Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3897, Moses Genung, New Jersey
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Service Number
New Jersey
Genung, Moses
or Ganoung
R. 3897
Contents
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14727
Moses Genung
Tompkins co
New York
Suspended
16 of
May 9th, 1833
[P?] 384
Sam Crittenden
Ithaca
N. York
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BRIEF in the case of Moses Genung of
Tompkins Co. in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.
Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 70

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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[table follows with 4 columns; column headings as follows:]
(1) Period.
(2) Duration of Service.{sub-headings: a. Years,
b. Months. c. Days.}
(3) Rank.
(4) Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.

[text beneath column headings as shown:]
(1) Volunteer In 1778, do 1780
(2) a. / 3, b. 6 & upwards c. [blank]
(3) As a [blank]
(4) Gen., Capt. Ward, Col. Seely, Capt Ward
[end of table]

5. In what battles was he engaged? Springfield battle

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Morris County New Jersey

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Not corrected as required

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

T. E. Bradford.
Examining Clerk.
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Moses Genung
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In the matter of the }
Application of for }
a Pension }
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Declaration &c.

14727

Amended
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The following questions were propounded by the Court to the applicant.

1. Where and in what year were you born?
Answer in the town of Chathatham, County of Morris, State of N. Jersey on the 9th of June 1762

2. Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it?  
Answer. I have at Home - ['(produces a memorandum taken from it)' crossed out]

3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war; and where do you now live?
Answer. When called to service I lived at Chatham, Morris County N.Y. After the Revolution I lived in Chatham N. Jersey, till 1812 - then moved into the town of Dryden Tompkins County where he now lives & where he has eer since lived.

4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer. A part of the time I volunteered & a part I was drafted--

5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when ou served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer.  Genl. Washington I well knew at Morristown Jersey in 1777 - Knew  Genl. Washington & Genl. Dayton at Elizabethtown
Col. Wilkinson I knew in the Militia Col. Sylvanus See -. Col. Sudley - Genl Hurd - Maj. Daniel Brown - Col. Howard -
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer.  I never received any other than a verbal one -

7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer.  Edward E. Dodge, David Quigg - John Ellis Esq. Peley Ellis, Henry B. Weaver, James McElhany - Milo Heath -
All which is hereby certified by the said Court. S. Love Clk
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State of New York }
Tompkins County Clerks office }
[seal affixed at right]

I Samuel Love Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Tompkins Do
hereby certify that the following papers hereunto annexed contain the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moses Genung for a Pension-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 16th day of May 1833.
Saml. Love Clerk
Tompkins County
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State of New York
Tompkins County: On this third day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas holden in & for the said County of Tompkins at the Court House in the village of Ithaca in said County constituted by the laws of said state a Court of Record which said court is now sitting. Moses Ganoung a resident of the Town of Dryden in the said County of Tompkins & State of New York. Age seventy years on the thirty ninth day of June last [illegible] being first duly from according to Law doth on his 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 under the following named officers & served as is herein after stated -
He first volunteered into said service at Chatham township in the County of Morris & State of New Jersey in the Spring of the Year 1778 under Capt. Enos Ward & in the Regiment thus Commanded by Col. Sylvanus Seely - That he volunteered as aforesaid in Company with David Ward, Benjamin Cook, Luke Miller and Benjamin Ganoung and at the same time + place - That their corps under the Command of Col. Seely first marched to Elizabethtown and on their route there met the British forces under [General?] Howe and forced them back on to Staten island & said regiment remained at Elizabethtown - The British forces aforesaid before they were compelled to retreat burned the mutiny house at Lyous farm - And another at Springfield besides several other buildings in that neighborhood. He remained with his said Regiment at & in the vicinity of Elizabethtown during his service & until the winter of 1779 & 1780 - where he was discharged after having been engaged in said service eighteen months & upwards -
He Afterwards volunteered into the same service at the same place under Captain Benjamin Carter in the aforesaid Col. Seely's Regiment of Militia in the spring of the year 1780 (he thinks in the month of April)- And  he remained in the service in the corps at and in the vicinity of Elizabethtown until after the Capture of Cornwallis at York Town when he was discharged according to the best of [illegible] in the Spring of the year 1783 - That during the east aforesaid service this Declarant with his said corps was employed in guarding the frontiers & the Jersey Shore from [illegible] by the British & Tories -
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That during the aforesaid service by this Declarant under said Capt. Enos Ward and at the time the meeting houses were burned by the British as above stated there was at Springfield in Essex County New Jersey a battle called the Springfield battle between the Americans & British in which battle this Declarant was engaged and in which he was wounded by a buck shot passing through the left leg below the knee. He does not recollect what general officer or whether any general officer was in command of the American forces engaged in that battle. Nor does he recollect that General Howe was in personal command of the British there, but they were known by the name of (General Howe's Army -
In the aforesaid service he knew Col. Smith who was also int he service and thinks his name was Jairemiah Smith - He also knew while in said service a clergyman by the name of Cornell who was also an officer in the said service at Elizabethtown & in that vicinity - He further declares that at the time he entered the aforesaid service he resided at Chatham in the County of Morris & State of New Jersey that he continued to reside there after the war until the year 1812 when he moved to Dryden in the County of Cayuga (now Tompkins) & State of New York where he now resides & where he has continued to reside since that time - that he has no documentary evidence of his service & that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his said services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or activity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pensioners roll of the Agency of Any State
Moses Genung
Subscribed & sworn to in open Court before the Judges thereof the day & year aforesaid
Samuel Love
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We Edward Dodge a Clergyman residing in the town of Dryden in the County of Tompkins & State of New York and David Quigg residing in Ithaca in said County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Genung who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be seventy years of age on the twenty ninth day of June last. 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-
Edward E Dodge
Davis Quigg

Subscribed & sworn in open Court
before the Judges thereof the day
and year aforesaid-
S. Love Clk

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 Edward Dodge who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Dryden aforesaid and that David Quigg who has also signed the same is a resident in the said County
and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit-

I Samuel Love Clerk of the County Courts in &
for the said County of Tompkins & of the Court
aforesaid Do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said
Court in the matter of the application of Moses
Genung for a Pension-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office this 4th day of October A.D. 1832-
Saml Love Clk
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Moses Genung

State of New York
Tompkins County ss:  David Quigg of Ithaca in the said County of Tompkins being duly sworn says that he has been well acquainted with Moses Genung who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration for more than twenty years last past. that he has also been acquainted during that time in the neighborhood where he has resided and that he has always understood & believed and still
believes the said Moses Ganning was a soldier in the revolutionary war and that he was actively engaged therein in behalf of the United States. That the said Moses Genung maintains as he always has done a good reputation for truth among his neighbors and acquaintances and he verily believes the statement of the said Moses contained in his said Declaration is true and entitled to full credit at the war Department
and elsewhere-
Subscribed & sworn to in open }
Court on the day & year aforesaid }
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comssr. of Pensions
Washington
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Ithaca N. York, May 18 1833

Sir,

Your Circular under date of the 9th Inst.  accompanying the papers of 
Solomon Cortwright
Thomas Paine
James German
Moses Genung, and others, together with the Briefs containing the objections to their sufficiency to entitle them to a Pension is recd. I have procured the amendments as suggested and herewith return the papers in support of the claims of the persons above mentioned. I trust
they will not be found defective. Please give me an answer as early as consistent with the proof of Business-

I am very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Saml. Crittenden Jr.

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr. of Pensions
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New York
Revol.
Moses ['Genung' crossed out] Ganoung
Suspended
see letter to
Saml. Crittenden
22d Augt. 1833-

3897
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Act 7 June 1832
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Rejected [stamped]
3897
Moses Ganoung
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14727
Moses Genung
N.Y.

[Amended?]
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Sam. Crittenden
Ithaca
N.Y.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Moses Genung of Tompkins Co. N. York which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amou[n]t of pension he is entitled?         yes

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?    yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?   yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?  yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?    yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?       yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
yes

XIV. +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? All answered.
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EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. 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 following grades; For [blank] year [blank] months, and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]. For [blank] months and [blank] 
days, I served as a [blank]; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

+QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate
must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

++QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
-->In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.