Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,845, William Collins, Penn.
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Service - Penn
Collins, William
Number S. 40,845
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14.781
Pennsylvania
William Collins of Daughin Co. in the state of Pennsyl. who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Magaw of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of one year

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11th of January 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th of Sep 1819 and sent to Abitha Hopkins, Esqr. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 = $62.47
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820 $48.
7 mo 21/31 & 4/30 = $110.47

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Dauphin County ss
On this the eleventh day of January A.D. 1819 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the court of Common pleas for the said county of Dauphin, personally appears William Collins aged seventy two years, resident in said county, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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," that he the said William Collins enlisted at Reading in the state of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain John Spohn of the fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, under command of Col. Magaw in the beginning of the year 1776; that he enlisted for one year; that he continued in the service of the U.S. until the beginning of the year 1777; that he was taken prisoner on the 16th day of November 1776 at fort Washington; that he was kept at New York as a prisoner about two months; and was then discharged on parole, and returned home, by which means he got no discharge from the U.S. officers; that he was in the service of his country for more than a year; that he was in the battles of Long Island, and of Fort Washington; and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except the affidavit of Henry Vanderslice Esq. hereto attached.
William Collins

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Jacob Bucher
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I Jacob Bucher, Judge &c. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Collins did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common enemy; and that it also appears to my satisfaction , particularly on the solemn oaths of Henry Bohn and John Stine, persons of respectability, that the said Collins is in reduced and indigent circumstance, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
July 11th 1819
Jacob Bucher
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Lebanan County ss
Henry Boer, and John Stine of Schuylkill County Pa. being duly sworn according to law do say that they are well acquainted with William Collins, late a soldier in the revolutionary war, the present applicant for a pension under the late act of Congress; that he is in reduced and indigent circumstances; that he is a poor industrious man of good character, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Henry Boer
John Stein

Sworn and subscribed before me Jany. 11th A.D. 1819
Jacob Bucker
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Dauphin County ss
On this the eighteenth day of December AD 1820 personally appeared in open Court of Common pleas of Dauphin County aforesaid, being a Court of Record for said County, William Collins aged seventy three 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 (to wit). That in the fall of the year 1775 or 1776 he enlisted at Reading for one year in the company commanded by Capt. Spoan of the fifth Pennsylvania Regiment under command of Col. Magaw; that he continued in the service of the United States for fourteen months, including the two months that he remained a prisoner in the hands of the British; that he was in the battels of Long Island, White Plains, & Kings Bridge, and was taken a prisoner at fort Washington as is more particularly set forth in his original declaration and application for a pension which was made on the 11th day of January A.D. 1819 & filed in the war office; that he has received a Certificate of Pension from the war office Number 14,781, dated the 24th day of  September 1819.
And I the said William Collins 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 with the provisions 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 contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
William Collins

Sworn, declared and subscribed in open Court of Common pleas of Dauphin County aforesaid this 18th day of December AD 1820
John Machesney, Prob.

Schedule of all the property of the said William Collins, necessary clothing and bedding excepted viz.
I own a log stable which is built upon a piece of mountain land belonging to the state of Pennsylvania, in one end of which stable I reside with my wife and grandson, and in the other end I keep my cow, calf and horse. I own a cow, calf and horse, a chest, 3 chairs, 3 knives and forks, 6 earthen dishes, 3 tin plates, a bucket, a hoe and axe. My family consists of myself my wife, aged 72 years, who from old age and infirmity is unable to do any work, and my grandson aged 14 years, who lives with me and assists in taking care of my wife. I have no trade, but am a labourer, and support myself by my labour when I am able to work, but I am now so old and so much afflicted with the rheumatism, as often to be unable to any work and am obliged to depend on my neighbours for the necesaries of life. I am now indebted to various persons for the necesssarys of life furnished to me about $50 and have nothing to pay them with.
William Collins

Sworn declared, and subscribed in open Court of Common pleas of Dauphin County aforesaid this 18th day of December AD 1820
John Machesney Porth.
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Dauphin County ss
I, John Machesney, Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the within oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the within schedule is forty five dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Harrisburg the 10th day of January AD 1821
John Machesney, Proth.
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Willm Collins
14.781
March 1820

Cont

Hon. Mr. Wallace, H.R.
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December 7, 1912.
Hon. Dick Tl Morgan,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Morgan:
In response to your letter dated the fifth and received the sixth instant, I have the honor to advise you that a careful search of the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fails to afford any information in regard to Abner Barritt or William Reigart, described by you.
From the papers in the claim, Bur. File No. 40,845, it appears that Williams Collins was allowed pension on his application executed January 11, 1819, while seventy-two years of age and a resident of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
He states that he enlisted at Reading, Pennsylvania, the latter part of 1775, or early in 1776, in Captain John Spohn's company, Colonel Magaw's 5th Pennsylvania regiment; that he was in the battles of Long Island, White Plains and Kings Bridge, was taken prisoner at the battle of Fort Washington, detained in New York for two months, and released on parole, having served including his imprisonment, fourteen months.
In 1820, he refers to his wife aged seventy-two years, and grandson fourteen years of age, names not stated. The above noted is the only William Collins of Pennsylvania found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Very respectfully,
J.L. Davenport, Commissioner.

