Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1,733, Peter Demott, New Jersey
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NewJersey

Demott, Peter
             Mary

W. 1733
B.L.Wt. 36503-160-55
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Left side vertical writing too smudged to read

right side:

KENTUCKY'
Mary Demott
widow of Peter Dermott
who served in the Revolutionary 
War, as a Private
            N.J. Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
$80 Dollars 00
Cents, per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of arch 1848

Certificate of Pension issued the
24th day of April 1850
and sent to
            S.F.J. Trabue
                  Present

Recorded non Roll of Pensioners under act
July 29 1848, Page 173 Vol. 1
                     Borkit (?)
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1760
Kentucky
Peter Dermott
Mercer in the State of Kentucky
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Peterson in the Reg't commanded by Col. Quick in the New Jersey
Line for 2 years from 1776

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 80 Dollars ---Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 125 day of Nov.  1832 --------- and sent to R.B.
McAfee, Harrodsburg, KY

Arrears to 4th of march 1832              120.00
Semi-an'l allowance ending 4 
                   March 1833                           40.00
                                                           __________

(stamp) The National Archives             160.00
   of the United States

Recorded by Nathan Rice, Clerk
Book D Vol. 9 Page 36
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Mar 3
212513 Sept 14 / 55

Mary Demott
wid. of
Peter Demott
              Priv.

(stamp) The National Archives Of The United States

Revolutionary War
Pen. Cert. Book A
Vol. 1 Pg 173 Act Feb 2 1848
July 48 - 557

-?- 16 act July 24 / 56
       (Name written here - Boynton ??)

P.B. Mason
Dansville
KY

Vol. D 61
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State of Kentucky
Mercer County
      On this 3rd day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the
(ink stamp overlaid- the National Archives of the Untied States) Justices of the county Court of Mercer now sitting Peter Dermott a revolutionary soldier of sd. State and a resident citizen of sd. County who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - viz.   I Peter Demott state on oath that I am in the 74th year of my age and I was born in the State of New Jersey and County of Sommersett where I resided at the time I was called into the service of my country during the revolutionary war, and I removed to Kentucky about the year 1788 and settled in Mercer County where I now reside.  that in the month of June 1776 I volunteered in the militia service of New Jersey in what was called the Flying Camp troops in Capt. Staath company in Col. Quick regiment -my engagement was to march at a moments warning to any point to which we might be ordered - I marched to the City of New York where we staid but a few days when we returned to Pawlus Hook and to Hoboken where we were stationed one month, and we were classed in such manner that the Flying Camp troops were called out every other month.  I was stationed after this time at Elizabethtown, Amboy, New Brunswick, and when the British beat our troops at Long Island and Gen. Washington had to retreat through New Jersey I was stationed part of my time up the Raritan, and I recollect that while the British were at New Brunswick a part of their baggage Waggon lay near Millstone with most work round them I was with Col. Quick when we surrounded them before and could have taken them but Col. Quick -?- of charging on them sent a flag which gave them time.....
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.....to prepare and Col. Quick ordered his men to march off which produced great complaint against him and again 1777 I was called on again after our first time  was  expected to expire, every other month and I was stationed the greater part of the time I performed at New Ark Elizabeth town and Brunswick and near Millstone after the British retreated to New York Staten Island before they sailed round to Philadelphia, and I was every month alternately out when was called upon until after Lord Cornwallis was taken.  I served sometimes once and often twice and then times under the same Captain those I recollect was Capt. Peterson who was next to Capt. Staats and Capt. quick, Captain John Baird, Capt. Tunison and Capt. Hall.  And I was part of my time under Col. (smudged name) and my last col. was Col. Freilinghuysin and when the Army of Gen. Washington laying at Morristown I was a soldier under Capt. Quick and Lieutenant  Cornelius VanArsdale - we were alternately stationed as a guard at the places I have named above and my whole time of actual service during the revolutionary war was nearly three years.  I am very firmed and my recollection is very frail on ac count of my age but as to the places where I was stationed and my times of service I am certain of and on account my being a guard on the lines I was never engaged in any battles.  That long side lost my discharge, and I solemnly  say (?) that I was a faithful soldier during the times I have stated, and I hereby relinquish all claim which I have have to any pension or annuity except the present and I am not now a Pensioner  of the United States or of any State.  witness my hand this 3rd day ofSeptember 1832
Peter Dermott
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State of Kentucky
Mercer County

