Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2714, Adam Bicker, Penn.
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(S-1776)

SERVICE NUMBER
Penn. Bicker, Adam W.2714
or Bricker
Rebecca
CONTENTS
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[Left half of document:]

Ohio 26.098'
_____________________
Adam Bicker
of Clement, Co. in the State of    Ohio  ------
who was a P   in the Company commanded by Captain Hokely,  of the Regt  commanded 
by Col [illegible[ in the Penna. 
[illegible]  Milehie

G No JP  $30.00
____________________________

Inscribed on the Roll of  Ohio
at the rate of 30  Dollars  ------- [next word crossed out:] Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
_________________________

Certificate of Pension issued the  6th  day of March 
and Sent to
134 Hon T. C. Camer  H. Re
_____________________________

Arrears to the 4th d 

of March 1824. 90.00
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept  [illegible] 13.00
                ___________
$103.00

{ Revolutionary Claim, }
{ Act June 7, 1832.      }
Ordered by J. T. Sprague Clerk.
[Boo]k C __ Vol. 8    Page 3 --
 [written on right side of document fold vertically:] Leet to J. H. Mcadams Jany 7, 1843

[a partially round faded illegible stamp is at the top right of the document]
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Adam Bricker,
Declaration
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State of Ohio Clermont County ss
Court of Common Pleas of the term of November in the year 1832
On this the eighth day of November in the year aforesaid -
Personally appeared in open Court before the Hon George P. Lorence Presiding Judge and John Emery Robert Haines and Israel Whitaker his associates Adam Bricker a resident of Clermont County and State of Ohio seventy seven years of age; who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers; and served as herein stated.  That he was born in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia in the year 1755 the day and month not recollected. That he enlisted in the service of the United States in March 1776 under the following named officers; Captain Thomas Stokely Lieut Henry Hasley at Greensburgh in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania and marched from there to Fort Crawford on the Alleghany river abut 30 miles above fort Pitt where I was stationed six months to help guard the fort; at the expiration of the time, I again
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enlisted for three months, and marched from Fort Crawford to under the Command of Captain Stokely to Fort Wallis in the state of Pennsylvania. That while at fort Wallace we were attacked by the Indians who killed eighteen of our men; at the expiration of the 3 months I was dismissed by Capt. Stokley but received no written discharge. That he resided in the state of Pennsylvania til the year 1793 then removed to the state of Ohio Clermont County an Williamsburgh Township where he has resided ever since. That he is now 77 years of age.
Colonel Laughery had the superior Command during the first six months enlistment - Colonel Broadhead Commanded at fort Pitt.
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[on left side of the page:]

901 Ohio [illegible]
_________________
Rebecca Bicker
widow of Adam Bicker
who served in the Revolutionary
Penn
war, as a Private ~~
____________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
30 ~~ Dollars ~~~
Cents per annum to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
_____________________
Certificate of Pension, issued the
4th day of Febry: 1832
and sent to 
W.B. Jarvis Esq
Columbus Ohio.
_____________________________

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 29, 1848, Page 160  Vol. A

[written at the top of the right side of this page:]
Set to WB Jarvis 13 Apl 1862
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State of Ohio Clermont County ss
   Before me a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and State personally appeared Rebeca Bicker
          who produced before me a family record, and being duly sworn according to law. made oath and said that said family record is in the hand writing of John Page
      and was made on or about they year A.D. 1837  that it has been without alteration or change in his posession ever since the year 1837 and is undoubtedly genuine, and I hereby certify that I did from said Record ^make the following copy, and which is word for word and figure for figure as follows -
Adam Bicker Born Oct 8th 1763
Rebeca Bricher his wife Born June 13th" 1779
Adam & Rebeca Bricker Maried Novm 2nd" 1799
Births of their children
John Bricker Born Aug 13th 1800
Mary Ann Bricker Born July 20th" 1805
Elizabeth Bricker Born April 25th 1807
Christopher H. Bricker Born April 8th" 1810
Samuel Bricker Born Jun 11th 1812
Robert Bricher Born Dec 10th 1813"
Wm" Bricher Born June 9th 1816
Rachel Bricher Born Jan 26th 1818
Thomas Bricher Born Dec 10th 1820  
Issac Bricker Born Aug 1sr 1822

Signed
Rebecca Bricker  }  afiant
her x mark
I further certify that the affiant is a citizen worthy of all credence & Belief and that I believe said Record to be as she States.
 Isaac Bicker  }  Witness
Ezekiel Slade }  name
Sept 11th 1851  }   Justice of
Ezekiel Slade   }        the Peace
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[Letterhead:]
Department of the Interior
PENSION OFFICE.
Washington D.C.  [the rest of the page is handwritten:]  Oct. 13th 1879
Marriages &c from the Bicker & Hartman family Bible.
Adam and Rebecah Bickers Married
November 2d 1799.
Christopher Hartman --- born May 6. 1750
Mary Hartman his wife born March 24. 1755
Birth of their children
William Hartman born February 17.1775
Isaac Hartman born Sept 2nd" 1.777
Rebecca Hartman born June 13th 1778
Elizabeth Hartman born May 22d 1.781
Catharine Hartman born Sept 27. 1785
Samuel Hartman born March 19. 1789
Fanny Hartman born March 5.  1793.
Rachel Hartman born December 29. 1796
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Adam Bicker born October 8, 1763.
Rebecca Bicker his wife born June 13, 1778
Births of their children
John Bicker born August 13, 1800
Mary Ann Bicker born July 20, 1805
Elizabeth " " April 25, 1807
Christopher H " " " 8, 1810
Samuel " " July 4, 1812
Robert " " Jany 9, 1813
William " " Jany 9, 1816
Rachel " " Jany 26, 1818
Thomas Bicker " Dec. 10, 1820
Isaac N " Augt. 6 1822

Grandchildren
James N. Bicker Jany 11 1840
Rebecah " born March 1 1842

Deaths
Christopher Hartman died March 16, 1833.
Mary Hartman his wife died Sept 8 1838
Catharine McAdams died Sept 17 1823 -
Isaac Hartman died July 18th 1836
Samuel Bicker died June 20 1818.
John Bicker died November 22nd 1838 
Adam Bicker died August 31 1843 -
This is all of record found in the Bible
W.B.C. IR (?)
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Jan 22d 52
Pension Case of Rebecca Becker
widow of Adam
Suppl. Application
C.
W B Jarvis
Columbus, Ohio

convinced now having been called hereby and 
[Illegible] there to
Rebecca Bicker
Her mark X
Sworn to and subscribed this 30th day of December AD 1851 and I hereby certify that the said Rebecca Bickle is undoubtedly the widow of Revolutionary memory and is worthy of belief. 
Ezekiel Slade
Justice of the Peace
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State of Ohio
Clermont County ss
Before me, a Justice of the Peace, personally appeared Rebecca Bicker, who being duly sworn according to law on oath said that she is the Identical Rebecca Bicker, widow of Adam Bicker, who did through William B. Jarvis of Columbus, Ohio, make on or about the 20th day of September AD 1851, an application for a Pension under the act of Congress passed Feb 2, 1848 as the widow the said Adam Bicker. That she has received information that if entitled at all it is not under the said Act of February 2nd AD 1848, but under an act passed July 29,1848. She therefore hereby expressly disclaims all rights to a Pension under the act as aforesaid of Feb 1848 and make this application in order to obtain in the benefit of said act of July 29, 1848, asking that the proofs addressed under and in support of her former application may be considered in and hereof. And that this application may be received for the purpose of claiming her demand in said former application. She further states that in reference to the date of her Marriage with the said Adam
Bicker as mentioned in her appli[cation]
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sent to the department in May AD 1851
claiming land under the act of Congress passed Sept. 28, 1850, she cannot account for said marriage being therein stated to have taken place in AD 1802 on any other grounds than that her mind was not called so expressly
to the exact time of said Marriage in said application as it was at the time of her making her application for a Pension. Said she, being ignorant of figures, as well also as old and
somewhat impaired in her faculties, did not pay that attention that she otherwise might. Or the mistake might have been made by the scribe
who wrote and filled what her said declaration in May A D 1837, and she did not notice it in consequence of her mind not having been called expressly and particularly thereto.
Rebecca Becker
Her mark X

Sworn to and subscribed this 30th day of December AD 1851 and I hereby certify that the said Rebecca Bicker is undoubtedly the widow of Adam Bicker of Revolutionary
memory and is also worthy of belief.
Ezekiel Slade
Justice of the Peace

