Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,718, Abraham Horn, Penn.
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Penn.

Horn, Abraham

S 39,718
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Notif. sent [‘app’ is crossed out]
Pens at Philadelphia, Pa.——— on the 2 of __ 1820

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3475.
Pennsylvania.

Abraham Horn, 4[?]
Capt Craig Sergeant.
Pennsylvania line one year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 30th of March 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th of Oct 1818 and sent to John Cooper Esq Easton, Pa

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818. 5 mos. 2/31. 4/30.                 
                                                                    41.58
 Semi-and. All’ce ending 4th Mar 1819.  48.00
                                                                  _______
                                                                $: 89.58

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

continued
Easton Northamp___
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Pennsylvania
Northampton County to wit

I Abraham Horn, now a resident of the borough of Easton in the County of Northampton and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, upon my Solemn Oath Declare that I was a sergeant in the War of the Revolution from - December One thousand seven hundred and seventy five until in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy seven, I listed under then Captain Thomas Craig Second Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line and in that company and under that Captain marched to Canada, said Regiment was then commanded by Colonel  William Allen. The June One Maryland seven hundred and Seventy is by Colonel St. Clair at three Rivers, and in the fall of the said last mentioned year by Colonel Marcus Craig in what was then called the year service; that I was discharged sometime in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven at Philadelphia, after which having near the frontiers of this county, I entered the Militia Service ___ as a Sub altern officer, then as Captain in which Capacity remained  during the whole revolutionary War, on the said Frontier against the Indians when ordered against them; That by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I need assistance from by Country for Support.

  Abram Horn

Sworn & Subscribed this thirtieth- day of March 1818 Before me 
Jno. Cooper a Judge C. C. P NorthamptonCounty-

Pennsylvania
Northampton County Ss

Before me John Cooper Esq one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Northampton in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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-appearedFrederick Barthold & Nicholas Troxel- and being duly sworn according to law, on their oath 7 depose and say that they are well acquainted with Abraham Horn by whom the foregoing Declaration is made, and with his circumstances as Stated by him, and Verily believes his Declaration to be correct & true.

 Fred Barthold
Nicholas Troxel [?]

Sworn & Subscribed this thirty first-day of March
Anna Dominin 1818~ before me
Jno Cooper

  I John Cooper, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Northampton and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do certify to the Secretary of War of the United States, that it appears, to my satisfaction that the above named Abraham Horn served in the revolutionary war against the Common Enemy, and that the above Declaration of the said Abraham Horn and deposition of Fred.k Barthold & Nicholas Troxel- in the testimony in the case and the proceeding there is as exhibited to me; From which I am of opinion that the applicant for a Pension said Abraham Horn comes within the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War.” Witness my hand and Seal this thirty first- day of March- in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

  Jno. Cooper
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Abraham Horn

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Cert ‘ 8 Act 1818.

Notify sent to A. Horn Phila
20 pps  1820


Continued
3475
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Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Ss

  On this Twenty first day of August A. D. 1820 personally appeared in open court viz- the District Court of United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, being a Court of Record having a Seal, prothonatary and common law jurisdiction Abraham Horn aged Sixty years resident in the city of Philadelphia in said Pennsylvania who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his Oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: viz, that he belonged to the 2nd regiment of Pennsylvania, of the Pennsylvania Line in the northern service- in Captain Thomas Craigs company- that his certificate is numbered 3475- and I Abraham Horn do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale  or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part, thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled, “ An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War”, passed on the 18th day of March 1818: and that I have not,, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed.
                           Abm Horn

  Sworn and declared on the 21st day of August AD : 18820 in Open Court
D. Caldwell Clk: Dist: C

Schedule.

And I do also declare that I have no property either real personal or mixed- of any. Description whatever except a few necessary article of wearing apparel- that I board out and have no family- that from age and infirmity I am unable to do but very little labor- and depend almost entirely upon my pension for support- 
Sworn to set Supra-
D. Caldwell- Clk: Dist: C}
                                            Abm Horn
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I, D. Caldwell clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania do hereby Certify that the foregoing Oath is truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further Certify, that it is the Opinion of the said Court that the Applicant has no property whereof to form a Schedule-
  In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto Set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this twenty Second Day of August A. D 1820 and in the forty fifth year of the Independence of the said United States.

 D. Caldwell- Clk Dis U.S.
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December 27, 1909.                            xxxxxxxxxxxxx

BA-J/ADY/CC
Abraham Horn
S.39718

Mrs. Thomas R. Jones
23320 Clermont Street,
Denver, Colorado.

Dear Madam:

  Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Abraham Horn of Pennsylvania.
  
  The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S.39718, based upon service of Abraham Horn in the Revolutionary War.

  The date and place of birth and names of the parents of Abraham Horn are not shown.

  Abraham Horn enlisted, place not stated, in December, 1775, and served as sergeant in Captain Thomas Craig’s company, Colonels William Allen’s and St. Clair’s Pennsylvania regiments to the spring of 1777. He served subsequently as Captain in the Pennsylvania militia on the frontiers against the Indians at various times to the close of the Revolutionary War.

  He was allowed pension on his application executed march 30, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, aged sixty years.

  It is not stated whether soldier was ever married. There are no family data.

  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
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Abraham Horn you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city and cite the following data:

Abraham Horn
Certificate #3475
Issued October 8, 1818
Rate $8.00 per month
Commenced March 30, 1818
Act of March 18, 1818
Pennsylvania Agency.

  Very truly yours

  A. D. HILLER
  Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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Edward T.
Penna.

39718
INVALID.
Rely

File No. 39,718
Abraham Horn
Serg Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index:— Vol. 3, Page 231

(Arrangement of 1870)

Feby. 4/98 To
Horn- Reading

July 1498
E A Weaver [?]
Phila Pa
1914 Feb. 28, Hist to James B. Laud letter in S. 40816 Thomas Craig
Dec. 13. Hist to Mrs. F. W. Matteson
Day:
Dec 27- Hist to Thomas R Jones cc
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Rec’d 18 Sep 1820
Mr Edward’s
Mail 16 SEP

G. C, Calhoun Esq
Secretary at War
City of Washington
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Philada. 15th Sept. 1820

Sir

I wish you would have the goodness to
to send me my certificate on the necessary
papers that I may draw my pension ___
___ as a Revolutionary Soldier

I wish you knew my situation; I think
you would not hesitate one moment in
sending it to me. I therefore beseech you to 
think of me. 

Please send it to the S, W Corner of 4 & 
South Sts

J. C. Calhoun Esq.} Yours Very Respectfully
[signed] Abrm. Horn
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Petition of Abraham
Horn to Judge Cooper

Presented
March 30th 1818
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To the Honorable John Cooper, one of the Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas of the County of Northampton
The Petition of Abraham Horn of the borough of Easton
in the County of Northampton,
Humbly Sheweth
That by an 
Act of Congress passed at the Session of 1817, 1818 entitled
"An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in
the revolutionary War," it is enacted (interalia) that
Sergeants and private Soldiers who served in the
War of the revolution until the end therof or for 
the Term of nine months or longer at any period
of the War on the Continental establishment may
be placed on the Pension list of the United States upon
his making a Declaration under his oath before
a Judge of any Court of Record within the State  &
County in which he resides, that if he belonged to
the Army to set forth the company, regiment
and line to which he belonged and the time he
entered the Service and the time and manner
of leaving the Service.

Your petition therefore Prays that you will admit
him to make the necessary Declaration and the other evidence
and proof in my power to obtain, in order, if the same be
satisfactory to you that you may Certify and transmit
the said Testimony and your proceedings thereof to
the Testimony of War according to the true intent &
meaning of the said Act.

And as in duty bound 
will ever pray
your Petitioner
[signed] Abrm. Horn
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Declaration of
Abraham Horn
an applicant for a
Pension
(March 30th 1818]) 

Admitted [written diagonally across text]
delayed unit a continuation by
competent authority be given to
the word  "Continental Establishment"
as used in the law of
the 18 March 1818.
JB
Apr 6 1118.
Pennsylvania
Abraham Horn,
Sergeant, 
Army of the U.S.
At $8 per mo: con. 30 March 1878
Certifies 8 April 1878 &
send to Hon: Judge Cooper,
Borough of Easton, Northampton Co, Pa:
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Pennsylvania
[Illegible] Courts Ss
I Henry Spering Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Northampton
in Pennsylvania, Certify that John Cooper Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings [Illegible] is, and their was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto put
my name and fixed the Seal of the said County at Easton, the thirty first day of March-in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Commonwealth the forty second
H Spering
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527 WASHINGTON ST.,
READING, PA. 

Jan. 26, 1989

Dear Sir,
     I am desirous of securing a copy of the application for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier, of my ancestor,  Abraham Horn, of Easton,  Penna.   He served in the war of the Rev., and the war of 1812, and was borne on the pension roll until his death
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in 1826.  Any information concerning him wh [which?]  you may give me, I shall greatly value.

     Sincerely Yours,
     Edward T. Horn


[two black stamp marks]
[rectangular stamp]
OLD WAR & NAVY 
JAN 31 1898
FILES.
[round stamp]
PENSION 
U JAN 28 (?) 1898 S
OFFICE
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Pennsylvania Society
of
Sons of the Revolution
Office of Secretary
Address
Lock Box 713
Philadelphia, 11 June 1898

[Stamp]
OLD WAR & NAVY 
JUN 15 1898

Dear Sir,
Will you kindly furnish me with a certificate
of service of Abraham Horn a pensioner of the Revolutionary war from Penna
I desire this for literary work I am compiling
Very Truly
E. A. Weaver
Secy

[Round Stamp]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
JUN 13 1898
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[Time Stamp]
RECEIVED 
NOV 30 1937
SUB-DIV
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National Society United States Daughters of 1812
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1461 RHODE ISLAND AVE. N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C.
PRESIDENT NATIONAL MRS. JOHN F. WEINMANN, 2214 BATTERY STREET, LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
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STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
PRESIDENT:  MRS. PERCY YOUNG SCHELLY
1020 SOUTH 60TH STREET, PHILADELPHIA

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DATE Nov 27th, 1937

Veteran's Administration
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

John Moore is said to have given service as a drummer. August 1813 -- in the company of Captain John Fisher, 135th regt., Penna
Militia, in United States service - Did he receive a land grant or his Widow Nancy receive a land grant?


Yours truly
Mrs. F.W.) Mary Matteson 
Register Pa. 1812 Society

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MRS. F. W. MATTESON
WAGONTOWN, CHESTER COUNTY, PA.
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National Society United States Daughters of 1812
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1461 RHODE ISLAND AVE. N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C.
PRESIDENT NATIONAL MRS. JOHN F. WEINMANN, 2214 BATTERY STREET, LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
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STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
PRESIDENT:  MRS. PERCY YOUNG SCHELLY
1020 SOUTH 60TH STREET, PHILADELPHIA

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DATE Nov 27th, 1937

Veteran's Administration

Dear Sir:

Be kind enough to send me the Revolutionary service of one Abraham Horn – born 1756 died 1826 - said to have been a sergeant in Capt Thomas Gray's Company Pa. Volunteer Rifle Men,
Revolutionary War.  also cited as Soldier War 1812 – Widow was named Losanna Hay --

Yours truly
Mrs. F.W.) Mary Matteson 
Register Pa. 1812 Society

[A stamp]
MRS. F. W. MATTESON
WAGONTOWN, CHESTER COUNTY, PA.
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National Society United States Daughters of 1812NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1461 RHODE ISLAND AVE. N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C.
BUSINESS HEADQUARTERS
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT NATIONAL
MRS. ROBERT J. JOHNSTON, HUMBOLDT. IOWA
SERVICE BLANK

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DATE Nov 27th, 1937

The Adjutant General,
War Department, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SIR: 

Ms. Frank T. Bachman, a resident of State of Penna applied for membership in this Society on
Oct 21, 1937 alleging that she is the lineal descendant of Abraham Horn who is believed to have entered the services of the United States from the State of Penna and to have served as a Sergeant in Capt. Thomas Gray's Co. Pa Regiment, [War of 1812 crossed out] Revolution.  

Her Application for membership is now pending. 

For the purpose of enabling this Society to decide as to the eligibility or non-eligibility of the
applicant for admission, it is requested that the undersigned, who is the chief officer of that
branch of the Society in which the application is to be voted upon or otherwise decided, be
furnished with the military history of the soldier mentioned.

Signature      Mary Matteson
Official Title  Registrar Penna 1812 Society
Address Wagontown Chester Co. Pa

Return to Address
MRS. F. W. MATTESON
WAGONTOWN, CHESTER COUNTY, PA.
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MRS. THOMAS R. JONES
2320 CLERMONT STREET
DENVER, COLORADO

December 7, 1939.

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Hiller:

Again I thank you for your letter of October 24th with data on John Horn 72961 - 1200 - 55, and Frederick Horn, W. 4994, which I find of much value; They confirm my belief that John S. Horne of Xenia, Ohio, was my grandmother's father and that Frederick Horn, S. 2321, who died in Hamilton county, Ohio, was her grandfather

From Easton, Pennsylvania record -- I have wondered if the John Horn who married Elizabeth Leidy was the father of my grandmother -- which would give me the name of my grandmother's mother. Your report determines for me that this couple were not her parents, since they died in New York state.

I have reason to believe that my Frederick Horn and Abraham Horn were brothers. Both enlisted at Easton, Pennsylvania, within three days of one another.  Would it be too much trouble to see if Abraham Horn gave any data regarding his place of birth, parents, or any family information?  Please do not bother to copy his military record; that appears in the Pennsylvania archives; but if any family data are given, they would a ply also to Frederick, if I can prove the relationship.

Your reports have been of great help to me and I want you to know how greatly I a preciate the pains you have taken to assist me.

With very kind wishes, I am
Yours very truly,
Mrs. T. R. Jones

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December 13, 1937.
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BA-J/ady
Abraham Horn
S. 39718

Mrs. F. W. Matteson
Wagontown
Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letters relative to
Abraham Horn a soldier of the Revolutionary War
and War of 1812, and John Moore, a soldier of the War of 1812, whose widow was Nancy. 

The War of 1812 pension records of this office fail to show that a claim for pension was ever made on account of the services of Abraham Horn, all spellings of the names searched, in that
war.

As a means of identifying the particular record
of John Moore in whom you are interested, should it be on file, as much as possible of the following data are essential: approximate dates of birth and death and places of residence at enlistment and after service.

The record of the only Abraham Horn that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this
office is furnished you herein as found in the
papers on file in pension claim, S.39718, based upon his military service in that war.

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Abraham Horn are not shown.

Abraham Horn enlisted, place not stated, in
December 1775 and served as sergeant in Captain Thomas Craig's Company, Colonels William Allen's and St. Clair's Pennsylvania Regiments to the spring of 1777.  He served subsequently as Captain in the Pennsylvania
Militia on the frontiers against the Indians at
various times to the close of the Revolutionary War.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
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March 30, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. In
August 1820 he was a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and aged sixty years.

It is not stated whether soldier was ever
married. There are no family data.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator


[A handwritten addendum]
Date of Soldier's death not on
A.B.
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Sur. File No. 39,718.  Abraham Horn enlisted in December 1775, and served as a Sergeant under Captain Thomas Craig, Colonels William Allen and St. Clair, in the 2d Pennsylvania battalion, in Canada, at Three Rivers and on the Indian frontier until discharged in the spring of 1777, at Philadelphia.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 30, 1818, while a resident of the borough of Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania:  in 1820, he was sixty years of age,
and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
There is no family data on file.

Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.

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