Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1108, for Barnes J Smock, New Jersey
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Service: New Jersey Smock, Barnes J.  S1108
carded
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Barnes J Smock 1837 [illegible text] admitted
New Jersey admitted 1832
[illegible text] E Hassler, Agents
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F E [illegible text]  Sept 2 1854 Holmdel, NJ

Dear Sir: Understanding from William Smock that you will examine the pension claim of my father by simple request. I hereby authorize you to do the same & send me all the information you can get & how to proceed hereafter & oblige. Yours, George G Smock
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9594
New Jersey
Barnes J Smock
Monmouth Co. in the State of New Jersey 
who was a Lieut in the Company commanded
by Captain Smock of the Regt commanded by Col Taylor in the New Jersey [illegible] Militia
2 Ys Lieutenant $320.00
Inscribed in the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 320 Dollars and Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of pension issued on the 31st day of May, 1832 and Sent to D. B Ryall, Freehold, NJ
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 - 640.00
[illegible text] allowance ending 4 Sept - 166.00
$800.00
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Monmouth Pleas of July 7th 1832 Declaration of Col. Barnes J. Smock  No 4084
Admitted 2 years Lieutenant $320
D. B. Ryall Freehold NJ
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Declaration of Col. Barnes J. Smock in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of New Jersey County of Monmout SS 
On the thirty first day of July in Anno Domini 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Monmouth now setting at Freehold. Col. Barnes J. Smock a resident of the township of Middletown in the said County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey aged seventy six years on the twenty ninth day of Juen last past 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 he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he entered the service as a militia man in the Infantry company commanded by his father Captain John Smock some time in the year 1776 before the British troops landed at Staten Island in the State of New York and remained in the service for about two months, stationed at the Highlands in Middletown township in said County watching the movements of the enemy, that after the expiration of that time he entered the company of Militia commanded by Lieutenant Barnes Smock his uncle this was a Uniform or dress company under the command of Col. George Taylor who a short time afterward become a Tory and joined the enemy, that he was in
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the service in this company for about six months doing his duty every other month in actual service, while in this Company Col Taylor joined the enemy and the command was taken by his uncle Barnes Smock, that a short time after the expiration of this time he joined a troop of horse as a private commanded by Captain Randle and was in the service with him for about four months doing duty all that time when he Captain Randle left the County of Monmouth and the command devolved on Captain William Remsen, Jacob Covenhoven Lieutenant and he this deponent was appointed cornet of the said troop, that some time after Captain Remsen became deranged and died and Lieutenant Covenhoven was promoted to the Captaincy and this deponent to the Lieutenancy of the said troop, that he acted in that capacity of cornet and Lieutenant from the time of his appointment until the close of the war in actual service every other month and sometimes for two or three months in succession and in one instance for four or five months, during the period of time he was an officer as above stated Col Asher Holmes commanded him as such, that it is impossible for him to state the particular times he entered the service he always considering himself as entered in the service from the time he first joined the Company as a private, and that
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he was in the actual service of his County as a private and officer between three and four years doing his duty in the respective stations he then held and that at the close of the war he held the commission of Lieutenant of Dragoons ranking with a Captain of the Infantry and entitled to receive Equal pay, that the Commissions he held of Cornet and Lieutenant as above stated have been lost or destroyed (except about one half his Lieutenants Commission) many years and he cannot now recollect the dates or by whom they were signed, but to the best of his recollection Governor Livingston of New Jerey signed his Cornet [illegible crossed out line] the Lieutenant commissions he is confident they were both signed by [illegible crossed out line] Governor Livingston, that at the time he entered the service as before stated he resided in the township of Middletown in said County of Monmouth, where he now lives and has for many years, that when he first entered the service it was under the drafts or monthly calls as they were then termed, that he was in the Skirmish at Jumpping Point in Shrewsbury township when Captain Jeremiah Chadwick was killed by the tories, he was also in the Skirmish on Remsen Neck in said township when Lieutenant Huble a tory officer was killed, he was also at the Skirmish at Van Dom's Mill in Middletown township on the retreat of the fifteen hundred British and Tories he was also in the Battle of Monmouth
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at which time he commanded the troop of Horse acting as Lieutenant, Captain Covenhoven being then a prisoner and so remained until he was exchanged
about the year 1781, during which time he this deponent acted as commandant of his company, that during the period of his services his marches range from South Amboy
in Middleton County to Stafford in Monmouth County guarding the intermediate  places and points from the inroads of the British and Toris that he never served with any continental Regiments or company's except at the time of the Battle of Monmouth he then being under the command of Colonel Asher Holmes who was stationed at the Scotch Meeting House about six miles from the field of battle and who on that day dispatched this deponent then commandant of the troop with a part of the troop to watch the movements of the enemy which he performed & after reporting to Col Holmes was by him sent with a letter to General Washington & which he delivered to one of his Aids, that he has no documentary evidence of his services except a few of the pay Rolls of his company within thereon in the years [inserted line] and one half his Lieutenants Commission with the frank of the State there on [end line] 1779, 1780, 1781 and 1782 and that he knows of no other person whose testimony he can procure except Nicholas Morrell Joseph Vaneleaf Lewis Covenhoven & John L Burnett James Wall some of the old troopers of his company who are yet living, who can testify to his
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service, and He herby relinquishes 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 & subscribed the day & year aforesaid}
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John Patterson
Barnes [different writing  I S] mark

