Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4861, William Williams, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey
CONTENTS
Williams, William
Mary Ann
8
NUMBER
W. 4861
B.L. Wt. 12724-160-55
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New Jersey, N.28,339
William Williams
of Dover in the State of New Jersey
who was a private in the Comp commanded
by Captain Wikoff of the Reg commanded
in the New Jersey
16 month
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 60 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of May
1834
and
---
Hon. Jas Parker A.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834. 180.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 30
210.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832 ⎬
Recorded by R. Burden Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3 Page 136
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594
New Jersey
Mary Ann Williams
widow of
William Williams NJ
who served in the Revolutionary war
, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
60 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848. [struck out]
3 " February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the
4th day of June 1853
and sent to
A. C. McLean
Tom's River
N. J.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 22, 1848, Page 100. a
1832
Reg [illegible] 
75015
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A.C. McLean Oct. 30./53
Vol. W2-G.
75.015.
Act Met 3/53
the
16/55
Mary Ann Williams, wid of
William Williams, Private ┃
Rev. War.
Capt N. J. Mills
---
Col. Mil
Enl_____day of______
Dis_____day of_____
War. Rev.
now a Pensioner of the U. States,
160 Ac. Dec. 10th 1815
NJ [illegible]
Boynton
R
M
Amzi C. McLe
in the
No 12724 up Dec 14/60
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Act Feb 3d 1853
2d Section-
Declaration of
Mrs Mary Ann Williams
widow of
William Williams
New Jersey
A C. McLean
Toms River
Ocean County
New Jersey
agent
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Declaration
under the act of Congress of the 3d of February
A.D. 1853
State of New Jersey
Ocean County S.S.
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On this twenty ninth day of
March A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty
three personally appeared before one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the County and State aforesaid Mrs
Mary Ann Williams a resident of said
County aged seventy five years, who being
first duly sworn according to Law, doth on
her oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by the act of Congress passed
February 3d 1853 granting Pensions to certain
widows, as expressed in the second section
of said act, that she is the widow of William
Williams deceased, who was a private in
the War of the revolution and late a Pensioner
of the United States under the act of June 7
1832 in the New Jersey Roll at the rate of
sixty dollars per annum, and refers the
Commissioner of pensions to the papers
of her late husband on file in the Pension
department to establish her claim under the
foregoing act, she further declares that
she was married to the aforesaid William
Williams on the seventeenth day of March
eighteen hundred and twenty seven by Joseph
Lawrence deceased a Justice of the Peace of the County of Monmouth and State aforesaid that
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her husband the said William Williams
died on the tenth day of September in the
year one thousand eight hundred and
forty two as will appear from the proof
annexed. That she was married to him at
the time above stated, she further declares
that she was a widow at the time of
the passage, of the foregoing act, and is still a widow and that she has never
before made application for a pension
Sworn to 
in the day and year
above written before me
Jas Gulick
Judge
Mary Anne Williams
Her Mark
I the said James Gulick Judge as aforesaid
do certify, that the said Mary Ann Willing
above named and who signed the foregoing
Declaration from age and bodily infirmity
is unable to appear in open Court, and that
she is the identical person she represents
herself to be, and that I have no interest in
prosecuting said claim, nor in any money
which the said Mary Ann Williams may
obtain by her said application for a Pension
under the aforesaid act of February the 3d
1853 eighteen hundred and fifty three,
J Gulick
Judge
State of New Jersey
Ocean County S.S.
on this thirty first day of
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March in the year one thousand eight hundred
and fifty three personally appeared
before me a Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid
Ann Irons a resident of the Village of
Toms River in the County and State aforesaid
aged forty seven years, who being first duly
sworn according to Law on her oath did
depose and say, that deponent is well
acquainted with Mary Ann Williams who
made the foregoing declaration, that she was
also well acquainted with the above named
William Williams deceased in his life time
that she was present when the said William
Williams was married to the said Mary Ann
Williams, who's name previous to her marriage
 with the said William Williams was
Mary Ann Crawford, that they the said Mary
Ann Crawford and the said William Williams
were married on the 17th day of March 1827
by Joseph Lawrence Esquire deceased, and
deponent further did depose and say that
that the said William Williams died in the
tenth day of September A.D. 1842, and that the said Mary Ann Williams has remained
a widow ever since the death of her said
husband the said William Williams and is
still a widow, never again having married
since the death of her said husband the said
William Williams
Ann Irons
Sworn to and subscribed the day 
and year aforesaid before me
Jas Gulick Judge
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State of New Jersey
Ocean County ss.
On this twenty eighth
day of March in the year one thousand eight
hundred and fifty three, personally
appeared before me one of the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for the County
and State aforesaid Joseph Lawrence Esquire
a resident of Toms River in said County
aged forty five years, who being first duly
sworn according to Law on his oath and
depose and say that this deponent is a
son of Joseph Lawrence deceased, that his
said father the said Joseph Lawrence was
for many years previous to his death a
Justice of the Peace of the County of Mon
month in said state and deponent
says that all the books, papers, and records
of marriages, on the death of his said
father came to the hands of deponent,
and in his record of marriages he finds
the following entry in figures and words
as follows viz
Registry of marriages solemnized by Joseph
Lawrence one of the Justices of the Peace in
and for the County of Monmouth,
William Williams
a
Mary Ann Crawford
March 17, 1827"
deponent did depose
and say that the above is an exact copy from

Pensioner: Mary Ann Williams
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his said father record of marriages none
in deponents possession.
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year first
where written before me
Jos. Lawrence
Jas Gulick
Judge 

I, James Gulick Judge as aforesaid do
hereby certify that I am well acquainted with
Ann Irons and Joseph Lawrence who severally
made the above affidavits and that they are each
persons of truth and credibility, and full
faith is to be given to their evidence and
declarations under oath
Jas Gulick
Judge
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State of New Jersey
[Seal}
I Thomas S. Allison Secretary
State of the State of New Jersey
do hereby certify that
James Gulick Esq Before
whom the foregoing declar
ation and affidavits were
taken, at the doing thereof
was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ocean
in said State, duly commissioned and
Sworn, and that the signatures thereto
are in the proper handwriting of the
said James Gulick
In Testimony
Whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal of office at Trenton in said
State, this second day of April-
A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and
fifty three.
Tho S Allison
Secretary of State
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Bounty Land Claim
Declaration for widow of a deceased officer or
Soldier who has not had a Land Warrant
State of New Jersey
Ocean County S.S.
On this thirtieth day of March A.D. one
thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally
appeared before me Amzi  C McLean a Master of the
Court of Chancery of said State, duly authorized by
same to administer oaths within and for the said State Mary Ann Williams aged 77 years a resident of Toms river in the State aforesaid, who being duly
sworn according to Law declares that she is the widow of William Williams deceased who was a Private in
the Company commanded by Captain
in the Regiment of
in the War of the
Revolution deponent is unable to state in what
Company her said husband served or under what Officers he served, but that she now [illegible] a Pension under the act of February 3d 1853 for sixty
dollars per annum, and her certificate for her
pension bears date the fourth day of June A.D. 1833
and is recorded in the Pension Office in the Roll
of Pensioner under act of February 3d 1853 page 100
Vol. A. She further states that she was married to
the said William Williams in the County of Monmouth
on the seventeenth day of March 1827 by one Joseph Lawrence
a Justice of the Peace that her name
before her said marriage was Mary Ann Crawford that her
said husband died at Toms River on the tenth
day of September A.D. 1842, and that she is now a widow.
She makes this attestation for the purpose of obtaining
the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3d 1855
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Mary Ann Williams
her mark
We Washington McKean and Benjamin H Stout residents
of the County of Ocean and State of New Jersey whom on oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was
signed and acknowledged by Mary Ann Williams in one
presence and that we believe from the appearance and
statements of the said applicant that she is the identical
person she represents herself to be,
The foregoing declaration and 
Affidavits were sworn to and
Subscribed before me in the day
and year above written, and
I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons
that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim,
Amzi C McLean
M. C. C.
Washington McKean
Benjamin H Stout

The Commission of Pensions will please for
me my Warrant to Amzi C McLean at Freehold
Monmouth County New Jersey who will to
it to me. Respectfully submitted this 30th
day of March 1851
Witness
Washington McKean
Mary Ann Williams
her mark
State of New Jersey
County of Ocean 55
I William I James
Clerk of the County
Court in and for
the County and State above mention, do hereby certify that Amzi C
McLean whose genuine signature
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75015
Bounty Land
1
Application of
1
Mary Ann Williams
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appears above is and was at the time of
signing the same, a Master in the Court of
Chancery in and for the State aforesaid, duly
Comissioned and sworn, that all his
official acts as such are entitled to full
faith and credit, and that the aforesaid.
County Court is a Court of Record having
general jurisdiction 
Given under my
hand and seal of office
at Toms River this thirty first day of
March A D 1853
Wm Imlay James
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30857
Declaration of
William Williams
for a Pension
of New Jersey
30,857.-
Hon. Jos. Parker
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State of New Jersey County of Monmouth SS. On this
thirtieth day of April 1834 personally appeared
before the Judges of the Superior Court of Common
Pleas holden at Freehold in for the aforesaid
County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey
in open Court William Williams a resident
of the township of Dover in the County of
Monmouth and State of New Jersey, aged
Eighty years and upwards, who being first
duly sworn according to law doth on his
oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the promise
made by the act of Congress passed June 7th
1832, That on or about the first day of March
1776 he entered the service as a private
in a company commanded by Captain
Saml Bigelow and was stationed at Toms
River in Dover township then a part of
the township of Shrewsbury Monmouth County New Jersey and served there for one month
the duties were to guard the shores from
the refugees, that in the spring of 1777 he thinks the beginning of May on a General [illegible]
he left Dover township and volunteered
as a private and joined Captain Wickoff's
Company at or near Somerset Court House
about the time the British were at or first leaving New Brunswick, there were
a number of companies assembled at
Somerset Court House when he joined
Capt Wikcoffs Company, he recollects
Captain Polhemus Company was from
Monmouth County but he cannot recollect
the Colonel of any who was then at that
time, from thence they marched to New
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Brunswick which the British had just left
from thence they marched to Woodbridge
where they joined Washingtons Army he
having come down the north side
of the river the British having returned
to New York he this deponent returned
to his home in Monmouth having been
one month in this town that after his return
from this tour of duty he moved to
Upper Freehold in said County of Monmouth
that on or about the first of July 1777
he entered in Captain John Coward
Company, Samuel Forman was then
Colonel and served out the months
of July and October in that year at
the Court House in Freehold as a guard
against the British and Refugees, that
he served the month of February
April June August and October
in five monthly tours under Captain
Coward in the year 1778 Freehold
bring their headquarters, and their
Marchers were from thence to Shrewsbury
Eaton township Long Branch Middletown
and other intermediate points and
places guarding and protecting the
Court house from the British & Refugees
that in the year 1779 he served he [illegible]
these monthly tours of one month each
under Captain James Brewer being
the months march Jane and September
their headquarters were at Freehold
and then marches were as before stated
being at Shrewsbury more frequently
than the others, Samuel Forman and Asher
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Holmes were then Colonel, the latter command
at Freehold and in Shrewsbury that
in 1780 he served two monthly tours of
one month each being the month of
March and August under Captain
Pitman stationed at Freehold and Shrewsbury
by their duties to marches as before stated
that in 1781 he served two monthly tours being the months of April and September of
one month each and was stationed
at Toms Rivers their headquarters
under Captain James Randolph
Saml Forman being the Colonel he
thinks the duties and marches were
as before, that in 1782 he served
two monthly tours of one month each
under Captain Coward stationed
at Freehold and Shrewsbury and
Eaton town being the months of June
and August of that year, Asher Holmes
being their colonel while in Shrewsbury
and David Forman while at Freehold
David Forman was their General during
the time he was in the service that it
is impossible for him to state the parties what
times they were at Freehold
Toms River Shrewsbury Eaton Town
Long Branch and Middletown as
they were all continually marching
from the place to the other guarding
the coast and shores from the British and
tories, that he lived in Dover township
in Monmouth County when he first
entered the service to where he now
lives, that he was born on the 15th day
of December 1753, that he has no record
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of his own age his fathers family bible
being lost but he knows it by his wife's
age which her family have in their
possession she being at her death five
months older that he was that he was
born in Upper Freehold in said County
of Monmouth and has always resided
in said County, that all his services
were all in monthly tours under the
laws and ordinances of New Jersey
except the month he volunteered
under Captain Wikcoff when he marched
to New Brunswick, that he served
under his own monthly drafts or
called nor a substitute, that he
never served with any regular officers
of the army while in the service except
the month he volunteered but does
not recollect the names of any of the
Regular officers further that he has
stated, that he never received any
discharge in writing none being given
to the militia that he recollects that the
only survivor he knows he can prove
any of his services by is Job Lemming, that
he was in the field and not in [illegible]
and that while in the service he followed
no [illegible] inconsistent with his duties
as a soldier. He hereby relinquishes every
claim whatever to a pension or annuity
except the present and he declare that
his name is not on the Pension Roll of
any agency of any State
Sworn to & subscribed the day
and year aforesaid-
John Patterson
William Williams
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State of New Jersey Monmouth to wit; Job Lemming
being duly sworn according to law deponent
and saith that he was seventy one years
of age on the fourth day of February and
part that he lives in Dover township
said County and has always resided in said
County that he is well acquainted with
William Williams who has sworn to and
Subscribed the forgoing declaration that
he was well acquainted with him during the
Revolutionary war that from the
early part of the war in 1776 until the
year 1782 he saw the said William
Williams out in the service under
Captain Coward, Brewer, Pitman and
others whose names he has forgotten
at Freehold Shrewsbury Middletown
Eatontown Long Branch and the in
mediate points and places in the said
County guarding the coast and shores
from the British and tories, but he cannot
state the particular times when he saw him in
the service, that he this deponent
was out at the same under Captains
Brewer, Polhemus, Pitman and others
whose names he has forgotten and while
their out in the years before named
he frequently saw the said William
Williams out in the services and some
part of the time served with him under
Captain Brewer and Pitman in the same
companies, that their head quarters were
at all the before named places, and they
were kept marching and counter marching
continually from one place to the other
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guarding the court and houses from the British
and tories, that their Colonels were Samuel
Forman and Asher Holmes and then General
David Forman, that he this deponent
has no doubt from the fact of his having
served with him the said Williams and
frequently having seen him out in
the service in other companies he said
Williams served and that two years
during the Revolutionary war that
he said Williams was always respectful
and reputed to be a good soldier
during the war serving out his regular
tours of monthly duty in a soldier like
manner and respected and esteemed
by his officers, that he has frequently
seen him from the year 1776 to the
year 1782 at all the before named
places in the service with each of
the before named Captains and
frequently at other intermediate
places in their marches and counter
marches guarding the coast and
shores of the County from the British
and tories - that the said William
Williams is a man of respectable character  and good standing and his statement
is entitled to credit
Subscribed in open court
the day & year above written
Job Lemming
John Patterson
and the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter
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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 Job
Lemming who has sworn and subscribed to
the forgoing affidavit is a resident of
the township of Dover in the said County
of Monmouth and is upwards of seventy
six years of age was a revolutionary soldier
himself and is a credible person, and
that his statement is entitled to credit
John Patterson
W. J. Bowne
Joseph Goodenough
-
I, Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Court of Commo Pleas of the County of Monmouth
and State of New Jersey Do Hereby Certify
that the forgoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of the application of William Williams
for a pension.-
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
seal of office this thirtieth
day of April Anno Domini
Eighteen hundred & thirty four
J.H. Ellis Clk
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March 15th. NJ
[illegible]
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75015.

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.

Post Mark - Toms River NJ Apr 12
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Record evidence
the case of
Mary Ann Williams
No. 75.015
Boynton
Ref 53-594

A. C. McLean
Freehold
N. J
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Notes given by the Commissioners of the several Counties of the State of New Jersey
for Militia service during the Revolutionary War.
NO. OF
CERTIF.
266
DATE.
May 1, 1784
SIGNED BY
Thos Clark
PAYABLE TO
Wm Williams
AMOUNT.
2.11.88
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

I, THOMAS S. ALLISON, Secretary of State of the State of
New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true
abstract from a Book, headed as above, as taken from, and
compared with the original, now remaining in my office.--
And I do further certify, that Thomas Clark
was, by an Act passed by the Legislature of this State,
December 20, 1783, entitled, ""An Act to procure an estimate
of the sums due to the Militia and Troops who have
been raised for the defence of the frontiers of the State, and
to provide for the settlement of the same," appointed a
Commissioner for the County of Essex
for the purpose of settling and adjusting the pay-rolls of
the Militia and Troops of this State, as aforesaid, and also
for signing and delivering out to each and every person a
note for the payment of what may be justly due.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton,
in said State, this thirtieth day of November  A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five
Thos S Allison
Secretary of State.
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Williams
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Brief in the case of Mary Ann Williams, Widow of William
Ocean County and State of New Jersey,
act 3d February, 1853.
Claim, ("original")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner, under the act,
of 7th June, 1832
Marriage proved by record
evidence of family proof,,
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since admission of the claim?
If so, what?
A. C. McLean, Esqr
Toms River
Ocean Co, NJ
Name and residence of Agent.
S. C. Boynton
Examining Clerk.
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Freehold April 10, 1855
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Dear Sir
You will please communicate
with me respecting the enclosed claims
at Freehold Monmouth County N. J.
Yours very truly
A. C. M Lean
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Admit a prorate
18 Mo $60.
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Washington 5 May 1834
Sir
I forward the declaration of Wm Williams
of Monmouth Co N. Jersey
in claiming
a Pension under the
act of 7 June 1832.
Yr very respectfully
James Parker
I am
L. Edward Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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12.724
[Illegible]
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4861

Mary Ann Williams
Wid.
Wm Williams
Pvt. Rev. War
●
Act: Feby. 3,1853
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 328
[Arrangement of 1870.]