Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11706, Joseph Winegardner, Continental (French) Residence Ohio In 1833
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Comntinental (French)

WINEGARDNER, JOSEPH 
or WINGEROW

R11706
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The State of Ohio, Dark County
Court of Common Pleas
of the term of November A.D. 1833

First Federal Circuit of the Court of Common Pleas

On this 18th day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared before the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Dark and State of Ohio JOSEPH WINEGARDNER, alias Joseph Wingerow aged seventy seven years, a resident of the County of Dark aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth upon his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June seventh eighteen hundred and thirty two.  That in the month of July A.D. seventeen hundred and eighty he entered the service of the United States as a private in Captain Eskalon's Company of Colonel Pulaski's Regiment in Duke De Lauzun's Legion or Division of Volunteers, under the command of Count Du Rochambeau at Newport Rhode Island, the Regiment Legion or Brigade to which deformant belonged as aforesaid, being provided with horses, arms to by General Washington were marched to Northampton, Massachusetts when they were quartered during the winter following..  In the Spring of the year following deformant was marched with said troops under the officers aforesaid to the "White Plain"s so called near New York at and near which said Legion or Brigade of Cavalry were encamped until the autumn of the year A.D. seventeen hundred and eighty one when they were ordered by General Washington to Virginia, where they were engaged in a skirmish with a detachment of British Cavalry near Yorktown a few days previous to the surrender of General Cornwallis in which skirmish deformant was severely wounded in his bridle arm by a pistol shot from the enemy.  Deformant was with said troops under Duke De Lauzun and the officers aforesaid at Yorktown, when Cornwallis surrendered his forces to General Washington, after which they were marched to Hampton where they were quartered until the winter of said year last mentioned.  From Hampton deformant was marched with said troops with the aforesaid to Charlottville where they remained until the spring of the year A.D. Seventeen hundred and eighty two when said troops were discharged and Duke De Lauzen embarked for France.  Deformant was engaged as a private in the Regiment and Legion of Light Horse troops or Cavalry as aforesaid, under the officers aforesaid for more than two years.  Deformant received a written discharge signed by Duke De Lauzun on his return to France which he has since lost.  Deformant knows of no witnesses living by whom to prove his services; he is well acquainted with
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Daniel Deter, William Byers + John Ellis by whom he can as he believes prove his character for truth and veracity and his general reputation as a soldier of the Revolution. Deformant lives remote from any clergyman to whom he is (illegible - line written in between the lines).  Deformant has no written record of his age, but from the best of his recollection believes that he was born in Germany on the eleventh day of May, A.D. seventeen hundred and fifty six.  Next after the Revolutionary War deformant resided in the state of North Carolina for twenty four years, since which he has lived where he lives now in Dark County in the State of Ohio - he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.

his mark JOSEPH WINEGARDNER

sworn and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
John Beers, clerk

Daniel Deter, Willliam Byers and John Ellis, we residing in the county of Darke in the State of Ohio, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Winegardner who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Beers, clerk
his mark Daniel Deter
William Byers
his mark John Ellis

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatory prescribed by the war department that the above named
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applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Daniel Deter, William Byers, and John Ellis who have signed the preceeding certificate are residents in the county of Darke aforesaid and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
by order of the court
John Beers, clerk

I John Beers clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in Darke County Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Joseph Winegardner for a pension.

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 19th day of November A.D. 1833
John Beers, clerk
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Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873

REJECTED

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Act 7 June 1832

rejected

See letter as beham
16 Dec 1833


Service not provided for

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Revolutionary Pensions Claims
The Honorable the Secretary of War
Washington City

Eaton Ohio
18 Nov 1832

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Eaton Ohio Nov 25th 1833

Sir
Herewith you will receive the application of Joseph Winegardner, alias Joseph Wingerow (which last name I an informed is his German name) for a pension under the Act of Congress June 7th 1832 - you will discover by his papers that he belonged to a volunteer corps, who received no compensation from the French Government.  I apprehend that similar cases have already come under the notice of the department - you will please correspond with me upon the subject -

Your obt serv
Solomon Banta Atto.

J L Edwards
(illegible)
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28.662

JOSEPH WINEGARDNER
Ohio

Solomon Banta
Eaton, Ohio
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,

Sir:
      The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulators will show what is [illeligible] to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by [illeligible] with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

A Statement, showing the Service of Joseph [illeligible] Winegardner