Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40653, Adam Weaver, Penn.
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SERVICE: Penn.

Weaver, Adam

NUMBER: S. 40653

CONTENTS:
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12.487 R
Pennsylvania
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Adam Weaver
of Westmoreland Co in the state of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brodhead of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of three years
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Subscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 of May 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of July 1819 and Sent to John Reed 8am Westmoreland County Greensburg Pennsylvania
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Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819 
Semi-anl all'ce ending Sep 1819.
9 Mo. 6/31

74.32
48.00
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$122.32

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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Adam Weaver

12.487
July 19
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District of Pennsylvania

On this first day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court a Court of record being the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania Adam Weaver aged upwards of Sixty Seven years resident in the County and State 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 inlisted in the year 1776 or 1777 as near as he can recollect in Captain David Kilgore's Company in the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment Commanded first by Colonel McCoy [Aeneas Mackay] and afterwards by Coll. Broadhead [Daniel Brodhead] that he Served in Said Regiment for the Space of three years, the term for which he inlisted and was Honorably discharged by the said Col. Broadhead at Pittsburgh that he was in the Battle of Brandewyne, Paoli, Germantown & Bonbrook [Bound Brook, NJ]. That he is now inscribed on the pension list Roll of Pennsylvania agency at the rate of eight dollars per month that his declaration was made on the 30th day of May 1818 that his pension Certificate is dated the first of July 1819 numbered 12,487 that he has received his Said pension up to the 4th of September last, that he has sent for the Six month pension due Being on the 4th of March last but has not yet received it. And that I the said Adam Weaver do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and I have not Since that time by gift Sale or in any other 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 the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person interest for me any property or Securities Contracts or debt due to me nor have I any other income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed

Schedule

Two Cows of the value of 10 dollars each ....................................................... 20.00
Two pigs of about two months old of the value of 50 cents each .............1.00
1 Small Tenement containing about two acres an old cabbin 
thereon purchased of Esquire Martin.................................................................. 80.00
Total amount of property exclusive of my pension.......................................101.00

Debts due by me
Due Esquire Martin balance of purchase money..............................................40.00
of the above lot which when I pay him I am to receive the title ---- }
Other debts due by me late contracts for grain 
and other articles for my support ...........................................................................30.00  70.00
                                                                                                          Balance    $31.00

I do declare upon the oath I have taken that the above is a just and true statement of all I am worth my necessary clothing and bedding excepted 
Adam Weaver
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I the said Adam Weaver am by occupation a labourer but from my advanced age and infirmities I can dob but little for my support. My family residing with me consists of my self and wife Catherine who is about sexy six years of age & who is also very infirmed.
Adam Weaver

The foregoing Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court 1st June 1820
Teste
John H. Wise Brother
Westmoreland County ss
In Testimony that the foregoing is a true copy of the original remaining of file on my office. I john H. Wise prothimortary of the Court of Common Pleas for said county have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Grreensburgh in said County this second day of August AD 1820
Morrison Underwood

I John Henry Wise prothemotery of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Westmoreland Do solemnly certify that at a Court held for said County the sixteenth insteat. He seems court of value the property of the within named Adam Weaver mentioned int he within Schedule at the sum of one hundred and one dollars on by the record thereof appeared
Given under my hand & seal of office at Numburgh the 19th day of October AD 1820

J. H. Wise Pthy
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Adam Weaver
Private
76 to 79
Brodhead Pennsylvania
Regt
Admitted

[Sidways]
Adam Weaver Juior
Eighth Private Regt.
1776 to 1779 30 May 1811

The Judge just certify in the "reduced circumstances" of applicant
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Pennsylvania 
Westmoreland County ss 
Be it remembered that Adam Weaver of the County of Westmoreland personally came before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and being duly sworn on his oath deposeth and saith, that he enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary War to serve for three years. That this deponent enlisted in August one thousand seven hundred and seventy six in the said county of Westmoreland in the Company commanded by Captain David Kilgore in the eighth Pennsylvania Regiment commanded at that time by Colonel A. McCoy [Aeneas Mackay]. Capt. Kilgore resigned and Capt Prather [Basil Prather] was appointed to the command of said company. He was was transfered to Col Morgan's [Daniel Morgan] Regiment of Riflemen. and Capt Dawson [possibly Samuel Dawson] appointed to command said Company, In the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine This deponent was honorably discharged at Pittsburg the said company was at that time under command of Colonel Daniel Broadhead [Brodhead] who signed the Discharge of the Deponent and which said Discharge is lost. and has been lost for many years. This deponent was in the Battles of Bonbrook [Bound Brook, NJ], Brandywine, Paoli, German Town, and very many skirmishes. He further states that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance
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of his country for support and he doth here by relinquish his claim to every pension heretofore allowed to him by the laws of the United States.
Adam Weaver
Sworn & Subscribed before 
me the 30th May 1818
John Young


James Boward a credible witness being duly sworn before the Law, does on his oath deposeth and saith, that he is well acquainted with the above mentioned Adam Weaver and knew him well during the revolutionary war, and saith that he, this deponent served in the same Company as set forth in the foregoing deposition, and acted as sergeant of the Same, He knows that the said Adam Weaver entered the Service as a private in August one thousand ^seven^ [eight- crossed out] hundred and seventy six and continued for three years ^in the Pennsylvania Line^ in the Service, when he was honorably discharged at Pittburg. That serving the said period he was a good and faithful soldier.
James Boward
Sworn & Subscribed 
before me the 30th May 1818
John Young
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Hhaving appeared to my satisfaction that Adam Weaver the within named applicant served in the Revolutionary war as a private against the common enemy for three years at one period from and after August 1776 I do certify the Testimony in the case and proceedings Said there on to the Secretary at War according to the act of Congress in that law made the 18th March 1818. Witness my hand & seal the 30 May 1818.
John Young 

Westmoreland County ss   I James Reed prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for said County in the Common wealth of Pennsylvania Do Hereby Certify that John Young before whom the annexed affidavits of Adam Weaver & James Boward were taken & whose name is subscribed to the above certificate at the time of taking said affidavits & signing said certificate was President of the Court of Common pleas for said County duly commissioned [?]  In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of my office at Greensburgh in said County this thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & eighteen 
for James Reed Prothy 
Morrison Underwood
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I further certify that it appeared to my satisfaction that from the reduced circumstances of the within named Adam Weaver he needs the assistance of his country for support Witness my hand & seal at Greensburg the 24 April 1819 
John Young
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                                                                April 25, 1933
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                                                                Adam Weaver, S.40653
Miss Luella B. Kountz.                          BA-J/MCS
433 New England Avenue
Winter Park
Florida

Dear Madam:

     Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary 
War record of Adam Weaver.

     The data which follow were obtained from papers of file 
in the pension claim, S. 40653, based upon the military service
of Adam Weaver.

     He enlisted in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1776
or 1777 and served three years as private in Captains David Kilgore's,
Prather's and Dawson's Companies in Colonels Aenas Kackey's, Morgan's and Daniel Brodhead's Pennylvania Regiments. He was in the battles of Bound Brook, Brandywine, Paoli and Germantown.

     He was allowed pension on his application executed May 30, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

     In 1820 he stated that he was then "upwards of sixty-seven years of age and referred to his wife, Catherine, as being about sixty-six years of age. The papers in this pension claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.

                                   Very truly yours
[unintelligible]
[unintelligible]
                                   A. D. HILLER
                                   Assistant to Administrator
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(Addressed Envelope)

To the Hon(orable)
The Secretary of War
Washington City



Rec'd 24 July 1826
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Westmoreland County  Penna. July 20th 1826

Sir,

    I have observed a notice issued at the War Department date the 30th of June last calling upon pensioners residing in certain counties in the States of Penns and Ohio to report themselves to that Department for the purposes explained in said notice.

    I therefore report that I was inscribed on the pension list roll of the Pennsylvania Agency on the first day of July 1819 at the rate of eight dollars per month, that my residence then and ever since is in the County of Westmoreland & state of Pennsylvania.

                                                //s//
                                            Adam Weaver

Hon(orable) Secretary of Was

   
The above is the signature of Adam Weaver.
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April 17th 1933

Miss Luella B. Kountz
433 New England Avenue
Winter Park, Florida

Pension Bureau,
Washington D.C.
Adam Weaver of Westmoreland Co. Penna received a pension, which pension commenced May 30, 1818 at the age of 81 years.  Would you kindly send me a copy of this application that I may learn some family data.

                                          Yours
                                            //s//
                                   Luella B. Kountz
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Penn
Waver, Adam
S40653
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section W.O.S


June 1, 1927


Charles O. Weaver
501 Weddell Ave.
Donora, Pa.

Sir:

I have to advise you that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claims, S. 40653, that ADAM WEAVER enlisted in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1776 and served three years as private in Captains David Kilgore's, Prather's and Dawson's Companies, in Colonels Aenas Mackey's, Morgan's and Daniel Brodhead's Pennylvania Regiments; he was in the battles of Bound Brook, Brandywine, Paoli and Germantown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 30, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
In 1820 he stated that he was then "upwards of sixty-seven years of age and referred to his wife, Catherine, as being about sixty-six years of age. 
There are no further data on file relative to the soldier's family.
Respectfully,


WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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Donora Penna,
March 25th, 1927.
Burea of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

Would .be much interested to have the record of Adam. Weaver,as per record at hand,I have the above with Kilgore's company;1776-79.

Captain David.Kilgore,in roster of Field & Staff Officers, of the Eight Pennsylvania,

Very truly yours,
Charles. O. Weaver
501 Waddell Ave,
Donora Penna.