Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 978, for Samuel Pope, New Jersey
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W J Gaston
We Morgan R. Cox a Clergyman residing in the township of Warren in said County & William D. Stewart residing in the same place do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Pope who had Subscribed & Sworn to the above declaration & that we believe him to be Seventy years of age in January next, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of
the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Wm .J. Gaston

Morgan R Cox
Wm D Stewart
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 the Morgan R Cox who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Township of Warren in said
County of Somerset, and that William D Stewart, who has also signed the same is a resident in the said Township of Warren in said County and is a creditable person, and
that their statement is entitled to credit
Sworn in open Court &c
Wm J Gaston
Ferd Van Derveer
W T Rodgers
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[day year aforesaid Wm J Gaston - crossed out]

State of New Jersey
Somerset County Ss}
I John M. Mann Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Pope for a pension
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office this Eighteen
day of August in the year of our Lord one
Thousand eight hundred and thirty two
J. M. Mann
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New Jersey Ss  I John M. Mann Clerk of the
court of Common pleas in & for said County
of Somerset do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Pope for a pension. And I further certify that William B Gaston before whom
the deposition of the said Samuel Pope
this day made in this year was at the
time there & still is the presiding Judge of
said court in full commission
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at
Bridgewater aforesaid this 19th day February 1833
J M Mann Clk
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FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.
October the 8 1797 Benjamin Pope deceased
February  the 11 1818 Ann Pope widdow deceased in her Eighty Eight year of age
October the 30th 1834 Samuel Pope departed his life in the 73 year of his age
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State of New Jersey
Somerset County ss on 29 day of September 1838 personally appead [appeared] before me Wm D Stewart one of the Justices of the peace
and Judges of the Court in and for said County Henry Moore Known to me credible person who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangilest  of all mighty God did depose and say that he is a Brother  of your memorialist Elizabeth Pope and that the said Elizabeth is the widow of Samuel Pope late of the Township of
Warren in said County Deceasd and your Deponent further say that he was present at the Marriage of the said Samuel and Elizabeth
Pope which was solomnisd on the 17 day of September 1792 by the Revd Jacob Randolph who was then a minister of the Gospel at that time and so continued until his death and your deponant further says that he was well acquainted with Samuel Pope before and after their maring [marriage] and that the said Samuel and Elizabeth Pope were members of the Baptist Church for many years before the Death of the said Samuel and the said Elizabeth Still continues a member of said Church and widow of the said Samuel Pope Deceased and your Deponent further say that the dates above
mentioned are true to the best of his knowledge and belief and further saith not
Henry Moor

Sworn and Subscribed before me this day and
year first above written
Wm Stewart
Justice of Peace
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BRIEF in the case of Samuel Pope of Somerset
County in the State of New Jersey

(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 70
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
In 1780 or 1781
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days
1
1 year

Rank.
As a Waggon [illegible]

Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Capt Ward Col Cummings
Col Baldwin
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? County of Somerset New Jersey
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
papers not attached as requested
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned

[illegible] Examining Clerk
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Sept 5th 1923
[Postmark] U S Pension Office
Sep 7 1923
Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Will you kindly give me some information concerning one Samuel Pope whose widow's pension claim I am informed is filed in the Pension Bureau
(Widow No 978)
Said Samuel Pope was a private in Capt Benjamin Corey's Company, Col Frederick Frelinghan's First Regiment, Somerset County New Jersey
Militia May 1778; Teamster, Wagonmaster
General's Department, and served one year;
Private Capt Peter Ward's Company
Col Theunis Dey's Regiment, Bergen County N Jersey Militia: enlisted in Warren Township Somerset County as private, Capt Peter Ward's company New Jersey State Troops (1782) troops raised under the act of Dec 29th 1781 to be in the field
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by March 1 1782, and to serve until Dec 15th
1782 stationed at Hackensack, and served in
Bergen County under Major Samuel Hayes;
was in engagement with British summer of
1782; received certificate 248 amounting to
to £ 10:7:0 for the deprecation of his Continental
pay in the Bergen County N Jersey Militia during the Revolutionary War
I desire to know if there is any information
in the papers on file in your office concerning
his parents or the place of his birth if you
will kindly look it up
Very Respectfully
W H. Oliver
3215 O st NW
Washington D.C.
This gentleman came to the office & read [illegible] so this letter was not answered
[?] Oct 19 '23