Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1052, for Alexander Low, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE  |   |  NUMBER
New Jersey |  Low, Alexander  |  S.1052
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CONTENTS
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New Jersey No 12,861
Alexander Low
of Monmouth Co. in the State of N. Jersey
who was a Sergeant in the company commanded
by Captain Smock of the Regt commanded
by Col. Holmes in the N. Jersey Militia
[crossed out] for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 120 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Nov
1833 and sent to Danl B Ryall
Freehold N.J.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1833 | 300.00
Semi anl. allowance ending 4 March 34 | 66.00
====
$360.00
Recorded by

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D. Brown CIerk
Book E. Vol. 3   Page 120
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Monmouth Pleas
of July [illegible] 1832
declaration of
Alexander Low
No 4060
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I Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas of the County of
Monmouth and State of New Jersey
Do hereby Certify that the annexed
papers contains the original proceeding
of the said Court in the matter of
the application of Alexander Low
for a pension on the first day of
August Anno Domini 1832, and
I do hereby further certify that
William Lloyd Esquire before whom
the annexed affidavit was signed
and sworn this day by the said
Alexander Low was at the date
thereof and now is a Justice of the
Peace in and for the said County
of Monmouth duly commissioned
and sworn into office as such
Justice and that full faith and credit
are due and ought to be given to
all his official acts as such; and that 
the signature of the said William Lloyd
signed to the Jurat of the said affidavit
is the proper handwriting of the said
William Lloyd - In Testimony where
of I have hereunto set my
[ribbon attached] hand and affixed the seal
of said Court at Freehold
this second day of February
in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred
and thirty three
D. H.  Ellis Clk
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New Jersey Monmouth County Court, Personally
appeared before me the undersigned
a Justice of the Peace in and for the County
of Monmouth and State of New Jersey
Alexander Low a resident of the township 
of Freehold in said County who
made his application on the first day
of August last past before the Judges
of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
of said County to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress passed June 7th
1832, who being duly sworn deposeth
and saith, that by reason of old age
and the consequent loss of memory
he cannot swear positively as to the
precise length of his service, but according 
to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods
below, and in the following grades
for eight months in the year 1776 in
tours of duty of one month each served
as an orderly Sergeant; for six months
in the year 1777 in towns of one month
Each I served as an orderly Sergeant
for six months in the year 1778 in
tours of one month each I served
as an orderly Sergeant; For five
months in the year 1779 in tours of one month each I served
as an orderly Sergeant, and for such
service I claim a pension; the length
of each tour of duty which I served
was a month, sometimes a few
days longer, but I cannot by reason
of old age and consequent loss of
memory state more particularly
the tent of beginning and [illegible]
Each tour of service
Sworn & subscribed before me | Col
this second day of 1833 | 
the words and declaration [illegible] |  Alex Low
one month each [illegible] | 
William Lloyd Justice of the peace
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State of New Jersey County of Monmouth ss
On this first day of August A.D. 1832 personally
appeared in open Court before the Judges of
the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the
County of Monmouth now sitting at Freehold
Alexander Low a resident of the township
of Freehold in the County of Monmouth State of
New Jersey aged ninety years who 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 7. 1832
That he entered the service of the
United States under the following named
officers and served as herein stated as a militia man
That he entered the service some time
in the spring of 1776 and served till the
day of the war doing his duty every
other month with the exception of
a few months in which he was
engaged in stocking and repairing
arms for the service that the whole
time he was in the service he believes
was at least three years, he believes he
attended all the general alarms, the
Captains he recollects serving under
Now where Captain Hendrick Smock
and Benjamin Vancleaf the field officers
under whom he served were Col
Adra [crossed out] Holmes Major David Rhea
General Elisha Lawrence and Genl David
Forman, that he cannot specify more
particularly the time he entered the service
or the precise time of the termination
of each tour of duty that he was born
in Scotland on 22nd day of February 1741
and served in Freehold township when he first
entered the service where he has resided ever
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since; that he was in the monthly drafts
while in the service and as a volunteer under the
General alarms, that he was [illegible]
of Monmouth and in several skirmishes
he thinks that his marches were principally 
confined to the County of Monmouth
guarding the shores and Coasts, that he
does not recollect serving with any continental 
regiments or companies, or the
names of any of the regular officers of the
army, that he has no documentary
evidence of his services, and that he knows
of no persons except  Wm Parent Major
James Craig & [crossed out] William Parent
whose testimony he can procure who
can testify to his service - that he has
a family record showing his age in
his possession, that he never secured
any discharge from the service.  He
hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present
and declares that his name is not on
the pension roll of the agency of any State.
sworn to & subscribed the day | 
year aforesaid |  Alex Low
John Patterson

State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss We
Major James Craig and William Parent
of Freehold township in said County of
Monmouth do hereby certify that
we are well acquainted Alexander
Low who has subscribed and sworn
to the above declaration, and that
we believe him to be ninety years
of age, and that we know he
was in the service of the United States
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during the revolutionary war having
served with him in said services
and frequently seen him out in said
service, that he was then always
reputed to be a good whig soldier
and that they have no doubt from
their knowledge of his services he was
out at laast three years in said services
but they cannot pretend to specify
the particular times that he is not
only reputed and believed in his neighborhood 
in which he lives to have
been a soldier of the Revolution but
they know him to have first
having been in said service with him
and on some trying occasions, that
he is a credible person and his
statement and declaration is entitled
to full credit.-
Sworn & subscribed in open | James Craig
Court Augt 1 1832 | William Parent
John Patterson
and the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the
matter and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the war department, that the
above named applicant was a
revolutionary soldier, and served as he
States.- And the Court further certifies that
it appears to them that Major Craig
and William Parent who have signed the
preceding certificate are residents of the
township of Freehold in said County of
Monmouth and that the first was a Revolutionary 
officer and the latter a soldier in
the service of their County, and that they
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an credible persons and that their
statement is entitled to credit
By order of the Court
W J. Browne
Judge

J. W. & E. R. Bartleson -- Printers, Freehold, N. J.
I the Subscriber, Clerk of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Monmouth, in the State of New-Jersey, 
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original
Proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of Alexander Low for a Pension

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said Court, at Freehold, this
first day of August
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty two
D.H. Ellis Clk
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[date stamp Freehold NJ Sep 12]
For J L Edwards | 
own inspection | 
in case of absence | 
Mr Crump | 

Claim of
Alexander Low
admitted by
special order of Mr Edward
2 year sergt
$120
D B Ryall
Freehold
J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Freehold N Jersey Sept 10th 1833
J L Edwards Esq.
Sir
On the [crossed out] third or 4th instant
I see letter from you stating among other
matters that the papers of Alexander Low
of Monmouth County were placed on the files
of the department by reason of his having
in his amended declaration applied for
pension as a Sergeant when in his original
declaration no claim was set up except as 
a private &c & that it would be necessary
to have further satisfactory evidence of his
services in that character. Mr Low's
powers of mind & body are almost gone;
He is I believe 93 or 94 years of age & has
become deaf & blind & his memory now
gone. I have however obtained what
I believe will be satisfactory to the department
& herewith remit it.-
1st the certificate of the Judges of the Court
of Com. Pleas of the County who certify [illegible]
Mr Low made his original declaration
it was expressly understood by the Court
& Bar that it was not necessary to
State capacity of service as now commissioned
officers, they in opinion of Court standing
in same situation as privates
This I understand was construction put on
former act of Congress as regards enlisted
Soldiers.-
2nd my own affidavit, that I did his
papers on 31 July 1832, that such was my
understanding of the act of June 7 1832
that I informed several of the old solder
such was the case & as I believe among
others said Low.-
3rd Testimony of Benj Vanschoick Esquire
of the fact that Low from summer of 1776
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until the fall winter of 1782 was out in the
monthly service every other month acting as
a Sergeant a very efficient one with
a detail of circumstances, times & places
when & where he saw him weekly & monthly
&c - and also as to the fact of the situation
of Mr Low now, his incapacity to state
further &c-- and also made of electing
Sergeants in Monmouth County N Jersey
that no certificates of then appointment
as Sergeants were made in writing.-
4th The affidavit & certificate of Wm D Davis
& Eleven others as to the infirmities character
moral religious standing of said Low
& the traditionary evidence in his neighborhood
as to his services & their belief
as to the Justice of his claim for Sergeants
pension.-
5th the Certificates of the Judges of the
Court to the same effect and of Justice
Throckmorton.-
In fact if it was required the whole
township svd certify in his favor, I distinctly
recollect that Lewis Covenhoven & George
Taylor of this County who have each obtained
Certificates for Sergeants pay and act of June 1832
State in the amended declaration now at
the department no certificates were given
in writing to Sergeants on then appointment,
this is corroborative of Benj Vanschoick's 
testimony -
I sincerely hope & trust the Department
will at once grant Mr Low his certificate
for Sergeants pay the affidavit of Bough
Vanschoick has been taken in detail
to [crossed out] obviate any difficulty that
might exist by reason of Mr Low's amended
declaration being so general. There can be
no doubt of the duties of this claim, and I
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trust you will at once remit me his certificate
The following cases I have remitted to the
Department
James Penne N 4063
Joseph Parker
Stephen Seabrook No 4086
you will oblige one by letting me hear
from them-- The last was that of Seabrook
was enclosed to you on appeal to yourself
as I believed the decision of the inspecting
officer was incorrect. I requested you
would let me hear from you on the
subject of this case & that if required
& the Department would remit me
the pay rolls of Lieutenant Barnes J.
Smock on which was the name of
said Seabrook (& which I had sent
with the papers of said Smock in August
1832 ) I could then obtain the testimony
of said Smock more in detail. I
have not since heard from you in
relation to it.
Yours very Respy
Daniel B Ryall
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On appeal to
J L Edwards He
Will himself
open & Read this
Letter

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Freehold August 8th 1833
J L Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
Inclosed is a copy of a letter I
rec'd from you by last evenings mail enclosing
the papers of Stephen Seabrook, and in
relation to his claim for a pension, and also
to the claim of Alexander Low. Believing
that many of the papers over your signature
have never been read by you from
the multiplicity of business in your department 
I have taken the liberty of appealing 
from the decision in those case to you
& to request of you a candid examination
of them. First as to Stephen Seabrook
First. His services were probably in the County of
Monmouth except when they guarded Congress
from Phil'd extending from Amboy in Middlesex 
to Deal in Monmouth, this was during the
whole war: see ought Deal & amended [illegible]
Second. The officers of each year are named
in his amended declaration
Third.  particulars of service = [illegible]
by the nature of the service & see declaration
& in guarding shores &c
Fourthly. Four witnesses testify they [illegible]
the same troops with him & they believe he
served as he states at least three years=
Lastly He refers in his declaration to the Pay Roles in possession
of Col James H Smock, he is the same and
who is one of Witnessed to his original declaration
named there James I Smock who was
Lieutenant of troops & commanded it after
Capt Covenhoven was made previous.-
These pay Rolls I remitted myself to the department with
Barnes J Smocks papers for a pension in
August 1832 & I have a distinct recollection
the name of Stephen Seabrook is on some
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of those I remitted-- the Department then
has some of the best evidence in their
possession - Will you not then if it is
necessary have these rolls examined-
Mr Seabrook is an old lame & [illegible] infirmed
man & if the trouble and [illegible] can
be saved to him of again trying the strength
of the memories of his old surviving comrades
& looking them up I hope it will be
done-- if not will you remit to me
those pay rolls that by reference to them
Barnes J Smock may refresh his memory;
I do know I believe cases have passed
the department not as circumstance as
this & certainly not so will supported,
Should not the act be construed in the same
spirit by which it past? I do
say without hesitation the traditionary
evidence in this County in regard to
services is better than any other every
man is known who was a soldier & done
his duty, it is handed down to the present
generation by the traditions of the neighborhood.-
I have thus Sir stated this [illegible] &
have taken the liberty of again enclosing
the papers to you, if you have before
examined them, their my appeal can be
of no avail unless you may have overlooked
the above matter if you have not examined
them I hope you will & if you can allow
the certificate - If not you will place
direct them again to me & I will obtain
if practicable further proofs.-
Alexander Low's Case
By the [illegible] copy of your letter you will
Perceive Mr Lows papers are put on file to the
Dept until a new declaration is made &
because in his amended declaration he
claims a pension as a Sergeant, when he
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June Does he state he served as a private in his own [illegible]
only claimed as a private in the original
I drew AW Lows original declaration in July 1832
being the first Court [crossed out] in this County after
the Law was passed before we had seen
a copy of the law but merely the directions
of the department as to the mode of [illegible],
It was then the [crossed out] general opinion both
of the Court & Bar that the pay service of
a private & noncommissioned officer were the same
& that it was not necessary to discriminate 
in that particular I so expressly understood 
it & informed several of the old men
it was so & I believe Mr Low was one, as an
evidence of this fact, the same Judges
who sat in that Court on the first of
this month so certified in the case of Geo
Taylor an applicant for a pension whose
papers with that certificate were [illegible]
by me to the department on the 5th instant numbered 409 [check mark]
& who is placed in same situation as Mr Low is
in this, that his original Declaration said nothing
of his being a Sargeant, & to which certificate
I refer you if it be necessary - will the Department 
then withhold these papers, Mr Low is
or 95 years of age since he made his declaration
his faculties have almost failed him; He is
as worthy and old man perhaps as the State
can produce has been upwards of 60 years a
[crossed out] member of the Presbyterian Church
& yet is to be now in his [illegible] over seventy although perhaps
incapable of hearing a single word or seeing any
person - to now detain his papers will [illegible]
him from receiving his [illegible] due from his County
long withheld at a time to when he wants it
most; will this compart with the spirit of
that act, or with the feelings of those who [illegible]
or passed, or with the sentiments of the [illegible] ?
it will not, nor do I believe with your own.
I will in his cap if necessary appeal from the decision
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[illegible] of the department to the President of the
United States; He cannot fail he is the old lines
hand the will not retain paper to entrap
an old man almost a century advanced in
age under circumstances like this - But it will
not be necessary you will see the Justices of
my application & remit I trust the papers to
me with a certificate for Mr Seabrook of my
appealss well taken otherwise the papers.-
Yours very Respy
Daniel B Ryall

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
Washington
DC

On appeal to
J L Edwards He
will himself
open & read this
Letter
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Monmouth County Inferior Court of
Common Pleas
of the ninth day of September
AD Eighteen hundred and
thirty three at a Special Court
held at Freehold New Jersey in
and for said County.-
We the undersigned Judges of the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas in
and for the and County of Monmouth
Do Hereby Certify that we were
present and constituted the Court
before whom Alexander Low of
Freehold in said County made his
Original declaration for a pension
under the act of June 7th 1832 on
the 31st day of July 1832, and that
at that time it was the opinion
of the Court and Bar that it was
not necessary to particularize the
services of the Militia men by the
lying in their declaration between
service as a private and as a
Sergeant or other now commissioned
officers, and that this was the
[illegible] prevailing opinion, it being
the first Court which act in the
County after the passing of the
act in June 1832. That the said
Alexander Low is very aged and
infirm being as we believe upwards
of ninety years of age, and reputed
to be one of the most aged men in
the said township of Freehold, and
we do hereby further certify that he
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is a highly respectable character, no
man possessing a more elevated
character for Religion and morality
in the County than he does, and
always has have since we knew
or heard of him, that he is reputed
to have been a firm and stedfast
whig and soldier of the Revolution
and was actively engaged in the
service and that from the character
of the man and the traditionary
evidence in the neighborhood and
the opinion of all he is believed
to be justly entitled to his pension
as a Sergeant as he has testified,
and that from his age and infirmities
at present we do not think it
should be required of him to again
testify on the subject, we also
with pleasure and in the Certificate
Sworn & subscribed to by Daniel B.
Ryall & others hereto annexed in
reference to the elevated standing
and character of the said Alexander
Low for truth and veracity and
high moral and religions virtue
and that he would act apply for
a pension that was not justly his
due. -
William Lloyd
W. J. Bowne
John Headder
John Hull
John W Davison
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss: Benjamin
Vanschoick Esquire of the Township
of Upper Freehold County of Monmouth
and State of New Jersey being duly sworn
according to Law deposeth and saith
that he is seventy three years of age and
upwards, that he was in the service as
a private militia man from the summer
of 1776 until the fall of 1782 until the
close of the war most of the time in the County
of Monmouth and the remainder in
the adjoining County of Middlesex
under Captain Jeremiah Chadwick
Thomas Chadwick Stephen Flemming
Jacob Flemming Captain Carhart
Captain John Schenck, Captain Montgomery 
Lieutenant Saxton & others their duties
were to guard the Coast and Shores
from South Amboy in Middlesex
County to Manasquan and Toms River
guarding the coasts and intermediate
points and places from the British
and tories, also under Captain
Polhemus and Lieutenant Emley
there head Quarters were at Freehold
Colts Neck and Middletown, and
their marches and stations were at
Long Branch Linton Falls Shrewsbury
and other points and places along
the shores of Monmouth County that
he is now and was then well
acquainted with Alexander Low
of the township of Freehold Monmouth
County who applied for his pension
on the thirty first day of July AD 1832
by his declaration before the Judges
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of the Monmouth Pleas, that the said
Alexander Low was out in the service
from the Spring or summer of 1776
until the fall of 1782 and that during
all that time the said Alexander
Low was out in the service under
his regular monthly tours of duty
under the Laws and ordinances of
New Jersey, and that he the said
Alexander Low was all that pened
of time as Sergeant in the different
companies in which he served, that
he cannot recollect particularly
the name of the Captains under whom
the said Alexander Low served but
he saw him frequently daily and
almost every week and month
[crossed out] during that period, and that
he always acted as a sergeant and
was always esteemed as an efficient
a soldier as was in the service and
known in the days as a good
and true whig in the cause of his
County, that when the said Alexander
Low was not out on duty every
other month he was busily engaged
in stocking and repairing guns;
this deponent recollects on one occasion
he and the said Alexander Low under
Lieutenant [crossed out]
James Craig escorted and guarded
twenty six Prisoners from Freehold
Monmouth County to Philadelphia
six of them were left at Burlington
and were afterwards brought back
to Freehold and tried and one of
them Hung for murder, that on that
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to Freehold and tried and some of
them Hung for murder, that on that
occasion the said Alexander Low acted 
as Sergeant and was such deponent
can't recollect the exact time but
thinks it was in 1778 or 1779, Deponent
mentions this case particularly, and
he knows the fact that the said
Alexander Low was a Sergeant during 
the whole war, he saw him acting
as such on several occasions at
Freehold where he was the Sergeant
of the guard over Prisoners on a
number of occasions, the officers
having great confidence in him
at all times, he also saw him acting
as such at Trenton Falls Shrewsbury
Middletown Long Branch and
other intermediate places from the
Summer of 1776 until the fall of
1782 and he has no doubt the
said Alexander Low served during the
war at least three years and
all the time as Sergeant, and a
very efficient one, that the said
Alexander Low is very accurate
& uniform man and has almost lost his
memory, his sight and hearing
having lately almost failed him
he believes him to be upwards of
ninety years of age being considered
one of the most aged men in the
County that he has been always
a man of high standing in Society
for correct moral and religious
conduct and a member of the
Presbyterian Church before the Revolution 
commenced and has continued
a member of said Church ever since.
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and no man in the County of Monmonth 
possessed a better reputation
for concil moral and religious
conduct, Deponent has no hesitation
in saying that no man in the State of
New Jersey is more justly entitled
to pension under the act of June 7th
1832 that the said Alexander Low
is, and that to as a sergeant, for
he this deponent knows he was
a Sergeant from 1776 in the summer
until the close of the war in the
fall and winter of 1782, and that
during all that period in every
other month he believes he saw
him in the service acting as Sergeant
in different companies under different
officers, but this deponent could
pretend to certainly name the officers
under whom he served or the particular
times he saw him, but in every
place and town in the County where
the militia were stationed at the
Middletown Long Branch Trenton Falls
Shrewsbury & other places he frequently
saw him out in the service as a
Sergeant acting and acknowledges
as such, that during the Revolutionary
war he never heard of any certificate
being given to their Sergeants on the
contrary he always heard and understood 
they did not receive any
such, they being elected by the men
belonging to the company and when
their appointed continues to act
until the close of the war unless
they were superseded by others, and
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until the close of the war unless
they were superseded by others, and
this deponent knows the said Alexander
acted as such until the close of the
war, that this deponent believe the faculties
of the said Alexander Low have
so much failed of late that it would
be impossible for him to state any particulars
of service during the Revolutionary War
and that it could not with propriety
be now required of him; that there
can be no doubt as to the fact of
his the said Low's serving during the
whole Revolutionary war and his
service as Sergeant during the
whole period under his monthly
calls or drafts - that said Low lives
in Freehold township and has lived
there ever since before the Revolutionary
war, that his character for veracity is
good and he Deponent has never once heard
in questioned, and that his statement
is entitled to credit-
Sworn and subscribed before |  Benj Van Schoick
me one of the Justices of the |  
Peace in & for the County of |  
Monmouth this 31 day |  
of August AD 1833- |  
Thos C Throckmorton Justice
And I the above Thomas C Throckmorton
Justice as aforesaid before whom the above
affidavit of Benjamin Van Schoick Esquire
was subscribed and sworn to Do Hereby
Certify that it appears to me and that
I personally know the fact to be so that 
the said Benjamin Van Schoick is a highly respectable 
Citizen of the County of Monmouth
resident as he states, that he is a man
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[illegible] & of veracity and that his statement
is entitled to credit-
Dated Monmouth County N.J. August
31st 1833-
Thos C Throckmorton
Justice

New Jersey Monmouth County ss. Daniel P Ryall of
Freehold Monmouth New Jersey being duly sworn according to
Law deponth & saith that he drew up the original
declaration of Alexander Low of said place for a pension
under the act of June 7th 1832 on the thirty first day
of July 1832 before the Judges of the Monmouth Pleas
which was there testified to by the said Alexander Low,
that at that time it being the next month after
said act was passed it was universally understood
between the pay of a private and a Sergeant
in the militia and that he so informed [illegible]
of the old soldiers who applied to him to draw
up the papers and that among others was
the said Alexander Low who he believes him so
informed [crossed out] that this was also the information
and opinion of the Court that time as was
expressed by them, and that this is the reason why
nothing was said in the declaration of said Low of his
Service as a Sergeant.-
Sworn & subscribed before me this |  Daniel B Ryall
31st day of August 1833 one |  
of the Justices of the Peace of |  
Monmouth County NJ. |  
William Lloyd
and I the said William Lloyd Justice as aforesaid
Do hereby certify that Daniel B Ryall who has
Sworn & subscribed to the forgoing affidavit before
me is a credible person and that his statement
is entitled to credit-
Dated August 1833
William Lloyd
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County SS:
Daniel B Ryall William D David Isaac K Lippencott
Richard Davis William Lloyd Esq
Peter Vredenburgh Just Esquire Cyrus Brewer Esq
Doc Grandin Lloyd John S Denise William Snyder
Joseph F. Randolph Esq and James M Hartshorne
being severally duly sworn and affirmed
agreeably to law depose and say that
we are respectively well acquainted 
with Alexander Low of the township of
Freehold County of Monmouth and
State of New Jersey who made his declaration 
before the Judges of the Monmouth
Pleas on the 31st day of July 1832 for
a pension under the act of June 7th
1832 we being respectively residents
of the said township, that the said
Alexander Low is a very aged and
infirm man being upwards as we
believe of ninety years of age & that
he is considered one of the most aged
men in the township, that he is
highly respectable man and has
been ever since we knew him a
member of the Presbyterian Church in
this township, and that there is
no man in the township who possesses
a [crossed out] better reputation for
morality and religion, in fact that
his reputation in this respect is proverbial -
that we believe his faculties of
memory sight and hearing have much
failed him of late, and that we do not
think him now capable of relating
the events of the Revolutionary War;
that he has the reputation of having
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been a good whig during that period
and of having performed his duties
as a good soldier during that period
and that his claims to a pension as a
Sergeant for services then rendered
We believe to be just, and that from
the high character of Mr Low for
truth and veracity we do not believe
he would apply for a pension which was not honestly
his due. 
Sworn affirmed & subscribed | Daniel B Ralebefore
me one of the Justices | William D. Davis
of the Peace of the County | 
of Monmouth this | Isaac R Lippincott
day of August 1833- |  
Thos C Throckmorton Justice | Richard Davis
 | William Lloyd
 | P. Vrendenburgh
 | C Bruen
 | Grandin Lloyd
 | John S Denise
 | William Suyder
 | Jos F Randolph
 | J. M. Hartshorne

And I the said Thomas C Throckmorton
Justice as aforesaid before whom the
forgoing certificate of Daniel B Ryall, William
S D Davis Isaac Lippincott Richard Davis
William Lloyd Esquire Peter Vredenburgh Just
Esquire Cyrus Bruen Doctor Grandin Lloyd
John Denise William Snyder Joseph F
Randolph Esquire and James M Hartshorne
was this day subscribed sworn and affirmed
to, Do Hereby Certify that they are respect
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was this day subscribed sworn and affirmed
to, Do Hereby Certify that they are respectively 
respectable and credible persons
citizens and residents of the township
of Freehold and that their statement
is entitled to credit, and that I do
hereby myself certify to the truth and correctness
of the said Certificate, their being no
man in the County of Monmouth
who possesses a proper character
for truth veracity and high morals
and religious standing than the
said Alexander Low who is now
very aged and infirm and whose
faculties have much failed him of
late, and that there is but one sentiment
in the neighborhood in which he resides
in regard to his claim for a pension
and that is universally in his favor
so far as I have heard - Dated
Freehold Monmouth County N.Y. August
31st 1833-
Thos C Throckmorton Justice

I Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common 
Pleas of the County of Monmouth and State 
of New Jersey Do Hereby Certify that William Lloyd
William J Bowne, John Headden John Hull and
John W Davison whose names are respectively subscribed to the first annexed certificate were on the day of July 1832
and now are Judges of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas of the said County of Monmouth
duly commissioned and sworn and that full
faith and credit should be attached to all their
official acts as such, and that the names
Signed William Lloyd W.J. Bowne John Headden
John Hall & John W Davison to said certificate and their respective
hand writings and signatures; and also that
Thomas C Throckmorton whose name is signed
to the Jurats of [crossed out] the affidavit of Benjamin
Vanschoick and Daniel B Ryall William D
Davis Isaac Lippincott Richard Davis
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William Lloyd Peter Bredenburgh [illegible] Cyrus Bruen
Grandin Lloyd John S Denise Wm Snyder Joseph F Randolph 
& James M Hartshorne, and to the certificate
accompanying said affidavits & next following the 
same was at the respective dates thereof and now
is a Justice of the Peace of the said County of Monmouth 
duly commissioned and sworn, and that full
faith & credit should and ought to be attached to be
his official acts as such, and that the name Signed
Thos C Throckmorton to said [illegible] and affidavits
respectively are the proper hand writing and signatures
of the said Thomas C Throckmorton Justice
as aforesaid, and also that [crossed out] William Lloyd whose
name is signed to the [[illegible] of the affidavit of Daniel B Ryall
and to the certificate next following the same
of the said William Lloyd himself was at the
respective dates thereof and now is a Justice of the
Peace of said County of Monmouth duly commissioned
and sworn & that full faith & credit ought
attached to all his official acts as such, and that 
the name signed William Lloyd to said [illegible]
[crossed out] certificates are the proper hand writing & signatures
of the said Wm Lloyd Justice as aforesaid.-
[seal with ribbon attached] In Testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed my
seal of office at Freehold this tenth
day of September Anno Domini
Eighteen hundred and thirty three
D. H. Ellis Clk
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Rev War |  1052
INVALID.
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File No. 1052
Alexander Low
Sergt N.J. Mil.
Act June 7, 1832
Index:-- Vol. R  Page 226
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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