Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40645, William Waddle, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
CONTENTS
Waddle, William
NUMBER
S. 40645
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3847
,847
Pennsylvania Roll-
Capt [Captain] Ervins  William Waddle
Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] Private line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 15th of April 1818-

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 October 1818 and sent to John Reed [illegible]ensburg Penn

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818. 4 Mos. & 20/30 --  37:33
Semi-anl. all'ce [annual allowance] ending 4 Mar 1819 48: --
85.33
1 years
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
24732
Continued
Westmoreland County

1885 May 22 Mrs Hannah W Waddell no pension due him sent circular
See Soldier of same name in Widows file 25847- copy of letter sent within-
By a reply it appears that this was not the soldier as the Va [Virginia] soldier never
applied for a pension see letter in files of Miscellaneous letters [illegible]
Wm Waddel died in Ky - 

Date of death not on AB

Sent to J Barclay by 13 July 1821. Greensburg- Pa
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Greensburgh Pa
[illegible] June 2d.
Recd. June 8. 1821.
Mr. Edwards
18/a
Honble [Honorable] Secretary at War
Washington City

800 4.20
Recd. 8 June 1821.
Wm Waddle 
3847
Con. J L E
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Schedule
Western District of Pennsylvania}
Westmoreland County} Sct.
On this 22d day of May 1821 personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common pleas of said County and being a Court of Record for the said County, proceeding according to the Course of the Common Land, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of its proceedings, William Waddle aged Seventy three years, resident in said County, in said district, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows. He enlisted as a private at Hannah town in said County of Westmoreland in the month of April 1776 in Captain Joseph Erwins Company of Rifleman Colonel Brodhead's Regiment, Pennsylvania Line Continental establishment for the term of twenty two months- That he served by virtue of said Enlistment during the full term  thereof when he was honorably discharged at the Vally [illegible] in Pennsylvania by Colonel Walter Steward which said Discharge he has since lost. That during said service he was present at the Battles of Long Island, The White Plains, Princeton, Brandywine, Trenton & Germantown. That your petitioner has already been placed on the pension list Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, as appears by his pension certificate dated the 22d day of October 1818 No 3847 more fully appears. And I the said William Waddle do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 - And that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities Contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income [illegible] -- I live with my son James Waddle - my wife has been dead for 19 years my children are all grown up and doing for themselves-- And I do further swear that from my advanced age and the hardships I have undergone in my time I am
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totally unable to maintain myself, or contribute to my support in the fullest degree. Sworn to and declared in open Court the 22d day of May 1821
his 
William X Waddle
Mark
Test. Eli Coulter prot. [Prothonotary]

Westmoreland County Sct. 
I, Eli Coulter Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of Westmoreland County aforesaid Do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court;
And I Do Further certify that, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the said applicant William Waddle has no property whatever, as in the foregoing Schedule mentioned, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 2d day of June 1821 -
Eli CoulterPro [Prothonotary]