Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2029, James Agin, New Jersey
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New Jersey  Agin, James   S2029
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County [?] on this Eighteenth day of August
in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and
thirty two before the Judges of the inferior
court of common pleas of the county of Hun-
-terdon now sitting James Agin a resident
of the Township of Amwell in said county
aged seventy three years appeared personally
who having been 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 entered the service of the united
States under the following named officers
[in the margin: "15[?] added by supplement"]
and served as herein stated viz That in
September 1776 he volunteered as a militia
man under Captain David Johns of Am-
-well and went to [Thornton's?] farm near
Woodbridge in New Jersey and staid there one
month - That in December of the same
year he again volunteered under Captain
Joshua Kershon Lieutenant John Laquear
and Ensign Abraham Williamson - was
marched to Trenton N.J. remained there
a few days until the British troops came
to Trenton then crossed the Delaware into
Pennsylvania and continued with the com-
-pany as a scouting party crossing and recross-
-ing the Delaware river until the battle of Prince-
-ton after that he lay with the company
two weeks at Princeton then was discharged
and went home - a few days after this
Deponent went out again under Captain Na-
-than Stout went to the Raritan quartered
at one John Perrine's he remained there
until the first of March making three
Months in all from the time he first
was marched to Trenton - He then
during the same month of March went
out again under Captain John Schenck
of Amwell - John Prall Lieutenant to Van
- Nests mills on the Millstone river in Som-
-erset county and was there one month
during that month's tour the Americans
there had a skirmish with the British
and took from them some laded wag-
-gons - The American Troops we com-
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-manded by Col David Chambers Lieut. Col.
William Chamberlin - Deponent went out
again in the succeeding month of April under
Captain John Phillips to Boundbrook
N.J. was there a few days and then mar-
-ched to Pompton. Thence to Paramus rem-
aimed out one month and was discharged
In September 1777 Deponent went out again
under Capt. David Johns Lieut. Geo. Holcomb
was marched to Paramus and remained
one month - In October of the same
year he went out under Capt. John
Schenck was marched into Pennsylva-
-nia and was at the battle of German-
-town remained out 15 days
In March 1778 he went out again under
Lieutenant George Holcomb to Elizabethtown
and remained there one whole month
afterward he went out again upon
an alarm under Capt. John Schenck
to Springfield and remained there twenty
days - toward the last of May 1778
he went under Capt. Schenck to Trenton
and laid there until the British crossed
the Delaware at Cooper's ferry - Then
went to Bordentown and continued
out until the day of the Monmouth
Battle when his month expired - Depo-
-nent thinks he was out nearly or quite
a year altogether - but his tours of
regular service and upon general alarms
were so frequent and so short periods
that he cannot now distinctly remember
all of them - Those that are specified
above he recollects well and the length
of time of most of them - he recollects
the following facts in relation to the
battle of Germantown - that General
David Forman[?] commanded a part
of the militia there - that part of the 
army in which Deponent was statio-
-ned was ordered to retreat - where Genl
William Maxwell came to their aid
and lost his Artillery - a son of Col-
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Chamberlin was killed there by a Cannon
ball - Deponent thinks he was a private
soldier at the time - after that battle
Deponent was marched to a place
called the [Trap?] in Pennsylvania &
after remaining there a few days was
dismissed - Deponent recollects very
well Captn Jno. Maxwell the brother
of General Wm Maxwell who it was
said at that time belonged to the fly-
-ing camp - he has forgotten the names
of any officers of the regular army that
he knew at the time
Deponent says further that he has
no documentary evidence of his revo-
-lutionary services - That the follow-
-ing persons have some knowledge
of his engagements in that service
viz John Abbott Joseph Boss & Samuel Corwine
whose affidavits are herewith annexed
He hereby relinquishes every claim what-
-ever to a pension or annuity except
the present and declares that his name
is not on the pension roll of the agen-
-cy of any state or territory
Sworn and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
in open court
[signed: James Agin]

Robert K. Reading
one of the Judges of said
Court