Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9110, for Robert Ladner, New Jersey
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SERVICE
New Jersey

Ladner, Robert
Elizabeth

NUMBER
W. 9110
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New Jersey 600
Elizabeth Ladner
widow of Robert Ladner
who died on the 15 Feb. 1830
of Middlesex Co in the State of N. Jersey
who was a Private in the _____ commanded
by Captain _______ of the ______ commanded
by ______ in the N. Jersey line for 13 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of March 1837 and sent to James F. Randolph N. Brunswick NJ
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Arrears to the 4th of September '37 260.00
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep " 21.66
$281.66

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
 Vol. 1 Page 148
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No 688 3. Sec
New Jersey
Elizabeth Ladner's application under the
Law of July 1836 Ser Marginal Men of
Certificates paid by the State of New Jersey to
Robt Ladner J.P. 2.3.4
Admitted
Private 13 months
James F Randolph, Agent.
New Brunswick N.J.
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Declaration of Elizabeth Ladner, of the County of Middlesex County, New Jersey, in order to obtain the benefit of the 3d section of the act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836
State of New Jersey 
Middlesex County } On this tenth day of November one thousand Eight hundred and thirty six before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Elizabeth Ladner, of said County, aged Eighty years, who being first duly sworn on her oath, doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of
the provision of the act of Congress passed the 4th of July 1836: That she is the widow and legal representative of Robert Ladner, late of the County & State aforesaid deceased; that said Ladner was a private soldier in the militia in the service of the Revolution, and belonged to the company commanded by Capt.
That he served under various captains, as
she heard him say, and did a great deal of service as she well remembers from his frequent and long absence from home. She remembers, in particular, that early in the war, in the Spring or Summer of 1776 he enlisted
under Capt Webster in what was called the five months service - that soldiers were wanted for this remit to join Washington army to prevent the British from overrunning New York and other parts of the Country - that her husband
the said Robert Ladner went into the service, and continued in it the whole five months, Keeping with Washington's army all the time, in all its marches, battles and retreats
until the retreat through New Jersey, and the end of the said five months. She remember that her husband was out very frequently afterwards, and continued to serve until the war closed, in tours of a month at a time; but as she cannot pretend to reheare
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all these tours, or go into such a detailed account of them as she understands the War Department requires, she leaves them wholly to those whose means of knowing may enable them to give the necessary information
She can add in perfect conviction of its truth, that he served at least three months a year, in each and every year from the beginning to the close of the war in addition to his five month's service
She further on her oath declares, that she was married to the said Robert Ladner on the eleventh day of August seventeen hundred and seventy four, that her husband the aforesaid Robert Ladner died on the fifteenth day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty, and that s has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed, she further declares
that the marriage was solemnized by the Rev Mr Roe of Woodbridge N.J. who is deceased
her
Elizabeth X Ladner
mark
Subsrcibed & Sworn to the day year aforesaid, before me 
Peter L Runyon Judge

Whereupon the Court give it as their unhesitating opinion, that the said Elizabeth Ladner, is the widow and legal representative of Robert Lander deceased; that she was legally married to the said Ladner in seven
teen hundred and seventy four, and that said
Ladner was a soldier in the war of the Revolution
I Nicholas Booram Clerk of the Court aforesaid
do hereby certify, that the foregoing are the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Elizabeth Ladner for a Pension.
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and the seal of said Court, this
tenth day of November, Eighteen hundred and
thirty six.
N Booream Clerk
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State of New Jersey  
Middlesex County On this tenth day of November 1836  before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid,  personally appeared Daniel Kene and Nancy his wife known to me as credible persons whose testimony is to be relied upon who being duly sworn, on their respective oath say, that they were most intimately acquainted with Robert Ladner, late of the County & State aforesaid; that they know that he died on the fifteenth of February 1830 that he left a widow, Elizabeth Ladner, that said Elizabeth is now living with them, is still a widow and has not been married since time the death of the said
Robert Ladner
Daniel Kene
Nancy Kene

Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid, before me
Peter P Runyon
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County 
On this twentieth day of October 1836 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the  County aforesaid, personally appeared
Joel Dunn, Known to me as a credible person whose testimony is to be relied upon, who being duly sworn, on his oath declares, that he is in the 85th year  of his age a soldier of the Revolution, and now in the receipt of a Pension as such - that he was intimately acquainted with Robert Ladner late of the township of Picataway, County of Middlesex,  lived a near neighbor to him from boyhood up-- knows of his marriage to Elizabeth Martin, now Elizabeth Ladner, does not recollect the year in which it took place, but was long before the termination of the War, and said Ladner ceased to do service as a soldier in the
Revolution - knows the widow of said Ladner - Elizabeth Ladner - is living, has seen her
this day and knows that she has not been married since the death of her husband the said Robert Ladner Deponent further declares
that he is acquainted with a great portion
of the services rendered by said Robert Ladner
in the war of the Revolution belonged to the same company with him in the early part of the war always lived in near neighborhood - knows that said Ladner enlisted in the five months service in 1776, very soon after the British landed on Staten Island that he served out the whole five months under Capt. Webster - afterwards Col Webster. This service was
rendered on Long Island before and during the battle there in August of that year, and after and with Washington's army in their various movements, retreats & engagements at Kings Bride, White Plains, and so forth
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Deponent has a very distinct recollection of this service, from the fact that one of his brother was also in it, with said Ladner. Deponent was not in it himself the period of service, he remembers, expired after the British was in New Jersey, because they had to
take a round about way to get home. Recollects said Ladner afterwards in the winter of 76-7, and during the time the British had possession of New Brunswick NJ and he did during that time two tours of a month each, in scouting around the country, as near to New Brunswick as the militia dared to go, in order to keep the enemy confined as closely as possible, and to prevent his depredations. In the same year of 1777, after the retreat of the British from Brunswick, recollects that
said Ladner did a tour of duty of a month on the Station between Amboy & Elizabethtown, in what was called, in the language of that day, guarding the lines. Does not know what officers he served under because deponent was not with him. And this was the case in much of the service of said Ladner when
deponent was not with him, he cannot speak positively as to his officers. He only can testify as to the service, & this he does from a knowledge that said Ladner went out and staid his month at a time in the year 1778. Knows that said Ladner was out on three several tours of a month each. In one of these deponent was with him, and both were under Capt. Thomson Stelle, at the battle of Monmouth, and previous thereto. In the other two tours said Ladner went on the lines opposite to Staten land, and in the usual service required there, being to prevent the murder, burnings & depredations of the combined British, Hessians & Tories. This service was very arduous, requiring great activity, and constant marches and counter
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marches, and sometimes not a little sharp shooting, in skirmishes. In 1779 said Ladner was out as usual to this deponent's knowledge, performed at least three tours of a month each. He is certain that the militia were called upon to do much more service than this. He thinks they were out fully one half the time, but he is entirely within bounds in saying that said Ladner was out three times during the year, in monthly tours. He could not do less than serve a month, except on occasions of alarm, and then all hands had to go.
In there three tours of a month each, said Ladner was on the lines, guarding as usual. In 1780 said Ladue performed three more tours of a month each. Two these were on the lines, guarding from the enemy on Staten Island. The other was at Springfield & neighborhood, at which deponent was present, under Capt.
Sebring. Here was some fighting to do, & many were killed.  The enemy were finally glad to scamper off, by the way of Elizabethtown. Recollect said Ladner again in 1781 and knows that he was out in that year, on two tours of a month each, knows that he went from home to do three tours, and that he was from home
the time required, and that he was engaged with the militia embodied on the lines, in guarding. Has no doubt, from the calls upon the militia, the readiness of said Ladner to do his duty, and his ability to perform them that
he did in service to make in all more than two
years
Joel Dunn
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid, before me. The word Mary erased & the word Elizabeth interlined in several place
before execution the name of Mary being a misunderstanding of the scrivener
Peter P. Runyon
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex} Ss. On this tenth day of November 1836, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared William Lupardus known to me as a credible person whose testimony may be relied upon, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith
that he is a soldier of the Revolution, and is now in the receipt of a pension as such that he knew intimately Robert Ladner, late of Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey -Knew him during & before the war of the
Revolution - always lived a near neighbor to
him - knows that said Ladner was married to Elizabeth Martin before the war commenced in New Jersey, believes it was in the year 1774 or 1775, was not actually present at the Wedding, being then considered only a boy, but has every knowledge of the fact, except accular demonstration, from the preparations on the occasion, the both of the whole neighborhood, the information of those who were present, & the undisputed authority of universal repute from that time to the present - know that said
