Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6,256, for Job Throckmorton, New Jersey
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Service       New Jersey     Number     W6256                   
Throckmorton, Job     Mary                      Contents
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New Jersey -  2,571.     Mary Throckmorton   widow of Job Throckmorton,  who died on the 19[th] November 1800 of Monmouth in the State of N[ew] Jersey who was a Pri[vate] in the County commanded by Captain Fleming of the Rev[olution] commanded by [?] Hendrickson in the N[ew] Jersey line for 16 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 53 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.   Certificate of Pension issued the 28[th] day of [March?] '39, and sent [to?] Hon. G.D. Wall, Burlington, N[ew] J[ersey]     Arrears to the 4th of Apr[il?]   $ 371.31     Semi-annual allowance ending     26.66  [=]  $399.97   {Revolutionary Claim Act July 4, 1836  Section the  }     Recorded by R [Burdian?] Clerk, Book A  Vol. 2  Page 132
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V 2457     Mary Throckmorton widow of Job.  N.J.  Act 4 July 3[6?]     adm d    16 mo[nth]  pri[vate]   $53.33     No deduction     Hon G.D. Wall  Burlington N.J.
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State of New Jersey  Monmouth County}  ss    On this Twenty ninth day of July, Eighteen hundred and thirty Seven, personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Mary Throckmorton a resident of the Township of Shrewsbury in the County and State aforesaid aged Eighty Six years and upwards, who is unable from bodily infirmity to attend the court, and who being sworn according to Law, upon her oath, doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836.  That She is the widow of Job Throckmorton, who was a  private in the War of the Revolution.  That the said Job Throckmorton entered the Service in the Militia of the County of Monmouth under Captain Stephen Fleming in the Summer of the  year 1776, about the time the Brittish Fleet first arrived at Sandy Hook, and that he continued to serve in the said Company regularly when occasion required or when called upon during the remainder of the year 1776 and during the whole of the year 1777.  In the beginning of the year 1778 though she cannot be positive as to the exact time her husband the said Job Throckmorton moved into [scratched out] Capt. James Green's district, and that he served in the said Captain James Green's Company at least every other month in tours of one month each during the years 1778, 1779, and until the [scratched out] latter part of the year 1780.  During the above Stated Service the said Job Throckmorton almost immediately upon the lines, with his family, and his duties were to guard the Shores and to watch the motion of the enemy who were continually  landing in small parties for the purpose of plundering, robbing and murdering the inhabitants.  That Daniel Hendrickson She thinks was the Col-
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of the Regiment to which Capts. Fleming & Green's companies belonged and David Forman was the General.  The Other officers she cannot now recollect.  That in the early part of the fall [scratched out] of the year 1780, the said Job Throckmorton removed his family from the lines into the interior of the country at a place called Englishtown upwards of twenty miles distant, and the reason of his doing so was that he was afraid that himself and his family would be murdered by the enemy.  That the said Job Throckmorton in September 1780 entered a company of volunteers commanded by Lieut. Elihu Chadwick and served therein a continued tour of four months until the month of January 1781.  That immediately after that tour the said Job Throckmorton entered a company commanded by Capt. Thomas Chadwick & Lieut. Elihu Chadwick, and served therein a continued tour of one year from January 1781 to January 1782, during the above Service the said Company was [stationed?] at Freehold, Colts Neck, in said county she believes, and their duties were to guard the shores and frontier at aforesaid.  That after the expiration of the last mentioned tour the said Job Throckmorton entered a troop of [Horse?] under Captain John Walton and served therein a continued tour of nine months at least beginning in the winter of 1782 and ending in the fall following of the same year.  They were stationed at Freehold as headquarted under General David Forman who commanded the forces of Monmouth County.  That the said Job Throckmorton resided in the Township of Shrewsbury in said County of Monmouth when he entered the service.  That he was engaged in a number[s?] of skirmishes and combat on the frontiers, one in particular a short distance from his dwelling when six of the enemy were killed the rest taken prisoners.  That his marches were principally confined to the said County of Monmouth.  That she has to documentary evidence whatever in support of her claims.  The above declaration and statement she makes from her own knowledge & recollection and from informa-
