Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3348, for Frederick Keefer, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Keifer Frederick Keifer
W 3348
Anna Maria
CONTENTS

1358
Pennsylvania Philad Anna M. Heifer widow of Frederick Heifer
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Munition Sergeant
Pennsylvania Line Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of August 1846 and sent to
J. Zeigler Pension Office
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 240 Vol. 2,
Hon D. H. Robinson, Feb'y 28, 1857- Reported
1888 Tuney W. K. Verbeke that the child can only obtain a gratuity from special act of Congress

Recd Oct 20 Augt 38 John P. Bucher.
3975 Pennsylvania
Frederick Keefer
of Dauphin Co in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Drummer in the Company — commanded by Captain Fisher of the Key Stone Battery by Wintriss in the Pennsylvania line for Longstreet's Corps ————— $145.00 Drummers 15 " ————— 55.00 $100.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 100 Dollars ————— Rev per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of January 1833 and just to Hon. J. C. Bucher House Reps.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 ————— $150.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 — 50.00
$200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Book D
Vincent Luce Clerk, Vol. 6 Page 65

No 6374
Penny to annu
Leep. 24 Dec. 1832
Obj. 4, 5, 13, 16.
Honble J. B. Buckner Hd of Rep't.
A om?
9 mo. Sergeant 45.00 15 " Drummer 55.00
$100
P-175
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BRIEF in the case of Fredrick Keefer of Harrisburg County of Dauphin 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? 75.  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.     1774 or Spring In 1775 5 4 6 Drummer Gen. St. Clair , capt. Fisher Capt. Bush & Shoemaker Capt. Weaver . capt. Moore Col. Winterroth  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? York County Pennsylvania
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional. He says he forwarded to Washington by the Hon. Morris Green in 1827 & were lost, Papers proving his services.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective. He does not relinquish his Pension, which he receives from the State of Pennsylvania, Papers not attached. I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Wilson Examining Clerk.

ERBEKE. City Controller. Room A, Trust Building.
Department of Finance.
City of Harrisburg, Pa.
May 28, 1888
Hon Sec'y War, Dear Sir,
Miss Angelina Reifer, the youngest child of the late Frederick Reifer a soldier of the War of the Revolution, as she is in very indigent circumstances, and from her advanced age, is at the present time unable to make a living, and being alone and without any friends to render assistance, she feels that she has a claim upon the government through the services of her father given to the country, (in this her time of need), and for this purpose I address these lines to you, asking as a favor to her that you please inform me, in what way proceeding may  should be commenced to make application

for a pension. Her father Frederick Reufer his widow Anna Maria Reufer and after his death, drew pensions. Under several acts, the last of which were March 3, 1843, Feb 2, 1848 and were paid by the agent of the United States for paying pensions in Philadelphia Pa.
Very Respectfully
W. R. Verelke

Penn a
FREE
Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7, 1838.
State of Pennsylvania } ss. County of Dauphin }
On this twenty seventh day of October A.D. 1843 personally appeared before the Subscribed Justice of the peace of said County  Ann Maria Keefer a resident of Harrisburg in the county of Dauphin, Penn a aged about seventy four years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Frederick Keefer who was a Drummer & Sergeant in the army of the Revolution
and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7, 1838, was
One hundred dollars.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
W. Kline J.P. Dauphin County  Ann Maria Keefer
State of Pennsylvania } ss. County of Dauphin }
Harrisburg Oct. 27. 1843
I, William Kline a Magistrate in the county above named, do hereby certify, that I have the most satisfactory evidence, viz. my own personal knowledge, that Ann Maria Keefer who this day appeared before me, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Given under my hand at Harrisburg on the day and year above written.
W. Kline
Dauphin County Sct.
State of Pennsylvania
I, John A. Weir Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county, certify that W. Kline Esquire 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 27th day of October in the year 1843 -
John A. Weir Prothy H. Kline
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr. of Pensions Washington

Harrisburg Oct. 27. 1843
Dr Sir You will please forward the certificate as soon as possible to this place, directed either to my Mother A. M. Sheffer or to myself Andrew Raper

