Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,172, Andrew Dover, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn.

Dover, Andrew

NUMBER
S.42,172
B.L.Wt. 572_200_Lieut
Issued Feb. 14, 1791 to
Alexander Power assignee
No papers

CONTENTS
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4, 208 March 1819 [very faded]
Pennsylvania Roll - 4
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Andrew Dove
Capt Mills
Lieutenant 1776 War
Pennsylvania Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, to commence on the 3rd of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of Nov. 1818 and sent to Richard Peters Esq Judge Philadelphia-
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Arrears to 4th of September 1818 5 mos & 2/30 101:33
Semi--anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819 120.--
221:33 [double underlined]

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March. 1818}

Reinstated

Philadelphia 20/6 4

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[Many sentences crossed out]
Let to J A Beal, in answer to one filed with the case of Michael Foche - [illegible] roll
this letter is in cl. of Michael Foche
but the reply is not & I could not find it in the old books 

[written sideways at right-hand margin]
Reinstated by the Hon. Secy of War
16 Febry 1821
on that day no information sent to Hon J. Sergeant, H. R.
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Andrew Dover Lt.
3rd April Refd to ME

additional Evidence
required
Jus

Penna
Roll
Mar

Admitted

Evidence of his Indigent circumstances required
Judges certificate on file
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District of Pennsylvania Ss}
On this Third day of April A.D. 1818, before me
Richard Peters Judge of the District Court of the United States in & for the Pennsylvania District, personally appeared Andrew Dover, of the County of Philadelphia, who being duly sworn deposes & declares, that during the War
of the Revolution he served against the common enemy as an Officer in the Army of the Continental establishment. That on the 6th day of January 1776, he received a Commission as Lieutenant in the 5th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line commanded by Colonel
Magaw, in the service of the United States. That in the same year he was taken prisoner at Fort Washington in the State of New York and was held so for the time of four years & two months- that after his exchange he continued in the service of the United States until the close of the war - that he is now Sixty seven years of age and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his country for support - that he is a resident citizen of the United States - and that he never has received or been allowed any pension by the laws of
the United States and that his commission was lost at the time he was captured.
Andrew Dover [signature]

Sworn & subscribed 
this third day of April 1818}
before me}
Richard Peters} [signature]
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Andrew Dover
Penna
4208
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March 1819
Not Entitled

Wm Gallager
Phila
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District of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County ss;
On the thirtieth day of June One thousand
eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the Court of Common pleas for said County the said Court being a Court of record having 
a Prothonotary; a Seal, and exercising common law jurisdiction, Andrew Dover aged sixty nine
years residing near Frankford in the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn in open court according to law on his oath declares that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows Viz.
In the 5th Pennsylvania Regiment Col. McGaw
company commanded by Capt John Miller
Date of original declaration 3 April 1818
number of pension Certificate (4208).
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and I the said Andrew Dover
do further 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 it, as to bring myself with in the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war,” passed the 18th of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any 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.
Sworn to and declared in }
open Court }
on the thirtieth }
day of June 1820.}
J Norbury
Prot
SCHEDULE OF THE PROPERTY OF Andrew Dover
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SCHEDULE OF THE PROPERTY OF Andrew Dover

I have the following property viz.___
One tract of Donation Land Containing 200 Acres, worth fifty cents per acre, but for which I can at present get no price & a few working tools worth fifteen dollars.
Am by occupation a coach maker but am
scarcely able to work having had my right leg
broken, and bad eye sight, and am in such indigent circumstance as to be unable to
support myself without the assistance of my
Country___

Philadelphia County Ss
Joseph B. Norbury Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas for the City & County of Philada.
do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit
and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is 115 dols and___  cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 30th day in 1820
[Clerk of the Court for the of - Struck Thru]
J. B. Norbury
Prothy
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

January 8, 1926

Mrs. C. A. Stegmann
5941 Cote Brilliante Ave;
St. Louis, Mo.

Madam: 
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 42172 it appears that Andrew Dover was commissioned January 6, 1776, Lieutenant in Captain John Miller Company, Colonel Magaw's Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, was captured at the surrender of Fort Washington and held a prisoner for four years and two months when he was exchanged.

[handwritten note in margin: "Miss Wilson said as he stated himself that he was reduced, not to say he served to the close of the war"]

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 3, 1818 while a resident of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania aged sixty-seven years. In 1828 he was living in Northern Liberty Township in said county.

He referred to his children, but did not give their names, and the name of his wife is not stated.

He died December 12, 1831.
[handwritten note under "From printed list of 1835"]

Respectfully, 

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Free

To
The Honourable J. C. Calhoun Esq
Secretary of war
Washington
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[Breaks added for clarity of transcription]

Frankford July 29th 1820

Sir

I Received your notice of my being Discharged from the Pension List, on account of the amount of my Property I possess --- all the Property I Possess is a donation lot unimproved, and Coachmaker tools worth about 15 Dolls --- the donation land, I have impowered a Person in Meadville five years ago to sell it for me at any price he could obtain above $100

at present it will not bring Quarter that Price, three years ago I offered it to those I am indebted to at a very low Price, but would not except [sic] it, and told me that they would wait untill [sic] I could sell it   

the taxes Due now on it, and Charges of the Agent for his trouble, if they would not pay them, I expect the Collector will Sell it this winter for it is not in my power to pay the taxes, the amount is upwards of $14 --- The land had been sold four years ago by the Collector of the Direct tax, the tax was 25 Cents and Sold for $4.60     from this you may Judge what it would sell for now --- if sold by the Collector, it will not bring ten Dollars ---

I send you the last letter from my agent, which I expect will convince you what I have stated to be correct, as to my tools they can’t earn me any thing unless I was able to make use of them, nor have I been able to use them these three years, on account of my bad eye sight and Rheumatism, and a weakness in my Arm & leg which had been broke by a fall from a horse, and my [illegible] so much hurt that I have a constant pain in it --- 

it is very surprising to me that so little property, that would not bring twenty Dollars should exclude me from a Pension --- I was in the service the whole war, upward of four years a Prisoner had to support myself out of my own property, Received no Pay from Congress for upward of six years, great part of my property destroyed by the enemy, Ranged of the greatest part of my pay by the auditors, deprived of my half pay (which had been promised to the officers if they would remain in the army to the end of the war) after the war was over 

Congress thought Proper to Deprive the officer of the half Pay without their consent --- now I am poor (not able to support myself) through misfortune not misconduct I must be deprived of the benefit of the Pension Law because I hold a donation lot, I find by the last Law, you possess
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Discretionary power - I have been informed that some persons have informed the Court that I possess more Property than I was qualified to. I should wish to know where those persons got their proof from. I can positively declare that I own no property but what is stated in this letter-- I wish you would be so obliging to inform me as soon as possible if such information has been
Received by you, and if I can be placed on the Pension List or not so that I can have a chance of applying to congress
I am Respectfully
Yours &c
Andrew Dover [signature]

Sir
I have seen a Soldier Receive a new Certificate, placing him on the Pension list, who told me in the presence of a number of persons that he held and owned a donation lot of 200 acres and that it was stated in his statement and [meant to- Struck Thru] would keep it for his children, he is a Stranger to me and do not know where he resides, but shall ^ make it ones
business to find him out. This circumstance convinces me that the amount of my property cannot be the ^ whole cause of my Discharge until a different Statement had been ^ sent to you from mine___
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Frankford P 
Sept 21

Free

The Hon'ble

John C Calhoun Esq
Secretary at war
Washington
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Frankford Sept 20. 1820

Honorable John C Calhoun

Sir
I find I have the misfortune to be left off the pension list for Revolutionary Soldiers of the State of Pennsylvania and am at a loss to know what the cause may be except that I have returned myself as owner of two hundred acres of Land valued at 50 cents per acre this valuation may appear unfair but when you are
informed that it is situated in Crawford County
Pennsylvania and that which I received as donation Land from the State of Pennsylvania I owe two hundred dollars on this land and it would not probable being two dollars independent of the valuation of 50 cents which I thought it would to me. I am now nearly 70 years old and from wounds & injuries am unable to work at my trade and if I were I could not find employment if it be necessary. I will file another petition which shall include my debt a thing I omitted in my former one not knowing it to be necessary so to do. If you will
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condiscard [??] to answer this you will confer a favour [sic] on one who has suffered in the Cause of his Country and who is obliged to his children for his subsistence
I am Sir
your most obed Servant
Andrew Dover [signature]
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Meadville Feby 28 1820

Mr Andw Dover

Dr Sir

I have as yet had no oppy [opportunity] of selling yr tract of land times are very hard here, no good money in circulation which with the general insanity of money to the Eastward has materially affected
the sale of land

I saw yrs of 28 Oct 1818 entering [illegible] for Direct tax of 1815. I have not however had the money I had advanced   I have now pd the Taxes of 1818 & 1819 & most earnestly request you to pay over the amts of mine of which is $13.17 to Sir Lewis Neill of Phila if it will be more convenient than to remit & then enclose [illegible] the rent of Mr Neill

yrs with esteem

John Reynolds [signature]
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[letterhead]
Rare Stamps and Collections Bought at all Times

C.A. Stegmann
United States & Foreign Stamps, Stamp Albums, Etc.
5941 Cote Brilliante Avenue

St. Louis, Mo. Nov. 19 1925.

[stamped] U.S. Pension Office L Nov 21 1925

U. S. Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir: I am anxious to join a chapter of the "Daughter's of the American Revolution, " and have been referred to your department to see if you could give me any information concerning Lieutenant Andrew Dover, entitled to "half pay", This is supposed to have been my Great Grandfather, and that he enlisted from Pa. or Va. If you can give me any history concerning him, I would be very grateful.
Very Sincerely Mrs. Mary (Dover) Stegmann
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42172
INVALID.
Revy
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File No. 42,172
Andrew Dover
Lieut Rev War
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Act: 18 March 18"
Index: -- Vol. 3 , Page 131

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1926 - Jan. 7 - Hist to
Mrs. C.A. Stegmann - Wm HF.
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Andrew Dover.
power of substitution
to
Jno R Nourse
lodged 18th June 1828
Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Cons'd with
Invalid file
#42,172
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[A printed form with information written in]

Revolutionary Claims.
[ A. ]
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Officers.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I, Andrew Dover of the Township of the Northern Liberty and, in the county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such* to the time when the arrangement of the army, provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3d and twenty first of October 1780 and carried into effect; and that I was reduced under that arrangement, at which period I was a Lieutenant in the fifth regiment of the Pennsylvania line.

And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates (commonly called commutation
certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years' full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22d of March, 1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October, 1780. 

And I do further declare, that I have received of the United States as a pensioner since the 3d day of March, 1826,+ four hundred and eighty Dollars paid to me by the Agent for Paying Pensions in the State of Pennsylvania

Witness my hand, this 24th day of June in the year 1828

Andrew Dover

Before me++ Jacob Reaver one of the Justice of the Peace in the county of Philadelphia and in the State of Pensylvania, [sic] personally appeared, this day, Ulrich Gryhoffer and Charles Macknit, of the said county, who did severally make oath that Andrew Dover by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.

Witness my hand, this twelfth day of June, in the year 1828

Jacob Reaver, J P

I John Conrad, Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify, that Jacob Reaver, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace of the said County, and duly empowered to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this thirteenth day of June AD 1828.

[L S.]

Robr J. Conrad Pro Clerk

*Here insert, To the end of the War, or (as the case may be,) to the time when the arrangement of the Army Congress of the 3d of October, 1780, was carried into effect; and that I was reduced under that arrangement. 

+ Here insert the sum of            dollars, paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of             .  If the claimant has not been a pensioner, this part of the declaration may be omitted. 

++ A Justice of the Peace, or other magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths, as the case may be.
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No of orig Pay 148
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
7 July 1828.

Andrew Dover ____ of ____ in the County of
Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution,” approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the time when the arrangement of the army provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3d and 21st of October 1780, was carried into effect under which he was reduced at which period he was a Lieutenant in the fifth regiment of the Pennsylvania line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, the sum of four hundred and eighty dollars, paid  to him by the agent in the State of Pennsylvania.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated
by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
A. Dickins
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
8th July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Andrew Dover - Lieut - in the Pennsylvania line, amounting to Sixteen Hundred dollars.
It further appears that Andrew Dover is now on the pension list of the Pennsylvania
agency, and has been since the 3d March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month.
Peter Hagner Aud
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Andrew Dover, Lieut.
4208
March 1819
Stricken off July 19 1819
"not from"
Reconsideration
CN
Hon. J Bloomfield
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District of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County SS

On the nineteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of Philadelphia the said Court being a Court of Record holding a Prothonotary a seal & exercising Common Law Jurisdiction Andrew Dover aged sixty nine years residing near Frank ford in the County aforesaid who being first sworn in open Court according to Law [illegible word crossed out] on his solemn oath declares that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows to wit

In the fifth Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col McGaw and Company commanded by Capt John Miller. 

Date of Original Declaration 3rd April 1818
Number of Pension Certif-- 4208

And I the said Andrew Dover do further 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 manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as being myself within the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities
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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.
Sworn to and declared in }
Open Court on the nineteenth }
day of October A. D 1820}
W. B. Norbury Prot}

 signed Andrew Dover

Schedule of the Property of Andrew Dover the above named
And tract of Land containing 200 acres situate in the County of Crawford, State of Pennsylvania, 10th district of Donation Land unimproved and of no benefit to me 
Worth --- $100
Tools Coach maker Worth --- $15

I owe the following debts
Two hundred dollars money borrowed
from Phillip Mayer of Lancaster --- $200
Fourteen dollars taxes on the 
Land above mentioned --- 14
Mahlon Dungan --- 26
Margant Bromle Store goods --- 42
Jacob Right for meat --- 52
James Ross Book of --- 40
Mr Ferguson do --- 87
Some other small debts amounting
in all to --- 15
Yearly tax on the land $1.15
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I am by trade a Coach maker and am lame in the right leg- Am deficient in eyesight and am diseased with the Rheumatism so much as to be unable to work frequently when I might have some little to do. I am now dependent almost on the bounty of my friends for my support. I am therefore unwillingly obliged
to ask the assistance of my Country for the
means of subsistence.
Signed Andrew Dover

Philadelphia County Sct
I, Joseph B. Norbury Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of Philadelphia do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is one hundred dollars ~
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court at Philadelphia the seventh day of December AD eighteen hundred & twenty
J.P. Norbury
Prothy