Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,707, for William Jackson, New York
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(3-1776)

SERVICE 
New York

Jackson, William
Sophia

NUMBER 
W.4707
BL. Wt. 174-60-55

CONTENTS
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12.430
4
Pensylvania
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William Jackson
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Tunkhannock in the state of Pennsylvania 
who was a private in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel Courtland of the New York
line, for the term of Four years War
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pensylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 25 of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of july 181?
and sent to Thomas Burnside
Wilkebarre Pensylvania
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819  10 6/30 4/31      $82.63
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819    48.00
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$130.63
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{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }

[left page, on edge]
Notification sent October 10 18?? to the clk C. C. 
[illegible] Wilkebarre Luzerne Co. [illegible]
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4545
Pennsylvania, Phil

Sophia Jackson, widow of William Jackson 
N Y
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
increased from $80
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 1st July 1848

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of July 1856
and sent to
Wm J. Turrell
Montrose Pa

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 143 Vol. H
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133.592 - 
Act March 3 '55
Act May 14 '55

Sophia Jackson 90 years widow of William Jackson pri

Revolutionary 
Pensioner
Private
N.Y. Line

Penn Feby 48 - 4545
Ad. 60 ac's [acres]  Feb 25/56
[signed] Dodge

[illegible initials] 

Wm. J. Turrell
Montrose Penn'a

[written across at an angle]
No 174 iss [issued] Feb 9/56
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Mrs. Jackson /overwritten:133.592/

Wm J. Turrell
Montrose, PA
Atty for applic [Attorney for applicant]
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State of Pennsylvania Susquehanna County } ss:

On this twentieth day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred & fifty-five personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County & State aforesaid Sophia Jackson, aged about ninety years a resident of Auburn township, Susquehanna County and State of Pennsylvania, who being duly sworn according to law declared she is the widow of William Jackson, who was a private in the Revolutionary War - that from age and infirmity she is unable to specify the times and places of his service in said war, but that he received a pension from the United States for said service, of ninety-six dollars per annum, and she begs to refer to  the records & documents connected with his application therefore, remaining in the Pension Office, for the proof of said service - that since her said husband's death she has received and is still receiving a pension for & on account of his said service of eighty dollars per annum, from the  United States.
She further states that the time of granting said pension to her said husband he resided in Luzerne (now Wyoming) County, Nicholson Township, State of Pennsylvania, and that she has continued to reside in the same place since his death until about one year since, when she removed to the  township of Auburn aforesaid, where she resides.
She further states that from age & infirmity she had forgotten & can not now recollect the name of the Justice of the Peace who married her and said William Jackson and must beg to refer for the proof through to these records of her former application for pensions andthat her name before his said marriage was Sophia Squirrel, that
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that her said husband died at the township of Nicholson aforesaid in the month of March A.D. 1833, as near as she can recollect, and that she is now a widow, and for proof of her said marriage, and also of the death of her said husband, she begs to refer to the records and documents remaining on file in the Pension Office, connected with her aforesaid application for pension.  That her said pension was granted her under the Act of 2d of February A.D. 1848.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the county land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 30, 1833.
[right] her
[right] Sophia   X   Jackson [X being her mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark

We, David C. Jackson and [William Whipple], residents of Auburn township in the County of Susquehanna County and State of Pennsylvania, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged in our presence by the said Sophia Jackson, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
(signatures of subscribers here) [very faint]
[signed] David C. Jackson
[signed] William Whipple

The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day & year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and I have no interest in this claim.
[signed] John Tewksbury J. P.
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State of Pennsylvania Susquehanna County } ss:

I Sidney B Wells, prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Tewksbury is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned & qualified and that his foregoing signature is genuine.

