Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45277, Jabez Bigelow, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey
Bigelow, Jabez
NUMBER
S. 45277
CONTENTS
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14630 630
From
New Jersey
[illegible]New York
Jabez Bigelow
of Sullivan in the state of New Jer.
who was a Private in the regiment commanded
Colonel Day of the New Jersey
line, for the term of
One year.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 11 of
April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of Sep [year illegible]
agent to Lemuel Coble Esq
Parsippany New Jersey
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819  $134
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820 $40

$182
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818 

at the Treasury under
act of the 6 April 1838
4th Sept 1838 to 7 Dec 1838
day of his death Agt notified
9 Jany 1840
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Jabez Bigelow, Private

Jabez Bigelow
11 April 1818 Private
Dayton's Regt New Jersey
'76 One year
Cox's Cy of June 1778 or 79
Jabez Bigalow fifer
78 disch'd 79 served
by the roll
the official character of
Judge Striking is certified
by J N M Hord Clk under
seal of Court which certif
is filed with this claim
service admitted but
the seal of the Court
must be affixed to the
signature of each Judge.
on each claim or the clerk
should certify the of character
of Judge, Separately
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Madison County
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State of New York
Jabez Bigelow of the town of Sullivan
in the County and Madison and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that
in the month of April 1776 he this deponent enlisted and entered into the service of the United States of America
in the war of the Revolution; his first
Captain was Peter Dickerson his Colonel Elias
Dayton of the New Jersey line, under which said officer this deponent served one year, and was honourably discharged, but not in writing. 
Afterwards this deponent served
under the same Captain
nine months as a musician and was finally
honourably discharged at Newark in New Jersey but received no discharge
in writing.

And further
this deponent saith not
(signed) 
Jabez Bigelow

I, John Stocking, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Madison do certify that on the Eleventh day of April 1818
the above named Jabez Bigelow subscribed
and made oath to the above affidavit before me and at the same time under oath declared to me that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for his support. And I being personally acquainted with the said Jabez have in doubt of the truth of his affidavit & relation
John Stocking
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State of New York
Madison County Clerks office 

I certify that it appears of Record in this Office that John Stacking was a Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas for the County of
Madison at the time the within Instruments
appear to have been taken & certified,
duly authorized to take and certify the same and
that his signature to said certificate is in his hand writing
Witness my name and the seal of said County the
16th day of July 1819

Wm J. Haugh
Dep Clk
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Robert Rigden
Jabez Bigelow
Schedule 9
Not on N. York Roll-
a form of application for
transfer is herewith enclosed
P. Office
8th Dec 20
Sent to
Robt Monet Esq
[illegible] New York
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State of New York
Chenango County On the 11 day of October 1820, personally
appeared in open Court being a court of Law (?)  because
it proceeds according to the Courts of the common law, keeps a
record of its proceedings and has the from of fine and adjournment for the said County Jabish Bigelow aged sixty one years resident in said County who being first duly
sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that [illegible] 
he served in the revolutionary war as follows he enlisted in the year 1776 in Morris County, State of New Jersey under Col Peter Dickerson in a Regiment commanded Col Elias Dayton
of the 3d Jersey (?) regiment and served one year when he again enlisted in the said Regiment as fife Major and served nine months when he was discharged at Elizabethtown or Newark.  The date of his
original application is the 11th day of April 1818 and the number of his pension certificate is 14630. And I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States
on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since
that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my
property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish
to bring myself within the provision of an act of
entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
[illegible]  and naval service of the war was passed on the
18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has
my person in trust for me my property or securities
contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other
than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and
by me subscribed-
Jabez Bigelow
Real Estate None of any description
Personal estate as follows: one mare & Colt
One Cow 
One 2 Horse Waggon One One horse Wagon and harness one old [illegible] and broken [illegible]
2 old Chests 1 old Spinning wheel, One Wool Wheel and [illegible] 1 Iron Kettle, 
1 Pot 1  Broken Tea Kettle 1 Iron
Basin, 1 Sorting (?) Iron 1 pair of [illegible] irons, 1 Shovel and tongs 1 Small Steelyards [illegible]
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3 Tin Pan 2 Northern Plates, 3 Southern Plates, 6 Teacups & Tea Pot, 4 iron spoons, 4 knives and forks, 1 Pewter Platter and Basin, 3 [illegible], 8 old chairs, 1 [illegible] table  and Candle Stand, 1 axe, 1 Sythe
1 Hen and 4 old [illegible],  2 Tubs, 1 old Wash Tub, 1 old Saddle and Bridle,
1 Old Trough share 1/2 Ton of Hay.

Sureties as follows one Note of $100 payable 18 month hence which I never expect to realize any thing from the maker of the Note is very poor and unable to peace and I consider the demand of no value to me. The [illegible] is a wheelright by profession 
in bad heath and unable to labor his family consists of
himself his wife aged fifty five years his daughter Hephen aged
18 years his wife is unable to labor in consequence of disease
daughter at present cannot render him any assistance.

Jabez Bigelow
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Sworn to and declared on on the 11th day of October 1820 before [illegible]
David Butterfield (?) & James Cuman (?) Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas for Chenango County
Silas Chittenden, Depty. Clerk
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I, Jonathan Chamberle, Clerk of the County of Chenango in the
Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby confirm
that the foregone oath and schedule thereto annexed and
for the line of the Court and I do further certify
that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount of
the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is $100 Dollars
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said Court on the 11th day of Oct 1820-
William Churchin Clerk
of the Court of the County of Chenango
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT

Second Comptroller's Office,
January 1st 1840

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", The child of Jabez Bigelow, dec'd
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany N.Y. Agency, at the rate of eight
Dollars and 00 Cents
per under the law of the 18th March 1818, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4" of Sept 1838 to the 27th Dec. 1838 the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Mr. Moses Bigelow
577 Ridge Street
Newark, New Jersey

July 15, 1932
BA-J/MLE
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
JABEZ BIGELOW
S. 45277

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter relative to Jabez Bigelow, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.  The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 45277, based upon the Revolutionary War
service of Jabez Bigelow.

He enlisted April 9, 1776, in Morris County, New Jersey, and
served one year as private in Captain Peter Dickerson's company, Colonel Elias Dayton's 3rd New Jersey Regiment. He afterwards
enlisted and served nine months as fife major under the same officers in the same regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 11, 1818, while a resident of Sullivan, Madison County, New York.

In 1820 he was aged sixty-one years and a resident of Chenango
County, New York, and referred to his wife aged fifty-five years and to a daughter Hephera (name illegible), aged eighteen years.
In 1823 the soldier was living in Lansing, Tompkins County, New York. It was stated at that time that he had two children,
both of age, but their names were not stated.
In 1824, one Horace Birdsall was referred to as a son-in-law of the soldier, and one Andrew Keller as "son father-in-law"
(cannot determine relationship), both of them of Lansing, New York.
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There are no further family data in the claim.
Jabez Bigelow died December 7, 1838.
Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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1932 - July 13. Hist. to Moses Bigelow- MLB

45277
Reg (?) INVALID
No. 45277.
Jabez Bigelow
Priv Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
lndex: -- Vol. 3, Page 43
Arrangement of 1870.
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Ludlowville, NY March 4

Jabez Bigelow [illegible]
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of Labor
Washington City

Rec. 18 Mar 1824
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To the
Honourable John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

Dear Sir I have been
informed that Jabez Bigelow had got one
Andrew Koller & one Horis Bustell to make
oath that the statement maid to you Last
July by his nabors together with myself
Concerning his land and situation
in life was written. Mr Keller is his son father in law
and Mr Bustell his son in Law. Now Sir if
this be so I should be glad to know it
further more I wish to let you know that
M Bigelow has got one Son or more to
sell his farm on Morgage said
the farm sold for two Hundred and fifty Dollars and [illegible] paid it of himself by agreement laid with
said Bigelows so as to make people think
that the has not got any thing as he has
done heretofore  Now (?)  for your information
I inclose to you a letter I heard from Mr.
Haddel for how much money he paid him.
Since he drew his pension now Sir for
men can and allow to smuggel the
property in this way and put their hands in
publick then take out money at
there father and part it in their children and
their widow and wont work at all.   This
from yours with the Highteof Respet
March 4 - 1824
John Bowker
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Dear Sir, I wish you would let know
whether a man lands on money and
put his own property out
of his hand
and [illegible]  Plese to write to me that steps
must be taken to put a stop to such
intriges and oblige.

 Yours with Respect
John Bowker
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Suspended - See letters
to Pensioner & Agent,
22 Jun 1823 [illegible]
Sent to M. J. Smith [illegible]
See letter
Hon [illegible]
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In the case of Jabez Bigelow

Pensions
Office
Hon. L. Lawrence
Recd 6 March 1826
paid [illegible]
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State of New York
Tompkins County ⎬ 
Jabez Bigelow of the town of Lansing in the
County of Tompkins being duly sworn says that at the time he made his schedule & Inventory under the Act of Congress of May first 1820 he was not a freeholder Either in his own right or in right of any other person and he further saith that he purchased the twenty three acres mentioned in the previous affidavit
of this deponent on the second day of September 1821. and took possession of the same in the month of October following and this Deponent further saith that the said twenty one acres of the said
premises were duly sold by virtue of a Mortgage given upon the same to one John Ozman, on the twenty fifth day of February Instant and that the same were paid off by the said John Ozman the mortgages that at the time of this Deponents making his said schedule he resided in the
County of Shenango a distance of about Eighty miles from this present residence that he never had seen or heard of the premises in question at the time of making his deposition.

Schedule

Sworn & subscribed before me
Jabez Bigelow
26th February 1824
Edward G. Pelton
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
COUNTY OF TOMPKINS,
CLERK'S OFFICE,
SS.
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I, Silas Timm, Deputy Clerk
of the County of Tompkins, and of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the said County, do hereby certify, that Edmund
G. Cotton Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the
certificate of the annexed deposition
Jabez Bigelow and John Osman
and endorsed thereon
was on the day of the date of the said certificates a Commissioner 
in and for the said County, dwelling in the said
County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorised by law to take the proof and acknowledgment
of Deeds and Discharges of Mortgages, & c. And further, that I am acquainted with
the hand-writing of the said
Commissioner
and verily believe
that the signature of
Edmund G Pelton subscribed to the said
Certificate is the proper hand-writing of the said
commissioners --
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of
the said Court, this twenty seventh day of February 1824
Wiles Fink Dep.
Clk
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State
of New York
Tompkins County ⎬ 
John Ozman of the town of Lansing
in the said County of Tompkins being duly sworn saith that Jabez Bigelow named in the forgoing affidavit resides near him. that the said Jabez Purchased the premises mentioned in his said affidavit being twenty one acres in the fall of 1821 and moved upon the same in October 1821 that this Deponent held a Mortgage upon the said twenty one acres (the same) that the same twenty one acres 
was duly held on the twenty fifth day
by February Instant in consequence of the nonpayment of the said that the said premises were sold (?) off by him this deponent further saith not.

John Ozman
[illegible]
Feb. 26th 1824
Edmond G. [illegible]
 
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent that he is a credible witnesses
of [illegible]
Edmond G. Colter
[illegible]
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To John C Calhoun
July 14
Secretary of War
at the City Washington

I [illegible] by July 14

Recd 21 July 1823
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Dear Sir after my Labor Bigelow
Heard that his Nabors had given the Secretary
notes on a bought to Lend this Notis Down
to the Secretary of War the said that he did
[illegible] of his Nabors should
stop him from Drawing
his pension this year that he would put all
his property out of his hand and in another
year he would draw his pension again
and I have been informed that he put his
property out of his hand, at first But that he did not live in this town or County at that
time But a man that will put his property
under cover and then to ask the charity of his
Government is not Worthey of Receiving Charity.

This from yours with the Highest Respect
July 10 - 1823-

John Bowker
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To the Honourable John Calhoun Esqr
Secretary of War 

Sir

Jabez Bigelow of the town of
Lansing and County of Tompkins and State of New York Now Drawing a pension under the act of Congress
[illegible] for the [illegible] of the poor soldiers of the Revolution War now we the subscribers being his near nabors and will aquainted with him it is our Humble and
candid opinion that he Does Not Stand in need
of any help from the United States. He has in
our opinion a comfortable living without any
help for him self and wife which is all the family
he has to provide for
it true he was two children
Both of age which he could give all that has
But he has a farm of twenty three acres of Land under Good improvement with a good orchard on it and a good House Good Waggon Cow and Hogs together with
Household furniture and a number of tools belonging to the Wheelright Bennett. Now we your subscribers do not think it to be right for him to draw any more money on the [illegible]  of be needfull for He is well enuff of at present.

This from yours
with Respect

Lansing July 7-1893
Gideon Garner
John Bowker
John D Beardslee
Herman Ward 
George Bain
Samuel Cob
Samuel Layton 
Elias D. Kent
Almarin Woodruff
[illegible] Woodruff
Jonathan Bowker
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M
●
John
Bowker Esq
Lansing
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13 (?) July of 1819 of Jabez Bigelow a Farm
and to pay one hundred seventy five dollars
May 1820,  Seventy Eight dollars 50

$78. 50
paid
Sept 1821
fifty dollars
-
$50.
paid
at
Sundry times the Ballance due
in trust from  Date

Chenango [illegible]  Feb 18th 1824
Philp Paddelford
175.50
78.50
50.00
_______
303.50
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Jabez Bigelow
Apple for Transfer

Jabez Bigelow
transferred from

New Jersey
to
New York
Jany 20, 1821
from
March 4. 1820
Mar 1820
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
SS.
County of Chenango
On this 25th
day of Feb. 1820, before
me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of
Chenango
personally appeared Jabez Bigelow
who, on his oath, declares that he is the same
person who formerly belonged to the company commanded
by Captain Peter Dickerson.
by Colonel Elias Dayton
in the regiment commanded
in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New Jersey
from whence he has lately removed;
that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of New York where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.

Sworn and subscribed to, before
me, the day and year aforesaid.
⎬
Jabez Bigelow
Charles Joslyn
Justice of the Peace (?)

NOTE. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official
character and signature must be properly authenticated.
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State of New York
Chenango County Clerks Office
I hereby certify that Charles Joslyn Esqr before whom the within instrument was proven is a Justice of
the Peace in for the County aforesaid duly qualified
and sworn and that full credit to be given
to his official capacity. Witness my name and the
Seal of Office this 30th day of Dec. 1820
Peter Randall Dep
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In the case of
Jabez Bigelow a pensioner
Affid
Lawrence
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State of New York
Tompkins County 

Jabez Bigelow of the town of Lansing
in the County of Tompkins being duly sworn says that on the fourth day of September last he rec'd a note from the War Department informing him that in consequence of Information having been given
to that Department that this Deponent was possessed of about twenty three and of land under good Improvement with a good Orchard therein, that he, this Deponent was suspended from drawing or receiving his Pension until the matter should be satisfactorily explained. In answer to which this
deponent states that it is true that he has
twenty three and of land in possession but that the same is under very poor Improvement
that only about Eight acres of the same have
been cleared & improved that the fences thereon are very old & poor & the Briars & Brush have [illegible] upon most parts of the said Improvement that the
only building on the said premises is a very old
Log House that is small & leaky & has been
built twenty four years & upwards. This Deponent purchased the same since he received his pension that all the money that he has paid upon the same is money that he has said out of his pension that about one hundred dollars remains due a part of which this Deponent Expected to have
paid out of his pension money last September
but not having received the same he was unable to pay anything, and that the said premises were advertised by the Mortgagee John Ozman of said town
on the tenth day of September last all which will be sold on the twenty-fifth day of February next that the income arising from the same is very small that the orchard on the same consists of about Thirty trees large & small that this Deponant believes
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the said Improvement could not command a greater Rent than twenty dollars a year

Jabez Bigelow
Sworn to and subscribed before
January 29th 1824
Edmond G. Pelton
Commissioner &c

Tompkins County Andrew Keller & Horace Birdsall both of the town of Lansing in the said County of Tompkins being
duly sworn serially depose that they reside in the immediate neighborhood of the before named Jabez Bigelow and
are well acquainted with the said twenty acres
of Land mentioned in the foregoing affidavit of the said Jabez Bigelow and that the said affidavit of the said Jabez relating to the situation of the said premises & the value of the Rent is mentioned in said affidavit are correctly truly stated by him
him in the same. & further they saith not

Andrew Keller
Horace Birdsall

Sworn before me January 29, 1824

Edmond G. Pelton
Commissioner

I Certify that the said deponents and persons of credibility
Edmund G. Pelton
Tompkins County
Commissioner

State of New York
I, Miles Church, Deputy Clerk of said
County, do hereby certify that the above
named Edmund G. Pelton before
whom the above affidavit was made
who was duly certified the same, and who
has also certified to the credibility of the
aforementioned Deponents, was on the
29th Day of January 1824, a Commissioner in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and by law authorized to enter
in such capacity. And that I am acquainted with
his hand writing and believe the above signatures of
Edmund G. Pelton to be his.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal Miles Finch Depty Clerk of [illegible] County, this 29th day of January, 1824
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577 RIDGE STREET
NEWARK, N. J.
May 22-1932
Mr. A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
Veterans Administration

Dear Sir

Reference yours of May 20th
file B.A/JILL

I am asking for data only my
own ancestors and will ask
for only one at a time, and
trust you will be able to
furnish the information in that
way -
I should now like very much
to have the date in your files on
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Jabez  Bigelow of
Morris County N. J.
Soldier in Revolutionary war
Jersey Continental Line
Pension granted 1818
Yours truly
Moses Bigelow