Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4566, for John Lott, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

Service: New Jersey

Lott, John

Number: S. 4566

carded
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29996

New Jersey

John Lott

Mustered out in the State of New Jersey, he was a private in the company commanded by Captain Style of the [regiment] commanded by Col. [Blank] in the New Jersey line for two years-

Inscribed on the Roll for New Jersey at the rate of 50 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of July 1835 and sent to James F. Randolph, New Brunswick

Arrears to the 4th of March, 1835 $320.00
[Semi-annual] allowance ending in Sept. - 40.00
$360.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Dan Boyd, Clerk.
Book 82 Vol. 3 Page 144
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3.153

New Jersey

Application of John Lott, of Hunterdon Co.

Act 7th June 1832

[Amounted]
24 mo. [private]-

James Randolph
Agent
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Declaration of John Lott, of Hunterdon County New Jersey, for the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7 1832

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County

On this fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred thirty five, personally appeared in open Court before the justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New Jersey, now sitting, John Lott, a resident of said County, who being 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 was born on the 27th day of November 1758, as appears from a Bible Round now in his possession, in the County of Somerset, New Jersey, and is now consequently in the 77th year of his age- that of the time he entered the service of his country he resided in Middlesex County New Jersey,- that he continued to reside in said County until within about twenty years but past, when he removed to Hunterdon County, where he has lived ever since, and when he now lives. From the delay which has taken place in presenting this application, he deems it proper to say, that it has been caused prinicipally on account of his not being aware until recently that he could procure the necessary process to establish his claim. He has for a long time been absent from the immediate neighborhood of his services, and he did not know until very lately that any of his old companions survived. 

He entered the service in the early part of the year 1776. He belonged to the company of Infantry commanded by Capt. Pyett, and afterward by Capt. Gulick, which was attached to Col. Neilson's Regiment. His first tour was in the spring of 1776 about the time of the lesson that the British were coming round to take possession of New York. This tour was now under Capt. Lysle, and lasted for one month. He marched to Bergen, and that neighborhood, and served his tour in marches and counter marches to guard the possible points of attack of the enemy. During the same year he served three more tours of a month each, under Capt. Day, in the same district of country, and in the same service of guarding the shore. The enemy had during the year taken possession of New York and Staten Island, and was committing offensive depradations in New Jersey by means of foraging and other parties. During his last tour in this year, the retreat of Washington was made [through] New Jersey, and the militia were for a short time put to flight. The battles of Trenton and Princeton ensued, and the army went into winter quarters in New Brunswick.
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The militia of Middlesex were then called together at a place called Cranberry, about fifteen miles from New Brunswick, and were kept [through] the whole winter under Col. Neilson and Lt. Col. Taylor. This declared was there with them, and did at least three months continuous service under Capt. Gulick, who then had taken command of his company. They were engaged in annoying and repelling the enemy, and in guarding property from pillage. They frequently went into the vicinity of New Brunswick driving in plundering parties. The service was altogether arduous. They who went on an expedition to a place called Bennett's Island, not far from New Brunswick, and captured about 70 tories who were stationed there to assist the enemy. During the remainder of the year 1777, he served two other tours of a month each, under Capt. Day. These tours were at and in the neighborhood of Elizabeth Town in guarding the lines, the British and Tories being then on Staten Island. In 1778, he served four tours of a month each. The first under Capt. Wauglum, on the Elizabeth station in the service of guarding the lines. The second was under Capt. Williamson at the same station, in the same service. The third and fourth were under Capt. Gulick, and were on that station and in West Jersey before and at the battle of Monmouth. He was in that battle and well recollects the events of that day. This was the first time he acted in immediate co-operation with continental troops. There he was of course subject to the orders of the general Continental Officers. In 1779, he served four tours of a month each, all under his own Capt. Gulick, between Elizabeth Town and Paulus Hook, and occasionally ranging up the country as far as Morristown, Pompton, etc.. in the service of protecting the lives and property of the inhabitants. The Tories were particularly troublesome and virulent, and made a great many sallies from Staten Island, piloting the British about the country. In 1780 he served four tours of a month each. The first under Capt. Day, the second under Capt. Gulick, the third under Capt. Wauglum, during which the battle of Springfield took place, and the fourth under Capt. Gulick, all in the same district of the country, having Elizabeth Town for headquarters, and in the usual service of guarding the lines. At Springfield he was again [brought] into contact with, and under the orders of, Continental Officers. He recollects that Washington was at Springfield or in that vicinity, and a good many other Continental Officers. Gen. Heard, of the militia, commanding the militia to which he belonged. In 1781, he served four tours of a
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month each under Capt. Gulick, on the lines, as before, in the service of defending them from the enemy. In 1782, he served two tours of a month each, in the same service, on the same station, and under Capt. Gulick. His own Col. Neilson or Lt. Col. Taylor was generally out in command, though sometimes he was placed under other Colonels. All his service, were in the capacity of a private, in obedience to the requirements of the laws, and the exigencies of the times. He did much more service than he has related, but it being of an irregular and desultory nature, he has out deemed it necessary to particularize it. He never recollects any written discharge, and such discharges not being usual to the Jersey militia. He never served as a substitute. He begs leave to refer to the Rev. Alexander H. Phillips of his neighborhood, and to Francis Goff of the same vicinity, as to his character for veracity, and their belief in his service, and to Lewis Johnson, Abraham J. Gulick, Elizabeth Gulick, and Richard Sutphen- Revolutionary soldiers, as to their knowledge of his services. There are all the witnesses he can procure, so far as he knows and believes. 

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 any state.

Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid in open Court-

[Signatures]
John Lott
Jr C. Hornblower, Chief Justice 

Mr. Alexander Phillips, a Clergyman, residing in the neighbourhood and Francis Goff residing in said neighbourhood hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with John Lott, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be in the 77th year of his age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a solider of the Revolution, and that we concur in the opinion.

Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, in open Court

[Signatures]
A. H. Phillips
Francis Goff
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The Affidavit immediately preceeding was sworn to and subscribed in open Court, by A. H. Phillips and Francis Goff- the 15th May A. D. 1835-

Jr. C. Hornblower
Chief Justice
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion. After the investigation of the matter and  after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the Clerk 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 a hereunder A. Phillips, who had signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman and resident in County of Hunterdon aforesaid, and that Francis Goff who had also signed the same is a resident in said County, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

Jr. C. Hornblower
Chief Justice

I, Zachariah Rofell Clerk of the Supreme Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John Lott for a pension- In testimony whereby I have hereunto let my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this fifteenth day of May, in the year of our lord One-thousand eight-hundred and thirty-five.

[Signature]
Rofell, Clerk
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

On the 10th day of May eighteen hundred and thirty five, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex, Lewis Johnston, known to me as a credible person, whose testimony is explicitly to be relied upon, who being duly sworn, on his oath doth, that he is a soldier of the Revolution, served through the whole of that May and is now receiving a pension for those services - that he is intimately acquainted with John Lott, man of Hunterdon County, and formerly of Middlesex County, New Jersey, who has applied, or is about to apply for a pension, knew him well during the Revolutionary War, was brought up in the same neighborhood, and lived to near to him during the whole of the war as to have the best means of observing his movements, and becoming acquainted with his services. Knows that said Lott was a true way the faithful soldier- that he zealously deployed in his country's service the year 1776, then served suit in each and every year until the close of the War, that by the final withdrawal of the enemy- Knows that he performed his tours effectively, which carried from three or four to six or seven in a year- these tours were of a month each- was occasionally out with him, though they did not belong to the same company, but only to the same regiment, has no doubt that said Lott performed more than two years active field and camp service. Knows said Lott as a highly respectable man, and would give full credence to anything he should say under oath. Has heard from said Lott his relation of his military services, and fully believes it, because it agrees exactly with deponents own knowledge and recollection.

