Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,367, Abraham Garrison, New Jersey
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SERVICE         New Jersey.

Garrison, Abraham
   NUMBER   S.34367
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(209)
NEW JERSEY   4

Abraham Garrison   Private
 Capt Bloomfield New Jersey Line
76 years
In the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on the 13th of April, 1818.
certificate of pension issued the 18th , of April, 1818 and sent to Hon. Mr. Bateman, House of Repub. U.States.
Arrearages to 4th Sept 1818.       $37.93
$37.93

Revolutionary Claims, Act 18th March , 1818
Continental Notification sent to Alijah Smith. Esq.
28 Sept 1830 Cape May Ofc.
signed K Genere

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Let to Y. Calder, July 28, 1837

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Hon M. Bateman
April 18, 1818

S.B

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State of New Jersey


Cumberland County ss.
On this thirteenth day of April 1818, before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the State and county aforesaid,
personally appears Abraham Garrison aged sixty two years , resident in the County and State aforesaid , who being by me first duly sworn , according to law. doth on his oath make the following declaration , in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress, entitiled "An act to provide for certain persons in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War ", That he the said Abraham Garrison enlisted in March or April 1776in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Bloomfield of the 3rd New Jersey Regiment commanded by Colonel Elias Dayton, that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until may 1777 when he was discharged from service in Morristown in the state of New Jersey and that he has his last discharge and that he is in reduced circumstances in need of the assistance of his country for support.

Sworn to and declared before me this day and year aforesaid
Abraham Garrison
Amos Westcott

 I enlisted 5 of the name of Garrison in ? as March 1786- I remember  Abraham Garrison marching  with me to Ticonderoga & in May 1777  the said Abraham Garrison , with those who did not recollect were discharged.

J. Bloomfield April 17, 1818
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Cumberland
State of New Jersey
County,
Othniel Johnson of the County and State
being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Abraham Garrison as a soldier in the
Jersey line of the revolutionary army and believes he was upwards of one year in service; that he still knows him
and that he verily believes that the circumstances in life of the said Abraham Garrison are such as to need the
assistance of his country for support
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this thirteenth day of April 1818
Amos Westcott
Othniel Johnson
1
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I Amos Westcott one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Cumberland & State of New Jersey, do
certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Abraham Garrison did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration of the said Abraham Garrison and deposition of Othniel Johnson, against the
common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of
the aforementioned act of Congress.
Given under my hand at Cedarville Cumberland County
West New Jersey April 13th 1818
Amos Westcott
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I Ebenezer   Seeley Clerk of the Inferiour Court
Common pleas in the County of Cumberland and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Amos Westcott Esqr who has attested  the affidavit of Othenial Johnston and the declaration of the Oath of Abraham Garrison hereunto Signed and who has certified to the same is one of the
Judges of the Court of Common pleas
in the County of Cumberland and State of New
If my & that true faith and credit is & ought to be given to his official attestation as such

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
Subscribed my name and affixed
my seal of office this thirteenth day
of April in the year of our Lord one thousand
Eight  hundred and Eighteen

Ebnz Seeley  Clerk  signature
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Abraham Garrison Petition for Pension

Abrm  Garrison

20q
Sept 1818

Elijah Smith Esq
Cape May N.J.
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Aug
Cape May Pleas August Term 1820
August 12th The Court met agreeable to adjournment at the
Court house in the Middle township
Present   Shamgar Hewit, Isaac Smith, Ephraim Hildreth Esquires  Judges of the Pleas
Personally appeared before the Court Abraham Garrison with the following application is
Fredale
State of New Jersey Cape May County
Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the term  of  the year  1820. On this
12th Day of August 1820 Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of
Record for the said County Abraham Garrison Labourer aged sixty four or five
years resident in said County who being first duly sworn according to Law
Oath on his oath declares that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows
that he enlisted in the State of New Jersey in the Company commanded
by Capt Joseph Bloomfield in the year
in the 3d Regiment commanded by Colonel Dayton in the Jersey line for the term of one year, that he served in said Company until the end of said term when he was &honourably discharged, that his Declaration to obtain a pension was dated he believes about the 13th day of April 1810 and his Certificate
is dated the 18th day of April 1816. W. 209. And I do Solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th  day of March1818, 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 within the permissions of an act of Congress Entitled andact to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Navel Service
of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me my property or sureties, 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
 Schedule of the property of Abraham Garrison
 1 table  3 chairs     1.00
 Dishes in Cupboard  1.75
 Iron Pad   Little frying pan  .75
 3 Poles ,Shovel, 2 Lamps  , hammers, hopper 
   little  1.50 
 1 jug 3 small baskets 37pence
 2 candlesticks, 1 pair steelyards   62 pence
1 pair anderism  1.50
 2 luts, 1 flow barrel 1.25
Backs and Book accounts 10.50
TOTAL 18.25 & change

