Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 108, Jonah Garrison, New Jersey
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SERVICE
New Jersey

Garrison, Jonah
        Mary.
NUMBER
W. 108.
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New Jersey
1524
Mary Garrison
widow of Jonah Garrison
who was a Pres of Artillery
Capt Dayton
in the N. Jersey line
for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
100
Dollars
---
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
24th day of August, 1843
Lewis Condict
Morris Town
N. J.
Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol.
1
Page 121
See letter Jan. 1. 1846 to Dr
L. Condict
Rep Aug 24
Dead
Letter to Lewis Condict Nov
11, 1847
letter to J.B. Van Houten
May 16, 1849
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6.321
New Jersey
Jonah Garrison
of Morris Co in the State of New Jersey
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Dayton of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Lamb, in the New Jersey
line, for the term of three years,
from May 2d 1777 to May 1780
scribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to
commence on the 18th day of April 1818
and
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of February
1819 and delivered to Hon Mr
Bateman H. Reps.
Restored to the Roll on 18th day of
December 1829 and notification sent to
Hon. L. Condict at House of Representation
Pension commencing on the 15th
of December 1829
Amount due on 4th of
March 1830 21.41
Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
May 1, 1820.
Rec. Vol: 4, book D,
fol152.
he letter to Hon. C. Condict H.
Dec. 23. 1829 ditto  same Dec. 17 1830
Duplicate notification of
Restoration issued 18 Augt 1830
and sent to Hon l. Condit,
Morristown, J.
ditto to same 
Feb. 17. 1831. ditto. to same
26. 1833.
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Jonah Garrison

Adm.

Hon E. Bateman

House of Rep.
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State of New  Jersey
County of Morris Ss}
On the 18th day of April 1818-
Before me the subscriber one of the
Judges of the inferior Court of Common pleas, for the County and state aforesaid, personally appeared Jonah Garrison, a resident in the township of Mindham in the county and state aforesaid., who being  by
me first duly sworn according to law, did on his
oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by an act of Congress.
Entitled an act to provide  for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed March 18th 1818-
That he is a native of Cumberland County in the State of New Jersey, that on the second day of 
May 1777, in the said county of Cumberland,as a private soldier, to serve during the war, under Captain Isaiah Wall of the Artillery, in Col. Lambs Regt & Genl Knox Brigade- He was in a short but severe engagement at the short hills- he was in the Battle of Brandywine, was at Paoli under General Wayne, the night that the American troops were surprised and many of them massacred-and was in the Battle of Germantown, besides several skirmishes of less consequences- That in the winter fell- ending the battle of Germantown,
from the want of comfortable accomodation and clothing, both of his feet were severely frozen- that four toes were entirely separated and lost, from one foot and two from the other. That in consequence of the freezing of his feet  and the top of his toes,  he was so lame, the ensuing campaign, (1779) as not to be able to be
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able to undergo any severe military service- that in 1780 still continuing a cripple, he was on the 8th day of may of said year regularly and honorably discharged  at Morris Town in the State of New Jersey, having served three years and six days in the Continental Army. He does not know what has become
of his discharge, but believes it is lost or destroyed. In 1781, Soon after being discharged from the army, he settled
in Mindham Morris County New jersey, where he still resides. He was sixty five years old the 17th day of October last. He was always in low circumstances in life, having obtained subsistance by his daily labor. He never asked or received from the United States any compensation for his services or suffering., except  a soldiers pay and bounty- But from the infirmities of  age and ill health, he now finds it very difficult, by the great exertions he can make to procure the scanty necessaries of life, and therefore hopes he may receive a pension from the United States, as has been decreed by law to such of surviving private soldiers of the 
Revolutionary army as are in need of their country's assistance for support .
Jonah Garrison
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year above
by me Jesse Upson
I Jesse Upson one of the judges of the  Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris in the State of New Jersey do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the aforesaid Jonah Garrison did serve  in the Revolutionary War as stated in the proceeding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceeding and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Jesse Upson
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State of Newjersey 
County of Morris  SS }
On the 13th day of April 1818 Personally came James Ray a citizen of Mendham in the County and State aforesaid, before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the inferior Court of Common pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law, did on his oath say that he was born in the County of Cumberland State of Newjersey- that before the Revolutionary war began he was well acquainted with Jonah Garrison the person named in the foregoing deposition, who is now applying for a pension from the United States. This deponent enlisted in the revolutionary war as a private soldier under Joseph Bloomfield, who is now a representative in Congress from the State of Newjersey. This deponent knew
the said Jonah Garrison in the army. This deponent was in the battles of the Short hills, Brandywine and Germantown and he knew the said Jonah Garrison to be personally present in those engagements-  This deponent has lived twenty nine years in the County of Morris since the conclusion of the war, and has during that time been well acquainted with the said Jonah Garrison and he believes that the foregoing declaration made by the said Jonah Garrison is in all things true-
James Ray

