Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,602, Jeremiah Williams, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md.

Williams, Jeremiah
Mary

NUMBER
R. 11,602
B.L.WT.875-100

CONTENTS
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Jeremiah Williams 
Hon Phil Bucher
Dec 26th 1819
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I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint Philoman Bucher Esquire of Lancaster Ohio my true and lawful attorney to demand and receive the certificate or warrant from the proper office of the United States for the bounty land promised to me by the U. States as a soldier in the revolutionary war, and to give all proper receipts therefore and to locate the same for me and in my name for my own proper use and (illegible) - In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this the 18th October AD 1819 - 
Jeremiah Williams

Attest
W. G. Thomas

State of Ohio Fairfield County SS
Personally appeared before me Jacob Dietrick a Justice of the peace in Hocking Township in and for said Fairfield County the above subscriber Jeremiah Williams and made oath that he is the same Jeremiah Williams that listed in the year 1778 for and during the war and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be his volun-
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-tary act and did for the purposes therein expressed. Done at Lancaster this the 18th October AD 1819
Jacob Dietrick J. P.
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State of Maryland Anne Arundel County to wit
I hereby certify that it appears from the Record of Marriage Licenses kept in the office of the clerk of Anne Arundel County Court that a License for the marriage of Jeremiah Williams and Mary Gaither was issued from this office on the fifteenth day of December in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and eighty four.
Given under my hand and the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this 1st day of September 1851
Jos: H. Nicholson Clk
Costs .49 cents
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624.

J. Williams.
Recd. July 25. 1828
ackd. Aug. 9.
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The State of Ohio Seneca County ss.
I Neal McGaffey Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that Reuben Williams before whom the within affidavit of David Egbert and Uriah Egbert was made is now and was at the time of taking said affidavit an acting Justice of the Peace duly empowered to administer oaths. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Tiffin this 17th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight 
Neal McGaffey Clk CCP. Sen Co.
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July 16 1828
Revolutionary Claims 
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary army I Jeremiah Williams having been a private soldier from May 1778 until August 1780 and now favoured with an opportunity through the (faded illegible) mercies of the most high I yet live to give him thanks and express my gratitude to the rulers of my nation whose benovolence invites me to address myself to the Honourable the secretary of the Treasury at the City of Washington - Honoured Friends though unknown I solosit your aid (the notes which I send will lead you to the Roles and Records which will shew that I first served Capt. Lansdale and Lieut Hamilton (faded illegible) North where I received the reward listing during the war. (faded illegible) in the South at Petersburgh we received the last paper Congress (faded illegible) - after the Defeat at (faded illegible) swamp I served under Capt Oldham and after the officers were relieved Captain Wilmott after his death on Johns Island I served under Lieut McPherson to the end of the war Collonel John Stewart and Adjutant General Williams and Genlyest General Green - also the Land office record - I was born and lived before the war and afterward 2 or 3 years in Annarunk County the above citations are true - I am in my 69yh year and my wife in her 67th only one son of 22 years remains. Your Honour will Please to Direct your orders to Tiffin Post office Seneca County Ohio Nomore at present from your humble servant
Jeremiah Williams

To Collonel Haron Ogden
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Revolutionary Claims
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution approved on the 15 of May 1828
I Jeremiah Williams in the County of Seneca in the State of Ohio do hereby declare that I enlisted in May 1778 in the 4th regiment of the Maryland line Captain Lansdales company of the army of the revolution for and during the war and continued in it service untill its termination at which period I was a private in Captain Wilmots company and Lieutenant McPherson and I also declare that I received a bounty at midlebrook in1779 as a reward for enlisting during the war and in 1783 I received a final settlement at Annapolis Maryland. But never received any discharge or ever been in the pension list or received any pension to this day - my claim has been proved about 8 years ago when I received a warrant for one hundred acres of land as bounty of the United States Witness my hand this 16th day of July AD 1828
Jeremiah Williams 

The State of Ohio Seneca County SS
Before me Reuben Williamsa Justice of the Peace in and for said county personly appeared this day David Egbert and Uriah Egbert of the said county who did severily make oath that Jeremiah Williams by whome the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated Witness my hands this 16th day of July AD 1828
Reuben Williams
Justice of the Peace
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State of Ohio Seneca County SS
Be it known that on this 10 day of October A.D. 1851. before me M. Y. Bogart a Justice of the peace within and for the said county and state aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oath personally appeared Jeremiah Williams Jr. and made oath in due form of law that he is one of the personal representatives of Mary Williams late widow of Jeremiah Williams who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United Stats. And that she was entitled to a pension from the day of her husbands death which took place on the 29th day of August in the year A.D. 1842. And that the aforesaid Mary Williams departed this life on the 25th day of February A.D. 1848. And that his pension was unclaimed. 
Jeremiah Williams seal(circled)

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written
M. T. Bogart
Justice of the Peace

Know all men by these presents. That we Jeremiah Williams Susannah Egbert, Elisha Williams, Reuben Williams, heirs at law of Mary Williams, late widow of Jeremiah Williams late of Seneca County and state of Ohio do hereby constitute and appoint John G. Turner of Seneca County in the state of Ohio our true and lawful attorney for us and in our names to secure from the agent of the
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United Stats for paying pension at the City of Washington D.C. the amount of pension from 29th day of August A.D. 1842 to the 25 day of Febuary in the year A.D. 1848. Witness our hands and seals this 10 day of October 1851
Jeremiah Williams seal(circled)
Susannah Egbert seal(circled)
Reuban Williams seal(circled)
Elisha Williams seal(circled)

Levi Coffman
M T Bogart
2 witnesses

State of Ohio Seneca County ss
Be it known that before me M T Bogart a justice of the peace in and for said county duly authorised by law to administer oaths personally appeared Jeremiah Williams & Susannah Egbert.
The above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be their free act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned
M T Bogart
Justice of the Peace
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875
Jeremiah Williams 
private
Maryland line
Warrant issued March 9th 1820
Honble P. Beecher
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November 15, 1933

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Jeremiah Williams
R. 11602
BA-J/MCS

Mrs. E L Lepper
2258 Summit Street
Columbus
Ohio

Dear Madam:

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, R. 11602, based upon the military service of Jeremiah Williams.

He was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, date of birth and names of parents not given.

While living in that county he enlisted in May, 1778, and served until August, 1783, as private with the Maryland troops under Captains Lansdale, Oldham, and Wilmot, and Colonel John Stewart.

He lived in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for two or three years after the Revolution.

In 1819 he made application in Fairfield County, Ohio, for bounty land due on account of his Revolutionary War service. His claim was allowed in full satisfaction. Nor information in regard to the location of this land, it is suggested that you address the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, Washington, D.C., furnishing the following data as means of identification: Jeremiah Williams, Warrant 875 for one hundred acres of bounty land, issued March 9, 1820.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 16, 1822, at which time he was living in Seneca County, Ohio.

He died August 29, 1842.
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This soldier married Mary Gaither. The date of marriage is not given but the marriage license was issued December 15, 1784, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

In 1828 it was stated that Jeremiah Williams was in the sixty-ninth year of his age, that his wife was in the sixty-seventh year of her age and that a son (name not given) was twenty-two years of age. In 1828 one Reuben Williams was justice of peace in Seneca County, Ohio, but it was not stated that he was related to the soldier, Jeremiah Williams.

The widow, Mary Williams, died February 25, 1848.

In 1851 the following were referred to as the only surviving heirs-at-law of Mary Williams, the late widow of Jeremiah Williams: Jeremiah Williams, Susannah Egbert, Elisha Williams of Fulton County, Ohio, and Ruban Williams of Warsaw, Indiana.

Very truly yours

A D HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

[Written in pencil at bottom]
Did not say that these were children of soldier as only reference to this effect is in letter written by Peasion Office Mar 12. 1852, which states "in right of their mother."
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Know all men by these presents. 
That I Ruban Williams of Warsaw Indiana do hereby constitute and appoint J. G. Turner of Seneca County Ohio to be my true sufficient and lawful attorney, for me and in my name and for my use. To receive from the treasury of the United States my share of a pension due Mary Williams Widow of Jeremiah Williams Junior. And for the purpose aforesaid, I do hereby grant unto my said attorney full power to execute and deliver all needful instruments and papers, wether under seal or otherwise; to institute and prosecute to final judgement and execution all (illegible) in law or equity; to defend any and all suits against me, the constituent, to submit any and all matters in dispute to arbitration, or the same to settle and compromise; to appoint one or more substitutes under him and the same to (illegible) and discharge at pleasure; and generally, to do and perform all such acts matters and things, as my said attorney shall deem necessary and expediant for the compleet and efectual execution of the authority herein before granted, as fully as I might and could do if I were personally present . I hereby notifying and confirming all the acts of my said attorney done by virtue and in persuance of those presents
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In testimony whereof I have signed sealed and delivered in presence of Reuban Williams seal(circled)