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State of Pennsylvania
Dauphin County ss,
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County Frederick Keefer who being duly sworn deposed and saith that by reason of old age and 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 three years and Six Months I served as a Volunteer Drummer and fifer - For two years I served as a drum major Major Volunteer - For three Months I served as a substitute in the Militia for my father Frederick Keefer, and for Nine Months I served as a Recruiting Sergeant - all during the Revolutionary War - and for such Services I claim a pension - Given under my hand this 4th day of Jan y 1833 before me J. Montgomery Ap. 1 Dec 1833
State of Pennsylvania
Dauphin County ss
I John Roberts Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County do Certify that James Montgomery Esq before whom the foregoing deposition of Frederick Keefer was taken was at the time of the taking thereof and still is one of the justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified and that to all his acts as such full faith and credit ought to be given as well in courts of justice as elsewhere. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court at Harrisburg this fourth day of January ad 1833.
Jno. Roberts Clerk

Dauphin County ss.
Whereas the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid personally came Irnis Green Esq. who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose & say that Fred. R. Rife delivered to him certain Original papers to take on to Washington City in the Fall of 1829, to procure from the said Frederick Rife a pension for services rendered during the revolutionary War. That this deponent took the said papers with him to Washington & to the best of his knowledge & belief he either took or sent them to the Pension Office at Washington for the above purpose. When he thinks he left them, for on searching his papers they cannot be found -
Sworn & subscribed April 11. 1832 before J. Montgomery
Irnis Green

State of Pennsylvania Dauphin County ss
On the twentyfirst day of August in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County aforesaid now sitting Frederick Keefer a Resident of the Borough of Harrisburg in the County of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania aforesaid aged (as he believes) Seventy four or Seventy five 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 of the United States under the following named Officer, and served as herein stated -
He entered into the service as near as he recollects in the Year 1774 or in the spring of 1775 as a drummer in the Volunteers companies in York County in the State of Pennsylvania, and served as a drummer to Volunteers, Militia, and as a drummer with the Recruiting parties for five or six years in succession, that he kept no account or memorandum and does not recollect precisely the time at which he entered the Service - That the first company for which he acted as drummer, was commanded by Lieutenant Henry Miller, (afterwards General Miller) and — Hartley afterwards (colonel Hartley) both then of the Town of York in the State of Pennsylvania aforesaid - As Richard McAlister was also either an Officer or private of the Company - Deponent believes that this Company which was composed of a few men acted rather as a Recruiting party, or a party to rouse the people throughout the Country, and to procure the Organization of them into Companies, &c - Sometime afterwards a Company was formed at Littlestown in York County aforesaid Deponent believes of drafted men, and organised, and put under the command of Captain Thomas Fisher - Claimant as marched with this Company as their drummer from York County aforesaid to Long Island in the State of New York - that soon after the arrival of the Company at Long Island the claimant was sent back to York County to assist the Recruiting parties - Claimant still continued in the Service as a drummer to Captain Bush and also to Captain Shoemaker both of whom whom were recruiting Officers in York and Lancaster Counties in the State of Pennsylvania, Claimant believes that one of said Captain was from Berks and the other from Bucks County in Pennsylvania

Claimant believes that he served with Captain Pugh and Shoemaker several months - Claimant entered the service as he believes of the United States again (immediately after his discharge by Captain Pugh & Shoemaker) under the Command of Captain John Weaver who was a Recruiting Officer, Claimant marched with Captain Weaver as drummer through part of York County, aforesaid, down into the State of Maryland, and returned to Lancaster in Pennsylvania, and from that to York County aforesaid - Claimant believes he was in the service under the command of Captain Weaver from Six to nine Months - Soon afterwards Claimant served as drummer under Colonel Adam Winterroth, who was a Lieutenant Colonel in the "Flying Camp" and under the Command of said Winterroth Winterroth marched through the County of York aforesaid again recruiting men for the Service in the Flying Camp - he believes these men were enlisted for Six Months, Claimant was under the command of Winterroth and served with him for Several Months - Claimant afterwards served as drummer under Captain Henry Moore who was Captain of a Company of Militia raised in York County - and marched with Moores Company to "Camp Security" about two and a half miles below the Town of York aforesaid, Claimant remained there with a part of the Arm under the command of Major Bailey of York aforesaid - assisted in guarding the British prisoners, assisted in building the Stockades at Camp Security and remained there as a drummer for the American Army for several months after the Stockades were built, during part of this time Claimant was under the Command of Major John Adie who succeeded Major Bailey in command - and who was afterwards General Adie - after this Claimant acted occasionally as a Sergeant under the authority of Colonel Winterroth Winterroth, and as such arrested many of those called "Refugees" who infested the Country - Claimant states that Captain Weaver and Moore, Colonel Winterroth, Major Bailey and Adie were all residents of York County aforesaid - To the best of claimants recollection he left the Army about a Year before the Declaration of Peace - During the whole period of service performed by the claimant he was

a Volunteer (except about three months during which he acted as a Substitute for his father Fredk Reeder) Claimant states that he had several discharges from Officers under whose command he served - that he, and many other of his Comrades sold their discharges to the within named Colonel Winteroth -  Claimant states that he believes upon strict enquiry that every Officer herein named is deceased - that he has no documentary Evidence of his service, for having been once in a fluent Circumstances he did not suppose it necessary to preserve his discharges or other evidence of his service And that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to the fact of his service - But the claimant will here state that about the year 1824 he obtained the Certificates of General Henry Miller and General John Adie both of whom were well known in the Revolutionary war - in which General Henry Miller, Certified that he knew the Claimant in Camp in the Revolutionary war for a length of time as a drummer General John Adie (who was during the Revolutionary war taken prisoner at Quebec, confined about twenty months, and after his liberation returned to Adams County in Pennsylvania formerly a part of York County Pennsylvania) Certified that he knew this claimant as a drummer in the Revolutionary war and that he had seen this claimant at Long Island, and also at Brunswick and Trenton in New Jersey - That upon the strength of these Certificates this claimant obtained a pension from the State of Pennsylvania - That these certificates of Documentary evidence of the Services of the claimant in the Revolutionary war, were about the year AD 1827 - put into the hands of Morris Green Esq the Member of Congress from this district to be presented to Congress that these Certificates and other evidence were lost or mislaid by Mr Green and cannot be found as appears by the affidavit of Mr Green hereto annexed -  Claimant has stated above that he has no documentary evidence of his services, and owing to the decease of his Companions he cannot procure the evidence of any person whatever to the proof of his services -  The claimant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Role of the Agency of any State ± with the exception of a pension of forty Dollars annually, which he is entitled to and receives, from the State of Pennsylvania
The Claimant states that the period of the War in which he served was from the spring of the year 1775 till the fall of the year 1781 -

Claimant does not know his age precisely, for after the death of his father the Bible containing the Record of his age was sold, but he believes he was born in the Year 1756 or 1757. in (then) Lancaster, now Lebanon County Pennsylvania, near Jonestown in last said County - When called into service in the Revolutionary war Claimant lived in Littlestown York County (now Adams County) Pennsylvania, and continued to live in said Littlestown from the Revolutionary war until 1813, he then removed to Gettysburg in Adams County aforesaid, and after living there several years, removed to Harrisburg aforesaid where he has lived ever since and where now resides - The claimant states that he is known to a large portion of the Citizens of Harrisburg aforesaid - where he resides, and he will name particularly Henry Colestock Esq; Samuel Pool Esq; Joel Baileys Esq; and the Hon ble John C Bucher who will testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his Services as a soldier of the Revolution -
F. S. Keefer
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and Year first within written In open Court
M c Roberts Proxy
We Henry Colestock, Samuel Pool, Joel Baileys, and John C Bucher residing in the Borough of Harrisburg in the County of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Frederick Keefer who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about Seventy five or Seventy six 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 -
Francis Rolford
Sworn to Subscribed the day and Year aforesaid
In open Court
M c Roberts Proxy
J. C. Bucher
Joel Baileys
Sam l Pool

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 within named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Henry Coles stock, Samuel Pool, Joel Baileys and John Krucher who have signed the preceding Certificate are Residents of the Borough of Harrisburg aforesaid, and are Credible persons and that their Statement is entitled to Credit -
(Blythe)
(Samuel)
James Gowan
State of Pennsylvania Dauphin County ss
I John Roberts Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Frederick Treiber for a pension - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court this twenty first day of August in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two -
John Roberts Protho

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section REL
January 10, 1930
Miss Nita Ann Hudman 2240 South Lincoln Street Denver, Colorado
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.3348, it appears that Frederick Keefer or Keifer, the son of Frederick, was born in 1756 or 1757, near Jonestown, in Lancaster (now later Lebanon) County, Pennsylvania.
While residing in Littlestown, York (later Adams) County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted and served at various times from the spring of 1775 until the fall of 1781, as a drummer and fifer, drum major and recruiting sergeant under Lieutenant Henry Miller, Captains Thomas Fisher, Bush, Shoemaker, John Weaver, Henry Moore, Captain or Colonel Eddy or Adie, Colonels Hartley and Adams Winterroth and Major Bailey. He also stated that he served three months as a substitute for his father, exact dates and officers names not given.
After the Revolution, he lived in Littlestown until 1813, then moved to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and then to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, of which place he was a resident when he was allowed pension on his application executed August 21, 1832.
He died November 6, 1834, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The soldier married February 10, 1789, Ann Maria, Anna Maria or Mary Crouse.
She was allowed pension on her application executed September 6, 1838, at which time she was aged seventy years and a resident of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

In 1843, a son, Andrew Keefer, was living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
There are no further family data.
Very truly yours
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

Frederick Keuper Pa auto 7 June 1832 to what time paid & Pa Offin Sep 10, '38
Due 6 th Nov 1834 p d to that Period JH

Harrisburg August 17th 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
Mrs Keifer, widow of Frederick Keifer, wishes to claim the benefit of the law passed 7th July 1838 — and for the purpose of making out her case, she respectfully solicits, a transcript from the War Department, of the application there on record of her said Husband Frederick Keifer, now deceased, on which a pension certificate was granted, and if my memory serves me, was handed to me whilst in Congress in the early part of the winter 1833 — your immediate attention to this is requested, as our Court will be in session next week, when her claims, can be made out, and forwarded
respectfully
Your fellow Citizen
John C. Pucher
* F. Keifer served in the Pennsylvania line, and lived in Adams Co. near Gettysburg, where he rendered service to his country, during the revolutionary war

Warrington
Feb 5/39
Dear Sir
Yours of the 3 rd is recd. respecting the papers of Mr. Raper &c. I have just been with Mr. Bucher, he says the department will give Certified copies of such papers as we need - viz Mr. McSherry letter - and also of the Mr. Bucher's letter and statement, and of all others; her affidavit &c - if they can be procured have them immediately as the Session is drawing towards its close
Hon. L. Rely -
Yrs Christine Shaw

let 9 Feb 1839 Hon L. Reily.
Paid at the Treasury under the Acts of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 March 1839 to 4 March 1840. Age Notified 25 Feb 1841
let 24 Sept 1841 J. C. Bu- cher
to Hon. Mr. Ramsey Dec 14. 1843
1292 2  Pennsylvania.
Anna M. Keifer widow of Frederick Keifer decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 6 th November 1834 at Lancaster in the State of Penna. who was a 1 st Sgt in the company commanded by Captain Fisher of the Regt. commanded by Col. McIntosh in the Pa. line for 9 mos Sgt 15 " Drummer
Inscribed on the Roll of Pa at the rate of 100 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of Sept. 1838 and sent Hon. J. C. Buener Lancaster Pa
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept 1838 $257.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 39, 57.00
$ 314.00
{ Act July 7, } { 1838. }
Recorded by H. H. Addison Clerk Book A. Vol. 2 nd Page 156

4204.
Pennsylvania, Phila. 2
Anna M. Keifer
widow of Frederick Keifer
who was a Drummer & Sergeant
in the Revolution
Rep?
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of Jan. 1844 and sent to Hon. John C. Bucher Harrisburg, Penn.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1. Page 134.

House of Rept Feby 8 th 1839
Hon J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions }
Dear Sir
I am sorry to trouble you but it appears I cant avoid it I have inclosed a letter from Mr Shank closing me to procure Certified Copies of the Pension pap- ers of Mr Keffer, If it is cost many for your Department to furnish them, I will be thankful to you for them
Yours truly L. Riley

House of Rept Feby 12th 1839
Hon J. L. Edwards
Dear Sir
In answer to your letter of last evening I beg leave to inform you that Mr Shunk wants the papers relating to Frederick Keefers Pension. They intend to make application to our Legislature for a Pension for the old Lady
Yours truly
L Riley

Harrisburg September 22 nd 1842
Pension Office Department
At the request of Mrs M. A. Kiefer, Widow of Frederick Kiefer a Revolutionary pensioner dec d who received the Five years pension, under the Law, Approved July 8 th 1838, which expired in March 1841 when her certificate of pension, was returned to pension Office in Philadelphia — I respectfully ask now for her the benefit of the Act Approved August 23 rd — 1842 declaration of the pension acts of July 7 th 1838, by the forwarding to her another certificate of pension, or communicating to me, what may now be deemed necessary on her part, to entitle her to receive the benefits, contemplated by said law — it was with much regret for the claims of another Widow Mrs Toops, whose papers I forwarded in 1840, that the law just passed, did not contemplate her case, or the case of any applicant whose claims, arise from Widowhood after the expiration of the original law — it seems to be very hard, that this invidiousness is made, I hope Congress will soon remove that obstacle, and meet out to this worthy portion of our Community, an equal hand of justice —
Will the Department give the above application an early attention as possible, as the Widow K. is infortunate
Most respectfully John C. Pucher

Harrisburg September 7th 1838
Pension Department
Washington City
Inclosed is the application of Anna Maria Keefer, widow of Frederick Keefer late a Revolutionary pensioner deceased, for the benefit of the pension law passed July 7th 1838 — which it is to be hoped will prove satisfactory — the Department must be aware of the difficulty, and almost impossibility of an aged female giving much testimony, as to the service of her late husband — whilst a member of the 22nd Congress, I received from your department the certificate of pension due to Mr Keefer, and I aided him, until his death in procuring his pension — that the present applicant is his widow, and that the proof of her marriage to him in 1789 is made as plain and certain, as an incident of so long standing, can well be expected to be proven — should the testimony, be not satisfactory, and the additional proof required be sent on immediately, we will be enabled to get before the Court, which will remain in session a few days next week — most respectfully
John C. Bucher

Home of Rich Feb 24 th 1857
Sir
Will you be kind enough to answer the within questions as far as you can - and forward the same to me
Your resp se
D. F. Pillsbury
Hon. G. E. Welles

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 28 th 1841.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Anna M. Heifer, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia P. a Agency, at the rate of One hundred Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1839, to the 4 th March 1840.
Respectfully yours,
William H. Castle Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Frederick Keifer or Keifer W. F. 3348
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1774 or Spring 1775 Served at various times until Fall of 1781 Drummer & Fifer Thomas Fisher Hartley Penn.   Drum-Major Bush Adam Winterott   Recruiting Sgt Shemaker   John Weaver   Henry Moore   Capt. or Col. Eddy   He was Son of Frederick Keifer  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Littlestown York Co. wh. was later Adams Co. Penn.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 21, 1832. His cl. al.
Residence at date of application, Harrisburg Dauphin Co. Penn.
Age at date of application, { born in 1756 or 1757 near Jonestown in Lebanon Co. then Lancaster Co. Penn. died Nov. 6, 1834 at Harrisburg, Penn. }
Remarks: _____
Soldier married Ann Maria or Mary Brown Feb. 10, 1789. She was allowed pension on an application executed Sept. 6, 1838 as a resident of Harrisburg Pa. aged 70 years. A son Andrew was a resident of Harrisburg Pa. in 1843. Very respectfully,

2240 South Lincoln Street
Denver, Colorado
November 13, 1929
Pension Bureau Washington, D. C
Dear Sirs:
Will you please send me or inform me as to how to obtain any information contained in the Pension Department concerning the following -
neg FREDERICK KEEFER - of Germany Township York County, Pennsylvania served for two months at Camp Security, under Capt. Henry Moore, 5th Class, 7th Battalion, York County, Pennsylvania. Frederick Keefer received depreciation pay for service in the York County Militia."
This is all the information I have on this man. I am especially interested in finding out when and where he was born; if he was married; children; physical description, etc.
Yours most sincerely,
(Miss) Nita Ann Hudman NITA ANN HUDMAN

3348
Frederick Keifer
Aug 25-1832
Harrisburg Pa 74
Spng 75. Pa Littlestown St. Hy. Miller Col Hartley
Capt Thos Fisher " Shoemaker " Bush
Adam Col Winteroth Served to Fall 1781 No Bat
Married Anna Maria Groose Feb 10, 1789
Died Nov 6-1804

Rev. Ward Newton, Kansas
July 20. 1915 Stumped. enq. retd - w Commissioner of Pensions. Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly send me, in duplicate form, what infor- mation you can in reference to Fredk. Keefer, a drummer with the Pennsylvania troops during the Revolutionary War.

I know he received a pension, so feel sure that it must be recorded.
Most sincerely Yours Katherine Keifer Whyte

Over
133, East 17 th St.
New York City
28 May, 1900.
Chief of Pension Bureau, -
Dear Sir, -
Will you kindly furnish the data concerning a pensioner, who is an ancestor of mine.
Ann Maria Keeper , who
lived with John J. Black's family in June 1840, in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co. Pennsylvania.
(over)

See volume entitled "Census of Pensioners for Military service" taken for 6 th census, June 1, 1840. Page 113.
Thanking you in advance I am, Yours Respectfully (Mrs.) Frances H. Hres.

NEW YORK SOCIETY
PRESIDENT CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW
VICE-PRESIDENT JOHN C. CALHOUN
SECRETARY G. CREIGHTON WEBB
TREASURER AND REGISTRAR EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
BOARD OF MANAGERS CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW CHARLES A. DANA JOHN C. CALHOUN JAMES OTIS GEORGE S. BOWDOIN HART LYMAN G. CREIGHTON WEBB STUYVESANT FISH LEWIS CASS LEDYARD ALLAN McLANE HAMILTON JOHN WISE C. W. HASKINS WALTER S. LOGAN GEORGE W. VANDERBILT EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL WILLIAM L. BULL
NEW YORK March 29 189 2
The Hon. Commr. of Pensions, Washington D. C. Dear Sir:
Will you be kind enough to inform me if Ann Maria Keefer, widow of Frederick Keefer of Pennsylvania, said to have been a drummer in the Revolutionary Army, received a pension from the U.S. Govt. upon her husband's death. If so, please state said Keefer's services.
I will be happy to remit whatever fee is necessary for securing this information.
I have the honor to be
Your obdt. serv. Edward Hagaman Hall.

Penna. Archives p. 528. Vol. 23. Frederick Keefer or Keefer Drummer & Sergeant. Rev. War. Dauphine Co. Penn. pension in 1833. age 77 years.
May 25, 1911 record Sent to Mrs. M. Moody 5-14 E. 3 rd St. Uhrichsville Ohio Letter returned to her that date W. 3348 ✓
Keefer

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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8348 Anna M. Heifer Widow Frederick Heifer Sp. Rev. War Act: Feb. 2, 1848 Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 390
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Returned from Se Jan 29
1892 May 1 E.H. Hall
June 17-19 Mrs. Francis A. New York City 1911 May 25. Hist. Mrs. H. Moody V. 1915 July 30 Hist. to Kat K. A. Hylte. V. 2. M. Jan 10/1930 - Hist. Miss Nita Ann Aud...

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admitted
J. Zeigler Passin Office

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1848 , 2 d February 1848 entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution,"
State of Pennsylvania } ss. of Dauphin County }
On this seventeenth day of August  1848 personally appeared before the Subscriber a justice of the peace of the Borough of Harrisburg Anna Maria Keefer a resident of said Borough in the county of Dauphin State of Pennsylvania aged about seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1848 , 2 d February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Frederick Keefer who was an Ensign and Drum Major in the Army of the Revolution, in the Pennsylvania line under Captain or Colonel Eddy's team of York County now Adams County Pennsylvania and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7, 1838 , 17 June 1840 was One hundred dollars.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Anna Maria Keefer
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
Henry Beader
State of Pennsylvania } ss. County of Dauphin }
August Seventeenth 1848
I, Henry Beader a Magistrate in the county above named, do hereby certify, that I have the most satisfactory evidence, viz. my own personal knowledge, that Anna Maria Keefer who this day appeared before me, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Given under my hand at Harrisburg on the day and year above written.
Henry Beader
I, William D. Boas Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county, certify that Henry Beader 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 Seventeenth day of August in the year
1848.
William D. Boas
Proty.

eight p.m.
Littleton Pa August the 29
" Mrs. Mary Keefer Harrisburg
Pa
single

15 State of Pennsylvania Dauphin County, ss.
I, George Misk, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, certify, that Anna Maria Keefer widow of Frederick Keefer, deceased, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County, this sixth day of September, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and was duly sworn to the truth of the facts set forth in the foregoing deposition subscribed by her.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, at Harrisburg, this 6 day of September, A.D. 1838.
Geo. Misk Proth.
Dauphin County state of Pennsylvania ss.
On this seventh day of September Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County now in session John C. Bucher Esq. of Harrisburg Pennsylvania who on his solemn oath doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with Frederick Keefer formerly of Adams County Penn a and lately of Harrisburg Penn a deceased; that the said Frederick Keefer was always called a revolutionary soldier and received annually a pension from the United States, the said deponent further says that the said Frederick Keefer died at Harrisburg in November one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, and that Anna Maria Keefer whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deposition is the widow of the said Frederick Keefer, and is still single and unmarried. Sworn & subscribed in open court.
Geo. Misk Proth.
John C. Bucher

Pennsylvania, ss.
In the Name and by the Authority of the Commonwealth OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Joseph Ritner
OF THE SAID COMMONWEALTH.
To all to whom these presents shall come,
Sends Greeting:
Know Ye, That George Will and George Mish Esquires
whose names are subscribed to the instrument of writing hereunto annexed, were at the time of subscribing the same, the former an Associate Judge in and for the county of Adams, and the latter Notary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Dauphin
in the said Commonwealth, duly appointed and commissioned; And full faith and credit ought to be given to their official acts accordingly, and that the attestations to the said instrument are in due form and by the proper officers.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State, at Harrisburg, this sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight and of the Commonwealth the sixty third
By the Governor.
O. Wallace Deputy Sec.

757
Anne Maria Keefer Penn e
Adm l Barnesburg 24 notes. $100.
Wm C. Bucher, Harrisburg, Pa

Adams County Pa } Before me the subscribers said one of the Associate Judges in and for said county personally came John Weikel Esqr who on his oath doth say, that he was pre- sent when Frederick Keefer late of Dauphin County, was married to Mary Grouse does not know the year they were married in but knows it was in the winter that he knew them to live together as man and wife up to the time he said Frederick Keefer left Adams County, during a great part of that time he kept publick room in Littlestown in a house belonging to James McHenry Esqr that he understood when he left Adams County he removed to Harrisburg Pa. Further saith not, known and subscribed this 27 th Aug. A.D. 1838 before me Geo Mill John Weikel
I do hereby certify that there is an entry in the Day Book of my Father for the year 1789 the following entry in the hand writing of Timothy Collins who was his clerk at that time - (Page 229 1789 May 10 th ) 10 th Feb y Frederick Kiefer married they lived some years after words in a house of mine in Littlestown and kept a Tavern They lived together as man & wife from the County then removed to Harrisburg in season to the same before one of the Associate Judges of Adams County the 27 th Aug 1838 1878 Geo Mill James McHenry
Adams County Pa } I certify that the said entry is to the above

the above depositions are men of credibility that full confidence can be placed in their statement made in the foregoing de- positions. and I further certify that I, the entry of Fred k Keefer's Marriage as set forth by James M c Sherry in his father's day day book, that I was well acquainted with Frederick Keefer and his wife whilst they kept tavern in Littleton that town I know they lived as man & wife and that he afterwards moved to Harrisburg Pa Aug! 27- 1838
Geo. Mill
Dauphin County
State of Pennsylvania
On this sixth day of September Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Dauphin now in person Ann Maria Keefer a resident of Harrisburg in the County of Dauphin aforesaid in Pennsylvania, aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 - That she is the widow of Frederick Keefer deceased a drum and fife major in the Revolutionary war and a pensioner She further declares that she was married to said Frederick Keefer on the tenth of February one thousand seven hundred, and eighty nine, (as appears by the foregoing certifi- cate of James M c Sherry the late present Representative in Congress from Adams County Penna.) That her husband the aforesaid Frederick Keefer died on the sixth - day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty four and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed
Sworn & subscribed in open Court Geo. Mish Postmaster
Disson J. M. M. M. M. M.