Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1984-450, Rudolph Bunner, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
CONTENTS
Bunner, Rudolph
NUMBER
of
B.L. Wt. 1984-450
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Rudolph Bunner
N. 1984
issued Nov 23, 1833
to Chas. F. Bunner
nephew & only heir
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of power of Attorney
Charles F Bunner
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S Charles H Bunner of the City of [illegible] and only child and
[illegible] after the death of son Andreas Bunner and which Andreas Bunner
Ann at Law of Andreas Bunner who was the Elder brother and heir at
Law of Lunt Col Rudolph Bunner of the Pennsylvania line of the
Army of the Revolution and who fell at the Battle of Monmouth
intestate and without issue, do upon oath testify and declare to the
but of my knowledge and belief that my late with the said Lot
Col Rudolph Bunnel fill in battle at the Battle of Monmouth in
the war of the Revolution Intestate and without issue and I further
declare that I have never received a warrant from the United States for
the Bounty Land due the said deceased from the United States neither
do I believe that my late father we received the same or disposed of
his interest in the same on that my there previous to his death
ever assigned or transferred his right to the same in any manner
whatever therefore Know all men by these presents that I Charles
F. Furner as aforesaid do hereby Constitute and appoint Henry
or there of Louisville Kentucky my time and Lawfull attorney with
were of substitution for me and in my name to ask demand and
from the Secretary of war of the Winter States a warrant
for the County land due me in right of the services of the
at Col Rudolph Benner and my said attorney is hereby
house and empowered to do and perform all things necessary to be
one in and about the business and deposite the said warrant
then to obtained with the Commissioner of the General Land Office
ask demand sue thereof and to transfer or assign
certificates of Land scripture thereon and to do and perform as
manner of things which I myself might do were I personally
requit
tober 1838
Witness my Hand and seal this 21st of
Witness & the interlineating, "living
Bunner
after the
and which
to the be
and belief
death of said Andrew Benner
Andrew Bunner and
at of my knowledge, information
before execution south of

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Marthal
State of New York City
and County of New York SS. On this Twenty first day of October AD 1833
personally appeared before me the above Charles F
Banner who being by me duly sorn according to ┃
Law depond that the contents of the above
deposition by him subscribed were true according to
the best of his knowledge and belief, and also
acknowledged the above Pene W. Attorney to be his act
and Deed
Mary Warner
Commissioner of Deeds
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STATE OF NEW-YORK.
City and County of New-York, } ss.
I, ABRAHAM ASTEN, Clerk of the City and
County of New-York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
for the said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY
That
Andrew Warner whose name is subscribed
to the annexed Certificate was on the day of
the date thereof a Commissioner of Deeds in
and for the City and County aforesaid duly
commissioned and sworn, and authorized
to administer the Oath, and to take the 
acknowledgement of Deeds and other
Instrument and that full faith and
credit are due to his official acts-
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and af-
fixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 21-day
of October 1833
Ann Allen
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Departian Thos F Leam
=ing for the manners-
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City of Philadelphia

     Personally appeared before me Andrew Pettit one of the alderman of the said Cty Thomas F Leaming Merchant of said city who being duly sworn according to Law deposes and says that his uncle Andrew Bunner who departed this life many years ago was to the best of this deponents knowledge and beliefs a Brother of Lt Col Rudolph Bunner who fell at the battle of Monmouth in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight, that the Executors Sarah Bunner Thomas Leaming and Joseph C Fishar to the will of the said Andrew Bunner and all of them at this time dead, that the said Andrew Bunner left several children all of whom have since died save Charles F. Bunner of the City of New York who is his son and only surviving child, that all the said children with the above exception and under age or unmarried and intestate. The said deponent further says that he is now Forty seven years of age and was well and intimately acquainted with his cousins the children of the said Andrew
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Bunner; said that of the Excutors named on his bill the one was his father and the others his uncle and aunt. And further this deponant saith not
Sworn and Subscribed [signature]Thos F Leaming
Before me
[signature] L Pettite A.D
Oct 25th 1833
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Copy of Andrew
Bunner will
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In the Name of God Amen

I, Andrew Bunner of the City of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, a merchant being at present of sound mind and disposing memory do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say- -- 

First it is my will and desire that all my just debts be punctually paid.

Secondly that after all my said debts are paid it is my will that my loving wife Sarah shall have and enjoy the income of all my estate both to real and personal whatsoever and wheresoever the same may be during her natural life.

Thirdly that after the decease of my said wife Sarah all my estate both real and personal be sold either at private or publick sale by my executor herein after mentioned or the survivor or survivors of them in the best manner and for the most it will bring and the _____ proceeds to be divided amongst my children that shall then be living share and share alike.

Fourth and lastly I do hereby appoint and ordain my said wife, my brother in law Thomas Leaming Jun. and Joseph Coleman Fisher or the survivor or survivors of them my executor of this my last Will and Testament.  Also guardians to my children during their minority requesting said guardians to give my children such education as they shall think necessary and when of proper age to bind them to such suitable trades or occupations they shall judge proper.  Witness my hand and seal the twentieth day June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.

Signature:  Andrew Brunner (seal)

Sealed published and declared this to be my last Will and Testament in the presence of the _____ in the twentieth line being first made witness
H. B. Pierpont
John Crosby
Andrew Philler


Andrew Philler one of the witnesses sworn the 29th day of Dec. 1791 and the ____ sworn same day before Isac Wampole _____
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Andrew Miller one of the Heirs to the foregoing WIll on his Solemn Oath doth depose & say that he Saw and heard Andrew Bunner the Testator duly sign and publicly Pronounce & declare the form and ask for his last Will & Testament, and at the doing thereof he was of sound mind memory & understanding of the Host of this knowledge & belief -Sworn the 29th- Day of December 1791 - Isaac Wampole by Registry
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Philad. June 2, 1807
Then personally appeared Thomas Bradford Junior Esq. of the City of Philadelphia and on oath did depose and say that he was well acquainted with Andrew Bunner the testator in the written Will named in his life time and is well  acquainted with his hand writing that the name or signature Andrew Bunner subscribed to the written Will is to the best of this deponents knowledge and belief of the proper hand writing of the said Andrew Bunner deceased.

Thomas Brandford, Jun.

Sworn and subscribed the day and date above said before Isac Wampole Dept. Regr.

City County of Philadelphia
I certify that foregoing to the ___ copy of the Last Will and Testament of Andrew Bunner deceased as well as the ____ thereof as filed and _____ in the Registry Office for ____ County of Philadelphia

Given under my hand and seal of office this 25th day of October A.D. 1833
J. S. Humes, registrar
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

January 16, 1926

Mrs. O. D.  _____
1408 Park Ave.
Baltimore, MD

Madam:

I have to advise you, that Warrant Number 1984, for four hundred and fifty acres of Bounty land was allowed November 23,1833 to Charles F. Bunner of New York City (nephew and heir) on account of the services of Lieutenant-Colonel Rudolph Bunner of the Pennsylvania Line, who was killed at the battle of Monmouth, and who was never married.

Said Charles F. Bunner was the son and heir of the soldier's deceased brother Andrew Bunner.  

Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner

(Hand-written note at the bottom of the letter)
No mention made of Mrs. Caroline Gregg, she evidently ___ the child as she would certainly have known that ___ ____ father was killed ____ and all the others swear that soldier never married.
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Certificate as to will and Documentation of Lt Col Rudolph Bunner
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Commonweatlh of Pennsylvania
City & County of Philadelphia
  
I Certify that I have carefully searched the inclines of the Record of of Wills and Letters of Administration in the Registers Office for the City & County of Philadelphia and do not find any Will made by Rudolph Bunner nor any Correspondence alluding great to this Estate since the 1st of January 1778 to this time = 


Given under my hard and that of Office this 28th Day of October A.D. 1833 -
J. Humes, Register
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Declaration Margret Shochion for Pension.
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State of Pennsylvania
Cithttps://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pngy of Philadelphia
County of Philadelphia ss

This Twenty Sixth day of October A.D. 1833 personally appeared before me the subscriber, an Alderman in and for the City of Philadelphia aforesaid, and Ex officio a Justice of the Peace, in and for the said County of Philadelphia Mrs. Margaret Shichore, of the said City, Widow, ____ ____ by her duly affirmed on her soloumn affirmation doth say, that she is now about Seventy Seven years of age, that in early life she was intimately aquainted with the family of the Bunners of said City; that Lieutenant Colonel Rudolph Bunner of same City was killed at the Battle of Monmouth, in the War of the Revolution, that he was at the time of his death a single and unmarried man, that he had two or three Brothers and one Sister whose name was Susan Bunner; - that Andrew his eldest Brother was then at the time mentioned a married man, being the eldest of the family, and all the others were younger than the said Lieutenant Coln Rudolph Bunner; that the said Andrew Bunner has been long since dead; and that Charles F. Bunner of the City of New-York is his Son and only Child now living - all the others having died in early life - 

Margaret X Shocker
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Deposition of Thomas Bradford for Bunner
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County of Philadelphia, ss.

Before me one of the Alderman, and a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally came Thomas Bradford, Gentleman, who being duly sworn according to law, doth declares and say, that he is now eighty-eight years of age, & that he was well acquainted with Lieut. Col. Rudolph Bunner, of the Pennsylvania line of the Army of the Revolution, a Citizen of the City of Philadelphia, who fell at the battle of Monmouth in 1777, being a single and unmarried man, without leaving issue. This deponent was also acquainted with Andrew Bunner, a brother of the aforementioned Rudolph Bunner and brother-in-law to the deponent, & he believes the said Andrew was the eldest of the family. This deponent further says that Andrew Bunner has been many years dead, leaving several children, all of whom died in their minority & without issue except Charles F. Bunner, now of the City of New York, who is his only surviving child and heir at law. This deponent says that the said Rudolph Bunner had a sister, but she was younger than Andrew Bunner & further he saith not.

Thomas Bradford

Sworn and subscribed before me
Witness my hand and seal this
26th day of October 1833
Wm. McMichael
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Philadelphia County ss

I Richard Palmer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Please for the City & County of Philadelphia do hereby certify that Morton McMichael Esq is an Alderman of the county of Philadelphia and Ex Officio a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith & credit is justly due to all his acts as such

In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and adffixed the seal of same court the 26th day of October AD 1833


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Prothonotary
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Mrs. Caroline Gregg
Septemr 1st 1829

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Bedford County Virginia August 24, 1829

Sir   I am informed that it is probable that my father, Rudolph Bunner, who was a Colonel of the Pennsylvania line during the revolutionary war acquired a right to a bounty of land from the United States; if the records of you office show him enlisted you will please inform me how I shall procede to get it, you will direct your communication to the care of Leroy Joscelan (spelling ?) Esqr at Liberty, Bedford County Virginia

I am your ob Servt

Caroline Gregg
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War Department
Bounty Land Office
Septem' 1 1829

Mrs. Caroline Greeg
Bedford County
Virginia --

Madam

Your letter to the Secretary of War enquiring into your right to Bounty Land, as the Daughter and heiress of Leiut. Conl. Rudolph Bunner, is received and referred to this office -- In reply I must inform you that, it is not consistent with the practice of this office to furnish Claimants of Bounty Land, the means to establish such claims; on the contrary, it is expected, and required that, all applicants will, themselves, furnish the evidence of their right, when this evidence is presented by you, in an authentic manner, your claim will meet with due attention.

Respectfully Yours
Wm. Gordon
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(U.S. Postmark Pension Office Dec 17 1925)
(Letterhead) 
Mrs. Charles O'Donnell Mackall
1408 Park Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland
(End Letterhead)

December 16th, 1925.

The Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.,

Dear Sir:-

I have been referred to you by the Adjutant General of the War Department saying that your Department might be able to give me the pension
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records and any added information concerning Lieut. Colonel Rudolph Bonner or Bunner, 3rd Pennsylvania troups who was killed at the Battle of Monmouth, N.J., June 28th 1778.

Thanking you in advance,
Very truly yours,
Louise Bonner Mackall
(Mrs. Charles O'Donnell