Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 885, James Hendrickson, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey

Hendrickson, James

NUMBER
S. 885
Carded
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CONTENTS
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17.382
New Jersey
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James Hendrickson
of Monmouth Co in the State of N. Jersey
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Smock of the regt commanded
by --- in the N. Jersey
line for 2 year.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New-Jersey
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Augt.
1833 and Sent to
D B Ryall, Freehold
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept - 40.00
[sum] $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W.L. Williams Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3, Page 115
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Declaration of James Hendricks in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.-

State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss:
On this thirty first day of July, Anno Domini 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth now sitting at Freehold James Hendrickson a resident of the township of Howell formerly a part of Shrewsbury township County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey aged seventy nine years on the fifth day of March last past, 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 the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated-

That he entered said service as a Militiaman sometime in the fall of 1775 being about eighteen years of age and continued in the service until peace was proclaimed being in actual service every other month from the time the British landed at Staten Island in the year 1776 until peace was proclaimed, that previous to the British so landing he was out several months, he thinks three months whenever he was called, that when he first entered the service he resided in the township
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of Freehold in said County of Monmouth a few miles from where he now resides, that besides his regular tours of duty he was out during the above period several months in the service under the general alarms or calls as they were then termed, and that during the period he was out in actual service altogether at least four years at all times doing his duty as a good soldier, that the militia men in the district in which he then lived after the British landed at Staten Island were divided into two parts one half of which were called out every other month, and so the other half alternately, and were all subject to the general calls as alarm at danger required under these circumstances he performed the duties above mentioned he cannot however at this period of time state the particular time of each call, he however served each of his monthly tours as above stated besides the other services, that the captains under whom he served were the following in the order he here states them to the best of his recollection, namely Captain Hendrick Smock, Captain Michael Sweetman, Captain Benjamin Vancleaf and Captain William Vancleaf all of whom are now dead except Captain Benjamin Vancleaf; the field officers whom he now recollects were Colonel Asher Holmes, General David Forman
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Col James Green afterwards General and General Elisha Laurence all of whom are now deceased, that he was not in any battles during the service, that the Country through which he marched was from South Amboy in Middlesex County New Jersey to Toms River in Monmouth County guarding the intermediate points, shores and places from the inroads of the British and tories, on one occasion he marched to Sourland Mountain in Somerset County New Jersey under the command of General David Forman they being about one week absent from the County of Monmouth, this was when it was expected Washington's Army would be attached there, has no recollection of serving with any continental regiments or companies, nor was he acquainted with any of the regular officers of the Army he saw General Washington at the Sourland Mountain at the time he was there, that he has no documentary evidence of his services, and that he knows of no other person except Captain Benjamin Vancleaf, William Parent and Lewis Compton, whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. 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.

James Hendrickson X his mark

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid

John Patterson

[numbers in left margin:]
  33
  50
  --
  76
1753
----
  23
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State of New Monmouth County ss: We William Parent and Lewis Compton of the County aforesaid Do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with James Hendrickson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be of the age of seventy nine years that we know him to be a soldier of the Revolution having served with him during that period as such and that from our knowledge of his services we believe he was out in said service at least four years, that he is not only reputed and believed but is known in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to full credit.

William Parent
Lewis Compton

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid

John Patterson

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatories 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 William Parent and Lewis Compton who have signed the preceeding Certificate are residents of the County of Monmouth and were themselves respectively revolutionary soldiers and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

By order of the Court
W. J. Bowne
Judge &c
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Monmouth Pleas
of July 1st 1832
Declaration of James
Hindrickson 
No 4069
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I Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey at Freehold in said County Do hereby Certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Hendrickson for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this thirty first day of July Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and thirty two.

D. H. Ellis Clk
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I Daniel H. Ellis, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Monmouth in the 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 James Hendrickson for a Pension, made before the said Court in term time, on the thirty first day of July last.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court, this seventeenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

D. H. Ellis Clk
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Rev War
INVALID.
File No. 885
James Hendrickson,
Pri. N. J. Line
Act: June 7, 1832.
Index:-- Vol. A, Page 167
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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2nd amended declaration
of James Hendrickson
No 4069.
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Second Amended declaration of James Hendrickson an applicant for a pension under the act of June 7th 1833.

State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss. Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey James Hendrickson who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the monthly tours referred to in his original declaration numbered 4069 by the War department and particularly designated and named in his amended declaration [illegible] of one month each the beginning of each tour being the first of the said named month respectively and each tour ending the first of the next intervening month respectively, that the several companies to which he was attached and in which he served stationed at Middletown as their Head Quarters, the duties were to guard the Coast and shore of the County of Monmouth from the award of the British and tories and to suppress the disaffection in some sections of the County, that they were at Tinton Falls [illegible] Shrewsbury, at the town of Shrewsbury Middletown Point, at Freehold and at Toms River frequently as the calls and emergencies of the times required. but then marches were exclusively confined to the points and places to South Amboy in Middlesex and Toms River in Monmouth guarding the intermediate points and places from
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the enemy excepting the instance when when his company in the latter part of June or July 1777 marched to Sourland Mountain, he recollects
he employed a man at this time to plough corn for him during his absence on this occasion, to the best of his collation Benjamin Vancleaf was the Captain at that time, Wm Vancleaf Lieutenant & he thinks Nathaniel Scudder was their Colonel in that expedition and David Forman General, they were encamped there about a wake when they again returnd to Monmouth County, that is impossible for him to obtain further evidence of his service than he has already the said Benjamin Vancleaf under whom he served as before stated in his former declaration is altogether incapable from age and infirmity to state any thing in relation to the period of the revolution, his memory having entirely failed him, and the other Witnesses named by him in his original declaration having already testified to the fact of having seen me in the service and having served with me in such service, but cannot particularize the length of time or number of tours of duty further than their belief that I have served at least four years during the Revolution.

James Hendrickson X his mark

Sworn and subscribed this 3rd day of August AD
1833.

Thos. C Throckmorton
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I Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey Do Hereby Certify that Thomas Throckmorton before whom the above amended declaration of James Hendrickson was made & who has signed the Jurat of the said declaration was at the date thereof & now is a Justice of the Peace of the said County of Monmouth duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith & credit should & ought to be attached to all his official acts as such and also that the name Signed Tho's C Throckmorton to the Jurat of said amended declaration is the proper hand writing signature of the said Justice.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Freehold aforesaid, this third day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty three.

D. H. Ellis Clk
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Supplemental affidavit of James Hendrickson amending his original declaration made before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey at the last July Term of said Court in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed 71832.

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County, to wit: }
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County of Monmouth, James Hendrickson who being duly sworn deposeth & saith, that by reason of old age & 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, & in the following grades,

In the year 1776, I served six months, as a private under my draft or call, in a militia company commanded by Captain Hendrick Smock, namely the months of January, March, May, July, September & November in the said year 1776; Benjamin Vancleaf was Lieutenant, & William Vancleaf Ensign in said Company. it was in the said month of January 1776, that I first entered the service under my draft or call, but I had been out in service frequently before this in consequence of this general alarms mentioned hereafter; the said Militia company was attached to the Regiment under the command of Col. George Taylor, when I first entered said company, but afterward, upon the said Col. Taylor's going over to the British which he did in the said year 1776, under the command of Col. Nathaniel Scudder; David Forman was the commanding General. I served the before mentioned six months, as a private, under my draft or call, every other month from the time I entered said company. In the month of February 1777
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I again entered said service in said company at that time commanded by Captain Benjamin Van Cleaf who took command of said Company upon the resignation of the said Captain Smock, & served in said company under the command of the said Captain Van Cleaf every other month, under my draft, until July 1778, comprising the months of February, April, June, August, October, December in the year 1777, & the months of February, April, June in the year 1778, making a period of nine months, I served all the said time as a private. William Vancleaf was Lieutenant & John or Jonathan Clayton was Ensign under the said Captain Benj'n Van Cleaf, the said Company was still attached to the same regiment under the command at first of the said Nathaniel Scudder, & at his death which occurred during this time, under the command of Col. Asher Holmes; David Forman was still the commanding General. In the month of August 1778 I again entered said service in the same company, but at that time commanded by Captain William Van Cleaf, who took command upon the resignation of the said Benjamin Van Cleaf, & served in the said company under the command of the said William Van Cleaf, as a private, under my draft or call, every other month until some time in the year 1782, comprising the month of August, October, December in the year 1778, the months of February, April, June, August, October, December in the year 1779, & the months of February, April, June, August, October, & December, in the year 1780, the months of February, April, June, August, October, and December in the year 1781, & this months of February, April & June in the year 1782; but after this period, although I continued serving in the said company under the command of the said William Van Cleaf, I cannot designate the length of my service at this time by reason of my calls at the latter part of the
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War being less frequent, & more irregular, but I think I was out at least four months during this said latter period of the war, the said company was still attached to the same Regiment commanded, during the time the said William Van Cleaf was the Captain thereof, by Col. Asher Holmes, the said David Forman being still the commanding General. During the time I was in the said Company commanded by the said Captains Smock & Benjamin & William Van Cleaf, when not out in actual service by reason of my tour having ended, I frequently attended the musters that took place in consequence of the General alarms as they were called, & while out under said General alarms I served under Captain Michael Sweetman & others whose names I have forgotten. I cannot state precisely the times when these General alarms occurred, or for how long a time I served under them, but think it was not less than three months of time, that I served under theve general alarms, & for such service I claim a pension; I was born in the township of Freehold, in the said County of Monmouth, New Jersey on the 5th of March 1753, I have a record of my age in the family bible in my possession; I lived in the said township of Freehold when called into the service, & have ever lived there since, except for the last six years that I have lived in the township of Howell, in the said County of Monmouth, when I now live; I always served under my own draft & never as a substitute, I knew no regular officers, or any continental or militia regiments except such as I have stated above, & in my original declaration, & I have generally stated all such general circumstances of my service as I can remember. I never received any other than a verbal
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discharge from the service; I am known to beside the persons who have testified to my services in my original declaration) the Revd John D. Barkeloo & John Thompson in my neighborhood, who can testify to my character for veracity, as well as their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution; There is an error in my original declaration as to my age when I first entered the service; being born in the year 1753, I was older when I entered the service then I have there stated; I always served with an embodied Corps, called into service I believe by the lawful authorities of the State of New Jersey; I always served in the field & never in garrison, & for the time during which the service was performed, I was not employed in any civil pursuit.

Sworn & subscribed this 15th of June 1833 before me
James his X mark Hendrickson

an interlineation of one line being made on first page before being sworn to & also and interlineation being made in the last line of the 2nd page. 
The words "this time" being also first interlined on the 3rd page & "Company" on the 1st page before being sworn to & the foregoing affidavit being also first read over to Deponent before he was sworn.
- William Lloyd
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Supplemental affidavit of James Hendrickson, to his original Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1833-

$80 per ann
pr Infy 2 y'rs

Daniel B. Ryall, Esq'r
Freehold
N. J.
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Barkalow who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman residing in the township of Freehold in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey bordering on the township of Howell in said County and that John Thompson who has also put his mark to the same is a resident in the same township and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. Dated June 15th 1833

William Lloyd

I Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Monmouth & State of New Jersey, Do hereby certify, that William Lloyd Esquire, by & before whom the foregoing proceedings were done, sworn to & subscribed was at the time he signed his name thereto, & still is, a Judge of the said
Court & a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County, duly enrolled in my office, & commissioned and sworn into office, as such, & that due faith and credit are due & ought to be given to all his official acts as such Judge & Justice & further that the name "William Lloyd" signed to the Jurat of the foregoing supplemental affidavit of James Hendrickson, & to the Jurat of the foregoing certificate of John D. Barkalow & John Thompson & to the foregoing certificate of the said William Lloyd, are severally the genuine signatures of the said William Lloyd Esquire, Judge & Justice as aforesaid.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this seventeenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

D. H. Ellis Clk
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We John D Barkalow a Clergyman residing in the township of Freehold in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey bordering on the township of Howell in said County and John Thompson residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Hendrickson who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed amended declaration and the original declaration of the thirty first day of July last past; that we believe him to be now Eighty 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 we concur in that opinion.

John D Barkalow
John Thompson X his mark

Sworn & subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Monmouth this 15th day of June AD 1833.

William Lloyd

I William Lloyd one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey before whom the annexed
amended declaration of James Hendrickson and the Certificate of John D Barkalow and John Thompson were respectively subscribed and sworn to, and one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Monmouth before whom the original declaration of the said James Hendrickson was subscribed and sworn to Do hereby certify that it appears to me and that I know the fact that the said John