klingler genealogy report - Lutheranrose

provision of Congress passed July 7th 1838 which has an act
granting half pay and pension to certain widows. That she is the
widow of John Clingler who was a Corporal in the Third Regiment of
Pennsylvania as an inlisted soldier in the war of the revolution
and was discharged on the 17th day of January 1781 She states that
she has always understood and verily believes that the said John
was a soldier in the service of the United States prior to his said
enlistment and served most all the time of the revolutionary war
that he was at the battle of Bunker hill, Brandywine, Germantown
and several others that she cannot now recollect. She states that
she has often heard her said husband tell what officers he was
under and describe the battles he had been in but she cannot now
recollect the particular, she believes the rolls and other evidence
in the proper department at Washington City will fully set forth
his services, She states that when she was married to this said
John Clingler which happened in 1784 he had then a discharge from
service signed by Anthony Wayne B.G. and a sixty dollar Continental
Bill which she said John always said he had received as part of his
wages as a soldier in said war and that the said discharge and
Continental Bill were since in the possesion of the said John until
the time of his death and they now remain with her. And she has
always understood that the said John never received any land from
the United States, on account of his said service. And she
believes if he ever received any papers entitling him to any land
they would have been lost prior to his death. She further declares
that she was married to the said John Clingler on the 14th day of
April seventeen hundred and eighty four by Elder Emanual Schultz in
Tulpehocken Township Berks County Pennsylvania. That her husband
the aforesaid John Clingler died on the 18th day of August
Elighteen hundred and eighteen. That she was not married to him
prior to his having the service but the marriage took place
previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety
four e.g. on the day and year above stated. And further that she
had a record of her marriage kept by the said John which about ten
years ago was burned with her family Bible when the house of son
Frederick Clingler was burned.
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Katharine X Clingler
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Sworn to and subscribed in open court
Nov 13th 1846 John H. Blair Clk.
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State of Ohio
Brown County
On this seventeenth day of July Eighteen hundred and fifty one
before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and
State aforesaid, personally came Frederick Klingler a resident of
said County, who being duly sworn according to law, makes oath and
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