Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19896, Charles Young, Continental Penn.
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(2-1776)
SERVICE
Continental
Penn.
CONTENTS
Young, Charles
NUMBER
S. 19896
carded
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Virginia              23914
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Charles Young
of Burkely in the state of Va, was a for Arty in the ______ commanded by Captain (illegible) of the Rgt. commanded by Col. Proctor in the (illegible) line for 2 years.          Continental & Pa.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 100 dollars __ cents per ann. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of April 
 (illegible) and (illegible) Martinsburgh, Va.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 32        300.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 2 Sept    50.00
                                                        $ 350.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832,}

Recorded by (illegible name) Clerk.
Book  C Vol. (illegible) Page 41. 

Cert Pension 23 Feby. 34
G.C.
Ent O.R.
100

Death 
not on A.B.
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State of Virginia County of Berkeley ss
On this 12th Day of November 1833 Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record Charles Young a resident in the said County aged 76 years in April last past who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832.
That he the said Charles Young enlisted in the army of the united in Philadelphia in the year 1777 for three years or during the war and serviced 
in a company commanded by Capt. Patk [Patrick] Duffy in a Regiment of artillery of the Pennsylvania line commanded by Col. Thomas Proctor in the Continental Establishment, that he continued to serve in the said Corps and
Detached parties till January (he believes) 1781, when he was discharged
from the service at Trenton (New Jersey) which discharge was signed by
Brigadier General Anthony Wayne (but which is discharge has been lost or
mislaid but has been seen and Read by several Gentleman whose Certificates are hereto annexed (Reference being thereunto had
That he was in the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, white marsh Barnhill=Church North River, in the Wilderness against the Indian under Genl. Sullivan, and also served in a Row Galley in the Delaware besides many skirmishes of a lesser character. He has no other evidence of his having so served in his Possession except the affidavits of John Strother and John Thober in Relation to the discharge aforesaid, That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except the Present and that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Charles Young

The following are Replies to the particular Interrogations of the Court
I was born in Germany, my parents removed to Philidelphia [Philadelphia] I was bound out & served for my Passage I think about seven years or more. 
I have no other Record of my age excepting an entry in my fathers Book in which it appears that I was born in April 1757. I was living in Philidelphia [Philadelphia] when I enlisted and took the oath before Squire Keeson.
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I lived since the war in Berkeley County where my Parents lived and Died, and I live there at present.
I entered first as a Drummer but one Canonier [Cannonier] was killed at the
Battle of Brandywine. I was then placed in the Ranks as a Gunner & Matross
The answer to this Question is given in already in the Declaration I Received a Discharge at Trenton in new Jersy signed by General Anthony Wayne which is lost or mislaid, but certified by John Strother and John Shober, who seen and read the same [illegible] had to their Certificates hereto annexed.
I Refer to John Strother & John Shober to whom I am personally known I served in Proctors artillery about three years and nine months, under Capt. Hair about six months, in the Row Gallies and to the westward I can safely say I served in all 5 1/2 years, and during all which term he was employed in no civil pursuit
I John Strother do hereby certify that a paper purporting to be a Discharge of Charles Young a [illegible] of a Regiment of artilery [artillery] in the
Pennsylvania line signed by Anthony Wayne Brig. Gen. Dated in 1781 was shewn to him by the said Young in 1825 who applied to him at the time for information as to the steps neecessary [necessary] to make his application for a Pension, the said discharge partly printed and partly written stated that the said Young having served in the said artilery [artillery] Regiment the period of his enlistment was then Honourably [Honorably] Discharged he has no doubt but that the paper shewn him was a Genuine one. It was given I believe at Trenton in New Jersey and I further am satisfied that he Did serve as stated in his declaration having a full confidence in his veracity as a man of Truth.
November 12th 1833
John Strother

I John Shober whereby certify that I have known Charles Young for more than forty years, that During that period he often conversed with said Young about their services in the war of the Revolution that he seen said Youngs Discharge several times it was signed by General Anthony Wayne at Trenton in New Jersey, that in 1825 when said Young made application to Colo. John Strother as set
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fourth in his certificate the said discharge in his hands, that he the said Shober then wrote the outlines of a declaration which he thinks he delivered to said Young and the discharge which said papers the said Young declares are mislaid or lost.  I am fully satisfied that he did serve as stated on his declaration having full confidence in his veracity as a man of truth.  Nov. 12th, 1833.
                                               //s//
                                        John Shober\\Berkely 

County Court                       November term 1853
    
    Application and declaration of Charles Young for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 in relation to the officers and soldiers of the revolution, was produced in court and sworn to by the applicant which together with the certificates of John Strother and John Shober accompanying the same which were also sworn to in open court an (illegible) to be certified to the War Department and the court doth certify that in its opinion the declaration of the applicant is worthy of credit and that he served as he has therein stated.     

   I Harrison Wait Clerk of the county court of Berkeley do certify that the following is a true copy from the session of the said court.  
   In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 18th day of February 1834 and 58th year of our foundation.   
                                  //s//
                    Harrison Wait CBC

Berkeley County Va.

    I George Portersfield Presiding Judge of the County Court of Berkeley do certify that Harrison Waite under whose signature  (next page)
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true and official seal the foregoing certificate is made, is the clerk of the said county and that his said certificate is in due form given under my hand this 18th Feby 1834.
                                              //s//
                                   George Porterfield

Anul as a private of Artillery $100 2 years. On Penn Roll. 

30.587
Declaration of Charles Young 

Harrison Wait
Martinsburgh
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BA-J/ILL
Charles Young
S. 19896

Mrs. Laura Pierce Kendall
712 N.W. 19th
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Charles Young, who was born in 1757 and received a pension in 1832.

The data which follows were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 19896, based upon service of Charles Young in the Revolutionary War.

Charles Young was born in April 1757, in Germany, and came with his parents to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he resided at the time he entered service in the Revolutionary War.  The names of his parents were not given, however, they lived in Berkeley County, Virginia, after the Revolutionary War and died in that county.

Charles Young enlisted sometime in 1777, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as drummer, gunner, and matross in Captain Patrick Duffy's company, Colonel Thomas Proctor's Regiment of Continental Artillery, was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, White Marsh, Barren Hill Church and North River, also served under General Sullivan against the Indians in the wilderness and was discharged January 1, 1781 at Trenton, New Jersey.  He enlisted and served six months in Captain Hair's Pennsylvania Company, dates not shown, and served also in the Row Galleys on the Delaware River.  His entire service amounted to five and one half years.

He was allowed pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War on his application executed November 12, 1833, at which time he resided in Berkeley County, Virginia.  He had resided there ever since the close of the Revolutionary War.

This soldier made no reference to wife or children.
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In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following data:

Charles Young
Certificate #23914
Issued April 21, 1834
Rate $100 annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Virginia Agency.

Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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19895
INVALID
Revolution
File No. 19896
Charles Young
Priv. Rev War

Act: June 7th, 1818
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 496 
(Arrangement of 1870.}

Dec. 4, 1900 Hist to Mrs. Al. M. Allyn
Cleveland, Ohio
1907 Nov. 6 Hist to Mrs. E. R. Badwell Parsons, Kans.                                                        VLM
1925 Sep 3 Hist to Mrs M.L. Norris       MMWF
1926 Jan 30 Hist to M.H. Almerin Maritau MMWF
1938 Feb 25 Hist to Mrs. Wm. R. Walter    JLL
1940 Jan 23 Hist to Mrs. Laura P. Kendall  JLL
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February 26, 1938
BA-J/ILL
Charles Young
S. 19896

Mrs. William R. Walter
4238 Buena Vista
Detroit, Michigan

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of your ancestor, Charles Young, who was born 1759, served in General Sullivan's Division in the Revolutionary War, lived in Berkely, Virginia, at the close of that war, served, also, in the War of 1812, whose wife, Catherine Elizabeth Kint was born July 20, 1768 and died April 17, 1841; you state that he died in 1848.

A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no claim for pension or bounty land found based upon service f a Charles Young, identical with the one cited by you.  The record of one soldier with that name has been found who served under General Sullivan, and who resided in Berkeley County, Virginia, at the time he received his pension.  The data which follows are found in the papers on file in his claim for pension, S. 19896, and may aid you in your research

Charles Young was born in April 1757, in Germany, and came with his parents to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he resided at the time he entered service in the Revolutionary War. The names of his parents were not given, however, they lived in Berkeley County, Virginia, after the war and died in that county.

Charles Young enlisted in Philadelphia, sometime in 1777, served as drummer, gunner, and matross in Captain Patrick Duffy's company, Colonel Thomas Proctor's Regiment of Continental Artillery, was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, White Marsh, Barren Hill Church and North River, also served under General Sullivan against the Indians in the wilderness and was discharged January 1, 1781 at ...
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Trenton, New Jersey. He enlisted and served six months in Captain Hair's Pennsylvania Company, the date not stated, and served also in the Row Galleys on the Delaware River. His entire service amounted to five and one half years. He made no reference to service in the War of 1812.

Charles Young was allowed pension on his application executed November 12, 1833, at which time he resided in Berkeley County, Virginia; he had lived in that county ever since the close of the Revolutionary War.

No reference was made to wife or children of this pensioner.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:

Charles Young
Certificate #23914
Issued April 21, 1834
Rate $100 annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Virginia Agency.

Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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MMNF

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

January 30, 1926

Mrs. Almerin Harston
6004 Ventnor Ave.,
Ventnor, New Jersey

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 19896 it appears that Charles Young was born in April 1757, in Germany, and his parents moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, date of removal not given.

While a resident of said Philadelphia, he enlisted in 1777, served as gunner, drummer, and matross in Captain Patrick Duffy's company, Colonel Thomas Proctor's Regiment of Continental Artillery, was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, White Marsh, Barren Hill Church and North River, and in the wilderness under General Sullivan against the Indians  and was discharged January 1, 1781.

He enlisted and served six months in Captain Hair's Pennsylvania Company, the date not stated, and also served in the Row Galleys on the Delaware River, his entire service from 1777 being five and one half years.

He was allowed pension on his application executed...
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November 12, 1833 while a resident of Berkeley County, Virginia.  It is not stated whether he was ever married.

His parents lived in said Berkeley county after the Revolution and died there, their names and the dates of death not stated.

Respectfully,

Winfield Scott
Commissioner
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MMNF

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

September 3, 1925

Mrs. N.T. Norris
203 Capital Apts.
Raleigh, N.C.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 19896 it appears that Charles Young was born in April 1757, in Germany, and his parents moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the date of removal not given.

While a resident of said Philadelphia, he enlisted in 1777, served as drummer, gunner, and matross in Captain Patrick Duffy's company, Colonel Thomas Proctor's Regiment of Continental Artillery, was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, White Marsh, Barren Hill Church and North River, and in the wilderness under General Sullivan against the Indians and was discharged January 1, 1781.

He enlisted and served six months in Captain Hair's Pennsylvania Company, the date not stated, and also served in the Row Galleys on the Delaware River, his entire service from 1777 being five and one half years.

He was allowed pension on his application executed...
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November 12, 1833 while a resident of Berkeley County, Virginia. It is not stated whether he was ever married.

His parents lived in said Berkeley county after the Revolution and died there, their names and the dates of death not stated.

Respectfully,

E.W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner

Note:  Date of death not on AB.
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(An addressed envelope)

REPLY CARD
THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS.

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.

(Date stamps)
OKLAHOMA CITY
JAN 9
11 AM
1940
Kans.

RECEIVED
JAN 11 1840
MAIL SUB-DIV
VETS ADMIN
READER ??
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Jan. 8, 1940

Please send pension record of Charles Young, Pa. pensioned 1832 born 1757, married Elizabeth Kint, served in Battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Whitemarsh.  Pennsylvania Continental Lines.

Address,
Mrs. Laura Pierce Kendall
712 N W 19th
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
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Daughters of American Revolution Seal
Port Pontchartrain Chapter
Detroit Michigan

Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir: 
May we have the Military Record of our ancestor Charles Young.  Born 1759, died 1848.  Enlisted at the age of 16 yrs, served 6 1/2 years in Revolutionary War, and also his record in the War of 1812.  Close of Rev. War lived in Berkley Co Virginia.  Wife Catherine Elizabeth Kint, born July 29, 1768, died Apr. 17 1841.  Served in Gen. Sullivan's dlin. in Revolutionary War.
Very truly
Mrs. Wm. R. Walter
4238 Buena Vista
Detroit Mich.
Feb 8th, 1938

Seal - Vet Adm
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MAUDE L. MARSTON

Pension Office
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:
I am enclosing certificates of service of Phillip Sholl and Charles Young and would like to know if you have records of Pensions, the names of their wives and town they lived in, both the men I am interested in lived in or near Hanover Pa.  So if the men mentioned in certificates are not of Hanover ...
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MAUDE L. MARSTON

you may leave records of Phillip Sholl or Charles Young of Hanover, any charge for search, I will be glad to remit for.  Thanking you for your trouble.
Yours very truly,
Maude L. Marston
6004 Ventura Ave. 
Ventura N.J.
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MAUDE L. MARSTON

"I hereby certify that the name of Charles Young appe is as a Wathors, Germany, Aug 4, 1777 on a" general return of the Penn. State Regt. of Artillery, commanded by Lieut. Thomas Proctor. [illegible} Apr. 3, 1779, " State Regt f Artillery Continental Line, in the War of the Revolution."
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MAUDE L. MARSTON

I hereby certify that the name of Phillip Sholl appears as a private in the 2nd [illegible} of " a list of the 4th Company Militia 4th Battalion Northampton line by Lieut.  [illegible} Phillip Bochin in the War of the Revolution.
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205 Capital Apts
Raliegh, N.C.
July 3, 1925

Will you kindly give me all case(s) containing Charles Young of (Burkley) Co., Va. or N.C. In 1834 he was 77 years & was in artillery during Rev.  

                          Obliging
                                 //s//
                           Charles M.T. Norris
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Bodwell & Co.
Hardware, Implements,
Buggies, Bicycles,
Etc., Etc.

Parsons, Kansas,  Oct. 25th 1927

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:
Can you give me any information as to the time of enlistment, and discharge or death of one Charles Young of Philadelphia, Pa. who served as a matross during the Revolutionary War in Captain-Lieutenant Duffy's Company, 4th Artillery Regiment, Continental Troops, commanded by Colonel Thomas Proctor.

Yours truly,
Mrs. E.A. Bodwell

Seal - Pension Office
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(Transcriber's note: the text on this page is "bleed through" from the opposite side of the page. The only text on this side of the page is a date stamp.)

(Date stamp)

O.W. & N. DIV.
        OCT
          29
        1907
        FILES
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363 Russell Ave.
Cleveland, Ohio. Nov. 23rd 1900

Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Kindly send to my address, copy of the application papers, for pension of Charles Young, who was a Private of Artillery, in the Virginia Militia, of Berkley County, in the War of the Revolution.  He was placed on the Pension Roll April 21st 1834, commencement of payment of Pension March 4th, 1831, annual allowance 100.00, sums received $300.00.
Yours &c,
Mrs. A.M. Allyn
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...sion on file in the Bureau Charles Young 19869
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Dates of Enlistments of Appointments/Length of Service/Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered/State.

1777 to Jan 1781/-/Drummer Gunner & (illegible)/Captain Patr. Duffey Colonel Thomas Preston/Continental Establ.

-/6 months/-/Captain Hair/"
also served in Row Gallery on the Delaware.
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Battles engaged in, Brandywine, Germantown, White Marsh  
North River. The ..... the Indians under Gen. Sullivan.
Residence of soldier at enlistment
,Philadelphia, Pa
Date of application for pension, Nov. 12 1835 
Residence at date of application, Burkely Co, Va.
Afe at date of application, Born in Germany April 1758

Remarks:  No date (illegible)
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To the
Secretary of War
Washington City
District of Columbia
Philadelphia Pa
Va 
Pension Office
26 September 1834
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State of Virginia}
Berkely County} Sc
I Charles Young do declare that I was late a Cannoneer in the Company commanded by Capt [Captain] Patrick Duffy of the Pensylva. [Pennsylvania] Regiment of Artillery, that I was enlisted at Philadelphia by Capt [Captain] 
Darrick on the   day of  one thousand seven Hundred &  seventy seven  for the Term of five years or during the war, and served faithfully until the 1st or  2d day of January one thousand seven Hundred & eighty one when I was
Honourably [Honorably] discharged at Trenton in the State of New Jersey
by General Anthony Wayne, on account of my services as aforesaid, and was last paid by   in Philadelpa. [Philadelphia] Paymaster, and my Discharge which [illegible] Duly Testified all these particulars was lost by me, as is fully stated and described in my Declaration for a Pension in the war Department, as also certified by Colonel John Strother and John Shober, reference being had to their Certificate will more fully appear
I know of no commissioned officer of said Regiment that can certify as to my services. If any yet living I know not their places of residence
Charles Young
Sworn & subscribed before me this 29 day of August 1834}
[illegible]

Virginia.
I Hanson Ward Clerk of the County Court of Berkeley in Virginia do hereby Certify that Isaac S [illegible] Esquire before whom the are declaration was sworn to and Subscribed
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was at that time and still is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Berkeley duly commissioned and sworn into office and full faith and credit is  and ought to be given to all his official acts as Such
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed my Official Seal  at Martinsburg the 29th day of August 1834 and in the 59th year of
of this Commonwealth 
[illegible] clk [clerk]
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Martinsburg Aug 29th 1834
Sir
The answer [illegible] to be directed to me to the case of John Shober
Martinsburg
Charles Young