Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,177, John Dover, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.

Dover, John

NUMBER
S. 42, 177

CONTENTS
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Dead
4 March 1820

4,209
Pennsylvania Roll-
John Dover
Lieutenant
Col. Shee
Pennsylvania line one year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, to commence on the 30th of March 1818-
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of November 1819 and sent to Richard Peters Esqr Judge - Philadelphia
Arrears to 4th of September 1819 5 hr 2/31 & 30/30 . . 103.95
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th March 1819 -120: -
$223.95
(Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818)
Philadelphia
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Personally come before me one of the Judges of this Court of Common pleas in and for this City & County of Philadelphia Latitia Dover Widow of Lieutenant John Dover deceased who being duly sworn (illegible) that her husband was taken ill about the first day of March in the Year 1821. and died on the 18th day of the same month as will appear from the certificate here to attached - and she (illegible), that he did not receive his accruing
pension money due on the forth day of March
(illegible) his decease - and from this she saith not except that she is still his widow and left his children by (illegible)
Letitia Dover
Sworn to & subscribed this
day of July AD 1838
Archd Randall
Hon Judge Common Pleas

These are to certify that John Dover
and Letticia Stewart, were married by
the subscriber, November 23, A.D. 1816
this is to certify that the Rev. Wm Wilson was Pastor of the Baptist Church in Frankford
in the year 1816
John Rover
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Frankford 27th July 1838
Mr. John Dover died of Tetanus
on the afternoon of 18th March 1821
John F Lauch M.D.
attending Physician
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John Dover Philand Lieut.
Ref. to Mr Edwards.
30th March 1810.
additional testimony
is required some of
the officers with whom
he served are most
likely living & could (illegible) in
Pennsylvania
Admitted
Evidence of her
reduced or indigent circumstances required
(illegible) Judge's certificate
on file
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District of Pennsylvania ss
On this thirtieth day of March A.D. 1818 before me Richard Peters, Judge of the District Court of the United States in and for the Pennsylvania district personally appeared
John Dover of Philadelphia County, who being duly sworn deposes and declares, that during the war of the Revolution he served against the common enemy as an Officer in the army on the continental establishment that on the 3rd day of January 1776, he received a commission as Ensign in the Third Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, commanded by Colonel John Shee, then in the service of the United States - that in the year following he was made a Lieutenant and continued to serve as such until the year 1779 when he resigned his commission in the Army, being unable to remain longer in the service of the United States, on account of his private affairs - That by reason of his named circumstances in life, he needs the assistance of his country for support - that he is a resident Citizen of
the United States & that he has never received or been allowed any pension by the Laws of the United States.  And he further declares that the commissions which he received during the revolutionary War as aforesaid have, through length of time, been lost or destroyed, and are not now, to his knowledge, in existence.
John Dover
Sworn and subscribed
March 30th AD. 1818
before me
Richard Peters
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REV. & 1812 Wars Section
Mrs. C. A. Stegman
5940 Cote Brilliante Ave.,
St. Louis, Mo.

January 20, 1926
Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 42177 it appears that John Dover was commissioned January 3, 1776 (Pa. Archives V.2-5" Sec - Page 128 - says Jan. 8 = & Col. Shee was com. Jan. 3)  Ensign in Colonel John Shee's Pennsylvania Regiment, in 1777 was (illegible) Lieutenant and served until in 1779 when he
resigned his commission.  
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 30, 1818 while a resident of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. He died March 18, 1821. His age is not given.
Soldier married November 23, 1816, Letitia Stewart. In 1838 she was living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and stated that soldier left no children by her. There is no further data on file as to his family,
Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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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. 12/6 1925.

Pension Bureau,
Department of Interior,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen: I wish to find out the Pension Record of John Dover, Philadelphia Co., Pa. Who secured a Pension November 6th
1818 for services in the Revolutionary War.
His War Record from the Archivist of Harrisburg, Pa. is as follows: John Dover, appears as a First Lieutenant as having the following service:
Dover, John, from Third Battalion, January 3, 1777; Resided in Philadelphia, 1835. Fourth Pennsylvania Continental line, in the War of the Revolution.
I am anxious to join a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and any information about this man who I believe to have been my Great Grandfather, will be gratefully received.
Very Sincerely yours,
(Mrs.) Mary (Dover) Stegmann
US Pension Office
A DEC 8 1925
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42177
INVALID.
Rerf -
File No. 42177
John Dover
Lient. Rev. War
-
Act: 18th March 18th
Index: --Vol. 3, Page 131
(Arrangement of 1870.)

March 9, 1990.
Soldier pensioned to
Mrs Dover Harper
New Orleans
1926 Jan. 20 Hist to Mrs.
C. A. Stegmann - MMHF
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Nov. 29
NOV 28 PA

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, PA
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J L Edwards Esquire
Dear Sir,
In (illegible) case (illegible) of John Dover late a Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Line of the Revolutionary army. This (illegible) the proofs that you (illegible) She is not entitled (illegible)  of the act of 1831 to the (illegible) her husbands would have been entitled to from the 4 day of March 1831 to the time of his (illegible).
(illegible) will oblige
(illegible)
C. J. Jack
November 27. 1838
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P. W. Thomas
16 May 1838
G. C.

Record (illegible) 31 page 457
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War Dept.
Pension office
May 16. 1836
Sir,
The letter from Mr John P. Duval, in relation to the case of Mr John Dover I herewith return.
He served as an Ensign from 1776 to 1779,
when he resigned.  No officer who left the service prior to October 1780, acquired a right to bounty land, commutation for half-pay, or any other gratuity whatever. There is nothing due in this case on account of the revolutionary service of Mr Dover.
P.W. Thomas, Esq.
Jurant
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J. L. Edwards, Esquire
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J L Edwards, Esq.
Sir,

I said (illegible); affidavit & her husbandry
Pension Certificate - necessary that he did not
receive the last payment that accrued on it
viz 4 March 1821. before his demise - She is
therefor entitled to the time of his death - I will
thank you in this case - and also in any that I
have (illegible) to forward me into thee but
them, if it be within the (illegible) of business of (illegible) department before Monday August 6. 1838-
respectfully
(illegible) Office
C J Jack

July 30. 1838.
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C. J. Jack
Nov 29 '38
OC
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War Dept. Pen. Office
Nov 29, 1838
Sir
In reply to your inquiry respecting the case of the widow of John Dover who died in March 1821, I have to inform you that she is not entitled to the benefits of the 2nd Sec: of the act of 4 July 1836.  That section of the act does not provide for the widow of anyone who died before March
4. 1831.
C. J. Jack Esqr
Philadelphia
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2 Aug 1838
C. J. Jack
G C

Record (illegible) 47 page 166
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War Department
Pension Office
2nd Aug 1838
Sir
In answer to your letter of the 30th (illegible),
I have to inform you that John Dover dec'd
late a Pensioner on the Pennsylvania Roll
under the act of the 18th March 1818, was dropped from said Roll under the act of the 1st May 1820 and was paid in full up to
the 4th March 1820
Jane H

C. J. Jack Esq.
Philadelphia
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Payable on the 4th March and
4th September of each year, at the
U, States Bank Philadelphia -

J. Dover -
(illegible) Nov. 18. D.C.
Recorded
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claims
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES,
Of the Eighteenth day of March 1818 -
John Dover late a Lieutenant in the
Army of the Revolution
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency,
at the rate of Twenty dollars per month,
to commence on the 30th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen-
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES,
this 6th - day of November
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen -
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War