Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3,857, for David Owen, New Jersey
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SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Owen, David / Margaret | W.3857
B.L.Wt.36220-160-55

CONTENTS
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22908
New Jersey
David Owen, of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey, who was a Private in the Comp(any) commanded by Captain Hill of the Reg(iment) commanded by Col. Newcomb in the New Jersey line for 13 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Dec. 1833 and sent to Hon. Condict, Present.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33........$108.33
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Nov. '34...21.66
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                                      $130.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Jos. C. Stiles, Clerk

Book E; Vol. 2; Page 124

Order to pay Apl. 20, 1837
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27108
New Jersey
Margaret Owen, widow of David Owen, N.J., who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Dec. 1848 and sent to John Perrine, Spottswood, N.J.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under date February 2, 1848, Page 310, Vol. [illegible]

219583

Reported Dec. 30/'48.
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[illegible]
219583
Oct 2 of '33

Margaret Owen, widow of David Owen, Private.

Capt. James Morgan
N.J. Mil(itia)

36220

Rev(olutionary) W(ar)

Rev(olutionary) Claim

Pens(ion) Act Feb. 2nd 1848
Cert No 2708

N.J. Feb. '48 - 2708

To: [illegible] July 29/'56
s/ [illegible]

James L. Street, New Brunswick, N.J.
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FAMILY RECORD.

BIRTHS. | BIRTHS.
David Owen, Born September 3, 1757 | John Calsher, Born August 16th 1771.
Margaret Calsher, Born December 31st, 1755 | Nicholas Casher, Born February 24th 1774.
Peter Owen, Born March 7th 1784 | Anna Calsher, Born March 24th 1776.
Rebecca Owen, Born March 28th 1786 | Elizabeth Calsher, Born February 26th 1787.
Rosanna Owen, Born January 7th 1789.
Anna Owen, Born December 18th 1791.
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FAMILY RECORD.

MARRIAGES. | MARRIAGES.
David Owen & Margaret Calsher, Married September the 12th 1779.
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447

Margaret Owen
N.J.
Act 17 June '44
Adm(itted)
13 mos. Pri(vate)

$43.33 from 3rd June 1846 when her husband died.

John Perrine, Esq.
Spotswood, N.J.
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

On this Sixteenth day of November One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty six, before the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, personally appeared Margaret Owen, a resident of South Amboy, in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey in the Eightieth year of her age, who being by me duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed "June the 17th 1844" entitled "An act to continue the pensions of certain widows &c."

That she is the widow of David Owen, who was a pensioner of the United States, under the act of June 7th 1832 at the rate of Forty three dollars & Thirty three cents per annum, to whose declaration she refers the Commissioner of Pensions for the service of her said husband in the War of the Revolution.

She further declares that she was married to the said David Owen on the Twelfth day of September Seventeen Hundred and Eighty nine and that her husband, the aforesaid David Owen, died on the Third day of June Eighteen Hundred and Forty six. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service
but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, Seventeen Hundred & Ninety four. That is at the time above specified.
s/ Margaret Owen

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me.
s/ John Perrine, Judge

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above declarant, that she is a person of credibility and truth and that on account of bodily infirmity, she is unable to appear in open court.
s/ John Perrine, Judge
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

On the 16th day of November 1846 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Benjamin Brown, a resident of the Township of South Amboy in the County aforesaid, a person of credibility and truth, who being by me duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he was well acquainted with David Owen, who died on the third day of June 1846, that he was a pensioner of the United States, and that his widow, Margaret Owen, now applies for the benefit of the Act of Congress June 7th 1844.
s/ Benjamin R. Brown

Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before me.
s/ John Perrine, Justice of the Peace & Judge

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

On the 16th day of November Eighteen Hundred and Forty six, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared
Rosanna Prest, a resident of the Township of South Amboy in the County aforesaid, who being by me duly sworn according to law on her oath saith that she is the daughter of David and Margaret Owen, that she was born Jan. 7th 1789, that her father, David Owen, was married to her mother, Margaret Calsher, on the 12th Sept 1779 as she verily believes that it is so recorded in the Family Bible, which she has in her possession at this time. Deponent further states that she has known it to be recorded there over [crossed out: forty] thirty years, that the record is made in the handwriting of her mother, Margaret Owen, that it is recorded in the same Bible that Peter Owen, her brother, who is now living & was born March 7th 1784. That there is no certificate of her mother's marriage as she has often heard her say.
s/ Rosanna Prest

Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before me.
s/ John Perrine, J(ustice of the) Peace
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

I, Nicholas Boordsen, clerk of the County of Middlesex aforesaid do hereby certify that John Perrine, Esquire, before whom the annexed declaration of Margaret Owen, and the annexed affidavit of Benjamin R. Brown & Rosannah Prest were taken, was at the time of the making said declaration and the taking said affidavits, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned & sworn, and that his signatures to the Jurats of said declaration and affidavit and [duplicate: and] certificate are genuine.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at New Brunswick this Ninth day of March A.D. Eighteen Hundred Forty seven (1847)
s/ N. Boordsen, clerk
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

On the Fourth day of March Eighteen Hundred and Forty seven before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Rosanna Prest, who being duly sworn on her oath saith that the annexed is the family record out of the Family Bible of her father and mother, now in the possession of this deponent, and that the same was this day cut out of the Family Bible in her presence by the Subscribing Justice, that the record thereon made of the marriage of her father and mother was wrote by her mother, Margaret Owen, as she verily believes it to be her handwriting and that she told deponent the wrote it, and deponent further states that she has seen it there recorded she thinks about Thirty three years, and further saith not.
s/ Rosanna Prest

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above mentioned.
s/ John Perrine, Justice of the Peace

447

Margaret Owen
N.J.
Act 17 June '44
Adm(itted)
13 mos. Pri(vate)

$43.33 from 3rd June 1846 when her husband died.

John Perrine, Esq.
Spotswood, N.J.
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David Owen's application for a pension under the Act of June 1882.

27.108
Duplicate

13 mos., Private

$43.33

 66.66
 41.66
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108.32

James Randolph, New Brunsw(ick)
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Declaration in duplicate of David Owen, of Middlesex County, New Jersey in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the, d(ated) June 1832.

State New Jersey
Middlesex County//

On this Twenty sixth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred & Thirty three, personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County aforesaid, David Owen, a resident of said County aged Seventy six years, who has first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress March 7th 1832.

That he was born in the year 1757, as appears in a record in a Family Bible now in his possession [crossed out: [illegible] in Woodbury, Gloucester County New Jersey, was in Woodbury when called into service, shortly after removed into Middlesex County, New Jersey (Township of North Amboy) and has lived there ever since and lives there now. He entered the service in Gloucester County, New Jersey in the fall 1776 by enlisting in the five months militia service in the company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Whitchill & Major Prine, Capt. [illegible] Newcomb. He served out the five months principally in the State of New York & was discharged at Trenton. The discharge, which was a written one he believes, is long since lost. During his service was at the Battles of Long Island & White Plains & did it all the hard...
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...of New York and was in Long Island when the British entered there and saw their desertion battle which ensued at Brooklyn & entered in the army along with the Continental Troops until after the Battle of White Plains. In the year 1777 in the winter and after the Battle of Princeton, he having removed to Middlesex County, joined the company of Capt. James Johnston at Cranbury (sp.) and served during that winter two tours of a month each under Capt. Johnston at Cranbury (sp.) and that neighborhood, until by the enemy then lying in New Brunswick & who were frequently out in plundering parties. Neilson was his colonel. In the same year, in the spring, he performed one other tour of a month under Capt. Dey at and about Cranbury (sp.) in the same kind of service; and in the latter part of the same year two other tours of a month each at [illegible] Perth Amboy under Capt. Dey in guarding the lines in this latter service. Hoyer was colonel, he thinks. In the winter of 1778 he was laid up all winter by a sore on his leg, contracted by great exposure and brought on a fever. This sore is open & running to this day. Having so far recovered as to be able to go out, he served two tours of a month each in the spring of 1778 under Capt. Benjamin Denise, at Tinton Falls, Monmouth County in guarding that section of the State. In the Summer of 1778, and at the time of the battle of Monmouth, he served one tour of a month under Capt...
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...[illegible], he believes was the last tour served, he being des(ignited) as captain, he hastily accepted & removed to a north part of the State. In this tour he was at the Battle of Monmouth partially engaged in it, in which he was more fortunate than most of the militia. This was the last tour he recollects to have performed, his disability increased to a total incapacity. He was in no battles except those he has mentioned at Long Island & White Plains. They got Washington commanded, he heard. 

