Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,120, for John Kremer, Pennsylvania
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(3--1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Kremer, John
NUMBER
S. 7.120
carded
CONTENTS
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26.490
Perry
Son
of Part
in the State of
of
who was then in the
by Captain Mother of them
by Cole
in the
wife
to
scribed on the Roll of
at the rate of 60 Dollars
Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the
" 30" day of Sept
and
4
be
Arrears to the 4th of
18
3
Semi-anl. allowance ending
5 /
in
Matchett
City
Recorded by
Book
Vol.
of
O.
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
page
Clerk,
Page 32
Copy for
to
.
of the
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State of Pennsylvania
Franklin County [?]

on this thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four perso= =nally appeared in open court, before the judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Franklin now sitting John Kremer a resident of Letterkenny Township in said county of Franklin and State of Pennsylvania aged eighty years the 29th of last October who being first duty sworn according to Law oath on this solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 4th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That during the war of the Revolution he lived in Berks County Pennsylvania and lived there when he entered the service of the United States. That he lived in Berks County about six years after the conclusions of the war, where he moved to Franklin county Penna. (then Cumberland county) where he has resided ever since and continues to reside. That in the year 1776 he was commissioned an ensign ^ of a company of [illegible] in the 5th Batalion in Berks county aforesaid, which commission is signed by Jogn Morton Speaker of the Assembly, and which is transmitted with this application. That he belonged to the company of Captain Henry Shoemaker, Samuel Aily was our Major and Philip Gehr was our Colonel. That he volunteered in the said company and went out in said company as ensign - The whole company volunteered. Our company marched from Hoots town to Easton and to Brunswick - we laid at Brunswick between three & four months, from there we marched to Amboy where laid two or three months and were there discharged - That he does not recollect whether he got a written discharge or not but if he did it has been lost - That he volunteered in the spring of the year and was out till cold weather in the fall - That it was for a longer period that six months but how much longer he is not able to say; but this deponent is certain he served the United States in the revolution six months fully by the service as above stated and under this said.
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commission as ensign.  That he was out in the service during the time New York was taken.  He states the names of Abraham Keefer and Michael Shearer to whom he is known in his present neighbourhood who can testify as to his veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.  That he could not procure the proof of a clergyman who is acquainted with him without to much inconvenience and expense- That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state- That he is of the age of eighty years on the 29th of October last.  That a record of his age was kept in the church to which he belongs in Berks County and that he has a copy of the same now in his possession by which it appears he was born the 29th of October 1753.  John Kremer  X his mark

Sworn to in open Court June 30th 1834 John Flanagan Prothonotary
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Penna. Franklin county p.

The said Abraham Keefer doth further on his oath say, That he lived in Berks county in the time of the Revolution within four or five miles of where the said John Kremer lived.  That he is about seven years younger than the said Kremer- That this deponent was well acquainted with him-That the said Kremer was an active resolute young man-That he then heard he was an Ensign-That he knows Henry Shoemaker was a captain; Aily was major and Philip Gehr was colonel whence Kremer lived; and that they were out in the Revolution- That almost all the young men in that neighborhood were out one time or other in the war- That he then heard that the said John Kremer was out as an Ensign-That he has known the said Kremer ever since, that he has always borne the character of a man of honesty and veracity which has never been doubted as far as his deponent knows-that he has known him in this county at least forty four years That he has no doubt of the truth of the within statement of his services.  

Abraham Keefer

Franklin county p.

