Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 813, Winant Dehart, New Jersey
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[CENTER PAGE] [Illegible]
Winant Deharts{sic}
Declaration for a pension, Township of North Brunswick County of Middlesex, new Jersey
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

On this eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and Thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before Thomas Hanie, Robert McClaney, Nicholas Booraim, Josiah For [Illegible], Judge of the Inferior Court of Common please in [Illegible] the said County now sitting, Winant dehart{sic}, a resident of the township of North Brunswick in the County aforesaid aged seventy eight years, who being first sworn [Illegible] to law, doth on his oath, and in answer to the interrogatories directed to be proposed to him make the follow declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.    That he was born in the township of North Brunswick in the county aforesaid and has resided always in the same county or within a short distance form where he was born that he is seventy eight years of age, as he has been informed by his mother.  The family record having been lost.  That he was a grown man at the commencement of the American war, and [Illegible] a militia company commanded by Captain William [Illegible] [Illegible] that Liman Addig, and John [Illegible] were under officers, that they frequently met together for military exercises and improvement and [Illegible] to the arrival of the British army at Sandy Hook in 1776. The Company was mustered for the [Illegible] [Illegible] voluntary to go to Long Island to disarm the Tories. That when the British army arrived, the company to which he belonged was ordered to Perth Amboy, that this was they [Illegible] their landing upon Staten Island, during which time many shots were [Illegible], and that their tour of duty continued for one month [PAGE ENDS]
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During our stay at Perth Amboy the enemy all landed on Staten Island, and took possession of New York City while the British army lay in New York, the militia in the vicinity of that place were almost continually in the performance of military duty either performing camp duties in various stations between Perth Amboy and Paulus Hook, or upon sudden alarms, from South Amboy and Monmouth [Illegible] in all such service this [Illegible]  [Illegible] that be performed [Illegible] regular [Illegible] [Illegible] all after a service, and that in the [Illegible], he served under Captain Williamson. Captain Addis, Captain [Illegible], Captain [Illegible], Captain Dey, Captain Waglurn and several others whose names are not now recollected, and that they were stationed at different times at Perth Amboy, Woodbridge, Rockway, Elizabeth Town, Bergen Point, and Paulus Hook, and were under the command of Colonels Taylor, [Illegible], [Illegible], Heyer, or other Superior officers [Illegible] who were Strangers to this deponent, and whose names he does not now remember.  When the British army arrived in New Brunswick the militia of that place AND the vicinity were concentrated in the neighborhood of Granbury from which place they were sent on various [Illegible] excursions, that this deponent was there during the time and was on of the party under Colonel John [Illegible] that went to [Illegible] Island under cover of a very dark night, surprised and captured a party of Torey [Illegible] and conducted them to a headquarters at Granbury. that from this period the company to which he belonged [END PAGE]
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were regularly called out, whenever their tour of duty came round until June 1778, when the Battle of Monmouth took place, that this deponent was stationed at Mount Holly in the county of Burlington when the British foray came in from Philadelphia that the party to which he was attached, under the command of Captain Addis, came on in advance of the enemy, and orders were given that the milita should be collected together at Inglishtown{sic} on the next day, which was the memorable day of the battle. The British army being again in possession of the city of New York, transferred [Illegible] operations and services in the Eastern frontier of the State of N. Jersey, and that from the termination of the war, this deponent represents that he was frequently and regularly called upon to perform his regular tour of camp duty in addition to all extra serving in cases of emergency and alarm, and which were very frequent, that he returned from his tour of duty very shortly before the battle of Springfield and was not present at that engagement; This deponent further states that he has no documentary [Illegible] of service, and that from the great [Illegible] of time he cannot more relate any [Illegible] further than what is above stated, and would refer to David Provost, John Van Deventer, Isaiah Williamson, Thomas hance, [Illegible] Van Deventer Abraham [Illegible] and Rike [Illegible], to whom his [Illegible] for veracity is known, he declares and verily believes that in his several tours of militia dutY he has performed [END OF PAGE]
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more than two years of active service, he hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the ajency{sic} of any States. This deponent furthermore states that he cannot at this distant day procure a witness who can testify to all his services in detail.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.

[Illegible Signature] Judge     Winant Dehart {signature}

we Isaac Williamson, Simon Addis and Rike [Illegible] all [Illegible] in the township of North Brunswick and [Illegible] do hereby entify that we are well acquainted with Winant Dehart who has subscribed and sworn the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age and that he is reputed and believe in the neighborhood we we reside as to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we do furthermore entify that from [Illegible] personal knowledge of his character, and having been very often times and in various places fellow Soldiers in army, we believe what he has said in the foregoing declaration is true.
Sworn and subscribed in open court
the day and year aforesaid.

[Illegible Signature] Judge       Isaac Williamson [Signature]    Simon Addis [Signature]    Rike Sedam [Signature]
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and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatoriy[sic] prescribed by the war department, that the above applicant was revolutionary Soldier and served as he stated, and the Court do further entify that Isaac Williamson, Simon Addis, and Rike Sedam who have all signed the above [Illegible] reside in the township of North Brunswick are credible persons and that the statement is [Illegible] [Illegible] [Illegible]
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[Illegible Signature]
[Illegible Signature]

I Ferdinand S. Van Arsdalen Clerk of the court of common please in and for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the application of Winant Dehart for a pension, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 14th day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred thirty five.

[Illegible Signature] Clerk
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Treasury Department
Second Comptrollers Office

June 19, 1854

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which Pensioners may receive their pensions from the Pension Agents,

two of the 3 children of Winant Dehart, dec.[sic]

a Pension on the Roll of the New Jersey Agency at the rate of Eighty Dollars and[crossed out]    cents[crossed out] per annum under the law of the [Illegible] June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1834, to the 14th of April 1837.

17051 Act '32 [Handwritten note]

J.M. Brodhead[Signature] Comptroller

To the Commission of Pensions
                                 Present.
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
May 24, 1854

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitle "An Act of directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which Pensioners may receive their pensions for the Pension Agents,

Ann De Hart 1 of the 3 children of Winant DeHart, dec.[sic]

a Pensioner on the Roll of the New Jersey Agency at the rate of eighty Dollars and [crossed out]    cent[crossed out] per annum under the law of the 4th of June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837, to the 14th April 1837.

Respectfully yours;
 J.M. Brodhead[Signature]
 Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Rev War [Handwritten, diagonal, left to right]

Invalid

File No. 813

Winant Dehart

Pno. N.J. [Illegible]

Act: June 7, 1832

Index:--Vol. A, Page 92

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Wynant Dehart

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[Illegible]
Private 2 years $80__


James F Randolph

Present
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State of New Jersey

Middlesex County || Personally appeared before me the subscribed one of of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said county of Middlesex {ENDED HERE}