Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 923, for Henry Sutton, New Jersey
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Henry Sutton
Application for Pension
No. 3033
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex county ss:

Personally appeared before the Judges of the Inferior court of common Pleas in & for th county of Middlesex in open court Henry Sutton who being duly sworn deposeth and saith 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 less than the periods mentioned before and in the following [illegible] viz as a private & volunteer in the militia of New Jersey in a company commanded by Capt. Moses Martin, commencing in the month of September 1770 for one month in the county of Bergen in N. Jersey.  That he continued his service every other month for the space of two years as [illegible] the battle of Monmouth and from that period he continued his service [illegible] this end of the war but not regularly every other month being occasionally relieved in the regular army but served nearly every other month and more than two years in the whole always as a private and in the [illegible] [illegible] & under the officer mentioned in his foregoing declaration & for this service he claims a pension.         Henry Sutton

Sworn & subscribed in open court this 16th day of March 1833
H. Ford
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Rev. War Section.

Oct. 9, 1922.

Elizabeth Sutton,
213 Magnolia Place,
Marianna, Ark.

Madam:
In response to your letter of the 11" ultimo,
you are advised that in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 923, of Henry Sutton, it appears that he was born November 5, 1758, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, and died April 20, 1841, place not stated.

Very respectfully, 
Washington [illegible]
Commissioner.

[handwritten notation]
date of death found on N. J. Agency Book