Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2454-100, Joseph Winkler, Penn.
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Service                                   Number

Penn.       Winkler, Joseph    B.L.Wt. 2454-100
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Commissioner of Pensions
evan O. Jackson
Philadelphia

Application for arrears of pay &c in the case of Jos. Winkler dec. Private 8th Reg. Penn. Line Revolutionary War.

recd. May 19/51
Recv. May 21.51.

It appears from the records in this office that Joseph Winkler served as a private soldier in the Pennsylvania troops, War of the Revolution, and was settled with for a balance of pay and for the gratuity of eighty dollars allowed by a resolve of Congress for which the following certificates were issued in his name dated on the 4th November 1783. (Lowch) - No. 78204 for $40.64 and No. 78327 for %80.00.

                         Treasury Department           
                         Third Solicitor Office
                         May 22, 1857.
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Joseph Winkler
No. 2454.








Evan O. Jackson
Philadelphia
May 24th,51
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Treasury Department
Third Auditors Office
May 23rd, 1857
   
Sir,
   The papers enclosed to you by Evan O. Jackson, Attorney of Mrs. Mary Bennet bounty making application for bounty land and arrears pay for the services of her father, Joseph Winkler, a soldier in the Pennsylvania Line War of the Revolution, which were referred by you to the Second Auditor and by him to this office, are herewith returned to you with an endorsement thereon, showing that an arrearage of pay, together with the gratuity pay of eighty dollars to which the deceased was entitled, has been fully settled, by the 
issue of certificates No. 78204 & 78327 dated November 4th, 1783.

                                 Respectfully,
                                 Your obt. Sevnt.
                               Jno. B. Gallaher
                                           Aud.
James E. Heath, Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions.
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia} ss.

   On this fourth day of March 1857 personally appeared before me the subscriber an alderman and Ex Officio Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Mary Bennet formerly Mary Winkler or the county and state aforesaid who being sworn according to law on her oath declares that she is the daughter of Joseph Winkler who was a private in the Revolutionary War in the Eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Line commanded by Col. _____ that he enlisted at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania on or about the _____ that her said father, died in the service at Wyoming in the State of Pennsylvania on or about the ____ and that her mother Catharine Winkler died at Philad. 28th April 1800 that she has neither brother or sister now living, and that she makes this declaration to obtain the  ______ back, extra, and retained pay and whatsoever else may be due and coming to her in right of her said father under any act of acts of Congress in such case made and provided.

                                  Mary (her mark) Bennett

   Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written and I do hereby further certify that Mrs. Mary Bennett who makes the above declaration is a credible person, and that I believe the declaration above made to be just and true.  The above (illegible) made before signing.   
                                            //s//
                                     Peter Rambo
                   Ald & Ex Off. Justice of the Peace
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia} ss.

   On this fourth day of March A.D. 1857 personally appeared before me the subscriber and alderman and Ex Officio Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Mrs. Fanny Pote aged one hundred and five years, who being duly sworn according to law on her oath declares that she is personally acquainted with Mary Bennett formerly Winkler daughter of Joseph Winkler who makes the foregoing declaration, that she is the daughter of Joseph Winkler and Catharine Winkler who was married in Philadelphia about the year ____ that the said Joseph Winkler enlisted in the U. States service at  Kensington Philadelphia county aforesaid about the year ____ that she saw him march from Kensington with the soldiers that he enlisted she thinks under ____ Rice and was attached to the Eighth Regiment Commanded by Col _____ that she remembers to have heard that he died at Wyoming while in the service, and that Catherine Winkler wife  of said Joseph Winkler died in Philadelphia on the 28th day of April, 1800 and that there are no children of the said Joseph Winkler and Catharine Winkler now being except Mary Bennett who makes the foregoing declaration daughter of Joseph Winkler dced.
                                    Fanny (her mark) Pote 

     Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I do further hereby certify that Mrs. Fanny Pote who marks the above affidavit is a credible person, of sound mind and memory and that I believe her statement correct and true.
                                            //s//
                                   Peter Rambo
   Alderman & Ex Officio Justice of the Peace.
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia} ss.