Given under my hand & the seal of said County at Montrose  this thirteenth day of April AD 1855.
[signed] Sidney B Wells, Prothy {Prothonotary]
for Franklin Fraser
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William Jackson

Con
number left blank

12430
21 July 1879
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District of Pennsylvania ss.
On the 10th day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court of Common Place holden in Wilkes house for the County of Luzerne being a Court of record Proceeding according to the course of Common law with a Juris diction unlimited in point of amount and keeping record of its proceedings William Jackson aged sixcty [sixty] one years resident in Luzerne County in said District who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Act of Congress of the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen and first day of May eighteen hundred and twenty.
That he served in the Revolutionary War in the Company Commanded by Capt Wm. Paulding in the regiment commanded by Col. Courtland in the line of the State of New York and has obtained a pension under the Act of the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen his certificate being numbered [blank]
And I do  Solemnely swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gifts sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part there of with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself with the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United State in the Revolutionary War passed on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any persons in trust for me any property or securties; Contracts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed.
[signed] William Jackson
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Schedule of Property                              Valuation
One Cow & one yearling heffer                    $18.00
Four Tea Cups and Saucers                                20
One Tea pot & sixe Bowls                                  50
Two platters two plates one jug                         60
Sixe knives and four forks eight spoons            50
One Churn one pot one small Kettle               1.00 
One Bake Kettle and one Holder[sp]               2.00
Three Old Chairs one old Table                         0.00
One small Wheel one Ase & har                      1.00
A few old shoe maker tools                            0.00
About sixe Acres of inferior land of
a thin soil held by possession with a small
lay house upon it                                           50.00
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$74.30

I am by trade a Shoemaker but by reason of age and infirmities am not able to passue [pursue] that occupation I have no family residing with me escept [except]my wife Sophia aged fifty five years infirm like myself and our Daughter named Pegg aged fourteen years and our son named Nicholus and aged twelve years
[signed] William Jackson
Sworn and declared in open Court 10 Aug 1820
[signed] A Beaumont Prothy [Prothonotary]

State of Pennsylvania Luzerne County } ss.
I Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do Certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annesed [annexed] are truly copied from the record of the said Court and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property eschibited [exhibited] in the aforesaid schedule is seventy four dollars and thirty cents. For testimony whereof I have hereun to Set my hand and affised [affixed] the seal of said Court on this twenty fifth day of August AD. 1820 
[signed] A Beaumont - Prot [Prothonotary]
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Wm Jackson

William Jackson
Dubois N. York [illegible]
1779 to 1783
25th April 1818

Quroll[sp]

Admitted
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[printed form, blanks filled by hand]

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA,
LUZERNE COUNTY, SS.

On this twenty fifth day of April AD 1818 before me the subscriber, President Judge of the Eleventh Judicial district in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, personally appears William Jackson aged fifty nine years, resident in Tuckhannock in the said county of Luzerne in the State aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War."  that he the said William Jackson enlisted in Albany in the state of New York in the year 1779 in the company commanded by Captain Philip Brevier in the Regt of Col. Dubois that afterwards on the direction of the [illegible] in the [illegible] New York Regts he served in the Regt of Col Courtland in the New York line that he continued to serve in the said corps and in the service of the United States, until the month of June 1783 when he was discharged from service at New Windsor state of New York that he was in Sullivan's Expedition and wounded in a skirmish with the Indians and he was at the taking of Cornwallis that he has lost his discharge.

And that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for Support --and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Except the testimony of Marshall Dickson here present
Sworn to, subscribed and declared, Before me, the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] Ph Murydle[sp]
[signed] William Jackson

And on the same day and at the same time and place came Marshall Dickson who being sworn did depose and declare that he well knows William Jackson the applicant when in the Reg of Col Courtland of the New York line in the Revolutionary war and he knows the said Jackson served in the New York line on the Continental
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Establishment from 1779 to 1783 when he was discharged.
[signed] Marshal Tipton

Sworn & subscribed the day & yr af'd [year aforesaid]
Th. Burnside

[printed form, blanks filled by hand] 

I, Thomas Burnside President Judge of the eleventh Judicial district in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Jackson did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceeding declaration, against the Common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the secretary for the Department of war, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
[signed] Thomas Burnside

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, LUZERNE COUNTY, } SS

I, Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne aforesaid do certify and make known that Thomas Burnside Esq is, and was at the time of signing and taking the foregoing depositions and certifying the same, President Judge of the 11th Judicial district of the State of Pennsylvania, that the signature is his proper hand writing, and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such.  In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office, at Wilkesbarre, in the County of Luzerne aforesaid, the first day of May AD 1818.
[signed] A Beaumont Prot [Prothonotary]
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We the subscribers of inhabitants of the Township of Tankhannack and neighbours of William Jackson do certify that he has a family and is in needy and indigent circumstances, and our opinion that as a faithfull defender of his country, he is entitled to a pension.
Apr 1 1819 Tunkhannack Luzerne Cy [City] Penn'a
[signatures below]
Caleb Nervenson
Rufus Williams
Nathan Bacon
George Miller
Aisha Harding
Darin Offenhand
Zebulon Marcy
Salmon Thomas
Zebulon Avery
William Smith
Joseph P Shrope
Jacob Willey
Silton Smith
Isaac Osterhout 
Flieshuman[sp]
Jeremiah Benson
Thomas Stainis
Sylvester [illegible]
Fabiez Wilcox
Hephas Ming
Samuel Whitmore
Nathan Jackson
Charles Otis
Naholson C Haney
John Flandry
Alfred Thiel
Bishop Phelps
Aaron Adams
Albert Levin
Isaac Sloan
Beny Gantt
Aaron Taylor
Wm. Taylor
Cyrus Avery
Sliele Money

[unsure of many of the spellings]
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Luzerne County ss
I Jesse Fell a judge of the Court of common pleas in and for the County aforesaid in the 11th judicial district of the said Commonwealth do testify to the Secretary of War of the United States that I am well acquainted with a number of the signers of the within certificate Viz with Aisha Harding Esquire. Cyrus Avery Esquire Zebulon Marcy Esquire and most of the other signers & I believe full faith & credit may be placed in the Certificate as I have had verbal information from some of the signers I believe the applicant realy [really] to be in indigent circumstances Given under my hand at wilkesBarre May 21st 1819 -                            
[signed] Jesse Fell

State of Pennsylvania Luzerne County } ss.
[WilkesBarre Court Seal affixed]
 I Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do Certify that Jesse Fell whose name is Subscribed  is an acting adjudicate Judge in and for the County of Luzerne aforesaid duly commissioned that the above is his own proper Signature & that full faith and credit are due to his official acts & deeds. On testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Wilkes Barre this 30th day of April Anno Domini it Republicae XLIII
[sgne] A. Beaumont Pro Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania Luzerne County } ss:
On this Fifteenth day of November Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before the Hon: William Jessup, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Luzerne, Sophia Jackson, a resident of Fankhannock Township Luzerne County aforesaid, aged Seventy Seven years; who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July the 7th 1838, entitled "An act granting half-pay and pension's to Certain widows": That she is the widow of William Jackson, deceased, late of the place aforesaid, who was a Revolutionary Soldier, and pensioner of the United States under one of the earliest pension laws, by which he received a pension of Ninety Six - dollars per year until his death; and that the evidence of his service as a revolutionary Soldier, are as she believes, of record in the offices of the war department at Washington.
She further declares that she was married to the said William Jackson in the Township of - - -- County of Ulster in the State of New York on or about the 18th day of Sept - in the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty Eight That her husband the Aforesaid William Jackson, died on the eighteenth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two in the Township of Funkhannock aforesaid; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, Seventeen hundred and Ninty Four, vis: at the time above stated, and that she has not since the decease of the said William Jackson been married again, but still remains his widow.
She further states that she has no family record of her marriage, nor does she know of any record of the same having been kept, She having been married by a Clergyman. She also says that the pension certificate of her said husband
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is now out of her possession it having been sent to Philadelphia soon after her husbands, decease, for the purpose of obtaining the arrears of his pension; and further, that she knows of no living witnesses of her marriage.

[right] her
[right] Sophia   X   Jackson [X being her mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark
Sworn and Subscribed before me the said William Jessup, President Judge, aforesaid this day and year herein first written.  
[signed] Wm. Jessup

State of Pennsylvania Luzerne County } ss.
Polly Oakly, of Nicholson Township in said County and State, on her oath says that she is the oldest child and Daughter of William Jackson and his wife Sophia, and is aged Forty nine years; that the first place of her own and her said parents residence which she recollects was in the Township of Nickolson County of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania; that the said William Jackson, and Sophia, lived together as man and wife from the earliest recolection of the dependent, up the the time of the said William Jackson's death, which, to her certain knowledge took place in Funkhannock Township, Luserne County aforesaid, on the Eighteenth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and Thirty two; That to her knowledge, the said William Jackson was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States; that her said mother Sophia has not again been married since his death but still remains his widow; and that there is no family record of her said Mother and father's marriage, that she has ever seen or heard of.
[right] her
[right] Sophia   X   Jackson [X being her mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark
Subscribed and sworn to before me the Said William Jessup, Pres't Judge aforesaid
[signed] Wm Jessup
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State of Pennsylvania Luzerne County } ss

