Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10735, David Dean, New Jersey
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Service - New Jersey

Dean, David Phebe

Number - W. 10735
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122952
New Jersey
David Dean
of Essex Co in the State of New Jersey
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Reeves of the Regt. commanded by Col.-- in the New Jersey ┃
line for 12 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of Dec. 1833 and 
Morristown
---
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33 $200
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar. '34 40
$240
⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by George Stiles, Clerk,
Book 6 Vol. 3 Page 108
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New Jersey. 241 ┃
Phebe Dean
widow of David Dean
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Husband died 25th May 1845
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
40 Dollars 0 Cents per annum, to commence
OF
the 25th May 1845.
Certificate of Pension issued the
15th day of August 1845,
and sent to
William Stiles, Esq
Springfield
New Jersey
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 94
D. H. Wood, ┃
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Declaration of David Deen for a pension

Defective author action waived by order of Heon Scentany

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12 mo. fere

40$

S.B Miller Esq.
Newark, NJ

Lewis Condict
Morristown, New Jersey
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Declaration
State of New Jersey
Essex County SS } On this Twenty seventh day
of September 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for said County
now sitting, David Dean, a resident of the 
Township of Springfield in the County of Essex
and State of New Jersey aged Seventy years
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 was born in the Township of Elizabeth
in that part set off and now known as the Township of Springfield in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey on the Nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord 1763 and was seventy years Old Last February. According to his family Record and also the family record keep by his father which are both now in his possession. Where he was living when first called into service and where he has resided ever since and Now Resides.

That he first entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war under the following named officer and served as herein after stated as a private drafted Soldier and substitute in the Revolutionary war at the times and not less then the periods mentioned below.

That he was first Enrol[l]ed at the place above stated in the month of February 1779, being then sixteen years old in a company of Militia under the command of Captain Isaac Reeves which company was Classed into four classes, and in the month of April & May the same year done one Month duty
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in the said Captain Reeves Company stationed at Newark under the command of Col Van Courtland and Major Hayes. In the months of August and September in the same year he and his Class done one Month duty under Capt Isaac Gillam and in November & December the same year done one Month duty under Capt Robert Nichols making three tours that year of one month each as a private soldier stationed at
Newark in said County under the command of
Col Von Courtland and Major Hays-

In the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty he still continued enrol[l]ed in the said Captain
Reeve, Company of Militia as a private Soldier
and Classed as aforesaid and done one Month duty under the said Captain Reeves in the months of February & March & In the month of May the same year done one Month duty under Captain John Ogden, John Edwards Lieutenant and in September the same year done one Month duty under Capt Elijah Squire and in December or about that time done one Month duty under Capt Thomas Baldwin Making four Tours of duty in the year 1780 of one month each stationed at Newark and along the enemies lines in New Jersey under the command of Col Van Courtland and Major Hays.

And in the year 1781. He still continued 
enrol[l]ed and classed in the said Captain Reeves Company of Militia and done one Month duty in said Company in the Month of February & March under sd Capt Reeves. Stationed at Newark under the command of Col Van Courtland and Major Hays. In the Summer of the same year 1781, as he believes in the month of August he served as a
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Substitute for Uzal Wilson in a Company of
Six Months men commanded by Captain John
Speer. Jabes Peirson Lieutenant and served out
the whole of the Ballance of said Wilsons, Term
which was four months as a private Soldier Stationed at Second River Now known by the name of Belvill[e] and along the Hudson River Near New York dont recollect his Colonels Name but believes it was Col Seely or Col Ely Making his whole service in the war of the Revolution one year as a private soldier, and for such service he claims a pension.  he was in the Battle at Springfield and Connecticut Former and was in the skirmish with the British at Newark and took one man prisoner and put him in the old Jail by order of Major hayes.- That the
service herein stated to have been performed
by him in the war of the Revolution was Bonafied [bona fide] and actually Rendered Viz Eight Month as a private in the Common Militia Service and four month as a substitute for Uzal Wilson in the six months service as a private Soldier for all that time-- That he was duly called out with his company and actually stationed at the different places mentioned in this declaration doing Military duty all that time.-- And the deponent further saith that for the time during which the said Service was performed he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roal [roll] of the agency of any state or
Territory of any of the United States--
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Interrogatories

To the 1st,
he saith that he was born in the Township of Elizabeth now the Township of Springfield County of Essex and State of New Jersey on the 19th day of February 1763

Do - 2,
he has a Record of his age now in his possession.

