Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11766, George Wolf, Penn.
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(8-1776)

| SERVICE

Penn. [Pennsylvania] |

| Wolf, George
 Charity |

| NUMBER
R.11766 |
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[Written vertically on left side of page]:

[illegible] sent 8 July 1824, to D. G. Dunlap, [illegible] 
M.C. Griffin Feb 28 1826


[Written on right side of page]:

5321

Tennessee, [illegible]

George Wolf, Private
Pennsylvania Line, 
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

[illegible] on the Roll of Tennessee, at the rate of -8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 2nd of November 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of Jan. 18 [illegible] and sent to Hon. W. G. Blount in congress.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819. $32.76
[illegible] $32.76

[Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March,1818.}

3 yrs.

Discontinued
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Copy of Geo [George] Wolf
----- Schedule [illegible]
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State of Tennessee
Knox County}
On this 10th day of April 1823 personally appeared in open court, the court of pleas and [illegible] for said county the same being a court of [illegible] constituted such by the laws of said state and having power of [illegible, George Wolf - resident in said county aged sixty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law doh on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act o 18th of March 1818 - the first of May 1820 and the first of March 1823 - that he the said George Wolf enlisted for the term of three years about the 1st of August 1776 - the precise time he does not remember, in the state of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain Bitinger in the regiment commanded by Col. [Colonel] Bull - in the line of the state of Pennsylvania on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in said corps until the end of said service in Pennsylvania he then [illegible] in Bucks County - and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the U. States on the 18th of March 1818 - and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any [illegible] with intent thereby so to  diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress an "act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person
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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 - which is the first by me returned - 
Schedule 200 acres of land 1 cow 2 sheep 1 hog 1 plough 1 [illegible]
Declarant further states that he is considerably indebted as will appear by the affadavits [affidavits] herewith transmitted he is by occupation a farmer and is now unable to work his family consists of himself - his wife who is aged and infirm and their children Peter [illegible] about 20 years old [illegible] about 18 years old & Henry about fourteen years old the last is a sickly child and a considerable incumbrance the others are able to do ordinary labour [labor] so as to support themselves but not much more and it is uncertain how long they may remain with their parents Declarant has had other children - sons and daughters but his other sons are married and seem to have as much as they can do to support their own families his other daughters are not married but they are and have been living at different places working for themselves for a considerable time it is him that they have sometimes furnished declarant with money and other things to pay his debts and to support the family But declarant considers himself indebted for these things. Without the assistance thus far furnished by his daughters declarant would actually have been in distress But their fillial [filial] and charitable relief has kept him [illegible]
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and his family hitherto with some support Declarant attained a certificate under the act of the 18th of March 1818 - which is Dated the 15th of January 1819 - Sworn to in open court 10th April 1893  
George his x mark Wolf [signature]

[illegible] Wm [William] Swan Dclk [Deputy clerk]


State of Tennessee
Knox County
I Charles McClung clerk of court of pleas and [illegible] for the county aforesaid by my deputy William Swan do certify that the foregoing transcript is hereby copied from the record of said court and that it is the opinion of the court that the amount of the value of the property in the schedule is no more than five hundred dollars - 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said court at office in Knoxville the 3rd day of May 1823

Chaz [Charles] McClung,
By his Deputy Will [William] Swan
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No 15,413

Charity Wolf [illegible]
wd, [widow?] of George
Tennessee
Act July 7, 1838
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Pension claim of Anna Wall


Send claims to Wm C. Griffith
Anderson County, Tenn. [Tennessee]
Olivers. P. [Post] office
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State of Tennessee}
Morgan County}

