Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 40423, for Mathias Sheets, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Sheets, Mathias or Matthias
8 40423
CONTENTS

duplicate certificate issued Nov. 11. 1831 and sent to Hon. P. Beecher. See letter to him & Hon. W. W. Irwin of Nov. 11. 1831.
TriPLICATE Cert. iss d . Nov 13. 1835 & sent to Peter Patterson, Chillicothe, O. abt W. D. Ewing age 28 1845.
20.212
Ohio
Mathias Sheets
of in Fairfield Co. in the State of Ohio who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Smith of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Posey in the Virginia line, for the term of 18 months. from 1782 to 1783
Inscribed on the roll of Ohio at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 day of August 1830
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of Augt 1830 and sent to W. W. Irwin. W. W. Irwin, Lancaster Ohio.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1830 $ 5. 18 Semi-annual all'ce ending
$ 5. 18
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
Rec: Book D. Vol. 10. fol. 48

William Shelly
Mr. Pecker H.R. Feb. 26. 1829

The State of Ohio } Court of Common Pleas. St. Clair County, ss. }
On this fifteenth day of October 1828 personally appeared in open Court for the County aforesaid Matthias Sheets resident in said County aged seventy five in December next who being first duly sworn according to said oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 15 th March 1818 and the act of May 1820 that he the said Matthias insisted for the term of eighteen months in the spring of the year 1818 may before the taking of Genl. Cornwallis at Little York in Shenandoah County State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Capt. Smith and Lieutenant Cannon in the Regt. commanded by Col. Poyey the 7 th Virginia Regt. on the Continental Establishment that he continued in the service in the said Corps until in the fall of the succeeding year in the enlistment and until his term of 18 months service was expired when he was discharged from the service at the crossing of the Congree in South Carolina that hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any State and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension in the year 1818 which was reported and ignorance of the law and my rights under the laws for god knows that I have not been the owner of one Hundred Dollars worth

of property at any one time for the last eleven years, and have been in some measure for my support for that time dependent upon the labour of my children. — and in pursuance of the act of first of May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 15 th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift or grant sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self with in provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolution, passed on the 18 th day March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is cont- ained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed I have no real property nor personal property except a shovel plough worth not one Dollar, my Daughter Sa- sannah aged about 25 years who lives with me has a cow worth about $6.00, and my son who lives with me Wil- iam aged about 38 years has an old horse 23 years old by him raised while a member of the family, these two Children and my wife Margaret aged 77 years very infirm and almost Blind, and my self compose the family. my profession a Farmer and unable to do but little neither of my children have any real estate and but little property except what is named above and we live on a five acre tract of lands, in a cabin thereon, which belongs to Daniel May of said County and he

has promised by word that we the old people should have it to live upon until death - that upon the 18 th day of March 1818 he had no property except a cow and some few hogs and that he has not sold any of these, but has used them as meat in the family.
• Matthias his Sheets mark
The State of Ohio } Fairfield County ss, } seem to and declared in a court of common Pleas held at Lancaster in and for said County this 16 th day of October A D 1828. The above named Matthias Sheets was sworn in open court • Attest Hugh Boyle clerk
I, Hugh Boyle, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Fairfield, Ohio, do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Matthias Sheets did serve in the revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the Com ts enemy for the term of eighteen months under our engagement on the continental establishment. I also certify that it is the court that the Total amount of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is worth two Dollars.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 16 th day of October A D 1828 Hugh Boyle clerk of the court of Com ts Pleas for Fairfield county, Ohio

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Mathias Sheets
Rev Rev Ind
Act:
18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol.
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407
[Arrangement of 1870.]

June the 25 th 1835 Mr Green.
I have been acquainted with the name of Mathias Shilz ever since I was a young lad. his original German name is Schulz but an English writer altered it is written it Shilz —
1835 H. Switzer

State of Ohio Fairfield County ss
Before me Tho s Wrightson a justice of the peace in the County of William Wood of the County of State affairs who being duly sworn according to law deposes that Saint Martin Matthias Shutz served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War & part of his services with an order made and signed the 28th day of June 1850
Tho s Wrightson J.P. William L. Schwan mark

I Thomas Worthington, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Fairfield State of Ohio do certify that the within named William Hopwood has resided in said county of Fairfield upwards of twenty years, and during that time he has sustained the character of a man of truth and veracity.
August 5th 1838
Thos. Worthington J.P.

the State of Ohio Fairfield County ss Before me the Subscriber and acting Justice of the Peace within, and for said County personally came Jacob Wickle of the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith, to the best of his knowledge that Mathias Frits Served as a Soldier in the revolutionary war and further this deponent saith not
Jacob Wickle
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 29 th day of June A. D. 1830 - Nathan Weeks J.P.

Thom has accompanied with the within named for the work for several years. He made with us the within affidavit before me, and I believe him to be a man of truth and scrupulously entitled to credit & confidence.
This 26 th July 1890
W. B. Keating

The State of Ohio Hocking County ss
I Hugh Boyle clerk of the court of common Pleas for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Jesse Page Esq r was on the 5 th inst d (July 1830) one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county. That Thomas W m Houghton Esq r was a Justice of the peace in and for said county on the 28 th day of June last, Nathan Weeks a Justice in like manner on the 6 th day of July last (July 1830) and that the said Nathan was also on the 29 th day of July last appointed a Justice of the peace — and that Jacob D r Dabrows Esq r was one of the Associate Judges of the court of common Pleas for the county appointed on the 25 th day of June last all duly commissioned and qualified as such —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said court at Lancaster in said county on this 7 th day July A d 1830
Hugh Boyle clerk

[Faint, illegible handwriting or bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I Certify, That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 12th of March, 1818,
Matthew Sheets late a Private in Captain Smith's company of Colonel Ross's regiment in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty;
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 16 th day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
John C. Calhoun Secretary of War.

Wickhams.
Dec. 24. 1829
ref. by rev. to the Com. on Military Pensions
Mar 25. 1830 Bin report - No. 490
11
Mathias Sheets Esq. Fairfield Co.
11

Free O. Beecher
Mr. Miles Sheets Esq. Fairfield County
286
Ohio
M. Sheets Esq. from P. P. Gannett

War Department
Pension Office,
January 2. 1829
Sir,
The declaration of Matthias Sheets, which you deposited in this Office for the purpose of obtaining a pension for him, has been examined, and is herewith returned. His name is not on the rolls of the Virginia continental line. I find the name of Matthias Shilz on those rolls. If he ever was called by that name let him amend his affidavit by stating the fact. If he was never known by another name than sheets, he must prove his service, as there is no evidence of the service of such a person in this Department. The testimony of two credible and disinterested witnesses will be required. They must set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving it, and the regiment, company and line to which he was attached. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper Officer, under his seal of Office.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your Hon. Servt.
James L. Edwards
Hon. P. Beecher,
House of Representatives

Washington January 3 rd 1829
Br Sir
Can you obtain the proof required within, if so have it done soon and forwarded immediately
Respectfully
Yours
O. Beecher

Mr. Bates
Military Pensions
M. Lord

21st Congress 1st Session
Congress of the United States, In the House of Representatives
December 24, 1829.
On motion of Mr. Lewis, C.
Resolved, That the Committee on Military Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of allowing to Mathias Sheely, a pension for his services during the war of the Revolution -
Attest M. S. Clarke Clerk

Matthias Stutz Adam Gengen Affidavit—

State of the Sanford County - Personally appeared before me the subscriber, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, Matthias Schultz, and made oath, that he is of German descent, that he reads the German language, but cannot read or write the English - That he always spell his name in the German language Matthäus Schultz, which render- ed in the English is Matthias Schultz . Also for the States that he was born in the State of Pennsylvania and the first time entered in Shenandoah County in the State of Virginia for one year - At the time he served in Scott's Brigade under Col. Boyer - He en- listed a second time in the same County for eight months, I was marched to Gainesville under Col. Pomeroy - Finally was the Muster, I part of the time served under Col. Pomeroy then under Lieutenant Reynolds after which left the service - was followed

Genl Wayne the was present and saw himself at a fight with the Indians between Eleny and the Wabash, when the horn of the Genl was shot under him - He secured and the team for when he was intrested M his Wolfers more X Sefitz
Also appeared before me the Subscribed Adam Geyer of said County, aged eighty years the most of number and made oath that he has been intimately ac- quainted with Matthew Shitz for upwards of fifty years - This deponent is of German origin, reads that language but cannot the english and even un- derstood and believes that his name was Schitz or Stitz - This deponent also knows when the said Matthew intrested the first second time and saw him on his return after the defeat of Cornwallis

The whole States that he cannot now say how long said Schütz served, but he is satisfied he served out each term for which he on both sides is certain he must have served more than the  eighteen months, the last term he went out in the South
Yrs Adam X Geiger Mark
The above Matthew Schütz & Adam Geiger, were by me duly sworn to the affidavits by them above subscribed. I have known each of the deponents for many years, and believe them to be men of truth and veracity, and by request, I write the name of Schütz in the German language, in the body of his affidavit, as he spell it for me. in that language - given under my hand this 25. Jan 1830. I am myself of German descent, and well acquainted with that language, and know him the said Schütz to be a German also and believe

his name to be correctly spelt in the body of his deposition, by me, --
Jacob L. Adams in presence of
Matthew Shultz Helen Gorgan Agnes

recd 13 July 1830
James A. Edwards Esq.
Letter 17 July 1830 to Hon. W.H. Brown
Floe, W.C. Barb.
Printer Office in
St. Leon Old Hall m ts city of Washington

Lancaster, Ohio, 7. July 1830.
Dear Sir
M c Schultz has furnished me with the enclosed affidavits, to aid him in procuring a pension. You will re- called that in his petition , Gen l Buck- ner his name Stetz , before the army roll it was Spill Shitz, or Schitz. For this difference, the Secretary of War, as you fell a deficiency in deciding after the application, refused the claim. I think the affidavits will satisfy you that he served as a soldier & that his name is as they represent - I presented his papers to the house, but the request of Mr d Ford, a member of the Committee of Pensions, I drew up a favourable report, but with the case of the case

I am not adorned. I am not certain whether you gave me the original spec. Piers or Cokius - At the present, I have enclosed a line to Nat. Clarke, requesting him to send them to you.
I am acquainted with Joseph Beestland, Sam l Beestland & Benjamin Ruffner. I believe them to be men of integrity - with the others I possess very acquaintance - is limited & I can say nothing for or against them -
I have not a doubt upon my mind, that the applicant served during the war of the rebellion as he states, & I certainly know of no application more meritorious - He is poor indeed & has an aged helpless wife, who are sustained by the labor, in a great degree, of their son
Very respectfully I am yr. obed. Servt. Wm. W. Brown

Mathias Sheets
Ohio. Rev.
$8 per mo. Wks
Aug. 16. 1830
25
James L. Edwards Esq.
Post Office
War department
City of Washington.

Newark, Ohio, 10 th Aug t 1830
Sir
You will find enclosed the Certificates which you returned to me, for a few of the Certificates of the Credibility of the W.M. Spies.
Very respectfully &
Yours &c.
W. H. Brown

Hon: Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington City

Application for a new certificate
The State of Ohio {
Ross County - ss { On this fourth day of Nov r 1835, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Ross aforesaid, personally appeared Matthias Sheets, late a resident of the County of Fairfield, in the state of Ohio; but now residing in the County of Ross, in the state of Ohio; who on his oath, declared that he is the same person who formerly belonged, to the company commanded, first by Captain Shmytt, and afterward by Capt n Cannon, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Thos. Posey of the seventh Reg t in th Virginia line, in the service of the United States; That his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Ohio; That he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of Lewis Cass, Secretary of War; by which he was entitled to receive eight dollars per month; which certificate, on or about the month of April 1835, at, or near the town of New Baltimore, in the County of Fairfield and state of Ohio, was lost or mislaid by this deponent, so that it cannot be found, and further this deponent saith not -
Matthias his X Sheets mark
Sworn and subscribed to before me The day and year aforesaid
Peter Patterson J. Peace
The state of Ohio {
Ross County ss { On this 4 th day of Nov r 1835, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Christoph er Miller, and David Holland of lawful age, and being first duly sworn before me, as the law directs, depose and say, that they have been personally acquainted with the above named Matthias Sheets for many years and have seen the pension certificate named in the above affidavit in the possession of the said Matthias Sheets, and know him to be the same person described in the above affidavit, and whose name was inserted in the lost certificate described in the above affidavit -
Christopher his X Miller mark
Sworn & subscribed to before me this 4 th day of Nov r 1835
Peter Patterson J. Peace
David his X Holland mark

I Peter Patterson a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Ross in the state of Ohio, before whom the within named Christopher Miller, and David Holland were sworn, do hereby certify that the said deponents are men of veracity, and subscribed the within affidavit, by making their mark in my presence — and further, that the within named Matthias Sheets, is reputed, and believed to be a man of veracity, and that I concur in that opinion — given under my hand at Chillicothe this 12 th day of Nov r 1835
Peter Patterson J. Peace
The State of Ohio
Ross County, ss. I Humphrey Fullerton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that Peter Patterson Esq r , before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken was at the time of taking the same & now is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned & qualified
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 7 th day of November A D 1838 & of this State the 33 rd
Humphrey Fullerton Clerk

Chillicothe Nov 14 - 1935
Hon. Lewis Cass Sec: of War.
Inclosed I forward to you the affidavit of Mathias Shultz, for the purpose of obtaining a New Pension Certificate, in lieu of one stated by him to be lost - At his request, I would say, you will please direct his Certificate or any communication on the subject to me, and oblige, Very Respectfully yours &c
Peter Patterson
Nov 14

Nov 5, Nancy Lewis Calf
Surgeon at War
Washington City

Lancaster November 4 th 1831
Most Friend
Payment cannot be obtained upon the enclosed in this State I am informed, because it is said the endorsement on the Back is at Lancaster Will you have this error corrected -
The old man is now in great want and confined to the house by age and sickness - Will you have the proper abatement made and by letter inform me where the pay may be obtained for what was due last September - Let me hear from you soon as convenience and business will permit -
Your Friend
P. Beecher

Winfield County Ohio July the 5 th 1850
To William H. Irwin Esq. Sir Being called on by Matthias Schitz of said County for proof of his proper name we the under signed do therefore hereby certify that we have been acquainted with said Matthias Schitz for upwards of twenty five years and we know that his name has generally been spelled Schitz in the English. But in the German it is generally Spelt (Schütz)
Joseph Westland Samuel Westland
That this is a true and correct copy of the original of the above entitled matter. Before me appeared Matthias Schitz to me known to be the person described in and who executed the above certificate and was known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the same and was known to me to be the person described in and who executed the same this 5th day of July 1850 Sworn before me this 5th day of July 1850 J. B. Hughes P. C.