Attest
David R Pershing
Jeremiah Burns
Two witnesses

State of Indiana Kosciusko County SS 
Be it known that on the thirteenth day of October 1851 before me the subscriber a Notary Public in and for said County and State aforesaid duly authorised by law to administer oaths personally appeared Ruban Williams and acknolages the foregoing power of attorney to be his (illegible) and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the day and year above written 
David R Pershing 
Notary Public at Warsaw
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April 5th 1832
Rel. to cases of Mary Williams decd widow of Jeremiah and Hannah Holmes widow of Jedediah
J. G. Turner
Tiffin City Ohio

Jany James T J Jones

(written upside down)
Reported to Mr. Howard
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Tiffin City Feb March 4th 1852.
Sir.
Enclosed the Land Warrant of Silad Rose deceased and the widows proof of marriage and death of said Rose in this case the widow's entitled to a Warrant.

I wish to entirigate you in refferance to the pension claim of the Heirs of Mary Widow of Jeremiah Williams of which I transmitted in your case Nov 1851. pleas have the goodnefs to inform me how the matter stands, or the reason of its delay, as also the claim of Mrs Holmes for a pension, in that case I was directed to find the original Family records of the marrage of Jadadiah Holmes to Hannah Brown, and the certificate of Clerk of Columbia County N.Y. giving the result. This was was done accordingly to the request of Mr Evans. your Dept he stated that on receet [receipt] of the family accord and the certificate of the Clerk of court of Columbia Co N.Y. Mrs. Holmes would be [illegible] the pension Roll I also forwarded a power of attorney from Mrs Holmes for his pension certificate in Dec last, and no answer. pleas inform me in some shape in refferance to the matter.
I am very respectfully yours &c
J G Tunner

Hon J E Heath
Commifsioner
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State of Ohio}
Seneca County} ss On this 10th day of October 1851 Personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for said County and State aforesaid Levi Caufman and Mary Metilda Caufman who being duly Sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that they was personally known to the death of Mary Williams Widow of Jeremiah Williams who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, which took place on the 25th day of February in the year A.D. 1848. Affiants further state that they are well acquainted with Jeremiah Williams, Elish Williams, Ruban Williams, Susanah Egbert, late Susanah Williams, the only surviving heirs of the late Mary Williams, as aforesaid and that they was always believed and reputed to be the personal representatives of the aforesaid Jereimah Williams and Mary Williams and that they have no interest whatsoever in the application for the aforesaid pension.
Levi Coffman
Mary M Coffman Witnefses Signatures

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written I do hereby certify that Levi Caufman and Mary Metild Caufman who has signed the above affadavit are persons of know respectability for truth and warrants and the word personally was written before signing
M V Bogart J P
Justic of the peace
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State of Ohio Seneca County SS. 
Be it known that on this 10th day of October A.D. 1857 before me M. T. Bogart a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared John G Turner the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney and made oath in due form of law, that he has no interest whatsoever in the money he is authorized to secure by virtue of the foregoing power of attorney either by pledge mortgage sale asessment or transfer and that he does not know or believe that the same has been disposed of to any person whatsoever.
John G Turner

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10 day and year above written
M T Bogart
Justice of the Peace
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Hon P Bucher
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87281

The State of Ohio}
Fairfield County} fs
Be it known that before me Jacob D Dietrick one of the Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid personally appeared Jeremiah Williams and made oath that he has never received his land warrant for services rendered during the Revolutionary war as a soldier in the army of the American Revolution neither has he received any instrument of writing vesting in him a title to County lands agreeable to an act of Congrefs neither has he authorized or empowered any one to obtain the same for him neither has he transferred or conveyed the same to any one in any shape manner or form neither does he know of its being obtained in any way and further this deponent saith not
Jeremiah Williams
Sworn and subscribed this 21st day of Feby AD 1820
Before me
Jacob D Dietrick J.P.

STATE OF OHIO, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, ss.
I, Hugh Boyle Clerk of the court of Common Pleas for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Jacob D Dietrick esquire, before whom the above deposition was taken, and whose name is thereunto subscribed, was at the time of taking such depeposition an acting justice of the peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and that to all his acts as such, full faith and credit are due, and ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere.
IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said cour, at Lancaster, in said county, this twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty and of the independence of the United States of America the
Hugh Boyle Clk
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Department of 
War
Section of bounty lands
March 1820
I Philemon Beecher a Representative from the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Jeremiah Williams, and have no hesitation in certifying that I firmly believe him to be the person that he represents himself to be, and that he did perform the service which he states in the Maryland line of the Revolutionary war
P Beecher
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469. orig 624. Ctf No. 538

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
no. of original payment 469
admt Files 46 123
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Augt. 9. 1828.

