Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,948, for Joseph Lorentz, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE  Penn.
Lorentz, Joseph
NUMBER    S.40.948
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(274)
Pennsylvania   
Joseph Lorentz           
Capt Chambers         
Sergeant.        
Pennsylvania line 9 months        
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.      
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10th of April, 1818. ---          
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th of April, 1818 and sent to the Pensioner, care of Henry Shaffer, Esqr Judge &c, Sunbury, Northumberland Co Pennsylvania. 
Arrearages to 4 Sept. 1818. 4 26 / 31 mo.     $38.70          
$38.70        
{Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818,}               
20 / 74    
Sunbury, Northumberland  
Continued   
Notification sent November 11 1820 to Andrew Albright Sunbury, Pennsylvania
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Joseph Lorentz
7   N.C.
Con   
Apr 18
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District of Pennsylvania      
Northumberland County Sct             
On this 21st day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court of Common pleas held in the Borough Sunbury for the County of Northumberland being a Court of Record and proceeding according to the Course of Common Law with jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and expressly made a Court of Record by act of assembly of this State    Joseph Lorentz aged seventy four year resident in the County of Northumberland in said District who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war in the Corps commanded by Captain Chambers in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Craig and that he made his original declaration on the 18th of April 1818 and obtained his pension his Certificate is No 274 and dated 29th day of April 1818 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 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 and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any property income being
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being lately discharged at Sunbury under the Insolvent Law of this State    I have no property whatever except wearing apparel   I have no family residing with me except my wife Mary aged Seventy years                
 Sworn & Subscribed in open Court August 21. 1820 }     Signed,   Joseph Lorentz.                
A Schedule of Property                 
Wearing apparel (and not other property) of the value of $16.00                      
Sworn &c August 21. 1820 }
Signed  Joseph Lorentz
The Court are acquainted with Joseph Lorentz, and know that he has been discharged under the insolvent act of this Commonwealth, that he has no property, except as above stated.          
State of Pennsylvania           
Northumberland County Sct             
I Andrew Albright Prothonotary of the County of Common pleas of the 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 it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Sixteen dollars-
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of the said
Court and this second day September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and Twenty
Andrew Albright Prothonotary
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40948   
Revy    INVALID
File No. 40.948    
Joseph Lorentz
Serg  Rev War
Act: 18 March 18    
Index: - Vol.   3    Page  298    
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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SUNBURY 13 April  v4
FREE. 
Boyd
The Honble the Secty of War    
Washington City
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Pennsylvania    
Northumberland County Sct}   [Seal]          
Be it remembered that on the tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally appeared before me Henry Shaffer Esqr an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Northumberland aforesaid, Joseph Lorentz  of the Borough of Sunbury in the County aforesaid, and being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that he served as Sergeant in the Revolutionary Contest - that he entered the service in the year 1778 and served in Colonel Craig's Regiment being the 3d Pennsylvania Regt that he was discharged July 4 1779 as will appear from the enclosed documents, and he relinquishes all claim to any pension hereto for allowed him and prays to be placed on the pension list of the United States at the rate of $8.00 pr month agreeably to a late Act of Congress.                   
Joseph Lorentz
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me } 
Henry Shaffer     
26
8
31 / 208 ] 670
186
220
217
30
9.4
4.9
4.26/31
8
32
6.70
38.70
31
9
22
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Crawford Co. [unreadable] 27 on 27 Juli 1813 
Joseph Lorentz was of [unreadable]
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Board for the relief of disabled, aged and poor revolutionary Officers & Soldiers 
Harrisburg 27th July 1813    
The word resumed the consideration of the application of Sergeant Joseph Lorentz, admitted him on the Pension at forty dollars of Annum, commencing the 29th June 1813    
Extract from the Minites   
 Geo. Bryan Aud Gen and one of the Board