Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22270, George Goodyear, Penn.
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(3-1776

SERVICE |                                 | NUMBER
 Penn.     | Goodyear, George  |  S. 22270
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                       26.123
Pennsylvania  26.125
_____________________________________________
George Goodyear
of York Co in the State of Pa
who was a P in the Compy commande
by Captain Jenning of the Regt commanded
by Col Wayne on the Penna line for  ------
8 Mo P $26.66
________________________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Penna at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
_______________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 12" day of March ----- and Sent to 1834. David Corey, York, Pa
________________________________________________
Arrears to the 4th of Mch '34         $80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sepr  13.33
                                                        _______
                                                        $93.33
                                                      ________
{ Revolutionary Claim, }
{Act June 7, 1832.        }
Recorded by J. T. Sprague Clerk
Book C - Vol. 5 Page 22
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[written in top left corner, parallel to the left edge of the paper, is the word "Prothy", probably short for Prothonotary]

29.855
Adm 8 Months

26.66
       3
_________
66. 06

Hon Mr Barnitz
Ho of Rep

[right side of page bears what looks to be a raised seal; writing on seal illegible]
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State of Pennsylvania }
County of York           } SS
On this 20th day of February 1834 Personally appeard in Open Court now sitting [illegible] Court of Common Pleas for said County of York and State of Pennsylvania George Goodyear a resident of said County aged 82 years - who being duly sworn According to Law doth on his make the following declaration in order to Obtain the benefit of an Act of Congress passed 7th of June 1832
That He the said George Goodyear was ["1" written in left margin] drafted for two months at York Pa about the 1st of July 1776 to serve in Captain Spanglers Company and Swopes Battalion and marched through Lancaster & Chester Counties to Philadelphia from thence to Trenton and Princeton & New Brunswick and Amboy and to Hackensack and duly served out the time for which he was drafted and was Then discharged at Hackensack New Jersey - ["2 written in left margin] That about September 1782 he Volunteered again to guard watch and Keep secure some Brittish prisoners which were sent to Carlile for Safe Keeping and that he served two months in Capt Pennington Company.   ["3" written in left margin] That on or about the month of October 1780 or 81 he Volunteered to Serve under Captain Eichelberger ---
and did Serve in Company four months and remained in the Service at York with the Troops - commanded by Gen'l Wayne who remained in York before Gen'l Cornwallis was Taken and Served altogether at Least eight months in the revolution And I further declare that I have no documentary evidence in my possession nor do I know of any persons living whose testimony I can get to prove my service except Joseph Croft a U.S. Pensioner I hereby Relinquish every Claim whatever to a pension except the present and declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State or place whatever nor did I ever apply for a pension untill in the present year.

            his
George  X  Goodyear
           mark

Sworn to & Subscribed in
Open Court the day and year
Aforesaid
John W Hetrick
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Ques by Court 1 When and in what year was Born
Answer I was born in Lancaster County 1751
Ques by Court 2 Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
Answer I have no Record of my Age
Ques by Court 3 Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live
Answer I lived in york County when called into service and have lived in york County ever since the Revolutiony war I now live in york County
Ques by Court 4 How were you called into service were you drafted did you Volunteer or were you a substitute and if a Substitute for Whom
Answer I was drafted the first Tour under Capt Spangler the Second & third time I served I volunteered
Ques by Court 5 State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with The troops where you served Such Continental and Militia regiments as you Can Recollect and the general Circumstances of your services
Answer I was acquainted with Col Swope and [there appears to be extremely faded writing slightly above the end of this line that says "[illegible] Long"] but do not recollect the names of any Regulars Officer
Ques by Court 6 Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Answer  Answer I never Received any written Discharges
Quest by Court 7 State the names of Persons to whom you are known in your present Neighbourhood and who Can testify as to your character for Veracity and there belief - of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution
Answer Charles Strine Jacob Watson Jacob Smyser George Lowman Jacob Hantz Joseph Morris Can all testify as to my Character for Veracity and there belief of my services as a Soldier of the Revolution
Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court this 20th day of Febry 1834
                                         his
                            George  X   Goodyear
                                       mark

Jno W Hetrick Proth(onotar)y
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W J G Schmucker a clergymen residing in the borough of York in the State of Pennsylvania and John McCurdy in this same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with George Goodyear who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 82 years of age and 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

Dated at York Pa
this 20 day of February AD 1834
[??] 20 1834 sworn & Subscribed
in open court before
(signed) John W Hetrick Prot(honotar)y

(signed) J Geo Schmucker 
(signed) John McCurdy
State of Pennsylvania
County of York             } SS

Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace --------- and [crossed out] for said County of York in the State of PA Joseph Croft a United States pensioner under the act of Congress of 1832 credible witness who being by me duly sworn according to law saith that George Goodyear was a soldier in Captain Spanglers Company in the year 1776 in Col. Swopes Battalion and Marched to  N Jersey but deponant Can not Recollect the time he Served
deponent Belonged to the Same Company and speaks from his own knowledge and further saith not Sworn to & Subscribed before me
March 8th, 1834

(signed) Joseph Croft
(signed) J A Wilson

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories subscribed by the War department that the above-named applicant was a Revolutionary solider and served as he states, and I further certify that I Know J G Schmucker to be a clergyman resident in the Borough & County of York and that John McCurdy who has signed the same is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
I John M Hetrick Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for the County of York PA do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in Matter of Application of George Goodyear for a pension in testimony whereof I have hereunto let my hand and Seal of Office this 20th day of February 1834

(signed) J W Hetrick  Proth(onotar)y
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Pennsylvania
York County SS
        To the left of the paragraph is a seal.
    I John W Hetrick Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of said County DO Certify that John A Wilson Esquire before whom the within depositions were taken is and was at the time of signing his name thereto an acting Justice of the peace in  and for said County and as such is duly commissioned and qualified and that all acts by him done in that capacity full faith & Credit are due and right ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as also where In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Said Court at York borough this 8th day of March AD 1834

(signed) J W Hetrick Proth(onotar(y
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September 34, 1937

Mr. Albert J. Byrnes
837 East Boundary Avenue
York, Pennsylvania

BA-J/ILL
George Goodyear
S. 22270

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of George Goodyear, a pensioner in 1834.

The data given herein were found in pension claim, S. 22270, based upon service of George Goodyear in the Revolutionary War.

George Goodyear was born in the year 1751, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; the day of his birth, and the names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of York County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted July 1, 1778, and served two months as private in Captain Spangler's company, Colonel Swope's Pennsylvania regiment; he enlisted about October 1780, and served four months as private in Captain Eichelberger's company with the troope under General Wayne; he enlisted in September 1782, and served two months as private in Captain Pennington's Pennsylvania company, during which he guarded prisoners at Carlisle.

George Goodyear was allowed pension on his application executed February 20, 1834, at which time he resided in York County, Pennsylvania. He had continued to reside there ever since the Revolutionary War. He made no reference to wife or children.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should write the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this
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city, and furnish the following:

George Goodyear,
Certificate #26125
Issued March 12, 1834
Rate $26.66 per annum
Commenced 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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This form has preptinted info and blank spaces for additional information.  The ADDITIONAL INFORMATION is in Parentheses.

In reply to your request of ___________, received________ for a statement of military history of (George Goodyear) a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widows) this is crossed out application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

A table of 6 columns
Dates of Enlistment or appointment/Length of service/ Rank/ Officers under whom service was further divided into Captain & Colonel/ State
First line:
(July 1 1776/2mths/private/Spangler/Swope/Penna
Second line:
(Sept 1782 / 2 mos/blank/Pennington/checkmark
  /blank
Third Line:
Oct. 1780/4 mos./blank/Eichelberger/Genl Wayne/blank

Battles engaged in,  just has a checkmark
Residence of soldier at enlistment, (York Co Penn)
Date of application for pension, (Feb. 20, 1834 His claim was allowed)
Residence at date of application, (York Co, Penn)
Age at date of application, (born in 1751 in Lancaster Co Penn)
REmarks:  (Date of death not shown (A.B.) No family data) 

            Respectfully,   Not signed by anyone
                                      Commissioner.
5-2856
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(1 Cent postcard)

Circular stamp:
York, PA
Jul 26, 1937
6:30 pm

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Received stamp:
Circular (very faded)
Jul 27, 1937
Mail SUB-DIV
(rest is illegible)
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July 26, 1937

Dear Sir or Madam:
Please send me any record you have of George Goodyear of York County, Pennsylvania who wa pensioned in 1834 for his service in the Revolution.

Yours truly,
Albert J. Byrnes (signature)
Albert J. Byrnes
837 East Boundary Avenue
York, Pennsylvania
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             REV. Sec       FDL checkmark
Dept of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions

     Please send military record of Jacob Dondel, ( above is name is written S 10583)or Daudel, a Revolutionary soldier, 1776-1782. Also of George Goodyear (above his name is written S22270), 1776-1787. ALso, if any of Peter Dinkle, and Henry Lanius.
           Mrs L M Hartman
              31 North Bever St
                York Penna

Stamp with Pension at top  Office at Bottom
In middle Nove 15 1915 with U. S. on either side of date.
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144 S. Duke St.
York Pennsylvania
March twenty-first, 1901
My dear Mr. Erney:
May I ask
your assistance in a work
that is interesting me
at present?  Im looking
up family records, for
the benefit of some cousins
who are anxious to join the "D.A.R." and also
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to make a record for my
own pleasure, I am de-
sirous to learn whether
the names of the old
soldiers of my family
are enrolled on the 
Revolutionary pensions lists.
Would I be asking too much
of you, to request you to
examine the lists - at the 
Pension  Office and send
me such information as 
would be valuable to me.
I have been advised
to do this, as an old
cousin in Michigan
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thinks they would be found
on the old records in Washing-
ton. The names are _ George Good-
Year, or it may be spelled Gutjahr,
Christopher Lowman's Company 1778.
Peter Dinkle, 3rd Co, 1775, 3rd Battalion, Capt.
Peter Foote. Jacob Dandel, or Dondle,
Capt. Wm Bailey's Company, 1776.
June 14th,  John Klinefelter, from
Shrewsbury Township, 1775.  Hoping
I shall not be trespassing upon
your valuable time to such
an extent as to inconveinence
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you in any way. I take
the liberty to Thank You
in advance for such
information as You
may be able to send
to me. Kindly remember
me to Mrs. Erney, and
believe me to be
Very Cordially
Yours
Sarah A. Baylor Hartman
(Mrs. L.M. Hartman)
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              Letterhead of the the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution
               Office of the Historian-General
                         32 & 33 Buhl Building

                
Detroit, MICH. 8, July, 1904

To the Hon.Commissioner of Pensions, 
                  Washington, D.C.



Dear Sir:

              Would you kindly send me a copy of the Revolutionary record, which contains the services of John George Goodyear, of Lancaster, Pa., and who was granted a pension Feb'y 20th, 1834.  
              By doing so, you will greatly oblige.

               Yours very truly, 
               [signature] George Bates
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[left side]
MILITARY SECRETARY'S OFFICE
JUL 11 900229 1904
WAR DEPARTMENT

Detroit Mich
July 8/04
John George Goodyear
Pa Rev War

George M Bates requests
Rev war record of above
named

[right side]
Address: "The Military Secretary,
War Department, Washington, D. C."

The Military Secretary's Office,
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washinton, July 12, 1904.

Respectfully transmitted to
The Commissioner of Pensions,
to whom the communication, herewith, of Mr. George W. Bates is addressed.
The name John George Goodyear has not been found on the rolls, on file in this office, of any organization of Pennsylvania or Continental troops in service during the war of the Revolution.

O. W & N. DIVISION
JUL 14 1904
RECEIVED

PENSION
H
JUL
13
1904
U. S.
OFFICE

BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
F. Chinsonth[?]
The Military Secretary,
Per H

(300c)
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Colgrove & Potter,
Phillip T. Colgrove.
Wm. W. Potter.
X
Lawyers,
Hastings, Mich.

OLD WAR & NAVY
JUN 20 1904
FILES

June 16, 1904.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear sir:-
Will you kindly inform me whether George Goodyear was a pensioner in the war of the Revolution? He enlisted from York, Pa, and I have been advised that he was a pensioner. For this information I shall be much indebted to you.
Very truly yours,
PT Colgrove,
Hastings
Mich

PENSIONS
A
JUN
18
1904
OFFICE
U. S.
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[left side]
Revolution
22270
INVALID.
File No 22270
George Goodyear
The Rev War
Act: June 7" 22"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 157
Arrangement of 1870.

[right side]
Mch. 25-1901
Mrs. L. M. Hartman, yo

1904 July 27. P. T. Colgrove
[wife?] of service. AW.

Aug. 3. 1904 Hist to Geo. Bates
Detroit, Mich.

1915 Nov. 18. Hist. to Ms. L. M.
Hartman. C.

1937. Sept. 24. Hist to Albert J. Byruss.
ILL.