Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3435, James Wall, New Jersey
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Service 
New Jersey
Hall James
Number 
S.3435
Garded
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Middletown July [illegible] 25 1780

Dear Son/I gladley Inbrace this oppertunity to in form you that I with my Familey are in good heath Hoping these may find you and all my Acquaintance in the Sam and that itt may pleas the Lord to Seport and Defent you Thron you Captivity I Dobt not but your Confinement is tedious I am in hope itt will not be long be fore you Exchange with the Kost that ware taken with you will Take place as I have Son all in my power to forward itt the Famileys of all that ware Taken with you are in health Give my Cind Love to them all your Sissters Joins me with their Cind Love to you this is the third Letter I have reed [need?] 3 Letters from you which give the grate Sattisfaction to hear you Dont Suffer so Conclude and Remain your Loving Father [signature]John Wall

gentelmen Whome it May Concern in order to prove the letter to be John Walls hand writeing I Send this Scrap which hath been Compaired and allowed to be one hand writing
James Wall
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State of New Jersey,
Monmouth County, to wit,

William Wall being duly sworn doth depon & say, that the within writing purporting to be a letter from John Wall to his son James Wall, has been by this deponent compand with the known hand writing of the said John Wall, & that this deponent doth verily believe from such comparison of hands that the said writing is in truth as it purports to be a letter from the said John Wall by him written, & further that the imprisonment of this deponents father the said James Wall in the sugar House at New York is generally reputed throughout his neighborhood, and that this deponent doth concur in such opinion--
[signature]William Wall

Sworn & subscribed this 14th day of May, A.D. 1833 before me one of the Justices of the peace in [illegible] the County of Monmouth, New Jersey-- "the said James Wall"[phrase in quotes underlined] being first interlined--

[signature]William Lloyd

[written sideways on the bottom of the page]
James Wall
prisoner in Sugar House New York
These [word underlined 3 times]
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17.666
New_Jersey

James Wall
of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey who was a priv of Dragoons[sp?] in the company commended by Captain Gordon of the Regt. commanded by Col. Holmes in the New_Jersey line for two years

Inscribed on the role of New Jersey [word missing] the rate of 100 Dollars --- per annum [word missing] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11. day of Septr. 1833 and sent to J. C. Ryall Freehold

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '33  250.-
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 M'ch '34  50.-
$300.--
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by J M Duffield Clerk
Book E Vol. 3 Page 135
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[sideways text on the top left of the page]
Wall, James
N.J. 53435

William Lalon was marred to Hannah While by Joseph Stilwell Justice on the 24 Day of May in the year 1753____________________________
was Borne to William Lalon & Hannah his wife a son named John on the 20 [2 words cut off] 10 Oclock at mitt
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Nicholas John Son Departed this Life on Satter Day Aboute 10 of the Clock in the fore Noon being the 16 Day of November in the year 1765 and was Buried in his one orchard---
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Monmouth Pleas of July Term 1832. [last 3 words underlined]

Declaration of James Wall [name underlined] for a pension under Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832_

No 4076

2 yr
priv Dragoons
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Declaration of James Wall in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832_

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County ss:

On this thirty first day of July____________ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two, personally appeared in open Court beofre the Judges of an Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Monmouth, now sitting, James Wall, a resident of the township of Middletown in the said County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, aged seventy six years on the twenty first day of June last, 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 July 7. 1832.

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

That sometime in the Month of April 1776 he, being about twenty years of age, entered the said service as a corporal in a Company of Militia, commanded by Captain John Smock, John Schenck Lieutenant, Colonel George Taylor & Major Thomas Seabrook being the Field officers_ that he continued in said company a month, during which time he marched from Middletown in the said County of Monmouth, to Perth Amboy in the County of Middlesex, guarding the shore between the intermediate points, that he enters in said company in obedience to his draft, or call as it was termed__ That in April 1777, being again drafted, he entered
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the service in a troop of Home __________
under Captain Randal Colonel Nathaniel Scudder & Major Asher Holmes__ being the Field officers, that he continued in the said last mentioned company two months guarding the shore between Shrewsbury township & Sandy Hook in the said township of Middletown, in which service during part of said time the said company was assisted by a continental company, commanded by Captain John Burrowes_ That in the month of June 1777 he entered a troop of Home under Captain William Remsen, Colonel Asher Holmes being the Field officer, that he continued in said troop till June 1779, during which period he was in actual service every other month in obedience to his draft or call, & at times continued out two or three successive months_ that during this time he was employed in guarding the coast from Toms Driver to Navesink Highlands in the said County of Monmouth, that in September 1777 he marched to Bristol & formed one of the escort that accompanied Congress from Bristol to Reading in Pennsylvania. & immediately after their arrival at Reading returned again to his station along the Monmouth shores__ That in June 1779 he enlisted in a troop of home in the six months service, commanded by Captain David Gorden, the Field officer being Major Elisha Walton, that he continued performing active service in the last mentioned troop during the six months, his term expiring about Christmas_ that during this time he was employed in guarding the shore in & about the said township of Middletown. That shortly after the expiration of the six months term under Captain Gorden he returned
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again in the troop of Home commanded by Captain William Remsen & continued under him guarding the Monmouth coast, every other month, under his draft, or call, till some time in the month of June 1780_ That on the 21st of June 1780, being about a week from his last discharge from the company of Captain Remsen, while at a house of one Joseph Dorset in the said township of Middletown, he & the said Dorset, together with eight others in the neighbourhood, were taken prisoners by a party of Tories________ & carried to the City of New York & confined there in the Sugar House six months_ That about January 1781, after his liberation from confinement, he enlisted in the twelve months service in the troop of Home, belonging to the State regiment, commanded by Captain Moses Shepherd_ Colonel Elisha Walton being the field officer; that he was actively employed during the said twelve months, in the said last mentioned troop of Home, guarding the coast along the Monmouth sea board, except from the 7th of August till the 1st of September 1781, during which time he was appointed by General David Forman to keep a look out for the British Fleet off Sandy Hook in order that timely notice might be given to Count de grass, of its movements; that on tuesday the 28th of August the British Fleet commanded by Admirals Hood & Graves, made its appearance & cast anchor about three miles distance from the shore; that on Thursday the 30th of August, the Fleet that had from the time of its anchoring been lying within the Hook, spread sail & stood out at sea, of which movement information was immediately given by him to General Forman, who transmitted the intelligence to
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General Washington_ That after the twelve months' service under Captain Sheppard he entered the troop of Home commanded by Lieutenant Barnes Smock, who took the command upon Captain Remsen declining, that he served under the drafts in the said troop of Home every other month, from the time of his entering it, under the command of Lieutenant Smock until the close of the war & the establishment of our Independence; the field officer during said time being Colonel Asher Holmes__ that he was employed during said time in guarding the Monmouth coast_ that he was out in actual service guarding the shores of New Jersey, in obedience to his drafts, under Captain Joseph Stilwell, Captain Barnes Smock & Captain John Smock, for several months, serving every other month, but at what particular period of the war, or what length of time he served under the said last mentioned Captains, or either of them, he is at present totally incapable of ascertaining; that besides the particular times above specified, he always attended the general alarms that at that time from the general insecurity were frequent_ that he was at least out three full years in actual service from the time he first entered into service until the termination of the war, besides the six months of his imprisonment, that during his service in his marches along the sea coast he was engaged in several skirmishes with the Tories, once particularly at the Navesink Highlands; that the country thro' which he marched extended between Toms River in the County of Monmouth to Perth Amboy in the County of Middlesex,
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except the time he formed of the escort as before mentioned, which accompanied Congress from Bristol to Reading; that he does not recollect serving with any continental regiment or companies, except the aforesaid continental company commanded by the said Captain John Burrowes, and that he does not recollect the names of any of the said regular officers of the army, except the said Captain Burrowes_ That he has a record of his age in  his possession_ That he now lives in the township of Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, where he has lived since the year 1792, but that he was born & resident as before stated when called into service in the said township of Middletown & that he lived there until the year 1792 aforesaid_ That he has never received any discharge from the said service, & that he has no documentary evidence of such service, but that he has understood that his name is on some of the payrolls in the possession of Colonel Barnes I. Smock of the said County of Monmouth That Colonel Barnes I. Smock, John L. Burnet [sp?], Nicholas Worrell, & George Taylor are knowing to, & will testify to his service, as well as to his character for truth & veracity_ 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_

[signature]James Wall

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid_
[signature]John Headder


State of New Jersey County of Monmouth ss:

We Nicholas Worrell Col. Barnes I. Smock and George Taylor & John L. Burnet residing in the County of Monmouth do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James
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Wall who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy six years of age, that we know hm to be a solder of the Revolution having served with him during that period, and that we believe from our knowledge of his services that he was out in [illegible] service at least three years, that he is not only reputed and believed in his neighborhood to be a solder of the revolution but we know him to be such, that he is a credible person and his statement is entitled to credit.

[signature]Barnes I Smock
[signature]George Taylor
[signature]John L Bennet

Sworn to & subscribed in open Court the day & year afr'd-
[signature]John Headden


And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary solder, and served as he states-- And the Court further certifies, that it apepars to them that Col: Barnes I. Smock, George Taylor & John L. Bennet, who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the said County of Monmouth, New Jersey, and are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit--

[signature]William Lloyd
[signature]John Hull
[signature}John Headden
Judges of the said Court--
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I Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Monmouth, New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Wall for a pension--

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two--
[seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]

[signature]D.H. Ellis Clk


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 the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court on the thirty first day of July last, in the matter of the application of James Wall for a pension=

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three=
[seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]

[signature]D.H. Ellis Clk
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Rev War

3435
INVALID.

File no. 3435
James Wall
Privt Rev War

Act: June 7- 1832
Index:--Vol. A, Page 390

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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August 1781.

This observation or movement of the British Navy done by orders, General Foreman.

August
 - Tuesday morning, the 7 August.:
Morning dull. The water not to be seen. Wind light, N.W. Afternoon fair. 3 Brigs, 1 Ship anchored at the hook, which [illegible] down from the Narrows.
 - Wednesday morning, August the 8.
Fair. The wind S.S.W. The 4 above mentioned [vessels] sail to sea. Afternoon came in one sail stood-up to the Narrows.
 - Thursday morning, August the 9th.
Fair the wind, light at west. Nothing appears. Only one ship at anchor at the hook, a smart Canonading at New York.
 - Friday morning the 10th.
Morning, something clouded in hindsight at west. Nothing appears in light. Some cannon firing at sea.
 - Saturday morning the 11th.
Something clouded the behind N.E. Smart breeze. Nothing appears of one ship coming down to the hook. 12 o'clock affect of 38 sails appears. 36 of which stood-up to the Narrows. Two remains at the hook, yet appear to be the Admiral ships.
 - Sunday morning, August the 12.
Morning, something dull, wind at S.E. a smart breeze. 3 ships besides the guard ship anchored at the hook. Two large ships in the off in beating to windward.
 - Monday morning, [illegible] 27th August.
Dark wind S.W. Nothing appears off. Six ships anchored at the hook. 1 in the Narrows afternoon, clearing off wind S.W.
 - Tuesday morning 28.
Fair wind, light at West. Nothing appears off but small Cruisers 2 o'clock. Appears wind S.E. Appears 18 sail to the S.E bearing North. Course 3 o'clock there were nearly up with Sandy Hook at sunset. Dressed in a line from North to S(outh) about three miles distance consisting of 15 ships of the line & frigates; 1 smaller; 2 admirals in his fleet. All of the blue & now dark.
 - Wednesday morning 29.
Morning fair, wind S.W. [crossed out: The] Their fleet remaining at anchor.
 - Thursday morning, 30 of August.
Morning clear, wind S.W. Nothing appears of but small cruisers.
 - Friday morning, [illegible] 23 of August.
Morning fair, wind West. Nothing off. Afternoon, showering four o'clock. Admiral Graves' fleet, lying within the hook, came to sail [crossed out: and] and stood out; consisting of 6 sail of the line, 4 frigates about sunset. They where without the hook with the wind at West about this time. Rodnie's fleet is getting ground with 15 sail of the line; 3 frigates; they bear S.S.E. course. 
 - It's now Saturday morning the 1 of September. Clear wind N.W. The fleet is clear off the coast.

The above done by James Wall.
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 - Sunday morning, [illegible] 19 of August.
Something dull wind East. Nothing appears, the fleet remains anchored at the hrook.
 - Monday morning, 20. Fair, the wind West. Nothing appears new. The fleet yet at the hook. One sail to sea.
 - Tuesday morning, the 21.
5 ships of the before-mentioned fleet at hook with some small ones. Nothing particular appears during the day.
 - Wednesday morning, the 22 of August.
Fair wind, light at S.W. The 5 ships remaining at the hook.
 - Thursday, August the 23rd 1781.
Morning fair wind, light at [illegible]. Nothing appears. The fleet still remains in the harbor.
  Friday morning, the 24th. Fair wind, light at West. Nothing appears.
 - Saturday morning, the 25th. Morning clouded, wind N.E. Light breeze. The fleet remaining at anchor in the harbor. Nothing further appears. Afternoon 2 o'clock, came in, two ships.
 - Sunday morning, August the 26th.
Morning, light wind S.E. One ship appears in the off in coming in. 6 ships continues anchored at the hook. Afternoon showering.

Wall, James
N.J. S.3435

 - Monday morning, August the 13.
Morning, very rainy and dark. Wind S.E. Nothing exstonary appears. 12 o'clock 2 Ships anchor at the hook. 12 o'clock came to sail [illegible] went to sea & 2 up to New York.
 - Tuesday morning, [illegible] 14.
Morning fair, wind N.W. Smart breeze. Nothing appears.
 - Wednesday morning, [illegible] 15.
The morning fair, wind S.W. Light breeze. Nothing appears.
 - Thursday August the 16.
Morning clear, wind light at S.E. 2 sail appearing of to the Eastward. Afternoon, 2 o'clock, the 2 sail come in and stand up. They are 2 ships of war of red. Towards evening, appears 7 sail more off. They come in the evening and come to anchor. It is now dawn.
 - Friday morning, the 17.
Dark and rainy. The ships that came in last night are men of war. 6 ships of the line; 4 smaller. There appears like 40 & 50 gun ships. There appears another large ship in the off in coming in.
 - Saturday morning, [illegible] 18.
Morning dull wind, E(ast) light. Nothing appears. The flat remains anchored at the hook. Afternoon, on sail to sea.
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Supplemental affidavit of James Wall.
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Supplemental affidavit of James Wall, amending his declaration made on the Thirty first day of July last, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey, James Wall, 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 below mentioned and in the following grades. In the month of April 1776, I served as a corporal in a company of militia commanded by Captain John Smock. John Schenck was the 1st Lieutenant. Joseph Brown the 2nd Lieutenant. Cornelius McClean, ensign & John Bennet, one of the sergeants in the said company. Colonel George Taylor and Major Thomas Seabrook were the Field Officers. In the month of August 1776, I served as a private in a company of militia commanded by Captain Barnes Smock. Jacob Conover was the lieutenant & Samuel Carhart was the ensign in the said company, last named. In the month of October 1776, I served as a private in a company of militia commanded by the same Captain Barnes Smock. That I did not enter the service again until the spring of the year 1777, on account of the disaffected; having obtained the ascendency about this period [crossed out: (illegible)] in...
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...the County of Monmouth & having compelled the militia to lay down their arms, but at least as early as the 1st of April 1777, I again entered the service as a horseman in a Troop of Horse commanded by Captain Randall; William Remsen being lieutenant & Ralf Conover, Cornet in said troops. That I served in said Troop of Horse as a Private Horseman during the months of April & May 1777. That in the month of June 1777, the said Captain Randal resigning the command of the said Troop of Horse & returning to Philadelphia, from whence he came. The Company of Horses appointed their lieutenant, the said William Remsen their captain and that I served, from the said month of June 1777 until the month of June 1779, in the said troop every other month alternately. The said Captain Remsen commanding during the whole period that I served as a Private Horseman during that period & that the particular months in which my service was performed were, I think, the following. The months of June, August, October, December in the year 1777 and the months of February, April, June, August, October & December in the year 1778 & the months of February, April & part of the month of June in the year 1779. During the above period, namely, I think in the month of September 1777, I formed one of a party to escort Congress from Philadelphia to Lancaster. That the said [crossed out: Congress] escort of which I made a part as before mentioned, met Congress at Bristol, Pennsylvania, on their way from Phil(adelphia)...
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...That we proceeded with Congress to Trenton, New Jersey, where we tarried two or three days, then crossed the Delaware [River] at Easton & from there proceeded on to Reading, where the said escort being discharged, I, together with the rest, repaired to the County of Monmouth. In June 1779, I enlisted in the six months service under command of David Gordon, captain. Jacob Wilcott being the lieutenant & John Morris, the ensign of said company. During the said term of six months, I formed one of a party of six horseman attached to the foot company of the said Captain Gordon. That my said six months service comprised a part of the month of June, the months of July, August, September, October, November & part of the month of December 1779.  That in the month of January 1780, I was appointed one of an escort to conduct a party of the British Marines taken from the British Brig Britannia, hat was enclosed in the ice near the Monmouth shorse to Elizabeth Town but that on my way there my horse slipped on the ice & fell, fracturing my leg in his fall. After recovering from the effects of my horse's fall, I re-entered the service in the Troop of Horse, commanded by the said Captain Remsen, namely in the month of March 1780 & continued in said service under the said Captain under the monthly tours until I was taken prisoner. That my actual service last mentioned comprised the months of March & May in the year 1780. In June 1780, I...
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...was taken prisoner & carried to New York & placed in the Sugar House there, as I related more particularly in my original declaration. That I have in my possession a letter from my father, written to me while a prisoner as before named in the Sugar House at New York, which letter I herewith send to the department. That my imprisonment continued until January 1781 when I, together with Seventy one others, was exchanged for English prisoners. In the month of January 1781, I enlisted in the twelve month service in the Troop of Horse belonging to the State Regiment, commanded by Captain Moses Shepherd. I was actively employed in this service until January 1782, comprising the months of January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December in the year 1781. During the above last named period, I was stationed to keep a lookout for the fleet of the enemy, as related in my original declaration & that I have in my possession a memorandum made at the time of my observations, which I herewith transmit to the department. After the expiration of my twelve months service, I entered in the Troop of Horse commanded by Lieutenant Barnes Smock (the nephew of Captain Barnes Smock, above referred to). Captain Remsen's ill health preventing him from taking the command. That I served under the said lieutenant Smock till the close of the war, whenever called on, but the terms of service being at this time very irregular...
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...I cannot specify the particular months but I think I was out in actual service at least three months during the said year 1782. My two months service under Captain Barnes Smock, above mentioned in the year 1776, escaped my recollection when I made my original declaration, except as therein stated. That I remembered having served under him but had forgotten when. I remember also having served under Captain Joseph Stilwell and Captain John Smock but cannot state the times, having forgotten when such service was performed. The same being for only short periods. The Field Officers, having the command at the time of my respective services, are mentioned in my original declaration. I was born on the 21st June A.D. 1756 [crossed out: (illegible)] & never served as a substitute or received a written discharge from the service. The other interrogatories prescribed by the department are answered in my original declaration. The places in which my terms of service were performed are also stated in my original declaration. I was always called into service by my commanding officers, who I believed received their authority from the State of New Jersey & during the times in which my term of service above specified were performed, I was not employed in any civil pursuit. I am well known to the Rev. Samuel A. Van Vrankin & John H. Schenck, who will testify as to my character for veracity, and their belief of my services as a soldier...
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...of the Revolution from the traditionary opinion of the neighborhood.
s/ James Wall

Sworn & subscribed this 13th day of May A.D. 1833 before me. An [crossed out: interlineation] erasure on the last line of the first page, the 35th line of the 2nd page & an interlineation in the 11th line of the 4th page being first made.
s/ William Lloyd
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We, Samuel A. Van Vrankin, a Clergyman residing in the Township of Freehold & in the neighborhood of James Wall, who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration and supplemental affidavit thereto, and John H. Schenck, residing in the same place, do hereby certify under our respective oaths that we are well acquainted with the said James Wall. That we believe him to be in his Seventy seventh year. That he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
s/ Sam'l A. Van Vrankin
s/ John H. Shenk

Sworn to & subscribed this Fourteenth day of May A.D. 1833 before me, one of the Justices of Peace in & for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey.
s/ John Hull

I, William Lloyd, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Monmouth & State of New Jersey, before which the above named James Wall made his original declaration on the Thirty first day of July last, and one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County before whom as such the foregoing supplemental affidavits of the said James Wall [crossed out: was made] & also the affidavit herewith following of William Wall, was subscribed & sworn by each respectively...
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...do hereby certify that it appears to me that Samuel A. Van Vrankin, who has signed the foregoing certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the neighborhood of the said James Wall in the Township of Freehold in the County of Monmouth & State of New Jersey. And that John H. Schenck, who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same place & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit & also that William Wall, who has signed the affidavit herewith following, is a credible person & that his statement is entitled to credit & further that I am personally acquainted with the aforesaid James Wall & that he is a credible person & that his statement is entitled to credit & that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that I concur in that opinion. Dated May 23 A.D. 1833.
s/ 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 & John Hull, Esquires, are both Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas aforesaid & also Justices of the Peace in & for the said County of Monmouth. That they are duly commissioned & sworn as such Judge & Justice & that the name "William Lloyd" signed to...
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...the supplemental affidavit of James Wall, the foregoing applicant for a pension, & to the foregoing certificate dated May 23, 1833 & to the following affidavit of William Wall, are respectively the genuine signatures of the said William Lloyd & that the said William Lloyd was at the respective dates of the said affidavits & certificate & still is a Judge & Justice as aforesaid & that full faith & credit are to [duplicate: to] be given to his acts as such Judge & Justice. And that the name "John Hull" signed to the Jurat of the foregoing affidavit of Sam'l A. Van Vrankin and John H. Schenk is the genuine signature of the said John Hull & that the said John Hull was at the date of the said affidavit last named & still is a Judge & Justice as aforesaid & that full faith & credit are to be given to his acts as such Judge & Justice.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of Office this Twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty three.
s/ D.H. Ellis, Clk.