Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,800, Israel Aber, New Jersey
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(0-1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey

Aber, Israel.
Phebe.

NUMBER
W. 16.800

CONTENTS
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Dead
Order (illegible) July 1841.
(illegible) 4th Oct 1841.

New York....1443
Phebe Aber,
Widow of Israel Aber, dead.
who died on 25th July 1811; -
of N. York Co. in the State of New York,
who was a Sargent. in the company. commanded
by Captain J.P. Losey, of the Regiment commanded
by Col. Ford - in the N. Jersey for 12 N. J. months Sargent
Inscribed on the Roll of New York (City)
at the rate of 60 Dollars per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of Oct.
Cis,1837 and sent to Hon. J. P. B. Maxwell, H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1837,  $390:00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '38 = $30:00
$420:00

Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk
Book A, Vol. 2, Page 103,

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3rd
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State of New Jersey, Morris County SS
Before the subscriber a Justice of peace in & for said County, personally appeared, Job Loree of said County, an aged man; well known to me as a man of truth & fair character, & having been duly sworn according to law saith as follows, viz: I am in my 78th year since Sept 16th 1836 - was a soldier in the war of the revolution from its beginning to its close, preforming militia duty every year during the war, under different officers. - My father was Job Loree, residing in Mindham township about two miles distant from Israel Aber, whose (illegible) Israel Aber Just was a boy with me, about two or three years older than myself. & we were intimately acquainted.-- Jorace Aber (illegible) was a Sergeant of Militia, in Capt. James P. Long's company. & I often knew him performing militia duty in the war, & always as a Sergeant. The first time I recollect him on duty, in the war, was in 1776 at Elizabethtown point, before harvest, & not long before the British took possession of New York. we lay in cloth tents, under command of Col. Ford & Col Drake, in Capt. Peirson's company. Sergeant Israel Aber (illegible) was on duty there, a month, as a Sergeant in Capt Long's
company. & in Drakes regiment; we were engaged in throwing up breast works for defense at the J landings opposite Staten Island, not less than a month, when we were relieved & discharged. I remember I was engaged in howing corn. & about the 1st June when I was first ordered to Elizabethtown.
I performed a months duty at Amboy under Capt. Peirson and Col. Ford in August, - Sergeant Aber was also there doing duty under Captain Lorey & Col Drake at the same time, guarding the shore opposite
Staten Island. - Whilst there, we heard much heavy firing, which we afterward understood (illegible) in the Long Island battle. We all staid a month & (illegible) relieved & discharged. In October following I performed a month's duty at Elizabethtown, stationed at the old barracks under Gen Heard & Capt Lorey. Aber was then also a month, doing Sargeants duty under Capt Lorey, the same company with me. He Aber, drew our provisions - we had from before, & he advised the boys to boil the bouns well as they might possibly have a little marrow in them. Col. Drake had command of our regiment. Before this tour was out. General Washington situated before the enemy through Jersey, & our Militia at Elizabethtown & (illegible) fell into the rear of his army & followed on (the tired being almost knee death) to New Brunswick. Our Militia under Col. Ford returned by Boundbrook Plankin & Barkized to Morristown, & we did not get
home till late in November, being on duty not less than 7 weeks. Aber remaining with us all the time.  In December the Hessians & tories in force, came over from Staten Island through Elizabethtown to Springfield when the Morris & Super militia all were ordered out & met there & fought a battle, taking a number of
Hessians prisoners. Col. Spencer had his horse shot under him. Col. Ford, Col. Drake & Adjutant Bott was then & under orders of Gen Heard. Capt Lorey commanded myself & Aber. The enemy retreated to Staten Island, & our company was kept on guard duty along the shores & at Elizabethtown a month. Some time in January following, General Winds & General Dickinson had command of a larger Militia from which was encamped a few miles west of N. Brunswick (the (illegeble) quarters of the British) - Col. Ford, Col Drake, Col. Frelinghuysen, Col. Lindsly & others commanding regiments. I was there under
Capt Cozad & we were stationed at Van Malenns under the mountain, till some time in April, after the British left Amboy & N. Brunswick.  Sergeant Abers was there also all winter - at least from some time in January, till the middle of April, not less then 3 months, doing duty as Sergeant under Captain Lorey. After this we was discharged. There was much skirmishing & fighting there during the winter, with the enemy's scouting & foraging parties.
In May (the latter part) & I am 78.  I was with Seargent Abers on a month's duty under Capt Lorey
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At Elizabeth town, under command of General Winds.  Sometime in June we were marched toward N. Brunswick & staid a night at or near Spotswood, - & it was said General Winds via intelligence which induced him to return to Elizabethtown.  We (elligible) marched back thur, & after the month expired we were dismissed & went home.  I performed a month's duty guarding the public stores, arms &c at Succasunny plains, in the summer & fall season, under Captain Young.  Aber was with me on that tour, & we (illegible) this church at that place, which was nearly filled with guns, drums. cartridge boxes &c : In the fall following, two officers, Captain Iliff & Lieutent Mee, who had recruited a company for the enemy, were tried at Morristown, condemned, & hanged by Sheriff Alexander Carmichael. The privates of the Co. were condemned also but were (illegible) on condition of enlistment in the American Army. - I was stationed a month at Morristown under Captain Beach
to guard the jail at Morristown before & at the time of their execution.  Sergeant Aber was
with me this month, performing guard duty. - In the fall of 79. I was under Capt. Cook
on a one months tour against the enemy at Aquakamonk, under General Winds & Col. Lesly & Major Hays.  Sargeant Aber was in the same company with me, & we had a skirmish with the enemy at the bridge over the river, in which many were killed on both sides. - I remember our Bell was shot under a tree, accidentally, after the battle, & was killed instantly. - I was at the battle of Springfield in June 1780 & remember Sergeant Aber there also. We were under Capt. Lorey's command. Some continental troops were engaged in that battle. General Winds, Col. Lesly, Col.
Hathaway & others, commanded the Militia, who come all out. - We were kept on duty after the enemy retreated to Staten Island, along the shore, - at Elizabethtown, & Springfield, till in July having been on duty a month at least. - In the fall of 1782 I was stationed at Elizabethtown a month, & quartered at Price's barn near the point, performing guard duty under Captain Ezra Brown, & Major Daniel Cook, formerly Capt. Cook. General Winds was thru occasionally.  It was in this season when apples were plenty, & the peaches were not yet all gone from the trees. Sergeant Abers was with us the whole time, & had been married some months before.  I remember his comrades were often teazing him concerning his experience
in married life, enquiring whether would not prefer a single life.-- I had long been well
acquainted with Phebe Freeman, before he married her, & had myself been attention to her.  Abner Aber, Israel's brother, married my sister; & the next day after Israel, & Phebe Freeman were married.  Abner said to me jokingly, "you are now done courting Phebe" -"why", said I? - "She was married last night to Israel Aber".- I replied, "there are as good fish in the sea, as have been caught".- Israel Abe & Phebe his wife removed to Orange County in N. York State many years since, where he died some 15 or 20 years since. & I verily believe his widow has not married since his death. -
Job Loree
Sworn & subscribed before me, at Morristown, N.J.
this 1st July, 1837 -
Elijah Ward J.P.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of
the third section of the act of Congress of July 4th 1836.
City and County of New York SS:
On this 29th day of August A.D. 1837 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in and for said City & County
Phebe Aber, a resident of said city, an aged woman and believed to be a woman of truth and veracity and of a fair character, 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 the 4th day of
July A.D. 1836. vis: - I am the widow of Israel Aber Junior who was as I believe a Sergeant in the Militia of Morris County in the State of New Jersey in the war of the Revolution and who performed militia service in defense of his country during the war of the Revolution.
My Father was Gilman Freeman, a resident of said Morris County. My husband Israel Aber Junior was the son of Israel Aber also of Morris County.  Our Fathers, namely Gilman Freeman and Israel Aber were neighbors living within a
mile or two of each other, in Mendham township within 4 miles of Morristown.
My husband and I were born in Morris County
and lived there during the war, and for many years after the war.  
Captain James P. Losey lived near us and, I think, commanded the militia company to which my husband belonged, and in which
company much of his militia service in said war was probably performed.
My impression is also that Col. Jacob Drake commanded the Militia Regiment to which Losey's company belonged. I have heard my husband speak of being under the command of other officers also. viz: Colonel Ford, Col. Seeley, General Winds and others whose names I do not now remember.
I cannot of myself give any specific details of my husband's Revolutionary services, but must refer the commissioner of Pensions to such testimony as I may be able to collect from the few comrades of my husband yet living in Morris County, Job Lorey, Robert Young and John Johnson were near neighbors to my husband and we knew them many years. Morris Aber, late a pensioner of the United States, was brother to my husband and they served together
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in many tours of Militia duty. He however is dead as well as most of his associates.
I was married to Israel Aber Jr in Mendham by the Reverend M Joline, Minister of the Presbyterian Church in that place, on the 28th day of March in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty two. (1782)  We lived together
as husband and wife in Morris County, near the residence of both our fathers for many years and raised a family of nine children. Sometime in the year 1804 we removed from New Jersey into Orange County in the State of New York and on the 25th day of July A.D. 1811 my husband the said Israel Aber, Junior died, since which time I have remained a widow, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Phebe Aber, her mark.
Sworn in Open Court this
29th day of August 1837.

Jno I (illegible)
First Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas for City
County of New York
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City and County of New York SS:
On this 29th day of August A.D. 1837 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in and for said City and County, Elizabeth Moore, a resident of said City and believed to be a woman of truth and fair character who being first duly sworn according to law, saith as follows, vis: I am the daughter of Israel and Phebe Aber, - mentioned in the accompanying papers, and now live in the same family with my said mother, and know that for many years she has had in her possession a family quarto Bible, formerly my Father's in which is contained a record of births, marriages and deaths kept by my father as I believe, that the leaf which is
annexed to this deposition is the original leaf on which said record was kept, and has been taken from said Bible in my presence to accompany a declaration made by my said mother with a view to obtain for her a pension on account of the Revolutionary services
of my father.  I well remember hearing my father speak of having been out on militia duty a great many times in the war of the Revolution, and being engaged in battles and skirmishes.  Since his death which took place at Minisink in Orange County in the year 1811 my mother has lived much of the time in my family and always near me, and has never been married to any person except to my Father Israel Aber Junior. -
Elizabeth Moore
Sworn in Open Court this
29th day of August 1837
Jno I (illegible)
First Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas for the City & County of N York
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I Thomas Jeremiah Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid, do certify that John T. Irving, Esq. whose name is subscribed to the Jurats of the preceding affidavits made before
said Judge in Open Court, was at the time of taking the same First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York (said Court being a Court of Record) duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are due to his official, and further that said signatures are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court this 29th day of
August AD 1837.
Thus Jeremiah, Clerk
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Judgement on the wicked, and blessing on the good. (Chap. iv.) Elijah's coming and office.
CHAP. IV.
1 God's judgement on the wicked, 2 and his blessing on the good. 4 He exhorteth to the Study of the law, 5 and telleth of Elijah's coming and office.
Before Christ cir. 397.  
For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Luke 1. 78.
2 But unto you that fear my name, shall the
Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his
wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as
calves of the stall.
Before Christ cir. 397.
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet, in the day that I shall do this, faith the LORD of hosts.
Exod. 20. 3.
4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgements.
Matth. 11. 14. Mark 9. 11.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful
day of the LORD:
Luke 1.17.
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to
their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Gilmon, Freeman
Jacob Freeman Samuel Freeman
Benjaman Freeman Benner Freeman Jacob.

The End of the Prophets.
The End of t
And the Lord said unto Moses
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W. W. (illegible)
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(This is the back side of the next page)
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Nathanael Smith was born the
(illegible scribblings)

Mary Aber was born on Sunday 16 of Feb
about 2 o'clock afternoon in the Y 1783
Elizabeth Aber was on Sunday the 17 of July about half an hour high ninth morning 1785 
Israel Freeman Aber was born on (illegible) of Feb. about 8 o'clock in the morning 1788
Benjamin Aber was born on the 25 of April
about nine o'clock in the evening 1790
Roland Aber was born (illegible) 25 of March about sunset in the Y 1792
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July 30. 1841
Mr Evans
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Pension Office
Mechanics Bank
New York 29th July 1841
Sir
I enclose for your examination, the papers
in the case of Phebe Aber deceased, late a pensioner under the act of 4th July 1836, at Sixty dollars per annum.
One of the heirs, viz: Sally Norris, has recently
removed to Ohio, consequently does not apply for her share, the attorney requests the favor of you, to allow the payment to be made to those heirs that have applied for their shares of the balance due,
Very Respectfully
Your (illegible) Servant
S. Knapp (illegible)
by Sylvester Spencer
Chief Clk.
James L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Pension Office
Mechanics Bank
New York 5th Oct 1841

Sir
The balance of Pension due Phebe Aber
dec'd late a pensioner under the act of 4th July
1836 at $60 per annum, was paid on the 13th August last retaining the share due Sally Norris, one of the Heirs, until she should apply, as per your Letter of the 31st July last.
I now enclose for your examination her
power of attorney for the amt. due her $175/100 though not in exact form.  The attorney begs the favor of you, as the amount is so small, to allow the payment to be made thereon.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
S. Knapp Prist
by Sylvester Spencer
Chief Clerk

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pension
Washington
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In reply to your request of
for a statement of the military history of Israel Aber a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.  W. File 16.800
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. COLONEL.
STATE.

It is alleged that Israel Aber Jr., son of Israel Aber, served a year or more in short periods from 1776 to 1782 as a sergeant under Capts. James P. Losey, Daniel Cook, Young and Beach, Cols. Jacob Drake and Hathaway, in the New Jersey Militia, and was in an engagement at Conn. Farms, and in (illegible) at Springfield.

Battles engaged in, see above.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Morris Co., N.J.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 29, 1837 - Her cl. allowed.
Residence at date of application, New York City.
Age at date of application, Born Sept. 1, 1765. Morris Co., N.J.
Remarks: Sol. born Sept. 16, 1756 Morris Co. N.J. Mar. in Mendane Forss, same county, March. 28, 1782 Phebe Freeman dau. Gilman Freeman born in March 1735.  Sol. died July 25, 1811 at Minisink, Orange Co. N. Y.
Ch.  Mary G. Feby. 16, 1783. Elizabeth July 17, 1785, Married - Moore, Israel Freeman Feby. 16, 1788. Benjamin Apl. 25, 1790. Robard March. 25, 1792.
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Widow, &c File no. 16800 Phebe Aber
Wid of Israel Aber Sergt. Rev. War Act: July 4, 1836 Index:_Vol a page 2 {Arrangement of 1870}
1909 May 5 Hist. to Mrs. H. D. Myrick 
1909 May 18- no other Israel Aber
1928 July 18 Photos to E. V. Martindale thru Dr. [illegible]
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N. Jersey, Morris County
Phebe Aber widow of Israel Aber
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State of New Jersey Morris County SS:
I, Joseph Dalrimple Esq. Clerk of Morris County, do hereby certify that Elijah Ward Esqr before whom the annexed deposition
of Job Loree & Robert Young hereunto annexed, were taken, is a Justice of peace in & for said County;-- & also that Charles Ford Esqr before whom the annexed Deposition of John Johnson
was taken, is a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in & for said County. The said Charles Ford & Elijah Ward Esqr are both of them duly commissioned & authorized, & their respective signatures to said depositions are genuine

Witness my signature & the seal of my office at Morris Town in said State, this 16th September 1837
Joseph Dalrimple Clerk

[seal affixed at left]
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Statement of Revolutionary Service of Israel Aber Jun. Sergeant
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1 month in 76. June & July at Elizabethtown - proven by Loree & Johnson

1 "      "     "  August.     Amboy.   "  Loree

1 & 3 weeks " Octr.    Elizabethtown. "   Loree & Johnson

1.  "            "     Decr.   Springfield (1st battle). -  Loree, Johnson, Young

3. {blank}.   77. Jany. to Apl. inclusive, Quibbletown &c.          Loree, Johnson, Young

1 & 1 week.   "  fall season.   New Windsor, Pompton &c.     Young

1.   "             "   Nov. & Decr. E. twn, Young

1.   "            "  at Red Bank on the Delaware.   Young

1.   "         78.  May & June at Elizth.town & toward Monmouth.    Loree, Johnson, Young

1.      "     Augt. & Sept. Succasunning, guarding stores, Loree, Johnson, Young

1.      "       79.    fall - Aquakanak, Loree, Johnson - Young

1.     "    year not stated.  fall, Morristown, guarding prisoners, Loree, Johnson, Young

1.     "         Hackensack, in the fall - Johnson, Young

1. "  (5 weeks).  summer, Minisink, Indian expedition - Johnson-- Young

1.  "        80.   Connecticut farms battle, May, Johnson Young

1.     "         Springfield, (2d battle) June.     Johnson, Loree, Young

1.    "      81(or 82) Baskingridge- Young

1.     "       82.     Elizth town, fall season, apples ripe. Loree, Johnson, Young

1.    "             Rahway (year not stated) Young
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23 months & 1 week service, as Sergeant.
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Lewis Condict M.D
Morris Town
N.J.
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State of New Jersey, Morris County Ss:
Before the subscriber a Justice of peace in & for said County & State, personally appeared Robert Young of said County to me personally well known, as a man of truth & fully entitled to belief, aged 84 years, who having by me been duly sworn according to law, saith as follows, viz:
I am in my 85th year- was a soldier in the war of the revolution throughout, & was well acquainted personally with Israel Aber Junr who was born & brought up in the same neighbourhood with me, & belonged to the same Militia company & Regiment with me, to 
 James P. Losey, & Colonel Jacob Drakes Regiment of Morris Co. Militia. I was enlisted in the years service, under Colonel Winds, on the Canada expedition & from my return thence, I served in the Morris Militia under Capt Losey & other Captains, & was many times in the same troop with Israel Aber Junr preforming duties together, in every year of the war to its close.

After the mudcounts" (the retreat of Genl Washington & pursuit by the enemy thro' N. Jersey) there was a alarm occasioned by the enemy coming over from Staten Island, & overrunning Elizth. town & the neighboring country. The Militia were immediately ordered out from all quarters. Capt Losey's company
marched to Springfield under Col. Drakes orders when a severe battle was fought- the enemy retreated & was followed & a number of Hessians captures, (70 or upward). Israel Aber Jun. was then a Sergeant in Losey's company, had previously been regularly chosen as Sergeant, & always acted as Sergeant when on duty. We were kept on duty a month, guarding the shore opposite Staten Island, & between
Elizabeth town & Springfield. General Heard commanded the Militia at Springfield. Col. Spencer had his horse killed under him. & one Robert Pollard was shot through the breast, not many feet from where I stood. It was in cold weather. December, I believe.-- In January following, as the enemy lay in Amboy & New Brunswick in winter quarters, a large militia force, from all the Country around, was embodied under Genl Winds & Genl Dickinson & encamped near Quibble town a few miles west of Brunswick, in which place they were kept in service to guard the Country & keep the
enemy in check, till they left Brunswick sometime in April-- I was in this service with Sergeant Aber from early in January, till sometime in April, not less than 3 months. Losey was our Captain part of this tour & Cozad the remainder Colonel Drake, Ford, Frelinghuysen & others were there. Early in the summer following. Sergeant Aber & I performed a months tour of Militia duty at Elizabeth
town point, guarding the shore opposite Staten Island under Col. Drake & Capt. Losey. In the fall (Septr.) a Militia force under Genl Winds & Col. Seely was marched toward the North river 
through Pompton. In the neighbourhood of New Windsor we heard of the surrender of Burgoyne & we returned as far as Pompton, where we were stationed performing guard duty between Pompton & Hackensack till some timte after our month expired, & we were dismissed. We were about not less than 5 or 6 weeks on this tour.  
Sergeant Aber was with us upon this tour & I believe we were under the orders of Capt. Robert Young (my cousin). In November & December following Sergt. Aber & I performed a months tour of Militia at Elizth. town guarding
the town & landing places under Capt Losey. Just before the battle of Monmouth our Company under Losey was performing a months tour of duty between Elizth town & Rahway, opposite the Staten Island shore, under
Genl Winds. We were marched through N. Brunswick & stopped for the night between Brunswick & Spotstown.  We were not in the battle. Some part of Genl Winds' command had orders to return to Elizth. town, which place
was said to be threatened by the refugees & tories on Staten Island. Sergeant Aber was on this duty a month.  We performed a tour of a months duty at Redbank on the Delaware, when that fort was blown up & evacuated. Col. Seely was commander of our regiment & Losey our Captain. Aber was with us.  We performed a months militia duty at Saccasunning plains, guarding the public stores deposited in the
Church there, some of which had been brought from Burgoynes camp & deposited there. Capt Young was at the head of our Co. & Sergeant Aber was with us, in warm weather, after harvest.  We performed one months duty under Captain Beach guarding jail & prisoners at Morristown, during which tour, our Captain I Ciff, & his Lieut John Wice, were hanged by Sheriff Carmichael, on the Morris green for raising a company of Royal troops, (Tories & Refugees) along the Delaware, who were
captured on their way through Jersey in disguise, to join the enemy. Sergt Aber was with us on this tour in fall of the year.
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In the Summer season, of 1779 (as I think) there was an expedition against the Indians on the
Minisink, under the direction & command of General Winds, Colonel Seward & others. I was upon that tour with Sergeant Aber under Captain Losey. The Indians had burned the settlement & murdered some of the inhabitants & ran of before our arrival. Whilst there, we had some difficulty in procuring meat. I recollect they obtained a young bullock, which Aber shot. 
We were about on this tour not less than 5 weeks. In the fall season, the enemy were
in great force from Staten Island & New York, & passed from Elizthtown through Newark
toward Totoway (now Paterson) & at Aquakanuk bridge the Militia under Winds, Seely, Hays & others had a battle with them, in which many were killed on both sides. Sergeant Aber was
with us on this tour under Capt. Cook, (I think) Jabez Bell of Chester was accidentally shot through the head on this tour, soon after the battle, & killed instantly. This tour was not less than a month duration.-- We had another fight with the enemy at Hackensack, at a small fort called Pollissly, upon another tour during this same season, under the same officers; Colonel Benoni Hathaway was among the officers on these occasions. In the year 1780, the enemy came over in great force & burned Connecticut farms village & Church, 4 miles above Elizth town, where a battle was fought under Genl Winds, Col. Seely Col. Hathaway & others. Sergeant Aber was with us on that tour under Captain Losey.  The enemy retreated to Staten Island, & the militia were stationed is Elizth town & along the shores of Staten Island for a month. They soon returned with a large force & made their way through Essex County as far as Springfield which they burned, after a severe battle, in which some Continental troops under Colonel Angel & Col. Dayton were engaged, together with the Militia under Winds & Seely & Hathaway. The enemy again returned, & we pursued them to Elizth Town & to the landing opposite Staten Island, annoying them on their march.  The Militia, with our company under Losey, & with Aber, was kept on guard duty,  some at Elizth Town & Springfield, till in July, having been kept on duty as much as 4 or 5 weeks.  I recollect one tour at Rahway & blazing Star ferry, in which Aber was present. After placing the guards at night, he got tipsy & forgot to relieve them, & they stood sentry all night. He was complained of, & was suspended. He promised reformation, treated the men with a gallon of Rum, & was restored to his Sergeants rank.-- He was married early in 1782, in March.  I was well acquainted with Phebe Freeman, Gilman Freeman's daughter, who was my neighbour many years; they lived near me some time after marriage & raised a family of children.  He was with me on a tour of Militia duty at Elizabeth town in the fall season, when peaches were ripe. We eat some on our march down, & we were stationed between the two points or landings opposite Staten island. Capt. Brown had command of our Company, & I recollect the young men had their fun with Sergeant Aber, as a man lately married. Genl Winds commanded the Militia, who were
stretched from Amboy through Woodbridge, Elizth Town & Newark. When the Pennsylvania troops revolted in 81, or 82 (uncertain which) our company was called out & we marched as far as Baskingridge under Capt. Day & some other officers & other companies. Sergeant Aber was with us.

Robert Young

Sworn & subscribed before me, at Morristown
this 1st July. Domini 1837.
Elijah Ward J.P.
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State of New York }
Orange County }   [first words cut off]
of afsd County well known [cut off]
Deeds for sd County as a [cut off]
been duly sworn by affir[cut off]
I have lived in this county [cut off]
Israel Aber for a number of [cut off]
have been intimately acqu [cut off]
death of her husband - belie[cut off]
Israel Aber until this da[cut off]
name is Phebe- believes her maide[cut off]
Freeman of Morristown N.J. -

Subscribed & Sworn (by affirma[cut off]
['before' crossed out] July 26th 1837 - before

Simon M Stoddard Commission[cut off]
of Deeds

STATE OF NEW YORK
ORANGE COUNTY, SS. I, LEBBEUS L. VAIL, CLERK of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Orange, Do Hereby Certify, That Simeon M. Stoddard before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and affirmed, was, at the time of taking the same, a Commissioner of Deeds in, and for said county: and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner
and verily believe that the signature to the
said affidavit is genuine.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 27th day of July 1837.

Lebbeus L. Vail, Clerk

The word "sworn" erased & the word "'Affirmed" interlined.
L. L. Vail

[seal affixed at left]
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State of New York, Grange County
On the twenty sixth day of July 1837, Increase Stoddard, Esqr, an aged man of Grange County, well-known to me the subscriber a commissioner of Deeds for  ---County as a man of truth and fair character and having been duly sworn (by affirmation) deposeth and saith as follows:

I have lived in this county Forty years. I was reacquainted with  D(?)Israel Aber for a number of years--believe he Died in 1811 or 1812 have been intimately acquainted with his widow since the death of her husband--believes she has remained the widow of D(?) Israel Aber until this day.. believe they formerly emigrated from Morristown or Morris County N.J. the aforesaid w (?) Abers Christian name is Phebe.. believes her maiden names was Freeman daughter of Gillman Freeman of Morris County, N.J--I further depoesth saith not 
Subscriber & Sworn (by affirmation)
before (crossed out) July 26th, 1837 before me Simon M. Stoddard Commissioner
Deeds

(Increase B. Stoddard is written on the bottom right)
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State of New Jersey, Morris County
Before the subscriber, a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Morris, personally appeared John Johnson, an aged citizen of said County-- a soldier in the war of the Revolution, living near to me, & personally well known to me as a man of truth & fully entitled to belief, who having by me been duly sworn according to law on his oath saith as follows,viz:-   I am now in the 86th year of my age since the 5th of April last-  was a soldier in in the war of the revolution in the Morris County Militia of New Jersey. I was personally & intimately acquainted with Israel Aber Junr whose widow Phebe Aber is now said to be an applicant for a pension on acct of the revolutionary services of her husband. He was the son of Israel Aber, & we were boys together-- playmates, in the same neighbourhood & grew up together, in what was then a part of Mendham township. He belonged to Captain James P. Losey's company of Militia, & was regularly a Sergeant, chosen & appointed as such, & in all the militia duties performed by said Israel Aber Jun. in the war of the revolution, he acted as a Sergeant, as I verily believe.  We were very often together upon duty in the same company in said war, & when we were in different companies we always recognised each other when we met. In the Summer of 1776, I
saw Sergt. Aber, performing a months tour of Militia duty under Capt Losey & Col Drake & Ford stationed at Elizabeth town opposite Staten Island, building fortifications, breast works &c. Late in the same season, near cold weather, I remember him again at Elizabeth town when Genl Washington's army retreated through Jersey before the enemy in November. He was in Losey's company under Col. Drake, & Genl Heard, & the whole body of militia fell in the war of the army & followed on through mud to the ankles, as far as N. Brunswick, when the militia left the main army & returned to Morris County, by Boundbrook Pluckman & Baskingridge, having been on this tour not less than 5 weeks.-- The Tories, Refugees & Hessians, crossed over from Staten Island & marched through Elizth town & Connecticut farms to Springfield.-- The Militia were all immediately ordered out to Springfield, when there was a battle fought & a number of Hessians taken prisoners sent to Morristown & when Genl Heard, Cols. Drake, Ford, Spencer & others were present. This was in December 76. The Militia were kept on duty, guarding the lines for the space of a month & Sergeant Aber, was upon this  tourn, under Captain Losey & Col. Drake.  The enemy had gone into winter quarters at N. Brunswick & Amboy; & in January 77 a large body of Militia was encamped to restrain their movements, a few miles west of N. Brunswick, under the command of Genl Winds & Genl Dickinson. Aber was there under Capt Losey & Col. Drake from the middle of January, till the British left Amboy & Brunswick, the middle of April, having been on duty there not less than 3 months. In May & June following, I was with Sergeant Aber a month at Elizth town, on guard duty under Capt. Losey opposite Staten Island; Col. Drake & Genl Winds present. During this tour, we were marched towards Monmouth, through N. Brunswick as far as Spotswood, & suddenly returned to Elizabeth town under Genl Winds orders. In the course of the summer,  he performed a months tour of Militia duty, guarding the Military stores in the church at Succasunning plains.   Captain Young then commanded the company. We performed a months duty guarding the jail & stores at Morristown, when two Tory officers, Iliff & Wice, were hanged by Sheriff Carmichael, Capt Beach commanding the guard, in the fall season of the year.-

In the following summer, the Indians burnt & destroyed the settlement on the Minisink, & Genl Winds commanded a Militia force which was marched through Sussex County against them. Sergeant Aber was on this tour &
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under the command of Captain Losey - we performed a tour of Militia duty in the fall at Belleville & Aquakanonk, under Genl Winds, Colonel Seely, Col. Frelinghuysen & others, & had a battle with the enemy at the bridge. Sergeant Aber was on this tour for a month, & I think Capt. Daniel Cook afterward Major Cook commanded the company. He was also present
& engaged in a skirmish with the enemy at a small fort near Hackensack, called Pollissly,
late in the same fall, under the same officers, & we performed militia duty a month in the neighborhood of Aquakanonk & Newark.- Aber was also present & engaged in a battle at Connecticut farms when the Church & village were burned by the enemy & Wm. Caldwell was killed. We were under Captain Losey, Col Seely, Col. Hathaway & Genl Winds. We followed the enemy to their boats opposite Staten Island, & the militia were detained a month to guard the shore & the lines near Elizabeth town & Springfield. This was in the season of planting corn. And in June following, the enemy came over in a large body & made their way through the County to Springfield, where a severe battle was fought with them at the bridge, which was defended by the Rhode Island troops under Colonel Angel.-- The enemy retreated back; after burning Springfield Village & church, & were pursued & annoyed by the Militia. Aber was on this tour under Captain Losey & Col. Hathaway, Gen Winds having the command of the Militia. The Militia was kept in service, guarding the shores & villages on the lines for a
month, & we went home in July-  Not long after this, Israel Aber Junr was married to Phebe Freeman, a daughter of Gilman Freeman, living near to Aber. I knew the whole family of Gilman Freeman well, & was well acquainted with Sergt. Aber & his wife until they removed to the State of New York, to Orange County. In the year 1782, after Sergeant Aber had been married some months, we performed a months tour of guard duty & were stationed at Elizabeth town, under Captain Ezra Brown, in the early part of this fall & latter part of August. Some of the young men joked Aber, enquiring whether it was not a long month of absence from duties at home.  I believe I saw Aber performing other tours of Militia duty in the course of the war, which I cannot now particularize or specify & it is probable, that I may have in some instances mistaken dates of some events, or names in some cases of our commanding officers: but I know that he performed much Militia duty in every year of the war, & was esteemed as a Sergeant, by his companions.

        his
John X Johnson
        mark

Sworn & subscribed before me, at John Johnson's residence in Hanover township, this 31st day of July 1837.
Charles Ford
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Fairfield, Iowa
April 29-1909


Ho. Com. of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:

Will you please give me what you can of the Rev. War record of Israel Aber and of Henry and Wm Snook? If possible I would like dates of birth and death, names of wives and children, if they drew pensions. 

Respectfully,
Mrs. H. D. Myrick
Fairfield, Iowa
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[left side only/right side transcribed in previous document]
15822
3-2333
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
July 6 1928.
Chief Rev. & 1812. Division.
I have this day received from
Elizabeth V. Martindale
Cash in the amount
of $6.45, requesting
photostat copy as per letter herewith.
O.J. RANDALL
Chief, Finance Division
Photos delivered &
Fin. Div. notified
July 18, 1928
a.d.y. 
no C.C.
July 7
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July 6, 1928.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
I desire photostatic copies, uncertified, from the following.
Revolutionary War pension claims:
Israel Aber, W. 16800 | 2 pages
John Abernethie, R. 10 | 2 "
Paul Abney, W. 23390 | 2 "
William Abney, W. 1202 | 3 "
Samuel Aborn, S. 38108 | 1 "
James Abraham, W. 235 | 2 "
John Abrams, W. 161671 | 1 "
Albert Acker, R. 15. | 2 "
Jacob Acker, W. 2046 | 1 "
Jacob Acker, W. 16902 | 1 "
Jacob Acker, W. 16804 | 1 "
William Ackerman, S. 44545 | 1 "
Cornelius Ackerson, W. 23393 | 2 "
Derick Ackerson, W. 15750. | 1 "
John Ackerson, W. 21053 | 1 "
John Ackerson, R. 18. | 2 "
John Ackler, W. 19214 | 2 "
Leonard Ackler, W. 25335 | 1 "
Ahira Ackley, W. 4872 | 2 "
Champion Ackley, W. 5197 | 2 "
Stephen Ackley, W. 17198 | 1 "
Thomas Ackley, S. 38106. | 1 "
Thomas Ackleye, W. 12181 | 2 "
George Michael Acorn, W. 23394. | 1 "
Philip Acre, W. 9690 | 1 "
William Acre, W. 25334 | 1 "
John Acree, R. 21 | 2 "
Smallwood Acton, W. 26658 | 1 "
John Adair, W. 2895 | 1 "
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Elizabeth V Martindale
2863 Park Road N. W.
Signed
Received payment
$6.45
July 5, 1928.
Ada De Young
Rev. &1812 Wars Section.
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[cut off]PLICATE.        1-681.      PHONE Branch 476

[cut off] as regarding this job should refer to Requisition No.  24941-bb

[cut off]on for Duplicating, Addressograph Photostat, and Blue Print Work.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON

CHIEF, Division of Publications,
Room G 137.

Jully 5, 1928

Please furnish work specified below.

Bureau ordering___Pension____ Deliver to Room No. 5033

(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE,
EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)

Title and description of job ___photostatic copies of 2 pages from Rev. War pension claim of Israel Aber, W. 16800._____

No. of copies 1 of each      Shall form be kept standing?  ______days

For further information see __Mrs. Finch___
Room No.__5033___. Phone No. __541___

Approved:
A.D. Wilkinson
Chief Clerk of Bureau.

MMS Finch
Chief of Branch or Division

NOTE: No order made ""SPECIAL” unless statement showing necessity is written
below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering
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DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS&lt; DEPT OF THE INTERIOR, JUL 9 1928
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