Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,911, Jacob Witchel, New Jersey
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New Jersey

Witchel or Witchell, Jacob

S.33911
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New Jersey Rolls
1758 (1738?)

Jacob Witchel
Capt. Furman
Private,  4
Jersey Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll Of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3rd of April 1818

Certificate of pension issued the 30. ofJune 1818, and sent to Gab'l H. Ford, Esq.
Morristown, New Jersey

Arrears to Sept 1818
4 months 32/30                           $40.53

5 years
continued War
Morristown Morris Co.

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Notification sent Sep 18th 1820 to Lewis Condict
Morristown N. Jersey
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Jacob Witchel
Capt. Mead's Co.
17th Jersey Line

Apr 9th 1818( -?- under the law)

(Examined) and found
Correct
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State of New Jersey
Morris County
    Be it known that on the third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me Gabriel H Ford Esquire, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Morris, in the State of New Jersey, and President of said Court, at Morristown in the county aforesaid personally appeared Jacob Witchel of the township of Morris in said County, who being duly sworn doth declare, depose, and say:  The he this deponent served as a Private soldier in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, on the Continental establishment for the full term of five years and more.  And this deponent further saith the he enlisted in the serviced as a private soldier about the oath of September seventeen hundred and seventy five at Freehold in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey in Captain Longstreet's company, belonging to the first regiment of the Jersey Line, and that he this deponent served in said regiment until it was disbanded in seventeen hundred and seventy six - and this deponent further saith the her enlisted in the serviced as as private soldier about the month of March seventeen hundred and seventy seven, at Freehold aforesaid in the County aforesaid,  in Captain Jonathon Herman's company, belonging to the fourth regiment of the Jersey Line which regiment was commanded by Colonel Martin - this this deponent served under Colonel Martin...
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... for the term of three years as near as this deponent can recollect or ascertain, when by a certain arrangement in the army, Captain Jonathon Truman's Company was transferred from the fourth to the first regiment of the Jersey Line - that after this, the said Jonathon Furman became a Major, and this deponent was the placed under the command of Captain Mead's who company belonged also to the first regiment - And this deponent further saith that he continued with and served in the said last mentioned company, regiment and line from thence until the close of the war, and that on the fifth day of June seventeen hundred and eighty three he was discharged by a regular discharge, which is lost - and this deponent further declaring saith, that he is a resident citizen of the United States that he is in reduced circumstances in life and in need of the assistance from his country for support, and that no pension has been heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States - and further this deponent saith not.
Jacob Witchel his X mark

Sworn before me the day and year first above written.
Gab. H. Ford

   I Gabriel H. Ford Esquire, one of the Judges of theCourt of Common  Pleas for the County of Morris afs'd. and President of said Court, do certify that zi am satisfied that the above mentioned deponent Jacob Witchel served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy for the time and in the manner set forth in said deposition, on the continental establishment, which testimony I transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the act of congress in such case made and provided, Given under my hand this third day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen.  
Gab. H. Ford
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State of New jersey
County of Orris
    I Robert H. McCarter Clerk of theCourt of Morris, do certify, that  Gabriel H. Ford Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit is made, is, and was at the time thereof, duly enrolled President of the -?- and respective Court of Open and Terminal and General Goal delivery, Inferior Court of Common Pleas, General Quarter Session of the Peace , and Orphans Court of the County of Morris, and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to his official acts as such.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Said Court  of Morris this third day of April Eighteen Hundred and Eighteen.
Robert H. McCarter
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Jacob Witchel

1788 Morris

Con

Sep 18
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District of New Jersey,
Morris County,
On this eighth
day of July,
1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the
Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris
-Town, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of
July, in the year aforesaid. {The said court being a court
of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course
of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping records
of its proceedings, and its Judgments being removeable by writ of error only}
Jacob Witchel aged about seventy five years, resident in the township of Morris in said county, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served as a private in the Army
of the Revolution in Colonel Maxwells Regiment, under Captains Furman and Meads in the New Jersey line, that his declaration for a pension was made on or about the 3 of April 1812 that his certificate of pension is numbered 1732
And I do solemnly swear
that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 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 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; 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 that I am by occupation a farmer but by reason of age and infirmity unable to Labor except to a trifling amount, that my family consists of myself and wife only, her name is Hannah, aged about forty seven years, now totally unable to labor being a maniac or Lunatic, & requiring constant care and nursing. That I have been
for nearly seven years a pauper supported by Morris township, until since I have reeivedd my pension from the United States that I have no children
Sworn and subscribed in open Court
this 8th day July 1820 before me
Jacob Witchell X his mark
Gabriel H Ford
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Jacob Witchel
This deponent has no property of any description.  The few articles of household goods in his possession, are the property of the township furnished this deponent by the overseers of the poor for his accommodation.

Jacob Witchel his X Mark

Sworn and subscribed in Open Court
this 8th July 1820.  Gab. H. Ford
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State of New Jersey}
County of Morris} ss.

    I Robert H. McCarter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court.

                  In testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said COurt, this fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty. 

           Robert H.  McCarter Clerk of the court for the County of Morris.
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33911
Rev'y INVALID

FileNo. 33,911

Jacob Witchel
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18

Index: - Vol. 2, Page 456
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Witchell, Jacob  Private  New Jersey

8850       June 23, 1789
              to Elias Dayton and Son, assignees