The said Michael Shearer doth further on his oath say that he lived in Berks county Penna. in the time of the revolution that he was well acquainted at that time with the said John Kremer that he was a neighour to him-Tat he knows that the said Kremer was out in the service of his country as a volunteer but he does not know where he was-That he knows that he come home lots in the fall.  That he has been well acquainted with said Kremer ever since- That he is a man of good character for honesty and truth-and he has the most certine confidence in him and believes that he served the full time as he states- That this Deponent recollects well that the tent which was for the use of said Kremer, his uncle and his brother was made in his father's house.  Michael Shoemaker
Sworn to in open court June 30th 1834  John Flanagan Prothonotary

Written vertically on top of the above transcript:  John Kremer Pennsylvania Ensign 1776 June 6 //60.  Fred Smith Chambersburg Pa.
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We Abraham Keefer and Michael Shearer residing in the county of Franklin Pennsylvania hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Kremer who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty years of age on the 29th of October last That he is reputed and believed ane reputed in the neighbour=hood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion-Sworn and subscribed the day of year aforesaid-Abraham Keefer  Michael Shearer

Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court June 30th 1834 John Flanagan Prothonotary

And the court do hereby declare their opinion, after the inves==tigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states- And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Abraham Keefer and Michael Shearer who have signed the above certificate (crossed out) are residents in the county of Franklin Pennsylvania and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit-

I John Flanagan Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Franklin Pennsylvania (the same being a court of record) do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Kremer for a pension-  In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of office the 30th day of June 1834.

John Flanagan Prothonotary
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Washington, D.C.
Dec. 1. 1843

To The Hon.
The Commissioner of Pensioners:
I have respectfully to make claim in behalf of Matilda T. and Mary W. Kramer, Widow and daughter of the late ex-chaplain Samuel Kramer of this City, to bounty land for services of his father, John, (or John Jacob Kramer,) and supposed to be entitled to "200 acres - in district No. 6, west side of Alleghany river- lot numbered 1093," Said Kramer was Ensign in troupe under General Washington, and served with him until the close of the Revolutionary War.  Was enlisted in The Pennsylvania Line, near Germantown, in 1776 or 1777.
Ex Chaplin Kramer made claim to this over a year ago-prior to his death, but was unable to follow it up.
Resp. W.B. Matchett.
For The Estate of Samuel Kramer
Enclosed are exhibits.
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May - 7 1941
D-9352
KREMER, John
S 7120

Mr. James Ralph Creamer
Wayne
Pennsylvania

Dear Mr. Creamer:

Receipt is acknowledged of your request of April 2, 1941 for information concerning John Kremer, a Revolutionary War veteran.

Among the pension records in The National Archives is a file, numbered as above, relating to the claim based  upon the Revolutionary War service of John Kremer. Such of the information in the file as appears to be pertinent to your inquiry is summarized on the enclosed copy of The National Archives Form VAM-23.

Very truly yours,

P. M. Hamer, Chief
Division of Reference

Enclosure
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5/2/41
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SUMMARY SHEET
KREMER, John
S 7120

Parents: Names not shown.

Birth: October 29, 1753, place not shown but it was stated that the record of birth was kept in the church in Berks County, Pennsylvania

Service: He entered the service in the spring of 1776 and served 6 months as Ensign in Captain Henry Shoemaker's Company, Colonel Philip Gehr's Regiment in the 5th Battalion of Associators in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Pension: Pension Certificate No. 26 490 was issued to him on July 22, 1834, rate $60 per annum, act of June 7, 1832, Pennsylvania Agency.

Family: None shown in the papers of his pension claim.

Residence: About 6 years after the close of the Revolutionary War, he moved from Berks County, Pennsylvania, to Letterkenny Township, Cumberland County which was later Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and was living there when he applied for pension June 30, 1834

Death: Date and place not shown.

Information incident to pension payments may be obtained by addressing an inquiry to the Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office, Washington, D. C., and citing the data recorded above opposite "Pension".
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52D CONGRESS, 1st Session } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES { REPORT NO. 1163.

MATILDA S. AND MARY W. KRAMER.

April 22, 1892.- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.

Mr. Loud, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following

REPORT: 
[To accompany H.R. 5428.]

