| Record Group: | Department of Defense |
| Subgroup: | New Jersey National Guard |
| Series: | Pension Records, 1882-1897 |
| Accession #: | 1969.006 prob. |
| Series #: | SDENG016 |
| Guide Date: | 3/1999 (CSM) |
| Volume: | 0.5 c.f. [1 box] |
Contents
| Content Note This
series contains records related to soldiers' pensions from the National
Guard. “An Act to Further Amend an Act...” passed June
6, 1894 allowed for an injured soldier or his immediate family to
collect from the state “the like reward that persons under
similar circumstances receive from the United States.” The records are organized by Pension claimant. |
| Box 1 | |
| 1. | Disbrow,
Randolph F., Company B, 7th Regiment (loss of both hands at Yorktown,
Virginia, 1881), allowed February 17, 1882 |
| 2. | Faller,
Louisa R., stepmother of Herman Faller, Company F, 3rd Regiment (died
on account of wounds received on Brigade Drill, 1888), allowed by law 1892 |
| 3. | Flinn, Bridget, mother of Joseph Frederick Flinn, Company H, 7th Regiment (died of Typhoid fever contracted at Encampment, 1890) |
| 4. | Hartley,
Mary E., widow of John E. Hartley, Major and Judge Advocate on the
Staff of 1st Brigade (was thrown from his horse at Sea Girt Encampment 1887 and died of injury 1889), approved September 30, 1889 |
| 5. | Johnson, William E., Jr., 1st Lieutenant commanding Gun Detachment, 5th Regiment (incapacitated by spinal meningitis contracted at Camp Abbott in 1885) |
| 6. | Manning, James C., Lieut. Colonel, 7th Regiment (incapacitated by sunstroke followed by paralysis in 1877), rejected December 30, 1897 |
| 7. | Mellor,
Louisa, widow of William A. Mellor, Company B, 1st Regiment (died
of wounds received at Santiago Park in 1882) |
| 8. | Mendel,
Margaret, widow of Augustus Mendel, First Sergeant, Company B, 6th
Regiment (died after being overcome by heat in 1887), disallowed May 25, 1897 |
| 9. | Van Buren, Catherine, widow of Henry M. Van Buren, Captain, Company C, 5th Regiment (died of Pulmonary Phthisis contracted at Encampment in 1887) |
| 10. | Young,
Benjamin F. - An Act for the relief of the heirs of Benjamin F. Young,
deceased, 2nd Lieut., Company C, 6th Regiment, approved March 31, 1882 |
| 11. | Various papers relating to NJ National Guard Pensions |
| 12. | Various papers relating to artificial limbs |
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