Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11096, Frederick Walser, N.C.
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Walser, Frederick
R. 11096
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N.C.

Walser, Frederick

R. 11096
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State of North Carolina
County of Davidson 
On this 29th day of April AD 1837. personally appeared before me Daniel Delap an acting Justice of the Peace for said County Frederick Walsen a resident of said County of Davidson in the State of North Carolina age seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.  Under Captain Douglas Haden, Captain John Lopp, Captain Thomas Cowan, Colonel F Locke in the Militia.  That about the month of August in the year 1780 being then resident in Rowan County in the past now called Davidson where he now resides he was Mustered and called in Service as a Minute man in the company commanded by Captain Douglas Haden.  Then he was in camp or marching up and down paralel with the yadkin River from Montgomery to ---- County a distance of about 50 miles that their business was to suppress and guard against the depredation of the Tories, who under one Fa---- an active Tory officer frequently committed depredations plunder and murder in the upper or western part of North Carolina.  That their companys captain Cowan Captain Lopps were frequently together under Colonel J. Locke for a ----- days when they as often separated and marched in different directions, to such pains as it was then imagined they might be useful or necessary. They continued in this irregular service occasionally returning home for one or --- days until about the last of September 1787 having served fully twelve months as a minute man; when he was drafted in the Militia, and entered the company of Capt Thomas Cowan in the Regiment of the Colonel J. Locke assembled at a camp near Thompsons Mill in the South Side of Rowan County; that they there took charge of a number of British Prisoners taken at the Battle of Eutaw Spring in South Carolina and acted as Guards on their March from said camp to the Virginia line where the Virginia troops took charge of the Prisoners in Henry County of that State and the North Carolina Militia were relieved and returned home; although drafted for six months he served only three months - when he received his discharge which he believes was signed by Colonel Locke (for it is now lost) he was directed to hold himself in constant readiness to join the troops for the other three months whenever called upon; but was not afterwards called into the service.
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so that the whole time of his military service was fifteen months and ended about Christmas 1781...He recollects of serving Generals Morgan and Green at the trading ford on the Yadkin at the time the Army under General Green acrossed there, that there was some firing across the river with the British troops at that place, that he never was with or near the regular troops at any other time or place. That he has no documenting evidence of his services, having lost his discharge. That he knows of the person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. He has now no record of his age, but he believes he was born December 25th 1760 in Lincoln County Pennsylvania and emigrated with his father to his present residence in the year 1771. That no clergyman acquainted with him lives in any reasonable distance of him, he therefore cannot procure the certificate of any. He refers to his neighbors Frederick Thompson, Capt. Benjamin Smith, Philip Snider, Capt. John Myers, John Michael, Peter M. Woods, and David Hoffmon who can testify to his veracity and reputation. He hereby relinquished every claim to a Pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his names is not on Pension Roll of the agency of any state to his knowledge. He further declares that the reason he did not make his application sooner is that he has labored under disease for the last four years which has confined him to his house; and that he is still unable to appear at Court. 

Sword to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before. 

We Frederick Thompson, Capt. Benjamin Smith, Philip Snider, Capt. John Myers, John Michael, Peter M. Woods, and David Hoffmon residing in the County of Davidson hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Frederick Walser who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before. Frederick Thompson, Benjamin Smith, Philip Snider, John Myers, John Michael, and Peter M. Woods.

I Daniel Delap an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Davidson in the State of North Carolina do hereby declare any opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that Frederick Walser the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and I further certify that it appears to me that Frederick Thompson, Capt. Benjamin Smith, Philip Snider, Capt. John Myers, John Michael, Peter M. Woods, and David Hoffmon who have signed the preceeding certificate are credible persons residing in the County of Davidson and that their statement is entitled to credit and I further certify that the said Frederick Walser aboved names is by reason of age and infinity unable to appear at the Court of this County. Given under my hand this day and year above written

Daniel Delap
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I Saml. Garther - Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Davidson in the State of North Carolina do hereby certify that Daniel Delapp is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Davidson duly appointed commissioned and sworn, according to the act of the State Legislative in such cases made and provided; that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such; and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine in testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my names and affixed my seal of office. The 8th day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.

