Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 1576, Samuel Dean, Penn.
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SERVICE.                                            NUMBER

Penn.      Dean, Samuel.                 Too damaged
                           Mary.                       “.         “

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21557
Pennsylvania
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Mary Dean
Samuel Dean deceased
Died on the 12 September 1817
In Bucks County. In the State of Pa
As a Captain, Lieutenant, and Private in the company commanded Captain——-of the Regiment commanded Col—————inn the Pa
2 months private}
& 9 days Lt}
15 days Captain}
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Issued on the Roll of Pennsylvania
Rate of 380 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, issuance on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of March 1809 and sent Hon D Wagener Easton, Pa
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar.’39.            $3045.36
Sent-annual allowance ending 4 September 39’
                                                                   190.33
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                                                               $3235.69
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{Revolutionary Claim, }
{Act July 4, 1836.        }
{Section the 3 d.         }
{ Recorded by D.D. Addison}
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Let 25 (not legible)
Letter off. 6 Ladhuder
May 9. 1809

Date of death not on AB
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4311
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Mary Dean
Pa
Admitt
For 2 months.  $ __6.66
Lt 6 months 9 days. 84.00
Capt. 15 days   $290.24
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Appt Capt         $380.90

Absent by leave 24 June 1778 on  accord of new arrangement

On roll 11th regt at Stove Dent, vol 5 Pa appt Luiet. 30 Sept 1776
Capt. 9 April 1777 absent by leave on a accord of new arrangement 24 June 1778
Hon D.D. Wagener
Easton, Pa
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State of Pennsylvania
Bucks County

On the eleventh day of January  in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, personally appeared before me.William Long, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county of Bucks, Mary Dean, a resident of Springfield Township in said county and state, aged eighty-one years (less a few days) who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836.

That she is the widow of Captain Samuel Dean. who was a captain in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment in the war of the Revolution and who also served in the militia, first as a private and afterwards as a lieutenant; that in the year 1776 in Hilltown Township Bucks County, she and Mr. Dean also lived in the same township; that she was engaged to be married to Mr. Dean but that on the breaking out of the Revolutionary war, Mr. Dean went out as a volunteer private in the militia in the company of Captain Valentine App, which caused the marriage to be postponed.

Mr. Dean left home on that capacity before harvest in May or June 1776 and  as he informed her and as it was said in the neighborhood, went to Long Island and as he afterward informed her, was in the battle of Long Island and at the capture of Fort Washington; that he was absent from home in the service until the following spring when he returned home about the 1st of April 1777; that as he informed her, he was during this absence in militia service promoted to a lieutenant in Captain App's company; that this promotion took place shortly after he went out and before the battle of Long Island so he was according to (illegible)
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lieutenant in that battle and she remembers that a want of courage displayed by Captain App at that battle was frequently spoken of, and it was generally supposed that he would be (illegible) and her husband promoted to the command, but he persisted in saying that he would not remain in the militia if he could get a post in the standing army.  Deponent cannot from old age, disability and loss of memory now remember places in which her husband served nor the names of officers, nor engagements other than those mentioned above.  That seven years ago she could have detailed many particulars of the service, officers named, etc. but cannot now recall them to memory as her mind, when she reflects on them, becomes confused and is apt to disconnect and intermix them.  She believes however that she has a recollection of hearing her husband say he was under Col. Hompton.  She is certain however that he served from May or June 1776, to about August as a private and then until about the 1st of April 1777 as a lieutenant.  She has no recollection now of ever having seen his lieutenant commission.

A few days after he returned home about the 1st of April 1777, he went to Philadelphia and there procured a captain's commission in the standing army (which commission has ever since the death of her husband been in the possession of herself and family and is now annexed to this deposition.)  That after getting said commission, he left home again for the army and in May 1777 returned home and she was then married to the best of her recollection.  That in the course of a couple of weeks, as near as she can recollect, after marriage he again left home for the army and continued in the service of the United States from that time until he left the army in July 1778 but from the fact that the army lay in the neighbor
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load of Philada{?} about 30 miles from their home.   He was during great part of the term of his service as captain frequently at home in short visits backwards and forwards.  That she cannot certainly remember the places where he served as captain but thinks it was at Valley Forge-Whitemarsh and the vicinity of Philadelphia.  That he was at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown.  That she has heard her husband speak of several officers under whom he served but cannot now recollect their names.  That she remembered hearing him say that he wore his hair curled in pins and that in one of the above mentioned battles (she cannot remember which) a bullet struck the pin and knocked it out of his hair.  

That he left the army in July 1778.  That he was not at any time on any pension roll of the United States nor has she been, and she hereby relinquishes every claim to any pension except the present.  She further states that she was married to the said Capt. Samuel Dean as near as she can recollect in May 1777.  That her husband died on the 12th day of September A.D. 1817, aged sixty-nine years and upwards and she remained his widow ever since. 

That her said husband's term of service in the army of the Revolution was as appears in the above statement -as follow viz -not less than two months as a private, and not less than eight months as a lieutenant in the militia, and not less than fourteen months twenty-one days as a captain in the regular army. 

That she has not in her possession, nor has she ever had any family record of her marriage, nor does she know of the existence of any family or other record of the same.  That she was married by the Rev. Caspar Weauck{?} and the only persons present were Miss (illegible) Thomas and Jesse Bryant, both of whom are now dead.  That she and husband from the time of
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the marriage until his death lived in Bucks County, except about two years and a half when her said husband, having been elected a member of the Legislative Council of the state of Pennsylvania, we moved to Philada{?} during his term of office.
Signed:  Mary Dean
Signed:  William Long, Judge

I, William Long, before whom the above deposition was taken, do certify that I was acquainted with the above named Captain Saml. Dean for twenty years before his death and with the above applicant, Mary Dean, for forty years past; that the said Captain Dean was always a prominent man in Bucks County and that it was generally believed and reported that he had been one of the first and most active men to leave home in the service of his county in the Revolutionary war; that he died about the time stated by Mrs. Dean in the above deposition and that I was at his funeral.  That Mary Dean who has made the above declaration is his widow and has remained unmarried ever since his death; that she is a person of veracity and entitled to full faith and credit and that from bodily infirmity she is unable to appear in open court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of January A.D. 1839.
Signed:  William Long
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who also made the above declaration, for about forty years; that it was generally reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resided that he was a Revolutionary soldier and had served as a private and an officer in the militia during the Revolutionary time before he had entered the regular army; that he was present when Capt. Dean died at the time mentioned in the foregoing declaration of the widow; that the said Mary Dean, who has made the above declaration, is still his widow unmarried and has continued so ever since his death.

Affirmed to and subscribed the 11th day of January A.D. 1839.
Signed: J. Kooker

Before me and I certify that the said Jacob Kooker is a man of high respectability and strict veracity and credit and entitled to full belief.
Signed:  Willam Long, Apl. Judge

Before me the subscriber, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, on this eleventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, personally appeared Michael Facken; a resident of Durham Township Bucks County, aged eighty-two years and upwards, who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution in the capacity of a sergeant in the company of Captain Valentine App in the regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Kichline and Colonel _____ Hart, which was a part of the force called The Flying Camp; that Samuel Dean of Bucks County was a second lieutenant in the same company on which the deponent served; that the said company Lieutenant Dean
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being with it left mustered into the service of the United States at Savita Tavern sometime in the spring or summer of 1776 - That they left home about harvest of the same year and went on to Amboy. Lieutenant Dean remained with the company until the fall of 1776 when he left the company and it was reported and believed that he had gone into the service of the United States under a promise of a Commission in the Regular Army and that he was recruiting for the Regular Service during the winter of 1776 and 1777 - That he knows that Mary Dean who has signed and made the foregoing Declaration is the widow of the said Samuel Dean. Sworn and Subscribed this eleventh day of January A.D. 1839.
Before me William Long
[signature of] Michael Fackenthall

I do certify that Michael Fackenthall who ahs signed and made the foregoing deposition is a man of credibility and veracity and entitled to full belief and credit. Jan. 11.1839
William Long
Bucks County
State of Pennsylvania
I John B. Pugh [illegible] of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Bucks afore said do hereby certify that the Hon. William Long before whom the foregoing Declaration was made and the foregoing depos-

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itions taken is and on the day of the date thereof was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please of the said County duly commissioned and that his several signatures thereto ( is in attestation of the Declaration of Mary Dean and of the depositions of Jacob Kooker and Michael Fackenthal , and to the two accompanying certificates) are in his own genuine proper handwriting. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Doylestown this thirteenth day of February A.D. 1839. 
John B. Pugh [illegible]
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In the matter of the application of Mary Dean widow of Captain Samuel Dean late of Bucks County deed made on the eleventh day of January A.D. 1839 before the Hon. William Long one of the judges of the Ct of Com Pleas of the County of Bucks under the provisions of the Act of Congress of July 4 1836 for a pension for the military services of her late husband.

State of Pennsylvania
Montgomery County Before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please of the said County of Montgomery on the nineteenth day of January in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared Casper Wacke a resident of Upper Providence Township Montgomery County and a minister of the gospel aged eighty seven years - who being duly sworn according to the law deposes and says that he was acquainted with Capt Samuel Dean and remembers that he was an  officer in the Revolutionary War - that to the best of deponents knowledge he married him the said Samuel Dean to his above named widow Mary Dean then Mary Shewell in the month of Mary 1777 - that he resided at that time in Hilltown Township Bucks County - that he has no record of the said marriage nor did he keep any except memoranda on slips of paper which by frequent moving about from place to place are now entirely lost. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Casper Wacke before me Jos Royer
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I Joseph Royer before whom the within deposition of Casper Wacke was taken and subscribed do certify that he is a minister of the Gospel and a man of respectability veracity and credit. Witness my hand this nineteenth day of January A.D. 1839
Jos Royer Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
Montgomery County
I John Bean Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery do hereby certify that Joseph Royer before whom the foregoing deposition was taken is and on the day of the date thereof was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery and that his two signatures attached to the said deposition and certificate are in his own genuine and proper hand writing in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court at [?]town this twenty fifth day of January A.D. 1839.
JW Evans for John Bean Proty.
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January 29, 1934
Mrs. Anson Marston
Station A.
Ames, Iowa
Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Samuel Dean, who served as a captain in the Pennsylvania Troops, War of the Revolution.

A very careful examination has been made of the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, V. 10722, based upon the service in the war of Samuel Dean and the data contained therein are furnished herein.

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Samuel Dean are not shown.

While residing in Hilltown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in May or June, 1776, served as a private in Captain Valentine Opp's Company, Colonel Hart's Regiment of the Flying Comp; about two months after his enlistment was commissioned 2nd lieutenant; was in the battles of Long Island and at the capture of Fort Washington; during the winter of 1776 and 1777 was engaged in the recruiting service, and retired about April 1, 1777; April 9, 1777, was commissioned captain of a company of foot in the 11th Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel Hampton, was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown; wintered at Valley Forge and resigned his commission in July, 1776.

Samuel Dean died September 12, 1817, aged sixty-nine years. It was stated that he always resided in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. of which county he was one of the most prominent citizens, except for two and one-half years when he was a member of the Legislative Council of the state of Pennsylvania, and during that period resided in Philadelphia.

The soldier married in May, 1777, in Hilltown Township, Penn-
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sylvania, Mary Shewell. She was also of said Hilltown Township. The date of her birth and the names of her parents are not shown.

Samuel Dean's widow, Mary, was allowed pension on her application executed January 11, 1839, at which time she was aged eighty-one years and resided in Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

There is no reference to children and no further family data.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Mary Dean, widow of Samuel Dean (V. 10722), you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following dates:

Mary Dean, widow of Samuel Dean, Certificate No. 2657, issued March 19, 1839, rate $280.87 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of July 4, 1836, Pennsylvania Agency.

Very truly yours,
A.D. Miller
Assistant to Administrator.
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In CONGRESS

The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES o New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, TO Samuel Dean Esquire

We, reposing especial trial and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by this present constitute and appoint you to be Captain of a Company of Foot in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment in the Army of the United States, (word caught in the crease) for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every (the ending of the sentence was caught inside the crease). You are therefore Carrillo and diligently to discharge the Duty of Captain by doing and performing all manner ups Things they’re into belonging.  And we do strictly,  charge and require all Officers and soldiers under your Command, to be obedient  to our Orders as a Captain.  And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this it a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being o the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline off War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress. Dated at Philadelphia April 9th 1777.
My Order of the CONGRESS 
ATTEST. C. Thomson Ju 7.     
John Hancock.                              President
(Under his signature was his 
Well known flourish or paraph
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Waynesboro Virginia
Aug. 17-1918

Dear Sir.
           Kindly est me know if you can furnish record of pension of Samuel Dean, 2nd Lieutenant. Newton, Bucks County. Pa. Who served under Col. Jas Hart of flying Camp, Revolutionary War. (War office records were destroyed 24 April 1816 + Saml Dean pension application they write in from Pa. History).
          Also furnish records of Joseph Watson of Buckingham Twp. Buck Co. Pa. Was mini. Com. Of illegible Bucks Co. Jan-16-1776.
Thomas Chalkley, Northampton Co. Pa. In Bucks - and Wui Mc Gregor, Allegheny Co. Pa. A Continental soldier I have services, just Amish records of pensions of the four if you have - 
Thanking you -
Yours truly
Miss j.H. Gallagher
Waynesboro, Virginia
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A.G.O. Aug 22 1918
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, 
WASHINGTON, August 24, 1918

Respectfully returned to 

Miss J.H. Gallagher, 
Waynesboro, 
Virginia.

Requests for information relative to pensions granted on account of services rendered in the War of the Revolution should be addressed to the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C., in whose office are filed the papers upon which such pensions were issued. 

T.C. Harris 
Acting The Adjutant General.

Form No. 74- A.G.O.
Ed. June 24-18-80,000

Seal circular with 1918 U.S.
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J.L. Edwards Esquire

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.