Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10226, for Conrad Peterson, Virginia
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                          NUMBER
Va.                    Peterson, Conrad   W.10226
                                       or Conrod 
                                            Mary

CONTENTS
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Let to Gordon & Knight, 
Sept 13/49

Notification sent January 3d 1821 to Hon John Sloane H of Reps for States

10,969 
Ohio R 
Conrad Peterson 
of Wayne County in the state of Ohio was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Lee of the Virginia line, for the term of Three Years 
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 of November 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of May 1819 and sent to David Clendennen Esq. Wooster, Ohio 
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819.           27.69 
Semi-anl, all'ce ending Sep 1819  48.00 
 3 mo. 10/50.4/51                           $75.69 

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
Continued
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1853 Aug't. 18 
Pension Certificate issued under Act 17 June '44 & 2d Feb '48 on the 7 Apl. last surrendered & cancelled and new certificate iss'd. made payable either to children or agent.  Pen. agt. notif'd. Cert. sent to S.M. Peugh present 

6.068 
Indiana    Mad.
Mary Peterson deceased widow of Conrad who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848[crossed out] " of July 1848 & ending " of October 1851. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of April 1853 and sent to Sct Peugh Present.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 332 Vol. 3
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Mary Peterson wid of Conrad Peterson susp'd. 1836 or 38
Conrad Peterson died 3 Feby 1847 
Sarah Paterson died 11 Oct 1851 
Peter Peterson Elsey Lowery Charity Miller & David Patterson only surviving children S.A. Peugh
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STATE OF Indiana} 
COUNTY of Wabash} ss. 

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me
that Conrad Peterson (dec'd) was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $ 96----- per annum and that he died on the Third day of February, eighteen hundred and forty seven leaving surviving him a widow whose name was Mary Peterson, that she died on the 11th day of October 1857 and that[crossed out] surving by Peter Peterson, Elsey Lowery, Charity Miller and David Peterson and that are the only surviving child of the aforesaid Mary Peterson (deceased)

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and my seal of office this twenty fourth day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty two 
John C Sivey Clerk of the Wabash Circuit Court
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Wabash Indiana, May 30th 1849 
To the Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir - Coonrod Peterson, a native of Sussex County New Jersey, enlisted in the army of the Revolution in said County of Sussex at the breaking out of the war, as a substitute for a brother I believe who was drafted, and served 6 mo. At the end of this time he enlisted for two years, and at the expiration of that time enlisted again for 5 years, and served till the close of the war. He afterwards moved to Wayne County, Ohio, then to Richland, and there to Knox in the same State, where he died about 2 years ago. (Feb 3d 1847) He drew a pension for some 17 years previous to his death, which was paid him at Pittsburgh, Penn'a. His wife Mary Peterson, married to him at the close of the War, resides in this County, aged, poor and afflicted. She wishes to know if you have in your department all the necessary facts in relation to the service &c of her deceased husband, to entitle her to draw a pension on making the proper proof of her relationship to the deceased, and if not, what is wanting. She also wishes to know what pension under our pensions laws as they now exist, she is entitled to. -- [scribble] is it only from this time forward? Please give this your prompt attention and write to me at an early day for the applicant is truely needy.
 With Much Respect 
Your friends 
Gordon & Knight Attys
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Conrad Peterson 
Private 
Col. H. Lee Regiment 
1779 - 3 years
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State of Ohio} 
Wayne County} SS. 
On the twenty first day of November A.D. 1818, before me the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas of said County of Wayne personally appeared Conrod Peterson aged fifty eight years last September resident in the County of Wayne aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, that the said Conrod Peterson enlisted in Sommerset County in the State of New Jersey in the month of February A.D. 1779, in a Compy. of Cavalry Commanded by Captain Michael Randolph in a Regim Commanded by Colonel Henry Lee that he continued to serve in said Compy. for about nine months when he was transferred to a Company of Infantry commanded by Captain John Randolph that he continued to serve in the said Corps in the service of the United States until the month of February 1782, when he was honorably discharged from the service on the Pedee river in the State of South Carolina by Col. Henry Lee - that he was in the battles of Stoney Point, at the battle of Camden, at the battle of Guilford and at the battle of the Eutaw Springs-- that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that having lost his discharge he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services 
Conrod Peterson 

