Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1103, James Van Gorder, Continental New Jersey Residence And Agency In 1818
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental.

Van Gorder, James
Vrendenburgh,
Elizabeth

NUMBER
W.1103
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CONTENTS
New Jersey residence and agency in 1818
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8762 (4
New Jersey Roll. (8)
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James Vrendenburgh [Vredenburgh], alias James Van Gorder. of Sussex Co'y in the State of New Jersey who was a Matross in the regiment commanded by Colonel Lamb of the New York line, for the term of four years. Continental [large] 81
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3d of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 2d. of April 1819, and sent to John Johnson, Newtown, New Jersey.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819 .... 88.49
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept. 4, 1819. 48."
Arr's. 10 mo. 28/30 - 4/31. $136.49

{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

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Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Mar 1839 to 1. May 1839, the day of his death
Agt. notified 24 June 1840
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let to J. W. Martin, June 15. 1843

[written vertically, partly overwritten by the above:]
Notification sent to Ephraim Green Esq'r
28 Sep 1820, Newton, New Jersey
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Newton NJ Mar [obscured] 1819
Free
The Honorable J. C. Calhoun
Pension Office
City Washington

[written upward] Old case

[written downward] Adm'd. [Admitted]
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James Vredenburgh alias James V'n. Gorder
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(1)
New Jersey Sussex County ss. Personally appeared before me Jn'o. Johnson one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of common pleas of said County, James Vredenburgh alias James V'n. Gorder, and being duly sworn according to Law, deposeth and saith that he enlisted in the Continental army during the Revolutionary war, under Capt. James Jackson for one year [6 words inserted:] and at the expiration he enlisted under Capt. Andrew Moody in the artilary [artillery] in the New york line [3 words inserted:] for three years Commanded by Col'o. Lamb, under Gen'l Knox -- at the expiration thereof he was honorably discharged at West point, in the winter previous to the army's being disbanded. This deponent further saith that he is now old and has no property or income for his support and is intirely helpless and has lost the use of one of his hands, and has an aged wife who is very unhealthy, and that he now lives in Sussex County New Jersey.

James Vredenburgh V'n. Gorder
his X mark

Taken and subscribed before me this 3'd day of April 1818.
Jn'a Johnson

New Jersey Sussex County ss. Personally appeared before me Jn'o. Johnson Judge as aforesaid, Mr. W'm. Hill, a man of respectability, and being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he has been acquainted with the above deponent for fifteen years past, and by reputation, he believes he has served in the United ^States army during the revolutionary War, and that he has little property and ^is very infirm and has lost the use of one of his hands. --

[signed] William Hill

Taken and Subscribed before me this 3'd day of April 1818 }
Jn'o. Johnson
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To the Honorable the Secretary of War --

I do hereby certify that, the within affidavit was taken before me, and I am satisfied, that the said James V. V'n. Gorder has served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and comes within the provisions of the act of Congress passed for to provide for such & that he now lives in New Jersey Sussex County. Witness my hand this 4th day of April 1818.

Jn'o. Johnson Judge &c

Dear Sir In addition to the within -- James V. V'n. Gorder has traveled to the State of New York, and has procured the enclosed affidavit, with the seal of the County &c. -- I am fully satisfied of his Indigency. I therefore return the original application with his further proof. -- I am Respectfully your obed't Serv't -- Jn'o. Johnson Judge &c

March 9th 1819 --

State of New Jersey
Sussex County ss. } I Ephraim Greene Jun Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Sussex do Certify that John Johnson Esq'r the person who has taken the before mentioned deposition and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of taking and signing the same and now is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given in Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Sussex County Court this fifteenth day of March eighteen hundred and nineteen --

[signed] E Green Jr
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James Van Gorder
Pensioner. { Copy of Affidavit, &c

8.762
Con
Sept. 1819
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(3)
District of New Jersey, &c

On this twenty second day of August, in the term of August, in the year of our LORD, eighteen hundred & twenty, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas, of the County of Sussex, in the State of New Jersey, the said Court, being a Court of record in the said County, constituted and established by the Laws of this State, a court of record, having a Seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having power to fine and imprison, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, in civil causes, and keeping a record of its proceedings; James Van Gorder, of the age of Sixty four years, resident in the township of Walpack in said county, who being first duly Sworn, according to Law, doth on his oath declare and say, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows; he enlisted under Captain Andrew Moody, of the artillery, under the command of Colonel Lamb, of the New York line, for the term of three years, and continued in the same service, under the same Officers till the end of the said term; this enlistment was according to his recollection in the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven, after the expiration of the term he was discharged at West-point, in the State of New York. Was at fort Montgomery, when the same was taken by the enemy, but was among that number of the troops that escaped capture. And this declarant, further says, that he has received from the war office of the United States a certificate under the Seal of the said department, and the hand of J. C. Calhoun, and numbered 8762, of this declarant's being inscribed on the pension list roll, of the New Jersey, agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the third day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen. And the said James Van Gorder doth solemnly swear, that he was a resident, citizen of the United States, on the 18th day
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of March 1818. -- and that he has not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring himself within the provisions of an 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, passed on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen; And that he has not, nor has any person in trust for him any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to him, nor has he any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by him subscribed. -- And this declarant doth further say, that he is sixty four years old, and by occupation a Cooper, but by the loss of the use of his left wrist (he being left handed) is unable to pursue his said trade or occupation, so as to procure a living thereby. -- That his family resident with him consists of a wife named Elizabeth aged fifty four years, too old and unhealthy to procure a comfortable support for herself -- and of four children named Elizabeth, Richard, Anna & Samuel, aged fourteen, twelve, ten and eight years, who are too young to maintain themselves, without contributing to the support of the declarant. And this declarant further says that he is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to procure a support without the aid of Government, or public or private charity. --

James Van Gorder X his mark

Sworn to & declared in open Court the 22d day of August A.D. 1820.

Jn'o Johnson

Schedule of the property of James Van Gorder, necessary clothing and bedding excepted. --

Real Estate -- none. --
Personal Estate, as follows --
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two Cows -- five Swine -- one Chest
one table -- three pots -- tea kettle
frying pan -- griddle -- trammel
3 pails -- old dresser and a few small articles thereon,
a few Coopers tools. --

James Van Gorder X his mark

Sworn to, and Subscribed in open Court, the 22d day of August, AD. 1820.

Jn'o Johnson.

it is the opinion of the Court, that the property on the above schedule is of the value of forty dollars and fifty cents. August 22 - 1820.

Jn'o Johnson.

I, Ephraim Green Jun'r clerk of the court of common Pleas afores'd, 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 afores'd Schedule, is forty dollars and fifty cents. --

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this thirtieth day of August, A.D. 1820.

[signed] E Green Junr Clerk of the Court for the County of Sussex afs'd
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7546
New Jersey (9)
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Elizabeth Van Gorder
widow of James Vrendenburgh alias
James Van Gorder
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on [lined out: the] or about the 1st May 1839
of Sussex in the State of New-Jersey [overwritten: NY Y]
who was a Matross in the Company
commanded by Captain --- [written above: Continental] of the
Regt commanded by Col Lamb in
[the] New York line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 100 Dollars --
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of
August, 1843 and sent to J. W. Martin Otisville N.Y.
Whole amount due ... $500.

[[Act July 7, 1838.]]
Recorded by Thomas Lumpkin Clerk,
Book A, Vol. 2 Page 139
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State of New Jersey
Sussex County } ss Abraham Van Camp of the County of Warren but now in the town of Walpack in the County of Sussex and State aforesaid aged Seventy four years being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with James Vredenburgh Alias James Van Gorder who was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818 That he has often heard him tell of being in the Army and that he belonged to the Artillery and of his being in the battle at Fort Montgomery and afterwards having a skirmish at Newburgh with the British shipping when they were going down the River after burning Kingston He was acquainted with the said James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder from soon after the close of the Revolution untill his death and was at his funeral which was about the first of May 1839 He was also well acquainted with Elizabeth Van Gorder and was present at the Marriage of James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder and Elizabeth Van Gorder at her fathers house in the town of Pacquarra in the County and State aforesaid That they were married by Abraham Van Camp then an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and according to the best of this Deponents recollection it was on the sixth day of February 1786 That the said Justice was the father of this deponent but this deponent does not know that there is any of his fathers doings as a Justice in existence nor does he know of any record of said marriage but he knows that Elizabeth Van Gorder who is now applying for a Pension is the widow of James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder who was at the time of his death a Pensioner of the United States

[signed] Abraham Vancampen

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28 day of April, 1843
and I certify that he is a credible witness
Lewis Howell Juge --
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Sussex County ss I Lewis Howell a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that Elizabeth Van Gorder in my opinion should be believed and that her statements herein made are to be credited and believed And from personal examination I am satisfied that she is not able to attend the sitting of the Court of record in and for the said County

Lewis Howell Juge --

State of New Jersey Sussex County } ss Samuel Van Gorder being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is twenty seven years of age that he is the son of James Vredenburgh ugh alias James Van Gorder who was a Pensioner of the United States for services rendred in Capt Moodys Company of Artillery in the Revolutionary war and that the said James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder died on the 29 day of [crossed out: May] April 1839 and that he left Elizabeth Van Gorder a widow who is still living and has not since married but remains a widow That his father James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder was pensioned under the act of 1818 at the rate of Eight Dollars per month as a Matross in the Army and he believes that since the death of his father his Pension certificate has been returned to the Pension department Sworn to and subscribed by making his mark this 28 day of April 1843 And I certify that he is a credible witness The word April interlined and May erased before signing Lewis Howell Juge

Samuel Van Gorder + his mark
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State of New Jersey
Sussex County } ss On this 28 day April 1843 personally appeared before the undersigned a Judge of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Sussex Elizabeth Van Gorden [Van Gorder] a resident of the town of Walpack County of Sussex and State of New Jersey aged Seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1838, and the provision of a Resolution of Congress passed August 16th 1842

That she is the widow of James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution and belonged to Captain Andrew Moodies Company of Artillery Col Lambs Regiment and in the New York line and served as a Matross for more than two years in said company and Regiment from some time in 1776 untill he was discharged but she is not able to tell at what time that was she further declares that she has no documentary or other evidence of her said husbands services in her possession but depends upon the evidence already in possession of the Pension department in the case of her husband James Verdenburgh [Vredenburgh] alias James Van Gorden [Van Gorder] who was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of March 18th 1818 at the Rate of Ninty six dollars per year and was placed on the Pension Roll on the 2d day of April 1819 and commenced April 3, 1818

She further declares that that she was married to the said James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorden on the Sixth day of February 1786 at her fathers house in the town of Pacquarra [probaby Pahaquarry] County and State aforesaid by Abraham Van Camp then an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and who was

[in left margin, written upward] 9020
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duly authorised to perform the marriage ceremony that her name before marriage was Elizabeth Van Gorder that she has no documentary evidence of her marriage in her possession nor does she know of any in existence that she relies on the evidence of living witness who was present and saw her married and upon the accompanying record of her childrens births which is a correct record of the births of the children by her marriage to James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder. That since the said record has been sealed to this declaration it has been read to her and she is satisfied that it is a correct record and was kept in her family Bible in the life time of her said husband That her said husband James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder died on the 29 day of April 1839 in the town of Pacquarra now in the County of Warren and State aforesaid and that she has ever since remained a widow as will more fully appear by refrence to the proof annexed hereunto That she believes that her husbands certificate has been returned to the Pension department That she was not married before the last term of her husbands service but that she was married previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and [crossed out; eighty] ninety four at the time before stated She further declares that from the infirmities of disease that is fasting [?] wasting her away she unable to attend the sitting of the Court of record in and for the said County That she cannot write but makes her mark

Elizabeth Van Gorder her mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year before written
Eighty erased and ninety inserted before signing

Lewis Howell Juge
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Record of the Bearths of James and Elizabeth Vangordens Children
Jane Vangorden was Born October 1787
Aaron J Vangorden was Born December 1789
Susannah Vangorden was Born February 18 [illegible] 1793
Caterin Vangorden was born June [illegible] 1793
Hannah Vangorden was Born August 1795
Rebecah Vangorden was Born October 1797
William Vangorden was Born August 1799
Benjamin Vangorden was Born October 1801
James Vangorden was Born May 1804
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Elizabeth Vangorden was Born June 1806
Richard Vangorden was Born August 1808
Anne Vangorden was Born November 1810
Samuel Vangorden was Born November 1812
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State of New Jersey
Sussex County }ss Sarah Van Camp of the town of Pacquarra in the County of Warren and State aforesaid but now in the town of Walpack in the County of Sussex and State aforesaid aged seventy one years and upwards being duly sworn deposeth and Saith that she was well acquainted with Elizabeth Van Gorder when she was a girl and was present when she was married to James Vredenburg alias James Van Gorden, which according to the best of her recollection was about the sixth of February 1786. That the was acquainted with and knew them living together untill the death of the said James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder, and she new the said James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder to be a Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death which was about the first of May 1839, and she knows Elizabeth Van Gorder who is now applying for a Pension to be the widow of the said James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder and Elizabeth Van Gorder to live together from the time of their marriage untill his death.

[signed] Sarah Van cmepe

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28 day of April 1843 And I certify that Sarah Van Camp is a credible Witness

Lewis Howell Juge
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State of New Jersey
Sussex County ss } (5)
I, John H. Hall, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County of Sussex, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the signature of Lewis Howell, Esq. and I verily believe that attached to the foregoing affidavits of Elizabeth Van Gorder, Samuel Van Gorder, Abraham Van Campen, and Sarah Van Campen, as well as that attached to his own certificate to be genuine, and in his own proper hand writing; and further that he the said Lewis Howell, Esq. is now one of the acting Judges of this Court, duly commission and sworn, and that full faith and credit is due to his official acts as such Judge, that his commission bears date of 9th March AD. 1841, and will expire on the 9th of March A.D. 1846, and that he was duly sworn into office, as such Judge, by me, on the 18th day of March A.D. 1841; and further that this court is a Court of Record having a Clerk and a seal.

In Testimony whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Newton, in said County of Sussex, this twenty ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and forty three, and of the Independence of the United States the sixty seventh

John H. Hall.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 1103
Elisabeth Van Gorder
Widow
James Vrendenburgh alias
James Van Gorder
Matross Rev War

Act: July 7. 1838.
Index:-- Vol. A, Page 294

[[Arrangement of 1870.]]

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(6)
Otis Ville New York
May 4 1843

Dr Sir

Accompyning this letter I send the Declaration of Elizabeth Vangorder and the Affidavits of Abraham Van Campen Sarah Van Campen and Samuel Vangorder to sustain the said widows claim to a Pension. That she the widow of James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder there is not a doubt in the mind of any one who knew the said parties in the life time of said James Vredenburgh alias James Van Gorder. Please examine the same and make returns to your

Obedent Servant
John W Martin

Hon J L Edwards
Comp'r of Pensions
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9020
Elizabeth Van Gorder
N.J.
Act 7. July 38.
Admd
2 yrs Matross
100$
J. W. Martin Esq'r
Otisville
NY.
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(7 )
Otis Ville June 8 1843

Dr Sir

The papers of Mrs Elizabeth Van Gorder widow of James Van Gorder authenticated according to your directions is herewith returned to you as early information as can be possibly given in relation to this case will be most gratefully received

Please answer to the case of Elijah Witon or Whiting who makes application for increase of Pension for services rendered in the Revolution as a Sergeant as soon as convenient Likewise give me what you find upon examining the case of Nathen Cook

I am Sir your obt St
John W Martin

Hon J L Edwards
Commiss of Pensions
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(4)
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 17th, 1840.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of James Vredenburgh, a Pensioner on the Roll of the New Jersey Agency, at the rate of Eight - Dollars [lined out: and Cents] per [lined out: annum] month, under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1839, to the 1st May 1839, the day of his death.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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(2)
State of New York
Orange County } ss Personally came before me Joseph Elder Esqr one of the Justices of the peace in and for said ^County John Gillespy and Samuel Miller Inhabitants of the town of Montgomery and County of Orange who deposeth and saith that they Both knew James Vangorder that he Enlisted in the Redgment [regiment] of Artillery Commanded by Colonel John Lamb in the Company of Capt Andrew Moody: and that he the said James Enlisted in the year 1777 for the term of three years and served out the terme for which he enlisted for in the Service of the United Stats of America and ^was Honorably discharged from the Service at the Expiration of the said terme

[signed] Samuel Hiller
John Gillespy X his mark

Sworn Before me this 30th day of January 1819

Joseph Elder J Peace

I certify that same and have been well acquainted with Both the above Witnesses and that the [they] Stand unimpeached,  and are men of truth and veracity

Joseph Elder J Peace
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State of New York
Orange County } SS I David M. Westcott Clerk of the said County of Orange do hereby certify that Joseph Elder, on the thirtieth day of January last, was one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County -- that I am acquainted with his hand writing and believe his name subscribed to the within Affidavit & Certificate is in the proper hand writing of the said Joseph Elder. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the said County of Orange the twelfth day of February 1819.

D. M. Westcott