Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3197, for Peter Stillwagon, New Jersey
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 SERVICE                                                                 NUMBER

New Jersey         Stillwagon, Peter                     W. 3197
Penn.                                Elizabeth                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                        
                                                                            This Envelope Includes 
                                                                              FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
                                                                                                  Bl
                                                                                 Received from GA
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[Left side of document]
4387 Increase
Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Stillwagon widow of Peter Stillwagon who died on the ___ December 1831 of Fayette in the State of Pennna who was a private in the Compy [sic]  commanded by Captain Fleming of the Regt commanded by Col Holmes in the New Jersey line for troops Penna [illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of May 1850 and sent to Hon A. . Ogle, H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending Increased from $30.33
Revolutionary Claim Act July 4, 1836, Section the 
Recorded by J. P. Chase Clerk, Book [illegible] Vol. 2 Page 371

[Right side of document]
Letter I. Collins 10 April 1851
Reported
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State of Pennsylvania
                        Fayette County [bracket]
On this 6th day of May 1846
                                     Before me one of the judges of the court of common pleas of the County of Fayette, State of Pennsylvania Appeared Elizabeth Stillwagon of the Borough of Connellsville in the County of Fayette, State of Pennsylvania Aged about ninety five years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the acts of Congress made for and in behalf the soldiers of the Revolutionary War and their widows
                                                            That she was married to Peter Stillwagon in the year 1773 in the city of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania and that to the best of her recollection which is much impaired by reason of old age and great length of time that her Husband was a sargeant in the company commanded by Capt Stephen Fleming Redg Commanded by Col Holmes and General David Forman in the State of Newjersey [sic] he first entered the Service in the State of Pennsylvania near to the City of Philadelphia and was marched into the State of Newjersey [sic] and it was there I know him to be under the Command of Capt Fleming Col Holmes & General Forman he was at Colts Neck, Monmouth & Eatontown he entered the Service as near as she can recollect about the
time of the Declaration of Independence and continued about five years in said service and that he was taken Prisoner at or near Eatontown in the State of Newjersey [sic] while he was out on an expedition he with some other Fellow soldiers were captured
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by British troops and taken to the City of Newyork [sic] and imprisoned in what was called the Sugar House for one year and eleven months and that after her Husband was taken Prisoner the British Troops came to her house and destroyed what they could find even the clothing of her children after being treated so meanly by the British soldiers when they were at her house she became alarmed for her own safety and she removed to a neighbor house and spun for them to support herself and her two children after she had left the House in which she had been living, the enemy returned and burnt the house then General Forman furnished her a house in Company with Capt Huddys wife, Capt Huddy was taken at Toms River by the British and hung [sic] at what was called the Highlands

All the papers She had were lost at the time she was moving from place to place and among the number was her certificate of marriage.  She has no  Discharge nor any papers touching touching [repeated word] the case and knows of no one living by which those facts can be proven and that she does not receive any Pension only from the State of Pennia [sic, underlined] and that she relinquishes it upon the granting of one from the Government of the United States and that her Husband Died in the month of December in the year 1832 and that she has remained a widow ever since

her
Elisabeth Stillwagon 
[handwritten X]
mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 6th day of May 1846 [year underlined] John Huston Associate Judge
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Pension Agency
Pittsburgh, Febry [sic] 14 1855
Received of John Grayson, Agent for paying Pensioners,
Thirty one dollars 4 cents, being for four months 20 days pension due to Elizabeth Stillwagon, decd, 1854; for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
31 Dollars, 04
Da[illegible] R. Davidson
2666 Atty
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Final Payment Voucher
Received from GAO
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Peter Stillwaggon [sic] and his wife was married The tenth day of march in the year of our Lord 1773 [or 1775 - last digit unclear due to paper tear]
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Blessings to those that fear God    CHAP. IV.      The study of the Lord recommended.

[Page divided in half by a vertical line]

[Left side of the vertical line}

[in the left margin ] Before Christ Cir. 397 [In the left margin]

16  Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another; and the Lord hearkened and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feard the Lord, and that thought upon his name.

[in the left margin] Or special [illegible]

 17 And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

[paper torn below this]

[Right side of the vertical line]

shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

[In the right margin] Before Christ cir 39[illegible] [In the right margin]

2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of rightiousness arise with healing in his wings

[In the right margin] Luke 1.78 [In the right margin]

and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be [illegible] the soles of your feet in [illegible]

[paper torn below this]
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State of Pennsylvania
Fayette County
Before me one of the Justices of peace in & for a Said County personally appeared the under-signed Citizens of the town of Connellsville County of Fayette who after being duly sworn according to law depose & say that they saw the part of the Family record accompanying this Certificate cut from an old Bible in the possession of Elisabeth Stillwagon the reputed widow of Peter Stillwagon Dead [underlined Dead]
[Right side of document]
Isaac W. Francis
Thomas C. Patterson
Jno. Collins
David Connell
[Left side of document]
Sworn & Subscribed the 22nd July 1846 before me Henry Detwiler
[handdrawn bracket/squiggle]
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I hereby certify that Henry Detwiler is an acting Justice of the peace in & for Fayette county Penn & that his signature to the written certificate is genuine That the witnesses are all highly respectable & credible persons