     On this the 5th day of September 1848 Personally appeared before me A. Downing an acting Justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid Mrs. Mary Demott a resident of the said County and State aged about seventy ____ years who after being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of an act of Congress passed 29th July 1848 entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary War" to wit:  that she is the widow of Peter Dermott deceased late of the said County of Mercer and State of Kentucky who was as she verily believes a Private in the New Jersey line in the Army of the Revolution and continued some time in the service in consequence of which he was allowed a person under the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832 at the rate of $80 per annum which was paid him at the Kentucky Agency until his death.  That she cannot specify the officers under whom the service of her said husband was performed, and for the names of the same as well as the duration and particulars attending the service afsd. she will most respectfully ask leave to refer to the evidence now on file in the Office of the now Commissioner of Pensions upon which said allowance under the said act 7 June 1832 was made.  She further declares.....
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.....that she was married to her said husband on there 19th day of December 1796 by the Rev. John bill as the records of the Mercer County Court show - she further declares that her said husband departed this life on the 15ht day of October 1832, and that since his death she has never again married but still remains his widow.
     She now most respectfully asks the Hon. commissioner of Pensions that her application may meet with his early consideration and a allowance made under the said act 29 July 1848 and that the Certificate of Pension which may issue as evidence thereof may be enclosed to her attorney C.H. Trabue Esq. of Frankfort Kentucky and with him only and such acts (?) as he may authorize does she wish correspondence by any office of theDepartment and reference to her said claim -?-.
Mary Demott her X mark

Sworn to and subscribe before
me on the day and year
aforesaid
     A. Downey JP

I the just subscribed magistrate certify that the foregoing declarant is know to me - and known to her the widow of Peter Demott deceased late of Mercer County KY who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States made under the act of Congress 7 June 1832 at the rate of $80 per annum.  That she is a.......
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.....lady of the first respectability unto all of whose statements the fullest faith and credit should be given - I further certify that I verily believe that she was married to her deceased husband at the time she has stated.  And I further certify that I know she has not married since the death of her said husband.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this the 5th day of September 1848.
     A.Downing JP

State of Kentucky 
Mercer County
        I Thomas Allin Clerk of the afsd. do certify that A. Downing Esq. whose name is subscribed to there foregoing Certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county afsd. duly commissioned and qualified and as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts as such.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and and seal alf Office this 5th day of September 1848.
         Tho. Allin CLK
          Mercer County Court
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Mary Demott
Declaration
July 29, 1848
No. 659
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State of Kentucky
County of Mercer
        On this 16th day of August A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for the county and state afsd. Mary Demott aged seventy four years a resident of Mercer County in the state of Kentucky who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Peter Dermott deceased who was a private in the revolutionary war.  She is subscribed on the Pensioner list at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, recorded in the Pension Office on the roll of Pensioners under Act Feb. 3rd 1848 Page 173 Vol. 1 Book A.
     She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March the third 1855.  She also declares that she has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress nor made any other application therefor.
Mary Demott her X mark

    We Garrett Bonta and Isham L. Vanarsdale residents of Mercer County and State of Kentucky upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Demott in our presence and that we believe from this -?- and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.Garrett Bonta
Isom L. Vanarsdale

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and.....
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...year above written and I certify that I know the applicants to be credible persons, and that the  claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim from (?) under my hand as a Justice of the Peace as above stated the year and day above written.
  Jas. Morgan JP

State of Kentucky
Mercer County
    I Tho. Allin Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Jas. Morgan is and was at the time of making the foregoing signature a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that he is duly authorized by law to administer oaths and that his said signature above written is genuine.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County ad subscribed my name this 29th day ofAug. 1855.
    Tho. Allin Clerk
     Mercer County Court
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Marriage Bond
Mrs. (?) Demott
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Know all men by these Presents, tht we Peter Demott and Lawrence Demott are held and firmly bound until his Excellency James Garrard Esq. Governor of Kentucky in the just and full su of fifty pounds current -?- the payments of which will and truly to be made to the said governor and his Successors we bind ourselves  and Heirs jointly and severally firmly by these presents stated with our seal and dated this 14th day of December 1796.
      The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a  license about to issued for marriage shortly intended between the above bound Peter Demott and Mary Terhune for which a license has issued more if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage then the above obligation to be void or else to remain in full force and virtue.
      Testy
 Charles Wing.    Peter Demott
                             Lawrence Demott

State of Kentucky
Mercer County
    I Thomas Allin clerk of the Court for the County afsd. do certify that the foregoing is truly copied fro the records in my office.  Intestimoy whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 1sr day of January 1849.
Tho. Allin CLK
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Peter Demott

from 1776, private
two years
$80


R.B. McAfee
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8138 BRIEF I the case of Peter Demott
County of Mercer in the State of Kentucky
(Act 7 June, 1838)

(transcription of hand written parts)
1) Court

2) (blank)

3) 74

4) State his services/ Period:
     June in 1776   
       in Flying Camp & ser'd
        in all (smudged word)
       nearby

       Duration of Service 3 nearly

         Rank - private

     Names of General and Field Officers 
             Capt. Staatts Col. Quick
               " Peterson Capt. Quick
               " Jno. Baird Col. Hall & Capt
               Gemison Col. Broom &
                Col. Freilinghuysen

5) none.     (circular ink stamp: National     
                         Archives of the United States)

6) Sommerset Cnt. New Jersey

7) Witnesses and Traditionary

8). Correct

F. Waugh Examining Clerk
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Mary Demott
widow of Peter
Kentucky

Admitted
Pri - $80 -
4 March 1848
(illegible) 15 Oct 1832

Trabue
S.F.J. Trabue
Present
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36.500

(illegible words or abbreviations)


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212513

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Danville Ky Sept 10th 1855

The Commissioner of Pensions

     Sir - I include to you a paper which represents the claim of Mrs. Demott to a share of bounty land -?- to the soldiers of the revolutionary war as well as other men.  The paper makes known her claim.  Will you address me Danville Boyd County Ky and let me know and let me know the result of your investigations.
        Yours -----
         P.B.Mason
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351 East King St.
Franklin Ind.
June 22 - 1936

to the Commissioner of Pensions -

Dear sir-
        I would like a statement of the military history of Peter Demott, a soldier of the Revolutionary War,  who enlisted from Somerset Co., New Jersey. He later married Mary Terhune of Mercer Co., Ky, and died in that county.
       Would also like the service of Lawrence Demott who served in the Somerset Co., N.J; militia.
                    Respectfully
                      Mrs. Chas. B. Henderson 

(Ink Stamp
   Received
    Jun 23 1936
    Mail sub.-div.
     Vets Ad.
      Reader
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(left side)
Mrs. Eliza Hoefgen Blair
'28 - 03 Indianapolis Ind.

1930 Dec. 2 - Hist to Mrs. Ralph W. Sudhoff -?-

1934 July 31 - Hist. to Lora close Swift.  See his letter.

1936 Oct. 13 to Mrs. Chas. B. (smudged)

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Rev. WIDOW, &c.

File No 1733
Mary Demott
widow
Peter Demott
  Pri. Rev. War

Act.: July 29 1848

Index:-Vol. A, Page 174
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Mercer County - This day Daniel Couvert and Cornelius Vanarsdale two aged revolutionary soldiers came into open Court and being first sworn accodrding to law do on their oaths state that we are well acquainted with Peter Demott who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration and we know that he is the same man who served as a soldier in the -?--?- (smudged) the sd. Vanarsdale was Lieutenant of the company in which sd. Demott served at one time in which sd. Demott served every other month for upwards of -?- months,  -?- a near neighbor to the sd. Demott and knows that he was a faithful soldier under Col. quick, Cols. Vroom and Freilinghuysen and altho we were not always with him yet we know that he was in service more than two years as he was called in like the other militia of sd. state every other month as a guard and we do not recollect that he (smudged word) he was also up as said.  He was a faithful soldier -?- -?- -?-.  We cannot give the names of all his officers but we know that from the year 1776 util 1783 after the capture of Lord Cornwallis he sd. Demott faithfully discharged his duty - we saw sd.Huff while in service at Morris Town Elizabeth Town New Brunswick and at Amboy in the  -?- years he has stated. -?- knows that he was at command .  Witness our hand this 3rd day of Sept 1832

Cornelius Vanarsdale
Daniel Couvert

Mercer County.  We Thomas Kyle a Clergyman and a resident of Mercer County and William  Nourse & Malachi Randolph residents of the same county do herby certify that we are well acquainted with the above named Peter Demott of sd. County who has signed and sworn to the above Declaration and we believe.....
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....him to be of the age he has stated and that he is respected in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution  and we concur in this opinion after conversing with him, we further certify that he is a respectable citizen and a man of truth in whom we can place full confidence.  witness our hands this 3rd day of September 1832
Thomas Kyle
Wm. Nourse
Malichi Randolph

State of Kentucky
Mercer County
September Term viz September 3rd 1832
 On this day Peter Demott the within applicant and Cornelius Vanarsdale Daniel Covert Thomas Kyle William Nourse and Malichi Randolph the subscribers to the annexed Certificates came in Court and made oath to the truth of the Statements by respectively subscribed and the Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigating the matter and after putting the interrogatories provided by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served was he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas Kyle who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident of Mercer County and that C. Vanarsdale D. Covert Wm. Nourse and Malichi Randolph who have signed the two preceding Certificates are residents of Mercer County and are credible persons.   I Thomas Allin Jr Clerk of the County Court apl. by Philip T. Allin that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Peter Demott for a Pension.
        In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 6th day of September (year smudged) and in the 41st year of the Common -?-.
        Phi. T. Allin
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(Hand written parts transcribed)

Brief..... Peter Demott

I. yes

II. Yes

III. (blank)

IV. yes

V. yes

VI. yes

VII. yes

VIII. yes 

IX. yes

X. yes
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XI. yes

XII. (blank)

XIII.  three witnesses

XIV. yes

XV. yes

XVI. yes

XVII. 2nd
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Mar  (day and year blurred)

Mrs. Demott
Act 29 July 1848

filed by
S.F.J. Trabue
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Horizontal part:

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comm. of pensionsWC (?)

Vertical part to right

S.F.J Trabue
(illegible word)
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Washington City
March 10th 1850

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions

Sir
   I have the honor herein to enclose you the declaration of Mrs. Polly Demott under the Act of congress passed 29th July 1848.  Also enclosed is a copy of the marriage bond showing the marriage to have taken place in 1796.
     You will please enclose me the Certificate of Allowance.

          I am Sir
              Very Respectfully
                   Your Obt. Servt.
                           S.F.J. Trabue