Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10995, Mathias Flach, Continental (Pa. Res.)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE Continental (Pa. res.)
Flach, Mathias Flaugh Flack Flock
NUMBER S. 10995.
CONTENTS [BLANK]
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FLACH, MATHIAS
(CONT.)
S-10995
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[the top portion of this document is torn and the remaining text was not transcribed]

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 80 Dollars [BLANK] Cents pe [text missing; probably "per annum, to"] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Oct 1835 and sent to Hon J. Banks N.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Se [text missing]
Semi-anl. allowance ending
Amount due $230.-

{Revolution [text missing] Act June [text missing]}
Recorded by Wm S. Allison
Book 62 Vol. 5 Page [text missing]
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State of Pennsylvania
Crawford County ss
Be it known that on the eleventh day of March Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred and thirty five personally appeared in open Court then sitting at Meadville Crawford County Pa before the Judges thereof I Stuart Ridder who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that, he was well acquainted with Matthias Flack [Flach] deceased that he was the identical person reported & believed to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary army that in the latter part of the year of 1833 this deponent drew up the said Matthias declaration to obtain a pension in conformity with the signation of the act of 7th June 1832 which was duly authenticated and certified by the Court that he forwarded it by mail to the Department at Washington but not receiving any returns he wrote to the Honorable John Banks to inquire what had become of the papers who informed him in reply that he had called at the Office and the papers could not be found but that the name of Mr. Flack was found on the rolls in the Office and that if his papers were made out again a pension would be granted without delay that previous to the receipt of this intelligence Mr Flack died and
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that owing to the advanced age and infirm State of health of his widow (the before me named Mary Flack [Flach]), and the difficulty of her attending Court this application has been delayed that deponent has still in his possession the Original rough Memoranda taken down at the time for which he drew the declaration before referred to & from which it appears that the said Matthias enlisted at Philadelphia in Captain George Hubleys Company in the "Congress" or "German" Regiment first under Command of Colonel [Nicholas] Houssegger and afterwards Colonel Ludwig Weldner and and Lieutenant Colonel Stricker. that he was in the battles of Trenton Germantown Brandywine and Monmouth and in the expedition of General [John] Sullivan against the Indians on the Genesee that he continued with service for a period of more than five years and was discharged from the service at Trenton which discharge he had lost.
Deponent further states that the letter hereto attached dated Jany 16, 1834 Signed M. Banks is the one herein before referred to by him.
J Stuart Riddle

Sworn & Subscribed on the day & year aforesaid in open Court before
Step. Barlow Judge
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State of Pennsylvania
Crawford County ss
On this Seventeenth of February Anno Domini One thousand Eight hundred and thirty five personally appeared be for the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Crawford in open Court then sitting Mary Flaugh or Flach widow of Matthias Flaugh or Flach deceased aged seventy five who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith her husband was a soldier in the Revolutionary war that he died on the twentieth of January One thousand eight hundred & thirty four that she cannot of her own Records [illegible] give any account of his services but that she believed he was in the service at the close of the war of the Revolution from general reputation.
She herby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his or her name is not the pension Roll of any Agency in any State
Mary Flach, her X mark

Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court
Henry Shippen
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September 19, 1933
BA-J/EEL
Mathias Flach-S.10995

Miss Ann Elisabeth Rhodes
Saegerstown
Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Mathias Flach(variously spelled), Christian Roads or Rodes and Philip Dunn, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers of that war.
A careful search of the Revolutionary War recordshas been made in your behalf and no record found of such claims having been made on account of the services of Christian Roads, all spellings searched.
In order to identify the particular record of a soldier named Philip Dunn, in which you might be interested, should it be on file, it is essential that you furnish as much as possible of the following data in regard to him; approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and give name of widow.
You are furnished herein the history of Mathias Flach as obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.10995, based upon his military service in that war. His name is also shown as Flaugh, Flack and Flock. He was pensioned Flaugh/.
The date and place of birth of Mathias Flach are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.
He enlisted, place not stated, served as a private in Captains George Hubley's and Bernard Hubley's companies, Colonels Haussegger's, Ludowick Weltner's and Stricker's German Regiment, and was in the battles of Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and in General Sullivan's Indian Expedition; length of service over five years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 27, 1818,
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while residing in Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
Mathias Flach died January 20, 1834, leaving a widow, Mary, aged about seventy-four years, residing in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Her maiden name, date and place of marriage are not shown and it is not stated whether they had children.
In 1835, Jacob Flach made affidavit in Crawford County, Pennsylvania; no relationship to the soldier was shown.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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Pa
Rev [crossed out: WIDOW] Survivor, &c.
File No. 10995
Mary Flaugh [Flach] arrears of pension due soldier paid to his widow
Mathias Flaugh [Flach] decd. Privt Rev. War
ActL June 7" 1832.
surv
Index:-Vol. a, Page 242
[Arrangement of 1870.]
She was not pensioned in her own right

1917 June 16. Hist. to C. L. Flaug W. Out
1933 - Sept 17 - Hist. to Miss Ann E. Rhodes EEL
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Jesse Moore, Esquire, Judge
Meadsvilld, Crawford County, Pennsylva.
Matthias Flack [Mathias Flach], German regiment, Pennsylvania line Revolutionary Claim.
See endoresment in the case of Dennis Kean.

[text to the left of the document, perpendicular to the main text, is illegible]
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Statement of Mathias Flack, residing in Crawford County State of Pennsylvania, who applies for a pension from the United States in pursuance 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 the 18th day of March 1818 Said Mathias Flach saith, that he in the year 1776 he enlisted for three years in Captain George Hubley's company in the German Regiment commanded by Colonel Hussicker [Haussegger?], in the Penna line on the Continental establishment, and served under the said Hussicker for nearly one year and until the Said Hussicker deserted to the enemy. The regiment was afterwards commanded by Colonel Ludwick Weldner [Ludwig Weltner], & the said Mathias Flach remained in said company and regiment until after the revolt of the Penna line, having been detained in the army about two years longer than he enlisted for, and received an honorable discharge, which discharge he has long since lost. The said Mathis Flach was in the battles of Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, and was afterwards in the expedition with General Sullivan against the hostile Indians when they were defeated in the State of New York. at the time Colonel Ludwick Weldner took command of the aforesaid regiment, the company said Mathias Flach belonged to was commanded by Captain Bernard Hubley, Captain George Hubley having died about that time
the said Mathias Flach hereby relinquishes all claims to any pension that may heretofore have been accounted to him by the laws of the United States, and further saith, that from his reduced instances he needs the assistance of his country for support
Mathias Flach
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Crawford County ss
on the twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally appeared before the Subscriber, President of the Sixth Judicial district of Penna Mathias Flach, whose name is subscribed to the statement on the opposite page of this paper, and having been duly sworn as the law directs did declare and say that the said Statement was just & true.
Mathias Flach

Sworn and subscribed the day & year above written before me
Jesse Moore

Crawford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ss
To the Secretary of the Department of war
I the subscriber, President of the Several Courts of Common Pleas in the Sixth Judicial District, consisting of the counties of Butler, Mercer, Venango, Crawford & Erie in the said Commonwealth do hereby certify, that from the deposition of Mathias Flach, which I believe is entitled to full credit, it appears to my satisfaction that he the said Mathias served in the revolutionary war, as he has stated in the foregoing deposition, against the common enemy. In testimony whereof this twenty seventh day of April 1818 at Meadville in the said County of Crawford, I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed my seal
Jesse Moore L. S
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Crawford County ss.
I William MacArthur Prothonatary in and for the said County of Crawford
do by these presents certify that the Honorable Jesse Moore Esquire whose name is subscribed to the deposition on the preceding page of this paper and to the certificate therein, in his own proper hand write is President of the sixth Judicial district of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania consisting of the Counties of Butler Mercer Venango Crawford and Eire that he is duly commissioned and sworn and now acting under the authority of this Commonwealth to whose official acts as such faith and credit is due and of right ought to be given as well in courts of Justice of the United States of America as elsewhere
J
testimony of which I have here unto subscribed my name and affixed the County seal at Meadville in the said county the thirtieth day of April AD One thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
William MacArthur Prothy
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Hon. J Banks, HR
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State of Pennsylvania
Crawford County ss
William Foster, of the County of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that he was well acquainted with Matthias Flaugh [Mathias Flach] of said county, lately deceased; that in the year 1818, he drew an application for said Flaugh to be forwarded to the War office of the United States, to enable him the said Flaugh to obtain a pension under the provisions of the act of the 18th of March 1818, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war". That the said application was sworn to by said Flaugh, before the late Jesse Moore, then President of the Sixth Judicial district of the Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania. That this deponent has often heard said Matthias Flaugh, or Flach, as his name is sometimes spelled, declare, that the reason of his not being placed on the pension list was, that at the War Department it was required of him to have proof of his services made by living witnesses, which he was not enabled to prove, in consequence of the distance he would
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have to go or send after them. That after the passage of the act of Congress of the first of May 1820 the said Flaugh, or Flach, not having previously procured the witnesses to prove his Services in the revolutionary war, has frequently declared to this deponent, that after the passage of the last mentioned cut, he thought it of no use to apply for a pension under the provisions thereof, as he had some small landed property the amount of which he thought would exclude him from the limits arising therefrom
William Foster

State of Pennsylvania
Crawford County ss
Before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County Personally appeared William Foster the above named deponent long known to me as a credible & respectable citizen who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth & saith that the foregoing statement is just & true
Sworn & Subcribed before me this 17th of October 1835
George Long
Justice of the peace
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State Pennsylvania
Crawford County ss.
I Edward A. Reynolds Prothonotary & Clerk of the several Courts of Crawford County do certify that George Long before whom the foregoing deposition was taken is a Justice of the peace duly commissioned and that the signature of said Justice is jenuine and of his own hand writing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common pleas of said County &c, the 17th. day of October A.D. 1835
Edw. A. Reynolds Prothy & Clk of the Court of Crawford County
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State of Pennsylvania
Crawford County Ss
Be it known that on this eleventh of March Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred and thirty five personally appeared in open Court of said County then sitting George Long Esqr Henry Rust and Jacob Flach who being duly sworn according to law depose say that they were well acquainted with Matthias [Mathias] Flach named in the foregoing application of his widow Mary Flach. that he died on the twentieth of January One thousand eight hundred & thirty four and that he was the identical person reputed and generally believed in the neighborhood where he lived to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary of which they never heard any doubt or opinion expressed to the contrary. That they are also well acquainted with his widow Mary Flach and that they believe her to be a woman of unimpeachable character for veracity and candor and that full confidence may be placed in her statement.
George Long
Henry Rust
Jacob Flach

Sworn & Subscribed in open Court
Step Barlow Judge
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9820
Matthias [Mathias] Flaugh or Flach, decd.
Pennsyla.

susp

on Roll Houssegger [Haussegger] regt.
see R. Isld Roll

allowed $80 per ann for 4 March 1831 to, 20 January 1834
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And the said Court of Common Pleas do certify that each of the three Judges of this Court were personally acquainted with old Mathias Flock (who [crossed out: in] writes his name in German Flach) the husband of the applicant - that they well recollect of his appearing personally in this Court & making his application for a pension under the act of 7th June 1832 and that a certificate was duly granted him that in the opinion of the Court he was a revolutionary soldier & served as he stated therein.
Certified April 18 1835
Henry Shippen Pros
Step. Barlow
John H. Work
Judges

State of Pennsylvania
Crawford County ss
I Edwin A Reynolds Clrc of the Court of Common pleas of said County do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter the application of Mary Flough alias Mary Flach in right of her husband Matthias [Mathias] Flach Deceased for a pension. I do further certify that Henry Shippen, Stephen Barlow and John H Work are Judges of said Court and that the above and foregoing are the genuine signatures of said Judges.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court the 22nd day of April A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty five
Edw. A. Reynolds Prothy
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War Department
Revolutionary claims
Free

Mr. James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Pa May 25

[stamped: MEADVILLE Pa. MAY 19]
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Meadville Crawford
County Pennsylvania

Mr James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

I enclose you the application of Mrs Mary Flach widow of Matthias [Mathias] Flach (who and after the taking effect of the act of 7th June 1832 and after his papers had once been made out and forwarded but which were unfortunately miscarried) for a pension and hope it will meet with early attention.
Please enclose the certificate to me at this place.
I am Very Respy
Your Obt. Servt.
J Stuart Riddle
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J L Edwards
Commissr. of Pensions

[stamped: FREE]

J. Stuart Ridle Esqr
Meadville
Crawford County
Pennsylvania

[stamped: CITY OF WASHINGTON MAY 31]

J L Edwards
May 30th 1835
Washington Matthias [Mathias] Flach
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War Department
Pension Office
May 30, 1835.
Sir,
The papers in the case of the widow of Matthias Fough [Mathias Flach] or Flock have been examined and filed with suspended cases in this office. Before a decision can be had, a satisfactory reason should be given; under oath, why the deceased never applied for a pension under the act of March 18, 1818.
I am, respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
J L Edwards

J. Stuart Riddle Esqr
Meadville
Crawford County,
Pennsylvania.
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Dec 14.
Pa
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James L. Edwads Esq
Comr of Pensions
Washington City

Hon J Banks HR
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J [text missing due to torn document; possibly J. L. Edwards] wards Esq
I would be glad you could give this enclosure your early attention
Yours &c.
Jn Banks
H.R.
Dec. 14. 1835
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[stamped: FREE]

[illegible]
Jn Banks
Mr-6

J. S. Riddle Ewqr.
Meadville
Crawford County
Penna.
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July 16- 1834
Dear Sir
The papers of Flach [Mathias Flach] cannot be found. I was informed this morning that his name was found of the rolls in the office and that if his papers are made again a pension as allowed be granted him without one days delay.
Yours &c.
Jn Banks

N. B nothing as regards the other in addition to what I wrote you.
Jn Banks
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Ctf. 30297.
Mathias Flaugh [Flach], decd.
Paid to Mary widow of Pvt. Ctf. dated Dec. 18, 1835

I searched the Wid. Agency Book under all Acts, I cannot find that a widow's pension was allowed.
Have counted 1832 only.
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C. L. FLAUGH, PRESIDENT  E. J. RYCHEL, SECRETARY
FLAUGH-RYCHEL REALTY CO.
915 BALTIMORE AVENUE
KANSAS CITY, MO.
PLEASE ADDRESS ALL LETTERS TO THE COMPANY

June 13th.,1917.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington,
D.C.

Dear Sir:-
At the suggestion of the Adjutatnt General's office in Washington, I have written you in the effort to obtain information which he thinks can be obtained from your records and files.
The great grandfather of the writer emigrated to this country from Germany and was a veteran in the Revolutionary War.
It is my understanding that the original spelling of the name is Flach and it appears in the records in several spellings. His full and proper name, I understand was John Mathias Flach. It appears that he was enrolled as Matthias Flaugh, also Flack, also Flock as a private under Capt.George Hubley's company, known also as Capt. Bernard Hubley's company of Col.Nicholas Haussegger's German Battalion Continental Troops commanded by Lieut. Col. George Stricker. He apparently enlisted June 13th.,1776, His name was born on the company roll from December 1776 to December 1780. The date or mode of termination of his service is not shown.
I desire to learn from what place in Germany he came and all information that can be obtained regarding the family from which he come. I understand that he was married and brought his wife and two or more children with him when coming to this country. Also that he settled first in Cumberland County,Pa., later removing to Crawford County, Pa. Any information that you can furnish us will be greatly appreciated.
Yours Truly,
C. L. Flaugh
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Sagertown, Pa, Sept. 11 '35 [1935]
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
I wish to obtain the military history of Mathias Flach, Flock, Flough serving in the Revolution from Pa, Pensioner.
Also that of Christian Roads, Rodes serving in the same war from Penna and that of Philip Dunn. The records
previously asked for have all been received with gratitude
Very truly,
(Miss) Ann Elizabeth Rhodes.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
S.10995
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., [BLANK], 19 [BLANK]

In reply to your request of [BLANK], received [BLANK] for a statement of the military history of Mathias Flach [three circles] 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.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.  1776
LENGTH OF SERVICE.  over 5 yrs-
RANK  Pvt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.  George Hubley, Bernard Hubley
COLONEL.  Haussegger, Ludowick Weltner, Stricker} German Regt.
STATE.  Cont

Battles engaged in, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Gen Sullivan's Indian Exp.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, Apr 27, 1818. The claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Crawford Co. Pa.
Age at date of application, date & place of birth not stated
Remarks: Soldier died Jan 20, 1834 leaving a widow Mary aged about 74. residing in Crawford Co Pa. Her maiden name is not given nor is it stated whether they had children, date & place of marriage not stated
[three circles] His surname was also spelled Flaugh, Flack and Flock.
Stated that his name was John.

Respectfully,
Commissioner.
6-2856