Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1,048, for Benjamin Manning, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Manning, Benjamin & Bersheba | W.1,048 / B.L.Wt. 26860-160-55

CONTENTS
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28,246
New Jersey

Benjamin Manning, of Middlesex Co. in the State of New Jersey, who was a Pri(vate) in the Company commanded by Captain Lupardas of the reg(iment) commanded by Col. Webster in the N.J. [crossed out: line for] Militia.

1 yr. [illegible] $53.33

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 53 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of April 1832 and sent to Jas. F. Randolph.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '34............$160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. '34.......26.66 1/2
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                                          $176.66 1/2

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J.T. Spanger, Clerk
Book C; Vol. 3; Page 122.
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96,390 | Act 3 March
Reg. 96,390 April 25} '55

Bersheba Manning, widow of Benjamin Manning, dec(eased).

Bersheba, wid(ow of) Benjamin Manning, Pri(vate).

Pensioner; Revolutionary War

No. 26,860 iss(ued) May 26, '56

[illegible] Feb. '53 - 2216
Widow's Act May 21, '56
s/ [illegible]

Peter P. Runyon, New Brunswick, N.J.

Cer(tificate sent to) P.P. Runyon Dec. 3rd '55.
Let(ter sent to) P.P. Runyon Dec. 13th '55.
Let(ter sent to) same Jan. 25th '52.
Vol M; 1. page 18
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2216
New Jersey
Bersheba Manning, widow of Benjamin Manning who served in the Revolutionary War as a Private (in the) N.J. Line.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 53 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Sep 1853 and sent to Peter P. Runyon, N. Brunswick, N.J.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under February 3, 1853, Page 95. Vol. [illegible].

[illegible] 3rd Mar. '55 - 96390
[illegible]
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Application of Benjamin Manning of N. Jersey for a pension under the Act of June 1832.

30,411
[illegible]
Jas. F. Randolph, Agent
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Declaration of Benjamin Manning of Middlesex County, New Jersey, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of June 1832.

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

On this Seventeenth day of [crossed out: February] March One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty four, before by the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County & State afo(resaid) now sitting as a Court, personally appeared Benjamin Manning, aged 71 years, who being first duly sworn on his oath maketh the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832. 

That he was born in the Township of Piscataway in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey on the Twenty third day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred & Sixty three, as appears by a record of his age in a Family Bible now in his possession. That he lives now and has all his lifetime lived in the aforesaid township, County & State. That he [crossed out: entered] was enrolled in the company commanded by Captain Lupardas (which company belonged to Col. Webster's Reg(iment) & Gen. Heard's Brigade) early in the year 1779, as soon as he arrived at the age of sixteen. That shortly after in the spring of that year, he was called into active service and served during that year at least four tours of a month each under his own Captain Lupardas and Col. Webster.

