Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24227, Mahlon Ford, New Jersey And U. S. A.
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Service.

New Jersey
and U.S.A
Ford, Mahlon
Sophia B

Number
W.24226
{B.L.W 697-200 Lieut. Issued Aug 4, 1790
also recorded as above under B.L. W 2526 no papers}
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1886 March 4 C.S. Sims - Rep. N.J. Society
of Cincinnati -with history    Prior

New York
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Sophia B. Ford
widow of Mahlon Ford
who was a Lieutenant & Ensign
in the New ['York' crossed out] Jersey line
for 1 year 2 months & 5 days Lieut
                 5.       "        26.   "    Ensign
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
247. Dollars 53.
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
10th day of June 1843
and sent to
Hon J.G. Clinton
Newburgh
New York.
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[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1. Page 106.
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3538.
Declaration of Sophia
B Ford widow of Mahlon Ford-
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" 
State of New York SS. On this Tenth day of
December, in the year of our Lord, One thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Eight, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York----  Sophia B Ford at presenunt being and residing in the City of New York in the County and State of New York, aged sixty three years tene months and nineteen days, 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 Mahlon Ford being of the ancient family of the
Fords in New Jersey. That she is ignorant of his revolutionary services, not having been married, until since the close of the revolutionary war. That he resided in or near Morristown, in the County of Morris and State of New Jersey, when he entered the service, as this Deponent has been informed and believes.

She further declares that she was married to
the said Mahlon Ford on the thirty first day of August, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and ninety three. That her husband the aforesaid Mahlon Ford died on the fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, One thousand Eight Hundred and twenty and that she has continued since his death and still continues his widow.  That she was married to him after the expiration of the last period of his service in the revolutionary
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army and previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated.  That she is the daughter of Colonel Oliver Spencer, who commanded one of the Regiments of the New Jersey line in the Revolutionary War and the niece of Colonel
Matthias Ogden, who also during that war commanded another Regiment in the said New Jersey Line-- And she further declares, that the said Mahlon Ford was a member of the New Jersey State Society of Cincinnati from her own knowledge, and as contained in the records of the same, and that he received a Diploma therefrom.

Sophia B Ford

Sworn to and subscribed on
the day and year above written in
in open Court.
Michael Ulshoeffer

STATE OF NEW YORK.
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
I, Joseph Hoxie, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Michael Ulshoeffer before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, First Judge of said Court of Common Pleas in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same, and that I believe the signature of said Judge thereto subscribed is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said
Court and County, the 10th day of December 1833
Joseph Hoxie Clerk
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army and previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz.  at the time above stated.  That she the daughter of Colonel Oliver Spencer, who commanded one of the Regiments of the New Jersey line in the Revolutionary War and the niece of Colonel
Matthias Ogden, who also during that war commanded another Regiment in the said New Jersey Line-- And she further declares, that the said Mahlon Ford was a member of the New Jersey State Society of Cincinnati from her own knowledge, and as contained in the records of the same, and that he received a Diploma therefrom.

Sophia Ford

Sworn to and subscribed on
the day and year above written in
open Court.
M. Ulshoeffer 
first Judge Common
Pleas of New York
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Mahlon Ford Married Sophia
Spencer Daughter of Col. Spencer's
31st Augt 1793
Mallon Ford born
Sophia Spencer born Jany. 22d 1775
Anne Maria Spencer Ford Born
30th Augt 1794 4 OClock in the morning
Eliza Desaussure Ford Born Apl. 4th 1796 4 O Clock in the Morning
Jane Rainor Ford Born Augt 28th 1797 2 O Clock P.M.
George Washington Ford born 
June 2d 1800 2 O Clock in the morning
Deceased Decem. 11
George Washington Ford Born
Feby 8th 1802  - 2 OClock in the
Morning
Nathan Ford born June 3d 1804. 2 OClock
in the morning
John Ford born February 18th 1807
At 11 oclock in the Morning
A - Depd

On this tenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Eight, personally appeared before me Daniel P Ingraham one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the State & County of New York  Sophia B Ford who being duly sworn according to law on her oath says. That she is the widow of Mahlon Ford deceased, that the above papers attached hereto marked A and signed by the initials (D.PI) in the family record of the said Mahlon Ford, and that the writing of the said record
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The 
New Testament
OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST.
TRANSLATED
OUT OF THE
ORIGINAL GREEK.
AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY
COMPARED AND REVISED,
BY THE SPECIAL COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY KING JAMES I OF ENGLAND.
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[Illustration and quote in Greek]
PRINTED AT WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS,
BY ISAIAH THOMAS.
Sold by him in WORCESTER, Sold also by said THOMAS and ANDREWS, at Faust's Statue, No. 45, Newbury Street, BOSTON; and by said THOMAS, and Co. in WALPOLE, Newhampshire.
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MDCCXCIII.

of December,
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is in his own proper hand writing.~ That the (unknown word) papers was detached from the family testament often said Mahlon Ford and that it has been (unknown word) in the (unknown word) of this deponent war service-
Sworn to and subscribed
The day and year above (illegible)
D P Ingraham
Associate Judge of New York
Court of Common Pleas

(signature)
Sophia B Ford
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State of Ohio
Hamilton County Ss

Before the undersigned a Justice of the peace within and for the Said county, personally appeared Dorothea Meeks aged fifty eight years, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith; that she is the sister of Sophia B. Ford now residing at West point, in the State of New York, widow of Mahlon Ford who deceased at Columbus in the state of Ohio in the (unknown word) of eighteen hundred and twenty, or twenty one-that she was present at the marriage of her said sister with the said Mahlon, who was then a  Captain of Artillery in the United States army under the command of General Arthur St. Clair-Said marriage took place at the house of his father (Colo: (unknown name) Spencer) in the village of Columbus in said County of Hamilton on the last day of August in the year seventeen hundred and ninety three; and was consummated by John S. Law a Justice of the peace in said village, in the presence of this deponent, her father, mother, sister Sarah B vans; and Doct. Richard Allen and wife of the U.S. army, all of whim except this deponent and her sister Sarah are now deceased.- That her said Sister Sophia continued to live with the said Mahlon as his lawful wife(illegible) of Marriage until the time of his decease aforesaid.- The incidents of Said marriage are (unknown word) in the recollections of this deponent-having lived from the (unknown word) thereof-to the present time, (unknown word) at, or in the immediate vicinity, of the place when the service took place. and further she saith not. 
(signature)
Dorothea C Meeks

Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 19th November 1828.
John A. Wiseman
Justice of the peace
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The State of Ohio
Hamilton County } SS
I William H. Harrison Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County, do hereby certify that John A. Wiseman is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly Elected, commissioned and sworn into office as such that his commission was dated on the 15th day of April A.D. 1837 and will
Expire on the 15th day of April A.D. 1840. that his signature within written is genuine. And to all his official acts as such Justice of the Peace full faith and credit are due and ought to be given-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Seal of
our said Court at Cincinnati this
20th day of November, A.D. 1838
W. H. Harrison Clerk
of Jas.J. Snider Dpy
[Seal affixed at left]

The State of Ohio
Hamilton County } SS
I Oliver M. Spencer President Judge of the ninth Judicial Circuit of the Court afd. Common Pleas within said Circuit is composed of the said
County of Hamilton, do hereby certify that William H. Harrison is Clerk of said Court and under Jas. S. Snider his deputy thereof, and
that his attestation above written is in due form of Law.

Given under my hand and seal at Cincinnati this 20th day of November AD 1838
O.M. Spencer
Prest .Jd.
L.S.
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/eel
AM

April 2, 1929

Alfred H. Ford
3621 Pine Grove Avenue
Chicago, Illinois

Sir:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.24227, it appears that Mahlon Ford, while residing in Morris County, New Jersey, was appointed
Ensign, May 1, 1777, and served five months and twenty-six days, and was appointed Second Lieutenant, October 26, 1777 and served one year, two months and five days.

In 1793, he was Captain of Artillery in the United States Army.

He was a member of the New Jersey State Society of Cincinnati.

He died June 14, 1820, in Columbia or Columbus, Ohio.

The soldier married, August 31, 1793, Sophia B.,
daughter of Colonel Oliver Spencer and niece of Colonel Matthias Ogden, both of whom commanded regiments of the New Jersey
Line, War of the Revolution.

She was born January 22, 1775, and was married at
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the home of her father in Columbia, Hamilton County, Ohio.

She was allowed pension on her application executed December 10, 1838, at which time she was living in New York City. In 1843, she was living in Westpoint, New York.

Their children were:
Anne Maria Spencer born August 31, 1794.
Eliza Desaussure " April 1, 1796.
Jane Rainor. " August 26, 1797.
George Washington. " June 2, 1800.
    died December 11, ----.
George Washington born February 8, 1802
Nathan " June 3, 1804.
John " February 18, 1807.

Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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1404

Sophia B. Ford
widow of Mahlon
Ford, Ensign 5 mo. 26 d
Lieut. 1yr. 2mo. 5d.
$247.53 per ann.
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New York City Roll
act 7 July '38
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Send cut: to
Major E. Schriver
Present
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Phone Lake View 1390---Mornings Until 10 o'clock

ALFRED H. FORD
PIANOS, REPRODUCING PIANOS, RADIO
PLAYER PIANOS. PHONOGRAPHS
Tuning Repairing and Moving by Experts - Pianos To Rent

3621 PINE GROVE AVE.
CHICAGO, ILL.
August 16, 1928

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-

Will you kindly let me know if there is a chance of securing any information regarding my ancestor, Mahlon Ford who served in the Revolution and enlisted as an ensign in Captain John Mott's Company 3rd. New Jersey commanded by Colonel Elias Dayton. He was appointed May 1st, 1777; was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant October 26th, 1777, and his name last appears on the company pay-roll for February 1779.

The Adjutant General's office at Washington gives the further information that Heitman's Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army shows that on January 1st, 1781 he was transferred to the 1st New Jersey; retained in
New Jersey Battalion April 1783 and served to November 1783, after which he served first as Ensign in United States Infantry Regiment Etc. On May 7th, 1798 he was a Major 1st.
Artillery of Engineers and was honorably discharged June 1st. 1802.

The Adjutant General's Office suggests that you may have further information of some sort. As a member of the Society of the Cincinnati of New Jersey I am trying to secure data which is to be kept on file in the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Thanking you for your attention in the matter, I am,

Very truly yours,
Alfred H Ford

Enclosure

[stamp:]. PENSION OFFICE U.S. AUG 22 1928
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[stamp:] PENSION OFFICE U.S. MAR 19 1928 B

File with widow of
Mahlon Ford
File No 24.227
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THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
Mount Holly, New Jersey, 189th March, 1886

Sir:

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 13th instant transmitting
the military record of Mahlon Ford an officer from New Jersey in the Revolutionary War
and an original member of the Cincinnati, and I beg leave to express to you in behalf of this society its thanks for your courtesy in furnishing this valuable addition to its records.

I have the honor to be
Your obedient servant,
Wilfred Stanley Sims
President

The Hon. John C. Black,
Commissioner of Pensions-
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1929 April 2 - Hist. to Alfred H. Ford CWY

Revy
WIDOW, &c.
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File No. __24227__
__Sophia B Ford__
__wid of___
__Mahlon Ford___
___Ensign N.Y line___
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Act: ___March 3d 1843.___
Index:--Vol. __A__, Page __249__

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of New York
Orange County ss. On this Eleventh day of
April One thousand Eight hundred & forty
three personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for said
County of Orange Sophia B Ford a resident of West Point in the town of Cornwall in said County of Orange aged sixty five--- 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 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the widow of Mahlon Ford
a lieutenant of infantry and that she received the annual pension of two hundred & forty seven dollars under the act of July 7. 1838. She further declares that she is still a widow.

Sophia B Ford

Sworn to and subscribed
on the day & year above written
before
H. F. Belknap
Justice of the Peace
in & for Orange County

STATE OF NEW, }
ORANGE COUNTY,} SS.   I LEBBEUS L. VAIL, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Orange, DO HEREBY CERTIFY That Chancey F. Belknap before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the peace in, and for said county; and further,
that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavit is genuine.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 13th day of April 1843
Lebbeus L. Vail Clerk
[seal on left]
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State of New York
Orange County ss. On this Eleventh day of
April One thousand Eight hundred & forty
three personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for said
County of Orange Sophia B Ford a resident of West Point in the town of Cornwall in said County of Orange aged sixty five--- 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 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Mahlon Ford
a lieutenant of infantry and that she received the annual pension of two hundred & forty seven dollars under the act of July 7. 1838. She further declares that she is still a widow.

Sophia B Ford

Sworn to and subscribed
on the day & year above written
before
H. F. Belknap
Justice of the Peace
in & for Orange County

STATE OF NEW, }
ORANGE COUNTY,} SS. I LEBBEUS L. VAIL, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Orange, DO HEREBY CERTIFY That Chancey F. Belknap before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the peace in, and for said county; and further,
that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavit is genuine.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 13th day of April 1843
Lebbeus L. Vail Clerk
[seal on left]
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Washington D.C.
December 17, 1838

Sir:

The undersigned respectfully sends herewith papers in the case of the late Major Mahlon Ford of the army, with a view to obtaina certificate of pension (if it be due) for the
Majyor's widow- The papers are as follows

1...Declaration of Sophia Lord
2...Affidavit of do.
3...Affidavit of Mrs. Meeks-
4...Letter from Gen Knox to Sec. of War
5...Letter from Gen Wayne to Capt. Ford
6...Letter from 3d Auditor to Capt. Schriver

M. Ford is desirous of preserving
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the family Records and indeed all the papers which are not necessary for the files of your
office, should a pension
be found due her.

May I ask the favor of you to return such to the undersigned with the certificate

Very respectfully, Sir,
Yr obt svt
E. Schriver

L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
&c &c
Washington
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Treasury Department
3d Auditors Office
4th December 1838

Sir

The letter of Doctor Wheaton, which accompanied yours of the 3d instant, is herewith returned, and in relation thereto,
and in reply to yours, I have to state, that it appears from the Register of Musters of the New Jersey line, that Mahlon Ford was
appointed an Ensign, on the 1st of May 1777, and a 2nd Lieutenant on the 26th of October 1777 - and it appears from the records of the
Bounty land Office, that Bounty land was granted to him, as a supernumerary Lieutenant, in 1779-

I am very Respectfully
Your most obt st
Peter Hagner Aud

N.J. Casualtty Book reports
Ensg. Mott, Co 3d N.J. May 1, 1777 & 2 Lt Oct 26 1777
Col. Dayton's 3 Reg

Capn. E. Schriver
Adjt. General's Office
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Newburgh N.Y. AD 18, 1843

Dear Sir

Herewith enclosed I forward you the
declaration of Mrs Amelia Thompson and Mrs
Sophia B Ford for the benefit of the last pension
law extending their pension. They both live at
West point and are aged and infirm and not
having had their pension certificates when the Magistrate went to take their depositions, were unable to designate the Right of their deceased husbands. However I hope you will find their depositions full enough to perfect their claim. I am acquainted with both and am satisfied as to
their identity and the justice of their claims.

Very Respectfully
Jas. G. Clinton

Col. J.L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
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Sir:
Mrs. Ford, for whom you sent me
a certificate for pension, a few days since
& anxious to get a copy of the family
Record, being the only one extant. Will
you favor me with one for her from that
now on file in your office, and
oblige
Very resp'y Sir,
Yrobtsvt
E. Schriver
S. Gen's office
Wash. Dec. 26
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Washington D.C.
Dec. 18, 1838
Sir:
I have to acknowledge the
receipt of a certificate of pension
for Mrs. Sophia B. Ford and the
letters of Generals Wayne & Knox
and am Sir
Very respectfully
Yrobtsvt
E Schiver
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
in
Washington
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New York 1.404
Sophia B. Ford
widow of Mahlon Ford
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 14 June 1820
of N. York in the State of N. York
who was a Lieut & Ens in the company commanded
by Captain of the Regt, commanded 
by   in the Revolution
line for 1 year 2 months & 5 days Lieut
5 mos & 26 days Ensign
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 247 Dollars 53 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of Decr
1838 and sent to Major E.
Schriver, Present.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 38
618.82
123.76
$742.58
{ Act July 7, }
{ 1838 }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, 
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 77

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Letter to Major E. Schriver }
18 Dec. 1838 }
Copy of Family Record sent to
Same Decr 31. 1838
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Ford, Martin GRADE Private LINE Connecticut
WARRANT
NUMBER 5813 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Dec. 24, 1796 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.