Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 841, John Burroughs, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey
Burroughts, John
Rhoda
NUMBER
W. 841
CONTENTS
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9570
New Jersey
John Burroughs
of Trenton in the State of NJ
who was a pri  in the Com commanded
by Captain _____ of the Reg commanded
by _____ in the  N. Jersey
State Service
2 years 
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jers
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
=====================
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of May
1833 and sent, Mr Hester Present _
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Arrears to the 4th of March 31  $160
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sep 6 32  40
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$200
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{Revolutionary Claim,
{Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by E. D. Bullock Clerk
Book E Vol. 3 Page 102
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Reported,
T, Ewing Jr Decr 5/51.

3744
New Jersey
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Rhoda Burroughs,
widow of 
John Burroughs decd.
who died on the 28 April 1842
of Mercer in the State of N. Jersey
who was a private in the Comp commanded
by Captain _____________ of the Regt commanded
by ____________ in the N. J.
line for 2 Years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey,
at the rate of 80 Dollars ____ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 29th April 1842 the day subsequent to his death.
=======================
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of June
1842 _____ and Sent to Charles 
Burroughs Jayor of Trenton NJ
=======================
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1842,    13.99
4 mos   6 days
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar '43  40.
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63.99
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{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 4, 1836,}
{Section the 3d}
Recorded by Theo Smoody Clerk,
Vol 3  Page 138
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In Chancery NJ.
State of New Jersey}
Hunterdon County Ss.}

On this tenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared before me Peter D Vroom Governor and Chancellor of the State of New Jersey, in the Court of Chancery of New Jersey. Now sitting John Burroughs, a resident of the township of Trenton in the county and State aforesaid, aged 78 years and 6 months the 13th of this [month?] (having been born in said township on the 13th January 1754, and has always resided there-) who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1837.
That he entered the service of the United States as a Volunteer, in 1776 in June as he presumes, for he recollects being at Amboy with the American troops when the Declaration of Independance was read to them. He entered in Capt. John Motts Company of volunteers. The Major was Robert Hoops, Col. Jos. Phillips, and they were all under the command of General Philemon Dickinson_ Immediately after his enrollment he marched with his Company to Amboy & was out one month. It was the custom of the neighborhood where deponent resided for them to take turns with each other and serve month about _ This deponent and his brother Joseph Burroughs who has been dead many years, took turn about relieving each other during the whole war._ This deponent was with his Company under Mott, at Elizabeth Town afterwards, and was engaged in the skirmish at Springfield_ and in several other small affairs_ He went as a volunteer with Adjutant Elias Phillips about this time on an excursion to Staten Island, and surprised and captured a British guard and brought them to Elizabeth Town as prisoners. The next year Deponent marched with his company from Trenton to join Washingtons army then following the British from Philadelphia across New Jersey. He went to Hights Town & English Town and on to the Battle field, and served on the field thru the day. He continued in the service to the close of the war, relieved as before stated monthly by his brother. After the battle of Monmouth he served in the same capacity as a volunteer under Captains Benjamin Titus, Ralph Guild, and Philip Phillips, all of whom are dead. Andrew Reeder was a Lieut. in Motts company, and is also dead, as is Capt. Mott. The officers are all dead under whom he served. He has no documentary evidence _ Does not recollect
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that he ever had any written discharge _ believes none of the volunteers in his neighborhood received any. Deponent can procure the testimony of Joshua Forman of this township, who can testify to deponents service. The Deponents age is recorded in the family bible, which he has in his possession. Deponent perfectly recollects General Washington, and Lee  at the Battle of Monmouth, and in the __________
the campaign in Monmouth}
And this Declarant further says that he kept no memorandum of his different tours, and cannot therefore particularly specify dates, but that he served in all more than thirty different monthly tours, and that he was in actual service altogether at least three years, according to the best of his recollection & belief.
Deponent is known to most of the residents of his neighborhood - and [would?] name James B. Green, and Col. Edward S. McIlvaine as neighbors of his who can testify as to deponents character for veracity and their belief in his services as a soldier of the revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.
John Burroughs
Sworn and subscribed the}
day and year aforesaid}
Before me.}
P. D. Vroom}
Chancellor}

New Jersey Ss. We Eli F. Cooley, a Clergyman, residing in the township of Trenton, County of Hunterdon, State aforesaid and Edward S. McIlvaine and James B. Green, residing in the same township, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Burroughs, who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration: that we believe him to be about 78 years of age: that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood were he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Eli F. Cooley
Edwd.. S. McIlvaine
James B. Green

P. D. Vroom
Chancellor
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New Jersey Ss.
Joshua Forman of the township of Trenton, County of Hunterdon and State aforesaid, farmer,  alleging himself to be consscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath, and being duly affirmed upon his solemn affirmation saith, that he is about seventy seven years of age, has always resided in the neighborhood ofabove  John Burrough, the Declarant, and has known him intimately, ever since he was a boy_
This affirmant was himself a volunteer in the service from the same neighborhood with the said Burroughs, but it was the custom in that 
neighborhood for the volunteers in the neighborhood to relieve each other once a month, that Mr Burroughs tour was not in the same month with this affirmants. But this affirmant knows that the said John Burroughs served in the volunteers from about the
Declaration of Independence to the end of the war reqularly taking his tour of service. That he made upwards of thirty tours amounting as deponent verily & confidently believes, to at least three years.
Joshua Furman
Affirmed and subscribed}
the day & year above-}
Before me}
P. D. Vroom}
Chancellor}

And the said Court doth hereby declare its 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 Eli F Cooley who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the township of Trenton, and in the vicinity of the residence of the said John Burroughs and that Edward L McIlvaine
and James B. Green who have also signed the same, are residents in the same township and neighborhood, are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that Joshua Furman who has [illegible] the above affirmation, is also a credible person & his statement entitled to credit. Done in open Court the day and year above mentioned.
P.D. Vroom Ck
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In Chancery of N.J.
In Matter of sd declara-}
tion of John Burroughs}
for a pension under}
Act of June 7. 1832}
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I Stacy G. Potts, Clerk of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Burroughs for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, at Trenton this tenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Stacy G. Potts Clk

In Chancery of N.J.
In Matter of sd Declara-}
tion of John Burroughs}
for a pension under}
Act of June 7, 1832.}
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In Chancery NJ

In Matter of appli-}
cation of John Bur-}
roughs of Trenton town-}  Declaration
ship, Hunterdon Co.}
N.J. for a pension.}
Allowed
L. L
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New Jersey Ss. John Burroughs of the township of Trenton, County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey, farmer, being duly sworn according to law, doth depose his oath say _ That he is the same person who has made and sworn to the foregoing Declaration_ that owing to his age, being now in his Eightieth year, and the bodily and mental infirmities consequent upon his years, he is utterly unable to furnish the date at which he made his various tours of service as a private volunteer militia man, or to specify the names of all the officers under whom he served, or to detail, in the order in which they occurred, the various expeditions in which he served_ But this deponent, doth distinctly recollect that he entered first in Capt. Mott's Company as a volunteer, and marched under him to Amboy and was there when the Declaration of Independence was first read to the army, which must have been in July 1776, that he remained a month in service, and was then relieved for one month _ that he served a second tour of one month at Steel's Mountain_ that he served a third, fourth, fifth, and sixth tour, of one month each tour, at Elizabeth town and in that neighborhood _ that he served in June 1778 one month in Middlesex and Monmouth, and during that tour was engaged in the Battle of Monmouth _ and that afterwards he served three tours of one month each under the same Captain and in the same company _ that in all these ten different tours he was under the command of Captain Mott, in his said Declaration mentioned. This Deponent also, upon his oath says that he directly recollects that he served two successive tours of one month each under Capt William Tucker, the first at Smith's Farms, and the second at the Blazing Star. And this deponent also on his oath, says that he distinctly recollects that he served four tours of one month each under Capt. Ralph Phillips, two months at Elizabeth town and neighborhoods and two months in Somerset County in New Jersey. And this deponent also on his oath says that he distinctly recollects that he served four tours of  one month each under Capt. Timothy Titus _ three of which were at Passaic Falls and in that neighborhood, and one tour at Scotch Plains. And this Deponent also on his oath says that he distinctly recollects that he served three tours of one month each under Capt. Ralph Guild, the first two at Morristown and the last at Eliz-
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abeth town. And this Deponent further on his oath says that he served one tour of a month under Capt. Ralph Green on the Raritan river; and one tour near the close of the war under Captain Joseph [Illegible] on an excursion down the river below Bordentown.
And this Deponent further upon his oath says_ that since his papers were returned for a more particular specification of dates &c. he has endeavoured to recall and arrange the necessary details of his service, to meet the requirement of the Department_ that he has thus been able to swear distinctly to the twenty five different times above specified from correcting the places at which he served and the officers under whom he served together, and these being prominent facts, he has recalled clearly and distinctly the recollections of these; that to the best of his recollection and belief he served several additional tours under some of the above named officers, but his recollection is not sufficiently distinct to enable him to swear positively to more than the above_ that he declares upon his oath that he served as is above positively stated, twenty five different tours, that some of these may have been for a few days less and some for a few days more than a month, but the regular and almost uniform period was one month, that being the arrangement existing at the time as stated in his Declaration. He also on his oath distinctly and positively swears that the above services were all rendered between the spring of 1776 and the close of the year 1782_ in the regular Militia service_ under [arms?], in the field_ and upon the regular calls of his officers; and that he includes no position of the time during which he was at home_ though he was even then held liable to be called out of his regular turn, upon any sudden or pressing emergency. And this Deponent says that he suffered greatly both in person and property in consequence of his services aforesaid_ and is now in feeble and infirm age, and fast [illegible] under the weight of years, and that if the above facts are insufficient to entitle him to the bounty of his country, he altogether despairs of producing any further testimony, all the officers and persons under and with when he served being either dead or unknown to him_ and further saith not
John Burroughs

Sworn and subscribed in open court this}
22d. day of May 1833. Before me}
Elias P Seeley
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In Chancery of N. J.

In matter of the application of John Burroughs}
of Trenton township, Hunterdon County NJ. for a}
pension under Act of June 7. 1832.}

Interrogatories administered to John Burroughs, a soldier in the militia service in the war of the Revolution, in open court, with his answers to the same under oath.

1. Where and in what year were you born?
Answer - In the township of Trenton, county of Hunterdon, and State of New Jersey, on the 13th day of January 1754.
2. Have you any record of your age and if so, where is it?
Answer - Yes - it is recorded in the family Bible, now in my possession, ready to be produced here in Court if necessary.
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war; and where do you now live?
Answer - I lived when called into service, in the township of Trenton aforesaid_ I have lived there ever since the War of the Revolution_ and I now live there.
4. How Where you called into service: were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
Answer -  There was a call made upon the Jersey Militia to turn out. I believe the order was issued by General Dickinson_ but I do not now recollect positively. I was a volunteer and never served as a substitute.
5. State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops when you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer - In regard to the general circumstances of my service I refer to my Declaration, and preceding affidavit for all the particulars I can distinctly remember. I recollect General Washington and Lee were with us at Monmouth_ General Putnam was also sometimes with the troops_ But never having changed my memory with the names of the Regular officers or of the regiments and being always under the immediate command of our own Militia officers _ Generally Heard or Dickinson, and in the Regiment of volunteers. I am unable now to recall to mind their names, or the different Regiments which were in service at the various times I was with the Army.
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6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer - I never had any written discharge from the service _ no such thing was given to any of the volunteers here that I know of _ when the war ended, we were no longer called out, and our company disbanded.
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution.
Answer - I refer to my Declaration _ I have there said that I was known to most of the residents of my neighborhood, and mentioned the names of James B. Green and Col. McIlvaine. I might add the names of Rev. Eli F. Cooley and Joshua Forman, whose testimony will be found in preceding affidavits.
John Burroughs

New Jersey Ss. John Burroughs whose name is subscribed to the foregoing answer being duly sworn doth declare and say that the said several answers are true _ And further saith not.
John Burroughs
Sworn and subscribed in open Court}
this 22d day of May 1833 before me}
Elias P. Seeley Clk

New Jersey Ss. Charles Burroughs esquire of the City of Trenton, County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey, of full age, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is the son of John Burroughs the Declarant in the foregoing declaration, and who has sworn to the depositions and answers above _ that this deponent is forty five years of age, and has all his life resided in the township of Trenton aforesaid _ That he has always understood and believed and that, as far as it is possible for him to know he knows that his father served in the Militia services as a volunteer during the whole period of the war of the Revolution. That the facts stated and set forth in the foregoing Declaration and affidavits compared with those  which he has always from childhood heard and understood and believed relative
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to his fathers services, not only from information received from his father, but from old inhabitants of the township who served in the same service and who are now dead, and from general reputation _ And that his fathers services never were to his knowledge doubted by any one _ that the belief of his services is general _ and he may add accounts to perfect confidence that the facts are so_ that he did not make this affidavit upon the first application, out of motives of delicacy, arising from his near connexion with the applicant. That he has from a boy been well acquainted with Joshua Forman, James B. Green and Edward S. McIlvaine - that they are all gentlemen of high character and uexceptionable reputation, and the latter has been for several years and is now  a member of the Legislature of this State and that the Rev. McCooley has been for a number of years part and is now the Paster of the Presbyterian Church of Trenton Township and further saith not.
Chas Burroughs
Sworn and subscribed in open court}
this 22d day of April 1833 before me}
Elias P Seeley} Chr.

I Elias P. Seeley Governor and Chanceller of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify, that the record of the age of John Burroughs the Declarant in the foregoing Declaration, was produced and examined by me in open Court and found to contain the entry as stated in his answer to the Second of the above interrogatories _ and I further certify that Charles Burroughs Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit is the Mayor of the city of Trenton, that he is a credible person, and his statement is entitled to credit _ And also that the Court concurs, upon the foregoing additional investigation and evidence, in the [forseen?] opinion certified by the Court, that the said John Burroughs, the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. Done in open Court the day and year [last?] above written
Elias P. Seeley
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I Stacy G. Potts Clerk of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey do hereby certify, that the foregoing affidavit of John Burroughs, the answers to interrogatories following, and the affidavit of Charles Burroughs Esq. and certificate of the Chanceller are the original additional papers, as sworn to and certified in open Court, and annexed by me to the preceding Declaration and  testimony [hr.?] in the matter of the application of said John Burroughs for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Chancery at Trenton this twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Stacy G. Potts Clk.
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No. 2
James Burroughs Born July the 8th Day 1735
Mary Burroughs Born July the 9 Day 1735
John Burroughs Born January the 13 Day 1754
Joseph Burroughs Born September 17 Day 1755
Elizabeth Burroughs Born January the 12 Day 175_
Sarah Burroughs Born June the 20 Day 1760
Phillip Burroughs Born July 4 Day 1762
Mary Burroughs Born January the 31 Day 1765
Huldah Burroughs Born May the 5 Day 1767
Jeremiah Burroughs Born January the 15 Day 1770
Marejoy Burroughs Born October 26 Day 1772
Jamime Buroughs Born December the 9 Day 177_
Anna Burroughs Born March 9 Day 1762
Mary Burroughs Born May 6th Day 1780
Sarah Burroughs Born February the 21 Day 178_
Elizebeth Burroughs Born May 15 Day 1784
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No. 1.
Roday Burroughs Born in november the 26 Day 1760
Enoch Burroughs Born in June 4 Day 1780
Timothy Burroughs Born in August 20 Day 1782
Joseph Burroughs Born in May 27 Day 1785
Charles Burroughs Born in January 27 day 1788
Susan Buroughs Born in March 13 Day 1793
Mary Burroughs Born June 29th 1798
Jeremiah Burroughs Born August 26 1807
John Stevens Burroughs Born May 12 1806
David Burroughs Born December 4 1807
Catharine Smith Born the 1 November 1811
Joseph Bur  JAB
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State of New Jersey
Mercer County} Ss
On this twenty first day of June One thousand Eight hundred and forty two Personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas now sitting at Nottingham in said County, Rhoda Burroughs a resident of the city of Trenton in the County of Mercer and State of New Jersey in the Eighty Second year of her age, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed "July 4 1836" That she is the widow of John Burroughs who was a private in the militia of New Jersey in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War as is specified and set fourth in the Declaration of her husband the said John Burroughs now at the War Department in Washington, at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum. She further declares that she was married to the said John Burroughs in the Autumn or winter of Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine, the day and month this declarant is unable to recollect_ a license was obtained but has no record or certificate of said marriage _ the said John Burroughs and this declarant was married by the Revd John Guild of Pennington who it appears has not left any record of marriage. Hannah Reeder now living in the city of Trenton is the only person living at this time who was present
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Explanation of this record

Side-marked No. 1. Contains the date of my mother's Birth and Six children, the oldest of whom named Enoch in "June 4, 1780" the balance of names are Grand children
_________________________________________
Side marked No. 2. Contains the dates of the Birth of the Subscribed Grand Father, Grand Mother
Father = uncles _Aunt &c.:
Chas. Burroughs
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at the said marriage_ this declarant
produces and attaches the record of the
family births contained in their family Bible
which has always been in the possession of
declarant. Since the record was written upwards of forty years ago and which record is in the handwriting of # She also well recollects that her said husband performed a number of tours of Militia duty after their marriage.
That her husband the aforesaid_ John Burroughs died on the twenty eighth day of April, One thousand Eight hundred and forty two and that She has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Rhoda Burroughs
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written}
In open Court}
Chas. Burroughs Prest. Judge.

# My brother in law Jeremiah Burroughs and someone else of the family
Chas. Burroughs Judge.
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Enoch & 
Charles Burroughs
Claim for
Increase of Pension
War of 1776

Presented Oct. 2/51
Tho. Ewing Jr.
Present
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And, that the balance of pension
thus due, over and above what
has already been paid to the aforesaid
John Burroughs and to 
Rhoda Burroughs his Widow,
may be paid to Enoch Burroughs
Timothy Burroughs, Susan Smith,
Mary Lanning, and Charles Burroughs,
being the only children and heirs at
law of the aforesaid John & Rhoda
Burroughs deceased- And, for proof of the fact that the said Enoch & Timothy Burroughs, Susan Smith, Mary Lanning and Charles Burroughs ar the Children and heirs at law of the aforesaid John & Rhoda Burroughs deceased- they would refer to the papers on file in the Pension Office aforesaid - Establishing the claim of the said John & Rhoda Burroughs to a pension as aforesaid_
Under Act of Congress}
passed June 7-1832}
Chas. Burroughs
Enoch Burroughs

State of New Jersey}
Mercer County Ss:}
On this twenty first day of  March A.D. 1851, personally appeared Charles urroughs and Enoch Burroughs, before me, and acknowledged the foregoing made oath to the foregoing declaration, and acknowledged the same to be their act and deed for the purpose therein contained.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal this twenty first day of March Anno Domini, Eighteen hundred and fifty one
Barker Gummer
Notary Public
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State of New Jersey}
County of Mercer} Ss.  We Charles Burroughs and Enoch Burroughs, children and heirs at law of John Burroughs deceased_ late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States in the City of Trenton and state of New Jersey aforesaid- do, upon oath, testify and declare to the best of our knowledge and belief, that our late Father, the said John Burroughs, did enter the Service in 1776, for the term of __________ and served as a Sergeant under Capt. Mott, Capt. Clunn and also under Capt. Philips, in the Regiment No______ under the Command of Col______line in the War of the Revolution, ______ in the _____ and that he continued in the aforesaid until ________ as his papers on file at the Pension Office at Washington establishing his claim to the pension heretofore allowed him, will more fully show.
We the said Charles Burroughs and Enoch Burroughs do hereby make this application for the pension to which the said John Burroughs was entitled as a Sergeant in the War aforesaid, and also, for the Pension to which Rhoda Burroughs widow of the said John Burroughs, was entitled, deducting therefrom the Pensions which were paid to the said John Burroughs, (and the said Rhoda Burroughs his Widow,) as a private in the service aforesaid.
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In reply to your request of________, received___________ for a statement of the military history of John Burroughs a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
W. File 841
==============================

DATES OF |
ENLISTMENT OR|
APPOINTMENT.|

Between the|
Spring 1776|
and|
end of 1782|

LENGTH OF|
SERVICE.|
His brother Joseph & he served alternately|
every month.|

RANK.|
Sergeant|
and| 
Private|

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.|

CAPTAIN.
John Mott
William Tucker
Philip Phillips
Timothy Titus
Ralph Guild
Ralph Jones
Joseph Clunn

COLONEL.
Joseph Phillips

STATE.
N.J.

Soldier stated that he & his brother Joseph (who died prior to 1832 served) alternate months.

Battles engaged in, Springfield Elizabethtown, & Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Trenton Twp., Hunterdon Co., N. J.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 10, 1832.
Residence at date of application, Trenton Twp., Hunterdon Co., N. J.
Age at date of application, b. Jany. 13, 1754. Trenton Twp., Hunterdon Co., N. J.
Remarks:  Sol. mar. Winter of 1779 Rhoda Hendrickson
he d. Apl. 28, 1842, at Trenton, N. J.
& she was alld. pens. on her applic. exec. June 21, 1842 while residing with son Charles at Trenton, N. J. in the 82 yr. of her age.

