Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 791, Daniel Botan, Penn. Sea Service
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(3-1776)
SERVICE  NUMBER
Penn Sea Service   Botan, Daniel   W.791
or Boland,
Frost, Mary
(Former widow)
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4913
ersey [A portion of the page is missing. Presumably it says "New Jersey"]
ost, formerly
, Botan
1789
State of New Jersey
[illegible] in the [blank] commanded
[blank] of the [blank] commanded
[blank] in the Navy of Penn.
for 2 years
______________
Inscribed on the Roll of Trenton
 the rate of 156 Dollars no Cents
annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1831.
_______________
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of 
December 1849 and sent to A. Ray, Present
_____________
Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
semi-annual allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the [blank]}
Recorded by J.P. Chasel Clerk,
Book D Vol. 2 Page 70
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6398
Declarations of Mary Bolan [sic] of New Jersey
Act. July 4: 1836
& Act 3 March 1837
m 87 & 89
Recd. Feb 14th 48

on small roll of
[illegible] people on 
[illegible] Navy
Hon J. W. Miller
Senate US
Feb 14 '45
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6398
Mary Frost
N. J.

Act 4 July 36
m 87 d 89
m 1800.

admitted
Amount 2 yr. $156.
Penn Navy
Con 4 March 1837
(Penn. Navy)

