Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33729, for Wessel T Stout, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE

New Jersey

Stout, Wessel T.

NUMBER

S 33729

B.L.Wt. 1997 - 200 Lieut.
Issued Aug. 30 1790
No papers
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James B Lane May 25, 1858
Mrs. Mary Bun June 14, 1858

New Jersey Roll
2190
Wessel T. Stout
Capt. by Brevet

New Jersey Line
In the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 20 Dollars per month to commence on the 22nd of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of Aug. 1818 and sent to the Pensioner at Bergen N. Jersey

Arrearages to 4 Sept. 1818
4 mo. 13/30                                  $88.66

Revolutionary Claims Act 18th March 1818

6 years
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State of new Jersey ss

On the 22nd day of April 1818 before me the subject one of the Judge of the Inferior court of Common Ples in and for the County of Monmouth personally appeared Wessel T. Stout aged between sixty four & sixty five years resident in the County of Monmouth in said State who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the 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 this said Wessel T. Stout enlisted in the County of Essex in the state of New Jersey in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Morrel in the Regiment of Col. Philip Vancountland in the five months service and on the first day of January in the year of Lord Seventeen hundred and seventy seven was appointed ensigned in the fourth Regiment drafted by said state of New Jersey under the command of Col. Ephraim Martin and  then drafted by different grades of the Army and at the conclusion of the war was brevetted a Captain and was discharged at New Windsor in the state of New York at the end of the war.  That he was int he Battles of Long Island at the Short Hills at Monmouth & at the Siege of York town in Virginia & a number of others, and that he is
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in reduced circumstances, and in need of the assistance of his country for support.  

Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.

Wessel T. Stout

Wm J. Emley

I William J. Emley Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Wessel T. Stout did serve int he Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceeding & testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress - April 22, 1818

Wm J. Emley

And I do hereby further certify that the said Wessel T. Stout served in the war of the Revolution for more than nine months and that he is in reduced circumstance in life and stands in need of assistance of his country for support. 

Wm J. Emley

I the subscriber Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that William J. Emley esquire before whom the foregoing deposition appears to have been taken at the time of the taking and still is duly enrolled in my office as one of the Judge of the said court and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the signature of Wm J. Emley as subscribed are the genuine signature of the said judge Enley.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Freehold this twenty second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred eighteen
J. Phillips, CLK
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Pension Office
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Long Branch, June 7th 1828
S.J.

To President Buchann,

Honored Sir, I address myself to you, altho I am aware that you cannot of yourself do anything, still, you have it in your power, to urge upon Congress, some immediate action on the claim of the heirs of the Revolutionary officers, which has been before them so long.  I have waited patiently to see if there was a spark of justice in the heads of those who rule, to see if they would accord to the heirs of those brave men their just claim.  No its a pension to this one, and that one, but the just debt, they will not pay.  What had my father for his noble and faithful service to his county?  Nothing but poverty and a broken constitution.  His father clothed him during the seven years he served in the army, My father was in sixteen regular battles counting the siege at Yorktown only has one, and that you are aware lasted sixteen days, and for all this, written he or his has ever received anything, save that a few months before his death, he applied for his half pay, but before it reached him, he had fought his last battle with the king of Jurors.  Then his widow was not entitled to a pension because she was not married until after the war, as if that had anything to do with his services, consequently she and his children had to suffer along in poverty, There is at this time myself and
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sister both over fifty who have been struggling for a living almost ever since we were grown up, and the health of both so shattered that very soon we shall be obliged to give up every effort to minister to our own infirmities.

My fathers name was Wessel Tenbroke Stout, his rank in the army was Captain, by bevet, He was a member of the Cincinnati Society of New Jersey, His diploma is still int he family.  I am his youngest daughter, my name since I married is - 

Mary Guen
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Mr. w.T.B.S. Imlay
228 New York Avenue,
Brooklyn N.Y.

Sir:

In response to your letter dated the 4th instant and received the 6th, requesting military history of Wessel Ten Broeck Stout, you are advised that Wessel T. Stout was allowed pension (File No. 33,7299) on an application executed April 22, 1818, while a resident of Monmouth County, New Jersey, aged Sixty-four or sixty-five years.

It is stated that he enlisted in Essex county, New Jersey, in Captain Thomas Morrel's company, Colonel Phillip Van Cortland's regiment in the five months service, and on January 1, 1777, was appointed Ensign in Colonel Ephraim Martin's Fourth New Jersey regiment; he was also appointed Ensign in the Third New Jersey regiment to rank as Second Lieutenant from November 1, 1777; he was in the battles of Long Island, Short Hills, Monmouth, and many others, and at the siege of Yorktown.  He was discharged at the close of the war at New Windsor, New York, and in pursuance of the Act of Congress of September 30, 1783, ranked as Captain by Brevet in the Army of the United States of America, from November 27, 1783.
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33,l729: Stout: 2

It is further alleged that he died in 1818 and that in 1858 his two daughters were both over fifty years of age.  The youngest was Mrs. Mary Green; the name of the other is not stated.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner
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33729
Revy.

INVALID

File No.  33,729

Wessel T. Stout
Capt. Rev. War

Act:  18th March 18

Index: - Vol. 2, Page 399

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Mutilated
All this was found when claim was opened May 17, 1907.  AW
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NM

The President, 
Morristown , N.J.

The Secretary,
228 New York Avenue
Brooklyn, N.Y.

The Treasurer,
Freehold, N.J.

THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Office of the Secretary
Brooklyn N.Y.

May 4, 07

Pension Office
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:

Kindly give me a copy of the records on file in your office relative to Brevet Captain Wessel Ten Broeck Stout. Third Regiment - New Jersey Continental Infantry during the Revolutionary War.

Thanking you in advance
I am
Very truly

W. T. B. S. Imlay
Secretary

[stamped] US Pension Office May 6 1907
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Toms River N.J. 
May 10th 1858

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions

Sir, Wessel Stout was a Lieutenant in the Continental Army during the war of the Revolution & received a pension as such to the time of his death which occurred in 1818.

He left two minor children who request me to ask you whither they would have been entitled to a continuance of the pension during their minority, & if so, whether it is yet revocable, the requisite proof being furnished.

Your answer to these queries addressed to me at this place will greatly oblige

Very respectfully yours
James B Lane
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED

To Wessel T. Stout  Gentlemen Greeting.  We, reprising especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity DO by their presence constitute and appoint you to be an Ensign int he Third New Jersey Regiment int he Army of the United Militia take rank as a Lieutenant from the8th day of November AD [illegible]  You are therefore carefully and relevantly the duty of [illegible] Ensign [illegible] and you are to observe and follow such orders and direction from  this time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed a committee of the  Milita or commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you.  The commission to continue in service until revoked by this, or a future Congress the committee of Congress beforementioned or a committee of the States.

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board.

Attest

Witness his Excellency John [illegible] Esq. President of the Congress of the United States of America at [illegible] the [illegible] day of March and in the [illegible] year of our Independence.

Secretary of the Board of War
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IN PURSUANCE OF AN ACT OF CONGRESS

Of the Thirtieth Day of September, A.D.
1783

Wessel T. Stout Ensign is to Rank as Captain by Brevet, in the ARMY of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA.

GIVEN under by Hand at Meritus the 27th Day of November 1783
Thomas McHines

Entered in the War Office
Attest
Jos. Carlton Secy.