Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11695, Adam Wimer, Penn.
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3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.
Wimer, Adam 

NUMBER
R. 11695

CONTENTS
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Adam Wimer
Susp Pay [?] 82
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
State of Pennsylvania County of Butler } ss:                  
Be it known, that before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared * Jacob Wimer resident of Porterville in the county of Butler in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, states that he is ⵜ a son of Adam Wimer late of Slippery Rock Township in the county of Lawrence and the State of Penn who was a revolutionary ‡ soldier and that he believes the United States are still indebted, under existing laws, for the pension that was due under the application heretofore made and that he is directly interested as a claimant in the pension for which application was heretofore made as aforesaid, and constitutes and appoints Willis G. Wade, of Washington, D.C., my true and lawful attorney, with irrevocable power to examine into, investigate, and establish the claim for said pension, and do all acts necessary thereto.      
In Witness Whereof, Jacob Wimer has on this Seventh day of March - 1853, hereunto signed his name, and affixed his seal.
Witness; 
[signed] John Phillips     [signed] Jacob Wimer  [L.S.]
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me, on this seventh day of March, 1853
[signed] Charley Phillips J.P.
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* Here, if the soldier or officer is living, insert his name; if he is dead, and the widow is living, insert her name; if both dead, insert one of the living children’s names; if the children are all dead, and either of them survived the former unsuccessful applicant, insert the name of the administrator of that former applicant. 
𐤲 Here, if the soldier or officer is living, insert his name again; if the widow is living, insert the words “widow of,” and the name of the husband; if both dead insert the words, “son or daughter of,” and the name of the former unsuccessful applicant.
‡ Here insert the word “soldier,” or “officer,” whichever he was. 
Note.— When a female is the person who executes this paper, please put the letter s before the letter he in every place where it occurs.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Pennsylvania Laurence County ss. }
On this 22d day of February A.D. 1850. personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Jacob Wimer and Henry Wimer residents of the County of Laurence in Slippery rock Township and State of Pennsylvania. Respectively aged fifty and forty five years. who being first duly sworn according to law. do on their oaths make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress. passed. 7th June. 1832.  as well for themselves - as in behalf of their brothers and sisters. who are the children heirs at Law of Adam Wimer late of Slippery rock Township Mercer and now in Laurence County.  And say that their Father entered the Service of the United States . during the Revolutionary and Indian wars under Ensign Thomas McGaughey and Captain Boyd when he was eighteen years of age Some time in June to the best of our belief. as was often heard Said Adam so state in his lifetime.  And the family record kept by himself in his own handwriting. Shows he was born on the 20th day of May 1763 and must have served a period of about a year by his own declarations.  That the family believes he was engaged in the battle of Frankttown. and was wounded in the engagement the balance of the time of his enlistment was spent in and about Fort Bedford & Drumond Creek in Bedford County  Pennsylvania. The above declarants state they are unable to designate the precise period at which the above engagements took place. as they often heard their Father speak of the above occurrences but dont now recollect. the dates or period if any were mentioned.  They believe their Father enlisted in the service above mentioned. but as all his papers are lost by time and changing of residences and other accidents are unable to detail any circumstances - except what they recollect from his narrations and conversations.  They fully believe that the
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services of their Father Adam Wimer were performed in and about Fort Bedford Penna in defending the frontier from the Indians. and have frequently heard their Father Speak of being at the fort aforesaid. They also state that their Father enlisted with Ensign McGaughey and served under Captain Boyd. and have also heard him speak of a Captain Dunlap they have heard their Father Speak of the Mager [Major] who commanded but are now unable to state his name. Your Declarants state that they are not now in possession of any documentary evidence of the foregoing statement and think they know of no one now living. who after the lapse of so many years who could now. give positive proof of them although they could once have been abundantly Shown. Adam Wimer now Deceased. was a witness for some persons to whose [crossed out)] services rendered the Country when & at the same period of his own services. We think in the application of Hugh Means a revolutionary Soldier. who drew a pension from the Genl Government. and also in a later application in behalf of Mrs Means widow of said Hugh. and we think also in the application of Henry Woods. We have heard Adam Wimer speak of being with "regular forces". when he volunteered. and suppose. Capt. Dunlap was Captain of the regular troop & think Captain Boyd of the volunteers. That their Father Adam Wimer died in the 2d of January 1845. leaving the aforementioned children as also ten others. To wit Abigail now is married to John Wimer. John Wimer. David Wimer. Nicholas Wimer Adam Wimer  Isaac Wimer.  Jacob Wimer. George Wimer. Ann married to Wm Cunningham.  Eliza married to Lithoo Nicholl.  Mary married to Sam'l Cleland & Henry Wimer. the above being the entire family of the Said Adam Wimer Decd. Your Declarants further state that their Father never drew any pension from the General Government. for his service to his Country. And his name was not or ever has been to the best of their belief on any pension roll. nor did he ever. receive any gratuity. except what was grant
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ed to him by the legislature of the State of Pennsylvania that from before the passage of the act of Congress of the 7th June. 1832 to the period of his death in Mercer County. he was in poor circumstances and quite feeble and of weak mind and for some years previous to his death unable to leave the house. which accounts in some measure for his not making application for his pension. he often talked of applying for a pension and from a want of energy & a knowledge of the fact that his witnesses were either dead or lost. he never put his resolution to practice. So strong was the belief of his service that the legistature of the State of Penna granted him a pension. To all other pensions or annuities we. the Heirs at law believing firmly the foregoing facts on this day set forth do hereby relinquish every claim of the Said Adam Wimer Decd.
Sworn & Subscribed this 22d day of Febry AD 1850  
[signed] James. D. Clarke Pro
[following names signed to the right] 
Jacob Wimer
Henry Wimer
Ann Cunningham
Mary Cleland
George Wimer
Eliza Nichol
[/following names signed to the right]

