Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 11,430, for Thomas Sickles, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Sickles, Thomas / Mary | W.11,430

CONTENTS
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New York | 366

Mary Sickles, dec(eased), widow of Thomas Sickles, who died on the 4th April 1811 of Oneida Co. in the State of New York, who was an Ass(istant) Dep(uty) in the com(pany) command by Captain Quartermaster Gen'l of the reg(iment) commanded by Col. Dayton in the N. Jersey line for 2 years (N.J.)

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 600 Dollars and 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 & ending 21st Jan. 1840. when she died.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of July 1849 and sent to A. Ray, Esq., Present.

Arrears to the 4th of (blank).
Semi-annual allowance ending (blank).

Increased from $480. Deduct all former payments.

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3rd.}

Recorded by Th. Dumpkin, Clerk
Book C; Vol. 1; Page 129.

Payable to Cornelia Arnold, Elizabeth Williams, Wm. S. Sickles & Mary Sickles.

Reported.
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753. | 3.Sec(tion)
Mary Sickles, widow of Thomas Sickles as 2nd Master Gen'l under Act 21 July 1838.

Admitted.
Assistant Deputy Quartermaster 2 years.
R.R. Johnson, Agent
Rome, Oneida Co., N.Y.

Examined doc(umentation) and [illegible] Deparment.

Hon R.B. Miller
House (of) Rep(resentatives)
U.S.
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State of New York
Oneida County//

On this 2nd day of November 1836, personally appeared before the subscriber, Chester Haydon, Esq., First Judge of Oneida County, Mary Sickles, a resident of the City of Utica in said County, aged 79 years and upwards, she being unable to appear in Open Court by reason of her age and infirmity. Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress
passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Thomas Sickles, who was an ensign or lieutenant in Col. Dayton's Regiment of New Jersey in 1776 and went to the northward with the troops and was at St. Johns and other places. And sometime in the spring or summer, and as she thinks in May 1777, he was appointed Quartermaster or Deputy Quartermaster under Col. Morgan Lewis and was ordered to Albany, where he continued to serve as such Quartermaster until the close of the war. And that the whole period of his service was at least seven years.

She further states that she was married to said Thomas Sickles in New Jersey July 6th 1777, as will appear from the annexed family record, which was printed from the original record in the Family Bible for the use & benefit of the family and a copy of which was placed in said Family Bible many years since where it now remains. That her husband, the aforesaid Thomas Sickles, died on the 4th of April 1811 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will appear more fully by reference to...
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...the proof here to annexed.
s/ Mary Sickles

Sworn to & subscribed before me on the day and year aforesaid.
s/ Chester Hayden, First Judge of Oneida

FAMILY RECORD.
THOMAS SICKELS was born February 14, 1749.*
MARY NORWOOD was born January 29, 1757.
MARRIED - In New-Jersey, the 6th of July, 1777.
Their son WILLIAM NORWOOD SICKLELS, born at Albany Sept, 28, 1778 - Christened in New Jersey, by Mr. Reed. **
RICHARD SICKELS, born 9th July, 1780 - Christened in Albany, by Mr. Westerlo.
JOHN BRAZIER SICKELS, born Aug. 25, 1782; Christened in Albany by Mr. Westerlo - John Van Anglon God-Father. ***
THOMAS ANDREW SICKELS, born 3 Sept. 1784 - Christened by Mr. Kirkland.
CORNELIA SICKELS, born at Walloomsack, Nov. 15, 1786, and Christened by Mr. Wharford.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SICKELS, born at Walloomsack, Nov. 1st, 1788 - Christened by the Rev. Barent S. Lupton.
ELIZABETH SICKELS, born Sept. 3d, 1791 - Christened by Mr. Whatford.
MARY ANN SICKELS, born March 22, 1793 - Christened by Mr. Page at Sanchoyck Church.
WILLIAM SICKELS, born 20th August, 1795.
JOANNAN SICKELS, born June 3, 1797 - The two last Christened by Mr. Page, Troy.
LEWIS SICKELS, born at Butternutts, November 18, 1800.

