Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2129, Peter Coolbagh, New Jersey
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
	On this eighteenth day of August AD one thousand
eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared
in open court before the Judges of the Inferior Court
of Common Pleas now sitting Peter Colbaugh
a resident of the Township of Amwell in the
county and state aforesaid who being first duly
sworn according to Law doth upon his oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the fact of congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he was born in the county of Somerset
and state of New Jersey on the 8th day of
1&2 2u? April 1754. That he has no record of his age,
but that he has been so frequently told of it
by his parents that he cannot now be mistaken.
	That the following is a true history of his
services in the New Jersey Militia in the revolutionary
war, and that he served in said war at the
following times and places, and under the
hereinafter named officers as nearly as he can
recollect - - To wit.
4 2u?  That he was called drafted into the Militia
in the Township of Amwell aforesaid in the Early
part of the revolutionary war and went to
Staten Island under Captain James Stout
attached to the regiment commanded by Lieutenant
Col William Chamberlin where he remained one
month. That not long after this he went to Spring=
=field under Captain Charles Reading ^ and Lieutenant Col William Chamberlin^ as he thinks
in the fall of 1776 just after the British had
burned the meeting house at this place and that
he remained here one month. -
That late in the fall of 1776 he went to Smith’s
farms under the last named officers where
he remained one month. That he was at
Elizabeth Town in the winter of 1776 under the
aforementioned officers where he remained
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one month. That he was at Amboy one
month in the winter of 1777 under the same
officers. That he was at Millstone in the
Spring of 1777 under Captain Cornelius [scribbled]
[scribbled] Polhemus and Lieutenant Col William Chamberlin
where he remained one month. -
That in the summer of 1777 he was at Bound Brook
under the last named officers where he remained
one month. That he marched to Pakyoming
in Pennsylvania just before the battle of German=
=town in which he was engaged under Captain
Charles Reading and Lieutenant Col William
Chamberlin ^and was out at this time one month^ -That in the winter of 1777
he marched to Princeton under Captain Cornelius
Polhemus and was engaged in the battle at
this place. That at this time he was out one
month.- That after this battle he encamped
a month near Morris-Town under the same
officers as at Princeton. That in the spring of
1777 he was out one month on the Raritan
river - and also one Month at the time of
the battle of Monmouth in which he was engaged.
That he knew by sight a number of the General
officers. That at Germantown he was commanded
5 2u?  by General David Furman and at the battle of
Princeton by General Washington —
6 2u?  That he never received a written discharge
That since the revolutionary war he has resides in
the Township of Amwell aforesaid where he now
3 2u?  resides. That the Reverend John F. Clark and
Adam Conrad and many other persons in
7 2u?  his neighborhood can testify to his character
as a man of truth and veracity, and as to their
belief of his statement of services rendered in the
revolutionary war. That he has no documen=
=tary or other written evidence of his military
services. - That he believes he can establish
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substantially all a part of what he has herein set forth as to his
services by Adam Conrad. That he knows of
no other person surviving who knows any
thing of the service rendered by him during
the revolutionary war. and he hereby relin=
=quishes 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
Sworn and subscribed		Peter Colbagh
the 18th day of August
1832. In open court

Richd Coxe


Hunterdon County     Adam Conrad being
duly sworn deposeth and saith That he was
well acquainted with the above named appli=
cant Peter Colbaugh as a soldier of the
revolutionary war. That he was with the
said Colbaugh doing duty as a soldier
at Smith’s farms, Elizabeth-Town, and
Woodbridge and that said Colbaugh
always sustained the reputation of a good
and brave soldier.
Sworn and subscribed	Adam
the 18th day of August 1832	Conrad
In open court

Richd Coxe