Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4040, for James Murdock, New Jersey
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(8-1776)
SERVICE                                              NUMBER
New Jersey           Murdock, James     W. 4040.
                               or Murdoch
                                      Hannah
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CONTENTS

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[illegible] No. 3(2,863) 87 s.
New-Jersey
James Murdoch, private,
New Jersey line
75 [illegible]
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 of May, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of Sept 1818 and sent to the care of
Joseph Budd, Esqr Burlington, N.J.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 $32.03
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March, 1819. 48-
3 Mo. 27/31x4/30
$80.03.
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued on the roll
under the law of the May [illegible]
Springfield Burlington
Duplicate certificate issued 27 Oct 1836 and sent to Hon. Wm N. Shinn, Ho of Reps
Notification sent to the
Hon. J. Bloomfield
28 June 1820
Burlington
N.J.
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New Jersey
Hannah Murdock
widow of James Murdock
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars -Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
12 day of December, 1848. 
and sent to Hon Wm A. Newell
H of R 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 303 Vol.4
Let to Hon William (illegible) 
June 22, 1849
Edward Merritt 27th Sept 1849
Reported
Dec? 12/48.
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William D Murdock
the son of James Murdock and Hannah his wife
Thus Born April the 6th in the year of our Lord
1805
Joseph R. Murdock the Son of James Murdock 
 [illegible]
Wife was Born
February 26th in the
year of our Lord 1808
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Sarah Murdock Daughter of
James Murdock and Hannah
his Wife was born January 3rd in the year of our Lord 1800

James Murdock Junior Son
of James Murdock and Hannah his wife was born
August the 6th in the year of our Lord 1802
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John Murdock the son of James Murdock Hannah his wife [illegible]
the year of our Lord 1788

Jane Murdock the Daughter of James Murdock and Hannah his wife was born June the 28th in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and ninety 1790

Elizabeth Murdock Daughter of James Murdock and Hannah his wife was born July the 3 in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Ninety two 1792

Martha Murdock Daughter of James Murdock
Hannah his wife was born October the 5 in the
year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred Ninety four 1794

Michakel Murdock Son of James Murdock
& Hannah his wife was born May the 30 in the
year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Ninety Seven 1797
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Hannah Murdock was born in October 13 1811
Abraham M Murdock was born in February 19 1814
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District of the State of New Jersey
Burlington County [illegible]
On this fifth day of May 1818 before me the Subscribed one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for the said County of Burlington in said State or District personally appears James Murdock aged Sixty four years resident in the Township of Springfield in the said County of Burlington in
said District who says he is conscientious against taken and oath and who being by me first duly Affirmed according to law, doth on his solemn Affirmation make the following
Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war: that he the said James Murdock enlisted on the fifth day of November 1775. in the City of Burlington in the said
State of New Jersey, in the Company commanded by Captain- Joseph Brealy belonging to the Second Jersey regiment command by Cal Maxwell, that he continued to serve in the said Corps or Regiment in the service of the United States until the month
of May 1777 when he was discharged from the service at a place Called Maid in Head in the County of Hunterdon in said said State
by his Captain Brealy, who gave him a written discharge which Discharge is lost or he cannot find it; that he was in the Battles at the Three River in Canada, at the 2 Battels at Trenton, Clark & Meadows at Princeton Battle called, and at the Battle of Monmouth as a [illegible] in the horse,
And that he is in reduced Circumstances and stands in need of Assistance of his Country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his services.
Affirmed to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Joseph Budd
James Murdock
X his mark

Joseph Budd one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for the said County of Burlington in said District do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said James Murdock did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the proceeding declaration against the Common Enemy, and I now transmitt the proceedings and testimony taken before me to the Secretary of the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
Given under my hand and seal of office the fifth Day of May Anno Domini 1818
Joseph Budd
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State of New Jersey
Burlington County

I Joseph Moore clerk of the-
Inferior Court of Comon Pleas of the County
of Burlington aforesaid do hereby certify
that Joseph Budd Esquire who hath subscribed
his name to the within deposition was at the
time of taking the same and is still one of the
Judges of the said Court duly commissioned
and sworn according to law and that full
faith & credit are due to his official acts as such

