Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3,125, Moses Allen, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Allen, Moses
Sarah

NUMBER
W. 3125

CONTENTS
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9775.  New Jersey
Moses Allen of Sussex Co. in the State of New Jersey. who was a private in the Compy. commanded by Captain Allen of the Regt. commanded by Col. Martin in the N Jersey. line for 7 mo. + 10 days. 
$24.44/100
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey. at the rate of 24. Dollars 44. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of June. and sent to J. E. Edsall. Newton N Jersey.
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Arrears to the 4th of March '33.    48.88
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833    12.22
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$61. 10
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Wm R. Palmer, clerk, Book E Vol. 3 Page 101.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832.
New Jersey Sussex County Ss, on the thirty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas held at Newton in and for the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey Moses Allen a resident of the Township of Newton in the County of Sussex at this time aged eighty years who being duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by he act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, Says that he was born in the township of Hardwick then in the County of Sussex but now in Warren County New Jersey that he resided there till the year 1793 when this deponent moved to the County of Crawford in the State of Pennsylvania + resided there till the month of May last past + then removed to the State of New Jersey where he has since resided + now resides in Newton in the County of Sussex and state of New Jersey -- he further says about the month of September 1776 at Hardwick in the County of Sussex New Jersey he was drafted for one month in the New Jersey militia + served in Captain John Shaws Company during the same time. This was upon a Call of the militia to the lines at Springfield in New Jersey, was discharged at the end of the said month but not in [illeg] --
   That about the month of November in the same year he was again drafted at the same place for one other month in the New Jersey militia + served out the same + served in Captain Annanus Allen's Company -- went to Elizabeth Town + marched as front guard before the Main Continental army to New Brunswick in N Jersey + from thence we went up the Raritan river + crossed the bridge + from there to Pluckemin in Somerset County + was discharged then at the end of the same month verbally no written discharge was given.  
    This deponent further says that immediately after his return home and in the month of December at Hardwick aforesaid he was drafted for one other month in the Jersey Militia in Captain Shaws Company + [    ] Colon. Ford's Regiment + went to  Chatham + Springfield in N Jersey + then we had a skirmish with a forage
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party of the British, we served out this month + was discharged at Morris Town verbally without any written discharge
    That this deponent further says that immediately after his return home he was again called to the service again + at Hardwick aforesaid and about the month of January 1777 joined the Company of Captain Annias Allen + marched to Westfield in N Jersey + was placed under Colo. Ephraim Martin's Regiment + served there for one other month - during this month we took a large quantity of salt from the  British lines + about thirty [Maldeckers?] prisoners -- that he was discharged at Rahway verbally without any written discharge --
    That this deponent then returned home + that in the month of February or March then next - 1777 - at Hardwick aforesaid he was drafted in the same Company of Captain Allen, and marched to Rahway in New Jersey + was attached to Regiment under the command of General [Winder?], was drafted for one month + served out the same + was duly discharged verbally was during this month that I was principally employed as a picket guard, at Rahway Westfield + Elizabeth Town --
   In the month of June that I was again called upon by a draft but I have a substitute Mr Jonathan Willis but not known under what officers he served and I paid him fifteen dollars
    That about the first of July 1778 this deponent then remaining at Hardwick aforesaid, volunteered in Captain Annias Allen upon a call of the Jersey militia to go against the Indians after the massacre at Wyoming in Penny. I was out on this service two weeks when the captain + his men returned - + that in the month of September in the same year I again volunteered upon a like call + went with the same Captain + we served two weeks + then we all returned home. - That in the Spring of the year in March or April 1779 at Hardwick aforesaid upon an alarm that the Indians had burned a house + killed some people on the Delaware I again volunteered in Captain [left blank] Company
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that this deponent has not any documentary evidence of his services + that he knows of no person now living who can testify as to his services except Aaron McCollum who to now sick + confined to his bed but his testimony is taken + reduced to writing + subjoined hereto, that this deponent was born in the year 1752 + has not any record of his age + he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a petition or annuity except the present + declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state he was acquainted with Aaron Hazen
esqr+ Aaron McCollen who can testify as to his character --  Moses Allen
Aa Hazen, Benjn Halsey, Jos Miller} Judges
We Aaron Hazen of the Township of Stillwater and Aron McCollum of the Township of Newton in the County of Sussex do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Allen who has subscribed the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty five ["five" crossed out] years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution + that we concur in that opinion -- Aaron McCollum
Sworn + subscribed before me by Aaron McCollum who is sick + unable to attend Court --  Aa Hazen
Before me Aa Hazen, Judge
Aaron Hazen Sworn before me the subscriber --
Benj. Halsey, Jos. Y. Miller} Judges
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And the Court do declare their opinion after the [smudge] of the matter and after putting the interrogatory prescribed by the war department that the above applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the names Aaron Hazen of Stillwater Judge of the court of Common Pleas of Sufox County and Aaron McColum of Newton who signed the same are residents as they state, and are credible persons + that their statement is entitled to credit, there being no clergyman who can be had conveniently by him. 
{Aa Hazen, Benjn Halsey, Jos Y Miller} Judges
I Joseph E Edsall Clerk of the said Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moses Allen for a Pension --
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand + affixed the seal of said Court at Newton this 31st day of August AD 1832.  J E Edsall Clk
Moses Allen Application for Pension under Act of 7 Jan 1832
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0.078
Moses Allen
Sussex Co. N Jersy
Rom 7 months
10 days
J E Edsall
Newton
N. Jersey
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BRIEF in the case of Moses Allen
County of Sussex in the State of New Jersey
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 80 years

4.State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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[table follows with 4 columns, column headings as follows:]
(1) Period.
(2) Duration of Service. {sub-headings:  a. Years, b. Months, c. Days.
(3) Rank.
(4)Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

[text beneath column headings as follows:]
(1) Sept In 1776, Nov. 1776, ", Jany 1777, 
Feby & March July Sept 1778, ", 79
(2) a. [blank], b. 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,   c. militia, militia, militia, ", [blank], 14, 14, 14, none
(3) Private, ", ", ", ", ", ", "
(4) Capt Show, Capt Elliot, Col Fendl, Capt Allen Col Martin, "  "  Genl. Winds, Capt Allen, ", "
[end of table]

5. In what battles was he engaged? None

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Sussex Co. New Jersey

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk.
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Phila.  3415. 
Pennsylvania.  
Sarah Allen widow of Moses Allen, who died on the 31st August 1833 of Crawford, in the State of Penna who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain Allen of the regt commanded by Col: Martin in the New Jersey line for 7 mos & 10 days
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New Jersey line
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 24 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 1 September 1833.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Sept: 1840 and sent to Thomas Van Horne, Meadville, Tenn
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1841    $183:58
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept: '41   $12:22
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$195:80
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section B}
Recorded by Wm C Zantzinger Clerk, BookO Vol. 1 Page 150.

Let to J. VanHorne June 2, 1841 not found 
do to 3d Audn 24 Aug. 1841 not found 
Let to Hon Th: B Hornberg [illeg] not found
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4453
Sarah Allens Application
pa
4 July 1836

Thos. Van Horne, Meadville Pa   Apt 16
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state of Pennsylvania
Crawford County ⎬
On this Sixth day  of February One thousand 
eight hundred and thirty nine personally
appeared before the subscriber a  Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Crawford & State of Pennsylva, Sarah Allen a resident in the County and State afsd aged Eighty six years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836: That
she is the widow of Moses Allen, who
was a soldier in the army of the
revolution & for whose services a pension certificate was awarded, She further declares that she was married to the said Moses Allen on or about the 27th day of December A.D. 1777, that her husband the aforesaid Moses Allen died on the thirty first day of August
One thousand eight hundred & thirty three
and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by a reference to the proof hereto annexed
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Sarah [her mark] Allen
before  Steph. Barley
I do hereby certify that the above named applicant is not able to appear in open Court by reason of bodily infirmity
February 6th A.D.
1839
Step, Barton
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Crawford County State of Pennsylvania}
I John P. Davis prothonotary of the several courts of Crawford County aforesaid: do hereby certify that Stephen Barlow  before whom the foregoing declaration was made is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county afsd. and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my county seal of office and subscribed my name this 24th day of March AD 1839 John P Davis Prothonotary
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State of New Jersey Somerset County }Ss
Personally appeared  before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Nathaniel Whitaker a resident in said County aged Eighty one years whose character for truth and veracity is unimpeachable, who being first duly sworn on his oath deposeth and saith that his sister Sarah Whitaker was married to Moses Allen a soldier of the Revolution late deceased and that the marriage ceremony was performed before and by the Revd. Doctor Kenedy Pastor of the Baskingridge Congregation at the house of Johnathan Whitaker in the township of Bernards County of Somerset and State aforesaid, that said ceremony was previous to the year of seventeen hundred and seventy three at which time there was one of the most unusual snow storms that ever occurred in our section of country. I am very positive it was before the year 1778 that by reason of old age bodily infirmaties and the consequent loss of memory deponent is unable to specify more particularly the period of said marriage. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the fifteenth day of June Eighteen hundred + forty.  I have drawn
Nath S Whitaker
Sworn and subscribed the fifteenth day of June 1840 before me Alexander Denison, Justice of the Peace}
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State of New Jersey, Somerset County}Ss
I John M. Mann, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County do hereby certify that Alexander Demion before whom the within affiant was made and whose proper signature is thereto subscribed was at the time of the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn. 
Witness my hand and seal of office this sixteenth day of June Eighteen hundred and forty - 
J. M. Mann
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
March 22, 1928.
Maude G. Stewart,
410 Winona Street,
Northfield, Minnesota.
Madam;

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 3125, it appears that Moses Allen was born in 1752 in Hardwick Township, Sussex (which was later
called Warren) County, New Jersey. He lived there until 1793 when he moved to Crawford County, Pennsylvania, where he lived until May, 1832.
He enlisted about September, 1776, and served at various times until sometime in the spring of 1779, amounting to about six months and two weeks in all, as a private with the New Jersey Troops under Captains John Shaw, Ananias Allen and Colonels Force and Ephraim Martin; he was in the battle of
Springfield. He was allowed pension on his application executed August 31, 1833, at which time he was living in Newton, Sussex County New Jersey, He died August 31, 1833.
He married December 27, 1771, at the house of Jonathan Whitaker in Bernard's Township, Somerset County, New Jersey,
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Sarah Whitaker.

She was allowed pension on her application executed February 6, 1839, at which time she was eighty-six years of age and was living in Crawford County, Pennsylvania.

No charge is made for this service and one dollar, the amount of your check, will be refunded to you in due time.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.
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[Left hand side of document}
Rev WIDOW, &C.
File No. 3125
Sarah Allen Widow Moses Allen Pri. Rev. War
Act: July 4, 1836
Index:  Vol. A.  Page 7
[Arrangement of 1870}
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{ Right hand side of document}
1928 Mar. 22 hist. to Maude G. Stewart + notarized $1.00 to be refunded.
1929 Jan 17 Maude G. Stewart adv how to obtain dates of last pay't etc. A.D.Y.
Dec. 30 Maude G Stewart adv. of photos. Her letter in Stewart R. 21841 - MOV
[illeg] 24  Photos mailed to Miss Maude Stewart + acctg.  Dev. notified same MLB
Nov. 9  Maude G. Stewart [illeg] further inf. + that new photos were being made for her.  MHC
Nov. 20  Miss Maude G. Stewart duplicates f photos sent 2/24/39 no charge MLB.
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Sarah Allen 
wife of Moses
Pennsylvania
Suspended
Let 5 Augt. 1839
T. Van Horne do 25 Apr 40
Act 4 July 1836
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Allen, Moses.  Penna & Delw. - Letter from Hon Thos B. Florence - Av Penn '36 - Sarah - wid Moses Allen - no 3415 & memordm. of Moses Allen - on the List of private claims before Congress - Col Woolsey Aug 22/60
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Payments to be made at Trenton by 
Pt Trenton Banking Co
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of New Jersey
Recorded in the Pension office, in Book E. Vol. 3 Page 101 by Wm. R. Palmer Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 18322, Moses Allen of the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Twenty four dollars and forty four cents pera annum, during his natural life, commending on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, his Seventeenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.  John Robb Acting Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.} J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensons.
{May 27th AD 1836 personly [personally] appeared before me one of the justis [Justice]of the Peace in + for the County of Crawford Sarah Allen who on her solem [solemn]  oath saith that she is the widow of the above named Moses Allen + further saith not. 
Sworn + Subscribed the day + year above named Sarah {her mark} Allen
Sworn + subscribed before me John Gaugh Esq.
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4453
Sarah Allen
of Moses.
Pennsylvania
admitted
Pr.: 7 mo 10 days. $26.44/100
Cap Allen Col Martin N.J.
died 31 Augt. 1833
Act 4 July 1836
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Moses Allen
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Moses Allen Sussex Co New Jersey which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. *Has he mentioned 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? yes
VI . Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? Yes
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes
XIV.I f the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?
_________________________________
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. 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 his 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 _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____ and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, pensioner and the length of his service. The use of them to be paid according to the grade of the definite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state 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 shewn 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 an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he 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.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service. 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 claimants 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 be certified by the proper officer in character and signature of the magistrate
QUERE XVI. 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 paper authenticated, the certificate
must be attached thereto of 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. In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, 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.
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Jan 18 1840

[stamp:]. MEADVILLE PA JAN 13            F

Addl. proof
Sarah Allen
Sarah Allen

J.L. Edwards
Washington City
D.C.
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Meadville Jany 13th 1840

Dr Sir

I enclose to you the certificate of Nathan Whitaker brother to Sarah Allen whose claim for a pension was suspended for want of proof of the marriage.

Yours Respectfully
Thos. Van Horne
Acting Atty. for
Sarah Allen

J L. Edwards
Comr. Pens.
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June 29 1840

[stamp:]. MEADVILLE Pa. JUN 24

Pa.
Add. proof
Sarah Allen

J.L. Edwards C.P.
Washington City
D.C.
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Meadville June 23rd 1840

Dr Sir

 I herewith transmit to you an additional certificate of marriage in support of Mrs. Sarah Allens application.

Yrs. Respectfully
Thos. Van Horne

J.L. Edwards C.P.
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Moses Allen
No. 8074
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State of New Jersey
Sussex County SS.      Be it remembered that on this thirty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said Court of Sussex and also one of the Judges of the said Court Aaron MacCollum of the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey
of the age of Seventy Seven years who being now sick and unable to attend the Court of Common Pleas on account of truly infirmity who being duly sworn according to law did depose and swear, that he is acquainted with Moses Allen now of Newton in the said County personally known to me that the said Moses Allen is now about eighty years of age he was born in Hardwick as I believe I knew him when a young man.-  That I was acquainted & knew him to be in the battle of Springfield in New Jersey in the year 1776, that I saw him at Westfield at the taking of the Waldecker & the Sact from the
British, and at an alarm when was Wyoming cut off by the Indians.  The said Moses Allen was a volunteer and marched out together with this deponent & I saw him and was in company
with him over the mountain along the dilwary [Delaware] River in  in said County of Sussex as a Militia man as a volunteer to guard the indians under the command of Annanias Allin their Captain.
Aaron MacCollum

Subscribed and Sworn
Before me the and
year above written
Asa Hazen
Judge
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June 2 1841

see
Sarah Allen

Moses Allen
New Ark

[stamp:] MEADVILLE PA. MAY 26

James L Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
DC
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May 25         40

Dr Sir

Annexed to the application of Mrs Sarah Allen
is the certificate of Pension of her husband Moses Allen which I wish you to forward to me, otherwise to inform me how the widow Sarah
Allen Shall proceed to draw the pay of her husband which was due at his death and has never been paid inasmuch as he died about
the time the certificate was received by his
friends.

Yours respectfully
Thos. Van Horne

[text shows through from other side, not legible]
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U.S. PENSION OFFICE
A
APR 12 1928
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410 Winona Street
Northfield Minn
April 10, 1928

Mr. Winfield Scott,
Commissioner of Pensions
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-

We were thankful to receive your statement of March 22, 1928 in regard to W. 3125, Moses Allen and his wife Sarah Whitaker Allen and I would be glad to learn further in regard to them
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We had been told that Moses Allen and his family lived in Sussex County, N.J. until 1789 when they moved to Westmoreland County Pa. and then in 1801, they moved to South Shenango Crawford Co. Pa. His wife died 1844 in Crawford Co. Pa. but he died in New Jersey where he had gone for his pension.

Do your records show where the pensions were paid and how large the pensions were?

Are your records open to people who ask to see them and to the research workers of the Registrar General's office of the D.A.R.?

Thanking you for your kindness.

Very truly yours--
Maude G. Stewart
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15822
3-2233

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division

Mar 17, 1928
Chief Rev. 1812 Wars Section Division.

I have this day received from Miss Maude G. Stewart check in the amount of $1.00 requesting photostat copy as per letter herewith.

O.J. RANDALL
Chief, Finance Division
H.C.L.

Mar 22, 1928
Finance Dir. notified check to be refunded
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Check #209
$1.00

U.S. PENSION OFFICE
F
MAR 15 1928

410 Winona Street
Northfield Minn
March 12, 1928

FINANCE DIVISION
BOOK-KEEPERS DESK
MAR 17 1928
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:-
I would like a copy of the pension claim of the widow (Widow No. 3125) of Moses Allen a Revolutionary Minute Man of New Jersey and I am sending my check for one dollar to pay for the same.

Very trully yours,
(Miss) Maude G. Stewart
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Rev & 1812 W.

MISS MAUDE G. STEWART
410 WINONA STREET
NORTHFIELD, MINNESOTA

RECEIVED
AUG 29 1939
MAIL SUB-DIV
Reader No. 7
VETS ADM

August 24, 1939

Mr. A. D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant to the Adminstrator
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Hiller:
Recently, I received photostatic copies of the pension applications of John Stewart, son of Hugh Stewart, Dauphim Co. formerly Lancaster Co, Pa. There are two words I cannot make out and I thought you may be able to decipher them on the original papers. On page 6, near the bottom of the page "imbicuted" is the best I can make out. I think it means "signed" or "written." On page 8, the last line just before July 1, 1833. They are probably legal words.

Are there other papers or letters connected with these John Stewart papers
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that you did not include with the ten pages I paid to have the photostatic copies made from?

I had also photostatic copies made of the Moses Allen W. 3125, BA-J/MMHF:MLB and of his widow Sarah Whitaker Allen.

Did that pension law require that the veteran return to the state he had served  in, (New Jersey) instead of the one where he and his wife had lived later (Penna)?

I find that a number of the photographs are turning yellow. What can be done to remedy that trouble? I presume the hypo was not washed out entirely. It is a disappointment.

Very truly yours
Maude G. Stewart
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RECEIVED

JAN 25 1939
ACCOUNTING DIV.
[illegible] ACCOUNTS SUBDIV.
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Rev & 1812 Wars

410 Winona Street
Northfield, Minn.
January 18, 1939.

Mr. A. D. Hiller
Executive assistant to the Administrator,
Pension Department, Revolutionary War
Veterans Administration.
Vermont Avenue and H Street N.W.     3853
Washington, D.C.

[stamp:]. RECEIVED JAN 23 1939 MAIL SUB-DIV. VE#TS ADM. READER #12

Dear Mr. Hiller:

The photostatic copies of ten pages of the originals on file in claim for pension, R. 21841, based upon the service of John Stewart in the
Revolutionary War were received in good shape and I am very much pleased to have them.

I am sending now a postal order for $3.50 and I am asking you to have photostatic copies made of the fourteen pages of the application of my great great grand father, Moses Allen, W. 3195, born in 1752 in Hardwick Township, Sussex (later called Warren ) County, New Jersey. His pension was allowed August 31. 1832, at which time he was living in Newton, Sussex Co. N.J. He died Aug. 31, 1833; also, of my great great grandmother, Sarah Whitaker Allen, Her pension, W. 3125, (Ctf. No. 3415) was allowed Feb. 6. 1839, in Crawford Co. Penna.  They had both lived in Crawford County since 1801, but he had gone back to New Jersey in 1832 to apply for his pension in the state where he
had served in the Revolutionary War.

Very truly yours
(Miss) Maude G. Stewart.

encl on.  K                       ann
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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION

MEMORANDUM
Date January 31, 1939

From: Chief Accounting Division
To: Mr. B[illegible] Chief Clerk. Attention: Mrs. Finch DAA-DB
Subject Official Receipt No. SD 3853 $3.60
ALLEN, Moses W. 3125

There is forwarded herewith salmon copy of the receipt described above. It is required that you make such record of this receipt as may be necessary, indicating thereon in the space provided the disposition to be made of the amount and return the same to the Accounting Division, Room 527.

[WM. H. HOLMES signature]
WM. H. HOLMES

1 Encl.
Finance Form 1340a

MEW
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NO. 450
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February 15,       9

REV. & 1812 WARS SECTION.   XXXXXXXXX WAR & NAVY -Branch 970

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Rev. War claim for pension of Moses Allen,
File No. W. 3125         Actual.   one of each page.

The list to Maude G. Stewart : Soldiers appl Aug 31, 1832 = 4 pp.
Aaron McCollums affid. - 1 p.
Old Ctf. = 1 p
Widow's appl. dated Feb. 6, 1839 = 2 pp
Nathaniel Whitaker's affid. = 2 pp - front & back
Let. from Thos. Van Horn May 25, 1840 - 1 p
  "       "       "         "      "   Jan. 13 = 1 p
Sol's, & widows ctf. Jackets = 2 pp

XXXXXXXXX         $3.50.        14 pages

Kindly leave margin of 1 1/2 inches at top of each page and return papers in case in folder
with corresponding name and number.  The word "Omit" written in pencil on those pages which are not to be copied.

Chief, Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

[written in margin:]. Duplicate copies of these sent to Maude G. Stewart Nov. 20 - '39 - see corres herewith-
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February 24, 1939

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MOSES ALLEN
W. 3125
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Miss Maude G. Stewart
410 Winona Street
Northfield, Minnesota

Dear Madam:

In compliance with your request, you are furnished herewith photostatic copies of fourteen pages of the originals thereof on file in the claims for pension, on file under W. 3125, based upon service of Moses Allen in the Revolutionary War.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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November 9, 1939

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John Stewart, R. 21841
Moses Allen, W. 3125
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Miss Maude G. Stewart
410 Winona Street
Northfield, Minnesota

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request to know whether all papers in the claim for pension, R. 21841, based upon service of John Stewart were included in the set of photostatic copies furnished you January 12, 1939, also to ascertain certain words shown in those copies, that is, the word on page eight, last line, immediately preceding the date, July 1, 1833, and the word on page six, near the bottom, which you decipher as "imbicuted" and
further, in regard to the pensioner, Moses Allen (W. 3125), to know whether or not the pension law required the return of the Veteran to the state from which he served in order to secure a pension.  You state, further, that your photostatic copies are fading, and request to know what to do in such a case.

The papers in the claim of John Stewart, cited above, have been examined. The word on page eight, to which you refer is Harrisb., abbreviation for Harrisburg.  The word on page six, if your designation of the page is understood, the copies, not the originals, being
numbered, is "subscribed". Copies of all the original papers inthis claim were included in the set furnished you.

In regard to the Moses Allen case, the pension laws did not require the soldiers to apply for pension as residents of the states from which they served.

Relative to your photostatic copies having faded, two new sets, one from each claim, are being made and will be mailed to you when
finished.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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DUPLICATE

NO. 450
BA-J/MLB
November 15, 9
War & Navy, Branch 970

REV. & 1812 WARS SECTION XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Rev. War claim for pension of Moses Allen,
FIle No. W. 3125
Actual one of each page

This set of photostatic copies to be used in place of a set furnished last February, which have become yellow and faded.

No charge 14 pages
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Kindly leave margin of 1 1/2 inches at top of each page and return papers in folder with corresponding name and number. The word "omit" written in pencil on those pages which are not to be copied.

Chief, Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
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November 20, 1939
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John Stewart, R. 21841
Moses Allen, W. 3125
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Miss Maude G. Stewart
410 Winona Street
Northfield, Minnesota

Dear Madam:

You are furnished herewith photostatic copies of the original pages in the claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War of John Stewart (ten pages) and Moses Allen (fourteen pages), these pages to be used in place of the ones furnished you January 18, 1939, and February 24, 1939, respectively, which you state have deteriorated.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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see her letters prior to Dec 30 in the John Stewart case-

December 30, 1938

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Miss Maude G. Stewart
410 Winona Street
Northfield, Minnesota

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter with which you enclosed check for $2.50, to cover cost of photostatic copies of the papers on file
in Revolutionary War claim for pension, R. 21841, based upon service of John Stewart, in accordance with the suggestion of Miss Kate S.
Curry, of this city, and in which letter you requested, also, photostatic copies of the papers on file in the claim for pension, W. 3125,
based upon service of your ancestor, Moses Allen, in the Revolutionary War.

The copies in the case of John Stewart are being prepared and will be mailed to you shortly. The number of pages to be copied in
the claims for pension on file under W. 3125, based upon service of Moses Allen in the Revolutionary War, is fourteen. The cost per page is twenty-five cents. Remittance should be made by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United States and mailed to the
Veterans Administration, Arlington Building, this city, when the copies will be made and mailed to you.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.                A.D.Y.

January 17, 1929.

Maude G. Stewart,
410 Winona Street,
Northfield, Minnesota.

Madam;

I advise you that in order to obtain the date of
last payment of pension of Sarah Allen, widow of Moses Allen ( W.3125), the name of person paid and the address, you should apply to the Records Division, General Accounting Office, this city, citing all of the following data:

"Sarah Allen, widow of Moses Allen, Ctf. No. 3415, issued September 5, 1840, rate $24.44 per annum, commenced September 1, 1833, Act of July 4, 1838, Pennsylvania
Agency".

The Revolutionary War records of this bureau are open to the public for research work, under the Act of March 3, 1901, and you, or any one designated by you, may examine and collect data from the papers on file in a reasonable number of pension claims by calling at the bureau.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.