Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 438, for Solomon Ketcham, New Jersey
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Ketcham Solomon Mary

W.438
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New Jersey 2464
Mary Ketcham

widow of Solomon Ketcham
who was a Private NJ
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of October 1843 and sent to Saml B. Miller
Newark, New Jersey

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1   Page 123.
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18.782

New Jersey

Solomon Ketcham of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Vandyke of the Regt: commanded by Col Malcolm in the N.J. [UNKNOWN] line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of October 1833 and Sent to D. B. Ryall, Freehold

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833 $200.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March '34 40.00
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$240.00

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by W.L. Williams Clerk,
Book C Vol. 3 Page 119
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26907
Declarations of Soloman Ketcham for a Pension under act of June 7th 1832.

$80 per ann.

Danl B. Ryall, Esq
Freehold,
N. Jersey.
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State of New Jersey County of Monmouth [UNKNOWN: "Is"?]:
On this tenth day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before me the Subscriber William Lloyd one of the Judges of the  Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, Soloman Ketcham a resident of the township of Howell in the said County of Monmouth aged seventy six years on the ninth day of October last [illegible] who being, first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, ratified June 7th, 1832; That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and avowed as herein stated, That a short time before the battle of Long Island about the thirteenth day of August 1776 he enlisted for six months in a company commanded by one Captain Van Dike he thinks but is not positive that was his name in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Malcom, they were stationed in New York, from thence they marched to Long Island and remained there until two or three days after the battle, the Regiment to which he was attached was stationed at Brooklyn Meeting House and was not engaged in the Battle, from thence they marched to Kings Bridge and was there until after New York was Burnt, but cant now recollect the times, Deponent was on sentry at the time of their
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burning of the City, from Kings Bridge they marched to the White Plains, and was a sentry in the Camp at the time of the Battle from thence they marched to Kings Ferry and crossed over into Jersey at Haverstraw or Tappan Bay and there remained until the expiration of his six months enlistment when he was discharged, his discharge was signed by his Captain and Colonel, but he has long since lost it not having seen it in twenty years and believing it is now lost, when he first enlisted their Regiment was called the second New York Regiment, that he recollects which at Kings Bridge there was some Regiments there from the New England states, and there was a Doctor who reported some of the news from New England as being sick when they were not, He was tried by a Court Martial it was said, he was rode backwards on a horse with his saddle bags tied around his neck & the Rogues March beat after him & he was then discharged and disgraced from the service; That he supposed after his discharge from his six months enlistment returned to Middletown Monmouth County New Jersey where he remained until after the war, that when he returned to Middletown the people were taking protections from the British Colonel Morris a British officer being then in Monmouth and the British and Tories then had the ascendancy, that in the spring of 1777 he joined the militia thinks about the first of April of that year and served
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from that time until the close of the war in the fall and winter of 1782 doing his regular tours of duty under the laws and ordinances of New Jersey every other month, and never lost but one tour of duty during that period which was occasioned by his having cut his foot which cased his lameness during that month, that the Captains under whom he served were Captains Ralling, Carhart, Shephard, Chadwick and William Schenck and under Lieutenant Henderson of Captain Rallings Company, but he cannot presume to state certainly the order of times he served under each, Asher Holmes was his Colonel during the period he was in the Militia, David Forman was their general, the Companies to which he was attached had their Headquarters at Freehold, their duties were to guard the coasts and shores from the inroads of the British and Tories their marches were to Middletown Point to Middletown, the High Lands, Long Branch, Shrewsbury Tinton Falls to Deal and the intermediate points and places guarding the coasts and shores and inlets from the British and Tories, but he cannot now pretend to state the particular times when he was at the before named places, as they were constantly engaged in marching countermarching and patrolling the coasts and shores and the roads between and through the before named places; that about the twenty sixth of
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September 1777 Deponent then in Captain William Schencks Company marched from Shrewsbury to Freehold when they were joined by some companies from Middletown and Freehold and under the Command of Col Asher Holmes proceeded to Allentown where they staid out all night, next day they marched to New Burlington and crossed the Delaware at Bristol from thence to the Crooked Billet and there encamped in the neighborhood and remained there a short time whence ordered to cook three days provisions which was done, from there they marched to the Battle aforementioned in which he was engaged and during the engagement the company became much scattered and in a few days after they returned again to Monmouth County New Jersey; that he was at a skirmish at [UNKNOWN] in Middletown with the Refugees from New York he thinks under Captain Shepherd, when one Stricklin was wounded and one Rallings was struck with a ball in his throat, which injured him but slightly the ball being spunk in its force -- that he cannot pretend to name each particular monthly tour he served, but from about the first day of April 1777 until the fall and winter of 1782 he served each and every of his monthly tours under the laws and ordinances of New Jersey, being every other month, that the only [UNKNOWN] in which he served out of the County of Monmouth from the spring of 1777 until the close of the war that during
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the time they were on their way to Germantown until the return after the Battle, 
their duties being confined to the County of Monmouth guarding the coasts and shores and marching to and from the places before named & the intermediate points; that from age and infirmities he cannot state the particular times he served under each of the before named Captains and officers more
particularly than he has, or the order of time he served under them respectively; that he resided in the City of New York when he first entered the service, and was bound as an apprentice to one Gilbert Ash with whom he then lived under the articles of apprenticeship hereto annexed that he does not recollect any other continental Regiments or officers with whom he served than he has before stated; and that he does not know of any surviving
Soldiers by whom he can prove his services
either in New York on in New Jersey; that
he was born in the township of Howell
then a part of Shrewsbury township at
Yellow Brook on the ninth day of
October 1754, that he has a record of his
age [crossed out: from] taken from his fathers family bible now in his possession sent to him
by his brother from North Carolina at last 40 years ago, who had then his fathers family bible, that since the Revolutionary War he has resided in the said township of Howell in Monmouth County and where he now resides, that he was called into the service by enlistment for six months as before stated and from
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the spring of 1777 until the fall of 1782 he
was called into the service under the monthly calls or drafts under the laws and ordinances of New Jersey, and not as a volunteer or substitute, that he cannot recollect further than he has stated the names of any of the Regular officers who were with the troops where he served except Col Lasher who commanded a [crossed out: "nother"] Regiment raised in New York of Militia and one Captain [illegible] who commanded a company of [illegible] and some regiments
from New England at Kings Ferry as before
stated, where he also knew the above named officers, that while in the Militia from the spring of 1777 until the close of the war he never received any discharge in writing in the monthly service, none such being given that he ever heard of, that during said service he
was in the field and [illegible] garrisons and during said service was not engaged in any civil pursuit, that he is known in his present neighborhood by the Reverend John D Barkalow and Joseph Goodenough Esquire who can testify to my character for veracity and their belief of my service as a soldier of the Revolution. 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.
[signature] Solomon Ketcham
Sworn and subscribed before
me one of the Judges of the
Inferior Court of Monmouth Co.
the day & year aforesaid
[signature] William Lloyd
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I the above named William Lloyd Judge
as aforesaid Do Hereby Certify that Soloman
Ketcham who has this day sworn and
Subscribed to before me the forgoing
declaration is apparently far advanced in a decline from Consumption and from bodily infirmity cannot attend Court Dated Freehold Monmouth County New Jersey September 10th 1833
[signature] William Lloyd

New Jersey Monmouth County ss: Aaron F. Waller of the township of Freehold Monmouth
County New Jersey being duly sworn according to law Deponent and saith that he was seventy four years of age on the twenty
ninth day of March last past, that he this Deponent was in the service of his Country during the period of the Revolution as a private that he served from the first of the war in 1776 until the close in the fall and winter of 1782, and during all said period he was in active service every other month under the laws and ordinances of New Jersey and in many of the intermediate months he served as a volunteer, and during said period his services were performed in the County of Monmouth except three months in the County of Middlesex when he entered for that time under Captain Nixon of Light Dragoons when they were stationed at Cranbury in Middlesex, that he served under Captains Vancleif, Hendrick Smock Capt Benjamin Dennis, Capt David Forman & others whom
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he cannot now recollect of Infantry, and
under Captain Wm Remsen Jacob Couwenhoven [illegible] Covenhoven and Lieutenant Barnes S. Smock who commanded after Jacob Couwenhoven was made prisoner until the close of the war, in the Dragoons that during the period of time he was in the service then head Quarters were at Freehold and Middletown in said County of Monmouth, their duties were to guard the Coasts and shores of Monmouth County and their marches were from their Head Quanters aforesaid to Middletown Point the High Lands Long Branch Tinton Falls, Deal and Manasquan and the intermediate points and places and were continually engaged in Marching to and from those places and patrolling the roads points and inlets between
them, that from the spring of 1777 until the close of the war in 1782 in the winter of that year he was well acquainted with Solomon Ketcham who has sworn and subscribed to the forgoing declaration that he frequently saw him out in the service during said period at Middletown Freehold Long Branch Tinton Falls
Shrewsbury Middletown Point Deal and Manasquan with the different companies to which he the said Soloman Ketcham was then attached as a private, under as this deponent
believes [crossed out: the [illegible]] Captains Walling Carhart Shepherd Chadwick and William Schenck whose head Quarters were frequently at Middletown and Freehold where this deponent was stationed under the Captains with whom he served, that
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he cannot pretend to name the different
times he met and saw the said Solomon Ketcham in the service at the before named places but it was very frequent almost every month from the spring of 1777 until the fall of 1782 and sometimes two or three times a week, the duties of the said Solomon Ketcham in the Companies to which he was attached were the same as those of this deponent, to guard the coasts and shores of Monmouth County marching continually and countermarching to and from the before named places guarding the intermediate points and places said shores of the County from the inroads of the British and Tories; that during all said period from the spring of 1777 until the close of the war while this deponent was acquainted with said Solomon Ketcham he bore the character of a good soldier always doing his duties well and attending personally his monthly calls of duty in the service; Col Asher Holmes was their Colonel and David Forman was their general - that the said Soloman Ketcham has ever since been and now is a man of [crossed out: good [illegible]] good reputation and character and a man of strict veracity, he is very infirm now and is labouring under a pulmonary disease and appears to be [crossed out: [illegible]] in a rapid decline, he is also very deaf that this deponent has no doubt from the fact of his having
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so frequently seen him in the service, at [crossed out: illegible] the before named places and on so many different times and his good clear acts and standing as a soldier during the Revolution and as a man of probity and veracity that he served all the time he has stated in his declaration which has been read to this deponent, and is entitled to receive his full pay under the act of June 7th 1832, as he this deponent knows he must have done services to entitle him to it, that he this deponent had understood the said Solomon Ketcham was in the service on Long Island before he joined the Militia of Monmouth County and this he understood at the time he joined the Militia of Monmouth; that the Militia of Monmouth County were called out in the service every other month under the laws & ordinances of New Jersey in which service the said Ketcham was engaged before stated, that he recollects having heard at the time of the Skirmish at [illegible] and when one [illegible] was wounded and one Walling received a bruise from a spent shot in the throat, and has no doubt from what he heard that said Soloman Ketcham was in that Skirmish, and he also distinctly recollects Captain William Schenck and a number of other companies marching from Freehold under Col Archer Holmes to join Washingtons army previous to the Battle of Germantown, and has no doubt
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from what he then heard that said Solomon Ketcham was with them. He this deponent at that time was directed to remain in Monmouth with a portion of the Militia to guard the
coasts and shores of the County in the absence of the other portion which went to join Washington's army, and that a few days after the Battle the Militia from the County mostly
returned again and with them he believes the said Solomon Ketcham also returned.

[signature] Aaron F. Walker

Sworn & subscribed before me
one of the Judges of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas of the
County of Monmouth this
10th day of September 1833
[signature] William Lloyd

And the said William Lloyd Judge at aforesaid Doth hereby Certify that it appears to him and that he personally knows the fact that the above named Aaron F Walker who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before him is a highly respectable Citizen of the County of Monmouth and is a highly credible person and that his statement is entitled to full credit
Dated Freehold 10 Sept 1833 -

[signature] William Lloyd
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We John D. Barkalow a Clergyman residing
in the township of Freehold County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey being the nearest resident Clergyman to the within named Soloman Ketcham and Garret Ketcham of the township of Howell County and State aforesaid, Do hereby Certify that we are well
acquainted with the said Soloman Ketcham who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy six years and upwards of age; that he is
respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.-

[signature] John D. Barkalow
[signature] Garret Ketcham

Sworn & subscribed before
below me one of the Judges
of the Monmouth Pleas this
10th day of September 1833.
[signature] William Lloyd

And the said William Lloyd one of the Judges of the said Court as aforesaid doth hereby declare his opinion after the investigation
of the matter and after putting the
interrogatories prescribed by the War
Department that the above named applicant, Solomon Ketcham, was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states; and the said Judge further Certifies, that it appears to him and that he personally knows the fact that Aaron F. Walker who has sworn and subscribed to the affidavit next following that of
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the said Solomon Ketcham before him is a highly respectable Citizen of the County of Monmouth resident in the township of Freehold in said County and a man of veracity credit and truth and that his statement is entitled to full credit; and also that it appears to him that John D Barkalow who has signed the proceeding Certificate is a Clergyman residing in the township of Freehold in said County of Monmouth and is the nearest resident Clergyman to the said Solomon Ketcham residing about five miles distant from him, and that Garret Ketcham who has also signed the same is a resident in the township of Howell in said County of Monmouth and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit; and the said Judge doth hereby further Certify that the said Solomon Ketcham who has sworn to and subscribed the forgoing declaration before him is unable from bodily
infirmity to attend the Court.
Dated September 10th 1833.-
[signature] William Lloyd

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 foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said William Lloyd one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Monmouth in the matter of the
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application of Soloman Ketcham; and I do hereby further certify that the said William Lloyd whose name is signed to the head of the declaration of the said Soloman Ketcham, and to the Certificate of the said William Lloyd himself next following the same, and to the [illegible] of the affidavits of Aaron F. Walker and the Reverend John D Barkalow and Garret Ketcham respectively and to the two last above certificates
of the said William Lloyd himself was at the dates thereof and now is one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Monmouth duly commissioned and
sworn and that full faith and credit ought and should be attached to all his official acts as such; and also that the name signed William Lloyd to said [illegible] and to said Certificates respectively are the proper hand writing and signatures of the said William Lloyd Judge as aforesaid 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Freehold this Eleventh
day of September [illegible] [illegible] Eighteen hundred and thirty three.
[signature] D.H. Ellis Clerk
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This Indenture

[illegible] That [handwritten] Solomon [handwritten] Ketchum by the Consent of his Father
Hath put himself, and by these Presents, . _____________________ doth voluntarily, and of his own free Will and accord, put himself Apprentice to [handwritten] Gilburt Ash of the [handwritten] City of New York 
to learn the Art, Trade and Mystery of 
[handwritten] a Joinner or any other branch of [handwritten] Business done in the Shop of [handwritten] the Kind}
and after the manner of an Apprentice, to serve from the Day of the Date hereof, for and during, and until the full End and Term of 
[handwritten] four years and Seven Months next ensuing; during all which Time, the said Apprentice his said Master faithfully shall serve, his Secrets keep, his lawful Commands
every where readily obey: He shall do no Damage to his said Master, nor see it to be done by others, without letting or giving Notice thereof to his said Master: He shall not waste his said Master's Goods, nor lend them
unlawfully to any:  He shall not commit Fornication, nor contract Matrimony within the said Term: At Cards, Dice, or any other unlawful game, he shall not play, whereby his said Master may have Damage: With his own
Goods, nor the Goods of others, without Licence from his said Master, he shall neither buy nor sell: He shall not absent himself Day or Night from his said Master's Service, without his Leave; nor haunt Ale-houses, Taverns, or Play-houses; but in all things behave himself as a faithful Apprentice
ought to do, during the said Term.  And the said Master shall use the utmost of his Endeavour to teach, or cause to be taught, or instructed, the said Apprentice, in the Trade or Mystery of [handwritten] as above written ___
and procure and provide for him sufficient Meat, Drink, [handwritten] Wareing Apparel
Lodging and Washing, fitting for an Apprentice, during the said Term of
[handwritten] Four years and Seven months [handwritten] from the Date hereof ________

AND for the true Performance of all and singular the Covenants and Agreements aforesaid, the said Parties bind themselves each unto the other firmly by these Presents. In WITNESS whereof the said Parties have interchangeably set their Hands and Seals hereunto. Dated the [handwritten] Twentieth
Day of [handwritten] May 
in the [handwritten] thirteenth _______
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King of Great Britain, &c. Annoq; Domini, One Thousand Seven Hundred and [handwritten] Seventy three
Sealed and delivered in the Presence of
[signature] William Chency    
[signature] Gilbert Ash
[signature] William Murphy
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FAMILY RECORD.
Births | Births
Solomon Ketcham, Son of David & Ann [illegible] was born November 9th 1756. |
William Son of Solomon & Mary Ketcham was born May 24th 1802
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Mary Cooper Daughter of Thomas & Margaret Cooper was born January 26th 1770 |
Phoebe daughter of Solomon & Mary Ketcham was born January 31st 1804.
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David, son of Sol & Mary Ketcham 
was born August 18th 1793 |
Margaret daughter of Solomon & Mary Ketcham was born August 28th 1805
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Ann daughter of Sol & Mary Ketcham was born September 26th 1794 |
Susannah daughter of Solomon & Mary Ketcham was born February 23rd 1809
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Thomas Son of Sol & Mary Ketcham was born January 1st 1796. |
Mary daughter of Solomon & Mary Ketcham was born December 23rd 1809
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Garret Son of Sol & Mary Ketcham was born August 15th 1797. |
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Benjamin, Son of Solomon & Mary Ketcham was born February 18th 1799 |
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Jonathan Son of Solomon & Mary Ketcham was born December 4th 1800. |
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FAMILY RECORD.
Births | Births
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FAMILY RECORD.
Marriages | Marriages
Solomon Ketcham & Mary Cooper were married
October 14th 1792. |
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Thomas Ketcham & Margaret Longstreet were married |
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David Ketcham & Mary Ann Bartlett were married |
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Nathaniel Thurston & Ann Ketcham were married April 15th 1821. |
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Jonathan Ketcham & Betsy Pierson were married |
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Garret Ketcham & Juliett Jones were married |
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Benjamin Ketcham & Harriet Taylor were married |
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William Ketcham & Margaret Havens were married |
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FAMILY RECORD.
Deaths | Deaths
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Mary daughter of Solomon & Mary Ketcham died 4th August 1813 |
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Solomon Ketcham died 10th March 1835 AD |
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County [illegible] Daniel B. Ryall of said County being duly Sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that he this day called on Mary Ketcham
widow of Solomon Ketcham deceased late a revolutionary pensioner at the House of James Cooper with whom he is now living in
the township of Howell in said County and
read to her the letter of J L Edwards dated the
16th [illegible] when she produced to this Deponent her family bible the same referred to in her former affidavit, and this Deponent
with her consent and at her request cut therefrom the two leaves of the family record
hereto annexed the first of which entitled
Births is the same from which this Deponent
copied in the affidavit of the said Mary
Ketcham and from the second of which leaves the Deponent copied one or more entries
in the same affidavit, and the Deponent
further says they are the said entries on said
leaves in the same state as when they were
copied by him and produced before Judge Throckmorton and further this Deponent says
not. -
[signature] Daniel B. Ryall

Sworn & subscribed before    }
me one of the Judges of the   }
Monmouth County Inferior     }
Court of Common Pleas this   }
19 Nov 1840                            }                                    
[signature] C Brum
Monmouth County Ss. I Cyrus Brum one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Monmouth and State of New Jerey Do Hereby Certify
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that Daniel B Ryall who has sworn to & subscribed the forgoing affidavit is a credible person and his statement is entitled to credit. Dated Nov. 19th 1840
[signature] C Brum

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County [illegible] Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in for the said County & State do hereby certify that Cyrus Brum Esquire before whom the forgoing affidavit was taken & whose name is subscribed to the [illegible] thereof, the above certificate was at the date thereof & now is one of the Judges of the said Court duly commissioned & sworn, that the signatures of the said Cyrus Brum to said [illegible] & Certificate respectively signed
"C. Brum" is his proper hand writing and as such duly is entitled to full faith & credit.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of official [illegible] this nineteenth day of November Anno Domini eighteen hundred forty-
D. H. Ellis CLK
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No 7349.
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss
On this twenty first day of September Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and forty personally appeared before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas holden at Freehold in and for the said County of Monmouth in said State in open Court Mary Ketcham a resident
of the township of Howell in said County and State aged seventy years seven months and twenty five days [illegible] who being first duly sworn according to Law deposeth and says for her oath made 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 Solomon Ketcham who was a private in the war of the Revolution and who at the time of his death
was a Pensioner under the act of Congress
of June 7th 1832 and whose declaration and accompaning evidence is now this deponent [illegible] on the files of the Pension office to which she refers as the evidence of the service of her husband she having no other evidence of his
service. She further declares that she was married to the said Solomon Ketcham on the fourteenth day of October AD seventeen hundred and ninety two by David Gordon Esquire now deceased then one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the
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said County of Monmouth near Englishtown
in said County, that she has been informed & believes there was no records at that time kept of Marriages by Justices of the Peace in said State the Law not then requiring it, that the only person now living that she knows of who was present at the marriage ceremony was John Comb of the County of Monmouth who she presumes remembers the fact, though he is now aged & infirm, and that her husband the aforesaid Solomon Ketcham died on the tenth day of March AD 1835 in the possession of the pension Certificate Numbered on the back of the Seal 18.782 signed by John Robb acting Secretary of War dated the second day of October AD 1833 and which Certificate is marked Exhibit A and herewith sent, and that her said husband received his pension on said Certificate up to the 4th day of March 1835 preceeding his death on the tenth day of the same month and year that she was [crossed out: illegible] 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, [illegible] at the time above stated.
[signature] Mary [her mark] Ketcham
Sworn to and subscribed on              }   
the day & year above written before }

[signature] W J Bowen
[signature] Thomas C. Throckmorton
[signature] Joseph Goodenough
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County towit;
John Comb of the township of Freehold
County & State aforesaid aged seventy eight
years deponent being duly sworn deposeth
and saith that he is well acquainted with
Mary Ketcham widow of Solomon Ketcham deceased who was a Revolutionary Soldier and pensioner under the act of Congress, that he is and has been well acquainted with her since she was ten or twelve years of age she being the sister in Law of this deponent, that the said Mary is now upward of seventy years of age as he verily believes, that he this deponent was present at the marriage of the said Mary Ketcham, her maiden name being Mary Cooper with her deceased Husband Solomon Ketcham in the fall of the year seventeen hundred and ninety two in the month of October of that year but cannot recollect the precise day of the month, they were married by one David Gordon now deceased at his House near Englishtown in said County he being then a Justice of the Peace in said County that this Deponent and his wife, now deceased the said Mary Ketcham's Sister [illegible] in company with the said Solomon Ketcham and the said Mary from the House of Thomas Cooper the father of said Mary to the said Justice Gordon's to see them married which ceremony was performed by said Justice and that he this deponent is now the only surviving person except the said Mary who was present on the occasion that the said Mary lived with the said Solomon
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up to the day of his death as his wife namely to the tenth day of March 1835 when they said Solomon died, that they were always accepted esteemed & reputed as man and wife & never disputed, that they had eleven children some of whom are yet living, and that what little estate the said Solomon did possess of was divided among his children as such under his will except some chattels given to his said widow that the said Mary Ketcham still continues the widow of the said Solomon Ketcham never having married
since her said husband deceased, and that said Mary Ketcham is the same person who has sworn to & subscribed the forgoing declaration
[signature] John [his mark] Comb
Sworn & subscribed in open Court
this 21st day of September 1840
[signature] W J Bown
[signature] Thos C. Throckmorton
[signature] Joseph Goodenough

State of New Jersey Monmouth County This is to Certify that Mary Ketcham who has sworn to & subscribed the forgoing declaration and John Comb who has sworn to & subscribed the forgoing affidavit are respectively highly creditable persons.
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of Common Pleas holden at Freehold in and
for the said County and State Do Hereby
certify that the foregoing are the original
proceedings of the said Court on the application of Mary Ketcham widow of Solomon Ketcham deceased for a pension made this day in open Court and that the Signatures of W J Bowne Thos C Throckmorton and Joseph Goodenough to the [illegible] of the forgoing declaration of the said
Mary Ketcham and the depositions of John Comb and their signatures to the forgoing Certificate are their respective hand writings they being Judges of the said Court duly commissioned and sworn and that they are entitled to full faith and credit.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal of office at Freehold this twenty first day of September Anno Domini 
1840-
[signature] D. H. Ellis CLK
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N.J.  7349
Mary Ke
Act July 7. 1838

March 14th Oct. 1792
Husband died 10 March 1833
let to Hon. D. B. Ryall 26, Sep. 1840

Col Holmes         }
Capt Shepherd    }  N.J
  "     Carhart       }

Admitted
Private 2 years
$80

Hon D. R. Ryall
Freehold
N.J.
Act 7 July '38
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N. Jersey
Mary Ketcham
let. to Hon. D. B. Ryall 16. Nov. 1840

Act 7 July '38
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New Jersey. Solomon Ketchem Act June 7, 1832 to what time paid?

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of State of New Jersey who was a Private in the revolutionary war
is entitled to receive  Eighty  dollars and ------ cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1834, and payable semiannually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.StSecond day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty= three

John Robb
Acting Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned.} J L Edward
Commissioner of Pensions