Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2,674, for Andrew Kamp, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Kamp, Andrew
S. 2,674
carded
CONTENTS

4893
Pennsylvania
Andrew Camp
in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Smith of the Regt. commanded by Col Haller in the Penna. line for Brandywine. — $30.— 8 " Private — 26.66 56.66
Enscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 56 — Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of Jan y 1833 and sent to Hon. A. Clark through Home Dept.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 — $84.99 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 — 28.33
$113.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by M. Luce Clerk, Cook Vol. 6 Page 65

Andrew Hamps
Amittie
6 mo. Leif. $ 34.00
8 .. Private 26.66
$ 56.66
Hon
Hen. A. Muhlenburg
H. A.
James Donaghy
Co. B
Penn.

BRIEF in the case of Andrew Kamp of Greenwich County of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 77  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.     Enlisted In 1776 — 1 — Sergeant Gen. Henry Kutter "Flying Camp" Capt Paul Manner   afterwards was drafted & found there — 2 — private Capt Egner   — 2 — " Capt Smith   — 2 — " Capt Suter   — 2 — " not recollected    Periods at which he entered, or left the service.
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Saratoga, White Plains  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Greenwich, Berks Co. Penna  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By a living witness & by traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. G. Wilson Examining Clerk

Andrew Ramp
Application for a Pension
Term of Service 14 months

State of Pennsylvania } County of Berks } P.
On this fourteenth day January 1833, personally appeared in open court before the Hon: Garrick Mallary President and his associates Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Berks now sitting, Andrew Krump a resident of the Township of Greenwich in the said County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, aged seventy seven years and upwards, 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 Officers and served as herein stated.
He enlisted in the year 1776 in the Regiment of Colonel Henry Haller in what was at the time called the "Flying Camp" and served in the same in the Company of Captain Isaac Mauser as a Sergeant for a period of six months, the names of the other Officers recollected by him were Lieut. Colonel Lutz and his Lieutenants Stephen Babbey and Leet Suter , at the time of his said Enlistment he resided in the said Township of Greenwich he joined the Regiment at Daniel Levan's (now Memphis ) Tavern in the Township of Maretown in the said County of Berks, and marched from thence through Bethlehem , Easton , Amboy , New York , Long Island , Whitptains and King's Bridge , he was in the Battles of Long Island and Whitptains , He was after the said Battles marched to Trenton in New Jersey where he was dismissed. He never received a discharge, and has no documentary Evidence whatever of his services in the said Regiment.
He was afterwards drafted and served four different tours of two months each, in the militia during the Revolutionary War, as near as he can recollect as follows to wit first in the Company of Captain Egner , marched to Hickory Town , thence to Germantown - Second in the Company of Captain Smith , marched to Newtown in Bucks County , third in the Company of Captain Suter , marched somewhere towards Philadelphia but does not recollect the place, and fourth he was again marched to Bucks County but in what company he does not remember - during all this time his place of Residence was in the said Township of Greenwich . He can not recollect the names of the other Officers under whom he served, nor the Regiments or Companies with which he served nor at what particular period he entered or left the service. He has no documentary evidence, and knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services in the militia.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the state of Pennsylvania. Sworn to and subscribed } the day and year aforesaid } in open court } Lieut. William Frost
Andrew Krump

We John Knoske a clergyman and Peter Gift both residing in the Borough ofutztown, in the said County of Berks hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Andrew Tramp who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and Subscribed before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County. January 12 th 1833.
W m Donagan
John Knoske Peter Gift
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 certify, that it appears to them, that John Knoske who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the said Borough ofutztown, and that Peter Gift who has also signed the same, is also a resident of the said Borough ofutztown and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Jacob Sallade, Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Berks, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Andrew Tramp for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
J. Sallade Prothonotary

Penn a Berks County ss.
On the second day of January A.D. 1833 before James Donagan one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County. Personally appeared John Haines of Richmond Township, in the said County whom I hereby certify to be a credible person and whose statement is entitled to credit and after being duly sworn according to Law, saith that he is well acquainted with Andrew Framp of the Township of Greenwich, and that he has reason to believe him to be seventy three years of age, that he knows of his own certain knowledge that he served in the Revolutionary War, in the Regiment of Col. Henry Waller, in the Flying Camp as it was called, for six months as a sergeant in Captain Hapner's Company, in said Regiment.
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid before
Josephus Haines
J. Donagan
Penn a Berks County ss.
I Jacob Sallade, Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Berks, do hereby certify that James Donagan before whom the foregoing Certificate and Depositions were sworn to and subscribed is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned in and for the said County; and that the signatures thereto annexed are his genuine signatures.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
J. Sallade Protho.

Rev War
26 th /11 INVALID.
File No. 2674
Andrew Camp. Sergeant Rev War
Act: June 7 1832.
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 200
[Arrangement of 1870.]

ON 8
# 2674

1815.
Not allowed (Act of 1828).
Revolutionary Claims.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
30 Jan'y 1830.
Andrew Kamp — of ————— in the county of Berks ————— in the State of Pennsylvania has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termina- tion, at which period he was a Private ————— in captain Mawrers ————— 's company, in Col Hallen's — regiment of the Pennsylvania line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary. F. H. Dickinson.
7674 OK
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
3 d February 1830
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to ————— in the ————— It further appears that Andrew Kamp ————— is now on the pension list of the ————— agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 ————— at the rate of ————— dollars per month.
The name of Andrew Kamp cannot be found among those of the Pennsylvania line to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars, were issued.
John Hagner And
1826

War Dept. Bounty L d Office Feb y 11 th 1830
The name of Andrew Kamp cannot be found on the Records of the Pennsylvania line on file in this office, among those entitled to Bounty Land of the U. States, or, to whom a Land Warrant has issued
W m Gordon

1815.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "an act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15 th day of May 1828, I Andrew Kamps of the Township of Greenwich, in the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the War, and continued in its service until its termination, at which period I was a private in Captain Jacob Maurers company in Colonel Henry Vallow Regiment of the Pennsylvania line. And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of Eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15 th day of May 1778, (but which has since been lost.) And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on the Petition list of the United States Andrew Kamps
Berks County P.
Before me Jas. Donagaw Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania legally empowered to administer Oaths. Personally appeared this day David Flottenstine, John Haines and Samuel Kline of the said County of Berks, who did severally make Oath that Andrew Kamps by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a private in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated, and furthermore that they know of their own knowledge that the said Andrew Kamps was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution.
Witness my hand this second day of January Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty
Jas. Donagaw

Penn a Berks County ss.
I Jacob Sallade Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, do certify that James Ponagaw Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly empowered to administer Oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this Eighth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty
J. Sallade Clerk

Berks County, ss.
Personally appeared before me a trustee of the Peace in and for said County, the within named Andrew Kamp who upon his solemn oath depose & say that he lost or mislaid his discharge many years ago, and has diligently searched for it without being able to find it. — And further saith not. —
Sworn & subscribed before me this 8th. January 1830.
Andrew Kamp
Matthias Richards.