Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 4498, for Jacob Lacy, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776) 

SERVICE: New Jersey 
Lacy, Jacob
NUMBER: 4498. 
Carded

CONTENTS
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5355 
New Jersey 
Jacob Lacy 
Of the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Layton of the Reg. commanded by Col. Ludlow in the New Jersey line for 14 mo Private $46.66 

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of February 1833 and sent to Hon Condict House Reps.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 - $69.99 
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833  $23.33
$93.32 Book 

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832. 

Recorded by Vinal Luce Clerk,
Book D Vol. 4 Page 161

Letter to Hon L. Condict 30 Aug. 1839 
Let. To A. W. Linsley Sept 30 ‘45
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Declaration of
Jacob Lacy
No 6112
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DECLARATION, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS, PASSED JUNE 7, 1832. 

STATE OF NEW-JERSEY, 
County of Morris SS. 


On this twenty seventh day of July 1832 Jacob Lacy personally appeared, in open Court, before the court of Common Pleas now sitting County of Morris and State of New Jersey aged eighty nine 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 7, 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated: that he entered the militia as a volunteer in the first day of April A.D seventeen hundred seventy six at Elizabeth town in the County of Essex in this state and was duly enrolled in the company of Captain Peter Layton and was attached to the Regiment of Col. Cornelius Sudlow that he served one month as a private in said Company in active service; that the next succeeding month he served under Lieut Elijah Smith who was detached with a command from the company of Captain Peter Layton, served one other month under Lieut Caldwell, another month under Lieut Patterson, another month under [illegible] Johnson a Lieut, another month under Captain Israel Ward; another month under Captain Good, another month under Capt Hale, one other month as a substitute for Joseph Bateman, three other months as a substitute for Daniel Sally under Capt Daniel Smith [illegible]; that during all this time was attached to separate commands but under the orders of Capt Peter Layton, that he served several tours of duty as a substitute for several other persons whose names he does not now recollect, that he was in active service as a regularly called militiaman for more than two whole years; that he was engaged the greater part of that time in guarding the lines which extended from Elizabeth Town point to the [illegible], during the time the British were stationed on Staten Island and N. York Island; that he was in the battle of Connecticut Farm in the County of Essex, and at the battle of Springfield in the same County that he was out on every alarm during the time he served, and worked four months in Morristown N. Jersey under the command of Captain Dickerson making store houses for the army in Morristown, he never applied for any discharge from the time he was first enrolled until the end of the war nor did he ever apply for any.  He was born in year seventeen Hundred and forty three - has no record of his age.
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New Jersey
Essex County

Personally appeared before me Amos Wilcox one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County John Leonard and on being sworn on the Holy Evangelist of almighty God deposeth and saith that Jacob Lacy was in the militia service of the United States for the term of one month stationed at Morristown in the State of New Jersey in the time of the Revolutionary war it being in the summer season and also recollects of said Lacy being present at the time some soldiers was whipped and also some difficulty occurred between said Lacy and himself of a personal nature during said term of service and also quartered together at John Mill’s house during said term and further saith not.

Sworn and subscribed before me this twenty fourth day of July one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty-two.

John Leonard

 Amos Wilcox 

John Leonard is a reputable witness known to me & Amos Wilcox a Justice of Peace in Morris Co. N. J. & I believe the signature of his name hereunto is genuine.  L. Condict a Rep. from N. Jersey
5th Feby. 1833
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We the [illegible] of the Church of the first Presbyterian congregation of the township of Chatham in the County Morris and State of New Jersey - are well acquainted the Jacob Lacy and do hereby declare that he the said Lacy is a member in our church and has been many years in good and regular standing in said church , and full credit may be given to his certificate or deposition which may be taken respecting us being in the Revolutionary War and his application for a pension and further declare that there is not any [illegible] over this Congregation whereby the said Lacy could get any further certificate. In Witness our hand this 24th day of July 1832. 

William Crowell 
Zophan Freeman
Ichabod Bruen 
Charles Carter 
Louis Thompson
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He 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, is only on that of the Agency of the State of New Jersey. 

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. 
William Within 

We Samuel Davy and Stephen Bedford residing in the in the Neighbourhood of Chatham hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Lacy who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that he believes him to be Eighty-Nine years of age; 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. 

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
William Brittin 
[illegible signature]
Samuel Lacy

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 Samuel Lacy Stephen Bedford who have signed the preceding certificate resident in the neighbourhood of Chatham aforesaid, and that Samuel Lacy & Stephen Bedford who has also signed the same is a resident in the Neighbourhood of Chatham and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

William Brittin 
Dan’l Hopping
Stephen [illegible signature]
Daniel Barton 


I David Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jacob Lacy for a pension. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty seventh day of July eight hundred and thirty-two 
David Day Clerk
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Jacob Lacy 
No 6112 
N. Jersey

Susp. 8 Jan. ‘33
Obj. 4.5.14
Hon. L. Condict
Admitted Private 
14 months 
$46.66 
P 199
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State of Ohio 
Ottawa County ⎬ SS 

Personally appeared before us two of the Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid Mrs. Nancy Lindsley who being first duly sworn according to law states that she is the daughter and only surviving child of Jacob Lacy to the best of her knowledge who was a pensioner of the New Jersey agency at $46.66 per annum for services as soldier of the New Jersey Militia the whole of the revolutionary war as her father always told her and which his declaration on file in the Pension office will show that his declaration was hastily drawn up and although each district Town may not be fully specified yet under the circumstances of the case of which I am informed my son Mahlon S Lindsley has made affidavit I trust an increase to a pension for two years’ service will be allowed, my father died in New Jersey in March 1840 of which there is no doubt evidence on Record is in some of the public office at Washington.  She further states that in consequence of Infirmity or ill health she is not able to attend Court she also States that she has heard her father say that in the time of the revolutionary war when the alarm gun was fired that he had to rise at the hour of midnight and attend to the duties of a soldier and further this deponent saith not.

Nancy Lindsley

Signed in presence of 
A. Mest
William Gode
Henry Gode

Sworn and subscribed before us two Justices of the Peace as aforesaid this 9th day of Sept AD 1845 
Henry Delong a Justice of the peace
John Kirk Justice of the peace
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The State of Ohio
[illegible] County 

I Stanton H Brown Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the within named Henry Delong and John Kirk an acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified according to Law according to the laws of said State they are authorized to take acknowledgement as the within that I am well acquainted with the hand writing and verily believe the signatures to the within to be genuine.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this tenth day of September AD 1843

Stanton H Brown 
Clerk
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District of Columbia
County of Washington: 

On this twenty seventh day of August 1845 Personally appeared Mahlon S Lindsley before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County and made oath in the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, and states that he is the grandson of Jacob Lacy who received a pension of forty six dollars & Sixty Six cents per annum under the act of 7th of June 1832, that his grandfather resided in Morris County New Jersey when he was pensioned and that he also resided in the same County and State and that his grandfather lived with him both before and after he was allowed a pension, that at the time of his first making his declaration he took him to Morristown for that purpose it being on a day specially appointed by Col William Britton for the old revolutionary soldiers in that section to meet there, on that day there was a great many old soldiers assemble Morristown for the purpose of making
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.  Suck of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the war of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department.  Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
O.W. & N. DIV.
Revolutionary.


L.W.B.
I. 4498.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

August 9th, 1899.

Madam:- 
In response to your recent communication you are advised that Jacob Lacy made an application for pension on July 17, 1832, at which time he was 89 years of age and residing in Morris Township, Morris County, N. J., and his pension was allowed for fourteen months' actual service as a private in the New Jersey troops, Revolutionary war.  He enlisted at Elizabethtown, N. J. , and served under Capt. Layton and Col. Ludlow.

Very Respectfully,
Commissioner

Miss Ada Lacey,
Moscow, New York.