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tion received from her said husband.  She further declares that she was married to the said Job Throckmorton on the fifteenth day of October in the year Seventeen hundred and Sixty nine that her husband the aforesaid Job Throckmorton died on the nineteenth day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.  That she has not records either public or private of her marriage and there is no person now living who was present at the seremony [ceremony] which was performed by Josiah Holmes a justice of the peace whose papers were burnt and destroyed by the Brittish or tories in the Revolutionary War, as she has been informed & verily believes.  That she raised a family of eleven children by the said Job Throckmorton - the eldest of whom was born in the year 1770                           Mary Throckmorton                                                           Sworn to & subscribed this day and year above written before me Judge as aforesaid.}  Joseph Barclay
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County} SS.   Personally came and appeared before me Judge as aforesaid Peter Slocum & John Emmons ---who being duly sworn - say that they were well acquainted with Job Throckmorton and Mary his wife, the annexed applicant in the Revolutionary War.  That the said Job and Mary Throckmorton lived together as man and wife, and were reputed and believed in their neighborhood to have been legally married previous to the year 1776 and during the said Revolutionary War and that they fully concur in that opinion: and they further say that the said Job Throckmorton was always reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a good and faithful solider of the Revolution, and that they also concur in that opinion.  That this deponent Peter Slocum is seventy years of age and upwards, and this  deponent John Emmons is seventy seven years of age and upwards.    Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of July AD 1837 by Peter Slocum and John Emmons who are credible persons & whose statement is entitled to credit}  Peter Slocum                          John X Emmons his mark                                                              Joseph Barclay                                                Witness present William R Maps
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State of New Jersey  Monmouth County } SS  Personally appeared before me Judge as aforesaid, Obadiah Sairs of the Township of Shrewsbury in the said County of Monmouth who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is seventy years of age and upwards that he was well  acquainted with Job Throckmorton and Mary his wife the annexed applicant previous to and after the Revolutionary War that the said Job and Mary Throckmorton lived together as man and wife subsequently and previous to the said war and until the death of the said Job, upwards of thirty years ago, that the said Job and Mary Throckmorton were always reputed and believed to have been legally married in the neighborhood where they resided previous to the year 1776 and as long as this deponent has known them and that the said Mary Throckmorton has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband and this deponent further saith that the said Job & Mary Throckmorton raised a family of children  That I fully concur in that opinion} Obadiah Sairs                                                  Sworn and subscribed before me by the said Obadiah Sairs who is a person entitled to credit  Dated 29th July 1837 - Joseph Barclay   State of New Jersey  Monmouth County} SS: I Daniel H. Ellis clerk of the  Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Joseph
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Barclay Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings were sworn & subscribed is now and was at the taking thereof a Judge of the said court duly commissioned and sworn in office as such that all his official acts are entitled to credit and that his signatures above written are genuine   In witness whereof I have here[e]in set my hand and the seal of the said court at Freehold this eleventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven  D.H. Ellis Clk
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Revy  Widow, &c.     File No. 6256  Mary Throckmorton   Wid. of Job Throckmorton   Pvt. N.J. line    Act: July [8?], /36,   Index:-Vol. M, Page 269j   [Arrangement of 1870]
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V Suspended   See let. to J. M. Hartshorne                                                    Nov. 8, 1837
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Freehold NJ   Feb 10th    Hon. Garret D. Wall  U.S. Senate Washington City, D.C.
