Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,386, Abraham Westfall, New York
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New York 
Westfall, Abraham 
Vastfall
W,4386
Dinah
Diana
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County ss} Supreme Court
October Term A.D. 1839 

Be it remember that at the October Term Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, began and held at the Court House in Carollton within and for the County of Carroll and State Ohio, present the Honorable Peter Hitchcock and Frederick Grimkie Judge of said Court personally appeared Diana Westfall and Levi Westfall, who being sworn according to law deposeth and saith that they were the Administrative and Administrator of the Estate of Abraham Westfall late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the County of Columbiana and deceased. That the said Abraham Westfall died on the 5th day of September A.D. 1829 at his residence in the County of Columbiana and State aforesaid, that Letters of Administration on said estates was granted to the Deponents on Monday the Second day of November A.D. 1829 by the court of Common Pleas of Said County of Columbiana as will appear from a certified copy of said Letters and C hereunto attached, (the original being on file in the War Department) That administrator aforesaid they received from the pension Agent of the united States the
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amount due unto the said Abraham Westfall up to the time of his death (on the 5th September 1829). That the said Diana Westfall in making her application for a pension under the Act of Congress of 4th July A.D. 1836 was honestly impressed with the belief that her husband Abraham Westfall died on the 5th Sept 1828, as stated in her declaration, but in that fact she was mistaken. 
And the said Levi in explanation of his former statement was made under oath as to the time of the death of his Father, says that he was strongly impressed that he died on the 5th September 1828 and untill the moment that he saw a letter from the Honorable J.L. Edwards and untill his attention was called to copy of the Letters of Administration hereunto attached (which were in his possession) he entertained the same opinion, but on reference being had to the letters aforesaid, and to the age of one of his daughters who was born a few days previous to the death of this Father, he finds that he was mistaken and further this deponent saith not. 
Diana Westfall
Levi Westfall 

Westfall, Abraham
NY W4386
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The State of Ohio 
Carroll County ss} I Daniel M. Cook Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio within and for the County of Carrol aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition was sworn to and subscribed in the Supreme Court aforesaid and at the time aforesaid. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature and the seal of said Court at Carrolton this the 9th day of October Anno Domini 1839
Daniel M. Cook 
Clerk Supreme Court
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State of New York
Orange County ss} 
On this twenty fifth day of April Eighteen hundred and forty personally appeared Levi Van Etten of the town of Deerpark in the said county who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that he will be eighty three years old in July next and that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolutionary War and that according to the best of his recollection in the month of September 1779 this deponent volunteered into the services along the western frontiers of the Counties of Orange and Ulster for the term of three months in a company of which Abraham Westfall was Lieutenant commander and in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pawling and that in 1780 the said Abraham Westfall was appointed a Captain in Col. Pawling's Regiment of New York Levies and served as a Captain in the Levies for the years 1780, 1781, 1782 along the said frontier against the Indians. This deponent further deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with the said Captain Abraham Westfall from his boyhood and that they lived in one neighborhood together untill he the said Westfall left this place for the western country. That the said Westfall left Deerpark the place of his nativity in 1797 or 1798 he does not exactly recollect which for Washington County Pennsylvania from which place he removed to a place called Columbiana County in the State of Ohio where the said Abraham Westfall continued to reside untill his death which took place sometime in the year 1829 and where the family of the said Westfall
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continues to reside . That he this deponent kept up a correspondence with the said Capt. Abraham Westfall from the time that he left this country until his death a part of which is contained per the letter attached to this deposition of which he makes the letter a part and that the families of this deponent and Capt. Westfall have continued to correspond since his death. This deponent further saith that he is the brother of Dinah Westfall whose name before marriage was Dinah Can Etten a record of whom both is hereto attached whether be the father of the deponent in dutch and kept in the family ever since. That the said Capt Abraham Westfall was married to the said Dinah Van Etten in Sledding time in the year 1781 and that the said Abraham Westfall was then a Captain in the New York Levies  and that there was no other Capt. Abraham Westfall that belonged to the New York State troops and that this deponent is perfectly satisfied that Dinah Westfall now an applicant for a pension is the widow of Captain Abraham Westfall of the New York State Troops and further this deponent saith not. Sworn and subscribed the day and year above mentioned by making his mark because he cannot see to write. 

his
Levi x Van Etten 
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Abraham J Cuddenback 
Justice of the 
Peace
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State of New York 
Orange County 

I Abraham J. Cuddenback an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Orange County do certify that I am acquainted with Capt. Levi Van Etten who made and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and know him to be a man of truth and veracity and that his statements are entirely satisfactory to me and should be entitled to full credit and belief. 
I also certify that  who reading the letter signed Westfall attached to his deposition in the hearing of the said Levi Van Etten he declared that it was one received by him from Capt. Abraham Westfall and that the Christian name of the said Westfall was assured by opening the same. 
Abraham J Cuddenback Justice

State of New York 
Orange County 
I Albert S. Benton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the saith county do certify that Abraham J. Cuddenback is a Justice of the Peace as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court this 25 day of April 1840. 
A.S. Benton Clerk 
Jn A Dunning Depy Clerk
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The State of New York
Orange County ss} 
Personally appeared before the subscribed an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, Levi Van Etten Jr aged eighty three (83) on the 12th day of July next, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was born in the Township of Minisink in the County of Orange and State aforesaid that he was intimately acquainted with Abraham Westfall of said Township of Minisink they were raised boys together. That during the War of the Revolution the said Westfall joined the army and served some time as a soldier in the year 1779 the said Abraham Westfall was a Lieut. commanding a company of eight month lines, about the close of that time of Service this deponent joined the company commanded by the said Westfall and served in it, under time , about three months in the years 1780, 1781, and part of 1782. The said Westfall served as a Captain a part of the time in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling, that during the time that he was in the service in the Regiment commanded by Col Pauling towit in the month of February 1781 he the said Captain Abraham Westfall was married to the sister of the deponent at the residence of his Father in the Township aforesaid, was present at their marriage. Her Christian name was Dinah or Blandinah. She is now present at the House of my son Levi Van Etten in the Township of Deerpark formerly Minisink in the County and State aforesaid. She has come here for the purpose of having her person identified, the deponent is confident that she is the widow of Captain Abraham Westfall who served in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling in the New York Levies, and no other. 
Sworn and subscribed before me this the
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19th day of June 1840 
Abraham J Cuddenback
Justice of the Peace

his
Levi x Van Etten
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The State of New York
Orange County 

Personally appeared before the subscribed one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for said county Orange, Margaret Carpenter of said county, who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is seventy one years of age on the ninth day of April last, that she was born in the Township of Minisink now Deerpark in the County aforesaid. She was intimately acquainted with Captain Abraham Westfall who during the War of the Revolution served as such, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling of the New York State Troops. That the deponent draws a pension for the services of her husband during the War of the Revolution in the company commanded by Capt. John Wood of the New York State Troops. That during the War of the Revolution and during the time that the said Capt. Westfall was in the service, he the said Captain was married to Blandina or Dinah Van Etten in the Township aforesaid. I was intimately acquainted with the said Blandina having been schooled and raised in the same neighborhood and in the same school. That the said Blandinah and the deponent was in the school house together on the 20th of July 1779 when our school master was killed and scalped. The father of the deponent was wounded on the same day the deponent continued to reside in the settlement with Capt. Abraham Westfall and his wife Dinah untill they had five or six children, when they emigrated to the western county some forty years ago where I understand the Captain died. The deponent recollects well to see Captain Westfall some years after his removal
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to the west when he made a insite to this settlement, his widow Blandinah or Dinah is nor present at the time of preparing this deposition. I recognize her with ease, and the deponent is perfectly satisfied, and is confident that the said Dinah who is now present is the identical person who was married to Captain Abraham Westfall aforesaid, and she verily believes that the said Dinah is now a widow and that she is the widow of Captain Abraham Westfall who served in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling and no other, and further this deponent saith not. 
Sworn and subscribed before me
this 19 June 1840
Abraham J. Cuddenback 
Justice of the Peace

Margaret Carpenter

State of New York
Orange County
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County of Orange Jane Rosencrantz who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is seventy two years of age, that she draws a pension for the service of her husband during the Revolutionary War. Her husbands name was Cornelius Rosencrantz who served as a private soldier in a company commanded by Captain Abraham Westfall who served in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling of the New York State Troops. That she was raised in the Township of Minisink now Deerpark in the County and State aforesaid. That during the time of the Revolutionary War the said Captain Abraham Westfall was married to Blandinah or Dinah Van Etten in the Township aforesaid. I was intimately acquainted with the said Dinah in her infancy, and after her marriage with the said Captain Abraham Westfall. I was employed by the said Westfall
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to reside in his family during his absence in the army. I continued to do so for nearly three years. I continued to reside in the said settlement with the said Abraham and Dinah Westfall untill they emigrated to the Western Country, where it is said he died. Some time after he removed to the west he returned to this settlement to write his friends, when the deponent last saw him. His wife Dinah is now present at the signing of this deposition. The deponent is perfectly satisfied and confident that Dinah Westfall who is now present is the identical person that was married to and resided and lived with the said Captain Abraham Westfall as his wife and no other. That the deponent was present on the day that Captain Abraham Westfall and Dinah Westfall emigrated to the West something more than forty years ago. They then had a family of five or six children. That they resided within half a mile of my present place of residence, and further the deponent saith not. 
Sworn and subscribed before me
this 19th day of June 1840
Abraham J. Cuddenback
Justice of the Peace

her
Jane x Rosencrantz
mark 

State of New York
Orange County 
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County Mary Van Etten who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is seventy four years of age on the 10th day of September last. That she was born in the Township of Minisink now Deerpark in the county and State aforesaid. That she has continued to reside there ever since. That she was intimately acquainted with Captain Abraham Westfall who served in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling of the New York State Troops from her infancy
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up to the time that he emigrated to the western county about 1797 that during the time that the said Captain Abraham Westfall was in the service of the State of New York. In the Spring of 1781 the said Captain Abraham Westfall was married to Dinah Van Etten in our Fathers house in the Township, County, and State aforesaid. The Said Dinah is my second eldest sister and is ow present at the taking of this deposition. In the spring of 1797 (the deponent believes) the said Capt. Abraha Westfall and Dianah his wife emigrated to Western Pennsylvania, and from thence too the State of Ohio where he died. Dinah his wife has come to this Township (Deerpark) for the purpose of a personal identity, and I have no hesitation in saying, and I am confident that Dinah Westfall who is now present was the wife, and is now the widow of Captain Abraham Westfall who served in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling of the New York State Troops and no others, the deponent was at the house of the said Capt. Westfall on the day they left this settlement for the west. I set in the wagon with his wife whilst they traveled a distance of about three miles. I recollect the year that they emigrated in for the reason that it was the year before the death of my first husband which was in 1798. Some years after Captain Westfall emigrated to the west he and his eldest son Joseph made a visit to this his native settlement. I have never seen him since. And further the deponent saith not. 
Abraham J Cuddenback
Justice of the Peace

Mary House
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The State of Ohio
Orange County 
I Abraham J Cuddenback one of the Acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County of Orange do hereby certify that Levi Van Etten, Margaret Carpenter, Jane Rosencrantz, and Mary Van Anken who has this day appeared before me and was sworn to, and subscribed the foregoing depositions and persons of good moral character for tenth and veracity they stand as high as persons in general, and as to the truth of their several statements made in the foregoing depositions, I am perfectly satisfied. 
Given under my had and official seal this the 19th day of June A.D. 1840. 
Abraham J. Cuddenback
Justice of the Peace
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The State of New York
Orange county 
Personally appeared before the Subscriber one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for the said County of Orange Peter E Gummore Esq. who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is sixty nine 69 years of age that he was born in the Minisink settlement now the Township of Deerpark in the County and State aforesaid on the farm on which the deponent now resided, that he was intimately acquainted with Captain Abraham Westfall who served as such in the vicinity in which I now reside He was married to Blandinah or Dinah Van Etten in the immediate neighborhood and continued to live together as man and wife until they emigrated to the Western Country. The said Dinah Westfall is now present at the signing of this deposition. I recognize with ease, and the deponent is confident that the said Dinah Westfall who is now present is the identical woman who was married to and resided with the said Captain Abraham Westfall as his wife during their residence in this settlement and no other. The said Captain Abraham Westfall emigrated with his Family to the western county about the year 1797 where I understand the said Captain died, and further this deponent saith not. 
Sworn and subscribed before
me this 20th day of Jan 1840
Abraham J. Cuddenback
Justice of the Peace

Peter E Gummore
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The State of New York
Orange County
I Abraham J Cuddenback a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Peter E Gummore Esquire who had this day appeared before me and subscribed the foregoing deposition is a man of good moral character and for truth and veracity no man stands higher the neighborhood in which he resides. 
Given under my hand and official seal this 20th day of July Anno Domini 1840. 
Abraham J. Cuddenback
Justice of the Peace
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The State of New York
Orange County

Personally appeared before the subscribed one of the acting Justices of the Peace James Westfall and Daniel McCook of the State of Ohio who being first duly sworn deposeth and say that they reside in the County of Carroll in company wit Mrs. Dinah Westfall widow of Captain Abraham Westfall late of Columbiana County and State of Ohio dec'd. Who left said County of Carroll to visit the place of her nativity for the purpose of having her person identified to enable her to draw a pension for the services of her late husband during the War of the Revolution. That they embarked on the Ohio land on Tuesday the ninth day of June Inst. That they continued in the company of the said Dinah Westfall by way of the Lake and Canals to vicinity of Auburn in the County of Cayuga in the State of New York where several depositions were taken, from thence by way of Rail Road to Albany from thence to Newburgh by Steam Boat, from thence to the Township of Deerpark the place of her the said Dinah's nativity where this and several other depositions were taken which are hereunto attached. 

Sworn to and Subscribed 
before me this 20th day 
of June A.D. 1840
Abraham J. Cuddenback 
Justice of the Peace

Daniel M. Cook
James Westfall
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State of New York
Orange County ss
I Albert S. Benton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange do hereby certify that Abraham J. Cuddenback before whom the foregoing affidavits were subscribed and sworn and who signed the foregoing certificates, was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court and county this 20th day of June 1840. 
A.S. Benton
Clerk
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State of New York
Cayuga County ss} 
Personally appeared before me the subscriber above of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for said county Henry Van Etten who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was born in the Town of Minisink now Deerpark in the County of Orange in the State of New York on the 1st day of May 1761 that he is now seventy nine years of age. That he was intimately acquainted with Abraham Westfall who resided in said Township of Minisink in the County of Orange in the State aforesaid who was a captain in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling of the New York State Troops. That during the time that he the said Abraham Westfall was serving as a Captain as aforesaid he was married to my sister Blandina or Dinah Van Etten in the said Township of Minisink in the County of Orange in the State aforesaid a few days previous to the 15th day of July 1781 (the day on which myself was married) that the said Dinah is now present, during the time of the making of this Deposition in the Township of Niles in Cayuga County and State aforesaid. That the said Captain Abraham Westfall continued to remain in the service of the State of New York as a Captain in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling aforesaid, for some considerable time after the marriage of the said Abraham and Dinah. I was frequently at the House of the said Abraham Westfall during his absence in the army. The said Abraham and Dinah continued to reside in the said Town of Minisink into the month of May 1797 from which place they emigrated to Western Pennsylvania from thence to the County of Columbiana in the State of Ohio where the said Abraham Westfall died (as I understand) the Family of the Westfalls and our Family have kept up a correspondence, a remnant of a letter received from Levi Westfall is hereunto attached and made apart of this deposition. that he the said Henry Van Etten is a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and had the most intimate acquaintance with the said Abraham Westfall and Dinah his wife during their residence in the State of New York and I am confident that the said Dinah Westfall who is now present is the widow of the said Captain Abraham Westfall. who was a Captain in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling of the New York State Troops during the War of the Revolution and no other. and that she the said Dinah is now on way to the said Township of Minisink
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in the County of Orange aforesaid for the purpose of having her person identified to enable her to draw a pension on account of the service of the said Abraham Westfall as a Captain as aforesaid and further this Deponent saith not. 
Sworn and subscribed
before me this 15th 
day of June A.D. 1840
Chancey Abbott
Justice of the Peace

Henry Van Etten

The State of New York Cayuga County SS} Chancey Abbott do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Henry Van Etten the above deponent for the space of Twenty one years. I have been close neighbors and during the acquaintance aforesaid he has sustained the reputation of a good citizen, of good moral character and for truth and veracity no man stands higher in the neighborhood in which he resides. And as to the truth of the statements made in the above deposition I am perfectly satisfied.
And I do further certify that there is an old lady presents who the said deponent says is is sister and the widow of Capt. Abraham Westfall of the State of Ohio late deceased. 
Given under my hand and official seal this 15th day of June AD 1840.
Chancey Abbott Seal
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York 
Orange County 

Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for the said County of Orange Levi Van Etten of the Township of DeerPark in said County, aged eighty three years on the (illegible) of July next who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that in addition to his former deposition made in the case of the application of Dinah Westfall of the State of Ohio for a pension, and in explanation thereof sayeth that he served during the war of the Revolution in the company commanded by Capt. Moses Courtright under Col. Allison and Lieut. Col Tuston or Thurston and that during the time that he was regularly enrolled in Capt. Courtright's company when on a visit to Deerpark his native Township he served for about three months under Capt. Abraham Westfall who was then commanding a company in Col. Pauling's Regiment of the New York State Troops. And when I stated in my former deposition that I served three months under the said Capt. Abraham Westfall I did not intend nor wish to be understood that he said Abraham at any time commanded a company of three months now for such was not the fact to my knowledge. And I distinctly recollect that he served as a Captain in Col. Paulings Regiment of the New York State Troops from that time in 1779 to the year 1782. And that during the spring of 1781 and during the time he was serving as a Captain in said Regiment commanded by the aforesaid Col. Pauling he was married to my sister Blandinah or Dinah Van Etten at the House of my Father in what is now called Deer Park then Minisink on the farm on which I now reside. And that afterwards in the month of May either in 1796 or 1797 he and his family emigrated to Western Pennsylvania
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from thence as they removed to Columbiana County in the State of Ohio where he and his Family continued to reside untill his death which took place in the year 1829 his family continued to reside in the same settlement. And during the lifetime of the said Abraham Westfall and since his death a continued correspondence has been kept up between our Families and that of Capt. Abraham Westfall. And that since the taking of my last deposition a letter was rece'd by the Post Master at Port Jervis in this vicinity on the subject of her pension and handed to me by him which letter is attached to and made a part of this deposition. And I am confident that Dinah Westfall who is now an applicant for a pension and who resides in the state of Ohio is the widow of Captain Abraham Westfall who served as such in Col Paulings Regiment of the New York State Troops and no other. Further this deponent saith not. 
Sworn and subscribed
before me this 11th day
of May AD 1840
Abraham Cuddenback Justice

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Levi x VanEtten
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Also appeared before me Margaret VanFleet aged ninety one years fall who being duly sworn as the can directs, deposeth and saith that she has resided in the Township of Deerpark the last eighty seven years. That she was well acquainted with Capt. Abraham Westfall who commanded a company in the New York State Troops. That she was with her husband, compelled to abandon their house which was
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burned by the Indians, and fled into the Fort on the farm of Anthony Van Etten within 1/2 a mile of my present residence, that I recollect that the said Capt. Abraham Westfall during the time of Revolutionary War was married to Blandina Van Etten, who some years afterwards removed to the western country, where she has frequently been informed they continued to reside.
Sworn and subscribed
before me this 11th day 1840

her
Margaret x Van Fleet
mark 

Abraham J Cuddenback
Justice of the Peace

The State of New York Orange County SS I Abraham J Cuddenback a Justice of the Peace within and for said county do hereby certify that Levi Van Etten and Margaret Van Fleet has this day appeared before me and was sworn to and subscribed the foregoing depositions are persons of good moral character and entitled to the utmost confidence and belief. 
Given under my hand and seal this 11th day of May 1840
Abraham J. Cuddenback Justice of the Peace
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SERVICE                                           NUMBER
New York     Westfall, Abraham        W.4386
                  or Vastfall
                  Dinah
CONTENTS       or Diana
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Carrallton, April 21st 1840 

Dear Sir,
I take the liberty of addressing a note of inquiry to you. Is there a man of the name of Levi Van Etten or Vanetten or Vanaten being in your neighborhood? He has a son by the name of Thomas who has been, I believe, a member of the New York Legislature. If Levi Vanetten is yet alive and resides in your vicinity, you would confer a favor by showing this letter to his son Thomas and requesting him to attend to the matter or if he does not reside in your neighborhood would you be so kind as to address a note, stating the facts as to Levi Van Etten, and direct the same to John Hastings, member of Congress, Washington City.
My object in making these enquiries as that a pension had been granted to Mrs. Dinah Westfall (a sister of Levi Van Etten) for the services of her deceased husband Captain Abraham Westfall during the Revolutionary War. 
That pension has been withheld on the ground that Abraham Westfall, who died in Ohio, is not the Abraham Westfall who was a captain in Col. Paulings Regiment of the New York Levies. 
If you possess any
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information in regard to the persons enquired for you will please communicate the same, as soon as possible (for a man is waiting in Washington City, who resides in Ohio until your answer to this is received by the Hon. Mr. Hastings. 
Respectfully your
obd't servant
Geo. W. McCook

Jno Concklin Esqr.
Post Master
Port Jervis,
Orange Cty
NY
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State of New York 
Orange County ss} 
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the acting Justices of the Peace, Margaret Carpenter, widow of Benjamin Carpenter of Carpenters Point in the Township of Deerpark in said County of Orange, who being first duly qualified deposeth and saith that she is seventy one years of age, and that she was born about three miles from the farm on which she now resides. That she was intimately acquainted with Captain Abraham Westfall who served some two or three years as a Captain in Col. Paulings Regiment of the New York State Troops. She recollects well to see Capt. Westfall frequently in the Fort around my father's house, after the Battle of Minisink in which my husbands Captain was killed he afterwards was attached to Captain Abraham Westfall's company and served some months under him. He was during the war of the Revolution married to Blandina or Finah Van Etten in the immediate neighborhood in which I resided. We were raised and schooled together, were on the most intimate terms as long as they Capt. Westfall and Dinah his wife continued to reside in this settlement. They emigrated to the western country where I understand the family has continued to reside, and that she is confident that Dinah Westfall of the State of Ohio, now an applicant for a pension is the identical person that she represents herself to be. That she is the widow of Captain Abraham Westfall who served in Col. Paulings Regiment of the New York
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State Troops and no others. 
Sworn and Subscribed
this 12th day of May 
AD 1840
Abraham J. Cuddenback
Justice of the Peace

Margaret Carpenter

The State of New York 
Orange County ss}
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County Gideon Westbrook who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is about eighty four years of age. That he was raised in the Township Minisink now Deer Park in the County aforesaid that he was intimately acquainted with Captain Abraham Westfall who was a Capt in Col Paulings Regiment of the New York State Troops. That he served some months as a private soldier in Captain Westfall's company. That he the deponent was at the marriage of the said Capt. Abraham Westfall to Blandina or Dinah Van Etten which took place at her Father's house in what is now the Township of Deerpark in the Spring of 1781and during the time that he Captain Abraham Westfall was in the service of the State of New York as a Captain in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling as aforesaid his acquaintance was kept up with the said Capt. Abraham Westfall and Dinah his wife who continued to reside in the same settlement with the deponent until they departed to the western country, some part of the State of Ohio. The deponent is well convinced that there was no other Captain Abraham Westfall in Col Paulings Regiment
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of the New York State Troops there the one above referred to, who he saw married to the said Dinah Van Etten as before stated. And he is perfectly satisfied that the said Dinah Westfall now an applicant for a pension from the State of Ohio is the identical person that she represents herself to be, and that she is the widow of Captain Abraham Westfall formerly of Deerpark who served as a Captain in the Revolutionary War in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling of the New York State Troops and no other. The deponent further saith that the said Capt. Westfall joined the army of entered into the service of the State from the settlement of Deerpark in which I now reside. 
Sworn and subscribed 
before me this 12th day 
of May 1840
Abraham J. Cuddenback
Justice of the Peace

his 
Gideon x Westbrook
mark 

State of New York
Orange County ss}
Personally appeared before me one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Orange Mrs. Jane Rosencrantz who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is seventy two years old in July next. That she is the widow of Cornelius Rosencrantz. That she has resided in the Township of Minisink now called Deerpark in said county of Orange from she was twelve years old up to present time. That she resided in the Family of Abraham Westfall who was a Captain in Col. Paulings
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Regiment of the New York State Troops for about three years previous to being married to her late husband the said Cornelius Rosencrantz. And during the time that Captain Abraham Westfall was in the army, he hired me for the purpose of keeping his wife company in his absence, my late husband served under and in the company of Captain Abraham Westfall for which service I now draw a pension. And my husband and I resided on the Farm of the said Cap. Abraham Westfall during the time of the Revolution was married to Blandina or Dina Van Etten in the immediate settlement in which I now reside. I was at their house the day they left Deerpark for Western Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh they afterwards moved to the State of Ohio, where he the Capt. Westfall and his Family resided until his death. His Family I understand reside in Ohio at  this time. And I am confident that Dinah Westfall of the State of Ohio, now an applicant for a pension is the wife of Captain Abraham Westfall of the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling of the New York State Troops and no other. 
Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 12th day
of May 1840
Abraham J. Cuddenback
Justice of the Peace

her
Jane x Rosencrantz
mark

The State of New York
Orange County SS}
I Abraham J. Cuddenback an acting Justice of the Peace
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within and for the Township of Deerpark in said County do hereby certify that Margaret Carpenter, Gideon Westbrook and Jane Rosecrantz who has this day appeared before me and who subscribed the foregoing depositions are persons of good moral character and entitled to the utmost credit and belief. 
Given under my hand officially this 12th day of May AD 1840. 
Abraham J. Cuddenback  Seal Justice of the Peace

The State of New York
Orange County ss} 
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County Col. William J. Cudenback of the Township of Deerpark in said county who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that in addition to his former statement made under oath in regard to the application of Dinah Westfall of the State of Ohio for a pension. He hesitatingly states that he well recollects that Abraham Westfall formerly of Deerpark entered the Regiment commanded by Col. Pauling of the New York State Troops as a Captain in the immediate vicinity in which I now reside. And during his stay in this County I kept up a continued acquaintance with him, and I am also well aware that he was married to Blandina or Dinah Van Etten during the time he was in the service of the State of New York as a Captain aforesaid, in the regiment commanded by Col Pauling of the New York State Troops. And I am also aware that after the close of the war they emigrated to the west. And further
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that there were no other Capt. Abraham Westfall commanded on the frontier in the New York State Troops but the one above referred to. and I am also fully satisfied that Dinah Westfall of Ohio the applicant aforesaid is the widow of Capt. Abraham Westfall of the New York State Troops and no other.
Sworn and subscribed 
before me this 13th day 
of May 1840
William Cuddenback Just Peace

William A Cuddenback

The State of New York Orange County SS. 
I William Cudenback a Justice of the Peace within and for the Township of Deerpark in said County do hereby certify that Col. William A Cudenback who has this day appeared before me and subscribed the foregoing deposition is a man of good moral character and for truth and veracity stands high in the estimation of his neighbors. 
Given under my hand officially this 13th day of May AD 1840
William Cuddenback 
Justice of Peace
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State of New York
Orange County ss}
I Albert S. Benton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange, do certify that William Cuddenback and Abraham Cuddenback are both Justices of the peace as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court this 13th day of May 1840. 
A.S. Benton
Clerk
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Ohio, Pittsburg 3158
Dinah Westfall
widow of Abraham Westfall
who died on the 5 September 1829
of Carroll Co in the State of Ohio
who was a Captain in the    commanded 
by Captain   of the regiment comanded 
by 
Weisenfels in the N York
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh
at the rate of 480 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of Mach 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of June
1840 and delivered to D. 
McCook Esq. Present

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840   4320.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. 240
$4560.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836
Section the 3

Recorded by D Brown
Book C Vol A Page 181
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Letter to J Pearce and others Apl 30
41
let: 10 Dec 1841
Hon. J. Lawrence
Hon. G. Fries Dec. 9 1848
Dead
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19.317
Ohio
R

Abraham Westfall
of Columbiana Co in the state of Ohio
who was a private in the company commanded 
by Captain Rontrance of the regiment commanded 
by Colonel Dubois in the N.York 
line, for the term of one year, in 1777-78

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 28th of August, 1824

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th of Sept. 1824
and sent to Samuel Smith, Esq.
Union Town, Pennsylvania

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1824   2.09
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4th March 1825 48.00
4/31   4/30        $50.09

Revolutionary claim,
Acts March 18, 1818
and May 1, 1820

1 March 1822
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County ss} 
Personally came before me the subscriber one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County Levi Westfall of lawfull age being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is the reputed son of Abraham and Diana Westfall, that the paper marked A and hereunto attached is a correct coppy taken (by myself from the Family Record kept by my father) sixteen years ago and that the said abstract has remained in my possession evidence untill the 22nd Inst. That is has under gone no alteration, other than the addition of the letter A at the bottom of the paper. That my father Abraham Westfall died on the 5th day of September A.D. 1830. That my mother Diana Westfall has not been married since the death of my father and yet remains his widow. That my father Abraham Westfall was a pensioner of the United States, that he drew a pension of Ninety Six Dollars annually and the paper marked B and hereunto attached is a correct copy of the Original certificate upon which my father drew his pension. 
Sworn and subscribed before
me this 20th day of October
Anno Domini 1838
William Hersh Seal
Justice of the Peace

Levi Westfall

Also Peter Hewet of lawfull age being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Abraham Westfall late of Columbiana County Ohio and unto Diana Westfall his wife that Abraham Westfall was a pensioner of the United States. That for some years he resided in my immediate neighborhood. I was at his house the time of death which I think took place on the
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5th day of September A.D. 1830 that Diana Westfall his widow resides in this settlement that she has continued to remain his widow. That Levi Westfall who has subscribed the foregoing deposition is a man of truth and veracity of sober and industrious habits. 
Sworn and subscribed before
me this the 26th of October
Anno Domini 1838
William Hersh Seal 
Justice of the Peace
Peter Hewit

Also James Cameron of lawfull age who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with Abraham Westfall late of Columbiana County Ohio and Diana his wife. Abraham Westfall was a United States pensioner. That he died at his residence in the County of Columbiana. I was at his house at the time of his death cannot distinctly state the time but thinks on the 5th September AD 1830. That Diana his wife has continued to remain his widow. That Levi Westfall and Peter Hewet who have subscribed the foregoing depositions are men of truth and veracity and of sober and industrious habits. 
Sworn and subscribed before
me this the 26th day of October
Anno Domini 1838
William Hersh   Seal 
Justice of the Peace

James Cameron 

State of Ohio Carroll County ss- I William Hersh a Justice of Peace within and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with Abraham Westfall late of the County of Columbiana in the State of Ohio. That he was a pensioner of the United States. That I am well acquainted with Diana Westfall his wife. That Abraham Westfall died at his then residence in Columbiana County
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aforesaid in the month of September 1830. I was at his funeral but do not recollect the particular day. that Diana his widow has not been married since the death of her husband. That Levi Westfall, Peter Hewit and James Cameron who have this day appeared before me and who being qualified subscribed the foregoing depositions are men of truth and veracity and of unexceptionable moral character
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature and official seal this 26th day of October Anno Domini 1838.
William Hersh  Seal  Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio Carroll County ss- I William Deford one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for the Township of Washington in said County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Levi Westfall, Peter Hewit and James Cameron whose signatures are attached to the foregoing depositions and know them to be men of truth and veracity and unexceptionable moral character.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature and official seal this 26th day of October Anno Domini 1838 Wm Deford   Seal  J Peace

The State of Ohio 
Carroll County ss} I Samuel M Cook Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the said County of Carroll do hereby certify that William Hersh and William Deford whose signatures are attached to the foregoing depositions were at the time and now are acting Justices of the peace in whose of official acts full faith and credit is brought to be given and further that the statements were executed in my presence. The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature and the seal of said Court at Carrollton this the 26th day of October AD 1838.
Daniel M Cook 
Clerk C Pleas
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County SS} Court of Common Pleas 
October Term Anno Domini 1838

Be it remembered that on the twenty second day of October Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared in open court Diana Westfall aged seventy eight 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". That she is positively the widow of Abraham Westfall late a pensioner of the United States. That her late husband was a private in the Army of the Revolution. That they were married in Orange County State of New York where they were residing when her husband joined the army in the Regiment commanded by Col. Lewis Dubois. He marched to Fort Montgomery where he was wounded in the arm at the taking of that Fort when he returned home on furlow and remained there untill his wound was healed, when he again joined the army as to the services he performed the deponent cannot distinctly state, but respectfully refers the Department to the Testimony filed at the time my husband obtained his certificate of pension, which is dated at the War office 7th day of September 1824 signed J.C. Calhoun Secty of War. That the Deponent was married to Abraham Westfall in Orange County New York on the 8th day of February A.D. 1781. After the war of the Revolution I removed with my husband to Washington County, Pennsylvania from thence to Columbiana County Ohio where he died on the 5th day of September A.D. 1830. That her late husband drew Ninety six dollars annually as his pension. He was enrolled on the Pennsylvania agency and drew his money at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, the last payment was drawn by my late husbands Administrators, the necessary papers having been prepared previous to his death. And further this deponent saith not. 

her 
Diana x Westfall
mark
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In Testimony whereof I Daniel M cook Clerk of said Court have hereunto set my signature and the seal of said Court at Carrollton this the 25th day of October Anno Domini one thousand and eight hundred and thirty eight. 
Daniel M Cook
Clerk C.P.
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The State of NEw York
Carroll County ss} 
Personally came before m the undersigned, one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county of Carroll Levi Westfall of lawful age who being first duly sworn by me according to law, deposeth and saith, that when his mother Dinah Westfall came into Carrolton with the intention of making a declaration in order to obtain a pension under the Law of 7 July 1838, that he came into Carrolton with the intention of accompanying his mother into Court; he did not get into the Court House in time he was informed by his mother and his brother John who accompanied her into Court, that she had been in court and made her declaration in open court, under oath. And as to the last two occasions that she appeared in open court to wit to make a declaration under the Act of 4th July 1836 and to make her explanatory statement in relation to the death of my Father I was standing alongside of her heard the Clerk Mr McCook administer the oath to her, and saw her sign the said last two several declaration, and all was done in open court; the first one in the court of common pleas, and the  explanatory statement or declaration in Supreme Court, as I believe. And further this deponent saith not. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
25th day of February AD 1840
Miles J Tiernan  Seal  Justice of the Peace
Levi Westfall

State of Ohio Carroll County ss} I Miles J Tiernan, do hereby certify that Levi Westfall who has this day appeared before me and who was sworn to and subscribed the foregoing deposition is a man of truth and veracity and of the most unexceptionable character; and of the truth of the foregoing statements I am fully satisfied.
Given under my hand and seal officially this  25th February AD 1840. 
Miles J Tiernan   Seal
Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County ss}
I Daniel M Cook Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the Said County of Carroll do hereby certify that Miles J. Tiernan before whom the foregoing deposition was taken was at the time and now is one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified to whose official acts full faith and credit is and ought to be given, and further that the signature attached is the genuine signature of the said Miles J. Tiernan. 
In  testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature and the seal of said Court at Carrollton this the 25th day of February AD 1840.
Daniel McCook
Clerk
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Abraham Westfall a
Revolutionary Soldier

State of Ohio Columbiana County
On this seventh day of June 1824, personally appeared in open court being a Court of Record for the County of Columbiana in the State of Ohio aforesaid, Abraham Westfall aged sixty nine years, a resident of the aforesaid county of Columbiana, 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 acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820. That he the said...
...enlisted for the term of one year, on the first day of June in the year 1777 in the State of New York in the company commanded by Captain Jas Rontrance in the regiment commanded by Col. Lewis Dubois in the lines of the state of New York, on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said Corps until 1778 when he was discharged from the said service, in New Windsor in the State of New York. that in April 1779 he was appointed a Lieutenant in a company commanded by Capt. John Woods in the regiment commanded by Colonel Albert Paulding that on the first of May 1780 he was appointed Captain of a company commanded in a Regiment of New York, commanded by the said Paulding. That he was in the battles of Fort Montgomery, and that he has no other evidence, not in his power, of his said services. 
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not
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nor has any person for me in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed bir. "One Cow, eight dollars; One Heifer $6.00 One old horse 25 dollars, four sheep 4 dollars, one feather bed bedding $8. 1 set cups and saucers and plates $1 5 chairs $1 two poems $1.50 one tea kettle $1 Amounting in the whole to $55.50. Sworn to and declared on the seventh day of June.
before Horace Potter Clerk 
Abraham Westfall

The State of Ohio
Columbiana County} ss
I Horace Potter Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records 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 exhibited, in the aforesaid schedule is fifty five dollars and fifty cents. 
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at New Lislean, in said County this 28th day of June A.D. 1824.
For Horace Potter clerk 
Geo Stoughton
Dept. clerk
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13 1/2
175 1/2
168 3/4
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Westfall

Sarah Harness
Sarah Westfall
Wm Cameron
Wm Westfall NY
Noah Westfall
Thomas Westfall
TT Thomas 

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212 1/2
114 1/4
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Capt Abraham Westfall was married to Dinah Westfall on the 8th Day of February in the year of our Lord 1781. 
Joseph Westfall was born the 14th day of March in the year of our Lord 1782
Joseph Westfall 
Hannah Westfall was born the 23rd Day of February in the year of our Lord 1784
Anne Westfall was born the 9th Day of February in the year of our Lord 1786
Eunice Westfall was born the 12th Day of March in year of our Lord 1788
Levi Westfall was born the 9th Day of December in the year of our Lord 1790. 
Naomi Westfall was born the 2nd day of February in the year of our Lord 1792 
Simeon Westfall was born the 4th day of March in the year of our Lord 1795. 
Catherin Westfall was born the 30th day of January in the year of our Lord 1796. 
A
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and the lender going appears 
Haste my love and come away for to the winter is past and gone  
Haste my love and come away for to the winter is past
Haste my love and come away for to
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John Westfall was born the 22 Day of June in the year of our Lord 1800

Thomas Westfall was born the 28th Day of September in the year of our Lord 1802

Abraham Westfall was born on the 13th day of April in the year of our Lord 1804

James Westfall was the 31 Day of January in the year of our Lord 1810
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Columbiana County State of Ohio 
December 20 1824
Der friend, I once more embrace the present opportunity with the pleasure of god to inform you that myself and family are well thanks be to god for his mercy hoping these few lines will you all well as they Levi is at present. We have his five children now since we left that Country, we have had a god many hand struggles a few years past but thank god for his mercy we have overcome (blurred out) elf Levis session now own a fine (blurred) land in Columbiana County. My wife Merry (unknown) 200 wright. My children are all married but three and all in good circumstances. I shall not write anything strange as I dount know wether there is any of you yet liveing or not you will Plese to write me after you receive how our friends all are in your country. If you write to me you will direct your letter to Centerfail Columbiana County State of Ohio 
from your Loving Friend
Westfall
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Minisink 
Orange County 
New York 

