Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,563, Jemson Vankirk, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey
CONTENTS
Vankirk, Jemson
18
NUMBER
S. 22563
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
M
Jersey
CONTENTS
Vankirk, Jemson
dere.
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NUMBER
S. 2563
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Revolution
22563
INVALID.

File No. 22,563
Jemson Vankirk
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7" 32"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 432

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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of
who
by
Inscribed on
at the rate of
to commence
11. 255
Pittsburgh Agency
Penson
Vankirk
Butler Co in the State of Pennsylvania
was a - in the -
Command
High commands
Col Tailor in the New Jersey
Militia
Private
$80-
the Roll of Pittsburg Agency
- Dollars per ann
on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of April
1833
and Sent to
M. Lowrie, Butter
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 160
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 46
Recorded by
Book
J.T.
$200
⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Clerk
Vol. 5 Page 94,
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Amendment of
application of Jamson
Vankirk
$80 per ann
Direct, when examin
M. S. Lowrie
Butler   PA
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State of Pennsylvania
Butler County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned
a Justice of the peace in for the sd County Jamson
Vankirk, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith
that by reason of old age, and consequent loss of
memory, he cannot swear positively to the precise
length of his services, but according to the best of
his recollection he served not less than the periods
mentioned below, and in the following grades;
For one year and eleven months I served as a
private on my own account, and for three
months I served as a substitute, and for such
service I claim a pension.
This deponent further states that he is a
member of the Baptist denomination, and that
there is no clergyman of that denomination
near to when he resides. That the only clergyman
who has resided near him until within a few
days since in the Rev. M. Sweitzebarth a German
who has been requested to certify for this deponent
but who absolutely refuse to certify, alleging as the
only reason that this deponent does not go
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to hear him preach, and this deponent knows
of no other clergyman who can certify to his
to his be considered
character as a soldier of the revolution, and therefore
in his application for a pension he resorted to the
alteration of getting two respectable citizens to
certify to that effect, & further this deponent
saith not.
sworn & subscribed
Jenson Vankirk
this Sixth day of April 1833
2
before me
Christian Buhl
State of Penn
Butler County ss
⎬
I, Peter Duffy Prothonotary of the
Court of
common pleas in & for said County duly
certify that Christian But before whom the
above deposition was taken, was at that time, and
still is an acting justice of the
missioned & sworn
peace in & for the County aforesaid
and that full faith & credit in
due to his acts as such
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & the seal
of said Court this 9th April 1833
Peter Duffy  Pro
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State of Pennsylvania ⎬
County of Butler
ss.
On this eighth day of September in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before
the Honorable John Bredin esquire President Judge of the court of
Commonpleas &c of Butler County State of Pennsylvania, Jemson
Vankirk a resident of said county aged Seventy four 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 intered the service as a Militia man of the State of
New Jersey under the following named officers and served as herein
Stated. He served under General Foreman, George Tailor was Colonel who
afterward's proved himself a traitor and went over to the British Nathaniel
Sutter was their second Colonel who afterwards became their first Colonel
Brooks & Thomas Hunn were their Majors ⌨
Kenneth Henderson was Adjutant, Kenneth Hankerson was Captain
Moses Davis first Quitenant, Thomas Cook Second Luntenant which last was
taken prisoner at Sandy Hook, he served also under Captain Elija Walton
& John Walton - He was born in Middlesex County in the State of New Jersey
and was living in Monmouth County of Said State when the war
broke out. He entered the service as private and served some times as a
Sergant in August 1776 when the British landed on long land
he was called out different times in Monmouth County N. J. One month
as a substitute for Wm Cownoven at Long Branch.
he served two months at dale on his own account, where they captured
Merchant vesel belonging to the British which he helped to guard and
were ordered off
he served three month at different times on his own account at Shrewsburry
burry N.J. was marched to Germantown Penn was at the Battle at
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Germantown was stationed close to Captain Burris Company of the regular
troops. was served two month on my own account a Shrewsburry falls N.J
and one month as a substitute for Daniel Harper
served one month at Coltsneck N.J. his own account
served four months on his own account at the town of Monmouth in the
County of Monmouth N.J. he served one month on his own account at
Sandy Hook, where the guard was surrounded and above Seventy men
killed and taken prisioner: he served three month at Middle town N.J
on his own account. Served three month on his own account at Mount Pleasant
N.J. at this place Captain Burris of the regulars with ten men regular
troops under whom Suitenant Shank volunteered with ten militia men
of whom he was one, went down the Bay with three Shife and run
among five sloops where they boarded two of them and took ninteen
prisioners who were called refugees or tories, one Sloop they fetched off
the other run aground. Served one month on his own account at Black
point N.J. He then removed to Middlesex County N. J. in 1779, where
he served one month as a substitute for Jacob Holeman at Cranberry Village
in that month the British left New Brunswick: he was marched to Princeton
 to intercept their retreat, then to Sourland mountain in Sommer
set County N. Y. he served two month on his own account at different times
at New Brunswick and part of a month at Springfield N.J. he served
one month as Spotswood Village N.J. on his own account
The records of his age are lost by in a fire which destroyed his house,
he knows of no living witness who can testify to his services
He served in all twenty six month at different times.
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Fredin
Jemson Vankirk
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Original application
Jemson Vankirk
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We Christian Bull and Henry Munty residing in Thenople in
the County of Butler and State of Pennsylvania hereby certify, that we
are well acquainted with Jameson Vankirk who has subscribed and
Sworn to the foregoing declaration that we lived in the same village
with him for the last ten years and more that we belive him to
be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed and belived, in the
neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier or militia
man of the revolution and we concur in that opinion
Sworn and Subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
Before me
John Breeding
Christian Buhl
Henry Cluntz.
And the said John Bodin, President Judge does hereby declare
his opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and putting
the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above
named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states,
(the applicant being too old and infirm to come into Court
And the said President Judge further certifies,
that Christian Bull & Henry Muntz, who have signed the
preceding certificate, resident on the said County of Butler, are
credible persons; and that their statement is entitled to credit
testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal this fifth day of
Sept AD 1832
John Sedin
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State of Pennsylvania
Butter County
ss.
I, William Stewart, Rothonotaryof
the Court of Common Pleas in
and for the said County of Butler
Do by these presents certify, that
John Brodie before whom the
foregoing oaths were taken, and
who makes the foregoing certificate,
and who, in his own proper handwriting subscribed
the same, is President Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, &c. of Butter County, duly commissioned and sworn
and full faith & credit are due to all his acts as such, through
out the United States, and elsewhere. Witness my hand, and
the seal of said Court, at Butter the eleventh day of
September, A.D. 1832
Stewart, Robt