Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 805, Aaron Burnet, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Burnet, Aaron

NUMBER 

S.805

CONTENTS 

carded
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New Jersey 17203

Aaron Burnet
of Essex Co in the State of Jersey
who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain Reeve of the Reg commanded by Col Ford in the New Jersey line for 1 year 8 mos 7 days. 
$67.44/100

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 67 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Aug 1833 and sent to (?) H Halsey Newark, NJ

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833, 134.88
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept 33, 33.72
$168.60

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Wm K (?)er, clerk,
Book 6. vol Three Page 102
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of congress of the 7th June 1832 
State of New Jersey
Essex County 

On this 18th day of August 1832 Personally appeared before me Abner Ball one of the Justices of the peace in said county Aaron Burnet a resident of Livingston Township in the county of Essex and state of New Jersey aged 77 years the 5th day of October next ensuing who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of congress passed June 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the command of Capt Isaac Reves, and performed a tour of duty for one month as a drafted Militia man on Bergen (the exact date not recollected believes it was at the time the British first landed at New York) and were fired upon at Bergenpoint from a British Tender he performed a tour of duty on month at Newark in Essex County under the same Capt he performed a tour of duty of one month as a substitute for a drafted Militiaman (name not recollected) under the command of Capt Abraham Speer, and a Tour of one month at Newark under Capt Isaac Reeve and was marched onto Staten Island and had engagements with the British when Joz Closely was taken prisoner by the enemy that he was out under an alarm and followed the enemy near to the English neighborhood in Bergen county under the command of Gen Wines and continued there a considerable length of time and had to find himself as he always had to when under alarms he was called out under a alarm and was at the Battle of Connecticut farms when Capt Isaac Reeves (?) viz Littell and Samuel Baldwin were wounded and Jacob Rock, Nicholas Parsel and Daniel Reeve were killed by the enemy, he also performed a tour of duty one month at Springfield, and Tour of duty for one month at Morristown Morris County under the command of Capt Isaac Reeves was previous to his being wounded he further saith that he was in the
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to Joshua Horten was killed.  he was at the Battle at connecticut Farms when the meetinghouse and fourteen dwelling houses were Burnt 
he was at the Battle at Springfield on a Tour of duty for one month under the command of Capt. Elijah Squier when the Presbyterean meetinghouse at that place was set fire by the enemy Burnt down.  Was at a Tour of duty at Elizabeth Town point and helped build the breast work at that place.  The number of months not recollected neither his Capt it was either Capt Nicholas or Capt John Edwards he having done duty under both of those officers and after the performance of the above mentioned services, he Enlisted in the three months service under the command of Capt. Josiah Peerson and served in garding the lines near amboy Middlesex County where the enemy lay, and had many Battles with them, one in particular at the Blackash swamp when a soldier from pennsylvania was wounded in the knee and was convoyed to Springfield and there died with the wound, he afterward Enlisted in the wagon service for three months under the command of Capt Samuel Crowell and was employed in carting provisions from Trenton to Kings Ferry in the State of New York during the whole three months, all the above mentioned Tours of duty (and he believes many more) were performed by the deponent as he was always in readiness during the revolutionary war making thirteen months independent of the services rendered under alarms and at Elizabeth Townpoint.  the deponent verily believes that he served under his enlistments as a drafted militiaman volunteer and under different alarms more than two years during said War he also Saith that a man by the name of Eleazer Luker was in the same company with him under the command of Capt. Isaac Reeve and is now living he saith further that he served under Capt. Thomas Williams how long he does not recollect - 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 state or Teritory
   Aaron Burnet
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
   Abner Ball Justice of the peace
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Personally came before me Abner Bale one of the Justices of the peace in & for the County of Essex & State of New Jersey Eleazer Luker who deposeth & saith, that at the Commencement of the revolutionary war Aaron Burnet was enrolled in the same Company the deponant belonged to commanded by Capt. Isaac Reeve and did Military duty in said Company and belonged to the Same during the War - and that the said Burnet listed in the three months Service of militia under Capn. Josias Person in which company the deponant belonged to and served to guard the lines - also that the said Burnet served three months in the Wagon Service under Captn Samuel Crowell in a Company of teams carting provisions from Trenton to Kinds ferry - and that the deponant has perfect knowledge of said Bernets during military duty at Newark & other places during the War
   Eleazer (his x mark) Luker
Taken before me this 25th
day of June 1832

Abner Ball Justice peace
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State of New Jersey
County of Essex   Ss:  
[seal affixed]
I Elias Van Arsdale Junior Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify That Abner Ball Esquire, before whom the annexed Affidavit of Eleazer Luker was made and taken, was at the time of taking the said Affidavit (and now is) one of the Justices of the peace for said County of Essex residing therein, duly commissioned & Sworn:  That I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe the signature "Abner Ball Justice of the Peace" affixed to said affidavit is genuine.

  In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court at Newark in the County of Essex aforesaid the nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty two

   E VanArsdale Jr Clk
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(bold, caps)  WAR DEPARTMENT. (end)
(bold)               Revolutionary Claim. (end)

   I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Aaron Burnet of the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Sixty=seven dollars and forty-four cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

 [seal affixed]
GIVEN at the War Office of the United
States, this Tenth day of
August one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-three.

Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and}
Countersigned.}

     J L Edwards
     Commissioner of Pensions.
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Augt 29, 1833 Paid to 4 Mar 1833
Sept 12, 1833 Paid to 4 Sept 1833
Mar 8, 1834 Paid to 4 Mar 1834
Sep 10 1834 Paid to 4 Sep 1835
Mar 12 1835 Paid to 4 Mar 1835
Sep 12 1835 Paid to 4 Sep 1835
Mar 12 1835 Paid to 4 Mar 1835
Sep 12 1835 Paid to 4 Sep 1835
Mar 12 1836 Paid to Mar 4 1836
Sep 12 1836 Paid to Sep 4 1836
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Alterations, additions and amendments to the Declaration of Aaron Burnet of the County of Essex, New Jersey, in accordance with the requirements of War Department in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

New Jersey
Essex County }  SS:
    Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Essex aforesaid Aaron Burnet who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the grade hereunder written viz:  For thirteen months he served as a private in the Militia under the different Captains in his Declaration hereto annexed, mentioned.  three months of which thirteen, he served in the wagon service under Captn. Crowell, carting provisions for the Army of the United States from Trenton New Jersey to Kings Ferry in the state of New York.  For more than three months I served as a private under different Captains in building the breastwork &c at Elizabeth Town Point in New Jersey opposite Staten Island then in the possession of the British, for which three months at least, last mentioned, I claim a pension in addition to the thirteen months first specified.  That he served more than eight days as a private under Genl. Wines when following the Enemy who came from Staten Island, through Elizabeth Town, Newark, Second River, and so on to the English neighborhood in Bergen County N. Jersey, as he has set forth in his Declaration, for which eight days he claims a pension also;  That he served more than thirty days as a private while out at the different Battles or skirmishes of Springfield and Connecticut Farms, that he served one month under Capn. Thos. Williams which is not mentioned in declaration, for which thirty days he also claims a pension, making in all one year seven months and eight days, and for such service he claims a pension.  and he further saith that during the time the aforesaid service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit, neither hath he ever been compensated therefor.
   Aaron Burnet
Sworn and Subscribed the 28th day
of May A.D. 1833 before me
   Abner Ball Justice of the peace

And I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Eleazer Looker whose affidavit of the services of the said Aaron Burnet is annexed to the Declaration aforesaid, that he is an
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old and respectable inhabitant of the County of Essex, and that his statement is entitled to full credit and belief being esteemed as a man of truth and veracity in the neighborhood where he resides - and I do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named applicant and have known him for fifty years past, that he is esteemed as a man of truth and veracity in the neighborhood where he resides and reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the revolutionary War and I do concur in that opinion.  It also appears upon examination thereof that the said Aaron Burnet hath already answered the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, which answers are written and contained in his Declaration hereunto annexed
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of May A.D. 1833
   Abner Ball Justice of the peace

State of New Jersey
County of Essex   )  SS   I Elias Van Arsdale Junior Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Essex aforesaid Do hereby that Abner Ball Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit of Aaron Burnet was made & taken & by whom the certificate thereunder written is signed, was at the taking of the said affidavit & when he signed the said certificate one of the Justices of the peace for said County residing therein duly commissioned and Sworn, and that the Signatures "Abner Bale" affixed to the affidavit & certificate aforesaid is his proper handwriting
[seal affixed]
In Witness Whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at Newark in the County aforesaid the Thirty first day of May AD Eighteen hundred and thirty three - (1833)
   E Van Arsdale Jr Clk
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Certificate

We Augustine Eliott paster of the Baptist Church at Northfield and resident of the Township of Livingston Essex County New Jersey and Enoch Edwards of the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Aaron Burnet 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 soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
  Augustine Elliott
  Enoch Edwards

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Abner Ball Justice of the peace

The following interagatories were propounded to the applicant by me viz
1st  Where and in what year were you born
   Answer  In Connectibut Farms in the county of Essex New Jersey on the 5th day of Octr 1755

2d  Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it
   Answer yes here it is

3d  Where were you living when you entered the service of the United States  4th how were called into service were you drafted.  did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if substitue for whom - answer I was first drafted then enlisted.  I served as a Substitute for a Soldier his name I do not remember.  I was also a volunteer

5th  State the names of some of your officers - answer  I  Served under Gen. Wines Gen. Heard, Col Ford, Col Thomas Ward and Major Samuel Hays

6th  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service  answer - yes but have lost it

7th  State the names of Persons to whom you are known in your
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present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution
answer  I am know to the Reverd Augustin Eliott Enoch Edwards and others who can testify to my veracity and of my Services as a Soldier of the Revolution  The following is the answer to the 3d question which was omited in the proper place, when I entered the service of the United States I lived in the same place where I was born and have lived in the same county to the present day

I do here certify that Augustin Eloitt and Enoch Edwards are situated as stated by them and that they are critilable men and also certify that Aaron Burnet the above stated applicant is from Bodily infirmity unable to attend the county court -
   Abner Ball Justice of the peace

State of New Jersey
County of Essex  Ss.
[seal affixed]

I, Elias Van Arsdale Junior Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify That Abner Ball Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit of Aaron Burnet was made & taken, and before whom the annexed Certificate of Augustus Elliot & Enoch Edwards was Subscribed and Sworn to and also by whom the above certificate was Signed, was at the time of taking the Said declaration & affidavits and Signing the aforesaid Certificate (and now is) one of the Justices of the peace for said Court of Essex residing therein duly commissioned and Sworn:  That I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe the foregoing signatures "Abner Ball Justice of the peace" are genuine. -

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto Subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of Said Court at Newark in the County of Essex aforesaid the Ninetheenth day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty two. -

   E Van Arsdale Jr Clk