Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4445, Christopher Halderman, Penn.
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Service Penn
Halderman, Christopher R
Number 4445
or Haldeman
B. L. Wt. 36524-160-55
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101.528 - [illegible] March 3/55
April 27/55
Christopher Halderman
Teamster
Capt John Cummings
Col Robert MClintick
Teamster
Rev War
Oct 1777
[illegible] 1779
There are [crossed out] no records of the War of the Revolution on file in this office, This claim should be referred to the [illegible] Auditors office or allowed.
Chs Thomas 
May 1/56 
I M [illegible] O
Ad. 160 acs July 30/66 [or 67]
Rook [or Blook] 28 [illegible]
W. T. Amweg
Lancaster city Pa
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
On this 25th day of February A.D. One thousand eight Hundred and fifty four personally appeared Christopher Halderman aged ninety four years and five months, will ninety five in August next resident of East Lampter Township Lancaster County and State of Pennsylvania about four miles east of the city of Lancaster, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit $ the provisions made by the act of Congress dated June 7 1732, and that he was drafted at Coventry Township Chester County Pennsylvania near [Powtown illegible] immediately after the Battle of Brandywine was fought. He thinks it was some time in October Seventeen Hundred and seventy seven (1777) under Captain John [Robert crossed out] Cummings, Col. Robert McClintick, Major George Hartman, and General Burk. He further states that he acted in the capacity as Teamster served as near as he can recollect about nine or ten months. He recollects that he was discharged in the latter end of June 1778-- He would further state that the army to which he belonged remained or camped at a place called Valley Forge Chester County Pennsylvania--  He further states that the hardships that he endured and encountered during said winter is almost impossible to [illegible]. And had never intended to apply for 'pension' but now finding that in his old age he is compelled to apply for relief as he is now and has been for a long time unable to work by which can support himself, were it not for the kindness of his son Daniel his doom would be the poor house. He further states that the discharge he received from his officer has been lost or mislaid and that diligent search has been made by himself and son but it cannot be found.
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He further states that he is unable to leave his home or the residence of his son on account of being too feeble and has not been in the city of Lancaster after the last seven years and that he would consider that if he was taken to Lancaster it might cost his life to appear in Court to be qualified to the written declaration that his name is not any pension Roles of any State.
Christopher X Halderman    mark
Affirmed and subscribed this
2yth day of February, 1854
Chas. F. Voigt, Ald
Present at signing
H. T. Amweg
Daniel Halderman
State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
I Charles F. Voight an Alderman and a Justice of the Peace in and for the city of Lancaster and County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that I believe him the said Christopher Halderman who has made the above declaration to be of the age he represents himself and that he was in the Revolutionary War from the questions he answered me.  This is the third time that I was in company [illegible] his sons residence with whom he stays, or resides, and that full credit can be placed to his affidait or declaration. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of February A.D. 1854.
Chas. F. Voigt     Ald
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
On this 25th day of February 1854 personally appeared Daniel Halderman aged 51 years resident of the Township of East Lampter Lancaster County and State of Pennsylvania who being first duly sworn according to Law declares and [illegible] that he is the son of Christopher Halderman who has made the written affidavit and that he Christopher Halderman (my father) resides with [illegible] and that he has not been able to leave his room for some time, and that he has not been at Lancaster for the last seven years and that he is unable to be taken to Lancaster to have his declaration letter in open Court, that he might die before he returned.
Affirmed and subscribed this 25th day of February 1854
Chas. F. Voigt    Ald


