Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,357, Joseph Fox, New Jersey
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New Jersey      Fox, Joseph       S.34,357
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(6.913.)
New Jersey 
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Joseph Fox        4
of Essex Co. in the state of N. Jersey
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel Shreeve of the New Jersey
line, for the term of the war from 1776
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey 
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 17th of December 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 10th of Feb. 1819
and sent to the Hon. V Chas Kinsey
House of Rep. U. States
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Portion of 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th march 1819
  2 mo. 19/31                           20.90
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                                                 20.90
                {Revolutionary claim,}
                {Act 18th March, 1818}
d Jan. 20, 1822

Essex County
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Notification sent Nov. 21 18[illegible] to
Abraham Reynolds Livingston N.J.
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Joseph Fox
        (Private)

Shreeve's N. Jersey
                          Regt.

      1776 for the War

17th Dec. 1818
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State of New Jersey
Essex County                        On the seventeenth day December eighteen
                                                hundred + eighteen before me the subscriber of the 

Judge of the inferior Court of Common pleas in + for the said county
personally appear Joseph Fox aged seventy four years residing in 
the County of Essex in the State of New Jersey who being by me first did 
sworn according to law doth on his oath make the 
following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by 
the late act of Congress entitled. An act to provide for certain 
persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States 
in the revolutionary war. That the said Joseph Fox enlisted in the 
summer of seventeen hundred + seventy five on seventeenth hundred
seventy six, which of the year he cannot distinctly recollect, at Hackit
Town in the State of New Jersey in the Company Commanded 
by Captain Shaw of the second Jersey Regiment for the term of one 
year during which time he continued to serve until the term
of his enlistment expired when he was regularly discharged from 
service and on his return from Ticonderoga within a few days
after he was discharged he enlisted in the Company Command by 
captain Luse of the same Regiment for three years enduring the 
war, he thinks that the Regiment was then under the command of 
Col. Maxwell, that he continued to serve in the said corps
on in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolutionary and
in the common enemy on the Continental establishment 
from the date of his enlistment until the summer of seventeen 
hundred eighty three when he was regularly discharged from 
service at Newburgh in the State of New York. Captain Helms 
was the Captain of the Company to which he belonged at the 
time of his discharge.             That he was in the battle of the 
Farms - Springfield and at the taking of Con(?)
He was once taken a prisoner by the enemy at Coo(?)
ferry with Lieutenant Stout + party and (?) to Philadelphia 
from there to New York where he was afterwards
exchanged.    And that he is in very reduced circumstance
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ances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services - His discharge was by him delivered to Calvin Ely some years since with a view of his procuring the land due from the United States, which land he the deponent never did receive nor any thing
in lieu thereof- neither has the discharge ever been returned to him but considered lost.
              his 
Joseph   X   Fox
             mark

Sworn to and declared
before me the day & year aforesaid 
Abrm Reynolds

State of New Jersey
Essex County ss } On this Seventeenth day of December Eighteen hundred and Eighteen before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for the said County personally appeared Silas Parrot late a Lieutenant of the first Jersey Regiment in the revolutionary war who being by me duly sworn
according to law deposeth and saith that he became personally acquainted with Joseph Fox the above applicant in the year Seventeen hundred seventy seven at which time he the said Joseph was a regular Soldier in the Second Jersey Regiment on the continental establishment. Deponent saw him from time to time until the army was disbanded in the year Seventeen hundred eighty three during which time the said Joseph was frequently on duty with the depoeant who always esteemed him to be a good and faithful Soldier and further this deponent saith not.
        his
Silas  X  Parrot
       mark

Sworn & Subscribed before me
the day & year aforesaid
Abrm. Reynolds
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State of Jersey
Essex County ss } On this Seventeenth day of eighteen hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County personally appeared Bennit Garrison who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he served in the Revolutionary war seven years and three months, that he has a perfect recollection of Joseph Fox of the Jersey line the aforementioned applicant, that he remembers him weill while they were stationed at New
Burgh in the State of New York in the year 1783 and that the said Joseph Fox had received certain Badges of merit which he [illegible]
token of his good character and Soldier like conduct and further this deponent saith not
Bennet Garrison

Sworn & Subscribed this 17th day
of Decr A. D. 1818 before me
Abrm Reynolds

State of New Jersey
Essex County ss }  Pierson Green of Essex County being duly sworn declares in the presence of Almighty God that he was a regular Soldier of Second Jersey Regiment during the latter part of the Revolutionary war at which time he was with Joseph Fox the aforementioned applicant who then belonged to Captain Helms Company of the Second Jersey Regiment under the command of Col Cummings.  Deponent belonged to Capt. Holms's Company but continued to do duty in the same Regiment with the said Joseph Fox upwards of two years, has a 
perfect recollection of the said Joseph being discharged at Newburgh in the State of New York hath seen and read said Joseph Fox's discharge and further this deponent saith not.
Pierson Green

Sworn before me this 18th
day of Decr A.D. 1818
Abrm. Reynolds
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State of New Jersey Essex County SS.
I Silas Whitehead Clk of the Court of Common pleas of said County of Essex hereby certify
that Abraham Reynolds the person before whom the foregoing affidavits of Joseph Fox, Silas Parrott, Bennet Garrison, Pierson Green, & Calvin Ely appears to have been taken was at the time taking thereof and still is a Judge of said Court as appears by the Rolls of County officers in my office and that full faith and credit is due to this as well as all of his Legal acts as such-  Also that the signature of the said
Abraham Reynolds to the several affidavits aforesaid is the proper hand writing & him the said Abraham Reynolds-

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
Subscribed my name and affixed the 
Seal of said Court the ninth day of 
January 1819 -
Silas Whitehead
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State of Jersey
Essex County ss }
Calvin Ely of Essex County being duly Sworn
declares in the presence of Almighty God that about twenty years since Joseph Fox the before mentioned applicant delivered to him the deponent a regular printed & written Discharge
setting forth that the said Joseph Fox had faithfully discharged the duties of a Soldier in the Revolutionary war which discharge he Saw & read, and then enclosed it in a letter to the Revd Doctor Green who was then chaplain to Congress, and thinks it was never returned - and that he is personally acquainted  with the said Joseph Fox who is in a poor and destitute
situation and really stands in need of the assistance of his country support and further saith not.
Calvin Ely

Hon. H. Kinsey

Sworn before me the 24th
Day of December AD 1818
Abrm. Reynolds

I Abraham Reynolds Judge &c as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Fox did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and he is to my knowledge in very reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for Support. I therefore the transmit the proceedings and testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned act of Congress-
December 25th 1818
Abrm. Reynolds

['I do hereby certify' crossed out] I certify that Joseph Fox named in the above Instrument is well known to me and I certify that he served under the command of Col Maxwell commander of the 2nd Jersey Regiment in the expedition to Canada in the year 1776, that he reenlisted at his return from Canada a served until the 20th day of May 1783 when the American Army was dissolved.

J.H. Cummings Lieut. Col. Comdt.
Jersey Batt. when the Army was 
disbanded.

Newark New Jersey
Jany. 6th 1819
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Declaration of
Joseph Fox-
Pensioner-
6.913
March 1819
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District of New Jersey Essex County ss.
On this sixth day of November A.D. 1820 personally appeared before the Judges of the
Court of Common pleas for the County aforesaid in open court being a court of record possessing a Seal and having jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and proceeding according to the cause of the common law. Joseph Fox aged about seventy three years
resident in the said county who being first duly
Sworn doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, that he enlisted in the 2d Jersey Regiment commanded by Colonel Screeves, and company commanded by Capt Holmes, and that the date of his original application was Decr 17, 1818. That as a late private in the army of the revolutionary war aforesaid he had received a certificate from the war department as a pensioner inscribed on the pension roll of the New Jersey agency dated the tenth day of February 1819 No. 6913, and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident
Citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property so as to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled "an act for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed the 18 of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or Securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than contained
in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me
subscribed, that my occupation is that of
laborer, but that in consequence of age and 
great infirmity and being blind for the last two years am unable to support myself by my personal exertions, or do any work, that my family consists of a wife aged seventy three years also very infirm, and unable to do anything towards her support, and that I cannot support myself without the assistance of public or private charity.
             his
Joseph  X  Fox
            mark

Sworn and declared in open
court this 6th day of November
A.D. 1820.
John Dodd -
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Schedule of the property of Joseph Fox referred to in the foregoing deposition, one old cow, one small shoat, one iron pot, one iron
Kettle, two old chairs, one griddle & that I have no other property whatever- 
              his
Joseph   X  Fox
             mark

I Asa Whitehead Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court
that the total amount in value of the property
exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is  Seventeen dollars.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Seventh day of November A.D. 1820.-
Asa Whitehead clerk of the court of common pleas of the County of Essex aforesaid
[seal affixed at left]
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

March 23, 1927

Howard R. VanKirk
Waterloo
N. Y.

Sir:

I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 34357,
it appears that Joseph Fox enlisted at Hackettstown, New Jersey in the summer of 1775 or 1776 and served as a private in Captain Shaw's, Luse's, Helms' Companies, Colonels Shreve's, Maxwell's, and Cummings' Second New Jersey Regiment, he was in the battles of Three Rivers, Brandywine, Germantown, two engagements with the Indians on General Sullivan's Expedition, and the battles of
Connecticut Farms and Springfield, was at the taking of Cornwallis, he was once taken prisoner at Coopers Ferry, carried to New York and shortly after was exchanged, he was discharged in the summer of 1783.

He was allowed pension on his application exe-
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ecuted December 17, 1818, while a resident of Essex County, New Jersey, aged about seventy-four years.

In 1820, soldier referred to his wife, as aged seventy-three years, but did not give her name.
He died January 30, 1823. There is no further data on file as to family.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

Agency Book
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Howard R. Van Kirk
Waterloo, New York

January 31, 1927

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs,

Will you please advise if you can give me the war record, including date of birth of
                o
James Morehouse

Who served as a private under LaFayette, near Elizabeth, N. J.. in the Revolutionary war?  My wife is anxious to secure this information to prove her eligibility for membership in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

I will appreciate any information you can give me.

Yours very truly,

H R Van Kirk

P.S. Also the same information in regard to
Joseph Fox of Maxwell's Brigade.

H.R.V.

[stamp:] U.S. PENSION OFFICE F FEB 1 1927
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34357
Revy INVALID.
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File No. 34,357
Joseph Fox
Pri Rev War
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Act: 18 March 18"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 142

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1927. Mch 23- Hist to Howard R. Van Kirk
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