Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1080, for Mahlon Pitney, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey
Pitney, Mahlon
NUMBER
S.1080
carded
CONTENTS
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New Jersey. 9357
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Mahlon Pitney
[of] Mendham in the State of N. J.
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Gaston of the Regt commanded
by Col Martin in the N. J. Militia
line for 22 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 73. Dollars 34. Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 10. day of May
1833 and sent to
Hon L. Condict, Morristown, N. J. 
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 146 48
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. " 36 67
[total] $183.35
{ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Francis F Franciosi Clerk,
Book E. Vol 3d Page 125.

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Let to Hon C. Morgan Aug 16. 1842.
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State of New Jersey
Morris County } ss

On this 31st day of July in the year of our Lord 1832 Personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Morris Now Sitting Mahlon Pitney A Resident of the Township of Mendham County & State aforesaid Aged 73 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make and subscribe according to the best of his knowledge, recollection and belief the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 I was born in the Township of Mendham County & State aforesaid on the Eighteenth day of Sept in the year 1759 and have always lived in the afores'd Town County & State Except when in the Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war.

1st -- The last of May or the first of June in the year 1776 I enlisted in the Jersey State troops called the five month Service Under Captain Robert Gaston Lieutenant Pipes and Ensign Zophar Carnes we then marched to Morris Town [Morristown] where I rec'd [received] A three pound bill Loan office Money as my bounty for Listing we then marched to New York where we was stationed a short time I think about six weeks we then marched from there to Long Island near flat bush our Regiment was commanded by Colonel Ephraim Martin we there fought what is called the battle of long-Island and Lord Stirling with about a thousand of our men was taken prisoners we then retreated to our forts near Brooklyn but the enemy did not suffer us to be there long it was evening when we Rec'd [received] orders to March for the City of New York about Eight in the evening we commenced our March it was very dark and foggy we were obliged to take hold of each others arms each acting as a guide for the one that followed him we then was in New York some time from there we marched to fort Washington near Kingsbridge there we worked at fixing the fort building mud huts &c I think for near a month from there we retreated to white plains up the Hudson River there we worked at entrenching and fixing to defend our
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Selves against the Enemy who was there in New York there we fought what is called the battle of white plains I with three hundred others was stationed about five miles from the Main Army as a Picket Guard under the command of Cornel [Colonel] McDougall we were closely pursued by the Enemy fighting and runing untill we reached our Main Army them we found all under Arms and a Severe Battle was fought from there we marched up to Kings ferry and there Crossed the River into Jersey thence we marched down the River to fort Lee. we was there Some time Untill one morning we Saw a large Smoke Rising two or three miles up the River & our Lighthorseman said it was the British Cooking there Breakfast Immediately there was a counsil of officers held on horseback with Washington in the center and we ordered to march without delay from there we marched to Hackensack thence to Newark where I with a Number of Others was Selected to drive 220 head of fat cattle belonging to the army to Morris Town where in a few days my time was out and I came home without any other discharge that [than] a verbal dismissal did not receive my pay until some time after.

2nd Then some time in in December following I enlisted in the three months Service Under Captain Daniel Cook. The British then lay in Amboy and we were Stationed Near Woodbridge quartered at the house of one Captain Bonny there some time in the winter we fought what is called the battle of Ash Swamp our Regiment I think was Commanded by Cornel [Colonel] Potter or Seely I think I received no Bounty for enlisting in the three months Service when my time was out I was dismissed verbally and went home

3d Then Some time in the Month of May I was drafted to serve in the Militia for one Month we were Stationed near Baskinridge [Basking Ridge] under Captain Sam'l Cazad [Cozad] Lieutenant and Ensign I don't recollect I think our Major Name was Lynn quartered at Wm Aning

4th Also not long after I served one Month under the Same Captain and was Stationed in the Neighborhood of Bowne Brook [Bound Brook] quartered at the house of one Alwoods in Somerset County

5th Also I served one month under Captain Daniel Cook we was Stationed near Quibbletown Quartering at one Van Mintners
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there we had an engagement with a british Schouting [scouting] party and took from them a baggage Cart with one prisoner

6th I also Served one Month at Elizabeth Town Stationed at the Barracks who my officers was I dont recollect the British then had possession of Staten Island & we were there as a guard we had no engagement with them while there

7th I also Served one Month in Elizabeth Town as a Substitute for my Brother Samuel Quartered at one Parrels under Captain Zophar Carnes Lieutenant Samuel Day I believe that Cornel Frelinhyson [Colonel Frelinghuysen] was our Cornel

8th I also Served two Months in Succession under Captain Lebius Dodd [Lebbeus Dod] Samuel Sayre was our Major & Wm Wines was our Cornel in this term we had one Schirmish with the British we were stationed a part of the time in Bergen County and a part of the time over the River at Aquackanonk in Esex [Essex] County one of these months I was a Substitute for my Brother Samuel Pitney

9th I also Served one Month under Captain Samuel Cozad was 
stationed at Springfield in Esex [Essex] County and was in the engagement when Springfield was burnt by the British under General Kniphausen who our cornel was I dont remember This I think was in the year 1780 Our army was I think in Morris Town

10 I also served two months at different periods Guarding Military at Morris Town under Captain Ezra Brown, this I think was in the Spring of 1780

11th I also served one month at Minisink on the Delaware against the Indians under Captain Crane our commanding officer was general William Winds this I think was in the year 1778 or 1779

12 I also served one month back of Elizabeth Town under Captain Libeus Dodd [Lebbeus Dod] and Lieutenant Victor King quartered near the residence of Govenor [Governor] Livingston there we had a
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13th There we had a Schirmish with a british Schouting party and killed one man

14th I also Served one month at the old point opposite Staten Island under Captain Libeus Dodd [Lebbeus Dod] & I think Cornel Thomas Commanded our Regiment

15th I also Served one month in Elizabeth Town Under Captain Daniel Cook & Lieutenant Victor King Stationed at the Stone Bridge

[in left margin:]
Making in all twenty two months 22

I do hereby declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll of the United States nor of any other State & I do further relinquish all claims to any pension or anuity whatsoever except the Present Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Jesse Upson

Mahlon Pitney

Personally appeared in open Court Ephraim Carnes and being duly Sworn according to Law Saith that he personally knew that Mahlon Pitney done Military duty in the Militia in the revolutionary war Stationed one Month near Baskinridge [Basking Ridge] at Wm Aning

also one month Stationed in the Neighborhood of Bowne Brook [Bound Brook] quartering at one Alwards --

Also one month near Quibble Town quartering at one Van Minelners [?] --

Also two months Stationed in Bergen County and Aquackanonk [Acquackanonk] as he has Sett forth in the foregoing declaration

Ephraim Carnes
Jesse Upson

Personally appeared in open Court Henry Clark and being duly Sworn according to law Saith that he personally knew that Mahlon Pitney the Subscriber to the foregoing Declaration did Serve as a Soldier at Minisink on the Delaware River as he has set forth in his Declaration

Henry Clar[k]

Jesse Upson

Ephraim Carnes & Henry Clark, are both well known to me & are men of truth & entitled to belief. Jesse Upson, is also well known to me as one of the Judges of the Common Pleas Court in & for the County of Morris in N. Jersey

5th Febry. 1833.
Lewis Condict one of the Representatives from N. Jersey.
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Mahlon Pitney
No 6117
New Jersey
8 Jan. 1833
Obj. 5.11.12
Hon. L. Condict
8 Feb. '33
Obj. 16.
Admitted Private
N. Jersey Militia
22 Months Private
p 199
page 240
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BRIEF in the case of Mahlon Pitney of Mendham
County of Morris in the State of New Jersey
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 73.

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[Table of four columns; headings:]
Period.
Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days.
Rank.
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.


May In 1776 | 5 [months] | | Capts Gaston, Cook, Cazad [Cozad]
Dec " | 3 [months] | | Carnes, Dood,
1777 | 2 [months] | | Cols Martin, McDougal
| 5 tours 6 [months] | | Seely & Potter, Gen'ls.
| 5 do 6 | | Lord Stirling

5. In what battles was he engaged?
Long Island & White Plains

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Morris County New Jersey.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Morris County, New Jersey

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct except papers not attached, & dates of Service not given for his last tours

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Jas Mchill [?] Examining Clerk.
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[left side]
Dec. 6/93 Mil Hist. to H. C. Pitney
Office Chancery Court, Morristown N.J.

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INVALID. Rev War
File No. 1080
Mahlon Pitney
Priv. N. J. Mil.
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Act: June 7. 1832.
Index:-- Vol. A, Page 296
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I N T.
O. W. and N. Division.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., Nov. 1893

Sir,

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Mahlon Pitney, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.

[Table, 6 columns; headings:]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT.
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
  CAPTAIN.
  COLONEL.
STATE.

June 1776 |  5 mos | Pri | Robert Gaston | Ephraim Martin | N.J.
Dec " | 3 " | " | Daniel Cook | Seeley | "
In 1777 to probably 1781 | 12 tours 14 mos. | Pri | do Carnes, Dodd, Brown, Crane, Cazad | Winn, Thomas, Rindi,

Battles engaged in, Long Island, White Plains, Ash Swamp, Springfield

Residence of soldier at enlistment Mendham, Morris County N.J.

Date of application for pension, July 1832

Residence at date of application, Mendham N.J.

Age at date of application, born in Mendham N.J. Sept 8, 1759

Remarks: His duty was as guard on the lines & repelling foraging parties.
Copies of Pension papers are not furnished as the above are all the material facts

Very respectfully,
Commissioner

Henry C Pitney
office Chancery Court
Morristown, N.J.

7941b-3m

[note written diagonally]
See Phineas Chidester
Rev War -- whose widow
Rebecca married this soldier
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[rectangular stamp]
OLD WAR AND NAVY FILES NOV. 20 1893

[round stamp]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE NOV 17 1893
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Court of Chancery of New Jersey.
Morristown, N. J., November 15, 1893.

The Honorable,
the Commissioner of Pensions
of the U.S., Washington, D.C.;-

My grandfather, Mahlon Pitney, of Mendham, Morris County, New Jersey, was for many years prior to his death, which occurred in December, 1834, a pensioner of the U.S., but his pension certificate is lost. May I trouble you to give me from the records of your office such a certificate as the law will permit you to give, of the fact that he was such a pensioner; and, if not asking too much, a copy of the application and proofs upon which the pension was granted? By so doing you will very much oblige

Yours most respectfully,
Henry C Pitney
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Declaration &c of
Mahlon Pitney
P. O No 6117.
22 months service.

to Doct'r Condict.
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Personally appeared in open Court Morris Aber and being duly sworn according to Law Saith that he personally knew that Mahlon Pitney the Subscriber to the foregoing Declaration done military duty as a Soldier in the revolutionary war for two months stationed one month at the old point of Elizabeth Town opposite Staten Island.

Also one month in Elizabeth Town Stationed at the old bridge as Sett forth in his declaration

[signed] Jesse Upson
Moris Aber

We Daniel Drake and Elias Hudson residents of the Township of Mendham County of Morris & State of New Jersey do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mahlon Pitney the Subscriber to the foregoing Declaration & have known him for fifty years and we believe him to be Seventy three years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion

[signed] Daniel Drake
Elias Hudson

Jesse Upson
Stephen Vail

And the said Court do hereby declare there opinion opinion after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he States and the court further certifies that it appears to them that the said Daniel Drake and Elias Hudson are residents of the Township of Mendham and are Credible persons and their Statement is entitled to credit

[signed] Jesse Upson
Stephen Vail
William Brittin

State of New Jersey
Morris County ss. }

I David Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter
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of the application of Mahlon Pitney for a pension

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two

David Day Clk

I certify that the papers annexed to this Declaration passed through the Court of Com. Pleas of Morris Co. N. Jersey in their present form

Feb. 22d 1833
Lewis Condict a Rep: from N. Jersey