Eliphalet L Steens, of Nicholson Township, County of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, being duly sworn according to law, on his oath says that in the years one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight he was residing in the township of [blank] county of Orange and on the lines of Ulster County in the State of New York, when and where he was well acquainted with William Jackson, late of Tuckhannock Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, deceased, and with his wife, Sophia, before they were married; that in the fall of said year 1758 he heard and was told of their marriage by persons who then said they were present at their marriage; and that to the deponent's knowledge they have lived together as man and wife up to the death of the said William Jackson, which took place in Tuckhannock Township, County and State last aforesaid, as stated in the preceding affidavits, and as this deponent then heard, and understood, he further states that from his recollection of circumstances connected with the history of the said William and Sophia, he has not the least doubt but their marriage took place as stated in the declaration of the said widow Sophia Jackson, hereunto annexed.
[signed] Eliphalet L Stephens
Subscribed and sworn to this fifteenth day of November Anno Domini 1839 - before me.
[signed] Wm Jessup Prest [President] Judge
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I William Jessup, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne State of Pennsylvania, do certify that the foregoing named Applicant for a Pension, Sophia Jackson, is from bodily infirmity unable to attend court; and that upon enquiry I find that the said Sophia Jackson Polly Oakly, and Eliphalet L Stevens who have sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavits are well known in Tuckhannock & Nicholson Townships, in Luzerne County aforesaid; and are possessed of good character for truth and veracity, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
Witness my hand this fifteenth day of November AD 1839
[signed] Wm Jessup Prest Judge

State of Pennsylvania Luzerne County } ss

Be it remembered that I, Jasper Fassett, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Luzerne, do hereby certify that William Jessup above named is the President Judge of said Court, and that his name above within is his precise signature. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this nineteenth day of November, A.D. one thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine
[signed] Jasper Fassett Proth
By Edmund Dana

The department can [illegible] with myself upon the Receipt[?] of the above claim.
[signed] V. L. Maxwell
Wilkes Barre Pa

[illegible Court Seal affixed lower left]

[lower right corner]
6376

[lower left, on edge]
died march 18, 1832 Preston
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[printed form, blanks filled by hand]

O. W. and N. Division 3-525.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C., _____, 190___

In reply to your request of ___, received___ for a statement of the military history of William Jackson a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) ['or' lined thru] application for pension on file in this Bureau.
W. File 4707

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
1779


Length of Service
disch 1783 at New WIndsor

Rank
Pri.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN
Philip Bevier
William Paulding
COLONEL
Dubois
Van Cortland

State
NY

Battles engaged in, Sullivans Expedition and in skirmish with Indians and taking of Cornwallis

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Ent. [Entered] at Albany, NY

Date of application for pension, Apl. 25, 1818 Allowed

Residence at date of application, Tunkhannock, Luzerne Co., Penn

Age at date of application, 59 yrs.

Remarks: 
[?] m. Ulster Co., NY Sept. 18, 1788 Sophia___
died Mch. 18, 1832 Tunkhannock Twp. [Township]
& she was alld pens. on her appln. ex. Nov. 15 1839. while a res. of Tunkhannock Twp and 77 yrs. of age. In 1820 hereslf to {dau. Peggy 14 yrs and son Nicholas 12.} In 1839 oldest daughter Polly Oakley at nearly 49 yrs.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

31798b6m10-07
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[rinted form, blanks filled by hand] 

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Jackson, William
GRADE Private
LINE New York

WARRANT NUMBER    7326  AND WT 174-60-55
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Sept 25, 1790  WA. 7326 [illegible] D Hudson & Co assignees

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.
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[Left Side]
Letter to H Conglit Dec 9 1844
Letter to H Conglit Mar 15 '45

[Right Side]
4905
Pennsylvania
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Sophia Jackson Widow of William Jackson, dec'd who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818, and who died on the 18 March 1832 of Luzerne Co in the State of Penn'a who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Brevier of the regt commanded by Col Dubois in the N Y Cont line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate of 80 Dollars____ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Jany 1840, and sent to V. L. Maxwell, Wilkes Barre, Penn.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839                      $280.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March '40       40.00
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$320.00
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Act July 7, 1838

Recorded by D M [illegible]
Book A Vol. 2
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7104
Phildelphia, Penn.
Sophia Jackson widow of William Jackson who was a Private in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of June 1865 and sent to Harrison Wright
Wilkes Barre, Penn.

[Acts of March 3, 1843. & June 17, 1844]
Recorded in Book A, 
Vol 2  Page 110

[right side]
Rep'd
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4545
Pennsylvania Phila'a
Sophia Jackson widow of William who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00/cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Mch 1849 and sent to

Chas. De Lelding
Washington D.C.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 237 Vol. 2
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FREE

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

[round date stamp]
MONTROSE
MAY 11
[illegible]

[top]
133.592
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FREE

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

[round date stamp]
MONTROSE
MAY 11
PA

[left, on edge]
133.592
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Wm Jackson Priv. Van Cortlandt's regt
7326-100 Pr. D Hudson & Co. Assers[sp] Sept 25. 1790
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6376

Sophia Jackson 
[?] William
Pennsylvania
admitted
Pr: Inf 2 yr $80
Cap Bevier Col Dubois
N Y Line

died 18th March 1832
Act 7 July 1838

V. S. Maxwell
Wilkesbarre Pa
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174

60 acres
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[Left Column]

May 15 1903 hist to Mrs. J. Gilbert Sawyer Boonville NY
1911 June 14 S. L. Jackson c
1915 Oct 11  Tombstone data to Mrs. Jessie L. Ross ¢


[Right Column]

WIDOW, &c.
Revy

File No. 4707
Sophia Jackson widow William Jackson
Pri. Rev. War

Act:  Feby 2nd 1848

Index:--Vol. A, Page 370

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[stamped]
U. S.
REV[sp] WAR & NAVY
MAY 13 1903
FILES
P. B.
[/stamped]

Boonville May 7 1903

E. F. Ware

Dear Sir

One of my ancestor's enlisted as an Ensign in Capt. Cornelius Hogeboom's Co, Claverack Battalion, of Albany Co. Militia, Commanded by Col. Peter Van Ness on Feb 6, 1779.
His name was William Jackson. He was afterward promoted, we are told and later received a pension. if this is right you may be able to send me the date of his birth and death and his wife's maiden
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name all of which I am very anxious to obtain.

Awaiting your reply I remain

Yours truly
[signed] Mrs. J Gilbert Sawyer
Boonville
Oneida Co
New York

[round date stamp]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
C
MAY 9 1903
[/round date stamp]
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[stamped] U. S. PENSION OFFICE Oct 5 1915

Rev Sec
H

[logo] DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

11 Wyoming Avenue
Tuckhannock, Pa
Oct 2 1975

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly send the War Record of Daniel Augel (S 23516) who was a pensioner in Luzerne County on the Revolutionary War Rolls.  Also his birth and death dates.
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would appreciate also having the dates of birth and death of Jesse Dickinson (S.42157) and Wm Jackson (W.4707) as well as the war record of the latter.

These facts are requested by the Tuckhannock Chapter, D.A.R. which is making an effort to gather all data regarding soldiers of the Revolution who are buried in this
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County.

With deep appreciation for your courtesy, I am,

Most respectfully
[signedJessie L. Ross

Co[illegible] History and Research

[round date stamp]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
O
OCT 5 1915
[/round date stamp]
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Montrose Pa
May 10 1855

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Pension Comm'r

Dear Sir

I send herewith application of Sophia Jackson, also of Wealthy Bennett for Bounty Land under Act of Mch 3 1855. Please advise me of result and forward Warrants when allowed.

Resptfly yours
[signed] Wm J Turrell
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Washington 
Dec 21 1848

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Pension Commissione

Sir

I present you herewith the application of Mrs. Sophia Jackson praying that her pension may be renewed and continued in accordance with the late Acts of Congress, her last pension having terminated in March last.  Be pleased to examine her [?a?] and if entitled to a continuance of pension, do us the favor to send us her certificate.

I remain very respectfully
Your most obd svt
[signed] Charles Da Jedding
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Montrose, Pa
July 16 1856

Hon Comm of Pensions

D Sir

Enclosed I send application of Sophia Jackson of this (Susquehanna County) for an increase of her pension &c -
Will you examine and advise me of result.  I enclose her present certificate, which I suppose will be returned in case you do find her entitled to an increase.

Very Respy yours
[signed] Wm. J. Turrell
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Dr Sir

Enclosed is the certified declaration of Mrs. Sophia Jackson, she could not recollect the regiment in which her husband served or the amount of her annual pension -- but should
other proof be required there would be no difficulty in proving that she is the identical person. but she is very aged and her recollection very much scattered[sp] but there is no doubt of her identity.  Please forward the papers to me & I will send them to her.
Most Respectfuly
[illegible] yours
[signed] Harrison Wright
Wilkes Barre Dec 30 1844

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
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Dr Sir

Sophia Jackson was pensioned in 1836 for 5 yrs I suppose - Sshe is desirous of knowing whether any recent act entitled her to a renewal of that pension under the facts of her case - Will you be good
enough to answer me that question and forward me a copy of such Law & a note of what proof is required.
She is very needy. An early answer is desired.
Yours truly
[signed] Harrison Wright
Wilkes Barre Dec 3rd 1844

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
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Sophia Jackson
Widow of William
Susquehanna Co Penn

[illegible] 1 July 1848

$96 a year from 1 July 1848 deductions
$80 a year.

Cert to
Wm J. Tunnells
Montrose Penn
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Old War Div.
J.N,3. Ex'r.
___No. _____
Co. _____ Reg't _____
Return this letter with your reply.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
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Washington, D.C. February 7 1888

Sir,
In answer to your enquiry of the 4th inst, relative to William Jackson, a captain in the war of the Revolution from New York, you are advised that no application for a pension is found on record as having been received from an officer of that from New York.  
In a list of the names of some officers furnished by the state, appears the name of William Jackson, as captain  in the 2nd N. Y. regiment, probably commanded by Col Van Cortland, who resigned Aug 21, 1777, which is all that reported of his service or residence.  

For your information it is stated, that a William Jackson, who was a Shoemaker, Served as a private from 1779 in Col Duboi's N.Y. regiment, and subsequently he was in the command of Col Van Cortland. He died in 1832 at Tunkhannock, then in Luzerne County Pen'a leaving a widow Sophia to whom he was married in 1788 at the town of (Blank) in Ulster County, N.Y.
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[pinted form, blanks filled by hand]

Brief in the case of Sophia Jackson widow of William Susquehanna County and State of Penn Act Joint Res 1 Jul 1848
==========================
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")  [Word 'original' is lined through]

Proof exhibited, (if original.)  [words 'if original' lined through]

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls:  If either, state the substance
[the above sentence is crossed through]

Her husband was pensioned under the Acts of 1818 & 1820 at $96 a year --

She was pensioned under the Acts of 1838 at $80 a year.

She was entitled under the Joint Resolution.

(If for increase.) [all lined through]

Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?
[the above sentence is lined through]

Of July 1 1848 to the same amount her husband received, [illegible] to her the Resolution papers.

The increase is made decucting $80 a year.

[signed] Thornton Triplett
Examining Clerk.  

Name and residence of Agent.  
Wm. Turrell Esq.
Montrose Penn'a
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7908
Sophia Jackson
Act,
3d March 1843.
& 
17 June, 1844

712

Admd: [Admitted] $80 per ann. [annum]

[signed] Harrison Wright, Esq.
Wilkes Barre,
Pennsylvania.
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress the 3d March 1843 and 17 June 1844. granting pensions for one year to certain widows who received pensions under the act of 7 July 1838.

State of Pennsylvania County of Wyoming } ss
On this thirtieth day of April /such/ Anno Domini 1845 personally appeared before the subscriber and acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Mrs. Sophia Jackson a resident of Nicholas Township in the County of Wyoming (late Luzerne County) in said State of Pennsylvania  aged eighty years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to Law doth in her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress passed in the 3d March Ann D'i 1843 and 17 June 1844, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of William Jackson who was a private soldier, that he served in said revolutionary war for the period of seven years and this /illegible/ but she cannot [illegible] say in what regiment he served, and that she received Eighty dollars per annum to the best of her recollection and belief.
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this about the sum  her recollection is not so clear, under the Act of July 7, 1838. She further declares she is still a widow. 
[right] her
[right] Sophia   X   Jackson [X being her mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark
Witness to her mark 
[signed] S Hine
[signed] Ira Avery

Sworn and subscribed before me on the 30 May 1845. She subscribed her name by making
her mark.
[signed] Ira Avery J. P.

State of Pennsylvania County of Wyoming ss
On the 30th May 1845 before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Wyoming, personally came William Driggs, a resident of Nicholas Township aforesaid aged forty five years and upwards, who being duly sworn according to Law saith that he was well acquainted with William Jackson formerly a United States pensioner who died in the township of Tunkhannock Luzerne County, now Wyoming, and that he left a widow Sophia. That he has seen the above declarant subscribe her name above by making her mark. That he Knew
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her during the life time of her husband, as his wife and constantly since his decease as his widow and that since his death a pension was granted the said Sophia Jackson, and that the papers have been subscribed before this deponent as Justice of the Peace for her annual pension. As many as two[sp] times he thinks, and that he hereby believes her pension was Eighty Dollars per annum & further saith not
[signed] Wm. Driggs
Sworn and subscribed before me 30 day of May AD 1845.
[signed] Ira Avery J P

State of Pennsylvania County of Wyoming ss }
I James Brown, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said Wyoming County, do hereby certify that the said Ira Avery Esquire is and was at the time that the above certificate was[sp] probate were made, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned, and that all his acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit, and that the said signaturea purporting to be his, with the said acredidation[sp] and probate, and to the said affidavits, are his true and genuine signatures and in his ownproper hand writing. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Tunkhannock Wyoming County this 30th day of May An Di [Anno Domini] 1845.
[signed] James Brown Prothonotary
by A R Brown
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My Grandfather's name was William Jackson--
He was a Captain in the Revolutionary Period in (*) Hanover Precinct, Ulster Co. N. York (now a part of Orange Co.)-- He was Retired at an Early Period because of infirmity.

The enquiry is to learn when he retired and whether he was Brevited to be major?

Aany information in Relation thereto - will be mostthankfully Received by the undersigned his Grand-son.
[signed] Theo S. Jackson
Montgomery
Orange Co N.Y.

(*) name - Subsequently changed to Montgomery
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[printed form, blanks filled by hand]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.

I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Sophia Jackson widow of William Jackson who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.

Given at the Department of the Interior this 24th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty nine

[illegible Seal attached at left]

[signed] T Ewing
Secretary of the Interior.

Examined and Countersigned.
[signed] J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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[yped letter]

Cameron N. Y., 6-8-11.

Pension Bureau,
War Department,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:

Will you please give me what information you can from your records in regard to WILLIAM JACKSON whom the traditions of our family claim served served in the War of the Revolution as Captain in the Fourth Regiment of the Line of New York state under Colonel Livingston. After the Revolution he settled in Luzerne county, Penna., and later in Susquehanna County, Penna.,
where he died. 

After his death, his widow, whose maiden name was Squireil, was the recipitant of a pension for his services in the Revolution.

Yours truly,
[signed] S. S. Jackson
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[typed letter]

Rev. War Section.

October 11, 1915.

Mrs. Jessie L. Ross,
11 Wyoming Avenue,
Tunkhannock, Pa.

Madam:

In response to your letter dated the 2" instant, relative to three Revolutionary War pensioners in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, you are advised that from the papers on file in this Bureau it appears that William Jackson, W. File No. 4,707 Rev. War, enlisted at Albany, New York, in 1779, and served until June 1783, as private under Captain Philip Bevier and William Paulding, Colonels Dubois and Van Cortland in the New York troops; he was wounded in a skirmish with the Indians in Sullivan's expedition, and was at the taking of Cornwallis.
He was fifty-nine years of age in 1818, and a resident of Tunkhannock Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where he died March 18, 1832.
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State of Pennsylvania Wyoming County } ss.
On this 1st day of December 1848 personally appeared before me Wm. Briggs one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Sophia Jackson a resident of Nicholson in the County of Wyoming, aged Eighty four or five years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisionmade by the act of Congress passed on the 2d February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons, who served during the revolutionary war that she is the widow of William Jackson who was a private in the revolution, and died on the 18th day of March 1832 and drew a pension of Ninety Six dollars per annum and that she the widow received a certificate of five years pension from the act of Congress of 1836 which terminated in 1841 and received another certificate of Eighty Dollars per annum from the Act of Congress of March 3 1843 and 17th of June 1844 which terminated on the 4th of March 1848  she further declares that she is still the Widow to the truth of which statements I am fully satisfied
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
[right] Sophia   X    Jackson [X being her mark in lieu of signature] 

Before me [signed] Wm. Briggs J. Peace

Witness present
[signed] Jacob Quick
[signed] Percevill [sp] Avery

I do here by certify that the above Declarant Sophia Jackson is personally known to me & has been for thirty years past
Witness my hand & seal at Nicholson this 13th day of Dec. 1848
[signed] Wm. Briggs J. Peace { Sea l}

I Peter Osterhout Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Wyoming County certify that Wm. Briggs is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine in testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office at Tunkhannock and subscribed my name this 4th of December 1848
[signed] P.M. Osterhout Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Wyoming County
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State of Pennsylvania Susquehanna County } ss.
On this Thirty first day of May A.D. 1836 before me, John Tewksbury, a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Sophia Jackson aged ninety years & upwards, who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of William Jackson, deceased, who in his life time was a pensioner of the United States under the Act of March, 1818, at ninety six dollars per annum - that her said husband died in the month of March 1832 in Luzerne County in the State of Pennsylvania, leaving her his widow that subsequent to his said decease she applied for & received a pension from the United States, on account of the service of her said husband, under the Acts of 1838 & 1848, of eighty dollars per annum - that she now is receiving a pension under the act of Feb 2, 1848.
She makes this declaration in order to obtain an increase of her present pension under the act of July 1st 1848, and herewith surrenders the present Pension Certificate. And she begs leave to refer to the papers on file in the Pension Office upon which the said Certificate was granted, and also to the papers on file as aforesaid upon which her said husband was pensioned for pay of his services, and of her intermarriage with him &c. and she respectfully asks that his said pension may be increased according as she may be entitled under the act of July 1 1848.  and further that I am entirely unable by reason of age infirmity to attend in open Court, & therefore make this declaration before a Justice of the Peace.
[right] her
[right] Sophia   X   Jackson  { Seal } [X being her mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark

Sworn to & subscribed this Thirty first day of May 1856 before and by the said Sophia Jackson who is personally
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known to me  I hereby certify that she is a credible person of good character for integrity, and by reason of old age & infirmity she is not able to attend in open Court to make her declaration, and that for the same reason she can not write, & therefore makes her mark
Witness my hand & seal
[signed] John Tewksbury J.P. { Seal }

We, David Jackson and Benjamin Smith residents of the County of Susquehanna & State of Pennsylvania, upon our oaths, respectively do say that we are well acquainted with the above named declarant, Sophia Jackson, that she is a very old woman & and a pensioner of the United States, and that her said above and foregoing declaration was subscribed and sworn to by her in our presence - that we know her to be the person she represents herself to be that she is a credible person of good standing & character & that we have no interest whatever in her said claim. Witness our hands & seals this Thirty first day of May 1886. 
[signed] David Jackson { Seal }
[signed] Benjamin Smith { Seal }

State of Pennsylvania Susquehanna County } ss:
The foregoing declaration & affidavits were respectively sworn to & subscribed before me, a justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid on this Thirty first day of May 1856 by the above named Sophia Jackson & the aforesaid David C Jackson and Benjamin Smith who are personally known to me & that said Witnesses are credible persons-  that I have [no] interest whatever in said Claim and am not engaged in the prosecution of it as agent or attorney. Witness my hand & seal the day & year aforesaid.
[signed] John Tewksbury J P { Seal }
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State of Pennsylvania Susquehanna County } ss
I Sidney B. Wells, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Susquehanna County do hereby certify that John Tewksbury Esqr. is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, duly commissioned & qualified, and that his foregoing signatures are genuine.

Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Montrose this sixteenth day of July A.D. 1856
[signed] Sidney B Wells Prot
for W B Wells [illegible]
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3-871.

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

Briefed by A.  Ward 10/6/11
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier William Jackson
Service N. Y.
Additional Service  Rev

No. ____ Claim, State Records ______, 191__
No Claim, combination records ______, 191__

REMARKS:
No Wid. any service / [illegible] 27,000
No. Rej. at [illegible]
No Rev as above except W 4707

Chief Division