Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6050, for Abraham C Kolb, Pennsylvania
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(8-1776)
SERVICE  /                /  NUMBER
Penn.     /   Kolb, Abraham C.   /   R6050

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State of Pennsylvania 
(Lycoming County LS

Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Abraham C. Kolb who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that by reason of extreme old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service in the Revolutionary War: – That according to the best of his recollection he served not less time than that set forth in his Declaration now filed, as he verilly believes in the office of Pensions: – That his services were not one continued train of duty under military obligations, but there were performed in tours or terms of actual service.  His recollection of the duration of these tours is indistinct, to the best of his recollection however he served a tour of four months under Capt. Weaver and one other tour or term of six months under Capt. Shipe and Col. Reed of the Pennsylvania troops: he cannot definitely state after so great a lapse of time how long.  he was engaged in the aggregate of tours with the aforesaid officers, the names of some officers under whom he served he has entirely forgotten, and he thinks that for the period layed in his declaration he was either actually or nominally engaged in the service of his Country.  Under one officer he was drafted for three months but was kept in service six months: this officer's name he has forgotten :– that he served as a soldier in the Revolution
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To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
    In the month of September. 1839. an application was made by Abraham C. Kolb or Kulp. In December 1839. he was informed that his Declaration had been filed. in the Pension office. with suspended Cases.  And the reasons for thus suspending Mr Kolb's application were stated to be as follows: – 1st– That applicant had alleged in his Declaration that he served in terms or tours of longer duration than was common in Militia services of that period.
2d.  That applicant had not stated fully and particularly, according to the forms of certain printed regulations. the terms of his actual service.  And third that he had not stated in his Declaration the reasons why he had not made an earlier application for a pension.

    In order to satisfy the mind of him to whose duty applicant's claim is committed for examination. said applicant hereby respectfully transmits an additional affidavit. which together with the deposition of Mrs. Mary Hoiss may tend to reflect more light upon his Claim

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in manner and substance as set forth in his Declaration he is assured. and for the correctness of which he appeals to the God of truth: That he is now poor and feeble and very old he is conscious of. but that his Country should now compell him to [illegible] his claim upon more technical forms. or to raise the dead to make his claim satisfactory. or to restore a memory that age has almost destroyed. he was not conscious of when he assisted in the struggle for Independence. – That he never asked aid from his Country for his services and it is well understood in his own neighbourhood that a delicacy presented him while by his own industry he was enabled to procure a livelihood: but now that when penury and misfortune decrepit age and an almost total loss of eye sight have befallen him. he asks that aid which the Laws of his Country entitles him to.  That he did not make an early application is true but that this fact should be used against his claim as evidence he had not anticipated. to the truth of the above statement he is fully satisfied. __
Abraham C. Kolb [signature]
To the truth of the above statement the said Abraham C. Kolb made oath and signed his name before me this 5th day of June AD 1841
[illegible] my hand & seal
David Showers L.P. ["seal" with a curly circle drawn around it]
State of Pennsylvania Lycoming County p. 
J.H.C. Piatt Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming Count do certify that said Honers is an acting Justice
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of the Peace duly commissioned [?] and that the annexed signature purporting to be his is genuine. _ In testimony whereof I subscribe my name and affix the seal of said county court. 
State of Pennsylvania 
Lycoming Count p     
H. C. Piatt Pro[obscured by folded paper and wax seal]
I, Mrs Mary Kriss, Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and upon my oath do depose and say that I have been acquainted with Abraham C. Kolb the within applicant for a pension for more than sixty years. I having lived when a small girl in the neighborhood of the said A. C. Kolb that is to say, in what is now called Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and, I remember that I often saw said Abraham in the time of the Revolutionary War.  I heard my Father and the neighbors say that the said Abraham was in that war, that he was enlisted as a soldier that he was in battle.  I think at Germantown battle and Trenton battle, and that it was known all around that neighborhood that he left home, which was adjoining my Father's farm, and went of [sic] as a soldier in the Revolution.  I saw him go with the soldiers once passing our house, I think in the year 1777, they said then that he was going to go in Washington's army.  I remember he then had a knapsack and a pipe.  I stood in my Father's door and saw him and knew him.  I did not see him again for a year or more, when he came back he said he had seen Washington and Lafaette [Lafayette] at Germantown.  He left home again and went with the soldiers and I did not see him again till I saw him up here in Lycoming County to the truth of the above I am fully satisfied.  Witness. Geo Frederick Boal  | Mrs Mary Kriss X her mark  (seal)  |  H. Cox Lycoming County p
Sworn and subscribed before me June 23rd AD 1841  E. Covert J. P. (seal)
I do hereby certify that the above deponent Mrs Mary Kriss is a Lady of credibility and good character, and should be credited upon her oath.  Witness my hand and seal June 23rd AD 1841 E. Covert (seal)
I, Harmon C. Piatt, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do certify that E. Covert is an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned [?] and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.  In testimony whereof I subscribe my name and affix the seal of said County Court, this 24th day of June 1841. 
[tear] C. Piatt Prothy
[tear] C. Piatt
(Hon J Snyder HR)
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34.872
Abraham C. Kolb
Pennsylvania
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Declaration.

