Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 736, for Jesse Parr, New Jersey
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Service                                                Number
New Jersey               Parr, Jesse           S  736

                                          
barded
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9733                            order to pay Nov. 17, 1836
New Jersey      [illegible] to Pen Agt 15 April 1837
                        order to pay July 18. 1837
Jesse Parr
of Belvidere in the State of New Jersey
who was a private in the Compy commanded 
by Captain Winters of the ------- commanded
by -------------- in the New Jersey
line for 3 months
                                  Date of death not on
                                   A.B.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of June
1833 and sent to P.B
Kennedy Belvidere New Jersey
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833        $ 46.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept     11.67
                                                             ______
                                                          $ 58.33
                                     {Revolutionary Claim, 
                                        Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by JW Clagett Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3 Page 125
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-- 39
Jesse Parr

Adm 7 months
$ 23.33

P.B. Kennedy Esq
Clerk
Belvidere
Warren Coty
N.J.
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Brief in the case of Jesse Parr
Township of Oxford in the State of N. Jersey
                                 (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declared made before a Court or a Judge? open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]

3. How old is he? 72 Years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[Original in printed table format]
[Printed Headings]
Period    In 17
Duration of Service.  Years, Months, Days
Rank. As a 
Names of Generals and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen.
[Manuscription answering the form]
[Period] Between the years 1777 + 1780
[Duration of Service] Seven tours of duty of on  month each
[Rank. As a] Private
[Names of Generals and Field Officers under whom he served.] Capt. Petty, Winters, Ribble Bescher and Manning
N. Jersey Militia
5. In what battles was he engaged   
                                       None Stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
County of Sussex
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Traditionary evidence, and one living Witness an officer under Whom the applicant Served.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? they are not attached according to the Regulations

X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
[signed] Wm. Gordon  
Examining Clerk.
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13,339
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Declaration n order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of New Jersey, Warren County:
      On this third day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Common Pleas in and for the County of Warren, Jesse Parr aged seventy-two years, who being first duly sworn according to law - doth on his oath make the following declaration in order toobtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed for the relief of Revolutionary Soldiers, June 7th 1832. __that, during the Revolution he resided in the Township  Knowlton, which then constituted a part of the County of Sussex, now of the new County of Warren and at present resides in the Townshiip of Oxford in the said County of Warren -- that he belonged to the Militia of the County of Sussex who were classed both officers and privates as to serve in regular turns of month each.--that he, accordingly, served the United States in the capacity of a Militia Private, at various times, in all to the amount of seven months under the following names Officers: ________
He was first drafted in the Fall, he thinks, in Septem-ber of the year Seventy-seven, and stationed at Eliza-bethtown under the command of Captain Petty, to guard against the incursions of the British, who were then in the possession of New York; --the Lieutenant of the Com-pany was a man by the name of Bowman who lived at Hacketstown, but is since dead; the Ensign was Da-vid Vliet, who is still living and can testify to the truth of Parr's statements. They cooperated at no time with any Reg-ular troops, and the applicant does not rememeber
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to what Regiment the Compan belonged; --he served on month at closes of which he hired for another month as a substitute, and continued at Elisabethtown under the command of Captain Winters, whose turn it was to follow Petty in the command, at the expiration of the month he was regularly discharged and returned home. In the month o March of the year following it again fell to his turn to ren-der similar service at the same place, in which he was em-ployed for one month under Captain George Ribble; and af-ter considerable time had transpired, he hired for a month as a substitute, and again served in Elisabethtown under Capt. Ribble, whose turn it was at that time to command. Again it fell to his lot afterwards, mos probably in the year '79, to serve a month, at the same place under Captain Abram Bescher-er, and afterwards for a monthe under Captain Reuben Manning.--The militia were afterwards called out, he thinks in the year '80 to prevent the incursions of the Indians into that part of New Jersey which lies beyond the Blue Mountains -- he was drafted and served a month, in the neighbourhood of Minisirik [?] under the afore said Captain Manning. He has no documentary evidence to exhibit, as it was not usual to present the Militia with written Certificates. He hereby relinquishes all claims to any pension, but the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any Agency in any State.
    Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid in open court. 
[signed] Wm. Kennedy   Jesse Parr

The applicant being disappointed in obtaining the attendance of a Clergyman in Court, the Certificate of Samuel Reed Esq. an acting Justice of the peace substituted.
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I [the following is crossed out] We Samuel Reed, one of the Justices of the peace in + for the County of Warren, and George W. Smyth A.B. [end cross out] Student of Law, residing in said County and both near said applicant, do hereby certify that I am [we are (crossed out)] well acquainted with Jesse Parr, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that I [we] believe him to be seventy-two years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he re-sides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and I [we] concur in that opinion.
          Sworn to + subscribed in open Court, this third day of September A.D. 1832.
[illegible signature crossed out]
and [signed] Wm Kennedy George W. Smyth
State of New Jersey 
Warren County  Personally appeared in open Court the day and year aforesaid, David Vliet, a surviving soldier of the Revolution and the Ensign alluded to, in the Declaration subscribe and sworn to, by Jesse Parr above, -- and the said Vliet being being [sic] duly sworn according to the law, doth on his oath declare that he has a  perfect recollection of the said Parr's having served under him as a Militia private, at Elisabethtown, during the Fall of the year seventy-seven, as stated in the said Declaration, and further that he fully believes the said Parr rendered all the services, and in the manner, therein specified. In testimony
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Whereof, the said David Vliet, hath hereunto subscribed his name  [signed] David Vliet
Sworn and subscribed in open court Wm.Kennedy

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he stated. And the Court further certified that [next two lines crossed through but read] Samuel Reed Esq. who has signed and sworn to the above certificatate of marked is a Justice of the Peace of the County Warren, and that [end strike through] George W. Smyth, A.B. who has also signed and sworn to the same, is a Student of Law, resident in the Township of Oxford and a credible person, and that his[their] statement is entitled to credit.--And the Court further states that they are satisfied the above named David Vliet was an Ensign in Revolutionary War, and that hs is a man entitled to credit.
[signed]    Wm Kennedy
                 Abm Waine
                 P.W. Blair
                Garret Lacey
 I Phineas B. Kennedy, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Warren do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Jesse Parr for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of my office this 3rd of Sept 1833.
 P.B. Kennedy clk
[seal]
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It will be perceived by the Honourable, The Secretary of War, that in the foregoing Depositions the name of Samuel Reed Esquire is introduced, and afterwords erased; this happened from that gentleman'''s accidental absence from the Court, at the time the proceedings were had, in consequence which his affidavit could not be offered. Sufficient testimony, however, as appears above, was offered to satisfy the Judges of the Common Pleas; and that no possibility of doubt may arise with the War Department, the following affidavits of Nicholas Albertson, a minister of the Gosple, and James Dewitt, Esq. a Justice of the peace, are superadded.
State of New Jersey
Warren County [?]
Personnaly appeared before me, Peter W. Blair, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please, in + for the County of Warren, Nicholas Albertson, a minister of the Gosple resident in the said county, who duly swore to and subscribed the following declaration in my presence.
I do heareby certfy that I am personally well acquainted with Jesse Parr, who has sworn to and subscribed the declaration in the above proceedings in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, and have known him upwards of Forty years; I believe him to be seventy two years of age, a man of strict veracity, and that all his tatements in the said declaration are entirely true.  [signed] Nicholas Alberston
Sworn to, and subscribed
before me this
Sept 20th 1832
[signed]  P.W. Blair
Also, at the same time, personally appeared me, Peter W. Blair, aforesaid James Dewitt Esq. who likewise duly swore to and subscribed to the following: I do hereby certify that I am personally well acquainted with the above named Jesse Parr -- I believe him to be seventy two years of age -- a man of undoubted probity, - and that his statements in the foregoing declaration are true.
[signed] PW Blair             James Dewitt
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[typed]                April 25, 1932
                           BA-J/MLB
                       xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                              JESSE PARR
                                 S. 736
Mr. Perry Parr
51 Leroy Street
New York City

Dear Sir:

     Reference is made to your letter of recent date, relative to Jesse Parr, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

     The data which follow were obtained from the papers on the file in the pension claim, S. 736, of Jesse Parr, based upon his military service in the Revolutionary War.

   Jesse Parr, while living in Knowlton Township, Sussex (which was later Warren) County, New Jersey, entered service in September, 1777, in the New Jersey militia, which served in regular terms of one month each, and served until 1780 at various times, seven months in all, as a private under Captains Petty, Winter, George Ribble, Abraham Bescherer and Reuben Manning.

    He was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832, while a resident of Oxford, Warrent County, New Jersey, aged seventy-two years. There are no family data on file.

                   Very truly yours

                              A.D. Hiller
                              Assistant to Administrator
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Payment to be made
at Trenton New Jersey
by the Pres Trenton Banking Co
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of New Jersey 
#936

Recoreded in the Pension Office, Book E. Vol. 3 Page 125 by JW Glaggett
                        Clerk.
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                      WAR DEPARTMENT.
                      Revolutionary Claim.
   I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Jesse Parr of the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Twenty three ----- dollars and thirty three cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
                          GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Twelfth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

[signed] John Robb
Acting Secretary of War.
[seal covered]
[signed] J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
                         oxford 70 yr before in Knowlton
[Written on edge of paper, perpendicular to content:] 
Jesse Parr      Jesse Parr $23.33
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Aug 12 1833 Paid to 4 Mar 1833
Sept 16 1833 Paid to 4 Sept 1833
July 14 1834 Paid to 4 Mar 1834
Oct 28 1834 P@  to 4 Sept 1834
Mar 17 1835 P@ 4 Mar 1835
Mar 13 1835 Paid to Sep 4 1835
Paid to 4 Mar 1837
Paid to 4 Sep 1837 Paid to 4 Mar 1838
   Paid to 4 Sep 1838
   Paid to 4 Mar 1839
   Paid to 4 Sep 1839
   Paid to 4 Mar 1840
   Paid to 4 Sep 1840
   Paid to 4 Mar 1841
   Paid to 4 Sep 1841
   Paid to 4 Mar 1842
   Paid to 4 Sep 1842
   Paid to 4 Mar 1843
   Paid to 4 Sep 1843
   Paid to 4 Mar 1844
   Paid to 4 Sep 1844
   Paid to 4 Mar 1845
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                                 51 Leroy St.,
                                 New York, N.Y.
                                    March 9, 1932.

Veteran's Administration,
Washington, D.C.

Gentleman:-
    Will you kindly send me the Revolutionary war records of Benjamin Parr of Clark County Georgia, aged 83 in 1840, and of Jesse Parr, of Warren County, N.J. aged 80 in 1840.

Very truly yours,
   Perry Parr.

[Stamped] Received 10:30 am Mar 12 1932 
_____(illegible)
____ SUB. DIV.
U.S.V.A.
[stamped] RECIEVED 11:00 am Mar 2 1932 
RECIEPT ______
PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION
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                                  Trenton Bank
                                   Pension Office
                                    July 13, 1837
Sir
    Jessee Parr was directed to be paid, but application for payment was not again made until 90 days had lapsed.
    Daniel Vleit requires your special direction, being unpaid for more than one year
                           I remain your ObServ
                           Phil. Dickinson Pres 
JL Edwards Again
Commissioner of Pensions
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Pension Office
March 25 1837

(588) Sir
Sarah Martin directed by you to be paid from 4 Mar 1837 is the widow of John Martin who __ a pensions upon the books of this office under Act June 7 1832 and paid to the 15 January 1834 the day of his death. Should not the amount paid the His bank be deducted from final payment to the Widow?
  I enclose Certificate and voucher of Jesse Parr applying for more than a year, for your official directon for payment.
    I remain very respectfully
   Your ObServant
Phil Dickinson Pres

[to] JL Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
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                            Pension Office
                            Trenton Nov 12 1836

Sir
      I herewith enclose two unclaimed vouchers for more than one year
    If found correct and a directive to be paid: upon their return to this office it shall be done

                        I remain very respectfully
                                         Your ObServant
                                        P. Dickinson Pres
                                       per W.V. Hunt

JL. Edwards Esq
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Rev War
INVALID.

File No. 736 
Jesse Parr,
Priv. N.J. L_____
Act June 7. 1832
Index: ---- Vol. A, Page 286
Arrangement of 1870

[Note at top of page]
1932 Apr. 26 -- Hist. to Mr. Perry Parr MRB