Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15937, for Samuel Pease, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Pease, Samuel Maria
W. 15937
CONTENTS

4943
New York.
C 7
Maria Pease
widow of Samuel Pease who died on the 12 May 1814 of in the State of New York who was a pirate in the Compy commanded by Captain Henry Rance of the Regt commanded by Col. Forman in the line for N.Y. N.J.
Reported
Inserted on the Right of New York at the rate of 56 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of April 1830 and sent to C. A. Lay, New York
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the
Recorded by Book
Vol. 2
Chase Clerk, Page 354
1 no C

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7 th 1832
State of N. York county of Westchester- On the 23 rd day of September 1844 personally appeared before me the under- signed a Justice of the peace in and for said county Maria Pease a resident of the town of Eastchester in the county of Westchester and State of N. York of the age of 84 years who first being duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 7 th day of June A.D. 1832 That she is the widow of Samuel Pease who was regularly drafted as a Militia soldier when the Militia was first called out in the service in the county of Monmouth and State of N. Jersey That at the time the said Pease was drafted in the service he resided in the Township of Freehold in the said county of Monmouth and State of N. Jersey. That he was in the Militia service every alternate month while the Militia was stationed at Tinton Falls in said county of Monmouth, and that he continued in the service until after the battle of Monmouth. She further says that she was married to the said Samuel Pease on the 18 th day of June Seventeen hundred and

seventy nine, that her husband the said Samuel Pease died on the twelfth day of May A.D. Eighteen hundred and fourteen and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed, and that the said Pease removed from the State of N. Jersey to the County of Westchester in the State of N. York in the year 1803. when he continued to reside until the time of his death -
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me L. W. Tompkins Justice of the peace
Maria Pease
I John Townsend of the Town of Eastchester in the County of Westchester and State of N. York do solemnly swear that I knew Samuel Pease some years before his death and Maria Pease has remained a widow ever since her husband's death in 1814 and still remains a widow to the best of my knowledge and belief
Sworn to & subscribed This 23 rd day of
John Townsend
State of New York,
County of Westchester, ss.
E. MUNSON I LOCKWOOD, CLERK of the County aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Lancaster W. Tompkins Esq. whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of the said Certificate, a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE in and for the said County, residing in the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And, further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said County, the twenty third day of September 1844
Chauncy Smith Dept Clerk.
kins. peace as a do nel

seventy nine, that her husband the said Samuel Pease died on the twelfth day of May A.D. Eighteen hundred and fourteen and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed, and that the said Pease removed from the State of N. Jersey to the county of Westchester in the State of N. York in the year 1803. when he continued to reside until the time of his death.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me L. U. Tompkins Justice of the peace;
Maria Pease
I John Townsend of the Town of Eastchester in the county of Westchester and State of N. York do solemnly swear that I knew Samuel Pease some years before his death and Maria Pease has remained a widow ever since her husband's death in 1814 and still remains a widow to the best of my knowledge and belief
Sworn to & subscribed this 29 th day of
John Townsend
September 1844 before me, L. U. Tompkins.
Justice of the peace
I Benjamin Shute of the Town of East- chester in the county of Westchester do solemnly swear that I knew Samuel

Please some years before his death and that Maria Please has remain a widow ever since the said Please's death in 1814 and that she still remains a widow. Sworn to and subscribed Benjamin White This 24 th day of September 1844 before me L. W. Tompkins Justice of the peace

I hereby certify that I am the Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Freehold, Monmouth County & state of New Jersey - and as such the successor of the Rev. Benjamin Dubois and that I am in possession of the Register of marriages solemnized & recorded by the said Rev. B. Dubois - and find there recorded the marriage of Samuel Pease & Maria Gallidet in the words & characters following. "June den 1: te 1779 Samuel Pease met Maria Gallidet" which being in the Low Dutch language is translated as follows - "June the first seventeen hundred and seventy nine Samuel Pease with Maria Gallidet. Signed A A Marcellus.
Freehold Sept 13. 1844.
Sworn and subscribed this 13 th day of September 1844 in my presence
Walter W. Hart Judge
I do certify that the above named A. A. Marcellus is the Pas. of the above named church Walter W. Hart Judge