[sideways script] [?] Hon G D Wall  Presn
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Freehold Feby 9th 1839 - Dear Sir  I beg leave to request your assistance in behalf of a poor old lardy Mrs. Mary Throckmorton for a pension.  She made application in the year 1837.  Her husband no doubt performed a great deal of service, but from the evidence the claim is narrowed down to 16 months service.  In relation to that service Mr. Edwards in a letter to me of the 8 Nov. 1837 says "The evidence of the 4 months & 12 months tours is  Lieut E. Chadwick himself who alleges that he commanded him in the first tour, and was his Lieutenant in the other, but the deponent also asserts that Throckmorton served in Walton's Company in 1782.  His testimony therefore cannot be safely relied upon to establish other service when his recollection of the facts in this tour is shewn to be altogether fallacious."  In Lieut. Elihu Chadwick's affidavit which he drew[?] himself he states that Job Throckmorton served 4 mos. under himself acting as Capt. & 12 mos. under Capt. Thos. Chadwick he being Lieut. in the same town.  And also that he served under Capt. Walton.  In the tours of 4 mo & 12 mo, the witness states how he obtained the knowledge of such service.  In the tour under Walton he only states his knowledge I presume from hearsay, because the witness did not serve under Walton, and that he was mastaken [mistaken] in stating that which he obtained from hearsay should not discredit his evidence upon facts which he had the positive means of knowing.  And the absence of Throckmorton's name from Walton's roll may be accounted for by that fact that Throckmorton may have served as substitute, in which case his name would not appear.  No claim is now
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made for service in Walton's Company.  Lieut. Chadwick's testimony is strongly coroberated [corroberated] by documents now in the pension office.  I refer to an order given by Peter Covenhoven paymaster on John Hebens [?] Treasurer to pay to Capt. Thomas Chadwick for his company of state troops for the year 1787.  A certified copy of that order will be found in the pension office filed with the papers of William Walling or James Bowne.  They were sent to the department about 1 year ago.  You were personally acquainted with Lieut. Chadwick before his death, and I think with these facts that you can satisfy Mr Edwards that his claim for 4 [?] mos at least ought to be allowed.  I rec'd a letter from Mr. Chadwick's son requesting me to obtain an affidavit proving the marriage of Lieut Chadwick & send it to you.  I have sent the affidavit to be executed and as soon as I receive it, will send it to you.  Will you be good enough to give your personal attendance for this old lady who is very poor and whose care I think is a very meritorious one.  She is one of the Rusel family, two or three of whom were killed in the time of the War.  Yours Respectfully [?]  JM Harshorne    Hon Garret D. Wall.
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Freehold August 11th, 1837     Sir   I herewith transmit to you the papers in the application of Mary Throckmorton widow of Job Throckmorton for a pension.  You will perceive that two of the affidavits were taken in the State of Pennsylvania, attached to which are the clerk's seal & certificate.  The services are partly monthly tours, but I have not adduced any evidence to prove that kind of service, relying mostly upon the service proved by Col. Elihu Chadwick to wit, 4 months in 1780 - one year 1781 - & 9 months in 1782 and which the applicant has excpressly [?] sworn to.  The Traditionary evidence is strong  3 witnesses having sworn to it.  The proof of the marriage I  consider beyond a doubt, she has no record of it, no person living who was present & the Justice[']s papers who married them were destroyed, but 4 respectable witnesses have sworn that they knew them as man & wife previous to the Revolution, that they were so reputed & lived together as such.  They were married in 1769.   Yours Respectfully etc[?]       J. M. Hartshorne                                                J. L. Edwards Esqr   Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Pennsylvania Mckean County}  Personally appeared before us three of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Col Elihu Chadwick who was a Lieutenant in the War of the Revolution and is now a pensioner of the United States who being duly sworn on the holy gospel deposith and sayith that is is well acquainted with Mary Throckmorton widow of Job Throckmorton that the last time he seen her a few years past she was living in the Township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey where he knew the said Job and Mary living together as man and wife before the war of the Revolution and during said war, and after the said War they lived neighboring to this deponent till the death of the said Job which was by drowning on the 17 day of November 1800 that they have a numerous family of children [?], that he well knew the services of the said Job Throckmorton in the war of the Revolution for man than two years as a privit [private] soldier he being part of the time under my immediate command a part of the said War under the command of Captain Thomas Chadwick and James Green and others, and that the said Mary Throckmorton is the oldest woman that this deponent knows living   Sworn and subscribed to by the said Col Elihu Chadwick this 21st day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven    Elihu Chadwick     John E Fobes [?]  Oshea R.[?] Bennitt      John E. Niles} Justices of the Peace  We the subscribers three of the Justices of the Peace for said County of Mckean in the State of Pennsylvania do certify that we have been well acquainted for a number of years past with the said Col Elihu Chadwick the above named deponent and believe his testimony is entitled to full credit     John Fobes J.P. [?] Oshea R. Bennitt J.P.  John E Niles J.P.
