Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9,684, for John Steelman, New Jersey

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(3-1776)

SERVICE 
New Jersey
Privateer

Steelman, John
Elizabeth

NUMBER
W. 9,684
B.L.Wt. 86.033 -160-55.

CONTENTS

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6.517 Increase
Indiana
Elizabeth Steelman
widow of John Steelman
who served in the Revolutionary war, N. J. as a Private

Inscribed on the Indianapolis Roll at the rate of 96 dollars ' ' cents per annum, to commence on the July 27 1868 Deds sub. (illegible)

Certificate of Pension issued 5th day of October 1868. and sent to Thos. M. Brown New ALbany Ind. Act of Feby. 3/53 & Act of July 27/68

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 227 Vol. H
Herman (illegible)

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Indiana 26567
John Steelman
of Floyd co. in the State of Indiana who was a private in the com commanded by Captain Smith of the  ________ commanded by _________ in the _____ line for 8 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of March 1834 and [illegible] John Carr [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of March 80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th September 13.33
$93.33
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 7 Page 127

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296.257
Widow's claim for bounty land under act of March 3rd 1855.

Elizabeth Steelman widow of John Steelman, dec'd. a private in Rev'y war from New Jersey.

Stotsenburg Brown Atty
New Albany
Indiana.

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to the said John Steelman in the City of New Albany, Indiana on the (10th) tenth day of October AD 1824, by one Lathrop Elderkin, a justice of the peace, and that her name before her said marriage was Elizabeth Smith. that her said husband died at Floyd County in the State of Indiana, on the 10th day of April AD (1836) Eighteen hundred and thirty six, and she has been ever since and is now the widow of him the said John Steelman. She further says that she thinks her husband guarded the sea shore in New Jersey with his Company and was out in the service two years at least, perhaps much longer. This is her recollection of his statements and she further says that her said husband prior to his death drew a Revolutionary pension for his services from the Government of the United States. How much he drew or for how long she does not remember. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act Approved "March 3rd 1855." She hereby [illegible] [illegible] Stotsenburg M. Brown of New Albany, Indiana, her attorneys, to prosecute her claim and procure her warrant Hereby authorizing them to obtain from the War Depart

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Additional Evidence in the matter of Mrs. Elizabeth Steelman the widow of John Steelman, deceased. a Private in the Rev'y War to obtain benefits of the Act of Congress of February 3rd 1853.

Proofs of marriage.

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State of Indiana
Floyd County, ss:
To any person legally authorized to solemnize the rites of matrimony in said county: You are hereby authorized to join together in the Honorable state of matrimony John Steelman and Elizabeth Smith, for which this shall be your authority. Given under my hand  as Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county, at New Albany, this
Harvey Scribner, Clerk.

I, L. Elderkin certify that on the ________
I did join together the within mentioned parties in the honorable state of matrimony.
L. Elderkin, J.P.

State of Indiana
Floyd County ss.
I Salem P. Town, Clerk of the Floyd Circuit Court which is a Court of record, do hereby certify the above and foregoing to be a full true and complete copy of the marriage license of John Steelman and Elizabeth Smith and also of the return of L. Elderkin J.P. endorsed thereon as the same appears of record in said Court with the exception of the date of the marriage

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license, which is expressed in the record in faci and legible figures as follows: "9th day of October 1824." and with the exception also of the date of the return of L. Elderkin J.P. which is expressed on the record in faci and legible figures as follows: "10th day of Oct. 1824." All in exact conformity with the original. In testimony thereof I have herewith let my hand and the seal of said Court at New Albany in said County and State the eighth day of December AD 1858.

State of Indiana
Floyd County ss.
I, Salem P. Town, above named do depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk of the Floyd Circuit Court in the City of New Albany County of Floyd and state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the record of said Court, with the exceptions above named as certified by me.
Salem P. Town.
Subscribed and Sworn to before me on this 10th day of December AD 1858
Jared C. [illegible] (Seal)
Justuice of the Peace

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State of Indiana
Floyd County SS.
On this tenth day of December AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight personally appeared before me David W. Lafollette, the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Floyd County Indiana, which is a Court of record, Elizabeth Steelman, a resident of the City of New Albany in the said County of Floyd and State of Indiana, aged fifty five years and upwards, who being just duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the "Act of Congress" passed February 3rd 1853. that she is the widow of John Steelman who was a private soldier in the war of the Revolution and served therein she thinks for at least two years and upwards, and that his said services were performed in the State of New Jersey' he was paid in money of no value; was honorably discharged, and served somewhere on the Sea Coast of New Jersey. She speaks of these matters as facts impressed of on her memory from conversations with him, her said husband, in his life=time. She doesn't know the Captains name or those of any of the Officers. That he was in his life=time a Pensioner of the United States, she thinks under aAn Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.

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29.964
John Steelman

John Carr
Indiana

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Hon John Carr
In Congress
City Washington

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86.033

160 Acres

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Indianapolis

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wife, Elizabeth or "Betsy" outlived him and for a time drew a pension. Abraham Brown was second husband to Abigal Steelman, daughter of John Steelman, and also served in the Revolutionary War. I have no further information in regard to him. I thank you for any information concerning these men, as it will be of use in establishing an ancestral line.
Yours very truly,
Kate E. Roe.

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RECORD DIVISION
APR 25 1921

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John Steelman: was private- as follows
Capt. J. Smith's Co. 3rd Bat.
Capt. J. Somer Co 3rd Bat.
Capt. J Somer Co 3rd Bat.
Capt. William Price's Co. 3rd Bat.
Gloucester Co. N.J. militia
& Capt. James Hollingshead's
Co. Cumberland Co. N.J. militia
& in privatier Black Jack, Capt. Enoch Willetts. All during Rev. war.

If any of these men [illegible] a pension for their service in this war Kindly send me such genealogical

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Data to appear in record.
[illegible]
William M. Clevenger

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U. S. PENSION OFFICE 
D JUL 7 1913

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Atlantic City N.J.
July 1-1919

Pension Office:
Washington D. C.
Kindly furnish me with a concise statement of the Military history so far shown by the records shown in your office of t Lt. James Tomlinson, born 1735, died 1811. From Cumberland Co. N.J.
(*none at all in files)
Also the history of John Steelman first Private, later Captain of the Gloucester Militia. He was born prior to 1735 died 1796, he was born in Gloucester Co. N.J. I wish this record to join a patriotic society.

Thanking you for your trouble, in looking this history up. 
Miss Rose Fenton
34 N. Missouri Ave.,
Atlantic City
N.J.

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1913 July 9. History to William M. Clevanger.¢
1919 July 10: History to Rose Fenton and
1921 May 13 Hist. to Kate E. Roe.

Revy. WIDOW, &c.

File No. 9684
Elizabeth Steelman
Wid
John Steelman
Privt. Rev. War

Act: February 3rd 1853.
Index:--Vol. M, Page 243
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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 New Albany, Indiana
December 9th 1858.

Hon Genl. Whiting
Commissioner
Dear Sir,
We send for filing &"n examination the Bounty Land declaration of Mrs. Elizabeth Steelman, widow of John Steelman, Revolutionary Soldier, under Act of March 3rd 1855.
Very respectfully
Stolsenberg Brown