State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
I Charles F. Voigt an Alderman and or Justice of the Peace in and for the City and County of Lancaster do hereby certify that Daniel Halderman [illegible] who has made the foregoing affidavit is a person of credit and entitled to full belief.
In testimony whereof I have set my had this 25th day of February AD 1854
Chas. F. Voigt      Ald
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
I John K. Reed Reed [illegible] of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Charles F, Voigt Esquire before whom the written affidavits were taken is now and was at the time of taking the same an acting justice of the Peace and an Alderman in and for the city of Lancaster and County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and the signatures purporting to be his are genuine. 
				Given under my hand and the
				Seal of the said Court this 8th
				Day of November AD. 1854.
							Jno. K. Reed
                                                        [illegible]
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
On this 3rd day of March A.D. 1954 personally appeared before me an Alderman and a Justice of the Peace for the City of Lancaster and County and State aforesaid Amos Herr aged 38 years resident of West Lampeter Township Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania a clergy of the Mennonist Society or congregation who being first duly affirmed according to law declares and state that he has known Christopher Haldeman for the last five years, and know him to be a person of high credit and character and that I believe him to be of the age he represents himself and that his statement can be taken as true.
Amos Herr    seal
Affirmed and subscribed this 3rd day of March 1854
				Chas. F. Voight
						Ald.
State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
I Charles F. Voigt Eq before whom the above affidavit was taken is now an acting justice of the peace and an Alderman in and for the City of Lancaster & County and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Rev. Amos Herr, who has made the foregoing affidavit is a man of character and high standing & credit and is entitled to full belief
		In testimony whereof I have here unto set
		My hand this 3rd day of March AD 1854.
					Charles F. Voigt
							Ald.
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101.528
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Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
On this 24 day of  April AD 1855, personally appeared before me an alderman and a justice of the peace in and for the city of Lancaster and county and state aforesaid Christopher Halderman aged 96 years of age resident of East Lampeter Township Lancaster County and State of Pennsylvania who being first duly sworn according to Law declares and saith that he was drafted at Coventry Township Chester County Pa new [?] immediately after the Battle of Brandywine was fought he thinks it was sometime in October 1777 under Captain John Cummings and Col. Robert McClintick Maj. George Harting and General Bark. He further states that he acted in the capacity as Teamster and as near as he can recollect about ten months. He recollects that he was discharged in the latter end of June 1779–He further states that the army to which he belonged remained or camped at a place called Valley Forge Chester County Pennsylvania and that the discharge he received from his officers has been lost and it cannot be found. He further states that he was placed on the Pension Roles of the state of Pennsylvania on the 2[illegible] Day of March AD 1854 as will more fully show [illegible] the accompanying affidavit of the secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania--which is here with enclosed.
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He makes this declaration for the purpose of claiming the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the Act of Congress passed March 3. 1855. He further states that he has not made any application for Bounty Lands under any Act of Congress under this or any other except the one now presented.                                         
Christopher X Haldeman    his mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of April 1855.
Chas. F. Voigt Ald                  H. L. Amos 

We David Halderman and William S. Amweg the latter a resident of Lancaster County in the state of Pennsylvania and the former a resident of East Lampeter Township Lancaster County in the state of Pennsylvania upon our oaths declare and say that we are well and personally acquainted with Christopher Haldeman and that he [illegible] his [?] in one [illegible] and acknowledge the same and that we believe him to be [?] person from the appearance and statement he represents himself to be--and that he has [illegible] as having been revolutionary soldier in the neighborhoods.
Affirmed X subscribed before me this 24th day of April A.D. 1855                                                   David Haldeman
Wm  S. Amweg
Chas. F. Voigt. Ald
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
I--Chas. F. Voigt Esq. do hereby certify that David Halderman and William S. Amweg who have made the foregoing affidavit signed their names in my presence and that I am personally acquainted with them and that they are resident of the places stated and are men of character and are entitled to full credit and belief –
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand this 24th day of April 1855.
Chas. F. Voigt Ald
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
				I Joseph Bonman Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that Charles F. Voigt E before [illegible] the within affidavit was taken is now and was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace and an Alderman in and for the City of Lancaster and County and state aforesaid duly [illegible] and qualified and the signatures purporting to be his are genuine. 
Herein under my hand & seal of the said Court this day of April 1855               
W. F. Bonman Prothonotary
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January 28, 1934 Mrs. William Anderson 211 Eastern Avenue Aspinwall station Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania CHRISTOPHER HALDERMAN R. 4445 BA-J/MLB Dear Madam Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Christopher Halderman, of Pennsylvania, who applied for pension in 1854, also, record of David Halderman, of Chester County, Pennsylvania, whose pension number you state is 38827. The Revolutionary War records have been searched and no claim for pension or bounty land found based upon service of David Halderman, under any spelling of the surname. The number, 38827 is one of the original numbers found in the pension claim of Christopher Halderman or Holderman and does not pertain to the record of a Revolutionary War soldier with the name of David Holderman. The record of Christopher Halderman or Haldeman (both spellings of surname are shown in the claim) was born in August 1759; the place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not shown. Christopher Halderman or Haldeman applied for pension January 10 1854 at which time he was residing in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about four miles from the city of Lancaster, which was his post office. It was stated that he enlisted in 1777 in Coventry Township, near Pughtown, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, that he served during that year, the year 1778 and the year 1779, as private and teamster  in the Pennsylvania troops, that the names of his officers were Captain John Cummings and Colonel Robert McClintock, no specific dates of service given, length of which in all was between one and two years. His claim for pension was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service of six months in a regularly organized military corps as required by the pension law He was allowed bounty land
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by the United States in full satisfaction for services rendered, length of service thus being less than that required under pension law. He also recieved a pension from the state of Pennsylvania, at the rate of forty dollars per annuum. In 1854, the soldier referred to his "aged wife who had died many years before," but did not give her name, date of death, not did he give the date of their marriage. The only child of the soldier whose name was designated in the claim was a son, David Halderman, who in 1854 was fifty-one years old and residing in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His father, Christopher Haldermen or Haldeman, made his home with him. In 1854, one David Halderman, aged sixty-one years made affidavit in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in behalf of the soldier, his relationship not stated. In the same year, one Henry Halderman, aged fifty-one years, was a resident of Lampeter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In that year, also, one Daniel Halderman acted as a witness in the soldier's claim for pension; their relationship also not given. For information in regard to the location of the land granted the soldier, you should address the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, citing the following data; B.L. Wt. 36524-160-55. Very Truly yours A.D. Hiller Assistant to Administrator
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No 38827
Christopher Halderman
Pa
W. H. Amweg Nov 11 1834 [crossed out]
David Halderman Oct 6/59 [crossed out]
Same Nov 12/59 [crossed out]
the [illegible] [crossed out]
Feb 26/58 [crossed out]
David Halderman. [crossed out]
March 16/58 [crossed out]
David Halderman. July 6/58 [crossed out]
W. S. Amweg. Sept 24/58 [crossed out]
June 7/1832
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36.524

160 acres
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Lancaster FEB 19 1858 Pa [postal stamp]             FREE

Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Commisioner of Pensions
Washington City
DC

Christopher Halderman
Pa [illegible]
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Lancaster PA Nov 9 [illegible]      FREE
Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
DC

