Person:Peter Lauck (1)

Advisory

There is a poorly researched Ancestry Member Tree including Peter Lauck claiming parenta that were born and died in Germany that is obviously in error. Researchers of this family are highly encouraged to look at the primary records and sources and not to secondary or tertiary sources, such as those used in the referenced Ancestry Tree.

Military Service

American Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 3, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

LAUK, Peter - born 12/31/1753; entered service 1775 in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia; granted pension there in 1832; died 10/2/1839; married 10/27/1779 to Emily Heiskell; widow applied for pension there in 1840 at age 79 & pension application rejected; children mentioned but not named; query letter in file in 1912 frm descendant Mrs. William MacDonald of Keyser, West Virginia states family record shows soldier married Amelia Heiskell; query letter in file states soldier's brother Simon was also a Revolutionary War soldier. F-R6183, R1530.

Records in Virginia

Peter Lauck provided an affidavit for his brother-in-law, Jacob Sperry (1751-1808) for his Revolutionary War Service Application, as follows:

[f p. 7]

Virginia Frederick County: SS

Be it known, that on the 7th day of November 1738, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid Peter Lauck² aged eighty-four years, who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that he was well acquainted with Jacob's [Sperry] Deceased late of Winchester, that in the summer of the year 1775 this deponent and the said Jacobs. Joined a company of Riflemen under the command of Captain Daniel Morgan, afterwards General Morgan, at Winchester, that they marched from thence to Cambridge in Massachusetts, and thence by way of Kennebec River to Québec, where they were taken prisoners together on the last day of December 1775, when General Montgomery was killed; that they remained in prison for some time, and afterwards returned home together having been absent nearly eighteen months – that they were in the same mess while in this service – that sometime in the year 1790, deponent was present when said Jacobs. Was married to Elizabeth Lauck sister of this deponent, and that the said Jacob and Elizabeth lived together as man and wife until the death of the said Jacob in the year 1808

S/ Peter Lauck

Source: Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Applications

Citations

http://www.beth-website.net/LauckPeter.html

1.   North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000.

   Name: Peter Lauck
   Gender: Male
   Age: 86
   Birth Date: 1753
   Birth Place: Pennsylvania
   First Marriage Date: 1779
   Death Date: 1839
   Death Place: Winchester, VA
   Spouse: Amelia Heiskell
   Child: Joseph Manley Lauck

2.   Find A Grave.

   Peter Lauck
   Birth 1753
   Death 1839 (aged 85–86)
   Burial
   Centenary Reformed UCC Cemetery
   Winchester, Winchester City, Virginia, USA
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19051787

3.   Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.

   Pension application of Peter Lauk (Lauck) R6183 Emily Lauk f49VA
   Transcribed by Will Graves 9/3/13
   
   [p 5]
   State of Virginia Frederick County SS
   On this 9th day of August 1832 personally appeared before the Court of Frederick County,
   Peter Lauck a resident of Winchester in the County of Frederick in the State of Virginia aged seventy-nine years the 31st day of December next, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the Rifle Company commanded by Captain (afterwards General) Daniel Morgan the 1st or 2nd day of July 1775 John Humphreys was the first Lieutenant, William Heth the 2nd Lieutenant and Peter Bruin the Ensign – he marched with the said Company from Winchester on the 1st day of July 1775, through the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the Hudson River, which they crossed about sixty miles above New York, and through a part of New York, Connecticut as a part of Massachusetts to Cambridge near Boston, where they joined the main Army under General Washington – they stayed a Cambridge 2 or 3 weeks, and then joined a detachment under Colonel Arnold [Benedict Arnold] and marched to Newberry port in Massachusetts, where they took shipping and sailed to Kennebec River, and up the River as high as a place then called Fort Western, where they left the vessels, and went up the River in boats as far as they could, and then marched through the wilderness to Canada, and on to the River St. Lawrence, and down that River to nearly opposite Québec, where they lay a few days, and then crossed the River in the night, and marched up to Abraham's plains, where they lay 2 or 3 weeks, and then hearing that General Montgomery with his Army was coming on, they marched as far as Sorrel where they met him. After staying there a few days the Army marched down to the vicinity of Québec, and were quartered about in the neighborhood until the last day of December 1775 when the assault on Québec was made, and General Montgomery killed, and while the troops under Arnold, of which he the said Lauck was one, were taken prisoners – he remained a prisoner in Québec until sometime in November 1776, as well as he can recollect, when he was liberated on parole, and sent by water to Elizabethtown point in the State of New Jersey, where they were landed, and he marched from thence to Winchester where he arrived about Christmas 1776, he was considered a prisoner, not being enrolled in the militia, or allowed to take up arms until he was exchanged, about 6 months after his arrival at Winchester – so that it was 2 years from the time he entered the service until he was exchanged:
   He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present
   and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
   S/ Peter Lauk
   
   [p 23] State of Virginia Frederick County to wit:
   On this 21st day of November 1832 personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of
   the Peace for the County aforesaid Peter Lauck a resident of the Town of Winchester and an
   applicant for a pension from the United States under the Act of June 7, 1832, and being first sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he entered the service of the United States the first or 2nd day of July 1775 in a Rifle Company commanded by Captain Daniel Morgan, under an engagement for one year, and served as stated in his declaration, including the time he was a prisoner, and while on Parole, until the summer of 1777, making in all two years or upwards – that when he entered the service he furnished himself with a Rifle and the necessary accoutrements, which were taken from him at Québec and never returned, and that he has never received any compensation for them – they were worth at least $50. Given under my hand the day and year first above written.
   S/ John Heiskell, JP
   
   [p 18]
   State of Virginia Frederick County SS
   Be it known that on the 31st day of March 1840, before me the subscriber a justice of the
   peace for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John Schultz1 aged eighty-six years, who
   being first duly sworn doth on his oath declare, that he has known Peter Lauck late a pensioner of the United States from before the Revolutionary War to the time of his death – that they both joined the Company of Riflemen under the command of Captain (afterwards General) Daniel
   Morgan in the year 1775; were taken prisoners together at Québec, at the time General
   Montgomery was killed in December of the same year, and after being discharged returned to
   Winchester, where they have both resided until the death of Mister Lauck last October. He is not certain whether he was present at the marriage of said Peter Lauck and Emily Heiskell who now perceives [?] him, but he is well persuaded they were married, that they commenced keeping house, and he, this deponent boarded with them, for some time – he was himself married in the year 1788, and he knows that the said Peter and Emily were keeping house some years before, and that they always lived together as man and wife until his death, and had a number of children, several of whom are now living – he has no more doubt of their marriage than his own.
   S/ John Schultz
   
   [p 3: On April 2, 1840 in Winchester Virginia, Emily Lauck, 79, filed for a widow's pension
   under the 1836 act stating that she is the widow of Peter Lauck, a revolutionary war pensioner; that she married him October 27, 1779 and that her husband died October 2, 1839. She signed her application with her mark.]
   
   [Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $50 per annum commencing March 4th, 1831, for service as a private for one year and 3 months in the Virginia service.]
   
   [Note: the following is an advertisement for legal services found in this file. I copied it and display it here because it represents one of the earliest examples of lawyers advertising their services of which I'm aware. p 34:
   
   ¹ John Schultz S6066
   
   http://revwarapps.org/r6183.pdf