July 24 1846
[ink from previous page bled through this document
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r 2
Widow
[illegible] July 4 1836
Elizabeth Stillwagon
Desc
$31.04
Feby 14/
Pittsburgh, Penn.
1st qt 1855
B-274 1/2
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State of Pennsylvania
Fayette County
Be it known that before me the undersigned Registor for the probate of wills in and for said County duly authorised [sic] by law to administer Oaths personally appeared Isaac W Francis and made Oath in due form of law that he is the administrator of the Estate of Elizabeth Stillwagon the identical person who was a pensioner and is now dead and to whom a Certificate of pension was issued which is herewith surrendered That the deceased pensioner resided in Fayette County State of Pennsylvania for the Space of forty five years before her death and that previous thereto she resided in Monmouth County State of Newjersey [sic] 
[Left side of document]
Sworn and subscribed this 5th day of January 1855 before me Wm Collins Reg
[Right side of document]
Isaac W. Francis
[Bottom half of document]
[Name illegible]
Know all men by these presents that I Isaac W. Francis Administrator of the Estate of Elizabeth Stillwaggin [sic] a pensioner of the United States and a resident of Fayette County State of Pennsylvania do hereby Constitute and appoint Daniel R. Davidson of Fayette Co. my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to recive [sic] from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions at Pittsburgh State of Pennsylvania the pension due the Estate of the said Elizabeth Stillwagon deceased from the 4th day of September 1853 to the twenty third of January 1854 being the day of her death
Sealed and delivered in presence of Jno Collins
[name at right side] Isaac W Francis
[name at left side illegible]
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State of Pennsylvania
Fayette County SS
Be it known that on this 5th day of January AD 1855 before me the undersigned register for the probate of wills in and for Said County duly authorised [sic] by law to administer Oaths personally came the within named Isaac W Francis and acknowledged the forgoing power of attorney to be his act and deed in witness where of I have hereunto Set my hand the day and year above written
                                                   Jno Collins Regt
Fayette County SS
[county seal appears to be shown]
I Jno Collins Register for the probate of  Wills and [unclear] Letters of Administration in and for Said County do hereby Certify that Letters of Administration were duly granted to Isaac W. Francis on the 24th day of April 1854 on the estate of Elizabeth Stillwagon deceased, late of the Borough of Connellsville in Said County and that he is now the administrator of the Estate of said deceased in testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of said Office at Uniontown this ninth day of January AD 1855
                                            Jno Collins Regt
State of Pennsylvania
Fayette County      [bracket] SS
[seal]
I Robert T. Galloway Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas holden [sic] at Uniontown in and for said County do hereby Certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Elizabeth Stillwagon was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum was a resident in the County of Fayette in the State of Pennsylvania and died in the County
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of Fayette in the State of Pennsylvania in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty four on the twenty third day of January AD 1854 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set by hand and affixed my seal of Office at Uniontown this 6th day of January AD 1855

RT Galloway 
Pro

[The following appears to be rubber stamped]
Final payment voucher
Received from GAO
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				August 16, 1906
Hon. A. F. Cooper, 
     Uniontown, Pa.
My dear Mr. Cooper:
	In reply to your letter dated the 13th instant, received the 14th, I have the honor to advise you that it appears from the papers in the claim, Widow’s File #3197, that Peter Stillwaggon enlisted about the time of the Declaration of Independence, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and continued in service about five years; that he marched to New Jersey where he served as a Sergeant under Captain Stephen Fleming, Colonel Holmes and General Forman, at Colts Neck, Monmouth and Eatontown, near which last-named place he was taken prisoner and confined in the old Sugar House, New York City, one year and eleven months. He died in December, 1831.
	His widow, Elizabeth Stillwaggon, was allowed pension on an application executed May 6, 1846, at which time she was a resident of Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and ninety-five years of age. She stated that she was married to the said Peter Stillwaggon at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1773, and that after her husband was captured the British attacked her home which she and her two children abandoned. 
	From a mutilated cutting from the family Bible it would
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Hon. A. F. Cooper – 2
appear that *Peter Stillwaggon and his wife was [sic] married the tenth of March in the year of our Lord 1775* (or 1776).
Very respectfully,

Acting Commissioner.
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No 4762
Elizabeth Stillwagin [sic]
Pa
Hon. A. Stewart June 29, 1846
a14 July 1836 [tens digit of year is unclear]
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[in pencil near upper left corner] ow[illegible] [in pencil near upper left corner]
[circular stamp] O. W. & N. Div. Files Jul 13 1905 [circular stamp]

Connellsville Jul 11th 1906
Commissioner of Pensions,
	Sir, it being necessary for me to have my Great Grand Fater Stillwagon’s War Record, I wrote you on the 26th of June asking if you could or would give me the required information. He being a Soldier in the Revolutionary War every thing pertaining to him as a Soldier and his wife as a pensioner I must nave not receiving an answer I write you again asking if you will give the information asked for in my letter of the 26 int [instant] hoping to hear
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from you soon and that I have not asked too much or if you can not give me what I ask instruct me as to the best way of finding out what I want to know.

I am Respectfully
Mrs. Nancy Mentzer

321 E. Main St.
Connellsville, Pa.
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[round stamp] U.S. Pension Office July 12, 1906 [round stamp]
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[written in pencil]
Miss Chamberlin,
	I did not take up this case as Mr. Coopers clerk had it all the morning and as you were familiar with it. I did however, make him note the different dates of Mar. and read what he had written which was to the effect that the Bureau could not determine and [illegible] three dates were given 7/3, 7/5, & 7/8.
AW
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Record Division
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions
Briefed by AWilson
Claim No. Nov. 22.07
Certificate No. [blank line]
Claimant [blank line]
Soldier Peter Stillwagon
Service. Rev.
Additional Service [blank lines]
No [blank line] claim, State records [blank line], 190[blank line]
No claim, combination records [blank line], 190[blank line]
No claim but Wid. 3197.
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[left page]
1906 July 12 History to Mrs Nancy Mentzer 
1906 Aug 16 History to Hon. A. F. Cooper
1907 Nov 23 Hist to A. Wedeking
1923 March 21 Hist to [illegible] Robert. W. Pryor – see letter & carbon in Claim James W. 9288 – AWF
1929 Feb 9 Mrs Robt Pryor no fam date AW

[right page]
RE[illegible]
Widow, &c.
File No. 3197
Elizabeth Stillwagon
Widow
Peter Stillwagon
Pri Rev. War
Act: July 4, 1836
Index:--Vol. [illegible] Page 239
(Arrangement of 1870)
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Register of claims received shows that addl evidence was recd from Hon. A. Stewart 6th March 1848 in case of Eliz Stillwagon and chgd to Dr. Crump. Papers cannot be found
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[This document covers two pages of a book]

[Left page]
4387
Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Stillwagon
Widow of Peter Stillwagon who died in the [no date] December 1831. [There may be some words missing] of Fayette in the State of Penna who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Fleming of the Reg. commanded by Col Holmes in the New Jersey [crossed out] line for [crossed out] troops for 9 months and 3 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 30. Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of August 1846 and sent to Hon. A. Stewart Ho of Rep

Arrears to the 4th of March 184[illegible] $454.95

Semiannual allowance ending 4 Sep 4[illegible] 15.1[cut off/page torn]
					$470.11
Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the [nothing printed]

Recorded by F. S. Evans Clerk,
Book 6 Vol. 1 Page 159

[right hand page]
J Collins May 8, 49
Letter William Baily 28th Sept 1849
“         Hon. A. J. Ogle 23rd [illegible] 1850
“         Hon. A. J. Ogle, 26 March 1850
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State of Pennsylvania
Pittsburg Pension Agency
[Either SS or 88 to the right of the two lines above]
Be it known that on the 14th day of February 185[either 2 or 5] before me, a Pension Agent in and for said Agency, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Daniel R. Davidson the Attorney named in the foregoing Power of Attorney, and made oath that he has no interest in the money he is authorized to receive, by virtue of the foregoing Power of Attorney, either by any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any person whatever.
Sworn and Subscribed the year and day last above mentioned,
Before me Jno Grayson
Pension Agent
Danl R Davidson Atty
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Final Payment Voucher
Received from GAO
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[Handwritten vertically on left side of page beginning at bottom of page]
[illegible]/ 49 50 [little curved lines under the 50 perhaps indicate cents]
	  248
	   8.8
________25______
	[illegible]

5
20.	90.550
	________90
	49 50 [little curved lines under the 50 perhaps indicate cents]
	[diagonal line]  2[illegible numbers]
[Handwritten vertically on left side of page beginning at bottom of page]
[round stamp] Trenton N.J. Jul 3 [round stamp]
[on the right of the middle of the paper] Widow of P. Stillwagon
[partial round stamp, probably a duplicate of the above] ento [partial round stamp, probably a duplicate of the above]
[stamped] FREE [stamped]
Hon A. Stewart
House of Reps
Washington
City


Hon. A. Stewart
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office of the Secy of State
Trenton July 3rd. 1846

Dear Sir

We have no Militia Rolls of the Revolution on file, [smudge] From Nov 1774 to the close of the war. Certificates were issued by Comm[superscript]rs [meaning Commanders???] of the Several counties for balances of pay due for militia services and frontier defence. Certif> [meaning Certificate???] No 210 was issued by Tho[superscript]s. Henderson on Comm [superscript]rs for Monmouth County to Peter Stilwagon for [pound sign]20.17.0 I cannot inform you in whose Company Peter Stilwagon served.

very respectfully
your obed serv.

