Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3154, for Andrew Nye, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)
Service
Penn.
Nye or Nigh, Andrew Number W. 3154
Hester
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Reputed August 6.
Dead.
See letter to Hon. J.M. Porter, Sept. 3, 1845

Pennsylvania 4252 
Hester Nye
Widow of Andrew Nye

Who died on the 30th November 1816
of Northampton Co. in the state of Pennsylvania 
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Nelson of the Regt commanded by Col. Stroud i the Penna. Militia for 6 months.

Transcribed on the Roll of Philadelphia  the rate of 20 Dollars - [zero] Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of August 1845 and sent to Hon. J.M. Porter, Easton Pa.

Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi-annual allowance ending { [blank]

$280.00

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 30}

Recorded by Geo C Ames Clerk,
Book C Vol. 1 Page 157
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Andrew Neigh senior was born November the 6 in the year of our lord 1753.
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Record of Andrew Ney on act of Hester Lomison is was his wife the sum of fifteen Shillings & Two pence by me 
Wm White

June [illegible] 22 - 1786

Lo.15.0
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Hester Nye of the Township of Lower Mount Bethel in the County of Northampton and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, widow, being duly sworn according to the law says that she is unable to come to Easton to make this declaration in Court - being now upwards of ninety years of age and entirely blind.
That her memory is very much impaired and in consequence of her infirmities she is unable now to state facts in relation to her husband's military services and her marriage, as she could have done some years since.
That this deponents maiden name was Lomison and that she was lawfully married to Andrew Nye her late husband about seventy years since and before the declaration of Independence. That she does not now recollect the name of the clergyman who married them, but he lived in New Jersey and occasionally officiated in the Presbyterian Church in Mount Bethel, and the marriage took place at the house of Michael Nye the father of the said Andrew. That after their marriage the said Andrew Nye was called out into service in the Militia and was at the Battle of Brandywine and that of Germantown and that he was subsequently in the service under Col. Stroud, over the blue Mountains under Captain Nelson to defend the frontiers against the attacks of the Indians, and that altogether his services in the Revolutionary war exceeded nine months.
That if Deponent ever received a marriage certificate it is lost or destroyed nor does she know that there ever was any family record of their marriage.

Sworn and Subscribed the twenty seventh day of June A.D. 1845 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of Northampton Co, Pennsylvania.
John DeYoung [signature] JP

her X mark
Helen Nye
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Jeremiah Nigh of the township of Lower Mount Bethel in the county of Northampton aged forty five years and upwards being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say
That he is the youngest son of Andrew and Hester Nye (or Nye as their names are sometimes written) - that his parents had nine children of whom deponent is the youngest and that the oldest son Samuel Nigh now living in New Jersey is between sixty-five & seventy years of age as deponent has always understood and believes that his parents were lawfully married by a clergyman who resided in New Jersey and who preached on stated occasions in the Presbyterian Church in Lower Mount Bethel township - But that on diligent search deponent has not been able to discover where the church memoranda or records kept by the said clergyman are, if any ever existed - That they are not found among the records of the said Presbyterian Church and that from the advanced years and infirmities of the said Hester Nigh she is now unable to recollect the name of the said Clergyman nor has she preserved any certificate of her marriage, nor is there any family record existing of the same as far as deponent knows or believes. That the said Hester is now upwards of ninety  years of age and totally blind and resides with deponent where she has resided for nearly twenty years past.
Deponent has always understood that his said father was out in service in the revolutionary war, as well under Colonel Stroud and in Captain Nielson's Company  - as also that he was at
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the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown - That his services as deponent understood were in the Militia. That the annexed paper signed Wm White is a paper which he found among his Father's papers - And appears to be a receipt signed by William White who according to report kept a store in the neighborhood of where his parents resided when married for an account that deponent's mother must have owed him before her marriage and which deponents father paid after their marriage.
Jeremiah Nigh [signature]

Sworn and Subscribed June the 24, 1845 before me a Justice of the Peace of the county of Northampton Penna
J.H. Keller J.P. [signature]
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From "A General Muster Roll of the Sixth Battalion Northampton County Militia" dated "May 14th, 1778" the following named persons appear as "Field Officers of said Battalion [illegible]: "Colonel Jacob Stroud, Lieut. Abraham Miller, Major John Gaston, Sgt. Jacob Winan". And in "Class [illegible] No. 2, Captain John Nilson" appears the name of "Andrew Nye".

Pennsylvania Ss:
I do certify that the above so far as underlined is a true copy of the original remaining in this office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Secretary's Office at Harrisburg this 3rd day of March A.D. 1845
H Petrikin Deputy [signature and title]
Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth

x "Colonel" [illegible] by mistake
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Samuel Russell of the County of Northampton, being duly affirmed [sworn lined through] according to Law, saith that he is now in his eighty-fourth year of age. That he had been well acquainted with Andrew Neigh, who lived in Northampton Co. and State of Pennsylvania, that he had been a Soldier of the Revolutionary War and entered the same as a Militia man in Captain John Nilsons Company and in Colonel Jacob Stroud's Regiment, in which he served and was stationed at Fort Penn in Monroe County (then Northampton). I was stationed at Fort Penn something like seven months and to the best of my knowledge Andrew Neigh was there and backwards and forward to the different Forts in that section of country, about the same length of time. This was in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one.  And I now drew a Pension for my services as a Revolutionary Soldier. and further saith not.
Samuel Russel [signature]

Affirmed and Subscribed before me June the 3rd 1845
J.H. Keller J.P. [signature and title]
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Joseph Drake being duly sworn according to law saith that he is now in the eighty fifth year of his age. That he was well acquainted with Andrew Neigh who lived in Northampton County and State of Pennsylvania. That he was a soldier of the Revolutionary War and entered the same as a Militiaman. Colonel Jacob Stroud was the Colonel of the Regiment. John Nelsen was the Captain of the Company in which he served and was stationed at Fort Penn in Monroe (then Northampton) County and also at Caretta Fort in Pike County then Northampton. I do not recollect how long he was in the service. I was stationed at Fort Penn above mentioned under Col. Stroud at the same time that the saith Andrew Neigh was and remained there about three months and I believe the said Neigh was there during the whole of said time. I do not recollect the year in which we were stationed at this Fort. I now draw a pension for my services in the Revolutionary War. And further saith not.
His X Mark
Joseph Drake

Sworn and Subscribed before me May 28 AD 1845
Morris D Robeson [signature]
JP
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Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

I James H. Stroud Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County do Certify that Morris D. Robeson Esquire before whom the within Deposition of Joseph Drake was made and taken was at the time of taking the same and yet is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due and of right ought to be given to all his official acts and that the signature thereto is the genuine signature of the said Morris D. Robeson Esquire.

Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Stroudsburgh this seventh day of July AD 1845.
J H Stroud Prothonotary [signature and title]
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In the matter of the Application of Hester Neigh, for a Pension under the Acts of Congress in that behalf.

Joseph Smith of the Township of Lower Mount Bethel, in the County of Northampton, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Esquire, Aged Eighty years, being duly sworn according to Law, says that he hath been well acquainted with Andrew Neigh deceased, and also with his Father Michael ever since he was sixteen or seventeen years old, that said Michael Neigh and his whole family have always been highly Esteemed and Respected by every person that knew them. I did live for many years within three miles of their house - Deponent joined the Presbyterian Church of said Township of Lower Mount Bethel, when he was about twenty three years old, said Andrew Neigh and his said Wife, Hester, both attended the same Church regularly. I was not present at their marriage, but I have never heard it doubted nor suspected, but they always were treated, in every Respect, as Man and Wife, and I have not the least doubt of their marriage. Deponent has personal knowledge of the fact, that said Andrew Neigh (or sometimes they would write his name Ney) deceased, was gone as a Revolutionary Soldier, particularly against the Indians up the Delaware River, and also at other times he was gone below Philadelphia; the said Andrew Neigh deceased always had the Reputation of having been in the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and he was
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the only Person of the name of Andrew Neigh of having been a Revolutionary Soldier in the said Neighborhood. The said Andrew Neigh has now been dead nearly thirty years, and his Widow the said Hester Neigh still surviving him, as Deponent well knows, I have been to see, said Widow Hester Neigh, within the last six months. She is now upwards of ninety years old and is blind and sickly, but of sound mind and memory. And further saith not.
Joseph Smith [signature]

Sworn and Subscribed June the 20 AD 1845 before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace of said County
Henry Winter J.P. [signature and title]
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In the matter of the application of Hester Neigh for a pension under the Acts of Congress in that behalf.

John Cooper of the Borough of Easton, Pennsylvania, Doctor of Medicine, aged eighty years, being duly sworn according to Law, deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Hester Neigh widow and [illegible] of Andrew Neigh deceased, of Lower Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. That he became acquainted with the said Andrew Neigh and Hester Neigh some forty or forty five years  ago, having attended as a Physician in the family. That the said Andrew Neigh is now deceased as the Deponent is informed and believes. That during all the period of the deponent's acquaintance as aforesaid, the said Andrew and Hester were deemed and reputed to be husband and wife and so lived together until the deceased of the said Andrew Neigh as the deponent verily believes.
Jno. Cooper [signature]

Sworn and subscribed the 12th day of June AD 1845 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Northampton in Pennsylvania.
J. Weygandt, J.P. [signature and title]
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6527

Hester Nye
Pa.
Act 4 July '36

Ro June 14, 1845
[illegible]
20

J.M. Porter
Easton Pa.
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Pennsylvania
Northampton County Ss.

Mary Merrill wife of Richard [Robert lined-through] Merrill of Lower Mount Bethel Township in the said County aged upwards of seventy years being duly sworn according to Law says
That she is a sister of Andrew Neigh (or Nye) of the Township and County aforesaid, Farmer, deceased. That she said Andrew Neigh died on or about the thirtieth day of November AD 1816 in the said Township, leaving to survive him his widow named Hester, whose maiden name was Lomison and issue ten children, the eldest of whom Samuel Neigh must now be upwards of seventy-five years of age - That deponent does not recollect being present at the marriage of the said Andrew and Hester as it occurred when she was a very young child but as long as she can remember they lived and cohabitated together as man and wife and were so deemed, treated and considered by Deponents parents and all her acquaintances. Nor has she ever heard it for a moment suspected that they were not lawfully married. Deponent also knows that it was the common talk in the family and neighborhood that her brother Andrew, the husband of the said Hester, was out in service in the Revolutionary War and besides the services under Colonel Stroud over the Mountain (as it was called), she has heard it stated that he was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. 
Her Mark
M
Mary Merrill

Sworn and subscribed June the 19th 1845 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of said County

Levi L. Loder JP [signature and title]
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Pennsylvania
Northampton County Ss.

I William Hackett Prothonotary of the Court of Common Please in and for the said County of Northampton do certify, That John DeYoung Esquire before whom the accompanying Deposition of Hester Nye was taken, that Henry Winter Esquire before whom the accompanying Deposition of Joseph Smith was taken, that John Henry Keller Esquire before the accompanying Deposition of Jeremiah Nigh and Samuel Russel were taken, that Jacob Weygandt Esquire before the accompanying Deposition of John Cooper M.D. was taken and that Levi L. Loder Esquire before whom the accompanying Deposition of Mary Merrill was taken were severally at the time of the taking and subscribing of the said Depositions Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that the Signatures thereto are respectively the proper handwritings of the said John DeYoung, Henry Winter, John Henry Keller, Jacob Weygandt and Levi L. Loder Esquires respectively, and that full faith and credit are due and right ought to be given to all their official Acts.
Witness my Hand and the Seal of the said Court at Easton this twenty eighth Day of June AD 1845.
Wm Hackett [signature]
Prothy.
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Easton Aug. 30, 1845

Dear Sir
As I apprehended when I wrote you last [illegible] Hester Nye is dead. She was in fact dead when I wrote the letter although I had not heard the intelligence. Her death therefore occurred before the Certificate of Pension was granted. Will this make any difference in regards to the heirs drawing the pension? Her children are scattered all over and I directed the son with whom she lived to take out administration which he has done.  How is he to proceed to draw the pension? Will the [illegible] of the letters of administration with proof of the time of her death, to the agent in Philadelphia enable the administrator to draw it?
Truly Yours
J.M. Porter

James L Edwards Esq.
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March 21, 1940
BA-J/AWF
Andrew Nye
W. 3154

Mrs. C.M. Martin
2717 Sixth Street
Peru, Illinois

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Andrew Nye of Pennsylvania.

The data furnished herein was obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, W. 3154, based upon the military service of Andrew Nye, in the Revolutionary War.

Andrew Nye was born November 6, 1753, place not stated. He was the son of Michael Nye, name of his mother not given.

While residing in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Andrew Nye served as a private and was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, afterwards served in Captain John Nilson's or Neilson's company in Colonel Jacob Stroud's Pennsylvania regiment, and went "over the blue Mountain" to defend the frontiers from the invasions of the Indians; length of entire service nine months.

Andrew Nye married about 1775 (definite date not given) in Mount Bethel, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Hester Lomison or Lomerson. The date and place of her birth and names of parents were not given.

Andrew Nye died November 30, 1816 in Lower Mount

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[letter page 2 of 2]

Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

Pension was allowed on the application executed June 27, 1845, by the widow, Hester Nye, at which time she was a resident of Lower Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, aged "upwards" of ninety years. She died prior to August 30, 1845.

Andrew Nye and his wife, Hester, had nine or ten children - Samuel Nye, their eldest child, was living in 1845 in New Jersey, then aged between sixty-five and seventy years, and Jeremiah Nye, their youngest child, was a resident of Lower Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, in 1845, then aged forty-five years. Names of other children were not designated.

Mary Merrill, sister of the soldier, Andrew Nye, and in 1845 the wife of Richard Merrill of Lower Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, was then aged seventy years.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible data in regard to family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the exact date of death of the widow, Hester Nye, it is suggested that you apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data:

Hester Nye, widow of Andrew Nye
Certificate #4252, issued August 2, 1845
Rate $20.00 per annum, commenced March 4 1831
Act of July 4, 1836, Pennsylvania Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[illegible] Revo. Sec.

Milwaukee Wis 
April 30, 16

Hon. Comm. of Pensions
Dear Sir,
Will you kindly inform me if the name Andrew (Neigh, Nigh, or Ney) a private from Northampton Co., Pa. who served in the Battle of Brandywine in 1777,
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appears on your records. If so, please give me what information you can.

[illegible] Oblige
Mrs. John E Nelson
3825 Galena St.
Milwaukee Wis

[stamped]
US Pension Office
D
May 3 1916
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Hester Nye
Penna
[following lined through]
Let to Hon. J.M. Porter
July 19, '45

Act 4th July 1836
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KJG Rev. Sec.

[stamped seal top left] 
Pension Office May 10 1916

Milwaukee Wis
May 8 - 1916

Dept of the Interior 
Bureau of Pensions,

Dear Sir,
Your letter at hand giving War Record of Andrew Nye who served in Battle of Brandywine and Germantown in 1777 - from Northampton Co. Pa. Your information is of great service to me, please accept my sincere thanks. I am desirous of joining the D.A.R. and as their rules are very stringent and require many dates of ancestral service, I am writing you
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again for the date of Andrew Nye's birth which you neglected to give me in recent information. Thanking you again for your favor and trusting you may be able to send me this birth date.

I am respectfully yours
Mrs. John E Nelson
3825 Galena St.
Milwaukee Wis
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WIDOW, &c.
Revy

File No. 3154
Hester Nye
Widow
Andrew Nye
Priv Rev. War

Act: July 4, 1836
{Arrangement of 1870}

1916 May 4: history to Nr. L.F. Camp [initialed] M.B.H.
1916 May 6: history to Mrs. John E. Nelson [initialed} M.B.H.
1916 May 11: Mrs. John E. Nelson advised date of birth and place not in claim [initialed] M.B.H.
1940 March 21: hist to Mrs. C.M. Martin [initials illegible]
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42

Pension Office
Sept. 3rd 1845

Dear Sir,
I received your letter of the 30th ult. this morning. The death of Hester Nye, either before or after the issue of the pension certificate will not affect the claim of her children. Under the law of the 19th June 1840, the money due may be paid to an administrator, for the sole and exclusive benefit of the children. I enclose a copy of that law, with the necessary forms to be used in drawing the pension.
I am with great regard,
Your friend and Obt. Sert. [obedient servant]
[no signature]

Hon J.M. Porter
Easton, Penn.
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3-525 REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREQU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., ____, 19____

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Andrew Nye or Nigh a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his or [lined through] his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau

W. 3154

[data below entered into Form table]
Dates of Enlistment. [blank]
Length of Service. 9 months
Rank. Private
Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered. Was in battles of Brandywine and Germantown, afterwards under Capt. John Nilson and Col Jacob Stroud.

Battles engaged in,
See above
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Northampton Co. Penn.
Date of application for pension,
June 27 1845. Her claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application,
Lower Mount Bethel Township, Northampton Co, Penn.
Age at date of application,
90 years.

Remarks: Soldier was the son of Michael Nye and married Hester Lomison in Mount Bethel, Penn about 1775, he died in Lower Bethel Township Nov 30, 1816. They had 9 children, Samuel the eldest, 65 or 70 in1845 and Jeramiah, 45 years in 1845 only names mentioned.

Respectfully,
Commissionaire

6-2856
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Easton July 22nd 1845

Dear Sir

I duly rec'd yours of the 19th instant in regard to the claim of Hester Nye for a pension. My recollection of the Deposition was that the applicant stated her husbands entire [underlined] services, as exceeding nine months, including his services at the time of the battles of Brandywine and Germantown as well as his services under Col Stroud at Fort Penn and another Fort in the blue Mountains against the Indians probably in 1779 - And that Russell one of the witnesses proved that the latter service was seven months. Drake the mil witness spoke of being himself there for 3 months and that he knew that during that time Nye was there and was not able to say how much longer he might have served.
The traditionary proof or [illegible] by reputation of his being at Brandywine and Germantown is all that was addressed as to that part of the case. And excluding it, there [illegible] pretty satisfactory proof of seven months service, exclusive of the alleged pension, service. [illegible] you will please do what you think right and equitable on the subject. The old lady was very tired when last heard from and may probably not be even living now. If so I suppose some one [illegible] have to administer to receive the [illegible].
Very Truly Yours,
J.M. Porter

J L Edwards
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Easton Pa 
July [illegible] 1845

Dear Sir
I sent you some depositions in relation to a claim for a pension by Mrs Hester Nye or Neigh of this County.

I have resided in this County upwards of twenty seven years. When I came here Andrew Neigh the husband of the applicant was dead a short time and I was soon [illegible] employed in relation to some claims of his [illegible]. The family was quite a respectable one and always understood. 

The old lady who is living with her youngest son is wholly unable to leave her home (about ten miles from this place) to appear in court and witnesses whom depositions accompanying her declaration reside at an equal or greater distance from Easton. I personally know all of the witnesses - Doct John Cooper MD is one of our oldest Physicians. He was for nearly or not quite 40 years one of the [illegible] - Major Jerimiah Nigh the son is quite a respectable man and so are Samuel Russel, Joseph Drake and Joseph Smith - Mary Merrill I have known for twenty four years or upwards and know her to be a woman of great respectability for her station in life.

There appears to be an omission of a word or two in the conclusion of Joseph Smiths Deposition, when
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stating of Andrews services - by inserting the words "who had the reputation" between "Neigh" and " of in the first line of the 2 page it will make sense yet -

There could also appear to be some discrepancy  [illegible] between the [illegible] from the [illegible] muster role in the Secretary's office at Harrisburg and the year of [illegible] service under Col Stroud over the blue mountain - this may be a mistake in recollection as to the year by Russel - or otherwise I cannot tell.  I have not seen any of the witnesses but Andrew Nigh the son and that discrepancy did and stated [illegible] until after the war [illegible].

I have myself, from what I can learn no doubt either as to the marriage or as to service. In my practice I have found it exceedingly difficult to prove a marriage that took place in the region more than 50 years service except by reputation.

I need and repeat to you that anything I do [illegible] is in any other pension case nor in [illegible] character of an attorney or advocate.
Very Truly Yours
J.M. Porter [signature]

Col James L. Edwards
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Pen. Off.
July 19, 45

Dr. Sir

The [illegible] in the case of Hester Nye have been determined and filed - They are very satisfactory of the general merit of the claim but the pension sought is a [illegible] one which renders it indispensable to ascertain with reasonable precision the amount of service by which that merit is illustrated - These papers are indefinite & do not afford the necessary data upon this point.  Claim.t [Claimant] thinks her husband was in service in all 9 mo. and one of the witnesses would seem to estimate it at 7 mo. - It would therefore be a liberal adjudication of the claim to allow her the minimum pension per monthly service .
With sincere respect I am 
Sectry

Hon. J.M. Porter
Easton, Pa
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Organized 1868
The Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. of California
L.F. Camp, General Agent
7 E. Tioga St.
Tunkhannock, Penn.
April 29, 1916

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, .DC.
Dear Sir: - Will you please be kind enough to tell me what the records of your Department show as to the military record of Andrew Neigh (Nigh-Ney - Nye) who enlisted as a private from Northampton County, Pa, in the Revolutionary service.
In Vol. IV, page 337, Pennsylvania Archives, he is recorded as a Private in Militia C. Depreciated pay (whatever that may mean). He is supposed to have been in the Battle of the Brandywine, Sept. 1777.
I am asking this because my wife is a lineal descendant of this man and she and her sister desire to associate themselves with the D.A.R.
Any information and data which you may be able to give us will be very much appreciated.
Very respectfully yours,
L.F. Camp [signature]
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2717 Sixth Street
Peru, Illinois
February 25, 1940

The Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:

I am seeking information about one Andrew Nye, who served in the Revolution and who lived, I believe, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. He had a daughter Susan (or Susanah) who married Solomon Main in that county.
Would you please advise me if you have any information or record concerning this soldier?
Thank you for your service.

Yours very truly,
Bernice Main Martin [signature]
(Mrs. C.W. Martin) [signature]
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M.B.H.
Rev. War Section

May 11, 1918

Mrs. John E. Nelson
3825 Galena Street,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Madam:  
In response to your letter dated the 8" instant, you are advised that the date and place of birth of Andrew Nye are not stated in the pension claim of this widow Hester W.F. 3154 Revolutionary War.
Very Respectfully,
GM Saltzgaber [signature]
Commissioner