Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28797, for Abraham Low, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Low, Abraham

NUMBER
S.28797

CONTENTS
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Albany  31, 116

Abraham Low
of Seneca Co in the State of N. York 
who was a Private in the  (blank) commanded by 
Captain (blank) of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Vroom in the N. Jersey mil. 
for  9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 30 Dollars ---- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3d day of June
1837 and sent to Arad Joy
Ovid, N. Y.

Arrears to the 4th of March '37            $180.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep.          15.00
                                                              _________
                                                              $195.00

{ Revolutionary Claim, }
{ Act 7, 1832. }

Recorded by D. Brown   Clerk
Book E. 2.    Vol. 4.   Page 42
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

State of New York }
County of Seneca } ss    On this 12th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me Levi Wheeler Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Seneca and State of New York, Abraham Low a resident of the town of Ovid in the said county of Seneca and State aforesaid, (with whom I am well acquainted) aged Seventy six 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 herein stated.
That when he was about in the twenty first or twenty second year of his age he resided in the town of Hillsborough in the County of Summersett in the State of New Jersey, he volunteered in the Militia Service and went out as a private under Captain Vroom on a tour of two weeks, and went to the City of New York and then returned home; and after being at home a short time he volunteered again and went out under Captain Vroom and went to Amboy and was out one month at that time and then returned home.
That after he returned home again the Militia was classed one half of the company would go out and then the other in (illegible) and he says that he performed his share and part with the rest of the company until the close of the war, that the said Captain Peter Vroom was after a little appointed a Colonel, and Jacob Quick was appointed Captain in the Company formerly commanded by said Capt. Peter Vroom, that while he was in this service he was at New York, Elizabethtown, Newark, Statton (Staten) Island was at Monmouth at  the time
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of the Battle, and was also out with the State of Pennsylvania to guard the British prisoners.
That the whole time he served and was out in the Militia in the United States service exceeds a considerable more than two years & is unable to attend court.  That he has no documentary evidence of his service but can prove by Richard Huff his service as he served in the same company with hm in the said United States Service as before stated and set forth in this Declaration.
That he hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except for the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
To the interrogatories preformed by the said Judge to the said Abraham Low in conformity to the directions of the War Department, 
He answers and says

1.  That he was born in the town of Hillsborough in the County of Summersett in the State of New Jersey in the year 1756.

2.  For the second interrogatory:  H answers and says that he has a Record of his age at home on a piece of Paper taken from his Father's Dutch Bible.

3.  To the third interrogatory he answers & says:  That he was living in the town of Hillsborough in the County of Summersett in the State of New Jersey when he entered the Service, that he remained in Hillsborough after the Revolutionary War until he moved into the town of Ovid in the County of Seneca & State of New York, which was about Eighteen years ago and where now resides. 

4.  To the fourth interrogatory:  He says that he served and went out under the Capt. Peter Vroom & Capt. Jacobus  Quick,  I served under them as above set forth during his time of service in the Revolutionary War.

5.  To the fifth interrogatory:  He says that he knew during the Revolutionary
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man with while he was out in the service Genl Heard.  Col. Freelingheisen, he was his Col. at Monmouth Battle.

6.  To the sixth interrogatory:  He says he does not know whether he ever received a written discharge or not.

7.  To the seventh interrogatory:  He says, that he is known by Gen'l John DeWitt, Joseph Wilson, Andrew Dunlop, Captain Joseph Stull, and Ralph Swartwort, who can testify to his character for truth and veracity.
(Signed) Abraham Low

Sworn to and subscribed
this 12th day of October 1832
before me Levi Wheeler
a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Seneca & State of New York.


State of New York }
County of Seneca } ss.    We Edward Hodge a clergyman residing in the town of Ovid in the County of Seneca and State of New York and Richard Huff of the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abraham Low who subscribed & Sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy six years of age as he has set forth in his said declaration, 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, and further that we believe him to be unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, and further that the said Richard Huff has been acquainted with the said Abraham Low for a number of years and consider him a man of truth and veracity and the said Richard Huff, for himself further says, that he has known the said Abraham Low for a boy, and knows that he rendered the services as he has set forth in his declaration as he served in the same Company with him and under the same Captains as he has set forth in his
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said declaration, which services was rendered in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
(Signed) Edward Hodge
(Signed) Richard (his X mark) Huff

Sworn to and Subscribed
this 12 day of October 1832
before me Levi Wheeler
a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Seneca in the State of New York.

And I the said Levi Wheeler Esquire, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Seneca in the State of New York, do hereby declare my 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 further that it appears that the applicant is unable to appear in court by reason of bodily infirmity, and I do further certify that it appears to me that Edward Hodge who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the said town of Ovid in the County of Seneca and State of New York, and that Richard Huff who has also signed the same is a resident of the said town of Ovid, County and State aforesaid, that they are Credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit, and further that I have been acquainted with all the aforesaid persons to wit, Abraham Low, the Reverend Edward Hodge and Richard Huff ever since they have lived in this town and they are all men of respectability.
(Singed) Levi Wheeler a Judge of the Court of  Common Pleas in & for the County of Seneca and State of New York.

State of New York  }
Seneca County Clerks Office }
I Seba Murphy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Seneca in the State of New York, do hereby Certify that Levi Wheeler before whom
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14948
Abraham Low



from J. Ferris Ovid
Seneca Co. N. Y.
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the foregoing affidavits Depositions and proceedings were has made and sworn to, was at the date of the said proceedings and still is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Seneca commissioned and sworn and duly authorized and empowered according to law, to administer oaths take Depositions and such other proceedings as has been had before him in the above matter of Abraham Low a pensioner and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such Judge; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Levi Wheeler and verily believe the signature of Levi Wheeler, subscribed to the foregoing proceedings to be genuine and in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 12th day of October 1832
(Signed) Seba Murphy Clerk.
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State of New York }
County of Seneca } ss:   Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of Peace of the town of Lodi in the County of Seneca Abraham Low who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and consequently of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades, For two years at least as a private in the Militia under Captain Jacobus Quick in Colonel Freelingheisen Regiment on month tours, and for two months under Captain peter Vroom and more to (, before deponent served under Captain Quick), and for such service I claim a pension, and deponent says that during the said service he was not employed in any civil pursuit .
(Signed) Abraham Low

Sworn & Subscribed this 7th day of June 1833 before me Gilbert T. Miller Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Seneca

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the County of Seneca, Luke P. Covent and Richard Huff who severally make oath an say, that they are well acquainted with Abraham Low who has made the above affidavit and that these Deponents belonged in the same Company & Regiment with the said Abraham Low during the Revolutionary War, and know that he rendered the services above set forth in his affidavit, and believe more to.
(Signed) Luke P Covent
(Signed) Richard (his X mark) Huff

Sworn & subscribed this 7th day of June 1833 before me
(Signed) Gilbert T Miller,  Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Seneca
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State of New York
Seneca County ss: 
[ SEAL ]
I Seba Murphy Clerk of the County of Seneca do certify that Gilbert T. Miller before whom the within and annexed affidavits to the Declaration of Abraham Low for a Pension, purports to have been made and sworn to, was at the day of the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace of said County.  And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at the Clerks Office in Ovid the 7th day of June 1833. 
(Signed) Seba Murphy Clerk
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No 14 918
Abraham Low

Abraham Low
Seneca County
N Y

Admitted
Private 9 months

Arud Joy Esqr
Ovid
N.Y.

{Next three lines are crossed out]
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,

183

Sir,

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find in the margin with a brace (thus:  } ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

 A Statement, showing the Service of Abraham Low Seneca Co. N Y.

Period when the service was rendered.   Vol 1777

Duration of the claimant's service.
Years. 
[BLANK]

Months.
[BLANK]

Days.
14

Rank of the claimant.     Private

Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.
Capt. Vroom

Names and Rank of the General and Field officers.
Col. Brown

Battles in which the applicant was engaged.
[BLANK]

Country through which he marched.
N.Y. 

Place of abode when he entered the service and age at the present period.
76 years  N.J. Hillsborough Co. from (illegible)


Period when the service was rendered.
Vol. 

Duration of the claimant's service.
Year [BLANK]
Month. 1
Days.   [BLANK]

Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.
Capt Quick

Names and Rank of the General and Field officers.
[BLANK]

Battles in which the applicant was engaged.
Monmouth

Country through which he marched.
Amboy, Elizabeth Town, New (illegible)
Hatton Island

Evidence by which the declaration is supported.
Living & Traditional evidence.

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,

J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner or Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1.   The Regular Troops.
2.   The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers
3.   Persons employed in the Naval service.
4.   Indian Spiers.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides.  And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

State, Territory, or District of  }
County of                               }  ss.

On this [BLANK] DAY OF [BLANK] personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of [BLANK] in the county of [BLANK] and State, Territory or District following the declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) {BLANK], with [BLANK] and served in the [BLANL] (e) regiment of the [BLANK] line, under the following named officers:

[ Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more that one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched.   This form is to be varied so as to apply to cases of officers and persons who belonged to militia, volunteers, navy, &c. ]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [BLANK}.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                             A.B.

[ And then will follow the certificate of the Court. ]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I  [BLANK] of the Court of [BLANK] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [BLANK] for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [BLANK] day of [BLANK] &c.

If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.  Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers of Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:

(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [BLANK] and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [BLANK], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [BLANK] years of age; 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.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

[ And then will follow the certificate of the Court. ]
And the said 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 A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [BLANK] and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [BLANK] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, [BLANK] Clerk of the Court of {BLANK] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [BLANK] for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [BLANK] day of [BLANK] &c. 

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power.  This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, it possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison f his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person