Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 996, for Jacob Stookey, New Jersey
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New Jersey 
Stookey, Jacob
Keziah
W. 996
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[Page blacked out, words unreadable]
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Jacob Stookey
Admitted
Private 12 months
N. Jersey Line
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State of New Jersey
Borough of Elizabeth
On this fifteenth day of September Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Two, [illegible] appeared before [illegible] James W Wade one of the Judges of the Court of Common [illegible] of the Borough of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey, John Williams of the township of Union in the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law on his oath say that he {illegible] believes that Jacob Stookey of the township of Union aforesaid is entitled to the benefit of the Act of Congress [illegible] June 7' 1802. And the said John Williams doth on his oath further say that
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Jacob has been a [illegible] and taken care of as [illegible] by the township of [name] for the space of at least six years, that the [illegible] Jacob has lost his hearing so that he can not be made to hear anything- that he has become very inferior and has lost his [illegible] so far as to be _ to make a coroner statement of any [illegible] which occurred during his life - than his mind is to far gone that this deferment can not obtain from him any statement for which to [illegible] any of his [illegible] as a soldier of the Revolutionary war- that he has been informed by several persons who served with the said Jacob that is he the said Jacob was a Revolutionary soldier and was in this [illegible] rise of the [illegible] States in the State Troops of New Jersey, for a very considerable period - this [illegible] deficient persons says that he has per motion evidence of the age the - Jacob, nor can he find any documentary evidence of either his devices or discharge at any time during the war association the [illegible] the positive proof which he can pro cease of the service of the soldier Jacob as a Revolutionary soldier to entitle him to the act of [illegible] the testimony of Nicholas Attorney and [illegible]
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...Meeker, who served with the said Jacob Stookey in the New Jersey State Troops - and this deponent further says that he verily believes thus that the said Jacob is upwards of Seventy years of age and further saith not.
s/ John William

Subscribed and sworn this fifteenth day of September Eighteen Hundred & Thirty Two before me.
s/ James W. Wade

State of New Jersey
Borough of Elizabeth//

On this fifteenth day of September Eighteen Hundred and Thirty two personally appeared before me, James W. Wade, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the Borough of Elizabeth aforesaid Obed Meeker of the township of Union in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath say that he is well acquainted with Jacob Stookey of the township of Union aforesaid - that he lived and brought up in the same neighborhood...
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...with him, in the township of Elizabeth in the County and State aforesaid, since which time that part of the said township of Elizabeth in which they were born, has been set off into a separate township by the name of Union, being the Township of Union aforesaid, - that in the time of the Revolutionary War the said Jacob Stookey enlisted at the same time with him in the New Jersey State Troops in the Spring of 1778, and he thinks in the month of April, for the space of one year in the Regiment Command, lead by Colonel Seely and Colonel Ely, one of whom he thinks was a Lieutenant Col. but he cannot say which, William Crane, Major; John Sandler, Captain; James Woodruff, Lieutenant; Charles Clark, Ensign; and Edward Clark, Sergeant; and the said Jacob continued in that service until the expiration of a year from the time of his enlistment that the company to which the said Jacob and this deponent belonged was stationed a part of the time at Elizabeth Town in the Township of Elizabeth aforesaid. Other part of the time at Tappan in Bergen County, and the residue of the time at Connecticut Farms and Rahway Township in the County of Essex aforesaid, and use all the time on...
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...the lines - and this deponent further says that he has lived in the same township with the said Jacob Stooky since the Revolutionary War and has known him ever since - that the said Jacob has been a pauper of the Township of Union aforesaid for as much as six years the least, that he is now a pauper of said township and has been under the care and charge of John Williams, keeper of the poor in the Township of Union for a year past, - that he has become so deaf that he cannot hear at all, that he has lost his mind so that he is not able to converse to be understood - that he has (since the passage of the act of June 7, 1832) endeavored to make him understand the benefit he ought to desire from that act, but that the said Jacob could not be made to understand or hear anything - and this deponent further says that he is Sixty nine years of age the 5th of November next, - that he knows that the said Jacob is two or three years older than this deponent.
s/ Obed Meeker

Subscribed & sworn this 15th day of September A.D. 1832 before me.
s/ James W. Wade
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I, James W. Wade, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the Borough of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Jacob Stookey, above mentioned, and that I have known him for more than Thirty (blank) years, that I have resided in the same Township of Union with him for upwards of Forty two (blank) years - that the said John Williams, above mentioned, is keeper of the poor of the Township of Union aforesaid and that he has the care and charge of the said Jacob Stookey, who has been for some years past and still is pauper of the said township - that the said Jacob has entirely lost his mind & hearing.

