Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 766, for Ichabod Tomkins, New Jersey
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New Jersey  Tomkins, Ichabod  S.766
Carded
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9786
New Jersey
Ichabod Tomkins
of Sussex in the State of New Jersey
who was a private in the compy commanded 
by Captain Lindly of the Regt commanded
by Col Seely in the New Jersey
line for 10 months 5 days.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 33 dollars 89 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17day of (?)
1833 and Sent to JE Ed...
Newton New Jersey

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $67.70
Semi-an. allowance ending 4 Sept. 16.92
$84.72
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
recorded by JWClagett Clerk
Book E. Vol. 3. Page 133.
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8.060
Ichabod Thompson
Sussex Co N Jersey

Adm for 10 months
and 5 days-

J T  Edsall
Newton
New Jersey
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BRIEF in the case of Ichabod Tompkins
County of Sussex in the State of New Jersey
(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? 71 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[Table, Column headings:]
(1) Period.
(2) Duration of Service.
[subheadings:  Years, Months, Days.]
(3) Rank.
(4) Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.

[text under headings:]

(1) In 1776. Sept
Decr
77 fall
78 Decr
79 March
81 October

(2) [under Months:}
1
1
1
1
1
3              5

(3) As a Private
"
"
"
"
"

(4) Capt Lindly  Col Ford
"
Maj Hays
Col Teely
Col Seely
Capt Baldwin Col Seely

[following witten under the table:]
He states that he was in the month of September & October, in the year 1778 under the command of Capt Arnold engaged a five weeks.

5. In what battles was he engaged?That in the year [1]778 in the fall of the year he served in a one month Capt Halsy, Col.Hathaway

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Sussex Co. New Jersey

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence

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

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk.
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Sussex Common Pleas
August Term 1832

New Jersey -
Sussex County ss.
  On this twenty seventh day of August in the Year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and thirty two personally appeared in Open Court Before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County now Sitting. Ichabod Tomkins of the Township of [illegible] in the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey aforesaid aged, Seventy one Years who being 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 of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein Stated. That he was drafted in the Year 1776, in the month of September he thinks, for one month under Capt. John Lindly - in the Regament of Col Jacob Ford that Daniel Wright was in the same company that they were encamped at Eliabethtown point during the time aforesaid - That he was again drafted in the month of Nov or Decr. of the same Year under the same Officers - for one month more, that Genl. Williamson Commanded, and was encamped at Elizabethtown point aforesaid = and as also the aforesaid Danl Wright - that he was drafted again in the year 1777, sometime in the fall of the Year, dont recollect the Capt. name, was under Major Mays, Col don't recollect,. was encamped and stationed at Newark were he done service for one month. About this time General Sullivan crossed with his troops over to Staten Island.  Was drafted again in the Year 1778, thinks about Christmas, dont recollect the Capts name -
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4  Fineas Fawen Lieutenant, in the Regiment of Col. Sylvanus Seely was encamped at Elizabeth Town point where he done one months duty.
5th  That he was again drafted in the year 1779 in the month of March, dont recollect his Capt under Lieu. Fineas Fawen in the Regiment of Col Seely aforesaid and was drafted for one month encamped at the place aforesaid -
6th  That he volunteered in Captain Stephen Baldwins Company - under the command of Col. Seely.- for three months, enlisted in the month of October in the Year 1781  that William Pennington was adjt that he enlisted at Morris Town in the County of Morris from where he marched to Dobbs Ferry, from thence to Hackensack and from Hackensack to Newark from thence to Elizabethtown from thence to Connecticut Farms, where he was Stationed for the said time.
7h  That he was five weeks, in the month of September & October in the Year 1778, thinks under the command of Capt Jacob Arnold at Morristown in the County of Morris - engaged in guarding the Prisoners confined in the Jail of said Couty - that he was at Springfield   I was engaged in Skirmishes with the Brittish, that two of this company were wounded viz John Lidley and Stephen Ogden, and Skirmishes at Bellville and other places -
8h  that he was drafted in the year 1778 - in the fall of the Year and served one month was at Redbank fort called under Col. Benona Hathaway in the Company of Stephen Halsey, was at Princeton, at Borden town and other places during the time  Says he was born on the first of April in the 1761; he being
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has a record of his age, which is at Morristown where he was born, at the different times when drafted and called into Service was resident of the County of Morris for the State of New Jersey Since the war has lived in the State of New York fourteen or fifteen Years, and the residue of his time has lived and does now live in the County of Sussex in the State of New Jersey, that he was drafted in the Service at the different times aforesaid except the three months service in which he volunteered - that he has no documentary evidences - that he knows no person except Danl Wright whose Testimony he can procure to testify to his service.  Says that he is acquainted with Genl Benjamin Hamilton and Maj William Simonson of his Town who can testify as to his 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
Sworn to and Subscribed in Open Court at Newton this 27th Day of August 1832
Ichabod Tomkins
Robert Hon. Carter  )
Benjn Halsey   )  Judge
We Benjamin Hamilton & William Simonson of the Township of Vernon in the County of Sussex in the State of New Jersey - and residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ichabod Tomkins of said
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Township who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration, the we believe him to be Seventy one Years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he lives & resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and Subscribed in Open Court the Day and Year aforesaid -
Robert Hm Carter    Benjn Hamilton
Judges & William Simonson
Benjn Halsey
Jas McMillen and the said Court do hereby declare their opinioin after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Benjamins Hamilton and William Simonson residing in the neighbourhood of said Applicant, are credible persons and tht their Statement is entitled to credit -
Benj Halsey   )
Jas. McMillan   )  Judges
James Stoll   )
Andrew Willson   )
I, Joseph E. Edsall Clerk of said Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the doregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ichabod Tomkins for a pension.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Newton, this twenty eighth day of August AD 1832
J.E. Edsall, Clk
(seal affixed)
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Rev War
INVALID.

File No. 766
Ichabod Tomkins
Priv. N.J. Line

Act:  June 7, 1832
Index:  Vol. A, Page 376

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Ichabod Tompkins
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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 Ichabod Tompkins Sussex Co New Jersey which require further proof or explanation.

1. 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 amout 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 to his revolutionary service? No

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No

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's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?  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's service?

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?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
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*QUERE 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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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 they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn 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.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and 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.

QUERE XVI. 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 paper 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.

In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, 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.
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Ichabod Tomkins
$33.89
Payments to be made,
at Trenton
by 1st Trenton Banking Co.
Agent for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of
New Jersey.

Mr. R. Winans
#766

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E Vol. 3
Page 133 by W. R. Palmer
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Ichabod Tomkins of the state of New Jersey, who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is entitled to receive Thirty three dollars and Eighty nine cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4 (blocked by seal) , in every year.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Seventeenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
(seal affixed)

John Robt
Acting Secretary of War.
Examined and }
Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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July 26th 1833 to Mar 4. 1833
Oct. 31 paid to Sept 4. 1833
April 4. Paid to Mar 4. 1834
Sept. 23 Paid to Sept. 4 1834
Mar 16 1835 Paid to Mar 4 1835
Sep 29 1835 Paid to Sep 4 1835
Mar 12 1836 Paid to March 1836
Sep 14 1836 Paid to Sep 4 1836
Apr 29 Paid by May 1837
Paid to 4 Sep 1837 
Paid to 4 Mar 1838
Paid to 4 Sep 1838
Paid to 4 Mar 1839
Paid to 4 Sep 1839
Paid to 4 Mar 1840
Paid to Sep 1840
Paid to 4 Mar 1841
Paid to 4 Sep 1841
Paid to 4 Sep 1841