Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1467-100, John Colter, Penn.
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Service                              Number
Penn.        Colter, John      B. L. N't 1267-100

Contents
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No. 1467
Jn. Colter
Pri
Penn
mail to himself
Va.
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Virginia Bedford Clerks Office to Wit
I Gustavus A Wingfield deputy Clerk of the County Court of Bedford do hereby certify that William Shrewsbury (illegible) whose signature appears to the annexed Certificate is and was at the time of signing the same an acting justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified according to law and that full faith and credit are due and of right ought to be given to all his official acts as such
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto affixed my Official Seal this 19 Day of January 1829
G A Wingfield (illegible)
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State of Virginia 
County of Radford
I John Coulter aged seventy seventy five years do upon oath testify and declare that in the year 1780 I enlisted for the term of during the War and served in regiment Number two under the command of Colonel Hampton of the Pennsylvania line on continental establishment, and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, in 1783 and was regularly discharged from the said regiment commanded (illegible) (as I believe) by Colonel Hampton
I further declare that I have never received from the United States a warrant for the bounty land promised me on the part of the United States nor have I ever transferred my claim to it in any manner whatsoever
Test  John Wood             John Colter

I Samuel Coulter aged 73 years do upon oath testify and declare that I have long been acquanted with John Colter who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be, and I further know and do believe that he rendered the military services that (illegible)
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Stated, having several times seen him while in service in in the second Pennsylvania regiment, and I further recollect to have seen the said John Colters discharge after the close of the war
Test John Wood           Sam'l Colter

Before me William Shrewsbury a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Bedford and State of Virginia personally appeared the above named John Colter subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and likewise personally appeared Samuel Colter who hath subscribed the foregoing certificate of identity, both to me well known to be persons of respectability and truth and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by these severally subscribed. Given under my hand this 4th day of December 1828
William Shrewsbury J. P.
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No. 1467
Jn. Colter
Rev.
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February 5th 1829  Received from the Secretary of War United States Military warrant No 1467 for one hundred acres of land granted to John Colter a private of the Pennsylvania line during the revolutionary war.
John Colter
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Rev. War Section,
January 6, 1913.
Mrs. W. B. Hawkins,
434 Erie Avenue
Sheboygan, Wis.
Madam:
In reply to your letter dated the 28" ultimo and received the 2" instant, you are advised that from the records of this Bureau it appears that John Colter enlisted in 1780, and served as a Private in Colonel Humpton's Second regiment Pennsylvania Line, until 1783.
In 1829 he was seventy-four years of age and a resident of Bedford County, Virginia.  There is no data as to his family.
He was allowed 100 acres of bounty land under Warrant No. 1,467, on account of the above service.
The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford information in regard to any other John Colter or Coulter who lived in Virginia.
Very respectfully,
J L Davenport,
Commissioner.
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434 Erie Avenue
Sheboygan, Wisconsin 
Dec 28 - 1912
Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington D. C.
Dear Sir:
The writer is very desirous of securing the Revolutionary War Record of John Coulter - who at the close of the Revolutionary War lived in Virginia - and I think enlisted from Virginia - possibly one of the adjoining States.  That is what I am
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desirous of knowing - the Revolutionary War record of John Coulter and where he enlisted from.
Thanking you for any information you may give me, I am
Yours truly
Mrs W. B. Hawkins
434 Erie Ave.
Sheboygan Wis.
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Free
The Honourable Secretary of War
Washington City

{written at 90 degrees to above}
 By (illegible) office
24th Jan. 182
Colter
good

 {postmark} Liberty Jan 21
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NO. 1467
John Colter
Pri
Pa
mail to Himself
Va.
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Bedford County Virginia January 12th 1829
Sir  Enclosed I send you my papers in support of my claim to a bounty of land, if it is admitted you will please send me the warrant directed to Liberty Bedford County.
I am your ob. Serv't
John Colter