Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [Blank], for Ludwick Sheller, Pennsylvania
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Service                                             Number

Continental      Sheller, Ludwick     B.L.Rej.
                                      Rosanna

Pa. residence.
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Ludwick Sheller heirs further proof of service reqd 
Recd of then Adam Franz
No proof of [unreadable]
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR. 
Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from the United States.   
By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank. 
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States. 
The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authorities: 
State of Pennsylvania 
County of York } ss 
I Rosanna Sheller Widow of Ludwick Sheller do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Ludwick Sheller did enlist in 1781, for the term of during the war, and served under the command of General Armond of the United States line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the War  
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to him the said Ludwick Sheller on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore, 
know all men by these presents that I hereby constitute and appoint the Honourable Adam Franz to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States , a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed. 
Rosanna Sheller her mark 
Attest. George Kleinfelter 
Personally appeared the above named Rosanna Sheller subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. 
Attest  George Klinefelter Justice of the Peace 
In testimony that the above written was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at    this day of 18 
C. Clerk, &c.
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affixed the county seat, and  
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
YORK COUNTY, SS. 
1, MICHAEL W. ASH, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county of York, Do Certify, that George Klinefelter Esquire before whom the annexed depositions were made and acknowledgement to the annexed Power of Attorney taken, is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and as such is 
duly commissioned and qualified; and that to all acts by him done in that capacity full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court, in the borough  of York, this Fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight Michael Ash Prothonotary.
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York County 
Pennsylvania } SS   
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace and for said County Cathrine Budding Leonard Baumgardner or Baumgartel & John Glesner Credible Witnesses who being by me duly sworn according to law saith that they well acquainted with Ludwick Sheller a Soldier in Armands Corps in the Revolutionary war and that they are also well acquainted with Rosanna Sheller of the Borough County of York and well know that the was his lawfull reputed wife and that they lived together as man and wife for many years and there was born unto the said Ludwick Sheller and Rosanna Sheller his wife one son whom they named Ludwick Sheller and that on or about thirty years since the old man Ludwick Sheller died at York having but one son Ludwick Sheller Jr. who was the only legitimate heir of Ludwick Sheller decd and that on or about ten years after the death of his father he enlisted at York under whose name deponant does not Recollect and in a short time after he enlisted he marched away and never returned since and on or about one year after he enlisted there came information of his death stating the time and place where he died in the State of Louisiana While in the service of the U States the name of the Garrison where he was stationed deponent does not Recollect but it is believed - by all his neighbours and acquaintances in York that he died without Issue in the service of the U States 
Catherin Budding her mark
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 15th day of May 1828 
George Klinefelter
Leonard Baumgardner  Baumgardel his Mark 
John Glesner
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York County 
Pennsylvania }SS
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Rosanna Sheller and made oath in due form of Law that she is the widow of Ludwick Sheller decd soldier of the Revolutionary war, and that he was under the command of General Armond and belonged to his Legion, and that the said Ludwick Sheller died at York about thirty years ago leaving one son who lived about Ten years after the death of his Father, after which time he left York and has never returned to this place again, deponant has heard that he died in a short time after he left York and that he was never married during his life to deponents knowledge 
Rosanna Sheller her mark
Sworn and subscribed before me this 22 day of April 1828 
George Kleinfelter
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Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the aforesaid County Jacob Dauvel & Elizabeth Swartsfelter credible and disinterested witnesses, and made oath in due form of law, that they are acquainted with the above mentioned Rosanna Sheller and that she is the reputed Widow of Ludwick Sheller who died without leaving But one son who is supposed to be dead also 
Jacob Dauvel
Elizabeth Swartsfelter her mark
Sworn and subscribed before me, this Second day of April 1828 
George Klinefelter J. P. 
If the person died without leaving a widow, child, father, mother, brother or sister, it must be so stated. 
I, 18 Clerk of the County Court, do certify, that before whom the above Affidavits were taken, was at the time a Justice of the Peace for said County. Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this day of 
The above form will answer for the following States: viz. Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and North-Carolina.