Christopher Halderman
Pa=original case
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101.528 act March 3 1855
April 27. 1855/
Christopher Halderman - teamster
Capt John Cummings
Col. Robert McClintock
Revolutionary War
Ent October 1777
Dis - latter part June 1779
Original brief enclosed
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Lancaster City Pennsylvania
November 8. 1854
Sir
Enclosed I send you the [crossed out] application of Christopher Halderman of this County who is one of the few remaining revolutionary soldiers now-living for pensions. I have known him long and well & am satisfied he is justly entitled to that he now asks.
Yours very respectfully
W. F. Amweg
L. P. Waldo Esq
Overseer of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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W. F. Amweg
Nov.11/54
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Pension Office
November 11 1854
Sir
The application of Christopher Haldeman of Pa has been examined and filed. You are certainly aware that pensions are not granted upon mere application without proof of service. I am not in possession of any evidence that Halderman ever served a day.
W. F. Amweg
Lancaster
Pa
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101.528
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Lancaster City Pa
April 25. 1855
Sir
Enclosed I send you the delcaration of Christopher Halderman of this County for Bounty Lands under Act of March 3 1855.
Yours Respectfully,
W. T. Amweg
Hon L. P. Waldo
Commisioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Lancaster City Pennsylvania
May 21. 1858
I have been long waiting to know what has been done in my father’s Revolutionary pension claim. I fear until the same is soon acted before he will not in his life time have the pleasure to know that at long last that the Government saw proper to allow him that which he so long and gloriously earned--hoping to hear from you soon.
Yours respectfully
David Halderman
Hon Geo. C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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David Halderman
Mch 16
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Pension Office
March 16. 1858
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 12th [illegible] you are respectfully informed that it does not appear that any person of the name of Maria or Margaret Meyer or Meyers or Moyer has been placed upon the Pennsylvania rolls of the United States pensions in virtue of the services of her husband in the revolutionary war. Martha Myers, widow of Philip, Elizabeth Myers, widow of Conrad, and Elizabeth Moyer, widow of Jacob, were pensioners but no affidavit of Christopher Halderman is [illegible] found among the papers. Mary Meyers, widow of John, applied for pension in 1837 but her claim was rejected and his papers returned to her agent. Hon. Wm. Payne, on the 18th December 1837. It is possible that the “W. Meyers” you refer to was pensioned while living
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in some other state than Pennsylvania. Please state [crossed out] all the facts in relation pension--
Very respectfully
GC
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Lancaster City Pennsylvania
March 12. 1858
Sir
Sir
I received a letter from Hon. James Buchanan President of the U. S. relative my father Christopher Halderman's claim for pension, in which he states that he should designate those papers that my father has [illegible] in cases where parties applied for Revolutionary pension-- My father was a [illegible] 14 or 15 years of age in the case of Maria Moyer or Meyer—The old man calls it in German “Manika” which is either Maria or Margaret [illegible] Mrs Meyer or Moyer of this place receives a U.S. Revolutionary pension. Please refer to these papers and you will find [illegible]. He is now in his 99th year and poorly and should like much to receive his rights before he leaves this world. 
Yours respectfully
David Haldeman
Hon Geo. C. [illegible] direct to Lancaster Pa
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Dear [illegible]
Mr President
taken some interest in this case & I shall feel obliged to you if you will look into the case & [crossed out] prepare a full report to the President on the project.
Yours truly
[illegible]
25 Feb 1858
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Pension Office
Februrary 26, 1858
Sir
In response to the enclosed letter of Mr. David Halderman, I have the honor to make the following report respecting the claim of Christopher Halderman for pension under Act of Congress of June 7. 1832:-- The evidence in support of this claim in confined to the claimant’s own statements of service as a Teamster in the revolutionary war, and the affidavits of several witnesses that he was generally reputed to have so served. The facts also appear that the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in 1854, pensioned him as “a soldier of the revolutionary war,” at the rate of $40 per annum and that he was granted bounty land by this office on the 30th July last, under act of March 3, 1855.
	The difficulty in regard to the pension claim now before this office consists in the uncertainty as to the duration of the service, the law requiring a party to have served at least six months to entitle him to the minimum allowance of $20 per annum and graduating the amount of pension proportionably for a longer period. Duration of service does not appear to have been material in clt’s application to the Legislature of Penn. and to sustain a claim for land, under the act of 1855, proof of a service of a 14 days or that the party was engaged in battle is sufficient. Under our rules the statement of the soldier himself is not sufficient to establish the length of his service. But if this were
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otherwise it would be impossible properly to adjust this claim upon the present evidence. He states in his petition to the Legislature of Penn that he served one year and seven months as teamster. In his declaration for bounty land he says he served 10 months and was discharged in 1779, while he avers in his declaration filed in this case that he served “as nearly as he can recollect nine or ten months” and that he enlisted some time in October 1777 and was discharged “in the latter end of June 1778.” These discrepancies are doubtless the result of a defective memory and of course are not presented as impugning in the slightest degree the claimant’s veracity, but they nevertheless furnish no guide by which this claim could be adjusted according to the provisions of the act under which it is asserted.
	It is suggested by Mr. David Halderman that claimant has been a witness for others in revolutionary pension claims. If these claims could be designated so that the papers relating to them might be examined, possibly they might furnish the means of determining the duration of claimant’s service.
Seddy [illegible]

To 
the President 
of the U.S. 
Gedde
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Lancaster City Pa
Feb 19. 1858
Sir.
My father Christopher Halderman who is now in his 99th year and was a Teamster in the Revolutionary War states that he was a witness in Mrs. M. Myers Revolutionary pension claim and upon his testimony the pension was granted her. Will you please refer to the claim and you will find his name among those papers. I have said all I know of to put up evidence his old companions in arms are dead. I am confident that he served about 9 months from his [illegible]. Please do all you can for him as he is anxious to obtain his aid from the Government.
Yours respectfully
David Halderman

Written in the left margin: The claim of Mrs. M. Myers was [illegible] about 15 years ago Lancaster City. She is also dead.
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Pension Office, November 12, 1857
Sir,
	I have received and [crossed out] examined the additional proof transmitted in support of the claim for pension [crossed out] of Christopher Halderman. Of Pennsylvania under act of June 7, 1832, and have carefully considered it in connection with the evidence previously filed.
	If it be admitted that the service performed by this claimant was pensionable service, thus would remain the material difficulty of determining its duration—and it is according to the length of service that the amount of pension is graduated. If of less than six months, no pension is due—A service of only 14 days is sufficient to entitle a party to land. Duration of service was not material in this claimant’s application to the Pennsylvania Legislature.
	The evidence upon this point is confined solely to the statements of the claimant himself and his statements [crossed out] are variant. In his petition to the Legislature he states he served as teamster one year and seven months. He states in his declaration for pension that he served “as nearly
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as he can recollect nine or ten months”—and that he [crossed out] enlisted some time in October 1777 and was discharged “in the latter end of June 1778.” In his bounty land case he says he [crossed out] served ten months, and was discharged in 1779—our rules however do not permit the length of service to be substantiated by the oath alone of the party applying. It was thought that the evidence [crossed out] submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania would throw some light upon this point—but the copies received do not. The claim for pension cannot be allowed upon the present proof.
David Halderman Esq
East Lampeter,
Lancaster Co
Penna
Nov 12
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East Lampeter Township
Lancaster County Pennsylvania
October 30. 1857
Sir.
Your letter of 6th [illegible] in relation to the claim of my father for Revolutionary pension, and in accordance with your request I send you petition and the proofs accompanied presented to the Pa Legislature upon which an act has [illegible] granting my father Christopher Halderman’s him a pension-- The enclosed are certified copies—I hope this will answer as he is now in his 99th year but his mind astonishingly good. He talks about his service every day. Please attend to this at your earliest convenience.
Direct your letter to my address Lancaster P.O. Pennsylvania. Yours respectfully
Hon Geo. C. Whiting 
David Halderman
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David Halderman
Oct 6.
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Pension Office October 6 1857
Sir,
I have re-examined the papers in the case of Christopher Halderman, an applicant for pension under act of June 7, 1832, and also those upon which he was granted land. To sustain his land claim a service of 14 days only was essential. To authorize an allowance of pension it must be shown that he served at least six months. There is no evidence of the length of his service on file. Perhaps [crossed out] his petition (and the proofs [crossed out] which accompanied it) presented to the Pennsylvania Legislature, and upon which the act was passed granting him a pension, might enable the office to fix the length of his service. Please therefore procure copies and transmit them to this office.
David Halderman Esq
Lancaster City
Pennsylvania
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East Lampeter Township Lancaster Co Pa
October 2 1857
Dear Sir.
William S. Amweg of Lancaster City Pennsylvania made application for my father Christopher Halderman for Revolutionary pension under act 1832. about three years ago and was informed that you have not allowed the claim yet. It is about three years ago that Amweg sent the claim to Washington. My father is now going in his 99th year of his age and if ever a person was entitled to pension he is. It appears so strange that you have not granted him the pension, [crossed out] and allowed him a Land warrant for 160 acres. I should think if he is entitled to land he is also to his pension. Please [illegible] me a letter and give me all the particulars in relation to my father claims. I would like if you could send me the pension soon or the old man soon leave this world.
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Direct your letter to my address Lancaster City Pennsylvania. A letter will reach me in Lancaster I and my father live 4 miles from Lancaster.
Yours Respectfully
David Halderman

Hon Geo. C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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W. S. Amweg
Septr. 24
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Pension Office, Sept. 24. 1858
Sir,
I have carefully examined the additional evidence submitted by you in support of the claim for pension of Christopher Halderman under act of June 7 1832, and have to state that it clearly indicates that the service of Halderman was not of the duration contemplated by the act or pensionable. He appears to have been employed [crossed out] at stated periods of different duration, and at various rates, and not attached to an organized corps of waggoners operating under general military regulations. The claim is, therefore, rejected.
WM. S. Amweg Esq
Lancaster,
Penna
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David Haldeman
July 6
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Pension Office
July 6th 1858
Sir
As a reply to your letter of 21st last May, I enclose [illegible] a copy of a letter addressed the President of the U.S. under date of Feb 26th 1858. and of a letter addressed from 16th March last. [crossed out] Since my letter under date of March 16th as aforesaid. No additional evidence has been filed.
Upon a review of the claim I find no evidence justifying a change of the opinion indicated in [illegible] letter.

David Haldeman Esq
Lancaster
Pa
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101.528
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An Act
Granting an annuity to Christian Haldeman of Lancaster County a Soldier of the Revolutionary War.
Section [illegible] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same
That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized to pay to Christian Haldeman of Lancaster County a Soldier of the Revolutionary War or to his order, Forty dollars as an annuity during his life, commencing on the First day of January Anno Domiis One thousand eight hudred and fifty four to be paid semi annually on the first day of January and first day of July.
E. B. Chase 
Speaker of the House of Representatives
M. McCaslin 
Speaker of the Senate
Approved The Twenty-eighth day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
Wm Bigler
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Secretary's Office
Pennsylvania
I do hereby certify that the foregoing and annexed is a true and correct copy of the original act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the same remains on file in this office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and caused the Seal of the Secretary’s office to be affixed at Harrisburg this Eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifty five and of the Commonwealth the Seventy-ninth.
John M. Sullivan
Depy Secy of the Commonwealth
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Christopher Haldeman [vertical in left margin]
Pa - [illegible] - 1832 [vertical in left margin]
Filed 15 Spt 1858 [vertical in right margin]
Wm. S. Amweg Esq Lancaster Pa [vertical in right margin]
G. C. w. [vertical in right margin]
set forth in the foregoing certificate are true. and that the [illegible] therein contained were carefully made and composed by him with the original in his possession
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 13th day of September a.d. 1858
H. G. Long
State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
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Extracts
The United States of America
To the Committee of Lancaster County Pa.
1776  [symbol for pounds] S. D.
Aug 10 To Cash paid Ephraim Simmons and  Joseph Hall. Well diggers   3..13.[illegible]
Aug 11 To cash paid John [illegible] Express to Reading 1..10.0
Aug 14 To cash paid Capt. Jacob Klatz's Company of Millitia on duty in Lancaster their pay & substance to the 7th [illegible]  230..16.0
Aug 16 To [illegible] paid John M. Laughlin. waggoner. hauling picketts [illegible]c - [illegible] c 12..3.9
Aug 16 To [illegible] paid Bastian Shick waggoner at stockade 3..15.0
Sept. 21 To [illegible] paid C. Haldeman Waggoner at the Barracks 9.15.10
Sept. 21 To [illegible] paid William [illegible] d 1.10.0
Sept. 21 John McLaughlin paid as waggoner as per rec 10..10..0
Oct. 21 John Lightner Carpenter at Stockade [illegible] as per rec 7..2..6
Oct. 21 To cash paid Christian Halderman--waggoner--7..3..9
Oct. 21 To cash paid Several Soldiers of the 3d Virginia Reg to carry then to Philadelphia as per rec  2..10..0
Oct 21 To [illegible] C. Halderman Horse Hire for Express  1..5..6
Nov. 15 to [illegible] Christian Halderman waggoner at Stockade 7..13.6
Nov 15 To [illegible] John McLaughlin [illegible]  7.13.1
Nov. 25 To cash paid Chist Haldeman for going with Lieut. Dulhuntz's Family & Baggage to York Town as per rec 3..10..0
Dec. 2 To [illegible] C. Halderman & George Lightner, waggoners going with Officers, Prisoners, Baggage [illegible] to Carlisle  17.11.3
Dec. 16 To cash paid Henry Gerber Waggoner, for carriage of Sick Soldiers from Phila to Lancaster per rec   6.[illegible]..[illegible
1777
Jany 1st To Cash paid Christ Haldeman his pay due as waggoner at Barracks Stockade  4..10.0
/over/
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/Continued/
1777
Jany 7th  To Cash Paid Waggoners of Lieut Petries Brigade, going with prisoners from Lancaster to Jersey for Exchange & [illegible]
Paid John Stauffer p d 31..0..0
Paid Christian Haldiman p d 31..0..0
Paid Jacob Whitner p d 31..0..0
Paid Christian Baughman p d 31.0..0
Paid Andrew Smith p d 31..0..0
Paid Christian Hoffman p d 31..0..0
Paid Henry Hiestand p d 21..0..0    207..0..0
Feb 15 To do. pd. Christopher Haldeman and Tobias Miller. Waggoners. going with British officers prisoners and Baggage from Lancaster to Carlisle  15..2.3
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Extracts
Oct. 2 Paid Christr Haldiman waggon master for his expenses and hauling sick and wounded solders from West Chester to Lancaster County as per order of Col. Adam Hubley  81..10..
To Paid said Haldiman a balance on his ac as Waggoner from Sept 1st to Sept 12th in hauling forrage - as per order of Col Huntley. per rec  9..7..6
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Lancaster Sept. 13th 1858
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing are true extracts by me made from among the original vouchers and Records of the Committee of Safety of the County of Lancaster _ That the
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name of Christopher Halderman, Christian Haldiman C. Halderman appears among the accounts and vouchers as I have spelled them and that these names undoubtedly refer to one and the same man. I cannot find the name of Christopher Halderman returned to the Committee for any other service than as Waggoner and Waggonmaster nor can I from these records, determine whether he was Waggonmaster longer than from the 12th of September 1777 to Oct 2 when he was paid or such on order of Col Hubley - Col Peter Force of Washington City has a larger amount of the correspondence of the Committee of Safety of the County of Lancaster which he received from me, some years ago- Many of My documents relating to this Committee, and the past Lancaster Co. took during the Revolutionary War have been published. For several years my Muster Rolls were on file in the Pension Office in Washington- I am arranging the balance of my papers for publication. Many are badly mutilated and a large number have been destroyed by mice and mold. The accounts from which the foregoing Extracts were made are in the hand writing and are signed by Miller Attlen, Chairman of the Committee copies of which were presented to the Continental Congress and the balance due this Committee was paid - 
The original documents will remain in my possession, The items extracted are from among several hundreds in the ac of the Committee. I have included others than those relating to Christopher Halderman to show the nature and style of the accounts
This Certificate is made at the instance of David Halderman of Lancaster [illegible] Lanc. Co.
Witness my hand and seal
[illegible]
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
Be it known that before me Henry G. Long, Resident Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County personally came Simon Stevens who having been duly sworn according to law declares and says that the facts set forth in the foregoing Certificate are true and that the Extracts therein contained were carefully made and compared by him with the originals in his possession.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 13th day of September A.D. 1858.
H. G. Long

