Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6132, for John Lane, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
Continental
New Jersey
Lane, John
Phoebe
or Phoebus

Number R. 6132
B.L.Wt 1062-100

Contents
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1062
Abraham Bells
Assignee of John Lane - Priv
New Jersey Line

Warrant Issued
Feby 15th 1820
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12418
Pennsylvania
John Lane of Elizabeth Township in the state of Penna
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shruve of the New Jersey line for the term of 7 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 6th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th of July 1819 and sent to Samuel Robert Esq Pittsburg Penna
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 9 mos  % 79.74
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept 4th 1819  48.00
Dollars 127.74
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818}

Continued

Notification sent December 26 1820 to R. Walker Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
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Application of the heirs of John Lane an old Rev pensioner on Pa Roll Act of 1818 
also of
Phoebus Lane decd the widow - for benefit of Act of July 4, 1836
Declaration of Silas Lane one of the children & administration for pension due the above widow at her death.   
Pa.
Filed by James G. Austin Present

Phoebe & John Lane married in 1785 and not 1774  was rejected.
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny }ss
On this second day of August 1853 personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the County & State aforesaid, Samuel Walker aged 57 years a resident of Elizabeth in the county and state aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law declares that he knew John Lane an old revolutionary soldier & pensioner of the United States and Phoebus his wife and that they lived in Elizabeth Township Allegheny County Penna until their death and that they lived together as man and wife and were so generally reputed and that he knew the following named persons to be recognized and treated as the legitimate children of said John & Phoebus Lane namely Sarah Bennit (since dead), Elizabeth Forsyth, John Lane, Silas Lane, Issac Lane (since dead) Debora Chambers & Julia Maharra and that they all are above the age of twenty one years.  And he also further declares that the said John Lane died in the County of Allegheny in the State of Pennsylvania on the 16th day of July 1834 leaving Phoebus Lane his widow who also died on the 31st day of January 1838 and that he was well acquainted with the said John & Phoebus Lane for 16 years and knows the aforesaid surviving children well.  And he further declares that he knew the said John Lane to be a pensioner of the United States under the act of March 1818 at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum and that he the said Samuel Walker lifted said pension for a number of years as the agent of said John Lane during his lifetime, and that he has no interest in this claim.  
Saml Walker
Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year above written.
Bennett Lake
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny }ss
On this Second day of August 1855 personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid John Walker Senr aged eighty five years a resident of Elizabeth in the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law declares that he knew John Lane, an old revolutionary soldier & pensioner of the United States and Phoebus his wife and that they lived in Elizabeth Township Allegheny Co. Pa until their death and that they lived together as man and wife and were so generally reputed and that he knew the following named persons to be recognized and treated as the legitimate children of said John & Phoebus Lane, namely Sarah Bennit (since dead), Elizabeth Forsyth, John Lane, Silas Lane, Issac Lane (since dead) Debora Chambers and July Maharra and that they all are above the age of twenty one years and that the said John Lane, the pensioner died in the County of Allegheny in the State of Penna on the 16th July 1834 leaving Phoebus Lane his widow who also died on the 31st day of January 1838 and that he was well acquainted with the said John & Phoebus Lane for [illegible] years and knew the aforesaid children well and that he knew the said John Lane to be a pensioner of the United States at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum and that he has no interest in this claim. 
John Walker Senr
Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year above written.
Bennett Lake
Justice of the Peace
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Allegheny County
State of Pennsylvania }ss
I Edwd Campbell Jr Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the same being a Court of Law and Record, do by these presents certify that Bennett Lake Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper handwriting, subscribed his name, was at that time, and now is, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by law to take acknowledgements, administer oaths, &c to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States and elsewhere. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Pittsburgh, in the said County, this 2nd day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five and of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America the eightieth
Edwd Campbell Jr.
Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny }ss
I W. B. McClure  Prst Judge of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that it is satisfactorily proven to said Court by the testimony of John Walker Sr. and Samuel Walker residents of said county and who are credible persons that John Lane an old Revolutionary soldier & pensioner of the United States died in the County of Allegheny in the State of Pennsylvania on the 16th day of July 1834 (eighteen hundred & thirty four) leaving Phoebus Lane his widow & that the said widow also died on the 31st day of January 1838 leaving the following named children  who now survive the above mentioned John Lane & Phoebus Lane deceased viz. Elizabeth Forsyth, John Lane, Silas Lane, Debora Chambers and Julia Maharra all of whom are above the age of twenty one years.  And I further certify that the above named Silas Lane and whose declaration is hereunto annexed one of the said surviving children has been duly appointed the Administrator of the estate of the said Phoebus Lane deceased & that he is duly authorized by the laws of this State to act as such administrator and that his administration bond is the sum of six hundred dollars.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the County this 20th day of August 1855
William B. McClure
Prst Judge
Com Pleas
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny }ss
Silas Lane, son and administrator of Phoebus Lane deceased being duly sworn according to law declares that he is administrator of his mother's estate, whose name was Phoebus Lane, that his father John Lane was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and served in the Troops of New Jersey as he has been informed and verily believes that his father was a pensioner of the United States under the Act of March 1818 at the rate of $96 per annum; that he understood his father was a wars man and that at the time of his death he lived in the County of Allegheny State of Pennsylvania and died on the 16th day of July 1834 leaving his mother, the above named Phoebus his widow, and that his said mother also died at the above mentioned place on the 31st day of January 1838 leaving the following named children only now her surviving viz. Mary Norris now of Bucks County Pa, Elizabeth Forsyth, now of Iowa, John Lane, Silas Lane (this deponent) Debora Chambers and July Maharra all of Allegheny County Pa all of whom are above the age of twenty one years and that he knows of no private or other record that would give the date of the marriage of his father and mother or that would show the respective ages of his brothers and sisters, and that he has always understood that his father & mother were married in or near a place called Elizabethtown New Jersey sometime in the year 1779 and that his father rendered service subsequent to their
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their marriage - for his own as well as the identity of the other children he refers to the evidence annexed - he makes the declaration for the purpose of obtaining the amount of pension, which may be found due his said mother in behalf of himself and the other above named children and who are the only surviving children as aforesaid and refers for further particulars to the papers on file at the Pension Office upon which his said father received his pension. 
Silas Lane Administrator
Subscribed to & sworn before me W. B. McClure Prst Judge of Common Pleas this 20th day of August 1855.

Willam B. McClure
Prest Judge
Com Pleas
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District of New Jersey }ss

Be it known that on the [illegible] day of May 1819 personally appeared before me William S Pennington District Judge of the United States in and for the New Jersey District, General John Jr Cumming who being by me duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he the said John Jr Cumming served in the New Jersey line of Continental Troops in the Revolutionary War, first as a Captain, afterwards as Major and also as Lieutenant Colonel; that during which time he was acquainted with John Lane and knew him to serve in the same Jersey line.  The said Lane enlisted the first year of the war and served until the close of the war in 1783 and was discharged about the 20th of May 1783.  That he was a corporal in Capt. Johnathan Holmes Company at the time he was discharged in the Jersey Battalion; this company had belonged to the 2nd Jersey Regiment until a short time before the close of the war but had been annexed to the Jersey Battalion a few months before.  
Jn Cumming
Sworn before me on the day and year first above written.
William S. Pennington
District Judge
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I William Pennington Clerk of the District of New Jersey do certify that the signature to this instrument is the proper hand writing of William S. Pennington Esq. Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.  
In witness, my hand and the seal of the said District Court at Newark this fifteenth day of May AD 1819
Wm Pennington

Essex County New Jersey - Be it remembered that on this fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred & nineteen personally appeared before me Shepard Kollock one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid, Major William Shute, who being by me duly sworn according to law, on his oath saith, that he has a perfect knowledge of the above named John Lane, as described in Gen. Cumming's affidavit, that the said William Shute served as an Ensign in the Second Jersey Regiment & Jersey Battalion; that the said John Lane was a Corporal in Capt. Holmes Company which this deponent well recollects as he commanded & was attached to, that company; the Captain & Lieut. having both been made prisoners & this deponent does not recollect the discharge of said Lane, but has not the least doubt of his continuing in the service until the close of the war; 
& further that the said John Lane was a most excellent soldier.
William Shute
Sworn before me this 15 day of May 1819
Shephard Kollock
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To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County }ss.
The declaration and affidavit of John Lane, an applicant for a pension in virtue of the Act of Congress in such case made and provided.
Respectfully showeth
That he is a citizen of the U. States and resides in Elizabeth Township of said County.
That he enlisted near the beginning of the war for five months.
He afterwards enlisted for three months.
He again enlisted with Captain Jonas Ward, in what was called the Independent Regiment attached to the Jersey Brigade to serve during the war.
He was afterwards attached to Capt. Holmes
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Company of the Second Jersey Regiment Col. Shrieves, afterwards Col. Barber.
He faithfully served until the end of the war when he received a printed discharge from service. 
He afterwards gave this discharge to an agent in New York who was empowered to draw his pay.  This agent afterwards drew the pay and gave the discharge to the paymenter.  This petitioner is therefore unable to transmit his said discharge. 
He was engaged in the Battles of Long Island, of Springfield, Brandywine, Monmouth, Germantown & many others. 

Allegheny County
Before me President of the Fifth Judicial District personally came the aforesaid John Lane who being duly sworn saith that the facts as stated in the aforesaid disposition are true to the best of his recollection and that from his reduced circumstances age and infirmities, he needs the assistance of his
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Country for his support.
Sworn and subscribed this 6th day of May AD 1818
John Lane
Saml Roberts

Allegheny County ss.
I Ephraim Pentland, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County do by this presents certify that Samuel Roberts, Esquire, before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and who has thereunto in his own proper hand writing subscribed his name was at the time of taking such deposition and now President of the Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania including the County of Allegheny and that due faith and credit are due to all his acts as such throughout the United States and elsewhere.
Witness my hand and seal of office at Pittsburgh this 6th May A.D. 1818
E. Pentland Pro.
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Pennsylvania ss
I Samuel Roberts President of the Court of Common Pleas of the Fifth Judicial District Pa certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Lane did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at one time and the Continental Establishment; and I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for his support.  I now transmit the proceedings & testimony exhibited to me to the Secretary for the War Department agreeable to the act of Congress under which the foregoing application is made.   Evidence my hand & seal at the City of Pittsburgh the fifteenth day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred & nineteen.  
Samuel Roberts
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The claimant must adduce further testimony of his service.  The deposition of two credible witnesses will be admitted.  The Judge must certify that the claimant is in indigent circumstances and that he is satisfied the has served [illegible] months at one period.
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Whereas John Lane of Elizabeth Township in the County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, an old Revolutionary soldier now applying for a pension in consequence of an Act of Congress entitled an Act for the Relief of such soldiers as has got reduced to Indigent Circumstances or Poverty,  for the information of those it may concern, We his neighbours whose names is hereunto annexed do certify that the said John Lane is an applicant justly entitled to the benefit of that benevolent act as he is, and we have good reason to believe, has spent the flower of his days; his health and fortune in the service of his country, who has now become old and infirm as well as his wife.  Neither real or personal property to make them comfortable, destitute of any connections, that is able to afford them any relief or even keep them of the Township any ought of time.  We cannot therefore but be of opinion that the honest and industrious old man represented to have been an excellent soldier, in such low circumstances is justly entitled to such relief as will make the remainer of his days more easy and comfortable, and with a full belief of the same submit this paper to the consideration of those it may concern. 
June 12th 1819
Signed
John Wilson
George Shirtes
Jos. Vankirk
Thos Warren
Elisha Peairs
Wm. Johnson
Wm. Schroda
[illegible]
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The application of John Lane for a Pension
12418
Allegheny Co

Sep '19
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Among the pleas enrolled in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania are the following extracted from the records of the said an aforesaid court in the said district held at Pittsburg on the thirtieth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty and of the Independence of the United States the forty fifth
United States of America
Western District of Pennsylvania }ss

On this thirtieth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court being a court of record for said district, John Lane, aged ninety six, resident in Alleghany County in said district who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows.  That he enlisted for three years or during the war in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six in the company commanded by Capt Jonas Ward in the regiment commanded by Col Oliver Shencer in the Jersey line, that previous to his enlistment he served five months under Capt Bates and Col Martin.  That he served during the whole war & was then discharged at Newbury in New Jersey or New York by Gen. Dayton.  That he gave his discharge to the paymaster of the regiment who retained it.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred & eighteen and that I have not since that time in any manner whatever disposed of my property so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any persons in trust for me any property securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any other income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.   One cow worth $10 dol. One [illegible] worth one dollar & ten cents, two young hogs value 3 dollars.  That he has a wife called Phoebe aged eighty five years and a daughter aged thirteen and that he has no other family residing with him.  That he receives a pension by virtue of a certificate dated 16th July 1819 and No 17,418. That his former occupation was a brickmaker but due to old age and infirmities is totally unable to work and is in such indigent circumstances as to need the assistance of his country for support.  

Sworn to and subscribed this thirtieth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty before the judge of said court
Jonathan H. Walker
John Lane
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I Robert J. Walker Clerk of the court in and for the Western District of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule annexed are truly copied from the records of said court.  And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Judge of said court that the total amount in value of property related in the aforesaid schedule is fourteen dollars and ten cents.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this thirtieth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty.

R. J. Walker Clk


Signature
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The above alleged [illegible] record of the marriage of John & Phoebe Lane was taken by me from an old Hymn book sent for inspection.  There is no claim under any act. 
Triplatt
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Allegheny County
State of Pennsylvania }ss
I John  Bermingham Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the same court being a Court of Law and Record, do by these presents certify that Bennet Lake, Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper handwriting, subscribed his name, was at that time, and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by law to take acknowledgements, administer oaths, &c. to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States and elsewhere. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Pittsburgh, in the said County, this 17 day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six and of the sovereignty and independence of the United State of America, the Eighty-eth.  
John Bermingham
Prothonotary.
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Book 3  HYMNS  275
To Christ the anointed King 
be endless blessings giv'n 
Let the whole earth his glory sing 
Who made our peace with Heav'n

HYMN 45  As the 148th Psalm
1 Hosanna to the King
Of David's ancient blood:
Behold he comes to bring
Forgiving grace from God:
Let old and young
Attend His way,
And at his feet
Their honors lay.
2 Glory to God on high,
Salvation to the Lamb;
Let earth and sea and sky
His wondrous love proclaim,
Upon his head
Shall honors rest
And ev'ry age
Pronounce him blest

II 3
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John Lane and Pheby Wright was married in the year of our Lord 1785 in [illegible]
Jan [illegible]
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August 21, 1936
Cornelius Lane - W 16625
John Lane - R.6132
BA=J/AF

Mrs. G. A. Edwards
405 Broadway
Long Branch, New Jersey.
Dear Madam:
The data furnished herein in regard to Cornelius Lane were obtained from papers on file in pension claim W. 16625 based upon his service in the War of the Revolution.
Cornelius Lane was born February 12, 1755 in Bedminster, Somerset County, New Jersey.  The names of his parents were not stated.
While a resident of said Bedminster, Cornelius Lane enlisted in the year 1775, served at various times, Captains Daniel Peat, Bailey, Richard McDonald, William Logan, Cornelius Tunison, Hall, F. Ten Eyck, Cook and Colonels Frelinghuysen, Hunt, Lynn, served about two years; during this service he was in frequent scouts and skirmishes, and was a teamster under Wagonmaster John Wortman.  
He moved in 1787 from Somerset County, New Jersey to Ballston, Saratoga County, New York and in 1792 moved to Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York.  
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 18, 1832, then a resident of Canajoharie, New York.  He died there May 16, 1837.
Cornelius Lane married in the month of July 1777 at "Cross Roads", Bedminster, New Jersey, Elizabeth Wolfe.  The date and place of her birth are not shown, nor are the names of her parents given.  
The widow, Elizabeth Lane, was allowed pension
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2-
on her application executed October 20, 1838, while a resident of Canajoharie, New York, and aged eighty-two years.  She died in Canajoharie, November 15, 1842.
The following names of the children of Cornelius Lane and his wife, Elizabeth are shown:

John      born April 1, 1778
Mary        "     February 12, 1780
Aaron       "    May 5, 1782
William     "    April 5, 1783
James       "    November 4, 1789
Cornelius  "    December 1, 1790
Samuel     "     January 15, 1795

The following children survived their mother - John Lane of Hartwick, Otsego County, New York; Mary Keyes of Lawrence, Otsego County, New York; Aaron Lane of Milford, Otsego County, New York; Cornelius Lane of Middlefield, Otsego County, New York; William Lane of Allegany County, New York; Samuel Lane of Canajoharie, New York.

Reference was made to Lieutenant Aaron Lane and Major Derrick Lane of the Revolutionary War.  William Lane was a magistrate and a resident of Canajoharie, New York in 1832.  Reference was made in 1840 to Job Lane, "as one of the oldest inhabitants of Somerset County, New Jersey". William Lane, the son of Matthias Lane was born December 29, 1784 in New Jersey, and moved with his father's family in 1789 to Canajoharie, New York, where he was living in 1840.  It is not stated that they were related to the family of the soldier, Cornelius Lane, or that they were related to each other.  
***************

John Lane _R.6132
That data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, R. 6132, based upon the service of John Lane in the Revolutionary War.
The data and place of birth of John Lane are
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not stated, nor are the names of his parents shown.
John Lane enlisted in 1776, service in Captain Bates' company, Colonel Martin's New Jersey regiment; length of this service not definitely shown.  He enlisted in 1776, served as private and corporal in Captain Jonas Hurd's company in Colonel Oliver Spencer's regiment and in Captain Jonathan Holmes' company in Colonels Shreve's, and Barber's 2nd New Jersey Regiment; he was in the battles of Long Island, Springfield, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and "many others", and was discharged May 20, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May ?, 1818 at which time he was a resident of Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, aged about sixty 4 years.
John Lane married near Elizabethtown, New Jersey in the year 1785, Phoebe or Phoebus Right.  He died in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, July 16, 1834 and she died in the same county, January 31, 1838.
Their oldest daughter, Sarah, was born September 1, 1787, she was referred to in 1855 as Sarah Bennitt then deceased.  A son, Isaac Lane, was also referred to in 1855 as deceased.
The following children of John Lane, and his wife, Phoebe (Phoebus), were living in 1855 as follows Mary Norris of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Forsythe (Forsyth) of Iowa, John Lane of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Silas Lane of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Debora Chambers of same county, and Julia Maharra of same county.

One Isaac Bennitt was referred to in 1855 as of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; it is not shown that he was related to the Sarah Bennit referred to above. 

Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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No 8145
Phoebe Lane
Decd widow of John
Penna
J G Austin Sep 7 1855
same Nov 7 1853
same June 11 1856

6132

rejected married 1785
Died before July 7 1838
July 4 1836
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August 21, 1936

BA-J/AWF

Mrs. G. A. Edwards
405 Broadway
Long Branch, New Jersey

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to the following Revolutionary War soldiers - Cornelius Lane of New Jersey, John Lane of New Jersey, Jacob Lane of New Jersey, Abram Lane of New Jersey, George Harris of New Jersey, William Harris of New Jersey, and Daniel Anthony of Massachusetts.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is not possible to comply in full with each request for Revolutionary War data.
The records of Cornelius Lane and John Lane are furnished herewith, as found in the pension claims based upon service in the Revolutionary War.

Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

see her letter in Cornelius Lane W 16625
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1936 Aug 21
Hist to Mrs. G. A. Edwards see her letter in Cornelius Lane W 16625 Aug

REJECTED

6132

P.O.
Phoebe Lane
Service: widow of John
Enlisted: _________,18  .
Discharged: _________,18  .
Application Filed: _________,18  .
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis.
Searched for  _________,18  .
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Pension Office
June 11 1856

Sir,
The alleged family record of the date of the marriage of John & Phoebe Lane of Penna shows that that event occurred in 1785 instead of 1779 as was claimed by her administrator.  
The claim under the Act of 1836 is therefore rejected as the marriage was consummated long after Lanes service in the Revolution terminated.  And as she did not live to the passage of the Act of July 7 1838 no claim can be asserted under that act.  
Very Resp Yours
S. Cole
Act. Comm.

J. G. Austin, Esq
Present
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FREE
To the Honble JC Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
Dist of Columbia
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Pittsburgh  November 16 1820
Sir
I have annexed the [illegible] signature to the within schedules.  It was omitted by mistake.

Yrs respectfully
R. J. Walker

Sent Dec 15, 20
To the Honorable J. C. Calhoun
Sec of War
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Washington DC
May 19, 1856
J. Minot Esq
Comm of Pensions
Herein please find the additional evidence to establish the marriage of John & Phoebus Lane, in the application of the heirs.  Silas Lane, one of the children is administrator & his application &c is on file.  I trust this will prove satisfactory to marriage in 1785.  The evident antiquity of the old Hymn Book in which is recorded the marriage I trust is sufficient & that the claim may be admitted.

Yours respectfully,
J. G. Austin
Present

PS.  If the evidence is sufficient, it proves marriage so as to admit case under Act 1838 & ask it allowance under that Act.

J. G. Austin
Present
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Additional Evidence
Rev Claim of Heirs
of Phebe Lane Pa.

J. Minot Esq
Comm. of Pensions
Washington

Phebe Lane
Phoebe Lane
John PA  May 1856
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Abrm Bell informing that he has authorized the Hon'ble Mahlon Dickinson to receipt for a Land Wt.
Revolutionary

Mem K. W. Dickinson will as his quality of Senator of the United States attest that Wm Morse as Alderman, was a magistrate endowed with the authority & could legitimately exercise the practicing of Justice of the Peace and likewise that [illegible] his signature to the assignment of John Lane to Abram Bell [illegible] be deemed correct.

Jan 28th 1823


FREE
The Hon. John C. Calhoun Esq
Secretary at War
Washington

Post Marked New York Jan 25
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I am acquainted with Anthony Morse formerly an alderman of the Borough of Elizabeth in New Jersey and certify that as alderman of that borough had the same favor in taking proofs and acknowledgements as a Justice of the Peace.  15th Feb'y 1823
Mahlon Dickinson
Senator of the U. S from New Jersey
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Acts 1836 or 1838
Additional Evidence
Phoebus Lane of Pa
widow of John Lane, Dec'd

Revolutionary Claim of the Heirs of arrears & pension due the widow under the above acts. 

Filed by James G. Austin
Present
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(Extracts)
Sarah Bennit was born September the 1st 1787

State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny}
On this 2nd day of April 1856 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid and duly authorized to administer oaths, Charity Elliott and Sarah Boyd who being duly sworn according to law do declare that the foregoing extract of the birth of Sarah Bennit was taken from a bible which thy know to be the family bible of the said Sarah Bennit and they further declare that the Sarah Bennit whose name is recorded as aforesaid was the oldest daughter of John and Phoebus Lane and they also declare that the Sarah Bennit aforesaid is dead and that they nor either of them have any interest in any claim that the heirs of John & Phoebus Lane may have against the United States for services rendered during the Revolutionary war by John Lane aforesaid.
Charity Elliott  {seal}
Sarah Boyd {seal}

Attest
M. [illegible]
John [illegible]

Allegheny County
I hereby certify that the foregoing extract was made in my presence from the family bible aforesaid and that it is a true and correct copy and that the foregoing Charity Elliott and Sarah Body are known to me and that I believe them to be credible witnesses and that
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I have no interest or claim in this or in any other claim that the heirs of John and Phoebus Lane have against the United States.

Witness my hand and seal this 2nd day of April at the Borough of Burmingham in aforesaid County

W. Symmis J.P.  {seal}
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Allegheny County
State of Pennsylvania }ss.
I, John Bermingham, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the same being a Court of Law and Record, do by these presents certify that W, Symms Esquire, before whom the foregoing [illegible] were taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper handwriting, subscribed his name, was at that time and now is, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by law to take acknowledgments, administer oaths, &c. to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States and elsewhere.  
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court at Pittsburgh, in the said County, this second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six and of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America, the eighty-eth

John Bermingham, Prothonotary
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Act of July 4, 1836
Addition Evidence in the Claim of Heirs of Pheobe Lane of Pa.
widow of John Lane of Pa. Dec'd
Pennsylvania Roll suspended

I trust the within evidence may prove satisfactory as to the marriage of the claimant's parents.

James G. Austin, Atty 
Present
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Allegheny County
State of Pennsylvania }ss.
I, Edward Campbell, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the same being a Court of Law and Record, do by these presents certify that Bennet Lake Esquire, before whom the foregoing [illegible] were taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper handwriting, subscribed his name, was at that time and now is, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by law to take acknowledgments, administer oaths, &c. to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States and elsewhere.  
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court at Pittsburgh, in the said County, this 23  day of [illegible] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four and of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America, the eightieth.
Edward Campbell, Prothonotary
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Act of 1818
John Lane
Pennsylvania

Power of Attorney

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