A. Ray
Present
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of 4 July 1836, entitled "an act granting half pay & pensions to certain Widows" & of the supplemental thereto passed 3rd March 1837.
New Jersey, Sussex County ss: On Twenty Seventh day of August, one Thousand Eight Hundred & forty [illegible], personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas at Trenton in & for said County of Sussex (said Court being a Court of Records, having a seal & having Jurisdiction not limited in amount) Mary Frost of said County, aged about Eighty four years who being duly sworn, upon her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4: 1836, Entitled "an act granting half pay to widows & orphaned  & the supplemental thereto passed 3rd March A.D. 1837.
That she is the widow of Daniel Bolen [sic] who was an armourer in the Navy of Pennsylvania in the war of the Revolution & she being the Daughter of Thomas & Usillar Yaw & born on the 17th day of April 1760 at Philadelphia & [illegible] her fathers family records in the possession of the deponent. That in the fall of the year 1779 deponent being above the age of Nineteen years went from Philadelphia to resided in the family of Mr. Abraham Kinsey [illegible] whose house was at Lower Tinicum about 3 miles from the City & four miles above Fort Mifflin in the Delaware, that soon after she went to the Kinseys, she became acquainted with the said Daniel Bolen [sic] who was then a Sergeant at Fort Mifflin, that said Bolen [sic]
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met frequently at the house of said Kinsey where he was accustomed to come in a Boat for the purpose of procuring necessary supplies for the Fort. That she was Housekeeper for said Kinseys & after about Eighteen months acquaintance with said Bolen [sic] during which time he continued at the fort Deponent was married to said Bolen [sic], at the Swedish Church in Philadelphia, on the Seventh day of April one thousand seven hundred & eighty one by the Rev. Mathias Hultgren Paster at said Church, a Certificate of which she has now in her possession. That at after their marriage they went to the Fort Mifflin and remained there according to the best recollections of Deponent  until the Third day of July of the same year, when her Husband quitting the service, they removed to Philadelphia. That while in fort he had command of Eight men who were all that were their according to her recollections, after she wen there. That she had frequently heard her husband say & she believed the fact to be, that he entered the Service at Philadelphia, soon after the commencement of the Revolutionary war, that he was at sea about a month the name of the vessel in which he sailed not remembered, that during that service said Bolen [sic] was taken prisoner by the British & confined for three months in one of the West India Islands, that on his return he was stationed at Fort Mifflin where he had been for more than a year  before she became acquainted with him, in the
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Same Service, she recollects one officer Lieut. Simmons, who appears to have command of the Fort, but at this time cannot name any other except one private Daniel Blen believed from Connecticut. Deponent recollects one occasion of a visit of some officers to the Fort while she was living there. being [illegible] so to do, by her said Husband, she took the match  & fired off the big guns, which according to her recollection made a 60 pounder, and on another occasion a company of seven young men came from Philadelphia to the Fort & wished to ?explore it. When at the request of her husband who was in charge of it at the time & who was a [illegible] man she dressed herself in his clothes & passed herself off as the Sergeant conducting the company at the fort except to the magazine, which although they wished to open it she refused to the officer and that went against the regulations.
After their return as before stated to Philadelphia she & her Husband resided there several years that they had four children, Nancy the eldest, Jacob & James & John B, of whom Nancy who is the widow of Mathue Goble & John B. Bolen [sic] are still living, that her daughter Nancy when about Eleven years of age left Deponent in Philadelphia & went to reside with her step grandfather Ezekiel McPeak in the County of Sussex in New Jersey. That said Daniel Bolen [sic] was a [illegible] by trade & that in the year 1788 his business being dull he left Philadelphia and went into the County in search of work, & while absent from home
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he died at Frankford Sussex County New Jersey in the County school. Deponent has since resided for more than 20 years and within Four miles of the house where she & a second Husband [illegible] lived for than six years & that said Bolen [sic] Died on the Eighteenth day of March one thousand seven hundred & Eighty None, that Deponent was not present at the time of his death, but was informed thereof at Philadelphia by his Brother Lawrence Yaw who well knew the fact, within a few days after his death, that said Brother removed to the interior of Pennsylvania & Deponent believes him to be dead as she tried hard [illegible] & from [illegible] for [illegible] years.
That previous to her first marriage this Deponent was acquainted with Stephen Frost a soldier in the Connecticut line as she was informed by him & who was then a Prisoner confined in Philadelphia having been taken a prisoner by the British, that he remained in prison six months & during which time deponent, with others was in the practice of supplying provisions to the prisoners, many of whom were starved & frozen to death from want of food & clothing. Several died from want who were confined in the same apartment with Stephan Frost she recollects the British used to [illegible] the females for bringing food to prisoners & that one of their officers [the rest of the sentence illegible]. But the deponent & others, persisted
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in affording relief to the prisoners until they were released. That after the release of said Stephen Frost he went to Connecticut & then returned to Philadelphia where deponent married him on Twentieth day of January one thousand Eight Hundred. A certificate of which she had in her possession. The said marriage being solemnized by William Coats Esq. Justice of the Peace. That she & her said Husband resided in Philadelphia until September 1803, when they left the City & removed to Newton, County of Sussex New Jersey. There her said Daughter, Nancy, lived & [illegible] the Town of Frankford where her former Husband Daniel Bolen [sic] died. That said Stephen Frost built a small Dwelling House in Newton where they resided until his death which took place at their house on the sixteenth day of March one thousand Eight Hundred & Fourteen. That she remained in Newton for Eight years, then went to Philadelphia where she resided for several years with her Brother, & in the year 1834, she returned to this place & had continued to reside there with her said Daughter Nancy, who is a widow, that she is poor & infirm & of the age of Eighty one years. That she was a widow on the 4: July 1836, & still remains a widow.
[Signed with the note "Her mark" and an "X"] Mary Frost
Sworn & subscribed in open court this Twenty Seventh day of August A.D.1814
[Signed] Robert H.M. Carter Presiding Judge
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New Jersey Sussex County ss
I Nancy Goble of the said County of full age being duly sworn upon her oath deposeth she is the Daughter of Daniel Boland [sic] dcd. [deceased] and Mary his wife & that she was born at Philadelphia on the fourth day of September A.D. 1784, that she was the oldest child of said Daniel & Mary, that when she was about Eleven years of age, she left her Mother & went to reside with her step grandfather Ezekiel McPeak, then living in Newton County of Sussex New Jersey, that her Father died when she was about Five years of age and the Deponent has then understood he died in March A.D. 1789 & had resided at Frankford County of Sussex N.J. That her Mother again Married Stephen Frost at Philadelphia in January 1800. That Deponent was not present at the time, she then living in Sussex County N.J., but she has frequently seen the Certificate of said marriage on [illegible]. That Deponent visited at her stepfather in Philadelphia until the fall of the year 1803, when they removed to this place, that said Stephen Frost built a small dwelling house in which they resided until his Death. The house was about two miles from where Deponent then lived, & about six miles from the place where Deponent understood her father Died.  Said Stephen Frost died on or about the Sixteenth day of March one thousand Eight Hundred and Fourteen, Deponent was at the funeral
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and recollects that it was about two weeks only, before her marriage to Matthiue Goble which was on the Ninth day of April of the same year.  Deponent was at the house of her step father frequently before his death. That she frequently heard her mother speak of the Service of her father, at that set forth in the above Declaration. That after the Death of her said step Father her mother remained in Newton for 10 years and then she went to Philadelphia & lived with he Brother for ten or eleven years & in 1834 she returned to this Place where she now lives with Deponent. That she is old & infirm & wholly destitute of means of support, being dependent on deponent who is also poor & obliged to labour [sic] for her living. That to the best of her knowledge & belief, the facts  set forth in the above Declaration are true.
[Signed with the note "Her mark" and an "X"] Nancy Goble
Sworn & subscribed by making her mark thereto by the said Nancy Goble this Second Day of September A.D. 1844, before me the now September first written on a [illegible]
[Signed] Saml Borbach Judge
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Lewis Howell of said County of Sussex a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County upon his oath says that he has known the said Mary Frost for Twenty Eight years last past that her character for truth & veracity is good & that her allegations are entitled to full credit, & also that he has been acquainted with a Nancy Goble who has subscribed the within affidavit & that she is a person of truth & whose allegations are entitled to credit.
[Signed] Lewis Howell
Sworn & subscribed this Second day of September A.D. 1844
Saml Borbach Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation  of the matter & after putting the interrogatories furnished by the War Department, that the facts set forth in the above Declaration are true, and that the said Daniel Boland [sic] served as a Revolutionary Soldier as by here set forth. And the Court further certifies that Lewis Howell, who has subscribed the above affidavit is a judge of this Court & a credible person, whose statements are entitled to full credit and that signature thereto is the proper hand writing of the said Lewis Howell Esquire Judge of this Court, and further that the said Nancy Goble who subscribed the within affidavit is a credible person.
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that are entitled to truth & credit.
[signed] Rob. H.M. Carter, presiding Judge

