Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 800, Andrew Belles, New Jersey
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
On this fifteenth day of August one thousand
eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in
open court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas now sitting, Andrew Bellis a resident
of the Township of Hopewell in the county and
state aforesaid, who being first duly sworn ac=
=cording to law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of
congress passes June 7th 1832.
	That he was born in the Township of Amwell
and county of Hunterdon aforesaid on the 15th day
of July 1756. That he has no record of his age
as he knows of that was informed (inserted: of his age) by his
[& aunts?] - That the following is a true history
of his services during the revolutionary war, and
that he served during said war at the following
times and places, and under the herein after (^ named)
officers as nearly as he can recollect to wit:
1  That he went in the Spring of 1776 to Amboy and
Staten Island under Captain Arthur Gray, attached
to the command of Major		Hoops, and
remained one month -
2  One month at Amboy in the Summer of 1776 under
Captain Cornelius Hoppock and I think attached to
the command of Major		Hoops -
3  One month at Smith’s farms during the same
Summer under Captain Nathan Stout
4  Two months at Woodbridge in the winter (^ and Spring) of 1776.77
under Captain James Stout attached to the
command of General Nathaniel Heard - -
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5  One month at Elizabeth Town in the winter of
1778. I forget the company officers, but we were
attached to the command of Genl Nathaniel Heard
6  One month at Paramus and Pompton in Morris
county in the Summer of 1778 under Captain George
Ely and attached to the command of Col Frederick Freling=
huysen
7  one month at Millstone in the winter of 1778
under the command of Captain James Stout, was
at the battle of Millstone - General Dickerson com=
manded -
8  Soon after this the month at Millstone under
the command of Captain Dennis Hagaman -
9  At Trenton & Monmouth one month in the sum=
=mer of 1778 under Captain John Schenck, attached
to the command of Col Isaac Smith in the brigade
commanded by General Philemon Dickerson
Was at the battle of Monmouth -
That he was out frequently upon General
alarms at least two if not three or four months
but that it is now impossible for him to specify
the times or places -
That he was in the battles of Millstone Mon=
=mouth and Short Hills —
That he has seen and partially knew Generals
Washington. Lee. Dickerson. Maxwell. Sulli=
=van. Heard &c &c
That he has no written discharge - That he has
lived in the Township of Amwell and Hopewell
in the county of Hunterdon aforesaid since
the revolutionary war, but that he now resides
in the Township of Hopewell — — —
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That the Revd John Boggs and
David Stout — and many other persons
in his neighborhood can testify to his character as
a man of truth and veracity, and as to their belief
of his statement of services rendered in the revolu-
=tionary war - That he has no documentary or
other written evidence of his military services
That he believes he an establish substantially
all he has herein set forth as to his service afore=
said by John Manners, Moses Stout, and John
Bellis if they can be procured - 
And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except to the present, and
declares that his name is not on the pension
roll of the agency of any State -
Sworn and subscriber	And Bellis
the day and year
above written in open
court _____________
		Benj Egbert