Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 3495, Henry Yoxtheimer, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Yoytheinner, Henry or Gaytheinner
S 3495
CONTENTS
• Carded

4891 Pennsylvania
Henry Yaxheimer
of _____ in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Kenderfer of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Pennsylvania line for Private - 14 mo 28 days $49.79
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 49 Dollars 79 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of January 1833 and sent to H. F. Duran, Home Reps
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 $74. 68 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 24. 89
$99.57
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Viral Luce Clerk, Book D Vol. 6 Page 96
1893 April 21 Non W H Hall history Prior

State of Pennsylvania } ss. County of Northumberland
On this twentieth — day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty- two, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of North- umberland, Henry Vorhauer Senior, aged 74 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oaths make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1778, in the company commanded by Captain Hornberger in Colebrookdale  Augusta Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the Brigade commanded by Genl. Morgan, for the term of six months. After his enlistment, deponent marched to White Plains above New York, where the Brigade was broken up. Genl. Washington at this time moved the army to near New York, and the Brigade under Genl. Mellbarger and to which he was then attached, went to Fort West Point. We remained there until we went into winter quarters, and afterwards went to Brunswick in the State of New Jersey. After remaining at Brunswick a short time, 300 horses were put into the charge of deponent and four others to take to Lancaster County, in the State of Pennsylvania. — From Brunswick, we proceeded with the horses through Bucks County, and then to the valley Forge, and from there to Conestoga, near Lancaster. We delivered the horses to a Mr. Smith of Lancaster County, received our discharges, and went home — deponent having fully served out the term for which he was enlisted. — The deponent states that he was not in any battle, and served under but one term of enlistment as stated above.
The deponent further declares on oath before the said Court, that previous to his entering into the army of the United States, as an enlisted soldier, viz: in September 1775, that he marched from the County of Bucks aforesaid, in the Company commanded by Captain Isaac Davis, to Germantown, near Philadelphia. — The English there were in possession of Philadelphia. Joseph Hewitt was then our Colonel. We were engaged the principal part of the time scouting. Deponent at one time was standing sentry — Col. Hewitt rode out, and till he came in sight of the English Picket Guard, who as soon as they saw him, pursued him, yelling "stop you damn'd rebel," until

they were arrested by a platoon he had stationed behind a small stable on the road between the English and American armies. Deponent remained at this place two months, and received his discharge from Col. Genl. Mergans, who acted as Brigade inspector. Deponent returned home immediately after he was discharged where he remained a short time. Soon after his return home his brother Philip was drafted, and deponent took his place as a substitute in the Company commanded by Captain Straub. - Jacob Weary was then Colonel. Deponent went again to near Philadelphia, and was engaged in scouting. The English were at this time in Philadelphia. Deponent remained there two months and then returned home to Berks County.
In August 1777 deponent went out again in the militia Company commanded by Captain Kiffer, as a substitute for Matthias Reeder. Joseph Huston was then Colonel. The company marched from Reading in Berks County, Pa. through Berks, to Trenton in Jersey, and remained there for two months, and was discharged. Genl. Wayne then commanded. The English were then in the City of New York.
After deponent's marriage, in 1780, he was drafted, and marched from Berks County aforesaid, in the Company commanded by Captain Abraham Kiffer, to Sunbury, Northumberland County, near the junction of the East and West branches of the Susquehanna, from thence to where Danville is now located. - We remained there nearly two months. - The Indians were committing great ravages in that region of country at the time. We were sent there to protect the farmers while putting in their winter grain. We then returned home, and in Reading deponent received from General Mergans his discharge.
The deponent states that at this late period he cannot produce any other evidence than that contained in the foregoing declaration, and annexed hereto. That he has related all the facts within his recollection, that he deemed at all material to the investigation of his claim. - Many circumstances have escaped his recollection.

The deponent makes the following answers to the questions propounded to him by the court.
1. I was born in Rockland township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1758. 2. I have a record of my age in my family bible, now in my possession in Augusta township, Northumberland County, Pa. 3. I lived in Berks County, Pa. when called into service, and lived since the revolutionary war, in Augusta township, aforesaid. 4. I enlisted as stated in the body of my declaration, and was once drafted, and went out twice as a substitute, as therein stated. 5. I cannot now remember the names of any other officers, than those named in the foregoing declaration. 6. I received discharge, as stated before, from General Morgan and Mr. Smith, and left there about the time I removed from Berks, to Northumberland County. 7. Honorable Lewis Stewart Esq. Mem. of Congress, Henry Maser Esq. Hon. Henry Shaffer, and others in my neighborhood, can testify as to my character for veracity, and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution. The said applicant 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 and subscribed this day and year aforesaid. Ed. G. Bright Proth
Henry Yostheimer's mark

WE J T Shindler, a clergyman residing in Sunbury, Northumberland County and Henry Fortheimer Jr. residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Henry Fortheimer Senior, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 72 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Ed d Y o Bright Prothon ry
J T Shindler Henry Fortheimer Jr.
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 named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that J T Shindler, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, residing in the Borough of Sunbury, County of Northumberland, Pa te and that Henry Fortheimer Jr. who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Leah Chapman Henry Shaffer Leah Fortheimer
I Edward Y o Bright, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Northumberland aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the originals proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Fortheimer Sen. for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Sunbury this fifth day of December, A.D. 1832.
Ed d Y o Bright Prothon ry per Rob t M c Elvain Deputy

State of Pennsylvania County of Northumberland ss.
On the twentyth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace for said County, Ludwig Forthner, resident in Augusta in said County, aged 70 or 71 years on the 6th. day of June next who on his solemn oath declares, that his brother Henry Forthner, enlisted in Colebrookdale Township Berks County, Pennsylvanias, in the company, commanded by Captain Konderfer, but the year deponent does not now recollect, but thinks he was about 17 years of age. - Deponent states that soon after his enlistment he marched from Berks County, and remained away as nearly as deponent recollects, six months. - Deponent recollects that his brother, previous to his enlistment went out furlough in the militia, from Berks County aforesaid, and once after his marriage from Berks county to Sunbury in the County of Northumberland, on the Susquehanna. Deponent thinks his brother was out in the militia 7 or 8 months - and he well remembers that he at one time went out, as a substitute for his brother Philip Forthner, and once for Matthias Reeder. Deponent lived at the time his brother enlisted and at the time he went out in the militia in Colebrookdale Township, Berks County.
Sworn and subscribed
Coram me
I do certify, that Ludwig Forthner who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit, is a person of credibility, to the best of my knowledge. Witness my hand - November 21. 1832.

Athens County set
I Edward V. Bright, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do certify, that Henry Mumpus before whom the within affidavit was made, and whose name is subscribed thereto, was at the time of his so doing, and yet is a Justice of the Peace for said County.
Witness my hand and seal of office at Lima, Ohio, this 5th day of December, A.D. 1832.
Ed. V. Bright Prothon. Jr. Chas. W. Heginbotham Deputy
19964
Henry Mumpus

State of Pennsylvania, County of Northumberland Jct
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, for the County of Northumberland, Henry Forthamer Senior, who being duly sworn, deposes and saith, that, by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise lengths of his service, but according to the best of his recollections he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:— For six months, I served as a private, in the year 1778, in the company commanded by Captain Henderfer. For four months I served as a private, in the year 1775;— two months of that period in the company commanded by Captain Isaiah Davis, and two months as a substitute for my brother Philip, in the Company commanded by Captain Straub. For three months, I served as a private and substitute for my brother Matthias, in the year 1777, in the Company commanded by Captain Abraham Keffer. For two months, wanting two days, I served as a private in the company commanded by Captain Abraham Keffer, in the year 1780, making in the whole fifteen months service wanting two days, and for such service I claim a pension.
Sworn and subscribed, January 24. 1833 Ceram Henry Maser
his Henry X Forthamer's mark— mark

Clock
14 M. 28 days
State of Pennsylvania, County of Northumberland
I Edward Y. Bright, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do hereby certify, that Henry Neafse, before whom the foregoing declaration was made, and whose name is thereto subscribed, was at the time of so doing and yet is a Justice of the peace for said County, duly commissioned and sworn
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Lewisburg January 25. 1899 Ed Y Bright Proth
Hon. A. Stewart H. R.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
MOA
December 1, 1924
Mrs. W. H. Hill 104 N. Gilpin St. Punxsutawney, Pa.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.3495, it appears that Henry Yoxtheimer, pensioned Yaxtheimer, was born in 1758 in Rockland Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
While a resident of Berks County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in September, 1775, and served two months as private in Captain Josiah Davis' Company, Colonel Joseph Hiester's Pennsylvania Regiment.
Soon afterward he enlisted and served two months as private in Captain Strouch's Company, Colonel Jacob Weaver's Pennsylvania Regiment.
He enlisted in August, 1777, and served three months as private in Captain Abraham Keefer's Company, Colonel Joseph Hiester's Pennsylvania Regiment.
He enlisted in 1778 and served six months as private in Captain Kondorfer's Pennsylvania Company.

He enlisted in 1780 and served one month and twenty-eight days as private in Captain Abraham Keefer's Pennsylvania Regiment.
He married in 1780 but the name of his wife is not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 20, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Augusta Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
There is no further data on file relative to his family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner

Oct. 13/94 Hiss. to Paul Torrington 116-6th. Topeka, Kans. Mel. 1924 Dec. 1 Hiss. to Mrs. W. H. Hill. mct
Rev. Hiss
3495 INVALID.
File No. 3495
Henry Garthimer Print Rev Par.
Act: June 7  1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 20
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Com. of Pensions
Dear Sir
Your favor of 12 th Oct. at hand - giving military history of Henry Goxheimer a Revolutionary Soldier .
Accept my thanks for same
Yours Truly Paul Jennings
15 October
1894

OLD WAR & NAVY OCT 24 1894 FILES.

11 Simsbury, Penna. Feb. 13. 1893.
Bureau of Pensions, Washington.
I would like to know what is on record concerning Henry Goxtheiner. He was a Revolutionary soldier, in the Pennsylvania Lines, and afterward a pensioner. The family records have all been burned. Grandfather's house was destroyed by fire several years ago, and all papers, with every thing else burned. I want to join The Daughters of The Revolution, so must depend on public records.
Another ancestor, Jacob Moore, was from New Jersey. The state Librarian, Mr. Hamilton found

The company he was in, but nothing regarding his family. I suppose public records do not deal with families, do they?
Any information that can be found concerning Mr. Gorthemur will be gratefully received.
Yours respectfully Mrs. W. H. Hill

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OLD WAR AND NAVY DEPT.
FEB 21 1893
PENSION U S FEB 18 1893 OFFICE.

Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
4 29 th September 94
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly inform me whether Henry Yoxtheimer (YOXTHEIMER), who served under Washington in the war of the Revolution, ever received a pension and where he was enlisted and discharged and also in what regiment he served. He was in a Pennsylvania Regiment I think kindly give me this information and oblige Yours truly Paul Torrington Topeka Kansas 116 W. 6 th St.

18 My dear friend (J. M. HEWICK)
Yours truly
Yours truly J. M. Hewick

104 NORTH GILPIN STREET
PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.
Nov. 14-1924.
To Some One in Pension Bureau; Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:- Will you please look up for me the record of Henry Yox Steiner - of north'd les. Pension was applied for June 30 - 1834, aged 76 yrs. I believe it is Penna. archives 3rd Series Vol. 23 - page 537. I want all the information I can secure, for use in W. A. R. Will appreciate all you can find, and if there's any charge - let me know.

104 NORTH GILPIN STREET
PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.
I do not know why the record is incomplete at Harrisburg.
Truly yours,
Mrs. V. H. Hill