Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,665, Frederick Heberly, Md.
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Service number
Md. Heberly, Fredrick S.39,6665
Contents
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18.451 R
Pennsylvania
Fredrick Heberly
Of Dauphinois Co in the State of Pennsylvania. Who was a Private in the 7th Regiment commanded by Capt John of the Maryland line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 17. Of October 1820
Certificate of Pension issues the 7 of Jan 7 182 and [unintelligible] John [unintelligible]
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1821 84.93
Semi-and.all’ce ending March 1822 48
$132.93
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
May 1, 182
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Frederick Heberly
Maryland State [illegible]

number of lines scratched out
with calculations of numbers 

31
17
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14/31

105

80
3.87
1.16
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84.93
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dauphin County

On this seventeenth day of October AD 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record the county court of common pleas in and for the said county of Dauphin Frederick Heberly aged seventy-three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision of the act of congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 that he the said Frederick Heberly enlisted for the term of three years in the year 1776 near Baltimore in the state of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain Frederick Johns in the regiment commanded by Col Comby in the line of the state of Maryland on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in said corps until immediately after the battle of Brandywine in September 1777 when he was taken sick and put into the hospital at Morristown where he remained upwards of six months and where he left it was so much reduced by disease as to be unable to join the army. He afterwards obtained an honorable discharge from Captain Johns which is lost. He was discharged in Tawney Town in the state of Maryland that he was at the taking the Hessians at Trenton in the battle at Princeton and in the battle of Brandywine and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.

And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I 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 and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

Property real, personal or mixed I have none. My wife died several years ago, and my children do not reside with me. I stay with my brother -in-law. By profession I was a butcher, but my constitution sustained a serious shock in the revolutionary war and about seventeen years ago by a fall from a horse I dislocated my left shoulder which misfortune was so mismanaged by an unskillful physician as that I lost the use of my arm.

Frederick Heberly

Sworn to and declared in open court of Common Pleas on the 17th day of October 1820.

John Machesney - Prothy

Dauphin County

I John Machesney Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied form the records of said court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at Harrisburg this 11th day of November AD 1820.

John Machesney - Prothy of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County
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State of Pennsylvania Dauphin County

Personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County Frederick Heberly the above-mentioned applicant for a pension and being duly sworn according to law doth say on his solemn oath that he has resided in Lykens Valley in Dauphin County aforesaid for about eighteen years last past and that is now the place of his residence.

Frederick Heberly

Sworn and subscribed in open court of Common Pleas on the 8th May AD 1821

Tho Walker - Prothy
Dauphin County

I Thomas Walker Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County do certify that the above oath is truly copied from the records of the said court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Harrisburg the 8th day or May AD 1821.

Tho. Walker - Prothy of the Court of Common Pleas Dauphin Co.

State of Pennsylvania Dauphin County

Personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Dauphin County Frederick Heberly the within mentioned applicant for a pension who being duly sworn according to law doth say on his solemn oath aforementioned in open court of common pleas that he enlisted as within stated in the year 1776 and in the month of October to the best of his recollection - it was in the fall of that year and may have been in September, Oct or November - that he cannot recollect distinctly the number of the regiment that it was either the fourth or fifth - that the name of the Col who commanded the regiment was Comby or Gumby - a Virginian as deponent believes.

Frederick Heberly

Sworn & subscribed in open court Nov 26th, 1821

Tho Walker Prothy Dauphin County

I Thomas Walker Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Dauphine County do certify that the above affidavit is truly transcribed from the records of said court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at Harrisburg Nov 26th, 1821

Thos. Walker - Prothy of the Court Common Pleas of Dauphin County

[Hide document No 2538 among muster rolls in pigeon hole]
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39665
Revy INVALID.
File No. 39665
Frederick Heberly
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 221

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Fred. Heberly
No. 2538
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Auditor's Office Annapolis, August 17th 1820
I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining in
the Auditor's Office, that Frederick Heberly
enlisted as a private in the 7th Maryland
Regiment, on the _____ day of _____
and in Feby 1778 off Rolls.
Thos Karney A. G. S. Md.
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Hon Adn Tod
71.R

Admr & Con.
J. L. Ed
min
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Harrisburg Nov. 26 1821

John Tod Esqr
Dear Sir

In November 1820 The application of Frederick
Heberly for a pension was transmitted to the war department on the 30 December
1820, it was returned to General Wallace a member of the House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania who had the care of it, with the following remarks by J. L. Edwards
"I return the papers of Frederick Heberly whose claim will be admitted when
place of his residence shall be inserted therein."

In compliance with this demand I got old Mr Heberly again before
the Court and have the supplemental affidavit made, I then again sent the papers
to Washington and was much surprised after a long silence to have them again
returned with the three new objections 1. that he must state the month of the year
1776 in which he enlisted 2d The number of the Regiment & 3d the name of the
Col. who commanded it.

I have again had the old man before the Court and
he has made a supplemental affidavit in which he has answered the objections
I think satisfactorily.  He cannot distinctly collect the month in which he enlisted, he
knows it was in the fall of the year, neither does he remember the number of his
regiment exactly, he says he is sure it was either the 4th or 5th - He is now a very
old man is frail and helpless, absolute accuracy cannot be expected from him-- as to
the same of his Colonel he says his name was Comby, these letters express his pronunciation 
of the name better than any other, he is a German, and the name may 
much vary from his manner of expressing it, he says he was a Virginian, -  That he
first saw him in Baltimore-- that he was a five tall man an American he thinks
by birth, spoke English, that is he was not a German or Irishman

I have enclosed the application, as well as the first letter of the
Clerk W Edwards, in which he only required the place of residence to
be inserted and said nothing of the new exceptions which have been
afterwards conjured up-- will you be so good as to present this
claim and say a word in favor of this poor old man.
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Mrs Tod and the children are well. The democratic members
of the Ley.by nominates Wm Findlay last evening for the Senate. There
were three dissenting votes. There is little doubt of his election

Nothing has been done but electing officers printers &c. Mr Moury
prints Bill re H.R  & Senate Journal.  Conrad is clerk of the te
and Peacock assistant. A bill is on file for repealing the
duty on retailers - Mr Hophins of Lancaster has made a long
speech in opposition to a resolution by the regulation to meet and
elect a senator on tomorrow without obtaining to it the
Governor's signature. Only 12 members voted with him M Broom
from the city spoke in terms of great disapprobation against 
submitting the resolution to the Gov. for electing a U. S. Senator
the Leg. was he said, exercising a high constitutional privilege
independent of the executive a privilege derived from the Conn of
the U.S. a paramount authority to the con of Pa.

I am yours respectfully
S. V.R. Shark
Dec 9 1821
I commenced this letter some time go and was then
desirous to give it to you when here.