Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 506, Ruliff Hagerman, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Hagerman, Ruliff Stout, Catherine Catharine or
N 506
CONTENTS
(Former widow)

7549. New Jersey
Catharine Stout, formerly the widow of Russell Ralph Hagerman who was a private, in the New Jersey line.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars —
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 st day of January '46, and sent to
A. Joy, of N. York.
Present.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
27 June, 1844.
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 100.

New Jersey County of Somerset p
On this Twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the subscriber one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Somerset aforesaid Catharine Stout a resident of the township of Montgomery in the County of Somerset and State of New Jersey aged seventy nine years on the tenth day of October next who 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 July 4 th 1836 and the act explanatory of said act passed March 3 rd 1837. That she was married to Ralph Hagerman who was a revolutionary soldier and who enlisted as she has been informed and believes in the company of Captain Badcock for the term of five months and marched with said Company under the command of said Captain and marched from the township of Montgomery in the county of Somerset aforesaid to Long Island and was in the battle of Long Island and that he served his term of five months. She recollects hearing her husband tell of his being in the battle of Manassas and also of his being out on duty at the time of the battle of Princeton and Trenton. Thinks she has heard him talk of his being at the battle of Brandywine when the Americans took the British baggage wagons at the time said Ralph Hagerman enlisted for five months he resided in the township of Montgomery in the County of Somerset afore

10 Sep 1880 said. She further declares that she was married to the said Reuleph Hagerman by the Reverend John Blackwell on the tenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty and that her husband was called out to do duty as a soldier shortly after she was married to him but she does not recollect under whom he served nor where he went. She recollects that he went out on duty as a soldier in the revolutionary army several times after she was married to him but does not recollect where he went nor how long he staid at each time, nor the names of the officers of his company. And she further says that her said husband Reuleph Hagerman died on or about the first part of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two and that she was afterwards married Nathan Stout who died on the tenth day of March eighteen hundred and twenty six and that she was a widow on the fourth day of July 1836 and still remains a widow as will more fully appear by reference to the proof here to annexed. She has no certificate of her marriage nor is there any record of her marriage to said Reuleph Hagerman except in the family Bible into which it has been copied from an old Bible which is now defaced and torn.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
me Peter Voorhies Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Bracelet County
The words "months and" in the first page interlined & was in the 2 d page erased before sworn to Peter Voorhies
Catherine X Stout her mark

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
BIRTHS.
Garret Hagemen was born 15 day of August 1800

FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES, and Births
MARRIAGES.
Philip Heganman was born March 25 th 1744.
Catharine Helms was born October 10 th 1759.
Philip Heganman was married to Catharine Helms, daughter of Samuel & Mary Helms, on the 10 th day of September, A.D. 1780
Mary Heganman, daughter of Philip and Catharine, was born June 15 th 1781
Anna Heganman was born April 17 th 1783
Pamela Heganman was born August 5 th 1785.
Sydia Heganman was born June 30 th 1787.
John Heganman was born August 1 st 1789.
Andrew Heganman was born September 20 th 1791.
Sarah Heganman was born January 23 rd 1794
Samuel Heganman was born May 17 th 1796.
Jarrel Heganman was born August 15 th 1800.
Philip Heganman departed this life the 8 th day of October 1802
Nathan Stout was married to Catharine Heganman, the 25 th day of October, 1806.
Nathan Stout departed this life March the 10 th 1826

Catharine Stout
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Anas Jay Present

State of New Jersey, County of Somerset, Jr.
Before me Cornelius S. Stryker, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the said County, personally appeared John R. Hagerman, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath deposeth and saith that the record herewith transmitted, was taken from the family bible of Catherine Stout; that he saw it cut out of said bible; that he verily believes it to be a true record, as it purports to be of the family of Ruth Hagerman, and that he has long known it as such.
John R. Hagerman
Subscribed & sworn before me the tenth day of Jan- uary, eighteen hundred and forty three.
Corn. Stryker. J.
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named John R. Hagerman, and believe that his testimony may be implicitly relied on as true in every particular.
Corn. Stryker. Judge etc.

State of New Jersey County of Somerset. p.
Before me Cornelius J. Striker, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the said county, personally appeared Abraham Stout, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath deponeth and saith that the record herewith transmitted, was taken from the family bible of Catherine Stout; that he saw it cut out of said bible; that he verily believes it to be a true record, as it purports to be of the family of Rufus Hagerman, and that he has long known it as such.
Subscribed & sworn before me the tenth day of January eighteen hundred and forty three. Abraham Stout.
Cornelius J. Striker. J.
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named Abraham Stout, and believe that his testimony may be implicitly relied on as true in every particular.
Cornelius J. Striker. Judge.

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Arad Joy Ovids. Seneca County New York
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The war of the revolution, that he resided so near to him, that he could but State of New Jersey in the war of the revolution, the
County of Somerset ss Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Catharine Stout of Montgomery in said county aged eighty six years and upward after being duly sworn according to law deposes & says that she is the identical person who made application for a pension, as the late widow of Ruliff Hageman, that she will recollect that she was married to the said Ruliff Hageman in September 1780 Seventeen hundred & eighty and that her said husband was in service in the war of the revolution after her marriage to him, of this fact, circumstances at the time impressed it upon her mind & impressed the fact of his service so strongly as to be past forgetting or mistaking, so that she is confident of his serving in the war of the revolution after her said marriage to him Sworn & subscribed before me this 22 day of June 1845
Catharine Stout Mark
Henry M c John Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Catharine Stout is a highly respectable person and fully entitled to all confidence in her deposition above, that she appears to be of sound mind & of good memory -
Henry M c John Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey
County of Somerset ss Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Rev John Boggs of Hopewell in said state aged 75 seventy five, after being duly affirmed  sworn according to law, affirmed  deposes and says that he is the minister of the Gospel of Hopewell & has been for thirty five to forty years, that he is personally acquainted with Catharine Stout, late widow of Ruliff Hageman, who is applying for a pension, that he has been so acquainted with her for thirty five to forty years, and this affirmed  deposes says that she is a person of character, of truth & integrity & of piety, a worthy Christian, that she is highly esteemed as one of the most upright & exemplary of her sex, that from this affirmed  his long & intimate acquaintance with her he  deposes & says that he has full & entire confidence in the truth of the above deposition subscribed by her, and further that full confidence ought to be placed in it, as much as if she had no personal interest in it, that he believes it to contain only the truth Sworn & subscribed before me this 23 day of June 1845
John Boggs
Henry M c John Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Rev John Boggs is a Preacher of the Gospel as a man & esteemed Christian, character of the best of moral & christian character, that full & entire confidence is due to the deposition subscribed by him -
Henry M c John Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey
County of Somerset ss Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Peter Voorhees of Montgomery in said county & for thirty five years, after being duly sworn according to law de

