Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2714, for Peter Kutz, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.

Kutz, Peter

NUMBER
S. 2714

carded

CONTENTS
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4895
Pennsylvania
Peter Kutz
of _____ in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Levergood of the Reg. commanded by   in the Penn. line for 16 mo. Private _ $53.33 
Subscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 53 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of January 1833 and sent to Hon. A Muhlenberg, House Rep.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 _ $79.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 11 Mar 1833 _ 26.66
$106.65

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Vinal Luce  Clerk,
Book D Vol. 6 Page 65

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1837 to the 4 Sept 1837. Agent notified 2 July 1838.
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Peter Kutz

Admt.
Private
16 months
$53.33

Hon
Hon. A Muhlenberg
H.R
James Donegan
Agt
Cashtown
Penn
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BRIEF in the case of Peter Kutz  of Kutztown  County of Berks   in the State of Pennsylvania (Act 7th June, 1832.)                
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?    In open Court      
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?        
3. How old is he?   70   
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.           
Period.  Enlisted he believes In 1781   Duration of Service.  6 Months   Rank.  As a private    Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Capt. Jacob Levergood  In compy Penn’a Riflemen
Period.  Shortly after his return home enlisted   Duration of Service.  10 Months  Rank.  Private    Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.    Captain Kirklow  [unreadable]
5. In what battles was he engaged?  [unreadable]
6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Maxatawny, Berks Co. Penn’a
7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary service, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?   By living witness, & by traditionary evidence.
8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?
No.
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.  
Chas G. Wilcox
Examining Clerk
25 June 1835
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Peter Kutz application for Pension Term of Service 16 months
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State of Pennsylvania      
County of Berks } Ss.    
On this Fourteenth day of January 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the hon. Garrick Mallary Esquire and his Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county of Berks now sitting. Peter Kutz at present a resident of the Borough of Kutztown in said County of Berks aged Seventy years or thereabouts 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 7th 1832.         
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.                 
That he enlisted as a private in Captain Jacob Levergood's Company of Rifleman as he believes in the year 1781 at which time he resided in Maxatawny Township Berks County where he enlisted, that he does not recollect the names of the other officers, after his enlistment he was taken to Reading and from thence marched with the remainder of the Company to Philadelphia where he remained about six weeks when the Company was marched through Lancaster and Carlisle to Fort Pitt, and placed under the Command of General Irvine where they remained Garrisoned until the term of his enlistment had nearly expired which term was Six months, the company was then marched back to Philadelphia where he was paid off and honorably discharged, that he received a discharge but has since lost it.            
That shortly after his return home he again enlisted in Captain Kirklaw's Company of Infantry for one year at the Borough of Kutztown as a private, that he marched with the Company to Burlington New Jersey where they remained encamped about two months form thence they were marched through Trenton, Princetown, Morristown to Newburg or Newport a village near the North River where they remained some time, they then crossed the North River and marched in the New England States, thence back to Newburg or Newport where he was discharged after serving Ten months, that he does not recollect the names of the officers with whom he served, that he recieved a discharge but has since lost it, and that he has no documentary evidence of his services during either of the abovementioned periods.                 
He hereby 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 or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of Pennsylvania       Peter Kutz                      
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid }  Jac Sallade  Proth’y
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We John Knoske a clergyman residing in the Borough of Kutztown in the said county of Berks and Peter Gift residing in the same do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Kutz, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
John Knoske
Peter Gift
Sworn and subscribed before the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the said County of Berks January 4th 1833 
Jas Donagan
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War 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, John Knoske who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident on said Borough of Kutztown and that Peter Gift, who has also signed the same is also a resident of the same place, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Jacob Sallade Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Berks do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of application of the said Peter Kutz for a pension. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand and Seal of Office this Fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Jac. Sallade Proth
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Penn’a, Berks County ss.           
Before Jas. Donagan one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Berks, Personally appeared Jacob Kutz of the Township of Maxatawny in the said County whom I hereby certify to be a credible person and whose statement is entitled to credit and after being duly sworn according to Law, saith that he is well acquainted with Peter Kutz of the Borough of Kutztown and knows that he served during the Revolutionary war - once when he went to Fort Pitt, and that he enlisted in Captain Kirklows Company and went from home early in the Spring and did not return until the winter following, but does not recollect at what time but knows it was during the Revolutionary war              Jacob Kutz
Sworn and Subscribed before           
Jas Donagan                  
Penn’a Berks County        
Before James Donagan one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Berks, Personally appeared Christian Smick of the Township of Maxatawny in the said County whom I hereby certify to be a credible person, and whose statement is entitled to credit, and after being duly sworn according to Law saith that he is well acquainted with Peter Kutz of the Borough of Kutztown, and that himself and Henry Grub, enlisted the said Peter Kutz in Maxatawny Township for six months in the Rifle company of Captain Jacob Levergood, in the year 1781 and that the fact of this services in the said Company as set forth in the foregoing declaration and true.              Christian Smick      
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid before Jas Donagan        
Penn’a  Berks County ss.                 
I Jacob Sallade Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Berks do hereby certify that James Donagan Esq. before whom the foregoing certificate was subscribed and sworn, and the preceding Depositions taken is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned in and for the said County, and that the signatures thereto annexed are his genuine signatures                    
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three -    
Jac Sallade Prothy
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section  EEL           
January 27, 1930
Miss Mabel Kutz       
504 Vermont Place           
Columbus, Ohio            
Dear Madam:                  
I advise you that you are herewith furnished the history of Peter Kutz, the only soldier with that surname found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.  
From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.2714, it appears that Peter Kutz, while residing in Maxatawny Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, enlisted in 1781, served six months as a private in Captain Jacob Levergood's Company of Pennsylvania Riflemen and was stationed at the garrison at Fort Pitt.              
Shortly after the termination of this service, he again enlisted and served ten months as a private in Captain Nicholas Kirklaw or Corklew’s Pennsylvania Company.     
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 14, 1833, at which time he was seventy years of age and resided at Kutztown, Berks County, Pennsylvania.          
There are no data concerning his family.         
Very truly yours
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner   
No date of death on AB
The above officers could not be verified
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504 Vermont Place, 
Columbus, Ohio, 
Dec. 13, 1929        
4 2 cent [unreadable] encl
Pension Division          
Washington D.C           
Gentlemen -  
Is there any record of a pension being granted to any one of the following Kutzes; i.e.  
David Kutz,  Henry Kutz, John Kutz, Peter Kutz   only  or Phillip Kutz   Soldier by war ser  
all of whom served in the Revolutionary War from Northampton Co. Pa.  according to the Pa. Archives here in our State library?  If so, in the granting of such a pension to any one of them is there any mention of children, and if so, what were their names, please?      
I am trying --- to find a trace of a Revolutionary war ancestor on my Father's side, if possible in order to join the D.A.R.              
Very sincerely (Miss) Mabel Kutz
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1930 – Jan 27, Hist to Miss Mabel Kutz  EEL
Rev War
2714
INVALID
File No.  2714
Peter Kutz
Privt. Rev War.
Act; June 7 1832
Index: - Vol.  A. Page 213
[Arrangement of 1870]
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1940, Oct. 19 - Summary for
L. Garrett Myers
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Treasury Department           
Second Comptroller's              
June 28 1838    
Sir:            
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States”,   Peter Kutz   
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of fifty three Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837 to the 4th of Sept 1837                        
Respectfully yours,             
Albion K. Parris           
Comptroller    
To the Commissioner of Pensions             
Present.
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1816   
Revolutionary Claims.            
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.                
30 Jany 1830                   
Peter Kutz in the county of   Berks   in the State of Pennsylvania has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination , at which period he was a Private in captain Corkow’s company, in the regiment of the Pennsylvania line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826,   nothing          
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the 
records in this office.
By Order of the Secretary.  F. A. Dickins                    
2714
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,             
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,               
3d February 1830 
It further appears that   Peter Kutz   is not now on the pension list of  any agency and has not been so since the 3d March 1826            
The name of Peter Kutz cannot be found among those of the Pennsylvania line to whom Certificates for the gratuity Eighty Dollars were issued -   
Peter Hagner  Aud.
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War Dept, Bounty Land Office                  
Feby 5. 1830              
The name of Peter Kutz cannot be found on the Records of the Pennylvania line on file in this office, among those entitled to Bounty Land of the U. States, or to whom a Land Warrant has issued          
Wm. Gordon
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1816             
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of  “An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th day of May 1828   I Peter Kutz of the Borough of Kutztown in the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, Do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the War, and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain Nicholas Corklow's Company in the Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line, and I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of Eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th day of May A.D. 1778, but which has since been lost.         
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on the Pention list of the United States                   
Peter Kutz   
Berks County Ss                   
Before me James Donagan Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania legally empowered to administer oaths personally appeared this day Christian Schmick and Jacob Kutz of the said County of Berks who did severally make oath that Peter Kutz by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a private in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated and further that they know of their own knowledge that the said Peter Kutz was a soldier in the army of the Revolution              
Witness my hand this fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty               
Jas Donagan
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Penn’a Berks County ss.                
I Jacob Sallade Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, do certify that James Donagan Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, and duly empowered to administer Oaths               
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this Eighth day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty            
Jac. Sallade Prothy
OWR
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