Saml. Garther
Clerk of the Court of Common Please
and Quarter Sessions for Davidson County
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February 8, 1935

Frederick Walser-R.11096

Mrs. R. Lee Wright
302 S. Fulton Street
Salisbury, North Carolina

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the pension record of Fredrick Walser, of Davidson County, North Carolina, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

A very careful examination has been made of the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R.11096, based upon the military service in that war of Frederick Walser, and all the data found are furnished you herein. 

Frederick Walser was born December 25, 1760, in "Lincoln" County, Pennsylvania, and emigrated with his father to Rowan County, North Carolina, in 1771. The names of his parents are not known.

On April 29, 1837, while a resident of Davidson County, North Carolina, Frederick Walser applied for pension and states that while residing in Rowan (that part which was later Davidson) County, North Carolina, in August, 1780, he was a minuteman and that he rendered actual service in Captain Douglass Haden's Company, Colonel F. Locke's North Carolina Regiment, was out against the Tories and served at least twelve months in all: that he enlisted and served three months as a private in Captain Thomas Cowan's North Carolina Company and guarded the prisoners taken at the battle of Eutaw Springs to the Virginia line where the Virginia soldiers took charge of them.

His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service of six months in a regularly organized military corps as required by the pension law.

There are no data as to soldier's family.

Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to Administrator
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Page is divided into two halves by a fold line running top to bottom]
[left half}
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 [whole line crossed out]
REJECTED
11.096.
P. O. 
Fred_a Walser
Service: 
Enlisted:  _______________________, 18
Discharged:  _____________________, 18
Printed list of 1852 gives cause of rejection
Application filed:  ________________, 18
"Partisan warfare,
Tory chasing"
Alleges:  ________________________________
__________________________________________
Re-enlisted:  ________________________________
______________________________________________
Attorney:  __________________________________-
P. O.   ______________________________________
______________________________________________________________Recognized.  ____________Contract. 

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1912 Feb. 17.  History to Mrs Lena Walser.   ȼ.
1934 - Sept 25.  Hist. to Mrs J R English
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1935 - Feb. 8 - Hist to Mrs R. Lee Wright.  EEL
1939, Nov. 1 - Mrs R Lee Wright adv'd cost of photos -  MMHØ: B.
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Department of War
Pension Officer
October 10, 1837

Sir,
In reply to your...In accordance with your []
I herewith order you a copy of my letter and Saml Silliman Esq of Salisbury, NC stating the reason for expecting the claim of Frederick Walser to a pension under the act of Congress paped June 7, 1832.
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Salisbury, N.C.
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Free
James L. Edwards Eqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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Salisbury N.C. May 15th 1837

J.L. Edwards

Enclosed is the claim of Frederick Walser for a pension under the act of Congress of June 1832. By his request require the report of your determination on the subject to be forward to me at Salisbury as early as may be convenient.

Respectfully your obedient servant
Saml Silliman

It may be observed that the Clerk of the County Court of Davidson has made an error in writing the name of the Justice of Peace by adding a [] too much, it is hoped however that this mistake will not viciate the proceedings being only (to use a new coined phrase) a lapses have a - is Lapses Lingua

S. Silliman
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Feb 10th, 1912

Commissioners of Pension 
U.S. Pension Officer
Washington City

My dear Sir:

I wish to know if my great grand-father Frederick Walser or my great-uncle Jacob Casperor or Phillip Walser are enrolled as Soldier of the Revolutionary War; i think these men were enlisted from Rowan Co., North Carolina but they came from Pennsylvania and may have been in the war before they settled here. If these names appear in the list of soldiers from either Pennsylvania or North Carolina please send me a certificate to that effect. I shall....
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appreciate any information very much and would gladly pay any reasonable charge for knowledge of these men.

Thanking you in advance for any information.

I am
Very Sincerely, 
Lena Walser
Statesville, N.C.

I regret that I do not know the companies to which my relatives belonged.
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Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs, 

Please send me a copy of the application for Revolutionary service made by Fredrick Walser of Davidson Co. North Carolina.

