swarthmore, Pa., 19081, seeks information on the parentage of GEORGE PARKER (of Shrewsbury, East Jersey, in 1671) who died before 1686, and of his wife SARAH PARKER, of Northampton Twp., Burlington Co., West Jersey, when her will was proved in June, 1722. She also seeks information on EuzA H. PARKER, wife of Alexander Parker (1790-1860), horticulturist, 10th and Washington Ave., Philadelphia. Was she the mother of Alexander's children: Edward F., Cynthia, and William Henry Parker? Needed are birth, death and marriage dates for Eliza and her Par....ge.