Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39963, Emanuel Ballinger, Penn.
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Penn.
Ballinger, Emanuel S
39963
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2913
Pennsylvania
Emanuel Ballinger
Private
Pennsylvania Line  '76 1 year in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Capt Smith
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 18th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued on the 22nd of Sept. 1818 and sent to Abiathar Hopkins, Harrisburg, PA.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 4 months 17/30  36.53
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4th Mar. 1819.   48.00
$84.53
Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March , 1818.
Continued
Dauphin Co.
Notification sent Decr. 30 1820 to Hon. James M Wallace - H. of Reps. U.S.
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Pennsylvania 
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Adm
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dauphin County
On this the eighteenth day of April AD 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Dauphin aforesaid, personally appears Emanuel Bollinger, Age sixty one years, resident in the said county of Dauphin in the state of Pennsylvania, who being by me first duly sworn according to the law, doth  on his oath make the following declaration in order to Obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled " an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War", that he was the said Emanuel Bollinger, in the month of July AD 1775, at Middletown then in Lancaster, but now in Dauphin county in the state of Pennsylvania, enlisted for one year, as a common soldier, and the company commanded by Captain Matthew Smith of the first Pennsylvania Regiment, which marched from Lancaster to Boston and thence to Quebeck, which regiment was under the command first of Colonel Thompson and then of Colonel Arnold; that he marched in the said company to Boston, and thence through the wilderness to Quebeck, that he was in the Battle of Quebeck, when General Montgomery, fell, and was at that time taken prisoner, and remained a prisoner to the Autumn of the year 1776; that he continued to serve in the aforesaid Corps, or in the service of the United States till the Autumn of the year 1776, at which time he was exchanged, and discharged from the service of his country at Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence of now in his power of his said services, except that the following affidavits, and the certificate here unto annexed.
Sworn & Subscribed before me this day & year aforesaid
Obed Fahnestock
Emanual Bollinger
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Pennsylvania Dauphin County xx [illegible]
Before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for said County personally appears before Volantine Winch, who being by me duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath say that he was in the same company with the said Emanuel Bollinger in the expedition against Quebeck in the years 1775 an [and] 1776, and that all the facts contained in the foregoing declaration made by the said Emanuel Bollinger, are true to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Sworn & Subscribed before me April 18.1818
Obed Farmstock

Volentine his X mark  Winch

Pennsylvania Dauphin County xx [illegible]
Before me the subscriber, one of the Judges & as aforesaid, personally appears Conrad Myers, who being by me sworn according to Law, doth on his oath say that he was in the same company with the said Emanuel Bollinger in the expedition against Quebeck in the years 1775 and 1776, and that all the facts, contained in the foregoing declaration made by the said Emanuel Bollinger, are true to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Sworn & subscribed before
me April 18, 1818
Obed Farmstock

Conrad Myers
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I Obed Fahnestock judge do as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Emanuel Bollinger did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress.
Harrisburg   April 18th, 1818
Obed Fahnestock

Dauphin County - State of Pennsylvania
I John Machesney Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas Of the county of Dauphin do certify that Obed Fahnestock Esquire who has given the preceding certificate and his name is thereunto subscribed was that the time of so doing and yet is an Associate Judge of Dauphin Court duly commissioned and sworn to all whose ??? is us ????? faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in court of Justice as elsewhere
In testimony whence I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court at Harrisburg 18th day of April AD 1818.
John MaChesney - Proth
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Emanuel Bollinger
Middletown, Dauphin County, PA
22 Sep 18
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Dauphin County 
On this 18th day of October AD 1820 personally appeared in open court being a Court of Record established by act of Assembly for the said County Emanuel Bollinger aged about 65 years, resident in Middletown in the County aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, that he enlisted for one year in the year 1775 in Middletown aforesaid in the company commanded by Captain Smith in the regiment commanded by Colonel Arnold In the Pennsylvania line and Continental establishment, that he served in the said Corps one year when he was honorably discharged in Philadelphia which discharge was transmitted with his original application to the War Department, that he made his original application on the 18th Day of April AD 1818, and has received a pension by virtue of a certificate under the seal of the War Office dated the 22nd day of September, 1818 and numbered with the number 2913.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled " An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or security, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Schedule all my property necessary clothing & bedding excepted
I own about one acre of ground adjoining Middletown which is a village, on which is erected a small kitchen in which I reside and have resided about 12 years by myself. I have a table, 4 chairs, a stove, a few plates and dishes, two small iron pots, three or four old knives and forks, a few cups and saucers, I have a few tools being by occupation a saddler, but my eyes have become so dim and my body so trembling that I cannot work at my trade, so I do a little at Cobbling.
Sworn to and declared on the 18th day of October in Open court of common pleas before me 
John MaChesney Proth 
Emanuel Bollinger

Dauphin County 
hi John chesney Prof and notary of the court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is five hundred and twenty dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at Harrisburg the 6th day of November a day 1820 
John MaChesney 
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County
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Invalid
File No. 39963
Emaunuel Bollinger
Div Rev War

Act 18th March 1818

Index: Vol 3, Page 23
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This may certify to whom it may concern that Emanuel Bollinger (Amanuel Polinger) was a enlisted soldier in Captain Matthew Smith's company in the 1st P. Regiment that marched from Lancaster County to Boston in the year 1775 and thence under command of General B Arnold to Quebeck with P Company and returned to Lancaster County with the Capt and part of P Company.
Given under my and this first day of February 1803 
Michael Simpron then 
Lieutenant of P Company
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J. E. Calhoun
Secretary of the Department of War
Washington
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Harrisburg Penn.  April 20th 1818
Honorable J Calhoun 
Secretary of War
Sir, I send you the proceedings had before Judge Fahnestock on the appreciation of Emanuel Bollinger, Valentine Weirich, and Conrad Myers for the provision made for old soldiers by the late act of Congress. By acknowledging the receipt thereof, and informing me whether the applicants will be placed upon the pension list, and if they or any of them should be, at what time and place the first payment will be made, you will confer a favour as well upon the old soldiers, or upon your most Obedient and humble servant.
Abiathar Hopkins