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March 27, 1937
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Abraham Westfall, W. 4386
BA-J/MCS
Mr. Frank H. Allen
1356 Lakeland Avenue
Lakewood, Ohio
Dear Sir:
The data contained herein were obtained from papers on file in
the pension claim, W.4386. based upon the Revolutionary War service of
Abraham Westfall.
He was born at Minisink which was later Deer Park Township, New York. The exact date of his birth and the names of his parents were 
not given.
While living in Orange County, New York, he enlisted June 1, 1777,
and served until sometime in October, 1778, in Captain James Rosekrance's
company in Colonel Lewis' New York regiment and was in the battle of
Fort Montgomery where he was wounded in the arm.  In April, 1779, he was 
appointed lieutenant in Captain John Woods' company in Colonel Albert
Pawling's New York regiment and on May 1, 1780, he was appointed captain
of a company in Colonel Albert Pawling's New York regiment and served
until sometime in 1782. 
He moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania, about 1797, and from
there he moved to Columbiana County, Ohio.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 7, 1824,
at which time he was sixty-nine years of age and was living in Columbiana County,
Ohio.
Abraham Westfall married February 8, 1781, at Minisink, New York,
Blandina, Blondina, Dinah or Diana Van Etten who was born August 1, 1763,
at Minisink.
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As the widow of Abraham Westfall, said Blandina was allowed pension on her application executed October 22, 1838, at which time she was living in Carroll County, Ohio 

They had the following children:

Joseph born June 14, 1782
Hannah " February 25, 1784, married---Morledge
Anne " February 9, 1786, married---Marshall
Eunice " March 12, 1788
Levi " December 7, 1790
Naomi " February 2. 1793
Simeon " March 4, 1795
Cathern " January 20, 1798
John " June 22, 1800 
Thomas " September 28, 1802
Abraham " April 13, 1804
James " January 31, 1811

In November, 1829, Levi Westfall was administrator and Dinah Westfall was administratix of the estate of Abraham Westfall but it was not shown whether Levi was the soldier's son or not. 

The widow's brother, Levi Van Etten, was born July 12, 1757, in Minisink, and was living in Deer Park, New York, in 1840 and stated that he served in the Revolution under Abraham Westfall. Levi Van Etten had a son, Thomas, who it was stated, was thought to be a member of the New York State legislature and another son, Levi.  The widow's brother, henry Van Etten, was born in Minisink May 1, 1751, and he testified in 1840 in Niles Township, Cayuga County, New York, in behalf of the widow. Mary Van Auken or Aukin was born September 20, 1765, in Minisink and in 1840 she was living in Deer Park and stated that the widow was her second eldest sister. In 1840 one Margaret Van Fleet, aged ninety years, was living in Deer Park and stated that during the Revolution the Indians burned her home and that she and her husband fled to a fort on the farm of Anthony Van Etten (relationship not shown) within one half mile of her present residence. 

Very truly yours 

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Blinda
Vanetten

I Prisilla Paraven

Belinda Vanetten
Belinda Van Etten
Isaaac Belindan Venetten

Thomas VanEtten 

To Thomas Vanetten
Port Jervis Post Office
Town of Deer Park 
State New York
Thomas Van Etten 

Deerpark 
O.L. Laurens
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To Thomas Vanetten
Port Jervis Post Office
Town of Deer Park 
State New York
Thomas Van Etten 

Deerpark 
O.L. Laurens 

Blinda
Vanetten

I Prisilla Paraven

Belinda Vanetten
Belinda Van Etten
Isaaac Belindan Venetten

Thomas VanEtten
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Direct your letter to Carrollton
Carrol County State of Ohio
I am no more but remain your affectionate
cousin 
Levi Westfall
To Mr. Thomas Vanetten
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Samuel Gamble and his family were all well the best account we had from them as they still live in Washington Pennsylvania about seventy miles distant. Father departed (blank) ter 1829 my 
brother Jonathan has died and left a wife and two children behind thirteen months since. Abraham Departed this life mother has had her health all her life as far as I have known her she now resides among her children and has done ever since my fathers Death. She makes her home with games as he is the (unknown) and has been married better than a year and has a daughter. John has four children three boys and one girl Simeon has had six five and one girl the oldest boy died Hannah has three boys and one girl Anne five boys and two girls living and buried four three boys and one daughter Eunice Vin Daughter and one son living buried one. Thomas has two girls and one son buried one son joseph has five four sons and one daughter buried three daughters. We have three sons and three daughters living buried one daughter. i have nothing more particular to write not having whether you will ever receive this or not. I have give a small sketch of all the relation. When you receive this letter I wish you -more cen- friends - nt
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Carrollton March the 20th 1833
Dear Sir with pleasure I embrace this opportunity to inform you that I received a small letter from you Dated (blank) gave (blank) you thinking you had forgot us as we have rec'd no letter this same time I think nearly four years we forwarded a letter directly after the death of my father and by your letter it never reacht you. Now I will inform the state of our health as far as I am myself and family is well Thomas has been on the Decline of life for better than one year his complaint something of a consumtive nature I think he cannot last very long Sister Caty departed this life on New Years day and left six children her husband and family is well Naomi has been dead five years past last October She left seven children They are well John Morlidge and Hannah and family is well Marshall family is all well Simeon and his family John and his family James and his wife and child is well also and the last account that I had from my brother Joseph they were - letter last - from - at his wife - this life- Turnover 

Westfall, Abraham 
NY W4386
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Letters of Administration for the Estate of Abraham Westfall
Deceast
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The State of Ohio
Columbiana County ss

I Charles D. Coffin, Clerk of the court of Common Pleas for said county, do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Record of the matter to which it resus as the same stands entered on the Probate Records of said Court.
Witness my signature and the seal of said court at New Leibon in said County, the 11th of December 1829.

Charles D. Coffin
Clk Com. Pleas

It is ardent that the copy of the letters has been correctly attached  to the certificate
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The State of Ohio
Columbiana County, ss} Jeremiah H. Hallock, president of the Fifth Circuit of the Court of Common Pleas, and John J. Bowman, Thomas Creighton and George Endly, his Associates, Judges of the same Court, within and for the County of Columbiana aforesaid, in the name and by the authority of the State of Ohio, to all to whom these presents shall come, be it known, that administration of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of Abraham Westfall late of the County aforesaid, deceased, at the time of his death is hereby committed unto Dinah Westfall and Levi Westfall  

whose duty it shall be (under oath or affirmation) to have all and singular the said goods and chattels inventoried and appraised by Peter Hewit, John Clinton and Edward Ruttedge Householders of the county aforesaid (after deducting for the Widow, such provisions as the Appraisers aforesaid shall consider reasonable for the support of herself and children for one year) and make a return thereof, together with a separate schedule of the property assigned for the support of the widow and children (signed by the said Appraisers) with a bill of the sale of the goods and chattels of the said deceased, together with a true and accurate statement of the debts due and owing to the estate of the said Abraham Westfall, deceased, to the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid, within three months from the date hereof; and moreover to adjust and settle up the account of their administration within eighteen months from the date hereof, as the law direct. And we do by these presents appoint the said Dinah Westfall, administratix and said Levi Westfall
administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said Abraham Westfall deceased. 

In Testimony of which we have caused the Seal of out said Court to be hereunto affixed-Witness the honorable J.H. Hallock  president thereof, at New Lisbon in said county, the 12th day of November Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine. 
Charles D. Coffin Clerk 

Seal 

And attached thereto was a copy of the Rules of Court as required by the rules. 
Coffin Clk
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Nov 12 1829
At a Court of Common Pleas began and held at the Court house in New Lisbon within and for the County of Columbiana and State of Ohio, on Monday the second day of November Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, present the Hon. Jeremiah H. Hallock president Judge of the Fifth circuit of the court of common pleas and John Bowman, Thomas Creighton and George Endly Esq associate judges of said Court within and for said county of Columbiana

Estate of Abrham Westfall
Deceased
Be it remembered that at the said November term 1829 of said Court of Common Pleas for said County, on application the court grant letters of Administration on the Estate of Abraham Westfall, late of said County, deceased, to Dinah Westfall and Levi Westfall, and the said Dinah and Levi are now here by the Court appointed Administratix and Administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels and c which were of the deceased. 
They are required to give bond in $200
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with security. John Westfall and Abraham Westfall are approved as the security. 
Peter Hewit, John Clinton and Edward Rutledge are appointed appraisers of the goods and chattels of the deceased. 
And the said Administrator and Administratix having given bond and been qualified, letters of Administration issued to the said Administratix and Administrator in these words, to wit.
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June 10, 1839

The State of Ohio
Carroll County ss}
Court of Common Pleas
June Term Anno Domini 1839

Be it remember that on this the tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared in open Court Diana Westfall a resident of Augusta Township in the County and State aforesaid, aged seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Abraham Westfall who was a Captain in Col. Pauldings Regiment of the New York Levies. That she was married to the said Abraham Westfall in Orange County in the State of New York on the 8th day of February 1781 during the time he was in the services of the United States that previous to her marriage with the said Abraham Westfall he had served as a private soldier in the Army for which service he rec'd a pension from the United States under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818. and that the said Abraham Westfall died on the 5th day of September 1828 at his then residence in the County of Columbiana Ohio. That she has remained a widow ever since that period which will more fully appear from the testimony on file from the War Department. And that hereunto attached, that she has no other means of proving her marriage at this laps of time
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but by her own deposition and the family records on file in the War Department. An to the service of her late husband as a Captain as aforesaid she respectfully refers to the Records of the War Department. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and date above written. 
Dinah Westfall

In Testimony whereof I Daniel McCook Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County hath hereunto set my signature and the seal of said court at Carrollton this 10th day of June Anno Domini 1839.
Daniel McCook 
Clerk 

The State of Ohio
Carroll County ss} 
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Thomas Patton of lawfull age who being duly sworn as the can directs deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Capt. Abraham Westfall during the time he resided in Washington County, State of Pennsylvania, it was in the settlement in which he then resided generally believed that that he was a Capt in the War of the Revolution and he was always always so stated and addressed he removed from Washington County Penna to the County of Columbiana Ohio where he died but as to the time of his death I cannot particularly state. His widow lives in the Township of Augusta in this County and is now making application for a pension. During the time of their residence in Washington County and up to this time I never heard it suggested or suspected that they were not legally married, they were always reputed to be married and received as such in the settlement in which they resided. Diana Westfall has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband. She
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was a widow on the 4th day of July AD 1836 Further the deponent saith not.
THS Patton
State of Ohio Carroll County SS: I Miles J. Tiernan to hereby certify That Thomas Patton, who had this day appeared Before me And was sworn to, and subscribed the foregoing deposition, Is a credible person And entitled to belief. Given under my hand. And seal 13th day Of June anno domini 1839
Milled J Tiernan Seal Justice of the peace
The state of Ohio Carroll County SS: Personally appeared before me the subscriber Of the acting Justices of the peace within and for  the county aforesaid Thomas Cook, Frederick Leyde and 
Being sworn according to law deposeth and saith that they were intimately acquainted with captain Abraham Westfall and Diana his wife during the time that they resided in Washington County Pennsylvania. Abraham Westfall was  said to be a captain during the revolutionary war and was so styled and called by his neighbors, he and his reputed wife Diana continued to live together as man and wife until his death, which took place in Colombina County in this state near vicinity in which we reside. Dinah his wife had continued to remain his widow ever since. She was a widow on the 11th day of July 1836 and further the deponents saith not sworn to and subscribed
Thomas Cook
Frederick Leyde
I Leonard Harsh magistrate of State County do hereby certify that Thomas Cook and Frederick Leyde who has this day appeared before me and subscribed the foregoing deposition are men of truth and veracity and entitled to credit and belief.
Given under my hand and official seal this the 20th day of June A. D. 1839.
Leo. Harsh Seal Justice of the peace.
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The state of Ohio Carroll County SS: 
Be it remembered That On this 22nd Day Of June anno domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, personally came before me The subscriber One of the acting justices of the peace Within and for the said County of Carroll and state aforesaid, Levi Westfall And James Cameron and Peter Henet , who Being sworn according to law deposeth and saith that they are intimately acquainted with Abraham Westfall and Dina his wife, that Abraham Westfall was said to be a captain in the war of the revolution and was erupted and styled as such in the settlement in which he resided, that they continued to live in the county of Columbiana, now Carroll, Ohio, in the immediate vicinity in which we reside, on the 5th day of September A.D. 1828, that they assisted in laying him out and dressing him after his death, that Diana his wife is yet living, and has continued to remain his widow, and question the deponents saith not.
Levi Westfall
Peter Henet
James Cameron
I William Hersh, do hereby certify that Levi Westfall, James Cameron and Peter Henet who have appeared before me and was sworn to and subscribed the foregoing deposit are men of good moral character and highly credible in whose statements the most implicit is and ought to be given. In testimony, whereof I have hereunto set my signature and official seal the day and date above written
William Hersh 
Seal Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County SS: personally appeared before the subscriber one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County Hannah Morledge, Ann Marshall, Levi Westfall and Simeon Westfall residents of Washing and Augusta Townships who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that they have resided in said county in since it’s organization been previous thereto in the county of Columbiana Ohio for the span of twenty three years. That they are the children of Abraham Westfall late of the county of Columbiana and state aforesaid that they are said Abraham Westfall was a pensioner of the United States who died on the 5th day of September AD 1829 in his residence in the Township of Washington in said columbiana county (now Carroll), and that their mother, Dinah Westfall is now on her way to the Township of Minisink (now DeerPark)in the county of Orange in the State of New York where she lives now purpose of having her person identifying as the twill of Westfall, who leaving as a regiment commanded by Colonel Pawling of the New York lines during the [illegible] Of the revolution
Hannah Morledge
Levi Westfall
Simeon Westfall
Sworn and subscribed Before me This eighth day of June AD 1841
Charles H Hayes justice of the peace
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County § I Charles H. Hays one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for said county do hereby [crossed out word] 
Certify that Hannah Morledge, Ann Marshall, Levi Westfall & Simeon Westfall who have this day appeared before me and was sworn to and subscribed the foregoing deposition as persons of the most exceptional character and whose statements are entitled to credit and belief and as to the truth of whose statements I am perfectly satisfied.
Given herein my hand and seal this 8th day of June AD 1840
Charles H. Hays    Seal
Justice of the Peace 

The State of Ohio 
Carroll County § I Daniel McCook Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the county of Carroll and the State of Ohio do hereby certify that Charles H. Hays Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was made was at the time of the making thereof and now is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said county, fully empowered by the laws of the state to administer oaths, that he is duly commissioned and qualified and that to all his official acts full faith and credit are due. I further certify that I am well acquainted with the signature of said justice, and know the one attached to be genuine.
In testimony whereof hereunto I affix my signature and the seal of said Court of Carrollton, this the eighth day of June AD 1840
Daniel McCook Clerk
By
Geo. W. McCook Deputy Clerk O.R.
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The State of Ohio, Carroll County § Be it remembered That On This the twenty third Day of March In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred And forty Personally Appeared Before the subscriber One of the Associate Judges Of the Court of Common Pleas Within and for said County Carroll, Mrs. Dinah  Westfall Aged 79 Years Who being first duly sworn, doth Her oath make the following declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the pensions made by the act of Congress Issued July 4, 1836, And the act Explanatory of said act, issued March 3, 1837 That she is the widow Of Abraham Westfall, Who was a captain in the war of the revolution, and Colonel Paulding’s regiment Of the New York line. That she was married to the said captain Abraham Westfall. On the eighth day of February 1781. That aforesaid Abraham Westfall died on the fifth day of September A.D. 1829, at his then residence in Washington Township, then in Colombiana county, now Carol County, Ohio, she was a widow on 4 July 1836 and has continued to remain a widow, as will more fully appear from the testimony hereunto annexed. That her husband left a family record, a copy of which filed in the war department she was married to the said Abraham Westfall previous to the existence of the last term to wit at the term above specified. 
Dinah Westfall 
Sworn and subscribed Before me
Robert McElderry associate judge
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County § I Robert McEldery one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid Do hereby certify That Mrs. Dinah Westfall the witness deponent Who appeared before me Made the Written declaration, Came to Carrollton To file her declaration and court But From a sudden in disposition And from bodily Infirm She was unable to appear In court To make the same.
In Testimony, whereof I have hereunto Set my signature and Official seal 23rd day of March Anni Domini 1840
Robert McEldery SEAL Associate judge
The state of Ohio
Carroll County § I Daniel McCook Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the Z county of Carroll do hereby certify that Robert McEldery Esq. Before whom the foregoing declaration was made at the time. And now is, one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, duly commissioned and qualified in what official acts full faith and credit is and ought to be given and further that I am waited with the signature of the said judge and know the one attached to genuine. 
In testimony, whereof I have herewit set my signature of said court at Carrollton this the 1st day of  April Anni domini 1840
Daniel Mc Cook
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War department
Revolutionary claim
I certify that, in conformity with the 3rd section of the law Of the United States, of the 4 th July, 1936, Dinah  Westfall Of Ohio widow of Abraham Westfall died Who was a captain in the Revolution Is entitled to receive four hundred and eighty Dollars [And cents crossed out] per annum, During the time she may Remain unmarried, commencing on 4th of March 1831, And payable semi annually on the 4th of March and the 4th of September.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 27th day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine 
J. R. Poinsett 
Secretary of war
Geo. Wm. Crump
Commissioner of Pensions
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District of Columbia 
Washington County § Personally appeared before the subscriber on of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid. Daniel McCook and James Westfall who being duly sworn according to law, deposith and saith that at the time Dinah Westfall of the State of Ohio, widow of Captain Abraham Westfall made application for a pension for the service performed by her husband during the war of the revolution. It was well known to the said Dinah and to her children and friends in the state of Ohio, that her husband the said Abraham Westfall, not only performed service as a private soldier for which he was pensioned, but as a captain in the service of the state of New York, but the fact that there being any record proof of the service of the said Abraham, not being known to the said Dinah and her children, and the only person, who to the knowledge of the said  Dinah or her children in the West who could prove the service of the said Abraham Westfall as a Captain had died in Brook County, Virginia a short time previous to her making the application, therefore she applied for a privates pension, believing that the application of her husband then on file in the War Department and the testimony that could be taken in the neighborhood as to the death of her husband
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would be sufficient to sustain her claim for the 
pension of a private
Sworn and Subscribed before     Daniel McCook
me this 24 June AD 1840  James Westfall
Vinintz King
Justice of the Peace
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[left side]
reported to the Pension Agent May 19, 1840 
See letter to Sec. War May 30. 1840. 
1891 April 14 Theo. P Sargent – history [illegible]

[right side]
3158.
Ohio, Pittsburgh 
Dinah Westfall widow of Abraham Westfall, decd N.Y. [crossed out, who was a pensioner under the Act of] and who died on the 5th Sept. 1829. of Carroll Co. in the State of Ohio, who was a Private in the -- commanded by Captain --- of the Regt commanded by Col. Weisenfelt in the N. York line for 1 year  decrease fmr $480. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio, Pittsburgh at the rate of 40 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of May 1840 & handed Danl McCook of Ohio, Present 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 $160.00 
Semi-annual allowance ending 4. Sept. 40  20.00 
[totals] $180.00 

{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by Wm. C. Yantzinger Clerk 
[Book torn off] Vol. 2   Page 21
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Cash 2.00
February 7, 1937. 
Rcrd 1812 Wars
Frank Hales Allen
1356 Lakeland Avenue
Lakewood Ohio
Mr. A. D. Hiller, 
Veterans Administration, 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Mr. Hiller: -- 
Regarding the matter: ABRAHAM WESTFALL W. 4386 BA-J/MMHF:MLB
Thank you for your letter of November 25th about the papers in the pension claim of Abraham Westfall, I am hoping that my sister, if she visits Washington within the next few months, may be able to inspect these papers personally, and make whatever copies or notes necessary. 
But in the meantime, since it may be impossible for myself or someone designated by me to visit Washington, I'd like you to send me a preliminary batch of eight photostatic copies of items in this material. Then I could judge from their nature whether it would be advisable to secure all eighty now, or to wait for a personal inspection. 
As to which papers to select, if their character can be determined easily without the labor of reading through many pages, I'd appreciate your sending me copies of items which seem to contain the most biographical information about Captain Westfall, his wife, and their parents; including, perhaps, copies of informative letters written by both Captain and Mrs. Westfall. 
I am writing a book dealing with the colonial history of the Minnisink Country -- the region at the juncture of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, Captain Westfall's family were some of the earliest settlers there, and one of the border forts was on the Westfall property. But as in all writing which requires historical research, many obscure facts have to be checked with whatever documentary evidence still available. 
You asked that the remittance be by money order. But since the Post Office is closed today (Sunday), I am enclosing two dollars ($2.00) in cash at my own risk, and trust that this will prove satisfactory. 
Very truly yours, 
[signed] Frank H. Allen 

[stamped] the enclosure when opened in Mail Sub. Div. U. S. V. A. 2 Dollars in cash S—

[stamped Received Feb 9 1937]
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[stamped Received Feb 10 1937 Cashier Veterans Administration]

[stamped Received Feb 12 1937 Employees Accounts]

[stamped Received Chief Clerk Feb 20 1937]
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[stamped Received Mar 13 1937 Vets Adm Reader #21] 

[stamped Received Mar 20 1937 General Records Sub-Div File Unit 2] 

[stamped Received Mar 23 1937 illegible]

[postmarked Cleveland Ohio Mar 11 1937]
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March 10, 1937. 
Cannot identify
Gentlemen:
A month ago I received your receipt dated Feb. 10, 1937 name & Id. Abraham Westfall W. 4386 Amt $2.00- Rct. No. SD 20044 in payment for some photostat copies of pension application papers. But I have not as yet received the photostats
Very truly yours, 
[signed] Frank H. Allen 
1356 Lakeland Ave. 
Lakewood, Ohio 
No 8 ether name J 3/22/37

Should have been sent to Rev & 1812 War records
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November 25, 1936
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
ABRAHAM WESTFALL
W. 4386
BA-J/MMHF:MLB
Mr. Frank H.Allen
1356 Lakeland Avenue
Lakewood, Ohio
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request photostatic
copies of papers on file in Revolutionary War claim for pension, W. 4386
based upon service of Abraham Westfall, also, the Revolutionary War
record of John Herrington who was born January 1, 1759, in New York
State and later lived in Carroll County, Ohio, where he lived throughout
his later manhood. You state that you desire the photostatic copies 
to obtain data for historical purposes.
The papers in the pension claim, W. 4386, based upon service of
Abraham Westfall have been examined. Some of the pages are so faded
and torn that satisfactory copies, possibly, could not be made of them.
Some of pages are too worn and torn for even an attempt to be made
to copy them. The number of pages which might be copied is eighty and the 
cost is twenty-five cents a page, making the total cost, $20.
No claim for pension has been found based upon service of a John
Herrington identical with your description.
If you decide to have copies made of the case designated, please
make remittance by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of 
the United States and mail same to the Veterans Administration, this
city.
It may interest you to know that you, or some responsible person
designated by you, may examine and collect data from pension claim,
W. 4386, by calling at this office. The Revolutionary War pension
records are located at present in Room 1851, Navy Building, this city.
It is believed that, because of the condition of those old papers,
this would be the more satisfactory method to pursue. Every care is 
being taken now of the papers, but some were mutilated when presented
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as evidence in support of the pension claim.
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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May 24, 1932
BA-J/MCS
XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Abraham Westfall
W. 4386
Margaret Dunn
874 N. Young Street
Franklin
Indiana
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter requesting the record of
Abraham Westfall, a soldier of the Revolution.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file
in the pension claim, W. 4386, based upon the military service of
Abraham Westfall.
He was born at Minisink (which was later Deer Park Township)
New York, exact date of birth not given. 
While living in Orange County, New York, he enlisted June 1,
1777, and served until sometime in October, 1778, in Captain James
Rosekrance's Company in Colonel Lewis Dubois' New York Regiment and 
was in the battle of Fort Montgomery where he was wounded in the 
arm. In April, 1779, he was appointed lieutenant in Captain John
Woods' Company in Colonel Albert Pawling's New York Regimet and 
on May 1, 1780, he was appointed captain of a company in Colonel
Albert  Pawling's New York Regiment. and served until sometime in 1782.
He moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania, about 1797,
and from there he moved to Columbiana County, Ohio.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 7,
1824, at which time he was sixty-nine years of age and was living 
in Columbiana County, Ohio.
He died September 5, 1829, in Washington Township, Columbiana
County, Ohio.
The soldier married February 8, 1781, at Minisink, New York,
Blandina or Dinah Van Etten who was born August 1, 1763, at Minisink.
Blondina or Diana
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She was allowed pension on her application executed October
22, 1838, at which time she was living in Carroll County, Ohio.
Abraham and Dinah Westfall had the following children:
Joseph   born June 14, 1782
Hannah  "      February 25, 1784, married ----Morledge
Anne      "      February 9, 1786,    married----Marshall
Eunice    "      March  12, 1788
Levi        "      December 7, 1790
Naomi    "      February  2, 1793
Simeon   "     March 4, 1795
Cathern   "    January 30, 1798
John        "      June 22, 1800
Thomas   "     September 28, 1802
Abraham  "    April 13, 1804
James       "     January 31, 1811

Very truly yours,



A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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In reply to your request of --- received --- for a statement of the military history of Abraham Westfall a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (and his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.  W. File 4380 
[TABLE]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.   |  LENGTH OF SERVICE.   |  RANK.   |  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN.   |   COLONEL.   |  STATE.  | 
June 1, 1777   |  Oct. 1778  |  James Rosekrance  |  Lewis Dubois  |  New York  |
Apl. 1779  |  app  |  Lieut  |  John Woods  |  Albert Pawling  |    |
May 1, 1780  |  1782  |  Captain  |    |  Albert Pawling  |    |
[END OF TABLE]
Battles engaged in, Fort Montgomery, where he was wounded in the arm 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Orange Co. NY
Date of application for pension, June 7, 1824, His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Columbiana Co. Ohio.
Age at date of application, 69 yrs., born at Minisink (Deerpark Twp) N.Y.
Remarks: sol mar at Minisink later (Deerpark Twp.) N. Y. Feby. 8, 1781 Blandina or Dinah Van Etten b. Aug. 1, 1763 at Minisink: he died Sept. 5, 1829 in Washington Twp. Columbiana Co. Oh, & she was alld pension as his widow on her appln exec, Oct. 22 1838 in Carroll Co Oh.
Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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Rev. War Section.
February 28, 1916.
Miss Jessie N. Westfall,
Beloit, Ohio. (Box 123)
Madam:
In addition to the military history of Abraham Westfall, W. File No. 4,380. Rev. War, you are furnished the following data from the papers on file. 
[crossed out, Captain Abraham Westfall married February 8, 1781, Blandina or Dinah Van Etten born August 1, 1783, fourth daughter of parents whose names are not stated.] [note: omit it is on circular]
Children.
Joseph born June 14, 1782.
Hannah born February 25, 1784.  mar Morledge
Anne born February 9, 1786.  mar Marshall
Eunice born March 12, 1788. 
Levi born December 7, 1790. 
 Naomi born February 2, 1793. 
Simeon born March 4, 1795. 
Cathern born January 30, 1798. 
John born June 22, 1800. 
Thomas born September 28, 1802. 
Abraham born April 13, 1804. 
James born January 31, 1811.

Very respectfully,
[signed] E. C. Tilman
Acting Commissioner.
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Frank Hales Allen
1356 Lakeland Ave.
Lakewood, Ohio
April 1, 1937
Mr. A. D. Hiller,
Veterans administration,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Hiller:
Regarding: Abraham Westfall,
W.4386,
RA – J/MCS
You no doubt by now have received my letter of inquiry which I sent you yesterday.
Your letter of March 27 has just now arrived, in which you explain the delay and enclose some material taken from the Westfall papers.
I am glad to have it. Just when my sister may be in Washington, I cannot say. But sometime I should like to have selected items from the Westfall collection photostated as a matter of family record.
Thanks for the trouble to which you have gone, and for the information which you have sent me.
Very truly yours,
Frank H. Allen
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Frank Hales Allen
1356 Lakeland Avenue 
Lakewood, Ohio
March 31, 1937.
Mr. A. D. Hiller,
Veterans administration,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Hiller:-
Regarding: Abraham Westfall
W.. 4386
BA-J/MMHF: MLB
On February 7, 1937, I wrote to you, Requesting a preliminary batch of eight photostatic copies of items in the Westfall pension papers
Soon after, I received an official receipt for the $2.00 I had enclosed (receipt number SD20044), but as yet the photostats have not arrived.
On March 10, I sent an inquiry about the apparent delay, addressed not to you personally, but to the department, giving the code reference. And this morning’s mail brought the enclosed form letter.
Will you please look into the matter.
Very truly yours,
Frank H Allen
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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION 
WASHINGTON 
March 29, 1937. 
YOUR FILE REFERENCE: 
IN REPLY REFER TO: BAHB 801 
WESTPALL, Abraham 
Mr. Frank H. Allen, 
1356 Lakeland Avenue, 
Lakewood, Ohio. 
Dear Sir: 
Receipt is acknowledged of your communication of March 10, 1937 requesting copies of papers from the pension record of one Abraham Westfall. 
The record of a veteran cannot be identified in the files with the information furnished. If you will fill out the blanks below and return this letter at an early date, further action can be taken. 
In all future correspondence of this character it is important that the full name of the veteran be given, together with his file number or his rank, organization, serial number, and dates of enlistment and discharge. 
By direction, 
[signed] W C Black
W C Black Chief Clerk. 
[stamped Received Apr 2 1937]
File Number ---
Ex-Service man's full name ---
Rank and organization --- Serial number ---
Date of enlistment ---Date of discharge ---
Address at time of enlistment ---
Date and place of birth ---
Date and place of death --- 
Home address ---
Names and addresses of his nearest relatives ---
Form 3155 -- Rev. July 1931 
Request for information for purpose of identification
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March 29, 1937. BAHB 801 WESTFALL, Abraham 
Mr. Frank H. Allen, 
1356 Lakeland Avenue, 
Lakewood, Ohio. 
Dear Sir: 
Dear Sir:
Receipt is acknowledged of your communication of March 10, 1937 requesting copies of papers from the pension record of one Abraham Westfall.
The record of a veteran cannot be identified in the files with the information furnished. If you will fill out the blanks below and return this letter at an early date, further action can be taken.
In all future correspondence of this character it is important that the full name of the veteran be given, together with his file number or his rank, organization, serial number, and dates of enlistment and discharge.
By direction,
[signed] W C Black
W C Black Chief Clerk.
File Number ---
Ex-Service man's full name ---
Rank and organization --- Serial number ---
Date of enlistment ---Date of discharge ---
Address at time of enlistment ---
Date and place of birth ---
Date and place of death --- 
Home address ---
Names and addresses of his nearest relatives ---
Form 3155 -- Rev. July 1931 
Request for information for purpose of identification

[stamped] File in 801 files Mar 29 1937 INDEX

[stamped Received Mar 30 1937 General Records Sub-Div. File Unit #]
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Veterans administration
Form 3076
Rev. Nov. 1931
Searchers report
Insufficient information correspondence
Index Subdivision-Chief clerk’s division
Remarks                                 no record
Name of searcher F.J.
Date searched 3/26
Adjusted Comp. Section          “.  “
Veterans records subdivision “ “
Gen. record subdivision.          //
[crossed out 801 return to F. J.]
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March 26, 1937
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
ABRAHAM WESTFALL
W. 4386
BA-J/MMHF:MLB

Mr. Frank H. Allen
1356 Lakeland Avenue
Lakewood, Ohio

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of February 7, with which you enclosed cash in the amount of $2.00 to cover cost of photostatic copies of eight pages, only, from the eighty pages selected for photostatic copies for you November 25, 1936, on file in pension
claim, W. 4386, based upon service of Abraham Westfall in the Revolutionary War. You state that your sister may visit Washington
in the near future and may be able to inspect the papers in said claim and collect data therefrom.

Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data, your letter has just been reached in its turn from date of receipt. It is regretted that earlier consideration could not have been given it.

As previously stated, because of the frail condition of the papers, and the fact that every effort is being made for the preservation
of those old documents, it is gratifying, indeed, to know that your sister anticipates calling at this office to read the papers and will understand better exactly what you need in your research. In the meantime, all papers, the faded and the torn, which could not be photostated, have been examined very carefully and all data found therein in regard to residences, ages, family, and his services, have been incorporated in an official report enclosed herewith, which may be all you need in the preparation of your history of the Minisink country. No charge is made for this report.

Believing that copies of only eight pages from such a large number would not prove satisfactory, your remittance, $2.00, will be refunded in due time.

Should your sister visit this city and desire to call at this office, for her information, the Revolutionary War pension claims are located at present in Room 1851, Wing 8, Navy Building, 19th and Constitution
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Avenue, Northwest. Every courtesy will be extended her while in this office.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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The number and amount Certificates issued by the [illegible] of the state of New York for Levies & militia ServicesContinued from book
IV.I.                   To whom given
1779 Sept 2  5198 Abraham Westfall Lt.11 18 4
1780 Nov30. 5691 Abraham Westfall Capt 125 6 4
1781 Dec 16 6115 Abraham Westfall “ 148 12 2
State of New York
Comptroller’s office
Albany Jan’y 31 1840
I hear by certify The above to be true extracts from book no. 2. Now Managing In this office And also that it appears From the same book that the Paid Westfall [sum ?] The term First above Under Captain Miller And that on the 2 September 1779 Mory Phillips Was a major And that on the 30th Nov. 1780 Albert Pawling at colonel Comd’l and that on 26 Dec. 1781 Alex Webster was a colonel.
Bates Cooke
Comptroller
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WIDOW , &c.
File No. 4386
Dinah Westfall 
Wid.
Abraham Westfall
Rev. [Crossed out Capt] N. Y. Line
Act: July 4/ 36,Sec. 3D
Index:- Vol. M.     Page 319
{Arrangement of 1870 }
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Hon RA Long
Denver Colo.
June 13 ‘96 ord
Resend W Y.Y.
Sargent@Liv.
LYB
Nov. 28-19
H.O. Collins Los Angeles Cal.
Mch. 28-1907
Mrs. Katherine M
1911 Mch. 13 two Mrs. H. H. Rood McCormick
1913 Oct. 6 Hist. To Mrs. Mary. Chicago ill.
1916 Feby. 25 Miss Jessie
1921 Jan. 28 Hist. To Nanie
1932 May 24 Hist. To 
(Over)
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Aug 16 Hist.
Hon R A Long
Denver
June 13’96 @
Resend W
Sargent @
LYB
Nov. 28-19
H.O.Collins
Mch. 28-1907
Mrs. Katherine M
1911 Mch. 13 To Mrs. H.H.R. Rood C.
1913 Oct.6 Hist to Mrs. Mary C. Lloyd 
1916 Feby 25. “ to Mrs. Jessie N. Westfall
1921 Jan 28. Hist. To Nanie Vale CW
1932 May 24. Hist. To Margaret Dunn
W.A.S.
(Over)
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1936 Nov 25 Mr. F.H. Allen add. cost
photos- MSY
1937 Mar. 27 Hist. To Mr. frank H Allen
& he was notified in Mar 26 letter That $2 Would be refunded Tues
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Franklin, Ind.
Mar. 23, 1932
Veterans Administration 
Washington D.C.
Please send me the pension record of Abraham Westfall who served as a captain during the American Revolution. His wife’s name was Diana.
Address-
Margaret Dunn
874 N. Young St.
Franklin, Indiana
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Jane Bain Chapter.N.S.D.A.R.
Alliance, Ohio 
Dec. 18th 1920
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
I am writing to secure, if possible, the Military Record of Blandina VanEtten Westfall, Orange Co. N.Y. Who gave assistance during the American Revolution for which she received a pension, so family tradition says. She was the wife of Capt. Abraham Westfall. 
Thanking you, I am.
Very truly 
Annie Vale
Registrar
607 S. Freedom Ave.
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113 mulberry Street
Effingham, Ills.
September 22, 1913
Bureau of pensions
Washington DC
Dear sir.
Will you kindly have a search made for the revolutionary war service of Abraham Westfall born about 1755. I think he was a private in New York State As he was born in Orange County, New York. But he died in Ohio.
Respectfully,
Mrs. Mary C. Lloyd.
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Mount Vernon, Iowa
March 6, 1911
Mr. J. L. Davenport.
Commissioner of pensions
Washington DC
Dear sir:
In making investigations as to my right to become a member Of the Daughters of theAmerican revolution, I have been Referred to Theodore Sergeant for many years in the pension department. If he is still in the
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department, please hand this to him. The ancestor upon whom I rely to secure, this result was a captain Westfall And later, a major or lieutenant major from Carroll County Ohio. My parents are both dead and I do not know his given name or regiment. My mother was the daughter of Levi Westfall.
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of Carroll Co. Ohio
The son of Captain Westfall. Had a brother John and Simeon And a daughter who married a Mr. Patrick of new Philadelphia Ohio One of whose daughters married the former editor, Mr. Joseph Fredill of the Chicago tribune Other members of Levi Westfall‘s family
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were Noah, Levi, Thomas sons, If still living, James who Died a civil war soldier, Mrs. Sarah 
Royd, (Mrs. Diana Day with three other daughters, all deceased) I have been thus explicit hoping it may enable you to procure the information I desire. An early reply will be greatly appreciated. Thanking you in advance, I am yours truly,
Frances E. Reed
(Mrs. HHR)
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Rev. War N.Y.
Commissioner of pensions
Washington DC
Dear sir:
I have before me, the military history of Captain Abraham Westfall Of the revolution as shown by the Papers on file In the US pension bureau Washington DC.
I will copy this history for you And if correct, will you please send me all papers necessary to
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become a D.A.R.
In his application for pension as a Revolutionary soldier filed June 28th, 1824, under the Acts of March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820 respectively and duly executed before George Southtown, clk., of the Co. of Columbiana, Ohio, with Dina Westfall and Levi Westfall, as witnesses, the following facts appear: Abraham Westfall age 69: enlisted for one year June 1, 1777 from N.Y. State in Capt. Jas. Routraine Company, Col. Lewis Dubois Regiment, N.Y. Line Continental Establishment. Served until October 1778, when discharged at New Windsor, N.Y.
April 1779 was appointed Lieut. Colonel in Capt. Jno. Woods Co., Lieut. Colonel Albert Pawlings Reg. May 1, 1780 he was appointed a Capt. of Co. in said Lieut. Col. Pawling’s Reg. and was in the battle of Fort Montgomery, Hudson River, N.Y.
That he had no other evidence of his service, or any other property than those named in schedule. Pensioned Sept 7, 1824 from August 20, 1824 at $8 per month and the certificate sent to Sam’l Smith
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Esq, Uniontown, Pa.
I have in another place that Captain Abraham Westfall Was in the battles of Bunker Hill, Stony Point, Trenton, Bloody-run and Brandywine. Will you please favor me With an immediate reply? 
Thanking you
I am,
Miss Jessie N. Westfall.
Beloit Ohio
Box 123.
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California Society of
Los Angeles 
Nov. 17 1900
To the Commissioner of Pensions 
Dear Sir.
Will you kindly send me an abstract of such records as you may have relating to the service of Captain Abraham Westfall during the Revolution. He was of Orange County N.Y.
In March 1779 he was a Lieutenant of a corps of dories commanded by Lt. Col. Albert Pawling. In May 1780 He was In regiment of Dories Lieutenant colonel Albert Pawling Raised for The defense of the frontier. In April 20 717 He was captain in Lieutenant Pawling’s regiment raised for the immediate defense of the state, but
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it appears that in April 28, 1781. He was captain of a regiment of line commanded By Lieutenant Colonel Marnin Willett.
On April 10, 1782 he was Captaining regiment of line commanders by Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Weisenfels, End of Lieutenant Colonel Marnin Willett, raised for the defense 
[illegible] Frontiers.
Yours very sincerely,
Holdridge O. Collins
Prest. Col. for L.R.
We request above information for class use of this society.
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Henry Dudley Teetor
Lawyer and Genealogist 
Denver Colorado, July 31, 1944
Hon. Commissioner of pensions,
Please send me a certificate as to the service of Capt. Abraham Westfall of the New York Line, in the Revolutionary War, upon account of which a Pension was issued to his widow, Dinah Westfall of, whose post office address at time of her death was Augusta, Carroll Co., Ohio.
Kindly make the certificate as complete as your rules will permit.
I ask this favor in behalf of Hon Robert A. Long of this city, who is Captain Westfall’s great grandson.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully,
Henry Dudley Teetor
The Keystone
328, 17th. St.
Dawson, colo.
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Frank H Allen
1356 Lakeland Ave.
Lakewood, Ohio
October 20, 1936.
Director of U.S. Pension bureau archives,
Washington, DC
Dear sir:
As a special feature writer For the Cleveland Plain dealer Sunday magazine, I am gathering material for a historical article As well as for a historical novel In process of evolution.
Does your department still have? File the papers relating to the revolutionary war pension of Captain Abraham Westfall, Orange County, New York? In 1891 the file key was:
O. W. & N. Division.
L.W.B.
W. 4386
I understand that at the time this pension was granted, there was on file a collection of letters written by friends and relative dealing with the military and personal history of Captain Westfall and his wife. Are these letters still on file? And. Is your department equipped to make photostatic copies Of such items on file? If so, what is the fee for suchphotostats?
Incidentally, on your pension rolls have you the revolutionary war record of John Herrington, of New York State? He was born in New York State, January 1, 1759. He served in the revolutionary war., But I do not know whether or not applied for a pension. If so, his application probably was made from Carroll county Ohio, where he lived throughout his later manhood.
Very truly yours,
Frank H. Allen
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4604
Dinah Westfall
Of Abraham 
Ohio.
[crossed out, admitted Captain 2 yrs $480]
Col. Paulding N.Y. Lines
died
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The state of Ohio
Carroll County SS: I Daniel McCook Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the said county of Carroll do hereby certify that Miles J. Tiernan, Leonard Harsh and William Harsh before whom the foregoing depositions were taken, are acting Justices of the Peace within and for said county duly commissioned and qualified in whose official acts full faith and credit is and ought to be given.
And further that I am acquainted with the signatures of the said Justices and know the ones attached to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature and the seal of the said Court at Carrollton this the 24th day of June AD 1839
Daniel McCook
Clerk C.P.
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The state of New York
Cayuga county SS: Personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the acting justices of the peace within and for the said County And state aforesaid Martin Guy Kendall Of the town of Oswego  in said county Who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith That he 76 years old  18th Day of Febry last, That he was born in the Minisink settlement In the county of Orange In the state aforesaid That he served some time In the company commanded by Captain Abraham Westfall In the regiment commanded by Colonel Pawling of the New York State troops. That he was intimately acquainted With the said captain Abraham Westfall from the infancy up to the time that the said Abraham Westfall to the Western Country. That during the time that he the said Abraham Westfall was in the service of the state of New York he was married to Blandina or Dinah Van Etten in the said town of Minisink, now DeerPark in the said county of Orange in the state aforesaid, (the said Dinah is now present in my house at the time writing this deposition, I recognize her easily) the said Abraham, Westfall, and Dinah wife continued to reside in the settlement where they were married until about the year 1797 when they immigrated to the western country.
The deponent is well convinced doth at the said Dinah Westfall who is now present in is the widow of Abraham Westfall who served as a captain during the war of the revolution in the regiment commanded by Colonel Pawling of the New York State troops and no other.
Martin Guy Kendall
Sworn and subscribed before me
This 18th June 1840
C. Guy Kendall.
Justice of the peace
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The state of New York
Cayuga county SS: I Cornelius CuyKendall A justice of the peace within and for  the county
aforesaid, do hereby certify That Martinthat Cuy Kendall We subscribed the foregoing Deposition is a man of good moral character And for truth and veracity stands as high as men in general.
Given under my hand And official seal This 13th of June AD 1840
C. Cuykendall
Seal
Justice of the peace
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The State of New York
Cayuga County§ Personally appeared before me the subscriber an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County Jane Brinkerhoff and Margaret DePuy of said county who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that they aged thirty four and sixty two years of age that they were born in the Town of Minisink now Deerpark in the County of Orange and the state aforesaid, that they were intimately acquainted with Captain Abraham Westfall and Dinah or Blandina his wife formerly Dinah Van Etten that they continued to reside in the Minisink settlement until they had five children. To the best of our recollection the said Dinah is now present at the time of the taking of this deposition. (They recollect her well, and Recognize her easily) she is now on her way to the town of Minisink aforesaid, for the purpose of her person  identified to enable her to draw a pension for the services of her husband during the war of the revolution.
Margaret Depuy
Jane Brinkenhoff
Sworn and subscribed before me this 15th June 1840
C. Cuykindall
Seal
Justice of the peace

