Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 40493, for Adam Specht, Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania
Union County Sct
On the twentieth day of May A.D.
One thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Before me the subscriber President Judge of the eighth Judiciary district of Pennsylvania, personally appeared Adam Specht aged Sixty nine years, resident in Union County in the said district who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Navel
service of the United States in the revolutionary War," That the said Adam Specht enlisted in April 1777 Shafferstown Lancaster County and State aforesaid, in the company commanded by Captain Wolfert and afterwards by Captain Shrader until discharged in the German Regiment commanded first by Colonel Harsecker and afterwards by Colonel Lewis Weltner, in the service of the United States until in April AD., one thousand seven hundred and eighty, when he was
discharged from the service in the Town of Northumberland in Northumberland
County, State aforesaid, that he was in the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, at the taking of the Hessians at Trenton, and at the Battle of Princetown in the Jersey, and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Adam Specht
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid
Seth Chapman
I Seth Chapman President Judge of the eighth Judiciary district of Pennsylvania, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Adam Specht did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration
against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony
taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the department of War, pursuant
to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
Seth Chapman