Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7,526, Charles Gilmore, New Jersey New York
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SERVICE
NUMBER
new jersey.
Gilmore, Charles
W.7526
new york.
Jane
BLN.3630 16055
CONTENTS
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[preprinted form with handwritten answers]

28.099
New Jersey
-
Charles Gilmore
of Middlesex, Co. in the State of N. J.
who was a Pri in the Co commanded
by Captain Sill of the [blank] commanded
by [blank] in the New Jersey [crossed out word] Militia

1 year 2 Month $46.66 2/3
_________________________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
_________________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of July and sent to
1834 L.F. Randolph, New Brunswick N.J.
_________________________________________________
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 - 116.66 2/3
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '34  23..33 2/3
_____________
$140.00
_____________

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by J.J. Springer Clerk,
Book C  Vol. 3  Page 112
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Panel 1
93262   Act Mar 3
              Apl 23} '55

Jane Gilmore widow
Charles Gilmore Priv.

Ent: [blank]

Dis: [blank]

Rev War

Rev pensions

July 53-3016

[illegible]

V.B. Livingston, Jr.
N. York City

Panel 2

Cir: V.B. Livingston. Nov: 22:24"/55
Vol. G. 5H
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[preprinted form with handwritten answers]

3016 [illegible]

New York
Jane Gilmore
widow of
N. J  Charles Gilmore
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a
private
N.Y. City
_________________________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 96 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853 [crossed  out] 
27th July 1868. Ded. subs. pay'ts.
_________________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued 5th day of Oct. 1868 and sent to Charles Nettleton
111 Broadway N. York City

Act of Feby 3/53
Act of July 27/68
3d, Feby 53.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 16  Vol. H-3
Herman Seligs [name cut off by folded paper edge]
Lent C [cut off by folded paper edge]
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the 2d
section of the act of 3d February 1853
State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex
On this fourth day of November one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
personally appeared before the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas within and for the County and
State aforesaid Jane Gilmore formerly a resident of the township of Piscataway in the County of Middlesex aforesaid but now a resident of Yonkers Westchester County State of New York aged sixty two years
who first being duly sworn according to law doth
on her oath make the following declaration in
order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 3d of February 1853
granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war That she is the widow of Charles Gilmore deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum that he
drew this Pension of the New Jersey agency at Trenton under the law of June 7, 1832  She further declares
that she was married to the said Charles Gilmore on the eleventh day of July 1837 in the City of New York
by the Rev Duncan Dunbar a Baptist
Minister She herewith presents the certificate of marriage given her by the said Duncan Dunbar at the time of her said marriage and which has been in her possession ever since her said marriage ┃
and is in the hand writing of the said Duncan Dunbar That her said husband died on the ninth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty one
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that she was not married to him prior to the
second day of January one thousand eight
hundred but at the time above stated
she further declares that she is now a widow
Jane Gilmore

Attest
Samuel E. Hitle
Jaquis .V. Gordon

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year above written and the Court
do certify that from their own knowledge
they are satisfied that the facts set forth in the
foregoing declaration are true
Peter P. Hanson
Fitz Randolph
Abm., P. Pevon

State of New Jersey Personally appeared before Middlesex County  The Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Samuel E. Stelle a resident of Piscataway in the County aforesaid aged thirty four years known to said Court to be a reputable person who being duly sworn according to law on his oath
said that he was acquainted with Charles Gilmore in his lifetime a Revolutionary Pensioner at the rate of forty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum as he had
understood and believes and that he drew the same at the New Jersey agency of Trenton That he is now dead That he is well acquainted with Jane Gilmore who subscribed the foregoing declaration in his
presence that she is the widow of Charles Gilmore [illegible] aged the identical person who drew a Pension as aforesaid And this deponent further says
That he has no interest whatever in the application
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[handwritten with separate page of marriage certificate overlayed at bottom of page]

of the [illegible word] Jane Gilmore for a Pension 
sworn to and subscribed in open
court the day and year above [matters?] Saml E. Stelle
Peter P. Runyon Judge