His headquarters or station was at Woodbridge and his duty was to traverse and defend the shore or lines from Perth Amboy to Elizabeth Town, a distance of about 15 miles, and occasionally to scout about in the adjoining country to prevent and punish the depredations of the British and their allies, the Tories. The British were on Staten Island in the year following, 1780. A memorable year in New Jersey for the murder of Mrs. Caldwell [crossed out: wife of James Caldwell]...
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...[crossed out: (illegible)] and the incursions of the enemy into the State under (Generals) Kniphausen and [illegible] by Elizabeth Town & Connecticut Farms and various other casualties and annoyances. He was out the greater part of his time and performed certainty, as he thinks, in answer to regular calls, not less than four tours of a month each. And all under his own Captain Lupardas & Col. Webster and Crow and Gen(erals) Heard & Dickson. He was engaged in the usual service of guarding the lines and was also at the battle or severe engagement which ended in June of that year at Springfield. In 1781 the war on the eastern borders of the State still continuing with unabated acuity and distress and the militia, if possible, more than ever called upon to defend their homes and firesides and all that was dear to them as men and as patriots. He was out again not less than four tours of a month each on the Woodbridge Station and under Capt. Lupardas and Col. Webster, engaged as before in guarding the lines. In 1782, also he continued in active service with the militia of all the country round about and did in that year not less than three tours of a month each on the Woodbridge Station as before and in the same service of guarding the lines and all under Capt. Lupardas and as he believes Col. Webster, though Col. Crow was also in service at the same time. And he may occasionally have been under his command as to this he cannot be positive. In 1783 in the early part, considerable bodies [crossed out: were] of the militia were still kept in the field and he was out and performed one tour certainty of a month under Capt. Lupardas in the Woodbridge Station in guarding the lines. There, sixteen months, were all that he is willing with certainty to say that he performed in regular tours. He did much other service on occasions of alarms in scouting parties and in pursuit of the Tories but of these he can make no account in such a shape as the regulations of the War Department requires. He cannot particularly specify the numbers & length...
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...of such tours. He never, as he believes, received a written discharge from the service. Militia employed, as he was, received no discharges that he is aware of. He has no recollection of serving at any time with Continental Troops or under Continental Officers, except in June 1780, at and before the fight at Springfield. Before the invasion by Sir Henry Clinton, when [General] Kniphausen made his savage exception into the country from Elizabeth Town. He recollects that Gen. Washington was present at or near Springfield with [crossed out: the] a handful of an army [crossed out: and] but at the time of the battle, he thinks Gen. Greene was in command, supported by Col. Dayton, Major Lee, &c. His services generally were with small bodies of the militia and not at all in connection with the operations of the Continental Army. For his character as to repute and their belief as to his Revolutionary Service, he refers to Daniel D. Lewis, a Clergyman of his neighborhood and John Allen, one of his neighbors. And for proof as to his Revolutionary Services, he adduces the testimony of James J. Dunn, Daniel F. Randolph & William Luffanders, Revolutionary Soldiers. And he knows of no others upon whom he can call for testimony in this respect. His services were all in the capacity of a private. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
s/ Benjamin Manning

Sworn to and subscribed the day year aforesaid.
s/ Peter P. Runyon, Judge

We, Daniel D Lewis, a Clergyman resident in the city of New Brunswick, and John Dunn, residing in the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Manning, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That he believe him...
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...to be Seventy one years of age, as he has stated. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
s/ Daniel D Lewis
s/ John Dunn

Sworn to and subscribed the day year aforesaid.
s/ Peter P. Runyon, Judge

On the same day before the Judges aforesaid, also appeared James J. Dunn, who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is a Soldier of the Revolution
and is now receiving a pension as such. That he is well acquainted with Benjamin Manning, the foregoing applicant for a pension. Has known him from childhood; always lived within a few miles of him in the same township. Knows of his services in the Revolution. That he was a whip as true as steel and ready & willing to do duty when called upon. Did not belong to the same company with him and cannot therefore attempt to specify exactly the number of tour he performed not the aggregate of service he rendered but always to the best of his knowledge & belief, answering every call made upon him. He could not have served less than three to four or five tours of a month each in a year. He knows that he was out in 1779, 1780, 1781 & 1782, and he has therefore no hesitation in saying as his confident belief, that he performed from twelve to eighteen months within this period. He knows said Manning to be a man of
scapulary veracity and of unquestionable probity and places full confidence in what he says as to be his Revolutionary Services.
s/ James T. Dunn

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
s/ Peter P. Runyon, Judge
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On the same day appeared before the Court aforesaid, [crossed out: (illegible)] William Lupanders, known to be a credible person, who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is in the 70th year of his age and a Soldier of the Revolution. That he is well acquainted with Benjamin Manning, the foregoing applicant for a pension. Has known him from his childhood. Was brought up in the same neighborhood with him and has always lived a neighbor to him. Recollects well of his services in the latter part of the War of the Revolution; belonged to the same company with him - the company of Capt. Lupardas - and served with him often. Knows that he entered the service in the year 1779 and that he served several tours of a month each in that year. Recollects him in the year 1780, served with him during that year and knows that he was out as much as four or five monthly tours in that year. Was with him also in 1781 & 1782 and knows of his services in both of those years for several months in each year. Remember him to the close of the war and knows that he was only a good Whig but a brave soldier & willing to do his duty. Has no doubt of the account he has given of his Revolutionary Services because he knows him to be a man of great probity & general respectability.
s/ William Lupanders

Sworn the day & year afo(resaid).
s/ Peter P. Runyon

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant, Benjamin Manning, was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Daniel D. Lewis, who has signed the pre(ceding) ...
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...(pre)ceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the City of New Brunswick. And that John Dunn, who has signed the same, is a resident in the same place and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. And the Court further certify that James T. Dunn and William Lupanders, who have been examined as witnesses in behalf of the said applicant are known to them as Revolutionary Soldiers and credible persons and that their statements are entitled to full credit.
Judges:
s/ Thos. Hance
s/ Ichabod Potter
s/ Simeon Mundy
s/ Peter P. Runyon

Middlesex County 
New Jersey//

On this Eighteenth day of March 1854 before me, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County afo(resaid), personally appeared Daniel F. Randolph, known to me to be a credible person, whose statement is entitled to explicit belief, who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is a Soldier of the Revolution & now receiving a pension as such. That he is well acquainted with Benjamin Manning, the foregoing applicant for a pension. That has known him from childhood; lived a neighbor to him the greater part of his life. Remembers him well in the War of the Revolution. Belonged to the same company he did - Capt. Lupardas - served with him often, throughout always, not always being classed with him. Knows of his services, however as well from living near to him as belonging to the same company with him. Knows that he served in each of the years 1779, 1780, 1781 & 1782, several tours in each year, not less certainly than three to four tours. Knows that said Manning was not only a true patriot & friend to his country but that he was obedient and very active in his executions. Never knew him to lose a tour and knows that he was very often called upon. Knows said Manning as a most respectable man, an excellent citizen & an exemplary Christian and has not a doubt of that he has stated in relation to his Revolutionary.
s/ Daniel F. Randolph

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me.
s/ Peter P. Runyon, Justice of the Peace
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I, Nicholas Booraem, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the case of Benjamin Manning, an applicant for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this Nineteenth day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred & Thirty four.
s/ N. Booraem, Clerk
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State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex//

On this Eighteenth day of April One Thousand Eight Hundred [duplicate: Eight Hundred] and Fifty five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Bersheba Manning, aged Eighty years, a resident of Middlesex County, State of New Jersey, who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Benjamin Manning, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Fifty three dollars & Thirty three cents per annum under the Act of June 7, 1832, payable at the New Jersey Agency of Trenton. That she is now in the receipt of the same amount as drawn by her husband as per her Pension Certificate, which is, "Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under Act February 3rd 1853; Page 95; Vol. A," bearing date September 30th 1853 and No. 2,216 for the service and death of her said husband as well as her marriage to him. She refers the commissioner to her declaration on file in the department. She declares that she is now a widow.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land [duplicate: land] to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1855.
s/ Bersheba Manning

We, Richard E. Runyon and David Manning, residents of the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, upon our oath declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Bersheba Manning in our presence...
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...and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that we know she is now a widow.
s/ Rich'd E. Runyon
s/ David Manning

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. That her Certificate of Pension is now in my hands for safe keeping and for the purpose of making a Power of Attorney to draw her pension when due and that I have no interest in this claim.
s/ Peter P. Runyon, Justice of the Peace

State New Jersey
Middlesex County

I, Nicholas Booraem, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that Peter P. Runyon, whose genuine signature appears above, is and was, at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace, in & for the County of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey, duly authorized to authorized to administer oaths for general purposes, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts.

I further certify that the said Court is a Court of Record hearing general jurisdiction and as clerk & seal over these I have so entered in this claim.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal of Office at New Brunswick this 19th day of April, A.D. 1855.
s/ N. Booraem, Clerk
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of 3rd February 1853.

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

On this Twenty eighth day of March 1853, personally appeared before the Orphan's Court of the County of Middlesex aforesaid, the same being a Court of Record, Borsheba Manning, a resident of Piscataway in the County of Middlesex aforesaid, aged Seventy eight years, who being 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 February 3d 1853. That she is the widow of Benjamin Manning, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Fifty three dollars and Thirty three cents per annum, payable at the New Jersey Agency at Trenton under the law of June 7th 1832.

She further declares that she was married to the said Benjamin Manning on the 22nd day of February 1834. That her husband, the aforesaid Benjamin Manning, died on the second day of June 1839. That she was married to him at the time above stated. She further swears that she was a widow at the passage of the Act and is still a widow and that she has never before made application for a pension.
s/ Bersheba Manning (X - her mark)

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written in Open Court.
Judges:
s/ Peter P. Runyon
s/ D. Fitz Randolph
s/ Abm. P. Provost
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State of New Jersey 
Middlesex County//

On this Twenty eighth day of March 1853, appeared in Open Court, David Manning, aged Fifty years, a resident of the Township of Piscataway in the County aforesaid, a reputable person who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath doth depose and say that Bersheba Manning is his mother. That she was the second wife of the said Benjamin Manning, dec(eased). That this deponent is the son of Jeremiah Manning, the first husband of the said Bersheba Manning, his mother. That he remembers well when his mother was married to the said Benjamin Manning. That they were on the 22d day of February 1834, as stated by her. That the said Benjamin Manning died on the second day of June Eighteen Hundred & Thirty nine and that the said Bersheba Manning, his mother, has been a widow since the death of the said Benjamin Manning and that she is now a widow.
s/ David Manning

Sworn in open Court the day and year last above written.
s/ Peter Runyon
s/ D. Fitz Randolph
s/ Abm. P. Provost

State of New Jersey 
Middlesex County//

I, Theophilus M. Holcombe, Surrogate and Clerk of the Orphans Court of the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, the same being a Court of Record having probate jurisdiction, do hereby certify that Peter P. Runyon, David F. Randolph and...
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February 22, 1834

Mr. Benjamin Manning to Bersheba Manning.

The above persons were married by me according to the time above stated.
s/ Daniel D. Lewis, Pastor of the Baptist Church in Piscataway

State of New Jersey 
Middlesex County//

I, Nicholas Booraem, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a copy from the Record of Marriages in my office. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed my Seal of Office at New Brunswick this Twenty eighth day of March A.D. 1853.
s/ N. Booraem, Clerk
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Abraham P. Provost, whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, are Judges of said Orphan's Court of said County of Middlesex and that the said signatures thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said Judges.

Witness my Hand and Seal of Office this Twenty eighth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty three.
s/ Theo. M. Holcombe
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96386
Hannah Blackford

72743
Abigail Johnson
[illegible]

96390
Bersheba Manning

To The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Free

To The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Free

Hon R. McClelland
Secretary of the Interior
Washington, D.C.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business

April 25, 1832

Appl(ication) of Bersheba Manning, widow of Benjamin.

Middlesex, N. Jersey

28246

Act 3rd Feb. 1853
$53 33/100 per an(num).
Feb. 3rd 1853 to Com(missioner)
Rev(olutionary War)

Peter P. Runyon
New Brunswick, N. Jersey
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Department of the Interior
Official Business
Chief Clerk

Bersheba Manning; Papers on appeal.

Affirmed Jan. 21st/'56

Hon. C. Minot
Commissioner of Pension
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Pension Office
27th Sep. 1853

Sir,

I hereby certify the time the within named pensioner was paid; to the date of his death.

Very respectfully,
s/ [illegible]

To the commissioner.
Benjamin Manning
$53.33 - Act 1832. Died 1st June 1838; Paid to his death.
s/ F. Bunt Auditor

Francis Bunt, Esq., Third Auditor, Treasury
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26,860
Rev. Wars
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Rev(olutionary War)

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1048
Basheba Manning, widow (of) Benjamin Manning
Pri(vate), Rev(olutionary) War
Act: Feb. 3, 1853
Index: -; Vol. M; Page 9.

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Basheba Manning, widow of Benjamin Manning, N. Jersey.

Let(ter sent) to Peter P. Runyon 28th June 1853.

Act February 3rd, 1853.
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Pension Office
December 13th 1855.

Sir,

The certificate of the Secretary of State of New Jersey filed in support of the County land claim of Mrs. Bersheba Manning does not establish "fourteen days" service of Benjamin Manning. He having been paid but 15 Shillings. Additional evidence of service should be filed.

Yours Respectfully,
s/ C. H. Rhett, for Commissioner

Peter P. Runyon, Esq.
New Brunswick, N.J.
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New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 25th 1833.

To the Commissioner of Pensions.

Dear Sir,

Please find the declaration of Bersheba Manning for pension under the Act of February 3rd 1853. The early consideration of this claim is respectfully solicited and the result is requested to be communicated to the subscriber.

With great respect I remain yours,
s/ Peter R. Runyon

N.B. Pardon me for calling the attention of the commissioner to the case of Rachel Blackford, widow of Nathan, which has been at the department more than a year and nothing has been heard from it except its safe arrival there. The applicant is very aged. Unless the case is soon decided, it will come too late for her relief. Hopes are entertained that her claim will be allowed with all convenient dispatch.
s/ P.P.R.
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Brief in the case of Bersheba Manning, widow of Benjamin Manning, Middlesex County and State of New Jersey, act 3rd Feb. 1853.

Claim, ("original" [crossed out: or "for increase."])
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, stat the substance. 
Husband was a pensioner under the Act of 7th June 1832. Record evidence of marriage.

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

s/ [illegible], Examining Clerk

Name and residence of Agent
Peter P. Runyon, Esq.
New Brunswick, N.J.
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New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 10th 1855.

Hon. J. Minot, Commissioner of Pensions.

Dear Sir,

Enclosed please find supplemental evidence in the following cases on Abigail Johnson, No. 72,743; Hannah Blackford, No. 96,386; and Bersheba Manning, No. 96,390.

These certificates do not have nor were they intended to prove the length of time each soldier served but only shew the balance due him for service rendered after deducting what he had already received. It will be perceived that the law of New Jersey of Dec. 20, 1783 only contemplates the producing an estimate of the money due to the militia and troops and to provide for the settlement of the same &c.

One month being the shortest period of service for which New Jersey paid her soldiers in the Revolutionary War. It follows that if ever a balance was due any soldier, he must have served at least one whole month. It is hoped the commissioner will consider these certificates conclusive entitling the applicants to that bounty bestowed by a grateful people through their representatives in Congress...
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...The applicants are all aged; some of them quite infirm. If their claims are long delayed, it is feared relief will come too late. Will the Commissioner consider their cases at his earliest convenience.

With very great respect &c.,
s/ Peter P. Runyon
New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Bounty Land claim, law of March 3, 1855.

Supplemental evidence, Bersheba Manning, No. 96,390.

s/ Peter P. Runyon, Agent
New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Notes given by the Commissioners of the several Counties of the State of New Jersey for Militia service during the Revolutionary War.

NO. OF CERTIF. | DATE. | SIGNED BY. | PAYABLE TO | AMOUNT.
224 | May 1, 1784 | Thomson Stelle | Benj. Manning | £0.15.0

STATE OF NEW JERSEY:

I, Thomas S. Allison , Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true abstract from a Book, headed as above, as taken from, and compared with the original now remaining in my office.-

And I do further certify, that Thomson Stellewas, by an Act passed by the Legislature of this State, December 20, 1783, entitled, "An Act to procure an estimate of the sums due to the Militia and Troops who have been raised for the defence of the frontiers of the State, and to provide for the settlement of the same," appointed a Commissioner for the County of Middlesex for the purpose of settling and adjusting the Pay-rolls of the Militia and Troops of this State, as aforesaid, and also for signing and delivering out to each and every person a note for the payment of what may be justly due.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said State, this Thirteenth day of November A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
s/ Thos. S. Allison, Secretary of State.
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State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex,

Before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly authorized to administer oaths, personally appeared [crossed out: Benjamin] Andrew Manning, aged Fifty years, a resident of the township of Piscataway, County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath saith that he is the son of Benjamin Manning, deceased, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Fifty three dollars and Thirty three cents per annum. That the said pension was drawn from the New Jersey Agency at Trenton. That the said Benjamin Manning departed this life at Piscataway aforesaid on the third day of June 1839. That Bersheba Manning, his widow, survived him. That his father, the said Benjamin Manning, was married to the said Bersheba for his second wife. That before his father and the said Bersheba were married, she was the widow of Jeremiah Manning, who had been dead several years. That the said Beersheba Manning is now the widow of Benjamin Manning, deceased, the identical person who drew a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier at Trenton in the State of New Jersey. That the said Bershaba Manning is not the mother of the deponent but he is the step mother of this deponent.
s/ Andrew Manning

Sworn to and subscribed before me the 30th day of August 1853. And I do certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Andrew Manning and that he is a credible person and that his statements are entitled to full credit.
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State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex//

Before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally [appeared] Isaac Manning, aged Sixty four years, a resident of Piscataway, County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath doth depose and say that he is the son of Benjamin Manning, late of the County of Middlesex aforesaid, deceased. That his father, the said Benjamin Manning, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Fifty three dollars and Thirty three cents per annum. That he married Bersheba Manning, widow of Jeremiah Manning, for his second wife. That the said Benjamin Manning departed this life in the County aforesaid on the 3rd day of June 1839. That Bersheba Manning, who this deponent understands and believes is applying for a pension, is now the widow of Benjamin Manning, deceased, the identical person who drew a pension at the New Jersey agency at Trenton at the rate of Fifty three dollars Thirty three cents per annum.
s/ Isaac Manning

Sworn to and subscribed before me the 2nd day of September 1853. And I certify that the above named Isaac Manning is known to me to be a credible person and that his statements are entitled to full credit and belief.
s/ Peter P. Runyon, Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex,

On this Seventeenth day of September One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty three before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Dr. Elias Runyon, aged Sixty eight years, a resident of the Township of Piscataway in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath doth [duplicate: doth] depose and say that he was well acquainted with Benjamin Manning, late of the township, County and State aforesaid, deceased. That he was his family physician for more than Twenty years before his death. Knows that he was a Revolutionary Pensioner but does not know the precise amount which he drew. Attended the said Benjamin Manning in his last sickness. That he died at Piscataway aforesaid in the summer of the year 1839. That Bersheba Manning is now the widow of Benjamin Manning aforesaid, deceased, the identical Benjamin Manning who drew a pension at the New Jersey Agency of Trenton and has been a widow since the death of the said Benjamin. That he remembers well when the said Benjamin and Bersheba, who is now his widow, were married. That the said Bersheba, before her said marriage with the said Benjamin, was the widow of Jeremiah Manning, deceased. Consequently, she did not alter name by her said marriage.
s/ Elias Runyon

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above mentioned. And I do certify that the above named Elias Runyon is a reputable practicing physician and that his statements are entitled to full credit.
s/ Peter P. Runyon, Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex,

I, Nicholas Booraem, Clerk of the Circuit Court in & for the County & State above mentioned, do hereby certify that Peter P. Runyon, whose genuine signatures appears above, is and was, at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace, in & for the County & State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn. That all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and 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 21st day of September, A.D. 1853.
s/ N. Booraem, Clerk
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51 12-5-41

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name: Manning, Christopher
Grade: Corporal
Line: Pennsylvania

Warrant Number: 10,012
Acreage: 100
Issued: July 27, 1789 to Richard Platt, Assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.