Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10101, Jacob Hariman, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey

Hariman, Jacob
Herriman
Sarah

NUMBER
W.10101
B.L.Wt.67.681-160-55.
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CONTENTS
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6170
Pennsylvania Phil'a
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Sarah Herriman widow of Jacob Herriman, who served in the Revolutionary N.J war, as a Private, N.J.
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
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Certificate of Pension issued 14th day of July 1857 and sent to Tucker & Lloyd Present
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 158 Vol. H
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25.959
Pennsylvania
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Jacob Herriman of Lycoming Co in the State of Pa who was in the Company commanded by Capt Hall of the Reg't commanded by Col Hathaway in the New Jersey Militia
8 Mo P. $26.66
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the [?]th day of Feb'y 1834 and Sent to Pension, Lairdsville P.O. Ly Co Pa
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 66.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch '34 13.33
[total] $80.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by P. T. Sprague Clerk,
Book E Vol. 5 Page 24

[right side]
Dead
order to pay, & let to E. M. Pollock June 30, '37.

9 Mch 1834
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209.087 Act Mar 3/55
Sep 8/55
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Sarah Herriman
wid of
Jacob Herriman
Priv
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Sarah wid of Jacob Herriman Priv.
N. J. Mil

Special
Boynton [?]
Rev War
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Aud Feby 53-6170
Rec pension
Penn June 32-25959
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Feb 53
[illegible]: 160 Acr July 22d /57
Boynton [?]
Tucker & Lloyd,
Present
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[lined out: Chas C Tucker Present]

[written upward on left side]
67.681 Issued July 23d/57

[right side]
Let C.C. Tucker July 30/56
E nd P

Vol H1-151
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Jacob Herriman
24335
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Declarat[ion] to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 [1832]

State of Pennsylvania
County of Lycoming } ss
on this Sixth Day of October AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the judges of the Court of Common pleas now Sitting Jacob Herriman a resident of Penn Township County of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania of the age of Seventy years who being first Duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the Service of the United States under the following officers. I resided in Morristown Township & Morris County State of New Jersey at about Eighteen years of age I went out under Captain Hall as a Subsitute [substitute] for John Munan for one Month & marched to Elizabettown [Elizabethtown] in General Winds division I next went out as a Subsitute [substitute] for Joseph Herriman under Lieutenant Morris, who acted as Captain & were Stationed about 2 miles from Springfield Meeting House and was in the engagement the time Springfield Meeting house was burnt under Cornel Hatheway & General Dickason [Dickinson] 3d I volunteered under Captain Hall for one Month to go to Elizabethtown. 4th was drafted & went out under Captain Hall to Hackquacken Bridge, General Winds Division. 5th I was Drafted for one month to go to Hackquacken, or by some called 2nd River, General Hinds Division. I then Enlisted for three months under Captain Stephen Baldwin we joined the Regiment at Morristown & marched to Dobses Ferry [Dobbs Ferry] on the North River between Newyork & Albany, we lay there some time and were marched to Connecticut Farms on the Elizabethtown Road, & we lay there until our time expired, and we were Discharged; our Cornels Names were Eley, and Sealey.

I hereby relinquish every Claim whatever to a pension or anuity except the present and Declare that my Name is not on the Pension roll of the Agency of any State Sworn & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid 

[signed] Jacob Hariman

[signed] J. Wood Prot. [Prothonotary]

We John C. Dugan, Noah Vandine, [blank] residing in the County of Lycoming hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Herriman who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above Declaration that we beleave him to be Seventy years of age that he is reputed & beleaved in the Neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

[signed] John C Dugan
[signed] Noah Vandine

Sworn and Subscribed the Day and year aforesaid } J. Wood Prot.
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And the said Court do hereby Declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after puting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the foregoing applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that John C. Dugan and Noah Vandine are residents of the County of Lycoming & are Credible persons & that their Statement is entitled to Credit.

[signed] John Cummings
[signed] A. Davidson

I the Clerk of the Court of Common pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the Matter of the aplication of Jacob Herriman for a Pension

[signed] J. Wood Prot

1st where and in what year were you born } I was born in Morris County State of New Jersey in the year 1762.

2nd have you any Record of your age and if so where is it } I have in the family Bible.

3d where were you liveing when called into Service and where have you lived Since the Revolutionary War & where do you now live } when I first Entered the Service I lived in Morris County State of New Jersey, Sometime after the War I came to Pennsylvania & have lived in Lycoming County about twenty years, now in Penn Township.

4th How were you called into Service were you Drafted did you volunteer or were you a Subsitute & if a Subsitute for whom } I was Drafted, volunteered, was a Subsitute and Enlisted as stated in my Declaration hereto annexed.

5th State the Names of some of your offices [officers] who were with the Troops where you Served such continental & Malitia Regiments as you can recollect & the General circumstances of your Service } General Winds & Dickason [Dickinson] Cornels [Colonels] Hathaway, Ely, Sealey as I have heretofore Stated.

did you ever receave a Discharge for the Service and if so by whom was it given & what has become of it } I do not remember of Geting a Discharge, and if I did I have lost it.

6th did you ever receive a Commission and if so by whom was it signed & what has become of it } I never Receaved a commission

7th State the names of Persons to whom you are known in your present Neighbourhood & who can testify as to your Character for varacity & their belief of your Services as a Soldier of the Revolution } To this I answer that I am Known to John C. Dugan and Noah Vandine -- both being inhabitants of the Neighbourhood in which live -- whose Certificates are hereto anexed
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Papers for bounty land returned to Lanck [?] Sept. 15, 1855
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Declaration of Mrs. Sarah Herriman, widow of Jacob Herriman, Pensioner under act of June 7th 1832 For Revolutionary Pension under the act of [blank]
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Sullivan } SS:
On this 29th day of May AD 1855
personally appeared before Hon David Wilmot President and his Associates, Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State above named Sarah Herriman a resident of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, aged 68 years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed [blank] granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War --

That she is the widow of Jacob Herriman, who was a private of New Jersey Militia in the war of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7th 1832 on the Pennsylvania Roll at $26 66/100 per year

She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Herriman on the second day of January AD. One thousand Eight hundred and twelve -- at Washingtonville
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Columbia County Pa. by one Thomas Laird a Justice of the Peace that her name before her said marriage was Sarah Uselton and that her husband, the aforesaid Jacob Herriman died at Lycoming County Pa on the 9th day of March, AD 1834, and that she has remained a widow since the death of her said husband and that there is neither a County Town Record or a church record of said marriage existing.

Sarah Herriman X her mark

Sworn to, subscribed, by the said Sarah Herriman making her mark, and acknowledged by the said Sarah Herriman in open Court before the Honourable David Wilmot Prest and his associates, Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan County Penna. In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 29th day of May AD. 1855.

Thos J Ingham Prot
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Know All men, by these presents that I Sarah Herriman
of the County of Sullivan and State of Pennsylvania do hereby constitute and appoint Chas. C. Tucker of Washington D.C. my true and lawful agent and attorney for me and in my name to prepare and prosecute my claim for a Revolutionary Pension by reason of the services of my deceased husband, and I hereby empower my said Attorney to examine all records and documents in reference to said claim on file in the Departments at Washington, to file additional evidence and arguments and to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever touching the premises, with full power of substitution. Hereby revoking and countermanding all former powers of attorney that may have been given by me for the above specified purpose. Witness my hand and seal this 29th day of May AD 1855

Sarah Harriman X her mark {Seal}

Witness Henry S. Smith

State of Pennsylvania
County of [overwritten: Lycoming] Sullivan SS.
On this 29th day of May AD 1855 personally appeared before me Sarah Herriman and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned

Henry E Shipman J P

State of Pennsylvania
Sullivan County } ss I Thos. J Ingham Prothonotary & Clerk of the County Court in and for the County and State above named, do hereby certify that Henry E. Shipman Esq'r, before whom the above acknowledgement was made, and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and State, duly commissioned and sworn and and all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit and that his signature hereto is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name and affixed my official seal this 3d day of July AD 1855

Thomas J. Ingham Clerk &c
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lycoming } SS.
On this 21st day of June AD 1855 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State abovenamed personally appeared David Phillips, a resident of Penn Township Lycoming County Penna, to me known as a credible witness who being duly sworn, according to law doth depose and say that the Book called the Holy Bible now produced and shown to him and from which the abstract next hereafter following and written, was made, is the identical Family Bible of Jacob Herriman late of Lycoming County Pennsylvania deceased, and that the records of births and marriages therein contained is a genuine family record of the family record of Jacob Herriman aforesaid dec'd and his wife Sarah Herriman who is now a widow that he has been acquainted with the said Jacob Herriman and Sarah Herriman and the family of the same ever since the year 1815 and that the said Book and family record has been well known by him as the Bible and family Record of the said Jacob Herriman dec'd and that the family record therein contained and which is hereafter next written, is the identical written Record which was seen and read by him in the year 1831 and at several different times since that year and that the said family Bible has remained with the widow aforesaid Sarah Herriman since the death of her husband the said Jacob Herriman dec'd, that the Entries contained in the said family record are in the proper hand writing of Dr. W. F. Laselle, who was the attending
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Physician upon the family of said Jacob Herriman before the death of the said Jacob Herriman, for several years all of the said Entries but the last, to wit the entry of the birth of Hannah Herriman, which was made by me at the request of the said Jacob Herriman, who was incompetent to write the same, within a month after the birth of the said Hannah -- that he, the deponent was acquainted with Jacob Herriman aforesaid and Sarah Herriman now his widow, who has made the foregoing Declaration for a Pension, at Washingtonville Columbia County Pa. before their Marriage and that the name of Sarah Herriman before her marriage with the said Jacob Herriman dec'd was Sarah Uselton, that the said Jacob Herriman and Sarah Herriman came to live in Moreland Township Lycoming Coty Pa. in the year 1821, they lived together as man and wife with a family of five children of whom Jacob Herriman was an infant within three (3) miles of deponents house in said Township In the Spring of 1821 deponent moved to what was then Penn Township in Lycoming Coty Pa, now Davidson Sullivan County Pa, and in the same year, in the fall, Jacob Herriman and his wife and family also moved to within half a mile of deponents residence when both deponent and his family, and Jacob Herriman and his family resided until the time of the death of the said Jacob Herriman which occurred in the year 1834, on the 9th day of March of that year, that while Jacob Herriman and Sarah his wife lived in the place last mentioned they had, and raised children Samuel, Daniel Jane, & Hannah, that the said
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Jacob and Sarah Herriman were know recognized and believed by their neighbors to be man and wife and always, during their residence at the place last named cohabited, behaved and treated each other as such, that deponent recollects the time of the moving of Jacob Herriman and Sarah Herriman and their family to the place before mentioned by the knowledge of his own removals and the times of residence, at the places mentioned, the ages of himself and his own children, that Jacob Herriman died at what was Penn Tp in Lycoming & now is Davidson Tp, in Sullivan Coty, on the 9th day of March AD 1834 and that deponent was present at the last illness of the said Jacob Herriman waited upon him and attended to him as a Neighbor before his death, saw and witnessed his decease and laid out the body of the said deceased in the house where he resided, within half a mile of deponents house as before stated -- that deponent recollects the fact of the death of Jacob Herriman & the laying out of his dead body from the fact & by the fact that deponent was accustomed to keep a memorandum of death at which he was present & of bodies laid out and now has the memorandum & the date of the decease of the said Jacob Herriman in his possession, that Sarah Herriman has remained the widow of the said Jacob Herriman, ever since his death & is now a widow And that deponent is not interested in the application of said Sarah Herriman for a Pension nor in the prosecution thereof ---

[signed] David Phillips

Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written June 21st 1855, and I certify that I am not interested in the claim of Sarah Herriman for a Pension, nor the prosecution thereof

[signed] Wm. P. J. Painter, J.P.
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Copy of Record contained in the family Bible of Jacob Herriman, dec'd, made by me this 30th day of June A.D. 1855, viz:-

"Jacob Herriman was born May 9th, 1762.
"Sarah Uselton was born October 8th, 1787, and
"married to the above January 2d, 1812.
"William Herriman was born Jany. 16th, 1812.
"George Herriman born July 8th, 1814.
"Sarah Herriman born September 10th, 1816.
"Elizabeth Herriman born January 23d, 1819.
"Jacob Herriman born March 5th, 1821.
"Samuel Herriman born January 17th, 1824.
"Daniel Herriman born March 23d, 1826.
"Jane Herriman born May 13th, 1828
"Hannah Herriman was born January 2d, 1831.

Lycoming County, ss.
I hereby certify that the above is a full, genuine and correct copy of the Record, contained in the Family Bible of Jacob Herriman, dec'd, and that the same was made by me as above stated; and further that I have no interest in the claim of Sarah Herriman for Pension.

Wm. P. J. Painter, J.P.
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State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County } SS.
On this 29th day of June AD 1855 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above named personally appeared William Smith Esq'r, a resident of Davidson Township in Sullivan County Penna, to me known as a credible Witness, who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with Jacob Herriman dec'd from the year 1817 until the time of his death, that when he was so acquainted with the said Jacob Herriman in the year aforesaid, he the said Jacob, lived in the Township of Moreland in Lycoming County Pa, and followed the trade or business of a Wagon Maker and lived and cohabited with a person named & called Sarah Herriman and used, treated, & behaved towards the said Sarah Herriman as his own wife, and that the said Jacob Herriman and Sarah Herriman were deemed, called, reputed recognized esteemed and known by all their neighbors as man and wife, that in the year 1823 he (the said deponent) went to live, with his family, at Lycoming County Pa, in the portion of the last, named Penn Township, now named Davidson Tp, in Sullivan County Pa, that Jacob Herriman and Sarah Herriman and a family of children then lived together in the place last above named, within eight or nine miles of the said deponents house, that four years after the year 1823, said deponent moved to within about 2 1/2 miles of the residence of said Jacob Herriman, that about eight years he so lived within 2 1/2 miles of said Jacob Herriman and then moved to within one mile of said Jacob's house and that during the time the
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said deponent so lived near the said Jacob Herriman and Sarah Herriman, they the said Jacob & Sarah were personally & well acquainted and known to the said deponent & were well known and reputed and recognized by all as man & wife and so used & treated each other, and had born to them and reared several children who are yet living & known & reputed to be their legitimate children that the said Jacob Herriman died while the deponent so lived in Davidson Tp. aforesaid in the year 1834 that the deponent was at the funeral of said Jacob Herriman and remembers that one Thomas Ellis made the coffin & brot. it to the house of said Herriman & stayed one night with the deponent and that the family of said deceased borrowed of said deponent Meat for the funeral meal, that Wm Herriman a son of said Jacob was at first Administrator of said Herrimans Estate but run off or went out of the State, when the deponent became Administrator "de bonis non" of the Estate aforesaid & settled the same, that deponent has known Sarah Herriman since the death of her husband the said Jacob Herriman until the present time, that she has lived in the neighborhood of deponent since the death of said Jacob and remained a widow and now is, and that she is the same person, first known by deponent as the wife of said Jacob Herriman, in the year 1817 and since, and that deponent has no interest in the foregoing application of the said Sarah Herriman for Pension under the acts of Congress.

[signed] Wm Smith

Sworn & subscribed before me this 29th day of June AD 1855. & I certify that I have no interest in the application of Sarah Herriman for a Pension.

[signed] Wm. P. J. Painter JP.
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lycoming } SS.
I Geo. F. Boal Clerk and Prothonotary of the County Court in and for the County of Lycoming in the State last above named do hereby certify that Wm. P. J. Painter Esqr who has made the foregoing Certificate, and before whom the foregoing affidavits were made, and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State last above named duly commissioned and sworn, that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that his signatures thereto are genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Signed my name and affixed my official Seal at W'msport [Williamsport] this 3d day of September A D 1855.

[signed] Geo Boal
Clerk & Prothonotary
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Declaration to be made by a Widow who has never received Bounty Land.
STATE OF Pennsylvania
Sullivan COUNTY, } ss.
On this 29 day of May 1855, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above named, personally appeared (1) Sarah Herriman aged 68 years, a resident of Sullivan County Pa who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of (2) Jacob Herriman who was a (3) private of New Jersey Militia in the war of the Revolution and a pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832 on the pension Roll for Penna. 
[3 lines of form crossed out: "that he (4) ... 18,"]
and (5) that she has never before applied for Bounty Land

She further states that she was married to the said (2) Jacob Herriman at Washingtonville on the 2nd day of January A.D. 1812 by one Thomas Laird Esq'r that her name, before her said marriage, was Sarah Uselton that her said husband died at Lycoming Co'ty on the 9th day of March 1834 and she is now a widow. (6) and that there is no County Town or church record of said marriage now existing --

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the act of March 3, 1855, never having received Bounty Land or knowing that she is entitled except for the above service; and she hereby constitutes and appoint CHAS. C. TUCKER, of Washington, D. C., her attorney to prosecute her claim and procure her warrant. Hereby authorizing and empowering her said attorney to obtain from the proper authorities at Washington City, or elsewhere, certified copies of any Army or Navy records or documents in which her said husband's services may be recorded, and to procure any and all other evidence that may be necessary to establish her claim, as fully as if personally present; and revoking and countermanding all former authority that may have been given for the above specified purpose.

(7) Sarah Herriman X her mark

Sworn to, subscribed, and acknowledged before me the day and year first above written; and on the same day personally came before me James Taylor, a resident of Davidson Sullivan County, in the State above named, and Robert Taylor, a resident of Davidson Sullivan County, in said State, to me known as credible witnesses, who being duly sworn, declare that they are personally acquainted with (1) Sarah Herriman widow of (2) Jacob Herriman, who has made and subscribed the foregoing declaration; that they were personally acquainted with (2) Jacob Herriman and his wife during the lifetime of the former, and know that they lived together as man and wife, and were so reputed; and they believe that the husband of the said (1) Sarah Herriman was the identical person who performed the service mentioned in the above declaration; that the above named (2) Jacob Herriman is now dead, and the said (1) Sarah Herriman is now a widow. And they further swear that they are disinterested in this claim.

(8) [signed] Robert Taylor
[signed] James Taylor

Sworn to and subscribed before me, and I certify that I am not interested in the claim or concerned in its prosecution.

(9) [signed] Henry E. Shipman Justice of the Peace.
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STATE OF Pennsylvania
Sullivan COUNTY, } ss.
I, Thomas J Ingham Clerk of the County Court in and for the County and State above named, do hereby certify that Henry Shipman Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits were made, and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above named, duly commissioned and sworn, that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit, and that his signature thereto is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my official seal this 29th day of May AD 1855.

Thos J. Ingham Clerk & Prot

Forwarded by Robt. Hawley Muncy Ly. Co. Pa

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209.681
BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
ORIGINAL CLAIM FOR LAND WARRANT.
MRS. Sarah Herriman WIDOW OF Jacob Herriman
CHAS. C. TUCKER, Att'y for Claimant, WASHINGTON, D. C.

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INSTRUCTIONS.
1. Claimant's name.
2. Soldier's name.
3. Here specify the service as follows: "in the company commanded by Captain __ in the __ regiment of __ commanded by Col. __," or "a __ on board of the United States ship __ commanded by __ in the war of __," or as the case may be.
4. Enlisted, volunteered, was drafted, or shipped.
5. " Add, "that she has never before made application for Bounty Land," or "that she made an application for Bounty Land for a service, and her claim was rejected or suspended."
6. The claimant will here state that no public or private record of her marriage exists, or can be obtained, if such is the case. If there is a County, Town, or Church record of the marriage, a duly certified copy of such record must be sent. If there is no public, but a private or family record containing the marriage or the births of children, a copy of such record must be sent, and the magistrate will certify that it is a correct copy of the original. Parol evidence of the marriage or of cohabitation, is not admissible until the absence of record evidence is accounted for.
7. Claimant's signature.
8. Witnesses' signatures.
9. Magistrate's signature.
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24.335
Jacob Herriman
Pa
Adm 8 Months
Lairdsville P. O Lycoming County Pa.
[lined out: Post Master Seeking Creek Bedford Co Pa]
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
Sir:
The evidence in port of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: ⎬). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling [sic] with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, shewing the service of Jacob Herriman

[Chart, listed by row, rows numbered and columns indicated by letters]
[1a] Period when the service was rendered.
[1b] Duration of the claimant's service. Years. Months. Days.
[1c] Rank of the claimant.
[1d] Names and Rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
[1e] Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
[1f] Proof by which the declaration is supported.
[2b] 1. [month]
[2d] Cap.[lined out: Herriman] Hall Col Hathaway
[2e] 70 years Morris County N J
[3b] 1. [month]
[4b] 1 [month]
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:

This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every brand of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

State, Territory, or District of ___
County of ___ } ss.

On this ___ day of personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of ___ in the county of ___ and State, Territory or District of ___ aged (c)___ years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ___, with ___ and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers, the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of ___

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, A.B.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary solider [sic], and served as he states.

I ___ of the Court of ___ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ___ for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ___ day of ___ &c.

If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:

(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the ___ and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with ___, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be ___ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the ___ and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the ___ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, ___ Clerk of the Court of ___ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of ___for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ___ day of ___ &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledges of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.

1. Where and what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. {To a Soldier. {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by who was it given and what has become of it?
{To an officer. {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of who should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary solider, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the  declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. 

In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c, A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and consequent loss of memory, he cannot sweat positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: -For---year---months, and ---- days I served as a ----. For ---months and ---- days, I served as a ---; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according tot he grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expression are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent
authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers,
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[pointing hand] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers, and State Troops, The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and seat to the War Department, with the declaration.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3--525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., Jan 24, 1921

In reply to your request of __, received __ for a statement of the military history of Jacob Hariman Harriman a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his & (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. [check]
LENGTH OF SERVICE. 8mos. at various times
RANK. Pvt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. { Hall Stephen Baldwin
COLONEL. { Hathaway Ely Sealey
STATE. N. J.

Battles engaged in, Springfield
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Morristown Twp., Morris Co., N J
Date of application for pension, Oct 6, 1832 - cl al.
Residence at date of application, Penn Twp. Lycoming (later Sullivan) Co. Pa
Age at date of application, b. May 9 1762 Morris Co. N.J. d. Lycoming Co. Pa. Mar 9, 1834
Remarks: He mar. Jan. 2, 1812 in Washingtonville Columbia Co., Pa. Sarah Uselton b. Oct. 8, 1787. She was allowed pen. on an ap ex May 29, 1855 while res in Sullivan Co. Pa. Children: William [lined out: b. Jan 16, 1812]; George b. July 8, 1814; Sarah b. Sept. 10, 1816; Elizabeth b. Jan 23, 1819; Jacob b. Mar. 5, 1821; Samuel b. Jan. 17, 1824; Daniel b. Mar. 23, 1826; Jane b. May 13, 1828; Hannah b. Jan. 2, 1831

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Office note
date of birth of 1st child Wm, not sent -- (EW. Jan 24, 1921.)
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State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County ss
personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County Francis Vandine who upon his Solemn oath Depose & Say that lived not more than two or three miles from Jacob Herriman the above aplicant During the Revolutionary war & that the Deponent knowns that the above applicant was in the Revolutionary Service and was Several Tours of Duty as a Malitiman [Militia man], & I Recollect perfectly well of being out four or five Diferent Tours of Duty in Company with the above applicant in the Malitia [Militia] of Morris County State of New Jersey & farther saith not
[signed] Francis Vandine

Sworn and Subscribed before me this 24th day of November AD 1832
[signed] Henry Funston JP
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State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County ss } I, J. Wood, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do Certify that Henry Funston Esq is a Magistrate as within & that full faith and Credit are due to all his official acts

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Williamsport the 3d day of December AD 1832
[signed] J Wood Prothy

I Henry Funston before whome the within Deposition was taken do certify that am well acquainted with Francis Vandine who has Sworn and Subscribed the said Deposition that he is Reputed and beleaved to be a man of truth and varacity & that I concur in that opinion
November 22nd 1833
[signed] Henry Funston
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Lycoming County ss
personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for the County of Lycoming Jacob Herriman, who being Duly sworn according to Law, deposeth and saith, that by Reason of old age, and the consequent loss of Memory, he cannot swear positively as to the percise length of his services, but according to the best of his Recollection he entered the Service in the year 1780 & served not less than the periods mentioned below, in the following grades that he was Enlisted as a private for three Months, volunteered as a private for one Month, Drafted as a private for two Months, & went out as a Substute [substitute] for two Months as a private, for such service I claim a pension
[signed] Jacob Hariman

Sworn and Subscribed before me this 22nd Day of December AD 1833
[signed] Henry Funston

State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County ss }
I J. Wood Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Lycoming County Do hereby Certify that Henry Funston Esq is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Williamsport the 6th day of December AD 1833.

J. Wood Proty.
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Callumbia [Columbia] County
State of Pennsylvania ss
personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Callumbia Daniel Berry, an aged and infirm Man, who upon his Solemn oath Doth Depose and Say that he was personally acquainted with Jacob Herriman in the year 1775 that this Deponent at that time & During the Revolutionary War Resided about three or four Miles from the above named Jacob Herriman and was out in Company with the s'd aplicant three Months in the Service of the united States as Malitia [Militia] Men & that this Deponent knew the above aplicant to have served Sundy [sundry] other Tours of Duty & further saith not
[signed] Daniel Berry

Sworn and Subscribed the 17th Day of December AD 1832 Before me
Thomas Laird

I Thomas Laird before whome the above Deposition was Taken, do certify that I am well acquainted with Daniel Berry who has sworn and subscribed the said Deposition & he is Reputed and beleaved to be a man of truth and varacity & that I concur in that opinion.
November 23 1833
[signed] Thomas Laird JP
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State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County ss
I Jacob Eyerly Prothonatary [Prothonotary] of the Court of Commonpleas in and for [obscured] County Do Certify that Thomas Laird before whom the within affidavit was taken was at that time & now is an acting Justice of the peace duly com[missione]d and qualified to act as such within said County to all of whose official acts full faith and credit is and of right ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court the nineteenth day of February A.D. Eighteen hundred & thirty three
For Jacob Eyerly Proth'y
[signed] David Peterkin
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[left side]
1920 Dec. 13. see correspondence with M.D. Batchelder
1208 Jefferson Bldg Peoria Ills, relative to this claim, in Jacob Hermany, W.2797
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1921, Jan 24 Hist. to Mark D. Batchelder - EW

[right side]
Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 10101
Sarah Herriman
Wid
Jacob Herriman
Privt Rev. War
Act: Feby 3d 1853
Index:-- Vol. A, Page 325
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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REPLY REFER TO Rev. War Section.
3-1865
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON
Dec. 13, 1920.

M. D. Batchelder,
1208 Jefferson Building,
Peoria, Ills.

Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 11" ultimo, you are advised that the pensioner of the Revolution, a resident of Berks Co. Penn., placed on the roll Mar. 15, 1833, was named Jacob Harmany or Hermany, he died Sept. 4, 1836, and left a widow Christina. His name is erroneously recorded as Herriman on the list of pensioners printed in 1835.

There is however a pensioner of the Revolution, who lived in Lycoming Co. Penn., named Jacob Harriman or Herriman, he died Mar. 9, 1834, leaving a widow Sarah.

Please state which of the above soldiers is the one whose record you desire and his history will be furnished you.

Very respectfully,
F. A. Royse
Acting Commissioner.

[oval stamp] RECORD DIVISION DEC 20 1920
[round stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE. DEC 18 1920
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MARK D. BATCHELDER
1208 JEFFERSON BLDG.
PEORIA, ILLINOIS
December 15th, 1920.

Mr. F. A. Royse,
Rev. War Section,
Washington, D. C.

My Dear Sir:
Replying to your letter of the 13th would state that Pensioner of the Revolution who lived in Lycoming County pensioner named Jacob Herriman or Harriman who died March 9, 1834 is the one I am looking for.

Thanking you for forwarding this information, I remain,
Yours very truly,
[signed] Mark D. Batchelder
MDB: TW.

[oval stamp] RECORD DIVISION DEC 20 1820
[round stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE. DEC 18 1920
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Department of the Interior,
Pension Office, Official Business.
Her Boynton
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Pension Office Sept 15/5[obscured]
The Third Auditor will please certify the date of death of within named pensioner; and, if the widow drew arrears please state 
her Christian name

Very respectfully
[signed] B. Stooe.
For Commission[er]

[light] 12 Mar 37
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Jacob Herriman died 12 March 1837. paid in full.
[signed] W. H. S. Taylor
Acting Auditor
Sept 17/55
[light] Sarah Herriman
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No 6545
[Sa]rah Herriman, widow of Jacob Penn'a
[illegible] C. C. Tucker Oct 2/55
Same Oct 25 1855
Same Apl. 10/56.
Act Feby 3, 1853
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67.681
160 acres
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Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[written upward at left]
Penn
Sarah Herriman
wid.
Jacob
ad June 32 no 25959
Triplett
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Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[written upward at left]
Sarah Herriman
wid
Jacob
Triplett
Page 41

Pension Office,
September 25, 1855.
The third Auditor will please give a new Certificate in this case.
Very Respectfully
J. Minot
Commissioner
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Jacob Herriman died 12 Mar 1836
paid in full as appears from vouchers on file
Robr J Atkinson
Auditor
Sept 27/55
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[various notes overwritten]
Jacob Herriman decd
Present 1833
wid Sarah
207087
[illegible]
Sept 4/56
Boynton Apr 16/56
Johnman
Adl Ev

[written downward before the above]
Bounty Land Act 55
Additional
Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Jacob Herriman
Lycoming Co Pa
Act 32 -- $26.66

[inverted]
Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Com'r of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[written upward at left]
Penn
Sarah Herriman
wid Jacob
Boynton
Page 45

Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[written upward at left]
Sarah Herriman
Wid
Jacob
Triplett
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Revolutionary pension papers of Jacob Herriman, a pensioner from Lycoming Co. Pennsylvania. I suppose it to be under Act 1832
30th March/57, H. C. Spalding
25959
Sus 53 Sarah
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[inverted]
Arrears of pension in this case paid to Sarah Herriman widow of the pensioner
Sept 20/55
W [illegible] Taylor
Acting Auditor

Pension Office,
Sept. 19, 1855.
The Third Auditor will please certify the christian name of the widow of the pensioner within named, if the records of his office will enable him to do so
Very respectfully
B. Hooe,
For Commissioner
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No 6781
Sarah Herriman
widow of Jacob --
Sullivan Co Pennsylvania
Admitted, Act February 3, 1853
at rate of $26.66 per annum.
Commencing at date of said Act
Husband private of Infantry 8 months
Pay widow
Certificate to Tucker & Lloyd,
Washington, D.C.
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In the Matter of the Declaration and application of Mrs. Sarah Herriman widow of Jacob Herriman deceased, for Pension and Bounty Land --
===
State of Pennsylvania
County of Lycoming } SS.
On this 20th day of June A.D. 1857 before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Sarah Herriman to me well known as the identical widow of Jacob Herriman, deceased, who being duly sworn according to law doth declare and say, that the Declaration and Application for Pension and Bounty Land lately made by her as the widow of Jacob Herriman, deceased the consideration whereof is still pending undetermined, contain a true and correct statement of the time and date of the death of her husband, the said Jacob Herriman decd, to wit; March 9, 1834, that she never before knowingly stated the time or date otherwise than above stated, and that she never, at any time signed or gave as her act and deed any paper of any kind [underlined] giving or stating a different time as the date of such death knowing the contents of such paper

That to the best of her knowledge, belief and recollection she never in her life before nor since the death of her said husband, saw, knew, or had any business connection or transaction with E. M. Pollock or Ephraim M. Pollock in relation to the claim of her said husband to Pension or Bounty Land nor to any arrears due, or increased pay at the time of his death, nor to any claim of her own for Pension, arrears, increase of pay or Bounty Land, as widow of said, decedent, nor to any claim business or transaction of any nature whatsoever ---

That she has never, at any time, received from any
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person, persons or source whatever a single Dollar or any sum, either as arrears due at the time of her said husbands death, or for or on account of any other right or claim for or in behalf of her said husband nor for or in behalf of herself or any claim she has or had for arrears, increase of pay, Pension or Bounty Land, because of her being the widow of said Jacob Herriman, decd.

That she has no recollection of her giving to Ephraim M. Pollock or E. M. Pollock any Power of Attorney or any other authority to ask for or receive any arrears of Pension, increase of pay Pension Bounty Land or any other claim for her, or of ever giving previous to the present pending claim, such a power or authority to any person or persons unless the paper hereinafter mentioned as signed by her the Winter next after the death of her said husband was, or contained such power or authority --

That if any other date of the time of death of her said husband appears in any paper or writing or power of Attorney upon Record, different from the 9th March 1834 as stated in the present pending Application, the same was stated and given without her knowledge and acquaintance with the contents of any such paper writing or power of Attorney and that her signature and qualification or acknowledgement thereto have been obtained, if the same appear to have been obtained to any such paper, writing &c, by unfair means, misstatement of their contents and fraudulently --

That she accounts for the discrepancy existing between the date of her said husbands death as given in the application now pending and that set forth in the power of Attorney (of the papers accompanying the same) to E. M. Pollock (represented as appearing upon Record at Washington City) by her belief which she now avers hereby that said power of Attorney or other writings contained a
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wrong statement of the date of her said husbands death, and the same was obtained of her unfairly and fraudulently by some person or persons at present unknown to her the facts or statements therein represented not having been made to her, and that if any money was paid on account or by virtue of such power of Attorney or writings the same was improperly and wrongfully paid and was never received by her. That she is convinced that her belief as just above stated is well founded from a circumstance how remembered by her, to wit; That in the Winter next after the death of her said husband, she was induced by some person or persons not now remembered by name, who came to her house, to sign some paper writing represented to her as having reference to her husbands Pension. That she does not know of what nature said paper writing was nor what the contents thereof were She cannot now say whether the same was a Power of Attorney or not, nor when, by whom, for what purpose or where said paper writing was used. That she could not read herself nor write at that time nor can she now do so and that she did not receive any money afterward as before stated. That she had forgotten as to signing the last named paper, never having heard thereof since signing until after the filing of the present Application and information of some paper [2 words underlined] being upon Records, desired [?] thro. her Attorney at Washington City. She make this Additional affidavit to obtain payment of the Amount of Pension money due her as the widow of said Jacob Herriman decd, after deducting the amount appearing thus to have been improperly received by some one other than herself, if the Department adjudge it right and proper to make such deduction, and to obtain the Bounty Land due her as widow aforesaid

Sarah Herriman X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed by her, the said Sarah Herriman making her mark as above appearing, in my presence, before me, and I hereby certify that I have no interest in the Declaration and application of said Sarah Herriman for Pension & Bounty Land, and that I am not concerned in their prosecution

[signed] Charles McCarty J.P.
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Harrisburg June 28th 1837

Sir,
Objections having been made to the payment of the pension of Jacob Herriman Dec'd per papers inclosed, please send an order to the Agent at Phili'a and inform me by Maile as soon as soon as convenient

Direct to the care of Thomas Sutton 3d & Vine St's Philadelphia and Oblige your Obedient Servent
E. M. Pollock
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[written downward at top of page]
In the Matter of Declaration & Application of Mrs Sarah Herriman widow of Jacob Herriman
Pension & Bounty Land
Additional Affidavits
Bounty Land Claim
numbered 209.087.
Tucker & Lloyd Agents

[written across]
State of Pennsylvania
County of Lycoming } ss
I Huston Hepburn Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Lycoming do hereby certify that Charles McCarty Esquire, before whom the within written affidavit of Sarah Herriman, was taken and who has thereunto signed his name was at the time of so taking and doing an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly commissioned, Sworn and authorized to administer oaths &c to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit ought to be given and that his signature as within written is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Signed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Williamsport this 24th day of June A.D. 1857
Huston Hepburn Prothonotary
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Sullivan County ss.
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Sarah Herriman, who upon her solemn oath doth depose and say that her recollection is ^very distinct as to the death of her late husband, Jacob Herriman, late of Lycoming County decd, which was on the 9th day of March A.D. 1834 -- that Henry Funston and John Dugan [inserted: of Lycoming County] had charge of and drew his Pension for him during his life time -- that if any money was drawn after the 9th day of March A.D. 1834 it was unknown to her, she never having received the same or any part thereof, and that it must have been drawn without authority, the said Jacob Herriman having died at the above specified time, and further saith not.

Sarah Herriman X her mark

Sworn and subscribed before me the 10th day of March A.D. 1856
Robert Kitchen J.P.

Witness Present
David Morris

State of Pennsylvania
Sullivan County {Seal} } Thomas Carothers and Samuel Herriman came before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid and affirmed to the truth of the within deposition And I certify that they are Men of truth and entitled to full confidence)

Given under my hand & seal at Shrewsbury this 10th day of March A.D. 1856
Robert Kitchen J.P.
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Sullivan County ss
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for Sullivan County Willia[m] Smith who upon his solemn ^oath doth depose and say that he was the Administrator of Jacob Herriman late of Lycoming County, Pa., decd, that he know that the said Jacob Herriman died [crossed out: on the 7th day of] in February or March A.D. 1834, and that Mrs. Sarah Herriman, now claiming Bounty Land [inserted: and Pension] under the Act of Congress, is the widdow of the said Jacob Herriman, and further saith not.

[signed] Wm Smith

Sworn and subscribed before me the 13th day of March A.D. 1856.
H. E. Shipman J.P.

Sullivan County, ss
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Thomas Carothers and Samuel Herriman who upon their solemn oaths doth depose and say that they were well acquainted with Jacob Herriman, late of Lycoming County, Pa., decd, that they recollect the time of his death which was on the 9th day of March A.D. 1834 -- that they know him [to] be the same Jacob Herriman who drew a Pension [dur]ing his life time for services rendered in the ^Revolutionary War -- that Sarah Herriman, now claiming Bounty Land [inserted: and Pension] under the Act of Congress, is the widow of the said Jacob Herr[iman] decd, and further saith that they have no interest in said claim.
sworn & subscribed before me the 10th day of March A.D. 1856
Robert Kitchen J.P.

[signed] Thomas Carrothers
[signed] Samuel Harriman
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State of Pennsylvania
Sullivan County SS.
I Benjamin L. Cheney Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan Coun[ty] do certify that H. E. Shipman and Robert Kitchen before whom the foregoing ack[no]wledgement were made are acting Justice[s] of the Peace in and for said County a[nd] duly commissioned as Such to whose [jud]icial acts full faith and credit should be given; In testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal of said Office at Laporte this 13th day of March A.D. 1856
Benj L. Cheney Prothy
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207.087
Bounty Land, Act '55
Sarah Herriman
"additional"
Chas. C. Tucker
Atty Present
Page 58

State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County SS
Personally appeared before me the Prothonotary of Lycoming County aforesaid Sarah Herriman, who upon her Solemn Oath Saith that she is the widow of Jacob Herriman, late of Lycoming County aforesaid, that she doth not know and never did know Ephraim M Pollock who it is alleged drew her husbands Pension, or a part of it, either before or after the death of her said husband and that to the best of her knowledge and belief the said Ephraim M Pollock was never authorized or empowered by said deponent, or any one for her to demand, draw and receive any amount of pension money, either as amount due at time of her said husbands death, or any amount due deponent, in her own right, as his widow, and further saith not
Sworn & subscribed before me this 28th day of August AD 1856. Witness my hand & seal

Robt Hawley Prothy

Sarah Herriman X her mark
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Tucker & Lloyd Present.
209087 Sarah widow of Jacob Herriman
Boynton April 16/56
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Washington D.C. July 16 '57
Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Com'r of Pensions

Sir,
We respectfully call your attention to the Bounty land Claim under Act of 3d March 1855 in the name of Sarah Herriman, wid. of Jacob, No 209.087.

A certificate of Pension, under Act of Feby 3, 1853, has been granted to this Claimant dated July 14 1857. We conclude that the same evidence will cause the issue of her Land Warrant

Very respectfully
Your Obd't Servant
Tucker & Lloyd
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Joseph Swiss, Act Aner Wooden
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Washington D.C. Sept 10th 1855.
Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
Enclosed please find claim for Revolutionary Pension under the Act of February 3, 1853 of Sarah Herriman widow of Jacob of Penna.

An early examination of said Claim is respectfully requested.

Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Chas. C. Tucker

En.)
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Washington D.C. Oct. 23. 1855
Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
I received your letter of the 2nd inst in reference to the Rev. Pension Claim under the Act of Feb 3, 1853 of Sarah Herriman widow of Jacob of Penna. and reply thereto:

The widow states that she has never received one dollar of the arrears of pension due her husband at his death, further she is informed and believes that there were two Jacob Herrimans, pensioners of Penna. This is corroborated by the printed lists of pensioners from which it appears that there was a Jacob Herriman of Berks Co. and a Jacob Herriman of Lycoming Co. both of whom were pensioners. Probably an examination of the two claims will explain the seeming discrepancy in the dates.

The widow is of the impression that $26.66 per year was not the amount of her husband's pension, but as each of the pensioners received that amount she is doubtless mistaken.

Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Chas. C. Tucker
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Washington D.C. March 26th 1856.
Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir,
Enclosed please find additional evidence for the Revolutionary Pension Claim under the Act of Feb. 3. 1853. of Sarah Herriman widow of Jacob of Penna.

There is now presented still stronger evidence showing the date of the pensioner's death, also an affidavit from the widow that she never received any arrears of her husband's pension.

Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt.
Chas. C. Tucker
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Brief in the case of Sarah Herriman, widow of Jacob Herriman
Sullivan County and State of Pennsylvania
act February 3, 1853.
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Claim, (original, [crossed out: or "for increase")]
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Claimant's husband was a pensioner under act of June 7, 1832, at rate of $26.66c per annum, and died in 1834, as proved by parole

Marriage, in 1812, proved by verified Copy of entry in family bible --

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Identity of claimant as the widow of the above named pensioner, shown by the affidavits of two Credible witnesses --

Allowance accordingly

Messrs. Tucker & Lloyd
Name and residence of Agent
Washington, D.C.

R Geddes
Examining Clerk.
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Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
April 7. 1856.

Sir,
I herewith return the papers in the case of Sarah Herriman, widow of Jacob Herriman, enclosed in your letter of the 11th inst. & in reply have to inform you that as the affidavit of the said widow is very lengthy embracing many different facts, I would thank you to state the "facts" you wish elicited "in detail" from the vouchers of Jacob Herriman dec'd.

Very Respectfully
Your ob. Serv't.
[signed] Robt J Atkinson
Auditor

J. Minot Esq'r
Comm'r of Pensions
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Treasury Department
Third Auditors Office
April 10. 1856

Sir,
I herewith return the papers in the case of Jacob Herriman dec'd, enclosed with your last enquiries of the 8th inst, & in reply have to state 1st that the arrears were allowed upon the certificate of G. K. Frederick, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming Co. Pa; 2d that Ephraim M. Pollock was the duly constituted attorney of the widow, Sarah Herriman: & 3d that the said arrears were paid at the Philadelphia Agency.

Very Respectfully,
Your Obt. Serv't,
[signed] Robr J Atkinson
Auditor

J. Minot Esq'r
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington DC, June 27th 1857
Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Com'r of Pensions

Sir,
We enclose herewith an additional affidavit, in the half pay Pension Claim Act of 1853, in the name of Sarah Herriman, widow of Jacob.

Yours respectfully
Tucker & Lloyd