Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4334, Martin Greinder, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
or Greinder, Martin Grinder
P. 4334 B.L.W. 30703-160-55
Ann
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A. D. Gillespie (Oct 16) 1855 let. " " "
Vol 8 = 133
67.77 Act on 3/55 ap 1855
Ann Grinder Wid of Martin Grinder Pa.
Pa: Mil D:
Rev. William Penniman Rev. War
Ad: 160 Acres June 10 th 1856. Pa No Tallow Cr. Pa. Boyleton.
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A. D. Gillespie Wren Greenville Mercer Co. Pa

State of Pennsylvania ) ss. County of Mercer )
On this 16 th day of September A.D. One Thousand Eight hundred fifty six personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas H. of said County at her residence Anna Greiner a resident of West Salem in the County of Mercer Penn a age Eighty five years who being first duly affirmed according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed and approved on the 3 rd day of February A.D. 1833
That she is the widow of Martin Greiner who was a private in the Revolutionary war. That he was of the Berks (Berks) County Militia Pennsylvania Line That she does not know of her own personal knowledge when he entered the service but from frequently hearing him tell about it in his lifetime believes he entered the Army soon after the Tea Ship was scuttled for the term of five years and served five years. Two of his officers names as she now recollects them was Heister and Roggle or Noggle He also served under Col. Heister or Heister he was in the Battle of Princeton to the best of her recollection but states that her memory very far gone - Thinks Noggle was Captain and is pretty certain that his Colonel was Heister. He said he was in the Battle of Brandywine. He travelled to Brunswick in Jersey.

She further declares that she was married to the said Martin Grindler in the fall of 1820 don't recollect the day - By Rev. David McLean that her aforesaid husband Martin Grindler died in Nov. 1843 at Mercer County Penn a in West Salem
that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed there is no public or private record of her said marriage nor of her husband's death of which she has any knowledge but there are many living witnesses of her death living within three miles of her home with Richard Brown Joseph Brown Esq. Rev. Jesse Smith Rev. Mr. Waug. John Speir David Williams & others said they all know of our living together as man & wife during all the time between our
marriage & his death but those that were present at our marriage I believe are all dead she further states that the said Martin Grindler is the identical person named in a certificate of five pounds a copy of which is hereto attached also that he is the identical person who was named & placed on the pension book, as Roll, of the State of Pennsylvania
Act of 22 nd May 1834 knows that she is the identical person named & placed on the pension book of the aforesaid State and now receiving a pension or annuity from said State by act of 5 th Nov 1852
She further states that she is the identical person who obtained bounty land warrant No. 30,703 under the act of Congress 3 rd March 55 - 160 ac for her said husband since her application & proof now on file in said case is respectfully referred for further proof & made a part of this act to proof of her husband's service by living Witness

The State she knows of no one now living who can testify to it as she believes they are all dead.
She hereby relinquishes every claim to a Pension or annuity except the present one and that her name is not on the Pension rolls of any agency of the State except as before stated.
Attest Darius Williams A. D. Gillespie
Ann Greinder Mark
Sworn to & subscribed before me the 16 Sept 1886
Wm. McKean Judge
We Jesse Smith a Clergyman residing in West Salem in the County of Mercer Pa and Josiah Brown a Justice of the Peace in same place do certify that we are well acquainted with Ann Greinder widow of Martin Greinder dec. That she subscribed and was sworn (or affirmed) to the foregoing declaration that we believe her to be eighty five (85) years of age that we were well acquainted with Martin Greinder her husband now dead that he was a very old man when he died would believe him to be over ninety years of age when he died he was reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resided (which was this West Salem Mercer Co. Pa) to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion we also certify that we know of them living together as man & wife were not at their marriage but from our knowledge & from it never being disputed in the neighborhood we believe Martin & Ann Greinder were husband & wife were always so reputed by their neighbors she is now a widow the widow of Martin Greinder & has been some twelve years. The said Brown further states that he saw said Greinder when he was dead some twelve years ago was at his funeral & know it to be so Jesse Smith Josiah Brown

The foregoing certificate was sworn to by said Smith & Brown before me on the day aforesaid
Wm McKean Judge
I William McKean one of the judges of the Mercer County Court in & for said County & State do certify that Anna Grinstead the above named Applicant from age & bodily infirmity is unable to appear in open court and that it would be an unnecessary expense and too onerous for her she being very poor that she resides over fifteen miles from the place of holding Courts in said county and I went to her residence and I also do hereby certify & declare in my opinion after investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogation prescribed by the War- Department that the said Anna Grinstead is the widow of Martin Grinstead aforesaid and that he was a revolutionary soldier and served as she states for the certify that Jesse Smith Clergyman & Josiah Brown Justice of Peace who have signed the foregoing certificate that said Smith is a respectable Clergyman & Brown a Justice of the Peace that they reside at the places they have stated that they are credible & men of good fame and to their statements full faith & credit is due & ought to be given
Wm McKean Judge

67.787
Anne Grinders. wid. of Martin Grinder Revolutionary Soldier
All communication to be directed to A. D. Gillespie West Greenville Mercer Co. Pa

State of Pennsylvania } ss,
County of Mercer } on this 4 th day of April one
thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within & for the County and State aforesaid Anne Grinder aged 80 years a resident of Mercer County Penn a who after being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Martin Grinder who deceased who was a Soldier of the Revolutionary War That she does not know the name of the office under which he served but she was placed on the Pension list of the State of Penn a by an act of the Legislature thereof by an act passed & approved the 5 th day of May 1852 in pamphlet laws page 607 as reference to the same will appear & that she now claims it, same annually that her husband aforesaid was entered on pension Book No 10 of said State on & by act of 20 May 1839 from 1 Dec r 1839 She further states that she was married to the said Martin Grinder at Mercer Co. Pa on the day of December 24 th 1835 by one D. McLean a preacher whose name before her said marriage was Anne Kelly that her said husband died at Mercer Co. Pa on the sometime in the year 1843 and that she is now a widow that she knows of no public or private record of her said marriage or of his said death and believes there never was any She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bount y land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved the 3 rd day of March 1855.
Attest: Deborah Brown
J. J. Hassinger
Anne Grinder mark

We E. W. Mizner William Brown of West Salem Township County of Mercer State of Pennsylvania upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Anne Grinder in our presence and that we believe that she is the identical person she represents herself to be both from her age appearance statements & also from her being always so considered and reputed that we knew the said Martin Grinder and Anne his wife lived together & cohabited together as man & wife for over twenty years before he died and that he died at West Salem Mercer Co. Pa. about the year 1843 we know this of our own knowledge he was buried on Richard Browns farm at West Salem Mercer Co. his grave can be seen any time he was always reputed to be a revolutionary soldier we know her to be a widow now & she is also the widow of said Martin Grinder we were at Martin Grinders funeral aforesaid
July 11 1852
William Brown
The foregoing declaration & affidavits were sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year therein stated and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the appli- -cant is the identical person she represents herself to be & that I have no interest in this claim -
Josiah Brown J.P.

State of Pennsylvania
101
Mifflin County ss
J. W. Finley Testimony
of the Court of Common Pleas in
and for the County and State
aforesaid before me, Joseph
Prothonotary before whom
the foregoing declaration was
taken at the time of getting
the same an acting Justice of the Peace in
for the County aforesaid, and that to all
his official acts and credit is due. Then
With the signature Jonah Prothonotary Sub-
scribed is his true & genuine signature
Given under my hand and the Seal
of said Court this 9 th day of April A.D.
1855
J. W. Finley Prothonotary

Additional Ev. application of Ann Greinder widow of Martin Greinder a revolutionary soldier for Bonus Land under act of 3 Mar. 1855 & supplements.
No 67787

West Greenville 3 rd Jun 1856
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send the certificate of Ann Greigider being a State pensioner. I believe I sent a certificate of Martin her husband being also a pensioner in his life time if they are not on file I will get them at Harrisburg Send them on. you have also a cert if of 5 th showing amount of pay due him for revolutionary service yours &c
V. D. Gillispie

✓ 30.703
3 Nov 1881

4334.
P. O.
Ann Grinder
Service:
Wid Martin
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

No 6532 Ann Grinder widow of Martin Penn.
A. D. Gillespie Octo 10/56
4334
3 Feby 1833

Additional Evidence in application No. 67,787 3 Mar 55 Luff.
Boynton
Commissioner of Pensions Office
PAID
John Andrew 67283 Mar 1 1955
Washington

67285 John Breider D. D. D. D. Madison
THE
William Lloyd
Boyet
3 mrs 552 mth.
W. 6 1/2 1/8
in addition
for due
delivered
Washington

67/67 John Lander March "Addisonall" Papers Evidence"
Boynton
Wormwood Prison of Purvis Bureau of the Prison to
FREE

D
Van Munchen & Co. Pension Office Washington DC

West Greenville Mercer Co Penn te
27 Sep 1856
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you the application of Ann Grinder widow of Martin Grinder Dec d a revolutionary soldier for Pension - If there is any other proofs required that we can obtain you will please let me know and I will attend to it for her
Yours respectfully A. D. Gillespie

State of Pennsylvania
Meuer County ss
I David W Freadley Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid certify that William M c Lean Esqr before whom the annexed affidavits of Ann Grainer & others
were taken, was at the time of taking the said affidavits an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Mercer duly Commissioned and qualified and that to all his official acts full faith and credit is and ought to be given. And I further certify that the several signatures "Wm M c Lean" subscribed to said affidavits, respectivity and purporting to be his, are the genuine signatures of the aforesaid Wm M c Lean Esqr
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Mercer this 26 th day of September A D 1856
David W Freadley Prothonotary

