Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5206, Shewbart Armitage, Continental (Penn.)
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(8-1776)

          Service                                                                              Number

Continental (Penn.)       Armitage, Shewbart                        W.5206
Penn.                                              Sarah                            BL Wt  95501-160 -55

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     CONTENTS
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[Part of page torn off/missing]
[ missing] letter to Hon. M. [missing]
[missing] 20 April 1836  ___ [illegible]. to [missing]    J. B. Sutherland, 9th [missing]
[missing] 1836  - Let to Sarah Armitage
[missing] May 27, 1837.   [illegible] to Hon T. 
Clayton  June 25 1846.
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10,310

Pennsylvania  

Shewbart Armitage   
[words cut off on left side of page] Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania [page torn/missing word(s)] was a Lieutenant in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Procter of the Pennsylvania Line, for the term of 18 months      
                      
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania  at the rate of 20 ] Dollars per month, to commence on the 20  of  June 1821  

Certificate of Pension issued the  16 of   Oct 1821 and sent to Jn L Baker Esq Philadelphia
 $  50  Arrears to 4th of Sep 1821-2 mos 15/30                  
   120  semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar 1822                                 $ 170

         {Revolutionary claim}
         {Act 18th March, 1818}  
         [illegible initials]
         1 May 1820
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Admitted on the Certificate of the Honble T Forrest who was Lit. Col. of the Regiment in which the applicant served.

          War Dept 
        [illegible]
       [illegible initials]
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[DUPLICATE OF PAGE 4]
Admitted on the Certificate of
the Honble T Forrest who was 
the Lit Col of the Regiment  in
which the applicant served. 

                  War Dept.
                  {illegible]
              [illegible initials]
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Philadelphia County SS

On the twentieth day of June One thousand and eight hundred twenty one personally appeared in the Court of Common Please for the said County  (the said Court being a Court of Record having a  prothonotary, a seal and exercising Common Law Jurisdiction)  Shewbert Armitage aged sixty five years, Residing on the Banks of Schuylkill in the County of Philadelphia who being duly sworn in open Court according to Law on his oath declared that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows.

First as a cadet under Col. Thompsom in his Riffle Regiment, then under Col. Flowers a Capt. Lieut. of the Military stores afterwards as a cadet under Capt. Westly Ames in Col. Proctor's Regiment that he was a  prisoner for two years and eight months, he was engage in the Battle  of Litchmore Point Long Island, Brandywine, Germantown at the  latter he was wounded in the hand.  And I the said Shewbart Armitage  do further solemnly swear that I was a Citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818. And that I have not since that time, by gift sale, or in any manner, dispos'd of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so as to diminish it as to bring myself with 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 , in the Revolutionary War [illegible] the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any
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property or securities, Contracts or debts discharged, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. 

Sworn to and Declared                                (Signed)
in open Court on the twentieth          Shewbart Armitage
day of June, 1821
    [illegible]
         Mr. S. Heintz

Inventory of property of Shewbart Armitage
None, either real or personal, except for a necefsary [illegible] bedding furniture
Occupation, no businefs whatever
[illegible] wife and five children [illegible]

Thomas Jefferson Armitage aged. . . . . . . 12 years
James Keyser Armitage  . . . . .  . . . . . . . . .   8
Debarah Ann Armitage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Benj Shewbart Armitage . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . .  4
Carolina Armitage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

                        (Signed)
                     Shewbart Armitage
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List of Furniture bedding [illegible]
  3 bedsteads, beds & bedding
  9 Chairs, two tables from kitchen furniture Stove, Rag Carpet, shovel & tongs .

                Shewbart Armitage
    [illegible mark]
Philadelphia County [illegible]
I Matthew Randall pethonotary of the said Court do certify that the forgoing is a true copy of the Schedule of Shewbart Armitage with the affidavit [illegible] and I further cerfify that the opinion of the Court is that the value of the Property in the above schedule named is twenty dollars. 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court of Philadelphia the twenty fifth day of July A.D. 1821
{signature] Matthew Randall
Pethonotary
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[illegible] .420

26 May 1837
Pension office

Shubat Armitage
[illegible] 1828

16 Oct 1821 [looks like added note]
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 Philadelphia May 22nd 1837

 Honr.d Sir

Through the persuasion of a number of my friends I with diffidence  address a few lines to you concerning my late Husband Shubert 
Armitage Leuitn in Proctors Artillery and received a pension for two years 1822 and 23 two hundred and forty dollars per year as you will  find on records died December the 27th 1823 leaving seven children of witch four were under age at the time of his death. The eldest 
fifteen the second twelve the third ten the fourth six at the time of his death. I was obliged to administer and send all his papers to Washington as you Sir will find in the war office.  I believe I have given you all the information I can if we should be fortunate enough to come under the list of pensioners it will be gratefully received by the afflicted one son is afflicted with fits as he is scarce able to do but little. please to write soon as you will confer a favour on the widow and fatherless and please to direct one how to proceed direct to the care of

 Mr Richard Mackey in
 old second below federal
                           
  Yours [illegible] Mrs. Sarah Armitage
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{PHILADELPHIA POSTMARK MAY 27 WITH ILLEGIBLE 2 WORDS WRITTEN OVER IT]

Free (handwritten next to postmark]

Joel R. Poinsett
Secty of War
Washington
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[Top of page torn in 3 places]
3336      Sarah Armitage
widow of Pen n Shubert Armitage
who served in the Revolutionay
war, as Lieutl. of Artillery
________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate 
of 400 [handwritten]] dollars 
----- cents per annum, to
commence on the 3d February, 1853,
and end November 6,  1860.  (see below)
Certificate of Pension issued (illegible] 1862
and sent to 
J. A. Peugh,
Present
_______________________________________
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 156, Vol. [illegible]
Payment to be made to Thomas Jefferson
Armitage, Jane K. DeHeart, and Deborah Ann Young - only surviving children, -- former 
payments for same time, at the rate of  $300,00 per annum, to Sarah Armitage to be deducted.
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1900 _ Apl. 24 - copy of affidavit as requested.
Mr. V.E.M
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia [illegible]
Court of Common Pleas on this thirty first day of May 1833 for the City and County of Philadelphia appeared before me Sarah Armitage a resident of the County of Philadelphia and State aforementioned aged sixty seven years being duly sworn  according to  Law doth are her oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Acts of Congress passed on the 3rd day of February 1833 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, that she is the widow of Shewbart Armitage, who was a Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary War.

She further declares that to the best of her knowledge and belief that the papers containing the evidence of her late husband's services was filed in the Pension Office about the year 1821 or 1822 at which he received a certificate to draw a pension which was paid at Philadelpha. She also declares that she was married to the said Shewbert Armitage on the seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred three, a certificate of which accompanys this declaration that her said husband died on the twenty seventh day of December A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty three, that she was not  married to him prior to the Second of January eighteen hundred but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow.

Sworn and subscribed on the day
and year above mentioned                    Sara Armitage
before Joseph Ellison
 [illegible]
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May 31/53   I deem it proper to add the following explanation to the foregoing statement.  This declaration was made before me by Sarah Armitage 
at her residence in the District of [illegible] [illegible] in the County of Philadelphia for the reason first of Mr. Armitage's infirm health and this Court of Common Pleas not being in session during the present time.
[Signature of Joseph Allison

[Printed paper attached]
PHILADELPHIA CITY AND COUNTY, 
   I, [name written in] George Carpenter Esquire, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, for the City and County of Philadelphia, do Certify, that the Honourable [name written in]  Joseph Allison Esq. by whom the foregoing Attestation was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of making thereof, and still is, an  Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Orphans' Court and Court  of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for the City and County of Philadelphia, duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts as such, full faith and credit are, and ought to be given as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere.  

   In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, the Fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty three.

[Signature of George Carpenter]
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State of Pennsylvania
[paper torn] COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, ss
I, JAMES G. GIBSON, Prothonotary of the Court of Common  Pleas of said County, Do Certify, that [names written in] Joseph Evan and William Allen Esquires, before whom the annexed affidavits were made, are --- Aldermen and ex officio Justices of the Peace of the County of Philadelphia, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations, and to take acknowledgments, &c. and to all whose acts, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere, and the his signature thereto is genuine.  

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the  Seal of said Court, this [illegible]  day of December 1853.

[Signature of James Gibson] Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia
Personelly appeared before me, the Subscriber case of the alderman of the said County.  Sarah Armitage, who being duly sworn to law doth depose and say, that her maiden name was Sarah Macumber, and that she married Shubert Armitage  on the 17th of May, 1803 which will [illegible] from the Marriage certificate. [Signature of Sarah Armitage]

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 29th day of November [illegible]
[Signature of William Allen]
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia  ss

Before me the subscriber I Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid appeared, Aberham DeHart who being duly sworn according to Law, doth depose and say that he is personlly aquainted with Mrs. Sarah Armitage and know her to be the widow of Sherbart Armitage, late of County of Philadelphia and believe her entitled to a pension under the act of Congress granting pensions to Widows of Revolutionary pensioners who were married after the year of
1800.
Sworn and Subscribed to before me the Subscriber this twenty ninth day of November et. t. 1853
[Signature of William Allen]
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia         S.S.
On the twenty ninth day of November 1853, Before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Philadelphia Personally approved William Allen Esquire, and Robert C.  Tittermary, Both of the District of southwark County of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania. Who Being duly sworn according to Law, doth depose and say that they are personally and well acquainted with Mary Yhost, Margaret Haines and Arahan Dehart (witnessed) who have identified Mrs. Sarah Armitage as the Widow of the late Shubert Armitage of the Revolutionary War, in an application for a pension under the act of February third 1853, and know them to be of reputable character, and worthy to be Believed before any tribunal.

Sworn and subscribed
Before me this 29th day
of November  A.D. 1853
[Signature of Joseph Eneu]
   Justice of the Peace
[Signature of  William Allen and the word seal next to it]
[Signature of Robert C Tittermary and the word seal next to it]
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                                           Act Mar 8/ [illegible]                                                           

309.711 - Oct 3/60
 Sarah Armitage
widow of Shubert Armitage
             Lieut.

Capt. Eames
Col. Proctor
Pa Vols
Rev. War
Pension 
Special
Ar50-3336 [illegible] 2 yrs

(See Penna papers]

[illegible]/60 day, Oct 3/60 W.A.W.

  S. A. Peugh
[illegible]
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Ed Butts



 Vol A. page 133,
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                            FORM OF A DECLARATION

To be made by the Widow of a deceased person who has not had a Land Warrant.

State of Pennsylvania [Pennsylvania hand written]
County of Philaldelphia [Philadelphia hand written]

On this  [2 written] day of  [October written], A.D. one thousand eight hundred and [ sixty written], personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace, within and for the county and State aforesaid, [Sarah Armitage written], aged [left blank] years, a resident of [Philadelphia written] in the State of [Pennsylvania written]  who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of [Shubert Armitage written] deceased, who was a Lieutenant in the company commended by [Captain Worseley Ermes written] in the [4th written] regiment of [Artillery, written] commanded by [Col Proctor written] in the war [word blacked out] [of the Revolution written] that her said husband enlisted or volunteered on or about the [beginning written] day of [the Revolution. written] ,A.D. [1776 or 77  written] for a term of [ ________ years written] and continued in actual service in said war for a term of [many years ________ written] and continued in actual service in said war for a term of [many years_______ written] and was honorably discharged [in England  at the close of the revolution written]
She further states that she was married to the said [Shubert Armitage written] in [Philadelphia written] on the [17th written] day of [May written] A. D. [ 1803 written] by one [Saml Skycock  a clergyman written] and that her name before her said marriage was Sarah Macomer   that her said husband died at [Philadelphia written] on the [27th written] day of [December written], A.D. [1823 written], and that she is now a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled  under the "act approved March  8, 1855"; she further declares that she has not received a Land Warranty under this or any other law; and authorizes [ Sml A. Peugh written] to receive her warranty [ and that the Revolutionary pensions on the Philadelphia illegible at $500 per an.]
[Claimant's Signature]   [Sarah  Armitage marked with an X]

We, [Abraham DeHeart Philadelphia written] and [M. Blanchard written] residents of [Philadelphia written] in the state of [Pennsylvania written] upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by [the said Sarah Armitage written] in our presense, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person who she represents herself to be.  
(Signature of two witnesses)  [Abraham DeHart
M Blanchard  S. A. Peugh written] 

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn and subscribed before me, on the day and year above written.  And i certify that I know this affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. 
[Signature M. Blanchard]       J.P.
[Signature illegible]

*This declaration must be accompanied by satisfactory proof of the marriage, of the husband's death, and the present widowhood of the claimant.  If there be a public record of the marriage, a duly certified copy of it should be forwarded, if possible. If there be none but a private or family record, such family record, or a certified copy of the same, should be forwarded with the affidavit of some disinterested persons proving the genuineness of the original and the correctness of the copy.  If no public or private record of the marriage exist, or can be procured, that fact should be set forth in the declaration; and in such case, , other evidences --such as the testimony of persons who knew the parties in the lifetime of the husband, and knew them to cohabit as husband and wife, and to be so reputed -- will be admiissible.

[Symbol of pointing hand] In no case, however, will the mere statement of witnesses that the claimant is the widow of the deceased be taken as evidence of the marriage; but the witnesses must state the facts and circumstances from which they derive their knowledge or opinion that she is the widow of the deceased.
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[written 3097 11 at top of page]

Claim of ___________________________________

      TO BOUNTY LAND

Original application of a Widow. 


Attorney. [at very bottom of page]


[Written down side of page]

Act of March 3rd, 1855.

State of [Pennsylvania written]
County of [Philadelphia written]    SS
   I hereby certify, that [W. G. Conrow written] -- Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made, is and was at the time of taking the same, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine.  
            IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my and affixed the seal of my office, this [2nd written] day of [October written] [year illegible]

[Signature D. W. Oliver Prononotary]
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            State of Pennsylvania }
City & County of Philadelphia}

On this Sixth day of October 1860 before me the [illegible] an Abraham  & [illegible] in part for the City aforesaid  personally appeared .  Mrs. Jane DeHart  who [illegible] was duly sworn deposes and says that  she is the daughter of Sarah & Shubert Armitage her said father in his life time whence speaking of his Revolutionary service +  suffering often spoke of his being taken prisoner of war and taken to Lemsford, remaining there for more than 2 years in Mill Prison aand that he was not released from captivity until the end of this war when he returned home.  and  that  as her father was always considered a man of the strictest regard for truth  that she believes as firmly that he was  in captivity as stated, as if she had seen him a prisoner of War. and that he was absent, in the army in [illegible] right after  leaving [illegible] of Col. Proctor and that he still served as a Lieut. in the artillery until his capture, which she thinks was sometime in the year 1780 and =[illegible] the letters and of the [illegible] and that no family belief or tradition is more [illegible] than her father states & from the deposement [illegible] with said Jane K. DeHart.
Sworn to before me the day and year aforementioned
W. G. Conscow [signature] [illegible signature]
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City & County of Baltimore}
               State of Maryland}

     On this 5th day of October 1860 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the City aforesaid personally appeared.  Mrs. Mary B. Rogers wife of Rowland Rogers of Baltimore, who being by me duly sworn in says that  she is about 74 years of age and the daughter of Shubert Armitage, late of the City of Philadelphia by his first wife, and from the earliest memory of her recollection she well 
remembers having heard her father state incidents of the Revolutionary War. The part he took in it, many of which she has forgotten. but the most prominent & one distinctly imprinted upon her memory to this day. That she  [illegible] hear of him relate that he served first under Genl Thompson, Col. Flowers and Col. Proctor +  &c , that he was Lieutenant under Proctor for some time & that towards the close of the year 1780 he was placed in charge of one of the vessels of War because of his artillery knowledge  (the names of which she has forgotten. ) and in this capacity was captured, made a prisoner of War and taken along with other officers to N.Y. and placed aboard the British ship of War "Yasmouth" and  sent to Plymouth, England and  then placed in what was called "Mill Prison".  She also recollects that while in "Mill Prison he stated that an arrangement was made amongst the prisoners to make their escape and get to France. The plan of the escape was to deceive the guard by putting on British clothing and to scale the walls one by one, men standing on the shoulders of
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another. That in this arrangement Lieut. Barry (afterwards Commodore Barry] was amongst this number, engaged in the plan and made his escape, but that the rest of them had to remain in "Mill Prison" until the war ended, after having suffered the most insulting and cruel treatment, endured sufficient to have broken down the strongest constitutions -- that on their voyage in the Yarmouth to Plymouth they were crowded together in the  [illegible] and several died on the way.  (She does not recollect the precise length of time he was a prisoner but it was about two years.   That    after his return, he met Commodore Barry in Philadelphia and  he threatened to run him through with his sword on account of some failure in the plan made to effect their escape  from "Mill Prison" about which her father blamed Barney. Her recollection of this  [illegible]   her  frequently, been refreshed  by frequently seeing Barry in Baltimore . she further states that her step mother, Mrs. Sarah Armitage is still surviving in the City of  Philadelphia and further she would not.          

Mary B. Rogers

State of Maryland SS
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of October 1860 and I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Mr. Rowland Rogers and his wife Mary B. Rogers and have known them for many years that Mrs. Rogers is one of the most exemplary ladies in the City of  Baltimore and every statement she may make
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is entitled to the fullest faith and credit.

                Witness my hand
                W. H. Hayward [Signature]

State of Maryland, Baltimore City, Sct:
    I HEREBY CERTIFY, That William H. Hayward Esquire, before whom the annexed affidavit
w as made, and who has thereto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for the City of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn
  IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, this [fifth written] day of [October written], A.D.  1860. 

                             Geo. E. Sangston {Signature]
                             Clerk of the Superior Court of
                                  Baltimore City,
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[Folded paper]
Sarah Armitage [Written]
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[Blank Paper]
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State of Pennsylvania
City & County of Philadelphia

On this Sixth day of October 1860 [illegible] with the subscriber a Justice of the Peace  & an officer A. [illegible] in and for the City aforesaid personally appear be Shuberth Armitage a Revolutionary pensioner of the U.S. on the [illegible] yearly of $300 for [illegible] widow of Shubert Armitage [illegible] by me duly sworn deposes & says that she is about 76 years of age and that in  her many conversations she had written her  husband during life in relation to his Revolutionary services. That after leaving Col. Pisotors Regt.
he continued in service . At least she [illegible] [illegible]  than Col. under whom he afterwards received this. She has known that he was taken prisoner by the British and taken to New York, and there confined 3 months and afterwards was taken to England where he remained a prisoner on Mill Pirison until sometime after the capture of Cornwallis & was in confinement in a prison ship and she thinks
   the name was "Yarmouth"  that when in confinement his sufferings were very great and 
at times great cruelty was [word crossed out] [illegible] on him and his fellow prisoners. She is fully satisfied that he was in confinement as much as two years or more, but the precise time she cannot estaste, she also fails to remember  the names of the officers under whom he served when taken prisoner.
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and officers the harmful incidents though which he [illegible] in captivity and a few years ago could have found many prisoners who had privileges after the facts but now they are all gone, but of the basis of his [illegible] she cannot doubt  [iillegible] of his captivity & further deposes with [illegible].
                                                       her
                                             Sarah  X  Armitage 
                                                      mark 


Subscribed & sworn to before me the day and year above written.
  {Signature W. G. Conrow] Helen & Ex Office F. Pause
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City & County of Philadelphia
State of Pennsylvania

On the Sixth day of October 1860 before me the subscriber an Abraham   [illegible] [illegible] Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid  personally Abraham DeHart of said City who being by me duly sworn deposes and says that he married a daughter of Mrs. Sarah Armitage widow of Shubert Armitage  a pensioner of the illegible] Penna. Roll. that ever since    he knew anything of the family in all conversations on the subject of the Revolutionary War is of said Shubert Armitage it was understood and believed in his family that he was a  prisoner of War & was taken to England and of his termination thereof he was discharged and returned home. That he was not old enough to have known of this first from personal  knowledge, but it is as much believed by [illegible] havae been as stated as if he had seen him as a prisoner in England.   A has been the subject of many a conversation in the family of Mr. Armitage, and is one of their first traditions in the same, as much as the Revolution itself. 
and this deposed belief is as strong of the fact and further [illegible 3 words]. 

Subscribed and sworn before me this day & year aforementioned. 

[Signature W.G. Connscow Alderman & Ex Officer of Peace]
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State of Pennsylvania
City & County of Philadelphia   S.S.
Personly appeared Amraham DeHart  & Thomas Jefferson Armitage who being duly sworn in according to  law, depose & says that - Mrs. Sarah Armitage widow of Shubert Armita (Deed) was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, That she died November 6th 1808. Leaving three children who are now livingwhose names are Thomas Jefferson Armitageare now living under named one Thomas Jefferson amitage.l  Brown Novermber 16 1808 Jane K. Armitage wife of Abraham DeHart was born June 11th 1815 --      Deborah Ann Armitage,k wife of Peter Young born April 29th 1815. And they are all now living amongst
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State of Pennsylvania,
   County of Philadelphia, ss
 I, Charles D. Knight, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Do Certify that  
 {hand written Samuel Lentz]
before whom the annexed [hand written affidavit] was made, was at the time, and now is an Alderman and ex-officio Justice f the Peace of the City of Philadelphia, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations, and to take acknowledgements, &c., and to all whose acts, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere, and that is signature thereto is genuine. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this [handwritten 10th] day of [handwritten February] A.D. 1862 [62 written].

[Signature of Charles D. Knight] Prothonotary
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[One line handwritten at bottom of page]


Filed, Feb, 11, 1862.
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State of {written Pennsylvania]
County of [written Philadelphia]  ss

  It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me [ written Richard M. Batturs Deputy  Clerk of the Orphans Court of said County] that [written Sarah Armitage wife of Shubert] was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $ [written Three Hundred ($300) dollars] per annum and that [written she] died on the [written Sixth] day of {written November] eighteen hundred and [written sixty] leaving surviving [written her three children only whose names are Jane K. DeHart (wife of Abraham DeHart.), Debra Young (wife of Peter Young and T. Jeffrey Armitage] and that [written they are all now surviving and are the only surviving child[ren written] of the aforesaid. [written Sarah Armitage]

{Seal affixed to page]
 IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed [written the] seal of {and court written] this   {written Sixth }  day of {February written] one thousand eight hundred and {written sixth two 1862] 


 [Signature RMBatturs]
[  illegible]
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State of Pennsylvania,
    COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, ss
I, CHARLES D KNIGHT, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Do Certify, that 
      [Written name James Gordon]
before whom the annexed [Written affidavit] was made, was at the time and now is an Alderman and ex-officio Justice of the Peace of the City of Philadelphia, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations, and to take acknowledgements etc., and to all whose acts, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere, and that his signature thereto is genuine.  

       IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this [written 13th] day of [written February] A.D. 18{62]


      [Signature Chas Knight] Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania
City of Philadelphia 
February 15th 1862

This is to Certify that  Mrs. Sarah Armitage widow of Shubert Armitage  was interred in the Philanthropic Cemetery on the 9th day of November 1864 died on the 6th of said month.

Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th day of February A.D. 1862.   
        [Signature James Gordon] Alderman

[Signature Abraham DeHart]
Superior intendant    
of the Philanthropic Buriel Ground
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New London {County crossed out] [township written in]
Chester County
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This is to certify that the bearers Mrs. and Mr. Armitage were married together on this
seventeenth day of May, One thousand eight hundred and three, by me, [Signature Saml Laycock ] May 17, 1803.
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                                                    May 2, 1940

                                                    BA-J/AWF
Miss Alice Hageman                   Shewbart Armitage   
104 Spruce Street                        W. 5206
Billings, Montana

Dear Madam:

     Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Armitage, and of any other soldier with that surname. 
     The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and the record of one soldier, only, with the surname Armitage has been found, that of Shewbart Armitage. 
     The data furnished [rest of line blacked out] Shewbart Armitage were obtained from Clerk for Pension and bounty land on file under W. 5206, based upon his service in that war [crossed out 'the Rev. War' written in]
     The date and place of birth of Shewbart Armitage, and names of his parents were not given.
     Shewbart Armitage volunteered in Pennsylvania, was a cadet in Colonel Thompson's Rifle Regiment, and in Colonel Flower's regiment, and Lieutenant in Captain Worsley Emes' company, in Colonel Thomas Proctor's Fourth Artillery Regiment; he was in the battles of Long Island, Brandywine, and Germantown, where wounded in the hand, nature of wound not stated, length of service eighteen months, dates of enlistment and resignation from service not shown.  It was stated that he was a prisoner, held three months in New York, carried
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to Plymouth, England, and held in the "Mill Prison", entire length of imprisonment, two years and eight months. 
     Shewbart Armitage was allowed pension on his application executed June 20, 1831, at which time he was sixty-five years old, and a resident of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, on the "banks of the Schuylkill". 
     He married May 17, 1803, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sarah Macumber or Macomer. The date and place of her birth, and names of her parents were not stated.  
     Shewbart Armitage died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 27, 1823, leaving seven children, four of whom were aged respectively -- fifteen years, twelve years, ten years, and six years. 
     His widow, Sarah Armitage, was allowed pension on her application executed May 31, 1853, at which time she was aged about sixty-seven years, and living in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.  She was allowed, also one hundred sixty acres of bounty land on her 
application executed October 2, 1860, then a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
     She died November 6, 1860, and was interred in the "Philanthropic Cemetery", November 9, 1860.  
  The widow left at her death, three children-- 
          Thomas Jefferson Armitage who was born November 16, 1808;
          Jane K., wife of Abraham DeHart; she was born June 11, 1813; 
          Deborah Ann, wife of Peter Young; she was born April 29, 1815.  
      Reference was made in 1821 to the children of
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                                  3-

Shewbart Armitage as follows -

Thomas Jefferson Armitage           aged   twelve years
"James" Keyser         "                         "      eight years
Deborah Ann            "                         "      six years
Benjamin Shewbart   "                         "      four years
Carolina                     "                         "      two years

     In 1860, Mrs. Mary B. Rogers aged seventy-four years and the wife of Rowland Rogers, both of Baltimore, Maryland, stated that she was the daughter of Shewbart Armitage by his first wife, but she did not give the name of her mother, and there are no further data in this claim relative to this wife. 

    Abraham DeHart in 1862, was living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was then "superintendent of Philanthropic Burial Ground" . 

     The papers on file in these claims contain no further discernible family data.  

     If you desire information in regard to the location of the bounty land referred to herein, it is suggested that you apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and cite the following data:  

Warrant #  95501- 160 acres - Act of 1855.

                                    Very truly yours

                                    A. D. Hiller
                                    Executive Assistant
                                    to the Administrator
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[Left fold]
K Pittman
Keokuk [illegible]

[Right fold]
Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 3206
Sarah Armitage
Widow
Shubert Armitage
[illegible] Rev. War
Act:  [written Feb. 3rd 1853]
Index: -- Vol. [A written], Page  [17written]

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Right side]
July 14'98

Miss Cora H.
1940 - May 2 - birth to Alice 
[illegible]
Page 45

Pennsylvania   Phila                     S.A. Peugh Oct 9/60
[written Sarah Armitage]
widow of [written Shubert]
who served in the Revolutionary War, as a [written Lt. of Artillery] 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of [written 300] dollars  [written 00] cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued [29th written] day of [written Sept 1860] and sent to [written S. A. Peugh] [illegible] 
[written Increased from $220 ] Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under Act February 3, 1853, Page 156, Vol. 11.
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[Duplicate page of page 45 of 109, Fold3 File #10942816]

Pennsylvania    Phila.   S. A .  Peugh Oct 9/60  
Sarah Armitage
Widow of Shubert, who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Lt. of Artillery Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of300 dolLars and 00 cents per annum, on the 3rd of February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued 29th day of sept. and sent to S. A. Peugh President  19-
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                                             Pension Office,
                                             22.Dec./53


Sir:                 [Written Do     27 Dec    23]

    Please certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid, on the date of his death.  
                          [illegible] Respectffully,
                             [Signature S. Cole]
                      For the [illegible]

Shewbart Armitage, Act 1818 
$8 per month.
Died 28 Dec. 1823 paid   

                                    [Signature F. Burt]
                                          Auditor

Francis Burt, Esq.
[illegible] Auditor [illegible]
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[Illegible]
Page 49

[Blank page]
Page 50

[Left page[

Joseph J  Moo
Jas. J Moore

[Middle]
Feby 13/57

[Right page]
Pennsylvania   Phila
Sarah Armitage,
widow of Shubert
who served in the Revolutionary War, as a Lieutenant.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 240 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 3rd February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Dece./53 and sent to 
 Joseph J. Moore
No.  57 North 3rd St
Phila Pa.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under [illegible] February 3, 1853, Page 102 Vol. A
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[Duplicate of page 50 of 109, Fold3 File #10942868]

[Left side]
Joseph J Moo
Jas. J Moore

Feby 13/57

[Middle section]
NW 30 fss

[Right side]
3. 3 5 [page torn last figure illegible]
[Written Pennsylvania Phila]
[Written Sarah Armitage,]
widow of [Written Shubert] 
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a 
[Written Lieutenant]
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
{Written 240] Dollars [Written 00]
cents per annum, to commence the
3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the
[Written 24th] day of  [Written Dec/53]
and sent to 
[Written Joseph J. Moore
No. 57 North 3rd St.
Phila. Pa]
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
February 3, 1853, page [Written 102] 
Vol. [written a]
Page 52

[illegible] 2361

[Written Sarah Armitage, widow of Shubert]


{Written Set to J.J. Moore, 9" Sept. 53]
[Written and crossed out  underneath 
 12: Dec illegible]

[Written at bottom of page Act. 3d Febry, 1853]
Page 53

[Left side of page]
[Printed form with handwritten info added]
             3.336
Pennsylvania  Phila
Sarah Armitage
widow of Shubert
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Lieut. of Artillery Increased from $300 and/00 Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 400 dollars   00 cents per annum, to commence on 3d February, 1853. 

Certificate of Pension issued 13th day of Nov 1860 and sent to  
      S. A. Peugh 
               Present

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under [illegible] February 3, 1853, Page 156 Vol. [illegible]

{Right side of page]
1860 Nov 20 to Pension agent & 3d Auditor

Pugh Oct 9 1860
Deed Nov 6. 1860
[illegible] Secretary Int.
March 26/61
S. A. Peugh April 3/61
See Record room
Sec'ty decision filed  [word crossed out]
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Duplicate of previous page 53 of 109, Fold3 File #10942907.
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                                            June 9, 1853

Appl. of Sarah Armitage widow of Shubert Armitage
 Philadelphia 
                       Ea
                   ----------
                      M 22

 Act    [illegible] Febry 1853
  240 [with arrow pointing down ]
   $ [illegible] 
Com. [illegible]3.7853
              Rev.

Joseph J. Moore
     [illegible]
            
                       [illegible name]

No. 57. North 3d Street
Philadelphia
Pa

[Written down right side of page]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Pension Office, Official Business
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Act. Feb. 3d 1853
Sarah Armitage.
    widow of Shubert - Lieut. of Artillery revolution.
Philadelphia County
Penna.
Increase.  Admitted at the rate of $400 per anum. commencing Feb 3, 1853. [word crossed out] & ending 6th November 1860, when she died, deducting [illegible] payments at the rate of $300 per anum for the same time, payable to Thomas Jefferson Armitage, Jane K. DeHart, & Deborah Ann Young, only surviving children.

Certificate to 
     S. A. Peugh [illegible]
            Present
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Act Feby 3 1853
Sarah Armitage, widow of Shubert
Philadelphia County
[illegible]    Penn
 
Admitted at rate of $300 per annum commencing [3d crossed out] February 3
1853, former payment under said Act at rate of $240 to be deducted and direct Pension Agent  
[illegible] under the new Certificate until the old one is surrendered [next line crossed out]   
Certificate to  S. A. Peugh Esq
 Washington D.C.
Page 58

[Duplicate of page 57]

Act Feby 3 1853
Sarah Armitage, widow of Shubert
Philadelphia County
[illegible] Penn

Admitted at rate of $300 per annum commencing [3d crossed out] February 3
1853, former payment under said Act at rate of $240 to be deducted and direct Pension Agent
[illegible] under the new Certificate until the old one is surrendered [next line crossed out]
Certificate to S. A. Peugh Esq
Washington D.C.
Page 59

Sarah Armitage, widow of Shubert
Philadelphia County
 Penna.  SS

[illegible]
Admitted, under Act of February 3, 1853, at and of $400 per annum, commencing at  
[illegible] of said act, former payments under Jan act at rate of $300 to be deducted [illegible] pension agent not [illegible] under the new Certified until the old one shall have been surrendered, and sent to this office.  

Certified  [illegible] S. A. Peugh, Esq. 

Washington, D.C.
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[Duplicate of  Page 59]

Sarah Armitage, widow of Shubert
Philadelphia County
 Penna.  SS

[illegible]
Admitted, under Act of February 3, 1853, at and of $400 per annum, commencing at  
[illegible] of said act, former payments under Jan act at rate of $300 to be deducted [illegible] pension agent not [illegible] under the new Certified until the old one shall have been surrendered, and sent to this office.  

Certified  [illegible] S. A. Peugh, Esq. 

Washington, D.C.
Page 61

To what time was Shewbart Armitage, of Penna act March 18. 1818, last paid? 

                                        J. L. Edwards
                                        30 April 1836

He died 27th Dec 1823 & was paid to that day..

                                          J. H.
Page 62

Know all men by these [illegible] [illegible] Sarah Armitage widow of Shubert a Revolutionary  pensioner of [illegible] states on her Phila Pa  Agency, whereby constitute and appoint S. A. Peugh of the City of Washington, D.C., my true and lawful attorney for [illegible] [illegible]

(Will come back to this, difficult to read.)
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia SS
https://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pngBefore me the Subscriber a Justice
of the Peace in and for the State and County
aforesaid. Personally appeared.

Who being duly sworn according to law doth upon there Oaths, declair that they
are personally aquanted with Sarah Armitage
the person applying for a pension under the
act of congress of February 3d 1853, and know
that she was the reputed wife of the
revolutionary pensioner. Shubert Armatage
that they lived together as husband and
wife and begat children, in the County
of Philadelphia

Sworn and Subscribed
to before me this [illegible] day of December A.D. 1853
[Signature Wm Allen]  SS 
[illegible]

[Signature William Simon   (seal)]
[Signature Samuel Simon  (seal)]
                           his
[Signature Michel X Simon (seal) ]
                          mark
[Signature Samuel Baker (seal) ]
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State of Pennsylvania,
   COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, ss
I, JAMES G. GIBSON, Prothonotary of the Court ofCommon Pleas of said County, Do Certify, that
[Signature William Allen Esq]
before whom the annexed  [written affidavit] was made , [wriiten is an] Alderman and ex officio Justice of the Peace of the [County] of Philadelphia, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations, and to take acknowledgements, &c. and to all whose acts, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere, and that his signature thereto is genuine.  
{Seal on left side]  IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, 
                           I have hereunto set my hand                   
                           and affix my Seal of said Court,
                           this nineteenth day of December,
                           A.D.  1853.

{Signature James Gibson        Prothonotary]
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia ss
    Before me the subscriber or Justice of the in and for the state and county aforesaid, personally who being duly sworn and affirmed  according to law doth upon there oath, declare that they are personally acquainted with William Simon, Samuel Simon and Michal Simon, and Samuel Baker and know them to be of reputable character and worthy to be believed before any tribunal.

Sworn and Subscribed to Before me this Sixteenth Day of December A.D. 1853
        
-[Signatures]
William McCauley
William Marker
Wm Allen
J. J. Moore
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[Right fold of  folded page]

Letter of Attorney

Sarah Armitage

Joseph J . Moore


[Bottom of page]

J. J. Moore Esq
No. 57
North 3d Street
Philadelphia
Page 67


Know all men by these Presents that I Sarah Armitage widow of Shubart Armitage who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary army, of the United States of America, do hereby nominate constitute and appoint Joseph J. Moore of the City of Camden in the State of New Jersey my true and lawful attorney irrevocable for me and in my name place and stead and for my use to ask, demand, present and recover and receive all and every claim or claims to Land, Money or Pension to which I may be, or am now entitled to from the  Government of the United States or of Pennsylvania for and on account of by reason of the revolutionary services of my said husband Shubart Armitage, deceased, and to ask for demand and receive for me and in my name and for my use from the proper offices in Washington and Harrisburg any and all said warrants to which I may transfer to any purchaser or purchasers for such consideration as to my said attorney shall and may seem best for my benefit and advantage and such consideration to receive and full receipts, acquaintances and discharges therefore for me and in my name to execute and deliver to surrender the same at the proper office and to receive Certificates of Scrip in lieu thereof, which my said attorney is hereby authorized in  like manner to sell assign and transfer. And if said warrants be already surrendered them to receive the proper Certificates and to sell assign and transfer the land agreeably to  the power herein before given and [illegible] in reference to said warrants and if no scrip can be obtained my said attorney is hereby authorized to receive the warrants which may have surrendered and to locate or sell again and transfer the land as he may think best - and my said attorney is also authorized to apply for and receive for me and in my name and for my use from the government
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United States any and all certificates of pension and all monies due therein and hereafter to become due thereon more particularly under the provisions of the Second Sections of the Act of Congress of the Third day of February A.D. 1853 - and to enable my said attorney the more effectively to carry out my intentions. I do hereby give and grant unto him my full and whole power in the premisses for me and in my name to do and perform all and every act matter and thing necessary to be done and performed and the premises in as full and ample a manner as I might or could do if personally present to do the same. Hereby reworking all and every power heretofore given and ratifying and confirming all and whatever my said attorney may lawfully do in the premises in writing whereof I have hereunto set my hand by virtuhttps://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pnge witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal to these presents the thirty first --- day of May --- in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three in the presence of us 


Sarah Armitage

Signed, Sealed and Delivered 

M. A. Meginnis
Abraham DeHart

On this thirty first day of May 1853, before this subnscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and of the City & County of Philadelphia  personally appeared  Sarah Armitage who in due form of law acknowledges the foregoing lettehttps://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pngr of attorney to be her Act of deed and desired the same to be recorded as [illegible].
                    Joseph Allison (seal)
Page 69

State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia  ss
    
     Personaly appears before me the subscriber one of the Alderman for the County of Philadelphia and State aforesaid, Margaret Haines, and Mary ann Youst.  Who being duly sworn according to Law, Doth say that they are personaly acquainted with Mrs. Sarah Armitage, the applicant set forth in the accompanying oath or affidavit, and know her to be the widow of Shubert Armitage who was a Lieutenant in the war of the Revolution

Sworn and Subscribed to
Before me this 2d Day of June   Margaret Hains
A.D. 1853                                    Mary Ann Youst
    Wm Allen  Ald.
Page 70

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
     COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, xx
I, GEORGE CARPENTER, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Do Certify that
 [Written William Allen Esq]
before whom the annexed affidavit was made, as Alderman and and ex officio Justice of the Peace of the County of Philadelphia, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations and to take acknowledgements, &c. and to all whose souls, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well as Court of Judicature as elsewhere, and that his signature thereto is genuine.  
        In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and aany land I have the Seal of said Court, this fourth day of June A.D. 1853
.[Signature GeoCarpenter] {Prothonotary]
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[First line torn, wrinkled and illegible]

On behalf of Shewbart Armitage I have transmitted the papers for the  purpose of obtaining a pension., should they be informed I would thank you for proper instructions.

                               Yours Respectfully

                                Jn J Baker
                               Philadelphia Aug.10.1821



     11 
_______________
     25 /30
        2           _______   40
                            __________
                                  50
                                120
                            ___________
                                170
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{On left side of folded page]
Payment to be made at Philadelphia, by
Joseph E. Dewitt,, Agent for paying Pensioners https://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pngin the Agency of 
Pensylvania
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March



Recorded to the Pension Office on the 
Roll of Pensioners under Act February 3d, 1953, Page 1556, Vol. H
         G.T. Getty Clerk
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ERP
G.H.R.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WIDOW'S PENSION

I certify that, in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853, 
                 Sarah Armitage,
widow of   Shubert Armitage
who was a Lieutenant of Artillery -- in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the Pension List, at the rate of Four Hundred ___dollars and ____________________ cents per anum, commencing on the 3d of February 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marrriage. Deducting former payments at the rate of $300 00/100 per anum.

Giben at the Department of the In'erior,
this thirteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

[Signature] J. Morrison
 Secretary of the Interior.

Examined and countersigned,
   
[Signature[ GeoCWhiting
    Commissioner of Pensions
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                            Philadelphia June 16, 1849--

Sir
     My husband Shewbart Armitage was a soldier of the Revolution and drew a pension for two years before his death, he died in 1820. I desire to know if I am under the existing pensions laws entitled to a pension.  I was married in 1803.
                                 Respectfully yours
             
                                  Sarah Armitage

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

Please direct to the care of J. G. Marvin
Page 75

                              Phila Nov 19 1860


Sir
     Mrs. Sarah Armitage widow of Shubert a pensioner on the [illegible] under the act of February 3d 1853 2d Section, has been reported to the agency as having died the 5th day of Nov 1860.
     Wll you be kind enough to inform me if under the circumstances your order of the 13th to inscribe her on the Roll at $400 per anum commencing on the 3rd day of February 1853 deducting from payments at the rate of $300 per anum is still in force and if I am authorized in paying the arrears due on the Certificate to her children or administrator. Please advise me.
                Respectfully, 
                         Joseph E. DeVitt
                             [illegible]          (seal)

George C. Whiting, Esq.
Comm of Pensions
Washington DC
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Transcription

Close
Brief in the case of Sarah Armitage, widow of Shubert Armitage Lieutenant of Artillery in the revolutionary war.

County and State of Pennsylvania ss
act 3rd February, 1853

Claim, ("original" or "for increase")

   ' Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.  
An allowance at the rate of $400 per annum, was granted in this case to the widow, but it  appeared  she died before the certificate was found and as a rule, governing the practice of the office, which we   and based upon an  opinion of the late Attorney General,

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

   Children were excluded from the benefit of the pension to which the widow was entitled. This rule has been changed by a decision of the present Secretary of the Interior, and the former practice restored. Consequently, the only surviving children of Sarah Armitage are entitled to the increase of her pension, allowed at the rate of $400 per anum.

      Name and residence of Agent [crossed out]
Fom the 3d day of February 1853, to the sixth day of November 1860, when Sarah Armitage
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died, deducting former payments, at the rate of $300 per anum, for the same time -- Payable to Thomas Jefferson Armitage, Jane DeHart, and Deborah Ann, Young, only surviving children.
                                     L. M. Drury,
                                      Examiner
{illegible line except for Agent. at the end]

      S. A. Peugh
        Present
Page 78

161 written on right side of fold.
Page 79

Brief in the case of Sarah Armitage, widow of Shubert Armitage
Philadelphia County and State of Pennsylvania
act February 3. 1853
Claim, ("original" or crossed out "for increase".)

Proof Exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
    This claimant is now in receipt of a pension under [illegible] act of '53 at rate of $300 per annum, in virtue of her husband's service in the revolutionary war, as Lieutenant of Artillery {next five words crossed out, illegible]  for 18 months - evidence is now added showing that he was a prisoner of war an additional period of time making approximately,  more than two years. A full pension  (if for increase)      
[Line crossed out 'Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? if so, what?]    has, conseqauently, been  allowed for said grade at rate of $400 per annum by and [illegible] more than two years. A full pension has consequently, been awarded for said grade - namely, by the assistant of Commissioner.

S. A. Peugh Esq
Name and residence of Agent
Washington,  DC
Page 80

Brief in the case of Sarah Armitage, widow of Shubert, Philadelphia County and State of Penn ss
Page 81

[On right side of fold a large (B) written]
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[Questionairre/form with printed questions and written answers]
Brief in the case of Sarah Armitage, widow of Shubert Armitage Philadelphia County and State of Pennsylvania act February 3 1853.

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
   Claimant's husband was pensioned under act of March 18, 1818, at a  rate of $240 per annum, which was the maximum advance under said act. He died in 1823. He is shown by the evidence filed in his case and has served Eighteen months as a Lieutenant in Proctor's artillery regiment of the Pennsylvania line, and  would have been entitled to a pension, under act of [illegible] 1832, at rate  of $300 per annum, had he survived the passage of that 
(If for increase.)  
     Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?
act, The claimant (his widow) has, therefore, b een allowed the latter amount per annum, in lieu of the pension she is now receiving at act of $240.


S. A. Peugh Esq
Name and residence of Agent
Washington, D.C.
Page 83

{Written down left fold of page]
 
 The seal of my office to be affixed
Albany November 5th 1860
[Line illegible]

 [Middle section blank]

[Right fold]

(D)
 
I think we may [illegible] on this additional [illegible] to admit the fact of imprisonment as [illegible]  and  in the capacity of Lieut. -- let it be so done --

                                     G. C. W.
                                  13 Nov. 1860
Page 84

An account of cash paid by Elias Boudinot Esq. to sundry persons in Philadelphia for the board of the following officers, Prisoners of War.
Officers Names            Rank       Corps      No.   L   S.d
Shubert Armitage       Lieut.      Proctors    1    11   5  [illegible] 
[Previous line crossed out]

 An account of specie paid by Thomas Franklin, Depy. Commissary Prisoners in Philadelphia to the following officers --

Officers Names            Rank       Corps.       No.    L    Sd.
Shubert Armitage     Lieut.                            50    2    5 [line crossed out]

State of New York
    Comptrollers Office
          I certify that the preceeding is a true extract from the original on file in this office, and that the said original is without date, and that the erasures made upon it cannot be explained. 
                 In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name      
                 and caused the seal of  my office to be affixed Albany
            
     November 5th 1860.   

[Signature Philip Phelps]  [illegible]
Page 85

             Bristol Township County of Phila
                  [illegible] 29 1821

To Whom it may concern

      I do hereby certify that Shewbart Armitage [illegible] applicant to his Country for a pension was a Lieut in Capt. Worsley Emes Co. in the war as Pennsylvania Regiment of Artillery commanded  by Capt. Thos Proctor of which he was Lieut Col and served in that character for eighteen months with [illegible] and at his own request was honorably discharged.  

Given under my hand the day dated above. 
               Thomas Forest [Signature]
Page 86

                 Philadelphia  July 12th/53

Hon. Sir
     Will you do me the favour of informing me if the petition of Mrs Sarah Armitage for a pension under the act of Feby 1853 had been considered and if so if it has been allowed or other particulars connected therewith
       I am Sir
            Your [illegible] 
                Jas J Moore
                57 N. 3rd St Philadelphia
Page 87

64

Washington
April 20. 1836

Lieut. Shubur Armitage Revolutionary . Penna [illegible] Line
Hon. W. Ash encloses a letter requesting to know if he served to the end of the war.
Respectfully referred to the Pension office
Apr. 27. 1836
N. Gokey
April 21. 1836
Page 88

                                                  Washington April 20th 1836

Dear Sir.

     I take the liberty of requesting you very respectfully, to give me Sarah answers to the queries in this [  illegible] letter, as may be in the possession of your Department; and to [last line is illegible].

                         I am Dear Sir, 
                         [Signature Michael Rook]

[illegible] 
           R. Jones
        Adjudant Genl Offices
Page 89

[Top line cut off]
         
                   Dec 12/[illegible]
Page 90

                                          Pension Office
                                          12 Dec, 1853

Sir,
     The additional evidence filed in support of the claim of Mrs. Sarah Armitage has been examined [illegible] Case [illegible] [illegible].
     Evidence should be furnished this office proving that the applicant was the refuted wife of the Revolutionary pensioner Shewbart Armitage & that they lived together as husband and wife.  
                                 [illegible]

J. J. Moore, Esq.
No. 57 North 3rd Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Page 91

[illegible ]
Page 92

                                       Washington [illegible]
                                       3d Oct. 1860

Hon. Geo. Whiting
Com. of Pensions

Sir
I herewith enclose  application of Mrs. Sarah Armitage, a Revolutionary Pensioner on the Phila. Pa Role at $300 per annum and ask that the [illegible] said Warrant [illegible] in her name. 
She is very [illegible] and in view of which [illegible] that her case be made special so that she may have her [illegible]  of the same during her life. 
                            I am respectfully yours
                              S. A. Peugh
Page 93

[Folded page]

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Mrs. Armitage
[illegible] Pension

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PENSION OFFICE
APR 9
 1861
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                                                      Washington City D.C.
                                                                7th April 1861    
Hon Geo C           
Com of Pensions

Sir
     According to your request of the 3d inst. requesting me to return the Pension Certificate of Mrs. Armitage [illegible] on the [date unclear] 1860 it is herewith enclosed.
                                  I am respectfully 
                                        yours 
                                              S.A. Peugh
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                                                     Washington City, D.C.
                                                         21st March, 1861

Hon. C. B. Smith            
      Secretary of the Interior

      Sir
           On the 106h of November last the Pension office opened a Certificate increasing the Pension of Mrs. Sarah Armitage of Phila from $300 to $400per annum. 
         Mrs. Armitage died on the 6th of the same month (just 7 days prior to the issue of the Certificate) and under the construction of the Department that no  amount of pension of an unliquidated claim (in a case where the applicant is not actually on the Roll) descends to children, the Agent in Phila., refuses to pay the amount of increase , without instructions from the Department. 
      The evidence upon which said Pension was increased was presented to the office prior to the death of Mrs. Armitage but the commission being desirous that the Comptroller of the State from w hence the evidence came should explain a certain fact connected therewith or modify his Certificate merely to accomplish which it was necessary to return the paper to Albany and on its return to the office and [illegible] he had [illegible] the Pensioner died
      Now it is respectfully submitted, that inasmuch as the evidence upon which the case was increased, was properly before this office prior to the decease of Mrs. Armitage, and that as the explanation
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desired by the Commisioner did not pertain to the substance of the testimony, but being merely an explanation of a fact in connection with the same that under these circumstances this Department instruct the payment  to be made to the administrator for the benefit of the children. 

                                                  I have the honor to be                                 
                                                   your obedient servant
                                                       S. A.  Peugh
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                        Philadelphia July 5th/53

Hon Sir

     Some four weeks since when I was in Washington I deposited with you the petition of Mrs. Sarah Armitage, wife of Shubert Armitage of the revolutionary war, for a pension.  Since which time I have had no tidings from your office in relation to the matter, you will do me the kindness to inform me the provision of said application or petition if it is allowed or if there is any difficulty in the way you will please inform me.  
                                 I am Sir
                                     Your Honorable [illegible]
                                      Jas. J. Moore
                                       57 N 3 st Philadelphia
Hon. Commissioner
of Pensions
Washington City D C
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                                Washington City D C
                                      25th Sept. 1860

Hon Geo. C. Whiting
     Court of Pension 
          Sir
                  As the properly authorized agent in the case of Sarah Armitage, widow of Shubert a pensioner on the Pa Role under act 1853 I request that this allowance heretofor [illegible] be [illegible] & her [illegible]] pension be admitted. She has been in the receipt of $200 per annum when she should have received $400. The proper pension for a Lieut of artillery, instead of the amount allowed under act 1818.
     I beg that the correction be made as Mrs. Armitage is now  [illegible  part of sentence] not been many weeks. 
                           I am very Respectfully yours
                             S. A. Peugh
Mr. Peugh exhibited to me a power of attorney authorizing him to execute the above claim.
                                              John Cobb
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Sarah Armitage
Pa act 1853
[Large (6) written]

S. A. Peugh [At bottom of page]
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                                                Washington City D C
                                                           6th Oct. 1860
   
Hon. G. C. Whiting
 Com. of Pensions 
         [illegible]

I herewith enclose an affidavit of Mary B. Rogers daughter of Shubert Armitage, by his first wife, for 
increase of pension in the case of Sarah Armitage, Pa. I deem this testimony adequate to justify the additional increase to which she is entitled. By references to the "Memoirs of Commodore Barry", it will be seen that the affidavit of Mrs. Rogers, is fully corroborated in every [illegible] particular. I doubt not that her allowance of $400 per annum upon this testimony.
                             I am very respectfully yours,
                                 S. A. Peugh
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                                    Washington City D C
                                     8th October 1860

Hon Ge C Whiting
      Sir
            I herewith enclose additional affidavits in the case of Sarah Armitage, widow of Shubert on the Pa Role under act 1853.  Mrs. Armitage has pensioned for 18 months ' service as [illegible] but the period of time of his captivity & imprisonment she has not been allowed for.  I now ask that her affidavits [illegible] may be examined in connection with the "Memories of  Com. Barry" who as the children of [illegible] was prisoner of war along with their father.
     I think the truthfulness of their statements will be so fully confirmed by these "memories" as to leave no doubt of this [illegible] of his imprisonment as he states in his [illegible] . His children who testify in the case of their father are highly respectable persons. Is their testimony [illegible] to great consideration. 
                         I am  very Respfy yours
                                      S. A. Peugh
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                             Camden November 21/55
To Hon Commissioner of pensions  Washington
                 Dear sir  on behalf of Mrs. Sarah Armitage, widow of Shubert Armitage late of the Revolutionary War I take the liberty of addressing you at this time, I,. prosecuted a claim for a pension for her under the Law of 3d of Feby 1853 which was allowed.  Since which time she has been informed that she was entitled to a pension from the 4th of March 1848l. You will please inform me, as her attorney if this be the fact, and if so, you will please furnish me with the form of application for the same. She tells me that one of her acquaintances has received as above. 
                               Your Obt Servant
                                   Jas J Moore 
                                   Camden, NJ
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                             Philade  Dec 9th/53

Dear Sir
       on the receipt of yours of Sept 9th I commenced obtaining the necessary evidance in the case of Mrs. Sarah Armitage's claim but was taken sick before I could communicate it and that accounts for the delay but having [illegible] somewhat I have been enaabled to procure the desired evedance which I herewith Enclose
                        Yours [illegible]
                                Jas J Moore
                               57 N 3rd St Philade
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Camden   Feby 9th 185[illegible]
Hon Commissioner of Pensions
  Dear Sir
https://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.png      Having been informed of the fact that the Court of claims have decided that widows who were Entitled to pensions under the act of 1853, were Entitled to receive from the 4th of March 1848. I hereby renew the petition of Mrs. Sarah Armitage of Philade widow of Shubert Armitage, who was lieutenant in the Revolutionary War for 59 months back pay from the 4th of March 1848 to February  1853  at $20 per Mo making in full $11.80 Eleven hundred and Eighty dollars.
     By Given this your attension you will confer a favour on 
     Your Humble Servent
                                    Jas J Moore
                                   atty for Sarah Armitage
N.B. My power of attorney is filed with the other papers in your department
                                      JJM
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                                        1528 Fulton St
                                             [illegible]
                                         June 11, [illegible]
          [Round Postal stamp , Pension Office J. S.  Jun 14 year illegible]
Keeper of Pension Records of Soldiers of the Revolutionary War 
Pension Dept. Washington D.C.

Dear Sir -
   Will you tell me please if the name of Mrs. Sarah Armitage appears on the Pension Records as drawing a pension on account of husband Shubert Armitage, Lieutenant in Revolutionary War - enlisting in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and dying Dec. 18, 1823. 
    The wife died about 1860
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I think. 
    I will be greatly obliged for any information you can give me.
                           Yours very truly,
        https://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.png            [illegible] Cora H. K. Pittman
                      Regent D. A. R.   
                              Keokuk
                               Donna  

Round Postal Stamped 
Pension Office
June 14
[year illegible]
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HON. STANLEY WOODWARD.
Corresponding Secretary 
        and Librarian,
REV. HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN.
          Secretary,
SIDNEY R. MINER.
          Treasurer,
DR. F.O. JOHNSON

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WYOMING HISTORICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
  
Incorporated A.D. 1858

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. April 4  1900

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Wm. T  [illegible]
     I respectfully by the privilege of having from your files copies of the affidavits of Lieut Shubert Armitage of Phila. Pa pensioner placed in the Rolls June 20, 1821, died Decs 27, 1823. See U.S. Pension Rolls 1835, Vol 2, 
Penna p 110. 
                             Yours truly
                             Horace Edwin Hayden
                         CORR. SEC'Y AND LIBRARIAN
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                         [Written in - Mch 30 -]

                           104 Spruce St
                                 Billings Montana
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen - 
I am very anxious to find some information regarding John Armitage who is said to have taken the test oath in July 1777.
There were other Armitages but I do not know their names. 

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Since I do not know the name of Johns wife and children nor of the others it occurred to me that they may have been on a pension roll, hence the inquiry .
If it is possible to send this information I shall be very grateful to you. 
              Sincerely
                 Alice Hagerman

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RECEIVED
April 1 1940
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Reader No. 25
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