Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,918, Isaac Childs, New Jersey Privateer (Penn)
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New Jersey.    Childs, Isaac
Privateer (Penn)
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1918

Isaac Childs

Printed List of 1852 Rejected and Suspended ________ shows following cause of rejection.

Desertion
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Rejected

See letter to John D. Chamberlain

Waterford, Ohio

17, March 1835

1918
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State of Ohio
Washington County ___.  On this 22nd day of September A.D. 1834.  Personally came before Joseph Barker one of the Associate Judges of the court of common pleas for said county.  Isaac Childs a resident of Waterford in said county aged eighty nine years the 10th day of April last who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act  of Congress passed June 1832.  That he enlisted in April or May 1776
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the battle which continued two days, then we marched to Elizabethtown from thence to Newark & there we went into winter quarters where we continued until spring when our times were about out I was solicited by Col. Sheave to join in an expedition which was expected to go against the western Indians who gave me a furlow to go home to Thoms River in New Jersey and see to my family and then return and join the Indian Expedition;, I objected to receiving the  furlow without the knowledge of Capt. Bowman who was not present the call told me that the captains consent was not necessary that he commanded and that was enough-- I then started and went home the Col.  told me I must not stay more than ten or twelve days or they should be gone, as they must start by the time the nine months were out soon after I got name I was taken sick with the small pox before I was able to travel, the expedition started and my nine months were out I did not return, some time after I was at home lot. Col. Shreeve wrote to me that he would give me a quick discharge and the residue of my pay if I would come to Elizabethtown but as the money was so much depreciated it would not bear my expenses there and back, I did not go. If I was returned a deserter as I am informed I was, it must be in his consequence of my leaving the service on a furlow from the Col. without the knowledge of Capt. Bowman and neglecting to return and take my discharge after the expeditions had returned, about three months after I went home and as soon as I got able I went on board of the ship called The retaliation Captain Decater from Philadelphia. She carried 2 double -fortifyed 12 pounders in her bow and 1-16 pounder in her waist and 2 swivels aft crusied on the coast between New York and Philadelphia we took a schooner called the Yankywich and another one called The  Polly Sly; we took a merchant ship from England  and put a prize mastes on board of her at that moment a Brittish man of war have in sight and bore down upon us and we made
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our escape - Wilkinson was Lieut of marines Capt Mhushel and older man than Decator was on board a short time and went on shore shortly; I was in the service nearly all the time from the commencement to the end of the war in the land and Naval Service.  I never got but a small part of my pay and part of that not was good; when I went home on parole my wife being of wealthy connexion would
furnish me with money to bear my expenses to the to the army I was born in Woodbridge New Jersey third 10th 1745 I have no record of my age lived in Goodbridge untill I was twenty years then went to Thoms River on the Eastern shore of New Jersey
Maryed and stayed there 30 years thence to Red Stone in Pennsylvania lived there 5 years thence to Winchester in Virginia lived there 18 years maryed a second wife and raised a second family from thence to Waterford my present residence have lived here 16 years and maryed a third wife I mention the names of Reuben Culver and Marvel Starlin who can testify to the belief of the neighborhood
and my character as to truth and veracity
I hereby relinquish every claim to a pension or
annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
his
Isaac X Childs
mark
Sworn to and subscribed this 22d day of September A.D. 1834
Joseph Barker Associate
Judge for the County of Washington, State of Ohio
October 23d 1834
We Reuben Culver and Marvel Starlin
residing in the neighborhood of Isaac Childs
who has sworn to and subscribed the above
declaration do hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with Isaac Childs who has sworn 
to and subscribed the above declaration that
we believe him to be eighty nine years of age
that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Reuben Culver
Marvil Starlin
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he within named Reuben Culver and Marvil
Starlin Sworn before me this 23d day of October 1834
Danl. H Bull Jus. Peace

I the said Joseph Barker associate Judge for said County of Washington after after the investigation of the matter, declare it
my opinion, after putting the interogatories
prescribed by the War Department, that the above named Applicant, Isaac Childs, was a Revolutionary Soldier, & served as he states. And I do further certify that it appears, that there is not any clergyman residing in the neighbourhood of Isaac Child, who is
acquainted with his reputation circumstances But I can state that the within Marvel Sterling & Rheuben Culver, reside in the Neighbourhood of the said Isaac Childs in said County from thirty years acquaintance, I believe them to be creditable persons, & that their statements are entitled to credit and I do further certify that the applicant Isaac Childs, cannot, from old age, & from Bodily
infirmity, attend in open Court, to make Oath
& subscribe his foregoing declaration
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Joseph Barker -
The State of Ohio, 
Washington County Ss. I, George Dunlevy, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby certify, that Joseph Barker, before whom the foregoing declaration was made who hath signed his name to the above certificate, was at the time of signing his name as aforesaid & now is an acting associate Judge of said Court, duly commissioned qualified agreeably to law, and that the foregoing (with the exception
the above certificate signed by Daniel H. Bell Esquire, who I hereby certify is an acting Justice of the peace in & for Marietta Township in said County, & whose signature I also certify to be genuine) contains the original proceedings had before him in the matter of the application of Isaac Childs for a pension
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto set my hand affix the seal of said Court at Marietta in
said County, this Twenty eighth day of October
Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred
& thirty four
Geo. Dunlevy, Clerk.
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J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Ohio
Adm Ackerson & Isaac Childs
Waterford
Vew 10
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Enclosed are the papers of Abram
Ackerson and Isaac Childs
The case of Ackerson is entirely new
The case of Childs some time ago under the
old Jane Childs applyed for a Pension he
was informed that he was returned a deserter he said sell he never deserted and stated
the circumstances related in his declaration
it was generally believed he being
a man of truth but he despaired of getting his right his neighbors ? him to send on and send
statement of the facts which he has
he is very old and poor
Yours
John D. Chamberlain
Waterford Washington County Ohio
Nov 7th 1834