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Pieces of Eight
Between 1818 and 1836, Congress passed a series of laws providing pensions to soldiers of the Revolutionary War, many of whom were in poor health and destitute. These veterans had…
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Veteran of the Revolution
Our ancestor John Pipes Jr. was born in 1739 in Rockaway, New Jersey, approximately 40 miles west of New York. His father, John Pipes Sr., and mother Susan Hathaway, moved…