Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2319, David Horton, New Jersey
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SERVICE
NEW JERSEY
HORTON, DAVID
NUMBER
S.2319
CONTENTS
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30,008
New Jersey
David Horton of Morris Co. in the State of New Jersey who was a Sergeant  in the company commanded by Captain Neighbor of the reg commanded by Col. _____  in the ______ line for 16 months Sergeant 

N.J. Militia Records Corrected

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 10 Dollars ___ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certifcate of Pension issued the 31 day of July 1835 and sent to [four illegible words]

Arrears to the 4th of March   $35
$280.00
  35.00
$315.00

Penson allowance ending [illegible]

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}


Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 135
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33.025
New Jersey
Declaration of
David Horton
Morris Co: New Jersey

[illegible]
Col L Condict eq June 1835

Adm
14 mo. Sergeant
70$

Return to Lewis Condict
Morris Town, New Jersey
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After a fierce & hard fought battle at the bridge, in which Col. Dayton & Col. Angels regiments were engaged.
At Connecticut farms, they fired through a window & killed the wife of the Rev. James Batewell [Caldwell], as she was sitting with an infant in her lap.  The whole Country was in a [word obscured by black blotch] alarm & the whole body of Militia was under arms, & we were kept on duty not less than six weeks on this town before we were discharged & sent home. Gen. Winds & Gen. Heard I think were in command, & Col. Seely, Col. Frelinghuyson & other  Regimental officers were also present.  __ This was in the summer season & about the year 1780, if I remember right.
I performed under my company  officers another month of Militia duty below Elizabeth town guarding the lines & protecting the inhabitants, in the fall season, during which an abortive expedition was planned against a detachment of Tories &  British on Staten Island. 
 __ I was not one of the party, nor do I know the cause of its failure  __ but I think it was said that the enemy obtained information was reason to move off.  __ I performed more duty at Elizabeth town & near the landing places near it, than at any other place. I verily believe that I performed tours at that place in every year of the war; but I cannot now articulate them further than I have done, in consequence of my age & the failure of memory. To input to dates [underlined] & names [underlined], I may in some instances have fallen into mistake, & I claim in this input, a reasonable allowance for the frailty of my memory I have however, stated the facts, with a conscientious regard for truth, according to the facts of my remembrance & belief, preferring to fall short in the statement of my services rather than by possibility to incurred their [illegible]. I have faithfully served my Country as I believe, not less than fifteen months, as a Sergeant in every tour of duty, for which service I claim a pension. In all my tours of duty, my service was constant & committed, always acting under orders of my officers & never absent from duty  without their permission, nor was I employed in any civil pursuit or engagements during any of these tours.  __ I never rec. [received] any written discharge, nor any commission, unless I might have had a warrant or certificate from my company officers as my appointment as Sergeant. I do not remember [illegible] that I ever rec. or had any such warrant or certificates.  __ If I ever had one, it has long since been lost & is gone from my memory. I believe I never once failed during the whole war, to go in defence [defense] of my Country when alarms were given, or when ordered out by my officers. I do not think I was ever drafted into Service __ I went after as a volunteer, & always when orders were received. I am now in the 85th year of my age. __ I live in the Township of Randolph, in the County of Morris & State of New Jersey, when I lived when I entered into the Militia service I have lived till the present times. 

Sworn & subscribed in the Court this 29th September before me.
[signed] Silas Cook

[signed, on the right hand side] David Horton
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We, Jacob Briant, a Clergyman, living near David Horton & Lewis Condict,  _________ & both of the County of Morris hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Horton [blotch obscures word] subscribe & sworn to the foregoing Declaration __ that we believe him to be in the 85th year of his age  __ that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
[signed] Jacob Briant
[signed] Lewis Condict


Sworn & Subscribed, the day & year aforesaid in open Court, before me.
[signed] Silas Cook

And the said Court, do hereby their opinion, after investigating the matter & putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant David Horton, was a Revolutionary soldier found as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that the Rev. Jacob Briant, who is a Clergyman, well known to this Court, & Lewis Condict , also well known to the Court, who have signed the preceding Certificate, as resident Citizens of Morris County, & credible person, & that their statement is entitled to credit.
[signed] Silar Cook


