Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6049, for Valentine Kohler, Pennsylvania
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Penn

Kohler, Valentine
Magdalana

R.6049
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11.146

Pennsylvania

Valentine Kohler

of York in the state of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Harbaugh of the Battalion commanded by Col Swopers in the Pennsylvania line for $20

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvanis at the rate of $20 Dollar per annum to comment on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of march 1833 and sent to H P Handy, Prot

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 - $40.00
Semiannual allowance ending Sept 1833 - $10.00

Total $50.00

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by J T Sprague, Clerk

Book E Vol 5 Page 31
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State of Pennsylvania
York County

On this Eight day of September Eighteen hundred and Forty, Personally appeared before me [illegible], Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of York and State of Pennsylvania, Magdalena Kohler, a Resident of Manchester township, in the County of York and State of
Pennsylvania, aged about seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836:  That she is the widow of Valentine Kohler, who was a private, in the Militia of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War; That he was was a pensioner of the United States during his lifetime, reference being had to the papers filed in the pension office, it will fully appear. She further declares that she was married to the said Valentine Kohler, an or about the latter end of April, or in the beginning of May in the year seventeen hundred & Eighty two - But is not certain as to the particular Day. That her husband the aforesaid Valentine Kohler died on the twelfth day of September, Eighteen hundred and thirty nine, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed-

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day & year above written,

Magdalena Kohler (her mark)

Before me, 

Samual Bonham

I do certify that Magdalena Kohler, the above named applicant could not well attend in Court an account of bodily infirmities.

Saml C. Bonham
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No 3777
Magdalena Kohler
Valentine

Pennsylvania
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State of Pennsylvania
York County

On this fifteenth Day of September Eighteen hundred and forty, before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Personally came, Philip Kohler, and made oath in due form of law, and upon his solemn oath saith that he is the son of the within named Magdalena Kohler; That he has a German Bible in his possession, that formerly was the property of his Father the within
named Valentine Kohler, that on the first page in said Bible, a record was made of the birth of the children, of said Valentine and Magdalena, which is in the hand writing of his said Father in words following viz
Philip Kohler  in  June 1783.
[illegible] Kohler 5th October 1784
Jacob Kohler 21st July 1786

He also saith, that, his mother still remains the widow of said Valentine Kohler and further saith not.
Philip Kohler

Sworn to, before me
Jacob Glessner, Justice of the Peace

I do certify that the word (also) above interlined, was don before signed and that Philip Kohler the above named Deponant is a respectable person, and that his testimony is entitled to full credit, to the best of my knowledge & belief-

Jacob Glesson

Pennsylvania
York County SS.

I, William Ilgenfritz, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, certify, that the Hon. Samuel C. Bonham before whom the within Deposition and Certificate were made, is and was at the time of signing the same, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid, duly commissioned & qualified; and that the within signatures purporting
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purporting to be his are genuine.  And I do further certify that Jacob Glessner, Esquire, before whom and by whom the within deposition and Certificate were made is, and at the time of signing the same, was an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that the signatures within purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimoney whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of said court.

Sept 23, 1840

W Ilgenfritz, Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania
County of York

On this 27th day of September 1832 personally appeared before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County Valentine Kohler aged Seventy Seven years and resident of said County. who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he was drafted on the first of July 1776 in York County for three months in Captain Harbaugh's Company and Col Swopes Battalion and marched through Lancaster and Chester Counties to Philadelphia, from thence to Trenton, Princeton and Bismarck and Elizabethtown and to Bergen in the State of N Jersey where remained untill the first of October following when he had served out the time
for which he was drafted, at which time and place his Captain Harbaugh left the service and returned to York, leaving about 14 of his Company in the service, together with himself at work, in the State of N Jersey under the command
of Lieutenant Etting who was the ItLin said Company during the time he was in service and that they were retained and kept in service for three months longer by the order of Col Swopes himself and that he remained in the service untill the 1st of January 1777 when he was discharged near the River Delaware in the State of N Jersey and that he was in the actual service of the United States Six months in all and that he has no documentary evidence in his possession of his service. that he knows John Jacobs of the Borough of York who was with him during the time he was in the service of the United States who belonged to the same company with
him during the time who can testify to his services
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and that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and that he declares his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State Whatever Except that of the State of Pennsylvania.

Question by the Judge 1st Where and in what year was you born?
Answer: I was born in Manchester Township in York County in the year 1755

Question by the Judge 2 Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer: I have no Bible record of my age

Question by the Judge 3: Where was you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now reside?
Answer: I lived in the same township and County which I now live in when I was called into service and have lived in the same place ever since the Revolutionary war, in York County Pa

Question by the Judge 4 How were you called into service? were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom? 
Answer: I was drafted into the service of the U States

Question by the Judge 5 State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general Circumstances of your service
Answer: I do not Recollect any of the Officer of names of the regular army at present but recollect the names of some of the militia officers who were in service at the same time. I was well acquainted with Col Swope and Captain Quiggle of the Militia and Captain Long and Jacob Barnitz, a Lt and many others whose names he cannot recollect.

Question by the Judge 6 did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so what has become of it or by whom was it given?
Answer: I never received a written discharge but was discharged
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By my Lieutenant who served with me who also returned home with me when I left the service and told Lieutenant Ettinger

Question by the Judge 7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present Neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and there belief of your
services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
Answer: William Rease, John Witt, George Hogan, Henry Snyder can all testify to my character for veracity and their belief of my service in the Revolutionary war.

Sworn & Subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid

Valentine Kohler (his mark)

Geo Barnitz

State of Pennsylvania
County of York

Personally appeared before me the Subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County, John Jacob a Credible witness aged 70 years a resident of York in the State of Penn, who being by me duly sworn according to law Saith that on the 1st of July 1776 Valentine Kohler an applicant for a pension was drafted at York in the State of Pennsylvania to serve for three months in Capt Harbaugh's Company and was attached to Col Swopes Battalion and served out the time for which he was drafted. When Captain Harbough left the service at Newark in the State of New Jersey about the first of October in the same year, leaving in the service about fourteen of his Company under the command of Lt Ettinger.  who were retained in service by
Order of Colonel Swopes and that the said Valentine Kohler remained in the service under Lieutenant Ettinger in the State of New Jersey untill Fort Washington was taken then marched to Trenton and from thence to Bismarck of the Delaware River and remained in service untill the 1st of January 1777 when he was discharged from the service by Lt Ettinger, who returned with him at York Penns, after serving six month. That this deponant served in in the company with him during the time and speaks from his own knowledge.  Sworn and subscribed before  me the date and hear aforesaid.

John Jacobs (his mark)

Geo Barnitz

knowled sworn & subscribed by
foresaid
Geo Barnett
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State of Pennsylvania
Counth of York

[illegible]
We, Geo Schmucker, a clergyman residing in the borough of York and Zachariah Spangler Esq residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Valentine Kohler who has sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be Seventy-seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and  Subscribed to the day and year aforesaid

J.G. Schmucker
N.D.M.  
Zachariah Spangler

Geo Barnitz

And I the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories required by the war department, that the above named applicant was a soldier in the Revolution and served as he states and I further certify that the Rev. J Geo Schmucker is a Clergyman and that Zachariah Spangler who has signed the same is a resident in the said County and that there statement is entitled to Credit. and I further certify that the above applicant is unable to attend the Court to make his declaration in Consequence of bodily infirmity

Geo Barnitz

State of Pennsylvania
York County, ss.

I Richard Porter Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do certify, that George Barnitz, Esquire, before whom the within declaration was made and the within & above depositions were taken, is & was at the time of affixing his name thereto, one of the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid, & as such is duly commissioned & qualified. I believe the signatures to the same to be in his proper hand writing

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, at York, this 28 day of December, A.D. 1832.
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or Rich. Porter, proty

W Ilgenfrittz, Clerk
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July 23, 1937

BA-J/EEL
Valentine Kohler-R.6049

Mrs. Alice E. Starmer
443 W. College Avenue
York, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:


Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Valentine Kohler, of York County, Pennsylvania, who received a pension on account of his services.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R.5049, based upon the military service of that soldier in said war.

Valentine Kohler was born in 1755, in Manchester Township. York County, Pennsylvania. The names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of said York County, Valentine Kohler enlisted July 1, 1776, and served until January 1, 1777, as a privateunder Lieutenant Ettinger and Captain Harbaugh in Colonel Swope's Pennsylvania Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 27, 1832, while residing in York County, Pennsylvania.

He died September 12, 1829, place not shown.

The soldier married about May 1, 1782, Magdalena.  The place of their marriage, date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not stated. In 1840, she was residing in Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania and gave her age as seventy-nine years. The date of her death is not given.

The following names of children of Valentine and Magdalena Kohler are shown:
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Philip Kohler ... born January 11, 1783
Johannes Kohler ... born October 5, 1784
Jacob Kohler ... born August 21, 1786

Son Philip Kohler made affidavit in York Counth, Pennsylvania in 1840.

Very truly yours,

AD Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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G Hrysinger
October 17, 1840

OC
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Pension Office
Oct 17, 1840

Sir,

The papers in the case of Mrs Magadalena Kohler widow of Valentine Kohler dec'd under Act of 4th July 1836 have been examined.  She alleges to have been married in April or May 1782.  Her husband left the service in January 17777.  The 3rd provision of the act of 4 July 1836 does not provide for any widow who was married after the termination of her husband's service.

It would appear that her husband dies 12th September 1839.  The act of 7th July 1838 provides for those widows only whose husbands died before the passage of that act.  The claimant seeks therefore to obtain a pension under that act.  The claim has consequently been rejected and the papers filed.

George Prysingen, Esq
York PA
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No 5177
Sept 28, 1840

July 4 1836
Magdalena Kohler

papers

J L Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC
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York
York County, PA
Sept 25, 1840

J L Edwards, Esq

Dear Sir:

Enclosed I send the application of Magdalena Kohler, widow of Valentine Kohler dec.  Any information thereon please direct to me.

Respectfully your obt st

George Frysinger
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Magdalena Kohler
PA res, Act 36

Valentine Kohler PA Act of 7 June 1832

to what time paid

Pension Officer
Oct 17, 1841

pd to 4th Sep 1839
JH
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June 4, 1937

Veterans Administration
Washington DC

Gentlemen:

Will you kindly send me any available record you may have of Valentine Kohler of York County, Pennsylvania, a soldier of the Revolution, pensioned in 1833, and oblige

Very truly yours

Mrs Alice E Starner
443 1/2 W College Ave
York, PA

(Stamped received Jun 5 1937)
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REJECTED

6049

Magdalena Kohler
widow of Valentine
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Adm

6 mos

Private

$20

H L Handy, Esq 
Present
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5177
Magdalena Kohler

of Valentine

Pennsylvania

Rejected

See let 17

married after termination of her husband's service.  not entitled under Act 38, her husband having died after passage of that act

6049

Act 4 July 1836