Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5220, John A Hopper, New Jersey
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SERVICE
New Jersey

Hopper, John A.
Mary 

NUMBER 
R5220
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This is to certify that the following is a true copy from an old Dutch Bible in the possesion of C.C. Zabriskie who was married to a daughter of Capt. John A Hopper of Hoppertown who was an officer in the revolution proof having been made before me to my satisfaction that the same was the family record. kept in said Bible of John A Hopper and his family as follows
John A Hopper born 17th March 1745
Mary Cooper wife of John A Hopper Born 17 November 1760
Rachel born November 1st 1780 
Mary Hopper born April 11th 1783
Sally Hopper born May 16th 1785
Catrine Hopper born July 30th 1790
John A Hopper died Febr 23rd 1824
Mary Hopper widow of John A Hopper
  died August 9th 1844
Sept 11th 1779 John A  Hopper is married to Mary Cooper
The above is a true extract from the Family record produced before me and that I have no interest in the matter, neither concerned in its prosecution  

[signed}
Abrm J Ackerman
dated this 4th day of Janr. 1854.
State of New Jersey
Bergen County  Personally appeared before me Andrew H Hopper a Justice of the peace
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in and for said county
Abrm J Ackerman above named who being duly sworn deposeth and says that the above extract from the Family record contained the the old dutch Family Bible of Capt John A Hopper is a true copy from the same taken the 4th day of January 1854 and that I am not Interested in the matter nor concerned in the prosecution of the claim

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[signed] Abrm J Ackerman

Sworn and subscribed

State of New Jersey    }ss
Bergen County    

I, Garret G. Ackerson, Clerk of the county of Bergen and Clerk of the County Courts in and for this County to certify that Andrew H Hopper before whom the above affadavid and certificate of Abraham J Ackerman a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn, and fully authorized to take the same; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that his signature to the above declaration is genuine.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said County, this  fifth day of January in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
[signed]
Garret G Ackerson Clerk
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in and for said county
Abrm J Ackerman above named who being duly sworn deposeth and says that the above extract from the Family record contained the the old dutch Family Bible of Capt John A Hopper is a true copy from the same taken the 4th day of January 1854 and that I am not Interested in the matter nor concerned in the prosecution of the claim

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[signed] Abrm J Ackerman

Sworn and subscribed before me this 4th day of January 1854

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[signed] Andrew H Hopper Justice of the Peace
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Rev Pension Claim (underlined)

John Hopper   decd
Mary Hopper  Widow also decd

Claim of the Children 
under act of 1836

Service in New Jersey

Jas. G. Austin atty
         Present

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No 8.000
Mary Hopper,
wid of John A,

N Jersey,
July 4. 1836.

{signed} 
J.G. Austin    Presnt.
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State of New Jersey
County of Passaic    }ss
On this Sixth Day of June A.D. 1853.
Personally appeared before me the Subscribed Saml A Van Saun one of the Judges of the Interior Court of Common Pleas in & for said county duly authorized by Law to administer oath Sally Bushause a resident of the town of Manchester & State afore said aged sixty eight years and upwards, who being duly sworn according to Law doath on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the amount of pension due her - Mother Mary Hopper at her deth [sic] widow of Capt. John A Hopper, Decd her first & only Husband on account of this service in the Revolutionary War that in time of the Revolution her Father the aforesaid John A Hopper resided the the aforesaid town of Hoppertown in the County Bergen and State aforesaid and as she has been informed and truley believes served as shall hereafter more fully appear in the War of the Revolution and that he and his said wife were married about the month of  {blank} that he died about the month of February 3rd 1824 & that the said Capt John A Hopper was born March 17, 1745
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and that his wife also died about the month of August 9, 1844 & had four children one of which is this deponent heir at law. to the said Capt John A. Hopper afore said Sally Hopper and heir and child of the said Capt John Hopper afore said & now Sally Burhans
by marage [sic], Rachel Hopper now Rachel Yelverton Catharine Hopper and now Catharine Eltinge by marg {marriage] & (illegible) said Father only children now him surviving & that for proof of her said Father servis [sic] in the War of the revolution as well as her said Father & mother marage [sic] & Birth of their children. She relies upon the proof which she may be able to obtain & annex hear unto & trust that the Department will grant him such Pensions as the proof & the merits of the Case shall warant [sic] & that this is the first application ever made for such service. and that she his said wife was never married again. } The words } August  9th 1844 } ^Interlined before Signing.
again Sworn to and Subscribed before me this Sixth day June AD 1853

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Sally H Burhans

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Samuel A Van Saun Judge of Passiac Com Pleas
and I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above Deponent Sally Burhans and have known her for twenty five years and upwards and that her statements are entitled to full credit and confidence and that I have no Interest in the result of the case and am not concerned in its Prosecution 

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{signed}
Samuel A Van Saun
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State of New Jersey
Passaic County           }ss

I Silas D Caufield Clerk of the County of Passaic do hereby certify that Samuel A Van Saun, before whom the affidavit hereto annexed was taken, was at the time taking the same a Judge of the Interior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Passaic afore said, and that his signature thereunto is genuine and I do further state that I have no interest in the result of this case, and am not concerned in its prosecution.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this seventh day of June A.D. 1853 

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S. D. Caufield Clr

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State of New York
County of Ontario   }ss

Peter Van Buskirk, aged eighty eight years &  upwards a resident of the Town of Phelps in the County of Ontario & State of New York being duly Sworn according to Law deposeth. Says that he is a revolutionary Pensioner of the United States that during the Revolutionary War he resided in Bergen County New Jersey & that he was well acquainted with the said Capt John A Hopper of Hopperstown in the County of Bergen & State aforesaid who served in the Commision [sic] of Captain in the time of the revolution as I then knew. I herd [sic] of his service from time to time during the revolution. I am well known to the fact of the battle he had with the Brithish [sic] and his men under him in April 1780 at Hoppertown in County of Bergen & State aforesaid & as I truley bleave [sic] served in that Capacity through out the War of the revolution & that I at that time was not more than three miles from Hoppertown the field of action. That the Brittish [sic] over powered the American troops & wounded the said Capt Hopper. & set fier[sic] to his Bildings [sic] and Killing the Commanding officer of the Unites State & as I bleave [sic] several others. I was well acquainted with the said Capt Hopper from the time of the revolution up to this death & was always called a revolutionary officer in the neighborhood. I was well acquainted with his family & that as near as I can recolect [sic] he was maried [sic] before the commencement of the revolutionary War to his wife Mary. & that she continued his wife up to his death (which - struck through)

{signed} 
Peter Van Buskirk
Sworn to & Subscribed before me
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this thirteenth day of July A.D. 1853
      Lysander Redfield, Justice of the Peace,
           of Phelps in and for Ontario County.

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent, Peter Van Buskirk and have known him for the last five years and upwards & that he is a Reputable man & that his statements in relation to the foregoing are entitled to full Credit and Confidence and I further certify that I have no interest in the results of the case, and am not concerned in its prosecution.

{signed}
Lysander Redfield, Justice of the Peace
   of Phelps. in and for said county of Ontario
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State of New-York,
County of Ontario  }ss
I, John J Lyon, Clerk of County Court, in and for the County and State above mentioned, do hereby certify, that Lysander Redfield (signed) whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the  County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith   and credit; and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.
Given under my Hand and Seal of Office, at Canandaigua this 18th day of July 1853,

{signed}
John J Lyon
Clerk
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State of New Jersey
County of Bergen
I Richard R Paulison surrogate of the County of Bergen aforesaid do hereby certify that it has been proved before me by the affidavit of Polly Baldwin (which said affidavit is hereto accounted) & who is a credible person, and also by this record contained in an ancient family bible provided and proved such, before me that Captain John Hopper of Hoppertown in said County died in said town on the third day of February AD eighteen hundred and twenty four, leaving Mary Hopper his widow heir surviving : and who also died in said town on the ninth day of August eighteen hundred and forty four. And that they left their surviving the(crossed out)and now living the following named children of their bodies law (?) fully begotten to with Sally Burhans who resides in Passaic County new Jersey; Rachel Yelverton who resides in Orange County New York, and that who resides in  Ulster County New York, and that they are each above the age of twenty one years And I further certify that the above named John Hopper was reputed to have been an officer in the revolution
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this second day of March A.D. eighteen hundred fifty four (1854)
{signed}
R.R. Paulison

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State of New Jersey
County of Bergen   }ss

I, Polly Baldwin a resident of the town of Saddle River County of Bergen & state afore Said aged sixty nine years & upwards who being duly Sworn according to Law Deposed Says that she was well acquainted with Capt John A. Hopper of Hoppertown, Bergen County N.J. in his life time & lived in the Same neighborhood & as well acquainted with all the family & that the Said Captain John a Hopper was all ways reputed in the Neighborhood where he resided to have been an officer Throughout the war of the revolution & Served as such in that war & that the aforesaid Capt Hopper Died in the aforesaid town County & State aforesaid on the third day of February 1824 & that I was present at the funeral & saw him buried & that I was well acquainted with Mary Hopper wife of the said Capt John Hopper of Hoppertown County & State afore Said & that She Survived her husband the Said Capt John Hopper aforesaid & never again married after her husbands Death & that she also Died in the town County & State aforesaid on the ninth Day of August 1844 & that she was Present at her funeral & Saw her buried & that at the time of her death She left the following children her & her said husband surviving & whose names & places of residence are as follows Sally Burhans Passaic County N.J. Rachel Yelverton Orange County N.Y. & Catharine Eling Ulster County N.Y. & that they are all above the age of 21 years & that they are the only surviving children of the said Mary Hopper & her Said Husband Capt John Hopper above stated and that I am Disinterested
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in the Matter and have no interest in the Case
sworn & subscribed  before me this 2nd of March 1854
Abrm J Ackerman Justice of the Peace
{signed)
Polly X (her Mark) Baldwin

State of New Jersey
  County of Bergen   }ss
I Abrm J Ackerman a Justice of the Peace in & for Said County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Patty Baldwin who took and Subscribed her name to this foregoing that she is a credible Person & her statements in the foregoing are entitled to full credit and blief [sic] & furthermore that  I  have no intrest [sic] in the above matter & are not concerned in its prosecution.     Dated March 2nd 1854

{signed}
Abrm J Ackerman  Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey
Bergen Count  SS
I Garret G Ackerson Clerk of the County of Bergen and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do testify that  Abraham J Ackerman before whom the above deposition and certificate of Polly Baldwin was taken and to which he has subscribed his name was at the time of the doing thereof and still is a Justice of the Peace in and for this county duly Commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe that signature to the same is genuine
Witness my hand and seal of Said County and Court this 2nd day of March AD 1854
{signed}
Garret G Ackerson Clerk
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Mary Hopper
Widow of
John A. Hopper

New Jersey - _____
Act 4 July 1836


Additional evidence
Filed July 22 1854

{signed} Evans Y Fant
   Washington D.C.
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County }SS
John D Ackerman a resident of the Township of Hoboken County of Bergen and State aforesaid aged ninety years and upwards who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and says that he was well acquainted with Capt. John A Hopper in the time of the Revolutionary War who resided in the town of Hoppertown Bergen County and state above named and that the deponent resided but a short distance from the Camp at Hoppertown where the American Army was quartered and personally knew the said Capt. John A Hopper being mustered in the American Army under different and various officers the names of whom I do not now recollect the duration of each term of engagement I cannot say positively but the said Capt. John A Hopper served in that capacity from some time in June or July 1778 until some time in the s[ting of 1781 that the time the service was performed he was not engaged or employed in any other pursuit to my knowledge I likewise well remember the Battle with the British at Hoppertown in t he spring of 1780 in which Capt John A Hopper and all the garrison of soldiers where engaged one of the Commanding Officers was mortally wounded  his Marches were mostly performed with his embodied Corps through the different places between Hoppertown and New York and that he has no Interest in the above case and is disinterested
Sworn and subscribed before me this tenth day of July 1854

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{signed}
Abrm J Ackerman  Justice of the Peace

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{signed}
John D X (his mark) Ackerman
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County  }SS

I Abrm J Ackerman a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Bergen do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John D Ackerman who took and subscribed his name to the foregoing affidavit and that he is a credible person and his statements in the foregoing are entitled to full credit and belief and furthermore I am disinterested in the matter and are not concerned in its prosecution
July 10th 1854 

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Abrm J Ackerman  Justice of the Peace
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Belef [sic] God a Bove all.
Anno 1745 is John A. Hopper born the 17th.
  March
John Cooper Born the 22. day of July in the Year 1731.
Polly Gushes Born 25. day of April in the Year 
  1738.
Anno. 1760. Den(?) 17 November is Mary Cooper Bourn Munday [sic] then 14, she is chrisent - 
  September th 11. the 1779 John A. Hopper in  
  Mary Cooper is Mared [sic] on a Saturday at 
  Eleven o Clock November th 1. the 1780 is 
  Rachel Hopper Bourn on a Whinsday [sic] she 
  is Christened November th 11. 1780.
  April th 11. 1783. Mary Hopper is born and 
  Christened May th. 11. 1783.
May th.16.1785 is Sally Hopper on a Munday 
   she is Christened June 5. 1785.
   July th 30th. 1790 is Catrine Hopper is Bourn 
   on a Friday she is Christened on August 15. 
   1790.

Departed this life February 5 1824. John A 
 Hopper aged 78 Years 10 months and 17 days 
Departed this life Mary Hopper widow of John 
  A. Hopper on Friday morning at 1½ OClock 
  August 9th 1844. aged 83 Years 8 months 22 
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County SS.  On this Thirteenth day of July A.D.1854 personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for the said County, duly authorized by law
to administer oaths, Samuel H. Berry a resident of the village of Hackensack in said County of Bergen aged about Sixty six years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, as follows: That the paper hereto annexed is a true copy taken from an Old Dutch Bible which belonged to the Family of John A. Hopper deceased, and now in the hands of Cornelius C. Zabriskie who was the late husband of Mary Hopper the daughter of the said John A. Hopper, and that said Bible is the Family Record of said John A. Hopper : that the leaves in said Bible upon which the said Births, marriages and deaths are entered, are part and parcel of said Bible : and that the said entries of the said births, marriages and deaths aforesaid were evidently made at different times, as appears by the different ink and style of said entries; and from the ancient appearance of said Bible and the entries therein made of said Births, Marriages, and deaths aforesaid, there is no doubt in my mind but that the same have been made many years since, some of them Sixty years or more, and that this deponent was well acquainted from his boyhood with the said John A. Hopper and all his family and not in the least interested in this claim : and further that this deponent has this day called upon said Cornelins C. Zabriskie in whose possession said original Bible now is, for the purpose of obtaining said Bible, so that the same could be sent to the Pension Office, and that said Cornelins C. Zabriskie wholly refused to allow the same to go out of his possession, upon the ground as he says, that this Bible is the only Family record, kept by their Family, and that he is paid the same may be lost or destroyed ~
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Subscribed and sworn to the thirteenth day of July A.D. 1854, before me
{signed}
Robert Campbell  Justice of the Peace

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{signed} Saml H Berry 

State of New Jersey
Bergen County  SS.
I Robert Campbell a Justice of the Peace in & for said County do hereby certify that Samuel H Berry who took and subscribed his name to the forgoing affidavid is well know to me & that he is a credible person and his statements in the foregoing affidavid are entitled to credit and further that I am disinterested in the above matter and are not concerned in its prosecution
{signed}
Robert Campbell   Justice of the Peace  
July 12th 1854 

State of New Jersey
Bergen County  SS.
I Garret G Ackerson Clerk of the County of Bergen and Court of Common Pleas in and for this County do certify that Robert Campbell, before whom the forgoing affidavid and Certificate of Samuel H Berry was taken and to which he has subscribed his name was at the time of the doing thereof, a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn and fully authorized to take the same, and further that I am well Acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe that his signature to said affidavid and Certificate is genuine, I do further testify that I am personally acquainted with the deponent Samuel H Berry who is now one of the Judges of the Court of Common
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in and for said County and was formerly Clerk of this County for five years and a man entitled to Credit.
Witness my hand and seal of said County  and Court this thirteenth day of July AD 1856
{signed} 
Garret G Ackerson  Clerk
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(3-224.)      Revy
No. 5220
__________, Ex'r.     {stamped}  REJECTED

OLD WAR WIDOW

Mary Hopper   widow of
John A. Hopper  N. Jersey

Died at ___________other claim.
_________, 18   .   ___________________
                                      Clerk.


Application filed: ____________________________,18
Attorney: ______________________________________ 
P.O. ____________________________________________
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Copy 
   of
Certificate
   for
Pension Office
Of the service of Cap
John Hopper
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                    Copy {circled}

No. 1117.
Received Morristown 21st November 1778 of Joseph Lewis seventeen pound nine shillings in full of bounty one to my company of 23 men of Col: Deys Regt: at Acquacknock under command of Brig: Gen: Winds from the 23d. Sept: to 12th October last for which I have this day given duplicate receipts 
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5220, John A Hopper, New Jersey
{symbol of British pound sterling}. 17.9.0               (signed) John Hopper, Captain

State of New Jersey
I, Thomas S Allison Secretary of State of the state of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is true copy of a receipt given by Capt. John Hopper for Bounty & as taken from and compared with the original on file in my office. And I do further certify that the Payrolls of Joseph Lewis, Pay. Master for  the counties of Suffolk, Morris & Bergen, in Book B. of Auditors Accounts, p. 63, show a payment of {symbol for pound currency} 48. to Capt. Hopper of Deys Bergen Regt: on the 12th of October 1778, serving at Acquackanouk [sic] under Brig: Winds.

In testimony I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Trenton this first day of  June eighteen hundred & fifty three.

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Official Seal (written and circled)

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(signed) Thos. S Allison.  Secretary of State.
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Petition of Mary Hopper
wid John A Hopper
jwwid Ry: 5220
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To the Honorable the Senate & House of Representatives in Congress assembled. The Petition of Mary Hopper widow of John A, Hopper for a Revolutionary Pension.

Your Petitioner respectfully represents that her husband John A, Hopper was a Captain in the Revolutionary War for several years & that she made application to the Pension Office for the Pension due for service, which has been denied by that Department on some more technical grounds. It is satisfactoraly [sic] proven that the said Hopper was more than 3 years in the service of the State of New Jersey during the Revolution, & that the marriage of his said widow took place prior to the end of his service, and that she is entitled to the benefit of the act of 4th July, 1836.
Your Petitioner prays that a bill be passed for instructing the Interior Department to cause the name of said Mary Hopper to be placed on the Pension Roll of said State of New Jersey at the rate of pension due for a Captain of 3 years service.

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Mary Hopper.
by Abrm Van Buskirk
     Law Attorney
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Brief
Mary Hopper
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                           Brief
in the case of Mary Hopper, widow of Capt. John A. Hopper -
1st
Widow applies to Pension Office
Garret D Ackerman swears Capt John A Hopper was mustered in the militia of N.J. at Hoppertown in  July '78. for the defence of said(struck out) the Garrison at said town & to prevent incursions from(struck out) of the enemy, remembers Magee Boyls & Bills, the former was mortally wounded in the battle at Ft. Garrison with the British in 1780, in which Capt Hopper & the Garison[sic] took part that Capt H, was in service from '78 to '81
Caracter[sic] of witness certified to by Justice of the Peace &  Abrm J Ackerman. swears he knew Capt H & wife - was sexton of reformed Dutch church & buried their families copy a tomb stone
1853, Sally H. Bushhause daughter of Capt John A & Mary Hopper applies for the pension.
Copy of record from old Dutch Bible in possession of C.C. Zabriskie, who married a daughter of Capt John A Hopper - certified to,
Garret Zabriskie swears he knew Capt John A Hopper & recollects the fight between Capt a. Hopper & his men with the British at Hoppertown when they |British| burnt House & Store of Captt _Grist Mill Land property to a large amount & that Major Boyles was killed at the time
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Stephen Lutkins swears was well acquainted with Capt H - who commanded a Co of militia 2 mos in command in summer & fall of 1778, from Sept '79 to April '80. When the British surprised & destroyed the garrison. that Capt. H. was in service in '80 & in '81

Certificate
___. Aug 14,1784, Peter Wilson Pay to John Hopper, {symbol of British pound sterling} 9.7.6
certificate of payments.
Deposition of Andrew H. Hopper, 86 year old sexton, with copy of inscription on tomb stones, swears he was reported to be a Capt in the War at the burning of Hoppertown
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Appeal to the Court of Pensions

Mary Hopper
    widow of 
John Hopper.

act 1836
July 4th
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L.P. Waldo Esq                     Washington D.C.
   Court of Pensions                Jany 26, 1854

Sir
I beg leave to call Your Special and Personal attention to the Case of the heirs of Mary Hopper died late Widow of Capt John Hopper. Whose claim for a Pension under the act of July 4, 1836 is on file & upon which the Enclosed Report was Made, there is a Map of Evidence in the Case & I Respectfully Claim, that the Evidence very clearly identifies the Claimants Husband with the John Hopper named in the Certificates from N. Jersey.  the Evidence of Zabriskie & Peter Van Buskirk is quite clear and pointed as to service. both of Which, persons are certified to be Credible persons.
The Certificates, with the Evidence of the said Zabriskie & Van Buskirk, Clearly shows serice from Sept 1778 to 81. and as to the date or proof of marriage, the requirement that the old leaf on Which the Record is made I have supposed, long since had been abandoned & that a true copy of such Record sworn to by Credible Witness. would be received as Evidence & I cannot but believe that it will prove satisfactory in the Case as the Witness are clear in reference
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to their knowledge of the Husband & wife living together as such without Reproach & from their long acquaintance with them., I trust will prove satisfactory 
  As the agent of the heirs, I do not feel satisfied with the Conclusion to Which the Examiner arived [sic] at, in this Case. I fear the Evidence in the Case was not carefully examined, and I Respectfully ask that You take up this Case and examine it Personally, having the utmost confidence to believe that upon a Carefull [sic] Examination of the Evidence, that a diferent [sic] result will be had . & the Case admited [sic].

Respectfully Yours
   {signed} Abraham Van Buskirk
              Phelps N.Y.
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certificate of
Certificate of Payment


    O

 A. Van Buskirk
  of Phelps 
              NY
now present
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Notes given by the Commissioners of the several Counties of the State of New Jersey for Militia service during the Revolutionary War.

NO. IF CERTIF.   86
DATE.                Aug 14. 1784
SIGNED BY.       Peter Wilson
PAYABLE TO.     John Hopper
AMOUNT.    (symbol of British pound sterling) 
                      9. 7. 6

Handwritten at bottom:
This is a duplicate of another on file with the papers
Both certificates are numbered 86 & for same amount
                     Evans (underlined)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY
I, Charles C. McCresney(struck through) Thomas S Allison, Secretary of state of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true abstract from a Book, headed as above, as taken from , and compared with the original, now remaining in my office. And I do further certify, that Peter Wilson was, by an Act, passed by the Legislature of this State, December 20, 1783, entitled, "An Act to procure an estimate of the sums due to the Militia and Troops who have been raised for the defence of the frontiers of the State, and to provide for the settlement of same," appointed a Commissioner for the County of Bergen for the purpose of settling and adjusting the Pay-rolls of the Militia and Troops of this State, as aforesaid, and also for signing and delivering out to each and every person a note for the payment of what may be justly due.

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In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said State, this First day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.

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{signed}   Thomas S Allison
                Secretary of State.
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State of Newyork.
County of Ontario.  SS.   Peter Van Buskirk being duly Sworn according to Law deposes and says in addition to his former Statements now on file at the Pension office in the application of the heirs of Capt John A. Hopper, that Deponent was a resident of Herington. Bergen County. N.J. During the Revolutionary War that he was Born at Herington and at the Commencement of the Revolutionary War entred [sic] the Service of the United States & performed military service the greater part of the War & that he was well acquainted with Capt John A. Hopper who lived at a Place called Hoppertown but a few miles. 
(.about two & a half miles from Hoppertown) was well acquainted with the family that Capt Hopper was an active officer & Commanded a Company of Militia & Rendered Most Efficient Service most of the time throughout the Revolution & frequently Saw Capt. Hopper in Service that Hoppertown was a Depot for the arms Stores & of the American Troops. Militia & this deponent has very distinct recollections that Capt. Hopper devoted the most of his time in the military service of the Revolution. and but little attention was given by said Capt to any private business being Wholly Engrossed in his duties in the service that as early as the Commencement of the Revolution Capt. Hopper Commanded the Militia of his town & was in service during the summer and fall of 1778. that he was in Command of his Company at Hoppertown in garison [sic] guarding Military Stores & at a camp located there from the first of Sept 1779. to the middle of April 1780. when the garison[sic] was surprised by the Brittish [sic] and destroyed as in his former statement that on the Destruction of Hoppertown as before mentioned about the Middle of April 1780. Capt. Hopper. with his men pursued the Enemy to the Neighborhood of Newyork. (about 19. Miles from Hoppertown) & although faild [sic] to overtake the Enemy remained in the neighbourhood of Newyork. Staten Island & Lower part of Newjersey for
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Some time & thence up & along the Hudson River as far as Rockland. Co. N.Y. and in that quarter till late in the fall about the first of December 1780. & returned to the neighborhood of Hoppertown for Winter quarters in the neighborhood of the American garison at Harington & that very frequently during that Winter following the said Capt Hopper was out on July with his Company Driving the Enemy back to the Sea Bourd & was Continously [sic] in service in that manner and at or near Camp Herington from the first of December 1780. to the May & June 1781. and that he continued in service with his men at the Point from his Return till the winter month Out in December of January. 1782. when the County being mostly Rid of the torys & Brittish Capt Hopper retired to his home & remained at Hoppertown till his death in 1824. and did not return to his own private Engagements till the Enemy nearly or quite left the State of New Jersey & the neighborhood of N.Y. that the whole or nearly. & of the State of N.J. was continously [sic] infested by the Enemy & the inhabitants were more or less all the time of the Revolution anoyed [sic] by  Tories & the Militia were more or less in actual service against them as well as the Brittish. Capt Hopper was an active and Prominent officer and an ardent supporter of the Cause of American Independence & besides rendered not less then thre [sic] years Military Service in the Cause of his Country Suffered geatly [sic] this Destruction of his Property by the Enemy. this Deponent belonging to the American Army & Rendered all or nearly all his service in the neighborhood of Camp Harington & C. was brought up in the neighborhood of Capt Hopper & was well acquainted with him & all his family frequently saw him in service with his men & he was always know as an active officer & much forced by the tories as well as the Brittish who frequently made incursions in that part of N.J.
In that I have no interest in the Claim of the heirs for a Pension.

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Subscribed and sworn before me this 25th day of Nov. 1854.
{signed} 
Lysander Redfield, Justice of the Peace

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{signed} 
Peter Van Buskirk
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State of New York
County of Ontario   }.SS.
I, Lysander Redfield, a Justice of the Peace in & for Said County do hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with Peter Van Buskirk who took & subscribed his name to the foregoing affidavit that he is a man of good moral Character & his Statements are Entitled to full credit and belief,  and have no interest in the claim, nor concerned in its prosecution
Dated. Phelps November 25th. 1854
     Lysander Redfield, Justice of the Peace, 
            of Phelps in and for Ontario County
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State of New York
County of Ontario   }SS

I, John J Lyon, Clerk of the County Court, in and for the Count and State above mentioned, do hereby certify that Lysander Redfield Esq whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn ; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit ; and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of Records, having general jurisdiction.
Given under my Hand and Seal of Office, at Canandaigua, this 27th day of Oct (struck through) Nov 1854

{signed}
John J Lyon
           Clerk
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Additional Evidence 
  in the Claim of
Mary Hopper
       of N.J.
Widow of Capt John .A. Hopper Dec'd

New Jersey
Act of July 4th 1836

Presented by

{signed}
A Van Buskirk
    Phelps
        N.Y.
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additional Evidence 
to be filed in the case
of Mary Hopper, decd widow 
of Capt. John a Hopper of 
Bergen Co N..J.
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County   ss

SEAL

I, Richard R Paulison, surrogate of the County of Bergen aforesaid do certify that Abraham J Ackerman Esq. Judge of the Bergen County Court of Common Pleas, produced before me a book purporting to be the family bible of John A. Hopper of Hoppertown Bergen County New Jersey & containing a  record the the marriages, deaths and births of the members of the family of the aforesaid John A Hopper and that the appearance, size and general character of said book correspond with the description thereof contained in the affidavit of said Judge hereunto annexed, and that in my judgment, from the appearance and entries contained in said book, the same is genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this twenty fifth day of March AD, eighteen hundred and fifty four.
(Note) The words "general character" written over "app description" erased before signing

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{signed}  
R. R. Paulison
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County   SS}
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly authorized to administer oath Abrm J Ackerman of said County who being duly sworn on his oath saith that on the third day of March he  obtained an ancient Dutch Family Bible containing the family record of Capt John A. Hopper of Hoppertown in said County that he obtained the same from Cornelius C  Zabriskie who had married Mary one of the daughters of the said Capt John A Hopper  the Bible was a small one about the size of 3½ by 6 Inches and had on it silver clasps for shutting it in the front part of it was written John A Hoppers and Mary Hoppers Bible the Record Containing their marriage Births deaths, the marriages of their children their Births & were written in a legible hand on one of the pages of the record part of it was written in the dutch language which this deponent translated, and copied all of the record, for the above named CC Zabriskie agreed I might do. that this deponent could not obtain his consent to have any of the leaves torn out which contained the record, but agreed that I might send said Bible this deponent took said bible produced it before the surrogate of said County and on returning and passing the residence of the said  Cornelius C Zabriskiehe requested this deponent
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again to compare the record with the copy this deponent left him, when the said C.C. Zabriskie again got possession of said Bible he would not allow it to be sent to Washington as it might be lost, that it was and [sic] old family relic and his children whom he had Consulted were opposed to having it sent, that he had no Interest in the matter his wife being dead and that the deponent was obliged to leave said Bible in the care of the said Cornelius C Zabriskie who was a resident of the township of New Barbados County and State aforesaid that this deponent has no interest in the matter no concerned in its prosecution

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Sworn and subscribed this 2nd day of March AD 1854 before me

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Abrm J Ackerman Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Bergen County

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{signed}
Abrm J Ackerman Justice of the peace

State of New Jersey
Bergen County SS,   I Garret G Ackerson Clerk of the County of Bergen and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that John N Ackerman before whom the above deposition of Judge Abraham J   Ackerman was taken and to which he has subscribed his name was at the time of the doing thereof and this is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn and fully authorised to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe that his signature to this deposition is genuine
Witness my hand and seal of said County and Court this 25th day of March 1854
                                  Garret G Ackerson Clerk
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State of New York
County of Ontario SS}

Be it remembered that on this Eleventh Day of March 1845 Personally appeared before me the   Subscribed a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly authorised by law to administer  oaths  Peter Van Buskirk, a resident of the town of Phelps, Ontario County and State aforesaid. aged eighty eight years and upwards who being duly  Sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration as follows. that he was well acquainted with Capt John A. Hopper of Hopper Town Bergen County N.J. in the time of revolutionary War. & in addition to what I have said heretofore in relation to the Case of Mary Hopper dec'd widow of John A. Hopper of Hoppertown, County & State aforesaid for his service in the revolution. that in the time of the revolution I resided  in the neighbourhood [sic] of the Said Capt. John Hopper aforesaid & that I was well known of his service as Capt in the army and as I said in my former affadavit with regard to his service more or less throughout the War I ment [sic] the grater [sic] part of that War & that he served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority & that he served in the field & in garrison all most from the Commencement of the War & as my attention was more definitely cauled [sic] to his service from the time General  Wayn was in the neighbourhood with his army in the Sumer [sic] of 1778 & as the aforesaid Capt Hopper served both in the field & in garrison for the protection of the inhabitains [sic] from the Enemy at least from some time in July 1778. until the 16th of April 1780. in or about that time the Battle with the Brittish was fought in Hoppertown County & State foresaid in which Capt Hopper & his soldiers under him & all the garrison of Soldiers under various & diferent [sic] officers as major Bellind major Boyles & others of the American army was quartered thear [sic] at Hoppertown occupied the dwelling of House & Store room of Capt Hopper, dec'd & had thear [sic] provisions
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and ammunitions & Stored therein & it was held as a general Depot & Garrison for the american troops in which major Boyles was killed in the Conflict - the said Capt. Hopper still served according to the best of my recollection untill [sic] the Spring of 1781. & I have no dout [sic] him  -  service after that time but up to that time I remember from the circumstance of mutiny in the american army & defection which took place in the Winter or Spring of 1781. according to the best of my reccollection [sic] & that I have no interest in the above case & am Disinterested.

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Sworn & subscribed this 11th day of March 1854 Before me H C Swift Justice of the Peace of Ontario County

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{signed}
Peter Van Buskirk

State of New York
County of Ontario  }SS
I, Henry C Swift a Justice of the Peace in & for said county do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Peter Van Buskirk and that he is a credible witness  {signed} H.C. Swift JP.

I do Hereby certify that I have no interest in nor am I engaged the the prosecution of the Claim of Capt John A Hopper for a pension as aforesaid    {signed} H.C. Swift JP

State of New-York,
County of Ontario  }SS.
I, John J. Lyon, Clerk of County Court, in and for the County and State above mentioned, do hereby certify, that Henry C. Swift whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid County  Court is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.
Given under my Hand and Seal of Office at Canandaigna, this 13th day of March 1854.
{signed} 
John J Lyon
           Clerk
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on the left:
S. Lutkins

on the right:
an. affadavit.
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County   SS}
Stephen Lutkins being duly sworn according to Law deposes and says (in addition to his former statements now on file at the Pension Office in the application of the heirs of Capt John A Hopper) that this deponent was a resident of Paramus Bergen County New Jersey during the revolutionary war that he was born at Paramus and at the commencement of the Revolution resided there and remained there till the close of the war and that he was well acquainted with Capt John A Hopper who lived at a place called Hoppertown about one and a half miles from Paramus my residence I was well acquainted with the Family and that Capt John A Hopper was an active and regular officer and commanded a company of militia and rendered most efficient service most of the time throughout the Revolution I frequently saw Capt. Hopper in service as I resided in the same neighbourhood Consequently saw all or about all the moveing [sic] of the Troops and that Hoppertown was a depot for the Army stores and of the American troops militia & this deponent very well knows, and that Cap John A Hopper devoted most of his time in the military and but little attention was given by said Capt John A Hopper to any private affairs of his own (so far as this deponent knows) being almost wholly employed in his duties in the service that at the Commencement of the Revolution Capt John A Hopper commanded a company of militia of his town and was in service during the summer & fall of 1778 being at least a six months tour that he was in command of his company at Hoppertown  in Garrison guarding the military stores and at a camp
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quartered there from the first of Sept 1779 to the middle of April 1780 being the next tour when the garrison was surprised by the British and destroyed as in his former statements that on the destruction of Hoppertown as before mentioned about the middle of April 1780 Capt John A Hopper with his men to the best of my recollection pursued the enemy for some time till late in the fall of 1780 his next tour and returned to Hoppertown for winter quarters in the neighbourhood of the American garrison at Harrington and that frequently during that winter following the said Capt John A Hopper was out on duty with his men driving the enemy to the sea board and was actively engaged in service in that manner at or near the Camp in Harrington from the first of December 1780 until June 1781 and that as near as I can recollect he continued from that time in service with his men at or near that place and vicinity till some time in December 1781 his last tour according to the best of my recollection and that the whole time(struck through) or nearly so of the State of New Jersey was continually infested by the enemy and especially the river Countries were more or less all the time annoyed by the Tories as well as the British and the militia were more or less in actual service to protect the Inhabitants from their Incursions and to watch the motions of the enemy Capt John A Hopper was an active and prominent officer and much feared by the Tories as well as the British who burnt and destroyed his property at Hoppertown in 1780 because he was an ardent supporter of American Independence and suffered greatly by the destruction of all his property by the enemy as before stated
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that the said Capt John A Hopper and family remained at Hoppertown after the War of the Revolution until his death in 1824 and that I am disinterested in the above case

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Subscribed and sworn before me this seventh day of February 1855
{signed}
Abrm J Ackerman   Justice of the Peace

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{signed}  Stephen Lutkins

State of New Jersey
Bergen County   SS}
I Abrm J Ackerman a Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Stephen Lutkins who took and subscribed his name to and made the foregoing affidavit that he is a man of good moral character and that his statement therein are entitled to full credit and belief and also that I have no Interest in the above case and am not concerned in its prosecution
{signed}
Abrm J Ackerman Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey
Bergen County   SS}
I Garret G Ackerson Clerk of the County of Bergen and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that Abraham J Ackerman that before whom the foregoing deposition of Stephen Lutkins was taken was at the time of the doing thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn and fully authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe that his signature to this deposition and certificate is genuine,
Witness my hand and seal of said County and Court this 22nd day of February 1855
{signed}
Garrett G Ackerman  Clerk
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     on file in House of Representatives
              Jany 4 1840 -
Deposition no. 4   Mary Hopper (underlined)

