Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3208, John Barnard, Continental (Penn.)
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Penn.)
Barnard, John
W. 3208
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or Bernard John
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Elizabeth
Contents
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10.515
Pennsylvania
John Bernard of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania  who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Flowers of the Pennsylvania
line, for the term of three years

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14th April 1818

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Certificate of Pension issued the 12th of May 1819 and sent to John Bernard
Philadelphia Penna
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 $85.56
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 $48.00

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Discontinued
Notification sent to Wm Galagher
Philadelphia July 18, 1820
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Copy of John Bernard's discharge sent to him 21st October 1820
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627
Pennsylvania Phila.
Elizabeth Barnard
widow of John Barnard dec'd
who was an Officer
in the Penna Line
[illegible] August 16, 1845
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 240 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Inc'd from $144

Certificate of Pension issued
the 26th day of Novr 1850
and sent to
Hen T. Stevens
House of Reps
Acts of March 3, 1843 & June
17, 1844.}
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2
Page 104
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District of Pennsylvania
St.
Be it remembered that on this fourteenth
day of April A.D. 1818 before me the Subscriber Thomas Armstrong Esq one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Philadelphia, personally
appeared John Bernard who being duly sworn according to law saith & declares that he regularly enlisted in the Service of the United States on the Continental establishment
in the Pennsylvania Line, in Capt. Thos Wylie's Company in Col. B. Flowers, in Brig. Genl Irvine's Brigade at Carlisle, on or about the thirteenth day of July AD 1778, for the three years or during the war and that he served until the 8th day of July AD 1781 when this deponent was regularly discharged from
at Carlisle as appears by the annexed discharge of Capt. Wylie, which is an original paper and correct--- that deponent served during nearly three years of the revolutionary war & that he has never received any pension from
the U. States nor does he expect any & that he hereby relinquishes all claim he has or may have thereto & by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for support, he is a native resident Citizen of the U. States
now living in said County & by reason of his property makes this statement, he is unable to obtain any other evidence than
what is hereto annexed.
Sworn to & subscribed before me April John Barnard
fourteenth April AD 1818
Thos Armstrong
Judge.
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Be it remembered that on this fourteenth
day of April A.D. 1818 before me the Subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the City & County of Philadelphia came & appeared
Thomas Marley who being
duly Sworn on his oath saith that he is
well acquainted with John Bernard in the
annexed papers mentioned, & has known him thirty years & upwards & believes
his statement hereto annexed-
& the said deponent also
says from his own knowledge
he knows that the said John by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for support, being a poor man-- & resident native citizen of the
U. States on residing in the County of Philadelphia

Thos Marley
.
Sworn & Subscribed 
before me this Fourteenth day of April AD 1818.
Tho. Armstrong
Judge.
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I, the aforesaid Thomas Armstrong Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas, do certify that it appears to my full satisfaction that the aforesaid John Barnard did serve
in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy & that he is poor & by
reason of his reduced circumstances is in need of assistance from his Country for support & resident Citizen of this State.
And I now transmit the proceedings & Testimony taken and had before me to the sec'y of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned Act of Congress

Thos.  Armstrong
Oct 19th 1818-
Philadelphia County ss.
I, Joseph B. Norbury Prothonotary of the ┃
Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia do certify that Thomas Armstrong Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were made was at the time and still is an appointed Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas duly commissioned & qualified to whose acts as such full faith & credit is and ought to be given as well in courts of justice as elsewhere

In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand affixed
the seal of the said Court at
Philadelphia the nineteenth
day of October AD 1818.
J. Norbury 

John Barnard
Private
Col. Benjamin Flowers' Reg't
1778 - 3 years
Admitted
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John Bernard
10, 515
Not Entl'd
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District of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County
On the thirtieth day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the Court of Common pleas for said County the said Court being a Court of record having a Prothonotary seal, and exercising common law jurisdiction
John Bernard aged 55 years , residing in Philadelphia, who being first duly sworn in open Court according to law on his oath declares, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows In the Regiment of Artificer and Artillery, Col. Benj. Flowers of Compy commd by Capt Thos Wiley
Date of original declaration 14th April 1818
number of pension certificate (10.515.)


and I the said John Bernard do further solemnly swear that I was a resident
citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have
not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or
any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself with
in the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war,” passed the 18th of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to
me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto
annexed, and by me subscribed.
Sworn to and declared in open Court
on the thirtieth day of June 1820.
(Signed) John Bernard
before
J. Norbury Prothonotary
SCHEDULE OF THE PROPERTY OF John Bernard
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ventory of the property of John Barnard
one frame house [illegible] worth $2000-
Debts due to me--  8.60
3 Seabels 14 chains and 2 looking glasses---
29.00
1 Stone and sundry other articles--56.00
Sundry Carpenter tools   14 -
[Total]                           107.60
I am in debt to the following amount
Morgages and judgements  2283.00
and also to Sundry Small Debts to amount 279.33
[Total] 2562.33
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Amount of property 2107.60
which it appears that I am actually indebted in this amount  454.73

Signed John Bernard
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Schedule of my whole property is annexed from which it will appear that I am considerably in debt, and am actually worth nothing-
I am by occupation a House Carpenter but and
unable to do a days labor, having a rupture
in the groin, and other infirmities which render
me wholly unable to support myself. I have
four children residing with me, one boy 6 years
of age and one 8 years, and two daughters, and am in such indigent circumstances as to be
unable to support, myself without the assistance of my country-
Signed John Bernard

Philadelphia County 
I, Joseph P. Norbury Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of Philadelphia do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit and the schedule
thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further
certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value
of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is 2107 dollars and 60 cents subject to the deductions mentioned in said schedule.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the
said court, on this 30th day of June 1820

J. B. Norbury
Prothy
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193
Elizabeth Barnard
Pa

admitted
Pr arty artificers
a (?) yrs$ 144
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State of Pennsylvania Ss
On this Eleventh day of August
Anno Domini 1838 personally appeared before
the Court of Criminal Sessions for the City
and County of Philadelphia Mrs Elizabeth Barnard a resident of Southwark in the County of Philadelphia aged sixty seven years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in
order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" 

That she is the widow of John
Barnard who according to the best of her knowledge and belief was a private in the Pennsylvania Regiment of Artillery and Artificers in the Continental service commanded by Col. Benjamin Flower in the Company of which Thomas Wylie was Captain that he enlisted on or about the eighth day of July A.D. Seventeen hundred and
seventy nine (1779) and was discharged on the
eighth day of July A.D. Seventeen hundred
and eighty two (1782) having served three years in said regiment and that the annexed papers are all the documentary evidence she has in support of her claim and that her husband the said John Barnard received a pension for one year viz. A.D. 1819 - She further declares that she was married to the said John Barnard on the Twentieth day of March A.D. Seventeen hundred and eighty eight (1788) (as appears by her original marriage certificate thereto annexed and which is all the evidence she can produce of her said marriage that her husband the aforesaid John Barnard died
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on the second day of March AD eighteen hundred and twenty six (1826) that she was not
married to him previous to his leaving the
service but the Marriage took place previous
to the first day of January seventeen hundred
and ninety four viz at the time above stated

Elizabeth Barnard
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
James Todd

State of Pennsylvania SS
Jesper Harding being duly sworn says
that he knew and was well acquainted with
John Barnard deceased that the said John Barnard died on the second day of March A.D. 1826 leaving a widow Mrs Elizabeth Barnard who is the same person who has made the foregoing declaration that the said Elizabeth Barnard is a woman of credit and veracity and has not since her husband's (the said John Barnard's) death been married to any other person

Jesper Harding

Sworn to and subscribed
the Eleventh day of August
A.D. 1838
before James Todd
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The Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met
the Petition of John Barnard, of the County of Philadelphia, respectfully, Sheweth, that your petitioner was enlisted in the "Pennsylvania Regiment of Artillery, and Artificers" in the Continental service, commanded by Col.
Benjamin Flowers in the Company of which Thomas Wylie was Captain  on or about the 8th day of July 1779, and was honourably discharged on the 8 day of July 1782, having served three years in said Regiment.
Your petitioner now craves permission of your honourable bodies to inform you that necessity has compelled him to give up all his property and effects to his creditors, and to take the benefit of the insolvent Law: and that
by reason of age, and bodily infirmities, he is rendered unable to labor for his support. He therefore prays your honourable bodies to take his case into consideration, and grant him such assistance as in your wisdom you may deem proper. And as in duty bound, your petitioner will ever pray.
1822 January 10
John Bernard

These are to certify that John Bernard of the City of Philadelphia, Elizabeth Work of Southwark adjoining thereto, were joined together in marriage, this twentieth day of March 1788 eighty eight & on the twelfth
year of the United States of North America, by me
Geo. Duffield
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Philadelphia County ss.
I Edward D. Corfield Clerk of the Court
of Criminal Sessions for the City and County
of Philadelphia do hereby certify
that the Honorable James Todd Esquire before whom the foregoing Declaration and deposition were sworn and subscribed and who has subscribed his name thereto was at the time of so doing and now is the President Judge of the Court of Criminal Sessions for the City and Count of Philadelphia duly commissioned and qualified and that his signatures thereto subscribed are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
Court at Philadelphia this Eleventh day of August Anno Domini 1838
Edw D Corfield
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Elizabeth Barnard dec.
Inc. to $240 per annum
[illegible]  former pays at $144 per annum
Act 7 July 1838

43 & 44, ending 16 Augt 1845, when
she died. Payable to
Susanna B. Barnard, Executrix of the Estate of
Elizth Barnard Decd for the benefit of
Parker Barnard,
Robert W. Barnard,
James Barnard
Joseph Barnard &
Susanna B. Barnard only
surviving children
Hon J. Stevens,
N of C
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John Barnard
Discharge

John Barnard
W.F. 3208
Continental (Penna.)
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The bearer John Bernard having served the
term of his enlistment
of Arty & Artifice, is hereby
discharged the service of the United States.

Given at Carlisle, Pa. 8th July 1782 
By Order of Brigadier General [illegible]  
Comander art'y and artifice
at Washington
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I certify that it appears by the records of the Pennsylvania line in the Revolutionary war, that the name of John Bernard is included as a matross of the regiment of Artillery artificers commanded by Col Benjamin Flower, and that he served three years or more having
received a certificate No 160 for Forty seven pounds six shillings and nine pence for the depreciation on his pay date the 29 April 1782 - Witness my hand and the seal
of the office of the Auditor General the 22d March 18 [illegible]
Geo. Bryan A.G.
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3208
Elizabeth Barnard
Widow
John Barnard
Pr. Va. Line.
Act: March 3d 1843.
Index: -- Vol. A
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Arrangement of 1870.}
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I hereby certify that the
above is correct copy of an
instrument of writing purporting
to be the Discharge of Mr John Bernard and
now on file with the comments upon which
a pension was allowed to him under the Laws of the 18th March 1818 and [illegible] which his name was stricken from the roll under the Law of the 1 May 1820 on account
of the amount of his property

Not entitled.
In this case, let a letter be written in
the following words: you are hereby informed that the secretary of War has directed your name to be dropt from the Pension List, on account of the amount of property you have in your possession.-- (The letter must be
recorded in the Letter Book and reference made to it on the rolls.
Mr Wm Gulager, agent,
Philadelphia.
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Inc'ed to $240, Nov 26th
1850 & Certificate sent to Hon. T. Stevens, [illegible]
Aug 16 1845
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144
Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Barnard
widow of John Barnard dec'd
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 2d March 1826
of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania
who was an Artificer in the company commanded by Captain Wylie
of the Rgt commanded by Col Flowers in the Pa. line for 3 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Pa at the rate of 144 Dollars ---Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of Sept
1838 and sent to FF.D. Brightly Philadelphia 
Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $288.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept
72.00
______
$360.00
Book A.  Vol. 20 Page 145
Act July 7,
1838.
Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
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John Barnard
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Philadel April 30th 1824

Sir:  I enclose certain Documents of Mr John Bernard a Revolutionary soldier- and you can soon form an opinion whether he ought to be restored as a pensioner or not -
With great respect, sir, I am your obt svt 

Peter W Sprout
No. 5 Lombard St. Philadel
Hon J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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J.L. Edwards, Esq.  
Pension Office
Washington City

Jno. Barnard
[reminder illegible]
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My Dear Sir

Some weeks ago I wrote to my friend the Hon J Buchanan relative to the Claim of Elizabeth Barnard Widow of John Barnard deceased a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He referred that letter to you. I return my sincere
thanks for the prompt attention which
it's received at your hands-
In your letter to the Hon Jus Buchanan
you state that the papers on which
Barnard received a pension are on file in the office. Perhaps you are not aware
of the fact that Bernard received but
one years pay, the pension having been
stopped one year after it was granted &
the reason alleged, was that he had
sold some property & was living on the proceeds & did not require aid. Under
these circumstances as his widow only claims from the day it was stopped up to the day of his death the only requisites to secure
the payment of that sum, will be proof of marriage an exhibition of the discharge of John
Barnard by the insolvent laws of this Commonwealth he being unable to pay his debts
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and evidence of his decease.
Am I correct?  If not, please suggest the course to be pursued to secure this old & indigent woman that to which she is fairly entitled-
I am requested by her to say that a
neighbor of yours, a member of Congress
from New York about the time of the great
fire in New York was travelling in a stage
with her & having ascertained her name &
circumstances declared he would, see that she have proper attention paid to her petition. The name of this gentleman she did not know nor has she since learned,-- but hopes you may recollect him, if he remembered the case to you-

John Bernard rec'd a pension about
the year 1818 or 1819 & it was stopped after
he had rec'd one years pay at the rate of
$8 per month - he died March 2nd 1826.
She therefore claims what was due him at
the time of his death
I hope to hear from you soon
I am very truly
Yours

Sam'l F. Reed
Atty
J. L Edwards Esq
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Jan. 8
Jno. Barnard
Per [illegible]  Act 1878
12 May 19

Col Lewis Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington
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Geo Town Jany 7 1836
Col Edwards
Sir:
I have been requested
to enquire of you respecting the
Claim of John Bernard of Pennsylvania who was a soldier in the Revolutionary army & who formerly had a pension but was struck
off In consequence of his having
too much property.   His widow informs
me that he Deceased having no
property & that she is now poor and 
wishes to know if there is any
relief for her. Please examine
unto the case and inform me.

Respectfully
Joel Crittenden
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627
Pennsylvania. Phila
Elizabeth Barnard
widow of John Barnard
who was an Artificer
in the Pa line for 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
144 Dollars --Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th and sent to
day of June, 1843
Saml F. Smith, E
Pension Agent
Philadelphia
Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A. Volume 1
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Pennsylvania
John Barnard, Private
Served to July, 1781
1st Schedule dated 30 June 1820 contains

1 Frame house, front & Back $2,000.
Debts due him $8.60
Carpenter's Tools $14.00
3 Tables, 14 chairs & 2 Looking Glasses  $29.00
1 Stove and sundry other articles $56.00
__________________________________________ $2,107.00

States that he owes on mortgage and judgments $2,283.00
Sundry small debts $279.33
_________________________________$2,562.33
Schedule under Act March, 1823, dated 4 October 1824, contains household and kitchen furniture $20.00

Accounts for the decrease of his property by the sale of all that is omitted in his last schedule, by the Sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia under two writs, one records some expenses, and another of fieri facias, one first on favor of Randall S. Cropper, one in favor of Sarah Pannock.  The first writ was dated 8 December 1821 and [illegible] for $240.38, which with interest and costs amounted to $358.80  on 28 January 1822, at which time part of claimant's property was sold for $1,500 to Sarah Pannock [illegible], $1,141.19 in her own hands, she being
a creditor of and having a writ of fieri
facias against the claimant. The
balance remaining, after discharging the forementioned execution, was paid by the Sheriff to Charles [illegible], attorney for H. Higgins, to George C. Snyder, Collector of Taxes and to James Biddle for ground rent and interest.  This statement is corroborated by an authenticated copy of the Sheriff's [illegible] and a statement and [illegible] by the Clerk of the Court in which the executions were issued under his seal of office. The certificate of the Recorder proves the mortgage 
of the claimant's real property to Sarah Pennock given 16 June 1818.  An authenticated copy of the claimant's discharge under the law of relief for insolvent debtors is introduced.

Claimant aged 60 years by occupation a House Carpenter, but unable to pursue it, from a rupture in the grain &c. he has 2 sons, 18, the other 6 years old-- and 2 daughters 
ages not given.
P. W. Sproat,
Sept 1819
Phild
testimony

See Letter 26 September 1837
[illegible]  Buchanan

 [Other notes in margins illegible]
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Honble J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
Washingtn City

Recd 19 June 1824
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Philade June 17th 1824

Sir,

I request your attention to my claim for
a continuation of pension, having reference to the papers and Letters forwarded for my by P.W. Sproat on the 30th April last and the 29th May

I am Sir very
respectfully
Your obedt svt.

-
John Barnard
No 54 Plum St.

Honourable J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington D.C.
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Philada August 11 1838

Sir
I herewith transmit to you the
Declarations &c of Mrs Elizabeth Barnard
in order to enable her to obtain the benefit
of the late Act of Congress of July 7 1838
as the widow of a Revolutionary soldier.
By a prompt attention you will be doing an
act of kindness to a poor widow who
has no property whatever and is entirely
dependent on her friends and her own daily earnings.
I am Sir
Your Obed Servt
Fred C. Brightly  Esq.
No 276 N. 3rd St

J L Edwards
Commissioner
of Pensions
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Pension Office
John Barnard
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Philadelphia July 7th 1825

Sir
I wish your personal investigation of
of the claim of John Bernard to a Restoration
to the pension Roll.
I Request your attention to Sheriff North's
Certificate of the sales of his Estate.
Property sold at the suit of Kimball and Cropper
Debt $240=38

You will perceive by the Sheriffs Return that
Kimball Cropped received nothing;  prior claims having precedence: The next is Sarah Pennock whose claim was $1220=20 out of which she received $1141=19 for claims having
precedence; The next claim is Hannah Higgins
which was paid in full to Charles Channey Esq. her attorney of $756=50. The next is George C. Snyder Collector of Taxes $109=44. the next is the next is James Biddle Esq for Ground rent of $200=30
And lastly the Sheriffs Bill of Costs  $54=40
Making arguably to his estimation the full
 amount of property sold $2270

In addition to this he has taken the benefit of the Act of Insolvency by order of Court and a thousand dollars would not satisfy his debts.

I am sir, with great esteem 
your most obt svt
R W Sproat

Hon James Barbon
Secretary of War.
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Sir
of War has
List on acco
your possey
Department of War
Pension Office
18 July 1820

Sir
You are hereby informed that the Secretary
of War has directed your name to be dropt from the Pension List on account of the amount of property you have in you possession.

Respectfully
Your Obt' svt
J.L. Edwards

Mr. John Bernard
Care of
Wm Gulager, Agent
Philadelphia
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Philadelphia October 8th 1824

Sir
to reply to your communication of the 7th July
in the claim of John Barnard, I this day forward for him several official comment for to be continued on the pension list.  Which with those on file will probably be satisfactory and conclusive proofs of his right to a continuation of pension.   His certificate of having taken
the benefit of the Insolvent law is at the department.

Respectfully I am Sir your very humble & [illegible] 
Peter Wynat
Honble J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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Philadelphia May 27th 1824

Sir:
On the 30th I sent certain documents for to show
that J. Bernard is entitled to receive a Pension in consequence of being a bankrupt & having assigned his property to his creditors the rightful proprietors: & taken the benefit of the
Insolvent Law
His address is No 15 Plum St.

RESPEC &c.
P.W. Sproat

Hon. J.C.Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Hon. J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington

FREE

Rec'd 30 May 1824
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Catharine Sutton-
Correspondence Dec. 6, 1906

N.L. [illegible]
Sam L. Southard

Mr. Peter W. Sproat
Philadelphia
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Honorable J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
District of Columbia
Rec. Oct. 12.1820
A certified  Copy of the paper passport inf. of the discharge of John Bernard in this file.  Sent to him the 21st October 1820
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Sir

I received your note dated 18 July 1820
performing me that my name was Drop
from the pension list on account of the
Amount of property in my possession
and I am in hopes that my Discharge will be
of service to me in another Department
I will pray your Honor to let me have it
By directing it to
John Barnard
No 360 South Second Street
Philadelphia
Respectfully your
Obedient Servant
John Barnard
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PHILADELPHIA COUNTY, ss.
Be it Remembered, That at a Court of Common Pleas held at Philadelphia for the City and County of Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the term of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one

Upon the petition of John Barnard
to the Judges of the same court for relief as
an insolvent Debtor, agreeably to the Acts of Assembly of this Commonwealth, IT WAS ORDERED by the said court, that he give notice to his respective Creditors to appear at the Court-House in said city, on the twenty day of
June the said acts of assembly. And he having appeared before the said court on the
pursuant to the order of the said court: and it appearing that he had given due public notice
in the Democratic Press and Franklin Gazette
to the several creditors of the said Petitioner mentioned and marked in the list exhibited with the said Petition, namely, Hannah Higgins, Isaac Morton, Kendal S. Cropper,
Alphonso Ireland, Sarah Slade, Robert McMullin, Howard Smith, Joseph Hassel, John Bean William Britton, Jeremiah Nichols John
Bilias, Charles Carey, Michael Cavenaugh ,Mary Gifford, Jeremiah De Grass,
Paul Carter, John Land, Robert McClusky,  Israel Bank, Peter Williamson, [illegible] Clapp, William Wolff, John King, Rebecca Biddle, Francis Rinauld,  Joseph Craycraft & [illegible] Petition that notifying the said Creditors of the time and place appointed by the said court for proceeding upon the said Petition: And the court examined in to the matter of the said Petition, and no cause being shown why the prayer of the Petitioner should not be granted, he took the oath prescribed by law for the relief of INSOLVENT DEBTORS: And having made an assignment of all his estate, real and personal, in trust for the use and benefit
of all his Creditors, to Alphonse C. Ireland and Robert McMullen was discharged, and it was thereupon ordered by the said court that the said petitioner shall not at any time thereafter be liable to imprisonment by reason of any judgment or decree obtained for payment of money only, or for any debt, damage, cost, sum or sums of money, contracted, accrued
, occasioned, owing, or becoming due before the time of such assignment.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, at Philadelphia, the 25
day of June
in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
Matthew Randall
Prothonotary.
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I. Randal Hutchinson Prothonotary of the District Court for the City & County of Philadelphia Do Certify that a writ of Levari Facias issued out of the said Court tested the Eighth day of December one thousand
Eight hundred and twenty one, returnable to March Term One thousand
Eight hundred and twenty two, of the said Court against John Barnard at the suit (?) of Sarah Pennock by which writ the Sheriff of the County aforesaid was Commanded to sell- All those frame & Brick Messuages and Lot
or piece of Ground, situate on the West side of Second street continued Southward beyond the said City between German & Catharine  streets in the district of Southwark, Containing in breadth on Second street nineteen feet eleven inches & Subject to a yearly rent charge of seventy seven dollars and forty cents
and also all those two frame tenement of lots or pieces of ground situate contiguous to each other on the North side of Catharine Street in the District of Southwark, Containing each eighteen feet front on Catharine Street & on
default of the said John Barnard not paying the sum of Twelve hundred and twenty Dollars & twenty cents with interest from the twenty fourth of December Eighteen hundred and twenty one - and I further certify that the premises therein described were sold on the twenty eighth day of January Eighteen
hundred & twenty two for the sum of Seven hundred & seventy dollars, and further Certify that Caleb North Esquire the high Sheriff of the said City & County on the ninth day of March eighteen hundred and twenty two, acknowl edged in open Court a Deed Poll by which the messuage and lots above described were conveyed to Thomas Winnimore, which said Deed was duly entered and remains of record in the said Court - And I do further certify that
by a writ of Venditioni Expona tested the eighth day of December Eighteen hundred
and twenty one, returnable to March term Eighteen hundred & twenty two, against the said John Barnard at the suit of Kendall S. Cropper by which writ the Sheriff of the County aforesaid was commanded to sell all those certain Messuage or tenements and Lot or piece of Ground situate on the Westside of Delaware second street between German & Catharine streets in the District of Southwark, Containing in breadth on the said second street twenty three feet five inches including an alley three feet wide by sixty feet in depth and continuing that breadth and depth Westward from the said second Street Eighty feet
then widening on the south side thereof to the breadth of thirty nine feet, five inches & from thence containing that breadth further in depth Westward
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seventy feet be the said breadth more or less Bounded Southward partly by a messuage and Lot granted by John Barnard to John C. Hardy on ground rent & partly by ground late of Jonathan Penrose deceased Westward by ground late of Samuel Penrose deceased, Northward by ground late of Norton Pryor deceased and Eastward by second street aforesaid & and also all that certain yearly
rent charge or sum of thirty eight Spanish silver milled Dollars issuing and payable out of all that certain Lot or piece of Ground situate on the west side of said second street and adjoining the above described Lot on the south, Containing in breadth on said second street sixteen feet & in depth Eighty feet
Bounded Southward by ground of Felix Crawford, Westward by part of the above
described lot, northward partly by the above described lot & partly by the said three feet wide alley & Eastward by Second street aforesaid & on default of the said John Barnard not paying the sum of Two hundred & forty
Dollars & thirty eight cents with interest from the Seventeenth day of November one thousand Eight hundred & twenty, and I further certify that the
above described were sold on the twenty eighth day of January one thousand
Eight hundred and twenty two, for the sum of Fifteen hundred Dollars to -
Sarah Pennock of the City of Philadelphia-
Witness my hand and seal of said Court
at Philadelphia this fourteenth day of
September A.D. One thousand Eight hundred & twenty four
R. Hutchinson, R.D.C
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John Barnard

D2/100
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Philadelphia City and County ss: -
Randall Hutchinson Prothonotary of the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia
Do Certify that a writ of Levari Facias issued out of the said Court tested the Eighth day of December One thousand Eight hundred and twenty one, returnable to March Term One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, of the said Court against John Barnard at the suit
of Sarah Pennock by which writ the Sheriff of the County aforesaid was Commanded to sell all those frame and Brick messuages -
& lot or piece of Ground situate on the West side of Second street continued
Southward beyond the said City between German & Christian Streets in the District of Southwark containing in breadth on Second street nineteen feet eleven inches & subject to a yearly rent charge of seventy seven dollars and forty cents, and also all those two frame tenements and lots or pieces of ground situate contiguous to each other on the north side of
Catharine Sheet in the District of Southwark, Containing each eighteen feet front on Catharine Street & on default of the said John Barnard not having the sum of Twelve hundred twenty Dollars, & twenty cents with
interest from the twenty fourth of December eighteen hundred & twenty one and
I further Certify that the premises therein described were sold on the
twenty eighth day of January eighteen hundred & twenty two for the sum
of of seven hundred & Seventy dollars - And I further certify that Caleb North
Esquire, then Sheriff of the said City & County on the ninth day of March
eighteen hundred and twenty two, acknowledged in open District Court a
Deed Poll by which the Messuages and lots above described were conveyed
Thomas Winnimore, which said deed was duly entered and remains of record in the said Court
Witness my hand and seal of said Court
the 19th day of July AD. 1824-
R. Hutchinson, P.D.C.
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Philadelphia County.
I, George W. Riter Recorder of Deeds
for the City and County of Philadelphia do certify that among the records of my Office vizt (?) on Mortgage Book M.R. No 9. page 214 I find the record of a Mortgage given by John Barnard of the District of Southwark House, Carpenter, to Sarah Pennack of the city of Philadelphia, widow, dated the sixteenth day of June 1818, conditioned for the payment of
eleven hundred and fifty Dollars with interest
wherein are pledged as security for the said sum of money all those frame and brick messuages & lot or piece of ground situate on the west side of Second Street and continued Southward beyond the said City
Between German and Christian Street in the District of Southwark containing in breadth on Second street nineteen feet eleven inches subject to a yearly rent charge of seventy seven Dollars and forty cents, and also
all those two frame Tenements and Lots or pieces of ground situate contiguous to each other on the North
side of Catherine that in the district of Southwark containing each eighteen feet front on Catherine Street
I further certify that the said Mortgage remains
unsatisfied of record
Witness my hand & seal of Office
the 17th day of July A.D. 1824
Geo. W. Riter Recr
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District of Southwark
County of Philadelphia

Susanna B. Barnard of the District
of Southwark and County of Philadelphia aforesaid Spinster, being duly affirmed according to law, on her solemn affirmation doth declare and say, that she is the Executor of the last will and Testament of her Mother Elizabeth Bernard as will more fully appear by the annexed Certificate of the Register of Wills & of the City and County of
Philadelphia, that the said Elizabeth Barnard died at Philadelphia aforesaid, on the thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty five, and at the time of her death was a pensioner of the United States as widow of John Barnard who was an acting artificer in Captain Wylie's company
in the Regiment commanded by Col. Flowers, that the said Elizabeth Barnard left the following children, viz. Parker, Robert W., James, Joseph and this affirmant,
and two grandchildren, John Barnard and Elizabeth who has intermarried with Henry Lewis, children of affirmant's brother William who died many years ago.  Affirmant had a brother, John S. who died in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one leaving a widow but no issue.
Affirmant makes this declaration
for the purpose of procuring such increase of pension
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as the Resolutions acts of Congress, or decisions of the Department, and services of her deceased father may entitle her, or the children of the said Elizabeth Barnard to.

Susanna B Barnard

Affirmed & Subscribed
before me this 19 day
of October AD 1850
Robt [illegible]
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In the matter of the application of Susanna B.
in for an increase of the Pension of Elizabeth
Barnard, deceased

Deposition of George C. Work
George C Work of the District of Southwark in theCounty of Philadelphia, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Painter, aged forty two years and upwards being duly sworn according to law on his solemn oath doth depose and say, that he was well acquainted with John Barnard late of the District aforesaid, House
Carpenter deceased, that the wife of the said John Barnard was the sister of deponents father, that deponent was intimate in his uncle's family from his infancy that his uncle the said John Barnard died at Philadelphia in the year eighteen hundred and twenty
six, deponent was absent at the time but returned soon after his death, and on his deponents return to the City, in the summer of that year, he was informed of the went the said
John Barnard left a widow Elizabeth Barnard and six children, to wit, Parker, John Smith, Robert W. ,James, Susan, and Joseph,
all of them are living, except John who died on or about the fifth of July 1831, leaving a widow but no child. Mr. Barnard's
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eldest son William went away a great many years ago, and was never heard of. He was married and left two children, John and Elizabeth. Elizabeth married William
Henry Lewis. Both William & Elizabeth are living, Deponent's cousin William went away many years before the death of his father John Barnard as deponent understands.
 
Deponent has frequently heard William's death spoken of in his uncles family; his aunt was very much distressed on account of it. Deponent's aunt Elizabeth
Barnard died, on or about the thirteenth day of August eighteen hundred and forty five, and at the time of her death resided in the same house with deponent. We
has always been intimate with the members of his Aunts family

Geo. C. Work
Sworn and Subscribed before
me this sixth day of October A.D. 1850.
[illegible]
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Deposition of William Pidgeon
William Pidgeon of of the District of Southwark, County of Philadelphia, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
aged fifty nine years, and upwards being duly affirmed, according to law on his solemn affirmation doth declare and say
that he was well acquainted with John Barnard late of the district of Southwark and County of Philadelphia, House Carpenter
deceased, and with his wife Elizabeth Barnard also deceased;
that he first became acquainted with them about the year eighteen hundred and two and knew them from that time until their deaths. Mr. Barnard died on the second day of March Eighteen hundred and twenty six. He left a widow the said Elizabeth, and six children, viz: Parker, John Smith, Robert W., James, Susanna Baldwin, and Joseph who are all living with the exception of John, who died on the fifth of July eighteen hundred and thirty one
leaving no issue.   Mr. Barnard had a son
named William who followed the sea.   When last heard from he was on the eve of sailing from New York and has so far as affirmant knows and believes never been since
heard of.   He was considered dead by his family many years ago. It is more than thirty years since he last sailed from New York or has been heard of. He left two children and a
widow.  She is dead both the children are livery. Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard the widow of the said John Barnard died on the thirteenth day of August eighteen hundred and forty five.
Affirmant acted as a carrier at her funeral, and was almost as much at home in her family as in his father's.

W. Pidgeon

Affirmed subscribed before me
this 16th day of October AD 1850
[illegible]
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I Robt Gan an Alderman of the City and County of Philadelphia and ex officio Justice of the Peace do certify that I am well acquainted George C. Work and William Pidgeon in the within depositions named and that I know
them to be persons of respectability. Given under my hand and seal at Philadelphia this Sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred fifty.

Robt. Gan

I, James Vinyard, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Philadelphia, do certify that Robert Gan, was at the time of the taking the within depositions and now is an Alderman, and ex officio a Justice of the Peace the District of Southwark and County
of Philadelphia, and by law authorized to administer oath & affirmations, and to take depositions, and that due faith and credit are due to his official acts

In Testimony whereof I have set
my hand and affixed my official
seal to these presents this twenty-fifth
(25) day of October in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred fifty

James Vinyard Prothy
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Philadelphia City and County, ss.
I Thomas C. Bunting Register for the Probate
of Wills and granting Letters of Administration, in and for the City and County of Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
DO HEREBY CERTIFY AND MAKE KNOWN, That on the twenty first
day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, Letters testamentary on the estate of
Elizabeth Barnard, deceased, were granted unto Susanna B. Barnard, she having first affirmed well and truly to administer the same.
Given under my hand and seal of office, this eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty

Thomas Bunting, Register
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Copy. John Barnard
Recd 11 Oct. 1824
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Declaration in order to be restored to the pension [illegible] under the act
of first March 1823.
City & County of Philadelphia Ss.
On this 4th day of October 1824 personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia, John Barnard of the County of Philadelphia, aged [illegible] years, who being duly sworn
according to law, doth depose and make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the
8th March 1818 and the first May 1820

That he the said John Barnard Enlisted and was discharged as set forth in the original accounts on file at the War Department whereon a Pension Certificate  was granted him, and that his name has been placed on the Pension
List and dropped therefrom on account of his property which property has been sold at the suit of his creditors to satisfy his debts as
far as the same would go, as will appear by the Certificate of Caleb  North Esqr late Sheriff of the City and County of Philadelphia on this
[illegible] dated the 16th and that the several payments made by the Sheriff were just and legal, and that the amount of sales were not
sufficient to pay all the demands held against him, and that he never has, directly or indirectly, received any part of the amount
of sales, but that the same was paid exclusively to his creditors for debts justly due them and in pursuance of the act of the first May
1820 I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that
time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to reduce or diminish it as to bring [illegible] the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled an act to provide fpr  certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818
and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any home, other
than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annext, and by me subscribed, that since the Exhibition of my first Schedule the following
dates of property which I then nominally possessed have been made for the
payment of my debt, which have been partly satisfied by said sales, as will appear by the Sheriffs Returns dated the 16th and the
[illegible]  of George W White Esq. dated the 17th of July July last

[illegible signature]
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and the Record of R Hutchinson Esq Prothonotary of the District Court of of Philadelphia of 14th day of September
last as by said Documents will more fully appear
Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 4th day of October 1824
Schedule of John Barnard October 4th 1824

Real Estate: none 
Personal Estate: a few articles of
Kitchen furniture barely sufficient to keep house of little value.
Trade: a house Carpenter. Health: infirm. Family: wife fifty six years old in delicate health. Daughter 20 years old. The amount of personal property inclusive not worth to exceed twenty Dollars.
The personal property above mentioned consists of one old walnut Table, One pine table 2 oven pots, one teakettle. 1 Coffee pot & (illegible)  of cups.  6 [illegible] chairs. Half
dozen knives & forks. 3 pewter tablespoons. half Dozen [illegible].  1 tumbler.  1 basket 2 tubs. Value at twenty dollars.
Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 4th day of October 1824
John Barnard
.
I, Matthew Randall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County aforesaid do certify the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied

[remainder not edited- faded and illegible]
or as he the said Court and until that the Court
was at that the claimant of the time of in
under one cent on the continued stablishment
and also certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court
that the total amount in value of the property exibited in the
aforesaid Schedule is & twenty dollars in testimony whereof I have
hereunto set the hand and affixed the seal of the said Court
on this to the day of Oct 1824
Matthew Randall
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27. 26. Ewing Esq
Kendall Cropper
vs. John Barnard


Edwards [illegible] Esq
Sarah Pennock
vs. 
John Barnard
March 1822

[illegible]

To back retainer (?) by Sarah Pennock $1,141.19
To back Charles Connolly atty for H Higgins $756.56
George C. Snyder Collector of taxes $109.44
[illegible] $208.38
[illegible] $54.48
_________
$2,270.00

March, 1822
Conditional Expenses
Debt $240.30

January 28th 1822 property sold for $1300
to Sarah Pennock
March, 1822
[illegible]
Debt $1120.20
January 28th 1822 Sold for $770 00
to Thomas Winnimore
1822 February 7th
By Back $770.00
9th back $350.00
By Back retained by Sarah Pinnock on acct. of debt [illegible] interest  $1141.19
______
$2,270.00

I do certify  the above statement is bount
Grout & at $20833 Caleb North L[illegible] September 16th 1824

I certify that the above account is a correct copy of the one given by Caleb North Esq. the Sheriff of the City and County of Philada
filed in this Office
Matthew Randall
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318
Samuel F. Smith

Pension agent
Philadelphia April 11. 183
Declaration of
Elizabeth Barnard ┃
Admit [illegible] $144
Send as above
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7, 1838.
State of Pennsylvania
City and County of Philadelphia  ss.

On this seventh day of April 1843 personally
appeared before the subscriber an Alderman of the County aforesaid, Elizabeth Barnard in a resident of Southwark in the county of Philadelphia  aged Seventy two - years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, makethe following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary
war. That she is the widow of John Barnard, who was an Artificer in the Army of the Revolution,  Regiment Captain Wiley
and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7, 1838, was
One hundred & forty four dollars.
She further declares that she is still a widow. 

Elizabeth Barnard
William Milnor
Alderman


⎬ ss
State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia
April 7 1842
William Milnor a Magistrate in the county above named, do hereby certify, that I have the most satisfactory evidence, viz, my own personal knowledge, that Elizabeth Barnard who this day appeared before me, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia on the day and year above written.
William Milnor
Aldn

I Richard Palmer Jr Esq. Prothy or Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of Philadelphia County, certify that William Milnor Esq. is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and
subscribed my name, this Seventh
day of April in
the year 1843
Richard Palmer Jr. Prothonotary