Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 6374, Corneius Vansickle, New Jersey
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SERVICE
New Jersey
CONTENTS
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Vansickle, Corneius
Vansyckle, Cornelius
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NUMBER
W 6374
B.L. Wt. 38834-160-55
cesses
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New Jersey
Cornelius Vansyckle, of
Morris in the State of New Jersey
who was a Private in the Compy
by Captain of the Regh commanded
Colwell in the
line for
New Jersey
14 Ano 25 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 44 Dollars 55 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of June
1833 and sent to Chace
Charles Henderson
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $98.90
Semans allowance ending Sept
-
Joan
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W. Clagett Clerk,
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Vol.
a letter 13 April 1837 Pen Agent
Letter to Pen Age & S.R. Hamilton
┃ 18 Sept 1839
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New Jersey Declaration in law to obtain the benefit of
Morris County of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
Personally appeared before me John Sharp one of the
Justices of the peace in and for the County of Morris
and State of New Jersey Cornelius Vansyckle a Soldier
of the Revolution aged Seventy Eight years a resident
of the Township of Washington in the County of Morris and
State of New Jersey who being by me first duly sworn
according to Law doth on his oath make the following Decaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832. to wit. That he was born at Reading
Town Hunterdon County New Jersey on the 25th day of
December 1754 and that he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officers and served as is
herein set forth (viz) that on the first day of January the
entered as a private soldier in a Company of Voluntees
from the New Jersey Militia, under the command of Captain
Vannatta, near Milford N Jon the Delaware for an unlimited
period for the purpose of joining the American army under
General Washington to aid him in his operations against
the common enemy near Trenton in the Company to which
he belonged was immediately marched to the scene of war
Near Trenton and arrived there the second day after the
capture of the enemy at Princeton, where the company of
Captain Vannation to which he belonged where placed as a
guard over the Captired prisners and guarded them as
Long as they remained prisoners in that vicinity and his
company were then marched to Princeton and was
quartered in the College with other troops to guard
the adjacent country from the Depredations of the
enemy who were quartered at New Brunswick & Amboy
and had sence slight skirmishes with the Enemies
foraging parties during the winter, the Company
of Captain Vannatta to which he belonged were fully
Dischard from further service at that period about the
first of may and he arrived home on the 10th of May
after an abscence of said Town of Duty of four months
and ten Days and was verbally & Honourably dis
charged from further duty by Captain Vannatiand
further on the first day of July 1777 he enlisted near
Milford as aforesaid as a private in the New Jersey
State troops for a period of five months in a Company
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under command of Captain Chambers and was marched
to Amboy, thence to Newark by Elizabeth Town the
up the North River to West Point, Peekskill, Esopus, Albany
and Schenectady, he was at Esopus on the Hudson River when
the Village was burned by the enemy he thinks it was near
the middle of the month of October during his Campaign he
was with the company of Capt Chambers under command of
Will while at Schenectady, the company was marched
from Albany to Elizabeth Town and was honorably
Discharged at Eaton Verbally by Capt Chambers on the first
day of December 1777 and Returned home after a sum of five
months and fifteen days duty-- and further in the year 1778
on the first day of September he Entire as a volunteer private
in a company of Volunting Raised by Capt Chambers
Milford on the Delaware as aforesaid for the Defence of
the fronting along the Delaware against the Depredations
of the Indians and marched to Minisink on the York
State line and had a skirmish with the Indians near
menisink aforesaid the company was stationed at a
Block House on the Delaware River Called Rosenkrants
Fort the Company to which he belonged was discharged
the first of December at said Black House by Capt Chambers
Verbally after a sum of three months duty which duty he
performed as a private as aforesaid in said Company
and further in the year 1779 in the month of October he
performed a month Tour of Duty at said Block House
as a private under Capt Charles by Draft for the defence
of the frontiers along the Delaware against the Indians
and further in the year 1780 in the month of September
he performed a months tour of duty as a private under
Capt Chambers at the Block House aforesaid for the defennce aforesaid and was honourably Discharged from both ┃
these last tour of duty Verbally by Capt Chambers
further saith he hath no further knowledge of his own ┃
Revolutionary services during the war and the said
Comelius Vansyckle further saith that a family Record of his
age belonged to his fathers family and he thinks the same
is in the family of his Brother Residing in the County of Sussex
New Jersey he is fully satisfied of the Coveitness of his age
herein set forth, and that he has no documentary Evidence
in his possession of his Revolutionary services never having recd
written discharge, that he did not know of any person now
living who served with him in the war of the Revolution
that he is now in his seventy ninth year since December last
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that soon after the close of the Revolutionary war he the
and from the Delian River at Milford where he then
to Readington Hunterdon Co. N.Y. the place of Nativity
lived there untill he removed to where he now links
he now lives in the Township of Washington Morris County
and has for the last twenty five years and that he entered
served in the war of the Revolution as before stated
Distinctly Recollects Genl Washington and Sullivan at
ton and Col Freelingheyden and Taylor of the Militia
Col Webb at Schenectady and is personally known to ┃
her A Lawrence and John Lefoy two Respectable Citizens and 
neighbours of his when he resides and has been for twenty ┃
years past to whom he refers for proof of his Good Character
that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to my ┃
sion or annuity Except the present and Declares that his name
not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State whatever
to and subscribed by the said
Julius Vandyke before me this 2d
of February 1833
in Sharp Justice of the peace
Cornelus Vanrickle
Jersey of I John Sharp Justice of the peace as aforesaid do
County hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the
above named Cornelius Vandyke and have been for the
Page of twenty years past and I am fully satisfied that the said
Cornelius Vansyckle, is of the age he represents in the foregoing statement
and was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he has herein
set forth and that the said Cornelius Vansyckle is unable from
his extreme age and Bodily infirmity to attend the County Court
in this his matter of application for a pension on all which I have
hereunto subscribed my name officially this 2d day of February 1833
John Sharp Justice of these
New Jersey
Morris County Personally appeared before me John Sharp Justice
of the Peace in and for the County of Morris N.J. Stephen
I Lawrence and John Lefoy two respectible Citizens of said County
who being by me first duly sworn according to law on her oath saith
that they are both personally acquainted with Cornelius Vansyckle, the afore
named applicant for a pension, and have been for twenty four years past
that they are both rightious to the said Cornelius Vansyckle,  and have the highest
confidence in the Character of the said Cornelius Fansyckle for truth & they
and of the truth of the statement set forth by him and subscribed in the fore
going application for a pension and that from our acquaintance with
he believe him to be Seventy Eight years of age as stated by him and
that he is reputed and believed in the Neighborhood where he resides
to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we both concur in the same opinion
Sworn and subscribed before me
this 2d day of February- 1833
Stephen A. Lawrence
John Sharp Justice of the peace
John Lepay
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Morris County John Sharp one of the fathers of the
Peace in and for said County aforesaid
New Jersey
do hereby certify that after the investigation of the
matter of the application of the said Cornelius Vansyckle for a
pension and after putting the Interrogatories to him presented
by the War Department I am fully satisfied that the said Cornelius Vansyckle was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he has
Station in his Declaration had before me and I further certify that the
character of the said Cornelius Vansyckle for truth and veracity has
never been doubted to my knowledge and that the two witnessesthen
A Laura and John Lefoy are persons of credibility
and of good character for truth and vanity neighbour to the said
Cornelius Vansyckle and entitled to full credit white in or out of
Court, and I further certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings had before me in the matter of the application of the said
Cornelius Vansyckle for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have ┃
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1833, Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Three--
hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 2 day of Feby
John Sharp Justice of the peace
from Washington M. Co
of whom
Application of Cornelius Vansyckle
State of New Jersey
Morris County
David Day Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common
Pleas for the County of Morris aforesaid
do hereby certify that John Sharp 3 before whom the within
declaration and testimony has been taken was at the time of
the doing thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for the
County of Morris and that full faith and credit are due to his
official acts as such and the name John Sharp 3 thereto
affixed to each is his genuine signature
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the Seal of the
said Court at Morris Town the four
teenth day of February A.D. Eighteen
in
hundred and thirty three
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David Day
23723
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New
the
of ankle
Jany
Cornelias Van Sickle
who served in the Revolutionary war
, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the ra
of 49-
dollars
45 -
cents per annum, to commence on
the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension
issued
124
and sent to
day of June 1853
Wm H. Hull
Present.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under
February 3, 1853, Page Vol. A
the
no
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Turtonto
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Vansyckle
mark
State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
On the twenty third day of
April one thousand eight
hundred and fifty five appeared before me John Rinehart
one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County of
Hunterdon County Mary Vansyckle aged Seventy five years
who first being duly sworn according to law on her oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on
the 3rd of February 1853 granting pensions to widows of
persons who served during the revolutionary war, that
she is the widow of Cornelius Vansyckle a private in the
Revolutionary Army and who was a pensioner in his life
time, reference being had to the evidence procuring such pension
filed in his application will more fully appear, that the
said Cornelius Vansyckle was a pensioner under the act
of one thousand eight hundred & thirty two and was part his pension
from the pension office at Washington as deponent believes
she further declares that she was married to the said ┃
Cornelius Vansyckle on the twenty eight day of December
one thousand eight hundred-- that her said husband
died on the thirteenth day of September one thousand eight
hundred and forty seven that she was not married prior
to the second of January one thousand eight hundred, but at
the time above stated and she further declares that she
is now a widow-
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day
and year above written before me
Mary her
one of the Justices of the peace in and
for said County John Rinehart
2
Justice of Peace
S.S.
certify that the said Mary Vansyckle from old age and infirmity
is unable to allow in Court John Rinehart Justices of the peace
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County SS
I Charles Combenson Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said
County of Hunterdon do hereby certify that John Rhine
part Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit
was made was at the time of the taking thereof ┃
one of the Justice of the Peace in and for the
said County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey
and duly authorized to take such affidavit and
that full faith and credit is to be given to his official
act and that his signature to the same is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at Flemington this Fourth day
of May AD Eighteen hundred and
fifty five
Charles Tomlinson Clerk
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Cornelius Vansyckle
law
Capt
Ent.
Dis
ankle
my
Rev. War
Pension Act Feb 1853.
N. J.
Feby 53-52,18
any, 
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Wm H. Hull
Present.
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mour
Hull
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Mary
To
widow
Cornelius Vansycle
in any
Wm H Hall
Will
┃ Present
at
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State of New Jersey
County of Hunterdon
On this thirtyeth Day
of November
one thousand Eight Hunterdon and fifty five
personally appeared before me Justice of the fear
Within and for said County and State aforesaid
Mary Vansyckel aged seventy five years A resident Hunter
County in the State of New Jersey who being duly
Sworn according to said Declares that she is the
Widow of Charles Vansyckel Deceased who was
private in the Revolutionary army and Also A
pensioner in his life time as by reference to his
papers on the file in the person office Will to
fully appear and that she is now in the Receipt
A pension and her Certificate is Numbered in
pension office in the Roll of Pensioners and
Act of Febuary 1853 page 104 Vol. as by Ref
to her papers on file in the pension office Will to
fully appear and that she is now a Widow she
make this Declaration for the purpose of obtain
the County Land Warrant to which she may be
entitle the act approved March 3d 1855
Mary Vansyckel
Bankel
Westland Elizabeth Shipman Residents of Hunterdon County
in the State of Jersey upon our oaths declare that the forge
Declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Vansyckel
our presence and that we believe from the Appearance and State of
the applicant that she is the
herself to be his
Two Witness present Signature of Witnesses the foregoing
Declaration and affidafet were sworn to and subscribed
before me on the day and year above written and I certify
that I know the affidavits to be credible persons that the
Claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that
have no interest in this claim, John A Smith
this must be the Clerk of the
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State of New Jersey
and Charles Tomlinson, been
the County Court in and for the County and State
aforesaid above mentioned do hereby certify that John
A Smith whose genuine Signature appears to the
foregoing declaration and affidavit is and was at
the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace
in and for the County and State aforesaid duly elected
commissioned and sworn; that all his official
act as such are entitled to full faith and credit;
and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of record
having general jurisdiction
In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and affix
the seal of the County at Flemington
this 8th day of December AD 1855
Charleston
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Boynton
May 10th 1833
Fees 75 paid
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Wm H Hull
Present
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Hunterdon County
Cornlius Van Sickle
There Certify that on the 28th day
of December 1800 appeared before me E. Cole one of the
Justices of the peace for said County Cornlius Van Sickle & Mary Kniper requested to be joined in the
hands of Matrimony be performed by me the day & date
Recorded March 24, 1801
E. Cole
State of Me
Hunterdon
Jasey
County of Charles Tomliman Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the
foregoing is a true and correct copy the Marriage of
Cornlius Van Sickle and Mary Kniper as full and intie
as the same remains of Record in my office
of
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of said Court at Flemington this 1st
┃ Day of May A.D. 1855
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1884,
BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
WHO HAS NOT HAD A LAND WARRANT.
DECLARATION FOR WIDOW OF A DECEASED OFFICER OR SOLDIER.
in the
"
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
COUNTY of Hunterdon
on this twenty second day of May
A.D. one thousand eight hundred
and any personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for
the County and State aforesaid, Mary Vansyckel and Seventy five
resident of Union Hunterdon Co in the State of New Jersey, who being duly sworn
according to law declares, that she is the widow of Cornelius Vansyckel deceased, who
a Private
in the Company commanded by Captain
Regiment of New Jersey militia commanded by
collectionin
the War of the American Revolution
the
that her said husband Cornelius Vansyckel was drafted
of --
on or about
for the term
and continued in actual service in said war for the term of at least 12 months
A. D.
and was honorably discharged at
day of --
she further states, that she was married to the said Cornelius Vansyckel Rendington on

the twenty eighth day of December A.D. Eighteen hundred & one
by one Ezekiel Cole -
-
Justice of the Peace and the
her name before her said marriage was Mary Kenier that her husband died at
Roxbury on the thirteenth day of September A.D. Eighteen hundred & forty seven
and that she is now a widow, and respectfully refers the department to her declaration
on file under act of February 3d 1853 for proof of Marriage & her husband
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which the may be entitled under the act approved March
3d, 1855.
Westley Bird
Marlaskeland
Elizabeth Killman ridents of
Union Township in the State of New Jersey, upon our oaths declare, that the
foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Vansyekel
in our presence, and
that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Wesley Bird
Elisabeth Skillman
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed, before me, on the day and year above written, and I certify that
know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this
claim. William Skillman erased, & Westly Bird" interlined before execution
Garret Servis J.P.
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State of New Jersey
County of Hunterdon
On this twenty second day of May
A.D. 1856 before me a Justice of the Peace
within and for the County and State aforesaid
personally appeared Wesley Bird & Elizabeth Till
man-- to me well known as persons of credbility and truth who being duly sworn according
to Law on their oaths say that they
are well acquainted with Mary Vansyckel
who is the widow of Cornelius Vansyckel decd
that the said Mary Vansyckel is a pension
or of the United States receiving forty nine 1/100
dollars annually from the U. States. And is now
making application for Bounty Land for the
service of her said husband in the Revolu
tionary War, and that she is now a widow
Sworn and Subscribed
before me the day year
Wesley Bird
Elizabeth Skillman
first above Written
Garret Servis J.P.
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Charles G Mc Chesney
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the
Bounty Land Claim
Athol 3d 1855
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state of New Jersey.
I, THOMAS S. ALLISON, Secretary of State of the State of
New Jersey, do hereby certify, that
Garret Servis Esquire, before whom
the within affidavits were taken,
of the doing thereof, Justice of
in and for the county of Hunterdon
in said state, duly commissioned and sworn; that full
faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations,
and that the signatures thereto are in the proper
handwriting of the said
Garret Servis Esq
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office,
at Trenton, in said state, this twenty third day of May
A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty six,
of
Thos Allison
Secretary of State.
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23723
Cornelius  Vansyckle
Morris County
New Jersey
Adm for 1 year 2
on the & 25 days
&
Reece Nicholas
Flander
New Jersey
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Sir:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and
the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
Statement, showing the service of Cornelius Vansyle Morris
Jersey
Jan. 1777
eight
July Do
Sept. 1778
Petr. 1779
┃ Sept. 1780
Duration of the
claimant's service.
4
┃ 10
┃ 5 ┃ 15
3
┃ 1
1
┃ 2
┃ 25
Rank of
claimant.
priv
11 ┃
11 ┃
14 ┃
Names and rank of
the Field officers
under whom he served.
Age at present
place of the
Gen. Washington
Miller
Col. Webb
N. Jersey
N.
I am, respectfully,
Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Traditionary
Your obedient servant
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army.
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers, all
estate who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
it with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engagedin

guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
The Regular Troops.
5.
The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. ┃
Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian S.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, or
County of
On this
day of
personally appeared (a) before
of
A. B. a resident (b) of
aged (c)
in the County of
and State, Territory or District
years, 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, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year
served in the
(e) regiment of the
with and
line, under the following named officers:
(Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he servunder
more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers of the
town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of
A. B.
(And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.
of the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
& c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
and C. D. residing in (the same)
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
(And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revosoldier
, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
do hereby certify that the foregoing
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this
day of
& c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commis-
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neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration,(l) and he will
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also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be exexpected
. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his
case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
S. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
To a Soldier.
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it giv-
6. ┃
en, and what has become of it?
to an officer has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character
and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the sub-
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
Nominents can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure
, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity which case the declarant will fall
The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so
definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the
loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason
of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his
parallant, he again last name she saw her
days, I served as a -. For - months, and days, I served as a ; and for such service I claim a pension,
important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law
directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months,
is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years
in the militia, &c. without spentrying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is
highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under wist winners the replicant served; the duration of each term of engagement;
that the garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
The opinion of the Court is always required.
The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no pubthe
seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the
papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains
the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must
pass under the seal of one of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
⌨ In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses
who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as
the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses
, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from to are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in
note applies to continental troops only.
This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
Rhewnan
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26527
her man 3.
May 26. 16
Mary
Van Syckel
Cornelius Van Syckel
Capt.
Rewin was
Charles
Trenton
G. McChesney
Pension paper act Feb. 3. 1853
Feby 53-5218
C
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Sir
Pension Office
May 28 1855
Head
Certify the time
to which the within named pensioner
was paid or the date of his death.
Very Respectfully
Waldo
Commissioner
A. J. Atkinson
Esqr
Third Auditors
Andrew
Robinson
said to 4 Sept 1847
Cornelius Vansickle
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By WIDOW, &c.
No. 6374
Mary Vansyckle
Widow
Cornelius VAnsyckle
Pent P. War
Act: Feb 3d 1850
Index: - Vol. M, Page 175
Arrangement of 1870.}
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Concima
13 Sept. 472 wit:
twenty
Repton
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Sec 2289
Mary Vansyckel
Chisay,
Linton
J
18
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Hon
at
Geo. C. Whiting
Mary Van Syckle,
Trenton
Watkin
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of
my
Washington
Hon Comm
26
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1354
Geo
Hon
Washington

Trenton, NJ
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38.83

160 day
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state of New Jersey
Hunterdon County S.S.

day of May 1815
Personally appear before me John Smith of
the Justice of the peace in and for said Court that may
Vansyckle formerly Mary Kniper that he is the tenth
that
him the dentical widow of the said  Cornelius Vansyckle, and I partively swear that I ams
the said Mary Kniper and that I never was and
to any other person or to the best of my knowledge
1
Sworn before me on the 17th
1
day May 1855
Mary Vansyckle
John A Smith
Mary
one of the Justices of the peace
in and for said County
J Smith
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County of
Charles Tomlinson Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas for said
County do hereby certify that John
A Smith before whom this affidav
was taken was at the time and
now is a
Justice of the peace in and for said
County and that full faith and credit should
begin to his official acts
In witness whereof it
have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Court Flemington
this nineteenth day of May AD Eighteen
hundred and fifty in
Charles Tomlinson
Clerk
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Brief in the last of
Mary Van Sickle and Cornelius Van Syckle
County and State of New Jersey
and Set on 3d February 1833
Claim, origin or force
Proof exhibited, (if original
day
7.
For Duplicate
Pensioner declared by affidavit that original
certificate is lost.
(If for increase)
additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what
R
Name and residence of Agent
Dickinson
Penna
Trenton N.J.
R. McRae mining Clerk
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n the case of Mary Van Syckle of Cornelius Van Syckle,
Hunterdon County and State of New Jersey
3 Feby. 1853
Clate, (original," or "for incroasa")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
husband was pensioner under the act 7 June 1832 the rate of $4925
per an: Marriage proven by the County record thereof. Pensions
13" Sept. 1847, as for the affidavit of two witnesses report of the
Third and for
Widowhood & identity is established by the
affidavits of two credible witnesses
(Iforiner
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Wm H. Hull Esqr
Present.
Name and residence of Agent
. Both
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Sir
of
A
Trenton May 5 1836
I transmit herewith an application
Mary Vansyckle a pensioner under
1 Feby 3 1853 to replace a Good Certificate
the rate of $19/100 per annum
Please send her new certificate
to me
Yours
Respect
Phis Dickinson
Peny
I mint as
Court of Pensions
2
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Loren P. Waldo Esqr
Clarksville Hunterdon County
New Jersey 16th July 1855-
Respected Sir
Being aware of the multiplicity
of buisiness you have to attend to, it is with the greatest
regret and indeed painful to my feelings, I am under the
necessity of intruding on your invaluable time, but from your
well known character as a man of probity and honor. I hope
and trust you will forgive this intrusion; I was employed
by Mrs Vansyckle wife of Cornelius Vansyckle deceased and
┃ revolutionary pensioner (who is miserably poor and nearly blind
75 years old) to see if a pension could be procured for her, I
employed a Mr Wm H. Hull of 362. 7th Street Washington City
as agent for the purpose, and after getting all the evidence Mr
Hull thought necessary (at a heavy expence to me, I received
a letter from him dated 8th June that the pension was allowed
and that there was between one and two hundred dollars now
due that the pension was for life payable quarterly, and the next
payment would be made on the 1st of Sept. next and that he was
on that day going to apply for her bounty land Warrant, and that
as soon as he received his fee of Thirty dollars, that he would
enclose to me, to my address the certificate for the pension on
the same day the 8th of June I enclosed to him Twenty dollars
and stating will send him the balance when I received the
pension for the widow - I have written to him several times
since to him whether he received the money, and if so to send
the certificate as the widow was in extreme poverty, but up to
his
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moment never heard from him and why he did not answer
my letters is a mystery to me, he being so punctual in his former
communications, and thinking he may be sick or out of town, inclined
me to have the presumption of addressing you, to know whether the
pension was allowed and whether the certificate was issued, and
if issued for your advice, and now have to beg your pardon for this
intruding, but I had no other resource, will you have the kindness
at your earliest convenience to write a line in Ansrand
am sir
with the most
profound respect
your obedt Servt
D.G.O. Berne
B
Altho being a stranger to you, it gave me the greatest pleasure
(notwithstanding all the isms in your native state that you were
deemed worthy to fill one of the highest offices in the gift of the
legislature-- democracy is not yet read in old Connecticut
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Ho
Geo. C. Whiting
Comm of Pensions
Trenton N.J. May 2d 1857
Sir
On the 23d May 1836 I
forwarded to your dept the application of Mrs Mary
Vansyckel, widow of Cornelius, for Bounty land in the
usual form properly authenticated, as her Agent,
I enclose the Commis letter of May 26, 1856 acknowledging
is receipt and addressed to me as her agents
On receipt of your letter of the 25th ult, in and to
my letter of inquiry of the 20th. I enclosed it to Capt
G. W. Taylor, who is the friend, and has done much
business for this Van Syckel. The following is Capt Taylor
reply and return of your letter to me. Clinton May, 1857
Dear Doctor. Yours of the 18th ult enclosing a title
of
from the Pension office is received. I called at once upon
Mrs Mary Van Sickel and her friends, she declared she had
never given my power of attorney or authority to any one but
you to get her land Warrant, and has been patiently
waiting for us to procure it, the said a person note
to her last September, if she would pay $25-
could have her land warrant, but has never paid any
attention to it, and has never received or seen the said
Warrant. You will know what is best to be done in this
I would further inform the Hon Comm
Case
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that I have not the slighest interest in her
application. I done it merely to oblige Capt
G. H. Taylor, with whom I am interested in mining
Iron ore,
I am personally well known
to President Buchanan and Messes Cole and
Niles of your department.
this aged Pensioner of
the United States should not have her land
Warrant withheld. and I trust the department
will promptly count the Enor.
Please to return
the enclosed letters, and oblige my respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Charles G. McChesney
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Sir
Trenton N.J.
April 20, 1837.
The case of Mary Vansyckel for Bounty land
No. 246.877 or it may be 246.577. the figure
or being imperfect seems to have been over
looked - she is a Revolutionary pensioner
and her anxiety for her Warrant Keeps up
a Constant inquiry for it. I held
be a relief to here from the case. It
cannot be in doubt, as she is the widow
of a Pensioner and a pensioner herself
Respectfully
Tenth Set
Charles G. McChesney
Hon
Geo C
Whiting
Commr &
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New York
November 11, 1857.
Hon Geo Whiting
Comm of Pensions
William
Sir, will you please send
me a copy of the declartion upon which
Land Warrant was issued in favor
of Mrs Mary Vanscle widow of Cornelius
, for services during the Revolut
tionary war. The number of the Warrant
can be ascertained, by reference to the
Rev (New Jersey) files as I received a certtificate for a pension in favor of the
widow,
As it is important that I should
have a copy of the declaration soon,
as well as the No of the Warrant I trust
you will forward it at your earliest
convenience
Very Respectfully
Wm H Hull
house
56 Whitest
N. Y.
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How
Geo. C. Whiting
Cannel &c
Sir
Reston N.J. Oct. 26, 1857
I enclose to you some
letters in relation to the Land Warrant of
Mrs Mary Van Syckel
Will you please
inform me what the poor old woman
East do, to obtain her Bounty land
Warrant
I will much for all Capt
Geo. W. Tayler states, he is a gentleman
of honor and integrity
I hope the dept
will promptly attend to rectify the
imposition upon this old lady
Taylors letters are not written in
expectation of being formerded to the Dept
Please return the letters where
examined and oblige
Very Respectfully,
Your Obt Sert
Charles C. Cheney
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Eng
●
Pension Office
Sir
May 13" 1857.
Mrs. Mary Vansyckle, made two afflication for
County Same One in November, 1855 & the other in May
1856, the first claim was necessarily examined first
allowed. Mrs. Van Syckle is greatly at faith in
&
swearing in her second declaration that she has
never before made application for County
Wm H Hull, was her agent in the 1st Case Waltrip
25.00 is quite a large fee for procuring her warrant
still under the circumstance this office mush decline
interfering in the case. where a fee has not been on 25
1
we have invariably declined making any order in the
case of a great wrong was being committed for a party
or aforly was able to have money to a considerable
amount extorted from them, then, it would be proper interfice
I presume from what in write, that the Warrant can be obtain
from the Agent for the amount indicated in
letter inclose
please fix letter you ask returned
Yours Respectfully,
Chas G. M. Chesney Esqr
Gooling
Kenton, N.J.
Ammissioner
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Deartoctor
High Bridge Mayer 1857
Your came duly to hand enclose letter
for Penn Office. - I have just been to see Mrs. M.
Vansyckle. The declares more positive by the never
signed any papers except there to get her
pension I not or word was ever said to her
about her hand nor did he know the was
entitled. Daniel O Burn undertook to get
her pension. He was a great camp and
has fled there parts. The cannot write her
name. Her memory is good what she says is
converted by those about her, respectable
people. I cannot think the ever indem
-
The "vise did not leave, here untill to day owing
to bace we either, Pa. derives his respects and thank
for the old letter written two years before he was
born. all well and ⌨ ⌨ and best regus
Mort Glack to hear your trip done you good
Doct C.G. McChesney
Yours most truly
Penton-
Geo W. Taylor
P.S.
Mrs Vansyckle will near the did not make application
previous to may last. might not a copy of Hulls Decr
be got
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Clinton Oct 22 1857
Secordoctor pours was recd yesterday I have
Just
seen M. Van Syckle. All the or
her friends know is that Hull wrote to
Rhinehart son of Squire Kinchart that
by sending $25. the could have her war
at this was an august a year ago.-
But the paid no attention to it.
Esq. Rhinehart is dead. But it was before
Esq. Smith that the made affidavit
by which Hull other Warrant
Danl G. A. Burns annevant wish schoolmaster
& a great rogue, is I suspect the
Daniel G. Ober named in Mr. Stenentsletter
. He has been missing for over a
year. He is also the person that got for
her nor V.S. her pension from the U.S.
the has not been out of right of the family the
lives with for years the they can make
oath that she has never had any Land
warrant or ever had right of one
neither will the fear if it does not come soon.
Would it not be well prior to see Mr. Thomas at
consequence He may now be in condition to take
up his note. We are all well on my to hear many
of your folks are complaining most truly yours Geo Taylor
Dock C. G. McChesney Minton
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State of New Jersey S.S. On the 15th day of
Morris County
May 1855 personally
appeared before me John Smith Junior one of the
Justices of the peace in and for said County
Nicholas McLean aged 8 years who first being
duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that ┃
he was well acquainted with the late Cornelius
Vansyokle a Revolutionary pensioner and Mary
Vanscle otherwise Mary Kruper his wife for upwards
ten years before the death of the said Cornelius
Vansyckle and deponent is fully confident that the
said Cornelius Vansyckle was a revolutionary
pensioner from the fact that deponent as a rushed
of the peace took the affidavit of the said Cornelius Vansyckle procuring a pension for him the said
enemies and that he the said Cornelius Vansyckle 
was a revolutionary pensioner living in Morris
County and received a pension for several years
before his death and deponent Saith that the
said Cornelius Vansyckle died on or about the
13th of September 1847 as appears by duly
in this depts books as deponent made his Coffin
and saw him buried at the time herein stated, and
that the said Mary Vansyckle was the reputed
wife of the said Cornelius Vansyckle as they lived
together as man and wife to the time of his de
and that he never heard any person say or alledge
that the said Cornelius Vansyckle had any
other wife, but the said Mary Vansyckle who
is now applying to the pension office for
a pension as the identical widow of the said
Cornelius Vansyckle deceased and that
this
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deponent has no unsand whatever inmy

pension that may be had in and
the said Mary Vansyckle
for
Nicholas Mc Lean
taken before me this
15 day of May 1867
John Smith Jr
in and for said
County
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STATE OF NEW Juane,
WARBERT WE STANBURROUGH, Clerk of the County of
Morris, do hereby Certify, that John Smith
before whom the foregoing Affidavit was then, was, at the time of his labour of the
Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Morris, duly elected at
ally by the laws of the State of New Jersey to the the name and that the
John Smith Jn.thereunto
signed, is in his own proper hand with
In Tammany Wrenson, I have hereunto set my hand, and
fixed the Seal of the said County, at Morristown, this
Sixteenth day of May
19
A. H. Sanburough on
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of
●
"
on
an
Cornelius Vansycle
and evidence
Boynton
Hull
Present
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State of New Jersey S.S.
Morris County
On the 15th
day of May
1855 personally
appeared before me John Smith June one of the
Justices of the peace in and for said County
Mahala Poole aged upwards of 70 years
who first being duly sworn according to law
on her oath saith that she was well acquainted ┃ with
Cornelius Vansyckle a Revolutionary pensioner
and with Mary Vansyckle otherwise Mary King
his wife for many years before the death of the said
Cornelius Vansyckle as the said Cornelius and
Mary Vansyckle his wife lived in this depts
house for six years before the death of the said
Cornelius Vansyckle which happened as dept
believes on or about the 13th of September 1847
and that the said Cornelius Vansyckle died at ┃
this deponents house at the time herein mentioned
and she further Saith that she is fully confident
and sure that the said Cornelius Vansyckle
received a pension for many years before his
death, and that the said Mary Vansyckle
was the reputed wife of the said Cornelius
Vansyckle as they lived as such in this depont
house and that she never heard any person say
or alledge that the said Cornelius Vansyckle had any
other wife and the said Mary Vansyckle who is now
applying to the pension office for a pension as the act
and identical widow of the said Cornelius Vansyckle 
deceased and saith she has interest in any pension
┃ to be had or obtained by the said Mary Vandyke ┃
Taken and subscribed before me
this 15th day of May 1855
John Smith Jr one of his pay
Mahage Book
said County
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ALBERT H. STANBURROUGE, Clerk of the County of
Morris, do hereby Certify, that John Smith
before whom the foregoing Andavit was taken, was, at the time of taking such Affadavit, one of the
Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Morris, duly elected, commissioned and sworn
and authorised by the laws of the State of New Jersey to take the same; and that the name
John Smith W.
thereunto signed, is in his own proper hand-writing.
In TUTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and
affixed the Seal of the said County, at Morristown, this
Sixteenth day of May
1855
A H Stanburrough
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Mary

Washington 
this
J.L. Edwards
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The Commissioner of Pensions
please inform the agent for Pension
of Kenton whether the inter be
not executed in due and legal form
His objection is to the manner
of the execution of the Letter of attoney
which it is respectfully submitted is
in due legal and proper for
2. That the attesting witness being
Richard Hall and that the name of
the attesting witness of the oath of
antity is abbreviated Rich Hall
It is imputfully submitted this for
objection-- now constal to the same
casion who attest the former execution
the instructions of the Department require
only that the affidavit be attested by a
both with the magistrate.
Smely such objections may well be
deemed frivolous & versations thereby
unnecessarily imparting payment- thus
ment with just deference of the opinion
of the office and without designing & mare
the agent here
very respetfully
aft 12
1839
of
S
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months ago)
Washington D.C
October 16th 1857
1
Dear Sir
At the request of Mrs N.J. Hall,
I have examined the papers upon which
Land warrant for 160 acres, was issued under the
act of 3 March 1855-1883) in favor
of Mrs Mary Van Sickle and find the same
was sent as heretofore advised or so it appears
to Mr Wm H. Bull of this City, Mr Hall has
been absent for some time, and is somewhere
in New York as I am informed
subject
shall will write to him upon the
-
---
As the widow has not received
her warrant, I would suggest she enter
Carent preparatory to an application
for a duplicate
-
Please find enclosed the letters you
desired to be returned
very aspectfuly
Your of Ser
James Stewart
P.O. Box 253
Ch. G. McChesney, Esq
Trenton
New Jersey

P.
I have just seen Mrs Hull, who stated she
herself sent Mrs Van Sickles warrant to
Danl G. Obera, Milwankee, Wis, who stated
Mr Rhinehart was dead-
I enclose formsof

an application for duplicate, which it
appears to me is the only alternative-
Respy
J.
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her
Mary S Vansyckle
mark
County of Hunterson
On this third day of May 1856 before me
the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said
County of Hunterdon personally appeared Mary
Vansyckle who on her oath declares that
she is the widow of  Cornelius Vansyckle
who was a private in the service of the U.
States; that her name was placed on the pension role of the State of New Jersey at the
rate of forty nine Dollars per annum.
that the received a certificate of that fact
under the signature and seal of the Secutary
of the Interior, which certificate since the
last payment made to her to wit on the
4 Sept 1855 was lost or mislaid and
cannot be found after diligent search
for the same
Sworn & subscribed to before
me the day & year aforesaid
3
The Egbert I Peace
this by Bird
Witness
State of New Jersey
County
of Hunton
I William Egbert a magistrate in the
County above named, do hereby certify that I have the
most satisfactory evidence viz from the oaths of Verley Rice
& Wm Millman Know to me personally to be the person of veracity
that they well acquainted with Mary Vansyckle the deponent
above named and that they know her to be the same persons
described in the above affidavit and
of
J. Peace
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State of New Jersey
THOS. ALLON, Secretary of State of the State of


certify, that
William Egbert Esquire, before whom
the within affidavit was taken,
the Justice of
ed and sworn; that full
and
in said
sense,
duly
and that the signature thereto is in the proper
handwriting of the
William Egbert E
any whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office,
at Trenton, in said state, this fifth
A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty six
day of May
Thos S Allison