Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16290, Michael Weaver, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
PENN.

WEAVER, MICHAEL

NUMBER 
S.16290

CONTENT

carded
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5106
Indiana

Michael Weaver
Washington Co. in the State of Indiana
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Grosscup of the regt. commanded by Col. Kerr, in the Pennsylvania line for six months from 1776.  

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 20.Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of February 1833 and sent to Hon. J. Carr. N. R.

$30.00   Arrears to 4th of Sept. 32
  10.00   Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mrch 33
_________
$40.00

[Revolutionary Claim,}
{ Act  June  7,  1832.  }

Recorded by Wm L. Allison Clerk,
Book  D,    Vol.   9,    Page 199
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Michael Weaver

20553

from 1776 private
6 months, $20.

Hon. J. Carr
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The State of Indiana
Washington County,   SS    In the Probate Court of Washington County at the 
November Term 1832

On the 12th day of November, [illegible] personally appeared in open Court before the Probate Court of said County now sitting, being a court of record, Michael Weaver born in Northampton County in the state of Pennsylvania on this 15th of August 1756 + he 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 7, 1820 -- That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after states that home time about the first of September 1776 he entered into the service as a volunteer militiaman in the County of Berks in the state of Pennsylvania in a company commanded by Powell Grosscup in a regiment the field officers commanding which
were Maj. William  Lindermoot and Colonel Paulson Kerr for a three months term and were marched thence over the Delaware River into the state of New Jersey to Amboy where he remained and in its vicinity, until the expiration of the above term of service, when he was discharged which was given him by his Colonel     the above names Paulson Kerr in writing but which has long since been destroyed, having been thrown aside as a paper of no consequence to him-- On the 2nd day of May in the year following (1777) in the above named County of Berks where he still continued to reside, there being a call, from the government for forty Mounted Ranges or Scouts as they  were then  designated  + where for 3 months he again volunteered his services 
together with 37 other of his neighbors in the capacity of
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Mounted Rangers as aforesaid and furnished their own horses and other equipments at their own expense, and were organized into a company under the command of Captain William Whitman and marched across the Delaware river into the state of New Jersey and were engaged during the whole of their term  of service in NY in various direction, rough the state of New Jersey and were engaged during the whole of their term of services in Scout.  My in [illegible] directing through the state of New Jersey + on one occasion they had a skirmish with a detachment of  Okekocking  at a small village    the name of which he does not remember, but  it was only distant about 15 miles from the City of New York, on which                                             occasion their company had three men killed and then Capt. William Whitman was badly mounted having been shot through the body, but he survived it --  + after this, there term of service having closed and the Capt.  owing to his wound, being compelled to return home, he then said declarant was selected by  Capt. to take care of him and see him safely conducted home, which service he succeeded in performing and upon his arrival at home rec.d a discharge from Service which was given him by the above named Col. Paulson Kerr which he soon after lost or threw aside as a paper of no importance to him -- that from this time he left home until he arrived again at home was about 4 months -- that after this and during the periods of the revolutionary struggle; he frequently again volunteered his services in scouting parties for [illegible] periods or some time, for a much, [illegible] times for 2 weeks and as long as three months at  a time but is unable to state what the whole 
would amount to --He states that he  was engaged in the above service at the time of the  Battles of Brandywine and Germantown and was near enough to hear the firing of the guns continually engaged in either of those battles  .  That he mentioned any pay or compensation of any kind for his services as at the named from the government and that in addition to that he had an excellent new 4 horse waggon with a team of four finest white horses, which was engaged in the public service
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About the time of the battle of Brandywine, in Chester County Penn.a taken by the enemy and destroyed and for which he never rec'd any compensation whatever -- He remembers serving General Greene during the time he was in the service, the 2nd time in the State of Jersey and from when the company to which he belonged rec'd orders rejecting their service.  He also remembers that Genl. Washington with whom he was well acquainted, was with the army while he was in the service.  He has a record of his age which he copied from a family bible of his fathers -- He has no documentary evidence and knows of no  person whose testimony he can procure who can testify his service -- He states that after the close of the revolutionary war he continued to live four years in Berks County Pennsylvania.  He then removed things to the State of North Carolina where he lived about 10 or 12 years-- then removed to Pulaski County, Kentucky where he lived 6 years, then removed to Washington County in said State where he lived about three years and from there he removed to this state, Orange County and lastly to  Washington County where he at this time resides and has resided for the last fourteen years --  He hereby [illegible] his every claim whatever to a pension or annuity 
except the present + declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any state.  

Subscribed + sworn to this day 
and year aforesaid 

We James Lee and Elijah Driskill residents of the County of Washington, Pa. do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Michael Weaver who has subscribed
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And the said Court do hereby certify and depose their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that this above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated -- And the Court further certified that it appears to them that Janey Lee and Elija Dreshem who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the County of Washington and state of Indiana and are credible persons -- and that their statements 
[illegiblel] to credit.  

I W. H. Carter Clerk of the Probate Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of this said Court in the matter of the application of Michael Weaver for a pension. 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 12th day of November '32

Wm H. Carter, Clerk
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16.290
INVALID.

File No.   16.290

Michael Weaver

Pri   Rev  War

Act:  June 7"32

Index: -- Vol. 1  ,   Page  406

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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O. W. and N. Division      3-525.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Michael Weaver, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [(or his widow's) crossed out] application for pension on file in this Bureau.  

Date of Enlistment or Appointment -
Berk's Co. Pa  
Sept. 1-76
May 2, 77

Length of Service - 
3 Months
3 Months

Rank -  
[blank]
[blank]

Officers Under Whom Service was Rendered -
Captains -
Paul  Grosscup
Wm. Whitman

Colonels - 
Paulson Kerr
Paulson Kerr

State -
[blank]
[blank]

Battles engaged in,  ✔    [blank]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Berks Co.
Date of application for pension, Nov. 12 1832
Residence at date of application,  Washington Co. Ind.
Age at date of application, B.  Aug 15 1756
Remarks:  [blank]

Very respectfully, 


Commissioner

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