Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8545, for Samuel Quick, New Jersey
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(8-1776)
.SERVICE
New Jersey
Quick, Samuel
NUMBER R. 8545
CONTENTS
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8545
P.O.
Samuel Quick
Service:
Enlisted: ---------. 18
Discharged: -------, 18
REJECTED
Application filed: ------------, 18
Beavis Co [illegible] 1829 age 67 yrs Oct 1 next
Called [illegible] Oct 1776 Capt Glenindler N.J.
Alleges: then Feby 1777 Cap Kerr Colo Beams
May 1777 3 yrs Capt Kalence
3rd NJ Col Dayton
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O 
Recognized
Contract
Cert. of Dis
Searched for ------. 18
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21040
Samuel Quick
Beaver County
Pennsylvania
Deserted
Rejected 9 Dec 1829
See letter to John Clark 
[illegible] to Hon W. Marks 16 Jan 1830
8545
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They having moved out of the County that he was in the battle of Brandy wine Germantown & at the surrender of CornWallace
And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & 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 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 1818 & 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 is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed towit a settlement right 60 acres of Land in Hanover Beaver township by 
the purchase money to the state still due of an inferior quality about 12 acres improved personal Property none that his Occupation is that of a farmer and obliged to work out a days works when able that he is infirm by age and unable to work but little that he has no
family but a wife that in 1818 he had no property real personal or mixed that since the 18th March 1818 he purchased the settlement right before mentioned for the sum of sixty dollars and which is all the property
now owned by the declarent
Samuel Quick
Sworn to and declared on the 27th
day of August 1829 in Open Court
John Clarke
We the undersigned Judges of the Court of Common as in and for Beaver County do certify that it appears to us that the property of Samuel Quick now
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an applicant for a pension as a soldier of the Revolutionary was valued by the Assessor of Hanover Township in said County the present year at 114 dollars and from
our own knowledge of his property are of opinion that the property of the said Samuel Quick is not worth a greater sum than the said one hundred and fourteen dollars.
Augus 25th 1829
Charles Shaler
Jno H Redick
David Drennan

Beaver County ss
Before me the subscribed Justice of peace in and for said County personally came Sarah Fitch of Beaver County and State of Pennsylvania and being sworn according to
law deposeth and saith that she has been a long time acquainted with Samuel Quick that she knew him to serve as a militia in the American service in the revolutionary war and that he enlisted as a regular soldier and served a long time but she cannot
exactly tell how long it but she believes he served till the and of the was further saith that it was the same Samuel Quick who now lives in Hanover township Beaver County
and State of Pennsylvania
Sarah Fitch

Sworn and subscribed
April 30 1829 before me
John Harshe

Beaver County ss
Before me the subscribe a Justice of the peace in and for said County Personally came John Fitch of Beaver County and State of Pennsylvania and being sworn according to law deposes and sayeth that he of his own
knowledge the facts in the above deposition to be true that he served as a militia man in the revolutionary war and afterwards enlisted for three years & during the war that he served a long time but cannot tell how
long but believes he served to the end of the war
John Fitch
Sworn and subscribed
Apt 30 1829 before me
John Harske
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Beaver County Ss I John Clarke Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County
in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court
that the said Samuel Quick did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common Enemy for the time of nine months under one Engagement on the continental establishment
I also certify that the foregoing oaths and schedule thereto and certify are truly copied from the records of said Court In further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property
exhibited in the foregoing is one hundred and fourteen dollars, I likewise certify that John Harshe before whom the affidavits of
John & Sarah Fitch were taken was a justice of the peace duly empowered to adminster oaths & 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court on this
seventh day of November 1829

John Clark
Prothy
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21040
Beaver County ss
On the 27th day of August 1829 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record to wit the Court of Common Pleas of said County Samuel Quick resident in said County of Beaver aged sixty seven years the first day of October next being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the
provisions made by the act of Congress of 18th March 1818 & the first of May 1820 that he the said Samuel Quick was called out in the militia in October 1776 in Captain [Glenn
Updikes?] company in the State of New Jersey in February the year following he was called into Jacob Kerrs company & served
one month in Colonel Beams regiment of Militia in April of the same year he was called out in Cornelius Rens Company of the same regiment and served one month that in May 1777 he enlisted for the term of three years
& during the war at Morristown in the State of New Jersey in the Company commanded by Capt William Katonce in the third New Jersey Regiment Commanded by Colonel Dayton under General Sullivan in the line of
the State of New Jersey on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the close of the war in 1781 when he was discharged from the
Service at Yorktown in the State of Virginia that he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the pension Roll of
any State. And that the following are the reasons why he and not make an earlier application that he was a labourer
going from place to place that he left his discharge with Cornelius Huff of Huntingdon County New Jersey that when he called for his discharge he found it was lost that he did not make an earlier application on account of the loss of his discharge & not knowing for a long time where the witnessess resided they