Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6356, Michael Weida, Penn.
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Penn.  Weida, Michael  S.6365
carded
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Rev War  6356
Invalid
File No. 6356
Michael Weida
Prvt Rev War
Act:  June 7, 1832
Index:-Vol. M, Page 398
(Arrangement of 1870)
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5463
Pennsylvania
Michael Weida
of _____ in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company by Captain Oyster of the Reg commanded by Col Goldin in the Penn for one Month  $20.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20 Dollars ___Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Feb 1833 and paid to Hon H.A. Muhlenburgh Ho Reps [House of Representatives]
Arrears to 4th of Apr. 1832 -  $30.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 - 10.00
(total) $40.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Vinal Luce, Clerk,
Book D Vol. 6 Page 92
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Michael Weida - The Objections are 
1. That he has not satisfactorily stated the period or periods of the war when he served. 
a) Certainly as satisfactorily as in other cases where certificates have been granted because the same terms are used - such as "marching to Amboy N.J. where they remained" "marched to Newtown, Bucks County where they remained" in the direct route to Trenton upon which an attack was made at the time Col Heisters Regiment, to which he belonged, was ordered such. 
2) That he has not obtained the evidence of a Clergyman and another respectable citizen &c. 
a. In some other cases the evidence of a Clergyman has been dispensed with. In the present case it was no doubt owing to the absence of the Clergyman as the applicant has the evidence of two respectable citizens, who are well known to Mr. Muhlenberg & for whose respectability he can vouch. 
3) That the magistrate who administered the oath to the witness or witnesses has not certified that they were persons of credibility. 
a) The witness' are Joh. Everhardt & Matthias Roth. The Magistrate, who administered the oath has certified to the credibility of both these witness in other cases examined by the Department - Vide the case of Everhardt & Roth &c. Both the witness' were soldiers of the revolution & had a "personal knowledge of the applicants service" which entirely abdicates the 4th objection.
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Michael Weida
application for a Pension
Term of Service 6 months
$20.00 per ann
Muhlenberg
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State of Pennsylvania 
County of Berks
On this twelfth day of December A,D, 1832 personally appeared before the hon Matthias Richards one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Berks, Michael Weida at present a Resident of Maxatawny Township in the said County of Berks aged Eighty three years and upwards 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.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein Stated.
That he was drafted in the Militia during the Revolutionary War and attached to Captain Daniel Oysters Company in Colonel Goldin's Regiment in which he served three months. That the said Company marched from Rockland Township Berks County where this deponent then resided to Bethlehem, Easton, New Jersey, to Amboy, where they remained in Garrison, that he got discharged but has since lost it and that he has no documentary evidence of his services as aforesaid.
That he was afterwards drafted in the militia during the said war and attached to Captain Peter Warners Company in the Regiment of Co. Joseph Heister in which he also served for three months that he started from his residence in Rockland Township Berks County where he then resided for Reading where the militia assembled that from thence they marched to Newtown in Bucks County where they remained encamped until discharged that he got a discharge, has since lost it and that he has no documentary evidence of his services as aforesaid.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State or of any only on that of the agency of the State of Pennsylvania
Michael Weida
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid before the undersigned who doth hereby certify that the applicant cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court.
Matthias S. Richards
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We Jacob George and David Kutz both residing in the Township of Maxatawny in the County of Berks, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Michael Weida who has subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Eighty three years of age and upwards, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion 
Jacob George
David Kutz
Sworn and Subscribed December 14th 1832 before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of said County 
Ja’s Donagan
And I the above named Matthias S Richards Esq. do hereby declare my opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he States. And I do further certify that Jacob George and David Kutz who have signed the preceding certificate, both residents of the Township of Maxatawny aforesaid are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit 
Matthias S. Richards 
I Jacob Sallade Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Berks do hereby certify that Matthias S Richards Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed and sworn to is one of the Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas, and that the signature annexed are his genuine signatures. And I do further certify that James Donagan before whom the preceding certificate was subscribed and sworn to is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned in and for the said County, and that the signature thereto annexed is his genuine signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Jac Sallade Prothy
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Berks County ss on the 26th day of October A.D. 1832 before the Subscriber  a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Personally appeared John Everhart of Pike Township and Matthias Roth of the Township of Rockland in the said County who after being duly sworn according to Law say that they are well acquainted with Michael Weida who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we know him to be of the age of Eighty three years, and that we to from our own certain knowledge that he served in the Pennsylvania militia during the Revolutionary war for a period of six months that he is generally reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we are certain of the same having served at the same time with him 
John Everhart his mark
Matthias Roth his mark
Sworn & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me 
Jas Donagan 
Penna Berks County 
 I Jacob Sallade, Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Berks, do hereby certify that James Donagan before whom the foregoing deposition was subscribed and sworn to is a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned in and for the said County and that the signature thereto annexed is his genuine signature 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eighteen hundred and thirty three.
Jac Sallade, Prothy
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51 
12-5-41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives 
NAME    Christian Weidell   GRADE  Private   LINE   Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER  10637   ACREAGE  100  ISSUED March 19, 1792
To George Moore, assignee
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 Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives. 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.