Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6066, for John Schultz, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Schultz, John
8,6066
CONTENTS
carded

Virginia 2457-
John Schultz
of Fred. in the State of Virginia who was a Private in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by Col. Morgan in the Virginia line for 1 3/4 years from 1795
Note of death and on 82-
Inserted on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 20 - Dollars - Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Copy of Pension issued the 27 th day of Oct. 31- Winchester, Va. and sent to L. Burk
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1831 - 75.- Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar: 32 25.- $100.-
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice - Clerk Book 2 Vol. 7 Page 127

N o 3465
John Schultz
Declaration

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832
State of Virginia
Frederick County, ss.
On this 5 th day of August 1832 personally appeared before the Court of Frederick County John Schultz a resident of Winchester in the County aforesaid in the State of Virginia aged seventy nine years the 3 rd day of December next, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the Rifles company commanded by Capt. (afterwards Genl) Daniel Morgan early in July 1775. John Humphreys was the first Lieutenant, William Bell the 2 d Lieutenant and Peter Brum the Ensign. He marched in the said company from Winchester in a few days afterwards, to Cambridge in Massachusetts, through the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut. at Cambridge they joined the main army under General Washington, and stayed there and at Roxbury near Boston two or three weeks. They then joined a detachment under Col. Arnold, and marched to Newburyport, and there took shipping and sailed to Kennebec river and up that river to Fort Western, where they took boats, and went up the river as far as they could join boats, and then marched through the wilderness to Canada, and on to the River St. Lawrence, and then to nearly opposite to Quebec, and stayed there a short time. They then crossed the river in the night, and moved up to Abraham's plain; after remaining there a few days they heard that General Montgomery with his Army was coming, and our troops march to meet them, and did meet them at or near a place called Sorel. From thence they marched to the vicinity of Quebec, and quartered about in the neighbourhood until the 31 st day of December 1775, when the assault on Quebec was made and General Montgomery fell, and when that part of the Army which was under the command of Arnold, who attacked the lower town, were taken prisoners, among whom.

where the said Schulty was, he remained a prisoner at Quebec until November 1776 when he and his fellow prisoners, were set at liberty, upon their parole, and the part of the prisoners, that he was with were sent by water to New York, from thence he went on to Pennsylvania where he remained until the next spring or summer before he returned to Cincinnati he was not relieved from his parole by an exchange until the summer of 1777, he does not recollect the month, but it was, at least two years after he entered the service, before he was exchanged.
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in Open Court T. D. Frazier C.F.C.
John Schulty
And the said Court doth hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states:
I Thomas M c Intire, Clerk of the Court of Frederick County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Schulty for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Office this 10 th day of August 1832 and in the 57 th Year of the Commonwealth. T. D. Frazier

June 13, 1933
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John Schultz-S.6066
BA-J/AWF
Mr. B.Van H. Schultz Center Lovell Maine
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to the Revolutionary War pensioner, John Schultz of Winchester, Virginia.
The data given below were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 6066, based upon the Revolutionary War service of John Schultz.
He was born December 3, 1753, place not given, nor are the names of his parents stated.
While residing in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, John Schultz enlisted early in July, 1775 and served in Captain Daniel Morgan's Rifle Company of Virginia troops, marched to Boston, where they joined a "detachment under Colonel Arnold" and marched to Quebec, was in the siege of Quebec, and taken prisoner, December 31, 1775 and held at Quebec until in November, 1776, when released on parole, returned home and exchanged in the summer of 1777.
John Schultz was allowed pension on his application executed, August 9, 1832, then a resident of Winchester, Virginia.
There are no data in this claim relative to his family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

State of Virginia
Frederick County to wit:
On the 21 st day of November 1832 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid John Shultz a resident of the Town of Winchester, and an applicant for a pension from the United States under the Act of June 7 th 1832, and being first sworn according to Law, deposeth and saith that . . . . he entered the service of the United States the 1 st or 2 nd day of July 1775 in the Riflemen's Company commanded by Capt. Daniel Morgan, under an engagement for one year, and served as stated in his declaration, including the time he was a prisoner, and while on parole, until the summer of 1777, making in all two years or upwards, that when he entered the service he furnished himself with a rifle and the necessary accoutrements, which were taken from him at Saratoga and never returned, and that he has never received any compensation for them they were worth at least fifty dollars. Given under my hand the day and year first above written.
J. Shultz
Thomas Allen Sidbale clerk of the Court of Frederick County certify that John Shultz Esq r is as a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office, and subscribed my name. This 21 st day of November in the year 1832.
T. A. Sidbale clerk of the Court of Frederick County.

State of Virginia Corporation of Winchester ss.
Henry W. Walker a resident of the corporation aforesaid, aged seventy two years, this day appeared before me Mayor of the said corporation, who being first sworn according to law, deponeth and saith, that he resided in Winchester in the year 1775, and did at that time, and has ever since known John Schults and Peter Laukt of the same place. That he well recollects, that Daniel Morgan, since Genl. Morgan, marched from Winchester in the year 1775, the month he does not recollect, with a company of riflemen to the north, and that the said John Schults and Peter Laukt belonged to and marched with the said company, and that he remembers when they returned having been absent between one and two years. That he was also acquainted with several of their companions, and has heard from them, as well as from the latter Schults and Laukt, that they marched to Bunker, were there taken prisoners, at the time General Montgomery was killed, and that they were retained there as prisoners for many months. And I do hereby certify, that the said Henry W. Walker is a gentleman of respectability and veracity.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the said corporation to be affixed the 11 th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
John W. Walker, Mayor

Peter Laureck & John Schultzy

Virginia
Frederick County to wit
On this 21 st day of November 1832 personally appeared before me a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid John Grinn a resident of the town of Winchester in the said County aged upwards of seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth depose and say, that he has been a resident of the town of Winchester from the time of his birth to the present time that he was intimately acquainted with Peter Leucht and John Schultz in the year 1775; and well remembers the time that they volunteered in the service of the United States in a company of Riflemen raised in Winchester in the early part of the summer in that year, deponent's brother Charles Grinn having joined the Company at the same time. The Company was commanded by Capt. Daniel Morgan, afterwards Genl. Morgan, that he well recollects that they marched from Winchester in the early part of July. They engaged to serve one year that he also recollects, the time when the Company returned which was late in the fall of the year 1776, or early in the winter 1777. He understood from his brother and some of the other members of the Company when they returned, that they were on parole, and that he knows that they did not do militia duty until several months after their return; and that he is satisfied that it was, at least two years, he thinks more from the time that they entered the service until they were exchanged. And I do certify that John Grinn the deponent is a person of credibility. Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid.
Wm H. Kirk
I, John Harkness, a justice of the peace for the County of Frederick, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, do hereby certify that I am aged 57 years; that I have known the above named officer, John Grinn, for a period of 40 or 45 years; that he was a man of good character and of good reputation, the not inconsistent

declared - For many years I have been known that at the age of 10 or 12 I was sent from the New England (my native State) to reside in this place (Winchester) that I lived at, or part with Peter Leach, and at the farm with a son, and a new relation of mine, for several years; - that I have heard from recent times without relation to the person in the reputation which the name of Leach has, under the command of General, then Captain David Morgan; - that the account which he has given me of the battle I have given of the near relation of the battle parties, marchings, & circumstances, have no correspondence with the facts set forth in the declaration; - and I for the reason that the said Peter Leach & the Society have not been furnished in our community for the party & circumstances of this claim Town - Given at Winchester this 28 th Nov 1832 -
M. H. Harkness
I Thomas Allen District Clerk of the Court of Frederick County, certify that John Harkness Esq. is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name, this 21 st day of November in the year 1832.
T. Allen
Clerk of the Court of Frederick County.

John Schultz-
from 1 July 1775 to 1 Nov 1776
1 yr. & 3 months. private, $60.
$50.
L. Bart. Winchester Va.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Schultz which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? no. should state for what length of time he enlisted. VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. †If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? And is the official character and signature of the magistrate certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH SMITH COLLEGE NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS
9. Oct. 1912
Hon. J. L. Davenport Commissioner of Pensions, Washington.
Dear Sir: In reply to your courteous answer to my former letter, received on the 5th, I beg to say that the Jacob Sperry, Revolutionary soldier, whose military history I wish is
Jacob Sperry, private in Captain Daniel Morgan's rifle company, taken prisoner at Bennington, who died, your report, April 3, 1808.
Wid. File No. 3470. Rev. War Widow, Elizabeth, or Catherine Elizabeth. I may say that the wife is named 'Elizabeth' in Jacob Sperry's Will, dated Nov. 5, 1807. On her tombstone in Mt Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Catherine

is certainly the first Christian name.
In all the histories of Winchester, six of Morgan's riflemen are singled out as the "Dutch Mess." They were Germans, or French Huguenots from the Palatinate, who met together during the Revolution. After the close of the War they organized a Society, which met every year, on the Anniversary of the defeat at Quebec, to commemorate their common experiences as Morgan's riflemen. The Society continued in existence as long as there were survivors of Morgan's men. Mr W. G. Russell, of Winchester, who died in 1893, aged 93, a grandson of William Greenway, one of Morgan's riflemen, said he knew some of the Dutch Mess as a young man. The names he gave to Mr Norris, for

his "History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley", are Jacob Sperry John Schultz Charles Grim Frederick Kurtz Peter Lauck Simon Lauck
In T. K. Cartmell's "Pioneers of the Shenandoah Valley", the names are
Jacob Sperry John Schultz Charles Grim Peter Lauck Simon Lauck ... Heiskell
Five names are the same in the two histories, -
Jacob Sperry John Schultz Charles Grim Peter Lauck Simon Lauck
The man named Heiskell

must have been Peter Lauck's brother-in-law, Adam Heiskell, who was wounded at Quebec. His Christian name escaped Mr Cartnell probably because he moved from Winchester to Romney, where he died, leaving descendants.
I request you to send me the military history, in addition to Jacob Sperry's, of
Peter Lauck, Rev. Pensioner
John Schultz, Rev. Pensioner.
Also, if your files contain them, the military histories
of Simon Lauck, Morgan rifleman
Charles Grim, Morgan rifleman
Frederick Kurtz " "
Adam Kurtz (?) " "
Adam Heiskell " "
Yours very truly,
Mary Augusta Scott
Professor of the English Language and Literature, in Smith College

Rev. h. n.
6066
INVALID.
File No. 6066
John Schultz Si Rio war
Act: June 1 st 1851
Index:—Vol. M , Page 332
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1912 Oct. 10 - Fish. at San R. Scott S. L. M. 1933 - June 13 - fish to P. Van H. Schultz and J.
and '7 M.E.G.

B. VAN H. SCHULTZ CENTER LOVELL MAINE
May 31st 1933
Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:-
Will you kindly send me, at your early convenience, a copy of the pension record, and any data available concerning the services in the Revolution of my great-grandfather John Schultz of Winchester, Virginia.
I desire this information in order to complete an application for membership in the Sons of the Revolution and I have been advised by the Registrar of the S. R. that it is necessary to give some reference to original documents listing his service.
John Schultz was born in (or near) Philadelphia December 2, 1753 and died in Winchester, Virginia November 5, 1840. Our family traditions and word-of-mouth history is to the effect that John Schultz was one of Morgan's Virginia Rifleman and that he marched with Morgan in Arnold's Campaign to Canada and that he was captured in the attack on Quebec, December 31 1775. The Registrar of the S. R. requires a more definite record and advises me that John Schultz' name appears in the Virginia lists of Soldiers of the Revolution but that no service is given, though a pension is referred to as of 1835.
Any help you may be able to give me in order that I may be enabled to complete my papers of application will be deeply appreciated, and if you will advise me I shall be pleased to remit any sum to cover clerical or research costs in this connection. Trusting to hear from you soon, I am
Very truly yours,
Bernard van Horne Schultz

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of _____ a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1772 1775-1783 Private Daniel Morgan Colonel Va.  
Battles engaged in, _____  Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____  Date of application for pension, _____  Residence at date of application, _____  Age at date of application, _____  Remarks: _____
Very respectfully,
Grant
Commissioner.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
W. S.
Bureau of Pensions,
U.S.G.
Washington, D. C., April 30, 1895.
Sir:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of --- John Schultz --- a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.      In July, 1775, he joined the Rifle company commanded by Capt. Daniel Morgan, and marched to Cambridge, Mass., where he soon joined the detachment of troops under Gen. Arnold and proceeded to Quebec; taken prisoner on Dec. 31, 1775, and detained at Quebec until Nov., 1776, when he was released on parole and returned to Winchester, Va.   
Battles engaged in, As above. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Probably, Winchester, Va. Date of application for pension, August 9, 1832. Residence at date of application, Winchester, Va. Age at date of application, 79 years on December 3, 1832.
Remarks:
Very respectfully, Bernard Van Horne Schultz, Esq.,
P. O. Box 117,
Commissioner.
184816
Zanesville, Ohio.