Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4809, Robert Hazlett, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New jersey 
CONTENTS
Hazlett, Robert
NUMBER
R 4809
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County ss:

On this Twenty third day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven personally appeared before me Joseph Johnston one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County Robert Hazlett a resident of the Township of Lebanon in the said County of Hunterdon & State of New Jersey aged seventy five years the 28th day of August last past 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 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States when about sixteen years old as a private in a company of volunteers commanded by his father Captain William Hazlett in the County of Hunterdon aforesaid & marched to Elizabeth Town Point & remained there one month & was
discharged. He does not recollect the day but it was in the fall of the year about seed time or a little after. John Taylor was Colonel.
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In the fall of the next year he volunteered from the same place as a private under Captain John Bell. Captain Benjamin Cooper & Captain Bell both took companies but there were not men enough for two companies & Bell went home & his men were put under the command of Captain Cooper they marched to Elizabeth
Town Point & remained there the greater part of the time during that tour they went on Staten
Island & had a skirmish with some tories, they took three of them prisoners & the rest escaped in the woods. Captain Locke was shot by the tories that time. He was discharged at Boundbrook & got home a little after New
Years having been in the service that tour four months.  Colonel Beavers or Taylor commanded the regiment.

The next year he volunteered from the same place & marched to Boundbrook was in the regiment commanded by Colonel Beavers or Taylor the Captain he does not recollect & remained in service that tour two months while out that
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time they took up the bridge below the mill near New Brunswick to prevent the British from crossing.  He left home on this tour a little before harvest & was stationed at Boundbrook. He was also out one month under the same Colonel that year in October & was employed
chief of the time in marching up & down the Raritan River & from Bound brook to Somerville
& back again.

The next year he volunteered from the same place. He left home about the first of July & marched to Elizabeth Town Point SomerVille & Amboy kept guard there & seen the British sometimes every day. He does not recollect the names of the officers. He remained in the service on that tour one month & was discharged. He also volunteered from the White
House in the County of Hunterdon & marched to Elizabeth Town Point & remained in the service one month & was discharged  He does not recollect the day or the year. The Col. was a stranger
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He does not recollect his name or the name of the other officers.  He also entered the flying camp as a volunteer under Captain Force (he thinks) but of the name he is not positive. He does not recollect the names of the other officers. He does not recollect the day or the year. He remained in the service three months & was discharged.  He also enlisted as a private teamster in the brigade of teams commanded
by Joseph Warner for six months. This was in the fall of the year when General Washington lay at Valley Forge. He carted the baggage of the Army to Valley Forge- he was also engaged in carting to Philadelphia, Trenton, PittsTown, West's Mill in Greenwich & elsewhere about the country. He also assisted in carting the French from Philadelphia to Rhode Island in which he was engaged more than two months. He was then commanded by a French officer but don't know his name  It was in the winter after New Year.


Applicant received written discharges of his service at Boundbrook Elizabeth Town & elsewhere but has lost them
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& has no documentary evidence of his services. That he knows of no person who can testify to his services excepting Peter Hendrickson
of the County of Morris in said State

Applicant has a record of his age in his family Bible which he copied from his Father's Bible
from which it appears that he was born on the twenty eighth day of August seventeen hundred 
 one. He was born in the Township of Lebanon aforesaid where he resided at the time he entered the service & has resided there ever since.  He is acquainted with & known to
David Trimmer & David Parke of the Township of Lebanon aforesaid who can testify to his character for truth & veracity & their belief as to
his services as a soldier of the revolution

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension
roll of the agency of any state.

February 23 1837
Sworn to & subscribed
the day & year aforesaid } Robert Hazlett

Joseph Johnston Justice of the Peace
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We David Trimmer and David Parke residing in the Township of Lebanon in the County of Hunterdon & State of New Jersey hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Robert Hazlett
who has subscribed & sworn to the above
declaration that we believe him to be seventy five years of 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

David Trimmer
David Parke

Sworn Subscribed before 
me this 23 day of February 
AD 1837.

