Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22642, John Bell, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Bell, John

NUMBER
S. 22642

CONTENTS
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Pennsylvania
John Bell
of Philadlpa Co in the State of Penna who was a Pr in the Company commanded by Captain Polhemus of the Regt commanded by -------------- in the New Jersey Militia 
7 mo Private - $23.33

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of May 1833 and sent to Hon P. M. Dallas, Philadelphia Pa

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  - 46.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sepr.   11.66
$58.32

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by J. T. Spraque Clerk,
Book E Vol. 5 Page 3
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County ss  On this seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty [two?] personally appeared before me Evan [Edmond?] one of the Judges of the [unintelligible] Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon John Bell a resident of the Township of Nottingham in the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey aged seventy four years seven months & twelve days , who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and on his oath maketh the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States as a teamster and drove the teams of his master James Jackson, whose apprentice he then was and he drove a team carrying flour from [ ? ? forage] and other articles for the army of the United States.  That he first commenced driving team in the manner aforesaid in the month of January 1777 and drove a team from Trenton in New Jersey to Morristown and drove
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several times to Morristown and went to various places around the county for [?Pay] for Cavalry and [?wood] for the soldiers, and that he was engaged in the service of the United States at that time three weeks.  After those three weeks had expired this deponent went out as a volunteer in the militia Company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Polhemus of Monmouth County. Isaac Finley being at the same time Lieutenant of the said company.  That he marched from [?Taylers] tavern near [?T?] town in Monmouth County to Shrewsbury in said County and remained there one month.  That he entered the service of the United States again as a volunteer militia an under the command of Captain Robert Quigley of Burlington County New Jersey and marched with him to Lumberton at the time of the alarm occasioned by the British coming up to Bordentown, and burning Colonel Bordens house
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and crossing over into Pennsylvania and burning Colonel Kirbrights house.  That he was out with Captain Quigley at this time about three days.  That he volunteered again as a militia man in Captain Polhemus Company and marched with his company from Trenton to Bristol in Pennsylvania about the first of October 1777. and from there [? lodes crooked ]billet and thence to the army of General Washington and remained with the army of General Washington until after the battle of Germantown.  That this deponent was in the battle of Germantown under the command of Colonel Lawrence and General Forman of the Jersey militia; That he on this tour served one month that Major Longstreet and Major Montgomery were also in the battle of Germantown and belonged to the same regiment that this deponent did.  That he volunteered again as a militia man under the command of Captain Wykoff of Monmouth County, and served a month under him in the County of Mon[mouth on next page]
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north and land principally at Monmouth
Court house; that he entered as a militia man again under the command of Lieutenant Isaac Finlay of Monmouth County and drove two hundred head of cattle from Monmouth County by the way of Rocky hill and Morristown to Tappan in the State of New York, that he served one month under Lieutenant Finlay at this time.  That in the year 1777 he was out again in the service of the United States driving a team from Allentown in New Jersey to Newton in Pennsylvania loaded with flour.  There were eighteen teams along with us at this time all loaded with flour.  We crossed the Delaware on the ice; deponent was in the service of the United States at this time about a week or ten days a person by the name of Wade who resided in Philadelphia was wagon master. And this deponent further says that he again enter
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in the service of the United States as a
militia man and volunteer under the command of Captain Marmaduke Curtis John Douglass being Lieutenant, about the first of January 1781  about the time the Pennsylvania line revelled and we marched from Bordentown to Creswick and from thence to Kingston and served his one month tour out.  That he was out several other times driving teams for the United States amounting altogether be two or three weeks  That he was also out several times as a volunteer militia man for several days each time (tory hunting)  That he served all together more than six months. That this deponent was acquainted with Col Brealy of the continental
army and also with Captain Barbar and Captain Finlay. That he has no documentary evidence of his service, that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure
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to prove his service, except Lieutenant Isaac
Finlays and Elizabeth Mahany whose testimony is hereunto annexed. That this deponent was born in Bordentown, New Jersey.  That he was living in the neighborhood of & Allentown in the County of Monmouth when he was first called or entered into the service of the United States. That since the Revolutionary war he resided in the City of Philadelphia until this year when he came to reside with his daughter in Lamberton New Jersey. That he has a record of his age in his Bible, and the he was born on the thirtieth
day of January in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and fifty eight. That he is acquainted with Captain Alexander Douglass and John W Pearson to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier
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of the Revolution. That he never received a
written discharge from the service. That he
hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to
a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension
roll of the agency of any state.  
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
Evan Evans }       John Bell

