Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7686, for James Nonemacker, Pennsylvania
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(S-1776)

SERVICE NUMBER

[handwritten] Penn. Nonemacker, James R.7686

CONTENTS
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lehigh

On this thirtieth day of April anno domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three personally appeared before the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Lehigh and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, James Nonemacher, a resident of (illegible) Penn Township in the county of Northampton and state of Pennsylvania aforesaid, aged seventy years, who being first duly affirmed according to law doth on his solemn affirmation make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June seventy A.D. 1832.

That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one and served in (illegible) regiment under the following named officers, viz: Captain Jacob Yehl until he, the said captain was discharged and after that time under Captain Kosham or Kershaw a French officer who succeeded him.  That the quartermaster was _____Dalluans(?) the commissary was Colonel Jacob Weiss, who is now blind and non-compos mentis.  The general was Rochambeau.  He does not recollect the names of any of the other officers.  He enlisted for one term viz during the war and served until he was discharged.  His discharge he has since lost. 

 He enlisted in the latter part of April or first of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.  He resided in Allentown in the township of Salisbury in the county of Northampton (Allentown is now the Borough of Northampton in Lehigh County) at the time he entered the service. 

He was in no battles but marched from Philadelphia to Baltimore, from thence to the Potomac River which the company crossed at Georgetown.  From thence to Williamsburg in Virginia, from thence to Yorktown.  Returned to Philadelphia, from thence marched to the vicinity of New York City, crossed the North River at a place called King's Ferry, went to near Peekskill and lay there for some weeks.  From thence marched through Hartford in Connecticut to Providence in the state of Rhode Island where he remained a month or more.  From thence to Boston City, from Boston he returned to Providence and from thence to Philadelphia.
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where he arrived about the latter end of the month of January and was discharged in the first part of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three --

The said James Nonemaker doth on his solemn affirmation further declare that previous to his enlistment and services as before stated he entered the service under the following named officers and served as herein stated --  He served under Captain John Wagner - Lieutenant Jacob Spinner and Colonel Stephen Ballet -- He recollects the names of no other officers.  He entered the service in the month of August in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine and left the service two months after when he was discharged.  He went as a substitute for his brother Henry Nonemacker -- He resides at the time he entered the service in Allentown in the County of Northampton (since became the Borough of Northampton in Lehigh County).  He marched from Allentown to Smith's Fort in Northampton County about  two miles from the Delaware River -- from thence he marched  to Deckertown Fort in the same County higher up the Delaware -- and from thence to Dan Denkins Fort near the Delaware River and near the point where the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York meet -- At the latter Fort he was discharged.  He went as a Soldier against the Indians -- He has lost his discharge  and has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure that can testify to his service --

He hereby relinquishes any 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 or (if any) only on that of the Agency of the State of Pennsylvania --

Affirmed and Subscribed   }
the day and year aforesaid} 
 James Nonemacker [signature]

Garrick Mallery  [illedible] Judge
B. Gotlieb,  F. J. Yeager a clergyman residing in the Township of Greenville -- in the County of Berks -- do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with James Nonemacker who has subscribed and affirmed to the above declaration that I believe him to be seventy years of age -- that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides
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to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion --

Sworn and Subscribed       }
the day and year aforesaid} G. F. J. Jaeger

Garrick Malbry
[illegible] Judge

I Jacob Witt [illegible] residing in the Township of Salisbury in the County of Lehigh do certify that I am well acquainted with James Nonemacker who has affirmed and subscribed to the above declaration that I believe him to be seventy years of age -- that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood of Allentown where is well known and where he formerly resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that  I concur in that opinion 
Sworn + subscribed the}
day and year aforesaid }     Jacob Witt
Garrick Malbry
Prsnt Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their  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 and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that G.F.J. Jaeger who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in that township of Greenwich in Berks County and that Jacob Witt  [illegible] who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the Township of Salisbury in the County of Lehigh and is a credible person and that their testament [part of word covered]

Garrick Malbry Prst Judge
[illegible]
a Judge of Lehigh County Pennsylvania
Jaccob Stein
a Judge of Leigh County Penn.

I Daniel Kramer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the  matter of the application of John Nonemacker for a pension --

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty eighth day of August -- A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty three --
D. Kramer, Prothy
by Saml A. Bridges
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Lehigh County  SS

Personally appeared before me the undersigned  a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Lehigh County James Nonemacker who being duly affirmed according to law deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequential lapse of memory he can not affirm positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods maintained below and in the following grades; for one year and nine months I served as a private soldier in the Dutch Regiment so called because of being composed principally of Germans and for two months I served as a private soldier in the militia of Pennsylvania; and for such service I claim a pension -- And the said James Nonemacker in addition to the Declaration made by him on the thirtieth day of April A.D. 1833 deposeth + saith that he enlisted + served in the French Army but that a large number of the soldiers composing the Regiment in which he served were Americans as well as himself.  That immediately before his enlistment he resided in Allentown in the County of Northampton -- Allentown has since been incorporated + is now called the Borough of Northampton, and that part of Northampton County in which Allentown was now forms a part of Lehigh County created since.  He went from Allentown to Philadelphia for the purpose of enlisting + did enlist + join the army there -- He does not know by what authority the regiment in which he served his 
last tour was raised and called into service -- Neither is he able tat this time, by reason of old age and the consequent laps of memory to recollect the name of his Colonel.  And further          
saith not --

 Affirmed + subscribed the} 
tenth day of February A.D.} James Nonemacker
1834.  Before me --           }
Nicholas Saeger

Lehigh County SS
Personally appeared before me the subscriber and of the Justice of the Peace in and fir the County of Lehigh George Rhoads Esquire of the Borough of Northampton in said County who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith
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I know the before named applicant for a pension James Nonemacker and have known him from the time of his boyhood his parents having resided in the now Borough of Northampton Lehigh County and I do remember that the said James Nonemacker was an apprentice to the joiners ttrade and 
absconded from his master's service in the latter part of the month of March or beginning of the month of April AD one thousand seven hundred and eighty one (1781) and as it was afterwards said enlisted as a Soldier in the United States service--

Sworn to and Subscribed the }
the fifteenth day of February } Geo. Rhoads
 AD 1834   before me --         }

Nicholas Saeger [signature}

Lehigh County  SS

I Nicholas Saeger a Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that George Rhoads Esquire who has signed the following affidavit is an old and respected citizen of the Borough of Northampton -- that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit. 
Noah Saeger [signature]


Will come back
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26.789
James Nonemaker
Pennsylvania


J.W. Hornbeck
Allentown
Penna.
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April 26, 1933.

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BA-J/ADY
James Nonemacker
R.7686

Mr. W. H. Nunamacher,
69 Schley Street,
Newark, New Jersey.

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter relative to soldiers of the Revolutionary War with surname Nunnemacher, or similar spelling.

You are herewith furnished the history of the only soldier with that surname or similar spelling found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

From the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R.7686, it appears that James Nonemacker applied for pension April 30, 1833 while a resident of East Penn Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and aged seventy years. He stated that while a resident of Allentown, (which was later the Borough of Northampton) Salisbury Township, Northampton County, (that part which was later Lehigh County) Pennsylvania, he entered the service in August 1779 as a substitute for his brother, Henry Nonemacker, and served two months as a private under Captain John Wagener and Colonel Stephen Balliet in the Pennsylvania Militia; that he enlisted about May 1, 1781, served in Captain Jacob Yehl's Company in the "Dutch Regiment" and in the Company of Captain Koshaw or Kershaw, a French Office, length of service one year and nine months.

His claim was not allowed as he did not furnish proof of six months military service in the United States Army as required by the pension law.

There are no data as to family except the above reference to his brother.
Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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Act 7 June 1832
Suspended

See letter 3d March 1834 to J.W. Hornbeck Allentown, Pa.

Letter to Hon H. King 8th April 1834.

entire book searched not there.

1686
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February 1, 1932.

BA-J/ADY

Mrs. Charles S. Passmore,
717 West Granite Street,
Butte, Montana.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to the record of one James Nunemacher, a pensioner of West Penn, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in 1840.

A careful search of the records of this office has been made in your behalf and no record found of a pension having been paid by the United States to that soldier.

The Revolutionary War records show that one James Nonemacker of Pennsylvania made an application for pension. His record is given below.

The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, R.7686, based upon the military service of James Nonemacker in that war.

James Nonemacker applied for pension April 30, 1833 while a resident of East Penn Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania and aged seventy years. He stated that while a resident of Allentown, (which was later the Borough of Northampton) Salisbury Township, Northampton County (that part which was later Lehigh County)  Pennsylvania, he entered the service in August 1779 as a substitute for his brother, Henry Nonemacker, and served two months as a private under Captain John Wagener and Colonel Stephen Balliet in the Pennsylvania Militia; that he enlisted about May 1, 1781, served in Captain Jacob Yehl's Company in the "Dutch Regiment" and in the Company of Captain Koshaw or Kershaw, a French Officer, length of service one year and nine months.
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His claim was not allowed as he did not furnish proof of six months military service in the United States Army as required by the pension law.

His residence in 1840 is not shown in the papers on file.

There are no data as to family except the above reference to his brother.

This is the history of the only James Nonemacker, all spellings of the surname searched, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

The pension which you state he received may have been obtained from the State of Pennsylvania.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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J. W. Hornbeck
Penna.

3rd March 1834
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War Department
Pension Office
3rd March 1834

Sir,

    The claim of James Nonemaker and Jacob Wilt Senior have been examined.
    Their having served in the French Army precludes them from the benefit of the provisions of the Act of 7th June 1832 as the said troops are not provided for by the above-named act. 
    The papers will remain on our files.

                                            I am Sir
                                              Very respectfully
                                                Your Ob. Svt.