Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2,769, for John Mc Collum, New Jersey
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{3-1776}

         SERVICE                                          NUMBER
Continental    McCollum, John                  S. 2769
                    or
New Jersey      McCullam          B.L. Wt. 2111-200
Penn.
____________________________________________________
CONTENTS
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33.282
New Jersey
John McCollum, dec
in the State of
wagon master, Lieut & Paym.
who was a Lt: & Adjt in the ________ commanded by Captain         of the                 commanded 
by                      in the Revolutionary 
line for

Increased from $412.33
N.J. and Pa Line Records corrected, Feb 6 '04
Inscribed on the Roll of Trenton
at the rate of 540. Dollars 00 Cents per
annum to commence on the 4th day of March. 1834.
& and 8th March 1936.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of March 1855 and sent to A. H. Markland
Arrears to the 4th of        
 semi anl. allowance ending        Present

Revolutionary Claim}
 Act June 7, 1832.}
[paper torn, part of name missing]
elly       Clerk.

'47
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herston, May 10, 1835

Mr. Gordon, esq

I hereby acknowledge the receipt of Land Warrant 2111, in favor of John McCollum, Lieutenant of the Pennsylvania Line, for 200 acres of land

Very respectfully, lc

John d Horten Agent
for John McCollum
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Be it known that I, Sarah McCollum, grand daughter of Capt. John McCollum late of Trenton N. J. do hereby certify under oath that the said Capt John McCollum died in the City of Trenton N. J. on the Eighth day of March A. D. Eighteen hundred & thirty six. And I further certify that my Grandmother Elizabeth McCollum, wife of the above named Capt John McCollum, died in the City of Philadelphia on the Eighth day of April A. D. Eighteen hundred & thirty three
S. McCollum

Sworn to and subscribed before me a 

[Following covers part of the above document]

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA,
          COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, ss
I, James G. Gibson, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Do CERTIFY, that 
Edward Onyx Esqr
before whom the annexed affidavit was made, is & was Alderman and ex officio Justice of the Peace of the City of Philadelphia, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations, and to take acknowledgments, & c and to all whose acts, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this thirteenth day of December A.D. 1854

James Gibson  Prothonotary.
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Be it known that I, Sarah McCollum, grand daughter of Capt. John McCollum late of Trenton N. J. do hereby certify under oath that the said Capt John McCollum died in the City of Trenton N. J. on the Eighth day of March A. D. Eighteen hundred & thirty six. And I further certify that my Grandmother Elizabeth McCollum, wife of the above named Capt John McCollum, died in the City of Philadelphia on the Eighth day of April A. D. Eighteen hundred & thirty three
S. McCollum

Sworn to and subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace for the County of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, this thirteenth day of December A.D. Eighteen hundred & Fifty four.
Edward Onyx J. Peace
Philadelphia Pa
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Pen Office Dec 30 1854
A. H. Markland esq is the properly authorized agent to present the within named cases

LP Waldo
Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions

[Written vertically]

John McCollum
N. J. 15th May '28
AD

Pensions
act 1828    No 1160 book

A. H. Markland
Paid to 4 March 1836
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John McCollum
N. J. 15th May '28
AD

Pensions
act 1828 No 1160 book

A. H. Markland
Paid to 4 March 1836

[Written vertically]

Pen Office Dec 30 1854
A. H. Markland esq is the properly authorized agent to present the within named cases

LP Waldo
Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions
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State of New Jersey} 
Mercer County} Before me William C Howell one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Personally appeared Mary Welling; who being duly sworn on her Oath saith that she is the widow of John Welling deceased late of Lawrence township Mercer County New Jersey; that her maiden name was Mary Hart; that she had a sister Elizabeth who married John McCollum; that she the said Mary Welling was present; and witnessed the marriage ceremony of the said John McCollum to her sister Elizabeth Hart; which was performed by the late Revd [Reverend] John Guilde of the Presbyterian Denomination at her father's House in Ewing township Mercer County (late Trenton township Hunterdon County) New Jersey which marriage she thinks took place about the year 1779 or 1778.  That the said John McCollum and Elizabeth had children they: John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Ann, Elias, and Valeria that the oldest child John died many years ago.  He never married. Elizabeth is still living [{and is married} crossed out] unmarried, Sarah married Oliver Olmsted she is now a widow- Ann married Benjamin Mulineux and in now living and a widow-Eliza married is now deceased and left, two children daughters one is yet single the other married-Valeria died without being married.  That the said John McCollum had a Daughter by a former marriage viz Mary, who married Christopher Howell and who is now a widow.
Mary  Welling
Sworn and Subscribed this 11th day}
of December AD. 1854 before me}
Wm C Howell Justice of the Peace
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John McCollum, St $320 per annum: paid to 4 March 1836.

Robt  [Robert] J Atkinson

Third Auditor
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23721

John McCollum
Hunterdon Co.
New Jersey

[{14 June 76
14 Newark 79 discharge} crossed out]
j


James Wilson
Trenton 
New Jersey
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
                   Pension Office, 
                                                     183


Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers herewith returned.  The following is a statement  your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined noted, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, ( thus: } ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of John McCollum Hunterdon Co. N. Jersey
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
[column headings: Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of this claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.]
[secondary headings: Years. Months. Days.]

I I I I I I I I 81 I 
enlist 1776. I  I 5. I  I Sergt. I Col. Johnson Lieut  Col. Phillips Maj. Hoops. I  Trenton N. Jersey. I No
1777  Capt Col. Proctor

It is necessary to allege the precise term for which he claims to have served in Col. Proctor's Regt. of Artillery


I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant,
 J. L. Edwards, 
Commissioner of pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with, the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen [emphasis added by KDJ] , &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1.	The Regular 'Troops.
2.	The State 'Troops. Militia, and Volunteers.
3.	Persons employed in the Naval service.
4.	Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of
 County of                           ss.
On this      day of personally appeared (a) before
A.B. a resident (b) of in the county of      and State, Territory or District of      aged [c]       years, who being 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, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)      ], with        and served in the        (e) regiment of the	line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if lie served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he en[t]ered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched.   This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of 
	Sworn to and subscribed the dad rear aforesaid.	A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I                of the Court of                 do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of                    for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this         day of     &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the           and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with           , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be       
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.                     who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the                and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a
resident in the              and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I               Clerk of the Court of           do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application [sic] of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal [seal
embossed onto document] of office, this        day of &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following [m] interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1.	Where and in what year were you born?
2.	Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3.	Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4.	How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5.	State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.  {	To a Soldier.  {	Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
      {To an Officer.  {	Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7.	State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that [t]he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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[a]	The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing go by reason of bodily infirmity ; in which ease the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b]	The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he  should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c]	The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d]	The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e]	Every continental officer or soldier most give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. ln a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below. and in the following grades: — For — year — months, and — days, I served as a —  — . For — months and — days, I served as a — ; and for such service I claim a pension.”
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, As the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, it too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f]	The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g]	The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h]	The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i]	The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the ††certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

          Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which, contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

                      Proof of Service.
  [j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the
Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
[Hand pointing right] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops, The proof required by rule in this case applies to continental troops only.
[k]	This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l]	If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m]	The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
B Newman
Br
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Declaration of Lieut John McCollum

Act 1828

Settled at 
Treasury

Consd [Consolidated] with 
Invalid File


3d  21  [Illegible]

[{#2769} crossed out]

Charles G. W. Chesney Attorney
Heightstown
N. Jersey
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[Ribbon at top of page]

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June AD. 1832.
                              ________________

State of New Jersey}
County of Hunterdon} ss:

