Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16262, for George Stump, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776) 
SERVICE Penn. 
Stump, George 
NUMBER  S.16262 - 
Carded
Contents
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19.751        
Ohio - Pittsburg    
George Stump 
Trumbull Co in the State of Ohio who was a private in the Company command Captain Farmer of the Regt command Col Miles in the Pennsylvania line for 2 years       
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.               
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of Sept 1833 and sent to Selden Haynes Poland O. Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833 $200.00    
Semi-anl. allowance ending March 1834. 40.00    
$ 240.00 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7 1832}   
Recorded by H. S. Evans Clerk     
Book E Vol. 8. Page 127. 
Date of death not on A. B.
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George Stump 
Application 
235.80
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County 
On this Eighth day of September
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Two before me Eli Baldwin one of the associate Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared George Stump a resident of Poland in the County of Trumbull & State of Ohio aged Eighty Two years who being first duly sworn in according 
to Law doth on his oath make the following
statement in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 1832. That he enlisted in March 1776 in the army of the United States in the 1st Company 1st Rifle Battalion 1st Pennsylvania line for twenty months. Captain Lewis Farmer commanded the company
Col Miles the Battalion. General Stirling
the Commanding officer of the Line. That immediately after the expiration of the twenty months he enlisted as a soldier to serve during the war. The name of the captain he does not recollect nor the Regt. - That he enlisted at General Washington's headquarters Capt Lewis Farmer was promoted to Colonel and commanded the Regiment to which
he belonged-- When he entered the service was a resident of Berks County Pensylvania was regularly discharged after the close of the war which discharged he lost some years since- was in the Battles at Long Island White Plains Brandywine Monmouth Germantown and Trenton and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present & he declares that
name is not on the pension roll of any agency
in any State 
George Stump  his mark
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me
Eli Baldwin associate Judge
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The State of Ohio     
Trumbull County Ss}   Poland Township Sept 1832 I Eli Baldwin associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do declare that from the within statement I verily believe that the within named George Stump was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states & I certify further that by reason of bodily infirmities the said George Stump is in my opinion unable to attend Court to make his declaration in open Court    
Eli Baldwin associate Judge of Court of Common Pleas  Tumbull County  
The State of Ohio 
Trumbull County SS}   I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Trumbull in the State aforesaid do hereby Certify that Eli Baldwin Esquire whose signature in his own proper hand writing is affixed to the foregoing affidavit and the above certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same an associate Judge of the Court of Common pleas for said County and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his certificates      
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Warren the 22 day of September AD 1832             
George Parsons Clerk              
The State of Ohio           
Trumbull County Ss }    Poland May 30th AD 1833      
On this day personally appeared before me Selden Haynes Justice of the Peace in & for said County, George Stump resident of said town & County aged Eighty three years last February and being first duly sworn according to Law does on his oath make the following declaration in addition to his foregoing statement in order to obtain the benefit of the
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provisions made by Congress passed June 7th 1832 -         
I was born in what is now called Sunbury in Cumberland County Pennsylvania - I do not know what county is was called at that time in February AD 1750     
Has not at this time any record of his age. - he had a certificate of his age from the clergyman who baptised him in infancy, which certificate he lost some years since.    
In answer to the 7th interrogatory - The applicant knows of no one now living who can testify to his services except Adam Rupert who served in the same Battalion for twenty months. That he is & has been acquainted with Andrew Dunlap & Turhand Kirtland respectable citizens of Poland for near thirty years past whose testimony he has obtained to be annexed to this statement
George Stump  his mark          
Sworn & Subscribed before me the day & year above written    
Selden Haynes      
Justice of the Peace}     
I Adam Rupert aged 75 years & upwards do on my oath depose & say that in the year 1776 I think in April I enlisted for twenty months in the 3d Com under Capt Philip Albright in the First Batallion of Pennsylvania Riflemen under Col Miles - That in June following I became acquainted with George Stump the applicant who has made the foregoing statement who was at that time a private in the 1st Com. under Capt Farmer in the same Battalion - That the said Stump served in the said 1st Company until the expiration of the Twenty months when I was discharged & went home to York County Pa & left the said Stump in the Army. - that after I removed to the State of Ohio about thirty years since I again became acquainted with the said Stump that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & served as he has set forth in his declaration & that he is a man of good
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neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & served as he has set forth in his declaration & that he is a man of good moral character for truth & veracity -           
John Hubbert
Sworn to & Subscribed before  me the 6th day of May AD 1833               
Selden Haynes           
Justice of the Peace                   
We Turhand Kirtland & Andrew Dunlap of Poland in the County of Trumbull & State of Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with George Stump residing in said Poland who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declarations that we have been acquainted with him for upwards of thirty years past that we believe him to be Eighty three years of age that he is reputed & believed in the vicinity where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & served as he states & we concur in that opinion    we further certify that he sustains a good moral character for truth & veracity     
Turhand Kirtland 
Andrew Dunlap    
Sworn to & subscribed before me Andrew Dunlap this 30th day of May AD 1833    
Selden Haynes       
Justice of the Peace               
The State of Ohio    
Trumbull County Ss}   
I Selden Haynes Justice of the Peace as aforesaid do declare that from the foregoing statements & after putting the interrogators prescribed  by the War Department I believe that the said George Stump was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he has set forth in his declarations - I further certify that there is at present no Clergyman in this place who is acquainted with the applicant that Turhann Kirtland & Andrew Dunlap who have signed the preceeding certificate are residents of Poland & are creditable persons & that their statements are entitled to credit      
I further certify that by reason of bodily infirmity the said Stump is unable to appear in Court to make his statements             
Selden Haynes 
Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio          
Trumbull County Ss}   I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby certify that Selden Haynes Esqr whose signature in his own proper hand writing is affixed to the foregoing affidavit and certificates and was at the time of subscribing the same Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn agreeably to the Laws of of said State of Ohio and to whose official acts full faith and credit are and ought to be given            
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Warren this third day of June Anno Domini 1833         
George Parsons Clerk
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23580
Geo Stump
Trumbull Co
Ohio
look at Pa Roll
Not
Return P -
Adm 2 years $80-
Seldon Haynes agt
Poland Ohio
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WAR DEPARTMENT          
Pension Office,            
29th April 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 show 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 
A Statement showing the service of Geo Stump Trumbull Co Ohio 
Period when service was rendered.   Enlisted 1776  Duration of Claimants service  1 year 8 months   Rank of the claimant.  Private Rifleman    Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.   Cap. Farmer  Col. Miles     Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service.   82  Berks Co. Pa.   Proof by which the declaration is supported.  Nothing was opinion of the Court.
Period when service was rendered.   Enlisted for the war 1779   Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.   General Stirling Pa Line Col. Farmer
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 as to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to included 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 
County of } ss.

On this _____ day of ____ personally appeared (as) before ______ A.B. a resident (b) of ____ in the county of ___ and State, Territory, or District of _____ aged (c) ____ 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) ____, with ___ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the ____ 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 he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [finger pointing symbol] 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 of the State of _______

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]       A. B.
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 _____ of the Court of ____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ______ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ____ day of ____ &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 ____ and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ______ years of age; that he 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. and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the ____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

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

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ___ day of _____ &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  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 alleged service, as they are known to the Department. A very full account of each person
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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 Town officer 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 he 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. 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 Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed 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 declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can cure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the person 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.        
[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---yearmonths , anddays , I served as amonths and --- days, I served as 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 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 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. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places 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 field 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 wife nesses, 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 Militia men, 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.
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November 9, 1936
GEORGE STUMP 
S. 16262 
BA-J/MLB
Mrs. Lois W. Howard       
50 East Broad Street            
West Point, Mississippi         
Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Daniel Stump and George Stump, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, who were buried in the State of Ohio.             
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolution of a Daniel Stump, under any spelling of the name. Such claims are the source of Revolutionary War data furnished by this office. It is suggested that information in regard to the military service of that soldier might be obtained from the Adjutant General, War Department, this city. The record has been found of only one George Stump which is furnished herein as shown in pension claim, S. 16356, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.               
George Stump was born in February, 1750, in what was later Sunbury, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; the names of his parents are not given.              
While residing in Berks County, Pennsylvania, George Stump enlisted in March, 1776, served as private in Captain Lewis Farmer's company, Colonel Miles' Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, was in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine and Germantown, and was discharged after having served twenty months. He immediately reenlisted under Colonel Lewis Farmer (his former captain in the Pennsylvania troops, to serve during the war and was in the battle of Monmouth.             
George Stump was allowed pension on his application executed September 2, 1832, while a resident of Poland, Trumbull County, Ohio.              
No reference was made in the claim to wife or children of George Stump,               
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of
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person paid and possibly the date of death of George Stump, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: 
George Stump              
Certificate No. 19751                 
Issued September 18, 1833         
Rate, $80 per annum            
Commenced March 4, 1831     
Act June 7, 1832           
Ohio (Pittsburg) Agency.         
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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1936, Nov 9 - Hist to Mrs. Lois W. Howard  H. B. P
16262
INVALID.
File No.  16262
George Stump
Pri. Rev War
Act:  June 7" 32
Index: - Vol.  1 Page 362
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Poland, O. Sept 3 --  
Free
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D. C.
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Poland Trumbull Co Ohio Sept 3  1833   
J.L. Edwards Esqr     
Some time in the month of May Instance the application of James Reece & George Stump from the Pension department with instructions for furnishing more proof of their service in the army of the Revolution In accordance with those instructions I proceeded to take further proof in such case and returned the same to the department the latter part of May by putting them into the Post office at Warren in this County - since which time I have heard nothing from them. Other application as I have been informed have been sent to the department & the decision of the same returned to the applicants or their agents. The case of Reece is extremely urgent - he is very needy & confined to his room - and has neglected to apply for public assistance in hopes to reap this benefit of his revolutionary services. - I am apprehensive that the application have been miscarried in the mail or in the mass of business overlooked - If they have been recorded at the department and the same could be acted upon soon whatever the result may be - it will greatly relieve the anxiety of the applicants            
Respectfully Your Obt Sert 
Selden Haynes
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Men  
West Point, Miss.,             
ct. 8, 1936,         
Pension Bureau   
Washington, D.C.,             
Gentlemen,-         I have a letter from the Ohio State Historical Society at Columbus , Ohio stating that there is a Daniel Stump and George Stump listed in the Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio. Do you have the service of these two men or any record of them? Any family data you can send me will be appreciated as I am a direct descendant of them.  
Very truly yours,             
Mrs Lois W. Howard      
30 East Broad St.      
West Point, Miss.
RECEIVED
MAY 10 1933
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS ADM
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