The Committee on Claims, having under consideration the bill (H.R. 5428) for the relief of Matilda S. Kramer, widow, and Mary W. Kramer, daughter, of the late Samuel Kramer, acting chaplain at the navy-yard, Washington, D.C., beg leave to submit the following report and thereon: It appears from the evidence presented to your committee that Chaplain Samuel Kramer was designated in this city on the 3d day of July, 1880, on the death of the regular chaplain at the post; he continued so to act until May 15, 1882, receiving compensation by order of the Secretary of the Navy at the rate of $75 per month from the contingent fund. At this late date (May 15, 1882) it was found that the fund was exhausted and the commandant was so notified; and that Chaplain Kramer was acting with such efficiency and usefulness that he was continued without pay until the 20th of June, 1883, when the commandant of the yard again called the attention of the Navy Department to the matter in the following letter:

UNITED STATES NAVY-YARD, WASHINGTON,
Commandant's Office, June 20, 1883

SIR: I would respectfully mention the case of the Rev. Samuel Kramer, who has been acting as chaplain of the navy-yard since the 30th of June, 1882, without pay.  Mr. Kramer continues to hold divine service every Sunday and performs all the duties of a chaplain, visits the hospital, and attends funerals. He is faithful in the discharge of all these duties.
I would respectfully ask that, if compatible with the public service, some provision be made for him by the 1st of July.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

T. PATTISON
Commodore, Commandant.

Hon. WM. E. CHANDLER
Secretary of the Navy.

Thus Mr. Kramer was continued in the service until finally relieved by Chaplain Clark, a regular chaplain of the Navy, on May 15, 1884.  On July 5, 1884, Congress passed an act appointing and retiring Chaplain Kramer, but President Arthur (in view of the case of Gen. Fitz John Porter) declined to sign the bill, and, only nine days remaining of the session, it failed to become a law. 
At that date Mr. G.D. Wise (then and now a member of this House), being instructed by the Committee on Naval Affairs, made the following report, which we desire should form a part of this report, as it gives the record from the Navy Department in this case:

[handwritten] No pension claims on file for Samuel Kramer or Kremer, U.S. Navy.
M.R.

[stamped] FEB 12 1912
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[typed in left corner of page] 2
MATILDA S. AND MARY W. KRAMER

[House Report No. 692, Forty-eight Congress, first session.]

The committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the join resolution (H. Res. 17) authorizing the appointment and retirement of Samuel Kramer, a chaplain in the Navy of the United States, beg leave to report that they have examined the same and recommend its passage.
The following extract from a letter of the Secretary of the Navy, dated the 18th instant, together with the accompanying memoranda, fully explains the case:
NAVY DEPARTMENT
Washington, July 18, 1882.

SIR:
I inclose a large number of testimonials in Mr. Kramer's behalf, from which , and a memorandum summarizing the same, it appears that he has been most faithfully serving at the Washington navy-yard for several years, and that he has a record of much merit.
Very respectfully,

WM. E. CHANDLER.
Secretary of the Navy.

Hon. JOHN F. MILLER.
Member of the Committee on Naval Affairs, United States Senate

Memoranda in the case of Rev. Samuel Kramer, and applicant for appointment and retirement as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy.

The Rev Samuel Kramer (and ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church) performed the duties of chaplain at the navy-yard, Washington, without pay, for many years.  On the 3d of July, 1880 (after the death of the chaplain in the Navy on duty in the yard), the Secretary of the Navy (Hon. R. W. Thompson) informed the commandant of the yard that Mr. Kramer should receive compensation for his services at the rate of $75 per month.  He continued on duty, and to be so paid (out of the appropriation, "contingent Navy") until May 15, 1882, when, on account of want of funds, he was, with others, notified that his services would not be required after June 30, 1882. During this time there was no regular chaplain on duty at the yard.
Mr. Kramer is strongly recommended by the commandant of the yard (Commodore Pattison), who states, May 23, 1882, that "he has been a faithful chaplain, and is highly spoken of by everybody who knows him.  As he has served as a seaman in the Navy, he is invaluable as a chaplain.  Seamen will listen to him when they will not to the general run of preachers.  He is located in the semen's library in this yard, attends the sick in the hospital, and officiates at funerals of deceased seamen and marines, and distributes Bibles and tracts."  This letter is accompanied with a testimonial letter signed by all the officers of the yard.
February 1, 1881, Commodore A. A. Semmes, Commander R. D. Evans (then in command of the training-ship Saratoga), Commander J. D. Graham, commanding the receiving ship at the yard, and Lieut. D.G. McRitchie (then in command of the Tallapoosa), joined with Commodore Pattison in asking the appointment of Mr. Kramer as a chaplain in the Navy, and that he be assigned to duty at the Washington navy-yard.  These officers state that Mr. Kramer "has in our opinion obtained the love and respect of officers and men who have listened to his exhortations.  For many years he has performed the duties of chaplain at this yard without pay, to the entire satisfaction of the offers and men on board  the vessels of the United States Nay on which he has held divine service, an we are of the opinion that there is more good derived from the preaching of a converted sailor to sailors than from anyone who has never been to sea."  (Mr. Kramer was too old for appointment, the law fixing te age between 21 and 35 years, and Mr. Kramer was over 60 years old.)
From letters and statements on file in the Navy Department it appears that Mr. Kramer followed the sea for many years; was in the United Sates Navy, serving on the Dolphin and Brandywine in 1829.  After leaving the service he entered the church, and has given more than twenty years' service, without pay, to the cause of seamen, building the Sailors' Bethel church in Baltimore, Md. He served as chaplain of the Third Regiment of Maryland (Union) Volunteers.  At the battle of Antietam he acted as major of the regiment (in place of the major, who had been killed in a previous battle), and after that battle was at the request of the colonel, commissioned as major.  He was honorably discharged in August, 1863, on account of disability incurred in the line of duty.  He is indorsed and recommended by Bishop E. G. Andrews, Rev. H. R. Naylor, Rev. John Lanahan, Rev. B. Peyton Brown, and Rev. W. W. Hicks, all of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Rev. W. A. Leonard, f St. John's (Episcopal) Church, Washington; Thomas L. Tullock, and Matthew G. Emery (ex-mayor), of Washington, and Chaplain M. J. Gonzales, U. S. Army.
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MATILDA S. AND MARY W. KRAMER
[typed in corner of page] 3

Chaplain Kramer having recently deceased at an advanced age, his widow and daughter appear here and claim only the difference of the pay of a regular chaplain of the Navy for the four years he acted under orders as such, and the sum actually paid him for a portion of that time.  The great usefulness and unexampled service shown by the records to have been rendered by Chaplain Kramer, as well as the pressing wants of his family to remove the indebtedness on their homestead, incurred by this service, would seem to demand a prompts and speedy recognition of the service as an act of simple justice. 
The committee therefore recommend the passage of the bill.
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53D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION.
S.487.

A BILL
For the relief of the widow and heirs of Samuel
Kramer.

By Mr. DAVIS.
1893- AUGUST 16.- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims.
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53D Congress,                    S.  487 .
1st Session


                          IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
                                           August 16, 1893

Mr. Davis (by request) introduced the following bill;  which was read twice and
                                      referred to the Committee on Claims.


                                       A BILL

 For the relief of the widow and heirs of Samuel Kramer.

1          Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-

2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, au-

4 theorized to pay Matilda S. Kramer, widow, and Mary W.

5 Kramer, daughter, of the late Samuel Kramer, the pay of a 

6 chaplain of the Navy, from July third, eighteen hundred and

7 eighty, to May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,

8 after deducting the amount already paid to him while acting

9 as such at the navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia,

10 by order of the Secretary of the Navy, there being no regu-
11 lar chaplain at said post.

No pension claim on file for Samuel Kramer or Kremer, Chaplain U.S. Navy.
MR
Feb 12 1912
Was alleged that Samuel was a son of the Rev. soldier, John Kremer
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Ensign John Kremer
Invalid Pension No. 31.360, Rev. War.
(July 26 1831-4)
"Resident of Settersburg Township, Franklin
Co. Pa. aged 80 years on the 29th of Oct. 1834.
" Entered the service from Berks County Pa.
and lived there six years after the war,
when he removed to Franklin Co. then cumberland.
" In 1776 he was commissioned an Ensign
of a Company of Foot in the Fifth Battalion of Berks County (Germans), by John Morton Speaker of the Pensylvania Assembly. 

" Captain of the W. Henry Shoemaker,
Colonel, Samuel Aily.
" Marched from Koolstown to Easton,  then to Brunswick, where they staid four months and was discharged. 
He was in the service six months
and laid out in the cold; he was in
the service when New York was taken.
" Abraham Keeper and Michael
Shearer are his neighbors, and
they say that he was seven years
older than they; and that he the
said John Kremer was a resolute
young man, and had always borne
the character for truth and honesty,
and that the tent which was for the
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use of said John Kremer, his brother
and his uncle, was made in his
(Shearer's) fathers house
"The record of his age is kept
in the Church in Berks County, by
which it is shown that he was to
Oct. 29, 1753.
" Samuel Shoemaker was captain
of the Company, Aily was Major, and
Phillip Gehr was Colonel."
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Free
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C. 
Perma July 8
[there is a circular stamp over part of the date]
[illegible]MBER
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Chambersburg July 5th 1834
Sir 
I send you enclosed the application of John
Kremer of this county for a pension under the
late act of Congress. I have personally known
him for at least twelve years and he has
uniformly borne the character of a man of
truth. Some years since he was a man of
considerable property, but having purchased land in
the dear times he was unable to pay his
debts, and all his property was laid by the
Sheriff, and he at present is extremely
indigent- I presume his services are
satisfactorily
proved-- I am personally
acquainted with Mr. Keifer and Mr.
Shearer whose depositions accompany this
application. They are both men of good
standing and credit - Mr. Keifer would
himself be entitled to a pension but being
a man of wealth does not need it-
I send also Kremers commission as
Ensign
your ad
Edwards Esq.
Fredk. Smith
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Pennsylvania ss.
In Assembly
To John Kremer Gent ~ 1776.
[circular seal] LIBERTY SAFETY & PEACE SEAL
We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, 
by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Ensign to Company of Foot 
in the 5th Batation of Afsonator in the County of Berk
for the Protection of this Province, against all hostile Enterprizes, and for the Defence of American Liberty.
You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of an Ension  as aforesaid
by doing and 
performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers
and Soldiers, under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as there Ension 
And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, from Time to Time, as you shall receive
from the Assembly during their Sessions; and, in their recess, from the present or any future Committee of
Safety appointed by the Assembly of this Province, or from your superior Officer, according to the Rules
and Regulations for the better Government of the Military Association in Pennsylvania, and pursuant to the
Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by the Assembly, or by the present or any succeeding Committee of Safety. 
Signed by Order of the Assembly,
[signature] John Morton Speakes
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1910 July 12 Hist to Mr.
H. C. Heckman V. L. M.
1910 Aug. 4 Hist to B. M. Washinger
1911 Mch 13 Hist. to H. A.  Creamer
& telling him to apply to and for
date of last payment of pension
1919 June 6 Hist to Mrs. W. H. Batson
7120
INVALID. [handwritten in left margin] Rev Mar
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File No. 7120
John Kremer
[illegible] Rev. War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Indes: - Vol.  1 ez, Page 212
[Arrangement of 1870]
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W B Matchett
924 F [illegible]
Copy of Commission
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OW. & W Div.
M G Ex'r
Oldhan No. 26490 Cnty
John Kremer
Co.____ Reg't Rev War
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Return this letter with your reply. 
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, DC. Jan 5 1890
Sir:
In reply to your formal request I forward herewith a certified copy of the Commisson of John Kramer, late Ensign. Pa.
militia Revolutionary war, the original
of which is on file in the above noted pension
Case. 
---
Very respectfully
Andrew Davidson
Acting Commissioner

