Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24047, for Patrick Sullivan, New Jersey
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SERVICE
New Jersey

Sullivan, patrick
Dearwell, Margaret
Former widow

NUMBER
W. 24047
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THE NEW TESTAMENT 
Of our LORD and SAVIOUR
TESUS CHRIST,
Newly translated out of the
ORIGINAL GREEK,
And with the former TRANSLATIONS
Diligently Compared and Revised,
By His MAJESTY'S Special Command.
Appointed to be Read in Churches.
EDINBURGH:
Printed by ALExANDER KINCAID, His Majesty's Printer
MDCCLXXI.
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Marget Shaw was
Born May 23:1765
Molin was
[Illegible]
John Deruelle son of John Deruelle was
born the 5 June 1790
on guard
[Illegible] Ten Eyck Perwell
23 day of August 1793
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Relented
Jany 2/49
2730
New Jersey
Margaret, Dearwell widow of Patrick Sullivan
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a pri
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
____ Cents per annum, to commence on
he 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of Jany 1849 and sent to Thos A. Hartwell
Summerville N. J.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 291 Vol. 4
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Declaration of Margaret Sullivan of Somerset New Jersey
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State of New Jersey Somerset County Ss
On this twenty sixth day of March Eighteen
hundred and forty four personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for said County Margaret Dearwell a resident of Bridgewater in said County in the seventy ninth year of her age since May last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress, passed July 7. 1838 and the 23d of August 1842, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the
Revolutionary war. That she is the widow
of Patrick Sullivan (her first husband) who was a private in the continental army as he said and
as declarant knows for her first acquaintance with him took place while he was in the Hospital at Baskingridge, he then wearing the Continental dress as she well remembers-- he had received a wound in one of his legs in Battle but cannot recollect the exact time, but the facts declarant cannot forget as she nursed him in said Hospital - he said he said he 
belonged to Captain Samuel Hendry's company of the 2d Jersey Regiment under the command of Col. Shreve and Lieut Col De Hart declarant understood from him that he enlisted under an officer named Hollinshead in the early part of the war, in the latter part of 1776 or beginning of 1777, in the County
of Salem in what was called the Western division of New Jersey he served during the whole war he wrote me a number of letters after he left the Hospital, which have been destroyed many years & while the army lay in Winter Quarters at Morristown he
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come to see me. He was in the Indian campaign and at the close of the war he received an honorable discharge, which has also been lost or destroyed. Soon after peace he came to Baskingridge. She also declares that she was married to the said Patrick
Sullivan on Wednesday the Third day of December seventeen hundred and Eighty three by the Revd Mr. Kennedy, the Presbyterian Clergyman at that place in the house of William Baird, in the back room in the presence of a number of witnesses all of whom are dead or not living in this country, declarant has
no certificate of marriage and has made diligent search for proof by the church record when the Revd Mr Kennedy preached, but none can be found the record being lost or destroyed. She attached the record of the old family Bible the marriage she cannot tell who wrote it, being done upwards of Sixty years a person by the name of Haines wrote
my name and age a person by the name of Highwood wrote my son David's name and birth-- a person by the name of Miller wrote the name of my son Daniel and the time of his birth all of which are true, which has always been in the possession of Declarant that her husband the aforesaid Patrick Sullivan died on the third day of April Seventeen hundred and Eighty six that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of
January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz. at the time above stated. She further declares that after the death of the husband aforesaid she was married to John Dearwell on the seventeenth day of April Seventeen hundred and Eighty nine that he died on the first day
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of November Eighteen hundred and twenty Eight and that she is still a widow
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
James Taylor
her
Margaret X Dearwell
mark
I hereby certify that Margaret Dearwell the above declarant is personally known to me as a person
of truth and credibility and on account of bodily
infirmity is unable to appear in open Court.
James Taylor
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pathrick
Solovin
whos
marid to
Margaret
Shaw
December 3
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24047

Mary Dearwell for
Wid of
Patrick Sullivan
Prvt. Rev. War
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Act: Feby, 28/ 48
Index:--Vol. A, Page 178
[Arrangement of 1870.}
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J L Edwards
Commr of Pensions

A Hartwell Esq
Somerville, N. York

Returned by request of J L Edwards

4192
Margt Dearwell

Nov 4 44
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8763
New Jersey
Margaret Dearwell for
widow of Patrick Sullivan
who was a pensioner under the Act of ___
and who died on the 3. April 1786
of Somerset Co in the State of N.J.
who was a Pri in the Co commanded by Captain_____ of the _______ commanded by _____ in the N J line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of N Jersey at the rate of 80 dollars ____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of
Septem "  and sent to T.A. Hartwell, Somerville NY
Total amount $400.00
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[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by. T. S. Swann Clerk,
Book D Vol 1 Page 193
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6192
New Jersey
Margaret Dearwell for widow of Patrick Sullivan
who was a Pri in the N J Line
inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on
he 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Sept 1844 and sent to
T. A. Hartwell,
Somerville N. Y.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 94
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2 Certs
1838
1843 ] repo

letters to Post master Somerville, N. York & to Hon W L Dayton
Oct 25 1844 let to same Nov 4 1844
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J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D C

[Stamp] Somerset Sept 5 cents

New Cole
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Sir
Please forward the proper certificate to me for Mrs. Dearwell
Yrs respectfully
Tho A Hartwell
Somerville N J 4th Sept, '48

J L. Edwards Esq
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Margaret Dearwell for. widow 
Patrick Sullivan
N. J
Act 7th July 38
add
2 years
priv
$ 80 per an
also
Act 3rd March 43
husband died in '86
No 6487
T. A. Hartwell Esq
Somerville
Somerset Co
N. J.
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10.911
Weltha McLouth
N.Y.
Act July 7th '38
add
2 years
priv

$80 per an
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Margt Dearwell
file with her papers

J L Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington D. C.

Nov 11 44

[Stamp] Trenton N.J. Nov 8
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Trenton Nov 8 1844
J.L. Edwards Esq
Comr,
Sir I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Pension certificate of Margaret Dearwell pursuant
to request
Yours
Wm L. Dayton
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Free
____
Wm L. Dayton

Col J. L. Edwards
Pension office
Washington D. Cola

Oct 25 44
Margt Dearwell
N J adn 38
Saml Bowker
Bogent N J
Gtq 2-43
[Stamp] Trenton N J Oct 28
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Trenton, Oct 23d 1844.
Col J. L. Edwards
Dear Sir
Will you be good eno to enclose to me the Pension certificate of Margaret Dearwell of Somerset Co. N.J. formerly widow of Patrick
Sullivan who has been admitted under the act of July 1838 & 1843-
Yours &c
Wm L. Dayton
P. S. Be kind eno to said me the report
of what was done in the case of Saml
Bowker (or Bogert) of Montll Co. N.J. under act of June 7, 1832. application made in 32 or 33 by Senator [illegible]
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State of New Jersey Somerset County
On this fourth day of September AD 1848
personally appeared before the Subscriber Jas. Taylor a Justice of the peace in & for said County, Margaret Dearwell a resident of Bridgewater in said County of Somerset aged Eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the
act of Congress passed on the 2d February 1845 granting to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary War. That she is now the widow of John Dearwell, but formerly the widow of Patink Sullivan who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. That she has received heretofore Eighty dollars per annum under the act of 1844. She further declares that
she is still a widow
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year
first above written before
James Taylor
Alice C. Green
her
Margaret Dearwell
mark


Certify that the above named affiant, Margaret Dearwell is personally known to me, & that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit-
James Taylor

New Jersey
Somerset County Ss  I. William Kennedy Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in & for said County, do hereby certify that James Taylor before whom the above affidavit was taken, & by whom said certificate was made was at the time & still is a Justice of the peace in & for said County duly elected commissioned & sworn into office. In Witness whereof
I have hereunto set my hand  & affixed my seal of office at Bridgwater in said County The 4th of September 1848 Wm Kennedy Clerk
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1097
Margaret Dearwell of New Jersey
July 7, 1838

T. A. Hartwell
Somerville
Somerset Co
N. J.
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State of New Jersey Somerset County Ss
on this third day of May Eighteen hundred and forty four before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County personally appeared Patience Riley a resident of the County of Morris in said state, in the Eighty third year of her age a person of credibility and truth who being by me duly Sworn according to Law on his oath saith, that some time in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty three to the best of deponents recollection and belief, she Saw Patrick Sullivan and (Margaret Shaw), his wife, the night after their Marriage at the mothers of the said Margaret, Patrick Sullivan
was known at the time to be a
revolutionary Soldier. They lived some
time with her mother & then moved
into a house of a Mr Brown, where they lived about a year & then moved in with one of their brother in laws till the said Patrick Sullivan died. I was well acquainted with the said
Patrick Sullivan during the revolutionary war, & I know that he was a Soldier, & I further know that he was a soldier in the army a year
More. While he was a soldier in said service,
he often visited at my fathers home-
I lived within
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about a mile & a half of the hospital
near Baskingridge, & when a girl went
very often past it to my aunt & saw the sick & wounded-- Several died. My fathers family attended the Revd Mr Kennedys Church-- After the said Sullivan's Marriage, he & his said wife attended said church & sat together.  I was frequently at Sullivans when he & his child were sick. I sat up with both his & the childs corpse  after they were dead, Sullivan lived about three years after this marriage. They had
two children. The said Sullivan was in the regular army. I know he was an enlisted soldier, & it was said to be during [illegible]
I have often seen him come in his Soldiers dress from the Camp, when the army lay at Kimbles mountain & at Weeks mountain near Morristown & go by my fathers house to
Mr Shaws to see the said Margaret
I saw him at Isaac Millers at a spining frolick with his soldiers dress before he was married. He came there with the said Margaret Shaw I well recollect the Battle of Monmouth, & it was said at the time that said Sullivan was ordered there & had gone & my brother John who was in that battle, stated when
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he came home that he had seen the said Sullivan there in the battle  one day I was helping plant corn with my sister-we saw some
troops coming. The said Sullivan was with them. They were carrying Lieutenant Rodgers towards the hospital.  He had been wounded
at Springfield, or somewhere between
Baskingridge & Elizabeth Town
They asked us for some drink & said they had a wounded officer who was very faint. I gave them Some Milk & water- - In a few days after this officer was buried on a Sunday near Baskingridge. The Soldiers marched with music
to the grave. The said Sullivan was one of the solders. The said Sullivan was with the
troops till the war was ended & all
the soldiers except a few sick went Away 
her
Patience X Riley
mark
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first
written before 
me James Taylor

State of New Jersey Somerset Ss.  I the said James Taylor do hereby certify that I am personally
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acquainted with the above named Patince Riley. that she is a person of intelligence honesty truth & veracity
James Taylor
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State of New Jersey Somerset County Ss
On this third day of May Eighteen hundred and forty four before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County personally appeared Nancy Hinds a resident of the
County of Morris in said state in the Eighty seven year of her age a person of credibility
& truth who being by me duly sworn according  to law on her oath saith that she
was well acquainted with Patrick
Sullivan during the Revolutionary War
& well recollects that soon after the close of said War she this deponent was invited to attend the wedding of Patrick Sullivan
& Margaret Shaw at Baskingridge in said County (now the widow Dearwell)
but was prevented by sickness, after
the marriage they lived some time
at her mother Mrs Shaws - Deponent well recollects that they lived in the house of Isaac Miller when said Sullivan died, which was a few
years after their marriage, after his death his widow (the said Margaret) lived some time in the house with this deponent - Said Patrick Sullivan was a revolutionary soldier, His said
Widow some years after married
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John Dearwell, who died some years ago as deponent has understood  Deponent further saith that her husband her husbands brother & his wife were united & attended the
said wedding. I had a quinsey sore throat & could not go. They were married by the Revd Mr Kennedy a Presbyterian Minister at Baskingridge  There was a hospital about three
quarters of a mile from Mr Shaws The
said Sullivan courted the said Margaret while he was a soldier in the army & married her shortly after he was discharged - There
were a considerable number of sick & Wounded soldiers in said hospital
Deponent thinks and of the children of the
said Sullivan & wife was christened at the house of Isaac Miller by the said Minister who often  preached there. One of the children I think died before his father
I often  saw the said Sullivan  with other soldiers, passing back & forward particularly
towards the close of the war. Every body in the neighborhood knew that said Sullivan & said
Margaret Shaw were married & were
husband & wife
her
Nancy X Hinds
mark
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first
above written before me
James Taylor
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New Jersey Somerset Ss. I the said James
Taylor do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Nancy Hinds, that she is a person of intelligence, honesty truth
& veracity
James Taylor
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State of New Jersey
I Charles G McChesney Secretary
of State of the State of New Jersey
do hereby certify that James Taylor
Esqr before whom the declaration of
Margaret Dearwell, and affidavits of Patience Riley and Nancy Hinds were made and taken was at the time of the doing thereof one of the
Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Somerset, and a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
duly appointed commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signature thereto is in the proper handwriting of
the said James Taylor
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at
Trenton in said State this twentieth day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty four.
Charles G. M. Chesney
Secy of State
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Sullivan, Patrick  GRADE Private
LINE  Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 10365
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED July 9 1789
to --- not shown-
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.