Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 468, for John Puls, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

| SERVICE
Penn. |

| Puls, John
or
Boltz. |

| NUMBER
R 468.|
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37.700

John Baltz,
Ohio


Act 7 June 1832
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State of Ohio and }
County of Greene} SS
On this 16 day of October A D 1849, personally appeared in open court before the court of common pleas now sitting John Boltz a resident of Miami Township in the county of Greene and State of Ohio, aged 89 + 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 7th 1832, that he was born Nov 6th 1759 in Lancaster County in the State of Pensylvania [Pennsylvania], that he has no record of his age having left it in Virginia, that he was draughed [drafted] in his seventeenth year and entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated, that he joined his company at Lancaster in the county and state aforesaid, under Captain Michael Fernsler and Lieutenant Caselett, his field officers were Gen Peter Grubb, and Col Curtis Gruber.  He is not quite certain of the rank of his other field officers but knows their names were Ott, Couninger, Fatsham, and Greenawalsh, that they took up their line of march about the first of May in the year of 1776 that they marched towards the state of New Jersey and marching through a part of that state they came to a place called Paulus Hook where they encamped, as he was young at the time and could not talk any English and his memory has failed so much of late years that he cannot recollect all the circumstances of the march or his service, but remembers seeing Generals Gates, Wayne, and Lee, and that General Washington came to Paulus Hook to view the troops and that he had his life guard with him, He also remembers seeing a battle on long island in which the Americans were defeated and which so discouraged the soldiers at Paulus Hook that many of them ran away, among whom were three of his company, Anthony Long, Michael Boltz and Michael Zimmerman, who tried to persuade him to go with them but he told them that he would not go untill  [until] his captain gave him leave, that he staid [stayed] untill [until] some time in
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in December when he was honorably discharged receiving a written discharge signed [smudge] by Captain Fernsler, when he returned home, having  been in the service about seven months & upon home he was draughted again either in the year 1777 or 8 he is not quite certain which but knows that he entered the service sometime in July as it was about harvest, that he joined his  company at Lebanon then in Lancaster County of the State aforesaid, under Captain Orderholt and Lieutenant Poselett, that his field officers were those he served under the first time, that they took up their line of march for the State of New Jersey, that they were at Princeton, Elizabeth Point, New Brunswick, and a number of other places which he cannot recollect, that they were not long at any one place but were most of the time under march, until the beginning of winter, when they were again discharged, he being in the service this time about four or five months, He is not certain of the year but knows that his father's team was pressed by Adam Bowers Commissary to the Army and that he was taken to drive his fathers team that he halled [hauled] grain halled [hauled] Spelts which belonged to his father and which Bowers signed for the use of the Army, that he halled [hauled] the grain from his father's farm in Lebanon Township, Lancaster County and State aforesaid, to the barracks at Philadelphia, that he halled [hauled] flour from Coopers Mill on the Brandywine and from John  Herdarings Mill on the Schuylkill and performed whatever Bowers required of him untill [until] the beginning of winter when Bowers permitted him to return home with the team, that this was the third time that he was in the service and that he was in it about four months as it was about the last of July, that he entered the service on the fourth and last time that he was in the service the fourth and last time that he was in the service he was draughted, he thinks it was in the year 1781 that he joined his company at Lebanon of the County and State aforesaid under Captain Holderbaum and Lieutenant Caselett, and the field officers aforesaid that they took up their line of march for Yorktown
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in the State of Virginia that before they arrived there, they received intelligence that Cornwallace [Cornwallis] had surrendered and they were discharged and returned home, that he was in the service this time about three weeks or a month, that he was in the service altogether Sixteen months or upwards, that he never was in a battle, that he removed from Pennsylvania to Berkley [Berkeley] County Virginia shortly after the close of the war and resided there untill [until] about two years since he came to Green [Greene] County Ohio, that his papers of discharge are lost, that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to testify to his service, He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension role of any State, that the persons living in his present neighborhood who can testify to his character for veracity, [carrot inserted] and their belief of his being a soldier of the revolution [end of carrot] are George Taylor, William Foyle, George Confir, Mr. Vincent Heller, Thomas Conady
John Puls [signature]

