Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1099, Garret Tunison, Continental Va.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental
Va. 

Tunison, Garret
or
Tunison, Garrit
Sarah

NUMBER
W.1099

{ B.L.Wt.2193 - Hoo - Surgeon
Issued Apr. 1, 1791
No papers
Name spelled Tunnison
No papers.

CONTENTS
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32.107

New Jersey
Garret Tunison deceased
Lemont in the State of New Jersey
who was a Surgeon in the Company commanded by Captain ------ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Lamb in the New Jersey line for Two years.

Increase from $480.  per. an.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 600 Dollars. Cents per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. and ending 18 July 1837 the day of this death.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of February 1844 ------- and sent to Hon. L. Q. 
C. Elmer, Ho. of Rept.

Arrears to [strikethrough of] the 4th of [end strikethrough] 18 July 1837. 
$3824 .50/100
=====================
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832 }

Payable to Peter F & Judith Tunison admr. 
admr. of Cornelius Tunison Dec'd.
Matthias T. Tunison & Jane Wood. Surviving
Children of Garret Tunison, from 4 Mar. '1831
to 18 July 1837. deduct what has been paid under the act of 13 May 1828.

debt payment Mar 13, 1844
and to Hon. W.L. Baylor March 18, '44 
Rep.  8 Febry. '44 

Let to Hon J [illegible]
Feb. 12. 1844
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6877.
New. Jersey
Sarah Tunison decd.
widow of Garret Tunison
who was a pensioner under the act of _
and who died on the 25th Sept 1841
of Lemont in the State of N. J.
who was a Surgeon in the Company commanded by Captain _ of the Regt commanded by Col Lamb in the N. J. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 600 Dollars _ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March , 1836.
Increased from $450 per annum
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Dec. 1843 and sent to Hon J.W. Miller [illegible]

Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Reocrded by Tho Lumpkin, Clerk, Book 4 Vol. 2 Page 137

Reported
Letter to John W. Mann 8 Jany 1844

Payable to [illegible] of Cornelius G. Tunison, Mattias G Tunison and Jane Wood _ deducting what has been paid.
Let to Hon. J. W. Miller U.S. Senate Jany. 29. '44
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3414
Sarah Tunison
widow of Garret

N. Jersey
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3414
Application
of
Sarah Tunison
widow of 
Garret Tunison
for a 
Pension

Somerset N.J.

Send to
T.A. Hartwell

Hon. J. F. Randolph
[illegible]
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Declaration, in order to obtain
the benefit of the third Section of the Act of Congress
of the 4th July 1886

State of New Jersey, Somerset County Ss:
On this Sixth day of October in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty seven personally appeared before me Court 
of Common pleas, holder at [illegible] in &
for Said County of Somerset Sarah Tunison
a resident in said County of Somerset aged seventy six
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
pension made by Act of Congress passed July
4, 1836 That she is the widow of Garret
Tunison who was a Surgeon in Colo J. Combs
Regt. of Artillery in the army of the Revolution

She further deposed that
she was married to the said Garret Tunison
on the Fifth day of June in year
of our Lord Seventeen hundred and Eighty three
That her husband the aforesaid Garret Tunison
did on the Eighteenth day of July in the
year Eighteen hundred and thirty seven, and
that she has remained a widow ever since that
period en will more freely appear by the
proof hereunto annexed

Sworn + subscribed in open court
the day + year above

Sarah Tunison

James Taylor
For the proof of said Garret Services
said applicant refers to the different applications of 
[illegible] Garret for pensions on file in the War Dept.
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State of New Jersey Somerset County Ss.

Be it Known that on this 2nd day of February
AD 1838 before me James Taylor one
of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County personally appeared Thos A Hartwell Who being by me duly Sworn on his oath Saith that he has been intimately acquainted with the said Doct. Garret Tunison 
and Sarah Tunison his wife for upward of
twenty years. That the said Sarah is now
living. and has remained a widow Since the
death of the Said Garret: That deponent
prepared the papers for Mrs. Garret under the act of 1818. and the subsequent acts of Congress, by which he drew a pension as a Surgeon in Colo. Lambs Regt. of Artillery in the Revolutionary War. Deponent had in possession and repeatedly examined the Commission of the Mrs.  Garret
It was forwarded to the War department
and has since been [illegible] as deponent believes and has been informed, for the purpose of obtaining the bounty Land of the Mrs. [illegible] Garret
+ is made either in Virginia as the Land office
at Washington as deponent believes. It is
believed here + always has been on [illegible] as deponents Knowledge extends that the said Garret entered the Revolutionary Service at an early period + remained til the close of the War Sworn + Subscribed the day & year above before me

James Taylor

Thos A. Hartwell
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State of New Jersey Somerset County ss

Be it Known that on this 15th of
February 1838. before me James Taylor one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in + for
said county of Somerset personally appeared
Rebeca Brokaw who being my mo duly
sworn on her oath Saith that she has
been acquainted with the above named Sarah
Tunison upwards of Sixty years - This deponent
was present at the Marriage of the Said
Sarah Tunison to Doct. Garret Tunison in the
month of June in the year Seventeen hundred
and Eighty Three at the hand of this deponents
Father at Lamington in Said County, by the
Rvr.d Mr. Graff or Groff of the Lutheran church at New Germantown, about three miles from deponents fathers. The said Garret Tunison at the time of Said Marriage was a Surgeon in the army of the Revolutionary war and wore his uniform when he stood up to be married - Deponent was in the room + saw them married and how lived near to the said Doct. Tunison and wife + have been intimate in their family ever since A girl by the name of Anna Williams was
Brides maid and stood up with the said Garret & Sarah when they were married one Cor Tunison was Grooms man deponent further saith that the said Garret & Sarah lived together until the death of Mrs. Garret, which took place in July 1837 in said County of Somerset
Sworn & subscribed this day & year [illegible] above written before me
James Taylor
Rebecca Brokaw her X mark
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State of New Jersey Somerset County ss
I John M Mann Clerk of the Court of common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings held in said Court on the application of Sarah Tunison widow of Garet Tunison dec for a pension in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this thirteenth day of April Eighteen hundred and thirty Eight
J. M. Mann
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Garret Tunison
declaration [illegible]
77
28 March 1818
(Sept 1818)
(compared)
Continue
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District of New Jersey Somerset County ss: on this twenty seventh day of June eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court to wit in the Court of Common pleas holden at Bridgewater in and for the county of Somerset in said State of New Jersey the same being a court of record proceeding according to the cause of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in amount and keeping a record of its proceedings and it also having the power affirm & imprisonment Garret Tunison aged sixty eight years a resident in the township of Bridgewater in said county of Somerset district & state as who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows _ that on or about the month July in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five he entered into the United States service a volunteer in Captain Stevenson comp [company] of Rifleman after that to wit until april seventeen hundred and seventy nine he continued out of the time in Fishkill Hospital as surgeon mate and part of the time as junior surgeon in the same establishment then, to wit, in April seventeen hundred and seventy nine received the appointment surgeon in Colo Lambs Regiment of [Artillery] & continued in the service under that appointment until after Cornwallis’ defeat and was finally disbanded in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three at west point in the state of New York that he the deponent was in the battle of Fort Montgomery and the same of that he was duly commissioned as surgeon afs [aforesaid] by President Hanson of the Congress of the United States and that he has no other evidence now in his power or possession of his said services & discharge and this deponent saith that the date of his original declaration is about the month of March 1818 and the number of his pension certificate is 77 marked on the back thru of and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that there not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or my part thereof with intent 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 nor has any person in trust for me any property or security or securities contracts or debts due term nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me.  subscribed Real property I own name but possess a plantation of one hundred acres [illegible] a lease from year to year which real property was mortgaged by me
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to Nelly Ten Eyck the mother of my wife who left the amount of said mortgage by him last will to my children five in number and the principal and interest of said mortgage amounting to a larger sume [sum] than the property would bring the same hathe been deeded to John Frelinghuysen in trust for my said children to prevent a foreclosure of the same in their behalf hereby conveying all rights & interest whatever that I have in the same to satisfy the said debt and to the Estate of said Nelly Ten Eyck - that my personal Estate might be saved for the benefit of my executors and being at several time in hands of officers and about to be imprisoned I assigned and mortgaged all my personal Estate unto John Frelinghuysen dated the first day of June one thousand eight hundred and ten for their benefit to serve my liberty from confinement which property he is now & hath him for some time disposing of for the payment of said creditors and if the same had not been thus disposed of according to this contract said personal estate would have come for short of paying them-- and further of do declare that the proceeds of the lease, by virtue of which I am in possession hath been used still is to be used for the payment of the debts against me and had not this term done all my said Estate both Real personal would have been sold by the said creditors and not have been sufficient to pay them by reason whereof and for no other reasons viz: being fully satisfied that all my said Estate would be sold and my person confined I said transfer the whole as reserving no right whatsoever thereto as appears by the writing relating thereto, duly recorded in the clerks office of the County of Somerset, so that I do not consider, neither have I put my said Estate out of my possession to enable me to receive my pension as the same would have been by the process of Law had not I thus surrendered it-- And further I do declare in the conveyance of my real Estate, it doth not appear that I have conveyed to the [unreadable] John Frelinghyson a certain six acres by mistake which was before conveyed by me to Andrew Howell Esq. as by Deed duly recorded appears by reason whereof it has so happened that six other acres yet remain to make up and satisfy the amount of aforesaid mortgage. This deponent further saith his family consists of a wife aged 69 years two sons married & removed from house one son at house of legal age acting for himself one daughter 17 years of age a helpless child has pension - a free black woman aged about 68, a servant woman aged 48 - negro boy aged 15-- negro boy [unreadable] 9 years- Boy [unreadable] 6 years all those not free the property of John Frelinghyson as above stated- Schedule of property now belonging to Garret Tunnison as given to him from the increase of stock in hands of John Frelinghyson
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1 bolt of [unreadable] -----$30.00 
four Calves --- 16.00 
three Lambs ----- 3.00
 two pigs ------2.00
four shoats--- 8.00
$59.00
Garret Tunison
Sworn in open Court June 27th 1820 before me Dickinson Miller
I John Frelinghyson do declare under oath that the facts stated in the aforesaid instrument so [unreadable] forth as relates to the position of the Estate of Garret Tunison to myself and his difficulties to which he was exposed until transfer to me was made is to the best of my memory and belief true and correctly stated 
John Frelinghyson
Sworn in open court 27th June 1820 Dickinson Miller 
The Court an of opinion that the value of the property or estate of the within named applicant amounts to fifty nine dollars A. Howells Dickinson Miller John Ricky
I Sam’l [Samuel] Swan Clerk of the Common pleas of the County of Somerset afsd [aforesaid] 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 nine Dollars - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 27th June 1820  Saml Swan Clerk of the Court of the County of Somerset
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Somerville N.J. December 29. 1843
The Hon. James Porter Secretary of the War Department}
Sir
Garet Tunison late of the county of Somerset and state of New Jersey who was a pensioner as a soldier of the revolution died some years since leaving a widow and four children _ After his death his widow Sarah Tunison made an application for a pension as the widow of the deceased and which was finally granted to her but before it was received by her she died leaving her four children surviving _ After her death and still before the said pension money was paid by Government Magdalen Tunison one of the daughters of the said Garret and Sarah Tunison, died without lawful issue and leaving a last will and Testament of which I am the sole executor hereby disposing of all of her personal and real estate _ After they death of Magdalen the pension money amounting to more than $2000. as I am led to believe was received by the agent of Sarah Tunison who after deducting therefore a considerable amount for his services paid the balance among the three surviving children whereto allotting any part thereof to the heirs or representatives of Magdelen the deceased sister _ under the above stated case I will respectfully ask of the war department whether Magdalen Tunison or her legal
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representatives are not entittled to a portion of this money _ If they are then I would desire to have a statement showing the amount paid the time when paid and to whom paid as I cannot procure any information here upon this subject the whole matter being arranged without my knowledge I not being aware until very lately that any money had been received or that any was in expectancy.- I have also just learned that arrangements are being made to receive from Government a considerable sum of money which is said to be due the said Garret Tunison in consequence of he during his life time not having received as much as he was entitled to.. If this money is received will not the heirs of Magdalen Tunison be entitled to a portion of it.-
I know not whether I am entirely justified in making the above enquires but I have no access to the pension laws and therefore can not derive    no information on the subject - If I am trespassing on the department I hope I will be excused for troubling you. the information if given will be thankfully received and will enable me to proceed with the settlement of the estate of the said Magdalen Tunison and will be satisfactory to her heirs.
I remain very Respectfully yours & 
John M. Mann
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Declaration of Garret Tunison a Revolutionary officer under the law of 1828
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Revolutionary Claims.
[A.]
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Officers.
For the pupose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I, Garret Tunison of the Township of Bridgewater, in the county of Somerset, in the State of New Jersey, de hereby declare that I was an officer of the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such* [illegible] of the war
at which period I was a surgeon in the Serans regiment of artillary, New York line. commanded by Ada John Lamb And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates (commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years' full pay ; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22d of March, 1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October, 1780. 
And I do further declare, that I have received of the United States as a pensioner since the 3d day of March, 1826, ✝ (cross symbol) four hundred and eight dollars paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in New Jersey
Witness my hand, this twelfth day of July, in the year eighteen hundred & twenty eight
Garret Tunison
Before me, ✝ (cross symbol) Andrew Howell one of the justices of the peace in the county of Somerset, in the State of New Jersey, personally appeared, this day, Isaac Southard and Thomas A Hartwell, of the said county, who did severally make oath that Garret Tunison, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand, this Twelfth day of July, in the year Eighteen hundred & twenty eight
Sworn and subscribed before me Isaac Southard Thom A. Harwell
A Howell Justice of peace 
I, Isaac Southard, Clerk of the Court of the county of Somerset, in the State of NewJersey, do hereby certify, that Andrew Howell Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a‡ (double dagger symbol) Justice of the peace said county, and duly empowered to administer oaths. 
testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this twelfth day of July Eighteen hundred and twenty eight
Isaac Southard
[illegible] insert, To the end of the war, or, (as the case may be,) to the time when the arrangement of the Army provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3d and 21st of October, 1780, was carried into effect ; and that I am reduced under that arrangement.
✝ (cross symbol) Here inset, The sum of dollars, paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of . If the claimant has not been a pensioner, this part of the declaration may be omitted.
‡ (double dagger symbol) A Justice of the Peace, or other magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths, as the case may be.
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Garret Tunison
deed
N.J.
Act 7 June '32 increase 2 years Surgeon
$600
To Peter T & Judith Tunison [illegible] of Cornelius G. Gunison Decd Matthias T. Tunison & Jane Wood surviing children of Garret Tunison decd from 4 march 31 to 18 July '37 the day of his death deductg what has been pd and act 15 may '78
Hon L.Q.C. Elmer H.R.
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State of New Jersey Somerset County} On this twenty second day of November 1843. personally appeared before me James Taylor one of the Judges of the court of common please for said county Matthias T Tunison a resident of Somerville in said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath state that he is one of the surviving children on the late Garret Tunison decd [deceased] who was a surgeon during the war of the revolution and was a pensioner under act 15 May 1828 at the rate of $480 per annum up to the day of his death which took place on the 18 day of July 1837.  On the object of this declaration being made is in order, and in the name of his surviving children to wit:  Mr Cornelius G. Tunison decd [deceased] and Jane D. wife of Jesse Wood in right of their said father for an increase herein under the act 7 June 1837 at the rate of $600 in lieu of said surgeon G Tunison pension under act 15 May 1828. (which is hereby relinquished.) and the payment of the increase from 4 March 1831 to the 18th day of July 1837 when he died Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year said above written before me. Matthias T. Tunison James Taylor Fas. The Heirs   
State of New Jersey Somerset County ss.} I Dumont Frelinhuysen clerk of the [illegible] court of common pleas of the county of Somerset do hereby certify that James Taylor before whom the forgoing declaration was taken was a the time the same was so taken a Judge of said court and of said county - and that the signature above is the true and genuine signature of James Taylor as aforsaid Given under my hand and seal of the office this 22nd day of November 1843 Dumont Frelinghuysen clerk
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8.503 (check mark)
Sarah Tunison decd. [deceased]
N.J.
act 7 July '38
Admd [amended]
2 yrs Surgeon
480-
no deduction
Thomas A. Hartwell Somerville New Jersey
In the names of Cornelius G Tunison _ Mathias T Tunison & Jane Wood surviving children of Sarah Tunison dec
W.
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State of New Jersey ss.
On the ninth day of November AD. one thousand eight hundred and forty two, personally appeared in open court before the Chancelor of the State of New Jersey now sitting in the City of Trenton. Cornelius G Tunison a resident of Somerville in the County of Somerset and State aforesaid, aged fifty seven years,  Known to me as a person of credibility and truth who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress posed July 7.1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." Declarant for himself and in behalf of Matthias T. Tunison and Jane Wood, only heirs of Sarah Tunison decd. late the widow of Garret Tunison who was a Surgeon in the Revolutionary War, and was in the receipt of a pension from the United States at the time of his death of Four hundred and eighty dollars per annum. That the said Sarah Tunison (now deceased) made application under the Act of Congress posed July 4.1836, which declaration is now on file at the War department, and as doubts arose with the commissioner of pensions, as to service after the marriage of declarants father and mother _ the said Garret and Sarah Tunison, which took place in the fith day of June, Seventeen hundred and eighty three; declarant for himself and the other heirs of the said Sarah Tunison now makes application under the before mentioned act of July 7.1838, for such amount of pension as was justly due the said Sarah Tunison at the time of her decease viz: from the eighteeth day of July Eighteen hundred and thirty seven, being the day of the death of the said Garret Tunison to the twenty fifth day of September Eighteen hundred and forty one. Said applicant further declares that this declaration is made with the consent and approbation of the other heirs and would respectfully refer the commission of pensions to the declaration of applicants mother now on file at the department
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in relation to their marriage, and the decease of declarents father. He further declares that he always understood and believe that his father and mother the said Garret & Sarah Tunison, were married on the fifth day of June seventeen hundred and eighty three, and that declarants mother the aforesaid Sarah Tunison died on the twenty fifth day of September Eighteen hundred and forty one.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written in open court before
Wm Pennington
C.G. Tunison
and the Court do further certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court that Sarah Tunison, widow of the late Garret Tunison of Somerville in the County of Somerset and the State of New Jersey died at said place on the twenty fifth day of September AD Eighteen hundred & forty one. That said widow left three children whose names are Cornelius G Tunison (the above declarant) Matthias T Tunison & Jane Wood.
Wm Pennington Chance of N.J.
I Samuel R Gummere Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the State ofNew Jersey do hereby certify that William Pennington Esquire before whom the declaration of Cornelius G. Tunison and proceedings of the said Court were taken and subscribed was at the doing thereof and now is Chancellor of said State duly chosen and sworn and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine _ In testimony where of I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at Trenton in said State this tenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two. Saml R Gummere, clerk.
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State of New Jersey Somerset County ss:
On the fourth day of December A.D. eighteen hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Superior court of common Pleas in & for the county of Somerset, Matthias T. Tunnison a resident of Somerville in the County and State aforesaid in the fifty third year of his age a person of credability and truth; who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Provision made by the acts of Congress passed "July 7.1838 and the 23d of August 1842 Granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war". That he is the son of Sarah Tunison decd, widow of Garret Tunison late a Surgeon of Lambs artillery in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War. Cornelius G. Tunison deponents brother, made a declaration with the consent of applicant and his sister Jane Wood on the 9th of November 1842 for the benefits of the above acts, having reference to the declarations of his Father & Mother on file at the pension department that the deparment granted a pension at the rate of a Captains pay and since that time the said Cornelius G. Tunison has departed this life, this applicant with the consent of his sister Jane Wood , the only surviving heirs of the said Garret & Sarah Tunison , make this application for the increase of pay due their Mother at the time of her death, as the widow of the said Garret Tunison late Surgeon of Artillery, the increase claimed is one hundred & twenty dollars per annum
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for five years under the foregoing acts, deponents Father the said Garret Tunison being Surgeon in Lambs Artillery in the continental line at the rate of seventy five dollars per month , being a Lieutenants Colonils pay in the artillery and a colonels pay in the Infantry as established by the resolutions of Congress fixing the arrangement of the American Army on the 27th of May 1778 , which rate of pay continued to the end of the war. This applicant would respectfully refer the Commissioner of Pensions to the Declaration of his Father, Mother and brother on file a the war department for such other facts as may be necessary in the investigation of the above claim , the time of their marriage and deaths being set forth in the Declaration of Cornelius G. Tunison and the others.
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before
James Taylor Judge of Somerset 
Matthias T Tunison
[illegible]
I [illegible] said James Taylor do hereby certify that the above named Matthias T. Tunison is a person of good reput for honest truth & varity December 4th 1843
James Taylor
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stricken off under act May 15 1828 13 Augt 1828
Let [letter] to Hon Jos. F. Randolph (widow) April 23 1838.}
11/31    4/30
2.58
266
5.24
100 _
$105.24

Notification sent July 3' 1820 to Saml Swan Esq clk [clerk]
Bridgewater Somerset Cty N. Jersey

(77) New Jersey
Garret Tunison, 4
Surgeon Army U.S.
at $20 per mo: comd [commissioned] 28th March, 1878.
Cert: issued 5th April, 1878 and
sent to Hon: W. Dickerson,
Senate, U. States.
An to 4. Sept 1878 mo $105:24
5 4/5184/30
(Rev Claim Act 18th Mar. 1878)
Col: Lambs Artillery 6 years
10a
Continue
Somerset
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I Garret Tunnison a Citizen of the United States now residing in the County of Somerset and State of New Jersey do declare that at the commencement of the American Revolutionary War I was Practising Pysic [Physician] in the State of Virginia and enrolled myself a volunteer in Captain Stephenson otherwise called Stinsons Company that I marched with him to Cambridge, from thence to Roxbury and continued then til General Gage evacuated Boston. I was then ordered to take charge of the medicine which Dr. Gardiner left when he joined the British, was sent to Norwich & from then to New York where I was appointed a Surgeons mate by the Surgeon General of the Army, and continued in that department until I was promoted a Junior Surgeon on the first of June 1777 under Doctor Foster, Adams and Ellster, I continued in this Department till the first day of Mary 1778 when I joined Col. Lambs Regiment of Artillery as a Surgeon, and by the Recommendation of General Henry Knox was Commissioned a Surgeon of the second Regiment of Artillery in the Service of the United States from the first of  February 1779. and continued from that time in the service of the United States untill disbanded at West Point in 1783. that I am now of the age of sixty seven and that adverse circumstances render it necessary for me to apply for a Pension under the late act of Congress. _ witness my hand March 28.1818._
Garret Tunison
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New Jersey Somerset County to wit. Be it known that on this twenty eight day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and eighteen personally appeared before me one of the Judges of the court of Common pleas in & for the said county of Somerset Garret Tunison who has signed the within declaration, who is well known to me, and who being duly sworn according to law did upon his solume oath swear and declare that the annexed declaration and the matters and things therein contained are true in manner and form as there in set forth -
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and [illegible] above written A Howell
Garret Tunison

I certify that it satisfactory appears to me that the said Garret Tunison served in the Revolutionary army during the war against the Common Enemy. All which his declaration, deposition and proceedings I transmit to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, given under my and this twenty eigth day of March 1818.
A Howell
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376
487.
No of orig Reg 374.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,  July 31.1828.
Garret Tunison, of Bridgewater township, in the County of Somerset in the State of New Jersey has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war at which period he was a Surgeon in Col Lamb's regiment of Artillery ; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, four hundred and eight dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of New Jersey.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in this office.
By order of the Secretary, A. Dickins.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,  6.th August 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Garret Tunison . Surgeon in Col Lamb's Arty amount to Twenty four Hundred dollars. It further appears that Garret Tunison is now on the pension list of the New Jersey agency, and has been since the 3d March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month.
Peter Hagner And

[illegible]
No 63,957
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the Seventh June 1832, Garrett Tunison decd who was a Surgeon in the Revolutionary War, is entitled to receive a pension at the rate of six hundred dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th March 1831 & Ending on the 18th July 1837 the day of his death, which will be paid to Peter T & Judith Tunison Admn and Adm of Cornelius G Tunison Decd Matthias T Tunison & Jane Wood surviving children of Garret Tunison decd. after deducting the amo. which has already been paid under the act of the 15. May 1828
this pension is increased from $480: per. ann.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 8 day of Feby. one thousand eight hundred and forty=4
Examined and Countersigned.} Secretary of War. Commissioner of Pensions.
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Trenton Mar 11.1844
Sir
By your letter of the 8th February last I am instructed to inscribe Garret Tunison on the list under act of June 7. 1832 at the rate of 600 dollr per annum _ and pay the children of decd _ "after deduction the amount wich has already bee paid under the act of the 15th May 1828."
the pensioners under the act of May 15 1828 were not transferred to this agency until 1835. consequently I have no means of ascertaining the amount already paid to G. Tunison under that act, pervious to the 4th Mar 1835.
I await your instructions before paying on the vouchers wich have been presented to me
I am very Respectfully your ob servant Phil Dickinson Pension Agent N. J.
J.L. Edwards Esq Commis of Pensions
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D. Sir.
The husband of Sarah Tunison was a surgeon in the Revy. army & servd. to the end of the war _
He recd. a pension of $480 per. ann. I presume the Dept. will not require any other proof than what is already on file of his service 
your attention will oblige
y. friend
Tho A Hartwell
13th April 1838_
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J L Edwards Esq
Sir, Be so good as to have the enclosed application examine _
yours [illegible]
Jos F Randolph
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State of New Jersey Somerset County SS
I. A.N. P. Sutphen surrogate of the County of Somerset do hereby certify that on the twentieth day of February A. D 1843 administration of the goods & chattels Rights & credits which were of Cornelius G. Tunison late of the Township of Bridgewater in the county of Somerset State of New Jersey (who died intestate on the 12th Day of February  A.D 1843) was granted by one to Judith Tunison & Peter T. Tunison of the County of Somerset & state aforesad who are duly authorized to take upon themselves the administrations of the same agreeably to Law witness my hand and seal of office the thirteenth day of January A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty four
A.N.P. Sutphen Surogate
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Somerville NJ Feb 1st. 1844
J L. Edwards Esq
Sir A W. Ray a few weeks since came to this place per the purpose of obtaining authority to apply to the Pension department for an increase of pay to the heirs of Garret & Sarah Tunison. he was informed that the business was in the hands of other [illegible] who were then prosecuting the claim he [illegible] prevailed upon Matthieas T. Tunison one of the subscribers to subscribed his name to certain papers which it is supposed are now in the pension department . This was done in the absense of the other two heirs of the said G & S. Tunison and without their knowledge or consent and as we feel assured he said Ray had knowledge that said application was in progress , we wish the Department to  proceed no farther upon his application and papers untill further orders from us.
Matthias T. Tunison
Peter T. Tunison one of the administrators of the
Estate of C.G. Tunison decd
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House of Representatives Jany 17. 1844
Sir I have been requested to lay before you the enclosed certificate containing evidence of the death of Cornelius G. Tunison a surviving child of Surgeon Garret Tunison. late of Somerville New Jersey. A claim has been presented in this case I understand for an increased pension in light of said Garret Tunison under the act of 1831 at the rate of 600 [illegible] in lieu of the 480 $ heretofore paid _ and also a claim in the name of his widow under the act of 1838. The application was presented to your office I am informed about the middle of December last, to which I ask your attention.
Respectfully your ob servt, Lucius Q C Elmer
Comm of Pensions
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Senate Chamber
[illegible] 8 1844
Dr Jay
I inclose a letter from Mr Hartwell [illegible] to a pension which [illegible] your department a few days since you [illegible] to the difficulties sugested will much oblige
yours [illegible] Respecfully J.M. Miller
to J L Edwards Com of pensions
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Somerville Feb 19-1844 Dear Sir Upon reflection I think there is no doubt of the Justice of allowing compensation to Mr Hartwell in this pension matter as the claim must have been allowed upon proof which Mr Hartwell formerly produced to the department he having assisted my Grand father in his life time very generously and kindly and for small compensation we have all given and forwarded to Mr. Miller a power of attorney to demand the pay certificate from Mr Elmer and hold It until further advices. The Family of Judge V. D. Veer are all well as I saw them all yesterday.
yours with Respt [Respect] Hon [Honorable] Wm L Dayton 
P V. Tunison
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J. L Edwards Esq Com.
Sir. It would seem from the written that the parties have formed an opinion for themselves on the pension case
your obt sert.
Wm L Dayton
Feb 20/ 44.
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Payment to be made at Trenton by P Dickinson, Esq Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of New. Jersey.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. Vol. 2. Page 137 by Tho Lumpkin, clerk.
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WARE DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th July, 1838, Sarah Tunison, deceased late widow of Garret Tunison, who was a surgeon in the Revolution at the rate of Six hundred dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th March 1836, and terminating on the 4th March 1841. This pension has been increased from Four hundred and eighty dollars per annum, which will be paid on the production of the proper vouchers to the Administration of Cornelius G. Tunison, Matthias G Tunison, and Jane Wood heirs of said Sarah Tunison deceased, after having deducted the amount already paid her.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 18th day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.}
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Reported.
New Jersey, 1877.
Sarah Tunison, decd widow of Garret Tunison decd who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 25 Sep: 1844 of Lemont in the State of N.J. who was a surgeon in the Company commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Col. Lamb in the N.J. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 480 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22: day of Nov: 1842, and sent to Thomas A. Hartwell Esq. Somerville [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841
Semi-annual allowance ending
$2400
[Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by Theo L Moody Clerk
Book A Vol 2 Page 137
To be paid to Cornelius G Tunison
Matthias T Tunison & Jane Wood surviving children
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Apl 13. 1844
Mr Tunison N.J.
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Dr Sir
[illegible] inform [illegible] amount a moneys was paid to Mrs Hannah Tunison widow of Garret Tunison in who [illegible] a surgeon in the Revolutionary army I may be mistaken as to the name of the widow [illegible] her husband 
[illegible] 12 1844 Yours Resp Your obt S James C Zabriskie
Hon J L Edwards
[illegible]
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Washington
[illegible] 13. 1843
Sir/
I herewith enclose you and application made by Matthias T. Tunison, and in behalf of the surviving children of the late Sarah Tunison decd [deceased] who was pension at the rate of $480 pr annum under act 7 July 1838 as the widow of Garret. The heirs now make application for an increase of her pension under same act at the rate of $600 per annum in account of the revolutionary service of Garret Tunison as a surgeon in the War of the revolution
I am very respectfully your ob sev
Alex Ray
J. L Edwards Esq Com. of Pensions
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House of Representatives Washington Mar 25, 1844
Sir Will you oblige me by informing me what amount has been lately allowed to the heirs of Surgeon Garret Tunison of New Jersey of the Revolutionary army, as a further allowance from the pension formally received by him
yours Respectfully
Jas. G. Clinton
Col J L Edwards Com of Pensions
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Act 1838
Settled at Treasurey
G. Tunison
Consd with [illegible]
File # 1099
487
REE
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[circular stamp upper left] SOMERVILLE N.J. JLY 12
F
Revolutionary Claim
Hon.bl [Honorable] R. Rush 
Sec.y of the Treas City of Washington
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Somerville New Jersey Jully 12. 1828
Hon R. Rush
Sir 
under neith my declaration is also my commission Be pleas to forward me the necessary certificate to gether with the pay or a draft for the sum which the law entitles me to at this time
The commision I resume will be returned
yr verry respectfully
Garrit Tunison
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487 374
Commission in favor of Garret Tunison, as Surgeion 2 Regt Artillary to rank from 1 Feby 1779 & dated 6 April 1782. _
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS. 
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828. 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
12 August 1828

SIR: 
I have the honor to inform you, that Garret Tunison formerly a surgeon in Col. Lamb's Regiment of the line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a pension at the New Jersey agency, has been admitted to the benefits of the above mentioned act. 

I have the honor to be, 
Very respectfully, 
Your obedient servant. 
Richard Rush, 

The Hon. SECRETARY OF WAR. 
No 74.
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Let to Hon. J.G. clinton Incl april '44 [illegible] to J.C. Zabriskie apl 16, 1844
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1099 Sarah Tunison widow Garret Tunison Surgeon Rev War
Act: July 7.1838.
Index: _Vol. W., Page 285
[Arrangement of 1870] (checkmark)
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Acts of 1838 & 42'. N.J.
Sarah Tunison decd
increase 2 years Surgeon
600$
To adm of Cornelius G. Tunison _ Matthias T. Tunison & Jane Wood _ deducting what has been paid
Hon. J.W. Miller Lenah NJ'
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State of New Jersey (circular seal mark)
I Charles G Mc Chesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that James Taylor Esq before whom the within declaration was made & taken was at the time of the doing thereof one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Somerset in said State; duly appointed, Comissioned and sworn: that full faith and credit are to be givein to his official attestations, and that the signature thereto is in the proper hadnwriting of the said James Taylor.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of  Official Trenton in said State this sixth day of December A.D. One thousand eight hundred and forty three
Charels Mc Chesney Sect of State
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State of New Jersey County of Somerset} SS
I Saml Swan clerk of the court of common pleas of the county afsd. do certify that Andrew Howell esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of the taking thereof one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for said county of Somerset and that to all his official acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given as well in courts of Jurisdiction as thereout In testimony wereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our [illegible] court at Somerville the twenty ninth day of March A. D. Eighteen hundred and Eighteen
Saml. Swan Clk