Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16377, Michael Ehler, Penn.
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Service Number
Penn. Ehler, Michael S 16377
Carded
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                   Michael Ehler

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana
at the rate of 40 Dollars 0 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of June 
        1833 and Seutto Henry Hopkins Manchester

Arrears to the 4th of March                          80 S
Semi-anl. allowance ending 42 Sept        20 S
                                                                           $100 S


                                           Revolutionary Claim,
                                            Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Daniel Boyd     Clerk
Book E   Vol. 7  Page 110
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The State of Indiana, County of Dearborn [mark indicating line break] s.s
On this the 5th day of April in the year 1833 personally
appeared in open court before Miles G Eggliston president
judge of the Dearborn Circuit Court. now sitting. Michael Ehler A resident of manchester Township in the County of 
Dearborn & [and] State of Indiana, aged seventy two years, who 
being first duly sworn according to law, doth on this oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress [illegible] June 7th 1832. That he entered the
service of the United States under the following named
officers & [and] served as therein stated viz Ae volunteered in the
State troops or militia of Pennsylvania at the Town of Lancaster in
the month of June 1776 under Lieut. Charles Hall, Capt Boyd, 
Colonel George Ross of the 1st Battallion of Lancaster County militia
for the term of two months, he marched through Brunswick
then through Woodbridge, then to Elizabeth town in new Jersy
^ where General Marcus commanded.
& [and] there stationed & [and] staice & [and] served as a private faithfully. That he
then immediately enlisted in the regular army or Flying camp at
[in brackets "s" ] Elizabethtown in N. Jersey under lieutenant Johnson, Capt. George
Grafe Colonel Cummingham & [and] Brig. gen. Edward Hamel & [and] cook
County. & [and] the same day marched to new ork & [and] from there to Powlshook
& [and] then to new York City he was a private & [and] his term was for six
months, that his regiment lay a few days as New York, & [and] then
went to Long island. Where General Sullivan & [and] Sterling command
& [and] was engaged with the british at Flatbush on the Island. In
this (Col Cummingham) est was Captains Steel, Clotz, Aldent
rook, & [and] Clark, Lieut Col. Hags, Major Thos Edwards, there was 
also a state regt, on Long I. Commanded by Col. Samuel Atla
The battle at Hatbush began by the british breaking though
Col. Atlas Regt. on the engagement was general, the americans were
defeated & [and] General Sullivan & [and] Sterling taken prisoner, the A army
retreated to N. New York City, the next day the army marched to belongs
mill, then over (Capt Grape's) Company Capt Henry millers To. of Col.
Hands right & [and] Capt. Luderick's To. of Col. Hollers Regt. were detained
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[previous word is “detached”] out to go to Westchester (York State) about 12 miles from the City our duty was to guard at Frogs point & Frogs neck, he was there near a month, from there we were marched up betwwin the East & Nort river near kings bring staid there a short time & went to East Chester where the A troops had a Skirmish with the British & our troops were called off from there marched to the White-plains where there was an engagement between two Regiments of the Delaware blues & the British.  The British forced our breast works & took our Cannon. We retreated from ther in the night & marched up the river to a place called kings-ferry & crossed over to the State of N. Jersey marche thence down through Hackensack, Newark Elizabethtown to a place called Spanktown we marched to Brunswick on the retreat from thence & then to Princeton that he there took sick with the camp fever & was moved with all the other sick in waggons to Phila…a  lay there one week & was removed to Lancaster & lay sick there ten weeks with the Camp fever & Rheumatism & his time expired. That in the month of Dec. ‘77 he thinks, he was called out in the sixth Class of the Lancaster Militia under Capt Christian Petrie a private for two months under Col. Clotz or Clots his business was principally pressing waggons & taking & Guarding british prisoners from Lancaster to Fredericktown in Maryland & served the time out faithfully & was dismissed at Lancaster. That in the Winter of ‘79 as he thinks, he was again called out in the said sixth Class of Lancaster Militia under Capt. Davis. Col. Clots for two months his duty was to guard british prisoners at the barracks in Lancaster & Supposes there was 1000 prisoners there that he served his time out faithfully as a private. That in the fall of 81 as he believes he was again called out in the 6th class as aforesaid at Lancaster.  Capt Samuel Boyd & Commanded by Col. James Ross, the company
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Bucks Co. P. & was all discharged for the want of arms
(1) That he was born on the 2d day of August  n the year 1760 in Lancaster town State of Pennsylvania.
(2) That his age is recorded in the records of the first Lutheran Church in Lancaster.
(3) When called into service was living in said Lancaster Pa. That at the age of 22 years in 1782 he moved from Lancaster town to Jonestown Lancaster County & now called 
Lebanon County & lived there 37 years & moved from there to Germantown in Montgomery County State of Ohio & lived there almost one year that he removed from there to Manchester township County of Dearborn & State of Indiana where he has resided ever since.
(4) his first term of Service was by volunteering as a private. The 2d term of Service was by enlistment. The 3d 4th & 5th was by class or draft as the militia were classed every one belonging to each particular class had to go when his class was called upon. 
(6) That he never received a discharge. That he knows of no person living whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service, & has no documentary evidence in his possession to prove his services. He hereby
relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid Michael (mark X) Ehler

(7)That he is acquainted with Daniel Plummer and Henry Hopkins in his neighborhood who can testify to his veracity.
We Daniel Plummer a Clergyman residing in the township of Manchester County of Dearborn & James Dill residing in Lawrenceburgh said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Michael Ehler who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 72 years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. 
Daniel Plummer
James Dill
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named
applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states

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And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Daniel Plummer who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the township of Manchester County of Dearborn. & that James Dill who has also signed the same is a resident in the said County of Dearborn & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
John McPike
Isaac Dunn

I James Dill Clerk of the of the Dearborn
Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Michael Ehler for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of the Clerk of Dearborn Circuit Court office, this the 5th day of April in the year 1833.
James Dill Clerk
D. Circuit Court
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25003

Michael Ehler 
Indiana

From 1776 private
1 yr 
$40

Henry Hopkins Esr
Manchester Post Office
Dearborn County 
India
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office.
183

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.

A Statement, shewing the Service of Michael Ehler
Dearborn County Indiana
Period when the service was rendered | Duration of the claimant's service | Rank of the claimant | Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served |Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service | Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Vol. 1776 | 2 {months] | pri | Capt. Boyde, Col. Ross | 72 yr. Pennsylvania | Traditionary Evidence. Can get no witness

Enlist'd | 6 {months] | [ditto] | Capt. Grafe, Col. Cunningham, Genl Hande
all

Call'd 1777 | 2 {months] | [ditto] | Capt. Petrie 
[ditto] 1779 | 2 {months] | [ditto] | Col. Clots, Capt. Davis, Col. Clots 
[ditto] 1781 |no time given | [ditto] | Capt. Boyde, Col. Ross

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of 
County of

On this ______ day of ______ personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of ______  in the county of ______ and State, Territory or District of______ aged (c) ______ 
years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ______  , with ______ and served in the ______ 
(e) regiment of the ______ line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. [image of hand pointing to the right] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of ______  

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

I ______ of the Court of ______ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of ______ for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ______ day of ______ & c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the ______ and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with ______ ,
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ______ 
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the ______ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the ______ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, ______ Clerk of the Court of ______ 
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ______ day of ______ 
& c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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Penn

Ehler, Michael
S16377

carded
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Pension claim
free

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of
Pensions

(Washington City)

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Memo - Any communications on the subject of the enclosed application, you will please direct to Henry Hopkins Esq Manchester Post office Dearborn County Indiana

J. Dill
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16.377
INVALID.
File No. 16.377
Michael Ehler
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:—Vol A, Page 111
[Arrangement of 1870]