Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9527, for Joseph Shoemaker, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE Penn
[black hand written star]
Shoemaker, Joseph
NUMBER R.9527
War of 1812
CONTENTS
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REJECTED

9527

Joseph Shoemaker
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No 39.110

Joseph Shoemaker
Indiana

Let A Y Hooper, May 15, 1857

Rejected

9527

June 7 1832
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Columbia City, IN

April 24, 1837

Hon Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir:

Enclosed I send you application of Joseph Shoemaker for pension and back pay if he is entitled to any for his service therein described.

He is now old and needy and if for such service as carrying the mail in the time of war where he was liable to be shot each day by the enemy will entitle him to a pension.  Then I trust you will give this case your prompt attention as the old man is truly needy.

There is a certificate on file
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in your office from the Clerk of the Bentley Circuit Court showing that William S Thomas is an acting Notary Public.

I supposed it not necessary to send another.

Respectfully yours,

J A Cooper
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No.

Joseph Shoemaker

June 7, 1832

Rejected

A G Hooper
Columbia City, Ind
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State of Indiana
Whitley County

On this the 23rd day of April AD 1857 personally appeared before me a Notary Public within and for said County and State aforesaid, Joseph Shoemaker aged sixtyty eight years, a resident of Whitley County in the State of Indiana. As he being duly sworn according to Law declares that he is the Identical Joseph Shoemaker who in the year 1775 was called upon to enter the service of the Colonial army of the Revolution. He thinks it was in the year 1777, himself and father were called upon he thinks drafed and he the said Joseph was put to carrying the mail in consequence of his gout and feebleness.  That he was taken before before Nicholas DePew a Justice of the Peace and served as mail carrier.  That he then entered the service and carried the mail during two Summers about six months each season.  that he entered the service in Smithfield Township Northhampton County in the Colony of Pennsylvania.  That his father's name was Garrett Shoemaker,
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or John Handy was captain of the company raised at that point and Jacob Strander was Colonel. He further states that during the time He carried the mail as aforesaid, he was twice found was shot in the thigh  and once in his leg, the last being a serious wound that has more or less disabled him for life.  That he carried the mail down the Delaware River to Easton, which was about thirty miles and carried it up the river to a place he thinks was called Dickens Fort.  He also states that He thinks Daniel Dewit and Henry Shoemaker were captains at the time he rendered said service.

He also states that He was out in the war of 1812, and has made application and obtained Land Warrant for said service under the act of 1850  and 1855 and with his first application for Land Warrant, he made full Statement in regard to his service in the Revolution to which he refers you for the Particulars more fully as he may by this time have forgot some things that he then remembered
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He makes this declaration to obtain his Pension and Back pay from the United States for his arduous and dangerous service in the revolution, if he is entitled to anything for said service. He wishes to obtain it. He further States that he has never received any pension Except the two land warrants of eighty acres each obtained for his service in the War of 1812.

Joseph Shoemaker

We Dennis Shoemaker and Thomas Cleveland residents of the County of Whitley and State of Indiana upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Joseph Shoemaker in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that he is the Identical person he represents himself to be and that we have no interest in this application whatever

Dennis M Shoemaker
Thomas Cleveland
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The foregoing Declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons and that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.

Witness my hand and Notarial Seal the day and year above Written

William Harris
Notary Public