Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,340, John Everitt, Penn.
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(3—1776)
SERVICE
Penn
Everitt, John [stamped star above name]
or Everit
NUMBER
S.34,340
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34340
INVALID
[Revy]
[initials]

File No. 34,340
John Everitt
Pri Rev {Revolutionary] War

Act: 18th March 1818
Index:-- Vol 2, Page 127

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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9781
R
New Jersey
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John Everitt
of Bloomfield in the state of New Jersey who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hazen of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of two years.   War
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20th of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24th of April 1819 and sent to William S. Pennington Esq., Newark, New Jersey. 
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819. [10 months] 11/30/4/21.
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th September 1819.

83.96
48.00
$131.96

{Revolutionary claim, }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
1818
66
2

Notification sent to William Pennington 
9 Sept 1890
Newark New Jersey
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John Everitt
Declaration
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Private

Colonel Hazen's regt. Penn[raised a] line
1781. 2 years
April 20 1818

The Judges certificate of reduced
circumstances in life wanting

18th Feby [1819]
Admd
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District of New Jersey Ss

On this twentieth day of April A.D. 1818 before me the subscriber district Judge of the United States in & for the said district personally appears John Everit aged sixty-six years resident at Bloomfield in the County of Essex in the said district who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled "An Act to Provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."  That he the said John Everit enlisted at Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania about the latter part of June A.D. 1781 in the company commanded by Captain Lee in the Regiment called the Congress Regiment on the continental establishment which Regiment was commanded by Colonel Moses Hazen that he continued to serve in the said corps until the close of the war in the spring or summer of the year 1783 when he was regularly discharged at [Pompton] in the state of New Jersey, he had a written discharge which he has worn out.  That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
John his X mark Everit

Made and sworn before me}
the day and year first above}
written                                  }
William Pennington [signature]
District Judge
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J. William Pennington district Judge of the United States in and for the district of New Jersey as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Everit did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceeding testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of congress. 
24th April 1818

William Pennington [signature]
District Judge

I William Pennington Clerk of the District of New Jersey do certify that the signature to this instrument [sic] [is] in the proper handwriting of William S. Pennington Esq Judge of the United States District for the District of New Jersey

Witness my hand and the seal of the said District Court at Newark this twenty fourth day of April A.D. 1818
Wm Pennington [signature]

I William Pennington District Judge of the United States in and for said District do hereby certify that upon the communication under oath before me [illegible group of words] are witnesses herewith said [illegible] applicant Mr Everitt is in indigent circumstances and in need of the assistance of his country for support

William Pennington [signature]
District Judge

Witness this [illegible] April 1819 [?] [very faded]
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John Everitt
9781
Sept 1819
Continue
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At a Special district Court of United States for the New Jersey district holden at [Newark] in the County of Essex-- 
Present the Honorable William S. Pennington District Judge New Jersey Essex County. SS.  
Be it Remembered that on the thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty (1820) personally appeared in the District Court of the United States for the New Jersey District in open court, the said court being a court of record for the District of New Jersey & holden at Newark in the said County of Essex.  
John Everitt aged sixty-nine years, resident in Bloomfield in the said County of Essex who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That he enlisted in General Hazen's Regiment, and served in the Regiment for two years & until the close of the war when he was regularly discharged that he enlisted at Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania under Capt Lee.
[long pencil mark squiggle to next paragraph]

and that his original declaration is dated the twentieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen (1818) and that his pension certificate is No. 9781.
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And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring
myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to
me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and
by me subscribed, to wit:
That I have no property of any
description whatever, that I have no means
of support, and that I cannot work being so
lame as to be unable to walk without two
crutches, and that before obtaining my pension I was supported by public charity-

Sworn & Subscribed }
before me                 }
William S Pennington}
District Judge             }

John his X mark Everitt
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I, William Pennington Clerk of the District Court
of the United States for the New Jersey District
Do hereby certify, That the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed,
are truly copied from the records of the said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the
opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the
aforesaid schedule is [line drawn]
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said
Court, this 27th day of July 1820
Wm Pennington [signature]
[seal]