Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 23462, Zachariah Archer, Penn.
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SERVICE NUMBER
Penn. Archer, Zachariah W23462
Jane

CONTENTS
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Zachariah Archer
Penn.
W.23462
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Zachariah Archer
Penn.
W.23462
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These are to certify that the Bearer Zachariah Archer a Private
in Capt. Hodges Company of the sixth Battalion of Cumberland County
Militia and has done duty in the Eighth Class to which he belongs
But being about to Remove is this 29th Day of May 1782 Regularly
Discharged by me - John Hodge Capt.
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Zachariah Archer
Penn.
W.23462
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Zachariah Archer
Penn.
W.23462
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The Bearer Hereof Zachariah Archer Soldier
having served the term of 20 months in the Regt
at Girvent Commanded by Col. Walter Stewart
according to the Articles of his enlistment
[this line illegible]
Service and permitted to pass to his [illegible]
Given under my hand this 1st Day of
January 1778 W Stewart
[illegible]
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The Bearer thereof Zachariah Archer Soldier
having served the term of 20 months in the Regt
at Gravent Commanded by Col. Walter Stewart
according to the Articles of his enlistment
[illegible]
Service and permitted to pass to his [illegible]
Given under my hand this 1st Day of
January 1778 W Stewart
[illegible]
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[this page is faded and illegible]
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I Speaker Franklin
Jane Archer
of the State of Illinois
Svice Rev Lola ail
NR. Feb 1. 1831
Clergy
no bill
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To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Pennsylvania in session convened at Harrisburgh.
The petition of Jane Archer, formerly Jane
Killgore a native of Cumberland county Pennsylvania widow and reti'd of Zachariah Archer deceased represents that she was removed when young her father being dead to the State of Kentucky in the year 1783 or 1784 and was married to the said Zachariah Archer in Kentucky about the year 1789 that after residing for some time in said state they removed to the state of Ohio and after a residence in that state of 16 years removed
to Clark county state of Illinois where he now
lives.  That her said husband died in said county of Clark Il. in the year 1822 leaving herself and eight children. Your petitioner further states that her said husband was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and suffered many privations in that struggle for Independance- that he was in the service in all about three years & 9 months as he frequently told her, during which time he was in several memorable engagements, Long Island, German Town, Brandywine and a tour with Genl Greene to the south - that he migrated to Kentucky about the year 1781 or sooner was with Genl Clark against the Indians on Madriver and in many
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of the troubles with them in settling Kentucky - that after taking up land in said State it was lost by conflicting titles - your petitioner further states that her said husband frequently told her that when paid off for his services in the Revolutionary war it was in a depreciated currency and amounted to
but little that he was entitled to a quantity of land in Pennsylvania for his services but that he never got the same or realized any compensation therefor that the same was lost in consequence of his having left the state, the distance, trouble and expence[sic] to obtain it &. Your petitioner being in the decline of life & makes an appeal to her native state in whose service her said husband served for a small donation or appropriation in money to render her situation in life more comfortable, such sum as in the  benevolent and charitable opinion of the Legislature
thereof shall seem right and your petitioner, as in duty bound will, while life exists, ever cherish feelings of the warmest gratitude. Enclosed are two certificates a discharge & whereby the fact of his having served, will more fully appear, the same being found among his papers. If an appropriation shall be made it is requested that the same be paid over to my son W.B. Archer for my use - Dec. 1. 1830.
Signed in our presence
Jane Archer
Wm Hogue Jr.
Haverstock Archer
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State of Illinois
Clark County
I was well acquainted with Zachariah Archer named in the foregoing Petition in the state of Ohio during his residence there it was always
understood and believed that that he was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war. He died in Illinois at an advanced age. He was a man of respectable standing and a man
of unquestionable sincerity.  Mrs. Jane Archer
still lives in Clark County Illinois.
Dec. 14. 1830.
Justin Harlan

State of Illinois
Clark County
 I was well acquainted with Zachariah Archer named in the foregoing petition in the State of Illinois during his residence there he died at an advanced age He was a man of good standing in society his widow Mrs. Jane Archer still lives in Clark County Illinois
Dec 14. 1830
James P Jones
Sheriff
Clark County
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State of Illinois
Clark County
Sct.

