Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3,597, for John Quick, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Quick, John Phebe
W. 3,597 B.L.H. 18027-160-55-
CONTENTS

134. 668/act Mar. 3/55
May 15/55
Phoebe Quick 10/15/55  Rev John Quick Rev
Capt Martin M. Rev Rev  W. J. Line
No 18027 Rev Oran
Mich Aug 48-1026
ad. 160 acc Mar 5/56 Dodge
Vol 2. page 185.
J. H. Hartwell Detroit Mich

Ad to Pension age 3 rd April 1843. To Michigan from 4 th March 1843 22 April 1843. Notification. Leander Chapm n . S ecy Mich n .
Suspended see letter to Pension Agent July 17 th , 1848.
and to Hon. H. S. Bingham July 17 th '48 Col. to Hon. H. S. Bingham Nov 4. '48 do. to same P. Agt. 12 Jan. '49 do to Pay March 31 1849.
Copy of this document was made by me
Michigan 12/15
New York
John Quick
Niagara, in the State of NY was a Private - in the Compy - commanded Captain M c Key - of the Reg t commanded Col. Mansfield in the N. S. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 80 - Dollars _____ Cents per an commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of May 1833 and sent to Joseph Hunter - Lockport N.Y.
Arrears to the 4 th of March 1833. $1.60 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Sept 1833. 40
$2.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk Book E. Vol. 4. Page 29.

1026 Miligan, Phoebe Quick widow of John Quick who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Pirate
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1818.
9 th May 1857
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of June 1853 and sent to
John A. Wendall Rose Midin
recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 29, 1818, Page 203 Vol. A
1887 Oct 1. Abram Quick - no law authorizing a pension or other compensation to child of Rev. Soldier.
1887 Oct 29. A S Quick that Prior there is a law prohibiting those in the service of the government from assisting others in obtaining a claim against it. Prior R d by petition to Congress
1889 May 29. A S Quick - there has been no change in the law since last writing. Prior
1889 July 31. of Graham S Quick, Much of the impropriety of soliciting the aid of this Bureau to procure to obtain a claim in his favor from Congress. Prior
1889 Sept 23. A S Quick - no law to give him pension in soliciting official he does realize its impropriety when continues to solicit such aid. Prior

John Quick was born 16 th October, 1762.
Phebe Quick was born 18 th June, 1762.
Benjamin Quick was born 3 rd May, 1789.
Nancy Ann Quick was born 3 rd June, 1792.
Jacob Melzel Quick was born 16 th February, 1797.
Fanny Lavinah Quick was born 6 th August, 1806.
William Rankin Quick was born 5 th April, 1804.
Abraham Smith Quick was born 9 th March, 1809.
Almira Quick was born 3 rd December, 1813.

Benjamin Quick
Died 24th December,
1796. Worm
Jacob Kitzel Quick
Died 18th March
1809. Worm

23380
John Quick Myork
MC
Joseph Tenue John Quick Lockport Myork

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjóined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of John Quick
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Country through which he marched. Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. Evidence by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     Enlist 1777 3 9 7 privt Capt M c Stay Col Mansfield Genl Grahm at Monmouth Princeton Princeton Samber- ton New Jersey Morristown Elizabeth Town 71 Years Asford Sussex County New Jersey Traditionary Evidence Aulity No Clergyman No Reason given  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this day of personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following ( m ) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.  6. { To a Soldier. } Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? { To an Officer. } Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?  7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposes and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[k] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[l] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[m] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[n] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

State of Michigan } Barry County } ss
On this thirteenth day of March in the year Eighteen hundred and forty three before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Barry personally appeared John Quick who on his oath declared that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Joseph Mackkey in the Regiment commanded by Colonel William Mayfield 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 of Michigan where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future. The following are his reasons for removing from the state of New York to the state of Michigan are to wit, that he might live with and be taken care of by one of his sons. And further saith not Sworn and subscribed to before me } the day and year aforesaid } John Quick
William Sutton Justice of the peace
State of Michigan } Barry County } ss
On this thirteenth day of March in the year Eighteen hundred and forty three before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Barry personally appeared Abram Quick & Lydia Morrow who being first duly sworn according to law on their oaths say that they personally acquainted with John Quick who resides in the County of Barry aforesaid, and was acquainted with him when the said John Quick resided in the town of Wilson in the County of Niagara in the state of New York. And know that the said John Quick while he there resided was a pensioner of the United States and that he is the same identical John Quick who is now residing in the aforesaid part above written and further

these deponents, I with not sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year first of course
Abraham Quick Lydia Harrow
William Sutton Justice of the peace
State of Michigan Barry County SS
I the undersigned William Sutton a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Barry aforesaid do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with John Quick and Abraham Quick and Lydia Harrow the persons who have sworn and subscribed the foregoing affidavits, and that each of said persons maintain a good reportable character for truth and veracity in the neighborhood where they each respectively reside, and I do further certify that each of their statements are entitled to full credit and belief.
Sworn under my hand this thirteenth day of March in the year A.D. 1843
William Sutton Justice of the Peace
State of Michigan Barry County
I Willard Ray Deputy Clerk in and for the aforesaid County do hereby certify that the above named William Sutton is and was at the time of his signing the above instruments a legal acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and the seal of the County, at Hastings this 20th
day of March A.D. 1843
Willard Ray Deputy Clerk

State of New York County of Herkimer December
} ss
on this thirty first day of A.D. 1852 one thousand Eight
hundred and fifty two. Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for said County & state aforesaid. Phebe Quick aged thirty years old Resident at the present of said County and state aforesaid but formerly of the state of Michigan, who Being duly sworn according to Law, declares that she is the widow of John Quick. Deceased, who was a Private in the Comp- -any Commanded by Capt. Mackey or Mac- no Judgment not known. Col. name not known. in the Revolutionary war with Genl. Bastian.
She further states. that she was married to the said John Quick in the state of New Jersey & County of Sussex By one Samuel Coon a Justice of the peace. That my Maiden Name before marriage was Phebe Smith. My husband John Quick died at Maple Grove in the County of Barry. in the state of Michigan on the ninth day of May A.D. 1851 and I still remain the widow of John Quick.
I Phebe Quick make this declaration for the purpose of obtaining a pension to which I may be entitled to under an Act Passed July 29 A.D. - 1848
in the presence of Norman Shepard
Phebe X Quick { Signature
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written
Norman Shepard { Justice of the Peace

134,658
Thube Dnick
Application and proof for Bounty Land under Act of March 3rd 1855
J. M. Hartwell Retired

State of Michigan, } ss.
County of Wayne - }
On this Eleventh day of May -
A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public within and for the County and State aforesaid, Phebe Quick aged about ninety four years, a resident of the County of Shiawassee in the State of Michigan who being duly sworn, declares that she is the Widow of John Quick who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Lewis Mackie in a Regiment of New Jersey Militia engaged in the Revolutionary War.
That her said husband volunteered at Oxford, New Jersey on or about the _____ day of _____ A. D. _____ for the term of _____ and continued in actual service in said War for the term of fourteen days or more and was honorably discharged at _____ on the _____ day of _____ A. D. _____
She further states that she was married to the said John Quick in Knowlton New Jersey on the _____ month of _____ day of May _____ A. D. _____ by one _____ Canada - Justice of the Peace - and that her name before her said marriage, was Phebe Smith ; that her said husband died near Battle Creek, Michigan on the _____ day of _____ A. D. _____ and that she is now a Widow.
That she is unable to state the particulars of her husband's services, nor can she state the precise period of her said husband's death, or the exact time when she was married by reason of impaired memory consequent upon her extreme old age. That she is a pensioner of the United States as widow of said John Quick, and receives from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions the sum of Eighty dollars per annum.
She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3rd, 1855.
Phebe Quick
We, Elisha Taylor and Joseph P. Edwards, residents of Detroit - in the State of Michigan upon our oaths declare, that the foregoing Declaration was signed and acknowledged by Phebe Quick in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the affiant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Elisha Taylor Joseph P. Edwards
The foregoing Declaration and Affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Chas. H. Hartwell Notary Public Wayne Co. Mich
AN, } ss. I _____ into subscribed his name, was, at the time of so doing, a _____ county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto is genuine. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the Seal of the County aforesaid, this _____ day of _____ 1855.