State of New Jersey Sussex County,
I John H. Hall Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Sussex do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mary Frost for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affix the seal of said court this Twelfth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty four.
[signed] John H. Hall
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Married on the seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred & eighty one, by the Rev. Matthias Hultgren, then rector of the Swedish Church in Penn. Daniel Boland [sic] & Mary Yaw.
I certify that the above is a true & correct copy of from the records of marriage belonging to the Meredith Church. In witness whereof I have herein set my hand & seal this fourteenth day of August A.D. 1844.
[Signed] J. C. Clay [Handwritten seal added]
Rector of Swedish [illegible] / Church, Southwark
County of Philadelphia
Sworn & subscribed before me the 14th day of August 1844
[Signed] Charles Hortz [illegible] [Handwritten  seal added]

Pennsylvania }
Philadelphia  }  I Richard Palmer Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Philadelphia Do Certify that Charles Hortz before whom the foregoing acknowledgment was made and whom his own proper hand writing thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing and now is an alderman of the County of Philadelphia and ex officio a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified to all whose acts as such full forth are due credit is and aught to be given as well in Court of Judication as thereout
In Testimony whereof I have here set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the fifteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and forty four 1844.
[Signed] R Palmer Esq. Prothonotary
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[illegible] Office Harrisburg
July 25, 1844

Sir,
In reply to your letter 20th [illegible] I found the inclosed [sic] Certificate of amt. of balance of pay due Daniel Boland [sic] for services in the Revolutionary War. It is all the evidence of his services that can be found in this office here and I presume is sufficient for your purposes.
Very respectfully
Yr. Obdt. Svt. [Your obedient servant]
[Signed] Chas. McClure
Pay. Committee
To W.S. Johnson
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No 216 Certificate for [Sterling Pound currency symbol] 111, 13, 00 Specie.
We do certify that the State of Pennsylvania is indebted to Daniel Boland [sic], Armourer of the Pennsylvania Navy in the Sum of one hundred and Eleven pounds thirteen shillings 0 pence, with lawful interest from the tenth day of April 1781 being the amount of the Residue of the pay pursuant to two Acts of Assemble passed at Philadelphia the 15th of December 1780 and the 10th of April 1781.
Philadelphia   Ja. Stevenson
Jun 20, 1781   Jno Nicholson

[The following has a line crossed through it]
Auditor Generals Office
Harrisburg July 26th 1844

I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the original on file in this office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office.
Jno W. Hammond for
Wm F. Packer
Aud. Genl.
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Certificate [illegible]


Bowling
January [illegible]
1800
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Phila. County ss: To Whom it may Concern
Be it known that Stephen Frost and Mary Bowling widow both of the county aforesaid were Joined together in the Holy [illegible] of wedlock by the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Philadelphia and in the Presence of the following [illegible] Robert Hogg, James Crowler, Elenor McPhail, Sarah Crowley, Mary Riviro, Ann Hogg, Susannah Young and Mary Crowley.
Given under my hand and seal this Twentieth day of January, Anno Domini 1833
[signature illegible]
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Fayette County ss
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally came Thomas Yaw who being duly affirmed according to law deposes and says that he is the son of Lawrence Yaw late of the County of Fayette State of Pennsylvania who died on the fifteenth day of March one thousand Eight hundred and forty three that said Lawrence Yaw was the Brother of Mary Bolen [sic] wife of Daniel Bolen [sic] which said Daniel Bolen [sic] I have heard my Father say was in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War. Deponent frequently heard his Father Lawrence Yaw speak of the said Daniel Bolen [sic] and of his being in the Revolutionary War and of his [illegible]  being married to the said Mary his sister.
[Signed] Thomas Yaw
Affirmed & subscribed the 2nd day of Feby 1848 before me
[Signed] Henry Detwiler

I certify that Thomas Yaw the deponent above ?? is about forty years of age and is main in good repute for truth and honesty.
[Signed] Henry Detwiller
Justice of the Peace

Fayette County ss:
I Daniel Kaine Prothonotary  of the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette County Pennsylvania, Certify that Henry Detwiler Esq is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & above state duly commissioned  & sworn and the the foregoing signature, purporting to be his are genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court at ?? Union Town the 3rd February A.D. 1848.
[Signed]
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State of Pennsylvania
Fayette County ss:  I R. Emery President ?? of the fourteenth Judicial District in said State ?? and of the counties of Washington, Fayette & Green, do certify that the attestation on the presiding page of D. Kaine Esq. Prothonotary of the court of common pleas in & for the said county of Fayette is in due form of law & by the proper officer.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 3rd day of Feby. A.D. 1848.
[Signed] R. Emery
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Revy. WIDOW, &c.
File No. 791
Mary Frost formerly 
widow
Daniel Bolan
Armorer Rev. War
Act: July 4, 1843
Index: - Vol. A, Page 232
[The following is contained in brackets in the original document.
[Arrangement of 1870.]

6398
J.W. Miller March 5. 45
W.S. Johnson Sep. 2. -
to C.A. Ray  Oct. 14. '46
J.W. Martin
Let Nov 10 '48
May 10. 48 A. Ray
Let to A. Ray July 7, 1849

Act 4d July, 1836
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State Navy Dr. T. Wm. Bradford Esq. Paymaster

Paid the Officers and Crews of 37 Galleys armed boats &c. their wages for the month of Feb. 1778 [Sterling Pound currency symbol] 1579"0"0
Ditto Lieut Joshua Stutson 2 mo. pay  22"10"0
Ditto Joseph Robins on 1 1/2 do. [ditto abbreviation] to 15 Apr. 1778  16"17"6
Ditto James Morrison 1 1/2 do. do.  16"17"6
Ditto Nathans Simmons 1 mo do. to the [illegible]  11"5"0

Auditor Generals' Office
Harrisburg Nov. 7, 1849
I certify that the above is a true extract from the account of Wm. C. Bradford, Paymaster of the Navy, as the same is entered of record on folios 485 to 489 of Journal A. No. 1 of the Comptroller Generals' Office and now remaining in this department.
Witness my hand and seal of office the day and year aforesaid
[signed] Jno. W. Hammond for
John N. Purviance
Aud. Genl.
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Auditor Generals' Office}
Harrisburg Nov. 7, 1849}

I certify that the pay and muster rolls in this department, pertaining to the Pennsylvania State Navy, during the war of the revolution, show that the pay of an Armourer in said navy was [Sterling Pound  currency symbol] 4"17"6 or thirteen dollars per month.
Witness my hand and seal of office the day and year aforesaid
[signed] Jno W. Hammond for
John N. Purviance
Aud. Genl.
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H. D. Maxwell
Letter
Mary Bolan [A faint postmark is stamped over the name.]


[The following is written horizontally downward]

H. D. Maxwell Esq.

5

W. S. Johnson Esq.
Counsellor at Law
Newton
Sussex
N.J.
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W. S. Johnson Esq.
My dear Sir
I have examined our acts of Assembly but cannot find any act such as you refer to. Surely, the Pension Department have had the the information furnished them in regard to some other applications. I am always pleased to have my friends call upon me for any matter I can be of use to them in our trust you will never hesitate to do so.

[illegible]
[signed] H.D. Maxwell

[illegible] June 30, 1845
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Auditor Generals Office}
Harrisburg December 8th, 1846}
I certify that the payments pertaining to the Pennsylvania State Navy in service during the Revolutionary War show that Armourers attached thereto received compensation at the rate of [Sterling Pound currency symbol] 4"17"6 per month. Witness my hand and seal office the day and year aforesaid.

[signed] John N. Purviance
Aud. Genl.
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Hon. Alex Ramsey
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Harrisburg May 27/45
Sir,
I have been about for a few weeks from Family which will account for my not earlier attending to your letter to your letter of the first [illegible]. In answer to an inquiry at the Auditor Generals office, for the information you desire, the chief clerk wrote me "we have no way of accounting from the records of this office which was the monthly pay of an armourer in the Penna. State Navy." Perhaps the acts of Assembly from 1770 to 1780 or thereabouts will show. I will look up these laws & inform you.
Yours [illegible]
[Signed] Alex Ramsey

W.S. Johnson Esq.
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Mary Bolan
N.J. '36

[The following is written vertically downward]

J. Edwards
Commissioner of
Pensions
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Washington Oct. 1, 1846
Sir,
In your letter of Sept 2nd to W.S. Johnson Esq. of Trenton, New Jersey, in the case of Mary Bolan widow of Daniel, claiming a pension under act July 4, 1836 you require identify of the widow now claiming, or the widow of Bolan named in the certificate or the auditor Gen, as no proof has been furnished on this point.
With your letter to W. Johnson, I have received this morning the enclosed affidavit, with a supplemental declaration made by the widow Mary Frost, formerly widow of Bolan and which I judge will be satisfactory in regards to the identity.
I remain your most Ob. Ser. [obedient servant]
[signed] Alex Ray
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Pension Application
Mary Frost
Supplemental
Declaration
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State of New Jersey,
Sussex County ss: On this Fourth day of July one thousand eight hundred forty six before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county personally appeared Mary Frost formerly widow of Daniel Bolen [sic] & a resident of said county in the Eighty Seventh year of her age to me personally known, who being duly sworn according to Law, Doth in her oath make the following supplement to her Declaration under the acts of July 4: 1836 & 3rd March 1837. That she was formerly the widow of Daniel Bolan for whose service she justly claims a Pension. That in her original Declaration she stated that she always understood from her Husband, that he entered the service soon after the commencement of the war, and that he was at sea about Nine months, that she only presumed Nine months, as she had no acquaintance with him till he came to Fort Mifflin, & had no specific knowledge of what length of time he was actually at sea, & she is fully satisfied that the Daniel Bolen [sic] named in the Certificate of the Auditor General of Pennsylvania as "Armourer" was her said Husband & is the identical person named in the marriage certificate, attached to her Declaration. She further declaration, heard called Sergarent [sic] Bolen at Fort Mifflin, that he command of Eight men where [illegible] to the Fort after their marriage. She recollects one of the eight men, Daniel Hunt. She also recollects that while residing at Fort Mifflin Lieutenant Summons, had  the command, that he did not reside in the Fort, but visited frequently and gave orders.
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Her Husband must have served not more than Two years at Fort Mifflin, [illegible] his service at sea & as a  prisoner, the former at the Fort when the first weapons from Philadelphia to the place nearly opposite the fort where she was at service as a Housekeeper but how long he had been there before she she knew him, she does not know.
She also declares that the facts contained in the original declaration were given to [illegible] L. Johnson Esq. [illegible] it before she knew that her Husband's name was in the Record in the office of the Auditor Gen. of Pennsylvania, or any other office. That she had within the last month heard by Letter from her Nephew Thomas Yaw of the death of the death of her Brother Lawrence Yaw, whose residence she did not know, although she had made all possible such to ascertain, & whom she had not seen for more than Twenty years past.
Her said Brother would have clearly corroborated the service of her Husband, and all principal facts of her Declaration, as well as the time they remained after marriage at Fort Mifflin. She had also  made all the means in her power to find some of the old persons who remember her said Husband, in Philadelphia after they removed from the fort, at which time she [illegible] viz. John Rice who kept tavern in Front Street, Isaac & William Coal Esq., Andrew & Samuel Hatcher, &c, &c, but had not been able  so to do.  She also Declares that her said Husband was in the service of the United States
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until some time after the First day of July one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty one, 1781. And that she is duly entitled to the records of her Husband services in formed as set forth in his Declaration according to the best of the Revolution which she solemnly declared and personally set forth in her Declaration according to the best of her knowledge, & as she most seriously believed, and which she hopes may be satisfactory to the Commissioner of Pensions.
[Signed with the note "her mark" and an "X"] Mary Frost
Sworn and subscribed the day & year first above written the said Mary Frost & her mark being unable to write her name before me.
[Signed] John A. Johnson Justice of the Peace

I Hereby certify that Mary Frost who had signed the foregoing Declaration has been personally known to me for Several years & is a person of credibility & truth, & that the statements contained in her Declaration are entitled to belief.
[Signed] John A. Johnson Justice of the peace
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New Jersey
Sussex County ss: On the Fourth day of July one thousand eight Hundred & forty six before the Subscribed a Justice of the Peace in & for said County personally came the said Whitfield J. Johnson a resident of said County & known to me personally, and being duly sworn according to Law upon his oath he saith, that he knew of the Declaration of Mary Frost of said county widow of Daniel Bolen [sic] that the facts therein named & set forth were collected by said Mary the Deponent, before Deponent wrote to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania for information of his service Records in his office, that at that time he informed Deponent that her Brother Lawrence Yaw not living there 8 or 10 years beforehand that the day not known whether not he was then living, or if living where he there resided, that the Deponent it was in the interior of Pennsylvania but of the she was not certain. She had not seen him for more than Twenty years. That the Deponent made inquiries & endeavoured [sic] to learn his residence, but without success, until she heard that he (Lawrence Yaw) had formerly resided in Fayette County Penn, that she therefore addressed a letter to said  Lawrence & sent there to Conneautville Penn., which was received by Thomas
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Yaw, who stated his Father & Lawrence had been Dead several years, that she depended on the testimony of her Brother to corroborate here statement made in her said declaration.
That deponent has known the said Mary Frost five years & upwards & fully believes her statements to be true, that in all the interviews  with her we had had one story in relation to this claim, stating nothing which she did not seem to be satisfied was true. And Deponent further says that from the known facts of the case be fully believed that Daniel Bolen [sic] named in the Auditor General Certificate, to have been the Husband of said Mary Frost.
[Signed] W. S. Johnston

Sworn & subscribed the day & year first above written before me.
[Signed] John A. Johnson Justice of the peace

I hereby certify that the above affixent [sic] Whitefield S. Johnson Esq. is a Prosecutor of the Pleas for the County of Sussex and is a person of the highest respectability.
[Signed] John A. Johnson Justice of the peace
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State of New Jersey Sussex County ss:
I William L. Smith Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said county of Sussex do hereby Certify that John A. Johnson before whom the two foregoing affidavits were taken was in the dates thereof of and now, an acting justice of the peace duly Commissioned and sworn into office as such Justice in and for said County and that full faith and Credit are due to all his official acts.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Newton this Fourth day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and forty six and of the Sovereign Independance of the United States the Sixteenth year.
[Signed] William L. Smith
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February 22, 1777
Resolve
That all able bodied men, who will enter into the service of this State during the war on board of any armed vessel shall receive a Bounty of twelve dollars on their enlistment.
Resolved That the pay of the officers and privates of the Naval Armament of this State be as follows, viz.
Commanders 75 dollars p.mn.  Surgeon of the Ship 45 dollars p.mn.
Captains  48 dollars p.m. 
First Lieutenant 30 dollars p.mn.  Surgeon Mate 20 dollars p.mn.
Second Lieutenant  20 dollars p.mn.
[illegible] 14 dollars p.mn.    Seaman 12 dollars p.mn.
Boatsman 14 dollars p.mn.
[illegible] 14 dollars p.mn.   Boys 6 dollars p.mn.
Armourer 13 dollars p.mn.

Petty officers such as a Quarter master, Gunners mate, Boatswain mates, Carpenters mates on board the Ship and Floating [illegible] 13 dollars p.month

The officers pay to commence the 15th December 1776. The privates to commence 1st February 1777.
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Secretary Office Pennsylvania

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct extract from the minutes of the Council of Safety, as the same remaining record in this office, in Vol. 3, page 95. Witness my hand and the seal of said office at Harrisburg this 9th day of November A.D. 1849.

A. L. Russel
[illegible]
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State of New Jersey
Sussex County ss:  On the Tenth day of October one thousand Eight hundred & forty five before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the County, personally came Whitford S. Johnson to me personally known, a resident of said County & who being by me duly sworn doth depose & say that I, the said deponent, drafted the declaration of Mary Bolen [sic], for a Pension for the Revolutionary service of her decd. [deceased] Husband Daniel Boland [sic]. Now undetermined, that after hearing her statements & believing if they there [illegible] proof, she was entitled to a pension. I took a memorandum of her statement & from it I [illegible] the Declaration sent it to the War Department.  Relative to the services of her Husband she stated she became acquainted with him at Fort Mifflin in the way detailed, that she consequently had previously no knowledge of services at sea, other that her recollection of what he had informed her which was as stated, that he had been at sea in a vessel of war, but she could not at that time remember the name of the vessel or [illegible] if more than one, nor the officers, she stated that he informed her had been a Prisoner in the West India Islands for several months there three of five according
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to the memorandum to which I now refer, that the said memorandum does not state any definite time said Bolen [sic] was at sea. But deponent recollects distinctly that on the point when Drawing the Declaration she [illegible] of the time of her Husband [illegible] at sea, when he stated he did [illegible] that she could not tell that if she had known the [illegible] forgotten, that [illegible] I think ?? nine months & she said it must have been at [illegible] & that Deponent the stated the time according to his recollection as above nine months. But is been [illegible[ that said Mary did not intend to at the time, but stated as above that she could not recollect the time. Deponent named the above time because was not willing to say more that that because she could recollect, & also because at that time he really that the service at sea, not to be an important point, but [illegible] named it as one of the [illegible] made by her corroborative of [illegible]. Deponent is [illegible] satisfied she did not intend to limit the time to [illegible] months & if the Declaration found that [illegible] it my error, said Mary informed me of the services of her
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Husband including the [illegible] in the month of May or before that time A.D. [illegible] service. That after that time Deponent moved to Philadelphia & got the Certificate of Marriage, it was not til the 18 July 1846 that I [illegible] note to Land office [illegible] & got copies of the Depreciation Certificate. I know nothing of the existence of such till I received it.  He did not know of any such certificate or of any Record of his Services, she had a plain [illegible] of identical manner of the education, incapable of inserting any fiction even if disposed. While I know her well, for several years, she was a worthy member in good standing in the Methodist Church.  She said she had often heard her Husband talk of his hardship and exploits at Sea, from what I know of the old Lady, I have no more doubt she was the widow of the identical man named in the Certificate for [illegible] to, that I have that Gen. Taylor is a resident, the I never told him her story & conversation carries a connection of her honesty to any one capable of judging of the truth of stories, as (I from my experience at this time) profess to be.
[Signed] W. S. Johnson
Sworn & subscribed the Seventh day of October A.D. 1849 before me Lyman Edwards Justice of the Peace.
I do hereby certify the above deponent is well know to me to be
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to be [sic, duplicated from previous image] a person of veracity whose statement is worthy of full credit. 
[Signed] Lyman Edwards Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey Sussex County ss: I  William L. Smith Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Sussex do hereby Certify that Lyman Edwards before whom the foregoing affidavit was [illegible] was on the day of the date then and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned [illegible], and, that I am acquainted with hand writing of the said Justice verily believe the hand writing purporting to be his signature is in his own proper hand writing. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court at Newton the said County the Tenth day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Forty Nine.
[Signed] W. L. Smith Clerk
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Pension Department
Washington City
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Newton N.J. July 19: 1845

