Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12743, Daniel Dey, New Jersey
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3-1776

Service                                   Number
New  Jersey   Dey, Daniel     S12743

                                             Carded

CONTENTS
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8676    New York 8392      8892
Daniel Dey
of Ira-  in the State of New York       Date of death not on [illegible]
who was a Private in the Cavalry commanded by Captain [illegible] of the Regiment commanded
by Cd Foreman in the New Jersey line for 2 Years

Inscribed on the Roll of N. York
at the rate of 80 Dollars  ---Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of pension issued the 8 day of April 1822 and [illegible] A. Sons
33             Aubrin 

Arrears to the 4th of Ma 30 $160
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Apr 33 40
                                             __________
                                            $200
                                             ___________
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by G. A. Stiles, Clerk,
Book 6, Vol 4 page 17.
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Daniel Dey

8676


aomd
2 years [illegible]

80$
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Be it known to, all to who these presents may come. That I the Subscriber, have known Daniel. Dey. for many years. and that he lived in the State of New Jersey, in time of the Continental war near the Shores and lines of the enemy, and that what he has stated respecting his Service to be correct. I believe him to be a man of veracity, and depend one just  upon what he has asserted. In testimony of which I have hereunto Set my hand at Caughnawaga Township of Johnstown County of Montgomery Hat of New York on the 29th day of August 1832.
Abraham Van Horne, minister of the Reformed Protestant. Dutch Church at Caughnawaga
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State of New York
Montgomery County
Clerks Office  [illegible] I George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the said County; do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within Abraham Van Horne and know him to be such person as within  described and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Abraham and verily believe this signature of the Said Abraham within Subscribed is Genuine.

[illegible] my hand & Seal of office this 29th day of August 1832
Geo. D. Ferguson
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State of New York
Montgomery County 
I Johnathan Clayton being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is now a resident of the town of Florida and County of Montgomery and has been a resident of said town for these last thirty two years and for ten years previous resided in the town of Johnstown in the County of Montgomery and previous to this period was a resident of the State of New Jersey. that he is Seventy three years of age. That he is personally acquainted with Daniel Dye whence from report he believes resides in the town of Ira and County of Cayuga formerly of the State of New Jersey. - That Daniel Dye was a Revolutionary Soldier in the American Service. That is the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy five he joined a company of minute men under the command of Capt. Smock and continued in that company for several months. And on the fourth day of July Seventeen hundred and Seventy six the said Daniel Dey and this [ ] Enlisted under Capt. John Henderson for five months was at the Battle on Long Island in in the retreat to New York was also in the Battle of White Plains and the retreat thence into New Jersey. This deponent further believes from report that the said Daniel Dye in December in the Year Seventeen hundred and Seventy six joined a Company of Horse under Command of Capt. Rober Nickson and Continued in the service for several months. and further this deponenet saith not. 

Sworn + Subscribed this 28th day of August 1832 before Mss James Voorhees, Justice

The word town, in the fourth line [illegible] and, year, in the twelfth line.
    Jonathan Clayton
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Montgomery County
Clerks Office - SS. - I George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the County of Montgomery aforesaid do hereby certify that James Voorhees Esquire before whom the [illegible] affidavit purports to have been sworn [illegible] on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the peace of the County aforesaid, & duly authorised by law to take the  . And that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the Saide Judge + verily believe that the signature "James Voorhees" Subscribed to the [illegible] affidavit is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have herewith put my hand + affixed the seal of my office this 29th day December 1832.
Geo. D. Ferguson
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Cayuga County   On this 17th day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and State of New York now Setting Daniel Dey a resident of Irra in the county of Cayuga and State of New York aged 76 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 7th 1832  That he entered the Service under the following named Officers and served as herein stated. That in the month of September A.D. 1775 at the town of Freehold in the county of Monmouth in the state of New Jersey he enlisted in a company of minute men commanded by Captain Smock and served in this company ten months was in actual service several times at and near Monmouth in the State of New Jersey guarding and protecting the inhabitants of that place against the depredations of the Tories. That in July 1776 there was an order from headquarters for a draft of one half of the Militia I took my chance and drawed clear that is was not drafted. That the same day July 4th 1776 I enlisted for the term of five months in a company commanded by Captain John Henderson in a regiment commanded by Col. David Forman at the same places as above mentioned. And marched to Long Island and joined the army was in the battle there and retreated from whence to the city of New York  Was in the battle at White Plains and in the retreat to Kings Ferry and crossed the Hudson River in great haste in order to reach Fort Washington but the Fort surrender or was given up to the enemy before we could reach the opposite shore of the Hudson  From thence retreated to Newark in the State of New Jersey thence through the State to the Delaware River This being the first of December 1776 the time of my Enlistment expired. Before and after the 26th day of December of that year I was a prisoner for the time of about five weeks the British and Tories bearing rule at that time in the State of New Jersey and particularly at Monmouth
That in the month of January 1777 I enlisted at the town of Cranbury County of Middlesex and in the State of New Jersey into a company of Light Draggoons for the term of four months and commanded by Captain Rober Nixson in a Regiment Commanded by Col. Jacob Hyer and was stationed near Prince
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Prince Town in the State of New Jersey where I served the full term of my enlistment. That in the month of May 1777 the whole of the Militia were called out for one month I ws one of these and served in a company commanded by Captain David Chambers of the town of Cranbury in the county of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey and was stationed near Bound Brook.
That in the month of June 1777 I again entered the service for the term of one month in a company command by Capt Hankinson in the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey and was stationed on Sourland Mountain near the Enemy's line. That in September 1777 I again entered the service for the term of one month in a company commanded by Capt. James Herbert in the county of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey was stationed near Sandy Hook on the lines of the Enemy as a [illegible] a part of which were cut off by the British. That in the month of May 1778 I again entered the service for the term of one month in a company commanded by Capt. John Watson of the county of Monmouth in the State of New jersey was stationed on the lines of the Enemy in the town of Shrewsbury in the state of New Jersey at the expiration of the term I voluntered for one month under the same Capt. Watson at this time the British army evacuated Philadelphia and marched through the State of New Jersey was in the battle at Monmouth. Was one week in the service under Col Formon hunting Tories through the pines captured more than twenty of them and fastened them together two and two by the neck with a strong rope. Was in several other scouting excursions the length of time I am not able to say. That he never received a written discharge from said Service as he believed if he did he has lost the same and has no proof of said service except the accompanying affidavit certificate thereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State or Territory
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  Daniel Dey
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We Abraham Hoffman a clergyman [illegible] in the town of Cato -in the county of Cayuga and Andrews Preston Residing in the town of Ira in the county of Cayuga hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Dey who has subscribed the preceding declaration; that we believe him to be 76 years of age; that he is respected 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 me
Augustus F. Ferris one of the Judges of Cayuga County Court
Abraham Hoffman
Andrew Preston

And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matters and after putting the interrogatories presented 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 Abraham Hoffman who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in Cato     and Andrews Preston who has also signed the same is a resident in Ira in Said County and is a credible person and that their statement is intitled to credit.

I Michael S. Myers Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and State of New York do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Dey for a pension. I further certify that Augustus F. Ferris before whom the above certificate was made was on the day of the date thereof and still is a judge of Said Court duly commissioned and Sworn and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the Said judge and believe his signature to the Said certificate to be genuine  In writing whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of Said Court and Subscribed my name the seventeenth day of September A.D. 1832
M. S. Myers. Clerk
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8676
Daniel Dey

18  Sep 32

[illegible]

14.

Amos Gould
Auburn New York
P100
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Brief in the case of Daniel Dey.
of Ira   in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? Seventy six years

4.State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period | Duration of Service .| Rank. | Names of General And Field Officers under whom he served. |
Years,   Months,   Days. | As a | Gen.
In 1775 Sep |  10  | Capt. Smock
1776 July 4 |  5  | Capt Jno Henderson. Col D Foreman
to 1 Dec |  

1777 Jany  |  4  | Capt R Nixon, Col J Hyer.
 -   May  |  1  | Capt D Shambe
June  |  1  | Capt Hankinson
- Sep  |  1  | Capt Js Herbert.
1778 - May |  1  |  Capt J Watson

1| Capt J Watson
4  | Capt Freeman

and several other parties [illegible] [illegible]

5. In what battles was he engaged? Long Island, White Plains, Monmouth,

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Freehold, New Jersey
Cranbury New Jersey. [illegible]

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  A Clergyman and And.w Preston certify to traditionary evidence. Abm Van horne certify the same: 
Jonathan Claton, living witness proves service 10 months in 1775  5 months in 76 4 months in 1777. 

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D Kent Examining Clerk.
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March 7, 1939

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Miss Dorothy Dye                    Daniel Dey
Box 197                                     S. 12743
Julesburg, Colorado                  BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you requested the record of Daniel Dye who served as private in the Revolutionary War from Middlesex County, New Jersey.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a soldier with the name of Daniel Dye, exact spelling; the record has been found, however, of a Daniel Dey of New Jersey, which name is borne interchangeably on the Revolutionary War records of this office.  No other Daniel with similar spelling of that name, of New Jersey, has been found. The record of Daniel Dey follows as found in pension claim, S. 12743, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth of Daniel Dey and names of his parents are not shown.
Daniel Dey joined Captain Smock's company of minutemen in September, 1775, at Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, and continued therein ten months guarding and protecting the inhabitants around Monmouth against the British and Tories. He enlisted July 4, 1776, served five months as private in Captain John Henderson's company, Colonel David Forman's New Jersey regiment, was in the battle of Long Island and in the retreat from that battle, went to New York and was in the battle of White Plains and in the retreat thence into New Jersey. He was held prisoner by the British and Tories about five weeks. He enlisted in January, 1777, in Cranbury, Middlesex County, New Jersey, served four months as private in Captain Robert Nixon's troop of light-horse, Colonel Jacob Hyer's New Jersey regiment statione near Princeton. He was called out in May, 1777, and served on month as private in Captain David Chambers' New Jersey  company at Bound Brook. He enlisted in June 1777, and served one month in Captain Hankinson's New Jersey company on Sourland Mountain in New Jersey. He enlisted in September, 1777, for one
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month which he served in Captain James Herbert's company as a guard near Sandy Hook. He enlisted in May, 1778, served one month in Captain John Watson's company at Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Upon the expiration of that tour, he volunteered and served another month as private under Captain Watson and was in the battle of Monmouth. He served also one week under Colonel Forman in pursuit of Tories and assisted in capturing more than twenty of them. He served on several other scouting parties, details of which were not given.
Daniel Dey was allowed pension on his application executed September 17, 1832, at which time he was aged seventy-six years and a resident of Ira, Cayuga County, New York. No family data are shown.
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of this soldier, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: Daniel Dey, certificate #8392, issued April 8, 1833, rate $80 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, New York Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Box 197
Julesburg, Colorado,
January 19, 1939

War Department.
Veterans Administration Bureau
Washington, D. C.
[stamp Received Jan 23, 1939 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS ADM. READER #14]

Dear Sirs:
Will you please send me the following information concerning Daniel Dye, [^sent a Dey] who was a Private in the Revolutionary War, from Middlesex County, New Jersey?
1. What was the name of Daniel Dye's father?
2. What was the name of Daniel Dye's wife?
3. What were the names of Daniel Dye's brothers and sisters?
4. What was the date of Daniel Dye's birth?
Yours truly,
(Miss) Dorothy Dye
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1939 Mar 7 -Hist. to Miss Dorothy Dye - MLD
Rev War
12,743
INVALID.

File No. 12,743

Daniel Dey
Priv  Rev War

Act: June 7 1832
Index: - Vol.    Page
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Daniel Dey  which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative tohis revolutionary service?   Yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  -

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? -

XIV. + If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?  No
And is the official character and signature of the  magistrate certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?  Yes

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant service? Yes

XVI. ++ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  [illegible] [1,257 crossed out]

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

[ ] QUIERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  For ___ year___ __ months and ____ days, I served as a _____. For ___ months and ____  days, I served as a ______; and for such service I claim a pension."
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Sir                Auburn NY  Jan 9 1833
Enclosed are the papers of Daniel Dey with the objection answered. Enclosed is also the paper containing the objection. I am Sir Yor Obt Servt  A Gould
Hon G Edwards