Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4845, John Heimer, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Heimer, John
RR. 4845
CONTENTS

Daniel H. Miller Esq. M. C.
John Heim

Philadelphia County ss.
On the 22 d April 1826 personally appeared before me Judah Strong one of the justices of the peace in and for said county Stephen Green and on his solemn oath doth depose and say that he has been personally acquainted with John Heimer for fifty years and him to have enlisted in the continental army and that he served more than one year under one enlistment that he served in the first company third regiment Pennsylvania line the time he enlisted or the exact time he was discharged I cannot exactly state but am positive that he served more than one year under one enlistment. The said John Heimer has always been an industrious and sober man and is now poor and in want and what is stated in his petition is correct so far as has come to my knowledge and further says not wit- ness my hand and seal.
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Witnesses Mary Ann Coats sworn and subscribed before Judah Strong Justice of Peace 22 April 1826
Philadelphia County ss.
On the 17 th May 1826 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said county Thomas Ross and on his solemn affirmation says that he has known John Heimer thirty years last past the greater part of the time he has worked for him and his father and that he has always supported his family by his own industry till within one or two years last past, owing to his age and bodily infirmity he has

not been able to labour and having no other means is reduced to extreme necessity and unless soon relieved will have to become a public charge. witness my hand and seal Affirmed and subscribed before J. D. Strong 17 th May 1826
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Philadelphia County ss On the 18 th day of May A. D. 1826 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, Thomas Coats, and on his solemn affirmation says that John Heimer purchased the lot of ground he now occupies of him last year in the year ninety six subject to a ground rent of twenty dollars per annum and there now remains rent due about two hundred dollars, which if the property was sold tomorrow, would hardly pay the rent now due to me witness my hand and seal Affirmed and subscribed Thomas Coats before J. D. Strong
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18 th May 1826

I certify the foregoing affidavits were taken before me and that they are all men of good standing in society and men of property. Witness my hand and seal this 20 th day 1826 Jedediah Strong 
Philadelphia County ss.
I Matthew Randall, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, do certify that Jedediah Strong, Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at that time of so doing, and still is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Philadelphia the first day of June A. D. 1826
Matthew Randall

Daniel L. Miller Esq m. C.
The petition of John Heimer N. H.
See letter Hon. J. N. Miller Dec 28. 1827
No. 506. John Heimer of Pa.

County of Philadelphia ss
On this seventeenth day of May Anno
Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty six personally appeared in open court before the honorable Edward King President of the Court of Common Pleas John Heimer resident in said County aged sixty four years and eight months, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and the 1 st May 1820 that he the said John Heimer enlisted for the term of two years on the seventh day of April in the year 1776, as near as his recollection serves him he having lost his papers, in the regiment commanded by General Cadwalader in the state of Pennsylvania on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until he was taken by the British at fort Washington where he received a wound in his leg by a musket ball which ball still remains in his leg making a protuberance the size of said ball, being confined in a mending house he effected his escape in less than forty eight hours and arrived in the spring of 1777 in the City of Philadelphia where he continued about one month and then joined the German regiment commanded by Col. Roonbach in the company commanded by Capt. Farnum and continued in said regiment one year and six months when he was discharged (having served the whole time of his enlistment) the morning before the surrender of Cornwallis, by Col. Stewart in the state of Virginia. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except and a pension of $40 per annum which he now receives from the state of Pennsylvania the present that his name is not on the roll of any state except Pennsylvania, where he supposes his name is enrolled and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension, namely, that while he continued in good health he had too much of the spirit of '76 to ask charity from any person his own hands administering to his necessities. But for two years past through old age and bodily infirmity he has been able to do little or nothing to support himself or family having a wife who is old and feeble also having been sick near one year and one daughter who is non compos mentis being about eighteen years of age and unless he had been relieved by charity would have been in a

able of supporting himself and family till this time having no property real personal or mixed whatsoever except a small frame house sixteen feet front situate on a twenty feet wide lot in the Northern Suburbs subject to a ground rent of twenty Dollars per annum which has been through the lenity of his Landlord accumulating from year to year till it now amounts to upwards of two hundred Dollars, which is considered to be the value of the house under the present incumbrance The value of his furniture does not exceed twenty Dollars And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the 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- ary war past on the 18 th 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 except the pension aforesaid other than what is contained in the schedule herunto annexed and by me subscribed witness the house and lot as above mentioned subject as aforesaid and house hold goods as above stated and no changes have been made in my property since many years nor since the 18 th March 1818
Sworn and subscribed before Edward King
John his  x Heimer mark
President of the Court of Common Pleas of Phil: adelphia City & County. 17 May 1826.
Sworn in open Court This 17 th May 1826
Matthew D'Arcy Pres

Philadelphia County ss:
I, Matthew Randall, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, do certify, that the foregoing is truly certified from the records thereof — and that in the opinion of the said court, the value of the property returned by the applicant is twenty dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, at Philadelphia, the fifth day of June A.D. 1826. —
Matthew Randall

House of Representatives Dec 18 th 1827
Sir
Have the goodness to inform me whether the enclosed papers are sufficient to establish the claim of the Applicant for a Pension - he is a meritorious individual and I should be glad if he could succeed -
Respectfully yours
D H Miller
J L Edwards Esq

REJECTED
4845
P. O.
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18