Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1076, for Amos Peters, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Peters, Amos | S.1076

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CONTENTS
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New Jersey No. 28,296

Amos Peters, of Hunterdon Co. in the State of New Jersey, who was a Serg(eant) in the (blank) commanded by Captain Joshua Corshon of the Reg(iment commanded by Col. David Bishop in the New Jersey line for 2 years. 

Serg(eant).........$120.00

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 120 Dollars (blank) Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of May 1834 and sent to C. Bartles, Flemington, N.J.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834.........$360.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. '34......60.00
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                                         $420.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Geo. C. Whiting, Clerk.
Book E; Vol. 3; Page 125.

Doubtful
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Amos. Peters
27834

Certificate to be sent to C Bartles, Flemington, N.J.

I forgot to state the part in the declaration that Amos Peters is blind. That known so within the 7 years past previous to that he wrote.

s/ C. Bartles

Adm(itted) 2 years
Serg(eant)
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

On this Twenty first day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred Thirty three, personally appeared in Open Court before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas holden at Flemington in & for the said County of Hunterdon at the special term thereof, [crossed out: personally] Amos Peters, aged Seventy four years on the Seventeenth day of May now last past, who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath maketh the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

To Inter(rogatory) I: I was born in the Township of Amwell in the County of Hunterdon & State of New Jersey on the 17th day of May A.D. 1759.

To Inter(rogatory) II: I have my age recorded in my family Bible which is at home. It was transcribed from my father's family bible.

To Inter(rogatory) III: When called into the service of the United State as a Militiaman in the War of the Revolution, I resided in the township of Amwell aforesaid and continued to reside in the same township until about thirty years ago when I removed to the Township of Kingwood, the County of Hunterdon aforesaid & resided in that township five years. I then went to Alexandria Township in the same County & remained there six years and then removed back to the Township of Amwell, where I now reside and have resided for nineteen years last past.

To Inter(rogatory) IV: 
When first called into the service I was...
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...drafted. I lived with Derrick Hoagland in Anwell Township who was rather infirm in June 1776. There was call for militia in our regiment, which was the Amwell Regiment. I was drafted & went out that month under Capt. Joshua Corshon, Lieutenant John Laquere, Ensign Joseph Haines, Colonel David Bishop, Major Cornelius Stout. We marched from Amwell & went to Amboy; laid there part of the time & then went to Morton's Farms near Woodbridge to guard a magazine. On this tour I was out one month & was discharged sometime in the beginning of July 1776. In the beginning of August 1776, our regiment was classed into two classes. Derrick Hoagland, the man will whom I lived, & this deponent belonged to the same company but were put in different classes so that one of us might be at home while the other was out on duty. I went out in the first class in August 1776 under the same officers. I think we marched from Amwell to Woodbridge and laid there one month & at Morton's Farms to guard the magazine [crossed out: crossroads] & were discharged. On my return home, Derrick Hoagland, with whom I lived as before stated being of a weakly constitution, wished me to go out & stand his tours as his substitute, which I agreed to do & accordingly went out immediately again and I continued out pretty much all my time for the term of two years and upwards, standing my own regular monthly tours & as the substitute for the said Derrick Hoagland, who is now deceased. During these different tours, I served under the following named officers & at the following stated places, to wit.:...
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[duplicate: deceased. During these different tours, I served under the following named officers & at the following stated places, to wit.:]

Brigadier Generals Dickinson, Jno. Heard, (& General Forman at the Battle of Germantown), Colonels David Bishop, David Chambers, Lieutenant Colonel William Chamberlin, Captains Joshua Corker, David Johnes, John Schenck, John Phillips, George Holcomb, (Majors Cornelius Stout, George Holcomb), Henry Phillip & Lieutenants John Laquere, Jacob Runk, Richard Corwine, Jacob Shellman &  Ensign Joseph Haines, [crossed out: William Rea(ding)], William Reading, George Ely. After I went to Woodbridge in Aug. 1776, I continued at that place & at Morton's Farm in that neighborhood until in the month of December 1776. Then I think went to Bound Brook & laid there during the winter of 1776 & '77. We left the went down [crossed out: along the (illegible)] in the spring of 1777 to the neighborhood of Elizabeth Town, laid there part of the time & part of them at Amboy; at the old Blazing Star, I think two months; at the New Blazing Star one month; at Hackensack three months; at Amboy I think five months; at Newark two [crossed out: or three] months, at least. I was at Morristown one month. I laid two months at New Brunswick, this was in the winter season; at Princeton one month; at Springfield three months; at Pompton three months; at Paramus four months. I lay at a place called The Trap in the State of Pennsylvania at the time of the Battle of Germantown. I was in the battle of Germantown. William Chamberlin, who was our Lieutenant Colonel had a son killed at that battle. I was standing near him when a cannon ball struck his left knee & took his leg off...
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...I helped to carry him off the field but he shortly bled to death. I helped to bring the boats up from Trenton to Coryall's Ferry to ferry General Sullivan's Army across the Delaware (River). I lay some time near Coughtown in Somerset County while the British lay at Brunswick. Their foraging parties used to come up in that neighborhood. While there I recollect we took a British Light Horseman who belonged to one of the foregoing parties.

I am unable to state from loss of memory & length of time the different places at which we lay in their regular order and at the precise periods at which I lay at each. I am safe in saying that I was out during the whole of the War of the Revolution above three years in all. Two years of which upon I acted as a sergeant. I never received a written discharge; were all verbal, I think.

Samuel Barber [crossed out: &] can testify as to some of my services. Jacob Kirkpatrick & John Coryell, to whom I am known in my present neighborhood, can testify as to my character for truth & veracity and their belief as to my services as a soldier of the Revolution. [crossed out: Subscribed to in Open Court] He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency of any State.
s/ Amos Peters (X - his mark)

Sworn & subscribed [crossed out: before] Open Court this 21st of September 1833.
S/ Geo. Henry, Judge &c.
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Hunterdon County//

I, Samuel Barber, being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he is acquainted with Amos Peters, who has signed & sworn to the foregoing declaration. Deponent has heard the said declaration read and believes the same to be true in all things. This deponent and the said Amos Peter belonged to the same company during the War of the Revolution. Deponent thinks he is safe in saying that said Amos Peters served upwards of two years as a Soldier of the Revolution and served in the capacity of sergeant of the company during that time. Deponent is upwards of Seventy seven years of age & further saith not.
s/ Sam'l Barber

Sworn & subscribed in Open Court this 21st September 1833.
s/ Geo. Henry

The Court certifies that they are well acquainted with Samuel Barber, who has signed & sworn to the preceding affidavit. And that his statements are entitled to full faith & credit. Done in Open Court this 21st September 1833.
s/ Geo. Henry
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Mr. Jacob Kirkpatrick, a Clergyman residing in the Township of Amwell in the County of Hunterdon, and (blank) residing in the same township, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Amos Peters, who hath sworn to & subscribed the above declaration. That we believe him to be Seventy four 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.
s/ J. Kirkpatrick
s/ John Coryell

Sworn to & subscribed this 21st day of September A.D. 1833.
s/ Geo. Henry, Judge &c.

And the said Court 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, Amos Peters, was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jacob Kirkpatrick, who signed the preceding certificate is a [crossed out: John Coryell] resident of the township of Amwell and that John Coryell, who has also signed the same, is also a resident of the same township and is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to full faith and credit.
s/ Geo. Henry
s/ Samuel Nile
s/ Jno. Thompson
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Amos Peters

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

I, Isaac G. Farlee, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon, do hereby certify the foregoing contains the original proceedings had in the matter of the application of Amos Peters for a pension before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Hunterdon. That the signature "Geo. Henry" to the foregoing declaration, affidavits & certificates and also the signatures "Samuel Hill & Jno. Thompson" to the foregoing certificate of the Court are all genuine. And I do further certify that the said George Henry, Samuel Hill and John Thompson, Esquires, were at the time of taking the said affidavits & now are Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this 23rd day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred & Thirty three - 1833.
s/ Isaac G. Farlee, Clk.
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Amos Peters | 27,834

Certificate to be sent to C. Bartles, Flemington, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey.
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in &for the said County of Hunterdon, Amos Peters, the person who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing declaration, who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he was elected by his company as Orderly Sergeant some short time after the commencement of the War of the Revolution and in that capacity he acted for the term of two years & upwards in actual service of the United States during the War of the Revolution. In my original declaration I stated that I lived with Derrick Hoagland of the Township of Amwell, who was rather infirm and got me to serve as his substitute in June 1776, which I think was the time when the Militia from our neighborhood was generally on to go out & do military duty. I commenced [crossed out: serving] doing military duty in the service of the United States from that time on for several years in succession. One half of the militia from our district was out pretty much all the time [crossed out: & were ordered] standing monthly tours. One half relieving the other monthly. I do not recollect of there being a call for the militia to stand a monthly tour when less than one half went & having agreed to go as the substitute for the said Derrick Hoagland. Was kept out pretty much all the time for when the relief came for the part to which I was attached. I was transferred into that company as the substitute for the said Derrick Hoagland. Since making my declaration, I recollect serving under Captain Peter Ent, George Ely, Phillip Snook & Cornelius Hoppock. I cannot state in detail the different officers under whom I served in their regular order. The length of time is too great & standing my own tours & the tours for said (Derrick) Hoagland would as a matter of course create confusion in the mind of almost any man to recollect distinctly for fifty years & upward. I recollect of seeing Lord Sterling at Elizabeth Town & also at Bound Brook. I think also I saw General Lee at the New Blazing Star. I also recollect seeing Generals Washington & Sullivan while lying The Trap in Pennsylvania. General Sullivan had the...
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...command of the militia at the time of the Battle of Germantown. And this deponent on his oath further saith that while in the service of the United States during the War of the Revolution, he served with an embodied corps called into the service by competent authority. And that he was either in the field or the garrison for the term of three years & upwards & that for two years & upwards he served in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant of his company & that while in such service he was not employed in any civil pursuit. That he never received any written commission as Orderly Sergeant nor any written discharges from the service.
s/ Amos Peters (X - his mark)

Sworn & subscribed before me this 24th day of December A.D. 1833.
s/ John Barber

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

Richard Holcomb, being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he belonged to the same company of militia to which the above named Amos Peters belonged. This deponent recollects being out with the said Amos Peters in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution in the years 1776, 1777, 1778 & until the close of the revolution. That the said Amos Peters acted as the Orderly Sergeant of our company. I recollect of said (Amos) Peters lying at Woodbridge, at Morton's Farms, at Elizabeth Town, at Amboy & I think at other places. I know that said (Amos) Peters was out pretty much all the time, standing his own tours & the tours of Derrick Hoagland, for whom he was the substitute. I have no hesitation in saying that said (Amos) Peters served in the War of the Revolution for two years & upwards & that he served for that length of time in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant. I was Eighty one...
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...years old on the Twenty first day of December instant & resided during the whole of the War of the Revolution within two miles of the residence of said (Amos) Peters & further saith not.
s/ Richard Holcomb

Sworn & subscribed before me, one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Hunterdon this 24th day of December 1833.
s/ John Barber

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Richard Holcomb and that full faith and credit should be given to his statement. Given under my hand this 24th day of December A.D. 1833.
s/ John Barber

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

I, Isaac G. Farlee, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Hunterdon do hereby certify that John Barber, before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken was at the time of taking the same of making the foregoing certificate now is one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County of Hunterdon & that his signature to the said affidavits & certificates is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed the Seal of the said Court this Seventeenth day of December A.D. 1833 (thirty three).
s/ Isaac G. Farlee, Clk.
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INVALID.
Rev(olutionary) War

File No. 1076
Amos Peters
Pri(vate) N.J. Line

Act: June 7, 1832
Index: -; Vol. A; Page 291

{Arrangement of 1870.}