Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1,030, for Garret Jeffery, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Jeffery, Garret or Garrett | S.1,030

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CONTENTS
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22969 | 22969

New Jersey
Garrett, Jeffery of Shrewsbury in the State of N.J. who was a Musician in the com(pany) commanded by Captain (blank) of the (blank) commanded by (blank) in the N.J. Troops [crossed out: line] for 12 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of N.J. at the rate of 44 Dollars (blank) Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of Decem. 1833 and sent W.J. Bowne, Freehold, N.J.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '33........$110.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 2 Sept.......22.00
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                                      $132.00

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{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by E.D. Bullock, Clerk 
Book E; Vol. 3; Page 117
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County//

On this 31st day of July 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County now sitting at Freehold, New Jersey, Garret Jeffery, a resident of the Township of Shrewsbury in said County & State, aged upwards of Sixty six 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 served as herein stated - to wit, in the year 1781 he entered the company of Capt. Thomas Chadwick and served therein one year - was enlisted for that time and belonged to the regiment called the State Regiment - During his services he marched first from Englishtown, where he enlisted, to Colts Neck, which was headquarters - marched along the shores of New Jersey guarding the seaboard, watching the British and refugees - was engaged in two skirmishes, one at Jumping Point, on the South River, Monmouth Co., with the refugees who came from their camp at Sandy Hook, also engaged with the refugees in William Parker's woods in Shrewsbury, N. Jersey, in which one of his company was killed, to wit, Jonas Sutton and his brother Francis Jeffery was wounded.

In his services he was detached from the Continental Troops and their officers; was during his service confined to the County of Monmouth. There were no regular offices or regiments with his company that he recollects of. He...
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...has no documentary evidence. Daniel Applegate was in the same company with him.

To the Interrogatories propounded by the Court he answers.:

1. He was born in Monmouth County, N. Jersey, in the year 8 March 1766.

2. He has record of his age at his residence in Shrewsbury, Mon(mouth), N.J.

3. He lived when called into service at Englishtown, Monmouth County, N. Jersey, has lived since the Rev(olutionary) War in the Township of Shrewsbury, Monmouth, N. Jersey, where he at present lives.

4. He enlisted as one of the State Troops.

5. He was not with any regular officers or in any of the regular regiments.

6. He never received any written discharge but was discharged or dismissed at Colts Neck the year before the close of the war

7. He is known at present in his neighborhood to Elisha Lippincott, Alex(ander) McGregor, John Gardener, Cornelius Lane & John Chamberlain, who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.

He 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.
s/ Garret Jeffery

Subscribed & sworn to the day & year above written.
s/ John Patterson
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County//

On this 31st day of July 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges aforesaid, now sitting at Freehold, New Jersey, James Yetman, a resident of the Township of Shrewsbury in said County, aged upwards of Seventy two years, who being first duly sworn agreeably to law doth on his oath declare and say that he is and was well acquainted with the applicant, Garret Jeffery, in the Revolutionary War and well remembers that they served together in the same company under Capt. Thomas Chadwick. One year, he having acted therein as trumpeter.
s/ James Yetman

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above written.
s/ James Patterson

And the said Court after the investigation of the matter and after having put the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant, Garret Jeffery, was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.

And further certify that James Yetman, whose affidavit appears above is well known to the Court, that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to full faith and credit. By Order of the Court.
s/ W.J. Bowne
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I, Daniel H. Ellis, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Garret Jeffery for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Freehold this Twenty ninth day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Thirty three.
s/ D.H. Ellis, Clerk

Garret Jeffery
No 3172
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Rev(olutionary) War
INVALID.
File No. 1030
Garret Jeffery
Musi(cian) N.J. Mil(itia)

Act: June 7, 1832
Index:- Vol. [illegible], Page 192
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey, Garret Jeffery, named in his original declaration No.3172 as numbered at the Pension Office of the United States, who is well known to me and whose statement is entitled to entire credit and belief, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he can only add to his original declaration that he served as therein stated in the company of Capt. Thos. Chadwick by enlistment in 1781 one year, the term of his enlistment and that he acted as Trumpeter in said company. There was no objection made at the time to his age, but was accepted as of competent age and carried at all times a gun or horseman's large pistol together with his trumpet.

Applicant thinks that said Capt. Chadwick's company was raised by some law or ordinance of New Jersey on purpose to guard the Bay Shore and seaboard to operate (sp.) against the British and refugees or Tories to watch their landing, to attend to all points on the Bay Shore and on the seaoard of the County and to repair immediately to all points of attack on the discharge of the alarm guns. Applicant says he always understood that said Capt. Chadwick's company belonged to the reg(iment) called the State Regiment, does not remember distinctly the name of the col(onel) who commanded Capt. Chadwick - applicant thinks Capt. Chadwick's company was detached from the Continental Troops and thinks that for the greater part of the time said Chadwick was not under the immediate command of any com(panies), applicant remembers Col. Sam(uel) Forman, Col. Daniel Hendrickson & Col. Holmes. Applicant says that he marched in and through the County of Monmouth on the Bay and Sea Shore to Shark River Squankum, Manasquan near the seaboard in Momonth County, often pursued the wood robbers and Tories in the pines [i.e. Pine Barrens]. Applicant does not remember...
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...anything further or important that he knows of relative to his said services, but well knows and is positive beyond possibility of doubt that he served, as before stated, in Capt. Chadwick's company one year for which service he now claims a pension.
s/ Garret Jeffery

Subscribed & sworn to the 12th day of August 1833 before me.
s/ W.J. Bowne

Garret Jeffery's claim.
Testimony of Daniel Applegate, Wm. Paynton & Anthony Holmes &c.
Declaration of Applicant

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I, Daniel H. Ellis, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth, New Jersey, do hereby certify that William J. Bowne, before whom the foregoing several affidavits were subscribed & sworn to, is now and was at the dates of the taking thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned & sworn and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such.

In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name & affix the Seal of the said Court at Freehold, N.J., this 13th day of Aug. A.D. 1833.
s/ D.H. Ellis, Clerk
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Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey, Daniel Applegate, aged Seventy six, a resident of said County, a person to me well known and entitled to credit and belief, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Garret Jeffery named in the original declaration No. 3172, as numbered at the Pension Office of the United States and knows that he was an enlisted soldier in the company of Capt. Thomas Chadwick in 1781 and served in said Company for the term of one year, the time of his enlistment. Wit(ness) and said Jeffery served together at the same time in said company. Witness says that said Jeffery acted in said company in the capacity of Trumpeter, was considered young at the time but witness cannot state his age. Further with saith not.
s/ Daniel Applegate

Subscribed & sworn to the 12th day of August 1833 before me.
s/ W.J. Bowne

Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice as afor(esaid), William Paynton, a resident of said County aged Seventy five and upwards, a person entitled to credit who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with the above named Garret Jeffery in the Rev(olutionary) War and well knows that s(ai)d Jeffery enlisted in Capt. Chadwick's company in 1781 and served therein one year during which time he acted as Trumpeter. Wit(ness) and said Jeffery served together in said company at the same time.
s/ William Paynton (X - his mark)

Subscribed & sworn to this 12th day of August 1833 before me.
s/ W.J. Bowne
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Personally appeared before me, the undersigned Justice as herein before stated, Anthony Holmes, a resident of Monmouth County, N.J., aged Seventy twoand upwards, to me known and to whose statements entire credit is due, being duly sworn deposeth and saith that (erased) [crossed out: he was well acquainted with the within named Garret Jeffery in the Revolutionary War] he is now and has been for many years acquainted with the within named Garret Jeffery, that he is a man of good character and entitled to belief and that said Jeffery is reputed and believed to have served as a Trumpeter in Capt. Chadwick's company in the Rev(olutionary) War and that witness concurs in that opinion. Witness understands that s(ai)d Jeffery was young when he entered the service, but cannot state his age. Witness well remembers seeing several in the service in the Rev(olutionary) War, serving as musicians and substitutes, who were said to have been under sixteen years of age, he remembers one in particular, James Dey, who served as a substitute and who was said to have been at the time under sixteen, to wit about fourteen years of age. This boy was frequently on guard with witness and performed his duty well, who informed witness as well as others that he, the said Dey, was fourteen years of age & further witness saith not.
s/ Anthony Holmes

Subscribed & sworn to the 13th day of August 1833 before me.
s/ W.J. Bowne
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Admit

Musician, 1 year
$44

W.J. Bowne, Esq.
Freehold, N.J.
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War Department
Pension Office
July 29th 1833.

Sir,

Whether the objections heretofore noted relative to the claim of Garrett Jeffery have been raised in their proper order, is not so important as whether the claim is now entitled to admission. Upon a careful examination of the declaration as it now stands, it appears questionable. As near as can be gathered from his statements, he was only in his fifteenth year at the time of his enlistment. An explanation is necessary before military duty can be admitted to have been performed at that early age. The witness in (James) Yetman states either that himself or the claimant acted a Trumpeter. Which of the two it was is impossible to determine from the affidavits, as the declaration makes no intimation that it was the claimant.

A new declaration should be made in this...
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...[duplicate: this] case in the mode pointed out by the regulations, setting forth the names of the officers of the regiment, the circumstances under which he entered and the services performed in detail, accompanied with the best evidence in proof of his service which he can procure agreeably to the regulations. The paper herewith enclosed should be returned with the new evidence.

I am very respectfully your obe(dient) ser(vant),
s/ J.L. Edwards

W.J. Bowne, Esq.
Freehold, N.J.