Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,733, for Levi Price, New Jersey
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SERVICE   NUMBER
New Jersey   Price, Levi   S. 3,733
Privateer

CONTENTS
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31879
New Jersey
Levi Price of Gloucester in the State of N.J. who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Wetherby of the Regt commanded by Col --- in the New Jersey line for 9 months

N.J. and Privateer Records corrected Mar 11 '04

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 30 Dollars and 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Sept. 1841 and sent to Hon. S. L. Southard U. S. Senate

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1841 $315.00
Semi-annual allowance ending March 2 15.00
$330.00

 Revolutionary Claim, Act. June 7, 1832
Recorded by D.W. Addison, Clerk
Book E2 Vol. 3 Page 154
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Levi Price
31,688

[illlegible]
9 mo pri
30$

Hon S. L. Southard
Pres. Senate
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832--

State of New Jersey Gloucester County SS

On this twenty fourth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in Open Court before the honorable Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Gloucester now sitting, Levi Price a resident of Eggharbour township in said county of Gloucester, aged about seventy Eight years, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth upon his solemn oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

In June or July 1776 he entered as a private in a company commanded by Captain John Somers of Militia in Col. Richard Somers Regt. Marched from Eggharbour, through Haddonfield, Trenton, New Brunswick to Amboy where they quartered and remained in the service one month and were discharged.

In the month of September 1776 he entered as a Fifer, in a company of Militia, commanded by Capt Nehemiah Moss, in Col. Somer Regt.-- The company paraded at Wrangleboro on Little Eggharbour River, and
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went from there down the river in Boats to a Fort at the Fox Burrow where he remained in service one month and was discharged. During this tour of service the company took three [illegible] boats loaded with cranberries, bacon and sheep that were going to the British.

In October 1776 he enlisted as a Fifer in a company of State Troops commanded by Capt. Benjamin Weatherby, in Col Hillman's Regt. in the six months service paraded at Haddonfield and marched from there through Moorestown to Mount Holly where they remained till driven out by the Hessians, in December 1776. They retreated to Haddonfield, then marched to Bordentown, lay there three or four days and untill the morning of the Battle of Trenton the 2nd day of January 1777. Was in the battle at Trenton. From Trenton marched to Princeton in the night, did not arrive untill the heat of the Battle was over. From Princeton marched with Gen. Washington's army to Morristown and went into winter quarters remained at Morristown and in the neighborhood untill March 1777 and then marched through the country by  Princeton, Trenton and Bordentown to Mount Holly where he was discharged in April 1777 after having served six months.

He next entered as a Fifer in the latter
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part of the Month of May 1777 in a company of Militia commanded by Capt. Richard Higbee in Col Richard Somers Regt. The company marched from Eggharbour by Blue Anchor to Haddonfield, where they were quartered. he remained in the service one month and was discharged.

He next entered as a Fifer in the month of July 1777 in a company commanded by Capt. George Payne in Col. Richard Somers Regt. marched from Eggharbour to Haddonfield, from there marched to near Coopers Creek Bridge where we were quartered in the houses of Robert Friend Price Esq. and where we remained one month when he was again discharged.

He next entered as a  Fifer in the month of September 1777 in a company of Militia commanded by Capt. William Price in Col Somers Regt. Marched from EggHarbour to Haddonfield and remained there one month and was discharged. During this tour the Battle of Brandywine was fought and he heard the firing.

He next entered as a Fifer in a company of Militia commanded by Capt. Joseph Conover in Col. Somers Regt. The company marched from Eggharbour to the Fort at Red Bank on the Delaware; he arrived at the Fort the day after the Battle he heard the Firing in the Battle when at Chews Landing on their March up. he helped to bury those who were
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killed in the battle. He remained at the Fort one montha nd was discharged.

He next entered as a Fifier in the  month of December 1777 in a company of Militia commanded by Capt. Zephaniah Steelman in Col. Somers Regt. Marched to Haddonfield from there to Coopers  Freey where he was stationed as a guard and where  he remained one month and was discharged.

In the month of March 1778 he next entered as a fifer in a militia company commanded by Capt. William Price in Col Somers Regt. marched to Haddonfield where the company was quartered, he remained in service one month and was discharged. During this tour Maj. William Ellis and a number of men who were on Guard at Coopers Ferry were surprised by the British and taken prisoners on the same day there dfove our company out of Haddonfield and robbed John Gill of a considerable sum of public money; So this declarant understood at that time ---

In the month of August 1778 he again entered as a fifer in a company of Militia commanded by Capt. Joseph Conover in Col Somers Regiment; he marched to the Forks of Little Eggharbour River, lay there about two weeks, then marched down to Chesnut Neck, lay there till the British came up the river and was in the battle at that place.
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at the time the Town was burnt and the vessels to after the British left there we marched down the  River to Leeds Point where we remained till they left the Bay which was about 10 days, on going out one of the British vessels grounded on the Bar, where she lay about ten days and after several ineffectual attempts to get her off, they fired her and abandoned her. We then marched down to Somers Point where we remained about two or three weeks, when we were discharged after having served two months.

He next entered as a fifer in a company of Militia commanded by Capt. Robert Snell in Col. Somers Regt, this was about the first of November 1778. We were stationed at Somers Point, where we commenced building a Fort and Battery, the Fort was built on the land of Col Richard Somers, the Battery on the land of John Somers, both on the Bay side. We remained in this service two months and were discharged.

He next entered in the month of of March 1779 in a company commanded by the same Capt. Robert Snell.
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in Col. Richard Somers, we were stationed at the Fort at Somers Point aforesaid and continued in the service for one month and were discharged. he performed this tour also as a fifer- After having been discharged from this tour, he went out privateering and continued in that service till the close of the War. The hole length of time that he served during the war, and whilst engaged in a regularly organized corps was nineteen months, eighteen months of which time he served as a fifer and one month as a private and during all which time he was in active service either in the field or the garrison and during which time he was not engaged in any civil pursuit,

He has no documentary evidence and the only evidence of his services is to be found in the affidavits hereto annexed -

"He was born in the County of Gloucester in the "State of New Jersey at Eggharbour in the year "seventeen hundred fifty six."

'He has a record of his age, it is in a family bible "now at his own house in the township of "Eggharbour by which it appears that he was "born in the second day of September 1756."
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"He lived when called into service at "Eggharbour in the County of Gloucester New "Jersey, now lives in the same township, and "has lived there since the Revolutionary War."

"He was drafted sometimes and sometime "volunteered when called to the service."

"General Washington and General Putnam were "with the Troops where he served at Trenton, "Princeton and Morristown - Col Green was "with the troops where he served at Red Bank "and Col. Procter at  Eggharbour - Genl "Washington's Army was at Trenton and "Princeton and Morristown when he was there - "he saw regular troops at Mount Holly, Col "Proctor's corps of artillery or some of them "were at EggHarbour and he saw Col. Green's "regt at Red Bank. he saw Col. Elllis Regiment of "Militia at Haddonfield and Col Somers at "Eggharbour."
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"kept it several years, but tis now lost and he "does not remember to have seen it for thirty "years past."

He is acquainted with Daniel  Lake Esquire, Daniel Baker Esquire, John Dunham Esquire, Dr. Jonathan Pitney, Dr. Mahlon D. Canfield, Genl Enoch Doughty, and many others in his neighborhood. -

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 any agency of any state.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Ephraim Miller

His X mark
Levi Price

We Peter Steelman and Daniel L. Collins residing in the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey in the neighborhood of the above named Levi Price, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Levi Price, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy seven years and upward of age
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that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Affirmed + subscribed the day and year aforesaid June 24, 1834
Ephraim Miller

Peter  Steelman
Daniel L. Collins

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 Peter Steelman and Daniel L. Collins, who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the said county of Gloucester, in the neighborhood of the said Levi Price, and that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit -

Ephraim Miller
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I John C. Smallwood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester 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 Levi Price for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty fourth day of June A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty four.
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State of New Jersey Gloucester County SS:

On the fourteenth day of June AD 1834 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester aforesaid personally appeared Jeremiah Leeds of the said County, age eighty years and upwards, a person of credibility, who being duly affirmed according to law, upon his solemn affirmation saith that he is well acquainted with Levi Price, and has known him since there were small boys and knew him very well during the Revolutionary War - and this affirmant further saith that they performed a good deal of service during the said war together in the same company - They performed a tour of service of one month in a company commanded by Captain Nehemiah Morss in Col. Richard Somers Regiment, this service was performed in the month of September 1776 at a place called the Fox Boroughs on Little Egg harbour - They were also together but not in the same company at Haddonfield, Mount Holly, Trenton and Princeton in the months of December 1776.
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1776 and January 1777 and were in the battle at Mount Holly and Trenton, the said Levi Price belonged to Capt. Weatherby's Company of six months men, and this affirmant to Capt. Zephaniah Steelman's Company of Militia, after the battle at Princeton, the said Levi Price went on to Morristown with the American Army as this affirmant then understood. but this affirmant went home with Capt. Steelman's men - they also performed another tour of service together in the month of October 1777 at Red Bank, in a company commanded by Capt. Joseph Conover. this affirmant was at that time the first Lieutenant of Capt. Conover's Company. They also performed another tour of duty together in Captain Conover's company. this was performed at Haddonfield in December 1777 and January 1778. this affirmant was the first Lieutenant of the company - they also performed another tour of duty at the Forks, of Little Eggharbour River, Chesnut Neck, Leeds Point and Somers Point of two months. this was from August 1778 till late in October 1778. this affirmant was the first Lieutenant
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Lieutenant during this tour - and during all the time aforesaid, the said Levi Price served as Fifer - this affirmant served with the said Levi Price in the same company, five months when the said Levi Price served as Fifer and knows that he served in Capt. Weatherby's Company of six months men as fifer of that company, he knows that he served because he saw him at Haddonfield, Mount Holly, Trenton, + Princeton whilst doing duty as fifer of that company.
Affirmed + subscribed the date above before me
Michael C. Fisher
Jeremiah Leeds

Gloucester County SS: On the twenty first day of June AD 1834 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said county, personally appeared Jesse Somers of the said county aged seventy one years nearly. Who being duly affirmed according to law, saith  that he is well acquainted with Levi Price, and knew him since the time they were small boys - and this affirmant - further saith that he very well remembers that the said Levi Price was the Fifer of Capt. Snell's company of Militia during
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during the latter part of the year 1778 he has a distinct recollection of him, having seen him almost every day for many weeks whilst he was on duty at Somers Point. this affirmant then and still lives within three hundred yards of the Fort where Capt. Snell's Company was stationed and he this affirmant further saith that he has a more perfect recollection of the said Levi Price than of any one that was there because he was a musician and he supposes that he must have taken more notice of him than the others - and this affirmant further saith that the said Levi Price was the Fifer of other companies in the neighborhood before that time, and he was in the service about the time of the battle at Red Bank and at other times but this affirmant cannot say how long he was out. he remembers that he was under Capt. Price and he thinks Capt. Conover, but is not certain as to Conover - and also in a company commanded by Captain Somers - and further saith not.
Jesse Somers

Subscribed + affirmed the date above before me - I knowing the said Jesse Somers to be a person of credibility, and entitled to belief
Michael C. Fisher
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The State of New Jersey Gloucester County SS
I John C Smallwood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the State of new Jersey, do hereby certify that Michael C. Fisher Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Jeremiah Leeds and Jesse Somers were made was at the time of the doing thereof and still is one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Please of said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature of the said Judge subscribed to the said affidavit is genuine --

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Woodbury in said County this twenty first day of June AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
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State of New Jersey Cumberland County SS:

On the 30th day of June AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, before me the subscribe, one of the Justices of the peace of the said county of Cumberland, personally appeared Benjamin Cosier of the said county aged eighty years and upwards who I certify to be a person of credibility, who being first duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that he is well acquainted with Levi Price of the Township of Eggharbour in the County of Gloucester, and has known him since the early part of the Revolutionary War, and this deponent further saith that he very well remembers that the said Levi Price was drafted in the summer of the year 1776 in a company of Militia commanded by Capt. John Somers in Col Richard Somers Regt, and that he served one month in said company, in the Eastern part of the State of New Jersey, he this deponent served in the said company at the same time -- and this deponent further saith that in the month of October 1776 both he and the said Levi Price entered the six months service in a company of State troops commanded by Capt. Benjamin Weatherby in Col. Hillman's Regt.
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Regiment and during this tour of duty they were in the Battle of Trenton and also at Princeton, but not in the active part of the Battle there, they were also at Morristown and Raritan, at the latter place they had skirmishing with the British, that they were discharged at Mount Holly in the month of April 1777 - and this deponent further saith that the said Levi Price was the Fifer of Capt. Weatherby's Company and acted as such during all the time he belonged to that company -

his X mark
Benjamin Cosier

Sworn to and subscribed the date above before me
Henry Shaw

State of New Jersey Cumberland County SS:
I Samuel Seeley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the aforesaid County of Cumberland, do hereby certify that Henry Shaw Esq, who has taken the affidavit of Benjamin Cosier to the foregoing deposition, is now and was at that time an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Cumberland, and duly commissioned + sworn, and duly authorized to take affidavits, and of Henry Shaw above, annexed, is his genuine signature - 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court hereunto this first day of July A.D. eighteen hundred thirty four. (1834) 
Samuel Seeley
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State of New Jersey Gloucester County SS

On the 31st Day of July AD 1832 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared Thompson Price of the Township of Greate Eggharbour in the said county aged eighty seven years and upwards - whom I certify to be a person of credibility and he being sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was a soldier in the army of the revolution and that he well remembers Levi Price belonging to the same company with this deponent in a company commanded by Captn John Somers in Col Richard Somers Regt. They were stationed at Somers Point, he believes said Levi continued one month in this service  this deponent further saith that he well remembers that said Levi Price being in service as a fifer in a company commanded by Capt. Richard Higbee in the same Regt. he this deponent further saith that he saw the said Levi in the army at Mount Holly he then acted as fifer does not recollect to what company he belonged at this time. These are the only instances that came within the personal knowledge of this deponent of the actual service of the said Levi Price - but he understood at the time of the Revolutionary War, and ever since, that the said Levi Price was at least eighteen months in the service.

his X mark
Thompson Price

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Dunham
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I John C. Smallwood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Gloucester in the state of New Jersey, do hereby certify that John Dunham Esquire before whom the within affidavit of Thompson Price was made was at the doing thereof and still is one of the Judges of the Inferior court of Common Pleas of said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature of the said John Dunham, subscribed to the said affidavit is in his proper hand writing --

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Woodberry in said County this fourteenth day of August AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/eel

January 15, 1930

Miss Martha K. Collins
Northfield
New Jersey

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.3733, it appears that Levi Price was born Sept 2, 1756, in Egg Harbor, Gloucester County, New Jersey.

While residing there, he enlisted and served with the New Jersey Troops as follows:

In the summer of 1776, one month in Captain John Somers' Company, Colonel Richard Somers' Regiment; from September, 1776, one month in Captain Nehemiah Morse's Company, Colonel Richard Somers' Regiment; they captured three boats loaded with cranberries, bacon and sheep; from October, 1776, six months in Captain Benjamin Weatherby's Company, Colonel Hillman's Regiment, he was in a battle at Mount Holly, the battle of Trenton and skirmishes at Morristown and Raritan; from May, 1777, one month in Captain Richard Higbee's Company, Colonel Richard Somers' Regiment; from July, 1777, one month in Captain George Payne's Company, Colonel Richard Somers' Regiment; from September, 1777, one month in Captain William Price's Company, Colonel Somers' Regiment; from October, 1777, one month in Captain Conover's Company, Colonel Somers' Regiment; from December, 1777, one month in Captain Zephaniah Steelman's Company, Colonel Somers' Regiment; from January, 1778, one month in Captain Conover's Company; from March, 1778, one month in Captain William PRice's Company, Colonel Somers Regiment; from August 1778, two months in Captain Conover's Company, Colonel Somers' Regiment and was in the Battle of Chestnut Neck; from November, 1778, two months in Captain Robert Snell's Company, Colonel Somers' Regiment, from March, 1779, one month in Captain
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Robert Snell's Company, Colonel Richard Somers' Regiment.

His service in the summer of 1776 was as a private, the remainder of the service was as a fifer.

He stated that after his service of March, 1779, he served until the close of the war. on a privateer.

He was allowed pension on his application executed June 14, 1834, at which time he was residing in Egg Harbor, New Jersey.

It is not stated that soldier was ever married.

The War of 1812 records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to pension having been claimed on account of the services of any Levi Price.

Very truly yours

EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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New Jersey
Levi Price
unfunded (?)
Let Hon W. N Shine
27 March 1835
Sent to Hon. Sam L. Southard 23 May 1836 enclosing papers

(written vertically along lefthand border)
let. to Hon. J. F. Randolph 12 attach 39
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J.L. Edwards
J.L. Edwards R Raheam R Richar
J.L. Edwards Richard Eler
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(written vertically on left border)
Revolutoin

3733
INVALID

File No.  3733
Levi Price
Privt Rev War

Act: June 7 1832
Index: - Vol. e2, Page 302

[Arrangement 1870]

(written vertically along middle)
1930-Jan. 15 - Hist to Miss Martha K. Collins [illegible]
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Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873

8471
P.O.
Levi Price
Service:
Enlisted: NJ, 18-
Discharged: ____, 18-
Application filed: ____, 19-
Alleges: ____
Re-enlisted: ____
Attorney: ____
P.O. ___
____Recognized ____ Contract.
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November 19, 1929

Commissioner of Pensions,
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I am seeking information of LEVI PRICE who served in the War of the Revolution from great Egg Harbour, Gloucester County, New Jersey, and also of LEVI PRICE who served in the War of 1812 from Great Egg Harbor, Gloucester County, New Jersey. Did they apply for pensions? If so, will you kindly give me some information as to service, age, and genealogical data given in each application.

I will, indeed, be grateful for any information that you may be able to supply.

Very truly yours,
(Miss) Martha K. Collins
Northfield, New Jersey
(Atlantic County)
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Hon. Sam L Southard
May 23, 1836
o.c. (?)
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War Dept.
Pension Off
12 May 36

Sir,

Agreeably to your request I have the honor ot enclose herewith the papers in the case of Levi Price and a copy of my letter of 27 March 1835 to Hon. W.N. Shiner, assigning the reasons for suspending it - please acknowledge the receipt of the papers if you propose to retain them over a day or so.

Hon. Saml L. Southard, Senate
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12 March 1839
OC
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War Department
Pension Office
March 12, 1839

Sir

The papers of Levi Price whose service under the Act of June 7th 1832 is informed to in the [illegible] letter it appears was delivered to the Hon. S. L. Southard on the 23d May 1836. On being returned they will again be examined with the additional evidence now included(?)
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J.L. Edwards Esq. Com.

Sir,

I have rec'd a letter respecting the claim of Levi Price for a Pension - He is of new Jersey. I understand that some difficulties  have been found in his papers. Will you oblige me by permitting me to have them for a short time and informing me what the objections are? and whether they are amendable by the rules of your office.

I am respectfully
Sam L. Southard
Washn 19 May 1836
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August 19th N.J.
Levi Price
Act 1832
M Sylvester
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Washington, 19 August, 1841
Jas. L. Edwards, Esq

Sir,

On restoring to the files of your office, the papers of Levi Price, an applicant for a pension under the Act of 7 June, 1832, I would remark, that I am satisfied he is a very worthy old man and quite poor, and feel persuaded, that if you can find time to look over his papers, without adverting to some slight and obvious discrepancies in his statement, the result of a decayed memory, you will be satisfied that he performed a good deal of service in the Revolutionary war. In the third tour he maintains he was in service, but it was of a different character from what he has described - still, there is more than one year's service besides that. it appears that he served one  month at Haddonfield under Capt. Conover; this service, which he had forgotten when he made his declaration, is proved by J. Leeds, the Lieut of the Company. I doubt his ability to procure further proof. Allow what you deem proper. Respectfully,
Sam L. Southard
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31.688
New Jersey
Levi Price
8H71
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Washington City Feby 28thy, 1835
To Com(?) Edwards

Sir,

The enclosed papers were reviewed yesterday with a request that I would present them for your consideration and should the paper pass, I was further requested to procure a certificate for the applicant. Your early attention to the subject will confer a particular favour on your [illegible]

William N. Shiner
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Feb. 28
N.J.

Com J.L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington City

(vertically written)
Hon. W.N. Shiner
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Hon. J. F. Randolph
HOR
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No. 1
Receipts for the Second years interest paid on Notes given by the Commissioners in the several counties for Militia services.
(Table)
No of men: 127
No. of certifi: 112
Date: May 1st, 1784
Signed by: Thos Carpenter
Payable to: Levi Price
Amount L.S.D.: 2.2.1
One yrs Int L.S.D.: ...2.6

No. 2
Receipts for the 2nd years interest paid on certificates given by the Commissioners in the several counties for Militia Services.
No of men: 19
No. of certifi: 589
Date: 1 May, 1784
Signed by: Thos Carpenter
Payable to: Levi Price
Amount L.S.D.: ".17.11
One yrs Int L.S.D.: ".1.-

State of New Jersey SS

I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that No. 1 is a true abstract from a book marked "Militia Notes 2nd year no. 2" headed "Receipts for the Second years interest paid on notes given by the Commissioners in the several counties for Militia Services." And that No. 2 is a true abstract from a book marked "Militia Notes 2nd year" and headed "Receipts for the 2nd years interest paid on certificates given by the Commissioners in the several counties for militia services" now remaining in my office-
And I further certify that the said Thomas Carpenter was by the [illegible] to Section of an Act passed by the Legislature December 20, 1783 entitled, "An act to procure an estimate of the sums due to
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the militia and troops who have been raised for the defense of the frontiers of the State and to provide for the Settlers of the same" appointed a commissioner for the County of Gloucester, "for the purpose of settling and adjusting the Pay-rolls of the militia and the troops of the State as aforesaid, and also for signing and delivering out to each and every person a note for the payment of what may be justly due."

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Trenton in said State, thsi Seventh day of February Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine (1839).

James D. Westcott
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The State of New Jersey Gloucester County SS

On the 31 day of December AD 1834 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of the said County personally appeared Levi Price of the said county aged Seventy nine years and upwards to me well known who being duly sworn according to law upon his solemn oath deposeth and saith, that in the month of June last, he appeared personally before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester, and made declaration  under oath in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 That in that declaration, he stated that he had served six months in the sex months service under Captain Benjamin Weatherby. this he is now satisfied was a mistake. He served according to the best of his belief in that service as long as six months, and that he presumes is what led himself and Benjamin Cosier the witness, into the error, they called it the six months service
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Service, because they served that length of time in that service, but it was in fact the service called the five months service, but they went into the service before they, by the terms of their engagement, were compelled to go, on account of the great want of men at the time and served until the day that by those terms they were to be discharged which made as he still believes as much as six months service. he claims however for five months service at that time - as regard the services of two months from August 1778 till October 1778 and from November 1778 for two months at Somers Point, he can only say that he performed the services as he stated in his Declaration and that he was in the service longer at Somers Point than two months, he does not know the reason why he remained in the service that length of time at those places, he was a musician and there were not so many of them then as now, and he might have been and he believes that he was longer in the service on that
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that account, but at the time of his being out from Augst 1778 for two months he believes the privates were out as long as he was, they were first at Chesnut Neck then at Leeds Point, and when the British fleet left there an attack was expected on the vessels lying up Great Eggharbour River, and the troops were ordered to Somers Point, which is at the mouth of the Great Eggharbour River where they commenced building a fort in order to protect the vessels should an attack be made and they remained during all the time there were out at least two months Another deponent further saith that if the department is not satisfied with the statement in regard to those two services they have his consent to strike off one month from each, and allow him a pension for the remainder -
his + mark
Levi Price

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year above written
Daniel Baker
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I John C. Smallwood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Daniel Baker, Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit of Levi Price was made, was at the doing thereof and still is, one of the Justices of the peace of said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature of the said Daniel Baker thereto subscribed is genuine - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Woodbury in said County, this fifth day of February AD eighteen hundred and thirty five

Smallwood clk