Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 964, Nathaniel Budd, New Jersey
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SERVICE

New Jersey

Budd, Nathaniel

NUMBER
S. 964


carded
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State of Newjersey
Bergen County    Ss

  Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said county Nathaniel Budd of the Township of Lodi County & State aforsaid aged 71 years and personally well known to the Subscriber as a man of truth and good Standing and being duly sworn saith that he is the Same Nathaniel Budd who on the 23rd of October 1832 made a Declaration before the Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Bergen then Sitting when his original Declaration was made out the pressure of Business before the Court was such as to prevent him from detailing minutely each tour of duty he performed as he has since learned was necessary, he has endeavoured to refresh his memory by bestowing more thoughts and Reflection on the Subject and desires that the Secretary of War and Commission of Pension will Receive this as his amended Declaration in which he will endeavour to set forth more specifically and in as much detail as his Memory will allow the Revolution Services he performed
  That He entered the Service of the United States and the following Named officers in the war of the Revolution and Served as herein stated
  In the month of August 1776 He Volunteered for one month under Capt Stephen Day in Col. Fords Regt. Stationed at Elizabeth town essex county at which place the deponent with the company were employed in building fortification and performing guard duty  Served the time and was Dismissed
  In the month September immediately after the expiration of his month Service as above stated He again Volunteered and served two month under Capt Jacob Brookfield in Col Thomas Regt. Station duty and Services as above stated  Served the time and was Discharged - during the above three months Services the British had possession of Staten Island
  In the latter part of November or the first of December of the same year He again Volunteered for one month under Capt Stephen Dey in Col Ford's Regt. Stationed at Elizabeth Town performing
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guard duty  Served the time and was Honorable Discharged in this his Last mentioned Service as near as he can Recollect the Regiment with some of the Pensylvania Militia who were then Stationed at Elizabethtown  point crossed the Sound in flat bottom Boats to Staten Island surprised and took the enemy and took some prisoners and Burned a Hessian Camp

In the month of June 1777 He Volunteered and Served three month in Capt Jacobs Crains Company in Col Jaquith Regt. performing guard duty along the kils from Elizabeth town point to Amboy, the British had possession during the time of Staten Island, Served the full period when he was Discharged in the month of September following

He then Volunteered and Served at diferent periods for four month and was employed during the time in making cartridges for the use of the army  In his first Declaration the above four month service was stated that he performed them as his Regular Tours of Militia duty - which is eroneous and incorect it should have read as now set forth whether the erer is mine or the clerks He does not know

In the month of March 1778 He Volunteered and served Six month under Capt Joseph Horton in Col Jaquith regiment Stationed at Elizabeth town ponit and along the kills to amboy performing guard duty at each and every place Served the full Six months and was Honorable Discharged  during the Last mentioned Six month service they had a Skirmish with the British at Elizabeth town point who had crossed over from Staten Island

  In the month of November of the Same year He again Volunteered and Served three month under the above Named Capt Joseph Horton Station duty and Served as Stated in his Six month Service above when he was Discharged in the month of Feb
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In the month of April 1779 He again Volunteered under his former Capt Joseph Horton in Col Jaquis Regiment again Stationed along the Kills from Elizabethtown point to Amboy guarding the Shores and Landing places also defending the Inhabitants Served the full period of six month when he was Discharged in the month of October  during the fifteen month Service he performed under Capt Joseph Horton the British had possession of Staten Island and were in the habit of crossing the Kills to forage and plunder the Inhabitants

In his first Declaration it is stated that he Served an uninterrupted Service under Capt Joseph Horton for eighteen  month which Statement is incorect.  the deponent has Served as above Stated by Six three and six month and the deponent Verily believes that from the month of October at which time he was Discharged he Served not less than two month in diferent periods untill the month of Febuary 1780  it was a continual warfare during the time the alarms were all but constant

  In the month of February 1780 he was ordered out for one month under Capt Elihue Little Company of Artillery in Col Jaquish Regiment Stationed at Elizabeth town and the point performing guard duty  Served the time and was Discharged
  In the month of June September and October of the Same year He was ordered out by the above Named Capt Elihue Little Stationed along the Kills from Elizabeth town point to Amboy guarding the Shores and Landing places also Defending the Inhabitants the British had possession of Staten Island during the time in the Last mentioned three monthly tours He was Honorably Discharged at the expiration of each period.  In his first Declaration the Battles are stated in which he was engaged during the Last mentioned Service
  In the month of May and July He was ordered out by his said Capt Elihue Little Stationed along the Kills from Elizabethtown point to amboy guarding the Shores
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and landing places the British has possession of Staten Island during the time and was Honorable discharged after having Served said monthly Tours.