Sworn and Subscribed
the day and year above
before me
Jesse Upson
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I Jesse Upson one of the Judges of the Inferior
Court of Common pleas in and for the County
of Morris in the State of New Jersey do certify
that I have been acquainted with Jonah Garrison thirty years we both residing in one Town and a great part of the time in one neighbourhood twenty years ago every person who knew him believed he had the consumption and that he could not live six months are it was generally so expressed but he is yet alive but has not been able to cut off his fire wood at the door since nor any other kind of labor except what is cald, rations he has a small house and lot of his own in which he lives his wife is a weaver and the cars their principal support he is a very honest careful prudent and industrious
Man and a man capable of calculating and turning every little thing to the best advantage or he would have been a pauper long before this time and as he was a great sufferer in the revolutionary war according to his affidavit
which I have no doubt but every word there stated is true and as he has been obliged to live upon scanty earnings of his wife with what little he could do himself and must so continue to live unless you in your wisdom shall think that the pension act was past for the relief of
such suffering veterans

I have lived a near neighbor to James Ray about ten years and I think that the utmost confidence may be placed in him as a man of truth and integrity
Trenton New Jersey 26 January 1819
Jesse Upson
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State of New Jersey
County of Morris SS }  I Robert H McCarter Clerk of the County of Morris do hereby certify that Jesse Upson Esqr. before whom the 
foregoing affidavits are made, is and was, at the doing thereof duly enrolled one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in
and for the County of Morris, and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to his
official acts as such.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said County this
Eighth day of May in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and eighteenb.
Robert H McCarter
[seal affixed at left]

Jonah Garrison

Returned for Adm. evidence of
service and the Judges certificate
as to the circumstances.

Hon. E. Bateman
House of Reps
.
Hon. E. Bateman
yes
a
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admitted 15 Dec. 29
J W Eaton

not entitled

$336. 2 1/2

March 19
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Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, State of New Jersey, before David Thompson Esq one of the Judges of the said Court -

Declaration made by Jonah Garrison, of Mendham, Morris County, New Jersey, in order to be continued on the pension list, under the Act of May 1st 1820-

County of Morris ss. On this seventh day of April 1829 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Judge of the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas in and for the County
of Morris in the State of New Jersey being a Court of Record for said County, Jonah Garrison resident in said County aged Seventy six years on the seventeenth day of November last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth
on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and the 1st of May 1820. That he the said Jonah Garrison, enlisted to serve during the War, on the second day of May in the year 1777, in the Company commanded by Captain Joseph Dayton, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Lamb in the line of the State of New Jersey on the Continental establishment, that he continued
to serve in said Corps untill the 8th day of May
1780, when he was discharged from the service at Morris Town in New Jersey on account of disability, occasioned by having his feet frozen at Valley Forge in the State of Pennsylvania. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present. That his name has been placed on the pension list. That his pension certificate was deposited at Trenton New Jersey when he drew his pension & he does not remember the number of it, but it will appear by reference to the records of pension warrants in the War Office department- thinks the number was 6321, but is not certain, and that he
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never before exhibited a schedule of his property because he supposed the law required him to be so destitute of property as to be actually a pauper, supported by the Town- and
because he has been in such an infirm state of health, for several years past, that he did not expect to live from one year to another-

And in pursuance of the Act of 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, Sale or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the
provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War", passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed (see paper A hereto annexed) &
which is as follows 27 acres rough Mountain Land with an old house - 1 cow - 1 pig - 1 rake-1 pitch fork - 1 old Shovel - 1 pr Andirons shovel & tongs - 2 old Tables - 1 old cupboard- 1 pot-
1 Iron Kettle & 1 brass Kettle - 1 pair bellows- 1 pair steelyards - 5 Knives & forks old- 1 small looking Glass - 2 old Candlesticks - 1 Bible & Psalm Book & Bellamy treatise -  tin & earthen dishes - 8 old Chairs - 1 Meat Barrel - 1 old wash Barrel - 1 large beer Jug - 2 Molasses Jugs- 5 Bottles - 1 large Bottle- 5 sheep & Lambs -

That since the 18th of March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property. I had then two cows I sold them both & bought another. No other changes have been made except the ordinary dealings for the use of
the family-- I am by trade a shoemaker, but have not been able to follow it, for many years - was Seventy six years old the 17th day of November last-- I have a wife
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[overlap with previous page: 'the family. I am by trade a shoemaker, but have not been able to follow it, for many years- was Seventy six
years old the 17th day of November last. I have a wife']

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living, who was sixty nine years old last fall, and
is entirely blind of one eye- both of us are feeble and infirm, & must suffer, were it not that our Neighbors occasionally give us a little help & assistance, we have no children - I am not able to attend personally in Court, by reason of old age and a general bodily debility.

I have not been a half a mile from home in two years or more-
Jonah Garrison

Subscribed & sworn before me this 7th day of
April 1829 -
David Thompson one of the Judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris State of New Jersey

I David Thompson a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas holden in the County of Morris where the above named Jonah Garrison the declarant resides do hereby certify that the above named Jonah Garrison, is, from a disease, by some called the consumption, and by others a general decay of the system, with which I am informed & believe, (he has been afflicted for a number of years) unable to attend the Court of which I am a Judge, and I do not think from present appearances that he will be able to attend the Court above named at its next Session. I have therefore in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the 1st of March 1823 attended at his place of abode and administered the foregoing Oath-
David Thompson
Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas of
Morris County New Jersey
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A

An Inventory and apprais[e]ment of the property of Jonah Garrison, of the of the Township of Mendham, County of Morris & State of New Jersey, formerly a private Soldier in the Revolutionary War of the United States, made by us the subscribers this 7th day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty nine -

Twenty seven acres of or rough Mountain
land & a small old House.           $300.00

1 Cow $12. 1 Pig $4. & Rake & pitch fork $0.12 ½
                                                             16. 12 1/2
1 old Shovel $0.25- 1 pr Andirons shovel & tongs $1--                                               1.25

2 old Tables $1. old Cupboard $0.25-  1.25

1 Pot $1. 1 Iron Kettle & Brass Kettle $1.25-
                                                                  2.25

1 pair bellows & pr Steelyards -              .75

5 knives & forks old $0.20 - 1 small looking Glass $0.50--                                           .70

2 old Candlesticks, .15                             .15

1 Bible & Psalm Book & Bellamy treatise ---
                                                                 1. 50

Tin dishes & Earthen-                            1. 50

8 old Chairs $1.50 - 1 Meat Barrel $.50------    
                                                                  2.00

1 old Wash Barrel                                       .50

1 large beer Jug - 2 Molasses Jugs         .50

5 Bottles ---                                                .30

1 Large Bottle                                             1.00
                                                             ________

                                                             $329.77 1/2
5 old Sheep & 3 Lambs --                       6.25
                                                            _________
                                                            $336.02 1/2

The foregoing is a true inventory & statement of all the property I am possessed of April 7th 1829-
Jonah Garrison

State of New Jersey }
County of Morris  } I Daniel Cary & Jesse Upson two freeholders resident Citizens of the County
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of Morris, being duly sworn according to law, did depose and say that the articles set down & specified in the foregoing Inventory were by them appraised according to their Just & true respective rates & values according to the best of their knowle[d]ge & belief--
Jesse Upson
Daniel Cary

Subscribed & sworn before
me April 7th 1829-
David Thompson
Judge of the Court
Common Pleas of the
County of Morris

State of New Jersey }
County of Morris   }
I David Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Morris certify that David Thompson Esq before whom the above affidavit of Jonah Garrison who is now sick and confined to his house, was made, is Judge as aforesaid -

I also certify, that the schedule and oath have been admitted to the record of said Court, and that the same are truly copied therefrom; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule
is three hundred and thirty six Dollars and two and a half Cents-

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the
said Court, on this Eighth day of April
A.D. 1829 -
David Day Clerk of the Court
of the County of Morris in the State of
New Jersey
[seal affixed at left]
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled, "An Act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows".

State of New Jersey, Morris County SS:
On this 18th day of December, Domini 1838, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Morris aforesaid, Mary Garrison, a resident of Mendham, in the County of Morris aforesaid, aged 79 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838, entitled, "an
act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows".  I am the widow of Jonah Garrison, who was a soldier in the Army of the United States in the war of the revolution, & a pensioner for services rendered in said war, under the act of March 18th 1818. I am the same Mary Garrison, who lately applied for a pension under the act of July 4th 1836, & by a decision of the Commissioner of pensions there communicated by letter to L Condict & dated Decr 10th 1838, it appears I am not entitled to a pension under that act. And I hereby express my desire to be considered an applicant under the law first above mentioned on account of the revolutionary services of my husband, as set forth under my former Declaration -  I was married to said Jonah Garrison, by Revd John Joline, Minister of the Presbyterian Church in Mendham, my present residence, on the 13th December, Domini 1780, as appears by the record thereof in my family bible, the leaf of
which containing said record, has been sent back by the Commissioner of pensions, to be by
me authenticated, & is herewith returned. My husband, the aforesaid Jonah Garrison, died at his residence in Mendham, on the 25th day of April, Domini 1831, & I am still his widow. I cannot tell of my own knowledge, nor from a remembrance of my husbands conversation, when he quit the service; the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz: at the time above stated.

Sworn to & subscribed, on the day & year above written at the Court House in Morris Town,
Before me,
William Bubblett Judge of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas

         her
Mary  X  Garrison
        mark
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New Jersey, Morris County SS:
Before the subsciber, a Judge of the Common pleas Court of said County personally appeared Lewis Condict of said County, to me personally well known, & believed by me to be a man of truth, who having by me been duly sworn according to law, on his oath declare as follows.
I was personally well acquainted with Jonah Garrison when living, & with his wife Mary, now his widow, & an applicant for a pension from the U. S.-- I knew them both for many years before his death & aided him in obtaining his pension under the law of March 18th 1818. They lived together, respected by all who knew them, as husband & wife & I believe their marriage was never doubted.-- The old leaf which is hereto attached, purporting to be a record of the Marriage & birth of said Jonah Garrison & Mary his wife, & of the time of the death of said Jonah, was brought to my office, as a leaf, then fast to her bibleh, by said Mary Garrison, at the time when she signed her first declaration, or when she related to me the facts stated in said Declaration.  My belief is, that I then separated it myself from her bible: at all events, if I did not so separate it, it was done in my presence, for the purpose of being sent with her declaration to the Pension office.-- I know it to be the same paper, & I verily believe it is the original family record, kept as a true one by Jonah Garrison, & I have no doubt the facts recorded upon it are true, as therein stated. For further identification,
I have written my own name thereon, of this date.
Lewis Condict

Sworn & subscribed at Morristown, December 18th 1838.
William Babbitt Judge of the inferior Court
of Common Pleas

I, David B. Hurd, Clerk of Morris County, certify that William Babbit Esq. before whom the within Declaration of Mary Garrison, & the above
deposition of Lewis Condict were taken & subscribed, is a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in said County, & the signature of his name thereto, in both places (William Babbit) is genuine.

Witness my hand & seal of my office at Morristown this [day covered] day of December, Domini 1838.-
David B Hurd Clerk
by W A Carmichael
[seal affixed at left]
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4635

New Jersey
Morris County
-------
Mary Garrison, widow of
Jonah Garrison.

Penson Declaration
Law of July 7th 1838.

Admitted
Private of Artillery
2 years

Return to Lewis Condict
Morris-town, New Jersey
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Mary Garrison her Book
bought June the 3rd 1801
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Family Record
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Marriages
Jonah Garrison and
Mary Conkling
was Married
Feb. [or July?] 13th 1780
----------------------
Births
Jonah Garrison was 
born Nov 17th 1752 
Mary Conkling was
born August 5th
1754
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Deaths
Jonah Givison
Died April 25th
1831
-------------------------
Lewis Condict
December 1838
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(3892)

New Jersey
Mary Garrison, widow
Jonah Garrison


Return to Lewis Condict
Morristown, new Jersey

Oct 12
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the 3d section of the act of Congress of 4th July, 1836.

State of New Jersey, County of Morris, SS:
On this 30th day of August, 1838, personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, Mary Garrison, a resident of Mendham township, in the County of Morris & State of New Jersey, 
aged 78 3/4 years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on her oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836.