Jeremiah Williams, of Seneca County in the State of Ohio has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain ____'s company, in the regiment of the Maryland line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
A Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
14th August 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Jeremiah Williams in the Maryland line
It further appears that Jeremiah Williams is now on the pension list of any agency, and has been so since the 3 March 1826
Peter Hagner Aud
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November 15, 1933
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BA-J/MCS

Mrs. E L Lepper
2253 Summit Street
Columbus
Ohio

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for the records of Jeremiah Williams who served in the Revolution, Reuben Williams who served in the War of 1812 and John Brake Williams who served in the Civil War.

War of 1812 data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension based upon the military service of soldiers in that war. A search of the records fails to show such claim on file on account of the service of Reuben Williams who served in the Ohio militia during the War of 1812.

You are herewith furnished the record of Jeremiah Williams as shown by papers in pension claim, R. 11602.

Your letter has been referred to the proper division for reply in regard to John Brake Williams who served in the Civil War.

Very truly yours
A D HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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14560
Mary Williams
O
Act 7 July 1838
Rejected
Let. to J. G. Turner March 10/52
same July 7 - 1852.
11602
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Power to receive a Revoly. Wt. are other documents in this case already deposited in the Section of Bounty Lands? If not, this Power is useless on our files.
pe 87281
Wt. issd. No 875
Deced. 27th 1819.
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau Jeremiah William R. 11602
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DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
May 1778
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LENGTH OF SERVICE.
Aug 1783
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RANK.
Pvt.
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OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. | COLONEL.
Lansdale, Oldham, Wilmot
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STATE.
Md
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Battles engaged in, ______
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Anne Arundel Co Md
Date of application for pension, July 16, 1828 His cl. was al. *
Residence at date of application, Seneca Co Ohio
in Anna Arundel Co Md.
Age at date of application, in 69 year, born + He died Aug 29, 1842
Remarks: Soldier married Mary Gaither (license issued Dec 15. 1784 in Anne Arundel Co. Md) She died Feby 25 1848

*See Ohio Agency book Act 1828.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

1565b3m10-08
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No. 14,560
Mary Williams ded
widow of Jeremiah
O
Act 7 July 1838,
Rejected
Husband a pensioner
Act 15 May 1828,
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Tiffin City, November 18th 1851.
Dear Sir,
Enclosed you will find papers of the heirs of Jeremiah Williams & Mary Williams for a pension due said Mary Williams of which you will remit receets for the pension due which I will sign and return for said pension 
I am verry respectfuly yours &c.
J. G. Turner

P.S. (I would just say that Mrs Mary Williams drew her husbands last payment or ballance due by the date of the papers as I have a copy of them before me dated 27th November 1843. and at the time the pension certificate was returned, he drew his pension under the Act of Congress of the 15th May 1828. at 80 dolls per annum) this I give as a refference.

Hon J. E. Heath
Commissioner of
Pensions Washington City, D.C.
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Know all men by these presents That I Elisha Williams of the County of Fulton and state of Ohio have constituted and appointed and by these presents do constitute and appoint John G Turner of Seneca County my true and lawful attorney irrevocably for me and in my name to receive from the United Stats all such sum or sums of money as may be due me on any account whatsoever.
The amount of pension that was due Mary Williams widow of Jeremiah Williams who was a pensioner of the United States and in my name to execute such receipts and acquittances for the same as may be necessary and generally to do all lawful acts and things touching the premises; and an attorney or attornies under him for the purpose as aforesaid to make at his pleasure to revoke; hereby confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall lawfully do or caus to be done in the promises by virtue of those presents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 27th day of October 1851. Elisha Williams seal(circled)
Wm Long

State of Ohio Fulton County SS.
On this 27 day of October 1851 Elisha Williams personally appeared before me Henry Herreman a Justice of the peace in and for said county aforesaid, and acknolaged the above power of attorney to be his act and deed for the purpose therein expressed.
As witness my signature and seal this twenty seventh day of Oct. 1851
Henry Herreman JP
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The State of Ohio Fulton County SS
I Samuel Durgin Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that Henry Herreman before whom the annexed acknowledgement was made and who has signed his name thereon officially in his own proper hand writing was at the time of the date thereof and still is a Justice of the Peace within & for said county duly commissioned and qualified and to all whose official acts full faith and credit are due and ought to be given throughout the United States & elsewhere

In testimony whereof I hereunto sgn my name and affix the seal of said court this 27th day of October A.D. 1851
Samuel Durgin Clerk
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REJECTED
11602
P. O. Mary Williams
Service: Jeremiah
Enlisted: md, 18
Discharged: ___, 18
Application filed: ___, 18
Alleges: ___
Re-enlisted: ____
Act 1838 Consol. 1828 with it
Exd by Mr Robinson
Attorney: ____
P. O. ____
____ Recognized. ____ Contract
____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for ____, 18
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See Invalid
File # 46123

1912 Mch 30 Hist to Mrs
R J Burkhalter V. L. M.
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1933 Nov 15. hist to Mrs
E L Lepper M.C.S.
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Pension Office
March 12, 1852

Sir
In answer to the application of the heirs of Jeremiah Williams for a pension in right of their mother Mary Williams decd. I have to inform you that under a decision of the late Secretary of the Interior, Mr Ewing, widows of revolutionary war who were not such at the pafsage of the act of 7 July 1838, were not retitled to a pension under that act or the subsequent acts of 3 March 1843 + 17 June 1844.
It appears that Jeremiah Williams decd on the 29th August 1842; the widow therefore, was not entitled to a pension and the claim is rejected
J G Turner, Esq
Tiffin City
Ohio
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Jeremiah Williams
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State of Ohio}
Seneca county} fs I, Kenny Ebert, Clerk of the Court of Common pleas, in and for said County and State aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that M V Bogart Esqr. whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affadavits and power of Attorney was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace duly Commifsioned and sworn that all his official acts as such as are entitled to full faith and credit; and the aforesaid Court of common pleas is a court of record having General Jurisdiction.
Given under my hand and Seal of office at Tiffin this 19th day of Novemr in the year of our Lord 1851.
Henry Ebbert Clerk
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July 7th 1852
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Pension Office
July 7 1852

Sir
In reply to your letter of the 11 Mch last, you are referred to my letter to you of the 12th same month as regards the claim of Mary Williams of Ohio Act 7 July 1838.
Thos. Ewing Jr. who filed the requisite authority has been informed of the condition of the claim of Hannah Holmes.

J. G. Turner Esqr.
Tiffin City Ohio
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Mrs. R. J. Burkhalter
Toledo Ohio

personal inqr
MAR 25 1912
ack.

2318 Robinwood Ave
Wants record of Jeremiah Williams 
R. 11602 Ma.
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Jeremiah Williams
Act 1828
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Rejected 11602

Tiffin City, Dec 18th 1850.
Sir
With reguard to Jeremiah Williams who was a pensioner, of the United States, of the Continental line, of the Army in the war of the Revolution, under the act of Congrefs of May 15th 1828. and as he only has received 80 dollars a year, I think there has been a mistake in ifsuing his warrant for a pension. this Clafs [Class] of pensioners was entitled to 96 dollars a year and not 80 dollars. he is now dead. and his widow also. the heirs disears [desires] his unclaimed pension I thought it prudent to inform you of the miftake before the papers were made out for unclaimd pension. pleas inform me if I am right with requard to this matter. at your erliest convenience
I am Sir yours respectfully,
J G Turner

Hon Mr Heath
Commissioner of pensions.
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April 20/52
Rel. to case of Mary Williams widw. of Jeremiah

J. G. Turner
Tiffin City Ohio
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Tiffin City April 13th 1852.
Sir,
I received a communication from your department in refferance to the case of the heirs of Mary Williams, widow of Jerimiah Williams. for a pension, which is due said widow, and now her heirs. I was very much surprised to hear that the disicion of the late Sectary Ewing. on account of the act of the 23rd of August 1842. [deprived] the widow from a benefit of 1838. it is true, that Mr Williams died on the 29th of August 1842. but I think that the rule is if the husband died at any time between the act of 1841. and 1843. the widows pension is directed to commence on the 4th of March 1843. and in the present case I am enclined to think that the heirs, has a right to the pension. I hope you will have the goodnefs to excuse me, if this is not aggreeable with the law
I am very respectfuly yours +c
J G Turner

Hon J E Heath
Commifsioner