Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 884, William Haight, Navy. New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Navy
New Jersey

Haight, William

NUMBER
S.884
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CONTENTS
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17.38[4 is missing]
17384 New Jersey
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William Haight of Monmouth Co in the State of N. Jersey who was a Midsh'm &/or Cavy in the Company commanded by Captain Read of the Regt commanded by -- in the N. J. Ma: line for 7 1/2 mo Midsh'm 45
3 " pr. Cav. 12.50
[total] $57.50
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 57 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Aug't. 1833 and sent to D. B. Ryall Esq. Freehold
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $115.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept -- 28.75
[total] $143.75
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3 Page 115

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See letter Nov. 26. 1835 to Hon. W Dickerson, T. L. Haight & P. Ag't -- 
do. to L. Haight Dec. 1. 1835 -- 
do. to P. Ag't Nov. 9. 1836.

Date of death not on A B
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Monmouth Pleas of July Term 1832
Declaration of William Haight
No 4072

Adm'd [admitted]
7 1/2 mo. Midship'n
3 mo. Priv. Cavalry

D. B. Ryall, Esq'r
Freehold
N. Jersey
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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 contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Haight for a pension on the twenty seventh day of July last past.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Freehold this ninth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

D. H. Ellis Clk
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Declaration of William Haight in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

State of New Jersey County of Monmouth ss:

On this twenty seventh 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 said County of Monmouth, now sitting at Freehold William Haight a resident of the township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey aged sixty nine years the sixth day of October last past 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 7th 1832,

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated --

That he entered said service as a Midshipman in the Navy of the United States on or about the first day of May 1781 being ^then some months short of nineteen years of age, that sometime in the early part of the Month of May aforesaid he entered on the discharge of his duties as such Midshipman and entered on board the Continental Frigate Trumble [Trumbull] at Philadelphia under the Command of Commodore James Nicholson, that in the Month of June following they sailed on a Cruise to join the French Fleet under the command of the Count De Grasse supposed to be then entering the Chesapeake Bay with the French Fleet, that sometime in August or September following they were captured by his Britanic Maj [Britannic Majesty's]
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[Maj]esty's Frigate the Iris and Sloop of War General Monk after a severe engagement of two and a half hours, that he was ^then Confined as a prisoner in the old Jersey Prison Ship, after their arrival in New York, and that he remained a prisoner on board said Prison Ship until a few days after the [inserted:] news of the Capture of Lord Cornwallis in October 1781 [inserted:] reached them when he was exchanged and brought to Elizabeth Town in a Cartel and arrived at his fathers House in Allentown at the time of the rejoicing for the Capture of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, the news of which had there preceeded him, that he thinks it was about the Middle of November 1781 when he arrived at his father's, that as the Trumble [Trumbull] was the last of the American Frigates most of the officers of the Navy entered the Merchant service and he this deponent never after entered into the service, allthough he never resigned his Commission, that he has no recollection of having ever seen his warrant after the Capture of the Trumble [Trumbull] and he believes it was then lost or destroyed, that from the time he received his warrant and entered the service under his commission -- until his exchange was about seven months during which time he conceives he is to be considered in the Service of his Country, that the officers besides Commodore Nicholson on board the Trumble [Trumbull] were First Lieutentant [Lieutenant] called Captain Maltbie, second Lieutenant Called Captain Fanning and the third Lieuten[ant]
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[Lieuten]ant was the late Commodore Dale and an acting Lieutenant Alexander Murray late Commodore Murray, the midshipmen who were with him that he now recollects on Board the Frigate Trumbell [Trumbull] were Lloyd Wharton, Richard Law of Conneticut [Connecticut] Gustavus Brown of Philadelphia, there were two others beside himself rated Midshipmen whose names he has forgotten, that he resided at Allentown in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey at the time he entered the service as before stated; that previous to his entry into the service as a Midshipman in May 1781, namely in the Month of May 1780 he entered the service as a private sailor on board the Letter of Marque Patty Commanded by Captain Thomas Read in the Service of the United States when they saild in said Month of May from Philadelph[ia] for Saint Lorient in France, that they returned to the United States in the same vessel in the Month of January 1781 and on their Homeward bound passage they took a Schooner prise laden with Fish bound to New York then in possession of the British and on board of which they took Col Rogers of the Queens Rangers prisoner, that if the time in which he was thus engaged in the service of his Country, the time from May 1780 to January 1781 is to be added to his seven months service before mentioned, it makes in the whole sixteen months -- that after the capture of the Frigate Trumble [Trumbull] he with Lloyd Wharton
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with forty of the American Sailors ordered from on Board the Trumble [Trumbull] and placed on board the General Monk and by that means he and Wharton with the forty sailors were separated [separated] from the rest of the Trumble [Trumbull] crew and placed on board the Jersey Prison ship, she having at that time seven hundred prisoners on board, that there is not now, that he knows of, a single officer who was then on board the Trumble [Trumbull] Frigate during the cruise above mentioned, now living except himself and that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person except his brother Charles Haight whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. He Hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present  and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, that he has a record of his age namely the family bible, that he was born the sixth day of October 1762, the family bible is now in his possession, that he was born in the City of Burlington in the State of New Jersey, from Burlington since the Revolutionary he removed to Pennsylvania for three or four years but ever since has resided in the County of Monmouth

