Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38047, William Hoffler, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Handwriting practice lines with a cursive 'a' on the left.
Hofler, William
S. 38047 B.L.W. 2.162-300
CONTENTS

7254
Virginia.
William Haffler
of Norfolk Coy in the state of Virginia who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Gibson of the Virginia line, for the term of Seven years
inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 Febry 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 March 1819 and sent to Col. Newman H Auditor Washington,
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $ 6.45 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept 4. 1819 48.
$ 54 45
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
not continental
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Col. Freeman H auditn
Adm ~
March 5. 1819. date certifi: ~

DISTRICT OF Virginia , ss.
On this 10 th day of Feby 1819, before me, the subscriber, one of the Judges of the General Court for the said district, personally appeared W m Hoffler aged 69 years, resident in Norfolk County in the said district, who, being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he, the said William Hoffler  was appointed to  enlisted for the term of  the command of a company on the  day of  in the year 1776 in the first Va.
in the company commanded by Colonel  State  Regiment commanded by Colonel George Gibson in the line of the State of Virginia and on the Continental Establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, within  during the war , when he was disbanded or discharged from service after the Siege of Yorktown , that he was in the battles of Monmouth Germantown the siege of York
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except the affidavits
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
I, Rich d Parker Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify that it appears, to my satisfaction, that the said William Hoffler did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months at one time, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support. Given under my hand this
10 th Feby 1819.
Rich d Parker
I further certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original now on file in the Department.
Turn over.

Virginia Civil
On this 10 th day of February 1819, personally appeared before me Rich d Parker a Judge of the Gen l Court for the District afo d Col. Stephen Wright of Norfolk County & made oath that he is acquainted with the circumstances of the within named Declarant William Wil- -son & knows that he is in the reduced circumstances I stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support - Given under my hand the day & year afo d .
Rich d Parker
Virginia Norfolk County to wit.
I William Wilson Clerk of the Superior Court of law for the County aforesaid, in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Richard D. Parker whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is one of the Judges of the General Court of the District of Virginia, and Judge of the Superior Court of law for the County aforesaid, duly appointed and qualified, and that due faith & credit is and ought to be given to all his acts and decrees in such. Given under my hand this 12 th day of February 1819, in the 43 d year of our Independence.
Wm Wilson

Virginia, Norfolk County to wit:
I William Wilson Clerk of the Superior Court of law for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify, that there is no seal of office of the said Superior Court.
Given under my hand the 12 th February 1819
Wm Wilson

William Hoffler
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ordered and sent with
Henry Northrup Esq. Capitol Hill Washington
Henry Northrup Esq.
Washington D.C.

At a Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery continued by adjournment and held for the Borough of Norfolk, on Monday the twenty fourth day of November, Eighteen hundred and thirty four.
The Court doth certify that it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court by the oath of William Pierce that Sarah the wife of Samuel Higginbottom of the County of Norfolk, and Frances late the wife of Alexander Dene of Surry County Virginia, are the children and only heirs at law of William Hoffler late of said County, deceased, who is reputed to have been a Captain or Major of the Virginia line of the Army of the Revolution. And the same is ordered to be certified accordingly.
I John Williams Clerk of the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the Borough of Norfolk in the state of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing order is truly copied from the records of the said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this first day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty four, and of the Commonwealth the fifty ninth.
John Williams
Mr. Sir
I send you the Power of Atty: Copy of the order of the Court, I could not do so before as the Copy of the order of Court could not be had till the Court adjourned which took place on Saturday night - I have paid Higginbottom the £60 - I believe you will find the papers correct.
Very Respect.
W. H. Robertson.
Norfolk Dec. 1. 1834.

