Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6197, for James Stout, New Jersey
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Service                                                Number

New Jersey      Stout, James               W.6297
                              Esther        B.L.Wt. 34-6-55.
                                   or                    and
                               Easter       {B.L.Wt. 8769-100
                                                 Pvt.
                                              {Issued April 5, 1799
                                              {to William Garrison
                                              {assignee, no papers
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1730          Let to A. Joy  Dec. 10, 1850
New Jersey
Esther Stout
widow of James Stout 
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
80 Dollars -------  Cents per
annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
2nd day of Sept. 48
and sent to Arad Joy
Ovid
New York

Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 316 Vol. 4
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
State of New Jersey}
County of Hunterdon} SS. 
On the 15th day of June 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the court in and for said county, Easter Stout who resides adjoining the lives of said before named county & State, aged seventy 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 provision made by the act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.
And also a further Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7,, 1838
That she is the widow of James Stout who was a  soldier in the standing army of the United States in the war of the Revolution. That he enlisted in the fall of 1775 probably under Capt. Braley (?) for seven years or for during the war, that at any rate he did enlist for during the war of the Revolution and that he served to the close of the war of the Revolution & received an honorable discharge, entitling him to bounty land, that she has often seen his discharge & that her said husband finally sold his discharge, as this deponent thinks & believes to William Garrison, that he sold it she well knows & cannot be mistaken; She also declares that she was married to the said James Stout in the year 1789, seventeen hundred and eight nine, that her said husband, the aforesaid James Stout died more than thirty years since, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794, Seventeen hundred and ninety four, vis. at the time above stated.  She further declares that she is still a widow.
Subscribed & sworn before me}
this 15th day of June 1843}
Wm. (?)  Stout Judge of the Court
           her
Easter   X     Stout
          mark
I certify that the above named Easter Stout is a respectable person & that full credit is due to the above, that I consider her of the age represented by her, & that her age & infirmity ought to excuse her & indeed she ought not to be asked to appear in Open court to make her application & deposition. 

Judge Wm Stout of  the Court
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State pf New Jersey}
County of Hunterdon} SS.
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the court in & for said county, Anna Runion a resident in or near the line of of said county aged over fifty two years & on being duly sworn according to law deposeth (sic) & saith (sic)  that Widow Easter Stout who is named on the first page is this deponent's mother, and that James Stout a Revolutionary soldier the late husband of her mother, the said Easter Stout, was this deponent's father, and that her said father, the aforesaid James Stout, as this deponent always from a child was informed, was a soldier in the war of the Revolution from the beginning to the end, that her said father, the aforesaid James Stout had & received an honorable discharge at the close of the war of the Revolution entitling him to bounty land, and that her said mother, the aforesaid widow, Easter Stout is the very person, the identical person & late wife of her said father, the aforesaid James Stout, & that her said father & mother above named lived together as husband & wife from the first recollection of this deponent, till the death of her said father the aforesaid James Stout & that her said father died some thirty years since discharge entitling  him to bounty land & often was the same that she has often seen her said father that her said mother, the aforesaid Easter Stout is still a widow , that this deponent has a brother aged fifty or fifty one years.

Subscribed & sworn before me}
this 15th day of June 1843}
Wm. Stout Judge of the Court
          her
Anna     X      Runion
          mark

I certify that the above named Hannah Runion is a respectable person & entitled to full belief in her deposition. 
Wm. Stout   Judge of the Court

(This next section has a large X drawn through it)
State of New Jersey}
County of Hunterdon} SS.
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the court in & for said County & State Spencer Stout of said county aged fifty one years & on being duly sworn according to law, deposeth (sic) & saith (sic) that widow Easter Stout within named is this deponent's mother and that James Stout a Revolutionary soldier & the late husband of his said mother, was this deponent's father and that this deponent from a child has always been informed that his said father aforesaid was a soldier in the war of the Revolution in the continental line from the beginning to the end of the Revolution & that he rec. and honorable discharge entitling him to bounty land & that his said above named mother Easter Stout is this deponent's mother & the identical person & widow of his said father the before named James Stout, and that his said father died from twenty to thirty years since & that his said mother
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(First paragraph has a large X through it)

aforesaid is still a widow, this deponent further saith (sic) that he has an own sister older than himself, vis, Mrs. Hannah Runion, that his before named father & mother lived together as husband & wife from the first recollection of this deponent till the death of his aforesaid father.
Subscribed & sworn before me}
this     day of June 1843}

I certify that the above named Spencer Stout is a respectable person & that full credit is due to his deposition.
Spencer Stout had moved from the place.
(End of cross out section)

State of New Jersey}
County of Hunterdon} SS.

Personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the court in & for said county and State, James Labam of said county aged 79 seventy nine years & on being duly sworn according to law, deposeth (sic) and saith (sic) that he is personally & well acquainted with the widow Easter Stout, the widow of James Stout late a soldier in the war of the Revolution, that he was well acquainted with the aforesaid James Stout before the war of the Revolution & that his acquaintance always continued till the death of the said James Stout which took place more than twenty years since & it maybe  or have been more than thirty years since.  That his deponent will recollect of the aforesaid James Stout the late husband of the aforesaid widow Easter Stout enlisting in the Standing army in the war of the Revolution in the fall of 1775 Seventeen hundred and seventy five, under Capt. Bradley, & went to the north, that the said James Stout continued in the continental army from the time of his enlistment in 1775 to the close of the said war of the Revolution & that he enlisted for and during the war of the Revolution, and at its close he received an honorable discharge entitling him to bounty land, that this deponent saw the said James Stout occasionally home for a short time on furlough, that he had seen the furloughs & knew of his returning back to the army & of his serving to the close of the war of the Revolution.  That the said James Stout was in many battles & in the battle of Germantown & he had the cock shot off of his gun in that battle, that this deponent has always known the widow Easter Stout & well knows that she is the identical person & widow of the aforesaid James Stout, that this deponent will recollect of the said
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before named James Stout & Easter Stout having as the fruit of their marriage a daughter & a son, vis. (Hannah crossed out) Anna Runion & Spencer Stout that they are either of them over the age of fifty years, that this deponent well knows, that the said James Stout and the said widow Easter Stout lived together as early as 1790 seventeen hundred & ninety & that they always continued to live together as husband & wife till the death of the said James Stout, which took place more than twenty years since, if not more than thirty years since, & that the said Easter Stout is still a widow.  This deponent living a neighbor was well knowing to all the facts here set forth, also that the aforesaid James Stout was the identical person & soldier who served in the war of the Revolution under that name & that the aforesaid Easter Stout is his widow. 

Subscribed & Sworn before me}
this 15th day of June 1843}     James Labam (?)
Wm . Stout Justice of the Peace
and judge of the court

I certify that the above named James Labam is a respectable old man, & I judge him to be of the age represented by him, that he retains his faculties very well indeed, appears to be of perfect sound mind & of good memory & good recollection & in every way remarkably smart & active, that he clearly & distinctly showed that he was aware of every fact asserted in his deposition, full credit is due to his deposition.

Wm. Stout
Justice of the peace and Judge of the Court
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State of New Jersey}
County of Hunterdon} SS/
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the court, Abraham Runkle aged Eighty Six years of age & on being duly sworn according to law desposeth (sic) & saith (sic) he is personally acquainted with widow Easter Stout, the widow of James Stout who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution.  That this deponent was personally acquainted with the late husband of the said Easter Stourt the aforesaid James Stout when he was a lad & a young man;  lived neighbor to him & this deponent well recollects that the aforesaid James Stout enlisted in the Standing army of the Revolution in the fall of 1775 Seventeen hundred & Seventy five.  That his first march was to the north to Vermont or in that quarter, that this deponent saw him at house at one time during the Revolution on a visit, but that he the said before named James Stout returned to the continental army again & continued in service of the said war of the Revolution to the close of the same.  That he was in many engagements & a faithful soldier & at the close of the war of the Revolution the said James Stout received an honorable discharge for his services, entitling him to bounty land, of all the facts above there can be no mistake, & that the widow Easter Stout who is applying for a pension as the widow of James Stout is the identical person & widow of the aforesaid James Stout, who served in the war of the Revolution as above & who served under that name, & that the aforesaid James Stout & the aforesaid Easter Stout had as the fruit of their marriage one daughter and one son, both of whom this deponent knows, & that they are either of them over fifty years of age, & that the said James Stout died more than thirty years since, & that the aforesaid widow Easter Stout is still a widow. 

Subscribed & Sworn before me}
this 15th day of June 1843}
Wm Stout Judge of the Court
                                       his
                     Abraham     X    Runkle
                                      mark

I certify that the above named Abraham Runkle is a highly respectable ? man & I judge of the age represented by him, that he appears to have good memory as to the facts  occurring during the Revolution, and that he clearly and distinctly showed that he was aware of every fact ascribed in his deposition, full credit is due to his deposition above

Wm Stout  Judge of the Court
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State of New Jersey}
County of Hunterdon} SS.
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Judge of the court in & for said county, James Higgins aged Seventy years & on being duly sworn according to law, deposth (sic) & saith (sic) that Easter Stout, the widow of James Stout, who is applying for a pension is this deponent's sister, that he well recollects when his said sister was married to the said James Stout who had been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, & that her said husband the said James Stout enlisted in the Standing army of the Revolution & served in the war of the Revolution Seven years, & to the close of the war of the Revolution having enlisted for during the war, & on the close of the Revolution the aforesaid James Stout received an honorable discharge for his service entitling him to bounty land, & that the said James Stout who was such soldier & then served in the war of the Revolution was the husband of the aforesaid Easter Stout & that she was married to him as early as 1790 Seventeen hundred and ninety, that this deponent hired his board (?) in the family of the said James Stout & his then wife Easter Stout & now the above named widow Easter Stout fifty one years since, that at that time they had one child certain, if not two children as the fruit of their marriage, that from that time fifty one years since, the said James Stout & the said widow Easter Stout resided together as husband and wife to the day of the death of the said James Stout which death took place more than thirty years since, that the said above named widow Easter Stout & the above named James Stout had one son & one daughter either of them at this time more than fifty years of age & that the aforesaid widow Easter Stout is still a widow & that her late husband the aforesaid James Stout was the identical person & soldier who served during the whole war of the Revolution under that name.
Sworn & Subscribed before me}
this 15th day of June 1843}
Wm. Stout Judge of Court

James Higgins   X his mark

I certify that the above named James Higgins is a respectable person, that I consider him of the age represented by him, that he appears of sound mind & understanding, that he clearly & distinctly showed that he was aware of every fact asserted in tis deposition - full credit is due to his deposition above.

Wm. Stout
Judge of the Court
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State of New Jersey}
County of Hunterdon} SS.
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Judge of the court in & for said county and State, Jacob Williamson of said county aged ninety ---- years, on being duly sworn according to law deposeth (sic) and saith(sic) that he is personally acquainted with the widow Easter Stout, the applicant for a pension as per the annexed (?), and that she is the identical person and widow of James Stout who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, that this deponent was acquainted with the said James Stout before the war of the Revolution & has always been acquainted with him after it till his death.  This deponent deposeth (sic) & saith (sic) that the aforesaid James Stout enlisted in the Standing army or the continental line in the fall of 1775 Seventeen hundred and seventy five, for seven years or close for during the war that he & men went north to Vermont on campatise(?) with the company that he served from that time in the said regular troops,.  Standing army or Continental line during the whole war of the Revolution, and received an honorable discharge entitling him to bounty land.  This deponent has often talked with him about it and that the above named Easter Stout is the identical widow of the identical soldier James Stout above named & that her said husband, the aforesaid James Stout was the identical person & soldier who served in the war of the Revolution under that name, that he enlisted probably under Capt. Braley. This deponent saw the said James Stout home on furlough a few times during the war of the Revolution & knew that he soon returned to his post again in the army.  That the said James Stout & the said Easter Stout were married as early as 1789 seventeen hundred and eighty nine, that as the fruit of such marriage they had a daughter and a son, to wit, Anna Runion & Spencer Stout with either of them over fifty years of age.  That this deponent a tailor by trade worked in the house of the said James Stout & Easter Stout in 1794 to 1796 and well can he recollect of their having two children, the eldest four to six years of age, that the said James Stout & Easter Stout lived together as husband & wife as early as 1790 Seventeen hundred & ninety till the death of the said James Stout which took place more than twenty years since & it may have been thirty years since & that the said above named Easter Stout is still a widow.
Sworn & Subscribed before}
me this 15th day of June 1843}
Wm. Stout Judge of the Court

Jacob Williamson     X  his mark
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I certify that the within named Jacob Williamson is a respectable person, that I judge him to be of the age represented by him, that he appears active & being (?),  of good memory, of good recollection & sound mind, that he clearly and distinctly showed that he was aware of every fact asserted in his deposition, full faith and credit is due to his deposition.

Wm Stout  Judge of the Court

State of New Jersey}
Hunterdon County} SS.
I Peter I. Clark, Clerk of the Infurios (?) Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that William Stout Esquire within named is one of the Judges of the Said Court of of (sic) Common Pleas, and also one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county (and was at the time of taking the within affidavits J@) duly commissioned and qualified, as such, and that the several signatures of his is in his own proper hand writing.
In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court at Flemington this 19th day of June A.D. 1843
Peter I. Clark  Clk 

9,103

9103
Wm. Stout
N. J.
Act. 7 July '38
award?
2 yrs pen.
$80
Also Acct. 3 March '43
$80  6775

Ariad Joy Ovid, Esq.
Seneca  N. Y.

N.B.  This communication to be answered by Col. Edwards, to Ariad Joy Ovid N.Y.
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21485} Act  March 3 /55

Rec. March 30 "

Easter Stout widow of}
James Stout dec.}  Private

Petitioner states she is a Pensioner under the act of 2nd Feby. (sic) 1848 at the rate of Eight dollar per annum, and refers to papers on file in the Pension Office.

Priv. N. Jersey Contl. line

(Illegible  Aug 9 /55

Illegible

John S. Williamson
Ringoes, P. O. 
New J. 

Second half of paper
Cert.  J. S. Williamson.  Act of /55

July  48  no  1750
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State of New Jersey}
Hunterdon County }

On this twenty fifth day of March A.D. Eighteen hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and state afforesaid (sic) Easter Stout aged about Eight five years a resident of Mercer County, formerly Hunterdon,   & in the state of New Jersey, who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the Widow of James Stout deceased, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
She further states that she was married to the said James Stout in Hunterdon County on or about    day of      A.D. by one Nathan Stout Esq. a Justice of the peace of Hunterdon County and that her name before her marriage was Easter Higgins.  And that her said husband died at Hunterdon on or about the year 1806, and that she is now a widow.
She further declares that she is the identical Easter Stout who received a Certificate of Pension under the act of Congress, approved February 2nd, A.D. 1848 to commence March 4th 1848 for Eight Dollars per Annum and which pension she has received of P. Dickerson Esq., Pension agent of Trenton N. Jersey  service annually, which Certificate of Pension was given at the War Office Sept. 2nd, 1848 and recorded in pension office or roll of Pension page 316, Vol. 4 (Lumpkin Clerk)
She further declares that there is no public or private record of her marriage and that the persons by whom her marriage was proved when she received her pension is now deceased, and that the evidence
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of her marriage can be seen on the files of the Pension department Washington City, D. C. 

Easter Stout   X  her mark

We Charles Ewing and John Riley residents of Hunterdon County in the state of New Jersey upon our oath declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Easter Stout widow of James Stout deceased,  in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she presents herself to be and the same Easter Stout, declared in our presence that she could no write her name. 

Charles Ewing
John Riley

The foregoing declaration and affidavit whence sworn to a subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.

John S. Williamson
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey}
Hunterdon County}

On this twenty fifth day of March A.C. 1855 personally appeared before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and the county afforsaid (sic), Charles Ewing aged sixty four years who upon his oath saith (sic)  that he was well acquainted with James Stout and Easter Stout his wife, in the lifetime of said James Stout the person named in the foregoing declaration and that they did cohabit together as husband and wife (and to be so reputed) and since the death of said James Stout, the said Ester has alway (sic) remained his widow and is still living a widow and I further know that the said Easter, does now and has for several years received a pension from the United States.
Sworn and Subscribed before me the}
day and date above named} Charles Ewing
and I do certify that the said Charles}
Ewing is a credible person}
John S. Williamson, J.P.

State of New Jersey}
Hunterdon County SS}
I Charles Tomlinson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, do hereby certify that the above named John S. Williamson whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit and before whom the same was taken was at the time of taking the same and now is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn according to law and that full faith and credit should be given to all his official acts as such, and that his signature to the same is genuine and that said court is a court of record having General Jurisdiction.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Flemington this 27th Day  March A.D. 1855  
Charles Tomlinson Clerk
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Direct warrant to my Ringoes P. Office N. Jersey
John S. Williamson



24 H85
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State of New Jersey} 
County of Hunterdon}  SS.

Personally appeared before me James Willammus (?)one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county Easther (sic) Stout who being duly sworn upon her oath saith (sic) that during the lifetime of the  husband of this deponent they had a family bible in their family, but that in the lifetime of James Stout her husband and when her two children, Anna and Spencer were small and went to school  her husband go the school teacher Joel Brown to put down the ages of himself of this deponent and of their two children to wit (Anna Stout, Spencer Stout on the within paper and that it is all the records she has was kept in her family of this ages.  And she has always believed to be correct as to the ages of all the persons there in named.  And further this deponent cannot say what has become of the said Joel Brown who wrote down their ages he having gone to the western or new country man years ago and further this deponent saith(sic) not.

Sworn and subscribed}
this 12th day of August. A.D.}
1844 before me
Jas. S. Mannus

Easther(sic) Stout   +  her mark

I certify that the above names Easther(sic)Stout is a person of good and respectable conduct (?)
Jas. S. Mannus
Justice of the Peace
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James Stout was born September the 27 in the year of our Lord 1752

Easter Stout was born August 10th  the year of our Lord 1772

Anna Stout the daughter of James Stout and Easter Stout was born June the 18th in the year of our Lord 1790

Spencer Stout the son of James Stout and Easter Stout was born May the 4th in the year of our Lord 1792
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41          
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name  Stout, James       Grade   Private
Line   New Jersey

Warrant Number 8769  
Acreage   100
Issued  April 5, 1799
to William Garrison  Assignee


Also, B.L. Wt. 34-60-55

*This 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.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECOFDS SECTION.
3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOT,
BUREAU OF PEM\NSIONS.
WASHING, D.C.,               , 19

W.F.  6197

In reply to your request of       ,  received

for a statement of the military history of James Stout a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR,  you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application
for  pension on file in this Bureau.
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Rev. Sec. 2 Ear

San Antonio Tex
July 28, 1917

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington  D.C. 

Dear Sir:  Please give me the Pension Record of James Stout of NJ. who had a widow Ester (sic).

Very truly,
Mrs. Harry Hyman.
309 W. Magnolia Ave.
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34

Coacm.  (?)
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V  9103

Esther Stout
N.J.
let to Arad Joy  Aug. 25, 1844
" to same  April 9. 1844

Act  7 July 1838
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1917 Aug. 1 Hist. to Mrs. Harry Hyman.

Widow, & c.
File No.  6197
Esther (sic) Stout
Wid.
James Stout
Pvt. Rev: War
Act:  Feby, 2nd of 48
Index:-Vol. M  Page 241
[ Arrangement of 1870,]
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8930
New Jersey
Easter Stout
widow of James Stout
who was a pensioner under the Act of 
and who died on the    of  in the State of N Jersey who was a Pri in the Co commanded by Captain  of the reg. commanded by  in the Revs. line for 2 years.

Inscribed in the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Dec. 1844 and sent to Arad Joy,  Ovid, NY

Total amount,  $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by F. L. Swann Clerk,
Book D  Vol.  1 Page 207
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6495

New Jersey                          2 Certs.
                                            1838}
Easter Stout                         1843}   repod.
widow of James Stout,
who was a Pri.
in the Revo. War

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars  00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
10 day of Dec. 1844
and sent to Arad Joy
Ovid, New York

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2  Page 100
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James Stout N. J. Line Bounty Land?

GMC  (?)
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Free

Department of the Interior
Pension Office Official Business

J. Minota  Commissioner

Washington City, D. C. 

Please Examine immediately

(the above is written horizontally over some vertical writing which looks like:)

27485
Ester Stout
??  8 July 775
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There is no doubt of the fact that
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Ovid   June 15th  1843

Hon. J. L. Edwards

Dear Sir

You will receive mailed at Flemington, N. J. an application & proof abundent (sic), in the case of Easter Stout, widow of James Stout.

Respectfully Your Most OB Servant

Arad Joy

Ovid  June 15th 1843

Hon. J. L. Edwards,

Dear Sir
About the time that you receive this letter, you will also received an application & proof in the case of Lucrecia (sic) (records show name is Lucretia) Skillman, widow of Abraham Skillman late a pensioner of the U. S. the paper is to be mailed at Somerville, N. J. 
Respectfully your OB Servant
Arad Joy
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Ovid  April 11th 44
Hon B. Green

Dear Sir

May I respectfully beg leave to refer to cases mailed to you in Dec. & Jany (sic) and to suppose that some oversight has happened to them, as papers forwarded in Feby. (sic) have been answered, if papers are take up in due course, how does this happen, unless the papers have been miss laid, or overlooked, viv.
Dec 29th - Mary or Polly Ripley applications in full 

Dec. 30  Esther Stout  case
Jany. 26  Dennis  case

I am Drds? your OB Servant
Arad Joy
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Oct. 16. 1844

AJ  JE fiff ?
Esther Stout

Hon.  J. L. Edwards
Court (or Comm.) of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Ovid  Oct. 12th 1844

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions

Dear Sir
I inclose (sic) further & no doubt satisfactory, proof of the marriage of Esther Stout, to James Stout; nothing more being required to establish her case.

Respectfully I am your most Ob. Servant
Arad Joy
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Free

Hon J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Ovid N. J.  Augt. (sic) 22 '48
Sir
I inclose (sic) application for Pension Certf. for Esther Stout of N. J. 

Respectfully
Your Ob Servant
Arad Joy


Hon J. L. Edwards
Comms. of Pensions
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Ovid  Nov 19th 1853

Sir
I inclose (sic) Pension Certificate & Declaration of Esther Stout for increase of Pension.
Respectfully 
Your Ob. Servant
Arad Joy


Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comms. of Pensions
Washington  D. C.
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Arad Joy

Feb  ahl(?)  '44
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Pension Office
April 9  44.
Sir

The additional evidence in the case of Esther Stout has been examined and filed.  You are referred to my letter of Aug 25th 1843 which states what ? of parol this money is necessary and under what circumstances.
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Arad Joy
August 25  1843

(there is writing on the other side on the paper that shows through but is illegible. )
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Pen. Off.
Aug 25 '43

Sir

In the case of Esther Stout, the specification & proof of service required by the rules with which you have been furnished; are not afforded by the papers.
It should be shown by the certificate of the proper offices that no record of marriage were kept in the town & church where hers should have been recorded before parol testimony in relation to the date of a common event can be deemed satisfactory.  If there be no record or documentary proof, the present testimony is entirely insufficient to establish the fact of marriage before '94 with the requisite certainty. 

Arad Joy, Esq.
Ovid, N. J.
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J. S. Williamson

No:
34

Easter Stout
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Ringoes N Jersey   Oct. 5th 1855
J. Minot Esq.  Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

I received by mail this day a land warrant No. 34 for sixty acres instead of 160 acres which the law gives (if I understand it right) the warrant is issued to Easter Stout widow of James Stout, a Private in the Revolutionary War.  She is very old and feble (sic) and very deserving the full bounty from the U. S. government, please inform me by mail why the warrant is issued for 60 acres. Your immediate answer will be regarded as a special favor. 

Very Respectfully Your,
John S.. Williamson
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Declaration
State of New Jersey}  SS.
County of Mercer}
On this fourth day of November 1850 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Esther Stout a resident of said county, who being first duly sworn occornding (sic) to law, deposes and states that she is the widow of James Stout deceased who during his natural life was a Revolutionary pensioner under the act of Congress 1818 at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum, and that she is in the receipt of a pension of eighty dollars per annum. 

Now the object of this declaration being made is in order to open a claim at the same rate of pension her husband received,  claiming on the evidence filed in her late husband's case, and under the Resolution of Congress approved the 1st July 1848.

She further declares she is still a widow.

Esther Stout  X  her mark

Sworn and subscribed before me on this fourth day of November 1850}

Jeremiah Van Dyke one of the Justices of the Peace of Mercer

I do hereby certify that Esther Stout is well known to me, and that she is the widow of James Stout who was a Revolutionary Pensioner. 

Witness present
Stefen (?)  Blackwell    Jeremiah Van Dyke J. P.
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State of New Jersey
Mercer County  SS

I Ralph St. Threne Clerk of the 
co9unty of Mercer in the State of New Jersey do certify that Jeremiah Vandyke the person before whom the affidavit of Ester (sic) Stout within named was made was at the time of the taking thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and to all his official acts full faith and credit are due and ought to be given as well in Courts of Jurisdiction (?) as thereway ?  Witness my hand and seal of office this fifteenth day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty.

Ralph St. Threne Clerk
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Dec. 10 '44

NY

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
Washington D.C. 


Postage stamp that reads  OVID, but date is illegible.
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Ovid  Dec. 6th 1844
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions

DrSir (sic)
On the 12th Oct. I mailed to you further proof in the case of Esther Stout, having had other cases reported on mailed.  Since that time, pardon me for supposing that is was possible that you had not recd. mine, the purport of the proof enclosed was to establish her marriage, the only point disputed, if you find the proof sufficient, I trust a pension certificate will be granted, I ask it upon no other conditions. 

I am Your Ob. Servant
Arad Joy
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Hopewell, N. J.} 
Oct. 8th}      18 3/4
                       1 SR (?)
                   379


Arad Joy
Ovid
Seneca Co.
New York
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State of New Jersey  Hunterdon County SS

Personally appeared before me James S. Manners one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county of Hunterdon in the said state of New Jersey Jacob Williamson who being by me sworn according to law upon his oath saith (sic) that he was an inhabitant of the township of Amwell in said county of Hunterdon.  That he at the commencement and during the whole of the 
Revolutionary War with Great Brittain (sic)  and that he this deponent was well acquainted with one James Stout who was also an inhabitant of said township of Amwell.  And this deponent further saith (sic) that he saw the said James Stout marching in a company commanded by one captain Anderson and at the time he saw the said James Stout he this deponent accompanied them from New Market to Ringoe's Old Tavern and understood they were enlisted for the year services and were  on their way to Canada.  And this deponent further saith that he understood from said Stout and from others that at the expiration of said term of one year the said Stout then enlisted further for three years or during the war and further after the peace was concluded the said James Stout returned to the township of Amwell and into the immediate neighborhood of this deponent and that deponent has frequently seen both his discharges and this deponent saith further he saw the said James Stout married to one Easther Higgins daughter of  one Julliah Higgins of the said township of Amwell and also a near neighbor of said deponent.  And that they were married at the house of her father by Nathan Stout Esquire at the time a Justice of said county.  And this deponent further saith he cannot precisely fix the time of their marriage but thinks it is between fifty and sixty years ago. And this deponent further saith that the said James Stout departed this life but cannot precisely fix the time bur thinks it is between
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thirty and forty years ago.  Leaving the said Easther (sic) his widow who is now residing in the neighborhood of this deponent.  This deponent cannot precisely fix the time of the first enlistment of said Stout but thinks it was in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five or thereabouts and that he had a brother in the same service but not in the same company, he being enlisted under Captain Reading.  This deponent further saith (sic) he is well acquainted with the said Easther (sic) Stout widow of the above said James Stout.  She having resided from the time of her marriage to Stout to the present time in the immediate neighborhood of this deponent further this deponent further saith (sic) not.  

Sworn and subscribed this twelvth}
day of June A. D. Eighteen Hundred}
and forty four  --- before me}

Jacob Williamson   X  his mark

Hon. R. L. Manners  J.P.
I certify that the above named Jacobs Williamson is a respectable person. 
Hon. R. L. Manners  Justice of the peace

State of New Jersey}
Hunterdon County}  SS.
I Peter J. Clark Clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hunterdon do hereby certify that James Sellammy (?) Esquire whose name appears to the foregoing affidavits was at the time of taking the same, and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature thereto is genuine.  
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Flemmington this second day of September A. D. 1844

Peter J. Clark  Clk.
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State of New Jersey}
Hunterdon County}  SS.

Personally appeared before me James L. Manners one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county of Hunterdon in said State of New Jersey  Spencer Stout of the township of Delaware in the county and state aforesaid who being duly sworn upon his oath saith (sic) that he has always been informed and verily believes he is a son of Easther (sic) Stout widow on James Stout formerly of the township of Amwell in said county.  And by refference (sic) to the family bible in which his age and the age of his children are kept he finds his age recorded thus "Spencer Stout was born May 4th 1792" and which this deponent believes is correct and this deponent upon his oath further saith (sic) that he was/out  out under indentures to one Joseph Bosenberry of the township of Amwell in the county of Hundertdon aforesaid by and with the advice and consent of his said mother and by refference (sic) to said indentures it appears he was to serve until he arrived at age of twenty one years to wit until the fourth day of May which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight-Hundred thirteen, By refference (sic) both the Bible records and the indentures now in his possession it appears he was fifty two years old the fourth day of May last.  And this deponent further upon his oath saith (sic) that he had a sister of the whole blood who this deponent has always been informed was about two years older than this deponent.  This deponent has never heard of the marriage of his Mother to James Stout doubted by any.  This deponent further saith (sic) that his father had four children by a former wife and two by the Mother of this deponent.  And that after the decease of the father of this deponent a house and lot on which he lived and died was divided among the six children of the father of this deponent assiably (?) to the law of New Jersey and that the Mother of this deponent then had her thirds or Dower Right set off to her which she still occupies.  This deponent cannot with certainty fix the time of the death of his father James Stout but knows it was prior to the year eighteen hundred and nine as this indentures
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under which he served the said Joseph Bosenberry bears date the third day of September eighteen Hundred and nine and that he this deponent was at the time of making ? indentures under the care and guardianship of his said Mother and further this deponent saith (sic) not.
Sworn and subscribed this }
nineteenth day of July A. D. Eighteen }
hundred and forty four}  Spencer Stout

Before Me
J. W. S. Manners  Justice of the Peace 
Certify that the above named Spencer Sout is a respectable person

J. W. S. Manners 
Justice of Peace
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State of New Jersey
County of Hunterdon SS. Personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the court
in & for said County, Joal Stant of said County aged 76 years & on being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that he
has been personally acquainted for the last fifty five to sixty years with the widow Esther Stout who is applying for a pension as the widow of James Stout late a soldier in the war of the revolution & this deponent can say that
she is the identical widow of the aforesaid James Stout, that the above named
James Stout late a soldier in the war of the revolution & the above named Esther Stout were living together as husband & wife before the year 1790. seventeen hundred & ninety & that they had as the legal fruit of such marriage, one daughter & one son both of whom were born more than fifty years since & that the above named parties continued to live together as husband & wife till the death of the said James Stout which took place more than thirty years ?? & that his said widow the aforesaid Esther Stout has not since married but remains his widow.
Joab Stout
Subscribed & sworn before me his nineteenth day of Sept 1843.
H.S. Stout ?? Judge of the Court

I certify that the above named
Joeb Stout is a respectable person,
??Stout Judge of the Court
State of New Jersey
County of Hunterdon⎬ SS. Personally appeared before the Subscriber a judge of the Court in & for said County

Mary Stack - of said county aged 74 years ??
being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that --- has been personally 
acquainted for the last fifty four to sixty years with the widow Esther Stout, who
is applying for a pension as the widow of James Stout late a soldier in the war of
the revolution & this deponent can say that she is the identical widow of the aforesaid
James Stout, that the above named James Stout late a soldier in the war of the revolution
& the above named Esther Stout were living together as husband & wife before the
year 1790, seventeen hundred & ninety, & that they had as the legal fruit of such marriage. One daughter & one son both of whom were born more than fifty years since & that the above named parties continued to live together as husband & wife till the death of the said James Stout which took place more than thirty years since, & that his said widow the aforesaid Esther Stout has not since married but remains his widow -- Mary Slack/Stack?? (her mark)

subscribed & Sworn before me
this 20th day of Sept 1843
Wm Stant Judge of the Court
I certify that the above named
Mary Stack is a respectable person.
??? Judge of Court
State of New Jersey
County of Hunterdon ss.
Personally appeared before this Subscriber a Judge of the Court
?? for said county Elizabeth Giles of said county aged 72 years and being duly sworn according to law deposith and saith that -- has been personally acquainted for the last fifty five to sixty years with the widow Esther Stout who is applying for a pension as the widow of James Stout late a soldier in the war of the revolution, & this deponent can say that she is the identical widow of the aforesaid James Stout. That the above named James Stout late a soldier ?? the war of the revolution, & the above named Esther 

over
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Stout were living together as husband & wife before the year 1790 seventeen hundred & ninety & that they had as the legal fruit of that
marriage one daughter & one son both of  whom were born more than fifty years since & that the above named parties, continued to live together as husband & wife till the death of the said James Stout which took place more than thirty years since & that his said widow the aforesaid said Esther Stout has not since 
 married but remains his widow 
Elizabeth Giles (mark)

Subscribed & sworn before me 
this Nineteenth day of Sept 1843/1845?
Hon. Stout?? Judge of the Court
-
I certify that the above named Elizabeth Giles is a respectable person
??? Harz?? Judge of the Court

I certify that I have searched at Hopewell when James Stout was married to Esther Higgins the above named present widow Esther Stout for a
record of their marriage but can find none & I am advised by the old inhabitants that no town record was kept from 1780 to 1795 & that the resident ministers of that time are all dead & no record of this can be found.

I further certify that I have been acquainted with James Stout and his now?? widow Esther Stout above referred to for more than fifty
years and that I have known them as living together as Husband and wife for a number of years and that I am acquainted with two of their children, the legal fruit of their marriage, that are now more than fifty years of age.
Wm Stuart??
Judge of the Court

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County ??? Peter J. Clark, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify, that-William Stout Esquire whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavits and certificates, was at the time of recruiting thereof and now is one of the Judges of said Court of Common Pleas of said County of Hunterdon duly commissioned and qualified as such, and that his signature thereto is in his own proper hand writing.
---
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of Said Court at-
Flemington this second day of October AD 1843

Peter J.? Clark?worth?
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."

State of New Jersey
County of Mercer
On this tenth day of August 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the 
Justices of the Peace in and for said county Esther Stout a resident of Hopewell in the county of Mercer aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of James Stout who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, who died more than thirty five years since, he was of the New Jersey troops, she was married to him in 1789. that he has drawn a pension under the law of 17th June 1844 at the rate of eighty dollars per annum.
She further declares that she is a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before
Jeremiah Van Dyke Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Mercer
Esther Stout (her mark)

I certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit, The words "New York" and the words New Jersey
written above
Jeremiah Van Dyke Justice of
the Peace in and for Mercer County

State of New Jersey
Mercer County 

I Ralph H Shreve Clerk of the County of Mercer in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Jeremiah Van Dyke Esquire the person
before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken 
 was at the time of the taking thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commi??? and sworn and to all his official acts as such full faith and credit are due and ought to be given as well in Courts of Judicature as thereout.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Nottingham this twelfth day of August A D Eighteen hundred and forty eight.

J,?  Shreve Clerk