Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,056, David Waltamyer, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Waltamyer, David
S. 23056
CONTENTS

order to pay. See letter to P. Agt. J. Wray 1 Sept. 1836
Rate of death annuity
Pennsylvania 25.8/5
David Wattaneyer of Ark. Co. in the State of Penn a who was a Pr v in the Company commanded by Captain Forges - of the Reg t commanded by Col Rankin - in the Pennsylvan Keyser Artillery -
6 Mo. Pr $ 90.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 10 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th January and 1834 David Wattaneyer Ark. Pa
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833. 50.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th Mar '34 10.00 $ 60.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. J. Sprague Clerk. Book E Vol. 51 Page 65
no death date? A

David Nattanger Pen
Adm. S. Moates
$ 20
David Kane York Pa
John ... 18 ...
State of Pennsylvania } Feb. 2

State of Pennsylvania } S.S. County of York }
On this twenty third day of August A D 1833 Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of York in the State of Pennsylvania David Waltamyer a resident of said County aged 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 an Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
1 That he volunteered to serve in Captain John Millers Comp y in the County of York Pa about the month of September 1777 in the Regiment Commanded by Col Rankin and marched to Lancaster from thence into Chester County from thence marched to the State of Delaware was -- within a few miles of Brandywine at on the 11 th of Sept r 1777 But was not in the Engagement after which time he marched to Valley Forge and remained in Chester County until he had served four months and was then discharged near Valley Forge in the month of Jan y 1778 by Capt Miller
That in the year 1782 he was drafted to serve in Capt Fords Comp y at Camp Security in the County of York to guard watch and keep secure the British prison taken with Genl Cornwallis that he served for two months the time which he was drafted and was then discharged by Capt Peter Ford about the first of March A D 1782 That he served altogether at least six months in the Revolutionary war and I further declare that I have no documentary evidence in my possession nor do I know of any persons now living to whose testimony I can obtain to prove my service except Charles Waltamyer and that I do hereby relinquish every Claim whatever to a pension or annuity and declare that my my name is not on the pension roll of Agency of any State whatever nor did I ever make an Application for a pension or Annuity except in the present instance
Sworn to and subscribed before the day and year aforesaid Geo Barrick P. A. Th. 1833
David his Waltamyer mark

Ques by Juge 1 Where and in what year was you born Answer I was born in the County of York Pa in the Year 1759 Ques by Juge 2 Have you any record of your age if so where is it Answer I have Bible Record of my Age Ques by Juge 3 Where were you living when Called into service where have have lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live Answer I lived in York County when Called to service and have in York County ever since the Revolutionary war Ques by Juge 4 How were you Called into service, were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom Answer The first Time I volunteered the second I was Drafted Ques by Juge 5 State the name of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where you served Subordinate to and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general Circumstances of your service
Answer I was not acquainted with the Regular Officers I was acquainted with Colonel Rankin and several other Off Militia Officers their names I am forgot Ques by Juge 6 did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it Answer I rec d two discharges the first was signed by Col l Miller the other by Col l Field
Ques by Juge 7 State the names of some persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution Answer Peter Klinefetter John Shaper Philip Rose Henry Keeny John Saylor Charles Wattyorn Frederick Brueck Jacob Wine miller are my Neighbours who can testify to my Character for veracity and their belief of my services as a Soldier of the Revolution
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 23 rd day of August 1833  Geo Barnitz David Wattamyer mark

State of Pennsylvania } S.S. County of York }
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Charles Waltamire aged 72 years and upwards a credible person who being by me duly affirmed  sworn according to law saith that he was well acquainted with David Walamire an Applicant for a pension and knows that he was a Soldier in the Revol- ution the term for which he served deponent cannot Recollect He was in the service of the State of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary war Pennsylvania line in the Revolutionary war And further saith not Affirmed to and subscribed before
me this 28th day of Aug t 1833 Henry Myder
Charles his Waltamire mark

We William Paterson and Andrew Duncan Esq r of the County of York in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with David Waltamire of said County who has sworn to the annexed declaration that we believe him to be Seventy Four Years of age that he is reputed and believed in the Neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion and we further Certify that there is no Clergyman living in the immediate Neighbourhood of the said David Waltamire to certify to his Character Sworn to and Subscribed to - before me this 20 day of September 1833
Geo Barnitz
William Patterson Andrew Duncan
And I the said Judge do hereby Certify that the said David Waltamire is unable to attend the Court to make his declaration in consequence of Bodily infirmity and I further certify that I am well acquainted with William Paterson and Andrew Duncan Esq r who has signed the Preceding Certificate and know them to be Credible persons and that their statement is entitled to Credit in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand This 30 day of September 1833
Geo Barnitz

Pennsylvania, York County, ss,
I John W. Metrick, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do certify, George Barnitz, Esquire, before whom the within annexed declaration was made is & was at the time of signing his name thereto one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid and that Henry Snyder, Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, is & was at the time of signing his name thereto an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County, & that they are duly commissioned & qualified; and believe the signatures to the same to be in their proper hand writings.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto at my hand & affixed the seal of said Court, at York Borough, this 4 day of December, A.D. 1833
John W. Metrick Protho.

January 22, 1935
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Lewis Shive-S.22981 David Waltamyer-S.23056 BA-J/AWF
Mr. H. J. Young Historical Society York, Pennsylvania
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Lewis Shive and David Waltamyer, both pensioners of York County, Pennsylvania.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claims, based upon their services in the War of the Revolution.
Lewis Shive-S.22981
Lewis Shive was born in the year 1760 in York County, Pennsylvania, names of his parents not given.
While residing in said York County, he enlisted and served as a private in the Pennsylvania militia as follows:
From July 1, 1776, two months in Captain Hahn's company, Colonel Swope's regiment; from in September, 1777, two months in Captain Forst's company, Colonel Ewing's regiment; and was in the battle of Germantown; from in July, 1778, three months in Captain Ephraim Pennington's company, guarding prisoners in Reading, Pennsylvania.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 16, 1832, at which time he was living in York County, Pennsylvania, where he had always lived.
There are no data in this claim concerning the
See his letter in Lewis Shive S. 22981

family of the soldier, Lewis Shive.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person to whom sent, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., citing the following:
Lewis Shive Certificate # 18499 Issued September 6, 1833 Rate $23.33 per annum To commence March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 Pennsylvania Agency
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David Waltamyer-S.23056
David Waltamyer was born in the year 1759 in York County, Pennsylvania, names of his parents not given.
While residing in said York County, he enlisted and served as a private in the Pennsylvania militia as follows:
From in September, 1777, four months in Captain John Miller's company, Colonel Rankin's regiment; in 1782, two months in Captain Peter Ford's company, guarding prisoners, taken when Cornwallis surrendered.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 23, 1833, that a resident of York County, Pennsylvania, where he had always lived.
Charles Waltamyer was seventy-two years of age in 1833 and was then living a near neighbor to the soldier, David Waltamyer, no relationship stated.
There is no reference to wife or children.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of

pension, the name and address of the person to whom sent, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., citing the following:
David Waltamyer Certificate # 25875 Issued January 17, 1834 Rate $20.00 per annum To commence March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 Pennsylvania Agency
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Revolution
23056 INVALID.
File No. 23,056
David Waltramp
Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 n
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 425
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1923 Dec. 14. Geo. R. Crowell. info'd how to obtain date of death. Jan. 1935 Jan. 22. left for H. G. Young. See his letter in Lewis Shire S. 26981 Encl.

Aug 29.
Dear Wallamyn John
25875
Will
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D.C.

