Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22435, for Jacob Petry, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Petry, Jacob
S. 22435
CONTENTS
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11.256 Pennsylvania
Jacob Petry
of Berks Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Will - of the Regt commanded by Col. Huston - in the Pennsylvania Militia
10 Mo. Service - $33.33
Entered on the Roll of, Pennsylvania at the rate of 33 - Dollars 33 - Cents per annum. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of April 1832 - sent to - Hon. H. A. Muhlenberg, Rising
Arrears to the 14th of March 1832 - 88.33 Pension allowances ending 4 July 1832 - 10.00
$83.33
{ Revolutionary Elam. Act June 7, 1832.
Entered by John S. Sprague - Clerk Vol. - 5 - Page 45
Letter to S. Levan Jr. Oct 16. 1833 Set to Hon H A Muhlenberg, H R. Dec 12. 1835. enclosing Certified copies of papers. Dead, see letter to S. Levan Jr, June 9. 1837.

No 16624
Jacob Petry
Return 64 -
Declaration made before a Justice of the Peace -
15 th March 1883
P 206
Adm C
10 mo's
Private
$ 33.00
Gen. H. A. Muhlen - by a Reading
Sam d Levan Pa
Reading Co - Pa

BRIEF in the case of Jacob Petry County of Berks in the State of Penn a (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Justice  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? bodily infirmity  3. How old is he? 75  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 1776 May 2 — 2 — draper Gen. Col. Heister, Capt. Diehl   " Oct 1 st — 2 — do Capt. Geo. Mill   " 77 Aug 5 — 2 — do Col. Hunter, Capt. Geist   " 78 Jan y 4 — 2 — do Capt. Wetstein   " 81 June — 2 — do Capt. Conrad  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Brandywine  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Bucks Co Pa  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Deposition  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Levin Belt Examining Clerk.

State of Pennsylvania
Berks County ss
I Peter Nagle Jur a Justice of the Peace for Berks City do hereby certify that Jacob Petry who is now an applicant for a pension to the United is unable to attend the court on account of Old age & other Bodily infirmities I have therefore in pursuance of the Act of Congress attended at his house of abode and administered the following Oath.
State of Pennsylvania
Berks County ss
On this 18 th day of October One Thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Berks. in the State of Pennsylvania. Personally appeared Jacob Petry a Resident of the Borough of Reading in the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, Aged seventy five 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 Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the Service of the United States in the Wars of the Revolution under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated, that he entered a volunteer first, in Reading Berks County Penn in the Month of May 2 d of the year 1776 in Captain Diehls Company of Militia in the Pennsylvania Regt commanded then by Gabriel Heister; that he Marched from Reading to Germantown and Philadelphia from their To Newtown in Berks County Penn which was the Head Quarters and that he continued in this Service until the 2 d July of same year when he was honorably discharged for his full Service at Newtown Bucks City Penn for two Months further Service. and that he again entered in same County and State aforesaid the first day of October 1776 at Reading in the Company of Militia commanded by Captain George Will the Regt commanded by Genl Ervin Marched through Pottsgrove, Germantown Phila to Newtown Bucks County Received an honorable discharge for his full Service at Newtown County & State aforesaid on the first day of Decr of same year. and that he again entered at Reading County and State aforesaid in the beginning of the Month of August of the year 1777 in the Company of Militia commanded by Captain Conrad Geist in the Pennsylvania Regt commanded by Colonel Hunter. that he was in the Battle of Brandywine the latter end of Sept r of the second week in Sept r 1777 that he was honorably discharged at a place called Montgomery County Penn October 1777 for two Months further Service.

Service, and that he entered the fourth Service as aforesaid in Reading Penn in the Month of January about the 10th day of said Month of the Year 1778 in the Company of Militia commanded by Captain Wetstein in this Service I continued for the full and entire term of two Months only as a guard at the Commissary Store at Reading and was honourably discharged in March of the said Year at Reading Penn and that he entered the fifth time, the first day of June 1781 in the Militia commanded by Captain Nicholas Conrad in this Service I also continued the term of a guard over the Hanoverians who were prisoners at near Reading Penn at a certain place called Gallows hill and was honourably discharged at Reading Penn in August of same year and that he had received discharges for all of his herein stated Services amounting in all Ten Months which have since been lost; and that Jacob Bright was Ensign, and John Ridel Lieutenant of Captain Diehl's Company in which he served, and declares that during his said Services he was acquainted with the following officers who were in the Service of the United States in the war of the Revolution viz Colonel George Nagle Colonel Jos Hoester, Captain Jacob Bower, William Wirtman Ensign, he was wounded by the Enemy Lieutenant Vanderslice, Captain Bower Colonel Nicholas Lot, Captain John Wirtman He hereby relinquishes every claim to a Pension whatever except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any State or the Agency of any State
Jacob Bright
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Peter Nagle Jun: Justice of the Peace

State of Pennsylvania Berks County ss.
Be it known that on this 19 th day of October One Thousand eight hundred and thirty two before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Berks personally appeared Casper Maderer of Reading in said County who being first duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that Jacob Petry who has subscribed his Name to the foregoing declaration is the identical James Jacob Petry who served in Captain Will's Company in the Reg t commanded by Genl. Ervin and that the said Jacob Petry and that the said Petry was honorably discharged at Newton Bucks County Penn a for two months faithful services, that Petry was discharged in Dec r of the year 1775 1776 and deponent further saith that Jacob Petry served two months in the Company of Militia commanded by Captain Conrad Geist in the Berks a Reg t commanded by Colonel Hunter that the said Petry continued this service until he was honorably discharged for his said service in the Month of October of the year 1777 at a certain place called Montgomery Co ty Penn a further saith not
Casper Maderer
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Before Me Peter Nagle jun r Justice of the Peace.
I Peter Nagle jun r do hereby certify that Casper Maderer who has subscribed his Name to the foregoing affidavit of Jacob Petry declaration that the said Casper Maderer is a credible Person who is fully entitled to credit and I am fully acquainted with him as such In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & subscribed my Name at Reading in the County of Berks Penn a the day & year aforesaid
Peter Nagle jun r
and I do further certify that it is my Opinion that Jacob Petry who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration is seventy five years Old and it is generally known that he served a Soldier in the war of the Revolution and I do fully concur in that Opinion that he served ten months as stated in the foregoing Declaration
Peter Nagle jun r J. Peace

State of Pennsylvania Berkis County ss
I John Addams Prothonotary of the court of common Pleas in and for the county of Berks do hereby certify that Peter Nagle Jr. Esquire before whom the foregoing Declaration of Jacob Petry was made and the affidavit of Casper Kaderer was and is now a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Berks, duly commissioned and authorized to administer Oaths full faith and credit are due him in that capacity and of Right ought to be given and I do further certify that it appears by the foregoing Declaration that the applicant is unable to attend our court and that the foregoing contains the Original Proceedings of Peter Nagle Junior Justice of the Peace in the matter of the application of Jacob Petry for a Pension and I further certify that the said Justice concurs in the Opinion that the Applicant served Ten Months in the different engagements as stated in the foregoing declaration and do further certify that the Names purporting to be Peter Nagle Jr are all true genuine Signatures
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 19 th day of October 1832
J. Addams Prot.
105524
Jacob Petry

June 9.
Mr. Cal H. H. Smith
James L. Edwards Esquire
FREE
Commissioner of Pensions
City Washington D.C.

Reading Pa June 6 th 1837 James L. Edwards Esq r
Dear Sir at the request of Mr. Amos Moyer a son in Law of Jacob Petry deceased who was a Private in the Army of the Revolutionary War & a Pensioner of the United States Payable at the Penn Agency at Phila Sir Mr. Moyer stated to me that the Mr. Jacob Petry lived with him in the same House & having left no Widow and that said J. Petry died on the seventh day of April last past A.D. 1837 in the Borough of Reading Berks County Penn and that whereas the balance due to the Day of his decease was only one Month and seven days he stated that it would only incur unnecessary trouble and desired me to enclose the Original Certificate of said Dec d and forward it to the War Department. I have therefore complied with the request. Sir please inform me if the same came to hand.
I am Sir Respectfully your Obedient
J. L. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions
Samuel Levan Penn

for a statement of the military history of _____ a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. Jacob Petry S.F. 22435-
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     2 mos. May 2. 1776 July 2. 1776 Dickhl. Gabriel Heister Penn.   2 mos. Oct. 1. 1776 Dec. 1. 1776 George Wells General Irvine   1 mos. Aug. 3. 1777 Oct. 1777 Conrad Geist Hunter   2 mos. Jan'y 4. 1778 Mch 5. 1778 Waltstein as a guard at commissary Sta.   June 1. 1781 Aug. 1781 Nicholas Conrad as a guard  
Battles engaged in, Brandywine
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Reading Penn.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 18. 1832. His el. was al.
Residence at date of application, Reading, Berks Co. Penn.
Age at date of application, Born in 1758 at Upper Pfaltz, Germany
Remarks: (died Apr 7 1837 at Reading Penn. at the house of his son in law Amos mayor leaving no widow. Soldier came to America when ten years old.)
There is no other data as to his family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
6-2856
* Gabriel does not appear ever to have been Colonel but was a Major

Resolution
22435 INVALID.
File No. 22435
Jacob Petree Rev Mr
Act: June 7 th 89
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 317
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1915 July 14 Hist. to W. A. Petree, V.L.M.
1920 Oct 5 Hist. to Mabel F. Petree — EW
1920 Oct 7 Hist. to Mary R. Kappman

Payments to be made J. Ptry at, Philadelphia by Forest W. S. B. B. A. Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of — Pennsylvania
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E. Vol. 5 Page 45 by J. T. Sprague , Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1834, - Jacob Petry of the State Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is entitled to receive - Twenty three dollars and Thirty three cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1834, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

State of Pennsylvania Berks County ss.
On this 18 th day of April A d one Thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court, before the Hon. Garrick Mallery Esq. and his associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting, Jacob Peter a Resident of Reading, in the County of Berks, and State of Pennsylvania aged Seventy five 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 act of Congress passed June 7 th , 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated, that he entered a Volunteer in Captain Diehl's Company Militia, Musquetry, in Reading, County and State aforesaid entered May the 2 nd A d 1776 and continued said service until the 2 nd July, of same year and that his services were at Newton Bucks County Penn a which was then Hoead Quarters and that he again entered, drafted in Captain George Will Company, Musquetry, in the Borough of Reading, County and State aforesaid in the beginning of the Month of October 1776 and continued in this service for two Months was honorably discharged on the first day of December of the year aforesaid and that Major Gabriel Fletcher had the command of Captain Diehl's company and General Ewing that of Captain Will's company by Regiments and that he again entered in Reading, County and State aforesaid in Captain Conrad Geiss's Company Militia, Musquetry on the third day of August A d 1777 and in Reg t commanded by Colonel Hunter and that he was in the Battle of Brandywine in the latter end of the Second week of September in the year aforesaid. continued this service two Months and was Honorably discharged October fifth the year aforesaid in Montgomery County Penn a and that he again entered at Reading County and State aforesaid in Captain Rotstein Company Militia Musquetry entered June 4 th A d 1778 continued in this service a Centinel at the Commissary Store in Reading for two Months was Honorably discharged at Reading March 5 th of same year and that he entered again into Captain Nicholas Conrad Company of Militia, Musquetry at Reading County & State aforesaid January the 11 th A d 1778 and that in this service he was placed to guard the Prisoners, Hanoverians, at the Hille near Reading continued to serve two Months and was Honorably discharged for his last service March fifth 1778 at Reading, aforesaid

and that he served and continued to serve in the different companies aforesaid in the war of the Revolution for the full term of Ten Months and for this period he claims a Pension, and that he was Born in Germany at a certain place called upper Faltz and that he was Born in the Year 1758 and that he has no Record of his Age and that when he came to America he was Ten years of Age and that when called into the services aforesaid he lived in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, and that he has lived in Reading, County, and State aforesaid ever since the Revolutionary War and that he now lives in the same place; and has never changed his place of Residence only during his services, and that in Captain Deahls service he served a Volunteer and that of the other services he was Drafted and that during his said services he was engaged in no other capacity than executing the duties of a Soldier in the Militia Musquetry and that during his said services he marched through the following named places and was there that from Reading via Germantown Phila to Newton Bucks County Pa and from Reading to Easton and from Here to Amboy, and that he was acquainted with the following named officers which were in the said services namely, Colonel George Nagle Colonel Jos. Heistron Ensign William Pitman Captain Jacob Bauer Captain Mears Captain Balm Lieutenant Vanderlice Colonel Nicholas Lok Captain John Pitman & Ensign James Williams and that he has obtained the Testimony of leather Madera of Reading Penn & that said leather Madera has since Died on the first day of February last past 1833 and He hereby relinquishes every claim to a Pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his Name is Not on the Pension Roll of any State whatever or agency.
Jacob Fubry
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid before the Judges of said Court
AC. Allade Rkt.

In so the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter in the case of the applicant Jacob Petry, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that said applicant Jacob Petry was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he has stated and the Court further certifies that Jacob Petry is fully entitled to credit in the matters stated in the foregoing Declaration and that he is of the age of seventy five years
Jas. Dallace Proth.
State of Pennsylvania
Berks County ss I Jacob Dallace Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Berks do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Petry the Declarant for a Pension. And In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court and subscribed my Name and quality at Reading Berks City Penn. April 12 th A.D. 1833
Jas. Dallace Proth.

1601 Buchanan Ave - St. Joseph, Mo - August 25 - 1920 -
Bureau of Pensions. Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs: -
Rev. 10/20/20
Can you tell me the Revolutionary record of Jacob Petree who was a Pennsylvania soldier.
Very truly yours Mabel F. Petree

Rev. Sec 3245 Centre Ave. Reading, Pa.
Bureau of Pensions:- Washington, D.C.-
According to the Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 23, Page 523- under date of April 16, 1833- Jacob Petry of Berks County applied for a pension.
Mary Arthur Keppleman, who is applying for membership in the D.A.R. through Jacob Petry would like to have a record of his service.

Any expense attached will be defrayed by her.
Thanking you, I remain.
Yours truly.
(Mrs. C. M.)
Mary Owen Steinmetz Librarian, Burd C. Og. D.A.R.
August 31, 1920.

NR-1 Rev Sec
BARTLETT BROTHERS LAND AND LOAN COMPANY FARM LOANS
ST. JOSEPH. MO. July 6, 1915.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I am endeavoring to qualify as a son of the American Revolution and I seriously suspect one Jacob Petry, a private in Capt. Geist's company 6 battalion Berks County, Pa., militia, of being an ancestor of mine.
Will you advise me if he ever had a pension? If so, can you give me the date of his birth, death and the names of his heirs?
Thanking you in advance for your attention to this matter
I am,
Yours truly,
W. A. Petree W. A. Petree.