State of New York
Cayuga county SS: I Cornelius Cuykindall hey justice of the peace in aforesaid do hereby  certify that the said Jane Brinkenhoff and Margaret DePuy who were sworn to and subscribed the Foregoing deposition our ladies of good moral character and entitled to credit and belief.
Given under my hand and official this 13th June AD 1840
C. Cuykindall  seal
Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Cayuga County SS: I hereby certify that Cornelius Cuykendall and Chauncey Abbott were Justices of the Peace in and for said County at the served dates above mentioned as their acting as such that I am acquainted with their handwriting and verily believe that the signatures above purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said county and subscribed my name this 16th day of June 1840
Geo Warren Foster
Deerpark
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State of New York
Orange County § William A. Cuddeback of the town of Deerpark in the said county being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is eighty one years of age, that he was born in the valley of the Neversink on the western frontier in the county of Ulster and State of New York and that he has resided in that place ever since and that he was a soldier in the Militia during the Revolutionary War and that he was one month at Fort Montgomery just before it was taken under his father Captain Abraham Cuddeback and Col. McClaughry and that he served during the war in the Militia at Pumpark West Point and along the Delaware River and he further saith that he was well acquainted with Capt. Abraham Westfall who had command of the New York lines from the Sprinkler of 1780 until the upation of the hostilities on the frontier in 1783 and he further deposeth and saith that there was no other Captain Abraham Westfall along the frontiers but the one above mentioned and that the said Captain Abraham Westfall married to Blandina or Dinah VanEtten sometime between the year 1780 and the close of the War. That according to the best of his recollection the said Captain Abraham Westfall left the place now called Deerpark about forty one or two years since for the west and this deponent learned that he afterwards settled with his family somewhere in Ohio that he has learned
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some years since That the said Captain Abraham Westfall Was dead He Believes that his widow still lives And he is perfectly satisfied That Dinah Westfall Of Carroll County State of Ohio now an applicant for a pension From the United States Is the Widow
of Captain Abraham Westfall of the New York State Troops. The words, “learned that he” were interned before signing another name Westfall written on the erasure before signing.
William A. Cuddback
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 25th day of April 1840
Peter E. Gurnaer Commissioner

State of New York
Orange County
I certify that I am well acquainted with William A. Cuddeback who made and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and I have always known him to be a man of truth and veracity and I am satisfied that what he has stated is entitled to full credit and belief. And that from my own personal knowledge, I know that what is stated by William A. Cuddeback is true.
Peter E. Gurnaer

State of New York
Orange County
I Albert L. Benton clerk of the court pleas in and for the Z County certify that Peter E.Gurnaer is a commissioner of and as above
That the foregoing signature handwriting be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have unto subscribed my name and affixed the seal
Of said court this 25th day of April 1840.
A L Benton Clerk
Hon Asa Dunning Deputy Clerk
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Dinah Westfall 
Ohio
Suspended 
Ret 11 April 1839
to D. McCook
do. 21 Sep. 1839
Act 7 July 1838
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313
Ohio Pittsburgh 
Dinah Westfall
Widow of Abraham Westfall 
Private
Who died on the 5th September 18
Of Carroll Co. In the state of Ohio
Who was a [The word captain is crossed out] In the.        Commanded by captain
Of the regiment commanded by Colonel Weisenfelt In the New York Line 
For [The word two years is crossed out]
1 Year
Inscribed on the roll Of Ohio Pittsburgh
At the rate of [ $480 is crossed out] 
$40 Dollars.            Cents Per annum,
To commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of pension issued the 27th day of
Dec. 1839 [crossed out, Carrollton, Ohio]
Daniel McCook
Arrears to 4 September 1839            $4080.
Semi annual allowance ending Mar’40 240.
                                                               $4320.00
Act’38
[Crossed out revolutionary claim act July 4, 1836 section the 3d]
Recorded by D. D. Addison. Clerk.
Book A.    Vol. 2D.  Page 177
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let 7 Jany 1840
Hon. J. Hastings
do. To Hon. Calvary Morris. 28th
Jan. 1840= do. To Jas. Thompson 
Feb. 14, 1840- do. To CS.
Trailey Feb. 22. 1840- oa
to James Thompson March 10.
1840- do. To Sec. War APL. 15.
1840- do. To same APL. 17. 1840
do. To Same 8 May 1840- do. to
D. McCook 15th Mar 1840-to Sec of
War, May 18, 1840-
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Carrollton Carroll County Ohio
Oct 27th 1838
J. L. Edwards Esquire.
Dear Sir
Enclosed, you will find  The pension papers of Mrs. Dinah Westfall Of this county. We find it very difficult To comply with all the Rules laid down By the pensions, But I hope the enclosed evidence Together with That on file in the war department Will be sufficient To secure the widow her pension. She is old and very poor.
I remain your Obet. Servant 
Daniel Mc Cook
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Depositions in the case of D. Westfall
-sue a cert: for Dinah
-is on if A. Westfall
Capt. $480 in lieu
-one dated 19 May
-40- cancelled.
- and cert: to D.
-cCook, present.
the pension Must
Be paid as [crossed out]
[Crossed out]
[Crossed out]
[Crossed out]
dep. June 24 1840
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4604
Dinah Westfall 
Of Abraham 
Ohio
Admitted
Capt. 2 yrs. $480.
Col. Weisenfelt. N.Y.
died 5th Sept. 1829
Act 4 July 1836
Daniel Mc Cook
Carrollton, Ohio.
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House of Reps.
Sept. 12th 1840
Dear sir
I have just received The enclosed letter From Mr. Pence on the subject of Westfall pension,
[Crossed out word ] And take the liberty Forwarding it to you.
Very respectfully
Your Obet. Servt.
Calvary Morris
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Carrollton Carroll County Ohio
15th Oct 1839
Hon. James L Edwards
Dear sir
Enclosed, you will find Explanatory depositions Taken In the matter of The application of Dinah Westfall Which I hope Will Satisfactory.
Mrs. Potts Will declare a new At our common pleas term On the 28th Inst. She sent for a certificate To Berkeley.
Very respectfully
Your Obet. Servt.
Daniel McCook
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Carrollton Carroll County Ohio
24 June 1839
Hon. J. L. Edwards.
Dear sir 
I again send you the application of Dinah Westfall For a pension under the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836 I hope the papers has made out prove  satisfactory to the department.
What has been done in the cases of Mrs. Potts and Brown.
Very Respectfully 
Your Obet. Servt.
Daniel McCook
Clerk
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Washington Township Carroll County
February the 24, 1840
Dear sir
Mr. Daniel McCook Of Carrollton Has this day called on me To give up the certificate of pension Which he obtained for me. I do not Understand the reason Why it is withdrawn.
It is my right by law And I am Justly entitled to it On account of my husband’s services In the war of the revolution. I give the To Mr. McCook As he says the papers Must be Returned  To Washington. I hope it will Again be returned me.
Respectfully yours
Dinah Westfall 
James L. Edwards Esquire
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Carrollton 24th February 1840
Hon James L Edwards
Dear Sir
Yours of the 14th best and was received on Friday last at too late an hour in the Day to ride 9 miles into the country To the residence of Mrs. Westfall To obtain from her The certificate Forwarded to me In December last To have enabled me To transmitted by The return mail On Saturday, Hence the delay. Is now The disposal of the department.
On The day I received your note I was informed by Colonel James Thompson Of this place that he and some other others Had To the department Informing them That something Was wrong, that she was not entitled to a captains pension, as her husband never drew, but a private. It is true that her husband drew but the pension of a private. But how does it happen That injustice is done to individuals by their not being able to establish satisfactorily their claims. At the time, Captain Westfall applied for a pension I believe that perfect rolls of the revolutionary service was not made up, therefore there was no record evidence to establish his own statements when in the absence of positive he would fail. 
When the old lady first applied to me to make Application for her the propriety of applying for a captain Pension was discussed. I oppose it, on the ground of her husband’s failure and not knowing that there was record  proof of his service that if increased pay was asked for testimony of the actual service must be produced, and the only person that could have done so in this section of the country, to our knowledge had lately died in Brook County Virginia because I drew up her application for a private’s pension. 
On the receipt of your letter of the 11. April last informing me of the suspension. Of her application under the law of July 7, 1830 end of the record proof
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of his service as a Captain, at the June term of our Court thereafter she made a declaration under the law of July 4th 1836, according to the form enclosed in your letter of the 11 April, now if there is any thing wrong, in this matter it is not on the part of the parties concerned in the transaction, it is on the part of those who make statements to the Department without being in possession of a knowledge of the facts relating to her case.
I recollect well to see Capt. Westfall during the time of his residence in Washington County Pensa. Where I was raised. He was then taken and received as a Captain of the Revolution, and was so styled, when I removed from Cannonburgh Penna. to Columbana County Ohio, I there found Mr. Westfall who was there applying for a pension. He died in that was then Washington Township Columbana County, (but now Carroll) in the same original surveyed  Township in which I now reside, carrying to his grave some of those honorable testimonials of that service which the loafers of our day, who are now (dishonorably in my opinion) trying to prevent justice from being done to his widow and him never can show.
The old lady asks for nothing but what is her right, by the law of the land, and hopes that justice will be meted out to her. Since she received the certificate she informs me that she has contracted some debt, with the expectation of being able to pay it on the 4th of March next, therefore she hoped for as speedy a reexamination of her claim as circumstances will admit of.
With Sentiments of Respect 
I remain yours
Daniel McCook
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County § Personally came before the subscribing one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid James Cameron & Peter Hewet, citizens of said county of lawful age, who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that they were intimately acquainted with Abraham Westfall who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States late of the County of Columbana, deceased, that they resided in his immediate neighborhood and assisted in dressing him after his death(which they at the time they made their first statement under oath) were of the opinion and strongly surprised that he died on the 5th of September 1828 the fall of the Presidential Election, but on referring to some births that took place in the neighborhood shortly before his death they are convinced that he died on the 5th September 1829 the fall after the election, that they are well acquainted with Dinah Westfall the widow of the said Abraham Westfall that she resides in the same settlement where her husband died, that she was a widow on the 4th day of July AD 1836 and yet remains his widow.
James Cameron
Peter Hewet
Sworn and subscribed before me this 11am of October AD 1839
William Hersh Seal Justice of the Peace
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The state of Ohio
Carroll county §
I William Hersh a magistrate Within and for The said County of Carroll Do hearby certified That James Cameron And Peter Heuet Who has this day appeared Before me And subscribed The within Deposition are men of good Moral character And entitled to the most implicit confidence And credit. Given under my hand and seal This is the 11th day Of October, Anni Domani 1839
William Hersh
Seal Justice of peace
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3 APL 15
M164
April 15 1840
Pension Office
Report to day of [illegible]
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Washington City 14 April 1840
Hon. J.R. Poinsett 
Dear Sir
Sometime In the spring of 1839 Mrs. Dinah Westfall Of Carroll County Ohio, Made an application for a pension Under the act of 7 July 1838 Which Was examined And suspended Under that act The commissioner Believing that she was entitled To a pension under the act of July 4 1836, Who returned to me, the enclosed answers marked -A- She again Renewed Her application under the third sect. Of the act last aforesaid, Which was again suspended On account of an error As to the time of the death of her husband. The reply of the Comm. opinion is herewith enclosed marked -B- She afterward  forwarded an amended declaration upon which a certificate was issued and forwarded to me in December last granting to her the pension of a Capt.
Upon the knowledge of the fact that she had so received the certificate, some of the Citizens never having heard of Mr. Westfall
being a Capt
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Husband that she was not entitled to the amount received and (as I understand) so informed the department on the 23 rd February last. I received from the commissioner the included communication marked “C” In compliance thereto on the 25th day of the same month I returned to the department the certificate.
On the 23rd of March last she annexed her application before one of the appointed Judges of our Court of Common Pleas which application was forwarded and now is in the possession of the Comm. Of Pensions who at this time requires that she produce testimony to prove that she is the widow of Capt. Abraham Westfall of the New York Lines when he was aware and had been informed that the only person in the Western Country (to our knowledge) who could establish the fact of his service as a Capt. had died a short time previous to her making application.
From which decision I respectfully appeal to your Honor on the following grounds.
Points-
First, because Abraham Westfall the late husband of the applicant did when he made the first application for a pension ask for that of a Capt., that in his first, or in a subsequent application he stated the different services that he performed and only Asa private soldier in the regular Army, but as an officer
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the battles that he had been in, the wounds that he received &c.
Second that the reason why he was not pensioned as a Captain on his first application was because there was no law of Congress in existence at that time, granting pensions to the State Troops, therefore he was pensioned for the services performed to the United States as a private only.
And lastly there is no other and there is one Abraham Westfall, enrolled on the rolls of the New York State Troops, either as an officer or a private soldier, therefore taking all the testimony in the case into consideration, to wit, his original application, the records of the War Department, and the testimony accompanying her application, my mind is brought to the most reasonable conclusion, that the applicant is the widow of Capt. Abraham Westfall of the New York State Troops, and no other.
If your Honor thinks that her identity is not sufficiently established to restore to her the certificate, I would respectfully request that the enclosed communications from Mr. Edwards be returned either to myself at Gadsly’s Hotel, or to the Hon. John Hastings of the House of Representatives.
I am very Respectfully your obet. Servt.
Daniel McCook
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Hon James L Edwards
Dear Sir
It appears that nothing short of a personal identity will be served by the department over, which you have the honor to preside to enable Mrs. Dinah Westfall to obtain a pension for the services of her husband Abraham Westfall as a Captain, and therefore will accept of a certificate for his services performed as a private during the War of the Revolution and abandon the application for additional compensation for the pres.
I have the Honor to be very respectfully your obdt. Servt.
Daniel McCook

Mat 19th 1840
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Pension office
Convinced in
J.R.P.
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Pension office.
April 15, 1840
Sir:
In the case of Mrs. Dinah Westfall, Widow of Abraham, Westfall, deceased, I Make The following report:
In 1824 Abraham Westfall Applied for a pension under the act of March 18, 1818. He alleged that he served as a Private soldier one year in the continental army And that He was Also a captain In the New York State troops. As his service and the continental Army Was proved by two witnesses, He was allowed a pension Such Service. No questions were ever raised As to his Allegation of service as captain in the state troops, because It was then of no consequence To determine whether he was or was not In the state service, As the law of 1818 under which claimed, did not provide for other service, then that in the continental forces. He died in 1829 and in 1839 His widow applied for the benefits of the pension laws, which extend to the widows of all who
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Performed six months Military service During the revolution, Whether the husbands Were of the Continental army or not. When the enclosed letter Of 11th  of April 1839, Was addressed to Mr. Mc Cook from this office, It was Not supposed that Any doubt had ever Been entertained In the neighborhood where Westfall lived, That he had Been a captain In the New York State troops, as alleged by him In his declaration made in 1824; Otherwise, Proof would have been required from the widow in order to sustain the declaration. It appears that there was a Captain of that name in the New York State Troops. This has been ascertained by a reference to the rolls;
But whether the deceased Westfall, whose widow now claimed a pension, was the same person whose name appears in the rolls, is doubtful, as will appear from the enclosed letters. The doubts raised from the information contained in these letters, are such as to render it proper for the office to require proof that the deceased was the same person held the rank of captain.
As the enclosed letters, numbered from
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One to three, are confidential, I have to request that they may be returned to this office.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
Your Obt:Servt:
J.L. Edwards

Hon. J.R. Poinsett 
Secretary of war
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Canollton 1st April 1840
Hon. James L Edwards
Dear Sir
Inclosed I send you an additional declaration Of Dinah Westfall Made before his honor Judge McEldeny Which I hope Will prove entirely satisfactory To the department. I hope that no time will be And to making the necessary examinations Of the several applications That I have forwarded To the department As neither Of the applicants Are now able to leave their dwellings and if delayed much longer Will be a little service to them.
Yours of the 16th [Illegible] was seen last week, my entire time being occupied in court, I was compelled to defer a reply until this time and reply, I would say the 24th day of February last, I forwarded it to you the certificate of Mrs. Westfall . Together with the testimony of Levi Westfall taken on that day, in relation to his mother‘s appearance is and being qualified is in open court I have examined the records of the post office in this place they show the mailing of the letter at that date. They have been served by this time.
I remain yours very respectful
Daniel McCook
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Uniontown Pa
September 15Th 1824
Dr. Sir
I have the honor To receive your favor of the 27th, July last In which you Required the testimony of two witnesses to prove The service of Abraham Westfall. The affidavits Of captain Matthew Neely And Daniel Conklin Is herein And please Be so good to act on them As early as practical, and send his certificate to me.
I am Sir respectfully your obt. Servant 
Samuel Smith

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Pension office
US
[Illegible] Was in this neighborhood A few days ago he [Illegible] that those were no doubt the practical belief of the colon he has gone [illegible] one of his children is sick, so I am informed.
S Smith
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Abraham Westfall Pvt. Act March 1818
To what time
Per office
 April 10 1839
Died 5th Sep 1829 p.
To that period
JH
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 Comptroller office
Albany January 21. 40
Sir
Amended you have A certificate in relation to the services Of Capt. Abraham Westfall
I am very respectfully
Your obedient servant 
Philip Phelps
Deputy Comp.
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War department
 revolutionary claim
I certify that in conformity with the laws Of the United States Of Of March 1818 And first of May 1820 Abraham Westfall of Columbiana Co. Ohio formerly a private soldier in the regiment commanded by Col.Lewis Dubois NY line on the Continental Establishment in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Ohio Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 28th day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty four.
Given at the War office of the United States,
this 7th day of September one thousand eight hundred and twenty four.
JC Calhoun
Secretary of War
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ded in Washington County Pennsylvania.
Sworn and subscribed
This        Day of
1829 before me.
Justice of the Peace
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County of Fayetteville Penn SS:
Personally appeared Mathew Neely and being duly qualified deposeth and sayith that he well knows Abraham Westfall and that he is confident that the said Abraham Westfall served one year in year seventeen hundred and seventy eight at one time on Continental Establishment in Col. Lewis Dubois Regiment  of the New York Line on Continental Establishment as aforesaid and this deponent sayith that he was a Lieutenant under Capt. Newkirk and Col Newkirk of New York Militia and that he this deponent had a cousin Abraham Neely who was a Captain in the regular army and the said Abraham was wounded at Fort Montgomery and was along with Westfall, and this deponent further deposeth and sayith that after the aforesaid services, service of Westfall he believes hi to have been along with this deponent after Indians up the Delaware and leave same commission but as they was seen parted he cannot tell anything more relative thereto and this deponent sayith that in 1784 he bought a horse of the said Abraham Westfall which he called presipeck.
Matthew Neely
Sworn to and subscribed this 28 August 1824
Thos Hadden

I do certify that I have been Acquainted with Matthew Neely the deponent and that he is a credible witness and a man of integrity
Pr my hand is 28 day of August 1824
Thos. Hadden
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Fayette county§  I, Thomas McKibbon  Prothanotary Of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the county aforesaid do certify that
Thomas Hadden Before whom The foregoing
[Crossed out two words] AffidavitsWere made
Was at The time of doing And now is an acting Justice of the peace  In and for Said county Duly commissioned And qualified to all whose Official acts Full faith and credit Are due and ought to be given.
Testimony, whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County at Union Town the 28th day of august A.D.
1824
Thomas McKibbon P.A.
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County of Fayette Pennsylvania, §
Personally appeared Daniel Conklin And having duly qualified Deposeth and sayith That he was a sergeant in Captain Thaddeus Fowler’s company Of  Col. Frederick Wizenvelts Regiment on continental establishment In the revolutionary war and of  the New York line And that he knew Abraham Westfall who Belonged to Colonel Lewis Seabury’s regiment Continental Establishment Of the New York line In the revolutionary  war As aforesaid And Abraham Westfall Served at least nine months At one time in said regiment establishment continental establishment as aforesaid and this deponent deposeth that he served six years and seven monthsin the New York line-
Daniel Conklin
Sworn and subscribed this 28th day of August 1824. Before me a justice of the peace in said County.
This Hadden
JP
I certify that Daniel Conklin is a credible witness given under my is 28th day of August 1824
Thos Hadden
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Memorandum of service
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Abraham Westfall Captain in Colonel Paulding‘s regiment of the New York Levies
On roll
Vol 2 page 21. - 1780– $313.29
“.      “.          28.   1781–   346.52
In Col. t Regt.     1782      314.16
                                        $   973.97