Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33709, for Joseph Squier, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776 )
SERVICE
New Jersey

Squier, Joseph

NUMBER
S 33709

CONTENTS
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Notification sent to William Pennington
24 Sep 1820
Newark N.J.
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8449
New Jersey
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Joseph Squier
of Essex County in the State of New Jersey
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Spencer of the New Jersey 
line, for the term of 6 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey 
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of March 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29th of March 1819 and sent to Abraham Reynolds Esq
Livingston Essex County N Jersey
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Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819 11 mo 3/31       90"6
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819           48"
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                                                                     $138"6
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{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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33709
Revy INVALID
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File No. __33,709___
__Joseph Squire_____
__Pri Rev War___
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Act: _18__ March 18th___
Index: -- Vol._2__ Page _108__

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of Jersey
Essex County ss }
On this 28th day of March 1818 before me Abrm
Reynolds one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in the said County personally appear Joseph Squier aged fifty six years resident in the County of Essex & State of Newjersey who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war.  That he
the said Joseph Squier in the summer of 1777 enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain Jonathan Pierson of the fifth
Jersey Regiment under the command of Col. Spencer That he continued to serve in said Regiment until a part of the Jersey line revolted at which time he was transfered to the second
Jersey Regiment - that he continued to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the United States until the conclusion of peace with Great Britain after which he was regularly discharged at New Burgh in the State of N. York in the month of June 1783. That he was in the battles of Brandywine Germantown Monmouth Springfield York Town in Virginia - also
at Shamong under Genl Sullivan and that he is at this time a regular pauper upon the Township where he
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belongs from which reduced circumstance he stands in need of the assistance for support

Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid
Abrm. Reynolds

I Abraham Reynolds Judge &c as aforesaid do hereby certify that from my own personal knowledge I am fully satisfied that the said Joseph Squier did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the
aforementioned act of Congress
Abrm Reynolds
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New Jersey
Essex County SS.
Silas Whitehead Clerk of the Court of Common
pleas in one for the County of Essex aforesaid, hereby certify that Abraham Reynolds Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been taken was at the time of the taking
thereof oand still is a Judge of said Court and that the name of Abraham Reynolds subscribed to said proceedings is the proper hand writing and Signature of the said Abraham Reynolds Esq.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court the fourth day of June AD. 1810
S Whitehead

[seal stamped on left]
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Examination
of Joseph Squier
Private
Spencer's Regt
N. Jersey Line
1777 till Peace.

28th March 1818-

I Abraham Reynolds Judge & as aforesaid do hereby Certify that Joseph Squier the within applicant has been for many years a regular pauper of the Township of Newark in the County of Essex and State of N Jersey and at this time, altho a paper, in charge of a distant connection of his, in my neighbourhood, in anticipation of the relief provided by a late act of Congress he is therefore in very reduced circumstances and stand in need of assistance from his country for support - Admd

Abrm Reynolds

Livingston Essex County N.J.
March 10th 1819

the Judge has not certified said reduced circumstances of Applicant.
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Joseph Squier
8449
Sept 1819
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At a Special District Court of the United States
for the New Jersey District holden at New Ark
in the County of Essex in said District on the
thirteenth day of July 1820--

PRESENT the Honorable William S Pennington
District of New Jersey ss. Be it Remembered, That on the thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey in open court, the said court being a court of record for the said district Joseph Squier aged fifty eight years,  resident in Essex County aforesaid,  who being first duly sworn 
according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: 

That he enlisted in the said County of Essex in the year 1777 in the Company commanded by Captain Jonathan Pierson in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Spencer in the Jersey line that he continued to serve from that time until the end of the war -------------------
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and that his original declaration is dated the twenty eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that his pension certificate is No. 8449.
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AND I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 13th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, to wit:

One set of Shoemakers tools
no other estate real or personal in possession
or expectancy, that for several years previous
for his being placed on the pension list he was
supported as a pauper by the Township of
New Ark. that he is by occupation a Shoemaker but by reason of infirmity is unable to support himself by personal labor-

             his
Joseph  X  Squier
            mark

Sworn to & subscribed before
me July 13. 1820
William S. Pennington
District Judge
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I William Pennington Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the New Jersey Distsrict Do hereby certify, That the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed,
are truly copied from the records of the said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the
opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the
aforesaid schedule is Three Dollars----

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said
Court, this 27th day of July 1820
Wm Pennington
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[seal stamped on left]