Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42123, Conrad Cline, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn.

Cline, Conrad
or Kline

NUMBER
S.42123
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[page has 2 columns, left column]
death let 18th
April 1838 MajS.
Cooper Act of Sec of Wars
Vivor Lewiston, Mich 22.d/59.
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Ohio.
Conrad Cline
of Pickaway Co in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Grubb of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Miles in the Pennsylvania line, for the term o 1 year & 9 months.
from April 1776 to January 1778
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 26 day of March, 1829
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th of May
1839 and sent to Andrew
Huston, Esq Circleville Ohio
Arrears to 4th of September, 1829 to 42.60
Semi-anl. all'ce ending
$42.60
[in brackets] Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1830.
Rec:bol:10
fol: 36
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Declaration in order to be placed on the pension list under the act of 18th March 1818.

State of Ohio
County of Pickaway

On this 16th day of March 1829 personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the county aforesaid, Conrad Cline, a resident of the county aforesaid, aged seventy-two years, who was first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the lst of May 1820;

that he the said Conrad Cline enlisted for the term of one year and nine (illegible) on the ____ day of April in the year 1776 in the state of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain Gruber(?), 2nd Pennsylvania rifle regiment in the regiment commanded by Colonel Miles in the line of the state of Pennsylvania on the continental establishment;

that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present; that his name is not on any pension roll of any state and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension.

Because, as he always understood, that his being possessed of the real estate mentioned in his schedule herein, an application would be (illegible) and having recently become entirely blind and helpless and his wife nearly so, he is now in need to apply for a pension since Gen. Jackson is president, who knows that a soldier suffers and
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and in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 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 the intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the 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 on the 18th day of March 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 that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

That since the 18th March 1818 the following changes in my property have been made viz:  one mare sold for fifteen dollars about a year since.

Signed:  Conrad (his X mark) Cline

Sworn and subscribed and declaration on the 16th day of March 1829 in open court.
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Schedule of property belonging to Conrad Kline at this time viz:

Real Estate
One hundred acres of third rate land lying and being a part of the southeast quarter of section one, township eleven, (illegible) twenty of Worthington's survey of the united States sold at Chillicothe in the county of Pickaway and state of Ohio.  Worth two dollars and fifty cents per acre and would rent for forty dollars per annum.
= $250

Personal Property
Our mare 21 years old worth $10.
Three cows worth $15.
One wagon worth $25.
In all $50 worth of personal property 

My age is as stated in my declaration, and I am blind.  My wife is seventy years old and nearly blind and perfectly helpless, from a disease of several year standing in her feet and legs, which renders us both helpless and unable to do anything in the way of labor.

We have no one living with us because we are obliged to reside with another family who take care of us and our property is not sufficiently productive to support us.

Signed:  Conrad (his X mark) Kline
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March 2, 1940
BA-J/ADY
Conrad Cline
S.42123

Arlington Cline
R.F.D. 1 Box 17
Waldo, Ohio

Dear Sir: 
    Reference is made to your letter relative to Conrad Cline, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. 
    The record of the only Conrad Cline who lived in Ohio, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office, is furnished you herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim, S.42123, bhased upon his military service in that war. His name is shown also as Kline.
    Conrad Cline enlisted in Pennsylvania, place not stated, in April 1776, served as private in Captain Grubb's Company, Colonel Miles' Pennsylvania Regiment and was discharged the first of January 1778.
    He was allowed pension on his application executed March 16, 1829, at which time he was a resident of Pickaway County, Ohio, aged seventy-two years.  The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.
    In 1829, his wife was aged seventy years, her hame not given. There are no further family data.
    In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension. the name of person pain, and possibly the death date of soldier, you should apply to the Comptroller Genera, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and cite the following data: "Conrad Cline, Certificate No 20873. issued May 15, 1829, rate $8.00 per month, commenced March 26, 1829, Acts of March 16, 1818, and May 1, 1820, Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours
A.D. Miller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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State of Ohio
Pickaway Cunty

Christian Crow, aged seventy years and a soldier of the Revoltion, being duly sworn saith that he is personally well acquainted with Conrad Kline, a resident of Pickaway County aforesaid, an applicant for a pension from the United States for his services as a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and that he, the deponent, saw the said Kline in the United States army in the winter of 1777, serving as a private soldier in the company of Capt. Grubb, 2nd Pennsylvania rifle regiment commanded originally by Col. Miles and afterwards by Col. Stewart. 

Deponent did not know said Conrad Kline until about one year before he was discharged but knows that he served one year or upwards in the company and regiment aforesaid as a common soldier and has no doubt that said Conrad served out the full term of his enlistment, which he understood was for one year and nine months.  He knows likewise that said Conrad has always bore a good character in every respect and further says not. 
Signed:  Christian (his X mark) Crow  

Sworn and subscribed in open court 
March 16, 1829
Signed:  Andrew Guston, Clerk
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State of Ohio
Pickaway County

Alexander Foresman and formerly a captain in the army of the Revolution belonging to the Pennsylvania line or United States or Continental establishment, being duly sworn saith that he is personally acquainted with Conrad Kline of the said county, an applicant for a pension from the United States for his services as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and altho {although} he didn't know said Kline in the army aforesaid or if he did, does not now recollect that circumstance, yet from the very accurate account he gives of every movement of the regiment to which said Kline belonged from the day of his enlistment until he was discharged, he this deponent, does believe beyond any sort of doubt that the said Kline did serve as he has stated in his declaration.  It could not be possible for any person to have recollected all the circumstances so accurately unless he had served as he has stated in his declaration.

Said Kline has borne a fair character for truth and still bears that character in his neighborhood. Christian Crow, Kline's witness is of fine character also and both of them reside not many miles from deponent and have so resided during many years and further saith.
Signed:  Alex Foresman
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State of Ohio
Pickaway County

Personally appeared before me the within named Alexander Foresman and being duly sworn, the  said applicant before me this subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for said county, this 26th day of March 1829
Signed:  John Ludwig. J.P.

The State of (illegible) Pickaway County

I, Andrew Guston, clerk of the court of common pleas for said county do hereby certify that John Ludwig before whom the foregoing applicant appears to have been (illegible) is a justice of the peace in and for the said county, duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature purporting to be his, is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereby set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at (illegible) this 26th day of March 1829.
Signed:  Andrew Guston, Clerk
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Waldo Ohio     Jan. 19 40
Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:
From the Adjutant General's Office, Washington, I am informed that the record is incomplete of Conrad Cline (surname also born as Klein) my great, great grandfather, who was a private in the 2nd Pennsylvania regiment in the Revolutionary War, later a pensioner and was advised that it might be possible for me to get more information through your office as you have custody of the U.S. Pension records.

I want to know from what county he was from, his age at beginning of service, age at death when his pension stopped.  He received pay and a gratuity on November 3, 1783.  I saw his pension papers about 50 years ago, now they are lost and his gravestone was stolen from the cemetery years ago, so now we have no record.
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I surely would be glad to get any record you might have in regards this kin of mine.

Would like to know who commanded this 2nd Pennsylvania regiment.  I am told this regiment was at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Yours respectfully,
Arlington Cline
Box 17   RFD #1
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Organized August 11th 1887.
The Railroader's Building and Savings Association

W.T.CANNON PRESIDENT
E.J.JACOBY VICE PREST. & ATTY
J.E.PIERCE SECRTARYS
H. CANNON TREASURER
S.A.GREENE ASST. SECRTARY
A.F.BROMLEY AUDITOR

AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $75,000,000.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 
516 Indiana Trust Bldg.
October 4, 1923.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

    On November 16, 1921, you were kind enough to give me certain Revolutionary War Record of Conrad Cline to whom a pension was paid on apllication filed March 16, 1829, when he was 72 years old and it is noted that his wife was 70 years old at that time.  He resided at that time in Pickaway County, Ohio.  I think his pension began on May 15, 1829.

    I wish you would be good enough to advise me when payments of pension stopped and whether the pension was ever paid to his wife after his death and if so, when stopped.  I think the name of his wife was Nancy.

    In the record which you sent me you refer to S42123.  I mention this as it may facilitate your search.

    Thanking you in advance, I remain.

                                    Yours very truly
EJJ)S                                      //s//
                                   E. J. Jacoby
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Revo. 

Organized August 11th, 1887.
The Railroaders Building and Savings Association
Authorized Capital $45,000,000.
Indianapolis, Ind
1101-02 Odd Fellow Building

W.T.CANNON PRESIENT
E.J.JACOBY VICE PRESIDENT & ATTY
J.E.PIERCE SECRTARY
H.CANNON TREASURER
S.A.GREENE ASST SECRETARY
A.F.BROMLEY AUDITOR

October 21, 1921



Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

My Dear Sir:

    I wish you would be kind enough to send me a copy of the Pension Record of Conrad Cline, a private in the Pennsylvania service, Continental Line, in the War of the Revolution.

    He was placed on the Pension Roll May 15, 1829 and the beginning of his pension was March 26, 1829.  At that time he was a resident of Pickaway County, Ohio.

    Thanking you in advance, I remain. 

                          Very truly yours,
                                    //s//
                             E.J. Jacoby

Date Stamp

RECORDS
OCT 25 1921
DIVISION
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42123
INVALID
Revy.
File No. 42,123
Conrad Cline
Priv. Rev War

Act: 18 March 1818
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 89

(Arrangement of 1870.)


1921 Nov 15 to E.J. Jacoby - EU-
1923 Nov 13 E.J. Jacoby in reference how get date of last payment.
1933 June 21. Hist to Mrs. Glenn Nickerson. See her letter in Wm. Champ, S42120 A.D.Y.
1940 Mar 2. Hist to Arlington Cline. A.D.Y.
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Only Conrad Cline (searched under all spellings) who lived in Ohio, that is found in the Rev War records office.
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June 21, 1833.

BA-J/ADY
Conrad Cline
S.42123

Mrs. Glenn Nickerson,
Circleville,
Ohio

Dear Madame:

    Reference is made to your letter relative to one Conrad Cline, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

   The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.42123, based upon his military service in that war. His name is shown as Kline.

     Conrad Cline enlisted in Pennsylvania in April 1776, served as a private in Captain Grubb's Company, Colonel Miles' Pennsylvania Regiment and was discharged the first of January 1778. 

    He was allowed pension on his application executed March 16, 1829 while a resident of Pickaway County, Ohio, aged seventy-two.

    In 1829 his wife was aged seventy years, her name not given.  There are no further family data. Date of death not (given). A.B.

                          Very truly yours,

                            A.D. Hiller
                            Assistant to Administrator
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C.               Nov. 15, 1921

    In reply to your request of -----, received -----, for a statement of the military history of Conrad Cline a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his wife's) application for pension on file in the Bureau.

Dates of enlistment or appointment/Length of Service/Rank/Officer under whom service was rendered- Captain Colonel/State.

April 1776 to Jan 1,1778/-/Pvt,/Grubb Miles/Pa.


Battles engaged in, Not stated.
Residence of Soldier at enlistment: Not stated.
Date of application for pension, Mar. 16, 1832 or all
Residence at date of application, Pickaway Co, Ohio
Age to date of application, 72 years
Remarks:  In 1829 his wife was 70 yrs, Name not stated.  No further family data.

Respectfully,

Commissioner,
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(Rev) and 1812 
Section. 

November 13, 1923.

E.J. Jacoby,
516 Indiana Trust Bldg.
Indianapolis, Ind.

Sir,

    I have to advise you that in order to obtain the date of last payment of Revolutionary War pension S.42123, Conrad Cline, name of person to whom paid and possibly the date of his death, you should apply to the Pension Section, Interior Department Division, General Accounting Office, 1800 N.W. Washington, D.C. citing all of the following data - 

    Conrad Cline, Certificate No. 29873, issued May 15, 1829, rate $8 per month, commenced March 26, 1829, Act of March 18, 1818, Ohio Agency.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12/5/41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans Administration Archives

NAME. Cline, George

GRADE Private

LINE Maryland

WARRANT NUMBER. 12880

ACREAGE 100

ISSUED May 6, -- (torn)
to himself
Notation: The above was certified 24th February 1820.