Witness my hand and the seal of the said court this ninth day of May in the year of our Lord 1818
 [illegible signature] 

The within Affidavit and certificate being returned from Washington by the Honorable Secretary of War. for better proof of the said James Murdock..services in the war of the Revolution the following Affidavits has been since taken and sent on for Inspection and Allowance the second time


Burlington County 
State of New Jersey
On this 22d day of August 1818 did personally appeared before me the subscribed one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas
in and for said county, [illegible] Shinn of said county who being duly Affirmed according to Law Saith that he is well acquainted with
the said James Murdock and has known him before and ever since the Revolutionary war, and that on or about the fall of the year 1775. I saw the said James Murdock list in [illegible] for the [illegible] of Company
of the United States troops for one year, and after his time was out he returned to my house in said county, and give me his Discharge to keep for him which written discharge I kept
some time and then he had it again returned to him. I believe it to be a regular discharge, and that he the said James Murdock
is in low circumstances as I verily believe and further saith not.
 Taken and Affirmed before me the day and year aforesaid Joseph Budd
[illegible] Shinn
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State of New Jersey
Burlington County 
on this 22d day of August 1818 Personally appeared before me the Subscribed one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said county of Burlington
Jacob Sherin of the said county who being duly affirmed according to Law. Saith he is well acquainted with the said James Murdock and has known him before and ever since the Revolutionary war, and on or about the fall
of the year 1775 I saw the said James Murdock List in the city of Burlington in one of the Companies of the United States army for one year, and after his time was out he returned into the same neighbourhood that he use to live in before he Listed, and I allways understood that he faithfully staid his time out and got his Discharge, and that he the said James Murdock is in Low Circumstances as I verily believe, and further saith not taken and affirmed before me the day and year aforesaid
Joseph Budd
Jacob Shinn

I Joseph Budd one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for said County of Burlington, do Certify that I have been acquainted with the above Named  [illegible]
Shinn and Jacob Shinn for a Number of years past, and what they say upon Affirmation is to be credited, in the above case as they are disinterested persons and from the general report the said James Murdock was a good soldier and is in low circumstances at this time. Given under my hand and seal this 22d
Day of August Anno Domini 1818
Joseph Budd
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James Murdock
2863
24 Sept 1818
(March 1819.)
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District of New Jersey, ss.

On this twenty seventh day of May 1820, personally appeared, in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County of Burlington, in the state of New Jersey, being a Court of record, proceeding according to the course of the Common Law- having jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping records of its
proceedings, James Murdock, aged Sixty seven-- years, resident in Springfield in said County, who, being first duly affirmed according to law, doth, on his affirmation declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: -- I enlisted the 5 November 
177 [illegible] in the company of Captain Joseph Brearly in the second New Jersey
Regiment for one year and remained in the army untill May [illegible] when I received my discharge - I was in the Battles of the Three Rivers afterwards on lake Champlain at the taking of the Hessians at Trenton and afterwards at the battle of Trenton and 
Monmouth - my original application was
made the fifth day of May 1818 and my pension certificate numbered 2863
And I do solemnly affirm that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on
the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any
manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as
to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for
certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war." passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule following, and by me subscribed. to wit one cow, one heifer,  [illegible] sheep, one loom, one burrow, 2 pine tables, 9 chairs, 6 knives and 6 forks, 9 spoons, 2 iron pots tea kettle- one Looking glass ten  [illegible] cups & Saucers, 2 tubs for washing- meat tub-pales shovel & tongs. 2  [illegible] queensware-- debts due to me [illegible] 
dollars - my family consists of my wife Hannah aged 52 years- daughter Sarah aged 20 years, a son named Joseph aged 11 years, a daughter
named Hannah aged 2 years and a son Abraham aged 6 years, I am a weaver by trade
but am a cripple unable to work at my trade and am unable to maintain myself by labour nor are my children able to maintain me.
---
Sworn to, and declared, on the twenty seventh day of May before Joseph Budd
President of the court 
James Murdock
his
X
Mark

I, JOSEPH MILVAINE, Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Burlington, in the State of New-Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing affirmation and the schedule thereunder written, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exibited in the aforesaid schedule is seventy dollars and fifty five cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this thirtieth day of May. 
JM Milvaine
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The court is of opinion that the total
amount in value of the property exhibited
within is seventy seven dollars & fifty five
cents
Joseph Budd President
of the court

I certify the above to be a true
Copy of the original - May 30th
1820
 [illegible]

Florine
March 1819.

James Murdock
2863
24 Sept. 1818
(March 1819)
Continue
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V 2057
Declaration & proofs
in the matter of the
application of Hannah Murdock for
the benefit of the
act of July 7, 1838
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
State of New Jersey
County of Burlington 
towit: On this twenty-fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Burlington - Hannah Murdock, a resident of Mount Holly in the said County of Burlington, aged sixty nine years on the tenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty seven, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7. 1838 entitled
"An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
-That she is the widow of James Murdock
who was a Private in the War of the Revolution, inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Jersey Agency. the Certificate whereof is dated the twenty seventh day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty six and recorded in the Pension Office in Book D Vol._ page _
She further declares that she was married to
the said James Murdock by the Rev [illegible] Spragg the Pastor of the Episcopal Church at Mount Holly in the County of Burlington New Jersey it will be fifty one years since, some time the present fall -She has no family record of her marriage, neither has she any Certificate
or memorandum by which she can fix the precise day of her marriage, but her oldest son will be fifty years of age the fourteenth of October the present year, and she recollects clearly that he was born about one year after her marriage with said James Murdock-
She has applied to the Rev. G. T. Moorehouse, the present
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pastor of the Episcopal Church in Mount Holly for a copy of the record of her marriage, but has learned from him that no certificate of her marriage can be found on record in the Records of the Church-All the persons who were present at her marriage she believes, are dead-- Under these circumstances the best
evidence of the time of her marriage within her power will be hereto annexed.- She further declares that her husband, the aforesaid James Murdock died on the twenty eighth day of March last, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety
four vir: at the time above stated-

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written in open court

[illegible]
Zebedee M Willis
Matthew McHenry
 

Hannah Murdock
X her mark
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State of New Jersey
County of Burlington to wit:-- Abraham Merritt of the township of Springfield, in the County of Burlington aforesaid, aged seventy two years, alleging himself conscientiously Scrupulous of taking an oath and being duly affirmed according to law, on his solemn affirmation saith, he was well acquainted with James Murdock before he enlisted in the United States service in the war of the Revolution. -After the war and in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight the said James Murdock came to work for this affirmants father as a hired man and continued to work in that capacity at intervals for upwards of thirty years-that he has known Hannah Murdock who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration ever since her marriage
with the said James Murdock - that he recollects distinctly hearing of the fact of their
marriage at the time - that it was publicly know
and talked of in the neighbourhood, but he has no means by which he can fix the precise period of their marriage - that it was prior
to the year seventeen hundred and ninety-four, and this affirmant believes they were married before the said James came to work for his father in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-eight as aforesaid-that the said James and Hannah have lived together as
man and wife since before the year seventeen hundred and ninety four- that they have had several children- and have always been deemed and reputed to have been lawfully married and have been always so accepted and
received-that the said James Murdock died
some time in March last, and that Hannah
Murdock his widow, who has subscribed the foregoing declaration now resides in Mount Holly
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Burlington County, New Jersey and that her statements are entitled to full credit. -
Affirmed and subscribed this 25th day of September AD 1838 in open Court the words "has" & "ever since" interlined the words "prior to" erased before signing- also "Murdock" [illegible]
 [signed]
Abrahama Monith
Geo Haywood
 [illegible] Willy
Matthew McHenry

State of New Jersey
County of Burlington Towit:- Personally appeared in open court, to wit In the Superior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Burlington aforesaid, Samuel Clark Esquire who saith, that he is now one of Justices of the peace of said County that he is aged
years & that he was intimately acquainted with James Murdock and Hannah Dublo before their marriage, that they all lived in the same neighbourhood and were on terms of friendly intercourse-that he recollects when the said James enlisted in the United States States service under Colonel Shreve - that he recollects the return of the said James after the war - that he was not present at their marriage, but he recollects hearing of
at the time - It was then publicly known and
talked about- he understood at the time they were married by the Rev Samuel Spragg - He cannot now fix the precise time of their marriage, but he has a distinct recollection that they were married before the present Episcopal Church in Mount Holly was built and that was built in the year
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seventeen hundred and eighty six- that this
was himself married in October seventeen hundred and eighty six & that the said James and Hannah were married before that time- that he recollects having a conversation with the Revd Saml Spragg a short time before his own marriage, in which he tho said Saml Spragg informed this that he had married the said James and Hannah that this
has ever since resided within a few miles of them, and that the said James and
Hannah have lived together as man and wife, and been always so accepted, deemed and reputed. that he never heard the legality of their marriage brot into question-- that the said James Murdock died some time in March last - that the said Hannah Murdock, his widow, hath subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, and that her statements are entitled to full credit-

& subscribed this 25th day of September AD 1838
in open court
Haywood

State of New Jersey
County of Burlington towit: Personally appeared in open court, to wit in the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas
of the County of Burlington aforesaid The Hon Willliam N. Shem, who alleging himself conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath, on his solemn affirmation saith that he is personally acquainted
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with Hannah Murdock widow of James Murdock who hath subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration that he was also personally acquainted with her late husband James Murdock, who died some time in March last. that he has known them as man and wife since before the year seventeen hundred and ninety four- that they have always been reputed and believed to
be man and wife by and among all their
neighbours, and that he never heard the legality of their marriage questioned - that the said Hannah Murdock now resides in Mount Holly Burlington County New Jersey, and that her statements are entitled to full credit-Affirmed and subscribed
this 25th day of September AD 1838 in open court

William  [illegible]

Gus Hawyood
 [illegible]


I John R. Slack Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Burlington
in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the declaration of Hannah Murdock in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of July 7th AD 1838-
In testimony whereof I have here-
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unto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Mount Holly this twenty fifth day of
September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight -
John Stack
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
H.F. 4040
1840
Washington, D. C.,
19_____

In reply to your request of___________,
received _______________
a statement of the military history of James Murdock a soldier 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 this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT./LENGTH OF SERVICE./RANK./OFFICERS WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED./CAPTAIN./COLONEL./STATE.

Nov. 5, 1775/May 1777/P.F./Joseph Brearley/Maxwell/NJ

He was also in the battle of Monmouth officers and dates of service are not stated

Battles engaged in, Three Rivers, both battles of Trenton, Princeton
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Burlington
Date of application for pension, May 5,1818. His [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Springfield Twp. Burlington Co. NJ.
Age at date of application, 64 years. He died Mch. 28. 1838.
Remarks: He was in 1787 at Mount Holly N.J. Hannah Deeble b. Dec. 10. 1768. She was al. pension an app. es. Sept 25 1838 while a resident of Mt Holly N. J. She d. Apr. 4, 1854.
For family data seen supplement herewith

Respectfully,
Commissioner.
6 -- 2856
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Rev. War Section.
July 21, 1916
Mr. John Rellstab,
Trenton, New Jersey,
Sir:
In addition to the military history of James Murdock, W. F. No. 4,940 you are furnished the following data as to his children:
John born October 24, 1788.
Jane " June 28, 1790.
Elizabeth " July 3, 1792.
Martha " October 5, 1794.
Michael " May 30, 1797.
Sarah "January 3, 1800.
James " August 6, 1802.
William D. " April 6, 1865.
Joseph R. " February 23, 1808,
Hannah " October 13 1811.
Abraham M. " February 19, 1914.
In 1840 Jane signed Jane Wilkenson, and Elizabeth, Michael and William were not living.
Very respectfully,
GM Saltzgahar
Commissioner.
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I Joseph S. (illegible) of the Inferior Court of  Common Pleas of the County of Burlington and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Clayton Monroe whose name is annexed to the forgoing declaration and certificate was at the time of signing the same and is now acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signature attached to said declaration and certificate is in his proper hand writing and that due credit should be given to all his official acts as such Justice.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this eighth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three. 

Jos W. Read