Philada. Augt. 27. 1836.
Dear Sir,
On presenting the enclosed pension certificate at the Girard Bank for payment, the clerk refused to pay it without an order from the War department it being two years due. -
Please to return the enclosed with an order to receive the amount of the pension. And oblige Yours truly
J. L. Edwards Esq. Washington,
James May

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF YORK COUNTY
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT J. A. DEMPWOLF
V. PRESIDENT S. FAHS SMITH
PAST PRESIDENT A. J. IN
CORRESPONDING SEC'Y RINEHART DEMPWOLF
RECORDING SEC'Y ROBERT C. BAIR
CURATOR AND LIBRARIAN GEORGE R. PROWELL
TRUSTEES
H. C. NILES, CHAIRMAN
FRANCIS FARQUHAR
J. C. MINT
W. L. GLATFELTER
S. FAHS SMITH
GEO. W. WILLIAMS
SAMUEL SMALL, JR.
YORK, PENNA., Nov. 26, 1923
United States Pension Office, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
Sir:
none Do you have a record of John Purnell, an American sailor in the Revolution, who died at York, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1863, at the age of ninety-eight? He served, first as a cabin boy with Commodore Paul Jones. His name is sometimes written Pennell or Punnell.
Civil War Samuel Markheimer, or Markhamer, a dispatch bearer carrying messages from Gen. Meade was accidentally killed, June 29, 1863 while on his way on horseback to Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, four miles north of Baltimore. He is said to have lived in Western New York, and his father took the boy home for burial three months after the fatal accident, of his son. Do you have the name Markheimer, mother or father, as having drawn a pension? The messages which he had on his person are found in Vol. 27, Part 1, War of the Rebellion Series.
Who was the last surviving soldier of the War of 1812 on the pension rolls?
annual report sent How many soldiers of the Civil War are now drawing pension, or about how many?
How many widows of soldiers of the Civil War are drawing pensions at present?
S 2305-6 Red David Waltemeyer and his brother Philip were on the pension roll in 1846. Have you the date of their death? none prior 1861
Yours very truly,
Geo R Prowell Librarian of Historical Society

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF PENSIONS RECORD DIVISION
Briefed by JFB
Orig. _____
Cert. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Philip Waltemeyer.
Service On roll in 1846.
No. _____ claim, Service record _____, 192
_____, Clerk.
No. claim, Alph'b record _____, 192
_____, Clerk.
REMARKS: _____
No O. W.
No navy. JFB 12/13/23
no Rev. War.  any spelling aut. Dec. 14. 23. No 1872 service.
J.C. Cook.
Chief Division.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU PENSIONS RECORD DIVISION
Briefed by JFB
Orig. _____
Cert. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier David Waltemeyer.
Service On roll in 1846
No. _____ claim, Service record _____, 192
_____, Clerk.
No. claim, Alph'b record _____, 192
_____, Clerk.
REMARKS: _____
No O. W.
No navy. JFB 12/13/23
Rev. War.  623056 the only one No 1872 Service
J.C. Cook.
Chief Division.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF PENSIONS RECORD DIVISION
Briefed by [Signature] 171
Orig. _____
Cert. _____
Claimant _____ Markheimer Soldier Samuel { Markhauer
Service _____
No. _____ claim, Service record _____, 192
_____, Clerk.
No. claim, Alph'b record 12/5 , 192
[Signature] , Clerk. 171
REMARKS: _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
J.C. Cook Chief Division.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
December 13, 1923.
Mr. George R. Prowell, Librarian of the York County Historical Society, York, Penn.
Sir:
In response to your letter of the twenty-sixth ultimo, I have to advise you, that a careful search of the records of this Bureau fails to show claims for pension on file, on account of the services of John Purnell, Pennell, or Punnell in the War of the Revolution, of Samuel Markheimer, or Markhamer in the Civil War, and of Philip Waltemeyer at any time between 1775 and 1846. All spellings of the name searched.
You are requested to furnish any data in your possession relative to the alleged pension of said Philip Waltemeyer.
For the date of death of the only David Waltamyer, (a soldier of the Revolution) found on the pension roll prior to 1846, you should apply to the Pension Section, Civil Division, General Accounting Office, 1800 E. St. N. W. Washington, D. C. citing all of the following data; David Waltamyer, Ctf. 25875, issued January 17, 1834, rate $20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, Pennsylvania Agency.

Please find enclosed, a copy of the last report of the Commissioner of Pensions, which will furnish the data desired by you relative to soldiers and widows of the Civil War.
The last pensioned survivor of the War of 1812, was Hiram Cronk, he died May 13, 1905.
Respectfully,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.