Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2028, Matthias Abel, New Jersey

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(3-1776)

SERVICE 
New Jersey
Abel, Matthias
NUMBER
S.2028

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Contents

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Know all Men by these Presents,
That I, Sarah Able am of the heir of Matthias Able [illegible] a Rev. Pensioner, have constituted and appointed, and by these Presents do constitute and appoint, AM Gengower, of the City of Washington, my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably, with power of substitution, for me and in my name, place, and stead, to ask, and receive of and from the United States any Bounty Land, Pensions, Money or Moneys that now is or are due to me on account of services rendered, disbursements made, or expenses incurred by him while in the service of the United States, or on any other account whatsoever, and in my name to give receipts and other sufficient discharges for such Bounty, Land, Pensions, Patents, and Money due as aforesaid, and to attend to and prosecute any and all business of whatever nature I may have with or before any of the Departments of the Government or Congress, and, generally, to do any and every other act or acts, that I myself might or could do, were I personally present at the doing thereof: hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever my said Attorney shall do in and about the premises by virtue hereof.
The words of "A [illegible] interviewed(?) before signing
On Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of February 1852
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of } Two Witnesses.
Enoch Abel
Mathias Abel
Sarah [illegible] Abel 
SEAL.

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County of (blank) Ss. On this (blank) day of (blank) 18 (blank) personally appeared (blank) before me, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be (blank) act and deed for the purposes therein contained.
J. P. (SEAL)

County of (blank) Ss. I HEREBY CERTIFY, That (blank) Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgment was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of (blank) County Court, this (blank) day of (blank) one thousand eight hundred and (blank).

s/ (blank), Clerk.

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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County,SS: I Benjamin Egbert, one of the Justices of the Inferior court of Common pleas do hereby certify that I am aquainted with Jacob Johnson who has made the foregoing affidavit and beieve him to be a man of truth & veracity and that his statement is in ( ). to credit. Given under my hand this 22nd of June 1833.
(signed) Benjamin Egbert
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Matthias Abel
Hunterdon County
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County Ss
    I IsaacG. Farlee clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County of Hunterdon Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of said Court in the matter of the application of Matthias Abel for pension, and that Benjamin Egbert who has signed the proceeding affidavid & certificate of credibility is one of the Justices of said Court and that the signature, thereto annexed are in his own proper handwriting and that his official seal are entitled to full faith render
    In testimony, whereof I have here

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On this fourteenth day of August AD one thousand eight hunded and thirty two personally affiant in open court before the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas now ( ) Matthias Abel a resident of the townsip of  Bethlehem in the County and state of aforeaid, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath  made the following declartion in order to obtain the benefits of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832.  That he was born in in the city of Philidelphia in the year 1757- that he obtianed from is parents  paper stating his age which ( ) he has left at home. That he lived in the township of Amwell and county of Hunterdon afforesaid when called into the militia service serving the Reveolutionary War, and that he was drafted for their service in the summer of 1776 uder the command of Captain Nathan Stout.
  That he served at the following times and places and during the periods aforesaid and under command of the Line and first officers as best as he can recollect - Court:
1  One month at Port Amboy in the summer of 1776 Captian Joshua Kershaw, Lieut Col Thomas Towry
2  One month at woodbridge during the same summer and Fall. Captain Cornelius Hoppock. Lieut Col William Chamberlin
3  One month in the Fall  of 1776 at woodbridge Captain Nathan Stout, Col Isaac Smith
4  One month at Elizabeth town in the Fall or winter of 1777. Captain Charles Reding. Col Joseph Philips

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5  One month at Smith's farms near the Blazing star in the summer of 1777 Captain Philip Snook. Col William chamberlin
6  One month at the Blazing star during that same summer Captain Arthur Gray. Col David Chambers
7  One month in the summer of Fall 1777 at Pluckamin. Captain Philip Snook. col David Chambers
8  One month at Haligap in the same summer or fall Captain Philip Snook. Col David Chambers
9  One month at Springfield in the summer of 1777 Captain Philip Snook. Col David Chambers.
10  One month at Boundbrooke in the fall of 1777. Captian Philip Snook. Col David Chambers
11  One month at () in the fall of 1777 at the time of the battle at that place Captain Philip Snook. col David Chambers.
12  One month at ( ) plains in the fall of 1777 Captain John Philips
13  Two months at Trenton in the Winter of 1777 Cptain Philip Snook. lieut Col William Chamberlin Col. david Chambers
14  One month at ( ) Falls in the fall of 1777 Captain Philip Snook. Col David Chambers
15  One month about the same time & under the same officers a Southland Mountain
16  One month at the Hopewell meeting house in the winter of 177.8. Captain Nathan Stout and lieut Col William Chamberlin.
17  One month at  moumouth elswhere in the summer of 1778 Captain Philip Snook, Col David Chambers Lieut Col William Chanberlin, Major Cornelius Stout.
18  One month in the winter of 1778 during the arrangement with the ( ) at ( ) bridge . Captain Nathan Stout, Col David Chambers
19  One month at the time of the revolt of the Pennslyvania Line at Princeton in the winter of  1781.
  Besides being frequently called out after general alarms amounting to atleast 3 months
  That he was in the battle of Boundbrooke  ( ) Bridge, ( ) and Mounmouth.  That he was generally aquainted with ()  [words cut off] while he was in

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Captain Philip Snook, [names covered]
Col William Chamberlin, Major Cornelius Stout

18  One month in the winter of 1777 during the angagement with the British at the {illegible reghlen's) Bridge. Captain Nathan Stout , Col David Chambers 
19  One month at the time of the revolt of the Pennsylvania Line at Princeton in the winter of 1781
  Besides being frequently called out of general alarms amounting to atleast 3 months
   That he was in the battle of Boundbrooke ( ) Bridge ( ), Girmantown and Mounmeouth. That he was generally aquainted with all the principal officers in command while he was in the service. - That he can recollect faithfully the ( ) or () of the continental and militia regiments that he never recieved a written discharge. That since the revolutionary he has resided in the township of Bethleham aforesaid where he now resides. That the Revolutionary war lieut Jacob johnson and if any other persons resident in his neighbourhood can testify as to his character as a man of truth and veracity, and I am of the belief of his ( ) service rendered in the revolutionary war. That he has ( ) [writen above: or other written] documentary evidence by which to refresh his recollection of events, and that, at to the dates ^of events as before stated there may be and probably are many in accuracies, but of the events and his participation in them is well (sp ) in his own mind.  That he believes he can establish substantially all he has herein set forth or the principal lack thereof and his service in

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the revolutionary war by Jacob Johnson, Moses Stout and others.
 And he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever  to a pension or annuity (   ) and declare that his name is written on the pensions roll of the agency of any state.
sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
George Rea        Matthias Abel 

Mr. hollowy W Hunt, a clergymen and residing in the township of Bethleham, county of Hunterdon and state of New Jersey (  ) 
Benjamin Egbert - resident of the same place hereby certify that the above are well aquainted with Matthias Abel who has subscriced and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy five years of age that he is respected and believed in the nieghborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolutionary war that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesid
George Rea\ Holloway W Hunt
Benjamin Egbert


Section 'X'ed out.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after  ( ) the investigation subscribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was as a revolutionay soldier, and served at the states; and the courts further certified that it afford to them that Halloway W Hunt who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergymen resident in the township of bethleham., county and state aforesaid that who had also signed the same is a resident of the same township and is a credible  person  and that thier statement

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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Holloway W. Hunt who had signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Township of Bethlehem, County and State aforesaid, and that (blank) who has also signed the same is a resident of the same Township, and is a credible person, and that this statement is entitled to credit.

I, Isaac G. Farlee, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
Matthias Abel for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Fourteenth day of August A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty two.

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Jacob Johnson being duly sworn afore his oath saith that he is well acquainted with Matthias Abel as a soldier of the revolution- that he was with him with one or two ( ) during all the times and would in his statement set forth that he has heard said statement and that the statement of services rendered by the said Matthias Abel during the revolutionary war was is time of the best of his recollection and belief- (signed)Jacob Johnson
From 2 December the date and year above writen in open court---
(signed) George rea

And the said court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after further putting the investigation subscribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court ( ) certified that it appears to chew That Holloway W Hunt who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergymen resides in the township of Bethlehem of said and that Benjamin Egbert who has also signed the same is a resident the same township and is a credible person, and their statements is entitled to credit.
(Signed)
George rea
Robert K Reading
Jno Thompson

State of New Jersey}
Huterdon County} Ss.
     I Isaac G Farlee clerk of the court of Common Pleas of said county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Matthias Abel for a pension 
  In the testimony whereof I have hereunto scribed my hand and seal of office this form (covered by seal) ..teenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

I, Isaac G. Farlee Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Hunterdon do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Matthias Abel for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Thirty two.
s/ Isaac G. Farlee, clerk

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

Personally appeared before me the under signed, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Hunterdon, Matthias Abel who has made the foregoing Declaration who being duly sworn according to Law on his oath saith that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period  mentioned below & in the following grade. For two years as a private in the militia of New Jersey, and for such service he claims a pension.

There was one tour he forgot in his Declaration it was at Springfield under Capt. Joseph Kershon, Major Nevins, Col. Vandyke, Gen'l Heard. Our service was
to [crossed out: for] keep the country from enquiry from the British & Tories, - Go on scouting parties against them & such like duty.- During this service he was not employed in any civil pursuit, but was continually engaged therein.
s/ Mathias Abel (X - his mark)

Sworn & subscribed this
22nd day of June 1833
s/ Benjamin Egbert

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State of New Jrsey
Hunterdon County, Ss:  I Benjamin egbert, one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Jacob Johnson who has made the foregoing affidavit and believe him to be a man of tuth & veracity and that statement is entitled to credit. Given under my hand this 22nd day of June 1833
( signed) benjamin Egbert

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Matthias Abel
Hunterdon County
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State of New Jersey}
Hunterdon County} Ss.
      I Isaac G farlee clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said county Hunterdon, Do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Matthias Abel for pension, and that Benjamin Egbert who has signed the preceeding affidavid & certificate of credibility is one of the Judges of the said court and that the signature thereto annexed are in his own proper handwritting and that his officicial seal are entitled to full faith & credit.
   In testimony, whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of said court this 22nd day of JuneAD 1833
(Signed) Isaac G farlee

County of Hunterdon
On this fourteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Infereior Court of Common Pleas now listing Matthias Abel a resident of the township of Bethleham in the county and that aforesaid, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath made the following declaration in order  o obtain the benefit of the act of Congress dated June ..(cut off) ...as born in the city of Phil.

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New Jersey 28.998
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Matthias Abel
of Hunterdon in the state of N.J.
who was a prv  in the   commanded by Captain   of the Regiment commanded by Col. Chamberlin in the N.J. line for 8 mo
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Inscribed on the roll of New Jersey at the rate of 60 Dollars - cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
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Certificate of pension issued 6 day of Septemeber 
and scribe P i Clark.
Hunterdon NJ.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1834.         210-
Semi Anl. allowance ending 2 May    25.30
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                                    {Revolutionary Claim,}
                                     {Act June 7,1832}
Recorded by N. Rice    Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3 Page 107

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John Phillips 103H
Joseph kershon     Maj. Nevins

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In reply to your request of (blank), received (blank) for a statement of the military history of Mathias Abel, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [crossed out: (or his widow's)] application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. File 2028.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | CAPTAIN/COLONEL. | STATE.
From 1776 to 1781 | 2 yrs. in monthly tours | Private | Nathan Stout | Joshua Kershaw | David Chambers | N.J.
Cornelius Hoppock | Wm Chamberlin
Charles Reading | Isaac Smith
Philip Snook | Joseph Phillips
Arthur Gray | Vandyke
John Phillips
Joseph Kershon

Battles engaged in, Boundbrook, Germ(antown), Mon(mouth), Van Veghten's bridge, winter '78 (?)
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Amwell Twp., Hunterdon Co., N.J.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 14, 1832 Allowed
Residence at date of application, Bethlehem Twp., Hunterdon Co., N.J. (where lived since riv(er))
Age at date of application, born (blank) 1757 at Phila, Pa.
Remarks: After. Can't identify Capts. Kershaw/Kershon or Arthur Gray.

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...98. Papers Examined by
...un. of N. Jersey-
...May 12, Hist to Dr. Geo. K. Angle &
...Sept. 20. Duplicate to Dr. Geo. K. Angle
...Hon. W.H. Andrews (illegible)

Rev(olutionary) War
2028
INVALID.
File No. 2028
Matthias Abel.
Private Rev(olutionary) War

Act: June 7, 1832
Index:- Vol. A, Page 1
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Feb. 26
Adj.

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3--871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L.D.L.
Claim No. (blank)
Certificate No. (blank)
Soldier. Matthias Abel
Service. N.J.
Additional Service. Rev(olutionary) War
No (blank) claim, State records (blank), 190 (blank)
No claim, combination records (blank), 190 (blank)

REMARKS:
No claim except
F. #2028
O - 8
Chief Division

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P.J. Clark
Flemington, N.J.

(illegible)
July 12

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

Admit
18 mos.
$60

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P.J. Clark
Flemington, N.J.

(illegible)
July 12

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

Admit
18 mos.
$60

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Mathias Abel
N.J. (illegible)

Feb. 26/32
Ex. by A.M. Gangewer, Attorney
Present

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Washington City DC
Feb 25, 1832

Sir,
Enclosed you will find Power of Attorney from Sarah Able, one of the heirs of Matthias Able, late 
a Revolutionary Pensioner from New Jersey. I wish to examine the papers on file upon which a pension was granted to him. 
Yours  respy
A M Gangewer
Aty
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Hon Jas E Heath
Com of Pensioning

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Bethlehem July 12th 1834

Sir
I am requested by Matthias Abel to write to you by way of enquiring, he is very anxious to know what has become of his claim. he says he sent a declaration down to the war department: nearly about two years ago and it is a long time since he has heard from it any how - if you'll be so good as to inform me something about it. So that the old man may know how it stands it will much oblige him. I have understood the declaration of John Cole is ( )  among the rest you say there was no enlistments 1776- I knew his declaration he is a very old man he engaged in a certain brigade to (drive?) a team during the war and for a certain time, he has entirely forgot wheather he was enlisted or engaged nor neither can he see the difference at this time.  There is several more I want see them. they all live a distance and are not able to call on me. I shall have to go to them. I have not seen any of them not Even Cole, but from what he said when I did his writing I know he thought he was enlisted because he was under an engagement as for Henry Cartright - this old man is very old, and the oldest of any of the rest, he has been blind say ten year. His facualties are very much impaired. I am afraid he cannot Remember more or give a plainer statement. his witnesses are all gone except Capt. Schamp this old man when I saw him Cast [illegible] to fail in his memory, he only claims for one month a Lieutenant, and 17 Months as a private. the Reason he did not serve longer a Lieutenant is because he moved out of the bounds of the Regiment which he and Schamp both declared - if I could tell wheather it would be worth while I would go and see them but the dificulty of geting them

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...to remember, times, and dates is the worst of all, it is a great while (sp.) ago, and when there is no memorandum taken at the time and kept, time is but few of the age they must all be that can remember all that happened, it would be a hard case if they should lose their right because they cannot put it all together as it did happen exactly which I suppose they might as well give up at once and say no more about it, they are the most of them poor and cannot see a Lawyer and as they cannot get out themselves and live a great way apart, will make it very expensive which they cannot stand they are all very Respectible men, there statement is said every one of them is their different neighbors, says is fair and can be reliyed on, I am well acquainted with them all and can truly say that their statement may be relied if you be so good as to give me a statement you to oblige all these men's.

Yours Respectfully
s/ Benjamin Egbert

J.L. Edwards

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Mathias Abel

Suspended

Agent
P.J. Clark
Flemington, N.J.

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Mathias Abel, which require
further proof or explanation.

I.   Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? (blank)
II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? (blank)
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? (blank)
IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? (blank)
V.   *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount (sp.) of pension he is entitled? No yes given 5.
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? (blank)
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? (blank)
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? (blank)
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate ? (blank)
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? (blank)
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? (blank)
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? (blank)
XIV. *If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? (blank)
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? No
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? (blank)
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? (blank)
XVI. **Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No yes given 16.
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? (blank)

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* - QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how
long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For (blank) year (blank) months, and  (blank) days, I served as a  (blank). For  (blank) months and  (blank) days, I served as a  (blank); and for such service I claim a pension."

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It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

*QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

**QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

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Application of Matthias Abel for a pension.

Peter I. Clark
Agent
Flemington, N. Jersey

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(Affidavit & Certificate of Judge in favor of Mathias Abel for a pension.)

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

Be it remembered that on the Twenty first day of November 1833 personally appeared before me, Robert K. Reading, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for County of Hunterdon aforesaid, Petie Colbaugh of the Township of Amwell in said County who being duly sworn deposeth saith that he was well acquainted with Matthias Abel (an applicant for a pension & now a resident in the Township of Bethlehem in the County of Hunterdon aforesaid) during the Revolutionary war. That said Abel was engaged in the public service as a private during the whole of the war, but that being engaged in different parts of the revolutionary service it is impossible for him to detail the particular devices of the said Abel that he knows that the said Abel...

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(Affidavit & Certificate of Judge in favor of Mathias Abel for a pension.)

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

Be it remembered that on the Twenty first day of November 1833 personally appeared before me, Robert K. Reading, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for County of Hunterdon aforesaid, Petie Colbaugh of the Township of Amwell in said County who being duly sworn deposeth saith that he was well acquainted with Matthias Abel (an applicant for a pension & now a resident in the Township of Bethlehem in the County of Hunterdon aforesaid) during the Revolutionary war. That said Abel was engaged in the public service as a private during the whole of the war, but that being engaged in different parts of the revolutionary service it is impossible for him to detail the particular devices of the said Abel that he knows that the said Abel was a private in a company commanded by Captains Phillip Snook, Arthur Gray, Nathan Stout, Joshua A. Kershon, Ensign Ely, David Johnes & others.

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...that he cannot detail the particulars of the service of the said Abel, not because he has any doubt that they were rendered, but that he has kept no memorandum of the same. That he is as well appeared (sp.) of them as the best generation will be that Andrew Johnson was president of the United States, 
and that Coroner Cap was the friend of the old soldier.
s/ Peter Colbaugh (X - his mark)

Sworn & subscribed the day year aforesaid before me.
s/ Robert K. Reading
Judge &c

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

Jacob Johnson of the Township of Bethlehem & County of Hunterdon aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he was well acquainted with Mathias Abel
an applicant for a pension during the Revolutionary war.- That said Abel was a private in the company of which he was Lieutenant during the whole of the Revolutionary war. That the Captains of the companies were responsibly charged, but that the said Abel was his private during the whole war as far as
he can recollect, and that all he can now do is to refer to his, this deponents, [crossed out: (recollection)] declaration of his own service.
s/ Jacob Johnson

Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me.
Robert K. Reading
Judge &c

(illegible)

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...the Revolutionary war. That the Captains of the companies were responsibly charged, but that the said Abel was his private during the whole war as far as he can recollect, and that all he can now do is to refer to his, this deponents, [crossed out: (illegible)] declaration of his own service. 
s/ Jacob Johnson

Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me.
Robert K. Reading
Judge &c

I, Robert K. Reading, Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hunterdon aforesaid, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jacob Johnson, Tunis Case, Mathias Abel and Peter Colbaugh the declarants and witnesses above named, and who have sworn this day before me and they are reputed to be respectable and honorable men, and I do believe that their testimony is entitled to credit and belief.

s/ Robert K. Reading

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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

These two paragraphs 'X'ed out).
I, Isaac Farley, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hunterdon, do hereby certify that Robert K. Reading, Esquire, before whom the foregoing additional declaration of Jacob Johnson was taken, also before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken, also who has signed the foregoing certificate of credibility of witnesses, then were and now is one of of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County of Hunterdon duly commissioned and sworn, and that by his signature annexed in his own proper hand writing, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto put my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Flemington this Twenty seventh day of November A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Thirty three.
s/ Isaac G. Farlee, Clerk

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

Jacob Johnson of the Township of Bethlehem in the County of Herndon aforesaid being duly sworn before me, Samuel Hill, one of the Judges of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hunterdon aforesaid, deposeth and saith that Matthias Abel of the Township of Bethlehem aforesaid and an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress dated June 7th 1832 was a...

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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

Jacob Johnson of the Township of Bethlehem in the County of Herndon aforesaid being duly sworn before me, Samuel Hill, one of the Judges of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hunterdon aforesaid, deposeth and saith that Matthias Abel of the Township of Bethlehem aforesaid and an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress dated June 7th 1832 was a private in a company of which this deponent was Lieutenant from the summer of 1776 till the conclusion of the Revolutionary war. That all the services set forth by this deponent in his declaration in order to obtain a pension
were participated in and & shared by the said Abel both in the regular monthly tours and in the general alarms, to which for greater certainty
this deponent refers.
s/ Jacob Johnson

Sworn and subscribed the 28th March 1834 before me.
s/ Samuel Hill, Judge &c

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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

I, Isaac G. Farlee, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Herndon do hereby certify that Robert K. Reading, Esquire, before whom the foregoing additional declaration of Matthias Abel as also the foregoing affidavit and certificate were taken; and that Samuel Hill,
Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, then were and now are Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hunterdon, duly commissioned and sworn as said Judges, and that their signatures respectively annexed are their own proper hand writing, and that full faith and credit are due to all their official acts.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Flemington, this second day of April A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty four.
s/ Isaac G. Farlee, Clerk

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October 1, 1909.

Hon. William H. Andrews,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Andrews:

In reply to your letter dated the 24th and received the 28th ultimo, I have the honor to furnish herewith a statement of the military service of Matthias Abel, Sur. File No. 2,028, for Dr. George K. Angle, of Silver City, New Mexico, which may be submitted with his enclosed application for membership to the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner

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Congressional U.S. Bureau of Pensions
SEP 28 1909

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W.H. ANDREWS
ALBUQUERQUE
NEW MEXICO

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON
Gen-E

Albuquerque,
New Mexico,
Sept 24, 1909.

Hon. V. Warner,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Commissioner:

Mr. George K. Engle, of Silver City, New Mexico, is applying to the New Mexico Society of the Sons of the American Revolution for membership. In order
to be accepted he must procure the military record of Mattis Abel, who was a Revolutionary soldier and who engaged in the following battles; Monmouth, Germantown, Boundbrook and Van Veghten's Bridge. I am enclosing you a copy of his application which you will please return with the information requested.

Thanking you, I am,
Very truly yours,
W.H. Andrews
Delegate from New Mexico.

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RECORD DIVISION
MAY 4, 1909

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New Mexico Medical Society
OFFICE OF PRESIDENT

OFFICERS:
PRESIDENT, DR. G.K. ANGLE, SILVERCITY
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT, DR. J.W. ELDER, ALBUQUERQUE
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT, DR. F.T.B. FEST. E. LAS VEGAS
THIRD VICE PRESENT, DR R.L. BRADLEY, ROSWELL
SECRETARY, DR. C. McLANDRESS, ALBUQUERQUE
TREASURER, DR. C.G. DUNCAN, SOCORRO

BOX 186
Silver City, N.M.

April 29th, 1909

U.S. Pensions Dept.
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen,

Will you be good enough to send me the record of Matthias Abel - of Hunterdon Co. New Jersey. Soldier in the War of the Revolution (Capt. John Phillips Co. &)

Very Respectfully,
George K. Angle

U.S. PENSION OFFICE
MAY 3, 1909