  From the great Length of time which has elapsed since the before Recited Services were Rendered many particulars must have escaped his memory.  He has in his first and ammended Declarations Related all which he can Remember as connected with his Service and which are calculated to explain them In the order of time and in the names perhaps of some of his Superior officers he may in some instances have fallen into mistakes  He asks a Reasonable allowance for the fraility of human memory which he has faithfully endeavoured to adhere concentiously to the truth in all the events and occurances of which he has spoken and he verily believes that he has faithfully served his County in the war of the Revolution for the full period of Twenty Eight months as a private in actual service in the field for each time alledged - for which he Claims a pension under the Law of June 7th 1832 and was not employed in any civil persuit during the time and does not know of any now Living who he can procure to Testify to his Service he Rendered in the war of the Revolution and now submits his case.
   Nathaniel Budd
Sworn and Subscribed
before me the 10th day of Jan
A.D. 1834 - 
  David J. Christie Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey. County of Bergen Ss; I Abraham Westervelt Clerk of the County of Bergen and Clerk of the inferior Court of Common pleas in & for said County Do hereby certify that David I. Christie Esq. whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of the above affidavit of Nathaniel Budd was on the day of the date thereof & still is a Justice of the peace in and for the said County duly commissioned & sworn; and that his signature to said Jurat is genuine and in his own proper hand writing.
[seal affixed]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this Eleventh day of January A.D. 1834. -
   Abr. Westerville Clerk
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State of New Jersey - Bergen County Superior Court of Common Pleas at a Special Term held June 27. 1833.

   Personally appeared in open court this 17 day of June 1833. Nathaniel Budd an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 who under oath made the answers herein after written to the questions propounded by the court in pursuance of the perimeters of the United States War Department
To question -1.  I was born in the year 1761 at Springfield Essex County N.J.

To question 2.  He knows of no existing record of his age, my fathers family bible which contained it was burned with his house at Springfield by the British troops June 23, 1780

To questions 3.  He was living at Springfield N.J. when called into service, & lived there until 1796 when I removed to my present residence in Lodi Township Bergen County N.J. where I have resided ever since

To question 4.  I volunteered the first period of my service in 1776 in 1777, I was called out by virtue of an act of the New Jersey State Legislature as I have always understood.  In 1778 I volunteered for eighteen months; once in 1780 and afterwards I was drafted in pursuance of the Laws of the State of New Jersey

To questions 5  The service I was engaged in was principally guarding the lines between the British Army at New York and the American troops at Amboy Elisabeth town and Springfield and the country adjacent - General Washington was at Morristown during part of my service and I was engaged in skirmishes in which Colonel Drayton of the continental service and Colonel Aryell of the New Jsy land line assisted with their regiment

To question 6.  I received no discharge as I served only in the Militia to whom discharges were not granted to my knowledge

To question 7.  Robert Campbell John A Berry Adam Boyer & the Reverend James V.C. Romeyn are neighbours to
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whom I am known who will testify to my general character for veracity and to their belief of my Services.
  Nathaniel Budd
Sworn to and Subscribed in open Court the
day & year afsd Abr. Westervelt

  We James V.C. Romeyn - a clergyman residing in the county of Bergen and David J Christie residing in the same county do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Budd who has Subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
  James VC Romeyn
  David J. Christie
Sworn and Subscribed the
27th day of June 1833
in open Court.  Abr. Westervelt

   And the court do thereupon hereby declare that having this twenty seventh day of June A.D. 1833, put the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department to Nathaniel Budd the applicant, in open court, they were answered by him under oath in the manner above stated to the satisfaction of the court.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that James V.C. Romeyn who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Bergen, and that David I. Christie who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit
   By the Court
   Abr. Westervelt

I Abraham Westervelt Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Bergen Do hereby Certify that the foregoing and annexed papers contain the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Budd for a pension.
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  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office the 27th day of June A.D. 1833.
   Abr. Westervelt
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State of New Jersey
County of Bergen      SS.
   On this twenty third day of October A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bergen now sitting at New Barbadoes Nathaniel Budd a resident of the township of Lodi in the county of Bergen aforesaid in the State of New Jersey aged seventy one years 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 the seventh AD 1832.

That he entered into the service of the United States under the following named officers and sreved as herein stated

In August in the year 1776 he served one month in Capt Stephen Days company of New Jersey militia in the regiment under the command of Colonel Ford and the brigade of General Williamson.  In September and October of the same year he served two months in Captain Jacob Brookfields company in Colonel Thomas's regiment attached to General Williamsons brigade and in November of the same year he served one month again in Captain Stephen Days company of Colonel Fords regiment in the brigade then under the command of General Hines.  These three months he served as a volunteer in the New Jersey militia raised according to the best of his knowledge - by act of the provincial Legislature of New Jersey.

In June July and August in the year 1777 he served under arms for three months in the New Jersey Militia in Captain Jacob Cranes company in Colonel Jaquishs regiment and General Heards brigade; in the next four months of that year he was detached from his company and employed in making cartridges for the army as his regular term of duty.
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In March 1778 he enlisted as a volunteer in Captain Joseph Hortons company in Colonel Jaquishs regiment in General Hearns Brigade in which I served for eighteen months from that date

In February 1780 he served in Captain Eliham Littles company of New Jersey militia in the artillery in Colonel Jaquishs regiment and in General Heans brigade; also in the months of June September and October of the same year and in the months May and July 1781 he served in the same manner one month at each time:  in these last six months he was drafted in his monthly terms with his division of the company which he belonged to; which according to the best of his knowledge was by the directions of a Law of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey

The service on which he was engaged during the whole of the above mentioned terms was guarding the lines between the British army which then lay at New York and the American troops [illegible] the well affected part of the State; and in intercepting & preventing such foraging parties; the scene of his service was at Amboy Elizabeth and Springfield and the country between these places in the State of New Jersey - He was engaged in a skirmish at Amboy in the 7th of June 1780 when the British landed 7,000 men at Elizabeth town, in which Colonel Daytons regiment of continental troops was engaged; and in the 23d and 24th of the same month he was engaged in continued skirmishes with part of the same troops at Springfield on the first (?missing) which days (the 23d) his fathers house at Springfield with many others at the same place was burned down by the enemy.  General Washington with the American army at this time lay at Morristown.  And in the skirmishes on the 23d & 24th a regiment of New England troops under the command of Colonel Angell acted with the New Jersey militia:  applicants father
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was in this excursion taken prisoner and carried by the enemy into New York.  Besides the services above stated when he was regularly called out and continued under arms in the service the applicant was frequently called out on alarms, and incursions of the enemy during the first five years of the war; 

He was born in the year 1761.  he knows of the existence of no record of his age:  His fathers family Bible in which his birth was recorded was burnt with the house at Springfield by the enemy on the 23d of June 1780.  he was born at Springfield in the county of Essex in the State of New Jersey where he continued to reside except while about in the services above stated until the year 1796 when he removed to his present residence in Lodi in Bergen county in the State of New Jersey where he has resided ever since

He received no written discharge and believes that none of the militia of New Jersey ever did:  Noah Little of Springfield in the county of Essex knows of the actual performance of the greater part of the services above stated and is still living and here in court Robert Campbell John A Berry and Adam Boyd are neighbours who live near him and can testify to his character for veracity and to their belief of his services as a soldier in the revolution.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to an annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll or agency of any State
   Nathaniel Budd
Sworn to and Subscribed
the day and year first aforesaid
   Abr. Westervelt

  Noah Little appearing also in person in the court aforesaid on this 23 day of October 1832 and being first duly sworn according to Law maketh oath and saith that he is acquainted with Nathaniel 
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Budd the applicant above named that he knew him during the revolutionary war; that during that war the said Nathaniel Budd was a resident of Springfield in the county of Essex as above stated that he knows of his own personal knowledge that the said Nathaniel Budd was out & engaged in military duty in the service of the United States in that war:  that he knows that he volunteered as above stated in Captain Hunters company in General Heards Brigade at March 1778, and served eighteen months.

That he knows of his serving the time above stated in Captain Brookfields company and he also knows that the said Budd was engaged as above stated in cartridge making for the army but for what period of time he does not now recollect: but from his knowledge of Nathaniel Budd during the revolutionary war he does  not doubt that he performed the services above mentioned.
    Noah (his x mark) Little
Sworn and Subscribed
in open court this 23d of October
AD 1832.
   Abr. Westervelt Clerk

We Adam Boyd and John A Berry both residing in the county of Bergen in the State of New Jersey hereby certify that we are acquainted with Nathaniel Budd who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy one years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he now resides to have been a soldier in the revolution and we concur in that opinion
  Adam Boyd
  John A Berry
Sworn and Subscribed in open
court this 31st of Oct. 1832
   Abr. Westervelt Clerk
  And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the
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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 do further certify that it appears to them that Adam Boyd who has signed the preceeding certificate is a resident in Hackensack in the county of Bergen and that John A Berry who has also signed it is a resident of the township of Lodi in the same county, and are both well known to the court and that they are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
  Per Curiam
  Abr. Westervelt Clerk

  I Abraham Westervelt the clerk of the Inferior court of common Pleas in and for the county of Bergen do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Budd for a pension
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 31st day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty two.
   Abr. Westervelt  Clerk
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New Jersey
Essex County  SS. }  Personally appeared before me Jonathan T. Squier one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County, Noah Little who being by me duly sworn on his oath saith That he is well acquainted with Nathaniel Budd, and has been since the Commencement of the Revolutionary War -  That in the months of September & October 1776 he done two months duty in the New Jersey Militia under Capn. Jacob Brookfields Company, Colo. Thomases Regmt; in General Williamsons Brigade at Elizabeth Town point.  And this deponent further Saith, that the Said Nathaniel Budd, in the months of June, July & August 1777 Served three months in Captain Jacob Cranes Company, Colo. Jaquishes Regiment, in General Heards Brigade, of the Jersey Militia.  this deponent further Saith that the next four months Said Budd was taken from his Company & employed in making Cartridges for the Army as his regular tour of duty - this deponent further Saith that in March 1778, Said Budd enlisted as a volunteer in Capt. Joseph Hortons Company, Colo. Jaquishes Regiment in General Heards Brigade, in which he served Eighteen months in the New Jersey Militia.  And this deponant further Saith that he was knoing to Said Budds belonging to an Artillery Company, and that he was in the Battle of Amboy with him, but does not kno what length of time he did Service in Said Company -
   Noah Little
Sworn & Subscribed before me
the 1st day of July 1833.
   Jonathan T Squier Justice of the peace

I do hereby certify, that the above named Noah Little is a man of good Character, and entitled to full credit -
   Jonathan T Squier Justice of the peace

State of New Jersey
County of Essex  )  SS.  I Elias Van Arsdale Junior Clerk of the County of Essex & of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Do
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hereby certify That Jonathan T. Squier before whom the foregoing affidavit of Noah Little was made & taken, at the time of taking the same was 
[seal affixed] one of the Justices of the Peace for said County duly Commissioned & Sworn.  That I am well acquainted with his hand writing & know that the name "Jonathan T. Squier" Subscribed to the said affidavit and the certificate thereunder written is the proper hand writing of said Justice.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereto Subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of said Court, at Newark the Second Day of July A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three (1833) -
   E Van Arsdale Jr Clk
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20 Charles St.
Bloomfield, N.J.
12/20/24

Bureau of Soldiers' Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:-

  The records of the State of New Jersey show that Nathaniel Budd, my great, great grandfather, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, filed claim for pension (Invalid No. 964), "the original of which," says the Adj. General of the state of New Jersey, "is filed at the Bureau of Pensions in Washington."

  Please tell me if I can secure a copy of this pension claim or an abstract of the information it contains.

   I want to learn more about Nathaniel Budd and his Revolutionary activities and much information must be given in that pension claim.

   I am a veteran of the World War 1917-1918.

Thanking you in advance, I am,
Your very truly,
Edward B. Rommel