And I further certify that the said John Williams this day brought the said Jacob before me and that I attempted to make him hear and understand the nature of this application but that he can neither hear nor understand what is said to him in relation to it.

And I further certify that I am well acquainted with John Williams and Obed Meeker who have subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit in relation to Jacob Stookey, that they are respectable and credible persons and that their statement...
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... is entitled to credit. And I further certify that I believe the said Jacob to be upwards of Seventy one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and I concur in that opinion.

Given under my hand at Union aforesaid this Seventeenth day of September A.D. Eighteen Hundred and
Thirty two.
s/ James W. Wade

State of New Jersey
Borough of Elizabeth//

I, Francis B. Chetwood, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Borough of Elizabeth, the same being a Court of Record in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that James W. Wade, before whom the above and the annexed affidavits of John William and Obed Meeker were taken was at the time of taking the same and still is one of the Alderman of the Borough of Elizabeth and a Judge of the said Court duly commissioned and sworn, and as such is authorized to take affidavits and I do further certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said James W. Wade and that the signatures of "James W. Wade" & "James W. Wade" to the above annexed affidavits of John William and Obed Meeker signatures are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto...
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...set my hand and affixed the
seal of the said Court this Seventeenth day of September A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Thirty two.
s/ F.B. Chetwood, Clerk
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State of New Jersey
Borough of Elizabeth//

Nicholas Mooney, being duly sworn according to law on his oath says that he is well acquainted with Jacob Stookey, and is acquainted with him in the Revolutionary War and served with him one year in the New Jersey State Troops under the command of Col. Seely and Col. Ely in the company of Captain John Sandler, Lieut. David Woodruff, Ensign Charles Clark and Sergeant Edward Clark and was stationed on the lines part of the time at Elizabeth Town in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey and part of the time in the County of Bergen at Tappan and the residue of the time at Connecticut Farms and Rahway Township in the County of Essex aforesaid, and this deponent further says that the said Jacob Stookey has been a pauper and supported as such by the inhabitants of the Township of Union in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey at least six years and is now a pauper in said township under the charge of John Williams, keeper of the poor of said township of Union.
s/ Nicholas Mooney

Taken before me this [repeated: this] 4th day of Sept. 1832.
s/ Ja(mes) Woodruff, Recorder Recorder

State of New Jersey
Borough of Elizabeth//

I, Francis B. Chetwood, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Borough of Elizabeth, the same being a Court of Record in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that James Woodruff, before whom the above affidavit was taken, is Recorder...
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...of the Borough of Elizabeth and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said borough duly commissioned and sworn, and was Recorder & Judge aforesaid at the time & taking the said affidavit and still is Recorder in and for as such is authorized to take affidavits; and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Recorder, and that the signature "James Woodruff, Recorder" to the above affidavit subscribed is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this Twentieth day of September A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Thirty two.
s/ F.B. Chetwood, Clerk
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New York

Kiziah Stookey 
widow of Jacob Stookey 
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Private, N.J. Troops,
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
60 Dollars 00 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 5th day of [illegible], 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the
11th day of Aug./'53
and sent to Wm. Hunt, Present.

Recorded in Role of Pensioners under act 
[illegible]
3rd February 1853
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Kiziah Stookey's
claim for Pension as the
widow of Jacob Stookey, late 
a Pensioner.

Be pleased to direct to
the care of D.S. Brown
42 Crosby St. New York
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State of New York
City and County of New York//

On this 27th day of March A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty one personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the City and County aforesaid Kiziah Stookey, aged Seventy one years, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Jacob Stookey, deceased,
who was inscribed on the list of the Pension Agency of the State of New Jersey and who died at William's Farmsthe 24th of September 1833.