Mr Robert Walker a clergyman residing in Slippery rock Township Laurence County and Robert Mason also of the same place do hereby certify that we were well acquainted with Adam Wimer Decd late of Said Township. as also with Henry & Jacob Wimer the persons making the above declarations & we believe at the period of his death he was about eighty four years or thereabouts that he was reputed in his neighbourhood as a very upright & honest man & every way worthy of belief. and it was believed by his neighbors to have been a soldier of the revolutionary war. and we fully concur in this opinion ourselves from his character  
[signed] Robert Mason
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Laurence County ss.  
I Robert Mason after being duly sworn in open Court do say that (crossed out Adam) Henry Wimer & Jacob Wimer together with the other persons signing the foregoing petition of declarations are & always have been known & recognized as the children & Heirs at Law of Adam Wimer Decd & so acknowledged by him in lifetime and are to me all personally known as being such. and that the Said Adam Wimer is now dead.
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 22d Febry AD 1850 
[signed] James D. Clark Pro
[right][signed]Robert Mason

And the Said Court of Common Pleas of Laurence County sitting in New Castle this 22d Febry 1850. do hereby declare their opinion after investigating this application.  And after putting the interrogations to the declarants prescribed by the War department that Adam Wimer late of Slippery rock Township Laurence County near Mercer County. was a revolutionary Soldier. and served as Stated in this application.  And that the Robert Mason who signs & certifies to the facts is to me personally known and is a credible person and that his Statement is entitled to full credit for the truth thereof.  The Said Walker not being before me. but both live in the places above stated.
[signed] John Bredin

Laurence County ss.
I James D. Clark Clerk & Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of Said Court in the application of the Heirs of Adam Wimer Decd for a pension. before Hon Jn Bredin president of Said Court. In testimony whereof. I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this 22d February AD 1850.

[illegible Court Seal attached lower left]
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V.L.M.
IN REPLY REFER TO 
Rev. War Section.
3-1864
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
December 8, 1919.
WASHINGTON

Mrs. D.C. McKim,
Crawford, Nebraska.

Madam:

In response to your letter dated the 21" ultimo, you are advised that it is alleged in the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. File No. 11,695 that Adam Wimer was born May 30, 1763, that he enlisted in Bedford County Pennsylvania, where he then lived, when he was eighteen years old and served under Captains Boyd and Dunlap in defending the frontiers against Indians, and was in the battle of Frankstown where he was wounded; no further details of service.  He died January 3, 1845, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, aged about eighty- four years, leaving the following named children:  Abigail wife of John Wimer. John. Daniel. Nicholas. Adam. Isaac. Jacob. George. Ann wife of William Cunningham. Eliza wife of Lithoo Nicholl. Mary wife of Samuel Cleland, and Henry.

Sons Jacob and Henry applied for pension that might have been due their father in behalf of themselves and their brothers and sisters, on an application executed February 22, 1850, while residing in Slippery Rock Township Lawrence County,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON

Pennsylvania, aged respectively fifty and forty-five years, but the claim was not allowed as they failed to furnish sufficient proof of six months military service in an enbodied corps as requied by the pension laws.

