Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25839, James Voorhes, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                                               
New Jersey   Voorhes, James             
                      or Voorhees, Sarah
NUMBER
W.25839
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New York 288
Sarah Voorhes
Widow of James Voorhes
who was a Private 
in the Revolution.
Husb. died 31st March 1844{?}
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
22 Dollars 09 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 31st day of March, 1844.
Certificate of Pension issued the 
Twelfth day of November 1846 {?}
and sent to 
E.F. Brown, Esq.
Present.
[Act of June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 2, Page 185
Rep{?}
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14469
19811   New York
James Voorhes
of Ontario Co in the State of New York
who was a private in the Company commanded 
by Captain VanDyke of the Reg commanded 
by Col Quick in the N.J. {?}
line for {?} 19th.

Inscribed in the Roll of New York
at the rate of 22 Dollars 09 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of May, 1833 and Sent to
Thos. Beal
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  $44.18
semi-anu. allowance ending Sept    11.04
                                                              ____
                                                            $55.22
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by W. L. Williams, Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 4  Page 84
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No. 19811
James Voorhes
Ontario Co. N.York

Admitted 
6 mo. 19 days Private

209

Thos. Beal Agt.
Canandaigua N.Y.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office
183
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
A Statement, showing the Service of James Voorhes Ontario Co N.York
Period when the service was rendered|
Duration of the claimant's service: Years.|
Months.| Days.|
Rank of the Claimant.|
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.| 
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers.|
Battles in which the applicant was engaged|
Country through which he marched.|
|
Place of when he entered the service, and age at the present period.|
Evidence by which the declaration is supported.|
{Cos?}1776|-|- | 21 days|Private| Captain Leghs| Col Quiehs Regt|Spankton, Amboy, Elizabethtown, Bergen, Springfield,Elizabeth, Liken Pt.|Age 78 Sommerset {B N Sers?}|Traditionary
{calcude in days?} 1776|-|1mo|-|Capt. Durgee|
{calcude in days?}1776|-|-|28 days|-|Cap Bal Cork|
{calcude in days?}1776|-|1 mo|-|-|Cap Durgee|
1776|-|1 mo|-|-|Cap Schenck|
1776|-|1 mo|-|-|Cap Carr|Gen Washington, Col Taylor, Col Frelinghensen|
1776|-|1 mo|-|-|Cap Wheller|
Total = 6 m0. 19 days

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance,  make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of 
County of//

On this (blank) day of (blank) personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of (blank) in the county of (blank) and State, Territory or District
of (blank) aged (c) (blank) 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 provision (sp.) made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) (blank), with (blank) and served in the (blank) (e) regiment of the (blank) line, under the following officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered (sp.) the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of (blank).

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A.B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

I, (blank) of the Court of (blank) do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the applicant of (blank) for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this (blank) day of (blank) &c.

If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
{(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the (blank) and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with (blank), who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be (blank) 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.}

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

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, 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 A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the (blank) and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the (blank) and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. I, (blank), Clerk of the Court of (blank), do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application (sp.) of (blank) for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal (blank) of office, this (blank) day of (blank) &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person...
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... will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there
subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. (To a Soldier) Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
6. (To an Officer) Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, 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 amount of pension he is entitled. 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 (blank) year (blank) months, and  (blank) days, I served as a  (blank). For  (blank) months and  (blank) days, I served as a  (blank); and for such service I claim a pension."

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 that 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 shown 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.

[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he 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.

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 papers 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.

Proof of Service.
[j] 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 claimant's 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.

The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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James Voorhes
Revol(utionary War)
Paid

Payments to be made at New York by Pres(ident). U.S. Br. Bank, Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of New York.

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E; Vol. 4; Page 84; by W.J. William, Clerk.
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Capt. Van Eyke
Col. Quick

1833 124 Richmond
pensions, Scipio

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, James Voorhes of the State of New York, who was a private in the War of the Revolutionary is entitled to receive Twenty two dollars and 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 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States this 27th day of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty three.
s/ Lew Cass, Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned.
s/ J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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FAMILY RECORD.

BIRTHS.
[crossed out: Jacob] James Voorhes was born July the 3rd 1755.

Sarah Voorhes was born [crossed out: February] July the 4th 1765.

Children:
Eleanor Voorhes was born September the 10th 1779.
James Voorhes Jr. was born April the 27st 1782..
David Voorhes was born September the 22nd 1786.
John Voorhes was born September the 5th 1789.

BIRTHS. (cont'd)
Samuel Voorhes was born July the 11th 1792.
Elizabeth Voorhes was born December the 2nd and 1793.
Ann Voorhes was born December the 5th 1795.
Gilbert Voorhes was born February the 12th 1798.
Katharine Voorhes was born July the 19th 1800.
Martha Voorhes was born August the 20th 1802.
Mary Voorhes was born October the 18th 1804.
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Declaration

Sarah Voorhes, widow of James Voorhes.
For a pension under Acts of 1843 & 1844.
Married 1790.
Husband died 1844.

E.F. Brown, Agent.

Wash., D.C.
27 Oct 1846
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State of New York
Ontario County//

Ann Case, a resident of the town of Bristol in said County, aged Fifty one years the 5th day of December next, being first duly sworn, depose and says, that she is a daughter of James Voorhes and Sarah Voorhes, his widow. That her father James Voorhies, now deceased, was a pensioner of the United States at & before his death and that his Pension Certificate is hereunto annexed. That her said father died at the town of Richmond in said County on the 31st day of March 1844. That she was present at his death & burial. That her said mother, Sarah Voorhes, survived her said father and is now the widow of her father, the said James Voorhes and her remains a widow ever since the death of her father, aforesaid.

She further says that the old family record, hereunto annexed, is the family record kept by her said father and mother of the births &c. of her said brothers & sisters. She further says that her said mother, the said Sarah Voorhes, is as she always heard her said father & mother say, the second wife of her said father. She further says that some twenty years ago and upwards, her father & mother directed as a man who lived in neighborhood to transcribe from an old record which was kept in a small old bible, in the handwriting of her said father. The names and date of births of the children by her said father, by his first & second wife, into the annexed old family record. That the name of Jacob was erased at the time; having been written by mistake & the name of her father interlined & also that the date of the birth of her said mother to wit: "February" was erased & the word "July" was interlined at the time. And as corrected by her said father & mother at the time. She further says that the first four children names, to wit:...
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..."Eleanor Voorhes, James Voorhes, David Voorhes & John Voorhes" were the names of the children of her said father by his first wife. And that the names of the seven children last named on said record as the names of deponent's brothers & sisters by her said father & her said mother, the said Sarah. That deponent is the third child [duplicate: child] of her said mother by her said father, the said James Voorhes and that her name and [duplicate: and] date of her birth is recorded in said record in the words and figures to wit: "Ann Voorhes was born December the 5th 1795." That the said annexed old family record has always been recognized by her said father & mother as the family record of her said father & mother's & the date of the births of their several children.
s/ Ann Case

Subscribed and sworn this 9th day of September A.D. 1886 before me.
s/ Arunah Jones, Justice of the Peace of Bristol in said County

State of New York
Ontario County//

I, Arunah Jones, a Justice of the Peace of the town of Bristol in said County, do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Mrs. Ann Case, who took & subscribed her name to the foregoing affidavit & I do further certify that the said Ann Case is a woman of good moral character and her statements therein contained are entitled to the fullest credit.
s/ Arunah Jones, J.P.
Dated Bristol September 9th 1846.
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State of New York
Ontario County//

I, Alexander H. Howell, Clerk of the said County and Clerk of the County Court held in & for said County, do hereby certify that at a Court of Oyer & Terminer held in & for said County on this 12th day of October A.D. 1846 (said Court is a Court of Record). The annexed Declaration of Sarah Voorhes (widow of James Voorhes) for a pension - and the annexed accompanying papers were submitted & read in open Court and approved by the Judges thereof, & I do further certify that satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court to prove that James Voorhes, late a pensioner of the United States, died on the 31st day of March 1844 in the said County of Ontario, State of New York, and that the claimant, Sarah Voorhes, survived him. That she remains his widow and the
Court is satisfied that she is unable to attend in Open Court.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed my Seal of Office at Canandaigua this 12th day of October A.D. 1846.

s/ Alex. H. Howell, Clerk
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State of New York
Ontario County Clerks Office//

I hereby certify that Harry Smith, before whom the affidavit of Sarah Voorhes was subscribed and sworn was at the time the same purports to have been so subscribed and sworn a Judge of Ontario County Courts, duly commissioned, sworn and authorized to act as such. And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Judge and verily believe his signatures to said affidavit and also to the foregoing certificate are genuine.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of said County this 15th day of Sept. A.D. 1846.
s/ Alex. H. Howell, Clerk of Ontario County

State of New York
Ontario County Clerks Office//

I hereby certify that Arunah Jones, Esq., before whom the affidavit of Ann Case was subscribed and sworn was at the time the same purports to have been so subscribed and sworn a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected, sworn and authorized to act as such. And further that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his signatures to said affidavit and also to the foregoing certificate are genuine.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of said County this 15th day of Sept. A.D. 1846.
s/ Alex. H. Howell, Clerk of Ontario County
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Sarah Voorhes, widow of James Voorhes.

declaration
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State of New York
Ontario County//

On this 22nd day of August A.D. 1846 before me, Harry Smith, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, said Court being a Court of Record, personally appeared Sarah Voorhes, a resident of the town of Richmond in the County of Ontario aforesaid, aged Eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following statement in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed March 3rd 1843 and of the 17th June 1844. That she is the widow of James Voorhes, whose pension Certificate is hereunto annexed. That her late husband, the said James Voorhes, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and at the time of his death was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Twenty two dollars and Nine cents per annum.

She further declares that her late husband, the said James Voorhes, died at the town of Richmond in the County of Ontario & State aforesaid on the 31st day of March A.D. 1844. She further declares that she was married to the said James Voorhees on the 4th day of July 1790 at a place called Blumber near Princeton, New Jersey, by a Presbyterian Minister she did not then know nor has she known him since that time & could not state his name. That he lived with her late husband as his lawful wife from the time of their marriage aforesaid until his death aforesaid. She further declares that the annexed family record is their family record of the births & death of their children & was kept as such by her said late husband ever since they began to keep house and had children. She further declares that she is now his widow & has not intermarried but has remained the widow of the said James Voorhes ever and his death aforesaid. That she knows of no one who is...
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...or was acquainted with the services rendered by her said late Husband in the Revolution. And she relies on the proof and evidence in her pension of the Pension Office in support of such services.
s/ Sarah Voorhes (X - her mark)

Subscribed and sworn this 22nd day of August A.D. 1846 before me.
s/Harry Smith, Judge of Ontario County Courts
s/ Ann Case, Witness

State of New York
Ontario County//

I, Harry Smith, a Judge of the County Courts in & for said County, do hereby certify that Sarah Voorhes, who made and subscribed her name to the foregoing affidavit or declaration, is a woman of good moral character & her statements therein contained are entitled to credit & I do further certify that from old age & bodily infirmity the said Sarah Voorhees is not able to attend Court & further the reason the said Sarah Voorhes does not write her name is from a disease which affects her nerves.

Dated Ontario County, August 22nd 1846.
s/Harry Smith, Judge of Ontario County Courts
s/ Ann Case, Witness
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James Voorhes

19811

Thomas Beals, Agent
Canandaigua
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State of New York
Ontario County//

On this Twentieth day November 1832, personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the County Court, now sitting, James Voorhees, of the town of Richmond, County and State aforesaid, aged 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 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.:

1st - At Blumber in the County of Somerset and State of New Jersey in the spring of 1776, he volunteered in Captain Van Dyke's Company of Militia, in Colonel Abraham Quick's Regiment. This was before harvest but the month and day he cannot state and was marched to "Spanktown" then to Amboy and did duty for 3 weeks and was then dismissed and went home.

2nd - Soon after this was called out in a class under Captain Durya and went to Elizabeth Town and was there doing duty when the Declaration of Independence was declared and was out one month keeping guard.

3rd - Soon after this was called out in a class under Captain Joseph Babcock and was marched to Bergen. The British were lying in New York harbor but had not landed. He saw the shipping while he was doing duty as a guard on that station for 4 weeks and was then discharged and went home. While there, was in the fort and was driven out by the British that landed at Powles Hook, and after this the British withdrew and we again took possession of the fort. But he was in Bergen when he was discharged, about 2 miles from the fort.

4th - Soon after this was called out again in a class under Captain Durya and was marched to Springfield and from there to Elizabeth Town Point when the British came then from Staten Island and then retreated to Springfield and had some skirmishes with the British on the wheat and was out one month.

5th - At Elizabeth Town was out month under Captain Schenck.

6th - At Elizabeth Town was out month under Captain Carr.

7th - At same place was out 1 month under Captain Wheeler. And besides the above was out at various times under the same officers and some others whose names he does not recollect nor can he state the years in which the service was performed, but he was on duty at...
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...least six months in every year during the war and he performed the service in New Jersey. But from the infirmities of age and decay of memory, he is unable to state any more particulars. And he being destitute of property, he claims an allowance for one years service in all. Although, he believes that he served the country and was bound to military service more than two years in all. He has seen General Washington at Elizabeth Town while on duty and was commanded at Springfield by Colonel Taylor and for some time under Colonel Frelinghuysen at Elizabeth Town.

He has no documentary evidence nor never had any and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.

He was born in Blumber, in Somerset County, about 4 miles from Princeton on the 3rd July 1754 and lived there until 1802 when he removed to Scipio in New York and lived there about 9 years and has lived in Richmond where he now lives about 20 years. He knows James Gladding and [crossed out: Ephraim Tanner] Peter Pitts of Bristol and they have been his neighbors for a long time. He has no record of his age.

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 the day and year aforesaid.
s/ James Voorhes

We Abijah Wright, a Clergyman residing in the town of Richmond, County and State aforesaid, and James Gladding & Peter Pitts, both of Bristol, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Voorhes, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be Seventy eight 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.
s/ Abijah Wright
s/ James Gladding
s/ Peter Pitts

Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after...
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...the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories 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 Abijah Wright, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the town of Richmond and that James Gladding and Peter Pitts, who have also signed the same, are residents in the town of Bristol and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, Charles Crane, Clerk of the said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Voorhes for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed my Seal of Office this Twenty first day of November A.D. 1832.
s/ Charles Crane
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Rev(olutionary War)

WIDOW, &c.

File No. 25,839
Sarah Voorhes, wid(ow) of James Voorhes, Pri(vate) Rev(olutionary) War.

Act: July 17th 1844

Index: -; Vol. 5; Page 301

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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James Voorhes, N.Y., Act 7 June 1832. $22.09 per annum.
To what time was he last paid.

Pension Office | G.C.A.
Nov 6. 1846 [crossed out: Paid to 4th Sept. 1844; B.L.B.]

Please examine the records of which the last payment in this case was made. Mrs. Voorhes states in new declaration that her husband died in March.

1844: The above name is in two of the books and I have been misled by the entry of my late colleague, Mr. Harvey. The same pensioner, it is a "fixed fact," was paid in the 1th [illegible] 1844 to the 4th March 1844.
s/ B.D. Boyan
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25/(compl.)

No. 374
Sarah Voorhes, widow of James.

[illegible]

Act [crossed out: 3 March 1843 and] 17 June 1844, alone.

Adm(itted) 6 mos.; 19 d(ays); 1 week.

$22.09 per annum.

s/ Edm(un)d F. Brown, Present

[illegible]
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Letters addressed to this Office must be post-paid.

E.F. BROWN'S United States Agency and Notarial Office, Established in 1843.
EDMUND F. BROWN, ATTORNEY AND AGENT FOR CLAIMANTS.
Notary Public, Illinois Commissioner, &c.
Continues to settle all kinds of business with the several branches of Government, with his usual promptness, efficiency and fidelity, especially CLAIMS FOR PENSIONS, PATENTS, LANDS, Post Office and other Contracts, &c.,
[crossed out: 6] 7th STREET NEAR [crossed out: 14th STREET Post Office, WASHINGTON CITY.

UNITED STATES AGENCY
AND NOTARIAL OFFICE.
WASHINGTON CITY,
27th October 1846.

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Comm(issione)r of Pensions

Sir:

Enclosed I hand you the papers of Sarah Voorhes of New York, widow of James, who claims a pension under the Acts of 1843 and 1844 and trust they will be satisfactory.

Very respectfully your obe(dient) ser(vant),
s/ Edm. F. Brown
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51 12-5-41

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name: Voorhes, John
Grade: Private
Line: New Jersey

Warrant Number: R 8716 and 8818
Acreage: 100
Issued: October 13, 1792 to - not shown -

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.