Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,571, for John Powers, New Jersey
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New Jersey

Powers, John

S. 35,571
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Connecticut
John Powers
of Waterbury in the State of Cont
who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel Marwell of the New Jersey
line, for the term of one year

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence  on
the 1 of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of Sept 1821
and sent to Cyrus Clark
Waterbury, Con

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1821            321.6
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1882     48
40,            4/30                                       $369.6
8
___
320
     1.6       
321.6

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

May 1. 1821
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John Powers
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At a County Court held in and for the
County of New Haven, in the District and State
of Connecticut, on the Twenty Seventh day
of June 1821, the same being a Court of
Record, and having a seal by virtue of the
Laws of [ineligible] state_
Personally appeared in open court
John Powers a resident in the town of
Waterbury in the County of New Haven
in [ineligible] state, and exhibited, and subscribed
the following schedule and made oath
that the same is a true and perfect
schedule of all his income and property
necessary cloathing and bedding excepted
(Viz)
The use of about twelve acres of land
belonging to his wife worth by the year
with an old house - $10.. 3 years - $33.00
-
one cow - 15.00
Three sheep - 3.00
-
$51.00
John Powers - - -
-
District and State of Connecticut, SS City New Haven
in New Haven County, Be it Remembered that
in the County Court held in and for the County of
New Haven, in the District and state [ineligible], on this 27th day of June 1821, the same being a Court of Record and having a seal under the authority of [ineligible] state personally came and appeared in open Court
John Powers aged 74 years resident in the Town 
of Waterbury, in the County New Haven in [ineligible]
State and being sworn according to law, doth on
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his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary
War, in the manner stated in a declaration
made by him before Simeon Baldwin Esqr. on the 1st
Day of May AD 1818 who then was a judge at the
Superior Court of [ineligible] state, but for want of proof
of service he never has obtained a pension 
certificate, which proof he has lately been able to
obtain, and with this Dockument, he sends all
affidavits or proof, and [ineligible] Declaration, and that
the original Declaration made by him for the
purpose of obtaining a pension, under the act of 
[ineligible] of the 18th of March 1818 was dated the
1st day of May 1818, and I do further solemnly
sware that I was a resident citizen of the United
States on the 18th 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 [ineligible]
with in the provisions of an Act of [ineligible] entitled
"an act to provide for certain persons engaged in
the land naval services of the United States in
the Revolutionary War," [ineligible] on the 18th day
of March 1818, 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 mentioned in the
schedule here unto annexed, and by me sub-
scribed, and I do further declare that my [ineligible]-
[ineligible] has heretofore been that of a Gardener
and Ditcher, but for three years past I have
been unable to do any thing. I am 74 years
old and that I have a family residing with
me & a wife, 60 year old who is unable to
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support herself, and much less to assist me
all which is subscribed by me the Day and
year afore sd               John Powers - 

Sworn to, and declared in the court,
afore sd, where upon sd court is on sales_
fortery proof exhibited in court of opinion
that the total amount in value of the prop-
-erty mentioned in the afore sd schedule in
fifty one dollars _ and doth order these pro-
ceedings to be entered in the records of sd court _
Abel Wheeler Presiding Judge -
District of Connecticut [ineligible] New-
Haven County _
I Henry C Flagg, clerk at the County Court
in and for the County of New Haven in the 
state and District of Connecticut, do here-
-by certify, that the [ineligible] and the schedule
thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the
records of ad Court. And I do further certify
that it is the opinion of sd court, that
the total amount, in value, of the property
exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is fifty
one dollars. - In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal
of said County on this 27th day of June 1821
Attest Henry C Flagg Clk
I Abel Wheeler presiding Judge of this
County Court-in and for the
County of New-Haven in the State
of Connecticut do hereby certify 
that Henry C Flagg is clerk of said
court and keeper of the seal and records
thereof, and that the preceding certificate under his
hand and the seal of said court is authentic and in 
due form of law. In testimony whereof I have [ineligible]
[ineligible] set my hand in New Haven in ad County this
29th day of June 1821
Abel Wheeler Presiding Judge
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35571
Revy INVALID.
_
File No. 35,571
John Powers
[ineligible] Rev [ineligible]
_
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 485
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Office of Secretary of State
New Jersey, [ineligible] June 16. 1821.
I Daniel Coleman Secretary of the state of New
Jersey do certify that the name "James Ewing" signed
to the annexed affidavits is the true hand writing
of James Ewing, Esquire, and that he is at the
present time a Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for the county of Hunterdon in
said state, duly commisioned by the proper
authority thereof, and that full faith and credit
an due wrought to be paid to his proceedings 
Witness my hand and official seal at
[ineligible] this sixteenth day of June in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty one.

