Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,152, for Baltzer Meese, Pennsylvania
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Penn. Meese, Baltzer   S.40152
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0458
Pennyslvania
Baltzer, Meese
of Sommerset City in the state of Penna who was a private in the regiment commanded by Capt. Stoy for the Penna line for the term of four years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27th of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th of Mar 1819 and sent to Wm G. Elder Esq Berlin, Pa

Arrears to 4th of [illegible] 1818, 9 mo 9/31  
Semi-anl. All'ce ending 4th Sept. 1819 
74.32
48______
$122.32

Deed
Letter to F. M. Kimmel 18 Oct. 1841.
Paid at the Treasury under the  Act of the C. April 1838 from 4 March to 15 May 1838. Agt
Modified 28 Dec 1841.
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Baltzer, Meese
Private
2 o. Regt. Pennsylvania
1776 until 1781
Admitted
Service admitted 
The Judge certife
[illegible] of indigent
circumstances 
wasting---
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Somerset County
Pennsylvania
Be it remembered that on the 27th day of May 1818 before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Somerset personally appeared Baltzer Meese aged 58 years resident of Somerset County in the Commonwealth aforesaid and has for 17 years who being duly sworn according to the law doth on [illegible]th  make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension allowed by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 that he enlisted into the service of the United States under Capt. John Stoy of the Second Regiment of the Pennsylvania line. Continued al the establishment that he continued to serve the Corps from the year 1776 until the year 1781.  When he was honorably discharged at Trenton in the State of New Jersey. That he lost his discharge by a certain James Neil to whom Ohio declarant gave said charge for safe keeping. That he was in the battles of Brandywine Germantown Block house at the North River Monmouth Meeting house and at the skirmish at the White Horse and that he has no pension allowed him.
Heretofore by the United States to his
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his knowledge and if he has he doth hereby for and in consideration of the pension allowed him by the act of Congress above mentioned fully and entirely relinquish the same unto the United States. That from his reduced circumstances in life he needs  the assistance of his Commanders
for support. 
Worn and subscribed before me the day and year aforementioned.
Baltzer
Robert Wilson
I Robert Philson Judge of the Court of Common pleas in and for the Somerset County in the Commonwealth aforesaid do certify unto the honourable the Secretary at was that it appears to  my satisfaction that the above named Baltzer Meese did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy for the term of nine months on the Continental establishment and do transmit the proceeding as required by the Act of Congress.  

Said Baltzer, Meese is in indigent} Robert 
                                                       Philson
Circumstances
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Somerset County 
In Testimony that Robert Philson Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration was made is an acting Judge of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for Somerset County duly commissioned & Sworn 
I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 18th day June 1818.
Alexander Ogle J and
Recorder
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Certified Copy of the 
Declaration & Pension
Certificate of 
Baltzer, Meese
8458
Lom & boy
2/March 19
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Pennsylvania
Somerset County SS:
On the 30th day of August
personally appeared Baltzer, Meese in open 
Court being a court of record to wit, a court of 
Common pleas in and for Somerset County aged sixty two years Resident in the said County of Somerset who first being duly sworn 
according to law doth on this oath declare
that he served in the second Regiment in
Captain Stoys Company in the Pennsylvania line, and the date of the original declaration
was the twenty second day of May 1818 and
the certificate for the pension no. 8458. And
I do solemnly swear that I was a Resident 
Citizen of the United States on the 13th day
of March, 1818 and that I have not since
that time by gift sale or in any manner
Disposed of my property or any part there of
with intent thereby so do 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 security Contracts of debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed and I am a Miller by trade by from my advanced age am not able to pursue my occupation.  I have sixty two years in no person living with  me but my wife aged sixty two years.
Sworn to the same day and year first before written. 
Baltzer Meese
Alex Ogle Jr. Prothonotary
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I Alexander Ogle and Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Somerset County 
do Certify that the foregoing oath and schedule hereto annexed are duly Copied from the record of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the latest announcement in value of the property as is biled in the aforesaid schedule  is fifty two dollars 
and seventy five cents In the Testimony whereof 
I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 29th day of August 1820
Somerset County  Pa
Alex Ogle Jr
Prothonotary
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This is a schedule of the property of Baltzer Meese in Elk Lick Township Somerset County Pennsylvania

List of property
1 Stove and pipe    $14..00
1 Buraugh                   4..50
1 Pare of Shocelz        2..00
1 Looking glass           1..00
1 Spinning Wheel       3..00
1 Table                        7..00
1 T and. Billy               " ..50
1 Dutch oven               "..25
2 Tin Buckets                "..75
1 Tea Kettle                 1..00
1 Frying pan                "..50
Other Kitchen furniture 
to the account of }       10..00
1 Grindstone                 "..75
The half of  a spinning 
machine }                        3..00
1 Copper kettle                5..00
8 Chires                           3..00
1 Dung Fork                     "..50   
 1 {illegible]                      2..00
                                       $52.75
We the undernamed appraisers do certify that we have appraised all the property of Baltzer Meese as far as we know to the best of our understanding this 24th day of August 1820
[illegible] and hands and seals
David Cryder    seal
Peter Markly    seal

I certify this to be the correct list of my estate 
Baltzer Meese
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March 25,1938  
  BA-J/MOS
Baltzer Meese
                                                                                   
Miss Myrtle E. Weniger
1010 North 29th Street
Corvallis, Oregon

Dear Madam;
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Baltzer Meese who served in the Revolutionary War and information relative to his son, George Meese, who may have served in the War of 1812.

The date who follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.40152, based upon the military service of Baltzer Meese. 

The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.

He enlisted in 1776, place not stated, and served until 1781 as private in Captain John Stoy's company in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment and was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Blockhouse on the North River, Monmouth and White Horse.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 27, 1818, at which time he was fifty-eight years of age and was living in Somerset County, Pennyslvania.

He was living in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in 1820 and then stated that his wife, name not given was sixty-two years of age. There are no further data relative to soldier's family.

Batlzer Meese died May 15, 1838.

The War of 1812 records of this office fail to afford any information relative to pension having been claimed on account of the service of a George Meese.

Very truly yours,
A.D. Miller
Executive Assistance
to the Administrator
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40,152
INVALID
Aeiy
File No.  40.152
Batlzer Meese
Pri  [illegible]  [illegible]

Act: 18th March 18"
Index:---Vol 3, Page 331
Arrangement of 1870.
1923 July 6 Hist. to L.M. Sammin   AW
1938  Mar. 25 hist. to Miss Myrtle E. Weinger MCS
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Sommerset Oct 4th 1841
J L Edwards
Sir
There was a small balance due of the pension of Batlzer Meese a pensioner of the US at the time of his death.  And Mr. Ogle our then member in Congress took the necessary steps to obtain a warrant  receiver this money at Phila.  He took the papers with him the last time he went to Washington City but became ill immorality after he arrived there and it's presumed that he was unable to attend to the matter.  After his return to this place he was unable to inform any persons were the papers were left or what was done with these.  Be  kind enough to inform me by return of mail written the papers were by left.  Let your office together with the testimony of his death. And if there warrant to receive the balance is made out and when it is written amongst Mr. Oyle's popessison or not.
Very respectfully yours 
FM Kimmel for George Meese
one of the legal representatives
7 Dec.
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
Dec. 18, 1841
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April 1838, entitled  "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, " The adm or of Baltzer Meese dec... a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency at the rate of Eight Dollars and       Cents per month under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department form the 4th of March to the 15th May 1838.
Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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29 cent postage stamped & added env rcvd L.W.Z.

Jefferson, Iowa
May 17, 1923

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-

    I am writing you concerning my great great grandfather Baltzer Meese. He was a soldier of the Revolution and I believe fought under Washington.

    I thought through you I might be able to learn more about his life.  He came from England resettled in eastern Penn.  After the war he moved to a place at Salisbury.  He had a small drug store.  In his last year he moved to a place near Somerset, where he died in 1838 aged 82 years.  I would like to know if his wife was Elizabeth or Nancy Baker by name, and also if she was a sister of Col. Henry Baker.  Have you any record of where Baltzer Meese was born.  We are not certain about his birthplace.  We know he came from England, but do not know where he was born.  I would be very grateful for any information you can give me about both men and Baltzer Meese's wife.  I thank you.

                      Respectfully, Mrs. Lynnie Sammin
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Date: March 11, 1938

From:   Miss Myrtle E. Weniger
            1010 North 29th Street
             Corvallis, Oregon

Date:  March 3, 1938

names of children of Baltzer Meese, who was pensioned in 1819.

Re: The only Baltzer Meese for whom we have a pension claim (SC-143,824) was born in 1831 and served during the Civil War.

Respectfully referred to:

Revolutionary and 1812 Wars section Veteran's Administration, Washington, D. C.

                         Nelson Vance Russel
                         Chief, Division of Reference

(Date Stamp)

RECEIVED
MAR 12 1936
MAIL (??) DIV
VETR (??)
(??)  26
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(routing stamp and date stamp)

Routed to:                 Date:
No C#3/10  Col OK   Apr 8, 1936
S.C. 143824
3/9/38 CR


1010 N. 29th Street
Corvallis, Oregon
March 3, 1938

Pension Commissioner,
Veterans Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Dear sir -

    Miss Jessica C. Ferguson, Genealogist, of the State Library and Museum of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has referred me to you, with the suggestion that you may be able to inform me as to the name of the children of Baltzer Meese.  I quote form her letter -

"Baltzer Meese secured a pension of $96.00 a year March 27, 1819.  It was to date from Mrch 27, 1818.  The age given was 74 years, residence Somerset County, Pennsylvania.  This was a federal census and the original application in the office of the Pension Commissioner, Veterans Bureau, Washinton, should contain the names of his children."

    I am desirous of tracing the connection of George Meese, elected sheriff of Somerset County, Pa., 1825, to the Baltzer Meese above, one source of information stating that he was the son of Baltzer.  I have no proof of this, however.

    If you can give me this information, the courtesy will be very much appreciated.

                           Very truly yours,
                                     //s//
                             Myrtle E. Wiger

(Date Stamp)
RECEIVED
MAR 12, 1938
Mail Sub-Div
(unintelligible) #26
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION 

                             3-525
           DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
SH01521
             BUREAU OF PENSIONS
            WASHINGTON, D.C. ------,192_

In reply to your request of ___, for the history of Baltzer Meese, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, the following is taken from the ____claim for pension.

Dats of Enlistment or Appointment/Length of Service/Rank/Officers under whom service was rendered Captain Colonel/State

1776 to 1781/-/ Priv/Captain Stoy - in the 2d Regt of/Penns

Battles engaged in: Brandywine, Germantown, Block House of the North River, Monmouth, White Horse

Residence of Soldier at Enlistment: -

Date of Application for pension:  May 27, 1818 dischd. was at  (continied on next line)

 Residence at date of Application: Somerset, Pa.

Age at date of application: 58, Date and Place of birth not stated.

  Remarks:  In 18?? he referred to his wife aged 62 yrs, her name is not state.  He died May 15, 1838.

                                 Respectfully,

                                                     Commissioner

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