I am the widow of Jonah Garrison, who was a
private soldier as I believe in the Continental Army of the United States in the war of the
Revolution, in Captains Randolph, & Woods Companies, in Colonel or General Lamb Regiment or Brigade of the New York line, as I have understood.-- I may however be under
a mistake, as to the names of his commanding officers, but such is my impression & belief.
The particulars of his service & its various details, and to me unknown at this day. I have often heard him speak of his services-- the dangers & hardships he underwent-- but my memory is now too imperfect to undertake to relate them. He was a pensioner under the law of Congress of 1818, was suspended by the subsequent law because he possessed a little home, with a few acres of Mountain land, & after some time was restored to the pension roll, & his pension was afterward paid to the time of his death. I respectfully refer the Commissioner of pensions & the Secretary of War, to his original Declaration & papers accompanying it, which are now probably on the files of the Pension office, & which will give a more full & ample account of his services & 
of their duration than I can give. I recollect well, that my husband was crippled in both feet, occasioned as he always said, by exposure to severe frost, in the public service in the army, at a place called Red Bank, & Mud Fort.  He lost the whole of his toes from one foot, & his great toe, & its next neighbour of the other foot.
I was married at my mother's residence, the widow Sarah Conkling, in Mendham township by Revd John Joline, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Mendham on the 13th December 1780, according to the family record in my Bible, now in my possession, in the hand writing of my
said husband, the original leaf containing the record accompanies this paper.  I presume the original records of his service in the army, may be found at the war office. My said husband, died at his residence in Mendham, on the 25th
of April, 1831. & I have remained his widow, to the present period, as will appear by reference to other testimony hereto annexed.-- I was mistaken in the opinion expressed above. viz: that the family record is in my husband's hand writing & I now desire to correct that error. I am not certain who with it, nor when, it was done, but it records the facts truly. There is no person living, as I believe
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who was present at our marriage.

Sworn to & subscribed, on the day & year first before mentioned Before me  William Babbit

         her
Mary   X  Garrison
        mark  

The words "subscriber, a" were erased, in the beginning of this declaration & before the signing thereof, & taking the oath, as I do hereby certify.
William Babbit

I hereby certify to the Secretary of War & Commissioner of Pensions, that I was personally acquainted with Jonah Garrison & with his wife Mary Garrison for 20 years longer- that they lived alone, without children, & though poor & indigent, were highly respected by all their neighbours for their integrity, piety & industry:-- that they have always been reputed
& believed by all who knew them, to be husband & wife, & their marriage has never been questioned or doubted as I believe. Jonah Garrison died about 7 years past, & said Mary Garrison remains his widow to this day, as I verily believe.
Morris town 4th October, 1838.
Lewis Condict

Lewis Condict, who has subscribed the above certificate, this day comes before me & makes oath in due form of law, that the facts stated therein are true, to the best of his knowledge & belief. I believe said Lewis Condict to be man of truth.
Morris town, 4th October, 1838.
Elijah Ward J.P.

State of New Jersey, Morris County SS:
I Joseph Dalrimple, Clerk of Morris County, hereby certify that William Babbit Esqr. before whom the within Declaration of Mary Garrison was taken on the 30th day of August Domini 1838, is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County duly commissioned & authorized,. & the signature of his name thereto is genuine.

I also certify that Elijah Ward Esq before whom the above deposition of Lewis Condict was taken on the 4th October 1838, is a Justice of peace in said County duly commissioned &
authorized & the signature of his name thereto is genuine

Witness my signature & seal of my office, at Morris town, this 4th day of October Domini 1838.
Jos. Dalrimple Clerk
[seal affixed at left]
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108
Revy.    WIDOW, &c.       AM
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File No. __ 108 ________
__Mary Garrison ________
__ widow ___________
____ Jonah Garrison _____
___ Priv. Rev. War ________
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Act: ___ March 3, 1843 ____
Index:-- Vol. _ A _, Page _ 262 _

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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New Jersey

Jonah Garrison on roll act 1818 to what time period?
V L

John Harry Esq.  

Died 25th April 1831 pd to that period
JH
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let. to Hon. L. Condict 10 Dec. 1838


Act. July 4, 1836
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2224
New Jersey
----------------------
Mary Garrison
widow of Jonah Garrison, dec.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 28 April 1831-
of Morris Co. in the State of New Jersey
who was a pri. Artily in the Compy commanded
by Captain Dayton of the regt commanded
by Col Lamb in the New Jersey
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, 1836.
-----------------------
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of April
1839 - & sent to Lewis Condict, Morristown, New Jersey-
-------------------------
Arrears to the 4th of March 1839         $300.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep '39
                                                                       50.00
                                                                  ________
                                                                   $350.00
                                                                  ________
                                                      [cut off]July 7, }
Recorded by D
Book A.        Vol. [cut off]
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[left side]
6321
New Jersey
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Jonah Garrison
of Morris County in the State of New Jersey
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Lamb of the New Jersey line, for the term of three years
-------------------------
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 of April 1818
-------------------------
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of Feby
181[cut off] and Deliv'd  Hon Mr Rateman
House Reprs.
------------------------
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818                 36.58
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819.  48.--
                                                             ______
                                                             $84.58
                                                            _______
{Revolutionary claim, }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

Discontinued

[right side]
Sent letter to Hon. L. Condict, Morristown N.J.
18 March 1829


Notification sent to Hon. L. Condict
15 May 1829

36.58
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Morristown Newjersey April 7 1829
Sir -
I hope you will excuse the liberty I take in saying a few words respecting the renewal of the pension of Jonah Garrison. The Court of Common Pleas of the Cunty of Morris, at its Last Term, (on an application of Jonah Garrison stating his disability to attend Court) appointed me, to go to his house, examine him, + ascertain the value of his property. I accordingly went -- took some pains about the neighborhood, to ascertain his true situation + character -- took with me two substantial free-holders -- to appraise his property (which they did under oath) as the surest means by which I could arrive at its real worth.
   In answer to the general inquiries which I made of him -- whether he had been in the service? how long? why he left it, and how? why he applied for a pension? He gave me a simple relation as follows. "That he was born in the county of Cumberland N Jersey - learned the trade of a shoemaker - enlisted as a private, in an artillery company - to serve during the war, May 2d 1777 - was never absent from duty except from sickness - that when the army lay at Valley forge, in Pennsylvania, it was not very comfortably supplied - that he had both his feet frozen - that he could not easily after that - march with his company - that when the army marched to Morristown in Newjersey - the men of his company sometimes drew him on the carriage of the Gun, by which means he was enabled to keep up with them to that place.
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that he finally lost six toes from his feet, from the effect of this freezing -- that Genl. Washington then gave him a discharge/being incapable of performing duty - that he then settled on the mountain in Windham (about seven miles from Morristown) where he now lives -- that he married a wife -- but has had no children -- that his wife was a weaver by trade + wove for the neighborhood -- + that he worked about by day works (being unable to work at his trade) and so they got along very comfortably -- but that for two or three years past he has not often been able to get out of doors -- could not cut his firewood or bring it in -- feed his cow - or feed his pig - that his wife commonly did it -- but that she is how getting old + infirm -- is partly blind, and not very able to do it -- that his neighbor had occasionally assisted him, in these matters + helped him along so as to keep him from suffering"
I was the more particular as I was never a strong advocate for the pension law -- because at the tine it was paper, all were satisfied without it, and I supposed that many, if they recd the pension, would abuse it to their own injury -- and that many impositions would be practised on the Govt.
   but from what I saw, + all I could learn of Jonah Garrison I have no doubt, but that he told the simple truth, without diminution, or exaggeration + am fully persuaded that if anyone is entitled to its benefits -- he is [underlined] Your Humb. Svt. David Thompson The Hon. The Secretary at War.
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Jas. L. Edwards Esqr 
Pension office
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Dear Sir,
At the request of my friend Judge Thompson, I enclose the within papers, for the renewal of the pension of Jonah Garrison. I observe that he states his enlistment was in Lamb's Regiment of the N. Jersey line. In this I think he is mistaken, as I have no remembrance of a Col: Lamb of this State. Garrison belonged to the artillery,+ Col. Lamb commanded a Regt. of artillery in the N. York line. His proof of enlistment service  will however be found on file in the War Dept. having been pensioned under the act of March 18 + to those proofs I would respectfully refer you. Please notify me the result of his application.
Yours with much respect Lewis Condict, Morris-town N. Jersey Apr 9th ..29 
Jas L. Edwards Esqr Pension Office.
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H.R. Dec..10th 1829
Dear Sir,
Some time last spring, I enclosed to you the Declaration schedule +c: of Jonah Garrison of Morris Co. N. Jersey, asking to be restored to the Pension roll.  -- The application did not succeed, + the old man is petitioning Cong. for relief -- May I ask of you the favor to enclose to me his papers, which you stated would remain "on file in the office," as I wish to shew the Com: of Rev. Pensions, the state of his "finances"
Very respectfully your obt. Servt Lewis Condict
Jas L. Edwards Esqr Pension office.
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   Some time in December last, probably near the close of the month, a certificate of Pension for Revolutionary services was issued at my solicitation, + upon vouchers exhibited by me at the Pension office in favor of Jonah Garrison, of Morris County N. Jersey, at the rate of eight-dollars per month, commencing within a few days from its date, as by reference to the vouchers now on file, + the records in said office will fully appear. 
   On preparing for my return from Washington at the close of the late session of Congress I packed up said certificate as I supposed + believed, with some of my own private papers, intending to deliver it safely to Mr. Garrison. I have however diligently and carefully sought for the certificate since my return home, but have never been able as yet to find it, + I believe it is either mislaid or lost, so that I apprehend it will not be found. In order to enable said Garrison to receive his pension money due from the U.S. on the 4th September ensuing, I pray you that another Certificate may issue to him from the War Department in lieu of the one thus lost or mislaid by me, which has never come to the hands of Garrison, nor has he ever issued from the U. States his first payment thereon, due on the 4th March last, as I verily believe, but it in all probability remains unsettled for, at the office of the Pension Agency in Trenton
Very respectfully +c: your obt. Servt Lewis Condict. 
The Honbl Secy of War, or, Jas. L. Edwards Esq. Clerk of the Pension office, Washington
State of N. Jersey, Morris County. Nefore me James Wood Esqr. a Judge of the Common Pleas Court, + Justice of the Peace in + for said County, personally appears Lewis Condict, whose signature is affixed to the above letter, + being duly sworn, saith, that the facts as set forth + stated in said letter are all true, as he verily believes. And further he saith, that said Jonah Garrison therein named, + for whom another certificate of Pension is requested, is the same Jonah Garrison, to whom the original Certificate of Pension was granted in Dec. 1820. + which has been by this Deponent accidentally mislaid or lost - Sworn before me, this 13th August 1830. -- Lewis Condict. James Wood
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Pension Office
Aug 18th 1830
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James Wood Esq is well known to me to be one of the Judges of the Common Pleas Court & a Justice of the Peace, duly qualified & authorized by the Laws of New Jersey to officiate as such in the County of Morris in the administration of oaths & other official duties---
Witness my hand August 13th 1830
Lewis Condict, one of the Representatives from the State of N. Jersey in the Congress of the U. States


Pension Office
Augt. 18th 1830
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[illegible] Randolph
Acting Secy of War

War Dept. 
Pension Office
J.L. Edwards

FREE



Hon. Lewis Condict
Morristown
New Jersey

[stamp:] CITY OF WASHINGTON AUG 18

[following is upside-down at bottom of page:]
Jonah Garrison 
Restoration to the Pension Roll

[illegible] 108
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[Written on top of page] Duplicate
WAR DEPARTMENT,
PENSION OFFICE, Augt. 18, 1830
SIR,
In conformity with the law of the United States, of the 1st March, 1828, authorizing the Secretary of War to restore the names of certain persons to the List of Pensioners, you are hereby notified, that your name has been this day restored to the Pension Roll of the New Jersey Agency, and that, agreeably to the provisions of said Act, your allowance, as a Pensioner, will commence from the 15th of December 1829, the day on which the evidence was closed upon which you obtained a restoration to the Pension List.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr. Jonah Garrison
United States Pensioner.
Care of Hon. L. Condict
Morristown, 
N.J.
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Jas. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Office
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H. of Reps Decr 16th '30

Dear Sir,

Jonah Garrison, a pensioner in N. Jersey, thinks himself agrieved as respects the time, when  the pension commenced. And between ourselves, permit me to state frankly, but respectfully, that it does seem to me, there must have been an oversight or some misapprehension, is fixing the time.  I understand the rule to be, the time when the testimony was completed, is to be the period of commencing.  

In Garrisons case, his testimony was completed
in the March term of the Morris Com. Pleas Court, perhaps about the 1st or 2d April & his pay began in the Decr following:-- Cannot this error, if it be one, be corrected in the office?  It will greatly oblige him, & he is as poor, & as deserving a man, as has ever recd his Country's bounty, in the same capacity.

If however on reflection, it be found inconsistent, please send me the precise time, when his pension commenced.  Excuse this careless scrawl.

Yours respectfully
L. Condict

Jas. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension office.
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James L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington
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Morris-town, N. Jersey, Dec. 20th 1838.
Dear Sir,
Your letter of Dec. 18th is at hand, referring to the Claim of Mrs. Mary Garrison, widow of Jonah Garrison.
I enclose herewith another Declaration, under the law of July 7th 1838, + return the bible has[?] authenticated or identified.
Very respectfully &c:
Yr Obt. Sevt.
Lewis Condict.
[To] Jas. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions.
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$100 per annum

Return to Lewis Condict
Morristown New Jersey
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3d March 1843, granting pensions for one year, to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7th 1838.

State of New Jersey, County of Morris
On this fifteenth day of May, Domini 1843,  personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in & for the County & State aforesaid, Mary Garrison, a resident of Mendham, in the County of Moses, aged 84 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.

I am the widow of Jonah Garrison, who was a soldier in the Continental Army of the United States during the Revolutionary war & served as a Corporal or a Serg[e]ant or both, throughout said war, as I verily believe, & recd a pension from the U. States for such service under the act of 1818. I refer to his original declaration papers on file in the Pension office, & also to my own declaration & papers, under the law of 1838, under which I recd a pension for 5 years, the amount of which will appear by the Certificate, which was given up to the Pension Agent at Trenton, agreeably to the regulations
of the Department on the last payment.

I further claim as my right, in behalf of my decd husband, a balance which was equitably due to him but never paid, as I understand & believe. The foundation on which I rest this claim is the following, viz: Jonah Garrison, my husband, 
was pensioned under the act of March 1818 & was suspended under the act of 1820, on the ground of possessing more property than was thought conformable to the law of 1818.  He was finally restored to the Pension roll, but not until after several months had elapsed after the completion of the evidence on which he was restored. The testimony was filed in the office, but not decided upon by the Secretary, until about 4 or 5, or perhaps 6 months after its completion, & payment during that period was withheld by the government, & has not been made. I refer to the vouchers & correspondence, on file in the Pension Office, & also to subsequent decisions by the Attorney General & Secretary of War, in similar cases in support of this my additional claim, believing the same justice will be allowed to me, which has been granted to others.

I further declare, that I am still the widow of said Jonah Garrison.
          her
Mary   X   Garrison
         mark

Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written Before me, William Babbitt Justice of the Peace.   I further certify that said Mary Garrison, is personally well known to me.
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Dear Sir

I have been informed by Mr Pye Congress has passed something that the Pension of Mrs. Garrison can be Increased and added from the year  1831 and he demands the half to obtain it-  If Congress has passed anything new on the regulation of Pensions I will thank you for it and your opinion if Mrs. Garrisons can be increased
or anything added from the year 1831 or at any other period.  I wish her to have the privilege of all the pension laws, and as you know I am not as Mr Pye strains every nerve right or wrong to obtain it  If there is anything please let me have it as soon as Convenient

I am
with Great Respect
your obedient Servt-
J. B. Van Houten

Clarkstown 3rd March 1849
J.L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
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James L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Morristown N.J. June 3d 1843

Dear Sir,

Herewith you will receive the Declaration of Mary Garrison, a Pensioner under the act of July 1838 for 5 years -- now claiming the benefit of the act of March 3d 1843.  Her husband, Jonah Garrison, was pensioned under the act of 1818 & suspended under the law of 1820. She claims an arrearage for some months which elapsed between the completion of her husband's testimony & the decision of the Sec'y of war, restoring him to the pension roll. By reference to the old papers of Jonah Garrison, you will see the grounds of this claim, which the Atty General afterward sanctioned by an official opinion published in your pamphlet report.

Very respectfully
Yours &c.
Lewis Condict

James L. Edwards Esqr.
Commr. of Pensions
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Dec. 31, 1846
R[illegible] of Mary Garrison

[stamp:]. [illegible]TOWN N.J. DEC 29
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Morris Town N.J. Dec. 28th '46

Sir,
   Since my return home, I have recd. from the secy. of war his decision in the case of Mary Garrison, by which she becomes entitled to whatever had accrued between the time of completing [underlined] the testimony [underlined] + its examination by the then secretary (Mr. Eaton) a period of some months.
   Your letter to me of 18th Decr. 1829 will shew when his re-payment commenced, + if I mistake not, a letter of yours which I left with the secy. will shew when the testimony was closed. This letter, with the secretary's decision, I presume has been laid before you, + will aid you in referring back, to a period so remote
    The widow was living on the 4th Septr last, + is living still for aught that has come to my hearing since then.
   Please to instruct me by letter as to the mode in which she may receive the answers stating also the period.  Very respectfully your obt. servt. Lewis Condict.

Col. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
FORM VAM-51   
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Garrison, Joesph 
GRADE Private 
LINE New Jersey

WARRANT NUMBER 8348
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED June 11,1789
To Matthias Denman,
assignee

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* The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolution of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.