Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2360, for Peter I Sisco, New Jersey
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New Jersey   Sisco, Peter J. W.2360
Elizabeth B.L.M.   11187-160-55
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[left side]
Let .Hon: P. Dickinson
June 28 1834
Let. to Cullenform  10 June 52

[right side\
New Jersey.  28.310
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Peter I. Sisco
of Bergen Co in the State of New Jersey
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Ward & others of the Regiment commanded by ---------------- in the 
New Jersey line for 7 months & 1 day
private ------ $233.44
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[Insc]ribed on the Roll of New Jersey
[at t]he rate of 25 Dollars 44 Cents per annum
[to] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of May 1834 and sent Abraham Westerv[ille]
Hackensack N.J.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1834         $70.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending  4 Sept "     11.72
                                                                  ______
                                                                 $82.04
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by Geo. C. Whiting Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 3 Page 131
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23729
Peter I. Sisco
Bergen County
New Jersey
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['Return & fine if' crossed out]

Adm 7 months &
1 Day---


Recd March 31. 1834
Abraham Westerville
Hackensack
N. Jersey
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
4th June 1833

Sir:

The evertence 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 rules 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 complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
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A Statement, shewing the service of Peter I. Sisco Bergen County N.J.
[table follows with 6 columns; column headings as follows:]
(1) Period when the service was rendered.
(2) Duration of the claimant's service. {sub-headings:  a. Years. b. Months. c. Days}
(3) Rank of the claimant.
(4) Names and rank of the Field officers
under whom he served.
(5) Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
(6) Proof by which the declaration is supported.

[text beneath column headings as follows:]
(1) enlist
(2) a. [blank (b) 1, 1, 1, 1, -, 3 {total 7} c. 10 {total 10}
(3) prisoner
(4) none given
(5) 73
(6) Traditionary, Living Witness
[end of table]

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
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, mucicians [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 [blank] }
County of [blank] } ss.
On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A.B. a resident of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged [blank] 
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) [blank], with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] 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 [blank]                                 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 [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank] day of [blank] & 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 [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] 
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 days 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 [blank] and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] 
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] 
for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [blank] 
day of [blank] & c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if 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 alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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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.
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[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 his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served at length in the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: --For [blank] year [blank] months, and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]. For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]; 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 place 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.
[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 affix 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 office.
-->The notes from [a] to [i] ae 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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New Jersey
Bergen Pleas

The application of 
Peter J. Sisco for
a Pension } Militia Service

23729

Address
Abraham Westervill
Hackensack
N. Jersey
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23729
State of New Jersey }
Bergen County SS. } Personally appeared before me Wm. A. Pulis one of the Justice of the Peace in & for said County Peter I. Sisco being an applicant for Pension under the act of Congress passed 7th of June 1832, and now in an advanced state of life being lame & decrepit & infirm and being before duly sworn according to law on the above assertion and what is contained in this affidavit declareth under oath
that he served under the following named offices in the Revolution war and being legally called out by his officers to perform his duty as a Militia soldier the following will appear a 
true statement of the same one month this deponent saith he served under Capt Ward and one month under Capt Outwater at Hackensack and one month under Captain Henry Duremus and one Month under Capt Aleas Remine and then the troop when stationed at or near the liberty pole & at Hackensack New Jersey 
wherein a number of applicant for a pension [illegible] allude to and was suddenly at day break aroused by a number of British Light Horse and was then taken Prisoner and those from my Neighborhood that I remember yet 
are Benjamin Woodruff & Capt Joseph Tehenor and myself and some others and Mr Benjamin Woodruff and my self was taken prisoner and carried to the City of New York and then I was and suffered in that person for the term of fourteen week & one day in which time I 
suffered extremely and the time of my service s altogether that I can Recollect amount seven month and one half & one day - during the above Monthly services I done & perform my duly when called out by my County or the Lawful authority and our travel was through Paramus & Hackensack & the English Neighbourhood and to the North River and 
along the York & Jersey line & some duty I done in Morris Town and whenever there was along and the enemy around our superior officers name was Col Dye and his son was a Major.
            his
Peter I.  X  Sisco
           mark

Taken & subscribed before me this 25
of July AD 1833 William A. Pulis
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County SS. } Personally appeared before me Peter I. Sisco who filed his Declaration in open Court on the 23 day of January AD 1833 which sd Declaration has
been returned for want of a Strict Compliance 
with the act in such cases made & provided and whereas the sd Peter I. Sisco lives at a great distance about thirty miles or upwards and is
old & Destitute of means almost to get then and whereas he the sd applicant is infirm & in a very feeble State & Ill State of health and has been so for six month past and was so bad when
he was as did appear on the above stated time in open Court that he was then three days to my certain knowledge before he was Sworn on account of health, and what is lacking in the
old Declaration is perhaps contained in this affidavit.  The omission of the Superior officers in the old one in now put in this affidavit (Col. Dye) and I have examined every affidavit connected with the old Declaration and my certificate unable to the date of this affidavit will be found as my opinion will be and certified under my oath of office of the Deponent
witness & their standing in society.  Witness my hand that this 25th day of July 1833.
William A. Pulis

NB  the affidavits on the old declaration are all Certified on the back & xed on the date of the certificate Correspond with this date (25 July 1833)
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Traditionary Evidence

State of New Jersey
Bergen Count SS: } Personally appeared before me William A. Pulis one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County Joseph Tichenor and
Joseph Woodruff and Casper Durun and John Cooly - and who being duly each of them sworn according to Law do each of them depose & say that they are well acquainted with Peter I. 
Sisco & do believe him to be about the age of seventy or [illegible] and do behave sincerely that he has been a soldier of the Revolutionary war and often have heard it in Public Report he
had been a pensioner taken by the British & put in a place of Confinement in the City of New York and now he is in good Repute and a good & Reputable member of society although poor at [illegible].
Casper Durun
Joseph Tichenor
Joseph Woodruff

Properly taken & subscribed before me 
this 25 of July AD 1833
William A. Pulis
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County ss }  This may certify that those witnesses In the within affidavit contained are 
men of veracity & truth and the Joseph Tehenor & Joseph Woodruff and Casper Durun & John Cooly  are men of Good standing in Society and two of them to wit are aged men and applicant for a Pension and members of a Church in the settlement where they be and the other two are young men or were soldiers in the war and both in good standing in society the one a member of the M[illegible] Church & the non member of ny hand but a good citizen.
Witness my hand & seal of office 25th July 1833.
William A. Pulis Justice of the Peace
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DECLARATION:
State of New-Jersey,
(illegible) County,
ss,
On this 23d day of January 1833, personally appeared in open Court, before the judges - of the (illegible) court of common plea. and for the County of Bergen.
now sitting, Peter I Sisco, a resident of the township of Pomptons in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, aged Seventy Three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain
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and that the services he has done for his country including his imprisonment, amounts to Seven Month one half and this Deponent further saith the services done & performed by him he can provedon the greater part of them be by the following witnesses, to wit
Robert Gould & Nathan Sisco & Benjamin
Woodruff & Abraham Freeland who were his
associates in the Revolutionary war, and when an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed the 7 of June 1832 and he further saith that he this Deponent has received no written Discharge from his officers whom he served under nor any Documentary Evidence of his services done in the Revolutionary war but the only evidence he has is the evidence  annexed to this Declaration and this deponent further saith that in the course of his services
and in the time he was imprisoned by the British
he suffered a great hunger late and almost nakedness and privations & [illegible] and Difficulty he has sustained.
             his
Peter I.  X  Sico
            mark

Sworn to & subscribed in open
Court the day & year first afsd.
Abr. Westervill Clerk
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He hereby relinquishes every claim to a Pension or Annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any of the United States.
             his
Peter I.  X  Sisco
           mark

Sworn to, and subscribed, in open Court,
the day and year aforesaid. }
Abr. Westervill Clerk

We, Wm. A. Pulis residing in the Township of Pompton County of Bergen and State of New Jersey and Nathel Board residing in the Township of Pompton County of Bergen and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter I. Sisco who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration --- that we believe him to be seventy three 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.
William A. Pulis
Natl Board

SWORN AND SUBSCRIBED THE DAY
AND YEAR FIRST AFORESAID.
Abr. Westervill Clerk

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 William
A. Pulis and Nathaniel Board who have signed the preceding Certificate are residents in the Township of Pompton County of Bergen
and State aforesaid, and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Per Curium Westervill Clerk

I, Abraham Westervill Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bergen in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court, in the matter of
the application of Peter I. Sisco for a Pension.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 23d day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Abr. Westervill Clerk
[seal affixed at left]
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This may Certify that there is no State Minister in the neighbourhood where this applicant for Pension resides.
Wm. A. Pulis Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey }
Bergen County ss   }
A
Personally appeared before me William A. Pulis one of the Justices of the Peace In & for said County Benjamin Woodruff of the County of Orange and State of New York Township of Chester who being duly sworn according to
Law deposeth & saith that he was acquainted with Peter I. Sisco of the Township of Pompton County  of Bergen & State of New Jersey and that he was an associate and fellowSoldier of the Revolution war and that he was imprisoned
with him at the same time that he the Deponent and Peter I. Sisco when both taken Prisoner at one time by the British at or near Hackensack New Jersey a Place called the English neighborhood & stationed at Liberty Pole. That he this deponent and Peter  I. Sisco were removed from there to the City of New York and then both were put in a place of Confinement called the Sugar House where the British
put their prisoners and that the sd Peter I. Sisco along with him suffered considerable hard treatment had [illegible] hunger & Cold and that he was there confond as Prisoner of War
fourteen weeks & total or a few days and that the said Peter I. Sisco I verily believe was faithful soldier of the Revolution war and that he served under Capt Outwater & Capt Ward Capt Aleas Remini & under Capt Henry Duremus
and was taken while under Capt Remini.  And this Deponent further saith that he does not positively recollect the services performed by sd Sisco in full but believes he might have served about Seven month or thereabout and that he this Deponent is unable to state this or Confirm his testimony any Closer or more particular on account of his memory
being [illegible] & further saith not.
Benjamin Wood

Taken before me this 12 of Augt 1832.
William A. Pulis Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey }
Bergen County ss. }. This may certify that the witness in this affidavit Contained Benjamin Woodruff.  I am not Personally acquainted with he lives a considerable ways from me   I understand he is an applicant for a Pension
and I understand he draws one and I have been credible Informed by a number of People who is acquainted with sd witness that he is a Respectable man & entitled to credit and a man of veracity & truth and further he the said witness was made a Pensioner in the [illegible] Mentioned in the declaration of Peter I. Sisco and a host of witnesses all allude to that [illegible] and transaction. Witness my
hand & seal of office the 25 day of July AD 1833.
William A. Pulis
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey }
Bergen County ss. } 

B

Personally appeared before me William A. Pulis one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County Robert Gould aged about Seventy three 
years of age and being infirm and labouring under an Indisposition and not able to go to Court and being duly sworn according to law before me at his own house deposeth and saith
the he was well acquainted with Peter I Sisco and he this deponent saith that he knew sd Revolution war and at one particular time the
said Peter I Sisco and myself where stationed at Hackensack New Jersey a Place called the English Neighbourhood at the Liberty Pole and under the command of Capt Aleas Remini, when on a sudden whim we lay at that place early In the morning of a Certain time in the fall of about the close on a year or so before the war was ended the British Light horse came on us when this Deponent made his escape and Peter I Sisco was made prisoner of war by the British and carried to the City of New York, and there  was put in the Sugar House a place where 
the British put the American Prisoners and this deponent further Saith that he believes he was a Pensioner about fourteen weeks and believes he was a faithful Soldier while under service for
his County and believes he served a number of monthly Tours but does not recollect how long Particularly but.
Robert Gould

Sworn and subscribed before me 
this 26th of November AD 1832
William A. Pulis Justice of the
Peace
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State of New Jersey }
Bergen County } This may certify that the within named witness Robert Gould I have not a great deal of personal acquaintance with. However he is somewhat of a  Drinking or Dispeld character he is an aged man and also an applicant for a pension and is an Immoral Lasse Character as it respect his common course of life, but when under the solemnity of an oath when I did administer the same to him he was very lawful (more so than common as I had expected from such a wild character and as a witness before Justice Court people he tell me that he is very candid.  It appears he also was in that service.  Witness my hand & seal of office this 25th of July AD 1833. 
William A. Pulis Justice
of the Peace
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State of New Jersey }
Bergen County ss    }

C.

Personally appeared before me William A. Pulis one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Nathaniel Sisco who being duly sworn according to Law on oath deposeth & saith that he is well acquainted with Peter I. Sisco of the Township of Pompton Bergen County New Jersey and is acquainted with most of his service done as a soldier of the Revolution war and this deponent saith that he served under Capt Aleas Remini one month and then was taken Prisoner by the British at Hackensack New Jersey by a Number of British Light horse and from there carried by the enemy to the City of New York and confined in the Sugar House a place where the British put the American prisoners of war, and he believes he was there  about fourteen weeks before he was liberated or exchanged, and this Deponent further saith, that he knows of services done by Peter I. Sisco done & performed by him in Morris County New Jersey under Capt Henry Duremus one month and the rest of his services this deponent saith  he knows nothing about only by hearsay from his fellow Soldiers and those that served with Peter I. Sisco and they Informed him that he had served under Capt Ward & other officers at
Hackensack New Jersey doing monthly tours and believes he has served faithfully while under service for his County & further saith not.
                 his
Nathaniel  X  Sisco
               mark

Taken Sworn and subscribed
before me the 27 of November AD 1832
Wm A. Pulis
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State of New Jersey }
Bergen County }  This may Certify that whereas Nathaniel Sisco who was sworn before me Wm. A. Pulis one of the Justices of the Peace in & for sd County and whereas it appear she is one of those aged Rev. soldiers and I believe him to be a man of veracity & truth when I examined him
under the solemnity of an oath he was very careful although he is no member of any church to my knowledge and I do believe he will
sometimes get Intoxicated with liquor yet still I  believe him to be a man when under oath to be a man of truth. Witness my hand & seal of office the 25 of July 1833.
William A. Pulis
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State of New Jersey }
Bergen County SS. 

D.

Personally appeared before me William A. Pulis one of the Justices of the Peace in & for sd County Abraham Freeland
of Pompton Township Bergen County New Jersey who being old & decrepit and Infirm and unable to go at a Distance and I went to his place of Residence and he being duly sworn according to Law on oath deposeth & saith that he was acquainted with Peter I Sisco and
to his certain knowledge he this Deponent saith
that he the sd Sisco was a faithful Soldier while engaged in the services of his Country and further saith that to the best of his knowledge & belief he served one month under Capt. Word one month under Capt Outwater at Hackensack New Jersey & one month under Capt Henry
Duremus and one month under Aleas Remini and then was taken Prisoner in Bergen County New Jersey in the English neighborhood near the liberty pole and then this deponent came away and he believes he was Prisoner as near as he can remember fourteen weeks and a few days Making in all or near as he this Deponent can remember upward of seven months and then Peter I. Sisco was part of the time a fellow associate Soldier of the Revolution war & further saith not.
Abraham Freeland

Sworn & Subscribed before me
this 2nd of Jany. 1833-
William A. Pulis

State of New Jersey }
Bergen  County SS.  }  This may certify that whereas the above named witness was Sworn before me Wm. A. Pulis one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County some time ago or on 2d Jan 1833 he also was an associate soldier of the within applicant for Pension in this Declaration and who was in the skirmish or knows about it and is an aged man and believe him to be a man of veracity & truth &  I believe 
he is a member of the Baptist Church.  Witness my hand & seal this 25th day of July 1833. 
William A. Pulis J. Peace

Abraham Freeland
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New Jersey }
Bergen County } ss:  I Abraham Westervill Clerk of the County of Bergen in the State of New Jersey and Clerk of the inferior Court of
Common Pleas in and for said County Do hereby certify that William A. Pulis Esquire before whom the within and annexed Affidavits marked A. B. C. & D. appear to have been taken
was on the day of the respective dates thereof, and still is, an acting Justice of the peace in & for said County, duly commissioned & sworn & authorized by law to administer oaths.  And that I believe the signature of the said William A.
Pulis to the Jurat of the said affidavits to be genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this
23d day of January A.D. 1833.
Abr. Westervell, Clk
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[left side]
1296
New Jersey
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Elizabeth Sisco
widow of Peter Sisco
who served in the Revolutionary
N.J.
war, as a private
------------------------
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
23 Dollars 44
Cents per annum, to commence on
the ['4th day of March, 1848' crossed out] .
3d February 1853
-------------------------
Certificate of Pension issued the
15th day of August 1853
and sent to
Thos C McEwen
Warwick
N.Y.
-------------------------
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
['July 29, 184{illegible}' crossed out] 
Page 98.   Vol. A
3d Febry 1853
1832

[right side]
C.S. Van Wagoner, Jany, 1/519




alld.
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92208
Act March 3 1818
apl 23 /33
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Elizabeth Sisco widow
Peter Sisco
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Private
Capt Outwater
N.J. Troops
11.187 afs Nov 30/55
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Pensioner
for Feby 3, 1853, Page 98, Vol A
N.J. Feb. 53 - 1296
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Ad. 160 acs Nov 27/55
Dodge
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Reps J Td
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James Evans
Newfoundland
Morris Co
N.J.


Vol S1.  Page 111.
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92208

Declaration of
Elizabeth Sisco

James Evans
Newfoundland
Morris Co
N.J.

Attorney
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State of New Jersey, }
Passaic County } ss.
I, Silas D. Canfield, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for said county, do hereby certify that James Van Orden before
whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto is genuine.

In witness whereof I have set my hand and the seal of said court, this 18 day of April A. D. 1855.
S.D. Canfield Clerk
[seal affixed at left]

[Above text is covering the top part of the  document underneath; following is the remaining text not covered:]

of the County of Passaic aforesaid, who being
duly sworn according to law declares, that
she is the widow of Peter Sisco deceased - and
that the has not married since the death of the
said Peter Sisco, and that she is the identical
Elizabeth Sisco, named in a certificate for
a Widow's pension dated the fifteenth day
of August Eighteen hundred and fifty three - for
twenty three dollars and forty four cents per
annum - and recorded in the pension office on the Roll of Pensioners, under act of February 3d 1858 Page 98. Vol A.

And the Said Elizabeth Sisco further says - that
she makes this declaration for the purpose
of obtaining the bounty land to which she
may be entitled under An "act approved -----
March 3 1855.
                her
Elizabeth  X  Sisco
               mark

Mr Peter Irwin and David Irwin residents of the County of Passaic in the State of New Jersey - upon our oaths declare, that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Sisco in our presence, and that we know
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State of New Jersey }
Passaic County SS }
On this fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five - personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Passaic  aforesaid, Elizabeth - Sisco, aged sixty eight years, a resident of the County of Passaic aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law declares, that she is the widow of Peter Sisco deceased, and that the has not married since the death of the said Peter Sisco. And that she is the identical Elizabeth Sisco, named in a certificate for a Widow's pension dated the fifteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and fifty three for twenty three dollars and forty four cents per annum - and recorded in the pension
office on the Roll of Pensioners under act of
February 3d 1858, Page 98. Vol A.

And the Said Elizabeth Sisco further says, that she makes this declaration for the purpose
of obtaining the bounty land, to which she
may be entitled under the "act approvin -----
March 3 1858.
                her
Elizabeth  X  Sisco
             mark

We Peter Irwin and David Irwin residents of the County of Passaic in the State of New Jersey - upon our oaths declare, that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Sisco in our presence, and that in know
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from our own knowledge that she is the Identical person she represents herself to be.
Petr. Irvin
          his
David  X  Irwin
         mark

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 said Elizabeth Sisco and that she is the person she represents herself to be, and I further certify.That I know the above witnesses, and that they are credible persons - and that I have no interest in this claim.
James Van Orden Justice of the Peace of the County of Passaic
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State of New Jersey }
Passaic County } SS
On this 9th day of April in the year 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Judges in and for the County and State aforesaid Elizabeth Sisco aged sixty five years a resident of the Town of West Milford County of Passaic and State of New Jersey who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed February 3d AD 1853.

That she is the widow of Peter Sisco who was a  Congress passed June 7 1832 at the rate of Twenty three dollars and forty four cents. That she was married to her late husband the said Peter Sisco on the 21st day of February in the year 1806 by one Rev           Marinus a Dutch 
reformed preacher of Newfound land in the County of Passaic and State aforesaid. That her husband the said Peter Sisco died at the town of West Milford County of Passaic and State aforesaid on the 14th of October AD 1840. That she has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband the said Peter Sisco, That her name before her marriage was was Elizabeth Vanorden.  That she has no record of her Said Marriage.
                her
Elizabeth  X  Sisco
               mark

Sworn to and subscribed
before me the day and [cut off]

[following is from a sheet beneath the one above transcribed]
that I am acquainted with Jacob
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year above mentioned
Peter P. Brown Judge
---------------

I the said Judge do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Elizabeth Sisco who subscribed and was sworn to the foregoing declaration that she is a credible person and her affidavit is entitled to full credit and belief.  I further certify that on account of Bodily infirmity that the said Elizabeth Sisco is unable to attend the sitting of the County Court.  And I further certify that I was acquainted with
Elizabeth Sisco widow of Peter Sisco before
she married Peter Sisco and was also acquainted with Peter Sisco the late husband of the said Elizabeth before his marriage and was also acquainted with the Peter and Elizabeth Sisco after they were married that they lived
together as husband and wife and were so reputed and believed to be husband and wife and that the Said Peter Sisco late husband of the said Elizabeth was a pensioner in his life time. I do further certify that the words "doth on her oath", was interlined before executed also the word "preacher".
Peter P. Brown Judge
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State of New Jersey }
Passaic County } ss
On this 9th day of April 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Judges of the County and State aforesaid Jacob Speker aged Eighty eight years a resident of the town of West Milford County and State aforesaid who was duly sworn according to law says on his Oath that he is well acquainted with Elizabeth Sisco Widow of Peter Sisco and who subscribed and was sworn to the foregoing declaration and was also well acquainted with Peter Sisco late husband of the said Elizabeth Sisco and that the said Peter Sisco died on the 14th day of October 1840 that
this deponent was present at the funeral of the said Peter Sisco.

He further says that he was well acquainted with the said Peter and Elizabeth Sisco from the time they were married to his death  That they lived together as husband and wife and were so reputed and believed to be husband and wife that deponent never heard it doubted or brought in question by any person or persons.
           his
Jacob  X  Sheker
          mark

Sworn to and Subscribed
before me the day and
year above written
Peter P. Brown Judge

I the said Judge do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Jacob
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Sheker who subscribed and was sworn to the foregoing affidavit and that his affidavit is entitled to full credit and belief.  And I further certify that the words "County and State aforesaid" was interlined before executed.
Peter P. Brown Judge
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State of New Jersey }
Passaic County } SS.
On this 5th day of May AD 1853 personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Peter
P. Brown aged Sixty two years a resident of the City of Patterson County of Passaic and State of New Jersey who being duly Sworn according to law doth on his Oath depose and say that he is well acquainted with Elizabeth Sisco who
Subscribed and was sworn to the foregoing declaration and was also well acquainted with Peter Sisco late husband of the said Elizabeth
Sisco in his life time that he was acquainted with the said Peter and Elizabeth Sisco before they were married that deponent well remembers of hearing of the marriage of the
said Peter and Elizabeth Sisco at the time stated in her declaration. that deponent lived in the same neighborhood with the said Peter
and Elizabeth Sisco, that the said Peter and Elizabeth Since lived together as man and wife from the time Stated in her declaration untill his
death, that they were reputed and believed to be man and wife.

That the said Peter Sisco was a pensioner of the United States for Revolutionary service. That the said Elizabeth Sisco name-
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before her said Marriage to the said Peter Sisco  was Elizabeth Vanorden.
Peter P. Brown

Sworn to and Subscribed
before me the day and
year above written
Andw. Mead Justice of the peace

I the said Justice do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Peter P. Brown who subscribed
and was sworn to the foregoing declaration or affidavit that he is a credible person and his affidavit is entitled to full Credit and belief.
Andw. Mead Justice of the peace
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State of New Jersey }
Passaic County  } SS
On this 5th day of May AD 1853 personally appeared before me one of the Judges in and for the County and State aforesaid Thomas C McEwen a resident of the town of Warwick County of Orange and State of New York who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he has made Search
and enquiry for the Marriage records of the Rev Marinus who formerly preached at Newfoundland Passaic County and State of New Jersey that deponent has been informed by persons who resided at Newfoundland that the records of the said Marinus had been destroyed.
Thos. C. McEwen

Sworn to and subscribed
before me the day and
year above written
Peter P. Brown Judge 

I the said Judge do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Thomas C McEwen who subscribed and was sworn to the foregoing
affidavit that he is a credible person and that his affidavit is entitled to full credit and belief.
Peter P Brown Judge
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State of New Jersey } 
Passaic County } SS
I, Silas D. Canfield Clerk of the said County of Passaic do hereby certify that Peter P. Brown before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were taken was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, and that his signatures thereto are genuine.  And I do further certify that Andrew Mead before whom one of the foregoing affidavits and a certificate appended thereto was taken and made, was at the time of making the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County & that his signature thereto is genuine.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifty three.
S.D. Canfield Clk
[seal affixed at left]
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/eel

June 8, 1929

Mrs. W. S. Kyes
3584 Fourth Street
San Diego, California

Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.2360, it appears that Peter I. Sisco was born May 10, 1759, in Bloomingdale, Pompton Township,
Bergen County, New Jersey.

He served with the New Jersey Troops as follows:

One month in Captain Ward's Company; one month in Captain Outwater's Company; one month in Captain Henry Doremus' Company; one month in Captain Elias Romine's Company. He was taken prisoner at Hackensack, New Jersey, carried to New York and held in the Sugar House for fourteen weeks and a few days, all of his service amounting to seven months and two weeks, no dates of service given.

He was allowed pension on his application executed January 23, 1833, at which time he was living in Pompton Township, New Jersey.

He died October 14, 1840, in West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey.
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The soldier married February 21, 1806, in  County, New Jersey, Elizabeth Vanorden or Vanarden.

She was allowed pension on her application executed April 9, 1853, at which time she was living in West Milford, New Jersey, aged sixty-five years.

There are no data as to children.

Due to the large number of inquiries similar to yours and the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, the bureau is unable to make a series of investigations and reports pertaining to soldiers of the Revolution for one person.

Two histories are furnished each inquirer.

Respectfully,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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No. 92208
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 23rd 1875.
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Peter Sisco Dec. Pri-
Capt Outwater
N. J. Troops
Rev. War



11189-160-55


James Evans
Newfoundland
Morris Co.
N. J.
Page 41

Aae Good Asso.  Judge
cannot appear in open Court on
acct. of bodily infirmity-
on the 9th April 1853-

Married 21 Febry 1806 by reputation
of long standing-

Died 14 Oct 1840
By Witnesses who were present at
funeral, Cont, widowhood proven
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[left side]
WIDOW, &c.
---------
File No. 2360
Elizabeth Sisco.
Widow,
Peter Sisco,
Priv. Rev. War.
---------------
Index: -- Vol.
Act. Feb. 3. 1853.
Index:--Vol. M, Page 214

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right side]
1929 June 8 Hist. to Mrs. W.S. Kyes - See
letter in Peter Francisco W.11021.  AWF
Page 43

N

11.187


160 Acres
Page 44

May 12 51

No. 1,868
Appl. of Elizabeth
Sisco widow of
Peter

N. Jersey.    32
------
28300
Act 3d Feby:1853

Allwd. Rev: 13 May 53 at
$23.44 per annum
from 3 Feby 1853

Thos. C. McEwen 
Warwick
N.Y.

Nar good
Evidence full

DEPARTMENTOF THE INTERIOR,
Pension Office, Official Business
Page 45

[left side]
Peter I. Sisco Act 1832
Died 15th October 1840,
Paid to his death
F. Bush
Auditor

[right side]
Pension Office
29 July 53
This case is respectfully
referred to 3d Auditor for
date of death of Pensioner
and of last payment

Very Respectfully
S. Cole
Chris Case

D.W.C.      (See other side)
Page 46

Elizabeth Siscoe
Wid. of
Peter Siscoe
$23.44
Died 15th Oct 1840
Page 47

Brief in the case of Elizabeth Sisco Wid. of Peter Sisco of Passaic County and State of New Jersey under the act 3 Feby 1853
----------------------------
Claim,"original", or "for increase".)

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.

Peter Siscoe was a Revl. Pensioner under the Act of June 1832 at the rate of $23.44 per annum and who died on the 15 Oct 1840-

Elizabeth Siscoe his Widow on the 9th April 1853 made application in the Court of the County and State aforesaid under the Act 3d Febry 1853-

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Marriage proven by reputation and long cohabititation
Death by 3 And certificate-

Identity and Continued widowhood by Paroler
Pension allowed at $23.44 per annum
from the 3rd February 1853

August 13th 1853. 

Daniel McCook
Examining Clerk.

Name and residence of Agent
Thomas C. McEwing Esq
Warwick
New York
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Paterson N.J. Dec 29th 1858

Dear Sir

Commissioner of Pensions }
Elizabeth Sisco a Pensioner, and widow of Peter Sisco a private in the Revolutionary War, informs me that she was placed on the pension list some years ago, and that her name is enrolled on page 98 Vol. A. under act of 3 February 1853. And that some person who had acted as her agent some time since had shown her a letter which he had received from Washington in which it was stated that she was entitled to a few hundred Dollars for back pensions. How that she had requested that agent to proceed in making the collection of her dues, which he has not doney will you inform me of within your province, whether she has a claim as above stated.  Otherwise, to whom I can apply for the information required  with hopes of a speedy & decided answer.

Respectfully yours
C. S. Van Wagoner
Page 49

Warwick N. York May 9th 1853

Dr Sir

I herewith enclose the application of Elizabeth Sisco Widow of Peter Sisco for a Pension
under the act of February 3d 1853.

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt.
Thos C. McEwen

Hon L. P. Waldo
Com. of Pensions
Washington
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State of New Jersey,
County of Bergen
SS;  I Abraham Westerwell Clerk of the County of Bergen and Clerk of the inferior court of common pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that William A. Pulis Eg. before whom the annexed affidavit were made and taken (ineligible) of Peter I Sisco, marked R:1 and of Casper Durie