Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33803, for Peter Till, New Jersey
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S-1776
SERVICE New Jersey
Till, Peter
NUMBER S33803
CONTENTS (blank)
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Right-hand side of page:
1910 (?)
New Jersey
Peter Till private
Capt Baldwin
Jersey Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War 
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 - Dollars per month to commence on the 3rd day of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of July 1818 and sent to Lewis Condict Esq, Morristown, New Jersey
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818
5 (illegible) 2/30 - $40.53
Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818
9 mos (illegible)
Morristown, Morris Col

Left-hand side of page:
(illegible) August 2, 1821 and sent to Lewis Condict Morristown, NJ
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State of New Jersey County of Morris
Personally came before me Lewis Condich one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Morris, Peter Till, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War, on the continental establishment; that he enlisted some time in the Spring of the year (as near as he recollected seventeen hundred and eighty), near Lampton in the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey (West Jersey) in the company of Captain Baldwin of Colonel Shreves Regiment of the Jersey line, that he joined the said company at Woodbury and the Regiment at Amboy; that he continued in the same the full term of nine months at which time he was discharged near Burlington in the State of New Jersey.  That he afterward, enlisted in the five months service in Captain Sparks company, in Major Shutz Battalion of another Regiment; that he was discharged from the same after having served five months at Mill Stone in the county of Somerset in the state of New Jersey.

This Deponent further saith that he resides near Morristown in the county of Morris and state of New Jersey; that he is upwards of seventy five years of age, is quite infirm and considerably deaf; That from his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of a pittance from his country for support, that he has never heretofore
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received any pension from the Unites States, and prayed now to have his name placed on the pension (illegible).

Sworn & subscribed before me this 3rd day of April, AD 1818 (signature) Lewis Condich (signature) Peter Till

The above named Deponent further saith that moving to the (illegible) of the place where he enlisted from his present place of residence, and there being no person now living in his neighborhood, who served in the same Regiment with or himself, he is unable to obtain the testimony of any known corroborative of his own.

Sworn & subscribed before me this 3rd day of April 1818 (signature) Lewis Condich (Signature) Peter Till

I, Lewis Condich, a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the county of Morris, in the state of New Jersey, do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Peter Till did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the foregoing deposition, against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony heard and taken before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the act of Congress pf the 18th March AD 1818

Morris Town N. Jersey
April 3d 1818
(signature) Lewis Condich
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State of New Jersey County of Morris
I Robert H. McCarter Clerk of the said County of Morris, do certify that Lewis Condich Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits are made is and was at the doing thereof duly enrolled one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to his official acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County of Morris, the Second day of May AD Eighteen hundred and eighteen.  (signature) Robert H. McCarter

State of New Jersey County of Morris: On this 13th day of July in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and eighteen personally came before me Lewis Condich on of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Please in and for the said County of Morris Peter Till who being by me first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that as before stated by him he is upwards of 75 and nearly 76 years of age.  That he now resides nearly one hundred miles from the place where he enlisted to wit in the County of Gloucester - that he knows of no person now living at the place who would be able to testify to the facts set forth by him in his foregoing affidavit; he therefore knows not to whom to address a letter - and being so very unwell, deaf and infirm, as well as being in such very reduced circumstances so very poor - that he has no possible way or mean of getting to that place himself or of procuring any
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person to go for him; This Deponent further saith that he must, from his poor state of health, and total inability to support himself, become a (town?) charge unless he receives the assistance of his country and he hopes his country will allow him for the few remaining months of his life the pension lately granted by Congress to which he feels himself justly entitled.

Sworn & subscribed before me this 13th day of July AD 1818

(signature) Peter Till
(signature) Lewis Condich

[handwritten name on side of paper, vertically: Peter Till's]
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New Jersey
Peter Till 1970

S
Age 78 - $296

remain suspended
August 2, 1821
Leon Sintto
Lewis Condict
Morristown N.J.
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[seal of New Jersey]
District of New Jersey, Morris County, ss.
On this 10th day of July 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July, in the year aforesaid. [The said court being a court of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings, and its Judgments being removable by writ of error only]

Peter Till aged 78 years, resident in the township of Randolph in said county, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served nearly six years in the American Army in the Revolutionary war in the Regiments under Colonels Maxwell Shreve & Shultz or Shoots his memory being impaired he speaks doubtfully of the names except Col. Maxwell in Captain Balding's or Baldwin's company in the New Jersey line, that his declaration for a pension was made on or about the 3rd April 1818 & his pension certificate is No. 1970-

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.  That I am by occupation a Tailor but have prevented from following it for several years in consequence of the failure of my eye sight & the trembling of my hands from age being seventy eight years of age.  My family consists besides myself of my wife Ruthe, aged seventy years, about as healthy as is common at her age, & one grandson William Cummins, aged 18 years who is able to labor.  I have five sons & two daughters, all living from home & one of them a cripple, having lost the use of one arm by a white swelling.  Some of my children are very poor & occasionally if I have any bread to spare, they partake with me to relieve the pressing demands of nature.  (signature) Peter Till

Sworn to & declared the 10th day of July 1820 before Gab H. Ford
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Peter Till.
One wooden dwelling house, built in 1808, or 1909 with two small rooms, totally unfinished, having no ceiling or plastering done to the inside of the dwelling.

10 acres of land on the Mountain cleared & partly fenced
20 acres of land, the timber must cut off, but the land is unimproved, being without fence, very rocky & mountanious & entirely incapable of tillage.

One cow & calf, one small pig, three old tables, one old chest of drawers, one old cupboard, two pots, one tea kettle, 1 griddle 1 dressers 5 old chairs, one barrel, one pair irons for fire, 1 cutting bin one shovel & tongs, two pails, 1 spider, 1 tub 6 pewter plates, 2 pewter dishes, 1 tea pot, 4 earthen cups & saucers 4 old knives & forks, 4 pewter spoons.

This [UNKNOWN/component?] holds one note of hand for fifty dollars given him by his son Peter Till, who is a cripple from the loss of his arm as before stated & who their [UNKNOWN] knows to be very poor & he thinks utterly unable to pay it. He has no other notes or bond or other securities for money & is justly indebted to other individuals about thirty dollars which he is bound for & expected to pay should he be able.

Sworn to & declared the 10th day of July 1820 before Gab H. Ford

Peter Till
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State of New Jersey, }
County of Morris } SS.

I, Robert H. McCarter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do hereby further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property inhabited on the [UNKNOWN] schedule is two hundred and ninety six dollars __ $296.00

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty.

Robert H.M. Carter Clerk of the Court for the County of Morris
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33 803 Reg INVALID

File No. 33,803
Peter Till
In Rev War

Act: 18xx March 18xx
Index: Vol. S, Page 419

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Applicant aged 70 yrs.
Failure of eye sight, &
wife "about 70 yrs. old."

Gr: son living with applicant, aged 18 yrs.

7 children living from home __ see statement of their circumstances, 4 habitees on the schedule, ___ says, that some of his children are very [UNKNOWN] small dwelling house, & 2 tracts of land [10 & 20 acres]

whole amount in sched: $296
says he served nearly 6 yrs 
Con
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[STAMP] Morristown N.J. Jul 21
Free

Admitted The Hon John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington

For the Pension office

Take this letter with [UNKNOWN] declaration
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Morris Town N. Jersey July 20th 1818

George Boyd Eqs

Sir,

I return to your office herewith, the applications of Dave Corkum & Peter Till. The former has, after much difficulty obtained the testimony of two persons, both belonging to the same company of Artillery in the N. York line. The latter, has merely stated under oath, his entire inability to perform the journey to the place of his enlistment, when possibly he might get further evidence. Knowing myself is good character for integrity & honesty, I feel perfectly assured of his review in the manner he has testified.

I presume the innumerate number of cases has  hitherto prevented your attention from the others transmitted by now. Whenever their turn shall come, you will greatly oblige the veterans by noticing their papers. 

I troubled you some time past, with the discharge of Benj'n Losce, & a notification for a land warrant for Dave Larg, requesting you would deposit them in the proper office to obtain their patents. Whenever you shall favor me with a line supporting the pension papers, please inform me whether or not, they [UNKNOWN] me?

I have the honor to be, very respectfully your very obt servantn

Lewis Condict[?]