Very respectfully,
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Record Division.
April 1, 1911.
Mrs. Charles F. Burroughs,
Hotel Marlborough,
East Orange, N. J.

Madam:

In addition to the military history of John Burroughs, Wid. File 841, you are furnished the following family data from the papers in the case.

James Burroughs,   born   July 8,      1735.
his wife
Mary Burroughs,        "      July 9,       1735.

Their children.

John Burroughs,         "    January 13,    1754.
Joseph Burroughs,     "    September 17, 1755.
Elizabeth Burroughs,  "    January 12,    175--
Sarah Burroughs,       "    June 20, 1760.
Philip Burroughs,       "    July   4,  1762.
Mary Burroughs,        "    January 31,  1765.
Huldah Burroughs,     "    May 5, 1767.
Jeremiah Burroughs,  "    January 15,  1770.
Marejoy Burroughs,   "     October 26,  1772.
Jamime Burroughs,    "    December 9, 1775.
Anna Burroughs,        "     March 9, 1762.
Mary Burroughs,        "    May 6,  1780.
Sarah Burroughs,       "    February 21, 178-
Elizabeth Burroughs,  "    May 15, 1784.
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Wid. File No. 841,-- 2

" Roday Burroughs,     born  November 26,  1760.
Enoch Burroughs,           "     June 4,   1780.
Timothy Burroughs,       "     August 28, 1782.
Joseph Burroughs,         "      May 27,  1785.
Charles Burroughs,        "     January 27, 1788.
Susan Burroughs,          "     March 13, 1793.
Mary Burroughs,           "     June 29, 1798.

Grandchildren.

Jeremiah Burroughs,       born    August 26  1807.
John Stevens Burroughs    "      May 12,  1806.
David Burroughs,               "     December 4, 1807.
Charine Smith,                   "     1 Dovember, 1814.

On March 21, 1851, it was alleged that Charles, Enoch and Timothy Burroughs, Susan Smith and Mary Lanning were the only surviving
children of Rhoda Burroughs, but the date of her death was not stated.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Feby 15, 1904, His to
H. V. Engle- Phila Pa
_______________________
1911 Ap. 1. To Mrs. Chas. F. Burroughs &

WIDOW, & c.
Revy
File No. 841
Rhoda Burroughs
Widow
John Burroughs
Priv. Rev. War.

Act: July 4, 1836.
Index: -- Vol. 4, Page 100
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Washington D.C. Oct. 2. 1857

Sir:

I respectfully request your attention to the evidence on which John Burroughs and his widow Rhoda Burroughs were admitted pension _their heirs claim that the husband served as a Sergeant, tho' pensioned for service as a private, in the New Jersey Line revolutionary war. By the time the case comes up I will probably be able to present such evidence as will establish the claim for increase of pension.
The papers will be found in the New Jersey ( or New York) roll.
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Sert
Tho. Ewing, Jr.
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[Official Stamp: & NAVY FILES. 
FEB 2 1904
U.S.P.B.]

1932 Germantown Ave.,
Phila., Pa.
Jany. 30, 1904.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
 
F. C. Ainsworth of the War Dept. has advised me to write to you for the following information:_

Was an application for pension or bounty land made by a John Burrough of N. J., Gloucester Co., Waterford Township, prior to the year 1805?

I had an ancestor by this name and wish to know whether he
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served in the army. I cannot determine this point without the above information, because there were several soldiers from New Jersey by the name John Burrough.

If you can find the name, please state the organization in which he served, and oblige

Yours respectfully,
Herbert V. Engle.

[Official stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE. F FEB 1 1904]
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Hotel Marlborough
East Orange 
N. J.

Dept. of the Interior,
Commissioner of Pensions,

Dear Sir -

My husband is a lineal descendant of one John Burroughs who fought in the Revolutionary War, and also of James who was the father of John and whom we believe was also in the War. We have an affidavit asserting that John served and that he or his wife or both of them drew a pension for his services.
Will you kindly give me a copy of the pension application of this man John and also of James if he drew one. They
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3) Hendrickson and James' wife was Mary Jones. John Burroughs pension monies may have been sent to his son's residence corner of State and Willow, Trenton N. J. but of this I'm not assured. John's son Charles became Mayor of Trenton.
William Cannon (or perhaps Cann(i)on) was according to affidavit "something higher than a private".

Something you will be able is help us in a matter which is of considerable importance to us
I am
Very truly yours
Laura Burroughs
(Mrs Chas F.)
March twenty fifth.

MAR 28 1911

[Official Stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE D
MAR 28 1911]

[Official Stamp: RECORD DIVISION MAR 28 1911]
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2
would have registered from old Hunterdon County now Mercer Co. N. Jersey, probably from old Ewing what is now part of Trenton. Any other information concerning these men that you can give me will be much appreciated.
My husband is also a lineal descendant of one William Cannon or Cann(i)on W842 registering from old Hunterdon Co. also probably the same place or Trenton but am not certain. This Wm. Cannon or Cann(i)on was the father of Wm. Cannon who served in the War of 1812. I would like the copy or application for pension of this man Cannion for his services in the Revolution. I do not know whether he ever drew one himself but his wife Martha Cannon did. John Burroughs' wife's name was Rhoda
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No 5609.
Rhoda Burroughs
Widow of 
John Burroughs
Act "July 4, 1836"

Admd.
2 yrs pri
_____
80

Chas. Burroughs 
Trenton N. Jersey.

Died 28 Apl, 1812
pen: Com 29. Apl 1842
________________________

Charles Burroughs
Mayor of 
Trenton
N. J.
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State of New Jersey}
Mercer County} Ss.

I Ralph H Shreve Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Mercer in said State do hereby certify that Charles Burroughs Esqr. before whom the declaration of Rhoda Burroughs, was taken in open Court, and before whom the affidavit of Hannah Reeder was taken was at the time of the doing thereof the Presiding Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and also a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County of Mercer, and that Samuel Evans Esquire before whom the affidavit of Charles Burroughs was taken was at the doing thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Mercer._ both duly appointed, Commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to their official  attestations, and that the signatures thereto, are in the proper handwriting of the said Charles Burroughs & Samuel Evans Esqr.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal at Nottingham in said State this twenty second day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundreed and forty two.
Ralph H Shreve Clerk
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State of New Jersey
Mercer County Ss

On the 21st day of June A.D. 1842. Before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County personally appeared
Charles Burroughs Esqr Mayor of the City of
Trenton who being duly sworn according to law on his oath deposeth and saith that his
Father John Burroughs died at the residence
of deponent on the 28th day of April A.D.
1842, in the City of Trenton, deponent has this
day cut from the family Bible of his Father and Mother the record of the birth of their children- which said record this dept. well recollects to have seen in said family Bible upwards of Thirty nine years ago- the writing deponent believes to be in part the handwriting of an uncle of his, has made search for the marriage Bond without success at the Secretary's office- his Father was in the receipt of a Pension from the U.S. of Eighty dollars per year at the time of his decease -  Rhoda Burough resides with dept. (the widow of the said John Burroughs) dept. has never seen any record, nor does he believe
there is any record of their said marriage -
Extant - but fully believes that the said
marriage took place at the time specified
in the declaration of his said mother.
Chas Burroughs

Sworn to and Subscribed this}
day and year above written}
before me}

Saml Evans, Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey}
Mercer County Ss

On the 21st day of June
AD 1842, Before the Subscriber a Justice of
the Peace in and for said County, personally
appeared Hannah Reeder a resident of
the City of Trenton in the Eighty Second
year of her age a person of credibility
and truth who being duly sworn according to
law on her oath deposeth and Saith That she was well acquainted with Rhoda
Hendrickson, who married John Burroughs
this deponent is a near relation to the said
Rhoda, and well recollects being present 
at the marriage of the said Rhoda Hendrick-
son and John Burroughs by the Revd John
Guild of Pennington in the winter of Seven-
teen hundred and Seventy nine. this deponent 
knows of no other living witness that was
present at the said marriage. John Burroughs
husband of the said Rhoda Burroughs died
on the 28th day of April A.D 1842, in the City of Trenton at the residence of his son Charles
Burrough Esquire. She remains his widow since
that period.
her
Hannah X Reeder
mark

Sworn to and Subscribed the}
day and year above written}
Before me Chas Burroughs}
J. P.
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Record Division
.
April 1, 1911.

Mrs. Charles F. Burroughs,
Hotel Marlborough,
East Orange, N. J.

Madam:

In response to your letter dated the 25"" and received the 28"" ultimo, you are herewith furnished the history of John Burroughs, Wid.
File No. 841, and of William Cannion, Wid. File No. 842, and are advised that the Revolutionary War pension records fail to show that a claim was ever filed on account of the services of James Burroughs.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.