Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,570, Samuel Culver, New Jersey

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(8-1776)

Service 
New Jersey

Culver, Samuel
or Collver.

Phebe

Number
R. 1570

The National Archives of the United States [seal]

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12.988
Samuel Culver

5
P.371
4 May 33
[illegible]

James Robinson Elvira
Tioga N York

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Brief in the case of Samuel Culver
Elvira or Tioga County in the State of New York
(Act 7th June 1832.)

1.	Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Open
2.	If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3.	How old is he?  74 years
[illegible] service, as directed in the form annexed.

4.	Period.		Duration of Service.	       Rank.		Name of General and Field Officers
			         Years, months, days.			        under whom he served.
Augt 15th in 1776	during the war	        Private             General Elias Dayton
 [initials]							                                Cap: Sharp Col Epraim Martin

    The National Archives of the United States [seal]

5.	  In what battles was he engaged? Kingsbridge, White Plains, Stormy Point, Trenton and Princeton
6.	Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hardwick Sussex County New Jersey
7.	In his statement reported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary
8.	Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect? Correct.
X certify that the foregoing statement and answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Richard Cutts [signature]
Examining Clerk.

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Power of Attorney

Case of – 

Samuel Culver

New York
or
New Jersey

Phebe widow

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Power  of Attorney

For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, etc.*

State of New York
County of Seneca		Bet it known that before me
Abraham Failing a Justice of the Peace personally appeared
Phebe Culver aged 63 years, who being duly cautioned and 
then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the daughter of Samuel Culver
who was a Revolutionary soldier in the State of New jersey
and that he died on the 27th day of March 1834 and that her mother, named
Phede Culver died on the 5th day of May 1848 and that they were
Married on the      day of       in the year 1782 and that they were 
In the State of New Jersey and that they resided there for     years, and that
Phebe Ann resides in Seneca Falls and that furthermore Phebe Ann BY THESE
PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F.E. Hassler, of Washington city, D.C., as her true and lawful Attorney for her and in her name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand and to receive from the U.S. Government and State officers her rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due her as heir of Samuel Culver who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law she may be entitled.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, she has on this third day September 1852, hereunto signed her name and affixed her seal.

Witness:  A. Failing		The National Archives of the United States [seal]

Witness G. Wilcoxen		Phebe Ann Culver                    Seal.[stamp]

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At a Court of Common Please holder at the
Court house in the Village of Elvira in
and for the County of Tiaoga in the State of 
New York commencing on the fourth
day of September 1832; Present Hon Grant 
Baldwin first Judge Joseph L Darling Darius 
Bentley John A. Drake and Elijah Shoemaker
Esquires Judges – 

National Archives of the United States [seal]

State of New York
Tioga County         ss

In this 6th day of September 
1832 personally appeared in open Court before
the Judges aforesaid being a Court of Record
because made so by the Constitution and Laws
of the State having by Law a Clerk and seal, 
now sitting, Samuel Culver a resident 
of Elmira in the county of Tioga and State 
aforesaid aged seventy four years the 22nd day
of May last who being first duly sworn accord-
ing to Law  [illegible] on his oath made the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of 
the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832;
    That he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officers and served
as herein stated – that as nigh as he can
remember as to time by careful reflection
upon the events of those times he enlisted on 
the 15th of August in the year 1776 for the term of 
during the [illegible] in the company commanded
by Captain Sharp and in the regiment of 
Col Ephraim Martin of the Jersey Troops; 
That at times during the service this Regiment
was commanded by Col. Jonathan Ogden 
and towards the close of the war was attached

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to the Brigade of Gen Elias Dayton -  that
he was at the city of New York when it was
taken by the British – was in the [illegible]
with them at Kingsbridge and White 
Plains -was at Stoney Point – then marched
through the State of New Jersey; was stationed 
a short time at Elizabethtown; was in the 
Battles of Trenton and Princeton and the latter
of which he lost the end of the middle finger 
of the left hand and a flesh would in the 
right leg both by bullets; he was at red 
hawks and was stationed and quartered at
different places through the state at previous
times down to the summer of 1783 when
he was discharged at Morristown in the
State of New Jersey – That has no doc-
umentary evidence and that he knows of
no person whose testimony he can procure
who can testify to his service – 
	And in answer to the several interrogatories
put to him by the Court he says that he was
born in the Town of Rocksbury in the County 
of Morris in the state of New Jersey on the
22nd day of May in the year 1758, that he 
has no record of his age; that he believes he has
correctly retained a knowledge of it as handed
down to him by his parents; that when he
enlisted into service as before stated he
lived in the Town of Hardwick in the County 
of Sussex and State of New Jersey; after the 
Revolutionary War he continued to live at the 
same place seven or eight years; then lived 
in the town of Independence, same County

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of Sussex about 30 years; then in Elmira
his present Residence about 11 years; that 
he entered the service as a volunteer and served
as such; that Co. McDougal, Gen. Putnam, 
Gen. Wayne, Gen. Wynans, Gen. Mifflin and 
Their respective Regiments were with the
Troops where he served – that he has a written
discharge when he left the service which was
signed by some field officer but he cannot 
now recollect who – that he lost the dis-
charge when he moved into this county 
and he has not been or heard of it since – 
That he would refer to John Hendy, Samuel 
Shoemaker, Elijah James, John McCann 
and John S. Suffren all of Elmira aforesaid
who are acquainted with his reputation
for truth and veracity and who can 
testify to their belief in the truth of 
the foregoing declaration – He hereby
relinquishes every claim whatever to a 
pension or annuity except the present
and declares that his name is not on
the pension roll of the agency of any State

Sworn to & subscribed 
the day & year aforesaid	Samuel Culver
Green M Tuthill [signature]	X his mark
Clerk

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We Simeon R. Jones a Clergyman residing in 
Southport, Tioga County New York & Thomas Maxwell 
of Elmira County\y & State aforesaid
hereby certify that we are well acquainted
with Samuel Culver who has subscribed
and sworn to the above declaration: that
we believe him to be Seventy four years
of age and upwards; that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood where
he resides to have been a soldier of the
Revolution and that we concur in that 
opinion – 

Sworn and subscribed			Simeon R. Jones [signature]
The day & year aforesaid
Green M. Tuthill [signature]		T H Maxwell [signature]
Clk.

[Seal of the National Archives]

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 Revolution-
ary soldier and served as he states. And 
the Court further certifies that it appears
to them that Simeon R. Jones who has
signed the preceding certificate is a Clergy-
man resident in the town of Southport
and that Thomas Maxwell who has also signed 
the same is a resident in Elmira and is a 
credible person that their statement 
is entitled to credit – 

J.B. Baldwin [signature]
Trial Judge

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11707
Phebe Culver
Widow of Samuel
NY
Act of July 1838

11107
March 5 1845

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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the
7th day of July 1838 entitled “An act granting half pay and pensions
To certain widows”

State of New York
County of Seneca ss

On this twelfth day of February in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appear-
Ed before Elisha Foote junior Esquire one of the Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas of the County of Seneca, the said Court being
a Court of Record and being first duly sworn according  Phebe
Culver a resident of the town of Seneca Falls in the county 
of Seneca and State of New York who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on her oath, make the following dec-
laration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made 
by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838, entitled “An
act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows”
	That she will be Eighty two years of age on the
sixth day of June next should she live so long as she has 
always been informed and believes – 
	That she is the widow of Samuel Culver
who was a Private, as she was always informed & believes
In the War of the Revolution and served as a common soldier
during the whole war with the New Jersey Troops.  That her
said husband enlisted in the County of Sussex where he
has been brought up at the commencement of the war and served
until its close, as she was always informed by him – That
she cannot state in what Regiment he served or by what
officers he was commanded particularly, although she has 
frequently heard her late husband mention their names but
she cannot now recollect them.  She has heard her late husband
say that he was at the Battles of Bunker Hill Monmouth
Brandywine Princeton and others which she does not now recollect

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and has often heard him in his lifetime relate various incidents
which occurred during his service but which have now escaped
her memory.

	She further declared that her said husband never rec-
eived a Pension for his service in the Revolutionary War.  That
She has no documentary evidence in her possession of his service
But that she recollects that her husband after she became acq-
uainted with him has in his possession a paper partly written 
and partly printed which he said was his certificate of
discharge given to him by Gen Washington or some other
officer on his being discharged from his service at the close
of the war, that her said husband carried it for a long time
in his pocket and until it was worn out – 
	She further says and declares that her
maiden name was Phebe Pollard that she was born
in the town of Mendham County of Morris State of New 
Jersey where she lived until her marriage to the said
Samuel culver.  That she first became acquainted with
her late husband the said Samuel Culver after the close
of the war and that she was married within sometime in
the later part of the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty 
three according to the best of her recollection but that
the precise day on which it took place she is unable
to state but remembers that she was about twenty years
old at the time of her marriage, that the marriage took
place in the said town of Mendham Morris County
New Jersey and that she was married by David Thomp-
son Esquire a Justice of the Peace residing in said town & 
county.   That – she has in her possession no certificate of 
her marriage or documentary evidence of any kind and that she
does not know that there is any person now living who was
present at the marriage.

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       That her husband the aforesaid Samuel Culver
died on the twenty third day of March one thousand eight hundred
and thirty five in the seventy ninth (sic) year of his age at Tyre in 
the county of Seneca and State of New York
       She further says that she was not married to
the said Samuel Culver her late husband prior to his beginning 
the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first
of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four, being at 
the time above stated, and that she has not being again
married.

Phebe Culver X her mark

I hereby certify that the foregoing	[Stamp of National Archives of the United States]
Declaration was on the day and year
above written sworn to and subscribed 
before me by the above named Phebe
Culver.  And I further certify that in 
my opinion the said declarant Phebe
Culver is unable by reason of old age &
bodily infirmity to attend before the court
for the purpose of making the aforesaid Declaration

Elisha Foote [signature] for the 
Judge of Seneca County Courts

State of New York	           )
Seneca County Clerks office )  ss.

 J. Daniel H. Bryant.  Clerk of
the County of Seneca do hereby
certify that Elisha Foote Jr. Esquire whose name
is subscribed to the foregoing Jurat was at the date of the
same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in afore
said County duly Commissioned and sworn, and
authorized to take the same and further
that I am well acquainted with the hand 
writing of the said Judge and verily believe

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his signature to the foregoing, jurat to be genuine
& in his own proper handwriting – 
		
	In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
	and affixed the seal of the Court of 
	Common Pleas of said County
	this 24th day of February 
	1845 – 
		Daniel H. Bryant, Clerk [signature
[There is a vague impression of a seal]

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Know all Men by the Presents that, I Solom P. Collver
of Sterling Cayunga County NY do hereby constitute
and appoint George Ames of Washington DC 
my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosecute the claim of 
Phebe Collver deceased
and I hereby authorize my said agent and attorney to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the Departments of Washington City, or else where additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the certificate that may be issued for said claim, to appoint one or more substitute for the purpose herein express, to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present; hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said agent and attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.
And I do hereby revoke all other agents and attorneys heretofore appointed by me.
Witness my hand and seal this 29 day of July 1854

Signed and delivered 
in the presence of 				Solomon P Collver [signature]

State of New York     )
County of Cayuga    )   ss.

Be it known that on the 29th day of July 1853 before the subscriber a Justice of the Pease in and for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths,, (sic) personally appeared Soloman P Collver above named,  and acknowledge the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned.

John P Hunter [signature]
Justice of the Peace

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State of New York  )

Cayuga County,      )  SS.

	Be it know that on this 29 day of July 1853
before the subscriber a Justice of Peach in and for the county, and state aforesaid,
personally appeared Solomon P Collver of Sterling
county of Cayuga and state of New York and made oath in due form
of law that  he is same and one of the legal heirs 
of Samuel and Phebe Collver deceased 
who was a revolutionary soldier

That he has lately been informed , that said pension ought to be allowed, that he
is directly interest in said claim as one of the heirs that he makes 
this affidavit, to be filed with such additional evident or arguments as my said agent
 or attorney may use in prosecuting said claim.
							Solomon P Collver [signature]

					[stamp – the National Archives of the United States]
Sworn and subscribed the day )
and year aforesaid before me, )

John P Hunter [signature]

	I John P Hunter a Justice of Peace, in and for said coun – 
ty, do hereby certify, that Solomon P Collover who executed the
foregoing papers, is a reputable resident of the county of Cayuga
and is I believe directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.

				John P. Hunter [signature]
				Justice of the Peace 
				Cayuga County

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State of New York, 		)

Cayuga County Clerk’s Office  )  S.S.

	J. Edwin B. Marvin, Clerk of the County of Cayuga, and the Courts of Record
thereof, do hereby certify that John P Hunter 
Esq., was at the date of the Certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instru-
ment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and duly
authorized to take the same; that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily
believe his signature to said Certificate of Proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
	I further certify that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the
Laws of the State of New York.
	Witness my hand and seal of said county, this 20th day 
of July 1853.
EB Marvin [signature] Clerk.

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Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873

2570.

Phebe Culver

REJECTED [STAMP]

[Illegible initials]

[stamp – The National Archives of the United States]

[checkmark] Contract

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Letter to Jas Robinson November ‘37

(illegible)
25 October ‘34

Samuel Culver 
		Revo.

New York 

[stamp – The National Archives of the United States]

Suspended copy Jan ‘32
letter to (illegible) 1833
to 
J. Robinson
Sent to J. Robinson
24 Sept 34

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Samuel Culver – Pvt.
N. Jersey ling

New York 
[stamp – The National Archives of the United States]

Ref. File No 2570
OK [initials]

Not allowed 
	Act 1828.

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State of New York ______________
Chemung County Surrogates office ss.

			In the mater of the Application of Phebe
			Culver Widow of Samuel Culver late of
			the town of Elmira, in the said county
			deceased, for the pension due to her
			husband at the time of his death.
	I Lyman Covell Surrogate of the said county
do hereby certify that after hearing the proofs, and a carefull (sic)
investigation of the claim of the said Samuel Culver to a pension
I am fully satisfied that he was a Revolutionary Soldier and
made his application before the court of Common Pleas in this
town, in his life time (sic)for a pension, under the Act of June 1832
which said application and the testimony accompanying it 
is now on file in the War Department of the United States,
And I further certify that the said Samuel Culver died
on the 23rd day of March A.D. 1832 and that the aforesaid
Phebe Culver is his identical and lawful widow.

		In testimony whereof I have hereunto
		set my hand and caused the seal of the
		said office to be affixed at Elmira aforesaid
		this sixth day of May in the year of our 
		Lord one thousand eight hundred and
		thirty seven.
		
		Lyman Covell [signature] Surrogate

[seal – Chemung County Surrogate Seal]

[stamp – The National Archives of the United States]

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Seneca Falls July 20th 1845

Hon J. L. Edwards

	Sir
		I enclose you the Declaration of
Phebe Culver of this place, who applies for
a Pension under the act of 1838.  I wish
it filed in the Pension Office and shall
as soon as obtained forward you the poofs
necessary to substantiate her claim – 
	Mrs. Culver states that her husband
served in the Revolutionary War during its entire
continuance with the New Jersey Troops.  She
has however no documentary evidence 
going to sustain her claim and it will 
therefore rest entirely on evidence hereafter
to be furnished
		Yours Respectfully
			D.C. Bloomer
[stamp – The National Archives of the United States]

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1167

Ack. B 3885

Hon S.D. Ingham

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Hon S.D. Ingham


Rec 5 Dec 1829		1167
					Washington DC

Hon S. D. Ingham

	Sir
		Herewith enclosed the appli-
cation of Samuel Culver for your decision – As the
applicant is extremely anxious to learn its fate, I
have to request a decision as early as your 
convenience will permit.
	Your answer directed to the House of
Representatives will oblige
				Yours
[stamp - 			Thos. Maxwell 
The National			of New York
Archives of the United States]

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Letter from the
Secretary to Mr
Samuel Culver 
Dec 21st 1829

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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

Under the act entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and
Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution,” approved 15th may, 2828.

				TREASURY DEPARTMENT
				21 Dec 1829.
[stamp – The National Archives of the United States]

Sir:

	Your claim under the abovementioned act has been examined.  The act
provides for no other non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, than those
who enlisted in the Continental line for the war, and served until its termination.  It
appears by your declaration that you belonged 
to col Martins’ Regiment.  That Regiment not
being on the Continental establishment you
are not provided for by the act.

				I am, sir, very respectfully,
					Your obedient servant,

				S D Ingham [signature]
				Secretary of the Treasury.

Mr. Samuel Culver

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Samuel Culver
Declaration
12.988


Direct to the care
of James Robinson
agent.  Elmira
Tioga Co. N. York

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I Green M. Clerk of the Court of 
Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby cer-
tify that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings of the said court
in the matter of the application of
Samuel Culver for a pension –

In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand &
seal of office this 8th
day of Sept 1832

Green M. Tuthill [signature]

[stamp – The National Archives of the United States]

I Green M. Tuthill Clerk of the aforesaid
do hereby certify that the tape was 
affixed by me under my seal of office
above this 21st day of June 1833 with 
the addition of two papers only by the
certificate of J. Robinson and the 
letter of the Hon. Samuel D.  Ingham

Green M. Tuthill [signature]

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State of New York –  )
Tioga County ss.        )			[stamp – The National Archives of the United States]

Phineas Culver of the
Town of Elmira County and state
aforesaid aged Sixty five [six crossed out] years and
upwards being duly sworn doth depos
and say that he this deponent is a 
brother to Samuel Culver who is an
applicant for a Pension – That during 
the Revolutionary War this deponent well
recollects that his said brother Samuel
enlisted the service of the United States
in the year 1776 and he thinks in the early 
part of the year in the standing Troops 
of the Jersey Line and according to the 
best of his recollection under Co.
Ephraim Martin as it was so talked
of in the family and so understood
by them – that his said brother Samuel
was clothed in United States clothing
blue pants with red and that he
continued in the service from the 
Period above mentioned to the
close of the war – 

Phineas Culver [signature]

Sworn & subscribed 
before me this 5th
day of March 1834
by the said Phineas
Culver to me known
to be a credible witness
 WM Dunn [signature] J.P.

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Elmira May 10, 1839

[illegible]

Dear Sir I enclose you this application
because I had a conversation with you in the Winter
of 34’ on the subject of Culver’s application for a 
Pension – The only objection was in relation to Capt
Sharp who did not appear on the Rols of Martin’s
Regiment  I endeavored to explain it but perhaps
not satisfactory, in this way that in the onset of
the revolution Martin was a Militia officer and 
the rolls of that Service while he remained in command
of the Militia are not in the department now it may 
be in the office of the Secretary of State of New Jersey  I cannot
say – I intended to have had a full explanation
from the soldier himself after my return home that 
winter but he had gone on a visit to one of his
children about a hundred miles distance an never
returned as he died on the 23rd March of that year – The 
claim of his widow herewith prescuted  [sic] to the pay which
belonged to him from the 4th March 31 to 23rd March 34 
e years and 19 days rests wholly upon his title were he alive
and that title rests substantially upon service rendered
[cross out] under the then constituted Authorities – of this
there is on file with the case the evidence of two
witnesses who could not have had a better opportunity
to know had they been shoulder to shoulder with him in
the service – aside from his brother Phineas who might be
said to be under some degree of influence arising from
that connection there is the evidence of John Wain one
of the first Settlers of the vicinity a man of sterling integrity
sound head and good memory who testifies clearly and
knowingly to the services of this soldier and those
acquainted with this witness would consider it very
bold presumption to doubt his veracity – 

	I shall look for a speedy and favorable decision
in behalf of this widow – There can be no doubt on 
the subject

			I have the honor to be
			very respectfully 
			Your obedient servant 
			James Robinson

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1717


Revolutionary Claims

Treasury Department,
10 Dec 1829.

Samuel Culver – of Elmira – in the county of
Tioga – in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary 
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled “And act for the relief of certain surviving officers
and soldiers of the Revolution,” approved the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he enlisted in the
Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until it termination, at which period he was a Private – in captain
Sharps ‘s company inn Col Martins’ regiment of the new Jersey
line; and he received a certificate for the award of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the
15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list
of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March 1826, nothing

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the 
records in his office.

						By Order of the Secretary,
						F.A. Dickins [signature]

				Treasury Department,
				Third Auditor’s Office,
				11th December 1829

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been
issued to 

It further appears that Samuel Culver is not now on the pension
list of any agency, and has been so since the 3d. March 1826

at the rate of     dollars per month

The name of Samuel culver cannot 
be found among those of the New Jersey line
To whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty
Dollars were issued – 
			Peter Hagner [signature] Aud

(correct?)

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War Department
				Bounty Land Office
				Dec. 18. 1829

The name of Samuel Culver does not appear on 
the Records of the New Jersey line, on file in this office,
among those entitled to Bounty Land of the U. States,
or to whom a Warrant has issued

			Wm Gordon

[stamp – The National Archives of the United States]

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1777.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of
“An act for the relief of certain surviving officers
and solders of the Army of the Revolution:
approved on the 15th of May 1828 I Samuel
Culver of the Town of Elmira in the County 
of Tioga and State of New York do hereby
declare that I enlisted in the Continental
line of the Army of the Revolution for and
during the War, and continued in its service
until its termination; at which Period I was 
a Private in Captain Sharp’s Company in 
the Regiment commanded by Col. Ephraim
Martin of the New Jersey line. And I also
declare that I afterwards received a certificate
for the reward of eighty dollars to which
I was entitled under a resolve of Congress
[illegible] the 15th of May 1778.

And I further declare that I was not
on the 15th day of May 1828 on the
Pension List of the United States and
that his discharge and certificate have long
since been lost and destroyed

his X Samuel Culver [signature]

Subscribed this –
19th day of November
1829 before me – 
W Maxwell [signature] Justice of
the peace Trioga C N.Y.

[stamp – The National Archives of the United States]

State of New York )
Tioga County ss.    )   Personally appears this
day John Waier  - and Phineas Culver of the said
County who did severally make oath that
Samuel Culver by who the foregoing dec-
laration was subscribed is generally reputed
and believe to have been a private

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[handwritten]
in the Gemy of the Revolution in Maunes as therein stated - loitue [illegible] my hand this 27 - day of November in the year 1829
Mr. Maxwell Justue of The Peace

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[stamp  - The National Archives of the United States]

I hereby certify to the department
that the claimant knows of no
person whose testimony he can
procure to substantiate his claim
except traditionary evidence and
therefore with strong hopes of Justice
puts himself upon the mercy of 
the Government.  He would
also respectfully refer Wm Edwards
to his papers on file in the Treasury
department – which contain the evidence 
of two credible witnesses in addition
to that of the Clergyman and Wm
Maxwell annexed to this declaration
which all go strongly to confirm 
the validation of his service in the
Jersey State Troops.  He would
ask leave further to refer the 
department to the “Regulations
under the act of June 7, 1832,”
which say “the proof required
by Rule in Note [J] applies to 
continental troops only”.  The decision
of the late Secretary of the Treasury
is hereto appended to show that 
Col. Martin’s Regiment was considered
by the department as “not being 
on the Continental establishment”.
How far the decision of a co-depart-
ment may be deciding in the present

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case is not for me to say but should
think it entitled to high respect until
shown to be in correct and when 
that appears the claimant will
most certainly pursue up his appli-
cation under the act of the 15th May
1828; all of which is respectfully submitted
	I have the honor to be
	Sir, your obt. servant

	James Robinson [signature]

The Hon. 
James L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions

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Elmira Sept. 15 1834

Sir

     The case of Samuel Culver has been
suspended for some time for the reason
that the Regulations required evidence
     He now sends enclosed the best
and all the testimony he has been able
to procure and hopes it may prove 
satisfactory – that all of W. Waier is entitled
to as much consideration as that of any
witness who was not daily by the side of
the applicant in the service.  They grew
up together in the same neighborhood and
the witness was about 12 years of age
when the Revolution commenced.  The
other witness was not so old but of 
sufficient age to remember the facts 
of which he testifies and his situation at
the time enabled him to know and 
understand them.

     Having no doubts myself as to 
the genuineness of this old solder I am
induced to believe the department 
will give him a favorable decision
		I have the honor to be 
		Sir, very respectfully
		your obt. sevt.

		James Robinson [signature]

[stamp – The National Archives of the United States]

The Hon
J. L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions

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Elmira October 18, 1834

Sir,

	In answer to your letter of the
ninth instant in relation to the
claim of Samuel Culver I have 
to state that a decision is solicited
upon the case as it now stands
before the Present department.

	I have the honor to be
	Sir, very respectfully
	Your obt. servant
	
	J. Robinson

[stamp – The National Archives of the United States]


The Honorable
James L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions

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State of New York   )
Tioga County ss.     )      

Personally appeared
before me the Subscriber a Just of the
Peace in and for said County John Waier
of Southport in said County aged Seventy
years and upwards who being duly sworn
doth depose and say that he has been
acquainted with Samuel Culver of
Elmira since his earliest recollection – that
they are both natives of the State of 
New Jersey and were school children
together – that the said Samuel was 
a regular soldier in the Jersey line 
during the Revolutionary War as this
deponent always understood and believe 
the be true – that this deponent derides
his knowledge of the facts as well from 
his own distinct remembrance as from
information upon which he full relies

John Waeir [signature]

Sworn and subscribe
this 12th day of September
1834 by the said John 
Waier to me know to be
a credible witness
before me

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State of New York  )
Tioga County  ss.   )  
  
I Green M. Tuthill, Clerk of 
the said County do hereby certify that
William Dunn Esquire before whom the
foregoing affidavits of Phineas Culver and
John Waeir were sworn and subscribed
was at the date of the said affidavits
one of the Justices of the Peace in and for
said county – that I am well acquainted
with the hand writing (sic) of the said Justice
and know his signature subscribed to the said
affidavits to be genuine – 

Witness my hand and Seal of 
Office this 13th day of September 1834
 Green M. Tuthill [signature]

[square piece of paper affixed to the document which does not contain anything illegible]