Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3262, for Peter Kip, New York
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Continental New York
Kip, Peter
or Kipp Margaret
Service Number W. 3262
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Dead
See letter May 22nd 1837 [?]
to M Kip, Feb 15 1839 [?] T. Gallaher Oct 31 1842

Pennsylvania
Peter Kip,
of Cumb[erlan]d Co[unt]y in the state of Pennsylvania who was a sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Lamb, of the New York [?]ne for the term of seven years. Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 15 of June, 1818.

Certificate of pension issued the 15 of March, 181? and sent to Jacob Handel, judge Carlisle of Pennsylvania.

Arrears to 4th of March, 1819, $69.30 semi anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819

8 mos $16.30
$4.31

.48
$17.30

Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818
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Died 13 Jan'y 1846
see letters [?}

Letter to E.D. Crawford June 2nd 1848

[?] James Robb Jan 3 [?]
Paper (appln for arrears) [?]
March 15 [?]

3064
Pennsylvania [?]
Margaret Kipp widow of Peter Kipp who was Sergeant in the N. York line for 2 years.

Inscribe on the roll at the rate of 120 dollars, - cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of December 1843 and sent to T. Gallaher
[Siverfoot?]
Perry [?], PA

Act of March 3, 1848
Recorded in book A, Vol. 1, Page 134
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Peter Kip,
New York line.

found on the rolls of Col Samb's regiment of artillery, as serg't

Admitted
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Cumberland County
State of Pennsylvania

On this fifteenth day of June 1818 before me the subscriber one[?] of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county and state aforesaid personally appears Peter Kip aged sixty four years resident in Buffalo Township and Cumberland County who being by me first duly sworn according to law do on his oath make the following declaration in order to attain the provision made by the late act of [?] entitled. "An act to provide for certain persons engage in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" That he the said Peter Kip enlisted in 1775 under Captain Lamb for six month ad was take to Quebec that after Gen'l Montgomery was killed he then returned to New York and there enlisted with Captain Mathias[?[ Bowman for during the war when enlistment took place in the spring of 1776, that he was commanded by CJ Lamb of the second regiment of [?] New York line and that he continued to service said corps or in the service of the United States until the fall of 1783 when he was discharged from service (being thus under the command of Capt. [Til?] at Stoney Point in the state of
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New York, that he had his discharge in his knap sack and it was taken together with all his clothing which was in it. Deponent further states that he was n the Battel of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Germantown, Brandywine, that the taking of Gen. Cornwallis at Yorktown [?] and at fort Lee when taken by the British and that he is  {??} circumstances and stand ins need of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Jacob Hendel
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Cumberland County 
I Jacob Handel Judge...
of commons Pleas is and...
County do certify that it...
satisfaction that the...
serve in the revolutionary...
the preceding declaration...
enemy, and that his is...
[?] and stand in need of...
support; and I now commit the [?] signs and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned act of Congress. Witness my hand and seal at Carlisle this 15th day of June A.D. 1818. Jacob Handel
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...fore me the subscriber on of the
...for said state and county, William
...and saith that he is well
...applicant and that he is
...nothing he support him but
...that he now is a
... knowledge for fifteen
...soldier as was contained
...[?] and that in the opinion
...need of the aid of his
... [? line smudged]
Illegible Signature
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Cumberland County
State of Pennsylvania
I, Robert McCoy Prothonotary of the courts or common pleas in and for the county of Cumberland, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do by these present certify, that Jacob Handel Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit was take, and who hath thereunto, in his own proper handwriting, subscribed his name was, at the time of taking such affidavit and now a judge of the court of common please in and for the said county, duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit is and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States and elsewhere. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, at Carlisle, in the said county, this fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and eighteen and of the sovereignty and independence of the Untied States of America, the forty second attest,
Rob McCoy Prothy
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Cumberland County
I Jacob Handel Judge of the court
of commons Pleas is and for Cumberland
County do certify that it appears to my
satisfaction that the said Peter Kipp did
serve in the revolutionary war as stated in
the preceding declaration against the common
enemy, and that his is of reduced circumstances
and stands in need of his country for
support; and I now commit the [?] signs and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned act of Congress. Witness my hand and seal at Carlisle this 15th day of June A.D. 1818. Jacob Handel
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State of Pennsylvania
Cumberland County
Personally came before me the subscriber on of the court of common pleas in and for said state and county, William Rammy[?] Esquire who being duly sworn deponent & saith that he is well acquainted with Peter Kip the within named applicant and that he is a man now far advanced in life, has nothing to support him but but what he comes by his trad as a tailor that he now is a [?] and has been the the deponents for fifteen or twenty years. & that in the opinion of the deponent that Kip is [?] an Old Revolutionary soldier as was contained
by congress when the act was passed & that in the opinion the deponent said applicant stands need of the aid of his Government to enter his old days comfortable as [smudged]

Sworn and subscribed this 16th June 1818
Jacob Handel
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Peter Kip
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State of Pennsylvania
Cumberland County

On the twentieth day of June 1820 Personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County aforesaid it being a Court of Record which proceeds according to the course of the common law with Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a Record of their proceedings Peter Kip aged sixty seven years resident in said County and State who being first sworn according to law doth depose on his solemn oath and declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows. Declarant enlisted in the spring of the year 1776 in the Company Commanded by Captain Sebastian Bowman and in the Regiment commanded by Col John Lamb it being the 2nd Regiment of
Artillery that said declarant served in the said
Company and Regiment until the year
1783 when peace was declared he then was discharged at Stony Point in the State of New York. Declarant was at the Battle of the White Plains at Monmouth at Germantown, Brandiwine, Trenton, Princetown and many others and skirmishes and at the taking of Cornwallace the date of his original declaration and the number of it he does not recollect he left it at home which is a distance of 27 from the Court House and I do Solemnly swear
that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that
I have not since that time by gift sale or in any
manner disposed of my property or any part
thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States of Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me
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nor have I any income other than what is
contained in the Schedule hereto annexed
and by me subscribed
A Schedule of the real and personal Estate of
Peter Kip the aforesaid declarant.
two Horses one Plow and Harrow one waggon
four sheep three Cows one Calf two Hogs three Tables two spinning wheels two Iron pots one pewter dish (and some small articles of Kitchen furniture)
Signed
PeterKip
Signed

Peter Kip the Declarant is a Taylor (Tailor) by trade & that he is now so informs that he cannot follow it for a living & is not
of bodily ability to pursue his trade or to do any work. he has a wife aged about fifty five years, and a son William about sixteen years of age and a son Jacob about fourteen years of age and a son John about twelve years of age this Constitutes declarant family
Sworn to and declared the 20th
day of June 1820 before the subscriber
one of the Judges of the
said Court
Signed
Isaiah Graham

Signed
Peter Kip

The Court are of opinion that the property mentioned in the above Schedule is worth about seventy five Dollars

Pennsylvania
Cumberland County ss
I Robert McCoy Prothonotary of the
Court of Common pleas of said County do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the original which remains filed amongst the Records of said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Seventy
five dollars. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Carlisle this twenty
ninth day of June Anno Domini 1820.
Robert McCoy Prothy
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No 8550
PA
July 7 1838
Mag't Kipp

V 8550
Margaret Kipp
PA
AD 7 July 38

Hon A Gustine

120
Hon A. Gustine
H.R.
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No 8550
PA
July 7 1836
Mag't Kipp
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Margaret Kipp
PA
7 July 38

Hon A Gustine
HR
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Pennsylvania District Juniata County

On this twenty third day of October on thousand eight hundred and forty two, personally appeared before the the subscriber one of the judges on the county of record in and for the afforesaid county of juniata, Margaret Kipp a resident of [Debnear?] Township Juniata county aged seventy two years the twenty sixth day of last [?] who having just duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows that she is the widow of Peter Kipp as she verily believes a soldier of the Pennsylvania Line who performed the duties of an enlisted soldier for a number of years in the Revolutionary War and further declares that he rec'd a united states pension of ninety six dollars per year up to his death which was on the fourth day of November one thousand eight hundred and twenty [five?] and further saith that she was married to said Peter Kipp on the last day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety and lived with him as his wife until his death above. States during which time she had nin children and further saith they were married in Buffalo township Cumberland County now Perry County by William Beaty Esquire a justice of the peace of Rye township in said county and further saith that she was not married to said Peter Kipp prior to his leaving the service but that the marriage took place on the last day of November 1790. She further declares that she still remains his widow.

Sworn and subscribed to befre [?] at Delaware township, Juniata County the state above

William M Allister
for
Margaret B Kipp
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Pennsylvania District Juniata County
I do hereby certify that I have taken the deposition of Margaret Kipp mentioned in the deposition on the other side of this paper and she is an old and infirm woman as I believe altogether unfit to appear in open court to have her deposition taken from her infirmity. I was under the necessity of taking her declaration and deposition at her residence in testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal at Delaware township Juniata County and state aforesaid this 27 day of October AD 1842
William McAllister

State Pennsylvania, Juniata County

I Lewis Burchfield, prothonotary of the court of common please in and tof rhte county fo Juniata do hereby certify that William McAllister before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is and was at the time the same were had one of the associate judges of the court of common please it being a court of record in and for the county aforesad regularly commissioned and qualified and the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Mifflintown this 31st day of Oct A.D. 1842. 
L. Burchfield
Prothy
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Perry County State of Pennsylvania
Before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Pease in and for said County, personally appears, James Finton, Esquire who being first sworn according to law saith heirs now from the lists information in his possession is sixty three years of age past and was present in Greenwood township Cumberland County now Buffalo township Perry County when his sister Margaret Linton was married to Peter Kipp by William Beatty an acting Justice of the Peace of Rye township then Cumberland county now Perry County and to best of deponents knowledge and belief and the information of his parents and his own recollection that his sister Margaret Finton now Margaret Kipp was married to Peter Kipp on the last day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety and further saith that to the best of his knowledge that there is no documentary or record evidence in the possession of my branch of the family setting forth when the marriage took place and further sait that they raised a family of children and lived together as man and wife until he died which from the best of deponants knowledge and record was in the latter part of the year eighteen hundred and twenty five and further saith that from general report Peter Kipp drew a pensio from the United States for Revolutionary services for a number of years and until his death and further saith that tshe still remains the widow of Peter Kipp. Sworn and subscribed before me at Buffalo township, Perry County this 19th day of December A.D. 1842. James Finton
G McLane[?]

Perry County, State of Pennsylvania
I George Crane a Justice of the Peace and and for the County of Perry before whom the above deposition of James Finton Esquire of Buffalo Township Perry County was taken as Law directs do hereby certify James Finton above mentioned is an acting Justice of the Peace in Buffalo Township in said County and that he is a man of good repute in his neighborhood and fully entitled to credit and I would believe him on oaths in testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and seal the state above. G Crane
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State of Pennsylvania Perry County

I, Alexander F Topley, I the [?] of the court of Common pleas of said county. Do Certify that the signatures of G.W. Crane Esquire whose name is subscribed to the within acknowledgments is genuine and that he was at the time of taking the same and still is an acting Justice of the Peace duly elected, commissioned, and sworn as such in and for the said County of Perry with full power to take such acknowledgements and administer oaths and to whose official [?], as such full faith and credit is and of right ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at Bloomfield this 2nd day of January A.D. 1843.

A. F. Topley Prothonotary
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Perry County, State of Pennsylvania

Before the subscriber one of the Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Perry Personally John Finton. Residents of Buffalo township in said county who being first sworn as law [?] doth depose and say that from the best information he has received from his parent that his now sexty seven years past and was present when his sister Margaret Finton now Margaret Kipp was married to Peter Kipp in my father's house in Greenwood township Cumberland county no buffalo township Perry County by William Beatty an acting Justice of the Peace of Cumberland County now Perry and from my best recollection and from report the marriage took place on the last day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety and they raised a family of children together as man and wife until his death and further declares that from general report that the said Peter Kipp for Revolutionary services drew a United States pension for a number of years and until his death and that she still remains his widow and further saith knows of no family or other record of their marriage. Sworn and subscribed before me at Buffalo township Perry County this 29th day of December A.D. 1842. John Finton
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Perry County State of Pennsylvania
I George Crane before who the above deposition of John Finton if Buffalo township Perry County was taken as law directs do hereby certify that John Finton is a man of good repute in his neighborhood and fully entitled to credit and I would believe him on oaths in testimony whereof I have hereby set my hand and seal at Buffalo township Perry County the date above. G. Crane
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In reply to your request of  --------------, received ----------- for a statement of the military history of Peter Kipp a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and his widow's application for pension on file in the Bureau.

