Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23687, Adam Hartman, Penn.
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[notecard]
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SERVICE
Penn.
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Harman, Adam
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NUMBER
S.23687
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This is a two sided journal that has writing on both sides as follows:

Left side:
Pennsylvania (number showing is 25.9. With torn edge obscuring the last number(s)
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(The same problem below were the number was rewritten but lost inside the middle fold) 25902
Adam Hartman
Of illegible in the state of Penn. Who was a Rev in the Company commanded by Captain Phsick of the Regmt commanded by Col Morgan in the Pennsylvania line for illegible
2 p d. $ 80.00
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 80 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Jan and sent to 1832x Hon. G. Chambers, H. R.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833.         $200.00
Semi-anl. Allowance ending 
4 March ‘34.                                               40.00
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                                                                 $240.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
Act June 7, 1832,       }
Recorded by J P Sprague Clerk,
Book E - Vol. 5 - Page 24

Right side:

Illegible to Hon. C
March 5. 1834 JF
Date -
See letter.     To (illegible due to paper ripped off)
Agt 25 Sept 33
See letter to J.Flanag.       - 28 July Cham
Do to Hon. illegible.               Squiggled out
Jan 26. 1837.                      - do illegible
G. Chamber.                          Feb 17
1837
Do to Hon. D.  Sheffield
June 5. 1838 slightly above the number is 35
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suspension removed.
See letter.22nd June 1838 to now D. Sheffer and Pen agent, 
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Letter to and Audit on 6 July 1838
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Paid at the treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1835 to 4 Sept 1837 Agt notified 17. July 1838
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State of Pennsylvania
Franklin County 
On this fifteenth day of
August in the year of our Lord one thousand and  eight
hundred and thirty three honorably appeared in open
court before the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for said county Adam Hartman a
resident of the Town of Waynesboro in said county of
Franklin aged seventy two years on the fifth day
of May last 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 [illegible] the 7th
June 1832.  That he served the United States and entered
the service of the United States under the following named
officers and served as [illegible].  That he was seventy
two years old on the 5th of May last.  That he was born
on the 5th of May 1761 in the Township of Rockland
in the county of Berks Pennsylvania, and that he
lived in the said Township at the time he attained
the service of the [illegible] that his memory has failed
him so much that he cannot give the particulars of
his service or many relevents concerned with it.  That
when he was yet quite young, he enlisted in the
service of the United States in the Revolutionary War under
Captain John [illegible] who then lived in Reading in
Pennsylvania which enlistment was for two years.
That our company was marched to Reading and from
there to Philadelphia - That our company was stationed
at different places - that he served out the time for
which he was enlisted - That he enlisted as a private - The 
Colonel whom we name was Morgan - That
he was discharged at Reading and got a written discharge
but it is lost long since - After his discharge he went to [illegible] in Berks county to a man of the name of
[illegible] Swayer - That before he returned or came to them
said Swayer's (Swayer) had been drafted for two
months in the militia and a few days after [illegible]
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My return I consent to go out as the substitute of the said Swayer - A man of the name of Will was ou Captain whom Christian name I do not remember, our company started from Kutztown and went out towards Sunbury against the Indians, we were after the Indians but did not over take them  - we were after out on scouting parties - that I served out this and two months in the militia as a substitute except two days which was in this way we had but two days to stay when our old Captain John Physic came and wanted to enlist us and Captain Will agreed if we would enlist he would discharge us and we were discharged - Then I enlisted for one year under Captain Physic aforesaid and Michael Griner who lives in Maryland enlisted at the same time.  This was up the Schuylkill and from there we were marched to Reading and from there to Norristown and in two days march from the latter lace we got up with the French soldiers and joined them in the artillery . We marched to Norristown again and to Philadelphia and from there to Baltimore and from there to Yorktown in Virginia where we illegible and took Cornwallis - This was in October. Daniel Alkert or Albert was our Colonel  but I do not well recollect his name. Where the year was up I made another engagement for a second year Michael Griner aforesaid was my messenati for the whole two years - That I think Mathias Calp of Gettysburg Pennsylvania recollects my first enlistment as h was present at the time - That I staid out there two years and got a written discharge but the same is lost - That in all I served the United States in the Revolutionary war four years and two months with the exception of the two days as above mentioned - That in the year 1825-6 I made application to the legislature of Pennsylvania for a pension and an Act was passed allowing me a pension of $40 per annum see pamphlet law page 203 - The the deposition of the said Mathias Gulp was presented in my behalf to the said legislator after the war I lived some years in Berks County, from there I moved to Adam’s County Pennsylvania then a part of York County, I lived there about 8 years- Then I moved to Cumberland County Pennsylvania and lived there about 8 years, then I returned to Adam’s and lived there some years and then moved to Emittsburg, Maryland and lived there
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Two years then moved to Waynewood in  Franklin County aforesaid where I have lived ever since being upwards of nineteen years.  That I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity under any law of the United States providing for revolutionary officers and soldiers except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state - that I avow the pension aforesaid from the state of Pennsylvania by the act f the legislature which I do not relinquish - I state the names of John Flanagan Esq Prothonotary of Franklin County and Charles Smith —— to whom I am known in my present neighborhood and who can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my service as a soldier of the revolution - That he cannot without too much inconvenience and trouble procure a clergyman with whom he is acquainted who can be brought into court a distance of 15 miles who can testify in his behalf
Adam Hartman