July 22, 52
Pension case of Rebecca Bicker, widow of Adam
Suppl. application
WB Jarvis
Columbus, Ohio
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Rebecca Bicker
Application for
Land Warrant
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State of Ohio
Clermont County SS
On this sixteenth day of May in the year eighteen hundred and fifty personally appeared before me William S. M Lean,
one of the justices of the peace in and for the
County & State aforesaid. Mrs Rebecca Bicker,
who being duly sworn according to law, declares on oath that she is the widow of
Adam Bicker who was a Private in Captain
Thomas Stugley's Company - Pennsylvania United States (the regiment not known or detected) in the Revolutionary War, who was an enlisted soldier in the U.S. in the war. She further states that she was married to the said
Adam Bicker on the or about the first day of November A.D. 1802, and that the said Adam Bicker died on or about
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the thirty-first day of August AD 1843; that he was a pensioner from the government of the United States as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and that all his papers have been lost, that are not now on file in the pension office; and that she has never married since the death of said Adam Bicker.
That this application is to obtain a certificate or warrant for one hundred acres of land, allowed revolutionary soldiers by act of Congress, and in case of said soldier's death then to this widow; That her husband, the said Adam Bickler, never received any certificate or warrant from the government of the U.S., nor ever applied for such warrant in his lifetime; and that this is her first application for said land, allowed by Congress aforesaid.
That all communications in reference to this application, be directed to Milton Jamison, Batavia, Ohio, who she hereby appoints her agent and Attorney, and that she will be bound by his action, the same as though she was present and acted for herself.
Rebecca Bicker
Her mark X
Attested Ann L Bricker
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Sworn to and subscribed to before me this 16th day of May 1850. I also certify that Mrs Rebecca Bicker is a person worthy of belief on credit, and that the above power of Attorney was signed in in presence-
J.W. McLean J.P.

State of Ohio 
Clermont County S.S.
I hereby certify that William S. McLean, who certified to be above power of Attorney and before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and his signature is in his own handwriting
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office, a Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 17th day of May 1850.
R. W. Clarke
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May 30, 1931

Mrs. W.W. Clark,             Rev.A1812 Wars Section
Williamsburg,
Ohio.

Dear Madam:
     You are advised that it appears from the Revolutionary War records of this bureau that Adam Bicker or Bricker was born in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia in 1755 or October 8, 1763, both dates are given.
     He enlisted in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in March 1776 and served six months in Captain Thomas Stokeling’s Company, Colonel Laughery’s Pennsylvania Regiment.
      At the expiration of this service he again enlisted and served three months in Captain Stokeling’s Pennsylvania Company.
     In 1793 he moved from Pennsylvania to Clermont County, Ohio.
     He was allowed pension on his application executed November 8, 1832 while a resident of Clermont County, Ohio.
     He died August 31, 1843 in Clermont County, Ohio.
     He married November 2, 1799, Rebecca Hartman. They were married at the residence of one Christopher Hartman in Clermont County, Ohio, by William Hunter, a Justice of the peace.  She was allowed pension on her application executed May 16, 1850 while a resident of Williamsburg, Clermont County , Ohio.
(Hand written at bottom of page: date of death not on A.B.)
(Handwritten across the right side top of page: The date which follow were obtained etc.)
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The following names and dates of the soldier's family are shown as copied from the family record:

Adam Bicker born October 8, 1763.
Rebecca Bicker his wife born June 13, 1778 or 1779.
Adam and Rebecca Bicker married November 2, 1799.
Births of their children:
John Bicker born August 13, 1800.
Mary Ann Bicker " July 20, 1805.
Elizabeth Bicker " April 25, 1807.
Christopher H. Bicker " April 8, 1810.
Samuel Bicker " January 4, 1812.
Robert Bicker " December 10, 1813.
William Bicker " January 9, 1816.
Rachel Bicker " January 26, 1818.
Thomas Bicker " December 10, 1820.
Isaac N. Bicker " August 6, 1822.

Grandchildren:
James M. Bicker " January 11, 1840.
Rebecah Bicker " March 1, 1842.

Deaths:
Samuel Bicker died June 20, 1818.
John Bicker " November 22, 1838.
Adam Bicker " August 31, 1843.

Very truly yours,

E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.
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Adam Bricker
}amended declaration
}Pension
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The State of Ohio}. Court of Common Pleas
Clermont County}.   November illegible AD 1833

“Personally appeared in open Court AdamBricker for the purpose f amending his declaration made at the October term of this Court in the year 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that in answer to the fifth interrogatory required by the war department that Thomas Stokely as Captain and General Broadhead were with the troops where he served, and that he does not recollect any continental or militia regiments, and that the general circumstances of his service are detailed in his former declaration as well as his memory enables him to state the Epherim McAdams, James Perrine Ramath Bunting are persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief as to his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He further states there is no Clergyman in his neighborhood who can give evidence relative to his age or their belief as to his revolutionary services. That he has no knowledge at this time of any living witness by whom he can prove his services in the revolution or any documentary evidence of the kind sworn to in open Court November 5th 1833”
The State of Ohio
Clermont County SS
I Jonathan D. Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is a true extract from the minutes of same Court of Common Pleas entered at this November illegible AD 1833, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Batavia this 21st day of February AD 1834 J.D. Morris Clerk
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State of Ohio Clermont County ss
Be it remembered that on this twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty-four, personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Rebecca Bicker, a resident of Williamsburg Township in the County of Clermont, aged sixty-five years, who being first by me duly sworn according to Law, doth
on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 17th of June 1844 granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war, that she is the widow of Adam Bicker, who was a private in the army of the Revolution and died in Williamsburg Township, Clermont County, State of Ohio, on the 31st day of August 1843. Having this Declarant his widow, that he received a pension of thirty Dollars per annum under the
Laws of the United States of the 7th of June 1832 under certificate Numbered 2098 and given at the war office of the United States the 6th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty-four which
Certificate is herewith enclosed. She further declares that she is still a widow and has not again married since the death of said Adam Bicker.
Sworn and subscribed this day of August 1845, the day and year doth written before me
Rebeka Bicker
Her mark X
T.S. Barker

I certify that the above-named applicant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual who was the widow of Adam Becker as described by her in the above declaration; that she has not remarried, and continues to be a widow.
T.S. Barker J P
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State of Ohio Clermont County Sjs

I certify that all the enemies alterations and
obliterations herein contained were made before the same was witnessed by T. S. Barker JP

Satisfactory evidence was this day made in open Court that Adam Bicker a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the act 7th June 1832 died in Williamsburgh Township in Clermont County Ohio on the 31st day of August 1843 leaving Rebecca Bicker his widow

The State of Ohio
Clermont County} I, J. D. Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is truly abstracted
from the Journals of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Clermont and State of Ohio at their time of August A.D. 1845 as the same is duly entered on the journal of said Court and that T. S. Barker Esquire was on the 21st day of August 1845 an acting Justice
of the peace in and for said County of Clermont legally authorized to act as such and that his signatures above written are genuine- In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Common Pleas at Batavia in said County
this 16th day of September A.D. 1845
J. D. Morris Clk

Mr. Peter Hagmen we will please give
me the necessary information in this
case Mrs. Bicker has let the time pass
for her to get the pay Due Adam Bicker her husband she therefore makes application
for an order for the pay due Adam Bicker
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
File No. 2y14 or 2714
Rebecca Bricker
Widow
Adam Bicker
Pri. Rev. War
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Act: July 29, 1848
Index:—-Vol. A, Page 62

[Arrangement of 1870]


(Written vertically along left side of page 1931 May 20. Hist. To Mrs. W. W Clark A.D.Y.)
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POST OFFICE.
J. M. COMEY, P. M.
R. BURR, Ass't, P. M.
B. L. TERRY, Sup't Mails.
Columbus, O. June 29 1877
I have no knowledge of the parties referred to,
and can learn nothing concerning them.
I published a notice in the Ohio State Journal 
requesting anyone interested to make themselves known.
Have waited three weeks or more and heard nothing.
R. Burr
Asst. P.M.

Postoffice, Columbus, Ohio
October 22 1879
Respectfully returned to the Hon Com of Pensions
This same enquiry was made of this office, some months since. At that time, as I stated to your Dept in reply, diligent enquiry was made among the older residents of the City, and an examination of records, but nothing whatever
could be learned of the parties referred to.
R. Burr. Asst P.M.
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12372
Rebecca Bicker
Ohio
Sent to JA McAdams
Dec 16. 45 Rejected
Hon JF Taylor April 11, 49
To same May 26, 49
Letter to M. Jamies on May 24” 50
Let to W B Jarvis and July 1838
Sent W.B Jarvis Nov 28/51
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Hon JT Taylor
Apri
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113
Pension Office
April 10, 1849
Sir
In answer to your note respecting the
case of Rebecca Bicken widow of Adam Bicker
I have the honor to state that before we can
determine what further evidence will be required to entitle her to a pension she must file a declaration made before a court of record in conformity with the enclosed printed instructions  as signed by my report to J.A. McAdams of the 16 Dec 1845
Mrs Bicker filed an informed
Application for a pension in 1845 which
was unsupported by any proof whatever in
relation to her marriage. She was require
to comply with the requestions which were
then enclosed to her agent, last which she
has as yet failed to do and no
further action  has been had on her claim
since that period
Hon J. L. Taylor
Chilicotha
O
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Hon J l. Taylor
May 26,  '49
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Pension Office
May 26, 1849
Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 19 Just, I have the honor to inform you that there was no letter or paper enclosed with your communication in relation to the case of Rebecca Bicker, widow of Adam Bicker, by which we can ascertain her present place of residence of the name of her Agent.
It appears from my Bickers papers that in 1845, the time she made her declaration, she resided in Williamsburg Township in Clermont County. Her application was presented by J. A. McAdams of Williamsburg, O
Hon John S Taylor
Chilicotha
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Chillicoth, Ohio
19 May, 1829
Sir,
I received your letter of the 10th April, relative to the claims of Rebecca Bicker, widow of Adam Bicker, for a Pension filed in 1825.
Please inform me if my letter, which you say you had (but which I can not recollect) states the residence of the applicant or her atty.  I have no recollection of such a case, but I have so many similar letters at Washington that I can not remember them.
Very truly, 
Your obedient servant, 
J.L. Taylor

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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Brief in the case of Rebecca Bicker, widow of Adam.
Clermont County and State of Ohio
Act 29 July 1848

Claim, ("original", or "--for increase--")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

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

Husband was a (Fau
Record proof of marriage
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Dec 12 1842

Ohio

CL Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Adam Bicker
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161
Windbury Clermont County Ohio Dec 3 1832

Hon. JL Edwards Commission of Pentions

Dear Sir

By request of Adam Bicker I will trouble you with full line in this case hagan (?) nine months of his servises in when he obtained his certificate for $30 per anum he told me he served 3 years and 9 months for which he thinks he ought to get more as there is some in this County gets $80 per annum that only served one Campaign if you think there is any chance for an increase of his pay you will please tell what kind of evidence must be obtained in order to get his pay increased. the old man is quite helpless and has not pay from the United States to keep him. the side of ONE (?) father who served the best of same days in the defense of the same Country  should become an object of township for support. if Mr Bicker is entitled to more pay I would rejoyse to see him get it. you will please give me a letter at the Recept of these lines and direct yours to Windbury Ohio
 
J H M. Adams,
Windbury, Ohio

J L Edwards Esq.
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J. A. McAdams
Dec 16. 45
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Pension Office
Dec 16 45

Sir

The informal unsupported declaration of Rebecca Bicker has been placed in our files and a copy of the regulations with which she should substantially comply, is herewith enclosed for her guidance instruction in adjusting her claims. 

~~
Enter on register

J.A. McAdams
Williamsburg
Clermont County
Ohio
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Adam Bricker
Clermont County Ohio

Adm Q Mouths

Hon T.L. Hammer
Ho of Rev
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Adam Bricker which require further proof or explanation.
1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim in any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
VII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
The inscription is not perceptible
(Resealed )
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
No

XII. If the Clergyman’s affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
No

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
No (see enclosed declaration)

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? —
(Division of Quine & Bunting)

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness as in such a situation, or of such an age, as too have a personal knowledge of the applicant’s service?
(No response noted)

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? 
No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
5.7. (See answered declaration)
________________________________________
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. Who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For—-year—-months and—-days, I served as a ——- For—-months and ——days, I served as a——; and for such service I claim a pension.”
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3

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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Sir,
Be pleased to inform me what further evidence, if any, is necessary to substantiate the claim of Mrs. Rebecca Bicker or Bricker to a pension. She is the widow of Adam Bicker, who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832, and applied some time since for a pension on account of the services of her deceased husband in the Revolutionary War. An early answer is requested.
Very truly, J.L. Taylor

Col. J.L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
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Milton Jamieson
May 24, 1850,
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Pension Office
May 24, 1830
Sir,
The application of Rebecca Bicker, widow of Adam Bicker, has been examined and filed with her case under Act of July 1836.
It appears from the declaration that she was married to the pensioner in November 1802, and as no widow of Revolutionary War who were married subsequent to the 1st of January 1800 are eligible to a pension, her case is not provided for under the Act of July 1836 or any law of Congress.
Adam Bicker served in the Pennsylvania militia for nine months. He did not therefore require a right to Bounty Land from the United States, no soldier of the revolution being entitled to such Bounty Land unless he enlisted for it during the war and continued to serve until it closed.
Milton Jamison, Esq.
Batavia, Ohio
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Rebecca Bicker
O adm

Cole
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Columbus, Ohio
Feb. 12, 1852
Hon. J.E. Heath
Sir,
As the attorney of Mrs. Rebecca Bicker, and being especially instructed by her, I have to request that the Bill containing the family record which was forwarded to the Department by her in support of her claim to a Revolutionary Pension, be returned, she being anxious to preserve the same in the family.
Yours very respectfully,
W.B. Jarvis Esq.
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Batavia May 18 1850

Sir
Please find enclosed the application of Mrs Rebecca Bicker, for a Warrant for 100 acres of Land and for a Pension, in right of the services of her husband in the revolutionary war, as a private soldier in Capt. Thomas Stuly’s Company - Penna U.S. Troops.

I am sorry that more definite and satisfactory proof, cannot be had, as to the services of Adam Bicer in that War and to what Regiment he belonged and when he was discharged. Mrs. Bicker is quite infirm, and her recollection is very poor, in response to what person’s her husband served under. His certificate of Pension was sent by her to the Pension Office in 1844, to get the balance due on his pension. The files or rolls in the Pension office will show more fully his right, if the evidence here given will be a sufficient data, to find whether he served or not in that war. And if it will not suffice, I fear her claim will be lost, for there is no source here, by which she can obtain any more satisfactory proof, than she has already offered, as to matters stated.
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However, whatever may be wanting, you will please communicate to me, at Batavia Ohio, and if in my power to furnish it, it shall be done. By an early attention to this, you will much obliged -
Your respectfully
Humble servant
Milton Jamison

Hon Com Pen
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Columbus, Ohio, April 27th 1851
SIR:
Will you forward to me, if on record in your office, a certificate of the following Marriage:
Adam Becker to Rebecca Hartman
Nov 2nd,1799 BY Wm Hunter J.P.

The Certificate is wanted to establish a Widow's claim to Bounty Land, and your
fee WILL BE forwarded upon its receipt.
W. B. JARVIS.
BOUNTY LAND AND PENSION AGENT,
Columbus, Ohio

To the Clerk of Court in Clermont
County, State of Ohio
P. S. If you cannot find the record in this case, please state that fact, by signing the annexed blank, and re-enclosing the letter to me.
W.B.J.
I have after careful examination been unable to find among the records of my Office
any evidence of the above Marriage
R. W. Clarke
Clerk
To W. B. Jarvis,
Columbus, Ohio
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United States of America
THE STATE OF OHIO
STATESMAN JOB OFFICE.
Secretary of State's Office.
I. HENRY W. KING.
SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF OHIO,
DO HEREBY CERTIFY,
That Esekiel Slade, whose attestation is
hereunto annexed, was, on the day of the date thereof, an acting JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, within and for the County of Clermont in the State of Ohio, duly Commissioned as such: that he is the proper officer to take such attestation; that his attestation is in due form; and that his official acts and entitled to full faith and credit, as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Ohio at Columbus, the tenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two
Henry W. King
Secretary of State
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State of Ohio Clermont County SS
Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State personally appeared Sarah Smith and John Wilson, two aged and respectable citizens of this County who being duly sworn according to law declared as follows, to wit, that they were acquainted with
Adam Bicker and Rebecca Bicker, his wife, for a period of Forty four years prior to his death which took place on the 31st day of August A D. 1843, that said Marriage was solemnized at the residence of one Christopher Hartman on the 2nd day of November AD 1799, by one William Hunter, a Justice of the Peace, that the
said Adam and Rebeca were in doubted man and wife, that fact being in no possible degree doubted in the vicinity of their residence, that the said Adam and Rebecca as man and wife had a family of Children, the oldest of which
was born on the 13th day of August A D. 1800
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that the said Adam was prove to his death
and at the time thereof a regular pensioner
of the United States on the Revolutionary
War, That the said Rebecca is now and has been from the death as aforesaid of the said
Adam his widow, and that these affiants are disinterested in this matter.
Sarah Smith
Her mark X
John Wilson

Sworn to and subscribed this 26th day of August AD 1881, and I hereby certify that I fully believe said affiants worthy of Credit.
Ezekiel Slade
Justice of the Peace
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Rebecca Bicker or
Bricker
Pension Application
as widow of Revolutionary Pensioner
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[Struck Thru & Illegible]


Presented by
W. B. Jarvis
Columbus
Ohio
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State of Ohio Clermont County SS

Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and state personally approved Robert Vanord an aged and respectable citizen of this county who being duly sworn according to law declared as follows to said that he is now acquainted with Adam Bicker and Rebecca Bicker his wife from the year AD 1814 up to the death of said Adam Bicker and during that time as a neighbor to said Adam & Rebecca and was present and a witness to his will and said will calling said Rebecca his beloved wife.  I further declare that they lived during the above mentioned time as man and wife and never had a doubt nor scruple in regard to their legal marriage. I have also lived neighbor to said Rebecca Bicker since the death of her said husband & she has lived and is to the present his lawful widow. And I do further firmly believe said Rebecca to be the legal heir of Said Adam Bicker for bounty land or pension money which he would have been entitled to had of been living .  Robert Vanord
Sworn to and subscribed this 26th day of August A.D. 1851 and hereby certify that I fully believe said affiant worthy of credit
Ezekiel Slade {Justice of Peace}
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Mr William Jarvis
we have a family record
the Sqir is dead who married them
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United States of America

THE STATE OF OHIO
Secretary of State’s Office.

I, HENRY W. KING, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF OHIO, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, 

That Gena Johnson and Ezekiel Slade whose attestations are hereunto annexed were on the days of the dates thereof the former an associate Judge and the latter a Justice f the peace, written and for the County of Clermont and State o Ohio, duly communicated as such: that they are proper officers to take such attestations that their attestations are in due form and that they official acts are entitled to full faith and credit as well in court of justice or clerical. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Ohio, at Columbus, the 16th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one

Henry W. King
Secretary of State

Upper left hand corner is a decorative stamp showing mountains, sky, wheel and flowers. The inscription below states: “STATESMAN PRINT inside a decorative line.

The state seal is not legible being covered by a piece of paper.
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Rebecca Bickers
application for 
Pension
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State of Ohio}
Clermont County} SS

On this sixteenth day of May in the year 1850, personally appeared before me William L. McLean - one of the justices of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, Mrs Rebecca Bicker, a resident of Williamsburg, Clermont County, Ohio aged sixty nine years, who being duly sworn, declares on oath, in order to obtain the benefit of the pension of the Act of Congress of July 4th 1836 or any other act which by order of her husbands services in the revolutionary war she may be entitled to a pension - That she is the identical widow of Adam Bicker who was a Private in Captain Thomas Stugley’s Company - Pennsylvania United States Troops. Regiment not recollected - in the Revolution
(End of page)
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War that her husband was an enlisted soldier in said war - and got his honorable discharge. She further declares that she was married to Adam Bicker on or about the first day of November in the year eighteen hundred and two——that her husband, the said Adam Bicker, died on or about the 31t day of August A.D. 1843 that she has not married since his death, that it’s is her first application for a pension since her husband’s decease
That the papers by which he drew his pension, were sent to sent to the pension office by her after his death, in order to obtain the benefits of the sum due on his said pension which at that time, they sent, amounted to nearly six months pay—this was paid on or about the 1st of September AD 1844 - She now wishes to draw the pension at the Cincinnati illegible Agency.
And that she appoints Milton Jamieson her Agent and Attorney in the matter, and orders all communications in reference to this claim to be directed to the said Jamison at Batavia Ohio
Rebecca X her mark Bicker
Attest
———-
Ani L Broker

Sworn to and subscribed to before me this 16 day of May 1850. I also certify that Mrs. Rebecca Bicker - is a person worthy of belief
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And respect, and that the above power of attorney was acknowledged in my presence.
Wm S  McLean J.P. {seal}

State of Ohio}
Clermont-County} S.S.

I hereby certify that William S. McLean Esq. who certifies to the foregoing power of Attorney, and before whose the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified.

In Testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and applied the seal of my office as clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County this 17th day of May 1850
R.W. Clarke Clerk
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Declaration of Adam Bricker

Hon T.L. Hamer
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The State of Ohio}
Clermont County} Court of Common Pleas
November ten 1832

“On this 8th day of November 1832 personally appeared in open Court Adam Bricker an applicant for the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interragatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.”

The State of Ohio
Clermont County SS

I Jonathon D. Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Said County do hereby certify that the above is a true extract from the minutes of said court at the time of aforesaid had on the above application of said Bricker for pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Batavia this 19th day of November AD 1832 presented February 21t 1834
JD Morris Clerk.         JD Morris Clerk
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Affidavits of Brintiny L. Perrine
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Clermont County ss
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the
Peace in and for the County of Clermont in the State of Ohio James Perrin who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he is fifty-three years of age, and has been acquainted with Adam Bricker, for thirty-one
years; that he believes he (Adam Bricker) is the
age he represents himself to be, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a revolutionary soldier, and that he concur in that opinion.
February 20th, 1834
Azel Bryan, J.P.
Signed, 
James Perrine

Clermont County ss
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the
Peace in and for the County of Clermont in the State of Ohio, Ramoth Bunting, who being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is Eighty-five years of age and that he has been acquainted with Adam Brinker, the within named applicant, for about forty years; that he believes he (Adam Brinker) is the age he
represents himself to be, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a revolutionary soldier, and that he concur in that opinion.
February 20th,1834
Azel Bryan, JP
signed Ramoth Bunting
His mark X

I do hereby certify that James Perrine and Ramoth Bunting, whose signatures are affixed to the above affidavit, are persons whose situation and standing in society is respectable, and whose reputation for truth and veracity
is unquestionable.
February 20th 1834
Azel Bryan, JP
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The State of Ohio
Clermont County SS
I, Jonathan D Morris, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Azel Bryan Esqr., whose name is attached to the within affidavits of James Perrine and Ramath
Bunting, and also the certificate certifying to the credibility of said affiants, was at the time of taking and subscribing the same one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County of Clermont, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the several signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court at
Batavia this 21st day of February AD 1834
J. D. Morris Clerk
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12392
Rebecca Bicker
widow of Adam
Ohio -

Act of July '38

Married 1799
Hus died 1843

Aden 9 Mos for $30
per annum Cany
4 March 1848
(See family bible)

Wm B Jarvis
Columbus, Ohio
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181.  Nov. 11, 1845
Rebecca Bicker
June 17, 48
Ohio

Wmsburg
Oct 25
Peter Hagner
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Also from him one volume of our will - Please send your answer to J.A. McAdams, Williamsburg, Clermont County, Ohio. Give them necessary information.
Yours, 
J.A. McAdams
Mr. Peter Hagner Esq.
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State of Ohio Clermont County ss.
Before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please in said County of Clermont and State of Ohio personally appeared Rebecca Bicker aged seventy two years a resident of said County and State & concerning whom I certify it to be my belief that she is from bodily infirmity unable to attend in open court who being duly sworn according to law made the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act of congress made for the relief of certain widows of Revolutionary Soldiers passed on the 2nd day of February AD 1848. That she is the widow of Adam Bicker who was a Pensioner on the Revolutionary Roll and who resided in the County of Clermont. That she is entirely unacquainted with the nature of the services rendered to the said Adam Bicker in the said
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Revolutionary War, and have most respectfully refer the department to the proofs upon which said Adam obtaining his said pension, that the Certificate of Pension held by the said Adam as a pensioner, was sent by this afficant to the Pension Department for the purpose of obtaining the back pension due at the time of his death. That the said Rebecca was married to the said Adam on the 2nd day of November AD 1799, at the County of Clermont and state of Ohio, by one William Hunter, a Justice of the Peace, that the said Adam died at said Clermont County and State on the 31st day of August AD 1843, and that she has continued as the widow of the said Adam from that time to the present.
Rebeca Bicker
Her mark X

Sworn and subscribed before me, one of the Judges of the aforesaid
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of said County Court of Common Pleas, and I hereby certify that I fully believe the said Rebecca to be the widow of the said Adam
without doubt, that the said Adam was a revolutionary soldier, and as such obtained a Pension, that the said Adam died on the 31st day of August AD 1843, and that the said
Rebecca is now and has continued from the time of the said Adam's death to this present a widow.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand this 27 day of August AD 1851.
Jonathan Johnson
Judge as aforesaid
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[Note: this document is typed and contains blanks with handwritten information. Brackets are used in this transcription to indicate handwritten data.]

KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that [I] the subscriber have and do hereby appoint [W.B. Jarvis of Columbus Ohio (strikethrough 'of Washington City') my] true and lawful Attorney for [me] and in [my] name to receive from the Secretary of War, Paymaster General,Second or Third Auditor of the Treasury, or any officer or officers authorized to pay the same, (strikethrough 'my [illegible] and')all moneys, drafts or other dues of every kind, nature and name, for extra pay, commutation money, bounty, clothing money, prize money, withheld pay, or any other dues of every kind due [me] from the United States, whether paid by any of the before mentioned or any other officers of the United States; and [I] do hereby request said officers or any or either of them to pay said amounts to said [Jarvis] and do hereby give said [Jarvis] full power to endorse all drafts, pay certificates, or any other papers in reference to said business, and to execute any and all receipts or discharges, and to do any other act which [I] could do if present; and any act by him done shall be the same as if done by [me] in proper person
Witness [my] hand and seal this [24th] day of [May], A.D. 185[1].
Signed and sealed in presence of us, }
[Isaac Bicker] }
[Ezekiel Slade] }

[Rebecca Bicker
her X mark.]

SEAL.
SEAL.

STATE OF [Ohio] COUNTY OF [Clermont], ss
Before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally came [Rebecca  X  Bicker] and acknowledged that [she] had executed the foregoing instrument. I certify that I know [her] to be the person described in the same. Given under my hand at [ ] this [24th] day of [May], A.D. 185[1].
[Ezekiel Slade] Justice of the Peace
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Williamsburg, Ohio
Apr. 16, 1931

Pension Dept.
Washington, D.C.
Dear sirs,
Please verify my record that Adam Bricker was a Revolutionary soldier. [check mark written over text]
He was born at Redstone Fort, Pennsylvania, Now Brownsville in 1762. He joined a company of soldiers which was stationed at Redstone fort, when he was 14 years old. He was connected with army until 1795.
[Stamp:] 
US PENSION OFFICE 
APR 20 1931
He married Rebecca Hartman at Williamsburg in 1805, it was she who drew a pension. He died at Williamsburg Aug 31, 1843.
Also
Have you any record concerning
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Christoper [check mark] Hartman? He was a
Revolutionary soldier, but do not know
whether he or his wife drew a pension.
He was born in Swintzburg, Hesse
Cassel Germany, 1753, came to America
at the age of 3, settled in Philadelphia
Married 1776, to Mary Hutchinson of
Mercer Co., New Jersey, was a member of
Smallwood's regiment
Thanking you
Yours truly
Mrs. W. W. Clark
Williamsburg
Ohio

(STAMP)
PENSION OFFICE
US
APR 20 1931
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[Letterhead]
Department of the Interior.
PENSION OFFICE.
Washington, D.C.  
[handwritten] M'ch 18, 1880
1812 D
[illegible]
Dear Sir
I herewith transmit to your address the large family Bible which was sent to this Office in 1845 to be filed in evidence when your mother Mrs Rebecca Bicker. made application for pension. Please acknowledge the receipt of the Bible and return this letter with your reply in the enclosed envelope
Robert Bricker }
Care of P.M. }
Williamsburgh }
Clermont Co. }
Ohio }

Very respectfully
J.A. Bentley
Commissioner
[illegible]
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[Oval Stamp]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PENSION OFFICE
MAR 24 1880

Williamsburgh,
Clermont Co. Ohio.
March 24, 1880

J. A. Bentley:
I hereby acknowledge the receipt of the Bible this day.
Resp.[illegible]
Robert Bricker

[At a right angle to the text:] 1812
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[Letterhead]
Department of the Interior
PENSION OFFICE
Washington, D.C. [Remaining is handwritten] March 12, 1880

1812 D
Dear Sir.
Please furnish this Office with the names and present P.O. address of some of the descendants of Rebecca Bicker Widow of Adam Bicker, late a Private [strikethrough 'in'] in the Revolutionary War. The Widow made application for pension in 1845-50 and a Bible containing a family record was sent to this Office to be filed in evidence. It is now desired to return this Bible to some member of the family
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All of whom resided within the delivery of your Office at and subsequent to the time indicated within - 
Adam Bicker, her husband, died in or near your Town on the 30th of August 1843.
The names of the children are John, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Christopher, Samuel, Robert, William Rachel, Thomas and Isaac Bicker. 
Please return this letter, as soon as practicable, with your reply in Enclosed Envelope.
Post Master }
Williamsburgh }
Clermont Co. }
Ohio }

Very respectfully
J. A. Bentley
Commissioner
[illegible]
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Bounty Land Div.
W.B.E.
Department of the Interior
PENSION OFFICE
Washington, D.C.
June 6th, 1877
Dear Sir,
Please furnish this office with the names and post office address of some of the descendants of Rebecca Bicker, Widow of Adam Bicker, late a private in Rev. War, who formerly resided in your town.
Application for pension was made by the widow, who, through her attorney, filed a Bible in evidence, containing a family record, with a request that it be returned to the widow at Columbus, Ohio. This was in the month of Feb., 1852. It is now desired to return said bible to the family.
please return this letter with your reply.
Very respectfully, 
J.A. Bentley
Commissioner, Pensions
To the Post Master, Columbus, Ohio
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File No. 2714
Rebecca Bicker
Wife of Adam
Receipt for Bible
& letters to be filed
in case
W.B. Evans
Clk
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N.O.W. and B.L.D
W.B.E.
Department of the Interior
PENSION OFFICE
Washington, D.C.
Oct. 18, 1879
Dear Sir,
Please furnish this office with the names and present Post Office address of some of the descendants of Mrs. Rebecca Bicker, Widow of Adam Bicker, late a Private in the Revolutionary War.
Application for Pension was made by the Widow in 1852, and a Bible was sent to this office to be filed in evidence, with a request that it be returned to the Widow at Columbus, Ohio. It is now desired to return the Bible to some member of the family, all of whom resided within the delivery of your Office and pertain
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frequent to the time indicated within.
The names of the children are John, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Christopher, Samuel, Robert, William, Rachel, Thomas and Isaac Bicker.
Please return this letter with your reply in the enclosed envelope.
Very respectfully,
O.P.S. Clarke,
Commissioner, Pensions

Post Master
Columbus, Ohio
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Williamsburg, Clermont Co. Ohio,
March 15/80.

Commissioner of Pensions:
Robert Bricker, one pf the heirs you name, gets his gmail at this office. If you return the Bible to him I presume it will be all right.
Respected
Alexander Beall, P. M.
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Adam Brocker
Amended for declaration Pension
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State of Ohio Clermont County Court of Common Pleas November Term AD 1833
"Personally appeared in open court Adam Bricker for the purpose of amending his declaration made at the October Term of this Court in the year 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that in answer to the fifth interrogatory required by the War department that Thomas Stokely as Captain and General Broadhead were with the troops where he served, and that he does not recollect any continental or militia Regiments, and that the general circumstances of his service are detailed in his former declaration as well as his memory enables him to state. That Ephraim McAdams, James Perrine Ramoth Bunting are persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief as to his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He further states there is no Clergyman in his neighborhood who can give evidence relative to his age or their belief as to his revolutionary services. That he has no knowledge at this time of any living witnesses by whom he can prove his services in the Revolution or any documentary evidence of the kind sworn to in open Court November 5th 1833"

The State of Ohio Clermont County SS 
I Jonathan D Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is a true extract from the minutes of said Court of Common Pleas entered at their November Term AD 1833. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Batavia this 31st day of February AD 1834.
J. D. Morris Clerk
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State of Ohio Clermont County SS
Be it remembered that on this twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty five personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Rebeka Bicker a resident of Williamsburg Township in the County of Clermont aged sixty five years who being first by me duly sworn acording to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions 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 Adam Bicker who was a private in the army of the Revolution and died in Williamsburg Township in Clermont County State of Ohio on the 31st day of August 1843 leaving this declarent his widow that he received a pension of thirty dollars per annum under the laws of the United States of the 7th of June 1832 under a certificate Numbered 26098nand given at the war office of the United States the 6th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four which certificate is herewith enclosed She further declares she is still a widow and has not intermarried since the death of said Adam Bicker. Sworn to and subscribed this --- day of August 1845 the day and year above written before me
Rebeka Bicker X her mark
T. S. Barker

I certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me and that she is the same widow and who was the wife of Adam Bicker as described by her in the above declaration. That she has not intermarried but continues to be a widow
T. S. Barker J P
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State of Ohio Clermont County SS
I certify that all the erasures alterations and obliterations herein contained were made before the same was subscribed 
T S Barker JP

"Satisfactory evidence was this day made in open Court that Adam Bicker a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the act 7th June 1832 died in Williamsburgh Township in Clermont County Ohio on the 31st day of August 1843 leaving Rebecca Bicker his widow"

The State of Ohio Clermont County SS
I J. D. Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is truly abstracted from the journals of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clermont and State of Ohio at their erm of August A.D. 1845 as the same is duly entered in the journals of said Court and that T. S. Barker Esquire was on the 21st day of August 145 an acting justice of the peace in and for said County of Clermont legally authorized to act as such and that his signatures above written are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Common Pleas at Batavia in said County this 16th day of September A.D. 1845.
J. D. Morris Clk

 Mr Peter Hagner You will plese give me the nessary information in this case. Mr Bicker has set the time past for him to get the pay due Adam Bicker her husband. She tharefore makes application for an order for the pay due Adam Bicker
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2714
Rebecca Bicker
Widow
Adam Becker
Pri Rev War
---
Act: July 29, 1848
Index:-- Vol. A, Page 62
[Arrangement of 1870.]

(left side written vertically)
1931 May 20. Hist. to Mrs. W. W. Clark. A.D.Y.
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POST OFFICE.
J.M. COMLY, P.M.
R. BURR, Ass't, P.M.
B.L. TERRY, Sup't Mails.

Columbus. O.. June 29, 1877
I have no knowledge of the partie's refered to,
And can learn nothing concerning them,
I published a notice in the Ohio State Journal regarding any one interested to make themselves known 
Have waited three weeks or more, and heard nothing. 
R. Burr
Asst P.M.

[Right-hand side]
A.D. RODGERS, Postmaster         R. BURR, Ass't Poster.
Postoffice, Columbus, Ohio,

October 22 1879

Respectfully returned to the Hon Com of Pensions. This same enquiry was made of this office, some months since, At that time, as I stated to your Dept in reply.diligent enquiry was made among the older residents of the city, and an examination of records, but nothing whatever could be learned of the parties refered to.
R. Burr, Asst P.M.
 
(round stamp)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
OCT
24
1879
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12392
Rebecca Bicker
Ohio
Let. to J. A. McAdams
Dec. 16, '45  REJECTED

Hon. J. F. Taylor  Apr 11, '49

to same May 26, '49.
Letter to W. Jamieson May 24, '50.
Let. W.B. Jarvis (illegible)
(illegible) July 1828.

Let. W. B. Jarvis Nov. 28/51.
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113

Pension Office
April 10, 1849

Sir,
In answer to your note respecting the
case of Rebecca Bicker Widow of Adam Bicker
I have the honor to state that before we can
determine what further evidence will be required to entitle her to a pension she must file a declaration made before a court of record in conformity with the enclosed printed instructions as required by my report to J. A. McAdams of the 16th Decr 1845
Mrs Bicker filed an informal Application for a pension in 1845 which was unsupported by any proof whatever in relation to her marriage. She was required to comply with the (illegible) which were then enclosed to her agent, but which she has as yet failed to do and no further action has been had on her claim since  that period
Hon J. L. Taylor
Chilicotha
O.
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Hon J L. Taylor
May 26, '49
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Pension Office
May 26 1849

Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 19th Inst. I have the honor to inform you that there was no letter or paper enclosed with your communication in relation to the case of Rebecca Bicker, widow of Adam Bicker, by which we can ascertain her present place of residence or the name of her agent.

It appears from Mrs Bickers paper that in 1845 the time she made her declaration dhr resided in Williamsburg Township in Clermont County. Her application was presented by J. A. McAdams of Williamsburg, O.

Hon John S Taylor
Chilicotha O
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Chillicotha, Ohio
19 May 1849.

Sir,
I received your letter of the 10 April, relative to the claim of Rebecca Bicker, widow of Adam Bicker for a Pension, filed in 1845. Please inform me, if my letter wh. you say you recd. (but wh. I do not now recollect,) stats the evidence of the applicant or her atty. I have no recollection of such a case; but I had so many similar letters at Washington that I could not remember them.
Very Respy
Yr Obt Sr
J L Taylor

Hon J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
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Brief in the case of Rebecca Bicker, widow of Adam, Clermont County and State of Ohio, act 29 July 1848,

Claim, ("original," )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner
Record proof of marriage

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

Name and residence of Agent
W B Jarvis
Columbus Ohio

S. Cole
Examining Clerk.
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(??)burgh, O.
Dec. 5                                  FREE


Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

Dec. 12, 1842
Ohio

Adam Becker
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Williamsburg, Clermont County, Ohio  
Dec 3, 1842
Hon. J.L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir,
By request of Adam Bicker's will, would be you with a full line in this Matter? Her quarter nine months of his reminder in when he obtained his certificate for $30 per annum. He told me he served 8 years and 9 months, for which he thinks he ought to get money, as there is some in this county get $80 per annum that only served one campaign. If you think there is any chance from an increase in his pay, you will please tell what kind of evidence must be in order to get his pay increased. The old man is in need of help and has not pay from this - [Illegible] to keep him in the place of one [Illegible] further who served the best way in defense of their country, should become object of township up to a point. If Mr. Bicker is entitled to more pay, I would respectfully see him get it. You will please give me a letter at the reciept of these.
Sincerely and directly yours,
J.A. McAdams
Williamsburg, Ohio
J.L. Edwards.
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J. A. McAdams
Decd 16 45
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Pension Office
Dec. 16, 45
Sir
The informal unsupported declaration of Rebecca Bicker has been placed in our files, and a copy of the regulations with which she should substantially comply is herewith enclosed for her grievance {Illegible] in appealing her claim.
Enter on register
J.A. McAdams
Williamsburg
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Adam Bicker
Clermont Co Ohio

Adm 9 months

Hon T. S. Hames
Ho of Rep
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Adam Bricker which require further proof or explanation
I. Does the declaration show where the application resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for him not doing so? ---
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war, when he served? Yes
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served? in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than to one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? The inscription is not perceptible. (Resealed)
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age, and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No.
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No.
XIII. If the applicant has not documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? No.
(See obtained declaration.)
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? ---
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? (Declaration of service and recruiting)
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? 
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 5,7 (See enclosed declaration)
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposith and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory. he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year, _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____.  For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____, and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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Sir
Be pleased to inform me what further evidence, if any, is necessary to substantiate the claim of Mrs Rebecca Bicker or Bricker to a pension. She is the widow of Adam Bicker who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832, and appered some time since for a pension on account of the services of her deceased husband in the Revy War. An early answer is requested.
Very Respy
J. L. Taylor

Col J. L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
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Milton Jamieson
May 24, 1850.
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749
Pension Office
May 24 1850

Sir
The application of Rebecca Bicker, widow of Adam Bicker has been examined and filed with rejected cases under act 4 July 1836.

It appears from her declaration that she was married to the pensioner November 1802 and as no widow of revolutionary men who were married subsequent to the 1st January 1800, are entitled to a pension her case is not provided for under the Act 4 July 1836 or any law of Congress.

Adam Bicker served in the Pennsylvania militia for nine months; he did not therefore acquire a right to Bounty Land from the United States; no soldier of the revolution being entitled to such bounty unless he enlisted for during the war, and continued to serve until its close

Milton Jamieson Esq.
Batavia Ohio
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Rebecca Bicker
O adm

Cole
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Columbus Ohio
Feb. 12th, 1852

Hon. J. E. Heath.

Sir:

    As the Atty. of Mrs. Rebecca Bicker and being especially instructed by her I have to request that the Bills containing the family record which was forwarded to the De[artment by her in support of her claim to a Revolutionary Pension be returned.  Seh being anxious to preserve the same in the family.

                                 Yours very Resp'y,
                                             //s//
                                  W. B. Jarvis Judge
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Batavia May 18 1850

The Hon. Com. of Pensions:
Sir:
Please find enclosed the application of Mrs Rebecca Bicker, for a warrant for 100 qcres of land and for a pension, in right of the services of her husband in the revolutionary war, as a Private soldier in Capt. Thomas Steely's Company -(Penn.) U.S. Troops.

I am sorry that more definite and satisfactory proof, cannot be had, as to the services of Adam Bicker in that War and as to what Regiment he belonged and when he was discharged. Mrs Bicker is quite infirm, and her recollection is very poor, in reference to what persons her husband served under. His certificate of Pension was sent by Sec to the Pension Office in 1844, to get the balance due on his pension. The files or rolls in the Pension office will show more fully her right, if the evidence here given, will be a sufficient data, to find whether he served or not in that war. And if it will not suffice, I fear her claim will be lost, for there is no service here, by which she can obtain any more satisfactory proof, than she has already offered, as to matters stated.
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However, whatever may be wanting, you will please communicate to me, at Batavia Ohio, and if in my power to furnish it, it shall be done. By an early attention to this, you will much oblige.
Your Respectful Humble servant
Milton Jamieson

Hon. Com. Pen.
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Columbus, Ohio, April 27th, 1837.

Sir:

   Will you forward to me, if on record in your Office, a certificate of the following marriage:

Adam Becker          Nov 2nd, 1799
       to                              by
Rebecca Hartman   Wm. Hunter J.P.

    The Certificate is wanted to establish a Widow's claim to Bounty Land, and your fee will be forwarded upon its receipt.

                                Yours Respectfully,

                                       W.B. Jarvis
                       Bounty Land and Pension Agent 

To the Clerk of Court in Clermont
County, State of Ohio.

P.S. If you cannot find the record in this case, please state that fact, by signing the annexed blank, and re-enclosing the letter to me.  WBJ

I have after careful examination been unable to find among the records of my Office, any evidence of the above Marraige.

                              //s//
                      R. W. Clarke  Clerk

To W. B. Jarvis,
Columbus, Ohio.
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United States of America
THE STATE OF OHIO,
Secretary of Staff Office.
I, HENRY W. KING, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF OHIO, DO HEREBY CERTIFY
That Ezekiel Slade, whose attestation is
hereunto annexed, was on the day of the date thereof, an acting JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, within and for the County of Clermont in the State of Ohio, duly Commissioned as such; that he is the proper officer to take such attestation: that his attestation is in due form; and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit, as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Ohio at Columbus the tenth day of January in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
Henry W. King
Secretary of State
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State of Ohio Clermont County ss
Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State personally appeared Sarah Smith and John Wilson, two aged and respectable citizens of this County, who being duly sworn according to law declared as follows: To wit, that they were acquainted with
Adam Bicker and Rebecca Bicker, his wife, for a period of Forty-four years prior to his death, which took place on the 31st day of August AD 1843, that said Mariage was solemnized at the residence of one Christopher Hartman on the 2nd day of November AD 1799, by one William
Hunter, a Justice of the Peace, that the said Adam and Rebecca were in fact declared man and wife, that being in no possible degree doubted in the vicinity of their residence, that the said Adam and Rebecca as man and wife had a family of Children, the oldest of which
was born on the 13th day of August AD 1800
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That the same Adam was, from to his death and at the time thereof, a regular pensioner of the United States in the Revolutionary war. That the said Rebecca is now and has been from the death of aforesaid of the said Adam his widower, and that the afficants are documented in this matter.
Sarah Smith
Her mark X
John Wilson

Sworn to and subscribed this 26th day of August AD 1881, and I hereby certify that I fully believe said afficant worthy of credit
Ezekiel Shade
Justice of the Peace
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Rebecca Bicker or Bricker

Pension Application as widow of Revolutionary Pensioner

[Several words crossed out]

Presented by W. B. Jarvis Columbus Ohio
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[Breaks added for clarity of transcription] 

State of Ohio Clermont County S.S.  

Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State personally appeared Robert Varostal an aged and respectable citizen of this County who being duly sworn according to Law declared as follows to wit

That he was acquainted with Adam Bicker and Rebecca Bicker his wife [the words “for a period” crossed out ]from the year AD 1814 up to the Death of said Adam Ricker and During that time as a neighbor to said Adam & Rebecca and was present and a witness to his will and said will calling said Rebecca his beloved wife.  I further declare that they lived during the above mentioned time as man and wife and never heard a Doubt nor scruple in regard to their legal Marriage. 

I have also lived neighbor to and Rebecca Ricker since the death of her said husband & she has lived & is to the present his Lawful widow.  And I do further firmly believe said Rebecca to be legal heir of said Adam Bicker for bounty land or pension money which he would of been entitled to had of been living

Robert Vanorstal

Sworn to and subscribed this 26th day of August A. D. 1851 and I hereby certify that I fully
believe said affiant worthy of credit

Ezekiel Slade  {Justice of the Peace}
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[Written vertically on the left hand side]

Mrs William Jarvis in [illegible] a family record.
[Illegible] 64 yrs [illegible] at the moment
[Illegible]

[On the right hand side]

Rebecca Bicker or Bricker
Pension Application as widow of Revolutionary Pensioner 

[Illegible] of application made [This line crossed out]

Presented by W. B. Jarvis Columbus Ohio
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United States of America.
THE STATE OF OHIO,
Secretary of State's Office.

[Image of mountains with a sunrise in the background. There are two wheat stacks in the foreground. Beneath the image is the label 'STATESMAN PRINT')

I, HENRY W. KING,
SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF OHIO, 
DO HEREBY CERTIFY,

That ____ Johnson & Ezekiel Stode whose attestations are hereunto annexed, [strikethrough 'was'] ^ were on the days of the dates thereof, the former an Associate Judge, and the latter a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Clermont and State of Ohio, duly commissioned as such; that they are proper officers to take such attestations that their attestations are in due form; and thatthier official acts are entitled to full faith and credit as well in courts of Justice as there___.

[Seal]
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Great Seal of the state of Ohio, at Columbus, the 16tth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one.

Henry W. King, 
Secretary of State
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Rebecca Bicker
Application for 
Pension
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State of Ohio }
Clermont County } SS

On this sixteenth day of May in the year 1850, personally appeared before me William T. McLean - one of the justices of the peace in and for the County and state as aforesaid, Mrs Rebecca Bicker, a resident of Williamsburg, Clermont County, Ohio aged sixty nine years, who being duly sworn, declareson oath, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress of July 4th 1836 or any other act which by virtue of her husbands services in the revolutionary war she may be entitled to a pension. That she is the identical widow of Adam Bicker who was a Private in Captain Thomas Stugley's Company, Pennsylvania, United States Troops - Regiment not recollected - in the Revolution.
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[Revolution]ary War - that her husband was an enlisted soldier in said War - and got his honorable discharge.
She further declares that she was married to Adam Bicker on or about the [strikethrough] first day of November in the year eighteen hundred and two - that her husband, the said Adam Bicker, died on or about the 31st day of August A D 1843 that she has not married since his death; that his is his first application for pension since her husbands decease That the papers by which he drew his pension, were sent to sent to the pension office by her after his death, in order to obtain the benefits of the same due on his said pension which at that time, they were sent, amended to nearly six months pay - this was paid on or about the 1st of Sept A D 1844 - She now wishes to draw her Pension at the Cincinnati Ohio Agency.
And that she appoints Milton Jamieson her Agent and Attorney in this matter, and orders all communications in reference to this claim to be directed to the said Jamieson at Batavia, Ohio &c

Rebecca (her X mark) Bicker

Attest.
Ann L Bricker

Sworn to and subscribed to before me this 16th day of May 1850. I also certify that Mrs. Rebecca Bicker - is a person worthy of belief
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and credit; and that the above power of Attorney is acknowledged in my presence.

Wm S. McLean SS (seal)

State of Ohio }
Clermont County } SS

I hereby certify that William S. McLean Esqr who certifies to the foregoing power of Attorney, and before when the foregoing affidavit was taken, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as clerk of the Court of Common Please of said County this 17th day of May 1850

R. W. Clarke, Ck
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Declaration of
Adam Bricker
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[Breaks added for clarity of transcription] 

The State of Ohio       }
Clermont County        }    Court of Common Pleas
                                          November Term 1832

"On this 8th day of November 1832 personally appeared in open Court Adam Bricker an applicant for the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states"

The State of Ohio   }
Clement County     }  ss

[An illegible seal]

I Jonathan D Morris Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County do hereby 
Certify that the above is a true extract from the minutes of said Court at the Term aforesaid had on the above application of said Bricker for pension 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Batavia this 19th day of November AD 1892

J. D. Morris Clerk

[Illegible] February 21st 1834
J.D. Morris Clerk
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Affidavits of Bunting & Perrine
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[Breaks added for clarity of transcription] 

Clermont County ss

Personally appeared before me a Justice of the in and for the County of Clermont in the State of Ohio, James Perrine who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says the he is fifty three years of age, and has been acquainted with Adam Bricker [the words “the within named applicant” inserted above] for thirty one years; that he believes he (Adam Bricker) is the age he represents himself to be, and the he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood to have been a revolutionary soldier, and that he concurs in that opinion

February 20th 1834             Azel Bryan JP

Signed James Perrine

Clermont County ss 

Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Clermont in the State of Ohio Ramoth Bunting who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he is Eighty five years of age, and that he has been acquainted with Adam Brinker the within named applicant for at out forty years; that he believes he (Adam Brinker) is the age he represents himself to be and that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood to have been a revolutionary soldier, and that he concurs in that opinion

February 20th 1834     Azel Bryan JP

                              his
Signed Ramoth [a mark] Bunting
                             mark

I do hereby certify that James Perrine and Ramoth Bunting, whose signatures are affixed to the above affidavits are persons whose situation and standing in society is respectable, and whose reputation for truth and veracity is unquestionable

February 20th 1834               Azel Bryan J P
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The State of Ohio
Clermont County
I Jonathan D Morris Clerk of
the Court of Common pleas in and for
the County and State aforesaid do hereby
certify that Azel Bryan Esqr whose
name is attached to the within affida
vits of James Perrine and Ramath
Bunting
and also the certificate certifying to the
credibility of said officiants was at the time of taking
and subscribing the same one of the acting Justices
of the peace within and for said County of Clermont
duly commissioned and qualified and that the
several signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court at
Batavia this 21st day of February A D 1834
J. D. Morris Clerk
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12392
Rebecca
Adam Bicker
widow of Adam
Ohio-
Act 7 July 38
-
Married 1799
He died 1843
Aden 9 mo (on $30
per annum Cony
4 March 1818
●
(See family Bible)
Come
W Jawis
Columbus
Ohio
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Wmsburg 10
Oct 25
Peter Hagner
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City
D.C.
___
181. Nov 11, 1845
Rebecca Bicker
June 17/44
Ohio

Declaration of
[Illegible] Bicker
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Also for hire one clame you will plese
and your answer to A M Adams
Williamsburg Clermont County Ohio
give the necessary information yours
Mr Peter Hagner
A. Adams
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State of Ohio Clermont County ss.
Before me one of the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas in said
County of Clermont and State of
Ohio personally appeared Rebecca
Bicker aged Seventy two years, a
resident of said County and State, &
concerning whom I certify it to be
my belief that she is from bodily
infirmity unable to attend in open
court, who being duly sworn according to law made the following
declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress
made for the relief of certain widows
of Revolutionary Soldiers passed on
the 2nd day of February AD 1848, That
she is the widow of Adam Bicker
who was a Pensioner on the Revolutionary Roll, and who resided
in the County of Clermont, that
she is entirely unacquainted with
the nature of the services rendered
by the said Adam Bicker in the said
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Revolutionary War, and hence most respectfully refers the department to the proofs upon which said Adam obtained his said Pension, That the certificate of Pension held by the said Adam as a pensioner was sent by this affiant to the Pension
department for the purpose of obtaining the Back pension due at the time of his death. That the
said Rebecca was married to the said Adam on the 2nd day of November AD 1799, at the County of Clermont and State of Ohio, by one William Hunter a Justice of the Peace, that the said Adam died at said Clermont County and State on the 31st day
of August A D 1843, and that she has continued the widow of the said Adam from that time to
this present,
her
Rebeca X Bicker
mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me one of the Judges as aforesaid
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of said County Court of Common
Please and I hereby certify that
I fully believe the said Rebecca
to be the widow of the said Adam
without doubt. That the said Adam
was a revolutionary soldier, and
as such obtained a Pension, that the
said Adam died on the 31st day of
August AD 1843, and that the said
Rebecca is now and has continued
from the time of the said Adams
death to this presents a widow. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my
hand this 27 day of [July - Struck Thru] August
A.D. 1851
Jonathan Johnson
Judge
as aforesaid
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KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that I the subscriber have and do hereby appoint W. B. Jarvis of Columbus Ohio my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to receive from the Secretary of War, Paymaster General, Second or Third Auditor of the Treasury, or any officer or officer authorized to pay the same, all moneys drafts or other dues of every kind, nature and name, for extra pay, commutation
money bounty, clothing money, prize money withheld pay, or any other dues of every kind due me from the United States, whether paid by any of the before mentioned or any other officers of the United States; and I do hereby request said officers or any or either of them to pay said amounts to said Jarvis and do hereby give said Jarvis full power to endorse all drafts, pay certificates, or any other papers in reference to said business, and to execute any and all receipts or discharges, and to do any other act which I could do if present; and any act by him done shall be the same as if done by me in proper person
Witness my hand and seal this 24th day of May
A. D. 1857.
her
Rebecca X Bicker  {SEAL.}
mark  {SEAL.}

Signed and sealed in presence of us,}
Isaac Bicker}
Ezekiel Slade}

STATE OF COUNTY OF Clermont, ss
Before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally came Rebecca Bicker
and acknowledged that she had executed the foregoing instrument. I certify that I know her to be the person described in the same. Given under my hand at this 24th day of May A. D. 1857.
Ezekiel Slade 
Justice of the Peace.
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Williamsburg, Chio
Apr. 16, 1931

Pension Dept.
Washington, D.C
Dear sirs
Please verify my record that
Adam Bricker was a Revolutionary soldier.
He was born at Redstone Fort,
Pennsylvania, Now Brownsville in 1762 He joined a company of soldiers which was stationed at
Redstone Fort, when he was 14 years old. He was connected with army until 1795.
He married Rebecca Hartman at Williamsburg in 1805, it was she who drew a pension. He died
at Williamsburg Aug 31, 1843.
Also
Have you any record concerning

[Departmental Stamp]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE 
APR 20 1931
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Christoper Hartman? He was a Revolutionary soldier, but do not know whether her his wife drew a pension.
He was born in Swintzburg, Hesse Cassel, Germany, 1753, came to America at the age of 3, settled in Philadelphia. Married 1776, to Mary Hutchinson of Mercer Co., New Jersey, was a member of Smallwood's regiment.
Thanking you
Yours truly
Mrs. W. W. Clark
Williamsburg Ohio
[Departmental Stamp]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
C
APR 20 1931
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1802D
E
Department of the Interior
PENSION OFFICE
Washington, D.C. Mch 18, 1880

Dear Sir
Therewith transmit to your address the large family Bible which was sent to this Office in
in 1845 to be filed in evidence when your mother Mrs Rebecca Picker made application for pension.
Please acknowledge the receipt of the Bible and return this letter with your reply in the enclosed Envelope
Very respectfully
J.A. Bentley
Commissioner
[Illegible]

Robert Bricker
Care of P.M.
Williamsburgh
Clermont Co
Ohio
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
MAR 24 1830
PENSION OFFICE

Williamsburgh
Clermont Co. Ohio
March 24, 1880
J.A. Bentley:
I hereby acknowledge the
receipt of the Bible, this day.
Risp les
Robert Bicker

1812
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A. D D
Department of the Interior
PENSION OFFICE
Washington, D.C. March 12, 1880
Dear Sir
Please furnish this Office
with the names and present P. O.
address of some of the descendants
of Rebecca Bicker Widow of
Adam Bicker, late a Private in
in the Revolutionary War.
The Widow made application
for pension in 1845-50 and a
Bible containing a family record
was sent to this Office to be
filed in evidence. It is now
desired to return this
Bible to some member of the family
(All)
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all of whom resided within
the delivery of your Office at
and subsequent to the time
indicated within -
Adam Bicker, her husband
died in or near your Town on
the 30th of August 1843.
The names of the children are
John, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Christopher,
Samuel Robert, William, Rachel,
Thomas and Isaac Bicker.
Please return this letter, as soon
as practicable, with your reply
in Enclosed Envelope.
Post Master
Williamsburgh
Clermont
Co Ohio

Very respectfully

J. A. Bentley
Commissioner
MBE
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Bounty Land Dir
W.B. E.
Department of the Interior
PENSION OFFICE
Washington D.C. June 6th 1877
Dear Sir
Please furnish this office with the
names and Post Office address of some of the
descendants of Rebecca Bicker Widow
of Adam Bicker late a private in Rev. War,
who formerly resided in your town.
Application for pension was made by the
widow, who, through her atty filed a Bible in
evidence, containing a family record, with a
request that it be returned to the widow at Columbus Ohio. This was in the month of Feb 1852. It is now desired to return said Bible to the family.
Please return this letter with your reply-
Very respectfully
 J. A. Burtley
Commissioner
puttws

To the
Postmaster
Columbus
Ohio
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File No 2714
Rebecca Bicker
of Adam
Receipt for Bible
& letters to be filed.
in case
W. B. Evans
Clk
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N. O. W. and B.L.D.
W. B. E.
Department of the Interior
PENSION OFFICE
Washington, D.C. Oct 13 1879
Dear Sir
Please furnish this Office with
the names and present Post Office
address of some of the descendants of
Mrs. Rebecca Bicker, Widow of
Adam Bicker late a Private in the
Revolutionary War.
Application for pension was made
by the Widow in 1852 and
Bible was sent to this Office to
be filed in evidence with a request
that it be returned to the Widow
at Columbus Ohio. It is now desired
to return this Bible to some member of
the family, all of whom resided within
the delivery of your office at and sub_
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sequent to the time indicated within.
The names of the children are
John, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Christopher,
Samuel, Robert, William, Rachel,
Thomas and Isaac Bicker.
Please return this letter with
your reply in the enclosed Envelope.
Very respectfully
O.P.S. Clarke
Commissioner
MBE

Post Master
Columbus Ohio
Page 143

Williamsburgh
Clermont Co.
Ohio
March 15/80

Commissioner of Pensions:
Robert Bricker, one the heirs you name.
Gets his mail at this office. If you return the
Bible to him I presume it will be all right
Risp &c
Alexander Beall P.M