Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 412, Jeremiah Dunn, New Jersey

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New Jersey 
Dunn, Jeremiah
W. 412
Sarah

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1821
Increase.
W Jersey
Sarah Dunn decd
Widow of Jeremiah Dunn
who died on the 24th Oct 1779,
of [blank]   in the State of New Jersey
who was a Lt & Capt [illegible]  the Campy commanded by Captain N J of the [blank]
by [blank] in the Revolution line for 5 months Lunt  6 "  Capt Exprisses
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Subscribed on the Roll of Trenton
the rate of 366 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence o the 4th day of March, 1831 & end Mar. 24" 1838 
when she died.
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Increased from $216:66.
Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi-annual allowance ending [blank]
Payable to only Surviving children

Esther Hayden
Elizabeth Bedell
Ann Rols
De[rest torn off]

Revolutiona [rest torn off]

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Service - Number
New Jersey-Dunn, Jeremiah W.412
Sarah

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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
New Jersey Dunn, Jeremiah W. 412
Sarah
CONTENTS

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[677]


FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.

Jeremiah Dunn &
Sarah Decamp
joined Hearts & hands in 
holy Matrimony
Feb 18 1769

I certify this to be the record presented to me under oath by Sarah Dunn alluded to in here affidavit and which I took from Her family Bible
Wm P Shotwell Justice  Peace

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Esther daughter of [illegible]
Sarah Dunn
[illegible]
13
Not properly authenticated by 
Chief [illegible]
? 9th July 1853
By C.M.R
[illegible]

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State of New Jersey
County of Somerset
On this twenty eighth day of February A.D one thousand eight hundred and fifty three person all appeared before me ...Mark a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Esther Hayden, aged eighty five years a resident of Samptown in the state of New Jersey who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the daughter of Jeremiah Dunn who was a Lieutenant and Captain in the Revolutionary war.  That her said father was in the Battle of Bunker Hill which she recollects distinctly from two circumstances.  One was that her father had a hole through the brim of his fat which she observed and asked him how it came. He replied my child the British shot it through at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The other was that her brother Decamp fell from a sled and got a hole in his forehead from which the blood flowed freely but he did not cry. When her father took him in his arms and remarked that he would be as brave as Gen Putnam and called him Gen Putnam.  That he was in the Battle of Long Island she recollects from the circumstance that her father never saw her twin sisters who were born until they were two months old.  That her father was with Gen Washington in New Jersy and in most of the battles fought in that state she recollects of his being in the fort of the "Short Hills" which was but a few miles from her fathers residence from this fact Capt Anderson stayed all night at her fathers house and she recollects hearing Capt Anderson remark to her father Capt Dunn we will cut the British down.

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Tomorrow like poke weed-- and her father told them
afterwards that Capt Anderson was the first
officer killed-- that her father was in the battle of
Springfield on some battle in New Jersey where
Gen. Washington was in person - for he remembers seeing Gen. Washington ride up to her
fathers house in company with a number of other
persons, and call for two parts of punch her
father kept a public house and remarked to her
mother not to be alarmed as Capt. Dunn would
soon be home, and that he had bought her
a fine riding mare. She remembers his
being in the battle of Germantown from
hearing her father say that they would have
gained a complete victory over the British had
not been for a heavy fog --  she remembers
her father being in the battle of Monmouth
from hearing him speak of Gen. Lee as a poor
General, and that if Gen Washington had not
come up with a reinforcement as he did; they
would have lost the battle - and the whole
army would have been killed, and taken prisoers 
she remembered seeing Gen Lee when
the British horse took him prisoner at
Basking Ridge for they stopped at her fathers house when they were taking him to New Brunswick. She remembers her father
being in the battle of Long Point, from hearing
him and Job Parker who was with him, conversing ┃
together about the Bravery and good generalship
of Gen. Wayne, and of John Parker singing some
of the marches played at that battle who
was a beautiful singer-- she recollects of her
father being Capt. of the express service, and
paymaster and that he drew his money from

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Col. Philips at Princeton N.J. She further
states that her father was in the service of the
United States from the time that he was in
the battle of Bunker Hill, until five or six
weeks before his death which was on the 21st
day of October A.D. 1779. She remembers that
he said he was taken sick at Morristown NJ
and that he came from Morristown the day he
returned home - and she remembers distinctly
that he was never home from the time he entered
the service in 1775 until he came home sick
from Morristown except upon permission and
the longest period he was at home at any time
was four months during which time his health
was so poor he was not able to be in the army
Esther Hayden
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and
year above written And I hereby certify that
Esther Hade nis in full possession of her
faculties and of extraordinary memory and a
credible witness
Bethen Ward Justice of the Peace

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SERVICE
New Jersey

Dunn, Jeremiah
           Sarah

NUMBER
W.412

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[illegible]

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Application & 
Declaration of 
Widow Sarah Dunn
for Pension

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State of New Jersey
Esex County | January 22, 1838
On this twenty second day of January one thousand and eight hundred and twenty eight personally appeared before Mr. Wm. D. Shotwell one of the justices of the peace in and for Laid County of Esex Sarah Dunn a resident near New Market, formerly called Quibbletown in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey aged ninety two years [illegible] 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 Congres [illegible] July 4th 1836 that she is the widow of Captain Jeremiah Dunn, who was a captain in the war of the revolution that he went out a Lieutenant in the five months service His Captains name was Baily They went to Long Island and was in the Battle known as the Battle of Long Island as your deponant has always understood and the said Jeremiah Dunn returned a captain from the five months service above named this deponant has always understood her husband and was in the Battle of Long Island Brandywine Monmouth and battle of Short Hills New Jersey after his return from Long Island. He Jeremiah Dunn was appointed Captain of the ex[illegible] but your deponant does not know whether he served in that capacity more than one year but believing he did serve about that length of time before the close of the revolution war. He came home sick and died of the same sickness

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which was dropsy and putrid fever he died
October 24th 1779 She further declares she was
Married to the said Jeremiah Dunn on February
28th 1769, that her husband the aforesaid Captain
Jeremiah Dunn died on the 24th day of October
1779 and that she has remained a widow
ever since that period as will fully appear by
refference to proof hereto annexed
Your deponant Sarah Deen presented a Bible
and under oath said the record therein contained
as a family record is her family record
the following of which is a Coppy of Her Marriage
to the above said Jeremiah Dunn
Jeremiah Dunn
Sarah Decamp
Joined Hearts and hands
in Holy Matrimony
Feby 28 1769
Sarah Dunn
Sworn to and subscribed on the day
and year above written Before me
Wm Powell Justice Peace
certify I have been acquainted within named
deponent Sarah Dunn for fifteen years and believe
be a person entitled to full below and credibility
Wm P Shotwell Justice Peace

[illegible] I have be acquainted with the named 
deponent Sarah Dunn for fifteen years and believe 
to be a person  entrusted to full [illegible] and credibility
Wm P Shotwell Justice Peace

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This Bureau can furnish the military
record of only such Revolutionary soldiers
as were pensioned or whose widows were
pensioned for their services
Such of the original muster and pay
rolls of the Revolutionary war and the
war of 1812 as are now in the possession
of the Government are on file in the
Record and Pension Office, War Depart
ment. Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolutionary war
may also be found on file in the
archives of many of the original States.
3 - 076.
.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
May 17 1899
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
[handwritten] Sir: [end handwritten]
In reply to your communication of a recent date, you are informed that the courtesy of furnishing information relative to Revolutionary war soldiers, on account of whose service pensions were granted, is extended by this Bureau only to their descendants, and to them only when it is desired for historical
or genealogical purposes.
In view of the large number of such inquiries now being made, and of the length of time required to make a proper search of the records in each case, information will not be given to any applicant concerning more than two soldiers.
In order that the claim of the soldier concerning whom you desire information may be identified, it is requested that you furnish as much as possible of the data called for below.
Very respectfully,
Mr. Morris Dunn 
HamptonThis Bureau can furnish the military
record of only such Revolutionary soldiers
as were pensioned or whose widows were
pensioned for their services
Such of the original muster and pay
rolls of the Revolutionary war and the
war of 1812 as are now in the possession
of the Government are on file in the
Record and Pension Office, War Depart
ment. Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolutionary war
may also be found on file in the
archives of many of the original States.
3 - 076.
.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
May 17 1899
P. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Ber:
In reply to your communication of a recent date, you are informed that the courtesy of furnishing
information relative to Revolutionary war soldiers, on account of whose service pensions were granted,
is extended by this Bureau only to their descendants, and to them only when it is desired for historical
or genealogical purposes.
In view of the large number of such inquiries now being made, and of the length of time required
to make a proper search of the records in each case, information will not be given to any applicant concerning
more than two soldiers.
In order that the claim of the soldier concerning whom you desire information may be identified, it is
requested that you furnish as much as possible of the data called for below.
Very respectfully,
Mr. Morris Dunn
Hampton Virginia
A Cheran Commissioner.


Full name of soldier, [handwritten] Christopher Dunn, Jeremiah Dunn [end handwritten]
Place of residence before service: [handwritten] Do not know [end handwritten]
Place of residence after service, [handwritten] Portland or Lovhaire, Maine [ end handwritten]
Approximate date of death. [handwritten] Do not know [end handwritten]
Given name of widow, [handwritten] Do not know [end handwritten]
Did either the soldier or his widow receive a pension? [handwritten] 
Do not know [end handwritten]
Additional information, [blank]
[seal - U. S. PENSION OFFICE JUN 19,1899]
Signature, Morin Dunn
Post-office address, including street and number, town, county, and State. [handwritten Hampton Virgina [end handwritten]

United States of America

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Oct 2 '97
Morris drunn
Hampton VA

Widow, &c.
Revy
File no.
Sarah Dunn
Widow
Jeremiah Dunn
Capt, Rev, war
Act: July 4, 1896
Index:- vol, a, page 195

[arrangement of 1870.]

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Letters to not
[illegible]  any in 
examining the case
Jeremiah Dunn

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4  3.223
Sarah Dunn
Hon G. D. Wall
March 19 1838
to same 11. May 38
to same 5.July 38
" Arad Joy June 12. 1843
"    "        "   Oct 14 "
1838

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NW
Sarah Dunn [illegible] New
Jersey Summerset County
[illegible]
Dunn Jeremiah
(N.J.) W-412

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NW Camp North Costell July 23 1778
I take this opportunity to inform you that I am in good health at Cresant Blesed be [illegible] Providence for the same hopeing there may find you [word crossed out] and our children in the same. My Dear I can't inform you when I shall Be at Home But as soon as posibell with Honner my Dear you will send me a letter how you all Due you will Lt [illegible] McColister & Ruben Dunn no that if they are abell to come to camp they will be much wanted but [illegible] come unless they are [illegivle] for Duty My Dear if yo [letters  missing] Send me a brown Lining jacket you will [letters missing] your Loveing friend Don't neglect writing every opportunity to me and I shall embrace every opportunity to acquaint you of our surcomstans I have Sent [illegible] Mr Saseton one hundred & sixty doll for the [illegible] I sold to Mr Turner I sent you a whitesilck handkerchif By Hugh Dunn [illegible] at Presant but remain your loveing and faithfull husband
Jer Dunn
I have sent for Ruben Dunn
Eighty Doll
for Sarah Dunn

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Dunn, Jeremiah. W 412
            Sarah

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Sir, After my compliments to you I would acquaint you that I was informed by Mr. James Nugin that you desired to no [know] of me, what the Express Riders pay was per Day. I want acquaint you sir that the pay is six dollars per day the rider finding his own horse, and accoutrements, and while in camp draws one ration for man and horse, commenced from the first day of Sept. last, 1778.

From your most humble servt. [servant],

In:  Camp Middlebrook
Decbr [December] 29th A.L. 1778

Jeremiah Dunn;
Cap. of Expresses;

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New Market NJ                      183
Nov 18th/44

Arad Joy Esq
Ovid
New York

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New Market Nov 18th 1844
Hon. J L Edwards
Court of Pensions
Dear Sir Mother of the four surviving
children of Sarah Dunn request you to
transact the pension buisness of Sarah Dunn
with our lawfully appointed
agent Arad Joy of Ovid New York-- you
will please correspond with him and
direct to him all communication relating to a pension in the case of Sarah Dunn
and to direct to him any pension certificate that may be granted in this case
as he his [is] the lawfully constructed agent
for the surviving children-
Esther Hayden
Elizabeth Bedell
I am one of the children of Sarah Dunn & am a brother to the persons who executed the above request, I reside in Lodi Seneca County New York a neighbour to Arad Joy of Ovid &
with him I am personally acquainted & he is my agent above all others, in him I have the utmost confidence and agree fully to the above request on Hon J. L. Edwards-
Lodi November 22 1844 DeCamp Dunn

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Arad Joy Esq

Dear Sir

In answer your letter on the reception of it it lying in the office some days before within
it--the Hon Mr Murphy we do not
know and have given him no orders.  I
have heard my daughter speak
of him but we do not know him he
is a stranger to us and he has received no authority eminating from us to transact any business
-
Yours Respectfully
A.B. We live in Middlesex
County not in Sommerset

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State of New Jersey
Somerset County p:}  Before me William
D Stewart, One of the Justices of the Peace
and Judges of the Court in and for the County
aforesaid, in the State aforesaid. Personally appeared, Isaac Smalley of the said County and State, who being by me duly swore according to law, deposeth and saith, that he is acquainted with Sarah Dunn who is now an applicant for a pension as the widow of Captain Jeremiah Dunn, Deceased, and that he was also well acquainted with the said Jeremiah Dunn.     That the said Jeremiah Dunn received a Commission as first Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War in the regular service in the first enlistment of five months in the year 1776 under Colonel Johnson Hall Bailey being the Captain then of this department being also attached to the said Company at that time. That during the said five months service the said regiment went to Long Island and were at the battle of Long Island between Brooklyn and Flatbush and deponent saw the said Jeremiah Dunn there. The said battle was fought on the 27th day of August 1776 about which time immediately preceding or succeeding the said battle, the said Jeremiah Dunn was promoted to the Captaincy of the said company by seniority, and this deponent also said, that General Sullivan and Lord Sterling were at the same battle, and taken prisoners. [illegible] further says, that they left [illegible]

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York at which time the said Jeremiah Dunn
commanded the said Company, to which
this deponent was then attached as aforesaid,
that they were then marched to White plains
in the State of New York, and was in an
engagement on the 28th of October of that
year in which the said Captain Dunn was
engaged. They then crossed the Hudson River
and retreated into New Jersey, by the way
of Newark, and their time of enlistment having
expired, they were discharged on the fifteenth
day of November 1776, to the best of this
Deponents recollection and belief.

And this Deponent further says,
he knows it to be a fact, that the said
Jeremiah Dunn was then made Captain
of the said corps of Express Riders, and that
he this deponent entered as a volunteer under
him as an Express rider on the 8th day of
March 1777, and that deponent served
under him for eight months, the said
Jeremiah Dunn having been so Captain
of the said Express Company for some
time before this Deponent joined it, at
least six months previous to that time.

Deponent also says, that the said Jeremiah
Dunn was succeeded by Captain Asgill
in the command of the said Express Company [crossed out text] at the latter end of the year 1777, this deponent still being a member of the said Company.

shown to and subscribed
this 26th day of March
1838,
Before me

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Arad Joy Esquire
Ovid
Seneca County NY

Seneca Co
Clerks office

C. D. Hanks Esq
County Clerk
Waterloo
Seneca Co. New York

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State of New York
County of Seneca ⎬ Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County Jacob Doty of Hector
in the County of Tompkins & State aforesaid, aged eighty two years & on being duly sworn according to law, deposeth & saith that he
was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, & is a pensioner of the United States, that he was born & brought up in the State of New Jersey,
that at the commencement of the Revolution he resided in a place called quibbletown in Somersette Co. NJ, that in the early part of the war in 1776 or 1777 he became acquainted with
Capt Jeremiah Dunn, the late husband of Widow Sarah Dunn who made application for a pension as his widow from Somersette County some years since, that this deponent well recollects Capt Jeremiah Dunn & knows that he was the late husband of the widow Sarah Dunn aforesaid, this deponent well recollects that Capt Jeremiah Dunn was a Capt of General Washingtons Express Riders, that the said Capt Jeremiah Dunn in 1777 had the command as captain of the said Express Riders, that this deponent saw the said Capt Jeremiah Dunn
often, & always clad in his regimentals as a captain, he had often heard of Jeremiah Dunn before the Revolution, but had not personal acquaintence till 1776 or 1777 when he was promoted to the office of Capt of the Express Rider & was engaged in securing the
best, the bravest & most faithful soldiers to enlist under him, two of the personal friends of this deponent enlisted & served under
Capt Jeremiah Dunn in the core [corps] of Express Rider, viz, Henry Tucker & William Mitchell, this deponent further knows
&saith that Capt Jeremiah Dunn aforesaid was an excelent [excellent] officer, a brave, coragious [courageous], athetic man & much admired as a true & faithful officer, that he was much feared and hated & dispised [despised] by the Tories, that this deponent recollects of
the said Capt Jeremiah Dunn continuing in the service in the same office & same capasity [capacity] for a long time & for some years, this deponent well knows that the said Capt
Jeremiah Dunn acted as Captain of the Express riders from one to two years, & he thinks even much longer; that the said Capt Jeremiah Dunn went from pillar to port with the army
& was considered the head & loocked up to as the champion of the express riders, that this deponent is well, very well acquainted with the widow Sarah Dunn who applied for a pension
as the widow of Capt Jeremiah Dunn & knows that she was the identical person & widow of the aforesaid Capt Jeremiah Dunn, that this deponent worked the said widows farm after
the close of the war of the Revolution & was well acquainted with the whole family, consisting of three daughters & one
son, the son was the next to the youngest of the family

Subscribed & Sworn before me
this 31st day of July 1843
James Foster Justice of the Peace
in & for Seneca County

Jacob Doty [his mark "X"]

I certify that the above named Jacob Doty is a respectable old man, apparently sound in mind & recollection & he appears to recollect distinctly every fact set forth in his deposition, full faith & credit is due to the same

Dated July 31st 1843
James Foster Justice
of the Peace in for Seneca County

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State of New York
County of Seneca {Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County Thomas Covert of Ovid in said County aged upwards of eighty eight years & on being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution & is a pensioner of the United States
that this deponent was personally acquainted with Jeremiah Dunn, the late husband of Widow Sarah Dunn who made application from Somersette [Somerset] Co New Jersey for a pension as his widow, before the Revolution & all through the Revolution and this deponent well recollects that the aforesaid Jeremiah Dunn was appointed early in 1777 a captain of this Express guard or Express riders & both, that he was appointed by Genl Washington that this deponent often saw Capt Jeremiah Dunn in 1777 that he was several times at his headquarters & saw him on duty & in command as the Captain of the Express Riders &
that this deponent recollects that the aforesaid Capt Jeremiah Dunn was dressed in uniform as a Captain, & that he was considered one of the best & bravest men for the office that could be found, that he was a terror to the Tories, feared and hated by them, that he recruited a company under him that some of the companions of this deponent enlisted under him, that from his being an excellent officer, he was particular to have good, true & brave men under him, that this deponent saw some of his old companions in arms under the said Capt Jeremiah Dunn, that the aforesaid Captain Dunn moved about as the army moved & where he & his company were the most wanted, that he continued in the army as Captain of the Express riders, or Express guard for Several years & this deponent believes till he was taken sick & died, that all of the above named service was done & performed by Capt Jeremiah Dunn the late husband of the widow Sarah Dunn aforesaid,
that this deponent removed onto the widow Sarah Dunn's farm in 1781, the farm left her by her said husband Capt Jeremiah Dunn aforesaid, that the family of the said widow Sarah Dunn consisted three daughters & one son, they [daughters crossed out] were from 6 to 10 or 12 years of age, that the widow Sarah Dunn aforesaid was sued during the summer of 1781 for the wages of the soldiers who enlisted under & served under her late husband the aforesaid Capt Jeremiah Dunn, that having been enlisted by him, they sought to recover their wages of his widow, all of the above facts this deponent will recollect, and that the aforesaid widow Sarah Dunn was the identical wife of the aforesaid Capt Jeremiah Dunn before & during war of the Revolution & was left his widow at his death

Thomas Covert

Subscribed & Sworn before me
this 21st day of July 1843
Ezra Miller Justice of the peace in and for the county of Seneca

I certify that the above named Thomas Covert is a respectable old man, of apparent sound mind & intelect [intellect] & apparent good memory & that he had a clear & distinct
recollection of all the facts set forth in his deposition, full credit is due to the same

Ezra Miller Justice of the
peace in and for the county of Seneca

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State of New York
Seneca County 

I Cyrus D. Hanks Clerk of the County of Seneca do hereby certify that James Foster and Ezra Miller Esquires were on the several days of the dates of the within proceedings, Jurists, and certificates had before, and certified by them; Justices of the peace in and for the said County
duly commissioned and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of each of the said Justices of the peace, and verily believe that their several signatures to said proceedings, purporting to be theirs, are
severally genuine, and in their proper hand writing respectively

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this first day of August A.D. 1843

C.D. Hanks Clerk
of Seneca County

C. D. Hanks Esq. Dear Sir please write your certificate upon this sheet & infuse your seal, let the certificate cover both names, return it to me
single sheet-
Respectfully & truly yours
Arad Joy

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State of New Jersey March 26th 1838
Sommersett [Somerset] County ⎬ Before Mr. Wm Stewart one of the Justices of the Peace and judge of the Court in and for said County of Sommersett [Somerset] personally
appeared Isaac Smally, who being duly sworn
according to Law on his oath [illegible] he is acquainted with your Petitioner Sarah Dunn and was acquainted with her and her husband Captain Jeremiah Dunn before the war of the Revolution that the said Jeremiah Dunn Received First Lieutenants Commission in 1776
Captain Platt Baily was his captain they then lived in Sommerset [Somerset] County New Jersey and your deponant went out under them a private in the five months service
Colonel Johnson was their Colonel they went to Long island during the five months service above named and was at the Battle of Long Island between Brooklyn and Flatbush and your deponant saw the said Lieutenant Jeremiah Dunn then the Battle was fought on August 27th 1776 the said Jeremiah Dunn was promoted to Captain by Seigmor [not sure of this word or name--difficult to read].

Your deponant further states that at the same Battle [illegible] and Lord Sterling were taken prisoners.  Your deponant further said that they retreated on the night of the 29th of August from Long island in a thick fog and after left
New York under the aforesaid Captain Jeremiah
Dunn who was then a Captain and commanded the company your deponant was then in and Marched to White Plains in the State of New York and was in an engagement on the 28th of October 1776 when the said Captain Jeremiah Dunn was present and after which they crossed the Hudson retreated through New Jersey by Newark their time being out they were discharged their time expired on November 15 1776 as this deponant believe your deponant
further said he knows that the said Captain Jeremiah

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Dunn was Captain of the express for the year deponant Isaac Smally enlisted under him as express rider on the 8" of March 1778 and knows that he served under him as express rider for eight months your deponent
further states that the said Captain Jeremiah Dunn was Captain of the express six months previous to the 8 of March 1778 your deponant further saiz [says] the said Captain Jeremiah Dunn left the express &
succeeded him and further saiz [says] not

His Mark [X]
Isaac Smally

Witn [illegible] Present Wm P Shotwell
                                        Rachel Smally

Sworn and Subscribed before me Wm D Stewart
One of the Justices of the peace and Judge of the Court in and for said County of Sommersett [Somerset] this 26 day of March 1838

I certify the within named deponant Isaac Smally to the within named deponent Isaac Smally is a person to be relied on for truth of his statements
Wm D Stewart

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State of New York 
City and County of New York}
On this twenty eighth day of May One thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before Sylvester Spencer a Notary Public in and for the State of New York residing in the City of New York
John De Camp, Inspector of Iron under the General Government, who being by me duly sworn according to Law, Deposeth and saith, that he this Deponent did not join the corps of Express riders, until after the decease of Captain Jeremiah Dunn, who was the first Commander thereof, and that at the
time this Deponent joined the said corpse [corps] Captain Asgill was the commander thereof, who succeeded Captain Dunn in the said Command

Sworn and subscribed John De Camp
to the day and year first
above written before me
Sylvester Spencer
Notary Public

I certify that I am personally acquainted with
the above named John De Camp and know him
to be a credible person,
Sylvester Spencer
Notary Public

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Sarah Dann
of Jeremiah
New Jersey

increased from
$216 66/100 to 366 66/100
per annum from 11
March 1831 to 24
March 1838 when
she died, payable to
children Esther Hayden
Elizabeth Bedell, Ann
Ross & De Camp Dunn
X
At 11 July 1836
A. Roy Esq
Prest

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[TABLE]
Account of Certificates in the Quarter Master Generals department
received into the New Jersey State Treasury

[COLUMN HEADINGS]: 
No of Vouch. 
Date of Certif.       
No of Certif. 
By whom signed
To whom given
Interest commenced
Amount

[DATA UNDER COLUMN HEADINGS]:
1748
22d May 1780
1135 [or 435]
Daniel Marsh
Jeremiah Dunn
12th Feby 1779
Dol. cts 186.60

State of New Jersey
[seal with illegible wording and/or graphic]

Charles G. McChesney Secretary of
State of the State of New Jersey do hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true extract
from Book No 2, headed as above, and
taken from and compared with the
original record in my office.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Trenton this
third day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty nine
Charles G. McChesney
Secy of State

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State of New Jersey
I James D. Wescott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that it appears from the printed journal of the Notes and Proceedings of the Convention of New Jersey, begun at Burlington the tenth of June 1775, and thence continued by adjournment at Trenton and New Brunswick to the twenty first of August following that on the fifth day of July A.D. Seventeen hundred and seventy six, Jeremiah Dunn was commissioned first lieutenant of a company in the battalion ordered to be raised in the counties of Somerset and Hunterdon, destined to reinforce the Army at New York. Given under my hand and seal of office at the city of Trenton in said state this third day of April A.D. One thousand eight hundred and thirty eight - (1838)
James D. Wescott

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June 15, 1843
N York
D. Crump
S. Dunn
J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

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Ovid June 10th, 43
Hon J. L. Edwards
Dear Sir
I am employed to enquire after the present state of an application for a pension, made by Sarah Dunn, widow of Jeremiah Dunn, who was a Captain of the Express [illegible] of the State of New Jersey. I may say, the application was made some 5 or 6 years prior through a Mr Shotwell, who is now dead and the case has been laying dormant, please give me a copy of the corrispondence, or your letters to him on the presentation of the application and proof.
Respectfully Your Aben [illegible]
Arad Joy

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State of New Jersey Somerset County June Ninth one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. Personally appeared before me Wm D. Stewart one of the Judges of the Court and Justices of the peace in and for said county
Rachel Smally who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that she was well acquainted with Captain Jeremiah Dunn the husband of your petitioner Sarah Dunn. The deponent further says that the said Jeremiah Dunn was her Uncle and that she was the wife of your deponent Isaac Smally when he served under her Uncle Jeremiah Dunn as express rider, and knows the said Jeremiah Dunn left the said express about the first of September seventeen hundred and seventy 
[Illegible] deponent [illegible] of attendance the  journal of said uncle Jeremiah Dunn after he left the express corps and [illegible]
Sworn and subscribed before me this ninth day of June one thousand Eight hundred Thirty Eight 1838
Wm D. Stewart Judge and Justice
Rachel Smalley her mark
Attorneys Presant
Mahlon Smalley
William S Yonkins
This may certify that I am old acquainted with this deponant Rachel Smalley and that she is a woman of good repute in the neighborhood in which she lives and I believe that full credit may be give to her deposition
Wm D Stewart Judge and Justice

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State of New Jersey Somerset County June Ninth one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. Personally appeared before me Wm D. Stewart one of the Judges of the Court and Justices of the peace in and for said county
Rachel Smally who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that she was well acquainted with Captain Jeremiah Dunn the husband of your petitioner Sarah Dunn. The deponent further says that the said Jeremiah Dunn was her Uncle and that she was the wife of your deponent Isaac Smally when he served under her Uncle Jeremiah Dunn as express rider, and knows the said Jeremiah Dunn left the said express about the first of September seventeen hundred and seventy 
[Illegible] deponent [illegible] of attendance the  journal of said uncle Jeremiah Dunn after he left the express corps and [illegible]
Sworn and subscribed before me this ninth day of June one thousand Eight hundred Thirty Eight 1838
Wm D. Stewart Judge and Justice
Rachel Smalley her mark
Attorneys Presant
Mahlon Smalley
William S Yonkins
This may certify that I am old acquainted with this deponant Rachel Smalley and that she is a woman of good repute in the neighborhood in which she lives and I believe that full credit may be give to her deposition
Wm D Stewart Judge and Justice

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Power attorney

Examining papers
of Jeremiah Dunn

Revolutionary pension
State New Jersey

Filed July 2, '59
F.E. Hassler

[illegible]

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Know all men by these presents, That I Esther Hayden
hereby constitute and appoint F. E. Hassler of Washington City D. C. my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Capt Jeremiah Dunn for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension, that may be due, and I hereby authorize my said agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, or file in the departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence of arguments; and to receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to Ester Hayden
to support one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I could do were I personally present. Hereby satisfying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and seal this 9th day of June A. D. 1852
Signed and sealed in the presence of Wm Jennings
Esther Hayden
State of New Jersey County of Somerset
On this ninth day of June A.D. 1852. before me, The Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid. personally appeared Esther Hayden and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed. for The purposes therein mentioned.
In testimony whereof I have my hand, the day and year aforesaid
Wm Jennings Justice of the Peace

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Claim of Capt. Jeremiah Dunn

Act of [blank]

State of New Jersey
County of Somerset//

Be it known that on this Ninth day of June A.D. Eighteen hundred and Fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Esther Hayden, a resident of Samptown in the County of Middlesex and State aforesaid, and made oath according to law that she is the daughter of Capt. Jeremiah Dunn, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner in the State of New Jersey under act [blank] at the rate of [blank] dollars per annum; that she has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; That she is directly interested as a Claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as her agent may use in prosecuting said Claim.

s/ Esther Hayden

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, before me.

s/ Wm. Jennings, J. Peace

I, William Jennings Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Somerset and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Esther Hayden, who executed the foregoing paper is
respectable resident of the County of Middlesex in New Jersey, and I believe directly interested in said Claim as therein set forth.

s/ Wm. Jennings, Justice of the Peace

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State of New Jersey
County of Somerset//

I, Henry D Johnson, Clerk of the County Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that William Jennings before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal this fourteenth day of June A.D. 1852.

s/ Henry D. Johnson, clerk

State of New Jersey
County of Somerset//

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before [crossed out: me] [blank] [crossed out: a Judge of] The Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid that Capt. Jeremiah Dunn was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of [blank] dollars per annum and that he died October 21st A.D. 1779 leaving surviving, Esther [crossed out: Dunn] Betsy [crossed out: Dunn] Nancy [blank] and Decamp and that these are now living Esther Hayden, Betsy Moore, Nancy King and Decamp Dunn, the only surviving children of the aforesaid Jeremiah Dunn.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office fourteenth day of June One thousand Eight hundred and Fifty two.

s/ Henry D. Johnson, clerk

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Payment to be made at Trenton by P. Dickenson Agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of New Jersey.

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book C, Volume 1, Page 134 by J.P. Chase, Clerk

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Claim for Military Service.
Increase

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 4th July 1836, the pension of Sarah Dunn deceased late of New Jersey widow of Jeremiah Dunn who was a
Lieutenant & Captain of Express in the Revolution, has been increased, from Two Hundred and Sixteen 66/100 dollars, to Three Hundred and Sixty six 66/100 dollars per annum, commencing March 4th 1831 and ending March 24th 1838 when she died.

The amount is due & payable to her only surviving children, to wit Esther Hayden, Elizabeth Bedell, Ann Ross & De Camp Dunn, after deducting what has been paid, at the rate of Two Hundred and Sixteen 66/100 dollars, per annum.

Given at the Department of the Interior this 28th day of November One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty nine.

Examined and Countersigned.//

[blank]
Secretary of the Interior.

[blank]
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Nov. 27, '44

On Rel. to case of 
Sarah Dunn
Deceased

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

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Ovid, Nov. 23, 1844
Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir,

I respectfully beg leave to enclose a request from the surviving children of Sarah Dunn, one of them resides in Illinois. I have not thought it important to get her to sign
the request. From yours, I infer that there has been some person or persons interfering in this case, and I may perhaps infer that all is not right in the provisions. I protest for one that I know of nothing wrong in this matter, I have acted in good faith & with perfect confidence that a pension was due, if I am mistaken, I would like to know it, if the claim is not well founded, I would as soon [illegible] as to press it, God forbid that I should ask a pension, where it is not justly due, but in this case having called in person upon one of the witnesses, whose depositions I drew from their personal representations, of the knowledge of the facts set forth in them, I did nothing by guess but I called in person & learned the history, one or two of this witnesses swear they served under Capt. Jeremiah Dunn. If there is nothing wrong in this case, as I have the authority from those interested which I enclose, I will thank you for a report on is & as it has been put off a long time, pardon me if I presume an immediate report on it will be made, if as I suppose all is right.

Your Most Obedient Servant,
s/ Arad Joy

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Oct. 30, '44

Sarah Dunn
[illegible]

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

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Ovid, Oct 26th 1844

Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir,

If I am correct in my memorandum I mail to you through Hon W.A. Mosley on the 15th Feb(ruar)y further proof in the case of Sarah Dunn, other cases forwarded to you in March, April, May & June having been reported on, I beg leave very respectfully to name this case.

I am your Most Obedient Servant,
s/ Arad Joy

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6102
Sarah Dunn
N.J.

