Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2214, Jacob Fleisher, (Penn.) South Carolina Sea Service
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(8-1778)
SERVICE                                                    
[Navy crossed out] (Penn)      
South Carolina
Sea Service
Fleisher, Jacob      
NUMBER
S.2214
Carded
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6390 [crossed out] (17)
Pennsylvania
Jacob Fleisher 
of Bern, Berks Co in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Mariner on board of the Ship Carolina commanded by Capt. Joiner for the term of one year. Navy
Inscribed on the roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 40 Dollars per annum commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of July 1832 and sent to the Hon. F A.  Muhlenberg, House of Reps.
Arrears to 4th 4. March 1832 $40.00
Semi-anu'l all'ce ending 4.Sep. 1832 20.00
Total $60.00

[Stamped]
Revolutionary Claim 
Acts March 18, 1818 bad May 1, 1820)
Act of June 1832 [inserted]

See letter II [illegible]
Hon. F A.  Muhlenberg
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One Case
Judge Diemer, Penn Recording
Rec.d 19th June 1818
Jacob Fleisher
Marine. Ship Carolina
Capt. Joiner
1782 War

Retained for further evidence of Service and the Judges certificate of  indigent circumstances
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Pennsylvania Berks County
On this 13th day of June A.D. 1818 Before me James Diemer Esquire One of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County personally appeared Jacob Fleisher of Bern
Township County aforesaid aged fifty-seven years, who upon his solemn oath doth depose and
say that he enlisted as a private soldier in the service of the United States in the year 1782 in the
Borough of Reading County aforesaid by Lieut. Scull in a company Commanded by Capt. Joiner 
on the ship Carolina that the ship and Crew were taken prisoners by the
British in sight of the New York Light house that he together with the rest of the said company was put on board the Prison ship called "Old Jersey" and there kept a prisoner until after [the]
War that from the time of his enlistment until his discharge was upwards of one year when he was released from Prison. And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
S/ Jas. Diemer               S/ Jacob Fleisher

Berks County On the 13th day of June A.D. 1818 Before me, James Diemer Esq. One of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared Michael
Spats of the Borough of Reading County aforesaid who upon his solemn Oath according to law
doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Samuel Fleisher named in the above
Affidavit, that he is the same Samuel Fleisher, who enlisted and served in the revolutionary War
on board the Ship Carolina, and that this deponent also enlisted and served on Board the
aforesaid Ship 
and that he is in reduced circumstances & Stands in need of the assistance of his
country for Support.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
S/ Jas. Diemer S/ Michael Spats, X his mark
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Pennsylvania
Berk County
I James Deimer Esquire One of 
the Judges of the County of Common Pleas 
in and of said County do certify 
that It appears to my satisfaction that 
said Jacob Fleisher served with 
revolutionary war, on board the ship Carolina 
against the common enemy as appears by the affidavits 
in witness whereof I have herunto set my
hand and caused the sal of the said
court to be affixed this thirteenth day of June
AD 1818
Jas. Deimer

Berks County Ga
On the 25th day of January AD 1819 Before me
James Diemer Esquire one of the judges of the court of Common
Please in and for said County personally appeared John Fox
of the County of Berks who upon his solemn oath according
to law doth depose & say that he is well acquainted
with Jacob Fleisher the claimant in the withing applicaiton
[illegible], that he is the same Jacob Fleisher who
enlisted and served in the Revolutionary War on Board the
ship Carolina, and that this deponent also enlisted and
served on the aforesaid ship, that the ship and men were
taken prisoner and remained prisoners at war while close of the war and that this Deponent and the 
claimant enlisted in the [illegible] of REading [illegible] Berks
County in the year AD 1782 and that the said claimant
is in indigent circustances and [illegible] in need of his
county for support.
John Fox x his mark

Sworn & Subscribed
Jason Diemer
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I James Diemer, Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Commonpleas in and for the County of Berk, do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the aforesaid John Fox and Michael Spatz. Thereupon on the whole of the testimony it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jacob Fleisher did serve as stated in his declaration and it further appears to my satisfaction that the said Jacob Fleisher did served as stated in his declaration and it further appears to my satisfaction the the said claimant is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his county for support.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said court to be affixed this 25th day January AD 1819.
Jms Diemer
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Jacob Fleisher
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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County Pa.
Be it known that on the 9th day of April of one Thousand eight hundred and thirty-two before me the Subscriber— a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Berks personally appeared Jonathan Tobias of said county who made Oath in due form of law doth depose and say that he is personally acquainted with Jacob Fleisher named in a petition to the Congress of the U.S. and declares that the said Jacob Fleisher is very poor and far advanced in age and is afflicted with shakeing palsy and is entirely disabled of performing labor and that the following are all the property which said Fleisher possesses
1 Ten plate stove 1 Table 1 Lot crockery a small Lot chairs several Iron pots a small lot of kitchen furniture Two beds & two bedsteads and that said Fleisher has no real estate of any description whatever,  and that said Fleisher was by [illegible] on a German S
School Master but by reason of bodily infirmities he was unable to pursue that occupation and that he has on the above date valued and appraised all the above mentioned items of the lump sum of Twenty two dollars and eighty seven and a half cents and that said Fleisher children can not contribute to his support.
Sworn and Subscribed        Jonathan Tobias
before me the day 
& year adoresaid
John Sherrer J.S.
I John Sherrer - a Justice of the Peace in and for said county do certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Dehonenh Jonathan Tobias and he is a credible person personally known to me as such for many years and I further certify that his testimony will be admitted in any court of justice and in Testimony
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In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name the day and year foresaid
John Sherrer J:P:

I John Sherrer Justice aforesaid do certify that I am personally acquainted with Jacob Fleisher aforesaid and do know that he is extremely poor and that the matters pated in the foregoing deposition are all strictly true and in testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribe my name in the township of Bern in the County of Berk and state of Penn. April 9th 1832. John Sherrer J:P:

State of Pennsylvania
Berks County John Addams Potentiary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Berks do certify that John Sherrer Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit of Jonathan Tobias and the certificate in the case of Jacob Fleisher was made was at the time of takeing & signing the said affidavit and certificate aforesaid a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Berks duly commissioned and authorized to administer Oaths, and I do further certify that the signature purported to be John Sherrer Esq are all true and genuine signatures and in Testimony whereof I have hereunto affix the Seal of Said Court and subscribed my name 
& quality at Reading in the County of Berkshire April 10th 1832.
John Q Addams Pot.
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[Start of Typewritten part] Jacob Fleisher
S.2214

The date and play of birth and the names of parents of Jacob Fleisher are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.

He entered the service in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, sometime in 1782, served as a marine under Captain John Joiner on board the ship "South Carolina", Commodore Gillon, was taken prisoner when the ship was captured by three British Frigates, carried to New York and confined in the prison ship "Old Jersey", then lying in the North River, length of captivity, eleven months. 

[Start handwritten note on left side of page] Did not use June 1780 as ship did not go into service until 1781. See Navy Look [end of handwritten note on left side of page]
[Start handwritten note on right side of page] Verified ship, Capt & Commodore also capture in Navy Look [end of handwritten note on right side of page]

He was allowed pension on his application executed June 13, 1818, at which time he was aged fifty-seven years and resided in Borne Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was stated that he was a German school master.
Children are referred to: their names and the name of their mother are not shown.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Jacob Fleisher (S.2214), you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city and cite the following data:
Jacob Fleisher, Certificate No.17, rate $40 per annum, Act of June 7, 1832, Pennsylvania Agency. 
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator. [end of typewritten part]

[Start of handwritten note from bottom of the page] to Le was dropped in 1820 & restored in 1832, Mrs. F. said not to use commencement of pension or date of issuance of cert. in advising him to apply to C. Y. [end of handwritten note from bottom of the page]
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                                Invalid
Navy

file #: 2214
Jacob Fleisher
Marine - PerMan 

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act: June 7, 1832
Index:--- Vol. 6, page 19 

1933 Oct 18- hit to 
Benj or Benny H Fleisher
see letter in case
Adam Fleisher-
Q.18403     initialed EEL
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Left Page 
see letter 5th Jan 1830 to Hon N A ???berg

Right Page
6390
Pennsylvania
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Jacob Fleisher
Burn Buch in the state of Pennsylvania who was the historian on board the ship Caroline commanded by  Capt Loriner  -------- (blacked out) for the term of 1 year            NAVY

 Inscribed in the roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of "8" dollar per month to commence on the 13th of June 1818

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certificate of pension issued the 3rd of July 1819 and sent to Hon J Heister A of (illegible) 

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arrears to 4th of Sept 1811 2nd      22/30
                                                             
                                                    -21.81

semi anl. alt' cc ending 4 dollar 1819
                                                    -48.00
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                                                    $69.86

Revolutionary Claim 
act: 18th March, 1818
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[Faded Handwritten] Jacob Fleisher

[Start of Printed Type] Payable semi-annually---the first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of [handwritten] March - next, [end of printed type]

[Start of Handwritten] at the Bank U.S. 
Philadelphia
[underlined] Penn [end of handwritten]

Recorded [written on the above of the page]

file into hafen. [written upside down on the previous page]
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, Jacob Fleisher late a Mariner in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the 13th day of June on thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Third day of February one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Mr. Muhlenberg, 
Statement relation to Fox, Fleisher, Spatz & Gramlin
Stories of the revolution
Apl 3, 1832

Hon. The Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. House of Reps. (text written upside down)
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Washington Apr 3 1832
To the Hon [Honorable] Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
Sir.
I yesterday offered a resolution in ^the^ House, instructing (word crossed out) the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions to enquire into the expediency of restoring the names of John Fox, Jacob Fleisher, Michael Spatz and Adam Gramling to the pension roll.  I take the liberty of handing you some papers relating to the three first mentioned cases and of submitting a few remarks.
The petitions handed me from Fox & Fleisher only, but by referring to them and the annexed depositions, it will immediately be perceived that the cases stand on the same footing & are exactly similar.  Spatz was on the Pension List of 1818 as well as Fox & Fleisher.
I have known these three men personally about 25 years. They are admitted by all who know them, to be honest & worthy men, of the strictest veracity, whose assertion would be admitted without an oath.  It is a matter of notoriety among the old people of the place where they reside that their statements as to services & sufferings are correct.
Fox and Fleisher are in very reduced circumstances, poverty stricken, as well as aged & infirm. The latter particularly has been contracted in his limbs by rheumatism & confined to his bed & room for many years, in consequence, it is supposed, of the hardships he induced on the Jersey Prison ship. He is maintained by poor relatives. Spatz has a house and lot which may be worth about $500 in which he resides. He gets along with great difficulty, principally thro' the assistance of his wife, who is such by a second marriage
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& being somewhat younger than himself, is his chief support at this time but may not be so much longer.  All three were in the service more than a year & never received one ceny of pay. The State of South Carolina, to whom the Frigate of that name on which they served as marines, belonged, entrusted their pay, after the close of the war to Commodore Gillon, he however retained the money & never paid his men. Since then frauds were committed by forged papers in some instances & the State in consequence refused making payments for some time, without however denying the justice of the claims when
properly substantiated. Several attempts to get their pay have proved fruitless & been evaded under some pretext or other. Upon lately receiving the claim in behalf of these unfortunate men I am told by the Comptroller of the State that "the Bill-Book of that Ship has been lost having been intrusted  [sic] to a Committee of the Legislature who did not return it & that this difficulty has suspended all proceedings in cases of this kind, that there are however, hopes of recovering it". If I am correctly informed these men were struck from the pension-roll because they were considered as not belonging to the Continental Establishment, but as State Troops - the equiping [?] of the South Carolina being however recommended & approved of by Congress. The case of Gramling is a peculiarly hard one. He was stricken from the pension-roll because he did not file a schedule of his property: He owns a small mountain farm worth perhaps at the most amount $500, a single field of which, say 10 or 12 acres, can be cultivated & which yields very little.  The remainder is woodland & unproductive being too far
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from the market for a sale with any advantage. He is near 80 years' of age & his wife not much younger. He has
two children, a son who is deaf & dumb, & a daughter who is paralitic [sic] & entirely helpless. He is really poor, unfortunate & deserving of assistance. Being, exclusive of what is called his property, entitled to a pension I will hope that it may no longer be withheld. I have stated what I know to be facts from my own personal knowledge, respecting all the men above mention & I earnestly join in their prayer that speedy justice may be done them as they are tottering on the verge of the grave & must soon go hence & trouble no more. Their papers are on file in the Pension Office. If others should be required [smugged] shall endeavor to procure them with the least possible delay.
I am
Very respectfully
Your Obt Sevt
[             ]Muhlenberg
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To the Honourable the Comitte on Pensions of the United States in Congress Assembled
The Petition of Jacob Fleisher a Resident Citizen of the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania Respectfully Sheweth
That he was by the Act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 placed On the Pension List Roll at the rate of Eight Dollars for a Month as will fully appear by his pension certificate herewith presented and that his Name has since been stricken from said Pension List Roll he now humbly comes before his Country for a fair and impartial investigation of his Enlistment as a Marine in the Revolutionary War; that he was fully determined to take an active part in achieving the Liberties and privileges which we now enjoy and on a certain day in the Month of June of the year 1780 your petitioner meet with an Officer in a public House in Reading County & state aforesaid who asked your petitioner if he would Enlist to him and said Officer said his name was Scull, that he was Enlisting men for the Service of the United States as Marines to fight against both the Common Enemy.  I then said I was ready and we both appeared before a certain Mr. Reeser then a Justice of the Peace in and for Berks County who Administered to your petitioner the usual Oath and I received the bounty money in the Name of the United States after remaining in Reading some time. We Enlist about Seventy men. We were then taken to Wilmington were we went on board a Frigate called the South Carolina and wen on our own duty as Marines. Outside the Capes we were taken by three British Frigates who made us all Prisoners of War, conveyed us to New York, and Confined us closely in the Jersey Prison Ship then laying in North River were we had a brutal Hessian & Brittish guard who treated us with savage brutality in this deplorable situation we remained about eleven Months [illegible] of war during this period many Died of starvation.
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of starvation and cold some with frozen limbs. The number of Prisoners amounted to about 1400 on the Prison Ship out of the seventy men which was of our crew only seven Returned home and only three thereof [illegible] Survive Myself Michael Spatz and John Fles. I have now stated these facts as the really are and humbly define that the case may be heard by your honourable bodies: I am now Advanced to nearly seventy years of Ages and have not been able during Thirty years time to earn by manual Labour a Single cent, poor and infirm together with a weakness of my back and entirely incapable of doing any work in Order to Obtain a living under these circumstances. Should  your honorable bodies consider my claim such he then Humbly pray that an act be passed for his relief authorizing the Secretary of the War to restore his name to the Pension List
in duty bound your petitioner prays.
Jacob Fleisher
Pennsylvania Berks County  On this 27th day of November One Thousand eight hundred and twenty nine before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the Said County of Berks personally appeared Jacob Fleisher above Named and Say that the matters stated in his petition are true to the best of his knowledge and belief & that Gillon L. Scull and John Joiner were the officers. Jacob Fleischer
Sworn and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me. Christ. Sherrer
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I Christopher Sherrer a Justice of the Peace in and for Berks County do hereby Certify that I am acquainted with Jacob Fleisher who has Subscribed his name to the foregoing affidavit. That he is a credible person and in whom full faith and credit are due and of Right ought to be given as Such I do know him many years and I do further Certify that his Testimony will be taken in any Court of Justice
In Witness whereof I have hereunto Subscribe my name the day & year aforesaid
[Signed] Christopher Sherrer 

Pennsylvania
Berks County SS
On this 27th day of November AD 1829 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for Berks County personally appeared John Fox and Michael [double underlined] Spatz who being Severally Sworn in due form of Law who on their Solemn Oaths deposes and Says that Jacob Fleisher and the deponents Michael Spatz and John Fox had each and every one had duly Enlisted for the purpose of entering into the Service of the United States. on the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary [inserted] War against the Common Enemey [enemy] and that the Said Scale had Declarese [Declares] that he Enlisted men to Serve the United States as Marines on the Continental Establishment against the Common Enemey [Enemy] for and during the war and that Jacob Fleisher aforesaid and the deponents John Fox and Michael Spatz were each and every of them Confined on the Jersey Prison Ship for the Term of Eleven Months & that the Said Ship was then Lying in North River in the State of New York and that the Officers of the Ship called South Carolina was Comanded [commanded] by a certain Gillon and Scull and John Joiner and that the matter Tis forth in the petition of Jacob Fleisher are true to the best of their knowledge and belief
Sworn and Subscribed
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Sworn and Subscribed the day and year- aforesaid before me
[Signed] Chritopher Sherrer
Michael [inserted] his mark X Spatz
John [inserted] his mark X Fox

I Christopher Sherrer a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Berks hereby Certify that I am acquainted with the deponents John Fox & Michael Spatz the [they] are credible persons to me known as Such many years. And I do further Certify that their Testimony will be taken in any Court of Justice.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto Subscribe my name the day & year aforesaid
[Signed] Christopher Sherrer

Pennsylvania
Berks County SS   P Jacob Sallade
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the Said County hereby certify that Christopher Sherrer Esquire before whom the affidavits of John Fox and Jacob Fleisher and Michael Spatz was taken was and is a Justice of the Peace in and for Berks County duly authorised [authorized] and Commissioned to administer Oaths and the Signatures purporting to be his Name are true & genuine Signatures
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affisced [affixed] the Seal of our Said Court and Subscribed my hand this 28th of November AD 1829
[Signed] Jac. Sallade Prothonotary
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October 18, 1933
BA/EEL
Adam Flesher-S.18403
Jacob Fleisher-S.3214

Mr. Benjamin H. Flesher
616 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of soldiers with surname Flesher, particularly Henry.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained
from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land
based upon military service of soldiers of that war.
A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made in your behalf and no record found of such claims having been made on account of the services of a Henry Flesher. The records of
only two soldiers, under any spelling of that surname. have been found, those of Adam Flesher and Jacob Fleisher. They are given below
as found in the respective claims for pension based upon service in the
Revolutionary War.

Adem Flesher
S.18403
Adam Flesher was born July 29, 1764, place not stated.
Prior to October, 1781, he was residing with his father at the
latter's settlement in Lewis County. Virginia, where Weston was later
located. In October, 1781. soldier went with his father and family
to Buchanan's Fort, commended by one Pringle, rank not shown. in what
was later Lewis County. Virginia, and in that same fall, Adam Flesher
was out scouting against the Indians for five days: he remained in
the fort during the winter and in the spring of 1782, was out on two
tours of ten days each, against the Indians: after which they moved
to Richard's Fort on West Fork; soldier guarded the people from the
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first to the last named fort for four days:  Adam Flesher was also out
in 1782 for two weeks in pursuit of the Indians under Captain George
Jackson: he continued to live at Richard's Fort until March,1784,
and during that time, he went out during the summer and fall of each
year for five or six days at a time, about one month in all. no names
of officers given:
He also served in 1788, 1791 and 1792 or 1793, as a ranger and
spy under Lieutenant John Pierce Duvall, Captains Clark or Coburn,
and William Lowther: he also served as sergeant and was stationed at
Flesher's Upper Station in Harrison County, Virginia, which was later
Weston, Lewis County, that state, under Colonel william Lowther.
He was allowed pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War under Certificate No. 23022, issued October 26,1833, but
upon a re-examination of his claim in 1834 by the United States District Attorney, it was found that he did not serve six months during the Revolution, in a regularly organized military corps as required by the pension laws his service on the frontiers subsequent to the Revolution, was not provided for in the act under which he applied for pension, consequently his name was dropped from the rolls on March 18, 1835.
Adam Flesher died November 4, 1854, in Lewis County. Virginia. It was stated that he was for many years a Justice of the Peace for said Lewis County and for more than fifty years was a minister of the Gospel, the particular denomination not shown.
The soldier married February 22, 1792, in Harrison County. Virginia, Elisabeth Stotts or Staats, who was born October 12, 1776, place not stated. There are no data as to children. Elizabeth Flesher was allowed bounty land on her application
executed June 9, 1856, at which time she was a resident of Lewis County, Virginia. The bounty land was allowed for the frontier service, noted above, of her husband, Adam Flesher.
For information in regard to the location of the land, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and cite the number of the warrant, 47338, for 160 acres of bounty land, issued under the act of March 3, 1855.

Dictated by M.M.H.F (noted in handwriting in the margins)
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The National Archives Form VAM-51 12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME: Fleetwood, Johnson
GRADE: Private
LINE: Delaware
WARRENT NUMBER S10764 and 14139
ACREAGE: 100
ISSUED: October 15, 1795 to Abigail Fleetwood, Adm
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subse-
quent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Fleetwood, Thomas
GRADE Private
LINE Cranes Continental Artillery (Massachusetts)
WARRANT NUMBER 4194
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Oct. 26,1795 to Edward Stowe -
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.