Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4048, for William Rex, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Rev, William
S 4048
Carded.
CONTENTS

2924
Pennsylvania
William Rex
of Northampton County the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Shaeffer of the Regt. commanded by Col. Guger in the Pa. militia for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 40 Dollars per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8. day of Dec. 1832 and sent to R. Bruckhead Esq. Easton Pa.
  Arrears to 14th of Sept. 1832  60.00    Pension allowance ending 4th March 1833  20.00     80.00  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by McCaffrey Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 Page 80.
Act 4 May 1836 then H. L. Wagoner.
Died Feb. 4, 1837 (Q.B.)

10.107

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania County of Northampton. ss }
On this twenty th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County William Rex a resident of East Penn Township in Said County aged near eighty six years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June the Seventh 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1777, with his Captain Shade  Christopher  Rex . That he went from his place of Residence in Middleburg Township then Northampton County (now Lehigh) to Germantown near Philadelphia, where he was under the following officers as near as he can recollect General Lacey, Col Henry Giger, Major Nygandt, and his Captain Scholl  Seumeyer John Grum, that he was in the Seventh Class and his brother in the Seventh  Class under Capt John Grum that he was there sometime when a Battle was fought, he thinks on the 4 th day of October 1777 that a number of Americans were killed about 200, and a large number wounded the British not so many a short time after the Battle, when he was about to get his discharge himself and Michael Hoppis, John Miller, and John Ropssommer, were taken Prisoners - and taken from there to Philadelphia and Confined in the New Gaol (as it was then called) he was in sometime when the British were obliged to leave Philadelphia when they took him and his Companions in a ship with them they to New York, where they again Confined him them in an old Shed Sugar House for about three months when he was exchanged for British Soldiers. The whole time that he was captive he computes at about one year He hereby Relinquishes every Claim whatever to a Pension or an annuity, except the present, and that he believes his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any state as if any only in that of the agency in the state of Pennsylvania Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court - Wm Sebring  Rex  Wm Sebring Proxy

And the Said Court do hereby Declare their opinion that the within named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he states
Gerrit Smith Prest -
J. Cooper a Judge C.C.P.
Daniel Wager a Judge C.C.P.
I William L Sebring Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County, Do hereby Certify that the foregoing Contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of William Rex for a Pension.
Witness my Hand & the Seal of the said Court at Easton the twenty fourth Day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two -
Wm Sebring Prothon.
Northampton County ss
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County William Rex, who being Duly Sworn according to Law, Deposed, and Saith, that by Reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively, as to the precise Length of his Service, but according to the best of his Recollection he served not less than the Periods mentioned below, and in the following grade For one year I served as a Private under the within named Officers, During which time I was a Prisoner at least six months and in the custody of the Enemy, and for such Service I claim a Pension.
Sworn to & Subscribed
Oct 27 th Nov 2 1832
Before me - J. Kinkey
Wm Rex

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Northampton County
William L Schring Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid Do Certify that Jacob Dinkley before whom the foregoing acknowledgement was taken and made was at the time thereof and yet is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the name thereto subscribed is the genuine Signature of the said Jacob Dinkley
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of the said Court at Easton the First Day of December A. D. 1832
Wm Schring Protho

No 10.107
Pennsylvania
Supmed Nov. 15. 1832
Ch. 5. 14
To Ch. Brohead Jr. Easton Pa.
Admitted
Private 1 year
H 41-
Page 91.

BRIEF in the case of  Walter of East Run Township  County of Northampton  in the State of  Pennsylvania  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 86 
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.     In 1777 1 Private Capt. Shaeffer & Green or Thrown. Col. Geyer Genl. Lacy.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Midleburg. County of Northampton, (now Lehigh) Penna.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
Living
 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective as opinion given by the court as to the credibility of the witnesses 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. M. [Signature] Examining Clerk.

August 9, 1934
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Mrs. Burnham R. Crear 438 Kenneth Road Glendale, California
WILLIAM REX S. 4048 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of William Rex, of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, who received a pension in 1832, also of his brothers, George Jacob, Abraham and Christopher Rex, all of whom you state served with him in the same company.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the Revolutionary War service of George Jacob, Abraham or Christopher Rex.
The record of William Rex was found and is given herein as shown in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 4048, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not given.
Her While residing in "Hidleburg Township", in that part of Northampton County which was later Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted sometime in 1777, served as private in Captains Shade's and John Gumn's or Krum's companies, Colonel Henry Geiger's Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battle of Germantown in which he was taken prisoner, confined for a while at Philadelphia where he dug his way out of prison, but was caught and carried to New York where he was held for three months in an old sugar house, than released, length of service about one year.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 23, 1832, at which time he was a resident of East Penn Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, aged "nearly eighty-six years".

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 23, 1832, at which time he was a resident of East Penn Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, aged "nearly eighty-six years".
William Rex died February 4, 1837. (A. D.)
In 1832, the soldier referred to a brother who served in the same company with him in the Revolution but did not state his name. There are no further family data in the claim.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

MRS. BURNHAM R. CREER 438 KENNETH ROAD GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA
July 20, 1934
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
For genealogical purposes, I would appreciate any information in the Revolutionary War pension rolls of a certain William Rex of Northampton Co., Pa. I think this William Rex secured a Federal pension in 1832, at which time he was 88 years old.
The above William Rex had brothers George Jacob, Abraham, and Christopher, all of whom served with him in the same Company in the Revolution. George Jacob Rex was Ensign.
A fifth brother, Daniel Rex, private and ensign, also served with them. You have already sent me data relating to this Daniel Rex in your letter of May 29, 1934, your BA/Jady, Daniel Rex, S. 4066.
Thanking you, I am
Very truly yours,
Margaret Phillips Creer
Pension information relative to the above 4 brothers desired.

Pen West
4048.
INVALID.
1934 Aug 9 - Hct to Mrs Durham R. Clerk - m. S.D.
File No. 4048
Mrs. Rex Br. Pa. Mil.
Act: June 7, '32
Index: Vol. A , Page 311
[Arrangement of 1870.]

In the matter of the application of William Lee of East Penn Township Northampton County for a Pension.
The Subscribers being duly sworn according to Law Do depose and say that I am well acquainted with the above named applicant - That I firmly believe he was a Soldier of the Revolution, that he was in the Battle fought at Germantown near Philadelphia, that We also believe he was taken prisoner with one Michael Stoppis who lives in the same neighborhood and that they were both confined in Philadelphia and New York in Prisons - That it is notorious in the fact in the neighborhood that he was as an old soldier, and that he was in the Battle fought at Germantown, and was taken prisoner at that place as above stated - and endeavored to dig out of Prison in Philadelphia and was caught
Sworn to Subscribed August 31 st 1832 before me -
Cons of Penn
Finkey
Pennsylvania.
Northampton County ss.
I William Sebring Past Master of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Northampton certify that Jacob Dutrey before whom the above acknowledged signature was made and taken was at the time thereof and is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified to act as such, and that the name then subscribed is the signature of said Jacob Dutrey.
Witness my Hand & Seal this 12th day of September A.D. 1832
Wm Sebring Master

I Jacob Dinkley the Justice of the Peace before whom the within Deposition was Taken Do certify that the within named Conrad Rehnich is a man of credibility and good moral character and that the facts stated within are True. Witness my Hand this 27th day of November at Penns Village Northampton County - J. Dinkley
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Northampton County ss
I William Lehnig Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County. Do certify that Jacob Dinkley who has signed the above Certificate was at the time thereof and still is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the Said County duly Commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the name thus subscribed is the true signature of the Said Jacob Dinkley Witness my Hand and the seal of the aforesaid Court at Easton the First Day of December A.D. 1832.
Wm Lehnig Prothon.

In the matter of the application of William Rex of East Pine Township Northampton for a Pension
Michael Hoppis being duly sworn according to Law doth Depose and say that he is well acquainted with the above named William applicant - That he was on a Battle fought at Germantown near Philadelphia with him - That he was in the Seventh Class in the Company of Captain John Krum That the Said applicant was in the Seventh Class under Captain Krum that immediately after the Battle, the Said appli- cant himself and John Miller and John Repsonamer, were taken prisoners and taken to Philadelphia where they were Con- fined in the new Gaol (as it was then called) until the British were obliged to leave the City, when they took them all with them to New York - Before we were taken from Philadelphia, the Said applicant and a number of others dug a Hole by which a number escaped from Prison, the applicant got out but was caught - I did not get out - he was caught and fetched back and Confined - They took us to New York in Ships and when they got us there they Confined us an old Sugar House about three months when we were exchanged for British Prisoners a few days before we were exchanged I got Sick and was taken to the Hospital. The Said applicant got home a short time before I did - and we have lived as neighbours ever since
It is the Common understanding in the neighbourhood that he was an old Soldier, and Confined in Philadelphia & New York
Sworn & Subscribed
August 31 st 1832
Before me -
Finkey JP
Michael Hoppis

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Northampton County ss
I William L Sebring Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Jacob Dunkley before whom the within Acknowledgement was made of record was at the time thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned & qualified to act as such and that the name thereunto subscribed is the true signature of the said Jacob Dunkley -
Witness my Hand and the seal of said Court at Easton the 12th Day of September AD 1802.
Wm Sebring Protho
I Jacob Dunkley the Justice of the Peace before whom the within Deposition was taken do certify that Michael Koppis the within named Deponent is a man of credibility and good moral character, and that the facts said within are true as I firmly believe. Witness my Hand this 27th Day of November 1832 at Penna'ville Northampton County
J. Dunkley
Commonwealth of Penna Northampton County ss
I William L Sebring Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that Jacob Dunkley who has signed the above Certificate was at the time and yet is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly com- missioned and qualified to act as such and that the name thereunto subscribed is the true signature of the said Jacob Dunkley
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Easton the First Day of December A.D. 1832
Wm Sebring Protho