Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3204, Enoch Anderson, Del.
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Del. Anderson, Enoch
Eleanor
W. 3204
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Affidavit V. of 
Enoch Anderson Esq.

Nov
written ( in different handwriting)
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Pennsylvania District
Mifflin County fa.

On the 20th day of July 1820 personally appeared before David Beale Esquire a Judge of the Court in and for Mifflin County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Enoch Anderson aged about 66 years who being solemnly affirmed as the law directs make the following declaration in order to obtain the promises made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820, that by this said Enoch Anderson entered into the service a Lieutenant in September 1770/Cant tell the day/in the Delaware Regiment in the state of Delaware the only Regiment in the state in the continental Army in captain Stedl and Company in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Hazlet and on the 13th January 1776 I received my commission as such and on the 3rd of December 1776 a Captains Commission was given me at Brunswick  on our retreat through the [illegible] -I resigned in the year 1779--I cant tell the day or month, but it was near the end of the year of 1779 that I was in the Battle of Long Island in which wounded in the neck I was and after the battle the surgeon extracted the bullet, I was in the battle of white Plains-the battle of Brandywine and the battle of Germantown and many skirmishes 13 I can still remember__I have no other evidence in my  favor but what I sent to the war office to obtain a pension under the Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and am now on the pension list of that law the certificate placing me on the pension list of the law of the 18th March 1818 is [illegible] My family consists of first myself aged about 66 years , 2nd my wife Eleonor aged about 63 years, 3rd my son John in his 37th year, a tanner by trade, but sickly not in his right mind-a little insane-feeable? but does but little and a [illegible] to the family, 4 my youngest son Enoch in his 23rd years also a tanner by trade capable industrious and attentive to his business, 5 Jean Clark a hired girl in her 12th year active and useful, this is my whole family
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I am myself very lame and infirm, I can go with a chair standing before me with my left hand and a staff in my right hand [illegible] small migrations in the hours but I am been entirely confined to the house about 4 years last [illegible] - I can ride on no horse beast - Nor could I bear a carriage from the frequent attacks of Rheumatism and the  soreness of my bones - I have been for a number of years a justice of the Peace, this brought me in  something towards the maintenance of my family, but from age and infirmity have been obliged to [illegible] it - and now do nothing but settle off my business on my Docket, which is indeed but trifling - I may say and with truth, I earn almost nothing - To go to Court I cannot for the reasons before mentioned. And hope the Honorable Judges of the Court and the Secretary of War will take my peculiar situation and condition into their serious consideration. [illegible] hopes that the Honorable Judges may make a representation on their proceedings on this thing to the Secretary of War, - And in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May 1820, I was a resident citizen of the United States for the 18th March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an Act before said entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Sand and Navel Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, aforesaid on the 18th of March 18. - And that I have not nor has any person for me in trust any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, not have I any income of that law what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed by me subscribed, - I reside in the village of Water ford Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, inhabited by Eight families thirty miles from our County Town Lewistown and here follows a schedule of my property. To this my hand this 20th day of July [illegible] Domina 1820.

Affirmed before David Beale } Enoch Anderson L. S.
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A schedule of the property of Enoch Anderson late a Captain in the Delaware lives in the [illegible] of the Revolution, now about 66 years of age and residing at the villages of Waterford, inhabited by Eight families in Mifflin County Pennsylvania - Thirty miles form the County Town/Lewistown.

Rent,
One other set in said billings of Waterford containing one fourth acre of ground, with a small cabin built on it, and now under rent of mine and a half dollar a year. And I pay the taxes on it duly [illegible] to a generous rent of Eighty cents a year - And our other lot adjoining the said village containing upwards of half an acre of ground - A Tannery on which is erected a log Cabin for a back house and Currying Shop - also under the same roof, the yard contains Eight vats - there is but little done in it for want of Capitol - the income from it is not more than than fifty dollars a year it [illegible] perhaps rent for forty dollars a year.

Personal Property,
1 dozen Windsor chairs - 2 Armand chairs
1 Bureau - 1 Writing Desk - 2 [illegible] Tables walnut
1 Old Shattered mahogany Tables - 1 Soaking Clap - Cost &7.00 [illegible]
2 Small Carpets Cost $24.00 1 Do. handmade cost $4.00
2 Pair of Shovel thongs - 1 pc. small loop and Irons
1 Small [illegible], and pipes for the dwelling hours
1 Do - Do fourth Tanning [illegible]
2 Small Window Curtains Calico - One horse about 9 [illegible] yrs old
2 Cows - 10 Sheep - 1 Doz Knives and forks
6 Silver Table Spoons - 10 Sliver Tea Spoons/old and some broken
2 Iron [illegible] Kettles, 1 Large Iron hot - 1 Do small
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1 Pair of [illegible] - 2 Setts of Mock China
2 Cream [illegible]/China/a pair of Teapots Brittania Metal
1 Tin Coffee Pot cost 50 cts 2 Green Glass bottles cost 34 cnts
Earthenware - 3 large dishes - 2 [illegible] cost in all 2.51 cnts
2 Earthen Jars small ones cost - 0.25
2 Soup plates Queenware Do - 1.25
2 Plates Do - Do - 98
6 Pewter Plates - Do - 2.30
1 Gridiron - Do - 1.50
7 Tin Cups - Do - 63
2 Tin Hash Basins Do 67
1 Garden Hoe and Shovel
1 half pint glass tumbler -
1 Do Do
2 Tin Buckets Cost - 2.00
1 Wooden Do Do - 50
1 Do Bowl - 1 Frying Pan - 
1 Pair Smithing Irons - 2 Meat Barrels
1 Square Barrel.

The above schedule a list of my [illegible] and personal property in Court Just then to the best of my knowledge. I have no other property in the world but what I have at this little village of Waterford except some outstanding debts due [illegible] this neighborhood. But these are debts against [illegible] on this [] and interest for many years. And counting what I owe, and who is due [illegible], there is a balance against me of aforesaid of six hundred dollars and I am of opinion if all my property real and personal was set to sale, it would not bring Five Hundred dollars
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It is here seen my income is [illegible]! I have appended my pension for maintenance. I [illegible] not being able to support myself. I stand in need of assistance from my Country. I am the Post Master here, but my whole income from it not more than 6 dollars a year[scratched out] perhaps nothing.

Pennsylvania District
Mifflin County Ss.

Personally appeared before David Beale Esq. a Judge of the Court in and for Mifflin County Anderson [illegible] a Captain with Delaware Line in the Revolutionary War - and now placed n the Pension List agreeably to the Law of the United States [illegible] the 18th day of March 1818, [illegible] being Solemnly affirmed as the Law directs deposith and saith, that the schedule or list of his property both real and personal and also what is represented and written under and following the schedule is Just and true.

Affirmed and subscribed this 20th day of July AD 1820 before David Beale }
Enoch Anderson

Pennsylvania
Mifflin County Ss.

I Ephraim Banks [illegible] of and Clerk of the Court of Common [insert] pleas [end insert] of Mifflin County in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing aforementioned and the schedule thats annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is dollars and cents, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 28th July AD 1820.
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At a Court of Common Pleas, which Court is a Court of record, held at Lewistown in and for the County of Mifflin, Pennsylvania, before the Honorable William Brown, [illegible] Oliver and Joseph Edmunton Esqrs Judges of the said Court the declaration and statement of Enoch Anderson Esq late a Captain with Delaware Regiment in the Revolutionary War, was exhibited to this Court affirmed and subscribed before in David Beale Esq. one of the Judges of this Court on the 20th day of July inst. Whereupon the said Court after due consideration do adjudge and declare that the opinion of the Court is that the property contained in said schedule of the said Enoch Anderson amounts to the sum of four hundred dollars money of the United States and no more.

Per Curian

Pennsylvania
Mifflin County Ss.

I Ephraim Banks, [illegible] clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County in the State of Pennsylvania, do hereby Certify that the foregoing affirmation and the schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Courts, and I do further certify that it is the the opinion of said Court that the property exhibited in the annexed schedule amounts to the sum of Four hundred dollars money of the United States and no more - In testimony of which I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 28th day of July A.D. 1820 -

E. Banks, [illegible]
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Pennsylvania
Mifflin County Ss

I Ephraim Banks Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that David Beale Esquire below when the foregoing declarations were made is one of the Judges of the Court of aforesaid being a Court of record according to the Constitution of Pennsylvania, duly [illegible] and qualified to act as such, and that full faith and credit is and ought to be granted to all his official acts, as such, as well in Court of Justice as thereout, In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court the twenty eighth day of July Anno Domini 1820.