State of New Jersey 
County of Middlesex

Personally appears before the court of [illegible] in and for said county. Jaques V. Gorden [illegible]
[illegible] in said Country, who being     according
to [illegible] where his oath [illegible] that Jane Gilmore widow
of Charles Gilmore deceased signed the foregoing
declaration in his presence
[illiegible] to and [illegible]

Jacques V Gorden


MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
This is to Certify,
That Mr. Charles Gilmore 
and Mrs. Jane L were
with their mutual consent, lawfully joined together in
Holy Matrimony, which was solemnized by me, in the presence of credible witnesses.
Given at, New York City, this 11th day
of July, in the year of our Loud one thousand eight hundred
and thirty seven.

Duncan Dunbar.
Pastor of the MacDougal St. Church
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[handwritten]

of the dec'd Jane Gilmore for a Pension
Sworn to and subscribed in open
Court the day and year above written.
[signatures]
                                    Saml E. Stelle
Peter P. Runyon Judge

State of New Jersey
Country of Middlesex } 

Personally appeared before this Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Jacques V. Gorden, a resident of New Brunswick in said County who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath saith that Jane Gilmore widow of Charles Gilmore deceased signed the foregoing declaration in his presence.

    [signature]                      Jacques V Gorden
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 4th day of November 1853 And they do certify that the above Jacques V. Gorden is a reputable person

[signature]
Peter P. Runyon Judge
State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss I Nicholas Booraem [illegible] of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State above mentioned do hereby certify that Peter P. Runyon David Fitz Randolph and Abraham P. Provorts whose Genuine signatures appear above are [illegible] the time of signing the [illegible] Judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and Sworn that all their official acts as Such are entitled to full faith and credit; and there the said County Court is a Court of record here and of General Investigation; Given under my hand and Seal of office at New Brunswick this 4th day of November AD 1853
N. Booraem Clk
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Declaration of Charles Gilmore of Somerset County
New Jersey in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th 1832-
State of New Jersey
Middlesex County Ss  On this eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before the judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County of Middlesex Charles Gilmore aged seventy five years who being duly sworn on his oath maketh the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th AD 1832 He now resides in the county of Somerset near the city of New Brunswick which is the county town of the county of Middlesex and to avoid in his old and advanced age trouble and inconvenience and for the reason of his being better known to the Judges of the court of Middlesex he appears before the Said Judges of the Said County of Middlesex- He was born in the city of New York in the twenty first day of August A.D. 1758 and has a record of his age now in his possession in the family Bible. That he lived in the city of his nativity when he first was in the Service-that he remained there until the year '76 at or about the time the enemy came into N York [illegible] when he removed to Monmouth county in New Jersey where he resided until the year '79 when he with his fathers family removed to near Princeton New Jersey and there lived during the war and has resided in New York then Jersey ever since
He now lives as aforesaid specified. Altho' he cannot from his advanced age particularies as his Services yet he has no doubt and in the manner herewith set forth and always in the grade of a private. He entered the service in the year 1775 about the period of the Battle of Bunker Hill
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when I was [illegible] in Capt. [Captain] Lawson's company [illegible] out to fortify New York
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3
Monmouth County [illegible] remember the last [illegible] struggle near Freehold. Washington summoned the American troops to Genl [General] Lee at that memorable battle but was himself sick & excused from duty
In the year '79 [1779] he served on the same Station along where under the same officers three tories of a month each [illegible] the coat shielding the defenses & their property from the ravages of the enemy, subject
as was that section of the State to the continued attacks of the enemy & their allies-- the tories.
He towards the close of this year removed with his fathers family to near Princeton although he afterwards served under Capt Giles in that part of New Jersey-- He did not see so much said service he cannot now recollect the parties plan of his services under Giles except that in the year 1780 he was ordered out at a time of a general alarm on the occasion of a battle in the Eastern part of the State They marched under Capt Gile & Major Gordon but did not reach Springfield in time-- the battle he had fought the enemy some. He never received any written discharge from the service Has not any documentary evidence of his services & does not remember the names of any of the regular [illegible crossed out] several officers except those above named- He served he is far more than he has put forth but cannot say further at this time particularies [sic].  As to his services he refers to the accompanying affidavits of Adam Striker, John Eldred and Samuel Cannon Soldiers of the revolution who the two latter of whom served with him Services whom he does not know of any other living witnesses as to his character he would remark that he lives retired & is not known to any Clergyman but refers
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to John Terhune and William Letson both residents and freeholders of his neighborhood very respectable citizens of the county of Somerset we Know him well and can attest to his character and their belief of his services, He knows not that is is necessary to say any thig else but he cannot forbear adding that his services in the cause of his county were long and faithful and cheerfully rendered at a time when even the services of an individual as humble as himself was valuable and he now asks of that county in his advanced age some compensation. He well only [illegible]that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension an annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid
[signatures]
Peter P Runyon Judge

Charles Gilmore

We John Terhune and William Letson both neighbors of Charles Gilmore being duly sworn on their oath say that they are well acquainted with  him and have been for a long time-that he is seventy five years of age-that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives  to have been a soldier in the revolution and that they concur in that opinion- this by [illegible] that Mr. Gilmore who has worn to the foregoing declaration is a man highly respected for his truth and veracity and that his statement is entitled to full credit
Subscribed and sworn to  the day and year aforesaid
[signatures]
John Terhune
William Letson

Peter P. Runyon Judge
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     We the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas do hereby declare our opinion after investigating the matter that the said Charles Gilman who has signed and sworn to the foregoing declaration is a revolutionary soldier and served as he has stated  and they further certify that John Terhune Esquire is one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in for the County of Somerset and is  a person of truth and veracity as is also William Letson a person of truth and veracity both of whom has signed  the foregoing certificate and that their statement is entitled to full credit and they  further certify that it appears to them that John Eldrege and Samuel Carman and also Adam Stricker who have subscribed and sworn to the annexed affidavits certified [illegible] the County of Monmouth are creditable persons and that their statements are entitled to credit. 
[signed]  Thos Hance
[signed] Jos Ford
[signed] Peter P. Runyon

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said county of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Charles Gilmore for a pension
In testimony whereof, I have set  my hand and seal of said Court this twenty fourth day of December AD 1833. 
N. Booraem, Clerk
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We the Judges of the Inferior Court of
Common has do hereby declare our opinion after investigation in the matter that the said Charles Gilman who has
signed Sworn to the foregoing declaration is a revoluntionary soldier and served as he has stated and they
further certify that John Mehan Esquire is one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in of the County of Somerset & is a person of truth & veracity as is also William Leton a person of truth Twenty
both of whom have signed the foregoing certificate and
that their statement is entitled to full credit
and they further certify that it appears to them that
John Eley & Samuel Carman, and also Adam
Stricker who have subscribed & sworn to the annexed
affidavit certified for the County of Monmouth
a credible persons & that their statements are entitled
to credit
Thos [Thomas] Hance
to
Ford
Peter Runyon
State of New Jerry
Middlesex County ⎬ I Nicholas Booram Clerk of the
Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for said
County of Middles do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court
in the matter of the application of Charles Gilmore
for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of said Court
this twenty fourth day of December A
N Boren Clerk
1833
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I the subscriber Clerk of the Inferior Court of common Pleas in and for the county of monmouth in the state of new Jersey Do hereby certify that Ezra Osborne before whom the foregoing or within affidavit and by whom the within certificate purports to have been taken and given is and was at the time of doing thereof a justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such, and that the name signed Ezra Osborne Justice is the proper hand writing of said Justice both to the [illegible] of the affidavit and the certificate of the credability [sic] of Adam Striker
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 11th day of December AD 1833-
[signature]
D H Ellis Clk
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
Personally appeared before me
Ezra Osborn one of the Justices
of the peace in and for the County of Monmouth
Adam Stricker who being duly sworn according
to law deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted
with Charles Gilmore, now about applying
for a pension as a soldier of the Revolution
that he came over together with his Fathers
family in the beginning of revolution and put 
up at his fathers house, and afterwards moved
down towards the Highlands near Suffberrys
Mill, and not being in the same District
or company cannot say as to the length
of time he served but that he knows that
he was a resident in the lower part of
the township near on quite all the war
but cannot recollect of any particular battle
in which they were engaged together
Adam Stricker
Sworn & Subscribed
before me this 8th
day of Novr 1833
Ezra Osborn Justice
I Ezra Osborn before whom the foregoing affidavit
was taken do hereby certify that Adam Stricker
the person Sworn to said affidavit is a credible person
and that his Oath is entitled to full credit
Given under my hand this 8th day Novr 1833
Ezra Osborn Justice
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State of Newjersey Personally appered before the [illegible]
Monmouth & be one of the Justices of the Peace in
and for the County of Monmouth John Elldrege an old
solder of the Revolution who being duly sworn on his
oath sayeth that he is and has been well aquanted
with Charles Gilmore an applicant from the pered
of the Revolution until the present time that he
knew him from the fact of having served with
him in the ware of the Revolution the said
Gilmore belonged and served in the Company
of Capt Joseph Stillwell company [crossed out] in Col Asher
Holmes Regment but at What Time or how long
he cant say
John his X mark Eldrege
Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 6th
day of November 1833
John Patterson
State of Newjersey} Personally appeared before the 
Monmouth} ss Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in
and for the County of Monmouth Samuel Corman
and old Solder of the Revolution who being duly sworn
on his oath sayeth that he and [crossed out] has been well aquanted with Charles Gilmore an applicant from the pered
of the Revolution until the present time that he 
knew him from the fact of having served with
him in the War of the Revolution the said Gilmore
belonged and served in the Company of Capt Joseph
Stillwell in Cornal Asher Holmes Regment but at
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What time he dont say how long the said
Gilmore served he remembers of being in General Jerummage in company with said Gilmore he
says to the Best of his knowledge that the said 
Charles Gilmore served in the Ware of the Revolution in
Company with this deponent all togeth [together] as much as
twelve month at least
Samuel Carman
Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 6th day
November 1833
John Patterson
I John Patterson before whom the forgoing affidavit
was Takin [sic] Do Certify that John Eldrige and Samuel
Carmon the Persons sworn on the above affidavits
are Creditable Persons and
that  therm boths [sic] are intitled [sic] to full Credit Given under
my hand this 20th day of November 1833
John Patterson Justice

I the Subscriber clerk of the Inferior Court of 
Common Pleas in & for the County of Monmouth in the state of
New Jersey do here by certify that John Patterson before
whom the foregoing affidavits were taken & by whom the
certificate of credibility was given is and was at the time
of doing thereof a Justice of the peace in & for the said
county, duly commissioned and sworn & that full
faith and credit are one & ought to be given to all
his official acts as such, & that the name signed
John Patterson to the [illegible] of said affidavits & to
the certificate of credibility are the proper
handwriting of said Justice
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & affixed the seal of said
Court 11th day of Decr 1833
---
D. H. Ellis Clk
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Act March 3d 1855
Bounty land 93262 claim
Jane Gilmore
presented by -
V. B. Livingston Jr.
New York City
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State of New York
Westchester County
SS
On this 17th day of April 1855, before me
a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County
of Westchester, in the State of New York, personally appeared Jane Gilmore, a resident of the town of Yonkers, in said County, aged sixty-five years, who on her oath declares, that
she is the widow of Charles Gilmore, deceased,
who was a private in the Revolutionary War;
that her said husband, continued in actual
service in said war, for fourteen days and over,
as will appear from the evidence already produced, and on file at the Pension Office at
Washington; that she now receives a pension of forty-six dollars, and sixty-six cents per
annum, under the 2nd Section of the act of
Congress of February 3rd 1853, on account
of the services of her said husband in said war.
She makes this declaration, in order to obtain
the bounty land, to which she may be entitled
under the "act approved March 3rd 1855", and
further declares, that she has never before applied for nor received any bounty land, under this, or any other act of Congress.
She furthermore declares that she is now a widow.
Jane Gilmore
We Alonzo P Speedling and A. J. Bashford
residents of the town of Yonkers aforesaid, on our oaths declare, that we are personally acquainted with the above
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affiant Jane Gilmore, and know her to be the same person she represents herself to be, in the foregoing affidavit, to which she has subscribed in our presence; and that she is now a widow.
A. P. Speedling
Andrew J Bashford
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year before written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be.
STATE OF NEW YORK,
County of Westchester, ss.
I, ROBERT R. OAKLEY, Clerk of the County aforesaid, and also Clerk of the Courts in and
for said County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That H. W. Bashford Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed
Instrument, and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of the said Certificate, a
Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, residing in said County, elected and sworn, and
duly authorized to take the same, according to the laws of the said State. And further, that I
am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Courts and County, this 19th day of April 1835
Robert R. Oakley Clerk

I hereby certify, that Jane Gilmore, who has
signed the foregoing declaration, is a pensioner on the roll of this agency, as therein set forth.
New York City Pension Agency
April 20th 1855.
Van Brugh Livingston
Pen Agent.
Pension Agent
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affiant Jane Gilmore, and know her to
be the same person she represents herself
to be, in the foregoing affidavit, to which the
has subscribed in our presence; and that
she is now a widow.
A. P. Speedling
Andrew J. Bashford
The foregoing declaration and affidavit
were sworn to and subscribed before me,
on the day and year before written;
and I certify that I know the affiants
to be credible persons; that the claimant
is the person she represents herself to
and that I have no interest in this claim.
H. W. Bashford
Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify, that Jane Gilmore, who has signed the foregoing declaration, is a pensioner on the roll of this agency, as therein set forth.
New York City Pension Agency
April 20th 1855.
