Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3670, for John Pennington, New Jersey
Page 1

New Jersey             S3670
Pennington, John
or
Penington
Page 2

[Left page]
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6. April 1838 from 4. Sep 1840 to 4 March 1841. Agent notified 27. Nov. 1841

[Right page]
No. 5863
New Jersey
John Pennington
of Somerset Co. in the State of N. Jersey
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Corey of the Regt commanded
by Col. Frelinghuysen in the N. Jersey Militia
line for 8 months  $2666
===
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
===
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Feby.
1833 and sent to Hon. J. SOuthard, H. B.
===
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832              39.99
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March 1833   13.33
                                          =====
                                         $53.32

{ Revolutionary Claim,
{ Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book D. Vol. 4 Page 169
Page 3

Power of Attorney
from heir of
John Pennington
N. Jersey Pensioner

Filed 9 June 1853
F. E. Hassler
Washington

D. Cory
June 13/53

[Vertical on right:]
State of New Jersey
County of Somerset ss.
Page 4

State of New Jersey
County of Somerset SS.

Be it known that on this sixth day of June AD 1853 before me, the undersigned a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared James Pennington resident of Warrenville, County and State aforesaid and made oath according to law that he is the son of the identical John Pennington whose name under act of [blank space] has been placed on the New Jersey Pension roll at the rate of [blank space] dollars per annum. That he is credibly informed that the said Pension may and ought to be increased from its commencement and during its continuance; That he is directly interested as a claimant in said increase, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence as my agent may use in prosecuting said claim. I hereby constitute and appoint F. E. Hassler of Washington City D.C. my true and lawful attorney to prosecute the claim of John Pennington for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and for the purpose of establishing additional service by the soldier for whose military duty in the Revolution the aforesaid Pension was granted. I hereby authorize my said attorney to apply for and obtain from State Archives or other sources, certified proofs of such service. To examine all papers or documents in relation to said service, on file in the Departments at Washington City or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my benefit the certificate for increase which may be issued in satisfaction of said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Pension agency of this State; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purpose herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said agent and attorney shall lawfully do in the premises

James Pennington

Sworn to subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said James Pennington to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged, in whose claim I am in no wise interested

Amos Giddes Justice of the Peace
Page 5

[written vertically] D. Cory

State of New Jersey
County of Somerset ss.

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid that John Pennington was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $[blank] per annum and that he died on the twenty first day of September Eighteen hundred and forty one leaving surviving the following named children. James William and Sarah Smith and none others.

It is further certified that Amos Giddes Esq before whom the preceding affidavit and power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was at the time of so doing a duly authorized Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine, and further that in the within claim for increase of Pension I am in no degree interested.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this seventh day of June 1853.

Henry D Johnson Clerk
[Seal at lower left]
Page 6

No 4794
New Jersey
14 Feby. 1833
Obj. 14.
Hon. P. Southard
P. 246
Admitted
Private
8 mos
$26.66
Page 7

BRIEF in the case of Jno Pennington
County of Somerset 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? 71.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
-----
Period. In 17[blank]

Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days.
[under Months] 1 1 1 3 1 1 [total] 8 Also 20

Rank. As a
Private [ 8 months]
Teamster [20 months]

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Capts Corey, McCoy & [illegible] Frelinghuysen

5. In what battles was he engaged? Springfield

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

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living & traditionary-

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective
the years or months he served not stated-

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

Jas Wilson Examining Clerk
Page 8

No 4,394
Application of John Pennington
of Somerset N. Jersey
for a pension

Forward Certificate
to L. A. Hartman [?]
Somerset N. Jersey
Page 9

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of New Jersey Somerset County ss.
On this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Somerset now sitting John Pennington a resident of the County of Somerset aforesaid and State of New Jersey, aged Seventy one in September next, 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 herein stated. That he entered the service at Basking Ridge by volunteering under Cap Corey served one month. Marched to Elizabeth Town- thinks Frelinghuysen was Col - He again volunteered & served one month under Cap Sebring. Marched to Elizabeth Town- He again volunteered & served one month under Cap McCoy. Marched to Elizabeth Town - He also served as a volunteer three other months. Upon month service under Cap McCoy at Elizabeth Town. He also volunteered & served one month under Cap McCoy Marched to Springfield - was at the battle - many of the Continental troops were killed. He also volunteered and served one month under Lieut Caterlin. Marched to Morristown - Employed in guarding prisoners He was also employed for about one year as teamster All applied to the Continental Service. Carrying provisions from Trenton N.J. to Kingston & in providing provisions for the Maryland Regiment which was wintering at Morristown. He was also employed for about 8 months as a teamster while the army were at Winter Quarters on the Pluckemin Mountains. He was born in
Page 10

Mendham ["Bernards" crossed out] Township County of Morris ["Somerset" crossed out] NJ. on the 3d Septr 1781. He has always lived in the County of Somerset. His brother Ephraim Pennington has the record of deponents age, made by their father -- 
He has no documentary evidence of his said services that he knows of. 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
John Penington

Sworn & Subscribed the day & year first above written
Wm. B. Gaston

New Jersey ss. Ephraim Pennington being duly sworn according to Law, on his oath saith that he is a brother of the above named John Pennington-- says he is now sixty five years of age. Recollects of his said brothers having been called out into the service of the United States, when his said brother was a little over Sixteen years. That he was out in the service from that time in the service off & on till the end of the war.
Ephraim Pennington

Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Wm. B. Gaston

I hereby certify that the above named deponent is well known to me as a credible witness-
Isaac Southard
One of the Representatives of N Jersey
Page 11

We Morgan R. Cox a Clergyman in the Township of Warren in said County & William D. Stewart residing in the same place do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Pennington who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be seventy one years old next September that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Morgan R Cox
Wm D Stewart
Wm. B. Gaston

And this Court do hereby declare their 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. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Morgan R. Cox in the Township of Warren in the County of Somerset is a clergyman resident as aforesaid, and that Wm D. Stewart who also signed the same is a resident of the same place, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Wm. B. Gaston
[illegible] VanDerveer
W. F. Morris
Page 12

New Jersey Somerset County ss - Dennis Morris aged Eighty two in January next being duly sworn in open Court upon his oath saith, That he knows the within named Pennington to have been a soldier in ["of" crossed out] the Revolutionary Army - That he was out with him under several officers - and believes him to have served all the time as specified by deponent in his declaration. That it is generally believed in the neighbourhoods where deponent lives that he was a soldier of the Revolution

     his
Dennis   Morris
    mark

Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid

Wm. B. Gaston

I hereby certify that the above-named deponent is well known to me as a credible witness

Isaac Southard
A Representative of New Jersey

State of New Jersey
Somerset County ss
I John M Mann Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John Pennington for a pension. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Seventeenth day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two

J. M. Mann
Page 13

December 1, 1937.

Mr. Samuel Pennington
30 North LaSalle Street, Room 1325
Chicago, Illinois.

BA-K/ILL
John Pennington
S. 3670

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of your ancestor, John Pennington, a pensioner of Somerset County, New Jersey.

The data given herein are shown in pension claim, S. 3670, based upon service of John Penington in the Revolutionary War.

John Penington was born September 3, 1761, in Mendham Township, Morris County, New Jersey; the names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Somerset County, New Jersey, he enlisted at Basking Ridge, and served eight tours of one month each as a private under Lieutenant Catterlin, Captains Corey, Sebring and McCoy, in Colonel Frelinghuysen's New Jersey regiment, during which he was stationed at Elizabeth Town, was in the battle of Springfield and guarded prisoners at Morristown. He served subsequently one year and eight months as a teamster engaged in carrying supplies for the troops stationed in New Jersey, names of officers not given.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1832, at which time he resided in Somerset County, New Jersey.

The soldier died September 21, 1841, proof of which was exhibited before the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas in Somerset County, New Jersey. He was survived by a widow, whose name is not given; the date of their marriage is not shown. The names of the only surviving children of the soldier in 1853, were given as follow: James Pennington (as he signed his name), a resident of Warrenville, Somerset County, New Jersey; William
Page 14

Pennington; and Sarah Smith.

In August 1832, Ephraim Penington, the soldier's brother, was aged sixty-five years, and made affidavit in Somerset County, New Jersey.
.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of the person paid, and further information regarding the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following:

John Pennington
Certificate #5863
Issued February 19, 1833
Rate $26.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832.
New Jersey Agency.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
Page 15

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
November 13th 1841.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, The widow of John Pennington, decd, a Pensioner on the Roll of the New Jersey Agency, at the rate of Twenty Six Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1840, to the 4th March 1841.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
Page 16

[left page}
1920. Jan. 5. History to Francis B. Culver, 2203 N. Charles St. Balto Md. (his letter in Oliver Cromwell S34613) and

1937. Dec. 1. Hist. to Samuel Pennington IAL [?]

[right page]
3670
INVALID.
File No. 3670
John Pennington
Privt Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 291
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Page 17

Chicago, Nov. 27, 1937
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.
Revolutionary War Section of Pensioners

Dear Sir:-

My ancestor John Pennington was pensioned in Somerset CO,N.Y. for revolutionary War service in that county as a private. His age was somewhere between 1758-60 and I am in need of his death name of wife and all other family details I can locate. I know his Father and other dates, but not on him.

The Illinois Society has been having a drive on for new members which closes the 3d Dec. and if possible I would like to get such information as possible from you. Will you be so kind to see if there is that which will help me to join the S.A.R., and thanks much,

Sincerely,
[signed] Samuel Pennington
Samuel Pennington, Room 1325, #30 N. LaSalle St.,
Chicago, Ill.
Page 18

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3 -- 525
S3670
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. ,____, 19___

In reply to your request of ___, received ____ for a statement of the military history of John Penington or Pennington a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [crossed out: "(or his widow's)"] application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. [2 check marks]
LENGTH OF SERVICE. 8 mos    1 yr 8 mos
RANK. Pvt.    Teamster
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. Cory Sebring McCoy
COLONEL. Frelinghuysen
STATE. N.J.
Battles engaged in, Springfield
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Somerset Co. N.J.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 15, 1832. His claim was al
Residence at date of application, Somerset Co. N.J.
Age at date of application, b. Mendham Twp. Morris Co. N.J. Sept 3, 1761.
Remarks: Soldier died in 1841 leaving a widow, whose name is not stated and the following children, James, William and Sarah Smith.
[margin] office notes
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
I could only use year for soldiers death.
as widow was paid to Mar. 4, 1841
he could not have died Sept. 21. 1841, as stated by son