Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,085, for Joseph Lineboch, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Lünebock, Joseph Lünebauch
S. 40,085
CONTENTS

5795
Pennsylvania Roll
Joseph Linebach Capt Nye Private Pen n
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence the 21 st of May 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of Jan y 1819 and sent to Hiram McNeill Esq r Judge Goshorn
Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1818: 3 mo \frac{11}{31} \frac{2}{3} - 27:89 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th March 1819 - 48:
75:89
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 19th March, 1818. }

The 15th day of December 1888 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the associate judges of the court of common Pleas for the county of Montgomery in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Earnest Fitty of Germantown Colombluk Philadelphia County and upon his solemn oath doth declare that he served in a company commanded by Capt John Meye first in, augment commanded by Col Allen afterward by Col Waller Stewart and that the numerical order of the regiment was the 13th That Joseph Lembach to whom declaration this is attached served in the same company till taken prisoner at Fort Washington near New York, and that after the war Lembach returned from captivity he joined the same company served till the first day of January 1778 at completing a term of twenty months served against the common enemy and that on the said first day of Jan y 1778 the said Joseph Lembach was discharged the service of the United States by Col Waller Stewart at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania And further this declaration will not — — — — —
Sworn and subscribed before me the day of issue
Hiram McNeil
Earnest Fitty

Hiram McNeill one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Montgomery in the Commonwealth of Penns y do hereby certify, That from along acquaintance with the within named Earnest Kelly, I hold him to be a man of unimpeachable veracity, and That full credit ought to be given to his relations of the military of the services of Joseph * Linneback and as evidence of the said Earnest Kelly having been in the revolutionary service of the United States, and of course an opportunity to know the services of the said Joseph Linneback, his the said Kelly's discharge is now before me dated the first day of January 1818 signed Walter Stewart Col. Bth Penn a Regiment. Hiram McNeill
15th December 1818
I do hereby certify that Jacob Gilbert the other witness is a respectable citizen of the said county of Montgomery and that his dissatisfaction of the services of Joseph Linneback may be relied on with safety, That he was in the revolutionary service himself, but his situation in life renders unnecessary for him to apply for aid
Hiram McNeill
15th Decm 1818
* His name might have been written Yost Linneback by which name he was at times called

Pennsylvania Montgomery County ss.
I William Powell Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County aforesaid, do certify that the Honourable Niram M c Neill before whom the foregoing Deposition was made & taken, was at the time thereof & is still an Associate Judge of the said Court by lawful authority duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith & credit are due & of right ought to be given to all his official acts.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of sd. Court at Norristown in said County this twenty first day of May A.D. One thousand eight hundred & eighteen
W m Powell Rot
copy of the March 1838 Niram M c Neill

Voluntarily Joseph Limbach served several years afterwards in the revolutionary war in the southern department he can procure no testimony to that service, other than his own
affidavit, I suspect, if collateral testimony is insisted upon many will be prevented from obtaining benefits of the law. The sponge of time having swept from creation the greatest part of those who could substantiate such claim. William McCall
15 Decr. 1818
Joseph Limbach Private 76 to 78 Steward Benzylo? Rept Admitted

Montgomery County ss
On the twenty first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen appeared before the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Montgomery in the State of Pennsylvania * Joseph Leneback who being duly sworn on the holy evangelist of Almighty God doth depose and say that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six he enlisted in the Army of the Revolution in a Company commanded by Captain John Dyce in the Regiment called the Pennsylvania Blues commanded by Colonel Atlee that he served during the term of six years that he was in the Battle of Long Island and was taken prisoner at Fort Washington that he received his discharge at the Valley Forge in Pennsylvania that he then enlisted a second time and was discharged at Charlestown in South Carolina which discharges are both lost that he is now a Citizen of the United States and is in his sixty ninth year of age in indigent circumstances unable to support himself and further he doth hereby relinquish his claim to every Pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States and for the said not
Sworn and submitted
J. W. Leneback
before me the date above written Hiram McNeill
* He was sometimes called "York" Leneback

Montgomery County ss On the twenty first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen appeared before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Montgomery in the State of Pennsylvania Jacob Gilbert who being duly sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God doth depose and say that he has known Joseph Lindenbach before the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six that he knows that he enlisted in the Army of the Revolution in a company commanded by Captain John Nyle that he also knows that the said Joseph Lindenbach was taken Prisoner at Fort Washington and further saith not
Sworn & subscribed before me the date before written
Jacob Gilbert
Heinrich Herrmann McNeill Judge & as aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Lindenbach did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the above declaration against the common enemy is now in a state of indigence and now stands in need of the support of his country therefore I know from all the proceedings and testimony had before me to the satisfaction of the war department to the provisions of the act of

40085
Recy INVALID.
File No. 40085
Joseph Linbrock Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 16 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 395
[Arrangement of 1870.]