Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5818, for Andrew Keisinger, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
★ Keisinger, Andrew or Kiesinger
R. 5818
CONTENTS

Andrew Keisinger Indiana
Rejected. did not serve six months during Re-g war, see letter 20 June 1882, to D. R. Eckels.
5818

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
5-818
P. O.
Andrew Leisinger
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: REJECTED _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

31. 25 c
Andrew Keisinger's Indiana Pension Declaration Act of June 7 th 1832.
D. R. Eckels p. g. Spencer, Owen Co. Indiana.

State of Indiana Owen County ss.
Owen Probate Court May Term 1834
On this thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon John Duran Sole Judge of Owen Probate Court now sitting; Andrew Weisinger a resident of Owen County aforesaid aged 77 years, 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 entered the service under the of the United States under the following named officers and served as here in stated to wit, That at the County of Green brier in the State of Virginia he volunteered in the month of September in the year 1774 in the Company commanded by Captain John Vevis in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Andrew Vevis. That they rendezvoused at Newburg, and from thence were marched Westwardly to the Ohio River to a fort called Point Pleasant situated at the mouth of the Kan haway River, to guard the frontier inhabitants against the hostile Indians. That they arrived at the fort about the first of October of the same year they set out, and had tarried there but about one week, when they were attacked by a body of Shawnee Indians about sunrise on the 10 th day of October, and the battle lasted till about sun setting of the same day, a good many were killed and wounded on both sides, but most on the side of the Indians, the Indians gave way, and retreated across the Ohio above the mouth of the Kan haway on rafts of timber prepared for that purpose. That in this war he served not less than two months but does not now know for what term of time, the trip was undertaken, they were discharged at Point Pleasant by their Colonel, but he believes their discharge was verbal, if it was written he has forgotten that fact.
That in the fall of the year 1776 he again volunteered in the company

Commanded by Captain John Henderson, whose company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Colonel William Arbuckle, for a tour of three months, that they rendezvoused at Lewisburg aforesaid, and were then marched again to Point Pleasant, during this tour eight Indians came to the fort and pretended friendship with us, among whom was an Indian King by the name of Cornstock, four of their number were detained as hostages, soon after an Army came on past the fort in pursuit of the Indians, and the son  son of old Cornstock came in to our camp the same time; and as some of the soldiers were hunting across the Kanawha one of them was killed by the Indians, which being known in camp the five Indians then with us were immediately put to death but he thinks it was done without the orders of the officers. They remained here till their term of service expired and they were again discharged as before.
That at the County of Greenbrier aforesaid he a third time volunteered, in the company of Captain John Wood in the Regiment of Colonel Duck, in the spring of the year 1779 that as near as applicant now recollects, they again rendezvoused at Lewisburg, and from thence were marched across the New River, and  the  the  the into the interior of Kentucky, and from thence remarched back home that during this tour they had no engagement, that it was two months from the time they left Lewisburg till they returned to Virginia, but applicant thinks they were only engaged to go for one month, they were a third time discharged as before, that after this he was in the campaign of Logans and others but for which he is informed he is not entitled to pay as yet.
That his memory is very much impaired by reason of his age, and he is not able to say whether or not in either of the above tours of service there was with them any General or other officer superior in the command to the Colonels aforesaid, that the dates of his services are given to the best of his recollection, that he cannot give them

more definitely than he has done, that his services aforesaid were all performed as a volunteer, that a part of the other soldiers were drafted. That he served as aforesaid not less than six months actively and to the entire satisfaction of his officers, and for which he claims a pension as a soldier of the Revolution.
That he was born in Van Carter County Pennsylvania on the 25 th day of December 1756. That he has no record of his age, his account is traditional. That he moved to Greenbrier County Va. when about 10 years of age, and continued to live there till after the close of the Revolutionary war, he afterwards moved to Giles, and then to Montgomery Counties in Virginia, thence he moved to Knox County Tennessee, thence to Granger County, thence to Monroe County Indiana, and thence to Owen County aforesaid where he now resides, that he lived in Virginia as aforesaid till about the year 1815. in Tennessee about 10 years in Indiana about 8 years past. That his discharges he thinks were all verbal, his memory retaining no trace of their being otherwise, that he knows of no person by whom he can prove his services, and has no documentary evidence of the same. That he has stated the names of as many of his officers as he can state, and the times, places & as fully as he recollects them. That his first declaration is so lost or mislaid that he cannot procure the same to return here with, at this time. That he hereby relinquishes every claim except the present to a pension or annuity and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State in the Union.
Sworn to and subscribed
Andrew K Kiesinger mark
the date first written Test J. C. Johnson C.M.R.
We Joseph G. Stevenson and Jacob Winkler — (There being no Clergyman in the neighborhood) residing in the same neighborhood and being well acquainted with Andrew Kiesinger who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration for a pension do hereby certify that we believe him to be of the age of 77 years past, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides.
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to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Joseph G. Stevenson Jacob E. Winkler
Sworn to and subscribed
The date first written. Test
J. C. Johnson C.R.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of 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 Joseph G. Stevenson and Jacob E. Winkler who has also signed and sworn to the proceeding are residents of the same neighborhood with said Andrew Heisinger and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Dunn
Sole Judge of Owen Probate Court.
Test. J. C. Johnson C.R.
I Thomas C. Johnson Clerk of the Owen Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Andrew Heisinger for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this day of May 1834.
T. C. Johnson C.R. P.C. Sal.