[illegible] July '36
Hon Wm. A. Mosley

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State of New Jersey
County of Somerset//

Personally appeared before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, Rachel Stewart of the town of Warren in said County aged eighty years & over, after being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that she has been from a child & a young woman personally acquainted with widow, Sarah Dunn, who made application for a pension as the widow of Capt. Jeremiah Dunn (several years since, and this deponent deposeth & saith that she was the identical person and widow of the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn, and this deponent further deposeth and saith that her late husband the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn was an officer, a Capt. in the war of the Revolution, that this deponent well recollects that he was out in the five months service in 1776 Seventeen hundred and Seventy [crossed out: five] six, as a Lieutenant, and that this deponent's father was out under him in that service and was killed in an action, that the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn was promoted to Capt. and was a Captain when he returned from that five months service, that in 1776 Seventeen hundred and Seventy six he entered the Corps of Express Riders, or express guard, or they may have been considered as a part of Gen'l Washington's life guard as a Captain, and that he recruited & enlisted a company under him & rode from pillar to port with the army, that this deponent resided near the aforesaid parties & was familiarly acquainted with the movements, and was so near as to see the aforesaid Captain often Jeremiah Dunn in actual service as a Capt and often saw him & his men under him in service, that this deponent can well recollect that he was considered a brave good officer & acquitted himself with honor, that this deponent was often at his house from 1776 to 1777 & know well of his being from home in the service, and that the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn as a Captain continued in the service in the war of the Revolution from Seventeen hundred & Seventy six till Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine, more than three years, and that in 1779 he
returned home as on the sick list & was confined as home several months when he died in Oct. 1779, leaving the above named widow Sarah Dunn as his widow, with four children,
that the aforesaid Widow Sarah Dunn died on the 24th day of March Eighteen hundred and Thirty eight leaving at her death, her surviving four children, to wit Easter Haden who is a widow at Samptown, Widow Elizabeth  Bedell of Samptown, DeCamp Dunn of Seneca Co. New York, Widow Ann Ross of Springfield Illinois, that the above named children were her only children her surviving 2 that all & each of them are over the age of Twenty one years.

s/ Rachel Stewart (X - her mark)

Subscribed & Sworn before me this 21st day of November 1843.
s/ Ira R. Pangbong, Justice of the Peace

Ira R. Pangborn, Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Rachel Stewart is a respectable person, that she appears to retain her faculties & memory remarkably well, appears sound in mind & memory & seems to recollect very distinctly every fact set forth in her deposition above.

s/ Ira R. Pangbong, Justice of the Peace

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State of New Jersey
County of Somerset//

Personally appeared before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Isaac Smalley of Warren in said County aged Eighty seven years after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth & saith that he was from a young man personally acquainted with Capt. Jeremiah Dunn & his then wife Sarah Dunn, and that the widow Sarah Dunn who made application for a pension some year since, was the identical person & widow of the afore said Capt. Jeremiah Dunn, that this deponent well recollects of being in the five months service under the aforesaid Jeremiah Dunn in 1776, the said Jeremiah Dunn being then a Lieutenant, that after, or before the close of the five months service, the aforesaid Jeremiah Dunn was promoted to a Capt. and served a part of the five months as a Captain, the former Capt. having been promoted to a Major, that the aforesaid 
Jeremiah Dunn came out of the five months service at the end of the five months as a Captain, and that he entered into the Corps of General Washington's express guard
or Express Riders in 1776 as a Capt. that this deponent after having served one tour in the six months service entered the service of the express guard, or Express Riders or
they may have been considered as a part of Genl. Washington's life guard, that this deponent served in that corps under Capt. Jeremiah Dunn aforesaid, this deponent cannot be
sure as to the length of time that he served under the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn, but after a long & mature consideration & much reflection, he is of the impression & belief that the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn served as Capt. of the Express Riders, or express guard from 1776 till 1779 when he was taken sick & confined at his house, where he died in Oct 1779. that this deponent recollects that at his being taken sick, he was succeeded in the office of Capt. by John Askin who was made Capt. of the Express
Corps & this deponent continued on in the service under  the last mentioned Capt., that this deponent must have served under the aforesaid Jeremiah Dunn including the five months service more than two years, and that  the aforesaid Capt. Dunn must have served in all more than three years, as Lieutenant & Capt. and almost all the time as a Captain, that his widow the aforesaid Sarah Dunn died in March 1838, leaving four children, [illegible], widow Esther Hayden, Widow Elizabeth Bedell, both of Samptown N.J., widow Ann Ross of Springfield Illinois, & De Camp Dunn of Seneca Co. New York, being her only children, her surviving & each of them are over the age of twenty one years.

s/ Isaac Smalley (X - his mark)

Subscribed & Sworn before me this 21st day of November 1843.
s/ Ira R. Pangbong, Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Isaac Smalley is a respectable person, that she appears to retain his faculties & memory in great perfection, that he appeared to be familiar & to recollect every fact set forth in his deposition above.

s/ Ira R. Pangbong, Justice of the Peace

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I, Dumont Frelinghuysen, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common 
Pleas of the County of Somerset do certify that I see
R. Pangborn, before whom the foregoing affidavits
were taken, was at the time the same was so taken as
Justice of the Peace of the County of Somerset & by law authorizes
to take the same, and also that the signatures
are generally genuine.

Given under my hand and seal of
office this 23rd day of November
Eighteen hundred and Forty three.

s/ Dumont Frelinghuysen, Clerk

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State of New Jersey
County of Somerset//

Personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the peace in and for said County Joel Dunn of New Market, Middlesex Co. New Jersey, aged Ninety seven years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he is a courier to the late Capt. Jeremiah Dunn, the late husband of widow Sarah Dan who applied for a pension as his widow several years since, that this deponent was intimately acquainted with the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn & his then wife Sarah Dunn long before the Revolutionary war, that this deponent well recollects that the aforesaid Jeremiah Dunn entered the service in the war of the Revolution in 1776 as Lieutenant in the five months service, that he served the five months, this deponent was twice at his camp during the five months, that this deponent well recollects that the aforesaid Jeremiah Dunn was promoted
to Capt. during the five months service, that he returned at the end of that five months service as a Captain, that he was a noble, high spirited Whig, a brave & excellent officer and being at that time 29 or 30 years of age, in his prime he was selected by General Washington as a Captain and appointed by him as such in the corps of Express Riders or express guard, or he may have been considered as a part of Gen. Washington's life guard, as such in fact was his relation to him & to the army, that the aforesaid Jeremiah Dunn was then appointed Captain by Gen'l Washington in 1776 - Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six - & raised, or recruited a company of choice men, who served under him, that he the continued in that corps as Captain more than three years, till ill health & sickness obliged him to return home in pursuit of health where he was confined for some months when he died in October 1779 after having served more than three years in that corps as Captain, that this deponent being about the same age was often in the
army & often at the headquarters of the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn, that he was moving about as the army moved, and where his services were needed; of the fact of the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn serving more than three years as a Capt. in the war of the Revolution, there can be no manner of doubt & of the fact this deponent well recollect, that at his death in Oct 1779 he left the above named widow Sarah Dunn with four children and that his widow, the aforesaid Sarah Dunn, died on the 24th day of March 1838 Eighteen hundred and Thirty eight, leaving four children her surviving, [illegible], widow [crossed out: Elizabeth] Ester Hayden, & widow Elizabeth Bedell of New
Market N.J., widow Ann Ross (of) Springfield Illinois & De Camp Dunn of Seneca Co. N.Y. being her only children, her surviving & each of them are over the age of Twenty one years.

s/ Joel Dunn

Subscribed & Sworn before me this 21st day of November 1843.
s/ Ira R. Pangbong, Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Joel Dunn is a respectable 
person, apparently sound in mind & memory & that he appeared
to recollect very distinctly every fact set forth in his deposit(ion).
s/ Ira R. Pangbong, Justice of the Peace

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State of New Jersey
Essex County//

Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace, and a judge of the Court in and for said County Thomas Fitz Randolph of Springfield in said County aged Eighty one years and upwards, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth & saith that he was when a boy, & in the early part of the Revolution, personally acquainted with Capt. Jeremiah Dunn of Samptown or New Market, the late husband of Sarah Dunn, who made application for a pension some years since, this deponent further deposeth and saith that the aforesaid Sarah Dunn who made such application for a pension was the identical person & widow of the aforesaid Jeremiah Dunn, this deponent further deposeth that the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn, the late husband of the aforesaid widow Sarah Dunn, was a Captain in the army in the war of the Revolution, that this deponent well recollects, that the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn was in the five months service in 1776, that at that time he was either Lieutenant or captain, that after he had performed the said five months service, he came home as a Capt. and entered the service as a Captain & was engaged in the service in the war of the Revolution as Capt., that this deponent resided a neighbor, and was well acquainted with the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn, and during the year 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779 this deponent was in the habit of
seeing the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn at least three, four, or a half dozen times in a year, and that he always saw him as a Captain, with the garb of a Captain, and always understood at the time & believed

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that he was a captain, & upon actual duty in the war of the Revolution, & that this deponent further well recollects that the aforesaid Capt. Jeremiah Dunn continued in the service till he got sick & came home & died in the fall of the year 1779, leaving at his death the aforesaid widow Sarah Dunn, who continued his widow till her death.
s/ Thomas F. Randolph

Subscribed & Sworn before me this 21th day of November 1843
s/ John Wade 
Justice of the Peace and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the [blank]

I certify that the above named Thomas Fitz Randolph is a respectable person & seems to retain his mental faculties remarkably will and that he appeared to recollects very distinctly every fact set forth in his deposition. 
s/ John Wade 
Justice of the Peace and Judge of the Court 

State of New Jersey
County of Essex//

I, John P. Jackson, Clerk of the County of Essex and of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that John Wade, before whom the foregoing affidavit of Thomas Fitz Randolph was made, taken at the time of taking the same was and still is a Judge of said Court and a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn and that the signatures "John Wade" to the point of said affidavit and the Certificate therein written respectively are genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & official seal at Newark, the Twenty second day of November A.D. Eighteen hundred & forty three.
s/ John P. Jackson, Clerk

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State of New York
County of Seneca //

Personally appeared before the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Thomas Covert of Ovid in said County aged Eighty nine years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that he was acquainted in the early part of the Revolutionary war with Capt. Jeremiah Dunn then of New Market, or Samptown, New Jersey that, he was also acquainted with his wife Sarah Dunn and that he well recollects of the said Capt. Jeremiah Dunn having died in the fall of 1779 - Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine - leaving as his widow the said Sarah Dunn and that at his death, he left the following named children, him surviving and that they were his only children 
him surviving, to wit, Esther Dunn, De Camp Dunn, Ann Dunn & Elizabeth Dunn, that this deponent worked on the said widow Sarah Dunn's farm in the year 1781 - Seventeen hundred and Eighty one - and thereby became more fully acquainted with the said children of the said Capt. Jeremiah Dunn and has thus a data by which he knows the facts above stated.
s/ Thomas Covert

Subscribed and sworn before me this 2nd day of February 1844.
s/ James Foster, Justice of the Peace in & for said County

I certify that the above named Thomas Covert is a respectable person.
Dated February 2nd 1844
s/ James Foster, Justice

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Hon. G.D. Wall
Senate, U.S.

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State of New Jersey Somerset County June Ninth one-thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me [illegible] D Stewart one of the Judges of the court and Justices of the peace in and for the said county Isaac Smally who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that in his former affidavit [illegible] for the application of Sarah Dunn for a pension as the widow of Jeremiah Dunn who was first Lieutenant in Cap Baily's company and was promoted to the captain [illegible] previous to the expiration of the five months service in seventeen hundred and seventy six, all of which time the deponent served in P company and knows that Capt Dunn was there and so continued as his former affidavit stated, deponent further says that in relation to his entering under the P Capt Jeremiah Dunn as express rider he was mistaken as to date and begs leave to correct the same deponent believes he stated that he entered under Capt Jeremiah Dunn as express rider in March one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven but after having had some time to reflect on the subject deponent is fully satisfied and knows it to be a fact that he joined Capt Jeremiah Dunn's corps of [illegible] under the [illegible] Cap Dunn was on the third of March of the [illegible] year. This deponent Isaac Smally joined Capt Jeremiah Dunn's corps for one year as express rider and the [illegible] Jeremiah Dunn being at that time Capt of the express corps. This deponent served under the P Capt Dunn as express rider for six months and he believes a little more when the P Capt Dunn left the express and was succeeded by Capt John Asgal with whom the deponent served out the remainder of the year and remained in the service one month longer at that time by request of General Green who was Quarter Master General at the time the deponent entered under Capt Jeremiah Dunn as express rider. The P. Capt Dunn's office was in the neighborhood of Middle Brook near Somerville in Somerset County State of New Jersey. This deponent says that express riders after having enlisted received a written appointment in the nature of a Commission with

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General Green's signature. It was the duty of the express riders to attend at the headquarters, in order to receive all the letters enclosed in the Office of General Washington and General Green in order to convey them to any part of the United States at the pleasure of both these said Generals. This company was raised for the safe conveyance of the private concerns of the Army, and was from Twenty five to Thirty five in number, none could be enrolled in this company except well recommended as to being faithful to the cause of their country. This deponent further says that at the time of retaking Stoney Point on the Hudson, which this deponent says was in Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine in the month of July by an expedition under the command of General Wayne; Capt. Dunn, Jeremiah Dunn, with his corps of Express Riders was at West Point fort, deponent was billeted about two miles from the fort on Milner's creek. Immediately after the retaking of the said Stony Point deponent by order of Capt. Jeremiah Dunn was sent to Boston in the State of Massachusetts bearing letters and dispatches of importance. The express at that time was doubled and Richard Dunn who was at that time one of the corps of Express Riders under the said Captain Dunn was sent with the deponent Isaac Smally. The deponent further says that they always had to take receipts for their letters and packages to show the safe delivery of them; deponent further says that while under Capt. Jeremiah Dunn as Express Rider he was sent by the said Capt. Dunn to [illegible] and through many sections of the country. This Capt. Jeremiah Dunn continued the command of the Express until about the first of September Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine when he left the P. Express Corps and shortly after died at his residence in Middlesex County, State of New Jersey. After the said Jeremiah Dunn left the corps, Captain [illegible] took command of the Express Corps and the deponent continued to serve under him and during the winter of Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine and Eighty they were stationed at Morristown, State of N. Jersey.

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and under the direction of Captain Asgal, deponent was sent to Boston again bearing dispatches, and your deponent continued to serve his term of one year out which he commenced under Captain Jeremiah Dunn, and one month longer than one year by the request of General Green, the deponent further says it was for the foregoing and other services that he now received a pension. The deponent further states that he has always understood that the said Captain Jeremiah Dunn was Captain of the Express corps. Soon after the expiration of the five months service in Seventeen hundred and Seventy six and continued to command the said express corps. Deponent believes the said Captain Jeremiah Dunn was captain of the Express at the time of the Battle of Monmouth which deponent  perfectly recollects from the circumstance that he was at that time home and very sick which was in June Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight. The deponent says while sick he was told of the said Battle. The deponent recovered very slowly from said sickness and joined Captain Jeremiah Dunn's corps of Express Riders as before stated and further saith not.
s/ Isaac Smalley (X - his mark)

Sworn and subscribed before me this ninth day of June One thousand Eight hundred and Thirty Eight, 1838.
s/ Wm. D. Stewart
Judge & Justice

Witnesses Present-
Mahlon Smalley
William P. Jenkins


This may certify that I am well acquainted with this deponent Isaac Smalley and have been for the last thirty years, he's a man of good repute and that full credit may be given to his sayings.
s/ Wm. D. Stewart
Judge & Justice

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State of New Jersey
Somerset County//

I, John M. Mann Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that William D. Stewart before whom the above affidavit was made and whose proper signature is hereto subscribed was at the time of the date thereof a Judge of said court and a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Nineteenth day of June Eighteen hundred and Thirty eight.

s/ J. M. Mann

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State of New Jersey
Somerset County//

February 24th 1838

Before me, William D. Stewart, one of the Judges of the Court and Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Isaac Smally, who being duly Sworn on his Oath says he was well acquainted with the husband of your petitioner, Jeremiah Dunn, and is acquainted with your petitioner, Sarah Dunn, and was acquainted with them before the War of the Revolution, this deponent says.

He and said Jeremiah Dunn, husband of your applicant, Sarah Dunn, enlisted in the five months service and the said Jeremiah Dunn was first Lieutenant. His Captain's name was Platt Baily and said deponent says they were together in the battle of Long Island in the early days the revolution under Capt. Baily, was promoted to Major under Jeremiah 
Dunn, the husband of your applicant, was promoted to Captain before the expiration of the five months service. Your deponent was in an engagement at Bridgeton, Essex County, Express Riders with the said Captain Jeremiah Dunn. General Vines commanded the detachment at the time, your deponent further says the said Jeremiah Dunn was Captain of the Express and that this deponent served under him as Express Rider and the said Captain Dunn was Captain of the Express for around one year, this deponent said that he
and the said Jeremiah Dunn were together at the Battle of White Plains in the State of New York.

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After the Battle of White Plains they retreated
to New Jersey.  After the retreat to New Jersey the five months service expired  When Captain Jeremiah Dunn was appointed to captain of the express and your deponant Isaac Smally served under him as express rider and your deponant receiving  a rention [retention?] from the same and other services your Deponant further states that the said Jeremian Dunn was considered a very active and experienced man in the way in which he engaged and that the said Sarah Dunn your applicant has remained the widow of the said Jeremiah Dunn since his death which was before the close of the Revolution war and further saiz [says] not

X [mark]
Isaac Smally
mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 21 day of
February 1838
Wm D Stewart Judge & Justice

Witnesses
Present
Wm P. Shotwell
Nathan Smalley

I certify that Isaac Smally the Deponent is a man of good [illegible] and heart and respectability
Wm D Stewart Judge & Justice
State of New Jersey
Somerset County}
I John M Mann Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that William D. Stewart before whom the
above affidavit was made was at
the time of the date thereof a Judge
of said Court and justice of the peace
in and for said county duly commissioned and
sworn. In Witness whereof I have set my hand & seal of office 

February 26 1838.

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3,223
Sarah Dunn
Widow of [crossed out: Joseph] Jeremiah
N.J.
n 69 & 79
L(ieutenan)t in '76 for 5 mo(nths)
Capt. Express '79 6 mo(nths)

[illegible]
5 mo(nths) L(ieutenan)t
6 Capt. Express

$216.66
To 24 March '38 the
day of her death.
Esther Hayden - Elizabeth
Bedall - Ann Ross - &
De Camp Dunn only
surviving children

H.H. Sylvester

[crossed out: Hon. G.D. Wall
N.Y. Senate

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State of New Jersey
County of Essex ss
I Elias Van Arsdale Junr Clerk of the County of Essex of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for said county do certify that William P. Shotwell before whom the several affidavits hereto annexed of Sarah Dunn the widow of Captain Jeremiah Dunn, & Mary Frazee, were made and taken, at the time of taking the same was & still is one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned and sworn. That the signatures "Wm P. Shotwell" affixed to the [illegible] of said affiant respectively wherever it [illegible] in the annexed papers are genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereto set my hand & Seal of Office at Newark the Sixth day of March, A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty eight 1838
E Van Arsdale Clk

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State of New Jersey Essex County for
February 1st 1838
Before me Wm P. Shotwell one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Mary Frazee who being duly sworn according to law on her oath saiz [says] she is well acquainted with your applicant Sarah Dunn and was also acquainted with Capt Jeremiah Dunn her Husband and knew them both before they were married that the said Sarah Dunn now resides in Middlesex County State of New Jersey near New Market.  This deponents faith
saiz [says] the said Captain Dunn died at his residence a short time before the Close of the revolution war and that the said Widow Dunn is the identical person who was the wife of the said Capt Jeremiah Dunn and that the said Capt. Jeremiah Dunn and your applicant Sarah Dunn her married before the war of the revolution the exact date this deponent does not recollect but knows it was about 1769 or 1770 this deponant further said she was at the wedding of the said Captain Jeremiah Dunn and your applicant Sarah Dunn and that her name previous to her Marriage with the said Captain Jeremiah Dunn was Sarah Decamp and that the
said Sarah Dunn now remains

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The widow of the said Jeremiah Dunn as this deponant verrily believes
[name illegible]
Lewis Frazee  Mary Her Frazee
Cooper Parse     Mark

Sworn and subscribed before me 
Wm. P. Shotwell one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county of Essex this 1st day of February A.D. 1838
Wm P. Shotwell J. Peace

I certify that I am acquainted with the above named deponant Mary Frazee and know she maintains a very respectable character and believe she is a person of [illegible] veracity. Wm P. Shotwell J Peace

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State of New Jersey
Sommerset [Somerset] Co, March 26" 1838

Before Mr. Wm D Stewart
One of Justices of the peace and Judge of the Court in and for the County aforesaid in the State aforesaid personally appeared Isaac Smally of the said County and State who being by me duly sworn according to Law deposeth
and saith he is acquainted with Sarah Dunn who is now an applicant for a pension as the widow of Captain Jeremiah Dunn deceased and that he was also well acquainted with the said Jeremiah Dunn that the said Jeremiah Dunn received a commission at his enlistment  in the revolutionary war in the regular service in the first enlistment of five months in the year 1776 under Colonel Johnson Platt Baily being the Captain thereof said deponants being also attached to the said Company at that time that during the said five months service the said Regiment went to Long Island and were at the battle of Long Island between Brooklyn and Flatbush and deponent saw said Jeremiah Dunn
there the said Battle was fought on the 27th day August 1776 about which time immediately preceding or succeeding the said Battle the said Jeremiah Dunn was promoted to the Captain of the said company by Seniority and this deponent also saiz [says] that General Sullivan and Lord Sterling were at the same Battle and taken prisoners, Deponant further saiz [says] they after left New York at which time the said Jeremiah Dunn Commanded the said Company to which this deponent was then attached as aforesaid that they were then Marched to white plains in the State of New York and was in an engagement on the 28th of October of that year in which the said Captain Jeremiah Dunn and was engaged they then crossed the Hudson River and retreated through New Jersey by the way of Newark and their time of enlistment having expired they were discharged on the fifteenth day of November 1776 to the best of this deponents recollection and belief and this deponent further saiz [says] he knows is to be a fact that the said

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Jeremiah Dunn was then made Captain of the said
Corps of Express Riders and that he this deponent entered
under him as express Rider and served under Him
for eight months the said Jeremiah Dunn having been
A Captain of the Said express company for Some time
before this deponant joined it Deponant also said
that the said Jeremiah Dunn was succeeded by
Captain Small in the company of said express company
in 1777 this deponent still being a member of the said
Company
his mark Isaac X Smally 
Witness
Wm P Shotwell
Rachel Smally
Sworn to and subscribed
to this 26" day of March 1838
before me
Wm D. Stewart Judge & Justice
I certify that I have been personally acquainted with
the above named Isaac Smally for twenty years last
and that full faith and confidence may be placed in the above statements made on his oath
Wm D. Stewart Judge & Justice
State of New Jersey}
Somerset County ss}
I John M. Mann Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for said
County do hereby certify that the
William D. Stewart before whom the
alm the certificate and affidavit 
as made out where paper
signature is thereto subscribed was
at the time of the date thereof a Judge of said Court
duly commissioned and seen. In Witness whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this
twenty ninth day of March Eighteen hundred and
thirty Eight
J M Mann

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State of New York
City and County of New York John DeCamp of the City of New York Inspector [illegible] being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Mrs. Sarah Dunn who is now an applicant for a pension from Government. That the said Sarah Dunn is an aunt of this deponents being his fathers sister, and that she is the widow of Jeremiah Dunn deceased, who was the Captain of the Company of express riders, at the commencement (or very shortly afterwards) of the Revolutionary War between this country and Great Britain, and that the said Captain Jeremiah Dunn deceased, continued to command that said company until he was attacked with the sickness which caused his death which happened about the middle of the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven but that the said Corps of Express riders was commanded by the Captain Asgile at the time this deponent joined the service, and that the said Captain Asgile succeeded Captain Dunn in the command thereof, and continued to command the same until the date of the war, or this deponent [illegible] And this Deponent further says, that he resided with his grandfather (who was the father of Mrs. Dunn the said applicant) six or seven years previous to the said war, and that very shortly previous to that time, his said aunt was married to the said Captain Dunn and that she still remains his widow to the best of this deponents knowledge and belief. And this Deponent further says that for any further information in relation to Captain Dunn, he respectfully

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begs leave to refer to his affidavits on file in the War Department in relation to the application of Mrs. Henrietta Davenport.
And this Deponent further says, that Colonel Johnson, alluded to in the affidavit of Isaac Smally (which this Deponent has read) fell at the battle of Flatbush on Long Island, therein also mentioned, which this Deponent [illegible] the vacancy which caused the promotion of the said Jeremiah Dunn to the Captain of the said company. John DeCamp
Sworn and subscribed 
to this 28th day of March 
1838 before me
Sylvester Spencer
Notary Public

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STATE OF NEW-YORK
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK ss.

I, Joseph Hoxie, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Sylvester Spencer, Esq. before whom the annexed deposition was take, was, at the time of take the same, a Public Notary in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that I believe the signature of said Notary thereto subscribed is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 28th day of March 1838.

Joseph Hoxie Clerk

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Washington April 2 1838
I inclose the supplemental affidavits
of Mrs. Sarah Dunns Ca[illegible] which I hope will
satisfactory
have the goodness to inform me of
the result.
Yrs respy
Garret D Wall
the Honble
J L Edwards Esq. 
Comr of Pensions

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H. of Reps
Washington 19th Feby. 44

To James L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions

Sir
I have the pleasure to transmit herewith the Pension Papers in the case of the Heirs of Jeremiah Dunn in which I am informed the applicants have endeavored to supply the deficiencies in the proofs accompanying a former application.
Very Respectfully
Your obedt Servt
Wm. A Moseley

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Ovid N.Y. April 13 '47
Dear Sir
In yours of the 28th June 1845 in the Sarah Dunn case, you state as to service for which you allowed a pension, I beg leave to enclose an old letter, which if genuine (& of that you may be able to judge, as you have on file one or two old letters, that purport to have been written by him) would if not with the proof on file be satisfactory proof of his service up to the date of the said letter, & if do, would there not be an increase of pension due . Of course all I ask or expect is what you may be satisfied is justly due.
Respectfully
Your Ob Servt
Arad Joy

Hon J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington D.C.

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Ovid Feb 4th 1845
Dear Sir
Yours of the 29th [illegible], I have I am very much obliged for the former [illegible], though I had [illegible]
What can a man do to please Col [illegible] I acted in good faith in the [illegible] case, as I would if it had have been my expected last act on earthm the [illegible] man came to me by letter highly recommended as an honest, upright man, a church member, as having his [illegible] and regimental coat now in his possession. I hand you a copy of my letters to Cd and in his case I am [illegible] willing to believe that the [illegible] man is [start underline] totally depraved [end underline] although you say in a former letter, of any thing would make you believe in the doctrin, [illegible] would be assumed by observing and seeing the frequent attempts made to obtain a pension H. H. I honor your judgement if what I have often heard be true -- if will become Mr Atkins to prove his identity -- I am not yet certain that Ech E. is part [illegible] judging of a case, I as much believe that he has been mistaken when he has [illegible] old family record as of recent date; when it was of ancient date, as I believe I am alive, I got a letter from a man yesterday relating to a famely [illegible] which is condemned, I [illegible] this man as of over 20 years stared [illegible], he knows it has been made over 40 years,

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as to hurrying my cases, I am teased have to death I [illegible] after a reasonable time I call up the case, I may err and I fear I have often, if I [illegible] exactly gave to [illegible] to please him I would try and get the rights fast forward, but did you ever know an agent who excepted the [illegible] of some [illegible] from the pension office, you know the general [illegible] of agents as to the treatments they receive from the Pension office, very likely you know the opinions of lots of [illegible] Volantine of Albany, did you ever hear but one opinion from all of the agents that you ever knew, the only salvo is that we are all treated alike as I suppose -- no man has a right to impeade my motives, or to judge of my motives, no many living ever acted in better faith than I have in my pension cases, I may have been deceived in some cases -- is the proper for God to condem a family [illegible], where [illegible] is sworn to by 1, 2 or 3 witnesses wh come recommended as of good character [illegible] men that would be believed in court [illegible] he knows the best as to when the record was made [illegible] -- 
I thank you a 1000 times for your good advice I shall try to profit by it and try always to do all I can to please Col E but I hope he will not judge of my motives --
I writhe all I write for your [start underline] eye only [end underline], in [start underline] confidence [end underline] though I do not intend to make any charges against Col E -- only to say that he is but a man and may err
The Dunn case I long since completed, I [illegible] a lot of proof [illegible] about a year since, I ccd a report or answer that done -- Mr Murphy dcreches no further proceeding or something like it, I thus got our orders from 3 of the 4 surviving

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children, on Col E. asking him to please consider me
their agent, this I ford on the 23d Nov, not hearing from
him I wrote again Jany 10th asking about it & I was not
aware that a member of Congress had a right to dictate the
course of Col E.- I hope soon to get a report on the case & see if they will, or will not
if perfectly convenient for you, I will thank you to name
the case & see if they will or will not report on it-- I hope
soon to hear from the Halsey case as you say to-- I pray you
will protect me in the within case, I call God to witness that I have
acted in better faith, & I am not satisfied yet that I have misjudged,
a little time may decide it.  I am truly your Obt Servt Arad Joy
Col. H.H. Sylvester
Washington
,
Ovid Nov 15th 1844
Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensins-- Dear Sir-- I beg leave to inclose
application for a pension for David Atkins-- I also
do [illegible] -- I recd the papers as they are yesterday
with word from the Atkins that he never asked for a
pension -  if there is any thing wrong in this [illegible], you will 
write from the old pension certificate in your hands & the
present application & proof in to judge of its merits
or demerit [illegible]. I inclose all in your faith & submit all
to your decision
Respectfully your obd 
svt signed
Ovid Jany 17. 1845

Dear Sir, yours relating to the case of David Atkins surprised me
not a little--he comes to me recommended as an intelligent, correct old
man, a Church member, further, that he has his old cutlass & old
regimental coat now in his possession that he wore during the 
Revolution - I received all my information of the case by letter & such was
the history as to give me great confidence in the Justice of the case,
if he has deceived me, he is in the fault, I have acted in

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good faith-
Hon J.L. Edwards
Coms of Pensions Washington
Respectfully Your
Most Obed Servt
(Signed) Arad Joy

Col H.H. Sylvester
Washington 
D. C.

pen

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Feb 24. 1845,
[illegible] can of
Sarah Dunn
De Camp
J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

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Ovid Feb 20th 1845
Dear Sir
May I be allowed respectfully to ask
you to please make the pension certificate in
the case of Sarah Dunn, payable in
Albany N.Y. as half of the children reside
out of New Jersey & it is more convenient for
me to attend to it at Albany - Respectfully
Your most Obdt Servt
Arad Joy
Mail certificate to me
Hon
J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington
D C

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Apl 17 45
Cert
4184 Sarah Dunn
N.J. July 30
Hon.
J L Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington
D. C

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Ovid April 14th 45
Dear Sir
May I be allowed respectfully to ask
you, to please to make the enclosed certf
payable in Albany N.Y. for my great
convenience, half of the children
reside out of the State of New Jersey
& one of them in Illinois, which may cause
me to call for the pension at Several times
& having no agent in Trenton, and
having one in Albany, I most respectfully
ask the above favor. I made
this particular request before the
pension certificate was granted, but
it may have been once coded-- at
any rate please return the certf
by first Mail
Respectfully Your
Most Obdt Servt
Arad Joy
Hon J.L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions 
Washington D. C.

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June 26. 1848
Rec'd of 
Sarah Dunn
Hon J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
Washington
D. C.

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Ovid June 23d 1845
Sir
May I be allowed respectfully to ask you
to please to inform me the service allowed
of Capt Jeremiah Dunn, in the adjustment
of Sarah Dunns claim under the
law of 1836 - I apprehend that I shall
be able to prove that Capt Jeremiah
Dunn as Capt. was in the service 30th
Dec 1778 if not after that date, I
desire however
to know for what service
you allowed
Respectfully Your
Most Obt Sevt
Arad Joy
Hon J L Edwards
Court of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

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Department of State
April 2d 1845.
James L. Edwards, Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
The examination
requested by your
letter of the 29th
[illegible] has been made, and nothing
can be found in relation to the
services of Jeremiah Dunn
I am Sir
Your Obedt Servt
J. G. Mason
acting Secy of State

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Mar 28 '45
NY
[illegible stamp]
Hon J L Edwards
Court of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.

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Ovid March 24th '45
Dear Sir
I beg leave very respectfully to
ask of the authority of 3 out of 4 of the
Surviving children of Sarah Dunn
mailed to you Nov 23d 1844 is a 
sufficient authority for you to consider me the
real agent for the children, & whether you
consider the authority sufficient to authorise
you to communicate with me, no one has
suppose made a lawful application but myself & no
one as I suppose has furnished proof but 
myself  unless Cd H H. Sylvester has if do he
& I have no misunderstanding about it,
I am desirous of hearing from the case
as soon as my time comes, last papers 
mailed to you Nov 23d about 4 months since.
Your most Obdt Servt
Court of Pensions
Arad Joy
Hon J L Edwards
Comms of Pensions
Washington
D. C

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Washington feby 13 '45
Sir
[illegible] a letter from Arad Joy, intended
only for my our perusal: but as it contains
no
[illegible] I have no scruples in sending it to you
Mr. Joy, I am aware, and for all claimants in his
part of the State, and in fact, knows but imperfectly
any thing respecting these claims
he present,
of one thing I am certain: that Mr Joy is a
respected man and well esteemed by those who
knew him best. With him I have no [illegible] never having charged services or recd one cent for any
services of [illegible] including of my "good advice"
This communication is made [illegible] to call
up the case of Sarah Dunn of NJ. More than
a year ago I was called upon by the Hon Mr Murphy
of NY.my to later charge of that case when it was
found that the heirs had authorized Mr Foy
to
attend to it. We of course, had nothing further
to do in the matter. But it seems, that altho
the claim is a good one, the heirs are still
deprived of their rights for that right has been
admitted by the Depart some years since. 
I am prepared to act for Mr Murphy
or Mr. Joy as the case may be and to avoid

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any differently hereafter, will send the certificate
directly to the parties in which
[illegible] [illegible] you the papers placed in my
hands by Mr Murphy last year. I will remark
that in the General orders of Washington Vol
1 & 11. Jeremiah Dunn was a Leut & Adjt
in 1776 & 7: and that he was also returned as
an Express Rider in the Qr Master Return in
the sick Depart Vol 3 of these returns.
Capt Dunn died Oct 24 1779 and his widow
died 24 March 1838. There can be certainly
no reason for delaying a final decision in the
Cert. I send your letter dated Apl of 1838
in which you allow [illegible]as a Captain of Express riders at per month as a non-commissioned 
officers if no additional proof can be presented
showing that he had a higher grade
[first word crossed out] think [your crossed out] I am assured under 
all the circumstances of the case, that you will 
direct an immediate action in this case.
The proof of his service as Lieut
Adjt and as a Captain of Express riders you
may obtain by calling upon the Secretary

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of State, as before recited
I am Very Respectfully
H H Sylvester

Col Edwards

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Washington
Oct 16. 1849
James L. Edwards Es
Comr of Pensions
Sir
I have received a letter
from the agent in the case of Jeremiah Dunn decd
who was a captain of express ending your letter of
the 11 May 47, and also to enclose certificate from
the Secretary of the State of New Jersey. Showing that
Jeremiah Dunn was paid up to the 12 Feb 1779 to 1802
The evidence submitted is to have a claim
for an [ineligible] of his late pension [under act 1832 crossed out]
I remain your
[ineligible] respectfully
Alex. Ray
Sarah Dunn decd
under act 4 July 1836

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Ovid May 31 1844
Hon Wm A Mosley
My Dear Sir
On the 10th Feby I
took the liberty to trouble you with pension proof
in the case of Heirs of Sarah Dunn, having
forwarded by same mail, proof in another case
both executed before the court at same time, and
having recd a report in the then case more than
a month since, and having recd a
report on case ford in March, I beg leave
respectfully to ask you to please call the
attention of the department to this case
Respectfully Your Obd Servt
Arad Joy

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Hon J L Edwards
Oved April 29. 1843
Dr Sir
I am employed by a son of Mrs. 
Sarah Dunn, widow of Jeremiah Dun of Middlesex Co New Jersey, to inquire into a pension
application made by her, & to ask the result of
& a copy of your letters to the then agent if I may
this be allowed to do
Your Obedient Servt
Arad Joy

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House of Representatives
April 9th 1844
J L Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
Sir
Some days since
I left a notice with you to the
effect that I had been requested
to look after a certain pension
Claim which was, as I understood
in charge of another gentleman
and that desired a suspen

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him of delivery of the certificate
until I could obtain further
information.
that information
I have obtained and it is to
the effect that [illegible] has
been employed for the other
heirs and that the one who
Spoke to me
acquiesces in his
continuing the agency.
will therefore treat the notice
as if it had not been given
I am yours tr
Hon C. Murphy

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Letter to  the Hon 
Mr Murphy of NY
Feb17
1844
in case Sarah Dunn in NJ
Act 36 [illegible]
H H Sylvester
[illegible]
March 14 44

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possibly can
our own
is the name
Betsy Bedell
G Webb
anton st
Brooklyn
Feb 7th 1844
to Mr. H. C. Murphy
Dear Sir I have the Honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 3rd inst
and Sir you will please accept our
sincere than which we now tender
for the trouble we have been the instigation
of putting you to. And the interest you
have taken and manifested in our behalf.
We have felt a little disapointment at
the returns received, for we had a strong
idea among ourselves that had our
worthy Secatary rightly understood
our case and by his letter to the
public which asserted that he was not
willing that no 20 or 25 per cent
should be paid more for public
work then was customary given for 
private and Sir that seemed to say
that public wages should be as high
as private. And now Sir we are much
obliged for the part you have taken
in our welfare, we now leave it
to the generous feeling you have shown
in your letters to us, to act as your

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discreet mind may think proper for
our benefit. As to the resolution that
was in the house is no now thing to
as [crossed out word] it was published in the N York
Herald on the 31st [illegible] while congress
was convening last season there was 
a number of pieces in the tribune paper
concerning it we are impressed and almost
sure that the cause is from some of
the heads of the marine department
for fear that their services can be dispensed
with.
We have the hon to be
yours M Rathman
Gared Webb
No 1 Stanton Str
Mr Murphy Sir with repect to the pension
it was my intention to write to you concern
it before. But I thought it would be better
till you had got rid of some of the business
that is heaped a upon you I am related
close to the aplicants of the pension and if
it can be got it will of be of some consequence
Mr Jerimiah Dunn was a captain in the
first war served and fought under the

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command of Gen. Washington, and I have
informed that a pension could be got for his
family, and by me given those papers to you
was for the purpose of ascertaining if it could
be obtained with the information that is in the
pension Office there is or was papers there with
a leaf of the old family Bible with the date
of his death which I belief if remember right from
the inscription on the tomb stone was on 24th  of Otob
1779. he was taken sick in the Army an come home
and died. he left a wife & 4 children 3 Girls & 1 Boy
his wife name was Sarah, the children are all alive one of them recolects G.W. perfectly well those
statements (papers) which i handed you sir are
but merely statements that A Mr Squire William
Shotwell of Scotch Plains N Jersy, had taken when
he was trying to get it for the widow before
she died. 24 of March 1838 and before he got
through with it he died. those papers I got from
his mother in Scotch plains as I have been informd
it had been fully proved and clearly, that Sarah
dunn was the widow of Capt J Dunn About
4 years ago Mr John Dikeman was consulted about
it and he believed that it could begotten easily and
offered to do so for the sum of 400 Dollars and in
writing to the above named Gentleman somewhat
harshly he would give him no information and
and as Mr Dikeman was much engaged at that time he
did not go to him. I desire Mr M. that you would
see if there is any likelyhood of getting it and if so

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we will furnish you with all the informationwe possibly can 
and if so you shall have a liberal compensation to your own
satisfaction for the trouble the 4 children are the applicants ther named
is Esther Hayden De Camp Dunn. Nancy Ross and Betsy Bedell
Feb 7th 1844 I have the honour
to be
your obe ser Garrett Webb
NB 1 Stanton St Brooklyn N York

Feb 7 1844
P S Sir if you it would nessary providing
it was mention again in the house, we can
give you statement which will show the Watch to
be some amount less expensive than Marines
---
---
H H [illegible]
Pensr
March 14, 44

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page 1
for Increase
Brief case Sarah Dunn decd chI.
Sarah Dunn. (22d Jany.1838), aged 92 yrs. declares she is the
widow of Capt Jeremiah Dunn Capt. in Rev. War
He went out a Lt in the 5 mos service & returned
as a Capt: After his return from L. Island Jeremiah
was apptd Capt of express does not
know whether he served in that capacity more than 1 yr: but believes he served about that length
of time before the close of the war. He came
home sick & died of the same disease 24th
Oct 1779 married to Jeremiah 28th Feb. 1769.
She has remained a widow since Jeremiah's
death - presents family Bible.
Family Record shows marriage on 28th Feby. 1769.
Mary Frazer (1st Feby:1838), says she is well acquainted with
Sarah and was acquainted with Capt. Jer Dunn
knew them before they were married. Jeremiah
died a short time before close of war, married
about 1769 or 70 was at wedding, Sarah now
a widow
aged 90 yr's; a pensioner-
Joel Dunn (2d March 1838), says he was personally acquainted
with Capt: Jeremiah Dunn - Jeremiah
received a Lt Commn & entered the 5 mos service

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page 2
I went to L. Island & was in the battle of L.I.
I was promoted to a Captaincy before his return
after 5 months service, the above named
Jeremiah was apptd Capt of Express & contd in
service till 1779 when he died, was 
intimately acquainted with Dunn & his wife
Sarah. Sarah a widow,
Isaac Smalley} (21st Feb. 1838.) says he was well acquainted 
Wm P. Shotwell} with Jeremiah & Sarah before the war Dept:
Nathan Smalley} & Jeremiah enlisted in 5 months service. Dunn
was first Lt.- Bailey his Capt was promoted
Major & Dunn was made Capt before expiration of 5 mos. service - Dunn was Capt of 
Express for 1 yr: & Dept served under him. were
at battle of Wht Plains together. After battle of
Wht Plains retreated to N.J. & after the retreat
the 5 mos service expired & Dunn was chosen
Capt. -  Sarah now a widow.
Isaac Smalley (9th June 1838, says in relation to his entering
under sd Capt Dunn as express rider in
March 1777 - but after reflection, he is satisfied
that he joined Dunn's Corps 1st March 1779
first duty he did under Capt Dunn was on
3d March '79 - Dept. Joined Capt Dunn Corps

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for 1 yr: as express Rider sd Dunn being at that
time Capt of sd Corps. Served under Capt. Dunn 6 mos & he believes a little more, when Dunn
left - Express riders received a commission or
written Apptmt - Richd Dunn was under Capt
Dunn. Dept served out (under Capt. Asgal) the yr:
he commenced under Capt. Dunn
(31st July 1853), says he was a soldier in Rev. War &
is a Pensioner - in early part of war in 1776 or 7 he
became acquainted with Capt Dunn. - knows he
was a Capt of Genl Washingtons Express riders
sd 
Dunn in 1777 was Capt. saw him often - always clad
in his Regimentals as a Capt 2 of personal his friends
were under Dunn viz: Hy. Tucker & [illegible] Mitchell - recollects
sd Dunn was some years in service in sd Capacity -
acted as Capt from 1 to 2 yrs: thinks longer - knew
Sarah to be Capt Dunn's wife - had 4 children 
aged by yrs:
De Camp Dunn (9th Feb. 1844) declares he is the son of Capt Dunn
who was at Lt & Capt in the war & who died 24th
Oct. 1779 leaving Sarah his widow. Sarah died
24th March 1838, Married 1770 or 71. Sarah left
children 4:viz. Esther Hayden, Elizth Bedell, Ann
Ross (widows) & Decamp Dunn
Thos. Covert (2d Feby 1844), aged 89 yrs: says he was acquainted in early
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& he well recollects Dunn died in the fall of 1779 & left Sarah a widow & left before named Children,
Isaac Smally (21st Novr 1843), after testifying as before goes on
to say he cannot be sure, but thinks Capt. Dunn
served as Capt; from 1776 to 1779 - died 1779 Sarah
died 1838.
Fitz Randolph
(21st Novr 1843 aged 81 yrs). he was in early part of
Rev. War, personally acquainted with Capt. Dunn Sarah
is intitled widow of Jeremiah - Dunn was a Capt in
war - Small recollects Jeremiah (Capt.) was in
service in 1776, at that time he was either Lt or Capt that
after he had performed 5 mos. duty he came home a Capt
& entered service as Capt. and during yrs 1776-'77-'78 &
'79 and was in habit of serving Capt Dunn at least 3.4,
or ½ dozen times in a yr & always saw him in Capt dress
understood at the time and believed he was a Capt & on
actual duty-- cont'd in service till he got sick & died in
1779 - leaving Sarah who was a widow till her death
Joel Dunn (21st Novr 1843) says he knew J is a cousin of Dunn
who ent'd service as Lt. in 1776 in 5 mos service served
5 mos., Dept was twice at camp during 5 mos.
returned at end of 5 mos. Capt Apptd Capt by Genl Washington
in 1776 & contd Capt more than 3 yrs into 1779 - Dept
was after at headquarters [two words crossed out] there can be
no doubt Dunn served more than 3 yrs.- at his death in 1779 left
Sarah & 4 children Sarah died 24th March 1838 
leaving 4 children.
Rachel Stewart (21st Novr 1843), says from time she was a child she
[members crossed out] she was personally acquainted with Sarah-- Dunn was 
a Capt in revolution: well recollects he was out in the
5 mos: service in 1776 - Depts father was out under him in 
that service was killed - Dunn was promoted Capt & was
Capt when he returned home - in 1776 Dunn was apptd Capt
by Genl. Washington - resided near them & was familiarly
well acquainted with their movements, & was so near as
to see Capt Dunn in actual service as Capt. -Dept. was
after at Dunn's house from 1776 to '79 - knows well of his 
being from home in service. & Dunn contd as capt. from 1776
to 1779 - died in 1779 - left Sarah & 4  children Sarah died 24th
March 1858.
Letter from Jeremiah Dunn "Capt: of Expresses" 29th Decr 1778.
pay of $6. [illegible] "commenced from 1st [crossed out] first day of Sept. last 1778"
Isaac Smalley (26th March 1838, as before, and also says he enlisted under
Capt. Dunn as Express rider on 8th March 1778 & served 8 mos.
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Brief in case
Sarah Dunn and
Jeremiah
N. J.
[illegible] Ser.
New

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Isaac Smally (26th March 1838, says he is acquainted with
Sarah & was acquainted with Dunn. P. Dunn was
Recd 1st Lt Commr in 1776, went out in 5 mos.
service - Dept went and in same service. Dunn
was promoted Capt: by senioriity. Dept enlisted in
as Dunn (Capt) 8th March 1778 & served 8 mos
Dunn was (Capt) at least 6 mos previous to 8th
March 1778-
Rachel Smalley (9th June 1838), was well acqtd with Dunn who
was her uncle, & she was Isaac Smalleys wife
when he served under Dunn as Express rider & knows
Dunn left express about 1st Sept 1779 & 
distinctly recollects attending Dunn's funeral.
John De Camp (28th March 1838), says he is well acquainted 
with Sarah - She is his Aunt & she is widow of
Dunn decd. who was Capt [Cap crossed out] express rider at 
commencement (or very shortly afterwards) of war &
contd to command Co. till he was attacked with the
sickness which caused his death. Dept resided with
his grandfather, who was Sarahs father married Capt:
Dunn shortly previous to war - still remains his widow
Isaac Smalley (26th March 1838), same as before
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Sec. State N.J. (3d Oct 1849), [illegible] Jeremiah recd $186.60
on 12th Feby. 1779
Power Atty. to F. E. Hassler 9th June 1852
Jeremiah [illegible] 5 months
[line illegible]
Married 28th Feby. 1769.
Jeremiah died 24th Oct. 1779 
Sarah died 24th March 1838.

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[illegible] Augt 30 1843
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir
In further support of
[illegible] Sarah Dunn widow of Capt
Jeremiah Dunns claim to a pension I
inclose two depositions & letter addressed
by him to his wife in July 1776, as it was just
into my hands I believe it is fully in proof
before you, that he served the 5 months in summer
of 1776 - that in the fall of 76 he was appointed to
Capt and continued & served 3 years in that
office as will appear, as I am informed by the
deposition of Joel Dunn Isaac Smally
Smally, Polly France & I now inclose two more
to the same fact which I presume will [illegible]
cover all doubt as to their service- that he
served 3 years as Captain Dunn. I am assured in New
Jersey, I was with Joel Dunn - of the fact
of Capt Jeremiah Dunn Serving 3 years as Capt
I hope as to the proof that when you receive
the inclosed, your doubts will all be removed
Respectfully I am Town PO Servt
Arad Joy

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Mr Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Dr Sir
I understand that
a certificate of pension in favor of 
the heirs of Mrs Dunn is about being
delivered from your office to an agent
in their behalf. This requires that 
I should inform you that I received
papers in the same case with directions
from one of the parties interested to
present the same claim, I handed
them over to her Sylvester to make
the requisite examinations and
received from him the information
above mentioned. As the matter

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this assumes an inconsistent form
and appears to place one or the other
application in an improper position
I have to ask that you will suspend
the delivery of such certificate until
I can obtain information from
my constituent in regard to it - which
will be obtained in a few days
I am [illegible] yours truly
Hen. C. Murphy
Hd of Ref
March 21. 1844

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State of New Jersey
Sommersett County
March 21st 1838
Before me Wm. D. Stewart
one of the justices of the peace and judge of 
Court in and for said  County personally appeared
Isaac Smally who being duly sworn on his
Oath say that he is acquainted with your [illegible] 
Sarah Dunn and was acquainted with Her
and her Husband Jeremiah Dunn that the said
Jeremiah Dunn Received a First Lieutenants
in 1776 Captain Platt Baily was his Captain
they then lived in Sommersett County New Jersey and
went out in the five months service under Colonel
Johnson your deponant went out under the said
Captain Baily and Lieutenant Dunn a private
they went to Longislan during the five months
Service above named and was at the Battle of Long Island
between Brooklyn and Flatbush and your deponant
saw the said Lieutenant Jeremiah Dunn there the Battle
was fought on August 27th 1776 the said Jeremiah
Dunn was promoted to Captain by deponant your deponant further said that at the same battle Sullivan
and Lord Sterling was taken prisoners your deponant further
says he left New York under the aforesaid Jeremiah
Dunn who was there a Captain and commanded
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White Plains in the State of New york and was
in an engagement on the 28th. of October, where the
said Captain Jeremiah Dunn was present and
Continued command as captain this was in 1770 they
crossed over the Hudson retreated through New Jersey by
Newark their time being out they were discharged their
time expired on November 15th 1770 of this deponent believes
your deponant further said he knows that the said
Captain Jeremiah Dunn was Captain of the express
[illegible] your deponant Isaac Smally entered
under him as express rider on the 8th of March
1778 and knows that he served under him
for Eight months your deponant further states that 
the said Captain Jeremiah Dunn was Captain
of the express some time before he enlisted under
him at least six months previous to the 8th of March
1778 your deponant further say that the said Jeremiah
Dunn left the express and Capt John Asgill 
succeeded
him and further being duly 
Sworn and subscribed before me
William D. Stewart, one of the Justices
of the Peace and Judge in the County in
and for said county of Sommersett
this 26th day of March 1838
.Wm D Stewart

Isaac his X mark Smally
[illegible name]
[illegible] P. Stillwell
Rachel Smally

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1834
Mrs
Sarah Dunn
New Market
Middlesex County
Lodi [illegile].
June 21

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Lodi Seneca Co. N Y June 20th 1838
Dear Mother
I have neglected writing to you for
some time I intended to [illegible]
as soon as Jeremiah got home but
owing to the word that he brought
concerning getting a pension for you
I have delayed it till the present time 
on account of getting all the light on
it I could, I have seen Thomas
Covert the man that worked your plain
one Season while father was out in
the service and he says he knows he
was out & he likewise says that he
once went to enlist under him &
he told him he could not take him
in because his corps was full
And I have found a letter that
among my papers that I brought
from Lowry that father sent to you
wile he was encamped at North Castle
Dated the 23d July 1776 wherein he calls
himself your affectionate husband
& if you have any letters that he

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Sent to you near the close of the war
wherein he calls you his wife they
will be of great use becaus the
Letter that we have found clearly
shows that you are his widow
& that he was an officer. And now
if you are willing to give the business
in my hands I will try my best
to get it for you I have spoke
to a man by the name of Arad Joy
to do business for me if you will or willing
to let me do it. Mr Joy is a man
that is accostomed to getting pensions
& gets a most evry one he
undertakes & is a better man for doing
the business than any man I can hear
to be willing for me to get it for you
if you Cooperate with me you will 
please
send all the letters written by father to you
wile he was out in the war & you
must be sworn by the judge of court
that you are alive & that you are his widow
We are all well at present. 
De Camp Dunn
To my affectionate mother
from your only son

[written along left edge]
publication immediately & send it back

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Senate Chamber June 27 1838
Sir
I have the honor to enclose additional 
affidavit in support of Sarah Dunn's appln for Pensn 
which I hope will prove satisfactory.
Yrs respy
Garret D Wall
The Honble
J L Edwards
Court of Pensions

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Washington April 21 1838
Sir
I enclose an additional paper
in the case of Mrs Dunn which I
hope will be satisfactory 
Please
to send the certificate
to me.
Yrs respy,
Garret D Wall
The Honble
J L Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions

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Hewish
County
del to
March 1852
before the Abraham Brow
the Justices of the peace
Personally appeared
&
any who being
July Sworn according to law on his oath
as he was personally acquainted with Captain
Jeremiah Dunn the Husband of your applicant
Sarah Dunn your deponant is
Avant
ninety years of age and is a pentioner for services
in the war of the Revolution your deponant has
that the above named Jeremiah Dunn received
Lieutenant Commission and entered the seal
months service and went to Long Island and
was in the Battle known as the Batte of on Jolan
and that the above named Jeremiah Dunn
permited to a catain before his return
this deponent further said that after the five
months service above where the said heremiah
Dunn the above named Jeremiah
Dunn was appointed Captain of the pris
and continued in the service untill re
when he died at his residence in Middle-
Six County New Jersey this deponant was
be intimately acquainted with the said
Sarah

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Dunn they all belong of the same section of
said deponent aforesaid and that the said person 
is Jerh Dunn [illegible sentence]
[illegible] further said he is at this time 
is well acquainted with Sarah Dunn your
applicant who was born and living  [illegible] in this section of Country and that the said Sarah Dunn has not been married since the death
of Her Husband Capt Jeremiah Dunn
Joel Dunn
subscribed this 2d
day of March 1838
Abraham Boice Justice of Peace
I certify the written named Joel Dunn
to be a highly respectable citizen and whose
testimony
[illegible]
on
Middlesex County of State of New Jersey
Abm Boice
I Nicholas Booram Clerk of the County of Middlesex
and of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do certify
that Abraham Boice before whom the foregoing affidavit of Joel Dunn
was taken was at the time of the taking thereof a Justice of the peace in
& for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that I am
acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and
do verily believe his signatures above are Genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said County this fifth
day of March AD 1838
N Booram Clerk

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This Bureau can furnish the military
record of only such Revolutionary soldiers
as were pensioned or whose widows were
pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay
rolls of the Revolutionary and the
War of 1812 as are now in the possession
of the Government are on file in the
Record and Pension Office, War Department
Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolution.
ary War may also be found on file in the
archives of many of the original States.
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.

L. W. B.
I. 17936,
W.412.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
October 2nd, 1899.
Sir:-
In response to your recent communication you are advised that
Christopher Dunn made an application for pension on October 2nd, 1818,
at which time he was 58 years of age and residing at Belgrade, Maine,
and his pension was allowed for three years' actual service as a private
in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war. Place of his enlistment
not stated. He served under Capt. Mabury and Col. Francis.
Sarah, widow of one Jeremiah Dunn, made an application for pension
on January 22, 1838, at which time she was 92 years of age and residing
at New Market, Middlesex County, N. J., and her pension was allowed for
the actual service of her husband as a lieutenant and captain in the
New Jersey troops, Revolutionary war. He enlisted in Middlesex Co.,
N. J., and served under Capt. Bailey.
There is no other Jeremiah
Dunn found upon the Revolutionary war pension or bounty land records
on file in this Bureau.
Very respectfully,
Mr. Morris Dunn,
Hampton, Virginia.
Acting Commissioner.