Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 474, Isaac Bennet, New Jersey
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New Jersey

Bennet,Isaac

S474
Carded
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Crossed out upper right:  From papers in this case think soldier was in Rev War?

upper left: Rev. War 

INVALID

File No. 474
Isaac Bennet (second T crossed out)
Sergt. N.J. Mil.

Act:  blank

Index:- Vol. A, Page 25
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AW (?)

June 1, 1906

NJF
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Bennet, Isaac

     His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District court for the District of New Jersey, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary ofWar on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 96.

Rank: Sergeant
Regt: 2nd Bat. New Jersey militia
Disability: Wounded in a skirmish with the enemy by a musket ball, which lodged in his right arm just above the elbow, while he was on actual service with a detachment ordered to remove a boat from Rahway to Elizabethtown. When and were disabled: September 30, 1777 Rahway creek.
Residence: Somerset County
to what pension entitled: Half
Remarks:  There are no militia rolls in this office.   Evidence transmitted by the District Court complete.
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New Jersey

Isaac Bennet
Sergeant
In Cap' Gulicks company
of the New Jersey Militia

Inscribed n the roll of the New Jersey Agency at
$3.??
per mo: increased to $5.33 1/3
by the Law of the 24 April 1812 (1816?)

Formal Certificate issued
11 July 1822 and sent to
James Ewing, Esq.
Trenton NJ
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(Note VERY faint)

Isaac Bennet NJ
Invalid - service (?)
File with Isaac Bennet
File No. 474
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Trenton New Jersey April 24 1822

John C. Calhoun Esq. (?)
Secretary of War

Sir    
    Isaac Bennet and old Militia Invalid of this State, who was wounded in the wrist by which he lost the use of his hand, in a skirmish at Elizabeth Town as early I believe as 1777 and whose pension I paid for many years, and whose person is therefor well known to me, waited on me this morning and informed me that they refused to pay his Pension there any longer because he has no Certificate, he has only a Memorandum in writing in the following words "Isaac Bennet an Invalid served in the New Jersey Militia under Apt. Garlick / Gulick was wounded at Elizabeth Town, lives in Somerset County, formerly lived in Middlesex ---Receives 2 50/100 month --- raised to 40 doll. per year"
     His pension I presume was allowed him by an  express law of this state which I cannot now lay my hand on, and as in that case no Certificate was given this Memorandum which I see is in my handwriting and is a copy of a Memorandum in my Book, and think I gave in such cases, that I might on it endorse the payments from time to time made as I see is done here, and the payments are all endorsed regularly separate  from March 1794 as long as I held the office and by the rest (list?) in the Bank from that time until March 1824
     Under these circumstances, which will be found -?- by referring to the Accounts of payments to Invalids in your office, I do not see how it will be possible for him ever to present a Certificate as the Law as will as all the officers he acted under it except myself and the then Treasurer have been (?) have since expired - nor how he is to obtain his pension in future unless you think the circumstances sufficient to authorize  you to issue a Certificate or to permit payment to him continued under his Memorandum identified by those payments and by my oath if you require it.
   I am with respect
your post Obedient Serv.
Jas. Ewing
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(Note: much crossed out on the paper)

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE

City of Trenton (New Jersey)
County of Hunterdon
     On this fourteenth day of June 1822 before me, the subscriber, Recorder of the city of Trenton and ex officio a Justice of the Peace for the said City of Trenton personally appeared Isaac Bent who, on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Gulick in the New Jersey Militia and  in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New Jersey, that he never received a formal certificate and now wishes to obtain one.

Isaac Bennet

Charles Ewing
Recorder of the City of Trenton
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY
City of Trenton

    To all whom it may concern -  I Robert McNeeley Mayor of the said of Trenton do hereby make known that Charles Ewing Esq. before whom the annexed deposition was taken as appears by his signature, is Recorder of the said City and a Justice of the Peace ex officio (undefined) within the same, duly appointed and sworn, and that full faith and credit is due to all his Acts as such.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said City this sixth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty two.

Robert McNeeley
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Trenton July 6 1822

Mr. James L. Edwards

Sir
    On receiving your letter of the 9th May last respecting Isaac Bennet I immediately wrote to him but my letter lay some time in the Post office before he received it.  when he came here I happened to be absent from home for a few days and my son the Recorder of this City searched my office found your letter and took his affidavit agreeable to his idea of the case -  Had I been at home to have done the business for him he would have seen (?) that he was placed in the pension list of New Jersey by a particular Act of the Legislature at thirty dollars a year, that he was afterward transferred to the list of the United States when others were, which is the reason he never had a Certificate, his Pension was afterwards increased to forty dollars a year, these things will probably appear from the Public Records in your possession, if not, and my Certificate of the truth of them will be of any service to him I will either  transmit it to you, or you may consider this Peter as my Certificate I having been well acquainted with the with the circumstances, he was continued on the list and received his Pension at the Bank I believe until March 1821 since which he has been refused for a want of Certificate which he never had.
Your respectfully
Jas. Ewing
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Mr. James L. Edwards
Principal Clerk inthe Pensio Office
Washington
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Bennet, Jacob
Private 
New York
6769
Nov. 11 1791
        to Samuel Broome assignee