[signed] Wm Haight

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid

John Patterson
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County SS.
Charles Haight Esquire being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is the younger brother of the above William Haight that ever since he can recollect it has been a traditionary fact in his fathers family that his brother held a Midshipman's warrant during the Revolutionary War and was out in the service in the Letter of Marque the Patty when she sailed under Captain Read who sailed in her from Philadelphia to France, that the said Wm Haight his brother sailed in her as a sailor, and also that after the receipt of his warrant as a Midshipman he entered on board the Frigate Trumble [Trumbull] and was in her when she was Captured and that he was a prisoner afterwards on board the Prison Ship the Jersey, that he was intimately acquainted with Commodore Dale who was one of the Lieutenants on board said Frigate at the time of her Capture & that he has often informed this deponent in their conversations that this deponents brother ^William was a Midshipman on board in the service at that time.

[signed] C. Haight

Sworn & subscribed in open Court this 27th day of July -- A D 1832

John Patterson

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a sailor and Midshipman in the service of the United States during the revolutionary War and that he
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served as he states. And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Charles Haight Esquire who has signed the preceding Certificate resides in the township of [lined out: Freehold] Shrewsbury in said County of Monmouth, and that not only he but the said applicant are highly respectable and credible persons and that their statement and declarations are entitled to full credit.

By Order of the Court
W. J. Bowne
Judge &c

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 William Haight for a pension

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Freehold, this twenty seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two

D. H. Ellis Clk
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May 31, 1932
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WILLIAM HAIGHT
S. 884

Mrs. John H. Hoyt
700 Hamilton Street
Easton, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to William Hoyt (Hite, Hate, Hight or Haight), a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 884, based upon the military service of William Haight in the Revolutionary War.

William Haight, son of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Haight, was born October 6, 1762, in Burlington, New Jersey.

While living in Allentown in Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, he volunteered in May, 1777, and served four tours of one month each during May, July, September and November, as a messenger to his father who was Lieutenant Colonel of the 2" Battalion of Burlington County, New Jersey militia. From June 1, 1778, he served one month as private in a troop of horse commanded by Lieutenant Cox. In 1779 he served two tours of one month each during June and August, as private in Captain Furman Mount's troop of horse. He enlisted in May, 1780, at Philadelphia and served as a private sailor on board the letter of marque "Patty", Captain Thomas Read, sailed to Saint Lorient in France and on their return passage in January, 1781, captured a British schooner bound for New York and took as prisoner Colonel Rogers of the Queen's Rangers. About May 1, 1781, he received a warrant as midshipman in the Navy, served on board the continental frigate, "Trumbull", Commodore James Nicholson, in June joined a French fleet under the command of Count de Grasse, and sometime in August or September, 1781, after a two and one half hours engagement with the British frigate, "Iris" and sloop of war, "General Monk", in which the Trumbull was captured, William Haight was taken prisoner, confined on the old prison ship, "Jersey" after their arrival in New York, and was held until October 1, 1781, when he was exchanged. About the
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middle of November, 1781, he arrived at the home of his father in Allentown, New Jersey.

In 1782 the soldier moved from Allentown, New Jersey, to Spotswood, Middlesex County, New Jersey, where he remained four years, thence to Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey, for one year, then to a place about six miles from Philadelphia near Germantown, where he lived until 1794 when he moved again to Shrewsbury, New Jersey.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 27, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Shrewsbury, New Jersey.

In 1835, Thomas G. Haight, the son of William, the soldier, was living in Colts Neck, Monmouth County, New Jersey. There is no other reference to children and the name of soldier's wife is not given.

In 1832, Charles Haight, the younger brother of William, the soldier, was living in Shrewsbury, New Jersey. The name of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Haight's wife is not given.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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Apr 30 04 Paper to War Dept. Mem. with C.

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Rev War
INVALID.
File No. 884
William Haight
Lt Col [lined out: Prv.] N. J. Line
Act: June 7. 1832.
Index:-- Vol. A, Page 156
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1932 May 31 - Hist. to Mrs. John H. Hoyt - MLB

[fragment of page behind this one (see image 15):] 
) Colone
, as fol
10th, l
. Mr. Ge
Nov 12,
1777.
(son of
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1. Eight letters addressed to (Lieutenant) Colonel (Joseph) Haight (2d Battalion New Jersey Militia), as follows: From Brigadier General Varnum, dated November 10th, 14th, 19th, and 20th, 1777. From Jno M Frink, D. Qr. Mr. Genl, dated Nov 18, 1777. From D. Box, Maj. Brig., Nov. 12, 1777. From William Davies, D. A. G., dated Nov. 30, 1777.

Taken from the claim of William Haight (son of the above-named), No. 884.

[overwritten diagonally]
War Dept Apr 30 1904
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THE STATE OF NEW-JERSEY,
TO Joseph Haight Esq'r

THE Council and Assembly, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, have, at a Joint-Meeting, appointed you the said Joseph Haight Lieutenant Collonel [Colonel] of the Second Battalion of the Militia of Burlington County during the Pleasure of the said Council and Assembly; you are therefore to take the said Battalion into your Charge and care as Lieutenant Collonel [Colonel] thereof, and duly to exercise both Officers and Soldiers of the said Battalion in Arms: And as they are hereby directed to obey you as their Lieutenant Collonel you are likewise to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, from Time to Time, as you shall receive from your Commander in Chief 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 same, at Borden Town the Ninth Day of April in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven

[signed] Wil: Livingston

By His Excellency's Command,
Cha[illegible] Sec'y
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Dr Sir

His Excellency Gen. Washington ordered me to acquaint you that he desires his thanks should be made to all the Officers and Soldiers of the Picquett of Militia under your Command who engaged the 25th Inst [instant, i.e. 25 November]. The Gen'l is very sensible of their bravery and alacrity in having attacked and repulsed with a great Loss an Enemey much Superior in number and force.

with great affection & Esteem
I am Sir
[signature missing, paper torn]

Head Quarters Novem. 29th --
Colonel hite

Signature gone from this paper when opened by AW.
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700 Hamilton St
Easton Pa.
Apr 15 32
The Pension Office
Trenton N.J.

Dear Sirs;
Can you give me any information about a Wm Hoyt (Hite - Hate - Hight or Haight as the name was spelled many ways at first). This party came to Oxford N.J & was very young man at the time of the Rev. he later married a
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Jane Nixon & had 6 children. I have from the adjutant general an account of a Wm. Haight who enlisted when 15 & served all through the war in various capacities.
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Under Col. Jos. Haight Lieutenant James Cox Capt Mount & later as a seaman & was in prison in Phil. He enlisted at Burlington NJ. It says he was a resident of Monmouth Co. N.J.

He served as a cat. & Wagonmaster in 1776-1777

Thanking you for
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any information you can give me --

Yours truly
Minerva V Hoyt
(Mrs John H Hoyt)
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Colts Neck NJ
Nov 23
Free
Hon. Mahlon Dickerson
Secretary of Navy
Washington

[written upwards, light]
Respectfully referred by the Secretary of the Navy to the Commissioner of Pensions.
Nov 26th 1835
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Colts Neck NJ
Nov 23
Free
Hon. Mahlon Dickerson
Secretary of Navy
Washington

[written upwards, light]
Respectfully referred by the Secretary of the Navy to the Commissioner of Pensions.
Nov 26th 1835
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Colts Neck Monmouth County N. Jersey 23 Nov. 1835
Hon'r. Mahlon Dickerson

Dear Sir

Having had the honor of being associated with you, as a member of the Legislature of New Jersey two years ago, and at the particular request of my father (with whom you are likewise acquainted and who is prevented by indisposition from addressing you himself) I have taken the liberty of writing to you at this time &-

My father William Haight has received a pension for the last two or three years for services rendered during the revolutionary war as a Midshipman and a private of Cavalry, and on his application at the pension office in Trenton about a month ago, for the amount of pension then due, he was informed that the payment was suspended without stating any cause why or wherefor.

Now Sir, my principal object in addressing you is to beg the favour of you to state to the proper Department, who William Haight is, his high standing in society, his character & as being above all suspicion of fraud in any manner whatever -- he would have suffered death sooner than have made an application for a pension if he had not have been legally entitled to it &- ever since I can remember, his sufferings in the Prison ship &c have been the theme of his conversations when speaking of the revolution &c. If there is any further proof wanted, or any thing else that can be obtained, he will most willingly furnish it -- It is not the loss of the amount of pension he receives, that he complains of so much, as the idea of its being suspended -- the amount is nothing -- an idea which leads him to complain of the injustice of an Administration, in the support of which, he has always been most actively engaged &c. If Sir, it is not encroaching too much upon your invaluable time you will confer a great favour by making the proper representations &c and letting me know the result &c &c.

Very respectfully, your Obed't Servant
Thomas G. Haight
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[stamp] FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq'r.
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington

[postmark] TRENTON N.J. NOV 28

[written upward at left, 3 different hands]
Dec 1.
Vm ab
Wm Haight NJ
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Trenton Bank Nov'r 28. 1835

Sir,

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 26th instant.

Upon inquiry into the correctness of the statements therein made, I find it to be true that payment of the claim of William Haight was refused. I find no letter from your bureau on file directing the suspension. It has doubtless occurred thro the inadvertance of my clerk, as he is not able to account for it. We shall endeavor to be more careful in future.

I shall write to Mr Tho's Haight at Colts Neck who applied for the pension, informing him that he can receive it upon producing the proper voucher.

I am very respect'ly
your ob. Servant
Phil. [Philemon] Dickinson Prest

J. L. Edwards Esq
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Trenton Bank October 28, 1836

Sir,

Enclosed herewith you will receive the certificate & voucher of William Haight a pensioner under the act 7 June 1832, who has not been paid his stipend for one year.

Your allowance is requested.

