Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40242, for William Palmiteer, Pennsylvania
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Service                                              Number

Penn.                 Palmiteer, William    S.40242
                          Meteer, William Paul
                          Mateer, William Paul

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Contents
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18.985
Pennsylvania

William Palmiteer

of Lancaster in the State of Pen who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Torrey of the regiment commanded by Colonel Hazen in the Pen. Line, for the term of 1776 - Mar - on roll.

Inscribed in the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of May 1823.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of June 1823 and sent to Samuel Dale Esq. Lancaster, Pa.

Arrears to 4th of 
Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1823     29.96
                                                           $29.96
3mos 19/6/
 8          /31/30
6.90
1.  6
____
29.96
                                       (Revolutionary claim}
                                        {Act March 18, 1818}
                                         {and May 1, 1820.}
                                         March 1, 1823.

Summary to J.G.   28/64
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Pennsylvania
Lancaster County ss.

    Before me the subscriber President of the Court of Common Pleas in and for 2d Judicial District of Pennsylvania personally appeared on this thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord  one thousand , William Peight hundred and nineteen, William Paul Meteer, who made the following declaration on oath, to entitle him to receiving a pension from the United States agreeably to the Act of Congress of the 18th Match 1818.  That is to say that he first entered the service of the United States as a six months man, in the spring or summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six that in the fall of the said year he with others who were in the same service were (??) at Lake George; that he came down immediately to Albany in the state of New York where he enlisted for the term of three years or during Tory (or Turry) - that as soon as the said Company was filled, they marched on to Philadelphia, being in the winter season - That in the ensuing spring & as soon as the Regiment was made Major of the same Regiment, when Captain LLoyd took the Command of the Company to which to which he was attached.  That he continued in the said   Company & Regiment doing duties of a soldier until the spring in 1783 - That he was in the Battle of Yorktown and assisted in the capture of Cornwallis.  That when the prisoners were marched to Lancaster in Pennsylvania.  He remained there a year or thereabouts guarding them.  That he was discharged at Pumptown Plains in the State of New York in 1783 and received his certificate of an honorable discharge from Colonel Haizen, which certificate he has lost long since; as he did not suppose it could be of any advantage to him, he took no especial (sic) care of it.  That he is now not certain what the said regiment was attached to, but he believes it was called the Congress Regiment. That he is about sixty years of age, his constitution shattered, racked & worn out with the severity of his service in early life, poor & destitute & from his reduced circumstances in life he actually stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.

                                               his
                          William Paul   X  Meteer
                                               mark
Sworn & subscribed and declared 
before us the said thirteenth day of
Aoril A.D. 1819
//s//
Walter Franklin


    Also, on the same day and at the same time personally appeared before me, Alexander Patterson of the said county of Lancaster to me well known as a citizen of respectability who being sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God, deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with the above named William Paul Meteer - that he believes that what he has above declared on oath is here - and to his certain knowledge, that from his reduced circumstances in life he stand in need of the assistance of his country for support.
                                     //s//
                                 Ab. Patterson

Sworn & subscribed before me 
this said thirteenth day of April
1819.                    //s//
                      Walter Franklin
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Pennsylvania
Lancaster County ss

    I Walter Franklin President of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Lancanster Certify that it appeared to my satisfaction from the within proceedings, that the within named William Paul Mateer served as a soldier in the War of the Revolution as stated in his declaration and that from his recued circumstances in life he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. 
      
                                            //s//
                                   Walter franklin
Lancaster April 13th 1819.

Pennsylvania
Lancaster County ss

    I George B. Porter Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas and for the said county of Lancaster certify that Waller Franklin Esquire, before whom the within the foregoing proceedings were had, is and was at the doing thereof, President of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the Second Judicial District of Pennsylvania composed of the counties of Lancaster & York duly commissioned, and that to this and all other his official acts due faith and credit are and of right ought to be given.

    In testimony where of I have thereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at the City of Lancaster, this thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen.

                                   //s//
                           G. B. Porter
                                      Prothon.
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William Paul Meeteer
soldier in Cap Tory and Captain Boyd's Company.  Col. Haizen's Regiment. (Duration) of the Revolution.

Declaration & Documentary
Private
Col. Hagens Regiment
1777 - 6 years

not on roll

The disposition of his credible & disinterested witnesses, duly to be taken & authenticated, on the certificate of an officer of the Regiment to prove the service of applicant is required.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Lancaster County ss. 

