Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2,250, Jacob Greenwald, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Greenwald, Jacob Grünwald
S. 2.250
CONTENTS
carded

5467 Pennsylvania
Jacob Greenwald
in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Sergeant in the Conscription, commanded by Captain Löffler of the 1st Regt. commanded by Col. Geiger in the Penn- line for Sergeant 6 mos — $30.00
Paid at the treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1832 from 4 March 1831 to 4 July 1831. Age note filed 2 July 1838.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania — at the rate of 30 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of Feb. 1833 and put in H. A. Muhl L. and G. Home Res.
Arrears to 4th of Feb. 1832 $45.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 11 Mar 1833 15.00
$60.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Viral Luce Clerk Book D Vol. 11 Page 59

State of Pennsylvania } County of Berks } ss.
On this fourteenth day of January A.D. 1833 before the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, of the said County of Berks, now sitting. Personally appeared Jacob Greenwald, a resident of the Township of Greenwich in the said County, of Berks and State of Penn- sylvania, aged Eighty one years and upwards, 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, under the following named Officers and served as herein stated.
In the year 1777 he was drafted in the Militia joined a company of Volunteers in Weissenberg Township, Lehigh (then Northampton) County, in which Township he then resided, the said Company was under the command of Captain Joseph Sigfried and belonged to the Regiment of Colonel Henry Geiger. He marched from the said Township of Weissenberg to Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton to Sun- set County in New Jersey, after serving for a period of two months he was discharged. He does not recollect the names of the other Officers nor the Regiments with which he served, he has no documentary evidence of his said services. In the latter part of the same year he was drafted in the Militia, and chosen to command a Company in the Regiment of Colonel Michael Bolst, he marched from Bolst's (since Hyneman's) Tavern in the said Township of Weissenberg to Philadelphia, thence to Whitemarch where he was discharged after serving two months, he never received a discharge and has no documentary evidence of his said services, he does not recollect the names of the other Officers, nor with what regiments or Companies with which he served.
Some time afterward he does not recollect the exact time, but it was during the Revolutionary War, upon a report that the Indians had been committing depredations and ravages upon the whites he raised a Company of Volunteers and marched against them, but owing to their not being furnished with provisions, they were forced to return home.
His Company of Militia were afterwards ordered out but being himself unable to go with them, he employed Adam Stähler to take the command in his stead.
He served in the whole a period of six months.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of Pennsylvania.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforsaid in open Court.
Geo. Allan Clerk
Jacob Greenwald

We Andrew Kamp residing in the Township of Greenwich, and Christian Schmick, a resident of the Township of Manetowny in the said County of Berks. . . . . hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jakob Greenwald who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that, we believe him to be Eighty-one years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Andrew Kamp Christian Schmick
Sworn to and Subscribed before the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County January 14 th 1833.
W m Donagan
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant, was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Andrew Kamp who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident of the said Township of Greenwich and Christian Schmick is a resident of the said Township of Manetowny and are credible persons and their statement is entitled to Credit
I Jacob Pallade Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of 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 Jakob Greenwald for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Jacob Pallade

MMNYF
October 6, 1926
Merry C. Greenwald 2914 Green Ave. North Minneapolis, Minn.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 2250 it appears that Jacob Greenwald, or Grunwalt, while a resident of Weissenburg Township, Northampton County (later Lehigh County), Pennsylvania, volunteered in 1777 and served two months as Sergeant in Captain Joseph Sigfried's Company, Colonel Henry Geiger's Pennsylvania Regiment.
Late in 1777 he was chosen Captain and served two months in Colonel Michael Bobat's Pennsylvania Regiment, and some time after, raised a company of volunteers and marched against the Indians, his entire service amounting to six months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 14, 1833 while a resident of Greenwich Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania aged eighty-one years.
There is no data on file as to his family, and the above is the history of the only soldier by that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
F. N. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

Pennsylvania Bucks County ss
On this 27 th day of September A.D. 1832 before J s . Donagan one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County. personally appeared Dewald Holwick of the Township of Weissenburg County of Lehigh. in the said State who being duly sworn according to Law saith that he is well acquainted with Jacob Grenewald of the Township of Greenwich in the said County of Bucks, and that he knows that he served as a Sergeant in Captain Joseph Siegfrieds Company of Volunteers, in the Regiment of Col. Henry Geiger, during the Revolutionary War. for a period of Two months. in the State of New Jersey and that he afterwards served for Two months in the Militia at Philadelphia. all in the Year 1777- and further the deponent saith not. -
Sworn and Subscribed by the said Dewald Holwick whom I hereby certify to be a Credible Witness September 27 th 1832 before me
J s . Donagan
Dewald his Holwick mark
I Penn a . Bucks County ss.
I Jacob Sollade, Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Bucks, do hereby Certify that James Donagan before whom the foregoing deposition was subscribed and sworn, is a Justice of the Peace, duly Commissioned in and for the said County and that the signature thereto annexed is his genuine signature
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fourteenth day of January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
J. Sollade Proth y

