Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3899, Christian Garber, Penn
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(3-1776)

Service                                           Number
Penn     Garber, Christian               R. 3899.
                          Anna     
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CONTENTS
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster S.S.

On this 14th day of July, A.D. 1854. personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace, in and for the county of 
Lancaster, and State aforesaid. Anna Garber, resident of West Earl Township, Lancaster County, and state of Pennsylvania. aged 92 Years, who being first duly affirmed, according to law, doth on her solemn affirmation, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit, of the provisions made by an Act of Congress, passed July 4th 1836. That she is the Widow, of Christian Garber, who 
was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and that he served from the commencement of the war, until the close, and during said service, filled several important stations, In the Year 1779. he marched from Earl Township, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, under Captain Jacob Zimmerman,
alias Carpenter. to Philadelphia, and served as private about one year, under said Captain, but in the mean while he was frequently sent home, on buisiness for the 
Captain from 1775, up to the close of the Indian war of 1785, he was engaged in performing duties for the Government, prior to 1775, he dove a baggage waggon, and with the exception of about Eighteen months, he was engaged, the remainder of the time as waggener, and during those Years, He drove his own horses, and waggon, hauling whiskey, flour, oats, meat, and Gunpowder,to such points, as he was ordered. during those years
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He bought two extraordinary large oxen from his brother-in-law (illegible), of Hagerstown Maryland for which he paid him forty pounds sterling, in gold and silver coin.  He drove them home to his farm in Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and kept them some 18 months.  In the mean time these cattle became fat and in high condition and a Mr. Wertz, who was at that time in Lancaster acting as a commissary for the army and hearing of those cattle, came to my husband's, Christian Garber, farm, drove them off, and had them slaughtered for the use of the army without ever paying a farthing for them.  He left my husband a paper which has been mislaid or lost. 

During this critical period he often had whole troops of calvary quartered upon him for nights and days who came took up his barn, went to his grainery, took as much oats as he required, together with hay for their horses.  Then went to his cellar from whence they took anything they could find to appease their hunger. She further states that she often helped them to such edibles as the soldiers required. 

In the summertime they would turn their horses into our grass fields.  One evening in particular a troop came to his house just as we were making preparations for haying.  The day following that night they turned all their horses into the only grass field we had reserved for hay.  It was ruined to such an extent that the following winter we ran short of fodder for our own cattle who had to suffer in consequence thereof.  He also served under Captain Jacob Forney in 1785 who was active in settling down the
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(illegible).  The rolls of Captain Jacob Zimmerman, alias Carpenter, cannot be found at Harrisburg, but it is presumed that said roll was lost by General Hand with other papers.  It is a well known fact that General Hand had a great many papers relating to the service of soldiers in the Revolutionary War which have been lost and destroyed. 

She further states that she is unable on account of her age and bodily infirmity to go to Lancaster City to have her (this) declaration taken in open court the distance being about 18 miles.

She further states that her name before marriage was Anna Johns, daughter of John Johns of (illegible) township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and that she was married to Christian Garber on the 11th day of January 1779 by the Rev. H. Helfenstein and that her husband, Christian Garber, died on the fourth day of May, 1815 in Earl Township, Lancaster County, and was buried on his own farm in the family's private graveyard.  That she is still the widow of Christian Garber deceased and that she has not married since his death, and that we had three children, John, Jacob and Susan. 

Signed: Anna (her X mark) Garber

Affirmed and subscribed before me this 14th day of July A.D. 1854

Signed: Wm. Weidman
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
I William Weidman a justice of the piece in and for the county of Lancaster and state of aforesaid do hereby
certify that I am personally acquainted with Anna Garber widow of Christian Garber Deceased who has made the above declaration that she is of the age as stated in her declaration and that she is too infirm to be taken to Lancaster to have her declaration taken in open court and that she is a woman of most extraordinary mind and memory for a woman of her age and that her character stands high in the neighborhood where she lives for veracity and that her statement can well be relied on to be true
I testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand this 14th day of July A.D. 1854
Wm Weidman

State of Pennsylvania,
Lancaster County ss. }
I John K. Reed, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, do certify that Wm Weidman Esq. before whom the within affidavit and declaration was made is now and was at the time of so doing an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that
the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the  Seal of said Court of Lancaster the Nineteenth 
day of July A.D. 1854.
Jno. K. Reed,
Prothy.
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State of Pennsylvania
                           County of Lancaster S.S.
On this    th day of July personally appeared before me a
justice of the peace in and for the County of Lancaster and
State of aforesaid Jacob Johns Senr resident of upper
Leacock Township Lancaster County and State of Pennsylvania who being first duly affirmed according to law doth depose and say, That he was personally acquainted with Christian Garber Deceased, of Earl Township Lancaster County husband of Anna Garber, that he upon more than one occasion heard Christian Garber
Deceased say during his life time that he served as a soldier during the revolutionary war, that he served as private upwards of one year that he served the greater part of that eventful struggle as waggoner driving his own team and horses. That his services during that critical period were long and arduous attended with sickness fatigue and danger that during that period he frequently had whole troops of cavalry quartered upon him for whole days and nights who consumed his hay oats corn and grass, ruining
his grass fields that he run short of fodder for his own cattle who had to suffer in consequence thereof that his 
wife Anna Garber frequently served the soldiers with such edibles as her cellar and larder would afford and that he purchased two very heavy work [illegible] from his brother in busy [illegible] New comer of Hagerstown Maryland for which he paid him forty pounds sterling in gold and silver coin, and that he never received anything from
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Government for his services or any material furnished by him for the use of the Government that the commissary
at Lancaster came to his farm drove off those heavy oxen had them slaughtered for the use of the army
without ever paying a farthing for them he further states
that he has known Christian Garber deceased and Anna
Garber his widow, from his infancy that the said Anna Garber still remains the widow of said Christian Garber 
Deceased, that she is now ninety two years old, of sound mind and memory and of undoubted veracity and that her statement can be well relied on as strictly true, he further states that he the said Jacob Johns Senr was born the 11 day of March 1775 and that he is now seventy nine years old
Affirmed and Subscribed                  Jacob Johns
before me this 17 day of July 1854
Wm Weidman  JP.
The said Jacob Johns further states that he knew
Captain Jacob Zimmerman Alias Carpenter of East township Lancaster County Pennsylvania and that he knew him to be a captain in the Revolution war and that he served along time during said war
Affirmed & Subscribed before me this 14 day of July 1854
Wm Weidman                       Jacob Johns
Justice of Penna
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Washington, July 25/54.

Dear Sir,

   I enclose you here with certain papers on which the
widow of Christian Garber, decd, desires a pension. I trust you may find it within your power to make her some allowance
Please give the matter your earliest attention, and if you can not allow the applicant a pension, be kind enough to inform me at your earliest leisure, wherein her evidence is defective, & return me the papers written with your answer.
Respectfully Your st
Isaac E. Hiester
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The undersigned citizens of Lancaster City, Pennsylvania,
understand that Mrs Ann Garber widow of Christian Garber deceased, who was reported to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and in service. Mrs Garber is now about the age of 92 years. She is a lady of strong mind and strict veracity, any statement which she has made or may make to the Department may be relied on being strictly in accordance with the best of her knowledge and belief. Some of us are personally acquainted with Mrs Garber, others of us by reputation
 E C Reigan
W S. Amweg
J.W. Meckley
J.B. Amwake
Henry M. [too faint to read]
Jno.K. Reed
[prefix illegible] : H. Carpenter
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1873
[Line drawn through above sentence]
                                                  REJECTED [stamped]
3899                                             Our [hand written]
N0._________________                            
Anna Garber
Service: wid. of Christian
Enlisted:_________________,18   .
Discharged:_______________, 18  .
Application filed:______________,18  .
Alleges:___________________
Re-enlisted:_____________________
Attorney:______________________
P.O.____________________________
____________________Recognized.   _____________Contract.
_______________Cert. of Dis.   Searched for_________,18  .
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"A True Return of the Sixth Company, the Eighth Battalion 
Lancaster County Malitia. Yo the first field day for the year 1785."
_________________________________________________________________"Names"
"John Feasler
 Daniel Carpenter
 George Miller    
 Bernhart Shreiner
 Joel Carpenter
 John Carpenter
 Christian Gerber [name underlined]
 Abraham Hunsberger
 Henry Carpenter
 Michael Dauner
 Samuel Carpenter
               and many others"

"I do swear by the Almighty God that the within Return is a 
just and true to the best of my knowledge 
                        (signed)
                             Jacob Forney Capt."
Sworn before me this 21st day of May 1785
                            Signed
                            Henry Hambright  Major
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Pennsylvania Ss.               Secretary's Office

[Large Circular Seal
 left side of document]

I do hereby certify that the forgoing and annexed is a true and correct Extract of the original Muster Roll now
remaining on file in this office
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the Secretary's Office to be affixed at Harrisburg this Ninth day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty Four
E.S. Goodrich
Dep Secretary of the Commonwealth
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The undersigned, citizens of Upper Leacock and West Earl township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Do hereby certify, that we are personally acquainted, with Anna Garber, Widow of Christian Garber, Deceased.
who has made declaration, that she is of the age,as stated in her declaration, and that she is too infirm, to be taken to Lancaster, to have her declaration, taken in open court, and that she is a woman, of most extraordinary mind, and memory, for a woman of her age, and that her character, stands high in the neighborhood, where she lives for veracity, and that her statement, can well be relied on to be true.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set
our hands, this 17th of July 1854.
Samuel Trumbauer Pastor of the Ev. Lutheran congregation in Upper Leacock Township
L. County Penna.
Christian Rupp Pastor of the German baptist congregation of West Earl township Lancaster County Pennsylvania
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Lancaster Pa. July 19th 1854.

I, certify that I am personally acquainted with the within named Anna Garber, having resided within half a mile of her residence for upwards of Twenty years and fully concur with the within Statements made of the Rev. Gentleman whose names are thereunto subscribed.
Jno.K.Reed
Prothy. of Lan. Co.
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No 8.079
Anna Garber, Widow of Christian  Pa

Hon Isaac E Heister
July 31 1854

3899

July 4, 1836