  On this thirteenth day of May 1823 personally appeared in open Court (being the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and a Court of Record now sitting in the City of Lancaster) in said county, William Paul Mateer aged about sixty four years, resident in the Township of Donegal in Lancaster County, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:  That he first enlisted in the Service of the United States as a six months man, in the spring or summer of 1776, that in the fall if the same year herewith others were dismissed at Lake George that immediately after at Albany in the state of New York, he enlisted for three years, or during the war under Capt Terry  in the winter they marched to Philadelphia that in the ensuing spring Capt Floyd took command of the company, Terry was appointed Major & Haizen Col. That he continued in the same company & regiment until the (illegible) in 1783.  That he was in the battle of Yorktown and assisted in the capture of Cornwallis, That when the prisoners were marched to Lancaster in Pennsylvania that he  
he remained there some time guarding them.    received his discharge from Col Haizen in 1783 which was long since lost.  

    This his original declaration was made on the thirteenth day of April 1819 in order to obtain a Pension certificate.

    And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident Citizen of the United States March 18, 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 n 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 March 18, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any Person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; not have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.  
    That he is a laborer, has four children who are married and has families of their own, that he has no family besides wife Catherine. Whose age he does not know, that they are unable to make their livelihood by labor.

                                               his
                          William Paul   X   Mateer
                                            mark

Sworn, declared and subscribed
the 13th May 1823 in Open Court

Attest, 
//s//
Nath.  Lightner Prothont.

A schedule of the property of William Paul Mateer a soldier in the Revolutionary War, taken May 13th 1823 

He has no property
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40242
INVALID
Revy 
No. 40,242
William Palmiteer
Priv Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 383

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Lancaster City ss

    Before me an Alderman for said City personally came Willia Paul Mateer, alias Palmeteer who on his oath according to law saith that the many times he has heard Roll called in Capt Lloyd's company and in Col. Hazens Regt. he never heard any one answer to the same name with himself, that he is well convinced he is the same person whose name stands on the Roll of Hazen's Regt. William Palmeteer, that he can neither read nor write, therefore did not know how his name was spelled or written on the Roll on the declaration.  That he pronounced his name in the same answer when he enlisted and when made his declaration.

                                          his
                               William X Paulmeteer
                                        mark
Sworn & subscribed
May 27th 1823 before
//s//
Sam.  Dale
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(Addressed envelope)

Free

J.C. Calhoun Esq
Secretary of War
Washington

(Date stamp)
LANC. PA
Jun
2

Rcvd
24 June 1823

Mrs. Edwards
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Lancaster May 31st 1823

Sir,
    I herewith forward to you the deposition of William Palmeteer, which contains all the explanation we are able to give as to the name.
He is so illiterate as not to be able to tell what letters compose his name, either those who wrote it at the time of his enlistment or us who now write his declaration must be wrong, or perhaps both.  I think it is not to be doubted that he is the person who is on the list of Hazen's Reg.  He Paulmeteer, and I think that our spelling the name differently ought not to prejudice his cause, we have no objections to his name being written as it stands on the books.

Yours with respect
//s//
Sam. Dale

J.L. Edwards Esq.
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(Addressed envelope)

The Honorable
 J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
City of Washington

(Handwritten names related to applicant)

Old case               18,825
Wm. Paul Meteer
Lancaster Co. Pa.

Samuel Dale
Lancaster, Pa

Recd. 16 May1823

Suspended, see letter 17 May 1823
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To the Honorable John C. Calhoun

    Sir,  
       I herewith send you the application of W. P. Mateer for a pension, part of the papers have been with you before, but at different times. I hope they are now sufficient to obtain for him a pension.

Yours with esteem
        //s//
    Sam. dale

Lancaster City Penna
May 4th 1823
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Perry County ss

    Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for the county aforesaid appeared George Phile who being duly sworn to law directly saith that he was personally acquainted with William P. Mateer from the year 1777 to the year 1783 and that the deponent and that deponent and William P. Mateer were both enlisted and served in the company of Regular Soldiers commanded by Captain Richard Loyd belonging to the Congress Regiment or United States Regiment commanded by Colonel Moses Hayson - and that to deponent's own knowledge William P. Mateer served and acted as a regular soldier in said company commanded by Rich. Loyd for the space of five years and was still an acting and brave soldier till the war was ended in 1783 and that deponent and William P Mateer were both discharged from the United States Service within a few days of each other and further deponent saith not.

                                       //s//
                             George Phile
Sworn and subscribed before
me at Perry County & state 
aforesaid this 15th February 1829.
//s//
Tho. Gallaher
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(Transcriber's note: A fill-in-the-blank form from the State of Pennsylvania)

Pennsylvania, ss.

    In the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Joseph Hiester Governor
for the said commonwealth,

   To all to whom these presents shall come, Sends greetings know ye, that Thomas Gallagher Esquire whose name is subscribed to the instrument of writing hereunto annexed, was at the time is subscribing the same, and now is one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Perry in the said Commonwealth, duly appointed and commissioned.  And full faith and credit ought to be given to his official acts accordingly. 

    Given under my Hand and the Great Seal of the State, at Harrisburg, this fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three and of the Commonwealth the forty seventh.

By the Governor  
//s//
Andrew Gregg Judge.