Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5812, John Berrien, New Jersey.
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(3-1776)

Service
New Jersey
                                 Number
Berrien, John            W.5812
              Mary
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279.
New-Jersey

Mary Berrien
widow of John Berrien
NJ
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Sergeant

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
120 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
13 day of June 1851
and sent to W. S. Allison
Present
Died
March 1, 1854

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 282 Vol. 4
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12,826.

Mary Berrien
widow of John
NJ
act of 7 July 1838

Married 1789
husband died 1797

John B. Story
Kingston
Middlesex County
N.Jersey

Act 7th July 1838.
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Declaration of Mary Berrian
Acts of Congress July 7, 1838 March 3d, 1843,
and June 17, 1844.

State of New Jersey
Somerset County  S.S. 

On this 11th day of Oct A.D. one thousand Eight hundred and forty five Personally appeared Before Me the Subscriber One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county Mary Berrian a Resident of Franklin Township in the County of Somerset and State of New Jersey in the Eighty third year of her age who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her Oath make the following declaration in Order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress passed July 7, 1838 March 3d, 1843 and June 17, 1844 Entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows since the Supplement thereto that she is the widow of John Berrian who was a privet and Sergeant in the militia and State troops in New Jersey in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary war that being married to her said husband after the close of the Revolution she cannot specify his tours of service except so far as she has often heard him repeat and tell to others the hardships and sufferings he had undergone both in the camp and in captivity, that in 1776 he left his residence and Crossed into Pensylvania and joined the army under Genl. Washington to the best of her information it was in the autumn of the year while with the army he was sent
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by the Commander into New Jersey for information that he
Returned to the armey in Pensylvania and gave information
of the movements of the Enemy who then held Possession of this State
Was Engaged in the battles of Trenton and Princeton on the 2d
and 3 of January 1777 that he continued to do Regular
Militia service till in the month of October 1779 when in
attack was made by the Enemy under the command of Col
Sinco on our Citizens while Engaged in that Battle he was taken
Prisoner and carried to New York where he was detained as a prisoned
Till Exchanged on or about the middle of April A.D. 1780 that he
Enlisted in the 6 months service after being exchanged in 1780 and
served as Sergeant in a company under the command of Capt
Jones stationed at Springfield after which service he entered a company
for 3 months in 1781 under the command of Capt Israel Rickey
Stationed at Elizabeth Town when this service Expired he
Continued to serve in Capt Jones Company as Sergeant
as long as the Militia Service was needed----
Declarant statements above are made to the best of her recollection
and belief as they were told to her by her said husband that she
verily believes he served including his captivity more than two
years during the Revolutionary war in the service of the United 
States for which she claims a pension She further declairs
That she was married to the said John Berrian on the [blank]
day of January Seventeen hundred and Eighty nine at her
Fathers house in Kingston Somerset County by the Revd Isaac
Skillman who has left no record of Marriages declarant has
No Certificate or Record of her Marriage that her husband the
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verily believes he served including his captivity more than two
years during the Revolution in the service of the United 
States for which she claims a pension She he further declares
That she was married to the said John Berrian on the [blank]
day of January Seventeen hundred and Eighty nine at her
Fathers house in Kingston Somerset County by the Revd Isaac
Skillman who has left no Record of Marriages [illegible] has
No Certificate of record of her marriage that her husband the
aforesaid John Berrian died on the fifteenth of January Seventeen
hundred and ninty seven, 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 and Ninety
Four (Viz) at the time above stated ---
s/ Mary Berrien

Sworn to and Subscribed on
The day and year above written
before me 
s/ Elnatt Moore one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas

I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above Declarant that she is a person of credibility and on account of bodily infirmity is unable to appear in open Court
-
s/ Elnatt Moore Judge
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State of New Jersey
Somerset County ⎬ SS
On the 11th day of October A.D. 1845
Before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said
County Personally offered Peter Vantilburgh a Resident
of the Township of Franklin in the County and State aforesaid
in the Eighty second year of his age a person of truth and
Credibility to me personally known who being duly sworn
according to law on his oath deposeth and saith that Mary
Berrian Widow of John Berrian is the sister of deponent
that he was present personally at the Marriage of John
Berrian to his sister Mary in the month of January 1789
it took place at her fathers house and the ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Isaac Skillman A Prebyterian
Clergyman who was from the State of New York and after
Settled in one of the Western Counties of this State John
Berrian departed this life on the fifteenth day of January
A.D 1797 and his widow still remains unmarried deponent 
has often heard him speak of his services and
suffering as a prisoner in the Revolutionary War
s/ Peter Vantilbrg

Sworn to and subscribed today
and year above written
Before M. Elnatt Moore
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Somerset County Ss.
On the fourteenth day of October 1845
Before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for
said County personally appeared Major William Duryee of the
County and State aforesaid in the Eighty first year
of his age to me known as a person of truth and veracity
who being duly sworn according to law on his oath
deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with
John Berrian during the Revolutionary war and
untill his death he was the husband of Mary Berrian
who is now making application for a pension and
he believes he the said John Berrian was a Sergent in the
Militia of this County Recollects very well that Berrian
was taken prisoner by the British under the command of be
Col Simco and taken to New York and detained untill
The next spring, knows that Berrien was an active friend to
the Revolution and this deponent further believe that
Berrien was Employed by the authority, to assit in Running
the people to arms to defend their libertys
s/ William Duryee

Sworn and subscribed
Before me the day and
above written
s/ Elnatt Moore
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County } SS
On the fourteenth day of October - A.D. 1845
Before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally
appeared John Gulick of the County and State aforesaid in the Eighty
fourth year of his age to me known as a person of truth and veracity who
Being duly sworn according to law on his oath deposeth and saith that
he was well acquainted with John Berrian before and during the
Revolutionary war and untill his death which took place about the
year 1797 he was the husband of Mary Berrian who is now making
application for a pension deponent well recollects the said John
Berrian was Sergeant in Capt William Jones Company of Somerset
Militia in the 2d battalion under the command of Col Henery
Vandyke, Taylor, Baird and other officers that he performed a great
deal of Militia and State services during the Revolutionary war
he well recollects that in the month of October 1779 the Militia were
Called out and attacked the British under the command of Lieut.
Col Simco who commanded a Company of bors in which engagement
Capt Peter Voorhies and others of the Americans were killed and
John Berrian together with Capt John Pollemus Dr John
Riker Joseph Stoker and others were taken prisoner said John
Berrian was taken to New York and there imprisoned till about
the middle of April the Spring following all of which facts are first
in the Revolution of deponent he often heard Berrian speak
of the sufferings he endured in that imprisonment after he was
Exchanged in the spring of 1780 he served in Capt Jones
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Company which was stationed at Springfield under Col Van Dyke
and Brig. Genl Heard, deponent believes that service was for six
months he the said John Berrian may have volunteered and served
in other Militia Companies but deponent cannot specify
perticulerly Except that he well recollect that said Berrian
was an active and good soldier and officer during the
Revolution and was a Sergeant in Capt William Jones -
Company till the war closed deponent recollects that
some time in the year 1789 he married Mary Vantilburgh
of the same neighbourhood and now is and has remained
a widow ever since the death of her said husband ---
s/ John Gulick

Sworn to and subscribed the day
and year above written
Before me
Benjn Scott J P
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County ⎬ S.S
On the Sixteenth day of October Eighteen
hundred and forty five before the Subscriber & Justice of the
Peace in and for said County Personally appeared Henery
Van Dyke of the County and State aforesaid in the fifty sixth
year of his age to me known as a person of truth
and veracity who being duly sworn according to law
on his oath deposeth and saith that he well recollects his
Father Mr John Van Dyke and his uncle Mr Matthew Van Dyke both of
Middlesex County told deponent more than thirty years ago
That he John Berrian the husband of Mary Berrian the applicant
that whilst they were in the army in Pensylvania before the Battle of
Princton in Seventeen hundred and seventy seven that he
the said John Berrian and Aaron Longstreet by the permit
and direction of their officers left Pennsylvania and returned
to Mapleton in Middlesex County in the State of New Jersey
which state was then in the possession of the British to [illegible] of
Mathias Van Dyke where a number of British offices was quartered
their object being to get information respecting the movement
and situation of the Enemy that they then and there in the
Night crept into a window of said house the same being
occupied by the British officers at the time, and have an
[illegible] with part of the family they were [illegible] of [illegible] Mathias Van dyke
that they left said station and all armies other stations
of the Enemy when they returned to Pensylvania and
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and Joined the army under Genl Washington deponent
declares that he believes that the said John Berrien was the
husband of Mary Berrian the present applicant
s/ Henry Van Dyke

Sworn and Subscribed to
the day year above written
before me
Benjn Scott J P
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State of New Jersey 
Middlesex County  ⎬ S.S.
Personally appeared before me
Isaac Story one of the Justices of the peace in and for the
County of Middlesex Peter Vantilburgh and Charlotte
Vantilburgh who being severally sworn according to
Law deposeth and saith that in the year seventeen
hundred and Eighty nine in the month of January
they was present at the house of William Vantilburgh
In the Village of Kingston that they then and there saw
Mary Vantilburgh Married to John Berrien
Son of Peter Berrien in a Lawful Regular manner
s/ Peter Vantilburgh
s/ Charlotte Vantilburgh (x her mark)

Sworn and Subscribed
Before me this thirteenth
day of August Eighteen hundred 
and forty two-
s/ Isaac Story J. P.


State of New Jersey
Mercer County ss
On the 17th day of October 1845 before
the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
personally appeared Isaac Stong Esqr who being sworn
according to law on his oath saith. That on the 13th day
of August AD 1842 he took the above affidavit of Peter
and Charlotte Van Tillburgh, for the purpose of proof of
marriage of their Sister Mary to John Berrien to be used
in a suit at law for the recovery of Dower in the lands
of her husband, on account of having no certificate
or record of their marriage and that the affidavit
is in the hand writing of deponent and has been in
the possession of the widow Mary Berrien till this past
time, Charlotte Van Tillburgh died two years ago
s/ Isaac Story

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and Isabel Story
year above written before me
⎬
Fred R Kingman J. Peace
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State of New Jersey

I Charles G. McChesney Register of the
Prerogative Court of the State of New Jersey
do hereby certify that the will of John
Berrien late of Rock Hill in the County of
Somerset and State of New Jersey deceased
is recorded in my office in Liber 37 of Wills
page 25 and bears date April 3rd
A.D. 1790. that in and by said will he bequeath, among other
things, to his "beloved wife Mary Berrien, two thirds of his real
estate and that said will was admitted to probate by his
Excellency Richard Howell Governor &c on the 7th day of February
A.D. One thousand seven hundred and ninety seven

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto ┃
set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Trenton this
twenty third day of October A.D. One thousand Eight hundred
and forty five.

s/ Charles E. M. Chesney
Register
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No. 1
Abstract of Pay & Bounty Rolls discharged by Wm Verbyck
Pay Master to the Militia of Somerset County

[table] 
No 3
Date of Service June 15, 1780
Officers names Capt. W. Jones
No. of Men 43 
What Regiment Col. Vandyke
Where Served Springfield
Under Whom Brig. Heard 
(no heading) 194.8.8

No 3
Date of Service "" 
Officers names  Do
No. of Men --
What Regiment  Do
Where Served  Do
Under Whom  Do
(no heading) 459.0.0

No. 2
A Regimental Pay Roll of the First Battalion of Somerset Militia
and Capt. Ricky's company of three months men, and Capt. David
Smally's Compy of six months men by Saml Annin Pay Master to
said Regt.

No. of Rolls 1 
Date of Service Oct 15. 1781
Officers names Israel Ricky Capt.
No. of Men 81
What Regiment [blank]
Where Served [blank]
Under Whom Silvanus Seely Colonel
Amt. of pay 1081.15.6
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Notes given by the Commissioners of
the several Counties for Militia Services.