I Joseph Dalrimple, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Morris aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing are the original proceedings in the matter of David Horton, in order to obtain a pension from the United States for his Militia Service under the Act of Congress of June 7th, 1832.
For testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name & office & affix this Seal of the Court at Morris town, this 29th September, 1834.
By order of the Court

[signed] Joseph Dalrimple Clk
[seal affixed at left side]
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State of New Jersey
Morris County

Morris Com: Pleas Sept. Term, 1834

Be it known, that before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, at Morris town in said County & in open Court, personally appear David Horton, an aged & respected & respectable citizens & resident for many years in said County & personally well known to this Court to be a man of fair & irreproachable character for truth & good morals & 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. I was born in Chester township, then Roxbery, on the 22nd August of 1750, according to family records in my possession,  in my family Bible, derived from my father.
I lived in Roxbery when I entered the Militia Service of the United States &  resided there till the year 1796, when I removed into Randolph township, where I have lived till this day. My first Militia service I remember more distinctly in years to dates & names of officers, [several words crossed out] than at any after period. I belonged at home, to the Militia company, Commanded by Capt. Nicholas Neighbors, Nathaniel Horton, 1st Lieutenant & performed Militia duty in said company, being the 3rd Sergeant in said company, regularly appointed as such & performing Sergeant duty on all occasions. In the month of August 1776 our company [illegible] orders to march for Elizabeth town, the enemy having then arrived in the harbor of N. York & taken possession of Long Island & Staten Island. We forthwith marched through Morris town Springfield, to Elizabeth town, Eleaza Lindely being our Major & Colonel Jacob Ford of Morris town commanding the regiment. I was regularly appointed to be 1st Sergeant & was always recognized & known as Sergeant by our officers & men. We were stationed below Elizabeth town, performing guard duty & building breast works for defense at this point. It was on the 19th of August that we began this tour of duty & we remained at Elizabeth town, building the breast works at this point, five weeks, when we were relieved & discharged. If I mistake not, the battle of Long Island was fought while I was  on duty I heard distinctly the firing of Cannons.  Early in the following winter, & about the time of taking the Hessians at Trenton, a large force of the enemy came over from Staten Island & Elizabeth town & forced their way into the County as far as Springfield. The Militia was all ordered out suddenly to repel them & our Company marched to Springfield under the same officers as before. An engagement took place here, in which considerable blood was spilled on both sides.  A number of Hessians or Waldeckers were made prisoners of & sent to Morris town jail. Gen. Heard I believe had command at Springfield & Col. Ford & Col. Drake & Adjutant Botts were present. The enemy retreated & we remained stationed to perform guard duty at Springfield & Connecticut farm under our Company officers, till late in the month of January. We were absent from home on this duty six weeks, before we were discharged and went home  ______ The enemy occupied Amboy & N. Brunswick this winter & following spring (1777) & a large Militia force was embodied & encamped near Quibbletown, under General [William] Winds, whose headquarters were at VanMuliners or [illegible] for defense of the neighboring County. In the latter part of the winter, our company was ordered to this spot where we
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where we were stationed & remained for two months. Capt. Neighbors had retired or [illegible] his commission & Lieut. Nathl. Horton was his [blotches obscure word] & Natl. Terry was made 1st Lieut. & I was under their command, being 1st Sergeant of the Company as before stated. The forging parties of the enemy & plundering parties of refugees  & Tories, kept the whole County in constant alarm & there were frequent Skirmishes & fights with them during the winter & spring, at Quibbletown - at Martin's Roads & Ash Swamp. It was some time in the spring season before we discharged & went home, I believe in April.  ___ Early in the following summer, I believe in June, we were again ordered on a tour of duty under Capt.  Horton & even marched to Elizabeth town & stationed on guard duty under  Gen. Winds at the landing point opposite Staten Island for one month, when we were discharged & went home.  I performed another month tour under Capt. Horton, early in the fall season, as nearly as I can remember; Gen. Winds had the command & we were stationed for the defense of this County along the Passaic River, part of the time at Acquackanonh & parts of the time near Starkermach. The enemy was strong in numbers & there were skirmishes frequently along the river, nearly the whole Militia being out. Major Samuel Sayers was one of the officers.  __ Jabez Bell, one of our Militia men,  was accidently killed by a musket ball, which [illegible] his head. We were kept on duty a month and discharged.  __ In the following winter, I  performed another month's duty under Capt. Horton  __ stationed at Elizabeth town to protect the inhabitants & defend the shores opposite Staten Island, there possessed by the enemy.  I performed a month duty under Capt. Horton against the Indians up the Delaware River at the Minisink settlements . Gen. Winds commanding the expedition. It was in warm weather, but in what year I cannot tell. The Indian had burnt the Settlement &  retired just before we arrived.  _ Before the Monmouth battle a short time, our company was ordered on duty & we marched under Capt. Horton to Elizabeth town & shortly after,  & while there, we were ordered by Gen. Winds to take up our march toward Monmouth in haste. When we arrived near Tom's river so called, we were met by 3 or 4 horsemen, who informed our Gen. that the bridges were destroyed & the streams could not be crossed. We were ordered back to Elizabeth town, where  we remained  the services of the month, we were discharged. 

I was stationed another month on Militia under Capt. Horton or  Lieut. Terry. (I am not certain which ) part of the time near Springfield & part of the time near Ashway, protecting the inhabitants & guarding the lines; it was in the fall of the year, following the Monmouth battles, in the furor of getting corn & apples  ___ At the time when the enemy came on in a large body & burnt Connecticut farm, village & Church. I was stationed with our Company & officers in the neighborhood of Sayers farm near Elizabeth town. The Militia collected in large force & we followed the enemy after the burning of the village, in their retreat through Elizabeth town & near the first point where they embarked for Staten Island, we had a fight with them. We remained stationed near Elizabeth town & between [illegible]  Springfield, till they returned & burnt Springfield
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after a severe & hard fought battle at the bridge, in which Col. Dayton's & Col. Angel's regiments were engaged.

At Connecticut farms, they fired through a window & killed the wife of the Rev James Caldwell, as he was sitting with an infant in her lap.- The whole country was in constant alarm & the whole body of militia was under arms, & we were kept on duty not less than six weeks on this tour before we were [crossed out:  'relieved by this'] discharged & went home. Genl Winds & Genl Heard I think were in command, & Col. Seely, Col. Frelinghuysen & other Regimental officers were also present.-- This was in the summer season, & about the year 1780, if I remember right. I performed under my company officers another month of Militia duty below Elizabeth town guarding the lines & protecting the inhabitants, in the fall season, during which an abortive expedition was planned against a detachment of Tories & British on Staten Island.-  I was not one of the party, nor do I know the cause of its failure- but I think it was said, that the enemy obtained information in season to move off.- I performed more duty at Elizth town & near the landing places near it, than at any other place. I only believe that I performed tour at that place in every year of the war; but I cannot now particularise them further than I have done, in consequence of my age & the failure of memory. In respect to dates & names, I may in
some instances have fallen into mistake, & claim in this respect, a reasonable allowance for the faith of my memory.  I have however stated the facts, with a conscientious regard to truth, according to the best of my remembrance & belief, preferring to fall short in the statement of my services, rather than be possibly to exceed
this amount. I have faithfully served my Country as I believe, not less than fifteen months, as a
Sergeant in a tour of duty, for which service I claim a pension. In all my tours of duty, my
service was constant & unremitted, always acting under orders of my officers & never absent from duty without their permission, nor was I employed in any civil pursuit or engagement during any of these tours. I never recd any written discharge, nor any commission, unless I might have had a warrant
certificate from my company officers of my appointment as Sergeant. I do not remember however that I ever recd or had any such warrant or certificate.- If I ever had one, it has long since been lost & is gone from my memory. I believe I never failed during the whole war, to go in defence of my Country when alarms were given, or when ordered out by my officers. I do not think I was ever drafted into service - I went often as a volunteer, & always when orders were received. I am now in the 85th year of my age. & live in the Township of Randolph, in the County of Morris & State of New Jersey, where I lived when I entered into the Militia service of the United States, & where I have lived till the present time.

