Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9,905, for Philip Snook, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Snook, Philip

NUMBER
R 9.905
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Rickville Indiana Decr. 17th 1855
Hon, Commissioner of Pensions
Sir! I have received and examined yours of the 9th inst- in regard to the rejection of the claim of Jeremiah Snook from which I have come to the conclusion that you misconstrue the nature of the claim.
You say "children of revolutionary soldiers are not entitled to pensions" and therefore this claim is rejected. The application was not made for pension money due Jeremiah Snook in his own right, but for whatever money land &c might be due him as heir of Philip Snook a captain in the revolutionary war, and who continued in service to the end of the war.  If one rejection is not final I wish to refer you to the half-pay resolution of congress of Oct. 21, 1780- and also to the act of March 22,1783-giving five years full pay in lieu of half-pay during life to surviving officer who should continue in service to the close of the war. I cannot find where these acts have been repealed but see that the heirs of Samuel J.
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Anson received the benefit of them together with interest so late as June 15th 1832 - Mayo & Molton P.171 (Note) I wish also to refer you to a decision of J. Macpherson Berrien.Oct 2, 1830.  M. & M. P.399. also to that of Levi Woodbury M. & M. 535. This is a claim of half pay during life not pension money. Hoping you will overlook this intrusion I would be pleased you would give this matter a close investigation and let me know the result.
Very respectfully &c
D.M. Woody
Hon. Com. Pensions Washington D.C.
P.S. If from an investigation you should consider that the claim is in accordance with the law I will immediately forward proof of service, heirs life &c
E.M.M.
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No. 39.153

Philip Snook Dec'd
Indiana

Reported

Lt. E. M. Woody
Dec 9, 1858
Same Jany. 13, 1859

[handwritten 9905]

June 7, 1832
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New Jersey
Snook, Philip
R9905
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3-871

RECORD DIVISION

Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
March 12, '09

Searched by Wm Conboye

Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier  Phillip Snook
Service Rev. War
Additional Service

No. (blank) claim, State records (blank), 190 -
No claim, combination records (blank)  190-

REMARKS:

No O.W. Inv. or Wid. No O.W. Reg. as above except OWI Reg #9905

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Chief Division
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SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE
1-681
PHONE Branch 476

All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 39894

Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON

CHIEF, Division of Publications,

February 8, 1930   192
Room G 139
Please furnish work specified below.

Bureau ordering PENSION
Deliver to Room No.. 5033

(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)

Tile and description of job  photostatic copies of 3 pages from Rev. War pension claim of Philip Snook, R 9905
No. of copies  1 of each  Shall form be kept standing?  (blank)  (blank) days
For further information see Mrs. Finch  Room No. 5033 Phone No. 541

Approved
A D. Williamson, Chief clerk of Bureau

Margaret M. Finch, Chief of Division

NOTE:  No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering

CHECK WORK DESIRED

Duplicate
Multigraph  Single or double space?  Facsimile signature?
Mimeograph  One side or both sides?  Facsimile signature:
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Assembling
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Addressograph from lists
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Proog List  Pay rolls
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Actual
Photostat  Size  Official use?  Repay? yes $.45
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Remarks
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Note:  Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of bureaus.

(Date)

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Now reads [listed] 1,2,3,4,5,m
Should read [listed] 1,2,3,4,5

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ADDRESSOGRAPH

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February 2, 1930

Cash - 70 cents

[stamped] FINANCE DIVISION
FEB 11 1930

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Please furnish certified photostatic copies of three pages of Rev. War pension claim of Phillip Snook, N. 9305

Signed,

Mrs. Evelyn Moore Trimble
50 St. Paul Street
Kensington, Maryland

Received payment
$.70

Margaret M Finch
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1909 Mch. 22 Hist. to Mrs.
Elenice Snook  Letter in
Wid. lett. 3465.  V.L.M.
1930 Feb. 21. Photos mailed
to Mrs. Evelyn M. Trimble
& Fin. Div. ntfd.  A.D.Y.
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Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873

REJECTED

9905

Philip Snook
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State of Indiana
County of Parke ⎬ S.S.
On this the Eleventh day of November A.D. 1858 personally appeared before me a Notary Public within and for the County and state aforesaid Jeremiah Snook aged seventy four years a resident of Macoupin County in the State of Illinois who being by me duly sworn according to law on his oath declares.

That he is the son and heir at law of Philip Snook who was a captain in the New Jersey
militia in the Revolutionary war duly commissioned.  That the said Philip volunteered at Monmouth County New Jersey in the year 1776 under the command of Colonel Chamberlain and continued in the service untill the end of the war when he was honorably discharged near Trenton New Jersey. That he was in the Battles of Long Island Princeton and
Trenton and was severely wounded in the
Battle of Monmouth under Colonel Lee, incurring surgeon bill of $100, which expense
he bore out of his own funds, but that he
cannot state whether he was ever returned
on the invalid roll or not.-- Furthermore that he had a wagon and term of four horses in the service six years, together with a bound boy of his as driver. That the said Jerimiah Snook is the son of the said Philip by his wife Margaret Heivner who was married to the said Philip in [blank]  County New Jersey about the year 1772
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That the said Philip died in Sciota County in the State of Ohio on the 12th day of November AD 1816 and the said Margaret died in the same County and State about the 1st day of November AD 1819. That since the death of the said Philip his commission and discharge together with his bill of expenses and memoranda have been lost.   That the said Philip nor any of his heirs have never made application for nor received any recompense for said service and expense. That the affiant Margaret Davis Elizabeth Moore and John Snook are the only surviving children and heirs as  born of the said Philip Snoork deceased.

The affiant makes this declaration to obtain for himself and the said Margaret, Elizabeth and John the pension to which the said Philip at his decease & the said Margaret, wife of the said Philip, at her decease, were entitled under the various acts of Congress granting Pensions to
officers and soldiers of the Revolution, and to their widows, and also to obtain any bounty
land to which they may be entitled by virtue of the services aforesaid of their said father: And he, the said Jeremiah Snook, for the purpose of facilitating the investigation of the claim hereby, by these presents constitutes and appoints Enoch M. Woody, of the County of Parke and State of Indiana, his true and lawful attorney in fact in this behalf, duly empowering him to
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make all necessary examinations of papers and
records, and to do and perform all acts necessary & proper to the successful prosecution thereof. Witness the hand & seal of the said Jeremiah Snook, this 11th day of November A.D. 1858.
Jeremiah Snook

Subscribed, acknowledged and sworn to before me, this 11th day of November, 1858, and I 
further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Jeremiah he having formerly resided in this County, and that I believe him to be a man of veracity and his statements entitled to full credit.

Witness my hand & Notarial
seal, the day & year above
mentioned, (I have no interest in this claim)
Saml Magill
Notary Public
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[top cut off]
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
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[table with 5 columns follows, with the following column headings:]
(1) DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
(2) LENGTH OF SERVICE.
(3) RANK.
(4) OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.   {subheadings:} a. CAPTAIN. 
b. COLONEL
(5) STATE.

[text under column headings:]
(1) 1776
(2) [written across all remaining columns:] continued in service until end of war.
(3) Capt.
(4) a. [blank]. b. Chamberlain
(5) N.J.

Battles engaged in,__Long Island, Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth where he was wounded__

Residence of soldier at enlistment,__in Monmouth Co. N.J.___

Date of application for pension,__by son Jeremiah Snook, Nov. 11, 1858__

Residence at date of application,__of son Jeremiah, Macombie Co Ill.___

Age at date of application,__of son Jeremiah, 74 years__

Remarks: __soldier married in N.J. in 1772,  Margaret Heivner, and died in Sciota Co. Ohio Nov 18, 1816.____
___She died in same county & state Nov. 1, 1819. _________
Only surviving children  [illegible] Jeremiah, Margaret Denny, Elisabeth Moore, and John. 
[illegible] on the ground not there was no proof of service and children were not entitled
Very respectfully,