Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4603, for Jacob Neff, New Jersey
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New Jersey
Neff, Jacob
S4603
carded
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New Jersey 31,433
 acob Neff
n Co in the State of N. Jersey
Private in the company commanded Captain Stillwell of the right commanded Col. Porter in the N. Jersey mil. for 6 months.
 cribed on the Roll of N. Jersey in the 
of 20 Dollars per annum,  mmonce on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Jue 1838 and sent to Hon. J.F. Randolph, N.R.

 ears to the 4th of March '38        140.00
emi=anl. allowance ending 
4 Sept '38                                        10.00
                                                      150.00
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E-2, Vol 3 Page 151
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New Jersey
Jacob Neff

See let 10 6ct 1837 th

J. T. Randolph

Admitted

Private 6 months
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State of New Jersey Hunterdon County on this Eleventh day of September int he year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty three before me John Thompson Esquire one of the Judges of the Inferior court of Common Pleas of the county of Hunterdon aforesaid personally appeared Jacob Neff, a resident of the township of Readington in the county of Hunterdon aforesaid aged seventy two years on the sixteenth day of January now last past who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath maketh the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress paper June 7th 1832:  That he is unable to attend before the court of common pleas of the county of Hunterdon at the court house in Herrington on account of decrepitude and bodily infirmity. l

To inter II:  I was born on the sixteenth day of January in the year 1761:  in the township of Hillsborough in the county of Somerset & State of New Jersey.

To Inter II.II. My age was recorded in my father's family bible from which it was transcribed into my own family bible which I now here produce.

To Inter II.II.II.  When I was about four years of age as my parents have informed me - my parents removed from Hillsborough aforesaid to the township of Readington aforesaid in which I now reside - where I resided at the commencement of the revolutionary and have resided there ever since

To Inter II.IV.  When called into the service as a soldier of the Revolution in the army of the United States
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I was drafted and served under the following named officers - Walheim two weeks after I was sixteen years of age which was the first of February 1777.  I was enrolled in the regiment of militia composed of the Militia of the townships of Readington Tewksbury & Lebanon.  I belonged to the first battalion of that Regiment there was a call for the elicitation as soon as I was enrolled our Battalion met at the White house in Readington township on or about the first of February 1777.  Our Battalion was classed into two classes each class to take alternative monthly tours.  I belonged to the first class. and went out on or about the first of February 1777.  Jus. Taylor was our Colonel.  John Porter was Major - Richard Stillwell was Captain and Abraham Ten Eyche Lieutenant.  We marched from the Whitehouse & went to Somerville Hills there & in that neighborhood one month.  The British lay at that time at New Brunswick at the expiration of the month I was discharged to return home after serving my first tour.  I recollect serving monthly tours at the following state places but the times at which I served these tours I do not distinctly recollect and the reason why I do not recollect is because I hired a substitute to serve some few of my regular monthly tours - I served one tour of one month at Brotherton our monthly tour at Newark & Papich Falls one monthly tour at Princeton at the time of the Pennsylvania revolt one tour of one month at Trenton to guard some tories about seventy in number.
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and also one tour of one month at Metuchen Meeting house - and I served one month at Elizabethtown to the best of my recollection Richard Stillwell was out captain each tour.  At the time we laid at Bouhamtown we had a skirmish with the British - I also recollect being out frequently on alarms and going to take the tories - I recollect at one of our tory hunts we took near seventy near Millstone they were on the road to join the British Army.  They were taken to Trenton by us - I am safe in saying that I was out these different alarms for the term of three months at least during the war.  I was also engaged at carting for the army from the company store at the Whitehouse to Morristown.  I carted under Robert Blair who Deputy Commissary under Nicholas Arrowsmith Esq. Commissary H:  I was carting under Blair for the term of one month - on account the cop officerly  I am unable now to relate the Issues & dates of my services - and the said Jacob Neff on his oath further deposed and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent  lase of memory he cannot swear positively as to the service length of his services but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades for the term of ten months I served as
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a private & for the term of one month as a carter int he commissary  department and for such services I claim a pension - I never received a written discharge - they were all verbal.  I think Cornelius Nepler can testify as to some of my services - Adrian Johnson & Conelius Nepler are persons to whom I am known in my present neighborhood and who can testify as to my character for the truth and veracity and their belief as to my services as a soldier of the Revolution.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he hereby declares that his name is not on the pension roll or agency in any state.

Sworn & subscribed before me this 11th day of September 1833.  / the term "ten month" corrected in the old rules oath before signing
Jn Thompson
Jacob Neff

State of New Jersey Hunterdon County: Conelius Nepler being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he was seventy four years of age on this ninth day of February last that he was acquainted with Jacob Neff the above named applicant for a pension & was acquainted with him during the war of the Revolution deponent
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resides in this township of Readington in the county of Hunterdon aforesaid during the war of the Revolution & belonged to the same company with the said Jacob Neff.  Deponent said Neff was out different tours together during the ward of the Revolution. deponent recollects of said Neff being at Somerville revolt & at Bouhamtown one month from what deponent saw & heard of the services of said Neff during the war of the Revolution he has no hesitation in saying that he served for the term of ten months as a Militia man deponent also knew of said Neff carting from the  commissary store at the Whitehouse to Morristown & further saith nol.

Sworn & subscribed before me this 11th September AD 1833 one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of Hunterdon County  the term "ten months" corrected before signing

Cornelius Nepler

J L Thompson
I certify that I am well acquainted with Cornelius Nepler the above named witness and that full faith & credit is to be given to his statements given under my hand this 11th day of September AD 1833.
Jn Thompson Judge
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Cornelius Nepler and Adrian Johnson - both residing in the township of Readington in the county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that we are well acquainted Jacob Neff, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years of age:  that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion.

sworn & subscribed before me this 11th day of September AD 1833

Jn Thompson

Cornelius Nepler
Adrian Johnson

State of New Jersey Hunterdon county: I John Thompson one of the Judges of the Inferior court of Common Pleas of the county of Hunterdon before whom the foregoing declaration of Jacob Neff was made on an application for a pension do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter & after pulling the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant Jacob Neff was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and I further certify that  Cornelius Nepler & Adrian Johnson who have signed the preceding certificate & with whom I am well acquainted are both residents of the township of Readington in the county of Hunterdon and they are credible persons
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State of New Jersey Hunterdon county:  I Isaac G Farlee clerk of the Inferior court of Common Pleas of the county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings heard in the matter of the application of Jacob Neff for a pension before John Thompson Esp. one of the Judges of the Inferior court of common pleas of said county and I can also certify that the said John Thompson Esp. was on the eleventh day of September in start & now is one of the Judges of the said court - and that the signatures  "Jn Thompson" to the foregoing declaration affidavits & certificates are his genuine signatures - in witness whereof I have herewith set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court this twenty third day of September Anno domini Eighteen hundred & thirty three.

Isaac G. Farlee, clk
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Jacob Neff
27 831

Certificate to be sent to C. Bartles
Flemington
Hunterdon Co.
N.J.
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State of New Jersey Hunterdon county be it remembered that on this eleventh day of November AD 1834 before me John Thompson one of the Judges of the Inferior court of common pleas of the said county of Hunterdon personally appeared Jacob Neff the person who has signed and sworn to the  proceeding declaration and who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that the town spoken of in his declaration at Bonhamtown was in the spring of the year 1777.  I think it was of that year while lying there we had a skirmish with the British & a few of them were killed.  Abraham Ten Eyche was out lieutenant - the tour at Newark & Passaic Falls was in the fall of the year 1778.  I recollect it was in the fall after the British crossed from Philadelphia to New York.  I laid at those two places one month.  I do not recollect the month but was in the fall of the last mentioned year - at the time of the revolt of the Pennsylvania line - they laid first near Morristown - the Jersey troops laid at or near Rockaway the Pennsylvania line were marched to Princeton & laid there a short time. & they then marched to Trenton.  I laid at Princeton one month at that time while the Pennsylvania line laid in Trenton w3e were stationed at Princeton while the difficulties with the Pennsylvania troops were having their difficulties settled - I was out this town one one month - the town that I spoke of at Metuskinny Meeting.
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was in the summer of the year 1777. I do not recollect the month certainly  Abraham Ten Eyche was Lieutenant and Richard Stilwell was Captain - I was out this trip one month - the time that I laid at Elizabethtown was in the fall of the year of 1778.  I laid there one month under Richard Stillwell Captain.  I think I am safe in saying I served in the war of the Revolution doing military duty for the term of ten months at least - either in camp or out on alarm parties - we were very frequently called out on alarms.  I lived on the road where the tories were accustomed to pass from the upper part of Hunterdon county & Sussex county in this state to the British army I was very frequently called out to pursue them.
Sworn & subscribed before me this 11 November 1834

