Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2313, Jacob Heitrick, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE   Penn.
NUMBER   S. 2313
Heitrick, Jacob
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CONTENTS
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Reported to the P.O. before 
on 5th November 1832
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Dead
Letter to Sd Auditor & Hon. Wm 
Beatty 15 Jan 1839
Paid at the Treasury under the
act of the 6th April 1838 from
4 March to 4th Sept 1834. Agt
notified 25 Jany 1839
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450 Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Jacob Heitrick
Jefferson Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Bower of the regt commanded by 
Col Craig in the Pennsylvania line for eighteen months
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Inscribed on the Roll of the Penn Pittsburgh Agency at the rate of sixty Dollars per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of Septr
1832 and sent to Ben: Bartholomew
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Arrears to 4th of March 1833                  $60
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1832 $30
                                                                  $90
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Geo Wm Crump, Clerk
Book D.  Vol. 4    Page 61
$90
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Application of Jacob Heitrick of Jefferson County, State of Pennsylvania for a Pension under the act of Congress passed 7th of June AD 1832
State of Pennsylvania
Jefferson County. SS
On this 9th day of August AD 1832 personally appeared before me Elijah Heath Esqr, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Jefferson composing part of
the fourth Judicial District of the State of Pennsylvania, Jacob Heitrick, a resident of Rose Township in the County of Jefferson & State of Pennsylvania, who by reason of bodily infirmity from a paralytic stroke is unable to attend Court, aged sixty-nine years & upwards,
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 the 7th of June AD 1832.  That he was born in Tulpahock Township, Berks County on the 25th day of
July AD 1763, that his birth is recorded in the Register of births of the Presbyterian Church of Tulpahockon but has no certificate of it, that he lived in Green Pine Township, Berks County when he was called into the service, that since the Revolutionary war he has lived in Northumberland, Erie & Armstrong
Counties in the State of Pennsylvania at different Periods and that he now lives as above stated in Jefferson County. He says that he was enlisted, that his Captain's name was Jacob Bower, his Colonel was Craig & Major was Moore, that he received a discharge
from the service from Captain Jacob Bower, that at his return he took it to Philadelphia and gave it to Gen Nicholson who gave him a certificate for his
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& a letter & his discharge with it & told him to carry it the big house. He does not know what the house was called. He took it there and left it and does not know what has become since, that he kept his certificate twenty years & afterwards sold it to a man by the name
Andrew Coldenbaugh, a Clock Peddler, for the sum of ten Dollars. He states that he is known to Thomas Lucas Esqr., David M Riddle, and in fact to almost every man in the neighborhood in which he resides, that he entered the
service of the United States in August in the year AD 1781 under the following named officers: Captain Jacob Bower, Colonel Craig & Major Moore of the 3rd Regiment of Penn.
That he recollects a captain's name of one of the companies called Captain Lusk, another by the name of Christie, one Lieutenant's name of Denniston or Dennison, one by the name of McCoy who died in the service in the State
of South Carolina on Ashley River, twelve miles from Charlestown in the month of July. of a fever prevailing at that time, that he was enlisted on Sunday in the month of August & year aforesaid whilst he was at Church in Green Pine Township Berks County, that he enlisted for 18 months, that in the month of September
he was marched by the aforesaid officers to Philadelphia from Reading from which place he went by water to Chester Pa & then march by land about 12 miles to Head of Elk as it was then called. When he embarked again to go to assist in the taking of Lord Cornwallis who had surrendered to the Americans the day before he arrived, that he was there put on fatigue duty for two weeks in carrying the arms of the British to the French ships, from which place he was marched through Virginia by way of Petersburgh on to the State of South Carolina under the command of General Wayne & St Clair, where he met Gen. Green at Pompon in the State of South Carolina.
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on the fifth day of January AD 1782 when he encamped for the day together with the army when he was marched to Ashen near Charlestown and was present at the command
which was kept up for nearly one whole day between the armies without doing an injury to either party on account of the distance, after which the army fell back about 12 miles, that whilst he was in South Carolina he was then transferred from the 3rd Regiment to the 2nd Regiment to the company commanded by Captain Statebury, company post of the Regiment commanded Major Hamilton & Edward or Edwest, the Adjutant of said Regiment, was called Mr. Collin, that he remained in South Carolina in the service until the British left Charlestown on the 14th day
of December AD 1821, returned from the State of South Carolina when he was left with a number more confined by sickness under the command of Capt. Lusk by the way of Salisbury, North Carolina to Pennsylvania, where I was discharged in the month of June
AD 1783, 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 of the agency or any State.
Jacob Heitrick

Sworn and subscribed this 9th day of August
1832 before me
Elijah Heath
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Jefferson County SS
Thomas Lucas Esqr & David Riddle, of the Village of Brookville, Jefferson Co, hereby certify that we are well-acquainted with Jacob
Hetrick, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be sixty-nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed this 10th day of August
AD 1832
Thos Lucas
David M. Riddle

Jefferson County SS
I, Elijah Heath Esqr, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the war Department, that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and I do further certify that it appears to me that the two foregoing persons that have sworn to the above certificate are residents
of the County of Jefferson with whom I am well-acquainted, that they are creditable persons that they are credible persons, that there is no fixed Clergyman in the neighborhood, and that their statement is entitled to credit, as also that the above applicant by reason of bodily Infirmity is unable to attend Court.
Elijah Heat, Assoc. Judge
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and that their statement is entitled to credit, as
also that the above applicant by reason of bodily Infirmity is unable to attend Court.
Elijah Heath, Assoc. Judge

Jefferson County SS
With ass Judge
I, James Corbet, Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas for the County of Jefferson, 
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the case in the matter of the application for a pension by Jacob Hertrick, and that the said Elijah Heath Esqr is one of the aforesaid judges of the court of Common pleas for the County, confirmed and approved as such at the date thereof, and that the signature of the said Elijah Heath Esqr to the foregoing certificate is genuine of his own handwriting, and further that full faith & credit is due to all his official acts as well in Court of Justice as elsewhere.  In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas at Brookville this tenth day of August AD
one thousand eight hundred & thirty-two
James Corbet, Prothonatory
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Rev War
2313
INVALID.
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File No. 2313
Jacob Hetrick
Private,  Rev War
Act: June 7, 1859
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 171
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Know all men by these Present That I, Jacob Hetrick, of the Township of Rose in the County of Jefferson & State of Pennsylvania, Revolutionary Soldier, do make constitute and appoint Benjamin Bartholomew Esqr of the Village of Brookville, Jefferson, my true & lawful attorney for me and in my name, to receive from the proper officer of the United my pension granted me under the act of Congress passed the 7 day of June
AD 1832, directed to pay the same giving & granting unto my said attorney my whole strength any power in the premises hereby ratifying & confirming all that my said attorney shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 9th day of August AD 1832
Jacob Heitrick
Witness Present: Adam George
                            Elijah Heath

Jefferson County
Personally appear before me August the 9th
AD 1832 the within named Jacob Heitrick as
aforesaid and acknowledged this to be his
act. I decd & desired the same may be recorded as such.
Elijah Heath, As. Judge
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 18th,1839
Sir-
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, the Widow of Jacob Heitrick, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburgh, Pa., Agency, at the rate of Sixty
Dollars and --- Cents per annum, under the law of the [act of] 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, 1834,
to the 4th September, 1834.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Mr. Jacob Hatrick
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Crawford County  ss.

   Personally came before me at my office in the borough of Meadville. Casper Camp of the same county, to my personal knowledge, who on his solemn oath saith that he was a soldier in the War of the revolution, that he was enlisted under Capt. Jacob Bowers in the Regiment of Pennsylvania troops commanded by Col. Craig, that Jacob Hatrick of Berks County, Penna.  was also a soldier in the same company and regiment, that this deponent and the said Hatrick in the fall of 1781 marched to South Carolina under command of Col. Craig - that Hatrick and this deponent were then transferred into the Second regiment of Penna. troops - that they enlisted for and served eighteen months in that campaign and returned to Lancaster in Pennsylvania under command of Capt. Stanbury - (illegible) Lirmle
Sworn and subscribed Janry. 8, 1832
before me R. L. Potter - Justice of the Peace.
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                                                 1 Pen.

Benjamin Bartholamew Esquire
          Brookville,
                Jefferson County, 
                         State of Ohio 
Single

(Postage mark)

MEADEVILLE
      JUNE 20.
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I certify the Casper Camp the old soldier within named is a person of credibility and his statement is worth of confidence. June 18, 1832.
                                R. L. Potter Justice Peace

  State of Pennsylvania
Crawford County }ss.

   I do certify that Robert L. Potter Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and whose signature is attached to the above certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned nad acting as such and was commissioned at the date thereof and that the signature of the said Rob. L. Potter to the foregoing deposition & certificate is genuine and of his own hand writing and further that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as well in court of Justice as else where. 

    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas the 19th day of June A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty two.
 
                      Edw. A. Reynolds Prothonotary
                      and Clerk of Court for said 
                      County of Crawrford.
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Rec'd. Nov. 5th
aus'd. same day
1832

                                              (Illegible)

 
                          J. L. Edwards Esq.
                               Washington City, D.C.
Pension Office
Public service

(Postal stamp)

(PITTS)BURGH
    NOV 2
      PA.
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Pittsburg, Nov. 1st 1832

Dear Sir,

    On presenting the papers of Jacob Heitrick of Jefferson County, on his certificate of pension for payment I find to my astonishment that he is yet not entered in the rolls and the agent has not yet ordered to log this the amount & the circumstance of the genuine neglect  on that subject is made use of as an argument to  election against the old House is with more effect than you can well imagine from so vivid a matter with the expression that this cabinet have no time to attend to the benefit of this (illegible) for (illegible) for electioneering travelling cabinet & (illegible).  
 Please attend to this matter immediately.  The election takes place here tomorrow & I can again (illegible) you must terribly against us yet I think the state is safe but will be a very clean vote.

                            Your very respectfully 
                                          //s//
                           Benj. Bartholomew