Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22239, Mathias Fisher, Penn.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE   Fisher, Mathias.
CONTENTS
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18.88,
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Pittsburgh Agency
Mathias Fisher
of Westmoreland in the State of Penn.
who was a Pri in the Company commanded
by Captain Shannon of the Regt commanded
by Col Lochry in the Pennsylvania line [Illegible]
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15. [Illegible] Private $50 00
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Inscribed on the Bill of Pittsburgh Agency
at the rate of 50 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of October 1833 and sent to Hon Coulter Grunsling, Pa
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 -           125.0
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch 1834. 25-
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                                                                150. 00
died Feb. 17, 1834
see report on Agency Book
Revolutionary Claim,
Act Jun June 7, 1832 ⎬

Recorded by T. J. Sprague Clerk
Book E  Vol. 5  Page 16

Dead. See letter to H. D. Foster
Feb 16. 1835
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Free
Feb 10
J L Edward Esq
Commission of Pension
Washington DC

[Illegible Round Stamp]
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Greensborough The 5th

Sir

Some time since Mathias Fisher of  [?] County died Leaving Five children but no widow   The children are of full age   At the time of his death [17] February 1833 there was owed him a portion of his pension accruing from 4th Sept 1832 until his death.  All the children but one relinquished in favor of the Executer[sic] of their Father but one who refuses to have anything to do in the business.  The executor then gave a power to draw the shares of the children who had relinquished but when the power was presented to the Branch Bank of the United States they declined payment because all the children had not relinquished in favor of the executor who is himself one of the children.  If the position the Bank has assumed in this case it will put it completely in the power of any one
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of the children of a deceased pensioner to prevent the payment to the other children which would operate with great injustice. The Clerk of the Bank however suggested the propriety of writing to you on the subject. I will thank you therefore for your opinion on this subject as soon as convenient. The son who declines to relinquish in this case is determined if he can to prevent the payment to the other Children
Respectfully
Your Obt. Srvt.
H D Foster

J  L Edwards Esq
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H. D. Foster Esq-
Feb. 16th 1835
G.C.

Record Vol 25 Page 195
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War Dept
Pension Office
Feb. 16. 1835

Sir.
In reply to your letter of the 5th first respecting the case of Mathias Fisher, did I have to inform you that the amount due to the four children in this case may be paid not withstanding the fifth refuses to do anything to obtain the amount due him. The enclosed
printed sheets will show what proof is wanted.
You will see what [illegible] are applicable to this
case.

H. D. Foster, Esq

Greensburgh
Pa.
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27.118
Mathias Fisher
an application
for a pension
Admit
15 mos
Hon R. Coulter
Greensburg
Pa
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congess passed June 7th 1832

Penna. Westd. [Westmoreland] County ss
On this 20th day of November in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court [Mathias Fisher – crossed out] before the honbl [honorable] John Young president & his associates now Sitting Mathias Fisher a resident of ligonier Township Westmoreland County in the State of Penna. aged 74 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth depose & say in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 That about the first of Jany [January] 1777 as declarant believes, he was drafted as a militia man in the Company of Captain Shannon [Samuel Shannon] and marched in the detachment commanded by Col Archibald Lochry from Westd. County in Penna. to the State of New Jersey at Morristown the British in Brunswick & Amboy we went to the American lines and were stationed at Rahway near Woodbridge which place we left in the Spring and the whole detachment returned I think in Apl [April] being discharged during the time we lay at Rahway there was one or two small affairs with british foraging parties In the month of August Seventeen hundred and Eighty One the declarant marched from Fort Ligonier in Westd County Penna under the same Captain and the same Col Loughry [Lochry] to where Wheeling stands
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in Virginia, and then the whole detachment embarked in boats commanded by Colonel Louchry [Lochry] we landed below the mouth of the big Miami [River] at the mouth of a creek and while we were landing the Indians fired upon us and finally took the whole detachment prisoners Col Lochry was killed after we surrendered, There was about a hundred in the detachment as well as declarant recollects when we were attacked, The declarant was kept a while in the Indian Towns and about Christmas was taken to detroit and given up to the [Indians - crossed out] British. I was kept at detroit until Spring when I was taken to an Island about Forty five miles above ^Montreal^ [illegible – crossed out] about 20 acres in the Island on which there was a fort and a great many American prisoners about the 13th of July 1782 as I believe, myself and four other American prisoners to wit Ezekiel Lewis, Samuel Murphy, and James Dougherty & George Baily the two last of whom were taken at Wyoming made our Escape in the night by passing the guard and constructing a small raft out of Driftwood found at the head of the Island in which we drifted about five mile before we got to land and that was on the Cana [Canada] Shore, where we concealed ourselves during the day & at night got a canoe and crossed to the American Shore and steer’d for lake Champlain
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which we Struck at the mouth of Otter creek, and crossed the lake on a raft, which we thought was about four miles broad at that place we then went to Pittsford in Vermont and to Allenton [perhaps Williston, VT?], where Governor Chittendon [Thomas Chittenden] lived from whom we got a pass and went to Newbury the head quarters of Genl Washington from thence thru Jersey to Easton Penna. from whence I returned to my home in Westmoreland County Penna, which I reached about the 12th of September  during the retreat from Canada the declarant suffered from hunger & by the mosquitoes and was much reduced, so that he could not travel fast. declarant believes that Samuel Murphy who Escaped from Canada with him is living in Armstrong County Penna, of the other three he knows not. He has no documentary Evidence of his service. In the last campaign I went as a volunteer. The declarant has lived in Westd. County aforesaid since his return and he hereby relinquishes Every claim whatever to a pension or annuity Except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Mathias Fisher [signature]
Affirmed [sworn – crossed out] & subscribed in open Court 
20 Nov 1832
[illegible] Randal McLaughlin, Prot. [Prothonotary]
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At the same time appeared in open Court John Brandt who on his solem oath saith that he was drafted in Captain Shannons Company commanded by Col Lochry and marched into the State of New Jersey about the beginning of the year 77 That he knew Mathias Fisher who was in the same Company and who has just been sworn and that the said Fisher marched from West’d [Westmoreland] County & served out the Tour and was discharged in April of the same year Deponent has resided ever since in Westmorland County and knows that the said Mathias Fisher went in Lochrys campaign against the Indians in Eighty one and always understood that he was taken prisoner 
John his mark Brandt
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court 
November 20 1832
[illegible] Randal McLaughlin, Prot. [Prothonotary]

At the same time appeared in open Court George Hice, who on his oath saith that he was in Lochrys campaign against the Indians in Eighty one, and that he marched from Fort Ligonier in Westmoreland County Penna in August. He knows Mathias Fisher who served in Captain Shannons Company, who also marched at the same time and was taken prisoner at Lochry's defeat near the Mouth of Miami In the same year, when and where this deponent
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was also taken prisoner, I was kept with the said Fisher until we went to the Shawnee Towns where we were separated. I was kept a prisoner with the Indians & with the british until peace when I returned home in September 1783 I found that Fisher had been home about a year.
George his mark Hice
Sworn & Subscribed in 
open court 20 Nov 1832
[illegible] Randal McLaughlin, Prot. [Prothonotary]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the before named Mathias Fisher was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that John Brandt, and George Hice who have signed the preceeding certificate are residents in the County of Westmorland and are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to Credit 
I Randal McLaughlin Prothonotary of the Courts of Common pleas of Westmoreland County, Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Mathias Fisher for a pension 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this twenty first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. 
Randal McLaughlin, Prot. [Prothonotary]
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Penn.
Westmoreland County 
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the pear for said County Mathias Fisher who on his solemn affirmation saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of time of his services but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the records mentioned below and in the following grades. For one year and three months as a private soldier and for such service I claim a pension.
Affirmed the subscriber the 21st May 1833} Mathias Fisher
John Fleiger
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April 9, 1932.
Mrs. C.F. Leonard
528 W. Duarte Road
Monrovia, California

BA-J/ILL
Mathias Fisher-S.22239

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter requesting information relative to Mathias Fisher, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.22239, based upon his military service in that war.
Mathias Fisher, while residing in Westmoreland County, pennsylvania, enlisted about January 1, 1777, serves as private in Captain Shannon's Company, Colonel Archibald Lochry's   Pennsylvania  Regiment, was discharged sometime in April, 1777. He enlisted in August, 1781, served as private in Captain Shannon's Company, Colonel Archibald Lochry's  Pennsylvania Regiment in the campaign against the Indians, was in an engagement with the Indians below the mouth of the Big Miami River, was captured and held in the "Indian Town," was given up to the British at Detroit about Christmas, 1781, was held prisoner on an island near Montreal until July 13, 1782 when he escaped; he made his way to Allentown, Vermont, where Governor Chittenden gave him a pass, thence to Newburgh, to Easton, Pennsylvania, and finally reached home about September 12, 1782.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 20, 1832, at which time he resided in Ligonier Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was then seventy-four years of age, date of his birth not given.
He died February 17, 1834.
He was survived by five children, their names not given; his wife died previous to his death, her name not given.
Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.
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Revolution
22 239
INVALID.
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File No. 22, 239
Mathias Fisher
Pri  Rev War
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Act: June 7 '39
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 187
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mar. 24, 1919, Hist to T. F. Pershing, and
1925 May 20. Copies mailed to M.C. Oursler. See receipt for payment in Samuel Craig
Pa W307 and
1932. April 9 - Hist to Mrs. C. F. Leonard - Ill.
1935.April 30. Hist to Mrs. Elsie Daniel
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Request for Photostating (To be prepared in duplicate)
M6
Ex: aul
OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK
Job. No..........................
Date May 16, 25
Subject Mathias Fisher Rev. S22239
1 copies of 2 pieces consisting of 6 pages to be forwarded when completed to the Rev War Sect (crossed out) Division.
Remarks: See receipt for payment in Samuel Craig, Pa W3075
A.E. Wilson
Chief Div. ct
.........................Chief Clerk (blank)
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Youngstown O. Jan. 9, 1935
A.D. Hiller
Veteran’s Bureau, Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir – 
I would like data on record of Mathias Fisher, Revolutionary soldier of Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland Co, Penna.
He was pensioned Oct. 18, 1833 age 76 yrs. as given in Penna Archives Series 3, Vol. 23, page 543.

