Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3550, Philip Whitmyer, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Whitmyer, Philip
S. 3550
CONTENTS
carded

Pennsylvania
Philip Whitmeyer
of Dauphin Co in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Philbin of the Regt commanded by Weaver — in the Pennsylvania line for Private 6 months — $20. —
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20 Dollars — now per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 d day of Jan y 1833 and sent to J. C. Buckner Hem. Rep.
Arrears to 14th of Sept. 1832 — $30. 00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Mo in 1833 — 10
$40. —
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Book D. Vol. 6
Viral Luce Clerk
Page 92

Rev Man
3550
INVALID.
File No. 3550
Philip Whitniger Br. Pa. line
Act: June 7, '32
Index:—Vol. A , Page 402
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Harrisburg Dec 14 th 1832
Dear Sir,
I have enclosed to you a petition &c - for a pension. I thought I had sent it on immediately but in looking through my paper cases & opening them I find that I had thrown it in among those under that letter & forgotten it. I state this to obviate the very natural surprise that might suggest itself at the War Department why it had not been sent earlier.
Will you have the goodness to present it and make the proper explanation. The services of the petitioner are well founded, being supported by a living witness who swears positively to them.
Respectfully Yours &c
S. P. Hunsicker

Dauphin County in the State of Pennsylvania ss.
On this 4th day of October A.D. 1832. Personally appeared in open Court before Calvin Blythe Pres t Judge and his associates of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid and State aforesaid now sitting Philip Whitmeyer aged about Seventy Five Years a Resident of Hagerstown Township in the County of Dauphin Aforesaid 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 the 7th June 1832 viz - That in the said Philip Whitmeyer in the year 1776 or 1777 he does not distinctly recollect which he was drafted to serve a term of three months and did enter into the service of the United States a few weeks before Christmas in one of the said years in a company of militia commanded by Capt. Philip Philbert or Filbert now (Schuylkill) Schuylkill called Middletown in Berks County & State aforesaid; that he marched from said place to White Marsh and thence to Flowertown where the Company encamped; that the said Company also while he served therein lay for a time at the Gap in Montgomery County being its first encampment; that he thus served the United States a term of three months and was regularly discharged but has lost his discharge. In this term his Major was a Frenchman whose name he has forgotten; his Colonel Jacob Weaver, who lived below Reading in Berks County aforesaid. That a few years afterwards he was again drafted and marched again from the place aforesaid in a Company commanded by Capt. Conrad Sherman to Trenton where he served in guarding the prisoners captured at that place. He thus served another term of three months, the United States and was again regularly discharged but has also lost this discharge. The second term was also in the militia.
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.
Sworn to & subscribed } the day & year aforesaid } October 4 th 1832 } in open Court
his Philip Whitmeyer Mark
Mo. Roberts Proty

Dauphin County ss. Penn ly ss.
Peter Whitney residing in Hanover Township in the County and State of Pennsylvania hereby Certifies that he is well acquainted and has been for a great number of years with Philip Whitney who has subscribed and sworn to the within declaration; that he certainly knows that he did serve two tours of three months each in the militia of Pennsylvania & that he is now about seventy five years of age, and George Shellehamer residing in Hanover Township in the County & State of Pennsylvania hereby Certifies that he is well acquainted with Philip Whitney who has subscribed & sworn to the within declaration that he believes him to be about seventy five years of age; that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that he concurs in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court Geo. Roberts Party
In his Peter Whitney mark
his George Shellehamer mark
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 applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as such. And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Peter Whitney and George Shellehamer who signed the above Certificate are Residents in the township & County therein named and are credible persons and that their Statement is entitled to credit. October 4 th 1832 -
W. Lythe J. Dumm and James Green
I John Roberts Clerk (Proth ry ) of the Court at Common Pleas for the County of Dauphin Penn ly do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Philip Whitney for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of the Prothonotary's Office this 4 th day of October A.D. 1832
Geo. Roberts Party

Philip Whitmeyer
Adm. 3. Jan. '33
Private
6 mos
$ 20.00
Hon. J. C. Bucher

BRIEF in the case of  Calvin Baythe  Philip Whitney  County of Dauphin  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? about 75 years  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.     In 1776 or 1777. about Dec 25 — } — 3 — { — Private drifted Gen. Capt Philip Philbrick Col Jacob Winger Capt Conrad Shumaker   3 — "  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? On living Witness & Traditional evidence — & first interrogatories not answered  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Vincent Luce  Administering Clerk.