Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33800, for David Tharp, New Jersey
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Service
New Jersey

Tharp, David

Number
S 33800
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New Jersey Roll.
4
(2195)

David Tharp, Private, Jersey Line
Capt Lyon
4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1. of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8. of August. 1818, and sent to Jno Gustin, [illegible]. Augusta, Sussex Co., N. Jersey

Arrearages to 4 Sept 1818
5 months 4/30. $41.06

Revolutionary claims,
Act 18th March, 1818

9 mos 1778
[illegible]
Frankford Essex [Sussex?]
[illegible]

Notification sent September 14, 1820 to 
E. Green jr. Newton, New Jersey
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State of New Jersey | 
Sussex County | ss Personally appeared before me
[seal applied] | John Gustin one of the Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the said County of Sussex
David Tharp of Frankford in the said
County - who being duly sworn deposeth
and Saith that in the Summer of Seventeen
hundred and Seventy six he enlisted in the
Service of the United States under Captain David
Lyon of Elizabeth Town New Jersey and went
with him under his command to Quebec
where they was commanded by General Schyler
and Montgomery was at Quebec when General
Montgomery was killed - that he remained under the
command of Captain Lyon untill the next
Spring when they arrived at Albany he was
Discharged and from thence he eventh MorrisTown 
New Jersey where he enlisted under Capt
Abraham Lyon for nine months in Colonel
Spencers Regiment which was under General Maxwell 
thence he served out his time and was
Discharged at Elizabeth Town-- after which he
served in the Militia several times until the
close of the war David [his X mark] Sharp
it
Sworn & Subscribed before
me the first Day of April
1818 John Gustin
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I John Gustin one of the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for the sd
County of Sussex do hereby Certify that the
within affidavit was taken before me
at the time & place within mentioned and
that I am fully Satisfied that he comes within
the provisions of the late act of Congress for
the relief of Indigent & Poor officers & soldiers or of the Late
Revolutionary army of the United States and
that he is entitled to a pension as a Private
in the sd Army he being very poor & Blind & needs
the assistance of his country for support.
John Gustin Judge
to the Honourable
J. C. Calhoun Sec. of War
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33800
Revy INVALID.
File No.
33,800
David Tharp
Pri Rev War
-
Act: 18th March 18
Index:-Vol. 2   , Page 430
{Arrangement of 1870.}
[check mark]
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Copy of
David Tharp
affidavit
Sussex Co. N. Jersey
-
Frankford township
2195
Cono_
&
[ilegible] 18
Sept 1818
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District of New Jersey
Sussex County ss
On this fifth day of June at a session
begun at Newton on the fourth Tuesday of May of the term of
May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
twenty personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of
the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Sussex and
State of New Jersey the said Court of Common Pleas being a
Court of Record in the said County being a court constituted
and established by the Laws of the State of New Jersey
as a Court of Record having a seal with power to fine and
imprison and an unlimited Jurisdiction in civil cases
and whose Judgments are only reversable by writ if error
at Common Law, David Tharp -- of the age of
seventy six years resident in the of Township of
Frankford in the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey
who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his
oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows;
He enlisted in the company commanded by Captain David
Lyon in the regiment commanded by Colo Barber in the
New York State Troops in the fall of the year one thousand
seven Hundred and seventy five-- and went to Quebec and
served nine months 2, Enlisted in the Company of Captain
Abraham Lyon for nine months in the year 1778 as near as
is recollected in the 5 regiment of New Jersey Troop Commanded
by Colo Spencer, during which time he was at the battle of
Monmouth in New Jersey, and was discharged at Elizabeth Town
after the expiration of the said service
That on the first day of April in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight Hundred and eighteen he applied for a pension
at the rate of eight dollars per month he being a private in the
army as aforesaid. And on the eighth day of August in the
year last aforesaid obtained a certificate numbered 2195 under 
the hand and seal of J. C. Calhown Secretary of war of the
United States payable on the 4th of March and 4th of September
[illegible] company And I do solemnly [illegible] that I was a resident citizen of
the United States on the eighteenth day of March Anno Domini
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not
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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 AD 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 contained in the schedule hereto annexed 
and by me subscribed. And this deponent further saith that
he is a weaver by trade and on account of his age being seventy six years
old and almost deprived of his sight is incapable by them or any
other means to procure to himself a sufficient support that he has no
family neither wife nor children, And this deponent considers himself
in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself
without the assistance of his country except by public or private charity
Sworn in open Court and declared | 
this 5th day of June AD 1820 | [his David X Tharp mark]
John Ogden | 

Schedule of property
Real estate |
None | Personal estate
I have no property except my cloaths and a chest to put
them in
Sworn in open Court and declared | 
this 5th day of June AD 1820 |  [his David X Tharp mark]
John Ogden | 
It is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of of the
property exhibited in the foregoing Schedule is one dollar
John Ogden
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[sealapplied] Ephraim Greenford Clerk of the
aforesaid Court do hereby certify that 
the foregoing oath and the schedule
thereto annexed are 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 one dollar -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of the said
Court on this thirteenth day of July AD 1820
E Greenford Clerk of the
Court of the said County of
Sussex