Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2637, for Benjamin Morehouse, New Jersey
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In the Matter of the application of the
Widow Phebe Morehouse for a Pension
under the act of July 4th 1836

State of New Jersey
Essex County } ss Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller
A Justice of the peace in and for said County
Jabez Bruen of the City of Newark in the County
and State aforesaid, Personally known to me to be
Respectable Person & entitled to Credit as a Witness
and being By me duly sworn on his Oath saith that
he is sixty nine years of age. And the said Deponent
further saith that he was well acquainted with Benjamin
Morehouse of the County of Essex New-Jersey the husband
of the above named Phebe Morehouse In the time of
the war of the revolution and is knowing that the said
Benjamin Morehouse Belonged to a Company of Militia
Commanded by Captain Isaac Reeves and was stationed
at Newark and Quartered at his Mothers in or about
the year seventeen hundred and Eighty under the Command
of Colonel Van Courtland and Major Samuel Hayes
one month or more in active service and that the said
Benjamin Morehouse had a Brother David who also Quartered
at his mothers at the same and that they were said
to be good and faithful soldiers. and further saith not

Jabez Bruen

Sworn to and subscribed at
Newark in said County this
20th day of September A.D. 1838
before me
Sam B. Miller Justice of the peace
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State of New Jersey
County of Essex } ss. I Elias Van Arsdale Jun. Clerk of
the County of Essex & of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas in & for said County do hereby certify That
Samuel B. Miller before whom the affidavits hereto annexed
of Sarah Morehouse, Aaron Hand, Abner Ball, Apollos
M. Elmer, Thomas Belton and Jabez Bruen were
severally made and taken, at the time of taking the
same was and still is one of the Judges of said Court
and a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly
Commissioned and sworn; and that the signatures
"Saml B. Miller" affixed to the Jurats of said affidavits
respectively are genuine.

In Testimony Whereof I have hereto set my
hand and seal of Office at Newark in
the said County of Essex the Twentieth
day of September in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred & thirty eight- 1838-

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