Thank you in advance.
Truly yours

(Mrs.) Elsie Daniels
605 Willis Ave.
Youngstown, Ohio
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Youngstown O. Jan. 9, 1935
A.D. Hiller
Veteran’s Bureau, Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir – 
I would like data on record of Mathias Fisher, Revolutionary soldier of Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland Co, Penna.
He was pensioned Oct. 18, 1833 age 76 yrs. as given in Penna Archives Series 3, Vol. 23, page 543.

Thank you in advance.
Truly yours

(Mrs.) Elsie Daniels
605 Willis Ave.
Youngstown, Ohio

[blank stamp]
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Blairsville Pa March 17th 1919.
U.S. Pension Dept
Washington D.C.

Messrs Gentlemen

Mathias Fisher one of the beneficiary [?] who went with Col. Lochry in his well known expedition to your Gen Clark at Wheeling W. Va and was later ambushed by the Indians, captured, sold to the English, escaped and returned to York, Pa after an absence of 15 months, Mathias Fisher came from York Pa about during the revolutionary war, married Martha Thompson and is said to have been a pensioner in the later years of his life. He died Feb 17th 1834 near Ligonier of pleurisy

Do your records show that he was a pensioner? We have no record of the names of the men who went with Col Lochry at least none in case discovery.

Please answer and oblige, I am a great Grandson of Mathias Fisher anda  3rd cousin of Gen John. J. Pershing [may be "Pushing"] commander of the A.E.F. of France. If there is any expense for this search and information, let me know and [illegible] will be pleased to make good

Yours sincerely
Thompson F. Pershing D.D.
250 South Spring St
Blairsville Pa
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[letterhead with Daughters of the American Revolution symbol]
Encinitas Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution
Monrovia, California

Feb. 25, 1932

Dept. of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Rev. War.

Dear Sirs: -

Will you please send me the war record Mathias Fisher [underlined and “OK” written], born 2/12/1758, died 2/17/1834, enlisted from Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania.
Thank you very much for same.

Sincerely,
Inez Leonard (Mrs. C.F.)

5728 W. Duarte Rod. – Registrar – Encinitas Ch. D.A.A.

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[Answers to all the questions below illegible.}

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., 19
In reply to your request of
received    for a statement of the military history of Mathias Fisher a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau. S22239
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
the
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
RANK,
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
-COLONEL.

STATE.
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the
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Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
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Date of application for pension,
Residence at date of application,
Age at date of application,
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Remarks:
Respectfully,
this
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A Vol. 2. 403, 404
Commissioner.
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April 30, 1935.
Mrs. Elsie Daniels
Willis Avenue
Youngstown, Ohio.

BA-J/ILL
Mathias Fisher
S. 22239

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Mathias Fisher, a pensioner.

The record of Mathias Fisher is given herein as shown in the papers on file in his claim for pension, S. 22239, based upon his service in that war.

Mathias Fisher, while a resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, enlisted about January 1, 1777, served as private in
Captain Shannon's company, Colonel Archibald Lochry's Pennsylvania regiment, was in two small skirmishes while stationed at Rahway,
New Jersey, and was discharged sometime in April 1777. He enlisted sometime in August 1781, served as private in Captain Shannon's
company, Colonel Archibald Lochry's Pennsylvania regiment in the campaign against the Indians, was in an engagement at the mouth of a creek below the mouth of the Big Miami River, was taken prisoner by the Indians, held in the Indian Towns, was given up to the
British at Detroit about Christmas, 1781 and was held prisoner on an island near Montreal until July 13, 1782, at which time he made
his escape and reached Allentown, Vermont, where Governor Chittenden gave him a pass; he reached home about September 12, 1782.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 20, 1832, at which time he resided in Ligonier Township, Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania; he had continued to live in that county ever since his service in the war. The soldier was then aged seventy-four
years; the date and place of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.
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Mathias Fisher died February 17, 1834, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was not survived by a widow, but by five children; the name of his wife is not shown, or the names of said children. One of these surviving children was a son.

In order to obtain the name, or names, of the persons to whom the last payment of pension was paid, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:

Mathias Fisher
Certificate 18888
Issued October 18, 1833
Rate $50 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832.
Pennsylvania Agency.

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

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