Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2814, for Frederick Lazarus, Pennsylvania
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Penn
Lazarus, Frederick
Elizabeth
W. 2814
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3517
Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Lazarus 
widow of
Frederick Lazarus, decd
Penn’a 
who was a pensioner under the Act of –
and who died on the - Oct. 1800
Northumberland Co of the State of Penn’a
who was a private in the Co commanded 
by Captain – of the regt commanded 
by Col Butler in the Penn’a
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia 
at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of July
1839 & sent and Peter Lazarus
Sunbury, Penn’a

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839 $240.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sep 39 40.00
$280.00

Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by D. McCurdy Clerk
[cut off - Book Vol Page]

1840. June 7 special order
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Pennsylvania
Lancaster County
Extract from the record of Trinity Church Lancaster Pennsylvania

Fredrich Lazarus & Elizabeth Gutzner were lawfully married by the Rev. H. Muhlenberg D D on the twentieth day of April A. D. seventeen hundred & eighty four

I John B Baker above named Pastor of Trinity church Lancaster Pennsylvania do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record with the exception of the data which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows

1784   Marriage record
April 20  Fredrick Lazarus & Elizabeth Gutzner
John C. Baker
Pastor of Trinity Church, Lancaster

I John C Baker above named depose and say that I hold the office of Pastor of Trinity Church in the county, town and state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the record of the said church with the exception above named as certified by me

Affirmed and subscribed before me
Geo. Musser, Alder
John C Baker
Pastor of Trinity Church
Lancaster, Penn
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Lancaster County

I George B Withers Prothonotary of the court of common pleas of the county aforesaid do certify that George Musser Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was at the time of his so doing and yet is an Alderman for the City of Lancaster in said county and that the signature of the said George Musser Esq is the true signature and a genuine handwriting and signature of the said Alderman
In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of the said court and subscribed my name the ninth day of March A D 1839
George Withers, Proth
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4946
Elizabeth Lazarus
Penn

admitted as
Pr 2 yrs $80
Capt_____Col Butler
Pa line
died Oct __1800
Act of July 1838
Peter Lazarus
Sunbury Pa
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State of Pennsylvania
On this fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appears before the subscribes one of the Judges of the court of common pleas of the county of Northumberland Elizabeth Lazarus a resident of Sunbury in the county of Northumberland aged eighty one or eighty two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1828 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Frederick Lazarus who was a private in the Pennsylvania line as appears from a document annexed. He enlisted in Lancaster Pennsylvania, where he resided, in the cavalry, but was afterwards, as she was informed, transferred to the infantry. He was marched from Lancaster and served until the close of the war. The year of his enlistment she cannot tell nor whether he was in any engagement nor what service he performed nor under what officers he served. She has no documentary evidence in support of this claim except that which accompanies these proceedings. She further declares that she was married to the said Frederick Lazarus on the twentieth day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty four: that her husband the aforesaid Frederick Lazarus died on the (blank) day of October one thousand eight hundred; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service; but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four by: at the time above stated.
Sworn & subscribed this day above written before
Geo Weiser
Elizabeth  X(her mark) Lazarus

Pennsylavania
Northumberland County
I George Weiser one of the Judges of the court of common pleas of the county of Northumberland before who the above declaration was made do certify that the applicant, the said Elizabeth Lazarus cannot from
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bodily infirmity attend the court. Witness my hand the
fifth day of March, Eighteen hundred and thirty nine
Geo. Weiser

Pennsylvania Northumberland County ss
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Northumberland Catherine Kutzner who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath declare that she is the
sister of Elizabeth Lazarus, the within applicant. That she
knows that the said Elizabeth was the wife of the said Frederick Lazarus and lived with him as such untill the day of his death and that she hath remained a widow and unmarried
ever since 
Catherine Kutzner X her Mark
Sworn & subscribed before me the fifth day of March 1839
Geo Weiser

Pennsylvania Northumberland County ss.
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Northumberland Mary Lyon who being duly sworn
according to law declares on her said oath that she was well
acquainted with Frederick Lazarus and Elizabeth his wife, the
applicant within named. That her own husband John Lyon
died in January Eighteen hundred and one and that
Frederick Lazarus aforesaid died in the fall preceding. That
she has resided in the same town with the said Elizabeth ever
since and knows that she has continued a widow
Mary Lyon
Sworn & subscribed before me March 5th-- 1839.
Geo Weiser
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Pennsylvania Northumberland County ss
I Samuel D. Jordan Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid, do certify that the Honorable George Weiser who gave the foregoing certificate and before the oaths of Elizabeth Lazarus, Catherine Kitzner & Mary Lyon were taken, was at the time of his so doing one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County to all whose acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere. And that the signature of the said George Weiser annexed to each of them is the genuine signature of the said George Weiser.
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed
my name and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Sumbury, the fifth day of March 1839
Sam’l D Jordan Prothy
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WIDOW, & c.
Revy
File No. 2814
Elizabeth Lazarus
Widow
Jacob Lazarus
Pri Rev War

Act July 7. 1838.
Index:- Vol. [blank] Page [416?]
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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[letterhead]
President GEN. J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, U. S. A.
Vice-Presidents:
MR. JUSTICE DAVID J. BREWER.
MR. WILLIAM D. CABELL.
DR. G. BROWN GOODE.
HON. GEORGE H. SHIELDS.
PRESIDENT E. M. GALLAUDET.
Secretaries:
A. HOWARD CLARK.
CAPT. C. D. COWLES, U. S. A.
Registrar:
WILLIAN J. RHEES.
Assistant Registrar:
SURGEON GEORGE H. PENROSE.
Treasurer:
WILLIAM VAN ZANDT COX.

SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY
WASHINGTON CITY. April 18, 1893

Hon. Wm. Lochran
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
I respectfully request a copy
of the record of Revolutionary
Service of Frederick Lazarus,
to whose widow Elizabeth Lazarus
 a pension was granted about 1837.
I have the honor to be your
obedt Servt
Wm J Rhees
Registrar
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Mr Rhees,
 copied the papers 
he marked [penciled?]
April 19/93

SONS OF THE AMELLAN REVOLUTION
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY
Hon Wm. Lochran
Comm’r of Pensions
2814
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State of Pennsylvania Northumberland County Set
On the 30th day of January Eighteen hundred and twenty seven, personally appeared before me one of the associate Judges of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Northumberland, Daniel St. Clair, who on his solemn oath doth
day and say that he was well acquainted with Frederick Lazarus, now deceased - That he first became acquainted with the deceased in 1776. That the said deceased according to the best of deponents knowledge, enlisted in Lancaster in the State aforesaid, in the year 1777 in the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Butler to serve during the War. That the deponent knows the fact of the said Frederick Serving in the army of the United States during the war, in the capacity of a drill Sergeant
Daniel St. Clair
Sworn and subscribed Before me
Henry Shaffer

Pennsylvania Northumberland County ss
I Samuel D. Jordan Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid certify that Henry Shaffer before whom the above affidavit was made was at the time of his so doing and was until the time of his death one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid to all whose acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of his allahan, and that the signature of Henry Shaper annexed thereto is the genuine signature of the said Henry the for - In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court the Fifth day of March 1839
Sam’l D Jordan Prot
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SUNBURY Pa
MAR 13

 4946 Mar 16
Ohio
Eliz Lazarus
Act 1838


FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm’r of Pensions
Washington City

Peter Lazarus
Sunbury Ohio
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Sunbury Pa. March 12, 1839

Sir
Inclosed I transmit to you such evidence as my
mother is enabled to furnish in support of her claim to a
pension under the act of Congress of 7th July 1838, which I trust will be found sufficiently satisfactory to render her application successful.
I would observe by way of explination of St. Clair’s affidavit having been taken so early as 1827, that my mother intended then to apply for a pension under some other act, but before 
she had proceeded far in the business it was found that as
she was married after the war, her case was not embraced
by the then existing pension laws. She had then also
procured the deposition of another soldier (Robert Sheppard)
who was himself a pensioner, & knew all about my father’s service but it has been lost or mislaid, so that it cannot now be 
found, & he as well as St Clair is since deceased.

Very Respectfully
your Obt Serv
Peter Lazarus

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Comm’r of Pension, Washington City

P.S. For further particulars of my father's service, my
mother must rely upon the records of the war department-
It will no doubt there appear also that he rec’d a donation
of land from the U. States there.  P L
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211)
Third Regiment. Gratuity
We and each of us whose names are hereunto subscribed
do acknowledge to have received from Major Thomas
B. Bowen, and Captain Ercurius Beatty, agents for
the late Pennsylvania Line, the several sums
opposite
to our names respectively, in Certificate, dated July 1.
1784, bearing Interest at six per cent, from November
the fourth 1783 signed by John Pierce, Commissioner
and described as below, being for the Balance of a
Settlement between the United States and us for Gratuity
allowed the non commissioned officers and privates
who served to the end of the War.
Date of Issues, - Octr 25th 1784
No. of Certificate - 72.188
Letter - N.
Names - Frederick Lazoras
Sums Dollars - 80 [90th?] 
Signers - Frederick Lazoras

Auditor General's Office
February 15th 1839
I certify the above to be a correct extract from
Pay Roll Book B. page 211, of the Revolutionary war
and remaining in this Office
Witness my hand and seal of
in the day and year aforesaid
Jno W Hammond for
Nathl P. Hobart
Aud Genl