Treasury Department Harrisburg Nov 6. 1835
I hereby certify that the Pension Books in this department shows that by an Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania approved the 22d day of May AD 1839 a Gratuity of Forty dollars, and an Annuity of Forty dollars were granted to "Morton Greinder of Mercer County Pennsylvania" and that said Annuity has been regularly paid up to 1st July 1845
Given under my hand and the seal of this Dep- artment the day and year above written
Eli Ship State Treasurer
Fees 62 1/2 Paid

No. 15.527 } A.
$ 5.0.0. Specie
I do hereby Certify, that the State of Pennsylvania is indebted to Martin Grinded of Berks Co. Militia in the sum of Five pounds, Specie, with lawful interest, from the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty three; the same being due upon an account settled in this office, Pursuant to an Act of Assembly, passed the first day of April 1784.
Comptroller- General's Office } March 20. 1788
M c Nicholson
Auditor General's Office Hanisburg Nov. 6. 1855.
I certify the above to be a true copy of the original remaining on file in this Department,
Witness my hand and seal of office the day & year aforesaid,
W m D. Wallace, for E. J. Barks, Auditor General.

#30,703-160.
June 3, 1858.
Mrs. Hays
Rev. Asa
Martin Grader
& William Kelley

West Salem Mercer County Pennsylvania
May the 27 th 1854
Hon. L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
Dear sir Mrs Ann Grinder the widow The Daughter and Widow of revolutionary Sol- diers wished to know if the name of Martin Grin- der can be found on the rolls of the Old war he serv- ed in the Company of Captain Joseph Hester Col Nogles Regiment and was at the battle of Flatbush near New York he serve for some considerable length of time he is deceased 8 years he never drew land nor pension from the United States, but a small one the State of Pennsylvania for a few years before his death, her Fathers name was William Frielley she heard her Father say that he was at the battle of Amboy he was a native of Chester County Pennsy- lvania.
Down from Wisconsin Ashippun Dodge County a few days since, and probably may be here for some weeks.
Direct your Answer to, West Greenville Mercer County Pa.
Respectfully your friend
Thomas Hays

No 67787
Ann Greinder wid of Martin Greinder Revol. y Soldier under act of Mar. 1855
"Additional Evidence"

No 1552] A
£5.0.0 Spice.
I Do hereby certify, that the state of Pennsylvania is indebted to Martin Grinder of Berks C o Militia ————— in the sum of Five pounds ————— Spice, with lawful interest from the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty three; the same being due upon an Account settled in this office. Pursuant to an Act of Assembly, passed the first Day of April 1784.
Comptroller General's office, } M c Nicholson March 20 th 1788 }
Auditor General's office Harrisburg Pa July 2 nd 1855
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original certificate remaining on file in this office.
Witness my hand and seal of office, the day & year above written.
E. Banks
Auditor Genl, for A. A. Banks

To the Commissioners of Pensions
I herewith send you a copy of the Record of a certificate for 5 L. due Martin Greenlee a Revolutionary soldier which I think is sufficient evidence that he served more than 14 days, also certificate of his being placed on the Pension Rolls of the state furthermore you will find his widow Anne Greenlee was placed on Pension Books of the state after his decease by act of 5 May 1852 Pamphlet L. page 607 Now are not the statutes of 20 May 1839 & 5 May 1852 sufficient evidence of his service and a certificate of 5 L. is certainly evidence that he served over 14 days being the wages of over two months the fact is he served over 5 years but when all traces of such events are lost by the destruction of the rolls & the death of those then living can there be better evidence required. If it is it will be impossible to obtain a realization of the promise of Congress by their requiring impossibilities & the apparent object of the act frustrated with this evidence she claims a warrant for 100 00 if decided unfavorably please inform her what course she will have to pursue in order to appeal you truly
J. D. Gillespie West Greenville Pa

Treasury Department Harrisburg Nov 6, 1855
I hereby Certify that the Pension Books in this department shews that by an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania approved the 5th day of May AD 1852 an annuity of Forty dollars was granted to "Ann Greinder of Mercer County widow of Martin Greinder, a soldier of the Revolutionary war" and that said annuity has been regularly paid up to the 1st July AD 1855
Given under my hand and the seal of this Dep- artment the day and year above written
Eli Sipes State Treasurer
Fees 62 1/2 paid

No 67787
Claim of Ann Greinder widow of Martin Greinder Revolutionary Soldier recorded 93 Mar/55
Additional Evidence

Treasury Department Harrisburg Oct 19/1833
I hereby certify that the Pension Books of this department shows that by Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Approved May 20th AD 1839 a Gratuity of Forty dollars and an Annuity of Forty dollars payable semi annually were granted to Martin Greinder of Mercer County Pennsylvania and that said Gratuity was paid to him and also that said Annuity was regularly paid to him up to 1st July AD 1845
Witness my hand and seal of office the day and year aforesaid
Eli Slifer State Treasurer
Fees 64 cts paid