He had no personal interest in it, That he believes it to contain only the truth affirmed & subscribed before me this 23 day of June 1845
John Bagg
Henry M c Elkin Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Rev John Bagg, in a Preacher of the Gospel as man & esteemed christian, of the best of moral & christian character, that full & entire confidence is due to the deposition subscribed by him -
Henry M c Elkin Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey County of Somerset ss. Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Peter Voorhees of Montgomery in said county & State aged fifty eight years, after being duly sworn according to law dep- -oses and says that he has from a boy and for more than forty years been personally acquainted & resided a close neighbor to widow Catharine Stout late widow of Ruliff Hageman who is applying for a pension, that this deponent from his long & intimate acquaintance with the said Catharine Stout late Hageman deposes and says that she is a person of high moral & christian character, of strict truth & integrity, that she is above suspicion as to departing from the truth, but is a person of truth & is in all places & under all circumstances to be relied upon for truth, that he has full confidence in the truth of the above deposition subscribed by her that full confidence & credit ought to be given to it, the same as if she had no personal interest in it, this deponent confides fully in its truth Sworn & subscribed before me this 24 th day of June 1845
Peter Voorhees
Henry M c Elkin Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Hon Peter Voorhees has been & is a Judge of the courts of said Somerset county, that he has been several times a member of the Legislature, that he is a man of high christian & moral character & full confidence is to be placed in his deposition above - Henry M c Elkin Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey County of Somerset ss
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Abraham Stout of Montgomery in said county aged sixty five years, after being duly sworn according to law deposes & says, that he is & has been for forty five to fifty years personally & intimately acquainted with widow Catharine Stout, late widow of Ruliff Hageman who has applied for a pension & whose affidavit is annexed, that from this deponents long & intimate acquaintance with the said Catharine Stout, late Hageman, having resided for more than forty years a close neighbor to her, he deposes & says, that she is a person of unblemished moral & christian character, a person of strict truth & veracity that this deponent would feel bound to believe her under any & all circumstances & at all times & in all places, & that this deponent deposes & says that he places full & entire reliance upon & in the truth of the annexed affidavit subscribed by her, the said widow Catharine Stout, and further this deponent deposes & says that the same reliance is due to it & to be placed in the said affidavit annexed & subscribed by the said Catharine Stout, the same as if she had no personal interest in it - that this deponent further deposes & says that he was present at the taking of the deposition of John Swem in relation to the service of Ruliff Hageman, the late husband of the said Catharine Stout, made in her behalf at the time of her application for a pension, & this deponent deposes & says that he cannot say whether all of the facts & circumstances of the knowledge of the said John Swem stated & named by him at the time he appeared before the Justice to give in his affidavit, were embraced in the said affidavit, therefore this deponent recapitulates the facts or some of the facts then stated as coming under the personal knowledge of the said John Swem as to the revolutionary service of the said Ruliff Hageman, to wit, this deponent deposes and says that the said John Swem stated before the Justice, that he was personally knowing to the service of the said Ruliff Hageman on Long Island in 1776 of his being in the battle of Long Island, White Plains, that he was in the battle of Monmouth, Ticonderoga, Princeton, Germantown and Van Epps Mills at the time of the taking of the British baggage wagons, the said John Swem stated that the said Ruliff Hageman served with him in all of said battles, that he served in 1776 five months & then one month with out any respit & that he served in the militia yearly in monthly tours two or three years; the said John Swem stated that he & the said Ruliff Hageman belonged to & served in the same company & always at the same time & that the said Ruliff Hageman served as much as he John Swem did
Abraham Stout
Sworn & subscribed before me This 22 - day of June 1845
Henry H. Ashmun Justice of the Peace
I certify that the said above named Abraham Stout is a highly respectable person, of strict truth & veracity & entire confidence is due to & ought to be placed in every statement subscribed by him Henry H. Ashmun Justice of the Peace

that upon re-examination and given in some of the papers under the personal knowledge of the said John Swem as to the revolu- tionary service of the said Ruliff Hageman, to wit, this deponent deposes and says that the said John Swem stated before the justice, that he was personally knowing to the service of the said Ruliff Hageman on Long Island in 1776 of his being in the battle of Long Island, White Plains, that he was in the battle of Monmouth, Trenton, Princeton, Germantown and Van Epps Mills at the time of the taking of the British baggage wagons, the said John Swem stated that the said Ruliff Hageman served with him in all of said battles, that he served in 1776 five months & then one month with out any respit & that he served in the militia yearly in monthly tours two or three years; the said John Swem stated that he & the said Ruliff Hageman belonged to & served in the same company & always at the same time & that the said Ruliff Hageman served as much as he John Swem did Sworn & subscribed before me This 22 nd day of June 1845
Abraham Stout Henry Alston justice of the peace
I certify that the said above named Abraham Stout is a highly respec- table person, of strict truth & veracity & entire confidence is due to & ought to be placed in the above deposition subscribed by him Henry Alston justice of the peace
State of New Jersey County of Somerset ss Personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said county John Cray Montgomery in said county aged eighty three years & upward after being duly sworn according to law deposes & says that he has been from a boy a neighbor to, & personally acquainted with Catharine Stout, late, the widow of Ruliff Hageman who is applying for a pension for the revolutionary service of her first hus- band Ruliff Hageman, this deponent deposes & says, that she is the iden- tical person who was the wife of the said Ruliff Hageman during the war of the revolution, that she is the identical person who was the wife of the said Ruliff Hageman who was a soldier in the war of the revolution after she was his wife, that this deponent during the war of the revolution resided a close neighbor to the said parties Ruliff Hageman & his then wife the present widow Catharine Stout, that this deponent well recollects that the said Ruliff Hageman was a Whig of 76 always ready & willing to serve his country in the war of the revolution and that he did serve in the war of the revolution from time to time from 1776 to 1781 that this deponent was often at his the said Ruliff Hageman's dwelling house during

The war of the revolution, that he resided so near to him, that he could but 3 know of his Service in the war of the revolution, that the said Ruliff Hageman was in the Service in the war of the revolution at the time of the so called Pennsylvania revolt in 1781 when two Spies were taken & executed, that the said Ruliff Hageman served yearly from 1776 to 1781 inclusive from three to Six months, unless he may not have served but one or two months in 1781 after his said marriage to the present applicant Catharine Stout this deponent deposeth & says that full & entire confidence is due to, & ought to be given to & placed in the annexed affidavit of the said Catharine Stout that she is a person always to be believed - that Ruliff Hageman served two or three years
Sworn & subscribed before me this 23 day of June 1845
Francis Gray Mark
Henry M. Clark Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named John Cray is a respectable person & that full reliance is to be placed in his affidavit above & within, that he appears to be of sound mind & of good memory
Henry M. Clark Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey
County of Somerset ss Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Christopher Kracy of Hillsborough in said county aged Seventy five, coming 76 in the Fall of 1845 after being duly sworn according to law, deposes & says that he has from a boy been personally ac- quainted with Catharine Stout, late widow of Ruliff Hageman, that at & during the war of the revolution he this deponent under a close neighbor- to the said parties, that the said Ruliff Hageman was in 76, a Whig of those days, a ready soldier at all times for Service in the war of the revo- lution, that he was in the Service in the war of the revolution from 1776 to 1781 inclusive from three to Six months in each year, ex- cept in 1781 he may not have been in the Service but one or two months which was after his marriage to the present applicant for a pension the said Catharine Stout, this deponent further deposes & says that it was at the time of the revolution & during the revolution of public notoriety & fully believed through the neighborhood at that time that the said Ruliff Hageman was a Whig of 76 and was always a faithful soldier & did Service yearly in the war of the revolution; this deponent further deposes & says that the said Ruliff Hageman served in all in the war of the revolution two or three years, that this deponent went very soon after the close of the war of the revolution to reside with the said parties the said Ruliff Hageman & his then wife Catharine, the present widow Catharine Stout, that he resided in their said family seven to ten years and after that occasionally for more than twenty years, that long before 1800, he heard the said Ruliff Hageman & this deponent's father often talk of being in the war of

before in 1780 he may not have been in the service but one or two months which was after his marriage to the present applicant for a pension the said Catharine Stout, this deponent further deposes & saith that it was at the time of the revolution & during the revolution of public notoriety & fully believed through the neighborhood at that time that the said Ruliff Hageman was a whig of 76 and was always a faithful soldier & did service yearly in the war of the revolution; this deponent further deposes & says that the said Ruliff Hageman served in all in the war of the revolution two or three years, that this deponent went very soon after the close of the war of the revolution to reside with the said parties, the said Ruliff Hageman & his then wife Catharine, the present widow Catharine Stout, that he resided in their said family seven to ten years and after that occasionally for more than twenty years, that long before 1800, he heard the said Ruliff Hageman & this deponent's father often talk of being in the war of the revolution, & in the battle of Monmouth & other battles; that the present ap- licant Catharine Stout is the identical person who was the wife of the said Ruliff Hageman in 1780 & 1781 and that her husband served in the war of the revolution after his said marriage then, this deponent had all of the opportunity needful, residing a close neighbor to & soon after it with the parties to know of all the facts here set forth I sworn & subscribe before me this 22 day of June 1845
Christopher Wray
I certify that the above named Christopher Wray is a respectable person & is to be relied fully in his affidavit above, that he appears to be of sound mind & good memory
Henry J. Collier Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey County of Somerset ss I Dement Frelinghuysen Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas - of the said county do hereby certify that Henry Mcleod - before whom the Six annexed affidavits were executed was at the date of the taking of the same a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned & qualified and that his signature to the said Six affidavits as well as the Six certificates of character is his genuine signature -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my official Seal at Somerville this 24 th day of June 1845
Dement Frelinghuysen Clerk
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And Joy Yours N

Overd July 26th 45
Sir
I enclose further proof in the case of Mrs Catharine Stout, was Hageman, whose case is on file under law of 1836. I have the utmost confidence in this case, having been all about the neighborhood of her residence and seen persons & heard of the services &c of her late husband R. Hageman - Respectfully
Your Most W th Servt Abad Lays
Hon J. L Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington D. C.

Hon J L Edwards Coun. of Pensions
10/6 May 1900 Copy of letter

Qvid July 26th 45
Sir
I enclose further proof in the case of Mrs Catharine Stout, was Hageman, whose case is on file under law of 1836. I have the utmost confidence in this case, having been all about the neighborhood of her residence. Seen persons & heard of the services &c. of her late husband R. Hageman - Respectfully
Your Most W th Servt Abad Joy
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington D. C.

The Certificate of the Hon. W. Halstead as to Judge Voorhies, although written on the wrong set of papers, is deemed sufficient by the Com.
I do
Dec 3. 1838

State of New Jersey Somerset County 8
Be it remembered that on this seventeenth day of April 1843 Before me Peter Voorhies one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Personally appeared Catherine Stout who being duly sworn on the holy evangelists of Almighty God did depose and say that she was married by the Rev. John Blackwell a regular ordained minister of the gospel of the Baptist denomination to Ruliff Hageman on the tenth day of September one thousand seven hundred and eighty and that the said Ruliff Hageman was not on duty in the militia in the service of the country for one month immediately before their intermarriage and also one month within the first ten months after their intermarriage and that she verily believes and thinks that Simon Duryee was the Captain under which he served at that time and further this deponent saith.
Sworn & subscribed
the day and year first mentioned
Catherine X Stout
Peter Voorhies
I do hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with Catherine Stout the foregoing deponent for more than forty years and that full faith and credit ought to be given to her affidavit as she has maintained throughout life an unexceptionable character for Integrity & Veracity
Witness my hand this 17 th day of April 1843
Peter Voorhies

98574.
New Jersey.
Catharine Stout, formerly the Widow of Relief Hagerman, who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the — October, 1809 of Somerset Co, in the State of N. Jersey who was a private in the commanded by Captain of the commanded by  in the New Jersey line for Key:
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey — at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31st: day of January 1846 and sent to L. Joy — of New York — Present.
Total amount, $100.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Hett Stewart Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 — Page 207 —

N. Jersey Catharine Stout
Letter to Hon. W. Malstead 6. Dec. 1838
to Arad Jay Jan'y 9. 1843
to Hon. Woodworth July 17. 43c
" " " " Aug. 18 " "
to Arad Jay March 12. '45
to Same Aug 28. '45
to Same Nov 24. '45
to Same Jan'y 22. '46
Act. July 1836

State of New Jersey Somerset County of Be it remembered that on this fourteenth day of April A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty three before me Peter Voorhies one of the judges of the Inferior Court of common Pleas in and for said County of Somerset personally ap- peared George Kerstrow who being duly sworn on the holy evangelists of Almighty God did depose and say that he was born in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty three on the fifth day of September as appears by the family record That he served in the militia in the Revolutionary struggle That he recollects being in the town at Elizabeth Town in the month of May in the year 1778 That he quartered at that time in the house of a Mr Woodruff that during the time he was there Ruliff Hageman was with him quartered and Messed with him That at that time they served under Capt n Philip Pelperson Lieutenant Peter Ditmars Ensign Andrew Middelpoort and further that at this time they were out in the service for one month and that Ruliff Hageman was with him during said Month This deponent further saith that the militia were very frequently called in the service and he knows that the said Ruliff Hageman belonged to the militia and was a firm and consistent Whig and has no doubt but he served frequently on other occasions but does not distinctly recollect seeing him on any other occasion And further this

This deponent saith not
Sworn & subscribed the day & year first written before me
George R. Irwin
Peter Voortrees
Blauveltburgh Somerset County New Jersey April 14 th 1843 I do hereby certify that I have been acquaint- ed with the foregoing deponent for nearly forty years past and that he has and still does main- tain an unblemished character for honesty, sobri- ety, veracity, and integrity, and I have no doubt of the truth of his affidavit; in conversation with him he states that he thinks that he saw Ruliff Hazeman at different times in the service but is not sufficiently certain of more than the one month to be willing to make affidavit thereto but of the one months service he cannot be mistaken. Signed
Peter Voortrees

To Hon S L Edwards
Com t of Pensions
Sir I hereby accept of a pension under the law of July 7. 1838 and hereby withdraw my claim to a pension under the law of 1836 under which I applied as the former widow of Riley Hageman -
Baltimore June 4 th 1845 - Abraham Stout
Catherine Stout on att
I was at Mrs. Catharine Stout's (above mentioned) house in June 1845 & I know that she was then living - Washington Jan. 29. 1846 - Arad Sayer

Dec 3. 1895.
Headquarters
Dear Sir,
J. L. Edwards Board of Pensions Washington D.C.

Over Nov 28th 45
Sir
I enclose acceptance under the Law of 1838 for Catharine Stoub - please answer this letter directed to me to the com at Washington D.C & drop it in the P.O.
Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Brad Joy
Hon J L Edwards, Washington D.C

Frankton June 27 1845
Dear Sir
I enclose you some additional testimony in the case of Catherine Stout which I hope you will find sufficient to warrant the granting her a pension.
G. A. L. Edwards
Yours very respectfully W. H. Hoesel

WIDOW, &c.
Pay
Ans
File No. _____
506
Catherine Stout,
Widow.
Ruliff Hagerman,
Prin. N. Jersey Line
Act: Mar. 3. 1843. L.
Index: —Vol. M. _____, Page 238.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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J. L. Edwards Court of Pensions Washington D. C.

Ovid Seneca County N.Y.
Dec 10th 1842
Hon J. L. Edwards
Dear Sir
Mr Abraham Stork a son in law, & the one who has been the most active in trying to procure a pension for Widow Catherine Hageman, widow of Ruliff Hageman but now the wife as I was told of or rather the widow of Nathan Stork, may I be allowed to ask what has been done in this case, or what is wanting to be done to insure a pension, or a copy of your two last letters to the late attorney, I am employed in this case & I make these inquiries, that I may be put in possession of a starting point - I am informed that you have in your possession much proof in this case
I was at the dwelling of Mr Stork & the lady in Somerset Co. New Jersey in November, it was at that time that the case was put into my hands - I beg that you will pardon me for making so many inquiries
I am Your very Ob st Servt Abad Joy

Oct. 23, 1845.
Admiral ter. case
Cath. Slant.
Hon
J. L. Edwards Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.
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State of New Jersey County of Somerset To Personly appeared Before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County John Gray of Said County aged Eighty three years and upward after Being Duly Sworn according to Law Deposeth and Says that he had from a Boy resided a Neare Neighbour to Ralph Hageman and that after his marriage in 1780 he Still Continued a close Neighbour to him & his Wife that he Was in the habit of visiting the dwelling Where the Said Ralph Hageman resided Before his Marriage from 1776 to 1780 that he Well recollects of the Said Ralph Hageman serving in the Militia in the War of the Revolution three Months or More each Year from 1776 to 1780 and that his officers Were Capt Duneyer & Capt Babecock Col Henry Van Dike and that this Deponent Was familiar at the dwelling of the Said Ralph after his Said Marriage in 1780 to the Said Catharine that is the Present Catharine Stout and from his Personal knowledge Being so often at his house he Deposes & Says that the Said Ralph Hageman Was out and in Service one Month in 1781 Under Capt Babecock and Col Henry Van Dike as this Deponent Well knows Was after his Marriage to the Said Catharine
his Sworn and Subscribed Before me John Gray Henry McLean Justice of the Peace in Mark and for Said County this 16 th Day of October 1845
I Do here by Certify that the above named John Gray is a Respectable Person Henry McLean Justice of the Peace State of New Jersey Somerset County.
To Personly appeared Before me the Subscriber Catharine Stout Who Deposes and Says that her Husband Ralph Hageman Was out in the Service of the Revolution Left home about the 15 th of May 1781 But Catharine assertain With her one Month or More and further this Deponent saith not Catharine Stout
Witness Henry McLean Mark
Sworn Before me the Subscriber this 17 th Day of October 1845
Henry McLean Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey Somerset County ss.
I Dumont Feulingmyer clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Somerset do hereby certify that Henry McClellan before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken as at the time the same was so taken justice of the peace in & for said County thereby to take the same, Given under
my hand and the seal of my office this 20 th day of October A.D. 1845-
Dumont Feulingmyer clerk
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Andrey Agt. Orch. New York Via Briggs & Easton

Ovid Oct 23. 45
Sir
You have upon this sheet further proof in the case of Catharine Hawk, was Hagar in an Hon J L Edwards Court of Pery Your Ob d Servt Abad Joy

Mar 5 '45
N.Y.
Hon J. L. Edwards, Coun. of Pensions Washington D.C.
66 3/4 Postage PAID FREE

Ovid Feb 27 th 1845
Dear Sir
I have for more than one year been impotuned to take hold of the pension application of Catharine Stout, late widow of Relief Hagerman, whose application was filed under law of 1836 - from Jonesville 6 th N.J.
I beg leave respectfully to ask you to please to inform me the situation of the case, a copy of her declaration of service; I am informed that the marriage is proven & that as much as 2 years service is proven; but if I may ask for a history, under the circumstances of the case, I beg leave to do so. the objection to a pension I will stand Respectfully Your
Morrill O. G. Smith Arad Jay
Hon J L Edwards Court of Pensions Washington D.C.

Catharine Short application for additional pen sin additional Evidence
Hon. W. Halsted H.R.

State of New Jersey, County of Somerset. G.
Before me Cornelius I. Stryker, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Somerset, aforesaid: personally appeared William Duryee, who being duly sworn according to law, on his oath deposeth and saith that he was born in the township of Montgomery, in the said county of Somerset, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty five; that he has lived in said township ever since; that he has a distinct and perfect recollection of the war of the Revolution; that he was well acquainted with Philip Hager- man at the time of the Revolutionary war; that he knew him after the Revolutionary war, and until his death; that there was a company of Militia before the Revolutionary war in the said township, and that the said company of Militia existed at the commencement & during the Revolutionary war; that one Joseph Babcock was the captain thereof in the time of aged the said war, and resigned captain until his marriage, when he left said company and removed out of the said township; that Simon Duryee (de- ponent's brother) succeeded said Babcock, as captain of said company, and remained cap- tain until the end of the war; that the said Philip Hagerman was a private in the said company and served as such under the said Babcock and afterwards under the said Simon Duryee; that John Levin was a Lieu-

tenant in the said company at the same time that the said Simon Duryee was captain; that the militia were frequently called out into service in the revolutionary war, and that the said com- pany were ordered out, and were in service at Springfield, in the state of New Jersey, and were engaged in the battle of Springfield, aforesaid; that the said company were engaged in a skirmish with the British at Millstone in the said state; that the said company was at the battle of German town, in the state of Pennsylvania; that at all the above specified places that the said Simon Duryee commanded said company, and as this deponent thinks and verily believes, the said Philip Hagerman bore a part as a private; that the said Philip Hagerman was considered a good whig and a friend to the cause of the Independence of his country. This deponent further deposeth and saith that he is acquainted with Cath- arine Stout; that she now resides in the said township of Mountgomery; that he was acquainted with her at the time of the Revolutionary war; that her maiden name was Holmes; that she was mar- ried to the said Philip Hagerman, and remained his wife until his death; that the said Catherine afterwards married one Nathan Stout; that she survived the said Nathan Stout, and that in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six, and for many years previous to that time was a widow and remains a widow to this day.
Sworn & subscribed before me the tenth day of January, 1836. William Duryee, eighteen hundred & forty three.
John H. Riker: Judge

I certify that I am well acquainted with the William Duryee, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit, and believe him to be a man of integrity & truth, and that the facts there detailed may be relied on as true.
Cornelius Dreyer. Judge of the In- ferior Court of Common Pleas of Linn County

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Catharine Steaks
Application for pension
N.Y.
act of July 36
m 80.202.
Hon. W. Halstead
NY
Dec 3

New Jersey Somerset County p I Peter Voorhies Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Somerset do hereby certify that Catharine Stout widow whose name is sub- scribed to the foregoing application for a pension, is unable, from bodily infirmity to attend court Dated this seventeenth day of September A D 1837.
Peter Voorhies
New Jersey Hunterdon County ss personally appeared before the subscriber Daniel Stout one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Hunterdon John Surin of the township of Hopewell in the county of Hunterdon aged eighty four years last August years who being duly sworn ac- cording to law deposes and saith that he was well acquainted with Ralph Hageman and en- listed with him in the American Service of the Revolution under Captain Joseph Backlock in the five months service and marched Immedi- ately to New York in 1776 this deponent further saith that he saw the said Ralph Hageman at the Battle of Long Island & also at the Battles of White Plains & Brandywine Mills and he helped to take nearly all the British Baggage Waggons load- ed with Plunder and also saw him the said Ralph Hageman at the Battle of Germantown and was with him all the war acting as Minute excepting when in Manly Service and was with the said Ralph Hageman at the Bat- tles of Monmouth Trenton & Princeton but in consequence of the great length of time & the consequent loss of memory is unable to par- ticularise the precise dates of the times this de- ponent saw the said Ralph Hageman in the different engagements but is certain he saw the said Ralph Hageman in the general en-

- engagements as above stated
This deponent doth further depose & say that that he the said Richard Hagerman & this deponent were at different periods of the Revolutionary war commanded by Col. Joseph Phillips, Henry Vandeike - John Peter D. Brown & Benjamin Baird
Subscribed & sworn to this 18 th day of September 1838 before me
David Stout one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon
his X mark
I William Halsted member of Congress of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with David Stout whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit of John Swain and that name David Stout thereto subscribed is the proper signature of the said David Stout. And that the said David Stout was at the time of the taking of the said affidavit one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon and that his acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit Washington December 3 rd 1830
W Halsted
I William Halsted member of Congress of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Peter Voorhees whose name is subscribed to the foregoing application of Catharine Stout and the affidavit of Richard Stout, and that the name Peter Voorhees thereto subscribed is the proper signature of the said Peter Voorhees, and that the said Peter Voorhees was at the time of the taking of the said affidavits a judge a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Somerset and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such. Washington December 3 rd 1830
W Halsted

State of New Jersey Somerset County ss Be it remembered that on this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight before me Peter Voorhees one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Somerset Personally appeared Richard Stout who being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that he was well acquainted with Rudolph Hageman and thinks that he was out on duty a good while in the time of the Revolution; Recollects very well seeing him come to warn his older Brother out in the service understood he was Sergeant of the Company to which he belonged Believes the whole fami- ly were good Whigs in the time of the Revolution; was present at his wedding and saw him marri- -ed to Catherine Holmes by the Rev d John Blacken- sometime in the fall of Seventeen hundred and eighty at the house of Richard Stout this depo- -sents father at whose house she had resided for several years previously This deponent thinks that the said Rudolph Hageman departed this life about the year Eighteen hundred and two and further this deponent saith not.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before me
Peter Voorhees
Richard Stout

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hagerty, George GRADE Private LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 11865 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED November 29, 1790 To James Curren, Adm re .
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hagerty, John GRADE Private LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8385 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED June 16, 1789 To Thomas Coyle, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.