Be it remembered, that on this 22nd day of September 1856 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Anna Wolf (now Anna Wall) aged fifty five years a resident of the County of Morgan and State of Tennessee who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is a child and heir at law of George Wolf and Charity Wolf who was the wife of George Wolf - a Revolutionary soldier who served three years & six months under the command of Capt [space] & General Washington in the posses raised in the State of Pennsylvania and that he and his wife were married about the [space]of [space] 1785 that he died about the [space] of January [space] 1827 or 1828 and that his said wife died about the [space] of September 1842 and that a pension of ninety six dollars per annum [space] was drawn by the said George Wolf on account of said services and so continued untill [until] the truth of which she refers to the pension rolls and other publick [public] dockuments [documents] Since which time nothing has been received by either of the heirs of either of said [illegible] That she does not believe that an application for Bounty Land has ever been made neither has she or any other pension [illegible crossed out word] ever received any bounty land (as she believes of others & knows of herself), And it is understood and believed
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that these are [illegible] of Pension Bounty Land and other claims due for said services
Now I therefore errivocably [irrevocably] appoint and empower William C. Griffith of Anerson County Tennessee as my true and lawful attorney with power of substitution to investigate substantiate demand and receive the avails of said claim as claims and to say and do all things relative thereto as ample as I might do hereby ratifying everything said as done by my said attorney as other authority for any such purposes making null and void all other powers of attorney heretofore given.
She claims under act of the 3rd of Feb 1853 the 3d of March 1855 of May 1856 and all other acts past and approved of by congress for his benefit for land and money to widows and heirs of officers and soldiers [illegible]
On witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and date first above written (the truth of which she states from information and the best of his recollections and refers to the publick [public] record of the Government in justification of the same [illegible] 

Anna her X mark Wall [word "sent" is written to right of signature and a circle was drawn around the word]

Subscribed and sworn to and acknowledged before me.  And I certify that I have no interest in this claim that the claimant is a person of
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truth and verasity [veracity] intitled [entitled] to credit in any court of record and that I believe she is the identicle [identical] person she represents herself to be
this 22nd day of September 1856

Thomas H Davis
Justice of the peace for Morgan County

State of Tennessee
Morgan County}

I [illegible] Human Clerk of the county court of the county of Morgan aforesaid, do hereby certify that Thomas H. Davis whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is now and was at the time of syning [signing] the same an acting Justice of the peace of said county duly commissioned and qualified and that due faith and credit are due all his official acts as such and that his signature thereto is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at office in [illegible] the 23rd day of September 1836
H Human Clerk
By his deputy
John H. Brient
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George Wolf [illegible]
Col. Bulls Pa regt [regiment]
1775 - 3 years
2 Nov. 1878

Admitted
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State of Tennessee
Knox County}

On this 2nd day of November 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the circuit court for said state personally appeared George Wolf aged sixty four years resident in said county of Knox, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War - That he the said George Wolf enlisted in the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1774 or 1773 in the company commanded by Captain Bittinger in Colonel Butts Regiment (Number of Regiment not recollected) for three years in the Revolutionary war - that he continued in said service untill [until] the close of the time for which he enlisted and was then discharged by Genl [General] Washington - that he was in the battles at White plains at Fort Washington at Princeton, at Brandywine and at Germantown. That he has lost his discharge, and is in [illegible] circumstances and needs the assistance of his county for support, that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services - that he does hereby relinquish all claims to pensions heretofore provided for except by the act under which he now applies.
George his x mark Wolf [signature]

Sworn to before me the 2nd of November 1878
Edw [Edward] Scott judge LC [law clerk?]
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State of Tennessee
Knox County}
On the day and year last aforesaid also appeared Jacob Patton who being by me duly sworn on oath states that he is well acquainted with George Wolf who signed the preceding declaration that he said Wolf is in low circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support - that said Wolf is considered by his neighbors as an honest man
Jacob Batton [signature]

Sworn to and subscribed before me
Edw [Edward] Scott   Judge lc [law clerk]

State of Tennessee
Knox County}

I Edward Scott Judge lc [law clerk] as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that George Wolf who signed the preceding declaration did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration and that said George Wolf is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support. And I now have [illegible] the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act

Edw [Edward] Scott Judge LC
2nd Nov. 1818
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State of Tennessee
Knox County}
I Francis A, Ramsey Clerk of the circuit court for the county and state aforesaid do certify that Edward Scott who signed the preceding certificate is and was at the time of signing the same one of the Judges of the Circuit court of said state

Given under my hand and private seal (having no seal of office) at office in Knoxville this 4th day of November 1818

F Ramsey 

[On left side of page seal is written with a drawn squiggle surrounding the word]
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Hon. [Honorable] Geo [George] C. Whiting com. [commissioner] of Pension
Washington City, D.C.
[illegible]

G [written on left side of page] [illegible]
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[illegible] P. Office Tenn July 31st [illegible]

Sir
I received yours of the 20th [illegible] informing me that the heir of Charly Wolf [illegible] Ann Wall, daughter of George Wolf, could not be allowed a pension under existing laws unless the soldier or his widow had been pensioned.
Now you can see by the publick [public] records that George Wolf was pensioned from the [illegible] of March 1819 and drew his pension money of $96 up to the 4th of March 1824 
He appears to have been stricken from the rolls under act of May 1820 for some cause unknown to me
[illegible] if it is law for this poor woman to obtain her pension.  I wish you to look to her interest and see that she does get it, as it will be an act of charity on the part of the government to pay her something if there is no law under which she can now obtain a pension we will try to have a law past [passed] at the next Congress for her benefit.
I hope & wish you to still advise me what can be done of anything for her [illegible]
[illegible] now you will [illegible] that [illegible] not say that the public record will show us above named but believe so ,
Respectfully yours,
Wm C. Griffith
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In order to save you and clerks of any further trouble relative to James Phibb duplicate bounty land warrant of 160 acres I have received said duplicate warrant this day.
(You and all your clerks will please accept my thanks for your kindness in giving your prompt attention to my little business in your department
Respectfuly [Respectfully] your friend
Truly
W. C. Griffith
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[document/letter is typewritten]

December 21, 1938.

Alice Wolfe
26 Bay View Avenue
Los Gatos, California.

BA-J/ILL
George Wolf
R. 11766

Dear Madam:

The data which follow are found in the papers on file in pension claim, R. 11766, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of George Wolf.
George Wolf enlisted very early in the Revolutionary War, in the State of Pennsylvania, served as a private in Captain Bittinger's company, Colonel Bull's Pennsylvania regiment, was n the battles of White Plains, Fort Washington, Princeton, Brandywine and Germantown and was discharged in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, at the expiration of service of three years.
George Wolf was allowed pension on his application executed November 2, 1818 at which time he resided in Knox County, Tennessee. He have his age then as sixty-four years, but did not state the date and place ofhis birth, nor the names of his parents.
In 1823, the soldier's family then living at home consisted of [word the is crossed out] his wife and three children, Petr, Jane and Henry, aged about twenty, eighteen and fourteen years, respectively.  He had married sons then who had their own families to support, and unmarried daughters who lived in different places; he did not state he names of three other children.
George Wolf died in January 1827 or 1828.
The soldier married in 1785, Charity, whose maiden name and age are not shown, nor the place of said marriage.  Charity Wolf, the soldier's widow, died in September 1842, the place not stated.
In 1856, Anna (Wolf) Wall, daughter of George Wolf and his
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wife, Charity, was a resident of Morgan County, Tennessee, aged fifty-five years; the name of her husband is not shown.
There are no further data in regard to the family of this pensioner.

Very truly yours,
A.D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.



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[Left side of page]

1906 Aug. 9 - History to Mrs. Bert Stull - [illegible]
1925-Apr. 8 - Hist [History] to Mrs. H. Y. Atkinson - [illegible]
1927-Feb. 28 - Hist to Ida Small [illegible]
1938-Dec. 21 - Hist. to Mr. H. J. Young-[illegible]
1938-Dec. 21 - Hist. to Alice Wolfe - [illegible]

[Right side of page]

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878 [printed title has a line written through it in pen or pencil]

11.766

P.O.  Charity Wolf
SERVICE: [blank]

Enlisted: [blank]
Discharged: [blank]
REJECTED [stamped on page over above blank lines]

Application filed: [blank]
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]

Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]

[blank] Recognized.  [blank] Contract.
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[illegible]
Sept [September] 26
Mr. J. Minot Commiss [Commissioner?] of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

Void application
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[illegible] P. [Post] Office Tenn. [Tennessee] Sept 25th 56
Mr commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I have as the agent of Miss Anna Wolf now Anna Wall, presented her claim for a pension for her Father's services believing his claim to be an honest [illegible]
You will see that she could not recollect facts so as to fill up the banks in his declaration
Now you will soon see on an examination of his claim whether she is intitled [entitled] to a Pension.  On the [previous two words crossed out] when the necessary proof is [illegible] out if so I shall expect your aid so far as our official character will admit of in istablishing [establishing] it 
It is true that it would be an act of charity [illegible] the government to give this poor woman a Pension
yet I do not wish to have anything to do with it unless it is full of truth.  You will please to write to me on the reseption [reception] of this
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and any information you may please to give me will be thankfully received.
Yours Respectfully - 
Wm C. Griffith
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1818
Wm [William] C. Griffin Esq [Esquire]
Feby [February] 28 1856
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Pension Office
Feby [February] 28 1856
Sir
I do not find that any claim has been presented for a pension for Elizabeth Shinpouch widow of Henry of Tenn [Tennessee] - 
If George Wolf left a widow who is now alive she is entitled to a pension. If she is not alive, state when her husband died, when she died, when he was married to her and whether any of their children are alive and I will send a form for a declaration if anything appears to [illegible],

818/


Wm [William] C. Griffin Esq [Esquire]
Oliver
Tenn [Tennessee]
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Oliver Tenn [Tennessee]
Jun [June] 19

[illegible] Geo [George] C. Whiting commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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Oliver's P. [Post] Office Tenn [Tennessee] June the 15th 1858.
Hon [Honorable] Geo. [George] C. Whiting Commissioner J.C.
Dear Sir

I received yours by S. Cole for Commissioner dated the 6th of October 1856 informing me of the [illegible] the informant [illegible] of 
Ann Wall claiming a pension in light of her late mother Charity Wolf Act of the [illegible] July [illegible] alledging [alleging] [illegible] objections to the admission of the claim the first for proof of service the 2nd [illegible satisfactory [illegible] proof of the marriage of her parents prior to 1794 (Also stating that [illegible] Wolf her Father's claim was [illegible] under the Act of March 18th 1818 had no [illegible] his [illegible] but  since his admission a list of officers and soldiers of  [illegible] Pennsylvania had been [illegible] and that the name of [illegible] Wolf [illegible] 
Gottinger can be found [illegible]
I had abandoned the idea of prosecuting this claim any further for [illegible] fact that[illegible] but of his service I do not know how it can be done, and unless you have or can find [illegible] evidence to satisfy you of service his claim must be [illegible]. 
Should we be able to make proof of service out of marriage will the [illegible] of the [illegible] must grant the child what [illegible] would be entitled to if living now if under [illegible] difficulties connected with this case from what I can disclose to you
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and you can [illegible] in your [illegible] then should you be of the opinion that the claimant is entitled to a pension by law and the rules of the [illegible], then I am willing as an honest agent and after truth all the time to prosecute this claim further (if advisable
It will be an act of charity on our [illegible] and the Government if we can make out this poor woman's claim according to law for I think & believe)
Should you discover anything like fraud in this case please to give me a hint of that fact. (You and your clerks have been very accommodating in complying with my request heretofore now shouldn't ask too much of you as an officer of the Government, which I fear I do, please give me a hint of that fact.
I would like to receive an answer to this note with such information as you may please to give me

Your Obedient servant

Wm [William] C. Griffith [signature]
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(Transcriber's note: an addressed envelope. Several very faded date stamps unreadable.)

                                                 FREE

                    John C. Calhoun
                    Secretary of War
                    Washington City

5712
George Wolf
Recd. 6 July 1824

Mr. Edwards
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Knoxville T. [Tennessee] June 23rd 1824

Mr. Calhoun.

I transmit to you at the request of George Wolf his schedule of property required by the act of Congress passed the first of March 1823, which schedule is requested under said act to continue or for place him upon the pension list of the [illegible], I also enclose his warrant dated the 15th of January 1819 to show you that he has been enrolled on the pension list of Tennessee under the act 1818 and save you the trouble of examining the old revolutionary rolls.  I do really think he is an object of charity as [illegible] as one, that the government intended to be embraced under the several acts of congress.  Not being able or having any pension to work for him, he was compelled to go in debt for something to live upon, which has very much [illegible] him, with neighborhood debts & he never expects to be [illegible] or possess the common comforts of life unless the benevolent hand of 
Government is extended to him, and if you should replace him to my [illegible] that is will not be long before the calls will shortly displace him, you will give me an answer as soon as it will be convenient. 

I am very most respectfully
John C. Calhoun Esqr. [Esquire] [signature]
D. G. Dunlap [signature]
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script in three different directions

Mr. J. Minot Comm. of
Pensions
Washington D. C. 

Olivers, John
Feb 15 1856

George Wolf
Ten-D-18m 1818
______________________
Cole
No papers in this other
case--
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Oliver T. office Feb. 14th / 56
Mr. J. Minot Comm &c

Sir
I am requested to ask you what has been done in the claim of Mrs. Elizabeth Shinpouch widow of Henry Shinpouch for a pension said claim ^being presented by Mr. Tinley as I am advised that Mr. Tinley has moved and ^has not informing the claimant what has been done in relation to her claim for a pension?
It appears that George Woolf has drew a pension from 4th of March to 4th of Sept 1819 of $48- also from the 4th of Sept 1819 to 4th of March 1820 of $48 and stricken from the rolls under act of May 1820 from the 4th of March 1824
Now if Mr. Woolf's widow or children are entitled to any thing from the government I am willing to present said claim otherwisw I am determined not to plague you with any unlawful claims if I know it. (Now any information you may chose to give me in relation to said claims will be thankfully received.
Yours Respectfully
Wm. C. Griffith

N.B. direct yours to Oliver P. Office Anderson
County Tennessee H
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George Wolf

Payable semi-annually--the first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March -- next, at the Nashville Bank.


Recorded
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, George Wolf late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the pension List, Roll of the Tennessee Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the second day of November one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, ts fifteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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This is a printed document with spaces for handwritten answers.

O. W. and N. Division.       
ISC
R. 11.766
Rev. War

  3--525.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. ,

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of George Wolf, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
----------------------------------------------
(Following is in columns on document but transcribed in rows)
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Enl. in Penn. Aug 1, 1776 dis Bucks Co., Pa.
LENGTH OF SERVICE 3yrs.
RANK. blank
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. Bittinger
Colonel. (John) Bull
STATE. Pa.
(return to rows as per document)
Battles engaged in, White Plains Oct 76, Ft. Wash Nov. 76, Princetown Jan 77, Brandy Sept 77, Germ. Oct 77
Residence of soldier at enlistment, check mark
Date of application for pension, Nov. 2, 1818--allowed.
Residence at date of application, Knox Co., Tenn.
Age at date of application, blank
Remarks: (circled) 1823 ch. Peter, 20, Jane 18, Henry 14
Sol. mar. Charity.  1785    he d. Jany 1827 or 1828
wid. died Sept. 1842
1856 Dau. Anna (Wolf) Wall at 55 res Morgan Co. Tenn.

Very Respectfully,
Commissioner.

20581b3m11-05
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The Historical Society of York County
Founded 1895, York, Pennsylvania

November 14, 1938

OFFICERS

Hon. H.C. Niles
President
S. Fahs Smith
Vice-President
Ralph S. Cannon
Treasurer
Reinhardt Dempwolf
Curator and Secretary
James W. Shettel
Corresponding Secretary
Office Secretary
Alice E. Starner

TRUSTEES

Francis Farquhar
Chairman
George H. Whitney, Jr.
S. Fahs Smith
S. Forry Laucks
J. Wm. Stair
Hon.  Franklin Menger
Joseph K. Kindig, Jr.

RESEARCHER

Henry James Young

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
    
    Will you kindly let me know what personal records you have for George Wolf of Know County, Tennessee, who was granted a pension under Act of March 18, 1818, for services in the Revolution?
    I would appreciate an answer as soon as may be convenient, as I need this record in the near future.  Thank you.

                                    Very truly yours
                The Historical Society of York County
                                             //s//
                                      H. J. Young, Researcher
HJY:S
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MRS. H. L. ATKINSON

ATHENS, OHIO. April 6, 1925

Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen: -
Last year I wrote for information concerning Revolutionary War service records of Andrew Wolfe [the e has a line through it], and George Wolfe.
You kindly responded, but the Andrew Wolf you reported on is not my [word my is underlined] ancestor. Will please tell me if there is a record of an Andrew Wolfe other than the one you gave me. I am returning your report, that you won't have to duplicate it. (please return)
The Andrew Wolfe [the e appears to have an x on it] I want, located after War in Westmoreland Co. [county] Pa.[Pennsylvania]  Also you sent me record of George Wolf, which is not my ancestor.  Is there another George Wolfe, on the Rev-records?  One that comes from Pa?  If so kindly send me his war service records.  I thank you very much for any assistance.
Yours Respectfully,

Mrs. Nora W. Actkinson
167 Lancaster St.
Athens, Ohio
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[illegible]

The PHILLIPS

JOHN P. BREEN, Manager.

Dayton, O. [Ohio] _____190__

Fremont O [Ohio} 7/23 1906

[Round stamp imprinted with O.W. & N. DIV. FILES Jul 26 1906]

Gentlemen:

Have you any records of Geo Wendell Wolfe soldirr [soldier] 
of war of 1776, member of Berks County Militia.
If so, please send me copy of same
Yours truly

Mrs. Bert Stull

[round stamp imprinted with U. S. Pension Office Jul 24 1906]
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209 Madison Avenue,
Warren, Pennsylvania.
January 4, 1927

Department of Interior,rev. War Records Section,
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir:

I am desirous of establishing the line of the following men who served in te Revolutionary War and would be pleased for any military record you may have concerning them, also any data as to birth, marriage or pension.

[circle written] Mathias King of Northampton County, Pennsylvania

[checkmark written] George Wolf  Northampton County Pennsylvania

[checkmark written] Christopher Weigle of Capt. Weiser's Company.

Thanking you in advance for any assistance you may give, I am, 

Very respectfully,

(Mrs) Ida E. Small
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Los Gatos, Cal.
Nov. 8, 1938

Veterans Administration.
Attention of the Revolutionary and 1812 War Sections.

    I visited your office about 1st of Sept. this yr, looking up the second of George Wolf, who was a captain in the Ohio Militia in the 1812 War.  I am very positive that he is my great grandfather. Now something about his life, my father Uriah Wolfe died when I was 7 yrs old. I made my home with my great uncle Wallace Wolfe who was named after his mother Sarah Wallace.  I was with them off and on until 16 and always visited with them I learned that my great grand father was married 3 times Sarah Wallce being the last wife.  I also know that Geo. Wolfe was many years older than Sarah Wallace along in 60 when they were married 66 or 67 and he lived to be a very old man.  My Aunt told me he was over 100.  He claimed 107 but my uncle said he thought about 104 or 103 (next page)
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that no doubt was for 1812.  Third, the 1778 soldier it is recorded he remarried am not sure I have the figures correct in 1821 was not that the date of my GG-father and Sarah Wallaces marriage my GG-father has something the matter with his hand or hands I think is secured in the war sometime my GG-father was divorced from one wife I think it was the second one.  Now if you will be so kind as to search for me; again the record of Goerge Wolfe of Ohio and Pennsylvania Revolutionary soldier.  I shall appreciate it very much.  I had to hurry over this when I was then & overlook many things I now want to know, am also tracing the Shellhammer record as my grandmother Wolfe was a Shellhammer about that later.
                                                 Sincerely,
                                                  //s//
                                                Alice Wolfe
                                                26 Bay View Ave.
                                                Los Gatos, Calif
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I know there were a no. of half bro. and sisters of my uncle.  My grandfather Wolfe also died young so I heard of the family thro and great and Wallace I am as sure as can be he had a half-sister named charity or she was sone half relation to him it was such an unusual name one elderly cousin of my Father who was a small girl when her grandfather died said she only knew two of her father's half-brothers John and David, but she knew there was a no. of them, they did live in Ohio and some in Tenn.  This revolutionary, she said, Geo. Wolfe referred to living n the Allegheny River the 3rd and last family of boys settled near Tarentum on Allegheny River above Pittsburgh so that corresponds as he claimed Penna. and Ohio as his states.  Now the first thing that makes me think he is my grandfather is that both signed their names with a cross, the second is that this Anna Wake, whoever she is, ask for Geo. Wolfe's pension for or her mother, Charity Wolfe, in 1858.  The year G.Grandfather, Geo. Wolfe died.  I know he recd. a pension in 1834. 

(Must be Rev,)
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that not doubt was for 1812.  Third the 1778 soldier it is recorded he remarried and not sure I have the figures correct in 1821 was not that the date of my G.G.-father and Sarah Wallace's marriage my G.G.-father had something the matter with his hand or hands I think it secured in the war. Sometime my G. Grand-father was divorced from one wife I think it was the second one. Now if you will be so kind as to search for me: again the record of George Wolf of Ohio and Pennsylvania Revolutionary soldier.  I shall appreciate it very much. I had to hurry over this when I was there & overlooked many things I now want to know. (I) am also tracing the Shellhammer record, as my Grandmother Wolf was a Shellhammer, about that later.
                                                Sincerely
                                                     //s//
                                             Alice Wolfe
                                             26 Bayview Ave
                                             Los Gatos, Calif.
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December 21, 1938.

BA-J/Ill
George Wolf
R. 11766

Mr. H. J. Young
Historical Society of York County
York, Pennsylvania.

Dear Sir:

    Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of George Wolf, a pensioner of Know County, Tennessee, Act of 1818.
    The data which follow are found in the papers on file in pension claim R. 11766, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of George Wolf.
    George Wolf enlisted very early in the Revolutionary War, in the state of Pennsylvania, served as a private in Captain's Bittinger's company, Colonel Bull's Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battles of White Plains, Fort Washington, Princeton, Brandywine and Germantown, and was discharged in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, at the expiration of service of three years.
    He was allowed pension on his application executed November 2, 1818, at which time he resided in Know County, Tennessee.  The soldier gave his age then as sixty-four years but did not state the date and place of his birth, nor the names of his parents. His name was borne on the pension roll as George Wolf.
    In 1823, the soldier's family then living at home consisted of his wife and three children, Peter, Jane and Henry, aged about twenty, eighteen and fourteen years, respectively.  He had married sons then who had their own families to support, and unmarried daughters who lived in different places; he did not state the names of these other children.
    George Wolf died in January 1827 or 1828.
    The soldier married in 1785, Charity, whose maiden name and (next page)
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are not shown, nor the place of said marriage.  Charity Wolf, the soldier's wife, died September 1842, the place not given.

    In 1856, Anna (Wolf) Wall, daughter of George Wolf and his wife, Charity, was a resident of Morgan County, Tennessee, aged fifty-five years; the name of her husband is not given.

    There are no further data in regard to the family of this.

                            Very truly yours,

                             A.D. Hiller
                             Executive Assistant
                              to the Administrator
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.

April 8, 1925.

Mrs. H. L. Atkinson,
167 Lancaster St.
Athens, Ohio.

Madam:

    I have to advise you that on May 13, 1924, you were furnished the history of the only Andrew Wolf (all spellings searched) found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
    From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 11766, it appears that George Wolf enlisted August 1, 1778, and served three years in Captain Bittinger's Company, Colonel Bull's Pennsylvania Regiment, and was in the battles of White Plains, Fort Washington, Princeton, Brandywine and Germantown.
    He was allowed pension on his application executed November 2, 1818, while a resident of Knox County, Tennessee, aged sixty-four years.  He died (next page)
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in January 1827 or 1828.
    Soldier married in 1785, Charity, her maiden name is not stated.  She died in September 1842.
    In 1823, children referred to = Peter, aged twenty years, Jane, aged eighteen years, Henry, aged fourteen years.
    In 1856, a daughter Anna (Wolf) Wall was living in Morgan County, Tennessee, aged fifty-five years.
    Other sons and daughter are referred to, but their names are not given.
    The above noted George Wolf is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

                                      Respectfully,

                                       Commissioner.
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December 21, 1938
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BA-J/MCS
Alice Wolfe
26 Bay View Avenue
Los Gatos, California
Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of November 8, 1938, requesting
information relative to George Wolf or Wolfe who served in the War of
1812 and lived in Ohio and who married Sarah Wallace, and George Wolf
or Wolfe who served in the Revolutionary War and lived in Pennsylvania
and Ohio, and one who lived in Tennessee.
You are furnished herewith, the record of George Wolfe, W.C.22464,  who served as captain of Ohio militia during War of 1812 and married Sarah Wallace, also the records of George Wolf, O.W.I.F. 26521, and George Wolf, R. 11766. It is trusted that these records may aid you in  identifying the particular George Wolf or Wolfe who was your ancestor.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator