Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39906, Jacob Windolph, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn
CONTENTS
Windolph, Jacob
NUMBER
S. 39906
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20/70
4,012
Pennsylvania Roll
Jacob Windolph
Capt [Captain] Christie
private
Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Penna at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of Oct 1818 and sent to Thos [Thomas] Armstrong Esq
Philadelphia Pa

Arrears to 4th of Sept -- 1818 39.20
Semi-anl. all'ce [annual allowance] ending 4 Mar 1819 48.00
4 Mo 27 /30 $87.20

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
1 year War
Continin 
Germantown Penna

Notification sent the  26 [illegible] J. B. Morbury Esqr [Esquire] [illegible]
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Jacob Windolph 2
(4012)
(March 1819)
Continue
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District of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County ss,
On the fourteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the Court of Common pleas for the said County (the said Court being
Court of record having a Prothonotary a seal and exercising common law jurisdiction) Jacob Windolph aged Seventy years residing in Germantown and County aforesaid who being first duly sworn in open Court as the law directs, on his oath declares that he served in the revolutionary war as follows Viz: --
Enlisted in Pennsylvania in the 10th Regiment Col. Hampton and Company commanded by Capt Christie -- Date of original declaration 8th April 1818 - number of pension certificate (4012)

and I the said Jacob Windolph do further 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 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 the 18th 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.
Sworn to and declared in open Court on the fourteenth day of June 1820.}
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(Sign'd) [Signed] Jacob Windolph
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J B Norbury Prothy [Prothonotary]
SCHEDULE OF THE PROPERTY OF Jacob Windolph
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I have no other property than that detailed in an inventory hereunto annexed, have no other occupation than that of a day laborer, am very destitute, and am with difficulty enabled to labor, have one daughter living with me and the only child, and am in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of my country
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(Signed) Jacob X Windolph
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Philadelphia County Ss:
I, Joseph P. Norbury Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of Philadelphia do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the 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 20 dols. and cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fourteenth day June 1820
[Clerk of the Court for the crossed out]
Jos. B. Norbury Prothy [Prothonotary]
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Copy -
A Schedule of the whole Estate of Jacob Windolph old Revolutionary Soldier residing in Germantown County of Philada [Philadelphia] & State of Penna
2 old Tables                  1 Tea pot
5 do chairs                    6 old cup & Saucers
1 Spinning wheel          6 Plates
2 Small Iron Pots           3 old knives & 2 forks
1 Tea Kettle                   2 little Pigs 
1 Bucket                         1 Pitch Fork
2 old Tables                    1 old Rake
1 old pair of Tongs         1 Weeding hoe made of an old English bayonet
1 Pot Rack
1 old frying pan              No House
1 looking glass                No Land, or money due to me on Interest

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(Signed) Jacob X Windolph
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Jacob Wendolf [illegible]
8th Apl [April] 1818.
To Thos [Thomas] Armstrong
Philada [Philadelphia]
Admitted on Penna Rolls- 
Resident of Germantown near Philad [Philadelphia] 
[illegible writing upside down, torn off]
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[This document has a variety of information in no real order with some information written sideways and some upside down.]

Jacob Wendolf
8 April 1818

To Thos. Armstrong
Philada.
admitted
on Penna rolls
Resident of Germantown
near Philad

Jacob Wendolph
[illegible] under the [illegible] Apl 18 1818

The Honorable J C Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City

[other illegible words and letters]
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State of Pennsylvania. 
City of Philadelphia asst. 
Personally appeared Jacob Windolph of Germantown in the County of Philadelphia and now a resident citizen of the United States and being duly sworn on his solemn Oath, saith, that he enlisted during the revolutionary war in the year that the public ship South Carolina was taken in Captain Christy's company, Regiment commanded by Colonel Hampton Pennsylvania line. that he served in the the said army fourteen months and was honourably [honorably] discharged in the City of Philadelphia at the time the whole army was disbanded. that he now relinquishes all claim to any pension heretofore allowed by the laws of the United States, (except that now applied for under the late act of Congress passed in March last) and that from his reduced circumstances he needs assistance of his country for support.
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Jacob X Windolph
Mark
Sworn and Subscribed before me Thomas Armstrong Esquire an Associate Jude [Judge] 
of the General Court of Quarter session of the Peace of the County of Philadelphia
this Eighth day of April A.D. 1818
Thos. Armstrong
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I, Thomas Armstrong, Esquire an Associate Judge of the General Court of Quarter Sessions of the County of Philadelphia, certify that by the oath of Jacob Windolph the within applicant for a pension it appears to my satisfaction --
he served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy more than nine months. Witness my Hand at Philadelphia this Eighth Day of April Anno Domini 1818 in 42 year Independence U.S. of America.
Thos. Armstrong

I William Runkel Junior Clerk of the above court certify that Thomas Armstrong Esquire is an associate Judge of the said court, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as well in all courts as out of the same. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Philadelphia this eighth day of April Anno Domini 1818.
W Runkel/n Clerk
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Abraham M Garrigins of the Township of Germantown being affirmed in due form of Law doth declare and say that he has been personally acquainted with Jacob Wendolph the within named [illegible] who is said to have been in the Revolutionary War & has known him upwards of twenty years last past, during the most of the whole time he has lived about German town and the affirmant has heard from several he was a Soldier in the Revolution, & the affirmant from the knowledge he has of the applicants Character, as to veracity & integrity all the facts he has stated in his foregoing deposition are
correct and true to the best of his her knowledge & belief
A.M. Garrigins
Affirmed before me April 8th 1818
Thos. Armstrong
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[handwritten upper right corner] M.C.S. [/handwritten upper right corner]

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

December 7, 1925

Honorable W. W. Griest
House of Representatives

My dear Mr. Griest:
In response to you letter of the fifth instant, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary war pension claim, S. 39906, it appears that JACOB WINDOLPH enlisted, place and date not stated, and served as private in Captain Christie's Company, Colonel Humpton's Pennsylvania Regiment, and was discharged "at the time the whole army was disbanded", having served fourteen months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 8, 1818, while a resident of Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 1820 he was seventy years of age and he then stated that his only child was a daughter, her name and that of his wife not stated.
For the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person to whom paid, and possibly the date of death of the above mentioned soldier you should apply to the Record Section, Civil Division, General Accounting Office, 1800 Z St., N.W. Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data:
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Jacob Windolph, Certificate 4012, issued October 21, 1818, rate $8 per month, commenced April 8, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818, Pennsylvania Agency.

Very truly yours,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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39906
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 39,906
Jacob Windolph Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18"
Index: -- Vol. 3 , Page 567
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1925 Dec 7 hist. to Hon W.W. Grist MCS
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W. W. GRIEST
(10TH DISTRICT)
LANCASTER, PA.

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.

December 5, 1925.

[stamped] OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER U.S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS DEC 7 - 1925 [/stamped]

Hon. Winfield Scott,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Commissioner:

I am seeking information showing the company and regiment in which Jacob Windolph, formerly of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served during the Revolutionary War; also the date of the soldier's death and his address last of record in the pension bureau it being understood that Jacob Windolph had been a pensioner.  Would it be possible for you to furnish the desired information?

Thanking you in advance for attention to this request, I am

Yours very truly,
W. W. Griest
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Windows, Henry Private LINE Maryland
WARRANT  NUMBER 11828 
ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 9, 1799 to -- not shown-

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 Archives.