Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3142, Anthony Hubbert, Penn.
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Form (8-1776)
Service Penn[handwritten]
Hubbert, Anthony 
Number W. 3142 [handwritten]
Mary
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[Left Side] 
Let to W.H. Todd June 16 1842.

[Right Side]
3336
Pennsylvania
Mary Hubbert widow of Anthony Hubbert deceased who died in the year 1831 of Philadelphia in the State of Penn. who was a priv. artil. in the company commanded by Captain Sadler of the regt. commanded by Col... in the Penn line for 18 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate of 108 Dollars    Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of May 1840 & delivered to C.J. Jack, esquire Present.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1840 $972.00 
Semi-Annual allowance ending 4 Sept. '40  54.00
$1026.00

{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3d }

[illegible due to tear]ed by D. McCurdy [signature] Clerk
C vol 1. Page 153.
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1944
Mary Hubbert 
of Anthony
Pennsylvania
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C.J. Jack

[crossed out] H.D. [illegible]

[lightly written below] [illegible] 3
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia H.
Claim under the act of July 4. 1836
On the eighteenth day of May A.D. 1837 before me Edward King President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the said county being the first judicial district of Pennsylvania personally appeared Mary Hubbert of Kensington in the said county widow of Anthony Hubbert formally of the said place house carpenter the said Mary Hubbert being known to me as a person of respectability and credit; and the said Mary for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of all the provisions to which she is entitled under the pension laws passed by the Congress of the United States did then and there depose and say as follows, being first duly sworn according to law;
That she is now about eighty years age; that she was born in the county of Philadelphia and has always resided there; that she is the widow of Anthony Hubbert [underlined] who was a private in the army of the United States during the revolutionary war that he enlisted under captain Sadler as one [underlined] of a company of pioneers or something [underlined] of that kind; that he remained in the army for more than two years and as the deponent thinks for several years, but it is so long
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long ago that she cannot recollect exactly; that she does not remember the name of any other officer under whom her husband served, nor has she any decedents by which she can ascertain the dates of his entering or leaving the service; that at the time of his enlistment he was a resident of Philadelphia county and so continued up to the time of his death; the she has often and often heard him speak of the battle he was in, particularly those of Brandywine Trenton and Princeton; that she recollects particularly that in one of the battles he was taken prisoner by the British who had then possession of Philadelphia and that he was housed there and kept in such a state of destitution as nearly to die of starvation; that he obtained means of letting her know his state, she being then at Germantown, and she continued through an acquaintance to send him some food; that he did not return to live at home from the time he first entered the army until he finally left it; he died in 1831.
And the deponent further declared that she was married to the said Anthony Hubbert on the 4 November 1776, before [underlined] he entered the army, at the Sweden Church
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Church in the said county of Philadelphia by the Rev Andrew Gowanson pastor of the said church as state appears by the register of marriages of the said Church that the certificate of the Rev John Clay now rector of the said church to that effect is hereto announced.
And the deponent further declares that neither her husband during his life time nor she herself at any time has received any pension or gratuity whatever from the United States, the state of Pennsylvania or any one, on account of the military or public service of her said husband.
Mary Hubbert 
Sworn and subscribed by the said Mary Hubbert on the said day and year in open Court of Common Pleas
Edward King President Judge 1st Judicial District Penna
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia Ss
On the eighteenth day of May A.D. 1837 before me Edward King President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the city and county of Philadelphia being the first judicial district of Pennsylvania personally appeared Christian Hubbert residing in the seventh ward of the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia formerly house carpenter and known to me to be a person of respectability and credit who being duly sworn according to law deposed and says;
That he is now in his seventy ninth year; that he was born in the county of Philadelphia and always lived there except when he was out with the army in the old revolutionary war; that he was the brother of Anthony Hubbert also of the said county whose widow in now an applicant for the benefits of the provisions of the pension laws of the United States; that his brother Anthony was married to his present widow Mary Hubbert in November 1776; that somewhere about the time of his marriage, but at what exact time the deponent cannot state, his brother Anthony joined Captain Sadler's com-[author cuts off here to segue into next page]
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company of pioneers, and from that time remained in the revolutionary army for some time, but deponent cannot say how long; that the deponent himself in May 1777 enlisted with Colonel Proctor; that previous thereto in the preceding winter he had been called out in a militia corps commanded by Colonel Timothy Mattack and went with him to the army then lying at Bristol in Pennsylvania; that he marched from there to Trenton at the battle and during the battle he saw his brother Anthony engaged in his own company; that both deponent and his brother were among the troops that went to Princeton, and both were also engaged in that battle; that after deponent's regular enlistment as stated before he continued with the regular army and in September following he was in the battle of Brandywine where he again saw his brother Anthony; that deponent did not know when his brother was taken prisoner, not being with him at the time, but he has often heard him talk of it and of his being confined by them at Philadelphia; that deponent continued in the army for four years longer but he cannot recollect and state any particular time and place
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places where he saw his brother though they have often talked about the battle and events of the war since; that his brother Anthony died as deponent thinks about seven or eight years since; he was buried in the Baptist church and the register there will show; that his widow has remained unmarried ever since.
