Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 940, John Hulshart, New Jersey
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Service New Jersey

Hulshart, John
Margaret

Number W. 940

Contents
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State of New Jersey
Mercer County. } SS
                         On this 24th day of August
A.D. 1838 Before the subscriber one of the Justices
of the Peace in and for Said County Personally app-eared John Perrine Jur of Middlesex County who being duly sworn deposeth and Saith That the name of John Hulse (commonly known as Hulsharte) is contained on the pay roll of Capt John Dey now in the possession of this Deponent which pay Roll was received of James Dey. son of the said Capt and which appears in the hand writing of Nicholas Morgan Ensign. The said John Hulse's name is there enrolled
in the months of March and April Seventeen hundred and seventy seven- said pay Roll being -
headed in these words. "A Pay Roll of Capt. Deys
Company for March 1777," amt. of said Hulse's
pay "Lo2,, S5,, D0"
                                                    John Perrine Jr
Sworn and Subscribed this day.
and year above Mentioned
Before me John Hutchinson
                                           Esq.
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State of New Jersey
Mercer County ss
I Ralph H Shreve Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that John T. Hutchinson Esqr before whom the affidavit of John Perrine Junr was taken is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and enrolled in my office and that due faith and credit are justly due all his official acts as such and further that the hand writing and signature
of the said John J Hutchinson I believe to
be genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the
seal of the said Court this twenty
seventh day of August in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty eight
Ralph H Shreve Clk
[seal affixed at left]
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County. } SS
Be it known that on the 12th day of May 1838- Before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Personally appeared
Garret Herris a resident of New Brunswick a Pensioner of the United States and a person of credibility and truth who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith That he was well acquainted with John Hulse or Hulshart who was in the 6 months Service and served the 6 months out. It was in Capt Robt Ross Company in which this Deponent was Sergeant this was in 1779 Commencing in June of that year the said John Huls or Hulshart as he was sometimes called was a good soldier and heard while in the 6 months the said Hulse say he was a married man and had a family and heard others say the same. This Deponent fully believes that the said John Huls and Margaret were married before the war of the Revolution. This Deponent being
in the State Troops most of the war has no recollection of the said Hulse Malitia [militia] Service-
Garret Herris

Sworn and Subscribed the day
and year above written before me
Henry Sutliffe J.P.
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New Jersey 3060
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Margaret Hulshart
widow of John Hulshart
who died on the 14 February 1817
of Middlesex Co. in the State of N. Jersey
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Witherell of the Regt commanded
by Col. Forman in the N Jersey
line for 11 months.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Sep.
1839 and sent to Dr. C. G.
McChesney, Hightstown N Jersey
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Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 39                  311.61
Semi-annual allowance ending 
     Mar. 40                                                   18.33
                                                               ________
                                                                $329.94    
                                                               ________
{Revolutionary Clai[cut off]
{Act July 4, 183[cut off]
{Section the 3 ---}

Recorded by D. Brown
Book A, Vol. 2 Page 127
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3060.      V 3085
Margaret Hulshart
Widow of John
C. G. McChesney
HightsTown
N.J.

N. Jersey
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Capt Witherill
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Marriedl 9 May 1772
Husband died 1817 14 February
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Admitted
Private 11 months
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Declaration of Margaret Hulsarte
under the 3rd Section of the act July 4th 1836"

State of New Jersey
Middlesex of County } SS
On this ['12th' crossed out] Sixteenth day of ['July' crossed out] April ['1838' crossed out] 1838 Personally appeared before the Subscriber a['Justice of the Peace' crossed out] one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County
Margaret Hulsart or Hulse as is sometimes called a resident of the Township of South Amboy in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey aged Eighty Three years past who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the- Widow of John Hulsart or Hulse who was a private in the State Troops and malitia [militia] of New Jersey in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary war. In 1776 in the month of June he enlisted under Capt Vincent Weatherill at a place called Cross
Roads for 5 months marched to New Brunswick and on to Pouleshook thence to Long island was engaged in the Battle on the 27th August retreated to Jersey and when the 5 months expired was discharged at New Brunswick about the last of October or first of November
In the month of Decr was drafted under Capt Perrine- or Longstreet cannot say which.  was stationed at New Brunswick and Spottswood the month out- In the year 1777.  In the month of January was out as a draft under Capt Perrine or Long Street was out the month, the enemy
at this time took possession of New Brunswick in the months of March April and May was stationed in the Village of Cranberry and about the first of June a messenger came for the said John Hulsart or Hulse on account of his mother's death, he had then been there
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between three and four months was commanded by Capt Dey, Perrine, Stout Chambers Col Hyer Scudder. Forman &c. and did not again Join the ranks untill after harvest in the months of August, October and
December was under the same officers and marched and was stationed at Spotts wood, South River, Old Bridge Amboy, New Brunswick and other places- This deponent also well recollects that her said husband was at Washingtons incampment at Morris Town- at Sourland mountain, Steels Gap, Elizabeth Town Newark &c. in the year 1778,  the said
Hulsarte was out continually untill after the
Battle of Monmouth as this deponent was compelled to bury her most valuable things in the woods and leave her house untill after the Battle of Monmouth on account of the Enemy and refugees plundering all the neighbourhood except some few who was known to be favourable to the Enemy. he often stated that he was under a number of Capts 
Perrine, Stout, Longstreet, Chambers & Cols Nelson, Scudder, Forman - Except in the month of June when this deponents husband was
engaged in the Battle of Monmouth under Capt Woglum and General Maxwell, was part of the time stationed at and marching to Spottswood- Amboy Cranberry (Bordentown, Draw Bridge Dutch Neck & Monmouth. this was in the month of the Battle) was in the ranks not less than four or five months in 1778 - as is stated above including the month of June. In the year 1779, was drafted under Capt Morgan in the
month of April- was stationed the month out at
Amboy and Cheesequakes- after which the said
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John Hulsart in the month of June Enlisted under Capt. Robt Ross for 6 months (see proof) and send the same out during the years 1780, 1781 and 1782.  the said John Hulsart or Hulse was regularly drafted and performed his regular tours in the Malitia [militia] was out not less than from four to six months in each year having rendered himself odious to the Enemy on account of his attachment to the American interest, he could find but little safety in any place except the army in June 1780 he was at the Battle of Springfield in 1781- and 82, was principally stationed along the Amboy Shore under Capt Jonathan Morgan. Capt Perrine
and Longstreet Lieut Van Sickle & truly believes
that her husband the aforesaid John Hulsart served as much and more than two years in the Malitia [militia] independent of the terms of 5 and 6 months each in the State Troops under Capt Weatherill and Capt Ross in the year 1776 and 1779. She further declares she was married to the said John Hulsart (or Huls as was commonly called) on the 9th day of May Seventeen Hundred and Seventy two by the Revd An Ayres of the Episcopal Church at SpottsWood there being no record of said church to be found nor does this deponent know of any person living who was present at the marriage, therefore produces the record
of the family Bible which record this deponent declares was made before the Revolutionary war and immediately after the marriage of the said Parties. That her husband the aforesaid John Hulsart died on the fourteenth day of February Eighteen Hundred and Seventeen. And that she has remained a widow
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ever since that period as will more fully appear
by reference to the proof hereto annexed. This deponent further declares that the name John Hulshart Hulsarte and Huls are the same and one person, and that this deponent is often called Hulse instead of Hulshart

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year above written
Before
Henry Sillcocks
Joseph McChesney Judge

                  her
Margaret    X    Hulsharte
                mark

I hereby certify that Margaret Hulshart is
personally known to me as a person of credibility and truth and on account of Bodily infirmity is unable to appear in open Court
Henry Sillcocks  JP
Joseph McChesney Judge
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex. County }  SS
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Lewis Johnson known to me as a credible person who being duly sworn upon his oath saith that he is a soldier of the revolution and is in the receipt of a pension as well.  That he was well acquainted with John Hulshart in that momentous struggle and ever since he this deponent was a boy that he remembers well
that the said John Hulsart served as a private in the company command by Capt Robert Ross in the in six months service that he served out his whole time of the six Months this deponent being in the same company under the same Captain that the service of the said John Hulsart was done in the year 1779 Commencing
in June of that year that the said John Hulsarte was a good soldier and believes that he did his regular tours of duty during the whole war as he thinks if it had been otherwise this deponent would certainly have heard the same
Lewis Johnston

Sworn & subscribed the 30th
day of December 1836
before me
Peter P Runyon
Justice of the Peace

State of
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Marriage
1770-72
Margaret Halfpenny Married to John Hulshart in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy two
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Married By Minester [illegible] Minister
at Spottswood and [take names?] 9 May
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Births
1773
Catharine Born March 17th 1773
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Births
1776
Cornelius Born August 9th 1776
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Births
No
1778
Ellen Born December 25th 1776
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County } ss
Be it Known that on the 16th day of July
1837 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Personally appeared Margaret Huls, or Hulshart, a person of credibility and truth who being duly sworn
according to law on her oath saith. This leaf contains the true and only record of her said marriage and which is in the handwriting of her late husband and that this said leaf was cut from the family Bible by her own hands this day. Sworn & subscribed this 16th July 1837
Henry Sillcocks J.P.

                 her  
Margaret    X  Hulshart
                mark

I hereby certify that Margaret Hulshart the above subscribing witness- cut this leaf out of her family Bible-  in my presence and which I am satisfied contains the record of her said marriage.
Henry Sillcocks J.P.
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CHAP XV.
Apocrypha.      Apocrypha.

Before Christ
170.

34 So every man praised toward the heaven the glorious Lord, saying, Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.
35 He hanged also Nicanors head upon the tower an evident and manifest sign unto all of the help of the Lord.
36 And they ordained all with a common degree, in no case to let that day pass without solemnity, but to celebrate the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which in the Syrian tongue is called Adar, the day before the Mardocheus day.

Before Christ
168.
37 Thus went it with Nicanor: and from that  time forth the Hebrews had the city in their power.  And here I will make an end.
38 And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.
39 For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water
alone and as wine mingled with water is pleasant, and delighteth the taste, even so speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story.
And here shall be an end.

The End of the Apocrypha.
,
Alexander McClair
bible purchased 1st Feby [cut off]
price twenty five shillings
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John and Margaret Hulshart
Their Bible 1780 purch at
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State of New Jersey SS:
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Henry Sillcocks Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits of Margaret Hulshart was taken and who has attested the same was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex, in said state  duly appointed commissioned and sworn; that Peter P. Runyon Esq before whom the annexed affidavit of Lewis Johnston was made and who has attested the same was at the time thereof ['and' crossed out] Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex in said State duly
appointed commissioned and sworn; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to their several and respective official acts.

Given under my hand and seal of office at
the city of Trenton in said state this fifteenth day of November A.D. One thousand eight hundred and thirty seven (1837)
James D. Westcott
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Receipts for cash paid for the fourth years interest on notes given by the commissioners in the several counties for Militia Services

[table follows with 7 columns; column headings as follows:
(1) No. of Vouch
(2) No. of Certif.
(3) Date
(4) Signed by
(5) Payable to
(6) Amt
(7) Int.
[text beneath the columns:]
(1) 224
(2) 534
(3) June 8th 1784
(4) Thomson Stelle
(5) John Hulst
(6) L.1 S.0 D.5
(7) L.0 S.1 D.2
[end of table]


Receipts for cash paid the third years interest on notes signed by the commissioners in the several counties for Militia services

[table follows with 7 columns; column headings as follows:
(1) No. of Vouch
(2) No. of Certif.
(3) Date
(4) Signed by
(5) Payable to
(6) Amt
(7) Int.
[text beneath the columns:]
(1) 57
(2) 1256
(3) June 10th 1784.
(4) Thomson Stelle
(5) John Hulst
(6) L.1 S.10 D.10
(7) L.0 S.1 D.10
[end of table]

Receipts for cash paid for the fourth years interest on Militia notes

[table follows with 7 columns; column headings as follows:
(1) No. of Vouch
(2) No. of Certif.
(3) Date
(4) Signed by
(5) Payable to
(6) Amt
(7) Int.
[text beneath the columns:]
(1) 98
(2) 1256
(3) June 10h 1784
(4) Thomson Stelle
(5) John Hulst
(6) L.1 S.11 D.10
(7) L.0 S.1 D.10
[end of table


Receipts for cash paid one years interest on notes for Militia pay Signed by the commissioner of the several counties
[table follows with 7 columns; column headings as follows:
(1) No. of Vouch
(2) No. of Certif.
(3) Date
(4) Signed by
(5) Payable to
(6) Amt
(7) Int.
[text beneath the columns:]
(1) 13
(2) 1256
(3) June 10, 1784
(4) Thomson Stelle
(5) John Hulst
(6) l.q S.q0 D.10
(7) L.0 S.1 D.10
[end of table]

State of New Jersey
I James D Westcott Secretary of State of the
State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the above are true extracts from four books of accounts now remaining in my office the first of
which is headed Receipt for cash paid the fourth years interest on notes given by the commissioner in the several counties for Militia services, and endorsed on the cover
[seal affixed at left]
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Militia 4th year No 4. the second headed "Receipts for cash paid the third years interest on notes signed by the Commissioner
in the several counties for Militia services", and endorsed on the cover "Militia 3rd year No 1"; the third headed "Receipt for cash paid the fourth years interest on Militia Notes", and endorsed on the cover "Militia 4 years No 2", the fourth headed "Receipts for cash paid one years interest in notes for Militia pay signed by the commissioner of the several counties 
and endorsed on the cover "Militia Notes No 1". 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Trenton this fifteenth day of November AD eighteen hundred and thirty seven (1837).
James D. Westcott
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County. } SS
Be it known that in the 30th day of November 1837 before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Jacob Stulls a pensioner of the U.S. and a person of credibility and truth, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that Margarit Hulshart widow of John Hulst as he was known, who is now an applicant for a pension under act 4th July 1836 for services of her deceased husband during the Revolutionary war.  this Deponent was well acquainted with the said Margarets husband, and altho it appears that his original name was Hulshart, this Dept declares that he was known during and after the Revolutionary as John Hulst and that the said Margaret now residing in this Depts Neighbourhood is the widow of the person known to me as John Hulst and whose name appears to have been John Hulshart but the latter part of the name to have been generally dropped-
Jacob Stulls

Sworn and Subscribed the day
and year above mentioned Before me
Henry Stulls
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Henry Middlesex County ss
I Nicholas Booraem clerk of the Court of
common pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Henry Stulls Esq before whom the within affidavit of Jacob Stulls was made and  [illegible] was at the time of the taking thereof and still is a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn, that I am
acquainted with the signature of the said Justice and believe his signature to the within certificate is Genuine

In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand &
affixed the seal of said
County this 13 day of
December AD 1837
N Booraem clk
[seal affixed at left]
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State of New Middlesex Clerks office SS
I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for said County of Middlesex do hereby certify that Joseph McChesney Esqr before wherein the annexed declaration of Margaret Hulshart was made
and was at the time of the making said 
declaration a Judge of the inferior Court of Common pleas in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature of the said Judge certifying the making of said
declaration is Genuine And I do further certify 
that Henry Sillcocks before whom the annexed applicants of Garret Herris & Margaret Hulshart were taken, and that Peter P. Runyon before  whom the annexed affidavit of Lewis Johnson was taken each of them at the time of the taking of the said several applicants Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the  signatures of the said Justices certifying the taking of the said several applicants are genuine

In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my name and affixed the seal of
said Court this 18th day of August
AD 1838
N Booraem Clerk
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Rev.   WIDOW, &c.
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File No. ___940__
__Margaret Hulshart.__
___widow___
__John Hulshart__
__Priv. Rev. War,__
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Act: __ July 4, 1836. ___
[Ind]ex:--Vol. _H_, Page __354__

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mr Brown will see
what is offered
in the letter to
D. McChesney, Eleven months
11th Hist. and fine
cat. accordingly


X 1 witness - only - to this term
X no witness to 5 mo. in 76
evidence very scanty--
marriage proved
before a Justice


Mrs Hulshart
76 June - 5 mo x - enlisted Staten 2d -   Capt Weatherell-
76 Decr 1 - draft N. Brunswick Prrine & Longstreet
77 Jany X  explanation--
78- 4 or 5 mos- Woglum - Perrine  Capt Morgan
79- apl 1 mo Cheesequakes-
  "  June x 6 mo. enlisted- Kofs-
serve me enlisted as
[cut off]0.81 & 82  4 to 6 mo ea. yr.
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V3085
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Let. 24 July 38 to C.
G. McChesney-

do AWY
to same 11 Sep. 1839

4 July 1836
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July
Hights Town NJ

N.J.
Addl. Proof
Margt. Hulshart

Free

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commr. of Pensions
War Dept.
Washington City
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Sept. 23

Issue Cert.
Mr. Brown
['Margt. Hulshart' crossed out]

Hightstown N.J.
Sept. 20

J.L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
War Dept
Washington City
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Hights Town N.J. Sept 19 1839
Miss Margaret Hulshart being now a town charge and anxious to make her home among some friends of hers Induces her to ask for the certificate mentioned in your letter of the 11th last
Respectfully 
your Obt Servt
Witley D. Chesney 
J L Edwards Esq
Court of Pensions
War Dept
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J.L. Edwards Esqr 
Commr of Pensions 
Pension Dept 
Washington 

J.L. Edwards Esqr 
Commr of Pensions 
Washington City
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Heights Town, Middlesex Co. N.J.
December 18th 1837
Dear Sir
The papers in support of the claim of Margaret Hulsharte widow of John Hulsharte or as he was more generally Known John Hulst is forwarded to the Department of Pensions for Examination &c.
Respectfully yr obt. Servant
Charles G, McChesney
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Margaret Hulsharte Case Further Testimony C G McChesney Hights Town N. J.
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County    H.
On the first day of February in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty nine.  Before the Subscribers a Justice of the peace- in and for said County personally approved Daniel Snowhill resident of Monroe Township formerly South Amboy in the County and State aforesaid aged Seventy four years and upwards a person of Credibility and truth who being duly Sworn according to Law on his oath Deposeth and Saith that for upwards of fifty two years this deponent was acquainted with John Hulls or Hulshart as he was called and that the said John Hulshart worked at different times for the deponent for Twenty years or more & that he has been dead many years, and that his widow Margaret Hulshart is still living in the deponents neighborhood and is an applicant for a Pension - and as to their marriage there never was a doubt, they had a son Cornelius who is now living not far from this deponent who is upwards of Sixty years of age (or between 60 - & -70 ) and that they had a daughter Still older who this deponent will knew fifty years ago.  - This deponent employed both the father and Son to labour, and fully believes and declares, that time cannot remain a doubt but the said John & Margaret were legally married before he was of the Revolution and further saith not.  
Daniel Snowhill

Sworn and Subscribed the
day and year above written before me
John Teoune  Jur. J. Peace
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County
On the Second day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine
Before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Personally appeared Siche Gordon aged about, Eighty years, resident of the Township of Monroe, formerly South Amboy a person of Credit and truth who being duly sworn according to Law on her oath deposeth & Saith, that she has been acquainted with Margaret Hulshart, the widow of John Huls or Hulshart as he was called Ever since she this deponent was more than Ten years old which is at least Sixty Five or Seventy years ago.  That she has a perfect knowledge or recollections of the said Margaret, working for this deponents Father & Mother full Sixty five years ago & she thinks more that she was then married as was said to John Huls or Hulshart that the said Huls or Hulshart came to her father at that time and Lodged with the said Margaret, as man and wife this deponent recollects them facts from a Circumstance that took place at the time as follows, the said John Huls or Hulshart came there to her father at the time aforesaid (this deponent then being about nine or ten years old) that when this deponent saw him she immediately ran to Peggy as she then was called by the family & sd O Peggy, what made you have such an ugly man as that, he is the ugliest man I ever Saw, Peggy immediately went and told this deponents Mother what she had said about her husband, when her Mother gave her a severe reprimanding, these facts among others make her have a perfect recollection of the sd John coming there, this deponent further states she believes, and has never had the least doubts, but the sd John & Margaret were Legally married before the war of the Revolution & further saith not.
Sichy Gordon
Sworn & Subscribed the day and year
above written before me John Perrine Jur. J. P.
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County } SS
Be it known that on the 5th day of January 1839
before the Subscriberd a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Personally appeared Oliver Johnston a resident in the Village of Spottswood County and State aforesaid Aged Fifty four years past a Person of veracity and truth who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he was well acquainted with John Hulshart and Margaret Hulshart who resided near this place near him this deponent had any recollection which was when this deponent was not older than ten years of age, and remembered him untill he died.  he new [knew] them &  town change which was twenty years or more ago. his widow now resides in this village and is very indigent and infirm. They the said John Hulshart and Margaret had one son who this deponent verily believes to be considerably near Sixty years of age.  he is now living, they the said John and Margaret 
Hulshart were in this deponents belief- 
legally and honorably married by the Revd [Reverend] An Ayres of the Episcopal Court of this place, the deponent has the record of the said church in his possession but the records of the Revd Mr Ayres were taken away with him to as this deponent understood about thirty years ago
Cornelius Hulshart the Son of John and the said
Margaret Hulshart was nearly a man from when this dept was quite a small boy.  this deponent says frequently heard him speak and tell of his feats and [illegible] in the Revolutionary War and others speak of the same
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the said Margaret Hulshart is an applicant for a 
pension for the service of her said husband. She is exceedingly poor and needy but has always been a good character and is worthy of belief 
Oliver Johnston

Sworn to and subscribed on the
day & year above mentioned
before me.
John Perrine Junr. Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Mercer County } SS
Be it known that on the 30th day of November A.D. 1838 Before the Subscriber a Justice of 
the Peace in and for said County Personally
Appeared Mary Mount a resident of the Township of East Windsor in the County and State aforesaid aged Eighty two years past, a person of Credability [credibility] and truth who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith. That some time before the
Revolutionary wars this deponent resided at her GrandFathers at a place called Three Miles View- three miles from New Brunswick- at which time this deponent was well acquainted with Margaret Halfpenny, who then occasionally visited her Sister Elenor Stanley near or within a few hundred yards of this deponents residence
and that some time before the war Commenced this deponent well remembers the said Elenor Stanley say that hers sister Margaret Halfpenny had married a person by the name of Hulst or Hulshart and that they the said John Holshart and Margaret frequently visited at the said Stanleys- and this deponent truly believes they were legally married before the Commencement of the Revolution. The said Margaret when she was married resided with her Father at a place 
called the Barrens- not more than four mile
from where this deponent resided.
Mary Mount

Sworn and Subscribed this 30th
November 1838-
Before me
John T. Hutchinson J.P.
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State of New Jersey Middlesex County S S I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the County of Middlesex aforesaid do hereby Certify that John Perrine Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit of Daniel Snowhill Lieut. Governor and Olive Johnson were taken was at the time of
the taking of said affidavits a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and further that John T Hutchinson Esq before whom the annexed affidavit of Mary Mount was taken was at the time of taking said affidavit a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn, and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of both the said Justices and do verily believe their signatures to the said affidavits are genuine.

In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & Seal of office this
Eleventh day of June AD 1839
N Booraem Clerk
[seal affixed at left]