We George Douglass residing in the township
of Nottingham in the County of Burlington and John W Pearson residing in the Township of Nottingham in County aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Bell who has subscribed and sworn to the
above declaration that we believe him to be
seventy four years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and
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that we concur in that opinion.
George Douglass
John W Pearson

Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
Evan Evans


New Jersey ss. I  James D Westcott Secretary of the State of New Jersey do certify that Evan
Evans before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and who hath attested the same, was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Hunterdon, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his attestations as such - Given under my hand
and seal of office this twenty fourth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty two -
James D. Westcott
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In the matter of the application of John Bell for a pension under the act of the 7 of June 1832
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City and County of Philadelphia, to wit:
And now, to wit, this Fourth day of May in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before the Honorable the Judges of the District Courtmfor the City and County of Philadelphia, Thomas Flowers, who being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he was born and bred up 
in New Jersey, and now resides in the City of Philadelphia and is upwards of seventy two years of age; that he is well acquainted with the applicant John Bell, whom he knew to be
actively engaged as a militia man in the Revolutionary War; that he is unable to say how long or in particular at what places and times
the said John Bell was out in the service; but he well remembers that he the said John Bell, was out actively engaged in what was termed "the minute service", while the British were at Amboy, in New Jersey, during a period exceeding six weeks under a Captain Polhemus, 
as this deponent believes he was called, and 
that the said John Bell always maintained the character of an active, enterprising, and useful citizen, ardent in the cause of independence.
Thos Flowers

Sworn to in open Court, the day
above written May 4th 1833
F. W. Hindman
Pro Prothy.

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And now, to wit on the same day and year, comed
also personally before the said Judges of the said Court, the
said John Bell and being duly sworn doth depose and
say, that heretofore, when his documents were prepared for
an application for a pension under the act of the 7 of June
1832, he was informed by his professional adviser that his
Service as a waggon driver, was embraced by the said act
and that therefore it was not necessary for him to detail other
service than he did; that in consequence of this, he did not
set forth his active service in what was called "the Minute
Service": that however, he now swears that he was engaged
in said service in New Jersey while the British were at
[illegible] for a period not short of two months; and that 
including this his minute service, he firmly believes that he
was out actively engaged in the service of his country, from
time to time during the revolutionary war more than the eight
months
And further he saith not

Sworn to in open Court the
day and year above written
May 4th 1833
A W Hindman Pro [illegible]

John X Bell [above the X is written "His" and below "Mark"]

In testimony whereof I, Joseph Barnes, President Judge
of the said District Court of the City and
County of Philadilphia have hereunto
set my hand and caused the Seal
of the said Court to be affixed the
day and year above written
[illegible] Barnes
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Revolution
22642
INVALID
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File No. 22,642
John Bell
Pri Rev War
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Act:  June 7" 32"Index:--
Vol. 2, Page 32

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Sir

By your letter of the 14 of November 1832 I 
received the information that the papers transmitted by me to the Pension office in favor of John Bell did not make out such a Case as
would justify a pension under the act of 7 June 1832.  I communicated your letter to the poor old man, who is perfectly blind and very deaf, 
and he has been ever since striving to procure
evidence as to his service, in the capacity of a minute man, which would bring him within the law.  His original documents were prepaered by an ignorant and careless person, who  misadvised and misled him.  Recently he fell in with a veteran who had known him during the
revolution; and I have had the enclosed affidavits taken before the District Court of this City, with the hope that connected with his other proof, they may be deemed sufficient. 
He is infirm,  extremely reduced, and as fit an object for bounty as I ever saw.  Considerable sympathy for him seems to exist, and in his success in hi present application will be acceptable to many.

I am, very respectfully,
Sir,
Yr. mo. Obed. Sev.
G.M. Dallas
4. May 1833

J.L. Edwards Esq.
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My Dear Palmer,

A blind old man brought the [illegible] papers to me and begged that I would forward them to the Pension Office. He says that the distance which separates himself and his witnesses,  united with his utter destitution of sight and extreme poverty, prevents his putting his application in any other form.  I beg you to 
submit it to scrutiny, and to let me know its fate.

Every truly yours
G.M. Dallas
4. Nov. 1833

W. K. Palmer Esq.
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4230
Isaac Bedell

admitted
2 mo Fifer
2 mo  Private Inft
3 1/2 Sergeant
44.83

Hon. L Condict
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
June 15 1833

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
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A Statement, showing the service of Isaac Bedell
[table follows with 6 columns; column headings as follows:]
(1) Period when the service was rendered.
(2)  Duration of the claimant's service.  {sub-headings}. a. Years.  b. Months.  c. Days.
(3) Rank of the claimant.
(4) Names and rank of the Field officers
under whom he served.
(5) Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
(6) Proof by which the declaration is supported.
[no information is entered in the columns; all are left blank]

I am, respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

J. L. EDWARDS.
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:

This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers, all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians [musicians] or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of [blank]}
County of [blank]        } ss.
On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A.B. a resident (b) of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged (c) [blank] years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank] , with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. -->This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [blank]

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                      A.B.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

I [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank]  day of [blank] & c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:

(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank] who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank] and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [blank] day of [blank] & c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. {To a Soldier. {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.  If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will
follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had.  Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For [blank] year [blank] months, and [blank] days, I served as a [blank].  For [blank] months and [blank] 
days, I served as a [blank]; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  In must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement;
the particular place or place where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the hold or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
-->The notes from [a] to [i] are  all equally applicable to the cases of Mina in Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

[following is hand-written at bottom of page:]
The declarants statement in relation to his services does not agree in his original & supplemental declarations--He is required to explain the reason of the discrepancy.
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss 
Personally appeared before me Richd L Beatty one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Isaac Finlay of the County of Middlesex in said state who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he this deponent held the office of Lieutenant, of militia during the war of the Revolution, and that he was well acquainted with John Bell a soldier of the Revolution and that the said John Bell served as a private in his company on several tours of duty for the term of four or five months on each and that the said service was performed in different parts of the United States. and further that he the said John served at other times in the militia during the war for the further term of one or two months in the quarter masters department
Isaac Finlay

Subscribed and sworn this 6th day of September 1832 before me
Rd L Beatty
Jus of Peace
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John Bells papers

[seal at left]
New Jersey ss. I James D. Westcott Secretary of the State of New Jersey do certify that Richard Beatty before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and who hath attested the same was at the time thereof a Justice of the
Peace for the County of Monmouth in said State, duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith & credit are and ought to be given to his attestations as such. Given under my hand and seal of office this twenty fourth day of
October AD Eighteen hundred and thirty two--
James D. Westcott

State of New Jersey }
Burlington County ss. } Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Mrs. Elizabeth Mahoney of Bordentown in said County who being duly sworn deposeth and saith she knew the within John Bell as a soldier in the army during the Revolutionary War and afterwards as a private in Captain Marmaduke Curtis's Company during said War.
                 her
Elizabeth  S.  Mahoney
              mark

Subscribed and sworn
before me this 11th day of
September 1832.
John Graham

I certify the above Elizabeth Mahoney to be a very aged person of good repute in her neighborhood and on the above subject may be relied on.
John Graham
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Claim of John Bell
of Pennsylvania
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Rejected
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see letter to Honble
Geo. M. Dallas. ---
14 Nov. 1832.
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Admitted
7 months
[illegible]

Hon. George M. Dallas
Philadelphia

Free

G.M. Dallas
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U.S. Senate

William R. Palmer Esq.
at Wm. Freeman's, Seven Buildings
Washington
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives


NAME. Bell, John
GRADE Private
LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT
NUMBER 8971
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED July 31, 1794
To -- not shown--

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The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.