E. Banks, [illegible]
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Mifflin - /63/18
4749
Pennsylvania
Enoch Anderson
Captain

[illegible] regiment Delaware line [illegible] 3 years
In the army of the United Sates during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20- Dollars per month, to commence the 2nd of May, 1818.

Cerificate of Pension issued the 3rd of Dec. 1818, and sent to the Hon. [illegible] Anderson of [illegible] House of Rep. U. States.

Arrears to 4th of 4th Sept. 1818and 5/31 81.93 Semi-anl, all'ee ending 4th Mar 1819. 120.00
[Total]
$2019.

Discontinued

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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Mr. Edward
2.6.e

To reconsider again} The last letter
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Honarable J. G. Calhoun Esq Sect of War - }

Waterford Mifflin County Penn March 20th 1821

[illegible] Mr. Maclay [illegible] note came to hand informing me that you could not continue me on the Pension List from my schedule - I gave you a full and faithful [illegible] of all my property real and personal - and with [illegible] I owed far above all the property I owned in the world - the money arising from pension was of real service. it enabled me to pay some debt and to maintain my family - but being now the known of and the increasing hardness of the times will oblige me to sell my property for I have now no other alternative - I have no other way to support family - I have no income or real towards [illegible] $20 a year - the Tan Yard is in a manner [illegible] for want of a capital - I have none worth mentioning - my youngest son the tanner and the main [illegible] and stay of his parents in their declining years must have [illegible] to such a [illegible] as a Journeyman as low wages [illegible] high wages cannot be had there take is - my Gabbin and [illegible] now rents at $5 a year - I must sell of - and I foresee I  must sell the House I live in - is unavoidable - we must [illegible] we must live on the money as long as it lasts - the prospect before me is gloomy indeed - I cannot do any thing I am lame with the rheumatism confined to the House Entirely above this 5 years - I have it now upon me and have and had it almost all winter - and now write in pain - my [illegible] in a state of Insanity - a drag - a dead weight on the family.

13 years ago thereabouts [illegible] petitioned Congress for the assurages of my pay and the [illegible] I made with the [illegible]. Being then about $45000 owe me - a just debt 500 he knows - and is hard earned - this situation with that [illegible] left to Committee Mr. Ingham Chairman who reported I was barred out by the [illegible]Act

From after the conclusion of the war of the Revolution - previous to the Federal Constitution - I moved to this County, in [illegible] and believe now that rejection of my [illegible] for my assurages of pay was the first I had heard of the [illegible] - [illegible]

I have made application for any acknowledge me who or whoever. Commutation from the government or land which I was entitled to - no not anything I was have [illegible] in the [illegible of Mifflin
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and know but little and of the County I must, I have no other [illegible] - sell all my property - and all I have [illegible] payment will not, being more than $100 - [illegible] has both the increasing hardness of the times - receiving [illegible] things to keep House with - I have no child except my youngest son which I have told you all can render me any assistance my brothers - although wealthy renders me no help, no assistance in this hour of my adversity - here is Benjamin Lyon - Joseph Cunningham and William McMullin all of this neighborhood old soldiers continued on the Pension List - they have all showed me their certificates - and are [illegible] I have none knowing my circumstances - they are all 3 in good health - can ride and walk about - and do something and are all in better circumstances than I am.

I is hard - very hard to give you this representation - tis the pride of an old broken down soldier - struggling with poverty that draws it forth and wrings it from me - the times before me looks dark and gloomy, old as I am - fruit as turn could pull any [illegible] of an maintenance for my family - I should not have troubled with this - but [scratched out] necessity urges - forces and dries until I have no other remedy - this [illegible] as I have told you heavy as a poundering weight and threatening us [illegible] over me [scratched out] as well as other [illegible].

Much is [insert] in [end insert] your power - I have here given you a disagreeable picture and and a [illegible] one of my situation - I hope my good sir - you will take my care into another [illegible] and place me on the pension list let me have some of the hard earnings of my youth in my days, [illegible] supposed to be brought on by my sufferings in the Army and now in my declining years - I think and many very many others think and [illegible] you will think that I ought to be renewed on the Pension List - I am with high respect and consideration - yours - 

Enoch Anderson - Late a Capt ' in the War of the Revolution

[illegible] J. G. Calhoun Esq [illegible]

En. Anderson
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Recd. 11th August 1820.
No 700
Not entitled
[illegible] 
Schedules
Registered
board

See letter to Capt' Anderson, 17 Oct. 1820
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Honbl Testimony of [illegible]

I herewith inclose you papers to Gentleman [illegible] on the this Pension list I have done the best I possibly could - I am [illegible] very course and very inferior, much you know is in your power - it [illegible] beyond, and is - and you [illegible] out of my power to appear in open court this [insert[ is [end insert] represented in the inclosed papers.

As to further [illegible] or testimony - why I sent you an [illegible] deposition of their old officers [illegible] within the War of the Revolution - I [illegible] sent you more [illegible] if [illegible] - there is - Brother Joseph the [illegible] of teh City of Washington can testify - as we [illegible] in that war - and my Brother William - and [illegible] you I know the [illegible] - you are by the [illegible] - my representative in the papers here what you - that I am poor, old, and lame and hope you'll take my peculiar situation into your consideration.

I have also Thomas at the City of Washington who we'll call on you - or my brother Joseph to know wheter you have continued [illegible] on the list of Pensioners - tis rational you know to wish to
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What is done, or to be done one in the Pensioners and you will much oblige Enoch Anderson an old Brother Down Soldier of the Revolution with high respect and consideration

yours - 
William Anderson

1st Aug. 1820

I have inclosed of the [illegible] my right arm and [illegible]
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680
Pennsylvania
Eleanor Anderson widow of Enoh Anderson Dec who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 13th April 1824 of [illegible] Co. in teh State of Penn.a who was a Captain in the - commanded by Captain - of the Regt. commanded by Col. Hazlett in the Delaware line for 3 years
Delaware Line

Inscribed on the Roll of Penn.a at the rate of 480 Dolars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of Octo. 1838 and sent T. F. Anderson 1st Comptroller Office

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $1,200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending [illegible] 240.00
Total
$1,440.00

{Act July [torn page] 1838}

[torn page] orded by D. D. Addison [torn page] [illegible] Vol. 2. Page 1. [torn page]
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State of Pennsylvania [illegible] County Ss.

On this nineteenth day of July Eighteen Hundred and thirty Eight personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County Elenor Anderson a resident of [illegible] Waterford in the said County of [illegible] and State of Pennsylvania. Aged about eighty one years according to the most [illegible] ancestor that [illegible] [scratched out] obtained this being first duly sworn according to law, doth [scratched out] on her oath - Make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the acts of Congress passed July 4th, 1836 and 7th July 1838: that she is the widow of Enoch Anderson who was a Captain in the Revolutionary war in the Delaware Regiment, commanded by Col. Hazlett, he enlisted the Army as a Lieutenant in the beginning of the war and was afterward appointed a Capt. when the weightiest of the war was over he resigned and shortly after [insert] we [end insert] we were married I often heard him tell of being in the Battle of White Plains, and Brandywine and German Town and other matters of the [insert] war [end insert] [illegible] now [illegible] the further declares that she was married to the said Enoch Anderson in Newcastle Delaware can't mind the year, but that the war was principally [insert] over [end insert] at the time they were married that her husband Enoch Anderson aforesaid Died about twelve or maybe fourteen years ago and she believes, that at the time of his death he was on the pension list and that she has remained unmarried a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed - Sworn to, and subscribed on the day and year above written.

Eleanor [her x mark] Anderson

David Glenn

Lord [illegible]
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State of Pennsylvania
Juniata County

I. Rob Pattenson Bohonolan of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Juniata. Do hereby certify that Dona Glenn Esq before whom the foregoing proceedings had is and was as date thus of an acting and regulatory commissioned justice of the peace, in and for 
that the signature purporting to be his in nature. Testimony where of I have hereunto let my hand offence the seal of the said court at Mifflintown this 25th day of July A.D 1838.
 
Rob Patterson
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State of Pennsylvania
Juniata County SS.

Personally came before the subscribed are of the justice of the peace in and for said county, James Work, a resident of Waterford in said county and note who being sworn as law directs doth say that he ransom for Co. Enoch Anderson & family of Waterford for thirty years and has been aquinted with them ever since that he recolects well when he died, that he was at his house when he died. Can't tell the time exactly but believes it to be about fourteen years ago that he departed. Has been well acquainted with his widow Elenor Anderson ever since and to his certain knowledge she has remained a widow ever since and still is and lives in the same place.

Sworn and subscribed this 6th day of August 1838, before David Glenn
James Work
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Earl Matinson
Aug 8

James Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

City of Mosaic, NC

L Columbia
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Earl Waterford August 8th, 1838

Dear Sir,

Enclosed you will find the deed evaluation of my mother who remains the widow of Enoch Anderson. Which you will find his name on your pension list roll. Mother has failed in her memory and eye sight you will see where she attempted to write her name but can't see right and the Trustee wrote it, and she made her mark __ there will be others testimony offered by the Anderson of Watlington City soon as to her marriage age and your attention to it will confer a particular favor on one who stands much in need of it.

Respectfully yours,

J. L. Edwards sign

PS: Please do let me know when the matter are formally as claimed.

E.L.A
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Enoch Anderson, PA at March 18, 1818
At what time paid
Pen Office
August 28th 1838

Dice 21st, April 1824, Pace to that pension
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Fill with Mrs Elenor Anderson paper act July 1838
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Ann Booth of the town of New Castle in the County of New Castle and State of Delaware, Widow of the late James Booth now deceased who was chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of the said State, aged seventy nine years, hereby certifies, that she was very well acquainted with Captain Enoch Anderson of the Army of the Revolutionary War; that he resided in the town of New Castle two doors from the house now occupied by said Ann Booth; that she was also well acquainted with Eleanor McCallmont, who resided at Newport in said County about four miles from New Castle, that she remembers perfectly well, the marriage of said Captain Anderson with Eleanor McCallmont, that the marriage ceremony took place at Newport, but by whom performed, Mrs. Booth cannot recollect; she thinks
it was by a Presbyterian Clergyman. That the
marriage took place when she Mrs. Booth was
about nineteen years of age; and that said
Eleanor was older than she, Mrs. Booth, perhaps
a year or two: That Mrs. Booth was not personally present at said marriage; but well remembers Captain Anderson and his Wife Eleanor, being at New Castle immediately after the marriage and staying some time at his mother's house: that they were visited by their friends and acquaintances as man and wife
and received as

(continued)
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(contd  from pg 1 Ann Booth deposition)


such in society; That they left Delaware many
years ago; that the Mrs. Booth, has heard that
Captain Anderson was dead; but knows not
where Mrs. Anderson now resides.--

Dated at New Castle, September 6, 1838.\

Ann Booth   (her signature)

The foregoing certificate signed by my Mother,-
Mrs. Ann Booth, was drawn up in my hand
writing, from her statement made to me.
Altho (sic although)  far advanced in years, being now a few months over seventy nine,- she is a remarkably active woman, enjoying good health and in the full possession of her mental faculties

James Booth
---
New Castle Sept. 6. 1838.


State of Delaware
New Castle County (to wit: )

Be it remembered, that on this
eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before me, Joseph Roberts, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Mrs. Ann Booth, who has signed the foregoing declaration, and who being sworn
by me in due form of law, deposeth and saith, that the said declaration made and signed by her, is true to the best of her knowledge, remembrance and belief.-

Ann Booth

Sworn and subscribed
this eighteenth day of
September A.D. 1838
Before me,

Jos. Roberts J.P.
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The State of Delaware
New Castle County      
to wit:

I, James G. Anderson, the notary of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in an for the county of New Castle, do hereby certify that, Joseph Roberts Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and who hath attested the same by his proper signature was at the time of so doing and now in as justice of the peace of the State of Delaware in and for the said county of New Castle duly commissioned and qualified to all who acts as such full faith and is an of ought to be given anything thy said signature is his given signature.

In testimony where to I have here unto subscribed as my name and affix as the seal of the said Superior Court as New Castle, the eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.

James C Mansfield

Prothy Paid 50 cents
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A Pension paper
in the case of
Eleanor Anderson
of East Waterford
Juniata City
Penn

T. F Anderson
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 Juniata County} ss

 I do hereby certify that John Cummins Esq appeared before me one of the associate Judges of Juniata County Penn and
doth say that he has been acquainted with
Col Enoch Anderson Lee deceased and Eleanor Anderson his widow and that he knows her to be his reputed wife of the Town of Waterford Junita County also that he is well acquainted with the hand writing of said Enoch Anderson
Decd (sic deceased)  the record of the childrens named in the family Bible which I know to be his hand writing and will give you an entry of four of there names as they stand on record
and that I know Eleanor Anderson from
Age and infirmity unable to appear in the
open Court of Juniata County it being eighteen 
Miles  distant from Waterford where she
resides

No 1st
William Anderson was born in Newport
State of Deleware 23d of July 1780

2nd.   Sally McCallmont Anderson May 28th 1782 State of Delevan Near Newport

3rd.   Tho  Marcus Anderson Boon 12th Nov 1783 Delaware  State near Newport

4th.   Elizabeth Anderson Boon 21st Octr 1785
Delaware State near Newport

(continued)
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(contd fro pg 1 Cummings depot)


the above I believe to be true as stated in Enoch Andersons Bible-

Sworn and subscribed before me the foregoing
instrument of writing

John Cummin

Before me one of the Associate Judge of Juniata County State of Penn  this 16th Sept 1838 before

Benjm Kepner


Juniata County}   SS

I hereby certify that I believe and consider Eleanor Anderson Widow of Enoch Anderson deceased according to my opinion
and the testimony before me that she is
unable to appear in the open Court of
Juniata  County  one of the associate Judges of Juniata County and State of Penn  this 14th Sept 1838

Benjm Kepner
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State of Pennsylvania}
Juniata  County          } ss

I. Robt Patterson Prothonotary
of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County
of Juniata, Do certify that Benjamin Kepner Esq
before whom the foregoing proceedings were had
is one of the Associate Judges in for the County
aforesaid, and that the signature thereunto subscribed, purporting to be his is genuine-

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court at Mifflintown
this 8th day of October A.D. 1838

Robt Patterson
Prot.

SEAL AFFIXED (left hand upper corner)
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City of Philadelphia :


Be it remembered that on the 19th of September 1838 Before me the Subscriber one of the Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia Personally appeared John McCallmont
aged Seventy four years and George McCallmont aged Seventy two years who being duly sworn do severally depose and say that their Sister Eleanor McCallmont was married
to Capt Enoch Anderson who was a Capt in the Delaware Regiment in the Continental Army of the United States who was wounded in the battle of Long Island that their said sister was married to the said Captain Enock Anderson in the year seventeen hundred and seventy 
nine to the best of these deponents knowledge and belief that the said Eleanor is still living and remained the widow of the said Enoch Anderson

John McCallmont
Geo McCallmont       (their signatures)

Sworn & subscribed
before me this 19th day
Sept 1838

William Milnory
Ald:

Philadelphia County S.S.

I . Robert Minn (?)  Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas of the City and County
of Philadelphia, hereby certify  that William Millner before whom the preceding deposition was made, was at the time & still an alderman
and  an officer &  Justice of the Peace of the City of Philadelphia duly Commissioned & qualified


Witness my hand & the
of said Court the 19th
September 1838

Robert Menns(?)
Proth
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(government ticket)

WIDOW,  &c.
Rev

File NO.   8204
Eleanor Anderson
Widow
Enoch Anderson
Capt.  Rev. War
----

Act:  July 7, 1838
Index:--vol   A,,   Page  13

(arrangement of 1870)
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Captain Anderson's case

Real & personal property reduce
at $400---The case has been reconsidered once, & he inform that his name would not be reinstated
------
He says there are 3 bonds owe him on interest, of may years standing, & there is a balance owe him of more than $600---

(note on side paper to right)


RE --
On 2nd Nov
exn
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Eleanor Anderson
Pennsylvania

Act 7 July 1838

suspended
---
see letter 28th Augt
1838 to E L Anderson
Let 13 Sept 1838 to
T F Anderson, do, 24 Sept 1838

Mrs.  Booth affidavit nev filed within Sept 21,1838
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Nort  sent to Mr. Lumnd
Washington -- present on the
7th Oct 1820
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A papers in the
case of Eleanor
Anderson
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(2 separate pieces of paper)

(first)

New Castle, Octob (sic October) 2. 1838

I do certify that I have examined the Sessional Records of the New Castle Presbyterian Church, and have not found any entry therein, respecting the marriage of Capt. E Ander
son with Eleanor McCallmont

James Couper, Clk
of the Session.-

(2n)

I do hereby certify that I have carefully
searched the Register of Marriages of 
Imanuel Church, New Castle, Delaware, for
the entry of the marriage of Captain E. Anderson with Eleanor McCallmont, and
found no such entry therein

William T. Read

Secretary of the Vestry of
Immanuel Church, and
one of the Wardens of the said
Church

New Castle, Del
6th September
1838
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Free

Hons   
William P. Maclay Esqr
Member of Congress

City of Washington
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Waterford Mifflin County
Penn

Dear Sir

By the Law of Congress of 1818 I was
placed on the pension list  with others of us old soldiers of the Revolution and under the Law of 1820. I made my declaration and representation Schedule &  and sent it on
to the War Office-- Mr Calhoun the Secretary of War has informed me by Letter I was be dropped from the Pension List that they made it a rule in the office that without
judgement  debts against the pensioner they were discontinued since which I have addressed a letter to Mr Calhoun giving him further information, and with my reason
representation  why I ought to be continued, will you be so  kind my goods Sir to  call on Mr Calhoun and know of him whether I am to be continued on the Pension list or not and let me hear from you by letter by Mail reporting it, it will much oblige your friend and an a soldier of the Revolution

Jean Girl writeh - . I have
the Rheumatism

Enoch Anderson (signed)
20th June 1820

Hon. Wm P. Marley
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Enoch Anderson's
Deposition
 Delaware Rolls

(notes to side)

If service is admitted
if  Mr. A  will
certify as to the
 circumstances of the
claimant, a 
certificate of
Pension will 
be assued
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Mifflin County State of Pennsylvania

On this  second day of May One Thousand eight Hundred & Eighteen Before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for said County of Mifflin aforesaid personally appears Enoch Anderson aged Sixty three years, resident of Miffin County aforesaid, who being by me first duly affirmed according to Law doth on his solemn affirmation make the following Declaration 
in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide
for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War . That he the said Enoch Anderson obtained a Lieutenancy in Captain Stedhams Company in the Delaware Regiment in the year 1775 in the State of Delaware Commanded by Colonel Hazlet of the Delaware line, that he was appointed a Captain in said Regiment in the year of 1776. That he continued to serve in said Corps or in the service of the United States until in the year 1779 when he resigned his said Commission in the State of Jersey (which Commission
is not in Existence as Deponent believes) that he was in  the Battles of Long land, while
plains Brandywine & German town, was severely wounded in the Battle of Long Island &c &c that he never Received a pension from the United States or any of the States, that he is in Reduced Circumstances, & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support;
and that he has no other Evidence now in his power of his said service-

Enoch Anderson (signature)

Affirmed to & declared to before me day & year aforesaid.
David Beale

I David Beale Judge &c in aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the
said Enoch Anderson did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding Declaration against the Common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings & Testimony taken & had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the Directions of of the aforementioned act of Congress, given under my hand this 2d day of May 1818-

David Beale (signature)

Pennsylvania
Mifflin County ss

I Ephraim Banks, Prothonotary of the
Court of Common pleas in and for Mifflin
County, in the State of Pennsylvania, do hereby
certify that the above named David Beale
esquire was and is one of an associate Judges of said Court of Common pleas duly
appointed and commissioned and that full
faith and credit is and ought to be given
to all his official acts as well in Courts  of
Justice as thereout - Witness my hand and
the seal of said Court at Lewistown in said
County the Sixth day of may A.D. 1818

E Banks   Protho
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I do certify that Capt Enoch Anderson, the within claimant, is well known to me and from Long and severe attacks of the rheumatism, he is now obliged to hobble along on two  canes he is in reduced circumstances-- he needs, and desires, support from his government -


W. Anderson  M.C.

Washington
Decr 5th 1818
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Admited
Captain
$480.

T. F. Anderson Esq
1st Comptroller office
Treasury Dept
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State of Pennsylvania}
Juniata County           } S

On this seventh day of October personally appeared before me one of the associate Judges of the County of Juniata, Eleanor Anderson, a resident of East Waterford in the County of Juniata and State of Pennsylvania, aged eighty two years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed 7th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Captain Enoch Anderson, who was a Captain in the Revolutionary War in the Delaware Regiment, commanded by Col. Hazlet and who
 entered the army as a Lieut in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five,
was appointed a Capt on the third day of
December, seventeen hundred and Seventy six,
and resigned in the month of March Seventeen
hundred and seventy nine. Was in the
Battle of White Plains, Brandywine and
German Town, &

She further declares that she was married
to the said Captain Enoch Anderson at New
castle, State of Delaware ( this crossed out " in the month of March") in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine; that her husband, the aforesaid Enoch Anderson died on the thirteenth day of April 1824 and was
on the pension list at the time of his death; that
she has remained a widow ever since that period that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety

(continued)
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(cont'd dep of  Eleanor Anderson)

four, viz: at the time within stated

Eleanor (her X mark) Anderson

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year
within written, before me Benjamin Kepner, one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Juniata, Do hereby certify that Eleanor Anderson from old
age and infirmity is unable to attend
in open Court, and that she appeared
before me, and after being duly sworn,
subscribed her name and made her mark
to the foregoing instrument of writing and
that the signature thereunto annexed is her
genuine signature

Benjamin Kepner

State of Pennsylvania}
Juniata County           } ss

I Robt Patterson, Prothonotary of
the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Juniata Do hereby certify that Benjamin Keene before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is and was at the date thereof an acting and regularly Commissioned as one of the associate Judges in and for said County and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court
but at Mifflintown this 8th day of October
Anno Domini 1838.

Robt Patterson   Prot

(seal affixed lower left hand corner)
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The State of Delaware}
New Castle County     }

I James C Mansfield Prothonotary
of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware
in and for the County of New Castle Do hereby
certify that Thomas McDowell Esquire before when the within affidavit was made and who hath attested the same by his proper signature was at  the time of so doing and now is a Justice of the peace of the said State in and for the said County duly commissioned and qualified to all whose acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given and that the signature thereunto annexed is his genuine signature

In Testimony Whereof I have here
unto subscribed my name and affixed
 the Seal of the said Superior
Court of New Castle the Twenty
first day of September in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and thirty eight

James C Mansfield
Prothonotary

Prothy paid 50 cents

(note - no seal attached)
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Free     East Waterford
             Oct 12th

J. L. Edwards Esq
City Washington D.C.

Commis (sic commissioner)  of Pensions


(side notes)

In ab Oct 3
pa
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East Waterford   Oct 8th 1838

Dear Sir

I send Mothers declaration done before Judge Kepner one of the associate Judges of Juniata County Pa. and Mr. John Cummin who certified before Judge Kepner to the births of the children as entered in Enoch Anderson Deceased ^his^ own handwriting which Mr Cummins swore to the Hon. Mr Miller
is acquainted with the hand writing of Mr
Cummin I presume, he was a member of
the legislature at the same time, of this State
however I will have his ^signature^  and that of Judge Kepner certified by the Prothonotory. I presume it is not done in a right form ^(insert illeg)^  but the intention the same, as Mr.  Cummin lives at some distance   I thought if it would answer the purpose without altering the form of the writing it would save a good deal of trouble

whatever may be done in this matter you will please to inform my brother Thomas F Anderson of Washington City as soon
as is convenient and decided upon-

Very Respectfully yours &c
Enoch Anderson


J L Edwards Esq
Com Pensions
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(envelope)

Chester p
February 21

Hon Jno C. Callhoun
Secy at War
Washington City

(notes on envelope)

Reinstate July
20 1821 and sent
to pensioner Waterford
Pen

From Mr. Anderson 
and thy letter of pension
Febry 26, 1821

Mr. Edwards
ICC
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T.C. Calhoun

Sgt at War

Sir-

A few days since, I was informed by Capt. Enoch Anderson that he had been dropped from the pensions list and he has requested me to write to you on the subject. I am well acquainted with Capt. Anderson. He now resides in Mifflin County, State of Pennsylvania. His service in the Delawarean Infantry to the close of the revolutionary war. I served two campaigns with him and I can venture to say, no officer served his country more faithfully, nor none went through more hard duty. He was in almost every battle that was fought and at Long Island, was badly wounded, yet brought off his company safe in start. I know he deserves much from his county. I also know that he is in indignant circumstances and from hardships he encountered in the different campaigns he was attached with the Turanism, which was so serious that it destroyed the use
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of his limbs. So much so, that for many years, he has not been able to walk without assistance of a cane in his hand. Capt. Anderson is now old, nearly I believe 70. What fathom of property he has made to you, I know not, but from my humbling of circumstances, two years ago. I should suppose that he would come within the meaning of the pension law. For he was there in many dire circumstances, and I know of no means by which he could further them. I sincerely hope you will transition this case and grant a pension to Capt. Anderson, whose situation and service truly merit it.

I have the honor to be sir with high respect.

M. Anderson
T C Calhoun
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Mr Edwards
J.C.C.
The Secretary of war
To reconf[ide] recd 3 [Jan. - written over] 1821
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House of reps Jany 2 1821
Sir
I beg your attention to the enclosed letter—W Anderson states that since he was striken off the pension roll he has written you a letter giving further information. I will thank you to inform me whether that letter will have any effect on your former decision or not.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Sevt
W. O. Marlay
Hon John C Calhoun
Secretary of War