Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1073, for Joseph Parker, New Jersey
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(8-1776)
[column headings: SERVICE. NUMBER.]
New Jersey   Parker, Joseph    S. 1073
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CONTENTS


New Jersey No. 22,862
Joseph Parker
Monmouth Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a [illegible] Artil. in the company commanded by Captain Schanck of the Regt. commanded by Col. Holmes in the N. Jesey Militia time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 100 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Nov. 1833 and sent to D.B. Ryall Freehold N.J.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833    250.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 34   50.00
[double line]
$300.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
E. Vol. 3 Page 125
[written by hand top right: [illegible] Apl. 13 1837.
Date of death not [illegible]]
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New Jersey N. 22,8862
Joseph Parker
Monmouth Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Jr. Artil. in the company commanded by Captain Schanck of the Regt. commanded by Col. Holmes in the N. Jesey Militia line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 100 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Nov. 1833 and sent to D.B. Ryall Freehold N.J.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833   250.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 34   50.00
$300.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
E. Vol. 3 Page 125
[illegible] Apl. 13 1837
Date of death not [illegible]
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Amended declaration of Joseph Parker an applicant for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832 - State of New Jersey Monmouth County [illegible]. Personally appeared before one that under signed as Justice of the Peace of the County of Monmouth and State of Jew Jersey Joseph Parker who being duly [illegible] according to law deposeth and faith that by reason of old age and the [illegible] lap of memory he cannot swear positively 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; (His original declaration being number 4071 by the War Department) For one month in the fall or winter of 1775 I served as a private [illegible] Captain Barnes Schenck or David Gordon's Company I cant recollect which one was stationed at Middletown Parish in the township of Middletown our detail was to guard the coastal shores and to keep a lookout but cant recollect the month. For five months in the year 1776 I served as a private in five [illegible] tours of one month each namely the months of June July August September and October the first second and third in Captain Samuel Carhart's Company and the fourth & fifth in Captain Thomas [illegible] Company during this period we were stationed at Middletown as [illegible] quarters our duties more to guard the coasts and shores from the British and tories, Col Asher Holmes was our Colonel Elisha Walton Major
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and David Forman General our marches were from Middletown Point to Dearborn Shrewsbury at the Highlands Long Branch Tinton Falls Eatontown and Shrewsbury and the intermediate points and places guarding the shores and protecting the inhabitants from the British and Tories, the first third and fifth months were on my own [illegible] drafts the second and fourth as a substitute for my master [illegible] Baird. For twenty months from the first day of October 1776 to the first of January 1781 I served as a private in Captain Barnes Smocks artillery Company in twenty monthly tours of one month each namely the months of October to December in 1776 and the months of of February April June August October to December in 1777 & the months of February April June August October December in 1779 & the months of February April June August October and December in 1780, their Head Quarters were at Middletown and their duties were to guard the coast and shores from the British and Tories, their Marches were from Middletown Point to Dearborn Shrewsbury they were frequently at Long Branch at Shrewsbury Triton Falls Eatontown and [words crossed out] and other intermediate places guarding the coasts and shores of that part of the County from the British and tories, Asher Holmes was there Colonel the above monthly towns were on his own monthly calls and
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drafts as they were then called under the laws and ordinances of New Jersey, besides these monthly tours he served as a private in the same Artilery Company under the same Captains five monthly towns as substitues for his Master Barzilla Bairds, namely the month of November in 1776 and the months of January March May and July in 1777, then duties were the same as before stated, making in the whole two years four months I served as a private in said Artilery Company. Tunis Anderson was Lieutenant of the Company [illegible] of the times and William Schahck [illegible] and one [illegible] was Sargent and Joseph [illegible] was Ensign, their [illegible] powder was kept at Captain Schahck's House near Middletown where it was fired in all cases of general alarm when the Militia were called out in cases where the British and Tories had landed. For [illegible] months in the year 1778 I served as a private in Captain John Schencks Company and also two months in the [word crossed out] year of 1778 I served as a private in Captain Wallings Company being five monthly tours of one month each namely the months of March May and July under Captain Schenck and the months of September and november under Captain Wallings, this service was as a substitute for his Master Barzilla Bairds, their Head quarters were at Middletown during this service and their duties and marches as before stated Asher Holmes was the Colonel; For one
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month in the year 1779 I served as a private under Captain Chadwick and two months in the same year under Captain Joseph Stillwell, namely the month of March under Captain Chadwick & the months of May and July under Joseph Stillwell, this four months was as a substitute for my old Master Barzilla Baird, their head quarters were at Middletown aforesaid and their duties and Marches were as before tasks guarding the coasts & shores from the [illegible] of the British and Tories. For one year I served as a private [illegible] soldier under Captain Moses Shepherd namely from about the first day of January 1781 to the first of January 1782. I am not positive as to the exact beginning and ending of this term of duty it was however one whole year which I served under it. I joined the Company in Middletown which was their head quarters our duties were as before stated marching at different times to Middleton Point the High Lands, Long Branch, Tinton Falls Shrewsbury and [illegible] guarding the intermediate points and places and protecting the inhabitants from the British and Tories. Asher Holmes was their Colonel, Lambert Johnson was our Lieutenant, Joseph Johnson was Ensign, one Thomas [illegible] was one of [illegible]. I was discharged verbally by my Captain none in writing being given about the first of January 1782. After my discharge in January 1782 in a week or two after I again enlisted
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for one year under Captain Joshua Huddy and joined his company at Colts Neck in Shrewsbury from which they marched to Toms River, and was there until the Block House at Toms River was taken and Captain Huddy was taken prisoner and hung, this was I think within a month or so after my enlistment under him -- after the death of Huddy there being [illegible] of his Company who were not killed or made prisoners I volunteered under Captain Adam Hyler who commanded two gun boats and a whale boat I joined him at the High Lands in Middletown and served under him for two or three weeks, they sailed from the [illegible] Cove up the narrows among the British Fleet, they took [illegible] which were ransomed this was the last service I performed. At the time the Block House at Toms River was taken I had a brother whose name was George was made Prisoner he was also enlisted under Captain Huddy he was exchanged just before Peace was proclaimed. All the above services were rendered under the laws and ordinances of New Jersey. I never had any written discharge while in the service now such being given, and for such services I claim a pension. I was born in  Morris County New Jersey on the 23rd of April 1759 I have no record of my age, my father's family bible being burnt with my brother's home before the Revolutionary War. I lived in Middletown township in Monmouth
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County when called into service and lived in said County until a short time after Peace was proclaimed, then removed to South River in Middlesex, and then removed to [illegible] and lived there until about 25 years ago when I removed to Northampton township in Burlington County where I have ever since lived & where I [illegible] lived. That while in service I was in field & not in garrison except it might be so called the short time I was at the Block House at Toms River & for the times during which the above services were performed I was not employed in any civil pursuit. That the reasons why I did not make my original application for a pension in the County in which I reside is that [illegible] in the County of Monmouth and that it would have been very inconvenient as well as expensive to him to have had to take those from Monmouth County to Burlington County where I reside, they being aged and infirm like myself. That during the whole time I was in the service I did not march out of the County of Monmouth, and duties being to guard the coasts and shores from the British and Tories, and I was so frequently at the places before named in said County that it would be impossible for me to [illegible] the times I was at the different places as we were daily and weekly engaged in marching and patroling from one place to another
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as our duties required -
Sworn and subscribed before me this 26 August 1833

Joseph Parker
Thos C. Throckmorton Judge
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May 17, 1933

BJ-J/EEL
Joseph Parker S.1075

Esther R. Dudley
176 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Benjamin Norman and Joseph and Nathaniel Parker, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, of New Jersey.

A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made in your behalf and no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land having been made to the United Stated based upon the service of a Nathaniel Parker, who served in the New Jersey Troops, or who applied for pension while residing in that state.  The histories of Benjamin Norman and Joseph Parker are furnished herewith.

Joseph Parker
S. 1073

The data furnished herein are obtained fromt he papers on file in Revolutionary War Pension claim, S.1073, based upon the service of Joseph Parker in that war.

Joseph Parker was born april 23, 1759, in Morris County, New Jersey.

While residing in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, he enlisted int he fall or winter of 1775 and served on monthly tours for three months int hat year; nine months in 1776; eight months in 1777; six months in 1778; six months in 1779; and six months in 1780; from January 1, 1781 until January 1, 1782, he served at different periods on short tours, length of service for this period not given; and in 1782, he served two months.  All his service was rendered as a private in the New Jersey Troops under Lieutenant James Wall, Captains Barnes J. Smock, David Gordon, Samuel Carhart, Thomas
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Hunn, John Schneck, Walling, Chadwick, Joseph Stillwell, Moses Shepperd, Joshua  Huddy, and Adam Huyler, and colonel Asher Holmes.  Joseph Parker stated that his entire service was rendered in Monmouth County, New Jersey, guardian the shores and protecting the inhabitants from the Tories.  He was in several small skirmishes, in one of which a bullet passed through his coat, but he was uninjured.  At the time of the battle at tom's River, he was sent out on a scouting party and returned to the fort to find that the engagement had been fought in his absence and his entire company either killed or taken prisoner and his captain, Joshua Huddy, after being taken prisoner had been hanged by th3e Tories.

A short time after the close of the Revolution, he moved to South River, Middlesex County; thence to Trenton, where he lived until about 1806, when he moved to Nottingham, Burlington County, New Jersey, where he was residing when he was allowed pension on his application executed July 24, 1832.

It is not stated that the soldier was ever married.

Soldier's brother, George Parker, served with him in Captain Joshua Huddy's New Jersey Company; there is no claim for pension on file on account of the services of a George Parker, of New Jersey.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Joseph Parker (S.1973), you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing all the following data:

Joseph Parker, Certificate No. 22862, issued November 29, 1833, rate $100 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, New Jersey Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Jany. 15, 1902
Miss Eleanor H. Smith
Ravenna Ohio

1933 May 18 - Hist. to Esther Dudley
Letter in case Jos. P
Benj. Norman
N 1065

Rev War
1-73

INVALID

File No. 1073

Joseph Parker
Priv. N.J. Mil.

Act:  June 7, 1832
Index:- Vol. A, Page 286
[Arrangement of 1870]
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4071

Joseph Parker

admitted by special order of Wm Edwards

obj. 5
Private of artillery
2 years
$100
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Joseph Parker which require further proof or explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II.  Did the declarant make the declaratio in the county where he resides:
No

III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
No.

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period of periods of the war when he served?
Not all

V.  Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served in language so dfinite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
No.

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?

VIII.  Has the court given their opinion?

IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X.  Is the Clerks's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?

XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV.  If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as regulations direct?

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI.  Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
[ following crossed out:  No per (illegible)]

XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  An, if not, which of them if not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES

QUIRE V.  In a case where the applicant  cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:  "personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, 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;  For (blank) year (blank) months and (blank) days, I served as a (blank)  For (blank) months and (blank) days, I served as a (blank); and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in call cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. [the following sentences are underlined] Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia , &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; [underlining stops here] that the applicant served with an embodied crops called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; [again underlined starting here] and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.

In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must provide his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

[following is handwritten]
The nature of the service in this case & the numerous contemporary soldier applicants, under is evident that exertions hereon not been made to procure proof.
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[envelope]

[stamped] TRENTON NJ APR 11

FREE

The Honble J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Burlington
April 10 1837

Dr Sir

Joseph Parker a pensioner residing near Trenton informs me that he has lost his pension certificate on which he received only one semi annual payment.  Will you furnish me with a statement of the form which it is necessary for him to report to, to obtain a renewal of his certificate - so that I may furnish it to him.  I make the application to you as I suppose that you have prescribed the mode of verifying the loss & obtaining a renewal.

I am sorry to trouble you on this subject but am induced to do so as I know that if any irregular application was made that you would be subjected to the trouble.

I have the honor to be
Sir
with great respect
yr ob sevt
Garret D. Wall

The Honble
J.L. Edwards Esq
Comr. of Pensions
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Monmouth Pleas of 
July Term 1832
Declaration of Joseph Parker
No. 4071
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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 court in the matter of the application of  Joseph Parker for a pension on the thirty first day of July 1832.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Freehold the ninth day of March eighteen hundred & thirty three.

D.H. Ellis Clk
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New Jersey Monmouth County ss.

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the County of Monmouth Joseph Parker who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that on the twenty fourth day of July last past he made his declaration before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Monmouth at Freehold & for the purpose of obtaining a Pension under the act of June 7th 1832, that the reason why he did not make his declaration in the county of Burlington where he resides was that all the witnesses of his services resided in the County of Monmouth and it would have been very inconvenient as well as  expensive to him to have had to take them to the county of Burlington, that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the  best of his recollection he served was not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades:  For three month in the year 1775 I served as a private in tours of one month each; for nine months in the year 1776 I served as a private in tours of one month each, for eight months in the year 1777 I served as a private in tours one month each; for six months in the year 1778 I served as a private in tours of one month each; for six months in the year 1779 I served as a private in tours of one month each; for six months in the year 1780 I served as a private in tours of one month each; for one
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year in the year 1781 I served as a private enlisted soldier under Captain Moses Shepherd; for two months in the year 1782 I served as a private, as a listed private soldier under Captain Huddy and for such service I claim a pension.

Joeph Parker

Sworn & subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace of said county this 9th day of March 1833

Thos. C. Throckmorton

I Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the annexed papers contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Joseph Parker for a pension on the twenty fourth day of July last; and also that Thomas C. Throckmorton Esquire whose name is subscribed to the  hand of the above affidavit of the said Joseph Parker sworn & subscribed to this day was at the said time & court is a Justice of the Peace of the said County of Monmouth duly commissioned and sworn and that his said acts as such Justice are entitled to full faith and credit and I do hereby further certify that the name signed Thos C. Throckmorton in the hand of the above affidavit is the proper handwriting of the said Thomas C. Throckmorton.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court at Freehold this ninth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty three

D.H. Ellis Clk
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Declaration of Joseph Parker in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congree passed June 7th 1832.

State of New Jersey County of Monmouth ss

On this twenty fourth day of July Anno Domini 1832 Personally appeared  in open court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth now sitting at Freehold in said County Joseph Parker a resident of the Township of Nottingham County of Burlington and State of New Jersey, aged seventy three years  the twenty third day of April last who being first 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 he entered the said service as a militia man sometime in the fall of the year 1775 then fall before the British landed at Staten Island in the monthly service some few months after he attained the age of sixteen years and  remained in the same doing his duty nearly every month until January 1781 when he enlisted as herein after mentioned that during the period of his monthly service heat all times performed his own monthly tour of duty and then was a substitute for his mater Barzillai Baird to whom he had been bound as an apprentice to learn the trade of a shoemaker, that  during the term of his monthly duties he was out
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all the time until his enlistment except about two or three months performing his own tours of duty and in the intermediate months doing duty as a substitute for his master as stated, that the Captains under who he performed their monthly duties were Captain John Schneck Captain Samuel Carhart, Captain Barnes Smock, Captain David Gordon, Captain Walling, Captain Thomas Hunn afterwards  Captain Chadwick and Capt. Joseph Stillwell and he cannot now recollect the order in which he served under them, he served also under Lieutenant James Wall who acted as Captain during said period that the field officers under whom he served during that period were Col Asher Holmes Major Walton General David Forman that he now recollects that at the time he entered the service as before stated he resided in the township of Middletown County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, and that the country through which he marched during said period of monthly duties centered from Middletown Point to Deal in said County of Monmouth  guarding the coast and intermediate points from the inroads of the British and Tories, that in the month of January 1781 he enlisted in the State service for one year under Captain Moses Shepherds and served his full term out and that  within a week or two after this discharge from said term he again enlisted for one year in the Company of Captain Joshua Huddy who was afterwards hung by the Tories, and he remained in
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the service under said enlistment until the death of Captain Huddy and the destruction of his company at the Black House at Tom's River, he was then with the company under the command of captain Huddy and was out on a scout sent by Captain Huddy with Jacob Stillwaggon John Applegate & two or three others at the time of the attack on the Black House when all that remained were taken or killed except one John Eldrige who made his escape being on guard that on the return of the scout party he found the Black House forsaken except a few wounded soldiers who the enemy had  not taken off, among the dead was Major Cook, after this event he was not again out in the service his company being all killed or prisoners except those with him in the scout party and peace was soon after proclaimed he thinks while in the service under  Shepherd and Huddy that Col. Asher Holmes was then Colonel that he was out in actual service taking the times of his monthly services for himself and as a substitute and the two periods of his enlistment at least three and one half years, that he was in several small skirmishes, one at [indecipherable] during the service when he received a musket ball through his vest coat, during the periods of his enlistments he does not recollect marching out of the county of Monmouth their duties being to guard the shores of said county as before stated that he
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Never served with any continental regiments or companies, nor does he now recollect that he knows any of the regular officers of the army except Captain Burrows after he joined the continental army that he has no documentary evidence of his services, not having received any discharge other than a verbal one at the termination of the term of his enlistment under Captain Shepherd and that  he has heard an old muster roll of the names of Captain Shepherd's company has been found in the possession of the representatives of Hendrick Vandervelt a noncommissioned officer of the company on which his name  with that of the brother George Parker is enrolled and that he knows of no person except John McChesney, Barnes, Eldrige [crossed out and illegible names] whose testimony he could procure who can testify to his services.  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.

Joseph Parker

Sworn to and subscribed this day & year aforesaid

Jehu Patterson

New Jersey Monmouth County ss

The Barnes J Smock, John Chasey, John Eldrige and John L. Bennet of Monmouth County do certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph parker who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy three years of age and that we know him to have been a soldier of the Revolution having each of us served with him
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And from our knowledge of his service in the Revolution we believe he was out in actual service at least three years and half, that he is not only reported and believed in his neighborhood to be a soldier of the revolution but we individually know him to be such and that he is a credible person and that his declaration and statement is entitled to full credit.

Barnes Smock
John Chesney
John Eldridge X  his mark
John L. Bennet

Sworn to and subscribed in and fort court aforesaid the 31 day of July AD 1832

Jehu Patterson

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - and the  court there certifies that it appears to them that Barnes, J. Smock, John Chesney, John Eldridge and John Bennet who has signed the preceding certificate are of the county of Monmouth & are respectively
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and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - and the court further certifies that it appears to them that  Barnes J Smock, John Chesney John Eldridge and  John L. Bennet who have signed the preceding certificate, residents of the county of Monmouth are respectively soldiers of the revolution the first a lieutenant of Dragoons in the service and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

By order of the court
W.J. Bowne
Judge

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 original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Parker 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.

D.H. Ellis Clk
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[very faint on first fold of page]
Act ordering Artillery Companies to be organized 10 Oct 1777

Amended Declaration of Joseph Parker
Original numbered No 4071
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth ss.
 Personally appeared before me Jehu Patterson one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth this 27th day of August 1833 Tunus Aumack a soldier of the revolution and he being duly sworn on the holy angels of almighty God did depose and say that Barnes Smock raised a company of Artillery in the early part of the Revolutionary in which company he this deponent  - Justice the peace of artillery was kept at  Capt. Smock's house and on all occasions when near there was an alarm that peace was fared this was a signal for all the company to depose them let them be on duty whenever they mite - if they were not ordered on other duties they made it there constant practice to rendezvous at the Capt. house where the Peace was kept - all the time this deponent belonged to this company of artillery Joseph Parker belonged as a private in said company enlisted at the time that this Deponent and continued in said company until the war was over and he is free to say that the said Joseph Parker on all occasions acted as a brave man ought to act - this company commenced early in the War and continue until it close but he is old and his memory is impacted he cannot name the dates of it commencement.
Tunus Aumack
X his mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this day and year above written

Jehu Patterson
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss.

John L. Bennet of Middletown Monmouth County being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that he is nearing seventy  years of age that he is well acquainted with Joseph Parker who has signed & sworn the foregoing affidavit, that he was well acquainted with the said Parker during the Revolutionary, that he this deponent belonged in a company of Horse from some 1777 until the close of the war under Captains Reussen, Jacob Covenhaven and Lieutenant Barnes J. Smock who commanded at the close of the war, their headquarters were generally at Middletown Freehold and Trenton Falls in the County of Monmouth during that period, and during the whole of that period I frequently saw the said Joseph Parker in the service, he was a private in Captain Barnes Smock's Artillery company during the period I was in the Horse I frequently saw him in said Company  their headquarters were at Middletown their Gen. was kept at the House of Captain Barnes Smock in Middletown and on occasions of alarm this Gen was fired, that the reputation of the said Joseph Parker was that he was a brave and good soldier and that he always performed his duties well, that he then had and was since has had the reputation of having performed more than the
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ordering those of duties under his own monthly tours of duty and as a substitute for his master - that their duties were to guard the coasts and shores of Monmouth County New Jersey from the British and Tories marching from Middletown to the Highlands Middletown Point long Branch Shrewsbury Teaton Falls & other Points and places, at all of which places I have seen the said Joseph Parker, and I have no doubt from the fact of my so saying the said Joseph Parker in the service and his reputation of a good soldier he served the times mentioned in his above amended declaration, and I have no hesitation in saying that the said Joseph Parker has a strong claim for a pension under the act of June 7 1832 as any other individual who served in the capacity he did, that he has frequently heard the said Joseph Parker enlisted and served under Captains Shepherd and has no doubt of the fact  this deponent  at that time being a prisoner at New York, & he this deponent recollects  more that the said Joseph Parker brought into the information that Captain Huddy was taken & hung after the capture of the Black House at Tom's River & he always understood at that time that said Parker was enlisted under Huddy, he this deponent also  well recollects hearing said Parker Joined Captain Hyer after
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the Black House at tom's River was taken & Huddy's company was broken up that he also recollects frequently having seen said Parker in the monthly tours under Captains Walling, Carhart and John Schneck and others during the Revolutionary war on different occasions at Middletown, Long Branch, the Highlands Shrewsbury, Tinton Falls and other places, then Colonel was Asher Holmes in fact the said Joseph Parker he believes was pretty much out in actual service from the beginning until the close of the war, and always had the character of being a good and brave soldier that he is a man of veracity and his statement is entitled to credit.

John L. Bennet

Sworn & subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Monmouth this 29th of August AD 1833

William LLoyd

New Jersey Monmouth County ss

John Eldridge of Middletown Monmouth County N.J. being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that he is seventy four years & upwards of age, that he is well acquainted with Joseph Parker who has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and was well acquainted with him during the Revolutionary
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war, that during said period he this deponent frequently saw the said Joseph Parker out in the service under the monthly calls or drafts under the laws of New Jersey under Captains Barnes Smock who commanded an artillery company, Captains Wallin, Carhart, John Schneck & others at the Highlands Middletown Long Branch Shrewsbury Tinton Falls Shrewsbery & other intermediate places during the war their duties were to guard the coasts & shores from the British and Tories and their marches were to & from the above places, Middletown was their headquarters, Asher Holmes was their Colonel.  This deponent further says that the said Joseph Parker served one year as a private enlisted soldier in Captain Moses Shepherd's company during which time this deponent served with him in the same company, their year ended & they were verbally discharged from Captain Shepherd's company in the fall or winter of 1781, after their discharge from Captain Shepherd he this deponent & the said Joseph Parker enlisted together in Captain Joshua Huddy's company for one year and remained under his command until Huddy was taken Prisoner at the Black House at Tom's River & afterwards hung by the Tories when the company was broken up that he this deponent and said
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Joseph Parker  were at the Black House & were among the few who made their escape, that he this deponent heard at the time that said Parker afterwards joined Captain Hyler & entered on board his Gen. Boats & served with him some time that  reputation of said Parker was that he was a good and brave soldier during the whole war, and this deponent knows the fact that while he served with said Parker for the year under Captain Shepherd and under  Huddy & also under Captain Barnes Smock in the artillery company he always behaved like a good and brave soldier always doing his duty well on all occasions that this deponent frequently saw the said Parker under Captain's Walling, Carhart Hum John Schneck Barnes Smock & others during the war on different occasions and at different times and occasions, and he has no doubt the said Parker served the different period  he has mentioned in his amended declaration as he was out most of the war at all times under his own monthly tours and as a substitute for his masters on different occasions as this deponent then understood that there was no man in the county of Monmouth who possessed a better reputation as a soldier during the Revolutionary war than the said
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Joseph Parker, that at the time they this deponent & the said Joseph Parker served a year under Captain Moses Shepherd then heard Traitors were at Middletown, Lambert Johnson was Lieutenant and Joseph Johnson was ensign, then marches were along the coasts and shores of Monmouth County guarding it from the British and Tories - that the said Joseph Parker has always possessed a good character for truth and veracity & that his statement is entitled to credit.

John Eldridge
X his mark

Sworn & subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace of Monmouth County this 29th day of August, AD 1833.

William Lloyd

Monmouth County State of New Jersey ss.

John Chesney of Middletown Monmouth County N.J.  being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is seventy eight years and upwards of age, that he is well acquainted with Joseph Parker who has sworn and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and was well acquainted with him during the Revolutionary War, that he this deponent received his discharge as a Sargeant in Captain Jonathan Forman's company lead Eschelon Maritime Regiment at
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Mendham Morris County New Jersey after having served three years the terms of his enlistment in the spring of 1779, when he returned to his home in Monmouth County New Jersey that from that time namely the Spring of 1779 until the fall of 1782 deponent was out in the militia service and that during all that time he frequently saw the said Joseph Parker out in the service under different Captains among which he thinks were Captains Barnes Smock and John Schneck & others, at Middletown Shrewsbury Titon Falls Long Branch & other places along the coast and shores he frequently saw the said Joseph Parker in the service under different Captains guarding the coasts and shores of Monmouth County from the British and Tories. That this deponent served one year as a enlisted soldier under Captains Moses Shepherd and was verbally discharged in the fall or winter of 1781, then headquarters were at Middletown, that the said Joseph Parker and the above John Eldridge who have sworn & subscribed the foregoing affidavits both served one year under the said Moses Shepherd at the same time this deponent served under him & they were discharged at the same time, this deponent understood that the said Parker & Eldridge both upon their discharge from Captain
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Shepherd entered for one year under Captain Joshua Huddy and served under him until the said Huddy was taken prisoner and hung at Tom's River.  Deponent being at that time in Captain John Walton's company of Horse and was one of the guard who brought up Captain Huddy from Sandy Hook after he was hung there was a label on the breast of Huddy to this effect " up goes Huddy in retaliation for Phil White" - that the reputation of said Joseph Parker was always that of a good soldier and as brave a man as was out in the service at that time, that this deponent has no doubt of the fact Parker served the different periods he has mentioned in his amended declaration, as he  saw him frequently in the service himself served one year with him under Captain Moses Shepherd & understood while he this deponent was in the Regular service under Washington, the said Parker was doing his duties as a good soldier under Captain Barnes Smock in the artillery company & served under other different officers - that he is a man of good character for veracity and his statement is entitled to credit.

John Chesney

Sworn & subscribed before me this 29 August 1833 before one of the Justices of the Peace of the County of Monmouth.

William Lloyd
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And I the said William Lloyd Justice as aforesaid before whom the three last affidavits of John L. Bennet, John Eldridge and John Chesney were respectively subscribed and sworn to; do hereby certify that it appears to me that they the said John Bennet, John Eldridge and John Chesney are credible persons and that their respectively statements are entitled to credit and I  do also further certify that it appears to me that  Tunis Aumack who has sworn & subscribed to the preceding affidavit before Jehu Patterson Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace of the County of Monmouth is also a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit;   Dated Freehold N.J. August 29th 1833

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 Thomas C Throckmorton before whom the above amended declaration of Joseph Parker was subscribed and sworn to and John  Patterson before whom the next following affidavit of Tunis Aumack was subscribed and sworn to, and William Lloyd before whom the above affidavits of John L. Bennet , John Eldridge and John Chesney were respectively subscribed and sworn to and who has subscribed to the last proceeding Certifiable
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of the said William Lloyd himself were at the respective dates thereof and now are Justices of the Peace of the said County of Monmouth duly commissioned and sworn respectively, and that  full faith and credit ought and should be attached to all their official acts as such respectively; and I do further certify that the name signed Thos  C. Throckmorton to the  part of the affidavit of the said Joseph Parker is the proper handwriting and signature of  the said Thomas C. Throckmorton Justice as aforesaid, and also that the name signed John Patterson to the points of the affidavit of the said Tunis Aumack is the proper handwriting and signature of the said Jehu Patterson, Justice as aforesaid and also that the name  signed William Lloyd to the points of the affidavits of the said John Bennet, John Eldridge & John Chesney and to the Certificate of the said William Lloyd himself respectively are the proper handwriting and signature of the said William Lloyd Justice as aforesaid -

In Testimony whereof the said Clerk have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office of said Court at Freehold this Twenty ninth day of august Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty three.

DH Ellis Clk
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O. W. and N. Division
3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

1073

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Jos. Parker, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

[the following is listed horizontally from a chart on this form]

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Fall 75

LENGTH OF SERVICE
1 mo.

RANK
Pri  [no change]

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
Captain Barnes Smock

STATE
 N.J. [ no change]

DATES
June 76

LENGTH
3 mo

OFFICERS
Captain Samuel Carhart
Colonel John Homes

DATES
APR. 76

LENGTH
2 mos

OFFICERS
 Captain Thos Hume
Colonel John Homes

DATES
76

LENGTH
2 mo

OFFICERS
Cpt Barnes Smock
Col John Holmes

DATES
Feby 77

LENGTH
5 mo

OFFICERS
Cpt. Barnes Smock
Col. John Holmes

DATES
78

LENGTH
5 mo

OFFICERS
Cpt. Barnes Smock
Col John Holmes

DATES
79

LENGTH
5 mo

OFFICERS
Cap. Barnes Smock
Col John Holmes

DATES
80

LENGTH
5 mo

OFFICERS
Capt. Barnes Smock
Col John Holmes

Battles engaged in, Toms River
Residence of Soldier at enlistment, Middletown NJ
Date of application for pension, July 24, 1832
Residence at date of application, Burlington Co. N.J.
Age at date of application, Born Apl 23, 1759

Remarks:  Claim allowed

Very respectfully

Commissioner

16733b3m12-1900
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O W & N

December 19 01

Pension Department
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen,

Wil you please send what information you may have regarding the Revolutionary War record of Joseph Parker of Trenton N.J. and oblige

(Miss) Eleanor H. Smith
271 Chestnut St.
Ravenna Ohio

[stamped] 
O.W. & Division
Dec 27 1901
Received