Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3,478, Thomas Tweedy, Continental
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Tweedy, Thomas                N. 3478
Jane
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Reported
2180
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Jane Tweedy widow of Thomas Tweedy who served in the Revolutionary war, as a gunner of artillery, inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars [symbol] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Sept. 1848 and sent to
Jane [illegible]
Philadelphia Pa
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1949, page 284 vol. 2
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[stamp]
June 29 42
J. L. Edwards [illegible]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Sir.
I have received this evening from two answers in this case's filing the claim of Mrs. Jane Tweedy.  In this first lady's case in [illegible] your list maintains James Miller's name is [illegible] I know for certain it is, that his name is regularly enrolled in that corps, and is found among others in the list printed,  I presume, from those obtained from the Bounty Land Office in Senate Document no. 42 of the 20 Congress, final session page 42!!  How it happens not to be in your list I do not know, but it is certain it is there. I beg that from thence you will have that examined again in the [illegible] listing you missed from Pennsylvania I cannot say but it is certain that his name is on the Rolls. I will [illegible] to see if it is there.  In Mrs. Tweedy's case you require impossibility you have no right to ask. How can that be furnished that has no existence?  I apprehend that there is appropriate proof of the existence of the fact Mr. Heizer is an unimpeachable witness in that he [illegible] not any motive to distort the truth. His memory
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has been tested by references which fully [illegible] and his capacity. Memory and accuracy has been fully certified by the respectable magistrate before whom his testimony was taken. But his statements on his [illegible] by [illegible] respectable witness, Dr. Humphrey [illegible] he states that he knows these parties as man and wife [illegible] before 1800. In the [illegible] unimpeachable [illegible] added to this as they, and the [illegible] on the of the party applicants I answer the calling for some proof a [illegible] of the right of the parties. This indeed difficult to any. In that will satisfy the exercise of a preemptory judgement that act from no fixed principles except the arbitrary ones of known or prejudice. I regret exceedingly the necessity of using such language, but my feelings can scarcely be other than excited after the pains taken in this [illegible] case to clean up there [illegible] in conjecture as to the memory of the witnesses, which other conservative testimony can be obtained I know not, but this I know, that I will if possible provide whatever may exist for his pension shall not be lost if I can help it.
[illegible]
C. S. Jack
Philadelphia
June 25
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State of Pennsylvania SS.
On this 15th day of February AD 1842, personally appeared in open Court of Common Plea before the Honorable Archibald Randall, Judge of said Court, Jane Tweedy, a resident of the City of Philadelphia, aged about seventy-one years, who being duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of Thomas Tweedy, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war in Colonel Thomas [illegible] regiment and had a pension from the United States up to the time of his decease, which she thinks was sixty dollars per annum. She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Tweedy in the year 1792 in the month of December, but the day of the month she cannot remember, by Squire Richardson of Shearman's Valley in this State. Deponent never had a Marriage Certificate, and the said Squire Richardson moved to the State of Tennessee about Forty-four or five years ago, and she has never heard of him since. That deponent had no [illegible] of the marriage in any way, and there is no person now living that she knows of that were present or could prove her marriage as she has removed from said Valley about forty-three years. She has no evidence either of the baptism of her children in any Bible in which they are set down. That the children which she had by her said husband were Martha, born on the
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the twentieth of January AD 1793. Elizabeth, born in August 1795. Robert, born February 1798. Ann, born February 16, 1800. Jane, born August 18. 1802. William, born in February 1804. John, born in March 1808, and Hannah in August 1812. She further declares that she gave the bible containing the entry in hand of these births to her daughter Jane, who lost it. That she was not married to her said husband 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 before stated, and that her said husband died in the year 1812, as he has never been heard of from that time and that she has been be married since.
Jane Tweedy [her mark]
Sworn to and subscribed before me in open Court as aforesaid the several instances being first stated. 
Feby 15 1842
Thomas D Smith
Prothonotary
Jane Reese, formerly Jane Tweedy, being duly sworn according to law, says that she is the daughter of the said Thomas Tweedy and Jane Tweedy and that her said mother gave her the Bible as she has stated and it is lost and further that she has often seen the entries in the Bible of her mother  and that as near as she can recollect, the ages of the children set down in it were the same as stated by her mother and that
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she was about ten years of age when her father died.
Jane Reese
Sworn to and subscribed in open court aforesaid this 15th day of February 1842.
Thomas D Smith
Prothonotary
Personally appeared in open Court aforesaid Miss Abagail Parsons, aged about forty-six years, who being affirmed saith that she has known the said Jane Tweedy and her daughter for some years and that they are people of credit and respectability and they of belief upon them [illegible].
Abigail Parsons
Affirmed to and subscribed before me this 15th day of February 1842.
Thomas D Smith
Prothonotary
I certify that it has been duly proved before me in open court of Ammon [illegible] Mrs. Jane Tweedy, and Jane Reese are persons of credit and respectability and [illegible] of belief of the oath in [illegible] this 15th day of February AD, 1842, and that the declaration of the said Jane Tweedy was made in open Court as stated by the prothonotary.
Arch Randall
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Pennsylvania}
Philadelphia County } ss
I Samuel Hart Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County do certify that Archibald Randall Esquire by whom the foregoing certificate
was made and given and who has thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing and still is a Judge of the Court of Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia 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 elsewhere 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 15th day of February A.D. 1822
S . Hart Prothonotary
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Rev. War Section
Mrs. Thomas J. Hanna
254 Pacific St.,
Franklin, Pa.

August 24, 1923
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 3478 it appears that
Thomas Tweedy enlisted April 10, 1777 and served as a
Gunner in Captain Emes' Company, Colonel Thomas Proctor's
4th Continental Artillery.
He was allowed pension under the Act of July 7, 1785 for disability incurred in the above service. In 1820 he was a resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He
died in 1821 in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Soldier married in December 1792 in Shearman's Valley, Pennsylvania, Jane born February 25, 1769 and who was
allowed pension on her application executed February 15, 1842 while a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
She was still living in 1848. Their children were
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as follows:
Martha born January 20, 1793.
Elizabeth August, 1795.
Robert February -- 1798.
Ann February 16, 1800.
Jane August 18, 1802, married Rease.
William February -- 1804.
John March, 1808.
Hannah August -- 1812.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Mr Tweedy [illegible]

Philadelphia, Pa
April 2, 1842.
Affidavit of Jane Tweedy, and letter of Simon Drum as to the death of Thomas Tweedy.
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In the Matter of the claim of Mrs. Jane Tweedy for a pension.
Personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas, Jane Tweedy, who being duly sworn says that since the making of her claim [illegible] in this case, that she has received positive intelligence that her husband died in the year 1821 and not at the time set forth in her declaration and that this is shown by a letter hereto appended from Simon Drum, Esquire, of Pennsburg, Penn. by hand.
Jane Tweedy [her mark]
Sworn and subscribed before me this second day of April AD, 1842.
J. R. Jones
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County, SS.
I. Samuel Hart, Esq., Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do certify that the Hon. J.R. Jones, Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and who in his own proper handwriting has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing and now is one of the Associate Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas (which is a Court of Record and of Law) 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 indicated [illegible] as thereon.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Philadelphia
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This fifth day of May AD 1822 
          
             S. Hart Prothonotary
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Letter from S Drum, Esq.
Post [illegible] Greensburg, PA.
about Thomas Tweedy, Deceased
Free
[illegible]
C.J. Jack, Esquire
Philadelphia
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P.O.
Greensburg, Pa. 8 March 1842
Dear sir,
In answer to your letter of the 4th instant, I can state that Thomas Tweedy, a Revolutionary Pensioner, came to this place from Tennessee in the spring of 1820. He was miserably poor and in ill health. Having lost his certificate, a duplicate was obtained by me from the war office, in which his pension was obtained up to the time of his death in 1821. Some gentlemen here interested themselves in behalf of Tweedy, got him good clothing and boarding with a German farmer who resided near this place, where he died and was decently buried. The farmer's name was Leonard Miller, who died shortly after Tweedy and the family reside about five miles from here. Tweedy was of [illegible] intemperate habits, had several attacks of [illegible] and ultimately became paralytic, before his death, Miller was to clothe, board and lodge him for the amount he received of Pension. I do not now know whether I would state the exact time of his death, and I do not recollect any other person here now living that could give you any information but myself. Please therefore state the kind of Testimony you want, if in my power will cheerfully serve you.
Yours very Respectfully,
Simon Drum
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Affidavit of Dr. G Humphrey
in 
Mrs Jane Tweedy's case

Philadelphia, Pa
May 27, 1842
Dr. G Humphrey's affidavit
in the case of Jane Tweedy.
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In the Matter of the claim of Mrs. Jane Tweedy widow of Thomas Tweedy for a Pension.
Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of the aldermen of the City of Philadelphia, Doctor Gideon Humphrey, who being duly affirmed according to Law, saith that he was well acquainted with the said parties, in the lifetime of the said Thomas Tweedy, that the said Jane Tweedy came to reside in with this affirmant about the year Eighteen hundred, that he had been previously acquainted with the said parties several years before but cannot say how long. That when affirmant first knew them, that they lived together as man and wife and were always so reputed and esteemed, and they were [illegible] respected as people of veracity and good moral character. It is so many years ago, affirmant cannot state same but from the excellent character of Mrs. Jane Tweedy, affirmant believes that the marriage took place at the time she has stated.
G. Humphrey
Affirmed and subscribed before me this 27th day of May 1842.
J. Redman
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the Dr Gideon Humphrey, above named, and that he is a gentleman of respectability and [illegible] of credit.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County, SS
I, Samuel Hart, Esq., Prothonotary
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of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do certify that J. Redman, Esq. before who of the within affidavit was made and who, in his own proper handwriting, has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of doing and now is an alderman in and for the City of Philadelphia, and an Officer, 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 Justice [illegible].
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Philadelphia this 28th May 1842.
J. Hart, Prothonotary
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J L Edwards, Esquire
Dear Sir
I send you the additional testimony of Jane Tweedy respecting her marriage, Dr. Humphrey is a well-known and highly respectable citizen, testifies that he knew the parties as man and wife, that Jane came to live with him about the year 1800, and that he had been previously acquainted with them as man and wife several years before, as he further says that Mrs. Tweedy may be relied upon for  truth as to the statement she [illegible] as to her marriage. He therefore has the next best proof - cohabitation and reputation as man and wife. I think this is all he should regain, besides [illegible].
[illegible],
C. J. Jack
Philadelphia
May 30, 1842
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Jane Tweedy
widow of Thos TWEEDY
Gunner
Artillery
$100 per ann
act 7 July 1838
Send cert: to
C.J. Jack
Philadelphia
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Dawson Ga.
Feb 22 1913
Commissioner of Pensions Washington
Dear Sir:

Please send me a copy of service of
Thomas Tweedy, W. File No. 3478. He served in Colonel
Procter's Pennsylvania artillery, married in 1792
was pensioned in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1820
died in 1821. leaving a widow
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Jane Tweedy who resided in Philadelphia in 1842,
Also a copy of service of George Homan or Hallman Ser. File 39.646 who was pensioned for service in Colonel Butler's Pennsylvania regiment and resided in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 1819.
Trusting I may be favored with an immediate reply.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Lula Tweedy
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Declaration of Mrs Jane Tweedy
March 16 1843
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Declaration of Mrs. Jane Tweedy
State of Pennsylvania
City and County of Philadelphia, SS.
On this Sixteenth day of March AD 1843, personally appeared before me, the Subscriber, one of the Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia, Mrs. Jane Tweedy, a resident of the County of Philadelphia, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following the declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the third day of March AD 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, that she is the widow of Thomas Tweedy who was a gunner in the Artillery during the Revolutionary war, and a Pensioner of the United States in his lifetime, that said deponent also received a pension from the United States under the Act of July 7. 1838, of Eighty Dollars per annum and that her pension certificate was left with the Agent for paying Pensions in Philadelphia at the time she received said Pension. She further declares that she is still a widow and unmarried.
Jane Tweedy [her mark]
Sworn to and subscribed before me this sixteenth day of March AD 1843.
Armon Davis, Alderman
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Mrs. Jane Tweedy and that it has been proved before me by the oath of respectable witnesses that she is the same person.
Witness my hand this sixteenth day of March.
Armon Davis, Alderman
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County[illegible]

I Richard Palmer Jr Esq [illegibe] of the Court of Common Pleasd as ofsaid County do certify that Armon Davis Esq before whom the within affidavit or declaration on oath was made and whom his own proper hand writing has thereinto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing and [illegible] an alderman in and for the City of Philadelphia and of officer 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 [illegible]
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Philadelphia this 18th day of March 1843

R Palmer Jr,[illegible]
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Pennsylvania
Thomas Tweedy
Private
In the army M. [illegible]
Inscribed on the roll of 8.00 at $5 increased to $8 by Law of 24 April 1846
Certified 18 July 1820
[illegible] to [illegible] 
Esq Greensburgh [illegible] Pa
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Westmorland County, SS
Pennsylvania
On this twenty sixth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the peace in and for the said County, personally appeared Thomas Tweedy, who being duly sworn on his oath, deposeth and saith, that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Capt. Proctor in the fourth Regiment of artillery in the Pennsylvania Line in the service of the U.S. That his name was placed on the pension list roll of the State of Pennsylvania. That he received a certificate of that fact under the seal and signature of the Secretary of War, which certificate about four years ago [illegible] he lost out of his knapsack, which was stolen from him with various other articles and never since has heard of it or seen it.
Thomas Tweedy
Sworn and subscribed before me the 26th day of June 1820.
Bef. Robt. Montgomery
State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County, SS.
I, John H Wise, Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of said County in the State aforesaid, do certify that Robert Montgomery, Esquire, before whom the above deposition was taken, is one of the Commonwealth Justices of the peace, duly commissioned and sworn and to whose official acts as such full faith and credit are
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office in the Borough of Greensburg in the County and State aforesaid this Seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and twenty.
J. H. Wise, Prothonotary
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Delaware Co Pa
Jue 10,1842
Affidavit of George Heiger
in Jane Tweedy's case.
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In the Matter of the claim of Mrs. Jane Tweedy, widow of Thomas Tweedy, a soldier of the Revolution.
Personally appeared Before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace of Northern Providence, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, George Heiser, aged ninety-two years and upon who being duly sworn says, that he was well acquainted with the said Thomas Tweedy and Jane Tweedy and knows that the said Thomas Tweedy was a gunner in the Artillery in the Revolutionary Army. That deponent first knew the said parties in the year 1793, after the war. That deponent rented to said parties a partition of the Dwelling House in which he then resided (in 1793) and they took possession of it and lived with him as man and wife and were always so reputed. Deponent knew them as man and wife until the said Thomas Tweedy disappeared upon one occasion and never returned. The said Jane Tweedy was always a woman of excellent moral reputation, and from his knowledge of he be [illegible] that the time she says they were married is the true time and may be relied on. [illegible] deponent is him a Revolutionary Pensioner. 
George Heiser [his mark]
Sworn and subscribed before me this Tenth Day of June AD 1842
John Afflick, JP
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I certify that I am personally acquainted with George Heizer as therein  named and he resides in the same Township with me and I have no hesitation in saying that he is a man of integrity and that his statement may be relied on.
Witness my hand this tenth day June A.D. 1842.
Before me, John Afflick, J.P.
Delaware County SS
I, James Huston, Recorder of Deeds in and for Delaware County, do hereby certify that the above-signed John Afflick is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County in whose Official acts the fullest reliance may be placed.
Witness my hand and seal of office.
June 11th 1842
James Huston
Delaware County ss
I, James Houston, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the above-signed John Afflick, Esq., is a Justice of the peace in and for said County of Delaware in whose official acts the fullest reliance may be placed. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court the 11th day of June AD 1842.
James Houston, Prothonotary
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Philada Pa.
June 29 1842.
affidavit of George Heizer,
relative to Jane Tweedy's case.
Hon. C. J. Ingersoll
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In the Matter of the claim of Mrs. Jane Tweedy for a pension.
City of Philadelphia S.S.
Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of the Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia, George Heizer, of Delaware County on a visit to the City of Philadelphia, who being duly sworn according to law says, that he is positive that it was in the year 1793 that Thomas Tweedy and Jane Tweedy came to live with him as man and wife. Deponent also knows that he has no documentation by proof of this fact nor any writing of any kind that neither this Deponent or the said Thomas Tweedy could write [illegible] have they any [illegible] of any [illegible] that Deponent have [illegible] of the birth of his Daughter. From the same circumstances that Deponent remembers, or for years after they lived with him that they went to live in the Dr. Humphrey's was in the direction of the seven story Hotel. Deponent also knows that the [illegible] he rented of has no documentary evidence in writing of the time. Deponent remembers the year of 1793 as the year of the fever because the people from the city came into his neighborhood and boarded and rented wherever they could get into. That deponent was afraid of the fever and when Tweedy and his wife came from Sherman's Valley, Penna., by [illegible] and had been but a short time married, the said Jane Tweedy had her first child in deponent's home and a Midwife attended her. The child died.
George Heizer
Sworn and subscribed before me this 29 day of June 1842.
Armon Davis, Alderman
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Ezra C Leeds, being duly affirmed, says that he was [illegible] in C. J. Jack's office when the within deposition of George Heizer was recorded to writing. That the said Heizer is a remarkable man, having all his faculties complete and perfect and his memory same first and [illegible]. That the said George Heizer's home is now blacken [illegible]. Deponent's [illegible] is only [illegible] first forty-two years of age. From the readiness and accuracy of his accounting, deponent is satisfied that he would give a true narrative of events.
E. C. Leeds
Sworn and subscribed before me this 29 day of June 1842.
Armon Davis, Alderman
I certify that I examined the within George Heizer as to the accuracy and strength of his memory and I am satisfied that his memory is good and can be relied on.
Armon Davis, Alderman
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County, SS.
I, Samuel Hart, Esquire, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do certify that Armon Davis, Esqs, before whom the within and foregoing affidavits were made and whom in his own proper handwriting has thereunto severally 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 judication.
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As thereunto

In Testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the Seal of the said
Court at Philadelphia this 29th
June 1842
S. Hart Prothonotary
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House of Representatives
July 1, 1842

Sir
I have the honor yesterday to hand you a letter on the subject of certain Revolutionary pensions obtained by individuals whose names are mentioned over pretensions are urged in it. Since making the communication yesterday I have received the enclosed which I beg leave to and to the papers already in your hands and to request for it your attention!

Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
J R Ingersoll
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Thomas Tweedy- Invoice- Penn. role paid to 4 Sep 1820
JH
Tel 23/42
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Daniel Hay Esq.
Agent for paying Pensions
at Carmi Illinois
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Dear Sir,
I transmit in the [illegible] the amended declaration of Mrs. Tweedy, enclosing proof of the time of the decease of her husband Thomas Tweedy. I have not yet been able to procure any further evidence of his marriage, as it took place in Sherman's Valley, Pennsylvania, and there is no Post Master from there to make the inquiries of as any from those information of the length of service of her husband can be ascertained, it will be sent, but I presume [illegible] will I have this.
[illegible]
C. J. Jack
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Dear Sir,
Since the receipt of [illegible] in Mrs. Jane Tweedy's case, I have paid another visit to old Mr. Heizer at very considerable inconvenience
to myself, the distance being considerable, and had him again examined before the same Justice as to the ground of his memory, both [illegible] Afflick and myself was satisfied of his accuracy in this respect from a number of circumstances which he detailed, and his examination was reduced to writing before the [illegible] from his own life. [illegible] will observe in this a metrical additional fact derived from his own memory, corroborative of its strength and of the fact as to the period of the Marriage as they to him asked by what [illegible] do they remember that it was in 1793 to which he immediately replied because they had been but a short time before married. When asked when he understood from them that they had been married, he replied in Sherman's Valley, Pennsylvania. Again as to what other circumstances fixed the period in his mind
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He said [illegible] it was the year that the yellow fever was first in Philadelphia. That was in 1793. Again, he was asked by what other circumstances. He then said because he had in that he rented the place from Mr. Gibbons. After his examination, I then asked him if there were any others. He then said that he had a daughter born in that year who is now living. The accuracy of his memory has been tested by every possible means and it has sustained itself. It is due to the parties also to state that I took the journey to the old man, in [illegible] the knowledge of Mrs. Tweedy to her residing in this City and she had [illegible] memory of communicating on [illegible] in any of his family. No one was present for her and the examination was made before Squire Afflick at the distance of more than a mile from his home. The squire was entirely satisfied as his certificate shows. I am satisfied and I think you ought to be, of his accuracy [illegible] remember [illegible]. That Dr. Humphrey stated that they came to live with him in the year 1800 as man and wife and that he knew them as such several years before upon the whole is more perfect memory I never
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saw. And the circumstances I may mention is that this man had never been an [illegible]. He has been [illegible] industrious man and what is remarkable there is not a gray hair in his head. Which he [illegible] showed me saying, "My memory bad - why look [illegible] I am but a boy. I have no gray hairs yet." I have been this explicit in my explanations because I thought it must prove satisfactory. Again, all these claimants are [illegible] from not being able to pay a single cent and them for not able to a collect testimony. I hope [illegible] that as [illegible] of Mrs. Tweedy, her Daughter, Dr. Humphreys and this old gentleman - all corroborated and sustained by the proof - that he will to this old Lady for such a whole life of exemplary good [illegible] entitles her to be called. The justice to send his pension certificate by return of mail or as soon as practical.
[illegible]
C. J. Jack
Philadelphia
June 21, 1842
No Documentary evidence can be found by any of the parties in fact there was none ever existing between Heiser and Tweedy. Nor is there any as to the birth of Heiser's daughter. These people live in the County and the difficulty of getting them to squires is very considerable as the distance is great.
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Charles J. Jack,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
No. 12
North Seventh Street.
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir,
I transmit with this the documents of Mrs. Hannah Peck, Mary Battin and Jane Tweedy provisions under the act of July 7. 1838, claiming to be continued under the act of last Session of Congress. Please transmit the necessary papers.
[illegible]
C. J. Jack
Philadelphia
March 20. 1843
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July 13, 1842
Eliza Miller
PA
J L Edwards, Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Dear Sir
In relation to Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, can I beg to inform you that James Miller enlisted in New York during the late war of 1812. An effort will be made to show that she is the identical widow of James Miller of Armand Caps. But from the lapse of time, it is hardly probable that it will be [illegible]. The strong fact in favor of the identity is that no other person has made a claim as his widow. In Mrs. Tweedy's case, every effort has been made to get some evidence to clear up your doubt, and I beg to put this right in regard to your question that two of the [illegible] have made a mistake as to the times of Tweedy's decease. It was not a mistake from defect of memory; it was simply that he disappeared and was believed dead at the time referred to. It turned out that he was not then dead, but [illegible] appeared as is alleged at a different place from his home. But [illegible] not allowing
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to be made for such a fact. Same impression [illegible] to this claim seems to have been made in [illegible]. But, my dear sir, when you find a party produces all the evidence and the best evidence they can, surely, they cannot to be [illegible]. It is true that Heiser cannot read or write, but he states corroborative facts of equal power in the written memoranda. That of the first fever in the City of Philadelphia, for instance. That fixes the time beyond all controversy. I hope, sir, that you will not [illegible] the just intentions of Congress in so clear a case by refusing the pension. There is nothing to shake the testimony of Heiser.
[illegible]
C. J. Jack
Philadelphia
July 9. 1842
P.S. By reference to a letter in Mrs. Miller's papers, I find that her husband [illegible] enlisted July 3, 1812 and died 13th March 1813.
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J. L. Edwards, Esquire
Dear Sir,
In Mrs. Jane Tweedy's case, I provided you the affidavit of George Heiser, who knew [illegible] and Thomas Tweedy as man and wife in the year 1793. This he obtained after a good deal of trouble to find the man. I am satisfied with the truth of the old woman's declaration from the facts attendant of upon finding this old man. She stated that in the year 1793, that they went from Cumberland County to Delaware County and then rented part of a house from George Heiser, but she could not say if he was alive. This man was found after a great deal of trouble and had not seen this old [illegible] before now since for many years. And he confirmed his story without knowing what she had said, as I examined him myself apart from all persons except Squire Afflick and in his office and recorded his words to writing exactly as he delivered them. There being in this case no read evidence, nor any witnesses alive who were present at the marriage, the very best proof of the marriage is now [illegible] - viz, testimony showing as actual living together as man and wife in the year 1793, and the reputation of their being man and wife. This would be received in any Court in this country to convict either of the parting of [illegible] or any other offence against the [illegible]. If it
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was necessary to give the law authority upon this front, I could fill this sheet with decisions in this Country and England. 
In [illegible] - Cohabitation and having children is evidence of marriage.
In [illegible] Reps. 121. 2 [illegible] Reps. 102. 4 [illegible] Reps. 507
Fenton vs. Reed [illegible] Reps. 52 9 [illegible] Reps. 414
1 Robt [illegible] Rep. 285.200.114-18 Johnson Reps. 346
2 Dory Reps. 422. 1 Dow Reps. 148
1 Harrison [illegible] Rep. 152
These are only few cases from the Books - in fact, no question of law is now better established than this - cohabitation and living together as man and wife is conclusive against the [illegible] and in such a case, conclusive in form of the parting and to the fact of marriage.
I trust, therefore, that you will send me the pension certificate for this case, as soon as practicable.
[illegible]
C. J. Jack
Philadelphia
June
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Rev. WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3478
Jane Tweedy
Widow
Thomas Tweedy
Private, Rev. War
Act: Feb. 2d 1848,
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 288.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1913 March 5 Hist. to Mrs. Lula Tweedy. V. Lell
1923. March 3 Letter to Hon. S. W. Dempsey that Jane Tweedy, widow of Thos., etc.
1923. March 19 Hist. to. Hon. S.W. Dempsey MMH
1923 August 24 Hist. to Mrs. Thos. J. Hanna - MMHF.
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Letters
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329.                                                   Ref.
Pennsylvania
Jane Tweedy
widow of Thomas Tweedy
who was a Gunner of Artillery
in the Pennsylvania line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100. Dollars 
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
.Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of June 1843 and sent to C. J. Jack. Philadelphia
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1. Page 137.
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Delaware County Pa.
June 18 1842
George Heizer's affidavit
in the case of Jane Tweedy
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In the matter of Mrs. Jane Tweedy's claim for a Pension. Personally appeared before me the subscriber, of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Delaware, George Heiser, who being duly sworn according to law, saith, that the [illegible] of his memory in regard to the time when he first knew the said Thomas and Jane Tweedy are [illegible]. That the property upon which he then lived was [illegible] from Joseph Gibbney in the year 1793. That Thomas Tweedy and his wife then came to live in the house and it was in the year of the first yellow fever in Philadelphia, in 1793. Deponent's memory is perfect on both of those subjects, and he cannot be mistaken. He has no papers or documentary evidence to prove this, but he is as certain it was in that year as that he is now alive. Deponent understood also from said parties that they had been but a short time married and that they came to Delaware County from Sherman's Valley, Pennsylvania, where they had been married. Deponent lived about three years in said place and his memory is perfectly [illegible] about it. And he is certain that they came to live with him as man and wife in 1793, as he has detailed. Deponent knows also the fever was in City of Philadelphia in that year, as he had a daughter born in that year, who is now living.
George Heizer [his mark]
Sworn and subscribed before me [illegible], being first made, this Eighteenth day of June, A.D. 1842, before me
John Afflick, J. Peace
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I certify that I have examined personally the said George Heiser, who is my neighbor, as to the [illegible] of his memory in regard to the said parties coming to live with him as man and wife in the year 1793, and I am well satisfied, that his memory is strong and that full confidence may be placed in the fact as he has stated it, as he detailed a number of circumstances showing the strength of his memory.
In testimony, my hand the eighteenth of June, AD 1842, before me.
John Affleck, J. Peace
Delaware County, SS.
I, James Huston, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Delaware, do hereby certify that the above-named John Afflick is a Justice of the peace in commission for the first district in said County and in whose official acts the fullest faith and reliance may be placed.
James Huston, Prothonotary
Chester Del. County
June 21st 1842
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Declaration aa 329
September 4 1848

admitted
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DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF Pennsylvania
City of Philadelphia, SS.
On this fourth day of September 1848, personally appeared before the subscriber, an alderman of the said City, Jane Tweedy, a resident of Moyamensing in the County of Philadelphia, aged Eight years on 25 February next, 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 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Thomas Tweedy, who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army, and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of 17th of June, 1844 was One Hundred dollars. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Jane Tweedy [her mark]
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before 
John Thompson, Alderman
STATE OF Pennsylvania
City of Philadelphia, SS.
September 4, 1848
I, John Thompson, a Magistrate in the County above named, do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence, viz. my own personal knowledge, that Jane Tweedy, who this day appeared before me, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia on the day and year above written. 
John Thompson, Alderman
I, John Thompson, Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions, certify that John Thompson, Esq., is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this fourth day of September in the year 1848 at Philadelphia.
John Thompson, Clerk, Court of Quarter Sessions.
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I do hereby certify that Jane Tweedy, the wife of Thomas Tweedy resided in my family in Delaware County Pa for several months; We found her a moral and excellent woman. Her husband Thomas Tweedy left my house 3 March 1812 to receive his pension in the city of Philadelphia and I believe has never been heard from since.
Philada Feby 14 1842
G. Humphrey
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Reported to agent
Copies of paper sent to C. J. Jack
April 10. 1843.

Pennsylvania 6,718
Jane Tweedy
widow of Thomas Tweedy
who was an invalid pensioner under the Act of 26. April [illegible] and who died in the year 1812? 1821 of Philadelphia in the State of Penn. who was a Gunner Artillery in the company commanded by Captain  {blank} of the regt. commanded by Col. Proctor in the [blank] line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate of 100 Dollars cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension [illegible] the 26th day of July 1862 and sent to C. J. Jack Philadelphia
Arrears to the 4th of March 1861 $500
Semi-annual allowance ending{crossed through}
[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 167
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certificate of
service from
State Dept.
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On a "General return of the Pennsylvania State Regiment of Artillery commanded by Colonel Thomas Procter, Esq. Taken April 3 1779" the name of Thomas Tweedy is found as belonging to Captain Ernes's company and as having enlisted during the war, on the 10th April 1777 as a gunner.

M.W. Dickins
Dept. of State,
May 21, 1842.
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8.185
[illegible] Jane Tweedy illegible
[illegible]

Pa 8.185
July 7, 1838
Jane Tweedy

on roll Pa as invalid [illegible]

on roll [illegible]
Book, Gunner Arty

C. J. Jack, Esq
Feb 19, 1842
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Philada
February 15 1842
Jane Tweedy's declaration under the
act of July 7 1838; affidavits of Jane Reese and Abigail Parsons; and certificate of G
Humphrey
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record division 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAR OF PENSIONS
Washington DC 19
wf 3478

In reply to your request of received for a statement of the military history of Thomas Tweedy a soldier of the REVOLUTIONWARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Burear

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Apr 10 1777 
LENGTH OF SERVICE
1
RANK
Gunner
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN - Emes
COLONEL Thomas Proctor's 4th Continental Artillery 
STATE

He was allowed pension under act July 7 1783 for disability incurred in the above

Battles engaged in
Residence of soldier at enlistment
Date of application for pension Feby 15 1842 The I was al
Residence at date of application Philadelphia Penn
Age at date of application He was born Feb 25 1769
Remarks He married Dec 1792 in Shearmans Valley Penn
Jane and was a resident of Westmoreland Co Penn in 1820
He died in 1821 Children were Martha b Jany 20 1793 Elizabeth b Aug 1795 Robert b Feby 1798 Ann b Feby 16 1800 James b Aug 18 1802 William b Feby 1804 John b Mch 1808 Hannah b Aug 1812
Very respectfully,
Commissioner
6-2856
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Rev War Section
March 3, 1923
Honorable SW Dempsey
House of Representatives
In re:  Thomas Tweedy - War of Revolution
W.3478

You are advised that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim above noted, it appears that Thomas Tweedy married December 1792 in Shearman's Valley, Pennsylvania, Jane, her maiden name not stated.
The above is the only soldier named Tweedy found in the Revolutionary War records of this Burearu.
Very truly yours,
Commissioner.
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Sixty-Seventh Congress

S. Wallace Dempsey, N. Y., Chairman.
Richard P. Freeman, Conn.
Nathan L. Strong, PA.
Amos H. Radcliffe, N. J.
Caleb R. Layton, Del.
Cleveland A. Newton, MO.
Albert A. Blakeney, MD.
James J. Connolly, PA.
Oscar J. Larson, Minn.
M. A. Michaelson, ILL.
William W. Chalmers, OHIO.
Charles G. Bond, N. Y.
Wynne F. Clouse, Tenn.
Vincent M. Brennan, Mich.
Walter F. Lineberger, Calif.
H. Garland Dupre, LA
James W. Overstreet, GA.
Joseph J. Mansfield, Tex.
John McDuffie, Ala.
John J. Kindred, N. Y.
Tilman B. Parks, Ark.
Joseph H. McGann, Clerk
Ella F. Phalen, Asst. Clerk

Committee on Rivers and Harbors
House of Representatives U. S. 
Washington, D. C.

Stamp- Office of the Commissioner Mar 16, 1923 U. S. Bureau of Pensions

Lockport, N.Y., March 14, 1923.

Hon. Washington Gardner, 
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

In re Thomas Tweedy,
War of Revolution, W. 3478.

My Dear Commissioner:

I have your favor of the 3rd. inst., in regard to Thomas Tweedy, and beg to thank you for it. Will you also give me the following information, viz, -
1,- The Company and Regiment in which Thomas Tweedy served;
2,- The date of the enlistment of Thomas Tweedy;
3,- Whether or not his widow, Hane Tweedy, drew a pension;
4,- If Jane Tweedy did draw a pension as the widow of Thomas Tweedy, under what name did she draw it?
5,- Any other facts which you can furnish me as to Thomas Tweedy and his service?
Thanking you for your prompt attention to this matter, I beg to remain

Respectfully yours,
S. W. [illegible]
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Committee on Rivers and Harbors
House of Representatives U.S.
Washington, D. C.

Stamp- Office of the Commissioner Mar 1 1923 U.S. Bureau of Pensions

February 27, 1923.

Hon. Washington Gardner,
Commissioner of Pensions,
City.

My Dear Commissioner:

Will you kindly advise me as to whether a woman, named Jane Tweedy, has ever drawn a pension as the widow of a veteran of the Revolutionary War? If this woman was a pensioner, will you kindly give me her full name and the full name of the soldier to whom she was married?
Thanking you for doing so, I am
Respectfully yours, 
S. W. [illegible]
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254 Pacific Street
Franklin, Pa July 13, 1923.
Pension Department
Washington DC
Gentlemen:
In re: Thomas Tweedy War of Revolution W3478
I am advised by the Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution that it will be necessary for me to file a statement with them affirming that the above Thomas Tweedy received a pension before I can be considered as an applicant for membership in the Daughters of the Revolution.
Thomas Tweedy enlisted April 10, 1777 and served as a gunner in Captain Emes Company, Colonel Thomas Proctor's 4th Continental Artillery.  He was allowed pension under the act of July 7, 1785 for disability incurred in the above service and was a resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1820 and died in 1821 in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Penna.  In 1792 he married and his wife, Jane Tweedy was allowed pension on her application executed February 15, 1842 while a resident of Philadelphia.
I would ask that you make up the necessary statement for me and send the same forward.  Thanking you in advance and should there be an expense connected therewith kindly render me statement.
Yours very truly,
Mrs Thomas J Hanna
[stamped  PENSION
JUL
U 16 S
1923
office]
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Honorable S. Wallace Dempsey
House of Representatives

In re:  Thomas Tweedy-- War of Revolution
W/ 3478

You are advised that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim above noted it appears that Thomas Tweedy enlisted April 10, 1777 and served as a Gunner in Captain Emes' Company, Colonel Thomas Proctor's 4th Continental Artillery.
He was allowed pension under the Act of July 7, 1785 for disability incurred in the above service. In 1820 he was a resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He died in 1831 in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Soldier married in December 1792 in Shearman's Valley, Pennsylvania, Jane born February 25, 1769 and who was allowed pension on her application executed February 15, 1848 while a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
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vania. She was still living in 1848.
Their children were: 

Martha....born January 20,1793.
Elizabeth.. " August --, 1795.
Robert.... " February --, 1798.
Ann...... " February 16, 1800.
Jane..... " August 18, 1808, married......Rease.
William... " February --, 1804.
John....." March --, 1808.
Hannah.... "  August --, 1812.

Yours very truly,

Commissioner.