Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,404, Abraham Wortman, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey
1
Abigail
1
Wortman, Abraham
NUMBER
W 4404
B.L. Wt. 31571-160-55
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date of widow's death
not on AB
Reg 199342
4153.
Ohio Cincinnatt
Abigail Wortman
widow of Abraham
N J
Wortman
who served in the Revolutionary war
, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
8th day of Mch 1849
and sent to
Hon Saml F. Vinton
M. C.
recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 366  Vol 4
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of
who ┃
┃ by ┃
┃ by ┃
11.303 Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Abraham Wortman
Fayette Co. in the State of Pennsylvania
was a Pri in the Company commanded
Captain Dunn of the Regh commanded
Col Starks in the New Jersey
Militia
2 To Private - $80-
Inscribed in the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 80 Dollars -- per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of April
and sent to
1833 G.P. Fincken, Uniontown Pa
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833-160-
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept "
40
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$200.-
Recorded by
Book ┃
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
J. Sprague, Clerk,
Vol. 5 Page 64
let. 14 Dec 1 Hon
C. Morris
1911
in doing
being of pompannel
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Vol H 2 page 105,
17.72
Mary
Aug. 755
Abigail Wortman
Widowow of
Abraham Wortman
Abigail, Wit: of Abraham
W.
Capt
Wortman
18
Pris
Cal
is
war of Revolution
Pensioner Act 2 Feb 1848
my
Ohio Feby 53 - 4153
AD: 160 Apr. 21/56
Boyton
James G. Austin
Washington
D.C
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Act  of 1855
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Abigail
Wortman
widow of
Abraham Wortman
of Ohio
Don
Claim for Br Land
Revolution services
Widow or Pension
Act 2 Feb 1848
D
Presented & filed
By
Jas. G. Austin
Present
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State of Ohio


Perry County SS. On this 28 day of June 1855 personally
appeared before me the Subscriber a Notary Public in & for said
County & State aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer
at Abigail Wortman aged 90 years a resident of Perry
County & State of Ohio who being duly sworn according to law
declares that she is the widow of Abraham Wortman Decd
who was a solder in the Revolutionary War, and that the
is now a Pensioner of the United States under the Act of
22 February 1848 at the rate of $80 per annum for the
services of her said husband in the Revolution War
the makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaing
the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the
act of March 3 1855. that she has never received
Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress,
nor has he ever made any other application for
Bounty Land for the service of her said husband
in the Revolution War nor for any other service
then the present application, & that has no knowley
that her said husband ever recd or applicate
Bounty Land for his service-
& the Respectfully
refers to her papers on file at the Pension Office upon
which her said pension was granted for partition
---
of her husband service & als for proof of her Marriage

James G Austin & Washington D.C.
is hereby authorized to prosecute this my claim the
receive any warrant which may be issue herein
her mark
Abigail Wortman
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2 Witness
We Abraham Walker and Smith Wortman
Residents of the County of Perry in the State of Ohio when
our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration
was signed (by making her mark by and acknowledge
by Mrs Abigail Wortman in our presence, and
& we from the appearance and statement of the
Applicant, as well as of our personal knowledge
Know
of the applicant that she is the identical person
the Represents herself to be, and that we have no
interest in this claim-
Abram
Walker Seal
Smith Wortman
Magistrates Certificate
The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to
and subscribed before me the day and year above written
& I certify that I know the affiant & believe them to
be credible persons, and that the claimant is the
person she represents herself to be & further I have
no interest in this Claim Jesse Worley
Notary Public in & for
Perry County, Ohio
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State of Ohio
Co Cork last & Seal
County of Perry SS. I John Beckwith Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas in & for said County do hereby certify
that Jesse Worly Esq before whom the foregoing declaration
and affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking the Same
an acting Notary Public within & for Perry
County aforesaid duly appointed, commissioned and
qualified as such & that his signature to the foregoing
is genuine-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of said
County at Somerset this 2d day of
July 1855
John Beckwith
Clerk
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Admr
2 yrs
$80.
R.J. Flenniken
Uniontown
Pa
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I
Fayeth County
Pennsylvania
⎬
Personally appeared before me
the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said
County Abraham Wortman who being duly sworn
deposeth & saith that by reason of old age and
Consequent loss of memory he cannot swear
propitively as to the precise length of his services,
then according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned
he live, and in and in the following grades
for four months I served as an enlisted
Soldier. for one month I served as a drafted
Militiaman - For one month I served as a
ted militia man, for one month I served as a
volunteer in the militia.-- For two months I
served as a volunteer in the Militia for three
months I served as a volunteer in the Militia
in the
for one month I again served as a volunteer in
the militia-- For one month I again served
as a volunteer in the militia-- for one month
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I again served as a volunteer in the United for
one month I again served as a volunteer in the
militia. For two months I again served as a
Volunteer in the militia-- for one month I again
served as a volunteer in the militia-- for two
months I again served in the militia as a
volunteer for one month I again served as a
volunteer in the militia-- For two months &
again served as a volunteer in the militia making
in all twenty five months-- for such I claim a
pension.
And this deponent further says that besides
the above service as regular terms which is all
he can distinctly recollect he served a great man
tours for shorter periods than one month which
he cannot call regular service, either as a volunteer
or as a chapt. being sudden coles, upon alous
to protect their people & property from the depredation
 of the British and tories, and there Exhich
times he would sometimes be two week, comition
more and sometimes less, and although it is
impossible at this length of time to say any thing
portentor about this service yet be known
that if all put together would amount 
conserable length of time, perhaps Eighteen months
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or more. This deponent feel bound to make the
foregoing explanation
he deportment.
Sworn and subscribed
before me
17th February 1833
mark
Jacob Ketcham
I hereby certify that Jacob Kelcham is a
Justice of the peace in & for the
County of Fayette & that from my
knowledge of his writing I have no
doubt the above is his signature
Anrew Stewart
March 1833
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Abigail Wortman
Application for five
Zions Pension
No 8102
Hon. C. Morris
HR
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State of Ohio, Athens County
On this 27th of October, in the year 1841, personally ap
peared before the Subscriber an Associate of the Court of
Common Pleas of said Athens County, Abigail Wortman
a resident of said Athens County, aged about 77 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 Abraham Wortman, late a Revolutionary Pensioner
of the United States Pittsburgh Pennsylvania agency
who was a Private and Fifer &c. in the Revolutionary
Any New Jersey troops. She further declares that she
was married to the said Abraham Woodman in New Jersey
, soon after the close of the Revolutionary and as
she believes in or about the month of February, 1786,
that her husband the aforesaid Abraham Wortman
died as she believes on the 29th day of December 1835, at
his residence in Sallick Township, Fayette County, Penn
sylvania. 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 or about the time above
stated.
Sworn to & subscribed, on the day & year
above written, and I certify that the
her
said Abigail Wortman is in my opinion ⎬ Abigail Wortman
unable from bodily infirmity to appear in
⎬
mark
open Court, and further that she is a
indible person.
L B Pruden
Oposiate Judge
Joseph Dana, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
of the County of Athens and State of Ohio, do hereby certify that
S. B. Pruden is an Associate Judge of the Court of Common
as aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified
and was such at the date of the above certificate and
that his signature above written is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and the
seal of said Court at Athens
this 6th day of December AD. 1841
Joseph Dana Clerk
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I hereby certify that Mrs Margaret Voorhes, whose
Deposition relative to the marriage of Mrs Abigail Wort
man, was taken by me on the 4th day of November
1841, is a highly respectable and credible person-
I also certify, that the within Declaration of Mrs
Abigail Wortman was reduced to writing by me,
and that she stated to me that she had no record
evidence of the date of her marriage, that a Bible
containing a Family Records, written by her late
husband, was destroyed in the burning of their
residence may years since; that Mrs Wortman
is now absent from this place on a visit to one of
her children, and that her further deposition
as to the facts above stated could not now
be obtained without considerable delay and
inconvenience, and that said statement was
inadvertently omitted by me in reducing
to writing said Declaration-
Given under my hand, this 31st day of
December A.D. 1841
A. G. Brown J.P.
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S
Before me A.G. Browne, a Justice of the Peace in and for
the County of Athens and State of Ohio, personally came Mrs 
Margaret Voorhes widow of Albert Voorhes, late a Revolutionary Pensioner
of the United States, aged 72 years, who being first duly sworn
according to Law, depose and says, that she was born in
Morris County, New Jersey, and continued to reside there
until she was 46 years of age; that she was intimately acquainted with
Abraham Wortman and his wife Abigail Wortman who
resided in the same neighborhood in said Morris County
that she was not present at the marriage of said Abraham &
Abigail Wortman, but remember well the circumstances of
the said Abraham's bringing his said wife home to his own
house; that she cannot state the precise time at which said
marriage took place, but will number it was about
the two years before her own marriage; that as she believes
said marriage took place at the time stated by the said
Abigail Wortman in her Declaration, to wit: in or about
the month of February 1786, at a place as she believes, named
Spotswood, near New Brunswick, that after their marriage
aforesaid, the said Abraham & Abigail Wortman, continued
to reside in the same neighborhood with herself in Roxberry
Township in said Morris County, until they had three children
after which they removed to the Western part of Pennsylvania
where as she has understood & believes the said Abraham Wortman
 died, that as she believes the said Abigail was lawfully
married to the said Abraham Wortman and was reputed
and believed to be his lawful wife from the period aforesaid
and that she well knows that said marriage took place
prior to the first of January 1794 aforesaid,
born & subscribed before me this
4th day of November 1841
he
Margaret Voorhes
k
A.S. Brown J.P.
I Joseph Land Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
this County State of Ohio, do hereby certify that A. G. Brown
was at the date of the above certificate and still is a
acting Justice of the Peace in for said County duly
commissioned and qualified, and that his signature
above written is genuine-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and the seal of said
Court, this 6th day of December AD
1841
Joseph Dana Clerk
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Fayette County ⎬ ss
State of Pennsylvania ⎬
On this 20th day of August 1832 
personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the
Court of Common pleas for the County of Fayette State of
Pennsylvania now sitting, Abraham Wortman a resident
of Fayette County & State afforesaid, aged seventy nine
years last May, who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress
passed June the 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officer. and served as
herein stated
that he was born in Roxberry township-- Morris
County State of New Jersey- that he resided in that
County with his father untill 1775 when the Revolution
war commenced, that in March or April 1775 he
enlisted for the time of four months under Captain
Jacob Dunn- That he was enlisted at the time for
the purpose of suppressing the Tories. that he served
out the four months for which he enlisted, that he
received no discharge.
that about the first of
July 1775 he was drafted in the service of the State of
New Jersey under Captain Jeremiah Clark and
was joined to Col John Starks Regiment commanded
by Genl Mercer.-- that they marched from Morris
County to Elizabeth town where they were stationed
for the purpose of preventing the British from landing
on that side who were at this time on staton
Island, that he continued here one month, the term
for which he was drafted, that he then returned home
that in the late
Company that in September 1776 he was again drafted
under Captain Horton. Joined to Col Drakes Ry
I commanded by Genl Williamson, that they were ┃
again ordered to Elisabeth town, & there stationed
for the same purpose as above mentioned,
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That in October 1776 he volunteered in Capt Jeremiah
Clarks company & was joined to Col Jacob Ford
Regiment. That he was again stationed at Elisabeth
 town, that they remained there untill General
Washington retreated through the State of New Jersey
and the forces at Elizabeth town fell in on the
year of his army. that he marched to New Brunswick
that Genl Washington ordered a Brigade
from Brunswick to Boundbrook on the Rariton
River, to which Brigade his company belonged.
that they remained there a few days when he
volunteered in an artilary Company commanded
by Captain Sell.-- that they intended to have
returned to Genl Washington at Brunswick and
before they reached there they heard that the
British were in that place & that Washington
had continued his retreat, that they then ten
red towards Springfield & marched up the Rariton river and went to Springfield, that they
continued in Springfield & Chatham that while
they were at Chatham the British came to
Springfield-- at last a detachment of the British
army - that they returned from Chatham & after
a severe skermish drove them out,-- that they
went back to Chatham & remained there untill
January 1777 when he volunteered in Captain Luce
company & was under the command of Genl Nines,
that on the 8th day of January 1777 he was engaged
in the Battle at Woodbury Rahway- that he continued
be under the command of Genl Nines- that the
same winter he was engaged in a battle with
the Hessians between Elizabeth town & Raway, that
he continued in the army performing military service
as a volunteer from this time (1777 until the close
of the War, that the whole of his military services
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Sworn & subscribed in
mark
were performed in the State of New Jersey- that
from the winter of 1777 he was commanded by
Genl Nines-- that he was marched from place
to place in the state where ever ordered by
his officers. That his recollection are not intend
of the several engagements-- the length of time &
of each, but that he knows certainly that he
has served as much as four years during the
period of the revolutionary war. That all his
remises after the draft under Captain Horton, he
performed as a volunteer. That he time at the
time he entered the service in Morris County
her Jersey, that after the war he continued
there a few years. that he then removed tothe

Western country & has resided was then a
few miles of where he now live in Fayette
County ever since. that he is seventy nine
years of age.-- That he never received a written
discharge - that he has no documentary evidence
of his service - tent that he can prove his servis
by Robert Coleburn & Albert Voories. That
he has a record of his age at home in his bible,
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to
a pension or annuity except the present, and declares
that his name is not on the pension Roll of the age
by of any state
Open Court 21 Augt 1832
his
in
Wortman
I
H. W. Benson
Proth
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State of Pennsylvania 
Tempter County
I Henry W Buson Brother
tary of the Court of Common
pleas for the County of Fayeth &
State of Pennsylvania, do hereby 
certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said
Court in the matter of the application
of Abraham Wortman for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and the seal of the said Court the 21st day of
August A.D. 1832
Henry W. Beeson
Roth
declaration
in
161
Abraham Wortman
four years
Abraham Wortman
And the Court or thereby declare their opinion of be the
investigation of the Mother and of his putting the interrogatories
presented by the Crow deportment that Abraham Wortman
who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration: was
solum of the revolution, and service as he states
State of
Pennsylvania
Fayette County
Henry W. Beeson Prothonatory of the
Court of Common pleas in & for said County
do hereby certify that the foregoing contain
the original proving of the now Court
in the matter of the application of Abraham
Wortman for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal
of said Court this 14th day of March 1833
H W Beeson
Prothy
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                                         October 30, 1939

Mrs. Homer C. Davis
426 North Pittsburgh Street
Connellsville, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:
In compliance with the request of Miss Margaret N. Angle, of
this city, the Revolutionary War records of this office have been
searched for the record of Major Abraham Wortman or Workman, of
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, who received three hundred acres of
land in that county for his Revolutionary War services and died
about 1836, survived by his widow, Abigail, who later moved to
Perry County, Ohio.
The record of Abraham Wortman follows as shown in the claims for
pension and bounty land based upon his service in the Revolutionary War
, on file under W. 4404. It is not shown in those papers that he
served under the rank of major. It may be stated, also, that land
located within the territorial limits of Pennsylvania was not granted
by the United States.
ABRAHAM WORTMAN
3
Abraham Wortman was born in May, 1753, in Roxbury Township,
Morris County, New Jersey. The names of his parents are not shown.
While living with his father in Roxbury Township, New Jersey,
Abraham Wortman enlisted in March or April, 1775, served at various times
in the New Jersey troops under Captains Jacob Dunn, Jeremiah Slack,
Horton, Neel and Luce, and Colonels John Starke, Jacob Ford and Drake;
during his service he was in the battles of Woodbridge, Elizabethtown,
Springfield and Rahway, and served until the close of the Revolution,
amounting in all to about four years.
After the Revolutionary War, the soldier continued to live in
Morris County, New Jersey, for a few years, then moved to Fayette
County, Pennsylvania, where he was living when he was allowed pension
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on his application executed August 20, 1832. He died December 29, 1835,
at his residence in Saltlick Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Abraham Wortman married in February, 1786, at Spotswood near New
Brunswick, New Jersey, Abigail her maiden name, date and place
of her birth and names of parents were not given. After marriage,
they resided in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey, where three
children were born, then moved to Pennsylvania.
Abigail Wortman was allowed pension on account of the Revolutionary
War service of her husband, Abraham, on her application executed
October 29, 1841, at which time she was aged seventy-seven years and
a resident of Athens County, Ohio. In 1844, she was living in Jackson
Township, Perry County, Ohio.
While a resident of Perry County, Ohio, soldier's widow, Abigail,
applied for bounty land which was due her, also, on account of the
service of her husband, Abraham Wortman, and was granted one hundred
sixty acres of bounty land on Warrant No. 31571, under the Act of
March 3, 1855.
In 1841, one of the children of Abraham Wortman and his wife,
Abigail, was living in Guernsey or Muskingum County, Ohio. No names
of children were designated.
In 1855, one Smith Wortman, age not stated, was a resident of
Perry County, Ohio; his relationship to soldier's family not stated.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name
and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of
soldier's widow, Abigail Wortman, you should write to the Comptroller
General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and
cite the following data: Abraham Wortman, certificate #4153, issued
March 9, 1849, rate $80 per annum, commenced March 4, 1848, Act of
February 2, 1848, Ohio (Cincinnati ) Agency.
If you desire information relative to the location of the bounty
land which was allowed Abigail Wortman, for service of her husband,
you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office,
Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official the number
of the warrant, the acreage and date of the act under which issued.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
2 --
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Deposion of
Robert Coleburn
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Fayette County Ss August the 24 1832
personally came before me the subscriber one of
our Justices of the peace in and for said County
Robert Colburn who being sworn as the Law
Perick deposeth and saith that he was person
ally aquainted with Abraham Wortman and
we of Morris County Rocksbury township and
State of New Jersey belonging to Colnal
Starks Ridgment Capt Luce Company being
Militia solder threw the Revolution war
from the year 1776 to the year 1780 at which
time I left that part and Cannot say
on him afterwards but being personally
with him then several periods of that
was in the servis with him as drafted
and a vollenteer solder &
Sworn and subscribed and further saith not
before me
Jacob Ketcham
Robert Coleburn
Pennsylvania Fayette County ss. J Henry W. Beeson Prothon
tary of the Court of Common pleas in & for said
County do hereby certify that Jacob Ketcham
before whom the above affidavit was made
was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the
Peace of said County duly commissioned
qualified & that I believe the above sig
nature purporting to be his, is the proper
hand writing of the said Jacob Ketcham. In testimony
whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of
said Court at Uniontown the 29th Augt 1832
Henry W. Beeson
Prothy
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I then let that the within named
Robert Colburn who made the foregoing off
Court is a disinterest & cut witness and
that his statement is entitled to at
February the 16 1833
Jacob Ketcham
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.

April 16
Public Servinty
J L Edwards Esqr
War Department
Washington City
D.C.
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Union Town
J. L. Edwards Esqr

 5th April 1833
closed on the proper of
Abraham Wortman returned to me for
correction. I have done no according to
the brief in which they are enclose
The applicant has proved his devises
by two respectable witnesses and on
how counted as you desired.
but you have the goodness
to forward his certificate as soon as
possible.
We the quit put your
for sent
R. P. Flenniken
G. Edwards Esq
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Recd 22 Feby
6675
Cincinnati, Ohio
Abigail Wortman
widow of Abraham Wortman
who was a private
in the N. Jersey Militia
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
10 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
21 day of February 1845
and sent to
Hon. S.F. Vinton
H. R.
Act of March 3, 1843.}
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 211
& 17 June 1840
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Abigail Wortman
Athens, Ohio
A.H. Browns
6675
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State of Ohio, Perry County Js
On this 3d day of Febry 1849 personally appeared before the sub
scriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Mrs Abigail
Wortman, a resident of Jackson Township in said Perry County
aged Eighty four years who being first duly sworn according is
law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to
obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed
on the 2nd February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who
served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of
Abraham Wortman who was a Private in the New Jersey
in the Army of the Revolution, and died 27th December 1835, and
that she received a Pension Eighty dollars per annum, under the
act of 3d March 1843 and 17 June 1844 and that she
still remains a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first
her
above written, before me and I certify that the said Abigail Wortman
declarant is personally known to me
William Mely J.P.
mark
I James Cullenton
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the
County of Perry in the State of Ohio, hereby certify
William Maloy was at the date of the foregoing
certificate and still is an acting Justice of the
Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and
qualified, and that his signature above written
is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said Court, this Sixth day of
February A.D. 1849
James Culbertson Clerk
By Henry Miss Deputy
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8102
Abigail Wortman
of Abraham
1
Ohio
-
Admitted
-
Private 2yrs $80.
Cap Dunn Col Stark N.Y.
died 29th Dec. 1835
Act 7 July 1838
Hon. C. Morris,
H. R.
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31571
S
to any
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6499
Ohio
Abigail Wortman
widow of ┃
Abraham Wortman, ┃
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 29. Decr 1835.
of Athens in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the Comp. command
by Captain Dunn of the regt. command
by Col. Stark in the New J.
Militia for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio.
at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Jan
1842 & sent to Hon. C. Morse
H. Reps
Arrears to the 4th of March 41 $400.
$400.00
{Act July 7
1838.
Recorded by Tho. Lelwoody Cle
Book A
Vol. 2 Page 211
Agent notified Jan 8.42
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6932

Ohio
Jan 13 45
Mar 3d 1843
A. Wortman
No 619
Admd act 3d March
Washington City
proper and
Edwards Esq
my
H S.F. Vinton
HR
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Washington City Jany 11th 1845.
J.L. Edwards Esq Comm Pensions
Dear sir;
I enclose
you the application
of this Abigail Wortman for a continuance of
her pension. Will you please give it the necessary
attention.
very respectfully
your Obt Sert
Saml F. Vinton
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Hon. C. Morris
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Dear Sir
Athens Decr 31. 1841
again enclose to your care the
application of Mrs Abigail Wortman for a
Five years pension with my official certificate
of the credibility and respectability of Mrs Margrant Voores as a witness, which I presume you
can also confirm, from your knowledg
of her family connexions, if not of herself.
She is the motherinlaw of our State mator A. Van Norks Esq
At the time Mr Martinan's Declaration was drawn
she was preparing for a journing to the residence
one of her children. I think in Guernsey
Muskingum County, and owing to the State of
the Roads I presume she will not return before
Spring. I trust however that my statement of
the parts and circumstances, together with
the Deposition of Mr Voorhes, may be deemed
sufficient. Considering the number of applica
tions for Pensions which have passed through
my hands, and the course I have uniformly
pursued in regard to them. I presume that
my datement respecting any matter would
be considered as entitled to som credit
with the Department with which the Pension
office is connected.
With respect
remain Yours
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6932
Received
January 13. 1845.
.
Mr Abigail Wortman
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+State of Ohio, Perry County, SS.
ed before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for
said County, Mrs Abigail Wortman, a resident of Jackson
Township, in said County and State, and who I certify
from my own personal acquaintance and knowledge,
is a credible person, aged Eighty years, who being first
duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath, make
the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits
of the provion made by the act of Congress, passed on the
3rd of March, 1843, granting Pensions to widows of persons
who served during the Revolutionary War, that she
is the widow of Abraham Wortman, who was
Private
in the Army of the Revolution, and was inscribed on the
Pension List, Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency at the rate
of $80.00 per annum and that she received a Pension of
$80.00 per annum, under the act of July 7th, 1838, and
she further declares that she is still a widow
Sworn & subscribed, on the day and year ⎬
her
first above written, before me
Ettingomery J.P.
In presence of
Abigail Wortman
mark
outgoing
Ann B Chappeler
I, John W Davis Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
of the County of Perry in the State of Ohio, hereby certify
that Eli Montgomery Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and
for said County, duly commissioned and qualified,
and was such at the date of the foregoing Declaration,
and that his signature above written is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Seal of
said Court, at Somerset in said
County, this 23d day of December,
A.D. 1844
John W Davis Clerk
A. Brown, Athens, Ohio.
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Fayette County August the 27th 1832
Personally came before me the subscriber one of
our Justices of the peace in and for said County
Albert Veras to being sworn as the law directs
Deposeth and saith that he was well againted
with Abraham Wortman of Morris County Rocksbury
 township and State of New Jersey as a Militia
and volunteer Solder belonging to Capt Lue Com
pany Colonial Starks Ridgment of the revolution
war from 1776 to the end of the war being with
him in two scrimages perticularly
Sworn and subscribed
before me
and further saith not
Jacob
Ketcham
Albert Forhess
Pennsylvania
Fayette County ss. I Henry W. Beeson
Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in
& for said County do hereby certify that
Jacob Ketcham before whom the above
affidavit was made was at the date
thereof an acting Justice of the peace duly
Commissioned & qualified & that the above
signature purporting to be his is the
proper hand writing of the said Jacob Ketcham, as I
believe, In testimony whereof I have hereto set my
hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Uniontown
the 29th Augt 1832
Henry W Beeson
Prothy
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I do hereby certify that the in the named
Robert Voorhes who made the forgoing off
court is a disinterested & are witness
. That his cotement is entitled to
mar
February the 26 1833
Jacob Ketcham
Affidavid of
Albert Voorhees
Page 42

October 30, 1939

Miss Margaret E. Angle
1800 sixteenth Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Madam:

This is to inform you that the record of Abraham Wortman has
been furnished Mrs. Homer C. Davis, 420 North Pittsburgh Street
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, on this date. A copy of the report
is enclosed for your convenience, also her letter addressed to you.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.

                                 September 25, 1925
Mrs. Ella Runkle
4837 Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, Ill.
Madam:

I have to advise you from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 4404, it appears
that Abraham Wortman was bron in May 1753
in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey.
While residing at said place, he enlisted
in March or April 1775 and served at various times
in the New Jersey Troops under Captains Jacob Dunn,
Jeremiah Slack, Horton, Neel and Luse, Colonels
John Starke, Jacob Ford and Drake, he was in the
battles of Woodbridge, Elizabethtown, Springfield
and Rahway, and served until close of War, amounting
 in all to about four years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
August 20, 1832, while a resident of Fayette
County, Pennsylvania. He died December 29, 1835
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at Saltlick Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Soldier married in February 1786 at Spots
wood near New Brunswick, New Jersey, Abigail (her
maiden name is not given). She was allowed pension
on her application executed October 29, 1841,
while a resident of Athens County, Ohio, aged seventy-
seven years.
Children are referred to, no names stated.
In 1843, he was living in Jackson Township,
Perry County, Ohio.
There is no further data on file as to family,
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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February 26, 198.
Hon. James McKinney,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. McKinney:
In reply to your letter dated the 19 " and received
the 200 instant, requesting the record of Abram Workman and Thomas
Predmore for Mrs. E. Herman Stocker of 332 South Randolph Street Hacorb
Illinois, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the
claim, Widow's File No. 4404, it appears that Abraham Norton was born in
Roxbury Township Morris County New Jersey, in May 1753 and while residing
in said County he enlisted, in March or April 1775 and served in the
militia until the close of the war, at various times counting to about
four years, under Captains Jacob Dunn, Jeremiah Slack, Horton, Neel and
Luse, and Colonels John Starke, Jacob Ford and Drake; he was in battle
with the Hessians between Elizabethtown and Rahway, and in enactments
at Woodbridge Rahway, and at Springfield.
He was allowed pension on an application executed August 20, 1833
while a resident of Fayette County Pennsylvania, and he died December
29, 1835 at Saltlick Township, Fayette County Pennsylvania.
He married at Spotswood near New Brunswick New Jersey about February
1786 Abigail -- and she was allowed pension on an application
cuted October 29, 1841 while a resident of Athens County Ohio, are about
77 years at which time she had living children are not statedreferred to as

the mother-in-law of the Ohio state be
an order
She was living in Jackson Township, Perry County Ohio in 1849.
andof
Page 46

A careful search of the records of this mean fails to show that a
claim for Revolutionary War pension was ever filed by the widow of
any soldier named Abram Workman who resided in Pennsylvania or Ohio,
or on account of the services of Thomas Predmore of New Jersey, Senegative
Pennsylvania or Maryland.
Slep
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Veterans' Administration
Revolutionary War Section
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
1200 Sixteenth Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
October 19, 1959
I am enclosing a letter requesting information
concerning the military record of Major Abraham Workman or
-
Wortman who served in the Revolutionary War. It is my
understanding that the information requested in the letter
can be furnished from the pension records in your custody.
If you can supply this information, will you kindly send it
to Mrs. Davis. Thank you.
Encl.
Very truly yours,
(Miss) Margaret N. Angle
Margaret H. Angle
Page 48

From Mrs. Ella Runkle
4827 Jackson Blue
Chicago Ill.

July 17th 1925,
Dept of the Interior B. of in
Dear Sir
Please send whatever
of genealogy of Abraham Wortman
placed on pension roll
pr. 23. 1883 New Jersey Militia
In order to become a member of
the Daughters of the Revolution
not have where he was born also
wife &
& also died,
where they were married
Page 49

Abraham Wortman 1753-1835 inlisted as a private in
Capt. Jacob Dunn's Co. also in
Capt Jermiah Stacks Co, Col. Jacob Ford's Regt. N.J.
placed on pension roll 1832 of Fayette Co Pa service
where he died.
Abagail Conwort ┃
Married
1761- 1861
Mary Wortman
1791 - 1860
Sarah Hoge
1820- 1872
Charlotte Wheeler
1845 -1921
Ella Jellison
6-21- 1869
Abraham Wortman
1753 - 1835
John Hoge
1790-1864
James Jellison
1818 1883
Isaac Newton Jellison
1842
Elisha
living 83 years old & C. War Veteran
Fox Runkle
Feb-14-1861
Page 50

Thanking
of my father J. R. Jellison
my Cousing or (second Comin )
Joined some 12 or 14 years ago
her no. is 67235
Mrs. Eva M H. Stockerborn

in
Cal. Mo. residesin
Macomb Ill he
Uncle
great uncle ) Steward Hoge
died this year at her home
aged 89 years my father is still
living and is 83 years old and
served 4 years in the Civil War
My bro. Fred C. Jellison served 3 y
in the Philippines in the S. War
ree
Mrs. Ella Runkle
4827 Jackson Blvd
Chicago Ill
Page 51

Pension Department
Washington DC
one you any record
of
Abraham Workman or Wortman
helled both ways applying for
pension said to have lived in
A
Revolutionary war as a
fifer from Moses C New
Jersey
Mrs J. P. Wood
14 Uniousity Lenace

Athens
Jan 14th
Ohio
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JAMES MERNNEY
4TH ILL. ASTRICT
House of Representatives W.S.
Washington, D.C.
Hon. V. Warner,
Washington, February 19,
Feb
20
Commissioner of Pensions.
My dear Mr. Warner:
Enclosed please find letter addressed to me
by Mrs. Herman Stocker of Macomb, Illinois, in my district,
who desires information which will enable her to establish
her eligibility to membership in the Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution.
Her great-grandfather, Abram Workmen, lived for a
time in Pennsylvania and later in Ohio. His widow drew a pen
sion on account of his service in the Revolutionary War and it
was sent to her at Lexington, Perry County, Ohio, or at Union
Town, Ohio.
Another ancestor, Thomas Predmore, probably enlisted
in the Revolutionary Army from New Jersey, though it might have
been from eastern Pennsylvania or Maryland,
I would appreciate it if you would have an investigation
made of the rolls of the pensioners of that war and, if
possible, advise me as to the service, etc of these two men, Mrs.
Stocker will also be very grateful for the information.
Kindly return the enclosed letter with your reply.
Mrs Stockers letter Thanking you, I remain,
James Makinney
4404
returned
Feb. 25.08
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3 - 081.
CONGRESSIONAL.
No.
NAME OF CLAIMANT:
Abram Workman
P.
NAME OF SOLDIER:
Co. Reg-
---
The above-named claimant is to the best
of my knowledge and belief a bona fle
resident of the District which I represent
and this inquiry is not made at the request
of any pension attorney or claim agent.
desire to be advised as to
-
-
FEB
Revolutionary
Wade
---
---
Carl
Please give service
Jas McKinney M. C.
2/19, 1908
These slips are exclusively for the use of Representa
tives in Congress, and when used by any other person
will not receive consideration.
Representatives will greatly aid the Bureau of Pensions
in giving them an early answer, if they will fill and use
these slips in making calls in pension cases.
6 -- 16
V. Warner
Commissioner.
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'---
R. Wake
CONGRESSIONAL.
Record D.
File No.
NAME OF CLAIMANT:
Thomas Pridmore
R. O. ┃
Co.
O
NAME OF SOLDIER:
10
-
FEB 22
The above-named claim as to the West of
my knowledge and belief a bona fide
resident of the District which I represent,
and this inquire is not made at the request
of any pension attorn to claim assent
desire to be tried to
Revolution War
Case
Please give Service
Jas McKinney K.
190
6 -- 16
These slips are exclusively for the use of Representatives
in Congress, and when used by any other person
will not receive consideration.
Representatives will greatly aid the Bureau of Pensions
in giving them an early answer, if they will fill and use
these slips in making calls in pension cases.
V. Warner
Page 55

AI / Machine-Generated
(6 months ago)
8 -- 595.
DIVision.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Feby 24, 1908
Searched by A.F.
ted in Washington or
certificate Mary
Widow
and wine to the Perry Co.
Soldier Abram Workman
Service,
---
A pension from Ohio
Remarks: No claim as
above
See Abraham
Wortman, Widow of
W.F. 4404
2749864 m2 - 07
Chief of Division
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1908 Feb. 25. Hist. to
Hon James McKinney ┃
1915 Jany 17. Hist to Law.
Mrs.
1925 Sept. 25. Hist to Mrs. Ella R
1939 Oct. 30 - Hutto Mrs Homer
Margaret and
WIDOW, &c.
---
File No. 4404
Abigail Woodman
Wid. ┃
Abraham Wortman
Pat. Rev. War
Act: Feby, 29 18
Index: - Vol. M, Page 35
Arrangement of 1870.}