Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5155, for Andrew Myers, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)
SERVICE

Penn.

Myers, Andrew
Elizabeth

NUMBER W.5155
B. L. Wt. 30.910-160-55-
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CONTENTS
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(two sided Document)

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Let to Hon J Morris
do. to same Feb 25. 1845.   
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feb 20 '45

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Ser. J. V. Boughner, Aug 25/58

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Pennsylvania 22.722
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Andrew Myers
of Greene Co. in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a Pvt in the Company commanded
by Captain Jenkins of the Regt. commanded
by Col _________  as an Indian
(line for crossed out) Spy- Rank as Pv. 
1 Yr 6 Mo-     $60.00
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 60 Dollars (cents crossed off) per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Dec. and sent to--
1833 Hon. A. Stewart, Ho of Rep.-
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833.      150.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending Mar '34   30.00
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$180.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J. T. Sprague Clerk
Book E Vol. 5 Page 40
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180.056 Act Mar. 3
June 28} '55
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Andrew Myers
Andrew Myers
VW
PA
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Capt. Garrison & Evans
No. 30910 iss
Rev. War
Indian wars prior to 1790
(above line crossed through)
W. S. Pensioner
Penn June 32.22.30
___________________________________
(unreadable)
AV: 160 acr from June 18/56
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J V Boughner
Mount Morrs
Greene Co.
Pa.

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Jany 4/59 Let to Agent recalling warrant-not entitled having received No. 27.325 for 160 acres (Act Sept. 28/50
Caveat filed TJ
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Feb 2/59 Let to agent. JM
July (ink spot)/51 Let to Agent (unreadable) Va
April 23/64 Letter to Com. G L Office returning Wt and withdrawing caveat RW

(Handwriting in pencil underneath mostly unreadable)
See copy I said note

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Vol=M=2=179
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(This document has writing over other writing and several directions of writing)

(left side) 
180.056 Act Mar. 3
June 28} '55
_____________________________________
Andrew Myers
Andrew Myers
VW
PA
_______________________________________
Capt. Garrison & Evans
No. 30910 iss
Rev. War
Indian wars prior to 1790
(above line crossed through)
W. S. Pensioner
Penn June 32.22.30
___________________________________
(unreadable)
AV: 160 acr from June 18/56
____________________________________
J V Boughner
Mount Morrs
Greene Co.
Pa.

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Jany 4/59 Let to Agent recalling warrant-not entitled having received No. 27.325 for 160 acres (Act Sept. 28/50
Caveat filed TJ
____________________________________
Feb 2/59 Let to agent.     JM
July (ink spot)/51 Let to Agent (unreadable) Va
April 23/64 Letter to Com. G L Office returning Wt and withdrawing caveat RW

(Handwriting in pencil underneath mostly unreadable)
See copy I said note

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Vol=M=2=179
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Increase.           No. 6.466 (document torn)
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Pennsylvania
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Elizabeth Myers
widow of Andrew Myers
who served in the revolutionary war,
as a Private, Penn.
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Pittsburg agency
Rate 96 Dollars
cents per annum.
Commencing July 27. 1868
Deduct payments made since.
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Certificate dated 15 February 1871
and sent to Pension Agent
Atty. J. J. Purman.       N
Waynesburg, Greene co., PA.
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act Feb-and July 27; 1868
February 3, 1853 Page 159 Vol. 4 A"
Sen
Gaudi (rest unreadable)
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In the matter of 
the application of
Elizabeth Myers-
wid. And'w. Myers for
a pension--
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Greene, SS-
On this 2'd day of October A. D. 1858, before the undersigned, an Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Oyer & (???), &c& within and for said county of Greene, personally appeared Elizabeth Myers (Name underlined) aged Seventy seven years, a resident of Greene County, in the state of Pennsylvania; who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of provision made by any existing laws (last two words underlined) of the United States granting pensions to the widows of those who served during the Revolutionary War: That she is the widow of Andrew Myers deceased, who served as an Indian Spy during the Revolution-(all words after widow underlined) That she is unable to give any details of her said husbands service, but hereby respectfully refers The Pension Office to the Evidence upon file in said office in relation to her said husband's services who was a pensioner of the United States under Act of June 7th 1832, at the rate of $60 per annum, which was paid to him at the Agency in Pittsburg in the state
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of Pennsylvania- She further states, that she was married to the said Andrew Myers in Greene County State of Pennsylvania; on the 27th day of February, A. D. 1799, by one John Corbly, a minister of the Gospel, and that her name before said marriage was Fox (underlined): That her said husband died at his residence in Greene County, State aforesaid on the 20" day of July AD 1858. (date underlined)
She would further state that she has no record of her marriage and that the laws of Pennsylvania do not require public registry of marriages-but she has in her possession a record of the ages of her children a certificate Copy (underlined) of which will be sent herewith- That her said husband was many years her senior, and that he was never married but once, and that to deponent at the period above stated-and she further declares that she is now a widow-
She hereby appoints James V. Boughner her true and lawful attorney, to prosecute her claim for a pension & to receive the certificate when issued &.
Elizabeth Myers
her   X   Mark
Witness
Thos. Moore
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The foregoing was sworn to and subscribed before the undersigned on the day and year first above written, and I certify that I was acquainted with Andrew Myers deceased and Elizabeth his wife, the deponent and believe her to be as above stated and (underlined) that she is of the age above stated.
I would further certify that by reason of bodily infirmity that the applicant for a pension is unable to appear in Open Court, and that I am not interested in her claim as attorney or otherwise.
I would also further certify that I have examined what purports to be a record of the ages of the children of said Andrew and Elizabeth Myers. That said deponent under oath says is in the hand writing of one John Troy & Mrs. Cranes and made at her special (???) and request almost forty years ago and said paper or record, has or bears every evidence of being genuine-The following is a correct and literal transcript of said papers, to wit: "Mary Myers daughter Andrew  Myers and Elizabeth Myers was born in the year of our Lord December 15th 1799. Frederick Myers
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" was born was born December the 15th 
" in the year of Lord 1800--Sarah Myers " was born January 24th, Anno Domi "-in 1810--Andreas Myers was born " May 29th day 1817 
Jona Garard

Andrew Myers, whom I certify to be a credible persons, and a resident of Greene County, in the state of Pennsylvania, being duly sworn according to law, says: That he was The neighbor of Andrew Myers, dec. and visited him during his last sickness, and saw him after his decease, and attended his burial and that he died at the time set forth in the foregoing declaration to wit, on the 20th day of July A.D. 1858, &c. 
Test J. V. Boughner
Andrew Myers
his  X  mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2d day of October AD 1858.
Jona Garard
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Greene, To Wit:On this 2nd day of October 1858, personally appeared before me the undersigned an associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, in said County, Jonathan Delany and Thomas Moore who are to me well known, and who are credible witnesses, and who being by me duly sworn, depose and say, that they are each well acquainted with Mrs. Elizabeth Myers, The foregoing applicant for a pension, that they have known her for forty (years crossed off) years last past, that they were acquainted with Andrew Myers, her late husband, having known him for forty years previous to his death; that they, the said Andrew Myers and Elizabeth his wife, lived together as husband and wife, and were reputed so to be; that deponents never heard the fact of their marriage disputed or questioned, and believe there is no reason to dispute or question the fact.
That the said Andrew Myers died on the 20th day of July A.D. 1858, and the said Elizabeth Myers has been since that day, reputed to be his widow, which deponents know to be the fact.
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That she has never married since her said husband's death, and still is his widow-and that her said husband is the identical man mentioned in her declaration as a pensioner; and further that, they were present and saw Elizabeth Myers make the foregoing declaration, in the presence of Judge Garrard, having made oath thereto in due form of law, and that they deponents do reside in the County aforesaid.
Johan Delany
Thos. Moore

Sworn to and subscribed before me, This 2'd day of October A. D. 1858
Jona Garrand

State of Pennsylvania 
County of Greene, SS.
I, David A. Worley, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and foresaid county, and state, do hereby certify that Jonathan Garrard, Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Myers, and affidavit of John A. Delany & Thomas Moore were made, was at the date thereof, to wit, on the day of ____________A. D. 1858 an associate
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Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that said Court is a Court of record, and that full faith and credit are due to all the official acts of the said Justice Garrard as such; and that the foregoing several signatures, appended to said declaration and affidavit are genuine-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand an affixed the seal of said Court, at Waynesburgh this 5th day of October A. D. 1857.
David A. Warley
Prothy.

(Seal is on the left side beside above paprgraph)
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In the matter of the
application of Andrew
Myers for Bounty
Land, under the 
act of March 3rd
1855. (underlined)
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180.056
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Greene, SS.
On this first day of June, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Andrew Myers, aged eighty four years a resident of Greene County in the state of Pennsylvania, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Andrew Myers who served in the Indian wars previous to 1790, for several terms under Captain Garrison, Evans, and Jenkins and who has been pensioned by the Government of the United States at the rate of sixty dollars pr. annum, payable at the Agency for paying pensions in Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, and he would refer to the evidence on file in support of his claim to a pension to establish the legality of his claim to a Land Warrant.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which he may be entitled under the act approved March 3'd 1855. He also declares he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress, but made an application
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therefor, though William Price, Esquire, a justice of the peace, in Monongalia County in the state of Virginia, which said application is said to have been misfiled or lost.
Andrew Myers
his   X  mark

We, Wilson Myers and Oliver Donly residents of Greene County in the state of Pennsylvania, upon oath, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed, and acknowledged by Andrew Myers, in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
Wilson Myers
L. O. Donley

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this claim. 
J. A. Billingsley J. P.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Greene County, SS.
I john Lindsey, Prothonotary of the Court of Common leas in and for said County of Greene do certify that JP Billingsley Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration an affidavit made was at the time thereof and still is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified to all when acts as such full faith and credit are due; and that the signature attached to the same purporting to be his is genuine I believe.
In testimony whereof I jhave hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of the said Court at Waynesburg this 23rd day of June AD 1858

John Lindsey, Prothonotary
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Declaration
of
Andrew Myers
Revolutionary soldier

[illegible word  left]
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Greene County
Pennsylvania} SS
On this 19th day of Nov. 1853 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in afore said county Andrew Myers a resident of Greene County Penna. aged sixty seven years Who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832
That he entered the service of the United st. on the year 1781 and served in the following manner
That in the spring of 1781 he was hired by Capt. George Garrison of the Militia as an Indian Spy for that summer and performed six months service during that season. That he was taken from Greene county Penna. where he resided to a fort on the Kanawha river near its mouth easy and mile & a half from the Ohio river. Which place was his general head quarters during that season that was kept on duty spying the movements of the Indians whose principal object it was to cross the Ohio River unperceived and commit their outrages as the frontier inhabitants settle on the East side of the Ohio River, that he performed six months service as a spy during the season of 1781. That the spring of 1782 he again live as a spy under Capt. Bartholomew Jenkins a militia Capt. and was taken to the same place on the Kanawha river and served there and along the Ohio river six months during the season of 1782 as a spy that he was constantly on duty the time he was out which was from the first of Apr. until the tenth of September. That the spring of 1783 he again hired as a spy under Capt. George Garrison and was again marched to the Ohio river and stationed at Kanawha and was continued scouting the country along the river during that summer and performed six months service and returned. That the whole of his service was as on Indian spy engaged
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by the militia officers and paid by the state that he faithfully performed the service he has here set forth. That the Indians at that period were exceedingly troublesome determined not to yield to the white people the country an the East side of the Ohio river without making them feel the effects of their ???
That they "frequently crossed the river secretly, made a strike upon the settlements and were back again before they could be intercepted. 
That he does not at present know of a person by whom he can prove his service. That there is no clergy man who has sufficient knowledge of him to testify for him.
He was by the Congress was why pension or annuity whatever except the present and ??? that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state.
He was born in Fayette County Pennsylvania removed from there to Greene County where he still resides. 
He has no record of his age.
That he went out as (ink spot) ??? spy on the western frontier.
He has no written discharge nor ever had any
The general circumstances of his service are stated in his declaration. 
John Moore and Joab Baily Esq. two of his neighbors will certify as to his reputation.
Andrew Myers
his  X   mark
Sworn & subscribed in open court Nov.19, 1833
Enos Hook 
Prothy.
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And the since Court do hereby declare their opinion often the investigation  of the matter & after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war department. That Andrew Myers was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the said Court can further certify that it appears to them that Joab Baily Esq. & John Moore who have signed the foregoing certificate are both citizens of Green County Penna. & are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
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Green County
Pennsylvania }
I Enos Hook Prothy. of the court of Common Pleas in aforesaid county do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Andrew Myers for a pension.
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand & seal of the said court this 20th day of Nov. 1843
Enos Hook
Prothy.

Written sideways top to bottom
Declaration 
of 
Andw. Myers
Rev. soldier
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August 20, 1935

XXXXXXXXXXXX

Emma G. Wood
707 East Greene Street
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania

Andrew Myers
W. 5155
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 5155, based upon the service in the Revolutionary War of Andrew Myers.

Andrew Myers was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania; the date and exact location of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not given. He moved from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, date not shown, to Green County, same state.

While residing in Greene County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in the spring of 1781 and served six months as private and Indian spy in Captain George Garrison's Pennsylvania company, stationed at a fort near the mouth of the Kanawha River guarding the inhabitants on the east side of the Ohio River for outrages by the Indians. He enlisted in April, 1782, served as Indian spy in Captain Bartholomew Jenkins' Pennsylvania company, stationed at the same fort, and was discharged the last of September, following. He enlisted in the spring of 1785, again served six months as Indian spy in Captain George Garrison's Pennsylvania company. The soldier stated that he served a part of the time under Captain Evans, but gave no dates or other details.

Andrew Myers was allowed pension on his application executed November 19, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Greene County, Pennsylvania, and stated that he was aged sixty-seven years.

The soldier died July 20, 1858, at his residence in Green County, Pennsylvania.

Andrew Myers married February 27, 1799, in Greene County, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Fox, whose date and place of birth and names of parents are not shown. He had not been previously married.
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Soldier's widow, Elizabeth Myers, was allowed pension on her application executed October 2, 1858, at which time she was aged seventy-seven years and a resident of Greene County, Pennsylvania. In 1871 her post office address was Waynesburg, that county.

The following names of children of Andrew Myers and his wife, Elizabeth,  are shown in the claim:

Mary Myers, born December 15, 1799

Fredrick or Frederick Myers born December 15, 1800

Sarah Myers born January 24, 1810

Andrew Myers Born May 29, 1817

The following items were shown in connection with family data in the claim, with no explanation of their relationship to the soldier or to his wife, Elizabeth:

Elizabeth Fox 
Isaac Fox born March 14, 1723
Rebecca Fox born August 5, 1725

In 1855, one Wilson Myers was residing in Greene County, Pennsylvania, his relationship to soldiers' family not stated.

In 1858, one Andrew Myers, Jr., a resident of Greene County, Pennsylvania, stated that he was a neighbor of the soldier, Andrew Myers, during his last illness and visited him often but did not state his relationship to the family.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
May 31st, 1859.

Sir:

In your letter of Jan'y 4/59/this Office is desired to withhold the Patent on Bounty Land Warrant No. 30910 for 160 acres, act March 3, 1855, in the name of Andrew Myers
I have, therefore, to state that the said Warrant is on our files, having been returned by the Register of the Land Office at Springfield, Mo.
as located by Jas. V. Boughner of Monongalia Co, Virginia to whom it appears to have been regularly assigned.
The Patent will be withhold until I am further advised by you.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant
Jos. S. Wilson
Acting Commissioner

To Geo. C. Whiting, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Letter to Commissioner
Pensions
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Mount Morris, Greene Co. Pa:
Oct. 5. 1858

Sir:
Herewith please find application of Mrs. Elizabeth Myers, wid. Andrew Myers, dec?  a pensioner under act of 7 June 1832.
The applicant has no (underlined) record of her marriage, nor is there a single survivor who witnessed their marriage- Pennsylvania never required registry of marriages.
The only private record is that of the children which I send herrwith-
I made the application under no specific for reasons you will percieve in a letter from you of Sept. 25 enclosed-
The pensioner left an estate of $5000 or $7000, and by a will devised all to his youngest son except small legacies- If there was doubt of marriage this will would be credited.
Very respectfully yrs
J. V. Boughner

Hon. G. C. Whiting
Comm. Pensions
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J. V. Boughner
Note
$90.00

Rec'd 2.50 July
16th 1859.


The within, and the 
above is a true Copy: 
% debt & credits
Wm. Price
Jany. 12th 1859
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J. V. Boughner
Note
$90.00

Rec'd 2.50 July
16th 1859.


The within, and the
above is a true Copy:
% debt & credits
Wm. Price
Jany. 12th 1859
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$90.
Six months, after date I promise to pay Andrew Myers, ninety dollars, (provided said warrant, No. 30.910 is not Cancelled, and proves to be a valid issue) Witness my hand this 2nd day of August 1856.
J. V. Boughner

We certify that the above is a true Copy of a promissory note that is now in the hands of Thomas Moore, who is one of the Executors of Andrew Myers dec'd

Witness our hands and seal this 12th day of January 1859
Marion Chalfan
Thos. Moore
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Pension Office
August 25. 1838.

Sir.
Your letter of 12th inst. states that "Andrew Myers, of Greene Co., Penna., who was a pensioner under Act of June 1. 1832, died about the 20th of July last, having received his pension up to 4th of March last"; that "he left a widow, Elizabeth Myers, to whom he had been married on the 27th of February, 1799"; and that "she is now in her 77th year."
Upon this statement of facts you observe that "she certainly has no claim to a pension under the Acts of July 29. 1848, or February 3, 1853", and ask: "Has there been any legislation since February 3, 1853, or any existing provision under which Mrs. Myers can claim?"
In reply, I have to state Congress has recently passed no law granting pensions to widows of revolutionary soldiers; and no such legislature was
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necessary, for the reason that they are all provided for by existing laws. If Mrs. Myers has not been divorced from her husband, or has not been again married, it would seem, from your statement; that she is clearly entitled to a pension commencing from the date of death of the pensioner, her husband. Why do you infer she is not?

Very respectfully,
Geo. C. Whiting
Commissioner


J. V. Boughner, Esq.
Mount Morris,
Green Co.
Penna.
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Washington City Feby. 17th 1845

Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions

Dr. Sir

You will please to make out and forward to me, an abstract of the evidence on the petition of Andrew Myers of Greene co.pa. by which he is enabled to draw a pension.

If for any cause whatever, you cannot comply with my request, you will please to be so good, as to inform me of this fact at your earliest convenience. 

Respectfully yours &c

Jos Morris
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7109
Elizabeth Myers
wid. of
Andrew.

Pa.

Admit for $60. per an.
com. 20 July 1858. when
hus. died. ??? 2d
Dec: of the Act of Feb. 
3 rd, 1853.


Cert. to
J. V. Boughner, Esq.
Mount Morris.
Greene Co., Pa.
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Pension Office
October 12"1858.

Sir.
Your letter without date, addressed to the Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of War, in relation to the claim of the heirs of Lydia Stebbins, to a pension has been referred to this Office for reply.
The heirs of Lydia Stebbins widow of John are not entitled to anything under the existing pension laws.
The Attorney General has decided that no child of ^a widow of a deceased revolutionary soldier ("or of his widow" crossed through) is entitled to anything under the general Pension laws, unless such ("soldiers" crossed through) widow was a pensioner at ("his or" crossed out) her decease.
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Waynesburg, Pa.
Jan. 7. 1871

Hon. H. Van Aernam,
Comm. Pensions:
Sir:
Enclosed please find Application for New Certificate and Arrears of Pension of Mrs. Elizabeth Myers, widow Andrew Myers, dec'd a soldier of the Revolutionary War. Hoping case may be soon, allowed.
I am, Sir,
Very Respectfully,
J. Jackson Purman
Atty.
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E 89.256
J. V. Boughner
Pension ??? (unreadable)
May 31, 1859

In relation to Caveat
filed vs her pen
of Patent on not
locating No 31910
160. 55

General Land Office
June 4/59

Respectfully returned to
Comm. Pensions
Jos. S. Wilson
Acting Commr.
G. Lan Off.
June 4/59
Caveat filed by the Commr.
January 4'1859
June 4/59
Hood

round rubber stamp
JUN
3
1859
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Wa
Penbys V
31 May
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Pentress, Monongalia co. Virginia,
May 31. 1859.

Sir:
I received a letter, dated Jan'y. 4 1859, from the Commissioner of Pensions in which I am notified that a caveat has been filed in the General Land Office "to arrest the location of said Warrant No. 30910 for 160 acres, act of March 3d 1855, issued in the name of Andrew Myers.
The warrant referred to was located in the Springfield district Missouri in the month of August 1857, and hence a Caveat against the location of said warrant cannot avail for the location is in "my name" underlined), and being an innocent and bonafide purchaser of the warrant I should claim that my title to the land is valid under the decision of Secretary Stuart of November 10th 1857 to which I respectfully refer you
Very Respectfully
Your ob't. serv't.
J. V. Boughner

Hon. T. A. Hendricks
Comm'r Gen'l L. Office
Washington City
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Pentress, Monogalia Co., Va.
May 31. 1859

Sir:
I have received no reply to my letter of Feb'y 28. 1859 addressed you from Mount Morris, Greene Co., Pa. in which I gave you the history of the Application of Andrew Myers for Bounty Land, so far as it was within my knowledge as his agent, and that the assignment was made to me in good faith--and further that I located the warrant in good faith, not knowing at the time that Myers was, or ever had been in receipt of Bounty Land except warrant No 30910.
I would thank you at your earliest convenience to inform me if it is necessary for me to prove and make good the facts I set forth in the letter referred to-
You can address me at this place or Mt. Morris Gr. Co., Pa. at your option.
Very Resp't
Your servant
J. V. Boughner

Hon. Geo. Whiting
Comm'r Pensions
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28.641

Andrew Myers

Penna.


Adm. 1 yr & 6 months



Hon A. Stewart
Ho of Rep
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(This is a printed document with areas to fill in.)

WAR DEPARTMENT

PENSION OFFICE

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following files, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A STATEMENT, shewing the Service of Andrew Myers

(the following in columns-transcribed in lines)
Period which the service  was rendered. 1781
Duration of the claimant's service. Years 0
Months. 6, 6, 6; Days 0
Rank of the Claimant. blank
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. blank
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. blank
Proof by which the declaration is supported. blank

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWADS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service. but not those who were occasionally employed with, the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops. Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of County of }ss.
On this day of personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years
 of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but it neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore. these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
To an Officer. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court. Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace. the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance. [b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
" Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of bis service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:
For year months, and days, I served as a ; For mouths and days, I served as a and for such service I claim a pension."
{It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with au embodied corps called into service by competent authority that lie was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. The notes from [a] to [j] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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Mt. Morris, Greene Co., Pa.
August 12, 1858.

Sir:
Andrew Myers of Greene Co. Penna. who was pensioned under the act of June 7. 1832, died about the 20th of July last, having received his pension up to the 4th of March last.
He left a widow, Elizabeth Myers, to whom he had been married on the 27th ("1799" crossed through) of Feby. 1799(all before underlined from to whom)- Myers had been but once married and was over twenty years the senior of his wife; she is now in her 77 year.
She certainly has no claim to a pension under the acts of Feb'y. 29. 1848 or Feb'y. 3rd 1853. Has there been any legislation provision under which Mrs. Myers can claim?
Very respectfully,
Your obt'. serv't.
J. V. Boughner

Hon.
Geo. C. Whiting
Comm'r. Pensions
Washington City
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State of West Virginia
County of Monogalia SS.

Personally came before me James V. Boughner, at present a resident of Morgantown, West Virginia, and having been sworn according to law doth depose and say: That as agent and attorney of Mrs. Elizabeth Myers, widow of Andrew Myers, deceased, of Greene County, Pennsylvania, he preformed and sent to the Pension Office, some time in the years 1857 or 1858, the application of said Elizabeth Myers for a pension, under the act of February 3, 1853, as the widow of said Andrew Myers a revolutionary pensioner- That her pension, was allowed at the rate of sixty dollars per annum-That her pension certificate from the time of its issue in the year 1858 or 1859 until June 1864 was in the possession of said applicant- That in the month of June 1864 said applicant having been commissioned as an additional Pay Master of volunteers returned sundry pension certificate to the parties entitled to their custody- to wit: the pensioners themselves- and amongst them that of Mrs. Elizabeth Myers . That her said certificate was sent by private conveyance, and has since not been seen or heard of- That said applicant believes said pension certificate is lost--
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That diligent  search and inquiry for two years past has has failed to discover it- or furnish any clue that would lead to its discovery and further saith not. 
Jas. V. Boughner


December 14th 1870

State of West Virginia
County of Monongalia

I F M Durbin a notary Public in and for the county & state aforesaid, do certify that James V. Boughner, whose name is signed to the forgoing writing bearing date on the 14th day of December 1870, has acknowledged the same before me this 14th day of December 1870. in my County & State aforesaid. 
F M Durbin
Notary Public
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State of Pennsylvania,
County of Greene, SS:
On this 5th day of January.    A. D. 1871 personally appeared Mrs. Elizabeth Myers, widow of Andrew Myers, deceased, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, being duly sworn, says:- That she is a Pensioner of the United States Government, by reasons of the services of her deceased husband, under the Act of Congress, dated February 3, 1853, at the rate of Sixty Dollars per year. That her Pension Certificate, which was obtained by Hon. James V. Boughner, in 1858 or 1859, remained in his hands till June, 1864, when it was sent to her by private conveyance, and has since not been heard from. That dilligent search and inquiry has been made to obtain said Certificate, but until now no clue can be found, which would lead to its discovery. 
She now makes application for a new Certificate, in lieu of the one which she has lost, and desires that said Certificate shall show that she is entitled to Eight Dollars per month instead of five; which she asks under Act of Congress, dated July 27, 1868, Sec.
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tion 13. She also states that she has- drawn no Pension Money on her old Certificate since March, 1868, as the records of the Pension Agent's Office, will more fully and at large reveal. She asks, that the Back Pension, due from March 1868, the time when she last drew money, to July 17, 1868, the date of the Act of Congress allowing increase of Pension, may be allowed, and paid to her along with Pension now due under said Act. For further Evidence to substantiate her claims, she refers to the affidavit of Hon. James V. Boughner, now of Morgantown Monongolia Co., W. Va., Evidence now on file in the Pension Agent's Office, Pittsburg, Pa., all corroborating the facts in this Declaration given.
And she hereby constitutes and appoints J. Jackson Purman, of Waynesburg, Greene Co. Pa. her agent and Attorney, to present and prosecute her claim for the issue of a New Pension Certificate in lieu of one lost, and also, her claim for Back Pension, due and coming to her on her lost Certificate, and
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to do any other act or thing which may be necessary in the premises, in order to carry out te object of his said appointment.---
Witness my hand and seal, the day and year at the beginning of this paper written. 
Elizabeth Myers 
Her  X  Mark
Waynesburg,
Greene Co. Pa. 
(seal drawn)
witnesses:
Lewis Hoy
Stacey Hoy

Also personally appeared before me, Lewis Hoy and Stacey Hoy persons respectable and credible, who being duly sworn, say:-That they were present and saw Mrs. Elizabeth Myers, widow of Andrew Myers, dec'd., sign the foregoing Application, and they have every reason to believe from the appearance of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be; and they have no interest direct or indirect in this claim. 
Lewis Hoy
Stacey Hoy

Sworn to and acknowledged before me, this 5th day of January A. D. 1871; and I certify that I have no interest in this claim; and that I am not concerned in its provecution. Witness my hand and seal. 
Erasure at the word "your" in line 12 from top on first page made before signing. 
Jesse Headlee
(drawn seal)
Signed
Justice of the Peace.
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(Printed Document with space for hand written words)

State of Pennsylvania, Greene County, SS.

I hereby certify that Jesse Headlee before whom this Declaration ^and affidavits were made (word "was" crossed out) was at the time a Justice of the Peace, for said County, duly authorized to administer oaths.
Samuel Montgomery, Clerk
Quarter Sessions
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Hon J. L. Edwards
Commiss'r of 
Pensions
D-C-

round stamp 
Washington City
Feb 22
DC

(written on the right side) 
Hon. J. Morris
HR

(written on the left side)
file 25.45
Com
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Washington City Feby. 24th 1845

Hon. J. L. Edwards Comiss'r of Pensions
Dr. sir
Yours of 20th inst. is rec'd in answer to mine of a previous date; in which you state, "I am not permitted by the rules of the office to furnish an abstract from, or copy of, the papers of Andrew Myers, until the object for which they are wanted (word blacked out) made known" My object in requesting, an abstract from, or copy of, the papers of Andrew Myer to be furnished to me, by you, was to enable me to procure a pension for another person.
Respectfully yours &C
Jos Morris
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Mt. Morris, Greene Co., Penna.
Feb'y 28. 1857

Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 2d inst. (not rec'd until the 24th) I beg to repeat what ?substantially all the facts set forth in my letter of Jany 24th and besides, I think, I am able to show in detail the history of the whole transaction of the assignment of to me of warrant no. 30.910
1 I can show that Price who made the first apply informed Myers that he could not (Not crossed out) obtain his claim, and relinquished its prosecution, before Myers employed me.
2 That of after I had made out the applu. for Myers, Jno. V. Byrne, of Morgantown Virginia, visited Myers and proposed to prosecute his claim and that Myers penenitarily refused to authorize Byrne, or any one else, except myself to prosecute his claim after August 1855, and anything that was done, was without his knowledge, consent, or authority.
3 I expect to show that the Conditional obligation (last two words underlined) to which you refer, was substituted, in the fall of 1857, for the original note I gave Myers in Augt. 1856, the time since the warrant was signed . I will also show that the Bond of $90 was
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for a balance on said warrant and knew that $90, as you seem to infer was not the whole consideration.
4 That I have paid to Myers, and his son, one of his executives, varied sums on the $90 bond to the account of forty to forty five dollars.
5 That at the time I purchased the warrant _Augt. 1856-I tended to Myers the whole amr. of the consideration, but that Myers preferred to leave the $90 in my hands, to be paid in small sums, as he might need it.
I will also say that when I substituted (underlined) the bond of $90 now in the hands of Thomas Moore, one of Myer's executors in the fall of 1857, I had fears, and so informed Myers, that I might lose warrant Nos. 30910, I was not then aware of Sec't Stewart decision of Nov. 10th,  1857, not having any knowledge of such decision (word blacked out) May 1858, when for the first time I obtained of a certain agent in Washington City, a digest of existing pension & bounty land laws, and decisions thereon. 
I affect to show that I purchased the
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warrant in good faith, paid the same price for it, that I (word crossed off)n paid others at the same time, above charges as agent, partly cash in hand, and the residue in my bond for 90 $, after the tender of the money.
In view of all the facts the following deductions are apparent:
1 That if I contemplated fraud, I would have thrown the warrant on the market, and have pocketed the proceeds- I have bought and sold a large number of warrants, before and since.
2 The fact that I paid the usual price for the warrant, current here, the same, as I can show I paid another party on the same day, does evidence that I could have no knowledge there was any question of the validity of the issue of said warrant.
3 The relations between Price and myself referred to in my letter of Jany 24th, preclude the idea that he is activated by other than malevolent motives, in furnishing evidence against the validity of my claim- I know you do not name the source when ever you have procured the "evidence on file"
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in your office, but I am familiar with the ear marks. (last two words underlined)
Very respectfully
Your obt. servt.
Jas V Boughner

Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Comm. Pensions
Washington City.
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Mt. Morris, Greene Co. Pa.
July 5. 1837

Sir:
In the month of Jan'y. (4th) and Feb'y last (2nd) I received two communications in relation to a caveat you had filed in the General Land Office to prosecute the location of said warrant No. 31910, issued to And. Myers.
Will you be pleased to inform me if I am to be precluded from showing the facts I offer to show in my letter of Feb'y 28th 1859: or suggest to me what may be necessary to protect my interests in the premises?
I am satisfied if the facts were all known 
(last two words underlined). That my title to the warrant in question would not be mooted for one moment.
Very Resp'y
J. V. Broughner

Hon. G. C. Whiting
Conn'r Pensions
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General Land Office
March 5, 1864

Hon. Jos. H. Barrett
Com'r. of Pensions

Sir:
Enclosed please find B. L. Wt. Act/55 No. 30.910 for 160 acres, for your examination & action there on as per your Caveat of Jan'y 4/59 on file.
Said Wt. was returned as located at Springfield, Mo. Aug. 3/57, as you were informed by letter of May 31/59 & I have to ask an examination of this case & action there on with a view to an early return of the Wt. to the files of this office.
Very Respectfully
Your Ob't. Serv't.
J M Edmunds

wt. Enclosed

Eastman-
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180.056
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Mount Morris, Greene Co. Penna.
June 18 1855

Sir,
Here with you find the declaration of Andrew Myers for Bounty Land under the Act of March 30 1855.
Any questions that may arise in the investigation of the case will be attended to by advising me as above.

Very respectfully
Yr Obt serv
J. V. Boughner
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Printed document with space for written additions

Brief in the case of Elizabeth Myers widow of Andrew 
Greene County and State of Penn;
act 3 Feb 1853.
=================================
Claim, ("original", rest crossed through)

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was pensioner under the Act of 7"June 1832. at the rate of $60 per annum. Marriage is proven by the family record of the births of the children of the parties & parol proof of thereof. Pensioners died 20'July. 1858. as appear by the affidavits of three credible afficents.
(If for increase).  Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
The widow hood & senility of the claimant is satisfactionly established by the evidence of three witnesses & a certificate of Court.

J. V. Boughner, Esq.
Mount Morris
Name and residence of Agent
Greene Cp., Pa.

S. C. Boynton
Examining Clerk
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Morgantown, Virginia
Oct. 31. 1859.

Sir:
I would thank you to send me a copy of the declaration made by Andrew Myers, a revolutionary soldier, for Bounty Land made out by under the act of 1855. The number of the application is 180.056- and of the warrant (-160) 30.910.
I desire to use it in a pending controversy between Jacob p. Byrne Esq. & myself. 
Very Respy.
Your Obt. servt.
J V Boughner

Hon. G. C. Whiting
Comm. of Pensions

P.S. Please address me at Morgantown, Virginia, as above.
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Widows

As a Certificate for Increase it is
supposed will be issued on the inf.
it will carry with it all that is
necessary to cause payt. from 
date of last pay't even if due
prior to Cong of increases
 JVB
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Printed and hand written document

Increase.  6.466 C
Brief in the Case of Elizabeth Myers Widow of Andrew a Private Rev War. Waynesburg, (Greene crossed out in line) 
Greene County and State of Penna.
Act 2'd See Act Feb 3.1853
13th See Act July 2) 1868.
==================================
CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE,

PROOF EXHIBITED,

The Applicant a pensioner on the roll of Penn at $60. per anum She applies for a new certificate alleging loss of her old one & also increase under Sec 13th Act July 27. 1868.

Identity properly shown.

Admitted Feb 9. 1871 to a pension at $96. per anum to commence July 27. 1868 deducting pay't Since.

W. E. Trask
Examining Clerk.
Name and residence of Agent
J. J. Purman
Waynesburg
Greene Co.
Pa. 

No Contract
Fee $10-
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Mount Morris Greene Co. Pa

Sir:
Your letter of Jan'y 4th requesting me to return land wt. No. 30710, issued to Andrew Myers, under the act of March 3rd 1855, that it may be cancelled, has been received.
In reply, I beg to state the following facts, as contained from memoranda in my possession.
In the month of Aug't. 1855, I casually met Andrew Myers, in Mt. Morris, Pa. when and where he desired me to prosecute his claim for Bounty Land. The application was accordingly made before Justice J. A. Billingsley, in which it was distinctly stated (last two words underlined)I believe, that the applicant had made a Former application, (last two words underlined) under the act of Sept 28/50, through Wm. Price, Esq'r. I knew by my own experience in the business that many applications that were suspended under the act of Sept. 28/50, under which I made the application for Myers.
This simple statement of facts that I judge will be rectified by papers in your office, precludes the idea of fraud, (fraud underlined) which I am gratified you do not impute, to Myers the applicant, or myself as agent. Indeed, there is not a syllable in the declaration of Myers, as made out by me, but what was made in good faith, and I believe, is literally true.
From the period the claim was prepared and
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transmitted to your office in Aug.1855, I heard nothing in regard to it until June 1856, when Warrant No. 30910, was received by me. 
-In Aug't. 1856 I purchased the warrant of Myer, had it duly assigned and it was located with others 800 acres in all, in Aug't 1857, in Springfield district, Missouri. I paid, in good faith, the market price for the warrant, at the time, and to an Agent in addition, twenty dollars for 160 acres, or $100 for the location of the 800 acres.
The cancellation of the warrant thus divesting me of the title, will not only be the loss of the land, but from the selection of the 160 acres, to the remainder of my lands in Missouri, severely ??? the value of the residents.
I should further state, that I send ??? for the first home, several months after the location of the warrant in Aug't 1857-That Price, ??? and of John P. Bryce, of Morgantown, Virginia, had also obtained a warrant for Myers- I visited Myers to ascertain the fact, and he informed me, he had also sold a warrant to Price and Byrne- and stated he thought it was all right, naming some of his neighbors who had received warrants under the act of Sept. 28/50 and March 3'd 1855- I told him that these who had received 40 acres, under the first law rec'd 120 under the last, and that 160 acres was the full complement
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under both acts of Congress- I also inferred from his statement to me the warrant sold to Price & Byrne, No. 27325, act Sept. 28/50 was issued after No. 30910, act of Mch. 1855.
Price and myself have had no communication since May 1855, on account of a political dispute in Virginia. He was the high Priest of Know Nothings, which I denounced on the stump and elsewhere- otherwise I would have called upon Price and examined the date of warrant No. 27.325 that s yet I understand in his possession.
Having thus acted in good faith, so far as I my interest involved in the cancellation of of Wt. No 30910, I shall claim that under the rule laid down by Secretary Stewart, in a communication to your office dated Nov. 10.1851, that the caveat you have filed in the Gen'l Land office, should be withdrawn.-
Repelling, however, the idea of fraud, that under the decision referred to, cannot work the cancellation of a warrant, in the handling of an innocent purchaser, without notice. 
Very respectfully
Your ob't. Serv't
Jas. V. Boughner
Com. G C Whiting
Comm'er Pensions
Washington City
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Postal card 
cancelled 1¢ stamp

round stamp
WAYNESBURG, PA.
AUG 8
7-PM
1935

(THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS)

Round larger stamp upside down
RECEIVED 
AUG 9, 1935
Mail U S Div.
Veterans 12
Vets. Am.

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

"Revolutionary War Dept."
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Back side of post card

707 E. Greene St.
Waynesburg, Pa.
Aug. 8, '35

Gentlemen:-
Kindly send to the given address 
any information on the following names 
you have, birth, death, wife and children.

Andrew Myers, Whitely township, Grene Co., Pa.

Widow, Salome Longstreth, Centre Township, Greene county, Pa. (widow of Philip Longstreth).

Most sincerely
Emma G. Wood
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30.910




160 Acres
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Widows Rev
Character of pending claim, Widow
Claimant, Elizabeth Myers
widow of Soldier Andrew  Rev
War
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2'd Sec Feb 3.1853
Pensioner now on Rolls Penna
Certificate No. 6.466
Agency at which last paid, Pittsburg
Cause of termination, -alleger failed
Date of termination, to draw

W. E. Trask
Examiner,
Room No. 23
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Last paid to Mar 4/68
as shown by the Records of Finance Division,
complete up to..................
Page
Clerk.
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Forwarded to F. D., Feb. 1 1871
Returned to Ex'r, ................
Page 74

envelope

Official Business
Stamp round and unreadable except for OCT 6

Oval return address printed
The Virginia Weekly Star,
Morgantown, VA.
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Terms, $1,50 per year, in advance.
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The Best Advertising Medium
North-Western Virginia

Honorable George C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City (both underlined)
D. C. (underlined)

Large "B" written bottom top top
written in pencil bottom to top under B
Andrew Myers
Pa w  1832
widows application
Page 75

64.66.

Pennsylvania--  Pitt.
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Elizabeth Myers
widow of Andrew

who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private,
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 60 dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence
on the (crossed out "3d February, 1853) 20th July 1858-
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Certificate of Pension issued 
18th day of Oct 1858.
and sent to
J. V. Boughner.
Mount Morris,
Pa.
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 159. Vol. H.
Page 76

Folded 3 sided document

left side
o. Second Court-
her for amors
#38/75 Due # 17/87
Sprague
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1935 Aug. 20-Hist. to Emma G. Wood-  MLB

middle section
Revy WIDOW, &c.
Died Nov. 11, 1875-
Paid Sept 4, 1875 (Sept 4 crossed through)
File No. 5155
Elizabeth Myers
wid. of
Andrew Myers
Pvt. Rev. War
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Act: Feby. 3"d 53, July 27'th 68
Index:--Vol. M , Page 76
[Arrangement of 1870.]

right side
16.Nov. 1
Nouc
Bills
Ent-
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typed letter
(round letterhead)
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
picture of Eagle with flags
1930

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON.  August 20, 1935
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In reply Refer to: 
Philip Longstreth, W. 12144
Andrew Myers, W. 5155
BA-J/MLB

Emma G. Wood
707 East Greene Street
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam,

Reference is made to your communication of recent date, in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Andrew Myers, of Whitely Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, and of Salome Longstreth, widow of Philip Longstreth, and a resident of Centre Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.

The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and claims for pensions found based upon service in that war of Andrew Myers and Philip Longstreth, both of Pennsylvania, and they are furnished herewith. 

Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller (hand signed)
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

(penciled notation on botton left side of letter)
This was not sent, because when we went to mail the Longstretch record, was found that the Myers record had been mailed without this statement that both were enclosed-
MLB
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August 20, 1935

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Philip Longstreth, W. 122144
Andrew Myers, W.5155
BA-J/MLB

Emma G. Wood
707 East Greene Street
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam,

Reference is made to your communication of recent date, in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Andrew Myers, of Whitely Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, and of Salome Longstreth, widow of Philip Longstreth, and a resident of Centre Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.

The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and claims for pensions found based upon service in that war of Andrew Myers and Philip Longstreth, both of Pennsylvania, and they are furnished herewith.

Very truly yours


A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator