Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,116, for Henry Maag, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Penn.

Magg, Henry

NUMBER
S.40.116
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912
Pennsylvania
Henry Magg
Capt. Wasser  Penn
Consignment
German Regiment 3 years
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 3rd of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of June 1818 and sent to Hon. R Peters, in Philadephia

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
5 months 2/30  $101.33
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
Not states
Continue 18/
Philadelphia County

Malefone (xxx) June 30th 1820 
Joseph P. Norbury  269
Philadelphia
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Henry Maas
912
3.April 1807
(Sept. 1810)

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Lt. P Norbury Capt.
Protry
Phila.
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District of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County 
on this 27th day of June Anno  Domini eighteen hundred and twenty
personally appeared in the Court of Common 
Pleas for the said County (the said county being a Court of Record having a prothomotary, a seal, and exercising common law judiciary Henry Magg residing in the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn in open Court according to Law on his oath declares that he served in the Revlutionary War as following: 
In the German Regiment Colonel Wiltner as an Ensign in the Company commanded by Capt. Weisner.

'Date of original declaration April 2, 1818
Number of Pension Certificate (912)
And I the said Henry Magg do further identify                                                            /swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States in the 18 March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or any manner disposed                                                                        of my property or any part thereof with intent timely so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions of an act of Congress, with this "act to provide for certain persons engaging in the same retrieval service of the United States of in the Revolutionary War."  

Dated the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor have any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Woheduts lists a numerous and by more described.

Sworn to and subject declared in open Court  on the twenty-seventh day of June 18220. 

Signed
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Schedule of the property of Henry Magg

I have no kind of property except the articles contained in a schedule hereto annexed* worth of thirty-eight dollars, earned by occupation a Wheelwright but am unable to labour at this presently, and work at day labor when I am able and can get employ.  I have no children living with me and am in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of my country. 
Signed Henry Magg

* Schedule of all the property real personal or mined belonging to the Petitioner. 

One bureau value of         $5.-
6 Windsor Chairs-               4- 
One Walnut Dining Table    3-
    "        "        Tea       "    -  2- 
------------       China  "    - 1 -
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                                          $15---

1 Chest a French  _  $1.-
1 Brass Kettle-------   2.-
1 Silver Watch ------  7-
6 Silver tea spoons -- 3.-
Feather Pil & Bedding 8.-
1 Set Bench Tools ---- 2.
_____________________________}
                                  $23---
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Philadelphia County
I, Joseph P. Norbury, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Philadelphia do certify that the foregoing  affidavit and the schedule list hereto amended are truly comprised from the Record of the said Court, and I 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 38 Dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Philadelphia this twenty seventh day of June A.D. 1820.

SOJ. J. Norbury Protonotary
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District of Pennsylvania ss}

   On this third day of April A.D. 1818 before me Richard Peters, Judge of the District Court of the United States in and for the Pennsylvania District, personally appeared Henry Maag of Philadelphia County, who being duly sworn deposes and declares that during the War of the Revolution he served against the common enemy as an officer in the Army in the continental establishment that on the 15th day of August A.D. 1777, he received a commissioned as an Ensign in the German Regiment Commanded by Lieut. Col. Walter, in the service of the United States, and continued in the said service until the expiration of the term for which the said Regiment had been (illegible). the whole time of his service being three years - That by reason of his reduced circumstances he is in need of assistance from his Country for support.  That he never has received or been allowed any pensions by the laws of the United States - That he is a resident citizen of the United States and that he is the person designated in the Commission hereunto annexed.
                                                 //s//
                                            Henry Haag

Sworn and subscribed
the 3rd day of April 1818
before me.
                   //s//
             Richard Peters.
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IN CONGRESS

THE DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES OF New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia TO:

                         Henry Maag Gentleman

We, reposing special Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be an Ensign in the German Battalion in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defense of American Liberty, and for repelling every (illegible) invasion thereof.  You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of an Ensign by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto performing.  And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as an Ensign.  And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time as you shall receive from this of a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you.  This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this of a future Congress Dated the fifteenth day of August 1777 Seventy-seven.

                 By orders of the Congress,
                             //s//
                  John Hancock    President
//s//
Cha. Thomson Secy.
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40,116
INVALID
Revy.
File No. 40,116
Henry Maag
Ensign Prev War

Act: 18 March 1818
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 306

{Arrangement of 1870.}