Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23776, for David Loofbourrow, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Loofbarrow, David a Loofbarrow
S. 23776
CONTENTS

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 6 th 1838 from March 4 th to Sept r 4 th 1841. Ag t notified June 10 th 1842.
Date of death not on AB
6597 Pittsburgh
David Lovfborrow
of in the State of Penn a who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Sealy of the Reg t commanded by Col. Martin in the New Jersey line for 12 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 40 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of Mch 1833 and del d to Hon ble A. Stewart H. R
Arrears to 4th of March 1832 60.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4, Sept r 1833 } 20. —
$ 80. —
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by McDuffie Clerk Book 5 Vol. 2 Page 199.

Declaration of Louis Lofborough Solomon of the Plantation
Admitted
12 mo —
$40 —
Hon A. Stewart
Mar 50 ch 120

Fayette County Pennsylvania
On the 25 th day of Oct 1832 personally in open court before the Judges of the court of common pleas for the county of Fayette State of Penna now sitting. David Lofborrow a resident of the county & state aforesaid aged seventy four  seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th day of June 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated.
That he was born in Huntingdon county New Jersey on the 2 nd day of March 1855. That in 1876 he resided in Morris county New Jersey & was living there when he went into the service. That in May or June 1876 he enlisted with Capt Sealy for six months and belonged to Col Martins Regt. That he was first marched from Morris county to the City of New York and was there stationed a short time. Was then marched to Long Island, and was engaged in the battle of Long Island on the 27 th day of August 1876 That after the battle he was marched back to New York, and was there taken sick & remained sick until after his term expired That he thinks he may have been sick six or eight weeks. That in 1878 he enlisted

ten under Capt Edward for three months, but cannot recollect who was his Col, That this service was performed on the coast along the Jersey shore
That in the year 1777 he volunteered in Captain Cook's company of New Jersey Militia for three months and served this term in and about the Scotch plains, and was engaged in a small battle or skirmish near that place. That the whole period of his services was one year. That his memory is much impaired and prevents him from making a satis- factory statement of his services as he could wish.
To the interrogatories of the War Department he makes the following answers.
1 st That he was born in Hunterdon county New Jersey on the 2 nd day of March 1755 2 nd That he has a record of his age in his Bible 3 d That when he entered the service he resided in Morris county New Jersey. That he continued to reside there some years after the war. Then removed into Pennsylvania & from thence to the state of Ohio. & from thence to Fayette county Penn a 4 th The manner in which he was called into the service as above stated. 5 th The officers such as he can recollect are named above & the general circumstances of his service. but his frail memory prevents him from stating particulars 6 th He does not recollect that he ever received a written discharge 7 th The Hon Andrew Stewart & Genl Solomon of Braddock's wife certify as to his reputation He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
David Loofborough
Sworn & subscribed 26th Oct 1832
Coram H. W. Beason
Proby

Fayette County
We Andrew Stewart Member of Congress residing in Union town Fayette county pa and Solomon G. Kripps Senator from the same district. Certify that we are acquainted with the Rev David Rootborough who has indorsed & sworn to the above foregoing declaration. That we believe him to be exactly seven years of age. That he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Andrew Stewart Solomon G. Kripps
Sworn & subscribed 26th Oct 1832 Conam A. W. Reason Bothy
And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after hearing the testimony of the witnesses presented by the two departments. That the within named application was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the said court do further certify that it appears to them that the Hon A Stewart and Solomon G. Kripps who have signed the above certificate are residents of Fayette County Penn te and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Fayette County Pennsylvania
I Henry W. Berson Prothonotary of the court of common pleas in & for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of David Rootborough for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office the 28th day of December A D 1832 H W Berson Proth ty

November 17, 1936
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BA-J/ENL David Loofbourrow-S.23776
Stella Miller 187 North London Street Mount Sterling, Ohio
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Jonathan Loofbourrow and David Loofbourrow, brothers, who served from New Jersey in the Revolutionary War.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon the military service in the Revolutionary War of a Jonathan Loofbourrow, all spellings of the surname searched. Such claims are the source of the data furnished by this office. The record of David Loofbourrow has been found and is furnished herein as found in pension claim, S.23776, based upon his military service in the Revolutionary War.
David Loofbourrow(the name appears, also, as Loofborrow) was born March 2, 1755, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Morris County, New Jersey, David Loofbourrow enlisted in May or June, 1776, served six months in Captain Seeley's Company, Colonel Martin's New Jersey Regiment, and was in the battle of Long Island: he enlisted in 1777, and served three months in Captain Seward's New Jersey Company and three months in Captain Cook's New Jersey Company and was in a skirmish at Scotch Plains.
After the Revolution, he continued to reside in New Jersey for several years; then moved to Pennsylvania; thence to Ohio; then returned to Pennsylvania.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 25, 1832, while residing in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He was referred to as the Reverend David Loofbourrow. He signed Loofbourrow, was pensioned Loofborrow.
There are no data as to soldier's family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, David Loofborrow(S.23776), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
David Loofborrow, Certificate No. 6597, issued March 2, 1833, rate $40 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Pittsburgh Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Pay the Court to Pennsylvania
Personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and for Fair County David Loofborough who being sworn according to law deposes as follows - That he knows of no clergymen in this part of the country on whom he could call to make the certificate in his application required by the Department. That he has only resided in Fayette County Penn'a three years, and that no clergymen lives in his neighborhood. This deponent further states that he knows of no person at present by whom he can prove his services - having been raised in Morris  Sussex County N Jersey - and does not know that any of the persons with whom he served in the Revolutionary War, to be living at present
Sworn & Subscribed David Loo Sparrow
Before James Emerson
Febr 26 1833
State of Pennsylvania } Henry W. Bevan Prothonotary of the Fayette County } Court of Common Pleas in & for said county doth
Court of Common Pleas in & for said county do certify that James Lindsay Esq. before whom the above Affidavit was made is and was at the date thereof a magistrate as above said & that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court at Union Town the 26 th February 1833
W. W. Beman Pittsfield

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
June 2 d , 1842.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"
David Voorhies, _____
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburgh, Pa. Agency, at the rate of Forty _____ Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of March, to the 1 st Sept. 1841
Respectfully, yours,
Woodrow L. Parsons
COMPTROLLER.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Notation
23776. INVALID.
File No. 23,776
David Loughborough His Rev War
Act: June 7 th 98 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 245
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1911 May 17 Hist. to Mrs. Benjamin Weir. V.P.M. 1911 Aug. 11 Mrs. Benj. Weir marriage + death not stated also how to apply to aud. 1919 Dec 27 Hist. to R. Loughborough also data furnished must to apply to aud. for Interior Dept. 1936 Apr 6 - list to Mrs. Reg D. White - Ek 1936 - Nov 17 - list to Stella Miller - Ek

Mrs. Benjamin Weir Newton Ill.
Madam:
In reply to your letter date the 6 th and recd the 8 th inst you are advised that in the claim of David Loofborrow pensioned Loofborrow S.T. no 23776 Res. War it is not stated that he was wounded in a battle nor is there any data as to his mar- riage or death For date of last payment of pension person to whom pd. and probable date of death application should be made to the And. for Int. Dept. U. S. Treasury Dept. citing the following data: David Loofborrow, Ctf No. 65-97: issued Mch. 2. 1833

$40.00 per annum from March 4, 1831. Act June 7, 1832, Pittsburgh Agency J.W. & N. Div. _____, Ex'r. No. _____
3-384. (Old No. 3-479b.)
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
The above title should be indorsed on every paper relating to this claim.
Washington, D. C., _____, 190_____
In the above-entitled claim for pension, the family Bible should be taken before some officer authorized to administer oaths, who should make a copy of so much of the record contained therein as refers to
and certify under his seal to the correctness of the copy. He should also state in what year the Bible was printed, whether the record bears any marks of erasure or alteration, and whether, from the appearance of the writing, he believes the entries to have been made about the dates given.
This circular should be returned with the evidence.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Mount Sterling, Ohio,
October 27, 1936.
Department of Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington D. C.
Sirs:
Would like the pension application of two brothers of New Jersey who served in War of Revolution. Original application and service earnestly desired. Jonathan Loofbarron (also spelled Loveberry) b 1753 either Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co. N.J. or Hunterdon Co. N.J. died Perry Co. Ohio 1837 A New Jersey record gives him as a lieutenant wounded at Brandywine. He married first New Jersey. do not have wife's name or death; married second Perry Co. Ohio, May 18, 1819 Barbara Sherg who outlived him.
2. David Loofbarron b. Hunterdon Co. N.J. March 2, 1758. d. Fayette Co. Pennsylvania about 1848. Served in Revolution. Pensioned 1832 while living in Fayette Co. Pennsylvania; married Burlington N.J. Nov. 29, 1779, Amy Gaskill. Baptist minister.
Thanks very much for these records of pension and service. Find this name also spelled Longborough, Luffbury. Luffborough, Luffbarron and a few other variations.
Very truly yours, Stella Miller. 187 North London Street Mount Sterling, Ohio

Orient, Ohio, Mch. 16, 1936.
Department of Interior, Bureau of Pension Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Please send me the original pension application of David Loofbourrow who was born March 2, 1775 and died in Fayette Co., Penn. after 1848.
The pension was granted in 1832 while living in Fayette Co., Penn.
(Mrs.) Roy S. White Orient, Ohio. R.F.D.-#1.
Yrs truly

one 2 nd Postage Stamp Recd. H. B. S.
Rev Sec C.W.
101 Glendale Park, Rochester, N.Y. Dec. 10, 1919.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:
Loofborough
In 1832 David Loveberry, living in Springhill Township, Fayette County, Pa., was drawing a pension from the U.S. Government as a Revolutionary veteran.
The name is variously spelled Luf-, Lough-, Loof-, Lof-, -bury, -boro, -bourrow, -borough, etc.
I would like to know when this pension stopped, whether it was paid to any one after David's death, and if so to whom, and to what Post Office address it was last sent.
Any information bearing on the subject that you can give me will be greatly appreciated.
This man David enlisted in New Jersey.
Respectfully yours,
R. Loughborough

Newton, Illinois
August 6, 1911
Department of the Interior Washington D. C.
I am writing you for further information in regard to David Loofbourow, a revolutionary soldier. On May 17, 1911 you sent me a record of his war services and the fact that he received a pension. Can you tell me when and where he died? Was he wounded in any battles? Do your records show the date of his marriage

to Amy Gaskill:
Any information you can furnish me I shall greatly appreciate.
Very truly yours
Lotta D. Johnson Weir (Mrs. Benjamin Weir)

19 Bluff View Chattanooga, Tenn.
May 11, 1911
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C. Dear Sir.
I am writing you to discover whether you have on your records of Revolutionary soldiers the names of David Loofborrow , who probably enlisted from Pennsylvania , and Eleazar Johnson , negard from Maryland . If so, will you

please send me the data concerning them. I shall appreciate any information you can give me.
Very truly yours
Lotta D. Weir (Mrs. Benjamin Weir)

April 6, 1936
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BA-T/EEL
David Loufbourrow-S.23776
Mrs. Roy S. White R.F.D.# 1 Orient, Ohio
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of David Loufbourrow, who was granted pension in 1832, while living in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.23776, based upon the military service of David Loufbourrow in that war.
David Loufbourrow (the name appears, also, as Loofbourrow) was born March 2, 1755, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Morris County, New Jersey, David Loufbourrow enlisted in May or June, 1776, served six months in Captain Seeley's Company, Colonel Martin's New Jersey Regiment, and was in the battle of Long Island; he enlisted in 1777, and served three months in Captain Seward's New Jersey Company and three months in Captain Cook's New Jersey Company and was in a skirmish at Scotch Plains.
After the Revolution, he continued to reside in New Jersey, for several years; then moved to Pennsylvania; thence to Ohio; then returned to Pennsylvania.
He was allowed pension his application executed October 25, 1832, while residing in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He was referred to as the Reverend David Loufbourrow.
There are no data as to family.
Your stamped self addressed envelope is returned herewith.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Rev. War Section.
3-1864
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
December 27, 1919.
WASHINGTON
R. Loughborough, 101 Glendale Park, Rochester, N. Y.
Sir:
In order to ascertain the date of last payment of pen- sion name and residence of person paid and possibly the date and place of death of David Loofborrow pensioned Loofborrow .
" Certificate No. 6597, issued March 2, 1833, $40. per annum from March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, Pittsburgh Agency."
you should forward this letter to The Auditor for the Interior Department,
14" and B Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Very respectfully,
E. C. Newman Acting Commissioner.

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
David Loofbourrow S. 23776
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 22 June 1776 6 mos. Pvt. Seeley Martin N.J.   1777 3 mos. Vernon   1777 3 mos. Coak          
Battles engaged in, Long Island; battle on sk. near Scotch Bonnet Residence of soldier at enlistment, Morris Co. N.J. Date of application for pension, Oct. 26, 1832. His ch. was al. Residence at date of application, Lawrence Co. Penn. Age at date of application, b. in Huntingdon Co. N.J. Mch. 2, 1755
Remarks: Soldier is referred to as Reverend David Loofbourrow
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.