Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File Ctf. 1845, for James Throckmorton, New Jersey
Page 1

(3-1776)
SERVICE
N. J.

[Star]
Throckmorton, James

NUMBER
Ctf. 1845
===
CONTENTS
Page 2

New Jersey Roll
1845
===
James Throckmorton
- Private -
Jersey Line  4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
===
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 21 of April 1818 -
===
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of July 1818
and sent to Wm Anderson Esq.
Allentown New Jersey
===
Arrears to 4th of Sept'm 1818
["Semi-anl all'ce ending" crossed out
4 Mos. 14/30  $35.73
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
1 year
Monmouth
Page 3

Misplaced
James Throckmorton
N J Revy War

[written upward at left]
at Allentown N J
Page 4

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County } ss
Personally appeared before me William Andrews one of
the Judges of the Inferiour Court of Common pleas in and
for said County James Throckmorton who being duly
sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he
Enlisted in the service of the United States under the
command of Captain Thomas Patterson in the Jersey
Regiment command by Colonel Elias Dayton for
the term of one year and after the expiration thereof
he again enlisted in the light Infantry
commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Francis Barber
for the term of three years or during the war sometime
In the year of one thousand seven hundred and Seventy
six or seventy seven which he does not recollect
and served Under his Command until the Conclusion
of the war as a private and was then Honourably discharged
which discharge is lost this deponent further saith that from
his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance
of his country for support, and further saith not

James Throckmorton X his mark

Sworn to and Subscribed before
me this twenty first day of
April-- AD 1818
Wm Andrews

I the subscriber one of the Judges of the inferior
Court of Common pleas in and for the County of
Monmouth do certify that it appears to my
satisfaction that the above said James Throckmorton
did serve in the revolutionary war as is
stated in the Above deposition against the common
enemy and that he was a good and faithfull
soldier during the time of his enlistment
therein and that he is now in very indigent
circumstances and is labouring under great
bodily afflictions by age and from the effects of
a cancer. and I now transmit the proceeding
and testimony taken before me Pursuant to the directions
of the Act of Congress for the relief of Persons
in such cases.

Wm Andrews
Page 5

I the Subscriber Clerk of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas of the County of Monmouth do hereby certify
that William Andrews Esquire before whom the within
Affidavit appears to have been taken and whose name
is thereto subscribed as also to the within Certificate is and
was at the date thereof duly enrolled in my office as
a Judge of the said Court and that all his Official
acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit.

Witness my hand and seal of office
at Freehold the thirtieth day of April
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and eighteen.

J Phillips Clk
Page 6

General accounting office
reported by telephone that
James Throckmorton, Ctf. No. 1845,
died on December 5, 1818, according
to one Dorothy Kenedy who appeared
before a Justice of the Peace in Monmouth
Co., N.J. on May 11, 1819 and
made oath to that fact, and that
his death occurred in Goshen,
Monmouth Co., N.J. The arrears
of pension due the soldier, deceased,
were paid on July 18, 1819 by the Pension
Agent at Trenton, N.J., to Richard Smith,
as administrator,

MNO