Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 705, for James Langstaff, New Jersey
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New  Jersey Langstaff, James  S 705
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Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 1838 from 4 Sep 1841 to 14 Dec 1841
Agt notified 28 Oct 1844
17.008
New Jersey
James Langstaff
Piscataway in the State of New Jersey  who was a Private in the  camps commanded by Captain Manning of the Ry commanded by  Col. Henrit in the New Jersey line for 2 years private   $60.00
Inscribed on the roll of New Jersey at the rate of 80 dollars cents per annum, to  commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of July 1833 and sent to J F Randolph New Brunswick New Jersey
Arrears  to the 4th of  March 1833-$160.
Semi-ani allowance  ending Sept    40.
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Revolutionary Claim Act June  7, 1832
Recorded by Vinal Luce Clerk Book E Vol 3 Page 120
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Treasury Department, Second Comptroller's Office
Sept 21st, 1843.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838k entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The children of James Langstaff, a Pensioner on the Roll of the New Jersey Agency at the rate of eighty dollars per annum under the law of the 7th of June 1832 has  been paid at this Department, from the  4th of Sept 1841, to  the 14th Dec 1841
Respectfully yours
Albion K Parris
Comptroller
To the commissioner of Pensions, Present
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No. 3031
James Langstaff
application for pension
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State  of New Jersey
Middlesex County
On this thirty first day of July in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before as Josiah Ford Robert McChesney and Thomas Hains manager of the inferior court of common pleas of the county of middlesex in the state of new jersey the same being a court of accord - James Longstaff of the township of piscataway in the county and state aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress an act supplimentary to the act entitled for the releif of certain officers and soldiers of the revolutiie the seventh day of june 1832
That he was born in the county of middlesex and the state of new jersey on the fourth day of november in  the year 1754 is now in his seventy eighth year has a paper  that contains a record of his age, but the original record kept by his father in a book was lost during the war and has always resided in the said county
He entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in the winter of 1775 under Col Nathaniel  Heard Capt William Manning and Lieutenant Thompson Stills and served at that time one month or thereabouts on an expedition to Long Island to disarm the torries. After the declaration of independence in the summer of 1776 he volunteered as a private in the company commandered by capt william manning lieutenant james de and col nathaniel heard and served there one
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month along the line between Amboy and Paulshook in New Jersey and at New York and after expiration of the month he returned where he remained a month when he was again called out and served three months in succession two for himself and one as a substitute for his brother and after that he continued to serve every other month -the battle of Monmouth and under Capt Moses Martin and Capt Manning and Col Nathaniel  Heard - HIs service was principally in the counties of Bergen Essex and Middlesex and along the line of Staten Island sound-  he  was at Monmouth and served around at the time of that battle but was not in the engagement as a part  of his company were not called into action but only a attachment thereof consisting of forty men or thereabouts of whom John Langstaff was one - After the battle of Monmouth he continued to serve as a private in the manner aforesaid that is to say nearly every other month until  the close of the war and in the counties and along the line above said- That he served at different times at least two full years and thinks considerable now - cannot at this distant period recollect the names of any officers belonging to the regular army  and with whom or in whose vicinity he served - was never in  any regular engagement but in frequent skirmishes with the enemy along the line which they were called upon to guard - Served only one mont as a substitute and that as above mentioned, and has no written discharge not any documentary evicences of his service but is well known to John Langstaff and those of soldiers of the revolution whoever
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in his neighbourhood and can attest to his service, and is also well known to William  Douglass a clergyman and William B. Manning both of whom reside also in his neighbourhood He left the service at the close of the war- and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and that his name is not on the pension role of the agency of any state-
Sworn and subscribed in open court the day and year first above written
James Langstaff
Robert McHechesney
Jos Ford
State of New Jersey
Middlesex County We John Langstaff and Henry Sutton residing in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Langstaff who has subscribed  and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age or thereabouts I know him to be a soldier of the revoution that he served as a volunteer at different times during the war for at least two years and that we served part of the time with him and we give full faith and credit to the entire statement made by him in the foregoing declaration
Sworn and subscribed in open court this 31st of July 1832'Henry Sutton John  Langstaff
R McchesneyJ Ford Thos Hance
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County for Mr William Douglas a clergyman rector of St James's Church in the county of Middlesex State of New Jersey residing in said county William B. Manning residing also in said county as hereby certify that are all well acquainted with James Langstaff who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration That we believe him to be seventy eight years of age or thereabouts, that he is reported and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion - Sworn and subscribed in official court the day and year aforesaid
Robert Mc Chesney
Mr Douglas
Mr Bellamaning
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I Ferdinand S VanArsdale Clerk of the Inferior court of common Pleas for the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of James Langstaff for a pension In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 31st day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and  thirty two
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
November 28, 1925
Mrs Edward G Read
825 Second Place 
Plainfield, N.J.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 705, it appears that James Langstaff was born in  Middlesex County, New Jersey, November 4, 1754.
While a resident of said county he enlisted and served as a private with the New Jersey Troops at various times from December 1775, or January, 1776, until sometime in 1781, amounting to about twenty-nine months in all, under Captains William Manning, Moses Martin, and David Dunham, and Colonels Nathaniel Heard and Crew or Webster; he was in serveral skirmishes  and one month of the time he served as a substitute for his brother  Henry Langstaff. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 31, 1832,  while living in Piscataway Township, Middlesex ounty, New Jersey.
He died December 14, 1841.
There were children living in 1843 but no names are given and the name of his wife is not stated.
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No fee is charged for this service but if you desire photostat copies of the papers in the pension claim, the case will be furnished you at the rate of fifteen cents a page with twenty-five cents extra for certification of each claim if such is desired. 
Respectfully, 
Winfield Scott
Commissioner
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1925 Nov 28 husb to Mrs. Edward  Read  MC
1926 Mar. 10 husb to 
Mrs Ray Hubbell MC 
Rev War Invalid
File No 705
James Langstaff
Pvt NJ Line
Act: June 7 1832
Index:-Vol. A, Page 214
Arrangement of 1870
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March 10 1926
Miss Pay Hubbell
929 w 18th st
Los Angeles, Calif c/c Del Mar Court
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 705, it appears that James Langstaff was born in Middlesex  County, New Jersey, November 4, 1754.
While a resident of said county he enlisted  and served as private with the New Jersey Troops at various times from December, 1775, or  January, 1776, until sometime in 1781, amounting to about twenty-nine months in all, under Captains William Manning, Moses Martin, and David 
Dunham, and Colonels Nathaniel Heard and Crew or Webster; he was  in several skirmishes and one month of the time he served as a substitute for his brother, Henry Langstaff.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 31, 1832, while living in Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
He died December 14, 1841.
There  were children living in 1843 but no names are given and the name of his wife is not stated .
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner
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825 Second Place
Plainfield, New Jersey
Oct  23 1925
To the Commissioner of Bureau of Pensions USA
Dear Sir
Can you give me data concerning the following men who served in the War of the Revolution?
Henry Langstaff (date of birth unknown)died 1802, Middlesex Co. N.J. Private, wife Rachel. children Jame3s, Henry, and John and Mary concerning whom I have no dates. Henry Langstaff is on Stryker's roster P661
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2
also
James Langstaff b (I think 1753) d 14 Dec 1841 (tombstone inscription not clear) wife  Mary b 1763-d 13 Aug 1815 James Langstaff was private Middlesex Co NJ ( Strykers roster p661)
You have never replied to my query as to fee for sending data concerning pensions - is there such a fee required? 
Yours truly
Mrs Edward G Susan Rapalie Read
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Los Angeles Cal Jan 26, 1926
Commissioner  Winfield Scott
I received your letter some days ago saying that my ancestor Shadrock Hubbell did not receive a pension. 
Would you kindly send me a synopsis of the Certificate of Service of both James and John Langstaff of New Jersey.
They took out pensions July 6, 1833-p.61 of Pension Lists, printed Washington, 1835.
I am trying to collect data concerning the Langstaffs of New Jersey- my ancestors.
I received a copy of the pension of Priscilla Langstaff, Febr 10, 1925-pension claim W. 7049-which states that Priscilla's father was John Langstaff of Middlesex County, N. Jersey.
Would be glad to receive a copy of the pension of any or each John Langstaff of Burlington, or Middlesex Counties, N. Jersey.
Respectfully, 
Miss Pay Hubbell
929 W. 18th St
Los Angesles Cal
c/o Del Mar Court
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Would you also give me a synopsis of the Certificate of Services of James F Dunn Pensions Lists of 1833-Middlesex Co, N. Jersey. December 6th of 1833
Sincerely
Miss Hubbell
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James Langstaff
Application for a pension
'James F Randolph
New Brunswick
NJ
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New Jersey Middlesex County 
Personally appeared before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas to afore the said county of middlesex James Langstaff who being duly sworn and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best or his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades- In the  of 1775 I served under Captain William Manning as a Volunteer a tour of one month and  went on an expedition to Long Island to discuss the tories the summer of 1776 about the time of the Declaration of Independence and when the British lay near the    I served a tour of one month in the City of New York and Poules Hook under the command of Capt Wm Manning - In the fall of the same year I served under the same Captain at Elizabeth Town then tours of one month each in succession two months for himself and one for his brother, In the summer of 1777 he again entered the service and served every other month say ferom June after the British left New Brunswick until the Battle at Monmouth and tours of one month each at Woodbridge Elizabeth Town and Monmouth under the command of Capt Manning, After the Battle of Monmouth until the end of the war say until the spring of 1781 he served tours of one month each taking his tours every other month under the command of Capt Manning and Capt David Dunham, at Amboy
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Woodbridge andf Elizabeth town - The troops with whom he served were engaged in guarding the Jersey shore in the vicinity of Perth Amboy Woodbridge and Elizabeth Town and opposite to Staten Island and New York, And attles  he was not in any  battle, he was kept in readiness to  oppose the enemy at a moments warning so to prevent the depridation of their foraging fractions The two first years he volunteered the remainder he was drafted that is to say, the militia was closed and the class as turned out actuality one month at a time, whenever men were needed,   when my class was ordered out I went and served tour with my class and for these services I claim a pension. James Langstaff
sworn and officiated in the court this 17th day of June Anno Domini 1833
Jos Ford Judge
I Nicholas  Booraem Clerk of Middlesex Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the forgoing and the original and supplementary declarations in the matter of James Langstaff an applicant for a pension under the act ofJune 7th 1832. Before the Judge of said court.
In testimony thereof James Langstff I affix my seal of office this seventeenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
N Booraem Clerk
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James Langstaff

Admitted
Private 2 years $80-

James F Randolph
Present
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex county personally appeared before me the subscriber one of  the Justices of the Peace in afore said county of Middlesex James Langstaff who being duly sworn deporeth saith that by reason of old age the consequent lapse 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 previous mentioned below in the following grades. In the winter of 1775-1776 he served under Captain Wm Manning as a volunteer a term of one month and went on an expedition to Long Island to disarm the tories.
In the summer of 1776 he volunteered served as a volunteer one month under Capt Manning and was marched to New York- the enemy then lay in York Bay.  In the fall of 1776 he was regularly drafted and served three months succession without interruption - two months for himself and one month for his brother Henry Langstaff under Capt Manning and was stationed at Elizabeth Town guarding the lines.  In the summer of 1777 in June when the British left Brunswick he was again lease out and served four months in June a term of one month in Oct a term of one month and in December a term of one month - all of the four months under Captain Manning and was stationed at what was called the Woodbridge Station engaged on the lines. In the months of April and February in the year 1778 he served his order out two months under Captain Manning between Woodbridge and Elizabeth town serving done that section of the state.  In July 1778 he has orders as out served one month under Captain Manning at Woodbridge and n the months of September and November of the same year  being ordered he served two months under Captain Dunham
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stationed at Woodbridge in 
In the year 1779 he was ordered out and serced six months under Captain Dunham and under Colonel Crow or Webster and was at Woodbridge.  During which six months he was marched around from  Amboy across then to Blascy  -  then engaged in guarding parties and watching the plundering parties of the enemy.   In the year 1780 he was ordered out and served six months in the months of January, March, May, July, September and November under Captain David Dunham and Col Crow or Webster and was stationed in the middle of the state engaged as before in guarding the lines in scouts and in patrolling the shore in the tories being on the island.  In the year 1781 he was ordered out and served three months under  young Captain Moses Mantis and was guarding the lines in counties all nights and protecting the property of his citizens from the foraging parties and plundering parties of the enemy and was under Major Edgar and Col Crow and is that he was engaged served much more than  he specified but cannot more particularly specify at this time and during the times was not engaged in any civil pursuit and is confidant he served much more and for these sercvices he claims a pension.
James Langstaff
Sworn and judicated this ninth day  of June the 1833 before me
Peter P Runyon Justice of the Peace
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I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the [illegible] Court of Common Pleas of the county of Middlesex do hereby certify that Peter P Runyon is a Justice of the Peace in and for the fair county of Middlesex, that the [illegible] nature purporting to be his is in his own proper hand writing & that his acts are entitled to full credit.  
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office this twenty ninth day of June Anno Domini One Thousand eight hundred thirty three -

N Booraem Clerk
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James Langstaff
certificate 
JF Randolf
N Burns N Jersey
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex county for: Personally appeared before the Judges of the Superior court of common pleas
in and for the county of Middlesex in h.j. James Langstaff the (illegible) applicant who bring duly swears on his
oath saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he can not 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 before and in the following grades viz - For the period of one month as a private in the militia of New Jersey in the company
of Capt. William Manning commencing in the month of December 1775 or January 1776 - That within a short time not more than a month after the declaration of independence he again entered the service as a private in the militia of N. Jersey and continued to serve with the close of the war hi regular tours being generally every other month - On one occasion he served three months at a time as stated in his said declaration and in the whole he served two years and more in the (illegible), at the places and under the officers mentioned in his said declaration for which service he claims a pension - 
Sworn and judicated
in open court this
18th day of March 1833
H. Ford

James Langstaff
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and the court do hereby further certify
that Henry Sutton & John Langstaff who
have signed the certificate hereunto first
annexed are residents in the County of [illegible]
 and are credible persons & that their
statement is entitled to full credit.
Dated March 16. 1833
J. Ford
Thos Harice
In Cutrall
I Nicholas Boozaum Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for
the County of Middlesex in New Jersey
do hereby certify that the forgoing
contains the original and supplementary ┃
proceedings of said court in the matter of
the application of James Langstaff for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand affixed
the seal of said court at this
sixteenth day of March in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
N.  Boozuen Clerk