Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4524, Anthony Tunison, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Turison, Anthony Susanna
N. 4524
CONTENTS

3698
Pennsylvania
Susanna Tarnisen,
widow of
Anthony Tarnisen die,
who died in the year 1793.
Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a Sergeant in the Comp: commanded by Captain Jackson of the Regt: commanded by Col. Hampton in the Pennsylvania line for 7 months:
inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia Pa the rate of 35 Dollars per per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1837.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of April 1842 and sent to C. J. Jack Philadelphia Penn:
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '41 $ 367.50
Pemi=annual allowance ending March '42 } 17.50
385.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the }
Recorded by Theodore T. Smith Clerk, Vol. - 3.
Agent notified let: 20 May 1842 to C. J. Jack
Hon: John C. Spencer Sep. 20: '42 " " C. J. Jack Oct. 3: '42 " " Same Jan'y 9: '43 Copy of paper sent to same Mar 11. 1843.
Levi G. Clark Phila. Sep. 23/51.

5534
My Susannah Tunnison Cash of Anthony
pa July 4. 1836 Sus. Tunnison.
5.534.
on roll A. page 30 paid to Nov 1783 8120. page 43. gratuity $80.
Service to June 1783. paid to Nov 1783 for one year Service from Nov 1782 to June 1783 = 7 mos.
C. J. Jackson
Feb 19. 1842

State of Pennsylvania S.S.
On the 12 th day of February, A.D. 1842. Personally appeared in Open Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia Before the Honorable Edward King President Judge of the said Court Mrs. Susanna Tunison a resident of the said City aged Eighty five Years and upwards who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th . 1836 That she is the widow of Antony Tunison who was an Orderly Sergeant in the Pennsylvania Line in Captain Jackson's Company and that one of the Officers was Adjutant Pearcy and that the Colonel's name was Hampton and she believes it was called the Second Regiment and that her husband served for One Year after their Marriage and she always understood that he served during the war of the Revolution That she has no records or papers of any kind in relation to her husband's service That she was married to the said Antony Tunison on the twenty first day of August in the year 1782 in the City of Philadelphia and whilst her said husband was in the said service by the Reverend John Ewing D.D. of the First Presbyterian Church of said City and that many Years ago her certificate of Marriage was sent to England in relation to the discharge of her son from the British Naval Service where he had been impressed. That her said husband died in the City of Philadelphia in the Year 1793 That she has always remained his widow never having been married to any other person.
Sworn and Subscribed Before Me in Open Court as aforesaid.
Feby 12 1842 T. D. Smith for the
Susanna her mark Tunison.

Personally appeared in Open court on this 12 th day of February A. D. 1842 Mary Latté who being duly sworn says that she is well acquainted with the said Susanna Tunison and that she has always been a woman of Credit and respectability and worthy of belief.
Sworn and subscribed before me } in open Court Feby 12 1842 T. D. Smith Jurat
her Mary Latté Mark
I certify that it has been duly proved before me that the within Susanna Tunison is a woman of truth and veracity and worthy of belief. & that her declaration was made in open Court - Witness my hand. this 12 th Feby 1842 Edward King President Judge 1 st Dist 1 st C
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County S.S.
I Samuel Hart Esqr. Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do. certify that the Honorable Edward King Esqr. by whom the foregoing Certificate and Attestation were made and given and whom his own proper handwriting has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing and now is President of the first Judicial District of Pennsylvania and presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Orphan's Court and Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for said County duly commissioned and qualified to all whose acts as such full faith and credence are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Judicature as thereout.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Philadelphia this 12 th day of February 1842.
S. Hart Protho

Second Regiment. 1783
We and each of us whose names are hereunto subscribed, do acknowledge to have received from Major Thomas B. Brown and Captain Emeric Beatty Agents for the late Pennsylvania Line, the several sums opposite to our names respectively, in certificates, dated July 1 st 1784. bearing interest at six per cent. from November the fourth 1783 signed by John Pierce Commissioner, and described as below, being for the balance of a Settlement between the United States and us for pay to November 3 rd 1783
   Date of issue No of certificate Letter Names Sums Signers   Dollars 90 th     Aug t 16 th 1786 73.044 G John Brown 110. 80 Isaac Franks   August 10 th 1786 73.045 R. Anthony Tunison 120. ~ Susanah X Butler   " 9 th " 73.046 R Thomas Wallace 61. ~ Thos s Wallace  
Auditor General's Office of Penn te . February 5 th 1842
I certify that the foregoing is a correct abstract and copy of the original on record in this department in Payroll Book A. Page 30 In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & seal of Office
Geo. R. Corley Auditor Gen l

American Consulate } LONDON.
I, WILLIAM LYMAN, Consul of the United States of America for London, and the Dependencies thereof, Do hereby make known, and certify, to all whom it may concern, that Philip Tunison of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, United States aforesaid , Mariner, and a Citizen of the said States, hath been discharged from his Britannic Majesty's Ship Theseus — in consequence of my application to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for that purpose, dated the Twenty Ninth Day of June Ultimo.
The said Philip Tunison is Twenty three years of age is five feet seven inches high, has a high forehead, grey eyes, common nose, large mouth, round chin, round face, brown hair dark complexion, and is marked with the Small Pox, the letters P.T. in Indian Ink on the left Arm & both Ears are bored.
Given under my Hand and Official Seal in London aforesaid, this First day of August in the Year of our Lord 1811, and of the Independence of the said United States the Thirty Sixth.
W. Lyman Consul of the United States, Henry Dickinson, Chanc. Not.

I certify that I find the following Record of Marriage in a Book kept by the Reverend John Ewing D.D. Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia
"Anthony Tunis on, to Susanna Deane" and that it is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures, as follows: " 1782. Aug. 21. " "Seventeen hundred and eighty two. August twenty first."
Attest
Albert Barnes.-
Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia.
I Albert Barnes above named, depose and say: that I hold the office of Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in the city of Philadelphia aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Albert Barnes.-
Sworn to and subscribed before me. } Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. this 12 th day of February AD 1842
Armon Davis Notary Public Pennsylvania Philadelphia County } G.
J. Samuel Hart Esq.
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do Certify that Armon Davis Esq: before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and who in his own proper hand-writing has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing and now is an alderman in and for the City of Philadelphia and ex Officio a Justice of

The Peace duly commissioned and qualified to all whose acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Jurisdiction as elsewhere.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Philadelphia this 14 th February 1842.
S. Hart Crothoutary

Very WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4524
Luanna Tunison
Wid.
Anthony Tunison
Sergt.
Act: July 19/86.
Index:—Vol. M , Page 285
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3698
5- acts - 4 July 1826

Letter from Secretary of War In reply to the Resolution of March 7. 1780
James
Shirley.
Mr. G. J. Jack.
10/11

Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth Harrisburg March 10. /42
Mr. C. J. Jacks
Sir:-
Your favour of yesterday's date has been received. The Resolution to which you refer, to-wit: that of March 7. 1780. is not in this office. The only place where you could find it, would be in the Journal of the Assembly of that date - our office not affording the Journal we are unable to furnish you with the copy you desire. Most probably in some of the Philad a libraries you would come across it.
I am very respectfully
Yours &c.
A. V. Parsons Secretary of the Commonwealth

Susanna Tison Pa
Act 4 July 1836
Capt. Triplett

Pension Office, Sept. 23, 1851.
Sir,
In compliance with your request, the case of Susanna Tunnion has been examined, and you are informed that she is not entitled to an increase of her stipend under the Act of March 3 d 1837. That act has exclusive reference to soldiers who performed actual service until the 3 d day of November 1783. The actual service rendered by Anthony Tunnion, as shown by the Records, was only seven months, viz: from Nov. 1782 to June 1783, the period at which he, with all other war's men, was discharged from duty, tho' not discharged until the 3 d of Nov. 1783. The fact of his having been paid until the period of his being discharged, is not such evidence of service, as is required by the previous laws, and offers no grounds for increase. This view of this case has been sustained on an appeal to the Hon John C. Spencer, when Secretary of War.
Very Respectfully,
Your Obedt. Servt.
John Nelson
for Comr of Pensions
Geo. M. Phillips, Esq. Present. ✓

Fees $1.25 paid by Mr. McCormick

Second Regiment. Gratuity
We and each of us whose names are hereunto subscribed, do acknowledge to have received from Major Thomas B. Bowen, and Captain Erevious Blatty, Agents for the late Pennsylvania Line, the several sums opposite to our names respectively, in certificates, dated July 1, 1784, bearing interest at six per cent. from November the fourth 1783; signed by John Pierce, commissioner, and described as below, being for Balance of a settlement between the United States and us for Gratuity allowed to the non commissioned officers and privates.
   Date of issue no. of certificate letter Names Sums Signers   Dollars cents     August 16 th 1785 73.141 B John Brown 80. .. J. Franks   " 10 th " 73.142 C Anthony Tunnison 80. .. Susanna Butler   " 9 th " 73.143 D Thomas Wallace 80. .. Thos Wallace  
Auditor General's Office of Penns a Harrisburg May 11 th 1822
I certify that the foregoing is a correct abstract copy of the original on file in this department. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office.
J. T. Zacher Auditor General

Second Regiment. 1783.
We and each of us whose names are hereunto subscribed, do acknowledge to have received from Major Thomas B. Bowen, and Captain Ercius Beatty Agents for the late Pennsylvania Line the several sums opposite to our names respectively, in certificates, dated July 1, 1784, bearing interest at six per cent, from November the fourth 1783 signed by John Pierce, commissioner, and described as below, being for the Balance of a settlement between the United States and us for pay to November 3 rd 1783
   Date of issue No of certificates letter Names Sums Signer   Dollars 90 th     August 16 th 1785 17. B.H.H. A John Brown 40. 80 Isaac Franks   " 10 th , " " 5 P Anthony Tunison 120. -- Swanax Butler   " 9 th " " " 6 R. Thomas Wallace 61. -- Thos Wallace  
Auditor General's Office of Pennyl a Harrisburg May 11 th 1842
I certify that the foregoing is a correct abstract copy of the original on file in this department. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office  J. M. Packer Auditor Genl l

Ms. A. 9. 2. 42 P. 6
J. L. Edwards Esquire Commission of Pardon Washington

J L Edwards Esq Dr Sir
Anticipating Your desire for a copy of the Res- olution of March 7. 1780. I wrote to an acquaint- ance of S. State for a certified copy to forward. You in Mrs Susanna Townsend case, and I know he done You his utmost. I will be in town tomorrow to send You the Resolution if it can be found in extenso with the best evidence I can procure of its genuineness - and fidelity
Philada March 12. 1842
Yours etc L. J. Satch

Pension Office. Sep: 20. 1842
G. W. Crump
Report in the case of appeal of C. J. Jack upon Mrs Susanna, widow of Anthony Tennison's claim.
J. 158. Pension Office
The review of Mr Crump's claim entirely satisfactory and conclusive - The presumption that Tennison had served previously to his being rated as a Sergeant, can not deserve that character as a piece of evidence. It might strengthen however previous proof, but in itself is no proof whatever.
Sept 29. 1842
J. C. Spencer

Pension Office September, 20: 1842.
Sir,
I have the honor to return you the letter of Mr Jack appealing from the adjustment which has been made of the pension of Susanna Garrison, and in obedience to your orders, submit the following report.
This claim was asserted for service in the Pennsylvania Line without any knowledge of claimant respecting her husband's service prior to August 1782 when she was married to him and without any testimony respecting the period or other circumstances of his enlistment. The claim derived its whole support from the records, and Mr Jack relies exclusively upon the records and his references therefrom to sustain this application for a greater allowance.
The first record upon which he relies is the final settlement certificate for his pay of $ 120 from 11 November 1782 to 11 November 1783. All the Units were discharged from duty between 11 and 10 th June, 1783 subject to be recalled if the settlement of Peace should prove fallacious. Although they were

paid up to the disbandment on 4 th November 1783. The Certificate can be computed for actual service only which agreeably to this record as far as it goes, was from November 1782 to June 1783, or 7 months. The other records (Bounty Land and $80 gratuity which her husband received) do not shew that he was in service at any other time than the above 7 months; they were given in consideration of his enlistment for the War, and would have been received even if his service after enlistment had been less than the minimum provision of the Act of 7 th June 1832. Unsustained by parol proof or even definite narrative, as the service is, the allowance has been limited to the record evidence. When other service is claimed, it is incumbent upon the claimant who asserts it, to specify it and adduce the requisite proof. In this case, the records afford no evidence of payment for her husband's service in the 2 d Regiment prior to November 1782, and agreeably to a long established rule it requires two witnesses to rebut the presumption raised by the silence of the rolls in relation to an alleged service.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obed. Ser:
John C. Cushing
Hon: John C. Spencer Secretary of War.

J L Colbourn 63 years
Dear Sir
I am again requested by the Bureau of Pensions by Garrison to call your attention to her case as it now stands. The Pension Certificate only gives her the pension of $35 per annum - they must be as clear this date in amount . Supposing you are cor- rect as to the service being Seven Months and this is the service she is allowed for . The pay of a Sergeant being $120 a Year or $10 per Month. She is therefore clearly entitled to a pension of $70 a Year from the 1st March 1831. I know I need only mention this to you to have it corrected, as it is a very apparent mis-take. The ordinary soldiers received $8. per Month but my Garrison is only allowed for 7 months at half pay! Had Mr. Garrison been alive he would clearly have been entitled to $70 a Year allowing $60 per Month for Seven Months the act of 1836. May the widow shall receive the an- nuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband by virtue of the act aforesaid if living at the time it was passed . I have done the pension Certificate and pray you to correct it and direct the agent to pay her the difference -
Yours etc G
C. J. Jack
Philada Dec 9. 1842

John
Mar 16 1842
Pa.
W. Edward's Esquire Commissary of Customs Washington see

I hope that I have made diligent search for the Resolution of March 7. 1780 of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania relating to donations made to the officers and soldiers of the Pennsylvania Line and I have been unable to find it in any private library or in any compilation of laws of said State. But at the great search I found the same in two books of the Philadelphia Library viz - "Minutes of the General Assembly" and "Journal of the Assembly" and that the text here made is exactly the same in both books - viz -
March 7. 1780 -
The House took up the consideration of the quantity of bales to be allowed to the officers and privates belonging to this State - In the Federal Army whereupon the following allowances were resolved viz -
  For A Major General  2000 bales    " " Brigadier General  1500 "    " " Colonel  1000 "    " " Lieutenant Colonel  750 "    " " A Surgeon  600 "    " " A Major  600 "    " " A Chaplain  600 "    " " A Captain  500 "    " " A Lieutenant  400 "    " " An Ensign  300 "    " " A Sergeant & Mat  300 "    " " A Sargeant  250 "    Every Private -  200 " - "  
And this is the whole of said Resolution -
C. J. Jackson

I L 6 March 602 the Sir
In reply to the Resolution of March 7. 1880 I have had a most laborious search - I send it to You - it only provided for those then in the Army - It is likely of course that Anthony Jenkinson must have been in at that time & the more he would not have been so killed - I hope as "the labour is worthy of his hire" that as I have taken such pains to remove all doubt on this subject that You will find him the Person entitled for my Jenkinson for the full term as soon as convenient
Philad a March 14. 1882
And Sir
Yours etc
C. S. Peabody

Mar 25. 1842
pa. J. L. Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions has living two llg

Th Sir
I have received Your favor relating to Mrs. Susanna In- graham's Claim - and I confess I am a little perplexed by it - Her Claim is for a full pension - You say that the time her time does not refer to the time of service - Let us examine it and see if this be so - what was its object? To provide for the officers and soldiers of our state, then in the Federal Army - when? why at the date of its passage. March 7. 1780! - It was meant for them and only them and none other - It had no reference to inducing men to enlist in the Army after that time - It had but a single object, and that was to provide for those in the actual service of the state - not those who came in subsequent to - Again You say, "It is shown by Record evidence that he has already received $120 pay then up to November 1783. which for a sergeant is over three years pay " Yet You say, "He was an enlisted soldier during the war, and those who were so enlisted were discharged as for length in June 1783. His actual service as provided by the records, was then for about three months! - Now they would not have paid him for the time he was on for length, that is very clear - Yet they do pay him for a three years service! - again, You over look the fact stated in the hand sent - If You examine it, You will find that

exact words - "Bearing for a balance of a settlement between the United States and me for pay to November 3, 1783." There is no doubt an error. That payment had been made to the Sergeant before, as this purports to be " for a balance of a settlement " - now I need hardly remark that balance means in common parlance the remainder . What remains then, after what has been paid - I am sure, your attention is closely engrossed by the great extent of your labor against only to be called, to the phraseology of this Record to see it in its true light - again - To admit, the truth of your former position, that Mr. Dennis had received pay for this whole period as a Sergeant, and that this was in fact but seven months would establish a singular fact in the Military Disziplin and organization of that day - and as all other experience is against it, admits as I am ready to admit you are in your knowledge of the subject, I cannot agree to this - I am determined to prove as I assert, that no man in that day or this, in actual regular service was entitled the moment he is listed a Sergeant ! Your own experience May dear Sir, is against this! It is only the faithful term serving, and qualified Sol- dier who attains this rank, after having their service and been tried . No fresh man, just entered into the line reaches in a

Single day, such a post. and yet to this extreme point. You would be willing to sustain the grounds taken up by your argument upon all these grounds. I respectfully stand out for the full position. In the mean
time, I will be down, to secure the proof. if possible - and as the method is like all of them, poor, aged and troublesome. I am sure if you can find practicable attention -
Very truly Yours J. J. Sachse
Phila d a

5534
Susanna Tunison of Anthony Pennsylvania
Admitted
Sergt. 7 ms. p 35. - Capt Jackson Col. Hampton, Pa
died - 1793
Act 11 July 1836
b. 9 Jack. Philadelphia

Herewith John C. Spence
Gettysburg at home
Washing time. S.H.

Honorable J. C. Spencer Secretary of War. Sir
I am urged by the friends of Mrs. Susanna A. Tuckerson widow of the late Anthony Tuckerson who was a Sergeant in the Revolution to respectfully bring her case before You for reconsideration. The circumstances are these. The proof produced by Mrs. Tuckerson proved that her husband belonged to the Perrywaunee Line and received $120 for a Years pay as a Sergeant in said line. It was further proved that he received 250 Acres of Land from the State of Perrywaunee for his services as a Sergeant and a gratuity of $80 for services to the end of the war; they showing that he was a long serving and efficient public servant being recognized as not only deserving of promotion, but of reward. Yet in the face of these incontrovertible facts, derived from the public records, Mr. Edwards refuses to allow her the pension to which she is I believe entitled under the act of July 4. 1836. He refuses to allow her for more than 7 Months Service and makes her pension $35 a Year! as I have already said in reference to Mr. Edwards, I believe him altogether actuated by a desire to faithfully serve the United States, in what he views as a public office. Yet the analogy are very injurious to the

Glaiming because of the rigid discipline he met with. In this case it must be apparent that he is wrong. No man was ever made at that day a sergeant in the army the first thing he entered it. The presumption on the contrary, is that he served some time as a private and then was promoted by pay. Loyalty and gentility, all clearly establish the character and countenance of his services I hope that you will give her case that she can draw a pension to which she is entitled, and half rations. She has long desired a pension or a watch a pension. She has already offered to accept through you, the value of a year's pay, and I hope Sir, that to this extent her pension will be increased.
Phila del Sept 15 1842
Yours obedtly C. S. Jacobs

Philadelphia, Septem 18. 1842
C. J. Jack appeals from the de- cision of the Com: Pensions on the claim of Susanna, widow of Anthony Finison.
J. 108 Rec Septem 19. 1842 Pension Office report.
into

PAID
Isaac R. Lewis 50
G. J. Jack Esq. Philadelphia
For the New Jersey and Coll

Extract from the Donation Land book
   Date Names and Rank N o acres     1787 October 12. Anthony Tunison 250  
Extract
from a return of the Pennsylvania line entitled to Donation lands, reported by the late Comptroller General
   Names Rank Regiment N o acres     Tunison Anthony Sergeant D. Penn a 250 Chawn  
Pennsylvania, S s . I hereby certify the above and foregoing to be true extracts from the records remaining in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said office, at Harrisburg, this 7th day of March 1842.
Edm. W. Nutter "Dep y . Sec y ."

In the Matter of the Claim of Mrs Susanna Jimison for a Pension.
Personally appeared Before me the subscriber One of the Aldermen and by office a Justice of the Peace, in and for the City of Philadelphia. Mrs Mary Latta to her being duly qualified according to Law saith That She is personally well acquainted with the said Susanna Jimi- son from the fact of being her Daughter in Law, that Depo- nent was married to Phillip Jimison, the Son of the said Susanna Jimison (who had been discharged from the Na- val Service of Great Britain, in the Year 1811.) and the Marriage took place in the Year 1812. That Deponent was acquainted with the said Susanna before the return of her Son, as here tofor stated. That She was acquainted with the Daughter of the said Susanna Jimison, before the return of her said husband and from her intimacy and connection in said Family knows, that the said Susanna Jimison is the Identical mother of the said Anthony Jimison of the Revolutionary Army - of the Penn- sylvania Line - That Deponent after the death of her said husband Phillip Jimison, married again to Lewis Latta her present husband. Deponent has now in her possession the original discharge of her said husband from the Service aforesaid, and the original petition to him given before his imprisonment in the British Service, and the original Antipets of Marriage between her, and the said Phillip Jimison - all which She has hereunto exhibited to the said Alderman -
Sworn to and Subscribed Before this Thine
Day of March 1842
Norman Dyer Alderman
Mary his Latta mark

I certify that it has been duly proved Before me that Mary Latta in them named is a woman of true and lawful age worthy of belief upon her oaths and that the only exhibit to her, their original papers viz. The original discharge of Philip Tomison from on board the British Ship Thesens. - The original Protection of the said Phil- ip, and the original Certificate of marriage between the said Mary and the said Philip Tomison. do both the said day of July 1832 - in the presence of my hand this third day of March 1842 -
Armon Davis (Seal) Attestor.
Pennsylvanian Philadelphia County } ss.
J. Samuel Heart Esq. Pro- thonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do Certify that Armon Davis Esq. by whom the afore- going Certificate and attestations were made and given and whom his own proper hand (writing) has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time so doing and now is an alderman in and for the City of Philadelphia and an Official Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified to all whose acts in such full faith and Credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Philadelphia this 4th. day of March 1842. J. Hart (Seal)

Personally appeared before me one of the Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia Catherine Buckley aged about Seventy one Years who being duly sworn according to Law says that She was personally acquainted with Anthony Jimison a Revolutionary Soldier of the Penna Key Stone Line in his lifetime - and She was also well acquainted with his wife Susanna the present applicant for a Pension from the United States - That said Man and wife lived in the house with the Deponent about six months previous to his decease, that Deponent attended the funeral of the said Anthony Jimison and knows that he left her the said Susanna with two Children, viz Phillip and Mary. said Susanna with two Children, viz Phillip and Mary. as a widow - That Deponent has known her ever since that time which was in the Year 1793 - That from all these circumstances She is satisfied that the present applicant is the Identical widow of the said Anthony Jimison - She also knows that Phillip Jimison her son married Mary Latta whom a petition is herewith annexed after his return from England and being in the British Naval Service -  Sworn to and subscribed before me this Thirteenth day of March Simon Dous  Catherine Buckley her mark -
I certify that it has been duly proved before me that Catherine Buckley above named is a credible person to the best of belief upon her oath, in presence hereof this Thirteenth day of March A.D. 1842 Simon Dous Alderman

Garrison March 7. 1842
Sir
I believe you will find all the information the Department here can afford to establish the service of Anthony Harrison during the Revolutionary war; I am told by the clerk, that if you refer to the act of Assembly granting Donation Lands, it will show that he must have served more than two years to have entitled him to the Land he drew.
Very respectfully
J. Edgar

M rs Susannah Garrison Power of Attorney
1818
100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
State of Tennessee
1825

Know all men by these Presents, That I Susannah Tunison of Philadelphia County  City State of Pennsylvania a pensioner of the United States, and widow of Anthony Tunison, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents, do make, constitute and appoint George M Phillips of the City of Washington D.C. my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name, and for my use and benefit, to prosecute before the proper Department at Washington, any claim I may have for pension, arrear of pension or increase of pension, under any law of the United States, or decision of the proper authorities thereof, and to ask, demand and receive from the proper officer of the United States, a certificate or certificates for that which may be found due me; authorizing and empowering my Attorney herein named, to take and adopt all such steps as may be lawful and necessary for this purpose; hereby revoking and annulling any and all Powers of Attorney I may have heretofore given for the like purpose and ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do by virtue of these presents. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 27 th day of April in the year one Thousand Eight Hundred and forty Seven
Susannah her Tunison mark
In presence of Robert E. Schuuten
State of Pennsylvania
County of City of Philadelphia, ss.
Be it known that on this Twenty seventh day of April 1847, before the Subscriber, a Alderman of the Peace in and for the County  City aforesaid, personally appeared Susannah Tunison above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned
Robert E. Schuuten Ald. Justice of the Peace and Ex Officio a

Washington, July 11. 1851
Sir
Believing that the Act of 3 d March, 1831, fully covers the claim of Mrs Susannah Tarrison (a Pensioner under the Act of 1836, for Pennsylvania) for Increase of Pension, I have respectfully to request that you cause the same to be re-examined.
I enclose you herewith the Power of Attorney from Mrs Tarrison, authorizing me to act on her behalf
I am
Very Reply
Yours Geo M Phillips
J. S. Heath, Esq. Board of Pensioners

Hon. J. L. Edwards. Sir,
Washington City, D. C. 29 th October, 1847,
Enclosed I send you the declaration of Mrs. Susannah Tarrison (Widow of Anthony Tarrison), now in the receipt of a Pension under the "act of 1836," claiming an increase of Pension, as she believes her said Husband served a greater length of time than that for which she now receives a pension. I also send you a Certificate from the Auditor Genl. of Pennsylvania
Respectfully, G. A. Peugh

Second Regiment 1783.
We and each of us whose Names are hereunto subscribed, do acknowledge to have received from Major Thomas B. Bowen, and Captain Mercurius Beatty, Agents for the late Pennsylvania Line, the several sums opposite to our Names respectively, in Certificates, dated July 1. 1784, bearing Interest at Six per Cent. from November the fourth 1783 signed by John Pierce, Commissioner, and described as below, being for the Balance of a settlement between the United States and us for Pay to November 3 d 1783.
   Date of Issuance No. of Certificates Letter Names Sums Signers   Dollars 90 th     Aug. 10 th 73.045 Fx Anthy. Tunison 25 120 " Susanah X Butler  
Second Regiment Gratuity.
We and each of us whose Names are hereunto subscribed, do acknowledge to have received from Major Thomas B. Bowen, and Captain Mercurius Beatty, Agents for the late Pennsylvania Line, the several sums opposite to our Names respectively, in Certificates, dated July 1. 1784, bearing Interest at six per cent. from November the fourth 1783 signed by John Pierce, Commissioner, and described as below, being for the Balance of a settlement between the United States and us for Gratuity allowed to the Noncommissioned Officers & Privates.
   Date of Issuance No. of Certificates Letter Names Sums Signers   Dollars 90 th     Aug. 10 th 73.412 Cx Anthony Tunison 25 80 " Susanah X Butler  
Auditor General's Office } Harrisburg 25 th Oct r 1847. }
I certify the above to be true extracts, taken from the original pay roll on file in this department, pertaining to the revolutionary war. Witness my hand and seal of office, the day and date aforesaid.
Wm. A. Purvis Aud t Genl.

claim ad vert no answer required
Rev J. G. Edwards Esq. Ten in Seven of Shurton Wootton Bassett
MS. A. 11. 42
10/1/2

J L Richards Esq
Dear Sir,
My Friend sent to me to day to say that she is much in want and hoped I had received her Pension for the last - I hope then (if it has not been done already) that you will send her the sum by return of Mail -
Yours truly
C. J. Sacke
Philada April 8. 1842

June 4. 1842
to J. L. Edwards Esquire from Miss Anne of Pembina Washington D.C.

J L Edwards Esq
Mr Sir,
Mr May had the Pension Certificate for my Pension for the Staten Island . It however has not been able to issue from the Records at Harrisburg a longer period. I presume it will be hereafter allowed - please do so by Mr Cook's convenience as the old lady is in a suffering state -
Yours truly
C. J. Sackley
Philadelphia April 2. 1842

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Dear Sir,
The friends of my Anthonny Dennis are dissatisfied with the pension paid her by the Government. She alleges that he has served five years in the Service and the presumption is very strong, that such was the fact. I have urged her claim to a full pension but in consequence of her very nearly sitting a trial, I am entitled to take the pension for the 9th month only $35 per annum. I have checked for the amount at Harrisburg among the Records and My friend there has sent me the enclosed evidence giving to her that Anthonny Dennis and he has been received in addition to the pay due him to the time of his discharge. a quantity of $80. I understand that gratuities were only granted to those who had been five years in the Service. It clearly appears that Anthonny Dennis must have been more than five years in the Service to which the pension has been allowed. The effectiveness of the pay roll in our State should not be allowed to work to the disadvantage of the claimant. Her in full due claim proof

of Tammann having been paid for the years full service as a Sergeant and of his having been also paid a gratuity by the State for long and honorable service and that his pension is only allowed 7 months pension. I respectfully ask upon the additional proof herewith sub. that his pension may be increased to the full amount.
In the much respect
Phila May 16. 1842
Yours affecly
C. J. Jacob
By Reference to the act of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed March 1. 1850. it appears, that this gratuity was given only to those Officers & Soldiers who were in actual service on the 13 th day of March last and shall continue therein until the end of the present war or till honorably discharged and in case the action it says - "no officer or soldier of the army shall be entitled to the benefits and advantages aforesaid unless it appears by returns to be made every three months, that such person shall continue in time in the Federal Army" on the act for the more effectual supply and honorable reward of the Pennsylvania Troops in the service of the United States - under this act it is apparent that Tammann would not have obtained this gratuity unless he had been in the Army on the 13 th March 1850. nor unless he had remained in it until the close of the war. The service if they fully proved of a period

he telling my Friends to a full portion of N. J. J.

Mar 28 1842
for J. G. Edwards Esquire Commissaire of Pensions Washington
Mr. Edwards required per let 26 March

J. L. Edmund Esq
Dear Sir,
Although I am satisfied that Mr. Anthon's In- vitation would have been then  more in the service of his history as my friend and at present useful for money. I am instructed by him to accept as a  con- promise a residence for one  year  service . This I further will give him $60 a year. I hope my dear Sir after the argument I adduced you, on this subject, that you will think this reasonable and send me the certificate, without delay.
Philadelphia
March 26. 1842.
Yours M c
J. L. Jackson

J L Edwards Esquire
Dear Sir,
I have now the pleasure to forward you with this the further evidence desired in my Governor's Decree in the case - and that is, the most undoubted evidence of the identity as the widow of Anthony Jennison possible to be procured. viz - the daughter in Law, Mary Leith, & also of a son in Buckley, who lived in the same house, was at the funeral, and had known her since 1793 - This I presume is all sufficient - I also enclose the certificate of the Secretary of State, showing that the said Anthony Jennison held the rank of a sergeant, and drew 250 acres of land on the resolution of the General assembly of Pennsylvania of March 7. 1780 - I also enclose Mr. McGrath's letter which shows that the said Anthony Jennison has obtained the 250 acres of land, must have served more than two years - as part of his letter referred to is a totally different subject. I cut it off and only enclose that which has a bearing on this subject - as there are most full and satisfactory proofs. I hope you will do me the favor to transmit Mr. the certificate of Pension as speedily as possible -
Yours etc 5
C. J. Bicknell
This certificate also establishes his rank - as a sergeant - for which of course she will be allowed

Mar 8. 1843
Ms. A. 1. 6 v. 1 p. 8
Edward, Esquire Commissaire of Customs Washingdon Sq

J. L. Blackwell, Esq.
I have the kindness to send the copies of the papers of Mrs. Garrison Stanton & Mr. Sam Tready - In the prospect of pro- curing State Pension, from Penn. by William for them -
Philada March 6. 1848
Kindly Obey Yours Affecly C. L. Jackson

Mrs Susanna Tinsman of Pennsylvania Act 1836
Increase of Pension Geo M. Phelps
J. S. Heath Esq. Court of Pensions

5534 Susanna Tunison of Anthony Pennsylvania
Suspended
See let 23 Feb. 12
C. J. Jack
let: to do: 12 March
1842, let to same 17 March
1842, let: 26 Mch.
1842 to same
Act 4 July 1836

Service to Nov. 1783
Declaration
In order to obtain an increase of Pension under the act of July 27th 1836
Being of the belief that I am not in receipt of as large an amount of Pension as the laws of the United States entitle me to on account of the services of my deceased husband in the war of the Revolution, I make the following statement under oath, in order that a reexamination of my claim may be made and the proper amount awarded me. I am the widow of Anthony Tuni-son, who was a sergeant in the war of the Revolution, and am now in receipt of a Pension from the United States at the rate of Thirty Five Dollars per annum. My said husband was in the service at the time of my marriage to him, and served for about a year after said marriage. He was under the command of Col. Richard Mumpston. I therefore ask the proper amount of Pension may be awarded me
Susanah her Tuni-son mark
In presence of Robert E. Johnson John H. Brady
Sworn and Subscribed before me on this Eighteenth day of October, in the year One thousand eight hun-dred and forty Seven
Robert E. Johnson Ad.
I certify that the above named Declarant is well and personally known to me, and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit
Robert E. Johnson Ad.

State of Pennsylvania } City & County of Philadelphia }
I John Smith Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid Do Certify that Robert O Johnston Esq. before whom the foregoing Affidavit was made and who hath thereunto affixed his name in his own proper hand writing was at the time of so doing and still is an Alderman of the City of Philadelphia and Ex Officio a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned & qualified to all whose acts as such full faith & credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts of Judicature as thereout
Witness my hand & Seal of said Court This Twenty Seventh day of October A.D. Eighteen hundred & forty Seven (1847)
John Smith Prothonotary