Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 733, John Bellis, New Jersey
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
On this fifteenth day of August A.D. one thousand
eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in
open court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas now sitting John Bellis a resident
of the Township of Amwell in the county and State
aforesaid, who being first duly sworn 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 was born in the Township of Amwell and
county of Hunterdon aforesaid on the 4th day of July
1753. That his age is recorded in his father’s family
bible now in the possession of his brother William
Bellis -
  Thus the following is a true history of his
services during the revolutionary was (^ in the New Jersey militia) and that he
served during said war at the following times and
places, and under the herein after named officers
as nearly as he can recollect. To wit:
1  He marched in the Spring of 1776 to Amboy and Staten
Island under Captain Arthur Gray, attached to the
command of Major —  —  —	Hoops, and remained one
month -
2  Two months at Smiths farms in the county of Middle=
=sex in the summer of 1776 under Captain Nathan Stout
attached to the command of Col Isaac Smith.
3   Two months at Woodbridge in the summer of 1777 under
Captain James Stout and Captain Cornelius Hoppock
That he has forgotten the names of the field officers -
but that General Nathaniel Heard commanded the
whole there assembled
4   Two months on the Raritan River near Somerville
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under Captain Elisha Barton, attached to the
command of Col David Chambers.
5   That he was frequently called out upon general
alarms and was often out each time from two to
three weeks but that he cannot now recollect the
particular times nor occasions but has no hesita=
tion in saying that during these alarms he was
engaged in the public service at least one month
and hat during some of these alarms he was enga
=ged in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth.
   That he knew by sight Generals Washington, Mercer
Putnam, Sullivan, Heard & many others Colonels
Chambers, Beaver, Chamberlin, Ely, & others very well
That he has no written discharge. That he has lived
in Amwell since the revolutionary war and now
resides there. That the Revd John F. Clark
and George Rea ———— and many other persons
in his neighborhood can testify to his character as a
man of truth and veracity, and as to their belief of
his statement of services rendered in the revolutionary
war. That he has no documentary or other written
evidence of his military services. That he believes
he can establish substantially all he has herein
set forth as to his services aforesaid by John Manners
Moses Stout and Andrew Bellis if they can be
procured. And 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 —
Sworn and subscribed	                    his
the day and year			 John    X    Bellis
above written in open court	           mark
	George Rea