Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2549, Leonard Fisler, New Jersey
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New Jersey
Fisler, Leonard
S 2549
   carded
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17,852
New Jersey
Leonard Sisler 
of Gloucester in the State of N. Jersey who was a Capt. in the Comp commanded by Captain Moffett of the Regt. commanded by Col Alton in the New Jersey line for 1 mo:  [Capt.] $3.66
8 mo. 13 ds pr 28.00
total $31.66
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 31 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Sept 1833 and with JC Smallwood Newburg
Arrears to the 4th of [M illeg   ]   $63.33
Semi-anl, allowance ending [    ]   15.83
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                                                     $79.16
79.16
4 Mar ;32  15.83
          Total $94.99
{Revolutionary Claim} Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Go C Stiles Clerk,
Book E Vol 1, Page 111

date of death not on [illeg]
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State of New Jersey Gloucester County Ss
    On this tenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester now sitting, Leonard Sisler of the Township of Franklin in the said county of Gloucester aged seventy six years and upwards who being first duly affirmed according to law, doth on his affirmation make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
    That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated:
   In the month of January 1777 a little after the Battles at Trenton and Princeton he entered as a Corporal in a company commanded by Capt Archibald Moffett in Col Ottos Regiment the Company marched from Gloucester County through the County of Burlington by Bordentown, to Trenton, from Trenton to Princeton, where we quartered in the College and remained one week     We
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We were then ordered to Kingston about three miles distant, where we quartered and remained until discharged in February 1777 after having been in the service one month -- during this tour we had a skirmish with the Enemys Guards near New Brunswick Genl Putnam Commanded a while at Kingston --
    He next entered as a private in the Month of May 1777 in a company commanded by Capt George Pearce in Col Ellis Regiment, the company marched to Haddonfield where he quartered and remained in the service one month and were discharged --
    He next entered as a private in a company commanded by the same Capt Pearce in Col Otto's Regiment, this was in the month of September 1777 just after the Battle of Brandywine, we were quartered during the first part of this tour at a brick house on Great Mantua Creek owned by One Brown About two miles and a half from Billingsport the fort at Billingsport was taken after we were quartered in this house we remained at this place several weeks
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weeks, and then marched to Woodbury where we quartered with the Quaker Meeting House, and where we remained until discharged in the early part of December 1777 after having been in the service at least two months and a half -- during this tour the Battle of Red Bank was fought the commanding of Mud fort took place, the Augusta was burnt and blown up, and blown up, and Mud Fort evacuated, we heard the firing but were not at these places --
    He next entered in the month of March 1778 as a private in a company commanded by Capt Robert Brown in Col Ottos Regiment, the company marched to Swedesborough where we quartered and remained until the latter part of June or first of July, he thinks he was not discharged until after the Battle at Monmouth, when they were discharged they had served at least three months and a half --
    He next entered in the month of September 1778 in a company commanded by Capt Ward Pearce a brother of Capt George Pearce in Col Altos Regt the Company marched by Blue Anchor to the Forks of Little Eggharbour River where
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where we joined a large number of troops Col Proctor was there with his Artillery we remained at the Forks a few days and then marched down the River to Leeds Point and from Leeds Point, to Somers Point, where we remained until discharged in the latter part of October 1778 after being in the service one month and a half. He then returned home and was not out again during the war.
   He was never in a Regular Battle but was in several skirmishes, one at Raccoon Creek below Swedesborough, in which a dutch boy was wounded in the leg, One near Swedesborough in which a man named James Maloy was killed and one at Mantua Creek - The whole length of time that was in the service and while in a regular organized corps was nine months and a half, one month of which time he served as Corporal and eight months and a half as a private.
    He was born in the County of Gloucester N.J.  on the 30th of May 1756, has a Record of his age in a Bible at home: was living when called into service in the same county where he was born and in the same neighborhood, and he now lives in the same place and has lived there ever since the Revolution
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   He volunteered whenever he was called into the service --
    Col Procter was with the troops where he served at Leeds Point + Somers Point, Genl Putnam was with us Sometimes at Princeton + Kingston and a Capt Lee came to Woodbury where he was immediately after the evacuation of Mud fort, before Col Proctors Artillery at Egg  Harbour, and saw some regular troops at Kingston saw Col Ellis Regiment of militia at Haddonfield and Col Ottos at Swedesboro.
   He is acquainted with James Matlack Esqr Woodbury, Mr James Rae same place, William Porch Esquire Isaac Pine Esquire and many other persons in his neighbourhood
   He has no documentary evidence and the only evidence of his service is to be found in the affidavit annexed --
    He hereby rellinquishes every claim whatever 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
                                     Leonard Fisler
Affirmed + Subscribed the date above written in open court
Ephraim Miller                                  5
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We Edward Page a clergyman residing in the County of Gloucester in the state of New Jersey and William Porch Esquire residing in the same place, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Leonard Fisler who has subscribed and affirmed to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy six years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.    Edwd Page, William Porch
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Ephraim Miller
   And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Solder, and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Edward Page who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Gloucester, New Jersey, and that William Porch Esquire who has signed the same, is a resident in the County of Gloucester, New Jersey, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to full credit
    Ephraim Miller
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I John C Smallwood, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the state of New Jersey - do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the application of Leonard Fisler for a pension - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Woodbury in said County this first day of June A D One thousand eight hundred and thirty three
        Smallwood Clk
Gloucester County Ss:
   On the tenth day of May AD 1883 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County personally appeared Jacob Fisler of the said County aged seventy nine years and upwards a person of credibility and whose statement is entitled to full credit and belief, who alleging himself to be conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath, and being duly affirmed according to law, saith that he is well acquainted with his brother Leonard Fisler and has known him as long as he can remember anybody - and this affirmant  further saith that he and his brother Leonard were soldiers during the War of the Revolution, and served together during
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during said war for the term of eight months and a half in the same companies as follows, towit, one month in a company commanded by Capt George Pearce in Col Ellis Regiment in May 1777 the company was quartered at Haddonfield, Two months and a half in a company commanded by the same Capt Pearce in Col Otto's Regiment, the company was stationed part of the time at a house owned by one Brown on Mantan Creek and part of the time at Woodbury, this service was from Sept 1777 till December of that year. Three months and a half in a company commanded by Capt Robert Brown in Col Otto's regiment the company was stationed at Swedesboro this service was from March 1778 till the latter end of June or first of July of that year - and one month and a half under Capt Ward Pearce in Col Otto's Regt during this service we were at Eggharbour the service commenced in Sept and ended in October 1778. and this affirmant further saith that he knows that his brother Leonard served during the period above mentioned because he was with him all the time and saw him almost every day, and he also remembers when his brother Leonard went away from home
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home, and as he then understood went to Princeton under Capt Archibald Moffett he knows that he was away from home for sometime and believes that he was there because he understood so then and since - this was in the winter of 1777 he came home towards spring 
Jacob Fisler

Affirmed & subscribed date above before Michael C. Fisher

Gloucester County SS
on the tenth day of May AD 1833 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Gloucester, personally appeared George Budd of the said county aged seventy three years and upwards, a person of credibility and whose statement is entitled to full credit and belief, who being duly affirmed according to law saith that he is well acquainted with Leonard Fisler, and was well acquainted with him during the Revolutionary War, and this affirmant further saith that he was out for several months in the militia during said war - and he very well remembers that the said Leonard Fisler was also in the militia and performed service during said war, he remembers that the said Leonard Fisler performed
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a tour of duty at Haddonfield in the spring of the year 1777 in a company commanded by Capt George Pierce. Another tour of duty in the fall of the same year before and after the Battle of Red Bank under the same Captain Pierce, another tour of duty in the spring of the year 1778 at Swedesboro, he also remembers that the said Leonard performed another tour of duty at Eggharbour in September and October 1778 - he knows that the said Leonard performed the above mentioned services, because he this affirmant was out at the same time sometimes in the same company with the said Leonard, and always in the same batalion and saw him very frequently whilst they were out together, during the periods above mentioned in which they were out together, they were sometimes at Woodbury Mantan Creek Red Bank Gloucester and other places in the County of Gloucester, he cannot say certainly how long he and the said Lenoard were in the service together, but he thinks it must have been more than seven months
George Budd

Affirmed & subscribed date above before 
Michael C. Fisher

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July 21, 1936

Leonard Fisler-S.2549
BA-J/AWF        OM

Mr. Leslie E. Fisler
American Legion Auxiliary
U. S. Veterans Hospital
Lincoln, Nebraska

Dear Sir:

The data furnished herein pertaining to Leonard
Fisler were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 2549, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution.

Leonard Fisler was born May 30, 1756 in Gloucester County, New Jersey, names of his parents not given.

While a resident of Gloucester County, New Jersey, he enlisted and served with the New Jersey troops, as follows- from early in January, 1777, one month as corporal in Captain Archibald Moffatt's company, Colonel Otto's regiment; from sometime in May, 1777, one month as private in Captain George Pierce's company, Colonel Ellis' regiment; from sometime in September, 1777, two and one half months as private in Captain George Pierce's
company, Colonel Otto's regiment; from sometime in March, 1778, three and one half months as private in Captain Robert Brown's company, Colonel Otto's regiment; from
sometime in September, 1778, one and one half months as private in Captain Ward Pierce's company, Colonel Otto's regiment. During his service he was in several skirmishes, one near New Brunswick, one at Raccoon Creek, one near Swedenborough, and one at Mantan Creek.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 10, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Franklin Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, in the same
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vicinity where he had always lived.
Jocob Fisler, brother of the soldier, Leonard Fisler, was seventy nine years of age in 1833 and a resident of Gloucester County, New Jersey, stated that he served with his brother, Leonard, during part of the Revolution. 

The papers in this claim contain no further reference to family.

If you desire information relative to the last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly date of death of the pensioner, Leonard Fisler, you should address The Comptroller General, Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D . C., and give the following
Leonard Fisler
Certificate 17852
Issued September 28, 1833
Rate $31.66 per annum
To commence March 4, 1831
Act of June , 1832
New Jersey Agency.
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Rev War.      2549
INVALID.
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File No. 2549
Leonard Fisler
Corpl. Rev. War
---------------]Act:  June 7" 1832
Indes:--Vol. A, Page 124.

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1936 - July 21 - hist. to Lestie E.
Fisler - see his letter in Jacob
Fisler S.2551.  AWF
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1 mo Corpl
8 mo 15 ds pri

J. C. Smallwood
Woodbury
N.J.
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Gloucester County: On the tenth day of May as 1833 before me the Subscriber One of the Justices of the Peace of said County, personally appeared James Tomlin of said County aged seventy six years and [illegible] a person of credibility, whose statement is uttered to full credit and belief who being duly sworn according to law, saith that he is well acquainted with Leonard Fisler, and has known him since the Commencement of the Revolutionary War and this deponent further saith that he may well remember that they said Leonard Fisler belong to [illegible] commanded by Capt Archibald Moffett and that he was at Princeton and Kingston in said company in the winter of the year 1777 a little after the Battle at Princeton where he remained for one month in the Service of the United States this deponent remembers that the said Leonard Fisler was there and in Capt Moffetts Company, because this deponent was there at the same time in the same Company and performed a like tour of duty.
Subscribed and from before me the day and year first above written.
Joseph Chatham
James Tomlin
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Gloucester County Ss:  On the tenth day of May AD 1833 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County, personally appeared David Park of the said county aged seventy six years and upwards, a person of credibility, whose statement is entitled to full credit and belief -- who being duly sworn according to law saith that he is well acquainted with Leonard Fisler and has known him since the commencement of the Revolutionary War - And this deponent further saith that during said War, and whilst the British army was in Philadelphia in the years 1777 + 1778, he was nearly all the time in the service of the United States in the Militia of New Jersey, he was during that period at Haddenfield Woodbury 
Swedesborough and other places in the County of Gloucester New Jersey, and he remembers very well that the said Leonard Fisler was also in the service in the years 1777 + 1778 above mentioned, that they he ad Leonard were sometimes win the same company, and sometimes in different companies in the same battalion, he remembers that the said Leonard Fisler  belonged to Capt Browns Company, and that they were quartered at Swedesborough from the Spring of the
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year 1778 until the British army left Philadelphia, this Deponent was there at the same time and belonged to Capt. George Pearce's Company - he cannot swear positively how long he and the said Leonard were out together, but he thinks that they were together at least six or seven months -

Daniel Parke

Subscribed and sworn the 
day and year aforesaid
Michael C. Fisher

I John C. Smallwood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Michael C. Fisher Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Jacob Fisler, George Budd, and Daniel Parke were made, was at the time of the doing thereof one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas duly commissioned and qualified, and that Joseph Chatham Esquire before whom the affidavit of James Tomlin was made was at the doing thereof, a Justice of the Peace of said County, duly commissioned and qualified, And that the respective signatures of the said Michael C. Fisher and Joseph Chatham annexed to said affidavits are genuine - -

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this first day of June A D 1833.
Smallwood Clk
[seal affixed at left]
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July 21, 1936


BA-J/AWF

Mr. Leslie E. Fislar
American Legion Auxiliary
U. S. Veterans Hospital
Lincoln, Nebraska

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Jacob and Leonard Fisler, both of Gloucester County, New Jersey.

The records of Jacob and Leonard Fisler are furnished herewith, as found in pension claims based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.

These are the records of the only Jacob and Leonard Fisler or Fislar found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator


See his letter in Jacob Fisler S.2551