Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22204, Charles Deshler, Penn.
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Service                                  Number

Penn.          Deshler, Charles  S.22204


Contents
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22204
Revolution
INVALID
[initialed on right-hand corner of page]

File No.  22,204

Charles Deshler

Priv.  Rev. War

Ensign rev. War

Act: June 7, '32

Index:-Vol. 2, Page 185.

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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18549

Pennsylvania
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Charles Deshler
of Lehigh Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Pvt & Ensign in the Company commanded by Captain Marling of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Penna. line for 2 mos. /or: 4 (mos) Ensign.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 4 dollars 66 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Sept. 1833 and sent to applicant Allentown.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833.            $166.66
Seni-anl. allowance ending 20 March 34   23.33
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                                                               $140.00

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

Recorded by W.L. Williams Clerk
Book C  Vol. 5  Page 13
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City of Philadelphia Ss

    Mary Haverstick being duly affirmed doth declare and say, that she is the sister of Charles Deshler who was born in the City of Philadelphia, and went out in Capt. Hassenclaver's company of the militia, one of the first companies which turned out, he went out before declaration of independence, the regiment was commanded by Colonel Jacob Morgan, he lived next to us.  He went to Elizabethtown and was gone about two months and returned to Philada. soon after his return, he went into Captain Marling's company of militia and was chosen an Ensign and went on unto Williamsport where they were building a fort;  after staying away about two months he came back to Philadelphia and in a short time after, entered on board the Rattlesnake vessel belonging to the United States.  I don't remember the name of the captain.  He was gone on her about two month and was in a very smart engagement with the enemy.                              //s//
                                   Mary Haverstick
 Affirmed and subscribed
June 18, 1833 before 
//s//
John Binns Ald

State of Pennsylvania} 
City of Philadelphia   } scs

   To all whom it may concern I John R. Vogdes clerk of the Mayors Court for the City of Philadelphia do hereby certify that John Binns whose proper and genuine signature is subscribed to the above instrument of writing is and at the time of subscribing his name thereto was an Alderman of the said city commissioned and authorized to do and perform all and singular the acts and things incident to the office of an alderman and to all whose acts as such due faith and credit ought to be given.

In witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the eighteenth day of June A.D. 1833.

//s//
John R. Vogdes Clerk 
[SEAL]
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State of Pennsylvania}
County of Lehigh       } Ss

Jacob Stein Esquire, an associate Judge of the Court of Common pleas of Lehigh County, aforesaid, being sworn in due form of law, deposeth and saith, that he was present in the office of Alderman Binns, before whom the within deposition of Mary Haberstick, was taken and subscribed, at the time the same was taken and subscribed, that the said Mary Haberstick being a stranger to the said alderman he could not certify the credibility of the said deponent, That the said Jacob Stein has known the said Mary Haberstick for thirty years last past and upward, and knows her to be a strictly honest and credible person and is generally deemed and considered as such by her neighbors and acquaintances - 
[signed] Jacob Stein
Sworn & Subscribed}
July 15th 1833 before}
me a Justice of the peace}
of Said county                  }
[signed] Nichs Saeger

Pennsylvania    }
Lehigh County  } Ss
I Daniel Kramer Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of Lehigh County aforesaid, Do Certify that Nicholas Saeger Esquire whose genuine Signature is subscribed to the above affidavit is and at the time of Subscribing the same was an acting Justice of the Peace of said County, duly Commissioned & Qualified.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of Said Court, this third day of September one thousand eight hundred & thirty three
[seal affixed]
[signed] D Kramer Protho
by Saml A Bridges
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State of Pennsylvania}
County of Lehigh      } Ss

In the matter of the application of Charles Deshler for a pension.

George Daily a resident of South Whitehall township in the Said County of Lehigh, a creditable person known to us, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth depose and say that he is now in his seventy second year of age, that during the Revolutionary War he resided in the township of Salisbury in the Said County of Lehigh, then forming part of the County of Northampton, that sometime in the fall of the year 1778 or 1779 he was ordered out in the militia to defend the country against the Indians in the Company Commanded by Captain George Stuber, under the command of Colonel Huebner and Major Kunins, that they marched to beyond the Blue Mountains in the said County of Northampton, to a place called Minisink and other places, between the Rivers Delaware and Susquehanna, That he was at that time and is yet acquainted with Charles Deshler, now residing in the Borough of Northampton in the County of Lehigh, that the Said Charles Deshler was with the troops aforesaid, and acted as Quarter Master of the Battalion during the whole of the time they were out, to wit, two months - 
Sworn & Subscribed in Open Court}
of Common Please of Lehigh County aforesaid} this third day of September 1833}
[signed] George Daily
[signed] Garrick Mallery 
Prst Judge
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State of Pennsylvania}
County of Lehigh       } Ss

On this third day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court of Common pleas Before the Honorable Garrick Mallery President, John Fogel and Jacob Stein Esquire, associates Judges of the Same court, now Sitting, Charles Deshler a resident of the Borough of Northampton in the County of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania, aged Seventy eight years and upwards 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 June 7 1832.
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as here in stated, That he was born on the tenth day of September Seventeen hundred and fifty four, in the City of Philadelphia and resided there at the commencement of the War of the Revolution. That in the summer of the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five or seventy six, but he believes in the year seventy five, he armed and equipped himself, at his own expense, and joined Captain  Hosenclavers company of militia, that they marched from the Said City of Philadelphia, through the State of New Jersey to Elizabeth Town Point, that he remained in service there two months, when the company was dismissed and they returned home to Philadelphia that of the officers who were with them at Elizabethtown Point aforesaid, he recollects Colonel Jacob Morgan who commanded the Regiment to which his company was attached, and Leonard Jacoby Lieutenant of his Company; That soon after his return, he was chosen an ensign in Captain Marlings Company of Militia, of which one Horn was a Lieutenant, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, as he believes, the said Company was ordered out to a place on the Delaware river (below the City of Philadelphia) called Billingsport, that he marched with them as Ensign and assisted to build a fort at that place remained and did duty there for two months, at the expiration of which time the company were dismissed and he again re-
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turned to Philadelphia. he thinks Colonel Jacob Morgan was at Billingsport also, remembers a Major Boyd and a Captain John Singer; That he received a commission as Ensign, does not recollect by whom it was signed, that it is lost - That soon after his return from Billingsport, he entered on board of a vessel called the Rattlesnake, Commanded by Captain McCullough and another officer called Captain Dyer, that they sailed from the City of Philadelphia into the west India Seas that after they had been out at sea about two months, they had an engagement with a British Ship of War, from which they made their escape, and put into Martinique to refit, that from thence he returned to Philadelphia, after being absent three months, That soon afterward he removed to the Borough of Northampton aforesaid where he has continued to reside ever since, That sometime in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight or seventy nine he was ordered out in the militia to defend the country against the Indians, that he was appointed a Quarter Master and Marched with his Batallion [sic] to a place beyond the Blue Mountains, called Schaholy, then in the County of Northampton, Pennsylvania, between the Rivers Delaware and Susquehanna, where he served a tour of duty of two months and was dismissed, the Said Batallion [sic]was commanded by Col. Huebner and Major Kunins, that he does not remember the names of other officers, That he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure (except his sister Mary Haverstick George Deily whose depositions are hereto annexed who can testify to his services.
He hereby relinquishes every 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.
[signed] Charles Deshler
Sworn to and Subscribed   }
the day and year aforesaid }
[signed] Garrick Mallery 
Prest Judge
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We Joshua Yeager, a clergyman, residing in the Borough of Northampton in the County of Lehigh, and Doctor Jacob Martin - residing in the Said Borough, hereby certify, That we are well acquainted with Charles Deshler, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood [sic] where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion - 
[signed] Joshua Yeager 

Sworn and Subscribed in open Court}
the day and year aforesaid }
signed Jacob Martin
[signed] Garrick Mallery Pst Judge
[seal - partially hidden]

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 Joshua Yeager who has signed the preceeding [sic] certificate is a clergyman resident in the Borough of Northampton, in the County of Lehigh and that Doctor Jacob Martin -- who has also signed the same are residents in the said Borough of Northampton, and are creditable persons and that their Statement is entitled to credit.

[signed] Garrick Mallery
Pres Judge
[signed] John Fogel a judge of Lehigh County Pa
[signed] Jacob Stein a Judge of Lehigh County Pennsylvania
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State of Pennsylvania}
Lehigh County           } Ss

I Daniel Kramer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Charles Deshler for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court at the Borough of Northampton the third day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
[paper seal affixed]
D Kramer Protho
by Saml A Bridge
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
May 20, 1853

Sir:
  Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled " An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the Pensions agents,
the only child of Charles Deshler, decd., a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency at the rate of forty six dollars and 66 cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 of Sept. 1840 to the 7 Feby. 1842.
Respectfully yours,
J. M. Brodhead
Comptroller.

[written on left-hand side of page:  18549
Act '32]

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
D.C.

[written sideways on page]
Admit
2 mos Priv.
4" Ensign

[faded handwriting on left-hand side of page]
Allentown PA
Sept. 13
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Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa. Sept 12. 1833

Dear sir,

   Yours of the 9th inst. in relation to my application for a pension I have received the proof that the vessel in which I served was a vessel of war, I do not know that I can obtain, I do not remember distinctly whether it was a pubic vessel or whether it was a privateer, I have therefore concluded to relinquish that part of my claim,  And only claim a pension for my land services, to wit; two months as a private; two months as an ensign and two month as a quarter master; to the question whether I received a written appointment as quarter master, I cannot given a positive answer if I ever had one it must have been signed by Col. Huebner, but I have no recollection of it at all.  That I served in the capacity I am certain and is proven by the deposition of George Deily.

                                      Very respectfully yours &c 
                                                //s//
                                      Charles Deshler

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J .L. Edwards Esq.