Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 417, William De Groot, New Jersey
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SERVICE
New Jersey
DeGroot, William
DeGroat
NUMBER
W. 417
Ann
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[top left corner of page missing]
28 August, 1840 in the State of N. J.
was a Sarge: [illeg] within the commanded
by Captain N. J.                of the      commanded in the N. Jersey
for 12 Months
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 136 Dollars 66 Cents per [illeg]
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Aug. 1840 end in 25 May 1843. Augt: 1840 end on 25 May 1843, the day of [his?] death
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Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Sept 1844 and sent to Sgt. F [illeg]alph  [illeg]ansfield NJ.
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Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
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$368.02

Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4, 1830
Section [illeg]
Recorded by [illegible]

Book c Vol. 1-

Let Hon W. A. Newell July 6/50
J. L. Strurt 9th June 1854
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De GROOT, WILLIAM (N.) W417
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17340
New Jersey
Wm De Groat
[illeg]lesex in the State of N. Jersey who was a Lieut in the Comp commanded Captain Sebring of the Reg commanded Col ______ in the N Jersey line for 20 m Lieut
3 ms Ens.
1 m Seg
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 301 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Aug. 1833 and sent to Hon J. F. Randolpj present
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 77 $602
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 35 $150.50
                             $752.50
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Go C Stiles Clerk, Book E Vol. B Page 108.
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Declaration of Willian Degroot of Middlesex County and State of New Jersey in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress dated June 7, 1833
State of New Jersey, Middlesex County Ss
On this thirtieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas now sitting at New Brunswick in + for said county of Middlesex William Degroot aged eighty one years who being 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 at Boundbrook in the county of Somerset State of New Jersey in the year 1752. That he knows his age from having frequently seen it in the family record of his father in his father's own handwriting + which he now thinks is in the possession of one of his brothers. That in early life he removed into the township of Piscataway in the county of Middlesex and state aforesaid + lived there at the time of entering the service in the war of the revolution + lived then during the war + has continued to reside there ever since + now resides their. He cannot from his advanced age + consequent feebleness of memory swear positively to the precise length of all his services but to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods below mentioned + in the following grades. He entered the service as a sergeant in the year 1775 at Piscataway under Cat Webster + was marched to New York thence to Long Island to disarm the tories and served on this tour one month. In the year 1776 he served as a sergeant three tours of one month each - the first month under Capt Sebring the second month under Capt Barns both months at Woodbridge + the latter month under Capt Sebring as he thinks [illeg] at Woodbridge + was engaged aiding + preserving those parts of
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Captain Manning.  All at the same station at Woodbridge guarding the lines from Amboy to Bergen Westfield Springfield and the eastern part of the State + pressing the defenceless families + property of his fellow citizens from the depredations of the enemy. In the next year 1780 he served four tours of a month each - the first two tours under Capt Manning + the latter two under Capt Ten Eyck, all as Lieutenant + stationed between Woodbridge + Elizabeth town guarding along the lines in the vicinity of those places. He was ordered out + served another tour in this year as Lieutenant of one month also under Capt Ten Eyck + was stationed towards Amboy guarding along the shore. During this year shortly after Kyrphausen landed with the enemy below Elizabeth town + some damage in that vicinity he marched with his company under Capt Ten Eyck to Springfield + was in that engagement + followed on + was in a hard fight with the enemy at Elizabeth town. In the year 1781 he served five tours of a month each as Lieutenant under his own Captain Ten Eyck + was stationed at the Woodside Station guarding along the lines from Amboy to below Elizabeth town + in [illeg] + aiding in shielding the families of his fellow citizens + their property from the ravages of the tories  [   ] + the  enemy. In the  year 1782 he was ordered out + served four tours of a month each as Lieutenant under Capt Ten Eyck + was stationed in the middle of each New Jersey between Elizabeth town and Woodbridge engaged in the performance of similar duties + was out much more than I have specified as Lieutenant on occasions of alarms + for special duties + was well acquainted with Major Pyatt
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the state. In 1777 he was ordered out + served three tours of a month each as sergeant. the first two tours under Capt Sebring + the latter tour under Capt Shaw, Col Crow was the superior officer. and during this year was stationed at the 
Woodbridge Station guarding along the lines from Amboy + watching the enemy + in scouts. In addition to the services already specified in the year 1777 he was ordered out + served ten days as sergeant under Capt Sebring near New Brunswick guarding that vicinity.  Towards the close of this year 1777 he was duly elected + commissioned as an Ensign in Capt Sebring's company in said township of Piscataway + county aforesaid + in the [ illegible] of this year served one tour of a month as Ensign under Capt Steele engaged as before in guarding.  In the year 1778 he was ordered out + served three months in three tours of a month each as Ensign under Capt Manning and was stationed on the east side of the [ illegible ] at Woodbridge + Elizabeth town. A short time before the battle of Monmouth in June of this year he was stationed with his company at Woodbridge guarding the fort + at the period of the attempt of the enemy to cross New Jersey, he was marched to [ illegible ] + ordered to join the American Army + followed on to Monmouth + was in that battle.  In the same year 1778 in the summer of that year he was elected duly + commissioned as lieutenant + at the same time Ten Eych was elected to Captain and afterward in this same year was ordered out + served two tours of a month each as Lieutenant under Capt Ten Eych at the Woodbridge Station guarding the lines. In the year 1779 in the early part thereof he served a tour of a month as Lieutenant under Capt. Dunn and immediately afterwards in the same year he served one tour of a month as Lieutenant under Capt. Lupardus. In July 1779 he served a tour of a month as lieutenant under Capt. Manning + in the fall of the same year he served another tour of a month as lieutenant under
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+ Col Spotswood + Capt. Clayburn + Hanison of the Virginia line made their home at my house for some time. He never received any written discharge from the service to his knowledge + if he did it is lost.  He received his commission as Ensign + subsequently as lieutenant from he thinks Governor Livingston but they have been destroyed probably by his children nor have I any documentary evidence but by leads to refer to Capt. Jeremiah Ten Eych my own captain in the war of the revolution + to John B. Field + Richard R. Field who are well acquainted with my character + services in the war and would also refer to the Hon Saml Swain + John Latourette -- -
  My neighbors + residents in the same township + county with me who will attest to my character for veracity + their belief of my services could consequently procure no Clergyman the [illegible] in his neighborhood being absent on a tour. During the period specified I was not engaged in any civil pursuit but wholly occupied  with my duties as a soldier + officer in the war + for these services I claim a pension hereby relinquishing any + every claim whatever to a pension or annuity  except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any state.  Wm Degroot
Sworn + subscribed in open Court the day + year aforesaid } Thos Hance, Judge
We John Latourette residing in the township of Piscataway and Samuel Swan both residents in the vicinity of William Degroot do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with him the said William Degroot who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration - that we believe
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Wm Degroot
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to be eighty one years of age - that he is reputed + believed in the neighborhood and where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution + that we concur in that opinion  John Latourrette, Saml. Swan
Sworn + subscribed the day + year aforesaid Thos Hance, Judge
  Middlesex county, personally appeared before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said court, now sitting, in open court Capt Jeremiah Ten Eyck who being duly sworn his oath saith that he is + has been well acquainted with William Degroot who has signed the foregoing declaration from early life - that he has always resided in his neighborhood + well recollects that said Degroot was a soldier + officer of the revolution that aid Degroot entered the service in 1775 - as Sergeant + that he served faithfully in that capacity, in the years 1775-1776 + that in the year 1777 he the said Degroot was elected + commissioned as Ensign + served as such officer until after the battle of Monmouth + until the fall of 1778 - that said Degroot was then elected and commissioned as Lieutenant in the company in which this deponent was Captain and that said deponent continued in the said company under this deponent acting as Lieutenant until the end of the war - that said deponent served in this deponents knowledge as lieutenant in the years '79, '80, '81 + '82 from four to five months in each year, that said deponent was always a good whig + a willing faithful vigilant officer. This deponent recollects distinctly that said Degroot was at the battle of Monmouth + lieutenant at the battle of Plainfield + Elizabeth town + always done his duty.
Sworn to + subscribed the day + year aforesaid Jeremiah Teneyck, Thos Hance
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[the following lines have all been crossed out]
and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter + after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier + served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that
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Declaration of Ann DeGroot, of Middlesex County, New Jersey, to obtain the benefit of the third section of an Act of Congress after 4th of July 1836, and a Joint-Resolution of July 7, 1838.
State of New Jersey, Middlesex County Ss: on this tenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty, before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, now sitting as a Court, personally appeared Ann DeGroot, a resident of the township of Piscataway in the County and state aforesaid, in the ninetieth year of her age, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, declare, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836, and the Joint Resolution of July 7, 1838: That she is the widow of William DeGroot, late of the County and State aforesaid, deceased, that her said husband was engaged from the beginning to the close of the Revolutionary war in the militia service in the State of New Jersey, that he held the Commission of Lieutenant in said service, and performed various tours of service which she is unable to specify; that her said husband became a pensioner under the act of Congress of June 7, 1832, and drew a pension up to the time of his death. He must therefore have given a statement and proof of his services rendering such an account on her part unnecessary. She therefore refers to the papers now on file
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in the Pension Bureau of the War Department for all that may be requested to support her present applcation.
  She further declares that she was married to the said William DeGroot by the Rev. John Warford, a Presbyterian clergyman, on the thirtieth day of December, seventeen hundred and eighty, that her husband, the aforesaid William DeGroot, died on the twenty eighth day of August, eighteen hundred forty, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period. She herewith furnishes the best evidence in her power, of the marriage with her said husband William DeGroot, which is the Family Record of the birth of their children, made nearly forty years ago, + carefully preserved. She is unable to obtain any record of their marriage from the pastor solemnizing that marriage, as he is deceased, or from all church there being no record extant, nor does she know of any record of it - save the one kept in her own family herewith.
  Sworn to and subscribed on the day + year above written.   Ann [her mark] DeGroot
John La Tourrette, Judge
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State of New Jersey, Middlesex County Ss.-
I Nicholas Boeram, Clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to the Judges of said court, that Ann DeGroot, an applicant for a pension under the act of 4th of July 1836. - was the widow of William DeGroot, who was a pensioner under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832. at the rate of three hundred and one Dollars and sixty cents that she resided, at the time of her application, in the township of Piscataway county and state aforesaid, and died in the state of New York, City of Brooklyn on the twenty fifth day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty three, and that she left the following children and no others Viz" Susan who intermarried with John W. Voorhees. Ann who intermarried with John M. Schenck and Elizabeth who intermarried with John Steele (from whom she is now separated by law) she now remaining a single woman. all of whom are now living.-
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this sixteenth day of August AD 1844 
N Booraem Clerk
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Claim of Ann DeGroot + Wm De Groot, Act of 4 July 1836, New Jersey agency
STATE OF New Jersey COUNTY of Somerset}ss.
   Be it known, That on this Nineteenth day of May A.D., eighteen hundred and fifty one, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Ann De Schenk + Susan P Voorhees, a resident of Bound Brook in said County, and made oath according to law that they are the children of William DeGroot and Ann DeGroot, who were Revolutionary Pensioners of the New Jersey agency, under acts of 7 June 1832 + 4 July 1836 at the rate of $301.66 + 136.66 Dollars per annum; that she has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that they are directly interested as claimants in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as our Agent may use in prosecuting this claim. Susan P Voorhees, Ann D. Schenck
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me. Alfred Cammann, J. Peace.
I, Alfred Cammann Justice of the Peace, kn and for said County do hereby certify that Susan P. Voorhees and Ann D. Schenck - who executed the foregoing paper are respectable residents of this County and are, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.  Alfred Cammann J. Peace.
I, Henry D. Johnson, Clerk of the Common Pleas Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Alfred Cammann before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed is his signature. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this twentieth day of May AD 1851. Henry D Johnson Clerk.
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POWER OF ATTORNEYL -- Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these presents, That we Susan B. Voorhies and Ann S. Schenck hereby constitute and appoint William S. Allison our true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Ann De Groot for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and we hereby authorize our said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate we wish made payable to John R. Voorhees, executor of William DeGroot decd -- to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that we might or could do were we personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that our said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises. 
WITNESS our hands and seals this 19th day of May -- A.D., 1851.  Susan P Voorhees Ann D Schenck
Signed and Sealed in the presence of Alfred Cammann}
STATE OF New Jersey COUNTY OF Somerset} ss:
On this nineteenth day of May A.D. 1851 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Susan P. Voorhees + Ann D. Schenck and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be their act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TSTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.} Alfred Cammann J Peace.
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Register of William Degroot's FAMILY
WILLIAM DEGROOT WAS BORN June 7th,, 1751
ANN LATOURRETTE WAS BORN Jan,, 28th 1751
They found [hands] and [hearts]' in holy
matrimony December 30th,, 1780
THEIR PROGENEY
Names Births Marriages Deaths
Altie O Degroot October 15th,, 1789
March 26th,, 1803
Henry L. Degroot February 8th,, 1784
April 28th,, 1787
Susan P. Degroot February 8th,, 1784
Sarah L. Degroot November 5th,, 1785
April 25th 1804 June 27th 1830
Will M O. Degroot October 25th,, 1787
Henry Degroot May 25th,, 1789
February 21st 1835
Ann Degroot August 7th 1791
August 13th 1835
Eliz H Degroot March 12th,, 1793
November 15th,, 1814
Iohn Degroot March 27th,, 1794
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widow of Lieut Degroot
memorandum
FREE
J J Randolph
Washington City
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FREE
J F Randolph
Washington City

