Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40620, Michael Waltz, Md. Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Md.
Penn.   

Waltz, Michael
NUMBER
S40620
B.L.Wt. 876-100

CONTENTS
(blank)
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- 876 -  
Hon Mr. Wallace

Wt. iss’d No. 870. 
Michael Waltz — 
private — 
Pennsylvania line — 
Warrant iss’d March 9th 1820

Hon'ble James Wallace
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James Wallace &c 75/27.

[printed form, blanks filled by hand]

State of Pennsylvania County of Dauphin }

I, Michael Waltz aged sixty-seven years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, testify and declare that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six I enlisted in the army of the revolution against the common enemy of my country, ["for the term of" crossed out] “during the war,” and served in the company commanded by Capt. Finley and in the regiment No. 1. one under the command of Colonel Harman of the Pennsylvania line;  and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, in seventeen hundred and eighty-three, when I was regularly discharged from the first regiment, commanded by Colonel Harman.

My discharge is now lost or mislaid so that I cannot produce it to corroborate the above statement.  I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim to that gratuity in any manner whatsoever:  therefore, know all men by these presents that I, Michael Waltz, aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint James Wallace of the county of Dauphin and the State of Pennsylvania to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States or of such other person as is duly authorized to issue and deliver the same; a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid, and to sign a receipt or acquittance therefor; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.  
[right] his
[right] Michael   X   Waltz [X being his mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark

Attest, 
[signed] D. King
[signed] Wm. Louer

I, Thomas Hamilton aged sixty-two years, a citizen of the United States do, upon oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with Michael Waltz who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be: and further, I know that he did perform the military service therein stated.  
[right] his
[right] Thomas   X   Hamilton [X being his mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark

Attest, 
[signed]D. King 
[signed] Dauphin Cy
[signed] Wm. Louer 

Before me, William Louer personally appeared the above name, Michael Waltz subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and, likewise, personally appeared Thomas Hamilton, who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1820. 
[signed] Wm. Louer Justice of the Peace

In testimony that the abovewritten William Louer was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the State of Pennsylvania at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Harrisburg this 25th day of February 1820. 
[signed] John Machesney C. clerk &c.

[illegible County Seal affixed]
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[printed form] 

WAR DEPARTMENT.
====

INFORMATION

Relative to Claims for Bounty Land from the UNITED STATES, for Military services rendered during the Revolutionary War.

To support a Claim of this description, it is necessary to observe the following  regulations, viz.

1st.  Proof must be adduced that the ORIGINAL CLAIMANT "enlisted to serve during  the war, and did actually serve to the close of it;" unless "SLAIN" by the enemy; if so  "SLAIN," authentic evidence must be adduced of the time when, and place where, it happened.  He must always state the Line and the number of the Regiment from  which he was discharged.  The best proof of the enlistment and service is held to be  the ORIGINAL DISCHARGE: in default of that document, proof is required of its loss;  and likewise the affidavit of A COMMISSIONED OFFICER under whose command the said Claimant served; but if that cannot be obtained, the affidavit of a non commissioned officer, or of a Private, who served in the same Regiment, or Corps, and whose  credibility the MAGISTRATE before whom the affidavits are made will certify; and the quality and signature of the said Magistrate must be attested by the signature and seal 
of the County Clerk, or other equivalent authority, of the District wherein he resides. 
It is presumed that every COMMISSIONED OFFICER who would substantiate a  Claim of this kind in his own Right, has preserved his COMMISSION: and can prove by that, or some other authentic document officially attested by some known public character, or competent authority, the LINE, CORPS, and GRADE, in which he served;  it is likewise requisite that he adduce similar proof that he actually served to the end of  the War, or that he was deranged by virtue of some special Act of Congress, and was borne on the Roll of SUPERNUMERARY OFFICERS until that period.
2d.  If the original Claimant does not personally apply for his Land Warrant, he must prove his identity before a Magistrate, by his own affidavit and the affidavits of one or more witnesses, whose credibility the said Magistrate will certify; and the person who applies at the War Department on his behalf, must, by a special Power of Attorney, (if not done by the Form included in the annexed declaration) be authorized to sign a Receipt for it upon the Record; the quality and signature of the Magistrate before whom said affidavits are made, or the Power of Attorney is acknowledged, must be attested by the signature and seal of the County Clerk, or other equivalent authority, of the District wherein he resides.  Annexed is a Form, in blank, of the Declaration required of the original Claimant, and likewise of the necessary Testimony of a Witness to the fact of military service and to the Personal identity of the Claimant; which must be duly executed as indicated by that Form.
N. B. The Power of Attorney to authorize the delivery of a Land Warrant, may be dispensed with in case a Member of Congress, while that body is actually in session, will call at the War Department and sign a receipt for it upon the Record; in this case a letter of order in his favor from the person who has the right to receive the Warrant, addressed to the Secretary of War, will be deemed a sufficient authorization for its delivery.  
3d.  If the original Claimant be dead, and an heir applies in his right, he must subscribe and make oath to a Declaration similar in substance to that directed here above, for the original Claimant, stating, that, to the best of his knowledge and belief, A. B. (the original Claimant) did enlist, &c. &c. &c. and Testimony to the fact of that military service must be adduced conformably to the attestation directed at foot of the annexed Form of Declaration; and the said Heir must likewise produce legal certificates, from competent authority, to prove that he is a legitimate Heir; in which case, although there may be other Heirs existing, a Warrant will be issued in that name, adding thereto, "and the other Heirs at law of [blank], &c. &c.

