Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1129, Samuel Vaughn, New Jersey
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SERVICE ---------------- NUMBER
New Jersey 
Vaughn, Samuel 
S.1129

carded
CONTENTS
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New Jersey 28.964
Samuel Vaughan of Monmouth Co. in the state of New Jersey who was a private in the Compy commanded by Captain Covenhoven of the Reg commanded by Col Forman in the New Jersey Militia.

2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of August 1836 and sent [illegible] [illegible] -home, Freehold, N.J.

Arrears to the 4th of March 240
Semi-annl. allowance ending 4 Sept 40
$280
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by [illegible] Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 3 Page 137
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Declaration of Samuel Vaughn in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County Ss:

On the thirty first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, personally appeared in open court before the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in + for said county now sitting, Samuel Vaughn a resident of the township of Upper Freehold in the county and state aforesaid aged eighty two years in February 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 June 7, 1832.

That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated: That he entered in actual service the militia of the county of Monmouth sometime in the month of July, A.D. 1776, And served therein, in a company commanded by William Perrine and Lieutenant John Covenhoven + Lawrence Taylor, every other month alternately in tours of one month each, from the said month of July 1776 until the close of the year 1778 - that he cannot at this distanced of time from his advanced age and the consequent loss of memory state the particular day when each tour of duty commenced and ended but he is positive that each tour of duty was at least one month in length and that he served at least six such tours in each of the years 1777 + 1778, and three such in the year 1776 - that his company in the beginning of the war was divided into two divisions one half each, so that one half was called out one month and the other half the next, relieving each other monthly, that sometime in the latter part of the year 1776 or the beginning of 1777, John Covenhoven was
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made Captain of the said company, in the place of Willian Perrine, who became a Tory. Lawrence Taylor was made 1st Lieut. + one Thomas Edwards (who was ensign under Capt. Perrine) was made 2nd Lieut. That Samuel Forman was then Col. + Daniel Forman then General. That their headquarters were at Freehold in said County and their duties were to guard and defend the frontier inhabitants of said county from parties of the British and Tories, who were continually landing on our Shores, from New York + Long + Staten Islands and committing their depredations in every quarter. That sometime in the year 1778 (but he cannot state distinctly the time) he thinks his company was classed in 8 classes to be called out in rotation 4 days at a time if necessary. that the necessity did actually exist in the said county during the year 1778, for the whole British Army remained in New York + its vicinity. (And a part of it passed through New Jersey to New York from Philadelphia during the whole of that year.) That from and after the year 1778, and after a part of the enemy had left New York on the Southern expedition, he thinks that he was not called out in actual service so frequently as before. that he continued to serve in the same company under the same officer at least three months in each year during the years 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782. that after the year 1778 from 2 to 4 classes of said company were called out at a time, and were believed monthly generally, but sometimes semi-monthly for the other classes according to the directions of their Superior officers and as the exigency of the times required; that from the fact of there never being less than two classes nor more than four called at a time (except in cases of alarm + invasion) his service during the last named years must have ranged from 3 to 6 months in each year and it is impossible for him to State it explicitly, but he knows that he served in said company under said officers at least three months in each of the years 1779, 1780, 1731, 1782, that their head
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quarters and duties were the same as above mentioned. that all the above service was performed in the grade of a private. That he served a great number of tours of short periods upon alarm, where it was not his regular tour of Service but he cannot pretend to recollect when their length or times or places they were performed. that for such service he makes no claim but claimed a pension only for his regular tour of duty as above mentioned. that he served as a volunteer. that he was never engaged in any regular battles but in several small skirmishes with the enemy to wit at Little Egg Harbour, Shrewsberry Hill + Upper Freehold - That his marches were generally confined to his native county from Head quarters to the several guard posts along the shores to wit: Shrewsbury, Long Branch, Squan, Toms River + Little Egg Harbour, but he marched once to Sourland Mountain in Somerset County and joined Washington's Army in the spring or summer of 1777 while the British had possession of New Brunswick, and when they marched down to New Brunswick the British had retreated to Amboy, and then he together with the rest of the company were discharged, and returned home. that when not on guard he together with his comrades were out as Scouts as they were called, patrolling the roads and shores, between the above named places and marching to and from Head Quarters according to the command of their officers, watching the motions of the Tories and British and endeavoring to find out the lurking places of the former in the Pines.

In answering the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, he says:
1. That he was born in the Township of Upper Freehold in the county and state aforesaid in the month of February A.D. 1751. That he has no record of his age, his father not being able to write never left any, but he has heard his age from his parents time after time so that he shall always remember it.

3. That he lived in Upper Freehold aforesaid
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when called into service has lived there since the Revolution and resides there still.

4. That he volunteered in the Service under the militia calls.
5. That there were no regular officers with troops where he served except the regiments or some parts of them at Head Quarters under Cols. Holmes and Hendrickson belonging to the said county of Monmouth and the general circumstances of his service are stated above.
6. That he never received any discharge and has no documentary evidence of his service, and that he knows of Jessee Mount and of no other person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service, Ephraim Leaman's memory having greatly failed him.
7. That he is known to Robert Hutchinson and Benjamin Vanschoick - in his present neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. That he served in field and not in Garrison, and that for the time during which his services were performed he was not engaged in any civil pursuit. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except for the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state.
Samuel Vaughan

Sworn and subscribed in open court the day + year aforesaid
John Patterson

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County Ss
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County Ss: Jessee Mount being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is a surviving soldier of the Revolution aged 77-years. that he is well acquainted with Samuel Vaughn who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration. that he knows that the said Samuel Vaughn belonged to and served in Captains Perrine + Covenhoven's Company of Col. Forman's Regiment, during the whole of the Revolutionary War from the year 1776 to the year 1783, whenever and as often as the militia or Monmouth County were called out, which was at least every other month during the years 1776, 1777 + 1778 and every third or fourth month during the years 1779, 1780, 1781 + 1782. That he cannot at this distance of time state the different periods of service of the said Samuel Vaughn although the Deponent belonged to and served in this same company, yet from his own knowledge of the service as the said Samuel Vaughn and from the character which he sustained of being a good whig and soldier, he this Deponent has no hesitation in saying that the said Samuel Vaughn was in actual service in said militia at least two years during the Revolutionary War. That he recollects the militia were divided in two divisions or classes in the early part of the war, and they relieved each other monthly, he recollects also that they were afterwards divided into 8 classes to be called out in rotation, not more than four classes at a time and never less than two, during the latter years of the war above named. that he was in the skirmish with the enemy at Little Egg Harbour - together with the said Samuel Vaughn, and that he marched with the said Samuel Vaughn to Sourland Mountain in Somerset County + New Brunswick in 1777, but he cannot pretend to tell the different places where he has marched and been on guard with the said Samuel
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Vaughn in the said county of Monmouth, but very often at head quarters and at their several guard posts along the shores and frontiers. that their head quarters were at Freehold + their duties were to guard the shore of said county, marching along said shore when not on guard at a particular place looking out for small parties of the enemy, which was called Scouting.
Jesse Mount

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
John Patterson
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We, Robert Hutchinson, a clergyman residing in the township of East Windsor near Upper Freehold, in county of and state of New Jersey and Benjamin Vanschoick residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samual Vaughn who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. that we believe him to be eighty two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to be a man of good character for truth and veracity and to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Robert Hutchinson
Benj VanSchoick

Sworn and subscribed the day + year aforesaid in open court
John Patterson

And the said court to hereby declare their opinion after 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 said court further certifies that it appears to them that Jesse Mount who has subscribed + sworn to the foregoing affidavit is a surviving Soldier of the Revolution resident in said County that he is a credible person and that his affidavit is entitled to credit: and further that Robert Hutchinson who has signed the above certificate is a clergyman resident as stated above, and that Benjamin Vanschoick who has also signed the same is resident as above stated + is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By order of the Court
John Patterson
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(written vertically along left edge)
Samuel Vaughn 29,751

I, Daniel H. Ellis, clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of 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 Samuel Vaughn for a pension.

In Testimony I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 3rd day of February A.D. 1834
D.H. Ellis clk
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INVALID

File No. 1129

Samuel Vaughn
Priv. N.J. Mil
Act: June 7, 1832
Inde:- Vol. A, Page 386

[Arangement of 1870]

(written vertically along right edge)
Rev War
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New Jersey
Revol

Samuel Vaughn
Suspended
2 years
$80

See let Hon J. Parker 20?
of February 1834
[illegible] May 13th. 1834

JM Hartshorne
Freehold

Act June 7 1832
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Payments to be made
at
by
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book ____ Vol.____  Page____ by 
Clerk
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County Ss:

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in the aforesaid county Samuel Vaughn 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 grade of a private:- In the year 1776 he served at least months; in the year 1777 he served at least six months and in the year 1778 he served at least in tours all in tours of one month each, every other month alternately - the first tour commenced in the month of July 1776 (the day he cannot tell) and continued one month - the Second tour commenced one month after termination of the first and continued one month - the third commenced one month after the termination of the Second and continued one month - the fourth commenced one month after the termination of the third and continued one month - the fifth commenced one month after the termination of the fourth and continued one month - the sixth commenced one month after the termination of the fifth and continued one month - the seventh commenced one month after termination of the sixth and continued one month - the eighth commenced one month after the termination of the seventh and continued one month - the ninth commenced one month after the termination of the eighth and continued one month - the tenth commenced one month after the termination of the ninth and continued one month - the eleventh commenced one month after the termination of the tenth and continued one month - the twelfth commenced one month after the termination of the eleventh and continued one month - the thirteenth commenced one month after the termination of the twelfth and continued one month- the fourteenth commenced one month after the termination of the thirteenth and continued one month - And the the fifteenth commenced one month after the termination of the fourteenth and continued one month - In the year 1779 he served three months; in the year 1783 he served three months; in the year 1781 he served three months; and in the year 1782 he served three months - In the last named years his tours were not so regular as before, but he knows that they were at least one month in length each; that by reason of his not being called out in service as often nor at such regular intervals as in the beginning of the service, he is
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unable to state the commencement and ending of each tour in the last named years, but he knows that he served in actual service at least three tours each one month in length in each of the years 1779, 1780, 1781, + 1782 as above specified that all the above service was performed under the offers named in his declaration (and in the same services thus mentioned) at Freehold in said county - that place being the head quarters of his company during the whole war; from [illegible] he was often ordered on Scouts and on guard along the shore by his officers as mentioned in his declaration but Freehold was always the rallying point - the place his tours commenced and ended and was always considered the place of service-
Samuel Vaughn

Sworn and subscribed before me June 13th 1834
William Lloyde
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his own knowledge of his services, he verily believes that the said Samuel Vaughn must have served at least two years during said war, and is justly entitled to a pension; That Freehold was the head quarters of Col. Forman's Regiment, and that their duties were guard and defend the inhabitants of the shores and frontiers from the British and Tories, and for that purpose they were either stationed on guard or ordered out on Scouts.
Lewis Compton

Sworn to and subscribed before me Justice of the Peace of said County June 21st 1834
W.J. Bowne

And I the said Justice do hereby certify that it appears to me that Lewis Compton who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a surviving soldier of the Revolution resident in said county, that he is a credible person and that this affidavit is entitled to credit. -
W.J. Bowne
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County Ss:

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in + for the said county, David Baird, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is a surviving soldier of the Revolution aged about Eighty years; that he is well acquainted with Samuel Vaughn who has applied for a pension and knows that the said Samuel Vaughn belonged to and served in Captain John Covenhoven's Company of Col. Forman's regiment of Monmouth Militia whenever and as often as it came to his turn to perform actual service during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, + 1781; that he cannot now from loss of memory state the different tours of service of the said Samuel Vaughn (although this Deponent belonged to, and was an officer in said Company) but from his own knowledge of the services of the said Samuel Vaughn, he having served several tours with him, he verily believes that the said Samuel Vaughn must have performed sufficient actual service to entitle him to a pension; that he never knew the said Samuel Vaughn to fail in the performance of his duty but always went out in his turn and performed his duty as a good soldier; that Freehold was the head quarters of said company from which place they were often marched on Scouts along the shores of said county and to guard them from ravages of the British and Tories; and that he recollects his company was divided in two divisions in the early part of the war and performed duty every other month alternately month and month about; and in the latter part of the war he thinks said company were called out + served in classes as the exigency of the times required and as the officers commanded, which
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was at least every third or fourth month -
David Baird

Sworn to and subscribed before me June 24th, 1834
John M. Davison, Justice

And I the said Justice do hereby certify that DAvid Caird who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit is a credible person and that his affidavit is entitled to credit.
John M. DAvison, Justice

I Daniel H Ellis clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas- in and for the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that William Lloyd, William J. Bowne, and John W. Davison before whom the annexed and foregoing proceedings were had, are severally enrolled in my office as justices of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn into office as such respectively and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all their official acts as such Justices - And further that the respective signatures of the said several Justices signed to the annexed and foregoing affidavits and certificates are genuine -

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal office this 24th day of June A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty four -
W. H. Ellis clk