Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,296, Thomas Davis, New Jersey
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New Jersey

Davis, Thomas

S34,296
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(left side page)

4,473

Thomas Davis
Capt. Stout.  Private
New Jersey Line 1777
 in the army of the Unites States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on the 1sr of April 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of Nov 1818
and sent to Daniel Horton Esq.
Chester, Morris County, New Jersey 

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818 5 mo 4/30.   41.06
Semi-anl. all's ending 4th Mar 1819.      48.00
                                                                   $89.06

Morris Co.
continued

(nightside written vertically)

No application sent September 18, 1820 to
Lewis Condict, Morristown N. Jersey
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State of New Jersey
Morris County
 Before me  Daniel Horton one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County personally appeared Thomas Davis of said county a person to me Weill know and worthy of credit who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made byi the late act ofCongress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War - that he enlisted at Germantown in the State of New Jersey in the year 1776 with Capt Stout of the second Jersey Regiment and marched with that Regiment  this enlistment (?) was for one year and at the end of said term he was discharged at Germantown in New Jersey and after his return home he again enlisted in the year 1777 with Capt Henry Luce of Second Company and Second Regiment of the New Jersey Line for during the War and that he continued in the services of the United States fro the year 1777 until the end of said war and that he was discharged in a place called Pun--ton (?) in the State of New Jersey by Col. Shreves and that the whole time he served was seven years and that he was never absent from his regiment during the last six years not one day excepting when sent on command and that he is now seventy seven years of age and is blind and that both his Discharges hath been destroyed or lost and are not now in his possession nor at his command - and that he is in such reduced circumstances that he needs the assistance of his country for support.
Thomas Davis his X mark

Sworn before me the first day of April AD 1818.
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....Sworn at Chester in the County of Morris this first day of April 1818 in Testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said court to be hereunto affixed.

  I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the within named Thomas Davis and am fully satisfied that he served in the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy agreeably to the within statement and that from his Necessetus Circumstances he has need of and is full entitled to the Provisions of the within mentioned Law and do thereof transmit with within mentioned deposition to the War Office to enable him to obtain it.
Witness my hand this first day of April 1818
Daniel Horton

State of New Jersey
County of Morris 
    I Robert H. McCarter Clerk of the said County of Morris do certify that Daniel Horton Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit is made is and was at the doing thereof duly enrolled one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to his official acts as such.
   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court of Morris the twentieth day of May Eighteen hundred and eighteen.
Robert H. McCarter

Written vertically to left:
Correct on the New Jersey Roll

Thomas Davis
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Thomas Davis
4973
Chester

-?-
Con
Nov 18
Mar '19
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(Transcription of handwritten writing)

Eighth day of July

Thomas Davis.     aged eighty
resident Chester 
being sworn
oath..., that he served in the Revolutionary Army of the United States in the second Regiment under colonel Maxwell, afterwards in Colonel Shreve's Regiment, and the companies commanded by Captains Stout, Luce, and Helms, in the New Jersey Line, from the fall of the year 1775 or 1776 until the close of the war.

(second paragraph):
....that I was by occupation a forgeman, or iron maker, but am incapable of following my called by reason of blindness, which I have labored under for twelve years past, that I have no family, my wife being dead and my children all removed to the New Counties, that my declaration for a pension was made on or about the 1st April 1818 and that my certificate of pension is not numbered but bears the date from the War Office, November 16 1818.  That I have no property of any description, real or personal, that I have been a pauper on the township of Chester in this County for twelve years past, during the time of my blindness, excepting the time since I have rec'd my pension from the United States./
Thomas Davis his X mark
Sworn and declared the 8th day of July
1820 before me Gab. H.(M.?) Ford
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SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing deposition of
Thomas Davis

I have no property whatsoever, real or personal, except my wearing apparel/
Thomas Davis his X mark

Sworn to and declared the 2nd day of July 1820 before - Gab. H. Ford
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signed: Roert H. McCarter Clerk of the Court for the County of Morris
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34,296

Rev'y Invalid

File No: 34,296
Thomas Davis
Pri.     Rev. War

Act: 18 March 18

Index: - Vol 2, Page 103 (183?)
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Davis, Thomas.     Private.        New Jersey   

8255.   issued: April 14, 1790 to Isaac Willis, Jr.         
                                                          assignee