Personally appeared before me Charles Kinsey one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Bergen Co New Jersey. Mary Hopper, who being duly sworn, deposeth Saith that she is the widow of John A Hopper dec'd late of Hoppertown Bergen Co. N.J. that she married the said John A Hopper in the month of September on the 11th day of the month, in the Year 1779. that she came to reside with the late Husband at Hoppertown Bergen Co N.J. in the same Year of her marriage. that she continued to reside at Hoppertown till the Year 1827. that she has been a widow since the death of her late husband in 1824. that on the 16th day of April 1780. a troop of Dragoons of British Light Horse surprised the American garison [sic] of soldiers stationed at Hoppertown, killed the Maj in Command took a few prisoners and burned and destroyed two Dwelling Houses one Store House & one Grist Mill with two Run of Stones. that one of the dwelling Dwelling houses and Store House was the property of her late Husband that in Consequence of the Destruction of the buildings, her late husband lost all his private private [sic] property contained in the buildings, consisting of Household furniture, a Large quantity of Linnen [sic] and various other  goods. And also the sum of seven thousand Dollars in Money. Not a dollar of Which Money was saved. that she Solemly [sic]
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under Oath declares and specify the amount Exact: that the Money was put in a safe place in the house some time previous to its destruction by fire on the morning of the 16 April 1780 at Dawn of Day. that she is particular as to the loss of the Money, as her late husband had obtained, saved and was in the possession thereof, to be used for the special purposes
   That she attributes the loss of all her late husbands private property by the British Troops on the Morning aforesaid. Mainly and altogether, that the Buildings Destroyed were used and occupied by the American Troops, and arms, ammunition & provisions kept & stored in the Buildings for the use of the American garrison of officers & soldiers quartered and Stationed at Hoppertown.
That her late Husband Escaped at the time, with loss of his hat, that her late husband was a Captain of Militia, previous, during, and after the War of the Revolution, that her late husband served in the Cause of American Independence with the men under his Command in New Jersey, in the City of New York, in Rockland Co N.Y. & various other places

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Sworn before
  Charles S Kinsey
     one the of Judges of Bergen Co N.J.15th  
     January 1838 -
      the above accompanies her Petition to  
Congress for Remuneration for the  loss of Property -                                       (over)
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the following named Persons old People residing at & in the neighborhood of Hoppertown N.J. & fully & clearly coroborate [sic] all the facts set forth in Mrs Hopper petition & affidavit

Benjamin Hopper
Francis Thompson
John J. Hopper
Rachael Van Voorhis
John S. Bertholf
John P. Post
Certificate of a Clergyman as to the Excelancy [sic] of Mrs Hoppers Character - 

     Jacob A. Van Derbick an old soldier who served with Capt Hopper in the ___ on various occasins [sic] in the Revolution

John C Post   same as above

Names & no of heirs of Capt John A. Hopper of Hoppertown N.J.
  Rachael, the wife of Anthony Yelverton of 
      Chester orange  in N.Y.
  Maria Zabriskie wife of Cornelius Zabriskie      
     Paramus Bergen Co NJ (since dead)
Sally Bushaus, Patterson N.J.
Catharine Eltinge Ulster Co N.Y.
    the above were the only children living living 
    [sic] in 1838
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Mrs Hopper as well as all the Wits (Witnesses?) with her Papers, were sworn in 1838 before Samuel H. Berry Esq then Co Clerk of Bergen Co NJ. & who certified to the high credibility of these parties - Said Bery [sic] is now the Judge of Bergen Co N.J.

Nov 20/54
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State of New-York,
County of Ontario  }SS
I, GARRET G. ACKERSON, Clerk of the county of Bergen and Clerk of the County Courts in and for  said County, do certify that  Abraham J Ackerman before whom the above Declaration and Certificate of Polly Baldwin was taken, I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that his signature to the above is genuine.

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WITNESS my hand and seal of said County, this fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
{signed}   G. G Ackerson    Clerk

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Illegible

Mary Hopper
     N J ___ (squiggle line) 6
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State of New Jersey
County of Bergen 

Garret Zabriskie aged eighty five years & upwards a resident of the town of Washington County of Bergen & State of New Jersey who being duly Sworn according to law Deposeth and Says that during the revolutionary war he resided at the above mentioned place & that he was well acquainted with the Said Capt John A Hopper of Bergen County in the State of New Jersey who served as capt in time of the revolution & as I truly believe Served in that capacity throughout the war of the revolution under various & general offisers [sic] and that I well recollect the Battle Capt. John A. Hopper & his men under him had with the Brittish [sic] at Hoppertown in Bergen County & State aforesaid and that the Brittish [sic] burnt the Dwelling & Store room of the said Capt. John A. Hopper & Grist Mill & other personal property to a large amount that I never knew or heard of any other man by the name of Capt. John A. Hopper in the town of Hoppertown but the Said Capt. John A. Hopper or even in the County & that I lived but a short distance from the residence of the Said Capt. John A. Hopper in the time of the revolution & that I heard & saw more of less of the moveing [sic] of his troops during the war of the revolution the Battle the Said Capt. John A. Hopper had with the Brittish [sic] was some time in April 1780. in which one of the offiser [sic] of the American army was killed in the conflict but by reason of old age & consequent loss of memory. I do not distinctly recollect but according to the best of my memory
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it was major Boyles of the United States army & that I am Disinterested in the matter

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Sworn and subscribed before me at the Township of Washington in said County this second day of January 1854
{signed} Abrm J Ackerman  Justice of the Peace

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{signed} Garret Zabriskie

State of New Jersey
Bergen County   SS} 
I Abrm J Ackerman a Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that Garret Zabriskie who took and subscribed his name the foregoing affidavit is well known to me and that he is a credible person and his statements in the forgoing [sic] affidavit are entitled to Credit and that I have no Interest in the claim and am not concerned in its prosecution
dated this 2nd day of Jan 1854
{signed}
Abrm J Ackerman Justice of the Peace
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State of New-Jersey,
Bergen County     }SS
I, GARRET G. ACKERSON, Clerk of the county of Bergen and Clerk of the County Courts in and for said County, do certify that Abraham J Ackerman before whom the above affidavit and Certificate of Garret A Hopper was taken, was at the time of doing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County of Bergen, duly commissioned and sworn, and fully authorized to take the same ; and further that  I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that his signature to the above declaration is genuine.

WITNESS my hand and seal of said County, this fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
{signed} Garret G Ackerson   Clerk
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State of New Jersey
County of               }  Albert G. Hopper aged seventy one years and upwards a resident of the town of Franklin in the County of Bergen & State of New Jersey, being duly Sworn according to Law deposeth & says that he Knew Capt John A. Hopper in his life time who resided in Hopper town Bergen County N.J. & that the Said Capt John A. Hopper died in the Town of Hoppertown Bergen County N.J. on the 23rd day of February 1824. & he was present at the funeral & saw him buried & also that I was well acquainted with Mary Hopper the wife of Said Capt. John A. Hopper of Hoppertown & that She Survived Capt. John A. Hopper & never again Married after her Husbands Death & that She also Died in the Town of Hoppertown County of Bergen & State of N.J. on the ninth day of August - 1844 & that he was present at her funeral and Saw her buried and that at the time of her Death She left three Children her & said Husband surviving & whose names & places of Residence are as follows.  Rachael wife of Anthony Yelverton Chester Orange County New York Sally wife of John Burhans Patterson New Jersey Catharine wife of Solomon Elting Kingston Ulster County N.Y. & that thay [sic] are all above the age of 21 years & that thay [sic] are the only Surviving children of the Said Mary Hopper & her Said Husband John a. Hopper of Hoppertown N.J. & that Mary was his first & only wife & that Mary Hopper never, Married again after the Death of her husband & also that the Said Capt. John A. Hopper was reputed and believed in the
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neighborhood where he resided to have been a Capt & served as such in time of the revolution & that the belief is general & that no doubts ever existed upon the subject & that I am disinterested & have no interest, in the above matter, or clame [sic], & that he
was the only Capt John a. Hopper to my knowledge & that I am disinterested.
                               {signed} Albert G Hopper
Sworn and subscribed before me this 4th day of January 1854
{signed}
Abrm J Ackerman, Justice of the Peace


State of New Jersey
County of Bergen      }SS.
I. Abrm J Ackerman a Justice of the Peace
in & for Said County do hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with Albert G Hopper who Subscribed his name to & who made the foregoing affadavit that he is a man of good moral character & his statements therein are
entitled to full credit & belief, Dated[crossed out] that I am not interested in the matter nor concerned in the prosecution of this claim
{signed}
Abrm J Ackerman   Justice of the Peace
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State of New-Jersey,
Bergen County,   }SS.

I, GARRET G. ACKERSON, Clerk of the county of Bergen and Clerk of the County Courts in and for Said County do certify that Abraham J Ackerman before whom the above Declaration and Certificate of Albert G Hopper was taken, was at the time of doing the same, A Justice of the Peace in and for Said County duly commissioned and sworn, and fully authorized to take the same ; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that his signature to the above declaration is genuine.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said County, this
fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
{signed} G. G Ackerson   Clerk
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State of New Jersey
County of Bergen    ⎬ SS
On this 5th day of January 1854. Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly authorised by Law to administer oaths
Andrew H. Hopper a resident of the town of
Newbarbadoes County & State afore-said aged
67. years & upwards who being duly Sworn
according to Law doth on his oath make the
following Declaration that he was well acquainted with the Said Capt John A. Hopper
of Hopper town in the County & State aforesaid in his life time & that I resided but a short Distance from his residence in Hopper town and that the said Capt John A. Hoper [sic} was reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resided to have been a Capt in the War of the revolution & served as Such more or less throughout that war & that I concur in that opinion & that the belief is general & that no doubts ever existed on the Subject to my Knowledge & that I am Disinterested in the above Matter - 
{signed} Andrew H Hopper
Sworn and subscribed at Hackensack this fifth day of January AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty four before me.
{signed John N Ackerman  Justice of the peace

State of New Jersey 
County of Bergen    ⎬ SS
 I, John N Ackerman a Justice of the Peace in & for said County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the said Andrew H. Hopper who subscribed his name to & who made the foregoing affadavit that he is a man of good moral Character & his statements there in are
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Entitled to full credit & belief
I the said Justice do certify I am not Interested neither diret [sic] nor indirect in the foregoing claims
{signed} J. N. Ackerman

on right:
{signed} John N Ackerman Justice of the peace

State of New Jersey
Berger County SS.
I Garret G Ackerson Clerk of the County of Bergen and Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for said County do certify that John N Ackerman before whom the foregoing affidavit of Andrew H. Hopper was taken was at the time of the doing thereof a Justice of
the peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn and fully authorised to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of
said Justice and verily believe that his signature
to the same is genuine
Witness my hand and seal of said County and Court this fifth day of January AD 1854

{signed} Garret G Ackerson Clerk
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State of New Jersey
County of Bergen    }SS
Polly Baldwin aged sixty nine years and upwards a resident of the Town of Saddle River in the County of Bergen & State of New Jersey being duly sworn according to law deposeth & says that she knew Capt John A. Hopper of Hoppertown Bergen County New Jersey & was well aquainted [sic] as I resided but a few miles from him & that the Said Capt. John A. Hopper. Died in the town of Hopper town Bergen County New Jersey on the 23rd day of
February 1824 & she was present at the funeral & saw him buried & also that I was well acquainted with Mary Hopper the first & onley [sic] wife of the Said Capt John A. Hopper of Hoppertown County & State aforesaid that she survived the said John A. Hopper I never married again after her Husbands death & that she also (crossed out) Died in the town of New Barbadoes County of Bergen & State aforesaid on the ninth day of Agust [sic]  - 1844. that she was present at her funerel [sic] & saw her buried and that at the time of his death she left three children her & her said Husband Surviving & whose names & places of Residence are as follows Rachael Wife of Anthony Yelverton of Chester Orange County N. Y. now a widow of the said Anthony Yelverton deceased, & Sally wife of John Burhans near Patterson N. Y. & now also a widow of the late John Burhans Decased [sic] & Catharin wife of Solomon Elting Kingston Ulster County N.Y. & that they are all above the age of Twenty one years & that they are the only surviving Children now living of the said Mary Hopper her said Husband John A Hopper, Deceased & that Mary was his first & only wife
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& that Mary never married again after the Death of her Husband & also that the Said Capt John A. Hopper was reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resided. to have been Capt in the revolution & to have served as such in that War & that I. concur in that opinion & that the belief is general that no doubts ever existed upon the Subject to my knowladge [sic] & that I am disinterested & have no interest in the Claims & also that he is the only Capt John A. Hopper that had his Buildings Burnt by the Brittish in time of the revolution.
Sworn and subscribed before me January 4th 1854 
{signed} Abrm J Ackerman Justice of the peace

on right: {signed} Polly X (her mark) Baldwin

State of New Jersey
County of Bergin   } SS  I. Abrm J Ackerman Justice of the peace in and for said County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Polly Baldwin who subscribed her name to & who made the foregoing affidavit that he is a man of good moral character & her Statements therein are Entitled to full credit & belief.  Dated (crossed out) that I am not Interested in the matter nor concerned in its prosecution
January 4th 1854
{signed} Abm J Ackerman Justice of the peace
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State of New-Jersey,
Bergen County,    }ss.

I, GARRET G. ACKERSON, Clerk of the 
Clerk of the county of Bergen and Clerk of the County Courts in and for said County, do certify that Abraham J Ackerman before whom the above Declaration and Certificate of Polly Baldwin was taken, was at the time of doing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and fully authorized to take the same ; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that his signature to the above is genuine.
{signed} Abrm J Ackerman Justice of the Peace

WITNESS my hand and seal of said County, 
this fifth day of January in the year of our Lord  one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
{signed}
G. G Ackerson    Clerk 

right page:
Mary Hopper
N J   sus (squiggle line) 6
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State of New Jersey    SS
County of Bergen     ⎬ 
On this sixth day of November A.D. 1854 Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County of Bergen Duly authorized by Law to administer Oaths Garret D Ackerman a resident of the Town of Hoboken County of Bergen & State of New Jersey aged eighty years & upwards who being Duly Sworn according to Law Deposeth & saith that he was well acquainted with Capt John A. Hopper in the time of the Revolutionary War & well remembers
the time that the said Capt Hopper was Mustered in the militia of N.J. at Hopper town Bergen County State above mentioned. this was in July 1778. where the American army was quartered at that time & that the Said Capt. Hopper served with an embodied Corps. for
the Protection of the Garrison at Hoppertown & the incursion of the enemy betwean [sic] that place & New York, the officers of the Garrison & there [sic] names I Do not all recollect. but I remember Magee Boyls & Boils. Boils was mortally wounded in a Battle at the Garrison at Hoppertown with the Britiash [sic] in the spring of 1780. in which Capt Hopper all the Garrison of Soldiers took Part. the Duration of each term of Engagement of his service I do not with precision recollect, but that his time was wholly devoted to the service of his Country, at least from some time in July 1778. until some time in March 1781. his Marches where mostly performed between Hoppertown & New York for the time during which the
the service was performed he was not employed in any Civil pursuit. I resided at that time in the neighbourhood & but a short Distant from the Camp, or Garrison Consequently as I saw them about every day I was well knowing to his service in the War of the Revolution & Further more I am disinterested in the above Case & Also that the
Said Capt Hopper was honorably Discharged from the service
Sworn and subscribed before me this sixth day of November 1854
Abrm J Ackerman Justice of the peace
{signed}  Garret D X (his mark) Ackerman  [sic]
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County        }SS
 
I Abrm J Ackerman a Justice of the Peace ---
in and for said County do hereby certify
that I am well acquainted with Garret D Ackerman who took & Subscribed his name to the foregoing affadavit that he is a credible person & his statements in the foregoing are entitled to full credit & belief & Further
more I am disinterested in the above case & are not conserned [sic] in its prosecution,
{signed} 
Abrm J Ackerman
Justice of Peace

State of New Jersey
Bergen County    SS
I Garret G Ackerson Clerk of the County of Bergen and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that Abraham J Ackerman before whom the foregoing deposition of Garret G Ackerson was taken and to which he has subscribed his name was at the time of the doing thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and Sworn and fully authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said
Justice and verily believe that his signature to said deposition is genuine
Witness my hand and Seal of Said County
and Court this tenth day of November AD 1854
{signed}  Garrett G Ackerson Clerk
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County    SS

Personally appeared before me Abrm J Ackerman a Justice of the peace in
and for said County Andrew H. Hopper of
Bergen County who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he has examined the Tomb Stones at the Burying ground at Paramus church near Hoppertown, of Capt. John A Hopper dec'd and also of Mary Hopper widow
of John A. Hopper and that the following is a true Copy of the Inscription

In memory of John A. Hopper who was born
March 17th 1745 and departed this life Feby 3rd 1824 aged 78 years & 27 days

In memory of Mary Hopper wife of John
Hopper November 17th 1760 and departed
this life August 9th 1844 aged 83 years 8 months 23 days

This deponent further saith that he is sixty eight year of age. that he has always resided in the vicinity of Hoppertown that he was well acquainted with Capt. John A Hopper of Hoppertown & Mary his wife that they were always reputed to be man & wife that he acted as sexton in the Congregation of Paramus
of the Reformed Dutch Church and that he performed the duty of Burying the bodys of the above named Capt John A Hopper and Mary his wife that the said Capt John A
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Hopper is the same person who lived at Hoppertown in the time of the Revolutionary war and that at the time of the revolutionary war he was reputed to be a Captain in the war at the burning of Hoppertown for which a claim is now before the House of representatives in Congress as this deponent
has heard and verily believes  & I am disinterested in the above case nor concerned in its prosecution
Sworn and Subscribed before me this sixth day of November 1854.
{signed}   
Abrm J Ackerman Justice of the peace
on right:   {signed} Andrew H Hopper

State of New Jersey
Bergen County     SS.
I Garret G Ackerson Clerk of the County of Bergen and Clerk of the Court Common Pleas
in and for Said County do certify that Abraham J Ackerman before whom the forgoing deposition of Andrew H. Hopper was taken and to which he has subscribed his name was at the time of doing thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and fully authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of Said Justice 
and verily believe that his signature to said deposition is genuine
Witness my hand and seal of said County and
Court this tenth day of November AD 1854
{signed} Garret G Ackerson  Clerk
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County     SS}

On this ninth day of November 1854 personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly authorized by Law to administer oaths Stephen Lutkins of New Barbadoes County of Bergen who being duly sworn makes the following declaration that he is eighty six years
of age and upwards that he was well acquainted with Capt John A. Hopper of Hoppertown that this deponent lived a near neighbour to him in time of the Revolutionary war and that he, the said Capt. John A Hopper, was married to Mary Cooper his wife in the face of the year 1779 the exact date he does not recollect but it was previous to the Battle fought at Hoppertown by the said Capt John A Hopper & others in the spring of the year 1780 with the British, and that the said Mary Hopper Continued the widow of Capt. John A Hopper until the time of her death and that he is disinterested in the case -

Sworn and subscribed
^ the words of the said Capt John A Hopper Interlined before executed
before me this ninth day of November 1854
{signed} Abrm J Ackerman Justice of the peace
on right:
{signed} Stephen X (his mark) Lutkins
 
State of New Jersey
Bergen County     SS}
I Abrm J Ackerman a Justice of the peace in nd for said County do hereby certify that I am well
acquainted with Stephen Lutkins who took and sub-
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-scribed his name to the foregoing affidavit that he is a man of good moral character and his statements therein are entitled to full credit and belief & also that I am disinterested in the above case and am not concerned in its prosecution
{signed} Abrm J Ackerman Justice of the Peace 

State of New Jersey
Bergen County        SS
I Garret G Ackerson Clerk of the County of
Bergen and Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County do certify that Abraham J Ackerman before whom the forgoing deposition of Stephen Lutkins was taken and to which he has subscribed his name was at the time of the doing thereof and still is a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn and fully
authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said said Justice and verily believe that his signature to this deposition is genuine.
Witness my hand and seal of said County and Court the tenth day of November AD 1854

{signed} Garret G Ackerson Clerk

written sideways on left side page:
{signed}  Abraham Van Buskirk
               Phelps 
               Ontario Co, N.Y.
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State of New Jersey
County of Bergen     }
I Stephen Lutkins a late resident of the Township of New Barbadoes County of Bergen and State aforesaid aged eighty six years and upwards who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and says that he was well acquainted with Capt John Hopper of Hoppertown Bergen County New Jersey in the time of the revolution and resided but a short distance from the residence of the said Capt
John Hopper of Hoppertown, County and
State aforesaid, that in time of the Revolution
the said Capt John Hopper was mustered in the service of the United States, under various and different officers, their names I do not now recollect on account of old age and Consequent loss of memory, but he entered the army and service some time before the year 1778 and served in the field with his men under him in skouting [sic] parties for the protection of the Inhabitants against the enemy, and in Garrison & according to the best of my recollection, not less than three years at least, that is from some time in the
fall of 1778, until the fall of the year
one thousand seventeen hundred and
eighty one and Major Boyles and others
with a Garrison and soldier was quartered
at Hoppertown and ammunition & was
stored therein this was a general Depot
for the American Army - some time in
April one thousand seventeen hundred
and eighty as near as I can recollect at ┃
the dawn of day a troop of British light House
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surprised the American troops in Garrison
at Hopperton Killing the Commanding officers
and capturing a part of the Garrison and
finding the buildings of Capt. John Hopper
in the occupation of the American troops
and used as a depot. The buildings were
filed and destroyed in the battle afore
said Capt. John Hopper of Hopper town and his fellow soldiers took part and still continued in the field in the same capacity until the fall of 1781
I am disinterested and have no Interest in the above case-

on bottom right: {signed} Stephen Lutkins
Sworn and subscribed before me this first day of March 1854
{signed} Abm J Ackerman  Justice of the peace

State of New Jersey
Bergen County       SS}
I Abrm J Ackerman a Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Stephen Lutkins who took and subscribed his name to the foregoing that he is a credible person and his statements in the foregoing are entitled to full credit and belief and further more that I have no Interest in the above matter and are not concerned in
its prosecution
Dated March 1st 1854
{signed} Abrm J Ackerman Justice of the peace

State of New Jersey
Bergen County       SS
I Garrett G. Ackerson Clerk of the County
of Bergen and Clerk of the Court of
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Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that Abraham J Ackerman before whom the above deposition and Certificate of Stephen Lutkins was taken and to which he has subscribed his name was at the time of the doing thereof and still is a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and fully authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe that his signature to the above is genuine
Witness my hand and seal of the County
and Court this 2d day of March AD 1834
{signed} Garret G Ackerson Clerk
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Additional Evidence
to be filed in the Case
of Mary Hopper dec'd widow
of Capt John Hopper
Bergen .Co. N.J.