Mommouth County in State of New Jersey We Nicholas Norrell Jos Vaneleaf  John L Bennett & James Wall of the County of Monmouth do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Colonel Barnes J Smock who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy six years of age that we know he was a private and afterwards a Comd and then a Lieutenent of Dragoons in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war and that he served as such for at least between three and four years during said service that we each of us served in his troop during said period, that he held at the close of the war a Lieutenants Commission of Dragoons and that he is not only reputed and believed
to be betes known in his neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier & officer of the Revolution, and that he is a credible person and his statements entitled to credit.

Sworn to & subscribed the }
day & year aforesaid}
[signatures]
John Patterson
Nicholas his X  marakMorell
Joseph Vaneleaf
John L Bennnet
James Wall
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and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogations prescribed by the war department, and after examination of the remnant of the Commission of the said applicant as a Leutenant of the Horse in the Middleton of New Jersey, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and officer and served as he states and the Court further Certifies that there has been plenary  evidence of the said applicants being in such as Leuntenant Commandant during said revolutionary war in the applications of several members of the troop for a pension at the present Court other than by these who have sworn
to and signed the preceeding certificate and the Court further certifies that the said applicant hath in his possession several old pay rolls of the troop of Horse
which he was attached which are not only additional evidence of his declaration be likewise of [crossed out word] of the truth of the declarations of the surviving privates of the said Company and the Court further certify that it appears to them that Nicholas Monell Joseph Vaneleaf John Bennett and James Wall who have signed the proceeding certificate are residents of the County of Monmouth and where soldiers of the Revolution in the troops commanded by or to which the said applicant was attached, and that they are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit-
By order of the Court
W. J. Bourne
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J. W. & E. R. Bartleson - Printers, Freehold, N.J.
I, the Subscriber, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Monmouth, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing Contains the Original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Col Barnes J Smock for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Freehold, this thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
W. H. Ellis [illegible text]
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I Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contain the original Declaration & proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Barnes J. Smock for a pension, on the thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty two.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court, the sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
W.H. Ellis [illegible text]
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Supplemental affidavit of Barnes J Smock
of the County of Monmouth and State of
New Jersey

New Jersey Monmouth County, to wit; Personally
appeared before me the undersigned a
Justice of the Peace of the County and
State aforesaid Barnes J. Smock who
being duly sworn according to law deposeth
and saith that on the thirty first day
of July last past he [made?] his declaration before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Monmouth for a pension under the
act of Congress of June 7th 1832, that
by reason of old age and consequent
loss of memory, he cannot swear positively
to the precise length of his service
but according to the best of his recollection 
he served not [before?] [illegible] the periods [illegible] [illegible] below and in the following grades; for two months in the year 1776
[commencing?] about the sixth day of July
and ending about the sixth day of
September of that year I served as a private under my father Captain John
Smock; For seven months in the year 1777 I
served as a private under Lieutenant
Barnes Smock my uncle in past and under
Captain Randle, three months of this time
under his uncle and four months under
Captain Randle, that he served as a private
this year from the month of January
to the month of July both inclusive:
For two months in the year 1777 I served as a
Cornet under a Commission signed
by Governor Livingston of New Jersey dated
about the middle of August of that year
whereby he was appointed Cornet of the
Light Horse Company of said County of
Monmouth whereof Col Asher Holmes
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was Colonel, that he cannot now recollect the
date of his cornet's Commission, that it has
been lost many years and that after
diligent search and enquiry he has not
been able to find it, or the record of
such commission and appointment of
any such was made or kept at that
time, that the service under said commission
was from about the middle
of August 1777 to the last of October
of the same year, when he was
appointed Lieutenant of the same
Company by the same Governor under the
Seal of the State of New Jersey,
part of which Commission is attached
to my original declaration herein be
fore referred to, that according to the
best of his recollection the Lieutenant
Commission bore date about the first of
November 1777, that part of the same
has been lost many years he
not being able to find it after diligent
search and enquiry that he found the
part attached to his declaration among
some old papers with a part of the
old pay rolls of his company which he
remitted to the War department with
his original declaration in August last,
that he has not been able to ascertain
that any record was kept of the appointment 
and commissions of Militia officers
in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War;  That he served one month in the
year 1777 as a Lieutenant in said Company
under his said Commission; For nine months
in the year 1778 I served as a Lieutenant
under said commission, to wit, the months
of February, March, April, June, July, August,
September, October and November; For six

