Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 44293, John Albert, Continental Penn.
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Continental    Albert, John     S44293

Penn.
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CMR Dec 28
1821 and [illegible]
to Hon John Hoan
H. Reps

32
Date of 
deah
not on AB
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8,189
Ohio
John Albert
of Stark Co. in the state of Ohio
who was a privet in the regiment commanded b
Colonel Proctor of the Pemsa
ne, for the term of about three years.

nscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 13 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Mar: 1819
and sent to Hon: Janet Coulter
Canton, Ohio.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 85.83
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 48-
10. 18/30  4/31- $133.83

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
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Alberts affidavit
taken before Judge Coulter

John Albert
Private

Col Procter [illegible]
Pennsylvania line
[illegible], 4 years
[handwriting diagonally over]

The Judges certificate 
of reduced circumstances in lifes wanting
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State of Ohio)
Stark County)  on the 13th day of April JA personally appeared before me one of the Apallate [Appellate] Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Stark John Albert who being duly sworn deposed and saith that he was a private soldier in the Army of the United States in the revolutionary war that he first enlisted in the year 1775 in Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania line in the Company Commander by Capt. _____ Lenox in the this regiment Commanded by Col ____ Shee and afterwards by Col. Cadwalader for one year and just at the close of the year he was taken prisoner at Fort Washington in the State of N [New] York and was exchanged about six weeks afterwards and in [illegible] left them a year afterwards say the latter end of 1777.  As near as this deponent can recollect he again enlisted in Captain Hercules Courtneys Company in the first regiment of the artillery of the Pennsylvania line commanded by Col. Proctor and that he continued in the service of the United States against the Common Enemy and served in the [illegible] Company and [illegible] regiment until the 25th day of June 1781 when he was discharged by Leut. Col Thomas Forrest (Commanding) which discharge was [illegible four words] and further this deponent saith not
Sworn to and subscribed before me this date above written.   John Albert his X mark

Samuel Coulter Apallate [Appellate] Judge
I hereby certify that the above named John Albert is in reduced circumstances in life and is in need of support from his country given under my hand. 
February 17th 1819 Samuel Coulter Apellate [Appellate] Judge
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In testimony that Samuel Coulter Esq is now and was on the date of within certificate an acting Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county fully commissioned and qualified to act as me my name and affix the seal of said court at Canton this 14th day of April 1818
[illegible] for 
Wm Raynolds Clk [Clerk]

Albert affidavit
taken before Judge Coulter
John Albert 
Private

Col Procter [illegible] 
Pennsylvania
[illegible], 4 years
The judges certificate
of reduced circumstances in lifes wanting
re
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The State of Ohio of 
Stark County for his testimony that the within is a true copy of the Records of the Court of 
Commons plea of Stark County Ohio
Thereto sign my name and affix the same of said Court at Canton this 23rd day of November 
[illegible] 1821 
Wm Raynolds Clk [Clerk]
[starburst seal]

John Albert
8189
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At a Court of Common Pleas continued and held at the Court House in the Town of Canton within and for the County of Stark in, the State of Ohio on Tuesday the twenty seven day of March in this year of our Lord our Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty One.  
Then being present the Honorable Benjamin Tappain, Esq. president of the fifth circuit of the Courts of Common Pleas in the State of Ohio (in which circuit this County of Stark is included.  
And the Honorable 
John Hoover
Thomas Hanford
James Clark Esquires his associates and judges of the same court when holdin in this County of Stark.  There and then came into Court John Albert an old soldier and filed his affidavit, under the act of Congress which is in the words and figures following that is [illegible] State of Ohio Stark County on the 27th day of March 1821 personally appeared in open court (in the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Stark the same being a court of record John Albert age sixty three years (wanting a few days) resident in said County of Stark who first being duly sworn according to law deposes and says and on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows that is to say that he enlisted first in the year 1775 for one year in the month of October (as he thinks) in the Pennsylvania Line in the Third regiment commanded by Col George Shee (but was afterwards commanded by Col Cadwalader) in the company commanded by David Lennox he served in Lennox Company until the 15th day of October 1776 (as he believes) when he was taken prisoner at Fort Washington that he was exchanged about the next Christmas that he then enlisted in the first regiment of Artilery [Artillery] commanded by Col. Proctor in the company commanded by Captain Hercules Courtney that he continued to serve in the same regiment and company until the year 1781 (he thinks in the spring) when he was discharged that he was in the following Battle Long Island Fort Washington where he was taken prisoner while
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"White Marsh" "Germantown" besides a number of inferior skirmishes that he received a pension certificate on a declaration dated as he believes on the 13th day of April 1818 which certificate is dated 22nd day of March 1819 [1818?] No. 8189.  That he is by profession a taylor but owning to a rupture in the rim of his belly he is not able to work but little.  That his family is a wife age about sixty two years but is totally unable to work or to do any thing from being lame in both arms.  Our daughter who is no more than able to maintain herself.  I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on this 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 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 [illegible] on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any persons 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 hereunto annexed by me subscribe.
The following is a schedule of my property -
2 In Lots in the Town of Union in said County of Stark worth / $10.00
1 cow / 12.00
1 year old calf / 4.00
7 sheep /16.00
2 hogs / 2.00
5 goats and 5 pigs / 2.50
1 old watch / 5.00
1 table / 3.50
5 chairs / 1.87 1/2
23 bushels of rye / 5.75
6 pewter plates / 1.06 1/4
1 pewter basin / 1.00
1 iron pot and our broken kettle 1.00
1 tea kettle /2.50
1 chicken / 1.00
1 small iron pot / .75
1 shovel and tongs [no amount listed]
69.93 3/4
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Balance forward / 69.93 3/4
6 barrels and tubs / 1.59 1/2
5 knives and forks / .50 
8 old tin cups / .25
9 crocks and two dishes / .62 1/2
2 baskets / .75
2 [illegible] bottles / .18 3/4
6 spoons / .25
1 [illegible] and ladle / .50
1 Lanthorn / .50
2 tin tumblers / .18 3/4
1 mug / .12 1/2
1 coffee mill / 1.00
1 dough trough / .50
4 1/2 bushels of wheat / 2.25
3 bushels of corn / .75
1500 bricks / 6.00
23 bushes of rye / 5.75
There is due to me from various persons on book account / 23.57 1/2
Three acres of grain in the ground on lease / 6.00
I have a lease of fifteen acres of ground which expires on the 12th of June next not any liberty of planting spring crop / 11.50
101.73 1/4 [total]
Sworn to and subscribed 
in open court at Canton
27th March 1821
John (his X mark) Albert [signature]
Signed Wm Raynolds Clk
Whereupon the court order it to be certified that it appears by disinterested testimony to the satisfaction of this court that the said John Albert is [illegible] of property to the value of one hundred and one dollars and seventy three and a quarter cents and no more.  
As Record Att
Wm Raynolds Clk
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The State of Ohio of
Stark County for his testimony that the within is a true copy of the Records of the Court of
Commons plea of Stark County Ohio
Thereto sign my name and affix the same of said Court at Canton this 23rd day of November
[illegible] 1821
Wm Raynolds Clk [Clerk]
[starburst seal]

John Albert
8189
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April 3, 1933
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   [typed letter with handwritten notes on sides]
BS-J/EEL   
am [handwritten]
John Albert- S. 44293

Claire B. Knapp
614 Mill Street
Jasper, Indiana 

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to John and Abraham Albert, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.  
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers of that war.  
A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made in your behalf and no record found of such claims having been made to the United States on account of the services of an Abraham Albert.  You are here ['with' crossed off] furnished the history of John Albert as found in the papers on file in his claim for pension, S.44293, based upon his military service in that war.  {handwritten note follows "The records of no other John Albert has been referred on said records."]  
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of John Albert are not stated.  
He enlisted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in October, 1775, served as a private in Captain David Lennox's Company, Colonels [handwritten note follows "He said Col Geo Shee but as it was John, I omitted given name"] Shee and Cadwalader's Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the battles of Long Island and Fort Washington, at which latter place he was taken prisoner and held for about six weeks when he was exchanged: he again enlisted in {handwritten note follows "he said he enlisted 'in the latter end of 1777' but as he could not have been in the battle of Germantown just said '1777' "] 1777, served in Captain Hercules Courtenay's Company, Colonel [handwritten note follows "Proctor has cont. found all officers"] Proctor's Regiment of Artilllery, was in the battles of Germantown and White Marsh and in a number of skirmishes and was discharged June 25, 1781, by Thomas Forrest, Lieutenant Colonel commanding. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 13, 1818: said application was made in Stark County, Ohio.
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In 1821, John Albert was residing in Stark County, Ohio, and who then aged sixty-three years.  At that time he referred to his wife as aged sixty-two years and to a daughter but did not give their names and there are no further data as to family.  
[handwritten crosses off typed information]  The foregoing is the history of the only soldier of that name that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.  
{handwritten note "Date of death not on AB.  This soldier was dropped in 1821 and did not again apply.]
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.
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44293
INVALID.
Revy 

File No. 44293

John Albert
Priv. Rev. War.
Act:  18th March 1818
Index, Vol. 3, Page 8
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1933 - Apr 3, Hist
to Claire B. Knapp
EEL
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615 Mill Street
Jasper, Indiana
Jan. 23, 1933

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

Dear Sirs:
I am trying to trace the ancestry of an Albert family who lived in Perry County Pennsylvania during the 1800s.  Will you please send me the Revolutionary War records of John Albert and Abraham Albert who were in the Lancaster Co. Militia?  Also any other information you can supply concerning their ancestors or decendants.  
I am especially anxious to get information of John Albert, a silversmith, who lived in Landisburg, Pa. about 1900; to trace his ancestry, and to know when his family came to America and from what country.  
Most respectfully,
Claire B. Knapp [signature] 

RECEIVED 
JAN 25,1933
MAIL SUB-DIV. 
VETS, ADM. PENSION #3 [date stamp]