Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,540, Michael Willhelm, Penn.
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Service                                         Number

Penn.         Willhelm, Michael       R. 11.540
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[Act of July 14, 1862, and March 9, 1873 crossed out]
REJECTED
11, 540
P. O. 
Michael Willhelm
Service:
Enlisted: , 18
Discharged: , 18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.    Contract
Cert. of Dis. Searched for  , 18
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Hon O. W. Smith 
Jan 1 1858
Ind.
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War Dept, Pa Office
Jan[illegible] 9. [illegible]
Sir
The claim of Michael Willhelm has been examined. He alleges to have voluntered [volunteered] to serve on board a vessel called the Nancy at Boston and served during the war. That vessel was a private armed vessel. The act of 7 Jun 1832 provides for none who served on board of vessel of that description. The claim has therefore been rejected and the declaration filed in this office I herewith return Mr. Winchel's letter to you
Hon. O. H. Smith
S. U. I
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Michael Willhelm
Indiana
Rejected
See let Jany [January] 1838 Hon: O. H. Smith S. U. S.

served on board a private armed vessel.
11540
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Senate Chamber
8th Jany [January] 1838
Sir,
In enclose you a letter & other documents relative to a pension, please examine it, and if you find it substantially correct, be so good as to put the old man on the roll.
Respectfully
O H Smith
J L Edwards Esq
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State of Indiana}
County of Fayette} 
On this first day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty
Seven personally appeared before me Edward Webb one of the Judges of the [illegible] circuit [illegible] of the said State of Indiana Michael Willhelm of the County of Fayette [illegible] aged 81 years 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 the 7th 1832 for [illegible] of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution 
The said applicant Michel Willhelm says that at the time he entered the services of the United States he was living in Bucks County Pennsylvania that he engaged with a waggon [wagon] master to drive a team to Boston Massachusetts that when they got to Boston they were beating up for volunteers to go aboard of a vessel to serve in the war, he says that the waggon [wagon] Master told him with the two or three others that they had better [illegible]  and he says that in accordance with his request he volunteered to go abroad of a vessel called Nancy under [illegible] to
serve during the war he says that the captain of the Ship a [illegible] which he served was by the name Ross the balance of the officers names he says he has forgotten except that one of the men who volunteered with him
was afterwards made Lieutenant his name he thinks was John Huffman -- says that the month and the year he has entirely forgotton that he has to learning and has kept no account of time he says that he was in four 
engagements that he remembers of two of which they succeeded in taking he says that in [illegible] one of the acts ells he was cut in the hand with a sword and shows the scar on the hand at this time he says that he received a discharge from the captain of the vessel but the discharge is lost
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he says that he know of no person by whom he can prove his services he says that he serve as near as he can recollect about five years and six months aboard of this same ship money he says he received his discharge at Boston and started to go to Philadelphia aboard of a vessel bound to that place and was taken prisoner and taken to Halifax and all his things taken from him together with his discharge he says that he was put abord [aboard] of a prison ship on detained there six months when they were
[illegible] and came home he gives a detail of the engagements his says that at the time of the boarding of one of the vessels he was the second which boarded the first then was cut down and that he received a cut in the hand and believes his hand wou [would] have been cut off if it had not been for the pistol he which he held in his hand

question by the court where and in what year were you born
answer I was born in Germany and disremember in what year I was born
question 2nd have you any record of your age
answer I have not it is with my sister I believe
3d where was you living at the time you was called into service
Answer in Bucks County Pennsylvania
4th where have you lived since
answer part of the time in Pennsylvania forty odd years in Rockbridge County in Virginia and and at this time living in this County and State
has were you called into service
answer I volunteered
what were the names of some of your officers
answer Captain Ross and Lieutenant huffman
did you ever receive a discharge from the service
Answer I did where is it [cross out] it is lost
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I call the names of persons by whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for truth and verasity [veracity] and their belief of your services as a soldier
Answer Robert Houston and Thomas More
and he says he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension all of the agency of any State
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
his
Michael X Willhelm
mark

I Thomas More residing in the neighborhood to the above applicant and Robert Houston residing in the neighborhood of the said applicant hereby certify that well acquain[cut off] with Michael Willhelm the above applicant from 28 to 40 years and that who has subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration the and we believe him to be 81 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the different neighborhoods where he has resided and where he had resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that
we concur in that opinion and that we further believe him to be a man of truth and verasity [veracity]
Robt Houston
Thomas Moore

I Edward Webb the above named Judge do hereby declair my opinion that after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutonary [Revolutionary] soldier and served as he states and I further certify that I believe that the Robert Houston  and Thomas More who has signed this the preceding [illegible] to are residents in the neighborhood of said applicant
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and are credible persons and that there statements are entitled to credit and I further certify that said applicant is unable to allend [attend] the circuit court provabal [provable] by infirmity
Edward Webb
a Judge of the Circuit Court
State of Indiana
Fayette County ⎬ SS. 
I, Gabriel Ginn, Clerk of the Fayette Circuit Court certify that Edward Webb Esqr [Esquire] whose signature appears above was at the time the same purports to have been written, and still is one of the Associate Judges of said Court, duly elected, commissioned & qualified and that the said signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Connersville this 25th day of December AD 1837.
G. Ginn Clk. F.C.C.
[white paper with Willhelm attached to left margin]

Hon. O. H. Smith
Senate U. S.

V 34.326
Michael
Indian