Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,690, Michael Coppenhaffer, Penn.

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Penn.

Coppenhaffer, Michael

S. 22,690

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26,247

Pennsylvania
Michael Coppenhaffer of [illegible] Co. in the State of Penn. who was a P[illegible] in the Company commanded by Captain Harboughs of the

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State of Penn.
York County

On this eighth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty four Personally [illegible] in open court in the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of York, Michael Coppens [illegible] a resident of Conawaga township York County in the state of Pennysylvania aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn according to law saith, and doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed the seventh June eighteen hundred and thirty two. That he entered the [illegible] of the United States, under the following named officers and served as [illegible] after stated to wit, that he entered the service at York Pennsylvania as a volunteer in the company of volunteers commanded by Yost Harbaugh, on or about the first day of July seventeen hundred and seventy six, - that he remained as a member of Capt. Harbaugh's company through Lancaster to Philadelphia, that they went from thence in a  [illegible] to Trenton New Jersey, and thence marched through N. Jersey to [illegible] from [illegible] they marched to Bergen. That at Elizabeth Point he enlisted into the Flying Camp in the company commanded by Capt. Michael Smyser in the regiment of Col. Michael Swope for the term of six months, that he served the whole time of the six months for which he enlisted. That he has no discharge, that at the time Col. Swope was taken prisoner, he was laying sick in the neighborhood of Fort Lee, that he lives in the County of York at the time he volunteered, [illegible] was a nation of Lancaster County in this state, of that part, now Lebanon County. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on this

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pension roll of the agency of any state, and further saith not.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court as aforesaid. The word "[illegible]" in the third line, and the words "at York Pennsylvania," being first interlined - the words "at York Pennsylvania" being interlined in the fourteenth line from top - 

Walter Franklin

[on the right]
Michael Coppenhaffer

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fort Lee as this deponent understood that he served as this deponent understood and believes six months in the Flying Camp, That the company of Capt. Harbaugh was more than three weeks in reaching Bergen from the time they left York, That he has been acquainted with Michael Coppenhaff [sic] since they were boys. And that he is about seventy six years of age and further, saith not.
Sworn and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid.
Andrew Smith
Walter Franklin

York County
Penns. [symbol] Personally appeared in open court in the Court of Common Pleas of York County J. George Schmucker D.D. a clergyman of the Lutheran Church, and Pastor of the Lutheran Congregation in the borough of York Pa. and resident of York aforesaid, who upon his Solemn oath addministered [sic] in open court according to Law, saith that he is well acquainted with Michael Coppenhaffer who has subscribed to [x'd out] and sworn to the above declaration. That he believes him to be about seventy six years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the revolution, and that he, this deponent, concurs in that opinion. That he is and has for a long time, been acquainted with Andrew Smith, who has signed the above affidavit and is acquainted with his character for

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truth, and that he is a man of truth in whose affidavit reliance may be placed
Sworn and Subscribed in open court in the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid, the eighth day of April eighteen hundred and thirty four. Sworn in open court
Walter Franklin [flourish]
J. Geo. Schmucker
C A Barnitz [signed upside down]

Hon. C.A. Barnitz HR [written sideways on left side of page]
30.420 [written sideways in the opposite direction on left side of page and underlined]

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, ad served as he states, And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the [crossed out from A.B. to the] J. Geo. Schmucker who has signed the preceding Certificates or affidavits is a clergyman resident in the borough of York and also that Andrew Smith who has signed and sworn to the Preceding affidavit is a resident in the county of York, and is a credible person and that this statement is entitled to credit. Subscribed in open court this ninth day of April 1834
Walter Franklin}
Geo. Barnitz}  Judges.
John L. Hinkle}

York County Pennsylvania [symbol]; I, John W. Hetrick Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of York, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Michael Coppenhaffer for a pension
In testimony whereof, I have herunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court of Com. Pleas of Your County this ninth day of April 1834.
John W. Hetrick 
Prothy

[seal on left bottom of page]

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June 25, 1936.

BA-J/

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Sarah E. Smyser
504 West King St.
York, Penna.

Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:-

Would you kindly
send me the Revolutionary records
of Michael Coppenhaffer, pensioned
on Apr. 17, 1834 for service in
the Revolution, under the Act of 1832.

Thanking you in advance
for any information you can
give me.

Very truly yours
(Miss) Sarah E. Smyser

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1936 - June 25 - Hist.  to Miss Sarah E.
Smyser

22690
INVALID

File No.  22,690
Michael Coppenhaffer
In Rev Wr

Act: June 7" 32
Index: -Vol. 2, Page 78
[Arr

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30. 420

Adm C. Mouths

Hon G. Barni

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Hon. J. M. Killinger
Dec. 31st

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(_______)  Office
Dec. 3rd 1859

Sir
In answer to your letter of the 28th instant
I have the honor to state that the name of
Thomas Kopenhoffer or Coppenhoffer does not
appear upon the pension rolls of Pennsylvania
No application appears to have been made in his
behalf, nor are there any papers upon file in
this office in behalf of a pension for his
widow.

Mr Knight evidently did not file
the the papers to which you refer.  He was formerly
an agent of claims, but I have been obliged
to strike his name from the list of recognized
attorneys in consequence of his want of integrity
+ habit of imposing upon the rights of those
who entrusted their business to his care.

There was a
Michael Coppenhaffer, pensioner in York Co. Pa. under the act of 7"
June 1832 at the rate of $20 per annum.

Hon J. M. Kilinger
Ho. Rep: