Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4053, William Given, New Jersey
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New Jersey 

Given, William
   or
Givin

R.4053
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
Act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832.

The State of Ohio
Clermont County } SS.
On this twentieth day of July in the year of
our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and thirty five personally appeared before me David Morris one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County of Clermont William Givin aged eighty years a resident of [blank] County and State of Indiana who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the law of Congress of the 7th of June 1932.-

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as he stated.

He was in Gloster [sic] County in the State  of New Jersey in the [illegible] of February in the year 1755 (he thinks a record of his age at his home in his family bible) and lived in said County until he moved to the [illegible] County.  He entered under Captain Samuel Snell in the service of the United States at Great Egg Harbour in New Jersey in the year (not remembered) in the beginning of the war.  Soe time after the enlistment he went to Red Bank. fort which he help to build after than he went & help to build & raise island fort where he was commanded by John Lewis [illegible] as his Captain.  There about three weeks making the fort as he [illegible] declaration worked about [illegible] at [illegible] Island.  After he left said island he went
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to Great Egg Harbour & worked at the fort [illegible] where he was still under the command of Captain John Linnman.  While he was at Great Egg Harbour his year expired and
he was discharged.  He does not remember whether he had a written discharge or not.  Richard Lummer was his Colonel, Richard Snell was his Ensign.  He was in my regiment except a skimish which they had with the [illegible] 
Ros Buck and Liven [illegible] New Castle above Reedy Island.  The Linepos got aground and the Rob Buck [illegible] at the row gallies which were in [illegible] Island with thte Americans (he suffered about fifteen hundred men were out thee to keep the British from landing.  He enlisted for eight dollars per month. He got his bounty but not a farthing more.  John Lippins the a new highland man was Lieutenant at Fort Mifflin at Great Egg Harbour and told declarant & others of the company to go home when his year was out.  He enlisted in the spring of the year but cannot remember the month- he thinks it was the third year of the war but cannot be
certain-  It was a years before the British was in Philadelphia as well as he can now remember - He was not out of New Jersey in the service.-
His next tour of duty he went out as a volunteer minute man under the Command of Captain Samuel Snell Samuel Shringer was his Lieutenant, Richard Sommers was his Colonel. He joined the company at Moorestown in Gloster [sic] County New Jersey and marched to
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Mound Holly 2& from there to Borden Town & from there to Trenton where they staid only two days from there marched to Prince Townb in the nght.  He entered this service in fall of the year or about December but does not remember the year. They had a battle at Prince Town & thinks the cannon of the British  and took a hundred & odd baggage wagons from them and drove them over Millstone where  they Captain John Summers time was out & he had gone home but declarant joined James Summers company on the day before on battle of Trenton - He fought at Trenton and the Americans drove the the British away from there. Washington had taken the Hessians  a night before.  The next day after
the battle of Princetown he went home. He had lost his own gun & got a new musket as light as [illegible].  The light horse [illegible] over him in the woods close to Princetown just before daybreak & he lost his gun there but he got another one directly & fired[illegible] time he was ordered to fire.

He verily believes that he served not less
than three weeks on this tour of duty.

The next time he was called out was  in the spring but he cannot remember the year, it was the same year the ship fenies was burnt at Chesnut neck.  He went out under the Command of Captain John Summers Samuel Snell was his Lieutenant Richard Summers was  his Colonel.  He joined his Company at Great Egg Harbour in Gloster County and  marched from there
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about twenty five five miles to Clermont Neck where they had a pretty smart engagement with the British.  They had [illegible] ships of the line out in the River at Egg Harbour, out if their ships got burnt-  The were seen to be on fire about an hour after the Americans ship & firing & in about two hours the blew up.  None of the Americans were killed in this engagement.  After the skirmish Captain John Summers company (declarant with them) went down to seek[illegible].  There a day and a night, & the next day they marched to Great Egg Harbour where they were discharged.  He was out on the service not less than ten days.  He thinks he was out two weeks-  The British burnt [illegible] &  Chestnut Neck before the Americans got ready to attack them.

The next tour of duty he was called out in the fall of the year the month not remembered nor the year - but it was pretty well towards the last of the year. He joined the Company as a volunteer as Captain James Summers Samuel Snell was his Captain, Richard Summers was his Colonel.  The company with other companies was marched to the Willow Land Heelmans 
where they mets the British - and had an engagement about day light, don't think more than one half of the British had their clothes on - they had had a frolic the night before about sun rise about one hundred & sixty of them 
surrendered to the Americans after they surrendered some of them
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take Brough the [illegible] got away.  Declarant went with the prisoners to Philadelphia & helped to put the prisoners in jail. Captain Samuel Springer (who he believes was ensign commanded the guards to Philadelphia.  He was out on this tour not less than one week - 
He thinks he was out two weeks. and was discharged.  He had no written discharge in the several tours in which he volunteered.  He always was a Private soldier in all the above mentioned service.  He lived at Great Egg harbour in New Jersey until about eighteen years ago and then he moved to Cincinnati State of Ohio where he lived about four years and then moved to Indiana, to the mouth of the Miami where he kept the ferry on the road from Cincinnati to Laurenceburgh about ten or twelve years and then he moved to his granddaughters down to the Banyo- in Mansburgh Indiana.  His reason for making the present declaration in this County is that he could hear of no other witness than John Dennis who resides in said County of Clermont by whom he can prove his service.  He was the under Genl. Washington in the Battle of Trenton & Prince town & never saw him only that time. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.  About nine years ago he had
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account of the palsy Which hs [illegible] his memory do that he cannot state thte itmes when he was out in [illegible].  [illegible] that he served as above stated.
             his
William  X  Given
           mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of July 1835.
David Morris J.P.
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The State of Ohio }
Clermont County } SS.
Before me David Morris one of the Justices of to Peace in and for the said County personally appeared John Dennis a resident of said County of lawful age who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath state - That he is well acquainted with William Given who has sworn & subscribed the above declaration
that he became acquainted with him in New Jersey in Gloster [sic] County in  Great Egg Harbour Township.  They were boys together & were raised together about ten miles apart.
During the Revolutionary War (he thinks about two years before the British took Philadelphia - he distinctly remembers to have heard it generally talked of with neighbours during in Gloster [sic] County New Jersey that he heard William Given had got home from a tour of duty as an enlisted soldier of the United States.  He then and there heard that the said William Given had been enlisted for one year. Deponent heard one James Huffer in Gloster [sic] County say soon after said Givens got home as aforesaid
that said Given was a brave man and that if the Americans had a small army like him be should not be a bit afraid but that the Americans would gain the day.  About the same time that said Given came home as aforesaid one & this 
makes Came home upon furlough.  keeper
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had earlier enlisted for three years, belonged to the light horse. His three years were nearly out
when he came home. After his three years
were out he enlisted for the war [illegible] as several other young men had enlisted.  Came home - about the same time that William Given came home.  Some of them he thinks were named [illegible] also Thomas Douty & Jacob Douty who had enlisted for three years.   
Deponent saw said William Given (the same man who now applied for a pension) at the skirmish at  Chesnut Neck.  Deponent was in said battle under the command of Captain Samuel Snell on the night [illegible] (of Proctor when there was one [illegible] troop twelve pounder and some other small pieces and they seemed that Proctor hulled the vessel the first that went to the right-  The ship was aground & the British lightened [illegible] & cleared out.  He saw said Given out the same day of said battle & about one hour after it was over he with the men that had been engaged & deponent has no doubt but that he was engaged as a soldier in battle but as he belonged to a different company he did not see. him during the battle.

The next time deponent saw him in service Given was early in the morning after the battle was over at the widow Heelmans.  She saw said Given carry Captain Robert Snells and Captain Samuel Snells) into the march up to widow Heelman house & deponent further helped lay out said Robert Snel.  He had been killed by a shot through the [illegible] his stomach in the engagement.  Deponent did not see said Given actively fighting in the engagement
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at the widow Heelmands, but he has no more doubt but that he was in service there [illegible]- he has that any other officer or man whom he saw there was in service.  Deponent has known said Given from his boyhood to the present time, the has always borne a good 
character as far as deponent has heard and he has frequently seen him- on day before
yesterday Given landed at deponents house
on the bank of the Ohio River in Clermont
County from the steam boat Wyoming and told deponent that he had come all the way from Indiana three hundred miles to get his testimony so that he might get his pension.   Deponent had heard that said William Given had been struck with the palsy and was helpless some years ago.  His present appearance is that of a man who has been struck with the palsy. Deponent has not the least doubt of the truth of said Givens statement above -  all of which he has heard - said Given is and deponent believes always has been an honest industrious truth telling man and further deponent saith not.
John Dennis

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of July 1835.
David Morris J.P.
The State of Ohio }
Clermont County } SS.
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named John Dennis who was sworn
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and subscribed to the above deposition and that he is a credible person.  
David Morris

The State of Ohio }
Clermont County I} SS.
O Jonathan Delloris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Clermont County Ohio
certify that David Morris before whom the within affidavits William Given and John Dennis 
appears to have been subscribed  and sworn, and who appears to have signed the above certificate of the Credability [sic] of John  Dennis was at the time of the taking of said affidavit & of subscribing said certificate one of the justices of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified to act as such that full faith and credit is due to his official acts and that the signatures above which purport to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Batavia in said County this twenty first day of July AD 1835.
J.D. Morris Clerk
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Batavia Ohio.
July 21st. 1835

Dear Sir

Please send the certificate or write respecting the enclosed to the undersigned and oblige

Yours respectfully
John Fillippe
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Batavia O. }         Free
July 22nd  }

Ohio. July 30.

Application of William Givin
for a pension under the Law
of June 7th 1832

To J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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Dr. C.

33.213
William Given
Ohio
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L. W. B.
R. 4053.

AW

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,

April 25, 1898.

Sir:-

Replying to your recent communication you are advised that a verycareful search has been made and from the data given the names of
Vincent Given and ----- Grozier have not been found upon the Revolutionary war pension records on file in this Bureau.

One William Given made an application for pension on July 20, 1832, at which time he was 80 years of age and residing in Clermont
County, Indiana.  In his application he alleges that he enlisted at Great Egg Harbor, N. J., and served in the New Jersey troops under Capt. Snell. His claim was rejected, however, on the ground of insufficient service.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. Joshua Grozier,
Ernest and Cranmer Building,
Denver, Colorado.
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[left side]
Apr 25 '91
J Grozier
Denver Colo

[right side]
['Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873.' crossed out]

4053,
P.O. ______-
Wm. Given
Service: ___________
REJECTED

Enlisted: ________, 18
Discharged: ________, 18

Application filed: ________, 18

Alleges: ______________
Re-enlisted: _____________

Attorney: _______________
P.O. _____________
___ Recognized. ___Contra
___Cert. of Dis. Searched for ____, 18
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Suspended
let J. Joliffe
24 Augt. 1835
Batavia, Ohio

William Given

4053
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JOSHUA GROZIER,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
500-528 ERNEST & CRANMER BLDG.
DENVER, COLO.

[stamp:] U.S.P.B. OLD WAR & NAVY. APR 12 1898 FILES

no Grozier

Denver, Colò, April 6, 1898.

( Dictated )
To The Commissioner of Pension
Washington,
D.C.,

Dear Sir:-- I write you as I am thinking of joining the Sons of the Revolution. My Mother informs me that I am entitled to a membership on both
my Mother's and My Father's side, but she does not know so much about my Father's side as she does about her own side of the family. The line of descent on my Mother's side is as follows, My Mother's Father was Captain St Vincent Given and his Father was Captain William Given who was in the revolution and who married a Mary Whitmore, who received a
pension as his wife until she died when she was 86 years old.

Whether Captain William Given derived his title of Captain through being an Officer in the Revolution or from the fact that he was a sea faring man as all my family of my Mother's side were I do not know. I think that my Mother's folks came from the State of Maine which was then Massachusetts but it may be that they were from some of the other New England States as I have relatives all through the New England states.   By furnishing me this information and the necessary papers to show these facts so that I can make application for membership in the Sons of the Revolution you will greatly oblige,
Yours very truly,
Joshua Grozier

p.S. I wish you would also advise me if there are any Grozier's who were in the Revolution from any of the New England states.
[stamp:] U.S. PENSION OFFICE. APR 9 1898