Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40619, John Verner, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
CONTENTS
Verner, John
NUMBER
S 40619
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Notification sent to the Hon. Geo. Denison, H.R. 5 Jany [January] 1821.

8877
Pennsylvania
John Verner, of Luzerne Co. the state of Pennsylva. [Pennsylvania], who was a
private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Harmar of the Pennsylva. [Pennsylvania] [line], for the term of two years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of May, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17, of March, 1818 and sent to Jesse Fell, judge, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

Arrears to 4th of March, 1819. $74.00
Semi-anl. all'ce [annual allowance] ending 4. Sept. 1819 48 "
$122.00
9 mos: 8/31}

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
not entitled
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R. Harris House R
Hon. R. Harris, H. R.
recd. Jan 26. 1826.
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Declaration of John Verner, of Salem, in Luzerne County Pennsylvania in order to be restored to the Pension List, under the act of the first of March 1823 -
State of Pennsylvania,}
Luzerne County ss}
On this third day of August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty there [three] personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, to wit, the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne, and State aforesaid, John Verner, resident in the said County of Luzerne and State aforesaid, aged sixty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, and the first of May 1820, that he the said John Verner enlisted in the Revolutionary War for the term during the war, in the State of Pennsylvania in the Company commanded by Captain Doyle in the first Pennsylvania
Regiment commanded by Colonel Harmer, in the line of the State of Pennsylvania on the Continental Establishment; that he continued to serve serve years, and until the establishment of Peace in 1783, when he was discharged from the service in or near the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, as his former declaration will make appear; that his name has been placed on the Pension List, and ceased therefrom on account of his property, and in pursuance of the Act of 1st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish my property so as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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," passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in my name or in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or Debts, due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed. (Signed) John Verner
Sworn & subscribed to in open Court, august 5, A. D. 1823.}
Samuel Maffet, Prot.
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Schedule of the Property of within named John Verner
One ten acre Lot of land in Salem township Luzerne County aforesaid, including a small Improvement, and a small log cabbin, [cabin]  $100.00
Two Cows valued at - 16.00
Two Sheep, valued at - 2.--
Two Hogs valued at - 3.--
One Table valued at - .50
One 1/2 dozen of Knives and forks, valued at - .67
Two Iron Pots, valued at - .50
One half dozen of Cups & Saucers valued at - .50
One Scythe valued at - .50
Two weeding Hoes, valued at - .50
$125.67
We the undersigned, do certify that we have this day valued the
foregoing property, and to the best of our Judgt. [Judgement] - Witness our hands this 5th day of August 1823 - 
(Signed)
Nathan Beach
William Hicks
That since the exhibition of my first Schedule, the following changes have been made in my property, to wit:
Ninety and of land, valued at -
Sold last year in Autumn of 1822, to pay the Debts mentioned in last statement}
Two Horses, valued at -}
My family consists at present, of my wife, aged sixty three years, and one daughter aged fifteen years, and myself, and we all live with my son George. (Signed)
John Verner
Sworn, subscribed to, and declared in open Court, August, 1823}
Samuel Moffit, Prot.
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State of Pennsylvania}
Luzerne County}
I Charles D Shoemaker Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said John Verner did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for several years and until the establishment of peace in 1783 under one engagement on the continental establishment I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed an truly copied from the records of said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total
amount in value of the property exhibition the aforesaid schedule is One Hundred and
Dollars and sixty seven cents. In Testimony in whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this thirty first day of December 1825
C D Shoemaker
Prothonotary of the Court
of Com Pleas for Luz [Luzerne] County
[stamp on left margin]
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John Verner
8877
17 Mar 1818

not entitled
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District of Pennsylvania ss.
On this Eighth day of August A.D. Eighteen Hundred & Twenty personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas holden in Wilkes Barre for the County of Luzerne being a Court of Record, proceedings according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceeding, John Verner, aged sixty three, resident in Luzerne County in said district, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the Eighteenth of March Eighteen Hundred & Eighteen & first of may Eighteen Hundred & twenty. That he served in the Revolutionary War in the company of Captain Doyle in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hanner in the line of the State of Pennsylvania, and has obtained a pension under the act of the Eighteenth of March Eighteen Hundred & Eighteen his certificate being numbered Eight Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy seven (8877) and pay commencing on the twenty eighth of may Eighteen hundred & Eighteen. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March Eighteen Hundred &
Eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent  thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress "entitled" an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the Eighteenth day of March Eighteen hundred & Eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have any income other than what is contained in the Statement hereto annexed and by me subscribed
John Verner
Schedule of Property
I have besides necessary clothing & being
Three cows at Ten dolls [dollars] each $30,00- Two Heifers six sheep 17.00 There iron pots one old iron kettle 4. 00 - one dozen cups & saucers 0.75 Half dozen pewter places, one dozen knives & forks 1.00 - six swine Two Horses 62.00 one poplar table alf dozen chairs - 1.00 one hundred acres of Land for which I gave three dollars per acre, 1200"00 there is a mortgage upon the land for one Hundred & fifty dollars of the purchase money total $1315. 75
The following debts are due to me but it is doubtfull [doubtful] whether they are recoverable One debt of Ten dollars, one debt of Two dollars & one other debt of Five dollars
I am indebted in the following sums one debt of one hundred dollars, one debt of one hundred & twenty dollars on debt of One Hundred & forty dollars one debt of about ten dollars due the Blacksmith one debt of Five dollars
I have no trade and by reason of age & infirmities am not able to do
much work of any kind I have no family residing with me but my wife
Mary aged sixty years weakly & infirm and two children one a girl aged
ten years named Sarah & a boy aged Eighteen years named William
John Verner
Sworn and subscribed in open Court August 1820}
A Beaumont Prothy [Prothonotary]
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss
I Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is  thirteen hundred and fifteen Dollars and seventy five Cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on the Twenty sixth day
of August AD 1820
A. Beaumont Prot [Prothonotary]
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John Varner
John Verner private
Harmer's Pa Regt 
1781 to 1783
28th May 1818

Correct by Roll
Admd [admitted] 
[illegible]
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss
Personally came before the Subscriber President Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District of the State aforesaid John Verner of Salem in the County of Luzerne who being duly sworn did depose and declare that he enlisted at Easton in the year 1781 and was in the Company of Capt [Captain] Doyle in the 1st Pennsya [Pennsylvania] Regiment Commanded by Col: Harmer and served until one thousand seven hundred and Eighty three when he was discrahed [discharged] as by the discharge herewith forwarded fully appears that he has never received a pension from the United States and from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his
Country for support -
John Verner
Sworn & Subscribed the before me the day & year [illegible] } 
[illegible]

I James Burnside President Judge of the 11th Judicial district in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Verner did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the late act of Congress
[illegible] Burnside
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Luzerne County ss:
I Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Luzerne Do certify that Thomas Burnside Esq is and was at the time of signing and taking the foregoing Depositions and certifying the Same President Judge of the eleventh Judicial District of the State of Pennsylvania that the signature is his proper hand writing and that due & full faith and credit are due to his Official acts and Deeds as such. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of said County at Wilkesbarre [Wilkes Barre] in the County and State afsd [aforesaid] the twenty eighth day of May AD 1818
A Beaumont Prothy [Prothonotary]
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We do hereby certify that we are acquainted with John Varner of Salem Township in the County of Luzerne, and state of Pennsylvania and know him to be in low circumstances, with a large family, and therefore are of opinion that he stands in need
of some assistance.-
Salem Jany [January] 20th 1819
Alexr [Alexander] Jameson
Nathan Beach
Josiah Beach
John Rhoads

I Jesse Fell a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in & for the County of Luzerne in the eleventh Judicial District in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Doth Certify to the Secretary at War that the signers of the above Certificate are well known to me and I believe full faith and credit may be placed in their certificate
Given under my hand at Wilkesbarre [Wilkes Barre] in said County of Luzerne January 25th 1819-
Jesse Fell
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[illegible] 
Jan 22
Free
N Beach
[illegible]
Jesse Fell Esqr [Esquire]
Wilkesbarre [Wilkes Barre]
P.a) [Pa.]

State of Pennsylvania}
Luzerne County ss}
I Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that Jesse Fell Esqr [Esquire] is now and was at the time of making the within certificate an acting Associate Judge in and for the County of Luzerne aforesaid duly authorised [authorized] and Commissioned as such that the within is his own proper signature and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Wilkes Barre this twenty sixth day of January 1819
A. Beaumont Prot [Prothonotary]
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October 11, 1934
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
William Moore- W.4296
John Verner-40619
BA-J/AWF

Miss Elma C. Bishop
1896 W. Front Street
Berwick, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

    The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 4296, based upon the Revolutionary War service of William Moore.

    The date and place of birth of this soldier are not shown in the claim, nor are the names of his parents given.

   He enlisted in Morristown, New Jersey in August, 1777, served as a private in Catains Morrison's, Jacob Paitt's, Forman's and Mitchell's companies in Colonel Matthias Ogden's First New Jersey regiment; he was in the battle of Springfield and at the taking o Cornwallis, and was discharged June 5, 1783.

    He was allowed pension on his application executed April 30, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty years and nine months and was residing in Nescopeck, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

    In 1820 he stated that he had no wife but had six children living with him - Jacob aged sixteen years; Abraham aged fifteen years; Elias aged thirteen years; Margaret aged eleven years; David aged nine years; and George Washington aged five years.  He did not give the name of this wife nor are there any particulars in regard to her.

    William Moore married November 2, 1821, Mary,  (next page)
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her maiden name not given, nor is it shown where they were married.

    The soldier, William Moore, died June 19, 1841.  His widow, Mary Moore, was allowed pension on her application executed November 23, 1853, at which time she was aged sixty-four years and living in Nescopeck. Pennsylvania.  She died December 26, 1857.

    Philip Klinetob in 1854 of Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, stated that he married a daughter of the soldier, William Moore, but he did not give her name.  There are no further data relative to children.

                   *********************

John Verner - S.40619

    The record of John Verner which follows were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 40619, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution.

    The date and place of birth of this soldier are not shown, not are the names of his parents given.

    John Verner enlisted in Easton, Pennsylvania in January 1781, served as a private in Captain Doyle's company, Colonel Marmar's First Pennsylvania regiment, and was discharged August 13, 1783.

    He was allowed pension on his application executed May 28, 1818, then living in Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

    He gave his age in 1820 as sixty-three years, and the age of his wife, Mary, sixty years, and at that time referred to two children - William, aged eighteen years and Sarah aged ten years.  He gave his (next page)
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age sixty-eight years in 1823, no explanation given as to this discrepancy in years; in 1823, the soldier, John Verner, his wife, and a daughter aged fifteen years were all residing with his son, George, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

    The soldier died November 21, 1846.  1828 -AB
                                   Very truly yours

                                   A.D. Hiller
                                   Assistant to Administrator
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THESE are to CERTIFY that the bearer hereof John Vernar [Verner] Soldier in the 1st Pennsylvania regiment, having faithfully served the United States from January 27th
to the present date and being inlisted [enlisted] for the war is hereby discharged from the American army.
Given at the war office the 13th August 1783
By order of the secretary at war, B Lincoln
Jos Caldon [illegible]
Registered in the books of the regiment,
Rich Fullerton adjutant.
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War [illegible] august 13th, 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the bearer as a discharge, until the ratification of the definitive treaty of peace; previous to that time, and until proclamation thereof shall be made, he is to be considered as being on furlough.
B. LINCOLN.

John Verner
S. F40619
[illegible]
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A blank page.
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40619
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 40619
John Verner Priv Rev War

Act: 18" March 18"

Index: - Vol. 5, Page 524

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1909 June 4 Hist. to Mrs. Allie Compton
1912 May 11 Hist to Mrs. Rice Naff V. L. M. 
1934. Oct. 11. Hist to Miss Elena C. Bishop see her letter in
William Moore W 4296 [illegible]
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Consolidated with D. W. Inv. File 40,619
42573
INVALID.
Rev War
File No. 42573
John Verner Pri [Private] Rev War

Act: 18" March 18"
6
Index: -- Vol. 5, Page 524
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Rev.

Pittston, Pa May 26
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir,

    I would like to find out if possible, concerning a Continental Soldier a pensioner a Pennsylvania. He lived the last years of his life at Salem Luzerne Co. Pennsylvania.  He drew his pension at Wilkes-Barre. His name was John Varner 8877 1835. He was great grandfather, I desire to become a member of the D.A.R. and need knowledge concerning his record.  Can your department assist me in obtaining it?

                               Yours respectfully,
                                Mrs. Allie Compton
                                Pittston R.F.D. No. 1
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40,619 Verner John - Pa & 1818 - 1832
                                           8877 - 18350
42,573 Verner John - Pa. & 40619 42573



(Date stamps)

RECORD                         42573
    MAY                           40819
      27                              PENSION
    1909                                   A
DIVISION                             MAY
                                        U.  27  S.
                                            1908
                                           OFFICE
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Kansas City, Mo.
May 4, 1912

N  Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Messrs:
    I should like to join the daughters of the American revolution in this city and would greatly appreciate it if you would send me the proper credentials.
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My great grandfather's name was John Verner.  He enlisted Jan. 1781 and served until 1783 - Captain Doyle.  He enlisted at Easton, Pa. My great grand mother's name was Mary.  when great grandfather applied for a pension, he lived with his son, George, my grandfather, in Calem Luzerne, Co., Pa.  He applied in 1823. My mother's name was Mary Verner and she married Ansel Heckman.  Ny maiden name was Alice Heckman.
Thanking you, in advance, I am respectfully yours, Mrs. Rice Neff 137 So. Elmwood Ave.
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...sion on file in the Bureau. John Verner. Lur. File 40619.

Dates of enlistment or Appointment/Length of Service/rank/Officers Under whom Service Was Rendered/State.

Jany 1781/Aug 13, 1783/Pvt/Captain Doyle Colonel Harmar/Penn 

Battles engaged, (not listed)
Residence of Soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Easton
Date of application for pension, May 28, 1818 Hist. cl was al.
residence at date of application, Salem twp, Luzerne Co. Penn.
Age at date of application, 61 years
Remarks:  In 1820 soldier wife Mary was 60 years old and daughter Sarah 10 yrs & son William 18 yrs old.  In 1823 he states they were living with his son George in Luzerne Co., Pa.  He died Nov. 21 - 1846.

renamed May 10 - 1912.
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John Verner decd [deceased]
Pa roll act of
Capt [Captain] Doyle Penn
May 15, 1828,
let to Hon O.D. Leib June 16 '47
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John Varner
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Declaration of John Varner of Salem in Luzerne County Pennsylvania in order to be
restored to the Pension List under the act of the 1st of March 1823.-
State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County SS. On this   day of August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty three personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record to wit the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne and State aforesaid John Varner resident in the said County of Luzerne and State aforesaid
aged sixty eight years who being first duly sworn According to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st May 1820. that he the said John Verner enlisted during the Revolutionary war for the Term during the war in the State of Pennsylvania in the Company commanded by Captain Doyle in the first Pennsylvania Regiment Commanded by Colonel Farmer in the line of the State of Pennsylvania on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve several years and until the establishment of Peace in 1783, when he was discharged from the service in or near the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania as his former declaration will make appear.. that his name has been placed on the pension list and erased therefrom  on account of his property - and in pursuance of the act of 1st May 1820. - I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish my property as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provided for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in my name or in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed & by me subscribed
John Verner
Sworn & Subscribed to in open Court August 5th Anno Domini 1823}
Samuel Maffit Prot [Prothonotary]
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Schedule of Property of the within named John Verner.
One ten acre lot of land in Salem township, Luzerne County aforesaid including a small improvement and a small lob cabin.  Valued at $100
two cows                                  Valued at   16.00
two sheep                                 Valued at     2.00
two hogs                                   Valued at     3.00
one table                                   Valued at     0.50
one half dozen of knives & forks Valued at  0.67
two iron pots                              Valued at   2.00
one half dozen of cups & saucersValued at 0.50
one scythe                                    Valued at 0.50
two weeding hoes                        Vauled at 0.50
                                                                 _______
                                                              $ 125.67

We the under signed do certify that we have this day valued the foregoing property and to the best of our judgement witness our hands this 5th day of August 1823. 
                                                  //s//
                                             Nathan Beach
                                             William Hicks
that since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changed have been made in my property to wit: ninety acres of land valued at ... sold last years in Autumn of 1822 to pay debts mentioned in last statement.....two horses - valued at -----my family consists at presents of my wife aged sixty three years and one daughter aged fifteen years & myself and we all live with my son George.  
                                              //s//
                                          John Verner
Sworn and subscribed to
and declared in open court 5th August 1823.
                                 //s//
                        Samuel Maffet Proth.
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State of Pennsylvania}
Luzerne County ss:}
Samuel Moffit Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify hereby, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court, And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the Property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is One Hundred and twenty five Dollars and Sixty Seven cents. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty Seventh day of September A. D. 1823
Samuel Maffet Prot.
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Pennsylvania
John Verner
aged 68 - wife 63 yrs old- daughter 15 - all lives with his son George. 
served 2 yrs from 1781.-
1st Sched: (s Augt. [August] 1820, exhibits 100 acres of land ("for which he gave $[illegible]. $1200! mortgaged for $150 of the purchase money"--
3 cows $3- 2 heifers 6 Sheep. $17. &c whole amt. of sched: $1315.75- about $17 due
him. states debts he owes
(not naming to whom) viz 100
"120
"140
"10
"5
$375
off, Jany [January] 1821. Application for restoration, as [illegible] 2d sched: 5th Augt [August] 1823 -
2d sched: exhibits 10 acres of land, with small [illegible] Cabbin [cabin] - valued at $100
2 Cows $16, 2 sheep. $2 - 2 hogs, $3. & a few small articles of furniture in all, $25.67 whole amt of sche [schedule] $125.67-
=states, that he sold in the Autumn of 1822, 90 acres of the land in 1st sched valued at . . . to pay debts no name of person to whom sold. -
"2 Horses, valued at . . . " does not say what went with this . . . !
= States that himself, wife & daughter, aged 15 y live with his son George. - see letter 16 Oct. 1823.
=Saml. [Samuel] Maffet, Esqr [Esquire]
Wilkesbarre, Pa"
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Pension office
June 16. 1847
Sir,
I herewith return the letter of Mr. Rhodes, and have the honor to inform you that if the widow of John Verner decd [deceased] was married to him prior to the year 1794, she should make application for a
pension under the act of June 17. 1844, but comply with the regulations adopted under the Act of July 7. 1838, a copy of which are herewith enclosed. If the claim be established her pension will commence on the
day of his death.
His pension under the law of May 15 1828 was paid to the 4th of September 1846. The arrears due from that date to the period of his death, will be paid by J R Snowden Esq Treasurer of the Mint, and Pension agent Philadelphia in the production of such vouchers as the enclosed printed sheets point out.
Hon O. D. Leib. [illegible]
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John Verner, Pennsylvania roll, Act May 15. 1828 $80 per Ann.
[illegible] to say to what time he was last paid.
Pension office}
June 16 1847.}
Paid to 4th Sept 1846.
BLB
Nov. 21- 1846 - 1828 Agency Book
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Act 1828
Settled at Treasury Consd [consolidated] with Invalid file # 42.573
840
John Verner's declaration accompanied with a Power to A. Ogden [illegible]
Presenter
he
22 May 1828
-
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Revolutionary Claims.
[B.]I
Form of a declaration to be made by the Non-Commissioned Officers, Musicians, and Privates.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I, John Verner
of Salem in the county of Luzerne in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a private in Captain Doyle's Company, in the First Regiment, of the Pennsylvania Line. And, I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars; to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May, 1778.
And I further declare, that I was not on the fifteenth day of May, 1828, on the Pension List of the United States. [footnote sign]

Witness my hand, this 29th day of July in the year 1828.
John Verner

Before me, [footnote sign] Alex Jameson in the county of Luzerne in the State of Pennsylvania, personally
appeared, this day, John Klerlop and Joseph Jameson the said county, who did severally make oath that
John Verner by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand, this 29th day of July in the year 1828.
sworn and subscribed before me Alexr [Alexander] Jameson J. P.
John Klientole
Jos Jameson

I, Charles D Shoemaker Clerk of the Court of the County of Luzerne in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify, that Alexander Jameson Esqr. [Esquire] before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the [I.S.] said Court, this fourth day of August A.D. 1828
C. D. Shoemaker Clerk

*Sergeant Corporal, Musician, or Private, as the case may be.
[footnote sign] The claimant, though not on the pension list on the 15th May, 1828, may have been on the list on or since the 3d of March, 1826, and afterwards stricken off: if so, he will add, and that I have received of the United States, as a pensioner, since the 3d of March, 1826, the sum of  dollars, paid to me by the Agent for paying pensions in the State of   .
[footnote sign]Here insert a Justice of the Peace, or other Magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths.
[footnote sign]Justice of the Peace, or otherwise, as the case may be.
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No. of Original [illegible] 612
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASUREY DEPARTMENT,
Augt, [August] 29, 1828
John Verner of Salem, in the County of Luzerne, in the State of Penna. has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in Captain Doyle's company, in the First regiment of the Pennsylvania line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
4th September 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to John Vernor in the Pennsylvania line
It further appears that John Vernor is now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826
Peter Hagner Aud
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No 75,224