Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 129, Jacob Truax, New Jersey
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New Jersey

Truax, Jacob
      Content
Truax or Constant

W. 129
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New Jersey 177976

Jacob Truax
of Monmouth Co. in the State of New Jersey
who was a private in the Co. commanded
by Captain Green of the Reg't commanded
by Col. Henderson in the N. Jersey
line for 2 3mos.

No. 6337

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 76 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of Oct 1833 and sent to P. Vredenburgh -?-
    Freehold N. Jersey

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833.           $191.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 34    38.33
                                                                  $229.99


Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer
Book E Vol. 3 Page 133
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Application of Jacob Truax
No. 6337
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     DECLARATION
  In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
     On this thirty first day of July eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey now sitting Jacob Truax a resident of the township of Dover in the county of Monmouth aged seventy one years  who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 - 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - that the field officers were General David Forman Colonel David Hendrickson Major Elihu Chadwick  the company officers were James Green Lieutenant George Brinley that he entered the militia service as a common militia man in the fall of 1777 and continued in the service every other month till near the close of the war and was in actual service upwards of two years in what was then called the monthly service in said county of Monmouth.  That he was in the skirmish against Col. Tie (Lie?) near Eatontown in said county, the refugees were commanded by Col. Tie/Lie a black man who was killed in that skirmish.  That at the time he entered the service he resided in the township of Howell in the county and state aforesaid where he was born - that he was often under the monthly  -?- - that he marched from the highlands to Cranberry Inlet in said County - that the ....
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...duty of his company was to guard the coast and protect the inhabitants from the depredations of the Tories (another line entered above at this point VERY small print and smudged - illegible).   that he is not acquainted with any of the regular officers, that he hanse documentary evidence and that Samuel Johnson and John R. Johnson residing in his neighborhood can testify to his service if necessary.  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.
Jacob Truax his X mark

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
   John Patterson

  We Samuel Johnson and John R. Johnson no minister being convenient residing in the township of Howell in the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Truax who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy one years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood wherein he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion - that we were personally acquainted with him during and before the revolution and that we served with him in the same company for some time but how long they do not recollect that he is a credible man and his statement worthy of credit.
Saml. Johnson
John R. Johnson his X mark

Sworn and subscribed in open Court that day and year aforesaid
    John Patterson
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....And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation 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 Samuel Johnson and John R. Johnson who have signed the preceding certificate reside as in their said certificate is mentioned that they are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.
    John Petterson
     William Lloyd       Judges
     John R. Davison


   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 the foregoing contains the genuine proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Truax for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Freehold, this thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
                      DH Willis CLK
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I the subscriber Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas is and for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in theater of the application of Jacob Truax for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty second day of August eighteen hundred and thirty three.

D.H. Willis CLK
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New Jersey 2343

Contente Truax dec'd
widow of Jacob Truax dec'd
who was a pensioner under the Act of (blank)
and who died on the 127 Oct1838
of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Company
commanded by Captain Green of the
Reg't commanded by Hendrickson in
the N.J line for 23 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey
at the rate of 76 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836 pending 17 Oct 1838

Certificate of pension issued the 13 day of
January and sent to Hon.
W.L. Dayton, Senate

Recorded by Theo L. Moody Clerk
Book A Vol. 2 Page 137
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A new certificate was issued
in this case under opinion
of Att. General of 2 Feb 1842
given in consequence of the
Resolution of Congress of
16 Aug '42 payable to:
Sylvanus Truax, Thomas
Truax, Samuel Truax,
Jacob Truax, Margaret Havens, and Hester Layton
Surviving children and
Reported conformably.

Set to Phil. Dickinson Jany 31 '43
same person -?- auditor 15th
May 1843
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State of new Jersey
Monmouth County
Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of said County now sitting Jacob Truax who having duly sworn according to law deposth and saith That his declaration of July 31 1832 herewith accompanied he has inadvertently described himself as residing in township of Dover in said County but that he in fact resides in the township of Howell in said County near the dividing lines between s'd township of Dover and Howell.  That he was born in said township of Howel in 1761 that he lived there when he entered into the service and has ever since and does now reside there, that he entered the service under the monthly calls, that is one half of the militia was called out one month and the other half the next month and so on alternatively.  That he never rec'd any discharge, a discharge not being usually given where to those who served in that way.  That during all of said periods mentioned below and for all the time for which her claims a pension, he served with an embodied corps called out under the authority of the State, that he was in the field as much as the nature of the service could be called.  That for the time during which the service mentioned below were performed he was not employed in any civil pursuit, that both he and the companies with which he served, respectively received their regular rations a pound of bread a pound of meat daily besides ammunition from the government.  That by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollections he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades viz: as a private believes he served four tours of one month each under Capt Denise Denice, he thinks in the year 1777 stationed sometimes at Colts Neck and sometimes at Fruton Falls in said County, then three tours of one month each under Capt. Joshua Bennet stationed at the Laweplace (?)
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.....Then five tours of one month each under Capt. James Green stationed at Colts Neck, then five tours of one month each under Capt. John Poland stationed at the same place, then three monthly tours of one month each under Capt. William Green at the same place, then three tours of one month each under Capt. William Sweetman at the same place, that he cannot -?- to memory any other particular tours at this distance of time, and for the services above stated he claims a pension, that there are no surviving witnesses to detail his services that he knows of except John R. Johnson and Samuel Johnson; His Capts. are all dead, and other officers as far as he knows - Elihu Chadwick was his lieutenant under James Green.  That from the nature of the service in which he was employed he came little in contact with the regular troops and therefor remembers but little about them - that the said companies were engaged in defending the sea coast from Sandy Hook to Cranberry Inlet - that the troops and militia men were not called out of Monmouth County so much as from the other counties on account of the peculiarly exposed situation of the County and that State of the inhabitants.
Jacob Truax his X mark

Sworn and subscribed in Open Court 7th June(?) 1833
   William Lloyd

  I the subscribing 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 the foregoing contains the supplemental proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Truax for a Pension.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Twenty Second day of August eighteen hundred and thirty - three
    W.H. Ellis CLK
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We John Saplin Newman a clergyman residing in the township of Howell in said county of Monmouth and Samuel F Allen residing in the same place do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Truax who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration.  That we believe him to be seventy two 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.
John Saplin Newman
Sam'l F. Allen

sworn and subscribed this 7th day of June 1833 in one court before me one of the Jutices of the Peace in and for said County - Joseph Brinley Judge

(this next part has 4 "X"s across it)

And the said Curt do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and 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   (blank)  who has signed and subscribed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the said township of Howell and that (blank) who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
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   I the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county of Monmouth do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Saplin Newman and Samuel F. Miller who have sworn and subscribed to the foregoing certificate and that John Saplin Newman is a clergyman residing in said Township of Howell and that Samuel F. Allen is a resident of the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to full credit.
Witness my hand this fifth day of August 1833. Joseph Brinley Justice

   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 Joseph Brinley before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken and who has signed the foregoing certificate at the time of doing thereof and still is a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and enrolled in his office, and that full faith and  credit are due and outght to be given to all his official acts as such and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and that the name signed "Joseph Brinley" to the said foregoing affidavit and certificate is respectively the proper hand writing of the said Justice -
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty second day of August eighteen hundred and thirty three.
      D.H. Ellis CLK.
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1887 Contente Truax's
application for
pension -
Act July 7 1838
M 1784 d. 1837

P. Vredenburgh -?-
Agent
Freehold
23 mo N. Jersey 
Militia. $76.66 per
an. from July
 6 1837
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Declaration in order to boating the benefit of the act of congress of the 78th July 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows".

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
   On this fourteenth day of September A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me Samuel F. Allen one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said county Contente Truax a resident of the township of Howell in said County of Monmouth aged seventy three years who being 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 87th 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows, that she is the widow of Jacob Truax who was a private in the militia of New Jersey during the War of the Revolution and drew a pension as such under the Act of 1832 till his death and for proof of the service of her said husband she refers to the records of the Pension Department.  She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Truax on the thirteenth day of August seventeen hundred and eighty four
       And that her husband the aforesaid Jacob Truax died on the thirteenth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty seven and that she still remains his widow and that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred ad ninety four viz: at the time above stated.....
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...and that she is too informed to attend court from old age and decrepitude -
Contente Truax her X mark

Sworn and subscribed this fourteenth day of September 1828 before me -
  Sam'l F. Allen

   Jos. F. Randolph and the said Judge do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with the said Jacob Truax in his life time and also the above mentioned Contente Truax and have been acquainted with them for the space of forty years (space) years last past and during all that time till the death of said Jacob Truax they always lived together as and were reputed in the neighborhood to be legally married and their children of whom they have several were always in the neighborhood and received in society as legitimate and that the Jacob Truax above mentioned was a pensioner of the United States and in the act of 832 until his death and that the said Contente Truax is able from bodily infirmity to attend Court, and that she is a credible person and her statements entitled belief and confidence.
     Sam'l F. Allen
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   On the Seventeenth day of September eighteen Hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me Sam'l F. Allen one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey Ann Truax a resident of the township of Dover in the said County of Monmouth aged seventy six year who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration that she was present at the marriage  of Jacob Truax and aforesaid pensioner and Contente (Constante?) his wife an applicant for a pension that the said Jacob Truax and Contente were married by she verily believes in the (smudged word - date) of August seventeen hundred and eighty four and that the deponent was present and witnessed said marriage and heard them pronounced man and wife and that several persons were present and witnessed the same and that the said Jacob Truax and Contente his wife ever after lived together and were reputed as man and wife -
Ann Truax her X mark

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me Sam'l F. Allen
    Being a -?- Witness

  I the said Judge do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the said Ann Truax and that she is a creditable person and her statements entitled to belief and confidence.
   Sam'lF. Allen
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth  County 
     I Daniel H.Ellis clerk of the Inferior Court of Commons Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Samuel F. Allen who has signed the foregoing affidavit and certificate was at the time of the doing thereof and still is a judge of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County duly commissioned and sworn and enrolled in my office and that full faith and credit are due -?- when given to all his official acts was such and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and that his name signed to said affidavit  and certificate is genuine - 
    In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Freehold in said County this twentieth day of September AD eighteen hundred and thirty eight
    D.H. Ellis CLK
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Exhibit -?- (illegible)
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Silvanus Truax was born
May the 20 day 1786

Margaret Truax was born the 5 day of 1788

Thomas Truax was born
March the 26 day 1790

Samuel Truax was
born June the 19 day of 1792

Jacob Truax was born
June the 26 day 1794

Easter Truax was born
January the 3 day 1798
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
   Second Comptroller's Office
         May 20th 1843

Sir:
    Under the act of the 6th April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States" and the 3d section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Four of six children of Content Truax dec'd a Pensioner on the Roll of the Trenton N. Jersey Agency, at the rate of Seventy six Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th July 1838, has been paid at the Department, from the 17th of July 1837, to the 17th Oct 1838.
Respecfully yours,

Albion K Parris


To the Commissioner of Pensions
           Present
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Declaration of the
Children of Contente Truax
 Jan'y 1843



James N. Lawrence
Impaystown
Monmouth Co. 
N. Jersey
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
  On this second day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Sylvanus Truax, Samuel Truax, and Hester wife of John Layton residents of Howell township County and State aforesaid the first aged fifty six year, Samuel aged 50 years, and Hester Layton  about forty four who. being first duly sworn according to law doth on their oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 1838 and the 23rd of August 1842 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That they are the children of Jacob and Contente Truax the former drew a pension from the United States  that the mother of the applicants said Contente Truax was placed on the Pension Roll at the rate of seventy and 66/100 dollars per year under the act of July 7, 1838, commencing on the seventeenth day of July 1837 but died before the certificate was received.  The death of said  Contente Truax took place on the seventeenth day of October 1838 when all her children were named to the satisfaction of the Court supposed to be living but Thomas, Jacob, and Margaret the two brothers and sister of the applicants having moved to parts unknown in the Western Country from whom no intelligence has been received for many years past, has presented as drawing our parts, these applicants now ask and claim the arrears and for amount due to that may be due if our said mother was now living under the above acts of July 7, 1838 and Aug. 23rd 1842 from 4th march 1836 to the 17th day of October 1838 being the day of her death under the above recited acts reference being had to the declaration of our mother the said Content Truax now on file at the War Department.
Sylvanus Truax his X mark
Samuel Truax
Hester Layton her X mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me
Littleton Herbert
  Justice of the Peace
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Declaration of the children
of Content Truax
  Jan 1843

(written vertically)

James N. Lawrence
Imlaystown
Monmouth County
N.J.
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  I certify that Sylvanus Truax Samuel Truax and Hester Layton are known to me to be the heirs of Jacob and Contente Truax and that of known credibility and truth and that they were sworn by me and subscribed the same.

Lyttleton Herbert Justice
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State of New Jersey 
     I Charles G. McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Lyttleton Herbert Esquire before whom the affidavits of Sylvanus Truax Samuel Truax and Hester Layton were taken, was at the time of the doing thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth in said State duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn,  that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations and that the signature thereof is in the proper hand writing of the said Lyttleton Herbert Esq.

    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Trenton in said State this third day of January A.G. one thousand eight hundred and forty three.

Charles G. McChesney
Secy of State
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6337

Jacob Truax
N. Jersey




Adm. 1 year & 11 months
       40.00
       36.66
     _______
     $76.66

P. Vredenburgh
Freehold
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WAR DEPARTMENT
    Pension Office
         29 April 1833

Sir:
     The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which  must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention Lismore particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus: } ), you will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them. and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

Statement shewing the Service of Jacob Truax

Period when the service was rendered:
     1777 1778 1779

Duration of the claimant's service:
4-3-5-5-3-3 = 23

Names......under whom he served:
Gen'l. David Forman - Col. Dan Hendrickson - Major Elihu Chadwick   - Capts. James  Green - Dennis Dennis - Joshua Bennet - John Poland - Wm. Green - Wm Sweetman -  Leu. + Gen Brumley

Age at present and place of abode when he entered service:
72 years Howell in Monmouth

Proof by which declaration is supported:
Samuel Johnson and John R Johnson who served with him -
Certificate of clergyman J.L. Newman and Lawrence F. Allen a Judge of Court of Common Pleas.

I am, respectfully,
    Your obedient servant,
      J.L. Edwards
      Commissioner of Pensions

(to left):
-?- Jacob Truax
4-3-5-5-3-3

(to right)
       76.66
               2 1/2
____________
     153.32
       38.33
_____________
     191.65
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Note brackets around paragraphs at bottom of page.
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Note brackets around top and bottom paragraphs.
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James N. Lawrence
Imlaystown
Monmouth Co.
N. Jersey
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    I Samuel Mairs Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monmouth do hereby certify that at a special term of said Court holden at Freehold in and for say County on the fourteenth day of September  eighteen hundred and forty one, it was proven to the satisfaction of the Court that Contente Truax a pensioner of the United States died on the seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight at her residence in the township of Howell in said County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey leaving Sylvanus Truax, Thomas Truax, Samuel Truax, Jacob Truax, Margaret wife of Daniel Havens and Hester wife of John Layton who were her only children and still living - all which things were fully proven to the satisfaction of said Court -
   In witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed  my deal of office at Freehold in and for said County ofMonmouth this fourteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one - Samuel Mairs CLK
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Contente Truax
application for Pension
supplemental affidavit


P. Vredenbough
agent
Freehold
N. Jersey
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
 Contente  Truax widow of Jacob Truax dec'd being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that there is no record whatever in existence of her marriage with the said aJacob Truax except  the record of the birth of her children as contained in Exhibit  No. 1 accompanying this affidavit which he has tis day torn out of her family Bible for the purpose of sending to Washington on her application for a Pension, that her oldest child Sylvanus was born on the twenty sixth day of May seventeen hundred and eighty -?- as is to said Exhibit set forth, and that he was born about a year after her said marriage.  That she was married by Jacob Davis - then a minister of the Gospel at the 7th day Baptist denomination of Christians, that there were number of others present at her said marriage besides Ann Truax  who has heretofore made affidavit on this application that has been sent to Washington but this deponent cannot at this time call to memory any other one of them who is now living - 
Contente Truax her X mark

Sworn and subscribed this 24th day of September 1838 before me one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County -
   Littleton Herbert  Witness 

  And I the said Judge do hereby certify that said exhibit No. 1 has been this day in my possession and said content Truax from her family Bible for the purpose of being sent to Washington.....
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...on this application, and that I have witness to the said family Bible and am satisfied that it is a true family Bible of said Contente Truax and that the record of the said births of her children as therein set forth is true. And that she is a credible person and her statements entitled to belief and confidence.

Sam'l. F. Allen
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On the twenty fourth day ofSeptember AD eighteen hundred and thirty eight before me Sam'l F. Allen one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth in theState of New Jersey personally appeared Ann Truax a resident of the township of Dover in said County of Monmouth aged seventy six years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration - That she present at the marriage of of Jacob Truax  the aforesaid pensioner (now dec'd) and Contente (Constante?) his widow now an applicant for a pension - that said Jacob Truax and Contente were married in the month of August seventeen hundred and eighty four by as this deponent thinks and verily believes by Jacob Davis then a minister of the gospel of the Seventh Day Baptist denomination of Christians - that there were a number of other persons present and witnesses the said marriage ceremony but this deponent can not call to mind any of them who are now living And that the said Jacob Truax and Contente ever after lived together and were reputed man and wife.
Ann Truax her X mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
   Sam'l F. Allen

I the said Judge do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the said Ann Truax and that she is a creditable person and her statements entitled to belief and confidence.
   Sam'l F. Allen
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
   I Dan'l H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Samuel F. Allen who signed the foregoing affidavit and certificate was at the time of the doing thereof and still is one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly commissioned, sworn, and enrolled in my office and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said S.F. Allen and that his name signed to the foregoing affidavits and certificate is genuine -
   In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal alf said Court at Freehold in said County this twenty fifth of September AD eighteen hundred. and thirty eight -
   D.H. Ellis CLK
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1887 Sept 24
NJ.
Act of July 1838

(written horizontally to left)

Freehold
Sept 21

(written horizontally in center)

James L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

(written at bottom upside-down)
V 1887
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Jacob Truax NJ Act
June 7 1832 -?- paid
           HRL (initials?)

Dec'd 16 July 1837 pd. to that period
                                        JH (initials?)
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Freehold Apr-20-1838

Sir
     Enclosed I send application of Contente Truax for a Pension the attention of the Department is solicited to her case -
     
       I sent a month or two since Sarah Polands application for a pension - her husband was in the regular army - I have not yet heard any thing respecting it from the the department.

         respectfully yours
             P. Vredeburgh

J.L. Edwards Esq.
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    Payment to be made
at Trenton, NJ.
by P. Dickinson Esq.
Agent for paying Pen-
sions, in the Agency of
    N.J.



     Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A Vol 2
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      Theo L. Moody Clerk
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      WAR DEPARTMENT
      Revolutionary claim

    I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7 July 1838
     Contente Trucs deceased of New Jersey widow of Jacob Truax deceased who was a private in the Revolution and died on the seventeenth day of October 1838 was entitled to receive five years pension at the rate of Seventy six dollars and seventy six cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March 1836, but having been paid from the seventeenth day of October 1838 only the amount due from the 20th of March 1836 to the seventeenth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty eight is still due, and will be paid on the presentation of the proper voucher to the Pension Agent at Trenton,N.J., to Sylvanus Truax, Thomas, Samuel , and Jacob Truax, Margaret Havens, and Hector Layton only surviving children of Contente Truax deceased.
        Given at the War Office of the United
          States, this thirteenth day of
           January.    one thousand eight
            hundred and forty three.
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(smudged word) J L Edwards
       Comm.
             Washington
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Imlaystown N.J.
January 20, 1843

DearSir,
      The children of Contente Truax deceased request me to send back for correction the papers enclosed.
     No part of the pension has been paid, on account of to being able to find Thomas Truax, Jacob Truax, and Margaret who married David Havens  all three of those have moved about nine or ten years ago to Ohio or Indiana when their names were given to the Court at Freehold.  It was stated they moved to the Western Country many years ago and we did not know that any of them was alive then, and as they could not be found - the remaining children could not get any of the money.  So they concluded to send their mothers commission back and apply for all of the 5 years pension for only children now known to be living.  As stated in the declaration lately sent to your office as follows Sylvanus Truax, Samuel Truax, and Hester Layton   only those known to be living.
      Mr. Dickinsons letter will inform you that nothing has been paid to the children.
            Your servant
             James N. Lawrence


Hon. J.L. Edwards
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  2343
   New Jersey 

Contente Truax
widow of Jacob Truax - Dec'd -
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 and who died on the 16th July, 1837
I Monmouth County in the State of New Jersey
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Green of the Reg't commanded 
by Col. Hendrickson in the New Jersey
line for 23 months -

Inscribed n the Roll of New Jersey -
at the rate of 76 Dollars and 66 Cents per annum to commence on the (words crossed out) 17th July, 1837

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of April
1839 and sent to P. Vredenburgh
Freehold, New Jersey

Arrears to the 4th March 1839.           $125.65
Semi-annual allowance ending 
                               4 Sept. '39.                 38.33
                                                              __________
                                                                 $163.98


Recorded by Wm. Stewart clerk
Book A Vol. 2 Page 137
Page 46

Sir,

      I remit to you the Papers of Jacob Truax - amended according to the instructions of the department -
      About two months since I sent the papers of Mr. Ellison Covert back to the department amended - but have not yet any intelligence about them - Number of applications sent from this place -?- Mr. Covert were remitted have been acted upon and the result communicated to the applicants.
    Presuming, that by accident, Mr Covets have been overlooked or mislaid I take the  liberty of calling your attention to them and earnestly (?) requesting to hear at an early  opportunity of his application as well as of the application herewith remitted -  The declarations of Messr. Ellison and Truax are equally as precise and supported by proof equally as strong as dozens of those whose (crossed out) from the County, whose applications have long since been allowed.
     viz -?- P. Vredenburgh Esq.
Page 47

Issue a certificate
for 76.66 per an.
to Sylvanus Truax
Thomas Truax Sam-
uel Truax Jacob
Truax Margaret
Havens - and Hester
Layton from
4 March '36 to 17th
Oct. 1838

Hon. W.S. Dayton
Senate
Page 48

129

Revy WIDOW, &c.

File NO. 129
contente Truax
widow
Jacob Truax
Priv. Rev. War

Act: July 7, 1838

Index:- Vol. M, Pge 285
Page 49

Trenton Jany 19, 1843

Sir,
     I am requested by the holder of the certificate of Contente Truax deceased to state that nothing has been paid on the former certificate opened to her, is never having been presented at this office - although her name was on our books - No part then of the 5 years pension has been paid to her, and the object is to get an allowance for the whole.

    I am very Respectfully
     your obd. servant
    Phil. Dickinson -?-
         and Pension at N.J.

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions