Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,519, for Abraham Storm, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
New Jersey Storm, Abraham S 40519
or Abram
or Storms, Abraham
CONTENTS
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9945 Ohio R
Abraham Storm
in the state of 
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ogden of the N Jersey
ne for the term of 6 years War
scribed on the roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on the 3 of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of May and sent to Mathias Cor
win Warren Co Ohio
Arrears to 4th Mar 19 72.49
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Sept 19 48
Reinstated by $120.49
Secy of War Sept 22 1821
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Lebanon
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Notification sent January 2nd to
T R Ross Hos of Reps U states
Reinstated by the Secretary of War on the 22 September 1821 see letter to pensioner care of John M Lean Esqr Ridgeville, Ohio
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Adm
FREE
[POST MARKED
LEBANON
JUNE
ILLEGIBLE]

John C Calhoun Esq
Secretary at War
Washington City

[has X drawn over
This case will be admitted when the judge shall certify to the indigent circumstances
of the applicant]

one case 774
Judge Corwin Ohio
Lebanon?
Recd 19th June 1818

Abraham Storms
31 June private
1 regt New Jersey line
77 War - wanted the 
[has X drawn over 
judges certificate of the reduced circumstances of the applicant]
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The state of Ohio
Warren County} SS Personally came before me the undersigned one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas for the county of Warren int he state afsd Abraham Storms of the town of Lebanon county and state afsd who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that in the spring of the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven he enlisted into the service of the United States of America as a common soldier in a company commanded by captain Howel in the first regiment of the Jersey line in which company Regiment & line he served in the capacity of a common soldier untill the close of the Revolutionary war that at the time the army was disbanded this deponent was absent from his regiment in consequence of sickness & inability to perform duty in the consiquence of his absence from his regiment he received no written discharge but went home by the permission of the officer who commanded where he lay this deponent states that he fought in the battles of Brandywine Germantown & Monmouth. This deponent states that he is now nearly sixty years of age that his [illegible] circumstances are such as make it necessary for him to call upon the country for assistance in whose service he cheerfully endured all the tails of a Revolutionary war & for whose independance he willingly sacrificed the flaver of his days the [illegible] of his youth the engagement of saved happiness &
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domestic case & further saith not
sworn & subscribed before me the 3rd of June 1818} Abram Storm
Mathis Corwin
Associate judge for Warren county Ohio
The state of Ohio
Warren County} SS
I Matheas Corwin one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas for the county afsd do hereby certify that I believe the facts stated in the aforgoing deposition are true & from my knowledge of the deponent and disposed to give the fullest evidence to his oath
Given under my hand this 3d of June 1818 at Lebanon Warren County Ohio
Mathis Corwin
associate judge for
Warren County Ohio

The State of Ohio Warren County
I Mathias Corwin Ten clerk of the court of common pleas in the county of Warren aforesaid do certify that Matthias Corwin Esq who appears to have taken the within deposition of Abram Storms & also signed the within certificate is one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn into office its whose official acts as such full faith & credit are & of right ought to be given as well in courts of record as theren
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The state of Ohio
Warren County } Ss I Matthias Corwin one of the associate Judges of the court of common pleas for Warren county in the state of Ohio aforsaid do certify that I believe the facts show in the aforgoing deposition of Abram Storm are true and from my knowledge of the deponent believe him to be in indigent circumstances and justly entitled under the law to the relief sought for
Given under my hand & seal at Lebanon in Warren county Ohio afsd this 12th of Apl 1819
Matthis Corwin A JWCO

The state of Ohio
Warren County} SS I Matthias Corwin Junr clerk of the court of common pleas within and for the county of Warren aforesaid do certify that Matthias Corwin Esq who appears to have made the above certificate is one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas within and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn into offices and to whose official acts as such ful faith & credit are and of right ought to be given as well in courts of record thereout
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court aforesaid at Lebanon this 12th day of April 1819 
Matthias Corwin Junr
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the court aforesaid at Lebanon this 3d day of June AD 1818
Matthias Cowin Junr

One case 774
Judge Corwin Ohio
Lebanon
Free 19 June 1818
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Pleas hold at Lebanon in the county of Warren in the state of Ohio on the seventh day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty before the Honorable Joshua Colletch Esq president judge of the county of common pleas for the seventh circuit & Lynatus Brown Jacob D Lowe and Mathias Corwin Esquire associate judges 
The state of Ohio Warren County SS Be it remembered that on this twenty second day of August eighteen hundred and twenty Abram Storms filed in court here his justice accompanied by a schedule of his property for the purpose of continuing his session for Revolutionary services in the words and of the ten following to wit 
The Roll of Ohio Warren county Seventh circuit county common pleas August Term 1820 on the 22d day of August 1890 personally appeared in open court being a court of record instituted persuant to the Constitution and laws of the state of Ohio with unlimited concurrent original jurisdiction in civil & criminal cases Abram Storms aged sixty four years resident in the county and circuit aforesaid being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows to wit I enlisted at Morristown in the state of New Jersey sometime in teh spring of 1777 To serve during the war in the company commanded by Capt Houl in the first Regt of the Jersey Line commanded by Col Matthias Ogden on the Continental Establishment that I continued to service in said Corps untill the close of the war that the Regt to which I belonged was discharged by a Resolution of Congress at the close of the war at which time I was about sick at Philadelphia that during the service I was in the following battles (viz) Brandywine Germantown & Monmouth
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besides several other skirmishes that I was taken prisoner by the enemy at the town of Paramas in the state of New Jersey and carried into New York where I remained a prisoner of war for the space of ten month when I was exchanged & again joined the [crossed out company] Regt that I made a Declaration to the aforgoing facts sometime about the month of June 1818 & have received a pension certificate numbered 9945 and I do sollemly swear that I was a resident of the United States the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any such thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so as to bring my self within the provision of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor any person in trust for me any property securities contracts or debts due to me nor have any income whatever other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed & by me subscribed to wit
Schedule
5 chairs at 25  $1.25
2 small iron pots 50  1.00
1 Tin Tea kettle (old & worn) 1 2/0
1 coffee pot 25
6 knives forks 50
6 pewter spoons 25
6 Do tea 25
4 common cups & saucers 18 3/4
6 y cens ware plates 50
3 old barrels 25
2 small trunks 25
1 washing tub 75
1 old coffee mill 25
1 table 1.00
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2 old iron candlesticks & snuffers $0 50
1 shovel and tons 75
1 Large & one small tin Bucket 75
1 spade 25
1 Hoe 25
1 Rake 25
1 work bench 50
8 planes 50
3 hogs 5.00
1 set old chizels 1.00
1 house & lot 350.00
361.56 1/4
There is due me on note the service of this amount 15.00
is due from me Browns who is gone to Kentucky whether I shall receive it or not is uncertain 
That I owe the debts contained in the following scheduled to wit
To Dr John Collisans for medicines visiting my self and family $20.25
To sundry persons for Chatenals for building house 73.09
To William Rochild for carpenters work at Builting 129.50
To George Kesling for merchandise & advances made to workman 46.72
To Builder attn for Timbers &c 40 18 3/4
To chr chenn for sundryes 10.00
To Wm McLean for Do 20.00
$337.84 0/0
Abram Storms
These debts were almost exclusively contracted since the allowance of my pension which by the advise of my friends I appropriate in anticipation of the same in building on a lot in the surlbs of the town of Lebanon which of dold at this time under the Hammer would in my opinion not amount to what I owe towards the building materials  this I was daily made to believe was the most economical & frugal course I could persue
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To support my little family on the perquisete allowed by The bounty of Govt by the act of the 18 March 1818 my occupation is that of a coach maker which I almost entirely unalbe to persue in consequenceof a tremor in the nerves Rhumatism and other debilites which are concurrent of old age I have a wife living with me as aged and debelitated as myself I have also one daughter Rachen Storms who is yet living with me but is of full age and consequently not bound to contribute to me support and indeed if she were here state of health is so very delicate as to render her unable 
Abram Stormes
Sworn and subscribed in open court on the 22d August 1820
Ccous in Law clerk
The state of Ohio
Warren county } I Matthias Corwin Lent clerk of the court of common pleas within and for the county aforesaid do certify that the oaforegoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is three hundred & seventy six dollars and fifty four & one fourth cents In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my handl and affixed the seal of the court of Common pleas afsd at Lebanon this 12th day of September AD 1820
Matthias Corwin Jr
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D.C. Feby 1, 1918

VLU
SF 40519
Rev War
Mrs A Elizabeth Ware
Saddle River, NJ

Madam:


In reply to your request of Jany 21 received Jany 28 for a statement of the military history of Abraham Storm or Storms a soldier of the REVEOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT -
LENGTH OF SERVICE
RANK
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN Howell
COLONEL Matthew Ogden
STATE NJ

Was taken prisoner at Paramus NJ carried to New York and after ten months was exchanged and joined his company and served to end of war.

Battles engaged in Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlisted at Morristown NJ
Date of application for pension June 3, 1818 His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application Lebanon, Warren Co Ohio
Age at date of application, 59 years
Remarks In 1820 soldier referred to his aged wife name not stated and to his daughter Rachel "of full age" There is no further family data on file
The above notes is the only soldier of that name from New Jersey found in the Rev War records of this Bureau

Commissioner.

[STAMPED
PENSION
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OFFICE]
d-2850
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Abraham Storms aged 64 years wife 64 years daughter 21 years He is a coachmaker His property amounting to $376 consists of one house and lot (350$) furniture, 3 hogs and one note of $15 Planes, work benches &c [The debts due from him he states to be $339] He served 6 years He has the chessmatis m &c His wife is as deblitated as himself Mr McLean states that in a short time he is persuaded that Storms must subsist on charity He thinks that his property would not sell for $50
Reinstate
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Rev 1  AKH

Saddle River NJ
January 21, 1918
Bureau of Pensions
Washington DC
Gentlemen 
Will you kindly advise if Abraham and David Storms of Burger Co NJ soldiers of the Revolutionary War ever received a pension and if so military record Thanking you
Yours truly
Mrs A Elizabeth Ware
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[stamped
PENSION
O
U JAN S
28 1918
OFFICE]
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Rev Sec
Would you kindly give me the entire family history of Abraham Storm which you say you have on file? As the church records of the "Pnds" Church Pempten were burned it is very hard to to trace the geneology of the Storms family Thanking y ou 
Yours truly
Mrs A Elizabeth Ware
Saddle River
NJ
[stamped
PENSION 
O
FEB
U 7 S
1918
OFFICE]

Feb 5 1918
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.  3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D.C.  Feby 1, 1918

VLU
SF 40519
Rev War
Mrs A Elizabeth Ware
Saddle River, NJ

Madam:


In reply to your request of Jany 21 received Jany 28 for a statement of the military history of Abraham Storm or Storms a soldier of the REVEOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT - 
LENGTH OF SERVICE 
RANK 
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN Howell
COLONEL Matthew Ogden
STATE NJ

Was taken prisoner at Paramus NJ carried to New York and after ten months was exchanged and joined his company and served to end of war.

Battles engaged in Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlisted at Morristown NJ
Date of application for pension June 3, 1818 His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application Lebanon, Warren Co Ohio
Age at date of application, 59 years 
Remarks In 18 soldier referred to his aged wife name not stated and to his daughter Rachel "of full age" There is no further family data on file
The above notes is the only soldier of that name from New Jersey found in the Rev War records of this Bureau
FM Salzgabld
Commissioner.

[STAMPED
PENSION
D
FEB
7
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1918
OFFICE]
d-2850

new record [illegible]
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February 8, 1918

Mrs A Elisabeth Ware
Saddle River, NJ

Madam:

In response to your letter dated the 5th instant, you are herewith furnished a corrected history of the Revolutionary War pensioner Abraham Storm or Storms S File No 40519 and are advised that the word no was inadvertently omitted in referencing to family date in the paper sent on February 1, 1918, it should have been stated "there is no further family data on file."
Very respectfully
EC Tilman
Acting Commissioner
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Rev Sec

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March 14 1916

Bureau of Pensions
Washington DC

Dear Sirs

Will you kindly give me if possible information regarding the granting of a pension to Abraham Storms or his widow Liddy? The former served in New Jersey as private in Continental Troops. Any data regarding his service will be greatly appreciated.
Yours very truly
WJ Lincoln Adams
President
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40519
INVALID
Revy
File No 40519
Abraham Storms
Pri Rev War
Act 18 March 18
Index Vol J Page 487
[Arrangement of 1870]

1916 March 27 History to Mr W J Lincoln Adams
MBH
1918 Fby Hist to Mrs A Elizabeth Ware
1918 Feb 8 Mrs A Elizabeth Ware furnished corrected history
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Ridgeville Ohio Free
Sept 7th
Hon John G Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Ridgeville
Near Lebanon
7 Sept 1821
Sirs,
Through the correct ratidations of Mr Storms I am interested to enclose you the within petition It is intended as nothing more than a statement of facts in respect to his property and his ability to procure a support by labour I am not particularly informed whether a statement of his debts were given in his application for a continuance of his pension He is now in fact noth worth fifty dollars indeed I very much doubt whether a sale of his property at a correct valueations would discharge his debts In respect to his property then he stands as though he had none or at best but fifty dollars worth I am well acquainted with the applicant and with his circumstances He is a worthy member of community and I am persuanded in short time he must exist on the public charity unless he obtains some aid from the government His fate is only suspended at the pleasure of his creditors He is unable to labour for support If the above facts and there stated in the enclosed paper entitle him to a pension I shall be gratified as I know no case more menitonars or when the relief is more needed
with entire rgard yours
Ken W Calhoun
John McLean
the signatures to the enclosed paper are of the first respectibility
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Lebanon o Free
Dec 19
Hon Thomas R Ross
Representative in Congress
Washington City
District of Columbia

please inform me the result
Trr

House Rep
Please inform on the subjects of this letter JR Ross
Mr Edwards
Pension office
War Dept
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Lebanon Decr 18th 1820
Sir
I have at the request of old Mr Lenard enclosed you the within with his request for you to apply for his pension He is a very old many & very infirm he cannot live long. Abram Storms wished me to write you concerning his application for a pension please write the situation of his business no news here Your family & fr
believe are well pardon the trouble these 
may give you & permit me to subscribe my
yours with esteem
M Corwin Jr

Hon Thomas R Ross}
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To the Secretary at War
The petition of the undersigned humbly sheweth that he has served in the Revolutionary war for which he was placed on the list of pensioners & received a pension of eight dollars per month for about 21 months that during that time your petitioner by a careful & prudent management of his concerns was enabled to procure a comfortable subsistence for himself & family but with an expectation of a continuence of the said pension contracted debts to a considerable amount thereby becoming the owner or possessor of property to the amount of between three & four hundred dollars which was obtained principally on credit your petitioner was in truth not worth more at fartherthese therein forty & fifty dollars provided his debts were paid which will appear by the peition of your petitioner under the late law of congress for the purpose of renewing his pension But your petitioner having been struck off the pension list under the late law & being deprived of the only source almost which he had of procuring any money or a subsistence & the difficulty of procuring money in the Western Country in consequence of the great embarrasment of the people which have originated from different causes & your petitioner having been sick & become very infirm within the last year & the debts of your petitioner having still increased without any probability of paying or satisfying any part of them in his present situation your petitioner prays that the Hon Secretary at war will take his case into consideration & give his application for a pension a re examination & if consistent with his duty on the laws
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who is also very old & infirm & a daughter who is very weakly & sickly & who depends entirely on your petitioner for support that aid which alone can save him & his little family from extreme indigence & distress & your petitioner as in duty bound will every pray be
Abraham Storm
Lebanon Warren county Ohio
August 25 AD 1821

We the undersigned citizens of the county of Warren & state of Ohio do certify that we believe the statement above made by Abraham Storms a citizen of Lebanon in said county of Warren is true & that the said Abram Storms is a man of the strictest morality & greater integrity & very prudent in the management of his concerns & industrions when able to labor but that he is as he has stated very infirm together with his wife & daughter & unable to procure a lively hood & we are of opinion that he well deserves a pension & greatly needs the aid of the governmant
August 24th 1821} 
Matthias Corwin Junr
Thomas Corwin
Janestees Brown
G Harnsberger
G Peshie
William Letters
John Reeve
[illegible]