Application for Revolutionary War Pension -
Ludwig Wissinger
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State of Pennsylvania
Cambria County
On this second day of October A.D. One thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before me Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Cambria (being a Court of record having by law a Seal and Clerk) now sitting. Ludwick Wissinger, a resident of Conemaugh Township in the County of Cambria and state of Pennsylvania aforesaid, age seventy five years who being solemnly affirmed according to law, doth on his affirmation make the following declarations, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five or seventy six with Captain Ieaster and served in the German Regiment on the Maryland Line under the following named officers: Does not recollect the name of the Colonel he first served under, he was part of the time under Colonel Hazecker, part of the time under the immediate command of General Washington. He states that he enlisted at Frederick Town in the state of Maryland near which he then resided. That he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Trenton, and others not now recollected. That he was discharged at Wyoming in Pennsylvania after serving three years the time for which he was enlisted, but received no certificate of his discharge. He hereby relinquishes claim to whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of any agency in any state.
Affirmed and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
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And the said Court I do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant Was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
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I Philip Noon Prothonatory and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contain the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ludwick Wissinger for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and seal
of office this second day of October
A.D. one thousand eight hundred
and thirty two.Philip Noon
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