Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2740, for John Maners, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
Service
New Jersey
Maners,
John
Number
S.2740
Contents
carded
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State of New Jersey Hunterdon County
On this fifteenth day of August in the
year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty
two before the Inferior court of common
pleas of the county of Hunterdon aforesaid
now sitting personally appeared John 
Manners Senr Esquire a resident of the
township of Amwell in the county of
Hunterdon aforesaid who being first duly 
sworn according to law on his oath maketh
the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the act of congress passed
the 7th of June 1832.	I was born in the township
of Amwell aforesaid on the 25th of February AD
1759. seventy three years old last February. I
set my age down in my bible I took it from
an old record in my fathers family bible [my?]
brother David got my fathers bible I resided
in Amwell from my birth until about the
month of May 1780s after the close of the revolutionary
war I removed to Hopewell township & remained
there two years & removed back to Amwell in
which township I now reside.— I volunteered
in the service as a militia Man in the war
of the revolution first in Amwell township
in the commencement of the war my first
tour was in 1776: George Ely was our Capt.
John Laquear & Jacob Holcomb our Lieutenants
1 mo marched to Amboy laid there some time
not quite a month. my next tour in same
2 mo year was to Smith farms. [scribble] our tour was
one month beside giving [unclear] a distance of
forty miles. our Capt was Nathan Stout Lieut
Phillip Servis. Majr William Chamberlin and
Isaac Smith Colonel. I served another tour
under Capt David Johnes of one month. I think
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part of the time we laid near Boundbrook &
part of the time at Paramus in Bergen county
where we were discharged. dont recollect the month
3	& year - I was at Boundbrook when Gen  Grant
drove General Lincoln to the Mountain & took
our artilery. I served on ^other^ tour other at Middle
 4.	brook ^I think^ under Capt John Phillips of one month
there was a picked company formed in our
Regiment under Capt James Stout.- Lieutenant
Cornelius Polhemus & — Baker ensign I was
appointed orderly sargeant of this company. we
marched from Amwell to Elizabethtown staid
5.	there about half a month & were then marched
to Woodbridge where we laid the [unclear] of the
month. Col [Leely?] was our Colonel this was
in the months of January & February 1778. —
I served one tour of two months from the
7.	23rd of November til about the 23 or 24th of
January 1777 under Capt Nathan Stout we
marched from Amwell to the Delaware &
crossed into Pennsylvania at Mitchells ferry
& laid at Aaron Phillips a few days then went
down the river to Trenton in Durham Boats
laid opposite Trenton on the Pennsylvania
side for several days about two weeks we
then crossed into Jersey. staid in the neighbor
hood of Pennington some short time we were
ordered from there to march to the battle of
Princeton we did not get there until after
the British gave way we were marched to
Rariton & laid at [undeciphered] farm. after
which the battle of Millstone came on I was
in the detachment under command of General
Dickinson. we crossed the Millstone below
the Bridge General Dickinson rode through
& Broke the ice for us & we forded the Millstone
& attacked the Hessians. we took about forty
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waggons & Eighty horses the waggons were
sent out to plunder.- our Colonel was David
Chamber our Majar Cornelius Stout. at that
tour I was out two ^months^ & was not discharges until
some days after the battle of Millstone which
took place on the 20th January 1777.- while I
resided in Amwell I was out several alarms
which lasted from one week to three. I am unable
to state how many different alarms I was called
out upon. I remember at the time I bel the
British left Brunswick I was out on an alarm
as long as two weeks. I am safe in saying
that I was out on different alarms while
9.	in Amwell for the term of two months & upward
in the spring of 1780. I removed to the town
ship of Readington in the county of Hunterdon
I was elected Lieutenant of the third company
of the fourth Regiment of the Hunterdon Brigade
under Col John Taylor. I received my commission
which bears date the 5th of June 1780. signed
by William Livingston Gov.— I was out [smeared]
I removed in Readington & was elected Lieutenant
I was called out once at Springfield I think I
was gone about two weeks. I am certain I
was out upon other tours & for a longer time
than I have stated but cannot recollect
them particularly [smeared] I have no docu
mentary evidence except my commission
I think I can prove some of my services by
Moses Stout & Peter Snook.I think Jacob Young 
can testify as to my character for
truth & veracity. I was out on a general alarm & was
at the battle of Germantown & acted as orderly sargeant.
I hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present
and I declare that my name is not on any
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pension roll of the agency of any state 
			
Sworn and subscribed in open	John Maners
court this 15 day of August
AD 1832
	George Rea


Hunterdon County: Moses Stout Esq. being duly
	sworn according to law on his oath saith
	that he was Eighty two years old in the
	month of June last that John Manners Senr
	belonged part of the time to the same company
	that I belonged to. that he acted as orderly Sergeant
	of our company. I was out with the said John
	Manners on his tour in Pennsylvania& and at
	Trenton when the American Army passed the
	Delaware in Trenton and his march to Princeton
	and was also with him at the battle of Millstone
	I was with him once to Newark on an alarm
	and on another alarm when we went as far as 
	as Metuchen meeting house I heard & knew
	of his going out several different times when
	I was out with him & he acted as orderly sargeant
	when he belonged to our company when I was
	out with him he is esteemed as a man of
	truth and veracity in his neighborhood & was
	was always called a good soldier-
sworn and subscribed in open
court this 15th day of			Moses Stout
August 1832
	David Stout