Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,686, for John Salmon, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Salmon, John | S.30,686

CONTENTS
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Kentucky
John Salmon of Mason Co. in the State of Kent. who was a Pri(vate) of Cav(alry) in the co. commanded by Captain Green of the reg(iment) commanded by Col. Forman in the N. Jersey line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Kent. at the rate of 100 Dollars (blank) Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of August 1833 and sent (to) Marshall Key, Washington.

Arrears to the 4th of March............$200.00
Semi-anl. all(owan)ce ending 4 Sep.......50.00
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                                       $250.00

{Revolutionary claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Dan'l Boyd, Clerk

Book E; Vol. 7; Page 28
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13,714.

John Salmon

From 1777; Private of Cavalry; 2 years.

$100

Marshall Key
Washington 6th Kentucky
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13,714.

BRIEF in the case of John Salmon, County of Mason in the State of Kentucky.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

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

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

3. How old is he? 78.

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

Period. | Duration of Service. (Years, Months, Days.) | Rank. (As a) | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. (Gen.)
He was first enrolled in the month of March succeeding the British occupancy of the City of New York." | 3 mos. | Private | Capt. James Green, Lieut. John Bradley, Col. Samuel Forman.

Enl(isted) the succeeding summer, not stated precisely. | (blank) | D(itt)o | Capt. N. Van Brent, Capt., Capt. Ramson, Capt. P.B. Randolph, Capt. R. McKnight, Capt. B. Dennis, Capt L. Smock, Gen'l. David Forman.

5. In what battles was he engaged? Monmouth.

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Monmouth Cty., New Jersey.

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

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? They are not connected with the Clerk's seal, as required.

* - Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Jos. Waugh, Examining Clerk
Feb. 19, 1833
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13714
John Salmon's
Declaration
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State of Kentucky
County of Mason Sct.//

On this Thirteenth day of August in the year 1832, personally appeared in Open Court before the Justices of the County Court of said County, now siting John Salmon, a resident of the town of Washington in the County and State aforesaid, aged about Seventy eight 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 into the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, to wit; He was first enrolled as a Private Militia Man in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey in a company of Jersey Militia commanded by Capt. James Green, of which John Bradley was Lieutenant, and the company belonged to a regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Forman...
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...and was composed of light horse, in which company and regiment he served from the month of March succeeding the British occupancy of the City of New York, which he thinks was in the year (blank) for three months at a place called Tinton Falls, (so called) in the County of Monmouth aforesaid. That after that tour of duty and in the course of the succeeding summer, he again volunteered in a company of the same regiment commanded by Capt. Nicholas Van Brent of which Jacob Conover was Lieutenant and Randolph Conover, cornet [crossed out: when he engaged] whom he served a tour of three months in which time he had his horse kill(ed) under him in one engagement with some refugees at Shrewsbury in the said County of Monmouth, at which place Van Brent's company were stationed doing duty on the lines and watching the Tories and was then transferred to a company of the same regiment, commanded by Capt. Jacob Ramson, of which Wm. Ramson was lieut. under whom he served about four months more, doing duty as above...
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...when a Capt. Benjamin Randolph took command of the company under whom he served, he thinks about three months when Capt. Richard McKnight took command of the company under whom he served about six months, still doing duty as Militia Light Horseman at various places on the lines and as high up as Trenton & Princeton, occasionally. 

Capt. Benjamin Dennis then took command of the company under whom he served about four months, after which he was commanded by Capt. Lawrence Smock until the Battle of Monmouth, in which his company participated. He then remained in the service under Capt. Smock until the end of the war. He was one of the
troops that went as a guard to Congress when they retired from Philadelphia to Reading in Pennsylvania. He was taken prisoner by the refugees at Tinton Falls and carried to Sandy Hook, where was retained for about three weeks before he was exchanged. The regiment of cavalry to which he belonged was under the command of or belonged to the brigade of Gen'l David Forman of the...
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New Jersey Militia. He was discharged at Monmouth Courthouse in New Jersey in the year 1783 and had some certificate of his service but deeming them of no value, he soon lost them. He removed from the State of New Jersey to Kentucky in the year 1795 and has lived in this town ever since. He has no written evidence whatever of his services and knows of no person whose evidence he can procure, who can testify to his services, except Thomas Morris, who resides in this town and has a partial knowledge of the services of this applicant. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that he is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.

Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid.
s/John Salmon

We, Moses Fowler and Thomas Peck, residing in the County of Mason and State of Kentucky, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Salmon, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be Seventy seven or Seventy eight years old. That he is reputed and believed in the...
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...neighborhood in which he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Subscribed and sworn to in open Court.
s/ Moses Fowler
s/ Thos. Peck, Sr.

Thomas Morris, of the town of Washington and County of Mason in the State of Kentucky, states upon his solemn oath that being himself in the public service in the War of the Revolution as Militiaman in the Jersey Militia, he well remembers to have seen John Salmon in the service as light horseman. That he repeatedly saw said Salmon in the service during the continuance of war but does not know how long he served. That said Salmon was his near neighbor in the County of Monmouth & State of New Jersey before the commencement of the war and they have lived in sight of each other's residence for many years in the town of Washington and County Mason, aforesaid. That s(ai)d Salmon is a good man, poor and honest, and is respected by his neighbors and entitled to be believed when he states any fact...
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... as of his own knowledge.

Subscribed sworn to in Open Court.
s/ Thos. Morris (X - his mark)

State of Kentucky
Mason County Sct.//

August Court 1832.

John Salmon, produced in Court and subscribed and swore to the foregoing written statement or declaration of his services as a soldier in the War of the Revolution in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, which is ordered to be certified to the Secretary at War of the United States, and sundry witnesses being sworn and examined, the Court do hereby declare their opinion that the said applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as stated by him.

I, Marshall Key, Clerk of the County Court of Mason County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of application of John Salmon for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office for said Court this 24th day of September A.D. 1832. and of the Commonwealth the 41st.
s/ Marshall Key
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Kentucky, Mason County Court, May Term 1833.

John Salmon, who subscribed and made oath to his declaration contained in the preceding pages at the last August term of this Court, again came into Court and made oath that he cannot, from failure of his memory, state the proper period of time he served in the Revolutionary War but that he does know certainly and positively that it exceeded six years. He further states that at the time he made the foregoing declaration (at August term last) there was not, and that he is not now, any Clergyman residing in the town of Washington where he then & yet lives and that he has no intimate acquaintance amongst
the Clergy, whose knowledge of him would enable them to make any statement relative to his revolutionary services.

Subscribed & sworn to in Open Court.
s/ John Salmon

State of Kentucky, Mason County Sct., May Court 1833.

John Salmon produced an addition to his declaration made at the last August Court & swore to the same in Open Court. And it is ordered to be certified that there is not now, and was not at the last August term, any Clergyman residing in the town of Washington; and that Thomas Morris, Moses Fowler and Thomas Peck, whose testimony is appended to above declaration of John Salmon, made at the last August term, subscribed and sworn to the same in...
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...Open Court, and that they were persons of good character and entitled to full credit as witnesses.

In testimony whereof, I, Marshall Key, Clerk of Court for said County of Mason, have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Washington the 20th day of May 1833.
s/ Marshall Key
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30686
Rev(olutionary War)
INVALID.

Admitted.
File No. 30,686
John Salmon
Pri(vate) Rev(olutionary) War

Act: June 7th '32

Index: -; Vol. 2; Page 354

{Arrangement of 1870.}