Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1462, Robert Burk, New Jersey. Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                   NUMBER
New Jersey     Burk, Robert    R.1462
Penn.

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CONTENTS
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. (crossed out and initialed)OW

1462
REJECTED
P.O. Robert Burk

Service:

Enlisted: ___________    , 18
Discharged: _________    ,18
Application filed:_____  , 18

Wages: ________________        

Re-enlisted:_______________
Attorney:__________________
O,___________________________



________Recognized.    ______Contract.X
______Cert.of Dis.  Searched for _________, 18
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19.035
Robert Burk
Jefferson County
Ohio
[illegible][illegible]
Dec 9.1803
1462
Hon . No
J.C. Wright
H.R.
Dec 9 1823
Hon. JC Colhoun
Secretory of [illegible]
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Ho of Representatives
8th Dec 1823

Hon J.C. Colhoun
Sir
Enclosed  is an application for a pension, by Robert Burk. Will you do me the favor to have them examined and if [illegible] to forward me the necessary certificate or if wrong to advise me in what respect?
I have the  honor to be your's  with great respect J.C. Wright
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State of Ohio Jefferson County [illegible]
Court of Common Pleas

In the matter of Robert Burk a Revolutionary soldier}

Be it remembered that at the August Term of this Court in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three, Robert Burk a revolutionary Soldier came into Court and filed a declaration of his services re in the words and figures following to wit State of Ohio Jefferson County [illegible]  On this twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three personally appeared in open Court, being a court of Record for said County Robert Burk aged seventy seven years, resident in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declared that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit.  That he enlisted for two years as a private soldier in the army of the revolution into the company commanded by Captain Jacob Winters in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Thompson of the New Jersey line about the first day of November in the yer of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five and that he served in said Company until about
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the first of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six when he was transferred to the ammunition waggons commanded by Captain Brown of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Thornbury of the Pennsylvania line, that he continued attached to said ammunition waggons until September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, when he was transferred to the Medical department under the direction of Doctor Thomas Bond that he continued in the service of the medical department until January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight, when he was regularly discharged by the said Bond, as having served out the time of his enlistment as a good true and faithful soldier of his country .  This deponent farther states that from the lapse of time he has lost the certificate of his enlistment and his discharge both of which were in his possession until within a few years.  The deponent further states  that he has never received any pension from his country in any away whatever on account of  his services.  And the said Robert Burk  solemnly swears, that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that he has
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not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act of service for certain persons engaged in the land and noble service of the United States in the revolutionary war" proposed on the eight day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that he has not nor has any person in trust for him any property, or securities, contract or debts due to him nor has he any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by him subscribed-
A Schedule of the property of Robert Burk on the twenty ninth day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty those to wit- One cow supposed to be reasonable worth ten Dollars, Four sheep four Dollars, One Loom eight dollars, five chairs five Dollars Two Kettles two Dollars and fifty cents-This deponent further states that his family consists of himself aged seventy seven years, and his wife aged sixty eight years, and no others, that he is a weaver but owing to infirmity is not able
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to pursue his calling with any diligence Robert Burk- Whereupon the said Robert Burk being duly sworn to the facts above stated and producing satisfactory evidence to the Court that the said Schedule in the said Declaration contained includes all the property owned by him and that the value of the same is twenty nine Dollars and fifty cents and no more, it is ordered by the Court that the aforesaid Declaration and Schedule be entered of record and certified by the Clerk of this Court to the War department.
Atten John Patterson Clk

State of Ohio Jefferson County [illegible]
I John Patterson Clerk of the Common Pleas for the said County of Jefferson do certify that the foregoing is an accurate transcript of the Record of the proceedings has in said Court in the matter therein mentioned.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Steubenville the 22nd day of November AD 1823-
John Patterson