Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22981, for Lewis Shive, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE 
Penn

Shive, Lewis 

NUMBER
S.22981

CONTENTS
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No. 18499
Pennsylvania
Lewis Shive
of York Co. in the State of Penna. who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Ford of the Regt. commanded by Col. Ewing in the Penna. Mil. for 7 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of Sept. 1833 and sent to John McCutchen Present

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1833  58.33 1/3
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1834  11.66 2/3
$70.01

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk 
Book E.  Vol. 5  Page 53

(right side written vertically)
Date of death not on AB

(right lower written upside down)
A. B. Hamburgh May 20/51
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21,150 Pa
Lewis Shrive
Shive

Adm 7 months 
private 
$23.33

John McCutchen Present
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January 22, 1935
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Lewis Shive-S.22981
David Waltamyer-S.23056
BA-J/AWF

Mr. H. J. Young
Historical Society
York, Pennsylvania

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Lewis Shive and David Waltamyer, both pensioners of York County, Pennsylvania.

[handwritten] His letter in
Lewis Shive - S. 22981

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claims, based upon their services in the War or the Revolution.

Lewis Shive-S.22981

Lewis Shive was born in the year 1760 in York County, Pennsylvania, names of his parents not given.

While residing in said York County, he enlisted and served as a private in the Pennsylvania militia as follows:
From July 1, 1776, two months in Captain Hahn's company, Colonel Swope's regiment; from in September, 1777, two months in Captain Ford's company, Colonel Ewing's regiment; and was in the battle of Germantown; from in July, 1778, three months in Captain Ephraim Pennington's company, guarding prisoners in Reading, Pennsylvania.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 16, 1832, at which time he was living in York County, Pennsylvania, where he had always lived.

There are no data in this claim concerning the
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family of the soldier, Lewis Shive.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person to whom sent, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., citing the following:

Lewis Shive
Certificate # 18499
Issued September 6, 1833
Rate $23.33 per annum
To commence March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Pennsylvania Agency

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David Waltamyer-S.23056

David Waltamyer was born in the year 1759 in York County, Pennsylvania, names of his parents not given.

While residing  in said York County, he enlisted and served as a private in the Pennsylvania militia as follows:
From in September, 1777, four months in Captain John Miller's company, Colonel Rankin's regiment; in 1782, two months in Captain Peter Ford's company, guarding prisoners, taken when Cornwallis surrendered.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 23, 1833, then a resident of York County, Pennsylvania, where he had always lived.

Charles Waltamyer was seventy-two years of age in 1833 and was then living a near neighbor to the soldier, David Waltamyer, no relationship stated.

There is no reference to wife or children.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of
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pension, the name and address of the person to whom sent, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., citing the following:

David Waltamyer
Certificate # 25875
Issued January 17, 1834
Rate $20.00 per annum
To commence March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Pennsylvania Agency

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Revolution

22981.
INVALID.

File No. 22,981
Lewis Shive
Pri  Rev War

Act: June 7" 32"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 364

[Arrangement of 1870.]

35 Jan 22 - Hist to H. J. Young [illegible]
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Lewis Shive
21150
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York County SS

I Richard Porter Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of York County, Penna do hereby certify that George Barnitz Esqr is a Judge of said Court and that his signature [illegible] several times next to the foregoing proceedings is his genuine signature in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 12th day of August A. D 1832
for Richd. Porter
prot
W. Ilgenfritz
Clk.
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OFFICERS

HON. H. C. NILES
President
S. FAHS SMITH
Vice President
RALPH S. CANNON
Treasurer
REINHARDT DEMPWOLF
Curator and Secretary
JAMES W. SHETTEL
Corresponding Secretary

TRUSTEES

FRANCIS FARQUHAR
Chairman
GEORGE H. WHITELEY, JR.
S. FAHS SMITH
S. FORRY LAUCKS
J. WM. STAIR
HON. FRANKLIN MENGES
JOSEPH K. KINDIG, JR.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF YORK COUNTY
Founded 1895
York, Pennsylvania

December 27, 1934

U. S. Veterans Administration Washington, D. C. 

[stamped]
RECIEVED
DEC 28 1934
MAIL SUB-DIV,
READER 12
VETS ADM.

Gentlemen:-

Will you kindly send me any record that you have of Lewis Shive, pensioned 1833; and David Waltamyer, pensioned 1834, both soldiers of the Revolution, of York County, and oblige

Very truly yours,
HISORICAL SOCIETY OF YORK COUNTY
[handwritten] H. J. Young
H. J. Young, Researcher

HJY:AES

"WE SPECIALIZE IN GENEALOGICAL RESEARCHES IN YORK AND ADJACENT COUNTIES"