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 -
State of Pennsylvania
County of Lycoming
In the Court of the United States for the Western district of Pennsylvania
On this 19 day of October 1839, personally appeared the Claimaint of the within declaration, Abraham. C. Kulp, resident of Lycoming township in the County of Lycoming, State of Pennsylvania, aged sevety nine years, who being 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: under Captain Weaver he entered the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution, served eighteen months as a Fifer, commencing in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and ending in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven. Claimant further declares that he served under Captain Shipe and Col. Read two years and four months as a Fifer and a volunteer soldier, entering service in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven or eight and ending in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine or eight. Claimant declares that he did not desert and never received a written discharge; that at the time of entering service he lived in the township of Towamencing, County of Philadelphia, now a part of Montgomery County: that he has for the last twelve years past resided in Lycoming County; that he was present at and engaged in the battle of Germantown; that he marched
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through different parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, has not a recollection sufficiently distinct to describe the marches particularly; that he has no documentary evience; knows of no one now living whose evidence he can procure who could testify to his service.__

Claimant was born in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty.
Claimant has no record of his age.
Claimant was not drafted, served as a volunteer
Claimant declares that he cannot recall all the names of the regular officers who commanded the troops with whom he served, that he never received a written discharge from service. Robert Smith and Abraham Smith are known to Claimant in his present neighbourhood who will testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution.__
Claimant hereby relinquished 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.__  Sworn and subscribed this day and year of [illegible]__ [handwritten] Abraham C. Kolb in open court__  [handwritten] J Armstrong Clerk, 
We John Abele, a Clergyman residing in the town of Williamsport and Joseph Smith, residing near New Berg, both of Lycoming County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abraham C. Kulp, the said Claimant who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age, that he is believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.__
Sworn and subscribed the day and year of [illegible]
[James Armstrong signature] Clk
[John F. Abele signature]
[J.W. Smith signature]
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And the Court further certify that it appears to them that John Abele who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in thh town of Williamsport, and that Joseph Smith who signed the same is a creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, James Armstrong Clerk of the United States Court for the Western district of Pennsylvania doth hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abraham C. Kulp for a pension.__
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 12th day of October 1839__

[signature of James Armstrong for E. J. Roberts, Clk)
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[Postmark Williamsport PA Oct 20)
[handwritten pa. Oct 23 Abm. C. Kolb or Culp Ad June 7, 1839]
FREE
J.L. Edwards Esq.__
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
If the enclosed application for a pension should meet with your approval please direct the certificate to Hopewell Cox [illegible] at [illegible] WIlliamsport, Lycoming County Penna__ If any objections should arise please send them [illegible] to the Declaration__
Oct 19th, 1839__
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REJECTED
6000
P.O. Abraham C. Kolb
Service:____
Enlisted:____, 18  .
Discharged:____, 18  .
Application filed:____, 18  .
Re-enlisted: ____
Attorney:____
P.O.____
____Recognized.  ____Contract
____Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ____, 18
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Abraham C. Kolb
Pennsylvania
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Suspended
let 29 Nov. 1839
[illegible]
let 6 July 41
Hon. John Snyder
6050
Act of June 1832