The delay in answer to the Letter from the Pension Department to the Hon. J. W. Miller, of the 5: March last in the case of Mrs. Mary Bolen [sic] of N. J. has been unavoidable, [illegible] have been made to obtain satisfactory answer to the required therein, but without success, as the enclosed letter will show.
I have examined the Acts of the Legislature of Penn. of the 18:Dec 1780 & 10:Ap. [April] 1781, under which it is Supposed the certificate from the office of the Aud. Gen of Penn. [illegible] is drawn, but without finding any explanation of the point. The enclosed Letters from Gentlemen of experience & standing at the bar in that state, will show that an effort has been made which is equally unsuccessful except the negative evidence which it affords.
In addition to the above, the Certificate from the office of the Aud. Gen of Penn. says there is no other evidence on the subject, except what is therein
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given, or to that affect.
The proof of the marriage being satisfactory, it is respectfully suggested that there is nothing to explain the effect of the Declaration showing that the Marriage took place before the termination of the service of the Husband.
The rate of pay per month must under the circumstances be left to the better knowledge & discretion of the Department & it is cheerfully so [illegible] with this suggestion, that the present rate of pay in Navy for like service should in the evidence of any other certain rules be the rate to be established, we know of no other but the present rate, & any deviation from it except for satisfactory reasons, must be by conjecture only.
Please address the undersigned who has charge of the application.
[illegible]
Respectfully for
W.S. Johnson
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Hon. Alex Ramsey
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Harrisburg July 17 1845

Dear Sir
With the assistance of the clerks in the office of the Secretary of State I have examined the Laws, Records [illegible] and can not find anything which will indicate what was the pay of an armourer in the Navy of the State during the war of the Revolution. I presume this will be sufficient to induce the Pension office at Washington to make an equitable allowance if the service be proven. If I can be of any
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further service please command me.
Very respectfully
Yours [illegible]
[signed] Alex Ramsey

W.S. Johnson Esq.
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Mary Bolan
[The following is written vertically upward]
James L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington
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Washington
Apr. 27/49
 Jas. L. Edwrds Esq.
Comm. of Pensions

Sire,
I herewith enclose you an additional affidavit in the case of Mary Bolen [sic] widow of Daniel under act 1836 or 38. As I have not your last letter to me in the case, and not certain, as to the state the application is made from: but I think, either from New Jersey or New York.
I remain your most respectfully
[signed] Alex Ray
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Mary Frost or
Bolan
[The following is written vertically downward]
James L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
War Dept.

[The following is written horizontally]
Alex Ray
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Washington Sep. 19,/48

Sir,
In the case of Mary Frost, formerly Mary Bolan [sic], an applicant for the Act 4 July 1836 (New York or New Jersey)
I now enclose you a certificate from the auditor Gen. of Harrisburg, shewing [sic] the rate of pay per mn. paid an armourer for service in the State Navy, and also an affidavit made by Thomas Law which with the evidence already on file may for to prove the identify.
I remain your most respectfully
Alex Ray

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
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June 15, '48
Enquiry, case of Mary Frost.
N. Jersey

John W. Martin
Mt. Hope
New York
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Mt. Hope NY June 10, 184[illegible]
Dear Sir
In the fall of 1843 Mary Frost formerly widow of Daniel Bolen of Sussex County NY through the letter of S. Johnson her agent made application for a Pension for the service of her first husband Daniel Bolen in the War of the Revolution.
The Pension has never been granted and she feels anxious to know the cause. Will you be so kind as to inform me what is wanting to establish her claim.
Your Obt. St. [obedient servant]
[signed] John W. Martin

Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
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Washington
Nov 13, 1849
Jas L. Edwards Esq.
Comm of Pensions
Sir
In the case of Mary Frost widow of Daniel Bolan [sic] act 36 of New Jersey. You state in your letter of March 5,45 "The auditor General of Pennsylvania [illegible] certify the pay per month to which Daniel Bolan [sic] was entitled in the capacity of armourer as the pension cannot be calculated without such information, as upon this point depends the nature of the pension. The date of the marriage is satisfactorily established." In your letter to me of 6 [illegible] 46 you say "Such facts as she has stated are inconsistent with the armourer service as far as it is ascertained by the [illegible]."
I enclose herein an affidavit made by W. S Johnson Esq. who [illegible] Mrs. Frost declaration, and I obtained a certified extract from the Secretary of the State of Penn. given the pay of the State Navy under the Resolution of Feb. 22.77 by which you will perceive the pay of an armourer was $13 per month.  A certificate from the auditor Gen. shows that armourer was [illegible] with by the Pay [illegible] of the Navy at $13 per mon. And further that Lieut. Nathan Simmons under whom I understand applicant husband served, was of the State Navy.
The fact of her husband being an armourer. explains the  reason of his being at Fort Mifflin, where in fact his duty
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where in fact his duty as an armourer required him to be. But it is stated subsequent to his service he went to sea and then taken prisoner.
The marriage is admitted, the pay of an armourer is required & has been shown, and an affidavit to the [illegible] of the declaration submitted. As this is all required I hope the claim will be admitted.
I remain your most Ob. Ser. [obedient servant]
[Signed] Alex Ray
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Pension Depart.
Mary Bolen

Affidavit of Eliz. Russel [sic]
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New Jersey Sussex County ss: Personally came before the subscriber as Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Elizabeth Russell, of said County aged Eighty years who being first duly sworn upon her oath, says that she is the widow of Derrick Russell late of Sussex County. That deponent is well acquainted with Mary Bolen [sic] who was the wife of Daniel Bolan [sic] deceased. Deponent also knows Nancy Goble, late Bolen & John Bolen who are children of said Mary Bolen [sic] & Nancy Goble lived within the fourth of a mile from the residence of Deponent in the Township this was in the lifetime of her deponent's Husband who died in the  year one thousand Eight Hundred & twenty three, that the said John was once or thrice to see his mother while she resided near deponent but his home was at Trenton, about Seventy miles from the place as Deponent understood at the time. That the said Bolen [sic] at that time was occasionally at the House of Deponent but for the most part he was strolling about the County. That the Deponent's Husband was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, that he resided in Pennsylvania along the Delaware river at the commencement of the war but that his particular service there Deponent cannot now tell, as she was not married until after the war & she does not now recollect even if then been told by her Husband. That Deponent frequently heard
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said Bolen & her Husband talk about their exploits in the war of the Revolution, that the conversations between them when together more frequent. That she has heard each of them tell of their adventures & little stories of what they had seen & known when in service, that deponent cannot repeat what was said by said Bolen [sic] relative to his Services, or where performed, but remember well, that it was the understanding & belief of the neighborhood that said Bolen [sic] had been a sailor of the revolution. That said Bolen [sic] at the time made an [illegible] man, this Deponent recollects on one occasion when said Bolan [sic] came & was abusive to his wife & child that the Deponent remarked "it was a pitty [sic] he had not been killed by the British then he would not be here to abuse his family as he did." underline "sailor"
[Signed with the note "her mark" and an "X"] Elizabeth Russell

Sworn & subscribed this tenth day of March 1849 before me, the same having first been carefully read to the Deponent, who is blind. 
[Signed] David Smith Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Elizabeth Russell, that she is a person of veracity whose statements are entitled to full credit.
[Signed] David Smith Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey}
Sussex County}
I, William L. Smith Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Sussex Do hereby certify that David Smith before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken and subscribed & whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate was on the date thereof and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County dully commissioned and sworn and that full faith & credit are due to all his official acts and that I am well acquainted with hand writing of the said Justice and do verily believe the signatures to the foregoing affidavit & Certificate are in his own proper hand writing.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court at Newton in said County this Tenth Day of March in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and forty nine and of the Independance [sic] of the United States the Seventy Third year.
[Signed] William L. Smith Clerk