Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3629, Joseph Van Vleit, Penn.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Penn

NUMBER
W.3629

Van Vleit, Joseph
or Van Vliet 
or Van Valiet,
Susanna
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7651

Philadelphia, Penna
Susanna Van Vleit
widow of Joseph Van Vleit
who was a Private [ illegible line]
in the Revolution. Penn

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

Certificate of Pension issued 1st day of April 1866, and sent to Hon. R. Birkhead 
House of Representatives

[Acts of March 3, 1843.]
to June 1, 1644
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 2.  Page 118
 
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Rep?
Let. to Hon. M. M. Dininick Feby 25, 1 850
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To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  
    The Petition of Susanna Vanfleit widow of Joseph Vanfleit late of Stroud Township Monroe County and State aforesaid deceased - Respectfully representing that the said Joseph Vanfleit her late Husband was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War. The officers under whom he served your petitioner cannot now distinctly recollect or can she recollect the precise period of time during which he served in said war -that he was drafted as a Militia man from Stroud Township Monroe County, (formerly Northampton County) and marched in actual service that he was born on the third day of April A. D. 1760 as she has always understood and that he resided near this place [looks crossed out or bleed through from other side of paper] (Stroud Township aforesaid) until his decease which occurred on the fourth day of February A. D. 1821.

She also represents that she was married to the said Joseph Vanfliet sometime in August A. D. seventeen hundred and eighty three. That she was born in the townships, county and State aforesaid, where she still resides.  That she was eighty  six years of age last August and that she is in needy and indigent circumstances.  She therefore prays your Honorable bodies to grant her relief, and she in duly bound [illegible] ever pray 

[Signature blurred]
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[Illigible, Looks like bleed -through from other side]

neighborhood of Stroudsburg Stroud Township Monroe County (formerly Northampton ) in the State of Pennsylvania that she has [illegible] heard their marriage questions that Susanna                is now the widow of Joseph Vanifleit, and has never been married since the death of her husband said Joseoph Vanfliet and further that [illegible] saith not.
Affidavit and subpoena 
before me this 10th of March
A.D. 1845.
Morris d. Robeson J P

 Hannah Starbend

We the subscribed two of the Justices of the Peace in and for Monroe County, do certify that the persons viz Susanna Vanflie, Joseph Drake and Hannah Starkind who have testified to the service of  Joseph Vanfliet as a revolutionary soldier are persons of credibility and that this testimony is worthy of fact credit and that the [illegible] Susanna Vanfliet  in poor and in [illegible] and needy circumstances and a proper pension for relief by the [ illegible] of the state and county [illegible] this 10th of March  A. D. 1845.
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To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
 
The Petition of Susanna Vanfleit, widow of Joseph Vanfleit late of Stroud Township Monroe County and State aforesaid deceased - Respectfully represents that the said Joseph Vanfliet her late husband was a soldier in the revolutionay war. The  officers under whom he served your Petitioner cannot now distinctly recollect or can she recollect precise period of time during which he served in said war - That he was drafted as a Militia man from Stroud Township, Monroe County (formerly Northampton County) and marched in actual service. That he was born on the third of April AD 1760 as she has always understood and that he resided near this place (Stroud Township aforesaid) until his decease which occurred on the fourth day of February AD 18[blurred out]. 

She also represents that she was married to the said Joseph Vanfleit sometime in August A.D. seventeen hundred and eighty three, that she was born in the Townships County and stat aforesaid where she still resides. That she was eighty six years of age last August and that she is in needy and indigent circumstances. She therefore prays your Honorable bodies to gran her relief and she in duty bound [illegible] ever pray.
[Signature Susanna Vanverfliet]
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[Handwriting goes in every direction on this page]

36 Smith M.    Monroe

The petition of Savannah Van Fliet widow of an  old soldier [illegible] for relief

Hon March 17, 1865
Texas 
 not granted 
[large ink blob]

State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County      SS

 James H. Stroud Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County do certify that Morris D. Robeson + [illegible] Starbird the  [illegible] before whom the witness proceedings were had about the time and now one Justice of the Pleas in + for Monroe County and State aforesaid duly commissioned + qualified to act as such and that the signatures you [illegible] to be theirs are genuine.
 Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 25th day of December 1845.

