Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11274, for Adam Quickel, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
★ Quickel Adam
S 11274
carded
CONTENTS

Rev. Name ✓
11274
INVALID.
File No. 11274
Adams Quinkel* Prv Prov War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 806
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Quinkel*
Records corrected Apr. 10, 1905 f

Virginia 26.979.
Alan Duickel
for Allegany in the State of Va who was a P te in the Company commanded by Captain Manarin of the Reg t commanded by Col in the Virginia for Hildreth
1/10 P s $20.00 Paz Line Apr. 10/05. Records corrected. B
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of July and 1 st to W. C. Cvington P. O. Sta
Arrears to the 4th of Sept '34 50.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 10.00
$70.00 Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. S. Prague Clerk, Book Vol. Page 23.
See letters to J. J. Fry & P. A. P. 23. Dec. 1836

31.546
Adam Quickel Virginia
f 1778 p- 6- $20
Covington Va June 30th
Three $
June 25.
Request original
To the Secretary of War or Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Pension Claims
CLK
Covington P.O. Virginia

Virginia
Alleghany County To wit:
On this 16th day of June in the year of our Lord, 1834, personally appeared before the Justices of Alleghany County, in Open Court (the same being a Court of Record) Adam Quickel , a resident of the said County of Alleghany and State aforesaid aged about 79 years old , and was born in the year, 1755. 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 7th. 1832; That he was born in the County of York, in the State of Pennsylvania, and that he was drafted in the Company Commanded by Thomas Manarin or Manere as his Captain, and Marched to the City of New York, in the Month of October 1778, where he joined the main Army, under the Command of Genl. Geo. Washington, Andrew Stally acted as a Lieutenant in the Company, to which this Applicant was attached (the name of the other Officers and Regiment, not now recollected) during this Applicant's first tour of duty he served the full term of two Months ; when he was discharged and returned home to the said County of York, where he remained about twelve Months , when he was again drafted in the Company Commanded by Capt. Easton (his given name not now recollected) and was Marched to the City of Philadelphia where he joined the Army, and was subsequently at and engaged in the Battle of Brandy wine, where Genl. Washington was in Command (this Applicant owing to the lapse of time and loss of Memory, cannot now recollect the name of the other officers in Command, or the Regiment to which he was attached) This Applicant in this his second tour of duty served the full of two Months ; This Applicant was permitted to remain at home, about two years after his return from his second tour of duty, when he was again drafted in the fall of the year 1781. and Marched in the Company Commanded by Capt. Henry Mirel , to the Town of Little York , to guard the soldiers taken from Comwallice , which had been stationed at

that place, during the applicant's third tour of duty, he served the further term of two months , when he was again discharged and returned to his home, where he resided until the year 1800 and then moved to the County of Braxton  Rockingham Va where he resided for a short time, and then moved into the County of Pendleton , where he resided for about six years, when he moved to the County of Botetourt , where he resided until the division of said, and has ever since lived in the County of Alleghany ; This Applicant is far advanced in life and living at a grate distance from the place of his nativity, knows of no person by whom he can prove the above services, This applicant has no documentary evidence of his services, having long since given out all hopes of ever being remembered by his Country This applicant refers the Department to Stephen Hook Esq. and Alexander Blair ; And he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the agency or Pension Roll of any State Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. -
Adams his Quickel mark
Alleghany County To wit:
We Stephen Hook & Alexander Blair residing in the County of Alleghany , do hereby Certify, that we are well acquainted with Adams Quickel , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 79 years old, and that he is reputed and believed to be a Soldier of the Revolution, in the neighbourhood where he resides and that we concur in that opinion and belief. Sworn and subscribed this the 16th day of June 1834.
Stephen Hook Alexander Blair
And the said Court hereby Certifies and declares their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories required by the War Department, that the above named applicant, was a Soldier of the Revolution and served as he states, and the Court further Certifies, that it appears to

them that Stephen Hook and Alexander Blair who have signed the foregoing Certificate, are both Credible persons and that their Statements are entitled to full Credit; And the said Court do further Certify, that there is no regular ordained Minister of the Gospel living in the neighbourhood of the said Applicant for a pension. —
I Andrew Hays Clerk of the County Court of Alleghany County do hereby Certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said County in the matter of the application of Adam Bricker for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 20th day of June 1834.
Andrew Hays CLK