Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35287, Wolfgang Etchberger, Md.
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Md. Etchberger, Wolfgang S35287
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2889.
Maryland
Wolfgang Etchberger
Private
Capt Graybell
Maryland
Hausseggers German Reg
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland, at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 12th of April, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22d of Sept. 1818 and sent to the applicant care of Thomas Bailey Esq, Baltimore Md.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 @ 2/[illegible0 37.86
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar 48.00
$85.86
{Revolutionary claim,  }
{Act 18th March, 1818}
=this years.
City of Baltimore
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Dead - see letter to S.H. Parker
Apl 24 1837
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Wolfgang Etchberger
application for Pension
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State of Maryland
Baltimore County Sc.
On this thirteenth day of April in the year of our lord one thousand and eight hundred and eighteen personally appears before me the undersigned Wolfgang Etchberger residing in the City of Baltimore aged about sixty years an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United State in the Revolutionary War- and then then there made the following declaration on oath by me administered "that he enlisted at Baltimore under Captain Philip Graybell in June 1776, in the "German Regiment," then commanded by Colonel Hausacker, in the Maryland line, continuing in the same for three years and discharged at Wyoming on or about the 29th of July 1779 by Capt. Burner who at that time, commanded said Regiment in the absence of the other superior officers—that deponant soon after he was discharged from said service- put into the hands of Sergt. Stouffer his discharge for the purpose of getting a settlement of accounts at Anapolis
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and never after received with pay or discharge -
said Stouffer having gone off with them - That his name hath never been placed on any pension list - and that is consequence of his reduced circumstances he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support -Subscribed and sworn to before me
                                     Wolfgang Etchberger
N P Nice Chief Judge
Baltimore City Court

State of Maryland 
City of Baltimore Sc
On this thirteenth day of April in the yar Eighteen hundred and eighteen personally appeared before me the Jospeh Hook of the said city and made oath that he perfectly the aforementioned Wolfgang Etsberger to have served in the Revolutionary War and the particularly mentioned in his declaration and that said Hook was a Sergeant in the same company & now has a list of the correct company when by him which active of Sergeant

Subscribed and sworn to before me
Joseph Hook
N P Nice Clerk
Judge Buehl City Court
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore: SS
 I hereby Certify that from the declaration of Wolfgang Etchberger under oath as also that of Joseph Hook I am fully satisfied that the said Wolfgang Etchberger served in the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy on the Continental establishment for the time
therein mentioned
N Price Chief Judge
Balt City Court
13th April 1818
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City of Baltimore Sc
I Thomas Harwood Clerk of Baltimore City County do hereby certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice Esquire before whom the afore going proceedings were taken and Certified, and who has thereto subscribed his name, was at the time of taking and certifying the same, and still is Chief Judge of Baltimore city County duly Commissioned and qualified and to all such acts full faith and credit is and ought to be given -In testimony whereof I have here unto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court this thirteenth day of April Eighteen hundred and Eighteen -
Th. Harwood Clerk
Baltimore City Court
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                                                  June 28, 1937.

Mrs. Cassandra Long           BA-J/ILL
3516 Poppleton Avenue      Wolfgang Etchberger
Omaha, Nebraska                S. 35287

Dear Madam:

The data given herein were found in pension claim, S. 3587, based upon service of Wolfgang Etchberger in the Revolutionary War.

Wolfgang Etchberger enlisted in June 1776, in Baltimore, Maryland, served as private in Captains Philip Graybell's and Bunner's companies, Colonel Haussegger's "German Regiment", and was discharged July 29, 1779 at Wyoming.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 13, 1818, at which time he resided in Baltimore, Maryland. The soldier was aged then about sixty years; the date and place of his birth, and the names of his parents are not shown. He died about the year 1832.

In 1818, Joseph Heck of Baltimore, Maryland, stated that he served with Wolfgang Etchberger in the Revolutionary War.

There are no further family data in the papers on file in this pension claim.

Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

[Handwritten in left margin: Ser. can be verified in Md. book- p. 181]

[Handwritten in left bottom of letter: Inf. for date of last payment, not given as he was dropped in 1820.] [dropped and 1820 underlined]
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December 17, 1937

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [illeg. handwriting]
William Etchberger
W. 3791
*****
Wolfgang Etchberger
S. 35287
*****
BA-J/MMHF:MLB

Mrs. Cassandra Long Brown       
3516 Poppleton Avenue
Omaha, Nebraska                       
                                                                                                               
Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request further detail in regard to the statement that Wolfgang Etchberger, Revolutionary War pensioner, had a married brother. You state that if that brother were living in 1837, in Baltimore, Maryland, the information would aid in your research.

One Stafford H. Parker, of Port Royal, Virginia, addressed the Secretary of War in 1837 in regard to any pension which might have been due the married daughter of Wolfgang Etchberger, Revolutionary War soldier, who was then deceased. He stated that this daughter stated that her father's brother died some years ago and left children. The names of the children and the brother are not shown in this claim for pension, nor their residences.

A further search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and the claim for pension found of William Etchberger or Etchbery of Baltimore, Maryland, brother of Wolfgang Etchberger, who may have been the brother referred to above. The record of William Etchberger or Etchbery is furnished you herewith which, it is hoped, will contain the data you seek.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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June 28, 1937.
BA-J/ILL

Mrs. Cassandra Long Brown
3516 Poppleton Avenue
Omaha, Nebraska.

Dear Madam:
     Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Christopher Axer, Wolfgang Etchberger, Frederick Hook, also the War of 1812 records of Samuel Hook, and Michael Keplinger, both of whom fought in the Whisky Rebellion

     Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data, and the limited clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is not possible to comply in full with each request for information pertaining to soldiers of those wars.  The record of Wolfgang Etchberger is furnished herewith as found in pension claim, S35287, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator.
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MRS. CASSANDRA LONG BROWN,
3516 Poppleton Avenue,
Omaha Nebraska

May 29 1937.

United States Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, District of Columbia

Dear Sir:-
[hand written on the left side of the page "OK"]
 If the records of your office show the name of Wolgang Etchberger, [underlined by hand] (Wilfgang Etssperger,) private, enlisted by Captain Phillip Graybell at Frederick Town, Md. in 1776m and discharged July 1779, as a pensioner, will you be so good as to inform me of his place [underlined by hand] and date of birth.  My records show he died May 27, 1828.

Also, was his widow, Marie Etchberger, pensioned?  If so, please send date of her birth, age, date of marriage and children named in application for pension.

My records show their children were: 
Mary Etchberger, born April 15, 1795, marred (1) Robinson Jones, (2) John Keplinger.
Elizabeth Etchberger, married Joshua Allender.
John Etchberger.

Thanking you for your courtesy, I am,
Yours respectfully,
Cassandra Long Brown
(Mrs. Eli V. Brown)

[Circular Stamp in lower right-hand corner:  Received Jun 3 1937
MAIL BUS-DIV
Illegible possibly VETS ADM 7
Illegible]
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--35 287
INVALID.
Revy.

File No. 35287
Wolfgong Etchberger
Pri Rev War

Act 18th March 18
Index:--- Vol. 2, Page 126

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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P709
April 22 1837
Pension Office.
[illegible]
22 Sept 1818

[Written upside down:]
Port Royal Way(?)
20th April 1837
from

To/ The Honble Joel R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
City of Washington
D.C.
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Port Royal Way(?)
20th April 1837  from

To/ The Honble Joel R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
City of Washington
D.C.

[Written upside-down:]
P709
April 22 1837
Pension Office
[Illegible]
22 Sept 1818
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Port Royal  April, 18th, 1837
The Hon. J.R. Poinsett

Sir,

I beg leave, to solicit your aid as the Presiding Officer of the War Department, for the purpose of obtaining [next two words underlined] correct information, relative to a Revolutionary claim, on behalf of the heirs of a certain Wolfgang Etchberger, who was late a private in the Army of the Revolution, and inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Maryland Agency.

Mr. Calhoun, whilst Secretary of War did, on the 22nd day of September, 1818 sign a certificate, stating that the said Etchberger was inscribed as above stated at the rate of $8 per month, to commence on the 13th day of April 1818.

I desire to know through you (as I have not the Acts of Congress) whether he ever rec.d his pension, by entire(?) of the S.(?) Certificate and if he did not, whether his children
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are now entitled to receive that, which was due to him, in his life time— A gentleman being in my employment intermarried with the daughter of the said Etchberger—His wife says that her father did not receive the amount due him in his life time— He died about the year 1832.  If she should be entitled to the arrears, she would be glad to receive whatever may be the amount— She states that her father's brother died some years ago, and that his children recd the same due to him— Any information which you can send me on the subject will be thankfully received — I fancy the Books in the War Office will exhibit the amt. recd by him, if any —

Your early reply to this, addressed to me, at Port Royal, Carolina County, Va, will be a favour conferred me

Sir, Yr. Ob. St. [Your Obedient Servant]
Stafford H. Parker
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S.H. Parker
Apl 24 1837
GC

Record of 42 [number circled] Page(?) 162
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War Dept
Pension Office,
Apl. 24. 1837.

Sir,

Your letter of the 18th sent to the Secretary of War has been referred to te Office, and in reply I have to inform you that the pension of Wolfgang Etchberger was paid to the 4th Marh 1820.  There is no amount due after that period, because the Pension did not not exhibit a schedule of his property conformably to the act of May 1, 1820, [crossed out: which rendered it indispensable.]

Stafford H. Parker, Esq
Port Royal
Va.
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Wolfgang Etchberger, Maryland roll- Act March 18. 1818

Be pleased to say up to what time he was paid.

Pension Office
Apl. 24. 1837.

Paid to March 4 1820
John Sessford
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Baltimore 13 April 1818

Sir

On the certificate for a pension being found, appeared(?) to direct the same to be forwarded to me through the Post Office, directed to the "Care of Thomas Bailey Esquire Baltimore"

Wolfgang Etchberger

Witness
P.G. Hand

signed Wolfgang Etchberger