State of N. Jersey Monmouth county ss- Personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Monmouth Aaron Sutphen who being duly sworn according to Law upon his oath saith that I the said Sutphen was born in the said county of Monmouth That I am now in my 83 d year, That I knew Samuel Pease well we were raised near each other. I saw the said Pease early in the spring before the battle of Monmouth in the service at Tinton Falls in the above named county. I remember distinctly he passed me at the Falls one evening while I was on guard at the time , he was dressed in uniform and had his gun with him he spoke to me and asked Aaron is that you? I saw him again in the service a few days before the battle of Monmouth in the Village of Freehold I remember seeing him there from the circumstance that he was wrestling with one William Van Cleef I saw him a few days after the battle of Monmouth still in the service I saw him at other times on duty I have a strong impression he served in Col. Asher Holmes Regiment I can not tell under what Captain he served we had so many I served under a half a dozen different ones; I was a soldier during the war I am now receiving a pension (Aaron Sutphen Sworn and subscribed before me) This 16 th day of September 1844 Walter M. Hart Judge

I do certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Stephen and believe his statements entitled to credit.
Subscribed the day and year above written Walter M. Hart Judge }
State of N. Jersey Monmouth County ss. Personally appeared before the subscriber a judge of the court of the common of common Pleas in and for the county of Monmouth John Hoolshart who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath saith, that I the said Hoolshart was born in the above named county, that I was 85 years old in May last, I was a soldier of the revolution I am now drawing a pension I was well acquainted with Samuel Pease he learned the Black- smith trade near my fathers we had our smith work done at the shop While he was an apprentice I saw him frequently in the army as a soldier Pease and I were both in the army while it was stationed at Friston Falls , he and I bot a silver dollar in partnership while we were on duty at the Falls and took the dollar to Josiah Holmes a silversmith in Shrew- sbury a Village a few miles distant to get it run into sleeve buttons we again returned to the army at the Falls: after the buttons were finished we ran & after them and divided them equally between us Pease taking half and I half we were both in the service at the Falls at this time

I saw him often in the regular service. I have no doubt he was out as a soldier during all the war I saw him all the time I was out. I do not know in what company he served we were under different captains I presume he served in Col. Daniel Henderson's Regiment. I do not know now in what years he was out it was before the battle of Monmouth Tenn and subscribed before me this 9 th day of John Holcomb August 1844. Walter M. Hart Judge
I do certify that I am acquainted with the above named Holcomb have known him for a number of years and believe his statements entitled to credit. Walter M. Hart Judge
State of N. Jersey Monmouth County ss. Personal appearance before me a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth Garette Wilcoff who being duly sworn according to Law saith that I Garette Wilcoff am now in my 87 th year that I was a soldier of the Revolution, that I am now drawing a pension that I knew Samuel Reaswell , I saw him out on scouting parties frequently during the war. I was out with him on these parties frequently myself I have no doubt but he served as a regular soldier during all the war for no man of his age escapes , he told me frequently

after the close of the war that he served as a regular soldier. It was generally believed among the neighbors that he was a soldier during all the war.
Given and subscribed before me this 8 th day of August A.D. 1844 Walter M. Hart Judge
Garret Wicoff
I do certify that I have known the said Wicoff for a number of years and was acquainted with him and believe his statements in all their full credit Subscribed the day above written.
Walter M. Hart Judge State of N. Jersey Monmouth County ss Personal appearance before me a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth George Robinson who being duly sworn according to Law upon his oath saith that I said Robinson was born in the said County of Monmouth that I was not in the service on sending parties I was not old enough to be compelled to go out on service I volunteered often I was at Trenton  Faces in the above named County I saw Pease at the Faces an quar. I knew him well it was Samuel Pease the Army was at Trenton  Faces for a long time I saw Pease often in the army he was

always on duty in the army I think the said Pease was out man Col. Asher Holmes , and in Oliver Waltons beface. I saw Pease at Middletown and also at Freehold both in service company of Monmouth , on regular duty. I am in my 78 th year I remember seeing Pease in Freehold from the fact of bringing a suit from his Father to him he was on regular duty in the army at the time I was well acquainted with Pease was intimate with him I saw him at the above places before the war and subscribed before {Monmouth battle me this 6 th day of August 1844} George Robinson Walter M. Hart Judge
I am acquainted with the above named Robinson and believe his statements entitled to full credit.
Subscribed this 10 day of
October 1844.
Walter M. Hart Judge

11,505
Maria Pease
No. 1.
Act July 7 th 38
h. d. 12 May 1874
Act 7 th July 1838.-

State of New Jersey, Monmouth County } ss: C. Samuel Mairs Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in for said County, do hereby certify that Walter W. Hart, before whom the foregoing depositions were taken, was at the time of taking the same, and now is, a Judge of said Court, duly commissioned, sworn and enrolled in my office; and that to the above as well as to all acts authen- ticated by him in his said official capacity, full faith and credit are due; and further that his signatures as above are genuine.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Freehold, this fifteenth day of October, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty four.
Samuel Mairs Clerk
Any communications will be directed to A.C. McLean Freehold N. Jersey

Williamsburgh N York September 1 st 1849.
Sir,
I would respectfully call the attention of the Office to the case of Mrs. Maria Pease widow of Samuel Pease per act of July 4 th 1836, and ask that her case may be re-viewed. It appears from the correspondence in the case in my possession that claimant in her original declaration did not, or could not name any officers under whom her husband served, and that in a subsequent amendment she named Carhart Walton Smock and Schenck, as Captains, and Forman and Holmes as Colonels, as the Department intimates, that upon the information acquired through her then agent Mr. McSene, I suppose she stated that it was her belief that he served under them officers, because that is what she now says, and that belief is predicated on her recollection of having heard him often name them, in the war. It is true she should ought to have named them in her first statement, but that omission I think is easily accounted for as it appears that her then Attorney could not have had any information as to the requirements of the regulations, for if he had he would not have permitted her to claim a pension under the Act of 7 th June 1832 which I understand was the case. The Department surely should not ought to be prejudiced against her claim, on account of the want of information of her Attorney, as to the requirements of the rules; and beside which I think the influence of the Dept that her statement

of the names of her husband's Officers, was furnished by McLean is not probable for the reason that it does not appear that he furnished any evidence of her husband's service under either of the Officers named except Capt. Schenck, and that of itself only amounted to about ten days service. Therefore he could not have had any object in aiding her to name them.
The proof of the marriage and its date having been admitted to be sufficient, and the identity of her husband being admitted by your letter of 14th October 1846, that her husband was the soldier of Captain Schenck Company on whom Dr. Barber attended to his wounds, but you complain that there was no ( data ) to the certificate whereby you could determine the length of the service. Now I would most respectfully call the attention of the Department again to that proof and you will find it is dated July 16. th and July 19. th  1781 , and as the Department is aware that Capt. Schenck was a Captain in the years service commencing January 1. st 1781, and ending January 1. st 1782, renders it obvious that her husband served out that term, and besides which you have Captain Schenck's Rolls in the Office (or did have lately) for that particular service , and the existence of her husband's name on them is not denied, in your letter of 14th October 1846, and as a further evidence that her husband was in that service I would respectfully refer you to a certificate of the Secretary of New Jersey which he informs me he issued, showing that commt. of Monmouth Co issued to Samuel Pease, certificate No. 213 for £ 33.18.4. as a balance of pay due him , which of course we infer

was a balance of pay due for the 12 months service in 1781, for the reason it covers nearly 12 months service of itself according to the pay allowed for that particular service. There certainly could not be a much higher grade of proof of a period of service, being as it is all documentary , which is a compliance with the rules without her claiming particularly for it. I would also particularly call the attention to another paper on file, which appears to have been entirely overlooked in the previous examinations, and that is another account of Dr. Barber for medical attendance on his husband from 28 th September to the 6 th October 1782 and the same is certified by Lieutenant Jacques Denyse, who says he belonged to his company, which the Department is aware, was a detachment of Captain Smock's Company, which was raised for and served 9 months in that year year, viz from March to January. I would also refer you to the affidavit of William Yates who says he knew claimant's husband well, while stationed at Freehold, recollects he was either under Capt. Smock or Denyse at the time (he said Yates) was in Capt. Walton's Co. of Dragoons in 1782 for which service he drew a pension. That I should think was a high grade of proof as could be furnished of 9 months service in 1782. That makes 21 months service. In addition to which there is another certificate of the Secretary of New Jersey showing that claimant's husband received a certificate of a balance of pay due him - N o . 214. for £ 8. 12. 11. which is evidently for services rendered in 1780, for the reason that the 9 months men in 1782 were paid in specie, and all service was fully paid for

at the time it was performed in that state up to Novem- ber 1779 - By computing this amount into service it would swell the amount of service to beyond 2 years, which is sustained by proof of the most undoubted char- acter, and such as the Department has always held as as sufficient - but it would seem that the greater part of this proof was entirely overlooked in the former ex- aminations, and for that reason I have been thus particular in calling attention to it, and it hoped that the Department will comply with our request and give all her papers a careful examination,
I am very respectfully
Your Mts Obed Servt
C. A. Day "2"
J. G. Edwards Esq. Committee of Pensions }

Williamsburgh New York September, 9th 1848
Sir,
I have received from Hon. A. C. Murphy, a copy of your letter in the case of Maria Pease dated Oct r 14th, 1846, which you say affords the information required as to the existing difficulties in the case. I now enclose to you a supplemental declaration of the claimant by which you will see that she asks to be allowed for the time that the documentary proof on file shews that her husband was in the service. She asks this in consequence of her inability to make out any more service of her husband by parol proof. The marriage is admitted to be satisfactorily established.
The 2, Certificates of pay issued to her husband by the Com r of the County of Monmouth, for services in that county, one N o 213, for £33, 18, 4, and the other N o 214, for £8, 12, 11, as a balance of pay due him for services, subsequent to Nov r 1779. That proof of course establishes her claim to a pension corresponding to the amount, in addition to which you will see the Captain Schenck's Rolls, how much service he performed under that officer. You will also please to refer to the physician's bill certificate to by Capt. Lockhart, and take that service into consideration, and advise me as to the amount that the department will allow for, if the amount is less than a full pension to a private.
I am very respectfully,
Your Most obed t Serv t
C. A. Lay
J. L. Edwards Esq r Com r of Pensions.

State of New York
City and County of New York ss.
Be it known, that before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Maria Pease and made oath in due form of law, that she is the widow of Samuel Pease decd. who was a soldier during the Revolutionary war, in the Militia and other Troops of Monmouth County New Jersey, and that she has made an application for a pension on account of the Revolutionary services of her said husband, but in consequence of her old age and loss of memory she is unable to specify his services as is required by the rules, nor can she find any of his surviving comrades that can do it for her, in consequence of which she declares that she will accept of such an amount of pension as her attorney and
due, from the Dept. in
STATE OF NEW-YORK, CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
I, James Conner, CLERK of the City and County of New-York, also CLERK of the Court of Common Pleas, for said City and County of New-York, being a Court of Record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Amos F. Hasfield before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace, in, and for said City and County, duly elected and sworn, and that his signature thereto is genuine, as I verily believe.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court and County, the 6 day of Sept 1848
James Conner Clerk.

State of New York
City and County of New York ss.
Be it known, that before me the subscriber Justice  a Court of the  the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Maria Pease and made oath in due form of law, that she is the widow of Samuel Pease dec d who was a soldier during the Revolutionary war, in the Militia and other Troops of Monmouth County New Jersey, and that she has made an application for a pension on account of the Revolutionary services of her said husband, but in consequence of her old age and loss of memory she is unable to specify his services as is required by the rules, nor can she find any of his surviving comrades that can do it for her, in consequence of which she declares that she will accept of such an amount of pension as her attorney and the Department may agree upon as being due, from the proofs and the established usages of the Dept t in similar cases.
Sworn to and subscribed
this 1 st day of September 1848
before me
Amos F. Hatfield
Alderman 11 th Ward
Maria Pease

Washington D.C. Sept 24 th 1848
J. L. Edwards Esq. Sir
Your letter enclosing a copy of your letter of Dec 14 th 1844, to A. C. McLean, affords me no light as to the present state of the claim of Maria Pease of N. York, except that it furnishes me with the fact that the marriage is satisfactorily established. It does not state that no further evidence had been filed in the case. on the contrary, In your letter of the 11 th inst. it is stated that your office is in correspondence with other persons acting as her (Mrs Pease's) authorized agents. I filed a Power of Attorney from Mrs P. in your office some ten days ago, and received in reply a letter refusing to give me any information as to the case. I handed that letter to you in person, and after reading it, you replied that you would furnish me with a copy of the correspondence. I supposed it would be that correspondence which would inform me how the claim stands at the present time, and what further is wanted. The Secy of New Jersey informs me that he had given a certificate of the service of Samuel Pease, a long time subsequent to the date of your letter to Mr. McLean of Dec 14 th 44  a copy of . If this has been filed in the office, I of course do not wish to obtain another.
I have now received three letters

from your Office in this case and am yet without the information sought. Having filed a full Power of Atty from Mrs Pease. I supposed this would entitle me to be informed how the claim stands at the present time. I would further call your attention to the fact that Mrs Pease in this Power of Atty requests all further reports in the her case to be made to me.
Very Respectfully Yours,
J. M. Hayer
P.S.
I do not know under which act the declaration has been made, as the claimant cannot inform me and has no reports in the case and can't get any. I would request your early attention to this copy .

May 26. 1846
Rec'd of M c Clure
2
Edward S. Ess Compt of Business Washington

Washington D. C. Aug 25 th 1846.
J. H. Edwards Esq. Sir
In the case of Maria Pease, widow of Samuel Pease of New York, I am desired in behalf of the widow to ascertain the present condition of her case, and what is wanting in order to its allowance. By giving me the information desired you will greatly oblige the claimant and very Respectfully Your obedt Servt
J. M. Hays

6841
Additional declaration
Maria Pease
July 4, 1836
New York
A. C. M. Lean Freehold New Jersey

State of New York City & County of N. York } ss.
On This Twenty second day of November A D one Thousand eight hundred and forty five Personally appeared before the subscri- ber one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the above named County and City Maria Pease late of the Town of Eastchester and County of Westchester and now of the City of New York in the Eighty sixth year of her age who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836
That she makes this addition- al declaration to one made under the act of July 7 th 1832 through mistake which has been filed by the Commissioner of Pensions in his office under act of July 7, 1838. That she is the widow of Samuel Pease who was a resident of the Township of Freehold in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey both before during and some time after the Revolution she became acquainted first with her said husband in the City of New York in the year 1776 while he was in the five Months service as a private in Capt Hendrickson's Company in Col. Formans Regi- ment, declarants father with whom she then lived, resided in the City of New York at whose house said Pease visited while a soldier and quartered in said City. soon after her father and family moved from New York to Freehold Township in Monmouth County New Jersey in the very neighbourhood where her husband had learned his trade as a blacksmith That

her said husband often stated to her that he continued to do regular militia duty till they were married in 1778 before which time he was engaged in the month of June 1778 in the battle of Monmouth, but she is unable now to state the names of his Officers. she has heard him name Lieutenant Jacob Tree who commanded a militia company in 1778 and 9. That after their marriage her said husband was in much active service she well knows but at this great length of time she is unable to specify particularly the months and years in which the service was performed. but she well knows he was as much in the militia and State service as any of the inhabitants of the county a region of country that was almost contin- ually over run with the British and Tories. after their marriage he was in the service as she has heard him say and believes under Capt. Samuel Carhart Capt. Smock. Capt. Wapstow Schuch. Col. Forman and Col. Holmes and other officers whose names are now forgotten. *The name of Col. Nathaniel Lender is also recalled to have heard her husband speak of in the early part of the Revolution. Residing away from the county and State in which he performed the arduous duty of a faithful soldier in defence of his country and while she would not misstate or misrepresent the service of her husband to gain a pension at the same time she declares and sincerely believes her husband the said Samuel Pease performed more than two years active duty in the Revolution

including the 5 months service in 1876 till the close of the war. *two & a half lines erased before execution.
For the facts of marriage and the death of her said husband and eligibility she refers to the proof on file with her declaration now on file in the Pension Office &c.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me
Maria Pease
STATE OF NEW-YORK, CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
I, ANDREW WARNER, CLERK of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New-York, being a Court of Record, and the County Court, DO CERTIFY, That Michael Ulshoeffer Esq before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, First Judge of said Court in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of such Judge and verily believe that the signature thereunto subscribed is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said Court, the 22 nd day of November 1845
Andrew Warner Clerk.
was not Col Seudder

including the 5 months service in 1776 till the close of the war. *two & a half lines erased before execution.
For the facts of marriage and the death of her said husband and eligibility she refers to the proof on file with her declaration now on file in the Pension Office &c.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me
M aria perse
W. Ulshoffer
First Judge New York Common Pleas
* on reflection she was not sure of the name of Col Scudder

Maria Pease's Declaration

State of New Jersey Morris County
On the 11. th day of September 1845 before the Subscribers a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared William Yates of Hopewell in the County & State aforesaid in the Eightieth year of his age a cred- -itable witness and pensioner of the United States who being sworn according to law on his oath saith That he belonged to Capt John Walton Co of Horse Artillery a Freehold in 1782. that while in that Service he became acquainted with Samuel Prase a Black Smith by trade who was then in a Company of Light Artillery under either Capt Pruce or Lieut J. Denise, deponent remembers him well on account of being a great Brag in shoeing horses. he would mostly when we met at Freehold or Coltsneck examine the shoes on Lieut Rhea's and Capt Pruce's horse he was a named man but Capt Pruce nothing about his family or what became of him after the Revolution.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year above written before me
John B Mount J.P.
His William L Yates Deputy

STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
I, CHARLES G. McCHESNEY, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that John B. Mount Esquire, before whom the within affidavit was taken, and power of attorney acknowledged , was, at the time of the doing thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Mercer in said state, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signature thereto is in the proper handwriting of the said John B. Mount .
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said state, this twentieth day of November A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty- five
Charles G. McChesney Sec'y of State.

State of New Jersey
To Thomas Barber Dr.
1781. July 16 - Visit 4 miles, bleeding, cath er pills. for Samuel Pease ————— £ 0. 9. 0 19. Visit. 3 paregins closed 4 doses refuj. pa er — 0. 10. 6
Others.
This is to certify that the above service was done by Dr. Barber, while under my command, being provided for by law Samuel Carhart Capt n (The Account of Dr. Barber commenced July 10 & ends Oct 22. 1781.)
No 2.
1782 Sep. 23. Visit 4 miles - Emet. & Cathart. d for Samuel Pease ————— £ 0. 10. 6 Oct. 2. Visit, cath er & 12 doses feb p er Sam n Pease - 0. 19. 0 2 doses Anodyne pills ————— 0. 2. 0 4. Visits & dose attenuating pills — 0. 6. 0 Attendance one night & half a day — 0. 16. 0 6. Visits &c ————— 0. 11. 0
and others.
This is to certify the above service were done by Dr. Barber while under my command being provided for by law. Magnus Vangy. Lieut n (The above account commenced June 26 and ends Dec. 11. 1782.)

State of New Jersey
I Charles G. M c Chesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing are true extracts from a paper headed as therein mentioned as taken from and compared with the original now on file in my office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Trenton this twenty sixth day of November A. D. One Thousand eight hundred and forty five.
Charles G. M c Chesney
Secy of State

Receipts for Cash paid years' interest on Notes given by the Commissioners of the several Counties for Militia Services.
   No. of Voucher. No. of Certif. Date. SIGNED BY. PAYABLE TO. Amount. 1 y's int.     Indent 213 May 1. 1784 Tho s Henderson Samuel Pease £ 33. 13. 11   " 214 " Do Do 8. 12. 11  
STATE OF NEW JERSEY:
I, CHARLES G. McCHESNEY, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true abstract from a Book, headed as above, as taken from, and compared with the original, now remaining in my office.—And I do further certify, that Thomas Henderson was, by an Act, passed by the Legislature of this State, December 20, 1783, entitled "An Act to procure an estimate of the sums due to the Militia and Troops who have been raised for the defence of the frontiers of the State, and to provide for the settlement of the same," appointed a Commissioner for the County of Monmouth for the purpose of settling and adjusting the pay rolls of the Militia and Troops of this State, as aforesaid, and also for signing and delivering out to each and every person a note for the payment of what may be justly due.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said State, this twenty sixth day of November A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty- five .
Charles G. McChesney Secretary of State.

Fees $ 2.00 in all

Maria Pease
July 1 - 35
J. G. Church Esq.
W. Albin
Constituency of Preston
England
Washington
15

No 11. 585
Maria Pease of Samuel No. 1.
let to Mr. Thayer Sept 23 '46 Same Sept 26. 1846.
Suspended
Letter A C M c Lean Dec 14 th
let to Hon. J. H. Anderson 1844  Dec 31. 1844  Hon. Geo. Lykes. May 30. 1846.  Wor. J. H. Anderson  August 5. 1846  to Mr. Thayer Sept 21. '46  to Same Sept 21. 38  Act July 7 of 3/over.

Marin Pease New York
At to J. M. Thayer
Oct 14 th 1846
Nov. W. L. Dayton
Dec. 25. 1846.
Let. to Am. H. C. Murphy
July 29 th 48
Hon. H. Greeley Jan 12. 49
let. 3 Sep. 49 C. A. Lay
Act 7 July 38
over
Sutter C. A. Lay 31 st October 1849. same 10 th Dec r . 1849. "

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J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Mr
Washington D.C.
[Faint mirrored text from the reverse side of the paper]

Williamsburgh New York Nov r 22. 1849,
Sir,
I have received your letter of the 30 th ult o in relation to the case of Mrs. Maria Pease widow of Samuel Pease under the Act of 4 th July 1836, and in reply would remark that it cannot make any difference whether Captain Carharts Rolls for the service of 1781. is found or not, as we have produced a Surgeons Certificate that he attended her husband of his wounds which he had received while in said Company of Captain Carharts in 1781. and we also produce that officers Certificate to the truth of the Surgeons account, which amounts to the same thing as if his name was found on his Roll (or if his Roll for that service was found bearing his name) and the amount of pay received by him for one term of service after Nov r 1779. as is shown by the Certificate of the Secretary of New Jersey is conclusive that he served out the entire term of 12 Months.
You will find on file the same proof of her husbands 9 months service under Capt. Smock and his Lieutenant Sergeant, in 1782, as is produced of his term of 12 Months service in 1781, which would make 21 months service in two years, from which I think the Department cannot fail to come to the conclusion that he served in the Militia as much as 3 Months considering the laws of New Jersey required him to have served in the Militia at least one year.
J. C. Edwards Esqr Com r of Pensions.
I am very respectfully, Your M c Hon ble Ser t , W. A. Gay

Official Business.
Geo. W. Crump Esquire
Chief Clerk and Acting Commr d of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

New York May 13 th 1848
Dr Sir,
I herewith enclose you a letter from Mrs Maria Pease of New York widow of Samuel Pease a claimant for a pension under the Act of July 4 th 1836 addressed to the Commissioner of Pensions wherein she has requested the Dept t to recognize me as the Attorney, in the further prosecution of her claim. You will oblige me by causing it to be placed on file with her papers, and any information you can give me in respect to this claim or what further proof will be required will be very thankfully received, I am a looking up some further proof in this case which may be handed to you by a gentleman of my acquaintance - and if it should be you will oblige me by reporting to me the effect of such proof
With great respect
I remain
Your Most obed Servt
C. A. Gay
Geo. W. Camp Esquire
Chief Clerk of the Pension Office
Washington
D.C.

New York
May 5, 1848
J. L. Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I would most respectfully inform you that I have appointed Mr C. A. Gay as my attorney in the further prosecution of my claim for a pension under the act of congress of July 4, 1836, on account of the Military services of my late husband Samuel Pease and respectfully desire you will recognize him only as my Attorney until otherwise directed by me.
I am very respectfully Your Most Obet Servt.
- Samuel Pease
Attested by me.
Jacob W Anderson H H

Presented by
John M. Thayer
Present
Maria Pease
finest copy of album
John Thayer Present

Warren Office
John M. Thayer Esq.
Present.

Pension Office, September 21st. 1846.
Sir,
The power of Attorney from Mrs Maria Pease, widow of Samuel Pease, appointing you her Agent has been filed with her other papers.
You are referred to my letter of the 11th inst. for the source to which you must apply for information respecting the present condition of Mrs Pease's claim.
I am, Very respectfully, Your M. Servt. J L Edwards
J. M. Thayer, Esq.
Present.

Letter from J. L. Edwards Esq.

Pension Office, December 14 th 1844.
Sir,
The papers in the case of Maria Pease, widow of Samuel Pease, claiming a pension under the act of 7 th July 1832, have been examined and filed under the act of July 7 th 1838. The date of the marriage is sufficiently established, but the tours of service are not specifically set forth, and the names of the officers given in accordance with the regulations of this Department. Unless this be done the claim cannot be properly investigated, nor the pension graduated. Enclosed are two blank forms under the act of July 7 th 1838 and July 11 th 1836, under one or other of which the claim should be asserted. If under the latter the claimant should state her knowledge of the service performed subsequently to the marriage, and state each tour of service giving the names of the officers under whom it was performed.
I am very Respectfully Your obedt Servt
A C. McLean, Esq Freehold, N Jersey.
J. L. Edwards

Letter from J. L. Lawrence Esq.
Sept 6
I have made all possible search for more proof, Mr Yates is the only one living, I can find who served with him. Must accept such pension as you will please to give her Sept 28/96
Respectfully A. C. M. Lean

Hon: J. L. Edwards, Can. Pensions, Present

Washington, Jan. 8, 1849.
Dear Sir:
The enclosed are among the letters which reached me this morning. They complain of delays in the business of your department which I presume are unavoidable. If you can forward their requests or direct a clerk what to say to me on the subject, you will oblige
Yours,
Horace Greeley.
Hon. J. L. Edwards, (Com. Pensions.)

Washington City Oct 9 th 46
State of New York Dorpus Kings County ss Personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for said County John Bruce aged 80 years and upwards, and made oath in due form of law that he was personally acquainted during the war of the Revo- lutionary with Samuel Pease, and that he has seen him in the service under Capt Walton in a company of Dragoons Sworn to and subscribe before me This first day of October 1846. John Bruce
Ebenezer Keeler Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named John Bruce is a respectable person and worthy of credit Ebenezer Keeler Justice of the Peace
State of New York Dorpus Kings County Clerks Office ss I Ezra Mauer Deputy Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Ebenezer Keeler Esq. before whom the above deposition was subscribed & sworn was at the date of the same an acting justice of the Peace in & for said County & whose name is subscribed to the jurat thereto & to the certificate thereto under- written and that he is duly commissioned & sworn & authorized to act as such & to take the same & further that I am well ac- quainted with his hand writing & verily believe his signa- tures to the above jurat & certificate are genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said County at Albany this 3 rd day of October 1846 Ezra Mauer Dept Clerk

Washington City Oct 9 th 46.
J. S. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Pensions.
Sir,
I herewith enclose you the deposition of John Bruce in the case of Maria Pease, widow of Samuel Pease, of New York, and would request that it be filed with the Power of Attorney from Mrs Pease appointing me her agent, which I filed in your office about the 13 th ult.
Mrs Pease informs me that she has reason to believe that Mr. McLean has forwarded to your office recently some papers which were executed some months ago. I would therefore ask your attention particularly to the Power of Attorney above referred to, in which Mrs Pease states that she is dissatisfied with McLean, and that she desires to get the case out of his hands, and she requests you to make all further reports in her case hereafter to me. This Power of Attorney was forwarded to me without any previous knowledge on my part.
Very Respectfully,
John N. Thayer

Washington D.C. Sept 14 th 1840.
Sir,
I hand you herewith a letter of Mrs Maria Pease, widow of Samuel Pease of New York, requesting all matters in relation to be communicated to me, to which I would ask your immediate attention , Very Respectfully, Yours, J. W. Hayer, J. S. Edwards Esq. Comm Rendvous

Williamsburgh New York September 5 th 1849
Sir,
I have received your letter of the 3 rd inst in the case of Mrs Maria Pease widow of Samuel Pease, and in reply I have to state that I was mistaken in my letter to you of the 1 st inst. in saying that Capt. Schenck's Roll for the year service in 1781 was in the Office, I intended to say Captain Carhart Roll of his company of 12 th Men was understood to be in the Office, and it appears to have been Captain Carhart that certified to Dr. Ber- hens bill for medical attendance on Samuel Pease in 1781, instead of Capt Schenck as I before stated, I am obliged to you for thus affording me an opportunity to make the correction,
I Am very respectfully Your Most Obedt Servt W A Gay
J L Edwards Esq. Com r of Pensions

Williamsburgh March 18 th 1850
Sir,
I have received your letter of the December 10 th 1849 in relation to the claim of Mrs. Maria Pease widow of Samuel Pease under the act of Congress of 4 th July 1836. You say that her claim has been again very closely examined and that you are constrained to adhere to your former decision heretofore communicated. You say that the proof filed in this case is not satisfactory to shew the amount of service rendered by Samuel Pease of the Militia of Monmouth County New Jersey, or to identify that soldier with Mrs. Pease's Husband. You also say that unless the rules requiring the specification of each term of her husband's service be complied with, no satisfactory adjustment of her claim can be made.
In reply to which I beg leave most respectfully to state, that in consequence of old age and the consequent loss of memory, she cannot set forth the various and numerous terms of her husband's service, nor does the rule require her to do so, to establish a claim for service proven by documentary evidence. The certificate of the Secretary of State of New Jersey heretofore filed in this case shows that Samuel Pease of the Monmouth Militia had a balance of pay due him at the close of the war, on two terms of service of £42. 11. 3. which being computed in length of service as a private in the militia would amount to about 17 months without reference to the certificate of the Surgeon showing the fact that he was in the service wounded at two different periods of the war. A pension computed for the service which is thus shown

That her husband performed would be accepted, although the documentary proof furnishes a clear presumption that her husband's service for exceeded two years, but as she is not able to show it in conformity to the Rules that will accept a pension simply for the amount of service corresponding to the balance of pay shown to be due him at the close of the war, if the Department does not deem itself warranted in allowing beyond it, as it has in numerous cases wherein I have acted as agent.
The evidence to identify her husband as the soldier of the Minnesota Militia is such as has always been regarded as being sufficient. Such proof will be found on file with her papers, among whom are some of the Most respectable residents of that County together with Mr. Yates himself a soldier and a pensioner who swore positively to the fact that her husband was a soldier in the Troops of that County during the war.
A reexamination of her papers, in reference to an allowance for that particular service is respectfully desired.
I am very respectfully
Your Most obed Servant
C. C. Lay
J. L. Edwards Esq n } Commrs n of Pensions. }

Pease, Maria Declaration for pension
P. 594.
18 Oct: 1844
Pension Office
NY
Saml Pease dec d Act 1832.
To the Hon ble the Secretary
Washington City
District of Columbia

Pease, Maria Declaration for pension
P. 594.
18 Oct: 1844
Pension Office
NY
Saml Pease dec d
Act 1832
To the Hon ble the Secretary of War
Washington City
District of Columbia

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15937 Maria Pease Widow of Samuel Pease Dir. Rev War
Act July 4 th 36
Index: Vol. M , Page 122
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hon. J. L. Edwards,,
New York Sept 10th 1846.
Sir, I have constituted and appointed John M. Thayer Esq. of Washington my true and lawful attorney you will therefore please communicate all matters in relation to my pension to him, I do not like to intrust the care any further with A. C. McLean as I entertain fears of loosing my pension if it should come into his hands. Maria Pease

11,505 6841
Maria Samuel Pease New York,
admitted Private — 17 mths per annum. c.f. $56.66 4 March 1831,
M. J. Milton Cash — Ed. Holmes,
Act. 4 July 1836
C. A. Lay New York