Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6116, for Thomas Landon, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776)
Service
New Jersey

 Landon, Thomas

Number
R. 6116
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War Department
Pension Office,
183

Sir:
 The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.   The following is a statement of your case in a tabular from.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist, which
must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

Period when the 1776 1776 17 1777 1777 1777 orto Feby 777 1778 April 1778 July 1778 Septer 772 the depont Statement, shewing the service of Thomas Landon Duration of the claimant's service. Months. 1 1 1 1 claims Rank of the claimant. Penite Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served, Capt Will Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. ┃ County ┃ Capt Seward Capt Beckwith of of Warkin but ┃ Broadrick in ┃ Sister in Col Seward Lot B seven ┃ Capt Battles in which the applicant was engaged. 12 Coul ┃ Handister before Col Beckwith Martin ┃ Capt Ricker the June Cipt offer City for her 2 to Country through which he marched. March though the Cont of Morris ┃ Simont Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period 10 years Sussex he ration is supported . recutory N Sung a Clergyman ted as above seven months I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.
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A statement, showing the Service of Thomas Landon
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Regulations under the act of June 7, 1832
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army and to include under the terms “Continental Line,” “state troops,” “militia,” and “volunteers,” all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.  
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1.	The Regular Troops
2.	The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3.	Persons employed in the Naval service.
4.	Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides.  And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of
County of      } ss.
On this      day of       personally appeared (a) before   A.B. a resident (b) of    in the county of    and State, Territory or District of    aged (c)   years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.   That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)    , with     and served in the     (e) regiment of the      line, under the following named officers: 
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers, the time he left the service, (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged and the country through which he marched.  This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of   
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  A.B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I   of the court of     do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of         for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this     day of         &c.
If on, examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.  

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:

(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the                  and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with                      , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be       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.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
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 Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B.    who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the     and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the    and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
 I,       Clerk of the Court of      do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of       for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this      day  of     &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power.  This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person
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Application for a 
pension by Thomas
Landon of Bark
Livingston County
New York
15959
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State of New York
County of Livingston
On this twenty eighth day of September A.D. eighteen hundred & thirty seven personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas held at the courthouse in the court of in the [illegible] in & for the County of Livingston now sitting Thomas Landon a resident of the town of York, County of Livingston State of New York aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in and to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein after states.
He was born in the town of Hardwick County of Sussex, State of New Jersey on the 19th day of September AD seventeen hundred & fifty two & at the commencement of the Revolutionary war was a resident of the town of Hamburg County of Sussex, State of New Jersey.  He was first drafted June 1st AD 1776 & went under the command of Col. Aaron Parkison Capt James Broadrick & Lt. Obadia Seward from the town of Hamburg through the counties of Morris, Somerset into Brunswick to Perth Amboy State of New Jersey & remained their in the service one month.  He was again drafted on the 2 of August A.D. 1776 & marched under the command of Col. James Seward, Capt. Cuningham, & Lt. Daniel Langler through the counties of Morris, Somerset & Brunswick into Perth Amby where he remained in the service one month.  He was again drafted in October AD 1776 & marched under the command of Col. Anthony Broadwick, Capt Obadiah Seward
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Lt [illegible] from the town of Hamburg as above stated through the counties of Morris, Somerset into Brunswick to South Amboy, State of New Jersey & remained there in the service one month.  He was again drafted in February AD 1777 & marched under the command of Col. John Seward & Capt. Beckwith (the name of the Lt not remembered) from the town of Wantage, County of Sussex, State of New Jersey where he then resided through the counties of Morris & Essex to Elizabethtown N. Jersey where he remained in the service one month.  He went out as a substitute for Joseph Dicken again in April AD 1777 & marched under the command of Capt. Peter Shafer (the names of his Col. & Lt. he does not remember) through the counties of Morris into Essex to Elizabethtown N. Jersey & there remained in the service one month.  He was again drafted in September 1777 and marched from the town of Wantage under the command of Co. Harrison, Capt. [illegible] & Lt. [illegible] through the counties of Somerset, Huntington, State of New Jersey & crossed the Delaware River at Trenton.  From thence marched to Germantown Pennsylvania & remained there in the service one month.  He was again drafted in October 1777 & marched from the town of Wantage as above stated under the command of Col Seward (the name of Capt not remembered) & Lt. Obadiah [illegible] from the town of Wantage as above stated through the counties of Morris, Somerset & Salem to Red Bank & remained there in the service one month.  He volunteered his services in February AD 1778 & marched under the command
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of Col. Ephraim Martin, Capt. Beckwith (the name of his Lt he does not remember) from Wantage as above stated through Morris County to Scotch Plains in Essex Co. N. Jersey & remained there one month.  He was again drafted in the month of April or May 1778 & marched under the command of Col. Seward, Capt. Renkendorf (the name of his Lt he does not remember) from Wantage as above stated to Pumpton, County of Morris N. Jersey & remained there one month.  In the month of July 1778 he again volunteered his services & marched under the command of Col. Seward, Capt. Renkendorf (the name of his Lt. he does not remember) from the town of Wantage Essex County to the Delaware in the same County & remained there one month.  In September or October of 1778 he again volunteered his services & marched under the command of Col Seward, Capt. Countryman (the name of his Lt. he does not remember) again to Delaware & remained there one month.  And he further states that in addition to the one month above specified as the time he was engaged in the service of the United States, at each of the periods above mentioned he consumed one week at each of said periods in going & another in returning from the several places above specified.  He further says that repeatedly after wards
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he volunteered his services to pursue the Indians into the Northern part of N. Jersey and Pennsylvania under the command at different times of Col. Seward, Capt. Madough, Capt. Beckwith, Capt. Renkendorf & others whose names he does not remember.  He was engaged in this service at several different times amounting as he verily believes to two months.  
He further says that he has no documentary evidence to substantiate his claim & that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to testify to his service.  He further says that after the period last above specified he resided in the town of Wantage above mentioned 5 years.  He then removed to Lacaen Smithfield Pennsylvania where he resided 7 years, He then removed the town of Putnam Luzerne Co. Pa where he resided 6 years.  He then removed to another town in Pennsylvania, the name of which he does not recollect where he resided about 4 years.  He then removed to Wantage County of Sussex State of New Jersey where he resided 15 years.  He then removed to Luzerne Co Pa the name of the town he does not remember where he resided about 2 years.  He then removed to the town of York, County of Livingston State of New York where he has resided about 11 years & which is still his residence.