Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35118, Jacob Wink, Continental (Md.)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental (Md.)
CONTENTS
Wink, Jacob
NUMBER
S 35118
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3061
Maryland Roll

Jacob Wink
Capt. Keeport
Private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War - Haussegger German Regt.

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the 18th of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th of September 1818 and sent to Judge Brice - Baltimore

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 3 mo 14/31 - 4/30 $28.68
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 March 1819 $48.00
$76.68

{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March, 1818}

7th
Three years

Continued
Baltimore County
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Notific. sent to Thos Bailey, Esq No 10 Harrison Street Baltimore, 4 Dec 1821
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State of Maryland
Baltimore County

On this 18th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen personally appeared before me the undersigning Jacob Wink a resident of Baltimore County aged sixty-three years or thereabouts an applicant for a pension under 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" and then and there made the following declaration upon oath by me administered "that he enlisted at Little Pipe creek in Frederick County Maryland about the month of August 1776 mustered at Baltimore in Captain George P Keeport's company from thence ordered to Philadelphia, thence joining the German Regiment then commanded by Colonel Haussegger ; from thence ordered to Trenton and there engaged and captured the Hessians - from thence guarded the prisoners below Carroll's Ferry where they were received by the Pennsylvania Militia - after varying movements he retreated to Trenton where they were bombarded by the British from thence marched to the battle of Princeton, from thence retreated to Plaquemine - Captain Keeports having resigned the company was afterwards commanded by Capt. Charles Beltzell and Col Haussegger , also having retired, Lieut. Col Stricker succeeded to the command - from thence marched to Fishkill from thence to
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Valley Forge, from thence to East Town where Ludwig Woltner took command of the regiment, from thence marched to Wyoming there joined the main forces under the command of General Sullivan on the expedition against the Indians - was present at and took part in the battle of Shamong and also at New Town; continued until the close of the expedition then countermarched to Northam Corland on the Susquehanna where they wintered and on the 10th May 1780 received a written discharge signed Charles Baltzer Captain and also a further discharge dated at same place by Col. Ludwig Woltner dated 12th same month, which discharges are hereunto annexed - that his name hath never been placed on any pension list therefore hath none to relinquish and that form his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his county for support.

Jacob Wink

Sworn & subscribed to before me

N Brice - Chief
Judge - Calt County Court
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City of Baltimore

I hereby certify that form the aforegoing declaration made this day before me on oath together with the annexed documents of discharge it appears fully to my satisfaction that the said Jacob Wink served in the revolutionary war for the time therein stated and is entitled to a pension under the late act of congress. Given under my hand this 18th da of May eighteen hundred and eighteen.

N. Brice Chief Judge
Baltimore City Court

I hereby certify that from the appearance of the applicant together with the oath which he has taken I was & am satisfied that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his county for support. Given under my hand & seal of the court this 22 Aug 1818.

N. Brice Chief Judge
Baltimore City Court

To the Hon the Secretary of War

Sir

When a pension certificate issues, please direct the same to be forwarded to me through the post office "care of Thomas Bailey Esq Baltimore"

I have the honor to be with due respect
Sir your Obt Servant

Jacob Wink

Test:

P G Hands
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Nicholas Brice, Esq
Baltimore, Maryland
Jacob Wink
Maryland Line
Revolutionary Claim

The Maryland rolls have not yet been rec at the pension office. The judge desires to certify under the seal of the court that he is satisfied the applicant is in reduced circumstances an needs the support of his country.

Admitted

City of Baltimore

I Thomas Harwood clerk of Baltimore City Court do hereby certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings were taken and certified and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of taking and certifying the same and still is Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name as affixed the seal of the said court this eighteenth day of May in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen.

Th Harwood - Clerk
Baltimore City Court
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Jacob Wink's declaration for continuance on the pension list as a Revolutionary Soldier

Original certificate
No 3061

Con.
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SCHEDULE

United States of America
Baltimore County

On this twenty-sixth day of September 1821, personally appeared in open court being a court of record that is to say the regular county court held in for the said county in the sixth judicial district in and for the said state of Maryland, Jacob Wink aged sixty-six years or thereabout resident in North Hundred in said County & state who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That he enlisted into the service of the United states at Little Pipe Creek in Frederick County in the state of Maryland about the month of August 1776 under George P Keeport, was mustered at Baltimore, march to Philadelphia then joined the German Regiment then commanded by Colonel Haussegger  - was in the battle of Trenton & assisted in capturing the Hessians - was under command of Gen Sullivan in the expedition of the Indians - took part in the battle of Wyoming. was at New Town - continued in service under various officers until 10th May 1780 when he received a written discharge signed "Charles Baltzel Capt." and also a further discharge dated at Northumberland on the Susquehanna from Col Ludw. Weltner dated 12 same month - that he made his original declaration before the Hon. Judge Brice at Baltimore on or about the 18 May 1818 and received a pension certificate No 3061 payable at the Maryland agency of eight dollars per month and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United states on the 19th 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 within 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.
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Schedule Referred to viz

That he hath no real property or any other property whatever except one cow and a few articles for cooking the whole not worth twenty-five dollars

Say - $25.00

That he is by trace a Cordwainer but from old age want of eyesight & bodily infirmities he has not been enabled to work at his trade for several years past - that he lives on land of General Rigely on sufferance, not being able to pay rent. That his family consists of his wife name Mary aged about sixty-four and a daughter named Mary aged 30 years & upwards helpless and an idiot.

That he is actually in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his county or from private or public charity.

Declarant upon his oath aforesaid further saith that in consequence of severe affliction resigned by rheumatic pains he was unable to make an earlier application for a continuance of his pension therefore prays that he may not only be continued on the pension list but that the back pay due to him agreeably to his certificate may be allowed him.

Jacob Wink

Sworn to and declared on the 26th day of September 1821.

Before Wm. H. ward - Associate Judge of the sixth judicial district of Maryland.

I William Gibson clerk of Baltimore County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty-five dollars and blank cents.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 26th day of September 1821

William Gibson

Clerk of the court for the County of Baltimore

Be pleased to make the return directed to care of Thomas Bailey No 10 Harrison Street Baltimore
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* The whole of the form prescribed in the first section to verify the amount of property of the applicant the oath of the party and the certificate of the clerk excepted must be done while the court is in session.

All are courts of record within the contemplation of the act of Congress:
1st, Which are expressly made courts of record by the laws of the state which create them;
2nd, Which have been solemnly adjudged by the tribunals of the several states to be courts of record;
3rd, Which proceed according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount;
4th, Which have the power of fine and imprisonment;
And courts which proceed according to the civil and canon law having neither of those attributes are not courts of record although they may keep a registry of their proceedings and possess a seal. The court should in every instance state on the face of the proceedings that it is a court of record and state why it is such - (Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States)

DIRECTIONS FOR FILLING UP THE BLANKS
A. District - circuit - county or corporation as the case may be.
B. State why a court of record.
C. After repeating the district, circuit, county or corporation insert the declarant's name.
D. District, circuit county or corporation.
E. Here set forth the regiment, company and line; or ship, corps or vessel, and the date of the original declaration; and if has received a pension, the number of is pension certificate should be inserted.
F. Here enumerate each article of real and personal estate, necessary bedding and clothing excepted and subscribe the same. The declarant must also mention his occupation, his ability to pursue it, the number and names of his family residing with him, their ages, and their capacity to contribute to their support, in order that the department may be enabled to decide whether the applicant is in such indigent circumstances as to be entitled to the pension. It is the opinion of the Attorney General, that the words of the third section of the Act of the 1st May 1820 "in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his county" comprehend those only who are incapable of supporting themselves without the aid of the government except by private or public charity.

Extract of a Circular Letter from the War Department to the several Agents for paying pensions enclosing the foregoing Form.

"For the guidance of persons already on the pension list, or who may hereafter make application for that purpose, it may be proper to state, explicitly, that, as experience has proved the necessity of a rigid adherence to particular forms in such cases no instrument of writing drawn up contrary to this form can be admitted as a proper voucher."

I Thomas Bailey one of the Justices of the Peace in and for Baltimore County do certify that I am well acquainted with Jacob Wink know him to be in extreme indigent circumstances and much afflicted with rheumatic pains and living on the extreme line of the county say at the distance of about 30 miles from Baltimore was unable to get to Court except in a carriage which in the remote situation in which he lives he could not properly procure and has at length been drove by necessity to come down in a wagon tho apparently in great pain.
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.
Charles E. Winks,
Frankfort,
Ind.
Sir;
December 4, 1924.
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 35113, it appears that Jacob Wink enlisted at Little Pipe Creek, Frederick County, Maryland in August 1776 and served under Captains George Keeports and Charles Baltzel and Colonels Hausegger, Stricker and Ludowick Weltner in the German Regiment, he was in [illegible] Trenton, also Princeton, Chemung and Newtown and was discharged May
12, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 18, 1818, while a resident of Baltimore County, Maryland, aged sixty-three years.
In 1821, soldier referred to his wife Mary, aged
sixty-four years and daughter Mary, aged thirty years. There is no further data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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35118
Revy INVALID

File No 35118

Jacob Wink
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March '18
Index Vol 2 Page 457

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1924-Dec 4 - Hist to Chas E Winks
1926 Dec 2 - Mr. Chas E Wink advised the obtain date of soldier's death & other data - MMF
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Northumberland, May the 10th 1780

I do certify that Jacob Wink soldier in Capt. Baltzell's company of the German Regiment commanded by Lieut. Col. Ludwick Weltner and state of Maryland has served in the above said company or regiment for the space of three years being the time he enlisted for during which time he behaved himself as a true and faithful soldier as witness my hand the day and year above written.

To whom it may concern:

Charles Baltzell

Depreciation issued
the 21st October 1784
C. Richmond Aud Genl
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Northumberland, May 12th 1780

This is to certify that Jacob Wink a soldier in the German Regiment hath honestly and faithfully served the United States of America for the term of three years, this being the time he enlisted for and the said Jacob Wink is hereby discharged from the service o said Regiment.

Witness my hand this 12th day of May '80

Lud Weltner - Lt Col
Command G: Regt

Oct 21st 1784 Depreciation granted
C. Richmond
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Frankfort, Indiana, November 15, 1924.
Com. of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Please give me all the information you have in your office of Jacob Wink, (or Winks), a soldier of the Maryland Line, who 
Enlisted, August 5, 1776.
Discharged, June 1, 1780.
Any information as to his wife and children will be very acceptable.
Respectfully,
Charles E, Winks.
PENSION
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OFFICE
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Oct. 25, 1926
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Sir;-
Referring to Revolutionary War pension claim, S.35118, Jacob Wink, who enlisted at Little Pipe Creek, Frederick Co., Maryland, in August 1776, and served under different commands until his discharge May 12, 1780.
Will you please give me the following information regarding him and his family;-
ans questions
answered Dec-2-26
1.  Date xxx and place of his death.
2. Given name and maiden sur-name of his wife.
3. Names and all data you have regarding his children.
4. Any further information your office may have regarding this soldier.
Very Truly,
Charles E. Winks.
Chas. E Winks
Frankfort, Ind.
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See env
309 S. Jackson St

Frankfurt, Indiana, October 6, 1926

U.S. Pension Commissioner
Washington, D.C.

Referring to Revolutionary war pension claim, S.35118, Jacob Wink who enlisted at Little Pipe Creek, Frederick County, Maryland in August 1776 and served under different commands until discharged May 12, 1780.

He was allowed a pension on his application of May 18, 1818, while a resident of Baltimore County, Maryland, aged sixty-three years.

In 1821 he referred to his wife, Mary, aged sixty-four years and daughter Mary, aged thirty years.

Can you give me the following additional information of this soldier - 

1. When and where did he die?
2. Did his widow receive a pension after his death?
3. When did she die?
4. Can you give me any further data regarding his children?
5. Can you give me the maiden name of his wife?

Yours very truly

Charles E. Winks

Char E. Winks

Can you give me date and place of his marriage? - C E W
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December 2, 1926
Charles E. Winks
309 South Jackson St.,
Frankfort, Ind.
Sir:
I have to advise you relative to the Revolutionary War pension claim of Jacob Wink, S. 35118, that there is no claim for pension on file by his widow. The maiden name of his wife, date and place of marriage, and date of her death, are not stated, and there is no further data on file as to family, other than what was furnished you on December 4, 1924.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid, and possibly the date of soldier's death, you should apply to the Civil Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C. citing all of the following data:
"Jacob Wink, certificate No. 3061, issued September 28, 1818, rate $8 per month, commenced May 18, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818, Maryland Agency"
Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME
Winkler, Frederick
GRADE
Private "in the artillery"
LINE
Pennsylvania
WARRANT
NUMBER
10644
ACRE AGE
100
ISSUED July 27, 1789
To Richard Platt, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archive