David Horton

Sworn & subscribed in open Court this 29th September before me.

Giles Cook
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We, Jacob Briant, a clergyman, residing near David Horton, & Lewis Condict, both of the County of Morris thereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Horton, the subscribed & sworn to the foregoing Declaration that we believe him to be in the 85th year of his age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed, this day & year aforesaid in open court, before me
Silas Cook

Jacob Briant.
Lewis Condict.

And the said court, do hereby declare their opinion, after investigating the matter & after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department, that the above name applicant David Horton, was a Revolutionary soldier as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that the Reverend Jacob Briant, who is a clergyman, well known to this court, & Lewis Condict, also well known to this court, who has signed the preceding certificate, are resident citizens of Morris County, & credible persons, & that their statement is entitled to credit.
Silas Cook

I, Joseph Dalrimple, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Morris aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing are the original proceedings in the matter of David Horton, in order to obtain a pension from the United States for his militia services under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name & affix this seal of the Court of Morristown, this 29th September, 1834.
By order of the court.
Joseph Dalrimple Clk.
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State of New Jersey, Morris County SS:
Be it known, that before the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, personally appeared Daniel Sk[illegible] of said County, well known personally to this Court, as a respectable person of fair character, & fully entitled to belief as a man of truth having first been duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath say as follows, viz:- I am in the 78th year of my age, was a soldier in the Militia in the war of the revolution- was then personally well acquainted with David Horton, a soldier in said war, & now an applicant for a pension. We performed many tours of Militia duty in the same company & at the same station, & often saw each other in performance of our duties. When at home in Morris County, we were near neighbors & well acquainted & both belonged to the Militia company first commanded by Capt Nicholas Neighbor, in which Nathl Horton was first Lieutent & then Captain. Said David Horton was a Sergeant in said Company when the war began, & his services in the war were performed as Sergeant. We were often stationed at Elizabeth town & at this points of landing opposite Staten Island,- more frequently there than at any other our point. It will not be in my power at this remote period, to state particularly all the instances in which I have seen David Horton performing Militia duty at that place, on account of their frequency. I believe there was not a year during the war, in which he & I were not engaged in performing militia duties there, as well as at other places, & after in different seasons of the same year. I recollect said Horton on duty at Elizth town, just before the Monmouth battle, under Genl Winds command. We were ordered to march toward Monmouth, but did not reach the battle ground, having information of some bridges being destroyed which would prevent us, & we returned to Elizth town.-  We were also together in Capt Hortons company & under Genl Winds, on an expedition against the Indians who had been the Miniscook Settlement up the Delaware  river, in the summer season, or early in the fall- the year I do not know.-- We were stationed together in the winter & spring season, near Quibble town at Van Muliners under the mountain, in the winter & spring, when the British occupied Amboy & N. Brunswick.
A large body of militia were assembled at that place & encamped there for several months, to restrain the depredations of the enemy & to protect the inhabitants. I remember Horton also on a tour of Militia duty along the Passaic River, at Aquakanock & near Hackensack under Capt Horton &  Genl Winds, when one Jabez Bell was accidentally shot the the head. I remember Horton on duty with me at Elizabeth town, when the Militia were throwing up breastworks opposite Staten Island in different seasons
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I remember serving whttps://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pngith David Horton also at Connecticut farms
when the Church & village were burnt toward the close of the war, in warm
weather
are most of the tour, which I distinctly remember of Mr
Horton in
all of them he acted as Sergeant of the Company to which station he had been
appointed by the proper authority, as I always understood & believed. -
Upon further recollection, I remember serving one month's militia duty in
the winter season with David Horton, & another month between Elizabeth town & Rahway
in the fall season, when apples even plenty.- I verily believe we served together at &
near Elizabeth town, & at the points of landing, not less than five or 6 months, under Capt
Horton, & under Lieutenant Terry, commanded by Col. Ford & Ocake Gen. Heard & Winds. -
Sworn & subscribed in open Court, this
29th of September, 1834
before me
Silas Cook
Daniel Skellenger
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Morris Com: Pleas
Sept Term 1834
Before the Judges of said Court, personally appear
on this 29th day of Sept 1834, Daniel Horton Esqr of said County.
well known to this Court, as a man of fair character & [illegible] veracity
& being duly sworn saith as follows; I am now in the 82nd year of my age was a
solder in the Revolutionary war, & was then well acquainted with David Horton
an applicant for a pension for his militia services. We belonged to the same militia company
viz: Capt Leonard Neighbour's, afterward Capt Nathl Horton, in which David Horton
was a Sergeant, regularly appointed & performed the duty of sergeant when he was called into service. David Horton & I were more frequently on duty in alternate month tours, but in
case of alarm, & on many other occasions when the enemy were overrunning the County & the whole
Militia were in service at the same time, we then doing duty at the same time, & under the same
officers. We frequently were on duty together at Elizabeth town point, opposite Staten Island
[illegible] works & defending the Inhabitants. I knew him on duty at Van Neweners, near
Dibble town, in the winter & spring when the enemy occupied N. Brunswick & Amboy I knew
him on a town near the little falls of cepal river & aquahanank. I remember him
at Connecticut farms & Springfield in different tours of duty, as well as at the time of
Monmouth battle on the march toward the battle ground-- I do not think there was a
year whilst the war lasted in which David Horton was not out performing militia duty &
often in different parts of the same year. And beside many tours, (some of which I [illegible]
have stated), in which we were out on duty together, I knew of his getting ready to go out &
returning home again after an absence, counting of a month & formations 5 or 6 weeks. We are
brothers & lived with our father in Chester. then Amboy & served during the war, in the
tour of duty except when on alarm & other emergencies we came both out, as I have before stated.
Colonel Ford, Colonel Drake & Col. Stark & Genl. Winds & Genl. Heard, often had the
command of us. More of our [illegible] were at Elizabeth town & at the point than elsewhere,
but I cannot particular more than I have stated, this I verily believe we were together
thus as many as 5 or 6 months, at that place, besides other places. David Horton always
performed sergeant duty when we come in service together
Sworn & subscribed before me in open Court
day & year before mentioned
Daniel Horton
Silas Cook
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October 17, 1932.

Mrs. F. M. Gold,
802 West Aspen,
Flagstaff, Arizona.

BA-J/ADY
David Horton
S. 2319

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to one David Horton, 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. 2319, based upon his military service in that war.

David Horton was born August 22, 1750 in Roxbury, New Jersey.

While a resident of Roxbury, afterwards called
Chester Township, New Jersey, he enlisted August 19, 1776 and served five weeks as sergeant in Captain Nicholas Neighbor's Company, Colonel Jacob Ford's New Jersey
Regiment. He enlisted in December 1776, served six weeks as sergeant in Captain Nicholas Neighbor's Company,  Colonel Jacob Ford's New Jersey and was in the battle of Springfield. In 1777 he served four months as sergeant in Captain Nathaniel Horton's New Jersey Company. In the winter of 1777 and 1778 he served one month as sergeant in Captain Nathaniel Horton's New Jersey Company. In 1778 he served two months as sergeant in Captain Nathaniel Horton's New Jersey Company. He enlisted in the summer of 1779
and served one month as sergeant in Captain Nathaniel Horton's New Jersey Company. He enlisted in 1780, served ten weeks as sergeant in Captain Nathaniel Horton's New Jersey Company and was in a skirmish after the burning of Connecticut Farms.

In 1796 he moved from Roxbury to Randolph
Township, New Jersey.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 29, 1834 while a resident of Randolph Township, Morris County, New Jersey.
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During the Revolution soldier lived with his father, his name not given, and his brother
Daniel Horton, who was a resident of Morris County, New Jersey, and aged eighty two years in 1834.

There are no further family data.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.

[hand-written on right of page:  'Date of
death not on A. B.']
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[hand-written on left:  '1912, Apr. 1, Hist. to Miss Mary A. Todd (Setter in cl. Uriah Corning, S.15,262.) 
1917 Oct. 8. Hist. to Mrs. F. R. Moses.
1922 July 24 " " Mrs. R. E. Safford E??]
1932 OCT. 17 Hist. to Mrs. F.M. Gold, A.B.Y.

[right side of page--hand written '2319']
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INVALID.
File No. __[hand-written:  '2319']
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Dr Sir,

David Horton called on me this morning to assign his reasons for deferring his application for a pension for so long a time. His deposition is herewith enclosed, & I hope it is satisfactory. He is very frail & deaf from old age & is as free of guile, as any man known to me.  His memory has failed considerably. He has no recollection that his brother, Danl Horton, or Robt Young gave testimony in his behalf, but thinks that Elisha Skellinger was his principal witness.

Very respectfully,
your obt servt & friend
Lewis Condict
Morristown N.J. July 1st '35. 

G.W.  Crump Esq.
Acting Commr of pensions
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Hon George Wm Crump
Acting Comm of Pensions
War Department

(Division of R. Ela Esq.)
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          State of New Jersey, County of Morris
Before the subscriber, a justice of peace in said county, personally (appear) David Horton, an aged and respectable citizen of this County and fully entitled to belief: who having been by me duly sworn, saith as follow. viz:  __ I am in the 85th year of my age, as I believe, and am the same David Horton, who within a year from the date hereof, (the precise time not recollected) made a declaration of my Militia Services performed in the war of the Revolution before the Court of Common pleas  of said Court with a view to obtain the benefit of the law of the United States of Jan. 7th 1832; which Declaration, as I am informed, is now in the Pension office. __ by a letter from the Commissioner of Pensions, dated  19th June 1835, the reasons are required, "why a delay of more than two years was permitted, after the passage of the law, before I made any Declaration of active service during the Revolutionary war":  I had understood, that several who had obtained pension for Revolutionary Services, had been either suspended, or struck from the pension roll, on account of their property; & I did not know for some time, that there was any difference between the Law first passed, & that of 1832, regarding property. And altho I never considered myself wealthy or rich in this world's goods, get by the blessing of Heaven upon the hard labor of my own hands, I have a competency, being the owner of a farm of about 120 acres, from the proceeds of which by the joint labor of myself & family, we have lived comfortably to old age.  __ Being myself not acquainted with pension benefits & unwilling to add to the burden of the Country, I felt reluctant to ask my government for any portion of that fund, which I at first supposed was intended only for those whose circumstance were destitute & needy.  __ Within a year or two after the passage of the Militia Law, I discovered that some of my associates in Militia duty, who are more wealthy than myself, had received the benefits of the Law, altho their services & sacrifices in Revolutionary times in many instances, were not greater, nor more faithfully performed, than my own.  __ Old age with its infirmities has also overtaken me, & [illegible] me unable to labor as formerly  _ my little farm becomes; less  productive & a little pecuniary assistance now from my Country, would be highly useful to me & very acceptable. I know [underlined know] that my services as stated is Declaration, were faithfully & cheerfully performed, & if it be the pleasure of government to bestow a little gratuity upon  all who have defended the liberties of the Country in this manner set forth in the law of 1832, I shall accept my pittance with gratitude, believing myself to be fairly & Honestly entitled to it. __
[signed] David Horton

Sworn & subscribed before me at Morris town this first day of July, 1835.
[signed] J H Johnson 
Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify to the Commissioner of Pensions, that Peter A. Johnson Esq the 
Magistrate before whom the within deposition of David Horton was taken, is my near neighbor
& personally well known to me to be a Justice of the peace in this County, duly commissioned
& authorized, & that the signature of his name thereto is genuine. David Horton, the
Deponent, where he is known, is admitted to be a man of sterling integrity. piety & honesty.
I know no man, whose word would be more verily believed, that his.
Morris town, N.J. July 7th 1835.
Lewis Condict, formerly a Member
of the H.R. from N. Jersey.
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                                                 Marshall, Michigan
                                                         Oct. 2, 1917
Pension Department:-
                                         Please send
me the military record of David Horton, son of Nathaniel Horton and Mehitbel Wiels, born
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in Chester, N.J. Sept. 2, 1750. Can you also tell me when he married and when he died.
Thanking you, sincerely yours,
Mrs. F.R. Moses
S. Jefferson St.

[Pension Office seal dated Oct 6 1917]
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PENSION
D
MAR
U. 26 S.
1912
OFFICE
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Daughters of the Revolution,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 

State Society Rooms, 816 and 832 Colonial Building, 100 Boylston Street.
Boston, March 25, 1912

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir; Will you please give me a statement of military history ___ of the following said to have drawn pensions as soldiers of the Revolution.

David Horton of New Jersey
Uriah Corning of Connecticut 
and oblige

Respectfully
(Miss) Mary A Todd
11 Violet St,
Lynn, Mass
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June 6, 1922.
Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir,~
Will you please send me the record of service of David Horton a soldier in the Revolution. He was born in Chester, N.J. September 2nd, 1750. I cannot find the date of his marriage to Olive Skellinger or the date of his death. I wish to secure his record to help me to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Thanking you for any help I may receive,
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I remain
Sincerely,
Nina Robinson Safford
address-
Laurel Ave, Aubyn Manor
Mt Vernon, N.Y.
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Veterans Administration
Washington  August 5, 1932.
IN REPLY REFER TO:
BA-J/AADY
YOUR FILE REFERENCE:
Mrs. F. M Gold,
802 W. Aspen,
Flagstaff, Arizona.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to
one David Horton, a soldier of the Revolutionary 
War.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this 
office are obtained from claims made to the United
States for pension and bounty land, based upon mili-
tary service of soldiers in that war.

The data given by you are not sufficient to 
enable this office to make a proper search of the 
records.

As a member of identifying the particular record in which you are interested, should it be on file, the full name of the soldier is essential and as much 
as possible of the following data: place of residence
at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.

Kindly return these letters should you reply.

Very truly yours,                                                Received 
                                                                         Oct 5 1932                                                                     
A.D. Hiller                                                        MAIL SUB-DIV.
A.D. Hiller                                                          READER 14
Assistant to Administrator.                              VETS. ADM

land ok
David son of Nathaniel Horton and Mehitable Wells born and lived all except when in Army his life, I believe in Chest N.J.
name of widow, Olive S Kellinger Horton.
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Flagstaff, Ariz. July 13, -32
Bureau of Pensions
Dept.of Interior
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen,-
I wish to inquire whether the following named person, is listed as drawing a pension on account of service in the Revolutionary War.
David Horton
born Sept. 2, 1750
Died,- Mar, 10, 1843
I have been informed that he served thru the war and drew a pension to the end of his life. Can this  be verified from the records?
Respectfully,
(Mrs. F.M.) Ruth W. Gold
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Record Division.                3-525
                                Department of the Interior
                                      Bureau of Pensions
                                          Washington, D.C.,      ,190

In replay to your request of, ____, received______ for a statement of military history of David Horton a solider of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in the Bureau.       S.2319

Aug.19,1776, 5 wks, 1 Sgt. Captain Nicholas Neighbor, Colonel Jacob Ford, State NJ

Dec. 1776, 6 wks, 1 Sgt, Captain Nicholas Neighbor, Colonel Jacob Ford, NJ

Dec. 1777, 4 mos. 1 Sgt. Captain Nathaniel Horton Colonel Jacob Ford, NJ

1777 and 1778 1 mo, 1 Sgt, Nathaniel Horton Colonel Jacob Ford, NJ
1778, 2 mos 1 Sgt. Captain Nathaniel Horton Colonel Jacob Ford, NJ

Survivers, 1779 1 mo 1 Sgt, Nathaniel Horton Colonel Jacob Ford, NJ
1780 10wks 1 Sgt, Nathaniel Horton Colonel Jacob Ford, NJ
Battles engaged in, Springfield & skirmish after burning of Connecticut Farms.
Residence of solider at enlistment, Roxbury, afterwards called Chester Twp, NJ.
Date of application, Sept.29,1834. Cl. ad.
Residence at date of application, Randolph Twp., Morris Co, NJ.
 b. Roxbury, NJ Aug. 22, 1750.
Remarks: No family data.