Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8522, for John Powers, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Powers, John Gitty
W 8522
B.L.W. 17578-160-55
CONTENTS

See letter 7. 13 Dec. 18 th to Hon. J. F. Randolph, H. R.
The usual notice of resto- ration was sent in this case.
Deed.
144
New Jersey
John Powers
of Middlesex Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hoffler of the regt commanded by Colonel G. Gibson in the Virginia line, for the term of three years from the year 1777 to the year 1780.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 d day of April 1818 and dropped from the roll
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th of April 1818 and sent to Hon. H. South- ard, House of Reps.
Restored to the Roll on the 8 th day of February 1831 and notification sent to Hon. J. F. Randolph at House of Represent.
Pension commencing on the 7 th of February 1831
Amount due on 4th of March 1831 }
$ 7 : 14
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, May 1, 1820. }

John Powers
New Brunswick New Jersey

In the case of John Powers of the city of New Brunswick in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey claiming to be entitled to a Pension under the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" -
State of New Jersey } }
Middlesex County } }
Be it known that on this second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Thomas Hance Esq. one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Middlesex in the State aforesaid came John Powers the applicant above named to me well known and being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that he enlisted in the Spring of the year One thousand seven hundred and seventy seven at Portsmouth in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Captain Hoffer in the Regiment commanded by Col. George Gibson being the first Virginia State Regiment on the continental Establishment - that he continued to serve in said Regiment against the common enemy and fought in the forelorn Hope at Stony Point and that Furberth Sims of the County of Somerset was a soldier in the same Regiment. - And this deponent further saith that he enlisted for the =

= Term of three years and served from the Spring of 1777 aforesaid until the twenty fourth day of December in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy nine when the Regiment being at Philadelphia on their way to Virginia to be discharged this deponent applied to and received his discharge at Philadelphia from Lieut. Col. Allison or Ellison of said Regiment. - And this deponent further saith that the discharge so by him received was deposited at Richmond in Virginia at the time he received a Warrant for land granted by that State. - And this deponent further saith that since his discharge as aforesaid he hath continued a resident citizen of the State of New Jersey and of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is now in need of assistance from his country for support - and further saith not. -
Sworn subscribed this 2 d . April 1818 before me Thos Hance
John Powers
Middlesex County ss: Certibet Sirs of the County of Somerset being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with John Powers the Applicant - that the said John Powers was a soldier for several years together with this deponent in the first Virginia =

= State Regiment on the continental establishment - that they were both in the advance party at the attack on Stony point and were afterwards on the twenty fourth day of December 1779 regularly discharged at Philadelphia.
Levown subscribed this 2 d April 1818 before me - Thos Hance
his Carl Hunt & Sims Mark
State of New Jersey } I Thomas Hance one of Middlesex County } the judges of the Court of Common pleas in the county of Middlesex and State afo d certify that the foregoing are to me satisfactory proof that John Powers the applicant did serve in the Army of the Revolution on the continental establishment against the common enemy as a soldier for the term of nine months and longer. -
Thos Hance
To the Secretary of the Department of War. -
State of New Jersey } I William P Bear clerk Middlesex County - } of the Court of Common pleas of the county of Middlesex in the State afo d certify that Thomas Hance Esq r who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing attestations is one of the judges of said Court duly commissioned & sworn to his official acts full credit is to be given.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court at New Brunswick the second day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred eighteen.
Wm P Bear clerk Middlesex County -

Declaration of John Brown and Revolutionary Soldiers

State of New Jersey } Somerset County ss: }
On this fifth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty one personally appeared in open Court being a court of record for the said county of Somerset John Porus resident in the county of Middlesex in said State aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and the 1 st May 1820. That the said John Porus enlisted for the term of three years sometime in the spring of the year 1777 in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Colonel George Gibson in the line of the 1 st State regiment of Virginia on the Continental establishment - that he continued to serve in the said corps until the latter part of the year 1779 when he was discharged from the service in Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvan- nia - that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present - that his name has been placed on the pension list that the number of his pension Certificate is _____ And that he never before as he believes exhibited a schedule of his property because as he was informed & truly believes it was not required by law when he first made application for a pension - And in pursuance of the Act of the 1 st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March and that

I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March 1818" and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, securities, contracts or debts due to me other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed That the occupation of this declarant is that of a Gaoler but that in consequence of old age and infirmity he is almost disabled from pursuing it further - that his family consists of himself and wife only the latter being fifty two years of age or thereabouts and unable to contribute much towards his support and that he is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country except by private or public charity.
Subscribed & sworn in open Court the day & year first above written ————— Wm B. Gaston
John Powers
A true list of all the property in possession of or owned by John Powers the above declarant - viz
  2 beds & Bedding 33. 32   1 Box Chairs 3. 00   1 Bureau 7. 00   1 Woolen Cloth 20. 00 

  3 Tables 4.50   4 Pots & Kettles 5.00   2 Pair of And Irons 3.00   1 Rag Carpet 1.50   1 Lot of Brocary Ware 5.00   1 Looking Glass 2.00   1/2 Doz metal spoons .62 1/2   1 Trunk 1.00   1 Meal chest 1.00   2 Tin - 2 wooden pails 1.50   1/2 Doz knives & forks .75   2 Cows 30.00   1 pr Candlesticks .75   $119.94 1/2 
John Powers
New Jersey
Tornet County ss: I am a Priestly being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is acquainted with the above named John Powers & has examined the articles contained in the foregoing list and believes that the same contains the whole of the property of the said John Powers & that the value attached to said articles is true and correct as near as may be - And he further saith that as Marshall of the City of New Brunswick he received an execution against the said John Powers for the sum of One hundred dollars debt and one 50/100 dollars cost in favor of Thomas Hill which as this deponent believes remains unpaid and further saith not -
James A. Priestly
Sworn & subscribed in Open Court this 5 th day of January 1831 - W m B. Gaston

We the Judges of the Court of common pleas in and for the county of Somerset State of New Jersey do hereby certify that it is our opinion that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety four and a half cents exclusive of any incumbrances that may exist thereon. —
Witness our hands this fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. —
W m B. Gaston
Ferdinand Van Derber
Elias Brown
I John M Mann Clerk of the county of Somerset do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said John Powers did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental establishment — And I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court And I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the sum total in value of said property

exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and Nineteen Dollars and Ninety four and a half cents. — — —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court on this fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. —
J. M. Mann Clk.

3.557. New Jersey Gitty Powers widow of John Powers Va who served in the Revolutiona- ry war, as a private
Date of death not on aB
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96. Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 1 st day of February 1854. and sent to
Peter J. Runyon New Brunswick NJ
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 97. Vol. A
Reg 8 m 55-88727

State of New Jersey (County of Middlesex)
On this seventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty four person- ally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid giving Powers a resident of the City of New Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey aged seventy four years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the ben- efit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 rd February 1853 granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolu- tionary War, That she is the widow of John Powers deceased who was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of ninety six dollars per year or eight dollars per month at the New Jersey Agency at Trenton for Revolutionary services under the Act of Congress of March 18 th 1818, That the evidence of her said husband services was closed on the seventh day of February A D 1831 when his Pension began, That she has always understood and believes that her said husband performed a great amount of service in the struggle for Independence, That he was at the storming of Stony Point one of the forlorn hope, was at the battle of Monmouth, and was wounded in battle of which wound he never recovered, For the testi- mony of his said services she must refer to the evidence on file in the Department She further declares that she was married to the said John Powers in the City of New Brunswick the place where she now resides by the Rev d Mr Wentworth then Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in this place that by reason age and consequent

loss of memory as well as long indisposition of body and having no record she cannot tell the day or the year when she was married but that it was in the month of December in the year of our Lord 1818 or 1819 she cannot now tell which she does not know of but one individual who was present at her said marriage who is Colonel Joseph Warren Scott a highly respectable gentleman by whom she expects to prove her said marriage, That her said husband died at New Brunswick aforesaid on the third day of March A D 1831 that she was not married to him prior to the second day of January one thousand eight hundred but at the above stated time
She further declares that she is now a widow sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
me Peter D. Varnum Judge Gitty X Powers mark
attest Gerritie Nevins Sarah A. Furman
Also at the same time and place personally ap- peared before me Gerritie Nevins and Sarah A. Furman the subscribing witnesses in the foregoing claim residents of the City of New Brunswick aforesaid well known to me who being severally duly sworn according to law on their oaths respectively declare that they were present and saw Mrs Gitty Powers sign the foregoing declaration and signed their names as witnesses thereunto and that they have no interest in her said claim
Sworn to and subscribed Gerritie Nevins the day and year aforesaid Sarah A. Furman
before me and do certify that they are credible persons Peter D. Varnum Judge

I do hereby certify that Gitty Powers the person who subscribed and was sworn to the foregoing declaration for a Pension by reason of personal indisposition is unable to attend in person in open Court. Peter P. Harnady Judge
State of New Jersey } Before me the subscriber one of the County of Middlesex } Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Colonel Joseph Warren Scott a resident of the City of New Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey aged seventy five years who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with John Powers in his lifetime, and has known him for more than forty years, and was partially acquainted with Gitty Powers who is now his widow before their marriage, has been better acquainted with her since her marriage with the said John Powers, remembers well of being present when the said John Powers and the said Gitty were married, that they were married in the City of New Brunswick by the Rev Mr Huntington, then Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in New Brunswick, that he cannot tell the precise time when the said marriage was solemnized but knows it was in the winter knows that it was before the beginning of the year 1821, and thinks it very probably in 1818 or in 1819 as stated by her, but as to the fact of the marriage as aforesaid cannot be mistaken, as he knows that he was present and heard the marriage ceremony pronounced, knows that they lived together as man and wife until the death of the said John Powers, that the said John Powers was always under stood and believed in the neighborhood to be a Revolutionary soldier and one of the brave men who stormed Stony Point under General Wayne, was one of the forlorn hope in that desperate struggle, that he remembers well when the said John Powers died, this deponent was at the time the Commander of an Independent Battalion that on the occasion of the death of said John Powers, his command was

called out and under the command his deponent then a Colonel the said John Powers was buried with the honors of War in consequence of his great reputation as a valiant and fearless champion of the Revolution That he died and was buried in New Brunswick as that deponent knows about the time specified by her viz 1831 but as to the precise time cannot now say, and that Getty Powers the person who subscribed the foregoing declaration is his his widow, and further that he has no interest in present application for a Pension
J. W. Scott
I sworn to and subscribed before me the 18th day of January 1854
And I do certify that Colonel Joseph W. Scott the above affiant is a highly respectable man was for a long period Prosecutor of the Pleas of Middlesex County has been a member of the Legis- lature besides occupying an elevated position in society
Peter P. Harrington Judge Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey } Before me the subscriber one of the County of Middlesex } Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid personally ap- peared Ralph Priestly aged sixty two years and Abraham Oakley aged fifty five years both residents of the City of New Brunswick in the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law upon their oaths respectively say that they were well acquainted with John Powers who was the husband of Getty Powers who is now his widow that they were both at his funeral know that he was buried with the honors of War under the com- mand of Colonel Scott that he died in New Brunswick aforesaid as these deponents believe at the time stated by his widow in her declaration viz in the month of March 1831 and that the said Getty Powers is now his widow and that they have no interest in her present application
R. Priestly A. Oakley
I sworn to and subscribed before me the day of January 1854 and I do certify that the said Ralph Priestly and Abraham Oakley are res- pectable persons and that their statements are entitled to full credit Peter P. Harrington Judge

State of New Jersey } I Nicholas Boorman blith County of Middlesex } of the inferior Court of Common pleas in Her the County and therefore I here by certify that Peter P. Raney in whose last General Signature ap- pear above is and was at the time of signing the same a Judge of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in Her the County and State of New Jersey duly commissioned sworn that all his official acts or which are entitled to full faith & credit, and that I said County Court is a Court of record having General Jurisdiction
Given under my hand & Seal of office at New Brunswick this 12 th day of January AD 1857 Nicholas Boorman

Civ: P.P. Runyon: Nov: 20/55,
88727 - Act Mar 3/55 April 20/55
Getty Powers (widow of John Power) inc
VA: State Hoop, Revolutionary
Rev: S. Runyon Rev: S. Runyon
Ad: Feb 19756 No. 9. Feb 53 - B. & W.
Vol P. page 112.
Jan 1
Peter P. Runyon New Brunswick N. Jersey

86. 427

State of New Jersey County of Middlesex } On the thirteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace with regard for the County and State of said Gitty Powers aged Seventy six years a resident of New Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of John Powers deceased who was a soldier of the Revolution and received a Pension as such at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum that she is now a Pensioner of the United States for the same amount as now by her said husband that her certif- icate of Pension is " Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensions under act February 3 rd 1853 Page 97 Vol W is No 3,557 and bears date the first day of February one thousand eight hundred and fifty four Payable at Trenton in the State of New Jersey For proof of the services and death of her said husband as well as her marriage to him she respectfully refers the Commissioner to her declaration on file in the Department. She further states that she is now a widow
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3. 1855
Gitty Powers
We Gentee Nevins and Addianna Brunyon residents of Middlesex County, State of New Jersey upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Gitty Powers in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and state- ments of the applicant that she is the identical

person she represents herself to be and that she is now a widow
Gerritie Nevins Adrianna Branson
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 claim ants is the person she represents herself to be That I have her Pension Certificate in my possession for safekeeping that she has ex- ecuted powers of attorney before me for the pur- pose of drawing her Pension half yearly at Trenton and that I have no interest in this claim
Peter P. Branson Notary of the Peace
State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex ss I Nicholas Dootson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Sussex do hereby certify that Peter P Branson whose signature appears above is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey duly authorized to administer oaths for General Purposes, and that full faith & credit are due to all his official acts; I further certify that said Court is a court of record having General Jurisdiction and a Seal there; and that I have no interest in this claim
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of office at the Court this 16 th day of April AD 1855 N Dootson Clerk

September 29, 1936
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BA-J/EEL
John Powers-W.8522
Mrs. M.C.Harding 4529 Rhode Island Street San Diego, California
Dear Madam:
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of John Powers are not given.
John Powers enlisted in the spring of 1777, at Portsmouth, Virginia, served in Captain Hoffler's Company, Colonel George Gibson's 1 st Virginia State Regiment, was in the battle of Monmouth and at the storming of Stony Point and was discharged December 24, 1779. He stated that his discharge was deposited at Richmond at the time he received a warrant for land granted by that state. It was stated that the soldier was wounded in battle, name of the engagement and nature of the wound not given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 2, 1818, while residing in Middlesex County, New Jersey, and aged about fifty-nine years.
He died March 3, 1831, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and was buried at that place.
The soldier married in December, 1818 or 1819, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, Gitty. The date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not shown.
Soldier's widow, Gitty Powers, was allowed pension on her application executed January 7, 1854, at which time she was aged seventy-four years and resided in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
On April 13, 1855, Gitty Powers, then a resident of New Brunswick, New Jersey, applied for the bounty land which was due on account of the service of her husband, John Powers in the Revolutionary War. She was granted one hundred sixty acres on Warrant No. 17578, under the Act of March 3, 1855.

In order to obtain information in regard to the location of the land cited above, you should address The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official with the number of the warrant, the acreage and the act under which said warrant was issued.
There is no reference to children.
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, Gitty Powers, widow of John Powers (W.8522), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Gitty Powers, widow of John Powers Certificate No.3557 Issued February 1, 1854 Rate $96 per annum Commenced February 3, 1853. Act of February 3, 1853 New Jersey Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No.
8522
Gitty Powers Wid
John Powers Print Rev. War
Act: Febry 3 d 1863
Index:—Vol. Me, Page 135
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1936- Defat 29/1 list to Mrs M.C. Harding - Ed. Re letter in case of Powers D. 18164

See letter Dec. 27. 1830 to Hon. J. F. Randolph. do. to same 20 Jan. 1831. do. to same Jan. 26. 1831.
8 3 31/2400 (77 230 217
8 $40.77
out ea. est see letter 4 Oct. 1830
(144)
New Jersey
John Powers, private. Army U. States
at $8 per m o Com d 2 d April, 1878
Cert: issued 12 th April, 1878 & sent to Hon: M c Southard, of N. J. House of Representatives
Acct. 11 th Sept. 1878. 5 3/31 months $40.77
(Rec d claim. Act 18. March, 1878)
Virginia Line Payrs 9 mos Draft from the W.W.
Middlesex

March 153, N.Y. R. P. D.
1. Pres; 3 rd March. 31
"Boyn. M."

Jan'y 10 1854
Sister Fanny. Wif. of John. No. 4154 Middlesex Co:
M.F.
Act 153 $96.00 per An. Com: Fyry: 3.7853. Very
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Index
Peter P. Branson, New Brunswick N.S.

2 17.578
5 New Acq

V Pension Office, 18 th January, 1854, 3 mar 31
Please certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid, or the date of his death, (Very Respectfully,
A. Cole For the Commissioner,
John Powers act 1818. Died 3 March 1831. Paid
F. Bush Auditor
Francis Burt Esq., The Auditor, Reading }

Powers John W 8522 September 29, 1936
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Mrs. M.C.Harding 4529 Rhode Island Street San Diego, California
BA-J/WMHF/eel
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of September 9, in which you request the Revolutionary War records of William Power, who received Bounty Land Warrant No.2205; William Power, who received Bounty Land Warrant No.2564, and John Power, who received Bounty Land Warrant, No.3877, which land was located in Kentucky.
Your citations do not pertain to the Revolutionary War records of the Veterans Administration. Those records have been searched, however, and the record found of only one William Powers, of Virginia and one John Powers who served from Virginia. No record was found of a John or William Power, of Virginia. The land which was located in Kentucky was granted by the state of Virginia and not by the United States. Further information in regard to those soldiers might be obtained from the Curator of Old Records, Richmond, Virginia or from The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, who is custodian of some of the Virginia Bounty Land records, and of United States land grants.
The record of the only William Powers, of Virginia, Rev.War in this office was furnished you January 11, 1934. No further information in regard to him is on file, except that he received United States Bounty Land Warrant No.26471, for one hundred sixty acres under the Act of March 3, 1855. His pension number is 18164. The record of John Powers is furnished herewith as found in pension claim, W.8522, based upon the military service of that soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Washington, Feb. 7. 1831.
Sir, I have procured thereunto transmitted the only evidence that seems to be attainable in the case of John Power, accounting for the changes in his property since his original application for a pension. He is still in the full belief that he never made an exhibit before the present one. His veracity and probity are not questionable.
I take the liberty to request, as a special favor, that you will, as soon as practicable, let me know your decision.
Most Respectfully,
James F. Randolph.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office.

by My Powers aged 74 years Married by Mr Huntington in 1818 or 1819 Warren Scott present at the marriage Died at New Bern with March 3 rd 1831 $96 = was wounded at Stony Point was in the battle of monmouth

No 144
Washington, Dec. 9. 1831.
Dear Sir, Not succeeding at the Pension office in getting the authentication you wanted, I went seriously to work to look up the original Pension Certificate, and had the good fortune to find it. It is endorsed hereunto.
Yours respectfully, J A F Randolph.
for J. Nevins Esq
7 th Feb 1831 was the day on which the Evidence was closed & the day the Pension began

Bounty land claim Supplemental evidence
See of March 3. 1855 No 88,727
Getty Powers New Brunswick New Jersey
Getty Powers wid John Boynton
Peter P. Brumley agent New Brunswick New Jersey

This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia State Line as settled their Accounts and received Certificates for the balance of their full pay, according to An Act of Assembly, passed the November Session 1781, directing the Auditors of Public Accounts to settle and adjust the pay and accounts of the said Officers and Soldiers from the 1st January 1777 to 31st December 1781, (See Hening's Statutes at Large, Vol. 10, p. 462,) that a settlement was made on the 28 th day of April 1786 in the name of John Powers as Sol d Infy _____ and evidence of the indebtedness of the State to him for £ 55. 2. 6 _____ delivered to Mr. Hudson but as the original settlements or copies thereof are not to be found in this Office, the term of service embraced therein cannot be stated
Given under my hand, at the the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this
15 th day of February 1856.
{ NO SEAL OF OFFICE. }
G. W. Clinton Aud r P. Accounts

Brief in the case of Gitty Powers, widow of John Middlesex County and State of N. Jersey, act 3. Feb'y, 1853,
Claim, ("original," or "for increase" )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Ingham was a Revisory conduct the Acts of 18 th March, 1818, 1 st May, 1820, & 1 st March, 1823,
One witness testifies that he witnessed the marriage.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Peter T. Runyon, Esq., New Brunswick, N. J. Name and residence of Agent
D. C. Bynum, Examining Clerk.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
March 11 th 1854.
Sir:
Under the act 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;" and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the Pension agents,
the widow of John Powers, dec.
a Pensioner on the Roll of the New Jersey Agency, at the rate of eight Dollars and Cents per Month, under the law of the 18 th March 1818 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1819, to the 4 th March 1820.
Respectfully yours, .
J. M. Brook Brooke Comptroller.
wid act/53
3557
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.

New Brunswick N. Jersey Jan'y 12 th 1854
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Please find the declaration of Mrs Gitty Powers for a Pension under the act of February 3 rd 1853
I herewith enclose a letter from the Hon James F. Randolph to James S. Nevins Esq r which Mrs Powers had preserved Mr Randolph at the time was a member of Congress, I presume Mr Nevins wrote to him for information as the agent of Mrs Powers The probability is that the Certificate spoken of by Mr Randolph is returned to the Department and the arrears drawn by the widow Mrs Powers is a very worthy old lady and being very inform her pension would be very ac- -ceptable indeed
With great respect &c
Peter P. Burrough
Hon S. P. Waldo

State of New Jersey Personally appeared in open Court being Middlesex County ss a special court of common pleas and a court of record, Augustus H Taylor who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is a resident and practising physi- sician in the city of New Brunswick. That he is well ac- quainted with Capt John Powers a petitioner for the benefit of the Pension Laws of the U States. That since the year 1817 this deponent has been in the habit of attending him in his professional capacity. That the said John Powers during that time has been labouring under a paralytic affection which has in some measure affected his mem- ory and disabled him from gaining a support by labour. That he is in very indigent circumstances, so much so that this deponent has never received any compensation for the services rendered him - nor does he expect any. That the only property the said John is possessed of as this deponent believes consists of a few articles of household furniture of little value and two cows and further this deponent saith not.
Subscribed and sworn
Aug 11 th Taylor
in open Court this 3 rd day of Feb y 1831
Job Ford
State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss John Powers a petitioner for a pension under the Laws of the United States being duly sworn in open court, being a court of record on his oath saith. That he did not nor does he now recollect that he ex- hibited a schedule of his property when he was first placed on the pension list and if he did so he has kept no copy of such schedule and has totally forgotten what property was mentioned and contained in it
He further saith that about ten or twelve years ago he had a stroke of the palsy which has greatly affected his memory & destroyed his strength & has since been unable to

procure a living by his bodily strength - That he is not aware of any changes that have been made in his property since 1818, or since such schedule was made out if any such there were, except in his cattle which he has raised from the cattle he then had, and that he has killed off the old stock for the support of himself and family - That if any other changes have occurred in his property they must have been made by sale of a part thereof to provide for the necessary support of himself and family but he has no recollection of any such sale, nor can he name any article of property so sold - nor any person to whom any such transfer may have been made - He further saith that the property contained in the schedule recently made out by him & sent to Washington is all that he owns of any description or kind and that if he at any time owned more since 1818 the same has been worn out and lost or fairly appropriated towards his support or the payment of his debts -
Subscribed & sworn in open Court this third day of February A.D. 1831 W m B Manning
John Powers
I Ferdinand J. Van Arsdalen clerk of the county of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing oaths are truly copied from the records of said court of common Pleas in & for said county -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court on this 3 rd day of February A.D. 1831 -
F. J. Van Arsdalen
Clerk of Middx