Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,960, Peter Dils, New Jersey War 1812
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New Jersey   Dils Peter   R.3.960

       or Dilts,  or Diltz  
 B.L.H. 43384_160_55 for service in War of 1812    
    war 1812   Diltz.  
                                  Abigail
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251246  Act Mch 3/55
138.432
No 73384 (Oct 17
July 10 /56
Abagail Ditts and Peter Ditts Pri
Capt David Cochran
Col Thos Miller
Capt Dawson   Col Chamberlain
Enl 1st Sept 1814
Dis 14 Sept 1814} 35th Reg N.Y. mil
Battle Plattsburgh
War 1812} Rev War
Battle Monmouth+ Trenton
[illeg] Act 10/57  160 acres
G. D. March 9757 Slade
      page
Vol D - Page 94.
O Abel Jr
Elizabeth town N.Y.
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10982
Abigail Dils
    wid. of Peter
declaration to obtain a pension
Acts July 7 1838 + March 3 1843

J D Woodard
Plattsburgh
Village

Slchugler Falls
March 12/44
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Declaration in order to obtain a pension uder acts of July 7 1838 + March 3. 1843.
State of New York
County of Clinton Ss Be it known that on the twelfth day of March 1844 before the subscriber  judge of Clinton County Courts personally appeared Abigail Dils to me personally known as a resident of Jay Essex County N.H. (within twenty rods of the Clinton County line line), who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain a pension under the acts of Congress of July 7 1838 + March 3, 1832. That she is the widow of Peter Dils who was a private in the New Jersey troops and served as she believes as follows -- he resided at Trenton N. Jersey + served two years in the early part of the war under Capt Davidson or Dawson as she has been informed by her said husband and believes.  She thinks he was a substitute for his step father Mr. Housel + that Capt Dawson belonged to the New Jersey troops -- that her said husband was taken a prisoner by the British at New York and escaped from them, and went to Trenton NJ and enlisted there for during the war as a private under Major Morgan who acted as Col and commanded a rifle regiment raised as she suppose by the state of New Jersey.  That her said husband served in said Regiment as she believes from his enlistment in 1778 until the end of the Revolutionary war + served five years and was discharged in New Jersey + had (as she has been informed by him) an honorable discharge she supposes it was signed by Col Morgan. She does not recollect the name of his other officers --
   She further declares that she was married to the said Peter Dils at the Town of Essex Chittendon Co Vermont by (left blank) Bliss Esq a Justice Peace on the fourteenth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight.  Her maiden name was Abigail Wilson, and that her said husband died at Peru in said County of Clinton on the fifth day of November eighteen hundred and thirty one, leaving her a widow, and she has remained a widow ever since that period, and that her marriage took place after the last term of her said husband's service and previous to the first day of January 1794. viz at the time above stated.
   She thinks her said husband never applied for a pension and was always averse to making efforts to obtain one -- since the act of 1838 she requested Col Barton to assist her to obtain a pension, but she never made a declaration. Recently she has been advised to apply to J. D. Woodward Esq. of Plattsburg for professional assistance + she hereby fully authorises him to act as her
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Attorney in procuring evidence & obtaining a pension for her under the aforesaid act - She has no evidence in her possession of her said Husbands services, or of her marriage.-
            her
Abigail  X  Dils
           mark

Witness present
Griffin Lewis

Sworn and subscribed to before me on the day and year first above written and I certify that the declarant is a credible person and is unable by
reason of bodily infirmity to attend Court which sits more than nine miles from the place where this declaration was taken. She is quite feeble & has difficulty in getting about. The foregoing declaration was carefully read over to her before she signed and swore to the same.
Josiah T. Everest
Judge of Clinton County Court

And I further certify that said Abigail Dils is so infirm and out of health at present that she is unable to write her name.
March 12. 1844
Josiah T. Everest Judge of Clinton
County Courts

Abigail Dils
Acts of July 7 1808
      "     March 3, 1843

State of New York
County of Clinton Ss   I the Subscriber Clerk of said County Certify that Josiah T. Everest before whom the foregoing declaration of Abigail Dils was taken and sworn on the twelfth day of March 1844 was at said time a Judge of Clinton County Court in & for said County and that his signatures above written are genuine I being acquainted with his hand writing-

Witness my hand and official seal this twenty
fifth day of March eighteen hundred & forty four-
John B L Skinner Clerk
By E.H. McLaughlin Dep. Clerk
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State of New York
County of Essex}Ss:
   On this eighth day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty six personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Abigail Ditts, aged 88 years a resident of the town of Austable in the County of Clinton and State do New York, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Peter Ditts, deceased, who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain David Cochran, in the thirty sixth regiment of New York militia, commanded by Thomas Miller in the war with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812, and that her said husband volunteered at Peru, on or about the first day of September 1814 + continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days, that he  did actual service at the battle of Plattsburgh on the eleventh day of September A.D. 1814 in said company and was honorably discharged at Plattsburgh on or about the 14th day of September A.D. 1814.
   And the said Abigail Ditts further declares that her said husband, Peter Ditts was
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a private in the company commanded by Captain Dawson, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chamberlain in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain declared on the 4th day of July 1776, and that her said husband enlisted at Trenton in the state of New Jersey on or about the fifteenth day of August A.D. 1777 for the term of four years, and continued in actual service in said war for the term of four years and during said war, that her said husband Peter Ditts was during his minority or some part thereof recognized by the name of Peter Houtsel, that for four years during said war he acted as waiter for said Captain Dawson, who had during some part of the minority of the said Peter the guardianship and control of him the said Peter, and was known + recognized by the name of Peter Houtsel, and was as the said Abigail is informed + believes enrolled in said company by the name of Peter Houtsel, that the said Peter Houtsel did actual service in the battles of Monmouth + Trenton
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and was honorably discharged at Trenton in New Jersey, on or about the 15th day of August A.D. 1781.

She further states that she was married to the said Peter Dilts on the 14th day of January A.D. 1789, by one Amos Bliss a Justice of the Peace in the town of Essex & state of Vermont, and that her name before her said marriage was Abigail Wilson, that her said husband died at the town of Peru, in the County of Clinton and State of New York, on the 4th day of November in the year A.D. 1831, and that she is now a widow, and the widow of the said Peter Dilts & that she is unable to state more fully the given names of the officers of the Revolutionary War.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act Approved March 3d 1855, & requests that her warrant may be forwarded to Mary H. Wiggins at Keene, New York.
            her
Abigail  X  Dilts
           mark

In presence of 
J.D. Markham
Horun Braman

We Henry Kenedy and Elijah Brown residents of the town of Keene, in the State of New York, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged bby Abigail Dilts, [cut off]
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our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the pplicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Elijah Brown
Henry Kenedy

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim
Horan Braman Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK, }
ESSEX COUNTY, SS: }  I, M.F. Nicholson, Dep. Clerk of aid County, and also Clerk of the County Courts in and for said County, (the same being Courts of Record,) Do Certify that Horan Braman Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgement of the annexed Affidavit & Jurat was, on the day of the date of the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, dwelling therein, duly q[u]alified and authorized by law to take the proof and acknowledgement of deeds, &c., and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Horan Braman and verily believe the signature to said certificate of proof or acknowledgment to be genuine, and that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New York.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six.
[seal affixed at left]
M.F. Nicholson Dep Clerk.
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John Dils & 
Abigail Clarks
Deposition


J.D. Woodward,
Plattsburg,
N.Y.
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[stamp:]. PLATTSBURG N.Y. JUN 26

Mail 
Single 
E & W

PAID

E.F. Williams Esq.
Co. Clerks &-
Elizabethtown
Essex Co.
N.Y.

