Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 489, Nicholas Helmick, Va.
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(3—1776)
SERVICE.  Va.
Helmick, Nicholas
Sarah
NUMBER  W. 489 
B.L.Wt.36,736-160-55
CONTENTS
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7,875
Ohio.  Pittsburgh.

Nicholas Helmick
of Wayne Co. in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Crockett of the Regiment commanded by Col. Laughry in the Virginia
line for 3 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsburgh.
at the rate of 80. Dollars 00 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13. day of April.
1833 and sent to E. Dean Wooster Ohio

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833         160.00
Semi-anl allowance ending
    4 September 1833                               40.00
                                                              $200.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 8. Page 113.  

Order to pay 9. Nov 1837.
copies of papers sent to Hon Jos Vance April 15. 1844
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1879 Oct 3 P.A. ord'd to pay Reuben Smiles $32.50 on ap reimbursement claimant advice
Sent P.A. P.C. afft  &n, auditors bills
MT.

Increase  Died 23 Feby 1879  No. 2.060
Ohio  (Cincinnati Columbus)
Sarah Helmick
widow of Nicholas Helmick
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private.  Va

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the [crossed out: 4th day of March, 1848.] July 27/68  (Ded pts made since) 

Certificate of Pension issued the
27th day of March 1869. and sent to
John M. Hamlin
Findlay Hancock Co Ohio

[Illegible] Pensioners under act [illegible]
[Illegible] 159  Vol. [illegible]
[Illegible]
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Act of Mar 3
Dec 12, 1855
226,779  

No 36736
Iss Aug 12/56

Sarah Helmick
widow of Nicholas Helmick decd
Private
Pensioner

Capt Jas Chapman
Col Crockett
Regular Va. State Troops
Sarah wid: of Nicholas Helmick
Ent-1777.  Pri:
Revolutionary War
Recd. Pension.
Feby 53-2069

AO: 160 ac. Aug: 8/56
Boynton

Josiah S. Turner 
[note: ?] sn. C.
[illegible] [crossed out: Presents]
Bascom, Seneca Co. Ohio

Sept 1/56 Let to AV    D.P.P.

Vol H=1=141
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Act of 1855.

Declaration for Widow.
Who has never received Bounty Land.

Claim of 
Sarah Helmick
Widow of
Nicholas Helmick. dec.

Filed by
Josiah S. Turner
of Seneca County Ohio.
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DECLARATION FOR WIDOW
Who has never received Bounty Land.

State of Ohio
County of Hancock  ss.
On this 18 day of September 1855, personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, (duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Sarah Helmick, aged 60 years, a resident of Hancock in the County and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Nicholas Helmick, deceased, who was a Private, in the company commanded by Capt. Wilber Fulks, in the Regiment of drafted militia commanded by Col. John Hineman in the war with Great Brittin Declared by the United States on the 18th of June 1812.

That her said husband entered the service of the United States at Columbia County Ohio. on or about the 1st day of July 1812, for the term of six months and continued in actual service in said war for the term of at least fourteen days, and was honorably discharged from said service as will appear by the Muster Rolls of said company, not having any knowledge of the manner of her said husband's discharge.  She further states that she was married to the said Nicholas Helmick, in the County of Hancock State of    , on or about the 11 day of March 1834, by Charles Thomas Justice of the Peace and that her name before her said marriage was Sarah Ward, that her said husband died at Hancock County Ohio, on the 16 day of September, 1844 and that she is still a widow. and a Revolutionary Pensioner and that the proof of her said marriage is on file in the Pension office Washington Washington City D.C.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1855, never having received Bounty Land under this or any other act, nor made any other application for Bounty Land except the present.
Josiah S. Turner of Seneca Co Ohio is hereby authorized to prosecute this my claim and to receive any warrant that may be issued hereon.
Sarah Helmick  x her mark  [SEAL.]

AFFIDAVIT OF TWO WITNESSES
We Vallentine Miller and Sintha Miller residents of the County and State aforesaid, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by the above Sarah Helmick, in our presence;  and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
And we further declare that we were well acquainted with the said Nicholas Helmick and Sarah Helmick his wife (now the widow) during the life time of the former, and knew them to live together as husband and wife, and to have been so generally reputed.  That her said husband, the said Nicholas Helmick died at Hancock County Ohio on the 26 day of September 1844, and that she is still a widow;  and that they have no interest in this claim.  and that the said Sarah Helmick is a Pensioner on account of her said Husband.
Valentine Miller    SEAL.
Sintha Miller  SEAL.

*If no public or private record of the marriage exists, or can be procured, state the fact in the declaration, after the word widow;  and in such case, such other evidence, such as the testimony of persons who knew the parties in the lifetime of the husband, and knew them to live together as husband and wife, and to be so reputed, will be admissible.
If a public or private record exist, an authenticated copy thereof must be furnished;  if it be a private record, the authenticated copy thereof must be accompanied with the affidavit of some disinterested person, proving the genuineness of the original, and that the copy certified is a true and correct copy of it.
A certificate from the clergyman or magistrate who solemnized the marriage is not competent evidence, unless the genuineness of the certificate be proved, and the person who gave it be shown to have been authorized to solemnize marriages.
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226,779.

Act of 1855
Declaration for Widow
Who has never received Bounty Land.

Claim of Sarah Helmick
Widow of Nicholas Helmick dec.


Filed by Josiah S. Turner
Present.
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Magistrate's Certificate
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written;  and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons;  that the Claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim
H.B. Wall  J.P.

County Clerk's Certificate
State of Ohio
County of Hancock SS.
I hereby certify that H B Wall Esq. before whom the foregoing declarations and affidavits were made, is and was, at the time of taking the same, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office, this 19th day of September 1853
William W. Siddall Clerk.
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Declaration for Widow
Who has never received Bounty Land.

State of Ohio
County of Hancock ss.
On this 18 day of September 1855, personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, (duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Sarah Helmick, aged 60 years, a resident of Hancock in the County and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Nicholas Helmick, deceased, who was a Private, in the company commanded by Capt. JohnChapman, in the Regiment of Regular Virginia State troops commanded by Col. Crockett in the war of the Revolution.

That her said husband entered the service of the United States at Winchester Virginia on or about the year of 1777, for the term of three years and continued in actual service in said war for the term of at least fourteen days, and was honorably discharged from said service as will appear by the Muster Rolls of said company, not having any knowledge of the manner of her said husband's discharge. She further states that she was married to the said Nicholas Helmick, in the County of Hancock State of , on or about the 11 day of March 1834, by Charles Thomas Justice of the Peace and that her name before her said marriage was Sara Worde, that her said husband died at Hancock County Ohio, on the 16 day of September, 1844 and that she is still a widow. Pensioner and that the proof of her said marriage is on file in the Pension office Washington City D.C.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1855, never having received Bounty Land under this or any other act, nor made any other application for Bounty Land except the present.
Josiah S. Turner of Seneca Co Ohio is hereby authorized to prosecute this my claim and to receive any warrant that may be issued hereon.
Sarah Helmick x her mark Seal.

Affidavit of Two Witnesses
We Vallentine Miller and Sintha Miller residents of the County and State aforesaid, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by the above Sarah Helmick, in our presence; and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
And we further declare that we were well acquainted with the said Nicholas Helmick and Sarah Helmick his wife (now the widow) during the life time of the former, and knew them to live together as husband and wife, and to have been so generally reputed. That her said husband, the said Nicholas Helmick died at Hancock County Ohio on the 26 day of September 1844, and that she is still a widow; and that they have no interest in this claim. they further declair that the said Nicholas Helmick was a Revolutionary Pensioner.
Valentine Miller SEAL.
Sintha Miller SEAL.

*If no public or private record of the marriage exists, or can be procured, state the fact in the declaration, after the word widow; and in such case, such other evidence, such as the testimony of persons who knew the parties in the lifetime of the husband, and knew them to live together as husband and wife, and to be so reputed, will be admissible.
If a public or private record exist, an authenticated copy thereof must be furnished; if it be a private record, the authenticated copy thereof must be accompanied with the affidavit of some disinterested person, proving the genuineness of the original, and that the copy certified is a true and correct copy of it.
A certificate from the clergyman or magistrate who solemnized the marriage is not competent evidence, unless the genuineness of the certificate be proved, and the person who gave it be shown to have been authorized to solemnize marriages.
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Magistrate's Certificate
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the Claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim
H.B. Wall J.P.

County Clerk's Certificate
State of
County of 
I hereby certify that     Esq. before whom the foregoing declarations and affidavits were made, is and was, at the time of taking the same, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office, this     day of     18
     Clerk.
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Nicholas Helmicks
Application for
A Pension
20183

Filed 3 Septr 1832.

Copd.
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State of Ohio
Wayne County
On this third day of September AD 1832 personally appeared before the Supreme Court now sitting at Wooster in and for the County of Wayne and state of Ohio Nicholas Helmick a resident of the Township of Chippiwa in the County of Wayne and state of Ohio aged seventy two 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 passed June 7th 1832.
That he enlisted in the Armey of the United States in the year 1777 as near as he can now recolect for the term of three years on during the war and served in the Virginia Miliatry line under the following named officers  Colonel Crockit Captain John Chapman and Ensign Bullock  That he resided at the time of his enlistment at Winchester in the State of Virginia  This deponant after he enlisted was stationed for about eighteen months at Albemarl Baracks in the State of Virginia  that sometime in the fall of 1778 or 1779 as near as he can now recolect  He marched under the command of Captain John Chapman as a guard over the British and Heshian prisoners from Albemarle in Virginian to Fredericktown in Maryland where the prisoners were left .  And this deponant was marched from thence to Shepherdstown on the Patomic River where this deponant and the rest of the company were billited among the inhabitants, and remained during the winter   That early in the spring of 1780 or 1781 as near as this deponant can now recolect He marched with his company to the new store within about twelve miles of Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania where he joined the army commanded by General
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George Clark and decended the Ohio River with the armey as far as Wheeling in Virginia where the armey was landed and joined by a body of Malitia under the command of Col Laughry as this deponant believes  This deponant left Wheeling with the main armey and decended the Ohio River as far as the Falls of Ohio where he was stationed during the fall and part of the winter following.  This deponant was informed that shortly after the Armey left Wheeling, one of the boats commanded by Colonel Laughry sprung a leak which caused it to fall in the rear of the Armey, and was attacked by the Indians.  Colonel Laughry killed and his detatchment defeated.  That shortly after this deponant arrived at the Falls of Ohio Capt John Chapman was killed by the Indians and Ensign Bullock assumed the command of the company who late in the fall of 1780 or 1781 marched the company as far as mud fort on salt River in the State of Kentucky where sometime in the winter following Ensign Bullock gave this deponant a written discharge from the armey of the United States.   That this deponant put his discharge into the possession of one Mrs Grundy for safe keeping;  that shortley afterwards Mrs. Grundy's house was consumed by fire, and his discharge with it.
And this deponant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declairs that his name in not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court Septr 3d 1832
Nicholas Helmick
Wm. Larwell Clk
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And the said court do hereby declair their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states

I William Larwell Clerk of the Supreme Court of State of Ohio sitting in and for the County of Wayne do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Nicholas Helmick for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 3d day of September AD 1832
Wm Larwell Clk
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Mrs Helmicks.
Pension Claim
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State of Ohio
Hancock County SS.
On this 16th day of June 1853 Personally appeared before me James H. Barr Judge of the Probate Court in and for said County and State aforesaid, Sarah Helmick, a Resident of Hancock County and State aforesaid. aged 58. years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the folloing decleration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3rd day of February in the year 1853. granting pensions to Widows of person who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Nicholas Helmick. who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United Stats.
She further declairs that she was married to the said Nicholas Helmick on the 11th day of March Eighteen hundred and thirty four;  that her said husband died on the 26th day of September 1844.  that she was not married to him prior to the Second of January Eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated.  She further declairs that she is now a widow said pensioner Pensioned under the act of 1832. and paid at Wheeling, Virginia agency.
Sarah Helmick  x her mark
Declarents signature.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
James H Barr  Probate Judge
In testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at Findley this 16th day of June 1853.
J.H. Barr  Probate Judge
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State of Ohio.
Hancock County.  SS
I James H. Barr Judge of the Probate Court in and for said County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Satisfactory evidance has been exhibited to said Court that Nicholas Helmick was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United Stats at the rate of 80 dollars per annum, was a resident of Hancock County in the State of Ohio. and died on the 26th day of September in the year A.D. 1844.  that he left a widow whose name is Sarah Helmick.
In testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at Finley this 16th day of June 1853.
James H. Barr  Probate Judge
[SEAL]
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State of Ohio
Hancock County SS
On this 14 day of May 1853 Personally appeared before me Henry B. Walls a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State aforesaid John Thomas and Jacob Thomas who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that the are well acquainted with Sarah Helmick who has signed the foregoing decleration for a pension.  that she is the widow of Nicholas Helmick who was a pensioner in the State of Ohio for Revolutionary services.  deponants further state that they were personally acquainted with the marriage of the said Nicholas Helmick to Sarah Ward. which took place on the 11th day of May in the year 1834 in the County of Hancock in the State of Ohio and that the said Sarah Helmick still remains a widow.
John Thomas
Jacob Thomas
Witnesses Signatures

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written  I hereby certify that John Thomas and Jacob Thomas who has signed the above decleration is persons of known respectibility for truth and veracity.
H.B. Wall  JP.
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Know all men by these presents.
That I, Sarah Helmick of the County of Hancock in the State Ohio Widow of Nicholas Helmick who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint J.G. Turner, of the City of Tiffin my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and for my use, to reave from the Treasury of the United States, the amount of pension due on account of my said husbands services, as aforesaid. from the date of my husbands death, which took place on the 26th day of September in the year A.D. 1844 and a sertificate of pension as his widow since that time and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized to appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the purpose herein mentioned.
In testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 16th day of June 1853.
Sarah Helmick x her mark [handwriten seal]
Sealed in presence of
James H. Barr
Valentine Miller
2 witnesses

State of Ohio
Hancock County.  SS
Be it know that before me Judge of the Probate Court in and for said County and state aforesaid personally appeared Sarah Helmick and acknolaged the signing of the above power of attorney
over
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to be her voluntary act and deed.  I further certify that the interlining was done before signing.
In testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at Finley this 16th day of June 1853.
James H. Barr  Probate Judge

State of Ohio
Hancock County SS.
Be it known that on the 13 day of May 1853 before me Henry B Wall a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared J.G. Turner the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney and made oath that he has no interest whatsoever in the money he is authorized to recive by virtue of the foregoing power of attorney ether by pledge mortgage sale, assignment, or transfer, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any person whatsoever.
J.G. Turner
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
H.B. Wall   J.P.
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State of Ohio
Hancock County

I Absalom P. Byal Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that H.B. Wall Esqr. whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing afadavits was at the time of so doing an acting Justice of the peace in and for said  County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn, that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit;  that the aforesaid County Court is a court of record having general jurisdiction.
In testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at  Finley the 1st day of July 1853.
A.P. Byal  Clerk of said court

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No 20183-7875
Nicholas Helmick
Wayne County 
State of Ohio

look at Va role
on role
Admitted 2 years from 1777

E. Dean agent
Wooster. Post-office
Wayne County
State of Ohio
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
183
Sir:
The evidence in support of you claim, under the act of June.7, 1832, has been examined, and the paper are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of you claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Nicholas Helmick, Wayne County.

Period when the service was rendered:
Enlisted 1777

Duration of the claimant's service. Years | Months. | Days
3 | - | -

Rank of the claimant.
Private

Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.
Capt. John Chapman 
Ensign Bullock

Names and Rank of the General and Field officers.
Col. Crockit
Genl. George Clark
Col. Laughry

Battles in which the applicant was engaged.
[Blank]

Country through which he marched.
From Albemarle Va: to Fredericktown Maryland
Shepherdstown on the Potomac
New Stone down the Ohio River to Wheeling
thence to the falls of the Ohio River.
Mud fort on Salt River Kentucky

Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.
72 years Winchester Virginia

Evidence by which the declaration is supported.
[blank]

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 regulations have been adopted:
This law has been constructed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits 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 in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. 
State, Territory, or District of } 88.
County of
On this day of personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) 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 provion made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. The he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he enered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity , except the present, and he declared that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of 
Sworn to the subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I of the Court of 
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of application of for 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 service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions viz: 
(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. 
who has signed the same is a resident in the 
and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the 
and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the 
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but 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 one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state 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 comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very account of the services of each person.
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? 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.
6. {To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
To an Officer. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed and was has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same cane be done, in the opinion of the Court
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December 14, 1939

BA-J/MCS
Nicholas Helmick
W. 489

Mr. Carl N. Helmick
3664 Jurupa Avenue
Riverside, California

Dear Sir:

The data which follow were taken from the papers on file in the pension claim, W.489, based on the military service of Nicholas Helmick.
The date and place of birth of Nicholas Helmick and the names of his parents are not shown.
While a resident of Winchester, Virginia, he enlisted in September, 1777, and served three years and nine months as private in Captain John Chapman's company in  Colonel Crockett's Virginia regiment.
It was stated that he enlisted in Columbia County, Ohio, about the first of July, 1812, and served six months as private in Captain Wilber Fulks' company in Colonel John Hineman's militia regiment.
In 1818 he was living in Wayne County, Ohio.  In 1828 he was living in Chippewa Township, Wayne County, Ohio, and in 1831 he was living in Norton, Medina County, Ohio.
On account of his service in the Revolution, he was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832, at which time he was seventy-two years of age and was living in Chippewa Township, Wayne County, Ohio.
Nicholas Helmick died September 26, 1844, in Hancock County, Ohio.
This soldier married March 11, 1834, in Hancock County, Ohio, Sarah Ward.  No reference was made to a former marriage.
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On account of the Revolutionary War service of Nicholas Helmick, his widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed June 16, 1853, at which time she was fifty-eight years of age and was living in Hancock County, Ohio.
In 1869, her post office address was Portage Center, Hancock County, Ohio.
Sarah Helmick died February 23, 1879, at Fostoria, Seneca County, Ohio.
The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.
A claim for pension was not made to the United States on account of the War of 1812 service of Nicholas Helmick.
Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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31,046
Nicholas Helmick
Application [illegible]


Wm Larwill
Wooster Ohio
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District of the State of Ohio
Wayne County
On the 27th day of July anno Domini 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas for said County personally came Nicholas Helmick of said County aged fifty eight years who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"  that he the said Nicholas Helmick enlisted in Winchester in the State of Virginia on or about the month of September A.D. 1777 - in a company commanded by Capt. John Chapman, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Crocket, of the Virginia line and that he continued
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Continued to serve in the said Corps in the service of the United States for the term of three years and nine months  that he was discharged at the Mud Garrison in the State of Kentucky & that he has lost his discharge
And further the said Nicholas Helmick saith that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support
Nicholas Helmick
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 27th day of July A.D. 1818
David Himpton

I David Himpton one of the Associate Justices of said County of Wayne, do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Nicholas Helmick did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the above declaration against the common enemy for the term above mentioned on the Continental establishment and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.  I now transmit the testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the aforementioned Act of Congress
David Himpton
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State of Ohio
Wayne County
[SEAL]
I William Larwill Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of said County do hereby certify that David Himpton Esquire before whom the within deposition & proceedings were had was at the date thereof, on of the Associate Justices of the said County of Wayne duly commissioned & qualified by lawful authority to all whose official Acts as such full faith & credit in due & ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice in this State as thereout.
In testimony whereof, I hereto sign my name and affix the seal of said County at Wooster this third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty
Wm Larwill Clk.
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36,736

160 acres
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Hon J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

[STAMP]
Bucyrus O
Apr 22
Page 34

Add
Josiah Turner
relative to Sarah
Helmick wid
of Nicholas Helmick
filed Decr. 1855

Agent informed of the error
226.779
Refd to Hood
May 9/56

Hon J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

Free

Bascoma
April 5
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36.736—160
Nicholas Helmick.
Decd.

[STAMP]
BUCYRUS O.
AUG 26 1856

Hon J. Minot,
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, 
D.C.
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1912 July 31. Hist. to Mrs. A. Ingschmirk for tombstone  F.W.
1917 Nov. 3. History to Mrs. Chas. B. Handley  FW.
1934 June 23.  hist. to Mrs. John Wesley Greene MCS
1939 Dec. 14. hist. to Mr. Carl N Helmick

Revy Widow, &c
File No. 489
Sarah Helmick
Widow
Nicholas Helmick
Priv. Rev. War.
Act:  Feb. 3. 1853 &c
Index:—Vol. A, Page 323
[Arrangement of 1870]
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226.779

Bas Com [?]
Dec 8

Free

Hon J. Minot
Com of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
Page 38

Nicholas Helmick
Act 18 March 1818
Ohio

Rejected  See letter to
Wm Larwell of Wooster, Ohio.
25 Augt 1829.

Ad 32-no 7875
"    53- "  2060
Page 39

Pension Office
Sept 16/53

Sir
Please report time of last payment to or death of within named pensioner
Respectfully &c
S. Cole
for Commr.

F. Burt Esqr
3 Aud
Present

Nicholas Helmick
Act 7th June 1832, $80 p. an.
Paid to 4th Sept. 1844,
no date of death on
our Books.
F. Burt
Auditor
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2d Sec Act Feby 3/53

H

Claim for reimbursement

Certificate No. 2060

Pensioner, Sarah Helmick
Soldier, Nicholas Helmick
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A R.  Application for Reimbursement  A R.

I, Reuben Smila, do swear that Sarah Melnick , late resident of Fostoria, County of Seneca, State of Ohio died on the 23d day of February, 1879;  that the decedent drew a pension, under Certificate no. 2060, up to the 4th day of December, 1878, as the widow of Nicholas Helmick formerly a soldier (or sailor) in the service of the United States;  that said decedent left surviving neither widow nor child under sixteen years of age, and did not leave sufficient assets to meet the expenses of decedent's last sickness and burial;  and that said expenses are correctly enumerated in the following statement, the names of the persons who rendered service or furnished necessaries being given, with items and amounts:

Names.
L.D. Kiser
Nature of Expenses.
Coffin & Burial
Amount.
$30.00

Names.
Dr A.S. Williams
Nature of Expenses.
Medical attendance in last sickness
Amount.
2.50

[STAMP]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PENSION OFFICE
MAR 28: 1879

I further swear that the above is a complete list of all the expenses of last sickness and burial;  that they were proper and necessary;  that they were all actually paid by me except those marked 'unpaid' for which no reimbursement is claimed, the parties in interest having signed a formal release;  and that I have received an account of the expense paid by me no pecuniary return or recompense whatever

I therefore hereby make application for reimbursement under the provisions of Section 4718, R.S., claiming the sum of thirty two & 50/100 dollars.  The total value of all property of whatever kind, personal and real, left by the decedent did not exceed ten dollars, and consisted of her old wearing apparel and nothing else and they are worthless to me, and only the sum of  ---- dollars of said assets has been, or can be, available  for reimbursement of the above-named expenses.
The decedent's last sickness continued uninterruptedly from Febry. 22, 1879 to date of death, and its nature and degree were as follows:   old age she being over eighty six  years of age
The pension certificate is herewith returned (or if not, state why not)  - 
My residence is at No.   , on    Street, in the Town or City of Fostoria, County of Seneca, State of Ohio, and my Post-Office address is Fostoria, Seneca County, Ohio.
(Affiant's signature) Reuben Smila
Attest:  J.V. Jones
Edwin Jones
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 day of March, 1879, at Fostoria Ohio and I certify that the affiant is reputable and entitled to credit, and know the contents of the above before swearing;  and that I have no interest, direct of indirect, in this claim.  For proof of my official character see certificate on file in Pension Office
(Signature)  J.V. Jones
(Official character)  Notary Public
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2060
Ohio  Cincinnati
Sarah Helmick
widow of Nicholas
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the [crossed out: 4th day of March, 1848.] 3d February 1833
Certificate of Pension issued the
20 day of Septr/53
and sent to
J.G. turner
Tiffin, Ohio

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act [crossed out: July 29, 1848] Feby 3d/53 
Page 163  Vol. A

1832

Let to J.S. Turner 
5 Feb 1855

226779
Ctfd.
Page 43

Recd 17 Oct 1831
117 [illegible]

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "An act for the releif of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th May, 1828, I Nicholas Helmick of Norton, in the County of Medina, in the State of Ohio, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination;  at which period I was a private in Captain John Chapman's company, in Colonel Crockett's Regiment of the Virginia Line.  And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th May, 1778.  And that my discharge with other papers, was consumed in the burning of the house in which I resided some years since.
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May, 1828, on the Pension List of the United States
Nicholas Helmick

Before me Ambrose Palmer a Justice of the Peace in the County of Medina in the State of Ohio, personally appeared, on this day, Henry Franks and John Franks, of Wayne County in the State aforesaid, who did severally make oath that Nicholas Helmick by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and beleived to have been a Private in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this 1st day of October in the year 1831
Ambrose Palmer  Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio
Medina County
I Timothy Hudson, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within aforesaid County, do hereby certify that Ambrose Palmer Esq. whose name, in his own proper handwriting is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the first day of Oct. instant & now is an acting Justice of the peace of said County, who is duly elected, commissioned and sworn; and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is and ought to be given.  In testimony whereof I hereunto sign my name and affix the seal of sd. Court, at Medina, this 6th day of Oct. AD 1831
Timothy Hudson,  Clerk
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Claim of
Sarah Helmick
for increase pension
Sec. 13 Act July 27, 1868

[STAMP]
Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Mar 18 1869


Jno. M. Hamlin
Atty. for claimant
Findlay Ohio
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13th Sec Act. July 27, 1868.

State of Ohio Hancock County SS:
On this 13th day of March A.D. 1869 personally appeared before me James Dennison a Clerk of Common Pleas Court within and for the County and state aforesaid, Sarah Helmick aged 74 years, a resident of Hancock County, in the state of Ohio, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical person to whom was granted pension certificate No. 2060 payable at Cincinnati Ohio at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, issued under the act of February 3, 1853;  that she makes this declaration in order to secure the increase of her pension to which she is entitled under the thirteen Section of the Act of July 27, 1868.
My post office address is as follows:
Portage Center  Hancock County Ohio
Sarah Helmick X her mark

Also personally appeared T.F. Edgington and Reuben Smila residents of Hancock County Ohio, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit.  and who being by me first duly sworn, say that they were present and saw Sarah Helmick make her mark to the
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[STAMP]
Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Mar 18 1869

foregoing declaration;  and they further swear that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.  And that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.
T.F. Edgington   1
Reuben Smila     2

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13 day of March A.D. 1869;  and I hereby certify that I have no interest, direct or indirect in the prosecution of this claim.
James Dennison
Clerk
Court Com Pleas
Page 47

Know all men by these presents
That I Sarah Helmick a resident of the County of Hancock and State of Ohio do hereby constitute and appoint John M. Hamlin at Findlay Hancock County Ohio, my true and lawful agent and attorney, for me and in my name to prosecute the claim presented by me for an increase of my pension as set forth in my above application or declaration.  And I do hereby authorize my said attorney to examine the papers, documents and records relating to my said claim to file additional evidence and arguments when necessary: to receive the certificate which may issue in my name upon said claim: and to do any and all lawful acts necessary in effecting the object of his said appointment.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 13 day of March A.D. 1869.
Sarah Helmick  x her mark   L.S.
Executed in the presence of:
T.F. Edgington
Reuben Smila

State of Ohio  Hancock County SS.
On this 13 day of March A.D. 1869 before me the undersigned authority within and for said County, personally came Sarah Helmick and acknowledged
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the signing and sealing of the foregoing power of attorney for the uses and purposes therein expressed.
Witness my hand and official seal the day and year aforesaid.
James Dennison  Clerk
Court Com Pleas
Page 49

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "An act for the relief and certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828.  I Nicholas Helmick of the township of Chippewa in the County of Wayne in the State of Ohio, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution on or about the month of September A.D. 1777. for the term of three years or during the war in a company commanded by Capt. John Chapman in the Regiment commanded by Colo. Crocket, and continued to serve in said corps until the end of the war, when I was honorably discharged at the Mud Garrison in the State of Kentucky, which discharge I have lost.  And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828. on the pension list of the United States.
Nicholas Helmick

The State of Ohio
Wayne County   Sct
Before me Stephen Fisher a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Wayne and State of Ohio aforesaid personally appeared this day Henry Franks and William Barnet. of the said County who did severally make oath that Nicholas Helmick by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.  Witness my hand this 22th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
Given under my hand the date as above
Stephen Fisher Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio
Wayne County
I Thomas Cox Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of said County of Wayne do certify that Stephen Fisher Esquire before whom the within affidavits were sworn was at the time an acting Justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such, and duly empowered to administer oaths agreeably to the laws of said State
In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of the said Court at Wooster this twenty second day of July Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
Thomas Cox  Clk
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698
N. Helmick
Recd. 30 July 1828
ackd. 15 Aug
Virginia
State Line


Wooster
July 23

Free

Honl. Richard Rush
Secty of the Treasury U.S.
Washington City
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Wooster  22nd July 1828

Hon: Richard Rush
Sir
By request of Mr. Nicholas Helmick I herewith transmit the evidence of his claim for a pension for revolutionary services.  Upon examination it will be perceived that Mr. Helmick made application for a pension under the law of Congress of 1818. which application for some cause not know to him, was rejected  his papers remain on the files of the pension office.  Mr Helmick is desirous that should any additional proof to substantiate his claim be necessary that he may be informed thereof through me
Very respectfully
Your Obedt. Servt
Wm Larwill
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1828 papers
to be filed
with Aa
OW Wid
#489


1812  2490-5077
Page 54

Nicholas Helmick  Pvt
Va. line

Ohio

Wids File no 489
Page 55

Brief in the case of Mrs Sarah Helmick widow of Nicholis
Hancock County and State of Ohio
Act of Feb 3 1853

Claim,('original')
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Husband a pensioner under act of June 7 1832 at $80 per annum
Pri
Marriage proved cr. with
Dearh cr wills
Identity (circumstantial)

Examining Clerk.
J L Gray

Name and residence of Agent
J.G. Turner
Tiffin
Ohio
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Fastoria Ohio  Sept 26 1879

Hon. Com. of Pensions
Sometime in March last Mr Reuben Smila of this place sent you the papers to draw the amount of pension due Sarah Helmick widow of Nicholas Helmick a Revolutionary Soldier to date of her death to remunerate him for funeral expenses paid and to this date he has heard nothing from them.  Will you be kind enough to advise me why no report of this case has been made.
Truly yours
J.V. Jones  his atty
Page 57

The State of Ohio
Hancock County

I James H. Barr Judge of the Probate Court in and for said County of Hancock and State aforesaid, do further certify that Sarah Helmick widow of Nicholas Helmick deceased, Personally appeared in open court on the 16th day of June A.D. 1853. and was duly sworn according to law and signed the declaration for a pension under the date of Feby 3rd 1853 in open court, which appears on the Journal of said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at Findlay 12th day of September 1853
James H. Barr  Probate Judge
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Tiffin City  Sept 15th 1853.

Sir.
Enclosed is the certificate of the Court in the case of the application of Sarah Helmick widow of Nicholas Helmick deceased for a pension.
I am very respectfully yours &c
J.G. Turner

Hon L.P. Waldo
Commissioner
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Pension Agency
North Western Bank of Virginia,
Wheeling, November 4" 1837

Dear Sir,
I enclose for inspection vouchers of Nicholas Helmick of Hancock County Ohio - Pensioner at $80 per annum under Act 7 June 1832 claiming from 4" Sept 1836

I am yours very respectfully
A. Woods 
Pension Agt
Jno. S. Browne

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Page 60

Pension Application

Canfield O
Oct 11"

Hon Louis M Lane
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington
Page 61

Recd 17 Oct 1831
4133

Canfield Trumbull County Ohio
Octr 10th 1831

Sir
Inclosed you will find a letter from William H Canfield Esqr a gentleman of respectability at Medina, Medina County and an application of a Mr. Helmick for a pension under the act of May 1828.  Mr Helmick has not been able to make out his proof for reasons assigned by Mr Canfield.  he supposes however that there is proof in the pension office, and under the circumstances I suppose resort would be had to it.  It would be a very hard case if Mr Helmick is entitled to the benefit of the act, to deprive him of it, because his witness has a personal quarrel with him.  Perhaps the rolls shew his enlistment [obscured] service.  I will thank you to correspond with Mr. Canfield [illegible] I recommend to the confidence of the Department in this and all other business which may be confided to him, connected with it.
Very Respectfully
Yours
Elisha Whittlesey

Hon Louis M Lane
Secretary of the Treasury
Page 62

Stephen Fishers
deposition

Copd.
Page 63

State of Ohio
Wayne County
Sept 3d 1832

Personally appeared in open court Stephen Fisher of lawful age, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is acquainted with Nicholas Helmick and that he is a man of good reputation for truth and veracity and further saith not.
Stephen Fisher

Sworn to & subscribed in
Open Court 3d Septr 1832
Wm Larwill Clk
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House of Representatives
April 12th 1844

James L Edwards Esqr

Sir
I wish an authenticated copy of the papers upon which is founded the pension of Nicholas Helmick of Ohio.
I want these papers to enable me to obtain the Helmick bounty Land from the State of Virginia.  Your early attention will greatly oblige an aged and worthy man & be duly acknowledged by
Your most obt servt
Joseph Vance
Page 65

William H Canfield
Octr 6th 1831
Page 66

Recd 17 Oct 1831

Medina Oct. 6th 1831

Dear Sir
I have made out an application for a Mr. Helmick for a pension under the Act of 1828. and as I am doubtful whether there is sufficient to satisfy the officers of the pension office of the service of Mr Helmick, I have enclosed the same to you and would be much obliged, if you would examine it & give your opinion in the case.  There is but one person, as Mr Helmick informs me, in this country who was acquainted with him during the Revolutionary War & knew of his serving as a soldier in the same;  This person resides near Mr Helmick, but on account of some difference and quarrels which has took place between their families, cannot be prevailed upon by Mr Helmick or his friends to give his affidavit-
Mr Helmick says that he applied, some year since for a pension under the Act of 1818. and at that time proved his services to the satisfaction of the officers of the pension office but was prevented from obtaining a pension by the Act of 1820. as he was at that time possessed of considerable property, his principal witness then was the above mentioned person;   those papers are still in the Pension Office, he supposes, as they were never returned to him - Cannot those papers be made use of, on this application, for the purpose of proving his services?  If you should think there is any probability of his obtaining a pension without procuring more testimony, I would be much obliged if you would direct the enclosed to the proper department, as I perceive by some late regulations which have been published that no communication from person pretending to act as agents for pensioners will
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be attended to, at the pension, unless they are personally acquainted with the person, or unless he obtains a recommendation from some person with whom the officers are acquainted - In case you forward the application please request that an answer to the same be directed to yourself or me.
Very respectfully
Yours
Wm H Canfield

Hon. E. Whittlesey
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Bascom Seneca County  Jan 22 / 55
Sir [Having] applied to the Legislature 
of the State of Pensylvania [sic] for a pension on 
account of any late Revolutionary Services
in the war of the Revolution (viz) Nicholas 
Helmick.  who was a penshioner under act 
of June 7th 1832 and I am under the
impression that his Services were performed in 
the State of Pensylvania [sic] and the Legislature
of that State provided that certified Copys of Pension papers must be obtained as 
proof of the Services rendered in their
State.  Please have the goodness to send me
a certified copy of any Said (or aforesaid)
papers which will be on file in the war 
department at Washington.  I trust as she is poor 
and in need of assistance you will do me the favor expediently
I am respectfully your ob. st.
Josiah S Turner for Sarah Helmick

Hon. L. P. Waldo}
Commissioner }
Page 69

Bascom Seneca County Ohio  Dec. 7th 1855

Sir

Enclosed Please find the Claim of Sarah Helmick for Bounty Land
I am respectfully yours &c
Josiah S. Turner

Hon J Minot
Com of Pensions
Page 70

2060
Increase
Brief in the Case of Sarah Helmick Widow of Nicholas who was a private Rev War.  Portage Center Hancock County and State of Ohio
Act 2d Sec Feb 3.1853

Cincinnati

Claim for New Pension Certificate

Proof Exhibited,
Pension roll of Ohio at $80 per annum.  Certificate returned.  Claims increase as provided by Act 17th Sec. July 27. 1868
Personal identity properly shown.

Admitted March 24, 1869 to a pension at $96 per ann to commence July 27, 1868. deducting pay. [illegible]

W.E. Trask
Examining Clerk.

Name and residence of Agent
John M Hamlin
Findlay
Hancock Co
Ohio.
Page 71

Bucyrus Crawford County Ohio Aug 26th/56

Sir.
Having received a Land Warrant for Mrs. Sarah Helmick for the Revolutionary Services of her husband Nicholas Helmick under act of March 3rd 1855. your letter of May 9th 1856 showing that her claim was filed No 2.26.7.79.  I would say that she has two Claims, one for Revolutionary Services and one for Services in the war of 1812. on the same sheet, in Capt Wilber Fulks Company in Col Hindmans Regiment.   this Claim must have been overlooked.  Pleas have the goodness to Inform me, how the matter stands.  as I have not Received the Claim.
I am Respectfully yours &c
J.S. Turner

Hon J. Minot.
Commissioner of
Pensions
Page 72

226.779
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Bascom Seneca County Ohio  April 2nd 1856

Sir
Having received two declarations from Sarah Helmick for Bounty land who is the widow of Nicholas Helmick a pensioner the one for his Services in the Revolutionary war and the other for the war of 1812 I sent them on the 7th of December 1855 and have never heard from you wether they have been received and as it has been customary for the Department send the No of Such applications for warrants I have thought it Strange not Receiving your reply upon them  I have thought that they might have not reached the office  pleas Inform me how the matter Stands.
I am very Respectfuly yours &c
Josiah S Turner.

Hon J Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Page 74

Josiah S. Turner
Bucyrus 
Ohio

Sarah Helmicks
mailed about the 7. Dec 1855

226.779

Boynton  May 15/56
11
36736
160755
[illegible- Gouley?]
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Bucyrus Crawford County Ohio  April 22nd 1856

Sir
Being the agent in the Claim of Mrs Sarah Helmicks claim for Bounty land under the Act of March 3d 1855. which I mailed about the Seventh day of December 1855. after which time I have not heard from you on account of Said Claims which was for Services rendered in the war of the Revolution and the war of 1812 by her late husband   Please Inform me if those two declarations has been Recd.
I am very Respectfully yours &c
Josiah S. Turner.

Hon J Minot 
Commissioner of
Pensions
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717

Revolutionary Claims
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
19 Oct. 1831

Nicholas Helmick of - in the county of Wayne in the State of Ohio has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain Chapman's company in the - regiment of the Virginia line;  and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778;  and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828 on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary.
F.A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Third Auditor's Office,
19th October 1831
[Crossed out: It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to __ in the __.]  
It further appears that Nicholas Helmick is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826 [crossed out: at the rate of __ dollars per month.]
The name of Nicholas Helmick cannot be found among those of the Virginia line to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued-
Peter Hagner  Aud

(Correct)
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War Department
Bounty Land Office
31 Oct 1831

The name of Nicholas Helmick is not returned among those of the Virga. line, as entitled to Bounty land of the U. States, nor has a Land Warrant issued for him.
Wm Gordon

General Land Off
3d Novbr 1831

The name of Nicholas Helmick does not appear on the List of Warrants issued by the Register of the Land Office at Richmond Va. so far as they have been received.
Elijah Hayward

Commissioner
Page 78

Old War
2060
Sarah Helmick
489.

[STAMP]
Department of [illegible]
Feb [illegible]
Pension [Office]
Page 79

(Pensioner Dropped.)
5.
U.S. Pension Agency,
Columbus, O.
Jany 2nd, 1880.

Hon J.A. Bentley
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir:
I hereby report that the name of Sarah Helmick  wid Nicholas (Act Feby 3" 53) who was a pensioner on the Cincinnati rolls of this Agency, under Certificate No. 2060, and who was late paid at $96 pr annum to Feby 23", 1879 has been dropped, because of pensioners death.
Very respectfully
A.T. Wikoff
Pension Agent
W.

Every name dropped to be thus reported at once.
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719
Revolutionary Claims.
See letter from War Dept . Recd 4 Nov 1881.

Treasury Department,
Augt. 15. 1828

Nicholas Helmick of Chippewa township in the County of Wayne, in the State of Ohio, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain     's company, in the regiment of the     line ; [crossed out: and that] (does not state whether he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778;)  and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pension since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to __ in the __
It further appears that __ is now on the pension list of the __ agency, and has been so since the __ at the rate of __ dollars per month.
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Payment to be made at Cincinnati by
Joel S. Green
Agent for paying Pensioners in the 
Agency of Ohio
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March

Recorded in the Pension Office on the
Roll of Pensioners under act February
3d, 1853, page 163, Vol. A
Clerk.
H.R. Weightman

[STAMP]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PENSION OFFICE
MAR 18 1868
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
WIDOW'S PENSION.

I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853, Sarah Helmick widow of Nicholas Helmick who was a private in the Revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 3d of February, 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry;  in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.

Given at the Department of the Interior,
this twentieth day of September
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three
R. McClelland
Secretary of the Interior.

Examined and Countersigned.
L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions.
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205 West Cherry St. Clyde Ohio
June 17, 1934

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:  Re Revolutionary pension to (Sarah) Ann Littleton Ward Helmick, widow of Nicholas Helmick

Would appreciate any information you have on file relative to the above people, particularly Mrs. Helmick.  Have heard she was the last Revolutionary pensioner in Ohio -  is such the case? [Margin note:] Mrs. Frick said not to answer the question.
Thank you

Yours truly
June S. Greene
(Mrs. Jno. Wesley Greene)

[STAMP]
RECEIVED JUN 19 1934
MAIL SUB-DIV.
READER 19
VETS. ADM.
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In reply to your request of    , received    for a statement of the military history of Nicholas Helmick a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau
W.F. 489

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment.
Sept. 1777
Length of Service.
3 yrs 9 mos
Rank
Pvt.
Officers under whom service was rendered.
Captain John Chapman
Colonel Crockett
State 
Va.

Battles engaged in,    -  
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Winchester Va
Date of application for pension, June 27, 1818. Cl. Al.
Residence at date of application, Wayne Co, Ohio.
Age at date of application, 58 yrs.
Remarks:  He mar. in Hancock Co Ohio, Mch 11, 1834, Sarah Ward.  He died Sept. 26, 1844 in Hancock Co Ohio and she was al. pen. on her ap. ex. June 16, 1853 while a resident of Hancock Co., Ohio, aged 58 years.  She died Feb. 23, 1879, at Fostoria, Seneca Co., Ohio.
Very Respectfully,
(Sent to Mrs. Chas B. Handley)
Commissioner.

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[LOGO]
Daughters of the American Revolution

[STAMP]
U.S. Pension Office
D
Jul 27 1912

To Pension Department
Washington D.C.
As a member of committee on Historic Sites I am seeking information of the service of Nicholas Helmick a Rev. Sol. for the purpose of marking his grave.
We have located his grave in Pleasant Hill Cemetary Hancock Co. Ohio but lack the knowledge of date of service, State & Reg.  Nicholas Helmick was married twice - his second wife drew a pension her maiden name was Sarah Ward and drew
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a pension.  All the records of service burned in her dwelling some years ago.  I have been informed he was in Rev. service seven years and was a private.
Hoping can furnish the desired information.
I am very Respectfully
Mrs. A. Zugsehwert.
(Chairman of Com.)
1111 Hurd Ave.
Findlay. Ohio

July 23rd. 1912
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Rev/ABH

Ponca City Okla
Oct. 29-17

To the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions
Wash. D.C.

Dear Sir.
I am desirous of perfecting my family linage for the D.A.R. records.  My name before marrage was Helmick.  There fore I am asking for facts concerning one Nicholas Helmick (or Helmeek) of Portage Hancock Co Ohio a pensioned soldier of
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the Revolution who tradition says served in Virginia.
Can you give me any information military or family in regard to such
I await your favored reply
Very Truly
Mrs. Chas B Handley
Ponca City
Okla

502 N 4th (from env.)

(Nee)
Clara Fabitha Helmick
born Berrien Spgs Mich.
1875
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October 14, 1939,
3664 Jurupa Ave.
Riverside, California,

Veterans Administration,
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:

I am one of two non-professional genealogists who are trying to prepare an authentic history of the Helmick family which presumably settled in Jamestown, Virginia, about 1643, and later migrated to Uniontown?, Pennsylvania, where four of the brothers served in the Revolutionary War.

Do you have any records concerning the five Helmicks who served in the Revolution:
1.  Jacob Helmick, of Captain Stump's Company.
2.  Nicholas Helmick, p.1, d134, r.c.war 5,89 (manuscript, Vol.5).
3.  John Helmick, s. of w., 1835, pension 2, 208.
4.  Adam Helmick, no record.
5.  Peter Helmick, Chesterfield Supplement, 58.
[Checks by all five names]
We have some records of the Peter Helmick line which were secured through Major General Eli A. Helmick, U.S. Army, retired.  And we have some papers prepared by Senator Abraham Lincoln Helmick, of Thomas, West Virginia, concerning Jacob, Adam, and John.

We will greatly appreciate having further information or confirmation of the above records.  We were unable to confirm them through the Adjutant General's office, War Department.  We are particularly interested in learning if there was a "Captain Stump's Company", and if so, where it was from, and if Jacob Helmick was a member.
Thanks for your consideration.

Sincerely yours,
Carl N. Helmick.

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cc: ffh  [note: T]

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RECEIVED OCT 20 1939
MAIL SUB-DIV
Reader No. 5
VETS ADM
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December 13, 1939
BA-J/MMHF:MLB

Mr. Carl N. Helmick
3664 Jurupa Avenue
Riverside, California

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Jacob, Nicholas, John, Adam and Peter Helmick to aid you in the compilation of authentic history of the Helmick family.  You request to know, also, if there were a Captain Stump's company, where it was from, and whether or not Jacob Helmick served in that company.

Revolutionary War data furnished by the Veterans Administration are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land which have been made to the United States based upon service in that war.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on filed based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Jacob, Adam or Peter Helmick, nor for service of an officer with the surname Stump.

It is suggested that information in regard to Jacob, Adam and Peter Helmick and of Captain Stump might be obtained from The Adjutant General, War Department, this city.

The records of John Helmick and Nicholas Helmick are furnished you herewith;  these are the records of the only soldiers with that surname found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

It is assumed that the copies of records, in regard to that family, which you enclosed were submitted for anyone to read who might be interested.  They have been placed on the reading tables for perusal.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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June 23, 1934
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BA-J/MCS
Nicholas Helmick
W. 489
Mrs. John Wesley Greene
205 West Cherry Street
Clyde
Ohio

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of Nicholas Helmick.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 489, based upon the military service of Nicholas Helmick.
While a resident of Winchester, Virginia, he enlisted in September, 1777, and served three years and nine months as private in Captain John Chapman's company in Colonel Crockett's Virginia regiment.
It was also stated that he enlisted in Columbia County, Ohio, about the first of July, 1812, and served six months as private in Captain Wilber Fulkes company in Colonel John Hineman's militia regiment.
In 1818 he was living in Wayne County, Ohio. In 1828 he was living in Chippewa Township, Wayne County, Ohio, and in 1831 he was living in Norton, Medina County, Ohio.
On account of his service in the Revolution, he was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832, at which time he was seventy-two years of age and was living in Chippewa Township, Wayne County, Ohio.
Nicholas Helmick died September 26, 1844, in Hancock County, Ohio.
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This soldier married March 11, 1834, in Hancock County, Ohio, Sarah Ward. No reference was made to a former marriage.
On account of the Revolutionary War service of Nicholas Helmick, his widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed June 16, 1853, at which time she was fifty-eight years of age and was living in Hancock County, Ohio.
In 1869 her post office address was Portage Center, Hancock County, Ohio.
She died February 23, 1879, at Fostoria, Seneca County, Ohio.
The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.
A claim for pension was not made to the United States on account of the War of 1812 service of Nicholas Helmick.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator