Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 3440, Caleb Ward, New Jersey
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New Jersey

Ward,Caleb

S3440
carded
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New Jersey 30,259

Caleb Ward
of Essex Co. in the State of N. Jersey
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Squire of the rest commanded
by Col. V. Courtland in the N. Jersey
line for 14 mo 28 days teamster
               6 "                   private

Increased from $20 per annum
Inscribed on the roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 69 Dollars 77 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831, deduct amt. rec'd at rate of $20 per annum

Certificate of Pension  issued the 27th day of July, 1838 and sent to P. Dickerson  -?- Pen Agt
 Trenton, N.J.

(Arrears - crossed out) (Diff. of rate) to the 4th of March 1838 =                                       $327.39
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept "         34.88
                                                                    _______
                                                                    $362.27

Recorded by S.A. Elliot Clerk
Book E (E2?) Vol. 3 Page 170

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Let to Pen Agent July 28,
1838
"do" to same + Hon. L. Condict Aug. 30
1838 "do" to Hon. L. Condict Sept. 5
1838  -- Same person & Pension
          Agt. 12 Jany 1839
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31.667

Caleb Ward
N.J.
Duplicate

3 mo. Wagoner Capt. Muner (?)
1 year   "      "       "      Johnson
1   ---   "           "             "
  not military service

(next part very faded)
 -?- 1 778 5 Sept
to 5 Sept 1779 -
      11 mo 28 days
 -?-  3
  Teamster 14.18 -   -?-  -?- Johnson -?-
                     6.      private and infantry
                _______
                    20.18

Admd.   $69.77
         6 mo. pro
________
   20

Bottom named crossed out
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     DECLARATION

State of New Jersey
Essex County
     On this thirtieth day of June 1834 personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Essex now sitting Caleb Ward a resident of Livingston in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey aged eighty five 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 Acton Congress passed June 7, 1832.
     That he was born in that portion of the township of Newark now called Livingston in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey on the 17th day of May 1749 at which place he first entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War under the following named Officers and served as herein stated.
    That he first entered as a volunteer and performed one month service as a private soldier of Captain Elijah Squiers company of Militia in the summer of 1776; Col. Van Courtland commanded the Regiment to which he was attached at which time the Regiment was mustered in the town of Newark, New Jersey, from thence he was marched with said Regiment to the town of Bergen in the County of Bergen and thence to the City of New York, thence to Long Island at which place the Regiment to which he belonged was engaged in  erecting forts and fortifications to the expiration of one month when he was discharged and returned home.
  That he performed one month service as a drafted Militia man during the summer of 1776 as a private of Capt. Squire's company stationed at Elizabeth Town New Jersey and that the Battle at Long Island was fought during the time he was stationed at Elizabeth Town aforesaid.
    That he performed one month service as a private soldier of Capt.Squire's company stationed at a place called the -?- Swamp near Quibbletown, N. Jersey Col. Ellis Cook.......
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....commanded the Regiment to which he belonged, cannot particularize the year but knows the British were lying at New Brunswick at the same time.
     That he performed one months service as private soldier of Capt. Squire's company during which service he was engaged in an action with the British and Refugees at Second River near Belleville N. Jersey, cannot particularize the year, but knows that Col. Van Courtland and Major Hays were  the principal field officers commanding the Regiment to which he ten belonged, at which time they succeeded in repulsing and pursued the enemy to Hackensack thinks Gen'l Wynes was chief in command at that time.
     That he performed one monthly tour of service as a drafted militiaman and private soldier in Capt. Squier's company during which service the company was. stationed a portion of the time at Springfield andElizabeth Town, N. Jersey, and on then Island in the State of New York.
     That he performed three months duty in the Waggoner service under Capt. Moses Munson during which time he was principally employed in driving teams to and from various places in the State of New Jersey viz Trenton, Newark, Morris Town, Elizabeth Town, and Hackensack and occasionally  into the State of New York transporting Forage, Camp equipage, and Munitions of War.
     That he cannot particularize  the precise years, months, or periods of theWar in which the previous service was rendered other than herein before stated but knows that they must have all been by him performed previous to the spring of 1778.
      That early in the spring of 1778 he enlisted in the Wagon service for one year under Coat. Joseph Johnson and served out the period of his enlistment and in course of a few days thereafter, he enlisted in the same service for another year under the same.....
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..... Captain Johnson and served out the full period of his enlistment, was discharged and returned home, during which service Major Gordon of Trenton appeared to have the principal charge of the Wagon and Forage Department, and that the periods of two years last above mentioned he was actively employed in driving team to and from Trenton, N. Jersey, Morris Town, Pompatory (?) N Jersey Newburgh and various other places on the Hudson 
River in the State of New York and occasionally into the Eastern States, constantly transporting flour, meat, grain, camp equipage, munitions of war for the use of the American Army.
     That he performed one months service as a private soldier in Capitol Squires company of militia in the summer of 1780 during which he was in the Battle of Springfield and Connecticut Farms and succeeded in repulsing the enemy and pursued them to Elizabeth Town from thence to the Point where they crossed over the Sound to Staten Island, thinks Major Hays had command of the detachment to which he belonged and a portion of the time they were attached to Col. Dayton's command.
     That he has continued to reside in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey since the Revolutionary War wit the exception of about three years during which time he resided in the City of New York.
     That during the fall of the year 1832 he subscribed to a similar declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 which said declaration with the affidavits thereunto annexed  together with one of the payrolls of Capt. Elijah Squires upon which his name appeared were transmitted to the Pension Office of the.....
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...United States which said papers appear either to have miscarried, been mislaid, or lost, consequently he is now deprived of the benefits of two of his principal witnesses whose affidavits were themselves annexed viz John Teed and Henry Vail both of whom are now deceased.  The only persons he can recollect who can testify to his services are Moses Ely Thomas Belton Jacob Kent, whose affidavits are hereunto annexed.
     That he has no documentary evidence and has no recollection of ever having received a written or printed discharge.
     That by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades.  For two years and nine months I served as a private and for such service I claim a pension.
     That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of any State or Territory of the United States.
      That he was born in the County of Essex as herein before set forth.
     The record of his age is transcribed from his father's family record now in his possession.
     That he resided in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey at the commencement of the revolution and that he now resides in the same place.
      That he first entered the service as a volunteer.
      The principal regular Field Officers whom he now recollects to have been with the troops where he served.....
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...were General Washington Greene and Wynes Cols. Dayton Shreve and Cummings.
     The Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen and Silas Condit of Newark and John Harrison and Ichabod Condit of Orange Moses Ely and Josiah Steele of Livingston all of the County of Essex are persons to whom he is well known and to whom reference may be had as to his character and veracity.
Caleb Ward

