Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33254, Joseph Badgely, New Jersey
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SERVICE NEW JERSEY
Badgely, Joseph
or Badgley
NUMBER S.33254
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4100
New Jersey
Joseph Badgely,
Capt Morrison
private  4
New Jersey line-1775. [illegible] month,
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence or the 16th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd of Nov. 1818.
and sent to John Wilson Esq Plainfield, New Jersey. ?rrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 4 and 19/30.
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4th Mar? 1819.
37.06
48.00
[double line]
$:85.06
[double line]
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Continued
Epen Co?
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declaration [illegible]
of Joseph Badgely
to obtain a Pension
April 16, 1818

Correct
The Judge [illegible]
the need of the
[illegible]
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State of New Jersey
County of Essex  Is?
On this Sixteenth day of April 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said county personally appeared Joseph Badgely aged sixty two years resident in the said County--who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War--
That he the said Joseph Badgely Enlisted in the year 1778 at Quibble Town  in the State of New Jersey in the Company commanded by Issac Morrison of the first New Jersey Regiment commanded by Colonel Matthias Ogden said Regiment belonging to  the Jersey line on Continental Establishment that he enlisted for nine months and continued to serve in said corps till the expiration of that term and for a few days over the time when he was discharged from Service at Elizabeth town in the State of New Jersey- that he ws in the Battle of Monmouth - and that he is in reduced circumstances and Stands in need of his Countrys assistance [word inserted] for support and that he has no other Evidence now in his power of his said Services - except what may be furnished by the testimony of Samuel Foster herewith transmitted- Sworn to and declared before me this day and year aforesaid (signed) John Wilson  

[signed ]Joseph X Badgely [ X his mark]
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I John Wilson Judge [illegible] as aforesaid do certify-that it appears to my Satisfaction that the within named Joseph Badgely did serve in the Revolutionary Was as stated in  the preceding declaration againt the Common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and Testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the department of War, pusuant tothe directions of the within mentioned act of Congress-
Plainfield Essex County
State of New Jersey- April 16 1818 [signed] John Wilson

State of New Jersey
Essex County ss.
I Silas Whitehead clerk of the county common pleas of the said County of Essex hereby Certify to all who it may concern that John Wilson Esquire  the person before whom the foregoing affidavits appears to have been made was at the time of the making thereof  and still is a judge of said Court as appears by the rolls of  county Officers in my Office and that full faith and credit is due to the foregoing as well as all others his legal acts as such as well in courts of law as else where. Also that the above signature appears to me to be his proper hand writing
in Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court the Seventh day of May A.D. eighteen hundred and eighteen.
[signed] S. Whitehead
[Seal at left]
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{State of New Jersey}
{County of Exxex}

Personally appeared before me John Wilson one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Samuel Foster who says he is in the sixty fourth year of his age and being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was a Sergeant in Captain Issac Morrisons company in the first Jersey Regiment commanded by Colonel Matthias Ogden and in General Maxwells Brigade in the Jersey line on the continental Establishment that in the year 1778 he thinks in the Spring of that year Joseph Badgely and James Anderson Enlisted in Said Capt Morrisons Company for nine Months - that they were all of them in the Monmouth Battle that year- and the deponent well recollects that said Badgely and Anderson Both served out the term of nine months of which they were Enlisted- and expects they both got their discharge. but cannot positively [underlined] swear to it as from the length of time the particular circumstances of their case has escaped his Memory--.
[Signed} Samuel Foster
[in parentheses] Sworn to & subscribed before me this 14th day of April 1818

John Wilson
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Joseph Badgley
Schedule  & c-.
4.100
March 1819
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District of New Jersey County of Essex ss.
Before a special
District Court of the
United States in and
for the State of New Jery held at
Newark in Essex County on the 13th
day of July 1820
PRESENT the Honorable William S. Pennington
ss. Be it Remembered, That on the thirteenth
day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
personally appeared in the District Court of the United States
in open court, the said court being a court of record for the District of New
Jersey holden in Essex County
Joseph Badgeley aged sixty five years,
resident in the said County of Essex
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he
served in the revolutionary war as follows: In the first Jersey Regiment 
on Continental establishment
commanded by Col Matthias Ogden
and that he believed [2 words inserted] his original declaration is dated the sixteenth day of April
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that his pension certificate is No. 4.100
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AND I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the
18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner,
disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring
myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain
persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war,"
passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have
not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to
me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and
by me subscribed, to wit:
1 Old Breakfast Table, 1 pr andirons, 1 shovel
I tongs 1 Tea kettle 1 gun, 2 Flower [flour] Barrels, 1 Chest
1 Shoat 3 months old, 1 Barrel, 1 pr bellows, 1 little
wheel - 1 Cider pail a pitch fork rake & hoe
1 Scythe 8 hens & their chickens 1 axe & about 5 or 600
weight of hay debts due to me about one dollar
& fifty cents

Signed
      his
Joseph X Badgley
     mark

That he is by occupation a laborer, can do but
about one half a days work in a day owing
to age and infirmity. His family consists of a
wife about fifty five years of age (who cannot
more than earn her own living being considerably
infirm and one daughter aged about eighteen
or nineteen years who works out to support
herself and makes her home at her said Fathers
when out of work and needs all she can earn
for her own support.
Sworn in open Court
the 13th July 1820

his
Joseph X Badgley
mark
-
William S. Pennington
DIstrict Judge
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I make the goods contained in the foregoing
inventory at Twenty five Dollars

Wm. Pennington

I, William Pennington Clerk of the District Court
of the United States for the New Jersey District,
Do hereby certify, That the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed,
are truly copied from the records of the said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the
opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the
aforesaid schedule is Twenty five Dollars -
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said
Court, this twenty first day of July 1820

W. Pennington
[Seal at bottom left]
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33254
Revy INVALID.
File No. 33, 254
Joseph Badgely
Pri Rev War
Act: 18" March 18"
Index:-- Vol. 8, Page 87
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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