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Note: From Revolutionary War Pension File, a letter dated May 23, 1832.
"Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter requesting information relative to John Sheets, a Revolutionary War pensioner.
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.7483, based upon the service of John Sheets in that war.
John Sheets was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, date and place not stated.
While a resident of Chamberstown, (later Chambersburg), Pennsylvania, he enlisted and served two months as private in Captain Conrad Schneider's Pennyslvania Company; after a few days, he reenlisted at Amboy, in the fall of the year, served as private in said Captain Schneider's Company, was in a battle in New York in which Captain Schneider was taken prisoner by the Brittish; Lieutenant James Young then took command and they were in the battle of Trenton, at which place the soldier was discharged, length of this tour four months.
The soldier lived in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, until about 1803, then moved to Patterson Creek, Hampshire County, Virginia, thence to Wood County, Virginia.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 18, 1833, at which time he resided in Wood County, Virginia, having lived in that county about twenty-two years. He stated then that he was "upward to eighty years" and in 1835, gave his age as eighty-five or eighty six years.
In 1841, the soldier was living with his son-in-law and family; none of their names were given; soldier's wife was living then but her name was not given.
In 1833, soldier's son, John Sheets, Junior, made affidavit in Wood County, Virginia, and gave his age as forty-eight or forty-nine years. At that time, Henry Sheets, the son of soldier's brother, was a resident of Wood County, Virginia, aged about fifty years; the name of [the] brother of the soldier was not given.
A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office fails to show a claim for pension on file based upon the service of Clement or Bennet Wheeler."
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