Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 11993, Alexander Zollinger, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Gollinger, Alexander
R 11993
CONTENTS

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832.
State of Tennessee } ss. Sevier County } ss.
On this 10 th day of December 1833. Personally appeared before me Jno. Mullendore an acting Justice of the Peace for said County Alexander Tollinger of said State & County aged 75 years 9 months 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 7 th 1832
That he was drafted and entered the service of the United States in August or September 1758, and served as a Private under the command of Major William Boyd, Capt. Harry & Lieut. Swart.
Said applicant states that he resided in the State of Pennsylvania York County when he entered said service that he then resided at York Town in said State. Marched from said Town 12 miles to Susquehanna River & received some British Prisoners on said River & kept said Prisoners under guard three months & then said applicant returned home in York County being regularly discharged in the month of November 1758.
Said applicant states he was not out of York City & was in no engagements
Said Declarant states he was born in Pennsylvania York City March 25 th 1736.

Said applicant states he has lost his Discharge and has no Documentary Evidence to sustain his Claim and that he knows of no Person whom testimony he can procure who can testify to his Service
Said applicant states he has a record of his age at his residence that he now lives in the state of Tennessee & Sevier County and has resided in said state of Tennessee 22 years & previous thereto he resided in Virginia and said applicant states that Capt Hary gave him his Discharge
Said Applicant hereby relinquishes every Claim whether to a Pension or annuity except the Present, and declares his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any state sworn to & subscribed the 20 th of year aforesaid
John Muddiman a Justice of the peace for Sevier County
Alexander Hollings

We Willis B. Sharp & William Denny, Residing in the State of Tennessee & Sevier County hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Alexander Talbinger who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be 75 and 9 months years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn & subscribed The day & year aforesaid
John Mullendorn a Justice of the peace for Sevier County
Willis B. Sharp William Denny
I John Mullendorn an acting Justice of the peace for Sevier County do certify that I am acquainted with Willis B. Sharp & William Denny who have sworn to the above & that they reside in Sevier City & State of Tennessee
John Mullendorn (J.P.)
No Clergyman in applicants neighborhood

W. George McEwen Clerk of the court of Plus & Quarter Sessions for Levis County do here by Certify that the foregoing contains the original Proceedings of the D te Justice of the Peace in the matter of the application of Alexander Hollinger for a Pension and I also further Certify that John Wallendorn is an acting Justice of the Peace for D te County
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office in Riverville this
The 29 day of January 1834.
Geo McEwen Clerk
21862

State of Louisiana Serene County 22.
State of Tennessee Declaration To obtain a pension

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension as ordinary relief in the present and declares that his name is not on the pension of the agency of any state or territory in the united states
Alexander Galtinger
sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Samuel Bogart Esq
a Justice of the peace for Mercer County
where Samuel Galtinger a Clergyman residing in the county of Union and state of Pennsylvania and John Mullenbrod residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Alexander Galtinger who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be eighty three years of age last March that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides is here seen a subject of the revolution and his views concurred in that opinion
Janet Layman
sworn to and subscribed John Mullenbrod the day and year aforesaid
Samuel Bogart Esq
Justice of the peace for said county
The following interrogations were asked of me and the following answers giving First question where and in what years were you here Answer I was here in Philadelphia County Penna from in the year 1780 question have you a record of your age and if so where is it
Answer The record is in the city of Philadelphia question where were you living when called into the service where have you lived since the revolution name and where do you now live

Answer to the second question, State of Tennessee question did you ever receive a discharge from service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Answer it has been lost or destroyed question have you ever been called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
Answer I was a substitute for Henry Bousie three months and three months and three weeks or fifteen weeks making in all my service nine months three weeks
question State the names of persons to whom you are knowing in your neighborhood that person and who can testify to your character merits and the length of your services in relation of the revolution
Answer Samuel Kynera clergyman and John Maddox
and I Samuel Kynera acting justice of the peace for the county of Sevier and state of Tennessee do declare that after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and and service as he states and that he further believes that the applicant for the pension above mentioned is of age and bodily infirmity is unable to attend court and the 3rd parties further certifies that it appears to him that Daniel Layman who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Sevier and state of Tennessee and that who has also signed the same is a resident in the county of Sevier county and state of Tennessee

is a creditable person that their statements is entitled to credit
Emmett Bogart (P)
justice of the peace for said
I also certify that the undersigned in re applicant's declaration was done before he signed the records indicated are the whole amount of his service in said month & three weeks
Emmett Bogart (P)
Justice of the peace for said
State of Tennessee Sevier County ss.
I P. H. Toomey, Clerk of the county Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Emmett Bogart whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is, and was at the time of subscribing the same a justice of the peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified according to law, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office this 10th day of January 1844
P. H. Toomey, Clerk of Sevier County, Court.

April 27, 1939
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Mrs. Zelda Sollinger Allen 610-12th Street Franklin, Pennsylvania
BA-J/MB Alexander Zollinger R. 11993
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Peter Zollinger S. 8005
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of soldiers with the name John (Hans) Zollinger or Sollinger, and all other soldiers of the Revolution with that surname.
Revolutionary War data furnished by the Veterans Administration are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land which have been made to the United States based upon service of soldiers in that war.
The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and two claims for pension, only, found based upon service in that war of soldiers with the surname you cite - those of Alexander and Peter which follow.
ALEXANDER ZOLLINGER R. 11993
The data which follow in regard to Alexander Zollinger were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 11993, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Alexander Zollinger was born in York or Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The names of his parents were not given. Before moving to Tennessee he resided in Virginia.
While residing in Sevier County, Tennessee, where he had been living twenty-two years, Alexander Zollinger applied for pension December 10, 1833, aged seventy-five years nine months, and alleged that while living in York County, Pennsylvania, he volunteered in May or June, 1781 or 1782, and served three months as private in Captain "Furry's" company in the Pennsylvania troops; that upon the

expiration of that tour, he returned to his home where he remained about six weeks, then volunteered to go with the baggage wagons from York, Pennsylvania, to New Jersey, and that he was engaged in that service three months three weeks. One Peter Zollinger served on that tour with him, his relationship to Alexander Zollinger not stated.
Alexander Zollinger's claim for pension was not allowed as he did not allege or prove six months' service in a regular military organization which was required by the pension law.
No reference was made in the claim to wife or children of this soldier and the date of his death is not shown.
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PETER ZOLLINGER
S. 8005
The data furnished herein were obtained from pension claim, S. 8005, based upon military service of Peter Zollinger in the Revolutionary War.
Peter Zollinger was born December 22, 1756, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. The names of his parents were not given.
Peter Zollinger, at the commencement of the Revolution, was an ensign in the militia in Paradise Township, York County, Pennsylvania; he volunteered sometime in June, 1776, and served three months as private in Captain Nicholas Bittinger's company, Colonel Richard McAllister's Pennsylvania regiment; upon his return home, he was elected captain of a company which was called out in 1777, was in the battle of Germantown under Colonel Bull and served three months; he later marched his company to York, Pennsylvania, and served six weeks. He was appointed sometime in May, 1778, to command a brigade of wagons under Colonel Jefferies, Wagonmaster General, and served four months. He served at various times in pursuit of Indians, no details of this service given.
Peter Zollinger was allowed pension on his application executed May 23, 1833, at which time he was living in Frederick County, Maryland.
The wife of Peter Zollinger, her name not shown, died prior to October, 1833; he then moved to Adams County, Pennsylvania, to live

with his son-in-law, Zephaniah Herbert. He returned to Frederick County, Maryland, in the month of November, 1835, having married "a woman of the State of Maryland", her name not stated.
Peter Zollinger died November 4, 1842, at the residence of his daughter, Barbara Carlley, in McKessontown, Adams County, Pennsylvania. He left no widow, but the following children survived him:
Elizabeth Crabbs, a widow Barbara, widow of Reuben B. Carlley Mary, wife of Zephaniah Herbert George Zollinger John Zollinger who died prior to 1851, leaving a widow, Ellen, and nine children, names of children not stated.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

1939 Apr 27 - Hist to Mrs. Zelda Solinger Ellen MFB
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED 11/9/90
P. O.
Alex Solinger
Service:
Printed List of 1852 Rejected & suspended claims show following cause of rejection:
Enlisted:
"Only three months service" 18
Discharged:
_____, 18
Application filed: _____
, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis.
Searched for _____
, 18

let to Thos Green, Oct 29 '44
11993

29812 Alex - Zollinger -
Tennessee -
original -
13: 26 6: 1834.
Rejected. Saved about 3 months. See letter of March 1834 to G.M. Claus.

610-12 th St, Franklin, Pa.
March 14, 1939.
Administration Washington, D.C.
I am trying to trace the genealogy of the Sollingers or Gollingers, they are my people, Was the John born 1764 and the John that was in the Revolutionary war in 1781 & 1782 the same man? How many Sollingers or Gollingers were in the Revolutionary war? Please give me all names.
Also give me names of all connected with Hans Gollinger who came on ship Jamaica, Captain Robert Harrison, shipped from Rotterdam Feb. 7, 1738,
and Felix Gollinger, came on ship Robert & Mary Martha Cusack Captain, shipped from Rotterdam Sept. 30, 1743. I would like all available information and all names & dates.
Mrs. Gelda Sollinger Allen.

Sir
Gen P
Oct 29. 44
The second declaration of Alexander Zollinger has been examined & filed - Waiving any objection founded upon the contradictory statements of his service, it is sufficient to remark that is but one  the only term of service in the Pa. militia set forth in both declarations which he estimates at 3 months while the Militia laws of Pa. limited it to 2 months - He now claims to have "volunteered to go with the baggage waggons from York Pa. to N. J." and served some 3 months - This was not military service - & would not with the 2 mo tour be sufficient to entitle him even if it were military in the purview of the Pension laws -
Thomas Green Esq Richmond Va

35794 July 8 1844
Trw
Alex. Zolynski 7 June 1852
J. J. Salwan
Comms. of Pennia
Wachap Lee
7

Richmond 6 July 1844.
Col. J. L. Edwards. Comr. of Pensions.
Sir,
Enclosed is the application of Alexander Zollinger for a Pension under act 17 June 1832. He lives in Tennessee.
I have written to the Auditor Genl. of P. s for a certificate of such services as may to appear on his records - to h nt sent you!
I am Y r Ob t serv t Thomas Green

Dec. McGowan 7 March 1834
Received of P. J. ...

War Dept. Rev. Offic March 7, 1834
Sir,
The declaration of Alexander Rollinger has been examined. He alleges it has been drafted in Sept or Augst and to have been discharged in Nov r following. This making a period of service of about three months. The act of June 7, 1832 provides for none who did not serve at least six months. His claim has therefore been rejected. The papers will be placed in the files in this office
George M c Cown Esq Clerk of Lewis County Court, Lewis C. N. Tennessee