Deponent further declares that she was joined in Holy Matrimony to the aforesaid Jacob Stookey, a native of New Jersey in or about the month of February 1813 by the Reverend Wm. Morrill, a minister of the Elizabethtown N.J. Methodist conference; that her name before her said marriage was Keziah Conklin, that said Jacob Stookey left only three children him surviving, Viz.: [illegible] Stookey; Elizabeth Stookey and Sarah Stookey (who has since died) and she further declares that she still continues to be the widow of the aforesaid Jacob Stookey.
s/ Keziah Stookey  (X - her mark)

Sworn before me this 27th March 1857.
s/ C.H. Cook, Ald(ernam) 13th Ward, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
City and County of New York//

Abigail McLean, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she has been intimately acquainted with Keziah Stookey within mentioned for more than Forty years, that she knew her before she was married to Jacob Stookey aforesaid, and knew them to live together as husband and wife; that they were married as aforementioned, and that said marriage never was doubted, and Keziah Stookey still continues to be the widow of said Jacob Stookey, that the deposition of claimant is true and worthy of undoubted credit and she further declares that she is disinterested.
s/ Abigail McLean

Sworn before me
this 27th day of March 1857
s/ C.H. Cook, Ald(ernam) 13th Ward, Justice of the Peace

Ann Satsel, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she has been intimately acquainted with Keziah Stookey aforementioned for more than Forty years and was also intimately acquainted with her husband Jacob Stookey, that they were joined in marriage as aforesaid - lived together as husband and wife, and that said husband died as mentioned in the deposition of claimant; the said Keziah Stookey still continues...
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...to be his widow; that her deposition is true and worthy of undoubted credit, and further that she is disinterested.
s/ Ann Satsel

Sworn before me this 27th day of March 1857 s/ C.H. Cook, Ald(ernam) 13th Ward, Justice of the Peace

It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the City and County of New York, by the affidavits of Abigail McLean, and Ann Satsel, two credible witnesses and of known respectability, that Keziah Stookey is still the lawful widow of Jacob Stookey, formerly a pensioner of the United States, that her deposition is true and worth of undoubted credit, and further that they are disinterested.
s/ C.H. Cook, Ald(ernam) 13th Ward, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
City and County of New York//

I, GEORGE W. RISLEW, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Supreme Court for said City and County of New York, being a Court of Record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That J.N. Cooke, before whom the annexed depositions were taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said City and County, duly elected and sworn, and that his signature on thereto are genuine, as I verily believe.

In Westimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 27th day of March 1851.
s/ Geo. W Robles, Clerk
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Certified Copy of Marriage Record
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I hereby certify that in the record of marriages kept by my father Rev. Thomas Merrill of Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, I find the marriage by him, of Joseph Stookey and Keziah Gaitherait of Elizabeth Town January 2, 1815.
s/ Frances A. Merrill, Minister of the M.E. Church, Long Branch, N.J.

Long Branch, N.J. March 5th 1853.

State of New Jersey
County of Monmouth//

I hereby certify the Frances A. Merrill who unto the law is a Minister of the Gospel, and that the above is a true copy of the record as kept by her deceased father.

Sworn under my hand & seal this 1st day of April A.D. 1853.
s/ John N. Common, one of the Justices of the Peace for said County.

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No. 5820
Jacob Stookey
Admitted
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BRIEF in the case of Jacob Stookey of Union Township in the State of N. Jersey (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? No declaration, the applicant being deaf & insane.

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? (blank)

3. How old is he? 71 years.

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. | Duration of Service. (Years, Months, Days.) | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
In 1778 spring | 1 (ditto) (ditto) | "As a" Private | "Gen." Cols. Seely & Seely, Major Crane, Major Sanders, Capt. Woodruff, Sgt. Clark.

5. In what battles was he engaged? (blank)

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Essex Co. N.J.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses.

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Papers improperly attached.

* - Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

s/ D. Brown, Examining Clerk
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Pension Office
August 6/'53

Sir,

Please report time of last payment to, or death of within named pensioner.

Respectfully &c. (etc.)
s/ S. Cole
Ch. Clerk

F. Burt, Esq.
3rd aud(it)

Present

See other side.
s/ N.W. Randall
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Jacob Stooky, Act 7th June 1832, $40.00 pension
Died 24th Sept 1833. Paid to his death.
s/ F. Bush
Auditor
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[illegible]

Jacob Stooky
Revolutionary Pensioner on the 
New Jersey Roll
Pd. $40

Attorney 9392
William Hunt
Washington City
'Allow' $40 D.B.
Com(mission)/Rec(eived) 1853
1853
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Keziah Stookey, widow of Jacob.

Applicant for Rev(olutionary War) Pension
Act Feb. 5, 1853

Jacob was a Pensioner on 
the New Jersey Roll.