Very respectfully,

[signed] E. C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner.
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June 4-1901
W.J.Wimer-Waldo, Oregon
The Hon. Binger Hermann
1919 Dec. 8 Hist. to Mrs. D.C. McKim

11,695
P.O. 
Adam Wimer
Service:        ,18
Enlisted:       ,18                REJECTED [stamped]
Discharged:  ,18
Application filed:     ,18
Alleges:  In the list of suspended claims, printed in 1852. cause of suspension appears as follows:  "officers names & distinct tours omitted".
This mans name does not appear on the printed lists of the pensioners of the State of Pa.
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized.
Contrac[t]
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M37730
Adam. Wimer dcd
Pa
Letter Hon J.W. Howe 31st Jany 1850
Letter Hon J.W. Howe 16 Mar. 1850

11695
Act 7 June 1832
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419
Pension Office
March 16th 1850

Sir

I have the honor to inform you that the papers in support of the ap-plication for a pension under the act of 7 June 1832 in the Case of Adam Wimer decd, have been examined and pled

The several times of service for which this claim is now at this late day asserted have not been set forth with the names of the officers and duration of the times as was required by the regulations, nor is the evidence now (illegible) satisfactory to show that he served (illegible) [crossed out] neither Daniel Means nor A Buchanan the two witnesses in his case (crossed out) had any personal knowledge of the Service of Wimer, and their Statement as to what they have heard Hugh Means say cannot be (illegible) as endure.

The Applicants in this case State that their father was living until 1845  His failure to present his Claims during the long period he survived the passage of the act of 7 June 1832, raises a strong doubt as to his having rendered sufficient Service to (illegible) him
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within [to crossed out] the pensions of that Service.

It appears from the papers pled that Wimer received a pension from the State of Pennsylvania  The papers or a copy thereof upon which this annuity was granted should be sent to this office.  They may possible afford some proof in relation to the duration of his service.

We cannot admit this Claim upon the proof now furnished

Hon TW. Howe
House of Reps

[Written vertically on the right hand side.]
Hon. T.W. Howe
16 Mar 1830
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Hon. T.W. Howe 
31 Jan 7 1850
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849
Pension Office
January 30th 1850

Sir
I have the honor to return herewith Mr. Rankins letter, and to inform you that the papers which accompanied it relating to the case of Adam Wimer upon the act  of 7 June 1832 have been placed in our files.

Before any action in relation to the claim can be had, The Children of Miner, if he has no widow living, must file a declaration in conformity with the enclosed printed instructions.

In order to justify a permable? consideration of the case, it must be made clearly to appear that Miner indeed mis-lip? their [illegible] service in the examination of the claim, after it shall have been properly presented, the parties interested will receive [strike through word] the benefit [strike through words] of any statement which may have been made by miner in any case now on file in the Department.  We can furnish no information [illegible,] consistently write the miles until the claimants shall have /incurred is [strike through required by the] according to the [illegible]/ [illegible] out in the end[illegible] p[illegible]tio sheet

[signed] Hon J.W. Howe
House of Rep.
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M[illegible]
March 11th 1850

Jans L Edwards,[illegible]
Com of pensions

Sir,  I here with transmit to you certain proof  is sent to me by the Ranking [illegible 4 words] with a mean to obtain a {illegible 2 words]in light of service [illegible] in the Revolution war by Adam Wimer whose papers have been before you at a previous time,  [illegible] you [illegible] [illegible]ful investigation and advise me is all is right and if sent what is wrong

I have the honor to
be your obit[illegible]

J . W. Howe
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This deposition taken from the Senate files at Harrisburg and are in the hand writing of Gen Cunningham when a Senator
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Mercer County (illegible)
On the 8th day of Dec 1835
Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for Mercer County. personally came Peter Michael & Wm Carr who on their oaths according to law do declare and say that they are well acquainted with Adam Wimer at present a petitioner to the Legislation of the State for relief for services rendered during and in the Revolutionary War. that he is worthy of credit, and that they believe his statement to be true, and that he is generally reputed by those who know him to have been in the revolutionary war.  The deponents on their oaths further state that the Said Adam Wimer is in necefsitous circumstances. poor and in need of afsistance
Sworn & subscribed before me the above date
John Fisher
Peter his mark x Michael
Wm Carr