Sworn and subscribed in open court
August 15th 1883
John Flanagan Prothy
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Me John Flanagan Esquires and Charles Smith residing in the county of Franklin aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted Adam Hartman who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing and within declaration, and we believe him to be Seventy two years old on the 5th of May last; that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
John Flanagan
Charles Smit
Sworn and subscribed this day
And year aforesaid ——
In open court
A Thomson President

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that John Flanagan Esquire and Charles Smith who signed the preceding certificate are resident in the county of Franklin aforesaid and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit ——- A Thomson President M Dutton Wm McKesson

I John Flanagan Prothonotary and clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Court of Franklin Pennsylvania (the same being a court of record) as hereby certify that the foregoing and written contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Adam Hartman for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
John Flanagan Prothy
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19.986

Adam Hartman’s Application
For a Pension
Franklin Co. Pa
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4702

Rejected - see letter 5 Dec. 1826 ——


Hon. J. Findlay H.R.
Recd.  Dec 5. 1826
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Franklin County Ss.

On this twenty first day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred + twenty six personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of record for the County of Franklin + State of Pennsylvania, Adam Hartman resident in said County, aged sixty four years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and the first of May 1820_ That he the said Adam Hartman enlisted for the time of two years in the month of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight in the Company commanded by Captain Christian Schuyler in the regiment commanded by Colonel Algert, in the line of the state of Pennsylvania, on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corps until the term of two years for which he had enlisted was complete and ended when he was discharged from the service in Reading in the state of Pennsylvania. That he again enlisted for the term of one year in the Month of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty in the Company commanded by Captain John Fenswick in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Algert in the line of the state of Pennsylvania on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the termination of the Revolutionary war + that he was discharged from the service in the Month of June in the year one thousand seven hundred eighty two at Hartford in the State of Connecticut _ That he does not recollect being reenlisted after the the end of the year above mentioned but knows that he was at York Town Virginia at the Capture of Cornwallace + that he remained with his regiment until his discharge at Hartford in June one thousand seven hundred + eighty two. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present_ that his name is not on the roll of any other State than the State of Pennsylvania _ + that the following are his reasons for not making earlier application for a pension _ that he has until lately been enabled to support himself by his labor, but that now age infirmity and rheumatism have rendered him unable to work.

And in pursuance of the Act of 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner dis
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due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

Schedule of Declarants property.
1 Old cow
2Pigs
2 Iron pots
4 Chairs
2 Walnut tables
That I have a daughter Barbara aged nineteen years, a son David aged twenty one years, and a wife named Elizabeth aged sixty four years who reside with me, and who are not able to contribute to my support - that no changes have taken place in my property since the 18th March 1818, that my occupation is that of a brickmaker & day laborer & that the infirmity of age and rheumatism have now disqualified me from pursuing either.
Adam Hartman
21 Nov. 1826 Sworn & Subs. in open Court
  Jno, Hershberger prot.

I John Hershberger Proth'y of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Franklin and State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Adam Hartman did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, (illegible) and engagement, of the continental  establishment.  I also certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is fifteen dollars.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty six.
         Jno. Hershberger, Prot. of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Franklin Penna
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June 24, 1935
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Adam Hartman - S.23687
BA-J/AWF

Mr. John W. Hartman
Register & Recorder's office
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Dear Sir:
The Revolutionary War record of Adam Hartman which follows was obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 23687, based upon his service in that war.
Adam Hartman was born May 5, 1761 in the Township Rockland, Berks County, Pennsylvania; the names of his parents are not given.
While residing in Berks County, he enlisted in 1775 or 1776 and served two years as a private in Captain John Fessick or Feswick's company, under Colonel Morgan. He served two months in Captain Will's company of Pennsylvania militia, was out against the Indians "up the Susquehanna"; dates of this service are not definitely shown. He enlisted in July, 1780, served in Captain John Fessick or Feswick's company, Colonel Daniel Algert, Alkirk, Alkert or Alcott's Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battle and Siege of Yorktown, at that time attached to the "French Artillery" under one Lighthyser, marched to Hartford, Connecticut, where he was discharged, after a service of two years.
He lived in Berks County, Pennsylvania "some years" after the Revolution, when he moved to Adams County, Pennsylvania and lived about eight years, then to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and lived about eight years, then returned to Adams County, and from there went to Emmitsburg, Maryland, there about two years and moved to
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Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He was living in 1826 in Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
The soldier, Adam Hartman, was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1833, then a resident of said Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. He was also pensioned by the state of Pennsylvania on account of his services in the Revolutionary War.
In 1826 the soldier's wife, Elizabeth, was sixty-
four years of age, his son, David, twenty-one years of age, and his daughter, Barbara, nineteen years old.
There are no further data in this claim concerning the family of Adam Hartman.
In order to obtain information relative to the
last payment of pension, name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting
Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and cite the following:
Adam Hartman
Certificate # 25902
Issued January 27, 1834
Rate $80.00 per annum
To commence March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Pennsylvania Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Rej. 4702
[handwritten - upper right corner] Rej. 4702
[typewritten letter]
War Department, Pension Office
December 5, 1826

Hon. J. Findlay
H. R.

Sir:
The claim of Adam Hartman to a pension has been rejected, the service set forth in his declaration could not have been on the Continental Establishment. He stated that
he served in a regiment commanded by Colonel Algert of the Pennsylvania Line, no colonel of that name belonged to that line of Continental Troops: the law of March 18, 1818
under which Hartman claims provides for those only who served on the Continental Establishment. His declaration will remain on our files, agreeably to the regulations of this Department.
Signed
J. L. E.
Copied June 19, 1935 by A. W. F.
[handwritten comment] 1818 Claim & 1832 claim were filed separately until (arrow pointing to June 19 date).
West
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June 24, 1935
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Adam Hartman - S.23687
BA-J/AWF

Mr. John W. Hartman
Register & Recorder's Office
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you
request all information possible in regard to Adam Hartman, Revolutionary War pensioner of Franklin County, Pennsylvania in 1831, also cost of photostatic copies of the papers on file.
The papers in this claim are very fragile and
old. The process of making photostatic copies is necessarily injurious to them. All papers in this claim have been read very carefully and the data found have been incorporated in a report furnished herewith.
These official reports have been accepted by the various historical, patriotic and genealogical societies as authentic, and it is believed will be just what you need in your research, however, if you find you still need the photostatic copies a report will be made in
regard to the cost.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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June 24, 1935
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Adam Hartman - S.23687
BA-J/AWF

Mr. John W. Hartman
Register & Recorder's Office
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you
request all information possible in regard to Adam Hartman, Revolutionary War pensioner of Franklin County, Pennsylvania in 1831, also cost of photostatic copies of the papers on file.
The papers in this claim are very fragile and
old. The process of making photostatic copies is necessarily injurious to them. All papers in this claim have been read very carefully and the data found have been incorporated in a report furnished herewith.
These official reports have been accepted by the various historical, patriotic and genealogical societies as authentic, and it is believed will be just what you need in your research, however, if you find you still need the photostatic copies a report will be made in
regard to the cost.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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2-

John Fessick's or Feswick's company, under Colonel Daniel Algert, Alkirk, Alkert, or Alcott, with the Pennsylvania troops, during this service he was in the battle and siege of Yorktown, at which time he was attached to the "French Artillery" under Captain Lighthyser?), then marched to Hartford, Connecticut, where he was discharged, having served in this tour about two years.
The soldier, Adam Hartmann, lived in Berks
County, Pennsylvania "some years" after the Revolution, moved to Adams County, Pennsylvania, lived about eight years, then to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, lived about eight years, then returned to Adams County, and from there went to Emmitsburg,
Maryland, there about two years and moved to
Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He was living in
1826 in Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
Adam Wartman was allowed pension on his
application executed August 15, 1833, then a
resident of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. He was, also, pensioned by the State of Pennsylvania on account of his service in the War of the Revolution.
He referred in 1826 to his wife, Elizabeth, aged
sixty-four years, and to the following children-
David, twenty-one years of age, and Barbara, nineteen years old.
The papers on file in this claim contain no
further discernible data relative to the family of
Adam Hartman.
In order to obtain the date of last payment
of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General
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3-

Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data-

Adam Hartman
Certificate #25902
Issues January 27, 1834
Rate $80.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Pennsylvania Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Adminstrator
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President  Paul E. Chambersburg
Vice President.  J.G. Allen Scotland
Secretary. B.F. Hartman, Waynesboro

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Paul E. Freet
B.F. Hartman
Harry A. Grove
T.H. Myers
Roy Hull

FRANKLIN COUNTY
EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 

Assistant Secretary. Huber D. Strine, Waynesboro
 Treasurer Jacob L. Brake, Dry Run

——————GROUP OFFICERS —————
High Schools
Pres., J. Paul Burkhart
Vice Pres.,B.S. Whitmore
Sec., Ralph Shockey

Graded Schools
Pres., G. Howard Etten
Vice President., J.F. Kunkle
Sec., Laura Austin

Rural Schools
Pres., J. Floyd Swanger
Vice President., Maxwell A. Black
Sec., De. E. Michael                              19”

Waynesboro Pa., July 19 1932

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Have you any information in the United States pension records of a person by the name Adam Hartman, Hirtman or Hertman.

He was my great grandfather and served with the Colonial troops in the American Revolution.

My Grandaughter and some of her cousins desires to join the D.A.R. It is for this reason we desire some information as to his military record.

It seems that the old records left in his family have all been lost. We have is tradition handed down 

(End of page) A circular stamp is on the upper right  side of the page.  Around the edge are  numbers1-12 and arrow is pointing to the number 2. In the middle is written RECEIVED, Jul 20 1939. MAIL SUB-DIV Reader No. 22, VETS ADM
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from generation to generation. I shall very highly appreciate it if you are able to send up any information whatsoever concerning his war record.
Thanking you in advance I remain
Very respectfully
B.F. Hartman
Waynesboro
Franklin Co
Penna
41 East Main St
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(Check mark) JOHN W. HARTMAN, Register and Recorder

REGISTER AND RECORDER’S OFFICE
Chambersburg, Pa……..April 11,……1935.

Veterans Bureau, Pension Commission
Old Records Section
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir;
     In the report of the Secretary of War of 1835 I find Adam Hartman, Pennsylvania Militia, was granted a pension January 27, 1834 from March 4, 1831 aged 73 years.   I will greatly appreciate any information you can give me as to his application for pension, name of dependents, children or wife.   I am especially interested in establishing the names of his children, his wife also any former residence.   If there is much of record kindly let me know the cost of photostatic copy of each page. 
                             Very truly yours, 
( in handwriting “no signature?

P.S. Adam Hartman was located in Washington Township Franklin Co. Pa in 1831)

Circular stamp located at the bottom right hand corner the edge shows numbers 1-12 with an arrow to 11:00 close to 12. RECEIVED APR 12 1935 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS ADM READER #26
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[Struck Thru]
Act of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.

4702
P.O.
Adam Hartman
Service: ________________, 18
REGECTED
Enlisted: _______________, 18
Discharged: ____________,18

Application filed: ________, 18

Alleges: _____________
Re-enlisted: __________

Attorney: ____________

P.O. ________________

________ Recognized.    __________ Contract
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Revolution
23687
INVALID.
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File No. 23.687
Adam Hartman
Pri Rev War
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Act June 7" 32"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 168
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1935: June 24 list let|
John W. Hartman AWF
1939 Aug. 18 - Hist to B. F.
Hartman AWF
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 13. 1838

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Adam Hartman a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of eighty
Dollars and ---- cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1835 to the 4th Sept. 1837_____

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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10. Walker Franklin
Deposition of
Adam Hartman
Gen James Rivers
JOR. Feb. 22.1826
Chus,
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Franklin County ss
                              Before me the illegible one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Franklin personally came General James Burns of the Township of Washington in said county, and being sworn according to law saith that he has been acquainted with Adam Hartman of the town of Waynesburg (Whose petition is at this time before the legislature for a pension) for ten or twelve years - during which time - he never knew the said Adam Hartman to possess any real property - and further that he believes that the said Adam some two and more years since way under the necessity of taking the benefit of the insolvent law - and at this time the said Adam is poor, and further saith that - sworn to and subscribed this 13th day of February 1826
Before me.                       James Burns
John Flanagan
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Adam Hartmans
Deposition
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Franklin County ss
Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County personally came Adam Hartman and being sworn according to law saith that, he Never had any real property - that in the year 1820 he from (illegible) by him sustained was under the Necessity of taking the benefit of the (illegible) law and at this time he is poor not having in his possession very Much property as the law would allow him to keep - And further saith not.  Sworn to and subscribed this 13th of February 1826.
Before me                             Adam Hartman
John Flanagan
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[Postal Stamp]
CHAMB PA.
SEP 26

Pa Spt 27

To. remain on file until a letter is rec'd. from the Secy. of War.

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City
D. C.
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Chambersburg Sep. 25th 1833
Sir
I send you the application of Adam Hartman for a pension under the late act of Congress. You will perceive that he draws a pension
of forty dollars from the State of Pennsylvania, which I presume will be received as evidence
of his services. The deposition of Peter Kulp; taken at the time of his application to the Penna. Legislation, is enclosed-- I procured this deposition from Mr. Shunk Clerk of H.R. of Penna. in whose office it was filed. The deposition of Michael Griner who is mentioned in the application could be obtained if necessary but it is presumed that it may be dispensed with. 
You will please send the certificate to me --
Yours
Fredk Smith

J. L. Edwards Esq.

Griner's deposition cannot be processed
without expense which the applicant is not well able to bear, but if required
he will procure it-
F. S.
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Harrisburg June 19. 1838
Honorable Danl Sheffer
Dear Sir
At the request of Mr. John Will of Waynesboro in Franklin County I enclose a certified copy of the section of the act of our assembly granting a pension to Adam Hartman which the officer of the department requires as appear by her note to you.
Upon examining our Journal, it appears that Mr Hartmans papers were withdrawn from the files of the House of Reps. of course they are not here, but from the note I think the copy of the section will be sufficient.

