Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,997, Martin Wagner, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Wagner, Martin
R. 10,997
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REJECTED
10,997
P. O. Martin Wagner
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Rejected. did not serve six months in a military capacity
10997

32.9.24 The declaration of Martin Wagner in order to obtain a pension Pennsylvania
Rejected

State of Pennsylvania } County of Schuylkill } Set-
On this thirty first day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable Calvins Blythe Esquire, President and George Rausch and Daniel Lott, his associated Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Schuylkill, now sitting Martin Wagner a resident of West Penn Township in the County of Schuylkill and State of Pennsylvania, aged seventy five years, who being 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 the 7th of June A.D. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That in the month of July 1776, he entered the service under Captain Mauer, Lieutenant Spier, and marched from Oley Township, in Berks County to Rosemont Township in the same County where Captain Mauer then lived and from thence to Newtown in the State of Pennsylvania where he remained for four months - that during this term he served as a guard at a church in Newtown which contained powder and bullets for the Army. That he served as a volunteer. That after this term of service had expired he received a written discharge (which he has lost since) and return to Maxatawny Township in Berks County which he made his place of residence. That he entered the service a second time in the month of August 1777 as a Militia man under Lieutenant Beisel, Captain Jacob Baldy, Major Scull and Colonel Joseph Heister that he marched from Maxatawny Township, Berks County, his then place of residence, to Coors Ferry and there crossed the river Delaware and marched to Pennington in the State of New Jersey and from thence to Trenton in the same State where he served for two months and was then discharged but did not receive a written discharge. That he returned from Trenton through Newtown and Pennington to Maxatawny Township in Berks County, his place of residence. That in the month of March 1778 he entered the service a third time and enlisted for nine months - that he was enlisted by a man named Feather and received from him four dollars in hand money as hand money. That he does not know whether Feather was an officer or not - that his Captain's name was - Hest - that Captain Hest sent him to Kutz's Mill in Maxatawny Township, Berks County to grind grain for the Army. That Philip Gehr purchased

the grain and the deponent ground it out into flour and horse- feeds. That after he had served upwards of nine months at this Mill, there was no more grain there and he was discharged by Philip Gehr - that he received no written discharge. That Peter Askin was the paymaster and went off without paying him for his services and that he never received any pay for these nine months service. That he returned from Kirtys Mills to his home in Maxatawny Township about twelve miles distant from the Mills. That he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person who he can procure who can testify to his services. That he was born in Philadelphia County about twenty miles from the City of Philadelphia on the tenth day of March 1759. That he has a record of his age at his home in West Penn Township, Schuylkill County. That he has resided since the Revolution in Berks, Northampton and Schuylkill Counties and for nearly twenty five years last past in West Penn Township, then Northam- -pton now Schuylkill County. That he is known to the Reverend John Gillig and Jacob Bachart who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief in his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, or only on that of the agency of the State of Pennsylvania
Sworn to, and subscribed } the day and year aforesaid }
111th N. 10th St. Phila Pa
Jac. Hammer Broth.
We John Gillig - a clergyman, residing in the County of Schuylkill  Schuylkill and Jacob Bachart - residing in the County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Martin Wagner, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed } the day and year aforesaid }
John Gillig Jacob Bachart
Jac. Hammer Broth.

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 certify, that it appears to them that John Zillig - who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the County of Schuylkill  Schuylkill and that Jacob Bachmann who also has signed the same  same is a resident in the County of Schuylkill and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to Credit.
Calvin Blythe Glaus
I Jacob Hammer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Schuylkill, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Martin Wagner for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hands and the seal of the said Court this thirty first day of March in the year one thousand eight-hundred and thirty four.
Jac. Hammer Protho.