Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9505, for Dewald Linn, Pennsylvania

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(3-1776)
SERVICE  NUMBER
Penn  Linn, Dewald  W. 9505
  or Lynn  Elizabeth  B.L. Wt. 34925-160-55

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No. 31.889.
Pennsylvania
Dewald Linn
of Northumberland Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Bowers of the Regiment commanded by Col. Haller in the Pennsylvania line for six months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate of 20 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12. day of October 1841 and sent to John F. Wolfinger, Milton, Penna. on 14

Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi-annl. allowance ending [blank]

{Revolutionary Claim. Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by [illegible] Steward Clerk,
Book F. 2 - Vol. 3 - Page 38

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Ref. 14 Oct. '41
Let. to Hon J. Pollock, Jan 31, 45
" "  18 Feb 1846

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Increase  No. 5,692
Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Linn
widow of Dewald Linn
Penn.
who served in Revolutionary war, as a Private

Philadelphia agency.
Rate 96 Dollars [blank] cents per annum.
Commencing July 27. 1868
[illegible] payments made [illegible]

Certificate dated 23. Oct. 1869 and sent to Claimant care of  W. N. Ashman
No 431 1/2 Market st. Phila.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page [too faint to read] Vol. [too faint to read]

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1887 Aug Pension  [illegible] paid to June 4, 1834 & died Aug. 1. 1834
(Living in Dewalt, Northumberland Co., Pa. aged then 84 years)

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[illegible]
210766 Sept 12/55
Elizabeth Linn
widow of Linn Dewald priv.
Capt Sebatian Lintz

Rev. Pensioner
Revolutionary War

Penn Feby 53-5692
[illegible] 160 Apl 25156
[illegible]

S.J. Bowen
Present

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1858 March 4  Let to [illegible]

Vol L =95

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No Penna.
Dewald Linn
18 June 1833
Obj 5

Hon. L. Decourt
Ho Reps [House pf Representative]

Rejected

Exclusive of his services as waggoner, served 4 1/2 months
15 Feby. 1833

P 205.

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BRIEF in the case of Dewall [sic] Linn County of Northumberland in the State of Penn.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he?  74 years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[Column 1] Period.  
[Row 1] In 1776 or 1777

[Column 2] Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
[Row 1] [Years], about 1  [Months,] 2  [Days.] [blank]
[Row 2] [Years,] [blank]  [Months,] 3  [Days.] [blank]
[Row 3] [Years,] [blank]  [Months,] 2  [Days.] [blank]
[Row 4] [Years,] [blank]  [Months,] 1  [Days.] [blank]
[Row 5] [Years,] [blank]  [Months,] 1  [Days.] [blank]

[Column 3] Rank.
[Row 4] As a private [illegible]
[Row 4]  Driver of Support wagon [illegible]

[Column 4] Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen Washington
Capt Sebastian Lentz
Jacob Brown

5. In what battles was he engaged? Battle of White Plains Bunker Hill Trenton

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Bucks County Penn.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence. Length of service not definitely stated.

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with evidence in the case above mentioned.

//s// Vinal Luce Examining Clerk

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Application for Bounty Land

State of Pennsylvania }
County of Northumberland } ss: On this Seventh day of August 1855, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Elizabeth Lynn [sic] aged 54 years a resident of Delaware Township in the County of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania who being duly sworn according to Law deposes and says that she is the Widow of Dewald Lynn [sic] who served in the company commanded by Capt. Sebastian Lentz in the Revolutionary War and that he continued in said service fourteen days and upwards and for further particulars of he said husbands services she refers to the evidence on file in the Pension Office he having drawn a pension in his life time under [blank] act of Congress [blank] at the rate of $ [blank] per annum which was paid to him at the agency in Philadelphia he having resided in the County of Northumberland & State of Pennsylvania.
She further states she was married to the said Dewald Lynn [sic] on or about the [blank] day of June 1838 in the German Church by one Reverend Wm [illegible] the then officiating Clergyman in said Church who has since left the County and

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and [sic, duplicated word] that her name before her said marriage was Elizabeth Bruner. That he said husband died at Delaware in the County of Northumberland on the 15th day of December 1847 and that she is now a widow and that there is no public or private record of her marriage.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act passed the 3rd day of March 1855. She declares that she she [sic] has never received nor applied for Bounty Lands under this or any other act of Congress.  S.J. Bowen of Washington is hereby authorized to prosecute this my claim and to receive anywarrant which may issued thereon.

[Signed with the note "Her mark" and an "X"]  Elizabeth Lynn [The word "Seal" has been added]

Affidavit of two witnesses
Personally came Jacob Dabler and Conrad Thornburg residents of the County of Northumberland in the State of Pennsylvania who upon oath declare that they are personally well acquainted with Mrs. Elizabeth Lynn [sic] and saw her make her mark to the foregoing declaration that they know her to be the identical person therein represented and that she

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is now a widow and that the said Dewald Lynn [sic] & Elizabeth Lynn [sic] lived together during the life time of the former as husband and wife (and that the same Jacob Dabler was present and saw them married as he declares) and that the same Dewald Lynn [sic] died about the 15th day of December 1847 and that [illegible] have no interest in this claim.

//s// Jacob Dabler [the word "Seal" added]
//s// Conrad Hagenbuch [the word "Seal" added]

The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me this Seventh day of August, A.D. 1855, and that I believe the claimant to be the identical person she represents herself to be, that I know the witnesses are credible persons and that I have no Interest in this claim.

//s// A. T. Ludwig, {Justice of the Peace

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Bounty Land

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Bounty Land
210766
Claim of Elizabeth Lynn [sic]
Act March 3, 1855

Rev. war

L. J. Bowen Atty.
Present

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State of Pennsylvania } 
Northumberland County } ss:  I hereby certify that A. T.  Ludwig, Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made is and was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County & State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature to the same is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 7th day of August 1855.

//s// James Beard Proty. [Prothonotary]

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Application for Pension
State of Pennsylvania }
County of Northumberland } ss:   In open Court, Common Pleas Term 1855, Alex Gordon Esq. President Judge
On this 7 day of August A.D. 1855. Before the Court of Common Pleas held with & for the County & State aforesaid, personally appeared Elizabeth Lynn [sic] aged 54 years a resident of Delaware Township in the County of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3rd of February 1853, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, and that she is the widow of Dewald Lynn [sic] deceased who was a private in the Company Commanded by Captain Sebastian Lentz in the Revolutionary War and in service at various other times as a statement of his Service will appear by reference to the Evidence filed in his application for a pension, he being a Pensioner under [blank] Act of Congress [blank] at the rate of $ [blank] per annum which was paid to him at the agency in Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, she further states that she was married to the said Dewald Lynn [sic] on or about the [blank] day of June 1838 in the German Church by one Reverend Mr [illegible] the then officiating clergyman in said church, who has since left the county and that her name before her said marriage was Elizabeth Bruner. The her husband died at Delaware on the 15th day of December

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A.D. 1847. That she was not married to him prior to the 2d Day of January 1800. But at the time above stated, and she further states that she has no knowledge of any Public record of her marriage and that there is no private record of her marriage. That she cannot file him with his Certificate of his discharge for the reason she has no knowledge whether he had one or not, and she further declares that she is now a widow.
She hereby appoints S. J. Bowen of Washington her true and lawful attorney with power of substitution to prosecute this her claim for a pension to receive the Certificate when issued and to do all other acts necessary and proper in the premises. The word "appoints" interlined before signing.
[Signed with the note "Her mark" and an "X"] Elizabeth Lynn [sic]
In presence of 
//s// Jacob Dabler
//s// Conrad Hagenbuch

Sworn to subscribed before me on the day and year first above written and I hereby certify that Court are satisfied the said deponent Elizabeth Lynn [sic] is the widow of Dewald Lynn [sic] Deceased and believes her to be as above stated and from her appearance that her age is as above stated and further that I am not interested in this her claim as attorney or  otherwise.
Witness my hand and seal of said Court affixed by order of said Court now in session. 
//s// James Beard Proty [Prothonotary]

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State of Pennsylvania }
County of Northumberland } ss:  On the 7th day of August A.D. 1855, personally appeared before me the undesigned a Justice of the Peace Jaboc Doebler [sic] [illegible] & Conrad Hagenbuch who are to me well known and who are credible witnesses & who being by me duly sworn depose and say that they are each well acquainted with Mrs. Elizabeth Lynn [sic] the above applicant for a Pension that they have known her for nineteen years past, that they were acquainted with Dewald Lynn [sic] her late husband having known him for fifteen years previous to his death & that they the said Dewald Lynn [sic] & Elizabeth Lynn [sic] lived together as husband & wife and were reputed so to be, that deponents never heard the fact of their marriage disputed or questioned. That said Jacob Dabler was present and saw them married. That the said Dewald Lynn [sic] died on or about the 15th day of December A.D. 1847, & that said Elizabeth Lynn [sic] has been since that day & still is reputed to be his widow which deponents believe to be the fact. That she has never married since her said husband's death & still is a widow & that her said husband is the identical man mentioned as a pensioner  in her declaration above and further that they were present and saw her Elizabeth Lynn [sic] execute the foregoing affidavit by making her mark to the foregoing declaration & making oath thereunto in due form of law & that the Deponents reside in the County aforesaid.
{//s// Jacob Dabler }
{//s// Conrad Hagenbuch }   //s// A. T. Ludwig  J.P.

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The witnesses Sworn to and subscribed before me this  Seventh day of August A.D. 1855.

//s//  A. T. Ludwig, Justice Peace,

State of Pennsylvania }
County of Northumberland } ss:  I hereby certify that A. T. Ludwig Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits and power of Attorney were made & acknowledged and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn & that his signature thereto is genuine. In testimony whereof I have herein set my hand and affixed the seal of said court for the county aforesaid this 7 day of August A.D. 1855.
//s// James Beard Prot. [Prothonotary]

[Physical seal affixed]

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State of Pennsylvania }
County of Northumberland Sct. }

On the 19th day of November, A.D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Dewald Linn a resident of Turbot Township in the County of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania aged seventy three or seventy four 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 as a volunteer, under the command of Capt. Sebastian Lentz, in District township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. This was about the year 1776 or 1777. We marched through Easton, Pa., [illegible] landing to Amboy. I was about two months in the service under Capt. Lentz, when I was discharged. The discharge was not in writing. I then entered the service as an enlisted soldier under Captain Jacob Bower, in South Amboy, New Jersey. I served under Capt. Bower three months. From there we marched to Fort Washington and to White Plains. I was in the battle of White Plains and received a wound in my leg. The first Lieut. In Bower's Company was Leonard Garber.  Genl. Washington commanded at the battle of White Plains.  We were also at Bunker Hill and at Trenton. We were then discharged. I returned to Reading and was afterward employed as a driver of an artillery wagon and drove to Germantown Pa. and was engaged two months. This was in the year 1777. I was also engaged one month in driving a baggage wagon in [illegible] in Berks county, at the time of the battle of Brandywine, and was also driver of a provisions wagon one month from Reading Pa. to Blankers mill. John Riley was overseer or Quarter Master.
I know of no person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to his service, unless it be Martin Miller and Jacob Matter who were living not long ago in Bucks County.
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, only on that of the

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agency in Pennsylvania . ([illegible] of Assembly of Pennsylvania.)
//s// Dewald Linn
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
//s// Ed. J. Bright Prothy

We Rev. John Bryson and Henry Lucks and John Oyster residing in the township of Turbot Northumberland County Penn., hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Dewald Linn who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 73 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.

//s// John Oyster
//s// H. Frick
//s// John Bryson
Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
//s// Ed. J. Bright Prothy.

And the 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 it that John Oyster and Henry Frick who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the township of Turbot Northumberland and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. And also that Rev. John Bryson is a clergyman of character and respectability and resident of Turbot township, Penna.

//s// John Chapman
//s// Henry Shafffer
//s// Jacob Gearhart

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The Court propounds the questions as prescribed by the act aforesaid and the applicant answers as follows.

1. I was born in Philadelphia County Penna. in the year 1758 or 1759.
2. I have no records of my age here & was recorded in Wissahickon Church in Phila. or Montgomery County, Penna.
3. I lived in Berks County at time enlisting service and lived ?? Penna. & now live in Turbot Northumberland Penna.
4. I was first a volunteer & then enlisted.
5. [illegible].
6. I received discharge but they have been lost long since.
7. John Oyster, Joseph Heller, Jared Sheets clergyman (but unwell & not at Court) Soloman Meyers, Bathzer Gearhart, John Lose, Wm. A. Welch, Joseph [illegible], Rev. John Byrson

I Edward J. Bright, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Dewald Linn for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 19th day of November A.D. 1832.
//s// Ed. J. Bright Prothy

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State of Penna, Northumberland Co. } ss:
Personally came before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County Dewald Linn who being duly sworn according to law doth upon and say that he served as a volunteer under Captain Lentz more that six weeks also three months under Captain Bower. That he was engaged more than two months as a driver for an artillery carriage, one month in driving a baggage wagon and one month as a driver of a provisions wagon making his service in the whole amount to eight months and a half, and further saith that he is poor and unable to ascertain whether Captain Hiller and Jacob Walter at this time living or dead. That three of four years since he had their depositions taken in regards to his services which depositions were sent on to Mr. Ford Member of Congress from this district, and he has no knowledge of them since and further saith not.
//s// Dewald Linn
Sworn & subscribed this 4 day of February A.D. 1833.
//s// [illegible]

[written vertically upward in the lower right margin is] Hon. L. Dewant

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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section   [illegible initials in right upper corner]

October 29, 1924

Joseph Montgomery, 2nd
308 Chestnut St.,
Harrisburg, Penn.

Sir:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 9505 it appears that Dewald Linn was born in 1758 or 1759 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
While living in District Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania he enlisted about July 1, 1776 and served two months as a private in Captain Sebastian Lentz' [sic] Company, Colonel Stephen Crumrine's Pennsylvania regiment.
He enlisted about the middle of September 1776, served three months as a private in Captain Jacob Bower's Company, Colonel Haller's Pennsylvania Regiment, was at the battle of White Plains where he received a gunshot wound in the in the lower part of the calf of his left leg. 
In 1777 he served three months as teamster for the army.
He was allowed pension on his application executed

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November 19, 1832 while a resident of Turbot Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. He died December 15, 1847 in Delaware, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Soldier married in June 1838 in Delaware Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Bruner who was allowed pension on her application executed August 7, 1855 while living in said township aged fifty-four years.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

[Following are handwritten notes on the letter]
I did not use Lynn because soldier always signed Linn & the residents of widow's town said her name Showed she signed Linn & she signed by mark.
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Miss Wilson said not use this officer.
John Riley in [illegible]
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Sal said he was bn [born] in Phila. Co., so I did not use statement of Jacob Walter (then 86 yrs old) [illegible] was b. [born] in Berks Co. & also this soldier serv. 5 mos. in Jacob Bowen's Co., as sol. [soldier] said 3 mos.
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Miss Wilson said not use daughter Susan Linn who wrote in 1895.

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Revy WIDOW, &c.

[Partially obscured note added on far left] 2nd
File No. 9505
Elizabeth Linn
Wid
Dewalt [sic] Linn
Priv. Rev. War
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Act: Feby 3rd  185[obscured]
Index:- Vol. A, Page 436
[Following is in brackets in original document.]
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 9505
Elizabeth Linn
Wid
Dewalt [sic] Linn
Privt. Rev. War
Act: Feby 3rd 185[obscured]
Index:-Vol. A, Page 436
[The following is in brackets in the original document.]
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Mil History to
Miss Susan Linn
Watsontown, Pa.
1924 Oct. 29, Hist to Jos. Montgomery 2nd

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[Note in upper right corner] 1858 May 3 [illegible]
5692

Pennsylvania Phila.
_________________
Elizabeth Linn, widow of Dewalt [sic] Linn Pen. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private.
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 3rd February, 1853.
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Certificate of Pension issued 13th day of March 1856 and sent to S. J. Bowen Present
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 107, Vol A.

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Pension Office, Sept. 18, 1835
The Third auditor will please certify the date of death of within named pensioner.
Very respectfully,
//s// B. Hove
For. Commissioner

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Dewalt [sic] Linn paid to 4 Sept 1846.
//s// Wm. Taylor
Acting Auditor

The widow says he died in Dec 1847
Why did he not receive his two last payments.
Sept 18/55

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No. 6274
Elizabeth Linn, widow of Dewalt [sic] Linn
Penna.

Let S. J. Bowen Sept 20/55

Act. Feby. 3 1853

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Dewalt [sic] Linn
Pennsylvania
Reject [crossed out]
suspended
See let 27 March '41
J. F. Wolfinger
let: to do. 29 May '41

Act 7 June 1832

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24.925

[illegible]

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Dewalt [sic] Linn
Pennsylvania
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Admitted
Pr. 6 mos $20.
Capt. Bower Col. Walter Pa.

Act 7 June 1832

John F. Wolfinger
Milton, Pa.

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Milton Northumberland County, Penna. Oct. 6, 1841.

Dear Sir,
After a long but unavoidable delay I am at last able to send you the testimony of Mr. Jacob Walter in support of the petition of Mr. Dewalt [sic] for a U.S. pension. Martin Miller, as you will perceive, is dead so that his testimony is beyond our reach. Mr. Walter's, however, is full, clear & very satisfactory & I rejoice to find Mr. Linn's statements after so much trouble & difficulty so fully confirmed & even more than confirmed.
Yours [illegible]
//s// John F. Wolfinger

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[illegible]

[illegible]705
March 23, 1841
Pension office

Dewalt [sic] Linn
pa.

[Underneath the above is a partial address and postmark, appearing upside down relative to the above]
Revolutionary Claim
War Dep[rest not shown]
[Postmark]
MILTON
[illegible]
22
PA

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Milton March 20, 1841.

Dear Sir,
Enclosed you will find an application of Mr. Dewalt [sic] Linn, an old Revolutionary soldier, for a Pension under the Act of 1832. It ought to have been sent you sooner, but was somehow or other neglected. As to any further communications on the subject with Mr. Linn please direct your letters to the subscriber, who will be much obliged to the Department for any copies of new [underlined] Pension laws, if any, passed by Congress since the winter of 1840.

//s// J.F. Wolfinger

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Milton Northumberland County
May 25, 1841
Dear Sir,
I have delayed answering yours of the 27th of March last until now, as I have now for the first time seen Mr. Linn since the receipt of your letter. I have sent your letter to Mr. Linn, requiring the affidavits of Jacob Walter & Martin Miller of Berks County Penna. as to his having served five months in Captain Boyer's Company. Mr. Linn informs me that he has already had the affidavits of Messers Walter and Miller taken & sent to your department & that they must be on your files with his original [underlined] papers. He further states that he was the mess-mate [underlined] of the said Walter & Martin in said Boyer's Company & that he (Linn) served in said Company as long as they did & that they (Walter and Martin) have testified to this fact.  If these affidavits are compared with the pension Declarations [both words underlined] of Walter & Miller I think you will find a sufficiency of evidence to satisfy you that Mr. Linn's statements are correct, particularly if the affidavits were carefully drawn. But if they were [illegible] put together as his original declaration we may have considerable difficulty yet. Mr. Linn has already visited Berks county twice on this very business.
Yours [illegible]
//s// John F. Wolfinger

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February 24th, 1858.

Dear Sir;
An application was made to the secretary of the Interior by Elizabeth Linn, wife of Dewalt [sic] Linn, Deceased, for a Pension and Land Warrant, and her name placed on the Pension List, as per certificate of R. M. Clelland, Secretary of the Interior, dated March 13 , 1856, which you can see by turning to the Records of the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensions under that act of February 3rd, 1853, Page 107, Volume A, as attested by G. T. Getty clk.
Her empowered Atty. informed her, Aug 29th, 1856, the Land Warrant had not been issued at that date, but when issued he would send it to her.
Like then nothing has been paid promptly either, which certainly should be met promptly, Mrs. Linn is old and very poor, and if the government presumes to reward those and their widows for past service, it should be done promptly.
You will confer a favor by examining the facts and informing me

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Where the fault lies. Also if there has been a Land Warrant issued, to whom forwarded if issued, at an early date.
I have the honor to be yours O.S. [obedient servant]
//s// J.W. Week
Watsontown
North. Co.
[illegible]

Hon. J. Tompson
Sec. of the Interior
Washington
D.C.

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Rev. Pension 
Act Feby. 3, 1853
Elizabeth Lynn [sic] Penn.
Wid
Dewald
31889
Triplett

S. J. Bowen Atty.
Present

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Washington City, D.C.
Sept 11, 1855

Sir,
I enclose the claim of Elizabeth Lynn [sic] widow of Dewald Linn [sic], for a pension under that Act of Feb. 3 1853 which I trust will be found correct.

Truly Yours ob.
//s// S. J. Bowen

Hon. J. Minot
Com. of Pensions

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Washingto City D.C.
March 5th 1856

Sir
I enclose additional evidence in the case of the claim of Elizabeth Linn, widow of Dewalt [sic] Linn, decs. for a pension under the Second section of the Act of February 3, 1853, which I trust will be found sufficient.
Truly Yours
S. J. Bowen

Hon J. Minot
Coms. of Pensions

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House of Reps. Jany. 29/45

DrSir
The name of Dewalt [sic] Linn of Northumberland Co. Penna. is I believe upon the revolutionary pension Roll. Will you be  pleased to inform me, when [underlined] he was placed on the Pension Roll? What was the sum he recd. [received], as back pay if any, and the amount of his pension annually? His agent is suspected of withholding the principal part of the old man's pension & these inquiries are made to ascertain the amount he should have recd. &  to prevent injustice.
Yours truly
//s// Jas Pollock

Hon J. L. Edwards
Com. Pens.

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House of Reps. Feby 3/46
 Dr Sir
Will you be pleased to inform me the amount of pension drawn yearly by Dewalt [sic] Linn, of Penna., and the aggregate amount received by him since he became a pensioner.
Respectfully Yours
//s// Jas Pollock

Hon J. L. Edwards
Com. Pem.

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Increase   56 yrs
Brief in the Case of Elizabeth Linn Widow of Dewald, who was a Private Rev. War Northumberland Conty and State of Penn. Act 2 Act 2 [illegible] Feb 3, 1853
[illegible] 17th act July 29, 1868

Claim for New Pension Certificate.

Proof Exhibited.
Roll of Phila.
She is a pensioner of $20 per annum & applied for increase as allowed by Sec 13 Act July 29 1868 has filed proof of identify & continued widowhood.
Certificate [illegible]

Admitted Oct. 16 1869 to pension $96 per ann to commence July 27, 1868 deducting payments since.
W. E. Trask
Examining Clerk.

Name and residence of Agent.
Claimant
Care Wm N Ashman
No 43 1/2 Walnut St.
Phila.

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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Linn widow of Dewalt [sic]
Northumberland County and State of Penna.
act 3 Feby 1853

Claim, ("original,")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Her husband was a pensioner under the Act of June 7 1832 at $20 a year
Marriage proved by eye-witness to the ceremony. Cohabitation, general reputation of marriage, her identify as the widow of the pensioner, his death and her [illegible] personally credible witnesses.

Name and residence of Agent
S.J. Bowen Esq.
Present

Thornton Triplett
Examining Clerk

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Dewalt [sic] Linn, of the State of Pennsylvania [blank] who was a private in the Revolutionary War [blank] is entitled to receive Twenty dollars and [blank] cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this Twelfth day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty one.
//s// John C. Spencer
Secretary of War.

Examined and  }
Countersigned.} J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Dewalt [sic] Linn, Penna. ??, act of June 7, 1832.
Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid.

Pension office  }
feb. 17, 1846 }

[illegible] 4 Sept 1845
[illegible]

14 1/2
20
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280
10

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Dewalt [sic] Linn - $20 pr ann: 12 Oct 41 adw

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Eliz. Linn
3771
Payment to be made at Philadelphia by W[illegible].D. Anderson, Esq.
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Pennsylvania
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
[A postmark]
DEPARTMENT OF THE [illegible]
OCT 9 [illegible]

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d, 1853, Page 107 Vol. A 

//s// G. [illegible] Young  Clerk

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
__________
I certify that, in conformity with the 2nd section of the act of February 3, 1853, Elizabeth Linn, widow of Dewalt [sic] Linn, who was a Private, in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the Pension list, at the rate of Twenty, dollars and [blank] cents 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 thirteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty six.

//s// R. McClelland
Secretary of the Interior

Examined and countersigned.
//s// J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Elizabeth Linn
3771
9/29/69 Sent form.

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Department of the Interior.
PENSION OFFICE.

Washington D.C. Sept. 27, 1864

Sir,
Mrs. Elizabeth [partially obscured by postmark stamp] Linn who applied for increase rate of pension under 11th the act July 29, 1865 alleges the last her pension certificate was on or about March 1861. The record shows she has been paid to Sept 4 then the statement required explanation. She must also prove that she has not remarried since date of last pay of pension.
Respectfully,
//s// H. [illegible]
Commissioner

Mr. Wm. J. Ashman
Philadelphia
Pa.

[illegible note in lower left corner]

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Elizabeth Linn,
widow of Dewalt [sic]
Northumberland Co.
Penna.

Adm: 3 Feby 1853
$ 20 a year from the 
passage of the Act

Cert. to
S.J. Bowen
Present

Washington City [written vertically downward in right margin]

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State of Pennsylvania
Northumberland County Ss
On the 18th day of March A.D. 1833 personally appeared before one of the Justices of the Peace for said County Dewalt [sic] Linn resident in Turbot Township in said County, who being duly sworn according to law, doth declare and say that he is the identical Dewalt [sic] Linn named in the annexed declaration, and that facts as therein stated are true to the best of his recollection, excepting that part of the said declaration which states, "We were also at Bunker Hill " the, deponent believes from reflection if a mistake had arose from his stating to the person who drew upon his declaration that he was at Bunker Hill instead of a place a few miles distant from Elizabeth town in Jersey called Battle Hill. Deponent was not in the battle of Bunker Hill, nor was he in any battle excepting that of White Plains as stated in his declaration. Deponent states he is a German and does not understand and speak the English language well.
//s// Dewald Linn
Sworn and subscribed [illegible] the 18th day of March A.D. 1833
//s// Henry Masser J.P.

Northumberland County ss.
I Edward H. Bright Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that Henry Masser before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn, was at the time of his so doing & still is a Justice of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid & duly commissioned & sworn, to all whose acts as such due faith and credit is sought to be given as well in courts of justice as elsewhere & I do further certify that the

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signature thereto is his.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal of office at Sunbary March 18, 1833.
//s// Ed. Y. Bright Prothy.
[illegible] Chas. W. Higgins Depy

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Revolution Pension
2nd Section Act Feb 7 1833

Additional Evidence [underlined]

S. J. Bowen Atty.
Present

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State of Pennsylvania }
Northumberland County }
On this 20th Day of February 1856 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Northumberland Henry C. Hart[illegible] & Daniel Fulmer residents of Delaware Township in the County of Northumberland & State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law Depose and say that they were well acquainted with the Reverend Mr. Stover a clergyman who officiated in the German Church in said county & State. The said Hart[illegible] says that the said Stover commenced preaching about 1835 in said Church and left about the year 1845, and that he was well acquainted with Dewald Lynn [sic] & Elizabeth his wife and that he knew them to live together as man and wife and the said Lynn [sic] has been dead some number of years the exact time he does not recollect. He further saith that he was a member of said Stover's church and that he has searched the records of said church and cannot find any records of the marriage of said Elizabeth & Dewald Lynn [sic], but well recollects hearing of their being married at or about the time it took place and never heard their marriage questioned and the said Daniel Fulmer says

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That he well recollects The Rev Mr. Stover preaching in said German Church and that he is a member of the German Reformed Church and attended at the said church at the time of the residence of said Stover officiating as aforesaid and that he was present and saw said Dewald Lynn [sic] married to the said Elizabeth Lynn [sic], the day of said marriage he does not recollect and that he verily believes it is about the time Mrs. Elizabeth Lynn [sic] states to wit in the year 1838, and that the said Dewald Lynn [sic] died some years since, and that the said Dewald [sic] Lynn & Elizabeth his wife lived together as man and wife up to the time of the Death of said Lynn [sic].
Sworn and subscribed before me this 20th day of February A.D. 1856.
//s// A. T. Ludwig Justice of the Peace
//s// Henry C. Hart[illegible]
//s// Daniel Fulmer

The name spelled Lynn should be Linn in the above affidavit.

//ss// Henry C. Hart[illegible]
//s// Daniel Fulmer
//s// A. T. Ludwig

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State of Pennsylvania }
Northumberland Co. } ss
On this 20th Day of February 1856, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, Elizabeth Linn who being duly sworn according to Law depose and say that the last Pension money that she has any recollection of her Husband Dewald Linn drawing was a few months before his death the time she cannot recollect. The Certificate or paper he has was in the hand of the attorney John Wolfinger who was employed to do the said business as she believes.
[Signed with the note "Her mark" and an "X"] Elzabeth Linn
Sworn and subscribed before me this 20 Day of February 1856}
the now Death [illegible]
//s// A. T. Ludwig Justice of the Peace

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State of Pennsylvania }
Northumberland County } ss.
On this 20th Day of February A.D. 1856, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County & State aforesaid Samuel Sees who being duly sworn according to Law depose and says, That he was a member of the Reverend Mr. Stovers [sic] Church at the time of his preaching in Delaware Township Northumberland County, Pa., and that he is still a member of said church and that Mr. Stover left the County some years since, and he further states that he was present and saw Dewald Lynn [sic] married to Elizabeth Lynn [sic] who is now the widow of said Dewald who was reputed as a United States pensioner and that said Lynn [sic] has been Dead some 8 or nine years, they having lived together as man and wife from the time of said marriage up to the Death of husband and the said Dewald Lynn [sic] and that the said Elizabeth was present making application for a Pension at the time of making this affidavit.
//s// Samuel Sees
Sworn and subscribed this 20 Day of February 1856. }
The name should be Elizabeth Linn 
//s// A. T. Ludwig, Justice of the Peace}

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State of Pennsylvania
Northumberland County SS.
I James Beard Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do certify that A. T. Ludwig Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits were made was at the time an acting Justice of the Peace in said county duly Elected & Commissioned and Legally authorized to administer oaths and that his signature is genuine. Witness my hand and seal of office at Sunbury February 25th 1856.
//s// James Beard Prothy.

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Application
Under 
Sec 13. Act July 27/63
of
Elizabeth Linn,
Widow of 
Dewalt [sic] Linn,
Private, Revolutionary War.

P.O. Dewart,
Northumberland Co.
Penna.

Wm. N. Ashman, Atty.
Phila. Pa.

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W. N. ASHMAN, Attorney,
Office, No. 431 1/2 Walnut St., Philadelphia.

State of Pennsylvania }
County of Northumberland } SS.

Before me Prothonotary Court in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Elizabeth Linn, aged 69 years, a resident of Dewart, Northd. [Northumberland] Co. Pa whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being by me duly sworn according to law, deposes and says: I am the identical Elizabeth Linn to whom was granted Pension Certificate, dated March 30th, 1856, and signed by R. McClelland, Secy. of the Interior, and J. Minot, Comms. of Pensions, payable at Philada. Pa at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, granted under 2nd Section, Act of Feby. 3, 1853. I make this application to secure the Increase to Eight dollars per mo. to which I am entitled as widow of Dewalt [sic] Linn, (private, in the Revolutionary War) under the 13th Section, Act of July 24, 1868. I further declare that in the month of March A.D. 1861, or immediately about that time, I lost or misplaced my said pension certificate, and although I have made all possible search and inquiry for the same, I have been unable to find it, nor have I any knowledge or information to its whereabouts. I desire the Certificate in Settlement, to be sent in care of Wm. N. Ashman, No. 43 1/2 Walnut St., Phila., Pa. 
My p.o. address is Dewart, Northumberland Co., Penna.
[Signed with the note "Her mark" and an "X"] Elizabeth Linn
Sworn to and subscribed this Fifth day of July A.D. 1869, before me, and I certify that the full contents of this Affidavit were first made by me to deponent before signing, and that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the claim of the said parties, or any of them.
//s// John J. Reimennydee Prothy.

OFFICIAL SEAL.

Witnesses present:
A. T. Ludwig
A. J. Guffy

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Also personally appeared before me, A. T. Ludwig and A. J. Guffy Esq. residents of Dewart County of Northumberland, State of Penna. persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who being by me duly sworn, say that they were present and saw the said Elizabeth Linn, Sign the foregoing declaration, and they further declare that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her during ten years respectively that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that they have no interest in the presentation of this claim.
//s// A. T. Ludwig
//s// A. J. Guffy
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Fifth day of July A.D. 1869, and I certify that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim, and that the full contents hereof were first by me made known to deponents before signing.

//s// John J. Reimennyder Prothy.

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Sunbury Northumberland County Pa.

Lewis Cass Esq.
Secretary of War

Dr Sir,
I inclose you Dewalt [sic] Linns [sic] amended declaration. I hope his deposition will provide a satisfactory explanation of that part of his original declaration in which he mentions his being at Bunker Hill.  i have no doubt in my mind it was a mistake, an error in the old mans [sic] recollection, for which much allowance aught to be made from the character given me of the old man. I have every reason to believe he is an honest man. I also return yours to me, from which I am inclined to believe you are deposed to allow the old man for the two months service in driving the artillery carriage this with his other service for which he will be allowed will amount to but 6 1/2 months. You will much [the rest is missing due to a tear in the original document].
respectfully dear [illegible] I remain your [illegible]

//s// Lewis Dewart

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State of Pennsylvania }
Berks County } Be it remembered that on Saturday the twenty first day of August Anno Domini 1841 personally appeared before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County, Jacob Walter an old Revolutionary soldier who being first duly sworn according to law, did depose and say that he is Eighty six years of age, that he was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and is now drawing a pension from the United States for his services as such, that he is much acquainted with Dewalt [sic] Linn (formerly a resident of Berks County, and now as he understands, a resident of Northumberland County, Penna.) having known said Linn for many years, viz. for Twenty years, that the said Linn was to his (deponent,) personal knowledge a soldier in the Revolutionary war, that the Linn, was drafted in Captain Sebastian Lentz [sic] Company of Militia sometime about the first of July A.D. 1776 and served in said Company as a militia Man for a period of two Months, that the said Dewalt [sic] at the close of his services in Lentz' [sic] Company enlisted in Captain Bowers Flying Camp and served in said Bowers [sic] Company the full term of his enlistment to wit a period of five Months, that he said (Linn) and this deponent together with old Martin Miller another revolutionary soldier now dead, he died in 1837, were mess mates, and eat [sic] and drank and slept together in the same tent while serving for they all served in Lentz' [sic] & Bowers [sic] Companies. That he (deponent) and said Linn and Miller were born and raised in the same township in Berks County, that they lived close neighbors and went to School together and served in the Army together as above stated. That said Linn was always a faithful, obedient and active soldier. That he was always known to be a man of truth, and that his statements of his Revolutionary services are entitled to credit and that he deserves to receive a pension from the United States far more so than many others who are receiving pensions of considerable amounts and for services not so valued as Linns [sic] were, and further saith not.
[Signed with the note "His mark" and an "X"] Jacob Walter
Sworn to and Subscribed this 21th day of August A.D. 1841 before me the Justice aforesaid to wit.
//s// Lewis F. Kampmann

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State of Pennsylvania }
Berks County } J.C.T.
I Benjamin Tyson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County in the state aforesaid Do hereby certify that Lewis Thompson ?? before whom the foregoing affidavit was drawn and executed is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County legally elected commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the signature annexed to said affidavit is to my personal knowledge the genuine signature of the said Lewis F. ??. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this eighteenth day of September Anno Domini 1841.

//s// Benjamin Tyson  [A drawing of a seal added]

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Additional Evidence
In Claim for
Increase of Pension
Sec. 13, July 27, 1868
of Elizabeth Linn
Widow of
Dewalt [sic] Linn
Prv. Revolutionary War.

P.O. Dewart, 
northd. [Northumberland] Co. Pa.

[There is a faint date stamp that is partially legible]

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3771 [handwritten in upper left corner]

W. N. ASHMAN, Attorney,
Office, No. 431 1/2 Walnut St., Philadelphia.

State of Penna. }
County of Northumberland } SS.

Before me a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Elizabeth Linn, a resident of Dewart, Northd. [Northumberland] Co. Pa. whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who being by me duly sworn, according to law, deposes and says: I am the widow of Dewalt [sic] Linn, deceased, Private in the Revolutionary War. I have not remarried since the date of the last payment of my pension. I lost my pension certificate on or about the 4th day of March 1869. If I have at any time given any other date as the time of such loss it was through inadvertence on my part and on that of the person who drew my papers. I have just found and inclose my pension certificate.
Witnesses
[None visible]
[A faint note showing "Elizabeth Linn" with "Her mark" and an "X"]

Also at the Same time personally appeared before me the Justice of the Peace aforesaid Gabriel Flick and Thomas McQuay residents of Dewart, Northumberland County, Penna. persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being duly sworn, declare: We know that said Elizabeth Linn has not remarried at any time since she last drew her arrears of pension and that she remains the widow of said Dewalt [sic] Linn. We have no interest whatever in her claim.

Sworn to and subscribed this [illegible] day of [illegible] A.D. 1869, before me, and made known by me to be deponents before signing, and that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the claim of the said parties or any of them. } 
sign //s// Thomas Gabriel Flick
sign //s// Thomas McQuay
//s// A. T. Ludwig Justice of the Peace
Official Seal

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State of Pennsylvania }
County of Northumberland } SS.

I, John J. Reimennydee, Prothy. of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do herewith certify that A. T. Ludwig Esq. before whom the above proceedings were had was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace and that his signature thereto is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal of the said Court this 7th day of October A.D. 1869

//s// John J. Reimennydee Proth.

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State of Pennsylvania 
Northumberland Count S:
On this [blank] day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared in open court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county, Dewalt [sic] Linn a resident of Turbot township in the said county of Northumberland and state of Pennsylvania aged eighty one or Eighty 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 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the country as he believes and as near as he can recollect, in the month of July, about the first of the month of July A.D. 1776. That he was drafted as a militia man in District Township in Berks County in Pennsylvania for a tour of Two months. That Sebastian Lentz was the Captain of the Company, and lived in the same Township in Berks County, Leonard Garber was the Lieutenant, he also lived in the same township. Captain Lentz was a Tavern keeper. The company was mustered at his house, at early harvest time. From there the Company marched to Easton and crossed into New Jersey at Easton, and then marched by a place called Raraton Landing and Boundbrook to Amboy. The company were stationed on the opposite side of the River from Amboy. We joined other militia companies from Pennsylvania at that place. The Colonel of the Regiment of militia to which our company belonged was named Stephen Krumlein. The whole tour of duty two months after

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arriving at the encampment opposite to Amboy was served at that place. He was not engaged in any battles, during his tour of militia duty aforesaid.
After the Time of militia duty had been served some time about the middle of September, as he believes to the best of his recollection as to time, he enlisted in the Continental army for Three months in a company commanded by Jacob Bower he also lived in Berks County Pennsylvania at Reading. The first Lieutenant was [blank] Kerber. He cannot remember his christian name. He was brother in Law of Captain Bower. The second Lieutenant was Leonard Garber who had been Lieutenant in the militia company of Captain Lentz. He enlisted in this company in South Amboy. Six of Captain Lentz militia company enlisted with him in Captain Bower company. He recollects the names of the men who joined with him in the enlistment, viz. Martin Miller, Jacob Walter, Daniel Ferner and a man named Kelcher and Philip Weller. They are all dead so far as he knows and believes, except Martin Miller and Jacob Walter. They did live in District Township in Berks County when he last heard of them, But he does not know whether they are living.  The name of the Colonel was Haller or Haines. He remembers both the names as the names of Colonels in the army. It is so long since and his memory is so much affected by age that he is not able to say which of them commanded the Regiment to which the company was

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attached, or whether they did not both command the Regiment for a part of the time of his service.
From South Amboy the Company of Captain Bower marched towards Fort Washington, which was on New York Island to join the main army. We joined the army in New Jersey between Fort Washington and White Plains. I was in the Battle of White Plains on the 28th of October 1776. I received a gunshot wound at that battle in the left leg just at the lower end of the calf of the leg. The bullet was cut out, by the army Surgeon. The Deponent cannot recollect his name. The mark of the wound is still plain to be seen on my left leg. I was confined about Two weeks with the wound. For three days and three nights we remained, on the ground near where the Battle was fought. We had almost nothing to eat or drink during that time. After that the Company with other parts of the army called the Flying Camp, marched to Trenton, and crossed the Delaware where General Washington crossed three days before our detachment. In about four or five days the Company, or the greatest part of it crossed back again into the Jersey at the same place. And was engaged on a scouting expedition at the time of the Battle of Trenton. And was employed around that place at the time of the Battle, and within plain hearing of the discharges of the guns. In about a week or 10 days after the battle of Trenton I recrossed the Delaware river again, in the Company of Captain Bower I served out the whole time of my Enlistment. Captain Bower gave me a discharge in writing. I cannot read writing in English, I can

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understand the most of it if it is read to me in English, but not all. He is now obliged to obtain the services of Mr. Elias Benner as an interpreter between himself and the person who is reducing this statement to writing. He lost the discharge long since. He did not suppose, that it would be of any importance to him.
After he had received his discharge then was a driver of an artillery waggon, [sic] got sick, and He was requested by an officer to take charge of the Piece, and carriage and team of horses, as the driver of the horses. He thinks there were 4 horses attached to the Piece. He did not then know General Washington, But he was told that the officer who spoke to him and requested him to drive the team was General Washington.
He commenced driving while the army the army was on the march to Barren hill, and drove the Team to Barren hill about 18 miles from Philadelphia. I staid [sic] with the army as long as it lay at Barren hill. The English Army had destroyed and took the church at Barren hill before we got there. I continued with the army and drove the artillery carriage and Piece to German Town near Philadel. I was employed in the service 2 months. This was in the year 1777. At German Town or Chestnut Hill, he was discharged or relieved from driving the artillery waggon [sic] and was directed to take charge of a Baggage waggon [sic] containing Tents and  Five or Six sick soldiers and drove the same to Oley in Berks County, near Oley Church.

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He was engaged in this service one month when he left the army entirely. He thinks the Battle of Brandywine, was fought either when they were on the march with the stores, Bagge and sick and wounded to Oley, or else which he was with the detachment of the Army at Oley. There were bendy the Baggage Waggon [sic] driver by him 8 or 10 others in Company. There was a [illegible] with the detachment and which remained at Oley. He says that he was in the Pennsylvania militia in the service of the United States under Captain Lentz as also stated Two months. That immediately after his tour of service was completed, He enlisted in the Continental army with the Company of Captain Bower and served his full term of Enlistment, Three months. That afterwards he served Two months as driver of an artillery team and one month as a driver of a Baggage Waggon [sic] as above stated.
He further states that on the 19th day of November 1832 He made a declaration on oath to obtain the benefit of the said act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he neither can speak nor understand the English Language, in any degree perfectly. That it is in the said declaration represented that he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer. He did not at that time understand the use of the word volunteer [underlined] having left that, to the Persons who assisted him in preparing the said declaration, and supposing that it was a proper word to describe his services, as a militia man

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He also is shown that he is represented with the same declaration as having stated that he was at Bunker's Hill, which he is now informed is a place near the City of Boston in Massachusetts, and which he knows was the scene of a celebrated Battle in 1775, before he was first in the service w [with] Captain Lentz Company. He can only say, that he never willingly intended to be understand, to have said that he ever was at Bunkers hill, during his service in the Revolutionary war, nor at any other time. For that he never was at Bunkers hill.
He does not know of any person whose testimony he can procure who could prove his services unless it could be done by Martin Miller and Jacob Walter, who both served with me as I have before stated, and who when I last heard of them were living in Berks County, about Two years ago. He is poor, old and very infirm and is nowise able to obtain their Testimony.
He hereby relinquishes every claim, whatever to a Pension, or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of any agency in any state. He received a gratuity by an act of assembly of Pennsylvania as a Revolutionary Soldier.
//s// Dewald Linn
Sworn and subscribed this 18th day of January Anno Domini 1841 before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland County, State of Penna.
//s// John Montgomery

The Court propounds the Interrogatories Prescribed by the Regulations of the war department, to be exhibited to the applicants for Pensions in like cases

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and answered by the applicants.

1. I was born in Philadelphia County in Pennsylvania in the year 1758 or 1759.

2. I have no record of my age in my power or possession, nor have I the means to obtain the same. As I believe there is a Record of my age in the Books of the Wissahickon church in Philadelphia or Montgomery County in Pennsylvania.

3. I lived in Berks county in Pennsylvania at the time I was drafted as a militia man. I was in the service, and at the expiration of my tour of duty in the militia, when I enlisted in the army of the United States in the Company of Captain Bower at Amboy in Jersey.
I have always lived since the revolutionary war in Pennsylvania, and now live in Turbot Township Northumberland County, in Pennsylvania.

4. I was drafted as a militia man when I first entered the service, when I was enlisted as above stated, and then continued in service in the manner I have stated as a driver of an artillery carriage and Baggage waggon [sic]. It appears when stated in an examination before the Court on the 19th November A.D. 1832, that I entered the army as a volunteer. This was not the fact

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and may most probably have been so stated and written by the gentleman who assisted me in the preparing the Papers of that application. I have before stated, that it is with great difficulty that I can understand a conversation or narration in the English language, and could only understand the differences in meaning between said to have been drafted as a militia man or as having volunteered as such, upon the same being particularly explained to me in the German language.

5. This Interrogatory I can no further answer, than as set forth in my general statement above made.

6. I have received discharge in writing, But I did not know that they would be of any importance to me and they have been lost or destroyed long since.

7. I am known to the following named gentlemen citizens in my present neighborhood and who can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution viz. Rev. Charles F. Stoever, General R. H. Hammond, Henry Reader, John Oyster.

//s// Dewald Linn

Sworn to & subscribed this 18th day of January Anno Domini 1841 before me the subscriber one of

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the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland County, State of Pennsylvania.
//s// John Montgomery

Mr Charles F. Stoever a Clergyman residing in Milton Borough in the said county of Northumberland and Henry Reader, John Oyster, R. H. Hammond, ......................... residing in the same county Do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Dewalt [sic] Linn who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration, that we believe him to eighty one or eighty two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion and further say not.
//s// C. F. Stoever
//s// H Rreader
//s// John Oyster
//s// R.H. Hammond

Sworn to & subscribed this eighteenth day of January, Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and forty one before me one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the aforesaid county of Northumberland, State of Pennsylvania.

And the said Associate Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county aforesaid doth hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served in the army as he states. And the said Associate Judge further certifies that to his certain knowledge that Charles F. Stover, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Borough of Milton, in the said county of Northumberland & that Henry Reader, John Oyster, Gen. R. H. Hammond.................... who have also signed the said certificate are residents in the same county and are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit. & witness my hand January 18, A.D. 1841
//s// John Montgomery

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State of Pennsylvania }
Northumberland County } s.c.t
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the county of Northumberland, State of Pennsylvania, Dewalt [sic] Linn the declarant aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law did depose and say that the preceding Declaration by him made was ready for execution at the November and also at the January term of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, viz the last two terms but that said declarant was unable to procure the attendance of the necessary witnesses at either of the said courts and is therefore (to avoid any further delay and surely an eight years delay in obtaining that which he feels himself fairly & honestly entitled to is long enough) obliged to have his Declaration read & executed before one of the Associate Judges of the said court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county. Declarant also expresses his regret that he is under the necessity of troubling the War Department so much with his case but he entreats them to bear with him patiently for he feels desirous of satisfying the Department that the mistakes and contradictions which his preceding statement involved him in were occasioned by the persons then employed by him not understanding the German language in which he spoke & also by their not having, what he did say, correctly translated into the English language. 
//s// Dewald Linn
Sworn to & subscribed this 18th day of January Anno Domini 1841 before me}
//s// John Montgomery

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State of Pennsylvania }
Northumberland County } s.c.t
[physical seal attached] I Samuel D. Jordan Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said associate Judge of the said court in the matter of the application of Dewalt [sic] Linn for a Pension. And I do furthermore certify that John Montgomery Esquire before whom the foregoing Declaration and affidavits purport to have been executed is An Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county State of Pennsylvania, regularly appointed & commissioned, and that his signature annexed to said proceedings is the genuine signature of the said John Montgomery Esq.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto written my name and also affixed the official seal of the said court this Eighth... day of February Anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty one.

//s// Sam. D. Jordan
Prothonotary

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Membership Club of Harrisburg
October 10, 1924.

U.S. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Will you kindly give me any information you may have concerning the Revolutionary War services of-
Dewalt [sic] Lynn (Linn), born in Northhampton County, Pa. about 1758. He lived there for some years, later moving to District twp., Berks Co, Pa.

Andrew Karr, (Kerr), born and lived in Lancaster Co. Pa. After the Revolution he moved to Lycoming Co. Pa., and in 1812 to Butler Co., Ohio, where he died about 1830.
[There is an illegible note to the left of Karr's name.]

also services in the war of 1812, of
James Wilson, born and lived Mecklenburg Co., N.C. He is said to have held the commission of captain.
[There is an illegible note to the left of Wilson's name.]

Thanking you in advance, I remain
Yours very truly,
//s// Joseph Montgomery 2nd

309 Chestnut Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.

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Watsontown, Pa., November 21st, 1895.

Hon. Secretary on [sic] the Interior,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:- My father Dewalt [sic] Linn, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, from Northumberland County, Penn'a. He died in 1848, and now I desire to erect a tomb-stone to his memory, and am without the date of his age, the name of his company, and regiment, and date of his enlistment and discharge. This information is doubtless with his war record, or a part of the record of my mothers [sic] pension, being Elizabeth Linn, recorded in the Pension office on the roll of Pensioners under act Feb'y, 3rd, 1853, page 158, Vol. H.

Will you please therefore give me following information on this sheet of paper and oblige.
Name, Dewalt [sic] Linn.
Date of enlistment _______________.
Age at enlistment ________________.
Company, ______. Reg't, __________.
Date of discharge ________________.

I will be greatly gratified if you will favor me with this most desired information.

Very Respectfully,
Miss Susan Linn,
Watsontown, Pa.

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[Left side of image contains stamped messages from different agencies]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
RECEIVED
NOV 21 1895
[illegible] M. DIVISION

RECORD & PENSION OFFICE
NOV 25 1895
434166
[illegible] DEPARTMENT

US PENSION OFFICE
A DEC 12 1895

OLD WAR & NAVY
DEC 14 1895
[Illegible]

[Handwritten note]
[illegible]
Department of the Interior
Watsontown, Pa.
Nov 21, 1895
Linn, Miss Susan
Desires Revolutionary war record of Dewalt [sic] Linn.
Respectfully forward to the Hon. Secretary of War
//s// Jno. M. Rynold
Acting Secretary [illegible]

[Right side of image]
Watsontown, Pa., Dec. 10th, 1895.
Respectfully reference to the Commissioner of Pensions with the request that he give the desired information.
Respectfully,
Miss Susan Linn,
Watsontown, Pa.

[Postmark Stamp]
US PENSION OFFICE.
A
Dec 12
1895

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[Top of image obscured by a folded over portion of another document]
Washington November 28, 1895.

Respectfully returned to
Miss Susan Linn,
Watsontown, Pennsylvania.

The name Dewalt [sic] Linn has not been found on the rolls, on file in this office, or any Pennsylvania military organization, nor on the rolls of any organization of Continental troops, in service during the Revolutionary war.
It is proper to add, however, that the collection of Revolutionary war records in this office is far from complete and that the absence therefrom of any name is by no means conclusive evidence that the person bearing the name did not serve in the Revolutionary army.
In view of the statement that a pension was granted on account of the services of your ancestor, it is suggested as a possibility that the desired information may be obtained from the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C., who is the custodian of the pensions records of all wars.

By authority of the Secretary of War:
[illegible signature]
Colonel, U.S. Army, Chief of Office.

Per 7
(300a)
[Postmark stamp]
US PENSION OFFICE
A
DEC 12 1895

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O. W. & N. Division
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., January 27, 1896.
F.S.
M.N.C.

Miss
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of --- Dewalt [sic] Linn --- a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

[Column 1] Date of Enlistment or Appointment.
July 1776
Sept. 1776
[Column 2] Length  of service.
2 mos.
3 mos.
[Column 3] Rank.
Pvt.
Pvt.
[Column 4] OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERRD. [sic]
[sub column 4a ] Captain
Sebastian Lentz
Jacob Bower
[sub column 4b] Colonel.
Stephen Krumlain
Haller or Haynes
[Column 5] State.
Pa.
Pa.
[end of table]
He then served about two months as a driver of an artillery wagon and afterwards one month as a driver of a baggage wagon, but under what officers is not stated. He participated in the battle of White Plains and during the engagement received a gunshot wound in the left leg.

Battles engaged in, As above.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Berks Co., Pa.
Date of application for pension. January 18, 1841.
Residence at date of application, Turbot, Pa.
Age at date of application, Born in Philadelphia Co., Pa., in 1758 or 1759
Remarks: He married Elizabeth Henner [underlined with a question mark] in June, 1838, and died Dec. 15, 1847. Both he and his widow were pensioners.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Miss Susan Linn,
Watsontown,
Pa.
870blm