Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2122, Valentine Christian, New Jersey
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(3-1776) [STAR]
SERVICE
New Jersey

Christian, Valentine

NUMBER
S.2122
Carded
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CONTENTS
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1188
Pennsylvania
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Valentine Christian of Madison in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the company commanded by Captain -- of the Reg't commanded by Col. Drayton in the N. Jersey line for 15 months.
To the care of C. G. Ricketts, Orangeville Penn'a.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 50 Dollars [crossed out: Cents] per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of October 1832 and sent to Pensioner Madison Columbia Co. Pa.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 75.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th M'ch 1833 25.00
[total] $100.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J M Duffield Clerk
Book D Vol. 6 Page 51
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Rev War 2122
INVALID.
File No. 2122
Valentine Christian
Privt Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index:-- Vol. A, Page 64
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Admitted
Private 15 mo.
$50.00
Sent to Pensioner Madison Columbia Co. Pa.
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BRIEF in the case of Valentine Christian of Madison County in the State of Pennsylvania
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
In the Court of Common Pleas.

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

3. How old is he?
77 years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[Table, 4 columns, 5 rows plus headings]
Period. | 
Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days. |
Rank. As a |
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen.

In 1775 Nov'r | didnot 5 mo: not allowed } 17 [months] | private | New Jersey Line. Lieut. McMichael, Col. Drayton
1777 Sept. | 1 [month] | " | Capt. Bell
1777 Oct. | 1 [month] | " | Capt. Cooper
1778 Fall | 1 [month] | " | { Drafted under Capt Gerhart.
1778 & 1779 | inadmissible 3 [months] | Carter | A. Henry, Waggon Master
[months calculation: sum 23; - 8 = 15]

5. In what battles was he engaged?
None mentioned

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
New Germantown, New Jersey

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By tradition.

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Correct

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

[signed] J M Duffield Examining Clerk.
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Valentine Christian of Pennsy'a No 1490
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State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County Set }
on the seventh day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Seth Chapman esquire President and his Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid now sitting Valentine Christian a resident of Madison township County of Columbia aforesaid aged Seventy seven 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 hereinafter stated, That he enlisted at New Germantown in the State of New Jersey in the Company Commanded by Lieutenant Edward Mc Michael for one year in November 1775 and served under Colonel Elias Drayton [Dayton] and Captain Ross until April 1777 in the New Jersey line, and was discharged at Morristown New Jersey by Edward Cox first Lieutenant. That he again entered the army under Captain John Bell at Elizabeth town New Jersey in September 1777 and served one month and was discharged by the said Captain John Bell That in October 1777 he entered the Militia under Captain Benjamin Cooper at Elizabeth town and served one month and was discharged by Captain Cooper at Elizabeth town. That in the fall of 1778 he was drafted in Captain Gearharts Company at Ackwackany [Acquackanonk] in New Jersey and served one month and was then discharged That in the fall of 1777 he was drafted at Elizabeth town in New Jersey and served one month in Captain James Cliffords Company and was discharged at the end of the term. That in the winter of the years 1778 & 1779 he was engaged to Cart provisions under Arthur Henry Waggon Master in the service of the United States at Valley Forge and served three months

Deponant was born in Hunterdon County New Jersey in the year 1756 and that he has a record of his age at his dwelling in Madison township Columbia County in the family Bible. I lived in Bethlehem township Hunterdon County New Jersey when I was called into service and his since lived near Jerseytown in
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Columbia County Pennsylvania a county formed out of Northum[berland] County. Deponent enlisted in the service under Captain Ross for the first Term to serve one year, and the other terms of service as before stated was drafted. Deponant has already stated the names of his officers & the circumstances of his services. Deponant received a discharge from Lieutenant Edward Cox which he has mislaid or Lost. Deponant has no documentary evidence and knows of no testimony that he can procure to testify to his services. Deponant hereby relinquishes 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

Valentine Christian X his mark

Sworn & subscribed in open Court
Jacob Eyerly Prot }

We Russell Park and Caleb Thomas residing in Madison township Columbia County hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Valentine Christian who has sworn & subscribed to the above declaration, that we believe his to be seventy seven years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion. And we further Certify that there is no clergyman residing in the vicinity of the said applicant

[signed] Russel Park
[signed] Caleb Thomas

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
[signed] J. Eyerly Prot

And the said Court do hereby declare that their opinion after the investigation of the matter and putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the Court further certify that Doctor Russel Park and Caleb Thomas Esquire who signed the preceeding Certificate are residents of Madison township in said County and
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are Credible persons and that their statements are entitled to Credit.

I would refer to Jacob Swisher Esquire John Funston, James Laird Esquire of Madison township Uzal Hopkins of Bloom township to testify as to Character for veracity

[signed] Seth Chapman {seal}
[signed] Leonard Rupert {seal}

Columbia County Set -
I Jacob Eyerly Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County do hereby Certify that the foregoing Contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the application of Valentine Christian for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said Court at Danville the seventh day of August AD Eighteen hundred & thirty two.
[signed] Jacob Eyerly Prot