Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 961, for John Manning, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Manning John
Sarah.

NUMBER
W. 961.

CONTENTS
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New Jersey  4158
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Sarah Manning, decd,
widow of John Manning
who died on the 18:July, 18011 [sic]
of Essex in the State of N Jersey
who was a Pri in the Com commanded 
by Captain [blank] of the reg- commanded 
by [blank]  in the ["N. Y." crossed out]
line for 2 years      
New Jersey line
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Inscribed on the Roll of N Jersey 
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of 
March , 1831.  and ending August August 22d 36 
when she died
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Certificate of Pension issued the 28, day of Ja[ny] 
1845 and sent to 
Hon. W. S. Dayton W.S.S.
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Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi-annual allowance ending [blank]
Pay to Rachel French
& Sarah Cooper only Sur. Chld [Surviving Children]

{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 }

[Recorded by by F. S. Swann, Clerk
Vol. 4  Page 14?
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Apocrypha C E A P. XV Apocrypha
Before Christ 1611

34 So every man praised toward the heaven the glorious Lord, saying, Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled. 
35 He hanged also Nicanor's head upon the tower, an evident and manifest sign unto all of the help of the Lord. 
36 And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to let that day pass without solemnity, but to celebrate the thirtieth day of the twelfth month, which in the Syrian tongue is called Adar, the day before Mardocheus' day. 
37 Thus went it with Nicanor: and from that time forth the Hebrews had the city in their power. And here will I make an end.
38 And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired: but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto. 
39 For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone; and as wine mingled with water is pleasant, and delighteth the taste: even so speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story. And here shall be an end.

The End of the Apocrypha.

[stamp]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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EDINBURGH:
Printed by ALEXANDER KINCAID H. Majesty's Printer.
MDCCLXII.

[illegible faint handwriting]

Manning, John
N.J. W961
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John Manning was married August 19, 1768
In the 18 year of his Age & In the 15 of Sarrah's Age

Marget Manning was born April 11 - 1770

Mary Manning was born March 1st 1772

Rachel Manning was born March 1st 1774

James Manning was born June 22, 1776

Sarrah Manning was born November 19 1778

Mary Manning Departed this life November 6 1781  In the 12 year of her age

James Manning Departed this Life in the 14 month of his age in the year 1777

Sarrah Bond was born Jully 9 1794

James Manning

Sarrah Bond was born Jully 1788

James Manning was born August 24 1788 [sp]

John Manning Departed this life
July 18 ??4 [faint & hard to read]
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Declaration 
Act of July 1836

State of New Jersey}
Borough of Elizabeth 
County of Essex}    ss


On this 4th day of June 1844 personally appeared before the Court of Common Please in and for said Borough of Elizabeth now sitting Sarah Cooper a resident of Elizabeth Town in the County of Essex aforesaid and State of New Jersey aged 65 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836.  That She is a daughter of Sarah Manning widow of John Manning who was as Declarant has been repeatedly and credibly informed a private during the war of the Revolution and Served as such for a number of years in the New Jersey Brigade of the Continental Army__ That at the time of his thus entering the Army he resided the the Town of Bridgewater County of Sommerset in said state and and[sic] that he enlisted therefrom and Served with said Brigade for a number of Years as above stated but under what particular officers Declarant cannot testify.  She has heard her Said Father mention 
the names of many officers with whom he Served and among others the names of Captain Holmes, and Colonel Spencer, and General Frelinghuyson, but the particulars of his Service she cannot remember or the length of his Service she cannot remember or the length thereof but believes that he served for a number of years with said Brigade__
And this Declarant further testifies that her father and mother the Said John and Sarah Manning were married several years previous to the war of the Revolution as this Declarant has been frequently informed
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and believes, that said John Manning died on the 18th day of July 1804 and that his widow the Said Sarah Manning died on the 23d day of August 1836= have never again married and that Rachel French of the tow of Lansing County of Tommpkins and State of New York and the Declarant are her on surviving children.  She further declare that the Said John and Sarah Manning were duly Married by Rev Mr Miller in the Town of West Field (called the Sastok Plains) at the time particularly set forth and described in the accompanying record  which is the family record and in the hand writing of Said John Manning the Father of Said Declarant
Sarah Cooper [signature]

Subscribed and sworn the day and year aforesaid
M.W. Halsey Clerk

And the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion after a due investigation that the Declarant is a daughter of John Manning who was a Soldier of the Revolution and whose widow died on the 23d day of August 1836 and that all the facts contained in the above declaration are worth of credit.
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I certify that the foregoing are the Original proceedings in the matter of the application of Sarah Cooper for a pension had before this court
Witness my hand and official Seal the day and year above written
M.W. Halsey Clerk
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State of New York
Cayuga  County ss

John H. Kelley of the Town of Genoa in the County aforesaid being duly sworn deposits and saiths, that he was well acquainted with John Manning deceased named in the annexed Record,   And that this deponent Married Marget named therein and that he was acquainted with the hand writing of said John Manning and that the annexed Record so far as it related to his marriage with his wife Sarah, and the births of his Children, Marget, Mary, Rachel, James and Sarah Manning,   And the death of Mary and James Manning , and the Birth of Sarah Bond, are all in the hand writing of said John Manning__  And this deponent further saith that Sarah Cooper of Elisabeth Town State of New Jersey and Rachel French
of Lansing in the County of Tompkins and State of New  York, are the same Sarah and Rachel named in said Record as the Children of the said John Manning and Sarah his wife, and that they are the only surviving Children of said John with Sarah Manning__ And this deponent further said that Sarah Manning the widow of said John died at Enfield Tompkins County& State of New York on the twenty third day of August in the year eighteen hundred & thirty six (1836) aged (as appears by said Record) about eighty three years__And this deponent further saith the John Manning the first and only husband of Said Sarah died on the eighteenth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and four (1804) in the fifty fourth year of his age__
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 20th day of April 1840
John H Kelley
T. N. Gunn comsr of Deeds &c
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News of 4229
Sarah Manning
applicants for pension

Act July 4. 1836

M 68.004
W43236 [crossed out]
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State of New York
Cayuga County Clerks Office}

I Philip Van Arsdale Clerk of the County of Cayuga do hereby certify that G. W. Gunn before whom the within affidavit was sworn and subscribed was at the time of taking same a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the said County duly appointed and qualified and by law authorized to take the same., And that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Gunn and believe his signature to the within to be genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affix in the seal of the Said County this 11th day of June 1844
Philip Van Arsdale, Clerk
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1229
Sarah Manning
N. Y.

Suspended
Let to W B. Pierce Oct 5.'44
" to same Dec 4th 1844

Act July 4th '36
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 961
Sarah Manning
Widow
John Manning
Pri. Rev. War.

Act: July 4, 1836.
Index:-Vol M.  Page 1
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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In the matter of the application of the heirs of Sarah  Manning for pension under the Act of July 4. 1836}      Albany June 13th. 1844.

Sir.
I would respectfully inform you that I have written to New Jersey but can find no evidence of the marriage of the above applicant.  The family record herewith enclosed is very ancient and will I presume be deemed sufficient.  I am informed that the [illegible] of the New Jersey Brigade, are on file in [illegible] office to which reference is respectfully [illegible]. 
I am very respectfully
Your [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
Wm. B. Pierce


Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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In the matter of the application of the heirs of Sarah Manning for a pension under the act of July 4. 1836}     Albany Oct 18/44

Sir
In compliance with your requirements made known in your communication of the 5th Inst. I have sent to Finless & obtained from the Secretary of State the enclosed certificate of the services of John Manning.

I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Ob Srvt
 Wm B Pierce

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Return of Capt. Jon Holmes Compy 2nd Regiment late Spencers Regiment
No 1 )
Names
John Manning

Rank
Priv

Time in service
July 1. 1777 to Aug 1, 1780

Amt of Deprn
79.15.5

State Stores
1.0.0
Cash recd of Commy

Remb due
78.15.5

No. 2)
A list of the absent men from Col Spencer & Livingstons Regiments belonging to Jersey.
44 John Manning
Recd from Fredrick Frelinghuyson
Commiss: Two hundred and thirty dollars exclusive of interest it being five dollars each for the above forty six men as part of their depreciation
Jany 20, 1781
Israel Shreve Col. 2d Regt of Jersey
State of New Jersey
I Charles G McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing No 1 is a true abstract from Book A of Auditors accounts page 16 and that No 2 is a
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true extract from a paper, headed as therein mentioned as taken from and compared with the originals now on file in may office.


In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at Trenton in Said State this sixteenth day of October A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty four. 
Charles McChesney
Secy of State
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No 6229
Sarah Manning ded
Widow of John
NY
Act 4 July 1836

Adm 2 years private
$80
Commencing on 4 March 1831
and [illegible] on 22d August 1836.  the day of her death payable to Rachel French and Sarah Cooper__only children now living of Said Sarah Manning decd
Hon W. S. Dayton
Senate W State
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Sarah annoying decd
Application of heirs for arrear of Pension
under act of July 4. 1836


Adm W L Dayton
[illegible]
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State of New York
Tompkins County
Surrogates  Court ss:

I, George G. Four, Surrogate of Seine County do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to me before my said court that Sarah Manning widow of John Manning deceased departed this life at Eufield in said county on the twenty seven day of August one thousand eight hundred & thrirty six, leaving the following children her surviving who were the only children her surviving and are still living and both of lawful age to viz: Rachel French of Sausing Tompkins County N. Y. and Sarah Cooper of Elizabethtown in the State of New Jersey.
In Testimony whereof I have herein to set my hand and affixed my official seal this 15th day of January A. D. 1845__
Geo. G. Freer
Surrogate
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Sudlowville Dec 28 1839
Dear Hunt
I received your letter some time since. I was on a journey when it arrived and did not get home untill some three weeks afterward
I then delayed writing untill I could see uncle
Kelly in order that I might give you all
the information in the possession of us all
I have not seen him since I received your letter
untill yesterday-- he says he thinks there is no
person living who was present when your Father was married, & he also thinks it would be unnecessary to prove the marriage in any other way than by common Report which he says can be done by a multitude of Witnesses in New Jersey (William Manning he
mentioned for one)-- however if it should be necessary to have further proof, my mother has the old Bible which your Father owned & in which he recorded his own Marriage, and your birth together with all the rest of his children in his own hand writing, which
uncle, Kelly says he is familiary acquainted with
and is willing to make oath to as being his hand writing
If you should find it necessary to have the Bible
together with Kelley's affidavit to the hand writing I can bring it to you next spring when I expect to go to N. York City although Mother is unwilling to give it up if a coppy will answer as well-
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Please write me again between this & Spring
on the subject & I pledge myself to render
you all the assistance in my power -
Our friends are all in the enjoyment of good
health, I have not heard from Brother John
within six weeks - they live in Michigan
all well when last heard from -
Your Friend & Nephew
Philip French
Mrs Sarah Cooper

Philip French
John Manning
Decr 28. 1839