J. H. Stroud   Prothonotary
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Monroe County   SS

Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Susanna VanFliet the within or foregoing Petitioner and being duly affirmed according to Law deposeth and says that the facts set forth in the foregoing petition are correct to the best  of her knowledge and belief. 
Affirmed and subscribed before
me March 10th A. D. 1845       
Morris D. Robeson J. P. 

[Signature Susanna Vanfliet]
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Monroe County    AA

Personally appeared before me Franklin Starbird a Justice of the Peace in and for the said  County of Monroe, Joseph Drake senior of the Township of Stroud in the said County, who being duly sworn according to the law, deposes + says, That he was well acquainted with Joseph Vanfliet dec-, who was the husband of Susanna Vanvliet, that he knows the said Joseph VanVliet served in the Militia at the commencement of the Revolutionary under his father Captain Samuel Drake for the [illegible] of three months, and that afterwards he was out there months under Captain Benjamin Schooner or Captain Payne, he does not recollect distinctly which, but is confident that he served a space of six months altogether, that he is well acquainted with Susanna VanVliet who is the widow of said Joseph VanVliet and had known her sixty years and he added that she is still living + in low circumstances .
Sworn + subscribed before me this twenty  [illegible]  day of  February A.D. 18 45 before
F. Starbird R
[Line illegible]
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March 18, 1926

Mrs,. Thomas J. Breitwieser
217 N. College Ave.
Muncie, Ind

Madam:  

    I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.3629, it appears that JOSEPH VAN VLIET was born April 2., 1760, place not stated.
     While a resident of Stroud Township, Northampton (later Monroe) County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in 1776 and served three months as private in Captain Benjamin Schoonover's Pennsylvania Company.  He enlisted in May, 1779, and served three months as private in Captain Timothy Jayne's Pennsylvania Company.  n 1780 h was appointed comissary of issues by Captain Johannes Vanes Etten and served seven months.  
He married January 2, 1784, Susanna drake who was born in August, 1758, in Stroud Township, Pennsylvania, and was the daughter of the above mentioned Captain Samuel Drake.  

  He died in Stroud Township, Pennsylvania, February 4, 1831.  His sister, Susanna was allowed pension on her application executed March 10, 1845, at which time she was living in Stroud Township, Pennsylvania.
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   In 1786 they had one child, Sarah. In 1845 their son, John was fufty-two years of age.
   The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau falled to afferd any information in regard to Charrick and Dyrick or Derrick Van Vliet.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Comissioner
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Peter Lahterman 10/

VanVliet Joseph
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Smithfield September 1 1779 Received
of Mr Joseph Van vleit 7 Continental
Express horses and three saddles by
John Chamber
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 3629.
Susanna Van Vliet
Widow
Joseph Van Vliet
Pri. Rev. War

Act: March 3, 1943
Index: - Vol. M. Page 294

[Arrangement of 1870]

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1926.  Nar 18. hist to
Mrs. J. Breitwieser
[illegible]
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(An addressed envelope.)

Dec. 17, 1845
Rec'd 
Su. Van Fliet

Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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Stroudsburg Dec 12t 1845
Dr Sir, about a month ago I sent you the claim of Susanna VanVliet for a pension by mail not having recd any answer or information concerning the same though probable it might have [illegible] I should be pleased to hear from you at your earliest convenience
 
                 yours Respectfully
J L Edwards    Lewis M Burson
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 Philadelphia Roll Acts 3"March 1843 + 17 June 1844.

Susanna VanVlieft widow of Joseph [illegible] $55 [er ann.
To what twice last paid?    Ans:  Sept. 4, 1847
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Susanna VanVliet
widow of Joseph VanVliet
Quarter Master Sergt. 7 months
8508
Private 6 months
$55 per ann.
______________
Pennsylvania Roll
_______________
Acts '38-'43 + '44
( 2 certificates)
______________
Married 2d January 1784
Husband died 4 Feb. 1832


______________________
[illegible] to the
Hon. R. Brodhead
House of Reps
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9932                          Rep?

PENNSYLVANIA

Susanna VanVliet
Widow of Joseph VanVliet who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 4t February 1832 of Monroe Co. in the State of Penna. who was a{ Private + V.W.V. Veigt} in the company commanded by Captain Drake of the Penna. militia for 

Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate of 55 Dollars   [cents crossed out] per annum, to commence on the 4th day of April 1866, and sent to Hon R. Brodhead, House of Representatives

Total Amount  $ [Blank}   {Act July 7, 1838.}      
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book D. Vol. 1. Page 255.
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217 North College Avenue, Muncie, Indiana,
February, 4, 1926,

Commissioner of Pensions,
Department of the Interior,
Washington, D.C.,
My Dear  Sir-:
I am making a survey of the early settlers of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, the survey to be used by the Historical Society of Monroe County.  Among the data collected, are the names of John Staples, Charrick Van Vliet, Joseph Van Vliet and Dyrickl (or Derrick) Van Vliet, all purported to have been Revolutionary Soldiers.  Is it possible for me to substantiate these claims through records in your office?

My data records that the said John Staples enlisted in June, 1777, in the First Regiment at Annapololis in what was known at the Maryland and Virginia Artillery, commanded by Colonel Charles Harrison.  His widow Margaret Teeple Staples, is said to have applied for a pension in May 1843. Can y ou verify this information? 

I have no definite information concerning the Van Vliets aside from the fact that they are mentioned in a supposedly authentic, County History of Monroe as having served in the Revolutionary War.  

I shall appreciate, very much, any data concerning the above, if such exists in your office.  

Yours truly,
[Signature Anita Van Vliet]
(Mrs. Thomas J. Breitwieser)

[Round Postal Stamp] 
PENSION 
Feb
U.  5  S.
1926
OFFICE
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 Hall of the Ho of Reps
March 13, 1846

Com J L Edwards

 Dear Sir
Last fall the application of Mrs. Susanna VanVliet (of Monroe Co. in my District) for a [ illegible] was sent to you by 
 [illegible]

[will have to come back]
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[Document is an envelope]
March 25, 1846
[Illegible] 
Susanna Van Vleit
Pa

[Addressed to]
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
Hon. R Brodhead
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Stroudsburg March 20th 1846

Sir
Yours of the 13 March was duly rec'd. 
I was not a little surprised that the testimony to establish the claim for service rendered as a private was by you considered insufficient. There is but one of the witnesses who testified to the service that is now alive Hannah Starbird died about one year ago. Daniel Labar died about one month ago, and there is no other witness within the knowledge of the applicant who knows any thing about the services of her husband. In pursuance of of [sic] your objection to the witnesses not furnishing sufficient dates for the setting forth the particular tour of service I have taken the Deposition of Joseph Drake again in which he sets forth his reasons for being so particular in his former statements, and also setting forth that the services as set forth by him is not included in the certification of James Etten, which Deposition is herewith enclosed. The witness Hannah Starbird was the eldest daughter of Col Jacob Starbird who resided at fort Penn, and who if she was now living I have no doubts could make any confirmation with regard to the particulars. relating to the matter in the most satisfactory manner. The certificate of Chambers (or Receipt rather) for the express horses & saddles although it could not be authenticated for want of proof as I [illegible] confirming the testimony of witnesses, of which the testimony of Hannah Starbird was taken before this claim to the
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to the government of the U.S. was thought of.
I thought probably that you might have your suspicions of the character of the claim and the witnesses advanced in support of it in anticipation of which I have wrote to the Hon Richard Brodhead requesting him to see you and state what he knew of their character as he is well acquainted with both the claimant and all the witnesses who testify to his service.

If you should yet not deem the testimony satisfactory I hope you will inform me at your earliest convenience that the matter may be proceeded with and will be deemed advisable

Yours Respectfully &c
L M Burson

J L Edwards, Esq
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Hall of the Hs of Reps
March 28th 1846

Col Jas L Edwards
Comm'r of Pensions

I had the honor to receive last evening your Letter of yesterday, date relative to the Case of Mrs Susanna Van Vliet [name underlined] -

You say that seven months Service as a quarter Masters Sergeant is proved - there is no difficulty about that - And that you will you [sic] allow for Two [underlined] months Service in each of the other Tours - three [underlined] being claimed -

All the witnesses are respectable and are entitled to credit -

If however you do not think the evidence sufficient to grant a Pension for three months in the other tours, grant it for the Two [underlined] - as Suggested in your Letter to which this a reply-

As this Case was sent to you last fall I would be pleased if you would act upon it at once

Yours &c
Rich'd Brodhead
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State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

On this twentieth day of March AD one thousand eighteen hundred and forty six personally appeared before the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for the county of Monroe Joseph Drake a resident of Stroud Township Monroe County and State of Pennsylvania aged eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that the reason he knows that Joseph Van Vliet was drafted as a militia man to serve in the Revolutionary war in the month of December 1776, is that he remembers that he was at that time a little over sixteen years of age, that he was sixteen years of age on the 8th day of October, 1776, that it was the first tour of service that my father was out and that it was at the commencement of the Revolutionary war - I know that it was in the winter time and cold weather and that it was before the first day of January 1777, or, new year. This deponent further saith that he understood that the company was drafted for three months, that the said Joseph Van Vliet was out in [Illegible] this deponents father, the term of three months or more for he did not return till after the winter had broken up that the reason he knows that Joseph Van Vliet was drafted as a militia man to serve in the Revolutionary war under Captain Benjamin Schoonover is that this deponent and Joseph Van Vliet was drafted at the same or about the same time in the same month of September that this deponent was at fort Penn under his father Captain Samuel Drake that this deponent
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was drafted for three months, in the month of September in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight that while this deponents father was stationed at Fort Penn Captain Benjamin Schoonover marched with his company to the southern portion of (then Northampton), that this deponent and Joseph Van Vliet was discharged in the month of December in the same year it was in the last part of the month not long before new year. That the reason this deponent knows that Joseph Van Vliet was drafted to serve as a militia man the following summer to wit, in in [sic] the month of May seventeen hundred and seventy nine is that this deponent and Joseph Van Vliet was again drafted at this time, to wit in the month of May 1779, that this deponent was drafted under Captain Benjamin Schoonover and stationed at Fort Penn, and the neighborhood of the Fort. That Joseph Van Vliet was drafted about the same time, in the month of May last aforesaid under Captain Timothy Jayne. That Captain Timothy Jayne marched with his company to the Western part of this county at the time Gen Sulivan led his army through the Western portion of the county. That at that time Joseph Van Vliet rode express from Sulivans army to Fort Penn and to a fort at Easton. That this deponent saw the said Joseph Van Vliet when he come with news from Sulivans army to Fort Penn, where this deponent was stationed at the time. That this deponent and the said Joseph Van Vliet was discharged about the same time in the month of September following that this deponent and Joseph Van Vliet were retained, for a short time over the three months the time for which they were respectively drafted and discharged in September following
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This deponent further states that at neither of the above tours of service was the said Joseph Van Vliet a commissary or any other officer that this deponent recollects. That in the year seventeen hundred and eighty the said Joseph Van Vliet was out of this neighborhood, that as this deponent understood at the time, the said Joseph was up the Delaware River in the neighborhood of Van Etten fort about twenty miles from this neighborhood and Fort Penn. That while the said Joseph was absent, the deponent understood that the said Joseph was appointed Commissary, that this deponent never saw the said Joseph act in the capacity of commissary and knows nothing further about his holding that office except what he heard reported in the neighborhood at the time.

his 
X 
mark
Joseph Drake

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written
Morris D. Robeson JP

Monroe County SS
I Morris D Robeson the justice of the peace before whom the above deponent appeared do certify that the above deponent Joseph Drake is a person of credibility and that his statements are worthy of credit and belief

Morris D Robeson JP
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State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

I James H Stroud Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Monroe County do certify that Morris D. Robeson the Justice of the peace before whom the above proceedings were held was at the time the above proceedings were held, and now is a Justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said court this twentieth day of March D 1846.

J. H. Stroud Prothonotary
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[Document is an envelope]

12,338 [Underlined]
Nov. 17, 1845

[Circular postmark stamp] 
STROUDSBURG
NOV
18

Susan Van Vleit
Jul 7, 1838

[Addressed to]
J L Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Stroudsburg November 12th 1845

Dear sir
Enclosed I send you a claim of Susanna Van Vliet. I trust the evidence will be satisfactory and the claim be allowed
If the claim is allowed I wish you would send me a form of warrant of Attorney, suited to the case

Yours &c
Lewis M Burson

To J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

NB. Please address Stroudsburg Post Office
Monroe County Pennsylvania
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On the twenty third day of December AD one thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justice Peace in and for the county of Monroe and State of Pennsylvania Margaret Staples widow of John Staples, who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War aged eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that she and her husband moved to the north of the blue mountain from Mount Bethel Township Northampton County, to Lower Smithfield Township Northampton County (now Monroe) that she moved up to Lower Smithfield Township (now Monroe County in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six that in the same year she became a neighbour of Joseph and Susanna Van Vliet who at that time lived together as man and wife, and had one child by the name of Sarah Van Vliet, that Joseph and Susanna Van Vliet ["and Susanna" was again written here and then struck out] lived together from the year seventeen hundred and eighty six as man and wife and were deemed and Reported as such by all who knew them until the death of Joseph Van Vliet that this deponent lived a neighbour to the said Joseph Van Vliet and Susanna his wife from seventeen hundred and eighty six until the death of Joseph Van Vliet and at at [sic] present
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is a neighbour of Susanna Van Vliet and that Susanna Van Vliet is now the widow of Joseph Van Vliet and further this deponent saith not

her 
X 
mark
Margaret Staples

Sworn to and subscribed to before me the day & year above mentioned
Abraham Fenner J.P.

I do hereby certify that Margaret Staples the above named Deponent is a woman of Respectability and that her statements are worthy of full credit
Witness my hand this 23 Dec 1845
Abraham Fenner J.P.
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State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

I James H Stroud Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County do certify that Abraham Fenner the Justice of the Peace before whom the above proceedings were had was at the time and now is a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Monroe and State of Pennsylvania duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine

Witness my hand and the seal of said court this 25th day of December 1845

J.H. Stroud Prothonotary
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Lewis M. Burson
(Agent)
Stroudsburg
Pa.
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Stroudsburg Dec 25th 1845

Dear sir

Yours of the 16th Dec was duly rec'd and enclosed I send you the Depositions of Margaret Staples and Michael Brown proving that the marriage took place before 1794.

You say that the Depositions of Drake & Labar are unavailing upon account of their ignorance of militia matters in testifying to 3 months Drafts
I also send you the proceedings before the last legislature, upon which the legislature refused to grant a pension upon the ground that the marriage took place after the last term of the husband service, in these you will find the Deposition of Hannah Starbird who testifies to that service of Joseph Van Vliet in 1776 & 1779. She was placed upon the pension Roll some years ago and is now dead and this is the only resource upon her of her knowledge about this matter, in Susanna Van Vliets petition the person who drew it made a mistake in the name of Van Vliet but in her signature as you will see she signs her name Van Vliet the Justice Starbird in Drakes Deposition who drew the deposition himself wrote the name correct. You say the receipt of Public Horses &c is no evidence. The purpose for which that was sent was to corroborate the testimony of the witness who certified to services at that time and if you compare dates it will be found to correspond with the time Mrs Starbird testifies to service. I trust that these will now be sufficient testimony to entitle the widow to two different periods of service besides what is certified to by Van Etten
Yours &c
Lewis M Burson
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[Document is an envelope]

Dec 29, 1845
[Illegible]
Susannah Vanfleit

15
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Feb 4, 1846
Rec'd
Susan Van Vliet

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Stroudsburg January 31st 1846

Dear sir

Inclosed I send you the joint rules of the committee on Pensions and gratuities of the last session of the Legislature of this state the third rule of which shows the reason why the claim of Susanna Van Vliet was rejected by the Legislature of this state. Thinking it might be satisfactory to you, I had not the rules at the time I sent you the testimony & the claim sent to the legislature last winter, but now sent for it since in order to send it you I sent you the claim of Susanna Van Vliet as exibited before the legislature last winter containing the testimony of Hannah Starbird, which some time the last of the month of December 1845, which I suppose has been rec'd, you will please inform me of your decision upon the claim at your earliest convenience and oblige

Your most obedient humble servant
Lewis M Burson

address of Stroudsburg
Monroe County
Pa

[Written up the left margin of the letter in different handwriting]:
These joint Rules have been taken to arrange with some other Documents to be held & preserved by order of Mr Webster Chief of D[Illegible]
July 2, 1880
P[Illegible]
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[Document is an envelope]

Feb 27, 1846
Rec'd
Sus. Van Vleet

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Stroudsburg February 24th 1846

Dear sir

I have not heard from you respecting the claim of Susanna Van Vliet since the 16 Dec 1845 - shortly after I sent you the depositions of Michael Brown, Margaret Staples, and Hannah Starbird
the widow Van Vliet is very uneasy about getting her certificate she has been sending inquiries to me for the last two or three weeks to know if I had got any information concerning the matter. I do not write in order to urge her claim before you before its term, but I thought possibly you might not have rec'd the above depositions
I would be pleased to hear from you at your earliest convenience

Yours Respectfully &c
Lewis M Burson
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On the twentieth day of December AD one thousand eight hundred and forty five, personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county of Monroe and State of Pennsylvania Michael Brown who being first duly affirmed according to law deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Joseph and Susanna Van Vliet, that this deponent is in his Sixty ninth year of his age that this deponents father moved to the Township of Lower Smith (now Stroud) and became a near neighbour to Joseph Van Vliet in the year seventeen hundred and eighty nine, that this deponent in a short time became acquainted with Joseph Van Vliet who was at that time living a neighbour to my father, and has been acquainted with him and his wife ever since untill the death of the said Joseph Van Vliet, that the said Joseph Van Vliet and Susanna his wife lived as man and wife from or near the year seventeen hundred and eight nine, and before the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four AD to the time of the death of Joseph Van Vliet and that this deponent never heard their marriage questioned or disputed, and further this deponent saith not

Michael Brown

affirmed to and subscribed before me this day & year above written
John Musch JP
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State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

I James H Stroud Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Monroe County do certify that John Musch the Justice of the peace before whom the above proceeding were had, was at the time and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Monroe and State of Pennsylvania duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine

Witness my hand and the seal of said court this 25th day of December 1845

J. H. Stroud, Prothonotary
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12338

R'd Nov. 17, 1845
Susanna Van Vliet
[Illegible]
Act of July 38
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Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows

State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

On this sixth day of November AD one thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the court of Common Pleas of Monroe County Susanna Van Vleit a resident of Stroud Township in the county of Monroe and State of Pennsylvania aged eighty seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
That she is the widow of Joseph Van Vliet who was a soldier in the militia service of the Revolutionary war that from old age and loss of memory she cannot state the time when the said Joseph Van Vliet entered the service nor the time when he left the same. That she cannot state whether the said Joseph Van Vliet was in any engagement. That she recollects that the said Joseph Van Vliet served under her father Captain Samuel Drake Captain Benjamin Schoonover and Captain Timothy Jayne and also Captain John Van Etten that he resided at at the time he entered the service in the County of Northampton (now Monroe) and State of Pennsylvania that he was drafted as a militia
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man that he marched under Captain Samuel Drake to the State of New Jersey and was in the neighbourhood of Morristown New Jersey That her husband held also the rank of Commissary that the only Documentary evidence she has to support her claim is a certificate of Johannes Vanes Etten Captain dated the fifteenth day of January seventeen hundred and eighty one witness by Col Jacob Stroud and a receipt of John Chambers for Seven Continental horses and three saddles dated September 1 1779 she further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Van Vliet on the second day of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four that her husband the aforesaid Joseph Van Vliet died on the fourth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty one That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated

Susanna Van Vliet

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Joseph Keller Associate Judge

I do hereby certify that Susanna Van Vliet the above applicant is from old age and bodily infirmity is prevented from appearing in open court for the purpose of making the foregoing declaration
Joseph Keller Associate Judge
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State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

I James H Stroud Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Monroe County do certify that Joseph Keller before whom the within proceedings were had was at the time the within proceedings were had and now is an Associate Judge of the court of common Pleas of Monroe County duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the signatures purporting to be his is genuine.

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Stroudsburgh, the twelfth day of November Anno Domini, One thousand eight hundred and forty five.

J H Stroud, Prothonotary
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This is to Certify that I did appoint Joseph Van Vliet to act as Commasary of Issues and for him to take proper care of the publick provishons as I was on duty with a parsel of Pennsylvania Vollinteers at Menisink and no Commasary being their and as he has acted as such for the term of Seaven months given under my hand this fifteenth day of January 1781

Johannes Vanes Etten Capt
Commadent

Witness Present
Jacob Stroud Coll

A

State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

on this tenth day of November AD one thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county of Monroe Sarah Hollinshead a resident of Stroud Township Monroe County aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that she is the daughter of the late Colonel Stroud declared that her father Jacob Stroud was a colonel in the Revolutionary War that she has often seen her father write and was well acquainted with his hand writing that the instrument of writing hereunto annexed to which the signature of the said Jacob Stroud is attached as the subscribing witness is in the hand writing of said Jacob Stroud except the signature of Johannes Vannes Etten Capt that the signature of said Jacob Stroud purporting to be his to said instrument is genuine and in his own proper hand writing as well as the body of said instrument
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excepting as above excepted of which said instrument the following is a copy. "This is to certify that I did appoint Joseph Van Vliet to act as Commasary of Issues and for him to take proper care of the public provisions as I was on duty with a parsel of Pennsylvania vollinteers at Minesink and no commasary being their and as he has acted as such for the term of seven months given under my hand this fifteenth day of January 1781

Johannes Vanes Etten Capt
Commandent

Witness Present
Jacob Stroud Coll   A

And the same instrument is marked A. That the said Jacob Stroud died in Stroudsburg in the county of Northampton (now Monroe) on the fourteenth day of July AD eighteen hundred and six and further states that she is well acquainted with Susanna Van Vliet and has known her previous to her marriage, that she has a distinct recollection of hearing of the marriage of Joseph Van Vliet and Susanna Van Vliet which took place as near as she recollects previous to the year seventeen hundred and eighty five and is positive it took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four that the said Susanna and Joseph Van Vliet from the period of their reputed marriage were always deemed reputed and considered man and wife by all who knew them, that she never heard their marriage questioned or disputed that they the said Susanna and Joseph Van Vliet lived and cohabited together as man and wife and raised a family of children, that the said Joseph Van Vliet was always deemed and reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary War, that the said Joseph and Susanna both before and since their marriage lived in the neighbourhood of this deponent up to the time of the death of said Joseph Van Vliet, the said Susanna has continued to live in the same neighbourhood, and this deponent further says that said Susanna Van Vliet is a person of good character and her affidavid and statements are
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entitled to credit and belief in the opinion of this deponent and further this deponent saith not

Sarah Hollinshead

Sworn and subscribed before me this day and year above written

Morris D. Robeson JP

I do hereby certify that the above named Sarah Hollinshead is a person of respectability that I am personally acquainted with her and that her statements are entitled to credit

Morris D Robeson J.P.

State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

I James H Stroud Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Monroe County do certify that Morris D Robeson before whom the within proceedings were had was at the time the within proceedings were had and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Monroe duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Stroudsburgh the twelfth day of November Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty five.

J. H. Stroud, Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

On this eleventh day of November AD one thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices in and for the county of Monroe Joseph Drake a resident of Stroud Township Monroe County and State of Pennsylvania aged eighty two years who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith. That he was personally acquainted with Joseph Van Vliet. That this deponent and the said Joseph Van Vliet always resided in Stroud Township County & State aforesaid. That he the said Joseph Van Vliet was drafted as a militia man to serve in the Revolutionary War in the month of December seventeen hundred and seventy six for the period of three months under Captain Samuel Drake. he the said Joseph Van Vliet was drafted at Fort Penn, then  occupied by Col Jacob Stroud
That he the said Joseph Van Vliet started from Fort Penn under Captain Samuel Drake and marched toward the State of New Jersey. That as this deponent understood at the time the said Joseph Van Vliet was in the State of New Jersey in the neighbourhood of Morristown under Captain Samuel Drake That the said Joseph Van Vliet served out the period for which he was drafted, to wit three months, under Captain Samuel Drake and returned to this neighbourhood again the following spring. That the said Joseph Van Vliet was again drafted as a militia man to serve in the Revolutionary War in the month of September seventeen hundred and seventy eight at Fort Penn
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under Captain Benjamin Schoonover for the period of three months that the said Joseph Van Vliet marched under Captain Benjamin Schoonover to the southern portion of Northampton County in this state That he the said Joseph Van Vliet served out the period for which he was drafted under the said Captain Benjamin Schoonover to wit three months and returned home in the month of December or January following
That the said Joseph Van Vliet was again drafted as a militia man to serve in the Revolutionary War in the month of May in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine at Fort Penn under Captain Timothy Jayne for the period of three months. That the said Joseph Van Vliet marched under Captain Timothy Jayne to the western part of this county then Northampton at the time General Sulivan led his army through to Wilkes Barre on the Susquehanna river. That the said Joseph Van Vliet road express from Sulivans army to Fort Penn and to Easton on the Delaware River
That the said Joseph Van Vliet served out the term of three months under Captain Timothy Jayne and returned home in the month of September following. That this deponent is well acquainted with Susanna Van Vliet widow of Joseph Van Vliet, that she was the daughter of Captain Samuel Drake That this deponent was present at the marriage of Joseph Van Vliet and his wife Susanna which took place at the home of Captain Samuel Drake which took place in the month of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four, that the marriage ceremony was performed
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by a presbyterian clergyman by the name of Pepper
That the said Joseph Van Vliet and his wife Susanna have always from the time of their marriage lived together as man and wife and raised several children. And have always been deemed and reputed as such untill the death of the said Joseph Van Vliet and further this deponent saith not.

his
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mark
Joseph Drake

sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written

John Edinger PP

I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Joseph Drake and know him to be a man of Respectability and that his statements are worthy of credit

John Edinger PP

State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

I James H Stroud Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Monroe County do certify that John Edinger before whom the above proceedings were had was at the time the above proceedings were had and now is a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Monroe duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the signatures purporting to be his is genuine

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Stroudsburgh the twelfth day of November Anno Domini, One thousand eight hundred and forty five.

J. H. Stroud Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

On this eleventh day of November AD one thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Monroe Daniel Labar a resident of Smithfield Township Monroe County and State of Pennsylvania aged eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that he was well and personally acquainted with Joseph Van Vliet husband of Susanna Van Vliet. That he the said Joseph Van Vliet and this deponent always resided in the same neighbourhood
That he the said Joseph Van Vliet was drafted as a militia man to serve in the Revolutionary War in the month of December seventeen hundred and seventy six for the period of three months under Captain Samuel Drake. That he the said Joseph Van Vliet was drafted at Fort Penn the present site of the Borough of Stroudsburg then occupied by Col Jacob Stroud. That my father served under Captain Samuel Drake out the same time and was drafted at the same time and place with the said Joseph Van Vliet. That the said Joseph Van Vliet served out the period of time for which he was drafted and returned home the following spring. That the said Joseph Van Vliet was again drafted in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine under Captain Timothy Jayne to serve in the
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Revolutionary War for the term of three months, it was the same year that Gen Sulivan passed through the Western part of this county That the said Joseph Van Vliet served out the period for which he was drafted and returned home the following fall. This deponent further saith that he was well and personally acquainted with Captain Johannes Vanes Etten, that he was a captain through the whole of the Revolutionary War. This deponent further saith that he was well and personally acquainted with Col Jacob Stroud that he was a colonel through the whole of the Revolutionary War that he the said Daniel Labar was well acquainted with John Chambers, that he the said John Chambers was a commissary in the Revolutionary War the length of time he held the office. he cannot now state and further this deponent saith not

Daniel Labar

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written

B.V. Bush  J Peace

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Daniel Labar and know him to be a man of Respectability and that his statements are entitled to credit

B.V. Bush  J Peace
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State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

I James H Stroud Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County do certify that B V Bush before whom the within proceedings were had was at the time the within proceedings were had and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Monroe duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Stroudsburg the twelfth day of November Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty five.

J.H. Stroud Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

On this twelvth day of November AD one thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Monroe John Van Vliet aged fifty two years who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is a son of Joseph and Susanna Van Vliet, that he was present at the death of his father Joseph Van Vliet, that the aforesaid Joseph Van Vliet died on the fourth day of February AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty one leaving his mother Susanna Van Vliet a widow.
And further this deponent said not

John Van Vliet

sworn and subscribed before me this twelvth day of November 1845

John Musch J.P.

I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with John Van Vliet that he is a man of Respectability and that his statements are worthy of credit.

John Musch J.P.
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State of Pennsylvania
Monroe County SS

I James H Stroud Prothonotary of the Court of common Pleas of Monroe County do certify that John Musch before whom the within proceedings were had was at the time the within were had and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Monroe duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Stroudsburgh the twelfth day of November, Anno Domini, One thousand eight hundred and forty five.

J. H. Stroud Prothonotary