Van Brugh Livingston
Pen Agent
Pension Agent
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 7526
Jane Gilmore
Widow
Charles Gilmore
Pri Rev. War
---
Act: Feb 3, 1853
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 272
[Arrangement of 1870.)
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26.333
[illegible] Accy
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Pen:Off:
21st Nov/53
Sir, Please certify the time
to which the within named
pensioner was paid, or the
date of his death,
Very Respectfully
B. Hove.
Forth Commi/pension
Charles Gilmore Act 1832
$46.66. p. an.-- Died 9th April
1841. Paid to death.
Saml S Rind
Actg. Auditor
Francis Burt Esqr
Third Auditor, Treasury
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Nov 15, 1853
Appl. of Jane
Gilmore, widow
of Charles
Westchester Co.
N. York
28099
Act Feby 3d 1853 [illegible]
Rev.
Peter P. Runyon
New Brunswick
N. Jersey
for the Comissioner of Pensions
[illegible]
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3016
New York City
Jane Gilmore
widow of Charles
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
46 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the
25th day of November 1853
and sent to
Peter P. Runyon
New Brunswick
N.J.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 74  Vol. A
1321
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No 3.680
Nov. 15th 1853
Appl. of Jane Gilmore
Wid: of Charles -
Westchester Co.
N. York
Act / 53
Revy:
$46.66/100 per an -
Com - Feb. 3d 1853,
Peter P. Runyon
New Brunswick,
N Jersey
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business
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CHARLES NETTLETON.
Agent for procuring Pensions and Bounties,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
CHARLES NETTLETON.
Notary and Commissioner,
For all  the States
No. 111 BROADWAY,
New York, Sept 21st 1868
Hon C.C. Cox
Comm of Pensions
Dear Sir
I enclose herewith
the application of Jane 
Gilmore widow of Charles Gilmore
deceased for Increase
of Pension under Act July
27 1868 sec 13
Yours Truly
Charles Nettleton
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New Brunswick New Jersey Nov 12, 1853
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Please find the declaration of Jane 
Gilmore for a Pension under the act
of 3 February 1850 The Commissioner
is respectfully solicited to give this claim
his attention at his earliest convenience
and communicate his [illegible] to the
subscriber
With great respect &c
Peter P. Runyon
L. P. Waldo Esq
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221888
Pension Office
157 Broadway
N.L.
218 Fulton St
Jane Gilmore
Payment to be made at New York City
by
Pension Agent
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the
Agency of
New York
Payable on the 4th September and 4th
March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the
Roll of Pensioners under act February
3d, 1853, Page 74, Vol. A
G. T. Getty Clerk
3.2 Null St
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
61
I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853
Jane
Gilmore
widow of
Charles Gilmore
who was a
private
in the revolutionary war,
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of
Forty Six
dollars and
Sixty Six  cents per annum, commencing on the
3d of February, 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again
marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such
marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior,
this twenty fifth day of November
one thousand eight hundred and fifty three 
(unreadable signature)
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned.
(unreadable signature)
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Brief in the case of Jane Gilmore, widow of Charles Westchester
County and State of New York,
act 3 Feby. 1853
Claim, (original," 
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the
Act of 7 June 1832
Record evidence of Marriage
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Peter P. Runyon Esqr.
New Brunswick,
Name and residence of Agent
Mary 
A. C. Boynton
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N.
DECLARATION FOR INCREASE
OF PENSION.
Under section 3, act of July 27, 1868.
Jane Gilmore
widow of Charles
Gilmore deceased
FILED BY
Charles Nettleton
111 Broadway
New York City
Printed and sold by W. H. Moore, 484 11th st., Washington D.C. 