He has no documentary evidence of his services, his discharge, if he received the [illegible] copy since lost, nor from the circumstances or proof of his services being performed in a distant part the state & not of the state and he
produces many witnesses to testify to his services. He has done all that he could in this way and respectfully refers to the affidavits of Frances Lette, Robert McChesney, Esq., one of the Judges of the Common Pleas of Middlesex County 
and to David Hall, Esq., one of the of the Justices of the Peace of said County, to speak of those services and to the Rev. James C. Goble and Stephen Hall as to his reputation for veracity & their belief in those services.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
s/ David Owen

Subscribed and sworn to the day & year aforesaid before the Judges aforesaid.
s/ Peter P. Pennigon, Judge
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I, James C. Goble, a clergyman residing in the County of Middlesex and in the neighborhood of David Owen & Stephen Hall of the same County & neighborhood, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Owen, who has sworn & subscribed to the above declaration, that he is reputed & believed in the neighbor where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that the entirety concur in that opinion.
s/ James C. Goble
s/ Stephen Hall 

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me, one of the Judges aforesaid.
s/ Peter P. Pennigon, Judge

On the day & year aforesaid, personally appeared before the Judges aforesaid, David Hall, who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is in the 70th year of his age and a Soldier of the Revolution, that he well knows David Owen, the foregoing applicant for a pension has known him for upwards of fifty years, ever since the Revolution, has no knowledge from personal observation of the services of said (David) Owen & that knows not of but recollects 
to have met said (David) Owen often on his return from his tours and also at the close of [crossed out: that period] the war. At the time both had just returned from [crossed out: (illegible)] the war, often talked their services over together & knows from said (David) Owen conversation that he served a good distance, no doubt, that he served more than a year, has seen the [crossed out: (illegible)] sore on his leg which he contracted, no doubt, in service - it is now a running sore as he has witnessed, to this very day - (he) believes said (David) Owen to be a man of unblemished reputation and of the strictest veracity, & has not a doubt of the truth of his statement  in relation to his revolutionary services.
s/ David Hall

Subscribed and sworn before the Judges aforesaid on the day & year aforesaid.
s/ Peter P. Pennigon, Judge
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State New Jersey
Middlesex County//

Be it known that on the Twenty seventh day of August Eighteen Hundred and Thirty three, before me, John Smith, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Robert McKenney, who being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that he is acquainted with David Owen, and hath been for as much as upwards of thirty years and know him to be a person of a good character, and worthy credit in his situation in society, and a person of veracity is his public and private standing in life, and I believe that his statement under oath may with certainty be relied upon, but I did (not) know him during the Revolutionary War. But from some circumstances that he relates he must have been in the service of the United States in the Militia of New Jersey in the year 1776, for I well recollect the circumstance and was present at the time myself, and from I know of it, I have good reason to believe and do believe that he, the said David Owen, was there as a soldier, and further saith not.
s/ Robert McKenney

Subscribed & sworn before me August 27th 1833.
s/ John Smith, Justice of the Peace
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On the day year aforesaid, personally appeared before the Judges aforesaid, Francis Letts, a surviving solder of the revolution in the Seventy fifth year of his age, after being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is & was then well acquainted with David Owen, who has signed & sworn to the foregoing declaration known early life & that they lived neighbors, that said (David) Owen was a soldier of the Revolution, served at Cranbury under Capt. Johnson in the winter of '76 & '77 and [crossed out: during the (illegible)] several tours in the war as well year [crossed out: Seventeen] 1778.

He adds with pleasure that he is highly esteemed for truth & veracity. That he has no doubt of the truth of his statement in relation to his revolutionary services.
s/ Francis Letts

Subscribed to & sworn to the day year aforesaid.
s/ Peter P. Pennigon, Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion of the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the foregoing applicant, David Owen, was a Revolutionary Soldier, and to his truth & credibility.

And they do further certify that it appears to them that James C. Goble, who has signed the preceding declaration, is a clergyman in the city & said County of Middlesex, and that Stephen Hall who has resided the same said 9 years in said County and a neighbor of David Owen and is a person of [illegible] ...
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...witness of said David Owen are known to them to be creditable persons, and that their statements are entitled to full credence.
s/ Robert McChesney
s/ Ichabod Patter
s/ Peter P. Pennigon
s/ John [illegible]

I, Nicholas Boordsen, clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and for the County of Middlesex in said State do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original interrogatories of said Court in the matter of David Owen, the applicant for a pension. The affidavit of Robert McChesney, Esq., one of the judges of said Court before John Smith, a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned & sworn & whose genuine signature attached to said affidavit being taken as part and parcel of the said original proceedings.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Twenty Ninth day of April One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty three.
s/ N. Boordsen, clerk
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Bounty land claim of Mrs. Margaret Owen of Middlesex County, New Jersey.

Revolutionary war; Act of March 3rd 1853, 219582

James L. Street, Agent.
New Brunswick, New Jersey
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On this nineteenth day of October A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Mrs. Margaret Owen, aged ninety years, a resident of the Township of South Amboy, in the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey, who being duly sworn according to law, on her oath declares, that she is the widow of said David Owen, deceased, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain James Morgan, of the Middlesex New Jersey Militia of the Revolutionary war; That her said husband was a Revolutionary Pensioner of Middlesex County, New Jersey, and of the Trenton, New Jersey agency at 43 33/100 $ per annum, under the Act of June 7th 1832 and that she is now a Pensioner of the same Agency, at the same rate, under the act of February 2nd 1848; on Certificate No. 2708, of the date of December 30th 1848, and which is recorded on page 310, of Vol. 4th, in the Pension Office, under said Act of Feb. 2nd 1848; to which record the respectfully refers, and makes a part of this declaration, and for proof of her marriage, and the death of her said husband, she refers to the papers on file in the Pension office, on which she was placed on the Pension Rolls.

She further declares on her oath as aforesaid, that she was married to the said David Owen in New Germantown, New Jersey on the twelfth day of September A.D. 1779, by one (blank) Groff, a minister of the Gospel, and that her name before her said marriage was Margaret Calsher; That her said husband died in the...
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...Township of South Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, where she now resides, on the third day of June A.D. 1846, and that she is now a widow; in proof of which she refers to the affidavit &c. annexed.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3rd 1855," and she further declares that she has never received a land warrant, nor made any other application therefore, under this or any other Act of Congress.
s/ Margaret Owen

We, Margaret Patten and Henriett Harris, residents of the Township of South Amboy, in the County of Middlesex, New Jersey, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed & acknowledged by Mrs. Margaret Owen in our presence; that we have been personally well acquainted with her during the last thirty years, and know that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that she is now a widow, as she declares; and further; that we have no interest in this claim.
s/ Margaret Patter
s/ Henriett Harris

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year first above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the identical person she represents herself to be; that she is now a widow, and that I have no interest in this claim.
s/ Andrew J. Disbrow, J.P.
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State New Jersey
County of Middlesex//

I, Nicholas Boordsen, County Clerk and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, hereby certify that Andrew J. Disbrow, whose genuine signature appears above is and was, at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at the City of New Brunswick, this 22nd day of October, A.D. 1853.
s/ N. Boordsen, clerk
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June 27, 1931

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
AWF

Mrs. E. M. Brooks
253 Handy Street
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 3857, that David Owen was born, September 3, 1757, in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jersey.

While residing in Woodbury, New Jersey, he enlisted in 1776 and served five months as a private in Captain Whittall's Company, Colonel Silas Newcomb's New Jersey Regiment, and was in the battles of Long Island and White Plains.

He moved to Middlesex County, New Jersey and served as private in the New Jersey Militia as follows - early in 1777, two tours of one month each in Captain James Johnston's Company, Colonel Neilson's Regiment; in the spring of 1777, one month in Captain Dey's Company; in the fall of 1777, two tours of one month each in Captain Dey's Company, Colonel Hyer's Regiment; in the spring of 1778, two tours of one month each in Captain Benjamin Dennis' Company; in the summer of 1778, one month in Captain Sebring's Company and was in the battle of Monmouth.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 26, 1833, at which time he was living in South Amboy Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.

He died June 3, 1846 in South Amboy Township.

The soldier married, September 12, 1779 in New Germantown, New Jersey, Margaret Colsher or Calsher, who was born December...
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...31, 1765, place not stated.

She was allowed pension on her application executed November 16, 1846, while a resident of South Amboy Township, New Jersey.

She died February 27, 1858.

[crossed out: The is] It is stated that she raised thirteen children "of her own". The following are the only names [crossed out: givend] given

Peter, born March 7, 1784.
Rebecca, born March 28 [crossed out: 238], 1786
Rosanna, born January 7, 1789
Anna, born December 18, 1791

In 1846, daughter, Rosanna, was residing in South Amboy Township, New Jersey and signed her name "Rosannh Prest".

The following names also appear on the family record, relationship not shown-

January 7, 1789

John Calsher, born August [crossed out: 20] 10, 1771
Nicholas Calsher, born February 24, 1774
Anne Calsher, born March 24, 1776
Elizabeth Calsher, born February 26, 1787

Very truly yours,

E.W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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Rev(olutionary War)

WIDOW, &c.

File No. 8857

Mary Owen, Widow (of) David Owen

Darrit Seven
Pri(vate) Rev. War
Act: Feb. 2nd/'48

Index: -; Vol. One; Page 106

{Arrangement of 1870.}

1931 - June 27 - Hist(ory sent) to Mrs. E. M. Brooks [illegible]
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Rep(orted)

New Jersey. 362.

Margaret Owen, widow of David Owen, who was a Private in the N.J. line

Husb(and) died 3rd June 1846

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 43 Dollars (blank) Cents per annum, to commence on the [crossed out: 4th day of March, 1844.] 3rd June 1846.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of April 1847 and sent to John Perrine, Spotswood, N. Jersey.

{Act of JUNE 17, 1844.}

Recorded in Book d; Vol. 2; Page 98.
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36,220
New Jersey
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219583

Sugar Grobe
Oct. 20th

Free

Commissioner of Pensions
Dept. of the Interior
Washington City, D.C.

(Add'l evidence)
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David Owen of N. Jersey
Act 1832

To what time was he last paid?

Pd. to the 4th March 1830; J.H.

1 Oct. '39
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David Owen, N.J. $43.33 Act '32 last pd?

5 Apr '47

Pd. to 4th March 1846
W. Tyson
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J.L. Edwards, Esq., Commissioner of Pension. D.C.

Sir,

Enclosed you will find the papers in the case of Margaret Owens, widow of David Owens, for your examination - after examination &c. please remit to your humble ser(vant).
s/ John Perrine, Spotswood, N.J.

March 12th 1847
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New Brunswick, New Jersey
October 22nd 1855,

Hon. J. Mind
Com(missioner) of Pensions,

Sir,

Enclosed please find County land claim of Mrs. Margaret Owen of this County. If services are Cause of Reward, this woman ought to be a special favorite of the Government, she has raised thirteen children of her own, and has officiated as a Midwife, at the birth of 500 children, whose births she has recorded; and she never requested the assistance of a Physician, and never lost a woman whom the attended. She is poor, and now very old, and I therefore, respectfully request, (what I have never before done) that her case be made special, and have immediate attention,

While I remain, very respectfully,
s/ James L. Street, Agent
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Will Mr. Minott, or Cole please read the within?
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New Jersey

David Owens

Suspended

See letter 26th '33 to J.F. Randolph
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Admitted
Private 13 months
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New Brunswick, Sep. 21, 1883

I declare herewith duplicate papers for pensions from David Hall, Anthony Collins, David Lamberson, Thomas Lamberson, David Owens, Frances Letts & Anthony Hansell, the original applications in all the cases, as I am informed were all made and were mailed at the same time a year ago before signing by me at the office.

The papers could not be found nor did they appear able to have been received as the names of the persons were not on the window.

Most respectfully, your obed(ient) ser(vant)
s/ John P. Randolph

Hon. J. Mind, Esq.
Com(missioner of) Pen(sions)
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See genuine.

In witness whereof I have herewith set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County this Twenty second day of September A.D. 1848.
s/ N. Booraem, Clerk

Declaration (of) Margaret Owen.
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 2nd February 1848, entitled an act making further provisions for surviving widows and soldiers of the revolution.

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

On this fifteenth day of September 1848, personally appeared before me, John Perrine, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Margaret Owen, a resident in the County of Middlesex, aged about Eighty Two years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2nd Feb. 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.

That she is the widow of David Owen, who was a private in the war of the Revolution in the New Jersey Line, who died on the 3rd (of) June 1846 and was inscribed on the Pension List at the rate of Forty three dollars and Thirty three cents per annum. To whose declaration she refers the Commissioner of
Pensions for the services of her said husband in the war of the Revolution.

She further declares that she is still the widow of the aforesaid David Owen.
s/ Margaret Owen

Sworn and Subscribed this 15th day of September A.D. 1848 before me.
s/ John Perrine, Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that the above declarant is personally known to me and that she is now the widow of David Owen, who was a pensioner of the United States.
s/ John Perrine, Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

I, Nicholas 
Booraem, Clerk of the County of Middlesex aforesaid do hereby certify that John Perrine, Esquire, before whom the within declaration of Margaret Owen was made, was at the time of the within said declaration a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Middlesex, duly commissioned & sworn & that his signatures in the Jurat of the said declaration & certificate thereunder are genuine.

In witness whereof I have herewith set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this Twenty second day of September A.D. 1848
s/ N. Booraem, Clerk

Declaration (of) Margaret Owen.
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Spotswood, N.J.
March 18/'47

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

449

March 18, 1847

Mrs. Margaret Owen
June 17, 1847
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253 Handy St.
New Brunswick, N.J.
May 13, 1931

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Please advise me whether you have any record of Revolutionary service for David Owen (Owens) of Jacksonville, Middlesex Co., N.J.

David Owen was born in 1758 and died in 1846. His wife's name was Margaret.

Thanking you, I am very truly yours,
s/ Mrs. E.M. Brooks