Do - 3 -,
he saith he was living in the said County of Essex when called into service and where he has resided ever since the Revolutionary war
and now resides in the same place.

Do - 4 -
he saith he was first called into service as a drafted private Soldier in the militia, and Lastly a substitute for Uzal Wilson in the six months
service.

Do - 5 -
he saw General Washington once near
Springfield knew Col Matthias Ogden
Col Barber Capt Wiley

Do - 6 - 
he never Received any written discharge from the service.

Do - 7 -
he saith that he is well acquainted with Mr Matthias Denmon Caleb Woodruff Esq Col Aaron Hond Col John Wade Stephen Lyon Jonathan Parkhurst the Revd Philomon Dickerson and many others who can testify as to his Character for variety and their belief of his services as a soldier in the Revolution.
David Dean

Sworn to and subscribed in
open Court the day and year
first aforesaid
A. Reynolds Judge
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We Joseph Gilderseevey a Clergyman residing
in the Township of Springfield County of Essex
and State of New Jersey and Abraham Parkhurst Residing in the Township of Springfield County of Essex and State aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Deen who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Joseph Gildersleeve
Abraham Parkhurst

Sworn and subscribed the
day and year first aforesaid
A. Reynolds Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter and
after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Joseph Gildersleeves who has signed the preceding Certificate is A Clergyman resident in the Township of Springfield County of Essex and State aforesaid and that Abraham Parkhurst who has also signed the same is a resident of the Township of Springfield County of Essex and State aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
A. Reynolds Judge
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I Elias Van Arsdale Junior Clerk of the Inferior
Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Essex 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 David Deen for a pension.

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Twenty Seventh
day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Thirty three 1833.
E Van Arsdale Jr Clk
[seal affixed at left]

State of New Jersey
Essex County SS }  Personally appeared before
me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Jacob Edwards of the Township of Livingston in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey a person well known to the subscriber to be a man of good standing in society and fully entitled to belief as a Witness.  Who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath depose and say that he is aged Seventy years that he was a Soldier in the Revolution that he was during the Revolutionary war well acquainted with David Dean of the Township of Springfield in the County of Essex and State of New-Jersey, and
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that he believes the said David Deen to be Seventy years old and that he well knows that the said David Deen was a private Soldier in the war of the Revolution and that he served as a
private Soldier in a Company of Militia Commanded by Captain Isaac Gillam stationed at Newark under the command of Col Philip Von Courtland and Major Hays but can not say how long he was out. And this Deponent further saith that in the year 1781. The said David Deen
was in the six months service and served in Captain John Speers Company as Much as four months stationed at Second River in Company with this deponent now called Belvill[e] under the command of Col Seely witness dont know whether said Deen was a substitute or [en]listed soldier. and further saith not.
           his
Jacob  X  Edwards
        mark

Sworn to and subscribed
at Newark in said County
by making his mark on
the 25th day of September 1833
Before me - Saml B. Miller - Justice of the peace

State of New Jersey
Essex County SS ⎬ Personally appeared before
me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County, David Deen a man of good standing in society and well known to me as entitled to full belief as a Witness who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is the same David Deen that has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration and that he has no documentary evidence of his services and that he has produced the best evidence in
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his power and that he has made diligent search
and knows of no other living witness at this time Except the one he has produced that can testify to his services. And further saith not.
David Dean

Sworn to and subscribed at Newark
in said County this 27th day
September A.D. 1833
before me. Saml B. Miller Justice of the peace


Declaration of David Dean for a pension
paid clk


State of New Jersey
County of Essex } ss. I Elias Van Arsdale Junior Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Essex do hereby certify that Abraham Reynolds before whom the several
affidavits in the foregoing proceedings in said Court were made & taken, at the time of taking the same was one of the Judges of the said Court, duly commissioned & sworn and that the name "A Reynolds" wherever it occurred it
said proceedings is his genuine hand writing.-- I further certify that Samuel B. Miller before whom the affidavits of Jacob Edwards & David Dean were made at taken, was, when the said affidavits were made & taken a Justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signatures "Saml B. Miller" affixed to the same are genuine.

In Testimony Whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office the Twenty Seventh day of September A.D. Eighteen hundred & thirty three-
E Van Arsdale Jr. Clk
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State of New Jersey SS:
On this twenty eighth day of August AD One thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex and
State aforesaid Phebe Dean a resident of Springfield in the said County of Essex aged seventy four 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 July 7th 1838 entitled,  "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows", "the act granting pensions to the
Widows of certain Revolutionary Soldiers approved the third day of March 1843", and the act entitled, "an act to continue the pensions of certain widows approved June 17th 1844". That she is the widow of David Dean late of Springfield in the County of Essex and State of
New Jersey who up to the time of his death was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty dollars per annum and who was a Private in the Revolutionary army for evidence of whose service she refers the department to the documents on file in the Pension office accompanying his application for a pension.

She further declares that she was married to the said David Dean on the twenty seventh day of January in the year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety one at Springfield aforesaid by the Revd Jacob Van Arsdalen at that time pastor of the first Congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Springfield. That her Husband the aforesaid David Dean died on the twenty fifth day of May One thousand eight hundred and forty five.
That she was not married to him prior to his
leaving
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leaving the service but the marriage took place
previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety four viz at the time above
stated. That her marriage does not appear in the County records of Marriages from the fact that the law of New Jersey requiring marriages to be recorded by the Clerks of the County Courts was not enacted untill the 4th day of March 1795 for evidence of which she refers the Department to the revised Statutes of the State of New Jersey page 180 or to Elmers Digest page 321. That the record of Marriages kept by
the Rev Jacob Van Arsdalen by whom she was married she cannot find, but on the contrary  has learned that they are totally destroyed the truth of which is fully established by the subjoined deposition of Jane Stewart a Daughter of him the Revd Jacob Van Arsdalen. And finally that she has no family record of her marriage nor did she ever have one or know of her Husband the said David Dean ever having one
Phebe  X  Dean

In presence of
Peter Jackson -

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written at the Court house in Newark
before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in
and for the County of Essex and State of New Jersey.

In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my
hand & the seal of said Court at Newark
the Twenty Eighth day of August A.D. 1845.
J.P. Jackson Clk
[seal affixed at left]
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State of New Jersey
Essex County } SS Be it known that on this
Seventeenth day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five before me William Stites a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Essex personally appeared Aaron Dean of full age who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith. That he is a son of David Dean deceased who up to the day of his death was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States
at the rate of forty dollars per annum and of Phebe Dean now Widow of the said David Dean and who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that he never saw or heard of a family record of the marriage of his said parents and is entirely confident they never had one, for if such record had ever existed it must have come to his knowledge having been brought up by his said parents at home to maturity and since that time to the present having lived almost continually near them and
been entirely conversant with the family affairs and his Fathers books and papers-
Aaron Dean

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year
aforesaid before me
William Stites

State of New Jersey 
Essex County } SS  Before me William Stites a justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Essex Personally appeared Aaron Dean of full age who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith That he is a son of David Dean late of Springfield in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey who at the time of his death was a Revolutionary Pensioner
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Pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty dollars per annum- and that his Father the
said David Dean died on the twenty fifth day
of May in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty five and left a Widow whose name is Phebe who still survives and lives in Springfield aforesaid and who has
subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration.

Sworn & subscribed this nineteenth day of November A.D. One thousand eight hundred and forty five before me.    
William Stites              Aaron Dean
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MCS
AW

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

August 13, 1927

Miss Mary K. Meeker
2700 Irving Ave., North
Minneapolis, Minn.

Madam:

I have to advise you that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 10735, that DAVID DEAN was born February
19, 1763, in that part of Elizabeth Township which was afterwards Springfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey. He was the son of Ichabod.

While a resident of Springfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey, he enlisted and served at various times from April, 1779, until February,
1781, amounting to eight months in all, as a private under Captains Isaac Reeves, Isaac Gillam, Robert Nichols, John Ogden, Elijah Squier, Thomas Baldwin, in Colonel Van Cortland's New Jersey Regiment; he was in the
battles of Connecticut Farms and Springfield,  and for a part of this time he served as a substitute for his father, Ichabod Dean. He enlisted August August [sic], 1781, and served four months as a private in Captain John Speer's Company in Colonel Seeley's New Jersey Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 27, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Springfield, New Jersey.

He died May 25, 1845.
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He married at Springfield, New Jersey, January 27, 1791, Phebe, her maiden name not given. She was allowed pension on her application
executed August 28, 1845, while a resident of Springfield, New Jersey, aged seventy-four years.

Their son, Aaron, was living in 1845.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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Personally appeared Before me Thomas Coe being one of the Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Morris in the State of New Jersey
Francis Coonrod who being duly Sworn on his oath saith that Phebe Deene the now widow of David Deene of The Township of Springfield in
the County of Essex and State of New Jersey 
was married By the Reverend Jacob Van
Arsdale in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety one That he the Francis Coonrod was present at the time and saw them married.
Francis Coonrad

Sworn and Subscribed to
this 12th day of June AD
1845
Thos Coe J. Peace
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State of New Jusey
Morris County SS }  I George H Ludlow Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Morris do certify that Thomas Coe whose name is subscribed to the within
affidavit is now and and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace of said County of Morris, and as such Justice is duly authorized to administer oaths in this State and that full faith and credit are to be given to all his official acts as such Justice; and that the signature of the said Thomas Coe subscribed thereto is in the proper hand writing of the said Thomas Coe-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at Morris town the 13th day of
June AD 1845 - George H Ludlow Clerk
[seal affixed at left]
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Personally appeared Before me Thos Coe Esq-
one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Morris and State of New Jersey
Rhoda Coonrod who was duly Sworn and on his oath saith that Phebe Dean the now widow of David Dean d3cd. Booth [both] of the township of Springfield in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey was married By the Reverend Jacob Van Arsdale in the year of our Lord
Seventeen hundred and ninety one and that
She was present and saw them married.
           her
Rhoda  X  Conrad
           mark

Sworn and Subscribed to
this 12th day of June AD 1845
Thos. Coe Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Morris County SS }  I George Ludlow Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris do certify that Thomas Coe whose name is subscribed to the within
affidavit is now and was at the time signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Morris, and as such Justice duly authorized to administer oaths in this State
and that full faith and credit are to be given to all his official acts as such Justice, and that the signature of the said Thomas Col Subscribed thereto is in the proper hand writing of the said Thomas Coe-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of the said Court at Morristown the
13th day of June AD 1845
George H Ludlow Clerk
[seal affixed at left]
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State of New Jersey
Essex County } SS.  Before me William Stites one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Essex personally appeared Jane
Stewart of full age who being duly sworn
according to law on her oath saith that she is a Daughter of the Reverend Jacob Van Arsdalen and who in his lifetime was Pastor of the first Congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Springfield in the said County of Essex for a period of about twenty eight years immediately preceding the year one thousand eight hundred and two.

That during the time of Pastoral care of the said Congregation he married a great many couples and recorded such marriages in a book which he kept for that express purpose. That after his death which occured in the year one thousand eight hundred and three the aforesaid book of record of Marriages came into her (this Deponents) possession that she kept it a number of years but during her absence from home one day it was given to a child to amuse it, and by the Child torn quite in pieces and entirely destroyed so as to be entirely useless as a record and was consequently thrown away. That her said Father died in October 1803 having from infirmity and old age resigned the pastoral charge of the said Congregation about one year and an half before his death. That there was but one Presbyterian Congregation in Springfield aforesaid during the time of her Fathers Ministry there nor has there been any other since that time to the present and
further saith not.
Jane Stewart

Sworn to & subscribed the 11th day
of July 1845 before me
William Stites
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State of New Jersey
Essex County ⎬ Be remembered that on twentieth day of November 1845 before me William Stites a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Essex personally appeared Abigail Meekern of full age who being duly sworn according to law on her oath saith that
she knows Phebe Dean the widow of David Dean late of Springfield in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey and that she was
also equally well acquainted with the said David Dean from his youth up to the day of his death and was present saw them married, by the Revd. Jacob Van Arsdale at Springfield in the County of Essex State of New Jersey some time in the winter of Seventeen hundred and ninety, ninety one-  That she is confident of its being that winter from the fact of her (deponant)  having come from the State of Ohio in the fall of 1790 and arrived at Springford aforesaid on the 19th day of December of that year and that they the said David Dean and Phebe Dean were married within a few weeks after the arrival of this deponent from the State of Ohio as aforesaid.
Abigail Meeker

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
before me
William Stites
in presence of
L. Morrow
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12366.

State of New Jersey 
County of Essex } SS.   I John P Jackson Clerk of the County of Essex & also of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that William Stites before whom the foregoing affidavits of Jane Stewart
Aaron Dean and Abigail Meeker, were severally made and taken, at the time of taking the same was & still is one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and Sworn, and that the Signatures "William Stites" to the Jurats of said affidavits respectively are genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my
hand and official Seal at Newark in said County the Twentieth day of November A.D. Eighteen hundred & forty five -
J. P. Jackson Clk
[seal affixed at left]

No. 12366
Phebe Dean
widow of David
N.J.

