Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 1579, Jacob Edwards, New Jersey
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Upper left corner (8-1776)
Upper right corner NUMBER

Service
New Jersey (first line, left column)
Edwards, Jacob (first line, middle column)
W1579 (first line, right column)
Abigail (second line, middle column under the name Jacob)
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11,298
New Jersey
Jacob Edwards of Bloomfield in the state of N. Jersey who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ogden of the N. Jersey line, for the term of 4 years - 1889

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of June 1819 and sent to Wm. S. Pennington, Esq.
Newark, N. Jersey

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 n . h   83.86
                                                       30.31
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 - 48.00

$131:96
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

Continued
Elsey Con (torn paper)
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230 along top of torn paper
New Jersey
Abigail Edwards
widow of Jacob Edwards
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private New Jersey line Ineofrom(?) $80
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 9 Dollars // // cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of August 1837 and sent to JG Berret Present

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2 (struck) July 29, 1848, Page 92 Vol A
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Jacob Edwards's
Declaration
Private
Col Ogden - New Jersey line
1777s 4 years
April 29th 1818

The judges certificate of "reduced circumstances in life" wanting

found on rolls
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District of New Jersey

On this twentieth day of April A.D. 1818 (illegible) me the subscriber district Judge of the United States in & for the said district personally appeal of Jacob Edwards aged fifty three years and as (?) a resident in Bloomfield in the County of Essex in the said district who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" that he the said Jacob Edwards enlisted in Newark in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey on (struck) in the spring of the year 1777 in the company commanded by Captain Daniel Baldwin in the first Jersey Regiment commanded by Colonel Matthias Ogden on the continental establishment. The he enlisted for three years during the war.  That he continued to serve about four years in the said Corps. When in consequence of his being taken very sick and remaining to he was regularly discharged at Elizabethtown in New Jersey upon his obtaining another person to become his substitute. That he was in the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown. That he had a  written discharge which he has lost. And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. And that he has no other evidence now in his power of
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Upper left corner of page torn.
said services.

Sworn before me the day and year first aforesaid
William J. Pennington (signature)
District Judge
                                                his
Next to above section Jacob + Edwards
                                               mark

I William J Pennington district Judge of the United States in and for the district of New Jersey as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jacob Edwards did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the proceeding declaration against the common enemy. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken that before me to the Secretary for the department of war persistent to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress

24th April 1818  William S. Pennington (signature)
District Judge

I William pennington, Clerk of the District of New Jersey do ceritify that the signatures to this instrument are the proper hand writing of William S Pennington Esq. Judge of the United States District Court fot the District of New Jersey.

?? my hand and the Seal of said District Court at Newark this twenty fourth day of April AD 1818

Wm. S Pennington (signature)
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I William S Pennington District Judge of the United (torn paper) in and for the New Jersey District do hereby certify that (torn paper) appears to my satisfaction on the examination of two credible witnesses under oath, that Jacob Edwards the before named applicant is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the ?? of his country for support

Newark 20th May 1819
William S Pennington (signature)
District Judge
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Declaration of
Jacob Edwards

11298
Sep 1819


Bottom of page $1-
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At our inferior courts of common(?)
at Newark in and for the County of Essex of the
term of January in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty one -
Presents -
John Dodel
Arron (?)
(?) Harrison    Esquires Judges

District of New Jersey  SS
Essex County 

on this eighth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared before the judges of the court of common pleas for the County of Essex aforesaid in open court being a (?) of record possessing a deed, and having a jurisdiction unlimited in points of (?),  and proceeding according to the course of the common law, Jacob Edwards aged about fifty seven years,  resident in the said county who being first duly sworn doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, that he enlisted at Newark in the said county in the company commanded by Captain Baldwin in the first Jersey Regiment commanded by Col Matthias Ogden and served for three years that he enlisted in the Spring of the year but does not now recollect the precise years, that the date of his original application was on the twentieth day of April A.D. (?) and 
numbered 11.29 (?) and I do solemnly swear
that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the (?) day of March (1?1?) and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner
disposed of my property so to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of 
Congress entitled
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"an act to provide for certain persons (?)  in the land and naval service of the United in the Revolutionary War"  passed the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any other person in trust for me any property or (?) contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is (?) in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed,  that my occupation is that of a laborer, but in consequence of a wound received in the war his is unable to do much work, that my family consists of myself, my wife Abigail aged about forty five years, who is weekly and unable to work, and five children (?), Abigail aged about sixteen who is very sickly, Joseph aged fourteen years, Aaron aged ten years, and Margaret aged upwards of eight years, and Mary Ann aged five years.  That my wife and children are unable to render but very little assistance towards the support of the family and that I cannot support myself without assistance,  

Jacob   his X mark   Edwards

Sworn to and declared in open court this 18th day of January, 1821
John (?)

Schedule of the property of Jacob Edwards referred to in the (?) deposition.  No (?) estate whatever, and no personal estate except a few articles of household furniture which have been loaned to him by his friends and a few dollars the balance  of his pension.
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money received and unexpended

Sworn & Declared in 
open court Jany 8 1821

John Dodd

Jacob  his X mark Edwards

I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Jacob Edwards the person who has made the foregoing declaration and know him to be an extremely poor man, and am satisfied that unless he receives this pension he will stand in need of and depend upon the public charity for assistance in supporting his family 

John Dodd

I Asa Whitehead, clerk of said court do certify that the foregoing declaration and schedule thereto annexed, and the certificate of John Dodd Esquire and of the Judges of said courts are truly copied from the records of said courts, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said courts that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is seventy dollars, 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said events the sixth day of March A.D 1821
Asa Whitehead
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Jacob Edwards died 
the 6th day of Oct 18 1843
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Essex County (?):  This is to certify that on the seventeenth day of October 1799  I married Jacob Edwards to Abigail Tunice 
      John dow
      Minister of the Gospels
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July twenty ninth 1(???). 

State of New Jersey
Essex County .... (?)   On this eighteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and forty nine Personally appeared before me Moses B (?)
one of the judges of the inferior Court of Common Please (?) and for said county.  Abigail Edwards widow of Jacob Edwards deceased, whose Maiden name was Abigail Tunis A resident of the Township of Livingston in the county of Essex and state of New Jersey.  Aged
sixty nine years. (Who I hereby certify cannot from Bodily (?) attend court.). Who being by me duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July twenty-ninth 1(???).  Who was a private soldier in the New Jersey Line during the war of the Revolution and a (?) of the United States under the act of Congress of March 1(?)th 1(?)1(?) at the rate
of ninety six dollars per annum. - And that said Abigail Edwards further declares that she was Married to the said Jacob Edwards on the seventeenth day of October 1799 by the Rev John Dow of Belville in the County of Essex and state of New Jersey.  According to her marriage certificate said John Dow Minister of the Gosple which marriage certificate I hereunto annexed.  And the said Abigail Edwards further declares that her husband the said Jacob Edwards died on the sixth day of October eighteen hundred and forty three at his residence in said county of Essex  New Jersey Ages seventy-nine years.- that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the second day of January Eighteen 
hundred  (?) at the time above stated - the further swear that she
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She is now a widow and has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband and has no documentary evidence except the marriage certificate .... before mentioned.  But would most respectfully (?) the Commissioner of pensions to her said husbands paper(?) now on file in his office.   And that she has never before made an application for a pension.  
Sworn to and subscribed on the 
day and year above mentioned

Abigail   herXmark Edwards

Before me, 

Moses B Coe
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas

State of New Jersey

I, Charles G McChesney, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that Moses B Coe Esquire, before whom the within affidavit was taken, 
was, at the time of the doing thereof, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Essex ... in said state, duly commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signature thereto is in the proper handwriting of the said Moses B Coe

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office at Trenton, in said state, this twenty third day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.  

Charles G McChesney
         Sec'y of State
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Brief in the case of Abigail Edwards, widow of Jacob Edwards, Essex County and State of New Jersey act 29 July 1848

 Claim, ("for increase")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.  

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?  

Husband was a pensioner at $96
per annum
The widow is entitled to the same amount per annum, under the (?) Resolution of July 1, 1848
(?) to $96 per annum commencing 4 March 1848, deducting former payments at $80 per annum

Name and residence of Agent
J A Berret
Present

S Cole 
Examining Clerk
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Mrs Abigail Edwards
Payment to be made at 
Trenton by 
P. Dickinson, Esq.
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the 
Agency of New Jersey
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the
 Roll of Pensioners under act 1848 
Page 195 Val 1 book C
H(?)pumpkin 
Clerk.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WIDOW'S PENSION

I certify that in conformity with the act of July 29th 1848, Abigail Edwards, of New-Jersey, widow of Jacob Edwards, who was a Private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry, in which case the Pension is not payable after this time of such marriage. 

Given at the Department of the Interior this 19th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. 

T. Ewiing
Secretary of the Interior

Examined and Countersigned
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Paid to 4 Mar 1849
Paid to 4 Sep 1849
Paid to 4 Mar 1850
Paid to 4th Sept. 1850
Paid to 4 Mar 1851.
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Hon J. S. Edwards
Commissioner of pensions
Washington City
D C
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Newark New Jersey February 19th 1849
Hon Y. S Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
dear Sir
I herewith transmit to you the Declaration and evidence of Mrs Abigail Edwards and Mrs Hannah Baker for pensions under the Act of Congress of July 29th, 1848 which you will please file in your office examine and report to me in turn. 
With the Highest Respect
(?) your (?)
Sam B Miller
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The Honorable John C Calhoun
Secretary at war
Washington City

298
rcd 29 Mar 18(?)1
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The Honorable John C Calhoun Secty at war
Sir
Enclosed I herewith the application of Jacob Edwards for the continuance of his name on the pension list, you will be so good Sir, when determined response to direct the answer to be forwarded to me.
Very respectfully Sir 
your (?) (?)
Asa Whiteheed

Newark N Jersey
March 26. 1821,
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U. S. General Land Office 
Received Apr 30 1902
71911
N.E Cory
Mt Sterling Ill
April 28 1902
Asks what records show  US land (?) for service Revolutionary War in names therein gr(?)rn
2¢ stamp
a k s apr 30/02

B
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Mt Sterling (?)
Apr 28th 1902
general land office
Officers:
Washington D.C.
Gentleman:
I am seeing through my ancestors to assist my children to become Sons and Daughters of the Revolution.  Will you kindly inform me whether your records of the Revolutionary War show that either Jacob Edwards , Moses Edwards or Jeremiah Cory or Noah Cory ever received Land Warrants as Revolutionary Soldiers
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2. 

They must have enlisted in either New Jersey or in Pensylvania (Pennsylvania). 
If they did receive such land warrants Please give me date and (?) of land and (?) they were to be paid.  Thanking you in advance for your kindness,
I am yours 
most truly
N.E. Cory
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Henrich or Henry Sperr was (?) in the Revolutionary war with his sons.  Kindly (?) ever (?) of his birth church - parents names -  he belonged in Bellville or Passaic N.J.

Will you let me have this information soon as possible 

yours truly
Eleeor A. Brown

Jan 31st 1900
22 Franklin in Newark N.J.
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O. W. & N. DIVISION 
FEB 3 1900
RECEIVED

PENSION 
K
FEB 
1
1900 
US OFFICE

(?) (?)

Kindly send to me full information of Capt Aaron Edwards who served in the revolutionary war  - will you (?) (?) date of birth & death, parents names. (?)
         Jacob Edwards-
date of birth - death - parents names also his nationality.  

Both believed in Essex County N.J.
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Bureau of Pensions - 

Will you please send to me soon as possible , that I may forward to Adj Gen (?) that he may place in the book that he is getting ready for publication - information regarding Jacob Edwards - from Essex Co - who served in the Revolutionary War.. I think under Capt Reeves - 2nd Reg - also state troops. 
Did Jacob Edwards (?) a pension -how long did he serve -
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what battles was he in and further information should you be able to give it -  did a hendrich Speer also serve in the same war - or draw pension - (?) family say he did.

Very truly, 
(Mrs) Ella A Brown 

Jan 23rd 1900
22 Franklin
Newark N.J. 

PENSION OFFICE
JAN 26 1900 US

O.W. & N. DIVISION 
JAN 29 1900 
RECEIVED
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Feby 10 - 1900
Miles Hi(?)ty to
Mrs. Ella (?)
Newark N.J. 

June 5- 1902
Rev A. E. Cory - Mt. Sterling Ill

Rev  WIDOW, &c. 

File No. 1579
Abigail Edwards 
Widow
Jacob Edwards
Priv. Rev. War. 
Act: July. 29 1848.
Index: Vol. A, Page 209

(Arrangement of 1870)
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Jacob Edwards NJ act 18 March 1808 $96.00 p am

For what time was he last paid? 
G.C.A. 
Pension Office
June 14 1849 

Died 6 Oct 1843 (?) in full
W. Tyson
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230
New-Jersey
Abigail Edwards
widow of Jacob Edwards
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
the 4th day of March, 1848. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of June, 1849 and sent to 
Sam B Miller
Newark
N.Jersey

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 29 July, 1848, Page 195 Vol 1 book C.
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Abigail Edwards

Act 29 July 1848
due to (?) at $80 per annum, coming 
4 March 1848
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Sate of New Jersey, Be it known that on this Eighth day Essex County (?) of August A D 1851  Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Abigail Edwards who after having been duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that she is the widow of Jacob Edwards who was a Revolutionary Soldier and received from the United States a Pension at the rate of Ninety six dollars per Annum,  under the Act of March 18th A D 1818 that she makes this declaration for the purpose of recovering such increase of Pension as may be found under any Acts or Resolutions of Congress applicable to her case 
Sworn and subscribed 
before me this eighth day 
of August A D 1851

Henry D Hedden
Justice of the Peace 
State of New Jersey
Essex County  (?) 


Abigail (her X mark)  Edwards

I John R Weeks clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex, do certify that Henry D Hedden before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking the same an Acting Justice of the Peace in a nd for said County commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to administer oaths and that the signature to the (?) of said affidavit is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this Eleventh day of August A D 1851
JR Weeks (?)
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Mrs Mary Ann Ball
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In the Matter of the Application of the
Widow Abigail Edwards for a pension
under the act of Congress of July 29th 1848
State of New Jersey
Essex County ⎬ [illegible] Personally Appeared before me Samuel B. Miller a Justice of the peace In and for said County Mary Ann Ball A
Respectable person Residing in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey who being by me duly sworn on her oath saith that she is in the Thirty second year of her age that she is the Fourth Child of Jacob and Abigail Edwards and has been well acquainted with the said Jacob Edwards and Abigail his wife as long ago as she can remember and that the said Jacob and Abigail his wife has alwais [always] Resided together as husband and wife and reputed so
to be until the death of the said Jacob Edwards
which took place on the sixth day of October 1848. And that her mother is still living and his remained a widow ever since the death of her said Father And saith not.
Mary Ann Ball [signature]
Sworn to and subscribed this
Fourth day of December AD. 1848
Before me Sam B. Miller Justice of the peace.
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M
Henry A. Mourison
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In the Matter of the Application of the
Widow Abigail Edwards for a pension
under the act of Congress of July 29th 1848
State of New Jersey
Essex County
-
[illegible] Personally Appeared before me
Samuel B. Miller A Justice of the peace in and
for said County, Henry A. Mourison, A Resputable
person residing in the City of Newark Essex County New Jersey
who being by me duly sworn on his oath saith that
he is in the Fifty-fifth year of his age, that he was well
Acquainted with Jacob Edward and Abigail his wife
whose maiden name was Abigail Junice, for more
the Twenty years last past. - And this deponent Further
saith that the said Jacob Edwards and Abigail his wife
Alwais [always] Resided, together as husband and wife & Reputed
so to be until the death of the said Jacob Edwards, which
took place about five years ago and that his widow is still
living and now resides in the Township of Livingston
in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey And that the
said Abigail Edwards has remained a Widow and
unmarried ever since the death of her said husband. and
this deponant [deponent] further saith that he is knowing that the said
Jacob Edwards was a pensioner of the United State at the time
of his death at the rate of Ninety six dollars per annum. one
farther south not
Sworn to and subscribed at Newark
In said County this Seventh day
of December A.D. 1848
---
Henry A Mourison [handwritten signature]
1
Before me-
Sam B. Miller Justice of the peace
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Mr
Demas Harrison
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In the Matter of the Application of the
Widow Abigail Edwards for a pension under 
the act of Congress of July 29th [illegible]
State of New Jersey | 
Essex County | ss Personally Appeared before me
Samuel B. Miller A Justice of the peace in
and for said County Demas Harrison A Respectable
person Residing in the City of Newark Essex County New Jersey
who being by me duly sworn on his oath saith that
he is in the seventy sixth year of his age. That he has been
Well Acquainted with Jacob Edwards and Abigail his wife
whose maiden name was Abigail Tunice for more
the Twenty - years last past.  And this deponent further
saith that the said Jacob Edward and Abigail his wife
Always Resided together as husband and wife and reputed 
so to be until the death of the said Jacob Edwards who
died more than five years ago and had a number of children
together and that his widow is still living and now
resides in the Township of Livingston in the County of Essex
and State of New Jersey And that the said Abigail
Edwards has remained a widow and unmarried
ever since the death of the said Jacob and this deponent
Further Saith, that her said Husband was a pensioner of
the United States at the time of his death at the rate of
Ninety six dollars per annum - And further saith not
Sworn to and subscribed this Eighth
day of December A.D. [illegible]
---
Demas Harrison
Before me, Sam B. Miller Justice of the peace
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316 
Mrs Abigail Edwards
Declaration & Evidence
for a pension under 
the Act of Congress
of July 29th [illegible]
Manna 1799
husband died 1843
[illegible] $80.00
[illegible] 4 March 1848
Sam B Miller
Newark New Jersey
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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
Samuel B Miller Esquire, before whom
the within affidavits were taken,
was, at the time of the doing thereof, a Justice of the Peace
in and for the county of Essex in said
state, duly commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit
are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signatures
thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said
Samuel B Miller
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, 
in said state, this Seventh day of February A. D. one thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine

Charles G. M. Chesney
Secy of State.
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Before me,
-
In the Matter of the Application of the
Widow Abigail Edwards for a pension under the
act of Congress of July 29th, 1848
State of New Jersey
Essex County as Personally appeared before me
Sam B. Miller A Justice of the peace in
And for said County, William Dow Es A Reputable
person Residing at Belleville, in the County of Essex
And State of New Jersey. - Who being by me duly sworn
on his oath saith that he is in the Fifty fifth - year
of his age that he is the son of the Revd/n [Reverend] John Dow deceased [underlined], who was A. Methodist Clergyman and Minister of the Gospel. Residing at Belleville in said County of Essex New Jersey, And that the Marriage Certificate Annexed to the Declaration of the said Widow Abigail Edwards, and signed John Dow Minister of the gospel and dated on the Seventeenth of October 1799. Is in the proper hand writing of his said Father John now deceased, And that his said Father died on the Sixth - day of November 1838 And this deponant [deponent] further saith that he has frequently seen the said John Dow write And is perfectly familiar with his
hand writing,
Sworn to and subscribed at
Belleville in said County this
Twenty eighth day of December 1848
Before me. - 
WmDow [handwritten signature with ink mark]
Sam B. Miller Justice of the peace