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Pensions Granted, Andrew and Jemima Santee LongOver a period of time Web Master Nadine Holder has collected information on her ancestor Andrew Long and his Revolutionary War Service. Little was available but when records for his widow, Jemima Santee Long, who followed her children to Mercer County, Illinois, were requested there was a large file for Andrew attached to her papers. Nadine has copies of the original papers which are hardly readable due to being old and done in old style handwriting. Jill Martin, who is also Andrew's descendant, made transcriptions of the papers which are given below. Where question marks or dots appear in a sentence, the information was totally unreadable. If you need or want copies of the original papers, contact Nadine Holder Email on the About Us Page. Nadine has joined the Daughters of the American Revolution based on Andrew's service and any of his descendants may be eligible with proper proof. During the application process we were able to correct DAR records which carried Andrew as Andrew Long, Jr., instead of showing him correctly as the son of William Long.PennsylvaniaThis is the file obtained from NARA for Andrew Long's pension:Andrew Long Bucks County in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Pvt in the Company commanded by Captain Weir of the Eighth commanded by Col Schmidt, Penna in the militia Granted Mo for $40.66 Inscribed on the Roll of Penn at the rate of 40 dollars 66 cents per annum. To commence on the 4th day of March 1831 Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of June and July 6 Arrears to the 4th of March '31 140.00 Semiannual allowance ending 4 Sept 23.33 Total 163.33 Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832 Recorded by I. T. Sprague, Clerk Book C Vol 51, page 36 Paid at the Treasury under the act of April 1838 from 4 Sept to 16 Nov 1835 after notified 24 Oct 1844 (Dead) Illinois Jemima Long Widow of Andrew Long Who served in the Revolutionary War as a Private Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of $46.66 per annum to commence on the 4 March 1848 Certificate of Pension issued 29th day of August 1855 and sent to C. W. Bennett West Dresden Recorded on Roll of Pensiuoners, under Act of July 29, 1848 July 29, 1855 Volume A, page 193. This is the application for pension made by Andrew in Pennsylvania but it was not filed under his name at NARA. Instead it was attached to his widow's pension application made from the State of Illinois and received when her records were asked for: Application for Pension - Andrew Long State of Pennsylvania County of Bucks On this ninth day of September (1832) personally appeared in open court before the Hon. John Fox, Esq, President and his Associated Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of aforesaid now sitting, Andrew Long, a resident of Liberty Township in the County of Union and State of Indiana, aged about seventy six years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following delcaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. 1. He was born in the Township of Warrington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the year seventeen hundred and fifty eight. 2. He had a record of his age in the Bible in the possession of his brother John who resided in Warrington Township, but it has been torn out. 3. When called into service he was living in Warrington Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, had lived there and in Fayette County, Pennsylvania and now lived in Indiana. 4. He was called into service seventeen hundred and seventy six. 5. 1st Tour - He received mandatory orders about the first of August 1776 in the Township of Warrington County of Bucks and marched under Captain Thomas Weir at that time to South Amboy - believed John Spear was Lietenant and Robert Shewde(?) Lietenant Colonel, was out after the space of two months when his term of service expired. 2nd Tour - He was also in a basttle at Newton(?) marched from Warrington Township, don't recollect the officer's names, and in this tour two months marched to Morristown on this occasion and got sick. 2nd Tour, he was called out into service under Major McMasters, he then resided in the Township of Warrington and aforsaid about the month of November A. D. 1776 and marched from Warrington aforesaid on to a place. When they had under guard for a few days then to Philadelphia, went on board of a shallop and landed at Chester or some small town not far distant from it, then marched to Brandywine, was in the battle there, and was almost the last on the ground - the British Army fell back of the ground out of sight of the road which lay between both armies - saw the British women plundering the dead and wounded on both sides - General Washington marched the American Army to Chester that night 15 or 20 miles. He was present at the skirmish at the Gulf Mills (?). Thinks William Walker was Captain. Don't recollect with certainty the names of any other officers or of the regiments, was afterwards during another tour taken prisoner near Bristol in Pennsylvania by the British and taken to Philadelphia, was kept there until the British left, which was from April until the last of July or thereabouts. Then he was taken on board of ship and carried to New York, where he was kept a short time until he was exchanged by Col John Beatty who was Commissary of Prisoners, he then returned home. He volunteered in both instances when he marched on foot. When he was taken prisoner he belonged to a company of horse under the command of Captain DuBois in which he volunteered at Newton Bucks County after the Brandywine Battle in the fall of the year - shortly after the second tour he volunteered under Captain Dubois and was with his company from the fall preceding until the 7 or 8 of April following when he was taken prisoner being about six months and was a prisoner four months and a half. He received no discharges except verbally. John Weir, Andrew Dennison, John Long and others in the neighborhood where he formerly resided in the County aforesaid can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of said service as a soldier of the revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and that which he received from the State of Pennsylvania and declares that his name is not in the pension role of the agency of any state except that of the State of Pennsylvania. /s/ Andrew Long Sworn and subscribed before me in open court this 9th Sept 1833. /s/ Wm. Lundy I John Long residing in the Township of Warrington aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Andrew Long who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration - that I believe him to be about seventy six years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he formerly resided to have been a soldier of the revolution and further that I remember his joining the company commanded by Captain Weir and marching to Amboy and was about in the Army for some time, expect it was during the usual tour of two months. /s/ John Long (Note the reference to being held prisoner on shipboard in Andrew Long's statement. Neither the Americans nor the British had a plan for holding prisoners when the war began. The British made use of ships and more than 11,500 colonists died of disease aboard 12 floating prisons in New York harbor [The Phoenix Gazette, July 12, 1991]. Andrew Long was one of the lucky ones who survived.)(Also note the brief reference "now lives in Indiana"). We knew that Andrew Long lived in Indiana but he did not apply from there so we had to go back to Pennsylvania records for his pension information. Only when we obtained Jemima's records in Illinois did we find out that Andrew had returned to Pennsylvania to file his application.) IllinoisApplication for Bounty Land and PensionJemima Santee Long State of Illinois County of Mercer On this second day of July A. D. 1855, before me, the undersigned, Justice of the Peace, duly authorized by law to administer oath wthin and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Jemima Long, aged 78 years, of Eliza Township in the County of Mercer in State of Illinois and being duly sworn according to law, declare that she is the widow of Andrew Long, deceased, who was a private in the company of Pennsylvania Militia commanded by Captain Weir in the War with Great Britain of the Revolution. That her husband entered the service in Bucks Co, Penn about the 4th day of August A. D. 1776 for the term of three months and continued in actual service in said War, for the term of fourteen days and was honorably discharged at Amboy, New Jersey on the ...day of November A. D. 1776. The above served under Captain John Spier at Trenton and Princeton and he also served under Captain John Hoy (Hog?) in 1777 and was taken prisoner at Bristol. She further states that she was married to the said Andrew Long in Fayette County, State of Pennsylvania on the 18th day of October A. D. 1794 by one...., Justice of the Peace, and that her name before her said marriage was Jemima Santee, that her husband died in Union County, Indiana on the Sixteenth day of November A. D. 1835 and that she is still his widow. Jemima Long her mark She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Military Bounty Land to which she may be entitled on account of said service, and mileage under the Act passed March 3, 1855, she also declares that she never applied for or received under this or any other Act of Congress any Bounty Land Warrant. G. W. Bennett of Washington D. C. with power of substitution to prosecute this her claim for land, to receive the Certificate of Warrant...proper in the premises. Shown to and subscribed before me, on the day and year first above mentioned, and I hereby certify that I know the said deponent Jemima Long as above stated and that she is of the age above stated; and further, that I am not interested in this her claim as attorney or otherwise. H. G. Calkoni, JP State of Illinois County of Mercer On this second day of July A. D. 1855 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized to administer oaths, Daniel Noble of the Town of Eliza, a resident of said County, to me well known as a credible witness, and who, being by me first duly sworn, doth on his oath state that he is acquainted with Mrs. Jemima Long, the above applicant for the Bounty Land, that he has known her for twenty years last past, that he has examined her family record - that he believes the same to be genuine - that it is contained in a book purporting to be the Holy Bible and printed in the year 1821 and that the said record as relates to the marriage of the said applicant and the soldier above named, and of his death, is as follows, which is an exact copy of the same: Mr. Andrew Long married Miss Jemima Santee Oct 18, 1794; Andrew Long was born Anno May 10, 1758, died Nov 16, 1835 and that the said deponent is not interested in the claim. /s/ Daniel Noble. (Note: Daniel Noble was not related to Jemima so we suspect he was acting simply as a friend and neighbor. We find no evidence that Jemima ever used a bounty land warrant - perhaps she sold it.) County of Mercer Mercer County Court In open Court...Term 1855 on this second day of July A. D. 1855 before the court of Mercer County held within and for the state and County aforesaid, personally appeared Jemima Long aged 78 years a resident of Eliza Township of the County of Mercer, State of Illinois and being duly sworn according to law, dothe on her oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3rd day of February 1855, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War that she is the widow of Andrew Long deceased, who was a volunteer in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Weir, Lieutenant John Spier in the War of the Revolution. To the best of her information and belief, her husband entered the service about the first of August 1776 for the term of three months and continued in actual service in said company about two months and was honorably discharged at Amboy. Another call was made and he volunteered and entered the service again, under Captain John Spier about the first of December 1776 and marched to Trenton New Jersey where he arrived just after the Battle in Trenton December 26, 1776 - he was engaged in the Battle of Princetown. He was taken sick shortly after the Battle of Princetown, at ...Pennsylvania where his company had...during his sickness he was discharged...Afterwards in the summer of 1777...again to go to Brandywine...from Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Philadelphia and from Philadelphia to Brandywine, where he was engaged in the battle. All the above company entered Bucks County where Andrew Long then lived.. He afterwards in the fall of 1777 volunteered in the light horse company of Cumberland County troops. Thinks John Ray was Captain during the time of his service in their company he was taken prisoner by the enemy near Bristol Pennsylvania was taken to Philadelphia and from there to New York, was held a prisoner four months and a half then was exchanged and returned home which was bout the last of August 1778.. That her said husband was a pensioner of the United States under act of June 7, 1832, at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum, which was paid to him at Washington City and further states that she was married to the said Andrew Long in Fayette County, Pennsylvania on the eighteenth day of October A. D. 1794 and that her name before the said marriage was Jemima Sentee. That her husband died at Union County, State of Indiana on the Sixteenth day of November A. D. 1835. She further states that there is no public record of her marriage that she knows of but there is a private record of her marriage in the family register which is in a book called the Holy Bible. That she cannot file herewith charge for the reason that all the evidence was filed by him in an application for pension by him in 1833 which evidence pension office and further she charges she is now a widow. She hereby appoints...Washington City D. C. her true and lawful attorney with the power of substitution to present this her claim for a pension to receive the certification when received and to do all other acts necessary and proper. Witness J. N. Bassett Jemima Long her mark Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above...and I hereby certify that I know the said deponent, Jemima Long, and believe her to be as is above said and that she is of the age above stated and further that I am not interested in this her claim as attorney or otherwise. Witness my hand and the seal of the said Court...of said court now in session. /s/ Harvey S. Senter, Clerk, Mercer County Court State of Illinois County of Mercer On this second day of July A. D. 1855 personally appeared before me...duly authorized to administer...Daniel Noble a resident of said county to me known as a credible witness and who being first duly sworn by me doth on oath states that he is acquainted with Mrs. Jemima Long the above named applicant for a pension that he has known her for twenty five years...that he has examined the family record, that he believes the same to be correct and genuine and that it is contained in a book purporting to be the Holy Bible and printed in the year 1821 and that the said record as far as it relates to the marriage of said applicant and the solider above named and of his death is as follows and is an exact and true copy of all the entries in said record. Andrew Long married Miss Jemima Sentee October 18, 1794, Andrew Long was born ano domini Mary 10, 1758. Died November 16, 1835 and that the said deponent is no interest in the claim. /s/ Daniel Noble State of Illinois County of Mercer On this second day of July 1855 personally appeared before me Avarilla Pratt and Rezin Pratt who are to me well known and who are credible witnesses and who being duly sworn depose and say that they are each well acquainted with Jemima Long the above applicant for a penion, that they have known her for thirty five years last past. Further was acquainted with Andrew Long her late husband and having known him for fifteen years previous to his death that the said Andrew Long and Jemima Long lived together as husband and wife and deponents never heard the facts of their marriage disputed or questioned. That she never married since her husband's death, and is his widow and that the said husband was the identified man...as a pensioner in her declaration above and deponents were present and saw Mrs. Jemima Long... /s/ Avarilla Pratt, Rezin Pratt (Avarilla and Rezin Pratt were relatives of Jemima as they were descendants by marriage of Andrew Long). Wills and ProbatesIndianaProbate of Andrew Long(The use of the term administrator and ;administrator; as opposed to executor indicates that Andrew Long died intestate, that is, without a will) From Court Records of Union County, Indiana by Maurice Holmes, Jan. 1988: Page 240, Probate Book B: In a petition for a guardian Rebecca Long represents that she is about 18 years of age and her father was Andrew Long deceased. She mentions her brother Hugh Alexander Long, who is about 13. On her application Rezin Pratt is appointed the gdn. of Rebecca and her brother Hugh. Aug. 1836. (Note: In this time period a woman could not be guardian of minor children; hence, even though mother Jemima was alive, there had to be a court appointed male guardian) Page 313, Probate Book B: Jemima Long the widow of Andrew Long deceased, who died November 16, 1836 comes in court and relinquishes her right to be administratrix of her husband's estate and she prays that Rezin Pratt be appointed adm., which the court does. Rezin files a proper bond with John Imel as his surety. An inventory of the personal property is entered here, which includes a clock and case, a log wagon, a sideboard, a large bible and several other books, a note on Ephraim Price for $1000, one on James Smith for $250, a note on John Long, one on Joseph Williamson and one on Rezin Pratt. Also there was the usual household and farm items of that day, appraised by Samuel Wilson and John Black. A sale bill of this property is also listed here, which brought $70. The total assets of this estate are listed as $1506., which included pension money received of $209., pension money from Pennsylvania of $60 and money collected by Rider $40. In the settlement of this estate these people received the same amounts; William Long, William Rotherford, David Honeyman, James Smith, Andrew Mallaby, Sarah Mallaby, Andrew Long, John Long and Rezin Pratt receives three times these sums, perhaps as a guardian of minor heirs. The widow receives her one third in the final settlement. Feb. 1837. (Note: For a transcription of the appraisal of the personal estate of Andrew Long {CLICK. The books included a large Bible, a large Testament, Meckers Sermons, American Military Biography, The Wonderful & Honorable Thing, Aristocracy, and Mossel's Geography. It also included 15 hundred weaver reeds indicating someone in the household was a weaver, perhaps son John Long, as he purchased 10 hundred of the reeds. Jemima kept the large Bible and testament and the book American Military Biography. Jemima, like many women of her time, could not write but surely could read. Some of the other books were purchased by Rezin Pratt, her son-in-law.) Page 181, Probate Order Book B: The administratrix petitions to make final settlement of the estate of Andrew Long deceased. Jacob Imel is appointed trustee to receive the legacy of Andrew H. Long, with John Imel as his security. Feb. 1837. Page 220, Probate Book C.: Jacob Imel files in court his account against Andrew Long (Andrew H. Long) for clothing and taking care of his family in 1833 for six months, which was his wife and two children at $1.50 per week. Also listed is house rent for 1836 and for boarding, clothing and schooling his son Hamilton in 1837, 1838 and 1839 and a few other miscellaneous items. May 1840. PennsylvaniaWill of Andrew Long, (grandfather of Andrew Long of Pennsylvania and Indiana)In the name of God Amen the fifteenth day of November in year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred & thirty eight I Andrew Long of Warwick Township in the County of Bucks & Province of Pensylvania Yeoman being very weak of body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God therefore calling in mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally & first of all I give and recomend my Soul to God that gave it and for my body I recomend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christianlike and decent manner at the discression of my Executors. Nothing doubting but at the general resurection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly effects werewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give devise and dispose of the same in following manner and form: Imprimis it is my will and I do order that in the first place all my just debts and funerall charges be paid and sattisfyed. Item it is my will and I do order that my well beloved wife Isabel Long, William Miller and John Earle have the sole power & authority of my Estate Goods & Chattles till my children is of age to sell and dispose of my estate as they see cause to pay of... Item I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughters when they come of age each of them to have twenty pounds paid of the whole estate. Item it is my will and I do order it when my sons is of age the Estate to be equally divided amongst them paying my well beloved wife Isabel Twenty pounds a year during her life time. I likewise order the executors to give any daughters of my estate after they are all of age as mutch as they see cause. Item my well beloved wife Isabel & William Miller & John Earle both of Warminster Township County afsd; whom likewise I constitute make & ordain my only Executors of this my Last Will & testament and I do hereby utterly disallow and revoke and disanull all and every other former testament wills, legacies and executors by me in any wise before this time named willed and bequeathed rattifying this and no other to be my last will & testament.& In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Memorandum before signing that there is five lines in the middle of this will copied and to be of non effect. (?) Signed, sealed, published, pronounced, and declared by the said Andrew Long as his last will & testament in the presence of the subscribers. Andrew Long his mark John Scott his mark Richard Busch his mark Joseph Haav(?) Robert Scott Be it remembered that on the 15th day of June Anno Domini 1749 this last will and testament of Andrew Long was duly proved according to law and probate and letters testamentory and granted unto Isabel Long and William Miller two of the Executors therein named they being first duly sworn well & faithfully to administer the goods &; chattles, rights & credits of the deceased & to exhibit a true &; perfect inventory thereof into the registers office for the said County in one month after the date hereof & a just and true account of their administration when they shall be thereunto required. Witness my hand and the seal of the office the day and year above written Lawr Gordon, Dept Register Will of William Miller, father of Isabel Miller Long (Isabel Miller Long was grandmother of Andrew Long of Pennsylvania and Indiana. His daughter Isabel was named for her) From Bucks County Wills 1685-1785 Page 332. William Miller, Warwick Twp., Yeoman, Feby. 2, 1754. Proved Mch 5, 1758, Wife Isabel. Children, William, son Robert dec'ds children, son Hugh Dau Margaret, wife of John Earle. Dau Isabel Long. Dau. Mary, wife of James Curry. Grandson (?) John Miller.; Archibald McLean of Horsham and John Earle of Warminster, exrs. Land heretofore granted to Presbyterian Congregation for Grave Yard confirmed to them forever. Other land to be sold. Wit: John Craig, Isabel Craig, Andrew Long.; Letters granted to John Earle. McLean renouncing. Note: A later will dated Feby. 3, 1756 is on file at Register's Office against which the eldest son William Miller, Junr. filed a caveat Feby. 24, 1758 although he was one of the witnesses. It was adjudged void both the witnesses being legatees and not qualified to move it.. It is substantially the same, however, as the one proved other than it names the children of deceased son Robert, as follows: William, eldest, Isabel Wallace, Hugh and Robert. The gd. son John Miller mentioned above is named as newphew in the later one, and is a witness to the will. The exrs. of the later will were John Earle, Wm. Long, and Francis McHenry. (Note: The William Long named as executor in the later will was no doubt the father of Andrew Long of Pennsylvania and Indiana.) Will of William Long (father of Andrew Long of Fayette Co, Pennsylvania and Union County, Indiana) We have ordered a copy of this will which runs to eight pages and will share it but include here only the abstract from Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1834 William Long, Warrington Township, Miller. September 24, 1793. Proved December 10, 1793. Wife Elizabeth. Sons William and Hugh exrs. Sons Andrew and Alexander of Fayette Co. Sons William, Hugh and John. Daughter Isabel, wife of Alexander Crawford of Plymouth Twp. Wits. Andrew Long, Thomas Griffith and William Long (Note - those named in the will would not be allowed to sign as witnesses so the Witnesses Andrew Long and William Long were relatives not named in the will and not the sons of William) There are also some direct quotes from the will in a Graves family history which mentions that William Long owned grist and saw mills which were run into the nineteenth century by great grandsons.; In his will he gave son John the Plantation I live on, devised by my father, containing 220 acres. To William he gave the Merchant Mill, Saw Mill and plantation of 130 acres purchased of John Beard. And to Hugh, 190 acres in Warminster, an adjoining township. As for William's two oldest sons Andrew and Alexander, they had departed on borrowed money to seek greater fortunes elsewhere, and were willed by their father the sums they are indebted to me, except the principal of one bill bequeathed to son Andrew Long conditioned for payment of 100 pounds. Son Andrew Long is found as a single man in Fayette County in the 1790 census. He married Jemima Santee in Fayette County in 1794, no doubt shortly after receiving the 100 pound bequest from his father. |