Mercer County (illegible)
The undersigned, Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Mercer do hereby certify that they are well acquainted with Peter Michael & William Carr
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the deponents to the foregoing deposition, and that they are of respectable character and entitled to credit.
Witnefs our hands the 8th day of Dec 1835 
John Fisher Seal
James Locke Seal
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37730
Adam Wimer
Pa
Act 7 June 1832
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Laurence County St.
Daniel Means being duly Sworn in open court in Laurence County being a court of Common pleas doth depose and Say that he is acquainted with Adam Wimer of Mercer County have often seen him at my Fathers house and was introduced to me by my Father Hugh Means who was a revolutionary Soldier & also in the indian wars and drew a pension for his Services therein.  My Father introduced this depo nent to Adam Wimer as his companion in arms. in the indian & revolutionary wars. have heard My Father often speaking of Adam Wimer as a good Soldier and being in skirmishes together during the indian wars when Wimer was at My Fathers house I heard them often talking & telling anecdotes that occurred during their campaigns.  Knew Mr. Wimer well never doubted the fact of his being a Soldier in those wars was always reputed as Such and his Character for truth not doubted.  I believe he served a period of considerably more than six months from the conversation held by Wimer & my Father.  Because Wimer was one of the witnefses to prove the Services of my Father Hugh Means in his application for a pension.  My Father and Mr. Wimer often spoke of Captain Boyd and Captain Dunlap  was also along. they served under Captain Boyd.  Enlisted or volunteered in Bedford County Penna where they were both then living. have heard my Father (crossed out) speak of Mr Wimer being  wounded & his wanting him to take him along after the battle.  That Said Adam lived since I knew him in Mercer County Penn.
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court before the Hon Jn Bredin this 9th of January AD 1838
James. D. Clarke Pro
D means
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also at the same time and place personally appeared Andrew Buchanan aged about forty four years and being duly Sworn doth depose and Say as fol lows that he was personally acquainted with Hugh Means late a pensioner for Services in the indian and revolutionary wars. And also with Adam Wimer lived several years near to Said Means and have been at his house for periods of four or five months at a time and was intimate with him. often heard Means Speak of Adam Wimer Services in Skirmishes at the Feauks town battle and other indian Skirmishes in their neigh-bourhood.  I never doubted the fact that they were to-gether during those wars as I have often heard the Same story of their Services together from each of them at different times. from the different times these men spoke of being out in Service I have no hesitation in believing that the period of their Service in arms was above six months I often  heard them speak of a Captain Boyd as being their officer and also their Major but dont now recollect his name I believe they enlisted first in Bedford County Penna.  Adam Wimer lived in Mercer County. And never drew any pension from the Genl Government I have good reason to know.  Adam Wimer was a witnefs to prove the Services and identity of Hugh Means in the application of Mrs Means for half pay. and at that time had a distinct recollection of the Services of Hugh Means.  I have also heard Henry Woods Speak of the Services of Adam Wimer. Henry Woods was a witnefs or gave his testimony in the application of Hugh Means & his affidavit is now at Washington City I have frequently heard Woods & Means together in re counting their Services  Speak of Wimer being along Wimer died in Mercer County in the fore part of the year 1845 was a very upright inoffensive
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old man. but very indolent and easy going in his habits and was considered a very respectable & honest man  I believe Captain Boyd. lived in Northumberland County Penna and I think is dead.  I am a Son in-law of Hugh Means. and have no doubt from Seeing him & Wimer together and hearing their conversation that Wimer was an actual Soldier of the Indian wars in Western Penna and of the revolution. it is so believed here. and I never heard any one doubt the fact of his been & rendering services  in campaigns and battle.  And further Saith not.
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 9th January 1850.
James D. Clarke Pro
A Buchanan

Laurence County SS.
I James D. Clark Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County do certify that the foregoing deposition of Daniel Means & Andrew Buchanan were duly Sworn to in open Court. before me the 9th of Jany 1850 that the Said Daniel Means is to me well known and his character is esteemed good in that neighbor hood for truth.  Also that I am personally acquainted with Andrew Buchanan above named was late the Nominee for Sheriff in this County. and Stands well in Community for (crossed out) (illegible) and know his Character to be good for truth. and that his word is (illegible) to full credit amongst his neighbours  In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & Seal of office at New Castle this 11th of January AD 1850
James. D. Clarke Pro
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Rev Sec
Crawford. Nebs.
Nov. 21-1919

The Bureau of Pensions
Washington. D.C.
Gentlemen;
Will you see if the name of Adam Weimer of Pennsylvania appears on the records in your office? If so, please send me this record, also if he appears for pension or his widow ever applied.  He served in the War of the Revolution, it is thought he was living in Bedford Penn at that time.  Would like to obtain the date of his birth and birth place, also name of his wife

Postmark reads Pension Office US  Nov 23  1919
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if possible.  Thanking you for any information which you may be able to give me, I am 
Very truly yours, 
Mrs D.C. McKim