Elizabeth, now Elizabeth Ladner, is now the widow of said Robert Ladner, and that she has not been married since the death of her husband the said Robert Ladner in 1830 - said deponent further declares that he well remembers a part of the services of said Robert Ladner as a private in the militia, in the company of deponents father Capt Wm. Lupardus, and also under other captains. He remembers said Ladner's enlistment in the five
months service under Capt Webster in 1776 -know that said Ladner served out the whole of that enlistment on Long Island, at New York,  White Plains &c where Washingtons army was compelled to go - deponent knows that
said Ladner was out regularly & continually until the militia as they were called, to the close of the war, but as he himself was not in the service until 1780, he cannot detail the
tours of said Ladner He recollects a tour of one month that said Ladner in 1780 at the time of the battle of Springfield; and also another tour of a month in the next year 1781 on the
lines at Woodbridge, in the service of guarding the lines. This is all he can positively identify, though he knows and avers that said Ladner was out in each and every year, three or four tours in each year from the beginning to the close of the war
William Lepardus
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid before me
Peter P. Runyon
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County} I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the County aforesaid, Peter P Runyon beforehand, do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit of Daniel Kene, Nancy Kene, Joel Dunn and William Lupardus were taken was at the time thereof and is now a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is in his own hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office this twenty fourth day of November, Eighteen hundred and thirty six
N Booraem Clerk
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State of New Jersey
Middle County SS. On this twenty fourth day of
December 1836, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared James F Randolph Know to me as a
credible person, who being duly sworn, on his oath, saith that being the agent of Elizabeth Ladner, in her application for a Pension under the law of 1836, he has made every effort in
his power that held out the least hope of
Success to procure record evidence of some kind of the marriage of the said Elizabeth Ladner with Robert Ladner; but without affecting the object. The records of the Clerks office in the County in which the said Elizabeth Ladner was married, have been examined, but no record of Marriages were made there until 1795, or afterwards. The officiating clergyman he has ascertained is dead, and the records of the Church in which he ministered have been searched but no trace of the marriage was to be found The office of the Secretary of State has also been searched without success. As the only accessible mode of establishing the marriage, he has therefore take the testimony of the sister of Mrs Ladner who was present at the marriage, and also is now a highly respectable, pious lady whose testimony is unquestionable. The said deponent further says on his oath, that he entertains not the least doubt of the correctness of the said E Ladner's declaration as to the marriage and her recollection of the time from the fact of her mentioning some historical incidents contemporaneous
James F Randolph
Subscribed on the day & year aforesaid before me
Henry Sillcocks
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex Co  On this twelfth day of December
1836. before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Hannah Leforge Known to me as a credible person, whose testimony is to be relied upon, who being duly worn on her oath saith, that she  is a sister to Elizabeth Ladner of Middlesex County, N. J. widow of the late Robert Ladner, of said County that she well remembers of the marriage of said Elizabeth to said Robert by the Rev. Mr. Roe Knows that it took place the
year 1774 or 1775, cannot say which, as she has no record of it knows that it was before the Declaration of Independence was present at the marriage, being at the time inmate of her
fathers family. Deponent further declares on her Oath that she has no knowledge of the
existence of any record of said marriage, nor
of any family record. There was she believes
such a record in a very old bible belonging
to her father but that Bible has been worn
out & is entirely gone she believes
her
Hannah X Laforge
mark
Subscribed & sworn on the day & year aforesaid, before me
Peter  P. Runyon
Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey
Middlesex County SS On this thirteenth day of December, 1836, before me a Justice of the peace in and for said County, personally appeared Henry Sutton known to me as a credible person who be
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ing duly sworn on his oath saith, that he was
well acquainted with Robert Ladner formerly
of Piscataway township Middlesex County
N.J. dec'd. Remembers him to the war of the
Revolution knows that he served in the militia
during that war - served with this  deponent remembers him in 1778, in which he did a tour
of a month under Capt Hugh Dunn on the
lines, in the course served of guarding from
the enemy on Staten Island - recollects said
Ladner again in 1779, in which he did a tour
of a month under Capt Ross & Col Webster,
on the Woodbridge Station, in guarding the
lines. And again in the same year another tour of a month was performed by the said Ladner in the same Station under Capt. Dunn in the usual service of guarding. In 1780 deponent remembers said Ladner performed another tour of a month under Capt. Ross at Woodbridge, in guarding the lines, know that
said Ladner performed a great deal more
service, but is not able so to specify it.
as to conform to the rules of the department Knows that said Ladner was married previous to the war but does not recollect precisely the year
Henry Sutton
Subscribed and sworn the day and year above written before me
Henry Sillcocks Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jeney
Middlesex County
Nicholas Booraem of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Peter P Runyon  and Henry Sillcocks, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Hannah Leforge, Henry Sutton & James R Randolph were taken are Justices of the Peace duly commissioned & sworn, and that the signatures thereto are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal of office this twenty fourth day of December Eighteen hundred & thirty six.
N Booraem clk
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
September 21, 1925

Mrs. John T. Grammer
147 Johnson Ave.
Newark, New Jersey
Madam: 
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 9110, it appears that Robert Ladner, while a resident
of Middlesex County, New Jersey, enlisted in the spring or summer of 1776 and served five months as private in Captain Webster's New Jersey Company; he was in the first battle of Long Island and the battle of White Plains. He also served with the New Jersey Troops from 1777 until sometime in 1781, on various short tours amounting to at least fourteen months in all, as private under Captains Thomson Stelle, William Lunardus, Hugh Dunn, and Ross, and Colonel Webster; he was in the battles of King's Bridge and Monmouth.
He married August 11, 174, Elizabeth Martin. He died February 15, 1830, at Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The date of his
birth is not given.
His widow, Elizabeth, was allowed pension on her application executed November 10, 1836, at which time she was eighty years of age and
a resident of Middlesex County, New Jersey
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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1925 Sept 21 Hist to Mrs Mo T. Grammer M
1921 Feb 12 Mrs. J. T Grammer no dat rel. to children.  N A

Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 110

Elizabeth Ladner
Wid of
Robert Ladner
Pvt. N. J. line
Act: July 4th 36 Sec 3d
Index: Vol. A Page 418 
[Arrangement of 1870.}
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N. Jersey
Suspd
Ser letters to j F Randolph
3 Dec 1838
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Newark New Jersey
July 16. 1925
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
I am very anxious to obtain information regarding my great, great grandfather
Robert Ladner, private from Middlesex Co. New Jersey in the Revolutionary War, and
and writing to ask if you can tell me if said Robert Ladner - or his wife received
a pension - and if so
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any information you can tell me regarding his service will be greatly appreciated
I am particurally anxious to learn the date of his birth, date of death and his wife's name
Thanking you for any thing you may be able to tell me
I am
Very truly
Emelie Grammer
147 Johnson Avenue
Newark N.J.
(Mrs. John T. Grammer)
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Newark New Jersey
February 1st 1926
U. S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensins
Rev. and 1812 War Section
On Sept 21st 1925 you wrote me regarding the pension Claim, W. 9110. of Robert Ladner
of Middlesex Co. New Jersey who served in the Revolutionary War
In the claim there are no children mentioned and I am very anxious to learn the names of
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their children, and I have been told that by sending a small fee to your office a further search can be made
Will you kindly let me know if I have been rightly
informed, and greatly oblige
Very truly
Mrs. John T. Grammer
147 Johnson Avenue
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

February 12, 1926

Mrs. John T. Grammer
143 Johnson Ave.
Newark, N. J.

Madam:
I have to advise you that in the papers of the Revolutionary War pension claim of ROBERT LADER, W. 9110, there is no data relative
to children of said soldier.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner