Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3286, for Lewis Mory, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Navy (Penn.)
CONTENTS
Mory, Lewis
or
Morey
Elizabeth
NUMBER
W 3286
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Relative to the act of June 17, 1844
See Sell. to C. H. Housekeeper of the 9 July 1844

3286
Pennsylvania (Philadelphia Agency)

Elizabeth Mory
widow of Lewis Morey
who was a midshipman
in the Army of the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 14.4 dollars cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March,1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of April 1843 and sent to J. H. Causten, present
(3286)

Act of March 3, 1843
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1    Page 134
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D. C.

Morey

referred to Commissioner
an increase of pension allowed for two years.
J. H. Causten, President
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I Robert Mory now residing in North Kingston in the county of Washington and state of Rhode Island on solemn affirmation testify and say that I am 70 (?) years of age and that Lewis Mory now deceased who served as midshipman on board the United States ship called the Confederacy commanded by Capt. Seth Harding in the time of the Revolutionary War was my brother; he was about two years younger than myself and I well remember the time that the said Lewis enlisted in the (illegible) of midshipman under the said Capt. Harding.  The said ship Confederacy was built in the town of Preston in the state of Connecticut in the year 1777, and I worked on the said ship in the capacity of ship carpenter sometime in the summer of that year, the month I cannot remember.  My said brother enlisted as before stated this was about two months before the said ship was launched.  Immediately after my brother the said Lewis enlisted as aforesaid he commenced working upon said ship and continued on land on her until she was launched and fitted for sea and continued on hand in the capacity of midshipman as aforesaid and went to sea and served in said capacity on board said ship under the said Capt. A Harding.  the various voyages and cruises made by the said ship I cannot now describe but I know that my said brother continued to serve on board said ship under the said Capt. Harding until the said ship's crew were discharged which was in the year 17(?).  I heard from my said brother occasionally during said service and many times afterward heard him talk about said service.  I cannot now tell the precise time when the service of the said Lewis as aforesaid commenced nor the precise time when it ended, but I know
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that his war service was continuous without interruption for more than two years.

Robert Morey

Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, September 2,1839. 
 
Personally appeared before me Robert Morey the above named deponent who upon oath by me administered to him said and subscribed the (illegible) deposition which was by me taken and (illegible) to writing I also certify that the said Robert Morey is well known to me, that he is a person of veracity and his testimony is entitled to full faith and credit.  
Signed: Dan King, Justice of the Peace

State of Rhode Island of Providence Plantation, Washington Sc. Clerk's office, Supreme Judicial Court.  

I, Powell Helme, clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Washington do hereby certify that Dan King Esquire is justice of the peace for the town of Charlestown in said county of Washington duly appointed by the General Assembly commissioned by the Acting Governor and otherwise qualified as the law directs and that his name above written is his genuine signature.  

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court aforesaid this third day of September in the year 1839.
Signed:  Powell Helme, Clerk
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4633
D.C.
7 July, 1838

J. H. Causten, President, May 2nd
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To all whom it may concern,
It is hereby certified, that on the 10th
day of December 1784

there being
no lawful impediment,-
Mr. Lewis Mory and 
Elisabeth Beaks both
of Philadelphia, were joined together
in the [illegible] of Matrimony, and
duly pronounced Husband and Wife
By me
Sam Magan
[illegible] of St. Pauls, Phila
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."

District of Columbia
City of Washington to wit

On the twenty-sixth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine personally appeared before the judge of the  Orphans Court of Washington County in the District of Columbia, Elizabeth Mory, late a resident of Philadelphia and at present a resident of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia, aged seventy-one 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows."

That she is the widow of Lewis Mory who was a midshipman of the United States Navy at that time of the War of the Revolution and in that capacity served on board the frigate Confederacy during a period of several years; that he first entered on board said ship as a midshipman while she was upon the stocks, to wit, in the fall of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, and continued to serve up to the month of October
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October one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, at which last mentioned date said ship sailed for France having on board John Jay the minister of the United States to Spain and the French minister W. Gerard then on his way home and that said Lewis Mory was also then on board as a midshipman; that upon the voyage said ship lost her spars and was dismasted which caused her to put in to the Island of Martinique in the month of Dember following,  where John Jay and W. Gerard left her and took passage in a French frigate for France; that said ship was after long detention repaired and refitted at Martinique and then sailed for Philadelphia where she arrived in the month of July one thousand seven hundred and eighty; that subsequently she made one or more cruises, to the end of which, and from some time before she was launched, said Lewis Mory served on board continuously as a midshipman; that about the period of the termination of the cruises just mentioned said Lewis Mory was confined as a prisoner on board the Jersey prison ship at New York for about nine months, but deponent does not know the circumstances causing his said confinement, nor how he effected his release from it; that the said representations were often made in her presence by said Lewis Mory and were confirmed from time to time by other persons who had knowledge
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knowledge thereof all of whom deponent believed to be long since dead; that Seth Harding was the commander of the said ship and is long since dead; that said Lewis Mory was a resident of Philadelphia during the period of said service and that subsequent to the Revolution he became a ship master and ship owner of Philadelphia and so continued up to the time of his death.

She further declares that she was married to the said Lewis Mory on the tenth day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine and that the paper writing hereto annexed is the original certificate thereof and was delivered to her by the officiating clergyman on the day of its date; that her husband, the aforesaid Lewis Mory died on the thirteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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.   
Signed:  Elizabeth Mory

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, in open court.
Test. Ed. N. Roach, (illegible)
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2659 Repo.

District of Columbia
Elizabeth Mory widow of Lewis Mory, dec'd, who was a pensioner under the act of ___ and who died on the 13th of August, 1818 of Washington in the Dist. of Columbia-who was a midshipman in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the U.S. Navy - line for 9 months, on board the Frigate Confederacy.

Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist. of Columbia at the rate of 54 dollars   ____cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued on the 6th day of May 1839 and sent to J. H. Causten, Washington City

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1839          $162.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept.   27.00
                                                             $189.00
{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by Wm. Stewart, clerk
Book A    Vol. 2     Page 232
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2659
District of Columbia
Elizabeth Mory
widow of Lewis Mory decd.
[printed line crossed out: who was a pensioner under the Act of]
and who died on the 13th August 1818
of Washington the [State crossed out] of D Columbia
who was a Midshipman in the --- commanded
by Captain --- of the --- commanded
by --- the U. S. Navy
[crossed out:  line for] 24 months. in the Frigate 
in the Frigate Confedracy [Confederacy]
Increased [illegible] $54.

Inscribed on the Roll of Dist. of Cola. [Columbia] 
at the rate of $44 Dollars --- Cents per ann... [annum]
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of [illegible] 
1840 and [illegible] 
[illegible] Washington City

Arrears to the 4th of Sepr 1839  $315.00
Semi=annual allowance ending [illegible]

72.00
_______
387.00

{Act July 7,}
{1838.}

Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 2d.  Page 232
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia

Be it known that on the twenty-ninth day of April A.D. 1829 (sic) before me the subscriber and alderman and justice of the peace in and for the said county and state aforesaid personally came and appears Margaret Halt, a resident of the District of the Northern Liberties in said county, widow aged seventy-five years, that she was intimately acquainted with Lewis Mory during the Revolutionary War, that the said Lewis Mory held a commission on board the ship of was called the Confederacy as a midshipman,  that she frequently saw him when the ship Confederacy lay at the port of Philadelphia, that he wore uniform dress, that she knew of his arrival in the ship from Boston in Massachusetts, that he was nine months in the said ship and how much  longer she this deponent cannot say. 
Signed:  Margaret Halt

Sworn to and subscribed the 29th day of April 1839 Before Me
Jno Laws, Alderman & Justice of the Peace

I also certify that Margaret Halt the subscribing witness to the above is a highly respectable old lady and that she is entitled to full credit as a witness, that her character for truth and veracity cannot be questioned.
Signed:  Jno Laws
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County ⎬ ss.

I William O Kline Esq
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said
County Do Certify that John Laws Esq. before whom
the within affadavit was made and by whom the
within Certificate [crossed out: and attention] was made and
given and whom his own proper hand writing
has hereunto severally subscribed his name was at
the time of so doing and now an alderman [^and Justice of the Peace] in
and for the County of Philadelphia [crossed out: and] duly [^commissioned] 
qualified to all whose acts as such full faith and credit
are and ought to be given as well in Courts of
Judicature as thereout.

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the Seal of the said Court at Philadelphia
this 30th day of April
1839.
W.O. Kline Prothy
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Payment to be made at
Washington, D. Cola [Columbia] 
John P. Van Ness
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the
Agency of the District of
Columbia

Payable on the 4th September and
4th March.

Recorded in the Pension Office, in
Book A - Vol. 1 - Page 245
WM Steuart
Clerk.
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War Department
Widow's pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of March 3, 1843,
Elizabeth Mory
widow of Lewis Mory
who was a Midshipman in the Revolutionary War
and died on the
13th. day of August, 1818,
---
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of one hundred and forty four
dollars and
cents per annum, commencing on the
4th March, 1843, and terminating on the 4th of March, 1844, unless
the Pensioner should marry or die before the last mentioned date; in which
case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage or death
Given at the War Office of the United States
this
21st day of April
one thousand eight hundred and forty three.

[very faint image of a round seal with pointed edges]
[no signature visible]
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Payment to be made
at Washington, D.C.a
by J. P. Van Ness
Agent for paying pensioners
in the Agency of the
District of Columbia
Payable on the 4th March
and 4th September in each
year
Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A. Vol. 2
Page 232 by Wm Stewart
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Five Years' Pension

I certify that with the act of July 7, 1838  Elizabeth Mory, widow of Lewis Mory, deceased, who was a midshipman in the Revolutionary War and died on the 13th of August,1818, is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of fifty-four dollars [crossed out: and --- cents] per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March 1830; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 6th day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine
Signed: J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War

{Examine and countersigned.}

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

[written diagonally over several lines of text: Cancelled]
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pension increased
for two years service
as Midshipman
$144
-
Act 7 July 1838
J.H. Causten
Washington City
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State of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County

Be it known that on the twenty-ninth day of April A.D. 1839 before the subscriber one of the Aldermen in and for the District of the Northern Liberties in said county and one of the justices of the peace in said aforesaid county personally appears, Sarah Norris a, resident of the District of the Northern Liberties in said county, aged seventy-two years, who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that she knew Lewis Mory intimately while the ship called the Confederacy was lying at the port of Philadelphia, that the said Lewis Mory was a midshipman on board the said ship Confederacy, that he was in the habit of visiting her father's house while he was an officer and that he continued on board the said vessel upwards of nine months, but how much longer she this deponent cannot now say.
Signed: Sarah Norris

Sworn to and subscribed the 29th day of April 1839 Before me
Jno Laws
Justice of the Peace Alderman

I do certify that Sarah Norris the subscribing witness to the above is a highly respectable and aged citizen of this district and that she is entitled to full credit and belief as a witness and that her character for veracity cannot be called in question.  
Signed:  Jno Laws

Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County
William O. Kline Esq.
Prothonotary of the court of common pleas of said county do certify that John Laws
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Before whom the within affidavit was made
and by whom the within Certificate was made
and given and whom his own proper handwriting 
has thereunto severally subscribed his name
was at the time of so doing and now an alderman 
and Justice of the Peace in and for said
County duly commissioned and qualified
to all whose acts as such full faith and Credit 
are and ought to be given as well in Courts of
Judication at the least.

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed 
fixed the Seal of the said Court
at Philadelphia this 30th day of
April 1839
[signature] W O Kline Prothy
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Diplomatic correspondence by Jared Sparks

Vol. 7   P. 165:

"W. Jay joined the congress on the7th Dec. {1778} and was elected president of that body three days afterward, as the successor of Henry Laurens.  He discharged this office with great dignity and credit to himself till September 27th, 1779, when he was appointed Minister Plan: to negotiate a treaty of amity with Spain.  He sailed for France about the first of November in the same ship with M. Gerard, who has been the late French minister in the United States.  Accidents at sea compelled the captain of the vessel to put into Martinique, where W. Jay sailed in another vessel for Europe, and arrived at Cadiz on the 22nd of January, 1780."

Page 169:  W. Jay instructions dated Sept. 29, 1779

Page 171:  Letter W. Jay to congress St. Pierre's Mart Sec. 20 1779.  "Having lost our Bowspit, all our masts and many of our sails, as well as split our rudder, off the banks of Newfoundland, we started for this island and arrived yesterday afternoon."

Page 172:  Letter to same to James Dec. 22 1779   "It seems agreed on all hands that the expense of refitting the Confederacy will be very considerable."  "I had written thus far when Capt. Harding called on me.  He has made out an estimate of the ship's wants, and given it to W. Bingham & C."
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Page 174:  Letter same to same Dec. 24, 1779
"On the 7th day of November last, between the hours of five and six in the morning in latitude 41.3 and longitude 50.39 W, the captain being in bed indisposed, and the master and second lieutenant on deck, the ship going nine knots an hour in a brisk breeze and rough seas, but by no means hard weather, her bowspit and all her masts gave way in less than three minutes.  The day was employed in clearing the ship of the wreck, and getting up a little sail; towards evening a heavy gale came on.  During the night the tiller was lashed fast, and she lay to (illegible) well, the wind blowing hard at southeast.  The next morning the shank of the rudder was found to be so much wrenched and split that the captain then told me he thought it a greater misfortune than the loss of the masts."  "Either this day or the next, I am not certain which. W. Gerard remarks to me, that without any previous counsel, it seems to be the unanimous opinion of the naval officers on board to go to the West Indies and that he believed it would be best, though he said he was at first inclined to oppose it."

Page 170:  "The council of officers was held on the 23rd November last.  The captain gave me their report, together with a return of the provisions and water on board, and assured me his readiness to proceed to any port whatever, that W. Gerard and myself should direct."
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Page 194:  Same to same Dec. 26, 1779

(W. Jay, W. Gerard took passage for France in the French freighter Aurora leaving the Confederacy to repair at St. Pierre's Mart.)  "We sail tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock.  

Page 197: W. Jay to Count Virgernes [Vergennes](?) Cadiz 27 Jan. 1780
"I sailed from American for France on the 26th of October last, with W. Gerard who was so obliging as to wait till I could embark in the frigate assigned for his services.  After being thirteen days at sea, the frigate was dismasted, and her rudder so much damaged that it was thought imprudent to proceed on our voyage.  We therefore started for Martinique and arrived there on the 18th of December."  "We left Martinique on the 28th of the same month in the Aurora in which I expected to have gone to Toulon."

Page 200:  W. Jay to (Joseph Galvez, minister of the Spanish court.  Cadiz Jan. 27 1780

"Thus commissioned I embarked  (illegible) delay on board the frigate, which has been appointed to carry Sieur Gerard to France and sailed with him for the kingdom from Pennsylvania on the 26th day of October last.  But after having been thirteen days at sea, the frigate was dismasted and her rudder so greatly injured, it obliged us to alter our course and steer for Martinique.  We arrived there on the 18th day of Dec. last, and sailed from there on the 28th day of the
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the same month in a French frigate which was bound to Trenton, but had [illegible] to touch at this port for intelligence.  We arrived here on it 22d [illegible] and &c, &c"
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Philadelphia
6 July 1844

James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Dear Sir:

I enclose for Ms.  Elizabeth Morey her declaration under oath before me, an alderman of this city where she resides, duly authenticated with a certificate under the hand and official seal of the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Philadelphia, of the official character of the alderman, both made in order to enable Ms. Morey to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 17 June 1844.

Ms. Morey is anxious that her pension certificate be forwarded to and made payable in this city.  Please forward it as soon as possible, either directly to her, or under cover to

Respectfully
Your Ob. St.
C. H. House (illegible)
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$54 per ann.
Dis. Columbia
Elizabeth Mory, Widow
of Lewis Mory
Midshipman
9 mo. service
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia

Be it known that on the twenty-ninth day of April A.D. 1829 before me the subscriber and alderman and Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Philadelphia and state aforesaid personally came and appeared Mary Martin, single woman a widow of the Northern Liberties in the county of Philadelphia, aged seventy-five years, who being duly sworn according to law doth declare and say that she was intimately acquainted with Lewis Morey during the Revolutionary War, that he frequently visited her father's house, that the said Lewis Morey was a midshipman on board the ship of war called the Confederacy, that she knew him to be on board the Confederacy as an officer upwards of nine months.

Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year above written
Before me
Signed:  John Laws
Alderman and Justice of the Peace

I certify that Mary Martin the subscribing witness to the above is a highly respectable lady and that she is entitled to full confidence and belief as a witness.
Signed:  John Laws

Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County

I, William O, Kline, Esq. Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do certify that John Laws, Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and by whom the foregoing certificate was made and
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Given and whom by our proper hand residing
has thereunto severally subscribed his
name was at the time of so doing and now
is an alderman and Justice of the Peace in
and for said County duly commissioned
and qualified to all whose acts as such full
faith and credit on and ought to be given
as well in Court of Judicature as there onto

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Seal of the said Court
at Philadelphia this 30th day
of April 1839
W. O. Kline Prothy
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The Frigale Confederacy in a/c with the United States Cr

By his pay a midshipman on Board the Frigate Confederacy from 23 May 2- 23d July 1780 per roll & pay offer Books
23 dollars 19 cts

Treasury Department 
Auditor office May 3d 1792
Stated & Examined Ss
Doyle Sweeny

Comptrollers office
May 4 1792
Ed A Brodie

Treasury Department
Registry Office Oct 10th 1838
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a line copy of the original settlement on file of record in this office
T S Smith
Register
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Dr Lewis Mory late midshipman on Board

To Balance due L Mory to bear interest from 23d July 1780 .... dollars 23.19

[vertically along left edge]
J.H. Causten
Pleas March 4
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4633
D [illegible initial]
7 July 1838

James H Causten
[illegible abbreviation]
May 2
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District of Columbia
City of Washington to wit: }

Be it known, and it is hereby certified, that on the 2nd day of May 1839, before me, James H. Causten, notary public, by lawful authority commissioned and sworn personally appeared Elizabeth Mory, widow of Lewis Mory, deceased, who being duly sworn according to law did declare and say that the paper writing hereto annexed was by her cut out of an account and memorandum book, which was kept by her late husband, Lewis Mory, and that the entire contents of said book including said paper writing is in his proper hand writing, and that he died on the 13th day of August 1818.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my notarized seal on the day and year first above written.
Signed:  James. H. Causten
Notary Public

Signed:  Elizabeth Mory
[circular seal on the left]
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In the year 1777 a Midships in the Ship Confedary [Confederacy] 
Seth Hardind [Harding] Commander I went onbord [on board] 
[crossed out: Latter and of (illegible)] in the fall of that year
In the ^ year 1779 beaing [being] apointed [appointed] a
Midshipman in the Ship Confedracy [Confederacy] Seth
Handing [Harding] Commander, I went on bord [onboard] of her while
She was on the Dock at Cocatanuck [Poquetanuck]
in New London River and about one
month after she was lanchd [launched] went to
New London [crossed out: and from their] [illegible] the
Ship was finished and in the spring
1789 prosceded [proceeded] to Philadelphia and from
thence went on a Cruise of the [illegible] 
ware [where] we took three prises [prizes] and returnd [returned] to the 
Delenare [Delaware] and then went on one other Cruse [Cruise] in
the Lattidue [Lattitude] of thirty [five crossed out] ^two but took
Nothing and returnd [returned] to Philadelphia
whare [where] we took onbord [on board] Mr
John (Jay) Gay and the french ambasidore [ambassador] for
france  While on our pasage [passage] Near the banks
of New found land Newfoundland] we lost all the
our masts ^[illegible] and the head of the Rudder
Wich [which] oblegged [obliged] us have [heave] up for the West
Indes [Indies] and arrived in Martinece [Martinique] and
Refitted and then returned to Philadelphia
and on the Foray at Cape henlopen
last the Second Leutinant [Lieutenant] Thomas Vaughn
and four men [illegible, crossed out] Going on shore for
A Pilot - the nex [next] day proseaded [proceeded] to
towards Philadelphia where we arived [arrived] [^in (illegible) Martinique] [and crossed out] 
May 1780 and there lay untill [until] the Month of July
whare [where] all hands ware [were] discharged

Lieutenant
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District of Columbia
City of Washington, to wit:
On the 2d day of May 1839, before me R.S. Briscoe, a justice of the peace for Washington County, in the District of Columbia, personally appeared James H Causten of said city and District, a person or respect, ability to me long and well known, who, being duly sworn according to law, did declare and say, that he is fifty years of age, that he has known Elizabeth Mory, now the widow of Lewis Mory, from his childhood, that when a boy he lived for some years in the family of said Lewis and Elizabeth in the City of Philadelphia, that after he had arrived at manhood and had a family, at Baltimore, said Lewis and Elizabeth visited him from time to time and as often became intimates if deponents family, the said Lewis was a respectable ship mast and ship owner of Philadelphia for many years prior to the year 1818, and that in same year said Lewis sailed upon a boy age in the employ of deponent, or ship master, and upon that voyage did - that said Elizabeth remains the widow of said Lewis, and is no and has been for the last two years an inmate of deponents family - that during a period of forty years and more deponent has had an intimate knowledge of said Elizabeth to whose respectability of character and exemplary deportment
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department he fully testifies and knows that such was the general character of said Lewis and Elizabeth up to the time of the death of said Lewis, and until such is still the character of said Elizabeth.  And deponent further declares that he is well acquainted with the hand writing of said Lewis, with whom he held a constant written correspondence for many years up to the time of his death, and has not  the smallest doubt that the paper writing hereto annexed is in this proper hand writing and was written by said Lewis - that the same was cut out of an account and memorandum books (kept by said Lewis) in the presence of deponent.
[signed] James H Causten
Sworn to and subscribed before me. May 2d 1839-
R.S. Briscoe 
J. Peace
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[left column]
No 18
Pa
Eliz Morey [Mory]
Act 3 Mar 1843

James H Causter J
Prest [Present]
Mar 23 43

[right column]
18
Elizabeth Morey [Mory]
D. C.
Act 3. March 1843
24 mo Midshn [Midshipman]
144$

JH. Causter Esqr
Present
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[left column]
No 18
Pa
Eliz Morey [Mory]
Act 3 Mar 1843

James H Causter J
Prest [Present]
Mar 23 43

[right column]
18
Elizabeth Morey [Mory]
D. C.
Act 3. March 1843
24 mo Midshn [Midshipman]
144$

JH. Causter Esqr
Present
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[illegible, octagon-shaped emblem on the left]

Declaration
in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d of March
1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received
pensions under the act of July 7th 1838.

State of Pennsylvania
City of Philadelphia, to wit. } ss
On this twentieth day of March One thousand
eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before me William
Milner an Alderman [^and as officio] a Justice of the Peace in and for the City of Philadelphia,
Mrs Elizabeth Mory, a resident of the City of Philadelphia, aged
seventy five years who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her
oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits
of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d of
March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the
Revolutionary war.  that she is the widow ^of Lewis Mory, who was a
Midshipman in the Navy of the United States and served on board
the Frigate Confederacy and that she received for five years the
annual pension of one hundred and forty four dollars under the
act of Congress of July 7th 1838.   She further declares that she is
Still a widow.
[signature] Elizabeth Mory

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year ^above written before
[signature] William Milner Alderman & Justice of the Peace
And I the said justice of the Peace, do certify that the
declarant is personally known to me, and is a lady of respectability.
[signature] William Milnor Alderman & Justice of the Peace

Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County } ss
I Richard Palmer Jr Esq. Prothonotary
of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do
Certify that William Milnor Esq before whom the foregoing 
affidavit was made and whom by his own proper
hand writing has thereunto subscribed his name was
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At the time of so doing and now is an alderman in and
for the City of Philadelphia and Ex Officio of Justice of the Peace
duly commissioned and qualified to all whose acts as such full 
Faith and Credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Judicature 
as thereout

of Testimony whereof I have hereunto
Set my hand and affixed the Seal of
the Said Court at Philadelphia this
20th March 1843
[signature] R Palmer Jr. Prothonotary
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1844 granting pensions for four years to certain widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7 1838

State of Pennsylvania
City of Philadelphia} Ss.

On this fifth day of July 1844 personally appeared before the subscriber an Alderman of the city of Philadelphia  Elizabeth Mory a resident of the said city of Philadelphia in the county of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 17th June 1844, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.  That she is the widow of Lewis Mory who was a Midshipman in the United States Navy and served on board the Ship Confederacy and that she received a pension of One hundred and forty four dollars per annum under the act of July 7, 1838.  She further declares that she is still a widow. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
Elizabeth Mory

Th Christian
War
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County } Ss
I Richard Palmer Jr Esq  Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that [illegible] Christian Esq before whom the foregoing declaration on Oath was made and who in his own proper hand writing has Hereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing and now is an alderman in and for the city of Philadelphia and ex officio a justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified to all whose acts as such full faith and Credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Judicature as this court 

In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Philadelphia this 5th day of July 1844
R Palmer Jr Prothonotary