Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40612, John Vangardner, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Vangardner, John.
S 40612
CONTENTS

3466.
Pennsylvania Hall
John Vangardner Capt Kurher 14
Private War Pennsylvania line one year In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th of October 1811 and sent to Sam l . Roberts Esq r Pittsburg Penn a .
   Arrears to 4th of  Sept  1818  34.13    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  6 th Mar  1819  48.00    Arrears 4 Mo. 8/30  $82.13   
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Two Alangardner
found on the Pole & Admirell
Considered for Palm & Rolls
How. left. S. part. Mar.
17th Dec 1841

To the Hon ble the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States
State of Pennsylvania } County of Allegheny } p.
The Declaration under oath of John Van Gardner an applicant for a pen- sion under the act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the Uni- ted States in the Revolutionary war"
Respectfully the w th .
That he is an resident citizen of the United States and now has his actual re- sidence in the Township of H. Blair in the County of Allegheny & that from his re- duced circumstances, age and infirmity, he requires the assistance of his country for his support. That he is an old soldier of the Revolution and served against the com- mon enemy - during the war.
That he enlisted at Lancaster in Pennsylvania in May 1778 a few months after the taking of Lord Cornwallis, in the Company Commanded

by Capt. Dyer. That from the length of time and the condition state of his health and memory he cannot recollect the precise month when he enlisted.
He was shortly after transferred to Capt. George Burk's Comp y . in the 5 th Reg t . Infantry Pennsylvania line. That he was engaged in expeditions against the Indians - That he remained in Capt. Burk's company until honorably discharged at Lancaster by Lieut. Harbert at the termination of the war - He thinks he was about 20 months in service.
He has received from the United States 300 acres of land, but which he was necessitated to sell at a very low price - That he sold to Capt. Plover at Phil a the pay due him by the United States - and in order to enable the Capt. to draw it he gave him his discharge & which has never been returned to him.
Allegheny County ss
Before me President of the 5 th judicial district of Pennsylvania personally came the aforesaid applicant who being duly sworn saith that the facts stated in the foregoing declaration are to the best of his knowledge and remembrance true and

and that from his reduced circumstances he requires the assistance of his country for his support.
Sworn & subscribed } before me this 27th } day of April 1818. }
John Van Garsdree
Can. Samuel Roberts _____ }
Allegheny county ss
I Ephraim Pentland Prothonotary of the court of Common pleas for the said county do by these presents certify that Samuel Roberts Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and who has herunto in his own proper handwriting subscribed his name was at the time of taking such deposition and now is President of the fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania to whom credit as such due faith and credit ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere. Witness my hand and seal of the said Court at Pittsburgh this Sixth day of May A.D. 1818.
_____ # Pentland. Pro

Pennsylvania
I Samuel Roberts President of the Court of Common Pleas of the Fifth Judicial District in the Commonwealth aforesaid DO CERTIFY that it appears to my satis- faction that the said John Vandarner
did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at one period on the Continental establishment; and that it also appears to my satisfaction that he is indigent circumstances; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress. IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at the City of Pittsburgh the twenty fourth day of September A.D one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Saml Roberts

Amongst the pleas inrolled in the District Court of the United States in & for the Western District of Pennsylvania at an adjourned session of the said court held on the seventeenth day of June, A.D. 1820 it is contained as follows
United States of America Western District of Pennsylvania
On the seventeenth day of June 1820, personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said District John Young Younger aged seventy one years resident in in Allegheny County said District who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows viz that in 1776, 77 or 78 (the particular month or year he cannot now recollect owing to feebleness & loss of memory) he was enlisted in Lancaster Pennsylvania by Capt Doyle and sent by him to Capt George Hughes Company of the sixth regiment commanded by Col Richard Butler who was then stationed at Carlisle, that after after having served in the army of the United States about twenty three months he was finally discharged in Lancaster Pennsylvania by lieutenant Hulet of Capt Walkers Company in said Regiment commanded by the aforesaid Col Richard Butler. That he receives a pension from the United States on a certificate from the war

department. No. 3466. And I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818. & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish &isto bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18 March 1818. & that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed by me subscribed, viz one old log cabin built & standing on land on land belonging to Joseph Hall for which I hold a rental lease of charity, & in which log cabin I live my personal property is as follows two cows two pigs one old dresser one salt box one pot one lake one one tin kettle six old chairs one little churn one little table all worth about fifty dollars I also do declare upon oath that the business I last laboured at was threshing. but I am now so feeble & frail as to be unable to pursue any labour for any length of time. I have a wife residing with me whose name is Jenny aged about sixty seven years, she is feeble & subject to rheumatic pains. I have also living with me a step daughter Peggy Adams aged about twenty nine years & her child aged about two years. That I have no other family residing with me

That I am in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of my country
Sworn & subscribed in open John Langardner court on the 17 th day of June AD 1820 before J H Walker, Judge of said court
J. R. Walker Clerk of the District court of the United States in & for the Western District of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that it is the opinion the foregoing oath & schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court & that it is the opinion of said court that the said affi- -cant has no property other than what he has exhibited the total amount in value of of which is about fifty dollars & that he is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court on this 17. of June 1820 in the 44 year of the independence of the United States J. R. Walker CLK

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Section of Bounty Lands.
By Records in this Office it appears that a Warrant for One hundred acres of Land, Military Bounty of the United States, was issued to, "John Vinegardner," who was a "Private" in the "Pennsylvania Line" of the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War, under the number, "10,545" dated, "Sept. 27. 1799."
J. C. Cutting.
N. B. It is thought that the name "Vinegardner" in the abovementioned Record, is a misspelling of the Dutch name, "Vangardner".—
His statement of having received "three hundred acres of Land" from the "United States", probably, comprizes the 200 acres which the State of Pennsylvania gratuitously conveyed to each Soldier of its own Line found in the Continental Service at the close of the War.

40 612 Rev INVALID.
File No. 40.612
John Vangardner Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 52 1/2
[Arrangement of 1870.]