Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33.959, Joel Ackley, New York
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New York

Ackley, Joel

NUMBER
S.33.959

CONTENTS
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Notification sent September 14 1820 for
E. Green Jr, Newton New Jersey
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10,669
New Jersey   R
---
Joel Ackley
of Sussex County in the State of New Jersey
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Schaick of the New York line for the term of the war of [1 yr?]

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 15th of May 1819

Sent to Morris Robison Esqr [Justice?]
Oxford Furnaces New Jersey


Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 of 4/31   81:3
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819  48
                                                      $129:3

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}
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Joel Ackley private
Vanskike  N York regt
during war I May
1818

Not on Contl [Continental]
establishment

[written vertically on the right hand side]
Joel Ackley, private
Sussex County, N.J.
Col: Van Schaicks 
regt: N. York line,
1776 - to end of rev.y war.

1st May, 1818

[a signature] The Honorable
J C Calhoun
admd on rolls

[at far right]
War department
Pension Office
Washington

[at bottom left]
Morris Robeson
judge, Oxford Furnace
[Newtown Sussex Co. - struck out]
New Jersey.
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District of New Jersey, Sussex County SS
On this first day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County personally appeared Joel Ackley aged seventy five years, resident in the Township of Oxford and County of Sussex in said District. Who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War.
That he the said Joel Ackley, enlisted in the State of New York in the company commanded by Captain Cobb, of the first New York regiment commanded by Colonel Hosack Vanskike; does not know the day when he enlisted, but well recollects he was in the service of the United States when Independance was declaired, was taken prisoner by the Indians near fort Stanwix, carried by them to Montreal and Quebeck was prisoner upwards of three years was exchanged and joined his company and continued in said Corps untill duly discharged at or near New Windsor State of New York at the end of the war. Was in the battle of Monmouth and is now in reduced circumstances and really stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, has lost his discharged and has no other evidence of his services now in his power to show. Joel Ackley - X - his mark

Sworn to and declared before me the day & year first above written. Morris Robeson

I Morris Robeson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Sussex do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joel Ackley did serve in the revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, and from my own knowledge is poor and allready applied and received assistance from his neighbour for support. I now transmit the Declation [declaration] & testimony had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War, persuant to the direction of the aforesaid Act of Congress. Morris Robeson
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State of New Jersey, Sussex County Ss
I, Ephraim Green Junr, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in & for the County of Sussex aford [aforesaid] - do hereby certify that Morris Robeson Esqr. before whom the foregoing deposition appears to have been made, and who has thereto subscribed his name, was at the taking and signing the same, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County aford [aforesaid] - duly commissioned and sworn - and to all his official acts as such due faith & credit is & ought to be given.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of Sussex County Court, this 19th day of August, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred & eighteen.
E. Green Junr
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Copy of Joel Ackley
affidavit
Oxford Township, Sussex County, New Jersey
Con
10669
May 19
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District of New Jersey, Sussex County ss.
On this fifth day of June at a session begun on the fourth Tuesday of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Sussex and State of New Jersey. The said Court of Common Pleas being a court of Record in and for the said County being a court constituted and established by the laws of the State of New Jersey as a court of Record having a seal with power to fine and imprison and an unlimited jurisdiction in civil cases and whose judgments are only reversable by writ of error at common law and there setting at Newton in and for the said county of the term of May - Joel Ackley of the age of eighty years resident in the Township of Oxford in the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War  as follows. That he the said Joel Ackley enlisted during the war soon after the commencement of the Revolutionary war in the state of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Cobb in the Regiment commanded by Col. Hoseck Van Scoick being the first Regiment in the line of the State of New York on the ____ Continental establishment, that he was afterward drafted in the Company commanded by Capt. Parsons in the same regiment. That he continued to serve in the said Regiment during the Revolutionary war aforesaid when he was discharged from the said service at the close of the war in the State of____. That he was in the battle of Monmouth and assisted in the taking of Burgoyne.
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That on the first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen he applied for a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month he being a private in the army aforesaid and on the fifteenth day of May in the year 1819 obtained a certificate under the hand and seal of J.L. Edwards in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary at [of] war of the United States numbered 10,669 payable on the 4th of March and 4th of September annually at the Trenton Banking Company. And I do hereby solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March Anno Domini 1818 and 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 Anno Domini 1818 and 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 what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. And this deponent further saith that he is by occupation a cordwainer that he is unable by reason of his infirmities to pursue it that he has a wife named Catherine and no children residing with him, who resides with him aged about sixty years that she is incapable by reason of her advanced age and infirmities to contribute to his support and he saith further that he and his wife have been assisted and ^supported by the overseers of the poor of the aforesaid Township of Oxford for about eight years last past. Joel Ackley - X - his mark

Sworn and declared on this 5th day of June in open court. John Ogden
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Schedule of Property
Real estate - None
Personal estate. None except necessary cloathing and bedding
Joel Ackley X - his mark

Sworn and declared in open court this 5th day of June AD 1820. John Ogden

I Ephraim Green Junr Clerk of the before mentioned Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copies from the records of the said Court.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty second day of July A.D. 1820.
E. Green Junr. Clerk of the Court of the County of Sussex aforesaid
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33959
Rev INVALID.
File No. 33,959
Joel Ackley Pri Rev War
Act 18 March 18
Index: Vol. 2, Page 2
[Arrangement of 1870.]