Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,510, Sebastian Allgaier, Penn.
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Service                                            Number

Penn.        Allgaier, Sebatian          S. 23510

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Contents
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11,008
PENNSYLVANIA
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Sebastian Allgaier
of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Mason of the Regt. commanded by Col. Ross in the Pennsylvania Line for 8 months.
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Inscribed on the roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of March 1833 and sent to Hon. H.A. Muhlenberg, Reading, Pa.
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1833         $53.33
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sep 33   13.33
                                                           $66.66

{Revolutionary Claim.}
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by A.B. Thruston Clerk,
Book E  Vol  4   Page 1
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Lancaster City

Before me, an alderman in and for the city aforesaid, personally came Peter Schindel of the same city, who on his solemn oath saith that I am well acquainted with Sebastian Allgaier of Berks County, state of Pennsylvania who is now about to apply for a pension, that I believe him to be seventy-five years of age, further than I know him to be a soldier of the Revolution, that he served two months in the same regiment with myself and that he marched in company with me from Lancaster City (then Lancaster Borough) to Elizabethtown Point, he was then in Capt. George Murphy's company in Col. George Ross's regiment. 
Signed:  Peter Shindel

Sworn and subscribed before me this 12th of  November A.D. 1832
Signed:  Sam Dale

I, Samuel Dale, before whom the above deposition was taken do certify that Peter Shindel who has signed the above deposition is a person of credibility.
Signed:  Sam Dale

State of Pennsylvania
Lancaster County
I, Christian Bachman, prothonotary of the court of common pleas in and for said county do certify that Samuel Dale Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and whose name is inscribed to the foregoing certificate was at the time and is now an alderman for the city of Lancaster in the county aforesaid, duly commission and qualified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at Lancaster this twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Signed:  Christian Bachman, Prothy.
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Pennsylvania
Berks County ss

    Personally appeared Sebastian Allgaier, in open Court of Common Pleas, held at Reading, in and for Berks County, who upon his solemn oath doth depose and say that he is a resident of the Borough of Reading aforesaid, aged seventy fove years of age.  That he ws drafted and served in the militia of Pennsylvania, in the Revolutionary War, in the year 1776 in a company commanded by Capt. George Musser, Colonel Geroge ross regiment, at the time he resided in the town of Lancaster that he marched in said company from Lancaster to Elizabethtown point and served a tour of two months in the year 1777 he was drafted and stood guard at the Barracks in Lancaster, guarding the British prisoners and when the Hessians were sent from Trenton to Lancaster and from thence to Fredericktown in Maryland, was one of the guards, and served two months, in this last tour I do not recollect the name of any of the Officers, I think he was Capt. Kreider in the same year 1777.  I was drafted in a Company commanded by Captain Conrad Geist, in Col. Hunter's Regiment and marched in said company from the Borough of Reading to the city of Philadelphia, from thence to Old Chester from thence to Wilmington, this was at the time when the Battle of Brandywine, and served two months, that in the year 1778 he served in Capt. Chas. Gobin's Company as a substitute for Collinson Read, two months, that he marched (next page)
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from the Borough of Reading aforesaid that the company marched to Trenton and there he joined the said company in Col. Jos. Heister's Regiment, they remained there until discharged as to the period of each service he cannot at this late period ascertain precisely.
                                                 //s//
                                       Sebastian Allgaier
Sworn & subscribed
in open court
//s//
Garrick Mallery
Proth.


    The court propounded the following interrogatories to the applicant for a pension, on account of services in the militia -
 - Where and in what year was you born?  I was born in Bern Township, Berks County in the year 1757.
  - Have you any record of your age?  I have a record of my age as given to me by my father.
   - Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?  The first & second time I was drafted, I lived in Lancaster, the third and fourth time, I resided in the Borough of Reading, and have resided in said borough ever since.
   -  How were you called into service, where you drafted?  I was drafted three times, as stated in my application and a substitute for Collinson Reads.
                                         //s//
                               Sebastian Allgaier
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Pennsylvania
Berks County ss

    On the 14 day of November AD 1832in open Court of Common Pleas, held at Reading in and for the county of Berks aforesaid, came Casper Madera a credible witness of the Borough of Reading aforesaid, aged seventy-eight years, who upon he solemn oath doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with the within named Sebastian Allgaier the applicant for a pension, that he marched from the Borough aforesaid in the same company commanded by Capt. Conrad Geist, Col. Hunter's regiment, Penna. Militia, in the year 1777 a tour of two months to the city of Philadelphia, from thence to Old Chester, from thence to Wilmington in the State of Delaware and that the said Sebastian Allgaier has always been respected as a revolutionary soldier, a man of good character and as to his veracity never heard it doubted.
                                          //s//
                                   Casper Madera
Sworn & subscribed
in open court
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Garrick Mallery
Prothon.