* - Thomas Sickels died April 4th, 1811, aged 62 years 1 month and 21 days.
** - William N. Sickels died May 26, 1785 - buried in the Presbyterian Meeting House cellar, Albany.
*** - John B. Sickels died Nov. 25, 1783, aged 15 months - buried in the Presbyterian Meeting House Cellar, Albany.
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State of New York
Oneida County//

Cornelia Arnold, being duly sworn, says that she is daughter of Thomas and Mary Sickles. The said Mary named in the annexed affidavit. That the said Mary Sickles has remained a widow since the death the said Thomas Sickles in 1811 and that she still is a widow. That the annexed family record is a true copy of the original family record contained in the Family Bible of the said Mary Sickles and in her possession. That the same was printed many years since by a cousin of this deponent and a copy of the same remains in said Family Bible, which he has this day for.
s/ Cornelia Arnold

Sworn before me this 2nd day of Nov. 1836 and I certify that she, the witness, is a person of truth & veracity.
s/ Chester Hayden, First Judge of Oneida

I hereby certify that I know Chester Hayden to be the First Judge of Oneida County, New York. That I am well acquainted with his signature & have no doubt of the genuineness of the above.
s/ Rutger B. Miller, Representative in Congress from Oneida
Dec. 29, 1836
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State of New York
Oneida County//

On this 4th day of November 1836 before me personally came Dan Chapman of Rome in said County, aged 80 years & upwards, who first being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Mary Sickles, widow of Thomas Sickles who was, during the Revolutionary War, a Quartermaster or Deputy Quartermaster in the Army of the United States. That this deponent was well acquainted with said Thomas Sickles while he was in the Quartermaster Department and that he often for him in care of the discharge of the duties of his office. This deponent understood that the station of said Sickles was at Albany. He was acquainted with him while in service for as long as time as two or three years. This deponent was intimately acquainted with him after the revolution and it was always a matter of public notoriety that Thomas Sickles has been a Revolutionary Officer. He died in the year 1811, or about that time, according to the best this deponent's recollection.
s/ Dan Chapman 

Sworn & subscribed before me & I certify that he is a man of truth & veracity the day & year aforesaid.
s/ B.P. Johnson, Sup(reme) Court Comm(issioner)
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I hereby certify that I know B.P. Johnson to be a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, residing at Rome, Oneida County, N.Y. I am well acquainted with the signature of said Johnson & have no doubt of the genuineness of the above.
s/ Rutger B. Miller, Representative in Congress from Oneida Co., N.Y.
Dec. 29, 1836
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I certify that, early in the year 1776, Capt. Thomas Sickles, then an Officer in the New Jersey Line of the Army of the United States, was transferred from said line to the Quartermaster General's Department in the Northern Division, of which I was at that time principal. That he there served under me as an Assistant Quart(er) Mas(ter) Gen(eral) until the appointment of Colonel Pickering Quart(er) Mas(ter) Gen(eral), which I think was in October 1780, when he was stationed at Fish Kill, then annexed to the Northern Division, where I think he continued to serve to the close of the War of the Revolution. My papers of that period, having been subsequently destroyed by the burning of my dwelling house, I can speak only from a memory. Given under my Hand this 24th day of November 1836.
s/ Morgan Lewis
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,

January 9th, 1841.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," the child(ren) of Mary Sickles, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency, at the rate of Three Hundred & 20 Dollars [crossed out: and (blank) Cents] per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sep. 1839 to the 21sth January 1840, the day of her death.

Respectfully yours,
s/ Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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State of New York
Oneida County//

In this Eleventh day of March 1842, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Miss Mary Ann Sickels, a resident of Utica in the County aforesaid. Who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath state that she is one of the surviving children of the late [crossed out: Mary] Mary Sickles, late a pensioner of the United States, under Act July 4, 1836, at the rate of $320 per annum on the New York Roll, Albany Agency, as widow to the late Thomas Sickles, who was an Assistant & Dep(uty) Quartermaster Gen(eral) in the War of the Revolution. And that her mother, Mary Sickles, died on the 21st day of January 1840, leaving the following named children.: Richard Sickles; Cornelia, wife of John Arnold; William Sickles; Eliza, wife of John Williams; Mary Ann Sickles and Lewis Sickles. From the object of this declaration being made, as one of the heirs in the names of the whole, is in order to obtain through our agent, Mr. Alexander Ray of Washington, an increased rate of pension at the rate of $50 per mo., or $600 per annum, and the payment of arrears thereon under said act from the 4 March 1831 and all other claims to a pension or annuity except the present is hereby relinquished.
s/ Mary Ann Sickels

Sworn and subscribed to on the day and year above written before me.
s/ John Parsons, J.P., Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Oneida County//

I, P. Sheldon Root, Clerk of the County Courts of the said County, do hereby certify that John Parsons, Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit of Mary
Ann Sickles was taken & whose name is...
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...subscribed to the Jurat thereof, was on the Eleventh day of March A.D. 1842 a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly commissioned and sworn according to law and authorized to act as such. And that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe the signature of the said Justice to the said Jurat of the said affidavit is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County. It being my official Seal this Eleventh day of March A.D. 1842.
s/ P. Sheldon Root, Clerk
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James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Apr. 14, '47
D(ea)r C,
Please to answer this.
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Washington
Apr. 13, 1847.

Sir,

I am under the necessity of asking your decision upon the evidence presented on the 8 Sep. 1846 in the case of Mary Sickels, late a Pensioner under Act 1836, Albany Roll.

The children think it very hard their claim has been so long delayed and now therefore request very respectfully a letter from you on the subject. Your early compliance will oblige.

Your most obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ Alex Ray

J.L. Edward, Esq.
Comm(issioner) of Pensions
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James L. Edward, Esq.
Comm(issioner) of Pensions
War Dept.

Sep. 9, 1846

(Widow) Mary Sickles, for increase.
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Washington, Sep. 8, 1846

Sir, 

In behalf of the surviving children of Mary Sickels, dec(eased), late a pensioner on the Albany Roll, Act 1836, on account of the services of her husband's Revolutionary Services as Ass(istant) Dep(uty) Q(uarter)master General at the rate of $400 per annum, I now renew the application for an increase at the rate of $600 per annum from the 4 Mar. 1841 to the time of the death on the grounds that it is shown by the evidence filed (if I mistake not) and of not filed, the record of the State Department shown to be paid $140 per month in the year 1779.

This case comes within your decision in the case of the widow of Lambert Lockwood, Ass(istant) D(eputy) Q(uarter) Ma(ster) Gen(eral) under Act 1838, New York Roll, [crossed out: under Act 18] allowed at the rate of $600 per annum.

The papers on file show N.Y. Agency in this claim in 1842.

I am very respectfully your obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ Alex Ray

J.L. Edward, Esq.
Comm(issioner) of Pensions

(over)
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Apart from the decision referred to, I herewith enclose a cert(ificate) from the Register of the Treasury showing, in March 1780, Thos. Sickels was a Dep(uty) Q(uarter) Ma(ster) and that payments were made to him by Jon(athon) Burnall to Mar. 1781. In count out of a question, I presume that the payment was for his pay as Dep(uty) Quarter Mast(er).

Yours &c.,
s/ Alex Ray
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James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Mary Sickels
N. York, '36
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Washington
June 10th 1842.

Sir,

I herewith enclose the declaration of Mary Ann Sickels, one of the surviving children of the late Mary Sickels of Utica New York and, up to the time of her death, a pensioner under Act 1836 at the rate of $320 per annum, Albany Agency. Mr. Sickels died, "on the 21 day of Jan. 1840," leaving several children. She was pensioned as the widow of the late Thomas Sickels, who was an Assistant & Dep(uty) Quar(ter) Master Gen(eral) and afterward a Dep(uty) Quar(ter) Master Gen(eral)? The claim to an increase is made at the rate of 50$ per mo. in lieu of the former allowance. Be pleased to have the case examined.

The evidence of the death of Mary Sickels, the names of the surviving children and the return of her pension certificate is on file with the 3rd Auditor of the Treasury.

I am most resp(ectfully) your obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ Alex Ray

J.L. Edward, Esq.
Comm(issioner) of Pensions
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Pension Office
Hon. R.B. Miller
Home Representatives, U.S.

Admitted.
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War Department
Pension Office
Dec. 28, 1836

Sir,

The affidavit of John Williams contained in the letter of R.B. Johnson, Esq., and the papers of Mary Sickles an herewith returned in order that the official character of the Judge before whom the declaration was made and the official character of the commissioner, B.P. Johnson, and that of the Justice James Dean, may be duly certified.

I have the honor to be respectfully your obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ J.L. Edwards

Hon. R.B. Miller
House (of) Rep(resentatives), U.S.
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J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm(issioner) of Pensions

Nov. 2, 1846

Rec(eived).
Mary Sickles

Act '36. No. 366.

18 Sep. 1846
Cl(aim) to be inc(reased).
Not carried over.
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Washington
Nov. 2, 1846

Sir,

On the 8th of Sept. last, I presented an application in the case of Mary Sickels; Act 1836, Albany Agency. You having reported to me in cases presented since that date. Presume her case may have been overlooked. May I ask the favor of a report.

I am very respectfully your obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ Alex Ray

Jas. L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm(issioner) of Pensions
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Act '36. Cert. No. 366.
Cl(aim) to be inc(reased) 18 Sep. 1846

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm(issioner) of Pensions
War Dept.

Dec. 22, 1846
Reg(arding) cl(aim) of Mary Sickles.
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Washington
Dec. 21, 1846

Sir,

May I respectfully request an answer to my application in the case of Mary Sickles, dec(eased), Act 1836, New York, made on the 8th Sep. last.

I remain your most obed(ient) ser(vant) respectfully,
s/ Alex Ray

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm(issioner) of Pensions
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"Register of Certificates issued by Jonathan Burnall, Commissioner for Settling the Accounts of the Commissary and Quarter Master Departments."

Name | Letter | No. | Date | Amount | When due. |
Thomas Sickles | P | 674 | 24 Oct. 1787 | $687.- | October 10, 1780 |
Ditto | D | 676 | (24 Oct. 1787) | $768.66 | July 1, 1781 |

Treasury Department
Registers Office, Mar. 7, 1846.

I certify the above to be a true extract from the Register of Certificates issued by Jonathan Burnall, Commissioner for Settling the Accounts of the Commissary & Quarter Master Department, on file in this Office.
s/ R.H. Gillet
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Registers Office, N. York, 19 January 1788.

Sundries in Old Emissions [illegible].
Thomas Sickles, late D(eputy) Q(uarter) M(aster)
Life of Certificate issued in O. E.
For his Certificate No. 35 dated 9 March 1780 for '77 05.

Treasury Department
Registers Office, Mar. 7, 1846.

I certify the above to be a true extract from the records of the confederated government filed in this office.
s/ R.H. Gillet
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Register of Certificates issued by Jonathan Burnall, Commissioner for Settling the Accounts of the Commissary and Quarter Master Departments from the 22 August 1782 to the 7 May 1789.

