Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2339, William Anderson, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey
CONTENTS
Anderson, William
NUMBER
S. 2339
carded
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New-Jersey
William Anderson
of threehold in the State of New Jersey
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Burrows of the Regt commander
by Col. Forman in the N. J. Militia
line for two years
Ⓧ
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum,
is commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Aug
1833 and sent D C Ryall
Freehold
Arrears to the 4th of Mch 37
160.
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.
40.-
---
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$200.
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⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. ⎬
Recorded by Duffield Clerk,
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Vol. 3 Page 101
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1
Monmouth Pleas
of July [ ]1832
Declaration of
William Anderson
No 4073
2
.
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Declaration of William Anderson in order to
obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
[haped] June 7th 1832.of
New Jersey County of Monmouth SS.
On this thirty first day of July Anno
Domini 1832 personally appeared in open
Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court
of Common Pleas in and for the said
County of Monmouth now sitting at Freehold
in said County, William Anderson
a resident of the township of Shrewsbury
in the said County of Monmouth and State of
New Jersey aged seventy four
years the twenty third day of September 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 7th 1832.-
That he entered the service of the
United States under the following
named officers, and served as herein
stated.
That he entered the said
service as a militia man in the spring
of 1776 he thinks in the month of April
in a company commanded by Captain
John Burrows for the time of one month
as a substitute for one Isaac Hoffman
that he was an apprentice as a shoemaker and tanner to one Richard T Suydam, Hoffman made his bargain for his services are substitute for that month with Suydam, George
Taylor was their Colonel, their duties
were to guard the shore along the
highlands of Middletown in said County
of Monmouth and to keep lookout
for the men, that at the time the
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British landed on Staten Island and in the
early part of July 1776 as he thinks
he again entered the service by enlisting
for five months under the same
Captain John Burrows and was in the
service under him until the expiration
of his term of enlistment, David Forman
was their Colonel, he with the Company
the day after his enlistment marched
from Mount Pleasant their place of
rendevous to New York by the way
of Amboy from whence in a few
days after they went to Long Island
where General Heard had the command
they remained there until the British
landed on the East side of the Island
and marched as far as Brooklyn
before the American troops left
the Island while he was on the
Island the Delaware [Blus] as they
were called were cut off by the
British, the whole regiment with
the exception of a few were killed
or made prisoners, Col Fernand Regiment to which he was attached to at the time in their intrenchments when they left the Island they went again to New York and a short
time afterwards to Fort Washington
that he was taken sick at the
Fort and sent to the Hospital at a
place called the English neighborhood
on the side that he remained
about a month with three other of
his fellow soldiers of the same Company ┃
when they were discharged from the
Hospital and directed by the Surgeon
to join their Regiment, which they
-
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found encamped on the Jerry side of
the North River the name of the place
he has forgotten, the regiment having
left Fort Washington while he was
in the Hospital, when they left the
Hospital to join their Regiment they
received an order from then Surgeon
to draw provisions on their march
from those appointed to furnish the
army with provisions which they
did, he will recollects this circumstance
when they were a few miles from the
Hospital General Heards with his staff
being five or six of them overtook
them and questioned them as to
where they were going he informed
them they were on their
return to their company after having been
sick at the Hospital when
the Generals kindly gave them
three or four dollars to help the
have fellows along as he termed
them, that he remained there until
his five months had expired, though
he still remained sick weak and
feeble, and at the expiration of his
time he returned to his home in
Middletown which he thinks was
the last of December 1776 or the first
of January 1777, that he was not at
home but for a few days when the
Militia in the County laid down [   ]
as the tories at Middletown and
Freehold in Monmouth County then
having the ascendency, this continued
he thinks for a week or two when
the Americans under the command of
Colonel Nixon drove the tories off
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when the militia again took up arms,
during this time his Master Richard
Suydam urged him to go with him
and take a protection as it was then
called which he absolutely refused to
do although his master Suydam did
that from the time the Americans
again took up arms in Middletown
as aforesaid until the close of the
war he was in the service as a
Militiaman all the time, every
other month for himself and the
intermediate months as a substitute
for his old Master Richard Suydam
he taking said suydams [pay]
that the Captains under whom he
served during this period
that he now recollects were Samuel Carlach, David Gordon, William Schenck, William [Basichaf] and Elisha Walton, his Colonel was [Asher] Holmes, that the whole time
he was in the actual service of his
Country under his five months enlistment and his other service was at last four years he believes, but cannot State to a certainly he is confident it was three and a half years, when
he first entered the service he resided
in Middletown Township Monmouth County
that he was engaged in the battle of
Germantown in the Regiment under [Asher]
Holmes, and at several this
wishes along the Monmouth County
shores, one at the Hook another at
[Conashinks], that in addition to the
Country above mentioned he marked
while in the service along the shores
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of Monmouth County from Cheesequakes to the lower part of the Shrewsbury shore
in Monmouth County guarding and
protecting the intermediate points from
the [     ] of the British and Tories,
that previous to the battle of Germantown
he marched with his company from Shrewsbury shore in Monmouth to Freehold in said County where they met Col Asher Holmes
and from there to Allentown and from
thence to Germantown in Pennsylvania,
and after the defeat there they retreated
to a [  ] place then called Pea Peck, that
he does not now recollect from his age
and infirmities the names of any of the
continental regiments or companies
further than he has stated with
which he served or the names of any
of the continental officers, but he thinks
his old Captain John Burrows [    ] units the continental services and he recollects some time after the expiration of  his five months service  Captain John Burrows 
 was for a time in the County 
enlisting a company which wore
red coats, he knew him well, that
he has no documentary evidence of his
service, having no recollection of
obtaining any discharge at the expiration
of his five months service, if
he did he has forgotten it and it has
been long since lost, and that he knows
of no person except John Holshart Esquire
whose testimony he can procure who
can testify to his service. He hereby
relinquishes every claim whatever to
a pension or annuity except the [pension]
and declared that his name is not on
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The pension roll of the agency of any
State was born in Middletown aforesaid
and has always [    ] in the County of
Monmouth.
[on to & subscribed to the ┃
day and year aforesaid
handson]
William
[the ]Anderson
mark

New Jersey Monmouth County ss: We John Holshart Esq and Nicholas Wonell being severally  duly sworn according to law severally
depose and say that we are well
acquainted with the above named
William Anderson who has sworn
and subscribed or made his mark to
the above declaration that we believe
him to be of the age of seventy four years
and that they wish known that he was with them in actual service between three and
four years, and that we know of our
own knowledge he was in said service
most of that time, that he is also
reputed and believed to be a soldier
of the Revolution in the neighborhood
where he resides, and that she is a
credible person and his statement
is entitled to credit.-
John Holtz
Sworn to & subscribed the day &
year aforesaid
Nicholas Wonell
John Patterson
mark
and the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter
and after putting the interrogatories prescribed
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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 John
Holcharland Nicholas Wonell who have
signed the preceeding certificate are residents
of the County of Monmouth and were
both of them soldiers of the revolution
and that they are credible persons and
that their statement is entitled to
By order of the Court
W.J. Downe
Judge &c
J. W. & E. R. Bartleson-
-- Printers, Freehold, N. J.
I, the Subscriber, Clerk of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas, in and for 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 William Anderson
for a Pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Freehold, this
thirty first day of July
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty two
D. H. Ellis
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I Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of
Monmouth, in the State of New Jersey, Do here:
by certify, that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of William Ander
son for a pension, on the thirty first day of
July in the year of our Lord one thousand
eighth
and thirty two
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & seal
of office, this sixth day of
June in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred
and thirty three
J.H. Ellis
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Supplemental affidavit of William Anderson
of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey

New Jersey Monmouth County [towit], Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice
of the Peace of the County of Monmouth and
State of New Jerry William Anderson who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that on the thirty first day of July last part he made his declaration before the Judges
of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas at Freehold in & for the said County of Monmouth for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832, That by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively 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 one month in the year
1777 I served as a private in Captain John
Burrows Company, for five months in the
year 1776 I served as a private enlisted soldier
under the said Captain John Burrows [towit]
from the first day of July to the first day
of December; For ten months in the
year 1777 I served as a private commencing
the latter part of February or first of March
and ending the last of December one
half this time as a substitute for Richard
Suydam and the other half or [intermittent]
months or my own draft or [town] under the
Laws of New Jersey regulating the Militia of Monmouth County, for three years in the year 1778, 1779 and 1780 I served
as a private, one half the time as a substitute for Richard Suydam and the intermittent
date months on his own tours of duty
as before stated; for three or four months
in the year 1781 I served in the same manner
but cannot state the beginning and concession
of each tour of duty; for three months
In 1782 I served in the same manner but
cannot state more particularly the beginning
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and termination of each monthly tour of duty
and that for such service I claim a pension
that he has not himself any record of his
age but his fathers family bible containing
the record of it now in the possession of
Peter Morris who married my niece will
show his age on reference to it, that he
was in the service as before stated under the
monthly calls or draft and as a
substitute as before stated under the laws
or ordinances of the State of New Jersey
and that for the time which the service
was performed as before stated he was not
employed in any civil pursuit, that he was
born in Middletown Township & has always
land in the County of Monmouth, that he
lives in Shrewsbury Township in said County
in the Poor House where he has lived
about twelve years, that he was born on
the twenty third day of September in 1775, that I am acquainted with Captain John Schenck of Freehold who can testify to my [    ]
for veracity and his knowledge and belief
of my service as a soldier of the Revolution
Sworn & subscribed before me
one of the Justices of the Peace
his in & for the County of Monmouth
this 10th day of May AD 1833.
William Anderson
William Lloyd Justin
mark
I John Schenck residing in the township of
Freehold County of Monmouth and State of
New Jersey do hereby certify that an
well acquainted with William Anderson
who has made his mark and sworn to the
above supplemental affidavit that I
believe him now to be seventy years and
upwards of age; that he is only repented
and believed in the neighborhood where he
resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution but that I know him to have been such
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having frequently seen him out in the service
during the Revolution, and that I believe
his character for truth and veracity is
good-
Sworn & subscribed before me
of the Judges of the Inferior Court
John Schenck
of Common Pleas in & for the County
of Monmouth this 10th day of
May A D 1833-
William [       }
William Lloyd
I William Lloyd one of the Judges of the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the
County of Monmouth, in the State of New Jersey, of the Justice of the Peace in & for the said County, do hereby certify, that I was one of the Judges of the said Court at the time the foregoing named William Anderson made his
original declaration before said Court, in order
to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832, that the foregoing is the
genuine mark of the said William Anderson
he having placed it to the foregoing supplemental affidavit as his signature, which he swore to before me, as such Justice, that this said William Anderson is far advanced in years, & that his character for truth & veracity has never been to my knowledge questioned, that I believe him to be a credible person & that his statement is entitled to credit & further that I am personally acquainted with John [Schenck] who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing affidavit, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been an officer & soldier of the Revolutionary war that I concur in that opinion, that he
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is a credible person & that his statement
is entitled to credit, & further that no Clergy.
man resides in the neighborhood of the
said William Anderson. Dated June
6. A. D. 1833 =
William Lloyd
[Allis Clark]
I Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of
Monmouth in the State of New Jersey, do
hereby certify, that William Lloyd Esquire, before
whom the foregoing affidavits of William Ander
son & John Schenck were made, was at the
dates of the Jurats of the said affidavits & still
is a Judge of the said Court & a Justice of the
case of the said County, commissioned & sworn
into office as such Judge & Justice, & that he
is entitled to full faith & credit to all his
official acts, & further that the same signed
William Lloyd Justice to the part of the
foregoing affidavit of William Anderson the
name signed "William Lloyd, to the foregoing affidavit
of John Schenck & to the above certificate
and the genuine signatures of the said Wil
liam Lloyd Esquire
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & seal
of office this sixth day of
June in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred
and thirty three " Jurat of the
being interlined before sign & [sid] in certificate
P. H. Ellis
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Second amended Declaration of Wm Anderson
No 4073.
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Second amended declaration of Wm Anderson
for a pension under act of June 7th 1832.
State of New Jersey Monmouth County SS: Personally
appeared before me the undersigned a Justice
of the peace of the County of Monmouth and
State of New Jersey William Anderson who
being duly sworn deposed and says that
he made his original declaration numbered
4073 by the War Department on the 31st
day of July 1832 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 them
the periods mentioned below and in the
following grades; for one month in 1776
being the month of April I served as a
private in Captain John Burrows Company
as a substitute for one Isaac Hoffmann the
company was stationed at the Highlands in Middletown to guard the coast
and look out for the many, this was
the first of the Militia being called out
George Taylor was their Colonel, one James
Whitlock was lieutenant For five months
in the year 1776 I served as a private enlisted
soldier [towit], from the first day of July to the
first of December under Captain John
Burrows, Jonathan [  ] first lieutenant James Whittock second lieutenant, [Jonathan]
Holmes Ensign, Ephraim Whittock was
orderly sergeant, David [Forman] was our
Colonel, he joined his company after his
enlistment at Mount Pleasant on or
about the first day of July 1776 and the
day after they marched to New York
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by the way of Amboy and served his time
out in the manner & at the places same
in his original declaration of the seal of
July 1832, that he received only a verbal
discharge after the service of this five
months enlistment none in writing being
given, he serving the full five months
in the manner stated in his original declaration: For ten months in the year 1777 I
served as a private in the monthly [tour]
of one month each in precision the
first monthly [tour] commencing the latter
part of February or first of March, and
the last monthly [tour]ending the last
of December of that year, the first third
fifth seventh and ninth bound over said
under my own monthly calls or drafts
under the laws and ordinances of New Jersey
and the second fourth forth fifth eighth
and truth as a substitute for Richard
Suydam my master as mentioned in
my original declaration, the headquarters during this year was at the
town and our duties were to guard
the coast and [  ] from the British
and Tories, their marches were to the Highlands to Shewsbury Long Branch Tinton
Falls and along the shores of the township of Middletown Shrewsbury and
to Freehold to guard and protect not the
ledge of the Court of Quarter Sessions
when the Court was sitting from the
Tories who had threatened them, the first
month was served under Captain [James]
[Mock] and Lieutenant Tobias Palmer
during which town they were both taken
prisoners at the Highlands this
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was the day of [   } the the Guard were
cut off at the Highlands, the second
month was served under Captain William
[Banclief], the third month was served
under Elisha Walton afterwards promoted
to a Major, the fourth fifth seventh
eighth month were served under Captain
David Gordon, and the tenth town
under Captain Samuel Carhart, during
this ten months their headquarters
[  ] at Middletown as before stated
Asher Holmes was their Colonel for three
years in the years 1778 1779 and 1780
served as a private in thirty six
monthly tours of one month each in
succession every other month under
my own monthly call or [  ]
every other month as a substitute for
Richard Suydam the most of this
time and service was under Captain
Samuel Carhart, Peter Vanderhoof was
Lieutenant, Asher Holmes was the Colonel
their headquarters were at Mount
Pleasant in Middletown Township and
their duties and marches were from
there along the coast to the Highlands
Long March Shrewsbury Tinton Falls
and Freehold at the intermediate
points and places guarding the coast
and shore from the British and Tories
the first of these monthly tours commenced
on or about the first of January 1778 and
the last ended the last of December 1780
I was out during the whole of the
three years the first third & being my
own monthly tours, and the second 
fourth & being the monthly tours of said
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Richard Suydam for four months in
the year 1781 and three months in the year
1782. I served in seven monthly tours of one
month each being the month of February
April June and August in the year
1781 and the month of February April and
June in the year 1782 under my own
monthly calls or drafts under the
laws & ordinances of New Jersey, this
service was also performed under
Captain Samuel Carhart the Company
stationed at Middletown at their headguarters and their duties and marched
to guard the coasts and shores of the said
County of Monmouth, Asher Holmes
was their Colonel, I was born in the township of Middletown in Monmouth County
New Jersey on the twenty third day of
September 1757 where I lived  when
entered the service, and where I continued
to live until about thirty years last part
during which last period up to the
present time I have lived in the township
of Shrewsbury in said County of Monmouth
N.J. the whole of the service above stated
was in the County of Monmouth NJ guarding
the coasts and shore & except the
period of my five months enlistment,
all the services above named were performed under the laws and ordinances
of New Jersey, that it was in the field
and [which garrison ] and during the time
of such service he was not engaged in
any civil pursuit.
Sworn subscribed before me
this 21st day of August 1833
William
Anderson
John Holowitz
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County SS. John Holsart Esquire being duly sworn according to
law deposeth and saith that he was
seventy four years of age last May
that he resides in Middletown Monmouth
County that he is well acquainted with
William Anderson who has from
to and subscribed the above amended
declaration by putting his mark thereto
before him this [deponent] who is a
Justice of the Peace of the said County
of Monmouth duly commissioned and sworn and that he was well acquainted with
the said William Anderson during the
said period of the Revolution and
since that he believes the said William
Anderson was out in the service as a
private from the beginning of the war until the close that he this [ ] frequently seen him out in the service he believes under Captains
{James Mack] [Wm Danella] Elisha
Walton David Gordon and Samuel
Carhart at Middletown Shrewsbury
Tinton Falls and other intermediate
places but he cannot pretend to state
the particular times or months, that
he always understood the said Wm
Anderson besides his serving his own
monthly tours served as a substitute
for others, and he likewise understands 
that he enlisted under Captain John
Burrows in the five months service
and lived his time out, that this [deponent]
was out himself during the
Revolutionary war under the
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monthly calls and drafts stationed
at Middletown Shrewsbury Mount
Pleasant Long Branch Tinton Falls
and the intermediate place, and
frequently met and [few] at the said
William Anderson at that place
in the service, Colonel Asher Holmes
was then Colonel, that from his
knowledge of the reviews of the said]
William Anderson and his having
frequently met with him and seen
him in the service he believes the
said Anderson served the periods
mentioned in his above amended
declaration, that he is a credible
person and his statement is entitled
to credit, that there is no Clergyman
residing in the neighborhood of
the said William Anderson whose
residence is in the Poor House in
Shrewsbury 
Township, that the reputation
 of the said William Anderson was
that he was a good soldier of the
Revolution and always done his
duties will and that by his being a
substitute for others he served a
much longer period than many
other militia men then in the service
that the duties of those who were
stationed at the before named places
was to guard the show and courts
of Monmouth County from the British
and tories
subscribed before
this 21st day of August 1833
one of duties of the Peace
the County of Monmouth H.
John Hobart
William Lloyd
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Monmouth County State of New JerseyJohn
Matthews being duly sworn according to
law deposeth and says that he is serving
sixty nine years of age that he resides
in Shrewsbury township in said County and
is well acquainted with William Anderson
who has sworn to and subscribed the above
amended declaration that he was a
acquainted with said Anderson in 1787
when he saw him in the service and
one several other occasions, he was
stationed then in Middletown, and
he believes he served from that time
until the close of the war, this [depo]
needed not enter the service until
1781 in the month of April and served
on different occasions nine months
at least in monthly tours of duty
and under the general commissioned
during the services he [   ]
the said Anderson on one occasion
out in the service, that his reputation
then was that he was a good and
faithful soldier and he understood
he had served from the beginning
of the war and was out at five
month service under Captain John Burrows, that he recollects hearing
from a number of the soldiers during the
war that William Anderson good
conduct and courage was the having
of field piece belonging to the
Monmouth Brigade at the time the
fifteen hundred British landed at
Bay Shore in Middletown, and that
his reputation have ever been
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that he was a good soldier in the
war and had served more than the
generality of the Militia from his
[done] his duties under his own monthly
drafts and being so much substitute
for this, that he is very poor and
much in want of his pension, and
that his [   ] is good and
is esteemed a man of veracity and
truth and that I believe him to be
such and that his statement is
entitled to credit

Sworn & subscribed before
one of the duties of
John Mathews
the Peace of the County of
Monmouth this 21 August
William [Lloyd]
AD 1833
and I the said William Lloyd [   ] aforesaid
do hereby certify that I am
well acquainted with John Holsart Esquire
and John Matthews who have seperately
 sworn to and subscribed the two
last foregoing affidavits, that the said
John Holsart is one of the Justices of
the Peace of the County of Monmouth
and highly respectable citizen of
our County that they are both credible
persons and that their statement is
entitled to credit-
Dated Freehold August 21. 1833-
William Lloyd
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I Daniel Hallis Clerk of the Inferior Court
of Common Pleas of the County of Monmouth
and State of New Do Hereby Certify
that John Holsart whose name is
signed to the seal of the above
amended declaration of William
Anderson and who has also swore
to and signed the affidavit of the
said John Holsart himself nevertheless
after following was at the dates then
respectively and now is a Justice of
the Peace of the said County of Monmouth
duly commissioned and sworn
and that full faith and credit is due
and should be attached to all his official acts such, and also that the
name signed John Holsart to the said
[diah] & also to the said affidavit is the
proper hand writing and signature of the
said John Holsart Justice as aforesaid
and I do also further Certify that William
Lloyd whose name is signed to the
seats of the above affidavit of John
Holland John Matthews respectively
and also to the Certificate of the said
William Lloyd himself was at the
date of said affidavit and certificate
respectively a Justice of the Peace of the
said County of Monmouth duly commissioned and sworn, and that full
faith and credit ought and should
be attached to all his official acts
as such, and further that the name
Signed William Lloyd to said [Kate]
and certificate respectively and the
proper handwriting signature
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of the said William Lloyd Justice
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
seal of office this twenty
first day of August in the
year of our Lord one then
and Eight hundred and
thirty three.
[Ellis All]
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2339
INVALID
 File No: 2339
William Anderson
Privt Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index: -- et., Page 8.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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4073
William Anderson
[Admr by Comm
in
to]
Daniel B Regall
Freehold
New Jersey
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office,
July 28 1833
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 compiling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
Sir:
A Statement, showing the service of William Anderson
claimant's service.
Rank of
the
claimant.
Names and rank of the Field officers
under whom he served.
place of abode
when he entered
the service.
Proof by which the declaration is supported.
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:
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, mucicians 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 } ss.
On this
day of
County of
A.B. a resident (b) of
personally appeared (a) before
of
in the county of
aged (c)
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 made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)
served in the
(e) regiment of the
with
and
line, under the following named 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 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
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.
of the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of
& 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
and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
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 days 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
and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
1,
Clerk of the Court of
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this
day of
&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
and State, Territory or District
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person 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.
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and was has become of it?
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 the 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 inquiry 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.
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(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 defendent must mention the period or periods 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 days, I served as a
recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For ______ year _____months
and ______ days, I served as a _____months and ______ days, 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 in the militia, and c. without specifying the tours , the names of the officers, 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 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 always 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 certifying officer who authenticates the paper is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate much 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 as to 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 office character and signature of the magistrate  must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal.
The notes from (d) and (i) are equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof of required by rule in note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This [       ] evidence is indispenssable 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.