Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,820, Martin Dearwart, Penn.
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Dearwart, Martin
or Doarwart
SERVICE 
Penn.
NUMBER R.2.820
CONTENTS _
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REJECTED [Stamped] 
2820
P.O. _
Martin Dearwart
Service: _
Enlisted: _
Discharged: _
Application filed: _
Alleges: _
Re-enlisted: _
Attorney: _
P.O. _
_ Recognized. _ Contract.
_Cert. of Dis. Searched for _, 18_.
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Martin Dearwart
Pennsylvania
Rejected
See let. 30 Sept. 1862
Geo. Ford Jr.
(Did not serve six months in a military capacity)
2820
Act of June 1832.
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
September 29, 1842.
D Sir,
You will receive the Declaration of Mr. Martin Doarwart of this city, together with the accompanying Documents, in [illegible] to enable him to receive advantages of the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832. That he was originally Drafted as a militia-man and served in Capt. Henry's Company, there can be no doubt: and 
that he served as a Butcher in the Company's Department, in the manner he has stated during the whole of the winter of 1782 [illegible] 1783 is equally certain. This latter fact as well as the [illegible] substantiated as I am informed by the other [illegible] already [illegible], his [illegible] Manzer[?] & Brunnist[?] both of whom are Revolutionary pensioners. Sufficient. They were not taken
Very Respectfully
Yours
George Ford
Samuel L Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
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35.394
Martin Dearwart
Pennsylvania
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State of Pennsylvania 
County of Lancaster
On this twenty-seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty-two, personally appeared before the Honorable Emanuel Shaeffer, one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania Martin Doarwart, a resident of the city of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster & State aforesaid aged seventy-eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th A D 1832.    That he was born on the 4th day of May 1764 at the then borough of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster & State aforesaid; that he entered the service of the United States under the following named official and at the times herein after set forth, and served as is also herein after stated during the war of the Revolution:  In the fall or autumn of the year 1782 in the latter end of the month of September at the then Borough - now city - of Lancaster in the County & State aforesaid, he was drafted as a militia man in Captain William Henry's Company in the Regiment commanded by Colonel George Ross; that the said company was mustered in the borough of Lancaster aforesaid on a tour of service for the term of  two months, and while waiting orders to march in readiness for service, this declarant then being eighteen years of age and a Butcher by trade, in consequence of the great number of British and Hessian prisoned or was then quartered at Lancaster, together with the American soldiers, on duty at the same place -- was transferred by his commanding officer from the said company of militia commanded by Captain William Henry as aforesaid, to the commissary's department, to assist in slaughtering, salting & preparing the cattle & swine for the use of the army and the prisoners & was as aforesaid, at Lancaster, and elsewhere during the whole of the winter of 1782 and 1783 to wit from the month of September 1782 to the latter part of April 1783, a period of seven months and upwards.  During all that time he was exposed to any variety of weather and particularly the extremity of cold; he underwent many hardships and (illegible) in slaughtering between three & four thousand head of swine, besides many cattle, for the sale of the government as aforesaid:  the name of the Deputy or Subordinate officer in the Commissary's Department, to whom this deponent made his daily return of the cattle slaughter was (illegible) Michifelter. He  does not now recollect the name of the Superior officer at Lancaster, but thinks it was Charles Hall Esquire who held the office of Deputy Quarter Master General under Colonel Philip Marsteller, the assistant quarter-master general.  The company in which this declarant was originally mustered, to wit the one commanded by Captain William Henry after  (illegible) in readiness to march in the fall of the Year 1782.  for the space of several weeks, was ultimately, after this declarants transfer to the commissary's department as aforesaid, discharged, without his orders from Lancaster.  This declarant (illegible) to his said transfer and services in the commissary's department, was not discharged until late in the month of April 1783 and shortly before the end of the war.  Since that time, he has continued to reside in the City of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania:  He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State except as a pensioner of the State of Pennsylvania under the land of said State.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first (illegible) written before me. the word "transfer" & "thousand" being first written on (illegible)
E. Schaeffer
Martin Doarwart (X is his mark)
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Penn / Dearwart, Martin/ R 2820
         or Doarwart
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State of Pennsylvania  }
County of Lancaster ⎬ SS.

I, John W Forney Esquire, Prothonatory of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the application of Martin Doerwart of the City of Lancaster, for a pension, as the same were had before the Honorable Emanuel Shaeffer, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas aforesaid, and I do hereby further certify, that the said Emanuel Shaeffer is duly Commissioned and sworn as an associate Judge of said Court and that his signature as above written is in his own genuine writing. 

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this eighth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty two. 


John W. Forney Prothonotary
per Willet C. Ogilby
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[Breaks added for clarity of transcription]

State of Pennsylvania   }
City of Lancaster          }   SS. 

On this Twenty-seventh Day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, personally came before Elijah McLenegan Esquire, one of the Aldermen in & for said City of Lancaster, Peter Maurer, a resident of Manheim Township, in the County of Lancaster & State of Pennsylvania, aged eighty-six years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth depose and Say; that he is perfectly well acquainted with Martin Dearwart of the City of Lancaster, and an applicant for a pension from the United States under the provisions of the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832, that he has known him intimately since the said Martin Dearwart was a boy. that he, the said Martin Dearwart was mustered as a private militia man in Captain William Henry's company in the Regt. commanded by Col. George Ross, in the fall of the year 1782 - that he the said Martin Dearwart was shortly afterwards engaged in slaughtering cattle & swine under the directions of the Commissary of the Army, as it was thus [illegible] for the use of the army : That this deponent frequently saw him, the said Martin Dearwart engaged in the business aforesaid, during the whole of the Winter of 1782 and 1783, and in fact until late in the month of April or the beginning of May 1783. A period of at least six months and upwards. 

Sworn to & Subscribed this day & year   }
first [illegible] before me       }      Peter Maurer
E.  McLenegan Aldm

State of Pennsylvania    }
City of Lancaster           } ss.

On this twenty-seventh Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred forty two personally came to Elijah McLenegan Esquire, one of the Alderman in and for said City of Lancaster, Peter Brunner, a resident of said City, aged Seventy nine years and a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, who being first Duly sworn according to Law Doth depose & say, that he is intimately acquainted with Martin Dearwart, an applicant for the benefit of the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832. That he has known him intimately for the last Seventy years, and that he was acquainted with him in the revolutionary war and remembers when he was mustered as a militia man in Captain William Henry's company of militia in Col George Ross’ Regt. That he saw him frequently engaged in Slaughtering cattle & swine at the City of Lancaster during the winter of 1782 & 1783, and that he was assisting in the Commissary's Deportment as a Butcher, for the space of about Six months & upwards, killing cattle be for the use of the army. 

Sworn to & Subscribed this day & year   }
first [illegible] before me       } 
E.  McLenegan Aldm

Peter Brunner his x mark [written vertically between the first and last names]
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State of Pennsylvania  }
County of Lancaster    }   SS.

I, John W Forney Esquire, Prothonotary of the Court Common pleas of Lancaster County, in the State of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that Elijah McLenegan Esquire, before whom the foregoing depositions were taken, is an alderman in and for said City of Lancaster in the County & State aforesaid, That he was duly elected by the people and commissioned on the 29th day of February AD 1840 by the govner of the said Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for and during the term of Five years from the Day of the Date of the same Commission :  And I do further certify that his signature as above written is his own proper writing.

Given under my hand and the Seal of the said Court, at Lancaster this twenty eighth day of September, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight Hundred & forty two.

John W. Forney Prothonotary
per Willet. Ogilby

[A large, illegible, seal of wax, cut ribbon, and folded paper is in the lower left hand corner]