Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 10516, Peter Tuman, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Fuman, Peter Morton, Olive Charlotte (Former widow)
W 10516 B.L.Wt. 357-60-55 B.Wt. 7 860-100-1792
CONTENTS

No. 7097. Michigan Hrs. - Cleveland.
Olive Charlotte Morton for., widow of Peter Tuman, N.Y. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 dollars ————— cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853. 14. March 1860.
Certificate of Pension issued 8 day of April 1862, and sent to Oli Bruce, Cleveland, Ohio.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 160 Vol. 1.
Double H.
4 Febry 17 th Transferred to Mich. form 4 Sept 1863
1887 Aug Pension Agt reports paid to June 4. 1887 living in Elba, Tuscola Co Michs (then aged 46 years) 1889 Sept 18 James Spears states there was no law existing for increase of the present rate of $12.00 per month. — Prior
July 1/90 Downey informs that no allowance can be made for increase, white.

9951 Q
New York
Peter Puman, Ohio
of Hartland in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Kortlandt of the New York line, for the term of six years .
scribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of May 1818.
ertificate of Pension issued the 28 th of Apr. 1819 and sent to Sam l Lake, Esq. Balaam, New York.
arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819.  10m. 4/31.  81.03 emi-anl. all'ce ending 4 th  Apr. 1819.  48.00
$129:03
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Transferred to Ohio, 20 May 1826. —
Specification of the Enlistment of Peter Puman, of Hartland, New York, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Kortlandt of the New York line, for the term of six years, and who was inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of May 1818. Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th of Apr. 1819, and sent to Sam l Lake, Esq. Balaam, New York. Arrears to 4th of Mar. 181819. 10m. 4/31. 81.03. Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 th Apr. 1819. 48.00. Total $129:03.

Peter Simons
Declaration
May 22 nd 1878
Discharge No. 64 1-2

Peter Tuman's application for pension
The name is not written very plain —
Please forward the pension certificate to me at this place
Sam Lake
Adm l
Peter Tuman private 4 th Regt New York Line 1777. War
May 21 st 1815
on Rolls

State New York Genesee County ss
On this twenty second  first day of May in the year 1818 before me the Subscriber of the first of the County of the said County: Personally appeared Peter Tuman aged fifty five years and ten months Resident in the Town of Hartland in the County of Niagara: Who being by me first duly sworn and being so sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Provision made by the act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service, in the Revolutionary war." That the said Peter Tuman did enlist in the month of December in the year 1777 into Capt. Peter's Company of the N.Y. State Troops and continued in the service as will more fully appear upon his having to the inland Discharge until the end of the War and was Discharged on the 8 th day of June 1783 at Newburgh State of New York. That he was in the following Battles (viz) the Battle of Saratoga at the surrender of Burgoyne and the surrender of Genl Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown Virginia & Prior to the Battle of Monmouth and several Skirmishes
That he is in Redmond County and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for Support
That he has no other witness in this power at the time of his said declaration except the inland Discharge Peter Tuman
Affirmed Sworn to and Delivered before me this day
and year aforesaid James W. Stevens
Judge as aforesaid
I James W. Stevens Judge of the Court as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Peter Tuman did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Com- mon enemy. And I now transmit the Proceedings taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the aforesaid act of Congress
Batavia 22 d May 1818
James W. Stevens Judge as aforesaid

Elisha H. Eves & Peter Tuman Junior being by me duly sworn depose & say that Peter Tuman has no lands, but lives with his son David who is of age and renders him some assistance in living, that the said Tuman has no property except his clothes & some other articles of trifling value, what little property he had being sold at Constables Sale near two years ago; that the said Tuman is able to do some work but not sufficient to support him comfortably and that he is subject to debility & weakness of Stomach when he is not able to work much. Elisha H. Eves Sworn & subscribed before me August 23 d 1818 before me Peter Tuman Jun.
James W. Stevens Judge as aforesaid
I certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the above mentioned Peter Tuman is very poor, that he is subject to pushing with the effects of labor which renders him un- fit for working two or three days, and he has the appearance of being a man of a weakly constitution. I consider him as a person stand- ing in need of assistance from his country for support. James W. Stevens Judge as aforesaid

State of New York } Genesee County ss } I Simon Cummings Clerk of the County of said do hereby certify that James M. Stevens is a Judge of Genesee Common Pleas acting under the authority of the State of New York duly qualified according to law
and the name subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and certificate are his proper signatures - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & County Seal at Batavia Aug. 24. 1818
Simon Cummings By Sam. Lake Dep. Clk.

Declan

State of Ohio Geauga County ss: 3
On this 13 th day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, personally appeared before the Probate Court, of the State of Ohio, Olive Charlotte Morton, a resident of Munson, in the county of Geauga and State aforesaid, aged 49 years, who, first being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3 rd day of February, 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of
Peter Turrance
who was a private she thinks in the army of the Revolution . That as to the service of the said Peter Turrance, she cannot state explicitly from recollection, and would respectfully refer the Department to the evidence filed in his case, whereon he was granted a Pension of $96 per year. Neither can she tell the Department under what act her said husband was pensioned nor the Agency at which was paid, but thinks it was paid a few years before his death at Pittsburgh. Pa.
She further declares that she was married to the said Peter Turrance on the sixth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty-nine; that her said husband died on the fourteenth day of September, A.D. 1845; that she was not married to him prior to the second of January, (1800) eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. That her said husband died at the time aforesaid in Hinckley, Medina County, Ohio. She further declares that she remained a widow until the 18 th day of April 1850 when she intermarried with one Elisha Morton, Jr. and that she was divorced, a vinculo , from the said Elisha Morton Jr. by the Court of Common Pleas, in and for Geauga County, in

at the month term, 1860 the State of Ohio, and that she is now unmarried.
Olive Charlotte her Morton mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before M. C. Canfield, Judge of Probate, in and for said county, in open Court.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Probate Court of Geauga County Ohio this 13th day of June A.D. 1860
M. C. Canfield Probate Judge

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
The State of Ohio
County of Cuyahoga
88.
On this 11 th day of May 1826, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace  Associate Judge S.C.P. for the said county of Cuyahoga personally appeared Peter Tammann who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Hanbramuck — in the regiment commanded by Colonel Coillard — in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of New York — from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State (District, or Territory,) of Ohio — where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future; and that his reasons for removing to the State of Ohio were for the purpose of living with my son who had removed to said State. And the said Peter Tammann further swears that he has not drawn any pension money since the 14 th day of September 1825.
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid. } Peter Tammann Danl Williamson Asst. Judge
NOTES.—The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, setting forth that the person taking the testimony is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also have the authentication as above required.

The State of Ohio } Cuyahoga County } S.S.
On this 11 th day of May 1926 before me the Subscribed Associate Judge Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cuyahoga personally appeared Fred Kelley who on his oath swears that he knows the said Peter Lemman to be the same person described in the foregoing affidavit Fred Kelley
Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year afore said } Sam d Williamson Asst. Judge
I hereby certify the above named Fred Kelley is a person of truth & veracity
Sam d Williamson Asst. Judge

The State of Ohio -- Cuyahoga County ss
I Horace Perry Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that on this eleventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty six the within named Samuel Williamson is & for more than two years last past hath continued to be as such one of the associate Judges of said Court and as such Judge hath full power by the Laws of said State to administer oaths. take affidavits & depositions so and that his attestation to the within written affidavits. are in his own hand writing -- -- -- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal at Cleveland this eleventh day of May AD 1826.
Horace Perry Clerk C P

Peter Tuman
8. qn.
Continued No 9951

Buffalo                      Niagara A T a court of Common Pleas held at the Court-House in the village of West  West  Seneca , in and for the county of Seneca , in the State of New-York; on the eleventh day of June of the term of June , 1824 being a Court of Record, in pursuance of the 41st article of the Constitution of the state of New-York, which has unlimited jurisdiction, keeps records of its proceedings, and has immemorally exercised the power of fine and imprisonment.
Present, the Hon. Oliver Fowle, Charles Fowle & Gideon Fisher Judges, Niagara
SENeca COUNTY, ss.—On this eleventh day of June 1824, personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Record,) Peter Tuman aged fifty seven years, resident of the town of Clayton in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:— Six years & a half. Entitled for during the war, served in Capt. Silas Company in Col. Livingston Regiment and in Capt. Hamtramck's Company in Col. Courtlandt Regiment of the New York line was discharged in June 1783— and that his Original declaration was dated 18 th of May 1818 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed."
Inventory or Schedule
Real Estate. I have none
Personal Property
1 Brine mill weigh about 80 lb + 1 young pig 2 Sheep. 1 Spade. 1 ax + 1 Hoe 1 Pitchfork & 1 Harrow. 7 teeth 1 Small piece of a log chain about 3 feet long 1 2 nd Size Iron pot 1 4 Gallon Iron Kettle 1 Iron Tea Kettle 1 Iron Basin 2 flat Irons 1 pair Iron Tongs 1 Small Trunk 5 Old common Kitchen chairs 2 Barrels for meat and flour 1 Small Tub 1 Small Cask

 5 Old common kitchen chairs  2 Barrels for meat and flour  1 Small tub  1 Small cask  1 Old common kitchen table  5 Common Earthen plates  2 Do. do Bowls  3 Tin Basins  1 Tin Milk pan  7 Cups & Saucers common earthen  1 Small milk cup  1 Black Earthen tea pot  3 pewter plates  6 Knives & forks  2 Common spinning wheels  1 Hand reel  1 Hay Warches & worsted Combs 
I have debts due to me from the following persons    From Clark Van Gilder ..  $ 1.50    from Julius Stevens ..  7.00     $8.50  
I am owing debts to the following persons
  viz- To Mr. Jenks of Hartland .. $ 57.00   To Asker Freeman .. Royalton .. .. 28.00   To Benjamin Barton .. do .. .. 12.00   To James Brisban .. Batavia .. 20.00   To Samuel Lake .. do .. 8.00   To Calvin Fields .. do .. 12.00   To Samuel Benedict .. do .. 6.00   $113.00 
and the deponent further says his occupation is a farmer is able to do some labor but is not a well hearty person. that he has a wife named Sarah aged fifty six years and one daughter named Hannah aged fourteen years which compose his family,

that his necessary wearing apparel and bedding for himself and family do not exceed the sum of thirty dollars in value
Affirmed Sworn & Subscribed
Peter Tumans
the ninth day of June 1820
Before me
Ch: Townsend
Judge Court Com Pleas
I John E. Marshall for the county of Genesee  Niagara do hereby certify
that the foregoing oath (or affirmation) and the schedule thereto annexed, are truely copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is  does not exceed _____ dollars and  fifty _____ cents. exclusive of debts
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this ninth _____ day of June _____ 1820
J. E. Marshall Clerk of the Court for the county of Genesee  Niagara

Set to Sep Feby 8 th 1864
7097
Lauche for papers
Revolutionary
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7097

State of Michigan } ss County of Tuscola }
On this (1) twentieth eighth day of January A.D. 1864. Be- fore me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above named per- sonally appeared (alive) Charlotte Morton a resident of Tuscola County State of Michigan aged (2) Fifty Two years who being duly sworn accor- ding to law declares that she is the Widow and nearest of kin of (3) Peter Hunan who was a private in Company Commanded by in the Revolutionary War in the regular regiment of Volunteers
in the Service of the United States; that her name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of (4) Ohio, from whence she has lately removed; that she now resides in the Township of Arblea County of Tuscola and State of Michigan where she intends to remain, and wishes her pension to be there payable in future.
The following are her reasons for re- moving from the State of (5) Ohio County of Seneca, in the State of Ohio That her two eldest Sons having joined and one having been killed in the Service, and having a daughter, in Tuscola Co. Michigan, she removed for the purpose of securing the Companionship and care that her age requires, bringing with her her only other child of eleven years of age.

I mention that she had no home of her own, but that she has by her said memorial secured from her daughter a dwelling place.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of having her pension transferred as above stated and she hereby constitutes and appoints Adkins Lewis and William Shaw composing the firm of Lewis & Shaw, of Waspar Eucola County State of Michigan her attorneys to effect such transfer.
Oliver Charlotte her Morton mark
Sworn to and subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year first above named, and on the same day personally appeared Stephen J Williams aged 23 years and Eunice M Williams aged 19 years residents of Eucola County State of Michigan, who being by me duly sworn say that they are personally acquainted with Charlotte Morton who has made and subscribed the foregoing declaration in their presence, and that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of the applicants and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be; and that they reside as above stated and are interested in this claim.
Stephen J Williams Eunice M Williams

Sworn to and Subscribed before me, and I certify that I am not interested in this Claim or concerned with pro- secution, that I believe the Affiants to be Credible witnesses and the Claim and the person she represents herself to be.
O. A. Gibbs Justice of the Peace

State of Michigan, } ss. Tuscola County, Clerk's Office, }
I, Frederick Bours Clerk of said County and of the Circuit Court thereof, do hereby Certify that C. A. Gibbs Esq., before whom the annexed Affidavits were taken, was, at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same ; and that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe his signature to said Affidavits to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, at Mapar , this 29 th day of January A. D. 186 4 . F. Bours Clerk.

317.607
Olive Charlotte Morton widow of Peter Inman, dec d
Dec. for Bounty Land under act Mch 3. 1855.
Law of Eli Bruce, Cleveland O Atty for Claimant.

State of Ohio, County of Geauga, ss:
On this 26 th day of April, in the year 1862, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and State aforesaid, Olive Charlotte Morton, aged 51 years, a resident of Chester, in said county and State, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Peter Tuman, late of Hinckley, Medina County, Ohio, deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary War, and who received a pension for such service.
She further declares that she was married to the said Peter Tuman on the 6 th day of August, 1829, and that her said husband died on the 14 th day of September, 1845.
She further declares that she was again married to Elisha Morton, Jr. on the 18 th of April, 1850, and that she was divorced from said Morton, on the 13 th day of March, 1860, by the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, since which time she has not again married and now remains a widow as aforesaid.
For the proof of all above statements she refers the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions to the proof on file in his office in the case of this applicant upon which a certificate of pension was issued dated April 8 th 1862. Recorded Page 160, Vol. 1, Book H. (N o 7097.)
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled.

under act approved March 3, 1855, entitled "an act in addition to certain other acts granting bounty land to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States.
Attest
swit. her
Olive Charlotte her X Morton F D Shuart mark John Presley
Also personally appeared F D Shuart and John Presley residents of Maunon, Geauga County Ohio, whom I certify to be respectable persons and entitled to credit, who being duly sworn according to law make oath and say that they were present and saw Olive Charlotte Morton make her mark to the foregoing declaration - that they are acquainted with the said Olive Charlotte Morton, and that from such acquaintance and the appearance of the applicant they have every reason to believe that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that she has not married since she was divorced from Elisha Morton but now remains a widow. They further say they reside in Maunon aforesaid and have no interest in this claim.
F D Shuart John Presley
swit. signature
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence by said Olive Charlotte Morton F D Shuart and John Presley the day and year above written. And Gren C Curtis Justice of the peace

I certify that I have no interest in this claim. Grove Curtis J P
The State of Ohio, } ss. I, William A. Keeny Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, GEAUGA COUNTY. } within and for the County of Geauga, in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that Grove Curtis Esq., was at the date of executing the annexed Declaration and affidavits and now is an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn agreeably to the Statutes of said State of Ohio. to all whose Official acts as such, full faith and credit is and ought to be given, throughout the United States and elsewhere, and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Grove Curtis and verily believe the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
WITNESS my hand and Seal of Office, at Chardon, in said County,
this first day of May Anno Domini
18 82
Wm. A. Keeny CLERK.

State of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, ss:
On this 3 d day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one personally appeared Margaret Tuman, a disinterested and credible witness, who being first duly sworn according to law deposes and says:— That she married David Tuman who was a son of Peter Tuman by his first wife Sally Tuman, and was consequently the daughter-in-law of Peter Tuman, and was knowing to the following incidents: That said Peter Tuman was a Revolutionary Pensioner in his lifetime. That she was present at the death of Sally Tuman (as she was called) who was the wife of said Peter Tuman, the Revolutionary Pensioner, which event took place in the town of Independence, Cuyahoga County, Ohio on the 6 th day of August, 1828. That she was also present at the marriage of Peter Tuman the Revolutionary Pensioner aforesaid, with his second wife, then known as Charlotte Scott, which said marriage took place in the town of Independence, county and State aforesaid, on the 6 th day of August, A.D. 1829, and that this affiant and her husband "stood up" with them when they were married. This affiant recollects the dates aforesaid from the fact then talked about that the old gentleman, said Peter Tuman, was married the second time in just a year after his first wife's death, and the further fact that affiant's son, John  John who was born in February 1829 was at the time six months old and held in his father's arms when he "stood up" at marriage aforesaid. Said affiant further states that the identical person known as Charlotte Scott who was married at the time and place aforesaid to Peter Tuman, the Revolutionary Pensioner aforesaid, is the same person now known as Olive Charlotte Morton, of Lorain County, Ohio. Said affiant further says that there was a great discrepancy between said Peter Tuman and his said second wife in their ages— that said Peter Tuman had raised a large family by his first wife Sally, the youngest of which

was older than his said second wife who was at the time supposed to be in her 19 th year. That said second wife of said Peter Tuman was an orphan girl and for several years previous to the marriage aforesaid had lived in the family of said Peter Tuman. That at the time of said last marriage said Peter Tuman was a healthy & active man and by his second wife had six  four children four of which are living . That said Peter Tuman, the Revolutionary Pensioner, so died suddenly being found dead in his bed on the 14 th of September, A.D. 1845 - that this affiant was present and saw him after his death as aforesaid, which took place in town of Hinkley, Medina County, Ohio. That she understood (but was not present) that said second wife of said Peter Tuman after his death as aforesaid was married to one Elisha Morton, Jr. of Chester, Geauga County, Ohio, sometime in the spring of 1850, from whom she understands from common report that she was divorced in the spring of 1859. The affiant further says the second wife of said Peter Tuman before her marriage to him as aforesaid was known as Charlotte Scott, but how she came by the other name of Olive this affiant does not know, but is certain that Charlotte Scott married as aforesaid to Peter Tuman is the identical person now known as Olive Charlotte Morton, of Chester, Geauga County, Ohio. That they were married as aforesaid by a Justice of the Peace known as David Fowler. Margaret Tuman
Sworn to before me and subscribed by said Margaret Sumner in my presence this 3 rd day of December, A.D. 1861. And I certify that said affiant is a credible and disinterested witness known to me to be a respectable resident of the adjoining town of Hinkley, and that the word "William" was erased and "John" interlined on the first page, and two lines 3 rd & 4 th line were erased on second page and the word "four" in the sixth line erased and the words "six" and "four of which are living," were all erased interlined and interlined before the same was executed Joseph Smith S. P. L. Roswell Jr.

State of Ohio: Linnepoga County ss:
On this 3 d day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtyone personally appeared Andrew McElery a credible and disinterested witness who upon duly sworn according to law makes oath and says: That he lived neighbor to see Peter Tuman a Revolutionary Pensioner, in the town of Hinkley, Medina County, Ohio, for about nine years previous and up to the time of his death, and was acquainted with said Peter Tuman for several years previous to his living in Hinkley as neighbor as aforesaid - that his sister Margaret married David Tuman who was a son of said Peter Tuman. That said Peter Tuman died in Hinkley, Medina County, Ohio, on the 14 th day of September 1845 that he was present and saw him after death. That he left a widow with whom he lived and cohabited as husband and wife for several years before his death, and to whom it was understood he was married, but of that this affiant does not know of his own knowledge as he was not present at the marriage. That his widow as aforesaid, married a man by the name of Elisha Morton, Jr. of Chester, Geauga County, Ohio, and is the identical person known as Olive Charlotte Morton of Chester Geauga County, Ohio. That said Peter Tuman was at the time of his death a Revolutionary soldier Pensioner. That as he is well acquainted with Olive Charlotte Morton aforesaid and knows her to be the identical person who lived with said Peter Tuman, the Revolutionary Pensioner aforesaid and was understood to be his wife and who upon his death as aforesaid was his widow. This affiant would further state that he married Hannah Tuman who was a daughter of said Peter Tuman by his first wife Sally. That he was present at the death of Sally Tuman, the first wife of said Peter Tuman, and saw her after death.

which took place August 6 th 1828. That this affiant's wife Hannah was the youngest child of said Peter Tuman by his first wife Sally but that she was younger older than the second wife of said Peter Tuman. This affiant further states that he knew said Olive Charlotte Morton previous to her marriage with said Peter Tuman - that she was known to him as Charlotte Scott before her said marriage - how she came by the name of Olive this affiant does not know - but does know that Charlotte Scott who lived and cohabited as aforesaid with Peter Tuman is the identical person who is Olive Charlotte Morton of Chester County, Ohio. This affiant also states that he knows by common report that said Olive Charlotte Morton was divorced from her husband Elisha Morton, Jr. sometime in the Spring of 1859.
Andrew M. Greene Andrew
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence by said Andrew M c Greene this 3 rd day of December, A.D. 1861. And I certify that said M c Greene is known to me to be a credible and disinterested witness and a respectable citizen of the adjoining town of Hinckley in Medina County. I also certify that words "soldier" and "youngster" in the foregoing affidavit were erased before the same was executed
Joseph Smith J.P. of Weymouth T.P.
THE STATE OF OHIO, } CUYAHOGA COUNTY, SS. }
I, Frederick J. Prentiss, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, a Court of Law and of Record, of Cuyahoga County aforesaid, do hereby certify that
Joseph Smith before whom the annexed
affidavit, was, at its date, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by the Laws of Ohio to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and believe his signature thereto is genuine, and that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of the State of Ohio.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court, at Cleveland, this 3 rd day of December A. D. 1861.
Frederick J. Prentiss Clerk.
Francis E. Hinman Deputy Clerk.

Clerk's Certificate
Divorce March 13, 1860
Oliver Charlotte Morton from Elisha Morton Jr.
Eli Bruce Atty for O.C. Morton.

Tuesday March 13 th 1860
Olive Charlotte Morton
vs
Elisha Morton Jr.
Divorce
And now comes the said Olive Charlotte Morton by Eli Bruce her attorney and also the Defendant by his attorneys, and thereupon this cause came on for hearing upon the petition and testimony. On consideration whereof the Court do find that due service of summons and copy of the petition in this case filed, has been made upon the defendant. That for more than one year immediately preceding the filing of said petition the petitioner had been and from thence hitherto has been and still is a bona fide resident of the County of Wayne in the State of Ohio. The Court do further find that the allegations of willful absence and gross neglect of duty on the part of said Defendant are substantiated by the proof and that the defendant is guilty of willful absence and gross neglect of duty for more than three years last past as alleged in said plaintiff's petition. It is therefore ordered adjudged and decreed that the marriage contract heretofore existing between the said parties be and the same is hereby set aside and wholly annulled and the said parties wholly released from the same. And it is further ordered that the custody nurture education and care of the said Gilbert Morton be and the same is hereby given to the said petitioner and the said defendant is hereby forever enjoined from interfering with or disturbing the said

Petitioner in the custody nurture education and care of the said above named Child until the further order of this Court; And that defendant pay the costs of this suit in ten days from the rising of this Court and in default thereof that execution issue therefor
The State of Ohio } William N. Keeney Clerk of the Yanag County ss } Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a full and true copy of the Decree for Divorce in the suit of Olive Charlotte Morton vs Elisha Morton Jr. as fully as the same appears upon the Journal of said Court. I further certify that said Decree was rendered on the 13 th day of March A.D. 1860 as appears by the Journal of said Court
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name officially and caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed at Chardon this second day of January A.D. 1862 Wm N. Keeney Clerk

Proof of Marriage to Peter Inman
Eli. Buren Cleveland

After Turner To Charlotte Scott
On the 6 th day of August 1829 I solemnized the marriage contract between the foregoing parties
J. D. Turner J. P.
The State of Ohio Linnabough County ss
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy from the Record of Marriages of said County Witness my hand and the seal of the Probate Court at Cleveland this 29 th day of May A.D. 1860
Dan R. Tilden Probate Judge

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Turnan, Peter GRADE Private LINE New York or Turnan
WARRANT NUMBER 7860 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED February 21, 1792 and 357  60  1855
Wt. 7860 to Wm Campbell, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

Cleveland, O. April 2, 1862.
Hon. Jos. H. Barrett,
Comm ee of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:— Inclosed
Please find the requisite proof in the case of Olive Charlotte Morton, widow of Peter Tuman, a Rev- olutionary Pensioner.
Respectfully
Yr most ob t
Eli Puffer

Treasury Department Pension Auditor's Office June 15 th 1845.
Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 10 th inst: I have to state that the last payment of the pension of Peter Luman, (from March to Sept 1845.) was made on the 19 th Sept: 1845 to Isaiah Dickey, as Attorney.
The pensioner belongs to the Pittsburgh, Pa: Agency not Ohio.
Very Respectfully Your obedt. Servt: R. Johnston Auditor.
Hon: Jas H. Barrett Commr: of Pensions

Pension Office.
December 26 th 1861.
Sir,
The affidavits of Margaret Tuman, a daughter of Peter Tuman, and of Andrew McCrery, his son-in-law, are not a sufficient compliance with the requisition of my letter of the 22 nd ult. calling for testimony from the neighbors of Peter Tuman, the pensioner, to identify him as the husband of Olive Charlotte Morton, who has applied for a pension, as his widow.
Such testimony, to be satisfactory, should be obtained, not from members of the family, but from credible & respectable persons, who are neighbors & acquaintances, and not relatives.
Upon examining the certified copy of the decree of divorce of the applicant from her last husband, it does not appear at what time the order of the court was granted. The clerk of Geauga County states, in his Certificate, that it was at the "March Term of said Court, A.D. 1860". As the pension would begin on the day subsequent to that on which the decree of divorce was granted, it is necessary that the precise day when
(Wrote Hume Dec 31/61)

it was obtained should be certified.
The regulations of this Office require, that, in the event of the allowance of the claim, before the pension certificate can be sent to you, a power of attorney from Mrs. Morton, duly executed, acknowledged, & authenticated, authorizing you to act on her behalf, should be filed.
Very respectfully,
Your Obl. Servt.
Jos. H. Barrett, Commissioner.
Eliz Bruce, Esq. Cleveland, Ohio.

PENSION AGENCY,
Cleveland Feby 10 th 1864.
Sir:
Yours of the _____ instant is received, notifying me of an application for a transfer from this agency by Mrs. Olive C. Morton, formerly widow of Peter Turman a pensioner under the act of 3 d Feby 1853 2 d Section.
You are informed that he was last paid to Septbr 4. 1863, at the rate of Ninety six dollars _____ cents per annum.
I am, very respectfully,
A. Nieme.
Pension Agent.
To Wm Heinrich Esq. Acting Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.

Relating to Pension Claims Act Feby 3, 1853.
Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 25. 1861
Hon J. H. Barrett
Com. of Pensions, &c.
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:- On my return from a Mackinac Voyage, for my health, on which I have been absent since last May, I find a letter from you dated June 24. in relation to the application of Olive Charlotte Morton for a pension under act of Feby 3. 1853, as the widow of Peter Turman, dec d . which said absence must be my excuse for this delay
I wish you, to re-examine the case on the present evidence, if you think my suggestions warrant it.
1 st "Marriage and identity as his widow." you think are not satisfactorily established. The variation between the name of Charlotte Scott and Olive Charlotte Morton, is explained by the fact that she was always called Charlotte, and the person who obtained the license did not know that she had the name of Olive also. Evidence is on file in the Department to show that Olive Charlotte Morton was Olive Charlotte Scott as she obtained a Land Warrant for 160 acres N o 72.741 for the services of her brother, who died in the Mexican War. Then as Piper and McCleary

in their affidavit swear that "Olive Charlotte Morton is the identical person who lived and cohabited with Tuman as his wife  up to the time of his death. " and I supposed it would be sufficient even with the discrepancy of the name to prove marriage and identity as his widow. They also swear that it was "Peter Tuman, a Revolutionary Pensioner " I supposed that identified him enough, as there was not two probably of that name who were Pensioners, corroborated by the fact also that he lived and died in Shirkley, Medina County, Ohio. I trust by re-examining this case you will be satisfied as to marriage and identity
2 d The credibility of Piper & McCleary you say is not certified by the officer.
By my copy of their affidavit it appears in the 3 d line, as follows:—" disinterested and credible witnesses," which undoubtedly escaped your notice. That is the way I always have put in certificates of credibility in Bounty Land claims which have passed your approval.
3 d As to the delay in presenting the papers of one year you wish an explanation.
It is purely owing to accident to me. I was thrown from a carriage on the first of June 1860 and experienced a compound fracture of my limb, by which I came near losing it, and which prevented me from giving any attention to business for many months. I have since been incapacitated from doing business

on account of sickness, but find myself now restored after a Fishing Voyage during the Summer.
I was a Student of Hon. A. G. Reddell, M.C. and we now occupy the same office. I shall inclose to you a note from him, so that you may the better rely upon my statements.
Respectfully
Yr Most Obedt
Eli Burce
The above resume Eli Burce correctly states the condition of his health for the period of time covered by his statement above. Respectfully A. G. Reddell Cincinnati Oct. 23. 1861-

Chardon Sept 7 th 1861
Maj r W m Maynadin,
Dear Sir,
I have a number of times troubled you with errands for me to the public offices, and might, doubtless, as well have sent the one I now have direct to the pension office, but recently I have corresponded so little with any of the public functionaries at Washington that it did not seem as if it would meet the same prompt attention as if coming through you.
A widow of a Revolutionary Soldier. Mrs. Olive Charlotte Tuman (perhaps the name if in the office will be "Charlotte Tuman") widow of Peter Tuman, some two years ago filled her application for a pension, through her Atty or agent. - Her pension Certificate has not come although her agent (who was to have one half) has from time to time assured her it would be forthcoming very soon. She has since executed other papers drawn up by her Agent

and now has some doubt whether her pension certificate has not been actually issued, and come to the hands of her agent, and that the papers, subsequently executed by her, were not papers for drawing all the back pay up to the time of drawing. - The agent there keeping the whole instead of half, the half being an unconscionable amount. -
Will you please ascertain 1 st whether a certificate has been issued to her; & 2 d whether the records show that any thing, if any, what amount has been drawn on it.
I wish also the pension office to forward to me the printed instructions for drawing pensions, with a few blank applications for widows pensions, and a few blank papers with instructions for drawing widows & invalid pensions.
I suppose you hear frequently from our child Seth Kizzie. We have occasionally letters from them, and also from my son Alfred who is embarked in the same risk. I keep very close watch of the telegraphic reports respecting the Genl. Posts. - The last I heard

news that the G. Boats had shelled & burnt Columbus in Ky, but that account does not appear to be reliable. - We have been for some time back expecting Lizzie & Sally, but have nearly given them up - They were to come in company with my son Alfred, but I suppose he has as yet been unable to leave. - I do suppose too that Lizzie somewhat dreads to leave her husband at this time of dangerous service, and feels as if being near is some protection - - a very natural feeling in affectionate natures, - and in case of being wounded, being near, a wife may discharge those tender offices in nursing, which none but a wife can do so well. I have an impression that Cairo & Mound- City, are very disagreeable places for a lady to reside in, and that nothing would recon- cile her to it, but her anxiety for Seth.
Yours truly Alfred Phelps

Chardon, Ohio, Sept 7 th 1861.
Alfred Phelps.
Judge Alfred Phelps, of Ohio, asks whether a pension certificate has been issued for Mrs. Olive Charlotte Terman (or Mrs. Charlotte Terman) widow of a Revolutionary Soldier - what amount, if any, has been drawn on it - and for printed instructions for drawing pensions, with a few blank applications for widows' pensions and a few blank papers with instructions for drawing widows' & invalid pensions.
Ordnance Office Sept 13 th 1861.
Lt. Col. Maynadier, U. S. Ordnance Corps, presents his compliments to the Commissioner of Pensions, and will be much obliged to him for the information & blanks to enable him to answer Judge Phelps' letter - or an answer from the Pension Office direct, as may be deemed the more proper.

Revolutionary
• Peter Sumner
• Inventor
h. Nov to 4 Sept 1845
48
Pittsburg Pa
20 Sept 1845

State of Ohio } Be it known that before me W m Summit County } W. Held a justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Peter Vuman and made oath in due form of law that he is the identical person named in an original Certificate in his possession of which (I certify) the following is a true Copy -
War Department - Revolutionary Claims I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18 th of March 1878 Peter Vuman late a private in the Army of the revolution is inscribed on the pension list roll of the New York Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the first day of May One thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Given at the War Office of the United States this twenty eighth day of April One thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War
that he now resides in Hinckley in the County of Medina and State of Ohio and has resided there for the space of seven years past and that previous thereto he resided in Independence in the County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio Date - I certify Sworn to and Subscribed this 8 th day of September 1845 before me
W m W. Held Justice of the Peace

I know all men by these presents That I Peter Vuman of Hinkley in the County of Medina and State of Ohio a revolutionary Pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint David Dickay of Pittsburgh in the County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania my pension from the 11 th day of March 1845 to the 11 th day of September 1845 Witness my hand and Seal this 8 th day of September 1845
Peter Vuman
Sealed and delivered in presence of Wm W. Weld A. O. Porter
State of Ohio } Be it known that on the 8 th day of Sept, 1845, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Peter Vuman above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed, the testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned. Certificate of Office filed in this Office of T. T. Smith City Clerk Wm W. Weld Justice of the Peace
City of Pittsburgh, ss. BE IT KNOWN, That on the 19 day of Septm r (1845) before me, the Acting Pension Agent of said city, personally appeared David Dickay the Attorney named in the foregoing Power of Attorney, and made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any sale, transfer, or mortgage of the pension or arrears of pension therein authorized to be received by him. Sworn and subscribed before me, same day. H. B. Stuart Acting Pension Agent David Dickay

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6 acres

Olive Charlotte Morton -
widow of
Peter Tuman - - Ohio -
Abstract of evidence -
1 st Peter Tuman of Cuyahoga Co. Ohio - was a Pensioner under act of 18 th March 1818. 2 nd Peter Tuman married to Charlotte Totto 6 th day of Jan.; 1829 - as appears from Record of Judge of Probate of Cuyahoga Co. by certificate of David R. Tilden dated 29 th May 1860. 3 rd Affidavits of Josiah Piper & Andrew McEneery - state that Peter Tuman a revolutionary Pensioner - residing in Hinckley Medina Co - Ohio. died 14 th day of September 1845 - they were present at his funeral - they knew Olive Charlotte Morton - of Chester Geauga Co - and that she is the identical person who lived & cohabited with the said Peter Tuman - as his wife up to the date of his death - 4 th Certified copy of a decree of divorce from the court of the Court of Common Pleas. of Geauga Co. Ohio, showing that Olive Charlotte Morton was

divorced from Elisha Morton Jr. by decree of said court at the March term in 1860.
5 th Declaration of the widow that she has not again married, - no proof upon the point.

Brief
Oliver Charlotte Morton widow of
Peter Tushman
Copy of letter to Cleveland

Claim for Pension act Feb 3. 1853
Olive Charlotte Morton widow of Peter Tuman
Brief
Application of Olive Charlotte Morton sets forth— That she is the Widow of Peter Tuman That Peter Tuman was in the army of the Revolution That Peter Tuman drew a Pension of $96 per year That she married Peter Tuman August 6. 1829. That Peter Tuman died Sept. 14. 1845 That she remained a widow until April 18. 1850 That she then married Elisha Morton Jr. That she was divorced from said Morton at the March term 1860 That she is now unmarried
In proof is submitted
The Record (or a copy of it) of the Marriage (under seal) The affidavits of Josiah Piper and Andrew McGrady as to death of Tuman and identity of applicant. The copy of decree of Divorce (under seal)

J. W. and N. Div.
Revolutionary War.
POWER OF ATTORNEY.
No. 7097  Wid.
CLAIM OF
Olive C. Morton,
widow of
Peter Turman,
who died 14 Sept. 1845
FOR arrears of pension, accrued pension increase and country land.
Petition made to Congress
FILED BY
S. R. DOWNEY,
ATTORNEY,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
42 Atlantic Bldg.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Olive C. Morton, widow of Peter Turman, who was a sol- dier of the Revolution and died Sept. 14, 1845, of Birch Run in the County of Saginaw, and State of Michigan have made, constituted, and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute, and appoint Samuel R. Downey, of Washington, D. C. my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, place, and stead, hereby annulling and revoking all former Powers of Attorney whatever in the premises, to prosecute before any Department, or the Courts, or Committees of Congress of the United States until final completion, for me, my Claim for accrued pension and arrears of pension;
Also, for an increase of my pension by a private act of Congress;
Also, my claim for additional bounty land;
and to, from time to time, furnish any further evidence necessary, or that may be demanded, giving and granting to my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do if personally present at the doing thereof, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or his substitute, may, or shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
My Post Office address is Elva, Tuscola co, Michigan.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this day of June , eighteen hundred and ninety.
Frank Morton
Oliver C. Morton (Signature of Claimant)
Conr. Knickley (Two witnesses who can write sign here, if claimant signs by mark.)

State of Michigan , County of Tuscola , ss:
BE IT KNOWN, That on this 10 th day of June , in the year eighteen hundred and ninety , before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the said County and State, personally appeared Olive B. Morton to me well known to be the identical person who executed the foregoing Letter of Attorney, and the same having been first fully read over to her and the contents thereof duly explained, acknowledged the same to be her act and deed, and that I have no interest, present or prospective, in the claim.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, the day and year last above written.
James Spears (Official Signature.)
Notary Public (Official Character) Acting in Sag Co
Certificate of record [L. S.] at Washington
I, _____ Clerk of the County Court in and for _____ aforesaid County and State, do certify that _____ Esq., who has signed his name to the foregoing declaration and affidavit , was, at the time of so doing, _____ in and for said County and State, duly commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit, and that his signature thereunto is genuine.
Witness my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____, 18____.
[L. S.] _____ Clerk of the NOTE.—This should be sworn to  acknowledged before a CLERK OF COURT, NOTARY PUBLIC or JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. If before a JUSTICE or NOTARY, then CLERK OF COUNTY COURT must add his certificate of character hereon, and not on a separate slip of paper.

Indorsement thereon. Payment to be made at Cleveland by Ab Shimek Esq. Agent for paying pensions in the Agency of Ohio. Pay was $44 a month and 4 March - in the Pension Office on the roll of pensioners under act February 3-1853. Page 150 Book 17 E Gapsene clerk
The applicant not remembering the Com- pany regiment & of Deceased Peter Yaman We send the following Copy of her Certificate that it may be the more readily referred to.
Department of the Interior Widows Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the 2 d Sec- tion of the act of February 3 rd 1853. Widow Charlotte Norton formerly widow of Peter Yaman who was a private in the Revolutionary war is inscribed on the Pension list at the rate of Twenty Six dollars per annum Commencing on the 14 th of March 1850 and continuing for life unless she should again marry; in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such Mar- riage.
Given at the Department of the Interior this Eighth day of April One thousand eight hundred and Sixty- two Caleb Smith Secretary of the Interior
Examined and Countersigned Joseph H Barrett Commissioner of Pensions

Affidavit of Widowhood and
Power of Attorney
Oliver Charlotte Morton to
Eli Bruce
Eli Bruce Cleveland O Atty for Claimant

Know all men by these presents, that I, Olive Charlotte Morton, of the County of Geauga and State of Ohio, and the widow of Peter Tuman, deceased who was a revolutionary soldier, do hereby irrevocably appoint Eli Bruce, of Cleveland, Ohio, my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, to prosecute my claim for pension due me for by virtue of my deceased husband's services in the Revolutionary war, and to receive the certificate of Pension when issued by the Department. I hereby confirm what my said attorney may do or cause to be legally done either in person or substitution, in the prosecution of said claim, except drawing money in my favor, I invoking any other authority to any other person in the premises whatsoever.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 1 st day of January  March , 1862.
Signed in my presence Grove Curtis Gardner Foster
Olive Charlotte Morton her mark
State of Ohio, Geauga County, ss:
On this 1 st day of January  March , A.D. 1862, personally appeared before me, Olive Charlotte Morton and acknowledged the within Power of Attorney to be her free act and deed; and I certify that I well know the said Olive Charlotte Morton and that she is the person present now, and who executed the above Power of Attorney.
Grove Curtis
Justice of the Peace

March State of Ohio, Geauga County ss On this 1 st day of January , A.D. 1862 personally appeared before me, Olive Charlotte Morton, who being duly sworn according to law makes oath and says that she has not married since she was divorced from Eliza Morton, Junior, and that she now remains a widow, and is the widow of Peter Tuman, deceased, who was a Revolutionary Pen- sioner
Witness
Olive Charlotte her X Morton mark
Sworn to before me and subscribed by said Olive Char- lotte Morton in my presence the day and year above writ- ten. This first day of March, A.D. 1862
Grove Curtis justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio, } I, William A. Keeny Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, GEAUGA COUNTY, } ss. within and for the County of Geauga, in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that
Grove Curtis Esq., was at the date of executing the acknowledgment to the Power of Attorney hereto attached & also to the annexed affidavit and now is an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn agreeably to the Statutes of said State of Ohio, to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is and ought to be given, throughout the Uni- ted States, and elsewhere, and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Grove Curtis and verily believe the signature purporting to be his are genuine.
WITNESS my hand and Seal of Office, at Chardon, in said County, this
first day of March Anno Domini
1862
Wm. A. Keeny CLERK.

Cleveland, O. Mch 26. 1862
To the Com r of Pensions
Dear Sir: — Inclosed please find certificate of Clerk of Geauga Common Pleas giving the date, March 13. 1860 , when Olive Charlotte Morton was divorced in accordance with your request of Dec 26. 861.
Also please find a Power of Attorney from Olive Charlotte Morton to me empowering me to receive when issued her Pension Certificate.
Also her affidavit of present widowhood.
The affidavit of Margaret Tuman and Alex. M c Creery now on file, you will observe shows that Margaret Tuman is not a daughter of Peter Tuman but a daughter-in-law and that her husband has long been dead — also that M c Creery is a son-in-law but that his wife has long been dead. I do not see, why  how they are not disinterested witnesses for Olive Charlotte Morton.
It is I find a difficult thing to find any one who can trace her around and identify her among her neighbors, because they were married in Independence, Cuyahoga County and in a short time removed to Hinkley, Medina County, where Peter Tuman

man died - then his widow married Morton and moved to Chester, Geauga County.
I can find those in Independence who knew of the marriage but they have not seen her since she left for Hinkley. I can find in Hinkley those who knew her there, but knew nothing of her marriage with Morton Turrance except that they lived together as husband and wife.
As Mrs. Turrance and Esq. McElery were intimate and knew from their own knowledge of the marriage to Turrance and his death and her subsequent marriage and to Morton and her removal to Geauga I procured them as the very best.
Now, you see how I am placed & I wish you would indicate to me, which proof will be most satisfactory to you - that at Independence or Hinkley - or both, - or whether on a re-consideration you will not be satisfied with the affts of Turrance & McElery.
Yours &c
Eli Bruce
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Old War Div. I. N. F. Ex't. No. Co. _____ Reg't _____
Department of the Interior. BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C. September 18 th , 1889
Return this letter with your reply.
Sir,
In answer to your communication of the 4 th instant, addressed to the Hon. A. F. Blish, by him referred to this Bureau, relative to an increase of the pension granted to Mrs. Olive G. Morton, formerly widow of Peter Tuman, a soldier in the war of the Revolution, I have to state that her pension was originally allowed under the 2 d section of the act of Feb'y 3. 1853 at $96. 00 per annum, subsequently increased to $144. 00 per annum, under the act of March 19. 1886, and there is no law existing which will authorize a further increase.
Very respectfully
Acting Commissioner.
Mr. James Spears Elva Tuscola County Michigan

Olive Charlotte Morton, formerly widow of Peter Tuman.
Franka County Ohio.
Act 3 d February 1853.
Allowed as the widow of a private of the revolution at the rate of $96. per annum. to begin on the 14 th day of March 1860.
Certificate to
Eli Bruce.
Cleveland
Ohio.

Pittsburgh,
19 Septm.
1845
Received of THOMAS M. HOWE, Agent for paying Pensioners,  Twenty eight dollars cents being for five months days pension due to Peter Sundeen from the 4 day of March 18, 45 to the day of September 18 45 for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
28 Dollars, 100
Isaac Ciskey Atty

No. 7.624.
Oliver Charlotte Morton formerly widow of
Peter Tuman. Ohio.
Let. Eli Bruce June 24. '61 " Alfred Phelps Sept 21. 1861 " Eli Bruce Nov. 22. 1861. " Same Dec. 26. 1861.
Act. 3 d February 1853.

Peter Terman. 57 years old in 1820.
11
wife Sarah 56 " " " "
transferred to Cuyahoga Co. Ohio - 20. May 1826.
57 9 66 19
18
L.M. Drury
Canandaigua
New York

Pay  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 10576
Oliver Charlotte formerly  Whalen Peter Newman his R.W. Widow
Act: Febry 3 d  1862
Index:—Vol. 31 , Page 61
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Upl-12-1900-MS 5 C
Hon. R. P. Bishop M.C.
1912 Mch. 21 Tombstone
To Hattie J. A. Coon
Letters in V. 48-876
Goodland V. 2. 11

Cleveland O. May 12 th 1826
Mr J. L. Edwards
I herewith inclose the Application for a transfer of Peter Luman with the other requisitions required. I perceive that in this section of Ohio, the pensioners are by a late law, to draw their pensions in Pittsburgh P.A. I wish you to forward Blanks of the forms of drawing from that pension office if you have them, or give instruction if the forms are different from the ones formerly used for New York, Mr Luman has not drawn any pension money since Sept. 4 th 1825 & wishes his transfer to coincide with s d date Respectfully yours
Isaac Kelley

Brief in the case of Olive Charlotte Morton formerly widow of
Geauga County and State of Ohio. act 3 rd February 1858 }
Peter Tuman a Private in the revolution.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Peter Tuman, the former husband of the applicant, was a pensioner at the rate of $96. per annum and died in the year 1845: as appears by vouchers in the 3 rd Auditor's Office. Recd evidence of the marriage of the applicant to the Peter Tuman, and proof of identity by the testimony of two persons present at the marriage, and who knew
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
that the parties also sustained the relation of husband and wife & had children - Two other witnesses also testify to this relation, and that the applicant is the individual who sustained that relation with the pensioner from the and that she is now a widow. Divorce from her last husband proven, by a certified transcript from the records of the Court of Common Pleas of Geauga county Ohio - Decree granted 13 th day of March 1860.
Allowed, at the rate of $96. per annum, to begin on the 14 th day of March 1860.
Name and residence of Agent
L. M. Drury, Examining Clerk.
Eli Bruce,
Cleveland.

NOTARIES PUBLIC.  GAGE & BRUCE,  Attorneys and Counselors at Law,  PENSION AGENTS. OFFICE, NO. 168 SUPERIOR STREET.
Cleveland, O., Dec 3 d 1861.
Hon Jos. H. Barnett Com ee of Pensioners Washington D.C.
Dear Sir— Inclosed Please find additional evidence in case of Dion Charlotte Morton as widow of Peter Tuman dec d who was a Rev. Pensioner. Hoping this evidence will be conclusive I trust you will give it early attention and make the allowance of the Pension
Respectfully Yr Wm Voss Eli Bruce

93
Olive Charlotte Morton
Elisha Morton Jr.
Divorce
And now comes the said Olive Charlotte by Eli Bruce her attorney and also the defendant by his attorneys and thereupon this cause came on for hearing upon the petition and testimony On consideration whereof the Court do find that due service of Summons & copy of the petition in this case filed has been made upon the Defendant That for more than one year immediately preceding the filing of said petition the petitioner had been and from thence hitherto has been and still is a bonafide resident of the County of Geauga in the State of Ohio. The Court do further find that the allegations of wilful absence and gross neglect of duty on the part of the said Defendant are substantiated by the proof, and that the defendant is guilty of Wilful Absence & gross neglect of duty for more than three years last past as alledged in said plaintiff's petition It is therefore ordered adjudged and decreed that the marriage contract heretofore existing between the said parties be and the same is hereby set aside and wholly annulled and the said parties, wholly released from the same And it is further ordered that the custody nurture education and care of the said Gilbert Morton be and the same is hereby given to the said petitioner And the said Defendant is hereby forever enjoined from interfering with or disturbing the said petitioner

in the custody nurture education and care of the said above named Child until the further order of this court And that the defendant pay the costs of this suit. in ten days from the rising of this court and in default thereof that execution issue therefor
The State of Ohio } I William N. Keeny Clerk of Geauga County ss } the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a full and true copy of the Decree for divorce rendered at the March Term of said Court A.D. 1860 in the Suit of Olive Charlotte Morton against Elisha Morton Jr. as the same appears upon the Journal of said Court at said term
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Chardon this 15 th day of August A.D. 1860
Wm. N. Keeny Clerk
Fee $2.50

State of Ohio, Medina County ss:
On this 17 th day of February  March , A.D. 1861
Personally appeared and credible Josiah Piper and Andrew McLeary, interested witnesses who being duly sworn according to law, make oath, that they were acquainted with Peter Turrance, a Revolutionary Pensioner, in his life-time, that he died in Hinkley Twp. Medina County on the 11 th day of September, 1845, that they were present at his funeral and saw him after death; — they further make oath that they are acquainted with Olive Charlotte Morton of Chester, Geauga County, and that she is the identical person who lived and cohabited with the said Peter Turrance, as his wife, up to the time of his death as aforesaid, as they really believe
Josiah Piper Andrew McLeary
Sworn to and subscribed before me, the day and year above written. Nathan H. Whedon Justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio, } MEDINA COUNTY. }
I, ASAPH SEVERANCE, Jr., Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, it being a County Court and Court of Record, do hereby certify that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged in due form according to the Laws of the State of Ohio. Also, that Nathan H. Whedon before whom the same was acknowledged, was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified, and authorized to take such acknowledgment. And I further certify that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Nathan H. Whedon
and believe his signature above written to be genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of our said Court, at Medina, this 27 day of March , A. D., 1861
Asaph Severance Jr. Clerk.

Affidavit of Identity of Miss Charlotte Morton
Ed Bruce Cleveland. Atty for C. Morton

The State of Ohio Cuyahoga County ss
On this 26 th day of March A.D. 1862 personally appeared before me a Notary Public Justice of the Peace within and for said County Mary Ann Coburn and Mary Bolles who being duly sworn according to law make oath and say That they were acquainted with Peter Tuman, deceased, who was a revolutionary pensioner in his lifetime, and were acquainted with his first and second wife. That said Tuman's first wife, by name "Sally," died August 6, 1828 in the town of Independence, County and State aforesaid, and that said Tuman in just one year from that date married a girl by name of Charlotte Scott, who was about 18 years old at the time. That the affiants were neighbors of said Tuman for several years and for some time after the marriage of Charlotte Scott by him. That said Tuman after that moved to Hinkley, Medina Co. Ohio, some ten or fifteen miles from the residence of these affiants, where he died sometime in 1845, as they believe and understand although they are not certain of their own knowledge. That at the death of said Peter Tuman, he left his second wife the said Charlotte a widow with four or five children born after their marriage - that his said widow afterward married a man by the name of Mer- tin and moved to Chester, Geauga County, Ohio, from whom she has been divorced. That the widow aforesaid of said Peter Tuman, before her marriage was known and called Charlotte Scott - that they do not know how she came by the name of "Olive" in addition but

that Olive Charlotte Morton, of Chester, Grange County Ky., is the identical person known as the widow aforesaid of Peter Tuman the Revolutionary Pensioner aforesaid. They further swear that they are not relatives of said Olive Charlotte Morton and have no interest in her claim for pension.
Mary Ann Coburn
2 wit sign here Mary Bolles
Subscribed in my presence by said Mary Ann Coburn and Mary Bolles and sworn to before me this day and year above written. And I certify that I know said affiants to be old residents of the town of In- dependence in said County and State, and that they are respectable citizens and entitled to credit.
Wm H Knapp Notary Public

THE STATE OF OHIO, } CUYAHOGA COUNTY, SS. }
I, Frederick J. Prentiss , Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, a Court of Law and Record, of Cuyahoga County aforesaid, do hereby certify that William H. Romaph before whom the annexed Affidavit
was taken, was, at its date, a Notary Public in and for said County, duly authorized by the Laws of Ohio to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and believe his signature thereto is genuine, and that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of the State of Ohio.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court, at Cleveland, this 2 nd day of April A.D., 186 2 .
Frederick J. Prentiss Clerk. By J. B. Smith Deputy Clerk.

317.607. Act Mch 3/55-
May 6/62
Oliver Charlotte Morton
for Widg.
Peter Tuman
Pri
Revolutionary Service for pension papers
Allowed, sixty acres.
Peter Tuman, claimant has - based draw one hundred acres, in his life time.
L.M. Drury-
Examiner.
Eli Bruce
Cleveland Ohio

BY HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof in the Second York Regiment, having faithful- ly served the United States twelve years and six months and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the
14th Decr 1783 Peterborough N. York His Honor of Justice John Neele H. H. for me B. W. [unintelligible]

HEAD-QUARTERS, June 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Jumbleston, Evan GRADE Private LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 11775 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED December 22, 1794 to Henry Purdy, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.