Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 906, John Cheston, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
Service:  New Jersey
Cheston, John/Amy
Number:  W.906
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3565
New Jersey
Amy Cheston
widow of John Cheston dec'd
who died on the 31st January 1792
Mercer Co. in the State of N. Jersey
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Polhemus of the Regt commanded by Col Mias in the New Jersey line for 1 year
Inscribed on the roll of New Jersey at the rate of 40 Dollars NO cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.


Certificiate of Pension issued the 7th day of June 1841 and sent Hon. W. Halstead Hos Of Reps

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841   $400.00
Semi-annual Allowance ending Sept "   $20.00
Total $420.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836
section the 3d

Recorded by D.D. Addison, Clerk
Book A  Vol. 1st   Page 13
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Amy Chestons Declaration
Act of July 4, 1836
State of New Jersey
Mercer County
On this third day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Count of common Please in and for said County Amy Cheston, a resident of the township of Hopewell in the County of Mercer and State aforesaid, aged Ninety five years on the thirteenth day of this present month. who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836.
That she is the widow of John Cheston who was a private in the army of the Revolution who enlisted some time in the latter part of the year 1775 or beginning of the year 1776 in the twelve month service and to the best of this declarents recollection under Capt Patterson or Conway, he often spoke of them both.  He march with the norther army to Canada and was gone at the north as this declarent understood and believes.  Sometime in the moth of January 1777 John Cheston this declarent husband returned home.  We had three children when he enlisted.  
This declarant cannot recollect of any other service performed by her said husband unless it may have been in the militia.  Knows of no one living at
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married to the said John Cheston on the Eighteenth day of April One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty-nine
that her husband the aforesaid John cheston died on the thirty first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety tow and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Amy Cheston (Her Mark)
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above mentioned before.
John B. Mount
I hereby certify that Amy Cheston from extreme old age and bodily infirmity is unable to appear in open court and that her character and standing is good and that her statements in the declaration above given is fully entitled to belief.
John. B. Mount
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Revy
Widow, etd
File No. 906
Amy Cheston
Widow
John Cheston died
Priv Rev War
Act:  July 4, 1836
Index:- Vol H, Page 127
[Arrangement of 1870]
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4575
Amey Chston
N. Jersey
Let Cha G. McChesney
Aug 21, '39

Act 4 July '36
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N. J.
4 July 1836
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Heightstown N. J. May 11, 1839
Dear Sir
the declaration of Amy Cheston under the act of July 4, 1836 is enclosed for the consideration of the Dept
Your Obt Sert
Charles G. Chesney
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Amey cheston
Wid of John 
New Jersey
Act July 4 1836
Married 1749
died 1792

ILLEGIBLE
12 regt N. J line
Capt Pulhumas

Hon W. Halsted
HR
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4575 New Jersey
Amey Cheston
Declaration
Act of July 4, 1836


Chas G. McChesney
Hightstown
N. J.
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State of New Jersey
Mercer County
On the third day of April AD 1839, before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared 
Andres Mershon a resident in the township of Lawrenceville County and State aforesaid, aged Seventy four years past a person of credability and truth, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath deposeth and saith that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven on or about the third day of January on the day of the Battle of Princeton, this deponent very well remembers being then in his 13th year of age saw a person some little distance from when this deponent was standing in company with a person named William McCoy ( who is now deceased) and who lived near the residence of John Cheston.  Said McCoy informed this deponent that the person passing must be John Cheston.   McCoy immediately ran and spoke to him.  McCoy returned to this deponent and informed him that it was John Cheston who had been gone in the Army as an enlisted soldier for one year.  This deponent resided within one mile of said Cheston's house, knew that he was absent in the army.  At that time the said John Cheston had a wife and three children who this deponent knew very well being frequently at their house.  She the said Amy Cheston widow of the said John Cheston is now living and has not been married since the death of the said John Cheston who died the year this deponent was married which was in the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety two.
Andrew Mershon
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above mentioned before.
John B. Mount
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Know all men by these presents, that we John  Cheston and Daniel Hunt both of the county of Hunterdon and province of New Jersey hold in and do stand justly endebted unto his Excellency William Franklin Esqr in the sum of five hundred pounds of current lawful money of New Jersey; to be paid to his said excellency Wm. Franklin his successors or assigns; for the which payment will and truly to be made and done we do bind ourselves our heirs executors and Administrators and every of them, jointly serverally and firmly by these presents.  Sealed with our seal; Dated this nineteenth day of April Amogue Domini one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine.
The condition of this obligation is such, that whereas the above named John Cheston hath obtained license of marriage for himself of the one party, and for Amy Walker of the other party: now,if it shall not hereafter appear that they the said John Cheston and Amy Walker have any lawful let or impediment of the pre-contract, affinity or consanquinity, to hinder their being joined in the Holy Bands of matrimony, and afterwards their living together as man and wife, then this obligation to stand and remain in full force and virture or else to be void and of none effect.
John Cheston
Dan. Hunt
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
Wm. Taylor
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State of New Jersey
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a bond given by John Cheston on  obtaining a License to marry Amy Walker which now remains on file in my office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Trenton in said State this twenty eighth day of March Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine (1839)
James D. Westcott
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State of New Jersey
Mercer County
I Ralph H. Shreve Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Mercer do hereby certify that John B. Mount Esqr before whom the declaration of Amy Cheston and the depositions of Andrew Mershon were taken was at the time of the taking thereof a Judge of the Inferior court of Common Pleas and a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and that his signature thereunto attached is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Trenton this ninth day of May A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty nine.
Ralph H. Shreve Clk
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Amey Cheston
Supl. Declaration
Act July 4, 1886

C. G. McChesney
Trenton N. J.
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State of New Jersey
Mercer County
On the twenty eight day of April A. D. 1841 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Asher Hart resident of Hopewell Township in the County of Mercer formerly Huntindon in the eightieth year of his age a person of credabilty and truth who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath deposeth and saith that during the Revolutionary War this deponent was well acquainted with John Cheston and his wife Amey.  This deponent well recollects taht the said John Cheston was a Soldier of the Revolution and resided only a few mile from this deponent at the time, this deponent is well persuaded fully believes that the said John Cheston was under one Capt. John Polhemus of the Regular Army which Capt resided within two mile of this dept. during the battle of Trenton the said John Cheston was absent and in what was called the Year Service, the said John Cheston was a good soldier and been dead a number of years and his widow is still living but is very infirm.
Asher Hart
15# line interlined "Fully Believes"
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before me.
Chas. Burroughs
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State of New Jersey
I Charles G. McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do certify that Charles Burroughs Esqn before whom the written affidavit of Asher Hart was taken was at the time of the taking thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Mercer in said State duly appointed commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations and his signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of GTrenton in said State this twenty eight day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty one.
Charles G. McChesney
Secretary of State
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supplemental Declaration
of Amey Cheston
State of New Jersey
Mercer County
On the third day of January one thousand eight hundred and fort personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Mercer, Amey Cheston a resident in the township of Lewrence County and State aforesaid in the ninety sixth year of her age. A person of credability and truth.  Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following supplemental declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836.
That she is the widow of John Cheston who, according to the best of this declarants recollection and belief and after mature consideration of the objections made to her original declaration, that she sincerely believes her husband enlisted under Captain John Polhemus, who resided in the same neighborhood some time in the month of December about the holidays in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five in Princeton for one year or in what was called "the year service" that her said husband was first made drunk and that while he was so intoxicated he enlisted.  Such was the reason he gave for so doing and leaving this declarant and three little children who ILLEGIBLE dependent on him for a livelihood.  Some time after his enlistment the company met at and marched from Princeton It was on a Monday morning her said husband having passed the Sunday with her.  This declarant then started off with him in a one horse wagon early on the next morning to Princeton, the weather was
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cold and the ground frozen, this declarant accompanied him and the company as far as New Brunswick when they arrived the first night the next morning Capt. Polhemus gave er some money.  This declarant then took leave of her said husband and solemnly declared that from that parting she never again saw him until the afternoon of the day the Battle of Princeton was fought the 3d day of January 1777.  This declarant recollects two other persons who enlisted in the same company named Samuel Quick and Edward Conner being acquainted with them before neither of them came home with her husband.  She presumes that must have enlisted again.  This declarant is now enabled to recollect some of the officer that her husband served under as he stated their names so many time to her and to his friends in her presence and also many of the places he marched to and when the army quartered.  He alway said he belonged to the "First Jersey" meaning Regt, under General Gates and Col Billy Wine or Winds his Lieut named she thinks he called Wangle or some such name, and McDonnell her said husband stated that after his declarant left him at New Brunswick they marched to Elizabethtown, New York up the Hudson or North River to Albany then to a Fort near the Lakes cannot recollect the name, and then most part of the time stated they were quartered at Ticonderoga, the above particulars this declarant has been month endeavouring to recollect.  Being now poor, aged and inform and while those around here are receiving pensions whose husband only served in the militia and in their own neighborhoods.  This declarant husband enlisted in the "regular army" left the state and marched to the North leaving also this declarant and three little children whose toil and suffering for their support cannot be
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forgotten by the now ages and widowed mother.  The marriage and ILLEGIBLE of  said husband John Chesten are set forth in her original declaration now at the Dept. to which she would respectfully refer the Comm. of Pensions.
Underlined on the 2d page 32d line the words "ILLEGIBLE pensions"
Amey Cheston (Her Mark)
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above mentioned before me.
John B. Mount
Judge
State of New Jersey
Mercer County
I Ralph H. Shreve Clerk of the County of Mercer in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that John B. Mount before whom the foregoing declaration of Amy Cheston was taken was at the time of the taking thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Please of said County duly commissioned, subscribe and sworn into office and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his acts as such and that his signature if genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto fixed my hand and the seal of the said County at Nottingtham this fifteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.
Ralph H. Shreve  Clerk