Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,364, for Samuel Lownsbury, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey

Lownsbury, Samuel
or
Lounsberry
NUMBER
S. 22,364

CONTENTS
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9 Sep
'35 to W. J. Rogers
Bristol, Pa dob Oct,
14 May 1838 Capt ? Bradley

26, 118
Pennsylvania
Samuel Lousberry
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Lownsbury W.T.C. Jan 23,09

Inscribed on the Roll of Penn
rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of Mch
and sent to
Wm F. Swift Present
Arrears to the 4th of Mch 1832
80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 13.35
$93.33
Revolutionary Claim Act,
June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Page - Clerk
Vol. 3
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Bucks
⎬
On this sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before John Fox Esqr President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Bucks (being a Court of record) Samuel Lownsberry, a resident of the Borough of Bristol in the County of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania aged about seventy six years who being conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath was first duly affirmed according to Law doth on his said Affirmation make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th day of June A.D. 1832. That he entered the service in the Militia of the State of New Jersey in the year 1776 in a company commanded by Captain Joseph Vandike, that his father was first Lieutenant of said company that they were employed in watching a detachment of Tories sent to Bordentown in said State by Governor Livingston, from thence he marched with said company to Princeton that said tour lasted about five months at which time he was discharged- That he then joined a company of Volunteers commanded by Captain Isaac Quigley who marched his company to Trenton Falls near the high lands of never sink where we laid about four months and was then discharged he then joined a company of Volunteer in the State of Pennsylvania commanded by Capt Robert Patterson that he was in service about two months and was then discharged, that during the time the British had possession of the City of Philadelphia he was attached to a Troop of light horse commanded by Captain Joseph Burdon, that we marched to the head
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quarters of General Washington at White Marsh who ordered us to guard Coopers ferry and that vicinity where we remained a considerable length of time during said service we marched to Gloster where we had a skirmish with some sailors who fired upon us from a British Sloop of War; that he has no documentary evidence of his services, he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Affirmed and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid
John Fox
Samuel Lownsbury

Interrogatories
Where and in what year were you born
Answer, I was born in Bordentown in the State of New Jersey on the 21st day of November 1756
I have no record of my age, the family record was destroyed at the time our house was burnt by the British army during the Revolutionary War

Where were you living when called into service 
Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now reside
Answer, at the commencement of the war I lived at Bordentown, I have lived in the County of Bucks ever since the close of the war, for the last forty years in the aforesaid Borough of Bristol where I now live.

How were you called into service 
Answer, I entered the service at all times as a volunteer. When we were at Princeton we was attached to a battallion commanded by Major Ohie Hogeland, when
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at Newtown under the command of General Lacy.
Affirmed and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid
John Fox
Samuel Lownsbury

William Kinsey being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he was personally acquainted with the foregoing named Samuel Lownsberry during the revolutionary war, that said Lownsberry was attached to a troop of light horse that was in service at the time the British had possession of Philadelphia commanded by Capt Joseph Bardon, that he performed various
duty in said service and that said company was stationed as Cooper Ferry opposite the City of Philadelphia during the period the
British had possession of said.
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid
John Fox
William Kinsey

John Bessonett, Esqr (Post Master at Bristol}, being first duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he has been acquainted with Samuel Lownsberry, the foregoing applicant for the last forty years, that I believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a revolutionary soldier, and that he has always been esteemed a man of integrity and veracity and that I concur in said opinion.
Sworn & Subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid
John Fox
John Bessonett
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Bucks County, Pa
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Bucks John Adams who being first
duly Affirmed according to Law doth depose and say that he is a Licensed Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church residing in Bristol circuit in said county do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Samuel Lownsberry the foregoing applicant who has subscribed and affirmed to the foregoing declaration that I believe him to be about seventy six years of age, that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood when he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion.
Affirmed & Subscribed before me this 8th day of September A.D. 1832
Allen J
John Adams

I John Fox do hereby declare that in my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the foregoing named
applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and that it appears to me by reason of bodily infirmity he is unable
to attend Court (a distance of twenty five miles from his residence) and I do further certify that it appears to me that John
Adams who has signed the foregoing affidavit is a minister of the Gospel, resident in said county and that John Bessonett
who has also signed one of the preceding certificates is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. Dated Doylestown this 10th September 1832
John Fox
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Statement of Samuel Lownsbury
A Soldier of the Revolutionary War.

