Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3253, for Mordecai Morgan, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Pension
Morgan, Mordecai
No. 32 53
Hollinshead, Sarah
B.L.Wt. 1170-200
or Hollingshead
(Former widow.)
CONTENTS

Warrant No 1170, issued to Sarah Hollingshead, mother and heir of her son - Mor- decai Morgan Jun r who was only heir of Lieut: Mordecai Morgan Sen r of the Penn a line - April 18 th 1827 -
Deliv d to the Hon: G Wolfe

Reported
C.W. Bennett March 30 1853
A. R. Jackson Sept. 19. 1857
799 Annals of Phila. Sarah Hollingshead widow of Mordecai Morgan who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Lieutenant
Pension
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 289. Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19. day of July 1848. and sent to
Wm Henry Nes. Hoff
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 224, Vol. 2

State of Pennsylvania } 88. County of Northampton - - - }
Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, for said County, Sarah Hollinshead late Sarah Morgan and made oath, in due form of law, that she is the mother of Mordecai Morgan who was the son and Lieutenant heir at law, of Mordecai Morgan late a soldier in the ninth Regiment of Infantry and that the said Mordecai son of Mordecai died a minor intestate leaving no issue
Sworn and subscribed before me, this
13 day of March - 1826
Peter Hollinshead J. P.
Sarah Hollinshead
Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the aforesaid County, Samuel Drake Sew and Samuel Rees credible and disinterested witnesses, and made oath, in due form of law, that they are acquainted with the above mentioned Sarah Hollinshead late Sarah Morgan and that she - is the reputed mother of the said Mordecai Morgan who died leaving no issue and who was the only child and heir at law of Mordecai Morgan and that a lieutenant as above mentioned
Sworn and subscribed before me, this
13 day of March - 1826
Peter Hollinshead J. P.
Samuel Drake Sew
Sam Rees
Note.—If the person died without leaving child or children, &c. it must be so stated.
I, Matthias Gays  Brother Clerk of the County Court, do certify, that Peter Hollinshead Esq. before whom the above Affidavits were taken, was at the time a Justice of the Peace for said County. Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this 28 th day of March - 1826
Matth. Gays Clerk

I know all men by these presents that we James Hollinshead and Sarah his wife late Sarah Morgan do hereby constitute and appoint George Wolf Esq to be our true and lawful Attorney for us and in our name and in the name of the said Sarah Hollinshead late Sarah Morgan to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a Warrant for the quantity of land due to the said Sarah in right of the said Mordecai Morgan deceased as her at law of the said Mordecai Morgan deceased. And our said Attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute one or more Attorney or Attorneys under him for the special purpose above expressed Witness our hands & seals the 13 day of March 1826
Attest
Daniel Rees James H Rees
James Hollinshead
Sarah Hollinshead
State of Pennsylvania } Northampton County ss }
Personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace of the County aforesaid the above named James Hollinshead and Sarah his wife & acknowledged the above power of Attorney to be their Act and Deed for the purposes therein mentioned. Witness my hand & Seal the 13 day of March 1826
Peter Hollinshead
James Hollinshead

no 8418 ✓ Sarah Hollinshead formerly widow of Mordecai Morgan Pennsylvania
act 7 July 38
23 Aug t 42.
adm. d
21 mo 1309 L.
$289:33
Henry Northup Present.

State of Pennsylvania Monroe County ss
At a court of common Pleas held in and for said County on the ninth day of September
Anne Donini on thousand eight hundred and forty two, personally appeared in open court Sarah Hollingshead a resident of said County aged seventy-two years who being first duly sworn doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Acts of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 and the 23 d of August 1842 granting Pensions to Widows of Persons who served during the Revolutionary War - That her first husband was Mordecai Morgan an Officer of the Pennsylvania line of the Army of the Revolution, the precise rank and regiment he belonged to she does not know, nor when he entered the service or who under or when he left it, or the battles through which he marched or the battles in which he fought all happening before her marriage with him, but she has been induced to believe that he left the service in the Ranks of Sentiments of the 9 th Pennsylvania Continental Regiment and also has reason to believe that he held a Staff appointment at the same time but is by no means certain - That her Maiden name was Sarah Shroud , that she was married to the said Mordecai Morgan in the house of her father Jacob Shroud in the Village of Shad- -sburg on the thirteenth day of November seventeen hundred and eighty seven by Benjamin Van Campen a Justice of the Peace of at that time Northampton County and State of Pennsylvania , that her said husband departed this life on the Tuesday fourth day of April following (1788) That she again intermarried with James Hollingshead on the thirteenth day of July seventeen hundred and ninety four , and the said James Hollingshead died on the fifth day of March eight hundred and thirty-one - That she has not at this time any record or documentary evidence of her marriage to the said Mordecai Morgan , nor does she know where any is to be found - neither marriage license or the recording of mar-

riages being as she is informed made matters of Record in Pennsylvania - that she has lived in the same vicinity and has done so all her life and there are numerous living witnesses who were present at the time of her marriage to her first husband Mordecai Morgan, and also at her marriage with her last husband James Hollinshead - She further states that her first husband Mordecai Morgan had a brother named Enoch Morgan, who was also an officer in the War of the Revolution, who also lived and died in this vicinity - And she also further states that some fifteen or eighteen years ago she drew from the United States a land warrant for two hundred acres of land in right of her first husband the said Mordecai Morgan - that she is at this time a widow and has been ever since the death of her last husband the said James Hollinshead Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year first above written before
Sarah Hollinshead
Myself Presiding Judge
Personally appeared Ann Hollingshead and Hannah Starbird witnesses of respectability and who are personally known to the Court as such who being duly affirmed according to law, say that they were personally present when Sarah Bond the same individual who signed the foregoing declaration in their presence and Mordecai Morgan were united in marriage in the village of Strasburg in the then County of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania was in the house of her father Jacob Bond the ceremony being performed by Esquire Sam Campau that the said Mordecai Morgan had been an officer in the army of the Revolution and such was at that time and has been ever since the understanding in this neighborhood he having also a brother Enoch Morgan a Revolutionary officer who lived and died in this vicinity being at the time of his death a Revolutionary pensioner. that they cannot at this day state the day and year on which

said Marriage took place, but that it was fifty five or fifty six years ago - that the said deceased Morgan departed this life in a very few months thereafter committing suicide That he left a Posthumous child, who also died in early life - That his said widow again intermarried with James Hollinshead forty eight years ago. And that the said Hollinshead has not been dead Eleven years, his widow still surviving and is yet a widow - That the deponents are now the former sixty five years of age and the latter seventy eight years of age and have been well and intimately acquainted with the said Sarah from their earliest recollection to the present day, being sisters of the said Sarah  affirmed to and subscribed in open Court the ninth day of September Eighteen hundred and forty two before me  Ann Hollinshead Hannah Starbird  My uppers Pres Judge
State of Pennsylvania Monroe County ss
I, John Keller Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monroe aforesaid, do hereby certify that William G. Gup, before whom the foregoing declaration of Sarah Hollinshead, and the affidavit of Ann Hollinshead and Hannah Starbird was affirmed and subscribed, is the President Judge of said Court of Common Pleas and that the signatures thereto annexed are his genuine signatures - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Stroudsburg this twelfth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two.
John Keller Protho

no 1170
W. way

Very
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3253
Sarah Kollingshead Formerly, Widow - Mordecai Morgan, St. Rev. War.
Act: Feb. 2 1848
Index: —Vol. A , Page 341
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sarah Hollingshead
Aug 28 '43
Pa Mar 3 1843 Sarah Hollingshead
389
#289-
Edwards Pension Office Washington City
Wm Davis Stroudsburg Monroe Co. Pa

State of Pennsylvania Monroe County ss
On this twenty third day of August A D 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Sarah Hol- linshead a resident of the Township of Shoshan in the County of Monroe aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following dec- laration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That her first husband was Mordcai Morgan an of- ficer of the Pennsylvania line of the army of the Revolution, the precise rank and regiment he belonged to she does not know nor when he entered the service or who under, but she has been induced to believe that he left the service in the rank of Lieutenant of the 9 th Pennsylvania Continental Regiment. That the said Mordcai Morgan departed this life on the twenty fourth day of April 1778. That she again intermar- ried with James Hollinshead on the thirteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four and the said James Hollinshead died on the fifth day of March eighteen hun- dred and thirty one. That as the widow of the said Mor- decai Morgan, she received the sum of Two hundred and Eighty nine dollars and thirty three cents per annum, under the acts of July 7, 1838 and 23 d of August 1842. She further de- clares that she is still a Widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on 3 d  Sarah Hollinshead the day and year above written before
John W Burnett J.P.
State of Pennsylvania Monroe County ss
I, John W Burnett a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Monroe do hereby certify

That Sarah Hollinshead the foregoing declarant is personally known to me, and that I know her to be the Sarah Hollinshead who recently obtained a pension from the United States, as the widow of Lieutenant Mordecai Morgan of the Pennsylvania Line of the Army of the Revolution. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the twenty third day of August A.D. 1843
W. Burnett
State of Pennsylvania Monroe County } ss
I, James H. Shoud, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monroe, do hereby certify that John W. Burnett
before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn to and subscribed and who has signed the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly constituted and appointed and that the signatures thereto annexed are his genuine signatures. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty fourth day of August A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty three
J. H. Shoud, Prothonotary
and said John W. Burnett
John W. Burnett

Shrewsbury Pa.
Shrewsbury Monroe County Pa Aug 1-24-1843
J. L. Edwards Sir
In with send the declaration of Sarah Hollinshead for a Pension under the act of 3 rd of March 1843. If acceptable please forward her certificate to me or to her directed as above
Very Respectfully
Yours
M c Davis
Verel
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Sarah Hollinshead formerly widow of Mordecai Morgan Pennsylvania
Suspended
See let 20 Sep. 1842 (H. Northrup)
1.16. 12 7-27 21 13
24 320 21 21 320 640
Act 7 July 1838

Oct 15/94 Application of Mrs. Sarah Hollingshead wid. of Mordecai Morgan for increase of pension
Oct. 15/94
Hon. J. P. E. Heath.
Genl. Pensions Pension Office

Sarah Billingshead
for next of
Marcus Morgan
B.R. 10 277 48
Third Auditor of the Pension Office Washington D.C.

Pension Office Sept. 18. 1857
Sir
Please state to what date Sarah Hollingshead, Pa roll, at $289.33. was paid. If arrears paid, to whom ?
Very respectfully
N. Coll
R. J. Atkinson Esq. } for Comm. Third Audit }
3 d Auditor's Office Sept. 19. 1857
Sir:
Sarah Hollingshead, Philadelphia, Pa. roll, at Feb'y 2, 1828, at $289. 33 / 100 due Nov r 11. 1833, & her pension has been paid in full to that date to James Hollinshead, her Executor. Very Resp y
N. Johnson
Geo: C. Whiting Esq. } Auditor Comm e of Pensions }

Pennsylvania
Sarah Hollingshead family widow of
Montecia Morgan, dec d who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 21 st April 1785 of Monroeville in the State of Penn ne who was a Lieut in the Company commanded by Captain
Reg t commanded by Col of the the Penn ne line for 21 mos 13 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvanians at the rate of 289 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Sept r 1842, and sent to Henry Wm Davis, Stroudsburg Pa. XXXXXX
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841
Semi-annual allowance ending
Oct r 23 rd Aug t 1841 $ 1446 65
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Geo. S. Woody Clerk, Book A Vol. 2 Page 153

Sept 23 1842
pa
Geo. W. Brumley Esq. Actg. Commr of Customs Present
24/6720 (280) 192 192 48 H. Northup Resh.

Washington City 23 Sept 1842
Sir I spent part of Wednesday and all of yesterday with Mr. Dickson in the State Department to find the necessary evidence in Woodside Morgan's case. And the Clerk has ordered gave a certificate giving the result of such examination as appears on the roll of the credit De Regt at This roll bears date 27th of Augt 1775. in which Woodside Morgan appears as 1st appointed 15th of Novr 1776. and is left out in the new arrangement . When this new arrangement was made does not appear. but as the consolidation and re-organization of the Continental Army from 88 to 70 Battalions took place in Sept 1775 it is presumed that this roll of 27th of Augt 1775 was made out to meet this new arrangement or a consolidation and that Morgan's services offered up to this date we have been unable to discover any other evidence. I examined personally as well as the Clerk in the several offices at Harrisburg and there is not a particle of evidence to be found there other than such as the certificate from those accompanying the papers of Mrs. Hallowinghead. And you will recollect that Mr. Hagner on day before yesterday reported no evidence to be found there except recruiting funds furnished him 4th & 10th of April 1777. - I know of no other evidence that can be furnished in this case will you Sir be so kind as to file these papers with Mrs. Hallowinghead's claim and pass upon the same as soon as convenient
Yours Respectfully Henry Warther

No 19843
Certificate for £106- 5- 11.
Specie
We do certify, that the State of Pennsylvania is indebted to Mordecai Morgan late Lieutenant of the ninth Pennsylvania Regiment in the sum of one hundred and six pounds five shillings & eleven pence Specie, with lawful interest from the tenth day of April 1781, being the amount of the residue of the depreciation of his pay. Pursuant to two Acts of Assembly, passed at Philadelphia the 18th of December 1780, and the 10th of April 1781
Philadelphia, 16 Feb y 1786
Sam o Nicholson
Auditor General's Office of Penns yl a ,
Harrisburg September 14 th 1842
I certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the original on file in this office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office.
W m H. Packer
J. J. Roan Jr
Asst. Com te

Sarah Hollinshead of Mordecai Morgan
adm o
85 509
admitted
Hon Henry Nes HofR

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF Pennsylvania Monroe } ss. COUNTY.
On this fifteenth day of June A.D. 1848 personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mrs. Sarah Hollinshead a resident of Stroud Township in the county of Monroe
State of Pennsylvania , aged 78 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Mordecai Morgan who was a Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Service in the war of the Revolution, and that she has drawn a pension at the rate of Two Hundred and Eighty nine dollars Thirty Three cents, per annum, under the Act of 17th June, 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sarah Hollinshead
SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED on the day and year above written, before
Morris D. Robeson Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
Morris D. Robeson Justice of the Peace.
I James H. Stroud Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County certify that Morris D. Robeson is a Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this thirtieth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and forty eight. J. H. Stroud Prothonotary

July 6/42 Smith
act 48 Pa Sam English Sarah H. English Hannah Drey
act 48 To the Hon.ble Esq.:
Henry B. Hill
Commissioner
of Pensions
141 Henry St

Extract from a "Return of all the Officers who have served in the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment from the first day of January 1777, till this Date - August 27 th 1778."
66
   Rank. Names. Date of Commission Remarks and Occurrences.     x x x x x x x x x x x x x   First Lieutenants Mord a Morgan Nov r 15 th 1776 Left out of the new Arrangement.   x x x x x x x x x x x x x    (Handwritten signature across the bottom of the table)

House of Reps. July 5 th 1848.
Sir I herewith enclose you the application of Mrs. Sarah Hollingshead widow of Mordecaia Morgan - Mrs. Sam English widow of James English and of Mrs. Naomi Long widow of Gideon Long, for removal of their pensions under the act of 2 nd Feb. 1848.
Respect ly - Henry Nes.
J. L. Edwards Esq. } Comm ee Pensions. }

Memor in the case of Mrs Kollinghead
208418.
per July 7. 1838 Sarah Kollinghead
H Northrup Prest.

Memorandum
Wendell Morgan was a Lieut of the 7th Pa Continental Knigt it is not known when or in what capacity he entered or when he left the service the books or books at Harrisburg furnish nothing other than this certificate of £106. 5. 11 the appropriation  issued with interest from 10th of April 1781 being the amount of the residue of his pay &c there This is all that the books or rolls show further than that he became a supernumerary supernumerary There can be no doubt that all the required evidence as to commencing with the formation with the term of service in any one rank will be found in the State Department except with the Washington Papers or in the third auditor's office. Also in the section of Bounty lands where all his widow drew the bounty land as wife of her child by him Will the Commission please cause an early examination of this claim and advise me the result as soon as to rise at Wash- ington
and oblige Yours Respectfully Henry Evan Phelps

Stroudsburg Monroe Co. Pa. Sept. 14, 1857.
Dear Sir;
Will you please inform me whether James Hollinshead ever received the amount of Pension due Sarah Hollinshead at the time of her death? To enable you to answer without so much trouble I append the following facts.
Sarah Hollinshead, of this place, was a pensioner at the rate of $289.33 per annum. She died on the 11th of November 1853. Amount of pension due at the time of her death was from 4th Sept. 1852 to 11th November 1853.
James Hollinshead was the Executor of the last Will & Testament of Sarah Hollinshead at the he is now dead and there is reason to think that he did not receive the above pension.
Will you please inform me of this Yours Very Truly
A. Reeves Jackson

3559 Pennsylvania
Sarah Hollingshead formerly widow of Mordecai Morgan who was a Lieutenant in the Pennsylv a Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 289 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of Decem r 1843 and sent to
Wm Davis Stroudsbrough Monroe Co. Pa
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. / Page / 33

State of Pennsylvania } ss. COUNTY of Monroe }
Be it known, That on this twenty third day of August A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty two , before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Sarah Hollingshead a resident of Stroudsburg in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the widow of Mordecai Morgan who was a lieutenant in the army of the Revolution, and that she is now
the a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under act of 2 d July 1848
at the rate of Two Hundred Eighty nine 33/100 Dollars per annum; that she has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me. Daniel Jayne J. Peace.
Sarah  the  Hollingshead mark
I, Daniel Jayne Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Sarah Hollingshead who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this county, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
Daniel Jayne J. Peace.
I, M. N. Docher Notary Public of the State of Pennsylvania in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Daniel Jayne before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this Twenty third day of August A. D. 185 2
M. N. Docher Notary Public

Know all Men by these Presents, That I Sarah Hollingshead named within do
hereby constitute and appoint C. W. Bennett my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of myself for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorized my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to me at the Phil a agency
to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and Seal this twentythird day of August A. D., 185 2 .
Sarah  her  X Hollingshead  mark
SIGNED AND SEALED IN THE PRESENCE OF }
Daniel Joyce James Hollingshead
State of Pennsylvania } SS. COUNTY OF Monroe }
On this twentythird day of August A. D. 185 2
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Sarah Hollingshead and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, } the day and year aforesaid.
Daniel Joyce J. Peace.

Washington
Oct. 14, 1852.
Hon. J. E. Heath Commr of Pensions & etc.
I have the honor to enclose herewith the application of Mrs. Sarah Hollingshead widow of Mordica Morgan decd. for an increase of the Pension now received by her under act of 2 nd Feby. 1848. The claim for in- crease is based upon information she has re- ceived that her husband served for more than two years, and up to close of the war.
Very Respectfully Your Ob d Servt L. W. Bennett

Department of State September 22 d 1842.
E. W. Crump Esq. Actg Comr. of Pensions.
Sir,
At the request of Mr. Northrup, I send you the enclosed extract from the Washington Papers on file in this Department.
I am, Sir,
Your Obedt Servt
H. Peter Neblett
Acting Secretary.