Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,477, for Henry Post, New Jersey
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New Jersey          Post, Henry       S34477
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50 New Jersey

Henry Post
Capt. Polhamus private, N. Jersey
In the army of the United States

At $8 per mo. comm, 25th March 1818

Cert. issued 2 April 1818 and
sent to Hon. Gen'l Bloomfield.
House of Reps., U States

Arr. to 4th Sept 1818 5 8/28 mo.     $42.28

Revue. Claim
Act 18th April 1818

Jersey Line
one year

Continued

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DEAD see Letter 18 Sept
1830 to J.R. Duham

written vertically:
Nov. 7 1822.  --?-- and
sen to W. P. Dear Esq.
Clerk of the County
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34477

Revy INVALID

File NO 34477
Henry Post\Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18

Index:-Vol. 2, Page 326

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1914 May 29: History to Mr
Louis H. Dos Passos.         MBH
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Henry Post



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New Brunswick
New Jersey
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In the case of Henry Post of the township of Piscataway in the County of Middlesex and State of new Jersey claiming a Pension under the Act of congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"

State of new Jersey
Middlesex County
          On the twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Thomas Hance one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Middlesex in the State aforesaid came Henry Post the applicant above named and being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he enlisted as a Soldier in the month of September or October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five at Princeton - in the company commanded by Captain Pelhamus - in the first Jersey Regiment on the continental establishment commanded by Col. Winds - that he marched with the said Regiment into Canada and continued to serve as a soldier against.....
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....the common enemy until the seventeenth da of September in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six when he was discharged from the General Hospital at Fort George and from the service of the United States, the Director of the said Hospital being of opinion that his state of health was such that he could be of no further service during the campaign; and this deponent further saith that he has continued ever since to be a resident citizen of the United States and that by reasons of his reduced circumstances he is in need of assistance from his country for support.
Henry Post

Sworn and subscribed
the 25th day of March 1818
before me -
    Thos. Hance

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County
      I Thomas Hance one of the Judges of the Curt of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex in the State afs'd certify that the foregoing affidavit is to me satisfactory proof that Henry Post the applicant.....
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....served in the Revolutionary War as a soldier in the continental establishment against the common enemy for the term of nine months and longer -
   Thos. Hance

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County
     I William P. Deare clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex in the State afs'd certify that Thomas Hance Esq. who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing attestations is one of the Judges of said Court duly commissioned and and sworn and to to his official acts full credit is to be given.
      Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court the twenty fifth day ion March in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
     Wm. P. Deare Clk.
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(Note: handwritten parts transcribed - writing / ink has become blurry with age and hard to decipher - apologies)

Middlesex County
sixteenth day of September 1822
Middlesex
Henry Post - seventy five
Piscataway
...that he served in the first Jersey Regiment commanded by Col. Winds and afterwards in Maxwell's Brigade in the battle of Monmouth - that he made a declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act ofCongress of March 18th, 1818 in April of same year that he pension certificate is dated 2nd April 1818 No. 50

                    Schedule
1 Horse                                                 $35
1 Cow                                                    $14
1 Calf                                                     $ 4
1 old chair                                             $ 5
1 Waggon & Harness                           $20
2 Shoats                                                $ 6
6 chairs & Crockery                             $ 5
books                                                     $  .50
Looking glass                                        $ 2
1 stove and pipe                                    $12
chairs and table                                    $  .50
Hollow ware                                           $ 2
Andirons shovel & tongs                      $ 1.50
Cedar ware                                            $ 1
Knives forks & spoons                          $ 2
3 Casks                                                   $ .75
Highboard & -?-                                    $ 1

   That I am a Cooper by trade but from Rheumatism and other infirmities unable to labour and that my family consists of my wife Margaret aged sixty four years who is lame, crippled by breaking her leg and declared to be consumptive and unable to do the work of the family and a poor white boy about thirteen years of age who takes care of them and that I am in such indigent circumstances as to stand in deed of assistance from the government or public or private charity and the I owe debts to the full amount of my schedule.

R.W. McChesney presiding Judge

I, William P. Deare
Middlesex
one hundred and twenty four dollars and fifty six cents
twentieth day of September 1822
     Wm. P. Deare Clk.
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Henry Post

S34477

Enlistment
    Sept or Oct 1775
Length of service
     Sept 17 1776
Rank
     Priv
Captain
     Polhemus
colonel
     Winds
State
     N.J.

Battles - Monmouth
Residence - enlisted in Princeton
Date - Much 25 1818.  His claim was allowed.
Residence - Middlesex Co., N.J.
Age - 75 in 1822
Remarks -  in 1822 wife Margaret 64 years ;  there is no further family data on file.
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Post, Henry         Private              New York

7599                              Sept. 25, 1790
                                to Daniel Hudson & Co.,
                                          assignee