Act 7 July 1838

Register
husband died 25 May 1845

.
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No. 12366
Phebe Dean
N.J.

let. to [illegible] Jany. 16
1846
to same, May 25, '46

Act 7 July 1838
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In reply to your request of_________, received _____________ a statement of the military history of David Dean a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (and his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.         W.F. 10,735
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[table follows with 5 columns; column headings as follows:]
(1) DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
(2) LENGTH OF SERVICE.
(3) RANK.
(4) OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. {sub-headings:  a. CAPTAIN.
b. COLONEL.}
(5) STATE.

[text beneath column headings as follows:]
(1) Apr. 1779 to Feb. 1781, Aug. 1781.
(2) Served at various times, amounting to 8 mos., 4 mos.
(3) Pri
(4) a. Isaac Reeves, Isaac Gillam, Robert Nichols
John Ogden, Elijah Squier, Thomas Baldwin, John Speer.   b. Van Cortland, "  ", "  ", "  ", "  ", Seely
(5) N. J.
[end of table]

Battles engaged in, ___ Connecticut Farms, Springfield  ________
Residence of soldier at enlistment, __ Springfield, Essex Co. N.J. ________
Date of application for pension, ___ Sept 27, 1833. His cl. was al. __________
Residence at date of application, ___ Springfield Twp, Essex Co. N.J. (in that part of Elizabeth Twp. which was afterwards Springfield Twp, Essex Co. N.J ______
Age at date of application, __ B Feb 19 1763 ___ 
Remarks: ___ He was the son of Ichabod Dean
Soldier mar. at Springfield, N.J. Jan 27, 1791, Phebe ____ He died May 25, 1845, and she was al. pension on her ap.  ex. Aug. 28, 1845, while a resident of Springfield, N.J. aged 74 yrs ___
___ A son, Aaron, alive in 1845. _____

Respectfully,

Commissioner.

6 -- 2856
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MISS MARY KNOX MEEKER
2700 IRVING AVENUE NORTH
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

Minneapolis Minn.
April 18, 1927

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Dept. of Rev. and War of 1812
Washington, D.C.

Gentleman,

Kindly send me a copy of the pension record of David Dean (Springfield), Essex Co. N.J. in Revolutionary War.

Very sincerely yours
Mary Knox Meeker
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241                      29118-I
                            39424-I(?)
Connett, Read & Co.
743 & 745 Broadway and 302 & 304 Mercer Street, near Waverly Place.
New York Dec 5th 1895

Pension Bureau                          P
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen,

Will you kindly give me any information or data you may have on your records, concerning David Dean, who lived in or about Springfield, New Jersey, during Revolutionary times, was a member of some local military organization,
and subsequently drew a pension through Newark, of thirty or forty dollars per year.

Please give me all the details you can in relation to his military career, battles fought etc., and oblige.

Your truly,
William B. Dean
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Rev.   WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 10735 
Phebe Dean
Widow of
David Dean
Pri. Rev. War
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Act:  June 17/44
Index:--Col. A, Page 169

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Jan. 25, 1896
Histy. Histy. to
Wm. B. Dean
New York
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1916 Jan. 17 History to
Herbert E. Dean,
Letter with Cl. Jacob Dean
W.F. 6997 Rev.
---------------------
1927 Aug. 13, hist.
Mary K. Meeker
MCS
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State of New Jersey  
Essex County  SS } Before me William Stites a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Essex on the second day of June AD. One
thousand eight hundred and forty six personally
appeared Samuel Bailey of full age who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he is well acquainted with Jeptha Meeker of Springfield in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey whose deposition was taken
before William Stites Esq. on the 19th day of
February 1846 and forwarded by him to the War department, for the purpose of sustaining the claim of Phebe Dean the widow of David Dean to a Pension.

That he has been well acquainted with him for many years and had frequent business transactions with him as well as friendly neighbourly intercourse and that he is a man of truth and his testimony entitled to full
confidence and credit.
Samuel Bailey

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
William Stites


State of New Jersey ss   
Essex County } SS.  Before me William Stites a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Essex  on the 15th day of June AD 1846
personally appeared Wickliff S. Condit Court Clerk of the Township of Springfield in said County who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he is well acquainted with the aforesaid Jephthah Meeker mentioned in the above affidavit of Samuel Bailey and has known him well for the last twenty five years, that he is a man of truth and his testimony
entitled to full faith and confidence.
Wickliff S. Condit

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
before me William Stites
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I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jephthah Meeker named in the within affidavits of Samuel Bailey and Wickliff Condit that he is the same Individual whose affidavit
I took and forwarded to the war department to 
sustain the claim of Phebe Dean to a Pension and that he is a man of veracity and that his affidavit is entitled to full faith and credit, and I do also further certify that I am also well 
acquainted with Samuels Bailey & Wickliff Condit the makers of the within affidavit & that they are both highly respectable mean of truth and their testimony entitled to all confidence.
William Stites Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey
County of Essex } ss.   I John J. Jackson Clerk of the County of Essex & also of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that William Stites before whom the foregoing affidavits of Samuel Bailey and Wickliff S. Condit were severally made & taken at the time of taking the same was one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the signatures to the Jurats of said affidavits and the certificate above written respectively are his signatures -

In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand
and official Seal the Twenty Sixth day of June
AD. 1844 -
J P Jackson Clk
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paid 5

SPRING FIELD N.J.
Feby, 27

March 2 / '46
Ad al ter case
Phebe Dean
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J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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paid 5

SPRING FIELD N.J.
Feby 27

March 2 / '46 
Ad al ter case
Phebe Dean

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C
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State of New Jersey
Essex County } SS   Before me William Stites one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Essex personally appeared Jephthah Meeker of full age who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith

That he was well acquainted with David
Dean who in his life time was a Revolutionary
Pensioner of the United States and also with his wife, now his widow Phebe Dean of Springfield in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey. That he was present and saw them married by the Revd Jacob Van Arsdalen then the Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Springfield aforesaid but only recollects the year from the associations of circumstances and events, a part of which are the following

That he was born on the sixteenth day of March
1774, That at the time the aforesaid marriage
took place he lived with his Father in the immediate neighbourhood & within a few rods of Nehemiah Hedden, between the two Newark Mountains, at whose house the said marriage was solemnized.

That in about a year or a little over a year
thereafter his Father purchased a tract of about three hundred acres of land at Canonbrook in Livingstone and left his place between the
Mountains aforesaid, and moved on the Canonbrook place, which removal took place in the year 1792 in the month of April so that from
the foregoing circumstances he is positive that the said marriage must have taken place at least as early as the year one thousand seven hundred and Ninety One.
Jephthah Meeker

Sworn & subscribed the 19th day of
February AD. 1846 before me.
William Stites
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Springfield July 20th 1846

Dear Sir

attached you will receive the deposition of Mr Jephthah Meeker as further testimony in support of the claim of Phebe Dean for a pensions which contains a point so strong that to doubt that the marriage took place as early as 1791 is to doubt his veracity under the solemn sanction of her oath for it will be perceived that he swears that when the marriage took place he with his Father lived within a few rods of the place where it occurred and that about a year afterwards his Father purchased a farm up in Livingston and removed
away from his previous residence and the fathers removal was in 1792 owing also to recall the attention of the Department to the deposition of Abigail Meekers she swears that she came from the State of Ohio in the fall of 1790 and arrived at Springfield on the 19th day of December of that year & that they the said David Dean and Phebe Dean were married within a few weeks after her arrival.

Those two depositions without reference to those of Francis & Rhoda Coonrod who both swear positively to the fact would seem to be
testament sufficient and I cannot doubt but they will be so considered by Col. Edwards who will confer a great favor on Mrs Dean if he will give her case a for minutes consideration at his earliest convenience, so that (if she be entitled) her certificate may be here before the 4th of March, so that she may be spared extra expense in collecting.
Respectfully yours, William Stites
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State of Jersey
County of Essex }  I John F Jackson Clerk of the County of Essex and of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do certify that William Stites before whom the annexed affidavit of
Jeptha Meeker was made and taken at the time of taking the same was & still is a Justice of the peace of said County commissioned and sworn & that the signature to the Jurat of said affidavit is the proper handwriting of said Justice.