Sworn and subscribed before me
the day and year aforesaid

[Signatures]
Lewis Johnston

Henry Sillcock
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

Before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace, is and for said County, Abraham J. Gulick, a man of truth and veracity who being duly sworn upon his oath says that he is in the seventy ninth year of his age, that he is a soldier of the Revolution and in the receipt of a pension as such, that he is well acquainted with John Lott of Hunterdon County and that he has been well acquainted with him from his boyhood that they and by their father joined. That he knew him all through the Revolutionary War, was out with him all the war under Captain Gulick who was the brother of their deponent, that the said John Lott entered the service of his country in the year 1776 with their deponent, that they messed together and the deponent knows that the said John Lott served faithfully from that time until the end of the war in 1782, that they quartered together in Cranbury in 1776 when the British had possession of New Brunswick, and that they were out together frequently in every year of that momentous struggle on the Woodbridge and Elizabeth Town station guarding the lines from the depredation of the enemy, that he knows the said Lott was at the battle of Monmouth in 1778, that he is fully confident that he never missed a tour when called into actual service, remembers well that he was always ready at his Country's call and knows that he suffered much in his defense, recollects many incidents one of which in that inconvenience of his feet being hurt in a marsh he had to get in a baggage waggon being unable to travel on foot where he remained until a battle was expected when he, sore as were his feet, leaped from the wagon bound up with rags, his feet shouldered his musket and prepared to display that on a tour for which he was so remarkable, believes him to be a man of truth and veracity and that his statments may be fully relied upon.

Sworn and subscribed this 22nd day of May 1835 before me

[Signature]
Abraham J. Gulick

Peter P. Runyon
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

Before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Elizabeth Gulick, who I am satisfied is a person of truth of and veracity who being duly sworn upon her oath says that she is in the seventy first year of her age that she is well acquainted with John Lott who now lives in the County of Hunterdon but formerly lived in the County of Middlesex that she knew him well during the Revolutionary War, that she lived a near neighborer to him at that time, that she knows he served in the militia early in the war, that he went on the Elizabeth Town Station, that her husband James Gulick was a soldier in the war and remembers well that John Lott went with her husband and with other persons in the neighbourhood, remembers well of hearing Captain Gulick under whom he served say at that time say that he was a very brave soldier, equal if not superior to many in his company, remembers that the militia were frequently called out and that John Lott always went when required, believing him to be a man of truth and veracity and his statements may be fully believed.

Sworn and subscribed the 22nd day of May 1835 before me

[Signatures]
Elizabeth Gulick

Peter P. Runyon
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

Before me the subscribe, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Richard Sutphen, a man who I am satisfied is a man of truth and veracity, being duly sworn upon his oath says that he is in the seventy ninth year of his age, that he is a soldier of the Revolution and in the receipt of a pension as such that he was well acquainted with John Lott of Hunterdon County but formerly of Middlesex County that he knew him during the Revolutionary war and was out with him on the Woodbridge and Elizabeth Town Station guarding the lines from Amboy and Elizabeth Town, from the marauding parties of tories and British, believes he saw him at Monmouth, has no doubt he served during the whole war, knows that he was a good soldier, never knew him to be absent when his company were called on, knows that he served under Capt. Gulick frequently, believes him to be a man of truth and veracity and incapable of misrepresentation and that his statements may have full credit.

Sworn and subscribed this 22nd day of May 1835 before me

[Signatures]
Richard Mark Sutphen

Peter P. Runyon
Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

I, Nicholas Boorum, Clerk of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Peter P. Runyon and Henry Sillcock, before whom the previous affadavits of Lewis Jonston, Abraham J. Gulick, Elizabeth Gulick, and Richard Sutphen were taken, are Justices of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that their [separate thoughts] are as Clerk, over proper handwriting.
In testimony hereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the twenty fifth day of May 1835.

[Signature]
N. Boorum, Clerk
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[Handwriting]
Revolutionary
4566

[Form]
INVALID.

File No.: 4566
John Lott
[Private] Rev. War

Act: June 7 1832
Index:-Vol. A, Page 226

[Arrangement of 1870.]