Sworn to and subscribed before me the date above 
CL "/" Smith assct. Judge
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I Christian Smith one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas of Wayne County Ohio do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Conrad Peterson did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the within deposition against the common Enemy for the space of nine months and upwards on the Continental establishment, and that he stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support. I now transmit the proceeding testimony to be had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the within mentioned Act of Congress Given under my hand at Wooster the 21 day of November A.D. 1818-- 
Chn. Smith assct. Judge 

State of Ohio 
Wayne County 
I William Larwill Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of said County do hereby certify that Christian Smith Esquire before whom the within deposition was taken and subscribed was at the time thereof, an acting associate Judge of the Court of Common pleas of said County duly Commissioned and lawful Authority to all whose official acts as such full faith and Credit is due & ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice in this State and elsewhere 
In testimony whereof I hereto sign my name & affix the seal of said County at Wooster the 21st of day of November anno Domini 1818. 
Wm. Larwill, Clk
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14038 

Mary Peterson 
Widow of Conrad 
Ohio[crossed out] Ind.
Act 7 July 1838 

Rejected was not a widow on 7 July 38
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State of Indiana Wabash County-ss
On this twelfth day of October[crossed out] November A.D. 1849 personally appeared before me, John Comstock, Judge of the Probate Court of said County of Wabash, Mary Peterson a resident of said County of Wabash, aged eighty six (86) 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of Coonrod Peterson who was a private in the United States service in the Army of the Revolutionary War, entered the army as she believes about the year 1777 and who as a substitute for one Henry Peterson, from Culpeper County, Virginia, for six months, at the end of which time he enlisted in the regular Army for three years, and at the close of this last time, again enlisted , and served till near the close of the war- in all near seven years, being, during said service, in the following battles in Bunker Hill[crossed out] Brandy Wine Cowpens, Princeton, and others of which she cannot now recollect, and that she has no documentary evidence whatever, in support of the above facts. she further states that said Conrod Peterson was for about twenty five[crossed out] seven years prior to his death, viz from 1820 to the time of his death in 1847 a pensioner, drawing his pension first at Chilicothe, Ohio, then at Pittsburgh Penn and afterwards at[crossed out]       that he died in 1847 at the County of Knox in the State of Ohio 
She further deposes and says upon her oath aforesaid that she was married to the said Coonrod Peterson on the fifteenth day of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty five, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the Marriage took place previous to the first January, sev
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venteen hundred and ninety four, viz about[crossed out] at the time herein before stated. She further swears that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made any application for a pension.      Mary herXmark Peterson 
attest John L. Knight}  Sworn to and subscribed on this day[crossed out] fifteenth day of October[crossed out] November A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty nine
John Comstock    Judge of Probate Court of Wabash Co. Ind.

 State of Indiana Wabash County ss 
I, John Comstock, Judge as aforesaid, hereby certify, that in my opinion the aforesaid Mary Peterson is unable to appear in court, by reason of bodily infirmity. In testimony of which I hereunto set my hand this fifteenth day October[crossed out] November of A.D. 1849 
John Comstock 

State of Indiana} 
Wabash County} ss 
I, John C. Sivey, Clerk of the Wabash Probate Court, hereby certify, that John Comstock, before whom the foregoing affidavit of Mary Peterson was subscribed and sworn, and who makes the above certificate, and whose name is to each subscribed by his own hand, is the Judge of said Probate Court, duly elected, and lawfully commission and sworn as such.
In testimony of which I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this thirteenth day of November A.D. 1849 at Wabash in said county.
John. C. Sivey clk
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Claim of Act of

STATE OF Indiana}
COUNTY of Wabash} ss. 
Be it known, That on this seventh day of September A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mrs Elcy Lowry a resident of Laketon in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the Daughter and child of Mrs Mary Peterson (deceased) widow of Peterson (deceased) who was a Revolutionary Pensioner[crossed out] Soldier at the rate of Ninety six Dollars per annum; that she has been informed that the said Pension ought to be allowed, that she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agents may use in prosecuting said claim. 
Elsey Lowery {seal}
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me.            
Lewis B. Musselman {seal} J. Peace.  