widow of 
Lieut Degroot
memorabilia
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Capt Sebring - Nov. + Dec. 77   15 days      X
                         June 80                7    "         X
                         Sept  77              19    "        X
                         Aug    80             24    "        X
                         July     78             12   "         X
                         June    81               8   "         X
                         May    77              21   "         X
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Hon. J. F. Randolph
     H. R
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Examine very particularly the case of W Ann De Groot + see the papers of Jeremiah Ten Eyck -- See also the memo left by Hon. J. F. Randolph H.R. Return the memo to him - it is part of a letter from J. F. Randolph of New Brunswick N.J.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
No. 417
Ann De Groot.  widow
Wm De Groot Lieut Rev. War.
Act: July 4, 1896
dex: - Vol. A, Page 174
  [Arrangement f 1870.}
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New Brunswick Nov 17 - 1890
J L Edwards
    Sir May I ask the attention of the Department to the within case as soon as convenient 
Yours t
Jos F Randolph
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Whereas William DeGroot of the Township of Piscataway county of Middlesex State of New Jersey was a pensioner under the act of Congress of the United States of the 7th June 1832 and whereas the said William DeGroot having deceased on the 28th day of August 1840, leaving his widow Ann DeGroot who was an applicant for the benefit of the provisions of the act of 4th July 1836 + whereas before said pension was adjusted on the 24th day of May 1843. the said Ann DeGroot died intestate leaving three children viz: Susan who intermarried with John H. Voorhees. Ann who intermarried with John M. Schenck + Elizabeth who intermarried with John Steele (from whom she is now separated by law, she now remaining a single woman. all of whom are now living. Therefore we John H. Voorhees + John M. Schenck in behalf of our wives and likewise in behalf of the said Elizabeth Steele by her request and consent. do hereby empower James F Randolph of the county of Warren + state of New Jersey to prosecute to a final decision all claims for a pension of said Ann DeGroot [illeg] and to manage the same in all respects and settle it in such manner as he shall deem proper. 
John H. Voorhees   John M. Schenck

Boundbrook Somerset County New Jersey 16gth Augt. 1844.}
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New Brunswick New Jersey
June 6th,, 1854

Hon. L. P. Waldo,
Com. of Pensions,

Sir,
Enclosed please find power of attorney, from Mrs. Susan P. Voorheez of Somerset County New Jersey. The object in view is to ascertain whether the whole amount, to which Mrs. Degroat was entitled, has ever been paid and if so, what the amount was;- The facts as they have been presented to me, are as follow; William Degroot, was an officer of the Revolution, and Married Ann or Nancy Canaan, during the war, he lived with the 28th.. of August 1840, and drew a pension of $301 60/100 per [illegible] under the act of June 7th,, 1832, which was paid to the day of his death;- there, Mrs. Degroot lived until May 20th,, [illegible] 1843, and drew no pension, but, after her death, James F. Randolph M. C. from this district, drew for the heirs some $480, but [illegible] to them that they were entitled to a larger amount,- since then the case was put into the hands of one - Allison, formerly a clerk in someone of the departments, perhaps the pension office, of whom it is understood here, that he fell into discredit, in consequence of some fraud [illegible] transactions with the Pension Office.
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or Treasury Department, about the times this case was put into his hands, and that he there fore probably never presented it, _ it is certain he has never made any [illegible], or given any information to the parties interacted.
I conclude, the facts of the case on which any claims can rest are all on file, in the Pension Office, and therefore present it in this manner, [illegible] that if any thing remains unpaid, i could be so informed, and there file a declaration under the [illegible]. _ I have to ask an examination of the case, under the act of July 4th,, 1836, and the subsequent acts, to the time of Mrs. Degroot's death, May 25th AD, 1845, and a [illegible] and if anything is found due, and a declaration is required, I ask for instructions, and remains.
Most Respectfully,
James L. Street

Hon. L.P. Waldo
Com. of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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New Brunswick, Aug. 3, 1843
Sir,
I have complied with the requirements of your letter of the 27th Inst, in the case of Ann De Groot, so far as it was practicable. Mr De Groot had failed to preserve his commissions, or he would have furnished them with his [illegible] application. The deficiency is supplied now by proof of [illegible] a Lieut in Apl 1778. There is no proof of service in the ordinary militia in the Secy of State's office, nor any where else, that I know of, or none to any considerable extent.  The Secy has obtained or secured some of the old pay & master rolls, and so far as they go they more than sustain the narrative of the old man themselves.
This case should soon be considered not only complete but most amply made out. The testimony of De Groots own captain & of several of the privates of his company, aided by all the documentary proof to be reached, & contradicted by none, and the entire consistency of De Groot's own account with the [word crossed out] statements of hundreds of others, and with the proofs discovered in various directions form a case of decided character & conclusiveness as to justify the allowance of all that is claimed.
Herewith [illegible] certificate of the Secy of State as to De Groot's rank in 1778; another as to very late service; and a letter showing
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that his office contains no record of the [illegible] services of the militia
Very Respectfully Your obt. servt. [signed] James F Randolph
J L Edwards Esq Comr Pensions
[remainder of marks are bleed-through from reverse side of page]
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De Groot case. 
Letter Secy State
Hon. James F Randolph
New Brunswick N J
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Hon. James f. Randolph
New Bruswick
N.J.

De Groot case
Letter Secy State
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Office of Secretary of State
Trenton July 14 1843
Sir
Your favor of the 4th inst is before me. I find no record whatever of the appt. of Wm DeGroot as Lieut or to any other office.  This is however a case common to more than three fourths of the militia officers of this state in the Revolution -- In a recommendation to the Governor and Assembly of certain officers of Middlesex County for the appointment of Field Officers, I find the name of Wm Degroot Lieut dated 10 April 1778. Jeremiah Ten Eyck signing it as Capt. Another recommendation for field officers in order to supply vacancies, dated Oct. 6. 1778, contains the name of Wm Degroot Lieut.
  As to the proof of the services of said DeGroot, there is none that I can find in this office except a small certificate of pay which he received under the law of December 20 1783, which must have been for service rendered at a very late date of the war, as the vouchers in this office prove payment to about 1781 by the different paymasters in the several counties for militia services. The War department is mistaken in supposing there is any record evidence of the continued services of the ordinary militia; none such exists in this office, in any case whatever; a few
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(about a dozen) Muster Rolls + Pay Rolls have been preserved, but individual services for which the expenditures were made are not to be found and I presume are totally lost. They were required and laid before Joseph Howell [illeg] Esq. ate the office of Army 
Accounts in New York in the year 1789, after which they must have been taken to Washington and lost in the destruction of the Treasury building.
  I have been very diligent in arranging and preserving the various papers and documents that throw light on our Revolutionary history and which may be calculated to illustrate the signal services of our gallant Jersey militia.
  Respectfully Your Obt. Sert.
Charles G McChesney
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Apl 28 '44 Ann De Groot
J. L Edwards, Esq Com. Pensions. Washington
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Mansfield Sep. 24. 1844
Sir,
I duly received your favor of the 6th  all and so soon as I could, notified you of the death of Ann Degroot, authentically furnished you with the authority of her heirs to me to act in their behalf and intimated my acceptance of the proposition for a composition in her case.
Having received answers to several subsequent letters I am apprehensive that this one is related to Mrs DeGroot, has not reached you, or has been mislaid. 
Very Respectfully Yor Obt Servt James F. Randolph
J L Edwards, Esq [illeg] Pensions
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Payment to be made
at
by
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of 


Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book      Vo.     Page     by     
                                          Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 4th July 1836, Ann Degroot, deceased, who was the widow of William De Groot, who was a Sergt: En: Lieut was entitled to a pension of one hundred and thirty six dollars and sixty six cents per ann: commencing in the 28 Augt 1840 -- and ending on the 25th May, 1843, the day of her death. The amount due will be paid when the production of the proper vouchers to Susan Voorhees, Ann Schenk and Elizabeth Steel the only surviving children of the said Ann De Groot.
Given ate the War Office of the United States, this 30th day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty four --
             Secretary of War. 
Examined and Countersigned}
Commissioner of Pensions.
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New Brunswick, May 22 1863
Sir
In July 1840, Ann DeGroot, widow of Wm applied for the pension which her husband had previously drawn, and I was soon after informed that the rolls of Capt Sebring Capt Ten Ecyk, under whom he alleged to have served, were in the office, + did not contain Wm DeGroot's declaration. I have recently been requested by the Widow to renew the application for her _ to request a review of her case, and I do it the more readily, not only because I an sur of its entire justice, but because I have good reason to believe that the rolls of Capt Jacob Ten Eych + of a Capt. Sebring both of Somerset, have been confounded with the rolls of Capt Sebring, both of Middlesex. Capt. Jeremiah was himself a pensioner + did not, in making out his case, at all refer to any rolls in his possession, nor did he ever [illeg] any to me or anyone of his friends, and I have therefore reason to believe he had none. He was a principal witness in Degroots case + was Degroot's own captain. Both were conscientious men, in sound mind + memory.
Very Respectfully Your obt servt James F. Randolph
J L Edwards Esq.
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Mansfield, Aug. 21. 1844.
Sir, I duly recd your favor of the 6th inst in the case of Mrs De Groot.  Finding upon enquiry that Mrs De Groot was deceased, I thought it best to procure a Certificate of the fact, which is enclosed.  I have also obtained the authority of the heirs of Mrs D. to act in the premises, in order to prevent any difficulty with them. That is likewise herewith.
If I understand that part of your letter, you say that a portion of the rolls of Capt. Sebring of Middlesex, [underlined] is in your office, and contradict the clause of Mr De Groot as to so much of his narrative as those rolls cover.  If my memory serves me, there were two Captains Sebring, one of Somerset [underlined] & one of Middlesex. [underlined] It may therefore be, that as in the case of the Captains Ten Eich, they have been confounded.  Mr De Groot lived in Middlesex, and speaks of officers of Middlesex companies.
Desiring nothing but simple justice to the claim of Mr De Groot, I am perfectly willing to adjust it in accordance with your proposition, if upon a review of it, you shall deem it entitled to no more.
Very respectfully yours [signed] James F Randolph
J L Edwards, Esq Com. Pensions
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DeGroots case
Testimony as to Rank
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State of New Jersey
I Charles G McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that there is on the files of my office  a petition headed "Bonham town 10th April 1778" recommending to the Legislature of New Jersey the appointment of Field Officers for the County of Middlesex -- on which petition appears the name of William Degroot as Lieutenant and Jeremiah Ten Eyck as Captain
   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Trenton in Said state this thirty first ay of July A.D. One thousand eight hundred and forty three.
Charles G McChesney Secy of State
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20 Lt.
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Fees  $1.30 Paid
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(No 1)
To His Excellency the Governor, To the Legislative Council and Assembly of the State of New Jersey
   The petition of the Officers of the firsst Battalion of militia in Middlesex County in this state most humbly sheweth.
   That your petitioners o the seventh day of January 1778 met at Bonham town in said County by order of Major Potter and then and there made choice of John Webster Esqr. for Colonel and Thomas Heady Esqr. for Second Major of said Battalion.
   Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the said choice may be confirmed and commissions recommended to be made out by His Excellency the Governor to these gentlemen for that purpose. 
   And your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray

Middlesex County
March 5 1778. }
Jacob Sebring Capt.
Jerry Tenike, Leftennet
William Degroot Insign
  + others.
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No. 2.
Bonhamtown April 10. 1778
In consequence of the declaration of John Dunn Esqr. Major & Reuben Potter Esqr 2d Major of the First Battalion of Middlesex Malitia of their intention and determination to resign their commissions in said Battalion, a meeting of the Officers of the aforesaid Battalion was this day called and held. Majors Dunn & Potter attending did agreeably to their former declarations resign, whereupon we the said Officers proceeded to nominate and choose not only the Officers to fill their places, but all the vacancies of Field Officers in the Battalion viz:
John Webster Esqr. Colonel
Samuel Crow Esqr. Major
Thomas Haddon Lieut Col and
Samuel Randolph Esqr. 2d Major
To His Excellency the Governor, Legislative Council and Assembly of the State of New Jersey.
Your petitioners humbly shew that by the resignation of the aforesaid gentlemen the Battalion is almost destitute of Field Officers which had long labored under the disadvantage of not having a sufficient number of Field Officers residing within the bounds of the battalion. Your petitioners therefore pray that this choice may be confirmed and commissions recommended to be made out by His Excellency the Governor to these gentlemen for that purpose.
And your petitioners shall ever pray
Signed.
Wil. Manning Capt.
Jeremiah Teneyck Capt.
John Shaw Lieut
William Degroot Lef't. & others
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State of New Jersey
[seal]
I Charles G McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing marked No. 1 & No. 2 are true extracts from petitions presented to the Legislature of this State as taken from and compared with the originals now on file in my office
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Trenton in said State this twenty third day of October A D One thousand eight hundred & forty three  [signed] Charles G McChesney Secy of State
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No 5211
Ann De Groot N. J. 
Act 4 July '36
admd
2 mo Sergt
2 m Ensign
8 mo Lieut
28 aug 1840 the day of her husbands to 25 may 1843 the day of her death - To Susan Voorhees, Ann Schenck & Elizabeth Steele only surviving children
[signed] Jas. F. Randolph Esq Mansfield N. J.
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State of New Jersey, Middlesex County ss:  On this 13th day of November 1840, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Jeremiah Ten Eyck known to me as a credible person, also being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is a soldier of the Revolution & is now in due receipt of a Pension for his services as such; that he was a Captain in the Middlesex New Jersey Militia the greater part of the war; that William De Groot late of the County of Middlesex dec'd was a Lieutenant in the same company; that consequently he was most intimate with said Degroot and knew much about his private as well as public concerns; that he well recollects the marriage of said DeGroot and remembers well that he lost some time (days only) in the service, in consequence of that marriage, that is, in consummating it, recollects that he was in service at the time of the marriage & that he did duty repeatedly afterwards; that he went to get married; from the great lapse of time, and the very advanced age & the infirmity of memory of deponent, he cannot specifically refer to the nature and amount of service rendered by said De Groot after he, Degroot, was married; but his recollection of the marriage and its attendant circumstances is distinct, as also his services after marriage - upon these points he is positive.  [signed with an "X"] Jeremiah Ten Eick his Mark
Subscribed & sworn the day & year aforesaid, before me [signed] John La Tourette Justice peace
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State of New Jersey;, Middlesex County Ss: On this 13th day of November, 1840, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Benjamin Field, known to me as a credible person, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is a soldier of the Revolution and in the receipt of a pension for his services as such; that he was well acquainted with William Degroot, a Revolutionary Pensioner, late of the County of Middlesex, deceased; knew him during the war of the Revolution, knowing that he served much and faithfully in it, and that his services continued to the close of the war; recollects his marriage with Ann Latourette, which took place, he thinks in 1780, the latter part of the year; remembers particularly, that the said Degroot, who was a Lieutenant in Capt. J. Ten Eyck's company and did service after his marriage repeatedly; recollects one occasion of this kind in 1781 when this deponent was out at Woodbridge a day or two after deponent's arrival there Capt Ten Eyck and Lleut William Degroot both came to the same place with their company or a part of it; don't recollect how long they stayed there, but knows that they were in service, this deponent was then out on a regular monthly tour. Remember said deponent afterwards during the war. 
Benjamin Field
Inscribed [illeg] to the day +
year aforesaid before me}
John LaTourette
Justice peace
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Pension Office Dec 1840
Sirs  The papers of Mrs Ann De Groot widow of William De Groot whose case is referred to in the enclosed memorandum I have the honor to inform you has again been examined.  It is [illegible] by the claimants husband in his application under the act of 1832 that he ["served as" crossed out] was a Sergeant in Capt Sebring Company in 1777 (first name of Capt Sebring not mentioned) that he served on two occasions ["as" crossed out] in the company in that grade and was then ["was" crossed out] appointed an Ensign and rendered service in the company in the latter grade. The roles of the only Captain of the name of Sebring in this office furnish no evidence of the service in question: The claim of the applicants husband under the act of 1832 as well as that of Capt Jeremiah Ten Eyck [inserted text crossed out, illegible] under this act was it appears ["to have been" crossed out]  admitted[?] without a compliance with the rule requiring a commission or record evidence of his appointment to entitle an officer to the pay of the grade in which he may claim to have served. There is no record of the appointment or of the services of either of ["the officers" crossed out] ["Capt" crossed out] Lieut William De Groot or of Capt Jeremiah Ten Eyck on file nor is the name of either to be found on the marginal record of Certificates for the County of Middlesex or Somerset.  If Capt Jeremiah Ten Eyck or any of the other Captains under whom it is [illegible] the Claimants [illegible] served ["from 1776" and "between" crossed out] from 1776 to 1780 were in the service as set forth in his declaration evidence of it may be found in the office of Secretary of
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State at Trenton - There are rolls in this office of two Captains of the name of Ten Eyck but neither of them the [illegible] of Jeremiah-  William DeGroot does not in his declarations give the first name of his Captain, Ten Eyck


Hon Jos. F. Randolph
House Reps
N.J.
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all cases Exd
S. Godwin
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[check marks before each line]

Ann Degroot at widow of Wm act 36
Admd N.J.  4086

Ann Bamper, widow of Jacob
N Jersey  ['Capt' crossed out] & Com.e & Lieut. act 36. Admd

Mary Day widow of John Lieut.
& Capt Admd. act 36- N.J.
4201

S. Godwin
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William De Groot-County of Middlesex N.J

1775 0.1.0 Sgth Capt Webster New York & Long Island

1776 0.1.0     "        "   Bacus at Woodbridge
          0.2.0    "        "   Sebring ----- same

1777 0.2.0     "        "   same ------- same
         0.1.0      "        "   Shaw ------ same
         0.0.10      "         "  Sebring near New  
                                                Brunswick
         0.1.0  Ensign      "  ['Stule' crossed out] 
                          guarding Capt Sebring
         0.3.0    "             "  Manning at Woodbridge 
                                             and Eliztown
1778 0.2.0 Lieut-       "  Ten Eyck "  same
         0.1.0.     "            "  Dunn
         0.1.0.     "            "  Lupardus

July 1779- 0.1.0  "      "  Manning
                   0.1.0.  "      "  same at Woodbridge

        1780   0.2.0 " -    " Same
                    0.2.0 "      " Ten Eyck --- do
                    0.1.0  "      " Same --- Amboy

        1781 -0-5.0  "       " same--- Woodbridge

        1782  0. 4 0  "       " same ---- do
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House of Reps U.S.
24 June 1850

Dear Sir

Will you oblige me by giving as early attention as possible to the enclosed case you will greatly oblige me bby so doing

Yours respectfully
W. A. Newell


Hon J L Edwards
Commr. Pensions
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De Groots case.
Testimony of service after 81.
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Receipts for Cash paid Second years' interest on Notes given by the Commissioners of the several Counties for Militia Services

table with seven columns
Column #1: No. of Voucher. 116| Column #2 No of Certif.: 445 | Column #3: Date. June 10/84 | Column # 4: SIGNED BY. Thomson Stelle | Column #5: PAYABLE TO. Wm De Groot | Column #6: Amount. 1.11.3 | Column # 7 1 y's int. 1.10
STATE OF NEW JERSEY:
I, CHARLES G. MCCHESNEY, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true abstract from a Book, headed as above, as taken from, and compared with the original, now remaining in my office. - And I do further certify, that Thomson Stelle was, by an Act, passed by the Legislature of this State, December 20, 1783, entitled "An Act to procure an estimate of the sums due to the Militia and Troops who have been raised for the defence of the frontiers of the State, and to provide for the settlement of the same" appointed a Commissioner for the County of Middlesex for the purpose of settling and adjusting the pay rolls of the Militia and Troops of this State, as aforesaid, and also for signing and delivering out to each and every person a note for the payment of what may be justly due.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said State, this nineteenth day of July A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
Charles G McChesney Secretary of State.
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Mansfield N.J.
[illegible] 

Nov. 20, 1843

Addl. tes. case of
Ann DeGroot
R

J.L. Edwards, Esq
Comr Pensions,
Washington
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Mansfield, Warren Co. N. J.
Nov. 13. 1843

Sir,

As the decision of the department in the case of Ann DeGroot, announced in your letter of the 28th Sept. was founded upon a total misconception of the nature of the testimony I had adduced as to the rank of her husband, I have been at the expense of obtaining from the
Secretary of State, the documents in extensd.
It will be seen that Wm DeGroot, & his Captain Jeremiah Ten Eyck, unite with some ten
or addl other company officers, in recommending to the Governor & Council, the appointment of Field Officers. This was what
the Secy designed to say in his former
certificate; but the Dept, understood him to
say that the recommendation was for De Groot & not by him. It appears that in March 1778, De Grootk was Ensign & Ten Eyck a Lieutenant & that in April following both were promoted.  They were officers in the same company. It is presumed that this will be conclusive, in addition to [illegible] other testimony as to the rank of De Groot & the date of last promotion. 
With respect to the amount of De Groot's 
services, there can be no reasonable doubt,
that so long as the militia continued to perform
their regular monthly tours, De Groot and all the duty he claimed for & more. This is in accordance with the claims of hundreds of others.  No provision was made by law to supercede these tours until 1780, if indeed they ever were superseded entirely.  On this point the evidence is inconclusive, and only inferential. My own opinion
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is, that the nine months and other special corps. authorized in 1781, and afterwar for "frontier defence," were meant to relieve the great body of the agricultural population from the harrowing monthly calls to which they had so long been exposed. They were not, however, exempt from service altogether, and were very frequently out on "alarms, + the llike. You will, of course, therefore, make such deduction from the claims after 1781, as you deem just + proper.  But the claim itself cannot be turned away, because, possibly, the claimant may, in the lapse of time, have mistaken the service he did perform for the monthly tours to which he had so long been accustomed.
   Although I have never been able to comprehend why any objection was even raised to his claim, and why especially the widows shall be required to go beyond + behind the proofs demanded of the husbands, yet since it has been so in this case, + we have unexpectedly been enabled to bring documentary testimony to our aid, and to fortify every positions originally taken, except as to the nature of the service after 1781, I persuade myself that the department will find it neither unsafe to admit it, nor contrary to its extremely [illeg] rules.
Very Respectfully, Your Obt Servt. James F. Randolph
J. L. Eduards, Esq.}
Comm. Pensions
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5211
N. Jersey

Ann De Groot
letr. to J. Randolph, 23d Nov. 1840
  "     " J F. Randolph June 27.43
  "     "      "        "      Sep 28. 43.
  "     "  Harley Wilkins June 5, 1844
  "   to J. F. Randolph 6. Aug 1844


Act July 1836
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Supplemental Declaration
of Ann Degroot widow
of Wm DeGroot

under act of July
1836


James FW Randolph
Agent
New Brunswick
N J.
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Supplemental Declaration of Ann DeGroot, of New Jersey, For a Pension under the Law of 4th July, 1836
State of New Jersey, Middlesex County, Ss:
On this eleventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty three, before me a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said Couty, personally appeared Ann DeGroot, who being duly sworn, on her oath saith, that she is the widow of Wm DeGroot, formerly of the County of Somerset, New Jersey, decd. that her said husband received a Pension for his services in the war of the Revolution and that she has heretofore, to wit in 1840, applied under the act of 4th July, 1836, to be placed on the roll in his stead; that by a letter from the Commissioner of Pensions of Nov. 23, 1840, to his Hon. Joseph R Randolph he is informed that she cannot be allowed anything for the statement of the services of her said husband as made by him. She is totally ignorant of what that statement is, nor could she be able of her own knowledge, to count it, if she knew; that she cannot, however, for a moment admit that her husband stated anything willfully wrong, or substantially incorrect. that he fully believed he rendered services in the mode and to the extent as he has stated, there can be no doubt and it is equally certain that he held the offices and served in the several capacities of Sergeant, Ensign and Lieutenant, but it is very probable that in U=
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hearing his various tours, he may have mistaken places and dates and officers under whom he served; he could only state these to the best of his recollection and did not profess to remember all the particulars of such a service as the Militia of New Jersey rendered, fifty or sixty years afterwards. This was impossible. But, if the statements of hundreds and thousands of actors in the scenes in New Jersey in the War of the Revolution, the historical account of the fidelity and unceasing activity of the Jersey troops, the fact that New Jersey was from the beginning to the last day of the War exposed peculiarly to the inroads and [illeg] of the enemy, and the most abundant testimony to be found in er Laws and other records of the general services of her faithful sons, and to receive the credence at the Pension office, due to them, and accorded to them, every where else, no doubt can be felt that every soldier, and every officer, of the militia and other troops of New Jersey, who remained true to his standard, was obliged to render an amount of actual service in the field, equal, at least, to the services of the same description of troops of any other state in the Union. She has not however, for herself, nor thro her friends and agents, been able to produce any new evidence of her husband's services, and must rely upon the proof he produced of them, and to such other proof as the Pension office affords, particularly the rolls of Capt. Ten Eych and
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Capt Sebring which the Commissioner refers
to in his letter of Nov 1840, and which are inaccessible to her, so far as she is advised, for such allowance as may be equitably due to her.
She is very aged and infirm and cannot in the
course of nature, long continue to receive any make of her country's gratitude; but she would deem it peculiarly afflictive to be turned away empty, because in some points her husband may have failed to comply with the impracticable requirements of the harsh rules of the War Department.
       her
Ann  X  De Groot
       mark

Subsched & Sworn on the
day & year aforesaid, before me
D. Fitz Randolph Judge



STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
I, CHARLES G. MCCHESNEY, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that David Fitz Randolph Esquire, before whom
the within affidavit was taken, ['and power of attorney acknowledged,' crossed out] was, at the time of the doing thereof, a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex in said state, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn; that full
faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signature thereto is in the proper handwriting of the said David Fitz Randolph Esq.
[seal affixed at left]

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said state, this sixteenth day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-three (1843) 
Charles G. McChesney
Secy of State.
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Capt Sebring which the Commissioner refers
to in his letter of Nov 1840, and which are inaccessible to her, so far as she is advised, for such allowance as may be equitably due to her.
She is very aged and infirm and cannot in the
course of nature long continue to receive any make of her country's gratitude; but she would deem it peculiarly afflictive to be turned my empty, because in some points her husband may have failed to comply with the impracticable requirements of the harsh rules of the War Department.
        her
Ann   X   DeGroot
       mark

Subscribed & Sworn on the
day & year aforesaid, before me
D. Fitz Randolph Judge

[top cut off; seal affixed at left]
Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
in and for the county of Middlesex in said
state, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signature thereto is in the proper handwriting
of the said David Fitz Randolph Esq.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said state, this sixteenth day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-three (1843) 
Charles G. McChesney
Secy of State.
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Wm DeGroot

Duplicate declaration &c


Admd
20 mo Lieut.
3 mo. Ensign
1. mo. Sergt
_____
24.

13.33
     12
_____
159.96

12

7/320
  -----
12 1160
    ----
       13

13.33
     20
_____
266.60
  303
______
290
    6
_____


James F. Randolph
N Brunsk NJ
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Middlesex County ss: ┃
Personally appeared before the Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in &for the County aforesaid, John B. Field, and Richard R Field, of said County, who being duly sworn, severally depose & say, that they are soldiers
of the Revolution, and now in the receipt
of Pensions as such- That they are well acquainted with Wm Degroot, the above named applicant, and know him to be a man of strict probity & veracity, & have no question of the truth of his entire statement in relation to his revolutionary services- both know that he served as Sergeant in the year 1775 on Long Island, and also as Sergeant in '76 under Capt Sebring, and also as sergeant in '77. They also know, from having served with him, that he served several tours as ensign in 1778 under Capt Manning.  Knew said Degroot afterwards as Lieut. in 1779 in Capt Ten Eyck's company, and also in 1780 in the same capacity. Was out with him very often & under him from the beginning to the end of his services.  Was
always a faithful soldier & brave vigilant officer.  Deponents were brought up in the same
neighborhood with Degroot and have always lived in the same neighborhood with him.
John B Field
Richard R Field

Subscribed & sworn the day year
afsd in open Court-

Thos Hance, Judge
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And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department.  That the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldie &r served as he states. And the Court further certifies that the Honorable Saml. Swan & John Latourette Esquire are residents in the vicinity of the said William Degroot & are both very respectable
& highly credible persons & that their statement is entitled to full credit and also that John B
Field & Richard R. Field are also residents in
the same neighborhood, are respectable & credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit.
Thos Hance }
Ichabod Potter }
Peter P. Runyon  }
Wm B Manning }
Simeon Mundy }
Jos. Ford }       Judges

I Nicholas Booram Clerk of the Inferior Court
of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Degroot for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have
denoted my hand & seal of
office this thirtieth day of July
One thousand eight hundred thirty three
N Booraem Clerk
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Power of Attorney
from Hon. Susan P. Voorhees 
daughter of William and Ann 
Degroot.
----------------------
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Know all men by these presents, That I,
Susan P. Voorhees of Bound Brook, in the
County of Somerset and State of New Jersey, (daughter and heir at law, of William Degroot, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States of the County of Somerset in the State of New Jersey, at the rate of $301.60 cents per annum; and daughter, and heir at law, of Mrs Ann, or Nancy Degroot, the widow of said William Degroot, (the Pensioner as aforesaid,) and a part of whose pension has been heretofore obtained by the Hon James F. Randolph, and for the balance of which, application has been heretofore made through one -------- Allison, who has never made any return; of whose present address, she has no knowledge, but who as she has reason to believe never presented the Claim and whose power of attorney is therefore hereby canceled and made nul and void has, and by these presents does constitute and appoint James L Street of New Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey my true, and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, to examine and prosecute said claim to a successful issue and if there be any thing remaining due and unpaid, thereon, to receive from the United States, a Treasury draft therefor.

Witness my hand and seal, this thirty first
day of May, AD. 1854.
Susan P. Voorhees

Attest,

Alfred Cammann
John H. Voorhees
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State of New Jersey
County of Somerset SS.
Be it known, That on the thirty first day of May, AD. 1854, before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, personally appeared Susan P. Voorhees, above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year last above mentioned.
Alfred Cammann Justice of the peace

State of New Jersey
Somerset County, SS }
I Henry D. Johnson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Alfred Cammann whose genuine signature appears to the certificate of acknowledgment to the foregoing power of attorney is and was at the time of signing
the same a justice of the peace duly commissioned and sworn in and for the County aforesaid and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the aforesaid Court is a court of record having general jurisdiction and a common seal and Clerk.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said Court at Bridgewater in said
County this Second day of June AD.
1834
Henry D. Johnson Clerk
[seal affixed at left]
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On the day & year aforesaid, in open Court,
also appeared Ann D. Schenck & Elizabeth
Steele, known to the Court as credible persons, who being duly sworn, on their oath
respectively say- the said Ann Schenck for herself says, that she is the daughter of William & Ann DeGroot, the seventh child born to their marriage, & is in the fiftieth year of her age, that she knows her age from the family record referred to by her mother in the foregoing deposition; that said record she believes to be a true record of the time of the marriage of her said father & mother and of the periods of the births of their children, and that she has always been taught to regard it as such. And the said Elizabeth Steele for herself says, that she is
also the daughter of William De Groot and Ann his wife, that the is their eighth child and is in the forty eighth year of her age; that the attains a knowledge of her age from the family record referred to by her Mother & Sister in their foregoing depositions, and has no doubt of its absolute truth and verity. And the said Ann and
Eliza on their oath both say, that their father the said William Degroot, departed this life on the twenty eighth day of August One thousand Eight hundred & forty, and that their mother, has
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ever since remained a widow, not having intermarried.
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid.  [signatures] Ann D. Schenck  Elizabeth Steele
[signed] John La Tourette Judge

I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex, New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Ann De Groot for a Pension.  I further Certify that John La Tourette whose name is subscribed to said papers, and also to the affidavits of Jeremiah Ten Eich & Benjamin Field herewith, is a Judge of said Court and a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned & sworn & that his said signature is genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this fourteenth Day of November Eighteen hundred & forty.  [signed] N Booraem Clerk
[seal with ribbons affixed at left]
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Application for Increase of Pension
State of New Jersey Somerset County ss.
Be it remembered that on this twenty ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of common Pleas in and for said county and state Mrs. Susan P. Voorhees and Mrs. Ann D. Schenck, who being severally sworn according to law doth depose and say that they are the children of Mrs. Ann De Groot and William De Groot both deceased that they with their sister Elizabeth Steele, who is now deceased, drew a pension in right of their mother, the aforesaid Ann De Groot, under the Act of 4th July, 1836, on account of the services of their father the aforesaid William De Groot, in the war of the Revolution from the 26th day of August 1840 to the 25th day of May 1843.  That this declaration is made for the purpose of procuring such increase of pension as the services of their deceased father and the laws of Congress in such cases made and provided, entitle them to.  [signatures] Susan P. Voorhees  Ann D. Schenck
Sworn to and subscribed before the undersigned on the day and year first above mentioned and I hereby certify that said deponents are known to me to be the same individuals who drew a Pension as above stated  [signed] John H Voorhees, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
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State of New Jersey Somerset County ss.
It is hereby certifyed that satisfactory evidence has been produced before the court of common Pleas holden at Somerville in and for the county and State aforesaid that Mrs. Elizabeth Steele daughter of William and Ann De Groot departed this life on the thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine and that Mrs. Susan P. Voorhees and Mrs. Ann D. Schenck are the only surviving children of William De Groot (who was a Pensioner under the act of 7th June 1832) and Mrs. Ann De Groot, widow of said William De Groot.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the said court at Somerville this twenty ninth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.  [signed]  W, Kennedy Clerk
[seal to the left]
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[printed form with handwritten entries]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Division of Veteran's Administration Archives
Form VAM-51 12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Degrote, John GRADE Private LINE Lamb's Artillery (New York)
WARRANT NUMBER 7073 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Aug. 20, 1790 to Willm. Cumming, assignee
[in italics] *The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.


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[printed form with handwritten entries]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Division of Veteran's Administration Archives
Form VAM-51 12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Degrove, John GRADE Quartermaster Sergeant LINE Crane's Continental Artillery (Massachusetts)
WARRANT NUMBER 4060 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Oct. 16, 1789 to Benj. Harris
[in italics] *The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.