Pension Application of Henry Kelkner (Kirkner): S38114
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
In Montgomery County Court November 3d 1819
It is ordered to be certified to the Secretary of the War Department of the United States that Henry Kelkner, commonly called Kirkner, aged about sixty two years, who has been a resident in the County of Montgomery and state of Virginia thirty four or more years, personally appeared in the County Court of Montgomery, a court of record, and upon his corporal oath declared, that he in the spring of the year 1777 as well as he remembers in Berks County state of Pennsylvania enlisted under Captain Monset[?] to serve during the War of the revolution and was joined to and served in the said Regiment of the Pennsylvania line on continental establishment commanded by Colo. Harmon which regiment he believes belonged to General [Anthony] Waynes Division. That he continued in the service of the United States a soldier enlisted as above stated from the time of such enlistment until some period in the year 1781 after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis [on 19 Oct], when he was duly discharged in the city of Philadelphia, his discharge was then handed to him by a Lieutenant M. Fadger[?] who was then one of the officers commanding the company to which he belonged, but by whom signed he does not recollect; he further states that he was at the taking of Stoney Point [sic: Stony Point NY, 16 July 1779] which was the only Battle he was engaged in after his enlistment, though before that time he was in the battle of Germantown [4 Oct 1777] & Brandywine [11 Sep 1777] as a militia man; he further declares that his written discharge was lost and that it was not in his power to produce any other evidence of the fact than his own affidavit and that there is no person living within his knowledge by whom he could prove his enlistment, his service in the army aforesaid, or his discharge. And further he declares that he is in such reduced circumstances as to need the aid and support of his country. It is also ordered to be certified that the aforesaid Henry Kelkner is in such reduced circumstances as to need the aid and support of his Country, which last certificate is made as well upon the knowledge of the Court as upon affidavits made before it