Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 26511, for Jacob Tallman, New York
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(6-1776)

Service  New York

Tallman, Jacob
or Taulman
Hannah

Number  W26511
B.L. Wt. 48837-160-55
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48837 Nov. 24/56
illegible [? And M]

262. 457  [illegible] with
203.676  Act Mar. 3  [illegible]
Nov. 6. '16

Hannah Tallman, wid. [widow]
Jacob Tallman, pri. [private]

Private N.Y. Troops

Lieut. Joseph Requa
Co. Wm. [William] Malcolm

Enl. [Enlisted]-----
Dis. [Discharged]----
Revy [Revolutionary] War

Ad. 160 ac's [? acres] Nov 22 of 56
Dodge

Special by Commr. [Commissioner] Nov. 22 '16
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6429
New York- City-
Hannah Tallman
Widow of Jacob Tallman
NY
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20-Dollars 00-
Cents per annum, to commence on the [struck out:  4th day of March, 1848] 1st October 1855--

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of August 1857 and sent to 

Gen'l [General] Lucius Pitkin
Present

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under Act February 2, 1848, Page 198  Vol. H
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33.407
New York-  City-

Jacob Tallman, dec'd [deceased]
of   in the State of
Who was a private in the    commanded by Captain    of the     commanded by     in the Revolution line for Six Months

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 20 Dollars 00--Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831--and end 1st October 1855

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of August 1857 and sent to

Gen'l [General] Lucius Pitkin
Present

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by G. T. Getty Clerk,
Book H  Vol 1  Page 248
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Hannah Tallman
widow of Jacob Tallman dec'd [deceased] Private in the Revolutionary War--
Claim for Pension & c --

Add Evidence--

Wm. [William] Dixey
Atty [Attorney]
133 Nassau Street 
New York
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Pension Office,
December 11, 1836.

Sir,
I have examined the application of Hannah Tallman, widow of Jacob, and filed it under
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and twenty-six days only, that being the amount covered by the certificate of the comptroller of New York, Mr. Pitkin who appears to have examined the Records at Albany, deposes that the amount of the said certificate was according to the opinion of the officials in the Comptroller's Office only arrearages of pay.  If
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State of New York
Comptrollers Office

Albany Jany [January] 2nd 1857

Sir
In relation to all certificates given at this office, of service in Revolutionary War, it is proper to state that the records upon which certificates are based are not regarded as perfect.  It is well known that service was rendered in this State of which there is no evidence in this office and instances constantly arrise [arise] in which a portion only of the service rendered can be established from the records in this office.  The law under which our list was prepared, was for the payment of those "to whom payment had not been paid", or in other words, arrearages of payment.  See Act of 27th April 1784, N.Y. State laws.

Respectfully
L. Burrows  Comptroller

Commr [Commissioner] of Pensions
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State of New York
City of Brooklyn Kings County}  Ss+

Be it remembered that on this 30th day of May, A.D. 1854, personally appeared before me Hannah Tallman, who being by me duly sworn according to law did depose, and say, in addition to her affidavits her affidavits heretofore made, that her residence is at New Brunswick, in the State of New Jersey, but that she is now temporarily visiting her daughter Mrs. Wendell in the City of Brooklyn & State of New York.--
And she says that when she made her former affidavit she was enabled to fix the precise date of her marriage with Jacob Tallman as of the 3rd day of April 1793, not only from her distinct recollection of that date, but also from the well-remembered facts that it took place two days before her birth day, which she had always been taught to consider as coming on the 5th day of April.  That she had a child born on the 3rd day of May 1794, just 13 months after marriage, and a 2nd child formerly Mrs. Watson, but now Mrs. Wendall, in 1796.
And deponent further days that although well knowing that her husband, the said Jacob Tallman, very many years before his death made a family record of Births Marriages, and deaths up to that time, she at the time of making her former affidavits was ignorant where it could be found, or that
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it could be produced, but that said record so made has proved to have been among the papers in the hands of her daughter, and which is hereto annexed marked "A"-- and which said records in each, and every part is in the genuine handwriting of her said husband and that every item thereof so far as deponents knowledge extends to strictly true--

Hannah Tallman

Sworn to, and subscribed before me, and I hereby Certify that the affiants [struck out:  is a highly respectable resident of this City, and is entitled to the highest credit] cannot reasonably from her age and bodily infirmity attend the Court.

Saml [Samuel] D. Morris
County Judge
Kings County
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State of New York
City of Brooklyn, Kings County} Ss

On this 30th day of May A.D. 1854 personally appeared before me Hannah M. Wendel, who being by me duly sworn according to law did depose and say in addition to her former affidavit, that the annexed record of Births & Marriages & deaths marked "A" is in the genuine handwriting of her late father Jacob Tallman, and that every item therein so far as deponents knowledge extends is true--
And deponent says that she was always informed, and believed, that her parents had a child born, and died before her birth, and that she was the second child--
And further says that said record has been in her possession for some years, but at the time her mother first made her application it did not occur to deponent, as a family bible containing a record was the only record required for--

H. M. Wendell

Sworn to and subscribed the day and the year aforesaid before me and I do hereby Certify that the affiant [struck out:  cannot possibly from her age and bodily infirmity attend the court]--is a respectable resident of this City, and is entitled to the highest credit.

S.D. Morris
County Judge Kings County
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State of New York
City of Brooklyn, Kings County} Ss.

On the 30th day May, A.D. 1857, personally appeared before me Mathew Wendell, who being by me duly sworn according to law did depose and say in addition to his former affidavit, that he often saw the late Jacob Tallman write during his life time, and was well acquainted with his handwriting, and that the annexed record of Births Marriages, and deaths marked "A: is in the genuine handwriting of the said Jacob Tallman, but apparently written many years ago, as in the later years of his life his hand was more tremulous and his writing more irregular--
And deponent further says, that in addition to the particulars of his service as set forth in the former affidavit he has very often heard the said Jacob Tallman say (while declining to apply for a Pension) that he actually served in all more than two years, and in which assertion deponent placed the most perfect confidence from the fact that said Tallman, was one of the most unostentatious, precise, and strictly correct, and truthful men deponent ever knew--

M. Wendell M.D.

Sworn to and subscribed the day, and year aforesaid before.
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me, and I hereby Certify, that the affiant is a highly respectable resident, and Citizen, and has for a long time past held the responsible Office of Health Officer of this City, and is entitled to the highest credit--

S.D. Morris
County Judge
Kings County

State of New York
Kings County}  SS
I Wm [William] H Campbell Clerk of Kings County do hereby Certify that S. D Morris whose name is subscribed to the preceeding [preceding] affidavits is the County Judge of the County of Kings duly elected and sworn, and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such County Judge and verily believe the above signature to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 23rd day of June 1857

W. H. Campbell  Clk [Clerk]
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Memorandum of family ages

Tunis Tallman  Born Sept 27 1714.  Died Oct. 16 1799 Aged 85 years and 19 days

Margaret DeBaun   Born Augt. [August]  22 1717. Died May 9 1771 Aged 53 yrs 8 mos. 25 [days]

Tunis Tallman Margaret DeBaun Married Dec. 11 1747

First Child Tunis Tallman Born Oct 7, 1748
Second Child Maria tallman Born Jany. [January] 1 1751
Third Child Harman Tallman Born Apl [April] 20 1753  Died Aug't 7 1776 aged 23 [years] 3 mo.
Fourth child Abraham Tallman Born Aug't 9 1756  Died Dec'r 1 1820  [Aged] 64 [years] 4 mo. 23 days
Fifth Child Peter Tallman  Born Oct. 22, 1759  Died Nov. 17 1826  [Aged]  67 [years] 0 [months] 26 [days].
Sixth Child Jacob Tallman  Born March 28, 1762

Jacob Tallman Born March 28 1762
Hannah Cole  Born Apr. 5 1770
Jacob Tallman & Hannah Cole Married April 3 1793
First Child Elizabeth Cole Tallman  Born May 3 1794  Died Aug't 18 1795  Aged  1 year 3 Months.
Second Child Hannah Maria Tallman Born Aug. 17 1796

Hannah M. Tallman & Jesse Watson Married Nov. 30  1816--Jesse Watson Died Nov'r. 6 1821
Alfred Augustin Watson  Born Aug't 21  1818
Elizabeth [Watson]  Born Feb 27 1820

"A"
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State of New York
City & County of New York}  Ss

Be it remembered that in this 23rd day of June A.D. 1837 personally appeared before me S Irenaus Prime, who being by me duly [struck out:  sworn] affirmed, according to law, did depose, and say that he resides No. 410 4th Street, in the City of New York--that he is a Presbyterian Clergyman in regular standing, and has been such Clergyman for 24 years, that he was acquainted with Jacob Tallman, dec'd, late of New Brunswick, N.Y. for nearly twenty years before his death, and with Hannah Tallman, his wife, now widow for the same time.
and he further says that he had several conversations with the said Tallman during their acquaintance in reference to the services of the said Tallman during the Revolutionary War--that those conversations commenced soon after their acquaintance, that in all of those conversations said Tallman stated that his services entitled him to a pension, but that he had determined not to claim a pension as long as he was able to get along without it--observing that his objects in serving his country were higher than the consideration of a pension--but deponent fully deposes that on no occasion of said
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conversations, did said Tallman ever express a doubt as to his time of service, being such as to entitle him to a full pension, or that he hesitated to make such application from any doubt of its being readily allowed.
And deponent further says that from the time of the commencement of their acquaintance he ever considered said Tallman, as one of the most scrupulous, and strictly truthful men he had ever met and of that correctness and method of thought, and action that left no doubt of the truth of this recollection of his early life.  And particularly as his first conversations were while his mind possessed nearly all of its naturally strong manly vigour.
And deponent further says that he delivered the funeral discourse upon the death of said Tallman in the first day of October 1855, as reported in the New York Observer of October 11th 1855--that at the time he delivered said discourse he was ignorant that the said Tallman had so near the close of his life been compelled by reason of his advanced age and limited means to apply for a either pension or Bounty Lands--but aside from that unintentional error deponent feels the deepest conviction of the truth of every work spoken of the moral and religious character of the
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deceased

S. Irenaus Prime

Affirmed to and subscribed before me the day and year last above written, and I hereby Certify that the affiant is a highly credible witness, entitled to full faith, & credit--

J. Van Namee
Comr. [Commissioner] of Deeds
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State of New York,
City and County of New-York,}  ss.

I, Richard B. Connolly, Clerk of the City and County of New York, and also Clerk of the Supreme Court for said City and County, do hereby certify that J. Van Namee whose ame is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Commissioner of Deeds for said city and County, dwelling in the said City, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same.  And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such commissioner, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court and Coutny, the 21st day of July 1857

Rich. B. Connolly    Clerk
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Middlesex County
Ss}

On this twenty seventh day of May in A.d. 1857 personally appeared before me, Thodore Frelinghuysen of this county & now the President of Rutgers College, who being by me duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is well acquainted with Mrs. Hannah Tallman, widow of the late Jacob Tallman, dec'd [deceased] & has known both of them fo more than fifty years--& that that any testimony Mrs. Tallman may give is entitled to full belief, as she is a conscientious and pious woman --and that her late husband Jacob Tallman was a Graduate of Rutgers college & at the time of his death was reputed to be the oldest graduate thentofore living:  that he was a man of excellent & irreproachable character and entitled to full belief.

Theo. Frelinguysen

Taken & Sworn before me--May 27, 1857.}
Abm. [Abraham] P. Prevost
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please in and for Same County.
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State of New Jersy
County of Middlesex}

I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the Court of Common please in & for the County and State above mentioned do hereby testify that Abraham P. Provost whose Genuine Signature appears within is, and was at the time of Signing the same a Justice of the Court of common pleas in & for the County & State aforesaid duly authorised to administer oaths for general purposes  That all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit; and that Said County Court is a court of [illegible: 
 ? word] having General Jurisdiction.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of office at New Brunswick this 12th day of June AD 1857

N Booraem Clerk.
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New York

Religious Depa[cut off]

New York Thursday, October 11, 1855
Sidney E. Morse & Co-editors
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Observer

Department

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NEW YORK
RELIGIOUS
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1855. SIDNEY E. MORSE & CO

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THE OBSERVER. 
 For the New York Observer.
THE HOARY HEAD A CROWN OF GLORY
Remarks at the funeral of Jacob Tallman, Esq.,* who died at Brooklyn, October 1, 1855, in the 94th year of his age.
BY THE REV. S. IRENAEUS PRIME.

The wisest of men, and speaking by the inspiration of infinite wisdom, has said, "It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting for that is the end of all men, and tho living will lay it to his heart." The same wisdom in the midst of those proverbs which like apples of gold in pictures of silver, are beautiful to contemplate and precious to possess, has said, "The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness." Perhaps there was never an occasion when the fitness and the truthfulness of both of these declarations were more illustrious, than the present. We come to the house of mourning indeed, but under just those circumstances when we feel that it is good to be herefor the messenger of death who has called us hither  was an angel, and the portal of life through which the spirit of our father and friend was borne, was the gate of heaven. Those who knew him best and loved him most, may mourn that the husband, the father, the friend is gone, but their mourning is more than comforted by the fulfillment of that great and precious promise, so graciously given and in his case remembered, "thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season." The hoary head is a crown of glory and now that it is to be laid in the dust from which it came, that other promise comes with the melody of heaven, to the bereaved and desolate, that this mortal shall put on immortality, and the crown which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give is a crown that fadeth not away.
"The days of our years are three score years and ten," said the Psalmist, but he whose remains are with us now, had prolonged his pilgrimage "by reason of strength" not to fourscore years only, but to more than fourscore years and ten. With an energy of body and vigor of mind that have failed in millions younger far than he, he weathered the storms of all these years; the almond tree had indeed flourished, but the strong men did not bow themselves; and to no old man who walked our streets could so few of the Preacher's marks of old age be applied. But of none, and with gratitude to the Author of all that is good, we make the record, of none could it be more emphatically said, "the hoary head is a crown of glory," for of him it may with a truth that is beautiful to believe, as we come to his grave, be said, it was found in the way of righteousness.

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spirit that gladdened his home in the days of his prime, survived the frosts of more than 90 winters, and shed its genial warmth and brightness over the evening of his days.
He was not alone. The Word of God was the man of his counsel. It was the well of living water from which he drew rich and unfailing draughts to refresh his soul. It was the glass in which he saw reflected the future of immortal life and joy. He had communion with the Unseen and Eternal. Those who know how peacefully and cheerfully the last years of his life were passed, must have admired the serene and cloudless brow which he always wore, and have felt how good it is to have Jehovah for a friend when all earthly friends are passing away.
And death had not fort ton him, though he had often and long passed him by. As if kindly warned, the aged father comes with the companion of his youth to the house of their only child, and here he lies down to dies; with children's children around him to make his bed in his sickness, to soothe him with gentle ministries of love, and close his eyes. No fierce and raging disease assails his trembling frame. It is time for him to die. The arms of infinite love are around him. He fears no evil as he walks in the dark valley, and when the shadow of death gathered around him, the staff of almighty grace was his comfort and stay. Even in the last hours when his ears were closed to the voices of the world, the name of Jesus was audible to his soul, and his lips that before had refused to do their office, could now declare, "It is good, it is good, it is good."
To her who now sits a widow, to her who now for the first time mourns a parent dead, to those grandchildren who weep that the pleasant face of the loved and lovely old man is gone, we have nothing to offer in the way of consolation beyond the record of such a life, and the hope it inspires. We thank God that good men may diethat good men may lively leave such an example that we who remain may be followers of them who through fait and patience inherit the promises.

*The subject of this notice resided, for the closing years of his life, at New Brunswick, N.J., where his remains were interred. He was remarkable for his uniform serenity of character, strict integrity, religious humility, and that good health which temperance in all things usually ensures. He lived to the age of 94, and never drank wine or spirits as a beverage!

For the N.Y. Observer.
THE LORD'S SUPPER
The hears of many Christians will respond to the just strictures recently transferred to your columns from the Princeton Repertory, upon the injudicious manner in which the Lord's Supper is sometimes conducted. From various indications is is apparent that the
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score years and ten. With an energy of body and vigor of mind that have failed in millions younger far than he, he weathered the storms all these years : the almond tree had indeed flourished, but the strong men did not bow themselves; and to no old man who walked our streets could so few of the Preacher's marks of old age be applied. But of none, and with gratitude to the Author of all that is good, we make the record, of none could it be more emphatically said, "the hoary head is a crown of glory," for of him it may with a truth that is beautiful to believe, as we come to his grave, be said, it was found in the way of righteousness.

Jacob Talman was born in Rockland county, N. Y., in the year of our Lord 1762, and he was, therefore, at his decease, in the 94th year of his age. His ancestors were of the Dutch settlers of that region, upright and independent tillers of the soil, and he in early life was accustomed to the same pursuits. With a tall, symmetrical frame, a model of manly vigor and beauty, with principles of incorruptible integrity, an evenness of temperament that the vicissitudes of a  checkered life had never shaken, and a soul imbued with the spirit of the gospel of peace, he spent a life as free from reproach as it is ever our privilege to record of our fellow men. Nearly one hundred years a "pilgrim and a sojourner on the earth," in constant intercourse with his fellow men, three whole generations of whom have lived and died around him, he would be willing now to meet them face to face, and say, "which one of you have I ever intentionally wronged?"

In the war of our Independence he was a soldier in his country's cause, and he was one of the very few, the only one of that noble ar
my whom I ever had the pleasure of knowing who said that he did not desire to be paid for what he did for his country ! To my knowledge he refused to take the necessary steps to secure the pension which was justly his due, an he died without ever receiving a cent, while thousands are squandered from an over-flowing treasury on undeserving claimants.

The religion of Christ which he had professed for more than half a century was in him a rich and beautiful experience, shedding a heavenly radiance over his character, imparting additional lustre and grace to those traits which are the ornament of human nature, and making him an example, a living lesson in the power of the gospel, and endearing him to those who love goodness for itself, and delight to see its embodiment in the person of a friend. There are none around his remains, except her who mourns the loss of a tender and devoted husband, and her who mourns the loss of the kindest and fondest parent, who have other memories of him than with "a hoary head." And in their eyes, that head was always a crown of glory. It was never stained with dishonor. It was clothed with dignity, and reflected the purity of his purpose, for his heart was ever in the right place, and as open as the day to melting charity. He had seen one after another of his companions and friends falling by his side, till he was left almost alone in the world. But there was no misanthropy, or despondency, or sourness: the same loving, cheerful, sunny 

*The subject of this notice resided, for the closing years of his life, at New Brunswick, N.J., where his remains were interred. He was remarkable for his uniform serenity of character, strict integrity, religious humility, and that good health which temperance in all things usually ensures. He lived to the age of 94, and never drank wine or spirits as a beverage!

For the N. Y. Observer.
THE LORD'S SUPPER.

The hearts of many Christians will respond to the just strictures recently transferred to your columns from the Princeton Repertory, upon the injudicious manner in which the Lord's Supper is sometimes conducted. From various indications it is apparent that the evils referred to are awakening attention and calling for a remedy. Some of them might be obviated by the introduction of prescribed or accustomed formulae, but in many Christian minds the remedy would seem likely to become worse than the disease. Verbal forms of human preparation, belong to a comparatively non-intelligent stage in the process of Christian development, and do not consist with the Scripture idea of the mature Christian man. They are aids to imperfection; leading strings for infancy; crutches for the lame; cushions for the lazy; too often furnishing mere words of devotion to those whose hearts have no abundance out of which to speak, or degenerating into prompters to those who "act a part." They suit well with a low standard of piety and Christian experience ; they harmonize with ministerial inefficiency ; are serviceable for the " novices" who ought to be glorifying God in "making brooms," but are useless or worse to "the man of God thoroughly furnished." We would write upon them all, " Lawful but not expedient."

The evils alluded to, whether remediable or not, are moreover the results of individual error of judgment, or deficiency in taste, but there
is a greater and more prevailing evil connected with this subject, viz: The diversity in the general order and mode of celebrating this sacred ordinance, which obtains among the various denominations of Christians whose views and hearts sympathize in it. 

In the administration of the ordinance of baptism by those evangelical denominations who hold common views of its proper mode and subjects, there is perhaps no very important difference of practice; but the varieties in the form of administering the Supper of our Lord are so numerous, that probably no Christian entering for the first time a sister church on a sacramental occasion, feels satisfied that he will find himself at home in the service.

If it were found possible to prepare such a general outline of the form of administration as could obtain the sanction of evangelical churches, a form which should secure identity of order without sameness of expression, it would, we think, supply a most valuable desideratum, affording comfort to many Christian hearts in our ever-commingling population, and constituting an additional and impressive bond and badge of Christian unity.

In the construction of such a form, the following points would be of importance.companions and friends falling by his side,
1. It should be of reasonable brevity. The service, as at present conducted in some communions, is too protracted to be edifying.
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Daniel H Bissell; Abijah Mans Jun; Preston King; James M Cook; George Geddes; Alexander Williams
326 NEW-YORK OBSERVER: THURSDAY OCTOBER 11, 1855.

ger which threatened our common country. 
This was signally verified in the struggle of
the Revolution, in the war of 1812, and in that later war, when at the first blast of the summoning trumpet your sons hastened to their weapons, and forming themselves in serried columns, tendered more regiments to the republic than the government with a proper regard to patriotic enrolments in other States could consistently accept. 
But there is another class deserving, if pos-
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clared the insufficient basis of a durable peace as not protecting Europe from new and savage aggressions on the part of Russia; then the cause of the Allies was proclaimed as the cause of national independence, not to be secured merely on the Black Sea but in Asia and on the Baltic, cause in which Poland and Finland and Italy were interested: the war was asserted not to be one of State policy, but one which
concerned the regeneration of Europe: these declarations and assertions are now reiterated with redoubled force. Moderation and generosity towards
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tended to him, and the felicitous circumstances in which he meets the farmers of New York.
From our French Correspondent.
IMPRESSIONS PRODUCED IN EUROPE BY THE
TAKING OF SEBASTOPOL.
FRANCE, September, 1855.
Object of this letter.--Different impressions in England and France.--Tons of Austria--Embarrassing position of Prussia and the rest of Germany.--Glance at the impressions of Italy, Spain, Switzerland, &c.
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but the prudent cardinals and prelates keep silence, for they know not whether to mourn or to rejoice in the triumphs of the Western Powers. The phantom of British Protestantism frightens them, and yet more the progress of liberal institutions.
The Spaniard except the Carlists, are with the
French, and [illegible] their government for not taking like Piedm [illegible] tive part in the Eastern war. I should not [illegible] shed if the cabinet of Madrid should [illegible] an auxiliary force; but it is very late [illegible] Switzerland is against Russia; cler [illegible] is is the opposite ranks 
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peated attempts to break into stores and shops. They made their appearance at the mouth of the Kalamazoo, and after looking about some, pushed up south as far as the tanneries in the town of Ganges, and broke open Robinson & Plummer's store, robbed
them of $1,600 worth of goods, and made back again down the lake. Off Port Sheldon they were seen by a vessel's crew anchored there, with their plunder all open to view, and were pulling on down as carelessly and fearlessly as though they were pursuing a legitimate calling. There is said to be upwards of twenty in the gang. They sail one small schooner
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DOMESTIO.
NEW YORK STATE NOMINATIONS -- The following are the nominations of four political parties in this State, for the election to take place next month:
REPUBLICAN OR FUSIONISTS
Secretary of State, Preston King
Comptroller, James M. Cook
State Engineer, George Geddes
Attorney-General, Abijah Mann, Jun
State Treasurer. Alexander Williams
Canal Commiss'r, Daniel H. Bissell
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NEW-YORK OBSERVER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1855.
MISCELLANY
BRITISH FINANCES - COST OF WAR.
From the London Economist, August 18.
However willing the country is to bear all the necessary expenses in order to conduct the war with vigor and success, it is nevertheless desirable that we should have clearly kept before us the actual expenditure that we are incurring. Including the cost of collecting the revenue, the entire expenditure of the current year, according to the estimates laid before Parliament during the session which has just expired, amounts to no less a sum than £94[cut off]

PAULING INSTITUTE
A. Select Family Boarding School for Boys at Tarrytown, Worchester County, N. Y. - WM. G. Weston, A. M. Principal assisted by competent Teachers. The Twenty-fourth Semi-Annual Session will commence on Monday, Nov. 5th 1855. Circulars may be found at T. J. Crown's, Stanford & Swords, Appletons, and E. H. Wilcox's, and at Clark, Austin & Smith's.

MORRIE FEMALE INSTITUTE Morristown, N. J. Miss J. A. Seeley, Principal. The semi annual session of this Institution will commence on Monday the 10th September. The school has been well sustained for the last seven years. During the last year the building has been greatly enlarged, and will now accomodate an additional number of pupils. The Principal will be assisted by well qualified and experienced teachers. The method of instruction is the result of much experience in teaching. For further particulars, see circulars, which will be sent on application to the Principal. Young ladies wishing to become teachers, and daughters of Clergymen, will be received on very reasonable terms.

THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, 150 Nassau Street New York, have just issued a Memoir of Rev. Justin Edwards, D. D., with steel portrait, 12mo, cloth 60c, gilt 80c.
This Society also publishes,
The Family Testament and Psalms, with maps, notes and instructions by Rev. Justin Edwards, D. D.; Letters to a Daughter, by Dr. Sprague, a new edition, Songs for little Ones at Home; The Illustrated Tract and Bible Primers; a new edition of Legh Richmond's Annals of the Poor, beautifully illustrated.
The publications of the Society may also be obtained of N. P. Kemp, 28 Cornhill, Boston; O. D. Grosvenor, 120 State St Rochester; H. N. Thissell, 363 Chestnut at. Philadelphia; Rev. S. Gueiteau, 73 Fayette St, Baltimore; E. L. Kerrison 17 Chalmers St, Charleston; Rev. M. Waldo, 197 Camp St New Orleans; Seely Wood, Walnut St, near Fourth, Cincinnatti; Rev. C. Peabody, 61 Market st, St. Louis; W. Y. Johnson, 50 Lasalle st, Chicago.

MINNESOTA LAND OFFICE - TRACY & FARNHAM, Brokers and General Land Agents, St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota
Collections promptly attended to, and proceeds remitted at current rates exchange.
Landed investments made that will nett from fifty to seventy five percent, a year with certainty, and often twice that per center.
Minnesota is now settling with unparallelled rapidity, and probably no part of the West ever offered so great inducements for the investment of capital. Those that have the means and foresight to secure lands while they are so cheap will make [illegible].
We can now locate warrants to great advantage. We especially call the attention of capitalists to the following offer: - 
We will [illegible] warrants, or make investments in land in the name of the party furnishing the funds, without charge, whenever they will give us a bond to deed us the land say time with five years on our repaying the purchase money at twenty [illegible] per cent, a year interest for the use of the same thus ensuring to them a safe investment and a large per [illegible].

THE WINTER SESSION OF D. H. PIERSON'S BOARDING SCHOOL FOR BOYS will commence on the first Monday in November. A few vaccancies will occur for boys under fourteen years of age. For circulars, apply to the Principal at Elizabeth, N. J.

MOUNT WASHINGTON COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE 218 Fourth Street, on Washington square (entrance is Macdougal street), CLARK & FANNING, Principals, opens its thirteenth academic year on Monday, the 10th of September. The Junior, Middle and Senior Departments occupy three stories of the building, erected by the principal for the accomodation of this institution. The rooms for recitation are large, pleasant, and numerous. Pupils are received from seven years of age and upwards to the number of two hundred, and the instruction provided is in the proportion of twenty pupils to teacher. They are allowed daily exercise in the open air of the park, and instructed by able professors in all the branches required for business or College, including a knowledge of Natural Science, French, German, and Spanish; Commercial Arithmetic and Bookkeeping; Civil Engineering and Surveying; together with the arts of Drawing and Painting. 

QUINCES, PEACHES, TOMATOES, OR ANY OTHER FRUIT may be preserved in a perfectly fresh state for years, without sugar, or other preservative property, by the use of Ludlow's Patent Self-Sealing Can. This is the only positively Self-Sealing Can made, as all others require wax, solder or cement. They are acknowledged by all who see them, the neatest, safest, and most convenient cans in use. Full directions for putting up fruits, vegetables, &c., will accompany the cans. For sale, wholesale and retail, by TAYLOR & HODGETTS, Manufacturers of Planished Tin Ware
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NEW-YORK OBSERVER; THURSDAY OCTOBER 11, 1855.
clergyman in Northern New YOrk, some time since, several clergymen were asked if the salary they got supported them? They all unanimously said "No." Then,, according to the last gentleman's remarks, none of them were faithful clergymen. That was untrue, for there were never more faithful clergymen than in Northern New-York.
The following resolutions were adopted [illegible]
repeated threatenings of an incurable disease, she had made death a familiar thought, and her private papers have disclosed to her sorrowing friends that at no time, during the last three years, would the pale messenger have found her altogether unprepared. In particular she delighted much in thinking of that "blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ," and of the glory and blessedness [illegible]

belief; others wondered that the members of a Christian communion would remain silent and inactive in presence of such an accusation.
Respectable fathers of family, fall of a just indignation, addressed to the Directory petition demanding that pastor Leblois should be punished for the fault he had committed. I must here remark that the Directory is, at Strasburg, the Executive Committee of the General Consistory, or of the Superior Ecclesiastical Bod of the Lutheran denomination.
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Correspondence of the N. Y. Observer.
ROME AND THE PONTIFICAL STATES.
FRANCE, July, 1855.
Preliminary remarks. Quotation from a pamphlet of the Marquis d'Aseglio. - Cardinal Antonelli.  - Deplorable situation of the Roman States. - Character of the people. - Agriculture, finances, armies, &c. - The cholera. - Highway robberies and assassinations.
I wrote to you lately about the unhappy state of affairs in Spain. You noticed that that country, essentially romantic, has nearly reached the last degree of weakness, degradation and anarchy. If we now turn our attention to the provinces placed under the immediate control of the Pope, we find an analogous state of things. Each day brings the saddest news from Rome, and from the Pontifical States. The presence of foreign armies is hardly sufficient for the maintenance of peace and ontward order. The population is enervated, degraded, miserable, without moral energy or physical activity. Every thing flags and falls to ruin. There is not in Europe, even including Turkey, a worse administration than that of the Holy Father, and of his ecclesiastic counsellors. What more decisive and overwhelming proof could be given , that Romanism is an erroneous and fatal religion! If the Pope was the representative of God on the earth, as he boasts of being, and if the church of Rome possessed the doctrine and precepts of the revealed truth, is it not manifest that the people placed under the immediate and absolute authority of that Pope and that church, should be the most intelligent and flourishing of all people? Well, it is precisely the reverse. The children of the ancient Romans have descended lower than any other nation; they are reduced to envy the fate of the Italians, crushed down as they are under Austrian tyranny. From the fact we can reasonably infer that the religious system which produces such deplorable effects is founded on imposture and fraud.
One of the men who most honor Italy at the present time, the Marquis Massimo d'Azeglio, formerly President of the State Council of Sardinia, published not long ago a pamphlet, in which he points out with as much force as sagacity, the vices of the Pontifical government. "I have been convinced by a long practice," he says, "that in Rome, more than anywhere else, the natural conscience is stifled by the artificial, and that the sense of equity which God himself imprinted on the heart of every man, is likewise stifled by the justice of the canonical right.
....I, though a simple individual, must now remind the Court of Rome of the judgement which is written against her in the gospel. In the course of several centuries, more than three millions of subjects have been intrusted to the government of the Roman Court. That court exercises upon them a twofold authority - spiritual and temporal - in all its plenitude. What has it done with its subjects? It has behaved in such a manner that no less than four armies have been necessary to replace the Pope on his throne, and that foreign intervention will ever be required to maintain him there....."
The reproaches of "the Marquis d'Aseglio are just though severe; all Italians, all enlightened men in Europe have approved them. The political and moral maxims which are in great favor at Rome are false maxims. It is something artificial; human ordinances are placed above the laws of God, as the illustrious Marquis so well said. The three millions of men placed under the papal power, have neither personal dignity, nor education, nor prosperity of any sort. They who have been in relation with foreighnors, are ashamed of the ignoble despotism by which their native country is disgraced; the peasants and the paupers are debased by dint of misery. They are compelled to work to fill the purse of idle priests, useless monks, and the little which is left to them is insufficient for their support. What then is there surprising in the fact that the inhabitants of the Pontifical States, tired of the clerical government, availed themselves in 1849 of the first opportunity to get rid of it? French, Austrians, Spaniards, Neapolitans united their batallions to replace them under that detested authority. The unfortunate subjects of the Roman Court succumbed after a long, a bloody resistance. They saw with despair the government restored to asters as incapable as they were void of humanity.
At the time of his advent, Pius IX, had promised periodically to call together a sort of consulting assembly, composed of delegates from the provinces, and to place a few laymen in the ministers' council. But both these measures have been laid aside. The provincial delegates, though they had been chosen with great care and wariness, dared make some observations respecting the management of the public revenues. This frankness on their part could not be tolerated, and they were sent back home with an indefinite adjournment. The lay counsellors of the cabinet have also, one after the other, given place to members of the clergy. These two elements were too heterogeneous; they could not act in concert. At present, the high offices of the State, without exception, are filled by priests; it is a priveleged and exclusive caste which takes the lead in public affairs, and you will easily understand what re the consequences of such a regime; no public education for the masses of the inhabitants; no industry; no well kept routes; no equitable repartition of the taxes; none of the elements which constitute modern civilization.
The people say nothing; they have no right to speak. In general, the wealthy inhabitants of the Roman States endeavor to shake of the thought of their humiliation by seeking, wherever they can, sources of divertisement and pleasure. The character of the inferior classes is timid and cowardly. The following curious fact will illustrate my meaning. Thousands of individuals were assembled in one of the squares of Rome, to take part in a tombola or lottery; a few thieves had crept in among the crowd, and having been discovered by the police, an altercation ensued. Immediately those Romans (what Romans!) were seized with a panic, and fled hastily in all directions! There was a frightful tumult; many women and children were trodden under foot during the squabble.
Agriculture is nearly as low as commerce and industry. The subjects of the Pope know nothing of the new improvements; they still use the same aratory implements as under Numa Pompilius or Cincinatus. The soil, though naturally fertile, produces nothing; a great portion of that country has been changed into foul marshes, and pestilential miasms arise from those plains, which, with a little care, would yield enough to support a large population. The public finances are not better managed. What passes through the hands of the priests goes into their purse, and is consumed in amusements or ambitious pursuits. The annual deficit is considerable, though the government spends very little for the public benefit. Pius IX, has often been compelled to contract loans; and strange to say, has addressed himself to Jews, to MM. de Rothschild, always meeting them with a flattering show of kindness. The want of money imposes hard obligations; and Boniface VIII, or Sixtus V, who caused the children of Israel to be burned, would be deeply incensed if they could see their successor lavish caresses upon them.
I will now say a few words about the Pope's soldiers. The fact is that the poor pontiff has no soldiers. On several occassions he endeavored to form an army, but all his designs proved abortive. There are in the Roman States many police agents and a few gendarmes, but no regular troops. When a bishop or a cardinal is MInister of War, how could he organize a respectable militia? Is not this a bad joke? As there is no national army, the consequence is that foreignors are the true masters of the country. Truly, the Sultan of Constantinople has fallen very low, and yet he has soldiers to guard his person; the spiritual Sultan of Rome is not even on a level with the successor of Mahomet.
To fill the measure of misfortune, the cholera morbus is raging furioiusly in several provinces of the pontifical domain. Skillful physicians are wanting; the ecclesiastical governors, seized with terror, abandon their post to take refuge in isolated habitations, thus leaving the inhabitants a prey to the dreadful scourge; and those unfortunate people, besotted by excess of misery, make processions in honor of the immaculate Vigin, or visit false relices, hoping in vain to find a remedy against disease and death.
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tion with foreigners, are ashamed of the ignoble despotism by which their native country is disgraced; the peasants and the paupers are debased by dint of misery. They are compelled to work to fill the purse of idle priests, useless monks, and the little which is left to them is insufficient for their support. What then is there surprising in the fact that the inhabitants of the Pontifical States, tired of the clerical government, availed themselves in 1849 of the first opportunity to get rid of it? French, Austrians, Spaniards, Neapolitans united their battalions to replace them under that detested authority. The unfortunate subjects of the Roman Court succumbed after a long, a bloody resistance. They saw with despair the government restored to masters as incapable as they were void of humanity. But their resentment still subsists; and if some day it should happen that the foreign troops had to leave the Pontifical domain, certainly on that day the Cardinals and the Pope himself would be driven out as insufferable plagues.

But what is Pius IX. doing, in presence of this enmity, and of these calamities? Nothing; except to proclaim the Immaculate Conception, to deliver in the conclave insipid homilies, to send apocryphal relics to Catholic sovereigns, and to waste his time in ridiculous and puerile ceremonies. It is not he who in reality exercises the power. He leaves that care to a few cardinals, and to the Jesuits. The unfortunate pontiff never had much intelligence or decision of character. His mind is weak, and so his heart and will. In the beginning of his reign he had conceived generous designs, and promised the establishment of liberal institutions, forgetting that liberty and popery are absolutely incompatible. His disappointments and misfortunes have opened his eyes on the foolishness of his designs. Now enslaved by his counsellors, a prisoner of the French and Austrian troops, he has forever given up all his ideas of reform and of progress. His indolence and melancholy are still increased by his bad health. During the winter he remains shut up in an apartment of his palace; and when the summer comes he takes up his abode in one of his splendid country residences, and that is all. Pius IX, is dead though living; when God shall call him out of this world, his departure will leave no place empty, for he is already treated as if he were no more. Poor pontiff! He should excite pity rather than anger. That automaton, though wearing a triple crown, cannot bear the weighty heritage of a Gregory VII, or of an Innocent III.; and how many times, doubtless, among the splendors of the Vatican, he has regretted the humble position and quiet life of a village priest.

Cardinal Antonelli, Pius IX.'s prime minister, is not more distinguished by his intellectual talents or firmness of soul. None of his past actions prove that he is one of those men destined by God to overrule the fate of nations with the power of their will. But he is a pliant, insinuating sort of a man, skillful in contriving sophisms for the defence of the worst causes, opposed to all innovations, little scrupulous as to the means for attaining his object, and incapable of yielding to a movement of clemency or generosity.

Cardinal Antonelli is an excellent instrument in the hands of the Jesuitical faction; he can render services without becoming too powerful, and that is what made him preserve so eminent a post. Recently an attempt has been made to assassinate him. But as the judicial debates are not public in Rome, it is impossible to know with any degree of certainty what motives or grievances influenced the assassin. A sentence of death has been passed, and the guilty man has suffered capital punishment with almost stoic courage. As no wound had been inflicted, Cardinal Antonelli has attended as usual to the discharge of his duties.

After thus characterizing in general terms the miserable condition of the Roman States, it is proper that we should give a few more particulars.

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son: the spiritual Sultan of Rome is not even on a level with the successor of Mahomet.

To fill the measure of misfortune, the cholera morbus is raging furiously in several provinces of the pontifical domain. Skilful physicians are wanting; the ecclesiastical governors, seized with terror, abandon their post to take refuge in isolated habitations, thus leaving the inhabitants a prey to the dreadful scourge; and those unfortunate people, besotted by excess of misery, make processions in honor of the immaculate Virgin, or visit false relics, hoping in vain to find a remedy against disease and death.

In so miserable a situation, it is not surprising that the number of banditti should have increased to fearful proportions. The country is covered with them. Driven to despair, a multitude of individuals travel over the high roads, stop the public coaches, plunder the travellers, and stab without mercy any one who would attempt to resist. The audacity of these brigands is such, that they penetrate into the small towns, and in broad daylight devastate the houses and massacre the inhabitants. Not long ago, at Massa Lombarda, a small town of the province of Ravenna, the banditti invaded the church during the celebration of the Mass, stripped those of the audience that were most richly attired, and carried away the most precious objects. The Pope's gendarmes dare not fight these assassins, and many take part with them. The excessive severity of the punishments does not cure the evil, it serves only to aggravate it.

Where then shall we look for a remedy to so much misery? There is but one. The pope and the priests are incapable of governing a people in the nineteenth century; they must give place to more intelligent and honest men.

OBITUARY.
The untimely and sudden death of John F. Receer, son of Iliram Becker, Esq., of Ann Arbor, Mich., has produced a most painful shock in a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. He was a graduate of the University of Michigan, and had just been admitted to the bar in Detroit. Of fine talents, an excellent scholar, of pleasing personal appearance and address, a Christian by profession and of blameless life, he was just about to enter upon his professional career under auspices of unusual promise. He had visited a brother at Superior City near Fond du Lac, and was on an excursion through the wilderness to St. Paul, where another brother resides, accompanied by a friend and three guides. On Friday, August 21st, they had stopped for dinner. A double barrelled shot gun was lying in the long grass near young Becker, which he carelessly took by the muzzle and drew towards him. One of the hammers caught in the grass, and the barrel exploded, lodging the charge in his arm just below the elbow. He bled profusely and fainted. His companions succeeded in staunching the blood and bringing him to; but he was very weak. They carried him until night in the bark canoe of the party. He slept some, but suffered from thirst and sickness of the stomach. They however, did not deem him in any immediate danger. In the morning his friend determined to push on and procure aid, leaving him in charge of the three men. At about half past eleven of the same morning he sank away and died without a struggle. The loss of blood must have been excessive, and he appears to have died from consequent exhaustion. They buried him in the wilderness, twelve miles from Sandy Lake, in the direction of Lake Superior. His parents and other members of the family were to have met him at St. Paul, at the house of his brother. Alas! alas! they have now gone with no other hope than to regain his remains and to give
them a Christian burial.

Little comment is necessary. The facts speak for themselves, and convey a lesson of the uncertainty of life, and of the instability of all human hopes,
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State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex}

I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County and State above mentioned do hereby Certify that Abraham P. Provost whose Genuine Signature appears within is, and was at the time of Signing the Same a Judge of the Court of common pleas in & for the County & State aforesaid duly authorised to administer oaths for general purposes  That all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith & Credit; and that Said County Court is a court of [illegible:  ? word] having General Jurisdiction.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at New Brunswick this 12 day of June AD 1857

N Booraem  Clerk.
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Jacob Tallman

For
A Pension and Arrearages of Pension

Wm. [William] DIxey
Atty [Attorney]
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State of New York
City & County of New York} Ss.

"A"

On this 15th day of August A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me Lucius Pitkin a Notary Public in and for the County and State above named Jacob Tallman a resident of New Brunswick in the State of New Jersey who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the various Acts of Congress granting Pensions to persons who served during the Revolutionary War--
That he is now 93 years of Age--that during the Revolutionary War he resided in what is now Rockland Co. [County] but then composed a part of Orange Co. in the State of New York--that he was at various times during said War drafted to, and did serve in the Militia against the Enemy--Making services in all about the period of two years, but each of his several services from long age he doe snot now distinctly recollect.
But he distinctly recollects that in or about the year 1780 he was drafted in said County in a detachment under Lieut. Requa which said detachment was afterwards attached to a company commanded by Captain Jonathan Lawrence--that he served in this Company for about the period of 4 months during which time he was in an engagement with the enemy at Fort Herkimer in the State of New York.  He believes that the name of the Col. [Colonel] of said Company was Malcolm but is not now sure & was at Schenectady N.Y. same year--

Jacob Tallman

(over)  (sworn)
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Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of August A.D. 1855--

Lucius Pitkin
Notary Public
New York
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Application for Bounty Land under Act of 1855.
Printed and sold by Thomas Wood, 158 Nassau Street, N. Y.
Declaration by the Widow of a Deceased Person who has not had a Land Warrant.

STATE of New Jersey
County of Middlesex 
ss.
On this 3d day of October A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty six personally appeared before me, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County and State aforesaid, Hannah Tallman aged 87 years, a resident of New Brunswick in the State of New Jersey, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Jacob Tallman deceased [crossed out - deceased, who was a] who sometimes in the early part of his life time might have as other members of his family did signed his name Taulman) who was a private in the Company commanded by [crossed out - Captain] Lieutenant Joseph Requa in the Regiment commanded by Col William Malcolm in the 
.
Revolutionary War,
-
That her said husband entered the service of the United States on or about the Thirty first day of July A.D. 1780, for the term of several different periods and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days,
---
-
---
and was honorably discharged at the expiration of said periods day of ARS- She further states that she was married to the said Jacob Tallman in Somerset County W.Y. on the 2d day of April A.D. 1793 by one Reverend Mr Reed a Presbyterian Clergyman and that her name before her said marriage was Hannah Colethat
her said husband died at Brooklyn New York on the first day of October
A.D. 1855, and that she is now a widow and further that
No record evidence or eye witnesses of her Marriage can be
procured, and that she has certificate of the Same

She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled
under the Act approved March 3, 1855."
Hannah Tallman
We, L. Pitkin resident of New and Hannah M. Wendall
residents of the City of Brooklyn in the State of New York
upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing Declaration was signed and acknowledged by Hannah
in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements
of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. H. M. Windell
Pitkin
The foregoing Declaration and Affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and
year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the
person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
of River
Judge of the Court of Comm
places in
and for the County
of Middle State of Mary
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State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex}Ss
I Nicholas Booream Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County & State above mentioned, do hereby certify that Abraham P. Provost whose Genuine Signature appears above is and was at the time of signing the Same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn:  that all his official acts as such are intitled [entitled] to full faith & credit: and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of record having General Jurisdiction.

Given under my hand & Seal of office at New Brunswick this third day of October AD 1856
N Booream Clk [Clerk]
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203676
Claim 
of 
Jacob Tallman
for Bounty Land
Act of March 3rd 1835

William Dixey
Atty [Attorney]
77 Nassau St.
New York
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State of New York
City & County of New York}  Ss.

On this 15th day of August A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me, a Notary Public--within and for the County and State aforesaid, Jacob Tallman, aged 93 years, a resident of New Brunswick; in the State of New Jersey, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Jacob Tallman who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Jonathan Lawrence--in the Regiment of drafted Milita [Militia] commanded by Col. Malcom (as he now believes) in the war of the Revolution declared by the United States on the .... day of ..... 18...   That he was drafted at Rockland Co. (then Orange Co.) N.Y. on or about the .... day of .... 1788 for the term of [blank] and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days, and he further says that he was in the service several different times during the Revolutionary War--Once for 4 months, was in an engagement at Fort Herkermer [Herkimer] in the State of New York--at that time he served under Captain Lawrence and St. Requa--this last named service, according to his best recollection was, in the year 1780 and was honorably discharged at one time at Schenectady New York on the .... day of .... A.D. 1780

He makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which he may be entitled under the Act approved march 3d, 1855.  He also declares that he has not received a Warrant for Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.

Jacob Tallman

We, William Gormly and Matthew Wendell, residents of Brooklyn in the State of New York upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing Declaration was signed and acknowledged by Jacob Tallman--. in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
W Gormly
M. Wendell

The foregoing Declaration and Affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written: and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons: that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.

S. Pitkin
Notary Public
New York
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County}  Ss.

On this 3rd day of October AD 1856, before me, A Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, duly authorized to administer oaths for the city and County & State aforesaid personally appeared Hannah Tallman who being by me duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that she resides at the city of New Brunswick in the state of New Jersey, that she is the widow of Jacob Tallman, deceased (who sometimes in the early part of his life might have, as other members of his family did do, signed his name "Taulman") who was as she is informed and believes a Private under the command of Lieutenant Joseph Requa, in the Regiment commanded by William Malcolm, that he served at different times during said war, at one time [struck out:  commencing] as she is informed and believes July 31, 1780, at another [struck out:  commencing] October 31, 1780, and that he served at various other times under commanders unknown to her, making in all a period of two years in service in the Revolutionary War.  and she further
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states that she was informed by her husband Jacob Tallman in his life, and believes to be true, that during some portion of his said services he was attached to Captain John Lawrence's Company, and also Capt. Bells, that he was in the engagement at Fort Herkimer, and that he was also called out to watch the movements of the Sloop of War Vulture, on the Hudson River.  She further states that at the time of his performing said services he was a resident of Rockland formerly Orange County in the State of New York--and deponent further says that she was married to the said Jacob Tallman in Somerset county N.J--on the 3rd day of April AD 1793 by one Rev. Mr. Reed a Presbyterian Clergyman and that her name before her said marriage was Hannah Cole--
that her said husband died at Brooklyn New York in the State of New York aged 94 years on the 1st day of October AD 1855, and that she has not
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married since the death of her said husband, but is still a widow.  That she makes this affidavit for the purpose of obtaining such pension money as Pension or arrearages of Pension as she may be justly entitled to under any act of Congress, on account of the services of her husband in the Revolutionary war, that she has no certificate of Marriage and there is no public or family record thereof [struck out:  Hannah Tallman] That her said husband was a brother of Tunis Tallman, who she believes wrote his name "Taulman," & Abraham Tallman who were as she has been informed pensioners from Rockland Co.  And also that the annexed paper marked "A" is in her late husband's hand writing.

Hannah Tallman

Sworn to and subscribed Before me the day and year first above written, and I hereby certify that the claimant is unable to appear in court by reason of her age, and bodily infirmities, and therefore the above declaration was taken by me privately at [struck out:  her] my place of residence.

Abrm [Abraham] P. Provost
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex, New Jersey
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State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex} Ss

I Nicholas Booream Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State above mentioned do hereby certify that Abraham P Provost whose Genuine Signature appears above is and was at the time of signing the Same a Judge of the Court of common pleas in and for the County & State aforesaid duly Commissioned & Sworn; that all his official acts as such are intitled [entitled] to full faith & Credit; and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of Record having General Jurisdiction

Given under my hand & Seal of office at New Brunswick this third day of October AD 1856

N Booream Clk [Clerk]
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in RW   
In making application to the Government for Bounty lands given to men engaged in [struck out:  the] our Armies--(I wish to be understoon as having only served in the Militia in the Revolution) having never served since the Peace of 1783--in the revolution I serven several different times--Once for 4 mos was in an engagement at Fort Herkermer [Herkimer] in that time we were attached to Capn. [Captain] Jona [?Sawmill's] Company, our number being to [too] small to form a Company by itself.  If my recollection serves me our Col.'s name was Malcom  I never saw him but once and may be mistaken in the name  I served on several other occasions but they were for shorter periods, and I cannot recollect them [? or] under [illegible]
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My memory not being good any more.  But I well remember that I always considered myself as having served as much as 2 years.

If I should succeed in this, I shall also apply for a Pension and if [crossed out:  I succeed] and if successful they shall add to my comfort, being in the 94th year of my age, with but [crossed out:  little] little left to subsist on.
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No. 15.422
Hannah Tallman,
wid [widow] of Jacob

New York,

Let. W. Dixey Dec 11/56
Genl. L. Pitkin Aug 8, 1857
Admitted same date

July 7, 1838
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Power of Attorney
T. Wood, Successor in Gen. II. Bell. Stationer, 158 Nassau St. N.Y.

Know all Men by these Presents, That
I, Mrs. Hannah Tallman of New Brunswick New Jersey
have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint William Dixey of the City Count and State of New York my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name, place, and stead to examine all papers, and documents in relation to the Services of my husband Jacob Tallman (or Taulman) in the Revolutionary War in file in Washington City or elsewhere, to procure copies of all said papers or the papers relating to said Services, to apply for a Pension & to receive any, and all arrearages of Pension that may be allowed to me for the Services of my said husband, to receive any certificate of Pension or other allowance or awards that may be made by the Pension Office, or other Department of the United States also to prosecute any and all other claims that I may have against the Government of the United States on account of the Services of my said husband in the Revolutionary War--giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever [illegible] to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 3rd day of October--in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty six-

Hannah Tallman

Sealed and delivered in the presence of 
H. M. Wendell
L. Pitkin

State of New Jersey
[crossed out:  State of New York,]
County Middlesex}ss.
Be it known, that on the 3rd day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty six before me a Judge of the court of Common Pleas [crossed out:  in and for the State of New York] for Middlesex county State of New Jersey, duly commissioned and sworn, dwelling
Personally came Mrs. Hannah Tallman to me personally known and the contents of the above letter by attorney having been first read over & fully explained to her [crossed out:  and] acknowledged the above Letter of Attorney to be her free act and deed.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name [struck out:  and affixed my seal of office] the day and year last above written.
Abrm [Abraham] P. Provost
Judge of the court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex State of New Jersey

(over)
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State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex} ss.
I Nicholas Booream Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and & for the County and State above mentioned do hereby Certify that Abraham P. Provost whose Genuine Signature appears above is, and was at the time of signing the same a Judge of the court of common pleas in and for the county and State aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn that all his official acts as Such are entitled to full credit, and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of record having General Jurisdiction

Hereunder my hand & Seal of office at New Brunswick this third day of October AD 1856
N. Booream Clk [Clerk]
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Hannah Tallman
Wid: of Jacob Tallman
Private Revoyl War for 
A pension & 
Arrearages of Pension

July 7, 1838.
New York
W. Dixey
Atty
77 Nassau St
N. Y.
No 203,676
1
Land Warrant
No 48.837.
---
-
Peter G Paul
Deceased
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State of New York
Comptrollers Office
Albany, Sept 12th 1856
fill the following viz:

I hereby certify, That on searching the Records in this office for the Registry
of Certificate issued in pursuance of a law, passed April 27, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of Levies and Militia for their services in the late war, and for other purposes
threin [illegible] I find the following viz:
Names 
No. of Book
No. of Certificate
Date
£
s
d
Rank & name of Company Officer
Rank & name  of Field Officer
Jacob Taulman Private
3
11817
July 31 1780
1
3
1
Lieut. Comm Joseph Requa
Col. Wm Malcolm
11837
Oct 31 1780
8 
0 
0 
Lieut. Comm Joseph Requa
Col. Wm Malcolm

I have examined the Rolls for the items above
set forth £ 9.3.1 and find them to be correct
A. W. Lee
Clerk
Albany, Sept 12th 1856

Seal
Compt Office
State of N Y

Philip Phelps
Dep Comptroller
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The original of which the within is a copy was in the 24th day of October 1856 filed with the claim of Hannah Tallman for Bounty Lands under the Act of March 3, 1856 and the claim in Number 203.676, the said certificate being filed as additional evidence to the claim of Jacob Tallman deceased bearing the above number.
William Dixey
Attorney for Hannah Tallman
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State of New York
City and County of New York
Hannah M. Wendell of the City of Brooklyn being duly sworn doth depose and say that she is now 60 years of age, that she is the wife of Doctor Matthew Wendell and that daughter of Jacob Tallman deceased and Hannah Tallman in the annexed affidavits mentioned, that she knew the said Tallman to live together as man and wife and that they were reputed so to be, and that the fact of their marriage was never called in question by their acquaintances, that he died on the first day of October 1855 and that her mother has since remarried a widwo.
And she further says that her said father was a native of Rockland or Orange County, New York, where he lived in the early part of his life.  That he was a graduate of the College at New Brunswick, New Jersey and before his death said to be the oldest living graduate therefrom.  That she had after
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heard him speak of his services and the officers under whom he served as in her said husbands affidavit set forth.
That she is personally knowing to the fact that some of her father's brothers wrote their names "Taulman" and that in early time he is informed and believes to be true that such was the general family way of spelling the name they being of dutch descent. 
And she further says that her said father was a brother to Tunis, Abraham, Herman, all of whom as she is informed served in the Revolutionary War, some of whom afterwards drew pensions, but her said father although claiming a right to a pension always expressed a reluctance to make an application for any allowance up to the time of this making his application for County Land as in the annexed paper mentioned. 
And further says that
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she has no interest in said claim beyond the natural feeling of a child for a parent. 
Hannah M. Wendell

Sworn and subscribed before me this 21 day of October 1856 and I hereby certify that Hannah M. Wendell is a credible witness. 
Lucius Pitkin
Notary Public
New York
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State of New York
City and County of New York
Natthew Wendell of the City of Brooklyn and County of Kings begin durly sworn doth depose and say that he had been a practicing physician for the last 30 years and is now the Health Officer appointed by the Common Counsel for said City, that he was acquainted with Jacob Tallman and Hannah Tallman in the annexed affidavit mentioned for 32 years before the death of the former and knew them to live together as man and wife and that they were reputed so to be and that the fact of their having been married was never called in question by their acquaintances and that said Jacob Tallman died at the City of Brooklyn on the first day of October 1855 and the said Hannah Tallman has remained a widow since that time  That he is knowing of these facts by reason of having married their daughter Hannah M. whose affidavit is hereto annexed in the year 1831 and the said Jacob Tallman having died at deponents
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house.
And deponent further says that said Jacob Tallman was a native of Rockland County, New York, and a graduate of New Brunswick College, New Jersey, that he was of Dutch extraction and that as he is informed and believes at as early a period as the Revolutionary War the family generally spelled their names Taulman, which is the Dutch manner of spelling the same.
And deponent further says that he has after heard his said father in law speak of his services in the Revolutionary War and that he mentioned as officers under whom he had served the names of Col. Malcolm, Captains Lawrence and Bell and Lieut. Requa, that he served at the battle of Fort Herkimer and was after ordered out as a guard on the Hudson River and once as a watch upon the movements of the sloop of War [illegible]
That he after spoke of being entitled to a
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pension, but declined making an application until he should be compelled by necessity to do so and expressed a wish that his brothers should do the same, but that his brother Tunis, and deponent believes one or more did become pensioners but are now all of them dead.
And deponent further says that he has no interest in said claim. 

M. Wendell MD
Health Officer of the City of Brooklyn
Sworn and subscribed before me this 21st day of October 1856 and I hereby certify that Matthew Wendell is a credible witness. 
L. Pitkin
Notary Public
New York
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Pension Office
August 27, 1856
Sir
The application of Jacob Tallman for bounty land under the act of March 3, 1856 at 203.676 has been examined and inspected.
There is, in this office, no evidence of the alleged service of the claimant.  It is probable the desired evidence can be obtained on application to the Comptroller at Albany.
I am, Very respectfully
Your obedient Servant
C.  H. Rhett for Commissioner
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State of New York
City and County of New York
Lucius Pitkin of said City and County, Counsellor, Notary and Commissioner being duly sworn doth depose and say that in the matter of the services of the name of Jacob Tallman in the annexed papers mentioned he made a personal examination in the office of the Comptroller  assisted by the Comptroller's Clerk and there found in the Registry of Certificates issued to those to whom arrearages of Pay remained due at the close of the Revolution the name of Jacob Taulman as in the annexed Certificate set forth. 
That upon a further examination of said "Registry Certificates" he found the names of Abraham Herman and Tunis (or as there written [illegible] and Thunis) Taulman all of which are proved in the annexed affidavit to have been the brothers of Jacob Tallman, the applicant's husband. 
And deponent further says that upon an examination of the Registry of the several Certificates given to the same person for different periods of service that the name was indiscriminatly written Taulman, Tallman and Talman but deponent was informed by residents in Albany that the former was the old Dutch mode of
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spelling the name which has since been modernized into Tallman.
And deponent says that he continued his examination to the "Master Rolls" but could not on any of the Records find the signature of any one of the family but the name appeared to have been spelled according to the particular ideas of the respective officers, which fact the Clerk in that office expressed a readiness to certify should it be required.
And deponent says that he also found in a Return made by Lieut. Commanding Joseph Requa for July 1780 the name of Jacob Taulman and on the same Return it is noted in writing that Captain Jonathan Laurence was transferred from said Company which he had been commanding: thus verifying the affidavit of said Jacob Tallman made for Bounty Land just before his death (which deponent is informed is now on file in the Pension Office)  that he served in the Company commanded by Captain Jonathan Laurence. 
And deponent further says that he was informed by the Officials in the Comptrollers  Department at Albany that these several [illegible] Certificates were proofs only of the arrearages of pay due to the individual and therefore proof positive of services to that extent.  They are no
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proof that further services might not have been rendered for which either payment has been made or no claim for payment presented.
And deponent further says that the annexed affidavit marked "A" signed and sworn to by said Jacob Tallman was drawn by deponent and sworn before him as Notary Public at the time therein specified and at the same time of making an affidavit to obtain his Bounty Land, he then stated that he never had intended, if he could avoid it, to ask for a pension, but that his extreme age and limited means rendered it necessary for him to so do.  And deponent is informed that he died about six weeks after and that the same was never presented to the Pension Department. 
Lucius Pitkin
Sworn and subscribed before me this 21st day of October AD 1856 and I hereby certify that Lucius Pitkin is personally known to me to be a credible witness
Witness my hand and official seal
R. A. Adams
Notary Public
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New York, July 21st 1857
Hon. George C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
In presenting to you further and additional proofs in the case of the application of Hannah Tallman, widow of Jacob Tallman, a Revolutionary Soldier deceased for a Pension I deem it my duty as her Agent and Attorney to give some reasons for the delay which has occurred.
From the first moment that the late Jacob Tallman, shortly before his death, made his application for bounty land, which was filed with you, and an affidavit for his pension, which was not presented until after his death, in proof of the widow's rights, I have never doubted the full justice of the claim both for bounty land and pension. - This arose from his high character and the respectibility of his connection, and that confidence has been strengthened by the important fact that every statement made by him even in the minutest detail has since, as you will find by a close examination of all proofs, been fully corroborated by records, the existence of which at the time those statements were made, we were both profoundly ignorant.
The case stood thus when I was notified by your Department that his claim was
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suspended, his name not being found no record" but in said letter I was kindly advised to apply to the Comptroller of Albany for evidence.
Having, before receiving your letter, been informed that Mr. Tallman had died, and a widow survived, claims were prepared for Mrs. Tallman, with the strongest proofs of his services, including a Certificate obtained by your suggestion from the Comptroller for both bounty land and pension - 
The [illegible] of her claim for Bounty Land was duly admitted by you in the Issue of Warrant No. 48:837, 24th book 1856.- 
The only questions now raised as to her claim for pension are contained in your letter attached to these additional proofs. 
1st The proof of marriage at a certain date? This is providentially found in a record, beyond what is required by you in your letter, and this [illegible] known to exist at the time of the former affidavits, and showing by the hand writing, independent of further proof, that it must have been made at an age where he could not have anticipated such a use of it (Record annexed) - The fact of marriage at a particular date having been there proved beyond a doubt and in such a manner as to show that not only full, but technical reliance and credence, should be given to the other statement
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of the affiants, I proceed to the consideration of the point.  
The length of term of service
To comply in the first place with all that you have required in your letter I have obtained the required Certificate from the Comptrollers Office, which is hereto attached - that a Certificate of a certain time is not presumptive evidence or in fact any evidence that there was not a further length of service - thus leaving Mr. Tallman's affidavit without any legal presumptions against it
Thus I should have more than complied with all your requirements - but in addition to that I have been able to accumulate proofs from the very highest sources that a doubt should not rest upon Mr. Tallman's right to a pension while living or his wife after his death.
Besides the affidavit of Dr. Wendell, in reference to his reputed services and the affidavit of the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, late United Senator from N.J. in which he says "that he (Mr. Tallman) was a man of excellent and irreproachable character and entitled to full belief" - which is hereto annexed
I unexpectedly discovered a record
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of the sermon preached at the funeral of the late Mr. Tallman hereto annexed to which I wish to call your particular attention.
From the facts therein set forth deeming the evidence of the Clergyman important and he being absent from the City, considerable delay occurred in obtaining his affidavit which is hereto annexed and this affidavit I must consider as deserving great consideration and most conclusive in its bearing - here is a most exemplary christian long before his memory could have failed him in several conversations with his Pastor, a circumstance that should carry more conviction than the "repute and belief in a   neighborhood"  - which in most cases arises from from no better foundation than what some good old" man has oft told to those around him of what was done in "Washington's times" and that to perhaps, without ever having taken any part in the Service.   You certainly need not be reminded that "neighborhood repute" at this late day can arise from little else - yet this, as slight as it is, is properly  regarded as corroborative evidence in support of the Soldiers oath - if so, how much more must these facts, in part supported by record evidence, go to corroborate Mr. Tallman's entire oath and establish a full claim
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for two years services.
When speaking as sworn to by Mr. Prime nearly twenty years ago of his right to a pension on no occasion did he ever express a doubt as to his term of service being such as to entitle him to a full pension
And it cannot be said that he was ignorant as to what constituted that right for independently of his general intelligence he has one or two brothers then drawing pensions and must have been full acquainted with the requirements.
Dr. Wendell makes oath "that he very often heard the said Jacob Tallman say (while declining to apply for a pension) that he actually served in all more than two years" and their acquaintance has extended some thirty years. 
Then comes the affidavit of Mr. Tallman now on file in which he says "that he was a various time during said war drafted and did serve in the militia against the enemy making his services in all about two years.  Here is a positive allegation notwithstanding Mr. Tallman was very particular and conscientious about its wording.  But what Mr. Tallman really
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meant by about two years is fully explained by a  small strip of paper, written deliberately in Mr. Tallman's own hand and attached to the papers now on file either in the application for Pension or Bounty Land in which he says "I well remember that I always considered myself as having served as much as two years" -  to this I would respectfully all your attention.  Tis true that this last is not reduced to the form of an affidavit but being penned by a man of the character he has been proved to have been it may be regarded as a record left behind him to explain that "about" was intended for "as much as" or rather more than two years - this affidavit for a pension is not as full I believe as the one for Bounty Land and therefore permit me to refer to to that  
Again Mr. Tallman makes oath that he served at "various times" upon that he has no doubt.  Now the Certificate of the Comptroller is only for the time her served under Requa and Lawrence for 3 months and 26 days which is which is sworn to by him as one of those of about four months and the correctness of his memory is well proved by the harmony of this statement with the records - hence all the other times are continued additions, and it is worthy of notice
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that in his written memorandums he speaks of serving under Captain Bell and others and elsewhere mentions being called out at the time the [illegible]  opened the North River at the time Arnold deserted.Under all these circumstances can there be a doubt that Mr. Tallman's positive oath that he served about two years, his remembrance which he has recorded in his own hand that he served as much as 2 years and now in file his repeated statements to Dr. Wendell that he had served more than two years and his conversations with the Rev. Mr. Prime are all strictly true and what should give the fullest weight to every word of his is that it proceeds from one who until near the close of his life has too much delicacy to accept his Country's bounty  and then only under the painful circumstances stated by himself.
And may I not here respectfully urge that all corroborating evidence is merely to sustain the credibility of the soldier's own oath that the evidence in this case shows that Mr. Tallman was a man to use the language of the Hon. Mr. Frelinghuysen "of excellent and irreproachable character" and of the affidavit of Rev. Mr. Prime "the most scrupulous and strictly
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truthful he had ever met and that correcting and method of thought and action that left no doubt of the truth of this recollection of his early life and particularly as his first conversations were while his mind possessed nearly all of its naturally strong and manly vigor thus fully establishing his credibility. 
The strength of his memory is further sustained by the record evidence as far as it goes and by the further proofs of his declarations made nearly twenty and thirty years ago. ermit me in conclusion to ask that the evidence placed on file in the application for bounty land may also be reexamined in connection with this as I believe that some small items of proof that could not be divided were placed along with that claim.  Such for instance as the statement made in Mr. Tallmans own hand writing alluded to.
I know that it is my duty to place before you facts and leave you to draw your own deductions, but I trust in this case I may be pardoned if I have allowed myself to be betrayed from my good intentions of making simply an explanation and have
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closed with an argument which if it gives no aid I trust will give no offense.  

I have the honor to remain
Very Respectfully your Obedient Servsant
William Dixey
No 133 [illegible]Street
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New York, August 5th, 185

Geo. C. Whinting
[illegible[ of pensions etc.  
Sir
You will please permit General Lucius Pitkin to have access to all papers and proofs forwarded by me to your department in the matter of Hannah Tallman widow of Jacob Tallman deceased a Private in the Revolutionary War. 
You will also please recognize him as acting as attorney fr me and deliver to him the Certificate of Pension when issued to Hannah Tallman
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
William Dixey
133 [illegible] Street
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State of New York
Comptroller's Office
Albany September 12, 1856

I hereby certify that on searching the Records in this office for the Registry of Certificates issued in pursuance of a law passed April 27, 1784, entitled "An Act for the settlement of the pay of Levies and Militia for their services in the late war and for other purposes therein mentioned," , I find the following, viz:
Name: Jacob Taulman Private 
No. of Book 3
No of Certificate 118817
Date July 31st 1780 
L 1  S 3 D 1
Lieut. Commanding Joseph RequaRank and Name of Field Officer Col. Wm Malcolm

Name: Jacob Taulman Private 
No. of Book 3
No of Certificate 118837
Date  October 31 1780 
L 8  S     D
Lieut. Commanding Joseph Requa
Rank and Name of Field Officer Col. Wm Malcolm


I have examined the Rolls for the items above set forth
9.3.1 and find them to be correct
A.W.Lee  Clerk

Phillip Phelps Comptroller
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State of New York
City and County of New York

Matthew Wendell of the City of Brooklyn and County of Kings being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has been a practicing physician for the last 30 years and is now the "health officer" appointed by the Common [illegible] for said city, that he was acquainted with Jacob Tallman and Hannah Tallman in the annexed affidavit mentioned for 32 years before the death of the former and knew them to live together as man and wife and that they were reputed so to be.  And that the fact of them having been married was never called in question by their acquaintances and that said Jacob Tallman died at the City of Brooklyn on the first day of October 1855 and that the said Hannah Tallman has remarried a widow since that time.  That he is knowing to these facts by the reason of having married their daughter Hannah M. (whose affidavit is hereto annexed) in the year 1831 and the said Jacob Tallman having died at
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deponents house.
And deponent further says that said Jacob Tallman was a native of Rockland County, New York and a graduate of New Brunswick College, New Jersey, that he was of Dutch extraction and that as he is informed and believes at as early a period as the Revolutionary War the family generally spelled their names Taulman which is the Dutch manner of spelling the name.
And deponent further saus that he has after heard his said father-in-law speak of his services in the Revolutionary War and that he mentioned as officers under whom he has served the names of Col. Malcomb, Captains  Lawrence, and Bell and Lieut. Requa. that  he served at the battle of FOrt Herkiner and was after ordered out as a guard on the Hudson River, and once as a watch upon the movements of the sloop of War Culture.  
That he after spoke of
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being entitled to a pension but declined making an application until he should be compelled by necessity to do so. and expressed a wish that his brothers should do the same, but that his brother Tunis and deponent believes [illegible] aware did become pensioners but are now all of them dead.
And deponent further says that he has no interest in said claim. 
M. Wendell
[illegible] Offices of the City of Brooklyn

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of October AD 1856 and I hereby certify that Matthew Wendell is a credible witness
Lucius Pitkin
Notary Public 
New York
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New York
City and County of New York

Hannah M. Wendell of the city of Brooklyn being duly sworn doth depose and say that she is now 60 years of age, that she is the wife of Doctor Matthew Wendell  and the daughter of Jacob Tallman deceased and Hannah Tallman in the annexed affidavit mentioned, that she knew the said Tallmans to live together as man and wife and that they were reputed so to be and that the fact of their marriage was never called in question by their acquaintances that he died on the first day of October 1855 and that her mother has since remarried a widow. 
And she  further says that her said father was a native of Rockland or Orange Counties New York where he lived in the early part of his life and that he was a graduate of the college at New Brunswick New Jersey and before his death said to be the oldest  living graduate therefrom.  That
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she had after heard of him speak of his services and the officers under whom he served as in her husband's affidavit set forth.
That she is personally knowing to the fact that some of her fathers brothers wrote their names Taulman and that in early time she is informed and believes to be true that such was the general family way of spelling the name they being of Dutch descent, 
And she further says that her said father was a brother to Tunis, Abraham, and Herman all of whom she is informed served in Revolutionary War some of whom afterwards drew pensions but her said father although claiming a right to a pension always expressed a reluctance to make an application for any allowance up to the time of his making the application for Bounty  [illegible] as in the annexed paper mentioned. 
And further says that she has no interest in
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said claim beyond the natural feeling of a child for a parent.

Hannah [illegible] Wendell
Sworn and subscribed before me this 21st day of October AD 1856 and I hereby certify that Hannah Wendell is a credible witness

Lucius Pitkin
Notary Public]
New York
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State of New York
City and County of New York
Lucius Pitkin of said City and County, Counsellor, Notary and Commissioner being duly sworn doth depose and say that in the matter of the services and the spelling of the name of Jacob Tallman in the annexed papers mentioned he made a personal examination in the office of the Comptroller assisted by the Comptroller's Clerk and there found in the Registry of Certificates found to those to whom arrearages of pay remained due at the close of the Revolution the name of Jacob Taulman as in the annexed Certificate set forth.
That upon a further examination of said "Registry of Certificates" he found the names of Abraham Herman and Tunis (or as there written Theunis and Thunis) Taulman all of which are proved in the annexed affidavit  to have been the brothers of Jacob Tallman, the applicant's husband. 
And deponent further says that upon an examination of the Registry of the several Certificates given to the same person for different periods of service that the name was indiscriminately written Taulman, Tallman and Talman, but deponent was informed by Residents of Albany that the former was the old Dutch mode of
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Spelling the name which has since been modernized into Tallman

And deponent says that he continued his examinations to the "Month Rolls" but could not on any of the Records find the signature of any one of the family but the name appeared to have been spelled according to the particular ideas of the respective officers, to which fact the clerk in that office expressed a readiness to certify should it be required.

And deponent says that he also found on a Return made by Liert. Commanding Joseph Requa for only 1780 the name of Jacob Taubman and on the [illegible] return it is noted in writing that Captain Jonathan Laurence was transferred from said Company which he had been commanding; thus verifying the affidavit of said Jacob Tallman made for Bounty Land just before his death (which deponent is informed is now on file in the Pension Office) that he served in the Company commanded by Captain Jonathan Laurence.  

Lucius Pitkin 
Sworn and subscribed before me this 24th day of October AD 1856  And I hereby certify that Lucius Pitkin is personally known to me to be a credible witness.
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Witness by hand and official seal

R. A Adams
Notary Public
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Warrant Act 48,837 for 160 acres

Act /88

Papers   Dodge

Hannah Tallman 
wid of Jacob
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Dec 9, 1856 [illegible] Office
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Req. 203676 Jacob Tallman 
[illegible] 488370  [illegible] 160 acres

Col Niles
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48.837


[illegible]
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[illegible]
Widow, &c.

No. 26.511
Hannah Tallman
wid of Jacob Tallman 

Act Feb 2d 48
Vol. T  Page 266
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                                                [illegible]
203.676 Act Mar3/88   Set.  N. Dixey Aug 27/ 88                                
[illegible]
262.45  Aug. 20/88

Jacob Tallman  Prv.

Capt. Jonathan Lauren
Col Malcolm
NY NY
Enl 1780
[illegible]
Rev War

NY No Papers

Nathan Dixey
77 [illegible]
New York
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[blank page]
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{[Postmark illegible]

To/The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington  D.C.

Additional Evidence Claim No 203.676

203.676 Hannah Tallman Widow of Jacob
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No.  39.119
Jacob Tallman, deceased
New York Kings County
Act June 7, 1832
Admittted
6 mos Private at $20 per annum from March 4th, 1831 to October 1st 1855 when he died.

No. 183
Hannah Tallman, widow of Jacob New York - Kings County 
Act 2nd February 1848
Admitted
Private 6 mos at $20 per annum from October 1, 1855 when he died. 

Certificate payable to Hannah Tallman, widow of Jacob and to be handed to Gent. Lucius Pitkin
Present
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Jacob Tallman died 1832
and Hannah Tallman hiswidow, 2nd February '48


Brief
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Brief in the case of Jacob Tallman, deceased
Kings County and State of New York 
Act of June 7, 1832also Hannah Tallman, widow of Jacob, 
October 2nd [illegible] 1848
Claim, ("original")
Proof Exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance
Service - proved by record and tradition - 6 mos. private 
Death of Jacob - October 1st, 1858 proved by parol
That Hannah is his widow proved by record and parol
Marriage of Jacob and Hannah Tallman, April 3rd, 1793 proved by family, register and parol. 
(If for increase,) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?