Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2462, Jesse Conover, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE     
New Jersey 

Conover, Jesse 

NUMBER S2462

Carded
CONTENTS
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New Jersey 31.86

Jesse Conover of Gloucester Co. in the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain Steelman of the Regt commanded by Col. Somers in the New Jersey    line for 6 months.

Subscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 20 dollars - cents per annum, is commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of July 1841 and sent to J.C. Smallwood, Woodbury, NJ

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $200.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 10.00
$210.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk,
Book: E2(?) Vol. 3d Page 120
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832

State of new Jersey Gloucester County SS

On this twenty first day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty four(?), personally appeared before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey, Jesse Conover of the said county aged seventy eight years and upwards who being duly sworn according to law, doth upon his solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States and served under the following named officers as herein after mentioned -
That is to say in the month of June 1776 he entered as private in a company commanded by Capt. Zephaniah Steelman in Col. Richard Somers Regiment the company marched from Mays Landing, by the Blue Tavern and
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and through Haddonfield to Coopers Ferry opposite the City of Philadelphia from Coopers Ferry we crossed to Philadelphia and marched from there through Bristol, Trenton, Princeton, New Brunswick + to Amboy where we quartered and remained in the service one Month when we were discharged. Col Hillman of Gloucester County commanded the Regt. whilst we were at Amboy.

He next entered the service in the latter part of July or first of August 1776, as a private in a company commanded by the same Capt. Zephaniah Steelman in Col. Somers Regiment, the company paraded at Wrangleborough on Little Eggharbour River and went from there in boats down the River to a place call the Fox Burrows, where we commenced building a small Fort. We remained at the place and in the service for one month and were discharged -

He next entered the service in the month of September 1776 as a private in
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in the same Capt. Zephaniah Steelman's Company and in Col. Somers regiment. the company proceeded to the Fox Burrows above mentioned, where we quartered and remained in the service one month and were discharged.

He next entered in the month of Ocober 1777 as a private in a company commanded by Capt. Zephaniah Steelman in Col.Somers Regiment, the company marched from Eggharbour by Blue Anchor to Haddonfield where we quartered and remained one month and were discharged, during this time we had a pretty smart(?) skirmish with the enemy at Gloucester in which Lieutenant Jno Lucas was killed and Ensign John Tilton wounded, both of whom belonged to our Company - 

He next entered in the month of September 1778 as a private in the same Company commanded by Capt. Steelman in Col Somers Regiment the company marched to Chestnut Neck, where we remained until that place was burnt by the British, we then moved down the River.
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River to Leeds Point and remained there till our month expired when we were discharged after having served one month -

He next entered as a private in a company commanded by Capt. John Davis in Col. Somers Ret. The company marched to Chesnut Neck aforesaid where we quartered and remained one month and were discharged. This service commenced he thinks in November 1778 and ended in December of that year -

He next entered as a private in the month of December 1778 or January 1779 in a company commanded by Captain Richard Higbee in Col. Somers regiemnt the company marched to Leeds Point on Little Eggharbour River, where we remained one month and were discharged -

He next entered as a private in the month of November 1779 in a company commanded by Capt. Zephaniah Steelman in Col. Somers Regt, the company quartered at Leeds Point aforesaid - where we
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we remained until discharged, having served one month - during this time we had a skirmish with a party of the enemy that landed at Steelman Point and several of their men were killed, we also had another skirmish with a party that landed at Abadiah Reads on the Sea Shore -

He next entered as a private in the month of August 1780 in a company commanded by Capt. Samuel Snell in Col Somers Regiment - the company quartered at Somers Point at the  mouth of Great Eggharbour River we remained in the service one month and were discharged - This was the last service that he performed during the Revolutionary War - The whole time that he served during the Revolutionary War, and whilst engaged in a regularly organized corps, was nine months during which time he was either in the field of the garrison, and was not employed in any civil pursuit.
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and during all which time he served as a  private - and this declarant further states that he is not confident of being correct in all cases as regards the dates of his services he has put them down from the best of his recollection, and believes that they are generally correct - but from age and lapse of memory he may be in correct in some particulars - but feels quite confident that he served under all the officers he has named and for his periods above mentioned and for which services he claims a pension.
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2462