Mrs. R. Lee Wright
302 S. Fulton St.
Salisbury, N. Carolina

Jan. 30, 1935
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Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs,

Please send me an exact copy of an application for a Revolutionary pension for Frederick Walser of Davidson Co., N.C. The application was made in 1837. Please send copy of application, and
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copy of a bible record that was sent department by Thomas Wright of Surry Co., N.C. This application was for Revolutionary service. Bible record gives necessary information for D.A.R. application (over)
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Address:
Mrs. R. Lee Wright
302 South Fulton St.,
Salisbury, N.C.

Aug. 10, 1939
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Martinsville, VA.
September 1, 1934

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

I will appreciate it very much if you can give me any data in regard to Richard Owen (Revolutionary War Soldier). I do not know from what county he was enlisted if from the States of Virginia, possibly from Brunswich County and if from North Carolina, possibly Granville or Rowan County. 

Any information in regard to him will be greatly appreciated and will also appreciate a reply at your earliest convenience.

Yours very truly,
Lucy Owen English
(Mrs. J.R. English)

Do you have any record of Frederick Walser, Rowan County, North Carolina. The name is now spelled Walser but at that time it might have been spelled Walcher. He was also a Rev. War soldier.
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November 1, 1939
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Frederick Walser
R.11096
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Mrs. R. Lee Wright
302 South Fulton Street
Salisbury, North Carolina

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request exact copy of the papers in the application for pension of Frederick Walser, R.11096, of Davidson County, North Carolina, whose record was furnished you February 8, 1935.

Photostatic copies of the papers in the claim cited above will be furnished you for $1.00

Remittance should be made by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United States and mailed to the Veterans Administration, Arlington Building, this city. The copes will then be made and mailed to you. 

Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Rev. War.
Feb. 17, 1912

Mrs. Lena Walser,

Statesville, North Carolina

Madam:

In reply to your letter dated the tenth and received the thirteenth instant, you are advised that this Bureau is unable to furnish the record of a Revolutionary soldier unless a claim has been filed on account of his services, and that the Revolutionary War pension records fail to show that such claims were ever filed for Jacob Casperer or Philip Walser.

Such muster rolls of the Revolution as are now in the possession of the Government, are in the custody of the adjutant General, U.S.A., War Department.

Rolls and other records are sometimes found in the Archives of the state in which the soldier enlisted.

Very Respectfully,
Commissioner
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September 25, 1934
Frederick Walser-R.11096

Mrs. J.R. English
Martinsville
Virginia

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Richard Owen and Frederick Walser, soldier of the Revolutionary War.

A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land having been made to the United States based upon the military service in that war of a Richard Owen or Owens. The record of Frederick Walser has been found and his history is furnished you herein the data for which were obtained from pension claim, R.11096, based upon the military service of Frederick Walser in that war.

Frederick Walser was born December 25, 1760 in "Lincoln" County, Pennsylvania, and migrated with his father to Rowan County, North Carolina, in 1771. The names of his parents are not shown.

On April 29, 1837, while a resident of Davidson County, North Carolina, Frederick Walser applied for pension and states that while residing in Rowan (that part which was later Davidson) County, North Carolina, in August, 1780, he was a minuteman and that he rendered actual service in Captain Douglass Haden's Company, Colonel F. Locke's North Carolina Regiment, was out against the Tories and served at least twelve months in all: that he enlisted and served three months as a private in Captain Thomas Cowan's North Carolina Company and guarded the prisoners taken at the battle of Eutaw Springs to the Virginia line where the Virginia soldiers took charge of them.

His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service of six months in a regularly organized military corps as required by the pension law.

There are no family data.

Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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In reply to your request [.........], received [.......] for a statement of the military history of Frederick Walser a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment: August 1780

Length of Service: 12 months / 3 months

Rank: Minute Man

Officers under whom service was rendered: Capt. Douglass Hadon, Capt. John Lopp, Capt. Thomas Cowan, and Colonel F. Locke

State: NC    

Battles engaged in, 

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Rowan County, NC

Date of application for pension, April 29, 1837

Residence at date of application, Davidson County, NC

Age at date of application, born December 25, 1760, Lincoln County, PA.

Remarks: His claim was not allowed, for the reason that his service as a "minute man" was not provided for by the Act of June 7, 1832 under which he applied. 

Very Respectfully, 
Commissioner