I was born at Bordentown on the bank of the river Delaware, in the State of New Jersey. I am now in the 80th year of my age, and reside in Bristol Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and the subjoined statement contains a history of my services during the Revolutionary War.
At the commencement of hostilities, I volunteered in Capt. Ohey Hogeland's company of Militia of New Jersey and the Regiment was commanded by Colo: Boge Reed - marched to Trenton Falls in New Jersey and continued in service about five months, returned
to Bordentown and was discharged. I then volunteered in a company of New Jersey Militia commanded by Capt. Joseph Vandyke in the same regiment, but commanded by Colo Ohey Hogeland in the ? of Col. Reed.
Marched to Monmouth Court House New Jersey, continued out about five months, returned home and was discharged. I then volunteered in the same Company and same Regiment marched to Princeton remained encamped there during the winter, returned to Bordentown, and was discharged in the spring, having been
out about five months, during which time I was commissary sergeant, and my Father Benjamin Lownsbury was a Lieutenant in the company. I then volunteered in Capt. Joseph Burdens light horse company of New Jersey marched to headquarters at White Marsh in Montgomery County, Run and ordered from thence to
Coopers Ferry in New Jersey opposite to Philadelphia and continued in service about four or five months and was discharged. I then volunteered in Capt. Robert Quigley's company of New Jersey Militia, marched to the Highlands, New sink and other places on the Hudson River
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the State of New York and having been out for months, returned home and was discharged. I then removed across the River Delaware to Bucks County Pennsylvania, and was drafted in Capt. Robert Patterson's company of Pennsylvania Militia, and under the command of Gen. Lacey - marched to Newtown in Penna distant about five miles from the river Delaware, remained there about two months and was discharged. I was frequently an express rider for Col. Joseph Kirkbride, Lieutenant of the County of Bucks, and in that service at different times about three months. When I first performed duty I was about 16 or 17 years of age, and continued in service at different times from the commencement to the close of the War. I never enlisted but always entered of my own free will and accord. During the time I was in service, my father's house was burnt down, cattle, and other property taken off or destroyed by the British.
As I entered the service at an early age, and now owing to my advanced age, I give the best proof in my power of the services I have performed in the time that tried men's souls, and submit it to the guardians of the public affairs of these United States, with a confident assurance that it is strictly me according to the best of my knowledge and belief. In conclusion, I will observe that I have
never preserved any of my vouchers or papers detailing my services, and I therefore make the best proof in my power after the lapse of so long a time.
On his Affirmation. Samuel Lownsbury
In the presence of David Tomy
Signed in the presence of the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Bucks the Twenty seventh day of August in 1835 and that the signing of the petitioner name is of his own proper handwriting and that the matters therein are true as witness my hand and seal on the day and date aforesaid.

John P. Hood (Seal)
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State of Pennsylvania
Bucks County

I, Charles H. Mathews, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bucks in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do certify that John P. Hood Esquire before whom the foregoing acknowledgement was taken was at the time of taking the same and now is a regularly commissioned Justice of the Peace in and for said county and is duly qualified according to Law as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Doylestown this Twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.

C.H. Mathews Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia
Personally appeared before me one of the Aldermen & Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Philadelphia, the subscriber John Bell now in the Seventy eighth year of his age who after being affirmed according to Law doth depose and say that he is acquainted with Samuel Lownsbury, and have known him in the time of the revolutionary war, and that he the said Samuel Lownsbury, was in the service of Capt Hogeland, Capt Vandyke, Capt Quigley & Capt Burden of the Militia in the State of New Jersey, and he believes served with Capt Hogeland five months or there abouts, with Capt Vandyke about the same period, with Capt Guigley about four months, and with Capt. Burden, according to the best of his knowledge and belief about 4 months, to all of which the deponent doth declare and say is just and true according to the best of his knowledge and belief and further the deponent sayeth that.
Sworn and Subscribed before me
this the 22d day of August AD 1835
Hodgson And J.P.

John Bell
mark

Witness present
Henry Ryder
Hodgson


Philadelphia County 
I Richard Palmer, prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Philadelphia do Hereby certify that Robert Hodgson Esquire is an Alderman
of the County of Philadelphia and Ex Officio a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith & credit is due to all his acts as  such. 
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of Same Court the 25 day [of August 1835]
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11295
Application of Samuel Lownsberry for a Pension
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Bucks County
I William Purdy, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Bucks, do hereby certify that John Fox Esqr, before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits was taken, was and now is the President Judge of said Court being a court of record and of unlimited Jurisdiction and the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Tenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Wm Purdy Prothy

Bucks County, ss
I William Purdy, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that Samuel Allen Jr Esqr, before whom the foregoing acknowledgements of Thomas Hall and John Adams was taken, was at the time and now is a regularly Commissioned Justice of the Peace and duly qualified as such and I believe the signature to be his genuine signature.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Doylestown this Tenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Wm Purdy Prothy
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County
I William Purdy, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that Samuel Allen Jr before whom the foregoing acknowledgements and whose certificate is hereunto annexed, was at that time and now is a regularly commissioned Justice of the peace and duly qualified as such, and I believe the signature to be his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Doylestown this twenty ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty three.
Wm Purdy Prothonotary

Bucks County
Samuel Lownsberry, the foregoing named applicant for a Pension being duly Affirmed according to Law deposes and says that he served one Tour of
duty of six months in a Company of Cavalry in the year 1777 commanded by Captain Joseph Burden, that he also served on other tour of duty in a company of Infantry in the latter part of the year 1777 and the year 1778 of one year and four months commanded by Capt Vandike.
Affirmed and subscribed before me this 13th day of July 1833.
S. Allen Jr.
Samuel Lownsberry
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Bucks County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Bucks, Samuel Lownsbury who being duly Affirmed according to Law, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot positively affirm as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grade: as a private soldier for one year and ten months, in the years 1777 and 1778.
Samuel Lownsbury
Affirmed and subscribed before me this 27 April 1833
S. Allen Jr.

I Samuel Allen Jr a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania do certify that William Kinsey, who has subscribed the foregoing application of Samuel Lownsbury for a Pension was a creditable witness and entitled to implicit confidence for veracity during his life that since his subscribing thereto he has deceased - And I also further certify that John Bessonett the other subscribing witness is a person of good character and unblemished reputation for veracity.
S. Allen Jr
April 17th 1833
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22364
INVALID.
File No. 22.364
Samuel Lownsbury
Rev War

Act: June 7"" 32
Index: - Vol. 2 Page 245
Arrangement of 1870.
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May 14

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washinton City
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May 10th, 1838 

Sir,
An old soldier of the revolution desires me to address you upon the subject of an increase of his pension: His name is Samuel Lownsbury, and he now [receives his] pension at the Phila agency (Givene Bank) He proffered his application some time since for the increase in question, supported by the testimony of John Bell, also a revolution pensioner. Bell it seems was referred to as belonging to the State of New Jersey, and you replied that John Bell was not upon the new Jersey list, or was not paid at the agency of the New Jersey pensioners. Bell, altho of the New Jersey line, receives his pension at the Phila agency, and Mr. Lownsbury thinks when Bell's been properly identified by you, that the testimony he gives, which is among his other papers now in your office, will entitle him to the increase he claims. Mr Lownsbury is very old, 83 years, & very needy. Please address me an answer at this place. I am doing for Mr. L. what  would do for any other old soldier under similar
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circumstances.
I have the honor to be your most ?
M. Bradley
Capt U.S. Army

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commission of Pensions
Washington City
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Bristol, Penn. Sept. 3, 1835
Sir, 
Samuel Lownsbury, a respectable soldier of the Revolutionary War, who
resides in this place and in very moderate circumstances is now placed on the Pension list of the general government and receives only Twenty Dollars per
annum. I presume this arises from the fact that the statement now on file in
your Department does not detail all his services. I therefore enclose you a
statement in detail which embraces all, and if upon examination it should entitle
him to an increased compensation of which I think there can be no doubt,  
I would thank you to enclose me the necessary blank documents, and I will
have them executed agreeably to your
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directions, and return them at an early day.
M. Lounsbury is an old gentleman of integrity and respectability, and the only object I have in view is to see that justice is done to him in his old age, as the interference on my part is voluntary and gratuitous.
As the old man has great anxiety on the subject, have the goodness to favor me
with an early answer.
Very Respectfully
Your most humble servant 
W. T. Rogers
Hon J L Edwards
Pension Office

Have the goodness to hand the enclosed to Gilbert Rodman Esq & Clerk in the Treasury Department
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allow for 8 mo.
$26.66 per annum

Wm F Swift Esq
Pres
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Washington Mach 6. 1834
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
In behalf of the application of Samuel Lownsbury I am authorised to say that any amount that can be allowed by the department under its  regulations in such cases will be accepted.
I have the honor &
W F Swift