INVALID

File No. 2462
Jesse Conover
Pri Rev. War

Act: June 7, 1832
Index:- Vol. A., Page 72

[Arrangement of 1870]
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34,531
Jesse Conover
See Let to Hon Jos. F. Randolph
June 18, 1838
to J. C. Smallwood 4 Sept. 1839
to Hon. J.F. Randolph 26 Feb. 1840
to same 27 June 1840

Act June 1832
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June 27 1840 (vertically written)

To Jos Randolph

J. L. Edwards Esq
Court of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Jos Randolph
H.R. (vertically written)
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House of Rep Jan 26/40

Sir
I enclose you [illegible] evidence in the case of Jesse Conover [illegible] letter from Clk Smallwood - May I ask the attention of the Department a [illegible]

Yours
Jos Randolph

Inn the case of - Van Doren
widow of Isaac Van Doren.
am instructed to accept the pension preferred by the Department - [illegible- - Be so good as to forward the certificate -
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(No. 1)
Abstract of Pay-rolls discharged by Andrew Sinnickson

No. 20
Dates June 19, 1777
Officer's names Capt. Zeph. Steelman
Regiment 3 Gloucester
Where Served Woodbury
Under Whom Col. R. Somers
Amt of Pay 164 14 "



(No. 2)
Abstract of Pay-rolls discharged by Thomas Carpenter.
No/Dates/Officer names/Regiment/were served/ under whom/L(?)/S(?)/D

54/Feby 5, 1778/Capt. Zeph Steelman/Gloucester/Haddonfield/Col. Jos. Ellis/155/5/6

(No 3)
The county of Gloucester in acct. currt. with John Little Paymaster for the Militia Cp.
1783 May 12/No of Pay-rolls/To cash paid on the following Pay-rolls as will appear pRects viz
9 Capt. Zephaniah Steelman 17 Novem 1783 and 28 April 1784 80/13/5
11 Capt. Zephaniah Steelman paid 28 April 1784  19/6

State of New Jersey ss.

I, James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of new Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing marked No 1 is a true extract from an account headed "Abstract of Pay-rolls discharged by Andrew Sinnickson" as taken from the
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record in Book A of Auditors accounts during the Revolutionary War, folio 1 now remaining in my offices: that the foregoing marked No. 2 is a true extract from an account headed "Abstract of Pay-rolls discharged by Thomas Carpenter." as taken from the same book folio 73; and that No. 3 is a true extract from an ancient paper relating to the Revolutionary War headed "[illegible] The County of Gloucester in acct. currt. with John Little Paymaster for the Militia Corp" now remaining on file in my office.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the city of Trenton in said state, the twenty second day of May Anno Domini one thousand and forty (1840)

James D. Westcott
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(Postmark Feb. 17 Washington D.C.)

Feb. 18 1840
Mr. Evans NJ

JM  Luce

J. Conover

(vertically written)

JF Randolph

L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington

(Horizontally written)

Attn. J F Randolph
HR
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House of Reps Feb 17, 1840

J L Edwards Esq

Dear Sir

Will you be so good as to inform us the status of the application of Jesse Conover of Gloucester N.J. for a pension. what the difficulty is to its being granted?

I enclose an application for a reserved pension certificate which you can forward to me.

Yours Respectfully,

JF Randolph

(Vertically written along left border)
Attended to
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Woodbury June 9 1838

Hon. H Jos. F. Randolph

Dear Sir,

Herewith I send you the application of Jesse Conover for a pension, the papers should have been sent long ago but the old man lives about sixty miles from me and his witnesses live nearly as far from him and in opposite directions and its very seldom that these old men get far from home and for these reasons I have been unable till lately to complete the proof -

Will you do the old man and myself the favor to take his papers to the pension office and assist him in his application

I am very Respectfully yours,

JC Smallwood
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J L Edwards Esq

Sir

Will you be so good as to examine the within papers + send me the result -


Yours

Jos F Randolph
H.R. June 11 1838
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NJ May 27
Add proof
Jesse Conover
Act 1832

(vertically written)
Hon. J L Edwards
Pension Office
Washington DC

(FREE stamped diagonally)
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Woodby May 25 1839

Hon. J L Edwards

Sir
Enclosed I send you some further evidence to support the claim of Jesse Conover for a pension this in all probability is all the additional evidence that can be procured in that case as the old man is now both blind and deaf or so nearly so as to be unable to attend to any business, He hopes that with this additional evidence the department will be satisfied that he served a sufficient length of time to entitle him to a pension. Some objections have been made as to the time when he made his application my recollection is that his application was made several years since but he is a very old and poor man, is sixty miles from the courthouse and has been so deaf for a number of years past that it was only with great difficulty that he could be made to hear any thing that was said to him these matters may
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may perhaps excuse him for any lack of promptness in making his application.

Yours very Respectfuly,

J.C. Smallwood
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State of New Jersey
Atlantic County

Be it remembered that on the sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, before me the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for the said county personally appeared Daniel Steelman of the said county aged seventy four years and upwards who I certify to be a person of credibility whose statement is entitled to credit and belief who being  [illegible] me duly sworn according to law, upon his solemn oath deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Jesse Conover and has known him since the time they were boys and this deponent further saith that he well remembers the said Jess Conover during the Revolutionary War, and knows that he performed considerable service as a militia man during said war, and this deponent further saith that he this deponent was also in the service during said war and performed several tours of duty with the [illegible] Jesse, he knows that the said Jesse was in the service at Chesnut
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Chesnut Neck at Leeds Point and he knows that he was in the service at the time the British landed and burnt the house of John Steelman the father of the deponent and this deponent further saith that the said Jesse belonged to a company commanded by Capt. Zephaniah Steelman who was an uncle to this deponent., that his uncle's company performed several tours of duty in the upper part of the county of Gloucester at Haddonfield, Coopers Ferry and other places in the neighborhood of Philadelphia at and about the time the British wee in that city. And this deponent futher saith that he lived in the same neighborhood with the said Jesse and although he cannot speak positively on the subject, yet he verily believes that the said Jesse was with the Company in the service in several different tours at Haddonfield, Coopers Ferry and in that neighborhood, he knows that he understood so at that time, and has understood so since, and that it is the general opinion of the neighborhood and always
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(Crossed out: I Henry Bradshaw Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify)

I Samuel B Westcott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Atlantic in the state of new Jersey, do hereby certify that Joseph Endicott Esquire before whom the above written affidavit was made was at the doing thereof, [illegible] is one of the justices of the peace of the said county of Atlantic, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signature of the said Justice above written is genuine. Witness my hand and seal of office this tenth day of May AD 1839.
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We Michael C Fisher + John C Smallwood residing in the County of Gloucester in the State of new Jersey do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jess Conover, who has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be seventy eight - years of age, that he is reputed and believe in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution - and that we concur in that opinion.

Affirmed and subscribed in open court November 21 1836(?)

Michael C. Fisher
J.C. Smallwood

Ephraim Miller
Simon Sparks
Jos B. Harker

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 Michael C. Fisher and John C. Smallwood
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who have signed the preceding certificate are respectable and credible persons, and that their statement is entitle to full credit and belief and further that there is no clergyman residing in the township of Galloway in the neighborhood of the applicant.

Ephraim Miller
Simon Sparks
Jos. B. Harker
Michael C. Fisher

I Joseph Sailer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings fo the said court in the matter of the application of Jesse Conover for a pension -

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty first day of November AD eighteen hundred and thirty six
Sailer clk
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State of New Jersey- Gloucester County SS

On this twenty first day of March AD 1837 before me the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for the county of Gloucester, personally appeared John Thomas to me well known and whom I certify to be a person of credibility whose statement is entitled to credit and belief, who being first duly sworn according to law upon his solemn oath, deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Jesse Conover the foregoing applicant for a pension that he has known him since the early part of the Revolutionary War - that he well remembers the said Jesse Conover at a placed called the Fox Burrows the said Jesse performed a tour of duty at that place in a company commanded by Capt. Zephaniah Steelman in Col Somers regiment in the summer of the year 1776 this deponent was there and in the service at the same time. They performed another tour shortly after the first tour at the same
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State of New Jersey -Gloucester County SS

On this twenty first day of March AD 1837 before me the subscribe one of the justice of the peace in and for the county of Gloucester, personally appeared John Thomas to me well knowns, and whom I certify to be a person of credibility whose statement is entitled to credit and belief, who being first duly sworn according to lay upon his solemn oath, deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Jesse Conover the foregoing applicant for a pension that he has known him since the early part of the Revolutionary War - that he well remembers the said Jesse Conover at a place called the Fox Burrows the said Jesse performed a tour of duty at that place in a company commanded by Capt. Zephaniah Steelman in Col Somers regiment in the Summer of the year 1776 this deponent was there and in the service at the same time, they performed another tour shortly after the firstt tour at the same
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same place, he cannot speak with certainty as to the officers that the said Jesse was under in both these tours he knows that he wsa there and performed duty as a soldier, a small Fort was built at this place, and the first time there were there, the British came up the Fiver and drove them off - and this deponent further saith that he remembers that said Jesse Conover performed another tour of dury in the fall of the year 1778 at Chesnut Neck and in that neighborhood at the time that place was burnt by the British. He was in the service at this time at least as long as one month - this deponent was there at the same time and in the service and this deponent further saith that he is not more than seventy nine years of age--

Sworn + subscribed the date above before me
Edmund Taylor

His  X mark
John Thomas
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I Henry Bradshaw Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Edmund Taylor Esquire before whom the above written affidavit of John Thomas was made was at the doing thereof. One of the justices of the peace of the said county of Gloucester duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signature of the said justice thereto subscribed is genuine -

Witness my hand and seal of office at Woodbury in said County this twenty third day of January AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight -

Henry Bradshaw
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be a person of credibility whose statement is entitled to credit and belief who being duly sworn according to law upon his solemn oath saith that he is well acquainted with Jess Conover and has known him since they were boys - and further that the said Jesse Conover was a soldier during the Revolutionary War and this deponent further saith that he remembers that the said Jesse was in the service at the time this deponent was in the service, but he is unable to speak positively as to the length of time there he served or under whom he served but according to the best of his recollection the said Jesse performed a tour of duty at Haddonfield, and then at Chesnut Neck, and that he was with the service at a place called the Fox Boroughs, this deponent feels quite confident that the said Jesse was at the places above mentioned but does not know how long he served at either place.

Sworn and subscribed the date above before me
Michael C. Fisher

his X mark
John Giberson
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34,531
Jesse Conover
N. Jersey
Act 7 June '32
[illegible]
[illegible]
20 [illegible]

J.C. Smallwood
personal(?)
Hon J.F. Randolph (crossed out)
J.C, Smallwood (crossed out)
Woodbury NJ (crossed out)
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I Henry Bradshaw Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Edmund Taylor Esquire before who the above written affidavit of John Thomas was made was at the doing thereof one of the justices of the peace of the said county of Gloucester duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature of the said Justice thereto subscribed is genuine -

Witness my hand and seal of office at Woodbury in said County this twenty third day of January AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight

Henry Bradshaw
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Receipts for one years Interest paid on certificates given by the commissioners of the several counties for Militia services.

No of [illegible]/No of certif:/Date/Signed by/payable to/amount L.S.D./One yrs Int L.S.D.
4b/5b/May 1st 1784/Tho. Carpenter/Jesse Conover/1-5--0/0-1--6

State of New Jersey
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from a book of accounts remaining in my office, which said book of accounts is headed "Receipts for one years interest paid on certificates given by the commissioners of the several counties for militia services" - and endorsed on the back "Militia  Notes 1st year" - as taken from the said Book - Given under my hand and seal of office at the city of Trenton, in said state this first day of March A.D. one thousand and eight hundred and thirty eight. (1838.)

James D. Westcott

State of New Jersey Gloucester County on the fifth day of June AD 1838 before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace of said County, personally appeared John Giberson of said County to me well known aged seventy nine years and upwards, and who I certify to
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be a person of credibility whose statement is entitled to credit and belief who being duly sworn according to law upon his solemn oath saith that he is well acquainted with Jesse Conover and has known him since there were boys - and further that the said Jesse Conover was a soldier during the Revolutionary War and this deponent further saith that he remembers that the said Jesse was in the service at the time this deponent was in the service, but he is unable to speak positively as to the length of time there he served or under whom he served but according to the best of his recollection the said Jesse performed a tour of duty at Haddonfield, and then at Chesnut Neck, and that he was in the service at a place called the Fox Boroughs, this deponent feels quite confident that the said Jesse was at the places above mentioned, but does not kow how long he served at either place.

Sworn and subscribed the date above before me
Michael C. Fisher

his X mark
John Giberson
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I Henry Bradshaw clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the Country of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Michael C. Fisher Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit of John Giberson was made was at the doing thereof a justice of the peace of the said County of Gloucester; duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signature of the said Michael C. Fisher subscribed to the said affidavit is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Woodbury in said County this fifth day of June AD eighteen hundred and thirty eight.
Henry Bradshaw