Printed and note. Mr, 18 he
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N.
DECLARATION FOR INCREASE OF PENSION.
Under Section 13, Act of July 27, 1868.
State of New York}
City & COUNTY Of New York} ss.
ON THIS 21st day of September d. 1868, personally appeared before me,
a Deputy Clerk of a Court of Record Cent within and for the County and State aforesaid Jane
Gilmore aged 78 years, a resident of Yonkers,
in the State of York, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that
she is the identical Jane Gilmore to whom was granted Pension
certificate No. -- payable at New York City at the rate of Forty Six 66/100
dollars per month [crossed out] annum, i
annum issued under the act of February 3. 1853; that she makes this declaration
in order to secure the increase of her pension to which she entitled under the thirteenth section
of the act of July 27, 1868.
My Post Office address is as follows:  Yonkers Westchester N. Y.
And she hereby constitutes and appoints Charles Nettleton of New York City her attorney, to present and prosecute this claim, and authorize him
to receive and receipt for any certificate that may be issued for the same, and to do any other act or thing necessary 
or that might do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby countermanding all former authority that may have been given for the above specified purpose that deponent
on her original application for Pension wrote her name but
having contracted a felon on her right hand about
4 years ago she has been obliged to make her X mark ever her mark since
Signature of Claimant: Jane X Gilmore
in presence of 
T H Lander
Isaiah Keyser
Also personally appeared Phebe Eyres and J. Robert
Eyres, residents  of Yonkers N. Y. persons 
whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being by me duly sworn, say that they were
present and saw Jane Gilmore sign her name [crossed out] (make her mark) 
to the foregoing declaration; and they further swear that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance
of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents
herself to be; and they further state that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.
Signatures of Witnesses
Phebe A Eyres
J. Robert Eyres
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of Sept A. D. 1868; and I
hereby certify that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim. & that the
contents of the foregoing application was read
to & understood by deponents before execution
Thomas H. Lander
Deputy Clerk
Manager Common Pleas
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Application of Charles
Gilmore for a pension
Law of 1832
New Jersey
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