Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [Blank], for Oswald Kesselbach, Pennsylvania

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Kesselbach Oswald.
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aw June 11, 1906 H. J. S.

Kesselbach, Oswald
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 98.
Rank: Private.
Pelaski's legion.
Disability: Wounded in action with a part of the British troops in the year 1778, with three bayonet wounds in his private parts, and five in his back; that he was then put into the military hospital at Trenton, and afterwards, discharged by his commanding officer as unfit for duty; that he then entered into the corps of artillery artificers of Pennsylvania, in which he served four years two months, and seven days, and until the end of the war, and was discharged by Brigadier General R. Hampton on the 31 st day of October, 1783.
When and where disabled: 1778, Little Egg Harbor.
Residence: County of Philadelphia.
To what pension entitled: Half.
Remarks: Discharged March 15, 1779.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court complete.
Allowed. Dec 1835 Cert.