Christian Hubbert [signature]
Sworn and prescribed this 18th day of May A.D. 1837 before me in open court of Common Pleas
Edward King President Judge 1st Dist Penna
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State of Pennsylvania St.
City of Philadelphia Ss.
On the twenty sixth of May A.D. 1837 before me Edward King President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Philadelphia being the first judicial district of Pennsylvania personally appeared Henry D. Gilpin of the said city attorney at law to me well known as a person of credit who being duly sworn according to law deposed and says;
That on Friday the 19th of May he accompanied [blank space] Hubbert the son of Mary Hubbert now an applicant for a pension as the widow of the late Anthony Hubbert a revolutionary soldier the the house of William Butler an aged and well known resident of the said city; that the said William Buller made to the deponent the following statement;
That he William Buller was in the one hundred and seventh year of his age; that he was born in Chester county Pennsylvania, and has resided in this city ever since the year 1779 having brought his family here after the British army left; that no man ever knew Anthony Hubbert better than he did; that he very well
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well remembered him at the time he William Buller joined the revolutionary army and marched away from here for Quebec which was in the year 1776; that at that time he left Anthony Hubbert here; that when he returned from Canada he continued with the army the next year and was at the battle of Brandywine; that he well recollects seeing Anthony Hubbert in the battle; that Captain Matthew Sadler commanded the artificer company in which Anthony Hubbert was, but whether it was militia or an enlisted company he did not know for when he saw a soldier he did not inquire that; that on the 18 September 1777 he saw Anthony Hubbert marching in his company into the skirmishing affair at the Paoli which was no regular battle; that on the 4th of October following he again saw him at the battle of Germantown; that he William Buller well remembered to have seen him afterwards with the artificer company under captain Sadler at Philadelphia in 1779 after the British went away from there; but the he did not recollect seeing him in the army after that time because he himself was soon afterwards marched
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[continued from previous page]ed away to New Jersey, and afterwards to West Point; and finally in 1782 to Little York in Virginia.
And the said Henry D. Gilpin further deposed and says, that the preceding statement was voluntarily made by old William Buller with remarkable clearness and apparently minute recollection as to the particular facts stated; that it was reduced by deponent to writing in his presence and read to him; and that he said it was every word true, and researched the fact of his intimate acquaintance with Anthony Hubbert; that deponent was informed by the old man's relatives who were present that he was quite incapable of signing his name and would not take an oath or affirmation; that the [illegible]ness of his limits and his loss of sight evidently made it impossible for him to write; and that deponent did not attempt to induce him to make an oath or affirmation under these circumstances.
H.D. Gilpin [signature]
Sworn a nd subscribed on the said day and year before me in open court of Common Pleas
Edward King [signature] President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the City & county of Phila
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City of Philadelphia Ss.
On the twenty sixth day of May A.D. 1837 before me Edward King President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the city and county of Philadelphia being the first judicial district of Pennsylvania personally appeared Samuel T. Stratton residing in Kensington in the said county Starch manufacturer and known to me to be a person of respectability and credit who being duly sworn according to law deposed and says;
That he was born in the county of Philadelphia and has always resided there; that from his childhood up he was well acquainted with the late Anthony Hubbert; that for several years he lived in the same house with him and always in the same neighborhood; that deponent always understood and it was a matter of general notoriety that the said Anthony Hubbert had been a soldier in the American army during the revolutionary war; that he has often conversed with the deponent in relations thereto; that he remembers particularly his speaking of the manner in which the Hessians were killed at the battle of Brandywine, that the creek was red with blood; that
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that he well remembers his account of the battle of Germantown in which he was and his saying that the body in which he was had to retreat back from the hill there when the British came up, and his speaking especially of some very hard fighting at a house there; that he has also heard him, as he believes, say he was in the battle of Princeton though of that he is not positive as in regard to the other two; that deponent has heard him say he was taken prisoner by the British and put in one of the prisons in Philadelphia; that he cannot remember the exact time being stated when he entered the army or left it, nor the name of the captain in whose company he was.
Samuel T Stratton [signature]
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid before me in open court of Common Pleas
Edward King [signature] President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the city and county of Philadelphia
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I hereby certify that according to the Register of marriage of  church in the district of Southwark Phila county Anthony Hubbert and Mary Febolt were married by the Rev Andrew Gowanson on the fourth day of Nov A.D. 1776.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand to seal this twenty seventh day of April A.D. 1837.
J.C. Clay [signature] [beside a bubble with initials L.S.]
Rector of the Swedish churches in & near to Philad.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County
The Revd John Curtis Clay being sworn according to laws deposed and says that the above is a true copy from the Records and Registry of Marriages of Wicacoa Church above mentioned of which deponent is at present Rector
J.C. Clay [signature]
Sworn and subscribed the 27th day of April 1837 before Wm L Sorton [signature] alderman
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I certify that on examination of the Record of Internments of the Second Baptist Church and Congregation in Philadelphia it Apears [sic] that Anthony Hubbert Aged Seventy Eight Years was Interred on the fifth Day of February A.D. One Thousand and Eight Hundred and Thirty One -
Witness my hand at Philadelphia this Twenty fifth Day of May A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Seven - 
Francis Maxwell [signature]
Keeper of the Book of Internments of the Said Church

State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia [illegible]
On the twenty fifth day of May A.D. 1837 Came and Appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the 
[illegible] and Alderman in and for the Said County. The above named Francis Maxwell, who upon his Solemn Oath According to Law Both before and saith that the above is a true copy of the Record taken by him in Relation to the Internment of Anthony Hubbert and that he is the Keeper of the Book of Internment of the Second Baptist Church Congregation in Philadelphia - 
Sworn and Subscribed before me on the day and year afore said.
Guies D Belair [signature, left, underlined]
Francis Maxwell [signature, right]
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State of Pennsylvania
City & County of Philadelphia
Ss.

On this nineteenth day of July A.D. 1837 William A. Kline [Robert Morris is crossed out] clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said city and county of Philadelphia being the first judicial district of Pennsylvania do certify that the honorable Edward King before ^whom four of the annexed depositions were [illegible] then was and now is President Judge of the said court and I do also certify that William J. Norton and Lewis D. Belair before whom the two other depositions annexed were taken then were and now are aldermen and ea offices justice of the peace duly authorized to take the same and I do also certify that the signature of the said Edward King, William J. Norton and Lewis D. Belair to the [illegible] at of each of the said depositions respectively made are of the proper hand willing of them the said Edward King William J. Norton and Lewis D Belair witness my hand and the seal of the said court at Philadelphia on the said day and year.
William A. Kline [signature]
[illegible]
per Joseph S [illegible, signature]
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Revy Widow, &c. 
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File No. 3142 
Mary Hubbert
Widow
Anthony Hubbert
Pri. Rev. War
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Act: July 4, 1836
Index:- Vol. A, Page 354
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mary Hubbert
Pa
[upside down]
Nov 11 [written on right side of page]
PHILADEL [illegible] NOV 10 [stamp]
Pa [center]
A [initial, left side]
JL Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of pensions
Washington  
DC
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Mary Hubbert
Pa

Nov 11 [written on left side of page]
PHILADEL [illegible] NOV 10 [stamp]
Pa [center]
A [initial, right side]
JL Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of pensions
Washington  
DC
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Dear Sir,
Upon examination, it turns out that [illegible] Hubbert can, Captain Sadler's name is Matthias husband of [illegible] and this he [illegible] at some time during the Revolutionary War [illegible] search is now being made for his commissioner for the [illegible] time which I know is not an officer is from [illegible]

Nov 5. 1839
Your obt s [obedient servant]
C. J. Jack
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May 16, 1840

J. L. Edwards Esquire

Commissioner of Pensions

Washington
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Sir,

I enclose with this Mary affidavit in the case of Mary Hubbert widow of Anthony Hubbert [illegible] the papers I [illegible] have been in some way misunderstood upon [illegible] confirm that they were [illegible]

Philadelphia
May 14 1840

C J Jack
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Dear Sir,

I enclose in the [illegible], the papers of Mrs Mary Hubbert, widow of Anthony Hubbert, which I understand have been already [illegible] thing I H. G. Pilpin [illegible], I am [illegible] I understand how it is that she is not upon [illegible] troops entitled to a [illegible] there is no such paper as Captain Sadler upon [illegible] list in [illegible], his existence and command are line fully proved as well as the sources of [illegible] have been of by age themselves soldiers of the Revolution.

July 19.

C J Jack
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dec 21, 1839
Pa

[stamp]
[illegible] Dec 19

Mary Hubbert

G W Crump
Acting Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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G W Crump Esq
Act of Comm of Pensions

Dear Sir,
I answer to your letter of March 15 1839. I am enclosing the conclusive evidence of the service of Captain Matthias Sadler in the capacity of Captain of Artificer in the United States service - first in the oath of allegiance taken before General Greene, and next in a copy of a bill & muster Roll for part of his services found among his papers -
It appears from these papers that Sadler was in the service in May 29th 1778 and was still in the service January 1780 - a period of nearly two years, and his adopted child says she always understood that he was not during all the War. Mrs Hubbert's claim is that per fully made out and I know her pension certificate will be immediately sent.


Dec 17 1839
Your ob s [obedient servant]
C J Jack
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May 8, 1840
J L Edwards, Esquire 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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J L Edwards Esq

Sir,

The extraordinary delay which has been incurred in some of the pension claim, transmitted to the agent once again to address you in regards to them - The cases I allude to at this time are those of Mrs Ann Johnsons family. Mrs Ann Stont - whose amended declaration & proof was sent last January. Mrs. Jane Bennett, widow of Joseph Bennett, and Mrs. Mary Hubbert, widow of Anthony Hubbert.
These claimants are miserably poor and I trust that if not in [illegible] that you will send them very shortly, as I believe that they have all complied with the regulations & requirements of your department.

May 6. 1840 

Your obt s [obedient servant]
C J Jack
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June 16. 1842
W.
[stamp] PHILADELPHIA PA JUN 15 [stamp] FREE

To the Honl [honorable] Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC
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Phila June 14th 1842

Dear Sir,

In the case of Mary widow of Anthony a pensioner of Pa of this city there is listed an oath of allegiance to a payroll of Capt. Matthias Sadler of Pa Artificers. Please send the original papers to Miss Tallman the devisee of Mrs Saddler who was the devisee of Capt Matthias Saddler died. And if the originals cannot be had please send copies to authenticate as to be evidence before the Legislatives of Pa. I presume the certificate of the Honl [Honorable] Commissioners will be sufficient to the copy herewith attached. I would further ask if the declaration of Anthony Hubbert was ever filed in that office for a pension, previous to that of his widow, and if so does it furnish any evidence of the claim of Capt Saddler, or if there is any other evidence filed in the case of Mrs Hubbert please inform me your compliance will find the extended application of Mrs Saddler NJ PA

Very respectfully your obt sert [obedient servant]
William H Todd

To Honl [Honorable] Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington DC
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Personally appeared in open court of Common Pleas [illegible] I Jack [illegible] of the City of Philadelphia attorney at Law to him being duly sworn say I. That he received from the Pension Commissioners a letter on that April 11 1840 in this Mary Hubbert's case containing [illegible] among the living. Before a final decision can be had the original documents relative to the service of Captain Matthias Sadler should be transmitted to this office, where after an examination of them they will be returned to you. That Deponent Thompson took from the papers of Captain Matthias Sadler, wife, [illegible] the original of papers [illegible] copies of which had been sent in Mrs Hubbert's case to said Commissioners and [illegible] a letter, and enclosed in with it said original paper [illegible] to the said [illegible] at handling time. [illegible]"J L Edwards, Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington" and put the same into the post office of Philadelphia on the 13th day of April 1840 and this department wholly believes that said letter with said enclosing transmitted by the post office department of Philadelphia to said Edwards agreeably to said directions. 

C J Jack

Sworn + subscribed in Open Court
of Common Pleas May 14th 1840 
Thomas D Smith Jr Prothonatary
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Mrs Hubbert Case
additional  evidence
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In the matter of the claim of Mrs Mary Hubbert widow of Anthony Hubbert deceased
Personally appeared before me the subscriber of the Alderman for the City of Philadelphia, Elisabeth Tallman who being duly sworn according to Law sayeth that she was brought up by Captain Matthias Sadler of the continental army of the United States in the Revolutionary War - that she was therefore in daily interactions with him during his lifetime and up to the time of his change. I know she has no doubt that he was a captain of Artificers in the Revolutionary service as she always heard him speak of being so employed - and of his being all through the Revolutionary War - that she is the Executrix of Mrs Eleana Sadler who was the wife of the said Captain Sadler and that she has searched in vain for the commission form of which she has no doubt he had possessed but has not been able to find it - But has found the original papers, copies of which are hereto annexed - and these are now in her possession. 

Elizabeth Tallman

Sworn and subscribed Before me this 17th day of December AD 1829

J Huntzelman
Ald
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Copies of Papers referred to in the foregoing
Affidavit - 

Oath of Allegiance
"I Mathias Sadler Captain of Artificers do acknowledge the United States of America, to be free. independent and Sovereign States and declare, that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third King of Great Britain and I renounce refuse and abjure any allegiance or obedience to him, and I do swear that I will to the utmost of my power support maintain and defend the said United States against the said King George the Third his heirs and successors, and his or their [illegible] assistance and [illegible] and will serve the United States in the Office of a Capt of Artificers which I now hold in the fidelity according to the best of my skill and understanding. Sworn before me this 29th day of May AD 1778.
M Sadler
Nath Greene M.G.

Pay Roll
Pay Roll for Capt Mathias Sadler and two Lbs in the Service of the United States of America for three months which is from the 1st October 1779 to the 1st January 1780. 

Names | Pay pr month | Subsistence| Amount in Dollars
-Capt M Sadler | 50 | 200 | 750
-1 Lt Thomas Yeates 33 1/3 | 100 | 400
-2nd Lt Edward Brooks 33 1/3 | 100 | 400
[Total] 1550
M Sadler Capt Artificers
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I certify that both of the original papers of which this foregoing the copies were exhibited to me by Wife Tallman
the copies [illegible] and I have compared them with the original of which they are two copies, and I have no doubt said original papers are genuine and that the said Elizabeth Tallman is a highly respectable lady and worthy of belief upon her oath an affirmation - Witness my hand this 17th day of December. A.D. 1839. 
[signature] J Huntzelman

Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County ss.
I, Samuel Hart Esq. Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do certify that J Huntzelman Esq. by whom the aforegoing Certificate and attestation were made and given and whom his own proper hand-writing has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing and now is an alderman in and for the city of Philadelphia and of Office a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified to all whose acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Court of Judicature Present.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of Court at Philadelphia this 18th December 1839.
S. Hart Prothonotary
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Dear Sir:					May
Agreeably is your request in Mary Hubbert’s case
I sent you the original papers of Captain 
Mathias Sadler and by his kind act greatly
value upon other papers. I request that after
examination they may be returned to me
my appointment to the [illegible] of General Washington in Volume Fifth page 352 in a letter to the President of Congress so say I. “In compliance with the request of Congress. I shall [underlined] immediately call upon
the officers in the Army [underlined] to take the oath of allegiance and abjurations. This letter is dated May 1, 1778. Valley Forge encampment by reference to the same volume page 196 of that encampment the [illegible] presented I having the situation of the artillery corps being successfully [illegible] of Washington 's hands [illegible] again at page 360 It appears that a council of war was held at the encampment on the 8th of May 1778 and Major General Preux was present this on the [illegible] [illegible] by Captain Sadler [illegible] per him as [underlined] “Captain of Artificer
  May 29, 1778 [illegible] Sir you have
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[illegible] [illegible] concurrent testimony [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
[illegible] at this late day that Captain Mathias
Sadler was in the continental service in Camp [illegible]
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] of General Green and Washington
I [illegible] [illegible] hope that no further delay will take
place in sending his pension [illegible]
C J Jack
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I [Added by hand “Mathias Sadler Captain of Artificers”] do acknowledge the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, to be Free, Independent and Sovereign States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King of Great-Britain; and I renounce refute and abjure any allegiance or obedience to him; and I do [Added by hand “swear”] that I will to the utmost of my power, support, maintain and defend the said United States, against the said King George the Third, his heirs and successors and his or their abettors, assistants and adherents, and will serve the said United States in the office of [Added by hand “Captain of Artificers”] [line added by hand] which  I now hold, with fidelity, according to the best of my skill and understanding. 
[Added by hand “Sworn before me the 29th day of May AD 1778 M. Sadler”]
[Added by hand “Northgreene N Y”]
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Pay roll for Capt Matthias Sadler and his Lt. (Lieutenants) in the service of the United States of America for three month  wich [which] is from the 1st October 1779 to the 1st January 1780

Names                              pay per month     Subsistence      amount in dollars

Capt M.  Sadler                       50                      200                          750

1st Lt. Thomas Yeates              33 1/3               100                         400

2nd Lt. Edward Brookes           33 1/3             100                           400

                                                                                                        [total] 1550
M Sadler Capt
Artificers
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Mary Hubbert                                 
widow of Anthony Hubbert
Private artificer
18 mo.
$108 per an. (annum) 
Act '36

Pa Roll
cert. to C.J. Jack Present

Mary Hubbert
Pennsylvania
Suspended
See let, 11th Sept (?)
1839 C. J. Jack
do: 13 Nov 1839
do: 11 April 1840
do: 9 May 1840
let 5 June 1837  
Hon H. D. Gilpin
Act 4 July 1836