Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5242, John Horton, New Jersey
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(3- 1776)
SERVICE                                                                                    NUMBER
[handwritten] New Jersey                        Horton, John.                        R. 5242
                                                     Mary [end handwritten]


CONTENTS
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Official character & signature of R. Cary testified by N D Petrikin see his letter of 1 July 38 filed with papers.

Hm D Lemkin
HR
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State of Penn
Luzerne County

Before the subscriber of the Justice of the Peace in afor Luzerne County personally came Miller Horton of lawful age who being duly sworn according to law deponent and saith that he is one of the children of John and Mary Horton above named and that the paper above attached containing the record of their ages and he ages of their children was taken from the family Bible.  Deponent further says that his father died about twenty eight years since.  he is [well] acquaints with the handwriting of the said John Horton decd the father of the Deponent and further saith not.

Sworn & subscribed this 2nd day of July A.D. 1838  Miller Horton
Before me E. Carey Justice of the Peace
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Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Washington, DC June 28th, 1877

John Horton was born Feb'y 26th 1752
Mary Horton was born June 22nd 1759
The ages of our children.
Sarah Horton was born July 9th 1781.
Anna Horton was born Apr. 6th 1783.
Mary Horton was born on March 27, 1785.
John Horton was born January 26, 1787.
Elizabeth Horton was born July 25, 1789.
Miller Horton was born January 22, 1793.
Josiah Horton was born March 13, 1795.
Jesse Horton was born May 1, 1797.
Lucy Horton was born March 30, 1799.
Abigail Horton was born August 23, 1801.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Third Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July 1836.

State of Pennsylvania 
Luzerne County

On this [space] day of January [illegible] one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight before the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County in the State of Pennyslvania personally appeared Mary Horton a resident of Wilkes Barre township in the County & State aforesaid aged seventy seven years in June last who being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress [illegible] July 4 1836. That she is the widow of John Horton who was first a private in the militia of New Jersey in the service of the Continental Army during the revolution and who was afterwards on the fifteenth day of June seventeen hundred & eighty commissioned a Lieutenant of the Third company in the Western Regiment of Morris County New Jersey whereof John Stark was Colonel, as appear by the Commission signed by William Livingston Governor herewith exhibited That she does not now recollect any names of officers except Col. Stark, and Capt. Terry who was the Cape. of the company in which her husband was Lieutenant. She does not recollect the month when the said John Horton first went into the service by that he had been in the service for more than two years before her marriage with him and that they were married the last of October or the first of November in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine at Germantown in New Jersey and that she recollects Caleb Horton & wife, Henry Smith & wife, Peter Smith and others were present at the marriage - but they are all dead as she believes nor does she know of any living witness of the marriage and she has no record evidence. She well recollects that the said John Horton was for two years previous to their marriage in active service [illegible] that the marriage
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was postponed in that period in consequence of his absence She seeing him only occasionally when at home. That the said John Horton resided in Roxbury township in Morris County New Jersey when he entered the service.  She does not remember that her husband went out more than once after they were married until he got his commission, but thinks he was out in the winter a short time and after his return she came to remove to his house under the belief that he was not to be called out again.  Immediately after he was commissioned he was out with his company, and early next spring after he was again out in severe cold weather, but she does not remember how long.  He returned sick and lay sick all summer and never entirely recovered as his sickness finally terminated in  a decay of the hip which rendered him a cripple for life.  The last time he was out was in 1781 two years after our marriage but how long at the several periods she cannot now tell.  She remembers often to have hear her husband relate the particulars of his services of engagements with the enemy and speak of Genl Washington and other officers but she cannot now recollect names places or circumstances with sufficient distinctiveness to repeat them and that she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim excepting the above mentioned Commission.  She further states that John Horton's services were principally performed in New Jersey but that she recollects of hearing from his of his having been over to Long Island but how long he was there she does not recollect.  She further states that her husband died Twenty seven years ago last April - that is April 1810 and that she never has been since married.

Mary Horton   Her Mark
________________  __________________
In Open Court ____1 1838
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State of Pennsylvania
______________________ County

I, John Smith, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in afor said County, being a Court of record do hereby Certify that the foregoing Declaration of Mary Horton an applicant for a Pension under the Act of Congress of July 4th 1836 with the accompanying Depositions of Witnesses and the Commission of John Horton her husband as Lieut. in the Militia of New Jersey were exhibited and sworn to in open Court and that the said Court adjudged the same to be satisfactory and sufficient to entitle her to the benefits of said Act of Congress.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court at Wilkes Barre in said County this Twelfth day of January 1838.

Jno Smith
Prothonotary
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Pennsylvania, Wyoming

Dept Mary Horton
Widow of John Horton decd
Testimony of Service & Marriage

Return to Chester Butler Esq
Wilkes barre, Pennsylvania
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State of New Jersey, Morris County. Before the subscriber, a Judge of the Common Pleas Court, and a Justice of peace in said County of Morris, personally appeared Uriah Horton of Chester, well known to me personally & believed by me to be a man of fair character for veracity & being by me first duly sworn according to lay, saith - I am now in the 73rd year of my age. [handwriting scribbled out] and was personally well acquainted with John Horton, whose widow Mary Horton, now seeks pension from the U. States. Caleb Horton, father of said John Horton, removed from Long Island to New Jersey and in 1776 lived at Amboy in Middlesex County. I there lived with him and remember that John performed a tour of militia duty of a month's duration, at Elizabeth town, in Captain Seaham's company of militia, in the season of wheat harvest, and it was in the year in which the Enemy took pofsefsion of New York. I saw the English fleet sail into the harbour of New York. Late in the same fall after this [handwritten scribbled out] Caleb Horton and his family removed to Blackriver, now called Chester township, Morris County, and John Horton and his son with him. John was married to Mary Montange in the season of spring or fall, and according to the best of my recollection in the year 1780. I saw them ride off together, with the wedding party, to be married, and saw them also return together from the Rev. Mr. Dillichus the Clergyman who married them. I eat supper with the wedding party that evening. They lived together as husband and wife in Chester, for 5 or 6 years or more, when they removed to Wyoning [?] in Pennsylvania, where they lived together as husband and wife many years, and until his death, and raised a family of children. They had children before they removed from Chester, and some before the war was ended. Some years after their removal to Pennsylvania, I visited them in Wyoming , about the year 1798 and once afterward. John Horton was chosen Lieutenant of a Militia Company in Blackriver but at what time I do not know with any certainty. And I believe he performs Militia duties upon many occisions, but before and after his marriage and frequently as a Lieutenant, but I cannot particularie the times and places, except one tour, which I remember he performed of one month, when the Pennsylvania line revolted [?] in the early part of the spring season and in the year 1781, as I believe. He then was a Lieutenant and acted in that character, in Captain Benjamin Hull's company, at Pluckeman and Raltown. I was present at the training when John Horton was chosen Lieutenant, early in the spring, and I believe it was in the year 1780. I was only in my 10th year when he went on militia duty to Elizabethtown, but I [unreadable] seeing him march off with his musket, knapsack and coomrades and officers. My grandfather's house was on the heights a little distance above South Amboy from which we distantly saw the Fleet. Sworn and subscribed at Mendham this 16th June 1838 before me, the erasure and interlining in lines 13 and 29 being done before signing and swearing. Uriah Horton, William Babbit JoJu [unreadable]
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State of New Jersey Morris County
Personally appeared before the subscriber of the county, Judge and Justice of peace in aforesaid county, Isaac Biddle of Mendham Township in said county, personally well known to me to be a man of trust and of undiminished character, and bring by me first duly sworn according to law, on his oath declare as follows, 
viz: I am now in the 75th year of my age, and was a fifer in the revolutionary war at the age of 13 years and belonged first to Captain Peter Layton’s company of militia and performed militia duty in defense of the country in several companies and under different officers beside Captain Layton. I was acquainted with John Horton of Morris County who then lived in Black river now called Chester Township.  In the year 1778, in the spring of this year, I swore our [illegible] militia duty, with John Horton at Elizabeth Town. In Captain Nathaniel Horton’s Company under colonel John Starkes. [several words deleted]  command [three words deleted] - Victor King was an officer in the same company. And I believe Lieutenant. Edward Winds commanded the whole. It was in the month of March and April, as I believe, previous to the battle of Monmouth. I was in Capt.Isaac Wards company and Col. Suly's [?]  regiment, and was questioned at Thomas Manns house, and John Horton I believe quartered at  Mr. Ball’s called Doctor Ball.
The first time I had seen John Horton, was in the fall of 76 at Elizabeth Town, when General Washington’s army was retreating through Jersey. I was there doing duty on a fifer, in Capt. Layton's company.  A Sergeant in another company standing near me ordered a man ,  whom he called John Horton, to [illegible] off some beef which he had just drawn for his company. Horton delivered his gun and knapsack to another, and helped carry off the beef to the quarters. Horton was then equipped as a [illegible], doing duty as such, but his [word officer deleted] Captain’s name I do not know. The same day, the main army under General Washington went through Elzth. Town and the Jersey Militia followed and I saw John Horton every day on this retreat, doing militia duty with his company and I believe Colonel Dunn was his Colonel. Sworn and Subscribed at Mendham, this 16th June, 1838.
Before me - the interlinings & erasures in lines 11, 12, and 23, were all done and made, before signing and swearing.
                        Isaac Bedell

William Babbet [illegible]
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State of New Jersey, Morris County
Before the subscriber, a justice of peace in said County, personally appeared [word deleted] Mrs. Damaris Luk, an aged and respectable lady, well known to me as a woman of truth and unblemished character, who having been by me first duly sworn according to law, on her oath declare as follows, viz: I am now in the 86th year of my age, in the war of the revolution I lived in the part of Morris County, then called Black river, & now, Chester. I was born there, and my husband was Captain Nathan Luk, a revolutionary militia officer. I was personally well acquainted with Lieutenant John  Horton in time of the revolutionary war & with his wife, whom [word deleted] name was Mary Montawuge before her marriage to said Horton. I knew her also before her marriage. They were married before the end of the war, that one or two or two children born in wedlock and before the war ended, as I believe. The year in which they were married I cannot tell with certainty. But I believe it was in 1779. 1780. They were always respected and believed by all their neighbors, as well as by myself, to be husband and wife. They lived within about a mile to Wyoming in Pennsylvania, some 6 or 7 years after the war ended. 
John Horton was [illegible]  from home in time of the war, performing militia duty, in defense of the country, as was generally understood and believed by his neighbors. He was an officer in the militia, and was called Lieutenant Horton. He died, as is said, in Wyoming, & his widow is now an applicant for a pension as I am informed.
Sworn and subscribed at Morris Town July 11th, 1838.
Before me A.D. The name of Ephraim Carnes, was erased before signing 
Elijah Ward J.P.                    her     
                                Damaris  x  Luk
                                              mark
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New Jersey, Morris County ss:
J. Joseph Dalrimple, Clerk of Morris County hereby certify, that Elijah Ward [illegible]
before whom the deposition of Damaris Luk within, was taken, is a Justice of peace in afor said County. Also, that William Babbet, 
before whom the annexed deposition of Uriah Horton & Isaac Bedell were taken, is a Judge of the Common pleas, & a Justice of Peace in said County - that said Babbet and Ward, are both of them duly commissioned and authorized: & their signatures to said deposition are genuine. Witness my hand , & the seal of the  office at Morristown, July 12th. 1838--
Jos. Dalrimple Clerk
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Rev. War Section
January 9, 1923

Mrs. Franc L. Adams
Mason, Michigan

Madam:
In response to your letter received December 14, 1923, you are advised that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 5242 it appears that John, son of Caleb Horton of Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey (in 1776) was born February 26, 1752.

He was a resident of Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey when he enlisted and served as a Private in the New Jersey Militia for one month in Captain Terhune's Company and for one month in the Spring of 1778 in Captain Nathaniel Horton's Company, Colonel John Starke's Regiment, and also under Colonel Dunn.  He was commissioned June 15, 1780 Lieutenant in the 3rd Company of Colonel John Starke's Western Regiment of Morris County, New Jersey Militia and rendered service under Captains Terry and Benjamin Hull.

He died in April 1810 in Wyoming, Pennsylvania.

Soldier married in Germantown, New Jersey the last of October or the first of November, 1779 Mary Montauge or Mon-
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tawuge, born June 22, 1759 and who applied for pension January 12, 1838 while a resident of Wilkes Barre Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.  Her claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of six months military service as required by the pension laws.  She died in 1842.

The following are the children of John and Mary Horton:
Sarah born July 9, 1781.
Anna " April 6, 1783.
Mary " March 27, 1785.
John " January 25, 1787.
Elizabeth " July 25, 1789.
Miller " January 22, 1793.
Josiah " March 13, 1795.
Jesse " May 1, 1797.
Lucy " March 30, 1799.
Abigail " August 23, 1801.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
(John Bird who married Mary Horton's sister was living in Luzerne Co., Pa in 1837
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5242 [5442 struck out] REJECTED

P. 0. 

Mary Norton 

Service: , 18 
Enlisted: , 18 
Discharged: , 18 
Application filed: , 18 
Alleges: Cause of rejection not [illegible] widow printed list of 1852

Attorney: 
P. 0. 
Recognized. Contract. 
Cert. of Dis. Searched for , 18
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V
Mary Horton
Mrs. John
Pennsylvania
__________
Suspended
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See list 31 Jan 38 [struck through]
Nora L. Petrikin [struck through]
to 7 July 1838 [struck through]
letters 16 August 3 [illegible] [struck through]
to C. Butler and Hon. [struck through]
L. Condict [struck through]
let: 2 June 1841 to Hon. [struck through]
B. A. Bidlack. [struck through]

Act 4 July 1836
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[Letterhead] Department of the Interior
Pension Office [End Letterhead]
Washington D.C. June 28th, 1877
This is to certify that the Commission of John Horton of the County of Missis State of New Jersey, {?} date. Morris Town N.J. June fifteenth AD 1780 and signed by his Excellency William Livingston Esq Governor and Commander in Chief of the State of N.J. Creating him (Horton) a Lieut. of the 3rd Co. in the Western Regt. of which John Starke is Col., and which was attached to the declaration and application of Margt. Horton (widow of John) for pension and filed in this office in 1838 is this day detached and sent to {?} AM Gangewer, care of A.M. Gangewer. 3rd {?} (who is a descendant of the Hortons) by order of the Commissioner.
Wm H Webster
Chief N {?} and BL Division
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Hon. B. A. Bidlack
           HR
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Washington
June 2/41
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Dear sir
I am requesting to ascertain whether Mr. Miller Horton has ever drawn any money & if so what amount on account of his mother the widdow [sic] of the late John Horton a soldier of the Revolution.
Most respectfully, your obt. svt,
B.A. Bidlack
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Jas. L. Edwards Esq. [signature]
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Morris town, July 12th 1838
Dear Sir,
The widow of John Horton, residing in Wyoming, Pennsa. is an applicant for a pension, under the 3rd section of the Act of July 4th, 36. The husband [] in this Co - his revolutionary services were [rendered?] in this State, and the parties were married here. His long absence from the County & State has caused him to be almost forgotten. The accompanying depositions of Isaac Bedell & of Uriah Horton are all [orig text crossed out] [?] I [] find. I understand there are some in Pennsa. who knew him in service. Mr. Adah King, also an applicant, was a neighbour, and his testimony as to the marriage [and it?] would amount to about the same as Messrs Lusis & Thurson. I did not take his deposition. If however you should advise it, I will take it. The Widow's Declaration, I presume, was sent from Wyoming. 
Very respectfully,
Your friend & obt svt.,
Lewis Condict.
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N and V. Petrikin
Jan 31. 1838
Pa
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Avan deft. Pa officer
Jan 31, 1838

Va,
The papers in the case of Ms Mary Horton widow of John Horton deed, have been off
[illegible] with no pended cases. Her
husbands services were altogether in the
military and services of [illegible] was in terms of short duration. It is therefore necessary that the regulations above be complied with, in specifying each term of action service by without who [illegible] personal knowledge thereof. The proof of the permit of marriage is not sufficient.
If new be no rubric ucon of the marriage claimant may have a family [illegible] of the marriage or of the birth of her daughter [illegible] one of the [illegible] and if so, it should be inherited.
N an D. Petrickin

N.R.
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C. Butler
August 16 1838
Pa O C
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War Dept Pension offices
Sept 16, 1838
Sir
The additional testimony in the case of Mrs. Mary Horton, widow of John Norton, dec'd, transmitted to this office by Mr. Lewis Condict of Morristown, N.J., has been examined and filed with her other papers. The witnesses do not testify to more than three tours of service [inserted above main text] of one month each, and the act of 1836 requires six months service. Additional proof of service should therefore be exhibited in order to obtain a pension. 
Chester Butler Esq.
Wilkes Barre, Pa
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N s. Condit
August 16 1838
Pa OC
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War dept. Pa office
Aug 16 1838
The additional testimony transmitted by you to this office in the case of Mrs Mary Horton widow of John Horton decd. have been examined and filed with her other papers in the office. The service from having been left six months the claim has been pending until further proof can be presented, of which i have information [illegible] of wilkesbarre PA, a [illegible] by you

N. Lewis Condict
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nem. D Petrikin
July 7, 1838
Ole
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War Sept. Pen office
July 7, 1838
To,
The proper property to [illegible] contain a record of the ages of the children 7 - Mrs Mary Horton an officer for a pension under date of 10 July 1836 has been fled with her father, it is illige in her dee-
[illegible] that her husband serves in the militia{?} of New Jersey but the town of sot[illegible][illegible] have 
not been specified, by the [illegible].
Before a final decision can be made each town should be fully not [illegible], by [illegible] who had a personal [illegible] of the se[illegible], The town should be specific on regimen with [illegible] [illegible] [illegible].

Nn. D. Petrikin,
N.R
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 D Petrikin me
J.L Edwards [illegible]
[illegible]
Pension office
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House of Rep
7 July 1898

J. L. Edwards
Dr. Sir

Enclosed I send some further testimony in the case of of [sic] Mrs. Mary Horton widow of Jno Horton a soldier of the revolution _ I know E Carey to be a regularly acting Justice of the peas in and for Luzerne County of reputable character and although I am not sufficiently acquainted with his handwriting to say positively that the signature is his yet I believe it to be from the circumstances of the papers being transmitted to me by a highly respectable man _ As I leave this tomorrow you will inform me of the results at Danville Pa. unless we could act on it today
respectfully yours
D Petrikin
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Hon. B.A. Bidlack
June 2d 1841
OC
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[24 written in top right corner]
Pen office
June 2, 1841
Sir, 
In refs. to your letter of this date, in the case of Mrs. Mary Horton widow of John Horton, dec'd, I have to inform you that her claim to a pension has not been allowed. The papers in her case were last examined on the 16th of August 1838, and a letter of that date, a copy of which is herewith enclosed, was addressed to C. Butler Esq. at Wilkes-Barre, stating what further proof was required in order to a favorable decision. It does not appear that any additional testimony has been received here in her case since that time. 
Nm: B.A. Bidlack
[T.R.?]

[written in lower right corner: O.C 3133 at '36]
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County Ss-

Personally came in open Court of Common Plea, of Luzerne County being a court of record in & for said County Isaac Bowman of the Borough to Wilkes Barre who being clearly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that he was well acquainted with John Horton the husband of Mary Horton, and that during his life time and many year before his death Deponent has heard said Horton speak of his revolutionary services - that he was in the Jersey line or militia of that state, but that Deponent does not recollect to have heard him say how long he served Deponent further says that said Horton was generally reputed to have Served in the revolutionary war army, his acquaintances may years before & at the time of his death [caret] though deponent cannot now recollect distinctly any person out of said Horton family speak of his service and that said Horton has been dead more than Twenty years according to best of Deponents recollection -

Sworn & Subscribed in Open Court Jany 12 1838

Isaac Bowman

Jno Smith
Prothonotary
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Deposition
John Bird
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County
On the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven. Before A.C. Phillips, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally came John Bird, Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, of the same County, of the age of eighty-two years and upwards. To me personally known, who after being duly sworn says that, he was well acquainted with John Horton a Revolutionary Soldier, and husband of Mary Horton, who is about making application for a Pension. And know the said John Horton to have been engaged in the service of this country, in the War of the Revolution, as a militia man, at different times, sometimes not more than a month at a tour. And that Lieut. Horton was in the service more than two years, altogether. Lieut. Horton was a resident of the County of Morris in the State of New Jersey. [] being old and inform cannot distinctly recollect the service of any of the officers under which Lieut. Horton served, or in what partickulers [sic], Battles, or Skirmishes he [served?] in if any. But distinctly remembers he [served?] out the most part of the time during the war. 
[] also further recollects the above named applicant was married to the Lieut John Horton   some time during the Revolution. Cannot state the years. The applicant was a sister to []'s wife (since dec'd) is the reason why his reccollection [sic] is so clear on the subject.
Sworn and duly []
before me
A C Phillips J.P.
[illegible]
John Bird
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County [SS]
I John Smith Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County certify that Aldah C Phillips, before whom the written deposition was made was at the time of taking said deposition and is at this time a Justice of the Peace and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his [] as such and that from my knowledge of his handwriting I believe his signature to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal of said Court to these Presents this 12th day of January 1838.
John Smith Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County. Personally affiance in ofen this twelfth day of January [illegible] 1838 John Hannis residing in Hanover Towns of Luzerne County who after being [illegible] sworn according to laws oath [illegible] and say that he knew John Horton a revolutionary soldier in his life time, that he [illegible] twentseven years ago last [illegible]. That he after [illegible] the [illegible] John Horton [illegible] of his revolutionary [illegible] and [illegible] of an incident that occurred at Shinfield New Jersey of which the following is the substance as often [illegible] to this [illegible] by Mr Horton in his life
- time. A body of the American troop lay at [illegible] m[illegible] to Command of General Washington, the [illegible] men. [illegible].. but [illegible] by brush. There was a man when the Americans were a stump [illegible] of [illegible] the fifteen [lifetime?] a twenty but high with one man to, that Gen. Washington requesting some one to claim that true [illegible] to [illegible] the situation of the British, that no one mo[illegible] starts, whereafter [wherever?] Gen. Washington turnover to him saying Horton, you claimed it, the [illegible]

[unfinished]
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J.L. Edwards [Illegible]
Pension Office
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H. of R. 31 Jan 1838
J.L. Edwards Esq.
D. Sir
[Included?] is the papers of Widow Horton who applies for a Pension. Please examine them & inform me whether the proof is sufficient. Yours, etc. respectfully
D. Petrikin
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Captor Lieut John Horton died about the year, 1808 – or{?} His widow Mary Horton died, about 1842, the attempt to get the Pension for the widow, was made in 1838. 
Revolutionary Services.
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[handwritten] Major Webster [end handwritten]
Pension Bureau

Application No. 
Certificate No. 
Name of Soldier: ... [handwritten] John Horton [end handwritten]
Go. .... Regt: [handwritten] 1812 [end handwritten]
Residence:
P.O. Address: [handwritten] Mrs Gangewer wife [end handwritten]
Name of Heir: [handwritten] [illegible] 3rd [end handwritten]
Guardian's Name: [handwritten] Auditor. sgs [end handwritten]
Ex'r: the Soldier [illegible]
Agent or other Person: wife are both
Information desired: [handwritten] dead and of one of the family desires to withdraw the [illegible] of a leaf from family Bible which is [illegible] case.
[signed] J A Reuth
[end handwritten]
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244 South River St.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Sept 16 - 1925
Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir : -
Will you please inform me what is recorded in you Department concerning
Nathan Waller, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War - Connecticut Line in Captain Hickock's Co., Col. Beardsley's Regiment. Wounded at Horse Neck?
also : What is recorded concerning
Lieut. John Horton, who served during the Revolutionary War in a Morris County New Jersey, Militia, under Col. John Starke.
Died in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania.
Thank you for the favor.
Yours Truly,
(Miss) Grace Rockerfeller.
[Stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE H SEP 17 1925
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[Handwritten Illegible]
Mason, Michigan
Dec. 11, 1922
Pension Bureau
Department of the Interior
Washington, D>C>
Dear Sirs :-
Can you tell me any thing about [underlined] (Garrett DuBois [end underline] who served in the Ulster County troops (N.Y.) during the Revolution?
In the Census of Pensioners published in 1841, on Page 103, is found the name of Garrett DuBois, aged 77, who lived with Conrad DuBois in Marlboro. (According to DuBois records, Garrett was born in [underlined] 1704 at New Paltz, Ulster C .N.Y.) [end underline], but the above item concerning pension is all that I can find relative to Rev. service.
His son Conrad or Coenradt, born 1735, served in Capt. John Hasbrouck's Co, Col. John Cantine's Regt. [illegible] the 3rd Regt. of Ulster county triips, in 1788.
Conrad's son Martin served in the Ulster Co. Levies under Col. Wessenfels, and is buried near this city.
Also, is there any record of either [underlined] Tartellus Backus [end underline] and his father, [underlined] John Backus? [end underline] Tartellus was born in Conn, and was said to have been in the battle of Black Rock in Fairfield, Conn.
Lieut [underlined] John Horton[end underline] , b.1753 was in battle of Wyoming Valley in 1778. Do the records tell of him, and the names of his children?
If you can tell me anything about these Revolutionary patriots it will be greatly appreciated.
Yours truly,
[handwritten] Franc L. Adams [end handwritten]
(Mrs.) Franc L. Adams,
Mason, Michigan
[stamp] U>S> PENSION OFFICE DEC 14 1922
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[Separate Page Behind]
Rev.&1812 Wars Section
[Handwritten] [illegible]NF [End Handwritten]
[Separate Page]
October 26, 1925
Miss Grace Rockefeller
244 South River St.,
Wilkes-Barre, Penna.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the paper in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 5242 it appears that John Horton was born February 26, 1752. He was the cson of Caleb Horton who removed from Long Island to New Jersey and who in 1776 was living in Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
John Horton was a resident of Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey when he enlisted and served as a private in the New Jersey Militia for one month in Captain Terhune's Company and for one month in the spring of 1778 in Captain Nathaniel Horton's Company, Colonel John Starke's Regiment, and also under Colonel Dunn. He was commissioned June 15, 1780 Lieutenant in the Third Company of Colonel John Starke's Western Regiment of Morris County, New Jersey Militia and rendered service under Captains Terry and Benjamin Hull. He died in April 1810 in Wyoming, Pennsylvania.
Soldier married in Germantown, New Jersey the last of
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October or the first of November 1779, Mary Montauge or Montawuge born June 22, 1759. She applied for pension January 12, 1838 while a resident of Wilkes Barre Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, but her claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of six months military service as required by the pension laws. She died in 1842.
The following are the children of John and Mary Horton:
Sarah born July 9, 1781.
Anna " April 6, 1783.
Mary " March 27, 1785.
John " January 26, 1787.
Elisabeth " July 25, 1789.
Miller " January 22, 1793.
Josiah " March 13, 1795.
Jesse " May 1, 1797.
Lucy " March 30, 1799.
Abigail " August 23, 1801.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.