Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,553, for William Tanner, Virginia

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Tanner, William
S. 40,553
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11.570 Q Pennsylvania William Tanner
of Green in the state of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wood of the Virginia line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19 th of April 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of June 1819 and sent to William G. Banker Waynesburg Pennsylvania
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1819. 36.26 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 1 Mo. 16 D. 30 X $36.26
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
21/6 Court Green
Not. Pub. Apr. 27th 1819 at West Newton, Pa. Waynesburg, Pa.

William Tanner
11570
Apr 1879
Mount ... ... .. ... ..

Pennsylvania Greene County
On the 18 th day of December 1820. personally appeared in Open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Greene in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, William Tanner, who being duly sworn according to law, on his solemn oath doth declare and say, that he served in the Revolutionary War, in the Company of Joseph Mitchell who was succeeded by Captain Joseph Swearingen in the 11 th Virginia Regiment under the command of Colonel Wood, as stated in my original application in pursuance of which I was granted a certificate of my being placed on the Pension list, Roll of the Pennsylvania agency, dated 1 st of June 1819. and I do also swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth 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 to defraud it so 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 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 expressed and contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. I do also swear that to the best of my knowledge I am in the sixty eighth or sixty ninth year of my age, am infirm and unable to labor and almost deprived of the power of hearing, I was formerly a farmer by occupation but have lately attempted to keep a school, which occupation I am unable to succeed in. I have a wife between sixty and seventy years of age and very infirm and no other family. I do also swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on 18 th day of March 1818. and that I have not since that time resided out of the same and that all the property, debts, dues and claims to which I am entitled are contained in the schedule hereto annexed and I have no family other than my wife.
Schedule of all the property of William Tanner.
  1. Cows — valued Dollars. 6 cents   1. Very poor bed 10. 00   8. 00   a small piece of land of very inferior quality, useless 

unless except that there is a poor cabin on it that may afford a home, if the professor could support himself
Doll. Cents 43. 25
Sworn and subscribed in open court the 18th December 1820.
William Paterson
Attest
James Hays Foster
I William Hays, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Greene in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being a Court of record, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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 sixty one Dollars and twenty five Cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this eighteenth day of December 1 Anno Domini 1820.
James Hays Foster
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Pennsylvania } Greene County } ss.
In the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Greene in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this day came, James Dye Egrine, in open court, and being duly sworn according to law, on his solemn oath did depose and say that William Turner applicant for a continuance of his Pension in the annexed writing mentioned was actually residing and at the time of making the annexed application did re- side in Wayne Township in the County of Greene aforesaid.
Sworn to this 20 th day of March 1821.
Attest Wm T. Hays Prothonotary
Greene County ss.
In open court, in the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this 20 th day of March 1821. came James Dye Egrine and made the above deposition. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court. the Wm T. Hays Prothonotary

19 th April 1819
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William Tanner Greene Coy. for 3 years Enlisted in 1777 in Col. Woods Regt. Virginia Line discharged in 1780.
20 th G. Hawkins, Wayneborough Penn
William Tanner
On Roll
He Namittu on roll
1426

District of Pennsylvania ss:
On this nineteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, Before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene in the District aforesaid personally came William Turner sixty seven years of age resident in the County of Greene in the District aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following statement and 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 William Turner enlisted for three years in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight was  then  was sworn to the best of his recollection - but is certain that he served in the "flying camp" five months and enlisted for the term of three years shortly after at Martinsburg in the State of Virginia in the Company of Captain Mitchell in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wood in the line of the State of Virginia on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the service of the United States until his said term of three years expired in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty, when on a contest with a certain ensign Ruppel who attempted to retain him longer than his term of enlistment, this Deponent applied to the Court of Berkeley County in Virginia and on proving that his enlistment was for three years only was by the said Court discharged at Martinsburg in Berkeley County in the State of Virginia that he was in the Battle at York Island, the battle at White Plains while a soldier in the Flying camp and during his service for three years was in the battle of Monmouth

the battle of Germantown, the battle of Monmouth and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service except final evidence hereunto annexed. Sworn to and subscribed and declared before me the day and year first aforesaid.
John Minor
The same day John Brattity being by me previously sworn according to law, did say that he was in the United States army during a part of the Revolutionary war and knows that the above named William Tanner was a soldier in the service of the United States.
Sworn and declared before me the same day and year aforesaid.
John Minor
I John Minor one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the aforesaid William Tanner did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the within declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at one time, on the continental establishment and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress. I am also satisfied that he read the assistance of his country for support. Certified the day and year first within written.
John Minor

Pennsylvania Greene County ss
I William Thompson Hays, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, hereby Certify that John Minor Esquire before whom the within Depositions appear to have been made is and was at the time of taking and signing the same an acting Associate
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County. And that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such ~ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said County April the 19th A. D. 1879.
W m T. Hays Prothry

Rev. Geo. C. Tanner, D. D. Registrar of the Diocese of Minnesota.
Faribault Minnesota April 25 th 1904
To the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Dear Sir:-
William Tanner, Greene County, Pa. was placed on the list of Revolutionary Pensioners in 1819, - June, I think. Will you kindly inform me whether the Record shows his birth-place and age when placed on the pension list -
Thanking you in advance
I am
Very respectfully yours
Geo. C. Tanner, Shattuck School.

40 553
Pay INVALID
File No. 40,553
William Tanner
Dr. Rev. Ind.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 570
[Arrangement of 1870.]
May 4. 1904. Hist C Rev Geo. C. Tanner Favilant Minn.