A Land Warrant will not be issued to an Executor or to an Administrator.
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[Pennsylvania Roll. crossed out]
x Ohio Pittsburgh.
1,309
Michael Waltz, Capt [Captain] Finney Private Pennsylvania line 6 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 6th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818 and sent to Francis R. Shunk, Harrisburg, Pa.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
4 months 29 /30 $39.73

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818 }

67 file a [illegible]
Dauphin County. Continental

ea letter to Pension 4 Nov. 1829

See cir Tr Mar. 15. 1835

Transfd [transferred] to Ohio Pittsbg, [Pittsburgh] fr. [illegible] Sept. 1834 - Mar. 18'35

Let 11 Mar 61 Hon C. I Ingersoll.

[illegible writing in background]
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Dauphin County State of Pennsylvania ss.
Be it remembered that on the sixth day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Obed Fahnestock one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania personally appeared Michael Waltz of the said County and a resident citizen of the United States and being duly sworn according to Law doth declare and say that he enlisted in the Army of the United States raised for the defence [defense] of American liberty on the 16th day of February 1776 in the State of Maryland in Captain Sim's company of Infantry which was allached [attached] to Col. Smallwoods regiment, that he served in said regiment about ten months, during which period he fought in the Battle on Long Island, at East Chester at the White plains and was at the Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, on the 26th of Decemr: 1776 - That on the 28th of December 1776 he enlisted in the Pennsylvania line, in Captain Millers Company of Infantry in the 12th Regiment of Pennsylvania troops commanded by Col. Cooke. That in June 1777 he was transferred to the service of General Conway with whom he served until the general left the Country-- That he afterwards entered in the third Pennsylvania regiment commanded by Col Craig, that he served in said regiment until the close of the war, that he fought in fourteen battles during the revolutionary war. That he is now old and from his reduced circumstances needs the assistance of his country for support- That he received an honorable discharge in August 1783 which he has lost. And that he hath no pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States to his knowledge and of any such [illegible] he doth hereby fully and entirely release the same to the United States.
his
Micheal X Waltz
mark
Sworn and subscribed before me this this 6th day of April A D. 1818.
Obed Fahnestock

Dauphin County ss.
I Obed Fannestock one of the judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County of Dauphin do hereby certify that it Satisfactorily appears appears to me that Michael Waltz now residing in the said County of Dauphin served in the revolutionary War as is set forth in his deposition hereto annexed against the Common enemy, which together with a certificate from the Auditor General of this Commonwealth I respectfully transmit to the Secretary of the department of war of the United States.
Harrisburg Apl 6. 1818.
Obed Fahnestock
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Dauphin County I State of Pennsylvania
I John Matheney Prohy. of the Court of Comme pleas of the County aforesaid do certify that the Honble [Honorable] Obed Fahenstock who has signed the within Certificate and whose name is thereunto subscribed was at the time of so doing and yet is an associate Judge of the [illegible crossed out] County of Dauphin duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts as such due faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Harrisburg the 6th day of April A D. 1818
John MaChesney Prohy. 
1
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I certify that it appears by the pay rolls of the Pennsylvania line in the Revolutionary War in this office that Michael Waltz was paid as Private in the 1st & 3d regiments for the year one thousand seven hundred eighty one, eighty two, and until 3d November eighty three, and that he received his gratuity for serving to the end of the war - Witness my hand and the seal of the office of the Auditor General this 6th day. April 1818-
Geo Bryan Aud. G
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Application for a transfer
State of Ohio 
County of Medina ss
On this 25th day of October 1834 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Medina personally appeared Michael Waltz who on his oath declared that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Thomas Finney in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Harman in the Service of the United States. that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Pennsylvania from whence he had lately removed
That he now resides in the State of Ohio where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future - 
The following are his reasons for removing from Harrisburgh [Harrisburg] Dauphin County Pennsylvania to Chippeway, Wayne Co Ohio. 
That he came to this place to reside in order to be near his relations who had previously left Pennsylvania
his
Michael X Waltz
Mark
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid
Philo Welton Justice Peace

State of Ohio
Medina Co ss
Personally appeared Geo R Pardee, who being duly sworn doth depose and say that Michael Waltz who has taken the above oath is the person described in the above affidavit
Geo. R. Pardee

I hereby certify that the above named Geo R Pardee is a person of veracity
Before me the day and year above written
Philo Weston Justice Peace
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The State of Ohio
Medina County ss
I Timothy Hudson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby certify that Philo Welton Esquire whose name in his own proper hand writing is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, was on the twenty fifth day of October instant,
and now is an acting Justice of the peace of said County, duly commissioned and qualified. -- 
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court, at Medina, this 28th day of October
A.D. 1834-
of
Timo Hudson Clerk. 
[white paper attached to left margin]
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Wadsworth O. Nov 4 1834
Gent.
On the opposite page is the application of Michael Waltz for a transfer of his pension from Harrisburgh where it is now payable to Pittsburgh, Such a transfer would very much accommodate him as it subjects him to great inconvenience to procure his payments as they now are payable at Harrisburgh. and I am induced to make this application for a transfer for him solely for his benefit-
I am very respectfully your
Obedient Servant
Geo. K. Pardee
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[Oval stamp HARRISBURG PENN JULY 14]
J. C. Calhoun Esqr.
Secretary of the War Department
Washington
Free
Mr Edwards 
Michael Waltz Dauphin County 
1309
Sep 1818
Sent to John MaChesney
Harrisburg
Samuel Shock Harrisburgh
July 25
[faint handwriting, illegible]
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Dauphin County, District of Pennsylvania Ss
On this 28th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the said County Michael Waltz aged 67 years, resident in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary War as follows. I enlisted in Berks County State aforesaid in November 1776 for "during the war" in the Company commanded by by Captain
Miller in the 12th Regiment, commanded by Col. Cook in the line of the State of Pennsylvania on the Continental establishment. that I continued to serve in said Corps until 1777 when the Regiment No 12 was reduced into the 3d Regt., Captain Butler was then my Captain and Thomas Craig my Colonel. I served in that corps until 1781 when I was transferred to the first regiment. in which I served until 1783. the close of the War when I was honorably discharged-- I have received a pension under the late act of Congress of March 18th 1818 by virtue of a certificate received
from the War department, the number of which is 1.309. And 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 intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provision of an 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 contract, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. --
his
Michael X Walter
mark
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year above written in open Court}
Signed
John MaChesney Proth}
Schedule of property necessary clothing and bedding excepted 2 Cows, both old, 1 table poplar, 2 Chests one pine & the other Poplar all old, brewing tub & two Wash tubs. 2 pots, and 1 kettle of no use 1 doz [dozen] knives, and forks, several plates, and dishes of little value.--
I am a day labourer, [laborer] but for three years past have done nothing in consequence of my incapability to pursue it, my wife aged 61 years, weak and afflicted with an asthmatic affection-- unable to do any thing.
Daughter Susan aged 35 married & resides abroad, Daughter Katy aged about 30 unmarried-- works, out at daily labor, is afflicted with the phthisic & has had an illegitimate child- Son John 26 years of age by trade a weaver. married resides abroad & has one child, Son Michael about 24 years, by trade a Weaver married and has three Children, Son Samuel aged 23 a weaver married and has a child, son Jacob aged 22 also a weaver unmarried works, about the neighbourhood [neighborhood] when opportunity offer, is sometimes at home
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Daughter Barbara about 20 years of age unmarried lives at home & entirely engaged with domestic concerns-
his
Michael X Waltz
mark
Sworn & subscribed the day year above written in open Court}
John MaChesney Proty [Prothonotary]}

