Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 916, for Isaac Snedeker, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Snedecker, Isaac| S.916
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CONTENTS
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9681
New Jersey

2,118

Isaac Snedeker, of Middlesex in the state of N. Jersey who was a private in the comp(any) commanded by Captain Gulick of the regiment commanded by Col. Neilson in the [crossed out: comp(any)] New Jersey line, for 8 1/2 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey, at the rate of 25 Dollars (blank) [crossed out: Cents] per annum, to commence on the 4th of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of June 1833 and sent to Hon. J.F. Randolph, present.

Arrears to 4th of March, '27.............$50.00
Semi-anl, allowance ending 4 Sep. '27.....12.50
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					 $62.50

(Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.)

Recorded by Go. C. Stiles, Clerk
Book C; Vol. B; Page [crossed out: 40]
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October 15. 1833

Ent(ered) by me, not having been done by Mr. Stiles.
s/ Wm. M. Stuart
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No. 22,118
Isaac Snedeker
Mar(ch) 11, 1833
Obj. 14.
Admitted
Private 8 1/2 months, 29 d(ays)

Hon. J.F. Randolph, present
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BRIEF in the case of Isaac Snedeker, County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? (blank)

3. How old is he? 73.

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. | Duration of Service. (Years, Months, Days.) | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Volunteered early part of January in 1777	| At least 2 months + 15 days.  | "As a" Private | Capt. Jenkins, Gulick & others; Col. John Neilson
Same year but different army volunteered 1778.	| 3 months 			| "As a" Private | Same Col.; different captains
Volunteered 1778.				| 2 months 			| "As a" Private | Capt. Gulick 
Volunteered 1778.				| 1 months 			| "As a" Private | Capt. Richard Addis

5. In what battles was he engaged? Not any.

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Middlesex Co. New Jersey

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witness & militia army evidence.

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No.

* - Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

s/ Chas. G. Wilson, Examining Clerk
9 March 1833
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. On this Nineteenth day of December 1832 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Common Pleas held in the City of New Brunswick in and for the said County of Middlesex, being a Court of Record, Isaac Snedeker, a resident of the said County, aged Seventy three years on the 9th day of September last past, 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 the 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States in the Militia of New Jersey under the following named officers and served as herein stated. Viz.: In the regiment commanded by Colonel John Neilson of the New Jersey Militia in the company commanded by Captain Jeokim Gulick sometime in the early part of January 1777, shortly after the Battles of Trenton and Princeton and was stationed at a village called Cranbury while the British army lay in New Brunswick in said County, and continued in the service under the said officers until about the first of April following but being relieved part of the time, was not all the time under the same captain, but occasionally under others, and while in the service at that place, was employed in numerous scouting parties and keeping guard &c. in order to protect the inhabitants from the plundering parties of the enemy. Was out on this tour in the whole
at least two months and a half, was afterwards called into service in the same year he believes under the same officers, and was stationed at Woodbridge near the enemies lines who lay directly opposite on Staten Island and while there was engaged in various services in guarding the inhabitants from the plundering parties of the enemy. Was out on that tour one month, and after being relieved awhile was engaged in the same service one month more, after this was called out and stationed at Elizabeth Town, and was engaged in the same services as above one month at that place under the same Col. but does not now recollect the Captain's name. Was again called out into service he thinks in the year 1778, and was again called out into the same service under the said Captain Gulick and stationed at Spotswood and was employed as abovesaid. Was out on that tour one month. Was again called into service under the same Captain to Cheesequake directly on the lines, and employed in the same kind of service as...
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...above mentioned. Was out on this tour one month. Was again called out into service under Captain Richard Addis to Morris Town and continued out on that tour one month, but he cannot now remember the names of all the officers he served under for all the tours he was engaged in the service of his Country
being very infirm and his memory greatly impaired, but he verily believes he was out at different times and places as a Militiaman in the whole at least as much as nine months and more, but acting under oath he would rather be ___ged on the time, than over, and this deponent further declares that he has
no documentary evidence relating to his services excepting the affidavit hereunto annexed, although he has endeavored to obtain more, but those, the persons he served with are generally now dead, or have (left) this part of the Country, and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, and he further declares the foregoing to be
the most material facts that (he) can recollect at this distance of time respecting his services as a Militiaman during the Revolutionary War or in the service of the United States.
s/ Isaac Snediker (X - his mark)

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year above said
s/ R. McChesney, Judge

Interrogatories put by the Court to the said applicant.:
1. Where and in what year were you born.:
Answer: In the Township of South Amboy, in the County of Middlesex on the 9 day of September 1759.

2. Have you any Record of your age, and where is it.:
Answer: In my father's Bible now in the possession of my Brother John.

3. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live.:
Answer: In the said County of Middlesex, and I have always lived there.

4. How were you called into service.:
Answer: I always went out as a volunteer, in my turn.

5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers of the standing army, who were with the troops where you served, and such Continental and Militia
Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.:...
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...Answer: I never was under any Regular Officers of the standing army, nor of Militia officers but those I have above named, excepting Col. Jacob Hyre
that I now recollect, and as to the general circumstance of my services, I know of no other but what I have above stated.

6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service.
Answer: No, other than a verbal one and the end of each tour.

7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer: I can name and refer to Major John J. McDowell, Aaron Gulick, Esq., Euniwar Smock, George T. McDowell, Richard Selover, Ganet Snedeker, Michael Vanderhoof, and I could name others if necessary.
s/ Isaac Snediker (X - his mark)

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year abovesaid.
s/ Robert McChesney, Judge

We, Major John T. McDowell and Aaron Gulick, Esq., Freeholders in the said County of Middlesex, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Snedeker, who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration and interrogatories and believe him to be Seventy three years of age, or there abouts, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
s/ John T. McDowell
s/ Aaron Gulick

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year abovesaid.
s/ Robert McChesney, Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the above 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 the said (blank) are Freeholders in the County of Middlesex and that they are creditable persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Judges:
s/ Robert McChesney
s/ Thos. Harrier
s/ Jacob Vanwickle
s/ J. Ford
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

Be it known that on the Seventh day of December Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Two before me, Robert McChesney, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, personally appeared Andrew Bownan, who being duly sworn according to law, did depose and say that he was acquainted with Isaac Snedeker in the time of the Revolutionary War, and that he, the said Snedeker, was out as a private in the Militia of New Jersey, on a tour of duty when the said Militia was stationed at the village of Cranberry in said County in the year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy seven, and did service with him on scouting parties &c., that the said Militia lay at that place several months but this deponent does not certainly remember at this distance of time whether he the said Snedeker was on that tour the whole of the time, or not, but he perfectly remembers his being in said service part of that time and the reason he does not know of his being out with him at other times is because he, this deponent, served in different detachments after that time, and further saith not.
s/ Andrew Bownan (X - his mark)

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above said.
s/ Robert McChesney

I hereby certify that Andrew Bownan, the deponent, is a credible witness, that full faith & credit may be given to his statement.

Hon. Ja. F. Randolph
June 8. 1833.
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I, Nicholas Booraem, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application Isaac Snedeker for a pension & I further certify that Robert McChesney, before whom the preceding affidavit was taken is a Judge of said Court and that the name Robert McChesney thereto subscribed is in the proper handwriting of the said Robert McChesney.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Twenty Second day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand
Eight Hundred & Thirty two.
s/ N. Booraem, Clerk
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INVALID.

Rev(olutionary) War

File No. 916

Isaac Snedeker

Priv(ate) N.J. Coun(ty) Line

Act: June 7, 1832

Index: -- Vol. A, Page 350

[Arrangement of 1870.]