Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39907, Micheal Wisler, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                         NUMBERS

Penn.                  Wisler, Michael        S.39907
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18.677 R
Pennsylvania

Michael Wisler
   (aged 66)

of Lancaster Cy in the State of Pa
who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Stewart of the Pa 
line, for the term of 20 March, 1776-77

inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16th of April 1822

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th of June 1822 and sent to Samuel Dade Esqr
Lancaster Pa

Arrears to 4th of 
Parted
Semi.anl. all'ce ending Sept 1822      37.6
4 mo 19/30                                      $37.6
  8
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 32
   5.6
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$37.6                  {Revolutionary claim,}
                           {Act 18th March, 1818.}

May 1, 1820.
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Not this name on the list
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Lancaster County, ss.

ON this Sixteenth day of April 1822 personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas of said county, Michael Wisler aged Sixty six years, resident in the Borough of Columbia 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:  which declaration he maked to enable him to receive the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed the 18th of March 1818 & 1st May 1820} viz That in May 1776 he enlisted for twenty months under Captain Henry Christ who commanded a Rifle Company in Col. Miless Regiment of Riflemen that he was during the time of his enlistment in several engagements of battles, to met at flatbush  on Long Island (where about one fifth of the American encamped, at the white plains, at the taking of the Hessians at Trenttown-at Princetown, at Brandwine at Germantown from thence marched to valley forge, where he was discharged on the first of January 1775 & that during his service he was fierce wounded, that he is now poor and stands in the need of support from his country that he has never received any pension from the United States & releases all claims to any pensions under the law of the United States.
That [{his original declaration was made on the    on which was granted a Pension certificate, dated} crossed out} This is the first declaration or application he has ever made for a pensions. numbered       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 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 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; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.  That I am by trade a shoemaker but am not able to work at it,.  That myself and wife Sophia who is 60 years old is all that my family consists of we have six children living to wit Lewis, Kitty, Peggy, Sally, & Nancy married and gone from us, Michael aged 19 is bound to a trade untill he arrives to the age of 21 that myself and wife are to frail to earn our living by labor.
Michael Wisler

Sworn, declared and subscribed
April 16th, 1822 
in open Court.

ATTEST
F A  Muhlenberg
Prothy

A SCHEDULE of the property of Michael Wisler a Soldier in the Revolutionary WAr, taken April 16th 1822

House and Lot in Columbia worth      $300.00
One cow                                                  12.00
One pig                                                     1.00
Household furniture                                10.00
                                                                 ------
                                                             $323.00

The Columbia Bridge Company has judgment against me on which my personal property has been sold and my house & lot lived on $1000.  677.00 balance against me.

The above contains a correct return of all my property, of whatever kind, necessary beding and clothing excepted.       Michael Wisler

It is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing Schedule is as above stated
                                             Walter Franklin
                                   Sam el {Samuel} Dale

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
Lancaster County, ss
Frederick A Muhlenberg
I, George W. Parker, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for said county of Lancaster, certify that the foregoing Declaration and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court.  And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is as above stated
IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, at the city of Lancaster, this Sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty two F Muhlenberg
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In the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County of April Term 1817 No. 499.  It is thus contained

The Prest Managers & Company for erecting a Bridge over the Susqh [Susquehanna] river in the Coy of Lancr [Lancaster] at or near the Town of Columbia.}
499 Michael  Wisler (of the Borough of Columbia  76 paid}
Scire Facias {Latin let them know} to about. 1820 no 16}
Debt $2000 I hereby enter Judgment against the Defendant to the Plaintiffs in this action for the above penalty on a Judgment Bond dated the 8th day of May 1817, Conditioned for the payment of One thousand Dollars on the 8th day of August next with Interest, and if the principal is not them paid, the Interest to be paid regularly every three months, I costs of suit, and release of arrears.
Enteres May 21st 1817 By John Passmore Prothy
November 24th 1820 Judgment on the Scire Facias

Fi. Fa. [Latin for {you cause to be made}] November Term 1821 no 55

Lancaster County Js.  I Frederick A, Muhlenberg Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for said County Certify that the foregoing is a copy of the record of the Judgment there stated.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at the City of Lancaster this 16th day of April Anno Domini 1822.
fpr F. A. Muhlenberg Prothy.
Christr [Christopher] Backman
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October 11, 1935.
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BA-J/ady
Michael Wisler
S. 39907

Mrs. C. G. Cummins
1800 Isabella Street
Sioux City, Iowa

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to
soldiers of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812.
Revolutionary War data and War of 1812 data
furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension based upon military service of soldiers in those wars.
A careful search of the records fails to show
a claim for pension on file on account of the
services of Baltzer Koontz in the Revolutionary War or of David Goodwin as described by you in the War of 1812, all spellings of the names searched.
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.39907, based upon the military service of Michael Wisler in that war.

The date and place of birth and the names of
the parents of Michael Wisler are not shown.

Michael Wisler enlisted, place not stated, in
May 1776, served as private in Captain Henry Christ's Company, Colonel Miles' Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment and as corporal in Captain Patria Anderson's Company, Colonel Walter Stewart's Pennsylvania Regiment; was in
battles of Flatbush, White Plains, at the taking of the Hessians at Trenton, battles of Princeton, Brandywine and Germantown and discharged at Valley Forge January 1,
1778. He was wounded twice. The engagements in which he received said wounds are not stated.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
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April 10, 1832 at which time he was sixty-six years old and a resident of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

In 1832 soldier's wife, Sophia, was sixty-two
years old. Their children, Lewis, Kitty, Peggy Sally,
and Nancy were then married and their son, Michael, was then nineteen years old. There are no further family data.

This is the record of the only Michael Wisler,
all spellings of the names searched, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
Date of death
not on A.B
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[Left side]

39907
INVALID.
Revy

File No. 39907
Michael Wisler

Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18

Index:- Vol. 5,  Page 567

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Right side]

1911 June 27. Hist. to Mrs. E. P. Whallon & 1935 Oct. 11.  Hist. to Mrs. C. G. Cummins. A.D. y.
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Michael Wisler
S. File 39907.
Penn.
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The Bearer hereof Michael Wisler  [illegible] in Captain Patrick Andersons Company in the Regiment now Commanded by Colonel Walter Stewart having served the Term of Twenty Months [illegible words] of his enlistment is [illegible] honorably discharged & permitted to [illegible] his own home
Given under my hand this first day of January 1778.
W Stewart Colonel
[illegible] Regt
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[envelope]

18490
Michael Wisler
Lancaster, PA

Samuel Dale
Lancaster, Pa.

Recd 4 June 1822

[illegible postmark]

FREE

John C Calhoun Esq
Secretary of War
City Washington
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[illegible] Certificates of pension are granted on the enclosed applications please forward them to 
Saml Dale 
Lancaster

Samuel Coopers are
filed with schedules
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Mrs. C.G. Cummins
1800 Isabella St.
Sioux City, Iowa.

Sept. 26, 1935.

Pension Bureau.
Washington, D.C.

 My Dear Sir,

    I am trying to find some data on my ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War.  Will you be so kind as to find what you can in the following people?

   Baltzer Koontz (also known as Coonts) was born in 1792 and married Susanna Whistler (also known as Wisler).  Baltzer Koontz or Coonts was the son of Baltzer Koontz (Coonts) who served in the Revolutionary War and later lived in Frederick Co., Maryland.  He died either there or in Stark Co, Ind.  I think, tho(ugh) I could be mistaken.

    Susanna Whistler was the child of a Revolutionary Soldier by the name I think of Michael Whistler also spelled Wisler.  They lived after the Revol. at least and maybe before in Lancaster, Penn.  It may be Lancaster Co., and some other town byt I think it was both Lancaster Town and Co., where Susanna was born in 1798.

    Would you be so kind as to let me know of wither of the ancestors had a pension and what can be gleaned from the papers on file in your office. 

                             Very truly yours,
                                      //s//
                         Odessa (Goodwin) Cummins

David Goodwin of Virgina 1776, Son of a Rev. Soldier.

(Date Stanp)

RECIEVED
Oct 2 1935
Mail Sub Div.
Vets. Adm.
Reader # 15
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OHIO
Sons of the American Revolution

Cincinnati Chapter
Cincinnati, O.

June 24, 1911

Pension Dep U.S.

Dear Sirs:

    Please give me the record of military service in Revolutionary War of Michael Wisler, who, I believe was a private in Col. Wiles Reg. Pennsylvania Riflemen.

You will greatly oblige,
Yours very truly

E. P. Whallon

Cincinnati, O.
422 Elm St.
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In reply to your request ________, received _______
(illegible) a statement of military history of Michael Wisler a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension file in this Bureau.            
                                                       S. File 39907

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment/Length of Service/Rank/Officers under whom service was rendered Captain/Colonel/Rate

May 1776 to June 1778/Corporal/(Capt) Henry  Christ & Capt. Patrick Anderson/Col. Miles & Walter Stewart/Co Rifle Regt./Co. Rifle Regt 13th Pa.

Battles Engaged in, Flatbush, White Pines, taking of Hessians at Trenton, Brandy(wine), Germ(antown) & was twice wounded.

Residence of soldier at enlistment: (a check mark)

Date of application for pension:  April 16, 1822.
Residence at date of application; Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa.

Age at date of application: 66 tears.

Remarks:  In 1822 he ref. to wife Sophia, 62 years, children Lewis, Kitty, Peggy, Sally & Nancy. Married & (??) away Michael 19 bound out to trade until of age.