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in Open Court.
James G. Winnus, Clerk

We Hiram Shaull a Clergyman residing in Tiffin Seneca County Ohio, and John Heaton, residing in Hernia Green County Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Baltz who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 89 years of age and that he was reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided in Virginia to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion.
Hiram Shaull/John Heaton [signatures]

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid in Open Court.
James G. Winnus, Clerk

The State of Ohio    }
                                } SS
Geneva County        }

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after 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
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states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Hiram Shaull who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the County of Seneca and that John Heaton who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Greene, is a credible person, and their statements is entitled to credit.

By the Court
Elijah Vance
President Judge

October term, being             }
the 16 day of Oct. A.D. 1849 }

I James J. Winning Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Greene, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Boltz for a pension,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this 16th day of October AD 1849
James J. Winning [signature]
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March 12, 1935
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John Puls-R. 468
BA-J/AWF [initialed]

Mrs. H. M. Quisenberry
511 Jackson Avenue
Lexington, Virginia

Dear Madam:

The Revolutionary War record of John Puls or Boltz furnished herein was obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 468, based upon his service in that war.

John Puls or Boltz was born November 6, 1759 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, names of his parents not shown.  His father lived during the Revolution in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and was a "wealthy man".

John Puls or Boltz applied for pension, October 16, 1849, while a resident of Miami Township, Greene County, Ohio, and alleged that while residing in said Lancaster County, he enlisted in May, 1778, and served under Captain Michael Fernsler or Fanslee and Colonel Curtis Grubb until in December, 1776; that he served in 1777 or 1778, four months under Captain Orderholt; that he drove his father's term about four months, being called out by Commissary Adam Bowers; and in 1781 on a march to Yorktown under Captain Holderbaum, they heard of the surrender of Cornwallis and were discharged after a service of three weeks.  The service was with the Pennsylvania troops.

The claim was not allowed as proof of service as required by the pension law was not furnished.

The soldier signed in 1849 "John Puls," but stated that the name in German was spelled Boltz, and that he
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was about sixteen years of age when he enlisted and could not speak English.

The soldier, John Puls or Boltz, moved shortly after the close of the Revolution from Pennsylvania to Berkeley County, Virginia and about 1847 moved to Greene County, Ohio.  In 1848, he with his wife was living with their son, who then had a large family, no names were stated.

Jacob Puls or Boltz, elder brother of the soldier had been dead many years in 1849.  The Reverend Hiram Shaull, grandson of Jacob Puls or Boltz, was a resident of Tiffin County, Ohio in 1849 and then aged between thirty and forty years.

Reference was made to one Michael Boltz, Jr. as living during the Revolution, no relationship to the family shown.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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[right-hand side]

Ex'r.    INVALID

No. 468

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878. 
[above crossed out]

John Baltz

Not found on printed list of 1852.
[rest of form blank]

[left-hand side]

1925 - April 15 Hist to Mrs. A. Bruce Eagle [illegible] [initials]?
1935 - March 12 - Hist [ditto marks] to [ditto marks] Mrs. [ditto marks] H. M. 
Quisenberry [initials?]
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ESB
ORD

WAR DEPARTMENT,
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
WASHINGTON.
January 29, 1925

Respectfully returned to

Mrs. A. Bruce Eagle,
321 West Burke Street,
Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Neither the name John Pultz, Pulz, Boltz or similar name, nor the name George H. Boltz or similar name, nor the surname Pultz, Pulz, Boltz or similar surname has been found on the records, on file in this office, of soldiers from Virginia or any other State in the War of the Revolution.

The collection of Revolutionary War records in this office is far from complete, and it is suggested as a possibility that the desired information may be obtained from the Librarian, Virginia State Library, Richmond; from the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C., or from the authorities of the State from which any man may have entered the service.

