Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6,211, for John Adam Lawyer, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)
SERVICE.                                                  NUMBER

Penn.           Lawyer, John Adam.          R. 6.211
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               Or. Lawier
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———————.  Eve Margarett ———————-

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State of Virginia
Frederick County

On this 6 day of May 1827 personally appeared before me Eve Lawyer, a resident of the county of Frederick in the state of Virginia, aged eighty-three 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 provisions made by act of Congress passed July 4, 1836.

That she is the widow of Adam Lawyer who was drafted and marched from the county of Lancaster, state of Pennsylvania and served a tour of two months as a Lieut. in the Pennsylvania Militi, which tour commenced in the month of Aug. 1776 and ended in the month of Oct. 1776.  She states that she believes that in this tour of duty her said husband Adam Lawyer was stationed at or near Powder Hook in the state of New York just before the British took possession of the city of New York and, after having served this tour of duty her husband, the said Adam Lawyer, resigned his commission of Lieut.  

She further declares that in the month of Sept. 1777 the said Adam Lawyer was again drafted and marched from the county of Lancaster and state aforesaid and served a tour of two months as a soldier and was stationed at Lebanon as she believes in the state of Pennsylvania as a guard to prisoners and that this second tour of duty ended in the month of Nov. 1777,

and she further declares that the said Adam Lawyer was drafted again the spring of 1778 and served a tour of two months as a soldier in the western part of Pennsylvania against the Indians, in this town she cannot now state in what month that he was drafted nor in what
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month he returned but does well recollect it was in the spring.  She further declares that her said husband Adam Lawyer did receive a discharge for each and every tour of duty (illegible) in this her declaration which her said husband kept for many years and which she has often seen and they specify two month tours each but since the death of her said husband as aforesaid the (illegible) discharges have been lost or misplaced.  

She further declares that her marriage with the said Adam Lawyer her husband aforesaid took place before the expiration of the last period of his service as aforesaid and she further declares that she was married to the said Adam Lawyer on the 28th day of (illegible) 1776 and that husband the aforesaid Adam Lawyer died in the year of 1799, and she has remained a widow ever since, that pension will more fully appear by reference to the proof (illegible).

Signed:  Eve (her X mark) Lawyer

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first written before me and I do certify that Eve Lawyer is a woman of truth and entitled to full confidence, given under my seal this day and year aforesaid.  

Signed:  R. W Barton, J.P.
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Virginia
    I Thomas Allen Tidball, Clerk of the County branch of Frederick do hereby certify that Richard W. Barton is a Justice of the peace for this county aforesaid; and that the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is genuine.

In Testimony whereof hereunto subscribe my name and affix my seal of Office this 16th day of May 1837 and in this 61st Year of the Commonwealth.

T.A. Tidball

Seal was affixed on the left side of the testimony and has faded.
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Suspended for further proof
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Eve M Lawyer
Widow of John
Adam Lawyer
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See papers
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S.B. Two
Attorney
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[ Power of Attorney]

Know all men by these presents, that we Eve Maria Newcom formerly Eve Maria Lawson and Elizabeth Boles formerly Elizabeth Lawson of Virginia, for and in consideration of the confidence we repose in them do hereby make, constitute, and appoint, L. BLANCHARD TRUE, of Washington City, D.C. of G. L. White of the County of (unintelligible) and state of Virginia our true and lawful Attorneys for us and in our name, to examine all papers filed in any Department or Office of Government, upon which a Pension was granted to and may be due on account of the Revolutionary services of John Adam Lawson our  (unintelligible) then and to obtain, by all lawful means, any and all additional amounts that may be due from the United States to said John Adam Lawson, by virtue of said services, as  (blank) in the Company of Capt. (blank) in the Regiment of )blank) and in the (blank) line of the forces of (blank).   And for good and sufficient reasons we do hereby REVOKE and CANCEL any and all other Powers of Attorney and authority which we may at any former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes; and we do hereby vest the same irrevocably in our said Attorney herein appointment, said L. Blanchard True and G.L. White.
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“After the ordinary Proclamation, John Adam sayer was married by the late Rev’ Emanuel Schulz the 5’ November 1776 to Eve Margreth Conrad.”

That the above is a true extract of our church = Record of the subscriber certify, Sept 9th 1837.

Daniel Ulrich
Pastor of the Lutheran Congregation in Tulpehocken Township, in the County of Berks, and State of Pennsylvania.

A handwritten seal was placed at the left hand corner of the clerk’s certification.

Personally appeared before me one of our Justices of the peace is and for the County of Berks the above named Daniel Ulrich, Minister of the Gospel of the above mentioned church who oth certify that the above is a true copy of the records of his church. I am witnessing whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 9th day of September A.D. 1837
John R.Manderfield. (Handwritten seal)
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State of Pennsylvania
Berk’s County

I Alexander H. Witman Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County, do hereby certify that John R. Manderfield Esq. before whom the within proceedings were had is an Acting Justice of the Peace in and for Berks County duly authorized and commissioned and that full faith and credit are due and of right ought to be given to all his official acts. Whereof the foregoing is owed.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of this said Court at Reading the fifteenth day of September A.D. 1837
AH Witman
Prothonotary
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Left side 

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Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873 were lined through

Right side only left side left blank:

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Eve M Lawyer
Service: widow of John 

Enlisted:————————————, 18
Discharged:——————————-, 18
Application filed:————————, 18
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Attorney:——————————————-
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—————Recognized.  ——————-Contract
—————Cert. of Dis. Searched for———, 18

Across the above lines was stamped: REJECTED
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(An addressed envelope)

Free

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City


Nineveh Va
October 7th 

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4 July '38
3 to Sec
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Nineveh Va. Octo. 7th, 1834

Sir,

    You will find enclosed Mrs. Eve Lawyer's declaration, and accompanying testimony which she requested me to forward to you, and she requests that you will please examine the same and forwd. to me any communication relating to her case.

I am very respectfully your obt. serv.
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Thos. Monroe


J.L. Edwards Esq.
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The deposition of William Garman, testifies that he was well acquainted with Adam Lawyer, who was drafted and marched from the county of Lancaster in the State f Pennsylvania in the summer of 1776 and served a tour of two months as a Lieut. in the Pennsylvania Militia; and in this tour the said Adam Lawyer was stationed at Powler Hook in the state of New York; he further states to the best of his recollection that the said Adam Lawyer was drafted again in the month of ____ in the year of ____ and served a tour of two months as a soldier in the Pennsylvania Militia in the said tour he likewise marched from the county of Lancaster in the state of Pennsylvania and was stationed at Lebanon in the state of Pennsylvania as a guard to the Prisoners.  Applicant further states that he well recollects that the said Adam Lawyer, was drafted again he thinks in the spring of 1778 and served another tour of two  months as a soldier in the Pennsylvania Militia against the Indians in the State of Pennsylvania upon some of the waters that empty into Susquehanna River; in this said tour he marched from the County of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania, applicant further states that the said Adam Lawyer and said applicant removed from the State of Pennsylvania to the State of Virginia in the year 1780 and the said Adam Lawyer having left his discharges for the tours of duty aforesaid at the place of his former residence in the state aforesaid, returned to said place of residence and got them, which said discharges applicant has often seen in the possession of the said Adam Lawyer, he further states that the said Adam Lawyer has been dead 28 or 29 years having Eve Lawyer his widow since and he further....
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states that the marriage of the said Adam Lawyer and the said Eve Lawyer as aforesaid took place in the year of, I believe, 1776 and before the expiration of the last period of his service as aforesaid.
   Given under my hand this 3d day of May 1837.

                                              his
                                   William X Garman
                                              mark
the word last contained
before signing.

State of Virginia
Frederick County} ss

     This day William Garman personally appeared before me Josiah Lockhart a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Frederick in the State of Virginia and made oath in due form of law that the facts set forth in his deposition annexed and by him subscribed are true.  I certify that William Garman is a man of truth and entitled to full confidence.  Given under my hand and seal this 2d day of May 1837.

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Josiah Lockhart

Virginia

    I Thomas Allen Tidall, clerk of the county court of Frederick do hereby certify that Josiah Lockhart is a Justice of the Peace of the County aforesaid; and that the above certificate purportedly (??) his is genuine.

     In testimony thereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affixing my seal of Office this 16th day of May 1837 and in the (??) Dept of the Commonwealth.

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T.A. Tidball
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Eve M. Lawyer
Wid of (??) A. Lawyer

V.K.
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State of Virginia
County of Frederick} ss

    On this 2nd day of October 1837 personally appeared before me Seth Mason a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid Eve Lawyer a resident of Frederick County and State of Virginia aged eighty-three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make this amended declaration; that her proper name is eve Margarett Lawyer and the reason why her (??) appears in declaration of Eve Lawyer is that she has always went by the name of Eve Lawyer and that she was not appraised that the records bore the full name, and that her husband's proper name was Jon Adam Lawyer and for the same reason she did not attach the name John in his name.  She states that('s) why she stated in her declaration that she was married on the 28th Act. 1776 in that the family register of her children states that her first child was born on the 28th Oct 1777 and it was always said in the family that her first child was born just one year after their marriage with her husband the said John Adam Lawyer; she has always understood that the proper name of her husband was Lawyer though spelt in the records of his marriage Layer.

                                                  her
                                             Eve  X  Lawyer
                                                 mark

Sworn and subscribed to the day and year first above written before me.
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Seth Mason  J.P.
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Virginia
Frederick County} ss

    I Thomas Allen Tidball clerk of the county court of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Seth Mason Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits of Eve Lawyer and Henry Neville were taken, is an acting justice of the peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn and the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. 

  In testimony whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court this 2d day of October 1837.

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T. A. Tidballl
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   The deposition of Henry Nevill aged sixty three years testifies that he was well acquainted with Adam Lawyer and that the said Adam Lawyer lived a very near neighbor to him for many years; and that he and the said Adam Lawyer was frequently in each others company, and he has often heard the said Adam Lawyer speak of being drafted and serving in the revolutionary war in the Pennsylvania Militia; previous to his removal to the state of Virginia; and he has heard him say that he served a part of the time as an officer, but cannot now say what grade; applicant well recollects of seeing a sword in the possession of the said Adam Lawyer heard him speak of having the sword in the service at the time he was an officer aforesaid and he further states that the said Adam Lawyer has been dead to the best of his recollection thirty years or upwards leaving Eve Lawyer his widow, and that the said Eve Lawyer has remained the widow of the said Adam Lawyer ever since.
Given under my hand this 2nd day of Oct. 1837.

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Henry Nevill

State of Virginia
County of Frederick} ss

  On this 2nd day of Oct 1837 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid Henry Nevill and made oath in due form of law that the facts set forth in the above deposition and by him subscribed are true.
    I certify that I am well acquainted with Henry Nevill and that he is entitled to full confidence given under my hand the day and year aforesaid.

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                              Seth Mason    J.P.