Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 3451, Asher Walker, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Walker, Asher
S 3451
Carded
CONTENTS

Pittsburg 11607 Ohio
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Asahel Walker
of _____ in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Riedel of the Regt commanded by Col Rapp in the New Jersey line for 2 years Private $80.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of January 1833 and first to Hon. C. F. Shuman Home Reps.
Arrears to 14th of Sept. 1832 $120.00 Pension allowance ending 4 March 1833 40.00 $160.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Mabel Luce Clerk, Book D Vol. 4 to Page 92 to 2 210
See let. to P. let. to pay and to himself caps of under. section that such letter has been written May 17. 1834
March 27 - 1835 - see let to M. Tiernan Pen: agent Pittsburg - Penna
transp to Ohio. Pittsg from H. March 1833 -
April 10. 1835 - see let to M. Tiernan - Pen agent. April to 1835

21.158
John Walker of Punyahana
Adm d
2 y r
$80. ✓
Honble A. Stewart Ho. Reps.
Rev A. Stewart

BRIEF in the case of  Asher Walker of Fayette  of County  in the State of  Pennsylvania  (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? 75  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.      1775  In the  without leaving the Army  1 Pri Gen. Col Ross   3 as Col Cross   6 as Col Ross    After the service  there  1 } Col Clark   1 Capt Shaw   1 6 Capt Douglass, Col Cross   2. 6 Capt Shaw  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Monmouth County New Jersey  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct except want of dates. 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Murphy Examining Clerk.  July 19 1833

Declaration of Custer Nation
21157

Layton county Pennsylvania
On the 23 d day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of common pleas for the county of Layton state of Pennsylvania now sitting. Asher Walker a resident of the county & state aforesaid aged seventy five 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 the 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein named.
That he was born in Monmouth county New Jersey in the year 1757 and rendered there until he entered the service of his country as follows
In 1775 he engaged as a substitute for his father Silas Walker for one month in captain Asher Randall's company of militia and also here to Col Robert Rogers Regt. That he performed this service in Woodbridge. He then volunteered in Capt Randall's company for three months, & thinks he was attached to Col Crows Regt that this service was performed on the lines between Elizabeth - town Woodbridge & Perth Amboy. That immediately after this he volunteered (without leaving the army) for six months under Capt Robt Randall, Col Rogers, & served under Genl Clark & Eager, that this service was also performed on the lines between the above named places. He then engaged as a substitute for David Shaw for one month in Capt Shaw's company, and served on

The ferry shores between Elizabeth town & South Amboy. He was then drafted for one month in Capt David Fraser's company, and served on the lines between the above named places.
And the deponent saith on his oath offered that after this service he enlisted for one year under Captain Banta belonging to Col Crows alias Hovey. between the This service he also performed on the lines above mentioned. That he then immediately enlisted for six months under Robert Shaw capt. That all his services were performed in the state of New Jersey and principally about Elizabeth town Woodbridge, & South Amboy. that he cannot recollect dates at this distance of time. That the time he has here mentioned amounts to two years & six months  twenty three months, and although he knows that much time he was engaged in defence of his country, is not here mentioned yet his recollections are so imperfect that he does not attempt to take any notice of it.
That he has no documentary evidence of his services nor does he know of any person at present by whom he can prove them. That he has a record of his age in his Bible. That his memory is much impaired & the foregoing declaration contains the circumstances of his services - the names of his officers as near as his recollections will serve. That William Andrews & Samuel Latta will certify as to his reputation. He is not well acquainted with any clergymen, to certify for him. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any claim pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on pension role or agency of any state.
Ashe W Walker Mark
Sworn & subscribed in Open Court 24 th Oct 1832
H. H. Brown Clerk

Fayette county Pa Pennsylvania
We William Andrews residing in Bullskin township Fayette County, & Samuel Latta of the same place certify that we are well acquainted with Asker Walker who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy five years of age. That he is reputed & believed in the neigh- borhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that he concurs in that affirmation
William Andrews
Sworn to before me in Open Court 24 th Oct 1832
Samuel Latta
H W Beeson Prothonotary
And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department. That the applicant herein named was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court do further certify that it appears to them that William Andrews & Samuel Latta who have signed the above certificate are both residents of Fayette County Pennsylvania, and are reputable persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit
Fayette County Pa Pennsylvania
I Henry H Beeson Prothonotary of the court of common pleas in & for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the ap- plication of Asker Walker for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the 25 th day of December A D 1832 5006 pages
H W Beeson Prothonotary

Reskran
3451. INVALID.
am
File No. 3457
Ashe Walker
Pr. A. G. Line
Act: June 7, '32
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 340
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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4601
Asher Walker
Penn. Pitsburg
29.714-

Mercht's & Manuf s Bank Pittsburgh 1. April 1835.
Sir,
Yours of 27 th ult o enclosing a list of Pensioners not on the list before received has come to hand. The instructions & corrections contained in the same shall be strictly attended to. The paper of Asper Walker has this day been presented and paid. I send you the paper agreeably to your instructions. It appears that this name was first inserted on the Penn a roll, in the late agency and so paid to the 4 th March 1833, and afterwards placed on the Ohio roll (omitting to strike it off on the Penn a list) and then paid from that date to the 4 th Sept r 1834.
Henry McDaniel, Philip Longstreth & Ethel Jones have not been paid at the agency here.
Frederick Piper was paid to the 4 th March 1834. In your list received to day Samuel Lightcap is reported at 80$ per Annum. He has been paid at the agency Office B M. S. $ 26.66 as reported to the late Agent.
Frederick Piper has been paid to 4 th March 1834 at the Pittsburgh Agency, and nowhere else.
3 rd Auditor's Office
S. H. Rice clk.
I am very respectfully Your Obedient Servant
Henry Care
For Mr. Sherman Pr. & Pens Ag t

asker Walker's Application for transfer from Penn a to Ohio.
18. Mar. 1834
St. H. L. E. Ohio church
W. J. Edwards Esq.
Harris
1834/4
Communion of Seniors
City of Washington
D. E.

Application for A. Transfer
The State of Ohio Tuscarawas County
On this fourth day of March AD 1834 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County of Tuscarawas personally appeared Asher Walker who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company Commanded by Captain Asher Randal in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Thomas Crow in the service of the United States - That his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Pennsylvania from whence he has lately removed; That he now resides in the State of Ohio where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension payable in future at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania The following are the reasons for asking a removal from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh - The distance from his present place of residence in Tuscarawas County Ohio to Pitts- -burgh is much less than to Philadelphia - And the communi- -cation from Tuscarawas County to Pittsburgh much more frequent than to Pennsylvania - And the facility of his receiving his pension money would be much increased by drawing it at Pitts- -burgh
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 4 th day of March AD 1834
Boaz Walton Justice of the peace
his Asher X Walker mark
I John Shank do solemnly swear that Asher Walker who has subscribed the above affidavit is the identical person described in said affidavit
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 4 th day of March AD 1834
John Shank Boaz Walton Justice of the peace
I further certify that John Shank is a person of veracity 4 th March 1834
Boaz Walton Justice of the peace

State of Ohio } Tuscarawas County } ss.
I, James M. English Clerk of the Common Pleas Court, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Boaz Matten is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 5 th day of June 1832, and will expire on the 5 th day of June 1835, and that the signatures purporting to be his, above matter, are genuine Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this fourth day of March 1834.
James M. English, Clerk

New Philadelphia 8 th March 1834
G. L. Edwards
Please direct any Communication on this subject to Asher Walker New Philadelphia Tuscarawas County Ohio To the care of
Yours &c
Andrew Sexton "

Tazewell county
To the undersigned citizens of Tazewell county we do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Asher Walker the opponent mentioned in the accompanying declaration - That there is reported & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
(Mathew Tyn)
Richard Gault David Linasay John Bullis Michael Bullis
William Andrews John Gault Jacob Shantz Edward Sitherwood Samuel Newman
William Cunningham A Shallenbeyer Jr
Robert Huey
Samuel Satter John Pippitt Robert Cunningham
Allen Pippitt John Newman Isaac Shickler
William Craig Samuel Rice John Anderson Jr Thomas Measor