Smock, Barnes
NJ S1108
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months in the year 1779 I served as a Lieutenant
under said Commission, to wit, the months
of January March May July September &
November and also a part of the intermediate
months he thinks June and August;
For six months in the year 1780 I served
as a Lieutenant under said Commission
to wit; January March May July September &
November and also a part of the intermediate
months of June and August;
For six months in the year 1781 I served
as a Lieutenant under said Commission
to wit: January, March, May, July, September &
November; 
For three or four months in
year 1782 I served as a Lieutenant under
said Commission in the months of January
March May July and he thinks September,
that in April 1778 his Captain Jacob Cowenhoven
was taken prisoner by the British
and released or exchanged in April 1781
[illegible] thinks, and during that time Deponent acting under his said Lieutenants
Commission was Commandant of the
said Company, that he is the same person
named in his Commission a part of which
is attached to his original declaration by
the name of Barnes Smock Junr Gentleman
to designate him from his uncle Barnes
Smock, and that I have assumed the name of
Barnes J. Smock by reason of my father's
name being John, and to distinguish myself
from several of my relatives who have
the same Christian name, and that for
such service as before stated I claim a
pension.

And that during which service he was not employed in any civil service before called into service by the laws of New Jersey and that the record of his age is in his father's family Bible now in his possession

Barnes J Smock

Sworn & subscribed before me one of the
Justices of the Peace in & for the County of 
of Monmouth's this 10th day of 
May AD 1833-
William Lloyd Justice

Smock, Barnes
NJ S1108
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Mr Samuel A Van Vranken residing in the township of Freehold and John H Schenck residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Barnes J Smock who has subscribed and sworn to the within supplemental affidavit and the original declaration of the said Barnes J Smock therein referred to, that we believe him to be seventy six years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been Lieutenant of Dragoons in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion -

Sworn & subscribed before me
of the Judges of the Inferior Court
of Common Pleas in & for the County
of Monmouth at Freehold
New Jersey this 13th day of May
1833.-

[Side margin:  
Saml A Van Vranken
John H Schenck]

William Lloyd



&
I William Lloyd, one of the Judges of the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for
the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey, and also a Justice of the Peace in the same County, before the above supplemental affidavit & certificate were subscribed & sworn, do hereby certify that I was a member of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid at the time the original Declaration of the above named Barnes J. Smock, was made for a pension on the 25th day of July 1832, under the act of June 7, 1832,
and that I do hereby further certify and
declare my opinion that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Officer & served [illegible]
States; and that it appears to me, & I know
the fact to be so, that Samuel A Van Vranken
who has signed the preceding
certificate is a Clergyman resident in
the township of Freehold, in said County,
that John H Schenck who has also signed
the same, is a resident in the said township of Freehold, in said county, & that John H Schenck who has also signed the same, is a resident in the said town ship of Freehold & is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to full credit.

Dated 16th day of May 1833 -
William Lloyd
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I Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas in for the County
of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey
Do hereby certify that William Lloyd, Esquire,
before whom the foregoing supplemental
affidavit and certificate were respectively
subscribed and sworn, was at the respective dates thereof, and now is a Judge of
the said Court of Common Pleas, & also a
Justice of the Peace in for the said
County of Monmouth duly commissioned
and sworn, and as such is entitled to full
faith & credit to all his official acts, and
that the name signed William Lloyd
at the bottom of the Jurat of the said
affidavit & to the said Certificate is the
proper hand writing of the said William
Lloyd

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
seal of office, this sixteenth
day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand
eight hundred & thirty three

D.H. Ellis [illegible]
[signature of Daniel H. Ellis]
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Smock, Barnes
NJ S1108
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THE STATE OF NEW-JERSEY.
to Barnes Smock [illegible] Gentleman
GREETING:
WHEREAS it hath been certified to His Excellency WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, 
Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief of this State, that you have been 
duly chosen by the 
Light Horse Company of Militia
in the County of Monmouth 
(being the Light Horse Company in the First Regiment - of the said County, whereof 
Asher Holmes - Esquire, is Colonel) to be Lieutenant - of the said Company; 
you are therefore to take the said Company of Militia into your Charge and Care as 
Lieutenant - 
thereof, and duly to exercise both Officers and Soldiers 
of the said Company in Arms: And as they are hereby directed to obey you as their
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1935 May 29 Hist to
Mrs. Julia Arning. A.D.Y.

[Handwritten & underscored: Rev. War]

INVALID. 
⎬
File No. 1108
Barnes J. Smock
Lt. N.J. Mil
⎬

Act: June 7, 1832.

Index: -- Vol. A, Page 345 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Barnes J. Smock

The Pay Rolls of soldier's
company are not on file
with his claim.

A. E. P. Dec 29, 1906
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May 6, 1935
Pension Bureau -
Dear Sir-
I am very anxious
to join the D.A.R. Can you tell
me just who received a Pension
during the Revolution War for I am a
descendant from Jacob Christoper Van
Arsdale also Capt. Barns Smock.
Can you help me with some dates
I heard some one in
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My family received a pension.
Yours truly
Miss Julia Arning
719 Colford Ave
Collingsword
New Jersey

RECEIVED
MAY 8 1935
[illegible]
[illegible] 12
VETS. ARM.