Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5340, for Stephen Masters, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
Service:  New Jersey
Masters, Stephen/Judith
Number: W 5340
B.L.Wt 8516-100
B.L.Wt 185-60-55
Contents:  Blank
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A.N. Maritn
May 28 ILLEGIBLE
151.601
Judith Masters wid of Stephen Masters Priv.
Masters
N.J. Contl Line
Rev. War
ILLEGIBLE Mch 25/56
Boynton
Pensioner
act Feby 2, 1848 Page 351 Vol 4
Ohio Feb 48-4879

Pinnington & Lee
Tiffin Ohio
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4879
Ohio Pittsburg
Judith Masters
widow of Stephen Masters N.J.
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of June 1849 and sent to J.L. Greene Lower Sandusky, Ohio

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, page 357, Vol. 4

Let to TG. Turner, 14 May ILLEGIBLE

ILLEGIBLE  151601
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12363
Ohio
Stephen Masters
Stark County in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the regiment 2nd New Jersey.
for the term of three years.
subscribe on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of July 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2d of July 1819 and sent to Samuel Coulter Esq Canton, Ohio
Arrears to 4th of March 1819       59.60
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 sept 1819    48.-
Total:   107.61
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th Arch, 1818}
Continued
Duplicate certifcate issued 16 Sept 1820  Sent to Sam. Coutler, Canton, Ohio

Application sent January 3d 1821 to Hon. John Glaine, H of Rep's  M. States
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12363
Ohio
Stephen Masters
Stark County in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the regiment 2nd New Jersey.
for the term of three years.
subscribe on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of July 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2d of July 1819 and sent to Samuel Coulter Esq Canton, Ohio
Arrears to 4th of March 1819       59.60
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 sept 1819    48.-
Total:   107.61
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th Arch, 1818}
Continued
Duplicate certifcate issued 16 Sept 1820  Sent to Sam. Coutler, Canton, Ohio

Application sent January 3d 1821 to Hon. John Glaine, H of Rep's  M. States
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Department of War
Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the War, and have not received ILLEGIBLE from the United States.
State of Ohio
County of Wood
On this 11th day of April, 1851
I, Judith Masters heir at law and widow of Stephen Masters do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best f my knowledge and belief, that enlisted in the United States Army did enter the service in 1775, for the term of during the War and served as a private in the Regiment No. BLANK under the command of Colonel ILLEGIBLE of the New Jersey line; and that he continued service aforesaid until the end of the war.
I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to the soldiers and heirs of revolutionary soldiers on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever;

Know all men by these presents, that I Judith Masters aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint John G. Turner, Esq., to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of the United States or any other officer a Warrant for the Quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purpose above expressed.
Judith Masters (Her Mark)
(Attest,)
2 witnesses

Personally appeared the above named Judith Masters subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and made oath to the same, and in my present acknowledge the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be her free act and deed, for the purpose therein mentioned.
John A. Kelley   Justice of the Peace

In testimony that the above written John A. Kelley Esq, was a Magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and to take acknowledgement, &c., in the State of Ohio at the above date, and that the name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name as Clerk of the Common Pleas court of said County, this Fourteenth day of April A.D. 1851.
James W. Ross   Clerk
by John Webb  Deputy
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State of Ohio
Wood County
On this 11th day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, personally appeared before me a John A. Kelly, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and State aforesaid, L.D. Kelley, and Phillip Shoe and after being duly sworn according to law, who says that they are well acquainted with Judith Masters, the identical widow of Stephen Masters, who is named in an original pension certificate now in her possession and that the said Judith Masters is a pensioner of the united States at eighty  dollars per annum under the Act of Congress passed on the 2nd day of Febuary 1848.  Applicants further saith not.
L.D. Kelley
P. Shoe


Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that L.D. Kelley and Phillip Shoe who has signed the above affadavit are persons of known respectibility for truth and varasity and are persons of credit.
J. A. Kelley
Justice of the Peace
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Stephen Masters
Private
2nd New Jersey Regiment
1777  3 years
Canton Ohio
23 July
Admitted
The Hon. Secretary at War
Washington City
D C
ILLEGIBLE

1007 Rec 5 Aug 1811
S. Coulter
Judge
Canton, O
ILLEGIBLE
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an the 22d day of July AD 1818 Stephen Master, age 65 years, of the County of Stark and State of Ohio came personally before me, Samuel Coutler one of the Associate Judges in and for the County aforesaid and made the following declaration:
That the said Stephen Master in the fall of seventeen hundred and seventy five enlisted into service of the US for one year and went to Qubeck in Wm MaxField Company in the 2d Jersey Regiment commanded by Col. Shreves.  That on his return from Qubeck he enlisted in the same Company and for three years and served during the war at which time he received an Honorable Discharge from Col John Commons which discharge he says was lost or worn out by time.  That he was in the Battle at Qubeck, at the 3 rivers in Canada, at Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and at the taking of Lord Cornwallis.
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that he is 65 years of age and is in ILLEGIBLE circumstances and is in want of assistance from his country that he relinquishes all or every pension hereto granted him from the US.
Sworn and subscribed before me this day and year first above mentioned.
Stephen Masters (His Mark)
State of Ohio
Stark County
On the 22nd day of July as above stated I certify that Stephen Masters come before me as of the the Associate Judges in and for the County aforesaid and was sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God to the forgoing declaration and subscribed the same in my presence and it appearing to my satisfaction that the aforementioned Stephen Masters  did serve more that nine months in the Revolutionary War an the Continental Establishment against the common enemy I here have
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forwarded the proceeding to the Secretary of War
In Testimony of which I have set my hand and seal this 29d day of July above mentioned.
Saml. Coutler, Associate Judge

Stark county, Ohio
In testimony that Samuel Coutler Esq, is no one of the Associate Judges in and for the County of Stark duly commissioned and qualified to act as such.  I hereto sign my name and affix the seal of said County at Canton this 22nd day of July 1818.
F. Raynolds
Wm. Raynolds, Clk

I do certify that the above applicant Stephen Masters is poor and is such circumstances as to need assistance from his country for support in witness of which I have set my hand this 28th day of May 1819
Saml. Coutler  Associate Judge
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Stephen Masters
12,363
July '19
Dup  Cert
16 Sep 1820

sep '19
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In the Court of Common Pleas of Stark County, Ohio
Tuesday august 8th, 1820
Present the Honorable Benjamin Tappard Esq President of the Fifth circuit of the Courts of common Pleas in the State of Ohio in which circuit the county of Stark is included
and the Honorable
John Hoover
Samuel Coutter
James Clark Esquire his associates and Judges of the same court when holder in the County of Stark-
Then Stephen Masters comes into court and makes his affidavit under the Act of Congress entitled "An Act in addition to an Act 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 18th of March 1818, which is in the words and figures following that is to say - State of Ohio Stark County   On the 8th day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court Stephen Masters aged 67 resident in said county who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows  In the New Jersey line in the company commanded by Captain James Maxfield and regiment commanded by Colonel Wm. Maxfield and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part there of with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act
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Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval Service of the United in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contract or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed-
one small kettle     " 50cts
Cash                       "12 1/2
Total:                      "62 1/2

I am by occupation a daily labourer ILLEGIBLE disabled with Rhuematism and old age.  I can work but little.  I have two sons living with me, John and Ira Masters, John age 19 years and Ira 15 by whom labour and my wife Judah give a scanty support.
Stephen Masters (His Mark)
Sworn and subscribed in open court Canton, August 8th, 1820
Wm. Raynolds, Clk
Whereupon the court order the said affidavit be recorded and this it be certified that it appears by disinterested testimony to the satisfaction of this Court that the said Stephen Masters is possessed of property to the value of 62 1/2 cents and no more.
A record Attest:
Wm. Raynolds, Clk
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Stark County, Ohio
In testimony that the foregoing is a true copy from the records of the Court of Common Pleas in the said County of Stark, I hereto sign my name and affix the seal of said Count at Canton 1st day of November 1820.
Wm. Raynolds, Clk
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The 
Holy bible 
containing
Old and New
Testaments:
translated out of
The Original Tongues,
and with
The former Translations diligently 
compared and revised.
HG
Hartford, Connecticut
printed by
Hudson & Goodwin
1811
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ILLEGIBLE Masters
born July the 1, 1784

Lyia Masters
Born August the 27, 1795

Abram masters
Born December the 12, 1786

Stephen Masters
born November the 2, 1788

Elizabeth Masters
born October the 25, 1790


William Masters
born October the 7, 1799
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The age of ILLEGIBLE of children within marriage
Stephen Master
Born May the ILLEGIBLE 1754
Judith Masters
born April the 6, 17??

Married September the 16, 17??
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Joseph Masters
born October the 11, 1794

Saly Master
born March the 14, 1797

ILLEGIBLE Master
born April the ILLEGIBLE 1799

John Masters
born May the 12, 1802

Iva Masters
born September the 6, 1804

ILLEGIBLE Masters 
born October the 24, 1803

Judith Master
Born April the ILLEGIBLE
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6427
Judith Masters
Ohio

Record of Marriage
in Bible on file


Hon. D.A. Starkweather
H R
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pension to certain Widows".
State of Ohio
Stark County
On this fourteen day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of Stark county, in and for the State of Ohio, Judith Masters, a resident of Bethlehem Township in the County of Stark aforesaid, aged seventy five years on the sixth day of April last, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows".  That she is the widow of Stephen Masters who was a soldier of the Revolutionary Army of the United States and served in the Second Jersey Regiment according to the best of her knowledge or belief.  and according to the best of her knowledge and belief he enlisted in the Army in the year seventeen hundred seventy six, the precise day or month of that year she cannot tell.  She thinks and believe he was discharge from the Army in the month of June seventeen hundred eighty three, at least she recollect distinctly he was at his residence in Hardiston, Sussex county, New Jersey, on the fourth day of July in the last mentioned year.  She believe he jointed the Army which went to Quebeck in Seventeen hundred seventy-five and returned to his residence from that expedition, and in the year seventeen hundred seventy sic enlisted under an officer whom name she does not know for a period of three years, but she has heard him say that by some fraud or misconduct of his officer he was returned as enlisted during the war.  She has heard him often declare that he was seven years and eight month in the Revolutionary Army.  She has heard him often declare that he had been engaged in seventeen, what he called general engagements, besides a great number of skirmishes.  Those battles in which he believed he was engaged , as far as she can now recollect them are these-the battle of Lexington, the battle of Monmouth, the battle of Trenton and he was at the capture of Lord Cornwallis.  She cannot tell with much particularity the Country through which he marched.  She knows her husband was placed upon the pension roll of the United Stated but cannot now state the year he was so placed upon the roll, but thinks it was between the years eighteen hundred twenty, and twenty two, she believes he continued on the pension roll until the day of his death, which day she distinctly recollects was the third day of January eighteen hundred thirty five, at the said County of Stark, Ohio.  She further declares that she was married to the said Stephen Masters on the sixteen day of September, seventeen hundred and eight three, and that her husband, the aforesaid Stephen Masters, died on the third day of January eighteen hundred thirty-five.  That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January
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seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated Worn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid, in open court.
Judith Masters (Her Mark)
Harmon Stidger, Clerk
Court Com. Pleas. S.C. Ohio

the State of Ohio Stark County
I Harman Stidger, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said county of Stark do certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings as had in the said Court of Common Pleas in open court on the day of this date.
given under my hand and the seal of our said Court of Common Pleas this 14th day of September A.D. 1839.
Harmon Stidger, Clerk
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State of Ohio
Stark County
Court of Common Pleas
September Term in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine.
Personally appeared in open court, Joseph Masters, who being sworn says LLEGIBE the Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, which he now ILLEGIBLE to the court, is a book which has been in the family of the late Stephen Masters (who was a pensioner of the United States and the father of this deponent) for many years before the death of the said Stephen Masters, that the writing on the ILLEGIBLE first pages of said book, and before the title page thereof, has been treated and considered in the said family and by the children of said Stephen Masters (of whom this deponent is one) as the family record of the family of said Stephan.  That the said Stephen Masters, the father of this deponent, died the third day of January eighteen hundred and thirty-five and for the last three years proceeding this time, said Bible has been in the possession of this deponent.  That he distinctly recollects seeing a man whose name he does not now recollect, writing said family record, be believed as early as the year eighteen hundred fourteen or eighteen hundred fifteen, and that since that time, said record has always been understood and received by himself and his fathers family as the true account of the birth and marriage of his said parent and the birth of their said children. And further saith not.
Joseph Masters


The State of Ohio, Stark County
I, Harman Stidger, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do certify that the Bible hereto attached is the same referred to in the above affidavit and was produced in open court as therein stated.  In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of our said Court of Common Please this 25th day of September A.D. 1839.
Harmon Stidger, Clerk
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State of Ohio
Wood County
On this seventh day of May AD 1835 personally appeared before me Norman Russell, a Justice of the Peace for and within said County and State, Judith Masters, aged ninty one years April 6, 1835, and a resident of Wood County, Ohio, who being first duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Stephen Masters, who was a private in the Second New Jersey Regiment, but of what company or by whom said company was commanded affiant does not now know, in the Revolutionary War between this Country and Great Britain; that said Stephen Masters, her husband, enlisted in Sussex County and State of New Jersey, and continued from the time of said enlistment, which was about the ILLEGIBLE of said war or soon there after, for the period of three years and was about to return to his house, his time of enlistment having expired, when by some means not now known to affiant her said husband continued in said war in actual service until the close of the same, making in all a period of seven years, eight months and five days at which time he was honorably discharged but at what place affiant cannot state.  She further states that she was married to the said Stephen Masters in Sussex County, in the State of New Jersey, on the sixteenth day of September A.D. 1783 by one Ludwick Hoglan, a Justice of the Peace, and that her name before said marriage was Judith Sloat, that her said husband died at Stark County, Ohio, on the third day of
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January in the year A.D. 1835 and that she is now a widow.
She further states that some time, as affiants recollects, in the year A.D. 1837 when a resident of Stark County, Ohio, she made application for and received a pension from the United States Pension Office at the time of making which application she sent to the Pension office a bible contain the original records of her marriage with the said Stephen Masters which said Bible was again returned to affiant the leaf containing said record having been taken out and another upon which was a copy of said record returned in its place.  That affiant believes that said original is now on file in said Pension Office to which she here makes reference for the purpose of this application.
She further states that are the 13 day of June A.D. 1849 she received a certificate on Warrant for a life Pension as widow of said Stephen Masters, in the sum of eighty dollars per year, payable on the 4 September and 4 of March and recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 351 Vol 4.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she me be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1833.
Judith Masters (Her Mark)
We Philip Shue and Stephen M. Shue residents of Wood County, Ohio ILLEGIBLE our
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Oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledge by Judith Masters in our presence; and that we beleive from the appearance and statement of the applicant, and also from our own personal knowledge that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Philip Shoe
Stephen M. Shoe

The forgoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the offiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents her self to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Norman Russell  J.P.

Wood County and
State of Ohio
I, John Webb, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Wood County within State of Ohio, do hereby certify that Norman Russell before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken, was at the time of taking the same, duly commissioned qualified and acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and this his signature above written is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court hereto affixed this ninth day of May A.D. 1833.
John Webb, Clerk
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The national Archives
Form VAN-51
12-5-41

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name:  Masters, Stephen
Grade:  Private
Line:  New Jersey

Warrant Number:  8516
Acreage:  100
Issued:  June 11, 1789 to Matthias Denman, Assignee
Also B.L.W  185-60.55

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants cared on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and  subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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Canton O  June 4th

Old Case

The Hon. Secretary at 
War, Washington City
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Hon. L. P, ILLEGIBLE
Comr of ILLEGIBLE
Washington

151.611
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ILLEGIBLE 2 Feb 48  O
Boyton
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Pension Office
March 13, 1856
Sirs:
Your letter of the 5th inst; addressed to the Secretary
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H715
Ohio  Pittsburgh
Judith Masters
widow of Stephen Masters Dec.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 3d January 1835 of Stark Co. in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Maxfield of the Reg't commanded
by Col. Shreve in the New Jersey
line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the roll of Pittsburg O
at the rate of 80 dollars NO cents per annum,
to commend on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of Dec, 1839 and sent Hon. D.A. Starkweather Ho. of Repr.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839      $280.00
Sen=annual allowance ending 
4 Mar 40                                         $40.00
TOTAL:                                  $320.00
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by D. D. Addison, Clerk
book A, Vol. 2, Page 218
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6427
Judith Masters
Ohio

admitted
Pr 2 yrs  $80
Cap Maxfield  Col. Shreve

died 3 January 1835

Act 7 July 1838

Hon. D.A. Starkweather
H.R.
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I hereby certify that on the 11th day Feb 1840 I received from the pension office a bible belonging to Judith Masters of Ohio, Stark Co. and that these were taken from the same ILLEGIBLE leaves which contained evidence of the age of Stephen Masters and Judith Masters together with the ages of their children.
D.A. Starkweather
Member of H. Reps
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J.L. Edwards Esq
I herewith send you the same application of Judith Masters that you returned to me with the Certificate of the ILLEGIBLE thereon as you did not suggest any other objects.  I suppose this will be sufficient, if not please forth with return it and I will get a new application.
Z. Snow
Canton ILLEGIBLE 4th 1843
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Tiffin, O  May 24th 1833
L.P. Waldo
Com'r Pensions

Enlcosed please find the application of Judity Masters for Bounty land Warrant.
Respectfully
Pennington & Lee
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Tiffin City, O   April 24th, 1857
Sir
Enclosed you will find papers for the claim of Judith Masters, widow of Stephen Masters as ILLEGIBLE, for a warrant that was due her said husband in the Revolutionary services.  Pleas give me an answer on this subject as soon as possible.
I am yours with respect
J. G. Turner

Hon. J.E. Heath
Commissioner
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Ohio   3478
Judith Masters
widow of Stephen Masters
who was a Private
in the New Jersey line
for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Eighty dollars No cents per annum, to commend on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the Eighth day of December, 1843 and sent to Z. Snow, Canton, Ohio.

[Act of March 3, 1843}
Recorded in Book A
vol. 1, Page 160
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185

100 acres
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Rev
Widow, &c.
file No. 5340
Judith Masters
Wid.
Stephen Masters
Prt Rev War
Act:  Feby 2/48
Index:-Vol. M, Page 3
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Application for a New Certificate
County of Stark, State of Ohio, ss.
On this 8th day of August, 1820; before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Stark, personally appeared Stephen Masters, who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain James Maxfield, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Maxfield, in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Ohio, that he has not received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War.
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid. 
James Williams, Justice of the Peace

NOTES:  The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be property authenticated.
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Stark County Ohio
In testimony that James Williams Esq is now and of the Justice of the Peace in said County by lawful authority acting as such, I hereto sign my name and affix the seal of said County at Canton.
8th Aug, 1820
Wm. Raynolds, Clk
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Stephen Masters, is returned among those men who enlisted in the N. Jersey line for "during the War" - and land warrant W. 8516 for 100 acres, issued June 11th, 1789 to Matthias Denman, ILLEGIBLE of the said Stephen Masters.
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Judith Masters
$80-
3478
160
Peterbyr


Z. Snow
Canton, Ohio
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The State of Ohio
Stark County
On this 20th day of July AD 1843, personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Stark and State of Ohio, Judith Master to me personally know, a resident of Canton T.P. County of Stark and State of Ohio aged seventy nine years the 2nd day of April A.D. 1843 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions ILLEGIBLE by the Act of Congress passed on the 3d of March 1843 granting pension to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Stephen Masters, late of the County of Stark aforesaid, ILLEGIBLE who was a private in the Revolutionary Army in the Second Regiment of New Jersey but she does not remember the Division but her said husband served a part of the time in a body of soldiers stationed at Trenton and was actually in the engagement at Lexington and in other engagements at Brandywine and that he was in thirteen engagements during the American Revolution and that she has received the benefits of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed July 7th, 1838 that the amount she received under the last named Act, was ninety six dollars per year and it was paid one half on the fourth of March and one half on the fourth of Sept in each year after, aid Act was passed.
Judith Masters (Her Mark)
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 20th day of July 1843.
Alpheus Brown, Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Stark, Ohio.

Attest:  Z Snow
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The State of Ohio
Stark County
I, Harman Stidger, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the said County of Stark and State of Ohio, do certify that Alpheus Brown Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn is and acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission is dated April the seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty three and will expire in three years from the date thereof and that the signature thereto attached is genuine.
In testimony whereof I herein subscribe my name and affix the seal of the Court aforesaid at Canton in the County aforesaid the 20th day of July AD 1843.
Harman Stidger, Clerk
by Tho. Goodwan, Dept

State of Ohio
Stark County
I. Alpheus Brown, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that Judith Master, the within declarant is personally known to me and that she is the identical person that she represents herself to be.
ILLEGIBLE 1843
Alpheus Brown, Justice of the Peace
in and for said County.
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The State of Ohio
Sandusky County
On this 1st day of June in the year eighteen hundred and forty nine personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Sandusky and State of Ohio; Judith Masters a resident of Scott Township in the County of Sandusky and State of Ohio, aged eighty five years on the 6th day of April AD 1849 who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2d February 1848 granting provisions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of Stephen Masters who was a Private in the 2d Regiment of Infantry from, or of the State of New Jersey; that she has received from the Government of the United States a pension at the rate of Eighty dollars per year under the act of 17th June 1844.
She further swears that she is still a widow.
Judith Masters (Her Mark)
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
J. A. Fisher   Justice Peace

The State of Ohio
Sandusky County
I Sa. L. Rawson, Clerk of the Court of common Please of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that James A Fisher, Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of so doing an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified.
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court this 6th day of June AD 1849. 
Sa. L. Rawson,  Clerk
By D. Cupper, Dep
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ILLEGIBLE Sandusky, O  June 6/49
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Sir
Enclosed I forward the application of Mrs. Judith Masters for the continuation of her pension.
I have made out the application according to the ILLEGIBLE lights I have and hope it will answer the purpose for she is very old and much in want of the little money allowed by Government to provide herself with the common necessiaries of life.
Rept. Your Obt Servt.
J.L. Greene