[table]

No. of Voucher. Indent
No. of Certif. 275
Date. May 10 1784
SIGNED BY. Wm Verbryke
PAYABLE TO. John Berrien Sergt.
Amount. 4.10.0
1 y's int. [blank]

No. of Voucher. "
No. of Certif. *1422
Date. "
SIGNED BY. Do
PAYABLE TO. Do
Amount. .18.9
1 y's int. [blank]

*No of Indents of Capt Jones 1416 to 1495

STATE OF NEW JERSEYS
I, CHARLES G. McCHESNEY, Secretary of State of the State of
New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true abstract
from a Book, headed as above, as taken from, and compared
with the original now remaining in my office. -- And I do
further certify, that William Verbryke was,
by an Act passed by the Legislature of this State, December
20, 1783, entitled "An Act to procure an estimate of the sums
due to the Militia and Troops who have been raised for the
defence of the frontiers of the State, and to provide for the
settlement of the same," appointed a Commissioner for the
County of Somerset
for the
purpose of settling and adjusting the pay rolls of the Militia and
Troops of this State, as aforesaid, and also for signing and delivering
out to each and every person a note for the payment of
what may be justly due.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at
Trenton, in said State, this twenty third
day of October
A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
s/ Charles G. McChesney
Secretary of State.
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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 the foregoing marked No. 1. is 
a true abstract from Book B. of Auditors
Accounts page 208 and that No. 2 is 
a true extract from a paper headed
as therein mentioned, and now on file in my office; and I do
further certify that Elnathan Moore Esquire before whom the
declaration of Mary Berrien, and the affidavit of William
Duryen and Peter Vantilburg were made and taken was at the
time of the doing thereof a Judge of the Court of
the County of Somerset in said State, that Benjamin Scott and
Isaac Story Esquires before whom the affidavits of John Gulick,
Henry Vandyke Peter Vantilburgh & Charlotte Vantilburgh there
made and taken, were at the time of the doing thereof Justices of
the Peace of the County of Middlesex in said State, and that Frederick
Kingman Esquire before whom the affidavit of Isaac Story was
made and taken was at the time of the doing thereof a Justice of
the Peace in and for the County of Mercer in said State, all
duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, that full faith and
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credit are to be given to their official attestations, and that the
Signature thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said
Elnathan Moore, Benjamin Scott, Isaac Story & Frederick
Kingman Esquires.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Trenton this twenty
third day of October A.D. One thousand eight hundred and
forty five.
s/ Charles G. McChesney
Sect of State
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State of New Jersey
Somerset County Ss

On the 30th day of September
AD. 1846 before the subscriber a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County, personally appeared
Many Berrian of Kingston in the County
and State aforesaid in the Eighty fourth year of
her age a person of credibility and truth
who being duly sworn according to law, doth on
her oath make the following additional declaration 
to the one made in October 1845, under the
act of July 7, 1838 and supplement thereto
That she is the widow of John Berrian who
was a Sergeant in Capt William Jones Company
in the Revolution, she is his widow by a second
marriage declarant lived in sight of Capt Jones
and within two miles of John Berrian, she
well recollects. Sergt Berrian going out in Capt
Jones Company he wore an epaulet and Cocked
hat was in the six months service at Elizabethtown
and Springfield in 1780. She cannot specify his
long and many services during the Revolution
but she repeatedly saw him going out on tours
of service in the militia and also come home
from said tours. She well recollects his
being taken prisoner in October 1779. and
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taken to New York and confined in the Sugar
House there untill some time in the spring of
1780. When he came home in April or May he
called at her father sand the well recollects his
Sething on the porch and telling the hardships
he and his neighbors suffered during their confinement
She attaches three vouchers which bear
date No 1. Dec 11, 1779. for goods for her husbands
use then a prisoner, also No 2. For cash sent
her husband Capt Polhemus Dr Ricker
dated as late as April 24. 1780 when he was
still a prisoner. No 3. Is the Commission
of her husband as Capt in the same Company
formerly Commanded by Capt William Jones
in the Revolution in which company her said
husband was Sergt and she thinks Lieut.
towards the close of the war, which commission
bears date April 10, 1786, all of
which have been in her possession ever since the
death of her said husband John Bernan
She refers the commissioner of Pensions to her
declaration on file in the war department
for the dates of the marriage and death of her
said husband, the marriage took place
at her fathers house, in which she now lives
in the month of January Seventeen hundred
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and Eighty nine, by whom she had one
child now not living. She also refers to the
date of her husband will* as remains of
record in the Prerogative Court of Newberry
refer also to the testimony of another
who was personally present now attached.
s/ Marg Berrien

Sworn to and subscribed
as the above written
before me 
s/ Charles Shann J.P

John Berrien father and the Hon
John McPerson Berriens father were brothers
and resided near this place, declarants
husband was one of the most active men of
the Revolution.

*her husbands will bears date April 3d 1790
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Washington September 2, 1931

Mrs. John F. Monroe
1253 Prince Avenue
Athens, Georgia

BA-J/EEL

Dear Madam:

You are advised that Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war.

The careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of John Berrien, of Georgia, who died in 1815.

It appears from said records that one John Berrien , pension claim, W.5812, was the son of Peter Berrien. It is stated that John Berrien's father and the father of the Honorable John McPherson Berrien were brothers and resided near Kingston, Somerset County, New Jersey.

While residing in Somerset County, New Jersey, John Berrien enlisted in the fall of 1776, exact date and officers names not given, and joined General Washington's Army in the state of Pennsylvania; served as a private a part of the time as a spy, was in the battle of Trenton and Princeton; about October, 1779, while in an engagement in the state of New Jersey, name of engagement not shown, he was taken prisoner, carried to New York, and held in the Sugar House until about the middle of April, 1780, when he was exchanged; after which he enlisted and served six months as a sergeant in Captain William Jones' Company under Colonel Henry Van Dyke in the New Jersey Troops and was stationed at Springfield; he enlisted in 1981, and served three months at Elizabethtown under Captain Israel Rickey in the New Jersey Troops; and after the expiration of this service, continued to serve as sergeant in Captain William Jones' New Jersey Company, whenever called out, until the close of the war; entire length of his service at least two years.  It was stated that he also served at one time as a lieutenant.
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It was stated that he was an active friend of the Revolution and was employed by the authorities to assist in arousing the people to arm in defense of their liberties.

April 10, 1786, he was commissioned captain of the Second Regiment of Militia of the Eastern Precinct in Colonel Henry Van Dyke's Second Regiment, Somerset County, New Jersey.

He died January 15, 1797, at Rocky Hill, Somerset Country, New Jersey.  His will was admitted to probate February 7, 1797 and was recorded in the office of the Register of the Prerogative Court of New Jersey.

The soldier married in January, 1789, Mary, the daughter of William Van Tilburgh. They were married at her father's home in Kingston, Somerset County, New Jersey. She was his second wife; there are no particulars in regard to this first wife.

Soldier's widow, Mary, was allowed pension on her application executed October 11, 1845, at which time she was in the eighty third year of her age and resided at Kingston, New Jersey, in the old home in which she had been married.

She died March 1, 1854. [handwritten note says: From AB]

John and Mary Berrien had one child, deceased in 1846; the name of the child is not given and no names of children by the first wife appear.

The widow's brother, Peter Van Tilburgh, who was born October 3, 1763, resided in Somerset County, New Jersey, in 1845, and her sister, Charlotte Van Tilburgh, made affidavit in Middlesex County, New Jersey, in 1842. Charlotte Van Tilburgh died in 1843. The name David Van Tilburgh appears, no relationship to widow shown.

The above is the history of the only soldier named John Berrian found on the Revolutionary War record of this office. 

This office has no list of soldiers who served at the siege of Yorktown. It is suggested that such a list might be obtained from the Librarian, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia.

Very Truly Yours, 
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.
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1780: March 9th Sent m: John Berrien Cash for
M. Polheamus .... [illegible] 17 " 4
To Cash fr: Hugh Gain ..... 4 [illegible]
14 Apr To
Apr. To Cash Sent ..... 1 " 17 " 4
Apr. To Cash Ditto ..... To 1 " 17 " 4
To Cash fr. Sam Richerson ..... 6 " 17" 1 1/2
your acct .....
To Cash fr. and to [illegible[ ..... 4 " 5 " 3
your acct
L20 " 14 " 4 1 /2

BERRIER, JOHN
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Andw. N.  Tyles
acct. Dec
1779
for all of Mr
John Berrian
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[illegible]Van [illegible]
1779 For the use of John Berrian
Dec. 11   5 yd Corduroy  10/   2.10
12 yd Patten   5/6   8.3
5 yd furtain   3/    15
Buck filk  4.6
317.9

Received the contents for A V Tury
Recd: of Mr Anker in Cash } 7/6
To 1 Pt: Buckells. L 0 " 10-
2 Combs ..... 0 " 5 
--
L 0 " 15

s/ William Conley

Berrien, John
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John Berrien - Joseph Striker on No. 1 and John Berrien M. Polheamus & second Ricker on No. 2 were prisoners taken at the same time, the above accounts were made in New York City.
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1253 Prince Ave.
Athens, Georgia
August 25, 1831

Commissioner of Pensions
Washinton, D.C.

Dear Sir:

At the recommendation of Col. R. H. Peck, of the Genealogical Dept. of the Ga. Hist. Soc. Alanta/Ga, I am writing you for some information about my great-great-grandfather, Major John Berrrien.

I am trying to find out if he was at the surrender at Yorktown.  They say that the only known descendants of any soldiers who were present there are those of Col. Samuel Elbert.

John Berrien was the son of Judge John Berrien of Princeston, N.J. and Margaret Easton.  Judge Berrien was the last Lord Chief Justice of the Province of N.J. and a trustee of Princeton College where he is buried.  He was a warm personal friend of Washington, who made the Berrien home at Rocky Hill, Somerset co., N.J. his headquarters during the campaign of the Jerseys.  The Farewell Address was written there, and Mrs. Berrien melted her family silver to pay the Continental troops.

John Berrien 2nd was b. in N.J. 1760, d. in Savannah, Ga. 1815: m. 1st Margaret McPherson of Philadelphia, has 1 ch. John McPherson Berrien, Sec. of State under Jackson: m. 2nd, Williamina Moore, had 7 ch.

He was appointed Brigade Major by Congress 1st at 18, for distinguished gallantry (but do not know regiment of division). Served on Washington's staff as aide, was complimented on the field of Monmouth for bravery, was a charter member and Sec. of Order of the Cinnati, and his insignia (now owned by Mrs. Burroughs of Savannah) given him by Washington.

He moved to Georgia after the Revolution, was surveyor of the Port of Savannah and Treas. of State of Georgia, and is buried in the Colonial Cemetery in Savannah.  I entered the D.A.R.'s on this date, for which I have published authority.

Is there any list of whom were present at Yorktown, and where could I get it?  I would highly appreciate any information you can give me. 
Very truly yours,

Signed: Lucia Berrien (illegible) Monroe

Mrs. John F. Monroe
1253 Price Ave.
Athens, Georgia

Seal stamped RECEIVED Aug. 31, 1931
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1931 Sept 2 - Hist. to Mrs. John F. Monroe, Est.

Rev(olutionary war)
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 5812
Mary Berrien, widow
John Berrien, Sergeant Rev(olutionary) War
Act: Feb. 2, '48
Index: - Vol. A, Page 49
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY,

To John Berrien, Esq. - GREETING:

WHEREAS it hath been certified to His Excellency, Wm. Livingston Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief of this State, that you have been duly chosen by the Second Company of Militia in the eastern precinct in the County of Somerset (being the second Company in the second regiment of the said County, whereof Henry Van Dyck, Esq., is Colonel) to be Captain of the said Company; you are therefore to take the said Company of Militia into your charge and Care as Captain thereof, and duly to exercise both Officers and Soldiers of the said Company in Arms: And as they are hereby directed to obey you as their 
Captain, you are likewise to obey and follow such Orders; and Directions, from Time to Time, as you shall receive from your Colonel or other your superior Officer or Officers; and for your so doing this shall be your Commission. IN TESTIMONY whereof the Great Seal of the said State is hereunto affixed: Witness, William Livingston, Esquire, Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New Jersey, and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the fame, at Trenton on the tenth day of April in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty six.
s/ Wil. Livingston

By His Excellency's Command,
s/ Borris Reed, Esq.

No. 3
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V.M. 12826
Mary Berrien
N.J.

Hon. J. Brink July 2, 1846 to J.B. Strong Oct. 2, '46
H. M. P. Berner Feb 22, '47

Act 7 July 1838
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8113
New Jersey
Mary Berrien
widow of John
who was a Sergeant
in the Revolution

One from $67
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of June 1857 and sent to W.S. Allison, Present.

Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.

Recorded in Book A, Vol. 2, Page 93
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Reported
Jan. 4, '49

2799
New Jersey
Mary Berrien
widow of John Berrien
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Sergeant
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
67 Dollars 00 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
4th day of Jan. 1849
and sent to C.G. McChesney
Trenton, N.J.

Recorded in Role of Pensioners under act 
February 2, 1848, Page 282 Vol. 4
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10.210
New Jersey

Mary Berrien, widow of John who died in the (blank) of (blank) in the State of (blank) who was a Serg(eant) in the (blank) commanded by (blank) in the (blank) line for 2 years.

Inc. for $67.00 Inscribed on the Roll of N.J. at the rate of 120 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of June 1857 and sent to W.S. Allison, Present.

Arrears to the 4th of (blank) Semi-annual allowance ending (blank).

Revolutionary Claim, Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by K. E. Robinson, Clerk

Book D. Vol. 1, Page 191
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10.216

New Jersey
Mary Berrien, widow of John Berrien, who was a pensioner under the Act of (blank) and who died on the 15th Jan. 1797 of Somerton the State of N. Jersey who was a Serg(eant) in the Company commanded by Captain Jones of the Reg(iment) commanded by Col. Vandyke inthe N. Jersey line for 13 mo., 12 Days
as Sergent.

Inscribed on the Roll of Trenton at the rate of 67 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of March 1847 and sent to you Hon. John M.P. Berrien, Coleman.
Total amount,
$385.00

[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D.M. Woods, Clerk
Book D, Vol. 1, Page 191
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New Jersey. 8113.
Mary Berrien, widow of John Berrien who was a Sergeant in the N.J. Line
Husband died 15 Jan. 1797.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 67 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of March 1847 and sent to you Hon. John M.P. Berrien, Coleman.
Total amount,
$385.00

[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 7, 1844.]
Recorded in Book D, Vol. 2, Page 93

2 Certi(ficates), 1838, 1843 &c.
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12826, 9219
13.74
Mary Berrien
N.J.
Act 7 July '38
AOMD (Army of Mother's Division)
13 mo., 12 Days Sergeant
-----
$77.00

Also acts 43 & 44
-----
$77.00

Somerset
d(ied) 15 Jan. 1797
Son
Hon. John M.P. Berrien, Colemans.
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Increase
Mary Berrien
wid(ow) of John
N. J.
Acts 7 July '38 &c. H
Adm(inistered) 2 yrs. Serg(eant) $120.00
per Annum: from 4 March
'36. Except 2 years.
Former payments to be deducted.
payable to her.

Cert to W.S. Allison, Present
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Oct '79. prisoner - returned May '80.
'80 Capt. Jones - Col Van Dyke Spring '80.
Sec(retary) £5.8- $14 Sec(retary) $7

6 mos.
6.00
1.12
-----
13.12
5.00
-----
75.00
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Mary Berrien of New Jersey
Act Feb. 21, 1848

C.G. McChesney
Trenton, N.J.
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State of New Jersey
Somerset County//

On this Thirtieth (sp.) day of September One thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Eight, personally appeared before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. Mary Berrien, a resident of Franklin Township in the County of Somerset and State of New Jersey, aged Eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of John Berrien who was a Sergeant in the militia of Somerset County N.J. and served as is set forth in her declaration on file in the pension office, and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of 17th June 1844 was Sixty seven dollars. 

She further declares that she is still a widow.
s/ Mary Berrien

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before Charles Shann, J. Peace.

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above declarant and that she is the individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing declaration.
s/ Charles Shann, J(ustice of the) Peace
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
I, CHARLES G. CHESNEY, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that Charles Shann, Esquire, before whom the within affidavit taken, was, at the time of the doing thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Somerset in said state, duly commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signatures thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said
Charles Shann.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said state, this Thirty first day of August A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty eight.
Charles G. McChesney
Sec(retary) of State
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POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims
____________________________________________

Know all Men by these Presents, That I,
Mary Berrien
a resident of Somerset County, & State of
New Jersey
hereby constitute and appoint William S. Allison
my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute my Claim
for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or
Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize
my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the
Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the
Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to myself
to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I
might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney
and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.

WITNESS my hand and Seal this 14th day May A.D., 1851.

Mary Berrien

Signed and Sealed in the presence of

Charles Shann
Evelina Van Tilburgh
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Claim of Mary Berrien
Act of 7 July 1838, New Jersey Agency

State of New Jersey
County of Somerset  ss.

Be it known, That on this fourtheenth
day of May A.D., eighteen hundred and fifty one,
before the
undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared
Mary Berrien a resident of Kingston in said County, and
made oath according to law that she is the identical person
who is a Revolutionary Pensioner of the New Jersey agency
at the rate of Sixty Seven Dollars per annum; that she has been
informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that she is directly interested as a claimant in
said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my
Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and
year aforesaid, before me,
Charles Shann  J. Peace.

Mary Berrrien

I, Charles Shann Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that
Mary Berrien who executed the foregoing paper is a
respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.

Charles Shann   J. Peace.

I, Henry D. Johnson Clerk of the Common Pleas Court in the County
and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Charles Shann before whom the
foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said
County, duly subscribed by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and
affixed my official Seal, this twentieth day of
May A.D. 1851.

Henry D. Johnson  Clerk

{There is a seal to the left.]
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State of New Jersey
Somerset County    S.S.

On the first day of October
1846 before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for
Said County personally appeared
David Vantilburgh -
of Franklin in the County of Somerset and State aforesaid
a person of credibility [illegible] truth to me personally known
who being duly sworn according to law on this oath saith
That he did see a Muster Rool [sic] of Captain William Jones
Sometime in the year 1842 Whereon was the name of 
John Berrien who was named as Sergent of said company
upon said Role that is the 2d Company of the 2d Batt Somerset
Militia he thinks it was at the office of 
James F Randolph
at the Citty of New Brunswick Or at the late Residence of
Captain William Johns in said County of Somerset
where he did see it and futher [sic] saith not -

Sworn and Subscribed
Before Me this day and
year above written

Charles Shann, Justice Peace

David Vantilburgh
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State of New Jersey
Somerset County

Personally appeared on the 30th day of September AD 1846 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Peter
Van Tillburgh of Kingston County & State
aforesaid a person of credibility and truth
to me personally known as such, on the
3d of October will be Eighty-three years of age
who being duly sworn according to law on his
oath saith, That he was a Drummer
in the war of the Revolution and lived near
neighbor to John Berrien during said war, he
well remembers John Berrian was a Sergt.
in Capt. Wm. Jones Company and went into
the service at the commencement of the war
as Sergt. but cannot specify each tour - except
in the 6 mos. service at Springfield
and Elizabethtown in 1780, which he
well remembers, was the same year after
his return from New York where he had been
imprisoned from October 1779, to about
the month of May 1780 when he was exchanged
he served same regularly during the whole war
Viz in monthly tours and in the State Troops

John Berrien was married to
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deponents sister in January, 1789 at his fathers  house in Kingston, where she now resides, *(he was personally present and an eye witness) about the same time James Higgins and Margaret Clunn were married in Kingston, which is upwards, of fifty six years ago. She still remains a widow

Sworn to and subscribed to this day and year above written before Charles Shann J.P.

/s/ Peter Vantillburgh

* "He was personally present and an eye witness"
in the period before Execution
Charles Shann J.P.
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additional Evidence
Mary Berrien of N.J.
widow of John Berrien
acts July 7, 1838, &c

John B. Story
Kingston
N. Jersey
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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 Charles Shann Esquire before whom the declaration of Mary Berrien, and affidavits of Peter Van Tillburgh & David Van Tillburgh were made and taken was at the time of the doing thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Somerset, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signatures thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said Charles Shann.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed by seal of Office at Trenton this sixth day of October A. D. One thousand eight hundred and forty six.

/s/ Charles G. McChesney
Secy. of State