Jacob Greenwald
Application for a pension
Term of service 6 months

Penn a Berks County ss.
Before J s . Donagan a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County. Personally came Peter Steiger of the Township of Greenwich in the said County of Berks whom I hereby certify to be a credible person and whose statement is entitled to credit, who after being duly sworn according to Law, saith that he is well acquainted with Jacob Grenewald of the Township of Greenwich in the said County and that the said Jacob Grenewald served in the militia during the Revolutionary war, that he was drafted in Weissenburg Township Northampton (now Lehigh) County, and further this deponent saith not. Sworn to and subscribed January 4 th 1833 before me J s . Donagan ys Peter Steiger
Penn a , Berks County ss.
I Jacob Pallade, Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Berks, do hereby certify that James Donagan before whom the foregoing Certificate and Deposition were sworn to and subscribed is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned in and for the said County; and that the signatures thereto annexed, are his genuine signatures.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Jacob Pallade Prothon.

allowed a Sergeant 6 mo.
$30 per ann.
Muhlenberg

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Jacob Greenewald further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No, see pages 5 VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth 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 grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. 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.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
¶ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Isaac Greenwalt - The objection is: that he has not mentioned with precision the length of his service & the different grades in which he served Ex. Vid. No 8.
He says however in his declaration that in the year 1777 he served in Capt. Joseph Siegfried's Company &c. "for a period of two months " and David Holwick a "credible witness" swears that he served "as a sergeant" in that company. He farther says that at the close of the year 1777 he was drafted in the Militia & chosen to command a company" - was discharged "after serving two months " - that he again raised a company of Volunteers &c - that he served in the whole "a period of six months ." It is true, in the last tour the exact period of service is not mentioned - but when we consider that militia were seldom, if ever, called out for a less period than two months & that he expressly declares his whole period of service to have been six months, he may be thought to have "mentioned with precision the length of his service & the different grades in which he served". - It is therefore hoped that the objection will be waived in favor of a man who is more than 81 years of age.

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 27.
1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Jacob Greenwald a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of thirty Dollars and " " Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837 to the 4th of September 1837
Respectfully, yours,
Abner K. Parrish Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

2914 - Queen Ave N; Minneapolis,
Minn.
Aug. 18, 1926.
Pension Bureau -; Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-,
I am anxious to join the Daughters of the American Revolution and was told I might obtain some information from you about my ancestry. One of my ancestors, I believe he would be my great-great-great grandfather, Jacob Seemwalt came to Philadelphia Pa in 1738 and in 1742 married Elizabeth Felbauer in Montgomery Co and went to live in what was then Northampton County, now Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.

township. He may have been too old to fight in the Revolution, but his son Abraham (Berks county, Pennsylvania) might have taken part in that war.
This is the line as near as I can trace it
Jacob came to America in 1738 (great-great-great grandfather)
↓ Abraham (Berks county) (great-great grandfather)
↓ Daniel (great grandfather) (Stony Run, Berks Co.)
↓ Aaron (d. at Battle of Gettysburg (Berks Co.))
↓ William (born at Anoka, Aug 8, 1859 d. June Apr. 22, 1884)
There was a Colonel Philip Greenawalt who came to America from Germany in 1749 and settled at Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
I am not sure how closely related he was to us or how direct the ancestry is. He was actively engaged in service during the Revolution.
I have until September 21st, 1926 to get my lineage straightened out and would appreciate your prompt attention in this matter.
Thanking you for your trouble
Yours respectfully, Mervyn H. Greenwald

1911 May 12. Name of col. sent to Hon Daniel F. Lafean - all letter attached to and negative clip - Grunewald 1925 May 9 Cong W. H. Guest given place where col. enl. see letter & carbon in Abraham Greenwald 539609 avz. 1926 H. to Mary L. Greenwald
Rev. War
2250
INVALID.
File No. 2250
Jacob Greenwald Serget Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index: Vol. 4, Page 149
[Arrangement of 1870.]