    On the 14 day of November AD 1832 came Peter Stichter, a credible witness of the Borough of Reading aforesaid, aged seventy one years, who upon his solemn oath, doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with the within named Sebastian Allgaier, the applicant for a pension, that he marched with him from the Borough of Reading, in a (next page)
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company commanded Capt. Chas. Gobin, in the Revolutionary War Penna. Militi, in Col. Jos. Hiester's regiment to Trenton in the year 1778, and there remained until discharged, a tour of two months and that the said Sebastian Allgaier has always been reputed as a Revolutionary soldier a man of good character as to veracity never heard it doubted. 

                                           //s//
                                Peter Stichter
Given & subscribed
in open court
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Garrick Mallery
Proth.

   And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department, that the within named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he stated and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Caspar Madera and Peter Stichter who has signed the preceding affidavit, a resident of the Borough of Reading, Berks County and are credible persons and that their statement are entitled to credit.
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                              Garrick Mallory Proth.
                              Mathias V. Richard one of                   
                              the Judges of Berks County

    I Jacob Sallade, prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the Court of Berks, I do certify that the foregoing contains the signed proceedings of the court in the matter of the application of Sebastian Allgaier for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal aforesaid court affixed this 7th day of November AD 1832.
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                            Jac. Sallade   Prothon.

Sebastian Allgaier 19101

(illegible)
8 months
$26.66
Hon. H.A. Muhlenberg
Reading
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23570
Revolution

No. 23,570
Sebastian Allgaier
Priv.  Rev.  War

Act:  June 7th, 1818
Index:-Vol.  D,  Page 5.

{Arrangement of 1870.}


1893 Feb 8 Hist to Jos. A. Allgaier Reading
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Sebastian Allgaier
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Sebastian Allgaier

The objections are:

7. - That he has not made a relinquishment of every other pensions.
      This has been a mere neglect of the scriber who drew up the papers.  The applicant does not now enjoy & never has claimed any other pensioner.  I can readily make the relinquishment required for him & it is hereby made.

12. - That he has not obtained the evidence of a clergyman & has not given a reason for not so.
     The applicant is a Roman Catholic.  He clergyman resides at a distance of more than twenty miles & is seldom at Reading.  Having known the applicant for many years I can testify to all that is required of a clergyman to testify which is hereby done.

                                        //s//
                        H.M.A. Muhlenberg M.G.
                                  March 11,, 1833
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(Transcriber's note: the reverse of an envelope)

(Date stamp)
PENSIONS
      SEP
U.    14   S.
      1892
   OFFICE


(Date stamp)
OLD WAR AND NAVY 
     SEP 16 1892
       (illegible)
                       B.
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,
Joseph A. Allgaier,
Conveyance & Notary Public,
Real Estate - Insurance,
Steamship Tickets Foreign Exchange,
Mortgage Loans,
511 Penn Street, Reading, Pa.

September 13: 1892

Hon. Green B. Raum
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

    My great -grand-father, Sebastian Allgaier, was a revolutionary soldier and a U. S. Pensioner up to his death February 27: 1846.  I wish to become a member of the "Sons of the Revolution" and would like to have an abstract of the Pension Department Record upon which his pension was based.  Enclose bill pf fees and I will remit.
                                     Yours Truly
                                          //s//
                                 Joseph A. Allgaier
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(Transcriber's note: the reverse of an envelope)

(Date stamp)
PENSION
       B
     JAN
       31
U. 1893 S.
  OFFICE


(Date stamp)
OLD WAR AND NAVY
    FEB 3, 1893
       FILES
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Shipper of Coal and Coke.
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The Pension Office of U.S.
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen,

    In order to obtain admission into Penna. Society, Sons of the Revolution - I would like to have a copy of the application for pension of Sebastian Allgaier (my Great Grand Father), who was pensioned for services during our Revolutionary War; under the Act of 1831, I think.
    In report of Secretary of War in 1835 in relation to pension establishment of the U.S. vol. 2nd Penna. Pension Roll - Page 136 - is found name of Sebastian Allgaier - private - Penna Militia, aged 77 when placed on pension roll, March 15, 1833.
    Also in census of pensioners for Revolutionary or militia services - published in 1841 - under heading of Penna. Eastern District - Berks County - town of Reading is the name of Sebastian Allgaier (page 112) aged 83. From this information I trust you can send me a copy of his application for pension - which I must have to offer to the Society of S. of R.  
                                     Yours Respectfully,
                                                //s//
                                        I. L. Repplier