Attorney William Hunt, Washington City, D.B.
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New Jersey Roll, Act 7th June 1832.
Jacob Stookey, for $40 per annum.

To what time last paid: Died 24th Sept. 1833 pd. to his death. [illegible]

Pension Office
s/ Cole

To 3rd Auditors Office

Pd. 32
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Rev(olutionary) War
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 996
Keziah Stookey
Widow

Jacob Stookey
Pri(vate), Rev(olutionary) War
Act Feb. 3, 1853.

Index: -- Vol. M, Page 238

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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4 Jan(uary)

James E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,

The widow of Jacob Stookey has a poor family and she is apprehensive that some fraud has been acted upon her, as her husband never received any of his pension and all she ever received was Three dollars of a balance from humane consideration, will confer an obligation.

s/ Hon. G. Remsean

With great respect, your most obed(ient) humble servant,
s/ David Samuel Browne
42 Crosby St., New York

31 December
1850
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The Honorable 
John Robb
Acting Secretary of War
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Elizabeth Town Sept. 20, 1832

The Honorable
John Robb
Acting Secretary of War
U.S.A

Sir,

Enclosed with this letter I have transmitted the application of Jacob Stookey for the benefit of the Act of 7th June 1832. He has lost his mind & hearing entirely, and the only evidence in consequence of his situation which can be found of his services, is the affidavits of the persons who served part of the time with him. He is a fit subject of pension or charity.

If a pension is allowed him, please to transmit his certificate to me as I am desired to receive it.

With much esteem, I am very respectfully your Obedient servant,
s/ Francis B. Chetwood
(Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Borough of Elizabeth)


1832
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Stookey
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Brief in the case of Keziah Stookey of Jacob
New York County and State of New York 
Act of Feb. 3, 1853.

Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a pensioner under Act of June 7/'32 at $40 per annum.
Marriage proven by credible witnesses.

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Identity shown by private record, attested.

Name and residence of Agent
William Hunt, Esq.
Present

Examining Clerk,
s/ J. Segway
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In
Jacob Stookey
N.J. Act 3rd
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Hon(orable)
Alexander [illegible] Stuart
Secretary of The Interior

Sir,

I herewith transmit the claim for pension for the widow of Jacob Stookey, who was inscribed on the Pension Agency of New Jersey.

Your early consideration will confer an obligation on.

Sir,

Your most obedient humble servant,
s/ David Samuel Browne
42 Crosby Street, New York

23rd March
1851
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William B. Potter
Thompson Wade

Affidavits in pension money.
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State of New Jersey
County of Essex//

Be it known that on the Twelfth day of May 1853 personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, William B. Potter and Thompson Wade, residents of the State of New Jersey & County of Essex who being sworn according to law declare that Keziah Stookey, an applicant for a pension is the widow of Jacob Stookey, dec(eased), who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, formerly a resident of this State.

They declare that Keziah Stookey, at present is residing in the City of New York, was well known to them during the lifetime of her husband, that they lived together as husband & wife and were so reputed. This they the officiants know of their own personal knowledge and they declare that there cannot be any doubts whatever on the subject. They also swear that they are disinterested.
s/ William B Potter
s/ Thompson Wade

Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year above mentioned and I certify that the officiants are respectable & credible persons. I also certify that I am not interested in this matter or named in the result thereof.
s/ Noah Woodruff, Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey
County of Essex//

I, John R. Weeks, Clerk of the County of Essex and also of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County...
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...do certify that Noah Woodruff, before whom the foregoing affidavits of William B. Potter and Thompson Wade, were taken at the date thereof, was an acting Justice of the Peace for said County, residing therein duly elected, commissioned and sworn; that the signatures to the Jurat of said officiants & the certificate thereunder written respectively are genuine, and that full faith is due to his official acts. In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed my official Seal at the City of Newark A.D. 1853 the said Justice being duly authorized to take officiants.
s/ J.R. Weeks, Clerk
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Washington City, D.C., May23, 1853

Sir,

I herewith present the application of Keziah Stookey, widow of Jacob, for a Revolutionary Pension under Act of Feb. 3, 1853.

Her deceased husband was a pensioner on the New Jersey Roll, under the Act of June 1832.

