Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12006, Edmond Arrosmith, New Jersey
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SERVICE  NUMBER
New Jersey  Arrosmith, Edmond. S. 12006
Arrowsmith.
carded
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8193
New York
Edmond Arrowsmith
of Saratoga in the State of N. York
who was a Seagt. (illegible) in the (illegible) command
by Captain Styles of the Rep command
by (illegible) in the N. Jersy
line for 6 months Sep.
+ 2 (illegible)
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the sale of 36 Dollars 66 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1832 $7339
Smi-anl. allowance ending (illegible) '33 $1888
$9220
Revolutionary Claim ,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by (Illegible) Clerk,
Book E, Vol. 4, Page 14
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Edmund Arrosmith. 18902
Edmond Arrowsmith
Pension Papers
Allowed
Shoemaking (illegible)
service estimated by
consent of (illegible)
6 mo. Sergh
2 mo. pre.
$36.66
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State of New York
Saratoga County
On the ninth day of October 1832 in open court before the Court of Chancery now sitting at Saratoga Springs personally appeared Edmond Arrowsmith a resident of the town of (illegible) in said County, aged eighty years who being duly sworn according to laws doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June of 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
In June 1776 he lived at the north Barrack of the Raritan River in the town of (illegible) in the County of Somerset in the State of New Jersey. He belonged to Captain Jacob Ten Eyck's Company in Col. Scott's Regiment of the New Jersey Militia. Col. Scott lived at Mill_Stone. Applicant was at Elizabethtown with the rest of Captain Ten Eyck's Company about a week before the (illegible) of the declaration of Independence. Ten Eyck's company marched to Newark the day that Independence was known to have been declared. Independence was proclaimed at Newark on that day. The applicant (illegible) enlisted for five months under Captain Stiles. Peter Low and Dick (illegible) were Secretary. Benjamin Garish was Ensign, Col. Johnson commanded the Regiment. He cannot remember the names of the other Field Officers. He was well (illegible) with the (illegible) but he cannot recollect his name. Col. Johnson's Regiment was used by the State of
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New Jersey as he then understood. The greatest part of the Regiment had marched on to New York- Captain Stite's Company required fifteen men to fill it & Saw first Lieutenant & applicant or duly Sergeant were sent back to the North Branch to enlist fifteen men to fill the company. The company was filled in two or three days, and the recruits joined the company at Newark & the whole marched to New
York, where it joined the Regiment. The Regiment went over to Long Island with the rest of Gen. Washington's army.  The applicant was in the battle on Long Island, some time in August 1776

Before the general engagement, there were skirmishes between the advanced guards of the two Armies. The British army lay at Flat Bush--
Gen .Washington's army lay at or near the Ferry
to New York. In one of the engagements between the advanced guards, Col. Johnson was killed

The applicant was not out that morning on guard, but all the particulars were given to him by Sows the Lieutenant. Johnson fell only a day or two before the general engagement. The applicant was orderly Sergeant, & he recollects the company lost seventeen men on Long Island. Johnson's regiment was a part of the forces commanded by Lord Stirling. The whole regiment suffered severely on Long island. The night after the battle on Long Island, the regiment with other troops crossed over to New York, there went up to Fort Washington, then up to White Plains. The applicant was in the battle at White Plains about the last of
September. The regiment did not get in to the action
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at this time. The same night after the battle at
White Plains, the whole army marched up the
river about ten miles. & there crossed over to
Jersey & marched to Englishtown. From Englishtown the army marched down towards New York & went to Newark.  At Newark Gen. Washington drew up the whole army in solid Column and told us that the enemy was only a few miles off & our time would be out in a few days, & if we left him he would be all alone, & wished us to stay a month more with him till he could recruit.  A part of the company stayed & a part went home.   The applicant stayed & went on with Gen. Washington towards Princeton, and near Princeton some recruits came on and applicant went home from Rocky Hill. He had
no written discharge. He got home about New
Years, it was was very cold, & he had no other
clothes except the summer frock & trowsers [trousers] & scarcely any shoes to his feet.  He served at  this time before he left Gen. Washington at Rocky Hill nearly seven months including the term he was under Captain Ten Eyck.  Not long after he returned home, Captain Ten Eyck's Company was again called & served one month at Boundbrook. The British Army was then at Brunswick. The militia was at this time arranged in classes & did terms of duty of one month each. The applicant was in a skirmish at Boundbrook & was very near being taken a prisoner during this month-  The applicant was also out one at Elizabethtown & served a month - The applicant was
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in the service at the battle of Monmouth at this
time, he served one month, it was his time in the classes, at the first the classes did their turns but when the British militia were almost all the time in service Captain Ten Eyck had the command of the company at all times. At one time when applicant have returned from the service there was a call for shoe makers & all the shoemakers were taken out of the militia & went to Allentown Pennsylvania-  About two hundred shoe makers were taken then at one time.  Applicant himself was a shoemaker & worked four months in the Shoe Factory. Duncan Oliphant had the charge of the Shoe Factory. He cannot tell in what year he worked in the Shoe Factory.  He received the same as for making shoes as he did in the Field. During the whole of the Revolutionary war the applicant lived at the North Branch of Raritan River and
was regularly enrolled in a Militia company & for a great part of the time was under arms or at home liable to be called out at a moments
warning & was called out every few days on alarms.  Applicant cannot now state how long he was embodied with the militia but he lived in the very seat of the war and he verily believes excluding the six months and rising in the beginning of the war, he was in the service more than one quarter of the time during the whole of the War.  Twice he was driven from his house by the British marching though
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the place. He has no documentary evidence
of his service. He knows no person in this
State by whom he can prove his service
Doct Tunison of Somerville, Somerset County
was alive last fall as applicant is informed
He was on Long Island & is the only person he knows who can testify to his service. The applicant cannot
[illegible] remember as he formerly could. He hereby
relinquishes every claim to a pension
except the present & declares his name is not
on the roll of any agency of any State
To the questions directed to be propounded
He was born in Millstone Somerset
County in the State of New Jersey on the
seventh day of February 1752
He has no record of his age. He lived at
the North Branch in Somersett County when
called into the service. & lived there during the
whole of the revolutionary War except when
driven off by the enemy. He lived upon the
Raritan till he came to Saratoga County. He
has lived in Saratoga County forty years &
better. & he now lives at Charleton in Saratoga
County
He enlisted for five months, & all other 
times he volunteered. He was never drafted or a 
substitute.
He knew Gen. Washington, Lord Stirling,
Gen Putnam, Gen Greane. & many others
names he does not now recollect-
He never received a written discharge
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The Revd Joseph Sweetman of Charleton is the
nearest clergyman in Carleton with whom
applicant is acquainted. Applicant has been
acquainted with him about forty years - Doct Samuel
Davis of Ballston is the applicants family
Physician. & lives about three miles from him
These persons can testify to his character
& reputation as a soldier
Edmund Arrosmith

Sworn the 9th Oct 1832
before me in open Court
E. Cowen
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State of New York }
County of Saratoga } ss
On the the twenty third day of
October one thousand eight hundred & thirty two
personally appeared in open Court before
the Court of Chancery now sitting at
Saratoga Springs Joseph Sweetman of Charleton
in said County Clergyman who being duly
sworn doth depose & say that he is now
fifty seven years of age & has been an
officiating Clergyman in Charleton for
more the sixteen years, & he has known
Edmond Arrowsmith an applicant for
pension for forty years or more, & from
his acquaintance with the said applicant
he verily believes he is of the age he 
represents himself The said applicant
is reputed & believed in the neighborhood
to have been a revolutionary soldier &
the deponent concurs in that opinion
He has never heard any doubt expressed
on the subject. The character of
the applicant as a man is fair & 
[illegible]
Joseph Sweetman
Subscribed & sworn the day
& year first above written
in open Court before me
E. Cowen
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State of New York }
County of Saratoga } ss.
On the twenty third day of October
1832 in open court before the Court of
Chancery now sitting at Saratoga Springs
personally appeared Samuel Davis
of Ballston in said County Physician who 
being duly sworn doth depose that he has
known Edmund Arrowsmith of Moulton
an applicant for a pension for thirty five
years. The deponent has been practising
physician in the neighborhood of said applicant
for the above period and he verily believes from
his acquaintance with the said applicant
he is of the age he represents himself. The
applicant is reputed and believed in the
neighborhood when he was a Revolutionary
soldier and deponent concurs in there opinion
he never heard any doubt of it. The character
of the applicant is fair and reputable
among his neighbors
Samuel Davis

Subscribed and sworn
in open Court the 23 day
of October 1832
before me, 
E. Cowen
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And the said Court do hereby declare
their opinion after the investigation
of the matter & after putting the interrogations
Inscribed by the War Department that the
above named applicant was a revolutionary
Soldier & served as he states. And the
Court
further certifies that it appears to them
that Joseph Sweetman who has signed the
preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident
in the town of Challeton. & that Samuel
Davis who has also signed the same is a resident
of the town of Ballston & is a
credible person & that the same is a
credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit
I Gideon M. Davison Clerk of the Court of
Chancery for the fourth circuit of the State 
of New York do certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said
Court in the matter of the application of
Edmond Arrowsmith for a pension
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & seal
of Office this thirtieth day
of October in the year
of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred & thirty two
G M. Davison,
Clerk.
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I have been well acquainted with
Edmund ArroSmith, the within applicant
from my childhood, & have always
understood & believed him to have been
a Soldier of the revolutionary war
judging from repeated conversations
with him between 25 & 30 years since,
I have no doubt of the accuracy of
his declaration. His general character
is very fair, indeed I have never
heard it impeached in any respect.
Ballston Spa N.Y. Nov. 5, 1832
John W. Taylor
M. C.
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18.092
Edmond Arrowsmith
shoemaking disallowed
Mr [illegible]
I. N. T.
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18.092
BRIEF in the case of Edmond Arrowsmith
County of Saratoga in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 80
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period | Duration of Service | Years, Months Days | Rank. | As a | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served | Gen. 

Enlisted in 1776 July | nearly 6 mos | Orderly Sergeant |  Capt. Ten Eyck, Col. Scott, Capt Styles, Col. Johnson
Again | 1 month |  | Capt. Ten Eyck
---- | 1 month |  | Capt. Ten Eyck
Called out several times | not stated | 
He says, He was engaged four months in making shoes.
5. In what battles was he engaged? Long Island, White Plains, Monmouth
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Somerset Cty. N. J.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.
F. Waugh Examining Clerk
March 8. 1833.
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Rev War
12,006
INVALID.
No. 12,006
Edmond Arrowsmith
Sergt Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index: Vol. A, Page 11 
[Arrangement of 1870.]