Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9614, for Stephen Singlewood, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Penn Singlewood Stephen R9614
Nancy
CONTENTS
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Philadelphia this 21st day of July 1837
Robert Morris
Prothy

X2336
Nancy Singleton
Pennsylvania
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Philadelphia this 21st day of July 1837
Robert Morris
Prothy

X2336
Nancy Singleton
Pennsylvania
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State of Penna
Philada City and county SS
On this 1st day of July I AD one thousand Eight hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the apociate judges of the court of common pleas for the city and county aforesaid Nancy Singlewood a resident of the said county and state aforesaid aged seventy six years also being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed July 4th 1836 and the act explanatory of said act passed March 3d 1837:  That she was married to Stephen Singlewood who was a sergeant in the 2d regiment of Pennsylvania under the command of Brigadier general Anthony Wayne was drafted and served nearly all the revolutionary war She further declares that she was married to the said Stephen Singlewood on the 12th day of May AD 1780 and that her husband the aforesaid Stephen Singlewood died on the *first day of March 1803 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear y reference to the proof hereto annexed *died 1st day of March one thousand eight hundred &  Three 1803
Nancy X Singlewood her mark
Sworn & subscribed in open court July 1 1837
before Arch Randall
Pennsylvania 
Philadelphia County} Ss
I Robert Morris Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county Do certify that the Honorable Archibald Randall Esq before whom the above declaration was made on oath and who with same has subscribed his name was at the time of so doing and was an associate judge of the said court of common pleas (which is a court of record) duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths to all whose acts as such full faith and credit arg and ought to be given  as well in courts Endreature as these cont
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I hereby certify that according to the Register of marriages belonging to Micaeo church Southwark Philadelphia County, Stephen Singlewood and Anne Stroup were married by the Rev Matthew Hultgren, then rector of said church on the twelfth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty three.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this tenth day of July A.D. one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven.
J.C. Clay
Rector of Micaeo Church
[handdrawn seal]

Philadelphia County Ss
The Reverend John Curtis Clay, being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and says that he is at present Rector of the above mentioned Church and that the above written certificate, Signed by him is a true extract from the records of said church.
Sworn and Subscribed the 10th day of July 1837 before
[signed] Wm Horton aldn.
[signed] J.G. Clay

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named deponent and know him to be a clergyman of high respectability and Rector of the Church above mentioned. He is highly esteemed and a gentleman of probity, and is worthy of full credence.
[signed] Wm Horton
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Nancy V Singlewood
Stephen
Pennsylvania
Rejected
see letter 25th August 1837 to RI Arundel
married after termination of her husband's services
9614
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[CROSSED OUT 
Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1878)
9614
PO Nancy Singlewood
Service
REJECTED
Enlisted 18
Discharged 18
Application filed 18
Alleges
Re-enlisted
Attorney
PO
Recognized Contract
Cert of Dis Searched for 18
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Philada July 21 1837
Dear Sir
I enclose an application of Nancy Singlewood widow of Stephen Singlewood for relief as a widow of a Revolutionary soldier
I am ay Respectfully your ob st
RI Arundel
91089 Race St
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Philaa County Ss}
Before me the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally came John Nace of the county of Phila Tarma who being duly sworn deposes and says that he was acquainted with Stephen Singlewood in his life time and his widow Nancy Singlewood service and before his death said deponent lived less than half a mile from Stephen Singlewood for many years  That he is upwards of sixty years of age and comes from general update and tradition that Stephen Singlewood was a Revolutionary soldier and served nearly if not through the whole war That he has frequently given deponent accounts of the various battles he was in and the county through which he passed and that a portion of the war he served under Brigadier Anthony Wayne in the Penna militia
John Nace
Sworn and subscribed the 13th day of July 1837
Before me Dan Snyder JP
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State of Pennsylvania Philada County} Ss
Jacob Haas of the county of Philadelphia state of Pennsylvania Stocking ueasa aged 67 years and upwards being sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Nancy Singlewood and knows her to be the widow of Stephen Singlewood a sergeant in the war of the revolution That he has intimately acquainted with Stephen Singlewood in his life time and his widow at this moment that he has lived within the same county for many years and that he recollects personally that Sergeant Singlewood served until the close of the war and was at one time under the command of Brigadier general Wayne in the Pennsylvania militia that the fact of his being a Revolutionary soldier is believed and accredited by all who knew him and well known to this deponent 
Jacob Haas
Sworn and subscribed the 13th day of July 1837
Before me Dan Snyder JP