Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9651, Adam Zumwalt, Va.
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(3 - 1776)

                           SERVICE                                                                                                                        NUMBER

Va.                                                                                       Zumwalt, Adam                                      W. 9651

French War                                                                                           Mary



CONTENTS
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State of Missouri County of Lincoln: SS

On this seventeenth day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the
Judges of the Second Judicial Circuit of the State aforesaid now sitting at Troy in the County of
Lincoln aforesaid Adam Zumwalt a resident of Cuivre township in St. Charles County & State
aforesaid, aged seventy-seven years, 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 passed
June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and
served as herein stated.                                                        the said Zumwalt volunteered under
Captain Samuel Wilson                                                                                                           (when he the
said Zumwalt was about 17 years of age) who belonged to the Regiment commanded by Colonel
Charles Louis [Charles Lewis] who lived in what was called the Cow Pasture, about 12 miles
from the Warm Springs in the State of Virginia and served about 3 or 4 months and was
discharged, the above service was in what was called the French war.

He was afterwards drafted under the command of Captain McCoy [John McCoy] (of
Augusta County Virginia) for the purpose of guarding the frontiers. And that he served under
said McCoy & was engaged in ranging & scouring the frontiers & guarding the Country about
Tigers Valley, Buchanan & West fort.
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That he was afterwards drafted under Lieutenant Thomas

Wright of Augusta Cy Virginia and stationed at Clover

Leak in Green brier for 3 months and again dis

charged. That he afterwards again volunteered 

under Captain Bell for 3 months & again stationed 

at Clover Lick & also at what was called the Big

 Level (the name of the County does not recollect 

but thinks it was Green Brier) - That he was 

afterwards drafted under Colonel Hull (of Augusta 

Cy Virginia) and was engaged in several short excursions 

against the Tories of Virginia. That he afterwards 

emigrated west to what is now Kentucky. And

 that he was again called on to go as a spy under 

Captain McConnell under whom he served in the

 neighborhood of Lexington, Cincinnati, Big bone 

lick & other places. That while he belonged to 

McConnell's company the company 

was called on by General George R Clark (who was 

then stationed at Louisville) to go on an expe -

dition against the Indians in which expedition 

there were 3 Indian towns destroyed on the

Miami. The last mentioned services were 

rendered about the close of the Revolutionary

War.


And the said Zumwalt further states that he has

no education at all & therefore has
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been able to keep any memorandum of the 

dates at which the above services were rendered 

nor can he from memory give the same.

He further says that he cannot recollect the 

length of time he served at each time he was in 

the service but that he is certain that he was 

at least 2 years in the service and all.

That he does not recollect by name any battle that he was

 in but that he was in several skirmishes with the

 Indians during the time of his service.


Questions by the judge.

1st Where and in what year were you born?

Ans. I was born in the State of Virginia about 25 miles above Winchester. 

Do not know the year in which I was born

but think I was about 18 years of age at the beginning 

of the revolution.


2nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?

Ans. I know of no record of my age - And can only tell 

my age by the age my mother gave when I was bound 

out to learn a trade - soon after I enlisted & never returned to my trade.


3rd Where were you living when called into service: 

where have you lived since the Revolutionary War 

and where do you now live?

Ans. I was living in Augusta County Virginia when called 

into service. I lived 12 or 15 years in Kentucky

 after the war - then removed to the place I now live 

in St. Charles County Missouri & have lived there ever
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4th How were you called into service; were you drafted; did you volunteer or were you 

a substitute, and if in substitute, 

for whom?

Ans. I was first drafted under Captain McCoy - next 

volunteered under Captain McCoy. I never served as 

a substitute. I was after drafted as appears in 

my statement above.


5th State the names of some of the regular officers 

who were with the troops when you served, such Con -

tinental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the gen -

eral circumstances of your service.


Ans. General George Clark is the only regular officer I 

served under. 

I was but little down at the camp 

was generally engaged as a spy on the frontiers


6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, 

and if so, by whom was it given and what has become 

of it?

Ans. I received a discharge from Captain Hull 

which I have lost. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension 

or annuity except the present & declare that my name is 

not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State whatever. 


Sworn to and

subscribed in open Court September 17th A.D. 1832


Francis Parker, Clerk                            Adam Zumwalt
                                                                      (His X Mark)


(Here insert the Clergyman affidavit.)


                                                                      Zumwalt  Adam

                                                                      Va - French War  W 8651
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.                                                                      Troy , Lincoln County, Mo

                                                                       September 1832


This unto certify that  I haver been personally and

particularly acquainted with Adam Zumwalt

aged about seventy seven year of the county St Charles

and State aforesaid and for about eight or ten years and

that he is with out exception as  far as I know

esteemed a man of  ? and and moral character

both by those with and within the christian

church to which he belongs.  I have often heard him

relate many incidents of his life as a soldier and

volunteer both in the indian wars in Virginia  prior

? to the revolution, under Col Seiver and

afterwards in the Revolutionary War which as he ?

the independence of the United States and which

amounts I do believe to be  according to ?

                                     John ? Ball

reguarly ? ? ? of the Gospel

of the Presbyterian Church ? ?

of the county of Linclon


Sworn & subscribed to in the Court

September 11, 18??

F. Parker   clerk
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(Francis Parker  JP)





Zumwalt, Adam
Va - French War   W 9651
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State of Missouri 
                                      SS
County of Warren                       Whereas at ?  ? of

the County Court within and for said County

Began and held at the house of Joseph B

Wells in Warrenton in said County on 

the third Monday of August  AD 1839 and

on the second day of said Term of said

Court ? Aug the 20th day of said ?

of August AD 1839 personally appeared

in ? Court before the Justice of sd

Court   Mary Zumwalt (late may ?

widow of ? Zumwalt Deceased

and made her declaration for the purp

of obtaining the ? of the act of

congress of ? ? 1838 entitled


It a act granting half pay and and pension

to certain widowers  And ? ?

Court Received the Evidence of Warrant

Zumwalt & John Kent in support of the

claim of late Mary Zumwalt to the

? of the provisions of said act &

caused the same to see said to wrting

anexed to said declaration & certified

under the seal fo said county & ?

dec to the pension office of the United 

States      And there as by a letter of

Jim Crump late November 26th  1839

at the pneion office  in the War Depart -

ment now before me Joseph Neces

Clerk of the said County Court  ? ?

that said Declartion ? ?

claims of said man Zumwalt to the
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have been ? ? filed with

suspended cases & that a final Decision

can not be had till the Original family

Record of which a copy is Given in said

testimony state be to answer to said pen

sion office to the understanding of the

witnesses who testifed

shall also be certifed as required by

Rule 2nd in the printed regulations of

the commissioner of pensions (for such

acres       Now threfore for the purpo

se of the completing the testimony with

aforesaid are according to the provisi

ons of the act and regulatiosn aforesaid


Be it remembered that an thus

27th day fo December in the year of

our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty 

nine it being in ? of said

County Court personally appeared as

the office of the clerk of said Court

the town of Warrenton in the county of

and State aforesaid and before the under

signed, Clerk of said Court Solomon

Zumwalt who being duly sworn by

me on this oath deposith and saith

? he is the son of the aforesaid  Adam

Zumwalt Deceased and Mary Zumwalt

the aforesaid applicant that the paper

to him here shown & marked    An posted

and a Board is, as he ? the witness, the ?

famil Record of the marriage of his said
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father and mother that he is thirty

two years of age, that said papers passed

to a board & marked has been in the

possession of his father Decd from his (Dep -

onents) earliest recollection ? the

with of his said father --- that he ?

does not understand the German lang

uage & that his said father was raised by

German parents & he could neither read

nor write the English language & that

he could not write the German language

but could read said language tolerably

well.  That he has heared his matter &

father ? about said record &

received ? the in session  that

said record was ? by a 

who lived in the county in which

the marriage therein mentioned took

place ? in Fayette County Kentucky

But Deponent does not Recollect the

name of said school master.  That 

he this Deponent lived with his said

father at the tiem of his death, and

has continued to reside at the same

place ever since   That said record Ma

rked A ? in the possession of

his father ? his death & that since

that time he Deponent has had the

possession of it till it wa remove

for the purpose of obtaining for his 

said matter a pension.  To wit in
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last August, that the Board an who

? law paper is posted.  I said paper in

?arked.   & are a pat of the back of a large family

bible presented in the German langu - 

age which was ? & Dept by his

said father ever since his first ?

location ? his deaht & that service ?

live it has belonged to ? Dept by

him third Deponent


Subscribed & sworn to Solomon Zumwalt

before me ? 13  Dec ?



State of Missouri
                                       SS 
County of Warren                    I  ? B

? clerk of the county Court and

him and for the County and state

aforesaid do certify that the Record him

to attached & marked   As posted and ?

is the same referred to by Solomon

Zumwalt  the above named Deponent

in his aforesaid Depositions that

I have been ? acquainted

with said Solomon Zumwalt for two 

years & that I ? him to be a

? creditable & reputable man that

I am also ? acquainted

with the above name John Herst

& legally acquainted with the above

mentioned .  Margaret Zumwalt

whose testimony was taken before 

? County Court in this case

aforesaid and that I believe ?
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both to be credible witness & I do

give their evidence in this case in

placed credit.  In testimony where

of I have hereunto to set my

hand and affixed the seal

of said county court at office

in Warrenton in said ?

this 27 yr day of December

10 1839

               Joseph B Wells  Clk
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Hon. Jno Miller

H. R.
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7026

Missouri


Mary Zumwalt

widow of Adam Zumwalt

who was a Private

in the Va Line


Inscribed on the Rollat the rate of

80 Dollars 00

Cents per annum, to commence on

the 4th day of March, 1843


Certificate of Pension issued the

20 day of June 1845

and sent 50

         Re Greene

         Troy

                   Missouri


[Act of March 3, 1843.]

Recorded in Book A

Vol.  2    Page 235
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Missouri   22308


Adam Zumwalt

of Lincoln Co in the State of Mo

who was a Private in the Co. commanded

by Captain Wilson of the Regt commanded

by Col Lewis in the Virginia a

him for two years


Inscribed on the Roll of Imssouri

at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 cents per annum,

to commence on the ? day of March, 1831.


Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Oct

                                 1833 and sent to Frances

Parker  --- Troy --- L. Co. Missouri


Arrears to the 4th of September 1833  -----  200

Semi - anl allowance ending 4 ? 34                    40
                                                                                       ------
                                                                                     $ 240


                                                         Revolutionary Claim      

                                                         Act June 7, 1832


Recorded by Wm R Palker Clerk

Book  E    Vol.  Eight     Page   91
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partial translation: "May 24, 1785, Adam Zumwalt and Maria Roth [looks more like
Maria Rolf to me, but I don't know anything about the German language] were married and a son
was born on May 8, 1786." "Translated from German Script Sept. 20, 1929 [illegible signature]"]


Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters

http://revwarapps.org/w9651.pdf
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May 25, 1785, Adam 

Zumwalt and Maria Roth

were maried and a son

was born on May 8, 1786.



Translated from German Script

Sept. 20. 1929

? ?
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Declaration to obtain the benefits of 

act of aforesaid of the 7th of July 181 entitled

An act granting halfpay and pensions to certain widows,


State of Missouri
                                     SS
County of Warren 


On this twentiety day of 

August to the year of our lord Eighteen hundred

and thirty nine personally appeared an aforesaid

before the County Court of said County of Warren

Mary Zumwalt a resident of Elkhorn Townsh -

ip in the County and State aforesaid age seventy 

three years who being first duly sworn according

to law doth on her oath make the following 

declaration in order to obtain the benefits by

the pension made by the act of congress assed

July 7th 1838 entitled " an act granting half pay

and pensions to certain widows"  That she is the

widow of Adam Zumwalt who was 

a private in the army of the revolution who

received a pension form the government of the

United States of Eighty dollars per annum during

his life and commencing on the 4th of March

1831 & passed semi annually as will appear by a 

record of his certificate tht he was entitled to said

pension which is dated the month ? of Octo -

ber one thousand eight hundred and thirty three

and is signed  "Capt John Robb  Acting Secretary

of War " & is counter signed by J L Edwards

Commissioner of Pensins & is recorded in

the pension office in Book E  Vol 8  Pate 91

by Wm R Palmer Clerk"  To hich & the papers

on file in the said office refference must be said

to assertain the rank and the amount of services

& c performed by said Adam Zumwalt as this

declarant does not recollect enough of the ?
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to state   She further declares that the was married

to the said Adam Zumwalt on the twenty fourth

day of May in the year seventeen hundred and Eigh

- ty five, that her husband the aforesaid Adam

Zumwalt died on the twenty three day of the

August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty

four.


That she was not married to him

prior to his leaving the service   But the mar 

aige took place previous to the first of Jan 

uary seventeen hundred and ninety four viz

at the time above stated

Sworn and subscribed on the           Mary Zumwalt

day and year above written               (His X Mark)

i Open Court before the County

Court of said County of Warren

Attested                                                     A S Wood  J P



Joseph B Wells   Clerk

Mary and Zumwalt of lawful agee appears

in Open Court and after being duly

sworn  On her oath deposeth and saith

that   She has been acquainted with the

above name Mary Zumwalt ever since

the both were children.  That they deposes

and said Mary Zumwalt wre both raised in

the state of Kentucky that she knows the

the above named Mary Zumwalt is the widow 

of the above named Adam Zumwalt

That shw was present and said Adam 

Zumwalt and saidy Mary Zumwalt marri

ed But that she saw deponent has very little

education & is not in the habit of keeping

dates and cannot speak ? as to


Zumwalt, Adam    Va - French War   W9651
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the date of the aforesaid marriage.  But she beli --

eves it was about the time mentioned in

the foregoing declaration to wit, the 24th

day of May in the year 1785  ---

                                  Margaret Zumwalt

                                  (Her X Mark)


Subscribed & sworn to in

Open Court before the County Court 

of Warren Couty Missouri aforesaid

an this 20th day of August A D 1839

                                      A S Wood    P. J.

Attest

Joseph B Wells  Clerk



John Kent of lawfully appears in

Open Cournt and after been duly sworn a 

his oath despoth and saith that he

was intimately acquainted with Adam Zum 

walt and Mary Zumwalth above named

that he was present when said Adam Zum

- walt decd that he died on the twenty three

days of August AD 1834  as stated in the foreg -

oing declaration of Mary Zumwalt &

that said Mary Zumwalt is his widow

and that she has never been married since

the death of the said Adam Zumwalt

subscribed & sworn to in Open        John Kent

Court before the County Court

of said County of Warren in

Missouri this 20th day of 

August AD 1839

Attest                                          A Wood     P. J

Joseph B Wells   Clerk 


John Henry Smith of lawful age appears

in Open Court and after being duly sworn

an his oath says that the following is 

a correct translation of a family record
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of the mariage of Adam Zumwalt and

Mary Zumwalt late Mary Roth which

is written in the German language & to him

now shown to Wit.


"In the year A. D. 1785 and an the 24 day

" of May   I Adam Zumwalt married Miss Mary"

? the on the name of the holy ?"


Which said record is posted on a piece of  plank?

and appears to have been the back of a Book

& which was first shown to him by the afo -

resaid Mary Zumwalt as second of          ma 

riage
                                         John H Smith


I subscribed & sworn in Open Court

 before the County Court of said county of Warren in Missouri

this 20th day of August AD 1839

Attested

Joseph B Wells  Clerk        A S Wood,  PJ


John Kent above named again appears in Open

Court and after being duly sworn an his oath

says that, the family record mention in the abo

ve deposition of John Henry Smith.  I to ? now

shown was in the possession of the aforesaid

Adam Zumwalt Deceased up to the time of his

death & that it had been in his possession

Ever sine the year AD 1817 when he

said Deponent first became acquianted with

said Zumwalts family   
                                                    John Kent


Subsribed & sworn in Open Court before the

County Court of Warren County this 20th day of 

August AD 1839

Atteste                                             A S Wood P. J.

Joseph B Well Clerk of said Court with the seal of

said County Court hereto affixed at my

office in the town of Warren 

ton in said County of Warren

this day and year above 

written

Joseph B Wells  Clerk


Zumwalt, Adam  9651
Va - French War 


6374
Mary Zumwalt
 Missouri
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12.856                      20.308

Adam Zumwalt

Missouri


Adm 2 yeears $80.---



Francis Parker

Troy

Lincoln Courts

Missouri
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                                                       WAR DEPARMTMENT

                                                                                                                      Pension Office

                                                                                                                       15 Aug 1833




Sir

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7,1832, has

been examined, and the papers are hewrewith 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 wil redaily perceived that objective exist, which must be removed,

before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is

necessary to be done.  These points to which you attention is more particulary directed,

you wil find marked in the margin with a brace            theses        }      You will, when

you return your papers to this department, send this printed letter with them,            and

you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investifaton of you

claim.


A Statement, showing the service of Francis Zumwalt

Period when the             Duration of the                            Rank of            Names and rank of the Field of -           Age at present
service was                       claimant service                          the                     ficers under whom he served                and place of abode         Proof by which the declaration is suppored
rendered                                                                                        claimant                                                                                     when he entered
                                                Years       Month     Days                                                                                                                    the service

                                                                       3                                                             Cap. S. Wilson                                                77 years

                                                                                                                                       Col. C. Lewis
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Traditionary none
                                                                       3                                                              Cap McCoy                                                      Augusta
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 of the witness certified.
                                                                       3                                                               "  Bell                                                                C Va
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 to be credible except
                                                                       3                                                               "  Hull 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 the clergyman  ---  See    
                                                                                                                                        "  Mc Connell                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 note ? ---
                                                   ?                                                                                  Gen G. R. Clarke


                                                                                                                                                                           I am respectfully

                                                                                                                                                                                           Your obedient servant

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      J. L. EDWARDS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Commissioner of Pensions
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                                                  REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832


The following regulation have been adopted:

This laws has been ? to extent, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to ? under the terms "Continental Line,"  State troops," "milita," and "volunteers," all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunttered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employe, with the army upon civl contracts, such as Clerk to Commissionaries and to& c
Store Keepers, & ., Teamsters, Boatmen,  &c.  Persons who served on board of privated armed vessles are
? exclued from the beifit, of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being the actual military service.

Four general classes cases are embraced in the law:
                      1.   The Regular Troops
                      2.   The State Troops
                      3.    Person emplyed in the Naval Service.
                      4.    Indian Spies

As rolls of the regualr tropps in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claim -
ing  the benenfits of this as officers, the ? officers, ? or privates, will, in the first 
instnace, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County were such applicant resides.  And every Court having by law a seal and clerk is
considered a Court or Record.


                                                                                 DECLARATION,

In ordert to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

                                                  State, Territory, or District of
                                                                                                                  SS.
                                                   County of 


On this                 day of                  personallly appeared (a) before
                  A B. a resident (b) of                 in the county of                    and State, Territory or District
of a           aged (.)               years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, pass
June 7th, 1832.  That he enlisten in the Army of the United States, in the year (d)           , with              and
served in the                 (e) regiment of the                line, under the following nameed officers:

He  hereby relinquishes severy claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annnuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any Stoate, or (if any) onl on that of
the Agency in the state of

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid                                                                                    A. B.

[And then wll follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court I do hereby delcare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolu -
tionary soldier, and served as he states,

I do hereby (h) that the foregoing contains the original prceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of                                                                               of the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the aplicationed                                                                                                for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of                                  &c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of srvice in the State Troops, Volunteers of Militia,
excep those who belonged tot he New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, willmake and
subscribe a declaration similir to the foregoing, with the followin additions, viz:

(k) Vote, A. B., and Clergyman   residing in the                                         and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we well acquainted with                                                                                 , who has
subsribed and sorn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
years or age; that       heis reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of     the Revoloution, and that we concur in that opinion.

                              Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid
                        [And then will follow    the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare then opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above name applicant was a Revo -
lutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D. m who has also singed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person and that their stements is entitled to credit.

I,                                                               Clerk of the Cournt of                               do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
                                                                                              In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hard and seal
                                                                                                             of office, this                  day of                                  &c,

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power.  This is the original discharge or ? mis -
sions; abut if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least incredible witness, stating in detal his personal knowledge of the ser -
vices of the applicant, and such circmstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.

It such surviving witness cannot be found, the applican twill so sgtate in his declaration. (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparision of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full accounty of the services of each person
will be indisposable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, ? one be at 
tempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no faborable decision all be ex -
pected.  All applicants will appear before som Court of Record in they COunty inwhich they residem and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature on his
case.  

The Cout will propound the following (at) interrogatories to all applicant for a pseron, on account of
service in the Milita, State troops , on Volunteers, except the Milita of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.

1.   Where in what year were your born?
2.   Have any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3.   Where were you living when called into the service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary
       war, and where do you now?
4.   How were you called into service; where you drafted, did you volunteer, or were , or were you a subsitute?
       And if a substitute, for whom?
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.

                    To a Soldier                   Did you ever receive a discharge form the service, and if so, by who was a giv -
                                                                en, and what has become of it.
6.  
                    To an Officer                  Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it a gned, and what
                                                                has become of it

7.   State the names of person to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can tes -
       tify as to your charagter for veracity, and their belieft of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

       The Court will see that the answeres to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
        requested to annex their opinions of the truth f the statement of the applicant.

       The applicant will further produce in Court, it the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
        without too much expense and inconvenience to hi, tow respecmtable person - one of whom should be
        the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immdiate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
        their acquaintance withhim, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
        and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revlutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
        If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the charcter
        and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

        The traditionary eviidence of service is deemed very important, in the absene of any direct
        proof, except the declaration of the party.  And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
        inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether and doubts have ever existed upton the subject.

         Applicants unable to appear in COurt, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
         required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
         couny, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
         and will also certify that the applican cannot, from bodily infirmity, attended the Court.

         Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record
         or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
         Clerk of the Court of County, under his of office, wil be annexed, stating that such person is a
         Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signtur anned is
         is genuine signature.

         No paymnents can be made on acocunt of the services of any person, who may have died before
         the taking effect of the act of Juen7, 1832;  and in case of death subsequet thereto, and before the
         declaration herein required is made, the parties interested wil transmit such evidence as they can pro -
         cure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
         of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
         opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

                                                  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

{a]   The declarant must appear in open Court ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  of bodily infirmity; in which case the?
         how the rule? down for ? ?

{b}   The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides.  If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficent reason for not
         conforming to the rule

{c}   The age of the claimant must invaribaly be mentioned

{d}   The declarant must mention the priord or periods of the war when he served.

{e}   Every contiental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise satisfactory examination of the
         cannot be had.  Ever claimant must state, with precision, the lengh of the service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so
         defiaite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of the pension he is entitled.  In a casew where the applicant cannot by reason of the
         loss of memory, state precisely how long he served he should ammend his declaration by making an affidavit the following words" 

        "Personally appeared before me, the uundersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c.  A. E. who, being duly sowrn depsoeth and saith that, by reason
         of old age, and the cosequence loss of memory, he cannot swear positvely as to the preceise length of his service, butaccording to the best of his
         recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned belwo and in the following grades:  -- For --------- year ---------months , and-----------           
         days,  he served as a ---------------------.  For------------- month and -------------------days, I served as a ---------------------; an for srvice I claim a pension.{

          It is important in all cases, to determine wiht precision the periods for which each appliance served, and the particular rank he ehld, at the law
          direct the ? to be paid recurring to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase, bout to a four months,
          is ? ?, such qualifying epression are objecteionable  Som person who apply for pension merely state the served two years
          in the ?, &c. without ? the tour, the names of the officers, and other parites ? at respecting their services.  The form of a declaration is
          highly ? .   It must , in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the a ? served;  the duraction of each termof engagement;
          the particular place of places where the service was ?; that the applicantserved with an ?coprs called into service by competent au -
          authority, that he was was either in the field or in garrison, and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil ?.

                      [f]   The law makes the relinquishment indispensable;
                      [g]   The opinion of the courts always required
                      [h]   The Clerk must give his certificate in every case
                       [i]    The Clerk must    this his seal,     and if it has no device or inscription  by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no pub -
                                lic seall of offic, the certificate of a Member of Congrss, proving the official and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers


                                                                          Mode of autenticating papers.

          In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which cont -
          tains the affidavt, or other papers authenticated , the certificate mu be attached thereto by a piece of paper or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must
          pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperity attaced to the certificate.

                                 
                                                                                    Proof of Service

          [j]  In a case where the name of the applicant  is not found on the records of the Department he must prove his service by two credible witnesse
          who are required to set forth in open affidavt the time of the claimant's enerting ther srvice, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well
          as their regiment or company, and to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the wit -
          nesses, and the offficial character and signature of the matistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under the seal office.

          The ? ? [a] to [?] are ? ? applicable to the case of Militia Men, Volunteers, and State Troops.  The proof required by rule in
           note [j] ? ? to troops duty.
           [k]  ? ? ? ? ? to milita cases
           [l]   If ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
           [m]   for answers to the interrgatories must ? be writtend, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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.                                 TREASURY DEPARTMENT

                                               Second Comptroller's Office

                                               July 9th , 1841



Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April 1838, entitled "An

act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain

Pensioner, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury

of the United States,"  Mary Zumwalt --------------------

a Pensioner on the Roll of he Missouri agency, at

the rate of Eighty Dollars -------------------------

per annum, under the lww of the July 1858, has

been paid at the Department, from the ----- 4th of March

to the 4th Sept 1860.

                                             Respectfully yours


                                            Albion E. Parris

                                            Comptroller



To the Commissioner of Pensions

                                                     Present
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.                                                                     June 7, 1940



                                                                       BA - J / AWF
                                                                       Adam Zumalt
Mrs. Walter C. Robbin                           W. 9641
Kalispell
Montana


Dear Madam:

The record of Adam Zumwalt which follows was
obtained from pension claim, W. 9651, based upon
the military service of Adam Zumwalt, in the War 
of the Revolution.

Adam Zumwalt  was born in the year 1755 or 
1756, in Virginia about twenty - five miles above 
Winchester.  The name of his parents were not
given.

When you seventeen years of age, Adams
Zumwalt volunteered under Captain Samuel Wilson
and Colonel Charles Lewis, and served three or
four months in the "French War".

While residing in Augusta County, Virginia,
he served in 1778, 1789, and 1781, three
months in each year as a private under Captains
McCoy, Bell and Hull guarding the frontiers, was
part of the time stationed at Clover Lick on Green -
brier, and was in an expedition against the Tories.
He went to Kentucky, and served twelve months as
private and and Indian Spy in  Captain McConnell's company,
which company was called on by General George R.
Clark to go on an expedition against the Indians, in
this expedition, three Indian Towns on the Miama were
destroyed.

Adam Zumwalt lived or fifteen years in
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Kentucky, then moved to Saint Charles County, 
Missouri.

The soldier, Adam Zumwalt, was allowed pension
on his application executed September 17, 1832, at
which time he was living in "Cuivre" Township, Saint
Charles County, Missouri.

He died August 23, 1834,

Adam Zumwalt married May 24, 1785, in Fayette
County, Kentucky, Miss Mary Roth.  The date and place
of her birth, and names of her parents were not given.

The widow, Mary Zumwalt, was allowed pension
on her application executed August 20, 1839, at
which time she was seventy - three years of age, and
a resident of Elhorn Township, Warren County,
Missouri.

A son was born May 8, 1786, his name not stated.
Their son, Solomon Zumwalt, was thirty - two years old
in 1839, then of Warren County, Missouri.

Margaret Zumwalt was in 1839 of Warren County,
Missouri, and stated that she had known the widow,
Mary Zumwalt since they were children and were
both reared in Kentucky; her relationship to the 
family was not given.

The papers on file in this claim contain no
further discrenible data relative to family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment
of this pension, name and address of person paid,
and possibly the date of death of the widow, Mary
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.                                                                                               3- 

Zumwalt, it is suggested that you apply to the
Comptroller General Accounting Office,
Records Division, this city, and furnish the 
following data:

Mary Zumwalt, widow of Adam umwalt
Certificate# 7026
Issued June 20, 1845
Rate $80.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1843
Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844
Missouri Agency.


                     Very truly yours,


                     A. D. Hiller
                    Executive Assistant
                    to the Administrator
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Handwriting faded - Not able to transcribe
Page 31

Zumwalt, Adam

Va - French War   W 9651
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Zumwalt, Adam
Va. - French War   W9651
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6374

Mary Zumwalt

of Adam

Missouri


admitted

Pr; 2 years Cap Wiilson

Col Lewis   Va


died 23 Augt 1834


Act July 1838


Hon Hohn Miller 

N. C.
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1908 Oct 29 Hist to                                                                                                                             Cert# 7026

Jospeh A Mudd                                                                                                           Revolution

                                                                                                                                                                   Virginia
1909 July 14 Hist to Mrs
                                                                                                                                                                   WIDOW, &c.
Jennie C. L. Foristell

inquiry in S. F. 17086 C                                                                                             File No.  9651

1921 May 28 Hist to Mrs                                                                                            Mary Zumalt

Royce Rodgers                                                                                                                                  Wid. of

                                                                                                                                            Adam Zumwalt
1933 - OCt.18   Hist ot Aug
                                                                                                                                                                Pvt. Va line
Mrs. Geo W. McPlhiney


1938 June 2 Hist to Mrs                                                                                             Act:  Mch, 3rd   n. 3, & June 17th  nn

Jay Markle ?                                                                                                                    Index: --- Vol.  M. Page 376


1940 Jun 7 Hist to Mrs                                                                                                [Arrangement of 1870.]

Walter C Robbin
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3 - 1609                                                                                                 W9651                                                                                  PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO
United States                                                                                                                                                                                     AVOID PAYMENT OF POSTAGE $300
Department of the Interior                                                          Adam Zumwalt
BUREAU OF PENSIONS


IF NOT CALLED FOR IN 18 DAYS, RETURN TO
THE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C.

OFFICIAL BUSINESS
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Adam Zumwalt Mo.  Act of June 1832

to what time paid

Pen Office

Nov 26 1839
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.                                                                      June 7, 1840




Mrs. Walter C. Robbin                           BA - J/AWF
Kalispell                                                      Adam Zumwalt
Montana                                                      W.  9651


Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request to know how to proceed to obtain information
in regard to you ancestors with surnames Carroll,
Long, Hepler, Sebrelle, Burnside, and Zumwalt who
served in the Revolutionary War.

In order to aid you in some degree, the Revo -
lutionary War pension records of this office have
been serarched. No claim for pension was found,
however, based upon service in that war of any
soldiers with the surnames Hepler, Long, and Burnside
are too numerous for identification without full
name and definte data, such as dates of birth and
death and places of residence at enlistment and
after service.

The Revolutionary War pension record has been
foundof one, soldier, only, with the surname Zumwalt;
it is that of Adam.  His record is furnished you
herewith.

The Adjutant General, War Department, this city, 
is the custodian of military records and migh had you
is your research.
                                               Very truly yours,

                                              
                                                A. D. HILLER
                                                Executive Assistant
                                                to the Administrator
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.                                                           June 2, 1938



                                                             Adam Zumwalt
                                                             W. 9651
Mrs. Jay Markle                             BA - - J/AWF
Clinton
Missouri


Dear Madam:

The data furnished herein were obtained
from papers on file in pension claim, W. 9641,
based on the military servicice of Adam Zumwalt
in the War of the Revolution.

Adam Zumwalt was born in the year 1755 or 
1756 in the State of VIrginia, abourt twenty - five
miles above Winchester.  THe name of his parents
were not given.

When about seventeen years of age, Adam
Zuwmalt volunteered under Capt Samuel Wilson
and Colonel Charles Lewis, and served three or 
four months in the "French War."

While residing in Augusta Virginia,
he served in 16778, 1779, 1780,and 1781, three 
months in each year as a private under Captains
McCoy, Bell and Hull, guarding the frontiers, was
part of the time satationed at Clover Lick on Green -
brier , and was in an expedition against the Tories.  
He then went to Kentucky, an served twelve months 
as private and Indian Spy in Captain McConnell's
company, which company was called on by General
George R Clark to go an expedition against the
Indians, in this expedition, three Indian Town on
the Miami were destroyed.

Adam Zumwalt lived twelve or fifteen years in
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Kentucky, then moved to St. Charles County, Missouri.

The soldier, Adam zumwalt, was allowed pension
on his application executed September 17, 1832,
at hich time he was living in "Cuivre" Township,
St. Charles County, Missouri, He ded August 23, 
1834.

Adam Zumwalt married May 24, 1785 in Fayette
County, Kentucky, Miss Mary Roth.  The date and
lace of her birth and names of her parents were
not stated.

The widow, Mary Zumwalt, was allowed pension
on her application executed August 20, 1839, at
which time shw was seventy - three years of age and a 
resident of Elkhorn Township, Warren County, 
Missouri.

A son was born May 8, 1786, name not shown.
Their son Solomon Zumwalt, was thirty - two years
old in 1839, then of Warren County, Missouri.

Margaret Zumwalt in 1839 was in Warren County,
Missouri, and stated that she had known the widow,
Mary Zumwalt, since they were children and were
both reared in Kentucky' no relationship to the
family was shown.

The papers on file in the claim contain no
further discernible data in regard to family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment
of pension, name and address of person paid, and
possibly the date of death of the widow,Mary
Zumwalt, General Accounty Office, Records
Division, Washington, D. C., and furnish the
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.                            3 - 

following data -

Mary Zumwalt, widow of Adamin Zumwalt
Certificate # 7026
Issued  June 20, 1845
Rate $90.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1843
Acts of March 3, 1843 and June 17, 1844
Missouri Agency

                Very truly yours


                A. D. HILLER
                Executive Assistant
                to the Administrator
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.                                                                                             May 31, 1930.



Mrs. Jay Markle
Clinton                                                                                BA - J/ ILL
Missouri                                                                              Adan Zumwalt
                                                                                               W.9651



Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request
the Revolutionary War records of James Murdock, also, Adam, Jacob,
and John Zumwalt.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file
based upon servce in the Revolutionary War of Jacob or John
Zumwalt.  In order to identify the record of the particular
soldier with the name James Murdock in whom you are interested,
it is essential that you furnish the approximate dates of his
birth and death, and his residence at enlistment and fater service.

The record of Adam Zumwalt is furnishe herewith from 
pension claim, W. 9651.

                                                   Very truly yours,


                                                    A. D. HILLER
                                                    Executive Assistant
                                                    to the Administrator.
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.                                                                                           October 16, 1933
 
                                                                                            xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



                                                                                             Adam Zumwalt - W. 9641

                                                                                             BA -- J/AWF



Mrs. George W. McElhiney
Sixth & Jefferson Streets
Sain Charles, Missouri


Dear Madam :

Reference is made to your letter in which
you request informatio in regard to Mary Zumwalt, 
a Revolutionary War pensioner living in Saint
Charles County, Missouri in 1840.

The data durnished herein were obtained
fromt the papers on file in pension claim, W. 9651,
based upon the Revolutionary War service of Adam 
Zumwalt.

He was born in 1755 or 1758 in the state of
Virginia, about twenty - five miles above Winchester;
the name of his parents are not shown.

When about seventeen years of age, Adam Zumwal
volunteered under Captain Samuel Wilson and Colone
Charles Lewis an served three or four months in the
"French War".

While residing in Augusta County, VIrginia, he
served in 1778, 1779, 1780 and 1781, three months in
each year as private under Captains McCoy, Bell and
Hull, guardin the frontier, was part of the time
stationed at Clover Lick on Greenbrier and was in
an expedition against the Tories.  He then went to
Kentuckya nd served twelved months as private and
Indian Spy in Captain McConnel's company, which 
company was called on by General George R Clark to
 o on an expedition against he Indians in this ex -
pedition three Indian Towns on the Miami were dstroyed.

He lived twelve or fifteen years in Kentucky and
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then move to St. Charles County, Missouri.

The soldier, Adam Zumwalt, was allowed pension
on his application executed, Sepat 17, 1832
then living in Cuivre Towhship, St. Charles County,
Missouri.

He married May 24, 1785 is Fayette County,
Kenutcky, Miss Mary Roth.  He died August 23, 1834.

Miss widow, Mary Zumwalt, was allowed pension
on her application executed, August 10, 1839, while 
a resident of Elkhorn Township, Warren County,
Missouri, aged seventy - three years.

A son was born, May 8, 1788, name not shown.
Their son, Solomon Zumwalt, was thirty - two years
old in 1839, then in Warren County.

Margaret Zumwalt in 1839 was in Warren County,
Missouri, and state that she had known the widow,
Mary Zuwmalt, since they were children and were both
reared in Kentucky; no relationship to the family
stated
                                         Very truly yours,


                                          A. B. HILLER
                                          Assistant to Administrator
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.

                                                                                            December 14, 1927



Mrs. A. S. Dolch
804 Avenue Two
Attica, Ind.


Madam:

I have to advise your from the papers iin

the Revolutionary War Pension Claim W. 9651,

it appears that Adam Zumwalt was born in 1755

or 1756 aboute twenty - five miles above Winchester,

Virginia.


He served three or four months under Captain

Samuel Wilson and Colonel Lewis in the 

"French War."


While residing in Agust County, VIrginia,

he served in 1778, 1779, 1780, and 1781, three months

in each year as a private under Captains McCoy, Bell,

and Hull; and in 1782 twelve months as a private and 

and Spy in Capt  McConnell's Company, whilt in said

company, it was called on by General George R Clark

to go on an expedition against the Indians in which

expedition three Indians Towns on the Miami were
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destroyed.


He was allowed pension on his application 

executed Sept 17, 1832, while a resident of 

Cuivre Township, St. Charles County, Missouri.  He

died August 23, 1834.


Soldier married May 24, 1785 in Fayette

County, Kentucky, Miss Mar Roth or Rodes.  She 

was allowed pension on her application executed

August 20, 1839, while a resident of Elkhorn Town -

ship, Warren County, Missouri, aged seventy - three

years.


Son, Solomon, was thirty nine years old in 1838.

                                          Respectfully,


                                           WINFIELD SCOTT

                                            Commssioner
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.                                    MRS. WALTER C. ROBBIN
                                        KALISPELL, MONTANA


                                                                                November 25, 1939


Veteran's Bureau
Washington, D. C.

Gentleman:

Will you kindly direct me as to how to go about securing
information concerning my forefathers whom I understand
fouth in the Revolutionary, Civil and perhaps other
wars in which the Unted States has engaged?
                                                                              
I should like to obtain this information for private
satisfaction and as crediantials for membership in the
D. A. R.

My direct ancestors on my fathers' side were named
Zumwalt and came to America about 1680.  Others through
                                                                                                              o             o
maternal inheritance were named Carroll, Long, Hepler, Sebrelle
and Burnside.  However, I presume these would be harder
to trace as the names so unusual.  The name Zumwalt
has been spelled in various ways, I believe, sometimes being
started with an S.

                                    Yours truly,

 
                                     Nita Zumwalt Robbin
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.                                                   Clinton, Mo

                                                     May 12, 1938



Department of the Interior

Bureau of Pensions

Washington, D. C,



Dear Sir:

Do your records show a claim

for pension or bounty land from the

following soldier of the Revolutionary

War: ----

James Murdock - 4   ?

      0                 0                0
Jacob Adam and John Zumwalt.


I shall appreciate any information

              Very truly yours


              Mrs. Jay Markle

              Clinton, Missouri



(Black Ink Stamp)
RECEIVED
MAY 16 1938
MAY 16 1938
MAIL ? DIV
? ?     
?              # 26
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.                                                                                          Saint Charles, Mo.
                                                                                            October 8, 1933.




Department of the Interior
Rev. War. Section, Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
                                                                                         

Gentlemen:

As a historian of the Saint Charles Capter, Daughters of
the American Revolution, I am earnestly working to compile an authenica
list of the soldiers of the Revolutionary War who lived in Sain Cahrles
County, Missouri.  I am also compiling a list of the wives, sons, and
daughters of soldiers of the Revolutionary War who lvied in Saint Charles
County.

For this purpose I request a copy of the pension of Mary
Zumwalt of which I found the following notation in Census of Pensions --
1840 -- Misouri Division, P. 190 Cuivre Township, Saint Charles County:

"Mary Zumwalt, aged 74, lives with Solomon Zumwalt".

Several Zumwalt brother settled in Saint Charles County 
about 1797.  They were given large grants of land and figured actively
in the early history of ou county, so that a record fo the pension grant- 
ed Mary Zumwalt will be of particular interest to historians of Saint
Charles County.

Thank you for your kind attention to my request, I am

                                             Yours sincerely,


                                               Mary J. McElhiney



Address:
MRs. George R McElhiney
Sixth & Jefferson Sts.
Saint Charles, Missouri
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.                                   MRS. A. S. DOLCH

                                     204 AVENUE TWO

                                          ATTICA, IND.                         June 17, 1927



Pension Bureau

                  Washington, D. C.



Dear SIrs:

                    REVOLUTIONARY RECORD

The 1840 Census of Revolutionary Pensioners
shows Mary Zumwalt with Solomon Zumwalt at Cuivre,
St Charles County, Missouri, age 74 years.

For D. A. R. lineage purposes I will appreciate
you sending me the family data shown on your pension
record of Mary Zumwalt with her husband's name and
where he served in the Revolution.

                                     Very truly yours,

            (Mrs. A. S.)   Bessie L. Dolch
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Rev MH                                             Perry, Mo.

                                                              May 11 - 1921



Commissioner of Pensions

Dept Interior

Washington DC


Please give me such

? data and record

of service as it found  in

pension application of Adam

Zumwalt and wife for

Rev service St Charles Co Mo

                     Mrs Roxie Rodgers



Second request for the  same

data      no reply to first


(Black Ink Stamp)
PENSION
U. S.
OFFICE
O
MAY 
14
1921
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(Black Ink Stamp)
RECORD
MAY 16 1921
DIVISION
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.                                                            Hyattsville Md 

                                                              Oct 21, 1908




? Commissioner of Pension

                                  Washington



Dear Sir

Pleas send me the Revolutonary record of

James Cannon of South Carolina troops and

Adams Zumwalt of Virginia troops pension ?

the act of 1832, residing in Lincoln County Missouri

when placed on the pension roll.


I ? this information for historical purpose 

Lincoln County Missouri in my native county and I 

am gathering some historical facts in my reach

   
Thank you in advance I am

                            Very respectfully

 
                            Joseph A Mudd


R


  ?                                               (Black ink Stamp)
                                                     PENSION
                                                     US
                                                     OFFICE
                                                     A
                                                     OCT
                                                     22
                                                    1908
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May 31 - 45

(Black Ink Stamp)                                                                                                      (Black Ink Stamp)
TRO                                                                                                                                  FREE
MY 20
Mo


Missouri                                                    J. L. Edwards
Mary Zumwalt                                        Commissioner of Pensions
Act 1843                                                    War Department
? 38                                                              W. C. D. C.
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.                                                           State of Missouri
                                                            County of St Charles


Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pension
Washington Ciy

Enclosed  are the papers

? of Mary Zumwalt of St Charles County who

drew a pension under the act of July 4, 1836 and

its provisions of 80 dollars per annum for five years

Doath the name apply for any additional pension under

the act of forty three  But not having the Law nor

its forms we have made the best Declaration we

can and I hope the proof she has made will satisfy(?)

the Department that she is entitled to another &

if there should be any lack of proof or deficin (?)

in the Declaration please inform me how to correct

and you will do sir a great favour and and match

oblige me yours with Due respect

                                                      Robert Greene
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I Christopher Clark do certify I have been

acquainted with the above name Adam Zumwalt

for 31 years that he is a man of good character

and fully entitled to credi and that I believe

the above statement to believe Christopher Clerk


Subscribed & I sworn to in Open Court

September 17, 1832

                                 F Parker Clark


John Hull do certify that I have been acquainted

with the above name Adam Zumwalt for more

than twenty years that I have been acquainted

with his character for more than that time

that I have heard  My cather & father inlaw

speak of his service in the Revolution & that

from common apart I believe he served

in the revolution -- That he is a man of

good character and entitled to credit & that

I believe the above statement to be true


Subsribed and sworn to in Open 

Court September 17 1832          John Hull

F Parker Clark


I Jacob Letherman do certify that I have been

- acquainted with the above named Adam Zumwalt

for about forty years that I have frequently heard

from previous entitled to credit that he served

in the revolutionary and I believe the statements

above made by  him to true & that he is

a man every way entitled to credit


Subscribed sworn to in Open 

Court September 17th 1832       Jacob Letherman

F Parker   Clerk                                  His X Mark


I Jeremiah Groshong have known the above named Adam

Zumwalt about 37 years have of ? heard that he served in

the revolutionary war -- I know him to have
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sustained a good character.  I believe he is entitled

to gull credit and that his statements are true

                                                         Jeremiah Groshong


Swornt to and subscribed

in Open Court September 1832

                 Francis Parker Clark


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 named applicant was a Resolution

my soldiers & served as he states and the counrt for - 

ther certifies that it appears to them that John S

Ball who has signed & sworn to the foregoing

certificate, is a clery man in the Presbyterian

Church, resident in the County of Lincoln & State

of Missouri.  And that said  clergyman is a credible

person & that his statement is entitled to credit

                                             P H ? Judge

                                             ? Jno Cir Mo


I Frances Parker Clark of the Circuit Court of the Lincoln

County Missouri do hereby certify that the foregoing

contains the original Proceedings in the matter of

the application of Adam Zumwalt for a pension


In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and

seal office this 18th day of September AD 1832

                                              Frances Parker Clark
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Mary Zumwalt

Act 3d March, 1843 &

17 June 1844


Act 1843 -- 7930

        1841-- ?


Admd - $80 per annum
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.                                                                         United States of America


State of Missouri

County of St Charkes


Be it known that before me Achilles Broadside

a Justice of the Peace in and for the curt, aforesaid

personally appeared John Z Kent and made oath

in due for of law, that Adam Zumwalt, ther 

person mentioned in the foregoing declaration

died on the 23rd day of August 1834; that 

Mary Zumwalt his widow enver married and 

is still living
                                        John Z Kent


Sworn and subscribed before me this

28th 1845
                                         A Broadhead  J. P.



State of Missouri

County of St Charles    I Ludwell E Powell Clerk of the

County Court of the St Charles County certify that A Broadwater

Esqr who name is subsribed to the foregoing affiant is and

?  at the time of signing the ? an acting Justice of the

peace for St Charles of County duly commissioned and justified

and that his official actas are entitled to full faith and credit.


In witness whereof  I hereunto set my hand

and seal of said Clmt, this seventh day 

of May Eighteen hundred and forty give.

                          Ludwell E Powell   Clerk
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.                                                   War Department

                                                     Pension Office    16 Aug 1833


Sir


The evidence in support of the

claim of Adam Zumwalt has been again  ex 

= aminated   The following are the objection to

the admission of the same.  His service during

the French War was prior to the revolution

and is not embraced by the provision of the

Act of the 7 June 1832 therefore this tour

of three months cannot be admitted.  The ?

who testify to the probablity of his being a soldier

of the Revolution are not certified as credible

He will aslo be pleased to state, in his last

tour, whether, he enlisted, was drafted or

volunteered
                                                  I am Sir

                                                  Very Respectfully

                                                  Your Obt Servt

                                                   J. L Edwards


Francis Parker

Troy

Lincoln County

Missouri
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United States of America

State of Missouri

St Charles County


Be it known that before me Achilles Broadhead a justice

of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally

appeared Mary Zumwalt and made oath in due form

of the law, that she is the widow of Adam Zumwalt, the

identical person who was a pensioner, and is now decd

and to whom a certificate of pension was issued of which

the follow is a true copy:  "War Department, Revo

lutionary claim. I certify that in conformity with the law

of the United States of the 7th June 1832 Adam Zumwalt of the

Stae oof Missouri who was a private in the Army of the Revolution

& entitled to receive Eightly dollar per annum during his

natural life commicssion on the 4th March 1831 and payable

? annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every

year.    Given at the War Office of the United States, this

? day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty

three." ----  That the deceased pensioner resided in the state

of Missouri for the space thirty years before his death,

that the said Adam Zumwalt  died on the 23rd day of August

1834.  The aforesaid Mary Zuwmalt further says

that she drew a pension as the widow of the aforesaid

Adam Zumwalt of the eight dollars per annum under

the act of 1836 that she received five years pay,

and the certificate of said allwoance has been ?

up the War Department; & that she now petitions

for an additional allowance under the Act of 1843

oursuant to the provisions, not having the law

before her nor it s forms, she embodies in this

certificate the information which she supposes

to be necessary

                                                      Mary Zumwalt
                                                      (Her X Mark)


Sworn and subscribed this 28th day of April 1845

                                                      A Broadhead J. P.
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State of Missouri

County of St Charles     I Achilles Broadband a Justice of the

Peace in the County aforesaid do hereby certify that

Mary Zumwalt where name in is signed to the foregoing

paper from aged and infirmity is unable to attend

before any Court of Record.  Given undert my

hand this day of April 1845

                                                   A Broadhead  JP


United States of America

State of Missouri

County of St Charles


We John Z Kent and Solomon Zumwalt sen -

ding in the County and State aforesaid hereby certify

that we are well acquainted with May Zumwalt

who has subscribed the foregoing declaration, that we

know her to be the widow of Adam Zumwalt

mentioned in the said declaration and that her 

oath is entitled to credit

                                                          John Z Kent

                                                          Solomon Zumwalt


Sworn & subsribed before me a Justice of the Peace

in the County of St Charles & tate of Missouri, and I 

hereby certify that John Z Kent and Solomon

Zumwalt, are respectable citizens and worthy

of cred and belief.   Given under my hand

this 28th day of April 1845

                                     A Broadhead  J. P.
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Personally appears before me the undersigned

Judge of the Second Judical Circuit of

Missouri & Judge of the Circuit Court of 

the County of Lincoln in said State.  Adam

Zumwalt who being duly sworn for the

purpose of making a statement in addition

to and in explanation of his Declaration

returned from the pension department in

conformity to the instructions there with ?

deposeth & saith by reason of old age

& the consequent loss of Memory he cannot

swear positively to the precise length of his

service but according to the best of his recolle -

ction be served not less than the periods

mentioned below & in the following grades

For the year 1778 -- three months I served as a private

For the year 1779 -- three months I served as a private

For the year 1780 -- three months I served as a private

For the year 1781 -- three months I served as a private

For the year 1782 -- three months I served as a priavte

Making in all therm of two years & for such

service I claim a pension -- And he further states

that at the time he made his declaration to ?

this is a supplement that he had not documentary

evidence of his service & that he still has none and

that at the timehe made the Declaration aforesaid

he could not obtain  the testimoby of any living witness

as to his services --
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And he furhter states that the

resided at the time of making his Declaration aforesaid

& still lives in the County of St. Charles -- & for reasons

why he did not make his said Declaration in the County

where resided -- he sayt s that he lieved nearer to the County

seat of the county of Lincoln that he did to that of St Charles

and that the Clergyman & other persons whose

affidavits be procured in said Declaration resided

near to the county seat of said county of Lincoln &

very remote from the county seat -- of St Charles - and 

further that he did not know that it was important

at that time to give these reasons --- And for

answer to the first interrogatory prescribed by

the war department -- he says    That he was born 

in the state of Virginia about 25 miles above Winchester

in the year of 1755 or 1756   And in answer to the

second -- he says he has nor record of his age

& can only state from memory

                                                     Adam Zumwallt
                                                     (His X Mark)
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The State of Missouri   Sct

I Francis Parker Clerk of the Circuit Court of

Lincoln County do hereby that P. H. McBride

whose signature is affixed to the fore going office

wit of Adam Zumwalt

was abt the date thereof Judge of the Second Judicial

Circuit of Missouri and Judge of the Circuit

Court of LIncoln County and that the folllowing

named papers hereto attached with a piece of case

Court the papers marked (Francis Parker A) the one 

marked (Francis Parker B) & the one marked (Francis

Parker C) are genuine documents & are the papers

here before authenticated by me the above case

as they purport.


In testimony whereof I hereunto set

my hand & affixed the seal of office of

said court this twentieth day of

May 1833 
                               Fracis Parker Clark
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.                                 4906

Missouri


Mary Zumwalt

widow of Adam Zumwalt Sr

who was a pension under the Act of 185'----

and who died on the 22 July 183--

of Warren in the State of Mo

who was a private in the ? command

ime for a year (?)


Subscribed on the roll of Missouri

at the rate of 80 (?) Dollars ----- Cents per annum

to comence on the 4th day of March, 1836.


Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day Jany

18th August

? ? ?



Arrears to the 4th of Sept 18th ?                                      280.00

Semi = annual allowance ending 4 March ?                   40.00
                                                                                                       ----------
                                                                                                        320.00


                                                                                                   Act July 7

                                                                                                           1838



Recorded by D McCurdy Clerk

Book A   Vol 2   Page 225
Page 66

Letter to Pay?t Hon J Miller Ap1 11 1840


Paid at the Treasury under

the  Act of the 6 April 1838

from 4 March to 4 Sept 1840

Agt notified 24 July 1841
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G. W. Crump Esqr

Acting Commr of Pensions
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.                                                    Washington CIty

                                                      July 15th 1840



Sir

Inclosed herewtih I send you

additional testimony in support of a claim for a

pensions, ? by Mary Zumwalt of Virginia.  I

? but hope not it will be found ?

to ? her claim --- an only reply is respectfully

? ? for ---
                                 Very respectfully

                                  Your Obt Srvt

                                   John Miller



G. W. Crump Eqr

Acting Comr of Pensions