There is one Wm Callings of Pa.
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Wm Collins case
[illegible]
J.C. Calhoun
Washington

Collins, William 
(PA)
S-40845
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Harrisburg Sept 15. 1819
Sir, I again send the application of William Collins for a pension with such additional evidence of his services, as will, I apprehend, be deemed sufficient, by the Secretary of War, to warrant the issuing of a [illegible]
I am, [illegible] respectfully &c.
Abial Hopkins

J.C. Calhoun
Secty. of War
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Notification sent the 2d. Feby 1821, to Mr. James Wallace, H. Reps. U.S.
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Dick T. Morgan
2nd District, Oklahoma
House of Representatives U.S.
Washington, D.C.
Dec. 5, 1912.
The Honorable,
The Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear Sir:
I would thank you to give me the military service, and any information you can relative to the following soldiers, Revolutionary War, namely:
Capt. Abner Barritt, Ky. or Va.
Wm. Reigart, Pa. or N.Y.
Wm. Collins, Pa.
Yours very truly,
Dick T. Morgan
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40845
Invalid.
Revy
File No. 40.845
William Collins
Priv. Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: Vol. 3, Page 94
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1912. Dec.7. Hist. to Hon. Dick T. Morgan FW
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Northumberland County ss.
Be it remembered that on the twenty fifth day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 1818, before me Henry Shaffer esquire, one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for the county aforesaid, personally came Henry Vanderslice Esquire, of the Borough of Sunbury in the county aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that William Collins (who is now an applicant for a pension &c.) is the same William Collins who with deponent and many other enlisted in the Revolutionary War (at Reading) under Capt. John Spohn in the beginning of the year 1776, and commanded by Col. Magaw of the fifth Pennsylvania line, that a few days before the battle of Fort Washington our captain ran away (subsequent to which first Lieut Morgan took the command). And that William Collins and deponant (with many others) were taken prisoner's on the sixteenth day of November at Fort Washington aforesaid, in the year last aforesaid, from thence to New York and there confin'd for about two months. After that period was let go on parole of honour (through the influence our our Col. afsd.) by which means neither of us got a discharge. And that the time for which deponent and sd. Collins had enlisted, (being one year) actually to his certain knowledge was expir'd before our arrival home.
Henry Vanderslice

Sworn & subscrib'd the day and year aforesaid. Cor. me. Henry Shaffer
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Pennsylvania
Northumberland County Sct.
I Henry Shaffer, one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the county aforesaid, do certify that Henry Vanderslice Esq. the within deponent is a credible respectable witness. Witness my hand [illegible] at Sunbury the eleventh day of September AD MDCCCTIT
Henry Shaffer

Pennsylvania
[illegible] Sct.
I Andrew Allright, prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of the county aforesaid, do certify that Henry Shaffer Esq. before whom the within affidavit was made, and who has given the preceding certificate, was at the time of so doing and yet is one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the county aforesaid, duly commissioned & 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 of which I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at Sunbury the 11th day of September AD eighteen hundred and seventeen.
Andrew Albright Prothonotary
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State of Penn., Dauphin County ss.
On the 27th day of August AD 1819 before me Jacob Bucher one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of said county personally came John Lemon a disinterested and credible witness who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth. on his solemn oath, depose and say that he knows William Collins late a soldier in the army of the revolution, that he [illegible] became acquainted with him the said William Collins in the year 1776 in the state of New Jersey when he knew him to be a soldier in Captain Spohns company of the fifth Pennsylvania regiment commanded by Col. Mayard, Col. Magaw. [illegible] the deponent was at the same time a soldier in the same regiment and recollects well that the said William Collins was taken prisoner at Fort Washington. That he the deponent met the said William Collins in Newark in New Jersey in the beginning of the year 1777 when the said William Collins was on his way home from New York having been discharged on parole, which parole I [illegible] he the deponent then and there read.
John Lemon - O his mark

Sworn and subscribed on the date above said before me Jacob Bucher
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William Collins
Private
Col. Magaw's Regiment
Pennsylvania Line
1776 - 1 year

The credibility of the within witness H. Vanderslice, is not certified to by the Judge before is [illegible] the deposition was taken . Neither is the officer [illegible] of that Judge [illegible].

The deposition of two credible & disinterested witnesses, duly to [illegible] & authenticated, (or the certificate of an officer of the Regt.) to prove the service of [illegible] is required.
Corrected of 
Admitted
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Dauphin County & State of Pennsylvania ss
I, John Machesney Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of Dauphin County aforesaid, do certify that Jacob Bucher whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, deposition &c was at the time of so doing and yet is an associate Judge of Dauphin County duly commissioned & sworn, to all whose acts as such due faith & 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 said Court at Harrisburg the 12th day of January A.D. 1819.
John Machesney, Prothy.