Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,333, William Dougherty, New York
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Dougherty, William 34,333
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18154
New Jersey
William Dougherty
of ______ in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Von S_____ of the ______ line, for the term of ______

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of .8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24th of ____, 18_0.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8(?) of May 18_1 and sent to ______

Arrears to 4th of March 1891 | 51.09
Semi anl. all'ce ending _ ____ 1891 ___

$99.09
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
(1 May 1890)

Vol. 6 -- p - 55
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(Left side of fold)
The testimony, on oath of two or more disinterested
and credible
persons, certified as
such, by the judge,
proving explicitly,
from their own knowledge, 9 month's service
of the applicant, in
Continuance, on cont
establishment, designating the Col. name
and line, is required.
Col. Van Schaiek (signature)
[illegible]

(Right side of fold)
17.419
William Dougherty
applicant for Pension }
Copy of affidavit,
Sussex County, N.J.
24. August, 1820.
Col. Van Schaiek's Regt
New - York line,
1779 
to 1781.
No property
Not found on the rolls
Ephraim Green, agt
Newton, N. Jersey
22d. Sept: 1820.
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District of New Jersey.
On this twenty fourth day of August, 1820. personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Sussex, in the State of New Jersey the said Court being a Court of record in said County, being constituted by the Laws of this State, a Court of record, having a Seal, proceeding according to the course of the common Law, having power to fine & imprison with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount in civil causes, and keeping a record of its proceedings, William Dougherty, of the age of eighty three years, resident in the Township of Independence, in said County, who being first duly Sworn according to Law, doth upon his Oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 18(illegible)8, and the 1st of May 1820 - that he the said William Dougherty enlisted on the seventeenth day of May 1775, at New Windsor in the State of New York, for the term of one year under Captain Morgan, afterwards Colonel, & General Morgan, the well known Commander of the Virginia Rifle Corps, then on a march to Boston, which term of Service he completed, and attained his discharge at Ticonderoga, on his return from Quebeck - In the year 1776, he was in the battle of Long Island as a Militia man, and in the Autumn following he enlisted for the term of one year, at Little Brittin, Orange County, New York, under Captain Cooper in a Regiment commanded by Colonel John Nicholson of the New York line, and served under this Enlistment, eight months, and then reenlisted for a term of during this war, under Captain Benjamin Hicks in a Regiment, commanded
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by Colonel Van Scott, of the first Regiment, in the New York line, and served under the last command till in July 1779, when he was taken by the Indians at Fort Stanwix, and continued a prisoner, till after the close of the war, - was at the taking of Burgoyne and in the Battle of Monmouth, and he has now no evidence of his Service in his possession. -
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820. the said William Dougherty, doth Solemnly swear that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that he has not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of his property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, passed on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, - and that he has not, nor has any person in trust for him, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to him, nor has he any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by him subscribed. And this declarant further says, that he is eighty three years old, by ocupation of Labourer, but by reason of age and infirmity is unable to pursue the same; that his family resident with him consists of his wife, named Catharine, aged about sixty three or sixty four years, too old and infirm to maintain herself - and of two sons, named Henry and James, aged twenty one, and the other nearly seven - teen who are able to maintain themselves, and are at present this declarants sole dependance to prevent his becoming a town charge, and of one grand child named Charley, aged eight years. -
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Sworn to, and declared in open Court, the 24th day of August, A.D., 1820.

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his mark William Dougherty.
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(illegible) - Johnson.

Schedule of the Property of William Dougherty, necessary Clothing and bedding excepted. -
Real Estate - none. -
Personal Estate - none. -

Sworn to & subscribed in open Court, the 24th day of August, A.D., 1820.

(illegible) - Johnson.

I, E(illegible)ain Green Fin = Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas afors - do hereby Certify that the foregoing Oath, and teh schedule thereto annexed, are truly copies from the records of the said Court: -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this thirtieth day of August, A.D., 1820.

E. Green Fin, Clerk of the Court for the county of Su(illegible).
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State of New Jersey, 
Hunterdon County S.S.
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On the frosty fifth day of January 1896, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Hunterdon, personally appeared William Dougherty, who on his oath declares that he is the same Person who formerly belonged to the Company Command of by Captain Benjamin Hicks in the Regiment Commanded by Col(illegible).  In the service of the (unintelligible) that his name was known as the Pension Light Role of the State of New Jersey. That he received a certificate of war the signature and seals of the Secretary of War.  Which certificate on the seventeenth day of September last he put in the post office at Haskel Town in the County of Warren, State of New Jersey accompanied with a Power of Attorney for Enoch Green of the county of Trenton County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey directly to Enoch Green Trenton, New Jersey - for the purpose of drawing his pension for (unintelligible)  and (unintelligible) he has  (unintelligible) or received a certificate and further saith that he now resides in the township of (unintelligible). in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey where he has resided near nine years. 

Sworn and (unintelligible) to before me the day and years aforesaid. 

D. H. Donlhson           William Daugherty\
                                    (X) His mark
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County:
Before me the subscriber on of the Justices of the Peace in and from the County of Hunterdon, personally appearing Enoch Green of the City of Trenton in said County, to me well known in whose formerly
 are entitled to (unintelligible) who being only orig. (unintelligible) that (unintelligible) well acquainted with the militia never civilian Dougherty and that he has drawn his pension for him by Power of Attorney for three years past and that he does verily believe that he is the same person somehow the 
the certificate was originally granted and further saith that on the nineteenth day of September last 1820 he received from the Post Office in the City of Trenton the Certificate granted by the new department for the land William Dougherty as a Pensioner accompanied with as Power of Attorney is finding of him this deponent and authorizing him to draw the pension of the said William Dougherty for the last (unintelligible) this day of September last 1825 much.    He this deponent (unintelligible) and enclosed the amount of the pension after deducting the expense of getting it, leaving forty-seven dollars and fifty cents enclosed(unintelligible) with the certificate in a letter (unintelligible) so he and State of New Jersey and which letter containing the said certificate and money was put in the post office in the City of Trenton and has not since been heard of by this deponent. 

Sworn and subscribed to before me, this twenty fifth day of January A. D. 1826
 O.H.  Donalhson

Enoch Green
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State of New Jersey
Secretarys Office
Trenton January 25th 1820(?)

I, Dan Coleman, Secretary of the state aforesaid, do certify that David Johnston Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Hunterdon in said State duly appointed and commissioned and full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts accordingly.

Given under my hand and seal of Office at the city of Trenton the day and year last abovesaid.
- Dan Coleman
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Affidavit of Henry Herald & Ezekiel Stilwell.
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I Robert Thompson one of the Judges of the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for
the County of Sussex do hereby certify that
Henry Heralds one of the within deponents is a
man about the age of Sixty three years and
Ezekiel Stillwell the other deponent is a man
about the age of Fifty five years and are
each of them well known to me and have
been for some years past and are men of
credit and of good character for veracity
when under oath and have no interest in
the application of the said William Dough
erty
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In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand this the Seventeenth day of April in the 
year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred 
and twenty one 
Robert Thompson (signature)
State of New Jersey,
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Sussex County N.J.
Ephraim  [illegible]  Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas in and for said County do
hereby certify that Robert Thompson Esq who has given
the above certificates and who has taken the within
affidavits of Esckiel Stilwell and Henry Herald
and who has thereunto subscribed his name was
at the time of taking and signing the same
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly
Commissioned and sworn into office as such and to all his official
acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in
Courts of Justice as thereout. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this
eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and Twenty one
(illegible signature of Ephraim)
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New Jersey ss
Sussex County NJ
Personally appeared before me
Robert Thompson one of the [illegible]
 of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in
and for the said County of Sussex Ezekiel Hill
well who being sworn on the Evangelists of 
almighty God deposeth and saith that he was
well acquainted with William Dougherty the
applicant within named and from his own
knowledge the said William Dougherty was
enlist as a soldier in the revolutionary war
and served in continuance for three
years and upwards on Continental establishment in a company commanded by Captain Benjamin Hicks, in a regiment commanded by Col. Van Schaicks of the New York line

Sworn and subscribed before
me 17th April AD 1821-
Ezekiel Stilwell (signature)
Robt Thompson (signature)
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New Jersey
Sussex county
Personally appears before me Robert Thompson one of the Judges of the inferior court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Sussex Henry Herald who being sworn [illegible] the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God depose and said that he was well acquainted with William Dougherty the applicant within named and from his own knowledge the said William Dougherty was enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary war and served [illegible] continued for three years and upwards on continued? establishment in a Company commanded by Captain Benjamin Hicks and in a Regiment commanded by Col. Van Schaick of the New York line
Henry Herald
Sworn and Subscribed before me. 17th April AD 1821 -
Robert Thompson
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34333
Revy | INVALID

File No. 34333
William Dougherty
Pri. Rev. War

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Act: 18 March 18th
Index: -- Vol 9, Page 112

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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M. Daugherty
Ephraim Green
Agt
Mecotow, M.J. 
Rec'd 27 April 1821

Adm. 
I.L.E. 

Written across the right side of the page:
Mecotow Esq.  Apr. 24

Written across the left side of the page:
Pension Office
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[unclear] Bank
January 20th 1823
Sir
You will herewith receive the affidavit of William Doughtery a Revolutionary pensioner who is inscribing in the Book of this Agency (together with Enoch Green) proving the loss of his original pension Certificate.
He request you will therefore be pleased to issue him one in lieu thereof, please direct to Wm Doughtery, Hackets Town, N.J.
I am very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
John Beatty, Agent Gen.
J. L. Edwards Esq.
City of Washington