John Thompson

Jacob Neff

State of New Jersey Hunterdon county be it remembered that on this 11th day of November AD 1834 before me John Thompson one of the Judges of the court of common pleas of Hunterdon county personally appeared Abraham Ten Eyche who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that  he was Lieutenant of Captain Richard Stillwell company in that apparent Regiment of  the Hunterdon Brigade of Militia during the whole of the war of the Revolution.
.
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I recollect that Jacob Neff who has signed the preceding declaration belonged to the same company of Militia with me in the war of the Revolution.  I know that our company was  classed in the war of the Revolution & said Neff was classed among the rest.  I do not recollect particularly as to his services but have no doubt from circumstances which he relates that he served as a soldier of the Revolution - my impression is that he was at Bonhamtown & also at Metuching meeting house as stated in his declaration.

Sworn & subscribed before me this 11 Nov. 1834 
Jn Thompson

Abraham Ten Eyche

I verify that I am well acquainted with Abraham Ten Eyche the above named witness & that full faith & credit is to be given to his statements.  November 11th 1834

Jn Thompson

Hunterdon county:  John Hass Esq. being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he was acquainted with Jacob Neff who has sworn to & subscribed the preceding declaration during the war of the Revolution.  I recollect that said Neff was out as a soldier of the Revolution.  Said Neff & this deponent returned from Princeton after we had been discharged at the time of the Revolt of the Pennsylvania line & while we were laying at Princeton I saw said Neff frequently while he was on duty.
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State of New Jersey Hunterdon county:  I Isaac G Farlee clerk of the Inferior court of common pleas of the said county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that John Thompson Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken was at the time of the taking thereof now if one of the Judges of the court of common pleas 7 also a Justice of the peace of the saif county of Hunterdon and the signature  "Jn Thompson" to said affidavits & certificate is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto let my hand & affixed the seal of this said court this fifth day of September AD 1836.
Marty Tip.

Isaac G. Farlee Clerk
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We John Van Lieu a Clergyman residing in the township of Readington in the county of Hunterdon and John J. Kline of the same place do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Neff who has subscribed and sworn to within or foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years of age & upwards that he reported and believe in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed before me this 7th day September AD 1836
Jn Thompson J. Peace

John Van Lieu
John J. Kline

I hereby certify that John Van Lieu one of the above named witnesses is a clergyman and that John J. Kline the other witness is a credible hardy Reach to read as such and that the statement of other is entitled to implicit credence.

Jn Thompson Judge
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Mrs. Charles S. Passmore
717 W. Granite St.
Butte, Mont.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.4603, it appears that Jacob Neff was born January 16, 1761 at Hillsborough Township, somerset County, New Jersey.

While a resident of Readington Township, New Jersey, he enlisted in February,1777, and served at various times until sometime in 1779, amounting to seven months in all, as private in Captain Richard Stillwell's Company, Colonel John Taylor's New Jersey Regiment: was in a skirmish at Bonhamtown.

He enlisted in 1779 and served one month as Carter in the Commissary Department, under Captain Robert Blair and Colonel Nicholas Arrowsmith.

He enlisted in 1780 and served at various  times util sometime in 1781, amounting to four months in all, as private in Captain Richard Stillwell's Company, Colonel John Taylor's New Jersey Regiment.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed September 11, 1833, while a resident of Readington, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

There is no data on file relative to his family.

Respectfully,

Acting Commissioner
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Jacob Neff
Act 7 June 1832
N Jersey - Imp

Lee Altn. To Hn. J.F. Randolph
Oct. 13. 1837

To serve, March 7, 1838 ending taken
saved Mary 24, 1838
Saved June 7 1838

4603

See the Rec 5.4699
J. Randolph
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171 E. High St.
Somerville, N.J.

Nov. 28, 1913

Dept of Interior
Bureau of Pensions,

Dear Sirs:

My great-great grandfather Jacob Neff, served as a private in the N.J. State Troops in the Revolutionary War.  He lived till about 1838.  In view of this it is probable that he rec'd a pension under the act of 1832.  Kindly furnish me with any date you can concerning him.  I need the information for connection with the S.A.R.

Thanking you in advance I remain 
Very Truly yours

Freeman Leigh
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1207 Chestnut Cove
Trenton, N.J.
Sept. 23, 1915

Dept of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions

Will you kindly send me the military record of Jacob Neff who served with the N.J. State Troops in the Revolutionary War.  He is my ancestor & I am obliged to have his record for entrance in the D.A.R.   He rec'd a pension & died in 1839.

Very resp yours

Buelah Buck
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3-595
Record Division
R.W. AND N. DIVISION

Department of the Interior

BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Dec. 26, 1908

Searched by W. T. Conboye

Original No.
Certificate No.
Claimant,
Soldier, Jacob Neff
Service, Rev.

Remarks:  No. O.W. Inv. or Wid. No O.W.
Reg as above, except O.W. Inv.
File # 4603

27498b4m2-07

Chief of Division
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1909 Jan. 6 Hist to Hazel Dell Neff c. -
1913 Dec. 5 Hist. to Freeman Leigh c.-
1914 Feb 3 to J. L. Merrill
that only Jacob Neff in Rev. War records of this Bureau.  fm
1915 Sept 28 Hist to Buelah Buck c. 
1915 Nov. 15 His to Margie A. Leigh c.
1925 Mar. 17 Hist to Mrs. Chas S Passmore c.

Rev. War

4603
INVALID

File No. 4608
Jacob Neff
Pro N. Y. Mil.

Act:  June 7, 1832
Index: - Vol. A, Page 273
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Feby - 77   1 mo.                   80  1 mo.
Winter 77    1 "                            1 "
Later   77      1 "             Jan  81    1 "
July     78      1 "                            1 "
June    78      1 "
            78      1"
Late      79     1 "
             79     1 "     Carter
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request of (blank)  received  (blank)
the military history of Jacob Neff
Soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's [crossed out]) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

S.F. 4603

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
77  
LENGTH OF SERVICE
3 mos.
RANK
Pro.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN
Richard Stillwell
COLONEL
John Taylor
STATE
NJ
DATES
78
LENGTH
3 MOS
RANK
Pri.
OFFICERS
CAPTAIN
Richard Stillwell
COLONEL
John Taylor
STATE
NJ
DATES
79
LENGTH
1 mo.
RANK
Pri.
CAPTAIN
Stillwell
COLONEL
Taylor
STATE
NJ
DATES
79
LENGTH
1mo.
RANK
Carter
CAPTAIN
Robert Blair
COLONEL
Nicholas Arrowsmith
STATE
(Commissary Dept.)
DATES
80
LENGTH
2 mos.
RANK
Pri
CAPTAIN
Richard Stillwell
COLONEL
John Taylor
DATES
81
LENGTH
2 mos
RANK
Pri
CAPTAIN
Richard Stillwell
COLONEL
John Taylor

Battles engaged in, skirmish with British at Bonhamtown, Hunterdon Co.
Residence of Soldier at enlistment, Readington Twp. N.J.
Date of application for pension, Sept.11, 1833  Allowed
Residence at date of application, Readington, Hunterdon Co. N.J.
Age at date of application, B. Jany 16, 1761 Hillsborough Twp, Somerset Co., N.J.
Remarks:  No Fam data No and for death etc.
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In at June 2
That
S. Lna

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Pension Office
Washington

Hon. J.F. Randolph
HR
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Sir/
My correspondent says that in the case of Jacob Neff, the Department offered a pension for 6 moths, while he thought two little then but now concludes to accept.  You will therefore be so good as to have the certificate made out accordingly - 

Yours tr
J.F. Randolph

J.L. Edwards Esq.