 2 axes , 1 hatchet, 2 weeding hoe  $ 1.00
 1 Large Razor & shave ---- $1.00
  3 fishing lines and level   7.5 
 yarn , 2 Lett of tas  3. cc
 1 Small trunk & 2 ? 2.75
2 patches of Potatoes also 2 trunks 7.00
1 Lot of Bark of Cedar 3.00
 1 bag of hand Bellows  .50
1 Churn ageirs & chisels . 37 1/2

Total 19.37 1/2
         13.25
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$    37.52 1/2

Abraham Garrison
I further swear that my family admits of myself aged as beforeand specified ver infirm and sickly and unable to Labor and my wife Rebecca aged 50 years and very sickly.
Subscribed and sworn in open Court August 12, 1820
Abraham Garrison







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Abraham  Garrison
$37. 52

 I further swear that my family cometh  of myself aged as before specified  very Infirm and sickly and unable to Labour and
my wife Rebecca aged 50 years and very sickly
& subscribed and sworn to open Court August 
12th ,1820.
Shamgar Hewitt Judge
Isaac Smith Judge
Ephraim Hildraith Judge
signed Abraham Garrison


In the opinion of the Court the total amount in value of the Property
Exhibited in the forgoing Schedule is thirty Seven Dollars and
Sixty two and half cents as
Shamgar Hewitt
Thompon HewitA
Isaac Smith
Ephraim Hildreth
Judges

Cape May County
Alijah Smith  Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said  County  of Cape May Do hereby
Certify that the said Court is a Court  of
?, and I further certify that the  foregoing schedule thereto are truely copied from the records of said Court and that it is the opinion of the said court That the total amount in value of the property of the foregoing schedule is thirty  Seven Dollars sixty two half cents In testimony whereof I have here signed my hand and affixed my  Seal of the said Court this  12th day of August 1820

Abijah Smith  Court of Common Pleas
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                                    Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
                                                MLB


Mr. T.M Garrison
National Surety Company
115 Broadway New Yokl City
Dear Sir:
July 15, 1931
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S 24912, that Abraham Garrison enlisted in March or April, 1776, served as a private
in Captain Joseph Bloomfield's company, Colonel Elias Dayton's 3rd New Jersey Regiment, and was discharged in May, 1777.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 13, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Cumberland County,
New Jersey, aged sixty-two years.
In 1820 he was a resident of Cape May County, New Jersey, and referred to his wife, Rebecca, aged fifty-six years. She was a widow in 1837, and in that year, er youngest child, a 
daughter, was referred to, name not shown.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau do not show a claim for pension on file on account of the service of Joseph Garrison.

Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator

Handwritten notes
A.B gives date of death Feb. 4, 1824
1835 List date of death Feb. 6, 1824
Letter in claim gives it Feb 1823
date of death omitted until call on 3 " auditor can be made
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JOEL ARTHBONE VICE CHAIRMAN
WM. B. JOYCE CHAIRMAN
E.M Allen President
E.A. St John Vice  Chairman 

National Surety Company
M5 Broadway, New York
July 10, 1931.


Credit Insurance Department
W.L. Clemens, Vice President
T. M Garrison. Asst Sectretary
E.E. Adams, Chief Claim Adjuster

Department of Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
I enclose copy of letter I wrote you under date
of June 25th. I have not been favored with a reply.
I appreciate the fact that during the vacation
season your office may have more work than can be looked after promptly. However, any co-operation you may be
able to give me in this matter will be greatly appreciated.
Yours very truly,
TM Garrison
TMG: Fs.

Seal US Pension Office
Jul 11 1931
We bond more people than any other company in the world.
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COPY       June 25, 1931.
Department of Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Gentlemen:

I am interested in knowing what your records show as to pensions granted to soldiers in the Revolutionary War with names indicated as follows:
Bennett Garrison New Jersey
Joseph Garrison New Jersey
Abraham Garrison

The records of the Adjutant General of New Jersey show that these gentlemen were soldiers in the Revolutionary War and your records also show that Abraham was placed on the pension roll April 18, 1818, aged 68 years, but I would like to have a little further information relative to Abraham and
the others, that is, the usual form of certificate you issue at times, I believe, giving information as to the pension records. If there is any fee attached to getting this information, I will be pleased to remit it. Please address your reply to :

T.M. Garrison
Credit Ins. Dept.
National Surety Company
115 Broadway,
New York, N.Y.
Yours Very truly,

TMG; Fs
Seal US Pension Office
July 11 1931
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E.A. St. John Vice Chairman
National Surety Company
115 Broadway, New York
June 25, 1931.
Department of Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I am interested in knowing what your records show as
to pensions granted to soldiers in the Revolutionary War with
names indicated as follows:
Bennett Garrison - New Jersey
Joseph Garrison- New Jersey
Abraham Garrison -New Jersey
The records of the Adjutant General of New Jersey show that these gentlemen were soldiers in the Revolutionary War and
your records also show that Abraham was placed on the pension roll April 18, 1818, aged 68 years, but I would like to have a
little further information relative to Abraham and the others, that is, the usual form of certificate you issue at times, I believe, giving information as to the pension records. If
there is any fee attached to getting this information, I will be pleased to remit it. Please address your reply to :
T.M Garrison,
Credit Insurance Dept.,
National Surety Company 115 Broadway, 
New York, N.Y.
Yours very truly,
T.M Garrison

Seal US Pension Office Jun 26 1931 
We bond more people than any other company in the world
TMG:fs
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34367
Reg  INVALID

File No.   34,367

Abraham Garrison

Pri Rev War


Act:  18th march 18
Index :- Vol. 2 , Page 150 
Arrangement of 1870.

1931 July 15- Hist. T.M. Garrison MLB.
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P.Y. Calder
July 28, 1837
OC
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War Dept
Pension Office
July 28, 1837

Sir,
In answer to my letter of 26th Mar. I have to inform you that the enclosed  ?    sheet containing copies of the Acts of July 4, 1836 and March  3, 1837, with the  regulations  adopted under those acts, will shew the widow of Abraham Garrison dec'd , and how to proceed in order to establish a claim, provided she was married to the dec'd pensioner before the termination of his Revolutionary Service

Mr. P.Y. Calder,
Manual Labor Bank

Phila.   ja
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Seal   Jul 7 Philada
James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.


Abram Garrison
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Philadelphia July 26. 1837
James L. Edwards Esqu
Commissioner of Pensions

I am well assured in my own
mind, that  when you have read this communication, though not found by one of those called the high and Honorable, yet you will listen to the voice of its petition
In  the month of February 1823 Mr Abraham
Garrison, an old Revolutionary Soldier of the State of New Jersey, breathed his last under my roof in this City being then in his 74th year of his age.
Memory ?  conflict recollected to me that he have ? through in fighting the Battle of his Country, while struggling to obtain that Independence which we now enjoy 
true for a short time previous to his death he had been unabled to procure a pension for his services which he received from some person in Trenton N.J. but the
time that he received it was so short that he had not been able.  out of the small amount, to have but a mere wife for his aged widow, who still survives, and is now in her 75 years of her age,
Many ? conflict  how she had to pass through from the time of his death to the present moment, her only means of support has aged hands  and the assistance of an affectionate daughter
her youngest child, who is also worn down to a skeleton.
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by affliction, and who has for several months became unable to help herself, indeed had it not been for the hand of Benevolence extended towards them, they must have suffered or have become public  ?
This I conceive sir should not be the fate of
the wife and child of one who has bled in the cause of freedom, and as I have understood that a provission has been made for the widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution, I have taken the liberty to address you sir in her behalf, and have been .this minute in stating her peculiar situation
Mrs Rebecca Garrison widow of Mr.  Abraham
Garrison is as before stated in her 75 year, and of course according to the natural term of life in will not be long that she will require assistance, but the little she  may obtain will help to smooth her passage to the Tomb.
If I have not pursued the proper court
in addressing you, sir, will you if your time will
not permit yourself to write, direct one of your
Clerks to address a few lines to me, informing me how the widow must proceed to obtain the pension, by so doing you will not only aid the cause of the afflicted, but confer also a favour, on
your Most Obt Serv
W. Calder
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Please direct to 

Mr. P.Y. Calder


Manual Labor Bank
Philadelphia 
sign. obtained