Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,151, Noah French, New Jersey
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SERVICE  New Jersey
French, Noah  Joanna
NUMBER W. 21,151
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Albany 8388 New York
Joanna French widow of Noah French who was a Pri + an Express Rider in the Revolution Husband died 14th Nov. 1843
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 160 Dollars ---Cents per annum, to commence o the 14th day of November, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the the day of August 18[illeg] and sent to Hon. O. Kellogg [illeg] of Rep
[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book a [missing Vol. #] Page 75.
Reported Mrs. D. Austin Aug 3 1852.
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24.67
New York
________________________________________________________
Noah French 
of (?) in the State of New York
who
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24,671
New York, Albany Agency Noah French of Essex Co in the State of New York who was an Express Rider + [    ] in the Company commanded by Captain Dunn of the Regt commanded by _________ in the New Jersey line for 2 yrs Increased from $160 Inscribed on the Roll of Albany New York at the rate of 280 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 + end 14th November 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of January '52 and sent to G. H Monsarrat [Pnsub  ]
Arrears to the 4th of   [left blank]              Semi-annual allowance ending [left blank]

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by A. H. Markland Clerk, Book E Vol. 5 Page 24

Hon B. E. Grey Oct 20 1832
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State of New York Essex County }Ss: On this twenty fifth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me, Dean Edson Supreme Court Commissioner + author tempramend to perform the duties of a Justice of the Sup Court + of a Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Essex County and of Court, Captain Noah French, to me known, age seventy eight years in February last past, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That at the commencement of the war of the revolution he resided at Morristown, in the County of Morris, in the State of New Jersey + that in the first year of the war, + in the fall of that year, he was [manned] as a militia man to appear as a soldier, equipped as the law directed, with a company of militia under the command of Capt. Peter Latan to assemble with said Company, at a place called Sunday Meeting house, in the town County of Elizabethtown in New Jersey. That he turned out accordingly with said company + remained in the service during one month at Elizabethtown point, the British being on Staten Island.  This enemy not crossing over, this deponent was discharged + returned home, but very soon was ordered to return again and join said company at Elizabethtown point, where he this deponent remained
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for the term of two or three months. Col Winds, as he believes was Col. of the Regiment. The British came over, + this deponent with the militia there stationed, fell back to a place about five miles called Connecticut farms. From this place this deponent was ordered and repaired to New Brunswick, + to a place called Raritan + also to Middlebrook - that this deponent being on the [poranting] was permitted during the war frequently to return home for short intervals + was during the war, except at short intervals under army with the militia, but made as an express under the direction of General Washington, for during one whole year. That this deponent was in a heavy battle, from morning till night at a place called Newark Mountain + was in a battle at Springfield, when he took the command of a Company. That he was in a battle at Middlebrook New Jersey and was in a variety of skirmishes, and met the frequent incursions of the enemy at various points + places - and this deponent further states [impresents] that at one time he was stationed + remained at Elizabethtown for the term of six months, under the command of Capt Latan, Col Ludlow + Col Winds was there occasionally and same part of the service he was under the command of Col Drake + a part of the time under Col Pratt - This deponent saith that he has no documentary evidence, + has
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no written discharges, which he had retained,
and knows of no person, whose testimony he
can procure, who can testify positively to his service, more fully than what is contained in the affidavits hereto annexed, neither can he, from his recollection, after the lapse of so many years, state preicisely the length of each term of service, when permitted to return home, or at
what time or times, ordered into service again, tho he has no hesitancy in declaring, he was in actual service in the militia of New Jersey during the war, for a term of time embracing in
the whole more than three whole years- and the aforesaid applicant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares his name is not on the
pension roll of the agency of any State- and the aforesaid applicant further States that he received the three several Commissions, hereto annexed, two of the grade of Captain, said Ensign Commission, did duty under each of them as required.
Noah French

Sworn & subscribed the 25th
day of August 1832 before me 
D. Edson Supr. Court
Commissioner pensions &c.
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to the above applicant the said Commissioner
put the following Interrogatories as directed
by the war department (viz).

First. Where, in what year, were you born?
To this Interrogatory the deponent saith, 
That he was born in Elizabeth town in the State of New Jersey in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty four.

Second Interrogatory
Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it? 
To this Interrogatory the deponent saith he has a record of his age contained in the family Bible-

Third Interrogatory - Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
To the third interrogatory the deponent saith that when he was called into service he lived in Morristown in Morris County in the State of New Jersey and after the war, be moved to the town of Mendam, same County, from there he moved to the County of Sussex saqme State, & from there moved to Bridgport in the State of Vermont, from there moved to Millsborough in the County of Essex in the State of New York, about thirty years since, where he now resides-
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Seventh Interrogatory
How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom.

To the fourth Interrogatory the deponent saith, that when he first entered the service, it was in conformity to a draft for a particular number from the Company to which he belonged and
he also went several times as a substitute for others, he went one month as a substitute for Samuel Stanbury, and at another time went as a substitute for Josiah Miller, for one or two
months- and at another time Maj. Headly hired the deponent for a month as a substitute for a person whose name is not now in remembrance-  And Captain Jeremiah Dun contracted with the deponent, as authorized by the Commander in Chief, to ride as an express for one year; which service was by this deponent rendered, by running dispatches at one time to Philadelphia, at another to Springfield in Connecticut, & from a centerment, in Connecticut to Morristown in New Jersey; from one military post or station, to another wherever he was ordered-
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Fifth Interrogatory
State the names of the Regular Officers who
were with the troops where you served; such Continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstance of your service-

To the fifth interrogatory the deponent saith that he was frequently at the Quarters of General Washington, knew Genl. Green, Genl. Putnam, Genl. Starling- Genl. La Fayette, together with this officers above mentioned
and heretofore named, and the circumstances of my services were above discribed [described]-

Seventh Interrogatory-
State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

To the seventh Interrogatory this deponent
saith that he is known to Nathaniel Rogers, Samuel Daniels, Henry French, Ephraim Hayward and the Rev. B. Hitchcock-ch
Noah French

Sworn & subscribed this 20th of August 1832
before me D. Edson
Sup. Court Commissioner Pen.
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['Affidavit' crossed out] Power Elias French =
case Noah French =
N Lawrence Co. N.Y
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Noah French decd.
1 yr Express Rider $240,
1 "  private of              40
Incd to                     $280
dedg $160 per annumer
Comg 4 March 1831 &
Endg 14 Nov 1843,
payable to
Noah French, Esq
for the benefit of
Mary Young
Johannah Allen
John French
Noah French
Elias French &
Geo French, only
survg. children

Albany

G. H. Montserat
Present
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Know all men by these Presents, That we the undersigned heirs-at law of Johannah French deceased of Essex County and State of New York and formerly a Pensioner of the United States at a rate of  $160. per annum, on account of the Revolutionary services of her husband Noah French deceased late of St Lawrence County and State of New York, and a
Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $160. per annum for services in the war of the Revolution as express Rider, New Jersey Militia
do hereby nominate constitute and appoint George H. Monsarrat and Stephen F. J. Trabue our true and lawful Attorney for us and in our names to prosecute against the Government of the United States under the law of Congress passed [blank] or under any other law or laws
of the said Congress the claim due the Estate of the said Johannah French as Increase of Pension, or arrearages of Pension, on account
of the Military services of the aforesaid Noah French, and when an amount or amounts are found due there our said Attorneys or either of them are hereby fully authorised to demand
and receive ['the money or' crossed out] a certificate in satisfaction for the same from the Government of the United States or any Department thereof,or proper accounting officer of the same and sign, seal and deliver
any instrument or instruments in writing in order thereto which they may think right and proper
hereby satisfying and confirming all which our
said Attorneys may do by virtue of these
presents---

In testimony whereof we
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have hereunto set our hands and seals this
21st day of October A.D. 1851.
Elias French

The words " the money or" 23d line from top 
erased before signing-
Chas. Anthony
St. Lawr. Co.

On this 21st day of October 1851, personally appeared before me Elias French, well known to me, and acknowledged that he had subscribed & executed the foregoing power of Attorney
for the uses & purposes therein mentioned
Chas. Authony Justice of
the Peace in & for St. Lawr. County
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12589 and 43,9490
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Joanna French
N.Y.
Act 7 July 38
married before 1794
Reputed husband decd 14 Nov. 43

Admn act 3 March 1843
and 17 June 44
12 mo. Express Rider    120.00
12  "      Pri.                      40.00
                                        ______
                                        160.00

[illegible] 14 Nov 1843

Hon. O. Kellogg
House of Rep.
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State of New York
County of Essex } SS.  On this Twenty Ninth day of January AD 1846 Personally appeared before
me the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex aforesaid being a Court of Record having a clerk and Seal Johannah French a resident of the Town of Hillsborough in the County and State aforesaid, and Well known to me as being the widow of Noah French Decease-. who being by me duly sworn according to Law doth upon her said Oath make the foregoing Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 in Relation to granting Pensions to Widows of Revolutionary soldiers and also for the purpose of claiming the Benefit of the act of Congress passed the 17th June 1844. That her maiden name was Johannah Campbell that she was married to Noah French on the 19th day of October in the year of our Lord 1786 in the Village of Rockaway in the County of Morris and State of New Jersey and she thinks it was in the Township of Hanover by the Rev Mr Baldwin who was then a minister of the Gospel in said Village that she has had search made and has not been able to find any Record of her marriage in the Records of said Town or in the Records of Mr Baldwins Church nor has she any certificate of her Marriage That the only record which she is enabled to find or of which she has any knowledge is the Leaf taken from the family Bible hereto annexed and which she believes
to be a true Transcript from the old Family Bible which is destroyed and
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contained the same Record kept by her late Husband Noah French decd and which was by him transcribed into the Bible from which this leaf was taken in his own hand writing that she has no other proof of her marriage nor does she now know of any living witnesses by whom she can learn the same. That the said Noah French was a Revolutionary Soldier of the United States and was inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the New York Agency as an Express Rider as she believes under the act of July 1832 as will
more fully appear by his proof there made and his original Pension Certificate which she [illegible] on drawing the arrears of his pension after his decease, and which are on file as she believes in the War Office of the United States. That the said Noah her late Husband is dead that he died at the Town of Hanover in the County of St. Lawrence on the 14th day of November 1843,. and that she drew the arrears of his pension from the 4th of September 1843 to the day of his Death which will appear by the proof made and her Power of Atty surrendered & filed with his pension certificate she has no other proof of his Revolutionary services except the proof made by him to procure his Pension and which may be referred to on the files of the War office that she removed from Hanover in the County of St Lawrence to Essex in the 
County of Essex in the month of January
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in the year 1845 and that she now resides in Essex-- and has resided there since--- that she has not been placed on the Pension Roll and has now applied for a Pension that she has not intermarried since the death of her said husband but still Remains a widow and the Widow of the said Noah French deceased That she is now aged Eighty five years That she was born as she believes on the 4th of October 1760 That the certificate of the Clerk of the Town of Rockaway hereto annexed will show that no Record is to be found of her Marriage
in said Town.
                 her
Johannah  X  French
                mark

Subscribed & sworn to
the day and year
aforesaid before me }

John Gould     Judge Essrx Com Pleas.
Noah French    Witness to mark

State of New York
Essex County SS } I John Gould Esq a Judge of the Court of Com. Pleas of the County of Essex before whom the foregoing Declaration was taken & sworn to do certify that the said Declarant Johannah French is a person to me known personally that she is a credible person and her statements aren Entitled to credit-- that the said Johannah French could not write her name to said Declaration never having learned to write as she alledged that she made her mark to the same in my presence and in the presence of the subscribing witness. And I further certify that the
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The said Declarant Johannah French is unable
to appear in open Court on account of old age and bodily infirmity being at this time from an appearance and from the statement made to me by the members of the family in which she
now resides unable to sit up more than two
or three hour at a time the particular cause seems to be old age & the place of the sitting of the Court being about Nine miles distant and being an inclement season of the year I am satisfied that it would be unsafe for her to attempt to attend or appear in open Court-- And I further certify that the above Declaration
was taken subscribed and sworn to in due
form of Law before me at Essex in the County of Essex on the day and year first above written-

Given under my hand at Essex
aforesaid the 29th day of January
in the year of Our Lord 1846---
Jno Gould Judge
Essex Common Pleas
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State of New York
County of Essex SS } I Edmund F Williams Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County Do Hereby Certify that John Gould whose name is subscribed to the above & foregoing certificate and affidavit was at the time of subscribing the same one of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas in said County duly commissioned and qualified and authorized to take the same. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe that his signature above written is genuine.
.
Given under my hand and seal of said
County this 4th day of February in the year 
of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred &
forty six.
E.F. Williams Clerk
By Geo. S. Nicholson Dept. Clk.
[seal affixed at lef]
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Edwd. S. Cuyler
Lombard Hous
19 Park Rose
N.Y.
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I Cummins McCarty Clerk of the Township
of Rockaway County of Morris and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that I have examined
the Record of said Township and can not
find any Record of the Marriage of Noah French to Johannah Campbell

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Township this twenty fifth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five and of the independence of the United States the sixty ninth year
Cummins McCarty Clk
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Sir for in answer to yours of the 11th inst. it
did not come to hand in some 8 or 10 days. I have since Examined the Record in Hanover Township the church Record at Rockaway and County Records and find no marriage Records previous to 1795 as I wrote you before.  The Revd Mr Baldwin preached at Rockaway in 1786 and resided in Hanover Township in or near the village of Rockaway and had there been a record kept it would be found in Hanover Township Rockaway in a new Township set off from parts of the Township of Hanover and Pequanack consequently we have no record older than two years at your request I send a
certificate that I have Examd. the Town records.
Yours respectfully
Cummins McCarty

Rockaway 25th August 1845
Edwd. S. Cuyler
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York
St. Lawrence County SS}
Elias French of Hermon  in the County and state aforesaid being duly sworn Deposeth and says that he is the son of Noah French late of said County deceased that the said Noah French decd. was at the time of his death a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States
That he died at the town of Hermon in the County of Lawrence on the 14th day of November 1843, and left a widow Joannah French who now resides in the town of Essex in the County of Essex and State of New York.  That Deponent has long been acquainted with the old family  Both of the said Noah French decd and the family record therein kept of the Marriages and births and deaths of said Noah French's family.  That said Bible and Record are now in the Possession of the Deponent that the
leaf taken from said family Bible and hereunto annexed marked "A..E, F." is a leaf containing the Marriage of said Noah French To Johannah Campbell and is a Record kept in said Bible by said Noah French in his life time and is in the
hand writing of said Noah French Deceased which hand writing is to Deponent Well known
and that said Deponent took said leaf
containing said record from the said family
Bible and saw the same marked and Annexed [illegible] by Hon Minet Jenison the officer before whom this deposition was taken & sworn to and that the said Bible with Residue of the family Record is now remaining in deponents possession
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at the town of Hermon aforesaid
Subscribed and sworn to this 29 day of December AD 1845
before me.

The word "Edwards" erased &
"Hermon" interlined above
-
And the said deponent further saith, that the
leaf of said bible hereto attached, marked as aforesaid, contains wholly the manuscript writing of his father the said Noah French, and was copied by his said father, about twelve years before his decease, from another old family bible, which had been worn out by long use, into the said bible now in possession of deponent, which was then a new one: That the deponent knew the said old bible, which first contained said record, at his earliest period of memory, which is at least 35 years ago, and that he believes the leaf annexed is a correct copy from the said old bible, it has long been so considered in the family.
Elias French

Subscribed to and to and sworn to
this 24th day of December AD
18450 before me
Minet Jenison Judge
of St. Lawrence Co. Courts } 3

State of New York
County of St. Lawrence SS.  I Minet Jenison Judge before whom the foregoing deposition of Elias French was taken, do certify that on this 29th day of December 1845, the said Elias French personally appeared before me, being proved to me by the oath of Noah French Jr. to be the person described in said affidavit, to be a man of veracity, and being by me duly
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"E. F"

FAMILY RECORD
Minet Jenison
Judge of St Lawrence

MARRIAGES.

Noah French was married to Johannah Campbell October the 19 in the year of our Lord 1786
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Mary Rolph wife of Noah French was born April the 18th in the year of our Lord 1755
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Mary wife of Noah French
departed this life in the thirteth
first year of her age March
the 4 in the year of our
Lord-1786
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FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS
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Noah French was Born February the 28
in the year of our Lord 1754
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Mary Rolfe wife of Noah French was
born  April the 18 in the year of our Lord 1755
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Mary Rolfe wife of Noah French departed this life in thirty first year of her age March the fo[u]rth in the year if our Lord 1786
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Jemima French was born March the 31 in the
year of our lord 1772
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BIRTHS.
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Henry French born January the 28 in
the year of our lord 1774
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Sarah French was born May the 25 in the year of our lord 1779
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Eunas French was born May the 20 1781.
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Rolfe French was born October the 22- 1783.
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Mary French was born August the 3 1787.
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John French was born April the 20 1789
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Alexander French was born october the
25th day 1791
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duly sworn made oath to the facts stated in the foregoing deposition, and that I administered the oath to said Noah French Jr. to prove to me the residence and character of said Elias French, and I so certify, that in my opinion, from such proof, it satisfactorily appears to me that said Elias French is a man of veracity whose statement is intitled to full credit.

Minet Jenison Judge
of St Lawrence Co. Courts
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State of New York
County of St Lawrence. } SS:  I Martin Thatcher Clerk of the Common Pleas Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Minet Jenison whose name is subscribed to the above certificate and affidavit of Elias French was at the time of taking such affidavit one of the Judges of the Common Pleas Court in and for said County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified, and authorized to take the same.

And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe that his signature above written is genuine.

Given under my hand and seal
of said County this 29th day of
December 1845.
Martin Thatcher Clerk
[seal affixed at left]
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In reply to your request of _______, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Noah French  a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (and his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.                          W.F. 21,151
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[table follows with 5 columns, headings as follows:]
(1) DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
(2) LENGTH OF SERVICE.
(3) RANK.
(4) OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  {sub-headings:  a. CAPTAIN.
b. COLONEL.
(5) STATE.

[text beneath column headings as follows:]
(1) Fall 1775; June 21, 1788, oct. 13, 1789, June 5, 1793.
(2) served at various times, amounting to 2 yrs. [followed by 3 check marks]
(3) Pri. and Express Rider; Ensign, Capt., Capt.
(4) a. Peter Layton, Stephen Day, David Bates,  
Jeremiah Dunn.  b.  Winds, Jacob Drake, [2 check marks], Nathan Luse, "   "   [across both sub-headings:  'Sussex County Militia']
(5) N.J.
[end of table]

Battles engaged in,___Middlebrook, Newark,  Springfield ____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ___ Morristown, Morris Co. N.J. ____
Date of application for pension, ___ Aug 25, 1832. His cl. was al. ____
Residence at date of application, ___ Hillsborough  Essex CO., N.Y. _____
Age at date of application:  
_
__ Born Feb. 28, 1754, at Elizabethtown N.J.  He was the son of John French. ___
Remarks: ___ Soldier mar. (date & place not stated) , Mary Rolf who was born Apr. 18, 1755. She died Mch. 4. 1786 and he mar. Oct 19 1786, at Rockaway Morris Co N. Joanna Campbell who was born Oct. 4 1760.  Soldier died Nov. 14, 1843 at Hermon, St Lawrence Co. N Y and she was al. pen. on her application ex. Jan 29, 1846 while a resident of Essex, Essex Co. N.Y. where she died Aug 6, 1846. 

Respectfully,
Commissioner.


3 -- 2850


(Family data on separate sheet)
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FW

Rev. War Section

February 1, 1918

Mrs. George Etztenberger,
4834 Sheridan Road,
Chicago, Illinois.

Madam:

In addition to the military history of Noah French, File No. 21, 151, Rev. War, you are furnished the following family data from the papers on file:

Children.

Jemima   born    March 31, 1772
Henry         "       January 28, 1774
Sarah         "       May 25, 1779
Eunice       "       { May 20, 1781
                            {married -- Averill
Rolf             "      October 22, 1783
Mary           "      {August 3, 1787
                            {married -- Young
John           "       April 20, 1789
Alexander   "     October 25, 1791
Noah           "     April 7, 1794
Johannah    "    {about 1798
                           {married --Allen
Elias             "     about 1801
George        "     about 1803

Very respectfully,
G.M. Saltzgraber
Commissioner.
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Noah French, Essex Co. NY, Act 7 June 32, $160.00

To what time was he last paid?
G.C.A.

Pension Office            Died 14th Nov 1843
August 2, 1848           Paid to his death     
                                     BLB
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Noah FrenchNew York
Act 7. June 1832
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Suspended See
letter to D. Edson
January 16th 1833
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See letter 16 Jany '34 to Hon.
R. Whealon
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V12.589
Joanna French
N.Y.
-----------------
Let. to E.S. Cuyler,  16 May '46
     "    same, Aug. 31, 1845.
let. to Hon. O. Kellogg
June 6, 1848.
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State of New York
Essex County Ss:}  Samuel Daniel & Henry French both of Willisborough in the County of Essex and State aforesaid say, that they are, & have been for a long time acquainted with the infirm, state of health of Capt. Noah French who made the declaration for a pension hereto annexed, that he is quite infirm &  lame in his feet & legs & has long been so, that he walks with great difficulty & requires aid & assistance to get in & out of a common door &  [illegible] is quite an invalid, that from the State of his
infirmities & swelled feet & anklesw, not able to wear shoes, the above deponents believe it would be extremely painful, if possible, for him to be carried, or transported to the next Court of this County, to be held in September next,
a distance from his residence of about sixteen miles- that the above deponents have no hesitancy in saying, they believe, his infirmities will not soon be removed, if ever, that there is no probability he will be able with any rational safety, to attend Court to make his declaration there and that it is not fitting, or proper, or safe
for him to go that distance & further say not.
Samuel Daniels
Henry French

Sworn & subscribed the 25th
of August 1832 before me
D. Edson Sup. Court Com.
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State of New York
Essex County Ss }  Eunice Averill being duly sworn before Honl. John Gould one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County doth upon her said oath depose and say that she Resides in  Willsborough in the County and State aforesaid and is now aged Sixty five years that according to the best of her information and belief she was born in the town of Morristown in Morris County and State of New Jersey On the 20th day of May AD 1781 have frequently seen the Record of my birth on my Fathers old family Bible which is now worn out and gone-- That my maiden name was Eunice French and that I am the Daughter of Noah French decd by his first wife whose maiden name was Mary Roff  some times spelled Rolf. That my mother died in March (I believe) in the year 1785 leaving my Father the late Noah French with Four children
beside myself three older than me and one younger. First Jemimah, Henry, and Sarah (older than me and Roff (or Rolf) Younger than me all of whom I suppose to be Decd unless
Roff (or Rolf) be still living & if so I do not know where he Resides That I well and distinctly Recollect, that in the fall of the year 1786 or about one and a half years after the death of my
Mother my Father the said late Noah French went away from home leaving my Grand Mother in charge of the House and children and said when he left he was going to get married and that On his return the next day he brought home a woman with him and introduced her to my Grandmother as his wife and said to me and the other children I have brought you home a new Mother to take care of you". That Johannah
French the widow of the said late Noah French and who now resides in Essex in this County is the same Individual that he brought home with him at that time and to whom he said he was married I lived with them untill I was Twenty one years of age and have always known them since
the year 1786 to live together as man and wife and Raising a large family of children up to the time of his death.
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that the said late Noah French was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and that he died at [illegible] St. Lawrence County Novr 14th 1843. That I have very often read & seen the record of his marriage to Hannah Campbell in his own hand writing in the old family Bible and have seen it [illegible] to the year 1794 that Bible & Record is now destroyed & gone as I believe- but have always understood that is for some number of years past understood that he had copied the old record into a new Bible that the said Johannah French is yet living and now resides in and Essex in the County and State aforesaid and I married when I was twenty one years old since which time I have not lived in my Father family but have always remained in the vicinity with them the shortly before he died and now live within ten miles of my Step Mother.
            her
Eunice   X  Averill
           mark 

Subscribed & sworn to before
me this 20th day of June
1846   Note "understoods" interlined story Jno Gould Judge
Common Pleas

Edwd. S. Cuyler witness to he making her mark

Essex County Ss.   I John Gould Esquire the Judge before whom the foregoing affidavit of Eunice Averill was taken was subscribed 
& Sworn to do certify that I am well and personally acquainted with the above affiant and have been for many years past and that she is a person of credibility and that the
statements made by her are entitled to credit.

Given under my hand at Essex this 20th day of June 1846.  And I further certify that the above affiant Eunice Averill could not write her name on account of never having learned to write as she declared but made her mark to the above affidavit in presence of Edwd. S. Cuyler the witness.
Jno Gould Judge
Essex Common Pleas
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State of New York
Essex County SSW. }  Ephraim Hayward being duly sworn before John Gould Esquire a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County upon his said Oath Deposeth and says that he formerly Resided in the town of Morristown in the County of Morris and State of
New Jersey. That he was while residing there  to wit in the year 1786 and before and after that year acquainted with Noah French deceased. That said Noah French Resided in the year 1786 in the Town of Morristown in said Morris County
near what was called and known as the Quaker meeting House that deponent also Knew the then wife of said Noah French and the same person who is now his widow that he does not recollect ever seeing her before she was married to the said Noah Funch but well recollects seeing them often living together as man and wife and as early as in the Winter of 1786 & 1787 lived but a few miles from them
and was there occasionally & often attended the same Church with them & I was acquainted with the said Noah French when we were together in the Army of the Revolution. I was
Drummer and am now a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and know that said Noah French Drew a Pension on account of his Revolutionary services in his life time that I am now aged 86 years and reside in the Town of Willsborough County of Essex and State of New York. I also know that said Noah French while he resided in New Jersey lost his first wife and was left a widower with quite a family of children - that some time after the war and Deponent thinks about Forty seven or forty Eight years since said Noah French and his family removed from New Jersey and came into this County a few years after when Deponent again knew him & his then wife the same person who is now his widow To wit Johannah French and has known them since that is to the time of the death of said Noah French and still knows the said Johannah French and that during that
time they have lived together as man and wife and
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Deponent has no doubt but they were lawfully married
Ephraim Hayward

Subscribed and sworn
to before me this 20th day
of June 1846.
Jno Gould Judge
Essex Common Pleas

Essex County SS.  I, John Gould Esquire the Judge as appear before whom the foregoing affidavit of Ephraim Hayward was taken subscribed and sworn to do certify that the above affiant Ephraim Hayward has for many years been personally known to me and that he is a credible & Reputable person and that the
statements in full by him are entitled to credit

Given under my hand at Essex this 20th day of June 1846
---
Jno. Gould Judge
Essex Common Pleas
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State of New York
Essex County SS. }
Mary Young being duly sworn before John Gould Esquire a Judge of the Court of Common
has in and for the said County upon her said Oath doth depose and say that she resides in Westport in the County of Essex and State of New York. That she is aged Fifty Eight years. That according to her best information and knowledge she was born at the Town of Morristown in the County of Morris and State of New Jersey on the 3d day of August 1787- that she is the Daughter of Noah French Decd by his second wife whose Maiden name was Johannah Campbell as Deponent believes. that Deponent is the oldest child of said Noah French decd by his second wife has often seen and read the record of her Fathers said marriage in the Old Family Bible - That said Bible became so worn
out that about Twelve or thirteen years since, I saw my father take out the leaves containing the old family Record and after transcribing them into a new Bible he Burned the old leaves as he then said, that my Father Drew a Pension in his life time. And that he died in the Town of Hermon in the County of St Lawrence on the 14th of November 1843 that he left a widow and that Johannah French who now resides in Essex in the County of Essex and State of New York is his Widow and is my mother. That I have no interest in the event of her getting a pension as I do not expect to receive any part or portion thereof but expect it will all go to support her and pay for her support since the death of my father-
         her
Mary  X Young
        mark

Subscribed and sworn
to before me June 23rd 1846
Jno. Gould Judge Essex
Common Pleas
Edwd. S. Cuyler Witness to her mark
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State of New York
Essex County SS. }
I John Gould Esquire the Judge or Officer before whom the foregoing affidavit of Mary Young was Taken subscribed and sworn to do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named affiant Mary Young that she is a credible person and that the
statements made by her are entitled to credit and I further certify that the said Mary Young could not write her name to said affidavit on account of a nervous affliction causing a tremor of her hand which she declared as the reason of her not writing and which was evidently true
from her appearance that she made her mark to said affidavit in my presence & in the presence of E.S. Cuyler the subscribing Witness  Given under my hand at Elizabethtown this 23rd day of June 1846
Jno. Gould Judge Essex
Common Pleas
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State of New York s
County of Essex SS.}   I Edmund F. Williams Clerk of the County of Essex, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, do hereby Certify that John Gould
Esquire, before whom the annexed affidavits was taken and subscribed and who made the annexed Certificates, was on the day and at the date of the same, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County duly appointed and qualified, residing within the said County and fully authorized to act as such, and further, I Certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge, and believe the official signatures thereto affixed and by me annexed to be genuine.

In testimony Whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed my official Seal this
23rd day of June A.D. 1846,

E.F. Williams Clerk
[seal affixed at left]
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July 25/48
Johannah French
pension affts


No Ames

Hon. O. Kellogg M.C.
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E Town July 17th 1848

Dr Sir,

Enclosed I send you additional proof in the case of Widow French's claim for a Pension I hope it will be Satisfactory. You will find among the former proof the affidavit of Ephraim Hayward a Revolutionary Pensioner who is no way related and whose credibility
is certified to by Judge Gould I think we have
complied with the Rules we cannot now find those who were known to the Marriage of the applicant. The testimony of both Howard and Daniels is impartial & disinterested and both are proved by the children of Noah French both by his first and second wife I hope you will go to the Office & Examine the whole of
the papers and [illegible] the claim-
Respectfully
Your obt Servt
Edwd. S. Cuyler

Hon. O. Kellogg

Canal Bank- gone with Belly Gray, & Report says tha Aubery- Ned Crosswell & all --Williams has gone down to see them-- fears are that it will raise the debt here
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O Mail        July 27 1846
[stamp:] ELIZABETHTOWN N.J. JUL 12
Add by Com.
Joanna French

FREE

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington
D.C.
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Elizabethtown Essex County N. York
July 15th 1846

Dr Sir

Enclosed I forward these Affidavits in support of the claim of Johannah French Widow of Noah French decd for a Pensions and I trust the evidence will be perfectly satisfactory to the Department. If so please forward her certificate as soon as convenient to me at this place.

Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servt
Edwd. S. Cuyler

Col. J.L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
Washington D C
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THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
TO Noah French Esquire
WHEREAS the Commissioner of the County of Sussex hath certified to the Commander in Chief of this State, the completion of a Company called the Company in the Houston Regiment of the Militia in the said County, and that you were duly chosen by the said Company to be Captain of the said Company  You are therefore to take the said Company into your charge and care as Captain thereof, and duly to exercise both Officers and Soldiers of the said Company in Arms; and as they are hereby directed to obey you as their Captain you are likewise to obey and follow such Orders and Directions, from Time to Time, as you shall receive from your superior Officer or Officers; and for your so doing this shall be your Commission.  IN TESTIMONY whereof the great Seal of the said State is hereunto affixed.  WITNESS Richard Howell Esquire, Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in chief in and over the State of New Jersey and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the fame, at Trenton the Fifth Day of June in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-three.
(signed) R. H. Howell

BY THE GOVERNOR.
Bowes Radsay
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THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
To Noah French Esquire -  GREETING: WHEREAS it has been certified to His Excellency William Livingston Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief of this State, that you have been duly chosen by the (blank) Company of Militia in Roxbury in the County of Morris (being the Thirteenth Company in the Second Regiment of the said County, whereof Nathan Luse Esquire, is Colonel) to be Captain of the said Company; you are therefore to take the said Company of Militia into your Charge and Care as Captain thereof, and duly to exercise both Officers and Soldiers of the said Company in Arms:   And as they are hereby directed to obey you as their Captain you are likewise to obey and follow such Orders and Directions from  Time to Time, as you shall receive from your Colonel or other your superior Officer or Officers; and for your doing this shall be your  Commission.  IN TESTIMONY whereof the Great Seal of the said State is hereunto William Livingston Esquire, Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New - Jersey, and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the fame, at Elizabeth Town the thirteenth Day of October in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty nine
(signed) Will Livingston

BY His Excellency's Command, 
(signed) Bowes Radsay
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THE STATE OF NEW-JERSEY,
TO Noah French Gentleman    GREETING:  WHEREAS it hath been certified to his Excellency William Livingston Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief of this State, that you have been duly chosen by the thirteenth Company of Militia in Roxbury in the County of Morris (being the thirteenth Company in the Second Regiment of the said County, whereof Nathan Luse  Esquire, is Colonel) to be Ensign of the said Company; you are therefore to take the said Company of Militia into your Charge and Care as Ensign thereof, and duly to exercise both Officers and Soldiers of the said Company in Arms:  And as they are herby directed to obey you as their Ensign you are likewise to obey and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from your Colonel or other your superior Officer or Officers; and affixed:  Witness  William Livingston Esquire, Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey, and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the fame, at Elizabeth Town the twenty first Day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty eight.
(signed) Will Livingston

By His Excellency's Command,
Bowes Radsay
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Power  Noah French Extr
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Know all men by these Presents, I Noah French Executor of the Estate of Johannah French deceased late of the County of Essex and State of New York, and widow of Noah French deceased late of the County of St. Lawrence (County) New York, and formerly an Express Rider in the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States at the rated of $160 per annum which pension was continued and paid for his said Widow Johannah French, from 14th November 1843 to the 6th August 1846 at the said rate of $160 per annum, to me as her Executor after her decease.   And which pension has recently been increased and paid me at the rate of $280 per annum from 4th March 1831 to 14 November 1843, do hereby nominate constitute and appoint W. Ramsay my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to prosecute against the Government of the United States under the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832, 4th July 1836, or under any other act or acts of the said Congress, the increase of Pension which is still due me from 4th March 1831 to 14th November 1843, and from 14th November 1843  to 6th August 1846 as the Executor of the Estate of said Johannah French and which was due to the said Noah French and to said Johannah French.  And where an amount or amounts are found due then my said Attorney is hereby fully authorized to demand and receive the Pension Certificate or warrant in satisfaction for the same, pay
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able at the agency in Washington City or wherever else he may think proper, from the Government of the United States or any department thereof or proper accounting officer of the same, and to sign seal and deliver any instrument or instruments in writing in order thereto which he may think right and proper hereby satisfying and conforming all which my said Attorney may do by virtue of these presents.
Witness my hand and seal this 28th day of February 1852.
(signed) Noah French Ext.

Witness by
1. (signed) Russell A. Francy
2. (signed) Safford E. Hale

On this 28th day of February 1852 personally appeared before me, Noah French Ext., the subscriber to the foregoing Power of Attorney and acknowledged the signing sealing and delivering the same to be his own voluntary act and deed.
Witness my hand and seal the day and year above written.
(signed) Safford E. Hale Justice of the Peace
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State of New York,  }
ESSEX COUNTY      } SS.    I, M. F. NICHOLSON, Clerk of said County, Do Certify that Safford E. Hale Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of acknowledgement of the annexed Power of Atty was, on the day of the date of said Certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, dwelling therein, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the Proof and Acknowledgement of Deeds, &c.  And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Safford E. Hale and verily believe the signature to said Certificate to be genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this 28 day of Feby in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and fifty two. 
(signed) M. F. Nicholson Dep. Clk
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May 12/52
Rel to case of
Joanna French
decd

Postmarked"
TAUNTON
8
MAY

Stamped FREE

Addressed to:
J. E. Heath Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington 
D. C. 


May12/52
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Taunton Mass   May 8th 1852

Sir

The name of the widow recently deceased with reference to whose heir I made some inquires was Joanna French of Canton in this state.  Her husband name was I think Nathaniel French.  My inquiries extended as well to I had chance of recovering the proportionate part of the mother's pension for the children ( as she unfortunately died a few days before the payment of the semi annual stipend) as to the bounty land - I am not sufficiently well provided with U. S. statues to be able to state the Act under which the widow received her pension.

Respectfully
(signed) John D. Austin

J. E. Heath Esq    }
Com of Pensions}
Washington        }
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H. of Reps
25th June 1852

Hon . M Heath

Sir

Herewith please find Power of Atty in case of Noah French.  Please have the case examined and the increase allowed.

Yr Obt Svt

(signed) Ben Edwards Esq
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Left side:

French
Persons & }
Daniels     }   (illegible)  (illegible) pension office


Right side:

Noah French
Usual Persons
Geo Daniels

the papers in (illegible)
(illegible) from ext. 


Uriel Peirson  Supp  26 Oct
Jno Daniel    Supp  2 Nov
Noah French  (illegible)
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War Department
Pension Office,
Jany 16, 1833.

Sir:

The claim of Noah French has been again examined.

In his original declaration he alleged three tours of 1 mo. 2 or 3 mo. & 6 mo. at Elizabeth Town, & that he was unable to recollect the terms of his other services, but had no hesitation in saying that at different periods during the war he served more than three years, including his service as an express.

In his supplemental declaration he recapitulates the two first tours mentioned above, 6 mo. at Elizabeth Town into 12 mo. and adds 1 term of 9 mo. at Brunswick, Ranton & Middlebrook.  1 0f 3 mo. at N York & on Long Island, & repeats 1 of 12 mo. as an express rider.

The minute recollections of the service detailed in the last & not remembered in the first declaration excite a distrust of his claim which can only be removed by explanation & proof.  His claim is therefore suspended & his papers placed on file.

I am very Respectfully
Yr obt Servant
J. L. Edwards


D. Edson Esqr.
Essex N. Y.}
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he does not contradict in his second declaration, any thing contained in the first 
describing the Companys at Taritown New Brunswick &  Middlebrook generally without coming to any desperate lengths of time, and he could have had no [illegible] object in now increasing  his time of service beyond two years & he thinks he clearly makes out by the testimony, of the other witnesses by Including his services as Express rider
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Memorandum in case of John Doss
Col Ganasworts Regiment returned as having deserted from Fort Stanwis the year that Burgoyne was taken. the facts are these-- Goss went away on furlow and staid over his time for one month sick but returned to his duty again and remained in the service for one year & half and was discharged in Albany towards two years after the taking of Burgoyne

Enquires for this services
Would Personally
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Send Persons & Daniels } [illegible] at pension office

Noah French
Usual Persons
Jno. Daniels 
--------------
& hs papers in a con[illegible from [illegible]

Samuel Samburg of long Hill Morris County New Jersey & Nathaniel Rolf of Summerset [Somerset] County, New Jersey-
Noah French at longhill Morris
County-  these men nearly 80
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Morris County and State of New Jersey
Personally appeared before me Wm Babbit one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county of Morris Isaac Bedell and being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he is acquainted with Noah French the son of John French and this deponent was out with him in the revolutionary war under Capt Stephen Day two weeks in the month of July 1776, and the Colonel
was Jacob Drake and sick and likewise this deponent and Noah French served one month at Elizabethtown in October 1776 under Capt. Peter Layton at different places in Essex County New Jersey and further saith that he and Noah French served under Capt David Bates one month in August 1777 at Elizabeth Town and Newark N.
J. and they was out in service under his form
Capt Layton one month in October 17[illegible] although not in the same regiment with him but saw him almost every day on duty and exchanged at Newark N.J. and this deponent further saith
that he has frequently seen him on duty and
and going and returning from service at different
times and that according to the best of his knowledge and belief said Noah French must have been in the service at least one year and further saith not.
Isaac Bedell

Sworn before methe that
before me Wm Babbit Justice of the Peace
Nov 18th 1883
Wm Babbit

i certiy that I am well acquainted with Isaac Bedell 
the above [illegible] and believe him to a man of  truth and veracity

Nov 18th 1833       Wm Babbit Justice of the peace
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John French

State of New Jersey
Morris County SS. }  I Joseph Dalrimple Clerk of the County Morris do hereby certify that William
Babbit Esq. before whom the within deposition was taken is one of the Justices of the Peace of the said County of Morris duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit is due to his official acts and that the names of Wm Babbit affixed to said deposition and to the Certificate within are his genuine signatures-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the said County at Morristown the
eighteenth day of November A.D.
Eighteen hundred and thirty three
Joseph Dalrimple Clerk
[seal affixed at left]
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State of Newyork
Essex County ss: Samuel Daniels of Willsborough in the County of Essex & State aforesaid being duly sworn saith ,that he is in his twentieth year of age & that he has been
acquainted with and lived in the same
neighborhood with Noah French who has subscribed to the above declaration about thirty years. And this deponent further saith that it has always been reported & believed, in the neighborhood that the said Noah French was a 
soldier in the militia in the State of New Jersey & in service during the revolutionary war & that this deponent now believes the same and further saith not
Samuel Daniels

Sworn & subscribed this
25th day of August 1832
before me D. Edson
Sup. Court Commissioner
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State of New York
Essex County SS. }  Nathaniel Rogers of Essex in this County and State of New York, being in his Seventy second year of age, being duly sworn saith, that he has been acquainted with Noah French, now of Willsborough County and
State aforesaid, and who has subscribed and
Sworn to the above declaration, ever since this deponent was a boy in his minority that he this deponent knew the said Noah French when he lived in the State of New Jersey & has known him about thirty years, since he resided in Willsborough aforesaid, and this deponent further saith that he has always understood and believes the said Noah French was a Soldier of the Revolution and this deponent further saith, that during the continuance of the Revolutionary war he this deponent often heard it said in the neighborhood where the said
Noah French resided in New Jersey, that the
said Noah French was in the service,
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Capt. Noah French
papers in Application
for pension-
Essex & County of
Essex New York-
------
8486.
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State of New York
Essex County SS: } I Dean Edson Supreme Court Commissioner & resident in the town  & County of Essex and state aforesaid & named in the foregoing declaration & proceedings of Noah French do hereby declare &  certify my opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department, that the above applicant Noah French was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states- and I do further certify that the Rev. B. Hitchcock who signed the preceding certificates is known to me, and is a Clergyman, resident in the town & County of Essex aforesaid, and that Nathaniel Rogers, who has also signed the same is a resident of the said town of Essex, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit- and I further certify that all the witnesses, who have testified to the truth of their statements, contained in the annexed papers, are known to me, and are credible, and that their statements are entitled to credit, and I further certify that the applicant is, has been, for a number of months, extremely lame & infirm and that those infirmities, appear as fixed upon him & that from those infirmities, he is not, & in all human probability, will not be able to attend Court and
ought not, in my opinio, to be from his home, & from the care of his family even for one night. Given under my hand at Essex aforesaid the 25th of August 1832-
D. Edson Sup. Court
Commissioner pen.
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State of New York
Essex County ss. } I Leonard Stow Clerk of the said County of Essex & Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings on the matter of the Application of Noah French for a pension and verily believe  and further certify that Dean Edson whose name is subscribed to the foregoing parts of the foregoing affidavits and before whom the said affidavits & declarations purport to have been & the said proceedings to have been had was on the day of the same a Supreme Court Commissioner authorised to do and perform the
duties of a Justice of the Supreme Court of the said state and of a Judge of the Court  of Common Pleas of said County and of Court duly commissioned & sworn into office and that his commission decision is on file in my office and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Dean Edson and verily believe that his signature to the foregoing affidavits & declarations or instruments in writing are his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my seal of office this 29th day of August in the year 1832
Leonard Stow Clerk
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State of New York
Essex County SS: } Mr Barnabas Hitchcock a 
Clergyman residing in the town of Essex, in the
to at Essex and State aforesaid and Nathaniel
Rogers residing in the same town & County
& State aforesaid & being the same, adjoining
the town of Willsborough, where Noah French resides, hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with the said Noah French who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be in his seventy ninth year of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we
concur in that opinion-
B. Hitchcock
Nathaniel Rogers

Sworn & subscribed this
25th day of August 1832
before me D. Edson
Sup. Court Commissioner
pen.
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STATE OF NEW-YORK,
City and County of New-York,  } ss.
I, ABRAHAM ASTEN, Clerk of the City and
County of New-York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That
John T. Irving Esq. whose name is subscribed
to the Jurat of the annexed affidavit was on
the day of signing the same First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York duly commissioned and Sworn and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 28th day of January 1834.
County, the 28th
Abm. Asten
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I can say that I went out in the Militia of New Jersey in April 1776 & continued in that service, untill in the Spring or Summer of 78, when one Regiment was releaved [relieved] by an other, I immediately joined the one that relieved the other as a volunteer, I might have been absent
a few days, at different times on account of sickness, or have got home for Cloth[e]s. I can further say that our Regt was stationed at different times, at all the places named by Noah French.  I first went out under the command of Col. Jacob Ford from Morris Town New Jersey, and after that I served under several Cols. from Morris County & other Counties in New Jersey untill 78 when I left the Militia, I shortly after joined the Continental Army under the command of Genl Washington at West Point as a Volunteer, express rider.  I further say that I have heard the name of Noah French, mentioned, both while I was in the Militia, & while I was employed as an express rider in the Revolutionary War. I think it might  have been in the year '78 or '79, I cannot say that I ever was personally Acquainted with Noah French, but I verily believe that he did serve in the Militia, & in the Revolutionary War as express rider. and if my memory serves me, I think he was Neighbour to my Uncle Jeremiah Dunn, who was Capt of the Compy. of express untill his death. and that was before I joined the Continental Army as express rider when I joined Capt Asgill Commanded the Compy-   I do not
Recollect while I served as express rider of ever 
seeing more than two or three of our Compy at Headquarters at any one time, we were almost all the time on the Road, some Traveling North, some South, some East, some West, with letters from headquarters, to different parts of the United States, we seldom met at Headquarters or at any other place.  Our company were from 30 to 40 Strong
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and I never became acquainted personally with
more than 10, or 12, of the Company, altho I served in that Company, upwards of three years.
John De Camp

State of New York
City and County of New York ⎬ SS.  John De Camp of the said City Custom House Officer, aged 73 years being duly sworn according to Law deposes and says that the above statement is true according to the best of his recollection.
John De Camp

Sworn before this 28th day of
January 1834 Before me

Jno. T. Irvins
First Judge of the Court of Com.Pleas
for the City & County of N. York
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State of New Jersey } 
Essex County ss } Isaac Smalley of the County of Somerset came personally before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the said County of Essex and being duly sworn on his oath says that he knew Noah French in the time of the Revolutionary War that he is as he understands and believes now living in the County of Essex and State of New York that he is the son of John French who lived with his
Family in the same neighborhood with this deponent in the time of the war and that this deponent was acquainted with the family - that this deponent served in the Revolutionary war in a company of express riders- that Captain Jeremiah Dunn was the Commander of the Company for some time and afterwards
Captain John Askins Commanded the same Company and that he this deponent well remembers that the aforesaid Noah French belonged to and served in the same Company but does not recollect the time [t]he said Noah French entered the Service nor how long he served-
Isaac Smally

Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 15th day
of November 1833.
John Littell Justice of the Peace

I certify that I have known Isaac Smalley the above deponent many years and that I believe him to be a man of truth and veracity and that his statement is entitled to full credit.
Novr 15th 1833 John Littell Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey }
County of Esse3x } SS: I Elias Van Arsdale Jun. Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Essex do hereby certify that John Littell before whom the foregoing affidavit of Isaac Smalley was made & taken, at the time of taking the same was and still is one of the Justices of the Peace for said County
residing therein duly commissioned and sworn; and that the signature "John Littell" Subscribed to said affidavit and the certificate thereunder written, is the genuine Signature of said Justice--

In testimony Whereof, I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court, at Newark in the County aforesaid, the nineteenth day of
November A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three (1833)-
E. Van Arsdale Jr. Clk
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Brief in the case of Noah French, decd late of
Essex County and State of New York
act 7 June 1832
-----------------------------
Claim, (' "original," or ' crossed out] "for increase.")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

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

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Express Rider Incd. from $160 to $280 per annum

Name and residence of Agent
G. H.F Montserat
Present

E Cole
Examining
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Power, Heirs of Noah French
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Know all men by these Presents, That we the
undersigned heirs at law of Johannah French
deceased late of the County of Essex and State of New York, and Widow of Noah French
deceased late of the County of St. Lawrence
and State of New York, and a Pensioner of
of the United States, under the act of Congress
passed, [blank] for services in the New Jersey
Militia, war of the Revolution as an Express Rider at the rate of $160 per annum do hereby nominate constitute and appoint George H. Monsarrat and Stephen F. J. Trabue our true and lawful Attorneys for us and in our names to prosecute against the Government of the United States, under the act of Congress passed [blank] or under any other act or acts of the said Congress, the claim due us as the heirs of the aforesaid Johannah French, as increase of Pension and arrearages of Pension, on account of the military services of the aforesaid  Noah, he not having received the full amount
per annum to which he was entitled for his Revolutionary services aforesaid., And when an amount or amounts are found due, then our said Attorneys or either of them are hereby fully authorized to demand and receive the money or certificate in satisfaction for the same, from
the Treasury of the United States or from any
Department of the Government of the United States, or proper accounting Officer of the same, and to sign, seal,
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and deliver any instrument or instruments in
writing in order thereto which they may think
right and proper, hereby ratifying and confirming all which our said Attorneys may
do by virtue of these Presents, The words "heirs
at law of the" in the 19th line, and the word
French in the 22d line added before signing.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 25th day of October AD. 1857.

         her
Mary  X  Young
         mark


Witness 1. Gilbert Drake 
Witnes 2. W. Ramsay
W. Ramsay & J B Rogers, 
Johannah Allen

On this 25th day of October 1851 personally appeared before me Mary Young, well known to me, and signed and sealed the above the above Power of Attorney and acknowledged the same for the purposes therein contained.
D S McLeod Justice of the Peace
Essex Co. N.Y

On this 25th day of October A.D. 1851 personally appeared before me Johannah Allen well known to me and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be her act and deed for the purposes therein contained.
John N Clemens Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Essex County ss. } Ephraim Hayward of the town of Essex in the County of Essex & State of New York being duly sworn saith that he is in his seventy third year of age & was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution & that his name is on the pension roll. And this deponent further saith, that he is a native of the town of Morris in the County of Morris in the State of New Jersey & resided there (except while in service as a soldier) till after the close of the Revolutionary War.  That he knew them & was well acquainted with Noah French, who signed the declaration
for a pension hereto annexed. That he has also known the said Noah French since he has resided in the town of Willsborough in the County of Essex & State of New York for about thirty years. And this deponent further saith that the said Noah French & this deponent, being near neighbors in the said town of Morris in the State of New Jersey at the time of the said war, & this deponent seeing the said Noah French with a company of Militia, & taking temporarily charge of said Company & having served as drummer for said Company on their
march as stated in the affidavit of this deponent, before made & hereto annexed and this deponent having seen the said Noah French frequently engaged in
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collecting & embodying soldiers, in that war, &
having at that time heard it talked about among his acquaintance that the said Noah French was an active soldier in that war & was zealously engaged in it & having heard I frequent talked of at that time the that the sais Noah French had & was engaged to ride express for one year, as he has stated in his declaration, and the means & 
reasons, why he knows & believes the said Noah French was a soldier in the war of the Revolution- and this deponent further saith, that altho he has no positive means, by any record within his reach, by which he can state positively the precise time or duration of the services of the said Noah French in that war, neither would he venture of this time to state  the year or month of his services, yet from what he knows as above stated & from the circumstance, that at the place where the said French lived in New Jersey, no one could be permitted to remain indifferent to the contest &  from the circumstance that immediately after the close of said war, he this deponent & the said Noah French, frequently met each other &
conversed together about each others services,
performed as soldiers during that war, he this  deponent has no doubt remaining but that the said Noah French served as a soldier
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in the war of the Revolution for a term of time on the whole much exceeding two whole years, & that he fully believes great injustice would be done to the said Noah French, should he not receive a full pension under the law of the 7th of June 1832 and further saith not-
Ephraim Hayward

On the 6th day of December
1832 personally came
before me the above named
Ephraim Hayward to me well known
& made oath to the truth of the forgoing
affidavit by him subscribed
Dean Edson Sup. Court
Commissioner &c
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8486

to the foregoing affidavits declarations or instruments in writing are his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my seal office this 11th day of December 1832.
E.F. Williams dep clerk
the Clerk being out of the State

admd
12 mo Express
12 mo pri
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24 ---
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Jno. Whallen
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State of Newyork
Essex County ss: } Henry French of Willsborough in the County of Essex & State of New York being duly sworn saith that he is in his fifty ninth year of age according as he has been informed and verily believes to be true. That he this deponent was left with the family by his Father Noah French when he went into service
as a soldier in the war of the Revolution, that this deponent is the eldest son of the said Noah French- That this deponent frequently saw his said Father go from home with soldiers & equipped as a soldier. That he well recollects that a company of Soldiers slept in a building of his Fathers at Morris in New Jersey one night & that said soldiers & his Father with them marched off under arms the next day, That his said father was at home several times during the war of the Revolution, & went off again as it was then said, in the family circle to join his Company. That his said Father was absent from home for the most of the time during the war of the Revolution & engaged as he this deponent then understood and now believes as a soldier
in said war. That after the close of the War his said fathers returned home to his family, & this deponent well recollects his father frequently rehearsed over his Services & fatigue during said war- And this deponent further saith that
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during the time of that war, he heard it said, and conversed of in the family & by his Father, that his said Father rode express under the direction of Genl Washington for one year; but that he served the most of the time in the militia- that he heard the same services spoken of by his Father soon after the close of said war to other
Soldiers of that war, believes the same to be true, and that these are the most of the means and circumstances by which he this deponent has arrived to a knowledge of the services of his said Father as a soldier in said war. And this deponent further saith that altho he has no
positive means of knowing from any records the time, years, or duration of the service of the said Noah French as a soldier of the Revolution yet from the above recited facts & other circumstances within his recollection, fully
believes the said Noah French did duty as a soldier in the War of the Revolution for a term of time in the whole exceeding two whole years- that this deponent was so young at the time that he cannot undertake to state the names of Officers, neither would he like to state positively any year or month of the services of the said Noah French & further saith not.
Henry French

Sworn & subscribed this
6th day of Decemr 1832
before me D. Edson
Sup. Court Commissioner
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during the time of that war, he heard it said and conversed of in the family & by his Father, that his said Father rode express under the direction of Genl. Washington for one year; but that he served the most of the time in the militia. That he heard the same services spoken of by his Father soon after the close of said war to other
Soldiers of that war, he believes the same to be true, and that these are the most of the means & and circumstances by which he this  deponent has arrived to a knowledge of the services of his said Father as a Soldier in said war. And this deponent further saith that altho he has no positive means of knowing from any
records, the time, years, or duration of the services of the said Noah French as a soldier of the Revolution yet from the above recited facts & other circumstances within his recollection, fully believes the said Noah French did duty as a soldier in the War of the Revolution for a term of time in the whole exceeding two whole years. That this deponent was so young at the time that he cannot undertake to state the names of Officers, neither would be like to state positively any year or month of the services of the said Noah French & further saith not.
Henry French

Sworn & subscribed this
6th day of Decemr 1832
before me D Edson
Sup. Court Commissioner
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State of New York
Essex County SS } I Dean Edson a Supreme Court Commissioner Do certify that Ephraim Hayward & Henry French who made before me the two foregoing affidavits this day are both known to me as credible witnesses and their
statements are entitled to belief.

Given under my hand at Essex
in the County of Essex & State of
New York this 6th day of December
1832
D. Edson
Sup. Court
Commissioner
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8486   French, Noah

State of N. York
Essex County SS } I ['Leonard Stow' crossed out] Edmund F. Williams Depts. Clerk of the said County of Essex & Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains as the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Noah French for a pension as I verily believe. And I further certify that Dean Edson whose name is subscribed to the parts of the foregoing affidavits and before whom the said affidavits or declarations purport to have been & the said proceedings to have been had was on the day of the date of the same as supreme Court Commissioner authorized to do and perform the duties of a Justice of the Supreme Court of the said State and of a Judge of the Court of Common pleas of said County and of Court duly commissioned & sworn into office and that his commission remains on file in my
office and that I am well acquainted with handwriting of said Dean Edson and verily believe that his signature to the foregoing affidavits declarations or instruments in
writing are his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my Seal office this 11th day of December 1832
E.F. Williams Dep Clerk
the Clerk being out of the State
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State of New York
Essex County SS:⎬ Personally appeared before
the undersigned a Supreme Court Commissioner Noah French to me well known, who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that by reason of old age, & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the
precise periods, & length of all the different
period of his services; but from recollection
is able to state that he served not less than the periods mentioned below & in the following grades-

months - 1
That he served in the fall of the first year of the war at Elizabeth town New Jersey for one month as a soldier- 
Peter Barton Capt.

2 1/2
That he served the next spring thereafter as a soldier at Elizabethtown point, New Jersey not less than two and a half months- same Captain-


That the same year that Burgoyne was taken 
(as he thinks) he served as a Soldier at place called New Brunswick, Raritan & Middlebrook in New Jersey for a term of time not less than nine months- same Captain-
9/ 12 1/2

That he was stationed at
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[illegible]
12 ½
12
Elizabethtown and did duty there and at Connecticut farms, & Newark Mountain as a soldier for the term at least of one year, under the command of Capt. Laton, Col Ludlow & Col. Winds were there a part of the time.

That he rode as an express from the head Quarter of Genl Washington, to different parts of New England, to Philadelphia, to different parts of New Jersey carrying express I believe
for & during one whole year.
12

That he took the command of a  Company, when his officers were absent, they giving him charge of the same, in the whole, during the war, for a term of time not less than half a month, & commanded as such, in several sharp fought skirmishes; but that he held no
commission during the war other than the above-

3
___
20 mo.
3 [illegible]
That he served at the City of Newyork, on Long Island, for a term of time not less than three months  as a soldier. Capt. not recollected. 
And that he served as a private soldier at other times & places, the length of time, he this deponent cannot now undertake to define, & set forth- and that all
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his services rendered, were militia
service (except the riding express as above set forth) and for the services aforesaid the said
Noah French claims a pension-
Noah French

Sworn & subscribed
this 6th day of Decemr.
1832 before me
D. Edson Sup. Court
Commissioner
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Noah French's =  Residence Morristown N.J. born April 1755
died St Lawrence Co. 1843

Rank Private, Express Rider   -Capt Jer. Dunns
Capt Peter Layton                   of Express Riders
Eastern Battalion 
[stamp:] U.S. PENSION OFFICE O JAN 28 1918
 
Enlisted 1776 to serve until end of war
was in Battles of Middlebrook, Connecticut Farms, June 1780, Springfield June 1780

Comm. Ensign of 13th Co. 2nd Regt Morris Co. Militia 
Nathan Lus. Col. -June 21- 1788
Commissioned Capt of 13 Co. 2nd Regt.
Morris Co. Militia  Dated Oct 1789
Com. Capt. of Co. in Newton Regt. Sussex
Co.  Militia dated June 5, 1793
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I wished a copy of Noah French's pension papers which pension was issued to him in 1832, I believe  also after his death 1843, was granted to Joanna (Campbell) 2nd wife.

I want to prove he had married Mary Rolph or
Rolf-Roff about 1771 or 2 - and at what place (town) verity they were married.  
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Also the name of Noah's father. I , understand, the pension application papers will give these items-- hence I desire a copy of that paper, or such information if given elsewhere, in your records.

Hoping to receive a prompt reply
I am most Truly
Laura A. Etzenberger
Mrs. George
4234 Sheridan Road
Chicago Ill.
Jan. 25-1918
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FW       Rev. War Section.              Rev. ¡ GBK
3 - 1885
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON
January 22, 1918

Mrs. George J. Etzenberger,
4234 Sheridan Road,
Chicago, Illinois.

Madam:

In response to your undated letter received the
eighteenth instant, you are advised that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolutionary War unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been filed herein
on account of his services, and a careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file for Noah French, as described by you.

If it is believed that the subject of your inquiry
may have served in a rank other than that of Captain, and you desire another search of the records to be made in your behalf, it will be necessary for you to furnish some of the following data with regard to him: names of some officers under whom he served, his places of residence at enlistment and after service,  the approximate dates of his birth and death, and the given name of his widow, if he left one.

Very respectfully,
over,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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21158 - nd
3-068
(Old No. 3-649)
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Bureau of Pensions.
Noah French
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Aug. 25 1832
Essex Co. N.Y. 
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Follett - Morristown N.J.
Capt. Peter Laton
Col. Winds
[illegible]
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76
Capt. - do
Col. Winds
[illrgible] 2 mo.
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['Capt. {illegible} Col. {illegible} Winds 1 yr.' crossed out]
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Capt. - 
Col. -
Express Rider 1 yr.
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mar. Joanna Campbell
Oct. 19, 1786 Rockawa N.J.
D. Nov 14, 1843 Hermon N.Y.
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OW TN
EEL

Kenton O.
June 7th 1903 -

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[stamp:] OLD WAR & NAVY JUN 12 1903 FILES

Dear Sir:

Will you please send me a statement & the military history of Noah French a soldier in the Revolutionary War.  He is said to have been a soldier from Morristown New Jersey.

I wish the necessary proof to become a Daughter of the American Revolution.

Respectfully
Mrs James Watt
Kenton, Ohio
# W. Columbus St
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To the Bureau of the
Department of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[stamp:] O.W. ^ N. DIVISION OCT 9 1899 RECEIVED

Gentleman:

Will you kindly tell me, if on the list of soldiers of the Revolution there appears the names
of Noah French and Thomas Miller of New Jersey
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If so, will you give me the name of the
town, from which they enlisted and time of enlistment and death--and what services they rendered-  Those remembering accounts of them say one was a Captain and one a Mail Express.

Members of the family would like to join Society of Daughters of Revolution and would be much obliged for help in tracing these men.

Very Respectfully,
Mrs Geo. Etzenberger
403 Lafayette Ave.
Buffalo N.Y
October 3. 1899
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Sept. 22 E.L. Kelly
Denver, ,Colo. 
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Dec. 9 '44
Mrs. Geo. Etzenberger
Buffalo N.Y.
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June 15-1903
Hist. to Mrs. Jas Watt
Kenton Ohio
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1918, February 1.
History to
Mrs. Geo. Etzenberger
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Revy.   WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 21151
Joanna French
Wid. of
Noah French
Priv. Rev. War
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Act: March 3d / 43
June 17th / 44
Index: --Vol. A.  Page 254

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of New York
Essex County SS:   Ephraim Hayward of Essex
in the County of Essex & State aforesaid being duly sworn saith, that he is in his seventy third year of age & was a soldier in the Revolutionary war & that the name of this deponent is on the
pension list and the deponent further saith that he is a native of the town of Morris, in the
County of Morris in the State of New Jersey
& resided there till after the close of the
Revolutionary War, that Noah French now of Willsborough in the County of Essex & State of New York & who has signed and sworn to the declaration hereto annexed also resided in the said town of Morris & County of Morris, & State of New Jersey, & a near neighbor to the deponent while he resided there, during the war of the revolution; that this deponent has also known the said Noah French for about thirty years since he resided in the town of Willsborough aforesaid. And this deponent further saith that he well recollects seeing the said Noah French taking the command of a 
Company of Militia at Springfield, in New Jersey
(the Captain being absent at the time) that this deponent being an old acquaintance, turned out and played in the drums, when he came into that town, & drummed through the village at the head of the company- that he saw the said
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Captain French, the aforesaid Noah French,
pass over the Bridge, with his Company and 
join the American forces, in the battle of
Springfield, fought between the American
forces and the British forces there-- that
this was pretty sharp fought battle for a few moments, and he this deponent was in said battle as a soldier, & that when the enemy gave way he this deponent believes the said Captain French followed on after them- And this deponent further saith that after the close of the war, he will recollects the said Captain Noah French exercised the duty, & held the office of Captain, in the Militia in the County of Morris in the State of New Jersey & was esteemed an
efficient officer- and this deponent further saith that he has no certain knowledge and cannot state how long the said Captain French remained and continued in the service during the war of the Revolution, as a militia man; tho this deponent well recollects the said Captain French was often very zealously engaged in the service, in turning out, and in collecting men, and engineering them to fight the common
enemy.  That this deponent then understood
at the time of the war, that the said Captain
French rode as an Express for general
Washington for about one year & which this deponent believes to be true, And this deponent further saith that during said war he this deponent
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then & ever since understood, that the said
Capt Frencservice, & was quite active, vigilant &
useful, & altho this deponent cannot state to a certainty, what term of time in the whole, the said Capt French was engaged in said war as a Militia man, yet this deponent from what he knows and recollects, & has been informed, has
no doubt but he was engaged for more than
two years in said service- and further saith not.
Ephraim Hayward

Sworn & Subscribed the
25th of August 1832
before me D. Edson
Sup. Cournt Commissioner
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State of New York
Essex County SS } Benajah Daniels a Citizen of the Town of Lewis in the County of Essex and State aforesaid being duly sworn says that- He was born in the Town of Rockaway in the State of New Jersey in the year of our Lord 1782. and Resided there untill I was about Seventeen years old when I removed with my parents to
Willsborough in Essex County New York and have since resided in said County. That I was when a boy from the age of four years & up to the time of my removal from New Jersey well acquainted & intimate in the family of Noah
French who resided near my Fathers, only one farm lying Between us. That I well knew his children by his first wife as was said First-Jemima, Henry, Sally, Eunice and Rolph- who were all of them considerable older than me except Rolph and one of the Girls who were my school mates I also Knew Polly French who was the oldest of the children of said Noah French &
John & Alexander - all by his second wife they were all my playmates and we frequently met at their Fathers and at my Fathers House- they were younger than me that is Polly, John and Alexander- Capt. French as he was then called used to keep a Tavern and I well recollect going to his House when I was about Twelve years old to a Shooting match & seeing the said Polly, 
John, Alexander & I also Recollect- that- there was two classes of children- and Know that he lived with a woman who was whom he called his wife who was a sister of Asahel Campbell and the said Polly, John & Alexander called her their mother & she acted as such toward them. and treated the said Noah French as her Husband- was very often at his House playing with the children and went to same School with them-- Both families removed to Willsborough aforesaid and I have since been well acquainted with the family and from my knowledge of
the ages of the different children I am fully satisfied
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that Noah French must have been married to Johannah Campbell his last wife some time previous to the year 1794- I was not at the wedding, but only Judge from what I have previously stated
             his
Benajah  .  Davies
            mark

Essex County SS
On this 16th day of July AD 1848 before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for
said County personally appeared Benajah Daniels a person to me known and made oath in due form of law that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just and true and I further certify that I am acquainted with the above named
Affiant and that he is a reputable person and that his statements an Entitled to credit, and that I have been acquainted with him for a number of years past.

Given under my hand at Elizabeth town in said County this 16th day of July AD 1848 I further certify that said Benajah Daniels could not write his name on account of the loss of the sight of one eye by a bruise but made his mark to his signature in my presence
Alexander Moore Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Essex County ss } Noah French being duly sworn says that he is the son of Noah French late of the County of St Lawrence decd and is now aged Fifty four years on the 7th day of April last past That he is the fourth child of said Noah French by his second and last wife whose maiden name was Johannah Campbell as she has often told deponent. That Polly Young of Westport- John French and Alexander French (who is now dead), were all older than  Deponent and that John French of Living is in
Michigan- but whether he is living or not Deponent cannot say. Deponent was born in New Jersey in Sussex County in 1794 April 7th as he has been informed by his Parents and appears on the old County Record- I am and
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have for a long number of years been acquainted with Benajah Daniels the above affiant and know he must be some twelve years older than I am I cannot tell the Exact ages of my older Brothers & Sisters except as appears on the Record.  I have also five half Brothers and Sisters who were all Born before my Fathers second marriage to my mother whose names were Jemima Henry Sally Eunice and Rolf and have always been informed by my parents & by them that we were only half Brothers & sisters-
Noah French

Subscribed and sworn
to before me this 16th day
of July 1848
Alexander Morse Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Essex County SS }
Edward S Cuyler being duly sworn saith that he has for thirty years last past been well acquainted with Benajah Daniels who has
Subscribed & sworn to the foregoing affidavit and that the said Daniels has always during said time been called an honest upright man and bore a good Reputable character for truth and veracity and Deponent is frank to state that his statements are entitled to credit. Deponent further says that he knows Noah French who has subscribed and Sworn to the other of the foregoing affidavits and have been for many years and that he is universally
called and honest man which deponent concurs in and that he is a Respectable farmer and his statements are entitled to credit as Deponent verily believes.
Edwd. S. Cuyler

Subscribed & sworn to
before me this 16th day
of July 1848
Alexander Morsre Justice of the Peace
(over)
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State of New York
Essex County ss }
On this 16th day of July AD 1848- before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Noah French and also at the same time Edwd. S. Cuyler both persons to me well known and made oath before me that the two several affidavits by them Subscribed and sworn to were just and true & I certify that I am well acquainted with both the above named affiants and that they are reputable persons and that the Statements
made by them are entitled to credit.

Given under my hand at Elizabethtown in said
County the day and year last above written.
Alexander Morse Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Essex County ss. I Geo S. Nicholson Dept Clerk
of the County Court of the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Alexander Morse Esqr is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Elected and qualified; that his official term commenced on the first day of January 1846 and will expire on the 31st day of December 1849, and that his signature above written is genuine.

Given under my hand and the seal 
of said County this 17th day of July
A.D. 1848.
G.S. Nicholson
Dept Clk
(Clk ab)
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State of New York
Essex County SS.}  Henry French of Willsborough in the County of Essex and State of New York being duly sworn saith, that he is in his fifty ninth year of age & that he resided in the State of New Jersey in the family with his Father Capt Noah French at the time of the war
of the revolution, that altho this deponent
was quite young, at that time he well recollects seeing his said Father march off, several times as a soldier, and was informed & understood, he went into the army, recollects his coming home
several times, has no personal knowledge of how long he was in the service, but thinks & believes, he remained in the service, except at  short intervals, the most of the time, after he commenced, till the close of the war, & further say heo understood from the family, his father rode express during one year & believes the same & further saith not-
Henry French

Sworn and Subscribed this
15th day of August 1832
before me D. Edson
Supreme Court
Commissioner
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State of New York
County of Essex } SS.
On this 24th day of October AD. 18517 Before me Safford E Hale personally appeared Noah French aged 57 years a resident of the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law declares and says that he is the Executor of the Estate of his Mother Johannah French deceased, late of the County and State aforesaid, and widow of Noah French deceased, late of St Lawrence County and State of New York-  He further states that his said Mother Johannah French died at his own residence in Essex County on the 6th day of August A.D. 1846 being in the 86th year of her age-  That his said Father Noah French died in the Town of Hermon, St. Lawrence County and State of New York on the 14th November A.D. 1843, in the ninetieth year of his age- He also states that there are six living children of said Noah French and Johannah French whose names and ages are as follows-To wit -- Mary Young aged 64 years - John French aged 62 years- Noah French (said Deponent), aged 57 years Johannah Allen aged 53 years-- Elias French aged 50 years and George French aged 48 years. He also swears that his said Father
Noah French was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed 4th
7th June 1832, at the rate of $160 per annum
for services as Express Rider in the War of the Revolution New Jersey Militia, that his certificate of
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Depo. Noah French Essex Co. N.Y.

Pension was returned to the Pension office at
Albany after the death of his Father. He also
states that his mother Johannah French aforesaid made application for a Widows Pension, which Pension was granted after the death of his mother, & drawn by her Executor (said Deponent) after her death. That said pension was allowed at the rate of $160 per annum from the date of his Father's death, to the date of his mother's death, and that the
widows Certificate was also returned to the Pension Office.
Noah French

Sworn to and subscribed before me S. E. Hale
this 24th day of October 1851, and I hereby
certify that I am personally acquainted with Noah French the above affiant & that he is a credible witness & I believe all his statements above to be correct and true.
Safford E Hale Justice peace
Essex County New York
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State of New York
ESSEX COUNTY, } SS.   I, G. S. NICHOLSON, Clerk of said County, Do Certify that Safford, E. Hale Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the Certificate & Jurat of acknowledgment of the annexed affidavit was, on the day of the date of the said Certificate & Jurat a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, dwelling therein, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the proof and Acknowledgment of Deeds, &c. And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said S.E. Hale and verily believe the signature to said Certificate & Jurat to be genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this 24th day of Oct. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one.
G. S. Nicholson Clerk