Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2705, Conrad Davis, New Jersey
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   Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.
   State of New Jersey
Warren County  SS.

   On this twenty sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty six personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Warren aforesaid now sitting Conrad Davis a resident of the Township of Manfield in the aforesaid county aged Seventy six years on the 22nd day of October 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States as a teamster volunteer in the brigade of team wagons commanded by Captain George Allen Wagon Masster on the last of March or first of April seventeen hundred & seventy seven.  The brigade was composed of twelve teams.  The names of the volunteers in said brigade were John Glass, Thomas Fleming, James Kinney, William Glass, John Smith, William Allen, William Likens, Matthias Parr, Amos Wilmet, John Wortman, James Likens & this deponent all of whom he understands & believes are now dead
excepting
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excepting himself.  Applicant volunteered at Hacketts Town at the time aforesaid in the County of Warren (Then the County of Sussex) aforesaid & marched immediately with the brigade to Acquacknock on second river with provision & feed for the United States Army & deposited said provision & feed in the military stores at Aquacknock, he returned & was engaged in the service to the last of December in the same year carting provision & feed to & from the different military stores & to the army.  Among other places from Hacketts Town where Robert Wilson was quarter Master or Commissionary from Belvidere in the County of Warren (then Sussex) aforesaid where Robert Hoops was quarter Master or Commissary, from Col. West's in Greenwich in said County of Warren then known as Sevens' old mills, from Pitts Town in the County of Hunterdon where Moore Firman was quartermaster or Commissary, from Abraham Hunt's in Trenton, from Newton in the County of Sussex where Edmond Dunlap was quarter Master or Commissary & also wheat from Flatbrook in the County of Sussex & from other places to Hacketts Town to be manufacutred into flour & feed for the use of the Army.  That this applicant served in the same detachment under the same regulations that Captn William McCullough did excepting that he was an officer & this applicant was a teamster.  That the brigade aforesaid drew provisions & feed as rations from the different military stores aforesaid & was discharged in December aforesaid when the army retired into winter quarters having
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been in the service nine months.  Applicant again volunteered in the same brigade at Hacketts Town aforesaid on the first of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight commanded by the same officer & was continually engaged in the same duties to & from the same & other places until the army went into winter quarters in the latter part of December of that year & was then discharged having been in the service in that year nine months making his whole term of service eighteen months.  For which service he received his pay in continental money which at the time he received it was so depreciated that it was not worth more than half the amount it called for.  Applicant was born in the Township of Greenwich in the County of Warren aforesaid (then Sussex) on the twenty second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & fifty nine.  There is a record of his birth & age now in the possession of his sister's heirs in the State of Ohio.  When he went into the service as aforesaid he resided in the Township of Mansfield in the said County of Warren (then Sussex) & has resided there until this day excepting a residence of seven years in the County of Hunterdon in New Jersey from 1813 to 1820.  That he never received any written discharge from the service nor any commission & that he has no documentary evidence of his service as aforesaid.  That
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he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service from their own personal knowledge.  That he is known to William McCullough & John H. Fleming of his present neighbourhood who can testify to his character for truth & veracity & their belief of his services as aforesaid
   He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State  That the reason of his not making application until this time is because he had been heretofore in bitter circumstances & he had hoped to have lived the remainder of his days without asking his pension from the government but by reason of his misfortunes & the removal by death of those who could render him their assistance in supporting him he is now under the necessity of claiming that from Government which in more prosperous days he would not have asked.
   Cond. Davis
Sworn to & subscribed
the day & year aforesd.
"not" on last page interlined
   John Moore
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 
EEL

November 24, 1930

Rosabell Davis
R.D.
Washington, New Jersey

Dear Madam:

  You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R.1705, that Conrad Davis was born October 22, 1759, in Greenwich Township, Sussex (later Warren) County, New Jersey.

   While residing in Mansfield Township, Warren County, New Jersey, he applied for pension August 26, 1836, and stated that he volunteered at Hackettstown, Sussex (later Warren) County, New Jersey, about the first of April 1777, served as a teamster under Wagon Master George Allen and was discharged the last of December in same year; that he again volunteered April 1, 1778 and was in same service under same officer and was discharged the latter part of December, 1778.

   His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of the alleged service as required by the pension laws.

   He stated that he resided in Warren County, New Jersey, from the time of his enlistment until the date of his application for pension, with the exception of seven years, from 1813 to 1820, when he resided in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

   It is not stated that the soldier was ever married.

   The above is the history of the only soldier named Conrad Davis found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

Very truly yours
E.W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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I William McCullough residing in the Township of Mansfield in the County of Warren aforesaid hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Conrad Davis who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that concur in that opinion
   Wm. McCullough
Sworn & subscribed the
day & year aforesaid
   John Moore

State of New Jersey
Warren County   SS:
I John H. Fleming residing in the Township of Oxford in the County of Warren aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Conrad Davis who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to be a man of the strictest veracity & honesty that I have known him upwards of twenty years & believe him to be of the age set forth in the above declaration.  that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to
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have been a teamster in the revolution & to have served as he states in the army & that I concur in that opinion not only from the general reputation of the neighbourhood but from the fact that my deceased father in his life time frequently told me that he & the said Conrad Davis were in the service of the revolution together in a brigade of teams carting provisions & feed from FlatBrook in the County of Sussex & other places
   John H Fleming
Sworn & subscribed in
open Court this first
day December 1836
   John Moore
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Warren County SS the State of New Jersey

Personally appeared Before me Barny Bigler one of the Justices of the peace in and for Said County William Gary after Being Sworn on the Holy Evangalist of Almighty God on his oath Saith that he was well acquainted with Conrad Davis in the time of the Revolution War as a teamster he Saith the Said Davis carted Grain from his house a few days after this Deponant was Married in Company with a Number other teams all in the United States Service  Also saw said Davis at a Number other times Carting to and from through the Country with Baggage for the army But how long he was in that employment he does not know and further Saith not
   William Garey
Sworn and Subscribed
Before me this 13 Day of
Feb. 1837
   B. Bigler

State of New Jersey
Warren County  SS
I Barny Bigler one of the Justices of the peace in & for the sd County of Warren do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with William Garey who hath sworn to & subscribed the above affidavit & that he is a man of the strictest veracity & so reputed in the neighbourhood that he is entitled to full faith & credit when under oath dated feby 13th 1837
   B. Bigler
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State of New Jersey. Warren County SS.  I Phineas B Kennedy Clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in -
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Warren County SS the State of New Jersey -

Personally appeared before me Barny Bigler one of the Justices of the peace in and for Said County John A Johnson who Being Duly Sworn according to law on his oath Saith that he is well acquainted with Conrad Davis allso was acquainted with him the the time of the Revolution War and Saw him driving team in Company with a number of other teams at different times wich teams I under stood Belonged to the United States service under the Command of Captain Allen and further Saith Not
   John A. Johnson
Sworn and Subscribed Before me
this 9 Day of February 1837 -
   B. Bigler

State of New Jersey
Warren County  SS
I Barney Bigler one of the Justices of the peace in & for the said County of Warren do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John A. Johnson who hath subscribed & sworn to the above affidavit & I believe him to be a man of the strictest veracity is so reputed in the neighbourhood & is entitled to full faith & credit when under oath  Dated feby 13th 1837.
   B. Bigler
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State of New Jersey.  Warren County SS.   I Phineas B Kennedy Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing containing the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Conrad Davis for a pension and further I do certify that Barney Bigler before whom the affidavits of Wlliam Garey and John A. Johnson were taken is a Justice of the peace of said County duly commissioned and Sworn into office as such, and that his Signature to said affidavits are genuine.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set
[seal affixed]
my hand and affixed the Seal
of the Said Court at Belvedere
this 18th of February A.D. 1847.
   P.B. Kennedy Clk
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War Department
Pension Office
March 8 1837

Sir

   The papers of Conrad Davis have been annexed and placed on file - The claimant states that he served nine months in Capt George Allens company of Continental teamsters in 1777 & nine months in 1778 - In 1778 a return was made to the 2 (?) of all the teamsters then in the Continental Service:  But within the name of the claimant or those of his conductor or Captain is born thereon - It may be added likewise that there were no enlistments at that time in the team service for nine months-

Hon G.D. Wall
Senate N.J.
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War Department
Pension Office
Jany. 9. 1838

Sir

   For information respecting the claim of Conrad Davis, whose case is referred to in your letter of the 20th alto I beg  (?) to refer you to my letter on the subject under date of the 6th March last addressed to the Hon G.D. Wall a copy of which is herewith enclosed

Enld.
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(1)     Stamp Enclosed

R. Davis, R.D. Washington, N.J.
Nov. 4. 30.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir: - Conrad Davis Sr. lived East of Anderson town, N.J. received a pension for services a large tract of land, south side of W. Washington Ave. Washington N.J. for services rendered in Rev. War as head-quarter-master.  Gen. Washington stopped at Conrad Davis Sr. house and took dinner in route to Valley Forge, Warren Co.  History tells me Washington encamp-
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ed on an acre of ground at Millers Inn the adjoining village on an acre of ground and lost a man.  There is a small burial ground there enclosed with a stone wall have been trying to visit it, will do so as soon as have an opportunity.  Have I been correctly informed.  Enclose stamp for reply.

Very sincerely,
Rosebell Davis