Name | Letter | No. | Date | Amount | When due. |
Thomas Sickels | P | 674 | (RO) 1787, Oct. 24 | 687.45 | Oct. 10, 1780 |
(Thomas Sickels) | R | 674 | (RO) (1787, Oct. 24) | 1871. | (Oct. 10, 1780) |
(Thomas Sickels) | D | 675 | (RO) (1787, Oct. 24) | 768.66 | July 1, 1781 |

Treasury Department
Registers Office, June 18, 1842.

I certify the foregoing to be a true extract from the Register of Certificates issued by Jonathan Burnall, Commissioner for Settling the Accounts of the Commissary and Quarter Master Departments.
s/ A.T. Smith, Register
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Register of Certificates issued by Jonathan Burnall, Commissioner.

A. Ray
June 20, 1842
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Mary Sickels
Ass(istant) D(eputy) Q(uarter) M(aster) Gen(eral).
6 July 1847.
Act '36. Albany.
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Copy

Pension Office
July 6th 1842.

Sir,

The claim of the children of Mary Sickles, dec(eased), has been examined. In this case, a claim is set up for $30 per month instead of the amount heretofore allowed. The parties alleging that Thomas Sickles, the husband of the deceased, was a Deputy Quarter Master General as well as an Assistant Deputy Quarter Master General. That he served in the last mentioned grade two years is clearly shown by the papers in the Department of State, but it is not show how long he served in the former grade. The pension can be increased to $40 per month for service as an Assistant Deputy but no allowance whatever can be made for service as deputy unless the duration of that service can be fully established by documentary proof.

I am respectfully your  obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ J.L. Edwards

Mr. A. Ray, Present
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Registers Office, N. York, 19th Jan. 1788.
Sundries in old emissions. [illegible] to old emissions reduced &c.
Thomas Sickles, late Dep(uty) Q(uarter) M(aster) [illegible] of certificates issued in old emissions.
For by Certificate No. 85 dated 9th March 1780 for $177.45.

Treasury Department
Registers Office, June 18th 1842

I certify that the foregoing is a true extract from Blotter No. 11, Page 3779. One of the Revolutionary Record Books of this office.
s/ A.T. Smith, Register
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Payments to be made at Albany, N.Y. by Pres(ident) Mech(anics) & Farm(ers) B(an)k, Agent for paying pensioners in the Agency of Albany.
Ass(istant) Dep(uty) Q(uarter) M(aster) 

Increase to $480 per ann(um) to be paid to 21 Jan. 1840 when Mary Sickles died. To her children: Cornelia Arnold, wife of John Arnold; William Sickles [crossed out: Sickles]; Eliza, wife of John Williams; Lewis M. Sickles.; Richard Sickles; & Mary Ann Sickles.

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book A; Vol 1; Page 158 by D.D. Addison, Clerk

Cert(ificate sent) to A. Ray, Present
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States of the 4th July, 1836, Mary Sickles of New York, widow of Thomas Sickles, dec(eased), who was an Assistant Deputy Quartermaster, in the War of the Revolution, is entitled to receive Three Hundred & Twenty dollars and (blank) cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September. 

Given at the War Office of the United States this Sixth day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty seven.
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Apr. 23, 1840.
Mary Sickles
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House of Representatives
Aunt 21, 1840

Sir,

The enclosed copy of a Pension Certificate has been received from Mules, Kirtland & Brown of Utica, Oneida Co. N.Y.

Mrs. Sickles died on the 21st of January 1840, then there being more than 4 months of her pension in error. Mrs. Sickles lived for many years next preceding her death with her son-in-law, Mr. John Williams of Utica and was dependent upon him for support except so for as she derived and from her pension. She died without property and leaving no will. [crossed out: The] Application is now made to the department on behalf of Mr. Williams, who is a gentleman of property and great respectability, to know whether the answer of pension will be paid in his receipt without the formality and expense of obtaining letters of administration...
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...which would probably cost more than the whole amount of earnings of the pension.

Very respectfully,
s/ Jno. C. Floyd

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comm(issioner) of Pensions
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Washington
June 28/'49

Sir,

I herewith submit evidence of hardship in cases in which claims for increase of pension have been presented some months since.

May I now respectfully request the favor of you to have the cases taken up and disposed of at once

Your kind compliance will greatly oblige. 

Your most obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ Alex Ray

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm(issioner) of Pensions
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Washington, June 28/'49

Sir,

In the case of Mrs. Mary Sickels, dec(eased) late a pensioner on the Albany Agency at the rate of $480, Act 1836, per annum on account of her late husband's revolutionary services as Assistant Dep(uty) Q(uarter) Master Gen(eral). Application was filed by me some time back for an increase of pension to $600.

Allowances having been made in very many of the cases for same service at the rate of $600, and more recently in the case of Judith Kearndon of Ky. and Mrs. Ferdonia Sedgwick of Massachusetts, the same allowances in not received on same application filed by me as attorney in the case.

The evidence of the names of the children that now survived is herewith enclosed.

I remain your most obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ Alex Ray

James L. Edwards
Comm(issioner) of Pensions
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State of New York
Oneida County
City of Utica//

I do hereby certify that on this 9th day of April 1849 at the City of Utica, in the Recorder's Court of said city, it was duly proved in the matter of the pension for Revolutionary Services of Thomas Sickels, deceased, to the satisfaction of the said Court that Cornelia Arnold, Eliza Williams, William Sickels & Mary Ann Sickles are the children, and the only children, that now survive the said Thomas Sickels, deceased.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at the City of Utica aforesaid this 9th day of April in the year of our Lord 1849.
s/ C.G. Gillmore, Clerk
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Letter to A. Ray, Esq.
Apr. 15th 1849.
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N.J.
WIDOW, &c.
Rev(olutionary War)
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 11,430
Mary Sickles, wid(ow) [of] Thomas Sickles, Ass(istant) Dep(uty) Q(uarter) M(aster) Gen(eral) Rev(olutionary War).
Act: July 4th 1836.
Index: -; Vol. M; Page 215.
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Children of Mary Sickles, deceased.
Since in number old.

Cornelia, the wife of John Arnold; William Sickles; Eliza, the wife of John Williams; Lewis M. Sickles; Richard Sickles and Mary Ann Sickles.

Community taken from the Certificate of Court on file in the office of the 3rd Auditor.
s/ H.K. Randall

July 9th 1842
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Albany, New York | 366

Mary Sickles, of Oneida in the State of N.Y., who was a (blank) in the (blank) command by Captain (blank) of the (blank) command by (blank) in the (blank) [crossed out: line for], widow of Thomas Sickles, dec(eased) late Ass(istant) Deputy Q(uarter) Master in the Revolution.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 320 Dollars and 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Jan. 1837 and sent [to] Hon. R.B. Miller, House of Rep(resentatives).

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1836.........$1,760.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '57....160.00
                                        =========
                                        $1,920.00

{Revolutionary Claim, [crossed out: Act June 7, 1832.]}

Recorded by D.D. Addison, Clerk
Book A; Vol. 1; Page 138.

Act 4 July 1836

Dead. Let(ter sent) to J.G. Floyd Apr. 23, 1840.
Same person & 3rd Auditor 8 Jan. 1841.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 Sep. 1839 to 21 Jan. 1840, the day of her death. Ag(en)t notified 23 Feb. 1841.
See letter June 16, 1842 to A. Ray.
D(itt)o to same July 6, 1842.
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Albany, N. York | 366

Mary Sickles, dec(eased)? Payable to her children.: Cornelia, wife of John Arnold; William Sickles; Eliza, wife of John Williams; Lewis M. Sickles; Richard Sickles & Mary Ann Sickles.
Widow of Thomas Sickles, who died on the 4th April 1811, of Oneida Co. in the State of N. York, who was an Ass(istant) Dep(uty) Quarter Master General in the (blank) commanded by Captain (blank) of the Reg(iment) commanded by Col. Dayton in the N. Jersey line for (blank).

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany the rate of 480 Dollars [crossed out (blank) Cents] per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 to 21st January 1840, when Mary Sickles died.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of July 1841 and sent to A. Ray, Present.

Arrears to the 4th of (blank).
Semiannual allowance ending (blank).
Increased from $320.

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3rd.}

Recorded by D. Brown, Clerk.
Book C; Vol. 1; Page 128.

Reported to Agent, see letter.
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Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comm(issioner) of Pensions

Hon. R.B. Miller, H.R.
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Oneida County//

John Williams, of the City of Utica, being duly sworn deposes and says that he is the son-in-law of Mary Sickles, widow of Thomas Sickles, deceased. That there is a printed record of the family of the said Thomas Sickles in possession of the family, which was taken from the original record in the Family Bible. That said original record being much worn & defaced was taken out of the Bible after the said printed copy was made and that instead in its place. And that the same is not now in existence to the knowledge of [crossed out: said] the witness. And that the printed copy put on to the War Department with the papers of the said Mary Sickles, is a true copy from said original record.
s/ John Williams

Sworn this 16th day of December 1836 before me. And I certify that the above named witness a person of truth and veracity.
s/ James Dean, a Justice of the Peace of Oneida County

I hereby certify that I know James Dean to be a Justice of the Peace in Oneida County, New York. I am well acquainted with his signature & have no doubt of the genuineness of the above.
s/ Rutger B Miller, Representative in Congress from Oneida Co.
Dec. 29, 1836.
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Extract from the, Return of persons employed in the Quartermaster General's Department under the direction of Morgan Lewis, D.Q.M. General at Albany, July 1779," contained in volume on file in this department marked, "Volume 3 Q.M. Returns."

Assistants D.Q.M. General.
Names & Numbers. | Where Stationed. |
Thomas Sickles | Albany |
J.V. Vighten | (Albany) |
H.J. Bogart | (Albany) |

State Department.
June 30, 1842

A true copy
s/ W.S. Derrick, Act(ing) Chief Clerk
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Extract from the Return of, "A List of Officers, Artificers &c. Employed in the Quarter Master General's Branch in the Northern Department," contained in a volume marked "Q.M. General's Returns," on file in this department.

Morgan Lewis, D.Q.M. Gen'l.
Thomas Sickels, A.Q.M. Gen'l.
Signed, M. Lewis, D.Q.M. Gen'l.

(endorsed)
"Return of Q.M. Stores at Albany, 18th April 1778."

State Department
June 30, 1842.

A true copy
s/ W.S. Derrick, Act(ing) Chief Clerk
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Submitted to Comm(issioner) of Pensions 6 July 1849 and incrased to $600 per an(num). Allowed.

Increase for 480 to $600 per an(num), comm(ence) [from] 4th March 1831 and ending 21st January 1840, when the widow died.

Children: Cornelia Arnold, Eliza Williams, Wm. Sickels & Mary Ann Sickels.

A. Ray, Present
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 4th of July 1836, Third Section, Mary Sickles, deceased, late of the State of New York, widow of Thomas Sickles, who was Assistant Deputy Quarter Master General in the War of the Revolution, was entitled to receive Four Hundred and Eighty Dollars per annum; but she having received only $320 per annum, and died on the 21st of January 1840, the amount due at the first mentioned rate, after deducting all former payments, is payable from the 4th of March 1831 to the [crossed out: 21st of January 1860, when Mary Sickles died] day of her death, to Cornelia wife of John Arnold, William Sickles, Eliza, wife of John Williams, Lewis M. Sickles, Richard Sickles and Mary Ann Sickles, children of said deceased. 

Given at the War Office of the United States, this Ninth day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty two.
s/ (blank), Secretary of War.

Examined and countersigned.
s/ (blank)

Commissioner of Pensions.