Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40717, John Wimmer, Penn
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(3 - 1776 )

SERVICE
Penn

Wimmer, John
or Wymer

NUMBER
S. 40717
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[left side of paper] Continued
Notif. sent Hon. Roswell Mills
[illegible]  Ohio-- 23 dec A.D.
Death no on A.B.

Ohio  17.230 R

John Wimmer
of _____ in the state of Ohio
who was a private in the regiment  commanded by
Colonel Craig of the Pennsylvania
line, for the term of 5 years

Inscribed on the Roll of - Ohio -
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 24 of May, 1820.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of May 1820
and sent to R Samuel Mills Esq
Ohio

Arrears to 4th of [illegible] 1820    178.89
Semi-anl. all'ce ending [illegible]     48.00
               Total                                 226.89
2-2  7/30  13/91

{Revolutionary claim,  }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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John Wyme's [Wimmer's] pension

See letter filed with Adam Duts papers
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The State of Ohio }
Perry County   SS  }
Court of Common Pleas July term 1820
On this 19th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a court of Record for said County (being congressly
made a court of record by the laws of said State and having of fine and imprisonment) John Wymer [Wimmer] aged 67 years residing in Pike township in said County Ohio being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he enlisted in the 12th Pennsylvania Regiment in 1777 for three years, that he was afterwords placed in the 
3d Pennsylvania Regiment under Col Craig in which Reg't he served out his time and was honorable discharged at Trenton N. Jersey, that I was 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 other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish
it "as to bring myself with in 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 security
contracts or debts due to me nor have I any
income other than what is contained in the
Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.
I have no family living with me properly speaking but I reside with my son in Law John Wright, my pension certificate has arrived and is dated May 29th 1820 Booked 17230 but I have not yet
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drawn any pension, my original Declaration was made April 26th 1818.
Schedule of John Wymer's [Wimmer's] Property:
One horse and one old saddle and one bridle

My occupation has been that of a farmer and
Laborer but I am not able to Labor.-
The above property valued by the Court as follows -
one horse at - $40.00
one Saddle - $1.00
one Bridle - $1.75
                     $42 75
John Wymer [signature][Wimmer]

the Court find the value of the Property at $42.75.
The above John Wymer [Wimmer] Sworn in open Court
Charles C. [illegible] Judge

The State of Ohio Perry County SS
I, John Beckwith Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas for said County do hereby
certify that the foregoing oath and the
hedule thereto annexed are truly copied
from the records of the Court aforesaid, and
do further certify that it is the opinion of
said Court that the total amount
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in value of the foregoing property exhibited in
the aforesaid Schedule is forty two dollars
and seventy five cents. In testimony whereof I
have hereto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Somerset in said County this 28th November AD 1820
Attest John Beckwith Clerk
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Clerk's fee 50 cents
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[due to this transcriber not being able to read anything on this page, I've left it as it was Extracted Text]

12 & 3 U. Penn in
Armfound
on prince, Sett -
Vol 3d 200 No 71.091
●
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Address
"R. Mills,
Agents,
Somerset, Ohio"
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John Wimmer being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he served in the revolutionary war of the United States under various captains to wit. Riley, Bush, John Marshal and others in the 12th afterwards the third Pennsylvania regiment of foot under Col Thomas Craig for the term of five years and nine months he being enlisted in McAlistertown Penn'a in March 1777 by Lieutanant [Lieutenant] Herbert and was discharged at Trenton New Jersey in January 1781 and that prievously to his regular enlistment he served in the flying camp some time which makes up the said term; that he was a non commissioned officer.  Said deponent further saith that he sent his discharge to Philadelphia many years ago by George Woods County surveyor of Bedford County Penna as an evidence of back pay due this deponent and that the discharge has never been returned. This deponent further saith that he now relinquish all pension heretofore allowed him and that being now old and in reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for his support.
John Wimmer
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State of Ohio, Perry County SS
Before me Charles C. Hood one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County personally came the within named John Wimmer and subscribed and made to the within declaration this 25th day of April 1818 and it appearing to my satisfaction that the said John Wimmer served for a longer period than nine
months on the continental establishment
against the common enemy, I do hereby certify the testimony in the case and set my hand and the seal of said court this 24th day of April A.D.
1818
Charles C. Hood

George Trout one of the Associate Judges of said County I do also further certify that I am satisfied
that the said John Wimmer is in reduced circumstance and in want of the assistance of his country for his support.  This information I have derived from his neighhers on oath.
George Trout
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

July 8, 1927

Mrs. Ella O. Edgar
Delaware
Ohio
Madam:
I have to advise you that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 40717, that JOHN WIMMER enlisted in McAlistertown, Pennsylvania, in March, 1777, served as a corporal and sergeant in
Captains Reiley's [Reily], Bush's and John Marshall's Companies, in Colonel Thomas
Craig's Pennsylvania Regiment and he was discharged in January, 1781. He had previously served in the flying camp, officers not stated, and his entire service amounted to five years and nine months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 24, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Perry County, Ohio.
In 1820 he stated that he was sixty-seven years of age and he was then a resident of Pike Township, Perry County, Ohio. In that year he referred to his son-in-law, John Wright. There are no further data on file relative to his family.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to a John Weimer and this is the only soldier of a similar name that is found on said records.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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40717
INVALID
Revy
File No. 40.717
John Wimmer
Priv  Rev War

Act: 18 Mrach 1818
Index:  Vol 8, Page 568

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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June 4-1900
W. J. Wimmer - Waldo, Oregon
The Hon. Benger Hermann

1927 July 8 hist [history]
to Mrs. Ella O. Edgar   M.C.S.

1937 Sept. 15. hist [history]
to Mrs. Frank S. Becker,   M.C.S.
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Delaware, Ohio
April 5, 1927

Bureau of Pensions,
As an applicant for membership to the D.A.R. what information can you give me concerning my ancestor, John Weimer [Wimmer], Somerset County, Pa.?
I find this statement in an old record:
"Corporal in Revolutionary service, Captain John Reily's
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Company, 3rd, Pennsylvania, Continental Line 1778 Reference, Pennsylvania Archives, Book 939. Vol 2, 5th Series.
Anything of proof upon his army record will be gratefully received.
Sincerely,
(Mrs.) Ella O. Edgar
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Rev.

[stamp] PENSION R
APR
7
1927
OFFICE
U.S.
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Lebanon Pa. Sep. 7. 1937

Pension Bureau, Veteran's Bureau. 
Washington D. C.

I am very desirous of securing definite information concerning one John Weimer [Wimmer] who served as a corporal in Captain John Reily's Company of the third Pennsylvania Regiment about Sep. 1778. He was 35 years old and had six children.
Colonel Thomas Craig / one of the regiments in Sterlings Division which was at Valley Forge in 1778. He was listed twice in 1777 & 1778 among the many who had insufficient clothing. Please give me any information you can about a pension because he had a family of six children
Address:
Mrs. Frank S. Becker
18 N. Market S91
Lebanon Pa.
Thank you.
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State of Ohio, Muskingum County SS

Benjamin Fickle being duly sworn before me a Justice of the Peace in said county deposeth and saith that he served in the Revolutionary War of the United States; that he was well acquainted with John Wimmer and that he was knowing to the said Wimmer enlisting into the regular service in the Revolutionary War. This deponent further saith that he
frequently saw the said Wimmer in the
service, and that the said Wimmer served from the year 1777 to 1781 in the regular army first as a corporal and then as a Sergeant, and was honorably discharged after the expiration of the three years for which he was enlisted.
Benjamin Fickle

I Jacob Crooks one of the Justices of
the Peace in said County of Muskingum
do hereby certify that the above named
Benjamin Fickle appeared before me this 1st day of November AD. 1819 and made
oath to and subscribed the above deposition
before me. I do also certify the said
Benjamin Fickle to be a credible witness.
Given under my hand & seal
Jacob Crooks Justice of the Peace
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State of Ohio
Muskingum County Set   SS

I David Chambers Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of Muskingum County do hereby certify that Jacob Crooks Esqr. before whom the within deposition of Benjamin Fickle was taken was at the time of taking the same and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Muskingum duly qualified and commissioned. 
Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my official seal at Zanesville this 15th day of January 1820.
David Chambers, Clerk
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State of Ohio, Perry County SS
I James Grimes being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he served in the Revolutionary
War of the United States and that John Wimmer served also in the Regular army of the United States at that time.
The time which said Wimmer served he does
in the regular army of the United States in the Revolutionary War he does not recollect but knows it was more than nine months and this deponent thinks it was two or three years.
James {his mark} Grimes

I Roswell Mills a Justice of the Peace in said county do hereby certify that the Deponent is a creditable witness and that he signed and swore to the above before me this 5th of Jan'y 1820.
Roswell Mills, JP
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State of Ohio
Perry County SS
In testimony that the within named Roswell Mills
is a Justice of the Peace legally commissioned and sworn.
I, John Beckwith, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 5th day of January 1820
Attest John Beckwith, Clk
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September 15, 1937

John Wimmer [Wymer], S. 40717
BA-J/MCS

Mrs. Frank S. Becker
18 N. Market Square
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for 
information relative to Revolutionary War soldier, John Weimer, who served as corporal in Captain John Reily's company in Colonel Thomas Craig's Pennsylvania regiment.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 40717, based upon the military service of John
Wimmer. He signed in person as John Wimmer.
The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
He enlisted in McAlistertown, Pennsylvania, in March, 1777, served as corporal and sergeant in Captains Reiley's, Bush's and John Marshall's companies, in Colonel Thomas Craig's Pennsylvania regiment and he was discharged in January, 1781. He had previously served in the flying camp, officers not stated. His entire service amounted to
five years and nine months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 24, 1818, in Perry County, Ohio.
In 1820 he was living in Pike township, Perry County, Ohio, aged sixty-seven years, and he then referred to his son-in-law, John Wright.
There are no further data on file relative to soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Ohio
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Recd 7. Dec. 1820
No Minimum
Exd

Free
Hon. Secretary at War
(Pension Office)
Washington City
D.C.
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Somerset Ohio Nov 29th 1820
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you the Schedule of John Wimmer [Wymer] a pensioner of this county. Your attention to this before the 4th March next
would be gratifying to the old octenan [octogenarian].
Yours truly
Roswell Mill