Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4913, for John Swartwood, New Jersey
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New Jersey          Swartwood, John.      S.4913
Penn                                                         carded
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8310
New York 

John Swartwood
of Cayuta in the State of N. York
who was a Lieut. in the company commanded
by Captain Chambers of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Martin in the N. Jersey *
line for 2 years
                             *
                        N.J. and Pa.
               Record corrected
                   Apl. 25, 1904  RJ

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 320 Dollars ----per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of pension issued the 1st day of April 
1832 ----- and sent to Th Maxwell
                                             Elmira

Arrears to the 4th of Mar ' 23              $640
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 23   160
                                                               _______
                                                                  $800

Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk

Book E Vol. 4 Page 31
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John Swartwood

22048


(written VERY faintly)
de. 2 Sept 82
6 mo in 82 & 3 mo 83

Th. Maxwell Agent
          Elmira N.Y.

Adm't.
2 years Lt.
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State of New York
Tioga County
    On the 187th day of January 1833 before me Elijah Shoemaker Esq. one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County personally appeared John Swartwood a resident of the Town of Cayuta in the said County aged seventy eight years and upwards 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 entered the service of the United States by voluntary enlistment in the spring of the year (about May) 1776 for the term of five months (underlined) at Walpeck in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey (where he resided then) in a company of militia commanded by Abraham Chambers in the Regiment commanded by Col. Ephraim Martin; that they were immediately marched to New York and from thence to Long Island, while there  he was engaged in the battle of Long Island on the 27th August 1776 after which the company in which he was engaged retreated to New York, from whence after remaining a few days they marched to Fort Washington where they were attacked by the British who were repulsed; from thence the company was ordered to White Plains where (on the 30 November 1776 as he thinks) he was engaged in the battle; from thence the company was ordered to Fort Lee, thence to Hackensack where they broke up the bridge, the enemy being in pursuit.  That the said company remained  there two days to press Waggons to carry their baggage, after which they proceeded to a place six miles below New Brunswick where the deponent was discharged, his term of enlistment having expired -
      A few days after there was a call for men to march to Trenton, when he again enlisted for one month, late in Decem. 1776 in a company commanded by Captain James Schoonhoven in a Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia commanded by Col. Stroud of Northampton County, Pennsylvania.....
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...and was marched to Trenton and was engaged in the Battle at that place on the 26th December 1776 - he continued in the service until his term expired when he was discharged.
     In ("September" crossed out) August 1777 he enlisted at Walpeck aforesaid for the term of one month as a sergeant in a company commanded by Capt. Peter Westbrook in the Regiment under Col. Rosekrans of the New Jersey Militia, during which term he was in the battle of Germantown on the 4th October 1777; when he was discharged and immediately thereafter again enlisted for one month (to wit October 1777) in a company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Coykendoll in the battalion of Sussex militia and under command of Maj. Samuel Westbrook and was marched to Red Bank and there served his one month under command of Col. Seward and while there was in the engagement at the Fort when it was attacked by the British October 26 1777 - In this term of service he acted as Sergeant major.
     In the Summer of 1778 probably in July a vacancy occurred in the office of Lieutenant in the company of Militia in the County of Sussex then commanded by Capt. Emmanuel Hoover in Col. John Rosenkkrans Regiment when the company having been called together for the purpose the deponent was due chosen Lieutenant;  In September of that year (1778) the said company was called out for one month to Elizabeth Town; when the deponent went with the said company as its Lieutenant and served one month in that capacity from Elizabeth Town they crossed to Staten Island and had a skirmish with the British forces then on the Island -
    From Elizabeth Town at the expiration of the one month the company was ordered to the Delaware Indian frontier where it continued.....
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.....in service guarding the frontier for two months -  the deponent acting as Lieutenant aforesaid - Capt. Peter Westbrook had the command of the company during these two months -
     In April 1779, the company under Capt. Hoover in which the deponent was Lieutenant ordered to the Delaware Indian frontier, to act as Rangers along that frontier for the term of seven months.  The deponent served that term as Lieutenant in the said company - This company composed a part of the battalion assigned to the service under command of Maj. Samuel Westbrook.  From the expiration of this term, which was in the month of November 1779 the company in which the deponent acted as Lieutenant aforesaid under Capt. Hoover was assigned to guard the said frontier in the capacity of Rangers - until the close of the war - that while so engaged as Rangers according to the best of his recollection he served eight months as a Lieutenant in 1780 seven months as a Lieutenant in 1781 six months in 1782 and three months as Lieutenant in 1783 -
     That all his services as above detailed would be as follows:
In 1776 as a private in Capt. chambers company             
                                                    5 months
In Dec. 1776 as a private in Capt. Schoonhovans 
    company                                1 month
In 1777 as a Sergeant Major in Capt. Coykendals 
      company                                1 month
In 1777 as a Sergeant in Capt. Westbrooks
      company                                 1 month
In 1778 as  Lieutenant under Capt Hoover
       and Capt. Westbrook             3 months
In 1779 as Lieutenant under Capt. Hoover    
                                                         7 months
In 1780 as Lieutenant under Capt. Hoover
                                                         8 months
In 1781 as a Lieutenant under Capt. Hoover
                                                         7 months
In 1782 as a Lieutenant 6 months and in 1783
              3 m.                                    9 months

Making 6 months as a private, 1 month as a Sergeant Major, one month as a Sergeant, and 34 months as a Lieutenant for which he claims a pension.
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.....That although elected Lieutenant in 1778 he did not receive his commission from the Governor of New Jersey until September 1782.
    In answer to the Interrogatives propounded by the War Department he states:
1st. That he was born at Walpeck Sussex County New Jersey on the 4th March 1754
2nd.  That the record of his age was kept in the records of the Presbyterian Church at Walpeck and in also in his own bible now in his possession he having copied it many years since from the Church Records.
3.  That when called into service he presided in Walpeck in the County of Sussex aforesaid and continued to reside there until September 1802 when he removed to the County of toga NY where he has ever since resided.
4.  The manner of his entering the service is detailed in the statement of his several engagements above.
5.  The names of the regular officers who were with the troops where he served were Gen. Washington, Gen. Putnam, Lord Sterling.
6.  That he received written discharge of services at the expiration of his several terms of service as a private but they are now lost and his commission is hereunto annexed.
7.  That the persons to whom he refers in his present neighborhood who can testify as to their belief of his revolutionary services and his character for veracity are Genl. Jacob Swartwood of the Town of Cayuta, Joshua Ferris Esq. of the Town of Spencer and Emanuel Cousell Esq. of the Town of Nichols in the said County of Tioga.
    He hereby relinquishes every claim.....
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.....whatever to pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on  the pension roll soothe agency of any State.
John Swartwoodf
\the 17th day of Jany. 1833
Before me
           E. Shoemaker Judge Tioga County

On the day and year aforesaid before personally appeared James Swartwood a resident of the Town of Erin in the said County of Tioga aged eighty one years and upwards who being duly sworn according to law says that he was well acquainted with the above named John Swartwood while he lived in the State of New Jersey before, during and after the Revolutionary war.  that the deponent at that time lived in the County of Northampton in the State of Pennsylvania, the County adjoining the one in New Jersey in which the said John Swartwood lived that he has also known the said John Swartwood ever since his residence in the County of Tioga.
That he recollects that the said John Swartwood served in 1776 in Capt. Chambers company in Col. Ephriam Martin's regiment as he has always understood five months.
That he also recollects hearing of the election of the said John Swartwood as a Lieutenant in Capt. Hoover's company in Col. Rosenkrans regiment of the Sussex militia in the year 1778.
that he also recollects the service performed by the said John Swartwood as Lieutenant in the company commanded by Capt. Peter Westbrook in the Delaware frontier in the year 1778 for two months.
This deponent was himself in service in the year.....
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....1779 for seven months from April to November of that year in a company commanded by Capt. Hoover on the Delaware frontier in which the said John Swartwood was the Lieutenant during that period. 
The deponent also served in the same company under Captain Hoover and the said John Swartwood as Lieutenant for 8 months in the year 1780 for seven months in 1781 for six months in 1782 for three months in 1783 during all which time the said John Swartwood was Lieutenant of the company - and further saith not.
James Swartwood

Sworn an subscribed 
before me the 17th day 
of Jany 1833 --
      Elijah Shoemaker Judge Tioga Co.

We Hiram B. Crane a clergyman residing in the town of Cayuta in the Couty aforesaid and Thomas Maxwell of the town of Elmira do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Swartwood who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe  him to be of the age he represents; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion -
Hiram B. Crane
Th. Maxwell

Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
              E. Shoemaker Judge Tioga Co.

I Elijah Shoemaker one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County do hereby certify that it is my opinion that the above named John Swartwood....
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...by reason of bodily infirmity produced by advanced age and general debility was unable to attend the meeting of the Court to which I am a Judge at its late session in this County which is a distance of twenty five miles from his residence and that the next Court will be held at Elmira a distance of about 35 miles from his place of residence, in consequence of which I have attended at his place of residence and have administered the oath to him.  I also certify that it is my opinion after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named John Swartwood was an officer of theRevolution he having produced his commission which is hereto annexed and served was he states - It also appears to me satisfactorily  that Hiram B. Crane who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Cayuta aforesaid and that Thomas Maxwell who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Elmira is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to belief.  That I consider James Swartwood whole testimony is above written in regard to the services of said John Swartwood a credible and disinterested witness -
     All which is certified this 17th day of January 1833 -  Elijah Shoemaker Judge
                    Tioga County

(see clerks certificate at close of proceeding)
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State of New York 
Tioga County
      Daniel Swartwood of the Town of Erin in the County aforesaid aged seventy years and upwards being duly sworn says that he is well acquainted with John Swartwood now of the Town of Cayuta, that he was acquainted with him before and during the Revolutionary war in the Town of Walpeck in the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey; that he recollects when the said John  Swartwood enlisted in the spring of 1776 at Walpeck aforesaid for the term of 5 months and that he served the said term in Capt. Chambers company in Col. Martins Reg't - That he also recollects that the said John Swartwood marched in November or December 1776 to Trenton in a company of Pennsylvania militia commanded by Capt. James Schoonoven in the Regiment under command of Col. Stroud and served a month or more.
     That he recollects that the said John Swartwood served a month or more in October 1777 at Red Bank in a company commanded by Capt. James Schoonoven in Col. Strouds Regiment of Pennsylvania militia.
     That he also recollects that some time in the year 1778 (the precise time he cannot state) that there was a meeting the militia in the County of Sussex under command of Capt. Emanuel Hoover in Col. John Rosenkrans Regiment to elect a Lieutenant for the said company (which was then vacant) and that the said John Swartwood was elected Lieutenant and that the said John Swartwood was frequently called out in service with the said company as one of its officers - That he recollects his having served two months or more as Lieutenant in a company commanded by Capt. Peter Westbrook under the charge of Major Samuel Westbrook on the Delaware Indian frontier in the fall of 1778.
     (1780) that he also recollects that in 1780 he served seven months as Lieutenant inCapt. Emanuel Hoover's company .....
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.....on the Delaware Frontier under command of Major Samuel Westbrook in Col. Rosenkrans Regiment and that from the expiration of that service which was in the spring of 1781 he continued in service as Lieutenant under command of Capt. Emanuel Hoover in a company of Rangers in defense of the Delaware Indian Frontier until the close of the war in the fall of 1783, a period of more than two years -
     That he recollects that the said John Swartwood was in service as a Lieutenant a considerable period previous to his receiving his commission from the Governor of New Jersey, after his said election by Capt. Hoovers company.
     The deponent was himself in service in Capt. Hoovers company of Rangers about two years in the latter period of the war, and therefore  had a personal knowledge of that portion of his service, that said John Swartwood having been in command as Lieutenant of said company while this deponent belonged to it -
      That he has been acquainted with the said John Swartwood ever since his residence in the County of Tioga for about thirty years past, and knows him to be same man who he knew in the service of the Revolutionary war.
      Daniel Swartwood his X mark

Sworn and subscribed before
me the 8th November' 1832
        Isaac Swartwood Justice of the Peace of Tioga Co.  NY

     I Isaac Swartwood a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Tioga do hereby certify that the above named Daniel Swartwood who has sworn to the above affidavit before me is in my opinion a credible...
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State of New York
Tioga County
      I Green M. Tuthill Clerk of the said County of Tioga do hereby certify that Elijah Shoemaker Esq. before whom the foregoing proceedings in the matter of the application of Lieut. John Swartwood for a pension was on the day of the  date thereof and now is a Judge of the said County Court of Common Pleas duly qualified and that his several signatures to the above declaration affidavits and certificate are genuine.
     I further certify that Isaac Swartwood Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit of Daniel Swartwood was made was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly qualified and that his signatures to the foregoing affidavits and the certificates accompanying the same are genuine.
      Witness my hand and seal of office the 18th Jany 1833
                        Green M. Tuthill
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1915 Apr. 6: history to Mrs.
E. St. Claire Snyder              MBH
1928 Aug 21 - Hist. to Mrs. John B. Moyer.  AWY

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4913
Rev War INVALID

file No: 4913
John Swartwood
Lieut. N.J Vols.

Act: June 7 1832

Index:-Vol. M, Page 365

NJ and PA
Records corrected Apr. 25, 1904
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March 25th 1915

The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Sir:
     Will you kindly send me a copy of the Pension (or application for same) of John Swartwood who record a Pension from Tioga County New York in 1831 for servcie as Lieutenant in the New Jersey Militia.
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Thanking you in advance.
I am
                Respectfully
                (Mrs.) E. St. Claire Snyder
                   617 2" St. North West
                   Watertown, S.D.
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(hand written parts transcribed)

.....John Swartwood...
SF 4913

May 1776  5 mos.  Pvt. Abraham Chambers
         Ephrain Martin                                N.J.
Dec 1776  1 mo.      Pvt.  James Schoonoven
           Stroud                                         Penn.
Aug 1777   1 mo.      Pvt.  Peter Westbrook
            Rosenkrans                                  N.J.
Oct 1777    1 mo.      Sar. Major. Benjamin
           Coykendall         Seward.              N.J.
July 1778 (and served
                   at various times
                   2 years 10 mos).  Lt.        Emanuel
                            Hoover / Peter Westbrook
                             John Rosenkrans        N.J.

Battles: Long Island, fort Washington, White                         
                 Plains, Trenton, Germantown
Residence: Walpeck Susses Co.N.J. moved to
                    Tioga Co. NY in 1802
Date: Jan. 17, 1833.  His claim was allowed.
Residence: Cayuta, Tioga Co., N.Y.
Age: born at Walpeck NJ    Mch 4 1754
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Swartwood, Moses.  Private      Pennsylvania

10373                 July 16, 1791
                        to Christian Gross assignee