Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27,973, for Alburtus Myers, New Jersey
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New Jersey

Myers, Alburtus
or Miers
Anna

W. 27,973
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Pension certificate returned and cancelled 13 Aug 1840

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NEW JERSEY 5661

Anna Myers
Widow of Alburtus Myers
who was a pensioner under the Act of June 1832
and who died on the 22 January 1838
of Hunterdon Co. in estate of N. Jersey
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Gray of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Chambers in the N. Jersey
line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum 
to commence on the 23 January 1388

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of July 1840 and sent to Peter H. Dils
Kingwood, N. Jersey

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840.           168.86
Semi-annual allowance ending Sept.        40.00
                                                                    $208.86

Recorded by D. Brown
Book A Vol. 2 Page 129
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DEAD
Paid to the Treasury under 
the Act of the 6th April 1838
from 4 Sept 1838 to 22 Jan 1839
Agent notified 14th Oct 1840

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New Jersey No. 28.294

ALBURTUS MYERS
of Hunterdon Co. in the State of N. Jersey
who was a private in the company commended
by Captain Arthur Gray of the Reg't commanded by col. David Chambers in the New Jersey line for 2 years.       Private.         $80.00

Inscribed on the Roll of New jersey
at the rate of 80 dollars and --Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of March 1834 and sent to C. Bartles Flemington NJ

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834.        $240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept     40.00
                                                                   $280.00

{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Geo. C. Whiting Clerk
Book E Vol. 3 Page 122
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(page likely from the original Family Bible)

An Account of the Age and Names of the Children of Alaburtus andAnna Mires, said Parents, were married the Ninth day of December Anno Domino.                          1784
Said Father AM (small letters written
 in show full name).  Born June                1751
Elizabeth Miers was Born  December. 1.  1785  
Sarah       Miers was Born August 4th.     1787
John        Miers was Born January 8th.    1789
Peter        Miers was Born September 22nd
                                                                      1790
Pamela     Miers was Born November 13th
                                                                       1792
Catharine  Miers was Born February 8th  1794
Cornelius   Miers was Born November 18th
                                                                       1796
(hand written)
Anne was born September the 10.              1799
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Alburtus Miers and his children Ages
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W.S. Allison
-?-
Jan 14 '43

W.S. Allison
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County

 O  n the seventh day of January ADF one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges Jutices of the peace in and for said county Cornelius Myers a resident of Delaware township county and state aforesaid in the fifty seventh year of his age a person of credibility and truth who being duly affirmed according to law doth on his affirmation make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 838 and the 23rd August 1842 granting provisions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War - that he is the son of Alburtus Myers and Anne his wife - said exponents' mother made her declaration under the Act of Congress July 7 1838 for the services of her said husband who was a pensioner of the United States  at the time of his death.  Deponent on behalf of himself and the other children of the sd. Anne Myers claim her pension under the above recited Act to which declaration deponent refers to Commissioner of Pensions now on file at the Department - deponents  mother the said Anna Myers died on the 22nd November 1841 leaving the following children Cornelius Myers, John Myers, Pamela wife of Isaac Godman/Godown Catherine wife of Philip Rake and Anna wife of John Cain.
Cornelius Miers

Affirmed and subscribed the day and year above written before me 25th November AD 1847
Alex. Coryell
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey

   I Charles G. McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Alexander Coryell Esq. before whom the within declaration was made was at the time of the doing thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Hunterdon in said State duly appointed commissioned and sworn, that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signature hereto is in the proper handwriting of the said Alexander Coryell.
   I testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at Trenton in said State this ninth day of January AD one thousand eight hundred and forty three.

Charles G. McChesney
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State of New Jersey

   I Charles G. McChesney Register of the Perogative Court of theState of New Jersey  holden at Trenton in said State do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that Albertus Myers was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, was a resident of Delaware township in the county of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey, and died, leaving a widow named Anne, who also died in the township of Delaware county and State aforesaid on the twenty fifth day of November AD one thousand eight hundred and forty one leaving the following children viz:  Cornelius Myers John Myers Pamela wife of Isaac Godwin Catharine wife of Philip Rake and Anna wife of John Cain.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Trenton in said State this ninth day of January AD one thousand eight hundred and forty three.

Charles G. McChesney
Register
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Alburtus Myers
27829

Certificate to be
sent to C. Bartles
Flemington
NKJ


Admit 2 years
$80--
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
   On this twenty eight day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three before me George Henry one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Hunterdon aforesaid personally appeared Alburtus Myers a resident of the township of Amwell in the county of Hunterdon a aforesaid aged eighty two years on the twenty sixth day of June last past, who being first full sworn according to law on his oath maketh the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  I am unable through bodily infirmity to appear before the court of common pleas of the county of Hunterdon at the court house in Flemington.
To Inter I - I was born in the township of Amwell in the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey on the twenty sixth days of June 1751
To Inter. II - My age is recorded in my own family bible which I now have.  It was transcribed from my father's family Bible above fifty years ago shortly after I left my father's house.
To Inter. III -  when called into the service I lived in the township of Amwell aforesaid and in which township I have resided sever since and now reside.
to Inter. IV - When called into service of the United States as a Militia Man in the ...
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...War of the Revolution.  I was drafted and served under the following named officers.  Through loss of memory I am unable to state all my tours in the regular turn in which they came and the different officers under whom I served in their regular order But am compelled to state generally the times and places and officers under whom I served.  My first trip I was drafted in April 1776 from the Amwell Regiment of Militia. I went out under Capt. Arthur Gray the rest of the officers of the company I do to recollect.  David --ben was our Colonel we marched from Amwell to Amboy and laid there part of the time the residence we laid on Staten Island.  I was out on the tour one month.  I do not recollect whether I went out after that trip again until our Regiment was classed which took place I believe in August 1776 when the different companies of the Amwell Regiment ere divided into two classes each class to start alternate tours of one month each.  After our Regiment was classed I went out when the turn came for the class to go to which I belonged which was in the fall of 1776 and afterwards served my regular monthly tours of six tours per year during the whole of the time the Militia were called or during the war of the Revolution.  I never missed a trip that the class to which I belonged were called to but always.....
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...went when my turn came.  I recollect serving under the following stated officers General Heard and General Philomena Dickinson - Colonels David Chambers David Bishop George Ely - Majors Cornelius Phillips and George  Hole---   - Captains Cornelius Hoppoch David Johnes Arthur Gray and George Ely - Lieutenants Jacob Reins Palmer Roberts.  there were other Lieutenants under whom I served but whose names  I do not recollect.  I served different tours at the following stated places to wit: Amboy  Staten Island  Elizabethtown  Newark Passaic Falls  Blazing Star  Springfield  - Woodbridge and Thornton (?) farms, Boundbrook  Morristown.  I was also out at the time of the battle of Princeton but was not engaged in the battle.  I was also out frequently on alarms which lasted from five days to two weeks.
And the said Alburtus Myers on his oath further 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 services but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below in the following grades for the term of two years and upwards.  I served as a Private and for such service I claim a Pension.
I have no written discharge my discharges were all verbal - I think John Myers.....
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...and Richard Heath -?- can testify as to terms of my service,  Jacob Bearder Richard Heath
to whom I was -?- my present -?- (too faint to read) can testify as to my character for truth and veracity and their belief as to my services of the Revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity expect the present and declares that his name is not o the pension toll or agency of any state.
Alburtus Myers his X mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 28th day of September AD 1833 on of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Hunterdon County
Geo. Henry


Hunterdon County
   Richard Heath Jun. (?) being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he was seventy two years of age on the twenty third day of June past past and that during the whole of the War of the Revolution this deponent resided in the township of Amwell in the County of Hunterdon aforesaid and within two miles of the residence of Alburtus Myers the above named applicant for a pension - deponent was acquitted with the said Alburtus.....
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....Myers during the whole of the War of the Revolution and served monthly tours in the army of the Revolution with the said Alburtus Myers at the following stated places to wit: one tour of one month at Elizabethtown, one month at Passaic Falls, and on tour at Morristown from what dependent saw and heard of the services of said Alburtus Myers during the war of the Revolution he has no hesitation in saying that the said Alburtus Myers served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution for the term of two years and upwards.
Richard Heath Junr.

Sworn an subscribed before me this 28th day of September 1833
Geo. Henry one of the judges of the court of common pleas Hunterdon County


Hunterdon County - John Myers being duly sworn according to law on this oath saith that he is seventy three years of age and upwards, that Alburtus Myers the above named applicant for a pension is a brother of this deponent and both of us belonged to the same compony of Militia in the war of the Revolution.  Deponent served one tour of month with the said Alburtus Myers at Boundbrook in the army of the Revolution.  Deponent....
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...and the said Alburtus Myers belonged to different classes of the same company of Militia in the War of the Revolution.  Deponent recollects very frequently of seeing the said Alburtus Myers march from Amwell in the war of the Revolution  to start his monthly tours and very frequently saw him return home from standing his month tours from what deponent saw and heard of the services of the said Alburtus Myers during the war of the Revolution this deponent verily believes that the said Alburtus Myers served as a soldier of the Revolution for the term of two years and upwards.
John Myers his X mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 28th day of September AD 1833
Geo. Henry Judge

Jacob Bearder of the township of Amwell in the County of Hunterdon and Richard Heath residing in the township of Kingwood in the county of Hunterdon aforesaid certify that we are well acquainted with Alburtus Myers who hath sworn to and subscribed the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty two years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have....
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....been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Jacob Bearder
Richard Heath his X mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 28th day of September AD 1833
Geo. Henry

I George Henry the above named Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon do hereby certify that I am acquainted with John Myers and Richard Heath Jnr. the witnesses who have sworn and subscribed the foregoing affidavits and that full faith and credit is to be given to their statements given under my hand this 28th day of September AD 1833.

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
 I   George Henry one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Hunterdon aforesaid before whom the foregoing declaration of Alburtus Myers was made and the affidavits and certificates of Jacob Bearder and Richard Heath after the Investigation of the matter and putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department do hereby declare my opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and. served as he states - I do hereby further certify that I am well acquainted.....
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... with Jacob Bearder and Richard Heath who signed the preceding certificate and that Jacob Bearder is a resident of the township of Amwell and Richard heath a president of Kingwood township and resides near the border of the Amwell and Kingwood line in the said county of Hunterdon and that their statements are entitled to full Fatih and credit - I further certify that the said Alburtus Myers by reason of bodily infirmity cannot appear before this court of common pleas of Hunterdon county and that it would be inconvenient fro the said Alburtus Myers to procure the certificate of a clergyman none residing near him or in his neighborhood - and I further certify that the said Alburtus Myers is esteemed in his neighborhood as a man of strict truth and veracity given under my hand this 28th day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three.
Geo. Henry

State of New Jersey Hunterdon County
    I Isaac G. Farlee Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Hunterdon aforesaid do hereby certify that George Henry Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration of Alburtus Myers was made in the matter of the application of Alburtus Myers for a pension was at the time of.....
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....taking the said application and affidavit and now is one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas the said county of Hunterdon and that the signature "Geo. Henry" to acclaration affidavits and certificates hereunto annexed are genuine and that the foregoing contains the original proceedings laid before the said George Henry Esquire in theater of the application of the said Alburtus Myers for a pension.
In testimony whereof I  have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this first day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred thirty three 1833.
Jacob G. Farley CLK
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Alburtus Myers
27.829


Certificate to be
sent to C. Bartles
Flemington Hunterdon
county New Jersey
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
 Be it remembered that on this thirtieth day ofDecember in the year of our Lord 1833 before me George Henry - one of the Justices of the Peace and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county of Hunterdon personally appeared Alburtus Myers the person who has sworn and subscribed the foregoing declaration who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that on account of his age and loss of memory within the last few years he is unable to state in detail  his services  in the War of the Revolution .  That he is now upwards  of eighty two years old and is very infirmed - that he recollects that the Militia was first classed into two classes and each class was called alternatively. That he does not recollect  distinctly that they were afterwards classes again or not, but is rather of the impression that they were the year when he does not recollect and the deponent also on his oath further saith that he does not recollect of there being a call for Militia Men at any time when less than one walk was called to go excepting on an alarm then all were called that were found by the persons giving the alarm.  That the deponent was under the impression that there was only two classes from the fact that one half was usually called on to go and -?- a tour at their regular call.  The deponent is under the impression that the militia was classed into eight classes for the purpose of taking one -?- out of -?- class to fill if the companies in the five months service but is not certain.
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....the deponent on his oath further saith David Batemen the clergyman to whose church he usually went died about two years ago..that he was (?) the only clergyman with whom this pediment was acquitted that there is no stated clergyman that now belongs to that church.  That there is no clergyman residing within three and a half miles of Deponent and that he is not acquainted with any who living in this township - the place where deponent resides is retired - he being very old and infirm is unable to go out any more from home. He has had no opportunity of becoming acquainted with any clergyman that this is the reason why he has not called or a clergyman to certify for him - that if the Rev. Bateman had been living he is satisfied he could have procured his certificate and further saith not.
Alburtus Myers his X mark

Sworn and subscribed before this 30th day of December AD 1833 a Justice of the Peace of the county of Hunterdon and Judge of the court of Common Pleas
Geo. Henry


Hunterdon County:  John Myers being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he is a brother of the above named Alburtus Myers that during the war of the Revolution  this deponent lived within two miles of the said Alburtus Myers.  Deponent knows that said Alburtus Myers was out a soldier in the Revolution...
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...this deponent served one tour of one month with Alburtus Myers at Raritan near Boundbrook in the winter of 1777 as this deponent thinks we belonged to different companies. I recollect very frequently of hearing of Alburtus Myers being out doing military duty when I did not see him - from what I saw and heard of the services said Alburtus Myers. I mind  I am safe in saying what he served in the War of the Revolution as much as two years - I very frequently called at his residence which was at my fathers when I was informed by the family that Alburtus had gone out on Military duty.
John Myers his X mark

Sworn and Subscribed before me this 30th day of December AD 1833.  Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hunterdon County.
Geo. Henry
I certify that I an acquitted the above named John Myers and that he is entitled to full faith and credit. Geo. Henry

State of New Jersey Hunterdon County
I Isaac G. Farley clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that George Henry Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken was at the time of taking the same and now is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county of Hunterdon and that his signature to the said affidavit is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 30th day of December AD 1833 thirty three
Isaac G. Farley Clk
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Anna Myers
of Alburtus
N. Jersey

REJECTED

let. 28 Jul 1840
to P.N. Dils
Rejected again.  See letter to W.S. Allison
Jan 23. 1843

Husband was living at the time of the passage of Act of 7 July 1838

7535
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left side of page - written OVER the underlying writing:

7040
Anna Myers
of Alburtus
N. Jersey

main text:
State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
   I Peter J Clark clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County do hereby certify that Richard Opdyke Esq. (smudged word) named was at the time of signing the same and still is a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine - and I do hereby further certify that Peter H. Dils Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been taken was then and now is an acting Justice of the peace duly commissioned...
(paper here torn off)...... his signature ---- is......
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
     On this twenty sixth day of April AD one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me Richard Opdyke - one of the Judges of the Interior Court of Common Pleas of the said county Anna Myers a resident of the township of Delaware in said County aged about eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 (and the Construction that may have been since put thereon) Entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she  is the widow of Alburtus Myers dec. who was a private in the war of the revolution as will more fully appear by reference to a certificate of pension granted to him bearing date May 2nd 1834 signed Lew Cass secretary of war and countersigned JL Edwards Commissioner of Pensions. Recorded in the Pensions Office in Book C Vol 3 Page 122 by Geo. C. Whiting Clerk
She further declares that she was married to the said Alburtus Myers on the ninth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four.  That her husband the aforesaid Alburtus Myers died on the twenty second day of January eighteen hundred and thirty eight.  That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four (viz) at the time above stated. 
Anna Myers her X mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Richard Opdyke - one of the Judges as above written
Walter Cain
I do hereby certify that the above named applicant Anna Myers cannot on account of and from bodily infirmity attend the Court
Richard Opdyke
a Judge of the Pleas as above
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
    Be it known that on the 16th day of April AD eighteen hundred and forty before me Peter H. Dils one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared William Hand who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that her was present at the wedding of Alburtus Myers and Anna his wife now his widow and that the marriage was solemnized  at Baptisttown in the township of Kingwood in said county in December seventeen hundred and eighty four by the Rev. Nicholas Cox a regular ordained minister of the Gospel in theBaptist order of Christians and further the deponent saith that the above named Alburtus Myers was the identical person named in a Certificate of Pensions bearing date May 2 1834 Recorded in the pension office in Book C Vol. 3 Page 122 by Geo. C. Whiting Clerk and that he died on the 22nd day of January 1839 and that the said Anna Myers is his widow and was never afterwards  married but remains now his widow. William Hand his X Mark
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above named before meP.H. Dils

Present George T. Bearder

I do hereby certify that the above deponent is credible and in good repute for honesty sobriety and truth
P.H. Dils
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County ss  Before me Peter H. Dils one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Personally appeared Isaac Godown who being Duly Sworn Deposeth and Says that the accompanying family Record is the genuine one kept of the marriage of Alburtus Myers Dec. and Anna his wife now his widow together with the Births of their children and that it was kept in the possession of said Alburtus & Anna Myers that it was done wrote or printed with a pen by the hand of one Aberdeen a Schoolmaster under the Directions of Said Alburtus and Anna Myers about the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Six. all except the last entry of the Birth of Anne the younger, which he Believes was done in the hand writer of John Miers. the Deponent further say that the Alburtus Miers named in this Record was the Identical Person Named ^in^ a Certificate of pension [deleted word] In his Possession in his lifetime Dated 2d May 1834 Signed Lew Cass Sec. of War and countersigned J. L. Edwards Comr of pensions and Record in the pension office in Book E. Vol. 3 page 122.  and their Wrote as above in this Myers and that Anna ^seen^ above Named [illegible] has and now does Remain his widow since.  his Death which hapened [happened] in January A.D. 1838.
Isaac Godown

Sworn and Subscribed this 29th day of April 1840 before me.  P. H. Dils

I do hereby Certify that the above Deponent is Credible and in good Repute for Honesty and truth.
P. H. Dils
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County

(written vertically to left over original writing):
7040
Anna Myers
of Alburtus
 -?-

   I Peter J; Clark Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Richard Opdyke Esq. herein named was at the time of Signing theSame and Still is a Judge of the Inferior Court for Common Pleas in and for Said county duly commissioned and Sworn and that his signature thereto is Genuine - and I also hereby further certify that Peter H. Dils Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit  purports to have been taken was then and now is an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn as such as that his signature hereunto is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Said Court at Flemington this 12th day of May AD 1840
Peter J Clark Clk
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
Oct 9th 1840

Sir:
   Under the act of the 6th April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States" Alburtus Myers late a Pensioner on the Roll of the Trenton Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars and (crossed out) --- cents (crossed out) per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid the twenty second of January 1839.
Respectfully yours,

J. Seaver
acting comptroller

To the commissioner of Pensions,
    (blank).                        Present
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Anna. -?- 38 -?-

Alburtus Myers, N.J. Act of 7 June 1832
         to what time paid?
              Pen. Office
                   July 23, 1840

Paid to 8 (?) Sept 1838
SHH  (SKK?)
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Kingwood Hunterdon County -?- August 25th (?) 1840

Pension Office
J.L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions

Dear Sir:  on the first -?- I received a Certificate of Pension for Mrs. Anna Myers and a letter from you stating that in her declaration and in the affidavit of one of the witnesses it was set forth that her husband died in January 1838 and that you had discovered that he died in January 1839 and that under the act of the 7th July 1838 no widow is entitled to a pension whose husband was living at the time of the passage of that act and requiring me to return her pension certificate to your office.
If it is there set forth that Alburtus Myers died in January 1838 it must of come through a mistake of mine in copying or filing up as in notes that I took of answers they made to to questions that I put to them I have it January 22nd 1839 and not through any design for I am sure that neither them nor I knew at that time but that she was as much entitled to receive her pension under the act granting pensions to widows of deceased Pensioners or soldiers.  He dying in January 1839 as if he had died in January 1838 Agreeably thereto I have with return the certificate and (paper torn here at edge) of you that if there is any event (?) under which she is entitled you will inform me thereof.  It appears to me that this act of the 7th July is unequal and out to be extended to all that become  widows during the five years.
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Payment to be made

at Trenton
by P. Dickinson Esq.
Agent for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of N. Jersey

First payment to be made
on the (next 3 lines crossed out)
....4th September (line crossed out)
1840

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A Vol. 2
Page 129 by
D. Brown Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT

Five Years' Pension

I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838,
 Anna Myers of the State of New Jersey
widow of Alburtus Myers
who was a Private in the War of the Revolution
and died on the 22nd day of September 1838
is entitled to receive a pension, at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, commencing on the
twenty third day of January 1838, and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the 4th of March 1841 the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.

Given at the War Office of the United States this twenty fourth day of July one thousand and eight hundred and forty.
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Trenton April 17 1841

Sir
   I enclosed from this place the application of Elijah Anderson for a transfer from the N. York agency to the N. Jersey Agency on the beginning of March last (?).
   In the press of business it has no doubt escaped your attention

I am respectfully Your Ob. Sevt.
Westley p. Jonas (?)

JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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 FREE. (assuming referring to postage due)

vertically on left:
Kingwood NJ
May 17th

to
War Department
Pension Office JK Edwards CD
City of Washington
DC
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Kingwood Hunterdon County NJ May 1st 1840

The Hon. Secretary oof War or Comm. of Pensions

 I   do herewith send the application and proofs thereof of Anna Myers widow of Alburtus Myers for the benefit of the law of Congress granting half pay pensions to certain widows of Dec'd Soldier.  The proof of her Marriage and his Death is credible and positive. T he proof of his serviced I do suppose will be sufficient by reference to the Certificate of Pension granted to him and recorded in the pension office as informed inner declaration and the affidavit of Wm. Hand and IsaacGodown the certificate of Pension I do not herewith send on Act their is some overages due which can not be demanded without being demanded by all the heirs living and one of them now resides in the State of New York and is expected in -?-  but if it be essential it will be sent if required.  I was present when her declaration was taken when the question was asked her as to her husbands service after their marriage, she answered it is as great wile ago. I  don't now remember that he was out after our marriage but he was out the family records herewith sent they the family desires may be returned again if not essential to be kept on file in your office.  Please give these as timely attention as you can make convenient and address the answer to me the sub--- to Kingwood Post Office Kingwood township Hunterdon County N.J.

Respst. yours --- P.H. Dils

PS Mrs.  -?- is anxious to hear from you respecting her pension.  P.H.D.
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REJECTED

NJ
Anna Myers
widow of Alburtus
See widow admitted
27.973
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27.973

WIDOW, &c.

Anna Myers widow of
Alburtus Myers
Pri Col.  Chambers NJK
REv'y War

Act: 1838