7174 21 April 1818 — 4 Mar 1819 entered the service in 1778 + continued to the siege of Little York in 1781 — when he was discharged for the 1 st State Reg under Colt Gibson — finished as a Capt d & afterwards as a Major
1814
Washington City D.C.
Henry Woodhull
Miss F Hoffler
Henry Northrup Esq.
Topper Crain for Seal

Know all men by these presents That we Samuel Higginbotham and Sarah — his wife late Sarah — Hossler of Norfolk County and State of Virginia do hereby constitute and appoint Henry Overthorp of Louisville Kentucky now but now at Washington City our true and lawful attorney with power of substitution for us and in our name to procure proofs and vouchers and pay the same before the proper department at Washington City and to ask demand and re- ceive from the Secretary of war of the United States a warrant for the proportion of Bounty land due us from the United States in right of the services of our late father William Hossler as a Capt of the First Virginia State Regiment in the war of the Revolution and to deposit the said warrant when so received with the Com- missioner of the General Land Office and to ask demand receive and accept for the certificate or land scrip due thereon and to assign transfer and make sale of the same and to do and perform all manner of things touching the same which we our- selves might do were we personally present. Witness our hands and seals this twentieth day of November 1834  Witness M. Kirby.  Samuel Higginbotham Sarah H. Higginbotham mother
State of Virginia } Personally appeared before me the City of Norfolk } undersigned the attorney of said Samuel Samuel Higginbotham and Sarah his wife Signers and sealers to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same - to be their voluntary act and said for the purposes therein named. Also the said Sarah being duly sworn according to law. Saith that to the best of her knowledge and belief her late father William Hossler was a Capt of the First Virginia State Regiment of the war of the Revolution and served as such until the close of the war or as long as his services were wanted. She also says that she has never received a warrant from the United States for the three hundred acres of Bounty land due him from the United States neither does she believe that her late father ever received it or transferred his right to the same in any manner whatsoever - Sworn submitted and acknowledged before me this twentieth day of November 1834  M. Kirby Mayor

In the name of God amen: I William Hossler of Naselle County State of Virginia being weak of body but of sound mind and memory do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament.
Inspiring I commit my soul into the hands of him who gave it me beseeching him through the merits of our blessed Saviour Christ to receive it into the mansions of eternal blessedness; my body I request to be interred in such manner as the customs and usages of Society require as to what goods it has pleased God to bestow upon me I dispose of them in the following way viz: Having a claim against Beverly Baylow for One hundred and fifty dollars with interest - Having a pension from the General Government for my Revolutionary services from the tenth of February of the present year at $20.00 per month until my decease Having Six hundred dollars in my possession and sundry articles of stock and furniture I do hereby after deducting my just debts, divide equally between Samuel Higginbotham and Alexander Love. I hereby make known that I owe to Samuel Denny, State of Tennessee two hundred dollars which I request to be paid when applied for. Another debt that I wish specially to acknowledge is a claim of Major William Wright of Seventy dollars. I direct that forty five dollars be given to my nephew Willy Barnes. I appoint Samuel Higginbotham and Alexander Love executors to this my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty second day of March one thousand eight hundred & nineteen.
Witness J Schoofield John Brantley William Pool his William X Hossler (Seal) mark
at a Court held for Naselle County on the 16 th May 1820 Filed

The last Will and Testament of William Hoefler deceased was proved by the oath of William Pool one of the subscribing witnesses and ordered to be recorded. And in the matter of Samuel Heggemethard one of the executors therein named who made oath thereto and together with John Woodside and William Pool his securities entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of One thousand and five hundred dollars with conditions as the law directs. Certificate is granted the said executor for obtaining a probate of the said Will in due form.
I William H Wilson Clerk of the County Court of Norfolk in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the records of the said Court.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the said Court on this 19 th day of November in the year 1834, and of our Independence the 59 th .
William H Wilson
ee