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
     A. Reynolds Judge

    We Stephen Grover a Clergyman residing at Cold Well in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey and John Ely residing in the Township of Livingston County of Essex State aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Caleb Ward who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty five years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution  and that we concur in that opinion.
Stephen Grover
John Ely

Sworn and  Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
   A. Reynolds Judge
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    I Moses Ey a resident of Livingston in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey aged seventy seven years do hereby certify and declare that I have been acquainted with the said Caleb Ward who has subscribed to the (BIG ink smudge here) that I know he performed one monthly tour of duty as a member of Captain  Elijah Squires Company stationed on Long Island in the State of new York in the summer of 1776 and that I was also a member of the same company doing duty at the same time, and I do further certify that the said Caleb Ward was actively engaged in the Waggon Service and in the Service of the United States under Captain Johnson for the period of two years and think it must have commenced early in the Spring of 1778 and ended in the Spring of 1780 and am fully satisfied that what the said Caleb Ward has said on that subject was and be true that I was engaged in the same service, and had almost a daily intercourse with the said Caleb Ward during the greater portion of the same period ad I do further certify that I was a fellow soldier and a member of Captain Elijah Squires company at the Battle of Springfield and know that what the said Caleb Ward has said on the subject is strictly true.  And I further certify that the said Caleb Ward is reputed and believed to be a man of strict veracity.
Moses Ely

Sworn and subscribed the day y6ear aforesaid.
   A. Reynolds Judge
    June 30th 1834
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     I Thomas Belton aged ninety five years do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Caleb Ward who has subscribed to the foregoing declaration and know the said Caleb Ward did perform one monthly tour of service as a member of Captain Elijah Squires company during which time he was engaged with the British and Refugees at Second River near Bellville, New Jersey,  that I was also a member of the said company during the same time and I do further certify that the said Caleb Ward performed one monthly tour of service as a member of Captain Squires Company stationed near Quibble Town in the County of Middlesex N. Jersey and that I was a member of Captain Piersons company stationed at the same place and doing duty at the same time.  And I do further certify that the said Caleb Ward performed one mouthy tour of service as a member of Captain Squires Company during which was actively engaged in the Battle of Springfield and Connecticut Farms and that I was also a member of the same company and doing duty at the same time.  And I do further certify that I have a distinct recollection of seeing and knowing that the said Caleb Ward was a member of Captain Squires company and was at that time doing duty on Staten Island in the State of New York but cannot particularize the length of the last mentioned service as I was not a member of the same company at the time to which he belonged.
Thomas Belton his x mark

Sworn and Subscribed this thirtieth day of June 1834
    A. Reynolds Judge
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    I Jacob Kent of the Township of Caldwell county of Essex and State of New Jersey do hereby certify and declare that I have been well acquainted with Caleb Ward who subscribed to the foregoing declaration since the commencement of the Revolutionary War do know that that he performed several monthly tours of service as a member of Captain Elijah Squires company of Militia in the service of the United States during Revolutionary War and I do know that the said Caleb Ward was actively engaged with the enemy during the Battle of Springfield, New Jersey, also the Battle  near Bellville New Jersey and I was personally present, and actively engaged in both the aforesaid Battles, and I do further certify that the said Caleb Ward was for a long time actively engaged in the Waggon Service in the service of the United States and that I frequently saw him doing duty in that capacity and think it must have been in the years of 1778 and 1779.
Jacob Kent his X mark

Sworn and subscribed the 30th day of June 1834
   A. Reynolds Judge
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   I Abraham Reynolds a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex do hereby certify that Moses Ely, Thomas Belton, and Jacob Kent whose affidavits are hereunto annexed are credible witnesses and their statement is entitled to credit. 
June 30th 1834.  A. Reynolds


   And the same Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigations 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 Stephen Grover who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Township of Caldwell County of Essex and State aforesaid  and that John Ely who has also signed the same is a resident of the Township of Livingston County of Essex and State aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
June 30th 1834.    A. Reynolds Judge
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    I Elias Van Arsdale Junior Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex 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 Caleb Ward for a Pension and that Abraham Reynolds before whom the several affidavits were made and taken at the time of the taking the same was one of the Judges of said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the name "A. Reynolds" subscribed to said affidavits wherein it occurs in said proceedings is his genuine signature.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of Office this thirtieth day of June AD eighteen hundred and thirty four.
    E. Van Arsdale Jr. CLK
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  To what time was Caleb Ward,N. Jersey, Act 7 June 1832 last paid?

JL Edwards
July 26, 1837

(faintly written in):  He does not appear to have been paid.  JH
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Caleb Ward
File No. 3440
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Trenton Bank
Pension Office
Sep 3 1838

Sir
    Agreeably to your request  I enclose Pension Certificate of Caleb Ward.

       I am respectfully
           Your Obt. Servt.

             WP Hurt (Hunt?)
                  for P.D. Pris
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Caleb Ward Payments to be made
at Trenton
by P. Dickinson Esq.
Agent for paying Pension-
ers in the Agency of New Jersey


Recorded in the Pension Of-
fice, in Book E2 Vol. 3
Page 17 by Dan Boyd
Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT

Revolutionary Claim

   I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 Caleb Ward 
of the State of New Jersey
who was a private in the Army
of the Revolution......
is entitled to receive Twenty dollars 
per annum, during his natural life com-
mencing on the 4th of march, 1831, and payable semi=annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United
-----         Seventeenth day of
September one thousand eight
hundred and thirty five.
  Lew Coss
    Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned
     JL Edwards
      Commissioner of Pensions
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to left:  July 22

Post mark:  Morristown N.J. Jul 19

James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Morris Town M.J. July 18th 1837

Dear Sir,
   Caleb Ward,  of Essex aged 91,  a venerable and respectable man is now with me and importures me to aid him in obtaining for him a pension for his revolutionary services. I find his papers have been present to you by Abraham Reynolds Esq. of Essex Co. who tells the old man he knows nothing further which he can do.   Will you oblige him and me so far as to inform me by letter what is the condition of his claim?  Has it been rejected, or suspended for want of proof or of specification - or has it not been reached in the regular course of examination?  He is very destitute and aged, and his moral character and good standing among his neighbors is such as to command him strongly to the good wishes of those who see him.
    After learning from you the condition of his papers, if there be any thing which I can with propriety do to aid him in obtaining what  bounty his country provides for the defending of it's liberties, I will do it cheerfully.

Your Obt. Servt. and ----- friend
Lewis Condict
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JL Edwards Esq.
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Too faint and faded to make out most of the content.  Apologies.
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(faint at top). Caleb Ward

James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Morris Town Aug  27th 1838

Dear Sir,
    The pension certificate of Caleb Ward was returned to your office some weeks past, with the view of having a new one issued in it's stead agreeably to your letter of June 23rd -  In the presence of other duties, it has probably been overlooked.  The Sept installment is payable in a few days and the old gentleman being very needy will be thankful for it. 
    Will you be kind enough to forward it to me for him, on rec't of this?

Very respectfully,
-?-
Lewis Condict
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left hand side X-ed out!

right side:

Sent to Pensioner 18 Nov 1835
do. to Hon. L. Condict July
26 1837

Order to pay 12 Sept 1837
Let. to Hon. Lewis Condict
                  June 23 1838
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Rev. War

3440

INVALID

File No. 3440

Caleb Ward
Privt Rev. War

Act: June 7. 1833 (1832?)

Index:- vol. A,Page 390
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29/77.  Heirs informed that there is no -?-.
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