Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,075, John Witz, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Witz, John
S. 23,075
CONTENTS

N o 18503 Pennsylvania
John Witz
of Columbia Co. in the State of who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Biles of the Reg t commanded by Col. Shays in the Penn a line for 13 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per ann. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of Sept r 1833 and sent to Pensioner Danville Penn a
Arrears to the 14th of Sept r 1833 108.33 2 / 3 Semi-ann l allowance ending 1 st March 1833 21.66 2 / 3
$130.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book E. Vol. 5 Page 64

No 6401 John Witz. Parryland
16 th March 1833
City - want of Pension Certificate — under the act of 1818 —
Adn C p 297
13 mo' 4097 Sep 11 Cho of. art. 16.85
claimant
6
Danville Pa

BRIEF in the case of  Ino Witz of Mahoning  county of Columbia  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? 80.  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 As a Gen. Capt. Biles. Col. Baughman    Was on the Pension Roll for 1818 & drew a Pension for 2 Years & was dropped for having Property
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Fort Washington  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Berks County Pennsylvania  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.

State of Pennsylvania Columbia County
On the seventh day of August One thousand Eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared before the court of quarter session of the County of Columbia John Witz a resident of Mahoning township Aged Eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832
That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year One thousand Eight hundred and twenty six in Hiedleberg township Berks County on the first day of February, that he had been an applicant for a pension under the act of May the 15 th 1818 which pension he drew for nearly two years, and then was dropped from the pension roll on account of property (which property has since been sold by the Sheriff and is at the present poor) he further states that he served in the third regiment of the Pennsylvania line under Captain Biles, his field officers when Colonel Shaeffler Lieutenant Colonel Bodewalter and Major Becker. The applicant states that he was taken prisoner at Fort Washington on the 16 th of November 1776 and from thence taken to New York as a prisoner, where upon the best of his recollection he was discharged upon parole in March 1777
The said applicant states that his residence is in Mahoning township Columbia County & State of Pennsylvania, being the same place he resided in when he made his first application. 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 except as above stated
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Jacob Egly Dist John his Witz Mark

Be it known that on the 7 th day of August 1832 Personally appeared in open court David Petkin who being duly sworn saith that he knows John Witz the above named deponent & applicant and that he this deponent knows that he the said Witz was on the honor roll under the act of Congress of 15 th May 1828 and that he was discharged therefrom on account of his holding property in the County of Columbia where he then resided & still continues to reside which property has since been sold by the Sheriff and that said Witz is at present poor & indigent and that this deponent drew the money for said Witz as his attorney when he first obtained it from & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Jacob Eyerly Proth David Petkin
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the inter- rogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the Court aforesaid further certifies that it appears to them that David Petkin who has signed the above certificate & affidavit is a resident in Columbia County and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit Jeth Chapman  Leonard Rupert
I Jacob Eyerly Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the peace in and for Columbia County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Witz for a pension In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said Court this Seventh day of August one thousand eight hundred & thirty two Jacob Eyerly Proth

I HEREBY certify that the accompanying pages numbered from to one to five are as truly copied from the originals in the Department of War.
J. L. Edwards
BE IT REMEMBERED, That James Lewis Edwards , who has signed the foregoing certificate, is charged with the general superintendence of the Pension Business in the Department of War, and with the safe-keeping of the Rolls, Books, Papers, and Do- cuments, on file in said Department, in relation to said business; and that to his attestations full faith and credit are and ought to be given. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed, on this eighth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight .
James Barbour Secretary of War.

Pennsylvania.
Columbia County ss.
On this sixth day of August 1823, personally appeared in open court of Common Pleas for the county of Columbia aforesaid being a court of Record, John Witz resident in said County, aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declarations, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 18 th March 1818, and the 1 st May, 1820, that he, the said John Witz, enlisted for the term of one year - on the first day of February in the year 1776 in the State of Pennsylvania, in the Company commanded by Captain Biles, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shays in the line of the State of Pennsylvania on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until March AD 1777 - when he was discharged from the said service, in the City of New York in the State of New York that his name has been placed on the pension list, and dropped therefrom on account of his property.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st . May, 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"

2) passed on the 18 th day of March, 1818, and 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 and by me subscribed
"Schedule of Property"
40 acres of land, with a house on it, situate on the foot of Mahoning ridge in Mahoning township, Columbia County and State of Pennsylvania valued at 5 dollars per acre $200.00
  1 Bible 1 50 Amount brought up 221 75   1 Old wooden Clock 2 00 1 dung fork 00 50   Kitchen Utensils 5 00 1 Old Chest 3 00   1 Old Table 1 00 1 Cow 8 00   1 Old wash tub 1 00 2 Hotes, or Pigs 2 00   1 Barrel 75 1 dough Trough 50   1 Old Bed 8 00 1 Frying pan 50   1 pair Steelyards 1 00 1 Old Spinning Wheel 1 00   1 Chair 50 1 Old Reel 50   1 Shovel 50 1 Old Stove 8 00   1 Pitch fork 50 Total amount $ 245 75   Amount carried up $ 221 75 
That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property
(Former Schedule of property)
  40 Acres of land with a house on it in Mahoning township Columbia County & State of Penn a at $10. per acre 400 00 Amount brought up $ 400 00   Amount carried $ 400 00 1 Mare 25 years old 5 00   1 Cow 4 years old 12 00   Amount carried over $ 417 00 

  Amount brought over $ 417 00   1 feather bed & bedding 10 00   1 Rope Bedstead 1 00   4 Shoote hogs 4 00   1 Tea kettle, 1 pot & iron Bake oven 3 00   1 Spinning Wheel & reel 1 50   1 Old Plough & harrow, also old 2 00   1 Old axe, 1 old hoe, 1 pitch fork 50   1 pair iron shovel & tongs 50   Amount carried up $ 439 50 
  Amount brought up $ 439 50   1 large shovel with wooden handle 50   1 Old Spade nearly worn out 25   1 Old Bible, Psalter, some queensware & spoons 2 00   1 Trammel 20   1 Old chest 1 00   1 Old Table 50   Total amount $ 443 95 
(3)
(Property disposed of)
   Names of Persons to whom sold Time of Sale Amount of Money, or description of property received in return.     (Property)   1 Mare Hibler & Tricket Nov r 1821. 2 dollars in Cash   4 hogs, consumed for my own use   1 Old Plough   & Harrow Jacob Purcel about Penna Shetime 2 dollars.  
John Witz.
I have no debts due to me, and owe to different Individuals the amounts contained in the list hereto annexed. I am by trade a Weaver, but owing to bodily infirmities am now, and have been for a number of years unable to work at any Trade, and am unable to support myself, none of my family resides with me now but my wife.
(I'm no one)

List of persons to whom I am indebted.
  Solomon Heany (note) 43 00 Amount brought up 83 52   Catharine Street " 17 00 Jacob Wortman 1 00   Daniel Camiron, Book acct. 3 00 Jacob Sanders 50   William Lamison " 4 00 William Haiman 3 00   Martin Rishel " 1 00 Jacob Louffenbaugh 1 00   Peter Goodman " 2 00 Peter Kessler 50   John Schuler " 2 00 George Crumley 50   Maria Pough " 3 20 Jonathan Bougher 4 00   James Cropsley " " 84 Peter Baldy 5 00   William Montgomery " 1 50 Joseph Stout 1 00   John Reynolds " " 86 Andrew Ymose 60   Henry Sanders " 5 22 George Haufman 3 27 
Amount carried up 83 82
Total amount $104 19
I David Petrick, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County, aforesaid do hereby certify, that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said John Witzy did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common Enemy for the term of nine months, under one engagement on the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing Oath, and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is two hundred and forty five dollars and seventy five cents -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Danville on the sixth day of August, A. D. 1823
David Petrick, Proct. of Com. Pl. of Columbia County.

Columbia County ss
District of Pennsylvania ss
On the nineteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and twenty five personally appeared before an open Court of Common pleas of Columbia County being a Court of Record, proceeding according to the Course of Common Law with Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings John Witts aged seventy four years resident in Columbia County in said district who being first duly sworn according to law, doth upon his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and first of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty. That he the said John Witts enlisted for the term of one year on the first day of February 1776 in Captain Biles Company and served in the revolutionary war in the company commanded by said Biles Captain in the Regiment 3 d of the Pennsylvania line of the continental establishment commanded by Col. Shay that he entered to serve in said Corps until March 1777 when he was discharged and has obtained a pension under the Act of the eighteenth of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen his Certificate being numbered sixteen thousand eight hundred and sixty seven.
I John Witts do solemnly swear
That I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself

within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property securities contracts or debts due me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
John Witz
Schedule of Property
  I have besides necessary Cloathing and bedding   One Cow worth about — $ 8. 00 One pair Stilgards ————— $ 1. 00   Three Hogs ditto do ————— 3. 00 Three Chairs. ————— 1. 00   One Chest — — — — — 2. 00 One Frying Pan. ————— 50   One wooden clock — — — — — 2. 00 One Spin wheel. ————— 1. 00   Two Iron Pots — — — — — 1. 00 One Table. ————— 1. 00   One ten plate Stove. — — — — — 8. 00 One Mattock. ————— 50   One Bible. — — — — — 2. 00 One Axe ————— 50   One washing tub & barrel. — — — — — 1. 50 One Reel. ————— 25   One Dung fork & pitch fork. — — — — — 50 Knives forks and other articles about — 3. 50   28. 00 9. 25   28. 00   37. 25 
I receive no pension from the State
I am indebted to sundry persons about twenty Dollars
I have no debts due me

(7) My family consists of myself & wife aged about sixty six I have not been able to doe any work of any consequence for nearly six years in consequence of a severe rupture and other bodily infirmities.
I lately owned forty acres of land situated in Mahoning township (Columbia County State of Pennsylvania) which said tract of land was sold by the Sheriff of the County aforesaid the twelfth day of September eighteen hundred and twenty five by an execution issued at the suite of Solomon Muckelheny against me for the sum of two hundred and twelve dollars which sum dose not pay all the judgments which are liens against said forty acres
(Signed) John Witz
Sworn to and and delivered by John Witz the 19 th day of November 1825 before the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County District of Pennsylvania
John Rupsel Prothonotary
I John Rupsel Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said John Witz did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment, I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount

in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedules is thirty seven dollars and twenty five cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Danville on the twenty first day of November A.D. 1825
(Signed)
John Rupsel Prothonotary of the Common Pleas of Columbia County

Revolution
23075 INVALID.
File No. 23,075
John Nitz Prs Rev War
Act: June 7 th 59 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 52
[Arrangement of 1870.]

16. 067. Pennsylvania
John Witz - of Columbia Co. in the state of Pennsylvania who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shaeffer of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of one year.
inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of May 1820 and sent to Honb: Mr. Murray, H. Rep s U. S.
Arrears to 4th of March 1820. - 172.64 Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 Sept: 1820. - 48.00 21 Mo s  \frac{10}{31} - $: 220.64
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled Columbia Co. Pa. No. 2 Sch.

Notification sent November 3 rd 1821. To Rev. A. Spick, Danville, Pennsylvania
Atty Genl opinion Jan 8 Jan 48. 1822 B. G. Dennis H. Reps

Pennsylvania.
John Witz inscribed on the revolutionary Pension List, May 8. 1820
Drafted from the Roll.
03 In answer to application for restoration. See letter March 2. 1825 to Hon. W. C. Ellis H. N.
and To John Rupple Esq. Danville Penn: of the June 1826.
See letter 8 Sept. 1823 to D. Petrickin —
Yale, Sept 1820.

Additional Papers ~

War Department Pension Office
11 th January 1826
Sir The Declaration of John Wiltz has been received but unaccompanied with the evidence pointed out as necessary in my letter of the 2 nd March 1825, to the Honorable W. B. Ellis. I again enclose for his government some printed instructions, and request his particular attention to the note marked (f), a strict adherence to which is indispensably requisite.
I am very respectfully Your Ob t Serv t J. L. Edwards
John Russell Esq Danville Penn:

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of Sept r next, in Philadelphia, at the Bks. W. States.
Pennsylvania
Recorded.

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, — " " —
John Witz — — — — — late a private " in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the Eighteenth day of May — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United
States, this Eighth day of
May — one thousand eight
hundred and twenty.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

John Witz-
Cole-Ship's
Penns. a Regt-
1776 (1 st day) in
16 Nov r 1776 - taken
Prisoner there, &
paroled - in March 1777 -
for 1 year -
then 9 mo s 16 days!
10 May 1810.
Admitted -

State of Pennsylvania, Columbia County, ss.
On this 18 th day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, of Columbia County, in said district personally appears John Witz aged 66 years, resident in Columbia Co. in the said State district, who being by me duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he the said John Witz enlisted in Berks County in the state of Pennsylvania in 1776 on the 8 th of February in the company commanded by Captain Boyle of the Regiment commanded by Col. Shree; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the 18 th day of November 1776, when he was Paroled discharged from the service in New York state of New York, that he was in the battles of Long Island and was taken prisoner in Fort Washington on the 16 th November 1776, after being wounded.
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, that he has never received any pension from the United States. Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
William Montgomery
John Witz
I, W m Montgomery Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said John Witz did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; 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 aforementioned act of Congress. Witness my hand & Seal May 18 th 1818.
William Montgomery

John Wetz print
Suspended for Philadelphia Free
John B. Calhoun Esq. Secretary of War Washington City
The Judge must certify as to cir- cumstances-
THE COURT SEPT 10
181

State of Pennsylvania Columbia County set.
I Geo. N. Stick Proth. of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County aforesaid do certify that William Montgomery esq who has signed the foregoing certificate was at the date thereof & is an acting associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid duly commissioned and affirmed as such. In witness whereof I have here set my hand and the seal of said Court at Danville the 20 th day of May A.D. eighteen hundred & eighteen
Geo. N. Stick Proth.

War Department Pension Office, January 8. 1828
Sir,
Agreeably to your request, I herewith transmit a copy of the papers in the case of John Witz.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your Ob t Serv t . J. L. Edwards
Hon. George Kremer, House of Representatives

(A)
TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES,
Washington, June 29. 1821—
Sir,
Enclosed you will find my Draft No. 6421— on the Bank of the United States, at
Dollars 32 —
the amount of Warrant No. 3202 — issued by the Secretary of War — on receipt whereof be pleased to favor me with an early acknowledgment, specifying the sum received.
With due consideration, I am,
Sir, your obedient servant,
H. H. Tucker Treasurer of the United States.
Mr. John Witz

for W. T. Tucker
Mr. John Witz - Care of David Peterson Esq. Danville - Pennsylvania.

John Nitz
10869 Columbia
604
Not entitled
8444-85
P May 20
Filed with J. Nitz papers

Columbia County Set
District of Pennsylvania
On the ninth day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas held in Danville for the County of Columbia, being a court of record, proceeding according to the course of Common Law, with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amounts, and keeping a record of its proceedings John Mitz aged fifty nine years resident in Columbia County in said district, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declarations, in order to obtain the Provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, and 1st of May 1820, that he served in the Revolutionary War in the Company commanded by Biles Captain in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Sharp, and has obtained a Pension under the Act of the 18th of March 1818 his Certificate being numbered 16,869 and dated eighth day of May 1820 - And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it, as to bring myself within the Provisions of an act of Congress, "entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person, in trust for me any property, securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed by me.
Schedule of Property
John Mitz
   $ cts     40 acres of Land with a house on it situate on the foot of Mahoning Creek in Mahoning township Columbia County & State of Pennsylvania, worth $10.00 per acre 400 00   one old cow 25 years old - - - - - 5 00   one Cow 21 years old - - - - - 12 00   one feather Bed & Bedding - - - - - 10 00   two rope Beds & frames - - - - - 1 00   4 Hote hogs - - - - - 21 00   one Tea Kettle, one Pot, one Iron Snake oven - - - - - 8 00   one Spinning wheel and reel - - - - - 1 50   one old plough & Harrows, (also also) - - - - - 2 00   one old axe, one old hoe, one pitch fork - - - - - " 50   one Pair Iron Shovel & Tongs - - - - - " 50   one large Shovel with wooden handle - - - - - 50   one old Shave nearly worn out - - - - - 2 25   one old Bible & Psalter Some Greens Ware & Pewter Spoons - - - - - 2 00   one Mammels - - - - - 20   one old Chest wooden - - - - - 1 00   one old Table - - - - - " 50   $ 444 85  

I have a Pension under the act of the 18th of March 1818, my Certificate being numbered and dated as within mentioned, I have no property due to me and owing to different individuals about Two hundred Dollars, I am by trade a Mason, but owing to bodily infirmities am now, and have been for a number of years, unable to work at my trade, and am unable to support myself, none of my family reside with me now but my wife and daughter
John Fritz
I swear to and declare by John Fritz on the ninth day of August 1820
Before the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County District of Pennsylvania Geo. H. Frick Proth.
Columbia County
I, Geo. H. Frick Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County, Pennsylvania, Do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copies from the Records of the said Court - And I do hereby Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the Property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Four hundred and forty four Dollars and eighty five Cents - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this ninth day of August A.D. 1820
Geo. H. Frick Proth.

State of Pennsylvania Columbia County ss
Before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Personally appeared David Petrikin who being sworn according to law saith that he had a certificate in his possession from the Secretary of war granting a pension to John Witz an old soldier of the revolutionary war under the act of Congress of 15 th May 1818 and by virtue of said certificate he as agent & attorney in fact received the pension for the use and benefit of said John Witz until he was deprived of it by a supplement to the original act which specified an amount of property the holding of which was assigned as a reason for discontinuing the payment of the pension to said Witz - That this deponent made an attempt to get Witz reinstated & failed and that the certificate first granted was delivered by this deponent to some person with a view to getting said reinstatement but to whom this deponent does not recollect with certainty - This deponent is certain that the certificate granted was to the same John Witz who is now applying for a pension under the late act of Congress and further saith not
sworn & subscribed April 19 th 1833 before me
Russell H. Stockton J.P.
David Petrikin $11

State of Pennsylvania Columbia County ss
Personally appeared Isaac Ulrich before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County and on his oath saith that he has made diligent search for a paper purporting to be a certificate of Pension granted to John Witz an old soldier of the revolutionary war under the act of Congress of 15 th May 1820 - That he has not been able to find said paper either among the papers of said John Witz or elsewhere. That said search was made at the request of the said John Witz who by reason of his age is very infirm - That this deponent has reason to believe that said certificate is lost - That this deponent found among the papers of the said John Witz the papers hereto annexed marked (A), (B), (C).
Sworn & subscribed April 19 th 1833 before me Rudolph Schuler J.P.
J. F. Ulrich
State of Pennsylvania Columbia County ss
I Jacob Eyerly Prothonotary of the County of Common Pleas of Columbia County aforesaid do certify that Rudolph Schuler Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits of David Peterson & J. F. Ulrich were taken was at the time Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Columbia his aforesaid duly Commissioned as such & to all whose Official acts as such due faith & credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere, & that the signature of Rudolph Schuler as written to the foregoing affidavits is the proper hand writing of the said Rudolph Schuler Esq. in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court at Danville the 19 th day of April A.D. 1833.
Jacob Eyerly Proth ry