On this eighteenth  ___________ day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before the Court of Chancery ________________________________ of the state of New Jersey sitting at Trenton in the county of Hunterdon in said state, John McCollum, a resident of the said city of Trenton, aged between eighty six and eighty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the [{act} crossed out] provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.  That he enlisted at the said city of Trenton, then and now the place of his residence, in the spring or summer of the year 1776, for the term of five months in the army of the United States, and served in a regiment the number of which he does not now remember, in the Jersey line under the following named officers, Colonel Philip Johnson, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Phillips, Major Robert Hoops, Captain Joab Houghton, First Lieutenant William Parks and second Lieutenant Henry Drake.  That he enlisted as Sergeant of the company, and marched with it from Trenton to the city of New York where they joined the regiment.  That he fought in the battle of Long Island, after which he retreated with the troops to New York, and thence marched to White Plains, and engaged in the battle of that place.  From White Plains he marched to Phillip's Manor where he remained with the troops several days, and then marched to
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Kings Ferry at which place he crossed the river Hudson to the Jersey shore and thence marched to Hackensack in the county of Bergen, thence to Newark and thence to New Brunswick.  Before crossing the Hudson, his term of enlistment had expired,  This was also the case with a great part of the regiment.  They all continued under the command of their officers until they reached Hackensack where they were drawn up and the question put to them whether they would  [{disperse} crossed out] continue under the command of their officers.  Some agreed to remain and some did not consent.  This deponent and the greater part of his company marched under their officers to New Brunswick as before mentioned.  At this place he left the army and went home,  in company with others whose terms had expired.  
And farther, that he was again in Trenton in the summer of the year 1777 where he met Colonel Thomas Proctor who commanded a regiment of artillery which was then with him at that place.  This regiment belonged to the continental army and as he thinks, was a part of the Pennsylvania Line.  At Colonel Proctor's request he accepted a commission as paymaster and foragemaster of this regiment with the rank of Captain [{and} crossed out]  His pay was forty dollars per month with three rations per day.  This commission remained in his possession until within three or four years when it was by accident destroyed with other papers among which it was kept.  The Lieutenant Colonel of this regiment was Mr. Shroebuck or Stroebuck, his christian name, deponent cannot now recollect.  The Major was Thomas Forest.  With this regiment deponent crossed the Delaware
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the Brandywine mills near river and marched to Philadelphia and thence to Wilmington in the state of Delaware where they remained for sometime.  That he took part in the battle of Brandywine and retreated with the army, [{an} crossed out] That he marched with his regiment from place to place, the names he does not recollect, according to the movements of the main body.  That before the battle of Germantown he [{had been} crossed out] went out into the country to procure horses for the use of the troops, and when returning found them retreating from that engagement.  He went with the regiment into winter quarters at Valley Forge.  During that winter and while the regiment lay at that place, he was taken sick, and inconsequence of his illness left the regiment to go home till his health should be restored.  John James took deponents place, to act during his absence, and as Mr. James desired to remain in that station deponent did not return to the regiment.  Deponents pay roll will be found on the books (if in existence) [{of} crossed out] of Colonel Thornbury, the General Paymaster at Valley Forge.
And the said deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Sworn to and subscribed this eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

                                    his
                             John  X  McCollum
                                   mark

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion
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that the said applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
Saml [Samuel} L. Southard}
Chancellor}

I, Stacy G Potts Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the state of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of John McCollum for a pension.  

[Seal attached but illegible]  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

Stacy G. Potts Clerk


New Jersey}
County of Hunterdon ss:}  Before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said county of Hunterdon, personally appeared the above named John McCollum, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequence loss of memory, he cannnot swear positively as to the precise length of his service in the above declaration mentioned, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  For five  months I served as a Sergeant under Colonel Philip Johnson as above stated; For eight months and ten days, I served as a Paymaster and Foragemaster with the rank of Captain, under Colonel Thomas Proctor; and for such services I 
claim a pension.

Sworn and subscribed}                     
before me at Trenton in said}    his
county of Hunterdon this}  John  X  McCollum
20th. May A.D. 1833}                  mark
Saml [Samuel]  Evans J. P.
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State of Pennsylvania}
County of Philadelphia]

Be it known, that on this Thirteenth day of December A.D. 1854 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared 1 Elizabeth McCullom Sarah Olmstead and Ann Molineaux 
residents of  2 Franklin Penn in said County, and made oath according to law 3 that they are the children of the identical 4 John McCullom  whose name, under Act of 5 15th May 1828 has been placed on the  6 New Jersey Pension Roll at the rate of 7 Three hundred twenty Dollars per annum.
That 3 they credibly informed that the said Pension may and ought to be increased from its commencement and during its continuance; that 8 they are directly interested as a claimant in said increase, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, we hereby constitute and appoint A H Markland
Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of 4 Captain John McCollum for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or INCREASE OF PENSION that may be due;  and for the purpose of establishing additional service by the soldier for whose military duty in the Revolution the aforesaid Pension was granted, I hereby authorize my said Attorney to apply for and obtain from State archives or other sources, certified proofs of such service.  To examine all papers or documents in relation to said service, on file in the Departments at Washington City or elsewhere;  to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my benefit the Certificate for iNCREASE which may be issued in satisfaction of said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Pension Agency of this State; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present.  Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Agent and Attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.

Ann Molineaux  Elizabeth Collum  S Olmsted

Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that I believe the said 1 Elizabeth McCullum, Sarah Olmstead & Ann Molineaux to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged, in whose claim I am in no wise interested.   

10 Edward Onyx J. Peace
Phila Co. Pa

State of Pennsylvania}
County of Philadelphia}

It is Hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of _______________________________
_________________that 4 John McCullom was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, at the rate of $320 per annum,* and that he died on the Eighth day of March Eighteen Hundred and thirty six leaving surviving the following named (widow and) children and none other, to wit:
1 Elizabeth McCollum, Sarah Olmstead, Ann Molineaux and Mary Howell

It is further certified that 1 2 Edward Onyx Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was at the time of so doing a duly authorized Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine; and further, that in the within claim for Increase of Pension I am in no degree interested.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this Thirteenth day of December 1854
1 2James Gibson Prothon [Prothonotary]

1.Claimant's name or names in full.-2. Post Office address.
3. "That he is the," or "that she is the, " or that she is the widow of, " or "that he, she, or they are the child or children of ," &c
4. Pensioner's full name._ 5. State of Act if known.- 6. Give the State where pensioned._7. Name the yearly amount received._8 "He is," "she is," or they are."
9. Claimant's signature._10. Magistrate's name._13. Clerk's signature.
N.B._Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular.
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November 20, 1936.

                                                      BA-J/ILL
Mrs. A. J. Berger                            John McCollum
Box 379                                          S. 2769
Arkansas City, Arkansas.

Dear Madam:

     The data given herein were found in pension claim, S. 2769, based upon service of John McCollum in the Revolutionary War.

     John McCollum, while a resident of Trenton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, enlisted in the summer of 1776 and served five months as sergeant in Captain Joab Houghton's company, Colonel Philip Johnson's (Johnston's) New Jersey regiment, during which he was in the battles of Long Island and White Plains.  In the summer of 1777, he was commissioned paymaster, with rank of Lieutenant, in Colonel Thomas Proctor's 4th Artillery Regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine, at White Marsh, wintered at Valley Forge, served also in the 7th Pennsylvania regiment and in Colonel Brodhead's 1st Pennsylvania regiment, was at the capture of Cornwallis and was discharged from service in 1783.  A part of the time he acted as Adjutant to the Regiment.  

     He was allowed pension on his application executed February 18, 1833, at which time he was aged about eighty-seven years; [{and a res. of?} inserted}  the date and place of his birth were not given.

     John McCollum died March 8, 1836, at his home in Trenton, New Jersey.

     He married in 1777 or 1778, in Ewing Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, Elizabeth Hart; they were married at the home of her father by a Presbyterian Minister.  Said Ewing Township was later Trenton Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.  His wife, Elizabeth, died April 8, 1833 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  John McCollum had been married previously

     In 1854, the names of the children of John McCollum and his
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wife, Elizabeth, all residents of Frankford, Pennsylvania, were Elizabeth McCollum, Sarah, the widow of Oliver Olmsted, and Ann, the widow of Benjamin Molineux.  Three of the soldier's children by said marriage were then deceased, John McCollum, Valeria McCollum , and Elias McCollum, the last named survived by two daughters, only one of whom was married, the names of these daughteres were not designated.
     In 1854, Mary Howell, the soldier's daughter by a former marriage, was living also; she married Christopher Howell, who died prior to 1854.  The name of her mother was not given, nor the date of this marriage of John McCollum.

     Sarah McCollum, the soldier's granddaughter, made affidavit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1854, regarding the deaths of her grand parents: the names of her parents were not designated.

     In 1854, Mary Welling, widow of John Welling, "late of Lawrence township, Mercer County, New Jersey, stated that she was present at the marriage of her sister, Elizabeth Hart and John McCollum.  Her affidavit was made before on William C. Howell, a Justive of the Peace for Mercer County, New Jersey.
              
Very truly yours,


A. D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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[Left side]
May 19 Hist to G Morris
c/o Hon G H Gibson 
uss.

1911 May 25 Hist to 
Mrs. Dorothy Beugler. V.L.
1916 Feby [February] 11 Hist. to Chester N. Jones.
1916  Mch. [March] 20 Hist to Geo. A Morrison

[Right side]

2769
INVALID.
Rev War

File No.             2769

John Mc Collum
Lit & Adj. rev War

Act: June 7.    1832

Index:--Vol.  A, Page 243

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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33.282

New Jersey
________________________________________________________________________________________________________

John McCollum, dec'd
of ____________________ in the State of New Jersey who was LIeut. of Artillery. & wagon master   in the _____________ commanded by Captains ________________ of the _________________________ commanded by _____________________________ in the Revolution line for 20 months. Lt Arty}[Lieutenant Artillery]    4 " wagon Master}

Inscribed on the Roll of Trenton ____________ is the rate of 413 Dollars 33. Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March. 1834. & ending 8th March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of December 1854 and sent to A. H. Markland

Arrears to the 4th of Present.
Semi anl. allowance ending

Deducting pay at $320. per annum
under act 1828.
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by G. T. Getty Clerk.
Book E    Vol. 312   Page 147.
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Department of 
Official Business





L P. Waldo Esqr
Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington
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Look for the roll
Capt. Benj. Sterens: or Stephen Ranger 1778, raised in West Chester  Co. NJ. and Fairfield Co Ct. cannot say whether they really belonged to NY. or Ct.
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New Jersey

John McCollum


 [Illegible]


See letter to Lewis
Condict 8  Aug
1833
Act of June 1832
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23721


John McCollum
N. J

Lewis Condict  Aug 8 1833
A H Markland Dec 27 1854


June 7 1832
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Department of State
Official Business 
W J Hiniter
C. C.

A. H. Markland
Washington
D.C.
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 McCollum John & 12
2d Regt
Aug 1st to Jany 1' 81     $50
not signed


McCollum John A. 100- 3 payts
                                            $500
                                              500
(Same as John Markland)      355.60
                                               ______
(commutation-1st Regt        1355.60
                                              signed
Same 7th Rt B 36} $232.30 Js 
       to Jany 1, 1781      
and 7th Pr in 45}
to Aug 1 to Jany 1, 1780}       107.67 js
and 4th Regt     42}
to Jany1, 1782}                 442.66 js
and 4th Rt  102}
to Jany 4, 1788}                  296.70

St of Artillery          

[Written vertically on lower right]

Appln [application] Oct 28
No 1090
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St in 7th Regt
St ts in 1st      [{on Maryland roll} crossed out]
______
St in arty   [Illegible]  4th

5) 1355.66
____________
12)  1271.13
_____________
 $22.69   per month

John McCollum Sergt 2nd Ret


12) 440.70
___________      
        36.72    1/2

   
Jno Markland St 6th
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John McCullom Lieut. 7th. regt. Penn Line
Augt. 5. 1784. Cert. Mo. 68,344. pay &c 1st Jany.  1781    $232.30
July 1.      "       do.       . 68552    "    "     1st Augt  1780      107.67
_________________________

Jn [John McCullom     4th Regt Artillery
Augt 5th. 1784.  Cert  69.399 pay & sub  4th Jany 1782     $440.66
 "        "        "        do  69647    "    "   "     4th Jany 1782       296.70
_________________________

John McCullom. Lieut. 1st Regt.
Augt. 5. 1784.  Commendation Certif. Mo. 75082  $500
                                                                         '83    500
                                                                         '84     355.60
                                                                       _________________
                                                                               $1355.60

The above taken from records of the Pennsyla [Pennsylvania] line now on file in the Pension Office
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Newton, April 15, 1835.

Rev. F. S. [Illegible]

Sir, 

Accompanying this you will receive the blank form of a power of Atty [Attorney} to receive Bounty Land, from the US.  J. D. Hester Atty of Mr. McCollum partially filled up and executed, together with the annexed proceedings.  It may be well to explain to you, and through you to the department, the peculiar circumstances under which Mr. McCollum labors.  His bodily powers are very weak, and his memory is a part degree muttered by old age, and a stroke of the palsy from which he is just recovering.  To the best of his knowledge, he says, he served under Col.. Proctor, but was not subject to a Captain.  He was in Proctor's Park of artillery and himself drew   Captain's pay.  His papers, taken some time ago, before he had the palsy, to obtain for him a pension under the Act of '28 and now on file in the Department  will probably throw full eight on this matter.  To them I refer you.
He has lost all recollection of the year when he was discharged, but is confident he was in the service at the time of Cornwallis's capture, alledying [allegedly] that he had a fine horse killed there.  He also states that he was discharged toward the close of the following winter.  As the capture was
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in the fall of '81 --it would bring his discharge i '82 and this he swears.
There has always been a discrepancy between the statements of the pensioner and the recognition of him by the Department.   He [{swears} crossed out] insists that he had the rank  of Captain and drew Captain's pay while in the army.  The Department have placed him on the pensions list as a Lieutenant.  Why this was so I am unable to say; and if you can solve the mystery you will much oblige the old soldier, to whom it is inexplicable.
Very respectfully
Your obtv [obedient servant]
[Illegible] Potts
Atty for J. D. Hester
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Extracts from the Declaration & other papers of John McCullom a Lieut. of the Pennl [Pennsylvania] Line-on file in the Treasury Department Declaration dated [{in} crossed out] at Trenton Hunterdon Co. of N. Jersey the 7th. Nov. 1833.  States that he is now about 87 years of age, that in the year 1777. he received a Commission as Pay Master & Forage Master in the 4th Regt [Regiment] Artilly [Artillery] Penn [Pennsylvania] line, and ranked either as Captain or Lieut., but cannot say positively which.  Served at various periods under Col. Thos  [Thomas] Proctor, Col. Broadhead, Col. Strawbeck, Major Thos [Thomas] Forrest, also with Capt. Isaac B. Dana, Capt. Robert Hopes, Major Francis Proctor & Capt. James Wilson.  That he was in several battles and that when the Army went into Winter quarters at Valley Forge, he went home in consequence of ill health.  That he afterwards joined the Army & served in various stations till the close of the War; but does not recollect whether he joined the 4th of the 7th Regt [Regiment] immediately on his his return.  That he served in the Army at the Capture of Cornwallis and had a Horse Killed at that time.  That he received pay in the years 1780, 1782 & 1783. and also recd [received] Certificate which became due in the Autumn of 1783 the year he left the Army.  That he is the identical John McCollum who served in the 4th Regt. [Regiment] of Artilly [Artillery] under Col. Thos [Thomas] Proctor, also in the 7th Regt. [Regiment] & first Regt. [Regiment} Pennl [Pennsylvania] line
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and that upon due reflection has now distinctly recollects being in the first Regt. [Regiment] under Col. Broadhead at the close of the War.
James Clinton in his Deposition states that he has been a pensioner for a number of years, was well acquainted with John McCollum that he remembers he McCollum was under Col. Proctor of the Artillery and while in Virginia, under Col. Broadhead of the 1st Pennl [Pennsylvania] Regt. [Regiment] that he frequently saw said McCollum and knew him to be a good faithful officer during the War of the Revolution.
Joshua Furman aged 79 years was personally acquainted with Sd [said] McCollum, that he McCollum acted as Pay & Forage Master and held the rank of Captain, that he then was & has since usually been called Captain, that he served to the close of the war.
Nathan Davis deposes that he remembers serving Jn [John] McCollum while acting as Pay & Forage Master in the year 1777 & '79 in ol. Proctor Regt. [Regiment] Artilly [Artillery]
John Wiley deposes nearly to the same facts and circumstances as are found in the Deposition of Nathan Davis.  
The papers are all duly authenticated
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Dept of State,
Washington, March 19, 1855

Sir

The revolutionary documents to which you refer in your note of the 13th inst, furnish evidence of the fact, that John McCollum in the month of May 1778.  He continued in the service, to a period as late s Augt 16, 1780, and during a portion of his time of service, he acted as Adjt. [Adjutant] of the regiment.

I am respectfully,
Your Obdt [Obedient] Servant
W. L. Marcy


A. H. Markland,
Washington
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Add Ev Case
John McCollum
N J'32 ad


AH Markland

Recd [received] March 18th 1833
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Washington DC
March 13th 1833

Hon L P Walso

I enclose additional evidence case John McCollum of New Jersey 32' adI ask that the case may now be admitted as a Lieutenant & Paymaster.
Yr Obt Svt [Your Obedient Servant]
A H Markland
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May '78 oath of 
Allegiance PSI & adjt
7th Regt 
as mt Joy
before Auty Wayne Bly
with Job at top 25
September 1777
_________________________
'78
Sept 9th 7th Regt [Regiment] 
acting as adgt
______________________________
Aug 16, 1780
Grand Roll
J. Mc adgt 7 Regt [Regiment]
_______________________________

28th Mar 1780
Lieut & Pm
Certif that Ensign
Runifoon 7th Regt [Regiment]
had settled to J Mc 7th Regt [Regiment]
7th Regt [Regiment] 2nd Lt
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Dept of State,
Washington, Mar. 23, 1855

Sir

In reply to you note of the 20th and, I have to inform you, that this Dept is not in possession of the requisite data, to ascertain precisely how long John McCollum served as Lieutenant, as Pay Master and as Adjt.
It does not appear that he acted as Wagon Master at any period of the war.
As stated in a former note, he entered the service as Lieut. in the 7th Pa Regt, in May 1778.
He was acting in that capacity on the 9th Sept 1778.  On the 28th of March 1780, he was acting as paymaster, an on the 12th, 14th 16th and 17th of Augt 1780 he was doing the duty of Adjt.

I am respectfully
Your Obvt [Obedient] Servant 
W. L. Macey

L. P. Waldo Esqr
Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions
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Dept. of State,
Washington, Decr [December] 20, 1854.

Sir:

In reply to your Note of the 15th instant, I have to inform you, that it appears form an examination of the revolutionary records on file in this Dept., that on the 28th day of March, 1780, John McCollum was serving as Pay Master in the Pa Line, but the length of his term of service in that capacity does not appear.
I have also to inform you that the name of Jas. [James] Patton is not found on any roll of Forage Masters on file in this Dept.

I am, respectfully, 
Your obdt svt  {Your obedient servant]
W. L. Marcy

A. H. Markland
Washington.
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John McCollum is found on Pennsylvania Index as a Lieutenant in the 7th Regt [regiment]
Book B, page 36 paid to the 1st January [{187} crossed out] 1781. the sum of         (7th Regt [Regiment])    $232.30

Book B page 92 pay & subsistence to 1st Jan, 1782 in 4th Regt [Regiment]       $ 440.66

Book B page 102  Pay to Jan 1st 1783 he was paid     $296.70

Book A, John McCollum paid # 16 balance 
pay to Nov 1st 1783

                                               737,36


400     :       737,35     :  :  1
               __________________

      1            3736   I  1868,    I    934   I    467
                    _____   I   ______   I    _____ I    _____
                   400 00    200 00      1000        500
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John McCollum, died
N. Jersey

Act [{July} crossed out] June 7, 1832
Admitted
Wagon M of artillery               4 mos     $ 100.00
Pay Master & Lieut                  8 m            200.00
Lieut & Adjutant                     12 m           240.00
                                                                   _______
                                                        at     $ 540.00

per annum, from March 4th 1831 to March 8th 1836, when he died

Deducting former payments 
at the rate of  $ 413     33
                                   -----
                                    100

Certificate payable to 
Elizabeth McCollum
Sarah Olmsted
Ann Molineaux &
Mary Howell 
his only surviving children.

Atty
A. H. Markland
Present
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Brief in the case of John McCollum, deceased, 
Mercer County and State of New Jersey
act June 7, 1832.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Claim, (Original," [{of" for increase."} crossed out]

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is is documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance. at $ 
John McCollum was pensioned under  act of 1828 at $320, as Lieut paid to his death. 8th March 1836.
Increased  under act of 1832 to  $413.33 on account of 4 mo's service as Wagon Master.  Decr [December] 31, 1854

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?
The records of the State department certified and also personally examined show that he was Lieut and adjutant from May 1778 most of the time to the end of the war- and that in 1780 he was Pay Master of the Pennl {Pennsylvania] Troops, as he alleged.  There was much parol evidence that he was Pay master as much as 2 years-but the Commissioner consents to the allowance ow made- 4 mos w. Mr, 8 mo's Paymr & 12 mo's Lieut & adjt

Name and residence of Agent

A. H. Markland                     S. G. Dodge
         Present                     Examining Clerk.
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Brief in the case of John McCollum decd [deceased]

County and State of New Jersey
act June 7 1832
________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Claim, [{ ("original,"} crossed out] or " for increase.")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
 at $ 
He was pensioned under the Act of May 15 1828 as $ 320 for service as a Lieutenant to the "end of the war".  He declared at that time that he had served in the capacity for which his  [{now} crossed out] pension is now increased, and sustained his overments by an original order to himself as a wagon master and by the testimony of various witnesses who were themselves in service and who are pensioners for their service.  [{If for increase} crossed out]  His claim as Lieutenant of Artillery is 
[{Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?} crossed out] sustained by Records of this office, as shown by the accompanying memorandum of the agent in this area which is a literal transcript from the rolls now in possession of this office.

The date of his death & the names of the children are properly certified agreeably to the office Regulations. The case is increased to $ 413.33 deducting #320

Name and residence of Agent
A H Markland                      Thornton Triplett
Present                                 Examining Clerk.
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New Jersey 15th May 1828 adm

The index to Pennsylvania Rolls in the office of the Commr [Commissioner] of Pensions show that he was a Lieutenant of the 7th Regt [Regiment] book B of said rolls, page 36, his name is entered as having been paid for service in the 7th Regt [Regiment] to the 1st January 1781-the sum of $ 232.30.  In same book page 92, his name is entered as having been paid for "pay and subsistence" in the 4th Regt {Regiment],  the sum of $440 66 --In same book page 102, he is entered as having received $296 70 for pay to 1st January 1783
In book A. page 100, John McCollum received $1355.60
for Commutation in first Regt [Regiment]
The above entries correspond precisely with his statement, he says he left the army when or just after it went into winter quarters at Valley Forge, he was then a Waggon Master to the 4th Regt {Regiment} of artillery, when he returned he did not join the 4th Regt [Regiment] but joined the 7th, was again transferred to the 4th & finally to the 1st, was attached to the 1st Regt {Regiment] at the close of the war
I claim an increase under act 7th June 1832, for twenty months as a Lieutenant of Artillery & four months as a Waggon Master

20 months as Lieut of Artillery  
@ $  16  66  2/3= #333.33 1/3
  4    "          " Waggon Master $20       80.00
                                                         __________
                                                          $ 413.33
Deducted amt paid under 15th May 1828    
32000
Amt of increase per annum                   $93.33 

A.  H.Markland
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State of New Jersey

I James D Westcott Secretary of the State of New Jersey do certify that Samuel Emans Esquire before whom the within declaration on oath of John McCollum and affidavit of Joshua Furman an Charles Burroughs were taken, and who hath attended the same, war, at the time thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Hunterdon, duly commissioned and sworn; that John Smith Esquire, before whom the within affidavits of John Wiley and James Clinton were taken and who hath attended the same, war at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Middlesex in said state duly commissioned and sworn; and that Samuel F Emiley Esquire before whom the within affidavit of Nathan Davis was taken, and who hath attended the came, war, at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Middlesex in said state,  duly commissioned and sworn; - and that full faith and credit are to be given to their official attestations.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Trenton this seventh day of November AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
James D. Westcott
____________________

[Seal attached]
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John McCollum
No. 2111.
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(Copy)

Revolutionary Claims.

___________

Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.


TREASSURY DEPARTMENT,
21 Feb. 1834.

SIR:  
Your claim, under the abovementined act, having been examined, you are found to be entitled to the pay of a Lieutenant of Infantry in the Continental Line.  The amount which may be due, accordingly, will be remitted by the Treasurer of the United States, to the attorney whom you have authorized to receive it.

I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,

(Signed) R. B. Taney.
Secretary of the Treasury.

W. John McCollum
under cover to the Hon.
Saml [Samuel] L Southand
Senate.

[Written vertically along the left side]

A true story
Mc McCollum was in the Pennl [Pennsylvania] Line
Francis A. Dickins. Clk
Trs. [Treasury] Dept. 24. April. 1855.
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John McCollum decd [deceased]
N. J. Act 1832
For Increase





for Commissioner

Dodge
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John McCollum-dec'd [deceased] - N. J.   Act of 1832 
increased--- for further Increase

John McCollum declared. Feby [February] 18, 1833. aged 86 years. that after serving as Sergeant in the Jersey Line in 1775.  In the summer of 1777, he was commissioned as Paymaster and Forage Master, in Proctor's 4th Artillery Regt [Regiment] of the Pa Continental Line and continued in that service until in the following winter, while the army lay at Valley Forge, when he left the service on account of illness and returned home, and did not return to the regiment.

This claim not having been allowed- on the 7th Novr [November} of the same year. McCollum declared that he served as above stated- also - that He afterwards joined the army and served in various stations under his said commission- does not recollect whether on his return he joined the 4th or 7th regt. [regiment]-  That [underlining begins] at the siege of Yorktown, [underlining ends] being in service, [underlining begins] he lost a horse [underlining ends] which he valued at  £50_
Received pay for service in 1780 -'82 & '83.
Served in the [underlining begins] 4th, 7th & 1st Regts. [Regiments] [underlining ends].  Recollects he was in the 1st, under Col Broadhead, at close of war.
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To prove this service he introduced and filed a very old return of ammunition and Baggage Wagons-belonging to Proctor's Regt. [Regiment] of Artillery which he states was made under his direction-without date
Also the receipt of Alex d [Alexander] McDowell to Capt John McCollum W. Mr [Master] for £ 40 in part of £ 70. the price of a wagon, 2 horses and & "gears"- Dated camp White Marsh Novemr [November] 1. 1777-

Also

Asst of James Clinton-pensioner & late private in Proctor's Regt. [Regiment] that he knew John McCollum as Lieut in service in the 1st Pa Regt. [Regiment]

Joshua Furman- sworn Oct '33 stated

Has known John McCollum for about 62 yrs past

In 1777 McCollum served as Paymaster and Forage Mr [Master] or Wagon Mr [master] in Proctor's Regt. [Regiment] and afterwards in different stations to close of war.  Recollects to have heard soon after the capture of Yorktown that Mc [{there lost} crossed out] had a horse killed in that battle

[Following written vertically along above paragraph] Pensioned under Act of 1832 for 2 yrs service.

Nathan Davis- knew this Mc. to have been a paymr [Paymaster] and Forage mr [master] in 1777 and 79 in Proctors regt [regiment] and remembers seeing him in service in N. J., Pa, and Va during sd [said] war

Following written vertically along above paragraph]  Pensioner served 3 regts [regiments] in N. J. service.

John Wyley- was Contl [continental] teamster, for which is now drawing pension- knew claimant & carted for him- he
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was Paymr [Paymaster] & Forage mr [master] in years '78-79 & 80- in Trenton and Pa.  He was in 4th Regt [Regiment] Proctor's- and I knew him in service over 2 years.
[Written vertically along above paragraph]
Paid act 1832 at $73.33

Transcript Rolls of Pa Line
Jphn McCollum-Paid to 1st Aug 1780. }  $107.67/90 ins
Lieut in 7th Regt. [Regiment] and to 1st Jany [January] '81}
Same in same [Regiment} } 232.30
Same in 4th [Regt] to 1st Jany [January] 1782- 440.66
Same in    "   " to 1st Jany [January 83   296.70
Same in    "   " to Nov 3. 83                        3.83
Same in    "   " Commutation                1355.60

Certif from Secy of State's Office- Mar 23d 1855
Does not appear that he acted as Wagn {Wagon} Mr [Master]
Entered service as Lieut in 7th Pa Regt [Regiment] in May 1778- and was acting in that capacity Sept 9th '78.
Acting as Paymaster Mar 28th 1780.
On 12th -14-16-&17th of Aug '80- was doing the duty of adjt. [adjutant]
[Regiment]
Is certified to have been Paymaster in early part of 1780
He pd [paid] for a team in 1777- and is sworn to have been Paymr [Paymaster]
Is sworn to have been Paymr [Paymaster] in '78. wile in 7th Regt.
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     How far the receipt for money in payment for a team tends to show that McCollum was a Paymaster at its date, I am not prepared to say.  He however declared that he was appointed in '77 as Paymaster and Forage Mr [master] with the rank of Captain or Lieut.  And his witnesses, all of whom were pensioners, testify that he discharged the duties of Paymaster.  We also find that in the early part of 1780 while serving in the 7th Regiment. (infantry) he was a Paymaster, as shown by the certificate of the Secy of State.  The fact that in August '80 he "was performing the duties of adjutant" -neither proves nor disproves that he was then Paymaster.
      There is no doubt that he was Paymaster.  The record proof establishes this fact.  The only question is  [begin underlining] how long [end underlining] did he serve in that capacity.  I should say, unhesitatingly, for the term of about 6 months in 1777, and, from May 1778, when the Secretary of State certifies he entered the service. (probably in the 7th Regiment, where we next find him) until the first of August 1780, the parol proof makes him acting in that capacity in which the record shows him in March 1780.    It appears to me that it needed only this item of record evidence to have admitted him as Lieut  [begin underlining] and Paymaster [end underlining] in the first instance. 
     It is time true that the claimant gave but a very imperfect statement of his service in his own
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services, but it is reasonable to suppose that at the advanced age of 86 years he could not recollect and relate the facts distinctly; and there is internal evidence in his second declaration that some of his statements were prompted by his agent.
     It might, indeed, excite suspicion as to his identity with the man who performed the later service, but for the fact that four pensioners, his neighbors, who were in service at the same time testify to his identity as the man whom they personally knew as Paymaster for years, and who lost a horse at Yorktown.
   The "&c" affixed to his name and title while in the 1st Regt [Regiment] [{in} crossed out] on the roll in this office, show that to the last he was something besides a Lieut; as well as does the fact that his horse was killed at the siege of Yorktown.
   In my opinion the allowance should be made for service as Lieut. and Paymaster two years.
Mar 27. 1855-

Dodge
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Supplementary

A personal examination of the records in the State show John McCollum [{sd} crossed out] Lieut in 4th Regt [Regiment]
Sept 25, 1777.

7th Rt [Regiment]  2d [underline begins] Lieut & adjt [{adjutant}] [end underlining] May 1778 (date of entering service)-
"     "    "  Sept 9th  "
"     [being underline] Lt & P. Mar [master] 28th Mar '80 certificate that Ensign Rennisons had settled his a/co & was clear

" Guard Roll dated Aug 16, 1780-shows a pensioner whose offense bore date the previous April in charge of J McC.
as Adjt [Adjutant]

It would seem that he probably acted in the double capacity of Adjt [Adjutant] and Pay Mr [Master]- (ie) that the office of Pay mr [Paymaster] was super-added to that of adjt [adjutant].

The Commissioner agrees to an allowance of 4 mos Wagon Mr [Master] 8 mos Pay Mr [Master] and 12 mos Lieut & adjt [adjutant]
Mar 30th 1855.
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John McCollum
23721

found on Rolls Pa
as Lt
3 payments to him
A. 102 page

was paid 293 #
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State of New Jersey:

I, James D. Wescott, Secretary of the State of New Jersey, do certify that Samuel Evans before whom the  above affidavit was made, and who hath subscribed on the same, was at the time thereof and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Hunterdon in this state duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his attestations as such.  
[Seal affixed]  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my said office this twentieth day of May AD. eighteen hundred and thirty three.  
[begin underline] James D. Westcott [end underline]
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Book B, Page 36- 7th Regt [Regiment]-
              Aug 5th 1784                     $232.30
 Pay to Jany [January] 81
Book B, Page 92- 4th Regt [Regiment] Pay & subsistence  to Jan [January] ' 82      440.66

Aug 5th 1784 Pay to Jany [January] '83            
Page 102    4th Regt [Regiment]        296.70       

Book A.  First Regt [Regiment]
         John McCollum  J 16- balance of pay to 1st Nov 1785.

Book a, Page 100            $1335.60
             Commutation  1st Regt [Regiment]

  Index not Paged show John McCollum a Lieut
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John McCollum decd [deceased]
New Jersey

Jn d. June 7 1832,
20 mos Lieutenant  $ 333.33
  4 " Wagon Master      80.00
                               __________
                                 $413.33

from 4 March 1831 to
         8 March 1836,[begin underline] when he died. [end underline]  

Deducting $320 per annum from 4 Mch [March] 1831, recd [received] under the act of 1828.

Pay to Elizabeth McCollum 1 Sarah Olmsted 2 Anne Mulineaux, 3 Hillary Howell 4 only children.

Cert to A H Mackland by
Present
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State of New Jersey}
Hunterdon County} ss:  Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared this twenty first day of October A.D. 1833 Charles Burroughs Esquire, Mayor of the city of Trenton in said state, known to me as a credible}
 witness, who being duly sworn, upon his oath} saith that John McCollum by whom the} foregoing declaration was made & subscribed}  is generally reputed and believed to have}  served in the Revolution in manner as therein} stated.  That this deponent has been personally acquainted with him for more than thirty years last past, during which time he has sustained a good character as a man of veracity and standing in society.  And further saith not
Sworn & subscribed before}
me this 21st October A.D. 1833)  Chas. Burroughs
Saml [Samuel] Evans J. P.}
___________________________
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annexed by a blue ribbon passing under a seal opposite, said deponents name hereto subscribed, was made out under deponents direction and by his order while he was serving under said Colonel Thomas Proctor as above stated, and has remained in his possession from that time to the present.  That the receipt attached to this declaration by the same ribbon dated Novemr [November] 9th 1777 and signed Alex dr [Alexander] McDowell was given to this deponent while he was attached to the army as aforesaid, and that he is the same person therein called Capt. John McCollum, and that the same has remained in his possession from the date thereof to the present time.  And further saith not.
Sworn & subscribed at}                 his
Trenton this 21st. October}   John   X    McCollum
A.D. 1833 before me.}                    mark
Saml [Samuel] Evans, J.P,
__________________________
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State of New Jersey}
                            js}
Middlesex County}

Before me this subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Personally Appeared this day.  John Wyley of the said county Personally known to me as a credible witness did make oath that he was well acquainted with John McCollum of the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary War was and that I was engaged at that time as Continental Teamster for which Service I am now drawing a Pension- and I well remember carting for the said John McCollum who was Paymaster and Forage Master in the years 1778. 79. and 80 in Trenton New Jersey and Pennsylvania that the said John McCollum who is now an applicant for a Pension was personally known to me as is above stated.  and was sometimes called Capt. and sometimes Lieut. and knew him in the      service not less than two years and was in the 4th Regt [Regiment] of Pa.
     Witness my hand this Fourth day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty three.

Known and subscribed the day}
and year above mentioned}         John Wyley
Before me  John Smith}
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No of orig Payt 1160    2090

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
                 _________
                 _________

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
19 Feb. 1834.

John McCollum ____________ of ________ in the County of Hunterdon in the State of N. Jersey has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828.
He states that he was an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war.
at which period he was a Lieutenant in the Second regiment of the Pennsylvania line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and. further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March, 1826, nothing___________________ dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. By order of the Secretary Francis A. Dickins.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
21st February 1834

It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to John McCollum, a Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania line, amounting to Sixteen Hundred dollars.
It further appears that John McCollum is now on the pension list of  [{the} crossed out] any ------------agency, and has not been since the 3d March 1826   [{at the rate}        {per month} crossed out]            
Peter Hagner Aud

75082
[illegible]
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Power of Attorney
           To
Charles. G. McChesney
Post-Office at
Heights Town
New Jersey

Philadelphia 
Nearest U.S. $ Bank
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                                                                    2090
Know all men by these presents, that I , John McCollum of the City of Trenton in the County of Hunterdon in the state of New Jersey do hereby Constitute and appoint Charles. G. McChesney of Heights Town. New Jersey my true and Lawful attorney with a Power of Substitution-for me and  in my name to receive from the United States the amount of Pay now due to me under the Act "Entitled", an Act for the relief of Certain Living Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution-" Approved 15th May 1828." as a Lieutenant in the 1st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line of the army of the Revolution.
Witness my hand and seal this Seventh day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and Thirty Three-Sealed and Delivered.
In the Presence of}                         his
                                              John   X McCollum
Prudence Wylie                              mark
Saml [Samuel] Evans
______________________

     Before me Samuel Evans a Justice of the peace in the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey-Personally appeared this day John McCollum whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Power of Attorney and acknowledged the same to be his act and Deed and also declares the same was not-given by reason of any Transfer or of any attachment Levy or Seizure by any legal Process whatever of the Pay therein authorized to be received, But that the said Pay is intended to ensure wholly to his Personal Benefit- witness my hand this Seventh day of November in the year Eighteen Hundred Thirty Three.
Saml [Samuel] Evans  
_______________________
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Before me Samuel Evans a Justice of the Peace in the County of Hunterdon in the state of New Jersey.  Personally appeared this day Charles. G. McChesney of the Hights Town, New Jersey, the attorney named in the foregoing Power of Attorney and made Oath that the same or any part thereof was not-given to him not to the best of his knowledge and Belief to any other Person by reason of any Transfer or of any attachment , Levy or Seizure by any legal Process whatever of the Pay therein authorized to be received.  But that the said Pay is to the best of his knowledge and Belief intended to ensure wholly to the Personal benefit of the Person by whom the said Power was Executed.
     Witness my hand this Seventh day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and Thirty Three, 1833.
Sworn and Subscribed as above} Charles. G. McChesney
mentioned Before me]
Saml [Samuel] Evans, on of the]
Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Hunterdon. N. J.
____________________
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New Jersey ss  I James D Westcott Secretary of [Seal affixed here] ]the state of New Jersey do certify that Samuel Evans, before whom the foregoing affidavits was made and power of attorney acknowledged and who hath attested the same, was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Hunterdon in said State duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his attestations as such__ Given under my hand and seal of office at Trenton this seventh day of November A. D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three__

James D. Westcott
____________________
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State of New Jersey}
                            js}
Middlesex County}  Be it Known that on this Fourth day of November 1833 Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county_  Personally appeared James Clinton who being duly sworn according to Law Deposeth and Saith that he has been a Pensioner for a number of of years receiving Ninety six Dollars per year and that he was well acquainted with Lieut. John McCollum who is now an applicant for a Pension under the act of May 15th 1828.  Said Deponent himself belonging at that time to the Pennsylvania Line.  The said John McCollum he remembers was under Proctor of the Artillery and while in Virginia said McCollum was under Col Broadhead of the 1st Regiment Said Deponent frequently saw the said John McCollum and Knew him to be a good and faithful officer during said War of the Revolution and further Saith not
Sworn and Subscribed the day}            his
and year above mentioned}      James   X Clinton
                                                             mark
Before me John Smith
I further certify that James Clinton the above subscribing witness is a credible Person and entitled to credit and Belief
John Smith
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State of New Jersey}                          
County of Hunterdon} ss:

     Be it known that on this fourteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Joshua Furman of the township of Trenton in said county, to me known as a person of good repute and entitled to credit, who alleging himself to be conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath and being by me duly affirmed according to law upon his affirmation saith,   That he is now about seventy nine years of age:  That he has personally known and been well acquainted with John McCollum who made and subscribed the foregoing declaration, for about sixty two years last past:  That in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy seven the said John McCollum joined a regiment of artillery commanded by Colonel Thomas Proctor belonging to the army of the United States in the war of the revolution, and took the station of Paymaster & forage master or wagon master:  That this deponent never saw his commission but was then informed and believed, that he held the rank of captain, and recollects that he was then and since usually called Captain:  That the said John McCollum served in that capacity with the continental army at the battle of Germantown, and was also with them at their winter quarters at Valley Forge, and was also according to the best of this deponents recollection and belief in other engagements but this deponent does not recollect where they took place:  That said McCollum served afterwards in different stations until the close of the war, and as this deponent understood and believes in the same capacity and with the same rank as in the regiment of said Colonel Proctor:  This deponent recollects to have heard soon after the capture of Lord Cornwallis that said McCollum had a horse killed in that battle & believes that McCollum was [{there} crossed out] himself in that engagement.  This deponent frequently saw said McCollum during the war and knows that he served as above stated but from failure of
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memory by reason of infirmity and advanced age cannot now state the different places where he served, more particularly than he has herein before done:  That the said McCollum has always maintained a good character as a man of truth, and is generally reputed and believed to have served in the war of the revolution as he has stated in the foregoing declaration.

Affirmed & subscriber}
this 14th October A.D. 1835}  Joshua A Furman
before me}

Saml [Samuel] Evans one of the
Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Hunterdon, N. J.
___________________
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State of New Jersey}
                             js}
Middlesex County}

Be it known that on this sixteenth day of October A.D. 1833 Before me the= Subscriber and Justice of the Peace in and for said= County Personally appeared Nathan Davis to me known as a credible witness did make oath that he frequently saw and knew John=McCollum (a resident in Trenton) and who has made application for a Pension=During the Revolutionary War, remembers seeing the said John McCollum who was Pay Master and Forage Master in the year 1777 and 1779 in Col Proctor's Regiment of Artillery remembers seeing him in New Jersey in Pennsylvania and Virginia  during said War.
Sworn and Subscribed}
the day and year aforesaid}    Nathan Davis
Saml [Samuel] J. Ensly J. P.
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[begin underline] Department of War [end underline]

State of New Jersey}
County of Hunterdon}

     I, John McCollum, aged eighty seven years, do upon oath testify and declare that I entered the service of the United States on the first day of June, in the year 1776, and that I served in the fourth Regiment of Artillery of the Pennsylvania Line commanded by Col. Thomas Proctor, [{and afterwards, in the first Pennsylvania Regiment under Col. Broadhead, } crossed out} continuing therein to the close of the war, as a paymaster and forage master, and that I held the rank of Captain or Lieutenant, and that I am now in the receipt of a pension from the United States under the Act of Congress of 15th May 1828.
     I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised me on the part of the United states: nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever, therefore.
     Know all men by these presents, That I , John McCollum aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint John D. Herter, to  be my true and lawful attorney, for one and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States,  a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid and my said attor=ney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed.
                                       his
Attest                      John  X McCollum
Saml [Samuel] Evans.

For G. Potts

I, Joshua S. Anderson  aged fifty three years so upon oath declare, that I have been long acquainted with John McCollum who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence and well know him to be the identical person he therein represents himself to be, and further, I do believe that the did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest 
Saml [Samuel] Evans,  Joshua S. Anderson
 For btater
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I, Joseph Letaths, Attorney at Law , do before oath declare that John McCollum, who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, is the identical John McCollum whose claim for pay for life, as a Lieutenant under the Act of Congress of 15th May, 1828, was allowed at the Treasury Department.
Attest                     For. letath
Saml [Samuel] Evans
Joshua S. Anderson

Before me, Samuel Evans, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Hunterdon, personally appeared the above named John McCollum, subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of Attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed, and likewise personally appeared Joshua S. Anderson___________ who hath subscribed the first above certification of identity, and Joseph  lepotes, who hath subscribed the second above certificate of identity all to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed this the second day of May, 1835.
Saml [Samuel L. Evans. Justice of the Peace
________________________

In testimony that the above written Samuel Evans was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments and proofs of deeds, do, in the State of New Jersey, at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature.

[Seal affixed here]  I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Secretary of State, and subscribed my name and quality, at Trenton, this fourth day of May A.D. 1835.
James D. Westcott
___________________
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Nearest B. Bank of the U. S. in Philadelphia
Post Office at Heights Town
New Jersey
_______

Declaration of John McCollum for the Purpose of obtaining the Benefit of an Act of Congress Entitled and Act for the relief of certain Surviving Officer and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution 
Approved on the 15th day of May A.D. 1828

State of New Jersey}
                            ss]
County of Hunterdon}

Be it known that on this Seventh day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Thirty Three Before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County-Personally appeared John McCollum of the Township of Trenton in the county and State aforesaid Known to me as a Person of good Respect and Entitled to Credit and Belief who first being duly sworn upon his oath saith that he is now about Eighty Seven years of age and resides in the city of Trenton in said State
     That in the Summer of the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and seventy Seven (1777) he received a Commission as Pay Master and Forage Master in the 4th Regiment of Pennsylvania Artillery commanded by Col Thomas Proctor and ranked either as Captain or Lieutenant But cannot positively say which.  Col. Thomas Proctor-Col Broadhead Lieutenant Col Strewbeck Major Thomas Forest and that he remembers to have served under the above named officers at various Periods during the Revolutionary War.
and that
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he also remembers the following named officers with whom he served Capt Isaac B. Dunn Capt Robert Hopes, Maj Francis Proctor Capt James Wilson and others.  That he was in the Battle of Brandywine and Whitehawk and that he was also at the Battle of Germantown.  But having been out in the Country to purchase Horses for the use of the army, he did not join the Troops till they were retreating from that engagement.  That after the Army went into Winter Quarters at Valley Forge he went home in consequence of ill health.  That he afterwards joined the Army and served under his said commission In Various stations till the close of the War.  But does not now recollect whether he joined the 4th Regiment or the 7th immediately on his return.  That he served with the American army in the Captain of Lord Cornwallis-when this deponent had a horse killed- which he then valued at fifty pounds for which he has never received any compensation-That he recd [received] in the years , he thinks, of 1780-and 1782 and 1783.  And also received certificates which became due in the Autumn of 1783 the year he left the army.
     That his said commission remained in his Possession untill a few years, when it was accidentally destroyed together with almost all his other  papers.  That this Deponent made application for a Pension under the Act of Congress of 7th of June 1832" as Pay Master and Forage Master-with the Rank of Captain in
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Col Thomas Proctors Regiment of Artillery, But from loss of memory he is unable to say Positively whether the Rank of Capt or Lieutenant was assigned to him though he distinctly recollects that he was usually addressed with that Title-which led him to believe when he made Said Application that he had really held that rank   That he hereby relinquishes his claim under the act of the 7th of June 1832" as Captain and now claims a Pension for the rank of Lieutenant under the Act of Congress of May 15th 1828"  And said Deponent upon his oath further declares that he has not to the best of his memory and Belief, received any Bounty for the Services above mentioned, from any of the States or of the United States, Either Lands or Commutation And he further declares he is the Identical John McCollum who served in the 4th Regiment of Artillery under Col Thomas Proctor, also in the 7th Regiment and 1st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line and that after due recollection he now distinctly recollects Being in the 1st Regiment under Broadhead at the close of the War-and Said Deponent further declares that the  stained and mulitated  return of ammunition and Baggage Waggons in the Regiment of Col Thomas Proctor which is hereto annexed by a Blue Ribbon was made out under Deponents direction and by his order while he was serving under Col Thomas Proctor as above stated and has remained in his possessions
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from that time untill the Present that the Receipt  attached to this Declaration dated November 9th -1777. was given to this Deponent while he was attached to the Army as aforesaid and that he is the same Person therein called Capt John McCollum and that the same has remained in his Possession from the date thereof to the Present time.
Sworn and Subscribed at}
Trenton this 7th day of November     his
A.D. 1833 Before me}                           X
Saml {Samuel] Evans one of the}  John  McCollum
                                                             mark
                                                             ______
Justice of the Peace in and 
for the said county of Hunterdon
N. J.
_____________________________________
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440 Richmond Ave
South Orange
New Jersey.
May 17, 1911.

Commissioner of Pensions, 
        Pensions Bureau,
             Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir,

     I wish to find a record of the services of an ancestor, [begin underline] John McCollum,[end underline] in the Revolutionary War.  He lived in New Jersey, but moved to Pennsylvania either before or after the war.  He had four sons, the older ones, at the time of the war were
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old enough to fight, but the youngest, Ephraim, our direct ancestor was too young. 
     I would like to know the date and place of the birth of John McCollum; the date of his service and any record you may find concerning his service; the date and place of his death.
     I wish this information for application for membership in the "Society of the Daughters' of the Revolution."
     Thanking you in
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advance I am
     Yours sincerely,
            Dorothy Bugler
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                                                                 Rev War
THE PASSAIC VALLEY CHAPTER
OF THE NEW JERSEY SOCIETY OF THE 
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

[LEft side]

              PRESIDENT
GEORGE VAIL MUCHMORE
      VICE-PRESIDENT
JOSEPH HENRY SHAFER
         SECRETARY
ALBERT ERNEST HICKOK
       TREASURER
JOHN DUNCAN HOOD
           REGISTAR
CHESTER NEVILLE JONES

[Eagle atop a cross Pattee with a Sons of the American Revolution ribbon underneath]

[Right side]

             HISTORIAN
SCHUYLER MERRITT CADY
                CHAPLAIN
REV. MINOT CANFIELD MORGAN
          BOARD OF TRUSTEES
JOHN FRANKLIN HAAS
HENRY DONALD HOLMES
BERT ELIAS UNDERWOOD
FREDERICK HALSEY DOREMUS

ORGANIZED MAY FOURTH NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN

New York, February 5th, 1916.
                  290 Broadway

Mr. G. M. Saltzbager,
       Commissioner of Pensions- Dept. Interior,
                   Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-

If consistent withe the rules of your Department, will you kindly send me the record of John McCullum, Lieut. in the 2nd. Regiment, Pennsylvania Line, who according to memorandum sent me received a pension which commenced on March 3rd., 1826.

This information is desired in connection with descendent of this McCullum who is anxious to become a member of the New Jersey Society of the American Revolution.

Yours truly, 
Chester Jurg
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Rev Sec
              H

GEORGE AUSTIN MORRISON [{JR.} crossed out]
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW

TELEPHONE 3135 JOHN.           99  John Street
[{ MUTUAL LIFE BUILDING} crossed out]
[{48 CEDAR STREET} crossed out]

NEW YORK, March 9th. 1916

Department of Interior,
    Bureau of Pensions,
         Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs:-

                 Can you inform me whether Lt. John McCullum (also appearing on muster rolls as [begin underline] McCullen, [end underline] McCullum and McCollom} who served in the 7th. Pennsylvania Regiment, the 4th. and 2nd., during the Revolutionary War, or descendants of his, ever applied for or were granted a pension, and if so, the cost of copies of any papers showing his birth, family, wife, children, etc?
Trusting to hear from you in due course, I am 
Yours very truly,
Geo Austin Morrison
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                                             Box 379
                                             Arkansas City, Kansas
                                             Oct. 26, 1936

Veteran Administration,
Bureau of Pensions, 
Revolutionary War Section
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:  
     Will you  kindly advise me if you have on file the Revolutionary War pension application or granted pension record of:-

1st:- Ralph Skidmore who served from Virginia
2nd:--Thomas Chipman who probably served from Vt. . . of Mass. or Conn.-
3rd:-- O Goldsmith Case.

If any of all of the above desired accounts are on file I should like very much to know of the family data contained therein,-as, name of wife, names of children and all dates possible,-place of birth and service record.

Thanking you most kindly for any assistance you may be able to give me regarding the above named parties, I am

               Most respectfully,
                Mrs AJ Berger
                Mrs A. J. Berger

[Stamp somehat legible]
 
OCT 29 1936
MAIL SUB DIV
ADM 21
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.  John McCollum S. F. 2769
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________

[Column headings] DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. I LENGTH OF SERVICE. I RANK. I OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. I STATE.
[Secondary headings] CAPTAIN. I COLONEL I
____________________________________________________
√Spring or Summer 1776 I 3 mos. Let. I Jaob Houghton I Phillip Johnson I N. J.
Summer 1777 I Paymaster I    I  Thomas Proctor I 4 Penn Art.
                        I Wagonmaster I  also in 7 regt Pa Line
                        I Lieutenant I Col Broadheads 1" regt Pa line
                        I & adj
and served until 1783 √
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
Battles engaged in, Long Island, White Plains, Brandywine, Germantown White Marsh Capture of Cornwallis
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Trenton, Hunterdon N. J.
Date of Application for pension, Feby [February} 18, 1833.   His N. was al 
Residence at date of application, Trenton, N. J.
Age at date of application, Date and place of  birth not stated. He died at Trenton, N. J.  Mch [March] 8, 1836
     Remarks:  Soldier married in 1777 or 1778 at Ewing Twsp Mercer Co., N. J. which was later Trenton Twsp Hunterdon Co. N. J.  Elizabeth Hart who died at Phila Pa. Apr 8, 1833.  Their children were John, Elizabeth, Sarah who mar. [married] Oliver Olmsted, Ann mar. [married] Benjamin Molineaux Elias who died leaving 2 daughters, no names stated and Valeria    Mary a daughter by a former wife whose name is not given married Christopher Howell.  Sarah McCollum a grand-daughter was living in Phila. C. Pa in 1854.

Very respectfully,

-----------------------
            ---------------Commissioner.
31793b5m10-07
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                                          November 30, 1936


Mrs. A. J. Berger                      BA-J/ILL
Box 379
Arkansas City, Kansas.

Dear Madam:

     Reference is made to your letters of October 6, October 26, and November 8, 1936, in which you request the Revolutionary War records of John McCollum, pensioner of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Ralph Skidmore, Thomas Chipman, Goldsmith Case, Joseph Ogden and Abiram Coldwell or Cadwell and the Civil War records of Joseph Mercer, S. C. 440590, and George Henry Fox, pensioner, who died in 1920 in Humbolt, Kansas.
     With the information given by you, no claims for pension could be identified as those of the Thomas Chipman and Joseph Ogden in whom you are interested.  If you can furnish some of the following data in regard to those two soldiers, another search of the records will be made and a report furnished you:  approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service, and given name of wife , or widow.
     There are no claims for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of Ralph Skidmore, Goldsmith Case and Abiram Coldwell, or Caldwell.
      The record of John McCollum, the pensioner of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, is furnished you herewith.
     Further report will be made in regard to the Civil War soldiers, Joseph Mercer and George Henry Fox.

Very truly yours, 

A. D.  Hiller, 
Executive Assistant
to the Admiistrator.

Carbon of this letter in miscellaneous Correspondence.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES  DIVISION OF VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*


Name McCollum, John  Grade  Private  Line New Jersey

Warrant
Number  8551     Acreage  100   Issued September 30, 1791 to ---not shown.

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