Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4835, Elias Heator, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Heator, Elias

NUMBER
R. 4835
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CONTENT
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[illegible]
Elias Heator

Act June 1832
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['Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873' crossed out]

REJECTED
___ 4835 _____
P.O. _____________________
___ Elias Heator ____________
Service: ___ Elias Heator ______

Enlisted: _________________, 18    .
Discharged: _______________, 18    .

Application filed: ____________, 18   .

Alleges: ______________________
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Re-enlisted: ___________________
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A.O.T.
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July 17, 1906

Attorney: ________________________
P. O. ____________________________
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______ Recognized.    _______Contract.
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Declaration ['made' crossed out']
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the seventh day of June eighteen hundred and thirty two entitled 'An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain
surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution

State of New Jersey
Sussex County ⎬ On this eighth day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty nine Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Sussex Elias Heator aged seventy five years
who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution. That his George Heator was enlisted as a private soldier in the army of the Revolutionary war in the month of April in what year this deponent does not recollect, under Captain James Bonnell
the name of the liberant he does not recollect, under Captain James Bonnell the name of the Lieutenant he does not recollect, the first
orderly Sergeant was Samuel Murray, that this deponent then resided in the township of Montague in the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey where he has since resided, that he entered the said Company as a substitute for his father George Heator That he marched from Montague aforesaid to Lackawanna in Pennsylvania and to Sheholy in the same State in pursuit of the Indians. That he was stationed at Joseph Hornbeck's on the Delaware River in the township of Montague in said County of Sussex the place now owned and occupied by Benjamin Hornbeck, and that he continued in the said service for the period of nine months from the Month of April aforesaid serving as a substitute for his said father in the Company
of Captain James Bonnell that he has no documentary evidence in support of his claim     
         his
Elias   X   Heater.   
        mark

Sworn & subscribed the day and year above
written before me John H. Hall, Judge
                                               and Witness
D Thompson Kitners
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I certify that the within named deponent cannot
from bodily infirmity attend in open Court and make the above declaration
John H. Hall, Judge

State of New Jersey
Sussex County.     } SS
I James Stoll one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby Certify. That I have been personally acquainted with Elias Heator the above applicant for About Thirty years & that he is in good repute for Honesty & That he is believed to have been in the Service of the United States during the Revolution-

Montague 11 Jany 1839

James Stoll
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State of New Jersey
Sussex County  SS }
on this 14th day of Jany 1839 person[al]ly appeared before me the Subscriber one of Justices of the peace in and for said County Benjamin Hornbeck in his Sixty Eighth year of his age, who being by me duly Sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Elias Heator and was also well acquainted with his father George Heator in his lifetime, that he well recollects that Elias Heator was in the service of the Revolutionary war under the command of Capt James Bunnel [Bonnell] and was stationed at his the deponents fathers house on the Delaware River
then the frontiers, to g[u]ard against the Indians
what year this deponent does not recollect nor
how long he served, but one thing he well recollects that is Elias very frequently slept with this deponent when not on duty on nights in his fathers house during the summer and fall untill snow fell and that he has been acquainted with the said Elias Heator ever since, and that he has
Sustained a good moral caution for thought and
veracity and full faith and credit may be given
to him for ['thought and' crossed out] honesty and further this deponent sayeth not-
Benjamin Hornbeck

Sworn and subscried
this day and year aforesaid
John Hull

I certify that the above named deponent is a
credible person for thought and veracity and
respectability, Montague 14th Jany 1839
John Hull
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State of New Jersey
Sussex County }  on the twelfth day of Jany Eighteen hundred and thirty nine person[al]ly appeared before me John Hull one of Justices  County of Sussex Thomas Van Etten aged Sixty
one years who being by me duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that he resides in Montague in the said County of Sussex and that he is as well acquainted with Elias Heator and that he was also well acquainted with his father George Heaton that they resided in Montague in said County and did in the time of the Revolution war and that Elias Heator still resides in the same Township, and that he saw the said Elias in the servis [service] of the Revolutionary war stationed at Joseph Hornbecks on the Delaware River then could the frontier under the command of Capt
James Bunnel [Bonnell] that he saw him in the
Servis [service] in the Spring of the year and at different times threw [through] the course of the Season and until winter set in and further says not-
Thomas Van Etten

Sworn and Subscribed ⎬
the year and day aforesaid, 
John Hull 

I certify that the within deponent Thoms. Van Etten is a credible person of high respectability for truth and veracity    12th Jany 1839
John Hull
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34.690

4835

John Hull
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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 John H. Hull Esquire before whom the foregoing Declaration of Elias Heator was made and who hath attested the same, was at the time thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Sussex in said State duly appointed commissioned and sworn, that James Stoll Esqr whose certificate appears on the back of the said Declaration of Elias Heator, was at the time of making the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Sussex, duly appointed commissioned and sworn:-- that John Hull Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavits of Thomas Van Etten and Benjamin Hombeck were taken, was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Sussex in said State duly appointed commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to the official attestations of the said John H. Hull and James Stoll as Judges as aforesaid and to the said John Hull as a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid, that he signatures purporting to be of the said John H. Hull and James Stoll are in their own proper hand writing; and that I believe
the signature purporting to be of the said
James Stoll is in his own proper hand writing

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Trenton in said State this eighteenth day of January Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine (1839)
James D. Westcott