Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3065, William Anderson, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
Service Number
New Jersey  Anderson, William  W.3065
Elizabeth  B.L.Wt. 38-150 Ensign
Issued Dec. 31, 1795
no papers
CONTENTS
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William Anderson
Chester Delaware Co.Pa
3 June 1828
Read 5 June 1828
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Chester _ _ _
Dear Sir - June 3,,1828--
Enclosed you will Receive my declaration, in form I believe, agreeably to your instructions, published in the national intelligancer, the affirmants are both very respectable men, W, Engle is judge of our count, and W. Edwards was latily [lately] a member of Congress - Should you wish any further evidence, my brother the constable of the Treasury [treasury], and Colo. Aaron Ogden, who is now in Washington, will readily testify, to my declaration, as they both served in the same regiment,, with me, to the close of the war - you can if you please, transmit by the mail to me, the two years pay, that is due from the 3. of March 1826 - - - 
I suppose no rations are allowed, but the months pay only - 
With great respect & 
esteem - I am your
obd, Humb. Servt.
Rich,, Rush - [illegible]
M. Anderson
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Petition of deed
Elizabeth Anderson
widow of a Revolutionary officer
for a
Pension [underlined]
Dec. 18 1837
Ref to the Committee
on Revy. Claims [underlined twice]
Jany. 4 1838
Refd [referred] to Com.[Commissioner] on Revy. [Revolutionary] Pensions [underlined twice]
Mar. 30. 1838 - Comd dischd [command discharge]- to [illegible]
Senate Bill [ink spot]
Sibley 26 [illegible] to [illegible]
Mechlenberg [Mechlenburg] 18,
Disch & to Rev pen..
Darlington 84.
[illegible] Rev. Cl
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To the Honorable the Congress of the United State of America
The undersigned the Widow of the Hon William Anderson a revolutionary officer who served from the commencement to the conclusion of the Revolutionary War respectfully presents her petition to your honorable body with a request that the pension paid to her husband may be continued to her or that she may be placed upon a footing of equality with other widows who were married during the War and who have been provided for by law. The law as it no is excludes widows of officers who were married after the conclusion of the war. The undersigned was engaged to be married during the war & was actually married immediately after its termination and before the ratifcaition of the treaty of Peace. She therefore conceives that her case in point of equity should stand upon an equal footing with those who married before the Peace.
The husband of the undersigned was one of four brothers of whom the late Constable was one who served with reputation tho' the war - one of whom was killed in the Army another the Companion of the gallant Kimbrood was badly wounded and never received any compensation and it is but justice to the family that the undersigned should be placed in the same situation as those for whom the law has provided.
The undersigned is now advanced in age being between seventy and eighty, of infirm health a criple [cripple] from the rheumatism & afflicted by misfortune, which render it necessary on her part to refer her claims on the Government which she respectfully hopes will take them into consideration and do her the justice due to the widow of a meritorious revolutionary officer
Charles Penn: Dec: 14. 1837.
Elizabeth Anderson
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Act 1828
Settled
Treasury
Count with
[illegible] Wid
file #3065
[flourish line]
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, approved on the 15th of May 1828, I William Anderson of Chester
in the County of Delaware, in the State of Pennsylvania, do hereby declared that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such to the end of the war, at which period I was an Ensign in the first Jersey Regiment of the Continental line 
And I also declare, that I afterwards received Certificates (commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22d of March
1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October 1780.
Witness my hand this Third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty Eight
WJ Anderson
Before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Delaware
in the State of Pennsylvania, personally appeared, this day Joseph Engle
and Samuel Edwards of the said County, who did severally affirm, that
William Anderson, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is gen
ally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner therein stated. Witness my hand, this Third day of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty Eight
Bastian, Justice Peace
Delaware County SS
Pennsylvania
I Henry Myers Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas in and for said County do
hereby certify that George W Barham Esquire
before whom the foregoing affidavits were made. Was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and authorised [authorized] and duly empowered to administer oaths & affirmations and to all
whose acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of
said Court at Chester the third day of June in year of our Lord one thousand
hundred & twenty Eight 1828
Henry Myers, Prothy
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L Edwards Esq
Feb. 6, 1838
in relation to proof of the 
marriage of 
Mrs. Anderson
[inverted and header illegible]
Hon: Edward Darlington
House of representatives
Washington
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Chester Feb. 6. 1838

My Dear Sir

Mrs Anderson has shown me your letter desiring her to furnish proof of the time of her marriage. I fear it will be impossible for her to obtain the proof you mention. She is now according to her own collection 73 years of age, and I am inclined to believe she is older, judging from her appearance and infirmities.  Her son Tom is now 52. She states to me that she was married in February 1785, about 18 months after the peace between this county and Great Britian. She had been engaged to Mr. Anderson during the war, but their marriage was deferred in consequence of his engagements in the army. They were not married by a regularly ordained Clergyman, and consequently no record of their marriage can be found. Neither the minister, nor any individual who was present at the ceremony is now living, so that it seems to be impossible to furnish proof of the time of the marriage, or even of the consummation of it. She cannot find the certificate. That is lost or destroyed. She has not any recollection of having seen it within forty years past. She remembers there was such a paper shortly after their marriage, but she is unable to give any account of it. Under these circumstances, how is proof to be obtained of the time of marriage that was consummated 53 years ago?  Such proof is not attainable, and the only evidence that can be procured is hearsay or reputation.  Such evidence would be received in Court, and I presume, in the absence of all other proof of the fact, will be received by the Committee. The family has resided in this place nearly, if not quite, forty years, and I believe it has been generally understood that they were married shortly after the close of the revolutionary war. I
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always understood so in the life time of W. Anderson, and my impressions were obtained from repeated conversations with him about the war, and his employment subsequent to it. He was fond of conversing upon the subject, and possessed an accurate knowledge of all the important events of that period . Tom will no doubt be able to prove from the declarations of his father about the time of the marriage. You will see the difficulty ['which' crossed out] of proving a marriage that took place in 1785, and of which no record was made. If upon consulting the Committee you shall be of opinion that hearsay evidence will answer, I will cheerfully assist the old lady in procuring it in a form that will be proper to lay before the Committee. I should be much gratified if she could obtain a little aid from the government
for the short period she has to live.

I will write shortly upon the subject you desired my opinion. I have not yet obtained the requisite information. I shall see you as soon as I can leave home.

Yours truly
L. Edwards

Hon. E. Darlington
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726

admitted
Ensign.    $240

[following is all crossed out:}
[Ensign N. Jersey
line.  Recd the benefits
of the act of 15 May 1828.]

Recd the benefits
of the Act of 15 May 1828

T.F. Anderson
Prest.
Sept 4
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State of Pennsylvania } SS.
On this day the first of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Delaware in the State of Penna. Elizabeth Anderson a resident of the State of Penna in the
County of Delaware aged seventy two years, who being first duly affirmed 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 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of the Hon. William Anderson late member of Congress from the State of Penn. who was an Ensign in the Revolutionary Army
and so continued until the close of the war & who received his pension as such until the day of his death as is manifest on the records of the Department of War to which reference is made in compliance with the regulations of the Commissioner of Pensions-
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She further declares that she was married to the said William Anderson in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty five and that her husband the aforesaid William Anderson died on the fourteenth day of December AD eighteen hundred & twenty nine & that she is still unmarried--that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage
took place previous to the first of Jany. 
Seventeen Hundred & ninety four- viz at the time above stated, as is submitted in evidence by the certificate of Commr. Barron.-

Elizabeth Anderson

Affirmed to and and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Joseph Engle one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Delaware in Penna. And
I do further certify that the above applicant cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court -

Jos. Engle
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Thomas D. Anderson and Robert E. Hannum being duly affirmed doth depose and say that Elizabeth Anderson within named is the widow and relict of William Anderson ['within' crossed out] named in the Declaration, that she is still his widow and that she has not been married since his decease -

Tho. D. Anderson
R.E. Hannum

Affirmed & Subscribed
this Tenth day of September
Anno Domini 1838 before
me
Abrm Kerlin J. Peace

I Elizabeth Anderson being affirmed according to Law doth depose & say that I am the widow and relict of William Anderson named in the foregoing declaration and that I have not been married since his decease

Elizabeth Anderson

Affirmed & Subscribed
this Tenth day of September
Anno Domini 1838 before
me
Abrm Kerlin J. Peace

Delaware County
Pennsylvania : SS:  
I John Richards Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Commonn Pleas of said County of Delaware do hereby certify that Joseph Engle Esquire before whom the following attestation is made who has thereto subscribed his name at
the time of so doing was and still is one of the Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas duly commissioned & aurthorized to all whose acts as such full faith & credit is & ought to be given and do further certify that Abraham Kerlin Esquire whose name is affixed to the foregoing affidavit was at the time thereof still is a Justice of the of said County of Delaware to all who rely as such due faith is and ought to be given, and that the name of Abraham Kerlin Esquire subscribed thereto is the proper handwriting & signature  of the said Abraham Kerlin Esquire. And I do further certify that Thomas D. Anderson & Robert E. . Hannum Esquire who have subscribed their names to the above affidavit are persons of good repute and entitled to full credit.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said Court at Chester this tenth day of September Anno Domini One thousand Eight hundred & thirty eight
John Richardson 
Prothonotary
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Pension Application for Elizabeth Anderson widow of William Anderson

Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Anderson widow of William Anderson who was an Ensign in the New Jersey line for 2 years. 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 240 dollars - cents per annum to commence of the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of August, 1843 and sent to Mrs. D. Anderson, Chester Pa.
Act of March 3, 1848. Recorded in Bool A, Vol.1, Page 129.
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Revy.   WIDOW, &c.
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File No.__3065_____
___Elizabeth Anderson___
____Widow_____
___William Anderson_____
____Ens. Rev. War____
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Act: March 3, 1843
Index: -- Vol.__ A__, Page___ 13___

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Let to R. Peters Mar. 31. 1841

Pennsylvania 329
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Elizabeth Anderson, --- widow of William Anderson decd., who was a pensioner under the Act of 15 May 1828, and who died on the 14 December 1829, of Delaware in the State of Pennsylvania who was an Ensign in the _______
commanded by Captain __________ of the regmt commanded by Col. Ogden in the New Jersey line for 2 years.
------------------------
Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate of 240 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
-------------------------
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of September 1838, and sent to T. F. Anderson,
Present.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept '38            $600.00
Semi-annual allowance ending             120.00
4 Mar '39                                            _________ 
                                                               $720.00
                                                            _________
{Act July 7, }
{    1838.     }
Book A Vol. 2.
Recorded by D. McCurdy, Clerk,
Book A, Vol 2, Page 144
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2675



Thos. D. Anderson
Chester
Pa.
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State of Pennsylvania
Delaware County ss.  }
On this Nineteenth day of ['July' crossed out] August A.D. 1843 personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Delawared, in the State of Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Anderson, a resident of Chester in the County of Delaware aforesaid, aged seventy four years, who being first duly affirmed, according to law, doth on her affirmation, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision
made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of William Anderson, who was [long space left blank] 
and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7th 1838, was Two hundred and forty dollars. She further declares that she is still a widow.-

Elizabeth Anderson

Affirmed and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Geo M Bartrum one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Delaware. }

Delaware County S.S.
I do hereby certify that George W. Bartram Esq
whose name is affixed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date thereof and now is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, and to whose acts as such true faith and credit is and ought to be given.

Witness my hand and seal of the County of Delaware in the State of Pennsylvania this 19th day of August A.D. 1843.

Saml Fairlamb
Dep. Recorder of
Deeds &c. for said County
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Delaware County ⎬
Pennsylvania.   } SS.
I hereby certify that Mrs Elizabeth Anderson
the within applicant is, and has been for many years well known to me the within Justice of the Peace before whom she was qualified to the said deposition & is Witness my hand and seal at Chester this 23 day of August 1843.

Geo. W. Bartram
Justice of the Peace
in and for Delaware County

State of Pennsylvania
Delaware County ss
I James Huston Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Delaware do hereby certify that the above signed George W Bartram before whom the foregoing  affidavit was made and whose name is to the above certificate is a Justice of the Peace Sworn & in commission & to whose official acts the fullest credit is & ought to be given

Witness my hand & the seal of said Court at Chester this 23 day of August A.D. 1848
James Huston
Prothonatory
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Mrs. E. Anderson
Feb 6, 1828

FREE

Honble. Edward Darlington
Washington 
D.C.
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Chester Febry. 6-1838

Dear Sir

I received your letter today & I hasten to answer it. I can give no plainer proof of my marriage, than a true statement of it myself. The certificate of my marriage, I know nothing of- or what has become of it- My marriage was registered in my mothers bible, and she has been dead nearly 40 years, and I do not know who got possession of the Bible after her decease, for I have never visited Virginia since that period- I was married Feb 19. 1785 - I was
engaged, to be married, before the close of the way, my husband was at the Siege of little York, in Virginia, & continued in the Army untill it was disbanded, & as he had no profession but that of a soldier, and was not a man of fortune, he was compelled to establish, himself, in some business, before we could get married, consequently it was the cause, which delayed
our marriage, Colonel Homes- M. Turning & my late husband undertook to establish of line of Stages from Phila. to Hampton in Virginia, The superintendance of the business, devolved
upon Mr Anderson, being a young man, as soon as he completed the line, he went to Hampton, & we were married. I should think it very unjust, to be deprived of the small pension I am
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justly entitled to particularly as my husband, served from the commencement, untill the conclusion, of the war.-

I do not think, there is a gentlemans company, the committee, of revolutionary pensions, that would reject my claim.

If I get now, what I think I should, (in justice), have, it will be perhaps the last, I shall receive, I am now ['73 years' crossed out] in my 73 year, what with old age, bodily & mental afflictions
my cause, must be nearly run-- be good enough to write me as soon as my fate is determined, for a state of suspense is almost as bad as painful reality-- I beg you will accept
my gratitude, for the interest you have taken in my case.  I trust you will be rewarded by a higher power-- the family joins me in respects to you.

Very truly yours,
Elizabeth Anderson
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No of org Pamt 11.
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No of org Pamt 11
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
June 5th 1828
William Anderson
of Chester in the County of
Delaware
in the State of Pennsylvania has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving
officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828.
He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end
of the War
at which period he was an Ensign
in the first regiment of the New Jersey
line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve
of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March,
1826, nothing.

dollars, paid to him by the agent
in the State of [crossed out]

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated
by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
A. Dickins,

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
7th June 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for
the commutation of five years full pay to William Anderson in
the New Jersey line, amounting to Twelve Hundred dollars.
It further appears that William Anderson is not
on the pension list of the any agency, and has not been since the 3d March
1826
Peter Hagman Aud
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Certificate of
Comr Jas Barron
to marriage of
Mrs Anderson

[stamp]
NORFOLK
MAR
4
VA

Mrs Elizabeth Anderson
Chester
Penn
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Norfolk March the 3d 1838
I do hereby testify that I was intimate with the
family of Mrs Anderson in the County of Elizabeth City
Virginia whose names were Dixon and that I feel confident
from associating other circumstances which occured about
the same time that she was married to Mr Anderson
early in the year 1785.
James Barron
Norfolk March the
3d 1838

3rd March 1838 This day personally appeared
before me an Alderman of Norfolk Borough
Comr Jas Barron & made oath to the truth
of the above statement.
D. C. Barrand
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Chester Aug 23 1843
Sir,
I this day had the honor to receive your
letter of yesterday enclosing the document relative to the
pension of Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson I now return it to
you
arranged in conformity to your instructions.
The office of Prothonotary & Recorder in this County
is held by the same person which was the cause of
the mistake. I have caused the Prothonotary himself to give the seal & certificate in his capacity as
that officer which I hope you will deem correct I regret having given you the trouble to send
back the papers, but for which attention I am
Sir your very obliged & [illegible] Servt.[illegible] 
Tho D. Anderson.

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commr of Pensions
Wash  City
D.C.
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Mar 31. 1841
Mrs Anderson
Pand [?]

[stamp]
PHILADELPHIA 
MAR
30 
PA

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Phila Mar 29 1841
My dear sir
Mrs Anderson of Chester Penna 
has received a pension of $240, and is being
with held from her. I presume this is the consequence
of the legislation of the last Session of Congress.
Will you do me the favor to write me if this is
the fact. To Mrs Anderson the pensioner is of
this most absolute Exigency
I am very respectfully
yours
Rich Peters
James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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[stamp mostly illegible]]
NORFOLK 
VA

Mrs Elizabeth Anderson
Chester
Pennsylvania

[lower left]
Elizbth Anderson
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Norfolk February the 13th 1838
My Dear Mrs Anderson
to reply to it.
I have just received your letter of the 9th inst and hasten
to reply to it. 
In the month of November 1785 I embarked for the West indies
in a vessel from Norfolk, and made the voyages without knowing
much of the transactions which took place in the County, on my
return from a third voyage I made a visit to Elizabeth City and
then heard of your marriage with Captain Anderson as he was then
commonly called, and I have no doubt of the records of the County
could now be found, that they would show the precise time, that it
occurred, but I presume that it must have been in the spring of
1780 [ink blotch]
As to your being the lawful wife of Wm Anderson, I can, and
will swear to the fact, if required, for both in Hampton and Chester
I have seen you both as man and wife together very often, and it can
only be required of you as a matter of form [illegible] to prove your marriage.
I write you in haste for the mail, but trust that what I
have said above will be sufficient for your just purpose,
Mrs Barron joins me in best wishes for your health and
happiness, and I am
Dear Madam Very Sincerely your
Friend & Servant
James Barron

Mrs Elizabeth Anderson
Chester Pennsylvania