I am very respect'y
your ob. Servant
Phil [Philemon] Dickinson Prest

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm'r of Pensions.
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Layfayette
Col. Hyte

Wm Haight
NJ
S. File 884
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General de la Fayette gives his thanks to the Officers and Soldiers of the [inserted: Pickett of] Militia under Col Hyte for their bravery and alacrity in attacking and pursuing verry farr an Enemey much superior in numbers with field pieces Notwithstanding two reinforcements they received in the Action. He is sorry the [illegible] could not be pushed yet further on account of the darkness of the night

The General and all the French Officers who were with him entertain the highest Idea of the bravery of the troops who were engaged Yesterday

Haddonfield Novem'r 26 -- 1777
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Supplemental declaration of William Haight for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832-

New Jersey Monmouth County ss: Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, William Haight 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 recollection he served not less them the periods mentioned below and in the following grades: For seven months I served as a Midshipman as mentioned in my original declaration of the twenty seventh day of July last towit, from the first day of May 1781 on board the continental Frigate Trumble [Trumbull] at Philadelphia under the command of Commodore James Nicholson until the first of October 1781 when he was exchanged from on board the old Prison ship Jersey, and also for one half a month from that time until his arrival at his Fathers House in Allentown about the middle of November of the same year if the department should consider him entitled for the half month, as he believes it was full seven months and an half from the time he entered on duty until he arrived at his fathers after his exchange as before mentioned, that he never received any discharge from the service nor resigned his warrant as Midshipman but as the Trumble [Trumbull]
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was the last of the American Frigates the officers of the Navy generally entered into the Merchant Service or in privateers, that he was never after in the Naval service, that when they were taken on board the Prison Ship Jersey, they were all searched and every thing was taken from him and the other prisoners and that he believes his warrant as Midshipman was then taken from him among his baggage and that from that time he has never seen or heard of it, and believe it was then taken and carried away or destroyed by the enemy, that he believes it was dated about the first day of May 1781 or rather a short time before but he cannot state certainly, neither can be now recollect by whom it was signed, but presumes the record of the Crew of the Trumble [Trumbull] can be found at Washington in the Navy department of such papers have been preserved, and for such service I claim a pension; For four months in the year 1777 I served as a volunteer without any commission under my father Joseph Haight who was Lieutenant Colonel of the second Battalion of the Militia of Burlington County New Jersey, namly the months of May July September and November in ^four monthly tours of one month each beginning at the first of the above named months and ending the first of the next intervening month ^respectively as I was not at this time of sixteen years of age I was not attached to any particular company
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intervening month, as was not at this time of sixteen years of age I was not attached to any particular company my duties being to ride and carry letters and expresses from my father as Colonel who was stationed at Coopers Ferry New Jersey protecting the Country on the Delaware to the several officers whose names are subscribed to the annexed letters and also in carrying these and other letters to my father at the different stations in West Jersey where he was stationed, which letters with the Commission of my father now deceased I herewith remit to the department and which letters were left by my father in my care and charge, the duties of my father and those under his command were during the months above named to guard the Jersey shores and to watch the movements on the River Delaware and to protect the surrounding Country and to give the earliest information to the officers to whom these communications were made and from whom he received the annexed letters; For one month in the year 1778 I served as a private volunteer in a troop of Horse commanded by Leutentant [Lieutenant] Cox of Upper Freehold Monmouth County New Jerry from the first of June to the first of July a few days after the Battle of Monmouth; they marched from Allentown in Upper Freehold and joined the American Army between that place and Trenton being under the command of General Dickinson of New Jersey; For two months in the year 1779 I served as a private volunteer in a troop of Horse commanded by Captain Furman Mount
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namely the months of June and August being two monthly tours of one month each beginning at the first of the above named months respectively and ending the first of the succeeding months respectively their duties during these months were to guard the coasts and shores from the British and tories in the the townships of Middletown and Shrewsbury, that he was not engaged in any battles while in the same on land, and that he never served with any Continental officers; that the before mentioned monthly tours were performed under the laws and ordinances of New Jersey and that for such services in addition to those as Midshipman I claim a pension. -- That the reason why in my original declaration I did not set forth or claim a pension for any services as a private was that I preferred receiving my pension for Naval services presuming my services in the Letter of Marque named in my original declaration would be allowed me as a Midshipman inasmuch as I had not resigned my commission, but inasmuch as the department have determined I cannot receive any allowance for my services in said Letter of Marque I now claim a pension in addition to my naval service as a Midshipman for the monthly tours of duty above named including those when a volunteer under my father before I attained the age of sixteen years, for though under the laws and ordinances of New Jersey
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father before I attained the age of sixteen years for though under the laws and ordinances of New Jersey no one was compelled to serve until sixteen years of age, yet volunteers were received and did serve under that age, nothing in the laws and ordinances forbidding such service, but on the contrary the service of all who were willing to enter the service as Volunteers or otherwise were gladly received; that while in the service he was in the field and not in garrison and that during the time he was in the service he was not employed in any civil pursuit, that he resides in the Township of Shrewsbury in Monmouth County where he has always resided since the year 1794, that he lived in Upper Freehold when he entered the service both as a Militiaman and as a Midshipman and removed from there to Spottswood [now Spotswood] in Middlesex County, New Jersey in 1782 and resided there about four years then removed to Shrewsbury in Monmouth County and lived there then about one year from whence I removed to Pennsylvania within six miles of Philadelphia near Germantown and there resided until 1794 When he again removed to Shrewsbury in Monmouth County where he has ever since resided, that I am known in my present neighborhood by Samuel Holmes Esquire and Samuel Laird who can testify to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a Midshipman and a soldier of the Revolution.

Wm Haight

Sworn & subscribed before me this 8th July 1833.

Tho's. C Throckmorton Justice
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We Samuel Holmes a Justice of the Peace of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey residing in the township of Shrewsbury in said County and Samuel Laird residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Haight who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy years and upwards of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Midshipman and Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

[signed] Samuel Holmes Justice
[signed] Sam'l. Laird

Sworn & subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Monmouth N.J. this 8th day of July AD 1833.

John Holsart Justice

I John Holsart one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey before whom the above certificate of Samuel Holmes Esquire and Samuel Laird was subscribed and sworn to Do hereby Certify that it appears to me and that I know the fact that Samuel Holmes Esquire who has signed the preceeding Certificate is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth resident in the township of Shrewsbury in said
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one of the Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth resident in the township of Shrewsbury in said County and State of New Jersey in the immediate neighborhood of the above William Haight who has signed the above amended declaration, and that Samuel Laird who has also signed the same is a resident in the same township of Shrewsbury and are respectively credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit; and I do hereby further Certify that there is no Clergyman residing in the neighborhood where the said William Haight resides who has signed the said amended declaration, and I do also Certify that I am well acquainted with the said William Haight who is a highly respectable Citizen of the County of Monmouth and that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.

Witness my hand the Eighth day of July 1833.

John Holsart Justice

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 who has signed the Jurat of the foregoing amended declaration of the said William Haight and before whom the same was subscribed and sworn to, and John Holsart who has signed the Jurat of the above Certificate of Samuel Holmes Esquire Justice and Samuel Laird and who has signed the last above Certificate and before whom the said first named Certificate was subscribed and sworn to were respectively at said times and now are respectively Justices of the Peace of the said County of Monmouth respectively duly commissioned and sworn and that
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to their respective acts as such Justices full faith and credit is due; and also that the name signed Tho's C Throckmorton to the Jurat of the said amended declaration is the proper hand writing of the said Thomas C Throckmorton Justice as aforesaid and that the name signed John Holsart to the Jurat of the certificate of the said Samuel Holmes Justice and Samuel Laird and also to the Certificate of the said John Holsart himself are respectively the proper hand writing of the said John Holsart Justice as aforesaid; and I do also further Certify that Samuel Holmes Esquire who has sworn to and subscribed the above first Certificate with Samuel Laird was at the date thereof and now is one of the Justices of the Peace of the said County of Monmouth duly commissioned and sworn, and that the name signed Samuel Holmes Justice to said certificate is his proper hand writing.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this ninth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

[signed] D. H. Ellis