Pension Agency
District May 11. 1855
I certify that Phebe Quick who has made the within declaration is a Pensioner under Act of July 29. 1848 on the Roll of this Agency at the rate of $80. per year -
Elisha Taylor
Pension Agency

23380
In the matter of John Quick a revo- lutionary Soldier who served as a regular infantry Soldier in the war three years and nine months.

State of New York Kings Co. ss. On this 2 day of January in the year A.D. 1833 personally appeared before the court of Common Pleas in and for said county John Quick a resident of the town of Wilson in said county and State of New York who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th A.D. 1832 That he is seventy one years of age; that he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1777 with Captain Joseph Mackey and served in the regiment of Colonel Robert Moxley of the line of New Jersey under the following named officers Abram Van Etten was my lieutenant John Derksen my ensign in the company of said Captain Joseph Mackey. The major of the regiment was called Robert Bond Robert West was adjutant. Applicant at the battle of Monmouth was under the command of General Green who commanded the right wing of the army. Applicant enlisted for three years and nine months and served out said period of enlist- ment in said war. Within three weeks after said enlistment applicant was promoted to the grade of Artillery Sergeant and served as such the re- mainder of said enlistment. Applicant was discharged discharged some time in the middle of March in the year 1780. Applicant is not certain as to the time of the year he was discharged and may be mistaken yet such is his impression and belief. Applicant received a written discharge which he has lost. Was discharged at Morristown Court House

Applicant enlisted at the time of his enlistment in the Township of Orford County of Sussex and State of New Jersey - marched to Trenton and joined Colonel Mosfield's Regiment - and was in the Battle at Trenton - Applicant's Regiment was Stationed at Lambert a mile or two from Trenton and the Regiment moved early in the morning round the point of the Hill, and met the British forces at Hartz Mills, where the battle was fought - Appli- cant was in the front rank at the head of his platoon when the enemy commenced firing - Applicant fired several rounds, when the enemy gave way and retired through Trenton, the American Forces pursued through the Town of Trenton and the enemy having been met on their retreat by a reinforcement from General Lee surrendered themselves prisoners of war - In this battle applicant received a wound from a musket ball in his leg - which has produced a conspicuous scar - From Trenton Applicant's regi- ment marched to Milltown in the State of New Jersey where applicant lay with his Regiment until April - Appli- cant was in the Battle of Monmouth and was under the command of General Green - Applicant's Regiment the day before the battle lay at Morrisstown Court House - and marched at nine in the morning towards Monmouth and got into the field of action about eleven as applicant thinks in the forenoon - Applicant's regi- ment were attached to the forces under the command of General Green - The enemy retreated about the time applicant's Regiment came into action - During said period of enlistment applicant was Stationed

at Morristown and Elizabethtown and at Cam- den in the state of New Jersey. the principal point of the time. Was Stationed one winter oppo- site West point on the Highlands on the East side of the Hudson river. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.
John Quick
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the 2 d day of January in the year 1833.
R Fleming First Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a non combatant soldier and served as he states
R Fleming First Judge
C. W. Collins } Judges of J. Battlefield } the Court } of Common } Pleas in & } for the County } of Niagara.
I Henry Cattan Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Niagara do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John Quick for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 2 d day of January A.D. 1833.
Henry Cattan Clerk of Niagara County Common Pleas of General Sessions

John A. Wendell For Phebe Luck widow of John Luck Deceased
John A. Wendell Phebe Luck Michigan

State of Michigan } County of Barry } ss
On this Twenty third  fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within & for the county and state aforesaid, Abram S Quick aged forty three years and Henry Mallory aged fifty two years residents of the Township of Maple Grove in the county and state aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law saith and each for himself saith, that they were personally acquainted with the late John Quick a Revolutionary soldier late of Maple Grove in said County deceased. That the said John Quick died a natural death at the residence of A S Quick one of these affiants in said Maple Grove on the ninth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one and that he died leaving Phebe Quick his wife and now his widow of the age of about eighty three years. And that she and the said John Quick lived and cohabited together as man and wife to the knowledge of these affiants and that Phebe Quick since the death of the late John Quick has removed to the township of Rose in the County of Oakland and state aforesaid where she still resides resides, and that the said John Quick died leaving four children viz Nancy Ann Quick, Lorina Quick, William Quick and A S Quick one of these affiants according to their best information and belief. That the said A S Quick was present when

the said John Quick died and that Henry Mallory one of these affiants was present when he was laid out and buried. And further say that the said John Quick deceased was a Revolutionary Pensioner and has drawn Pension money from the Department on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. That he drew Eighty Dollars per year from the time he made his application therefor up to the time of his decease. That they lived and cohabited together for thirty eight years to the knowledge of A S Quick one of these affiants And further saith that they believe the said John Quick served in the Revolutionary war under Captain Massey that Abram S Quick has so heard his father relate it and has no doubt of its truth, and further that Phebe Quick, widow of John Quick deceased is still living and further saith not  Abram S. Quick Henry Mallory
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and year first above written And I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named affiants Abram S Quick and Henry Mallory, and that they are men of good moral character and every way entitled to credit
State of Michigan } Henry Mallory Cause of the O. M. Bottwood. County of Barry } In County of Barry do hereby Justice of the Peace
certify that O. M. Bottwood Esq. whose name is subscribed to the above Affidavit was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace in for said County duly elected & qualified and that I am well acquainted with his friendship and only believe the signature above purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County at Hastings this 23 rd day of July A.D 1881  Henry Mallory Clerk

John A. Wendell For Phebe Lusk widow of John Lusk Deceased
Jno A. Wendell Phebe Lusk

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of John Quick a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
W. File 3597
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1777* 3 yrs. 9 mos. to Mch. 80 Orderly Disch. Joseph Mackay Wm Maxwell Robert Maffield N.J.                                     
Battles engaged in, * Trenton prd. in leg- Monmouth.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Oxford Twp., Sussex Co., N.J.
Date of application for pension, Jany 2, 1833.
Residence at date of application, Wilson Niagara Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, born Oct. 16, 1762 son of Peter Quick.
Remarks: Sol. mar. Sussex Co., N.J. Mar 27 1838 Phebe Smith
he died May 9, 1857 at Maple Grove, Barry Co. Mich.
Wid. all E pens. on appln. executed Dec. 31, 1857 ae 90 res. Niagara Co.
N.Y.
Ch. Benjamin { b. May 2, 1789. Nancy Ann b. June 2, 1792. Jacob Hettel b. Feb. 16, 1797 d. Mch. 13, 1889. { d. Dec. 24, 1796 Fanny Lovinah b. Aug. 4, 1801. William Rantin b. Apr. 5, 1804. Abraham Smith Mch. 9, 1809. Almira b. Dec. 3, 1813.
Very respectfully,

Nancy Ann { m. - orin Cole - chils m Cole m. Port
Janny Garrison m. William Leach -

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, John Quick of the State of New York who was a private in the Army of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and _____ cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 14 day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
L. D. G. S.
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. S
J. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
Shawangunk - July 1843 - from N. Y.
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Nashville May 12 th 89 Mr Gen Buggsy Sir I read in the Detroit Commercial Advertiser that you have blest the poor soldier to a pension that wasrite sir I aint a soldier but I am an old man my name is Abram S. Quick I am a son of an old revolution soldier I have heard my Father his name was John Quick tell to diferent men that he was in the revo- lution wace three years and nine monts and the many battles he was in and the hardships he did endure to help drive them old torens out of the land that is now this greate america and let us never forsake the home that was there sustained for liberty my Father was a Pensioner he drew eight dollars per month then he lived in New york state

Niagara County he drew his Pension: at Lockport I came to Michigan and I bought land and made me a farm my Father and Mother were both old people past eighty years old came to me for a home I took care of them both they came in 1842 my Father died May 9 1850 then my mother took his Pension papers and drew his Pension up to 1851 or 8 then + she got killed by a stage runner over her now I want to make my talk as short as I can and have you see know what I want to ask of you I am an old man 81 years old I had a good farm and everything about me to make us well to live I had a terrible sickness come on me and it left me with such poor health I thought I never should be well again and I did what thousands have done and I soon had no home My Wife had a little property and I got my health some so that I could do some work to help along to live

up to two years last July we were again to a funeral and the hind seat had not been fastened and when the team started the seat tipped back and I fell doubled up on the small of my back and it hurt me so bad that I can't only walk at a slow rate so I can't get about to do any work and it is hard to go hungry and well you see close when there is so much in America Now I will tell what I have heard my mother tell to many people about the revolution and what her father done he offered his services at the beginning of the war to go and by Cattle for General Washington's army and followed him with cattle to the end of the war and then was paid off in continental money that dropped down not worth six cents on the dollar and she said he did not care for that they had drove the old treasuries out of the land and I have heard her tell many times that my Grandfather Peter Quick was a well to do farmer at

That time and would take his teams and draw his wheat and give it to the revolution soldiers to help make bread for them he said he and his family could live on buckwheat and rye and corn bread at home but the poor men that was out endu- ren the hardships should have the best he had to give them strength to drive the old Tories out as the land God bless the poor droops from heaven may fall on the grass that grows around his grave I have wrote a full description of my sup- four times & got an answer from Mr John C Black the bureau of Pensions at Washin- gton he wrote back that he had no power to grant a child of a revolution soldier I must ask Congress to grant me my Father's Pension and the back pay from the time it had not been paid for to the present time

I wote to Congree last fall and wote a full detail about everey thing that was wite and some things that was wrong and I havent had no anser from thare my bill must be thare among other petisions and when I red what you had done to help bless others it gave me new hope that I mite be bless by your honor I hate to go to the Countey Poorhouse to end my good old american days I think what my Father and my Grand Fathers in the days of done of life and deth to help drive them old toers out of the land that is our great ameera we live in an old shanty of a house thare is about twentey houses in this little town for sale and if I had the means to buy one and to have the means to get something to keep up life I should feel like a man again

it seems when there is so much money in the treasury it should bless and honor every man that has done his share to save the Country and aint my asken as good to me as the Wimen that akes and gets Pensions and back pay or should the old times be all forgotten I hope not Now sir will you look this over and if you dont find my bill at Washington D.C. Please to write to me and I will give you a full detail
Dear Sir, I think Nashville Barry County Cam Michigan
DEPARTMENT — OF THE — INTERIOR P. I. Pensions, Appeals. RECEIVED. MAY 15 1889
Dep't of the Interior.
May 15 1889
Respectfully Referred to the Com'r of Pensions.
Lyons Bussey
ASST. SECRETARY.

Alma
John Am. etc # 10 90

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Sept 13-1887
Maple Grove Barrey County Mich Mr Gen John C Black Bureau of Pensions at Washington City sic will you please to look my bill over and see if you cant bless me in my old aflicted days my name is Abram. S. Quick my Father name was John. Quick he was one of the old Revolution soldiers he enlisted in New Jersey he says his Captain Name was Mackey I have heard my Father tell many that he was in the War three years and nine monts and would of been there longer if he had been old enough he would of been there sooner I have heard my Father tell many of the battels he was in and the hard times they endured I cant remember but a few it is so long a time since I heard him tell it to other men they would like to hear him tell the old war stories I can remember three or four of the battles Monmouth Valley forqstonington Trenton

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the battle of Trenton was one of the great over throw to the old Tories party to help make them leave what is now our blessed America and the old Tories stands with an eye and hart against America with vengens and always will after the war my Father got Married in the state of New Jersey and lived there a number of years and then went to Pennsylvania and staid there about fourteen years was born there then they went to New York state and after living there a number of years he was summond for a juryman to Lockport and while in the Court house he told that he heard the name of Mackey and he thought it mite be some of his Captens folks and when he got a chance he spoke to him and it was his Capten and after renewin old acquaintens and takin the hard times of the revolution war my Father said he asked him if he drew a Pension and he told him he did not and he told him that he was entitled to a Pension and if he would

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come and meet him at Brockport he would get his Pension and my Father went and got his Pension papers that I know for I have seen them a many of a times he drew his Pension at Lockport Niagra County N. Y. this was about 1832 or 33 I lived there at that time I moved to Barry County Michigan in 1838 where I have lived ever since in 1842 or 43 my Father and Mother came and lived with us my Father drew his Pension at Detroit after a number of years he wanted to go to Detroit to get his Pension and I went with him to Detroit and went with him to the Pension office and he got his money the Pension officer name was Hastings my Father Died 1850 he was 88 years old then my Mother took his Pension papers and drew his Pension until she was so badly hurt by the stage run over her and broke one of her limbs twist and then run over her head and cut it terribly so that she never

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knew any thing again and died in a short time know sic will you please to grant me my Father John Leick his Pension and the back pay from the time it has not been asked for up to this time I am a poor old man that has nothing to eat or to wear to keep me warme or from bein hungry I have had anuff of every thing to live with and by doin that I had not of done I dont own one acre of Land to my name I had a good Farme of 160 acres of land 135 cleared land and good buildins and fruit of all kinds that grow here and now I havent got any thing it looks to bad it beings tears to my eyes to work as hard as I have all my life I dont believe there is a man in the United Stats that has done more hard days works then I have done and know when I am old to have nothing I could do some lite work that helped some to live now I cant I got hit a year ago this last sumer I was thrown out of a buggy and fell on the small of my back and was hit so bad that I cant onley walk about slow and in pain all the time

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she hasn't not my ashen got as much Honee to it as Mr John S. Vanbrunt he was an old naber of mine he lived near me more then twenty years he had a son that went to the late war and was shot or died by sickness Mr Vanbrunt aplid for a Pension and it was some time before he got it he got one thouzen do nine hundred dollars and his Pension papers then he went to Topeka Kanses Mr John C Delen went to the war he tels that he has got fourteen hundred dollars and it is a smouse on him he had aught of had twenty five hundred dollars I have been told by them that was in the same Compney that he was not in a battle all the time he was there he would feign to be sick or something else to get out of the battle and after the battle he would be all rite I know him well I sined a Note for him and it cost me over a thousan dollars

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now I will tell what I have heard my Mother tell about the revolution war I have heard her tell that her Father volunteered his services to buy cattle for General Washington's army and followed that to the end of the war and then was paid off in continental money that was not worth six cents on the dollar and I have heard her tell that her Father would bring a drove of cattle home and turn them on his farm to stay until they were taken to the army then he would go to look for more and I have heard her tell that my Grand Father Peter Quick would take his teams and draw his Wheat and give it to the army to help make bread for the men to live on that was after the Tories to drive them out of the country he said that he and his family could live on buckwheat and rye and corn bread Well I won't write any more I have put down the dates and where my Father drew his Pension and I suppose that you have the record of these old soldiers there to turn to find the names

In answer to yours of the 24 th inst relative to pension on account of the service of your father in the war of the Rebs, I have to state that you do not appear to realize the impropriety of continuing to repeat your solicitation for the aid of this Bureau to prepare & obtain legislation for a claim in your favor, after you have been informed that it would be in violation of an act of Congress to which a severe penalty is attached.
July 25, 1889

John Quick (deceased)
of Captain Mackey's Company
New Jersey Line Revolutionary War (Formerly a pensioner)
no O.W. Rec.
Please send papers to Committee on Pensions House of Representatives J Walter Blandford Clerk to Committee
Apr 28 - 90
4/26/90 May Barker
Delivered May 12 Record Dm

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  DEPARTMENT  RECEIVED.    — OF THE —     INTERIOR  MAY 15 1889    Bd. Pens. Appeals.   
Dep't of the Interior.
May 16 1889
Respectfully Referred to the Com'r of Pensions.
Cyrus Bussey
ASST. SECRETARY.
John Luck my order

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5 Also ans

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I can send you the names of men that knew that my Father was a Pensioner if what I have rote dont prove all right please to send me a blank and I will get it filled out and send it back to you Please bless me if you can if you dont I dont know what of me my Wife will become has a little and that helps to live at a poor rate and that grows smaller as the year passes by I trust that you can read this Please dont let me die in the poor House Please direct to Abram, S. L. Vick Nashville Barry County Mich

In answer to your communication of 12 th inst ad dressed to Apostolic Secretary of the Interior, relation to pension on account of the service of John Zwick in the war of the Revolution, I have to state that since you were advised in Oct 1887 that the children & other descendants of of John Zwick a Rev y Soldier were not entitled to pension, there has not been any change in the laws —
The circumstances alluded to in your letter have reference to Soldiers who have been actually served in a war & have lost one more limb or otherwise disabled in such service —

In reply to your request of 14 th inst forwarding your petition to Congress for a pension on account of the services of your father, John Duck, a Revy Soldier which you wish presented, you are advised that you should employ some other person for this purpose, as there is a law prohibiting those in the service of the government from assisting others in obtaining a claim against it

Upton of Rube Washington July 7. 1848
Will you be good enough to give the matter referred to in the enclosed letter your consideration and return me the letter with your answer
Truly Yours J. B. Burroughs Hon. M. Edwards

X 1 No 1.186
Phebe Quick widow of John Nich
Ino: A. Wendall Dec 7 / 1832
Ad July 29 1848

Old War Div. INB. Ex't. No. Co. _____ Reg't _____
Department of the Interior. BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Return this letter with your reply.
Washington, D.C. October 1 st , 1887
Sir
In answer to your request of the 13 th ult. for assistance on account of the services rendered by your father, John Quick, in the war of the Revolution, you are advised that, although the law provided for the pension which your father received during his lifetime, and was paid to his surviving widow, after his decease, yet, there has been no law which will  provision made in any law of Congress, allow to grant, under any circumstances, a pension, or other compensation, to have to a child of a Revolutionary soldier. Consequently, without the authority of an act of Congress in your favor, it is impossible for this office to grant the relief you have requested.
Very respectfully
Commissioner
Mr Abram S. Quick Nashville Barry County Michigan

Old war Div. J. A. P. Ex't. No. Co. _____ Reg't _____ :o: Return this letter with your reply.
Department of the Interior. PENSION OFFICE.
Washington, D.C. September 23 d , 1889
Sir,
In answer to your request of the 15 th inst for a pension for yourself on account of the Revolutionary Service of your father, John Quick, of New Jersey, I have to reply that there is no law existing under which you can obtain such pension.
In requesting official aid in prosecuting a claim in your behalf in Congress, do not appear to realize although informed of you have been informed, without realizing, its obvious impropriety, when you continue to solicit such aid.
Very respectfully
Commissioner
Mr Abram S. Quick Nashville Barry County Michigan

Old War Div. A.N.B. Ext. No. Co. _____ Reg't _____
Department of the Interior. BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C. October 1 st , 1887
Return this letter with your reply.
Sir, I received this kind letter with much thanks
In answer to your request of the 13 th inst. for assistance on account of the services rendered by your father John Quick, in the war of the Revolution, you are advised that, although the laws provided for the pension which he received during his lifetime, and after his decease, that it should be continued to his surviving widow, yet, there is no law that will authorize, under any circumstances, a pension, or other compensation, to be paid to a child of a Revolutionary Soldier. Consequently, it is impossible for this office, without an act of Congress in your favor, to grant the relief which you have requested.
Very respectfully
John C. Black Commissioned
Mr Abram S. Quick Nashville Barry Co Michigan

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Nashville & Barry Co Mich Oct 14 1884
I ask the Honorable Congress of the United States to grant Abram S. Quick a son of John Quick a Reunionary Soldier his Pension and the back pay from the time it has not been drawn my Father died in 1850 then my Mother drew his Pension until she died it was in 1857 or 8 Mr Black sir if this is rite will you please hand this to the chairman of the board you can hand what I rote to you the other time and if this is not rite will you please to get one up and send it to me to sign and if the Congress will grant me to this request and if they do take amuse to pay you for your trouble and I will be a thousand times obliged to you if they dont I must suffer for I havent any thing to do with and it looks hard if there is any thing more wanted please let me know this is from an old humbel friend
Abram S. Quick Nashville Barry Co Michigan

Old war Div. Inb. Ex't. No. _____ File 3597 Co. _____ Reg't _____
Department of the Interior BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C. October 31st, 1887
Return this letter with your reply.
Sir,
In answer to your request of the 14 th inst. that your petition for pension, on account of the services of your father, John Quick, in the war of the Revolution, may be forwarded to Congress, I regret to advise you that this Bureau would not be justified, under existing laws, in presenting your claim to Congress.
Very respectfully
John C. Black Commissioner
Mr Abram B. Quick Nashville Barry Co. Michigan

Nashville July 26 1888
Sir I beg your Pardon I thought I had sent this letter back to you and a few days ago I came across it so I will send it now I am sorry it is so I remain your most obedient friend
Heam S. Luvick Nashville
Barry County Michigan

PENNSYLVANIA JUL 30 1888 OFFICE
RECEIVED JUL 30 1888 O. W. N. S.

Huntington, Oakland Co Michigan Oct. 23 d 1848
My Dear Sir The Enclosed papers and affidavits have been forwarded to me with a request that I would transmit them to your office. It seems that the pension of John Duck a Revolution-ary soldier has been stopped on suspicion that that he was not justly entitled to it — I am personally acquainted with the persons making the affidavits — They are men of high Character and Standing, their statements are entitled to the fullest credence — and I have little doubt the pension of the old man was improperly suspended — with much

respec I am truly Yours Woon Is. Edward N. f. Brigham

Jackson Michigan March 24th 1843
Hon. L. L. Edwards Sir
I herewith enclosed & send you an application of John Brick for a transfer of the payment of his pension from the N.Y. Roll to that of the Michigan Agency, as his agent all communications on the subject heretofore sent to me as above. Also be pleased to state at what time my last installment due here was paid.
I am Sir Respectfully Your Ob. Servt, Claudius Chapman

Nashville Sep. 15 1889
Mr Pannec and Mr Bussey I am a thousand times obliged to you both for your letter it makes me feel like a new man to read your kind letter it makes me feel that you have some interest to try to help me I had all most gave up all hops that I should ever be blest in that way I thought I would write to you and give you a full detail of all that I know about different things I have always worked hard and had a good home and a nuff to make us well to live and by doin what thousands has done I soon had no home I could do some work up to about three years ago I got a terrible hurt so bad that I

can't get about only at a slow rate so that I can't do any work and that makes me so much the poorer for all that I could do was some help my Wife has a little property so we stay at a poor rate and that is growing smaller as the year goes around and if I can't get some relief by your kind assistance I must go to the County Poor House to end my life and that looks hard to me I am of a long life ease of people my Father was eighty nine when he died my Mother was ninety six when she got hurt so bad that she died in a short time I have a sister that was ninety seven last June and is quite smart I can't remember how old my grand parents were I can remember how old my grand mother Quick was I have heard my mother

tell that she was nintey nine years old when she died
Now I will tell you how my Father gat his Pension he was at Lockport Niagara County. N. Y. and there he met with his Captain they had not seen each other for a great many years and after talkin the old storrys and about the old Revolution woe this is what my Father tells he said that his Captain asked him if he drew a Pension and he told him that he was entitled to a Pension and if he would meet him at Brockport he would get him a Pension and my Father went and when he came back he had his Pension papers I have seen them a number of a time he drew his Pension at Lockport while he lived there I came to Elkins in 1837 and bought me land 160 acres rite in the heavy timber and cleared it up and had a good farm

my Father and Mother came to michigan in 1842 to live with me and my Wife then my Father drew his Pension at Detroit I went with him to detroit and went to the Pension office and he got his Pension the agent name was Hastings my Father died in 1850 then my Mother took his papers and drew his Pension till she died that was in 1857 or 58 I have heard my Father tell to many different men that he was in the Revolution war three years and nine months Now he enlisted in the state of New jersey his Captain Name was Mackey Now I will tell you what I have heard my Mother tell to many people that her Father gave his services to help

