Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 943, Samuel Atkinson, New Jersey
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SERVICE NUMBER
New Jersey Atkinson, Samuel S. 953
carded
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[Written vertically]
died Jan - 5 - 1839
[Illegible]
[Written horizontally]
9247
New Jersey
Samuel Atkinson
Springfield in the State of N.J
who was a Pri in the Com commanded
[illegible] Captain Budd of the Reg commanded
[illegible] Col. Courtland in the N.J
[illegible] for M[illegible] 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of April
1835 and Sent Abraham
Brown, Mount Holley N.J
Arrears to the 4th of March '33 $160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept. 33 40.00
$200.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by E. D. Bullock, Clerk
Book E Vol. 3 Page 101
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7158
Application of Samuel At-
kinson for a pension under
the act of June 7, 1832
$80 per ann-
Abraham Brown, Esqr
Mount Holly
N Jersey
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State of New Jersey}
County of Burlington} Ss:
On this eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hunderd and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Burlington, now sitting, Samuel Atkinson a resident of the Township of Springfield in the said County of Burlington, aged Seventh three 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 Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers, and Serves as herein Stated - In the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy five, at Iron work hill less than a quarter of a mile from the village of Mount Holly in the said County of Burlington, this declarant was enrolled in the Militia of the State of New Jersey - Some time in the fore part of the Summer of the same year this declarant with others in his County was draughted to march to Elizabeth Town Point in the County of Essex in the State of New Jersey aforesaid - The British were at time plundering the Inhabitants of that Section of the State of their property and Stock, and the object of the draught was to send men there to protect the inhabitants from such depredations - A company of the draughted men from the Militia of the said County of Burlinton, of whom this declarant was one, marched to Elizabeth town Point under the command of Captain Thomas Budd in the early part of the Summer of the year aforesaid - [The word Who is crossed out.] The day after we arrived at Elizabeth Town Point, we were reviewed by General Putman, who acted as first, and by Colonel Charles Read who acted as Second in com-
[Written vertically in the left margin is the following.]
Thos. Swain
Matthew McHenry
Zebedei M. Wills
Geo Haywood
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mand of the American Forces there at that Station Before we reached Elizabeth Town Point, the British had [illegible] on board their shipping - After remaining at Elizabeth Town Point a Short time, this declarant cannot state how long, the troops were marched to Perth Amboy, & had the duty assigned to them of keeping guard along the wharf and bay to guard the coast from the depredations of the enemy
Our Captain Thomas Budd died there during this Service - After having been in Service for some time, this declarant has not the means of stating with precision, for what time, but he believes for about two months, he with the others draughted at the Same time with him was discharged, being relieved by others who were draughted to serve in their stead - This discharge was verbal not in writing - Upon receiving his discharge this declarant returned home, & remained there until about the first of June in the following year, when he enlisted or engaged to serve as a private in Captain Benjamin [Illegible]more's Company of State troops of the State of New Jersey for five months - [Illegible] Talbert was the first Lieutenant, David Anderson, Second Lieutenant and [Illegible] Fenton, Ensign of this Company - This Company constituted a part of the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Courtland, & which regiment was called the Six months flying Camp - The Brigade to which we were attached was commanded by General Heard - This declarant marched with his Company to Long Island, was at the battle of Brooklin and the Yellow Mills on long Island, at the Surrender
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of New York in September Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six, & at the Battle of the White Plains in October of the same year - at Fort Lee when captured by the British in November of the same year retreated from there - with the American Forces and remained in Service under the said engagement for this declarant things, Six months or a little more, when he was discharged, verbally not by writing - upon being discharged this declarant returned home - In the following year seventeen hundred and seventy seven, he was required as belonging to the New Jersey Militia again to turn out - He marched to Red bank in that year under the command of Colonel Joseph Hugg - The declarant did not reach Red Bank till the enemy had retired - we returned to Mount Holly and marched thence to Bristol in the State of Pennsylvania where this declarant remained for some time under the Command of Captain William Cox of the New Jersey Militia - This declarant believes that he was in Actual Service during this year for about Six weeks, but is unable to state the time with exact precision - This declarant after the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven, was never called upon as a Soldier to go without the limits of the State of New Jersey - Belonging to the Militia of the State of New Jersey whose particular duty it was to guard their own State, this declarant was frequently called upon and turned out to resist and check the depredations of the tories and refugees from Seventeen hundred and seventy eight to seventeen hundred and eighty two inclusive of both years. Some times for one month at a time, some times
[Written vertically on the lefthand margin is the following.]
Thos. Swain
Matthew McHenry
Zebedei M. Wills
Geo Haywood
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for a less period - This declarant has no memoranda or record, nor is there any one now surviving to whose recollection he can report, in order to ascertain the length of time he was in actual service as a Soldier of the revolution, during the last mentioned five years of the war. but he verily believes that he was in actual service as a Soldier for at least as much as three months in each of the said five years - This declarant was born in the Township of Northampton in the said County of Burlington on the twenty first day of April in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & fifty nine. It is recorded in a book called [Illegible] not now in this declarants [illegible] - It is a family book & this declarant in confident the record therein contained of his age as above stated - This declarant resided in the Township of Northampton in the said County of Burlington when he entered the service of the United States as a revolutionary Soldier - now resides in the Township of Springfield in the said County of Burlington, & his residence has been in different parts of the said County of Burlington ever since the close of the revolutionary war. He never received any written discharge from the Service - The names of such of the persons in his present neighbourhood, as can testify to his character for veracity, and their belief of his Services as a Soldier of the revolution, are disclosed by the certificates and depositions annexed to this declaration - There is no clergyman in this declarants neighbour
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hood sufficiently acquainted with this declarant to certify as to his character for veracity or his Services as a Soldier of the revolution - This declarant hereby relinquishes 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.
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year
aforesaid (the same being contained on
three separate pieces of paper attached
together & the names of the subscribing Samuel Atkinson
Judges being also signed in the margin
of the first two pieces of paper - also the
words "declarant" "Militia" & "to" being
first interlined & the words "to their belief"
being first stricken out, after the word
[Illegible] being first interlined) before
Thos Swain} Judges of the Inferior
} Court of Common
Matthew McHenry} Pleas of the County
Zebedei M. Wills of Burlington
Geo Haywood
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State of New Jersey}
County of Burlington} Ss: I
David Housler aged eighty years, resident in Mount Holly in the County of Burlington aforesaid personally appeared in open Court, before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County now sitting on this eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two who being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he is well acquainted with Samuel Atkinson who has made the annexed declaration - that the said Samuel Atkinson did engage or enlist with Captain Benjamin Fe[illegible] and March under his command to Long Island, and Serve there as set forth in the said declaration - This deponent having served as a private at the same time and in the same company knows this to be the fact and this deponent further saith That is was generally reputed and believed in the neighbourhood of the said Samuel Atkison, that he served as a Soldier of the revolution at the other times set forth in his said declaration - and this deponent forming his own opinion - partly from his own knowledge and partly from tradition and common repute does verily believe that the said Samuel Atkinson was a Soldier of the revolution for the time and in the manner set forth in his said declaration
Sworn to & Subscribed in open} his
Court the day and year above said} David + Housler
before} Mark
Thos Swain
Matthew McHenry
Zebedee M. Wills
Geo Haywood
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We Samuel Clark, Esquire, and Daniel Smith both residing in the Town of Mount Holly in the County of Burlington and State of New Jersey hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Atkinson who has subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy three years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution - and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and Subscribed by the said
Samuel Clark, & affirmed to and subscri- 
bed by the said Daniel Smith, the said Samuel Clark
Daniel Smith having alleged himself to Daniel Smith
be conscientiously scrupulous of taking 
an oath, the day and year aforesaid
Thos Swain
Matthew McHenry
Zebedee M. Wills
Geo Haywood
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 is appears to them that Samuel Clark, Esquire, and Daniel Smith who have signed the preceding certificate are both of them resident in Mounty Holly in
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the said County of Burlington - That they are both credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Thos Swain
Matthew McHenry
Zebedei M. Wills
Geo. Haywood
I, Samuel J. Read, Esquire, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Burlington in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing (written on five several pieces of paper attached together) contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Samuel Atkinson for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Saml J Read
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[Illegible]
Rev.&1812 Wars Section
March 10, 1827
Miss Rebecca Morgan
1604 Marshall Ave.,
Mattoon, Ill.
Madam;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 243 it appears that Samuel Atkinson was born April 21, 1759 in Northampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey.
While a resident of said Northampton Township he enlisted early in the summer of 1775 and served two months as a private in Captain Thomas Budd's Company, Colonel Charles
Read's New Jersey Regiment.
He enlisted June 1, 1776, served a little more than a months as private in Captain Benjamin Fenimore's Company, Colonel Van Cortland's New Jersey Regiment and was in the battles
of Brookland and Yellow Mills on Long Island, surrender of New York, battle of White Plains, and capture of Fort Lee.
He enlisted in 1777 and served six weeks under Captain William Cox and Colonel Joseph Hugg in the New Jersey Troops, then during each succeeding year including 1782, he served at
various times, amounting to about three months in each, in the
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New Jersey Militia in the defence of that State, his officers not named.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 18, 1832 while a resident of Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. He died January 5, 1839.
There is no data whatsoever on file as to his family.
Herewith is returned your check for one dollar, drawn to the order of U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions, as no charge is made for this service.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Rev. War.
INVALID.
File No. 943
Samuel Atkinson
Priv. N.J. Mil.
Act: June 7, 1832.
Index:--Vol. A, Page 112
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1927-Mch 18-Hist: to Miss
Rebecca Morgan & check
for $1.00 returned - [Illegible]
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6760
3-2233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
March 9 1927
Chief Rev War [The word Division is crossed out.] Section
I have this day received from
Miss Rebecca Morgan
check No.....
for $1 00, requesting
photostat copy) as per
[The word post office addressee are crossed out.] 
letter herewith.
Check t be returned. Should
be certified
Check returned -
No charge for hist
furnished
Mch. 10 - 1927
MN[Illegible]
Finance
notfd-
D. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Division.
H.C.L.
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1604 Marshall Avenue,
Mattoon, Illinois,
February 15th, 1927
United States Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
answer this
In order to complete a "D.A.R." record I lack the date of the death of Sameul Atkinson who served in the Revolution as a private, and received a pension as "Invalid No. 943." I have received from the office of the Adjutant General of New Jersey a certified transcript of my ancestor's military service, and I quote therefrom the following:
"Received from Richard Price, Quartermaster General's Department, voucher 611, certificate 15, dated March 1, 1780, for $285, continetnal, $9.39/90ths, specie; interest commenced January 8, 1780; interest to January 1, 1787, $3.84/90ths; same deposited in State Treasurey, - Revolutionary War."
I know that this Samuel Atkinson died at Marietta, Ohio, but the old family bible was destroyed by fire, and I lack the date of his death. If your records disclose this, and I assume they do, will you kindly furnish me therewith, and oblige?
I am, dear Sirs,
Yours very truly,
(Miss) Rebecca Morgan
PENSION
[Illegible]
FEB
U. 18 S.
1927
OFFICE
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Ans.
Mar. 16, '27
1604 Marshall Avenue,
Matoon, Illinois,
February 21, 1927
Bureau of Pensions,
Department of the Interior,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
In writing you several days ago regarding my ancestor - Samuel Atkinson (your number "Invalid No 9437 -
who served in the Revolution, I asked you only for the date of his death, and now find that need also to verify the date of his marriage to one Sarah Pullinger. If your pension records disclose this date, kindly let me have that also, as well as the date of death.
If any charge attaches for the furnishing of this information, kindly advise me the amount and I shall remit to cover.
I am, dear Sirs,
Yours very truly,
(Miss) Rebecca Morgan
[Stamped upside down]
PENSION
R
REB
U. 23 S.
1927
OFFICE
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1604 Marshall Avenue,
Mattoon, Illinois,
March 7th, 1927
FINANCE DIVISION
BOOK-KEEPER'S DESK
MAR 9 1927
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
United States Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I wrote some weeks ago asking for the pension record of my Revolutionary ancestor one Samuel Atkinson, and in the absence of reply, assume that my letter must have gone astray, and so am writing again.
Will you very kindly advise me if your records disclose the date of the death of Samuel Atkinson, (Invalid No. 945) according to my advices from the Adjutant General of New Jersey? I should appreciate it very much
if you will kindly give me also the date of his wife's death, and birth, if your papers contain that information and also the name of the wife and the date of the marriage if the files contain it? If any charge attaches for
this I will remit if you will be good enough to let me know in what amount.
I have the honor to be dear Sirs,
Yours very truly,
(Miss) Rebecca Morgan
P. S. On second thought I have concluded to enclose check for $1 for transcript of record, to save time assuming transcript charge is probably the same as in State offices.
Check enc.
PENSION
U. MAR S.
9
1927
OFFICE
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Form VAN-51
12 - 5 - 41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Atkinson Stephen GRADE Private LINE New Hampshire
WARRANT NUMBER 2906
ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Oct. 21, 1790
to Stephen Atkinson
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.