Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33795, for Holmes Throckmorton, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental
New Jersey

Throckmorton, Holmes

NUMBER
S.33795
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CONTENTS
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12915 R
New-Jersey
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Holmes Throckmorton
of Monmouth Co. in the State of N. Jersey
who was a Private in the regiment commanded [by]
Colonel Forman of the N. Jersey
line, for the term of 3 years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 29th of Dec'r. 1818-
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Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of July 1819
and sent to Wm J. Bowne, Esq'r.
Freehold. N. Jersey
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Arrears to 4th of March, 1819 - 2 7/30  17:80
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819. - 48. 00
[sum] $65.80

{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }

Monmouth County
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Application of Holmes
Throckmorton, a
Revolutionary Soldier for
a Pension under the
late Act of Congress -
Freehold NJ.

Col. Forman's
N. Jersey Regt.

1776 - 3 years - Roll.
egt [?] Dec'r 1818

Admitted
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County Ss: } Before me the Subscriber
One of the Judges of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas
in and for said County, personally appeared,
Holmes Throckmorton, Sixty years of age
and upwards and resident of said County, who
being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he this
Deponent enlisted as a private Soldier in the
Army of the United States of America, in the
Revolutionary War with great Britain, on the
18th day of February 1776 for three years; in the
Company of Capt John Burrows, and in the
Sixth Jersey Regiment, commanded by Col.
David Forman, in which Regiment served about
two years, when Capt. Burrows's Company, joined
the 5th Jersey Regiment, commanded by Col
Spencer, where this Deponent served about one
year, having continued to serve as aforesaid
in the Army aforesaid, faithfully three years, the
full term of his said enlistment, was then
discharged at Mendham N.J. in 1779. Received
a written discharge, which has been lost or destroyed

This Deponent saith he was in the Battles
of Germantown, Red Bank, Mud-Island and
Monmouth. Deponent further saith that from
his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance
of his Country for support.

Holmes Throckmorton

Sworn & Subscribed to this
29th day of December 1818.

Wm J. Bowne
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County ss: } Before me the Subscriber
One of the Judges of the
Inferior Court of Common
Pleas in and for said County
personally appeared John McClure
who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that
he was well acquainted with Holmes ThrockMorton,
named in the within affidavit, during
the Revolutionary War with Great Britain
& the United States of America, that they both
enlisted in the Army of the United States during
the war aforesaid, on or about the 18th day of
February 1776, the said Holmes Throckmorton for
three years and he this Deponent for and
during the war, in the Company of Capt. John
Burrows, and in the Sixth Jersey Regiment
commanded by Col. David Forman, and this
Deponent further saith that he well knows
that the said Holmes Throckmorton, faithfully
served in the Army aforesaid three years the
full term of his said enlistment, and were
both together in the several Battles mentioned
in the within affidavit & was with the said
Holmes Throckmorton when he received his
discharge at Mendham N.J. in 1779. This Deponent
further saith that the within affidavit of him the
said Holmes Throckmorton, is in all things just & true

John McClure
his X mark

Subscribed & Sworn to this 29th
day of December 1818-

Wm. J. Bowne
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I William J Bowne one of the Judges
of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and
for the County of Monmouth in the State of New
Jersey do hereby certify to the Hon'ble J. C.
Calhoun, Secretary of War, that it satisfactorily
appears to me that the within named Holmes
Throckmorton, served in the Army of the Revolution
against the common Enemy. And that from his
reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of
his Country for support. Given under my hand
at Freehold this 29th day of May 1819.

Wm J. Bowne

I, the Subscriber, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common
Pleas for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey
Do hereby Certify, that William J Bowne, whose name is subscribed
to the foregoing Affidavits & certificate, was at the time of subscribing
and still is, duly enrolled in my office, as a Judge of the said Court,
and that full faith and credit are to be given to his official acts
as such; and that the names "Wm. J. Bowne" thereto subscribed,
are the genuine signatures of the said Judge Bowne.

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name and affixed
the Seal of the said Court, this twenty ninth
day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen
hundred and nineteen

J Phillips Clk
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September 24, 1936.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/ady
Holmes Throckmorton
S.33795

Miss Grace E. Britton
45 Oakwood Avenue
Long Branch, New Jersey

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to Holmes
Throckmorton, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data contained herein are obtained from the
papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension,
333795, based upon his military service in that war.

Holmes Throckmorton enlisted for three years on
February 18, 1776, place not stated, served as private
in Captain John Burrowes' Company, Colonel David Forman's
New Jersey Regiment, continued in the same company, in
Colonel Spencer's Regiment; was in the battles of Germantown,
Red Bank, Mud Island and Monmouth and was discharged
at the expiration of his term of enlistment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
December 29, 1818, while a resident of Monmouth County,
New Jersey, aged sixty years "and upwards".

There are no family data.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[left side]
33795
Revy INVALID
File No. 33,795
Holmes Throckmorton
Pri Rev War
Act: March 18th
Index:-- Vol. [illegible], Page 430
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right side]
Dec-1-1902
Mrs Frances G. Sitherwood
Bloomington Ill.
---
1909 Apr 21. Hist. to G. H.
La Febre V.L.M.
(See S. F. 14689)
---
1933 Feb. 28- Hist. to Mrs. George S.
Dudley, See Simon Mesler R.7142 A.D.Y.
---
1936 Sept. 24 Hist. to Grace E.
Britton. A.D.Y.
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1939 May 15- Mrs. G. S. Dudley adv'd
no further inf. in re. to this sol. than that
fur. above (ltr in disc. S.43084 of Nathaniel
Norton) - - MLB.
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3--871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L.D.L.
Claim No. [blank]
Certificate No. [blank]
Claimant [blank]
Soldier Holmes Throckmorton
Service N. J.
Additional Service Rev. War
No [blank] claim, State records [blank] , 190 [blank]
No claim, combination records [blank] , 190 [blank]
REMARKS:
No claim, except
S. #33795
Chief Division
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45 OAKWOOD AVENUE
LONG BRANCH, NEW JERSEY
Sept. 14, 1936.

Mr. A. D. Hiller
Veterans Administer
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir

Will you kindly
tell me if you have
any record of a pension
paid to Holmes Throckmorton
or his wife
Susannah Forman Throckmorton?

[Stamp]
RECEIVED SEP 15 1936
MAIL SUB-DEV.
VETS ADM READER # 37
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He was a resident of
Shark River and Tinton
Falls, Monmouth Co.
N.J. and I find in Stillwell's
genealogy of
Monmouth County that
he served as a private
in Spencer's regiment.

I am looking up the
line for someone who
wishes to join the
D.A.R. and would greatly
appreciate any
information you can
give me concerning
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him or his family.

Thank you,
Very truly yours
(Miss) Grace E Britton
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[Stamp] OLD WAR & NAVY FILES. NOV 19 1902
OWM

815 E. Taylor St., Bloomington, Ill.,
Nov. 15, 1902.

Pension Department,
Washington, D.C.

I would like a statement of the military
history of the following ancestors of mine, soldiers
in the Revolutionary War.

Holmes Throckmorton, Monmouth Co. New Jersey,
Spencer's Reg. Continental Army.

James Throckmorton, Monmouth Co. N. Jersey,
Capt. Patterson's Co. 2nd Est.; also Militia.

There was also a James Throckmorton Monmouth
Co. N. J. in "Cap. Waddell's Co., 1st reg. also troop,
light-horse, ditto; also Continental Army". Were they
the same? If not will you please send
records of both, Rec'd pension Apr. 21. 1818, aged 80.

I would like all known facts concerning these
men, as to dates of birth, death, widow's names, etc., as the
information is desired for historical and genealogical
purposes. The above is all I have about them.

Respectfully,
(Mrs.) Frances G. Sitherwood
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[Stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE C NOV 17 1902
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May 15, 1939
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. G. S. Dudley
178 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letters of recent date, in which
you requested the Revolutionary War records of Nathan Forman,
Furman or Firman who served from Middlesex or Monmouth County,
New Jersey, Captain Nathaniel Norton who was born in 1747, lived
in New York City and died there in October, 1837, also of Holmes
Throckmorton, of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

This office has no further information in regard to Holmes
Throckmorton than was furnished you February 28, 1933.

The records of Nathan Furman or Farman and Nathaniel Norton
are furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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February 28, 1933.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/ADY
Holmes Throckmorton
S.33795

Mrs. George S. Dudley,
178 Livingston Avenue,
New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to one
Holmes Throckmorton, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data contained herein are obtained from the
papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension,
S.33795, based upon his military service in that war.

Holmes Throckmorton enlisted for three years on
February 18, 1776, place not stated, served as private
in Captain John Burrowes' Company, Colonel David
Forman's New Jersey Regiment, continued in the same
company, in Colonel Spencer's Regiment; was in the
battles of Germantown, Red Bank, Mud Island and Monmouth
and was discharged at the expiration of his term of
enlistment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
December 29, 1818 while a resident of Monmouth County,
New Jersey, aged sixty years "and upwards".

There are no family data.

Very truly yours,
A.B.
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.

[handwritten in margin]
Date of death not on A.B.
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for
pension on file in this Bureau. Holmes Throckmorton Sur File 33795
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[Table, listed by column]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Feb 18, 1776

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
3 years.

RANK.
Pvt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
John Burrows

COLONEL.
David Forman
Spencer

STATE.
N. J.
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Battles engaged in, Germantown, Red Bank, Mud Island, Monmouth
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Residence of soldier at enlistment, [check]

Date of application for pension, Dec. 29, 1818. His cl. was al.

Residence at date of application, Monmouth Co. N.J.

Age at date of application, 60 yrs.

Remarks: [blank]