Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22646, Daniel Bensinger, Penn.
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(S-1776)

SERVICE NUMBER
[handwritten Penn. Bensinger, Daniel S. 22646]

CONTENTS
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22646
INVALID
Revolutionary

No. 22,646
Daniel Besinger
Priv Rev War

Act June 7th, 39.
Index:-Vol.  2,  Page 32 

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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No. 18530
Pennsylvania
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Daniel Besinger
of Schuylkill Co. in the state of Penna.
who was a private in the company by Captain Old of the Regt commanded by Col. Haller in the Penna. Troops for 9 months.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 30 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Sept. 1833 and sent to claimant of Brunswig, Schuylkill Co. Pa.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833                     75.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1836    15.00
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                                                                      $90.00
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act Jume 7, 1832}

Recorded by D. Brown    Clerk
Book 8, Vol. 5,  Page 4.
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Apl. 13
Pension Office
Pa. 

David Besinger
24320
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Declaration on order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

State of Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County ss

    On the 28th day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, Daniel Besinger a resident of the township of Brunswig in the county of Schuylkill and state of Pennsylvania aged between seventy seven and seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.
    The he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated:
    That he enlisted as a private under Captain Old about harvest in the 1776 in the township of Brunswig aforesaid then Berks (now Schuylkill) county, state of Pennsylvania and served in Col. Haller's regiment of the Flying Company, that he left his place of residence to wit Brunswig Township county & state aforesaid and marched through Reading, to Philadelphia from thence to Amboy were he was stationed for some time and then marched to Long Island. That he was at the Battle of Long Island and remembers well that (continues on next page)
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sight of their number to wit Captain Old's Company were (illegible) firing. That he received no wound, that he received no written discharge, that he returned sometime in the month of December in the same year, having served five months or upwards, to his place of residence.
    .  That he 
    That he again entered the service as a private militia man in the year 1777 some time in the month of July under the former officer to wit Captain Old and served in Col. Hiester's Regiment.  That he left his place of residence to wit Brunswig township county & state afore said and marched to Reading from (thence) to Brandywine that he was in the Battle of Brandywine and assisted in fighting the British. That he retreated to Philadelphia, that he never received a written discharge but that he was personally discharged after serving about two months and again return to his former place of residence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.
    That he again entered the service as a private militia man in Col. Lindermath's Regiment in the fall of the same year and marched to Muney Creek and was attached to Captain Gardner's company at the last-mentioned place, that he well remembers the circumstance of a man by the name of Jacob Shartel receiving a wound (continues on next page)
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through the (illegible) by an Indian, that he marched through Lewisburg near the Susquehanna River, that he served two months and again returned to hi former place of residence, that he knows of no person who can testify to his service, that he has continued to reside in the same neighborhood to wit the Township of Brunswig, County of Berks (now Schuylkill) in the State of Pennsylvania.  That he has a certificate of his age in his possession from which he remembers his age to be as stated to wit between seventy-seven and seventy-eight and that he now resides in the same place.  That Henry Ornig & Frederick Helper can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution.

   He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency or only that of the agency of the state of Pennsylvania.
                                         his
                               Daniel  X  Besinger
                                         mark
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
//s//
Jac. Hammer Prothon.

We ________ clergyman Henry Ornig (illegible) and Frederick Helper residing in the same neighborhood of the above petitioner, that they are well acquainted with the above-named Daniel Besinger who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe (continued on next page)
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him to be seventy seven years of age, that he is is reputed and believe in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
      
                                 //s//
                        Frederick Ornig
                                 //s//
                      Frederick Hesser

Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid.
            //s//
Jac. Hammer Prothy.

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary solder and served as he stated.  And the court further certifies that it appears to them that the said Henry Craig & Frederick Helper who signed the same are residents of the neighborhood and are credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
                                          //s//
                                Calvin Blythe
                                         //s//
                                    G. Raush
(Pennsylva)nia Schuylkill County ss

    I Jacob Hammer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Daniel Pensinger for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto   set my hand and seal the thirtieth day of (in) Orwigsburg March AD 1833.

                                           //s//
                                     Jac. Hammer  Prothon.
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Schuylkill County ss

    On the 3rd day of August 1833 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said court Philip Mayer a clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the within named Daniel Bensinger who upon his solemn oath saith that he is well acquainted with the above said Daniel Bensinger who has sworn & subscribed to the foregoing declaration and that he believes him to leave been seventy seven years of age at the time of subscribing thereto that he is reputed and believed in his neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that & concur in that opinion.                                              //s//
 Phillip Mayer

Sworn & subscribed before
in the day and year aforesaid
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James Price

Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County ss

I Jacob Hammer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do hereby certify that James Price Esq. before whom the abve and within affidavit appear to have been made is an acting justice of the Peace of said county duly appointed commissioned and appointed authorized and that I believe he signatures to the said affidavit affixed to the genuine, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said county at Orwigsburg the fifth day of August AD 1833.

                                          //s//
                                      Jac. Hammer
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Schuylkill County ss

    On the 3rd day of August 1823 personally appeared in and for the said County before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county (illegible) within this (illegible) Daniel Bensinger who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is the same person who subscribed the within declaration and he further saith that by reason of   old age, and the consequences of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services but according to the best of his recollection he served no less than the periods mentioned within and believes and in the following grades for five months in the Flying Camp as a private under Captain (illegible) Hart his service (illegible) as a private to militia under Captain Olds for two months and for two more months as a private militia man under Captain Gordman and for such services I claim a pension.
                                                 his
                                      Daniel  X  Bensinger
                                                mark
Sworn & subscribed at the
(illegible) honor of the said
Daniel Bensinger the day and 
year aforesaid.

                        //s//
                    James Price