Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 602, Isaac Brokaw, New Jersey
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SERVICE   New Jerey
Brokaw, Isaac or Brocaw
NUMBER S. 602
carded
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17,011
New Jersey
Brokaw
Isaac Brocaw
of Piscataway in the State of New Jersey
who was a Private in the compy commanded by Captain        of the Reg commanded by Col Dy Mink in the New Jersey line for 2 years   $80.00
Date of death not on aB
Inscribed on the roll of New Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars      Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of July 1833 and sent to Hon J F Randolph New Brunswick New Jersey
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833         $160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept 1833    40.00
                                                             ________
                                                             $200.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Vinal Luce Clerk Book E Vol. 3 Page 102
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Isaac Brocaw's application for pension 8720
Certificate to be sent to James L Nevins N Bruns N.J.
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State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss:}
On this fourteenth day of September ijn the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Inferior court of Common Pleas in +d for the county of Middlesex in the state o New Jersey, being a court of record and now sitting Isaac Brocaw a resident in the Township of Piscataway in the county of Middlesex aforesaid + State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law and examined and interrogated according to the instructions from the war department doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That is to say that he was born in the county of Somerset and State of New Jersey, on the 12th day of April 1759 + is now i the seventy fourth year of his age, that the original record of his age kept by his father is now in the possession of his sister +d that he has a copy taken from the same - that he resided in the county of Somerset from his birth, from his birth until about forty or forty one years since when he removed into the county of Middlesex the adjacent county where he has resided ever since and still resides - that he entered the service of the United States in the autumn of he year 1770 when he had arrived in his seventeenth year of age in the company in which Garret R.Garretson served as Lieutenant
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and as he thinks, Lawrence Van Clief was Captain but does not distinctly recollect - that he entered the service as a private soldier and volunteered + went to Bergen and Communipaw in the county of Bergen and Elizabeth town in the county of [Essex] + State of New Jersey + served for one month under the above named officers and Colonel  Duychinck, he then returned home + stayed home a month, and after that continued to serve every other month or nearly so till the end of the war - at different times during the revolutionary war he served under the following captains viz. Cornelius Lott, John Baird, William Baird, Joshua Kershon, + James Wheeler + under Major Benjamin Baird + Colonel Peter S. Vroom and adjutant Colonel Ten Eyck - during the war he served at the following places viz. Hackensack - Bergen Communipaw, Newark Pompton plains Elizabethtown Springfield + on the Millstone river in the state of New Jersey + marched through the county + eyeing between + adjacent to the  places above named - was at the battle of Springfield in New Jersey and at a skirmish with the British along the Millstone river in Somerset County when they had one man killed as they were descending the hill by a buckshot from the enemy Served two years in the whole  during the war + always for himself, never as a substitute and always in the capacity of a private - cannot recollect the names of any of the officers of the regular army, or the names of number of any continental or militia regiments with whom he served during the war - Has no written discharge from the service, nor any documentary evidence of his service, now does he now recollect
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of any prominent historical event that according to the instructions of the war department it is necessary to mention in this his declaration He is personally well known to Mindert Van Arsdalen and Mindert Wilson and some others who were soldiers of the revolution and who served with him & can prove his service & is also well known to the Rev. Ravand Rodgers & John Latourette Esq who resides in his neighbourhood & can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.

And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

[signed] Isaac Brokaw

Sworn & subscribed in open court the day & year first above written
N Booraem Judge

Middlesex County ss: We [blotted out] Arsdalen and [blotted out] residing in the county of Somerset and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that we are respectively acquainted with Isaac Brocaw who has sworn to and subscribed he foregoing declaration, that we served with him in the revolutionary war and are personally well acquainted with many of the parts stated by him in his said declaration in relation to his said service & from our knowledge of his said service and his character we give entire credence to the whole statement made by him

[signed] Minard Van Arsdalen [?]

Sworn to & subscribed in open court the day & yr afs'd [aforesaid]
N Booraem Judge
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New Jersey
Middlesex County Ss: We Ravaud K Rodgers a clergyman residing in the county of Somerset and Wm B. Manning residing in the county of Middlesex + in the neighborhood of Jonas Brokaw hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Isaac Brocaw who has sworn to + subscribed the above declaration, that we believe him to be of the age of seventy three years or thereabouts - that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion - 
Sworn + subscribed in open court the day + year afd N. Booraem Judge}
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 tat the above named applicant was a revolutionary and served as he states - and the court further certifies that it appears to them that the said Ravaud K. Rodgers - who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident i the county of Somerset + State of New Jersey + that Wm B. Manning - who has also signed the same is resident in the county of Middlesex + state aforesaid + is a credible person + that their statement is entitled to credit -
N Booraem Thos Hance H Ford} Judges
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I Ferdinand S. Vanarsdalen Clerk of the Inferior court of the county of Middlesex + 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 Isaac Brocaw for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two 
F. S. Vanarsdalen Clk
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August 24, 1936
BA-J/AWF
Isaac Brokaw - S.602
Mrs. William R. Conover
Freehold, Star Route
New Jersey
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the Revolutionary War records of Tunis VanDerveer, born 1739, married Jannetje Van Noostrandt, died
1801, William Day, born 1718, married Margaret Salter, died 1784, Lawrence Day and Isaac Brokaw, born 1759, married Maria VanNortwick, died 1838. You request to
know also, the meaning of the "association test."
There are no claims for pension or bounty land based upon service in the Revolutionary War of the Tunis VanDerveer and William Dey described above, nor of a Lawrence Day. All spellings of the surnames searched. The record of the only Tunis VanDerveer
( S. 14752) found in the Revolutionary War records of this office was furnished you September 14, 1928. The record has been found of one Isaac Brokaw who was born
in 1759. His record follows as found in pension claim, S. 602, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
For information in regard to the requirements of the "association test," see Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Volume 5, page 8.
Isaac Brokaw was born April 12, 1759 in Somerset County, New Jersey, names of his parents not given. While residing in Somerset County, he served from sometime in August, 1776, at various times as a
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private in the New Jersey troops, under Captains Ten Eyck, Lawrence VanClief, Cornelius Lott  William Baird, Joshua Kershon
James Wheeler, Staats, Colonels Duychinck,
Peter D. Vroon, and John Ten Eyck; he was in the battle of Springfield, and several skirmishes. He also served three months as a teamster under General Wayne. He served until the close of the war, amounting in all to about two years. 
   The soldier, Isaac Brokaw, was allowed pension on his application executed, September 14, 1832, while a resident of Piscataway Township, Middlesex County,
New Jersey, having lived there about forty years.
  There is no reference to wife or children. Reference was made in 1832 to his sister, her name not given.
  In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records
Division, Washington, D. C., and give the following data
Isaac Brokaw (Brocaw)
Certificate # 17011
Issued July 6, 1833
Rate $80.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
New Jersey Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Rev War INVALID. File No 602
Isaac Brocaw Brokaw 
Priv N. J. Line
Act: June 7. 1832.
Index: -Vol. a, Page 41 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1926 - Oct 5 - Hist to Frances B Cropsey and
1929 - May 15 - Hist to Mrs. Wm. R. Conover awf.
1931. June 19 hist to Grace F. Rockefellow. See letter in [  ] Isaac Brokaw. S. 802 mcs 1936 - Aug 24 - hist to Mrs Wm R. Conover any
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237-82nd Street
Brooklyn. NY
Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:-
Please send me copy of pension papers of Isaac  Brokaw born April 12 - 1759 died July 29 - 1838 served in Revolutionary war from New Jersey.
Thanking you for same I am Very truly Frances B Cropsey. August 19-1926
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MRS. WILLIAM R. CONOVER STAR ROUTE FREEHOLD N.J.
Nov. 19, 1928
Commissioner of Pensions:-
Dear Sir:- Can you give me any information of Isaac Brokaw on your records? born April 12, 1759. and also of John B. Field born April 2, 1756
Both of these men have war records and I have been told that they were on the Pension Roll Thanking you for any -
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thing you may be able to find for me
I remain Yours truly Laura V. Conover (Mrs Wm R.)
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Freehold, N.J. Star Route July 3, 1938
Veterans Administration:-
I am interested in getting some supplemental papers in D.A.R. o the following names, and would be very glad if you can give me some information, -
Tunis VanDerveer, b. 1739 d. 1801 [handwritten: "not as"]
m     Jannetje Van Noostrandt
Isaac Brokaw b. 1759 d. 1838
m  1782 Maria Van Nortwick
William Dey b. 1718 - 1784 [hand written:  "not as"]m     Margaret Salter
Lawrence Dey b. 1738 d. 1824
m.   ------
I would appreciate having the War records of any of these an or all of them. Can you tell me what the "association
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test" was?  I do not even know what it was, and I have been told that you can put a supplemental paper thru on that, if an older man signed it instead of fighting. 
I will be very glad to know something about it, as it may come in my work. Thanking you for any information you can give me. Very sincerely Laura VanDerveer Conover (Mrs William R.)
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Isaac Brocaw Pension papers
Admitted Private 24 months $80
James F Randolph N Brunswick N.J.
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Supplemental affidavit Ss Isaac Brocaw New Jersey Middlesex
Personally appeared before me the undersigned as a Justice of the peace + Judges of the Inferior court of common Pleas in + for the county of Middlesex+ State of New Jersey Isaac Brocaw who being duly sworn on his oath saith that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory + lapse of time he cannot swear positively to the precise length of his service, but having reflected upon the matter since making the foregoing declaration, to the best ogf his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades that is to say
1st:  For two weeks in the month of August 1776 at Elizabethtown, Bergen + Communipaw in N. Jersey under Capt. Conrad Ten Eyck + Col. Daychinck - This was the time that the battle of Brooklin took place, was then at Elizabethtown - as a private - 
2nd: For one month in October 1776 at Elizabethtown as a private under Capt. Lawrence Van Clief + Lieutenant Garret R. Garretson - 
3rd: For one month in January 1777 as a private along the Millstone river under Capt. Van Clief -
4th: For one month in March 1777 at the same place under Capt. James Wheeler at this time had a skirmish with the British at Van Nests, miles + lost one man - as a private - 
5: For one month in May 1777 along the Millstone river under Capt Van Clief
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8th:  For one month on July 1777 as a private at Elizabethtown under Captain Lott + Colonel Peter D Vroom - This was the month after the British left New Brunswick -
7th 28th: For two  months on September and November 1777 as a private at Elizabethtown and Newark under Capt Lott and adjutant Col. John Ten Eyck -He is able to designate these tours by reference to the battles of Brandywine + Germantown
9th: For one tour of a month in January 1778 at Elizabethtown under Capt. [illeg] Banco as a private - 
10: For one tour of a month at Elizabethtown as a private under Capt. Joshua Kershon this was in March 1778.
11: For one tour of a month in April following as a private on guard at the house of Col. White near New Brunswick on the Raritan River under Capt. James Wheeler - 
12: For one month in May 1778 as a private at Elizabethtown under Captain Joshua Kershon - This was the month before the Monmouth battle which is fresh in his recollection - 
13: For one month in July 1778 after the battle of Monmouth as a private under Captain Lott at Elizabethtown
14.15: For Two tours of a month each in September + November at Newark + Hackensack under Capt Joshua Kershon as a private - 
16: For one Tour of a month in January
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1779 at Elizabethtown or Newark think at Newark under Capt Rynear Staats as a private
17th: For one month at Pompton Plains as a private under Capt Lott in March 1779, built a new fort there
18.19: For two tours at Rahway + Elizabethtown in May + July 1779 of one mo. each as a private under Captain James Wheeler + Major William Baird
20.21: For two Tours of a month each in Sept. + November 1779 at Elizabethtown as a private under Capt Lott - He cannot recollect where or how he served from this time till the term following when he served
22: For one tour of a month as a private at Springfield, under Captain Lott, Col. Vroom + Major Wm. Baird was at the battle of Springfield - In August following to wit in 1780 he served
23: For one month at Elizabethtown as a private under Captain Lott Besides the several tours above specified he served for three months in the Pennsylvania Line under General Wayne as a teamster - this was when the Pennsylvania troops were in New Jersey - He also served some tours that he has not nor can he designate, His whole service as a soldier + private was not less than two years
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and for his service he claims a pension [    ] which Generals Frelinghuysen + Heard both of whom he served under + are now dead - Isaac Brokaw
Sworn + subscribed before me this 27th day of June 1833 W. Ford. [illegible] Justice of the peace
I Josiah Ford Justice of the Peace + Judge of the Inferior court of common Pleas in + for the county of Middlesex + State of New Jersey do hereby certify that it appears to me that [illegible] who has signed one of the [illeg] certificates is a resident in the county of Somerset and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit - June 27. 1833. J. Ford Judge + Justice of the Peace
I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the Inferior court of common Pleas in + for the county of Middlesex in New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings had before said court and also the supplementary proceedings had before Josiah Ford i the matter of the application of Isaac Brocaw for a pension - and I further certify that the said Josiah Ford before whom said supplementary proceedings were had is a Justice of the Peace + also a Judge of said court in + for said county duly commissioned and sworn +df that his name to said proceedings
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subscribed in his own peoples hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at New Brunsk. this 27th day of June 1833
N Booraem Clerk
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Grace F. Rockafellow 244 So. River St. Wilkes Barre, Pa.
June 19, 1931
Isaac Brokaw, S. 602
It appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 602, that Isaac Brokaw was born April 12, 1759, in Somerset County, New Jersey. 
While residing in Somerset County, he served from the fall of 1776, at various times, as a private until the close of the war, amounting in all to two years, under Captains Conrad
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Ten Eyck, Lawrence Van Clief, Cornelius Lott, John Baird, William Baird, Joshua Kershon, James Wheeler, Rynear Staats, Colonels
Duychinck, Peter D. Vroom, John Ten Eyck, in the New Jersey troops. He was in the battle of Springfield and several skirmishes. He also served three months as a teamster under General Wayne, no details of this service given. He was allowed pension on his application executed September 14, 1832, while a resident of Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
There are no data relative to family.
The foregoing are the histories of the only soldiers named Isaac Brokaw that are found in the Revolutionary War records of
this bureau.
On account of the large number of requests for histories of soldiers of the Revolution and war of 1812, and the lack of a clerical force
available for furnishing this information, the bureau is unable to send the records of more than two soldiers to each inquirer.
Very truly yours

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
[hand written note: "This was included in letter sent to inquirer"]
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AW/eel
Mrs. William R. Conover
Star Route
Freehold, New 
May 14, 1929

Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.602, it appears that Isaac Brokaw was born, April 12, 1759, in Somerset County, New Jersey.
While residing in Somerset County, he served from the fall of 1776, at various times as a private until the close of the war, amounting in all to two years, under Captains Conrad Ten Eyck, Lawrence VanClief, Cornelius Lott, John Baird, William Baird, Joshua Kershon, James Wheeler, Rynear Staats, Colonels Duychinck, Peter D. Vroom, John TenEyck in the New Jersey Troops. He was in the battle of Springfield and several skirmishes, He also served three months as a teamster under General Wayne, no details of this service given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 14, 1832, while a resident of Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey. There are no data relative to family.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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October 5, 1926
Frances B. Cropsey
337 - 82nd St
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim S. 602, it appears that Isaac Brokaw was born April 12, 1759 in Somerset County, New Jersey.
While residing in Somerset County, he served
from the fall of 1776, at various times as a private until the close of the war, amounting in all to two years, under Captains Conrad TenEyck, Lawrence Vanclief, Cornelius Lott, John Baird, William Baird, Joshua Kershon, James Wheeler, Rynear Staats, Colonels Duychinck, Peter D. Vroom, John TenEyck,
in the New Jersey Troops. He was in the battle of Springfield, and several skirmishes.
He also served three months as a teamster,
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[crossed out:  "the Pennsylvania troops"], under General Wayne, no details of this service given.
He was allowed pension on his application
executed September 14, 1832, while a resident of
Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
There is no data on file as to family.
Respectfully,

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.