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State of Pennsylvania Mckean County}  Personally appeared before us three of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Joseph Throckmorton a soldier pensioner of the War of the Revolution who being duly sworn on the holy gospel deposith and sayeth that he is well acquainted with Mary Throckmorton widow of Job Throckmorton that she lives in the Township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey the last he knew of her some years past and the said Job and Mary lived together as man and wife and raised a numerous family of children and that he was well acquainted with the services of the said Job in the war of the Revolution as a soldier under the command of [of?] sundry officers and believes that he was in actual service for more than two years   Sworn and subscribed to by the said Joseph Throckmorton this 21st day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven   Joseph Throckmorton [squiggle]                       Oshea R. Bennitt  John E Niles   John Fobes} Justices of the Peace                                         State of Pennsylvania   McKean County} ss   I, Richard Chadwick,  Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of McKean County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that Oshea R. Bennitt, John E. Niles and John Fobes Esquires, whose names are attached to the depositions a hand [?] and foregoing, and all acting Justices of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that they foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs is genuine.  In testimony whereof I  have hereunto[?] set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Smethport the 22 nd day of February, A.D. 1837.  R. Chadwick, Proth'y
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State of Pennsylvania Mckean County ss.  Pensonally appeared before the Hon. Nathaniel B. Eldred.  Presidint [?] Judge and his associates, in open Court of Common Pleas in and for McKean County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on Monday, this fifteenth day of May, A.D. 1837.  Colonel Elihu Chadwick who was a Lieutenant in the War of the Revolution and now a pensioner of the United States who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith in addition to his former oath on the occation [?] that he was well acquainted with Job Throckmorton and Mary his wife since the year 1773 till the time of his death which was on the 19th day of November  1800 that in the beginning of the Revolutionary War the said Job belonged to the Company of Captain Stephen Flemming in the Third Regiment of the militia in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, and some time in the first three years of the war said Job moved within the bands [?] of Captain James Green[']s Company of militia at Longbranch [Long Branch] as to the servises [services] he performed in the militia from 1775 to 1778 the deponent is a not [??] is not acquainted with, but knows that often the whole militia was called into actual service, at some times half the militia was called and some times only one or two classes were [?] called being one eighth or one fourth as occations [occasions] served.  This deponent [?] being performed in the more northern part of New Jersey an in [?] therefore this deponent had but little knowledge of the services of the said Job but soon after the Battle of Monmouth which occurs on the 28 day of June 1778 I joined the said Job living [?] at Longbranch [Long Branch] and in August or September 1780 this deponent had been for more than one year in actual service as Lieutentant commanding a company of vollenteers [volunteers] by a special order from Col Asher Holmes the Commandant of Monmouth County, now comes the knowledge of this deponent to the services of the said Job Throckmorton [?] had come of and gone into the lines which this deponent [?] they had gone back in the country for horse stealing or plunder [?] and murder.  This deponent marched his compnny down to Longbranch [Long Branch] in order to [?] them and their
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return [word crossed out] to the enemies lines and calling on Job Throckmorton to obtain information for us/me [?].  When said Job gave[?] this deponent information that the enemy had horses and had them secreted[?] in wells or in