REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - Matthias SHULTZ, Ohio Co --------------------------------------------------------------- Contributed for use in USGENWEB Archive Pension Project by: Submittor: Helen McKeown [greyhouse@vol.com] Date: Sunday, September 15, 2002 9:38 PM REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - Matthias SHULTZ, Ohio Co ---------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Matthias Shultz At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, he joined a company of Minute-men, organized by the Rev. Charles M. Thruston, who served as Captain, and Philip Bush as Lieutenant. Matthias pension application was taken from a deposition prepared in Ohio County, Kentucky, Jan. 7, 1833, under an act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. Matthias Shultz states that he was called into service in December of 1776. He joined his company as a substitute for his brother-in-law, Casper Rinker, who had only recently married his sister, Mary Shultz. His company left Winchester immediately after he joined it and Matthias states that they marched through Fredericktown and Lancaster to Philadelphia and up the Delaware River until they arrived at a location opposite Trenton, arriving just after the British defeat there on December 25, 1776. The company then crossed the river and joined the main American army, where it remained for five days, after which it joined Lord Sterling's Brigade, which was stationed at some distance from Morristown on the estate of William Alexander, Earl of Sterling. Matthias remained there during the winter, being frequently called out on scouting sorties to intercept British foraging parties. On one of these forays his detachment marched down to the British encampment and attacked the enemy by surprise. The attacking force was greatly outnumbered and, when the British counterattacked, the Americans beat a hasty retreat, several of their men having been wounded, including Capt. Thruston. Since his enlistment was for only three months, he was discharged in March 1777, and returned home.. Matthias states that he was drafted the last of August or the early part of September, 1777, for a second three-month tour of duty and served under Capt. White and Col. William Calmes. Again, he marched north through Fredericktown and Lancaster and joined Washington's army a few days after the battle of Germantown, where he remained during the balance of his term of enlistment. At Germantown he did scouting duty and was with the troops who marched down the river against the Hessians who had attacked the forts below Philadelphia. He did not take part in the engagement, but heard the cannonading between the enemy and the forts when two of the British ships were blown up. He was discharged at the end of his tour of duty. From his military records he was a private in the Virginia line and was paid six nd two-thirds dollars, or two pounds and 8 shillings per month.