Ogden, Aaron; Bradford, Alden. Surviving Revolutionary Officers: A Memorial of Aaron Ogden and Alden Bradford, A Committee in behalf of the Surviving Officers of the Revolutionary Army; 20th Congress, 1st Session; Doc. No. 3.; House of Representatives. Washington: Printed by order of the House of Representatives | Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1827. First Edition. [10895]
Removed, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 18 clean pp. Good. Pamphlet.
"...there is a small band of veterans, the survivors of those, through whose self-devotion, untiring perseverance, and long continued services, amidst crowds of difficulties, the Republic, struggling for her very existence, was, under God, rescued, defended, and preserved against the most fearful odds; who now, when the strength of their days is abated, and their frames benumbed by the snow of age, with constitutions impaired by military services, severe and trying in the extreme, are soliciting for a part, at least, of the unpaid portion of the prize offered for the redemption of that great pledge nobly made by the immortal Congress of 1776; a prize honourably won at the point of the sword; the hopes of which mitigated sufferings and invigorated those exertions, by means whereof, the sanguinary contest was brought to a successful issue." - pp. 11-12.
A petition to the House of Representatives to provide pensions or other payments to the last surviving Revolutionary War officers, by Aaron Ogden (1756-1839), and Alden Bradford (1765-1843). Ogden had rose to the rank of Brigade Major during the Revolutionary War, was a US Senator and the fifth governor of New Jersey. Bradford was a Congregational minister, historian, and for 12 years the secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Their petition traces the enlistment and payment history of the Revolution, noting promises made, the practically worthless payment certificates issued at the end of the war, and the petitioners recommend compensation of the surviving Revolutionary War officers.
