Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1,029, for Dayton Ireland, New Jersey
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New Jersey
Ireland, Dayton
S.1,029
Carded
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New Jersey. 9514
Dayton Ireland 
of Cumberland in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Garrison of the Regt commanded by Col. Shreeve in the New Jersey line for 9 mos.
 Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate Pension issued the 23 day of May 1833 and sent to Ebnr. Seeley, C.C. Bridgeton, New Jersey
Arrears to the 4th of March ‘33, 60.00 
Semi-anl. Allowance ending 4 Sept ‘33. 15.00
$75.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Wm R. Palmer Clerk
Book E.  Vol 3. , Page 117. 
S. Lawrence Aug: 12/59,
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Dayton Ireland
22063
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 
State of New Jersey Cumberland County 
On this fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared in open Court, before David Lupton, Jeremiah Stull, Moses Bateman and George Landers Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Cumberland, and State of New Jersey, now sitting Dayton Ireland a resident of the township of Downe in said County and State, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named and served as herein stated. Officers that in the month of January in 1775 or 1776 he entered the service in the Revolutionary War as a Volunteer, and marched with the company of Militia commanded by Captain Ephram Lummiss when he entered, he resided in Cumberland County New Jersey he marched with the company to the Raritan. The British then lay at Mount Holly the company was stationed at the Raritan, he served in said Company under Captain E Lummiss one that when the company was discharged and marched to Cumberland
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County. A few months afterwards and in the same year, he volunteered in the service again for one month and marched out under Captain William Garrison to Woodbury New Jersey and was quartered at that place in the Quaker Meeting House, that after being out in the service under Captain Garrison he was discharged and marched home. 
During the same year he volunteered in the service again for one month under Captain Ephram Lummiss, and marched out with his company to a place called Wrangletown on the Jersey side of the Delaware below Red Bank, and was stationed at that place, and after being out in the service one month was regularly discharged, and the Company Marched home, he remembers that the Battle with the Hessians at Red Bank took place the Second day after he was discharged from the Second Months Service.
In the month of April 1775, he enlisted in Salem County New Jersey for six months in the company commanded by Captain Vincen, and marched to Elizabethtown New Jersey and joined the Jersey Regiment at that place, under the command of Colonel Shreeve and marched from thence to Hackensack and was quartered at that place about three months. the British lay in New York at this time, he was one of the Regent Guards all the time the troops were stationed at Hackensack, cannot recollect the
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names of all the places we marched to. The company returned to Elizabethtown and at which place I was discharged about the middle of December 1775, after have served from the month of April up to December 1775 a longer period than for which he enlisted, being about eight months. He recollects he got home five days before Christmas, and that peace was declared in the month of July following, during this service he was in no general engagement, he recollects the names of Col Shreeve, Col Newcomb and Major Hays being in the service at that time, he was out in the Revolutionary War Eleven Months altogether, that he has no Documentary evidence he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, except the testimony of Philip Dare & Zenos Loder hereunto annexed, who can testify to his services. 
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. 
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court 
Dayton Ireland
His mark 
David Lupton Presiding Judge
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We Edmund Sheppard, residing in the County of Cumberland, New Jersey and Elias P. Seeley residing in the Same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Dayton Ireland who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy seven 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 & the concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed the day year aforesaid in open court.
Edmd Sheppard 
Elias P Seeley 
And said Court hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation, of the matter and after putting the interrogatories proscribed 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 Edmund Sheppard who has signed the preceding certificate is resident in the said County of Cumberland and that Elias P. Seeley who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same place and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
David Lupton Presiding Judge 
Jeremiah Stull 
Edwd Sheppard
George Sander
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Cumberland Co.  Zenos Loder of full age being duly sworn according to law Wofforth & South that he is well acquainted with Dayton Ireland the above named applicant for a pension, that this Deponent saw Dayton Ireland in the Revolution, at the Raritan in New Jersey, this Deponent believes he was in the company commanded by Capt Ephraim Lummisss, this Deponent was at the same time in the service under Capt John Hollingshead attached to the same Regiment with Capt Lummiss Company called the 2nd New Jersey Regiment, under Col Shreeve & Col. Cummings, this Deponent does not recollect the precise time said Dayton Ireland was out in the service, but this Deponent saw him often in the Revolutionary service & knows he was out  of service in said 2nd New Jersey Regiment, until he was honorably discharged 
Sworn & Subscribed January 4th 1833 
Zenos Loder
His mark
David Lupton Presiding Judge 
Cumberland County 
Philip Dare being duly Sworn according to law deposeth and Saith that he is well acquainted with Dayton Ireland the above named applicant for a pension that the said Dayton Ireland was out in the Revolutionary war in the Company commanded by Capt Cummings under the command of Col. Shreeve, this deponent further says that he was out the same time Said Dayton Ireland was and was in the service in the same Regiment & commanded by Col Shreeve this
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Deponent was often with said Dayton Ireland while in the Revolutionary War, and believes he knew him to be in the service more than twelve months, the said Dayton Ireland was discharged at the same time and place with this deponent.
 Sworn & Subscribed January 4, 1833 Philip Dare 
David Lupton Presiding Judge 
And the said Court do further certify that they are well acquainted with Philip Dare & Zenos Loder we have testified & subscribed the foregoing affidavits and that the said Philip Dare and Zenos Loder are both credible persons, and that their oath is entitled to full credit.
David Lupton Presiding Judge 
I Ebenezer Seeley, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cumberland 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 Dayton Ireland for a pension. In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Ebenr. Seeley
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No 22063 
Dayton Ireland N. J.
9574
Look on New Jersey
9 months
Adm for 9 months
Ebenr.  Seeley clerk of Cumberland Co. N.J.
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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 form. 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 shew what is necessary to be done. Those 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. 
[table]
[heading] A Statement, shewing the Service of Dayton Ireland of Cumberland Co N.J.
[columns headings: Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant’s service – Years. Months. Days. Rank of the claimant. Name and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Ae at present and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.]
Vol 1775 or 1776. 1 month. Private. Capt.E. Lummis.  Aged 77. Traditionary & living witnesses
Vol 1776. 1 month. . Capt. Wm. Garrison. . .
Vol 1775 or 1776. 1 month. . Capt. Ephraim Lummis. . .
Enlisted 1775. 8 months. . Colo. Shreeve. . .
I am respectfully, 
Your obedient servants 
J. L. EDWARDS, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
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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, mucicians 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 
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 what and subscribed the (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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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. 
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia. 
1.	Where and in what year were you born? 2. 
2.	Have you any record of your age, and if no, where is it? 
3.	Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live? 
4.	How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom? 
5.	State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 
6.	To a Soldier – Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? To an Officer - Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? 
7.	 State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates. 
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. 
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court,
 Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
 No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure , taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter. 
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily firmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned. 
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. 
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had.  Every claimant must state, 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. 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 ___ years ___ months, and ___days, I served as a ___. For ___ months and ___ days I served as a ___; and for such service I claim a pension." 
it is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. 
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 
Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
Proof of Service. 
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found in the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set for the in their affidavits the time of the claimant’s entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and the line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule note [j] applies to continental troops only. 
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. 
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration
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INVALID. 
File No. 1029 
Dayton Ireland
[illegible] N. J. Line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 188
Arrangement of 1870.