Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8546, for Samuel Quick, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Quick, Samuel | R.8546
CONTENTS
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Jolene A. Quick
(widow of) Samuel (Quick)
Act 1832
N. Jersey
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State of New Jersey
County of Warren//

BE IT KNOWN, That on this Sixteenth day of March A.D. 1853, before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared, (1) John A. Quick & Catharine Hopkins, late Catharine Quick, & now the widow of Anderson, dec(eased), resident of (2) Hope in said County, and made oath according to law that (3) they are the legal heirs of Samuel Quick, dec(eased), who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of (4) (blank) that (5) they are directly interested as [crossed out: a] claimant(s) in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as [crossed out: my] our Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, [crossed out: I] they hereby constitute and appoint SAMUEL M. KNIGHT, of Washington City, [crossed out: my] our true and lawful Attorney, to the prosecute the claim of (6) Samuel Quick, deceased for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and [crossed out: I] we hereby authorize [crossed out: my] our said Attorney to examine all papers or document in elation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for [crossed out: my] our exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate [crossed out: I] we wish made payable at the Washington City, D.C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that [crossed out: I] we might or could do were [crossed out: I] we personally present.

Hereby ratifying and confirming all that [crossed out: my] our said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
(7) s/ John A. Quick
s/ Catharine Hopkins (X - her mark) (late Catharine Quick)

Witness present
s/ Caleb Swayze

Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said (8) John A. Quick & Catharine Hopkins to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
s/ Isaiah S. Bennet, Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey
County of Warren//

It is hereby certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County that (9) John Quick & Catharine Hopkins, the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged (sp.) the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the (10) Identical Children of Samuel Quick, reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that (11) Isaiah S. Bennet, Esq., before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office this Twenty fifth day of March 1853.
(12) s/ Simeon Cooke, Clerk

1. Claimant's name or names in full.
2. Host Office address.
3. "That he is the identical man," or, "that she is the widow of the identical man," or, "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c., &c.
4. Leave this line bank.
5. "He is," "she is," of "they are."
6. Revolutionary soldier's full name.
7. Claimant's signature.
8. Claimant's name.
9. Magistrate's signature.
10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of"
11. Magistrate's name.
12. Clerk's signature.

N.B. - Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.
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I trouble you with another application for a pension, which has got mislaid & never found until Saturday last. Mr. Quick, who is very old & infirm says he will freely pay you for any trouble you may be at about his business.

Col. McCullough says he knew his father & other brothers well but they are now all dead. That they were the most famous Whigs of this part of the country in the Revolution & that it was generally believed that they being until he died, either the one mentioned in same statement, or another Torrey of that time.

This case is a very fair one & if required I could get the affidavit of every pensioner of this County to the fact of his father & seven sons, (of whom Sam was one) being the best Whigs of the neighborhood.

Very Respectfully yours &c.,
s/ John M. Sherrard
Belvedere, 6th June 1836

Fowler
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37.745

Application of Samuel Quick of Warren, N. Jersey for a Pension.

Dayton's Reg(iment)
Gifford's Company
25 Apl. '77 deserted
May 12, '77

Hon. S. Fowler, H.R.
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State of New Jersey
Warren County//

On this Third day of June A.D. 1834 personally appeared in open Court, before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, now sitting Samuel Quick, a resident of the Township of Oxford, in the County of Warren and State of New Jersey, aged Seventy four years on 5th February 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 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers and served as herein stated.

Inter'l

I. I was born at Lebanon, in the County of Hunterdon, in the State of New Jersey on the 5th February 1760.
II. I have a record of my age in my family bible, which I copied from my father's record, and which I now produce in court.
III. When called into service I was living in the Township of Oxford, in this County, and where I have lived ever since the Revolutionary war, and where I now live.
IV. When first called into service I volunteered, I continue to volunteer, or enlist, never was drafted, as my spirit was too big for that, and never served as a substitute.
V. My first tour was for one month in the militia of New Jersey, as a private in Captain Jacob Winter's company, Benjamin McCullough was Lieutenant and Benjamin Warne Ensign. I volunteered for one month. We marched to Amboy about first of August 1776 and continued there the whole month under command of Major Robert Hoops, there being no higher officer there during that month...
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...My next tour was for six weeks. I volunteered for a month and marched under command of Capt. Samuel Hikendall, Lieutenant William Ncye & Ensign John Teeple to Springfield & Woodbridge. We marched early in January 1777 and when we reached Springfield were commanded by Col. Beavers. I recollect General William Maxwell having the General command. We were in the battle of Springfield and had our captain wounded pretty bad, and two of our company killed. We stayed (sp.) longer than one month because the relief did not come in time.

My next tour was for six weeks, as a volunteer again. Almost as soon as we got home we started again in the latter part of February 1777 under Capt. Joseph Mackey, John Vanness, Lieu(tenant) and Benjamin Vannetta, Ensign. And were commanded  by Colonel Mark Thomson. We marched to Bound Brook (sp.) and continued the whole time around New Brunswick until we got the enemy fastened up in Brunswick & we had a scrimmage this tour with the British at Bound Brook (sp.) and took from them three field pieces and eighty four baggage wagons. We had again to continue beyond the time engaged because the relief did not come on in time.

My next tour was for six months but I continued out nearly eight months [crossed out: and a few days]. I enlisted about first of April 1778 with Captain John Vanatta, Lieu(tenant) John Innes & Manuel Vanatta, Ensign in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Militia to go to the Minisinks (Valley) to watch the Indians. We marched up there and were commanded by Colonel Stroud until dismissed about the 20th December. I recollect getting home a few days before Christmas. During this tour we had a skirmish with the Indians and...
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...our Lieutenant and Ensign both, being shot by the Indians & this was near Milford. We had but one man wounded, and after the engagement found three of the enemy killed, one of them we washed found that he was a painted white man which we suspected from his hair. We had no other engagement, but alarms every two or three days.

My next tour of duty was in 1779. I volunteered with 15 or 20 others, first of June under command of my father Captain Peter Quick, who under Colonel Hooper of Easton was commanded by Major General Green to open the road through (sp.)the woods from Easton to New England & we commenced and continued at it full six months, for I recollect getting home but a very few days before Christmas. We had to carry our arms the whole time and exercised regularly with them.

My next tour of duty was for eight months and a few days in 1780. I enlisted for six months with Captain Funston, in Colonel Ephraim Martins regiment, in Northampton Co., Pennsylvania, and were commanded by General La Fayette. I enlisted first of May, which I recollect distinctly from our planting corn for the feast that year at the time.

They were full of French crowns which had great attractions in those paper money times. We marched from Easton, Pa. to Newburgh (sp.) & West Point, and continued pretty much all the season there except on three or four trips they let me to carting for the army as they found I understood managing horses. One trip I took to Trenton, & another Philadelphia & back again to Warwick & West Point. I was discharged at Newburgh (sp.) just after the holidays (sp.) in January, all but barefooted & naked, but received fifty French crowns which I felt proud enough of and soon supplied myself with shoes & clothes...
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...My father and six brother of us, were all capable of bearing arms and continued to go out pretty much through (sp.) the whole war. We were surrounded by Tories and had to be continually on the look out. In 1781 or 1782 a certain James O'Hara had stolen a horse at Morristown and was taken prisoner by Major Hoops near my father's & brought him to my father to take care of. My brother & one brink by direction of my father, bent down a sapling and put a rope round his neck & let it draw up until is choked him pretty well. They then let him down on condition of his telling who were the Tories about Morristown.

About Two O'clock Col. Hoops, Col. Thomson & Captains Mackey, Ribble & others that had been hunting Moody, a noted Torey came and examined him further &
concluded to send him to Morristown & afterwards sent him off handcuffed.

VI. I received one discharge from Captain Vanatta, and another from Colonel Martin, and kept them for several years, but thinking them of no service, became careless of them & lost them both.

VII. I am well known to [crossed out: Isaac 9illegible] Samuel Wilson, Esq. and William Ribble, Esquire in my present neighborhood, and who can testify to my character for veracity, and belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution. There is no clergyman living in my immediate neighborhood.

That deponent has searched diligently, and can find none of his companions in arms alive, and knows of none; unless it be his two brothers. Peter Quick, who moved many years since into Canada and whom he has not heard from for several years, and his other brother Manuel Quick, who has also moved into the same neighborhood many years since...
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...and which brothers he don't know whether they are dead or alive. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
s/ Samuel Quick


Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court.
s/ John Stinson

We, William Ribble and Samuel Wilson, residing in the said County of Warren, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Quick, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy four 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.
s/ Wm. Ribble 
s/ Samuel Wilson

Sworn & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
s/ John More

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 William Ribble, Esquire, who has signed the preceding certificate is resident in the township...
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...of Pahaquarry in the said County of Warren; and that Samuel Wilson, Esq., who has also signed the same, is a resident of the township of Oxford in said County, are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. And that there is no clergyman residing in his immediate neighborhood.
s/ John More
s/ Wm. P. Robison
s/ P.W. Blair
s/ J. Davison, Jr.

I, Phineas B. Kennedy, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Warren in the State of New Jersey certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Quick for a pension. I also further certify that James Blair, Esq., before whom the affidavit of David Brand was taken, was at that time and still is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signature
annexed is his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this Sixth day of June A.D. 1836.
s/ P.B. Kennedy
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State of New Jersey
Warren County//

Before me, one of the Justices of the Peace in and (for) said County, on the First day of July A.D. 1834, personally appeared David Brands of said County, aged Seventy two years and upwards, who being duly sworn according to law (and whom I certify is a credible person) on his oath saith that he is well acquainted with Samuel Quick and has been, or has known him from the Revolutionary War. And that he recollects distinctly serving with said Quick under
the command of his father, Captain Peter Quick, in the time of the Revolutionary War and several others in opening a road from Easton towards [crossed out: the] New England by order, and that he cannot distinctly recollect now long they were engaged in it, or the year it was done, but believes it was done in the year, or the summer of the year 1779, and that the said Captain Peter Quick and his sons were considered true Wigs and good soldiers of the
Revolution, and further saith not.
s/ David Brands

Sworn and subscribed the date above before me.
s/ James Blair, Justice of the Peace
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New Jersey
Sam(uel) Quick
8546
Susp(ended)

Adm(inistered by) Hon. Sam(uel) Fowler
June 22, '36

Act 7 June 1832
Hon. Sam(uel) Lilly Dec 24/'53
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[crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1866, and March 3, 1873.]
8546
P.O. (blank)
Sam(uel) Quick
Service: (blank)

REJECTED

Enlisted: (blank)
Discharged: (blank)
Application filed: (blank)
Alleges: (blank)
Re-enlisted: (blank)
Attorney: (blank)
P.O. (blank)
Recognized: (blank)
Contract: (blank)
Cert. of Dis.: (blank)
Searched for: (blank)
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No Sam(uel) Quick on N.J. roll's.

Sam(uel) Quick, N.J. = sus(pended) 1832.

Cole

Hon. Sam(uel) Lilly, H.R.
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Samuel Quick of New Jersey, a Revolutionary Pensioner. It is supposed there are arrears of pension due. What is the state of his case?

Examine & report to Hon. Samuel Lilly, House of Reps.
Dec. 20, 1873

Yours,
Hon. Samuel Lilly, H.R.