Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 891, for Eleazer Looker, New Jersey
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[appli]cant was also out under Genl. Frelinghuysen when the Refugees 
who fled to the British came out to Elizabeth Town - and
that he verily believes that he was more than two years active
duty during said War. He has no documentary evidence and he
knows of no persons whose testimony he can procure who can testify
to his services excepting Timothy Meeker [Stephen Lyon -crossed out] Aaron
Burnet [inserted above - or Timothy Meeker] - whose affidavit as to the same are hereunto
annexed.   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.
Sworn to and subscribed this day }
and year aforesaid }
Saml B Miller - Judge

Eleazer [his X mark] Looker

We Isaac C Goff a clergyman residing in the Township
of Orange and Joseph W Camp residing in the
Township of Newark do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Eleazer Looker who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be upwards of seventy nine 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. 

Isaac C. Goff [signature]
JWCamp [signature]

Sworn & subscribed the day}
and year aforesaid}
Sam'l B. Miller - Judge

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 mentioned applicant
was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states. and the
court further certify that it appears to them that Isaac C
Goff - who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman
residing in the Township of Orange - and that Joseph
W Camp wo has also signed the same is a resident of Newark
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to
credit. and the Court further certify that Aaron Burnet
and Timothy Meeker - whose affidavits are hereunto annexed
are residents of the respective places by them mentioned that they
are old and respectable inhabitants of the County, are credible persons
and their statements entitled to credit and belief.

Sam'l B. Miller Judge
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York County ss: [partially obscured by seal] i Elias Van Arsdale Jr clerk of said
Court of Common Pleas in & for said
County of York do hereby certify that
the foregoing contains the original 
proceedings of said court in the matter
of [obscured by seal] [appli]cation of Eleazer Looker for a Pension
And I do further certify that Abner Ball
before whom the annexed affidavit of Aaron Burnet 
was made & taken & that was at the time of taking
was & still is a Justice of the Peace for said county
& that the signature "Abner Ball justice peace" subscribed 
thereto is genuine & I do further certify that Samuel
B Miller before whom the annexed affidavit of
Timothy Meeker was made & taken at the time of
taking the same was & still is a Judge of said court
of Common Pleas & that the signature "Saml B Miller" 
"Judge" subscribed thereto is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & affixed my seal of office this
fifth day of October AD 1832

E Van Arsdale Jr Clk
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Declaration of
Eleazer Looker Essex
County New Jersey
with amendments
No. 17064

17064
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Additions and Amendments of the Declaration of Eleazer
Looker in accordance with the requirements of the War
Department in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of
Congress passed June 7th 1832.

New Jersey}
Essex County} ss.

Personally appeared before me the undersigned
a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Essex ?
Eleazer Looker who being duly sworn according to law on his 
oath saith that he is the same Eleazer Looker in the declaration 
hereunto annexed mentioned made before the Court of Common
Pleas of the County aforesaid on the 18th Sep'r 1832 and on his oath
aforesaid makes the following answers to the interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department being: to the 1st interrogatory he answers
that he was born in the Township of Newark in the County of Essex
aforesaid on the 25th of April A.D. 1753. To the 2nd he answers that
he has a record of his age contained in the old family bible now
in his possession.  To the 3rd he answers that he was living 
in the Township aforesaid at the commencement of his service, that he 
resided there until the close thereof, and with the exception of nine
years when he lived in New York he has resided in the Township
of Newark aforesaid ever since until about a year ago when
he removed into the Township of Orange in the county aforesaid
and has lived there most of the time since part of the time having
been in the County of Morris on a visit to his son residing there.
To the 4th he answers that he first entered the service as a volunteer
in the Continental Company commanded by Capt'n Joseph Meeker
in the month of Sep't 1775 & served therein six months mostly as a 
private: he then volunteered & enlisted under Cap't Crowell 
with his team & carted provisions from Trenton to Kings
Ferry for three months: that he enlisted in Jany 1777 under
Capt'n Josiah Pierson & served on the lines west of Amboy 
three months as a private: that he was enrolled in the Militia
of Essex County before the duty last mentioned and served
before & after said service last mentioned. One year and nine
months in all of monthly terms during the war independent
of the services as a volunteer & enlisted soldier as above stated,
that of the monthly tours of duty not yet enumerated he served
one month under Capt'n Isaac Brookfield, three months 
under Capt'n Isaac Gillam; one month under Catp'n Isaac
Smith: two months under Capt'n Elijah Squier: one month
under Capt'n Thomas Williams: one month under Capt'n Robt
Nichols: six months under Capt'n Isaac Reeves & 1/2 month