In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and Seal of Office at Newark in said County the Twenty fourth day of February AD Eighteen hundred & forty six -
J.P. Jackson Clk
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June 29, 1846
 Ad al ter case
Phebe Dean

Springfield N.J.
June 27 }

paid 5

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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June 29, 1846
Ad al ter case
Phebe Dean

Springfield N.J.
June 27 } 

paid 5


J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Springfield June 26/46

J.L. Edwards Esq

Dr Sir

Yours of the 25th ult. is recd stating that, when the credibility of Jephthah Meeker shall be satisfactorily avouched, his testimony will be considered sufficient to establish the date of the marriage of Phebe Dean-  To establish that testimony I now enclose the affidavits of two of our most respectable citizens and can if necessary obtain the affidavits of all who know Mr. Meeker.  I have also added my own 
certificate, and refer you to the Honl. Jacob W. Miller of the U.S. Senate as an acquaintance.

A few moments reference to the case of Mrs Dean in its present state will now enable Mr. Edwards to award her claim, and it has already been so long protracted that I hope it may be convenient to the Commissioner of Pensions to examine it immediately and if admitted to the pension roll forward her certificate to

Your Obt Servant William Stites
Springfield New Jersey
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Springfield N.J. Nov. 29

12,366
Dec. 1, 1846

Phebe Dean
July 7, 1838

Free

15

War Department
Pension Bureau
Washington City
D.C.
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Springfield N.J. Nov. 29

12,366
Dec. 1, 1846

Phebe Dean

Free
15

War Department
Pension Bureau
Washington City
D.C.
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Springfield New Jersey Nov 28th 1845

J.L. Edwards Esq Com Pensions

D. Sir

Enclosed you will receive the declaration of
Phebe Dean the Widow of David Dean a late
Pensioner of the U.S.; together with a number of depositions in proof of her marriage & which through me she forwards to the department as added application for a pension.

By her own declaration & by the Deposition of Aaron Dean you will perceive she has no family  record of her marriage, and by the evidence of Jane Stewart, the Church record kept by the Revd. Jacob Van Arsdalen who married there is proved to be destroyed & the State of New Jersey is referred to as evidence that there is no County record of their marriage so that she is compelled to rely upon parole testimony to establish the past and trusts that it will be abundantly satisfactory being proved by three eye witnesses of the marriage.

Will you have the goodness to give the application the earliest convenient examination
and communicate the result to

Yours Most Respectfully
William Stites
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No 12366 }
Phebe Dean } 319
widow of David
NJ
Act 7 July 1838

Rejected
husband died 25 May '45

Adm Act 17 June '44
12 mo. of pri
$40.00 per annum
from 25 May 1845

William Stites
Springfield
N.J.
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X

David Dean


admd
12 mo.


Lewis Condict
Morristown
N. Jersey
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

Pension Office,

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compl[y]ing with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
----------------------------------
A Statement, shewing the service of David Dean
[table follows with 6 columns; column headings as follows:]
(1) Period when the service was rendered.
(2) Duration of the claimant's service. {sub-headings:  a. Years.  b. Months.   c. Days,}
(3) Rank of the claimant.
(4) Names and rank of the Field ooficers under whom he served.
(5) Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
(6) Proof by which the declaration is supported.
[all columns are left blank; end of table]

I am, respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:

This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops, "militia" and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service; but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c, Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians [musicians] or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION.

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

State, Territory, or District of [blank]
County of [blank]  } ss.
On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A. B. a resident (b) of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged (c) [blank] 
years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)[blank] with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. -->This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [blank] .
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                             A. B.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

 [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of [blank] for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank] day of [blank] & c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:

(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], 
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] 
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank] and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [blank] day of [blank] & c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the  testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his

[following is hand-written at bottom of page:]Claimant is mistaken as to the legal obligations of service.  After Sept 1777 every company in New Jersey was by law divided
into 8 clases. Further explanation & Certification should be given
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?  And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.  {To a Soldier. {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer. {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.  If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
claim cannot be had.  Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For [blank] year [blank] months, and [blank] days, I served as a [blank].  For [blank] months and [blank]  days, I served as a [blank] and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia &c.
without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison;, and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.

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

Proof of Service.

[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
-->The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

[Following is hand-written at bottom of page:]  It must appear whether there are survivors of the several terms of service & the best evidence in detail be produced.
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State of New Jersey
Essex County SS ⎬ Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Essex David Dean of the Township of Springfield County of Essex and State of New Jersey. - Who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the same David Dean who heretofore made a declaration for a pension dated the Twenty seventh
day of September 1833. And that by Reason of old age the great length of time and the consequent loss of Memory he may be mistaken as to the Number of Classes stated in his said declaration. But in the Company of Militia Commanded by Captain Isaac Reeves although the Law might require every Militia Company to be divided into Eight Classes he is still under the impression that the Company commanded by said Capt Reeves only consisted of Four classes if it did consist of Eight there must have been two Classes
out at a time.-- For he this deponent saith that
*at least one fourth of the Company was out on duty at the same time said deponent was in service, and sum [some] times one half.-- And at other times the whole Company was on duty, which last mentioned service is not put down nor calculated in his sd Declaration it being generally short from one to 3 or 4 days at a time. And this deponent further saith that
he has only put down such service in his sd Declaration that was duly performed in his regular rotation in service. And this deponent further saith that he has produced the Best evidence in his power as to his services in the Revolutionary war and that he knows of no other living witness or Witnesses at this time except those he has produced that can testify to his services, and at the time
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that he made his said Declaration he did not
know that the said Timothy Meeker could be a witness for him whose affidavit is hereunto
annexed as to his services as a substitute for
Uzal Wilson in Captain John Speers Company he is certain there is no one living that done duty with him in said Company Except Jacob Edwards whose affidavit is annexed to his said Declaration or at least he cannot hear of any other person now living that served with him in said Company. And this deponent further saith that he done at least Four Months duty as a substitute for his father Ichabod Dean in the Common Militia before he was sixteen years old and enrol[l]ed in said Captain Reeves Company. And this deponent further saith that he cannot produce any evidence that can testify to his several terms of service in detail as there are no one now living that were out with him in each term of service. And further saith not.
David Dean

Sworn to and subscribed at
Newark in said County
December 4th 1833 before me.
Saml B. Miller Justice of the peace

I hereby certify that Saml B. Miller Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition was taken is a Justice of peace in Essex County & the signature of his name thereto is genuine.
Lewis Condict late a Repr.
from N. Jersey
Decr 12th 33.
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State of New Jersey
Essex County SS }  Personally appeared before
me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County Timothy Meeker of the
County of Essex in said State a person well
known to me to be a man in good standing
in Society & entitled to belief as a witness. Who
being duly sworn doth on his oath depose and
say that he is Eighty five years old that he was a soldier in the Revolution that he was during the Revolutionary war acquainted with David Dean of the Township of Springfield in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey and the same David Dean that made a declaration for a pension on the Twenty seventh day of September 1833.  that he believes the said David Dean to be Seventy years old. That he well knows that the sd David Dean was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and belonged to Captain Isaac Reeves Company of Militia in Col Van courtlands Regiment and this deponent further saith that he was orderly Sergeant in said Reeves Company and that said Company was classed into a Number of Classes how many he cannot now say but the privates
belonging to said Company were generally on duty one month and at home two months and did not do less than four months duty in each
year during the said war, and in worming out the men belonging to said Captain Reeves Company he well recollects that he wormed out the said David Deen Among the Rest, but how much actual service the said David Dean done he cannot now say but he fully believes that the
said David Dean was out in actual service
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in said Company as much as four month in a
year from the time he has claimed service in his declaration, and this deponent further saith that said Company was stationed the most of the
time at Newark some times at Elizabeth Town
Springfield & Balem Town some times on duty
under the said Capt Isaac Reeves & sometimes under Captains Gillam & Nichols in Col Van Courtlands Regiment Samuel Hays Major. And this deponent further saith that he well recollects that the said David Dean done duty in said Company as a substitute for his Father Ichabod Dean before the said David Dean was sixteen years old and done as much as four months duty as a substitute for his father in said Capt. Reeves Company which service is not mentioned in the said Deans Declaration. And this deponent further saith that the said David Dean and family were good Soldiers and never refused during their Regular tours of duty. But owing to the great length of time & the consequent loss of memory this deponent cannot specify the several tours of service done and performed by the said David Dean but is well satisfied and fully believes that the said
David Dean was in actual service for all the
time that he has put down and claimed in his
said Declaration as to the Common Militia Service, but as to the Service done & performed as a substitute for Uzal Wilson in John Speers Company of Six month men this deponent has no knowledge of, he only knows there was such a company & was acquainted with sd Uzal Wilson & further saith not.
Tim Meeker

Sworn to & subscribed in said
County this fourth day
December A.D. 1833, before me.
Saml B. Miller Justice of the peace