Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,482, John Burnheater, Penn.
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Service                                         Number

Penns.    Burnheater, John          R.1482
               of Burnheter
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Chestnut Hill                    June 12, 1855

Honorable L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions 

Dear Sir,

I wish to know if a pension was allowed to my father John Burnheter for revolutionary services his papers where (sic) presented in 1832 of there about that time.  I am his son and wish to know of his case was acted upon and of suspended for what reason and wether (sic) I am entitled to anything under his application.  His papers was (sic) presented by Squyer (sic) Strong of Germantown old county now City of Philadelphia who is yet and who is willing to certify to the papers and that the two witnesses was responsibel (sic) ment (sic).

Yours respectfully,
//s//
Jacob Burnheter 

I certainly stand in need of it if there is any thing.  He is dead and never drew any thing, I am his only child.

Direct your letter to Chestnut Hill Post Office Philadelphia City.
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34,259

John Burnheater
Pennsylvania

Rejected

See letter 20 Nov. 37
to Jed Strong

Jacob Burnheater  June 10/55

1482
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County of Philadelphia }ss

    On the 18th day of October A.D. 1837 personally appeared before me Jedidiah Strong Esquire on of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said county John Burnheater resident in said county aged seventy-eight years who being first duly affirmed, according to law, doth on his solemn affirmation, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress, that he the said John Burnheater was served in the United States Army in Colonel Proctor's Artillery the first week in September A.D. one thousand seven hundred seventy seven until the June following, who he was discharged by Col. Proctor. He was in the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown.
                                             //s//
                                   Jacob Burnheater
Affirmed and subscribed
//s//
Jedidiah Strong
Justice of the Peace

18th October A.D. 1837

witness
//s//
Peter Hinkle
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Elizabeth Misinger aged seventy-two on her solemn oath says that she was well acquainted with John Burnheater before he was pressed in the continental army & recollects the time when he was (pressed), was with him in a cart with two horses they took the horses and left the cart and said deponent borrowed a horse to take the cart to Germantown it being in the city of Philadelphia when the said John was pressed and taken off in the presence of the said deponent. 

                                             her
                             Elizabeth   x   Misinger
                                             mark

Sworn & subscribed before Jedidiah Strong Justice of the Peace, Witness my hand and seal 18th Oct 1834.

Witness 
//s//
Peter Hinkle


Garret Rittenhouse aged eighty-two year on his solemn affirmation says that he knew Jon Burnheater whom he was in the army that he was pressed in the continental army that he was pressed in the continental army and served in the same while the said deponent was serving as stated.  Witness my hand and seal 18th Oct 1837
                                                  his
                                      Garret    x   Rittenhouse
Affirmed and subscribed
before Jedidiah Strong
Justice of the Peace
18 Oct 1837

Witness
//s//
Peter Hinkle
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John Burnheater the petitioner having first here duly affirmed says that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
                                              //s//
                                  John Burnheater
Affirmed && subscribed 
before Jedediah Strong
26th Oct 1837


In the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Philadelphia ss

October 24th 1837

    The said court in consideration and having examined the said petitioner doo declare their opinion that the said applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
    Witness on my hand and seal at Philadelphia this 24th day of October 1837
                                       //s//
                             Edward King
                             President Judge
                                      //s//
                              Nathel. Randall 
                               Associate Judge
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I Robert Morris prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the city of Philadelphia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Burnheater for a pension and that said court is a court of record.
    Witness my hand & the seal of said county this 24th Oct. 1837.

                                         //s//
                                  Robert Morris

   I Peter Kesyer a clergyman residing in Germantown hereby certify that I am acquainted with John Burnheater who has subscribed and affirm to the foregoing declaration that I believe him to be seventy-eight year of age.  That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion.
                                                //s//
                                          Peter Keyser
Affirmed and subscribed
before Jedediah Strong
Justice of Peace
25th October 1837

     I certify that I am well acquainted with Elizabeth Misinger and Garret Rittenhouse and that they are credible persons and good and worthy members of society.
    Witness my hand and seal this 26th day of October 1837.
                                           //s//
                              Jedediah Strong 
                              Justice of Peace
                                             
  V34,259
John Burnheater
Pennsylvania

Peter Keyser
Aged 71 years.
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Jacob Burnheater
Act of 7 June 1832

Penn.                    Susp'd
Ref.



PENSION
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia

   Be it known, that on this fifth day of February A.D. 1853 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared: John Burnheater resident of Chestnut Hill in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the only child and heir at law of John Burnheater who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has therefor made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of ___________ that he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and make this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
    Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint Samuel M. Knight of Washington CIty, my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of John Burnheater for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to sail claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or argument, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D.C., Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that i might or could do were I personally present.
                                             his
                                  Jacob    X    Burnheater
                                              mark
Witness the signing
    Sworn to, subscribed and acknowledge before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe said John Burnheater to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
                                         //s//
                                Robert Thomas J. Peac.

State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia

     It is hereby certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of Common Pleas for said county that Jacob Burnheater the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the identical child f the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, tht Robert Thomas Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attoney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
    In testimony whereof, I have set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this Seventh day of February 1853.
                                     //s//
                          George Carpenter 
                                               Prothon.
1, Claimant's name in full. 2. Post Office address. 3. "That he is the identical man" or, that "She is the widow of the identical man" or "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man" &c.. &c. 4.  Leave the line blank.  5. "He is", "she is" or "they are". 6. Revolutionary soldier's full name.  7. Claimant's signature.  8. Claimant's Name. 9. Magistrate's signature.  10.  "Identical," "widow of", or, "child of".  11. Magistrate's name. 12. Clerks signature 

N.B.  Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.
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1482

John Burnheater

REJECTED

P.O. _______________
Service: ___________
Enlisted: ___________
Discharged:________
Application Filed: ________
Alleges:_____________Re-enlisted: _______
Attorney: __________
P.O. ____________

______Recognized.  ________Contract
____Cert. of Dis. Searched _________, 18.