Very respectfully your Obed(ient) Ser(vant),
s/ William Hunt, her attorney

Hon S.P. Waldo
Com(missioner)
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Proof of death of her husband.
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City & County of
New York
I R. B. Connolly
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
holden in & for the City & County of New York
do hereby certify that satisfactory
evidence has been exhibited to said Court
that Jacob Stooky was a pensioner
of the United States at the rate of
Forty dollars per year was resident
of the County of Essex in the State
of New Jersey and died in said State
in the year 1833 that he left a widow ^ whose name is Kaziah Stooky and that the
whose name is Register
widow and that the pension certificate
has been lost and after due search and diligence cannot be found

In testimony whereof
have hereunto set my
hand & affixed my seal
of office this 1st day
of April in the year
of our Lord 1853
R. B. Connolly Clerk
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Know all Men by these Presents, that
J. Kesiah G. Stookey Widow of Jacob
Stookey (deceased), late inscribed a Pension
on the New Jersey list, who to the best of
her knowledge died in the year 1836 -
after receiving only one payment, do
appoint David Samuel Brown of Forty
two Crosby Street New York, my true
and lawful Attorney for me - and - in
my name, place and stead, to ask and
receive information from the United States
Government of the Service [underlined] and
rate of Pension for which he was placed
and such other information as will furnish
me with the particulars of said Pension
Granting and giving to my said
Attorney full power, and as ample
authority to give Receipts and Discharges for the same and to the same extent
that I could or might do were I, personally present and acting
for myself by virtue of the same-

Given under my hand and seal}
this 20 day of December A.D. 1850
Sworn before me this
day of December AD 1850
J. Lothrop Peb justice

her [above x]
Heziah X G. Stookey [signature]
mark [below x] [whole signature to the right of above] 

[round multi-pointed circular seal to right of signature]

Justice of the peace } State of New York City and County of New York

Personally [written very large] appeared before me, the undersigned a Justice of the Peace, for the City and County above mentioned Keziah Stookey who declared on oath [underlined] that she is
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...widowed. Keziah G. Stookey's written names that
are signed and acknowledged, the within 
same of attorney, as an act of her own free 
will and deed for the express purpose herein 
contained.

s/ [illegible]
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York,
City and County of New-York,
the
.
George W. Riblet, Clerk of the City and County of New York, and also Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas, for said City and County of New-York, being a Court of Record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That J. Lathrop
the annexed deposition
before whom
taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the
Peace, in and for said City and County, duly elected and sworn, and that his signature thereto is
genuine, as I verily believe.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal
of the said Court, the 26th day of
December
185 [last digit illegible]
G W Riblet [signature] Clerk.
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Declaration of
Keziah Stooky
Widow of
Jacob Stooky
Revolutionary Pensioner
New Jersey Roll
-
Appleton [illegible] made
under
Act Feb 3 1853
Attny
William Hunt
Washington City DC
_
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State of New York} ss
City & County of N.Y}
On this 28th day of April Eighteen
Hundred and fifty three Personally appeared before me Charles F. Doly [illegible] city and county of [illegible] for Keziah Stooky now a resident of the City & County of New York aged seventy four years who being sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions the Act of Congress passed February 3d 1853 that her husband Jacob Stocky was
private soldier in the war of the Revolution and she believes in the New Jersey State Troops, and recd a pension as such of $40 [140?] pr year until his death which took place on the 24th day of September 1833 in Union Township County of Essex to State of New Jersey in his 73rd year she thinks he was receiving relief from the
Town at the time of his death, and the then Farmer of the Poor [illegible] the Ballance of the pension unclaimed to the date of his death, She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Stooky at Elizabethtown State of New
the 8 day of January 1815 by the Rev Thomas Morrell that her name before marriage
was Keziah Garthwaite she further swears that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband Jacob Stooky and that she is still a widow & alsoe [sic] that she has never before made any application to the pension
office for a pension, she declares that she has and does hereby appoint William Hunt of Washington City D.C. her true and lawful attorney to make application for and to receive her pension certificate if granted and to all needfull
acts in the premises to obtain the same as though she herself were
personally present.

Keziah Stooky [signature]
her mark [in center of signature is an x with her above and mark below]

Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before me Chal F. [illegible]

State of New York, S.S.
County of New York

Richard B. Connolly Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas [illegible up caret insertion] and hereby certify that the fore
going contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of the widow Keziah Stooky for a pension I also certify that I am not concerned in the claim and that I am not interested in the result thereof

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and
seal of office this 28th day
of April Eighteen
hundred & fifty three
R B Connolly
Clerk