Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1961-100, John Gretsinger, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Grtsinger, John or Glessinger
B.L. Wt. 1961-100
CONTENTS

BUFFALO, ROCHESTER & PITTSBURGH RAILWAY CO.
1961-10-10
New Castle Pa. March 1-1905
Commissioner of Pensions, Dept. Ins.
Of John Grissinger, (John Grissinger) a Pennsylvania Soldier in the Revolutionary War, (or his wife), applied for a pension will you please give me such military and personal history as may be in said application.
This information is desired to secure membership in "Sons of American Revolution".
Yours truly Frank B Sheaffer E. L. & W Bldg. North Mill St. New Castle Pa

Geo. Gretsinger alias Gretsinger No 1901
Rec d Aug 28. 1833

I know all men by these Presents that I George Gretinger of the City of Louisville do hereby Constitute and appoint Henry Northrup of said City my true and lawful attorney with powers of substitution for me and in my name to ask demand and receive from the Secreta- ry of War of the United States a Warrant for the Bounty Land due me in right of my late Fathers services as a soldier of the Regt of Artillery of the Pennsylvania line of the Army of the Revolution and to deposit the said Warrant when so obtained with the Commission- er of the General Land Office and to ask demand receive and receipt for the certificates or Land Scrip due thereon under the act of Congress of the 30 th of May 1830 or any subsequent act passed or to be passed; and to do and perform all things necessary to be done in and about this business as if done by my self were I personally present Witness My hand and seal this 10 th day of August 1835
Witness
George Gretinger
Will Powhatan Grayson Robt H Grayson

State of Kentucky Jefferson County
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County George Gotsinger signer and Sealer to the foregoing power of Attorney and acknowl- edged the same to be his volun- tary act and deed for the person therein named:— Also being duly sworn saith that to the best of his knowl- edge and belief his late father John Gletsinger or Gotsinger was an enlisted Soldier of the Pennsylvania Line of the Army of the Revolution for the period of during the war and served in the Regiment of Artillery and he believes that his father did not during his life time receive a warrant for the Bounty Land due him nor did he trans- fer his right to the same; and further saith not— Sworn subscribed and acknowledged before me this 10th day of August 1833
Robert H Grayson J.P.M.

State of Kentucky
At a County Court held for Jefferson County, at the Court House in the City of Louisville on the eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. On satisfactory proof made to the Court, it is ordered to be certified that John Griesinger alias Griesinger late of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, was reputed to have been a soldier of the Army of the Revolution, and that he departed this life many years since, in said County intestate. That George Griesinger , Joseph Griesinger , John Griesinger and Conrad Griesinger were his only children and heirs. That said Joseph , John and Conrad Griesinger have departed this life in said County (since their father) unmarried without issue and intestate; and that the said George Griesinger is now the only surviving heir of the said John the ancestor and his deceased brothers aforesaid. And I the Clerk of the said Court do further certify that Robert H. Grayson Esquire , who has signed the foregoing Certificate, is a Justice of the peace for said County, and a Judge of the said Court duly commissioned and sworn; and that his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the County aforesaid. After which I am the keeper this tenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and in the forty first year of the Commonwealth.
Worden Pope Clerk
printed List - John Griesinger -
  First Cert te  John Griesinger  76.865  pay to Nov 1 1782    "  John Griesinger  77.161  " " 1783    "  John Griesinger  { 777.33  to Nov 1 1783 $50.75    "  John Griesinger  { 77.462  " " 80  

1961-100 Record
John Glessinger his Glessinger
Issued Aug. 31, 1833.

John B. Shaeffer, New Castle, Pa.

150
B.L.Wt.1961;Rev.War.
Mar. 20, 1905.
Sir:
In reply to your request for the military history of John Glessinger , alias Gretsinger , a soldier of the Revolutionary War, You are advised that there is no record of a pension filed in this Bureau.
There was, however, a land warrant for 100 acres for his services as a private of artillery in the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary War, issued August 31, 1833, to his son and sole heir, George Gretsinger, of Louisville, Ky.
He stated that the soldier died intestate, in Jefferson Co., Ky., many years prior to 1833, leaving three other sons, Joseph, John and Conrad Gretsinger, all of whom died intestate, unmarried and without issue, in Jefferson Co., Ky., prior to August 31, 1833.
There is no further data on file.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. Frank B. Sheaffer,
K. L. & M. Bldg., N. Mill St.,
Newcastle, Pa.