Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2746, Joseph Bennett, New Jersey
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New Jersey
Bennett, Joseph or Bennet
Jane
W 2746
BLWt 2303-100
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State of Pennsylvania S. S.
In the Matter of the claim of Jane Bennet for a
Pension
On this twenty third day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty
Eight personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia Jane Bennet who being 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 7 1838 entitled "an act 
granting half pay and pension to certain
Widows".  That she is the widow of Joseph Bennet who was a private soldier in the Second Regt member of the Jersey line under the command of J.W. Cummings whose certificate is hereto annexed that her husband was in the Continental service under him and she has no other documentary proof of his service than this. She further understood from him, that He was a Sergeant in said service, he enlisted at Newark New Jersey.  He was under General Bloomfield as well as Col Cummings She does not know at what time he enlisted but she understood that his discharge and some other papers were sent to Washington-  She knows that he was in the service during the war, and in the Battles of Trenton, Princeton, Germantown and Brandywine. he was wounded in the neck by a musket ball at the last battle and deponent frequently saw
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the scar. He was always under the command of
Washington. She further declares that She was
married to the said Joseph Barret by a Justice of the Peace of Burlington County New Jersey
on the ninth day of October 1786, as appears by his certificate hereto attached which she obtained from him at the time-  and the said Joseph Bennet died the last day of July 1818- Deponent is now about Seventy years of age- that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 - viz at the time above stated. She further declares that she verily believes that the paper hereto affixed signed by Col Cummings is a genuine paper in his own proper hand writing-

          her
Jane    X   Bennet
          mark

Sworn & subscribed before
me one of the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas for
the City & County of Philadelphia
this the twenty third day of July
A.D. 1838

Hon D Randall

Sworn in Open Court as
per Attestation of Judge
Randall
Rummam Prothy
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Joseph Bennett
&
Jane Langdon
Marrage [Marriage]
Certificate
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I do hereby certify that on the twenty
ninth day of October 1786 Joseph Bennett
and Jane Langdon was Lawfully Married
and Joyned together in the Holy Bonds
of matrimony and by me pronounced man
and wife.  In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto sett my hand and seal the day
and year above written
Thos. Fenimore JP
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Philada.   5458
Pennsylvania
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Jane Bennett
widow of Joseph Bennett,
['who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the' crossed out]
of Philada. County in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a Corpl. & pri. in the [blank] commanded  by Captain [blank] 
of the Regt commanded by Col: Cummings in the Continental line for 24 mos:  N.J. line
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania, Phila.
at the rate of 82 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of May 1840 and handed to ['and' crossed out] C. J. Jack Esqr. of Philadelphia, Present
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1840           $328.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep. '40. 41.00
                                                                   _______
                                                                    $369.00
                                                                    _______
{Act July 7,}
{1838.     }

Recorded by Wm. C. Lantzinger, Clerk
Book A. Vol. 2 -   Page 145.-
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Form for Declaration & Power
of Attorney---
this may be made by
One of the heirs
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
---
Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from the United States.

By an act of Congress of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.

N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.

The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authorities:

State of Penna.
County of Philada.
I, William H Bennett heir at law of Joseph Bennett deceased do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that my father did enter the service in 1776, for the term of during the war and served as a private in the Regiment No. ----- under the command of Colonel Cummings of the New Jersey line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the peace in 1783.

I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to my
father--- on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore, I claim the land that he would be entitled to from the U States--
WIlliam H Bennett

Know all men by these presents, That I, William H. Bennett aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint C.J. Jack Esquire to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
William L Benn

Attest,
Armon Davis
E W David
---
Personally appeared the above named William H. Bennett subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and made oath to the same, and in my presence acknowledged the power of
attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Attest,
E W David

Armon Davis Alderman
and Ex offier & Justice of the Peace
-----
In testimony that the above written Armon Davis
was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Pennsylvania at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature.  I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Philadelphia this Seventh
day of December 1842.
R. Palmer Jr.  Prothonotary or C. Clerk, &c.
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The names of each and all
of the heirs to be inserted
and to be certified that those
so named are the only heirs
at law in fee

Recd Decemr 9th 1842
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STATE OF Pennsylvania S.S.
At a court held for Philadelphia County, December 7 1842 satisfactory evidence was adduced in court, to prove that Willam H Bennett then present in Court was--------

the only child---- and sole heir at law in fee to
Joseph Bennett--- late a Private ----  in the
New Jersey Regiment of the Continental Line of said State commanded by Colonel Cummings

I Richard Palmer Prothonotary or Clerk of the county court do certify, that the above evidence is taken from the records in my office.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my official seal, this Seventh day of December
1842-

R Palmer Jr.  Prothonotary
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-->The above form will answer for the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and other Western States.
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['1007' crossed out]

V7
Jane Bennet
widow of Joseph
2nd regt
on roll for the [illegible]
Corpl. - June 1779

let 27 Augt 38
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I certify that Joseph Bennet the bearer hereof
served as a Soldier during the War and I have to add that to my personal knowledge he was an active, brave, persevering Soldier and I have no doubt but he served or sufferings he underwent in the late war [illegible] orders upon him to the Justice [illegible] Jersey of that Body to whom it belongs--

Given under my hand at Newark
New Jersey this 25th day of April
1796
J.W. Cummings
Late Lieutenant Colonel of the Jersey
Battalion

N.B. He was a Soldier in the Second Regt, N Jersey
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Personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of Philadelphia William Harvey Bennet Son of Mrs Jane Bennet who being duly sworn says that she is a woman of truth and veracity and worthy of Credit as such, and that deponent is her son and that the facts stated by her are just and true according to the best of his knowledge and belief-
William H Bennett

Sworn & subscribed before
me this thirty third day
of July A.D. 1838
Archd Randall
.
Sworn to in Open Court
as per Attestation of
Judge Randall
Rummans Prothy

I certify that Jane Bennet has been duly sworn and to be a woman of truth and veracity- before
me
Archd Randall
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County} ss
I Robert Morris Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do Certify that the Hon Archibald Randall Esq. before whom the within declaration on Oath and affidavit were made and by whom the within Certificate was made and given and who in his own proper hand writing has thereunto severally subscribed his name was at the time of so doing and now is one of the Judges of the said Court of Common
Pleas (which is a Court of Record) duly commissioned and qualified to all whose acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Judicature as thereout.

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Seal of the said
Court at Philadelphia this
23d July 1838.
Robt Morris Prothy
.
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Feb. 7 1840
[stamp:]. PHILADA PA FEB 4

Free


J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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J L Edwards Esq

Dr Sir

With this I enclose the amended Declaration of Mrs Jane Bennett widow of Joseph Bennett 
shewing that she is still his widow and has never married since the death of her said husband

The situation of this poor widow is indeed
deplorable.  She has been at deaths door since she made her declaration in open Court and is now quite ill with the Rheumatism. If therefore there is any case entitled to be taken out of the
usual truly this is one of them. Humanity and justice both require that immediate action should be had upon her claim-

Febuary 4. 1840

Your obt svt
C. J. Jack
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J. L. Edward Esq

Sir

I transmit you the papers of Mrs Catherine Fiss
they were prepared for execution before Judge Randall but owing this being out of town I had to
present their execution before Judge King- In all
the declarations sent I shall adhere to your regulating and have them executed in open Court and attested to by the Clerk- In the other matter of the affidavits upon collateral family- I think it unjust to put the family to the expense and trouble of certificating of the Clerk of the different County that the Justice of the Peace - an Justice of the Peace!  Now in my Histon case - & my Davis case - the affidavits will have to be sent miles off to procure the certificate of the Clerk - I sent you also this various da lyn case-- complet-  My Whitman, case I return authenticated- I presume from her age and
defective memory some mistakes at this distance may have occurred- but I find upon reference to Marshalls Washington pages 172 to 178, that there was a Colonel Smith of Maryland in command of a fort in Fort Mifflin. The regiment might have been a Virginia or Maryland Regiment- again there was an officer of of the name of Smith in Proctors Artillery
He was called "Col Smith" from what date for
new list I cannot tell. His name was James E Smith.
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From a certificate of his sworn to in 1828,. in a case where a Pension has been granted to the soldier- He states that he was in the "Term A Regiment of Artillery, Pennsylvania line, but he is now deceased - I hope from the examination will result in her favor - I sent you the papers
of my Jane Bennett, authenticated as you desire-- I make it a rule to require if they have ever been married again if they have I do not pretend to make their declaration. the trouble and vexations of making their declarations
upon such friends, I hope will not be persisted in--  I am ready to confirm to him new legalating in this particular in all future declarations & cases- Indeed I think, that when the parties appear in the witnesses in open Court & 
call themselves by the names of the deceased husband, and the witnesses testify for them as such- it is more surplusage to ask them to swear they have not been married again-- never the less in future they shall be done-- I send you also the Declaration of my Sarah O Neill Widow of John O Neill formerly in the county of Judge Hopkinson- I sincerely hope to receive certificates in all these cases-  So that these persons may receive their pay on the 4th of Sept

Your obt sevt
C.J. Jack

August 30. 1838.

PY Your form of a declaration has been strictly followed there is not a word in it - of not being married again
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Additional Testimony of
Jane Bennett
widow of
Joseph Bennett
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City of Philadelphia SS:
Before me the Subscriber one of the Aldermen of said City personally appeared Jonathan Palmer Jr. to me well known who being duly affirmed according to law doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Jane Bennett and has known her for thirty five years or more and that she had a husband Joseph Bennett, that she resided in Falls township, Bucks County Pennsylvania and he believes she has sustained the character of a sober industrious woman
Jonathan Palmer Jr

Affirmed & subscribed
before me April 18th 1840
William Milnor
Aldr.
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I William Milnor one of the Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia do certify, that I am well acquainted with Jane Bennett, who is the Widow of Joseph Bennett, who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War; that I knew the said Joseph Bennett about thirty five years ago, and his wife also, that the latter frequently worked in my family, that at that time I resided in Falls township Bucks County Pennsylvania where
the said Joseph Bennett and his wife the present Jane Bennett also resided. Witness my hand seal this 18th day of April 1840.
William Milnor Aldr {seal}

Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County } SS.  I Samuel Hart Esq. Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do Certify that William Milnor Esq. by whom the aforegoing affidavit, Certificate and attestation were made and given and whom his own proper hand writing has hereunto severally Subscribed his name as well as prepared the said affidavit, Certificate and attestation was at the time of so doing and now is an alderman in and for the City of Philadelphia and ex officio Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified to all whose acts as such full faith and credit are  and ought to be given as well in Courts of Judiciary as thereout.

In Testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal of the said Court
at Philadelphia this 18th April 1840.
S. Hart Prothy
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J L Edwards Esq

Dr Sir,

I have the pleasure to be now in the [illegible]  the proof required as to the identity of Jane Bennett widow of Joseph Bennett. Fortunately
for her the request of the department is proving
and was easily complied with- the Alderman Milnor was formerly Member of Congress from
this City, and the other gentleman Mr Palmer
is a member of the Society of friends and is a 
highly respectable citizen- Mrs Bennett
lives removed from Fallington Bucks County
Pennsylvania more than Twenty years. She
is a poor but honest woman-  I hope and
trust that her Pension Certificate will no
longer be withheld-
April 18. 1840
Yours obt svt
C.J. Jack
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Apl 4 1840
Pd
[postal stamp:] PHILADELPHIA APR 8

fre

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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J L Edwards Esq

Dr Sir

In answer to the categorical letter of the 10th
of April, I reply that we have repeatedly informed you that all cases were placed upon a
register and examined in turn, relying upon this
I have not been particular in noting the duty
of transmission of said claims, being pressed
for time this morning. I can only now refer to
one of these case.s That is the case of Jane
Bennett widow of Joseph Bennett. This was
originally transmitted in July or August 1838.
it was returned for further authentication and
transmitted again in Sept. 1838 through the
Philadelphia Post Office.  an answer was received which required additional proof of her being still unmarried and the widow of the said
Bennett-  This was finally sent some 9, 10, 11
or 12 weeks since through this Post Office-  Mrs
Bennett is in absolute want her son tells meus for her pension.
April 3. 1840

Your obt svt
C.J. Jack
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C.J. Jack
Prest.
May 29, 1840
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I William Milnor an Alderman of the City of Philadelphia
do certify that I am well acquainted with Jane Bennett who
is at present an applicant for a pension from the United 
States; my acquaintance with her commenced about the
year 1805 at which time I resided in the Village of Fullington
Bucks County Pennsylvania, Jane and her husband Joseph
Bennett lived within a few yards of my house; and she was
for several years from time to time employed in my family
as a domestic her husband was a labouring man and
was generally reputed to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War, of the fact of her having been the lawful
wife of the said Joseph Bennett I have no doubt whatever
nor have I any doubt of his having been a revolutionary
Soldier
William Milnor
Affd. and subscribed
before me this 16 day
of May 1840
I Rodman
Afd
William H Bennett being duly sworn says that he is
the son of the said Joseph Bennett whom he says not
only [illegible] was reputed a soldier of the Revolution but [illegible]
Hero. that his father and mother were married and
lived in New Jersey, before they removed to Pennsylvania
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That he remembers going with his father from Falsington Bucks County
to Trenton New Jersey to see General B[illegible]
about making due application for his pension, that 
the General received his father very kindly, and Colonel
[illegible] also and gave him money and some groceries.
That they called even the hero of the Revolution and
[illegible] recognized his father as a soldier
of the New Jersey line and his right to have a pension
He is him that his mother is the identical widow of the
said Joseph Bennett who was a soldier of the Revolution
of the New Jersey line
two [illegible] his being [illegible] made 
Sworn to and subscribed before me
the 16th day of May 1846
G. Griscom
William H Bennett

State of Pennsylvania
City & County of Philadelphia I Samuel Hart Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas for the County of
Philadelphia, Do certify that J. Redman
and George Griscom Esquires before whom the
foregoing affidavits were made and
taken and whose names are thereto
subscribed are both of them Aldermen
and ex officio Justices of the Peace in
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and for the City of Philadelphia, duly commissioned
qualified and acting as such, to all whose acts in
that capacity, full faith and credit are and ought
to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at
Philadelphia this 16th May AD 1840
Samuel Hart Prothonotary
per Thomas D Smith
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Joseph Bennett-- Certificate dated the 25th April 1796 S. Colo. J. W. Cumming
of the 2d N Jersey Regiment certifies that Joseph Bennet served as a Soldier
during the war, and that he was active brave and persevering
see the Pension papers of Mrs Jane Bennett
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J L Edward [illegible]
Dear Sir
May Jane Bennet widow of Joseph Bennet
who was a pensioner under the act of July 7
1838. claims to have the Bounty Land due to her
husband who was a private in Col Cummings Regiment of the Jersey line. Her [illegible]
are all made and filed in this office in [illegible]
Pension case
Your [illegible]
[signature illegible]
Philada.
Oct 10. 1842
5458
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Receipt for Want [?] No 2302
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J L Edwards Esquire
Dear Sir
I acknowledge agreeably to your desire the
receipt of a [illegible] No 2302 in from [illegible] William
H Bennett for 100 Acre of Land as the son and
only heir at law of Joseph Bennett deceased
who was a soldier in the N Jersey Line"
Your Obt S
C. J. Jack

Philada }
Dec 17, 1842 }
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Joseph Bennett
No. 2302
Recd Decemr 19th 1842
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2746
Jane Bennett
Widow
Joseph Bennett
Corpl. Continental Line

Act: July 7 1838
Index: Vol A, Page 48
Arrangement of 1870.]
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Jane Bennet
widow of Joseph
Bennett
Copl. 6 mo }
Priv. 18 mos } $82 per annum
act 1838
C. J. Jack Esq
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In the Court of Common Pleas for the City  & County of Philada
Personally Appeared in open court this
day of February
1840. Mrs Jane Bennett widow of Joseph Bennett a Soldier
of the Revolutionary War who being duly sworn according to Law
saith, that she is the identical person who [illegible]
time since her pre pay to the Commission of Pensions for a 
pension - That she has been very ill with Rheumatism
since then and is hardly able now to be out 
often sick
That she has never married since the death of her said 
husband and was a widow at the time of the 
passage of
the act of Congress of 1836.7 & 8 and is now a Widow and
entitled to the Benefits of said act of 1838 -
Jane her X mark Bennett
Sworn & Subscribed }
Before me this fourth day of }
February A D. 1840, in open Court }
Arch Randall Judge Com Pleas

Personally appeared in said Court on the day and year
aforesaid William H Bennett who being duly sworn says that 
he is the son of of the said Joseph & Jane Bennett, and that
his mother is still the widow of the said Joseph Bennett  
never having been married since the death of her said husband
William H Bennett
Sworn & Subscribed }
Before me February 4, 1840 }
Arch Randall }

I certify that it has been duly proved [illegible] that [illegible] Jane 
Bennett is still the widow of Joseph Bennett [illegible] 
and that she has never been married since the death
of her said husband - witness my hand this fourth day of
February 1840.
Arch Randall
Judge
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Pennsylvania }
Philadelphia County } ss.
I Samuel Hart Esq. Prothonotary 
of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do
Certify that the Hon Archibald Randall Esq. before whom
in open Court of Common Pleas of said County the within 
affidavits were this day made and by whom the within
Certificate and attestation were made and given and
who in his own proper hand-writing has hereunto
severally subscribed his name was at the
time of so doing and now one of the Judges of
the said Court which is a Court of Record and of
Law duly commissioned and qualified to all
whose acts as such full faith and credit and
ought to be given by will in Courts of Indicators
as thereon
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Seal of the said Court
at Philadelphia this 4th
February A D. 1840.
S. Hart Prothry