Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23612, Henry Egolff, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn.
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Egolff, Henry
or Egolf
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NUMBER
S.23612
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Let to Hon H Logan, Oct 10. 1837
Let: G.C. Ames Apr 10/52

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26.071.
Pennsylvania
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Henry Egolf
of Cumberland Co in the State of Pa
was a Pvt in the Company commanded
by Captain Noland of the Reg commanded
Col [Illegible] in the Penna" line for [Illegible]
10 March $35.33.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Penna"
the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of March 1834 and Sent to 
Wm. L. Ramsey, Carlisle, Pa"
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833            83.33
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch '34 16.66
$100.00

   Revolutionary Claim,}
⎨ Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J.T. Sprague  Clerk,
Book  C  Vol. 5 Page 17
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Cumberland Ss

On this fourth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas - now sitting Henry Egolf a resident of the County of Perry and State of Pennsylvania aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1838.

That he was born in the City of Philadelphia and removed from there to Lancaster and was drafted to join a militia company under Captain Noland and Ensign Hernbeck on November 1777 and was employed against the tories of whom they took many prisoners and confined them in Lebanon. deponent was employed in this Service two months. When he was discharged - deponent was again drafted into the militia in April of the ensuing year and was stationed in the Schuylkill with his company under the Command of Captain Snyder, he was discharged at the end of two months. Deponent again joined a battalion of militia as a substitute for his father in November 1779.
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and was employed against the Indians on the Susquehanna, deponent recollects amongst the officers in this expedition. Maj Souffler. Col Knox. Captain Battron Ott - was quarantined for some time in Buffaloe [sic] Valley passed Fort Malian and found it destroyed and burnt by the Indians - the Indians retreated and did not make a stand. Deponent was often employed in scouting and found horses burnt and others dissected and the whole country apparently laid desolate - deponent was absent on this expedition upwards of two months - deponent also performed duty as a substitute for his father under Captain Sheffer and Genl Marsteller in the militia in guarding the Hessian prisoners at Lebanon in 1777. he does not recollect the exact time, but he served two months. deponent also joined the militia as a substitute for a man of the name of Heiselroch and served a term of two months under Col Grubb deponent does not recollect the exact time but believes it was in the year 1778.

He relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of Any State.
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
[signed] Henry Egolff x his mark
[signed] Jct Jno Harper Prothy
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On this fourth day of February 1854 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Joseph Egolf the brother of the above named applicant who being sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement. that he recollects his brother Henry to have been out during the Revolutionary war in the militia twice or three times and he remembered to have visited him at Lebanon whilst he was billeted there with his company - deponent was very young at the time and visited Lebanon with his sister - deponent recollects that his brother went out once as a substitute for a man of the name of Heiselroch again as a substitute for his father, and is of the opinion that he may have been out several times deponent know nothing about.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
[signed] Joseph Egolff
[signed] Just Jno Harper Prothy

Mr James Hutton and Joseph Egolff - residing in the County of Cumberland state aforesaid, hereby certify that are well acquainted with Henry Egolff who was subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
[signed] Joseph Egolff
[signed] James Hutton
[signed] Jst Jno Harper Prothy
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And the said court do hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the new department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Joseph Egolf and James Hutton - 
Who signed the presiding certificates and are creditable persons and their statements are entitled to credit.
[signed] John Reed
[signed] Wm Long
[signed] Isaiah Graham
Judges

Cumberland County  }
State of Pennsylvania }
I John Harper Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Henry Egolff for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourth day of Feb one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
[signed] Jno Harper Prothy
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Washington Mar 6th 1851

James E Heath Esq

Sir
Enclosed you will please find Power of Attorney in the Case of Henry Egolf of Cumberland Co Pennsylvania.
It is stated that Egolf was pensioner and died in 1838. The Children suppose there are arrears still due on account of his Revolutionary Services and in order to a proper investigation of their Claim I ask the priveledge [sic] of escamining [sic] the papers upon which his pension was granted.

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Geo C. Ames
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Revolution 23612
INVALID.  awm
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File No. 23.612
Henry Egolf
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7th 39"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 121

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Carlisle 11th Dec. 1850

Hon. James X. McClanahan

D Sir,

    I wrote to you shortly after the election, in regard to the election, to which I never recd any answer.  Whether you ever recd it or not. I cannot tell.

    I write to you now, on same business which I wish you to place ^ if you please in the hands of J L Lumpkins Esq. as I do not know how to direct a letter immediately to him. I hope it may force a better job, than the one I sent last session in regard to Mrs. Edwards.

    Henry Egolf was a soldier in the Revolution.  He died in Carlisle in 1840,. His wife died 20 or 30 years before.  There are all the facts his children can give me worth mentioning, but they say that the facts in regard to the time of his service [illegible] were proved, sometime or other, (they don't know when) by a man, named George Clink, and another, named James Hutton, whose affidavits, they think
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are on file in the War Department.

    If Mr. Lumpkin thinks it worthwhile to examine the records &c in the War Department and find there anything can be recovered for the children.  I will have him employed in the case.  But they are very poor (as unfortunately is too frequently the case in these applications) and are not able to make (illegible) a fee for either of his (illegible).

    What (illegible) of a paper are you likely to have?

Very respectfully
Your Ob. Servant
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W H Miller
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Will you please attend to this & furnish me with the necessary answer-
Return this letter with your reply [Illegible]
Decr 13th 1850 Jas X Mc Clanahan

[Postal Stamp]
CARLISLE Pa.
Nov 12

FREE 5
Hon James X Mc Clanahan
M. C.
Washington
D,C.
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   Know all men by these presents that we Malinda Albert and Elizabeth Egolf of the borough of Carlisle in the county of Cumberland, state of Pennsylvania being two of the children of Henry Egolf who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint George C. Ames of the city of Washington our true and legal attorney for us and in our names to make search of records of the Pension Office of the United States at said city to ascertain the precise amount of the arrears of the pension payable to said Henry and due at the time of his death which occurred the 8th of April 1840.

Witness our hands and seals this 3d day of November 1854.
                                            her
                                   Malinda x Albert
                                          mark  [seal]
                                             her
                                Elizabeth x Egolf
                                        mark  [seal]

Witness present
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Stephen Keepes

State of Pennsylvania }
Cumberland County   }ss
    Be it known that on the 3d day of November 1851 before the subscribers a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county duly authorized by law to administer oaths
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personally appeared Malinda Albert &
Elizabeth Egolf above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be their act and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above written
Stephen Keepers, J. Peace

State of Pennsylvania
Cumberland County Ss
I James F. Lamberton Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do
certify that Stephen Keepers Esq is an acting
Justice of the Peace in said County duly 
commissioned & qualified and that the above Signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Witness my hand and official seal at
Carlisle this 3 November A.D. 1857.
Jas F Lamberton
Prothy
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Oct 2
Henry Egolff
Pa Rev

260 H

W Rostum 1 Site attached

J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Agent
Washington City

Hon H Logan
HR
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Congress Hall 
Oct 2nd 1837

J. L. Edwards Esq.

Sir 
Be good enough to furnish the information asked for in the enclosed letter if in your possession and obliged
Your Humble Servant
[signed] Henry Logan
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Adm 10 Months
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Carlisle Feb 4 1834

Sir
Enclosed you will find the papers of Henry Egolff an applicant for a pension under the act of 1832

Very Respectfully
Yours to
William L Ramsey

J L Edwards Esq
Pension Office War Dept
Washington City