File 3262
Dates of Enlistment or appointment
1775
[?] 1776
discharge Fall 1783

Length of Service 1783

Rank
[?]

Officers under whom service was rendered
Captain 
[?]
Sebastian [B?]
[?]

Colonel
John [?]

Battles engaged in, [?]
Residence of soldier at enlistment:
Date of application for pension: June 15, 1818, [?]
Residence at date of application: [?]
Age at date of application: 64 years
Remarks: [?] 1790, Margaret Finton
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Widow, &c
File No. 3262
Margaret Kipp
Widow
Peter Kipp
Sergeant N.Y. Line
Act: March 30 1848
Inex: - Vol. A, Page 400

Arrangement of 1870

1909 Oct 16 - 1909 Oct 29
Hist to M Kipp
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Record Division
October, 29, 1909

Mr William Kipp,
Millerstown, 
Perry County, PA.

Sir:
In reply to your letter dated the 21st and received the 22nd instant, you are advised that the pension records of the war of the revolution fail to show that a claim was filed on account of the services of Jacob Kip or Kipp. Margaret Kip, Wid. File No. 3262, died January 13, 1846.
Very Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner
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Millerston, Perry Co. Pa Oct 9, 1909

Hon V Marmer,
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen;- Will you kindly inform me what the records in your office shows as to Margaret Kip, widow of Peter Kip who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and enlisted Jan 1st 1777. He was a sergeant in 6th Co - Capt Sebastian Baumains Co. Also in Capt George Flemmings Co. 2nd New York Regt. of Artillery. Mrs Margaret Kip, the widow of Peter Kip lived in
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Delaware township, Juniata county, PA. PO address either Thompsontown, PA or Millerstown PA - as the following - when her pension commenced and when she ceased to be a pensioner or the date of her death? Also the death of the solder Peter Kip.
You kindness will be appreciated, Yours Truly, William Kipp
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William Kipp
Collector, Insurance Agant 
Pension Attorney

Record Division
I.S.C
File 3262 Rev. War

Millerstown, Perry Co., Pa., Oct 21 1909
Hon V Marmer
Com. of Pensions Washington D.C.

Sir;- Does your record show the date of death of Margaret Kip of when she ceased to be a pensioner, who was the widow of Peter Kip, sergeant 2nd Continental Artillery, N.Y. Capt Sebastian Bauman & Col. Jon Lamb Rev. War to 1783. I thank you for the information you gave me on the 16th inst. the above are my grand parents. Have you...
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any history of Jacob Kip my grandfather's brother who enlisted at the same time in said Co. and was killed at the battle of Brandywine? Your kindness will be appreciated. Yours truly, William Kipp
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Reported

Pennsylvania, 69.50
Margaret Kipp widow of Peter Kipp who was a pensioner under the act of --- and who died on the 11 November 1835 of Juniata Co in the State of Penn who was a Sergt in the company commanded by captain - of the Regt commanded by Col Lamb in the New York line for two years. Inscribed on the roll of the Philadelphia at the rate of 120 dollars - cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836

Certificate of pension issued the 13 day of January 1843 and sent to Hon A. Gustine: H. Res

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841
semi-annual allowance ending 

600.00

Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by Theo Selluady [?], clerk
Book A, Vol. 2, Page 156
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Sent to Hon A Gustine, Dec 22 [18]'42
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Payable semi-annually - the first payment on this certificate will be made of 4 of September next at the Bank of U.S. Phil[adelphia]
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th March, 1818, peter Kip of Cumberland County PA. Late a Sergeant in the army of the revolution, is inscribed on the pension lest, roll of the Pennsylvania agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of June, on thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Given at the war office of the United States this 15th day of March 1819
Signed JC. Calhoun
Secretary of war
No 7797
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May 22
Peter Kipp

J. S. Edwards Esq
Comm of pensions
Washington City
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Washington City May 20 1837

J. S. Edwards, Esq
My dear sir. I will thank you to have the records of you office examined and if the name of Peter Kip is found on them as having received a pension please give me an extract from his statement or declaration to aid in acertaining whither is was entitled to Bounty Land, which I am requested to [?] by one of his sons. He was a Revolutionary solder. Of what regiment or company I cannot state.
I am very respectfully yours etc

J Miller
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To what line was Peter Kip of Penn act 1818, last paid

J.L. Edwards
May 22 1837
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J.L. Edwards
War Department
Pension office
Washington, City

Millerstown PA
July 9

Peter Kip
PA Roll
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Millerston
Perry County - Pennsylvania
February the 7th 1839

Dear Sir,
Peter Kip was a pensioner and his widow is a [?] and is an applicant for her husband's pension and she must clearly show in what troop of company and regiment or Corps he served in and the grade he held if it's on record which I suspect is is send it to me as soon as you can - and the names of the officers under whom the service was performed if they be on record.

And you will oblige you friend and humble servant

William Kip
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6 January 1843
Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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[?] Perry County September 29 1842
Dear sir, By the Honorable [?] Justices you will receive the depositions of John and James Finton. I presume their testimony will satisfy you as to the [?] of Margaret Kipp's case - in your letter to Mr Gustin of the 22nd you seem to think it strange that witnesses could recollect [?] dates with so much posession - If you lived in this country at the time your surprise would cease. The Finton family we are among the most respectable citizens of the county of Cumberland. Margaret Finton from report was among the most distinguished both as to qualifications and beauty. Peter Kipp was highly respectable knowing the credit of passing through our revolutionary struggles until peace was declared. Weddings of the higher order of "citizens lashed in this county" and other several days Kipp was wounded at the taking of Cornwallis - The certificate of the credibility is herewith sent. In this county a justice certificate would not be necessary - You would suggest that records is wanting in this county. The practice does not exist. As an acting Justice I am, I am certain in nearly 20 years practice and perhaps married 100 persons not more than two or 3 certificates has been given. Those were made a record of their marriage and other Justices that I have conversed with practice as I have done - Clergyman gives no certificate and I was ? to them make any record. The clergy who practice here are not regular denominations. Great pains has been take to ? the docket and William Beaty the house where he died and his desk has been examined by myself and other Justices no trace of it can be found he acted u a few years. I hope the above statement accompanied with the deposition of two of the most respectable men in the county they being on the spot and seeing their sister married will satisfy you if you should her case adjust one please hand once the certificate to Mr Gustin he will take charge of it to the satisfaction of the applicant.
Yours very respectfully, ? Gallagher
JL Edwards
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Hon Amos Gustin
Washington City D.C.
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Liverpool December 6 1842
Dear Sir, Enclosed I send you the paper respecting Margaret Kipps Pension - they are authenticated agreeable to the rules laid down by the pension department. You will observe that Peter Kipp drew a United States pension from 1818 until his death in 1825. his papers and proofs are matters of record in the pension office and easily found which with the testimony enclosed leaves her clam a good one beyond any doubt, You will please inform me as soon as convenient how you are getting along if you succeed Jo. Rev Snider Merchant of this place will be Power of Attorney be Authorised to draw her money if there is any difficulty with her paper please inform me what it is and we will promptly correct them. But [?] certain that Mr Edwards with his surest secretary can find no faults to them.
Yours respectfuly
Thomas Gallagher
Honorable Amos Gustin
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October 7, 18
Peter Kipp
Edwards Esquire
Pension Affair
Washington City
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[?] Perry County Pennsylvania October 24 1842
Dear Sir
I presume you will [?] consider me two troublesome in again asking you for coppys of records from the pension office. I have use for a coppy of the record on which Peter Kipp drew a pension from the United States as a Revolutionary Soldier of the Pennsylvania Line. He was a resident of Cumberland County and did in 185 his widdow wishes to draw a state pension and the record of her husband drawing a pension is important testimony for her to have. Will you please to forward me a coppy and the record of the proceedings on which he drew his pension if there is any money to pay for record [?] arrange it by letter immediately with promise of your pay you attention as soon as convenient will greatly oblige you.
Humble Servant
Thomas Gallagher
To J L Edwards Esq
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June 2, (81)48

Margaret Kipp 
for her Arreci[?]

Thompsontown
May 31
Commission of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Thompsontown PA, May 30th 1848

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
having been authorized be the surviving heirs of the late Margaret Kipp [?] to admin? to open her estate, collect money and accounts due and to [?] the same to the payment of her just debts. I am requested by the heirs to adding the pension department in regard to a balance due her at the time of her death, which was the 13th of January A.D. 1846. Your department will please notify me of the balance due and transmit the bank order necessary to draw the money. I have filed the paper authorizing me to administer and signed by the heirs and taken out letter of administration.
Very Repectfully Yours
E. D. Crawford
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H.R. Washington Jan 5th 1843
Map. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir,
I herewith include your additiong testimoney in relation to the application of Margaret Kipp for a pension - which I hope will be found sufficiently strong to enable ou to grant the releif asked for - Please to satisfy here as early as may be convenient for you of the result.
I am sir, very respectfully your friend
A Ludline?
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J.L. Edwards Esquire please [?] the certificate of me pension to the g? July 29 1823
Joseph M M?ghter
Margaret Kipp
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J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of pensions
Washington City D.C.

3036
? 9 1843
Margaret Kipp
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Liverpool Perry County Tenth August
Dear Sir,
? I send you the papers of Margaret Kipp who wishes to have the benefits of the law granting half pay or pensions to certain widdows of revolutionary soldiers the certificate of the prothonotary is a good deal blotted but is genuine. The old lady lives at least 20 miles from the office of the prothonotary and Justice. I hope you will not give her the trouble of getting her papers down over on account of the blotting of the offices if you place her on the pension lust under the law passed the 9th Marth 1843 granting pensions to certain widdows. For ? year you will by der order enclosed ? the certificate of pensions and send the name of the agent in Philadelphia that is to pay the money. I am after third of September powers of attorney together to Philadelphia
I am sir yours respectfully
Thomas Gallaher

J.L. Edwards
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3236
Margaret Kipp
120

T. Gallagher
Liverpool
Perry Co
PA
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Pennsylvania
Juniata County
On this twenty ninth day of July one thousand and eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for the county of Juniata. Margaret Kip of Delaware township aged seventy three years the twenty sixth day of last April who being first sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by act of Congress passed on the third day of March 1843 granting pensions to widdows of soldiers or of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widdow of Peter Kip who from records now in her possession was an enlisted soldier in the artillery in the New York Line from 1776 to 1783 when he was discharged. That from the record he was under Colonel Lamb of the second regiment of artillery of the New York line. She further declares that he drew a pension from the United States for a number f years and until he died which was on the fourth day of November 1825 and do further declare that she was married to the said Peter Kip on the last day of November 1790 by William Beaty a Justice of the Pease of the Geneseo(?) township then Cumberland County in her father's house and further saith that under the law of congress granting pension to certain widdows passed the 7th day of July 1838 that she received a pension of six hundred dollars which she received in Philadelphia as by order of the pension department and declares that she still remains the widdow of Peter Kip.
Sworn and subscribed before me at Delaware township Juniata County Pennsylvania the date above
Joseph M Naughton
Margaret Kipp
Mark
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Juniata County
I certify that from information that can be relied on that Margaret Kip is the widdow of Peter Kip and is a woman of good repute and as far as my knowledge extends is entitled to credit and I would believe her on oath in her testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Delaware township in said county this 29th day of July AD 1848
Joseph M Naughton


State of Pennsylvania
Juniata County
I Lewis Burchfield prothonotary of the court of common please in and of the county of Juniata do certify that Joseph McNaughton Esquire before whom the foregoing [proceedings] were had is and was at the time the same ? Justice of the Peace regularly commissioned and qualified and the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Mifflintown this 29th day of July A.D. 1843
S Burchfield Prot.