Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1095, Joseph Boss, New Jersey
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State of New Jersey
County of Hunterdon
On this fourteenth day of August A.D. one thousand
eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in
open court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas now sitting Joseph Boss a resident
of the Township of Hopewell in the county and State
aforesaid, 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 was born in the Township of Amwell
and County of Hunterdon aforesaid on the 30th day
of September AD 1758 being now in the seventy
fourth year of his age. That he knows his age
from its being entered in my his father’s family bible, from
which he transferred it to his own -
That he served his country as a soldier in the
revolutionary war at the following times and
places, during the periods specified and under
the command of the officers of the Line, and field
officers hereafter mentioned as near as he can
recollect. to wit:
	In the month of June 1776 he turned out as a
volunteer to serve until the first of December follow=
ing (Generally termed the five months service) under
Captain John Anderson, in Col. Philip Johnson’s
Regiment and General Nathaniel Heards brigade
of Jersey troops, and marched to New York [scribble]
[scribble] and thence to Long Island. That he was in
the battle of Long Island on the 27th day of
August in that year, attached to a detachment
commanded by General Sullivan. That Col Johnson
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was killed in this battle. That a few days after
this battle be came back to New York, and in about
a week thereafter he marched to Fort Washington
where he continued till the month of October
when the British went up the East river, and
landed a body of troops at Frog’s point
That he then went with the army of Washington
to White Plains. That a few days before the battle
of White Plains he was sent in a detachment
to a place called Manora Neck near the borders
of the State of Connecticut to take a Picket
Guard of the enemy, which was effected after a
severe skirmish in which we took forty or
fifty of the enemy prisoners ~
   That he was in the battle of White Plains
on the 28th day of October 1776 soon after
which the British left this place and went to
Fort Washington. That he then marched with
the American army under Washington to
King’s ferry and crossed the North river at
that place and came down the west side
of this river to Newark about which time Forts
Washington and Lee were taken, which reduced
our army so much that General Washington
was obliged to retreat thro New Jersey to Trenton
and cross the Delaware at this place into
Pennsylvania, at which time my term of service
expired ~~~ That he was then called out in
the militia under Captain Cornelius Hoppock
in Col. David Chambers regiment and joined
the American army in Pennsylvania, and con=
				=tinued in
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the service till several days after the battle of
Princeton which took place on the 3ll day of
January 1777 which latter term amounted to
more than a months service — Towards the
latter part of January 1777 he was called out
under Captain Cornelius Hoppock along the
Raritan river in the county of Somerset I think
as he thinks for one month. — In the month of
April following he was called out for a month
under the command of Captain John Philips
at Bound-brook in the county of Somerset about
six or seven miles from New Brunswick, in
which time the British stormed the village; and as
we had but few men we [???] to the mountain, and
before the month was out we marched to Morris-
Town, thence to Pompton, thence to Paramus
in the county of Bergen eighty miles from my
home ~ That in the month of June following
the British came out to Millstone in the
county of Somerset when there was a general
call upon the militia, when he went out
under Captain Cornelius Hoppock, and remained
out till some time after the enemy had left
New Brunswick and got safe on Staten Island.
	That in the month of September the Jersey
militia was called to Pennsylvania, when he
went out again under Captain Cornelius Hoppock
and Col David Chambers and was in the battle
of Germantown on the 4th day of October 1777.
	That in the months of January and
February 1778 he was called out a month
under Captain Cornelius Hoppock at
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Woodbridge in the county of Middlesex, and in the latter part of May following he was called
out for a month under Captain John Schenck.
That he lay at Trenton till after the enemy left
Philadelphia to march through New Jersey to
Middle_Town point and was in the battle of
Monmouth. That some time after the same
summer the enemy made a sally and burned the vil=
=lage of Springfield when he with the rest of the
militia was called out again to drive them back.
	Towards the latter part of the summer of 1779
he was called out in Col David Chambers regi=
ment near the Passaic falls in the county of Essex
about seventy miles from his home — That he
again called to Princeton under Captain
Cornelius Hoppock and remained there some
time at the time of the revolt of the Pennsylva-
nia line. That he considers that he was engaged
in the service of his country in the revolutionary
war more than one year, as the five general
calls he has mentioned cannot be considered less
half a month each time — That it will
appear evident to any one (who considers that
the British had possession of New York and
Staten Island from September 1776 till the
close of the war, and that they were constantly
making incursions into New Jersey for the
purposes of plunder and devastation, and that
the defence of New Jersey against these incur
=sions was thrown entirely upon the Jersey
militia,) that there was seldom a period during
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the revolutionary war when the Jersey militia
were idle ~ That it is impossible for him at this
distance of time to state with certainty the precise
time he was actually engaged but that Samuel
Corle one of his witnesses thinks that he Corle was
in the service two years or more, and that if Corle
was in the service two years, he thinks that he was
in the service for a longer period for the following
reasons. To wit. The militia of New Jersey were
not called out till the Spring and Summer of 1776,
that in the Summer ^and Fall^ of 1776 he was out five months
and Samuel Corle was not out during this period
more than three months ~ after which Corle and
himself were engaged in the service about the same
times. ~
	That he has no written discharge. That he lived in the
Township of Amwell ^county of Hunterdon^ till some time after the close of
the revolutionary war, but he has since lived
 and now lives in the Township of Hopewell in said
county ~ That the Revd John Boggs(?) Jacob Kirkpatrick
^George W. Smith^ and many other persons resident in my his neighbour=
hood can testify as to his character as a man of truth
and veracity, and as to their belief of his services
rendered in the revolutionary war that he has no
documentary or other written evidence by which to
refresh his recollection of events, but of the events
and his participation in them as stated he has
no doubt in his own mind — That he believes he
can establish substantially all that he has herein
set forth as to his revolutionary services by Moses
Stout, Samuel Corle and William Boss — 
And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present, and
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declares that his name is not on the pension roll
of the agency of any state.

Sworn and subscribed
the day and year above		Joseph Boss
written, in open court
    George Rea



Moses Stout being duly sworn on his oath saith
That he was well acquainted with Joseph Boss
the above named applicant as a soldier of the revo=
lutionary war. That he was with the said Joseph Boss
one month at Woodbridge in a company commanded
by Cornelius Hoppock, Lieutenant Jacob Holcomb
and myself as Ensign and recollects that the said
Joseph Boss was in the public service as a soldier
from the time that General Washington crossed the
Delaware and took the Hessians till the battle of
Princeton. And this deponent further states that he
has heard read the statement as above of the said
Joseph Boss and that he believes that said state=
=ment is true.



Sworn and subscribed		Moses Stout
the day and year afore=
said in open court
John Barton