Charles G. McChesney
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Secretary’s Office
Harrisburg May 6 [could be 5], 184[5 or 6]
Sir,
Your letter of the 1st inst has been rec’d in which you state the following, “ My request is of you to send me a copy of the Testimony as on file in your office by which an annuity was granted to Elizabeth Stillwagon of this place. As I am applying to the government of the United States for a pension for her and some important testimony that was given to your Department cannot now be obtained as the [illegible] has since Died if the testimony has been mislain [sic] you will please to certify to the same.” In answer I am directed to inform you that the testimony aluded [sic] to in the above extract cannot be found in this office. By the records of the Treasury Department it appears that an annuity was granted to Elizabeth Stillwagon by the Legislature on the 14th April 1834. This testimony you speak of I suppose was at that time placed in the hands of the appropriate committee of the Legislature [illegible] the Commission on Pensions & Gratuities. It must therefore have been filed amongst the records of the Legislature, unless withdrawn by the Person who Presented it. It is not usual to file the Testimony in this Department. You also desire that if this testimony you alude [sic] to cannot be found in the Secretary’s Office, that a Certificate be forwarded you stating that fact. In answer
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to this request I would state, that negative certificates are never issued from this office.

You also wish to know, “Whether a School Director has to perform Military duty under the present Militia laws.” I am directed to state that the Superintendent of Common Schools has decided, that School Directors are not exempt from performing said duty.

I am Very Respectfully
Yours [illegible]

Jno A Innes
Clk in Secy Office
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[Letterhead]
Mrs. Robert W. Pryor, Jr.
199 Roseville Avenue
Newark, New Jersey
[Letterhead]
May 11, 1929
Mr. Winfield Scott,
Dear Sir,
Will you kindly send me a certified copy of the Revolutionary services of Peter Stillwaggen [sic] Sargeant in Capt Stephen Fleming’s Co. 3rd reg. Monmouth County, NJ. Also 5th Pennsylvania Reg. I want this for D.A.R. [illegible] Is it possible to find out in any way the names of his children.
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and their husbands [sic] names. I have a few now. Kindly send me this data as soon as possible and oblige.
Sincerely,
Lillie B. Pryor
(Mrs. Robert W. Jr.)
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[Letterhead]
The Old Reliable—No Catalogue House			Established  1858
F. C. Happel Co.
Wholesale Jewelers
84 to 88 State Street				Chicago, Nov. 13, 1907
Long Distance Phone Central 4435
[Letterhead]

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
Enclosed please find a letter addressed to the War Department. You will find their reply attached. Will you be kind enough and have the search made whereby once could find out the place of Peter Stillwagen [sic] birth or the place from whence he came.
Thanking you very much for your trouble, I remain
Yours Respectfully
A. Wedeking
539 [illegible] Street
Chicago, Ill

Please return enclosures

[round stamp] U.S. Pension Office Nov 15, 1907 [round stamp]
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[stamped information]Adjutant Generals Office War Department Oct 26 1907  1296222 [stamped information]

Chicago, Ill.	Oct. 24, 1907

Peter Stillwagen [sic]

A. Wedeking

Birthplace of above named, who it is alleged emigrated between 1760 and 74 and enlisted in the Army & was in the war.

[round stamp] Record Division Nov 16 [illegible] [round stamp]
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[Letterhead]
The Old Reliable—No Catalogue House			Established  1858
F. C. Happel Co.
Wholesale Jewelers
84 to 88 State Street				Chicago, Oct 24, 1907
Long Distance Phone Central 4435
[Letterhead]

[oval stamp to the right of F.C. Happel Co.] Chief Clerk War Dept Oct 21 1908 [oval stamp to the right of F.C. Happel Co.]

[handwritten at a diagonal to the left of F.C. Happel Co.] [illegible] stamped [illegible] attached [handwritten at a diagonal to the left of F.C. Happel Co.]

Military Secretary War Department
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
Pardon me for addressing you and asking you for a favor. In the year 1760 to 74 a man by the name of Peter Stillwagen [sic] immigrated from Germany to Philadelphia and enlisted in the Army was in the War. Came back as an Officer and his wife has drawn pension for years.

We understand there is a large fortune set aside for him by his brother in Germany. Now er do not know from what town or from what county in Germany he came from and thought
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[Letterhead]
The Old Reliable—No Catalogue House			Established  1858
F. C. Happel Co.
Wholesale Jewelers
84 to 88 State Street				Chicago, ______190
Long Distance Phone Central 4435
[Letterhead]

that the Records in the War Department probably give the place of his birth. Now will you be kind and have it looked up and kindly advise me of the result.

Thanking you for your trouble
I am
Yours very respectfully
A.  Wedeking

[round stamp] U.S. Pension Office Nove 15, 1907 [round stamp]
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[letterhead] Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, United States, Washington, D.C. [letterhead]

Uniontown, Pa, August 13, 1906

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly send me a full memorandum or report of the application for pension of Elizabeth Stillwaggon [sic] of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, who was the widow of Peter Stillwaggon [sic], a soldier in the Revolutionary War and whose claim was [inserted in handwriting] Widow F [inserted in handwriting] No. 3197.

Yours truly,
A. F. Cooper

[rectangle stamp going vertically] First Deputy Commissioner U. S. Pension Office Aug 14, 1906 [rectangle stamp going vertically]
[round stamp] O. W. & N. Div [illegible] Aug 14 1906 [round stamp]
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[oval stamp] Congressional U.S. Bureau of Pensions Aug 14 1906 [round stamp]
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[upper left corner, written vertically] O. W. & N. [upper left corner, written vertically]

[upper right corner, round stamp] O. W. & N. [illegible] June 27 1906 [upper right corner, round stamp]

Connellsville June 26th 1906

To The Commissioner of Pensions 

Sir,
Can I obtain thro [sic] your department information concerning my Great Grand Father [nothing on this line] ______ [nothing on this line] Stillwagon, who served thro [sic] the Revolutionary War 1776, his wife Elizabeth Stillwagon also served in the same War, and was pensioned for her services, we think she acted as nurse and wash woman. After her husband died she was pensioned as his widow and drew a pension untill [sic] she died in the early 50’s.

We do not think there were many Stillwagons in that War. It is vary [sic] nessary [sic] for me to get my Great Grand Father’s war record (as a record from the Government would be more accurt [sic]) and all the information concerning my Great Grand
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Mother I can obtain. the [sic] information that I am in possession of is vary [sic] meager, as some of our Family records have been destroyed. The Soldier in question and his wife both died in Connellsville Fayette Co Pa. where soldier died some year’s [sic] before his wife but we do not know the dates of thier [sic] deaths. We do not know the Soldiers [sic] Baptismal name or names that is what we want to know as they were both pensioners I thought this was the only way to get accurt [sic] information. This is what I would like to learn.

The Baptismal name or names of the Stillwagon who served in the Revolutionary War, who was pensioned and who’s [sic] widow Elizabeth Stillwagon was pensioned as his widow and she
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I am led to believe was pensioned before her husband’s death for her services during the war.

Also where he enlisted, when and where he was discharged, how old he was when he enlisted, where he was born and all information a Soldier must give when he enlists, also all information we can obtain of his wife, her death.

I do not know if I am doing right by taking this course or not but my Great Grand Father (the Soldier in question) was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, my Grand  Father William Stillwagon (his Son) was a Soldier in the War of 1812, my Father Henry N. Stillwagon  (William’s Son) was a Soldier in the Mexican War, and out of consideration of thier [sic] services to our Country I thought the Pension or
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[top right has part of a round stamp that is illegible}
war department would assist me to what I wish to learn as an inherit[illegible] depends on my furnishing this information.

hoping I have not asked too much and that I may receive the assistance I ask for

I beg to sign myself

Respectfully 

Mrs Nancy Mentzer

321 E. main St
Connellsville, Pa.

[round stamp] U.S. Pension Office Jun 27 1906 [round stamp]
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House of Rep.
7 Jany 1850
To J. L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
Dr sir
Enclosed I send you a letter in relation to the claim of Mrs. Elizabeth Stillwagon for an increase of pension. Will you give the subject your early attention & inform me of the result of your investigation

Respectfully Yours
A. J. Ogle
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Sept. t, 48
relative to case
[ink blot]
J. Collins
[illegible] [very faint] papers in file in [illegible] case [very faint]

[very faint] one case is [illegible] Smith [very faint]

[round stamp]  Uniontown [date illegible] [round stamp]

[weitten vertically] Mr. Ames [written vertically]

J. L. Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC

for [illegible]
March 6, 48 added [illegible]
Eliz Stillwagon chgd to [illegible]
[illegible, may be Feb] 1, 48
[illegible] Stewart
[illegible]
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Connellsville (CHECK), September 4th, 48

Sir

Some time since I sent to your office in case of Hon Andrew Stewart, some several claims and from which there never has been returned any answer, thinking it probable from the multiplicity of [illegible] that Mr. Stewart had on hands that he might have mislaid some of the papers, I am requested by him to address you, the papers that I have reference to are in order the papers of Jacob Baltimore sent in December 1847 I believe requesting him to ascertain from you whether the children were entitled to any thing for their Father’s services set forth in his discharge, the next was the testimony sent in favour of increasing the pension of Elisabeth Stillwagon or more particularly showing the length of time her husband was in the service of the United States and asking that she might allowed pay accordingly sent in February 1848, the next is the papers of Anna McBride claiming the Bounty land for her son Thomas deceased who was killed in Mexico who was sent in April/48 please inform me upon those points whether they came into your possession and what disposition if any has been made of them.

I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your obdt Servant
Jno Collins

J.L. Edwards Esq
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House of Rep.
25 Feby 1850
Dear Sir
I enclose you a deposition in relation to the claim of Elizabeth Stillwagon for a Pension & ask that her case may receive early attention.

I wish to withdraw from the Pension Office the papers relative to the claim of Frederick Baker  for a pension for the purpose of presenting them to Congress.

Respectfully Yours
A.J. Ogle

Col. J. L. Edwards
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Payment to be made
At Philadelphia
By S. F Smith Esq
Agent for paying Pen-
sioners, in the Agency of
Pennsylvania

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book 6[illegible]
Page 159, by
F. S. Evans Clerkl
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th of July, 1836, Elizabeth Stillwagon of Pennsylvania widow of Peter Stillwagon who was a private in the Army of the Revolution
is entitled to receive thirty dollars and thirty three cents per annum during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th March 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and the 4th of September.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this first day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty six.
E L Marcy
Secretary of War

[possibly a round stamp or seal, illegible]
Examined and Countersigned 
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Connelsville [illegible, possibly Penn]
July 22

Hon Andrew Stewart
Washington City
DC
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Connellsville July 22d 1846

Sir

I sent you the record of the Marriage of Peter Stillwagon as written by himself it does not convey as correct and impression of the marriage of Elisabeth Stillwagon as it ought to but here there is no doubt of there [sic] Marriage. they have children here who are between sixty and seventy years of age who acknowledge her to be there [sic] mother and they can testify that she is the mother of the younger children it appears a hard case to have to prove that she is the widow by having had a Marriage ceremony said for them when our law acknowledged them as man & wife by an agreement made in presence of witnesses, which has virtually been done, the record differs somewhat from our testimony but the testimony was made from recollection and she could not give positive testimony and this old Bible was lying up in the garret and was found after wards, the testimony in regard to the proof of his service have been proven to the satisfaction of the Legislature of Pennsylvania to grant a pension to the old woman, but the witnesses who proved his service have since died or we could remove any doubts on that subject (in the case of Mrs Hardy I have not had any report) John Trimble called upon me for to inquire of you whether you had received a petition to have him receive back pay from the time he commenced receiving his half pay what was the purport of the surgeon’s certificate was it for total or partial disability. I did not get the certificate of the clerk of the court to prove that Detwiler is a commissioned justice but you know that fact as also his signature.
Yours Jno Collins

To [illegible] A Steward
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Connellsville April 5th 1851

Dear Sir

I herewith return the Certificate of Elisabeth Stillwagon and ask one for ninety nine dollars per annum in accordance with the law of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and the supplement of July 4th 1836, the testimony under which Mrs. Stillwagon’s pension was increased, [illegible] more than two years service. Consequently she is entitled to ninety nine dollars if she is entitled to anything. I therefore ask for her and at her request the full amt to which she is entitled. Please answer at your earliest convenience.

I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servant
Jno Collins

To J. E. Heath Esq.
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Agreed the fifth day of April in the year of our [nothing follows]
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Ho[use] of Reps
July 24, 1846

J. L. Edwards, Esq.

Dr Sir

Enclosed I send you a letter from Col. John Collins with proof of the marriage of Peter & Elizabeth Stillwagon on the 10th of March 1778 or later from an ancient family record all the [illegible] within name are highly respectable citizens of Fayette County. I hope the proof will be satisfactory.

Yours respectfully
A Stewart
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[illegible, possible “from”] A Stewart
[illegible]
J. L. Edwards Esq
Com Pensions
Washington

[veritical writing] June 20, 1846
[illegible] case
Elizabeth Stillwagon [vertical writing]
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Please file the enclosed with the papers [illegible] day [illegible] two [illegible] in favor of Elizabeth Stillwagon & [illegible]
A Stewart
19 Jun '
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[written vertically] 6762 June 17, 1846
Cc
Elizabeth Stillwagon
July 8, 1836 [written vertically]

[illegible] A Stewart
[initials?]

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
War Dept
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Sir
I enclose the application of Elizabeth Stillwaggon for a Rev pension

Please have the Jersey rolls examined & let me know the result.

Yours respectfully,
A Stewart
16 June 48
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No 6762
Elizabeth Stillwagon
Widow of Peter
Pa
Act 4 July 1836
Pri. 9 mo 3 day
[illegible]
9 mo 3 days
30.33
[vertical writing]
6762
Elizabeth Stillwagon
[vertical writing]
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This is to certify that to the best of my judgment that Elisabeth Stillwagon is from infirmity and old age is incapable from appearing in open court.

Given under my hand in the Town of (this day in May 1846) Connellsville County of Fayette State of Pennsylvania

John Huston Associate Judge

Fayette County PA
I Daniel Kaine Prothonotary] of the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette County Pennsylvania certify that the Honorable John Huston is an Associate Judge of the County of Common Pleas of said County [illegible] herein before stated duly appointed commissioned sworn and that the foregoing signatures purported to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Union Town this 6th day of June. A.D. 1846. D. Kaine Prothonotary
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[on left side, written vertically] April 20/50 [on left side written vertically]

[round stamp] CONNELLSVILLE [illegible] 2 Apr [round stamp]

[stamped] FREE [stamped]

Hon Andrew J. Ogle
Washington City D C
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Connellsville April 2nd 1850

Dear Sir

I received you & Edwards Communication and herewith send you the Certificate of Mrs. Stillwagon which you will lay before the Commissioner and if he wants to allow the increase from the present date only we wish you to object because of the testimony is sufficient to allow an increase to eighty dollars it would have entitled her to that amt when she first obtained her pension which was granted under the third section of the Act of Fourth of July 1836 which is a Supplement to the Act of June the 7th 1832, which allows pay according to service from the 4th of March 1831. She drew the amt of thirty dollars from March 4th till August 46 now I can see no reason why she should not be allowed the back pay that is the difference between $30 & 80 from March 31 till the present time insist upon it. If that can not be obtained he can not think of allowing it for a shorter time than March 1848 when the evidence was completed and sent to his office and lost. I can see no reason why she should not have the whole amt I mean the increase from March 31 and I wish you to call his attention to that fact and after he grants you the Certificate if he does not allow the back pay. We will appeal say nothing about that till we get this Certificate if you look at law under which it is granted you will perceive that the law is imperative and he is bound to pay back till 31.

Yours
Jno Collins

Hon A. J. Ogle
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We the undersigned Citisins [sic] of the Town of Connellsville County of Fayette State of Pennsylvania hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Elisabeth Stillwagon who has sworn and subscribed to the accompanying Declaration that we believe her when she states she is ninety five years of age and that she is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where she resides in any matter that she states and it is an admited [sic] fact that her Husband was a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion and that she has been a citisen [sic] of this place about forty two years and also a member of the Baptist Church of this place about thirty seven years and in good standing in said Church, her character stands unimpeached and impeccable [illegible] her Husband died in the year 1837.

James W. B. Tisdale
Pastor of the Baptist Church
In the town aforesaid of which
Mrs. S is a member
Provance McCormick
William Davidson

Sworn and subscribed before me this 6th Day of May 1846
John Huston
Associate Judge
I do hereby declare that James W. B. Tisdale is Pastor of the Baptist Church in Connellsville and that Provance McCormack [sic] & William Davidson are citisens [sic] of Connellsville in good repute for Honesty & truth
John Huston Associate Judge
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Fayette County, [illegible]: I Daniel Kaine Prothonotary  of the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Certify that the Hon. John Huston before whom the preceding affidavits was made is an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County duly appointed, commissioned, & sworn & that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court and Union Town this 6th day of June A.D. 1846.
D. Kaine Prothonotary
[Note: No seal is showing on this document.]
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[upper left corner, partially obscured by what appears to be moisture/water]
Re [illegible] 12
War [possible illegible word] Section
AWF/eel
[upper left corner, partially obscured by what appears to be moisture/water] 

February 9, 1929

Mrs. Robert W. Pryor, Jr.
199 Roseville Avenue
Newark, New Jersey

Madam:
I advise you that you were furnished, March 21, 1923, the history of only soldier named Peter Stillwaggon [sic] (W.3197) found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

In said claim the names of his children are not stated and there are no family data other than was furnished you on said date.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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[left side, handwritten, possibly with pencil and very light, vertically]
[illegible words]
Stated that she had 
[illegible several words] at 70 [illegible] during [illegible]
[handwritten vertically on the right side]
The rest of this letter in James Siecey [illegible ?initials]

March 21, 1923

Mrs. Robert W. Pryor,
199 Roseville Avenue,
Newark, New Jersey

Madam:

In response to your letter of the 3d ultimo, you are advised that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W.3197, it appears that Peter Stillwaggon enlisted about the time of the Declaration of Independence, near Philadelphia., and continued in service about five years; that he marched to New Jersey where he served as a sergeant under Captain Stephen Fleming and Colonel Holmes at Colts Neck, Monmouth and Eatontown, near which last named place, he was taken prisoner and confined in the old Sugar House, New York City, one year and eleven months. He died December 1831.

His widow, Elizabeth Stillwaggon, was allowed pension on her application executed May 6, 1845, at which time she was a resident of Connellsville, Fayette County, Penn., and ninety five years of age. She stated that she married the said Peter Stillwaggon at Philadelphia, Penn., in 1773 and that after her husband was captured the British attached her home which she and her two children abandoned, [inserted in pencil? Chil [illegible]]. From a mutilated cutting from the family Bible it would appear that “Peter Stillwaggon and his wife were married the tenth day of March in the year of our Lord 1775” or 1778.
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Record Division
[illegible} V. and 1[either 6 or 8] [illegible]   3- 1[illegible numeral]65

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., Nov. 25, 1907

Mr. A. Wedeking,
559 Burling Street
Chicago, Illinois

Sir:

In reply to your letter dated the thirteenth instant and received the fifteenth, I have the honor to advise you that it appears from papers in the claim, Widow’s Fil #3197, that Peter Stillwaggon enlisted about the time of the Declaration of Independence, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and continued in service about five years that he marched to New Jersey where he served as a sergeant under Captain  Stephen Fleming, Colonel Holmes and General Forman, at Colts Neck, Monmouth and Eatontown, near which last-named place he was taken prisoner and confined in the old Sugar House, New York City, one year and eleven months. He died in December 1831.

His widow, Elizabeth Stillwaggon, was allowed pension on an application executed May 6, 1846, at which time she was a resident of Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and ninety-five years of age. She stated that she was married to the said Peter Stillwaggon at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1773, and that after her husband was captured the British attached her home which she and her two children abandoned.
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[upper left corner of page missing] Wedeking—2.

From a mutilated cutting from the family Bible it would appear that “Peter Stillwaggon and his wife was [sic] married the tenth day of March in the year of our Lord 1775” (or 17780.
[Handwritten] chil [sic] aged [illegible] 50 [or 60] & 70 yrs in 1846 in [illegible] Pa. [Handwritten]

The date and place of soldier’s birth and place from whence he came are not stated, and the above noted Peter Stillwaggon is the only person of that name found on the Revolutionary War pension records.

Very respectfully
[no name inserted]
Commissioner.
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State of Pennsylvania.
Fayette County


Before me, Henry [illegible] a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared John Collins, who, being duly sworn, according to law, deposes and says that in the latter part of the month of February, or the first March in the year 1848; he forwarded for Elisabeth Stillwagon, widow of Peter Stillwagon, to the office of the Commissioner of Pensions through the Honorable Andrew Stewart, the deposition of Captain Peter Longstreth, and it was the only one sent for her by him that year, and that he was her only agent at that time, which deposition made by Captain Longstreth was taken before a Justice of the Peace, and had the Certificate of the Clerk of the Court and seal of said Court stamped upon it, and that the said Honorable Andrew Stewart told him in June following that he had sent it to your office, which deposition aforesaid, he said, Collins examined carefully at the time, and now certifies the following to be the exact words, or a part of said deposition.

That Peter Longstreth, the deposed was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and that Peter Stillwagon, deceased, husband of Elisabeth Stillwagon of Fayette County, Penna was to his certain knowledge the soldier in the War of the Revolution, he having known him to have served in New Jersey and Pennsylvania lines for upwards of three years, during said War, giving the names of his officers, under whom he served, and the engagements in which he was in, and that he was a good and faithful soldier.

Sworn and subscribed		 Peter Longstreth

To which was the depositions of William Davidson and Daniel Rodgers certifying that they were acquainted with Peter Stillwagon, deceased, husband, of Elisabeth, Stillwagon, and that they had heard the said Stillwagon in his lifetime tell of having served under the command, and was in the engagements related above by Captain Longstreth, and that they believe his statement to be true.

Sworn and subscribed,		William Davidson and Daniel Rodgers
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In the deposition of Capt Longstreth was set forth in what company, and under what officers he himself had served, which deposition he knew of found to be correct, would entitle Elisabeth Stillwagon to a full pension, and that Peter Longstreth is now dead.

Sworn and subscribed before me this 18 day of February 1850		 Jno Collins
[illegible first name] Detwiler JP

State of Pennsylvania
Fayette County

Before me, Henry Detwiler, a justice of the peace in and for the County for said, personally appeared Daniel P. Conklin, who, being duly sworn, according to law deposes, and says that he saw the depositions made by Capt Longstreth in favor of Elisabeth Stillwagon, widow of Peter Stillwagon, deceased, and the [illegible] of said deposition was that he Capt Longstreth was a Soldier of the Revolutionary War, and that he knew Peter Stillwagon, husband of Elisabeth Stillwagon, to be a Soldier of the Revolution, and that he knew him to have served in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania lines for upwards of three years, and that he was a good and faithful soldier, and that Capt Peter Longstreth, that deponent above referred to is dead. Sworn in subscribed before me this 18 day of February 1850    Henry Detwiler, JP.

D. P. Conklin

I am well acquainted with John Collins, and D. P. Conklin who made the foregoing affidavits and I know them to be men of veracity. 

A. J. Ogle, 25 February 1850
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State of Pennsylvania
Fayette County

I, Richard Huskins, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette County do certify that Henry Detwiler, Esq is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for this County duly commissioned and sworn according to law, and that the witness signatures reporting to be his are genuine. In testimony, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Union Town the 19th day of February A.D. 1850 

Rich Huskins Prothonotary.
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Payment to be made at Philadelphia by James R. Snowden
Agent for paying pensioners in the Agency of Pennsylvania

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book D Volume 2, Page 371 by 
J. P. Chase, Clerk

[Stamped vertically] Final Payment Voucher Received from GAO
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Department of the Interior
Claim for Military Service
Increase
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 4th July 1836 the pension of Elizabeth Stillwagon of Pennsylvania, widow of Peter Stillwagon, who was a private in teh Revolution has been increased from thirty 33/100, Dollars to Eighty dollars per annum commencing the 4th March 1831, for life or widowhood.  The amount is due and payable at the latter rate after deducting what has been paid at the rate of thirty 33/100 dollars per annum.
[ink flourishes across page, seal at left below]
Given at the Department of the Interior this 13th day of May one thousand eight hundred and [forty struck through] fifty
[Signature uncear]
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions