Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6205, for John Teed, New Jersey
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New Jersey
Teed, John
S. 6205
carded
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left side of page: 
11 Dec 1833

right side of page:

17933
NEW JERSEY

John Teed
of Livingston (?) in the State of N.J.
who was a Pri. & Corp. in the company commanded by Capt. Person of the Reg't commanded by ------- in the N.J. troops
for 12 months.

Note
Inscribed on the Roll of N.J.
at the rate of 42 dollars -----Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day if October
1833 and sent to L. Condict
Morristown N.J

Arrears to the 4th of Sep '33.             $105
Semi-anl, allowance ending ------         21
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Recorded by ED Bullock Clerk
Book E Vol. 3 Page 133
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State of New jersey
Essex County
     Before me Abner Ball one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Hume Teed, widow of Pell Teed, deceased, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is eighty two years old, and that she has known John Teed for upward of sixty years and was well knowing to his services in the revolutionary war; John Teed being a brother to her husband Pell Teed and they as brothers lived in one family and worked the farm together - that when the war commenced, both Pell Teed her husband and John Teed were enrolled to do military service and as the Militia were ordered out to do monthly tours near half the time for the first 3 or 4 years it was difficult to work the farm; and my husband Pell Teed being the oldest, chose to stay on the farm and let his brother John Teed take his monthly tours; and as his brother John Teed was single and was fond of the life of a soldier.   The the said John Teed was out on monthly tours and as a volunteer the greater part go his time, especially the first 4 or 5 years - The deponent verily believes that John Teed was in actual service through the revolutionary war more than three years on monthly tours and as a volunteer  besides  alarms, which was often - further the deponent saith that she perfectly remembers that John Teed was corporal in the militia in the revolutionary war - deponent also remembers of John Teed stating the Battles he was in and narrow escapes he ran (?).
Hume Teed her X mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 31st day of October 1833
Abner Ball Justice of the peace

   I hereby certify that I am personally acquitted with the above named Hume Teed widow of Pell Teed and have been for twenty years or more and know her to be esteemed by those who know her and considered as a person of truth and retentive memory and highly esteemed by all her neighborhood and relatives. I  therefore consider her testimony to the above to be candid and careful - I would further certify that the signature of my name as a Justice of the Peace is certified by the Clerk of Essex County to the Declaration of Sylvanus Crowell and Aaron Burnet who have drawn this pension and if necessary references can be had.
Abner Ball

I certify that Abner Ball Esq., before whom the foregoing deposition of Hume Teed and Aaron Burnet were taken is a Justice of the peace in Essex County and that the signature of his name thereto is genuine.
Nov. 1st 1833.     Lewis Condict late a Repre. for N. Jersey
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State of New Jersey 
Essex County
     Before me Abner Ball one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Aaron Burnet a resident of said county who bing duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with John Teed and known him for more than fifty years, that in the war of the revolution  remembers being on months tours with said Teed at Elizabeth Town Point but does not remember the years or the officers commanding but deponent perfectly remembers being 3 monthly tours at Elizabeth Town Point and believes Teed was with him on each monthly tour.  The deponent further states that by circumstances related by Mr. Teed he must have been on Staten Island with a detachment of militia under Major Hays sent over there and the British refugees lay and had an engagement and a narrow escape being taken.  The deponent believes said Teed was three months enlisted under Josias Pierson and by said reason (?) having his leg hurt the command was under Matthias Lyon and by certain -?- Teed must been in that company.
Aaron Burnet
Abner Ball Justice of the peace

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Aaron Burnet and have been upwards of 50 years and that he is a man esteemed for truth and veracity by all tht know him and that confidence may be had in his statement.
Abner Ball
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Teed


at bottom:

Lewis Condict
Morristown, N. Jersey

(other words crossed out)
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DECLARATION

State of New Jersey
County of Essex

     On this 24th day of September 1832 personally appeared before Abraham Reynolds a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex John Teed a resident of Livingston in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey aged seventy eight years and laboring under extreme bodily infirmity which renders him unable to appear in Open Court and 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 7th 1832.
   That he was born on the 26th December 1753 on Long Island in the State of New York according to the family record of his Father Andrew Teed deceased and at the age of eight years he was removed from Long Island to this part of the township of Newark now called Livingston at which place he doth yet continue to reside. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.  That he entered the service as a drafted militiaman in the spring of the year 1776 and performed two months service under the command of Captain Josiah Pierson at which time they were marched from Newark to Long Island in the State of New York the greater portion of which time they were employed in erecting fortifications......
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....That he also performed two months service under Captain Elijah Squire at which time they were stationed at Elizabeth Town and Newark New Jersey.  That during the year 1777 he performed three monthly tours of duty under Captain  Elijah Squire also he performed one months service under Captain Isaac Reeves that he also performed one months service under Capt. ----Nichols he also performed one months service under Captain Thomas Williams. during the last mentioned six months service they were generally attached to Col. Van Cortlands Regiment Major Hays Battalion and stationed at Elizabeth Town, Newark, Belleville, Acquachamont, and Hackensack New Jersey.  Thus he performed six months service under Captain Craig per enlistment and thinks it was in the year 1778 and that he also performed one month service under Captain Elijah Squire and one months service under Captain Isaac Reeves during the same year and that during the year 1780 he performed three regular months tours of duty under Captain Elijah Squire, Isaac Gillan, and Johanthon Condict.  That in the year 1781 he performed five tours of monthly duty two of which was performance under Captain Elijah Squire at separate times one months service was performed under Captain John Edwards and one months under Captain NIchols and Isaac Gillam that he was in service some months more during the year officers not recollected...
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....That in the year 1782 he done three regular months tours of duty under the command of Captain Elijah Squires, John Edwards and Thomas Baldwin and knows that he performed at least six months duty during the same year but cannot recollect themes of the several officers under which her served.  That he was in actual service during the Revolutionary War not less than three years in all but cannot particulize the names of the several Captains under whom he served other than those above mentioned and may have been mistaken in some of the several years above mentioned being a single man during the whole of the War. He knows that he was out doing duty in the  service of the United States more than one half of the time during the whole of the War sometimes as a volunteer sometimes was a drafted militiaman and sometimes as a substitute for his Brother Pell Teed now deceased the greater portion of which time he acted in the capacity of a non commissioned officer.  The principle Field Officers under whom he recollects to have served were General Dickinson or Dickerson, General Wynes Gen. Heard Colonel Van Courtland Majors Samuel Hayes and Dodd.
     That he was in an engagement with the British and Refugees on Staten Island in the State of New York, cannot recollect the year but thinks that General Dickinson and Major Hays were his principal Field Officers on that occasion and at which time they took a number of prisoners.
    Was in the Battle of Springfield and Connecticut Farms New Jersey during a part of which time he was attached t the command and doing duty under Call. Dayton of the Regular Army.
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     After the British had succeeded in burning and destroying the villages of Springfield and Connecticut Farms he with the American troops pursued the Enemy into Elizabeth Town.  Thinks that Captain Elijah Squire commanded the Company to which he belonged at the time of the Battle of Springfield and Connecticut Farms.
     When the Births lay at Amboy and New Brunswick (thinks it must have been in the winter of 1777 - 1778) he was stationed on the Lines and had frequent engagements with he Refugees and foraging Parties that were constantly annoying the Inhabitants and all the surrounding Country
   That he was in an Engagement with the British and Refugees at Belleville New Jersey at which time the Amercans drove them to Hackensack thinks that General Wynes had the command of the detachment on that occasion.
     At the time of the Battle of Monmouth he was on a march to the scene of action thinks that General Heard commanded they had a fog the night  and -?- miles below New Brunswick and the next morning being informed that the British had fled to Middletown Point he was marched back to new Brunswick.
     The only persons he now recollects who can testify to any of his services above mentioned are Jacob Kind (Kent?) and Timothy Gould both of whom having been fellow soldiers during a part of the same time.  That he resided in that part of the Township of Newark now Livingston at the time he first entered the service of the United States.  That he now resides at Livingston where he has resided ever since the Revolutionary War.
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....He has no recollection of ever receiving either a written or printed discharge.  That he has no Documentary evidence and that he knows of no other persons whose testimony he can procure (at this time) who can testify to his services.
    The only principal Filed Officers of the Regular Army whom he now recollects during the time he was in service are Generals Washington LaFayette Green and Sullivan.  Cols. Dayton Mott and Cummings.
     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 any State or Territory of the United States.
John Teed
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid.
A. Reynolds Judge

     We John Watson a clergyman residing in the township of Livingston and Frederick Chapin residing in the same place do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Teed who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight 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.
John Watson
Frederick Chapin

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid.
A. Reynolds Judge
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I Jacob Kent a resident of Livingston aged seventy five years do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Teed who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration - I do further certify that I was a Militia soldier doing duty in the serve of the United States during the Revolutionary War and that I have a distinct recollection of having performed from one to three months service in the same companies with the said John Teed under each of the following named officers - viz- Captains Williams, Squire, Gillan, Pierson, Nichols, Speer and Reeves and that I was in the Battle of Springfield and Connecticut Farms in New Jersey and the said John Teed was there at the same times and the said John Teed must have been in service, in all, not less than two years during which I was doing duty in the same companies.
Jacob Kent his X mark

Sworn and subscribed before me Sept. 24 1832
A. Reynolds Judge

    I Ebenezer Collins a resident of Livingston aged sixty nine years also hereby certify that Ihave been well acquainted with John Teed who has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing declaration from my childhood to the present time and I do further certify that I knew the said John Teed when he was an enlisted soldier under Captain Craig and frequently saw him during the time they were stationed at Elizabeth Town New Jersey - and I know that the said John Teed served out the period of his enlistment -  always understood and believed it was six months service which the said John Teed performed under Cape. Craig.  And I do further certify that I performed one months service during the Revolutionary War under Capt. Elijah Squire and that the said John Teed was also member of the same company in the capacity of corporal during.....
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....the same time - and at the expiration of my monthly tour of service I retired from the said company at the same time I left the said John Teed doing duty as a volunteer.
    I do further certify that on one occasion I saw the said John Teed doing duty as a corporal in Captain Jonathon Condict company at which time the said John Teed was a volunteer and the said company was on a march to Morristown New Jersey - And I recollect on another occasion  of seeing the said John Teed doing duty in the service of the United States at Newark New Jersey under Captain Josiah Pierson - I can not particularly the year no length of his said service but I do know that the said John Teed was doing duty in the service of the United States the greater portion of the time during the whole of the Revolutionary War and believe that he must have performed something like four years service.
E.B. Collins

Sworn and subscribed before me Sept 24 1832
A. Reynolds Judge

    I Abigail Collins wife of Ebenezer Collins and sister to John Teed who has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing declaration.  Also hereby certify that I am seventy years of age and that in the time of the Revolution War the said John Teed was enlisted in the six to nine months service - And on one particular occasion I went in company with Solomon Teluff who drove a sled and horses to convey the said John Teed from the house of my brother Pell Teed to camp a distance about twenty miles - The army was then lying near Matouchen towards New Brunswick, New Jersey at which place he left him - My brother John Teed had been sick and confined at the house of Pell Teed something like one or two weeks - I know that the said John Teed was enlisted and belonged to Captain  ......
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.....Craig's Company at the time  we him to Matouchin with the sled and horses - And I do further certify that I frequently reached (?) for my brother John Teed while in the service of the United States particularly when he was stationed a reasonable distance and I recollect distinctly of once going in company with my brother Pell Teed to the town of Newark at which time he carried clothing to the said John Teed who was then stationed there, and doing duty at the time - The only officers I saw at Newark with whom I had been acquainted was Captain Elijah Squire and I think that said John Teed belonged to his company at the same time - AndI do further certify that the said John Teed was in the service of the United States from time to time during the whole of the Revolutionary War and I think that hems have been on duty not less than half of the time during that period.
Abigail Collins

Sworn and subscribed
before me Sept 24 8132 
A. Reynolds Judge
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   I Abraham  Reynolds a Judge of the Inferior court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex and State of New Jersey do hereby certify and declare my 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 I also further certify and John Watson who has signed one of the preceding certificates is clergymen resident in the township of Livingston and that Frederick Chapin who also signed the same is a resident in the township of Livingston and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit, and I do further certify that Jacob Kent - Ebenzer Collins and Abigail Collins who have sworn and subscribed  to the several certificates are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit - And I deals further certify that John Teed that above named applicant was unable to appear in open Court by reason of bodily infirmity and confined to his room at the time of swearing and subscribing to the foregoing application.
A. Reynolds

Essex County - I Elias Van Arsdale Jr Clk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Essex do hereby certify that Abraham Reynolds before whom the foregoing proceedings were had and taken at the time of taking the same was and still is one of the Judges of said Court duly commissioned and sworn and residing therein that the signature of A. Reynolds subscribed to the foregoing proceedings is his genuine signature.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this tenth day of October AD 1832.
Elias Van Arsdale Jr CLK
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Personally appeared before me Abner Ball one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Essex and the State of New Jersey Sylvanus Crowell who being due sworn deposeth and saith that John Teed was in the revolutionary war in 1779 was enlisted a served six months under Capt Craig - Samuel Hays was Major and at Elizabeth Town did serve the said term in which company the deponent was also enlisted and served six months and further the deponent perfectly recollects monthly tours under different Captains in which said Teed did duty during the revolutionary war and also belong to the same company under the alarms.  Further saith not.
blurry signature and under it: Sylvanus Crowell his X mark

Taken before me this 26th day of August 1832
Abner Ball Justice of the Peace
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Essex County I Elias Van Arsdale Jr Clerk of said County of Essex do hereby certify that Abner Ball before whom the within affidavits were made and taking the same was and still is one of the Justices of the Peace of said County and that the name Abner Ball subscribed to these affidavits is the genuine signature of said Justice.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 10th day of October 1832.
E. Van Arsdale Jr CLK
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I Abraham Reynolds a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify to the Secretary of War and to the  Commissioners of Pensions that John Teed the present applicant being had his papers made out with a view to him appearing in open court during the term of September 1832, but in consequence  of indisposition it was deferred for seven days, when his complaint became more distressing having all the symptoms of Cholera which had been prevalent in his district of County for several weeks - His family became alarmed and sent for me a distance of twelve miles, and at whose request I called at the house of John Teed the applicant, and found him confined to a bed of sickness. The term of Open Court very nearly at its close consequently his papers which had been previously prepared were transcribed and  altered in my person in order to meet his case and I do further certify that at the closing thereof the said John Teed was not able to appear in Open Court, and that I traveled a distance twelve miles for purpose of taking his examination in consequence of his illness.
A. Reynolds

State of New Jersey 
Essex County
   On this 11th day of September 1833 personally appeared before me Abraham Reynolds a Judge of the Inferior Court of common Pleas in and for said County Moses Ely aged seventy six years a resident of Livingston in said County who being due sworn.....
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.....according to law deposeth and saith that he has been personally acquainted withJohn Teed who has sworn to the foregoing declaration from his childhood to the present time.  That he performed one month service in company with the said John Teed under Captain Elijah Squire in the Revolutionary War during which time the said John Teed acted in the capacity and rank of Corporal of said company - This deponent further saith that he is a neighbor of the said John Teed and that he visited the said John Teed during the mornings of the present days. That the said John teed is confined to his bed and entirely deprived of the power of speech in consequence of a severe stroke of the Palsy and from which disease it is generally believed that the said John Teed will not recover.
Moses Ely
Sworn and subscribed before me 
A. Reynolds

Essex County
 On this 11th day of September 1833 personally appeared before me Abraham Reynolds a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Pell Teed aged forty years of age who being July sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is the son of John Teed who has sworn to the foregoing declaration for a Pension.  That the said John Teed died on the 20th day of August last past re---?  a severe stroke of Palsy since which the said John Teed has remained deprived of the power of speech and not able to help himself.
Pell Teed
Sworn and subscribed before me
A. Reynolds

I Abraham Reynolds a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Moses Ely and Pell Teed who have signed the preceding affidavits and know them to be respectable and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Given under my hand at Peterson the 11th day of September 1833.
A. Reynolds
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   I Abner Ball a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Essex do hereby certify to the Secretary of War and Commissioner of Pensions that Sylvanus Crowell whose affidavit and signature is attached to the Declaration of John Teed is a credible witness and fully entitled to credit and belief.  Given under my hand at Livingston this 18th day of June 1833
Abner Ball Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey
County of Essex
    I Elias Van Arsdale Jr. Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Essex do hereby certify that Abner Ball whose name is affixed to the above certificate, was when he signed the same a Justice of the Peace for said County residing therein duly commissioned and sworn and that the name "Abner Ball" subscribed thereto is his proper hand writing     -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at Newark the twenty first day oof June AD eighteen hundred and thirty three - (1833)
E. Van Arsdale Jr. CLK
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AWF

Rev. War Section.   

Aug. 14, 1923.

Mrs. C. W. Nichols,
43 Liberty St.
New Britain, Conn.

Madam;

I have to advise you that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 6205, it appears that John, son of Andrew Teed, was born Dec. 26, 1753 on Long Island, N. Y. and while residing in Livingston, Essex Co., N.J. enlisted in the spring of 1776 and served
as a private and corporal at various times until 17823, in all about four years, under Captains Josiah Pierson, Elijah Squier, Isaac Reeves, Robert Nichols, Thomas Williams, Craig,
Matthias Lyon, Isaac Gillam, Abraham Speer, Jonathan Condict, John Edwards, Thomas Baldwin and Colonels Van Cortland and
Dayton in the New Jersey Militia.

He was in the battles of Staten Island, Springfield, Connecticut Farms and in an engagement at Belleville, N. J.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
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Sept. 24, 1832, while a resident of Livingston, N. J.

In 1833 son Pell aged 40 years, is referred to.  
The name of soldier's wife is not stated.

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

[following was. hand-written at bottom of page:]
Bro. of soldier Pell Teed - whose widow was Hume Teed
Abigail wife to Ebenezer Collins
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John Teed's case
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James L. Edwards Esq. commis. of Pensions or in his absence 

To the Hon'bl Geo. Wm.  Crump, acting Commissioner of Pensions 

Sir
    I have rec'd by my friend Doctor Condict of Morristown a Certificate of Pension for forty two (underlined) dollars, on account of my services in the war of the revolution, countersigned by "George Wm. Crump Acting Commissioner. of Pensions".
     This sum falls so far short of my just expectations when measured by my services for five years (underlined) in that trying and arduous struggle, that I feel constrained by a sense of duty to myself and to my family to ask most respectfully at your your hands, for a reconsideration of the case - My papers at first were drawn up by Judge Reynolds of the County, who insisted that it was useless to state more than two years of service, altho I informed him that I had actually served my Country faithfully for five (underlined) years at the least.  I believe he inserted no more than two years, and whether of not that term was fully specified, setting forth my services in detail with the names of all my officers and the places where the services were ordered I do not know.  Nor do I know that it will be in my power, at so great a distance from the time when the services were performed, and at so advanced an age, laboring under so great infirmity of body and mind, either to remember one half of my services or to find testimony to prove them - But believing most solemnly as I do, that much of my services are unrequited, I most respectfully solicit a re-examination of my case, with the privilege, if it be necessary for me to amend my declaration, and include in it all those services which I at first stated to Judge Reynolds had been actually performed by me - I will also hope from my country that after 50 years have passed by she will not exact that rigid proof which more recent transactions might admit.  Since all my officers and with very few exceptions every one of my companions in arms, have descended to the grave, and those few who still survive, thru' the toils and stuggles of more than a half century, to experience the tardily awakened gratitude of that country, to secure whose present was exampled freedom and prosperity, they spent the flower of their youth, and heralded life and all that life holds dear; those few, now touching the last boundaries of human existence, must indeed present.....
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.....an exception to those immutable laws of Nature which superadd (?) the decay of the mental powers and particularly of the memory, to the other afflictions of old age, if they could be able to recollect, with all the minuteness of detail necessary for the establishment of a legal proof, the events of so remote a period.  You cannot but be aware that the memory of those events, aside from the loss of memory natural to extreme old age, must have been nearly erased by the active scenes of fifty years spent in a struggle for a bare subsistence in which all the powers both of the mind and body were frequently tasked to this utmost extent;  and that the few memorandums which might have been taken down at the time must for the most part have been lost through the lapse of time  and the deaths of nearly all those who had such memorandums in their possession; particularly as those who might have been benefited by their preservation; had not till very lately any inducement to search for and preserve such memorandums or to endeavor to retain in their memories the particulars of the revolutionary services. Nothing indeed but the strong and abiding impression produced by the spirit stirring nature of the events of the times that tried men's souls, could have enabled me, or my old comrades, to recollect more than a very dim and meagre outline of the events of that day.
   Such evidence was can yet be found I have used my endeavors to obtain; and I found herewith the affidavits of Simon Williams, Aaron burnet, Thomas Belton, three of my old companions in arms, and of Hume Teed, my deceased brother's widow, to which I respectfully solicit your attention.  I expected also to have obtained the testimony of a very material witness Nehemiah Grant of Newark (mentioned in the affidavit of Thos. Bolton) at whose house I always made my home while doing doing duty at Newark, but he has lately departed this life - My reference to the affidavits of Aaron Burnet andThos. Belton, it will appear that I enlisted and served three months in the company of three month volunteers commanded by Josiah Pierson, who having his leg broke, the command devolved onCapt. Matthias Lyon, which company was stationed at Westfield and other places in that vicinity, to guard against the incursions of a provision of the enemy then lying at Amboy with whom they had frequent skirmishes and from circumstances I believe that those three months service were performed in the winter of 1779, being shortly after the Battles of Trenton and Princeton - Those three....
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......months, I think, are not included in my declaration as originally  drawn up by Judge Reynolds.  You will also perceive by the affidavits of Simeon Williams, and Widow Hume Teed that I am considered to performed a larger amount of service during the revolutionary war than most other militia men, and no able bodied man living as I have done so near the scene of the enemy's most frequent incursions, could escape less than 2 or 3 years as a militia man, without saying any thing of his services was a volunteer.  And you will also perceive by the affidavit of said Hume Teed widow of my late brother Pell Teed, that I generally volunteered as a substitute for my said brother and took the place of a number of others in addition to my own regular duty, and that I was engaged in the service of my country nearly all the time for the first four or five years.  I cannot then, but think it a great hardship, that I should receive only a moiety (?) of the sum allowed by law, while others, whose services were less but who have been enabled by accidental circumstances to site those services more particularly, have received the full amount.  Hastening down as I am towards the grave, which has swallowed up so many of my companions who have only lived to hail the approaching reward of their past struggles from the slow gratitude of this country, without being permitted to live to enjoy it, I have little in this life to desire, and with the near view of eternity before me, would not overstate my services for all the rewards which the treasury can give - I ask only for an act of justice to smooth my passage to the tomb.
Hoping that you will not refuse the request of an old soldier , I subscribe myself 
Your friend and fellow citizen
John Teed his X mark

Livingston Essex Co. N. Jersey
Nov. 18th 1833
Witness present Pell Teed
  You will see I have proved by the affidavit of Simon William's eight months and by Thomas Belton four months and by Aaron Burnet four months three months at Elizabeth Town Point one on Staten Island and also confirm three months enlisted under Josiah Pierson making together 16  (18?) months in these affidavits additional to all the testimony at Washington.....
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John Teed

6 mo. private
6 mo. corporal
    $42-

The service not specified 
agreeably to regulations 
are not all computed (?)
The situation of claimant
has induced an approxim-
ation of service upon the most
liberal grounds as declar-
ation cannot be amended.

Return to L. Condict
Morristown, N. Jersey

D.A. Hall Washington
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Hand writing at top:

John Teed, Livingston, Essex Co, N.J.
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV.  +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?  ['No' crossed out]
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  #

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
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EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss 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 periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ___ year ____ months, and ____ days, I served as a _____.  For ____ months and ____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.
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Quere XIV:

underlined part snd side Notre:  Bale/Ball not certified as credible.

Bottom of page hand written:

Peterson September 12, 1832

to the Honorable Secretary of War
   also the Commissioner of Pensions
    To whom I beg leave to refer.  My own Certificate setting forth the reasons which prevented John Teed from appearing and making his declaration in Open Court.
     Also the affidavit of Moses Ely and Pell Teed noting the present situation of John Teed - consequently no further evidence can be had from himself who is Palsied, and very nearly rendered -?- at present and not likely to live but a very short time.
I have the Honor to be very Respectfully
your Obt. Humble Servant.  A. Reynolds
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The name of John Teed, as a Corporal, will be found twice , on the rolls of Capt. Thos. Williams Company 1780.  This proof not before the examining Clerk when the Certificate was issued to John Teed.
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State of New Jersey
Essex County
     Before me Abner Ball one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Personally appeared Simeon Williams of said County and State who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is now seventy three years old and has resided during the War of the Revolution and ever since within one half mile of where John Teed resided during the said war of the revolution and where said Teed now resides.  And this deponent saith that during the whole of said War he was well acquainted with said John Teed as a private and Corporal in the Militia of New Jersey lawfully called into service of the United States during the said war of the revolution.  That the County of Essex being in the vicinity of the enemy's principal garrison and harassed by frequent incursions it was necessary to keep up a constant guard at New Ark Elizabeth Town and other places.  That this guard was drafted from the different companies of militia in the County for which purpose each company was divided into classes and each class serving one month in rotation.  But when the enemy invaded the county the whole body of militia was called out and remained under arms till the enemy retired.  This deponent believes that every able bodied man in the County was called out for at least three or four monthly tours of regular duty in each year during the War besides much extra service on alarms and he believes that the said John Teed performed more service than any other militia man as he not only served or performed all his won monthly tours but also frequently served as a substitute for his Brother and others and during all alarms was always at his part.  This deponent recollects seeing many months tours with said Teed chiefly as a guard to the town of New Ark under different Captains some of whom are named below.  On such occasions  they were under Philip Van Courtland Colonel and Samuel Hays Major - deponent recollects being on at least two monthly tours with said Teed under Captain Elijah Squire, one he perfectly recollects in month of October at Newark, and another in the month of March or April. Deponent served with said Teed at least one month under Josiah Pierson at Newark, does not recollect the time of year - deponent further recollects serving with said Teed one monthly tour under Capt. Elijah Squire in the summer it being warm weather - deponent served with said Teed under Capt. Robert Nichols at least one month at Newark, believes in the fall of the year, by some circumstances he recollects deponent served at least one month with said Teed under Capt. Thomas Williams  at Newark, does to recollect what time of the year - deponent seven with said Teed at least one month under Captain Jonathon Condict at Newark does not recollect the tie of year nor does the deponent recollect years in each tour was only from 1776 to 1782....
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    The deponent recollects serving with said Teed at least one month under Capt.Abram Speer in the summer of 1776 at Newark.  Deponent recollects that said Teed was a Corporal in the Militia - deponent perfectly recollects being in company with said Teed when the Monmouth Battle was fought and the detachment with which they were in marched as far as New Brunswick and the enemy having retired the militia returned, it was in 1778 as deponent believes - deponent recollects being with said Teed in the Battle of Belleville with the Refugees, and was under the command of Gen'l. Wynes believes in the year 1779.  Was with said Teed at the Battle of Connecticut Farms and Springfield and -?- in 1780, the militia were under Gen'l. Dickinson - another 2 occasions the militia were out for some weeks as the enemy after the battle of Connecticut Farms retired to Elizabeth Town Point and lay there for 10 days and then came out to Springfield - in these battles the militia were hotly engaged and suffered many being hit and wounded but were highly commended by the Commander in chief - deponent recollects said Teed was single during the War and was fond of a soldiers life - and further deponent remembers s'd Teed to make his home when doing duty at Newark at Wm. Grants - at the Battle of Connecticut Farms and Springfield Moses Smith Daniel Reeve Samuel Ball Saml. Teuch Nichols Parsel were killed and Capt. Isaac Reeves John N. Baldwin and other wounded.
Simeon Williams

Sworn before me this 12th dat of November 1833
Abner Ball Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Simeon Williams and have been for twenty years at least, and that he is reputed in the neighborhood in which he lives to be a man of  a retentive memory, and strict veracity.  I also concur in that belief, and consider his testimony to be worthy of credit.
Abner Ball

The signature of Abner Ball as a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex and State of New Jersey is duly certified -?- hand and seal of the County Clerk as annexed to the papers of Aaron Burnet and Sylvanus Crowell Pensioners of said County and state to which reference can be had for the genuiness of the signature of the said Justice.
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State of New Jersey
Essex County
    Before me Abner Ball one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared (underlined) Thomas Belton of said County and State, that he is well acquainted with John Teed, and has been for more than fifty years - That in the War of the Revolution this deponent belonged to the same company to which the said Teed belonged, being the company of the New Jersey Militia commanded by Captain Elijah Squires - and that this deponent was well knowing to the services of the said John Teed as a militiaman in the war aforesaid, and says that Teed was a corporal in the said company.  This deponent recollects that said John Teed enlisted in the company of three months volunteers which was a first commanded by Capt.Josiah Pierson, whose leg being broke in a skirmish with the enemy, the company fell under command of Capt. Matthias  Lyon.  That the said company was posted at Westfield, Short Hills, and Matuching to guard against the incursions of a party of the British then lying at Amboy, from which place they often sallied on foraging parties, and had two or three skirmishes, with the American militia every week, said John Teed served three months in said company, as this deponent thinks it was in the (smudged word) of January February and March 1777, being shortly after the Battles of Trenton and Princeton.  Deponent also served in the said company (smudged word) occasions.  Deponent also recollects serving together with s'd Teed one monthly  tour at Newark, under Captain Nichols, whose christian name he does not recollect, and this deponent was while serving at Newark with said Teed as aforesaid, billeted with said Teed at the house of Nehemiah Grant - This deponent recollects that said John Teed was present and in the service of his country, at the Battles of Belleville, of Connecticut Farms, of Springfield, and at the taking of a company of Hessians near Connecticut Farms.
Thomas Belton his X mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 22nd day of November 1833
Abner Ball Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am acquainted wit the above said Thomas Belton and have been for upwards of forty years and consider him a man of strict veracity and consider his evidence worthy of credit.  Abner Ball

Abner Ball Esq. is known to me to be a Justice of the peace in Essex County and the signature of his name to the depositions of Simeon Williams and Thos. Belton is genuine.
Nov. 15th 1833 Lewis Condict
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July 30th 1923

Post marked Pension Office US Aug 1 1923

Pension Office
Washington D.C.

   One of my ancestors was John Teed (TEED)
 of Livingston New Jersey - he applied for a Pension Sept 24 1832 - his number was 6205 - does his application paper give any details or the name of his wife or any children.
   Any dates of names would be very much appreciated.

Very truly yours
Blanche S. Nichols
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left side pf page:

Jany 11 1900
   Hist to Mrs. Ellen Brown
Newark N.J.

Jany 09 (19?) 1901
     to same
  at Caldwell NJ, no in--
in addition to this furnished
Jan 11 1900

1923 Aug 14 - Hist to Mrs. C.W. Nichols through Mrs. Dennis's clerk
Laur Division. AWS

1926 July 15 - Hist to Elizabeth Teed

right side of page:

Rev. War
6205 
INVALID

File No.: 6205
John Teed
Corpal. Rev. War

Act: June  7 1832
Index:- vol. M, Page 370
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May 17, 1926

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
     Will you please send me all the available information concerning John Teed Private and corporal, Revolutionary War - Invalid #6205.

Thank you
Very truly yours
(Mrs) Elizabeth Teed
65 Prospect St.
East orange, NJ

post marked
Pension Office US
May 19 1926
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Stamped:
O.W.&N. DIVISION
Nov 14 1899
RECEIVED

    My great grandfather having served in the Revolutionary War - an officer I believe judging from the hat that was worn by him - up to the time of his death he drew a pension - that occurred about 1830 - his name was John Teed - was from Essex Co. N.J.
    I am very anxious to be able to produce some (?)...
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positive proof that I may
jointhe Daughters of the 
American Revolution [illegible]
frm Adj. Gen. Stryker Book 
can you also inform me if
Moses Edwards from Essex
Co. N. J. was also the war
the family tell me that he
was chaplain. 
Yours truly
Ella Brown
22 Franklin st
Newark N. J. 

Mrs Emlin Tenelt
Ninety [illegible]
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To
N. S. Pension Bureau
Kindly send to me
the Revolutionary record of one
"John Teed" Livingston N. J.
also his brother Pell Teed
both having named pensions -
Yours truly
Ella A. Brown
Caldwell N. J. 

[illegible]
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[Rectangular stamp]
O.W. & N. DIVISION
JAN 23 1901
RECEIVED

[round stamp]
U. S.
PENSION
[illegible]
JAN
17 
1901
OFFICE
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6205
3-- 249.
Bureau of Pensions.
John Teed
.
Decln Sept. 24, 1832
Livingston N.J.
Age 78 Born Dec 26-1753

En Spring of 1776
Essex Co N.J.
Capt Josiah Pierson
Col 
2 mos

En
Cap Elijah Squire
2 mos

En 1777
Capt Squire
Col Van Courtland
3 mos

1778
Caps Isaac Reeves
1 mo..

En 
Capt Nichols
1 mo

En Cap Thos Williams
1 mo.

En 1778 Corps Craig 6 mos
Squire 1 mo
Reeves 1 mo
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3 -- 649.
Bureau of Pensions.
Svc 1779 - 5 Months term
Caps Squier, Reeves 
William Pierson, Speer

1780 - 3 months term
Caps Squier, Gillam &
Jonth Condict

1781 5 months term
Caps Squier, Caps Edwards, 
Cap Nichols, Cap Gillam 

1782 3 months term
Caps Squier, Edwards & Baldwin

3 mos [illegible] services
but cant recollect
date or name of
officers

[illegible]  Staten Island
Springfield & Conn. Farms
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Mrs. Ella Brown
Newark N J 
Jany 11-1920