H.R. Jan.1. 1838
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Be so good as to return the rec  of J Neff certificate

Pension Office
Hon. J. F. Randolph
House Reps
U.S.
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War Department
Pension Office
June 7th 1838

Sir

The papers of Jacob Neff who it seems from your letter of the 1st in last is ready to accept a pension for six months service were sent to you on the 19th March last, and has not it appears been returned; On the receipt of them W. Neff case will be disposed of forthwith
I have the honor to be
Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
J. L. Edwards

Hon. J. F. Randolph
House Reps
US
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February 3, 1914

Mr. John Lenord Merrill
#756 Broad Street
Newark, New Jersey

Sir: -

In response to your letter dated the 28th ultimo, you are advised that Jacob Neff, a history of whose claim, Sur. File 4.603, Revolutionary War, was furnished to Freeman Leigh on December 5, 1913, is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Very respectfully,
G.M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner
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THE LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION

CHARLES S. PASSMORE, Resident Agent
25 W. Granite Street
Butte, Mont.

February 3, 1925

The Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:

Can you tell me from your records anhything of Jacob Neff of Summerset County, New Jersey, a Revolutionary Soldier?  Did her or his wife, Fannie Kline, apply for pension?

Thanking you for an early reply, I am

Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Chas. S. Passmore
717 W. Granite St.
Butte, Mont.

Stamped
US PENSION OFFICE
FEB 3 1925
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NL 1
Rev Sec

126 Boudinot St
Trenton, N.J.

Nov. 11, 1915

Dept of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sirs: -
Kindly send me the military record of my great-great-great grandfather, Jacob Neff, who served with the N.J. State Troops in the Revolutionary War and later rec'd a pension.  I need it so as to become a D.A.R. 

Thanking you in advance I remain
Very Truly Yours,
Maizie Alva Leigh
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THE NEW JERSEY SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Headquarters:

756 Broad Street (Entrance 1 Clinton Street),
Newark, N.J.

Telephone 3065-M Market

President:  John Lenord Merrill
First Vice-President:  John Brewer Wight
Second Vice-President:  John Lawrence Boggs
Secretary:  John Randel Weeks
Treasurer:  Oscar Halstead Condit
Registrar:  George H. Richards
Historian:  William C. Armstrong
Chaplain:  Rt. Rev. Edwin S. Lines, D.D.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
Samuel Craig Cowart
Augustus S. Crane
Nehemiah Perry Howell
Frederick C. Hyer
Edward Quinton Keasbey
Charles M. Lum
Raymond Townley Parrot
David Lawrence Pierson
Frank Henry Presby
James Henry Slocum

January 28, 1914

Bureau of Pensions,
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:

We have recently had submitted to us with an application a certificate from your Department, S. File 4, 603, showing the service in the Revolutionary War of Jacob Neff, born in New Jersey in 1761, and died there in 1839.  

We have just received another application from a descendant of a Jecob Neff who was born in Zurich Switzerland, March 3rd 1736 and died in Philadelphia, Pa., September 3rd, 1793.  The descendant states that Jacob Neff "served in New Jersey," but there is a question whether his service was in the New Jersey Troops or merely with the Pennsylvania Troops in New Jersey.  Have you any record of the service of this second Jacob Neff in the Revolutionary War?  If so please send me a certificate showing his wervice, and kindly include any data as to family which mahy appear in your records.

Thanking you for any information you may be able to give us, I remain,
Very truly yours,

John Lenord Merrill,
President
NJ BaR
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Plymouth Ind.
Dec. 18, 1908

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir,

Will you please send the Pension Record of  "Jacob Neff" a soldier of the "Revolution".

And Oblige
Hazel Dell Neff
Plymouth Ind.
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88,000
188,000
25446
54238
[Total] 355,683

88,000
25446
54239
[Total] 167 685
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WAR DEPARTMENT

PENSION OFFICE, July 9, 1836

In order to carry into effect the act of Congress of the 4th of July, 1836, entitled "An act granting half pay to the widows or orphans, where their husbands and fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States, in certain cases, and for other purposes," the following rules have been prescribed by the President of the United States, and adopted by the Secretary of War; and they are now published for the information of applicants under that law.
1.  applicants, under the first section of the act, must produce the best proof of the nature of the case will allow, as to the service of the deceased officer or soldier, the time when he died, and the complaint of which he died, and the supposed cause of his disease.  It must be clearly shown in what company and regiment, or corps, he served, and the grade he held.  Such proof must be had, either from the records of the War Department, the muster rolls, the testimony of commissioned officers, or the affidavits of persons of known respectability.  From similar sources evidence must be derived as to the period and cause of the death of the officer or soldier.
2.  The legality of the marriage, the name of the widow, with those of her children, who may have been under sixteen years of age, at the time of the father's decease, with the State or Territory and county in which she and they reside, should be established.  The legality of the marriage may be ascertained by the certificate of the clergyman who joined them in wedlock, or the testimony of respectable persons having knowledge of the fact.  The age and number of children may be ascertained by the deposition of the mother, accompanied by the testimony of respectable persons having knowledge of them, or by transcripts from the parish registers, duly authenticated.  The widow, at the time of allowing the half pay, or placing her on the list for it, must show that she has not again married; and must, moreover, repeat this at the time of receiving each and every payment thereof; because , in case of her marrying again, the half pay to her ceases, and the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the child or children of the decedent.  This may be done by the affidavits of respectable persons having knowledge of the case.
3.  In cases where there are children, and no widow, their guardian will, of course, act for them, establish their claims as prescribed in the foregoing regulations, and receive their stipends for them.
4.  Applicants, under the second section of the law will make a declaration before a court of record, setting forth, according to the best of her or their knowledge or belief, the names and rank of the field and company officers, the day (if possible) and the month and year when the claimant's husband or father (as the case may be) entered the service, and the time when he left the same; and, if under more than one engagement, the claimant must specify the particular periods, and the rank and names of the officers under whom the service was performed; the town or county, and State, in which the claimant's husband or father resided when he entered the service; whether he was draughted; was a volunteer or substitute; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged; the country through which he marched; with such further particulars as may be useful in the investigation of the claim; and also, if the fact be so, that the claimant has no documentary evidence to support the claim.
5.  The same description of proof as to the relationship of the claimant to the deceased officer or soldier will be required, as the rule under the first section points out.
6.   Claimants under the third section of the law must not only produce such proof as the foregoing regulations direct, in relation to widows' claims, but they must in all cases, as an indispensable requisite, who when they were legally married to the deceased officer or soldier, on account of whose services the claim is presented and that the marriage took place before the last term of service of the husband expired.  They must also prove that they were never afterwards married.
7.  In a case where the service of the deceased officer or soldier is clearly proved by record or documentary evidence, or the affidavit of a commissioned officer, showing the grade and length of service of the deceased, the particulars in relation to the service are not required to be set forth in the claimant's declaration, except so far as to show that the claimant or claimants is or are, the widow or children of the deceased.
8.  The claimant must, in every case where there is no record or documentary proof of the revolutionary service of the deceased officer or soldier, produce the testimony of at least one credible witness.  Traditionary evidence will be deemed useful in every such case.
9.  Applicants unable to appear in court, by reason of bolidy infirmity, may make the declaration before required, before a judge or justice of a court of record of the county in which the applicant resides, and the judge or justice will certify that the applicant cannot , from bodily infirmity, attend the court.
10.  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 of the Territory, or of the proper clerk of the court or county, under his seal of office, will be  annexed, stating that such a 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.
11.  The widows of those who served in the navy, or has Indian spies, will produce proof, as nearly as may be, conformably to the preceding regulations, and authenticated in similar manner, with such variations as the different nature of the service may require.
12.  The form prescribed for claimants under the third section of the act will be observed by every other description of claimants, so far as the same may be applicable to their cases, The judge or justice, who may administer an oath, must, in every instance, certify to the credibility of the affiant.
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13.  In every case in which the deceased officer or soldier was a pensioner, the face should be so stated and the deceased pensioner so described as to enable the Department to refer immediately to the evidence upon which he was pensioned, and thus facilitate the investigation of the claim of his widow or children.

JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions

DECLARATION,

In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July, 1836.

State, Territory, or District of
ss.

On this (blank) day of (blank) personally appeared before the (blank) of the (blank) A.B. a resident of (blank) in the county of (blank) and State, Territory, or District of (blank) aged (blank) years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836:  That she is the widow of (blank) who was a[here insert the rank the husband held in the army, navy, or militia, as the case may be, and specify the service performed, as directed in rule number four of these regulations]
She further declares that she was married to the said (blank) on the (blank) day of (blank) in the year seventeen hundred and (blank); that her husband, the aforesaid (blank) died on the (blank) day of (blank); and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before

AN ACT

Granting half pay to widows or orphans, where their husbands and fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States, in certain cases, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that when any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private of the militia, including rangers, sea fencibles, and volunteers, shall have died while in the service of the United States, since the twentieth of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, or who shall have died in the consequence of a wound received whilst in the service, since the day aforesaid, and shall have left a widow, or if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half of the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death or receiving such wound, for and during the term of five years; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the [children of the} said decedent:  Provided, That the half pay aforesaid shall be half the monthly pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates of the infantry of the regular army, and no more; Provided also that no greater sum shall be allowed to the widow or the child or children of any officer, than the half pay of a lieutenant colonel.
SECTION 2.
And bit it further enacted, that if any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician soldier, Indian spy mariner or marine, whose service during the revolutionary war was such as is specified int he act passed the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution," have died since the fourth day of March eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and before the date of said act, the amount of pension which would have accrued from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to the time of his death, and become payable to him by virtue of that act, if he had survived the passage thereof, shall be paid to his widow; and if he left no widow, to his children, in the manner prescribed in the act hereby amended.
SECTION 3.  And be it further enacted, That if any person who served in the war of the revolution, in the manner specified in the act passed the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution," have died, leaving a widow whose marriage took place before the expiration of the last period of his service, such widow shall be entitled to receive during the time she may remain unmarried, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband, by virtue of the act aforesaid, if living at the time it was passed.
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3.

SECTION4.  And be it further enacted, That any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any money or half pay granted by this act, shall be utterly void and of no effect; each person acting for, and in behalf of, any one entitled to money under this act, shall take and subscribe an oath, to be administered by the proper accounting officer, and retained by him and put on file, before a warrant shall be delivered to him, that he has no interest in said money by any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any person whatever.
SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War shall adopt such forms of evidence, in applications under this act, as the President of the United States shall prescribe.
APPROVED,  July 4, 1836.

AN ACT

Explanatory of the act entitled "An act granting half pay to widows and orphans, where their husbands and fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States and for other purposes."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the benefits of the third section of the act entitled " An act granting half pay to widows and orphans, where their husbands and fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes," approved the fourth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall not be withheld from any widow, in consequence of her having married after the decease of the husband for whose services she may claim to be allowed a pension or annuity under said act:  Provided, that she was a widow at the time it was passed.
SECTION 2.   And be it further enacted that the widow of any person who continued in the service of the United States until the third day of November, seventeen hundred and eighty-three, and was married before that day, and while her husband was in such service, shall be entitled to the benefits of the third section of the aforesaid act.
APPROVED, March 3, 1837

WAR DEPARTMENT

PENSION OFFICE, March 15, 1837

In a case where the claimant has married after the decease of the husband, for those services she may claim the pension, it cannot, under the explanatory act of March 3, 1837, be withheld on account of her last marriage:  provided she was a widow on the 4th July 1836.  The latter part of the 6th rule of the regulations of the 9th July, 1836, s not , of course, applicable to such a case.  The facts in relation to the marriage of the last husband, and his death, should be fully set forth in the claimants declaration.  The following is the form of the declaration in such a case:

DECLARATION,

In order to obtain the benefits of the 3rd section of the act of 4th July, 1836, and of the 1st section of the act of 3d March, 1837.

STATE, TERRITORY, OR DISTRICT OF (BLANK)
ss.

On this (blank) day of (blank) personally appeared before the (blank) of the (blank)
in the county of (blank) and the state, territory, or district of (blank) aged (blank) years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4rr, 1836, and the act explanatory of said act, passed March 3, 1837:  That she was married to DC, who was [here insert the particulars respecting the service of the deceased husband, for whose services she may claim a pension, as directed in rule No. 4, of the foregoing regulations of July 9, 1836.]
She further declares, that she was married to the said DC on the (blank) day of (blank); that she was afterwards married to HB, who died on the (blank) day of (blank); and, that she was a widow on the 4th July, 1836, and still remains a widow, as will more fully appear or by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before
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Jacob Neff
Supplemental

James F. Randolph
Ast J
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
ss
On this fourth day of October 1837 before me a Judge of the Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Jacob Neff, of said county now being duly sworn on his oath saith, that having heretofore made an application under the law of 7th June 1832, for the provision therein made for soldiers of the Revolution, and being informed that the narrative of his service is deficient in some material respects, he now proceeds to make such corrections and additions as his  further reflection information enable him to furnish:  He was of the age of sixteen in January 1777, and was conceivably though enrolled in the company of Capt. Stillwell & the regiment of Col James Taylor.  In February 1777, he is first tour of duty was commenced.  He served it under Capt. Stillwell, and it lasted one month, according to the calls of the State.  It was performed principally in the neighborhood of Somerville to check the British, then lying in New Brunswick.  during that same winter of 1777 he did another tour of a month under Capt Stillwell. and was marched to Bonhamtown about three miles from New Brunswick at the time the British were still in Brunswick this was to cut off raping and plundering hasties and to preserve their depredations.  He did another tour of a
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month in the latter part of the year 1777.   He recollects this because it was the year the British left Runswick in guarding some tories at Trenton, that had been taken, on Staten Island  This also was under Capt. Stillwell.  In 1778, in the early part of that year, he performed another tour of a month under Capt. Stillwell at Newark and Passaic Falls, in guarding that section of county from the depredations after enemy.  He also well remembers now, and to stated he believes originally to his assent, that he was out on a monthly tour at the time of the battle of Monmouth which was in June 1778.  This was under Capt. Stillwell, as were all his tours, so far as he can recollect them.   He did not reach the battle ground in time to be at the engagement, but he continued his tour  out, and served a month along the Raritan principality.  He also did one other tour of a month during the same year of 1778 & was under Capt. Still well, and was during the tour marched to Metuchin Meeting house, which is about four or five miles from Staten Island where the British lay.  This was for the purpose of holding the enemy in check and preventing  incursions and depredations.  In the year 1779 (the year od the battle of Monmouth as I remember) I lined a substitute to do my tour for six months, that is for such fours as I might be required to perform within winter of six months.  He however did one tour of a month during the latter part of the year under Capt. Stillwell, at Elizabethtown, in defending that portion of the frontier from the enemy.  He was also engaged during that year one month in carting from the White house in
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Hunterdon County to the troops at Morristown.  This duty he performed instead of his usual monthly tour, rec'd in the public service receiving his pay from the commissary.  In 1780, which date he is unable to fix from being at the year of the battle of Springfield, he did a tour of a month at Elizabethtown, and Capt. Stillwell in protecting the lives and property of the inhabitants in that quarter.  He did also another tour of one month during the same year, under Capt. Still well, in the same district of county, and in the same service.  He remembers now distinctly that he did the tours of duty in that year and in fact that in every year of the war up to 1782, and He believes in t\hat year also he performed several tours.  In 1781, in January of that year he performed a tour of a month under Capt. Stillwell, at the time of the revolt of the Pennsylvania line. l This was principally in the neighborhood of Princeton where their company rendezvoused.  Afterwards, in that same year he performed another tour of a month under Capt. Stillwell, during which he was engaged principally at Elizabethtown, and that neighborhood in defence of that section of the explored frontier.  He thinks now that he did duty in 1782, but of this he cannot be certain & he denies to make no claim that he is not entirely convinced to be correct.  He is absolutely certain that he has said nothing in his paper incompatible with the truth of his services and that all the services he did actually render have  been stated.  The oaths have been supplied from the dates of this oral facts to which he has been deponed.

Jacob Neff

Subscribed to me the day and year aforesaid before me
Jn Thompson Judge
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I hereby certify that Jacob Neff who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing supplemental statement for a pension, is so lame and infirm as to be unable to attend at court.  I also state it is my opinion that the account which he has given of his services is just and true.  He is a highly respectable man & no one doubts in his neighborhood of his [indecipherable due to ink blot] and revolutionary services.

Jn Thompson Judge

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County

I Isaac G. Farlee, Clerk of the Court of common Pleas of Hunterdon County N.J. do hereby certify that John Thompson, before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is a Judge of the said court, and that his signature thereto is in his own handwriting.

In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of office this fifth day of October 1837

Isaac F. Farlee

Jacob Neff Supplemental

James F  Randolph