   On the fourth day of March AD 1857 personally appeared before me the subscriber an alderman and ex officio Justice of the Peace in and for the (county) and state aforesaid Mary Baker aged 84 years who being duly sworn according to law on her oath declares that she is personally acquainted with Mary Bennett formerly Mary Winkler who makes the within and foregoing declaration, that she is the daughter of Joseph Winkler deceased and Catharine Winkler deceased his wife who were married in Philadelphia  in the year _____ by me _____ that the said Joseph Winkler enlisted at Kensington Philadelphia County, about the ___ day of ____ under one ____ Rice and was attached to the Eighth Regiment Commanded by Col. ____.  She remembers ____ and that the said Joseph Winkler and Catharine lived togeth as jusband and wife, that Mary Bennett who makes the within and foregoing declaration is their daughter, and that there are no living children sons of daughters of the said Joseph and ____ Winkler except Mary Bennett aforesaid and that ____ died in Philadelphia on the 28th day of April A.D. 1800

                       Mary (her mark) Baker

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written and I do hereby further certify that _____ who makes the above affidavit is a credible person if sound mind and memory and that I believe her statement to be correct and true.

                            //s//
                   Peter Rambo
      Ald. & Ex Officio Justice of Peace
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Know all men by these presents That J. Mary Bennett of the county of Pennsylvania and State of Pennsylvania have constituted and appointed irrevocably Evan O. Jackson Esqr. of the City of Philadelphia and State aforesaid my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to ask demand and receive from the United States Government at Washington City and sum or sums of money, scrip or bounty land that may be due or coming to me as the only daughter and child living of Joseph Winkler deceased, a soldier of the Revolutionary War by virtue of any act or acts of Congress, and other attorney under him to constitute and appoint irrevocably and in my name to give receipts and other sufficient discharges for the amount found due and coming to me, and do any and every other act and acts that I myself might or could do were I personally present at the doing thereof hereby confirming whatsoever my said attorney shall do in and about the premises by virtue hereof.

    In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourth day of March A.D. 1851.
                                  Mark (her mark) Bennett
Presence of us:
Wm. H. Bennett
Peter Rambo

State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia} ss.

    On this fourth day of March 1851 personally appeared before me the undersigned an alderman and Ex Officio Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid Mary Bennett and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be her act and deed for the purposes therein contained 
                                       //s//
                           Peter Rambo
              Ald. & Ex. Officio Justice of the Peace
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Winkler \Pen. Office
Returned Num.
No
Application
Mary Bennet
Extra back pay of
Joseph Winkler
Pv. 8th Regt. Penn. Vols.
Refer to 2 Aug.
Recd. May 19/51
J. M. (illegible)
Jackson & Hoavs
57 South Road
Philad.

Evan O. Jackson
Philadelphia.
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia} ss.

    I, George Carpenter Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid do certify that _______ whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing declaration affidavit and acknowledgement is and was at the time of doing the same an alderman and Ex. Officio Justice of the Peace in and for the  county and state aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the aforesaid Court is a Court of record having general jurisdiction. 

    Given under my hand and seal of office at Philadelphia this ___ day of ____ A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one. 

                                     Prothonotary C.C. Pleas


The Commissioners of Pensions will please forward any warrant for bounty land or my scrip as the case may be to Evan O. Jackson, Esq. who as my agent will receive the same and transmit it to me.

Witnesses -----
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State of Pennsylvania,
County of Philadelphia, ss.

   I John Williams, Clerk of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for the City and County of Philadelphia, being a Court of Record and having a Seal, Do Certify, that Peter Rambo before whom the annexed affidavit was made, is an Aldermand of the City of Philadelphia, and ex officio a Justice of the Peace, duly empowered to administer oaths and affirmations for general purposes, and that his official acts are entitled to confidence, and further, that the signature purporting to be his genuine.

    In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal and Court, this fifteenth day of May A.D. 1857.

                                O. P. Cortman Prv.