Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33677, for Henry Sigler, New Jersey
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Service:  New Jersey
Name:  Sigler, Henry
Number: S33677
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New Jersey
Henry Sigler of Bloomfield in the state of N. Jersey who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shreve of the N. Jersey [illegible], for the term of fours years.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20th of April 1818. Certificate of Pension issued the 24th of April 1819 and sent to [illegible] Pennington. Esq, Newark, New Jersey. Arrears to 4th of March 1819 [illegible] $83.96. [illegible] ending 4th April 1819 $48.00/$131.96.
Revolutionary claim, Act March, 1818
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33677
Revy  INVALID
File No. 33677
Henry Sigler
Pri  Rev War
Act: 18th March 18
Index: Vol 2, Page 368
[Arrangement  of 1870]
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Henry Sigler
9-77
Sept 1819
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At Special District Court of the United States in and for the New Jersey District

Present the Honorable William S. Pennington District Judge New Jersey, Essex County. SS. Be it Remembered, that on the thirteenth day of July in the of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the District Court of the United States for the New Jersey District in open court, the said court being a court of record for the District of New Jersey and [illegible] at Newark in the Country of Essex. Henry Sigler, aged [illegible] of eighty years, resident of Bloomfield in the said County of Essex who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That he so old and infirm that he cannot remember under whom he enlisted, but he served in the Second Jersey Regiment under Colonel Shreve and served two or three years or more. And that his original declaration is dated the Thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen and that his pension certificate is No. 9778.
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And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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," passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, to wit:
That I have no property of any description whatever, and no means of support and that before receiving the assistance of my Country I was supported by public charity. That I have no family.
Henry Sigler (mark)

Sworn to and declaring before me July 13, 1820 William S. Pennington, District Judge

[Illegible] pensioner is blind and very old, and cannot rely with certainty on the Company and regiment he served and in his memory has much failed him since he made his original application.
William S. Pennington
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I, William Pennington, Clerk of the Districkt Court of the United States for the New Jersey District, do hereby certify, That the foregoing [illegible] and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is [blank]. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court this 27th day of July 1820.
William Pennington
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Henry Sigler's
Declaration
Private
Col. Shreeve - New Jersey 
1778 an 79.  ?
9th April, 1818
The Judges certificate of 
reduced circumstances
in life wanting (?)

Dec. 1778 to June 1780

     Adm@
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District of New Jersey
On this twentieth day of April AD 1818 before me the subscriber district Judge of the United States in & for the said district personally appears Henry Sigler aged above eighty years, resident in Bloomfield in the County of Essex in the said district who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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," that he the said Henry Sigler enlisted at Westfield in the County of Essex in the State of New Jersey in the year 1778 or 1779 in the company commanded by Captain Cyrus De Hart in the second Jersey Regiment under the command of Lieut Col  Mr De Hart and Colonel J. Shreeves that he continued in the said [illegible] in the service of the United States to serve until the close of the war when he was discharged from service at West Point in the State of New York, that he had no written discharge but that they received orders that they might go home - that he was the the siege and capture of General Cornwallis at YorkTown in the State of Virginia, that he marched against the Indians under General Sullivan, and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said serving.
Sworn before me this 20th April 1818
William S. Pennington District Judge

Henry  Sigler
his x mark
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I William S. Pennington district Judge of the United States in and for the district of New Jersey as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Henry Sigler did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy. And I now transmit the proceeding and testimony taken I had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
24th April 1818
William S. Pennington
District Judge
I William Pennington Clerk of the District of New Jersey, do certify that the signature to this instrucmetn and the proper Law writing of William S. Pennington, [Esq?] Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
As witness my hand and the Seal of the said District Court at Newark this twenty fourth day of April A.D. 1818
Wm Pennington