Dan. Coleman
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County [ineligible] Before me James Ewing
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the said County of Hunterdon per.
sonally appeared James Monjoy an inhabit
ant of the said County and a person to me well
known and worthy of credit, who being duly
sworn to [ineligible] and [ineligible], that he recollects 
the person of John Powers now here present,
that they served together in Capt Joseph
Brearley's company in Col. William Max
wells Regiment in the New Jersey line un
der the continental establishment in the
years 1775 and 1776 that he recollects that
the said John Powers was in the company
in [ineligible] on November 1775 that they con
tinued together in the [ineligible] company until the
beginning of September 1776 when this depo
ment left the said Powers in the said Regi
ment at point independance near Iron
deroja, that the said Powers continued in
the said Regiment during the above Period
and did duty as a private soldier.
Sworn at Trenton in said
County June 16 1821
Ja - Monjoy
JaEwing
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County [ineligible] Before one James Ewing
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please
in said County of Hunterdon, personally a
peared Jacob Edmonds an inhabitant of the
said County, a person to me well known and
worthy of credit who being duly sworn to deposeth
and saith that he recollects the person of John Powers
now here present that they served together in
Capt Joseph Braxley's company in Col William
Maxwell's Regiment in the New Jersey line of 
the Revolutionary Army, that he was [ineligible]
with the said Powers before and when he enlisted
that he remembers the said Powers was in the Re
giment in Trenton in November 1775 that they
marched together from Trenton in February 1776
on the expedition to Canada that he recollects -the-
hearing the said Powers's name every day at
roll call & thinks he was always present never
having been detained a day by sickness to their deponent's recollection, that they vent together
from the Plains of Abraham over to Point Levi
that this deponent was taken prisoner at the
three Rivers, but that Powers remained in
the service at that time.
Jacob Edmonds
Sworn & subscribed at Trenton
in said County June 16 1821
before one JaEwing
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State of New
Hunterdon County [ineligible] Before one James Ewing one
of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said
County of Hunterdon personally appeared Bar
ney Johnson an inhabitant of the County of Burlington in this state a person to me well known and worthy of credit who being duly
sworn to deposeth and saith that he recollects
the person of John Powers now here present, that
he served with him in the Revolutionary Army of
the United States in Capt Joseph Brexley's com
pany in Col William Maxwell's Regiment in the
NewJersey line, that he recollects the said
Powers was in the company in November in
the year 1775 in Trenton, that the said Powers
continued in the service in the said company
until this deponent was discharged which was
at Mount Independence near Ticonderoga
in the fall of the year 1776 that he was with
him when they went over to point Levi and did
duty as a private soldier during the above period.
[ineligible]
Sworn & subscribed at
Trenton in said county
June 16, 1821 before
one JaEwing ~
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Powers, John
NJ, 535571
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STATE OF CONNECTCIUT, SS.
ON this first day of May 1818, before me the subscriber,
one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the said State, personally appears John Powers
aged 71 years, resident in Waterbury in the said State, 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 and naval ser-
vice of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he said John Powers in the fall of the year 1775 enlisted in Trenton in the State of New Jersey in the company com-
manded by Captain Joseph Brailey in Col Maxwell Regiment in the
New Jersey line for one year & continued in service with
regiment four months longer--

That he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the [ineligible]
[ineligible] when he was discharged from service - Trenton state of New Jersey
That he was in the battles of three Rivers & was at the [ineligible] after the death of Montgomery - at Trenton in Decr 1776 with the
[ineligible]
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he
has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. having but his discharges. -
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year afore said.
Simeon Baldwin

I, Simeon Baldwin Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears, to my satisfaction, that the said John Powers - did serve in the revolu-
tionary war, as stated in the preceding DECLARATION, against the common enemy; and I now trasmit the proceed-
ings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions
of the aforementioned act of Congress.
[ineligible]

STATE OF CONNECTICUT
NEW-HAVEN COUNTY, SS.}                   New-haven, [ineligible] 1818,
I, Dyer White, clerk of the Superior Court of said State, for said County,
and keeper of the Seal thereof, do CERTIFY that the name SIMEON BALDWIN, subscribed to the foregoing Certificates, is known to me to be the proper hand writing and signature of SIMEON BALDWIN, who is one of the Judges of said Superior Court.
In testimony whereof, I offer the Seal of said Court.
Dyer White