June 25 from
9 a.m.
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State of New York
County of Essex SS.
John Dils a resident of the town of Wilmington in said County being duly sworn says that he is as he has always understood and believes, a son of Peter Dils & Abigail his wife and was born as he believes in the town of Bolton Vermont 
on the 28th day of April in the year seventeen
hundred and ninety and was fifty four years of age on the twentieth day of April last past. - Deponent further says that he has always understood and verily believe, that his mothers
maiden name was Abigail Wilson and that she was married to the said Peter Dils in the Town of Essex Vermont, on the fourteenth day of January Seventeen hundred and Eighty Eight.
Deponent further says he has frequently heard his Father Peter Dils say, that he was a soldier of the Revolution, and served three years in Col. Morgans Rifle Regt, and that he served two years in the early part of the war as a waiter for
Capt Dawson.  Deponent verily believes his said
Father did serve in the Revolutionary war as he
has often stated in the presence & hearing of Deponent.  Deponent further says that his
said Father died in Peru Clinton County NY on the fifth day of November Eighteen hundred and thirty one leaving the said Abigail Dils a widow, and she still remains such widow, & now resides in Jay Essex Co. NY.  Deponent further says that there is no record of the marriage of
his parents as he is informed and believes- and 
further, that he has a brother named Joseph Dils who was born as deponent believes in the town of Bolton Laven Canada the 26th day of December 1797 and is consequently forty seven
years of age-  and a Sister Abigail wife of Stephen Clark of Jay NY and that as deponent believes his said sister was born at the town of Burlington Germanton, the twenty fourth day of September 1810 and is now thirty four - years of age.
John Dilts

Sworn and subscribed to before me
this Eighteenth day of June 1844 and
I certify that Deponent is a credible person- }
Timothy Haselton Justice Peace
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State of New York
County of Essex SS.   Abigail Clark - a resident of the Town of Jay NY - being duly sworn says that she has send the within affidavit, and knows the contents thereof and verily believes the same and every part thereof to be true. That she is a Daughter of Peter Dils & Abigail his wife as she believe, and was born in the
town of Burlington in the State of Vermont on
the twenty fourth day of September Eighteen
hundred & ten ------ and is the youngest child-- She further states that her parents lived together as husband & wife from her earliest recollection, until the period of her fathers death which took place in [illegible] NY on the fifth day of November 1831 -
Abigail Clark

Sworn & subscribed to
before me this Eighteenth day of
June 1844 and I certify that
Deponant is a credible witness. }
Timothy Haselton
Justice Peace

State of New York
County of Essex  
I Edmund F. Williams Clerk of the County of Essex and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County do certify that Timothy Haselton before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and taken was on the day of the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for the said County duly elected and qualified now sitting within the said County and fully authorized to act as such and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and Verily believe the foregoing official signatures are genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand
and affixed my official
seal at the Clerks office
of said County this 25th
day of June A.D. 1844
E.F. Williams Clerk
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County of Clinton } ss:  Andrew Baker and Stephen Baker, in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn, each for himself deposeth and saith and the said Andrew Baker, for himself says that he is fifty seven years of age; and the said Stephen Baker, for himself says that he is forty seven years of age.

And these deponents further say that they have resided in the town of Au Sable in said County & State aforesaid for the last forty seven years.  That these deponents were well acquainted with Peter dilts and Abigail Dilts his wife for the last thirty one years previous to the death of the said Peter Dilts.  That these deponents have resided in the same neighborhood with the said Peter Dilts and Abigail Dilts for the term of three years that the said Abigail & the said Peter lived and cohabited together as husband and wife.  That the said Peter Dilts & Abigail Dilts raised a large family of children, to wit two girls & four boys, that the said Peter & the said Abigail mingled & were received in society as husband & wife & that the said Abigail was generally reputed to be the wife of the said Peter Dilts.  That the said Abigail is now a widow & the
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widow of the said Peter Dilts.

Sworn & subscribed before me 
this 11th day of June 1856. } 
Andrew Baker
Stephen Baker

Luther D. Clark
Justice of the Peace
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DATES OF
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.

[table follows with 5 columns; column headings as follows;]
(1) DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
(2) LENGTH OF SERVICE.
(3) RANK.
(4) OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.{sub-headings:  a. CAPTAIN.
b. COLONEL.
(5) STATE.

[text beneath column headings as follows, crossing all the columns:]
Ity is stated the soldier substituted for his stepfather Mr. Housel and served as waiter for Capt. Dawson of the N.J. Troops was taken prisoner on Staten Island and confined in N.Y. 6 mos. then escaped and afterwards served as private under Cols. Chamberlain &. Morgan till lose of war.  He also served in Capt. David Cochran's Co. N.Y. Militia war 1812,  from
Aug. 31 to Sept 13 1814 and was in the battle of Plattsburgh.
Battles engaged in, Trenton & Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment,Trenton N.J.
Date of application for pension, Mch. 12 1844
Residence at date of application, Jay, Essex Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, [blank]
Remarks: Soldier was born at Trenton N.J. date not stated, he married at Essex Chittenden Co. Vt. Jany. 14 1788 or 1789 Abigail Wilson & died at Peru, Clinton Co. N.Y.  Nov. 4 or 5 1831.  
There were 4 children. John born Apr. 20, 1790. Joseph born Dec. 26, 1797. and Abigail on Sept. 24, 1810 wife of Stephen Clark, are the only names stated.  The claim was not allowed for lack of proof of Rev. service for which pensinon was claimed. Service alleged in the 1812 is not incorporated in above
over

*from B. Land


Very respectfully,
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138.432. April 14/52      
      251  246
Abigail Dilts widow
Peter Dilts pri.
Cap Langwith
        N Y Mil.
Col. Clarke
In Octo. 1812
In Nov. 1812
1812
----
3 am Apl 22/52
___________________
Third Auditor Office          no Rolls
No Rolls of Capt. Langwith N Y Mijl on
file in this officde
No. 1  Rlname
July 10/52 M Bdand

A.L. Gage
Present

RWB
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Abigail dilts
Application for Bounty
land N" 251.246
Additional Evidence


Oliver Abel Jr.
Atty
Elizabethtown N.Y.
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State of New York }
County of Clinton } SS.  On this 26th day of September 857, before me a Justice of thte peace within and for the County and State aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Abiga[i]l Dilts who being by me duly sworn did depose & say that she is the widow of Peter Dilts deceased, that as such widow she made application for bounty land under the act of march 3d 1855 that her said application was numbered 251.246.  She further declares that she has not received a ['land' crossed out] warrant for bounty land under any act of Congress and that she has not made any other applications therefor than the one above referred to.  She further declares that there is not record evidence of her marriage with the said Peter Dilts in existence, that the person by whom she was married to said Dilts deceased about four years since & that there are no eyewitnesses to her said marriage living, according to the knowledge, information, or belief of deponent - that deponent has caused diligent search & enquiry to be made for record evidence of her said marriage & for eyewitnesses thereto, but has been unable to find any.
            her
Abigail  X  Dilts
           mark
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We Henry Kenedy resident Essex County and Stephen Clark resident of Black Brook in the County of Clinton and State of New York, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Abigail Dilts in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Henry Kenedy
Stephen Clark

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written.  And I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
M.G. Macomber Justice of the Peace

State of New York, }
CLERK'S OFFICE OF CLINTON COUNTY. } ss.
I, FREDERICK W. AMES, Clerk of the County Courts of said County (the same being Courts of Record,) do hereby certify that M.G. Macomber Esq., whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and thereon written, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County of Clinton, dwelling therein, commissioned, sworn and duly authorized to take the same.  And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice of the Peace, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine and that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court nd County this 1st day of October A. D. 1857.
F.W. Ames Clerk.
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[stamp:] ELIZABETHTOWN N.Y. JUL 8

251.246

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


10982
New York
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L. Stetson  May 23 '46
D. Woodward Oct. 25 45
             "           May 30 ---
same July 1 46
To A.L. Gage, Feby. 24 1852
Bro[cut off] Mch. 18/59

2960
-----------------
1838
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State of New York County of Clinton [unclear] I Stephen Francis Hutinack of Plattsburg in said county aged Eighty four years on the 16th instance being duly sworn say that I became acquainted with a man called Peter Dilts at Plattsburg aforesaid about twenty three years ago. I then live in said town near the line of Peru and have resided there ever since and now reside there.  [unclear] Peter Dilts then resided in Peru in said county, & I used to converse with him occasionally in regard to the events of the Revolution. I understand from him that he served in the Revolutionary army with the southern Troop - my impression is, that he said he was in service during the worst part of the war. I never heard him called Peter Dils though he may have so written his name. He was always called Peter Dilts, and was a great hunter and a good marksman - I have heard him say that he was in the [unclear] service in the Revolutionary army, & from my recollection of what he said I verily believe he was a Revolutionary Soldier. I have heard him say that he was once taken Prisoner & think he afterwards belonged to Col. Morgans Rifle Regt. Said Dilts died - I believe in 1801 leaving a widow who is, as I understand still living in [unclear} Co. NY adjoining Clinton. I was in the Continental Service myself. I receive a pension.
S. Francis Hutinack
Sworn subscribed to before me this 8th day of April 1845 & I verify that deponent is a credible witness in the [unclear] of his mental faculties.
DBMcNeil
Sup Court C[unclear]
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State of New York
County of Clinton p. I, Samuel Terry of Peru in said county aged fifty four years, being duly sworn says that I became acquainted with Peter Dilts more than twenty eight years ago. He was a resident of Peru, & I have fished and hunted with him frequently. He was a good shot, & was a hunter, and I have heard him say in conversation with me and my father Isaiah Terry now deceased, that he belonged to Col. Morgans Rifle Regiment & served in the Revolutionary Army. I have heard him state where he wintered in [unclear] with the Troops. He was frequently at my Fathers House, & I have always understood from him that he was a Revolutionary Soldier & I believe he was. He died as I believe in 1831 leaving a widow. I never heard him called Peter Dils though he may have written his name Dils. We always used to call him Uncle Dilts. I once fished some days with him at Charity Lake and we caught a great many. Dilts came to Peru several years before I knew his family.
Samuel Terry
Sworn & subscribed to me before me this 11th day of April 1845 and I certify that Deponent is a credible witness. 
George Moore
Justice Peace
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State of New York
County of Clinton SS } Be it known that on the fourteenth day of April 1845 before the subscriber a Judge of Clinton County courts personally appeared Asa Everlith of Peru in said county to me personally known, who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration.  That he is fifty five years old.  That he became acquainted wit Peter Dils in Peru in said county about twenty nine years ago & was well acquainted with him till his decease & resided within six or seven miles of said Peter Dils the whole tie, & has often heard the said Peter Dils say that he was a Revolutionary soldier during the whole war, & this deponent further says he believes the said Peter Dils was a man of truth & veracity and has often been in company with the said Peter Dils a hunting & fishing & from reported conversation with him I believed & still believe that said Peter Dils was a Revolutionary solder.  Said Peter Dils was a great hunter and a good marksman.  Said Peter Dils always went by the name of Peter Dils & died in the town of Peru about eleven years ago and has often asked said Peter Dils why he did not apply for a Pension & said Peter Dils always answered that he never would apply for a Pension as long as he could get a living by his own assistance or exertions and this deponent further says that he has often been to said Peter Dils house in his life time & is well acquainted with Abigail said Peter Dls wife & that she always lived with said Peter Dils as his wife until his Death & that they had several children & was well acquainted with some of them viz Joseph Dils, John Dils & Abigail Dils.
Asa Everlith

Sworn & subscribed before me & I further
certify aid Asa Everlith is a credible
witness.  Josian T. Everst Judge of Clinton County Court
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Case of the widow of
Peter Dils or Dilts.

Asa Everlith
Affidavit

State of New York County of Clinton SS. I the subscriber Clerk of said County do hereby certify that David B. McNeil before whom the annexed affidavit of Francis Hutinack was taken & sworn on the 8th day of April 1845 was at said time a Supreme Court Commissioner of said County & that his signature to the Jurat of said affidavit is genuine.  I also certify that George Moore before whom the annexed affidavit of Samuel Terry was sworn on the 11th day of April instant was at said time a Justice of the Peace in aforesaid County and his signature within is genuine.  I also certify that Josiah T. Everest before whom the within affidavit of Asa Everlith was taken & worn on the fourteenth day of April 1845 was at said time a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and also a Judge of Clinton County Court and that his signature to the Jurat of said affidavit is genuine.

In witness whereof I have fastened these papers together by a piece of red tape which passes under my official seal hereto affixed this 16th day of April 1845.
Charles H. Terres Clerk
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Know all men by these presents that I, Abigail Dilts of Clinton County, New York, do hereby appoint A.L. Gage of Washington D.C. my lawful attorney, irrevocably for me & in my name to receive from the United States,  my pension certificate, & all such services of [illegible] as may be due to me by the United States on any account whatever, & generally to do all lawful acts whatever touching the premises - hereby confirming what my said attorney may lwafully do in the premises.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this eighth day of November 1851.
            her
Abigail  X  Dilts
           mark

Acknowledged & subscribed
before me this 8th day of
November 1851.
S. Reynolds
Justice of the peace
in & for Clinton County

Abigail Dilts being sworn says she is directly interested in this case, as the claimant.
Sworn to & subscribed
before me the day & year
above.
S. Reynolds.
Justice of the peace in & for
the County of Clinton
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Plattsburg August 8/44

Dear Sir,

I. enclose the affidavits of John Dils & Abigail Clark.  The widow Dils wishes you to cause another examination of the Rolls of Col Morgans Rifle Regiment for the name of Peter Dilts.  Her son it appears writes his name Dilts, and his Fathers may have been entered Dilts or Diltz.

Very Respectfully Yours
J.D. Woodward
Atty for the widow

James L. Edwards Esq.
Comr. of Pensions
Washington.
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June 28/44

Respaly Case of
Mrs. Dilts, wid. of Peter

James L. Edwards Esqr.
Comr. of Pensions
Washington,
D.C.
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Washington June 25. 1847.

Sir,

I think it probable that Mrs Dilts has mistaken the name of Dawson for some other officer.   Perhaps her husband Peter Dilts may have served under Capt. Kershon who is understood to have commanded a Company raised about Trenton N.J. in the early part of the war.  Will you cause an examination on this lead, and also for the name of Peter Dilts among the prisoners in the New York Hospital. The widow says her husband was imprisoned there about six months when he escaped &c. & that his cousin
Peter Sharp was imprisoned with him and died in prison from starvation.  Your letter of May
30. 1845 shows an examination for services of John Dilts or Dils whereas our man was Peter. In
the hope that you may find, or indicate where
may be found, some refreshing evidence in
the case, I remain
Very Respectfully yours
J.D. Woodward
Atty for the widow

James L Edwards Esq
Comr. of Pensions
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[stamp:]. PLATTSBURG N.Y. APR 19

April 23, 1845
Addl. her case
Abigail Dilts
------------


James L. Edwards Esq.
Comr. of Pensons
Washington
D.C.
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Plattsburg N.Y. April 19 1845

Dr Sir

I enclose additional evidence in the case of Abigail Dils, widow of Peter Dils decd.  It would seem that he was usually called Dilts.  Perhaps his name will be found on a further examination.

Yours Respectfully
J.D. Woodward
for the Widow

James L. Edwards Esq.
Comr. &c.
Washington
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Revolutionary

Abigail Dils - widow of Peter
Act July 7, 838.  Suspended.  New York

John Adams.   Act June 7, 1832
Rejected - Vermont.  Papers [illegible]
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Ho. of Reps 4 Apl 1844

Col. Edwards

Sir. Mr J Woodward of Plattsburgh N.Y. requests me to enclose the accompanying declaration of
Abagail Diltz (widow of Peter Dils) who
supposes herself entitled to a pension.

He desires you to examine the record of Col Morgans Regt with a view to evidence in support of her Claim.

Yours &c.
L. Stelson
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Peter Dils
sd to be his handwriting.
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Pension Office
May 23rd 1844.

Sir,

I have the honor to inform you, that the
declaration of Abigail Dils, unsupported by any proof whatever, has been examined and filed. 
The claims for an alleged service of her
husband for five years under Colonel Morgan
and, as it would appear by her statement, in the New Jersey Line.  The New Jersey Line arranged in alphabetical order show conclusively that he did not serve therein and the rolls of Colonel Morgan's Rifle Regiment
of the Virginia Line afford no evidence of his service.

I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully
Your Obt Sert
J. L Edwards

Hon. L. Stelson
House of Representatives
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126. - D
Washington D.C.
Dec. 10.1837.

Dilts, Peter
Rev. War.

A.L. Gage
encloses power of attorney & enquires.

Respectfully referred to the Commission of Pensioner and write so informed.

Dec 12.1837
N. Jones
A L Gage

Rec.d Dec. 12. 1837.
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Elizabethtown New York
Oct. 3. 1857

Sir,

I herein the enclose additional evidence in the care of Abigal Dilts claim for Bounty land "N" 251.246 which I hope will be found satisfactory.  I believe it answers all the requirements mentioned in some communication announcing the suspension of the claim.  I hope you will find it convenient to act in the matter soon as Mrs. Dilts is a very aged lady in indigent circumstances, absolutely requires the avails  of the Warrant for her support.

Respectfully Yours
Oliver Abel Jr

Hon Geo C. Whiting
Com of Pensions
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SUSPENDED BOUNTY LAND CLAIM RE-EXAMINED.

No. 251246
        138432}

Treasury Department, 
Third Auditor's Office,
February 12. 1857.

Peter Dilt's service in Captain David Cochran's company New York Militia from the 31st of August until the 13th of September 1814. paid for 14 days

[illegible signature]
For Auditor

Commissioner of Pensions,
Department of the Interior.

Examined by Jones
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3-871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
        _______________

Briefed by Geo M. Moore
Mar 21. 1910
Certificate No. _____________
Claimant ___________________
Soldier Peter Diltz of N. J.
Service ---                  RW.
Additional Service _________
No _____ claim, State records _____, 190 ___
No claim, combination records ___. 190 ___
REMARKS:
So O W I W or R as avove
Jay R F 2960

0-8       Chief Division
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May 8, 1917
Rec Dec H (this in lighter ink)

Sirs,

Have you any record of the military service, in the Revolution of John Peter Melick and Peter Dilts or Dills, both of Hunterdon Co. N.J. also of John Woods of Burlington Co., N.J.

Mrs. James A. Edgar,
202 Grant Ave.,
Highland Park.
New Brunswick,
New Jersey
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Abigail Dilts
Claim for Bounty 
Land - Act Mar 3, 1855

251246

O. Abel Jr
Atty'
Elizabethtown
N.York
Page 52

State of New York
County of Clinton}

______ SS: Andrew Baker, and Stephen Baker, in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn, each for himself deposeth and saith: the said Andrew Baker for himself says that he is fifty seven years of age. And the said Stephen Baker, for himself says that he is forty seven years of age: And these deponents further say that they have resided in the town of Ausable  in the County and State aforesaid for the last forty seven years.  That these deponents were well acquainted with Peter Dilts, & Abigail Dilts, his wife (mentioned in the annexed affidavits) for the last thirty one years next preceding the death of the said Peter Dilts, that the said Abigail Dilts is now a widow & the widow of the said Peter Dilts, deceased, that the said Peter Dilts died at the town of Peru, in Clinton County, New York, on the fourth day of November in the year 1831, that the deponents were present at the funeral of the said Peter Dilts and saw him buried

Sworn & subscribed before me this 11th day of June 1856}   Andrew Baker
                         Stephen Baker

Luther D. Clark
Justice of the Peace