W.B. Matchett
924 F St NW 
City
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Please advise 
H.C. Heckman,
1006 - N.C.
Ave S.E.
Washington, D.C.
with return of papers
A.H.T.
Record
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3 - 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
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Briefed by A Mac D. 1/8/10
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant  d. m Pa.
Soldier John Kremer
Service
Additional Service. Rev
Rev
No claim, State records , 190
No claim, combination records , 190

REMARKS:
Per. F. 7120 (Pa.)
No other [illegible]
No Wid
'" Rej.
0-8
Chief Division
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Chambersburg July 29 1910
Sirs -
Please give me the war record of Nicholas Greenawalt who served as a soldier during the Revolutionary war
He died in Franklin Co Pa but do not know
where he lived at time of enlistment.
I would also like to have
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the war record of John Kremer who was an
Ensign during the Revolutionary war and was granted a pension in 1834
at that time he was living in Franklin Co. Pa
Address
B. M. Washinger
304 E Catherine St
Chambersburg PA
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Phila, Pa. Mch. 8, 1911
Dept. of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen,
I am enclosing, herewith a copy of
the original pension certificate granted
to my great grandfather, "John Kremer," an ensign of the Rev. War.

I would like to know when the Government
ceased to pay a pension to him, and if
can secure this information, it will tell
me the year in which he died, which is
really what I want to find out.As there
are no family records to be found. There can be
no other source from which to obtain
this information

I shall appreciate your efforts to give me the
information and thank you very kindly for the same

Very respectfully
H N Creamer
2324 No. Park Ave, Phila Pa
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Rev. See m

323 Ninth St N.E.
Washington D.C.
May 20-19

U.S. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly furnish me with the Revolutionary record of John Kremer (or pssibly Creamer) who applied for pension on June 30- 1834 and was granted same July 22- 1834 by B.F. Butler, Acting Sec. of War, countersigned by J. L. Edwards, Com. of Pensions. Aforementioned John Creamer was from Pennsylvania.  I will very much appreciate a prompt reply.

Very truly yours,
Winifred C. Batson
(Mrs. W.H.)

[rubber stamp] PENSION OFFICE
K
MAY 22 1919
U. S.
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JAMES RALPH CREAMER
WAYNE
PENNSYLVANIA

April 2nd, 1941

National Archives Department
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:

I shall appreciate it very much if you can send me a copy of the Revolutionary War claim of [underlined] John Kremer, 
[handwritten] S. 7120
1953-1836. of Berks and Franklin Counties, Pennsylvania.

This information is desired in connection with m application for membership in the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and any information you can give me with respect to the above will be greatly appreciated.

Thanking you for your attention to the matter, I am,

Yours very truly,
J. Ralph Creamer [handwritten signature]
JRC: CL

[rubber stamp]
RECEIVED [illegible]
MAY 7- 1941
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
MAIL [illegible]

[rubber stamp]
[illegible]
MAY 8-1941
CENTRAL [illegible]

[stamped]
D8852
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[handwritten] John Kremer [illegible]

DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
[handwritten] Spring 1776

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
[handwritten] 6 mos.

RANK
[handwritten] Ensign

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
[handwritten]  Henry Shoemaker

COLONEL.
[handwritten] Philip Gehr

[handwritten] in the battle of [illegible]

STATE.
[handwritten] Berks Co. Pa

Battles engaged in, [handwritten] [illegible]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [handwritten] [illegible]
Date of application for pension, [handwritten] [illegible]
Residence at date of application, [handwritten] [illegible]
Age at date of application, [handwritten] [illegible]
Remarks: