Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40640, Edward Walker, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Wa.
Walker, Edward
S. 40640
CONTENTS

12.071. Read Pennsylvania
Edward Walker
of Allegheny Co in the State of Pennsylvania was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel J. V. V. Regt. of the Virginia line, for the term of 5 years .
scribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 th of May 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th of March 1820 and sent to Hon. H. Baldwin
arrears to 4th of Mar: 1821 $ 175-48 emi anl. all'ce ending Sept. 21  48.00
21 mos $ 223.48
29/31
{ Revolutionary claim. } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
1 May 1820.
Rec d Vol 9 p 178

Petition No. of Edward Walker a Revolutionary Soldier

Pennsylvania
Allegheny County ss
On this tenth day of February A.D. One thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, for the said County being made a Court of Record by the laws of the State of Pennsylvania & proceeding according to the course of the Common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a Record of their proceedings / Edward Walker, aged about Ninety Years, resident in Moon Township in said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows.
That he enlisted in the first Virginia Regiment in the Year 1777 and served during the War and was honorably discharged in 1783 that he was in actual service one Year previous to the period above mentioned that he was in the battle of Germantown and the Valley Forge and in many other actions & skirmishes with the Indians, which he is this day unable to particularize.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish.

it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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", passed on the 18 th of March 1818; and that I have not, nor any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed: That I have no property whatever and I have been supported by the Overseer of the Poor for upwards of six years and I am in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of my country, and that I have no family that I know of, not having heard of my wife and two children since the Revolutionary War.
Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of February 1821 before
his Edward X Walker mark
D. H. Wells, J.P.

State of Pennsylvania Allegheny County ss
I Ephraim Rutland Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County: Do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath is truly copica from the Record of said Court, & do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that he has no property or real property whatever -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court This tenth day of February A D One thousand eight hundred and twenty one
E. Rutland Pro

The Honorable John C. Calhoun, Secretary of the War Department of the United States - City of Washington -
Admitted
It is hereby certified that the within is a true and correct copy of the original herein.
John C. Calhoun

To the Honourable the Secretary of the War Depart- ment of the United States.
The Declaration under oath of Edward Walker formerly a private Soldier in the Virginia line during the Revolutionary war and now an applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War.
Respectfully Sheweth.
That your applicant is a Resident citizen of the United States, and is now an inhabitant of the Township of Moon in the County of Allegheny & State of Pennsylvania. That he enlisted in the first Virginia Regiment in the year 1777 and served during the war, and was honora- bly discharged in 1783 as the annexed Certificate will fully testify -
That he was in actual service one year previous to the period above mentioned, on being discharged from which he again enlisted as above stated - That he was in the Battles of Germantown & the Valley Forge, and in many other actions, & skirmishes with the Indians, which he is unable at this day to particularize - That at the time of his second enlistment he had a wife & two chil- dren, of any of whom he has never heard since his discharge. That he is between eighty and ninety years of age, a cripple with one wooden leg, miserably inform, and so poor that for five years last past he has been entirely dependent on the Overseers of the Poor for the Town- ship above mentioned - That under such circumstances he trusts that he will receive promptly, and with the least possible delay, the pention provided by Law, so as to afford some little comfort to the short remnant of a life, the best days of which he has spent

in the service of his country.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania County of Allegheny } set.
Before me President of the 5 th Judicial District of the Commonwealth aforesaid personally came Edward Walker the applicant aforesaid who being duly sworn, on his solemn oath saith that the facts set forth in the foregoing declaration are true to the best of his knowledge Belief & further saith not —
his Edward J. Walker Mark
Sworn & subscribed this fourth day of May AD 1819 before me.
Sam l Roberts 3

age, sen- n, defen- hundred
In testimony of the within, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Pittsburgh this 27 th November A.D. 1870
J. P. [unclear] Pro

Attach Schedule agreeably to the Act of 1 st May 1820 —

40 640 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 30,640
Edward Walker Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 534
[Arrangement of 1870.]

T HESE are to CERTIFY that the bearer hereof Edward Walker Private in the first Virginia regiment, having faithfully served the United States from the first January 1861 to this date and being inlisted for the war, is hereby discharged from the American army.
Given at the war office the 26th July 1863.
By order of the secretary at war,
Q. M. Mcm
J. S. [unintelligible] Registered in the books of the regiment,
William Schmitz adjutant.

War office, 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the bearer as a discharge, until the ratification of the definitive treaty of peace; previous to which time, and until proclamation thereof shall be made, he is to be considered as being on furlough.
B. LINCOLN.
John Gortly of the County of ... has only recd four months pay since the Commencement of the year 1782
Fort Pitt July 22d 1783 J. M. Miller H. Virg. line

Pittsburgh 14 th July 1821
Wm. H. C. Adair
Sir
Inclosed I send to your care the papers of E. Walker with the schedule annexed to in your court, he is certainly a great an object of charity as ever made application for a pension, the court say they never saw such an object, with his wooden leg, come into court, it would be very desira- -ble that his certificate (if granted) — should be payable on the 4 th of November next, — as it would at an earlier day cheat his debtors —
I remain very respectfully your obedt servant.
Wm H C Adair