On this eigth[sic] day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one personally appeared before the county  commissioner court in and for the county of Clark and state of Illinois, the said court being a court of record and now judicially sitting.  Jane Archer a resident of said county, aged seventy eight years on the fourth day of April last, 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 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" That she is the widow of Zachariah Archer who was a private in the company commanded by Capt. Rolls (or Rawls) as well as she now recollects, of the 16th Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Col. Stewart in the army and war of the Revolution.  She further declares according to the best of her knowledge and belief, and as well as she is informed and now recollects, that the said Zachariah Archer resided in the county of Cumberland or Northumberland in the state of Pennsylvania when he entered the service in the Revolutionary war and that he enlisted she thinks at Philadelphia but cannot state with certainty the precise time of his enlistment, nor the names of the officers under whom he enlisted, but that he must have enlisted as aforesaid some time in the year of 1776 or thereabouts. That the said
Zachariah Archer served in the Revolutionary war under his said enlistment as well as she now recollects about "three years nine
months and fifteen days."  That the said Zachariah Archer received a discharge in writing, some time in the latter part of the year 1779, or fore[sic] part of the year 1780, and was discharged from the service after having served out the term of his enlistment as the said discharge upon its face clearly showed this declarant does not recollect the place where he was discharged nor the
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precise date of the discharge but recollects it was signed by Capt. Rolls (or Rawls) and Col Stewart and dated in the year 1779 or 1780 and that the discharge specified the time of his service to be about as aforesaid, "three years nine months and fifteen days" as per his said enlistment, and that he was Honorably discharged [illegible].  She further declares that the said discharge of the said Zachariah Archer is not now in her possession or power to produce it, that it was sent in connection with a memorial to the Legislature of the state of Pennsylvania about the year 1830 or 1831 by this declarant praying compensation the service of her husband the said Zachariah Archer, as aforesaid:  And that she is informed and believes that the said discharge is in the office of the Secretary of State of the state of Pennsylvania or upon the files or archives of said office: That the prayer of said memorial for compensation as aforesaid was rejected by the Legislature of Pennsylvania. 
She further declares that she is ignorant of the county through which the said Zachariah Archer marched during his said service in the war but she recollects of hearing him frequently relate that he was at the Battle of Long Island, at Brandywine with Genl Washington at Trenton at the taking the Hessions and with Genl Green in the South and a number of other engagements and scrapes while in the service, the particulars of which are not now well recollected.
She further declares that she was married to the said Zachariah Archer on or about the twenty fifth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eight nine, in the county of Fayette now Scott and state of Kentucky that her husband the aforesaid Zachariah Archer died on the fifth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and twenty two in the county of Clark and state of Illinois; 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.
She further declares that she has had born in wedlock with the said Zachariah Archer since her said marriage with him as aforesaid, thirteen children viz. Samuel Archer.
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who is now dead and was home about the 20th July 1786.  Charles William B. (and four others who died in their infancy without being named) then Jesse K. Jane, Stephen Elizabeth, Samuel, and Hannah Archer, the youngest and last named of which was born the 15th of September in the year 1812. the last named eight children are all now living.  She further declares that she is of opinion and presumes that it is probable that there is some Record evidence of their marriage. in Fayette county Kentucky.  She further declares that there was a family record kept Regularly of their marriage by her and her husband the said Zachariah Archer and that she now resides in the county of Clark and state of Illinois and has Resided there for the space of about thirty four years and that previous thereto they resided in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.
She further declares that the said Zachariah Archer never drew any compensation on Pension money nor did he receive any bounty in land either from the United States or from the state of Pennsylvania nor was he placed on any pension Roll or agency on account of his said services in the Revolutionary war as aforesaid in the United States or any thereof.
She further declares that she has remained a widow and yet continues to Remain the widow of the said Zachariah Archer, and has never intermarried with any other person since more fully appears by Reference to the proof hereto annexed.
sworn to and subscribed in open court this 8th day of September A.D. 1841. in presence of
Milton Lake
Willis Dougherty
John McManus
County Commissioners
Jane Archer
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State of Illinois
Clark county
Sct.

I Davis Phillips, Clerk of the county commissioners court, in and for the county of Clark and state of Illinois, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing three several pages contain the original proceedings of the court in the matter of the application of Jane Archer of said county for a pension as the widow of Zachariah Archer and I do further certify that Milton Lake, Willis Dougherty and John McManus are the county commissioners in and for said county that their signatures within are genuine and that the the said procedings[sic] were had in open court on this day, the court being judicially sitting.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said court at my office in  Marshall this eighth day of September Anno Domini 1841.
Davis Phillips
Clerk
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State of Illinois 
Clark County
Sct.

Be it Remembered that on this 18th day of October in the year eighteen hundred and forty one, personally appeared before me  James McKay an acting justice of the Peace in and for said County, William B. Archer a resident of said county aged now forty nine years past , who being by me duly sworn upon his oath doth depose and say as follow to wit; that he is a son of Zachariah Archer and Jane Archer that he was born on the 30th day of January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety two in Scott county Kentucky, that his age has always been computed sworn and given as such and as appears of record in the family Bible, burned and kept as such by the said Zachariah Archer in his life time which said family Bible, has been kept and now remains in the possession of the family of the widow and children of the said Zachariah Deceased, that the said Zachariah Archer and Jane Archer had been in wedlock his two other older children than this deponent to wit Samuel Archer who died in his infancy and Charles K. Archer whose age is fifty years past as also appears of record in the same family record who is now living in this county, there is also now living, jesse K. Jane, Elizabeth, Stephen, Samuel & Hannah, children of the said Zachariah Archer & Jane Archer born in wedlock who are all younger than this Deponent and whose names and age are entered Regularly in the same family record.
This deponent further says that the marriage of the said Zachariah Archer and Jane Archer is entered in the same family record, in the words and figures following, to wit "Zachariah and Jane Kilgore (above named) were joined in the holy hands of matrimony on the twenty fifth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty nine in Scott county state of Kentucky." And that the marriage of the said Zachariah & Jane, as above now here quoted from the said family record, is a true copy with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows to wit. "Zachariah Archer and Jane Killgore, (above named) were joined in the Holy hanns of matrimony on the 25th day of December A.D. 1789 in Scott county state of Kentucky."
This Deponent further says that the said Zachariah Archer and
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Jane Archer lived together as man and wife from his earliest Recollection to the time of the death of said Zachariah Archer took place in the county of Clark and state of Illinois on the fifth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and twenty two (1822). That the said Jane Archer his mother and the widow of the said Zachariah Archer deceased is now living in the county of Clark and state of Illinois. and that the said Jane Archer has never intermarried with any other person since the death of the said Zachariah Archer as aforesaid 
This deponent further says that the said Jane Archer is the same identical person and widow of the said Zachariah Archer who is the Declarant in the Declaration made before the county commissioners counts in and for the said county of Clark on the eigth day of September 1841 which is hereto attached
This deponent further says that he has repeatedly heard his father the said Zachariah Archer Relate over his services in the Revolutionary war, that he had enlisted in the state of Pennsylvania that he had been at the Battles of Brandywine, Long-Island with Genl Washington at the taking of the Hessians and with Genl Green to the South and a number of tours and servings not well recollected that the said Zachariah Archer had a written discharge from his services in the war of the Revolution, which specified that he had served out his term Honorably agreeably to the terms of his enlistment (which this deponent says was about three years nine months and fifteen days as he always understood and heard his father say) that his said discharge was signed by Col Stewart of the Pennsylvania line and he thinks under Capt. Rolls
This deponent further says that about the year or Session of the Legislature of the state of Pennsylvania in the years 1830 & 1831. this deponent at the request of his mother the said Jane Archer he sent the said discharge in company with a "petition" of his mother to the Legislature of the state of Pennsylvania, praying an allowance to he made to her on account of the services of the said Zachariah
Archer in the Revolutionary war from that state.
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[several words crossed out]
or claim received an unfavorable Report as will appear by the letter of the Secretary of state hereto annexed below marked A and dated 2nd April 1831. to this Deponent in Reply thereto; will more satisfactorily appear from which it is supposed that the said Discharge yet Remains upon the files of the secretary of state of Pennsylvania. further saith not
W. B. Archer

Sworn to & subscribed before me
this 18th day of October 1841.
James McKay JP

I James McKay the Justice of the peace before whoom[sic] the above deposition of William B Archer was taken Subscribed and Sworn to, do Certify that William B. Archer the deponent is a person of undoubted truth and veracity which I Certify from my Own personal knowledge given under my hand and Seal this 18th day of October AD 1841
James McKay J.P.
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State of Illinois
Clark County
I Darvis Phillips, Clerk of the county commissioners court in and for the county of Clark and state of Illinois do certify, that James McKay whose official signatures appear to the above and foregoing deposition of William B. Archer, and the certificate of veracity below, was on the day of the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Clark duly commissioned and qualified as such that full faith and credit are due his official acts and that his said signature thereto are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said court at my office in Marshall this 18th day of October Anno Domini 1841.
Darvis Phillips Clerk
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Marshall Ills.
21st October. 1841
Hon. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City, D. C.

No 8055
Oct 16 1841
Illinois 
Jane Archer
July 7 1838
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State of Illinois, Clark county
Marshall 20th October 1841
Hon. J. L. Edwards, Com'r of Pensions
Sir,
I have the honor herein to enclose to you the Declaration of Mrs. Jane Archer (widow of Zachariah Archer, Dead, who was a Revolutionary soldier from Pennsylvania as you will see) who is a claimant for 3 years pay under the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838.
The Deposition of William B. Archer accompanies the Declaration, with the letter mailed & annexed thereto & referred to in the Deposition, as to the discharge of the said Zachariah Archer from Samuel McKean, Secretary of State of the State of Pennsylvania, of date 2nd April 1831.
I suppose the discharge may be on file in the Secretary's office, among the papers of the (illegible) of 1830 & 1831.
I also enclose the letter of J. L. Rodes who is the Clerk of the court at Lexington Fayette county Kentucky where they were married, the first of their residence at the time of the marriage, and then in Fayette county, Ky; but has since by the curtailment of that county and the formation of a new county shortly afterward called Scott county and was therefore I suppose entered in the family Record by that name and as having been married in Scott county.  Yet the marriage was in Fayette county.  The letter from the Clerk Rodes since the old lady made her declaration shows that the records of that county were all consumed by fire in the year 1803.
Please direct all correspondence to me at this place in relation to this claim
Your Most Ob't & Humble Serv't
J. P. Cooper
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State of Illinois
Clark county
Be it remembered that on this 11th day of November A. D. 1841 personally appeared before me, James McKay one of the Justices of the Peace and and for said county, William B. Archer of said county aged forty nine years past, who being by me duly sworn upon his oath, says that the sheet or leaf of papers hereto annexed below and marked A at the head thereof is a leaf or sheet of paper containing in part of the family Record of Zachariah Archer, now deceased, and Jane Archer his wife.  That said leaf or sheet of paper was cut by this affiant out of the family Bible of the said Zachariah and Jane Archer on this day; that said Bible & Record is yet remaining in the possession of the remaining in the possession of the family of the said Zachariah & Jane Archer of which this affiant is a member.  That the said Jane Archer whose maiden name was Jane Kilgore named and specified as being married to the said Zachariah Archer on said sheet or leaf marked A is the same identical person who is now an applicant for a Pension on account of the Revolutionary services of the said Zachariah Archer.  That the said Jane Archer is now remaining the widow of the said Zachariah Archer & is now existing in the said county of Clark & has never intermarried with any other person since the death the said Zachariah Archer & that this affiant is the same person whose affidavit was made before the same justice above named heretofore in behalf of the said Jane Archer as claimant for a Pension as aforesaid affiant.
W. B. Archer
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 10th day of Nov. 1841 J. Ames Mc Kay
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{note}
A
Zechariah Archer, son of Samuel and Jane Archer, was born in the year of our Lord 1752, in the county of Down, Ireland, landed at Philadelphia U.S. in the year 1772.
_______

Jane Killgore, daughter of Charles and Jane Killgore, was born April 4, A.D. 1772 in Cumberland county and State of Pennsylvania.
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Zechariah Archer and Jane Killgore above named were joined in the Holy banns of matrimony on the 25th day of November A.D. 1789 in Scott county State of Kentucky.
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I James Mckay[sic] the justice of the Peace before whom the above & foregoing Deposition of William B. Archer was taken subscribed & sworn to, do certify [inserted] from my own personal knowledge that the said William B. Archer is a person of credibility, truth & veracity. Given under my hand this 10th day of November A.D.1841.
James McKay J.P.

State of Illinois }Sct.
Clark county }

I Darius Phillips Clerk of the county commissioners court in and for the county of Clark and state of Illinois do certify that James McKay whose affixed signatures appear to the above and foregoing Depostion of William B. Archer and the certificate of credibility thereto annexed was on the day of the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified as such that full faith and credit are due his official acts as such, and that his said signatures are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto Subscribed my name and
affixed the official seal of said
county at my office in Marshall
this 11th day of November Anno
Domini 1841. Darius Phillips Clerk
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[A piece of paper folded over or attached to a handwritten page; the original page is upside down, obscured by the attachment and largely illegible]

Zechariah Archer within named departed this life on the 5th day of July A.D. 1822. in the county of Clark and State of Illinois; aged seventy years. 70-
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5079
Illinois
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Jane Archer
widow of Zachariah Archer
      Pa
who ^ was a Private
in the Revolution
3 ld
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
66 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence
the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
16th day of March, 1844
and sent to
sent to
Hon J. Sample
Senate U. States
-----------------
[Act of March 3, 1842]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 195
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{torn piece of paper}
{center} date of death no on CB
{left edge - vertical}
illegible
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Zachariah Archer-W.23462e
Ba-J/AWF

The Quartermaster General
Memorial Branch
War Department'
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of Zachariah Archer, who died July 5, 1882 in Clark County, Illinois.

The Revolutionary War record of Zachariah Archer which follows was obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 23462, based upon his service in that war.

Zachariah Archer, the son of Samuel and Jane Archer, was born in the year 1752 in County Down, Ireland and landed in Philadelphia in 1772.While residing in either Cumberland or Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in 1776, served as a private, was in the battles of Long Island, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and was discharged January 1, 1778 from Colonel Walter Stewart's 13th Pennsylvania Regiment, length of service twenty months; he went on a tour with General Greene to the south; he served as a private in Captain Hodge's company, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania militia, from which he was discharged May 29, 1782; he went to Kentucky and was with General Clark against the Indians on Mad River and in many skirmishes  It is stated that the length of his entire service was three years, none months and fifteen days.

Zachariah Archer married November 28, 1789 in Fayette (that part which was later Scott) County, Ken-
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tucky, Jane Killgore.  She was the daughter of Charles and Jane Killgore, and was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and moved in 1783 or 1784 to Kentucky, her father then being deceased.

Zachariah Archer and his wife, Jane, lived "sometime" in Kentucky, moved to Ohio, then to Indiana, and thence to Clark County, Illinois, where  he died July 5, 1822.

His widow, Jane Archer, was allowed pension on her application executed, September 8, 1841, then a resident of Clark County, Illinois and aged seventy-eight years "on the fourth day of April last".

Zachariah Archer and his wife, Jane, had thirteen children.  Five children died in infancy, Samuel was the only one named.  The following children were all alive in 1841: Charles K., aged about fifty years in 1841 and living in Clark County, Illinois; William B., born January 20, 1792 and a resident of Clark County, Illinois an 1841; Jesse . Jane, Stephen, Elizabeth, Samuel, and Hannah (the youngest) born 'September 15, 1812.

Stephen Archer was Justice of the Peace in 1844 in Clark County, Illinois.

The application for headstone for Zachariah Archer is returned herewith; there was no correspondence enclosed.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hilller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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[there are three columns, the first of which, on the left, contains, for the most part, only partial words as the page seems to have torn; those words follow]

cher R.
Denver, Col.
9illegible]
Archer
S
M.E.l

[below find the content of the middle column]

Rev 23462
WIDOW, & c.

ile No. 23462
Jane Archer
Widow of Zachariah Archer
Prov Rev War

Act: Mar 3rd 1829
ndex:-Vol. a, Page 18

[Arrangement of 1870]

[contents of the right and last column are as follows]

Sept. 20/95 Hiss. to A
Anderson. 1211 So. 10 St.
Nov. 13/95 [crossed out] Letter to
R. Anderson, 1311 So.10
Denver, Colo
Aug. 7 - [illegible] [illegible] menco
Br. appli  for headstone
ed [illegible] correct - [illegible]
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6454
Illinois Springfield Ag.
Jane Archer, 
widow of Zachariah Archer, dec
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 54 July 1822 
of Clark in the State of Illinois
who was a private in the Comp: commande
by Captain Ralls, of the Regt.. commande
by Col. Stewart in the Penna
line for 1 year 8 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Illinois
nt he rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annu
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
----------------------------------------------------
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Nov.
1841 & sent to J. P. Cooper Esq
Marshall, Illinois
----------------------------------------------------
Arrears to the 4th of March '41.    333.30
Semi-annual allowance ending  [crossed out]
$333.30
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by Theodore L Moody  Clerk
Book A   Vol. 2   Page 223
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{note paper}
Jane Archer
of Zachariah Illinois
____
Suspended
_____
See lit. 28 Oct '61
J.P. Cooper
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25

W B Archer Esquire
Darwin
Clark county
Illinois. 

[to the right, written sideways}

Secy. State
Penna. letter
from april
2. 1831.
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A

Secretarys Office
Harrisburg April 2d 1831.

Sir,
In compliance with your request under date the 27 ultimo I caused an examination to be made as to the fate of the claim of Jane Archer and find that the petition and documents were referred to the committee on claims of the House of Representatives who reported unfavorably and the report was adopted. 

Very Respectfully
Your ob servt
?Sam McKean

[circular stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

W B Archer Esq
Darwin, Clark Co Ju.
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Pen Office
Nov. —
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{note paper}
8.055
Jane Archer
of Zachariah Illinois
______
Admitted
_______
Pr 1 yr 8 mo $66.66
Cap Ralls, Col. Stewart Pa.

Died 5th July 1822

Act 7 July 1838

J.P. Cooper Marshall
IU
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[on the left, written vertically]
5437 Feb 27 1844 
[illegible]
Mar 3 1843
Jane Archer
$66.66 per an

[in the middle of the  page]

J Temple
Hon J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington

[on the right, written vertically]

J Temple
[illegible]
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State of Illinois
Clark County Ss

Be it remembered that on the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty four, personally appeared before the subscriber Probate Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Clark, and State of Illinois, Jane Archer a resident of said county and State. Aged eighty one years, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed March the 3rd A.D. 1843.
That she is the widow of Zechariah Archer, who was a private in the Army of the revolution. And served as set forth in this Declarants Original Declaration on file at the war office of the United States.
She further declares, that she drew a pension of sixty six dollars and sixty six cents per anum under the act of July 7th 1838.
She further declares that she is still a widow - 
Sworn & subscribed to before me this 13th day of Feb. A.D. 1844 - Stephen Archer Probate I.P.
{signed} Jane Archer

I Stephen Archer Probate Justice of the Peace before whom the foregoing Declaration was this day taken sworn to and subscribed. do certify that Jane Archer the Declarant is personally known to me, and I am fully satisfied that her statements are correct and true - given under my hand
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and Official Seal at Marshall this 13th day of February A.D. 1844.-
{signed} Stephen Archer P.J.P.

State of Illinois Ss
Clark County
I Darius Phillips clerk of the county commissioners court, in, and for the county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Stephen Archer whose official signature appears to the foregoing, Declaration, and certificate of credibility is a Probate Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such - and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his is genuine -  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said court at my office in Marshall this 13th day of February A.D. 1844 - 
{signed} Darvis Phillips Clerk
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vandalia
Jan 30
Paid 50
The  Hon.  
The Speaker of the house
Reps Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
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Vandalia Jan 2 1831

Dear Sir,

Having no particular acquaintance with any member of your legislature I have enclosed these papers to you and  have to request that you will present them to the legislature believing that after examination what is right will be done therein- It may not appear from the discharge that my father served three years and u upward  He informed me that he served 3 years & 9 months and that he was entitled to land but that he never got the land or any equivalent - At his request I called on Genl. James Findlay of Cincinnati for information respecting the land who informed me that the land was [illegible] a 20 year peaceable possession gave a title and I proceeded no further--My father lived
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several years in Cumberland county and had I taken the trouble I could have procured the testimony of Mr Thos Beard near Vincennes who is still living, an aged person, who served int he war with my father -- your attention to this ____ will business will be thankfully acknowledged

W,B, Archer
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no8055
Declaration of
Jane Archer, widow of Zechariah Archer Dead


not on roll
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Marshall Ill.                   free
11th Nov. 41.}
Hon. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.
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State of Illinois, Clark county p
Marshall 11th Hoin. 1841

Hon. J.L. Edwards com of Pensions,

Sir,
I have the honor to herewith submit to you the sheet containing in fact the family Record of Zechariah Archer Decd whose widow Jane Archer
is now an applicant for five years of Pension under act of July 7, 1838, the sheet is accompanied by the affidavit of W. B. Archer, hereto annexed as you will see, identifying the Deceased  of Record as further proof of the marriage of the claimant to the said Zechariah Archer her dead husband.  
I herein refer you to the former proof filed on behalf of the claimant Jane Archer in this case and suppose it will  be sufficient as to the marriage, which is done at your suggestion to me.
You say "the discharge and papers, now on file in the office of the Secretary of state at Harrisburg Pa. should be sent to the Pension office,"__I have written now twice (underlined), to the Secretary to either send the papers or a certified copy of them
to the coms. of Pensions, or to me at this place. And have not heard any thing in reply; perhaps, however, they may be sent to the Pension office ere  this time: If those papers are not received at the Pension office at the receipt of this, I  should be glad in behalf of the claimant, if your Honor would be so pleased, as to Request by letter, that the Secretary of State at Harrisburg Pa forward the papers to the War Dept. or Comm of Pensions, to used in behalf of the claim now under consideration the Papers are certainly there on file, with "unfavorable Reports," [last two words underlined] from committees, at the  session of 1829 & 30.
All correspondence in behalf of the claimant please direct to me at the place.
Very Respectfully
your most Obt. Servt.
J.P. Cooper
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P.S. the Claimant Jane Archer, requests, that the sheet containing the record of the marriage, may be detached from the deposition herein enclosed and returned to her that it may be replaced in the family Bible; from where it was taken,
yours etc
JP Cooper
Hon. J.L. E. comm of Pensions

P.S. The claimant says, she may have been mistaken in the name of Capt. Rolls: but she is very certain that the Col's name was Stewart, under whom her husband Z. Archer Decd. served in the Revolutionary war.
Yours etc.
J.P.C.

Hon J.L. com of P
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Recd. 21st Sept. 1841
J.P. Cooper

[Round Mail Stamp]
LEXINGTON KY.
SEP 16

J. P. Cooper Esqr
Mail {Clarke County
        {Marshall Illinois
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Lexington Ky September 14/41.

Dear Sir
Yours of the eighth Instant was duly recd and can only say in answer that the information you wish is wholly out of my power to comply, as the office was destroyed as well as the records was destroyed by fire in the year 1803 and hence all papers and records pertaining to marriages were also destroyed by the burning of said office.
Yours Respectfully
J.P. Cooper
J.C. Rodes
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Senate Chamber
23d Feb 1844

Sir

Enclosed I hand you a paper [illegible] to a pension for Mrs. Archer  I hope it may be your Suppt to acc this the giving a pension to the
the widow. 

Your obt Sevt. 
James Semple 

Hon. J. L. Edwards
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Harrisburg Nov. 18 1841

The Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
Sir,
At the request of J. P. Cooper attorney for Jane Archer of Illinois, the widow of a revolutionary soldier, I have procured from the Clerk of the House of Representatives of Penn. and
herewith transmit to you the following documents.
1. Petition of Jane Archer to the Leg. of Penna. presented Feb 1. 1831
2 Letter to the Speaker H.R. from W.B. Archer 2 Jany 1831
3 Discharge of Zachariah Archer after 20 month service 1 Jany 1778
4 Discharge of do. [blank space] after Militia Service 29 May 1782

I am yours respectfully
J. R. Strunke.
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[Apparently the blank back of a folder or a cover used for legal papers; no writing]
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[2 Square Stamps]
OLD WAR & NAVY
SEP 13 1895
FILES
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67                                 D 1-15-95 2m.
THE PACIFIC EXPRESS COMPANY.   
UNITED STATES EXPRESS COMPANY.  A         not I
1200 Fifteenth Street.

R. A. LEIMER.
Gen'l Agent.       DENVER, COLO. Sept 9 1895

To the Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
I am looking up the milatary[sic] record of 
my Great Grand Father Zachariah Archer 
a soldier of the American Revolution, 
who lived in the State of Pennsylvania 
before and after the War and died in 
Clark County, Illa year of 1822.
I am informed that the records of that War 
are very incomplete and am advised by 
Colt C. Ainsworth to enquire at your Department. 
Any information that can be given for the
Government Records as to this Patriots history will
be very much appreciated by
Yours Very Respectfully
Archer R. Anderson
1311 South 10th St
Denver Colorado
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O. W. & N. Div.
F. S.
M. E. C.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., November 13, 1895.

Sir:
In returning herewith your communication of the 4th instant, you are advised that the pension papers of Jane Archer, widow of
Zachariah Archer, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, have been carefully examined and no record has been found therein of the date of
her death. It is probable that the information may be obtained, however, by addressing an inquiry to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, giving the number of her pension certificate (5079), the date when issued March 16, 1844), and the agency at which paid (Ill.).
Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

Mr. Archer R. Anderson,
1311 South 10" St.,
Denver, Colo.
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[An index card, titled as]

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

[Pre-printed fields w/information handwritten]

Name   Archibald, Ebenezer
Grade   Private
Line      Hazen's Regiment

Warrant Number   12717

ACREAGE     100

ISSUED     August 3, 1789 to William F. Vredenburgh or assignee
J.

[Pre-printed at the bottom of the card]
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in  General Land Office records in The National Archives.