I am your reply
Rep R. Strunke
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Payments to be made
at Philadelphia
Pres. Girard Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners,
in the Agency of Pennsylvania

Recorded in the Pension Office 
in Book E Vol. 5
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F. S. Evans, Clerk
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War Department.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Adam Hartman of the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and ____ per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semiannually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Fifteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
             Lew Cass
             Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned. J L Edwards
                  Commissioner of Pensions.
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Chambersburg Jan'y 21st 1834

Dear Sir,
enclosed I send you the papers of Adam Hartman among the papers before sent on and which, it seems, have been lost, was the deposition of Mathias Culp of Adams county taken some years ago when Hartman applied to the Legislature of this state for a pension.  I procured it from F. R. Shunk Clk. of H. R. and enclosed it with the other papers.  It had been on file at Harrisburg.  It proved very clearly the services of Hartman.  Culp testified to his services from his own knowledge.  I recollect its contents.  The justice before whom it was taken also at the same time certified to Culps credibility.  The Legislature of this State passed an act allowing Hartman on this deposition a pension of $40 per year.  This I presume should be taken as strong evidence in his favour. The Law granting him the pension is in (illegible) laws of Penn'a 1825-6 page 203 -- your attention to this application will oblige your friend
     Fred'k Smith
Geo. Chambers
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Harrisburg Aug 21, 1833

Frederick Smith.
D'r Sir
I have in compliance with your request found Peter Kolly deposition to prove the military service of Adam Hartman a revolutionary Soldier and have inclosed it.
We have nothing new here.  The canal is beginning to develop its faculties.  A new line of boats will commence running between Philadelphia and Hollidaysburg on the 27 (illegible). The Delaware division is doing a large business.
              I am y'r respectfully 
                  F R. Shunk
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Washington Feb'y 12 1837
Sir
I send you herewith some documents I have obtained from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as related to Adam Hartman of Franklin County.  The payment on whose pension has been suspended -- Mr Flanagan who furnishes them is a very respectable member of the Pennsylvania Legislature.
You will also (illegible) some papers in relation to the claim of the (illegible) of William Newell of Huntingdon Ct'y, Penn'a pensioner deceased.
As soon as you can give these cases your attention I will be pleased to learn from you  your decision & disposition in relation to them.
       Respectfully
       Yours
       Geo Chambers
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Adams County ss
     Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Peter Kulp (Farmer) who being sworn according to law deponenth and saith that he has been acquainted with Adam Hartman (now of Franklin County) for more than fourty years that he first became acquainted with him in Burks County Pa shortly before the Revolutionary War and that he knew Adam Hartman inlisted as a private soldier in the Pennsylvania line and served  out the term of his enlistment which to the best of his recollection was four years and was regularly and honerably discharged and reputed in the neighborhood we then lived in which was in Burks County on his return from the Army as being a good soldier and having been tryed in several battles particularly at the taking of Cornwallace in Virginia and further action not
Peter Kulp
sworn and subscribed before me at Gettysburg the 12th January 1826
Jno Garvin

Adams County Pennsylvania ss
        I George Welsh Prothonotary of the Court Common Pleas in and for the County of Adams Do hereby certify that John Garvin Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and taken in and was in at the time of taking the same one of our Commonwealth Justices of the peace in and for said county of Adams duly commissioned and sworn to act as such and that due faith and credit is given to all his official acts and deeds ---

     In Testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Gettysburg. the 13th day of January 1826. ----
GWWelsh Prothy
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Adam Hartman
papers filed
with P Raber
supposed to be
my mistake

FREE
Chambers

JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington House of Representatives
D'r Sir
I send by a letter a card from F. Smith Esq of Chambersburg that a certificate for a pension to Adam Hartman dated 15th February last, wherein one had been delivered to me dated 27th January last, and which I forwarded, so that there would be two certificates made out for the same individual & the same pension.  I know (illegible) will honor you & your Clerk with the multiplicity of terms which are presented & the limited time you have for this consideration & disposition.
When I came here, & applied in December impacting the (illegible) of A Hartman, the paper which Mr Smith alleged he had sent on to the Department and not to be found, as I was informed, and I directed Mr Smith to supply their place, or they were supposed to be last.  A new application was then prepared & submitted the certificate (illegible) as stated.
I would suggest to you, that I would be advisable to
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write to Frederick Smith Esq at Chambersberg to return to last certificate or having present by match that it has been unrewarded and cancelled -
Very Respectfully
yours
Geo Chambers
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Let the payment be ordered
J. L. E.

Hon. D. Sheffer
HR.
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Section 1.  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is here enacted by the authority of the law
               That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to Adam Hartman of Franklin County to to Christopher Keatly of Centre County to Robert Barnett Andrew Heaslet and George Koellen of Lancaster County or the their respective orders forty dollars and immediately and an annuity of forty dollars to each payable half yearly during life to commence on the first day of January on thousand eight hundred and twenty six.

        Sunday's office Harrisburg June 19th 1838
This is to certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the first section of an as entitled an act for the relief of Sundry Soldring of the revolutionary war and for other purpous passed the fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty six.

Witness my hand and the seal of the said office the day and year aforesaid
J Wallace
Deputy Sec ry

Circular seal was placed in the lower left hand corner. Illegible
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Sir
War Department
Pension Office
June 5. 1838
Sir,
The affidavits filed in this Office by
you in the case of Adam Hartman have been examined
and placed on our files. They are not sufficient to
remove the suspension in this case. On reviewing his
case, doubts arose whether he could have served as
set forth in his declaration. To remove the objections
in his case, he should produce a copy of the act
of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, granting him a
pension, and if possible, obtain a copy of the papers
containing the proof upon which the Legislature
acted in allowing his claim
I have the honor to be
act 5 April 1826
Very respectfully
Your Obed Serv [illegible]
J L. Edwards
Hon. Daniel Sheffer
House of Representatives
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to the senate and house of representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in general assembly met.
      The petition of Adam Hartman of the township of Washington, County of Franklin and commonwealth of Pennsylvania respectfully set forth that your petitioner was a soldier in the revolutionary war.  that he enlisted two different times was at the taking of Cornwallis and was honorably discharged - which discharges he has lost - that he is old and infirm and not able to maintain himself and family by work and being poor - pray this honorable assembly to take his case into consideration and grant him such relief as they in their wisdom may think letting your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray 
Adam Hartman

(The following paragraph has badly faded. Some letters are missing in words making it difficult to transcribe. Please refer to the original letter for clarification if needed.)

The illegible do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Adam Hartman the above petitioner, this he is old. poor and infirm that he is honest - sober and illegible -and-although we have no knowledge of the man we have no hesitation in saying that we put full faith and credit in his statement -

James Bratherton
John Flanagan
James Burns
John J. Oellig MD
Henry Smith
T Ligget
Charles Smith
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Harrisburg Feb 8th 1837
Dear Sir
I send you the petition and Documents of Adam
Hartman, as requested and would have sent
them earlier had it not been that I was waiting
for the Deposition of a certain Michael Grinder
of Frederick County Maryland.
Mr. Grinder was according to his deposition taken
some years since the mess mate of Hartman
and served with him in the French Artillery
at the taking of Cornwallace at York town
With Mr. Grinder I am well acquainted and
should his affidavit be on file, I have no
hesitation in saying that full faith [and]
Credit ought to attach to any statement that
he may have made. Should the affidavit
for which I have wrote come to hand previous
to the adjournment of Congress I will send it
to you. We
are progressing slowly,
as respects the passage of bills, but cutting
out as much and perhaps more than we
will be able to finish between this &
the tenth of April.
Respectfully yours,

Hon Geo. Chambers
-
John Hanagan
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Washington July 6th 1836
To the Honorable J L Edwards
Sir A letter from Jos. G Parks & Co. of Philad'a to Joseph Pratts Esq of Chambersburg was first into my hands by Adam Hartman a revolutionary soldier - by which it appears that the payment of the Pension to the said Hartman has been suspended in purmanence of an Order from the Pension office.
You (illegible) confer a particular favor on to Mr. Hartman, who is Much afflicted and very poor.  And your humble servant by informing Me of the reason why his Pension has been suspended and what proceedings would be necessary to entitle him to receive it as heretofore
                    Yours Respectfully
                     John Flanagan
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Maryland Frederick County to wit

On this 16th day of January 1834 personaly appeared Michael Grinder before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County, and after being duly sworn, Deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Adam Hartman of the state of Pensylvania and that he said deponant doth know that said Adam Hartman was a soldier in the army of the revolutionary war, under the command of Colonel Alcott, and deponant further saith that he served with the said Adam Hartman as messmates for two years, and further that he said deponent and said Adam Hartman were both engaged in the Battle at the taking of Cornwallis and further the deponent saith not given under my hand and seal the day above writen
Sworn before                Malachi Bernard {seal}

I Do hereby certify that Michael Grinder is the person who made oath as above stated, and that he is a credible person, who may be believed, Given under my hand this 16th day January 1834. 
                                      Malachi Bernard

State of Maryland Sct.
I hereby certify that Malachi Bernard Gentleman, before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and whose name is thereunto subscribed was at the time thereof and still is a Justice of the Peace of the Said State, in & for Frederick County, duly Commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Frederick County Court this 16th day of January 1834.
                           John Schleych
                            Fred'k County Court
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Franklin County ss
Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county of Franklin personally came Adam Hartman of the Borough of Waynesburg, County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania line having sworn according to law doth depose and say - That some time in the year 1775 or 6 he enlisted in the service of the United States in Captain Christian Sawyers Company - in the County of Berks- and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that after his enlisting he was Marched to Philadelphia where they lay for some time, from that, to Norristown, and from thence to Philadelphia again.  When he was transfered to a company commanded by Capt John Ferrick, under whose Command he this deponent was Marched to Reading in Berks County.  Where the troops lay for some time, when This deponent was discharged - having served out the time of his enlistment, which was two years.  After which This deponent hired as a substitute to go against the Indians - under the command of Capt Will - or Wool - Where he continued two Months - And again enlisted in a company commanded by the said Captain John Ferrick, and were Marched back to Reading Where they lay for some time, from whence the company to which he was attached proceeded to Join the Army that was Moving towards the south to attack Cornwallace (sic), and that he joined the Main army at York town in Virginia - under the command of Col. Daniel Algert or Albert, that after the surrender of Cornwallace Captain Ferrick left the army and was disgraced.  And this deponent was put under the command of Capt.
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Hartman Lightheiser, under whose command this deponent Marched to Baltimore in the state of Maryland, and from Thence towards Philadelphia and from thence towards New York, and from Thence to Boston - Where they lay for some time after which they went into winter quarters at a small town Which This deponent things was called Cherry town - from Whence they Marched to Hartford and were discharged.  And further saith that sworn to and subscribed this fourteenth day of January One Thousand Eight hundred and twenty six
Before me.                    Adam Hartman
John Flanagan
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This is a journal type with writing on both left and right sides. 

Left Side:

I John Flanagan clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Franklin Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing and written contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Adam Hartman for a pension.
   In testimony whereof I have to set my hand and seal of the office and of the said court this 21st January 1834
                            John Flanagan
                            Prothy

Right Side:

29.316

Adm 2 years
$80 

Hon G chambers

Ho of Rep
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State of Pennsylvania 
Franklin County ss.
On this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open court before the Alexander Thomson Esq president Judge of the court of Common Pleas of the county of Franklin Penn'a and his associates now sitting Adam Hartman of Washington Township Franklin county Penn'a aged Seventy two years on the fifth day of May next, who having first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - That he lived in Berks county Pennsylvania during the revolutionary war - That some time after the commencement of the revolution he enlisted in the company of Captain John Physick for the term of two years, under the command of Col. Morgan - That after he was enlisted they were marched to Philadelphia and to Somerset and several other places - That he served out the two years for which he was enlisted faithfully - That he got a written discharge in Reading Penn'a but the same is lost - That after his said Term was out he came home and lived for a short time with a man of the name of George Swayer who was drafted in the militia for two months and that he agreed to become a substitute of the said Swayer - That as such substitute he marched in the company of Captain Will on a scouting expedition against the Indians of the Susquehanna.  That during the said two months this deponent saw much hand service; and that he served out the said two months all with the exception of two days for he enlisted again under Captain Physick two days before the complete expiration of the two months - This second enlistment under Captain Physick was for the term of two years - That Captain Physick's company
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marched from up the river to Reading, then we got orders to go to Norristown and the other side of Norristown we joined the French soldiers - That he was in the Regiment of Col. Algert or Alcott, that he does not recollect the number of the Regiment - That they there marched to Philadelphia and to Baltimore and then to Little York in Virginia where we were at the taking Cornwallis - That he served out the two years in full - That he got a written discharge but the same is lost - That in all he served the United States in the revolutionary war for four years and two months with the exception of the two days before stated - This memory had failed him very much and cannot be very particular about his services - That Michael Grinder and Mathias Culp know of his services - The former was with him in his last enlistment for the whole two years and was in the same mess with him - The deposition of Michael Grinder is herewith transmitted - that this applicant found his services in the legislature of Pennsylvania by the deposition of Mathias Culp of Adams county and the said Legislature granted him a pension of $40 per year during his life - That he has no record of his age - That he cannot procure a clergyman to certify for him without great inconvenience and endeavor - That he states the names of John Flanagan Prothy. of the Court of Com. Pleas and Charles Smith who can testify for him - this applicant when he entered the service of the United States lived in Berks county as before mentioned and lived there for some time after the war, then after that he lived in that part of York county Penn'a now Adams county about eight years, then he lived in the county of Cumberland Penn'a about eight years, then he lived in Emittsburg about two years, then he lived in Waynesburg in Franklin county aforesaid where he has lived for upwards of nineteen years - That he hereby doth relinquish every claim whatever to any pension of annuity under any law of
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the United States providing for revolutionary officers and soldiers, except the present - and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state; and that the only pension he receives is the one mentioned from the State of Penn'a granted by the Legislature thereof.                           Adam Hartman
Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court Jan'y 20th 1834
John Flanagan, Proth'y 

We John Flanagan Proth'y of the court of Common Pleas for Franklin county and Charles Smith both residing in the county of Franklin hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Adam Hartman who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy two years old on the 5th of May next; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.  Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court A Thomson President
                  John Flanagan
                  Charles Smith

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department that the above applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states - And the court further certifies that it appears to them that John Flanagan and Charles Smith who have signed the preceding certificate are resident in the county of Franklin aforesaid and are credible persons and their statement is entitled to consent. 
               A Thomson
               William McFeger
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I John Flanagan clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the county of Franklin Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing and within contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Adam Hartman for a pension.
              In testimony whereof I have have to set my hand and seal of office and of the said court this 21st January 1834.
John Flanagan Prothy


29.316
Adm 2 years
$80

Hon G. Chambers
Ho of Rep
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This is a journal type document with writing on both left and right side of the papers as follows:

Left side:
N Allyn’s

Hon D. Shafer
HR

Right side:

Depositions of Jon. Flanagan Esqr
A. Nilsson Esqr
And 
Adam Hartman


The written certificate is recorded in the pension office, in Book C vol -5 Page 24 by JP Sprague Clerk. As appears by the original in Adam Hartman’s illegible
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State of Pennsylvania
Franklin County Let 

I Joseph Minnick Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of the said county do certify that John Nill Esq before whom the foregoing proceedings were had was a the time of the claim thereof and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county duly qualified and commissioned according to law. And that the several signatures thereto attached purporting to be his are genuine -  In testimony where’d I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court at Chamberstroy The 28th day of May AD. 1838 -
Joseph Minnick
Prothonotary
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                        War Department
                      Revolutionary Claim

   I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 Adam Heartman of the state of Pennsylvania who was a private during the Revolutionary War, is entitled to receive Eighty dollars per annim, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semiannually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.
    Giving at the War Office of the United States. This 27th day of Jany - One thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
                               Lew Cass
                            Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned}
J.L. Edward’s
Commissioner of Pensions
Pennsylvania
Franklin County ss } 
                                    Before me the subscribed one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally came John Flanagan Esq. and being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is and has been acquainted with Adam Heartman named in the above Certificate  (which is a true copy of the original in his illegible) for upwards of twenty years past - that the said Heartman is a man of truth and veracity - that said Deponent doth verily believe that the said Adam Heartman was a soldier of the revolution, by evidence of respectability taken by said Deponent on a former occasion - and by him the said Heartman procured to prove the fact - that he the said Heartman was placed on the Pension list of the United States - That the said Adam Heartman is still alive and in indigent cis =
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Circumstances not possessing any real estate and no more personal property than is allowed by law and further saith not - Sworn and subscribed before me May 25th 1838. 
John Nill }.     John Flanagan

Franklin County ss
                                Before the subscribed one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally came Nathanion Wilson Esqr. And being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that he is and has been personally and well acquainted with Adam Heartman named in the within certificate (which is a true copy of the original in his possession) for about twenty years - and that it was the current report and generally believed in the neighborhood that said Heartman was a soldier of the revolution and had served a tour in said war - Said Deponent did further depose and say that said Heartman during his acquaintance as aforesaid has always  been considered a man of truth and veracity and that his statements are worthy of credit - That said Heartman is poor and in indigent circumstances, not possessing any real estate and no more personal than is allowed by law and is unable as said Deponent verily believes on account of age and infirmity to earn a subsistence for himself and family by bodily labor. And further saith not - sworn and subscribed before me May the 25th 1838
John Nill}
N Wilson
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[Breaks added for clarity of transcription]

State of Pennsylvania    } 
Franklin County B         }

Before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County, personally came Adam Hartman, named in the within Certificate, and made oath in due form of law, that he is the Identical Adam Hartman named in said Certificate, of which the original is in his possession as will appear by reference to the same, as Recorded in the Pension Office in Book C -- Vol. 5 Page 24 & numbered 25.902-06 -- which entitled the said Deponent to a Pension of Eighty dollars per annum on account of services rendered in the revolutionary war, as appears from the face of said Certificate, & that a Pension was drawn by said deponent at said rate up to the [illegible] – 1835 &c—

That said Deponent (Hartman) served a little over four years as a private in the Revolutionary war in an Artillery Company commanded by Captain Adam Leighthyser in Colonel Alkirk’s Regiment & two years of said four in connection with the French Artillery & two years & better under General Washington, in the Pennsylvania line -- during which time was in the battle at the siege of Yorktown & assisted in the taking of Lord Cornwallis & Army, on the 19th of October A.D. 1781--  

Served in said Army to the war was over & received a discharge from Colonel Alkirk after the declaration of peace, in the year AD 1783 at New Hearford Connecticut State, as well as deponent recollects. That said deponent now resides in Washington Township Franklin County & has resided therein, for the space of twenty four years, & that previous thereto he resided in Bucks County Pennsylvania, with the exception of three years that deponent resided in Emmittsburg Maryland --  

That said deponent is now in the 77th year of his age & that he is in indigent circumstances, & unable to follow any kind of business to procure a subsistence for himself & wife (who is also aged & helpless) on account of chronick rheumatism & other bodily infirmities &c. & further saith not.

Adam Hartman

Sworn and Subscribed before me May the 25th 1838

John Sim          }
Jus. of Peace    }