Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1109, for Henry Snyder, New Jersey
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SERVICE
New Jersey


Snyder, Henry


NUMBER
S.1109


carded
CONTENTS
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[left side of page]
Order to pay 8th Sep. 1837.
Let to I. W. Terwilliger  August 31  '47

[right side of page]

7529
New Jersey
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Henry Snyder
of Hunterdon in the State of N J
who was a pri  in the [illegible] commanded by Captain---- of the Reg commanded by Col Seeley in the N Jer
Militia 9 m
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Inscribed on the Roll of C N Her__
at the rate of 30 Dollars and 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
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Certificate of Pension issued on the 21 day of May 1833 and Sent P. J. Clark. Present
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Arrears to the 4th of March 33: $60--
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sep "  15--
$75
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{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by E. D. Bullock, Clerk,
Book  E  Vol. 3  Page 130
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No 7621

Henry Snyder

Admitted

P. J. Clark
Huntington N. J.
P. J. Clark
[illegible]
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BRIEF in the case of Henry Snyder of the County of Hunterdon in the State of N. Jersey.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? (blank)
3. How old is he? 71 years.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. | Duration of Service. (Years/Months/Days) | Rank. As a: | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
In 1780 & '81; winter | (blank) | 1 |  (blank) | Drafted | Capt. Carhart, Col. Seely
In 1780 & '81; winter | (blank) | 1 |  (blank) | Drafted | Capt. John Cowdrick
In 1780 & '81; spring | (blank) | 6 |  (blank) | Private | Maj. Westbrook, Capt. Johnson
Before enlisting under Capt. Johnson | (blank) | 1 |  (blank) | Drafted | Capt. Daniel Bray

5. In what battles was he engaged? None.
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Not stated.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Nothing.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Regular.

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

s/ Levin Belt, Examining Clerk
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Henry Snyder
7621
Hunterdon County
N Jersey

Admitted
Private 9 months
New Jersey Militia


[written faintly at bottom]
Postman
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon county  ss:

on this eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the inferior court of commons pleas, of this county of Hunterdon now sitting Henry Snyder a resident of the Township of Kingswood in said county of Hunterdon aged seventy one years 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 under the following named officers and served as [illegible] stated viz in the winter of 1780.81 as a drafted militia man under captain Cornelius Carhart to Elisabeth town in N. Jersey one Colonel Seely having the column and there he [illegible] them one mouth-- he was out one other month at the same place under Captain John Cowdrick___
was out also at a general alarm under one Daniel Bray of New Jersey at Pittstown and Potterstown in Hunterdon county N. Jersey how long cannot now recollect__ After this in the spring of the year he enlisted under Captain Cornelius Johnson one westbrook major for six months and they were marched up the Delaware  river to a place then called the Minisink this deponent thinks in the state of New York to defend the country there against the Indians  that place being there near to the frontier__ we were quartered there at the house of on Col Rosencrantz  we remained there expecting to keep off the indians during the period of our enlistment [six months]
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and their returned home__ whilst we were lying at the Minisink we received order from Genl Washington who then lay at Kings Bridge with the American army & join him at that place__  They marched on their way to Kings Bridge accordingly by Sussex court house in N. Jersey to [illegible] plains in Morris county where the orders were counter ceded and they then returned to Minisink again   Deponent recollects that just before the company under Captain Johnson went to the Minisink as above stated once Captain Westbrook had been killed there by the Indians__ whether he was in [illegible] of a company there Deponent does not know__ There was a pretty large corps of men at the Minisink at the time say 400 according to the best recollection of this deponent who were divided into three companies or corps and extended along the Delaware river from the upper to the lower Minisink and Deponent thinks they all remained there six months__
Before enlisting under Captain Johnson Deponent says that he was called upon under a draft and went out under said Daniel Bray a captain he thinks at this time and was marched to Newark N. Jersey   we arrived at Newark shortly after the British  troops had left there Deponent thinks they were out a month at this time but cannot speak positively as to the length of time __ This time was a different one at at a different time [illegible] the one above spoken of under 
Daniel Bray__  Deponent further says that he was frequently out under arms at General alarms as they were called which in N Jersey was very frequent at that time__ that he has no documentary evidence of his revolutionary services and that he does not now know of any person
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...whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. And he does hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
s/ Henry Snyder

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in Open Court.
s/ Jno. Thompson

We, William Robinson, a Clergyman residing in the Township of Kingwood in said County of Hunterdon and John Howard, Sheriff of the County aforesaid, who also resides in the Township of Kingwood [crossed out: (illegible)] in the neighborhood of Henry Snyder, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted
with Henry Snyder, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be Seventy one years of age and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
s/ William H. Robinson
s/ John H. Howard (X - his mark)

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
s/ George Rea, Judge &c.

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 states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them
that William Robinson, who has signed...
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...the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Township of Kingswood, in said County of Hunterdon and [crossed out: (illegible)] John Thompson, who has also signed the same is [crossed out: (illegible)] also [crossed out: (illegible)] a resident of [crossed out: (illegible)] a resident of Kingwood Township and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
s/ George Rea
Judges:
s/ Jno. Thompson
s/ John Bartan

I, Isaac G. Farlee, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court (in) the matter of the application of Henry Snyder for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of Office this Eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Thirty two. 1832.
s/ Isaac G. Farlee, Clk.
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August 28, 1928


Mrs. G. A. Skinner
446 W. Goldengate
Detroit, Michigan

Madam:

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 1109, it appears that HENRY SNYDER enlisted,
place not stated, and served as a private with the New Jersey troops at various times as follows, only first date of enlistment given,---
In the winter of 1780  and 1781, one month under Captain Cornelius Carhart and Colonel Seely.
One month under Captain John Cowdrick.
An alarm, length not stated, under Captain Daniel Bray.  
Six months under Captain Cornelius Johnson.
One month under Captain Daniel Bray.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 18, 1832, at which time he was seventy-one years of age and was living in Kingwood, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
In August, 1847, reference was made to the widow of Henry Snyder but her name was not given.
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This is the only soldier by the name of Henry Snyder who served with the New Jersey troops, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau and there is no record of a John Snyder, searched under all spellings of the name, who served in the New Jersey 
troops.

In order to make a search of the records for other soldiers from New Jersey surnamed Snyder the first names are essential and you should furnish as much as possible of the following data relative to them:  approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and first names of widows.

Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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Rev(olutionary) War
INVALID.
File No. 1109
Henry Snyder
Pri(vate); N.G. Reg(iment)
Act: June 7, 1832
Index -; Vol. A; Page 350.
{Arrangement of 1870.}

1928 Aug. 20 - Hist(ory sent) to Mrs. G.A. Skinner. W.C.S.
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Detroit, Michigan
446 W. Goldengate
Oct. 19, 1927.

Pension Bureau
Rev. War Records.
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

In the volume, "Jerseyman in the Revolution," I find the following four names.:

1. Henry Snyder - p. 228
2. Henry Snyder - p. 761
3. Henry Snyder (Sussex)
4. John Snyder - p. 854

Will you kindly send me what information you have...
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Detroit, Michigan
II

...in your records concerning these men.

I am especially interested in their revolutionary service & in the names of their wives & children.

I will be glad to have the records of any other Snyders listed from New Jersey that you may have.

Thanking you in advance, I am yours very truly,
s/ Laura F. Skinner
(Mrs. G.A.)
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Trenton Bank
Pension Office
Sep. 5, 1837

Sir,

I enclose these vouchers requiring your special direction for payment being unpaid for a year.

I am very respectfully your obed(ient) serv(ant),
s/ W. Peltant for P. Dickinson, Pres.

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
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J.L. Edwards, Commiss(ioner) of Pen(sions)
Washington City

Bethlehem, N.J.
Aug. 12th

Aug. 16th
Inquiry, Henry Snyder, Lines.
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Bethlehem, N.J., Aug 12/'47

Sir,

About a month or nearly ago (as I suppose, for I have no copy of it), I wrote you a letter, concerning the claims of a widow of Henry Snyder to a pension. You may or may not have received it; if you have, has answer been sent? If not, is it an answer contemplated? The matter involves no pecuniary interest beyond the mere remuneration for actual expenses are owed, so far as I am concerned. Save the feelings of affection and beneficence, which have induced me to interest myself in behalf of one who has suddenly hear hurled from affluence and all its conveniences and comforts into indigence and its inseparable ills and privations. Particularly when they fall on the aged and infirm. If you have received the letter referred to, I have no new, no additional statement to advance now. An answer is solicited and anticipated at as early a day as may be compatible with your convenience.

Most respect(ful)ly &c.,
s/ J.N. Terwilliger

J.L. Edwards, Commiss(ioner) of Pen(sions)
Washington City