Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,428, for James Meads, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Meads, James

NUMBER
S.24.428
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September 18 1820
Morristown, N. Jersey

4,264

New Jersey

James Meads
Private
Capt. Baldwin
New Jersey Line'76 War

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of eight Dollar per month to commence on the 11th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of Nov. 1818 and went to the care of Wm Monro Esq. Judge, Morris Co. New Jersey

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818               $38.40
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar. 1819  48.-
                                                 [total] $86.40

Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March, 1818

Roxbury Morris Co.
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James Mead
Roxbury 4264

Can
Nov. 18

Mar 29
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District of New Jersey,
Morris County, 
On this eighth day of July, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at MorrisTown, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July, in the year aforesaid.  [The said court being a court of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings, and its Judgments being removable by writ of error only}
James Mead aged about seventy nine years, resident in the township of Roxbury in said county, who duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the (?) Col. Ogdens Regiment and Captain Baldwin and Captain Pearl's companies, that he made his original declaration on the 17th day of April 1818 as he believes, and has received a pension certificate dated the 4th of November 1818, that his pension certificate is numbered 4.22

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 so to diminish it as to bring my self 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, 1818; 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.  

that I am about seventy nine years of age, by occupation a collier, but am unable to pursue it by reason of age and infirmities; that my family consists only  of a wife aged about sixty nine years who is lame  that I have been for eight years last past until the time of receiving the pension from the Government a pauper on the township of Roxbury  

his James  X  Mead mark.

Sworn and declared to on the 8th day of July 1820 before (?) H Ford
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SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing deposition of James Mead

This deponent has no property whatever (?) or personal except wearing apparel for himself and wife

his Jame x Mead. mark

Sworn to & declared 8th July AD 1820 before 
Gab. H Ford
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State of New Jersey,
County of Morris,} SS.

I, Robert H.M.Carter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; 

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty. 

Robert H M Carter Clerk of the Court for the County of Morris
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James Meads

Correct
Correct
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State of New Jersey
Morris County 

On this Seventh day of April, Domini 1818, before me the subscriber, on of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, personally appears James Meads aged sixty eight years, or thereabouts, resident in Roxbury, Morris County, N. Jersey, 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 & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"'  That he the said James Mead, enlisted in Morris Town, New Jersey, in the company commanded by Captain Daniel Baldwin, of the 1st Jersey Regiment, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred seventy five, or seventy six.  not being perfectly certain which year, that he continued to serve in the same Regiment, in the service of the United States, until the close of the Revolutionary War, when he was honorably discharged from service, in the State of New Jersey;  that he was in the battles of Monmoth, Brandywine, and at the taking of Lord Cornwallis 

This Deponent further declares on oath, that he is the same James Meads to whom the original discharge was granted, signed by General Washington, & annexed to this declaration, that he is in reduced circumstances, & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support

his James x Meads mark.

Sworn to & subscribed before me 
the 11th April 1818. 
Wm Monro
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State of New Jersey
Morris County

On this 12th day of May 1818, before the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common pleas for said County personally appears Jonathan Nicholas, aged sixty one years, resident in Roxbury, New Jersey, who being by me first duly sworn according to law: doth on his oath declare & says that he served as a noncommissioned officer in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy for six years or more that he belonged to the same Regiment with the within named James Meads, whom he will remember as a faithful & brave soldier, from nearly the beginning of the war, to its termination, & that the facts stated by said Meads in his deposition, this deponent only believes to be correct & true. 

Jonathan Nicholas

Sworn to & Subscribed before me, 
this 12th day of May, 1818. 
Wm Monro

I, William Monro, a Judge of the Inferior Court of  Common pleas for the County of Morris & State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said James Meads, did serve in the Revolutionary war as states in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy:  & I now transmit the proceeding & testimony taken & said before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress. 

Witness my hand, May 12th 1818
Wm Monro

Roxbury, Morris County
State of New Jersey
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State of New Jersey
County of Moois 

I Robert H McCarter Clerk of the County of Morris do hereby certify that William Monro Esq before whom the forgoing affidavits are made by and was, at the doing thereof duly (?) one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas,  in & for the County of Morris and that full faith & credit is due and ought to be (?) to his official Acts as such

In Testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this Nineteenth day of May on the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen

Robert H McCarter
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESQ;
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.  

THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof James Meads Private in the (?) Regiment, having faithfully served the United States Six Years and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army. 

GIVEN  at HEAD-QUARTERS  the fifth day of June
G Washington 
by HIS EXCELLENCY'S
Command, 
J Trumbull  (?) 
REGISTERED
of the Regiment
Essh(?)
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HEAD-QUARTERS, June fifth 1783. 

THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough. 

GEORGE WASHINGTON
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34428
Revy INVALID. 
File No. 34,498
James Meads
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 268

[Arrangement of 1870]