Not recd.
November 22, 1933
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Mrs. Charles Cresap Ward 360 South Cloverdale Avenue Los Angeles, California
WILLIAM HOFFLER S. 38047 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of a pensioner named William Hoffler, who served as private in the Virginia troops.
You are furnished below the history of the only soldier named William Hoffler found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data therein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 38047, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution.
The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not shown in the claim.
William Hoffler was appointed in 1776 captain, served in Colonel George Gibson's 1 st Virginia State Regiment, served later as major, was in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth and Siege of Yorktown, after which in the consolidation of regiments he became a supernumerary officer.
He applied for pension April 21, 1818, at which time he was residing in Norfolk County, Virginia. A certificate for pension was issued in his behalf March 5, 1819. Three hundred acres of bounty land were allowed, also, on account of his service as captain in the Virginia Line, War of the Revolution.
In 1819 he was still residing in Norfolk County, Virginia, aged sixty-nine years. He died in said Norfolk County, Virginia; the date of his death is not on record in this office, but his will was recorded in Norfolk County, Virginia, May 16, 1820.
The name of soldier's wife is not shown in the claim.

In 1834 the following children of the soldier, William Hoffler, were referred to as his only heirs at law:- Sarah, wife of Samuel Higginbotham, who was then living in Norfolk County, Virginia, and Frances, formerly the wife of Alexander Love (deceased), late of Surry County, Virginia, but then the wife of Reverend Isaiah Harris, of Surry County, Virginia, their place of residence in 1834. The marriage bond between Frances Love and the Reverend Isaiah Harris was dated July 14, 1823, and filed in the County Clerk's Office of Surry County, Virginia.
The soldier made reference to his nephew, Willis Barnes, but did not state the names of his parents, nor his place of residence.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator
Gov. Acctg. Office reported by phone, Nov. 20, 1933, that no record could be found there of any payment to this soldier, hence the wording of the part in regard to appl. + disbursement of etc., also the statement in regard to his death.

1933, Nov. 22. Stock 15-100. Charles C. Harris - M.L.B.
38047 INVALID. Rev
File No. 38,047 William Hoffler Major Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: -Vol. 2 , Page 232
[Arrangement of 1870.]
C.H.B.

7174. Virginia
William H. H. H.
of Norfolk in the state of Virginia who was a Major in the regiment commanded by Colonel Gibson of the Virginia pe, for the term of Three years
inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of March 1819 and sent to William Wilson Portsmouth - Virginia
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 209. 24 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep r 1819 120.
$329.24
File Sept. 17
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled. belong to the line of Supt. 1819

I do hereby certify that I — William Doffler in the County of Norfolk & State of Virginia, doth authorize, nomi- nate, constitute and appoint Constant Fissman, Esq u my lawful attorney, to receive from the Secretary of War, what is due me agreeable to an Act of Congress — passed the 18th of March, Given under my hand this 19th day of Feb y 1819
Witnesses A. D. Doffler
William Doffler

Departure Geo Fruitful for last Mr. Hoffman

State of Kentucky Bullitt County ss
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county George Triplett who being duly sworn saith that William Hoffler was a Captain of in Col. Gibsons Regiment of the Virginia line and that it was the 1 st Virginia State Regiment and transferred to the Virginia Continental line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such until the Consolidation of Regiments at which Time the said Hoffler retired as a supernumerary officer he knows not at this time the period when said Consolidation took place or was to go into operation but says that it was the first Consolidation at which time Charles Ewell Lieut. Wm. Broadus Lieut Thomas White said Hoffler and Deponents and several other Officers of said Regmt. retired as supernumeraries and further he saith not
Sworn and Subscribed before me } George Triplett this thirtieth day of April 1831
Nah. Saunders (Ppl)

Depositions taken for Hoffman

State of Kentucky Shelby County Set Major Elliott this day personally ap- peared before me George P. Elliott, a Justice of the Peace in said county, who being first duly sworn saith that Wil- iam Hoeffler was an officer in the 1 st Vir- ginia State Regiment, afterwards trans- ferred to the Virginia Continental line commanded by Col. Gibson, and served in the said Regiment, until a consol- idation took place on the 6 th of February 1781 under arrangements of the preced- ing year, at which time the said Hoeff- ler became a supernumerary or retiring officer, being then at the time of con- solidation a Captain in said Col. Gibson's Regiment, and further the deponent saith not Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7 th day of May 1831
Wm. Rucker
Geo. P. Elliott J.P.
State of Kentucky Shelby County Set
I James S. Whitaker Clerk of the County Court in and for the County aforesaid do certify the Hon. Miller Esq. before whom the above affidavit was made now is and was at the time of doing the same one of the

Consecrated to the service of the Lord and qualified according to Law and Church rules faith and Credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts as such In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and caused the seal of said County to be affixed at Shelbyville this 21 st day of May 1831 James S. Whelan ex officio
Sebastian Breche for H. H. H.

Clearance Length per Cylinder Head Francis Harris

State of Virginia Surry County to wit
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County, John H Bage and Thomas B Dewell
witnesses of known credibility and of lawful age who being duly sworn, according to law, saith that the widow of the late Alex Love of said County is now at this time the wife of Isaiah Harris of said County that they were not present at the marriage but that it is notoriously known in said County that the Rev. Isaiah Harris married the widow of Alex Love of said County and that they now reside in the said County and on the same tract of land on which said Love lived in his lifetime - and further they say not -
Sworn to and Subscribed before me } John H Bage this 22 nd day of August 1836. } Thomas B Dewell
Drury Smith (JP)
State of Virginia Surry County to wit:
I Walter S. Booth clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that Drury Smith before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been taken was at the time of taking the same one of the justices of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that to all of his official acts as such due faith and credit is to be given as well in Courts of record as thereout - also I do further certify that I have carefully examined the records of said Court of marriage and can find no record of the solemnization of the marriage of the Rev. Isaiah Harris and Frances Love but do

do find on the file in this office a banns bond of the said Harris for marriage with the said Frances Love of the fourteenth of July 1823.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty second day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty six
W. S. Booth Clk.
Virginia Surry County to wit:
J. Charles Graves
presiding justice
of the County Court of Surry in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Walter S. Booth who hath given the preceding certificate is Clerk of the said Court; and that his said attestation is in due form.
Given under my hand and seal this 22 d day of August 1836.
Charles Graves
celebration banns per Rev. Dr. S. Love after Frances Harris

Tom Hoffer
The opinion of the court as to the birth of the state- ment is required. —
Admitted

State of Virginia
County of Norfolk to wit
At a Court held for the said County of Norfolk the twenty first day of April in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
William Koffler a resident of the County of Norfolk and a Citizen of the Commonwealth of Virginia, this day made a declaration on oath in open Court. That he served in the Revolutionary War against the Common enemy, first as a Captain and afterwards as a Major in the Continental line from the year 1778 to the siege of Little York in 1781, when he was discharged there being no further occasion for his services, in the First Virginia State Regiment commanded by Colonel George Gibson in General Muhlenberg's Brigade; and it moreover appearing by the testimony of Col. Fletcher Wright that the declaration aforesaid is true, the Court doth order the same to be certified to the Secretary of War.
And at a Court held for the said County of Norfolk the eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
The above named William Koffler personally appeared in Court and made oath that from his reduced circumstances, he is now actually in need of that assistance offered by the General Government to the soldiers and seamen of the Revolutionary War.
And at a Court held for the said County of Norfolk the 17 th day of August 1818.
The Court doth certify that William Koffler who hath heretofore made a declaration of his having served in the Revolutionary War and of his being in need of a pension, is aged, infirm, very indigent and in need of the pension offered to the soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of my office to be hereto affixed, on this 25 th day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and in the 43 rd year of the Commonwealth.
Wm Wilson C.N.C.
WILLIAM KOFFLER PENSION 1818

MRS. CHARLES CRESAP WARD 360 SOUTH CLOVERDALE AVENUE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
11/5/33.
U.S. Pension, Washington, D.C.
Sir:
Your list of pensions 1820 gives the following:
only one William Hoffler , Va. Private. pension. Revolutionary War
I would like all genealogical as well as pension records for membership Daughters of American Revolution. If any cost involved let me know.
Respectfully -
Horn L. Ward
Chamuan Genealogies, Eschscholzia Chapter, D.A.R..