Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33862, Albert Voorhees, Continental New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
Continental New Jersey | Voorhees or Voorhies, Albert | S.33862

CONTENTS
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(24) New Jersey
Albert Voorhies, 4
Capt. Maxwell} Private, N.J. Line,
In the Army of the U. States.

At $8 per mo.: To comm(ence) 25th March 1818.
Cert. issued the 31st March 1818 and sent to Honorable Mr. Southard, House of Reps., U.S.
Arr(ears) to 4th Sep. 1818. 5 8/28 mo. $42.28.

{Rev(olutionary) Claim Act 18th March 1818.}

Jersey Line.
6 years.

Cannot be restored; see letter to Hon. Samuel Swan, Somerville, Somerset Co., New Jersey, May 13th 1822.
Opinion of the Attorney General sent.
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Albert Voorhees
Declaration &c.
24
31 March 1818

(Sep. 1818.)
(Compared)

Not entitled.
Not entitled.
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District of New Jersey//

On this Twenty fourth day of June 1820 personally appeared in Open Court to wit, in the Court of Common Pleas holden at Bridgewater in and for the County of Somerset in said State of New Jersey (the same being a Court of Record proceeding according to the cause of the common laws in the s(ai)d jurisdiction unlimited in amount & keeping a record of its proceedings and it also having the power both of fines & imprisonment), Albert Voorhees, aged Seventy years, resident in the Township of Bridgewater in said County of Somerset, District & State afo(resaid), who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows. That on or about the Twenty first day of January in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Seventy seven, he enlisted in the Army of the United States during the war in a company commanded by Capt. John Maxwell in the Regiment commanded by Col. Oliver Spencer, the same being an additional regiment attached to the New Jersey line. That in consignment of the redirection of said regiment he was afterwards transferred to a company commanded by Capt. Jonathan Holmes in the regiment commanded by Col. Bloomfield in the line of said State on the Continental Establishment. That he continued to serve in said corps until the Sixth day of February in the year 1782, when he was discharged from said services at Elizabeth Town in said State of New Jersey, by Elias Dayton. That he was in the Battles of Springfield, Brandywine, Yorktown and Monmouth & that he has no other evidence now in his possession to prove of his said services, enlistment and discharge.

And this deponent saith that the date of his original declaration is about the month of March 1818 and the number of his Pension Certificate is (24) marked on the back thereof. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent to bring myself within the provisions of Act of Congress entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged...
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...in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed & by me subscribed. Viz.:

Real property & amount:
Personal Estate - I am possessed of a promissory note for Six Hundred dollars, drawn in my favor & made by Lewis Carman & Abraham Voorhees of the City of New Brunswick in said State, bearing date the 11th of May last, payable on year after date and which I owe debts to the best of my belief to the amount of One Hundred dollars & which I have no means of paying but from the proceeds thereof, which said not excepting my necessary wearing apparel in the whole of my personal estate.

This deponent further saith that he is by occupation a farmer. That in consequence of old age and its accompanying disabilities and diseases & particularly the rheumatism, he is almost totally unable to follow in said occupation or to earn a livelihood by manual & hard labor & he further saith that he hath no family. That he occasionally boards with his brother & sister, sometimes among strangers, the expenses of which together with other incidental expenses is rapidly consuming the small amount of property he possesses as stated above. And in a short time without the assistance of government, will be wholly destitute.
s/ Albert Voorhees

Sworn to & declared on the 24th day of June 1820 in Open Court before.
s/ Dickenson Stitler

The court are of opinion that the property given up by the applicant does not exceed the value of Six Hundred dollars & that he is drawing about One Hundred dollars of it.
s/ Dickenson Stitler
s/ John Reilly
s/ A. Howell
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I, Sam'l Swan, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Somerset afor(esaid) do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the words of the said Court and do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Six Hundred dollars and that he is owing about One Hundred dollars of it.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 27th June 1820.
s/ Sam'l Swan, Clerk of the Court of the County of Somerset
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Declaration in order to be restored to the pension list under the Act of the first of March 1823.

State of New Jersey, Somerset County//

On this Twenty third day of April 1823 personally appeared in Open Court to wit: The Inferior Court of Common Pleas holden at Bridgewater in and for said County of the term of April 1823, the same being a Court of Record proceeding according to the cause of the common laws with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and having power of fines and imprisonment, Albert Voorhees, resident in said County, about Seventy two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820. That he, the said Albert Voorhees, enlisted as near as he can recollect, in January 1777 for three years under Captain John Maxwell in Col. Oliver Spencer's Regiment and additional reg(iments) attached to the Jersey line and being returned by Capt. Maxwell as having enlisted during the  war. He served during the war under Capt. Holmes in the Second Jersey Regiment commanded by Colonel Bloomfield on the Continental Establishment. That he was discharged from said service at Elizabeth Town in said State by Colonel Dayton in the year 1789 & that his name has been placed upon the Pension List and dropped therefrom on account of his property. And in pursuance of the Act of the first of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the 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 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor has [duplicate: has] any person in trust for me any property or securities or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule of hereunto annexed and by me subscribed. That since the exhibition of my first schedule, the following changes have been made in my property to wit: The note of Six Hundred dollars...
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...[duplicate: Hundred dollars] which I hold against Lewis Carman & Abr(aham) Voorhees is paid off and discharged and the money has been appropriated towards the payment and subtraction of debts, which I justly and bonafide owed and for my necessary support, the whole of which exhausted. I have no property, either real or personal. That by occupation he is a farmer but on account of age and bodily infirmity he is unable to labor. That he has no family and lives with his brother-in-law.
s/ Albert Voorhees

Sworn to and declared on the 23rd day of April 1823 in Open Court before.
s/ A. Howell

I, Isaac Southard, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Somerset do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Albert Voorhees did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental Establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and schedule are truly copied from the records of the said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the said Albert Voorhees has no property either personal or real.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 23rd day of April, A.D. 1823.
s/ Isaac Southard, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Somerset
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It appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Albert Voorhees did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental Establishment. And also that said applicant has no property, either personal or real.

Dated this 23rd day of April A.D. 1823.

Witness:
s/ A. Howell
s/ Jordan Von Dewees
s/ Charles Smith
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Albert Voorhees

1818 9.4
1818 3.24

5   8/28
x8
___
$40
  2.28
______
$42.28

[illegible]

New Brunswick, New Jersey
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In the case of Albert Voorhees claiming to be entitled to a pension under the 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." 

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

On the Twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen before me, Thomas Hance, Esq., one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex in New Jersey came Albert Voorhees of the County of Somerset in said State, to me known and being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he enlisted in the County afo(resaid) in the month of January in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy six in the company commanded by Capt. John Maxwell in the Second Jersey Regiment on the Continental Establishment commanded by Col. Oliver Spencer and that he continued to serve in said regiment until the Sixth day of February in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty two, when he was discharged at...
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...Elizabeth Town in said State, his term of enlistment having expired, by Elias Dayton, then colonel of said regiment. And this deponent further saith that since his discharge as aforesaid, he hath continued a resident citizen of the United States in the State of New Jersey and that he is now by reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of assistance from his country for support.
s/ Albert Voorhees

Sworn & subscribed the day & year afo(resaid) before me.
s/ Thos. Hance

Middlesex County//

Doctor Moses Scott of the city of New Brunswick in New Jersey, being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Albert Voorhees, the applicant. That the said Albert Voorhees was a soldier in the Jersey line on the Continental Establishment for several years in the Revolutionary War.
s/ Moses Scott

Sworn & subscribed this 25th March 1818 before me.
s/ Thos. Hance

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

I Thomas Hance, one of...
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... the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex in the State aforesaid certify that the foregoing affidavits are to me satisfactory proof that the said Albert Voorhees, the applicant, served in the Revolutionary War on the Continental Establishment against the common enemy for the term of nine months and longer.
s/ Thos. Hance

To the Secretary of the Department of War.

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County//

I, William P. Dean, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex in the State afo(resaid) certify that Thomas Hance, Esq., who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing attestation, is one of the Judges of said Court duly commissioned and sworn and to his official acts full credit is to be given.

Witness my Hand & the Seal of said Court this Twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred & Eighteen.
s/ William P. Dean, Clk.
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November 24, 1939

Mrs. William R. Conover
Star Route,
Freehold, New Jersey.

BA-J/CC
Albert Voorhees
S.33862

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Albert Voorhees who served in Captain Maxwell's company, New Jersey regiment, and that of John Sutfin, Senior, of New Brunswick Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, and who died in March or April, 1785.

There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of the John Sutfin, described by you. The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S.33862, based upon service of Albert Voorhees in the Revolutionary War.

Albert Voorhees was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, date of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.

He enlisted about January 21, 1777, in Somerset County, New Jersey, served as private in Captain John Maxwell's company, Colonel Oliver Spencer's New Jersey regiment and was transferred to Captain Jonathan Holmes' company, Colonel (possibly meant for Major) Bloomfield's New Jersey regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine, Monmouth, Springfield, and Yorktown, and was discharged February 6, 1782 by Colonel Elias Dayton.

The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed March 25, 1818, at which time he was residing in Somerset County, New Jersey.

In 1820, he was aged seventy years and residing in the Township of Bridgewater, Somerset County, New Jersey a part of his time with his brother and sister. In 1823, he was living with his brother-in-law in Somerset County, New Jersey, their names are not shown. It is not shown whether or not he were ever married...
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...In 1820, one Abraham Voorhees was living in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His relationship to the soldier not shown. No further family data are shown.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of Albert Voorhees, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Albert Voorhies (as shown on the pension roll)
Certificate #24
Issued March 31, 1818
Rate $8.00 per month
Commenced March 25, 1818
Act of March 18, 1818
New Jersey Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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Rev(olutionary) War

INVALID.

File No. 33,862
Albert Voorhies
Pri(vate) Rev(olutionary) War

Act: 18th March '18

Index: -; Vol. 2; Page 494

{Arrangement of 1870.}

1913 Aug. 6  - Hist(ory sent) to Mrs. J.P. Wood. V.L.M.
1939 Nov. 24 - Hist(ory sent) to Mrs. Wm. R. Conover. E.C.
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RECORDS DIVISION. | 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
S.F.33,862 | Washington, D.C., (blank) 19 (blank)

In reply to your request of (blank), received (blank) for a statement of the military history of Albert Voorhees*, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. * - Pensioned Voorhies.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. (CAPTAIN/COLONEL) | STATE.
Jan. 21, 1777 | (blank) | Pri(vate) | John Maxwell | Oliver Spencer | N.J.
Transferred | (blank) | (blank) | Jonathan Holmes | Elias Dayton | (blank)

Discharged Feb. 6, 1782.

Col. (possibly meant for Major) Bl(oomfield).

Battles engaged in, Brandywine, Monmouth, Springfield & Yorktown.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, (blank)
Date of application for pension, Mar. 25, 1818. His cl(aim) was al(lowed).
Residence at date of application, Bridgewater, Somerset Co., N.J.
Age at date of application, 68 yrs. a native of New Brunswick.
Remarks: (blank)

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

6-2856

"Brother & sister" are named & a brother-in-law.

* Reg(iment) did not form until 1777 so I have not used 1776.

Bloomfield was never a col(onel), only a major.
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MONMOUTH COURT HOUSE CHAPTER
FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY
Star Route, Nov. 4, 1939

Veterans Administration:
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:

Can you give me any information on Albert Voorhees, who was in the Revolutionary War, in Capt. Maxwell's Company, 2nd Regiment, Hunterdon.

He settled with his wife, near Blue Ball, now Adelphia, Monmouth Co., N.J. md. Eliza or Ellen? and had a son Hendrick b. Oct. 1, 1774.

I would like to prove this record for a lady who wishes to join D.A.R.

Also I would like information on the war record of John Sutfin Sr. of New Brunswick Twp., Middlesex Co., who died Mar. or Apr. 1785. His wife was Eleanor Griggs.

Thanking you for any help you can give me.

Yours truly
s/ Laura V. Conover
(Mrs. William R.) Laura V. Conover
Registrar.
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RECEIVED
NOV 6 1939
MAIL SUB-DIV
Reader No. 12
VETS ADM
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Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

I send you war record of Albert Voorhees of New Jersey. Can you give me any information as to whether he received a pension or was an applicant? If so, whether he gave any information of his family in application and...
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...kindly retain this record.

s/ Mrs. J.P. Wood
14 University Terrace
Athens, Ohio
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New Jersey

Albert Voorhies, pri(vate), served 6 yrs. from 1777.

1st sched(ule) dated June 1820.

Note of hand for $600, indebted to whom not stated, the sum of $100.

Sched(ule) under act of Mar. 1823 dated 23rd Apr. 1823.

Nothing:
Accounts for the decrease of property by collecting the note of $600, of which his debts & balance has been expended in his support.
Claimant 72 yrs., a farmer but from age & infirmity unable to labor.
Has no family.

Thomas A. Hartwell
Somerville, N.J.

$83.20

Restored 3 Sep. 1823

[illegible] 1818
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Application of Albert Voorhees.

The Court are of opinion that the property given up by the said applicant in the within schedule does not exceed the value of Twenty two dollars.
s/ A. Howell
s/ Jacob De Groot
s/ John Ricky

Hon. Sam'l Swan, Ho(use) of Rep(resentatives)
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New Jersey
Somerset County//

On this 5th day of January A.D. 1822 in the term of January, appeared in Open Court, to wit in the Court of Common Pleas of said County, the same being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings & it also having the power both of fine and imprisonment, Albert Voorhees, aged about Seventy one years, a resident in the Township of Bridgewater in said County of Somerset, who being first duly sworn according to law upon his oath saith that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows. That on or about the 21st of January 1777 he entered into the Army of the United States during the war in a company commanded by Captain John Maxwell in the regiment commanded by Col. Oliver Spencer, the same being an additional regiment attached to the New Jersey line. That in consequence of the redirection of said regiment, he was afterwards transferred to a company commanded by Captain Jonathan Holmes in the regiment commanded by Col. Bloomfield in the line of s(ai)d State on the Continental Establishment. That he continued to serve in said corps until the 6th of February 1782, when he was discharged from said service at Elizabeth Town in said State of New Jersey by Col. Elias Dayton. That he was in the Battles of Springfield, Brandywine, Yorktown and Monmouth & that he has now no other evidence in his possession of said service, enlistment and discharge. That the date of his original declaration is about the month of March 1818 & the number of his pension certificate is (24).

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent to bring myself 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 the 18th of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, securities, contracts or debts due me, nor have I any other income than which is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.

Viz: Land or real property: I have none nor any interest in or concerning any. I have no personal property, except about Twenty two dollars in the hands of Lewis Carman. The other portion of the money which I had at the time of my original declaration has been appropriated by said (Lewis) Carman towards the payment of the debts, which I then owed & for my support since that time (except my necessary wearing apparel). That he is by occupation a farmer, but in consequence of old age & its accompanying disabilities and diseases & particularly the rheumatism, he is almost unable to labor any or to acquire a livelihood. That he has no family, boards some of his time with his friends and the remainder with strangers. That he is poor and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
s/ Albert Voorhees

Sworn to & declared on this 5th of January 1822 in Open Court.
s/ A. Howell

(Copy)
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Somerset County
State of New Jersey//

To wit, I, Isaac Southard, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County of Somerset hereby certify that the foregoing to be a true copy from the original, remaining on file in the Clerk's Office of said County. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Twenty two dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed the Seal of the said Court at Bridgewater on this 15th day of January in A.D. 1822.
s/ Isaac Southard, Clk.
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We, the subscribers, certify that we have known Mr. Albert Voorhees for many years. That he is a native of this place & a worthy citizen. That he served his country during the whole of the Revolutionary War in the ranks of the army with reputation. That he is now upwards of Seventy years old, unable to secure competent support by manual labor. That the small monies he opinned when his name was taken off from the Pension List are now expended & that he is in our opinion a fit object of public magnificence.

New Brunswick
22 Dec. 1821

s/ John Bray

s/ Lewis Carman
s/ Chas. Smith
s/ John Neilson
s/ Jas. Schureman
s/ [illegible]
s/ J.R. Hardenbergh
s/ Jehiel Coleman
s/ John Heard
s/ Abm. Potts
s/ John Dennis
s/ John Pool
s/ Aaron Hapert