Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,635, for John Packer, New Jersey
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SERVICE
New Jersey

Packer, John

NUMBER
S.3635

carded
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17517
New Jersey
John Packer
[Illegible]
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DECLARATION
State of New-Jersey,
Bergen County,
On this thirty first day of October 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common
Pleas in and for the County of Bergen
now sitting, John Packer a resident of Franklin Township in the County of Bergen and State of New-Jersey, aged seventy one years
years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated.
That he was born in that part of the township
of Saddle River now called Franklin in the County of Bergen in the State of New Jersey on the 25th day of December A.D. 1760, at which place he first entered the service of the United States as a volunteer under the command
of Capt Cunes Van Houten under whom he served one month at Paramus, thinks it was in the year 1777 Major Goetelin in commanding that he performed one months service
under Capt Samuel Demarest, stationed at what was then called the New Bridge on the Hackensack River that he performed one months service under Capt Peter Ward, stationed at Hackensack - that he performed one months service under Capt John Outwater also stationed at Hackensack - that he performed one months service under
Capt Elias Romine stationed at the English neighborhood, near Hackensack - that he performed one months service under Capt Peter Ward stationed at Elizabethtown
that he performed one months service under Captain John Willis stationed at Woodbridge, near New Brunswick that he enlisted and performed three months service under Capt Henry Van Blarcom and was stationed at Morris Town, Dobbs Ferry & other places that he performed one months service under Capt Joseph Board & on the day of the Monmouth battle he was marched by Capt Board from Elizabeth Town through New Burnswick
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and for several miles towards the scene of action - sometime in the night in being informed that the British had gone to Middletown Point, the detachment to which he belonged returned back to New Brunswick, that he thinks Gen Heard had the command in that occasion. That he performed one months service under Capt Thomas Blanch, stationed at the English neighborhood that he performed one months service under Capt Huyler also stationed at the English neighberhood, Port Lee and other places in
the Hudson River - that he performed one months service under Capt Bertholf, thinks his name was Cunes Bertholf and was stationed at Elizabethtown
that he performed five several monthly tours of service during which he was stationed at Log Gaol near Ramapough as a guard over the refugee prisoners confined there at the same time and thinks that a Lieutenant Ryerson had the command of the Guard the greater
portion of time.t The only field officers whom he now recollects by name under whom he served are Gen Heard, Col Tunis Dey, Major Richard Dey & Major Goetchies. That he was in the service of the United States during the
Revolutionary War in all about two years, but cannot at this time particularize dates of service, times, places or the officers under whom he served otherwise than is above stated. He was at all times a volunteer
and never was drafted or served as a substitute  - he was in an engagement with the enemy at Fort Lee at which time Capt Huyler commanded the company to which he
belonged-- he was once engaged with in a skirmish with the British and Refugees on Staten Island. Capt Peter Ward and a party of Volunteers that crossed over from
Elizabethtown Point in the night in that manner that he also was engaged with a party of British and Refugees at the New Bridge in the Hackensack River & that Abraham Buskirk
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a Refugee Colonel Commanded the party against whom he was engaged that
he has no documentary evidence and the only persons whom he now can procure to certify to his service are Thomas Hammond Peter Gill
and Samuel Romine Albert Wilson
that he always has resided and continues to reside in the County of Bergin in the State of New Jersey
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or Annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any of the United States
Sworn to, and subscribed, in open Court, the day and year first aforesaid.
his
John X  Parker
mark
Abr. Westwell Clerk

We Zach H. Cooper a Clergyman, residing in the Township of Franklin County of Bergen and State of New-Jersey and Albert G Lydecker
residing in the Township of Franklin County of Bergen and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Packers
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
SWORN AND SUBSCRIBED THE DAY Each
AND YEAR FIRST AFORESAID.
Zach H. Cooper Pastor of the Lord Dutch church at the Pond
Albert G Lydecker
Wm Colflex a Judge of the Common pleas Court of Bergen
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court
further certifies, that it appears to them that Zachariah H. Cooper who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the Township of Franklin County of Bergen and State aforesaid, and that Albert G Lydecker who has also signed the same, is resident of the Township of Franklin County of Bergen and State aforesaid, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
A Westwell

I, Abraham Westervell, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Bergin do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of John Packer for a Pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of Office this thirty first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight and thirty two
Abr Westwell Clerk