Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4546, for Anthony Lines, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
New Jersey Lines, Anthony S 4546
carded
CONTENTS
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4546
Rev War
INVALID
File No 4546
Anthony Lines
Privt Rev War
Act June 7 1832
Index Vol A Page 223
[Arrangement of 1870]
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17508
New Jersey
Anthony LInes
Essex Co in the state of N Jersey who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Mead of the Reg commanded by Col - in the N Jersey line for 2 yrs

Inscribed on the Roll of N Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Aug 1832 and sent to Ho L Condict present

Arrears to the 4th Mar $160
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sep 40
$200
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7 1832}
Recorded by Go C Stiles Clerk
Book E Vol 2 Page 120
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State of New Jersey Essex County SS
On this 7th day of August 1832 personally appeared before me Abraham Reynolds a Justice of the Inferior court of common pleas in and for the county of Essex Anthony Lines a resident of the township of Acquacknonk in the County of Essex aged seventy four years labouring under bodily infirmity which renders him unable to appear in open court and 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 was born at Wynocha in the county of Bergen and state of New Jersey on the sixth of April 1758 according to the traditional amount given him when a child That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated That in the summer of 1776 when the British entered the harbour of New York thinks it was in the month of July at which time he first entered the service of the United States as a militia soldier and was a member of Captain Garret Posts Company attached to the Flying Camp and with whom he marched from Wynocha to Pompton Thence to Bergan Point opposite Staten Island where he continued with sd company and to do duty about five or six weeks That he was on another tour of duty and in the service of the United States during the same season at Fort Lee on the Hudson River That he performed three several tours of duty in the service of the United States at the English neighbourhood & Fort Lee during the Revolutionary War once under the command of Captain Peter Ward one under the command of Captain Joseph Board thinks he was in the service from one month to two months attached the three several tours But cannot recollect the particular years nor the several officers then commanding knows they were creating fort Lee at one of the times herein alluded to That he performed one tour of duty at Hackensack under the command of Captain John Mead at which time he continued in the service of the United States about one month That he performed a tour of duty at Tappon on the Hudson River under the command of Captain Joseph Board at which time he continued in the service of the United States about five or six weeks That he performed a tour of duty under the command of Captain John Mead at Pompton and continued in the service of the United States about one
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month That he performed a tour of duty at Hoppers Mills in the county of Bergen and continued in the service of the United States about one month under the command of capt Peter Ward thinks General Putman had the command of a detachment of regular troops in the neighbourhood of Hoppers Mills at the same time That he perfomed a tour of duty at Paramus on the York line at which time he continued in the service of the United States five weeks That he performed a tour of duty under the command of captain Peter Ward at which time they marched from Pompton to Newark thence to Elizabethtown Woodbridge Newbrunswick to Monmouth and encamped near General Washington's army in the coming after the Monmouth battle having performed a march of upward of thirty miles that day that he was in the service of the United States about five weeks on that occasion That he performed a tour of duty on Mill Stone creek in the counties of Somersett & Middlesex That he perfomed several other tours of duty during the Revolutionary War But he cannot part eculerisn the time nor the several officers commanding and is unwilling to go in to detail as to month or years That he sometimes entered the service of the United States as a drafted militia man but one as a substitute but frequently as a volunteer That George G Ryerson of Wynocha was a Lieutenant in the time of the Revolutionary War and the only officer now living under whom he served at the time That John Beam of the same place was several times a fellow soldier and that they are the only persons by whom he can procure any of the services above stated That he has no documentary evidence to offer He hereby 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 and subscribed the day and year aforesaid} 
A Reynolds Anthony Lines
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I George G Ryerson a resident of Wynocha do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Anthony Lines who as subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration That I am satisfied and believe him to be seventy four years of age and that the said Anthony Lines performed several tours of duty in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War under my immediate command as Lieutenant of the same company to which he was mached And I do further certify that I was commissioned a Lieutenant and belonged to Captain Peter Ward's company of which the said Anthony Lines was a member and marched from Pompton in the county of Bergen to the county of Monmouth and know all the circumstances as detailed by the said Anthony Lines on that occation to be true and I do further certify that I had a full knowledge of the said Anthony Lines and know that he was always esteemed as an active and faithful soldier frequently out as a volunteer and doing duty in the service of the United States from time to time from the summer of 1776 til the close of the war
sworn and subscribed this 7th day of August 1836 before me}
A Reynolds  GG Ryerson

I John Beam of Wynocha aged seventy five years do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Anthony Lines who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration That I have been acquainted with him since we were school boys together and believe him to be seventy four years of age That the said Anthony Lines was a fellow soldier with me performing duty in the service of the United States in the month of July and August 1776 at Bergen Point near Staten Island under the command of Captain Post and I do further certify that the said Anthony Lines was a fellow soldier with me in a company commanded by Captain Joseph Board and in the service of the United States doing duty at Fort Lee on the Hudson River in the time of the Revolution Also in the same company with the said Anthony Lines under command of Captain Peter Ward in the county of Monmouth in the summer of 1778 That I knew the said Anthony Lines to being in the services of the United States at declars places and at declared times during the Revolutionary War from 1776 til the close of the war
sworn & subscribed this 7th day of Aug 1832
A Reynolds John Beam
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We John L Deryea a clergyman residing in the township of Acquackanonk and Simon A Brower of the same place do hereby certify that we are acquainted with Anthony Lines who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
sworn & subscribed this 7th day of August 1832{ John L Derya
Simon A Brower
A Reynolds
And I do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and that John L Deryea who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman in the township of Acquackanonk and that Simon A Brower who has also signed the same is a resident of Acquackanonk and is a credible person and that their statements entitled to credit
A Reynolds 
No 1677

State of New Jersey
County of Essex} Ss I Elias Van Arsdale Junior clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas holden at Newark in and for the county of Essex do hereby certify that Abraham Reynolds Esquire before whom the annexed affidavits were taken was at the time of taking said affidavits & now is one of the Judges of said court residing in said County duly commissioned and sworn and authorised to take the same that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe the signature " A Reynolds" is genuine and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts
In Testimony Thereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and ffxed the seal of said court at Newark aforesaid the sixteenth of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight dred and thirty two
E Van Arsdale J Clk
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Anthony Lines

grade of musician not mentioned in the original declaration 
is allowed

aomd
24 mo pri
80$

Lewis Condict Present
Communicate to A 
[illegible crossed out]
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State of New Jersey
Essex County ss} On this 8 day of July 1833 personally appeared before me Abm Reynolds a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Essex Anthony Lines who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he entered the service of the United States as a Volunteer in the summer of 1776 as stated in his former declaration and done duty five weeks as a member of Captain Garrett Posts Company stationed at Bergen Point in the County of Bergen and state of New Jersey That he done one months service during the same season under Captain Blanch stationed at Fort Lee on the Hudson River That he performed three several monthly tours of service under Captain Peter Ward stationed at the English Neighbourhood near Hackensack New Jersey That he performed one months service under Captain Joseph Board during which the company was stationed at Hackensack and Fort Lee That he performed four months service as a member of Captain John Mead's company stationed at Hackensack That he performed one tour of service as a member of Captain Joseph Boards Company stationed at Tappon at which time he continued in service six weeks. That he performed two months service in Captain Meads company stationed at Pompton That he performed one months service in captain Peter Wards company stationed at the Liberty Pole in the county of Bergen and at Hoppers Mills in the county of Bergen General Putman commanded a detachment of regular troops stationed near Hoppers Mills at the same time that he performed one tour of 5 weeks service in captain John Mead's company stationed at Params on the York line That he performed one months service under captain Peter Ward at which time he was marched with the company from Pompton to Newark and
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then to Monmouth as set forth in his original declaration That he performed two months service in Captain Boards Company stationed at Millstone in the county of Somerset and Midelsex New Jersey That he performed two months service under Captain Jerolman stationed at Bellville New Jersey That he performed one months service under Captain Willis stationed at Hackensack That he performed one months service under Captain Romans station at Hackensack That he served in Captain Outwaters Company three months the greater portion of which time he was stationed at the Liberty Pole and guarding the lines the Brittish lying in New York at the same time. The principal field officers under whom he recollects to have served are Col Dey Major Dey Major Christee Major Hays & Major Post
That by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service that he knows he was in the service at different periods of each year from the commencement of the Revolution til the end of the war and according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades
For six months I served as a musician For one year and eight months I served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war in all two years and two months and for which I claim a pension That two months of the above stated time I served as a substitute for John Van Wagoner and Henry Van Wagoner the residue of the time I served as a volunteer and drafted militia man That he has no recollection of ever having received either a written or a printed discharge That I have lived in the county of Bergen & in the County of Essex ever since the Revolutionary War and that he resides in the Township of Acquackanonk in the county of Essex and state of New Jersey at the present time
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Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written} Anthony Lines
A Reynolds
I Abraham Reynolds a Judge of the Inferior court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Essex do certify that George G Ryerson and John beam whose several affadavits & signatures are attached to the declaration of Anthony Lines are credible witnesses and fully entitled to credit and belief
A Reynolds
State of New Jersey 
County of Essex} Ss I Elies Van Arsdale Junior Clerk of the Inferior court of common pleas in & for said county of Essex do hereby certify that Abraham Reynolds Esq before whom the above affidavit of Anthony Lines was made & taken (said Anthony Lines being same person heretofore named & mentioned in the annexed proceedings) at the time of taking the same, was & still is one of the Judges of said court residing in said county duly commissioned & sworn that the name "A Reynolds" subscribed to the affidavit aforesaid & to the several certificates annexed to these proceedings is the proper hand writing of said Judge 
In Testimony thereof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of said court at Newark the ninth day of July in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty three (1833)
E Van Arsdale Jr Clk
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I do hereby certify to the Honble Secretary of War and the Commissioner of Pensions that Anthony Lines at the time of making his original declaration in court to obtain a Pension from the United States was severely afflicted with a burn occationed by falling in to the fire in consequence of a convulsion fit I do further certify that the original proceedings had before me also amended declaration was done at the house of the said Anthony Lines and that he was unable to appear in open court in consequence of the infirmities herein set forth and I do further certify that the said Anthony Lines is at the present time confined to his bed and sick of a feaver but not in a situation to give any further explanation as to his said service during the Revolutionary War
Given under my hand at Paterson August the 14 1833
A Reynolds