Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1,041, for Henry Lane, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Lane, Henry | S.1,041
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CONTENTS
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New Jersey No. 28279
Henry Lane of Essex Co. in the State of New Jersey, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Keen of the reg(iment) commanded by Col. Seely in the New Jersey line [duplicate: line] for 14 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Apr(il) 1834 and handed to Gen. G.W. Gould, present.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834..................$139.98
Semi ann(ual) allowance ending 4th Sept...23.33
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					                       $163.31

Recorded by R. Binerdine, Clerk

(Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832)

Book E; Vol. 3; Page 120.
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Henry Lane, 30.399

[crossed out: 14 mo., private]
14 mo., private

W. Gould, present
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State of New Jersey
Essex County//

On the Twenty sixth day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting Henry Lane, a resident of the Township of Caldwell in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey, aged Seventy years the 12th day of April last past. Born April 12th 1762 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 & served as herein stated.

That at the age of Sixteen years his name was put on the muster roll of Capt. Keen's Company of Militia belonging to the Morris Regiment & in six days after was ordered to march to Elizabeth Town as a volunteer to guard the lines where he continued two months & four days. The enemy lay on Staten Island, was under Gen'l Wines & Timothy Tuttle, capt. of Morris County April 1778. The same summer  drafted out for one month. Stationed near Elizabeth Town, commanded by Capt. Keen, Daniel Gaund, lei(tenant) living at Little Town, Morris County. Soon after called out in alarm under the same officers, continued on duty eighteen days. December the 23rd 1778 was ordered to march to Morristown under the command of Capt. Jacob Arnold, an orderly Sergeant of Morris Regiment to guard the prison filled with Refugees & horse thieves. Continued on duly to the first day of March, 2 months & 8 days. Was again called out on alarm at the time the British came to Connecticut Farms, but some houses commanded by Capt. Keen continued on duty twelve days. Again called to do a month's Tour of Duty to guard the lines to prevent the British & refugees plundering the inhabitants which was often the case. We marched to South Orange, was under the command of Col. Seely of Chatham, Morris County & Capt. Keen continued one month, was relieved & returned home. Was soon after called out on alarm to Morristown, continued there one day & night making cartridges each drew 24 roanits, marched to Chatham, continued there two weeks then marched to Bashon Ridge, was searching & protecting the inhabitants two weeks & two days; making one month & two days, then dismissed by Col. Hathaway. Then capt. again called on duty at the time the British came from Staten Island. Gen'l Herd commanded the brigade, Col. Hathaway & Major Lindley of Morristown. Sam'l Hull Jr. of Capt. Keen's company...
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...marched to the farms where we met the enemy, had a severe engagement near Springfield, which town they burnt & retreated. They were buried below Elizabeth Town, demolished their fort & breastworks [i.e. a temporary defensive fortification] continued on duty one month & seven days again in 1779. Was ordered on a tour of duty by Col. Hathaway guarding the lines at Elizabeth Town & other places one month & then dismissed. Served under a capt. from Mendham, name not recollected, again the same year called out on alarm when the British came into Jersey from Staten Island near Aquackananonk, had a skirmish with them, took seventeen prisoners, he was one of the guard that took them to Morristown then dismissed by Col. Hathaway. On duty three weeks again at the time the Pennsylvania troops revolted in the year 1780 or 1781, was called out on duty & continued guarding the lines for fear the British would come out & join them, one month then was dismissed, returned home, again was called out on alarm when the British came through Newark, Belville & to Hackensack where they built a fort & lay there some time, was keeping guard at Belville & Aquackananonk one month for of twenty three days & was dismissed, was commanded by Capt. Keen & Col. Seely of Chatham, Morris County. From the length of time since the Revolutionary War, he has forgot many of the events that would be important in his history, the actual service done as above stated is [crossed out one year & one] fourteen months & five days.

He has no person that he knows of that can testify to his service in the Revolutionary War, has no documentary evidence or discharge. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of this or any other state or territory to his knowledge.
s/ Henry Lane

Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
s/ Sam'l B. Miller, Judge

Interrogatories:
1st Was born (in) the County of Middlesex, State of New Jersey on the 12th day of August in the year 1762.
2nd In my father's family bible & from that transferred into my own.
3rd In the County of Morris, Township of Morris until the year 1784, since then in Essex County where I now live.
4th Do not recollect any other than as mentioned in my declaration.
5th Was never to his collection with regular troops in service nor can say more than in declaration.
6th Never received a written discharge, nor commission. I was a private during the war.
7th Am known to David Harrison, Timothy Gould, Samuel Moore & Jonah Gould, all old men.
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We, Stephen Grover, a clergyman resident in the County of Essex and Isaac Pier, residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Lane, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be Seventy years of age as set forth in his declaration. That he is reputed believed in the neighborhood where he resides to be a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that the opinion.
s/ Stephen Grover
s/ Isaac Pier

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
s/ E. Van Arsdale Jr., Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he stated after having investigated the matter & after putting the interrogatory presented by the War Department. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Stephen Grover, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in said County & that Isaac Pier who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.

By order of the Court.
s/ E. Van Arsdale Jr., Clerk

I, Elias Van Arsdale Jr., Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Lane for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this Tenth day of October 1832.
s/ E. Van Arsdale Jr., Clerk
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The declaration of Henry Lane.
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State of New Jersey
Essex County//

Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Essex, Timothy Gould, Esq., who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Henry Lane and has been ever since he removed from the County of Morris in the year 1784 into Caldwell Township, County of Essex. That he is reputed to be a soldier of the Revolution and a friend to his country in time of the war. Is a respectable citizen for truth and veracity and that his affidavit is entitled (sp.) to credit.
s/ Timothy Gould

Signed and sworn before me the 21st day of October 1833.
s/ William Gould

I, William Gould, one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with David Hanson & Timothy Gould, Esq., whose affidavits are annexed, show them to be soldiers of the revolution.

That they are reputed & believed men in their neighborhood for truth & veracity that their affidavits are entitled to credit. That Henry Lane, the deponent is a reputable man in his neighborhood for truth & veracity and reputed to be a soldier of the revolution. Witness my hand & seal this 22nd day of October 1833.
s/ William Gould
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State of New Jersey
Essex County//

Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Essex, Henry Lane, 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 time of service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned in his declaration. That he served more (he is concerned) but cannot state the time.

He further deposeth & saith that he has made diligent search in the County of Morris where he resided in the Revolutionary War and cannot find a person who can testify to his service, they having either died or moved away.
s/ Henry Lane

Taken and sworn before me the 28th day of October 1833.
s/ William Gould, J.P.

State of New Jersey
Essex County//

Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County David Harrison, Esq., who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is well acquainted with Henry Lane & has been ever since he moved into Essex County. That he is reputed to be a soldier of the Revolution and a friend to his country in time of the war. Is a reputable citizen for truth and veracity and his affidavit entitled to credit.
s/ David Harrison

Taken & Sworn before me the Eleventh day of October 1833.
s/ William Gould, J.P.
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State of New Jersey
Essex County//

I, Elias Van Arsdale Jr., Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Essex, do hereby certify that William Gould, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Timothy Gould, Henry Lane & David Harrison were made & taken at the time of taking the same was & still is one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County, duly commissioned & sworn. That the name "William Gould: subscribed to the jurats of said affidavits & to the final certificate thereunto annexed as to the credibility of the parties & wherever it occurs in their proceeding is his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court at Newark this Twenty fourth day of October A.D. Eighteen Hundred & Thirty three (Oct. 4th 1833)
s/ E. Van Arsdale, Jr. Clerk
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JRW

S.1041: Rev. War.

Dec. 27, 1914

Madam:

In reply to your recent inquiry, you are advised that the records of this bureau do not show that Henry Lane was wounded during service in the Revolutionary War, nor that he in any time resided in Wheeling, W. Va. Date and place of his death are not known.

For date of last payment of pension, apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, in the Treasury Department, this city, citing the following data, viz.: Certificate No. 28279, act of June 7, 1832, issued April 30, 1833, New Jersey agency.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner

Mrs. Thomas Evans,
Negley Ave. & Baum St.
Pittsburg, Pa.
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CW&N

NEGLEY AVNUE AND BAUM STREET

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

By applying to the office of Adjutant General of New Jersey for information concerning Henry Lane, a Revolutionary Soldier, was given quite a good deal of information and was told that Henry Lane was a United States pensioner and advised me to...
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...make application to you for a transcript of this case.

It seems their (sp.) are two Henry Lanes, both Revolutionary Soldiers. One having served in the Eastern Battalion, Morris County, New Jersey Militia. While the other [duplicate: the other] was a private in Captain Sion Duryer' company, First Battalion, Somerset County Militia. It seems too bad I cannot find out which of these Henry Lane's is my great grandfather. My mother who is living in her 94th year remembers seeing Henry Lane. He was...
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...lame, being wounded in the knee, and I think wounded at the Battle of Monmouth. He died in Wheeling, W. Va. from the home of his daughter, Miss Patty Lane.

I thank you in advance for any information you can give me on this subject.

Yours very respectfully,

s/ Mrs. Thos. Evans
Pittsburgh, Pa.

November first.
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1034
3-068.
(Old No. 3-649.)

Bureau of Pensions.

[illegible]
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[illegible]
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INVALID.

Rev(olutionary) War

File No. 1041

Henry Lane
Priv(ate) N.J. Line

Act: June 7, 1832

Index: -- Vol. A, Page 214

[Arrangement of 1870.]


Nov. 18, 1904 Hist. to Mrs. Thos. Evans, Pittsburg, Pa.
Dec. 21, 1904 To above no record of wound or of residence in Wheeling, W. Va., sec(ond) letter.
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Mar. 14, 1834. Paid to [illegible] Mar. 1834.
Sep. 15, 1834. Paid to 4 Sep. 1836.
Mar. 9, 1835. Paid to 4 Mar. 1835.
Sep. 11, 1835. Paid to Sep. 11, 1835.
Mar. 12, 1836. Paid to Mar. 4, 1836.
Sep. 11, 1836. Paid to Sep. 11, 1836.
Mar. 18. Paid to 4 Mar. 1836.
Paid to 4 Sep. 1837. Paid to 4 Mar. 1838.
Paid to 4 Mar. 1847. Paid to 4 Sep. 1835.
Paid to 4 Sep. 1860. Paid to 4 Mar. 1839.
Paid to 4 Mar. 1841. Paid to 4 Sep. [illegible].
Paid to 4 Sep. 1841. Paid to 4 Sep. 1841.

28-279

Paid to 4 Mar. 1842. 
Paid to 4 Mar. 1842. 
Paid to 4 Sep. 1843.
Paid to 4 Mar. 1844.
Paid to 4 Sep. 1844.
Paid to 4 Mar. 1845.
Paid to 4 Sep. 1845.
Paid to 4 Mar. 1850.
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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, Henry Lane of the State of New Jersey, who was a private during the Revolutionary War is entitled to receive Forty six dollars and Sixty six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States this Thirtieth day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty four.
s/ Lew Cass, Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned.
s/ J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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NEGLEY AVNUE AND BAUM STREET

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Mr. E.S. Wares

Your statement of the military history of Henry Lane, received for which I thank you very much. I would like to ask you for more information which is very
important for me to know. Viz.: In there any record of this Henry Lane being wounded.

I am under the impression that he was wounded in the knee at the Battle of Monmouth and could you tell me if at any tine while drawing...
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...a pension he resided in Wheeling, W. Va. and do the records tell where he died.

I thank you again for any information you can give me.

Very Respectfully,
s/ Mrs. Thos. Evans

Pittsburgh, Pa.

November Twenty fifth.
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Henry Lane

Payments to be made at Trenton by the Pension Master Rec(order) of C., Agent for paying pensioners in the Agency of New Jersey.

1041

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E; Vol. 3; Page 120 by R. Burdine, Clerk.
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State of New Jersey
Essex County//

On the Thirty first day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty four before me, William Gould, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, personally appeared Daniel Crabtree, who being sworn according to law on his oath that he was in the same company of Militia in the Revolutionary War with Henry Lane and often saw him on duty particularly in December 1778 at Morristown, he was with him in Capt. Jacob Arnold company guarding the Courthouse filled with prisoners two months or more. They billeted together in one mass occurrence, it was being cold weather among the prisoners was two Sevey & Co. Sangeren was with said Henry Lane on duty at the time that the British burnt the farms & Springfield.

Saw him occasionally through the whole of the alarm & knows him to be on duty, at that time remembers after the Battle at Springfield they were together & found in a field of wheat a man lying & had a ball shot through his head. They were pursuing the enemy, supposing that he would not be found, they stopped & buried him and further this deponent saith not.
s/ Daniel Crabtree

Taken and sworn before me the day year first above written.
s/ William Gould, J.P.