Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,349, Peter Firkins, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.

Firkins, Peter

NUMBER
S 34.349

CONTENTS
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Notification sent the 7th July 1820, to Wm P Deare, Esqr

N. Brunswick
N. J. 

44  New Jersey
Peter Firkins
Capt. Stout
Private, Penn
In the army of the U. States
At $8 per mo: comd 20th March 1818

Cert: issued 2d April 1818 & sent too Hon: Genl Bloomfield, House of Rep. U. States

Amt to 4 Sept. 1818 5 13/28 mos. $43.71

{Revy Claim)
(Act 18th March 1818)

Pennsylvania line of 6-5 years

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Peter Firkins
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In the case of Peter Firkins claiming to be entitled to a Pension under the 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."

State of New Jersey }
Middlesex County }    Peter Firkins of the city of New Brunswick in the county of Middlesex and State aforesaid being duly sworn before me Thomas Hance one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex in the State aforesd (aforesaid) on his oath saith, that he enlisted in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and seventy six at Philadelphia in the company commanded by Captain Harman Stout in the tenth Pennsylvania Regiment on the Continental establishment commanded by Col. Hampton and continued to serve as a Private in that Regiment in the Revolutionary War until the twenty sixth day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one, when he received an Honorable discharge signed by Anthony Wayne Brigdr Genl on the Bank of the Delaware River.
And this deponent further saith
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that since his discharge as afsd (aforesaid) he hath always resided in the State of New Jersey and for many years past in the city of New Brunswick and State afsd and that he is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of assistance from his country for support and further saith not.
(signed) Peter (his X mark) Firkins

Sworn & Subscribed} 
this 2th March 1818 }
before me  }
(signed) Thos Hance

State of New Jersey }
Middlesex County }   I, Thomas Hance one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex certify that the foregoing is to me satisfactory proof that Peter Firkins the applicant served in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy as a Private Soldier on the continental establishment for the term of nine months or longer.
Witness my hand this 20th March 1818
(signed) Thos Hance

State of New Jersey }
Middlesex County }    I William P  Deare clerk of
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the Court of Common Pleas in & for the county of Middlesex in the State afsd certify that Thomas Hance Esqr who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing attestation is one of the Judges of said Court duly commissioned and sworn & to his official acts full credit is to be given.
[ SEAL ]   Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at New Brunswick afsd this twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
(signed) Wm P. Deare  clk
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Peter Firkins

44

Sept 1818
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SCHEDULE.

State of New-Jersey, }
Middlesex County, ss. }

On this twentyeth (sic) day of June 1820, personally appeared, in open court, in the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex in the said state, being a Court of Record, proceeding according to the course of the common law with jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, Peter Firkins aged Seventy two years, resident in New Brunswick in said county, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: viz  in the Tenth, Pensylvania (sic) Regiment under the Command of Colonel Hampton, that he made his Declaration Order to obtain the benefit of the act of March. 18. 1818 in that same month and his Pension Certificate is No 44.

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, 1818; 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 that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

Schedule.
As goods, Chattels or other Effects
And I do further declare that I am by occupation a labourer, but unable to earn my subsistance and that I was previous to the obtaining my pension a pauper, maintained by the Township of North Brunswick;  That I have a wife and  one Child, who do not live with me nor contribute to my support.
(signed) Peter (his X mark) Firkins

Sworn to, and declared and subscribed on the day aforesaid }
(signed) Robert McChesney Presiding Judge

I, William P. Deare clerk of Court of Common Pleas of the county of Middlesex do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, as truly copied from the record 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 [BLANK] dollars and [BLANK] cents.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court, on this twentieth day of June 1820
(signed) Wm P Deare clk
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34 349
Revy  INVALID

File No.  34. 349

Peter Firkins
Pri  W. S.  A

Act: 18th March 18

Index: -Vol. 2, Page 138

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