Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5829, for Jacob Keller, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Penn.
Keller, Jacob Elizabeth
R. 5829
CONTENTS

Examination Rev. Papers Jacob Keller
Pennsylvania
Cale
filed 13 May 1852
P. Ekasler Attorney =
Found in Jacob Keller Adm. widow Catherine Dieks 3347

This paper found in Jacob Keller & his widow Cathar
State of Pennsylvania, County of Dauphin. } ss.
Be it known that before me Lewis F. Steinmetz a Justice of the peace, personally appeared Elizabeth Keller aged Sixty six years, who being duly cautioned & then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the widow of Jacob Keller deceased, who was a Revolutionary Soldier or pensioner of the State of Pennsylvania, and that he died on the seventeenth day of January A.D. 1845, and that they were married on the third day of October in the year 1839, and that they were residents of Dauphin County in the State of Pennsylvania, and that they resided there six years, and that she resides in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and that furthermore she By these presents, constitutes, appoints, & fully empowers & authorizes irrevocably, and with powers of substitution - F. E. Hassler of Washington City D.C., as her true and lawful Attorney for her & in her name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government Officers her rights in all & in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Lands, that may be due her as widow of Jacob Keller, who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law, custom or equity, she is or may be entitled.
In Witness whereof she has on this fifth day of May 1852 hereunto signed her name & affixed her seal. Witness: John Laregh Witness: John Winters Elizabeth her Keller
Signed, Sealed, acknowledged and sworn to before me on this fifth day of May 1852.
L. F. Steinmetz

ine admitted File N o 3347 (widow) where it does not belong
At the same time personally appeared before me Lewis H. Steinmetz a Justice of the peace, two credible & disinterested witnesses named John Winters and John Loesch residents of the aforesaid County and State, who having been by me cautioned and then duly sworn according to law do depose and say each for himself, that he has always heard it said & it is generally believed by the community that Jacob Keller was a Revolutionary soldier and that Elizabeth Keller was by him treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the widow of the said Revolutionary Soldier
Sworn to the day & year first above written before me
L. H. Steinmetz
John Loesch John Winters
State of Pennsylvania Dauphin County
I Stephen Miller, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County: Certify that L. H. Steinmetz 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 8 th day of May 1852
Stephen Miller
Prothny

33.576
pa
Jacob Keller
Pennsylvania
5829
Hon. W. Clark, H.R.

State of Pennsylvania and County of Dauphin
Personally appeared in open court Before the Judges of the court of common Pleas now sitting Jacob Miller a resident of Pennsylvania and the county of Dauphin aged Seventy Six years who being first duly sworn according to law took on his solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That about the first of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, he was drafted in the service of Pennsylvania and marched in Captain Martin Earheart's Company from Lancaster County, that the Battalion to which he belonged was called Mendenhall's Horse. The names of the other field officers he does not recollect. That the mounted and was at the Battle of Brandywine, from that they were marched to the City of Philadelphia and there remained some time and from there marched to the City of New York and after remaining there some time were discharged That he was out during that term four months and upwards, that he received a discharge in writing which he has since lost, that he has resided in the counties of Lancaster & Dauphin all his life But knows of no person whom he can produce to prove his services, that he had no documentary evidence of the facts but his discharge which is lost That he was born near Dunkertown in Lancaster County in December 1760, on Christmas day - that he has his age recorded in the Family Bible by his Father which Book is in his family at this time - that he was living three miles from Manheim in Lancaster County when he was drafted to man - there is no regular clergyman in his neighborhood to testify for him - That he is known to all the principal

Persons in the lower end of Dauphin County and also in the upper part of Lancaster County. Sworn and subscribed in open Court the 20th day of April A.D. 1836
Jacob Keller
Jacob Duck Clerk
WE John Fox Ely high Sheriff of Dauphin County and Robert M Thompson Register and Recorder for the County of Dauphin hereby certify that we are well acquainted with and have known for many years Jacob Keller who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six years of age, that he is reported and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
John Fox
Robt. M. Thompson
Sworn and subscribed in open Court the 20th day of April 1836.
Jacob Duck Clerk
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 above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifying that John Fox Ely and Robert M Thompson Ely who has also signed the foregoing certificate are residents of Dauphin County and that their statements are entitled to full faith and credit
Calvin Blythe } President W. H. Hummel } Judges J. S. } Associates James Green }

State of Pennsylvania Dauphin County ss
I Jacob Duck Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original Proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Keller for a Pension
Pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said office this 20 th day of April A D 1836
J. Duck Deputy Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
R.F. 65829
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Jacob Keller 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.     Sept. 1 1777 4 mos. Markus Enchart Major Hans Barr Penn.                                                   
Battles engaged in, Brandywine Residence of soldier at enlistment, near Wormheim in Lancaster Co. Penn. Date of application for pension, Apr. 20 1836 Residence at date of application, Dauphin County, Penn. Age at date of application, born Dec 25 1760 near Dunkertown Lancaster Co. Pa.
Remarks: {died Aug 17 1845  He mar. Oct. 3. 1839 Elizabeth —  No other data on file as to his family
Respectfully, Never sent.
Cause of rejection to be added
Commissioner.

Repeated See letter 27 April '36 Hon W. Clarke.
did not seem satisfactory.
1832

1890 Sept 15 P.P. Keller history Pres
5829
P. O.
Jacob Keller
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: List of Rejected claims printed in 185-2 Show cause
Re-enlisted: of Rejection as follows: "He did not serve six months."
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

War Dept., Pen. Office April 27, 1836
Sir,
The declaration of Jacob Keller has been ex d , & he alleges to have served one tour his from Sept. 1777 as a militiaman of Pennsylvania and the said tour continued for upwards of four months. The Penn a militia did not serve so long as four months under an engagement. The act of 7 June 1822 provides for none who did not serve so at least six months. The claim has therefore been rejected, and the papers filed in this office.
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Hon. W. Clark. H. R.