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Buye Cattle for Gen Washinton armey and that was his business to the end of the war and then got his pay in Continel money that went rite down not worth Six Cents on the dollar he did not care about that as they had drove the loyelyes all out of the land that now is our greate America and I hope the stars and stripes may wave in the breezes as long as the blessed sun may shine Now I will tell what I have heard my Mother tell what my grandfather Peter Buick done to help the soldiers to what he had to give to eat He took his teams and drew his wheat and gave it to the soldiers to help make bread for them and said he and his family could live on buckwheat and rye and corn at home but the men that was fitten for

to drive the old taxeyes out of the land should have the best he had may God bless the gears with the due drops from Heaven
Now Gentlemen I will cite what I have seen about men that went to the late war and them that did not go I had a nabee that lived site by me for more then twenty years had a son go to the war and was shot or died by sickness I dont know which his Father Mr John Vanbeum aplied for a Pension and back pay and got the papers to draw a Pension and had sent to him nineteen hundred dollars to the City of Hastings Barry Co this son was a lasey ragged boy to lasey to work and by goin to the war he got close to work and a nuff to eat

Now I will tell about two men that went to the war it was a knavehood that they went to fill their own pockets and that is the fact the one man sent home to his Wife a eleven or thirteen gray soldiers blankets for her to sell and went and bought two and paid her seven dollars a short time after he came home he applied and got a Pension and nine hundred dollars back pay then built a nice barn had a good farm and is called the toughest man in town the other man applied and told he got fourteen hundred dollars and said it was a perfect smouse on him he had out of pocket twenty five hundred dollars This name is John Dillen Now I will tell what old Daniel Clark told me he had two sons in the same company his sons told that they never was in a battle while they were there if word came

to the Camp there would be a battle in a half of an hour, time they would be all in a terbel pain and look terbel bad is such men to be suportet by the goverment and I know more about the same honer that gets Pensions Now Mr Tannee and Mr Bussey will you please to look this over and see if my asken haent got as good a claim for me or better then some of these see what my Father and my Grandfathers done in that terbel day and how to bles I took care of my Father and Mother when they ware old and poore for many years and I was poor and had up to get along in the new countrey and when I had some grain to sell the price was low I have sold wheat for 35 cents per bushel and take it in trade

Now Mr Tanner sir will you please to let Mr Bussey look to this all over and see if you cant do the thing to bless this old man that I may stay from the poor House if you can help me I want you to take anuff to pay you for all that you doo for me I haint a dollar to my name nor close to wace that is fit to be seen in the streets of Nashville and it is hard Now I ask for my Father John Buick Pension and the back pay from the time it has not been cald for the last time was in 1857 or 58 then my Mother died my Father deew eight dollars a month please let me hear from you soon your humbel servant and friend
Abraham S. Buick Nashville Barry County Michigan

J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr. of Pensions Sir
Detroit Nov. 27. 1847
I have rec. a Letter from the Son in law of John Quick a Rev d Pensioner upon the Roll of this Agency under the act of June 7. 1832. proffering me the proof that the Pensioner was only Seven years of age at the close of the War and that he had confessed to his children & others that he made the application by advice of some friends and set forth the services of a Cousin of the same name who served according to the declaration. He also refers me to some testimony to the same point which can be produced in the Western section of the State of New York. I know nothing of the parties but judge from the appearance of Quick that he could not have been of sufficient age at the close of the war to have rendered services as a Soldier.
Under the circumstances I have thought proper to suspend the payment of the last amount (due 4 th Sept r ) and request your instructions in reference to the matter.
I am Sir respectfully your Obedient Servant E. D. Hastings Pension Agent

State of Michigan } Shiawassee County } ss
Robert R Thompson being duly sworn depo- sed and says that he is a Resident of the Township of Caledonia in the County of Shiawas- see & State of Michigan that he is acquainted with John Buick of the Town of Shiawassee in the County & State aforesaid and believes him to be between eighty & ninety Years of Age and a man of good Moral Character and during the time whic- h this deponent has been acquainted with said Buick which is about six Years he said Buick has and still is Reputed to be a Revolu- tionary Soldier, and this deponent Verily believes that said Buick was a Soldier in the war aforesaid This deponent further says that he is acquainted with one William Leach of the Town of Shiawassee County & State aforesaid said Leach told this deponent that John Buick aforesaid was not a Revolutionary Soldier that he got his pension through a Cousin of the same name and that he had written to the Pension agent in Detroit Michigan dis- closing that fact and that he could prove by one Abram Buick Freeman Cole and particularly by Oren Kellogg of Marion Niag- ara County New York that said John Buick has acknowledged to them that he never was in the war aforesaid

This deponent then informed said Leach that he had seen a Letter signed by said Abram Leach denying that he or Norman Cole ever heard or knew of any Reason why said John Quick should not draw his pension, the said William Leach then denied to this deponent that he ever informed the Pension agent in Detroit aforesaid or any other person that it could be proved by any other person than Oren H. Cole of Niagara County New York but still said to this deponent that it could be proved by said Cole that said John Quick was never in the way aforesaid — This deponent then wrote to said Oren H. Cole of the State of New York as aforesaid and received an affidavit which will be enclosed. This deponent being well acquainted with said William Leach knows him to be an inebriate and a person of bad Reputation and would not put any confidence in what he has or may say about said John Quick and farther this deponent saith not.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 4th day of October A.D. 1848 Robert H. Thompson
O. C. Beatty
Justice of the Peace

1. Rose, Oakland Co Michigan
Iss. a Wendell P. M.
Rec d . May 23 d . 1853,
Rel. to the application of Phebe Duvick for Pension
May 23/53
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Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions.
Dept. Int. May 23/53 G. W. Watling
Chf. Clk.
Mayo

State of Michigan } Peter Cartter being duly Shiawassee County } sworn deposes and says that he is a resident of the Town of Shiawassee in the County of Shiawassee in the State of Michigan. That he is well acquainted with a man by by the name of John Quick residing with the deponent in the Town, County and State aforesaid. That said Quick has ever since he has been acquaint- ed with him (which is abouts five years, has been reputed to be a soldier of the Revolutionary war. That this deponent verily believes the said John Quick from his appearance is at least eighty five years of age, and from conversation with the deponent  that often has with said Quick since his acquaintance with him in relation to the war aforesaid, from the minute detail which he has often been able to give of the different battles in which he was engaged and of the events that transpired the deponent  has no doubt and verily believe the said Quick was a soldier of the revolutionary war.
That deponent further says that he has never heard it represented by any person that said Quick was not a revolutionary soldier or even intimated, except by one man by the name of Williams Leech residing in the Town aforesaid. That this deponent is well acquainted with

said Beech and knows him to be a drunkard and to be a man of strong passions and of revenge ful principles. That said Beech as this deponent knows is a bitter enemy of said John Beech and this deponent has often heard said Beech say that he would do all in his power to injure said Beech. This deponent further says that he is well acquainted with said Beech and with the reputation he sustains in the neighborhood where he lives, for truth and veracity, and this deponent from such reputa- tion and from his personal knowledge of said Beech would not believe him under oath or place any confidence in his testimony sworn and subscribe Before me
This fifth day of August 1848
Peter Gaster
From both Jrs of the Rev.

Pension Office May 30/53
Sir
Please state to what time John Quick private at $80 00 / 100 pr. Annum was paid - & the date of his death - Michigan Rolls, Act of 7 June 1832 -
Very Respectfully J Call For Com t .
Paid to 4 th March 1851, death not stated,
J Burt Auditor.
J. Burt Esq. Third Auditor Treasury -

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 29, 1848,
Mrs. Minnie Quick widow of M. Quick who was a Private in the Revolutionary war , is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars and 9 3/4 cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848 , and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior, this Third day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty-Three
P. M. Bellamy
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned
S. Prather Commissioner of Pensions.

State of New York Niagara County S Orin H. Hale being duly sworn Deposeth and says, that he is well acquainted with John Quick now living in Shiawassee County Michigan and knows, that he was a pensioner has heard said John Quick say that he was in the revolutionary service and further says that he never heard the said John Quick say that he was not in the revolutionary war or that he got his pension by his loss of the same name and further says that he is acquainted with William Leach of Michigan and has reason to believe that the statement by him to the Department was made to injure the said John Quick and further says, that he knows of no reason or fact why the said John Quick's pension should be stopped
Sworn and subscribed to Orin H. Hale before me this 19 th day of August 1848
Norman Shepard Justice of the Peace

State of New York Niagara, County Clerk's office
§ I John Van Horn clerk of said county hereby certify that Norman Shepard before whom the within affidavit was made whose name is subscribed to the certificate thereof was at the time the same purports to have been made a Justice of the peace in the said county, duly elected & duly authorized by law to administer oaths, & that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice & truly believe the signature to the certificate of said affidavit is his genuine official signature
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said county at Lockport this 21, day of August 1848
John Van Horn Clerk

MECHANICS' & FARMERS' BANK,
Albany Pension Agency,
April 7 th 1843
JAMES L. EDWARDS, Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 3 d inst I have to state, that John Quick a Pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 at eighty Dollars per annum was last paid to the 4 day of March 1842.
I am, Sir,
Very Respectfully,
Your ob't serv't,
Thos. W. Olcott
PRES'T AND PENSION AGENT.
L. J. Lewis.

Fastened with Oct 23 Mr. D. S. Edwards No. 11 men
D. S. Edwards Paid 10 Pension Agent Washington City D. C. State of Virginia

Bannington Shiawassee Michigan Oct 20 th 1892 Mr J S Edwards to your honorable sir Head agent of pensioners I wish to inform you of more John Quick Pension my wife the Daughter of John Quick says her Father moved to Canada in 187 and lived there through the American war and was a great Jory and Persecuted all the Americans he could around him soon after the war he move to Nagra County State of N Y he never claims in his Family nor to anybody else that he was entitled to any Pension. I have often heard my Father say that he was not but seven years old when the Revolutionary war commenced he was the youngest of seven Brothers I often heard him say that some of his Brothers was out in the Militia but not as enlisted soldiers after my Father obtained his Pension he said it was his Brother Phillips and he had it first so he could draw it and the family all thought so till Mother and my youngest Brother went to Jersey then they found out that Uncle Phillips never drew a Pension and since that I have heard him say that it was his Cousin John Quick Pension that he was drawing and that he was never in the service himself. I was at my Nephew Oren Cole and he says Aunt Lovina do you no how Grandfather

get his Pension then he went on to tell me that Grandfather told me all about it then he said his Grandfather was never a Minionet in the service that it was his Cousin John. Pension and the Wes put him up to get it because his Cousin John served under their Father a Captain Now if you will look at this for his Grandfather he dont tell the truth I have often seen the record of my Fathers age in his Bible and he was 80 years old the 10 th day of this Present Month. Thus I am willing to testify to it if called on by any authority Lovina Leach a wife of Wm Leach and daughter of J Quick
Now Please Sir I have something more to say in regard to the subject Mr Quick and his friends is boasting that he will soon get his Pension Mr McCarthy & Thompson advanced Mr Quick store goods on the strength of his Pension to the amount of twenty five Dollars as I have been informed and he owes Mr Cart Basler a large amount for Board for the last two years they cant bear to give him up they are willing he should rob Gov- a little longer time they can get their money Money I have had hints that they are writing slanderous letters about me I acknowledge that I said one word about Mrs Basler which was a rumor report they took me up for slander

it was tried before Judge Thompson County Court I made no defence and they got a small judgement against me that is all the record they have to to write slanderous letters about me I am willing to show to you that I am an honest man and a man of truth by as many signers as you wish Esay Roe told me last winter that he knew Mr Quick to be a false Pensioner for he told him his age and he was to young a man to be a Soldier in the Revolutionary war I have heard a number day that they should Judge Mr Quick to be over 80 years old according to his looks and I above if they have wrote anything slanderous about me Please to forward them back to me People are generally satisfied here that Mr Quick is a false Pensioner his friends are taking up for him for to get their pay of him Mr Quick has made his brags that he will spend 40 Dollars in laving me if he get his Pension it is hard for the innocent to be punished and the guilty go clear the complaint I made to Mr Hastings I am willing to qualify to when called on as far as I stated I need more at Present your Humble Servent William Leach To J Sr. Edwards }

died in a short time
Now I ask the senet at Washington to please to grant me my Fathers Pension and the back pay from the time it has not been cald for up to the present time I red in the paper that the senet met once each month and you know all about if they do or not and if they do and you will help to get the Pension and the back pay I willrite a full detail about the whole affair what my Father and what my grand- fathers both done at that dark time for to help to do all they could to help drive them to eyes out of the land which is now our great america I once had a good home anuff of everey thing to make us well to live and I had a teebel sick- ness and thought I never would get well to do aney more work and I done what thausans has done and soon found I did not own any thing I got my heth in time so I could do some work to help a little to get a little to live on up to three years this month I got hurt so bad that I cant walk ab out at a slow rate and that makes it so much the harder to live my Wife has a little property so we stay at a poor rate and we had a hard time to live thru the winter now the warme seson is gen by and the cold wintee will soon be here

again there is a number of houses in this little town for sale and if I could be blest in that way it would seem that I might live I don't want to be compelled to go to the Poor house to end my old days when I have done so much to bless the poor when I had a nuff I am of an long ease of people my Father was eighty nine past when he died and when my Mother died she was ninety six past I think I am good for a hundred
Mr Tanner sir if you will look this over and if you can bless me I want you to hold anuff to well pay you for all your trouble Now if you can make make this work please to site and I will send you a full detail all that I know about it this is from an old man I am your humbel friend
Abraham S. Quick Nashville Barry County Michigan

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Mr James Wm Fanner Commissioner Washinton D.C. sir I want to ask a favor of you will you please look this over and see if you can do any thing that will help to bless me for am an old man Eighty one years old I am a son of an old Revolution soldier I have heard my Father tell many times to different men he was in the Revolution wore three years and nine months and the many battles he was in and the names and places where they were fought and the name of his Captain and where he did en- list in the state of New Jersey my Father first drew his Pension at Lockport Niagara Country he drew a Pension of eight dollars a month after a number of years he and my Mother came to Michigan where I lived and made there home with my Wife and my self that was about 1841 or 2 then my Father drew his Pension at Detroit until he Died he he Died in 1850 may 9 then my Mother took his Pension papers and drew his Pension up to fifty seven or fifty eight then she got hurt by a stage running over her and broken one of her limbs twist and run over her head and cut it so bad that she never knew any thing and

Dear Michigan - Oakland Co. To the Commissioner of pensions
Dear Sir after so long a time I have procured the testimony of John Quick Children in behalf of Phoebe Quick the widow of John Quick a Revolutionary Soldier Deceased, born birth A. D. 1851 who was a soldier under Capt Mackey, formerly in New Jersey, the Regiment, or corps name not known. Phoebe Quick is so far advanced in life and so forgetful that but little can be learned from her. I enclose John Quick Certificate of pension, with the other papers. I do this in testimony of his service in the army, for there is not a single living witness known to Mrs Phoebe Quick, by which she can prove John Quick his service in the army of the A. S. Here is the witness in his certificate at B. I have been acquainted with John Quick & Phoebe Quick, his wife, twenty years and know they have lived together for that time, as husband & wife. They had but one child living with them at my first request, the rest had married. I am acquainted with Nancy Post, Lavinia Leach, his & his Daughters, also Abraham & Quick and have seen William Quick, at his father's when they lived in Wilson, Niagara Co. N. Y. and Abigail Quick who is dead some years since - In relation to Abraham Quick's statement as to the age of his mother there must be a small mistake I saw a copy of paper, said to be torn by Phoebe Quick, wife of John Quick, from the family record, it states the birth of John Quick, in the year A. D. 1762, & Phoebe Quick his wife born in the same year 1762. I think in June I send all the testimony as far as I have been able to obtain them in the case as yet. I hope of this Certificate, being satisfactory to the Department. I remain your Obedient Servant, asking a reference to his John Quick for some grant of pension
John A. Wendell August 16 1852

In dulge me, in Relation to Bounty lands, for Soldiers of the Revolution, If she as the widow of John Luick is Entitled to bounty lands provided he never obtained them. If Phoebe Luick his widow is Entitled in his room, or stead, if she is Entitled to pention & lands in your Discretion.
John A. Wendell
for Phoebe Luick
N.B.
Mrs Phoebe Luick, wishes a Return of her husband certificate, if it should be thought consistent, as a testimony of his services, in to him, also wishes to know If she is Entitled to his Back pay up to his Death
John A. Wendell
for Phoebe Luick

State of New York } Niagara County } ss
Harvey A. Post being Duly sworn according to law says that John Quick & Phebe Smith wife of John Quick are her father & mother & that she the said Harvey A is sixty years old in year next she remembers that they lived in the state of New Jersey when she was five years old remembers Doctor Conradus whose name is & understood by her parents that they were married by him. Their oldest child was Benjamin is dead, she being the next, her mother was about 30 years old when she was born, the children younger than her are living William & Abram, she knows that John Quick her father had a pension as a soldier of the Revolution, cannot tell the amount that he did service in, remembers the name of Captain Macke as her father said he served under him
Sworn & subscribed this 21 st Day of May 1852 before me
Harvey A. Post mark
Norman Shepard Justice of the peace
State of New York, } ss. Niagara County Clerk's Office.
I Certify that Norman Shepard Esq.
before whom the annexed Instrument in writing was proved or acknowledged, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the signature to said Certificate is genuine; and that the annexed Instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my official seal, at Lockport, in said county, this 6 th day of May 1852
J. S. Hays Clerk of Niagara County.
By H. A. Coon dep.

File 3597 Ward 3
This letter received about Oct 31 or Nov 1 1889
Nashville Tenn June 17
1889
Mr Tanner Sir I received your Kind letter with much thanks to you for writen to me and to state what you know in regard to my case I thought you had seen what I had rote to Mr Bursey and I got a letter the same time from him and he rote about the same as you did I was very much disappointed and dont know what to doo I am an old man and I got hurt about three years ago so bad that I cant onley walk about at a slow rate so that I cant get about to do any work to help a little towards geten a liven and it makes it so much the worse for me now I am old I had a good home and a nuff of every thing to make us well to live I had a terrible sickness and lost my helth and I thought I never should be well again and I did what thousans has done the same and I soon seen what I had done but it was all gon from me and I must suffer for what I have done I have thought a thousan times what shall I do and a thought came to my mind to ask the Gentelmen that rules the affairs of America to grant me my Fathers Pension and the back Pay from the time it has not been cald for to the present time I have rote a number of times and got but one anser and that was from Mr John C Black the Bureau of Pensions and he rote to me To ask Congress to

granted me that request and I did so and got no answer and I saw Mr Bussey name in the paper and I read what he had done for other men to get a Pension for them I then thought he was the man for me to ask to bless me he haint done any thing yet he rote to me about the same as you did well I cant give it up and go to the Poor house to end my life it seems to bad that I cant be blest in that way when my Father was in the Revolution war I have heard him tell a maney a time to maney diferent men that he was in the Revolution War three years and nine months he enlisted in New Jersey and his Captain name was Mackey and I have heard my Mother tell a maney a time his Father volunteered his services to help by Cattle for General Washington army and followed that hisness to the end of the War and then got his pay in Continental money that depre down not worth six cents on the dollar he said he did not care for that as they had drove the old Tories out of the land and I have heard my Mother tell that my Grandfather Peter Luck did take his teams and draw his wheat and give it to the Revolution soldiers to help make bread for them and he said he and his family could live could live on buckwheat and rye and Corn bread at home but the poor men that was out fitten to drive the old Tories out of the land should have.

the best he had Well haint my ashen got as good a foundation as some that has got big Pensions and big back pay that went to the late war that never was in a battle while they was there so men tell that was in the same company I took care of my Father and Mother when they were old and could not take care of themselves and had no home of their own I have known a number of the old Revolution soldiers and I never known any that had a home to make them well to live Now Mr Turner sir if you will try to help bless this Poor old man a thousand thanks on you I will bestow you will please to see Mr Burgess and see if you and him cant do something to help me that I shant starve and go ragged not fit to be seen on the streets and something to buy a little home with Well sir please to let me hear from you in time your humbel friend
Abraham S. Quick Nashville Barry Co Michigan
I will site about Mr John S Vanbeunt an old Knabe of mine that lived site by me for more then twenty years had a son that went to the late war and died he aplied for a Pension and the back pay and got nineteen hundred dollars and the papers to draw a Pension this was sent to him at the City of Hastings Barry Co Mich this boy was a lazy thing and never done any work to help his Father that I know

Stearns J. Quick
Please to look this over and see if you cant help bless this Poor old man that he may not go to the Poor House I am an trew old American man and it looks to hard to be a Poorer when I have had so good a home and done so much hard work I dont believe there is a man in the united states that has done more hard days work then I have done and now must I die a Poorer Please to write to me the full detail how and how to direct my bill to with much respect to you
I know men that went to the late war and it was a Knabbee hood talk that they went to fill their own pockets and men that was in the same company told that they never was in a battle while they were there if the war had come to the camp or on parade they would be terribel sick in a short time and they have got Pensions and back-pay and both own good Farms and two as tough men as there is in town I believe in write not in song let true honor be our friend and guide in all our deal then we will be write now I will write when my Father died it was in May 1850 then my Mother took his Pension papers and drew his Pension up to 1857 or 58 then she got hurt so bad by a stage running over her she died in a short time my Father drew eight dollars a month Please to read this Your humbel friend Stearns J. Quick

Brief in the case of
Phebe Quick wid: of John County and State of Michigan — act 29 July 1848 —
Claim, ("original," XXXXXXX )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Her Husband was a Pensioner & lived after 1 July 1848. original Marriage prior to 1800 proved by Family Record - which is proved to be genuine by the oaths of the children as to their ages before it was found -
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
The date of her Husband's death, established by evidence sufficient to base a certificate of Court on, viz: Two witnesses who were in a position to know, Her identity established by the fact of her returning the Pension Certificate of her Husband, & by parol testimony -
Name and residence of Agent
John A. Wendall Rose Michigan
Examining Clerk.
Thos. H. Hanson jr

Pension Department, Washington D.C. Gentlemen, -
I am anxious to obtain the record of John Quick, whom I find on the Pension List of 1881 credited to Niagara Co. Can you aid me in my search? Any assistance you can give me will be gratefully received.
June second. Yours very truly - Clarissa Cook Weston
(Mrs. Geo. B. Weston 891 Richmond Ave Buffalo - N.Y.)

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1909 June 14. Hist. to Mrs. Geo. B. Weston &
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3597
Phebe Luick Widow John Luick Br. Rev. Wm
Act: July 27, 1848
Index:—Vol. M. , Page 146.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Luick married Barnes Co Dakota

State of Michigan } ss Shiawassee County }
Alexander McArthur being duly sworn deposes and says that he is a resident of the Village of Corunna in the County and State aforesaid that he is well acquainted with John Buick who resides in the Town of Shiawassee County & State aforesaid. that he has been so acquainted with said Buick nearly Six Years during all which time said Buick has been reputed to be a Rev- olutionary Soldier and from his appearance should think he is more than eighty five Years of Age and has the Reputation of being a man of good moral character And this deponent verily believes the said Buick served as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution and has never heard any thing to the contrary from any one except One William Leach who is a Resident of said Town of Shiawas- see aforesaid And this deponent being well acquainted with said Leach knows him to be a man of Revengeful disposition, of intemperate habits and would not place any confidence in any thing he has or might say in Relation to said John Buick and this deponent further says that said William Leach was prosecuted for Slander in the fall of 1847 and John Buick aforesaid was sworn as one of the witnesses on the trial of said cause, that a Judgment was rendered against said Leach which on which an Execution subsequently issued said Leach was much exasperated and frequently said to this deponent that he would do all in his power to injure said

John Quick, subsequently and during the last Summer said Leach told this deponent that he had written to the Pension agent at Detroit Mich., informing said agent that said Quick was not a Pensioner but that in case this deponent would get the execution withdrawn which was is- sued in cause aforesaid that he said Leach would retract all he had said or written and would cause the payment of his Pension to be resumed and further this deponent South not Sworn & Subscribed A. M. Hutton before me this 4 th day of Oct., A.D. 1848
Chas Beatty Justice of the Peace

Dear Robert McClellan
Secretary of the Interior
Dear Sir
Indulge me, to trouble you, as I am doing so, with more hope and confidence now. than in the past. About one year or over I forwarded to the Pension Office testimonials together with a certificate of pension of John Leech a Revolutionary Soldier, who had the favor of the Laws of the U. S. Regulating the pensions. The cause of my forwarding, such testimonials, was to obtain a pension for Phoebe Leech, his widow, now helpless and depends on the favor of her friends. I sent forward the dates of his old age pension with the names of their children his grand daughter and son - these two Residents of Michigan. I sent forward the Family Record his application for the pension, she being the widow of John Leech, the pensioner, who served under Capt. Mearns on Mackinac New Jersey, in the Revolution. They were married by a Samuel B. Canaday, a physician who then officiated as a Justice of the peace, he gave a Marriage Certificate, which was preserved for a long time, and then lost in their removal from place to place.
It is the cause that the family Record does not set forth the date of their marriage was because they had a certificate of marriage but that is lost and not one person living who was present at the marriage. The marriage was either in the year 1787 or 1788 in the month of May this she was the time

They was married. and about one year after, to wit 1789 Benjamin Leach. Their first son was born. This will be seen by the family Record. Then Nancy Leach was born June 1792 the next child. Now the wife of Origen Post, his wife, was taken before Esq. Shepard, she set forth in testimony of his Father & Mother living together from the time of his remembering before 1800 - the other children acted as witnesses the Certificate, by which he drew his pension, is another strong testimony, his Affidavit and Certificate that she is the widow of John Leach who died, at Maple Grove Michigan over two years since. The Family Record of the Births and Deaths of their children. Excepting the time of their Marriage. All is before the pension office. The Certificate being lost
Now Friend R. McLehler shall this as it now stand. because the Certificate is lost and the witnesses all dead who was present at the Marriage. and no record any further. Shall the Thurler Leach be deprived of that which the government intended she should have. I can't barely believe, but she will soon have a decision in her favor. If not let us know for I can't come to working to vindicate her claim now fully. This Favors you Politically. Friend
John A. Wendell P. M. Rose
as to there is some back pension money due to John Leach widow. Thurler Leach. The applicant
Caledon County Mich Attest for T Leach

Non-James E Heath Commr of Pensions
Dear Sir
with that anxiety which is characteristic of a petitioner, whose maintenance is dependent on the favorable decision of the pension department of the U. S. I take the liberty to ask for a decision either bearing favorably or not so in the matter of Mrs Phebe Quick the widow of John Quick a Revolutionary pensioner. Should your deliberations have come to a decision on her parts if she is not entitled to offer so much testimony by her oldest daughter Abigail Post Lovina Leach & Abraham Quick together with John Quick pensioner certificate and the family record of all three children which was born whilst they lived together is all that can be proven on the part of Mrs Phebe Quick. for she says the certificate of marriage she once had but was lost and the witnesses present at her marriage and the Justice of the peace who performed the marriage ceremony has long since died. I feel anxious on my part in her behalf. I received a note from her friend the first of March stating these circumstances would not warrant their keeping the old lady they must send her to County Down for her maintenance if she was not entitled to a pension please favor me as soon as convenient with a reply and I am much obliged your Obedient Servant
March 28-1853
John A Wendell P.M. Hon.

Hon James E Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir

To the Hon D Heath Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir I must once more trouble you in relation to Mrs. Phoebe Quick Application for a pension from U. S. Government. I have at this late hour, been able to forward, for the use of the pension office, a part of the family Record. It is very much torn by Mrs. Phoebe Quick, who did at the time she left the residence of her son Abraham I Quick. torn from the family record that part which had his husband & his name on and age & and carried it away with her. I have not been able to get the possession of that part of the record, and I think more than probable she has lost it for she does some things wrong in her dotation you will see that Mrs. Nancy Ann Post whose testimony you already have is the first name on the Record Fanny Lavinia Quick is the Lavinia Quick his testimony you have. And Abraham Smith Quick his son is the person who forwarded to me that part of the family record which I now enclose and forward. William H Quick is a resident in Canada. & Almira Quick has died after the family emigrated to Michigan. This Record was taken from the old family Bible by Abraham S Quick his son and brought to me by one of his grand sons William Cole one of Mrs. Nancy Ann Cole now by his marriage is Nancy post
P.S. I most earnestly hope that this part of the Record may prove to be sufficient for she is nearly and can remain a living witness of the Revolutionary struggle.

N.B. I holds a power of attorney, from under the hand of Mrs. Phoebe Lueck, to draw her petition if she can obtain it by Just and Lawful means and she states that her husband was entitled to some back pension at his decease, which she wishes to draw also
Remaining your Obedient Servant
John A. Wendell Port Huron Rose Oakland County Michigan
Jan 21 - 1858
P.S. Ten min after writing the above I received from Mrs. Phoebe Lueck the Remaining Part of the family Record which I now enclose with her affection and affectionate yours John A. Wendell Mary L. Phoebe Lueck

State of Michigan } Levinah Leach of Sheboygan County p 3 } said County being duly sworn deponent and saith that she is fifty two years old or thereabouts that she is the daughter of John Quick who departed this life in May  June A D one thousand eight hun- dred and fifty one at Maple Grove in the County of Barry in said State, that her mother the wife of John Quick when now is Phoebe Quick is still living and now resides in the Township of She- boygan in said County of Sheboygan that she knows the said John Quick and Phoebe Quick lived together as husband and wife from the year A D one there- sand eight hundred and three to the time of his death in A D (1851) one thousand eight hundred fifty one and that during all that period the said Phoebe Quick was reputed as the wife of the said John Quick That the said John Quick was a Revolu- tionary Pensioner and received as such pensioner from the General Govern- ment the sum of eighty dollars per annum This affidavit is made for the purpose of enabling my mother Phoebe Quick to have her name placed on the pension list and further this deponent saith not sworn to or subscribed before Sumner Leach  her me this eight day of June mark A D 1852 and I certify that the said Levinah Leach cannot write her name and that the same was written by me and that she made her mark between the two portions of her name I also certify

that I believe the said Lovener Leach to be the daughter of the said John Danch and Phebe Danch and I know the said Phebe is the reputed wife of the said John Danch Luke H Parsons
Judge of Probate
State of Michigan Shiawassee County ss } I Ebenezer S Wade clerk of the circuit court and County Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Luke H Parsons before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same Judge of the Court of Probate of said County duly authorized and empowered to take the same that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge of Probate and fully be- lieve his signature above is genuine
STATE OF MICHIGAN, } ss. COUNTY OF SHIAWASSEE. }
I, Ebenezer S. Wade County Clerk of said county do hereby certify that Luke H. Parsons Esq. whose name appears attached to the above proof and before whom the same was made was at the date thereof a Judge of Probate in and for said County duly qualified and authorized by the Laws of this State to do the same, and that his signature thereunto annexed is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I do hereunto affix my name and the Seal of the Circuit Court of said county at Corunna the Eighth day of June A. D. 1852
Ebenezer S. Wade County Clerk.

that I believe the said Lovina Leach to be the daughter of the said John Dush and Phebe Dush and I know the said Phebe is the reputed wife of the said John Dush Luke D Parsons
Judge of Probate
State of Michigan Shiawassee County ss
I Ebenezer D Mode clerk of
the circuit court and County Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Luke D Parsons before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same Judge of the court of Probate of said County duly authorized and empowered to take the same that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge of Probate and fully believe his signature above is genuine
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County and Court at Corunna in said County this eighth day of June A D 1852

John & Wendele For Peter Smith widow of John Smith Deceased