Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,394, Joseph Hedges, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE     NUMBER
New Jersey [handwritten under "SERVICE"]   Hedges, Joseph [handwritten]  
S.34.394. [handwritten under "NUMBER"]

CONTENTS
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1909

New Jersey -
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Joseph Hedges
N. Jersey
Private - 4
Col. Spencers regt.  '77 - 2 years [end handwritten]

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In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey - ["New Jersey" handwritten] at the rate of 8- ["8-" handwritten] Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 of April 1818 - [date handwritten]
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Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of July 1818 [date handwritten] and [begin handwritten] sent to Gabriel H Ford Esqr. Judge of Court Comn [Common] Pleas. County of Morris - New Jersey- [end handwritten]
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Arrearages to [begin handwritten] 4 September 1818 -

4 mos. 25/30th   $38..66 - [end handwritten]

{Revolutionary claims,}
{Act 18th March, 1818,}

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Hanover, Morris Co
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34.394
Joseph Hedges
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Apl. 10. 1818
Morris Co. N.J.
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spg 77  Morristown NJ
Capt. Jonas Ward
Col Oliver Spencer
Pvt 2 yrs
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No Bat
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34394

Revy  INVALID.
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File No. [begin handwritten]  34,394

Joseph Hedges

Priv Rev War

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Act:  18th March 18

Index:-Vol. 2, Page 187

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[Arrangement of 1870.]

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admitted

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State of New Jersey, Morris County ss: Be it known that on the tenth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & eighteen, before me Gabriel H Ford Esq 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, personally appeared Joseph Hedges [name underlined] of the township of Hanover in said county, who hath lost the power of speech, but is of sound mind and memory, who being duty sworn doth depose, declare & signify - That he this Deponent served as a private Soldier in the  war of the revolution on the continental establishment against the common enemy for the term of two years and more - that he enlisted at Morristown in the county of Morris in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven in Capt. Jonas Ward's company in Col. Oliver Spencer's regiment which was one of the sixteen additional regiments, and served as a private soldier in said company during the time aforesaid - That while the army cantoned at Valley Forge in the winter of seventeen hundred and seventy seven - eight, he was sick there, and lay under the care of Jabez Campfield, Surgeon of said regiment, by which sickness he this Deponent lost the power of speech and never since recovered it - that from the hospital he returned to the regiment and remained attached to it, drawing provisions and serving sometimes as a waiter, sometimes taking care of horses, and performing such other services as his impaired health and want of speech allowed, until the end of the war, but was sick in the hospital when the army was disbanded, so that he does not remember to have obtained a Discharge - that he this Deponent can neither read nor write - that he is a resident citizen of the United States, so reduced in circumstances as to have received from charity, and is in need of assistance from his country for support, and that no pension has ever been allowed him by the United States, and further signifieth not -
Joseph Hedges
his X mark

Sworn before me the day & year first above written}
[signed] Gab H Ford.
And be it further known that on the day & year first above written, before me Gabriel H Ford above named, personally appeared Jabez Campfield Esquire of Morristown
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town aforesaid, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith - that he this Deponent is in the eighty first year of his age - that in the time of the revolutionary war he this Deponent was Surgeon to Col. Spencer's regiment which was one of the sixteen additional regiments in the army of the United States - this Deponent recollects that about the tenth day of January seventeen hundred and seventy eight, the foregoing deponent Joseph Hedges, who has since been called dumb Jo, was sick with a fever, in one of the huts belonging to Spencer's regiment at the Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, that he could not speak a word, nor has this Deponent ever heard him speak - this Deponent verily believes he was a private soldier in that regiment and attended him as such - that he remained desperately sick for a long time in his hut, and had not recovered when this Deponent left the huts, which was about the first of May seventeen hundred & seventy eight - that sometime about July following, this Deponent, being with the regiment at King's Ferry, saw the said dumb Jo there, and have often seen him since, always dumb, and verily believes the loss of his speech is in consequence of the sickness before mentioned at the Valley Forge; and this Deponent saith he has not the least doubt that the deponent Joseph Hedges served as a private soldier in Col. Spencer's regiment; and further saith not.
[signed] Jabez Campfield

Sworn before me the day & year first above written}
[signed] Gab H Ford,

I Gabriel H Ford above named do certify that Joseph Hedges did not relate to me any of the facts set forth in his deposition; that they were gathered from relations given to me by Capt. Baker and Doct. Jabez Campfield, and from intelligible signs made by Joseph Hedges himself - that before the said Joseph Hedges was sworn, I read over the deposition to him deliberately, and received his plain and manifest assent to each fact separately.  I believe his apprehension of every fact therein stated is as clear as mine, &
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that he would be as responsible for any untruth therein contained as any man could be for corrupt & willful perjury.  And I am satisfied that he served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy for the time and in the manner set forth in his foregoing deposition - all which proceedings and testimony I transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War agreeably to the Act of Congress in such case made & provided - Given under my hand at Morristown the tenth day of April Eighteen hundred and eighteen -
[signed] Gab H Ford.

State of New Jersey}
County of Morris ss}   I Robert H. McCarter Clerk of the County of Morris do certify that Gabriel H. Ford Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits are made, is, and was, at the doing thereof duly enrolled "President of the several and respective courts of Oyer and terminer and General Goal delivery, Inferior Court of Common pleas; General quarter Sessions 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 County of Morris the tenth day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and eighteen.
[signed] Robert H. McCarter

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