Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23756, for Peter Krumbine, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Pennsylvania
Krumbine, Peter
NUMBER S. 23756
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CONTENTS - blank
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Peter Crumbine
Pennsylvania

Amount - 9 months Private $30.--

[faint writing - 7470]

Calvin Mason
York, Pennsylvania
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BRIEF in the case of Peter Krumbine, County of York in the State of Pennsylvania
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  open court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  72

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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Period. - In 1779
Duration of Service. - 7 Months
Rank.  - As a Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. - General. - Captain Seley, Colonel Winser

Period - In 1778
Duration of Service. - 2 Months
Rank. - As a Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. - Captain Aldenbrook

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  - None mentioned

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  - Lancaster, Pennsylvania

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? - traditionary

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.  

Signature:  George Payton, Examining Clerk.
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11.039
Pennsylvania
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Peter Krumbine
of York County in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Seley of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Winsor in the Pennsylvania [illegible] Troops for 9 months. Private $30.00
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inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 30 Dollars -------Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of March 1833 ------ and sent to [illegible] Mason, Esquire, York, Pennsylvania
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Arrears to the 5th of March 1933  $60.00
Semi-ant. allowance ending           $15.00
       TOTAL                                      $75.00
{Revolutionary Claim,
{Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by John T. Sprague, Clerk
Book E. Volume 5 Page 9
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York county
State of Pennsylvania.  SS;

On this eighth day of august eighteen hundred and thirty-two personally appeared in open court before Walter Franklin, Esquire, President of the Court of common Pleas in and for the County of York and State of Pennsylvania, now sitting  Peter Krumbine, a resident of the Borough of Hanover in York County, Pennsylvania, aged between seventy one and seventy two years, who being duly sworn doth on his solemn oath administered in open court according to law make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the seventh day of June eighteen hundred and thirty two, --
That he was born in Shaferstown [Schaefferstown], Lancaster County now Lebanon County on the eighteenth April seventeen hundred and sixty one, that he has no other record of his age than the hand writing on record made by his father in the family bible.  That he was working at his trade of locksmith in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, when he enlisted, as he believes in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine being then about seventeen years.  That he enlisted for the term of seven months.  That  he was marched to Philadelphia, lay in the barracks there a few days, marched from there to Trenton, was in the barracks there a few days and then joined the army about twenty miles this side of new York and was placed int he company of Captain Sely, who was then prisoner, but whose company was then commanded by Lieutenant Marshall of the fifth Regiment commanded as he believes by Colonel Winser, in the army commanded by General Wayne.  That at the termination of his term of service he obtained a discharge from his commanding officer, and also a certificate for his pay, which certificate he afterwards sold to [illegible] McAllister, son of Colonel McAllister.  That his discharge [illegible] has since lost or mislaid.  That he was a part of the time of his service at West Point, after the time he was attached to the fifth Regiment.  That has resided ever since the revolution in Hanover, York County. where he now resides.  that he does not know of any person who can positively prove his services, or that he was a soldier, but thinks his name may be found on the pay, or muster roll of the army.  That he is well known to the Honorable John L. Hinkle, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of York County, and to all of the citizens of Hanover.  That Mr. Gutelius, the clergyman of Hanover having left York yesterday, he cannot obtain his certificate.  That he truly 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.  Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  That this deposition adds to his above declaration.  That about a year before he enlisted and above stated he served a tour of two months
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in the Company of Pennsylvania Militia commanded by Captain Aldenbrook as a substitute for his father Leonard Krumbine.  That the term of Militia duty was performed in Lancaster County in guarding prisoners and guarding deposits of powder and military stores.  That he served his full term of two months.  That he does not recollect whether or not he issued a written discharge at that time.

Sworn and subscribed in open court on the day and year aforesaid.
Signature:  Peter Krumbine

We, Luther H. Skinner and Benjamin Welsh, residing in the Borough of Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Krumbine who has subscribed and sworn to the forgoing declaration.  That we believe him to be between seventy and seventy-two years of age.  That he is a man of good character and of [illegible].  That he is [illegible] 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 day and year aforesaid in open court.
Signatures:  Luther H. Skinner, Benjamin Welsh

I, John L. Hinkle, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for York County, do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Peter Krumbine who has sworn and subscribed the foregoing declaration, and that I am from reputation and the report of the persons of the neighborhood satisfied of the truth of his statement, as made in his declaration.  That I am also well acquainted with the above named Luther H. Skinner and Benjamin Welsh and I know them to be persons of good credibility and that their statement is entitled to full credit.  Sworn to and subscribed in open court this day and year aforesaid.
Signature:  John L. Hinkle

And the court aforesaid do hereby declare this 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 as he has stated and set forth in his declaration, and that
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he served as he states.  And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Luther H. Skinner and Benjamin Welsh who have signed the above or foregoing certificate are residents of Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, and that their statement is entitled to full and entire credit.  And also that John L. Hinkle who has subscribed and sworn to the above certificate is a judge of this court.
Signature:  Walter Franklin

York County}
State of Pennsylvania} SS
I, Richard Porter, Prothonotary of the Court of common Pleas of York County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Peter Krumbine for a pension.  And that John L. Hinkle whose name is signed to the foregoing affidavit, is an associate judge.  And Walter A. Franklin who has signed the above certificate is the President judge of the Court of Common Pleas of York County aforesaid.  And that each of them respectively subscribed his name in open court on the day and year mentioned in said proceedings.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this tenth day of August 1832
Signature:  Richard Porter -- hand-drawn seal
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York County}
State of Pennsylvania} SS
Personally appeared before the subscriber George Barnitz one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of York and State of Pennsylvania.  John Koons who upon his solemn oath taken according to law saith that he is a native of York County and will be sixty one years old on the 2nd day of January next, that he is well acquainted with Peter Krumbine, the foregoing applicant for a pension, and has known him personally and by observation for more than forty years.  That the said Peter is a man of strict integrity of character, and of undoubted [illegible] that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that this despondent does ow and always has concurred in that belief.  that he is acquainted with the Honorable John L. Hinkle, Esquire, Luther H. Skinner, Esquire and Benjamin Welsh whose affidavits accompany the foregoing declaration and application, and he knows them to be men of truth and integrity of character.  That the Honorable John L. Hinkle who is as this deponent believes about fifty years old, was born in the neighborhood of Hanover, York County and has resided in or near Hanover to the present time.  And has had every opportunity of being acquainted with Peter Krumbine.  That Benjamin Welsh is a native of Hanover and is as this deponent believes was forty years old.  That Luther H. Skinner is a magistrate in the Borough of Hanover of about the same age as Benjamin Welsh, but not a native of Hanover.  And further, this deponent saith not.

Sworn and subscribed this 2nd day of October 1832 before me, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of York County, and I do certify that I am satisfied that the foregoing declaration and affidavits are true.

Signature:  George Barnitz

York County}
State of Pennsylvania} SS
I, Richard Porter, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of York County, State of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that George Barnitz, Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit of John Koons was taken is and was at the time of the taking of said deposition a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of York County.  That his name to the foregoing certificate is in his own proper handwriting.  And that full credit is and of right ought to be given to each and every each and every act of the said George Barnitz, judge of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of said court and do hereunto affix this second day of October A. D. 1832.

Signature:  Richard Porter, Prothonotary
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In reply to your request of ________________, received ______________ for a statement of the military history of Peter Krumbine, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you wqill find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
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S. F. 23756
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT - [illegible except for 1778 and 1779
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
2 months and
7 months respectively
RANK- [illegible]
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. (2 months)
Aldenbrook
CAPTAIN. (7 months) Seely and Lt. Marshall
COLONEL.
2 months has a check mark - assuming Aldenbrook
7 months has Winsor(?)
STATE.
Pennsylvania Militia
5 Pennsylvania
[illegible handwriting]
Battles engaged in, check mark
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Date of application for pension, August 8, 1832
Residence at date of application, [illegible]
Age at date of application, Born Scheafferstown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, April 18, 1761
Remarks:  Certificate 11037 issued March 19, 1833, Act June 7, 1832 Pennsylvania Agency
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3-871.
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RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
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Briefed by A. [illegible...] 7/9/10
Claim No. ................................
Certificate No. .......................
Claimant enlisted in Hanover, Pennsylvania, 1776,  Pensioned in 1836.  died 1844?
Soldier Peter Grumbine
Service Pennsylvania
Additional Service Revolution

No._____claim, State records _____, 191__
No claim, combination records_____, 191__

REMARKS:
[illegible.................................]
See OW Inv. File 23756
Peter Krumbine

----------Chief Division

6-1914
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Rec. Dec. NUS

CLINTON B. KRUMBINE
LOCK BOX 288
LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA
June 11, 1917.

Pension Bureau,
Washington D. C.

Gentlemen,

I am writing a genealogy of the Krumbine family and would like to have information about a soldier who served in and was a pensioner of the Revolutionary War.  His name will appear on your records spelled either
Peter Krumbein
or
Peter Grumbein
or
Peter Crumbane

Please give me such information as appears on your records in full.

Are complete records kept at Washington of all soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War and to whom must I apply for same?

Are complete records kept there of all soldiers who fought in the Mexican War and to whom must I apply to get information of same?

I want to find out all the names of our family as spelled above who participated in these two wars.

Your truly,

C. B. Krumbine
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HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF YORK COUNTY
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OFFICERS
President
CAPTAIN W. H. LANIUS
VICE PRESIDENT
CAPTAIN JOHN FAHS
TREASURER
A. WANNER
CORRESONDING SEC'Y
MISS LENA T. ROOT
RECORDING SEC'Y
CHARLES A HAWKINS
CURATOR AND LIBRARIAN
GEORGE R. PROWELL

TRUSTEES
CHAIRMAN
REV. T. T. EVERETT. D. D.
CAPTAIN W. H. LANIUS
GEO. P. SMYSER
J. W. STEACY
REV. E. T. JEFFERS, D. D.
CAPTAIN JOHN FAHS
J. A. DEMPWOLF

YORK, PENNSYLVANIA September 2, 1910.

United State Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

Peter Grumbine of Hanover, is on record as having a pension from the United States Government in 1836.  He enlisted at Hanover, Pennsylvania, in 1776 and served during the revolution.  I do not know in what command he enlisted.

You will oblige me by sending any information you may have relating to Peter Grumbine and his military services.  I think he died in 1844.

Yours very truly,
George R. Powell

H.B.S.