Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7963, Peter Wolf, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Wolf, Peter
S 7963
Carded
CONTENTS
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7963 INVALID.
File No. 7963
Peter Wolf
Prv. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1st , Page 414
[Arrangement of 1870.]

25.491  Pennsylvania  Peter Wolf of Lehigh in the State of Pa who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Kohler of the High commanded by Col Kier in the Pa Militia
See letter 2 aug 30 to J. Foye
5. No. 100 of 21.00   Inscribed on the Roll of 100 at the rate of 1 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of July and sent to 14 Daniel Kramer, Wegscheider V.O. Pa
Arrears to the 4th of March '34  50.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept  10.00   $70.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. F. Sprague Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 5 Page 65

32. 5.57
Peter Wolf Pennsylv
for 1777 pr 6 months. $20.
Daniel Kramer Fogelsville P.O. Pennsylv

State of Pennsylvania } Lehigh County To wit } Before John Foyel one of the Associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas in for said County of Lehigh.
On the first day of July 1834. personally appeared before the said judge Peter Wolf, now living at the house of the said Peter Wolf in Maungie Township Lehigh County & State aforesaid, aged seventy four Years on the 20 th day of November last past, who first 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 7 th day of June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following affairs and served as here in after stated, that is to say - in the Year 1777 - in the month of April in said Year, that he resided in said Maungie Township - and at that time belonged to the 5 th Class of Militia of Pennsylvania as the said Militia was classed - he this applicant was drafted for actual service, and was mustered and attached to the Company commanded by Capt. Peter Rohin, and attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Nicholas Skey, and where marched from at that time Northampton County (now) Lehigh County, to the northwestern corner of said Northampton County. On the north west side of the Blue Mountain and there they

was stationed along the Lehigh River for the protection of the Inhabitants against the Savage Indians who were overrunning and plundering the Inhabitants of that country, and that he was in several skirmishes against the Indians, that he served a term of two months duty as a private militia man, and after the expiration of said two months term, they were dismissed & he went home. That in the month of June 1778. he was again drafted and mustered in the Company Com- -manded by Capt. John Packer. and attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Leiger, that they were marched again from the said County at that time north- -eastward near Lehigh, on the west side of the Blue Mountains and where stationed along Sisholick Creek & along Mohoney Creek in different directions. for the protection of the Inhabitants of that country, against the Indians, who had at that time murdered several families and plundered them of their property, that he served again a term of two months duty as a private militia man. and at the expiration of said term he was dismissed & sent home, and that in the month of August 1789. he was again drafted and put under the command of Capt. Greenmeyer. and attached to the Battalion commanded by Major Stephan Baldwin. it being only a Major's Command and where marched again from the County aforesaid

to the South West corner of Luzerne County, in the State afore said, and where stationed along Nissequaga Creek. also for the protection of the inhabitants of that County, against the Indians, who had just before Your applicant came there slaughtered a number of our Troops. and that Your appli- cant helped to bury a number of them, that he again remained in service for two months, and as a private Militia man. and at the expiration of said time he was dismissed & went home. and that he was in no other Battle or service then stated before. and that there was no General officer there as it was not considered as a Generals command.
In reply to the questions put by the said judge According to the Instructions of the War Department. Reply.
Q 1. - I was born in Mansfield Township, then Northhampton now Lehigh County. On the 20 day of
November. 1760.
2. That he lived in said Mansfield Township each time when he was called into service and that he had lived there since his return from service, and still lives there.
Q 3. - That he has no record of his baptism that his parents did when he was young. that he was informed of his age by his brothers & sisters.

Q 4. that he had served as a private militia man and was drafted and served as stated in the Q forgoing declaration
5. I cannot recollect the names of any other officers then those mentioned in the forgoing decla- -rations as there were at no time a General Q officers with them,
6. When the term of service of the militia dispi- -rate they were discharged with out dis- -charge, so far as I know, I do not recollect of having received a written discharge at no time,
7. I have no other evidence to offer as my officers and brother soldiers are all either dead or have removed from this part of the country and I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to any pension or annuity except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state,
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid Before me
his Peter * Wolf mark
John Fogel, judge of said
Lehigh County Court, Benjamin Fogel & Jacob Mayer certifiers of said County of Lehigh being duly sworn accor- -ding to law, do depose & say, that they are now well acquainted with and have long known Peter Wolf the appli- -cant in the forgoing declaration, and believe that he is of the age he declares himself to be in said declaration we also believe that he is a man of the truth and

veracity. We also know that it is generally believed in the neighborhood where he resides that he served in the militia in the Revolutionary War, and we believe in that -
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day & year aforesaid
John H. Vogel Jacob Meyer
Before me -
John Vogel the judge aforesaid
And the said judge do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant, served in the war of the revolution as he has stated, and I the said judge do further certify that it appears to me that Benjamin Vogel and Jacob Meyer, who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the county of Lehigh and are creditable persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit (And I the said judge do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said applicant, and have known him as long as 45 years and have always considered him as a person of strict truth and veracity, and often heard him relate his revolutionary services against the Indians) And I the said judge do further certify that there is no longer any nearer the 8 or 9 miles to the residents of the said applicant. Except parson John Helfrich who is a young man and cannot have any knowledge of the said applicant. And I the said judge do further certify that the above applicant is unable to appear in court, by reason of bodily infirmity -
John Vogel the judge aforesaid

Pennsylvania Lehigh County ss 3
I Daniel Kramer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County Do hereby certify that the Honorable John Fogel before whom the foregoing instrument of Writing purports to have been acknowledged was at the date thereof, and still is one of the associate Judges in and for the
County of Lehigh, and that full faith  and credit, are and of right ought to be given to this and all other his Official acts, as well in Courts of Judicature as else where -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court at the Borough of Northampton in said County this Second day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four -
D Kramer Proth by Saml A Bridges