Robert C. Davis [signature]
Major General,
The Adjutant General.
By E.W.M. [initialed]

PENSION OFFICE U. S.
FEB 
24 1925
[STAMPED]
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[some scribbling at top] [illegible]

R. Partington [The word Ames written above in what appears to be pencil]

Claim of John Pulse [mispelled]
for pension.

P. 463, Recd Oct 6/48

Pension Office

Ames
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Yellow Springs Oct 2nd 1848

Dear Sir

I directed a communication to you a few days since concerning the claims of John Pulse to a pension but learning from a gentleman who says he has written to you some time since and as yet has received no answer and that you might think my communication not sufficiently definite to induce you to reply, and as Mr. Pulse is in great need of his claim if it can be had, and wishes to present his claims to the next Court in this County, which term will commence on the 10th of the present time.  I have taken the liberty [carrot inserted] again [end of carrot] to present this matter to some consideration, in hopes that when an appeal is made by one of the brothers of our country that it will not be in vain  I have seen him since I wrote to you and he says that if anything can be done he wants me to attend to it immediately, as he is in great need and his title to his claim is clear and indispensable; he says that he is Eighty seven years of age and that he was draughted three different times from which he was honorably discharged
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Hon W L. Marcy Sec of War
Washington District of Columbia

[some scribbling at bottom of page--might be from another page]
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besides having acted as a teamster in the early days of the Revolution.  He refers to Daniel Besbet [illegible--might be Esq.] of Martinsburg Va as being acquainted with his character as a man and also of his services as a soldier of the Revolution

But what we desire most to know is whether there is any funds providing his claim can be established, and information on the subject and  also a  copy of the pension laws would thankfully received, as I have consulted the older members of the bar in this place but who appear to be ignorant of the subject. I hope if your Excellency is too much engaged in business of more importance you will at least see that this is attended to

Yours very respectfully  [illegible]
Richard Partington, Atty for Petitioner

Hon W L Marcy
Sec of War

PS please direct to Hernia Ohio
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Hernia O. Sept 29 '48

Rich[raised d] Partington
Pension Claim of John
Pulse.

P 463. Rec Oct 3/48.

Pension Office

Ames

Washington
District of Columbia [upside down and cut off]

Hon. W. L. Marcy, Sec of War [upside down and cut off]
[stamp]
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[stamp] [not legible]

Hon W. L. Marcy Sec of War
Washington
District of Columbia

Pension Office
Ames [upside down in handwriting]
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Hernia Sept 29 1848

My Dear Sir

I have been solicited by John Pulse a Revolutionary soldier to engage concerning his claims to a pension, he states that he lived in lancaster county Pennsylvania and that during the early part of the revolution his fathers team was taken under Commissary Adam Bowers during which term he served as teamster, and that he afterwards served three different times of four months each, for which at the expiration of each term he received an honorable discharge, he states that his memory has greatly failed being very old and feeble, but he remembers several of his officers and comrades, one of his captains was Michael Fernsler and if he is not mistaken another was something like [illegible] He remembers one of his Majors whose name was Latshour his Colonel was Curtis Gruber he is not certain as to the exact pronunciation of the name, but he states that his Colonel was owner of a furnace in lancaster county Lebanon Township and that his General was of the same name, Peter Gruber he states a number of other circumstances connected with his service sufficient to substantiate
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his claims fully  to the right of a pension He also states that he has never before applied for a pension, that his father was very wealthy and that he has been in every good circumstances and that he always looked upon pensions in the light of beggary and has resolved never to apply, 
but he is now become very poor and he with his wife lives with their son who has a large family and is also very poor and not able to furnish the nesessaries [necessaries] of life, He bears the reputation in the neighborhood where he now lives and also in the neighborhood where he lived previously, of being a very upright and honorable man and a member of the Episcopalian Church, though since he has come to Ohio he has not lived in the bounds of his own church and thinks it wrong to connect himself with any other.

And from the knowledge I have of your Excellency I know that is but necessary that you should know of this case and you will provide relief please write immediately

Yours with great respect
Richard Partington Atty
for Petitioner

Hon W. L. Marcy
Sec of War
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Richard Partington Nov 12/49
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245 [very faintly written in top right-hand corner of page]

Pension Office
Nov 12th 1849

Sir:

In reply to your letter of the 6th sent in the case of John Baltz, under Act 7th June 1832 I have to state that the requisitions of my letter to you of the 26th Oct, should be complied with in order to a favorable decision.

Richard Partington Esq
Yellow Springs,
Ohio.
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Auditor Generals Office
Harrisburg  Dec 14 1849

Richard Partington Esq

Dear Sir:-

Your letter of the 24 Oct has been rec[raised d] and an examination of pension book has been made, and I am very sorry to inform you that we do not find the name of John Boltz upon the pension books, and consequently there is no evidence in this department, of his having been an enrolled soldier in the Revolutionary 
War.

I am very respy [respectfully] yours,
James Dudin
Clk Aud Genl
Office
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Pension Office
Oct 26 1849

Sir,
The declaration [crossed out word] of John 
Baltz, under Act of 7th June 1832 has been examined and filed.  He alleges to have entered the service in Pennsylvania in May 1776 and to have served until some time in December following.

He also alleges service from July 1777 or 78 about four months, and from the statement made by the claimant, it would seem that he was employed during this tour as a wagoner [carrot inserted] to [end of carrot] his fathers team which had been pressed into the service.  This tour is called his third tour, but is not clearly expressed as such, but would seem to be the second.  The last alleged tour was in 1781, and was discharged after having been three weeks or a month in the service.  There was no military service in 1776 for seven months, and if the service was in the Flying Camp that service did not exceeds six months.  the [crossed out word] employment as a teamster was not of such a character as to bring the applicant within the provisions of the Act of 7th [crossed out words] June 1832.  The records in
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this office afford no evidence of the service in the Pennsylvania troops.  Some evidence may perhaps be obtained on application to the Secretary of State & comptroller general of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg

If no record evidence can be obtained some [illegible] evidence of persons who knew him during or shortly after the termination of the revolutionary was, and can testify to his [crossed out word] having had the character of having been a revolutionary soldier.  He should [carrot inserted] humbly [end of carrot] state under oath his reasons for not making an earlier application for a pension.

Richard Partington Esq
Yellow Springs,
Green Co.
Ohio

[in right-hand margin]
R. Partington
Oct. 26th, 1849
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Yellow Springs O  }
Nov 7 1849           }

[smudge at top right-hand corner] 
[looks like it starts with a 4]

[faded handwriting] looks like W N Alling
with an [illegible]

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Yellow Springs Nov 6th/49

J L Edwards Esq

Sir

Yours of the 26 of Oct was received some days since, and I should have answered it directly, but wanted to see the Claimant first.  He says that he was not in the Flying Company but in the Militia, that the term might have ben intended for six months, but knows he was out longer, as the leaves on the trees were just beginning to put forth, when they took up their march, and that he returned home a short time before Christmas, he is not so certain of the term of service of his second tour but knows it was not less than four nor more than six months, and if you will read the declaration again I think you will be able to discriminate between serving under Captain Orderholt in the State of New Jersey and driving a team for Commissary Bowers in Pennsylvania in a year which he could not remember, but thinks was in 1780.  His second term of service is not as clearly set forth as it should be, but as I have given the reasons before it is not necessary to insert them here.  He hopes that you will not take advantage of the infirmities of his age but allow him for the time he knows that he was in the service, Sixteen months as he had
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after computed the time when the matter was fresh in his recollection, the time he was with the team is included in the sixteen months.  I was aware that his services as teamster would not come under the Act of 32, but as he had been told by others that he could draw for this time I inserted it.

He says that he knows of no better evidence than the persons he produced in Court, The Rev Hiram Shoull is a man between thirty and forty years of age, and has known him all his life, and received his information from his grandfather Jacob Boltz, who was an elder brother of the claimant, but who has been dead for many years.  Major John Heaton who has also signed his certificate has been acquainted with him about sixty years. As there will be no Court in this County untill [until] next March, he says that if it will answer he will go before a Magistrate and state under oath his reasons for not applying sooner for a pension and also what he can recollect of his second term of service in addition to what has been stated.
You will please inform me immediately

Yours very respectfully
Richard Partington 

J L Edwards Esq                 }
Commissioner of pensions}
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20 [crossed out in upper right-hand margin]

Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of pensions
Washington
D C

W. Allister [written in very faded handwriting]

Left-hand margin:

May 14 1850
Add. Evid
[illegible]
John Boltz

[stamp]  [May is written in middle of stamp]
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Yellow Springs May 9/49

Hon J L Edwards

Sir

I directed a letter to you (Nov 6, 49) concerning the claim of John Boltz, under Act of June 7, 32 to which I have never received an answer after waiting untill [until] I believed you did not intend to answer mine.  I wrote to Hon R C Schenck to inquire into the matter, and in reply received your letters to him, in which you say that there was no draughted service for a longer term than two months under one engagement and that the claimant may have served in the Flying Camp and that his pension would be $20 per annum provided the time you have allotted to him can be established.   He states in his declaration that he does not know of any person now living by whom he can prove his services.  You state that there is no evidence in your department, and the papers enclosed will show that there is none in the Archives at Harrisburg.  He says that he is willing at any time to give his reasons under oath, for not applying
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earlier for a pension and that he is now greatly in need of it.  You will please answer this immediately and inform me whether traditionary evidence would be of any importance in his case.  I would be greatly obliged to you if you will forward to me a copy of the pension laws and also information of the evidence you require in the cases of soldiers who were wounded in the Indian Wars under Gens. St Clair and Wayne. A man by the name of Isaac Stewart (who was severely wounded in taking an Indian town on the Anglasy river he thinks in the year of 1791 under Captain Wm Dudley) wants to know if he is entitled to a pension and if so what evidence he will have to produce

Yours very respectfully
Richard Partington

Hon J L Edwards }
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{Secretary's Office
{Harrisburg Nov 17/49

Sir:

I am directed, to state that careful search has been made for the name of John Boltz, in the papers and records pertaining to the War of the Revolution and now remaining in the Department, but the aforesaid name cannot be found.

Information of the kind you ask is frequently more readily obtained from the Office of the Auditor General of the Commonwealth.

Very respy [respectfully]
Your ob serv [obedient servant]
W. C. Hickey
Clk Military Desk

To
Richard Partington Esq}
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Oct 24/61
Rich[raised d] Partington [checkmark above name]
Oct 17th 1849

Declaration of John
Boltz - a soldier of the
Revolution - for pension

[illegible upside down faded handwriting--not sure if it belongs on this page or bled through from another page]

Comm. of Pensions
Dept of the Interior}
Oct. 23/49               }
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[upside down]

Comm of Pensions
Dept of the Interior
Oct 23/49 }

To the Secretary of the War Department
Washington
District of Columbia [faded handwriting]
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[page too faded to transcribe]
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[too faded to transcribe]
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[too faded to transcribe]
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Secretary's Office
Harrisburg April 25/50

Richard Partington Esq}

Sir:

I am directed to state that a complete, thorough and careful search has been made through all the papers and records pertaining to the War of the Revolution now remaining in this Department and the name of John Boltz does not appear upon any of these. There were no rolls of the original or copies of the Companies of Captain Fernsler for the year 1776 in this Department. The Secry of the Comm directs me to state that search has been twice made for the information desired by you without success.

Yours Respt
Wm. C. Hickey
Clk.
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Yellow Springs June [date too faded]

Hon J L Edwards

Sir

I directed to you some time since the papers I received from the Secretary  of State and Auditor General of Pennsylvania in regard to the claim of John Baltz under Act of June 7 02

My object in sending those papers was to prove to you that there was no record evidence to be found.  Neither is there any evidence to prove the time of service under which the claimant served  I wrote then to the Secretary of State to know how long the officers of the claimant did serve during the terms mentioned in his declaration and also to know whether there was not draughted service longer than two months

The reply to this was that search had been twice made for this information with out success, and as you stated in the letter I received through Mr. Schenck that if those terms of service mentioned in your [word appears to be missing] could be established his pension would be 50 dollars per annum. I presume that you require that they should be established
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And which seems impossible as they differ from the declaration of the claimant and there can be found no evidence either for or against it, the claimant says that George Everhart who obtained a pension a number of years since and also resided then in Berkeley Co Va was in the same Battallion [battalion] at Paulus Hook with him

If you will examine his declaration perhaps it will throw some light on the matter  I hope that you will inform me whether you think him entitled to anything or not as I want to be done with the matter  If you think him not entitled to any thing I hope that you will write me to that effect as he is a great annoyance to me about his pension and thinks that it ought to be obtained without any trouble, that Daniel Burkhart of Martinsburg Va came to him and told him that if he would only say the word he would get him his pension but he insulted the man and told him that he was not going to be a beggar like old Everhart when he had property  I want you to write without fail and let me know your opinion about the matter as he is very poor and I do not wish to put
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him to any more expense if there is no prospect of him obtaining his claim

Yours Re [respectfully]
Richard Partington, Esq

PS Direct to Yellow Springs Greene County Ohio
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Ho. [House] of Reps. [Representatives]

Feb. 8. 1850.

Sir

Your note of yesterday in reply to mine of the 2 [raised d] has been received.  But is seems to contain no answer to my inquiries in relation to what further evidence is required in the case of the application of John Boltz for a pension.  I beg leave to refer you again to those inquiries.

Respectfully
Your obd [obedient] serv [servant]
Robt [Robert] C. Schenck

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions -
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Hon R. C .Schenck

Feb. 7/50
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146 [faded pencil in top right-hand corner]

Pension Office
Feb 7th 1850

Sir,

In reply to your letter of the 20 sixth in the case of John Boltz, under Act of 7 June 1832 I have to state that the rate of pension depends upon the duration of the service which may be established?

[start of crossed out words] Agreeably to his declaration the rate of pension should the service be established the pension would [end of crossed out words] 

The rate of pension for two years service as a private would be $80 per annum, and for a less duration of service, a proportionate rate of pension, to commence 4th March 1831.

Hon. Robert C Schenck
NR
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Washington, Feb. 2. 1850 -

Sir

Some two, three or  four months a declaration & application for a pension for John Bolts an old revolutionary soldier & constituent of mine of Greene County Ohio, was forwarded to you by Richard Partington his attorney.  The proof was said to be insufficient.  Mr. Partington wrote to you again, as he states, for further information as to the evidence required, but has received no reply -

Will you please inform me what is the condition of the case; & give me some statement & explanation of the exact proof necessary to make it complete.  The applicant is a very poor man, as well as old, & as he must depend on others to bear the expense of getting the further testimony demanded, he desires to know precisely what he must obtain, if it can be done.

Respectfully
Your Obd [obedient] Servt [Servant]
Robt [Robert] C. Schenck

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comt [commissioner] of pensions -
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212 [faded pencil marking in top right-hand corner]

Pension Office
Feb: 9th. 1850 -

Sir,

In reply to your inquiry in the case of John Boltz, an applicant for a pension under Act 7th June 1832, I have to inform you that he alleges in his declaration [crossed out words] to have been [word entered crossed out] draughted into the service in Pennsylvania in [carrot inserted] May [end of carrot] 1776, [carrot inserted] under Capt Fernsler [end of carrot] and was discharged in December following. He alleges to have [word been crossed out] served a second term under a draught, in July 1777 or 1778, and to have served four or five months.

He was afterwards employed in driving his fathers team which had been pressed for the use of the army, about four months.  This service is not provided for it not having been performed under military obligations.  The last time was in 1781 for about three or four weeks.  The militia were not called out at any time under draft to serve more than two months under one engagement.  The alleged service in 1776 [smudge]
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may have been in the Flying Camp, which served six months.  If the service can be established for six months in 1776, two months in 1778, and one month in 1781; making nine months, the pension would be $30 per annum accruing 6 March 1831.

There is no record evidence of his service in this office.  Perhaps [crossed out word] more evidence may be obtained from the public archives at Harrisburg.

[left-hand margin]
Hon. R. C. Schenck.
Feb. 9/50

Hon Robert C. Schenck,
N. R
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25 June 1850
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603 [pencil mark at upper right-hand corner]

Pension Office
June 25th 1850

Sir

In answer to your letter of the 19 hist, I have to inform you that the certificates of the Auditor Genl office of the Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania transmitted by you in the case of John Boltz afford no additional support to his claim.

It appears from your letter that you are in possession of the reply from this office of the 9 Feby last made to Hon R C Schenck, in this case.  It is deemed duly necessary to refer you to that report and state that after a very careful examination of the evidence now filed, we are constrained to adhere to that decision

Richard Partington Esq
Yellow Springs
Green Co
O
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Enon July 4 1850

Hon J L Edwards

Sir yours of the 25 insl has been received and I regret that you will give me no satisfaction in regard to the claim of John Boltz  you refer me to the report to Hon R C Schenck, of Feb 9, I have to inform you that that report contains nothing satisfactory, and in fact no answer to the information required by me 

What I wanted to know is simply this that if you do not think the claimant entitled to anything, that you would let me know it, and not be keeping him in suspense.  He has stated in his declaration that he knew of no person living by whom he could prove his services, and the papers transmitted will show that there is no record evidence, therefore I cannot see any reason why you should add irony to injury, by demanding that which I have so often informed you cannot be procured and in fact does not exist, to enable you to decide finally, upon this case

Yours [respectfully]
Richard Partington Atty

Hon J L Edwards}
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212 [pencil mark in upper right-hand corner]

Pension Office
Dec 14th 1850

Sir:

Your letter complaining of the indefinite manner in which the pension of this office regarding the claim of Jno Boltz has been communicated to you, is received.  It was supposed that when you were informed the claim would not be allowed unless accompanied by evidence and you have found you could produce no evidence, the conclusion would be easily arrived at that any further pursuit of it would be useless

R. Partington Esq
Enon
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R. Partington
14 Dec 1850
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37.700
John Boltz
Ohio
Suspended

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Let. to R. Partington. Oct. 26/49
Let. to Same. Nov 12/49
[ditto marks] Hon R.C. Schenck Feb 7/51
[ditto marks] same Feb 9/51
[ditto marks] R. Partington 25 June 1850
[ditto marks] same Dec 1850

H68
Act of June 1832
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PENSION 
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FEB 24 1925
U. S.
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[DR.] crossed out and replaced by Mrs.
A. BRUCE EAGLE
321 West Burke Street
MARTINSBURG, W. VA.

Jan. 23, 1925

To the "War Dept." [war dept underlined]

Dear Sir: -
I am writing to seek information regarding the "Revolutionary War - Record of Service" - of John Pultz - Born about 1753.  I do not know when he was born - but rather believe he was born in the County of Jefferson or Berkeley which is now of the State of West Virginia.

He lived and married and died in this named section of West Virginia - John Pultz married Eve Pultz {B. May 25, 1758; D. Feb 8, 1851} and to their union was given four daughters, - the first on [one] - Catharine, Born - 1788 - being my own gr. grandmother.

It has always been said there was a "Pultz" who had a splendid "Revolutionary War Record" - and  at
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PENSION
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FEB 24 1925
U.S.
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DR. [crossed out and replaced with Mrs.]
MRS. A. BRUCE EAGLE
321 West Burke Street
MARTINSBURG, W. VA.

To the Commissioners of Pensions
Washington - D.C.

Gentlemen:  Will you kindly note the enclosed letters and at your earliest possible convenience give me, any data or desired information that you may have on John Pultz - or others named effecting his or their Revolutionary Records as soldiers etc.  If there is a fee connected with same kindly designate the same.

Thanking you, I am
Very truly
Mrs. A. Bruce Eagle
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[this transcription is remaining part of the letter a few pages back]

[letterhead]
DR. A. BRUCE EAGLE
321 West Burke Street
MARTINSBURG, W. VA.

the time of his death, which occurred in what is now Jefferson Co. W. Va. - near "Charles Town" - "Gunsmen fired over his body as it was lowered into the grave." ?

I am hoping this was my "Revolutionary Assentor " -
and that you can advise me of his record.

However, if you have not the record of "John Pultz" and do have a Rev. Rec. of any other "Pultz" "Pulz" - or "Boltz" (they all seem to have been the same) will you kindly advise me of the same, at your earliest convenience.

Thanking you,
I remain Very Truly
Mrs. A. Bruce Eagle

[stamp] RECEIVED JAN 06 1925
OLD RECORDS D'VN

P. S.  There as a Geo. H. Boltz - of "Rev Times" - the date of his birth I do not have - but he had a son - Geo. I. - B. 1783 D. 1853 and he (Geo. I.) was my gr. gr. father - and wife of Catharine (Da. of John Pultz)
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DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
1861-65
[two flags crossed over in center]

VIRGINIA DIVISION
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY

Lexington, Va.
Feb. 25, 1935.

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REC'D
FEB 27 1935
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Div. [rest of stamp faded]

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

May I ask for information about the enlistment of John Airhart who served in the Revolutionary War as a soldier of Virginia Infantry.  Name sometimes spelled "Earhart" or "Arehart."

I should also like to know if you have any Pulse or Pultz on the Revolutionary War Records. Am told the name was originally spelled "Boltz." [name underlined]  The family moved from Pennsylvania to Frederick Co. Virginia but do not know if it was before or after the Revolution.

I shall greatly appreciate a prompt reply.

Yours truly,
Mrs. H. M. Quisenberry
511 Jackson Ave.,
Lexington,
Virginia
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March 11, 1935.

BA-J/ILL

Mrs. H. M. Quisenberry
511 Jackson Avenue
Lexington, Virginia.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Airhart (Earhart, or Arehart) who served from Virginia, also, the record of any soldier with name Pulse or Pultz, originally spelled Boltz; this latter family, you state, moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia.

A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and there is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service of a John Airhart who served in the Virginia troops; all spellings of the name were searched.  The record of only one soldier with surname Puls, or Boltz, has been found; his record is furnished herewith from pension claim, R. 468.

Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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April 15, 1925.

Mrs. A. Bruce Eagle
321 W. Burke St.
Martinsburg, West Va.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 468, it appears that John Puls or Boltz was born November 6, 1759 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

He applied for pension October 16, 1849, while a resident of Miami Township, Greene County, Ohio, and alleged that he enlisted in Lancaster County, May 1, 1776 and served under Captain Michael Fernsler and Colonel Curtis Guiny (?) until December 1776 in the Pennsylvania Troops.

He enlisted in July 1777 or 1778 and served four months in Captain Orderholt's Company same regiment as above.

After this he drove his father's team for four months under Commissary Adam Bowers (his father's name is not stated).
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In 1781, served three weeks in Captain Holderbaum's Pennsylvania Company, and served until just after Cornwallis surrendered.

His claim was not allowed, as he failed to furnish satisfactory proof of service, as required by the pension laws.

After the Revolution, he lived in Berkley County, Virginia.

His wife and son are referred to in 1848, but no names are given.

The above noted John Boltz, is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau, under any spelling of that name.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.