Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3253, for Mordecai Morgan, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.

Morgan, Mordecai
Hollinshead, Sarah
or
Hollingshead
(Former widow.)

NUMBER
W. 3253
B.L. Wt. 1170-200

CONTENTS
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Warrant No. 1170, issued
to Sarah Hollingshead, mother
and heir of her son - Mor-
decai Morgan Junr who 
was only heir of Lieut. Mordecai 
Morgan Senr of the Penna
lone - April 1st 1827 

Delivd to the Hon. G. Wolfe
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Reported
C. W. Bennett
Mch 30 1853

A R. Jackson
Sept 19. 1857


799
Pennsylva, Philada

Sarah Hollingshead
widow of Mordecai Morgan
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Lieutenant
Penn Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
289. Dollars 33 
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
19 day of July 1848
and sent to 
Hon. Henry Nes
H of R

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 224, Vol. 2
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State of Pennsylvania }
County of Northampton } ss.

Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, for said County, Sarah Hollinshead late Sarah Morgan and made oath, in due form of law, that she is the mother of Mordecai Morgan who was the son and heir at law, of Mordecai Morgan late a Lieutenant in the Ninth Regiment of Infantry and that the said Mordecai son of Mordecai died a minor & intestate leaving no issue.

Sworn and subscribed before me, this }
13 day of March 1826 }  Sarah Hollinshead
Peter Hollinshead J. P. }

Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the aforesaid County, Samuel Drake Send and Samuel Rees credible and disinterested witnesses, and made oath, in due form of law, that they are acquainted with the above mentioned Sarah Hollinshead late Sarah Morgan and that she is the reputed mother of the said Mordecai Morgan who died leaving no issue and who was the only child and heir as law of Mordecai Morgan died late a lieutenant as above described.
Sworn and subscribed before me, this }
13 day of March 1826 }  Saml Drake Send
Peter Hollinshead J. P. }  Saml Rees
Note. -- If the person died without leaving child or children, &c., it must be so stated.

I, Matthias Goess Prothnotary of the County Court, do certify, that Peter Hollinshead Esq before whom the above Affidavits were taken, was at the time a Justice of the Peace for said County.  Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this 28th day of March 1826
(signed) Matths Goess Prot.
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Know all men by these presents that we James Hollinshead and Sarah his wife late Sarah Morgan do hereby constitute and appoint George Wolf Esq to be our true and lawful Attorney for us and in our name and in the name of the said Sarah Hollinshead late Sarah Morgan to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant from the quantity of land due to the said Sarah in rights of the said Mordecai Morgan decd as heir at law of the said Mordecai Morgan decd.  And our said Attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute one or more Attorney or  Attornies (sic) under him for the special purpose above expressed.  Witness  our hand& seals the 13 day of March 1826
(signed) J Hollinshead  (seal)
(signed) Sarah Hollinshead  (seal)

Attest  Daniel Rees
James H Rees


State of Pennsylvania }
Northampton County ss}

Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the County aforesaid the above named James Hollinshead and Sarah his wife & acknowledged the above Power of Attorney to be their Act and Deed for the purpose therein mentioned.  Witness my hand & seal the 13 day of March 1826
(signed) Peter Hollinshead (seal)
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No  8418
Sarah Hollinshead
formerly widow of 
Mordecai Morgan
Pennsylvania

Act 7 July 38
&
23 Aug 42

admd
21 mos 12 ds 
______________
$289.33
______________


Henry Northrup
Present
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State of Pennsylvania  }
Monroe County ss }   At a Court of Common Pleas held in and for said County on the ninth day of September Anno  Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty tow; personally appeared in open Court Sarah Hollingshead a resident of said County aged seventy-two years who being first duly sworn doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Acts of Congress passed July 7th 1838 and the 23d of August 1842 granting Pensions to Widdows (sic) of Persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That her first husband was Mordecai Morgan an officer of the Pennsylvania line of the Army of the Revolution; the precise rank and regiment he belong to she does not know nor when he entered the service or who under or when he left it; or the Countries through which he marched or the battels (sic) in which he fought all hapening (sic) before her marriage with him, but she has been induced to believe that he left the service in the Rank of Lieutenant of the 9th Pennsylvania Continental Regiment and also has reason to believe that he held a Staff appointment as the same time but is by no means certain.  That her maiden name was Sarah Shord that she was married to the said Mordecai Morgan in the house of her father Jacob Shord in the Village of Shadsburg on the thirteenth day of November seventeen hundred and eighty seven by Benjamin Van Camper a Justice of the Peace of at that time Northampton County and State of Pennsylvania, that the said husband departed this life on the Twenty fourth day of April following (1788) that she again intermarried with James Hollinshead on the thirteenth day of July seventeen hundred and ninety four, and the said James Hollinshead died on the fifth day of March eighteen hundred and thirty - one, that she has not at this time any record or documentary evidence of her marriage to the said Mordecai Morgan nor does she know where any is to be found, neither marriage license or the recording of mar-
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riages being as she is informed made matter of Record in Pennsylvania, that she now lives in the same vicinity and has done so all her life and there ware numerous living witnesses who were present at the time of her marriage to her first husband Mordecai Morgan and also at her marriage with her last husband James Hollinshead.  She further states that her first husband Mordecai Morgan had a brother  named Enoch Morgan, who was also an officer in the War of the Revolution, who also lived and died in this vicinity.  And she also further states that some fifteen or eighteen years ago she drew from the United States a land warrant for twoo hundred acres of land in right of her first husband the said Mordecai Morgan, that she is at this time a widow and has been ever since the death of her last husband the said James Hollinshead.
Sworn to and subscribed in open }
Court the day and year first ]
above written before }  Sarah Hollinshead

Wm Jessup  Prot. Judge

Personally appeared in open Court Ann Hollingshead and Hannah Starbird witnesses of respectability and who are personally known to the Court as such who being duly Affirmed according to law, say that they were personally present when Sarah Shord the same individual who signed the foregoing declaration in their presence and Mordecai Morgan were united in Marriage in the Village of Shordsburg in the County of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania in the house of her father Jacob Shord the Ceremony being performed by Esquire Van Camper that the said Mordecai Morgan had been an officer in the army of the Revolution and such was at that time and has been ever since the understanding in this neighborhood he having also a brother Enoch Morgan a Revolutionary officer who lived and died in this vicinity being at the time of death a Revolutionary pensioner.  That they cannot at this day state the day and year on which
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said Marriage took place, but that it was fifty five or fifty six years ago, that the said Mordecai Morgan departed this life in a verry (sic) few months thereafter committing suicide.  That he left a posthumous child, who also died in early life.  That his said widow again intermarried with James Hollinshead forty eight years ago.  And that the said Hollinshead has now been dead Eleven years, his widow still surviving and is yet a widow.  That the deponents are now the former sixty five years of age and the latter seventy eight years of age and has been well and intimately acquainted with the said Sarah from their earliest recollection to the present day, being sisters of the said Sarah
Affirmed to and subscribed in open }
Court the ninth day of September }
Eighteen hundred and forty tow before }
(signed) Ann Hollinshead
(signed) Hannah Starbird
(signed) Wm Jessup Pres. Judge

State of Pennsylvania  }
Monroe County ss  }   I, John Keller Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monroe aforesaid, do hereby certify that William Jessup before whom the foregoing declaration of Sarah Hollinshead was sworn to and subscribed and the affidavit of Ann Hollinshead and Hannah Starbird was affirmed to and Subscribed, is the President Judge of said Court of Common Pleas and that the signatures thereto annexed are his genuine signatures.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Shordsburg this twelfth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty tow.
(signed) John Keller Prothy
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No  1170
W. Woy
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Revy

WIDOW, &c.

File No.  3253
Sarah Hollingshead
formerly, Widow
Mordecai Morgan
Lt. Rev. War

Act:  Feb. 2  1848

Index:--Vol.  A,  Page 341

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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Sarah Hollingshead
Aug 28 '43
3896
$289-

Pa
Mar 3d 1843
Sarah Hollingshead

Free

L L Edwards
Pension Office
Washington City
D C


Wm Davis
Shoudsburg
Monroe Co
Pa
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State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County ss

On this twenty third day of August AD 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Sarah Hollinshead a resident of the Township of Shoud in the County of Monroe aged seventy tree years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.  That her first husband was Mordecai Morgan an officer of the Pennsylvania line of the army of the Revolution, the precise rank and regiment he belonged to she does not know nor when he entered the service or who under, but she has been induced to believe that he left the service in the rank of Lieutenant of the 9th Pennsylvania Continental Regiment.  that the said Mordecai Morgan departed this life on the twenty fourth day of April 1778.  That she again intermarried with James Hollinshead on the thirteenth day of July seventeen hundred and ninety-four and the said James Hollinshead died on the fifth day of March eighteen hundred and thirty one.  That as the widow of said Mordecai Morgan, she received the sum of Two hundred and Eighty nine dollars and thirty-three cents per annum, under the Acts of July 7, 1838 and 23d of August 1842.  She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on }
the day and year above written }
before }    Sarah Hollinshead
(signed) J W Burnett JP

State of Pennsylvania }
Monroe County   }  ss    I, John W Burnett a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Monroe do hereby certify
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that Sarah Hollinshead the foregoing declarant is personally known to me, and that I know her to be the Sarah Hollinshead who recently obtained a pension from the United States as the widow of Lieutenant Mordecai Morgan of the Pennsylvania Line of the Army of the Revolution.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the twenty third day of August A.D. 1843
(signed) J W. Burnett

State of Pennsylvania }
Monroe County } ss       I, James H. Stroud, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monroe do hereby certify that John W . Burnett before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn to and subscribed and who has signed the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly constituted and appointed and that the signatures thereto annexed was his genuine signatures.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twenty fourth day of August AD Eighteen hundred and forty three
(Signed) J. H. Stroud, Prothonotary
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Stroudsburg  Monroe County Pa
Augst 24th 1843

J. L. Edwards

Sir

I herewith send the declaration of Sarah Hollinshead for a Pension under the act of 3d of March 1843.  I successful please foward her certificate to me or to her directed as above
Very Respectfully
yours
Wm Davis
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Sarah Hollinshead
formerly widow of 
Mordecai Morgan
Pennsylvania

Suspended
See let 20 Sep 1842
H. Northrup

1. 16. 
12.
7.  27
______
21.  13

24 . 320. 2
        21
______________
       320
640
______________

Act 7 July 1838
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Oct 15/

Application of Mrs.
Sarah Hollingham
wid. of Mordecai
Morgan for in(illegible)
of pension
Oct. 15/

Hon. J. E. Heath
Comm of Pensions
Pension Office
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Sarah Hollingshead
for wid of
Mordecai Morgan
Pa. W 257 - 148

Third Auditor of the 
Pension Office
Washington D. C.
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Pension Office
Sept. 18. 1857

Sir

Please state to what date Sarah Hollingshead, Pa roll, at $289.33. was paid.  If arrears paid, to whom?
Very respectfully
J. Cole

R. J. Atkinson Esq }  for Commr
Third Audr   }

3d Auditors Office
Sept. 19. 1857

Sir:
Sarah Hollingshead, Philadelphia, Pa roll, act Feb (illegible) 1848, at $289.33/100 died Nov. 11, 1853, & her pension has been paid in full to that date to James Hollinshead, her Executor.
Very Respt'y
Rob J Atkinson

Geo. C. Whiting Esqr }  Auditor
Commr of Pensions }
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6791
Pennsylvania
Sarah Hollingshead formerly
widow of 
Mordecai Morgan, decd
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 24 April 1788 
of Monroe in the State of Penn 
who was a  Lieut in the Company
commanded by Captain [BLANK] of the 
Regt commanded by Col [BLANK] in the 
Penn line for 21 mos 13 dys

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 389 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th 
of March, 1836.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841
Semi-annual allowance ending
Act. 23d August
1842

$1446.65

[Act of July, 1838]

Recorded by Theo. L. Moody Clerk,
Book  A  Vol. 2  Page 153


Reported
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Sept 23 1842
Pa

Geo. W. Crump Esqr
Actg. Commr of Pensions
Present


H. Northrup
Prest.

24/6720     280
     _ 48
       ______
       192
       192
      _______
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No 1984}  Certificate for L106-5-11.  Species
We do certify, that the State of Pennsylvania is indebted to Mordecai Morgan late Lieutenant of the ninth Pennsylvania Regiment in the sum of one hundred and six pounds five shillings & eleven pence specie, with lawful interest from the tenth day of April 1781, being the amount of the residue of the depreciation of his pay.  Pursuant to two Acts of Assembly, passed at Philadelphia the 18th of December 1780, and the 10th of April 1781
Philadelphia, 16 Feby 1786
(signed) Jno Nicholson


Auditor Generals Office of Pennsyl'a
Harrisburg September 14th 1842
I certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the original on file in the this office.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office.
(signed) Wm F Packer
(signed) P J. Romis Aud. Genl

[ SEAL ]
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Sarah Hollinshead
of 
Mordecai Morgan


admd
3559

admitted


Hon Henry Nes
H of R
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DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution.

STATE of Pennsylvania }
Monroe COUNTY} ss.

On this Sixteenth day of June AD 1848 personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mrs. Sarah Hollinshead a resident of Strouds Township in the county of Monroe State of Pennsylvania, aged 78 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made "by the act of Congress, passed the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Mordecai Morgan who was a Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Service in the war of the Revolution, and that she has drawn a pension at the rate of Two Hundred and Eighty nine dollars Thirty-three cents, per annum, under the Act of 17th June, 1844.  She further declares that she is still a widow.
(signed)  Sarah Hollinshead

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED on the day and year above written before
Morris D. Robeson Justice of the Peace.

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
(signed) Morris D. Robeson Justice of the Peace.

I James H. Stroud Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County Certify that Morris D. Robeson is a Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this thirtieth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and forty eight.
(signed) J. H. Stroud  Prothonotary
[ SEAL ]
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July 6/48

Smith

Pa

Act '48

Jam English
Sarah Hollinshead
Hanah Long

Act 48


Henry Nes M. C.

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions

Hon. Henry Nes
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Extract from a "Return of all the Officers who have served in the Ninth Pennsylvania Regmient from the first day of January 1777, till this Date - August 27th 1778"

" 
Rank
First Lieutenant

Names
Mord'a Morgan

Date of Commissions
Novr 15th. 1776

Remarks and Occurrances
Left out of the new Arrangement.  "
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House of Rep. July 5th 1848

Sir

I herewith enclose you the application of Mrs Sarah Hollingshead widow of Mordicaia (sic) Morgan.  Mrs Jam English widow of James English and of Mrs. Hannah Long widow of Gideon Long for remittal of their pensions under the act of 2nd Feby 1848. 

Respect.  - Henry Nes

J. L. Edwards Esqr }
Commr Pensions }
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(illegible) in
the case of Mrs
Hollingshead


2084118

Pa
July 7, 1838
Sarah Hollingshead

H Northrup
Prest.
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Stroudsburg Monroe Co. Pa.
Sept. 14. 1857

Dear Sir:

Will you please inform me whether James Hollinshead ever received the amount of Pension due Sarah Hollinshead at the time of her death?  To enable you to answer without too much trouble I append the following facts.

Sarah Hollinshead of this place, was a pensioner at the rate of $289.33 per annum.  She died on the 11th of November 1853.  Amount of pension due at the time of her death was from 4th Sept. 1852 to 11 November 1853.

James Hollinshead was the Executor of the last Will & Testament of Sarah Hollinshead & he is now dec'd and there is reason to think that he did not receive the above pension.

Will you please inform me & oblige.
Yours very truly,

A. Reeves Jackson
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3559
Pennsylvania

Sarah Hollingshead
formerly widow of Mordecai Morgan
who was a Lieutenant
in the Pennsyla Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
289 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843
and sent to
Wm Davis
Stroudsborough
Monroe Co.
Pa

[ Act of March 3, 1843. ]

Recorded in Book A
Vol.  1   Page 133
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State of Pennsylvania } ss.
COUNTY of Monroe  }       Be it known, That on this Twenty third day of August A.D., eighteen hundred and fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Sarah Hollingshead a resident of Stroudsburgh in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the widow of Mordecai Morgan who was a Lieutenant in the army of the Revolution, and that she is now a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under Act of 2d July 1848, at the rate of Two Hundred Eighty-nine 33/100 Dollars per annum; that she has been informed that the said Pension out to be increased; that she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
(signed) Sarah (her X mark) Hollinshead

SWORN to and subscribed, the day and }
year aforesaid, before me.  }
Daniel Jayne J. Peace


I, Daniel Jayne Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Sarah Hollingshead who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this county, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
(signed) Daniel Jayne  J. Peace

I, M. H. Dreker Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Daniel Jayne before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this Twenty third day of August A. D. 1852
(signed) M. H. Dreker  Prothonotary

[ SEAL ]
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Know all Men by these Presents, That I Sarah Hollingshead named within do hereby constitute and appoint C. W. Burnett my true and lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of myself for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorized my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents n relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington city, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to me at the the Phila agency, to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present.  Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.  
WITNESS my hand and Seal this twenty third day of August A. D., 1852
(signed) Sarah (her X mark) Hollinshead (seal)

SIGNED AND SEALED IN THE PRESENCE OF }
Daniel Jayne
James Hollinshead


State of Pennsylvania } SS.
COUNTY OF Monroe }
On this twenty third day of August A.D. 1852 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Sarah Hollingshead and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid. }
Daniel Jayne  J. Peace.
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Washington
Oct. 14. 1852

Hon. J. E. Heath
Comm of Pensions}

Sir

I have the honor to enclose herewith the application of Mrs. Sarah Hollingshead widow of Mordecai Morgan dec'd for an increase of the Pension now received by her under act of 2d Feby 1848.  The claim for increase is based (illegible) information she has received that her husband served from more than two years and (illegible) to close of the war.

Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
C. W. Burnett
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Department of State
September 22d, 1842

E. W. Crump Esq
Actg Commr. of Pensions

Sir,

At the request of Mr. Northrup, I send you the enclosed extract from the Washington Papers on file in this Department.
I am, Sir, 
Your Obedt Servt

Fletcher Webster
Acting Secretary