I, Lewis B. Musselman, Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Mrs Elsy Lowriy who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth. 
Lewis B. Musselman {seal}
J. Peace.

I, John C. Sivey, Clerk of the Circuit Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Lewis B. Musselman before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this Ninth day of September A.D. 1852 John C. Sivey Clerk. 

[in right margin] S.A. Peugh
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POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims. 
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Mrs Elcy Lowry hereby constitute and appoint D L & S A Peugh of Washington City my true and lawful Agent (and Attorney) to prosecute the Claim of Mrs Mary Peterson (deceased for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, [several words crossed out] and to appoint one or more substitutes underthem for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agents shall lawfully do in the premises. 
WITNESS my hand and Seal this 7th day of September A. D. 1852.  
Elsey Lowery {seal}

Signed and Sealed in the presence of} 
J. C Marshall 2 Witnesses 
Thomas Wimer} 

STATE OF Indiana} 
COUNTY OF Wabash} ss:
On this Seventh day of September A. D. 1852 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Elsey Lowery and acknowledged the foregoing Power, of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand,} 
the day and year aforesaid.}
Lewis B. Musselman {seal} 
J. Peace.
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State of Indiana Wabash County 
In the Wabash Probate Court
February Term A.D. 1850. 
Be it remembered that on the 13th day of said Month and 3d day of the above term of said County present John Comstock Judge of said Court John C. Sivey, Clerk, and Hugh M. Stephenson Sheriff of said Court, the following proceedings were had viz 
Matter of the Application of Mary Peterson for pension 
Comes now into open Court Hugh Adams a reputable person and entitled to credit, who being duly sworn deposeth and says, that he has been intimately acquainted with Mary Peterson of this County, (who is now an applicant for a pension from the United States,) since the year 1809, and also with Coonrod Peterson her husband and with their family and that said Coonrod and Mary Peterson were at that time (1809) living together as man and wife and continued so to live up to the time of said Coonrod's death in 1847; that they then had, (in (1809) a family of several children, the eldest of which was one year younger than himself, (said deponent,) that said deponent is now 65 years of age, and was in 1809, 24 years of age, making the age of the eldest child of said Coonrod and Mary Peterson at that time, (in 1809) 23 years. and that he has often and ever understood from both Coonrod and Mary Peterson that they were, be legally married long previous to 1794, and that he verily believes the same to be true.  And further saith not. 
In testimony of which, I John C. Sivey, Clerk of said Court, hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, this 26th day of April A.D. 1850 
John C. Sivey Clerk
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Be it remembered that at a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court house in the town of Wooster within and for the County of Wayne in the State of Ohio on the 27th day of September Anno Domini One thousand Eight hundred and twenty, by and before the Honorable William Wilson Esquire President, and David McCanaghay John Nimman, and Thomas G. Jones Esquires Associate Judges of said Court, came Conrad Peterson and filed on the records of said Court his application for a pension (agreeably to the act of Congress passed on that subject) in the following words & figures, to wit, 

State of Ohio ss.}
Wayne County} 
Court of Common pleas for said Wayne County September Term 1820- 
On the 27th day of September AD 1820, personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of record for said County, Conrod Peterson, aged sixty years and eleven months resident in Franklin township in said County who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, to wit, that he the said Peterson served Eighteen months begining to the best of his recollection in August A.D. 1777, and ending in February A.D. 1779, under Captain [one line cut off]
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or debts due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed- 
Schedule 
1 Red Cow    10.00   
1 two year old heiffer   8.00
1 do do do       5.00 
1 Calf six months old 1.50
13 head of hogs worth together 6.50
1 Ox chain  2.00
1 small plough 6.00
5 head of Sheep 8.00
1 Rifle gun 8.00
1 chest with two drawers 5.00
1 table 3.00
1 old loom & tackle 10.00
dresser furniture 4.58
2 small wheels & 1 reel 6.00
One old ten Gallon Kettle 2.00

Amt. taken to opposite side $85.58

3 axes 5.00
1 grubbing hoe 2.00
1 broad hoe .75
1 hand saw 1.75
1 horse collar 1.00
1 lot of old Iron 3.50
1 Old horse with the glanders 2.00
1 saddle & bridle 3.00
1 bake oven 2.00
1 small pot 1.50
1 tea kettle & small skillet 1.871/2
1 smoothing iron .44
2 old chip bottom chairs .75
1 wash tub .50
1 half bushel measure .50
26.561/2
85.58
total amount --- $111.141/2
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The State of Ohio} 
Wayne County} Ss 
I William Larwill Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of said County of Wayne do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court from the evidence adduced to them that the total amount of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is of value of One hundred and twelve dollars, and fourteen and one half cents and no more --- In testimony whereof I have hereunto and affixed the seal of said Court at Wooster, on this October in the year of our Lord One thousand, Eight twenty.- 
W. Larwill Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, Wayne County
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729
Indiana  -- M
Mary Peterson decd, 
widow of Conrad 
who was a Private 
in the Revolution 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.[crossed out] 3. February 1847 
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Apl. 1853 and sent to S. A. Pugh Esq Present 
[Acts of March 3, 1843, &[crossed out] June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2  Page 220.
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6068 
Indiana --- M
Mary Peterson decd 
widow of Conrad Peterson who served in the Revolutionary war , as a Private 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars ---Cents per annum, to commence in the 4th day of March, 1848. ending 30 June 1848 --- 
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Apl. 53 and sent to S.A. Peugh Prest. 

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 332 Vol. 3
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No. 14.038  wid. of Conrad
Mary Paterson
and
Letter Hon. G.N. Fitch 12th Jany 1850
"        June  11th May 1850

Act 7 July 1838
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47
2
---
94
23
----
117
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Mr Randall
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Pension Office
April 15 1873

Ohio Rolls}
acts 1878+1820}  Conrad Peterson
$96 p an}              To what time paid?

J. S. Gallaher Esq         Triplett 
3 auditor.               Died 3d Feby. 1847, paid to his
                                death: -- On Pittsburgh Roll
                                                            BLB
* I cannot state the agency}
 either Cincinnati or Pittsburgh}
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State of Indiana} 
Wabash County Ss}  
I John C Sivey Clerk of the Wabash circuit court do certify that Elsey Lowery Administratrix of the Estate of Mary Peterson Decd. gave Bond to the approval of the Court of Common Pleas in the sum of one thousand dollars - 
Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court affixed at Wabash this 16th day of July AD 1853 Jno. C. Sivey Clerk
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I John C. Sivey Clerk of the Court of Common for the County of Wabash in the State of Indiana do hereby certify that administration -------- of the Estate of Mary Peterson late of Wabash County, deceased who died intestate, is granted to Elsey Lowery and the said Elsey Lowery having qualified and given bond as such administratrix is duly authorized to take upon herself the administration of such estate according to law. 

Witness my hand, and the Seal of said Court this 14th day of May 1853
John C. Sivey 
C. C. C. P. Wabash County
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State of Indiana 
Wabash County  Ss
I John C. Sivey Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the within is a full true and complete copy of the Original  Letters of Administration, granted to Elsey Lowery to administer on the Estate of Mary Peterson Deceased 
Witness my hand and seal of said Court affixed at office in Wabash this 14th day of May A.D. 1853  
John C. Sivey clk
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State of Pennsylvania} 
Cumberland County} 
On the 30 day of March AD one thousand Eight hundred & fifty three before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared D. S. Stanley, who being by me duly sworn deposed and sayeth that he is about twenty four years of age, that he is a Lieut of the 2nd Regt of U.S. Dragoons, and a grandson of Mrs Mary Peterson decd, who was the widow of Conrad Peterson decd, that said Conrad Peterson was a pensioner of the United States on the_____ Agency and that he drew his pension at Wooster Wayne County, State of Ohio to about the year 1841, after which time he removed to Knox County Ohio, at the rate of $80 per annum, that he died about seven years ago, leaving said Mary Peterson his widow-- that she died about two years and a half since, leaving surviving her four children viz, Peter Peterson, Mr Elsey Lowery, David Peterson and Mrs. Miller, that he is fully satisfied that said Mary Peterson decd was married many years prior to A.D. 1800 both from the age of Peter Peterson who is now over sixty years of age and Mr Elsey Lowery who is between fifty five/ six years old & that he is fully confident of the fact that said Mary & her husband were married many years prior to A.D. 1800 and further saith not.         
D. S. Stanley 
 Lt. 2nd R S Dragoons

Sworn & subd by me M. Holcomb J.P.
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State of Pennsylvania}
Cumberland County}
   I hereby certify that M. Holcomd Esq. before whom the within & foregoing declaration & affidavit was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn 
    In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, this 30th day of March A.D. 1853 
George Binn Prothy
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Brief in the case of Mary Peterson widow of Conrad 
County and State of Indiana 
act 7 June 1841 &c
Claim, (original, or for increase[crossed out]) 
Proof exhibited, (if original.) 
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. Husband was a pensioner acts 1818 & 1820 
Documentary & parol [illegible]

(If for increase.) 
Has admission of so, what? 

Name and residence of S.A. Peugh Esq. 
Present
Thornton Triplett 
Examining Clerk.
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Washington Jan. 4th 1830 
Sir, 
Find herewith the papers in the matter of the application of Mrs Mary Peterson for pension. Her pecuniary circumstances are such as to make early action in the matter by the Dept. very desirable. 
Respectfully Yours
G.N. Fitch

Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Court Pensions
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Washington May 4 1830 
Sir,
On 4th January last I enclosed papers to you in the case of Mrs Mary Petersons application for pension. On the 13th Same Month I rec'd. your answer requiring more proof of Marriage. I forwarded the answer to her friends. Herewith please find a transcript in the case. This is the second copy of the transcript which has been forwarded me. The first miscarried. Is the proof now sufficient? 
Respectfully Yours
Graham N. Fitch

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comr Pensions
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Washington, Novr 25th 1854. 
Hon L. P. Waldo
 Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir, I submit a power of Atty from Elsey Lowery of Wabash Coty Ind, Administratrix & heir of Mary Peters deceased, who applied for a revolutionary pension under act of 7th July 1838, & was suspended. You will please permit me to examine the papers on file.
Very respectfully 
your obt. Servt. 
H.C. Spalding 
Atty
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
Claim for Military Service. 

I certify that, in conformity with the tours of the United States of the 17 June 1844 February 1848, Mary Peterson deceased, who was widow of Conrad Peterson, a private in the Revolutionary war, was entitled to a pension of Eighty Dollars, per annum, commencing 3, February 1847 when her husband died, and terminating the 30 June 1848. Also to a continuance of her pension under the act of 2 February, at the increased rate of ninety six dollars, per annum, commencing the 1. July 1848 & terminating 11. October 1851, when she died. 
And that the amount due is payable to her only surviving children, Peter Peterson, Elsey Lowery, Charity Miller & David Peterson 
Given at the Department of the Interior,
this 7th day of April 
one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
R. McClelland
Secretary of the Interior.

Examined and}
Countersigned}

LP Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions.

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This certificate be cancelled and a new one
to be sent to the administratrix for the late benefit of the children named in this certificate.  LPW

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Payment to be made at Madison Ia by J.W. Chapman, Agent for paying pensioners in the Agency of Madison

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book    Volume 3, Page 332 by R.M. McRae Clerk.

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1853 Aug.t 18 New certificate in heir of this payable to children or administratrix Elsey Lowery, for their benefit

McRae, clk
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The State of Indiana}
Wabash County SS} 
I John C Sivey clerk of the Wabash Circuit Court do hereby certify that Lewis B Mussleman before whom the annexed power of attorney appears to have been acknowledged was at the time of taking such acknowledgement an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, and that he was commissioned April 20th AD 1820 and that his term in office expires April 20th AD 1855, and I am acquainted with the signature and believe the annexed signature, purporting to be his, to be genuine. And further that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of said State 
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Wabash this 6th day of October AD 1854 John C Sivey clk
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State of Indiana}
Wabash County} SS 
Know all men by these presents that I Elsey Lowrey the daughter and Executrix and surviving Child and legal heir of Conrad and Mary Peterson deceased do hereby constitute name, authorise and appoint H.C. Spalding of the City of Washington D.C. my true, lawful and sole attorney for me and in my name and in my behalf to examine the papers proof on file in the pension office at Washington and elsewhere, and to prosecute any claim for arrearages of pension increase of pensions or any other emoluments to which I may be intitled as the Executrix and Legal heir of the said Conrad & Mary Peterson and to do all things necesary in the premises as fully as I myself could do were I personally present Witness my hand and seal this 22 day of September 1854 
Elsey Lowery {seal}
attest 
LB Musselman
C.W.D. Smith  

Be it known that on the    day of September 1854 before the Subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County duly authorized to administer Oaths personally appeared Elisey Lowery above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above written 
Lewis B. Musselman {seal} 
Justice of the Peace
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State of Indiana Wabash County ss 
I, John C. Sivey, Clerk of the Probate Court of said County of Wabash hereby certify that on the 12th day of November A.D. 1849, personally appeared in open Court, Peter Peterson and Elsa Lowry two reputable persons and entitled to credit, who being duly sworn depose and say that they were both intimately acquainted with Coonrod Peterson in his life time, that he died in the County of Knox and State of Ohio, on the 2d day of February A.D. 1847, and that he was during the latter part of his life, from 1820 till his death, a pensioner of the United States. They also state upon their oaths aforesaid, that they are intimately acquain with Mary Peterson, the Applicant for a pension in this case, and have been for many, (over 50 that they have often heard said Coonrod Peterson and said Mary Peterson say that they were intermarried February the 15th AD. 1785, and they verily believe the same to be true; and that the said Mary Peterson now is, and has since the death of said Coonrod Peterson remained, unmarried.
Said Elsa Lowry upon her oath aforesaid, says that she has known said Coonrod Peterson and Mary Peterson, together as husband and wife from about 1795, till the time of said Coonrods death: and the said Peter Peterson on his oath aforesaid says he has known them living together as husband and wife since about the year 1793, till the time of said Coonrod's death. Said deponents also state, that they believe Coonrod Peterson first drew a pension in 1820, but that at the same time he drew two years arrearage from 1818, and further say not. 
In testimony of which, I hereunto at my hand and affix the seal of said Probate Court at Wabash this 14th day of November A.D. 1849 
John C. Sivey clerk
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Wabash Ind. Nov 14th 1849 
To Commissioner of Pensioners,
Sir - Accompanying this are the papers of Mary Peterson, in refference to her application for a pension.  We have embodied in these the most satisfactory evidence in regard to her right to a pension that we can find.  In this new country, satisfactory evidece in every particular is very hard to obtain, on matters of an old date.  Mrs. Peterson knows of no record of her Marriage with Coonrod Peterson, other than that which accompanies this. Neither does she know of any person living who witnessed her said marriage. 
We hope these papers however, will be satisfactory to your department, for the old lady is very needy, and if entitled to a pension should have it without delay. 
Her husbands papers were all left with his attorney before, or at her husbands death, and she can now find no trace of them. Her husband died, just a few days before he would have drawn an other payment. Is the widow entitled to any arrearages of her own, or of her husband? 
If there is any thing more wanted to satisfy you of her right to a pension, or if your department concludes to grant the pension - please write to us, that we may inform her, as she is very feeble, and is anxious in regard to the matter. 
We hope the case will receive your early attention 
With much Respect Yours &c 
Gordon & Knight