State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
I William Carpenter Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County. Certify that the Hon. H. G. Long by whom the above affidavit was taken and is certified was at the doing thereof and now is the President Judge of said Court duly Commissioned and qualified and acting as such, and that the signature to the above certificate purporting to be his is genuine-
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Lancaster on the 13th day of September anno Domini 1858.
W. Carpenter
Prothy
Filed 15th September 1858 [vertical text in right margin]
Wm. S. Amweg of Lancaster Pa [vertical text in right margin]
G.C.W. [vertical text in right margin]
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Mrs. William Anderson
211 Eastern Avenue
Aspinwall Station
Pittsburgh
January 13-1934

Director
Veterans Administration
Pensions for Rev. Soldiers
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir
Please send me the following pension records giving all details of family possible:
1. Christopher Holderman, soldier in Revolution [illegible] to be drafted from Coventry Township Chester County Pennsylvania & presented [illegible] in 1854 which may have been denied by desire all of his record any way.
2. Also copy of pension record for David Halderman also of Chester Co Pennsylvania, Revolutionary War and his record number I think is 38827.
Very truly yours
Mildred M. Anderson
(Mrs. William Andrson)

RECEIVED JAN 17 1934
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[crossed out] Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873

REJECTED
4445
P.O. 
Service Christopher Alterm [crossed out] Halderman

1934, Jan 26 - Hist to Mrs. William Anderson--MLB
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To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met.
The petition of Christopher Halderman Soldier of the Revolutionary war and now a citizen of the township Lampeter, Lancaster County respectfully therewith that your petitioner is now ninety-five years of age, weak and infirm also poor, and in necessitous circumstances, [illegible] in actual distress, entirely unable to earn a living for himself and that said petitioner now resides with his - David Haldeman. That your petitioner was a soldier and Teamster in the Revolutionary War. That about the year 1777 immediately after the Battle of Brandywine was fought he entered the service of his Country as a drafted or Militia Man was under Captain John Cummings, Maj. George Hartman, Col. Robt. MClintock, General Burk and that he was drafted in Coventry Township near [illegible] Chester Co. and that he served as teamster for one year and seven months and that he was one whole winter laying at the Valley Forge, where the Army with their teams etc had encamped for the winter.
Your petitioner would further State that the discharge he received from his officers
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officers has been lost and mislaid [crossed out] destroyed.
That although your petitioner suffered extremely in the arduous struggles, the revolutionary war, yet he never intended to apply for relief until a short time since absolute necessity dictated that course as the only alternative with any probable chance of success to obtain a living for himself for the few remaining days of his life.
That is often fills the heart of your petitioner with feelings easier imagined than described when he takes a retrospective view of the times in which he was engaged having often times been nearly destitute of the necessities of life when many a day and night faced the storms and inclemency of the weather where others rested comfortably sheltered at the fire sides of a fine castle and now in the evening of his days,he is entirely without means to provide for the subsistence of himself (his aged wife having been dead many years ago). Such reflections never fail to wound the heart of an old soldier but he need not have said this much upon this Subject as you are fairly sensible of the hardships of the times in which he was engaged as well as of the comforts a little aid would now afford him
[illegible]
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That your honorable bodies may grant him such relief as you in your wisdom may think is right is the service [illegible] of your petitioner.
Christopher X Haldeman   his mark
Attest
Wm S. Amweg
Chas. F. Voight
Lancaster County S S
Before me, the subscribed, one of  Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally came the above named petitioner Christopher Haldeman who being duly affirmed according to Law, doth declare and say that the facts set forth in the foregoing petition are strictly true according to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Affirmed and subscribed Christopher X Haldeman  his mark
before me this 10 day of
January A.D. 1854
Chas. F. Voight
Ald
Lancaster County S S
Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county personally came David Haldeman aged 61 years who being duly affirmed according to law doth declare and say that he is well acquainted with Christopher Haldeman, the petitioner, that he is generally respected by those that know him to have been
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been in the Revolutionary War. That the affirmant believes the statement made by the petitioner in relation to his military services to be true and from his known veracity is worthy of belief and that the petitioner is poor and necessitous circumstances.
Affirmed and subscribed
David Haldeman
the 10th day of January
A.D. 1854 before me
Chas. F. Voight
Ald
Lancaster County,
Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county came Henry Haldeman aged 37 years, resident of Lampeter, who being duly affirmed according to law doth [crossed out] declare and say that he resides in the same neighorhood with petitioner Christopher Haldeman, that he has been generally respected by those who know him to have been in the Revolutionary war, that affirmant believes the statement of the petitioner in relation to his military services in the said war to be true and that the petitioner is poor and in necessitous circumstances.
Affirmed and subscribed before me this 10th day of January 1854
Henry X Haldeman   his mark
January 1854
Chas. F. Voight attest
Ald.            W. S. Amweg
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
I Charles F. Voight Esq. An Alderman and a Justice of the Peace in and for the city of Lancaster do hereby certify that Christopher Haldeman the within petitioner and David Haldeman & Henry Haldeman witnesses are men of high character and reputable in the neighborhood where they are known and that full faith and credit ought to be given their depositions.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand seal this 16th day of January 1854
Chas. F. Voight
Lancaster County S S
Before me the subscriber one of the Justice of the Peace and an Alderman in and for the city of Lancaster, personally came Samuel Gundacker, of this
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circumstances and Entitled to relief.
Samuel Gundaker
Affd & Subd Jany
13th 1854 [illegible]
J. C. Van Camp
Ald.
Lancaster County S S
J. C. Van Camp a Justice of the Peace and an Alderman in and for the City of Lancaster and County & State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Samuel Gundacker, who has made the foregoing affidavit, is a person of credit, and entitled to full belief.
In testimony whereof I hereunto Set my hand and Seal this 13th day of Jany. 1854.
J. C. Van Camp.
Ald.
State of Pennsylvania
House of Representatives
I do certify that the foregoing and annexed pages from one to six inclusive contain a full and correct copy of the Petition [illegible] of Christopher Haldeman. As the original now is on file in the House of Representatives
Hon J. Ziegler CHief Clerk
Jno A Smull, [illegible] & Petition clk  [illegible]