Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,298, John Welsh, Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                 NUMBER

Penn.      Welsh, John      R.11.298

CONTENTS
This claimant also applied for pension on account of William Welsh, Penn. See papers within.
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State of Pennsylvania }
County of Philadelphia} .S.S
Bifore the Subscriber
a Justice of the peace in and for the State and County afor Said. Personally appeared Elizebeth Maffit (Widow) Who being duly Sworn according to Law doth depose and say, that She is the only heir at Law of John and William Welsh. Late of the Pensylvania Line, during the revolutionary War, that aforsaid John and William Welsh Wher Brothers to Jane Welsh who Married. James Hartnett. Who Where farther [father] and Mother to Elizebeth the affirmen'td Making Said John and William Welsh Uncles to affirment, that She is unable to State at What time her uncles Entered the Service but that John Served in the 5th and William Served in the 4th Reg'ment of Pensylvania Volentiers [Volunteers], as Will More fully appear from accompanying cirtificates [certificates] from the Auditor Gen't of Pennsylvania, That John died during the War from wounds received in battle and William died just befor the close of the War While under pay. they being both single Men.  She also declairs that she has had full and Satisfactory Evidance  [evidence]in this case, from Mr James Cooper Deceised [deceased] of New Jersey (Who rated as a captain, and Was a pensioner. Said papers Was placed in the hands of the Lewis C Levin Late M. C. from the first Congressnail [Congressional] District, of Pensylvania [Pennsylvania]. Since Which time they have Lost, as
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affirment [aforementioned] firmly believes.

Affirment Makes this declairation [declaration] believing that she is justly Entitle [entitled] to her uncles Estate, there being none other to claim it. And for the purposes of Obtaining the bounty Land due her Said uncles Estate, under the Laws of the united States granting unto Revolutionary Soldiers one hundred acres of Bounty Land &c &c 

Eliza Moffet
Sworn to and Subscribed befor Me this Sixth day of December A.D. 1855 

C.[?]   Aldern
[In a?] Est Office J. P.
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State of Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] }
City of Philadelphia } S.S.

Befor Me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace, in and for the State and City aforsaid, 
personally appeared Mrs Elizebeth Larance. (Widow) Who being Duly sworn according to Law, doth depose and say that She is personally aquanted [acquainted] with Elizabeth moffit, (Widow) the person applying for Back pay Due her Uncles Estate, and has known her a great many years and knows that she is the neace [niece] of William and John Welsh Late of the Revolutionary War. Said Knoladge [knowledge] is derieved from the fact of Having Lived in the same house with said Maffit, and also of her Husband John H. Larance, Having been in the [strikeout: Habet] practice of reading Mrs Maffits Letter for her that She received from her Uncles, She Having Often Heard them read

Elizebth Larance  her X mark
Sworn and subscribed Before me this Eighteenth day of October Ad 1855
John P Wolf  [image: doodle 'zeal' with border round it]
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State of Pensylvania } S.S.
County of Philad'a    }

Befor Me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the State and county aforsaid, personally appeared Lewis Wolf and Jacob Zorns (M. D)
Residance [residence] in Philad'a [Philadelphia], Who being duly Sword according to Law doth depose and Say that they are personally aquanted [acquainted] With Mrs Elizebeth Larance [strikeout: Maffit]. affirment to the Within affadavid [affidavit], and Know her to be Lady of truth and respecitibility [respectibility] and worthey to be belived befor any tribuniel [tribunal]

Lewis Wolf
Jacob S. Soans M.D.
[flourish]
sworn and subscribed Before me this twenty sixth day of November 1855 the above Named Lewis Wolf and Jacob Zorns boath of whome are Known to me as Creditable Citezans [citizens]
John S. Wolf [image: drawn word 'seal' with curly border drawn around]
Alderman
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No. 66} Certificate for £56.5.6 Specie.

We do Certify, that the State of Pennsylvana is indepted to John Welsh, private of the Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, in the sum of fifty six pounds five Shillings y six pence Specie, with lawful Interest from the tenth day of April 1781: being the amount of the Residue of the Depreciation of his Pay, Pursuant to the Acts of Assembly, passed at Philadelphia, the 18th day of December 1780, and the 10th of April 1780.

Reading
May 15.1781. 

Jas. Stevenson Com'r
Henry Haller Com'r

One years Int. pd. N.
One years Int.
Pd. N
One years Int
Pd.  N.

Auditor Generals Office
Harrisburg Oct. 5. 1855.
I Certify the above to be a true copy
of the original remaining on file in this Department.
Witness my hand and seal of Office the day and year aforesaid.

Wm O. Wallace. for
E. [I?] Banks
Auditor Gen'l.
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No. 810}  Certificate for £56.10.7 Specie
We do certify, that the State of Pennyslvania is indebted to William Welsh, late private of the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment in the sum of fifty six pounds ten Shillings & seven pence Specie, with lawful Interest from the tenth day of April 1781, being the amount of the Residue of the Depreciation of his Pay. Pursuant to two Acts of Assembly,  passed at Philadelphia, the 18th of December 1780, and the 10th of April 1781. [qc?].
Philadelphia
October 9th 1783

Jn'o Nicholson
Auditor General's Office
Harrisburg Oct 5, 1855,
I certify the above to be a true copy of the original remaining on file in this Department.
Witness my hand and seal of 
Office the day and year aforesaid.
Wm L. [Q.?] Wallace, for
E. O Banks
Auditor Genl.

One years Int.
pd.    N~
One years Int.
pd. 
N~
One years Int. pd. 
N~.
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John Welsh Dec
Pa
Rejected - 1831
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Know all Men by these presents That I Elizebeth Maffett of the City and County of Philadelkphia in the State of Pensylvania, Heir at Law of the Late John and William Welsh of the Revolutionary War  Do hereby Constitute, Nominate and appoint, Joseph J. Moore, of the city and County of Camden in the State of New Jersey, My true and lawfully attorney Irevocable, hereby revoking all other powers giving by Me in the premice, for Me and in my name and Stead, to prosecute any Claim that May be due Me, from the United States, on account of the Revolutionary Service, of John and William Welsh, or Eather, Whether it be for Bounty Land or Back pay, or Either, and to [demand?] and receive from the proper Officers in Washingotn any Money, or Land Warrants or Warrants So due, and give proper receipts & acuitance for the same.

Holding for good and for firm all that my Said attorney may Lawfully do in the premises.
Subscribed And
[?] before
On this 2d day of
October 1855

[signed] Elizabeth Maffet [S.s.?]

[?]
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State of Pennsylvania,
COUNTY of PHILADELPHIA, Ss.

I, Jas W Fletcher, Prothonotary of the District Court of said County, DO CERTIFY, that C. Isard, and John G. Wolf, Esqrs
before whom the annexed Affidavits were made, were at the time of so doing Aldermen and ex offiio Justices of the Peace of the City of Philadelkphia, duly commissionned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations, and to take acknowledgments, &c. and to all whose acts, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere, and that [?] thereto is genuine.
IN TESTIMONEY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this Tenth day of December, A. D. 1855
Ja W Fletcher,
PROTHONOTARY.
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Nov. 17, 196.

Mrs. Eunice Van Zandt,
R. F. D. #3,
Novlesville, [Noblesville?]
Hamilton Co., Indiana.

Madam:

In reply to your letter dated the 3rd instant and received in this Bureau on the 8th, you are advised that in the papers in claim R. #11,287 it is alleged by Elizabeth Maffet that William Welsh who served in the Revolution as a Private of the 4th Pennsylvania regiment, died (unmarried) before close of the War, and that she was his niece and only heir at law.

This claim was rejected on the ground that the soldier died before the passage of any law of Congress granting pensions for Revolutionary service; but if he had lived until after the Act of 1832 and died leaving no children, no claim could be asserted, as arrears of pension could not be paid to collateral heirs.

Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
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Camden Dec 10th /55

Hon Sir
In presenting this befor you it is With a certain Knoladge of the Smallness of the [prosse?] as to the Identiy but we have been badly used by the Hon L.C. Levin, Leate Member of Congress from the first District of Pensylvania, he Having received full and ample Evedance Subscribed to by the Late Capt Cooper of New Jersey, Who was a pensinor, he  Having been personally With the famley befor and during the Revolutionary War
Said Evedance has been Lost by Said Levin and She is forsed to give Evedance that is not So possitive as that of Coopers and as Mrs Larrance the only person Living that can give Evedance in her case She Hopes it may be received as Sufficient

Yours &c
Joseph J Moore
Atty
Hon Commissinor of Pensions Washington
Dle
No3 You will pleas return the certifacate of Legitemate Birth & Baptisem, also the certificate of Marrage.
J[ J Wm?]
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R. F. D. [3?]

11 2 48.
[postmark] NOV 9 1906 
O. W. & N. DIV.
Noblesville, Indiana
November 3, 1906
Commissioner of Pensions ,
Washington D. C. 

Dear Sir, 

I desire information regarding the service of William Welsh a soldier of Penn. in the War of the Revolution. 
Please state the place of his residence at the time of his enlistment. I desire to know
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his Rank, Company and Regiment.

Was he awarded a land grant and if so please state the location of the grant.

Repectfully

Eunice Van Zandt

R.F.D. No. - 3
Noblesville,
Hamilton Co.
Indiana.

[stamped] U. S. PENSION OFFICE
NOV 8 1906
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3-595.
O. W. AND N. DIVISION
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Nov. 9, 1906
Searched by Gill
Original No.
Certificate No. 
Claimant,
Soldier, William Welch or Welsh
Service, Pa. Service
Rev. War
Remarks:
no claim except Rej 11 298
No. B. S.

Chief of Division
23266 b5m6-06
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No. 39,026
John Welsh dec'd
Penn'a
[manicule] Rejectd, De'd before 1832
[It?] no with [no?] children,
[?] of Wm Welsh Pa
1832
J. Moore Dec 28 1855
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No. 39,027
William Welsh
Dec'd, Penn'a
[manicule] Rejected, died during the war of the Revolution and left no widow nor children
See case of John Welsh of Pa and letter to J J Moore Dec 28 1855
[strikeout] [11299?]
June 7 1832  [sic]
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1906 Nov. 17. History to Mrs. Eunice Van Zandt.

[strikeout] Acts of July 14, [?], and March [?].

11,298
P. O.
John Welsh  and William Welch
Service: 
REJECTED
for Neices
Enlisted:    , 18
Discharged:    , 18  .   
Application filed:    , 182.
[?] leges: 
Re-enlisted: 
Attorney: 
P. O. 

Recognized,     Contract.
Cert. of Dis.   Searched for    , 18  .