Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,961, Jeremiah Drake, New Jersey
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New Jersey
Drake, Jeremiah   W. 16,961
Sarah
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New York  3882
Sarah Drake
widow of Jeremiah Drake
who died on the 20th February 1834 of Orange Co. in the state of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Nichols of the Regt commanded by Col: Courtland N.J. in the N. Jersey line for 8 months
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 26 dollars 66 cents per annum to commence on the 21st day of February 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of May 1843 and sent to W.S. Allison Present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1843        $240.99
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept     13.33
                                                             $254.32
{Revolutionary claim, Act July 4, 1836 section the 3rd} 
Recorded by Wm Stewart clerk
Book C   vol. 3   Page 112
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New York 32044
Jeremiah Drake deceased of Orange Co. in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Nicholl of the regiment commanded by Col. Courtland in the New Jersey line for 8 months
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 26 dollars 66 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 and terminated on the 20th February 1834 the day of his death
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of May 1843 and sent to Wm S. Allen
present
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi- anl. allowance ending





$78.93
{Revolutionary Claim, Act Kune 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Wm Stewart clerk
Book E.2  Vol. 4 Page 18
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State of New York
Orange County} ss. on this eighth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before the undersigned a judge of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county Sarah Drake a resident of the town of Goshen in said county aged seventy four years on the thirteenth day of July last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 1836. That she is the widow of Jeremiah Drake late of the county of Orange aforesaid who was a private in the army of the Revolution and served as is herein after stated according to the best of her recollection and as she has been informed by her said husband and verily believes to be true
That in the month of February in the year 1778 the British army then being in possession of the city of New York and the adjacent posts her said husband then being a resident of Newark in the County of Essex and state of New Jersey and belonged to Captain Nichol's company of minute men, Said company was called into service at Newark aforesaid in the month of February in the year last aforesaid. And served the term of three months in defending the inhabitants and then property from the incursions of the foraging parties of the British army. that said service was done under Mahor Hays that Lieutenant Baldwin was the Lieutenant in said company.
That in the month of July in the year last aforesaid her said husband  was called out in the aforesaid company of minutemen and served at Newark aforesaid in guarding the inhabitants as aforesaid and served one month in said tour this service was done under Col. Van Courtland.
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That in the month of October in the year last aforesaid her said husband was called into service with the aforesaid company at the place aforesaid on an alarm and served three weeks on said alarm this service was also done under Col. VanCourtlandt.
That in the month of November in said year the enemy again made an incursion into the country about Newark and had collected a quantity of cattle, hogs, and sheep. her said husband was again called out with his company aforesaid pursued the enemy over took them a skirmish ensued the enemy were so hardly pressed that they shot many of their cattle and threw them into the river. that said company remained in service at this time three months. this service was also done under Col. VanCourtlandt.
That in the month of June in the year 1779 the enemy came in boats to Newark to the number of about one hundred the militia and minutemen were called out a skirmish ensued Capt. Knox and a private by the name of Jonson were wounded. her said husband was called out with Capt. Nichols company aforesaid and served continually for two months in this tour which was also done under Col. VanCourtlandt 
That in the month of September in the year last aforesaid the enemy again made an attack on Newark her said husband was again called out with his company aforesaid a skirmish ensued and the enemy were driven about three miles to their boats. her said husband was kept in actual service in this tour three months and served said times in Capt Nichols company aforesaid.
That in the latter part of the month of December in the year 1779 or the first of January in the year 1780
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the enemy again made an incursion to Newark aforesaid and took Esq. Hadding prisoner and compelled him to walk in his stocking feet on the ice to New York by which he became sick and died in about two weeks and also carved off a number of cattle and other plunder Captain Nichols company aforesaid was again called out in service and served at Newark aforesaid the term of five months in guarding the inhabitants from the invasions of the British army.
That in the month of July in the year last aforesaid the enemy again came to Newark Capt. Nichols' company was again called out and her husband with said company pursued the enemy overtook them at Springfield where a battle ensued and made some prisoners. her said husband with said company guarded said prisoners to jail at Morristown and was engaged in this service ten days. this service was done under Col. Dayton.
That during the years 1781 and 1782 her said husband was frequently called out upon alarms and was engaged in skirmishes with the enemy in the aforesaid company of Capt. Nichols but from old age and loss of memory she is unable to state the different tours of service or the length of time he was engaged in said service and that she has no documentary evidence of the service of her said husband
She further declares that she was married to her said husband at Newark aforesaid by the Rev. Dr. McWhorter a Presbyterian minister of said place on the ninth day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. that her name before marriage was Sarah Johnson that her said husband
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died at Goshen in the county of Orange aforesaid on the twentieth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty four and that she has not intermarried but has remained a widow ever since his death as well more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. And that from old age and bodily infirmity she is unable to attend the sitting of the court of said county
Sarah Donagan (?)
sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me the words "this" and "Capt" erased
HW Elliott Judge of Orange Com. Pleas
I the undersigned Judge before whom the foregoing declaration of Sarah Drake was made do certify that I am well acquainted with her and believe her to be a woman of truth and veracity and her statements under oath entitled to full credit and belief and also that I am satisfied from inspection that she is by reason of old age and infirmity unable to attend the sitting of the court of said county
HW Elliott Judge of Orange Com. Pleas
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Jeremiah Drake
State of New York
Orange County ss}
On this eleventh day of February in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas ( a court of record) now sitting in and for the said county of Orange Jeremiah Drake a resident of Goshen in the county and state aforesaid aged 70 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as here after stated.
That he entered the service of the United Stated in a company of militia commanded by Captain Nichols in the summer of the year 1778 the precise month not recollected at Newark New Jersey. that Major Hays was the Major of the regiment that Colonel Courtlandt was the Colonel. Nathaniel Baldwin was the Lieutenant of the company at this time the enemy were lying at Bergen distant about five or six miles from where this deponent resided. where they had made fortifications from the frequent incursions made by the enemy at that place deponent's company were ordered to be in a state of constant readiness. they were considered minute men and were in actual service under arms a great portion of the time. Deponent.
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cannot recollect all the various times he was called out in defense of the inhabitants against the incursions of the enemy and he must rely somewhat upon his general knowledge and recollection the first occasion deponent recollects that the enemy came to Newark and carried away cattle. Deponent was ordered out with his said company to meet there. we had a skirmish with them and drove them off. Several of the enemy were killed and wounded. We were kept under arms patrolling and standing sentry expecting the enemy again for about four weeks at the expiration of which time the enemy again appeared in the neighborhood of Newark for cattle and other plunder we were ordered out again to meet them. We drove the enemy to the old Ferry on the Passaic river about three miles keeping up a constant fire on both sides. the enemy had a small field piece. one of their men was killed or badly wounded. we saw him carried off. the enemy then returned within their lines and we returned home but kept up a guard and patrols about three months after this the enemy came near to Newark and set fire to the stacks of hay on the meadows. we were ordered one in pursuit of them. we pursued them upwards of three miles. we took two or three of them prisoners. we returned to Newark and continued our guard. Deponent cannot say with certainty how long he was in actual service from the time he was first called out to the commencement of the year 1779. but he has no doubt that he was out
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the period of four months 
And this deponent further saith that from the commencement of the year 1779 to about the month of June following he had no recollection of the enemy's making any incursions into that neighborhood but guards were kept up during all the time and deponent cannot with confidence say that the duty performed by him during that time would amount to the period of two months.
And this deponent further saith that in the summer of 1779 and in June or July the enemy came into the neighborhood of Newark in number about one hundred a short time before day at eight in the morning they attacked the place and fired cannon and that upon the place two balls passed through the house in which deponent lived we turned out attacked and drove them off keeping up a constant fire for three miles when the enemy got into their boats on Newark bay and went to their forts. Captain Knox of the regular service as deponent thinks happened to be in the village at the time and went out with us in pursuit of the enemy and was wounded in the mouth by a musket ball one John Johnson belonging to deponents company was wounded in the knee deponent does not recollect that any others were wounded or killed on either side. we continued keeping guard and patrolling in anticipation of further attacks from the enemy. In the fall of the same year a large number of
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the enemy came again the neighborhood of Newark. Deponent was called out with the militia to meet them. we drove them but deponent does not recollect whether any of them were killed or wounded. Deponent cannot certainly recollect all the occasions upon which he was called out to repel the enemy not the length of time he was out on duty as a guard and patrols during the year 1779. but deponent has no hesitation in saying that including the services above mentioned and others in the year 1779 he was in actual service during that year for the period of at least four months. Captain Nichols continued Captain and Nathaniel Baldwin Lieutenant on some occasions the neighboring companies of militia were called out and joined us. 
And deponent further saith that in the latter part of December 1779 or the first part of January 1780 the enemy came to Newark he thinks as many as two hundred and attacked the place. they burned the academy which was used as a guard house. Deponent was called out with his company to repel them. the enemy took Esquire Headen prisoner and took him to New York we drove the enemy off keeping up at continual firing.  we continued all the winter of 1780 under arms repelling the enemy who made frequent attacks. we were called sometimes six or eight miles from Newark to repel the enemy. the waters were frozen during that winter and the enemy were out very often. whenever they could go the ice from
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the first of January to the first of May deponent thinks he was in constant service four months.
And deponent further saith that in or about the month of June 1780 the enemy landed in large numbers at Elizabethtown point at Elizabethtown they burned some houses the militia for some distance around the country were called out the enemy went from Elizabethtown to Connecticut farms about seven miles/. Deponent was ordered out in his company and met the enemy at the said Farms the militia were commanded by Colonel Dayton. we had engagement at that place we were driven to Springfield about three miles fighting all the time. many were killed on both sides. we drove the enemy back to Elizabethtown Point. when they crossed to Staten Island. we took some prisoners.
And deponent further saith that the enemy were during that summer and the next fall in the practice of making incursions into the country about Newark and the company to which deponent belonged were very frequently called out to repel them and were kept on guard and patrolling on various occasions deponent cannot undertake to specify the various times he was out in pursuit of the enemy and keeping guard but he has no hesitation in saying that from June 1780 to January 1781 he was in the performance of those duties at least two months
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Deponent further saith that during the year 1781, he was in service repelling the enemy and keeping guard and patrolling at least three months but deponent is unable to specify the particulars of his service, and from the commencement of the year 1782 to the end of the war deponent was in the performance of similar services at least three months
1st That he was born at Menahan Morris County New Jersey in the year 1762
2 that he has a record of his age at home in Goshen aforesaid
3 that he lived at Newark when called into service he next lived at Chester in Morris county New Jersey  lived there until 1795 then moved to Goshen where he has since lived and now lives
4 that he went into the service as above stated.
5th that he does not now recollect the names of any other officers than those already mentioned
6th that he never received a written discharge and has no documentary evidence
7th that he is known to Stephen Jackson Thomas Thorne and Egleent Jansen all whom reside in his neighborhood who can testify as to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his service in the revolutionary war
We hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any state.
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taken subscribed
and sworn to the day and year aforesaid in open court} Jeremiah Drake
Asa Dunning clerk
and the said court do hereby declare then opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. 
I Asa Dunning clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Orange, which is a court of record, and clerk of the said county do certify that the foregoing and annexed contain the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Drake for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal of office this 18th day of February 1833
Asa Dunning clerk
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State of New York 
Orange County} On the seventeenth day of July 1839 before the undersigned as Judge of the court of common pleas of said county came Antoinette Barker aged thirty two  years who being first duly sworn doth depose and say that she is the daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah Drake that her father who was the husband of the said Sarah Drake an applicant for a pension referred to in the papers hereunto annexed died at Goshen in said county on the twentieth day of February AD 1834   Antoinette Barker
Sworn and subscribed the 17th day of July 1839 
HW Elliott judge of Orange Com pleas
I certify that the above named Antoinette Barker is a person of truth and veracity
HW Elliott judge of Orange Com. pleas

State of New York
Orange County ss: } I Albert L Benton clerk of the county of Orange do hereby certify that Horace W Elliott before whom the foregoing affidavit of Antoinette Barker was subscribed and sworn was at the time of taking the same a judge of Orange Common Pleas; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said judge and verily that the signature to the said affidavit is genuine in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county the 18th day of July 1839
A.L. Benton  clerk
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
-
File No. 16961
Sarah Drake
wid of
Jeremiah Drake
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 4, 1836
Index:--Vol. A, Page 196
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Oct 4, 1905 - Adjt Genl of NY advised claims are consolidated AEP
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28715
Rev INVALID
File No. 28715
Jeremiah Drake
Pri. Rev War 
act: June 7th 32'
Index: Vol D page 114
Consolidated with 
Wic. File 16961
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N. York
Sarah Drake
At to J. Armstrong. 12. Dec. 39
Act 4 July 1836
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STATE OF NEW YORK ORANGE COUNTY, SS. 
I, LEBBEUS L. VAIL, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Orange, Do Hereby Certify, that Horace W Elliott BEFORE WHOM the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same, a Judge of Orange Com Pleas in and for said county; and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe that the signature to the said Affidavit
is genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the
Seal of the said county, the 7th day of January 1841

Lebbey L. Vail Clerk
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State of New York
Orange County ss} I Albert L Benton clerk of the county of Orange do hereby certify that Horace W. Elliott before whom the foregoing declaration of Sarah Drake was subscribed and sworn was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the court of Common Pleas aforesaid and further that I AM well acquainted with the handwriting of the said judge and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavits is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county the 19th of July 1839
A.L. Benton
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In the matter of the application of Jeremiah Drake for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of New Jersey
Essex County ss}
Personally appeared before me this fourth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three Robert Hayes of the township of Newark County of Essex and State of New Jersey aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is aged seventy five years that he was a soldier in the revolution that he was during the revolutionary war acquainted with Jeremiah the above named applicant for a pension that he believed the said Drake to be seventy one years old and upwards. that he well knows that the said Jeremiah Drake was a soldier in the said war and that he served in Captain Nichols company of militia under the command of Colonel Phillip Van Cortland. and he also well knows that the said Jeremiah Drake  was out in the militia service from the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven until the close of the war he cannot say positively how long said Drake was in actual service but he verily believes that the said Drake was in actual service at various times and upon various occasions
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in the whole at the least calculation two years and this deponent further saith that the said Drake was in the skirmish with the British in or near Newark when Captain Nox and John Johnson were wounded
Robert Hayes
Affirmed and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid he being conscientiously ternpulous (sp) of takin on oath.
Sam'l B. Miller, Judge and Justice of the Peace

I Sam'l B. Miller before whom the above affidavit of Robert Hayes was taken do certify that I am acquainted with the said Hayes and that his statement is entitled to full credit and belief.
Newark February 4th 1833
Sam'l B. Miller Judge and Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey
County of Essex}ss:  I Elias Van Arsdale Junr. clerk of the Inferior court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Essex, do hereby certify that Samuel B. Miller Esq. before whom the foregoing affirmation of Robert Hayes was made and subscribed and by whom the above certificate is signed, was at the time of making said affirmation and signing said certificate one of the Judges of said court and a Justice of the peace in and for said county residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn: That I am acquainted with his handwriting and know that the foregoing signatures "Sam"'l B. Miller Judge and Justice of the Peace are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of the said court, at Newark the fifth day of February A.D. jEighteen hundred and thirty three (1833) 
E VanArdsdale Js. clk
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State of New York
Orange County ss:} Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said county, Jeremiah Drake who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of this service as set forth in his foregoing declaration and although he is very confident that he served during the whole Revolutionary War more than two years, yet for the reasons above mentioned he cannot specify the following distinct and specific tours of duty conformably to the requirements of the War Department. In the year 1778 in the months of August and September one month the whole of the months of October and December in said year, two months. In 1779 in June and July. 1 month and half in 1780, three months in the months of January, February and March and in the months of June, July and August of the same year two months. and in the year 1781, one month; making together the period of ten months and an half, and for such service he claims a pension. And he further says all the said term of service were made under the same officers named in his annexed declaration and at the different places and under the particular services therein more fully specified.
And Further says not.
sworn before me the twentieth day of Jany 1834} Jeremiah Drake
HW Elliott J. Peace
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State of New York
Orange County} ss: I Asa Dunning Clerk of the said county do certify that Horace W. Elliott Esq. before whom the within affidavit of Jeremiah Drake was sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature
Witness my hand and seal of office this 21st day of January 1834.
Asa Dunning Clerk
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28440
Jeremiah Drake
died
Pension papers
A.L. Benton
7 June 32 atty
admd
8 mo private 
26.66
To Sarah Drake
widow of Jeremiah Drake died from 4 March 31 to 20th Feby 34' the day of his death
WL Allison present
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Sarah Drake widow of Jeremiah Drake of Orange NY
Act 4 July 1836
W.S. Allison 
Apl 18 1843 present
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to guard served at a skirmish the time
    just above of cattle had skirmish 
1 month service on guard and patrolling August
3 months in service on guard and patrolling
In February of the guard against Newark to set fire to the f -[crossed out, illegible]
February 1778 I entered the service under Capt Robert Nichols of the town of Newark New Jersey Essex county served 3 months in the time had 2 skirmish with the enemy they burnt the guard house took of a number of cattle we drove them three miles one of the enemy were killed
August term year served on month
November the enemy came again and took of a number of cattle hogs and sheep we pursued them so close they could not gather all in their boats but that them and threw them in the river the militia were called out I served three month at that time
1779 in June a number of about one hundred a short time before day we had a skirmish Capt Nox and John Johnson were wounded we were called out for a month
September the enemy came over and Nathaniel Camps barn and Mr Wards barn were burnt 
We had a skirmish barge full of grain and hay we drove them three miles to their boats served 3 months
1779 or the 1 January 1780
Last December or first of January
the enemy came to Newark about or took Esq Heddon made him walk in his stocking feet to New York on the ice which froze him so that he died in 2 weeks took of cattle and other supplies.
I was out 5 months at that time.
1789 last of July the 1780 in June enemy came to battle at Springfield to Newark we had a skirmish with them took some prisoners guarded them Morris county goal for safekeeping October the enemy came to Newark we had a skirmish drove them back to tharebates (sp?) and kept sentries and patrolling
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he served six months
In the year 1781 the enemy came again to Newark we had a skirmish one killed and in December the enemy came again and set fire to stacks of hay on the salt meadow we had a skirmish and drove them to there but took prisoners and kept up patrolling and sentries in every direction to the close of the war and stand as minutemen with our guard in order and our cartridge box filled with cartridges
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State of New York
Orange County}ss Antoinette Barker of the town of Goshen County of Orange and State of New York aged thirty four years deposes and says that she is the daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah Drake formerly of Newark New Jersey that her father Jeremiah Drake was an applicant for a pension from the United States for services in the militia of Essex county New Jersey in the Revolutionary War but from some informality in his declaration did not succeed. That her mother Sarah Drake is now an applicant for a pension under the act of the 4th of July 1836 and she further deposes and say that they paper attached to this deposition purporting to be the services of some person in the Revolutionary War has been found amongst the old papers of her father since his decease and from the other times that she has heard her father while living tell of his services and from her knowledge of his handwriting she is entirely satisfied that the same is her fathers hand writing done in his lifetime and kept by him as a memorandum of his services during the Revolutionary war that her father Jeremiah Drake died as she has before stated in a former affidavit and that her mother Sarah Drake still remains a widow and further saith not. 
Sworn and subscribed before me this sixth day of January 1841 and I certify that the above deponent is well known to me to be a respectable witness
HW Elliott judge of Orange Com pleas
Antoinette Barber
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State of New Jersey
Essex County ss} Be it known that on this first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller one of the Judges of the Superior court of Common pleas in and for said county [illegible] of Newark county of Essex and state of New Jersey who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Jeremiah Drake of the township of Goshen county of Orange and state of New York aged about seventy one years and is well knowing this the said Jeremiah Drake was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and served in Capt. Robert Nichol's company of common militia under the command of Col. Philip VanCortland and is also knowing that the said Jeremiah Drake was out in the militia service from the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven until the close of the war but cannot say what length of time he was in actual service but he believes that the said Jeremiah Drake was in actual service at different periods nearly three year in the militia and this deponent further saith that the said Drake was in the skirmish with the British in and near the town of Newark in New Jersey. when Capt. Nox and John Johnson was wounded. And further saith not.
sworn and subscribed the day and year before me Sam. B. Miller
Robert Hayes
State of New Jersey Essex County 
I Elias VanArdale Jr. clerk of the Inferior court of Common Pleas in and for said I do hereby certify that Samuel B Miller  the foregoing affidavit of Robert Hayes wag
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made and taken at the time of taking the same was and still is one of the Judges of said court duly commissioned and sworn and authorized to take the same that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said judge and that the signature "Sam'l B Miller" to said affidavit is genuine and that said court is a court of record.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Newark in said county of Essex this first day of September Eighteen hundred and thirty two.
E VanArdale clk
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In the matter of the application of Jeremiah Drake for a pension under the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832}
State of New Jersey
Essex County ss
Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller one of the Judges of the Inferior court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Essex on the seventh day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty three Arthur Berrey of the township of Newark county of Essex and state of New Jersey aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is aged seventy one years that he was a soldier in the Revolution that he was during the Revolutionary war acquainted with the said Jeremiah Drake the above named applicant for a pension that he believes the said Drake to be seventy one years old and upwards. that he well knows that the said Jeremiah Drake was a soldier in the said war and that he served in Captain Robert Nicholas company of militia under the command of Colonel Philip VanCortlandt and he also well knows that the said Jeremiah Drake was out in the militia service from the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven until the close of the war. he cannot say precisely how long said Jeremiah Drake was in actual service but he verily believes that the said Drake was in actual service at various times and upon various actions in the said war in the whole at the list calutation two full years. and this deponent further saith that said Jeremiah Drake was in the skirmish with him with the British in or near Newark when Capt. Nox and John Johnson was wounded and this deponent further saith that he saw said Jeremiah Drake at the battle of Springfield and is certain that said Drake was in said battle with the British. and was also in a number of skirmishes with the British in company with said Drake during said war. I further saith not. Arthur Perry
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me 
Sam'l B Miller
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I Samuel B. Miller one of the Judges of the Inferior court of Common pleas before whom the  within affidavit of Arthur Berry was taken. Do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the said Arthur Berry and that his statement is entitled to full credit and belief.
Newark New Jersey
February 7th 1833}   Sam'l B. Miller
State of New Jersey county of Essex ss: I Elias VanArdale Jr, clerk of said county of Essex do hereby certify that Samuel B Miller before whom the written affidavit was made and taken and who has also signed the above certificate at the time of doing thereof was and still is one of the judges of the Inferior court of Common pleas in and for said county of Essex duly commissioned and sworn and residing therein that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said judge and that the names Sam'l B Miller subscribed to the jurat of said affidavit and also to the above certificate are the genuine signatures of said Judge. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three.
E. VanArdale Jr. clerk
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JL Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington
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Newark Oct. 8th 1839
Sir
Enclosed I send you the papers in support of the claim of Sarah Drake widow of Jeremiah Drake under the act of July 1836. when examined please direct the result to me.
 I am respectfully 
your obedient servant H. Armstrong
JL Edwards Esq.
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4749
V Affidavit Relation to Mrs Sarah Drake for a pension
N.Y.
Act 4 July 36 
admd 8 mo pri.
26.66
husband died 20 Feby 1834
pen: com: 21 Feby 1834

Wm S Allison
present
H. Armstrong Newburgh NY
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In the matter of the application of the widow Sarah Drake for a pension.
State of New Jersey
Essex County}ss  Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller a justice of the peace in and for said county Eunice Hayes, A respectable person residing at Newark in the county and state aforesaid. and being by me duly sworn on her oath saith that she was seventy two years of age last December.; that she was well acquainted with Jeremiah Drake and Sarah his wife ( formerly Sarah Johnson) during the war of the Revolution. And this deponent further saith, that she is the sister of the above named Sarah Johnson, and is knowing that the said Jeremiah Drake was married to the said Sarah Johnson by the Rev'd Alexander McWhoter in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and eighty and before the battle of Springfield, and was at the Innfair or supper the next night after the marriage. and that she resided with them at Black river in the county of Morris in said state for about two month soon after said marriage, and that the said Jeremiah Drake and Sarah his wife always resided together as husband and wife and reputed so to be until the death of the said Jeremiah Drake which took about  five years ago. and had a number of children together.  And this deponent further saith that Sarah Drake widow of the said Jeremiah Drake is still living and now resides in Orange county in the state of New York. And has resided there for a number of years last past and is now as much or seventy four years of age. and this deponent further saith that she knows of no one now living that was present at the marriage ceremony, and that she was hired to stay at home by her uncle and Aunt with whom she resided for them to go to the marriage who are now dead. and further saith not. Eunice Hayes
sworn to and subscribed at Newark in said county of Essex September 17th 1839
before me Sam B. Miller justice of the peace
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Mrs Eunice Hayes
State of New Jersey
County of Essex}ss  I Elias VanArsdale jun: clerk of the county of Essex and of the Inferior court of Common Pleas in the said county so hereby certify that Samuel B. Miller before whom the several affidavits hereunto annexed of of Ansel D. Eddy, Lydia Crane, Elizabeth Pennington and Eunice Hayes were made and taken at the time of taking the same was and still is one of the justices of the peace of said county, duly commissioned and sworn; and that the signatures "Sam'l B. Miller affixed to the Jurats of said affidavits, respectfully are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Newark in said county of Essex the seventeenth day of September AD eighteen hundred and thirty nine.
E VanArsdale  Jr clerk
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In the matter of the application of the widow Sarah Drake for a pension.
State of New Jersey
Essex County}ss 
Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller a Justice of the peace in and for said county , Elizabeth Pennington a respectable person residing at Newark in the county of Essex and state of New Jersey, personally known to me to be entitled to credit or a witness. Who being by me duly sworn on her oath saith that she is seventy four years of age, that she was well acquainted with Jeremiah Drake and Sarah Drake his wife (formerly Sarah Johnson) at and before the war of the Revolution. And this deponent further saith, that she always understood that the said Jeremiah Drake was married tot he said Sarah Johnson, by the Reverand doctor Alexander Mc Whoter in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and eighty and in the spring of the year next subsequent to what was called the hard winter and before the battles of Connecticut forms and Springfield, in the said county of Essex. And this deponent further saith that the said Jeremiah Drake and Sarah his wife always resided together as husband and wife and reputed so to be and that she has further understood that the said Jeremiah Drake is now dead. and has left a widow who is still living and now resides in the county of Orange in the state of New York, and is the potential person who formerly resided with the said Jeremiah Drake or his wife in the township of Newark in the county of Essex and state of New Jersey and is now as much as seventy four years of age and is now here on a visit to her relations and further saith not. 
Elizabeth (her X mark) Pennington
sworn and subscribed at Newark in said county September 17th 1839 before me, Sam B. Miller Justice of the peace
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In the matter of the application of the widow Sarah Drake for a pension.
State of New Jersey
Essex County}ss  Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller a justice of the peace in and for said county Lydia Crane a respectable person residing near Newark in the county and state aforesaid, who being by me duly sworn on her oath saith that she is sixty three years of age. that she was well acquainted with Jeremiah Drake and Sarah his wife at the time of their marriage that she was present at the Innfair or wedding  supper the next night after their marriage and heard it stated that the said Jeremiah Drake was married to Sarah Johnson the night before by the Reverand Alexander McWhoter, who was then pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in what is now called the city of Newark. and the said deponent further saith. That the above named Sarah Drake now resides in Orange county in the state of New York and has resided there for a number of years last past and is now more than seventy years of age, and has understood that the said widow Sarah Drake has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband and further saith not. 
Lydia Crane
sworn to and subscribed at Newark in said county of Essex September 17th A.D. 1833
before me Samuel B. Miller Justice of the peace
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Abstract of payrolls discharged by Isaac Halsey paymaster to the militia of the counties of Essex and Middlesex.
No. of rolls 53, served Dec 27,1777 in 2nd battalion Essex under Capt Nichols in Newark under Major Sam Hayes. amount- 143/10/3
roll 54 Deb. 5 1778 2 batt Essex under Capt Nichols in Newark under Major Sam Hayes amt-299/3/6
roll 131 July 2 1778 1st batt under Capt Nichols in Newark under Col, VanCortlandt 29/2/11

roll 198 Oct. 12 1778 2 batt. Essex for Capt Nichols on alarm under Col. VanCortlandt amt- 83/10/11
roll 199 Nov. 6 1778 2 batt. Essex under Capt Nichols in Newark under Col. VanCortlandt amt- 197/11/6

State of New Jersey ss
I James D. Westcott secretary of state of the state of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from an account headed "Abstract of Payrolls discharged by Isaac Halsey pay master to the militia of the counties of Essex and Middlesex" as contained in book A. of auditors accounts during the Revolutionary War now remaining in my office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Trenton in said state this tenth day of December anno domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight (1838)
James D. Westcott
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State of New Jersey
Essex county  }ss
Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller a justice of the peace in and for said county, the Reverend Ansel D. Eddy a respectable clergyman, residing at Newark in the county and state aforesaid. Who being by me duly sworn on his oath saith that he is forty years of age that he has been the regularly installed pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, in the city of Newark in the county and state aforesaid, since August eighteen hundred and thirty six to the present time, which is the same church over which the Reverend Doctor Alexander McWhoter was minister from the year seventeen hundred sixty four, to the year eighteen hundred and seven. and that there is not to his knowledge remaining any record of marriage solemnized by the said Reverend Doctor Mc Whoter, during the said time of his ministra in said church.
A.D. Eddy
sworn to and subscribed at Newark in said county this second day of August A.D. 1839 before me
Samuel B. Miller Justice of the peace
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State of New Jersey,
Office of Adjutant General.
Trenton, September 25, 1905.
The Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.
Sir: 
I desire to ascertain if you can inform me by an early mail, where Jeremiah Drake was living when he made his application for pension for service in the Revolutionary War. His case is invalid, No. 28715.
Will you also inform me whether the agency book shows when he died? The reason I ask for this information is we also have a Transcript for another Jeremiah Drake, widow, No. 16961, Revolutionary War, whose service seems to be identical with the one first referred to. 
very respectfully, 
R Heber Breinhull
Adjutant General.
attention and reply through desk
J.L. Davenport
first deputy commissioner
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Wid. file 16,961
Rev. War
Oct. 5, 1905
Sir: In response to your letter dated September 25, 1905, and received September 26, 1905, you are advised that Jeremiah Drake, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, was living at Goshen, Orange Co., New York, when he made his application for pension. His case No. 28,715 has been consolidated with his widow's, No. 16,9621.  The agency book shown that he died February 20, 1834.
Very respectfully,   Acting Commissioner

Adjutant General,
State of New Jersey, Trenton, N.J.