Joseph Johnston Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County Ss.  I Joseph Johnston a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter
& after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served
as he states. And I do hereby further certify that he is well known to me & is reputed in the neighbourhood to be a man of the strictest truth &  veracity and also that the said applicant cannot [text crossed out, illegible]
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from bodily infirmity attend the Court of the said County; and that David Trimmer & David Parke who have signed the preceeding [preceding] certificate are residents in the said Township of Lebanon in the County aforesaid & are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit.

Witness my hand & seal
this 23 day of February AD 1837.

Joseph Johnston

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County ss: . Before me the subscriber a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in for the said County personally came William H. Lane of Belvidere in the County of Warren & State aforesaid with whom I am well acquainted & whom I certify to be a credible person who being duly sworn according to law did declare & say that he is well acquainted with Robert Hazlett; that he is an uncle to this deponent & that he the said
Robert Hazlett came to Belvidere aforesaid in the fall of the year eighteen hundred & thirty four & employed Mr Sherrerd a lawyer of that place to make application for a pension  for him. That Mr Sherrard prepared or caused to be prepared the deposition
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of Peter Hendrickson which was sworn to & subscribed by him before the said Joseph Johnson. that Mr Sherrerd also proceeded to take a memorandum or statement of the services performed by the said Robert Hazlett. That from the infirm state of the health of the said Robert Hazlett & his mobility to get about he requested this deponent to attend to his application for him with Mr Sherrerd. That Mr
Sherrerd promises this deponent to attend to the said business from time to time but from the multiplicity of his engagements & business he neglected so to do when a short time since he handed over to this deponent the deposition of the said Peter Hendrickson taken as aforesaid

Wm H Lane

Sworn & subscribed before me this 23 day of February AD 1837. 
Joseph Johnston


State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County ss:   I, Joseph Johnston a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in aforsaid County do hereby further certify that the foregoing, together with the deposition of the said Peter Hendrickson referred to in the deposition of the said William H. Lane & hereunto
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annexed contains the original proceedings had before me in the matter of the application of Robert Hazlett for a pension. And I do hereby further certify that the annexed deposition is the original deposition of Peter Hendrickson
taken before me as aforesaid-

Witness my hand seal
this Twenty Third day of
February in the year of our
Lord eighteen hundred & thirty
seven

Joseph Johnson [seal taped to left of page]

State of New Jersey,
Hunterdon County ⎬ I Isaac G Farler Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hunterdon do hereby certify that Joseph Johnston Esq whose name is above subscribed to the foregoing certificates and affidavits was then and still is one of the
Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County and also a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such and that [first part of word covered by seal taped to page]ature is Genuine---

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the Seal of said--
Court this 25th day of February AD 1837
Isaac G Farler Clk
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[crossed out:  'Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 9, 1878.']

REJECTED
____[hand-written:]4809___________-
P. O.__________________
____[hand-written:] Robert Hazlett___
Service:__________________________

Enlisted:__________________, 18
Discharged:_______________, 18
Application filed:___________, 18
Alleges:______________________
_____________________________
Re-enlisted:__________________
_____________________________

Attorney:_____________________
P.O.__________________________
_____________________________
_________Recognized.________Contract
______Cert. of Dis.   Searched for_______, 18
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New Jersey
------
Robt Hazlett
Suspended

Let. to E Swayze
June 15. 1837
to same Nov. 20, 1837

4809
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2237

2614

David Vliet
Col. Beavers
Jus.
Capt.  Joseph Vliet
Col. J. Beavers
Capt. Charles Dwyer
and Col. Taylor

[postal stamp:  Belvidere Oct 3

FREE 

J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
War Department
Washington City 



Robert Hazlett
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Belvidere N.J. Sept 30 1837

Sir

Your letter respecting the application of Robt Hazlett for a pension has been received & in behalf of the old man I would enquire whether it is necessary to make a new declaration altogether or whether a supplemental declaration will be sufficient explaining the 4 months service about which there seems to be some doubt or lastly whether he cannot receive
pension for such period as is satisfactorily made out & abandon his claim for all other periods & service & which he is willing to accept as the difficulties attending another application
would be considerable from his old age very be be hearth [heart] & indigent circumstances.

Yours
Edwd H. Swayze

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Pension office
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[postal stamp:]. BELVIDERE FEB 26

Robert J Hazlett
N.J.
Act 1832
New Jersey

FREE

Pension Office
Honl. Ely Moore
House of Representatives
Washington City

added the answer to
Mr Swayze

7 June 1832
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Belvidere N.J. Feby 27th 1837

Dear Sir

Inclosed is the application of Robt. Hazlett for a pension which I take the liberty of forwarding to you & which I wish you to present to the war department & by so doing you will do a kindness to an old soldier. From his age & bodily infirmity his memory is very much impaired & I am very certain of one thing & that is that he was out for a greater length of time than that
stated in his applications & which could have been proven by an old soldier in this neighbourhood but unfortunately for Hazlett the old chap died a few months since.

I am much obliged to you for the speeches &c. sent me.

I have got through the winter very well, much better than I did last
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although I spent it in Georgia. This winter
I remained at home kept within doors &
by using coal kept a regular temperature
which I find essential in my case
my wife desires to be remembered to
you & me both hope to have the pleasure of
seeing
some day in our beautiful
& thriving village
your sincere friend
Edw H. Swayze
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Robert Hazlett
N. Jersey
No 34.268.
Peter Hendrickson
affidavit
Robt Hazlett
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State of New Jersey
County of Hunterdon  ss:   Before me Joseph Johnston one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County personally appeared Peter Hendrickson of the Township of [illegible] the County of Morris and State of New Jersey with whom I am well acquainted and certify he is a credible person who being duly sworn according to law on hs oath saith  that he is well acquainted with Robert Hazlett of this County of Hunterdon, who is now about applying for the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 and has known him for a great many years and served with him on the Hunterdon Militia during the Revolutionary war. At that the Deponent lived nearby in the Township of Bethlehem in Hunterdon County
and said Hazlett lived about two miles off in Lebanon Township where he now lives.  Robt Haslett and this deponent were out several times together during the Revolutionary war  they both belonged to the same Company during great part of the war. The first time Deponent and Robert Haslett were out together, they were both very young  Deponent not more than fifteen or sixteen years old. They marched to Elizabeth town point and staid [stayed] there one month. It was in October between two and three years deponent believes after the beginning of the war. Haslett and Deponent both served as privates, William Haslett, Roberts father, was captain and John Taylor Colonel.   The said Haslett served with Deponent another time for four months at Elizabethtown point. They went after harvest and staid [stayed] til late in the fall.  Benjamin Cooper was Captain Joseph Beavers Colonel
[illegible] Bonnel Lieutenant Colonel.  General Heard [illegible] and [illegible] I and others volunteers & went and a captain Opdyke to attack ahouse on  Staten Island in which some refugees were [illegible] and drove them into the woods.  Captain Lock was shot by the Refugees [illegible] they were out this time.  It was the year after they were out the first time.   Robt Haslett served the whole four months.

Robert Haslett and Deponent served together, and their tours at Boundbrook in the year following. They staid [stayed] two months this time. The British were at Brunswick and the bridge over the Raritan River was pulled down to prevent there [their] crossing.  they
crossed however and there was a little firing but not much. Joseph Beavers was Colonel and Old Daniel Vliet Captain, Deponent cannot recollect the other officers.  

The said Haslett served with Deponent another month at Scotch Plains, it was in warm weather but Deponent cannot remember the year Opdyke was captain and Vliet one of the old man's Lieutenant. Two Refugees were tried by a Court Marshal and hanged.  Deponent saw them playing cards  the day before they were hanged.

The said Haslett also served with Deponent another month at [illegible ] Plains.  Dargee was Captain, Jasper Vliet Lieutenant and Joseph Beaver Colonel, Genl Heard commanded them.

The said Haslett also served another month with Deponent this was at Somerville. Taylor was Colonel Reinhart Major and Charles Dargee Captain   Deponent has forgotten the name
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of the other officers
these are the only service of the said Robert Hazlett
that this Deponent now recollects, both he and Deponent
performed their services as private soldiers. Deponent
does not recollect the particular years [illegible] he identify
their by other circumstances.
Deponent is now in his seventy third year he believes
Soon after the peace deponent removed into Sussex County
some years afterward to New York State and from there
into Morris County where he now resides.
Peter Hendrickson
Sworn and subscribed
Before me the twenty 
first Day of November 1834
Joseph Johnston