Dauphin County of John Machesney Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid do certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Twenty six dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Harrisburg the 13th day of July AD 1820
John MaChesney
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County
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Harrisburg July 14- 1820.
Mr. Calhoun
Sir
please to send information to this place in my name whether or not the pension of the applicant will be continued and also that of Joseph Bryan, whose documents I sent on to
your Department a few days previous--
Very respectfully
Yours &c
Saml [Samuel] Shock
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March 9, 1934

xxxxxxxxxxxxx

BA-J/EEL [illegible initials]
Michael Waltz-S.40620

Mrs. Charles A. Messner 
507 Porter Avenue
Buffalo, New York

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revo
lutionary War record of Michael Waltz, of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania 
a pensioner in 1818.

The data which follow were obtained from pension claim, S.40620, 
based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Michael 
Waltz are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.

He enlisted in the state of Maryland, February 16, 1776, and served 
ten months as a private in Captain Sims' Company, Colonel Smallwood's 
Maryland Regiment; he enlisted in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in Novem
ber, 1776, or December 28, 1776, served as a private in Captain Miller's 
Company, Colonel Cooke's 12" Pennsylvania Regiment; in 1777, was trans 
ferred to Captain Butler's Company, Colonel Thomas Craig's 3" Pennsyl
vania Regiment; in 1781, was transferred to Captain Finney's Company, 
Colonel Harmar's 1" Pennsylvania Regiment and was discharged November 2, 
1783.  He stated that he was in fourteen battles, but gave the names 
of only four in which he participated, Long Island, White Plains, 
Trenton and East Chester.  
[Notes regarding the information contained in the above paragraph.
Written in left margin:  I left out what he said about him under Gen. 
Conway as it might lead to investigation about the treason of Conway.
First note in right margin: Fr Md Book This was Patrick Sims & Wm 
Smallwood
Second note in right margin: He said Capt Thos Finney but it was 
Walter Finney so left out first name]

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818, 
while residing in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

In 1820, he stated that he was sixty-seven years and his 
wife, sixty-one years.  He did not give her name or the date of 
their marriage.  In the same year, her referred to the following 
children:

Susan | aged 35 years and married.
Katy | " 30 " .
John | " 26 ", married and one child.
[Note at bottom of page regarding Katy:  He said Katy had an illegitimate child.  I
omitted her child consequently]
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Michael | aged 24 years, married and had three children.
Samuel | " 23 ", " and had one child child.
Jacob | " 22 ", unmarried.
Barbara " " 20 ", "

He did not give the names of Susan's husband or the names of the 
wives and children of his sons.

In 1834, Michael Waltz had moved to Wayne County, Ohio.

He died March 6, 1839, place not stated.

Your three stamps are returned herewith, one three cent and two 
one and one-half cent.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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1925 Oct. 22. Hist to Mrs H.G. Bartling M.D.Y
1934 - Mar. 9 Hist to Mrs Chas A. Messer EEB

40620
INVALID.
Revy

File No. 40.620
Michael Waltz
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18"
Index: - Vol. 5, Page 534
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Michael Walz [Waltz] Pitsbr [Pittsburgh] Act 1818.
to what time pd
Pen. Office May 11
Died 6 March 1839 pd to that peeed HH
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Harrisburg April 6. 1818
Genl. James Wallace/.
In obedience to the request of Mr. Michael Waltz, one of you neighbors, I transmit to you his deposition accompanied with a document relative to his claim on the United States for a pension under the Act of Congress providing for soldiers of the revolutionary war.--he asks of you the favor to present it to the department of wars.
With (illegible word) of respect I am
Your obt Servt.
Francis R. Shunk
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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
AT BUFFALO, N. Y.
[Note: St. no. over]

Latin, French 
CHARLE A. MESSNER  507 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, N.Y. Jan. 10, 1934.

To the Director of Pensions, 
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.........

My dear sir:

In the Pennsylvania Archives, there is statement that my great 
great grandfather MICHAEL WALTZ received a pension in June, 1818, as a 
Revolutionary Soldier who served seven years and seven months in the 
service.  His complete service record is found, however, in the Archives of 
Maryland, Volume 18, as he enlisted in Baltimore; but he lived after the 
War in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

I shall be very grateful to you, if you will send me all the 
information that you have about MICHAEL WALTZ, as I am helping compile 
a Waltz Family History, and no date or fact can be entered therein, without 
a legal record for its basis.  We do not know the exact birth or death 
dates of MICHAEL WALTZ, not the places and dates of his children's births.

I hope you will endeavor to send us every date possible.  I am 
especially trying to find where my great grandfather SIMON WALTZ, was 
born; he was born in August 1794, but I do not know where, except that 
the family always lived near Reading.  I want to use the material for 

[Note: 3 stamps encld]
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Waltz Family History only, and of course to enter it also on my own D.A.R. 
records at Washington.

As these records are very important to us, I hope you will make 
a diligent search for all the available record of MICHAEL WALTZ, and thus 
help to perpetuate the memory of a Revolutionary Soldier..

Very truly yours,

Ethelyn Faye Messner
(Mrs. Charles A. Messner....)

[Circular time and date receipt stamp]
Arrow pointing to 3:45
RECEIVED 
JAN 11 1934
MAIL SUB DIV.
VETS. ADM.
READER # 66

[Note:
[struck out: STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
AT BUFFALO, N. Y.
CHARLES A. MESSNER
507 Porter Avenue...
1 11 34
WAR DEPAR[remainder torn off]]
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[Letterhead of Daughters of the American Revolution]
[Insignia of the Daughters of the American Revolution]

Chicago Chapter 
of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution
MRS. HOWARD G. BARTLING
REGISTRAR
ONTARIO HOTEL-620 N. STATE ST.
TELEPHONE SUPERIOR 6660
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

September 1, 1925

War Department 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

Will you please be good enough to give me 
the pension record of Michael Waltz who served in the 
revolutionary war from the state of Pennsylvania?  I 
shall appreciate any ancestral data that you may 
have on file as I am trying to form a connecting link 
between Michael Waltz, and George, who is supposed to be 
his son.

If there is any charge please advise.

Respectfully,

Winnifred F. Bartling

(Mrs. H. G.)
620 N. State St
Chicago

[Circular mail stamp]
PENSION 
A 
SEP
U. 3 S.
1925 
OFFICE
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section. 
M.D.G 
October 22, 1925 

Mrs. H.G. Bartling,
620 North State Street,
Chicago, Illinois. 

Madam: 
I have to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S-40620, it appears that Michael Waltz enlisted in Maryland February 16, 1776 and served ten months as a private in Captain Sims' Company, Colonel Smallwood's Maryland Regiment and was at the battles of Long Island, East Chester and White Plains. 
He enlisted in Berka County, Pennsylvania on December 28, 1776, served in Captain Miller's Company, Colonel Cook's Twelfth Pennsylvania Regiment and was at the battle of Trenton. In 1777 he was transferred to Captain Butler's company. Colonel Thomas Craig's Third Pennsylvania Regiment and served until 1781 when transferred to Captain Finney's Company, Colonel Harmar's First Pennsylvania and was discharged November 3,1783. He was in Fourteen battles during the Revolution, names of other not stated.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1816 while residing in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. 
In 1820 he was sixty-seven years old and referred to his wife aged sixty-one years, name not stated and to his children: Susan, aged thirty-five years, married, but name not on record, Katy aged thirty years, John aged twenty-six years, Michael aged twenty-four years, Samuel aged twenty-three years, Jacob aged twenty-two years and Barbara aged twenty-years. 
Respectfully, 
Winfield Scott, 
Commissioner.