Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7632, David Hay, New Jersey
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Service New Jersey
Hay, David
Margaret
Number W7632
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[left page]
9.480
New Jersey
David Hay
of [illegible] in the State of N. Jersey
who was a Lieut in the company commanded
by Captain Rhedd of the Regt commanded
by Col Brearly in the N. Jersey militia
for 2 years
died Aug 16 1834

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey 
at the rate of 160 Dollars ----- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of May 
1833 and sent D. B. Ryall 
Freehold NJ

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 33

$320
80
$400

{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Geo B. Whiting Clerk
Book E Vol 3 Page 115

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[illegible] 15 Jan 1830
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[illegible word]
[illegible] M. A. Newell May 23 1830
to [illegible] 25 Sept 1830

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New Jersey 733
Margaret Hay
widow of David Hay decd.
NJ
who died on the 22 August 1834
of Monmouth in the State of N. J.
who was a Lieut in the Company commanded
by Captain Rhedd of the Regt. commanded
by Col Breasly in the N.J.
line for 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of N Jersey
at the rate of 160 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 [illegible word followed by a ?]
to 16 August 1834 to be deducted

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of Apl.
1837 and sent C. G.
McChesney Heights Town N.J.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 | $960.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept | 80.00
$1,400.00

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3. [there appears to be a "d" as a superscript] }

Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 1 Page 147
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State of New Jersey County of Monmouth SS.
On this thirty first day of July - Anno Domini AD 1832 personally appears in
open court before the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the 
dec'd County of Monmouth now sitting
at Freehold in said County Col. David Hay a resident of the township of Upper Freehold County and State aforementioned
aged seventy nine years on the second
day of August last, who being first duly
sworn according to law, doth on his
oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the act
of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the
United States under the following
named officers and served as herein stated.
That he entered said services as a first Lieutenant under Captain Robert
Rhea in Col David Brearlys regiment in August 1775 by virtue of a commission
from the Provincial Congress signed 
by [illegible] President and Wm Patterson
Secretary the remains of which commission
are now in his possession [illegible] [illegible]
 from being sent to [illegible]
City some years since & afterwards
remitted back to him, that in the early
part of July 1776 he as first Lieutenant
in Captain Rhea's Company volunteers
in the service and marched to [word is deleted]]
Amboy, where they continued for
some time and then marched to Elizabethtown,
Barzillai Grover was then
his Captain, Captain Rhea having
declined serving there were  two other
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volunteer companies at the time marched
from the County of Monmouth, one
commanded by Captain Henry Waddell
and the other by Capt Abraham Woolley
Major Thos Seabrook had then commanded
until they arrived at Elizabethtown
where Col Thomas took the command
they remained at Elizabethtown till
they were discharged in the winter
he recollects on his return there was
snow on the ground but cannot 
state precisely the time after this upon
[word deleted] a detachment of the British
leaving Philadelphia for Bordentown & 
Trenton upon this deponent hearing 
the cannon fireing he collected a part 
of his company and joined General 
Dickerson at Trenton and followed
the British with his party below
Burlington they in their Gunboats, his party 
on the Jersey Shore that from that
time till the close of the war he
was almost all the times in actual
service acting as Lieutenant under
his said commission until the 
close of the war that he was  out in
the service as a volunteer and under
the regular calls at least two years
in actual service, that he cannot
recollect the names of the officers
under whom he served further than
he has above stated, that he was 
at the Battle of [word deleted] Monmouth under
Col Lawrence that his marches were principally 
in the County of Monmouth
except when he marched to Sourland 
Mountain when Washington's army
layed [illegible] Gap and remained there
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until after the British left New Brunswick
when they followed them to Woodbridge,
that he never served with any
continental regiments or companies,
nor was he acquainted with any of their
continental regular officers except
Col David Brearly, that he now 
recollects that on the retreat of Washington through New Jersey from New York this deponent was recommended to him by  Col David Brearly while he Washington lay in Trenton to go & reconnoiter the British
Army then lying in New Brunswick
which he did and made his report
personally to the General at Trenton
and received from him his thanks
for his services that he has no documentary
evidence of his services further than
the remains of the commission now
in his possession before spoken of
and that the only persons whose
testimony he can procure who can
testify to his services is B[illegible]
Montgomery who was out in the service
with this deponent that he was born
in the County of Middlesex on the second
day of August 1752, and has no record of
his age it being destroyed in New Brunswick
while the British were there, that
he lives in Allentown Monmouth County
when he first entered the service when he
[illegible words]. He hereby relinquishes  every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares 
that his name is not on the pension role 
of the agency of any state
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year
aforesaid.
- John Patterson
[to the right, in different handwriting, is the signature] David Hay
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New Jersey Monmouth County SS: I Barnet 
Montgomery residing in Upper Freehold
township Monmouth County do hereby
certify that he is well acquainted
with Col David Hay who has subscribed
and sworn to the above declaration that
I believe him to be seventy nine years
of age, that he knows he was a
Lieutenant in the service of the United
States during the revolution, that I
served under him in his company
commanded by Capt Barzillai Grover
he being the first Lieutenant in said 
company in the year 1776 and also
was at Sourland Mountain he was
out when he recollects Lieutenant
David Hay being there in the service
that he has no doubt from his knowledge
of his service that the said David Hay served at least two years as Lieutenant in said service, that the said David Hay is a credible
person and that his statement and
declaration is entitled to  full credit 
that the reputation and belief
of the neighborhood in which the
said David Hay resides is that he
was a Lieutenant in the revolution
in the service of the United States

Barnet Montgomery

sworn and subscribed in
open court the 31st day
of July A.D. 1832
William Slayde
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Margaret Hay
No. 590
N.J.
3 Jun
Allow Leut. one year
$160 per ann. conf
16. Aug 1834

Charles G. M. Clusney
Agent
Hights Town
N.J.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the Benefit of the 3rd Section of the
act of Congress of the 4th July 1836
State of New Jersey
Monmouth County

On this First-day of November 1836
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth. Margaret Hay a Resident of the Township of Upper Freehold in the County aforesaid
and State of New Jersey. Aged seventy eight in
October past 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 4th 1836.

That she is the widow of David Hay who was a 
Lieut. in the militia of New Jersey in the service of the United States as is set fourth in the Declaration of the said Lieut. David Hay now in the War Dept at the city of Washington.

She further declares that she was married
to the said David Hay on the seventeenth day of January Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Eight and that she has remained a widow ever since the Twenty second day of  August Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Four the day on which
the said David Hay her late Husband Deceased. She will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year written before me [signature of] Margaret Hay
[signature of] John W. Davison

I further certify that Margaret Hay who has subscribed to the above Declaration is a person known to me as one of credibility and truth 
and that it appears to me she is unable to
attend in open Court on account of bodily infirmity and the great distance from the capitol of the said county.
[signature of] John W. Davison
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County ss.
Be it known that on the first day of November 1836 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County - Ann Newell a resident of Allentown in the County and State aforesaid aged 72 years in Last January who being duly sworn accordint to law doth on her oath say that she well remembers being present at the marriage of Margaret and David Hay on the seventeenth day of January seventeen hundred and twenty eight at the house of the said Margaret Hay!  Father and this deponent further declare that they were married by the Reverend W Smith a Presbyterian clergyman who has long since deceased, and that they knew the said Margaret Hay and the deponent raised together and have resided near together to his person 
I hereby certify that the above subscriber is a person of credability and truth
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written  [signed by Ann Newell]
John W. Davison

I Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Monmouth & State of New Jersey do hereby certify that John W Davison before whom the foregoing declaration of Margaret Hay and the affidavit of Ann Newell were made in one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas and also Justice of the peace of said county.  Duly commissioned and sworn & has full faith and credits as due and ought to be fiven to all his official acts as such & that the signature of John W Davison signed to the same are the proper hand  wrighting of said John W Davison
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand suffixed the seal of this said court this eighth day of November AD Eighteen hundred & thirty six.
D H Ellis, clk
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Hay, David
NJ W7632
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The Deputies of New Jersey in Proviess
To
We reposing especial Trust ? Conduc and Fidelity Do, by Virtue of the Po? our Constituents, and in Pursuance of the Direction of the ? , constitute and appoint you the said David Hay fifth ? foot milition in the County of Monmouth, whereof David Brearly ? of the provincial Congress
You are therefore to take the said ? your Charge and Care as first lieutenant thereof, and ? of that Company ?  And as they are ?
observe and ? Time to Time as you will receive ? your / or Officers, as from ? of Safety : And for your ? doing this shall be your Com?  Day of August , 1775
Attested
Wm Patterson, Secy
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Revy Widow, &c.
File No. 7632
Margaret Hay
Wid. of
David Hay
Lieut, N.J. line
Act: July 4 of 36, Sec 3d
Index: - Vol. A, Page 304
[Arrangement of 1870]
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To what time was David Hay Lt. 160$ p. anm paid at the New Jersey Agency under the act of 7. June '3
Genl
14 Jany '36
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New Jersey
Margaret Hay
widow of David
See letter to Charles G. McChesney
18. Nov. 1836

Chs G. McChesney
Hights Town
N.J.
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House of Rep's US
9 May 1800
Hon J.L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Sirs,
You will receive here enclosed an application of the children of Lieut. David Hay and his widow Margaret Hay late of New Jersey dec'd .  They were both pensioners and a claim is now made for an increase at the rate of $320 a year.
May I request your early attention to the case, respectfully yours
Wm. A. Newell
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p. 57   7632
Washington
November 12/50
Alexander Ray
appeals from the decision of
the Commr of Pensions in the 
case of Lt. David Hay dec.
of New Jersey
Case of Lt David Hay
Refd to Comm of Pension
for a report
Dep Interior
Nov. 14th 1850
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Washington
Novemr 12 1850
Hon. A.H.H. Stewart
Secretary of the Interior
Sir,
In respectfully presenting for your consideration and decision an appeal from the views of the Pension Office in the case of Lieut David Hay deceased late of New Jersey I submit a copy of the Commissioners letter of Sept 25th in reply to a question as to the particular terms of service for which a pension was granted.
Lieut Hay, in hi life time, alleged under oath, that he served at different times, from the year 1775 to 1782 twenty nine months actual duty during the War of the Revolution.  The evidence in support of his service was, I learn, was sustained by credible witnesses, who made oath, according to their recollection, that said Hay served for two years.
Upon an examination of the claim as originally presented, and with a knowledge in the Pension Office of the Services rendered by the New Jersey Militia, the claim, as I understand, was admitted for two years service, and, in a clerical error of calculation, a pension for two years service was rated at $160 instead or $320 per annum.
On an application for a correction of this manifest
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but, no doutb, unintentional error, the commission reports the claim was allowed allowed for 12 months which he says "Was a fair average of the amount of service of the militia of that State during the War of the Revolution.
From the Commissioners letter it would seem that nor more than twelve months service was ever really allowed, and this statement would prejudice the claim, but when , as I have been informed, the contrary appears by an endorsement "Allowed for two years" on the original paper, the claim assumes a new view.
I do not presume to accuse the Commissioner of a studied partial report in this case, for I know he is not capable of the act.  At the same time it must be admitted, that the letter as written, is not in accordance with the allowance of Service actually granted.
The question is, Shall the allowance for 24 months service stand as adjusted? or, Shall the clerical error be allowed to remain against the claimant at a rate of pension of one half the allowance made?
As the evidence of the former allowance, and the commissioners report of Sept 25 the last, will be before you the opportunity will be afforded to judge whether the allowance of 24 months, or 12 months, service shall be the rule of order in this case.
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I have the honor, in submitting the question to remain,
Very Respectfully,
Your most obt.
Alex Ray
Atty in fact
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Declaration of James N Hay for Increase
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State of New Jersey
Mercer County, ss.
On this 30th day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty Before the President Judge of the Mercy County Pleas, personally appeared James N. Hay Esquire, a resident of said county, a person of credibility and truth, who being duly sworn according to law, on his oath saith That he is informed and believes there is due from the United States an increase of pay for the services of Deponent's father Lieut David Hay in the Revolutionary War. Said Lieut David Hay was pensioned under act June 7 1832, at the rate of one hundred and sixty dollars per annum, until the sixteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty four when he died.
Margaret Hay widow of the said Lieut David Hay was pensioned under act of July 4 1836 at the rate of one hundred and sixty dollars per annum until the fourth day od December eighteen hundred and forty three when she died.
Declarant asks on behalf of himself and Sarah Hay, only surviving children of the said David and Margaret Hay deceased such amount of increase of pay as may be justly due.
[signed by James N. Hay]
Sworn & subscribed the day and year above written before me
Chas Burroughs
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State of New Jersey
I Charles G McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Charles Burroughs Esq who hath signed the preceding declaration is President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Mercer in said State, duly appointed commissioned and sworn, that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signature thereto is in the proper handwriting of the said Charles Burroughs Esquire.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Trenton this first day of May eighteen hundred & fifty.
Charles G. McChesney
Secy of State
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County to wit;
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey David Hay who being duly sworn deponeth and saith that on the thirty first day of July last past he made his declaration under oath before the Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Please of said County of Monmouth for a Pension as a Lieutenant under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832, that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades;
For two months in the year 1775 I served as a first Lieutenant; for seven months in the year 1776 I served as First Lieutenant of Infantry in one tour of duty; For five months in the year 1777 I served as a first Lieutenant of infantry in monthly tours of one month each; for three months in 1778 I served as first Lieutenant in monthly tours as aforesaid; For three months in 1779 I served as a first Lieutenant as aforesaid in monthly tours as aforesaid; for three months in 1780 and for three months in the year 1781 and for three months in the year 1782 I served as a First Lieutenant of Infantry in tours of one month eadh; and for such services I claim a pension
[Signed David Hay]
Sworn & subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace of Monmouth County March 14th 1833.
William Lloyd
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I Danniel H Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey do Hereby Certify that the annexed papers contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Hay for a pension on the thirty first day of July las part; and also that William Lloyd Esquire whose name is subscribed to the Seal of the affidavit of the said David Hay on the other side of this sheet of paper sworn & subscribed to this day was at the time of making the said affidavit and now is a Justice of the Peace of the said County of Monmouth duly Commissioned and sworn and that his said acts as Justice are entitled to full faith and credit; and I do hereby further certify that the name signed William Lloyd in the ? of said affidavit is the proper handwriting of the said William Lloyd.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Freehold this fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
D. H. Ellis clk
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Monmouth Pleas
of July Term 1832
Declaration of
Col David Hay
No. 4081
(C.)
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New Jersey Monmouth County, ss.  I James Craig a Captain of the Militia of New Jersey in ths service of the United States during the revolutionary war residing in Freehold in said County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Col David Hay who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration that I believe him to be seventy nine years of age and that I know he was a Lieutenant in the Militia of New Jersey in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war, and that I know he was in said service as a Lieutn and having served with him and frequently seen him in said service, that he has no doubt from the knowledge of his service that he was out at least two years that he is a credible person and his declaration and statement is entitled to credit.
James Craig
Sworn & subscribed in open court this 1 day of August 1832
John Patterson
and the court do hereby declare this 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 officer and served as he states; and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Burnet Montgomery and Major James Craig are residents of the County of Monmouth have and respectively signed the preceding & certificates that the first was a soldier the second an officer in the revolution in the service of this county and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
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of their County and that they are credible persons and that these persons are entitled to credit
By the Cour
W.J. Brown
Judge
I, the Subscriber, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Monmouth, 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 Col David Hay for a Pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Freehold, this first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
D.H. Ellis clk
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
David Hay which require
further proof or explanation.
1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
v. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
[illegible]
I. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than- the one under the Act of
June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
x. Is the Clerk's seal affixed ? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished
from any other seal?
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service ?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it ?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service ?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
[illegible]
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE v. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:  Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he
cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For [blank] year [blank]months, and [blank] days, I served as a [blank} For[blank] months and [blank]days, I served as a [blank]
; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served ; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the
regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Freehold Monmouth County N Jersey
March 14th 1833
J. L. Edwards Esq,
I enclose the papers of David Hay for a pension as a first Lieutenant under the act of June 7th 1832 with his additional affidavit & the corrected certificate of the Clerk together with the note of objections, and the remains of his Commission as First Lieutenant during the Revolutionary War. - Your early attention to this claim will much oblige him & myself.  You will enclose the certificate or any communication on the subject to me.
I have written to you tow or three letters on this subject of other claims in August last with this of David Hay being 4 in number have only heard from 5 or 6 of them & have in my letters given a bit of those sent with or request from the applicants & myself that the department would forward to me fresh information in regard to them that if any correction was necessary it might be speedily done.  The applicant to press this matter for I am satisfied the department has an arduous task in the pursuit of these pensions, but as others have been heard from send also those enclosed by myself.  I have not been able to satisy the enquiries that dame.  I refer you to my former letters for the names of the applicants.
Yrs  respy
Daniel B Ryall
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Washington 13 Jan 1836
Sir
I enclose a letter from Margaret Hay widow of Col David Hay of New Jersey on the subject of the pension granted to her late Husband.  I knew nothing about this claim and will thank you for information whether the rules of the office allow anything further to be granted or ascertained after the death of the pensioner or whether any thing can be done in the case affirms justice of the further claim should be proved.
I am very respectfully
yr obed serv
James Parker

James L Edwards Esq
Comm. of Pensions
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C.G. McChesney, Agent
Hights Town
N.J.
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County, ss.
Be it known that on the 15th day of january 1837 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County.  Being a Court of Record, Margaret Hay who being duly sworn according to law on her oath saith that she makes the following amendatory Declaration to the one on file in the War Department.  That this said applicant has made all diligent search and cannot procure documentary evidence of her said marriage with David Hay as there appears to be no Register of the church of the Rev. Mr. Smith, and said Minister Mr. Smith has been deceased many years, this deponent would most respectfully refer to the Testimony of Ann Newell who was an eye witness and present at the said marriage which Testimony is attached to this applicants former Declaration. She further declares that she is unable to appear in open court at the said County seat on accounty of extreme debility and other infirmities of old age.
Margaret Hay
Sworn and subscribed the day and year written above, before me
John W Davison
I do hereby certify that it appears to me that Margaret Hay widow of David Hay cannot procure documentary evidence of her marriage and that Ann Newell was present at and saw the said marriage ceremony  performed and who has testified to that effect  which accompanies the said Margaret Hay's declaration.
John W. Davison one of the Judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas
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New Jersey Treasury Office
Trenton Jany 19 1837
The following is copied from the Margins found filed in this office (of certificates issued by Thomas Henderson Commissioner) In pursuance of the provisions of an act Entitled An Act to procure an estimate of the sums due to the Militia and troops  who have been raised for the defence of the frontiers for the state and to provide for the settlement of the same paper December 20th 1783
No 563
David Hay
$10.16.0
May 1st 1784
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in & for the county of Middlesex - Jacob Kline Treasurer of the State of New Jersey who being duly sworn before me doth depose and say, That he copied  the above from the margins filed in the said office and appears to have been returned in said office by said Thomas Henderson Esqr commisioner named in the act above refered to, and the above number name amount and date is a true extract
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from the said Margins
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written
Samuel C Johnes
Jacob Kline Treas
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State of New Jersey:
I James D Westcott Secretary of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that John W Dawson, Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit of Margaret Hay was made and who has attested the same, was at the time thereof and now is one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Monmouth in said state duly appointed commissioned and sworn: and also that Samuel C Johnes Esq before whom the annexed affidavit of Jacob Kline was taken and who has attested the same was at the time thereof and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Middlesex in said state, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn: and that full faith and credit on and ought to be given to their several and respective official acts.  Given under my hand and seal of office at Trenton this sixteenth day of February AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven- (1837.)
James D. Westcott
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Declaration of James Hay, son of David Hay for increase of his fathers pension
On the 30th day of April 1850 James P Hay a resident of Mercy County N. Jersey appeared before the President Judge of the Mercy County Pleas, declared by the said Judge to be a person of credibility and truth an on his oath declares that he is informed and believes there is due from the U States an increase of Pay for the services of his Father Lieut. David Hay in the Revolutionary war.  Said Lieut David Hay was pensioned under act of June 7, 1832 at the rate of $160 per annum until the 16th of August 1834 when he died.
That Margaret Hay widow of the said Lieut David Hay was pensioned under act of july 4 1836 at the rate of $160 per annum until the 4th of December 1843 when she died.
Original Declaration of Lieut David Hay.  I David Hay being sworn by a Justice of the peace of the county of Monmouth State of New Jersey says that on the  thirty first day of July last he made his declaration for a pension as a Lieutenant under the act of June 7 1832 - that by reason of old age and consequent infirmity & loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of service, but according go his best recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the  following grades.
For two months in the year 1776 served as a 1st Lieut
For seven months in the year 1776 served as a first Lieut of infantry in one term of duty - For five months in the year 1777 as first Lieut of Infantry in monthly tours of one

Declarant asks for himself & Sarah Hay only surviving children of the said David Hay & Margaret Hay deceased such amount of increase of pay as may be justly due. (A)
Certificate of Register of the Prerogative court of New Jersey holden at Trenton that satisfactory evidence was exhibited to said court - that Margaret Hay the widow  of David Hay died in the county of Monmouth state of New Jersey on the 4th day of December 1843 and that she left two children whose names are James N Hay and Sarah Hay, only her surviving
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month each - For three months in 1778 as first Lieut in  monthly tours as aforesaid - For three months in 1779 as first lieut. in monthly tours as aforesaid - In three months in 1780 and for three months in the year 1781 and for three months in the year 1782 as first Lieut of Infantry in tours of one month each
On the 31 day of July 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Inferior court of Common Please of Monmouth County  Col. David Hay aged 79 years and being sworn makes the following declaration to obtain the benefit of the Act of June 7 1832.  That he entered the service of the U States under the following names officers and served as herein stated.
That he entered said service as a first Lieutenant under Capt. Robert Rhea in Col David Brearlys regiment in August 1775 by virtue of a commission from the Provincial Congress by President and William Patterson secretary the remaining of which commissions are now in his possession  much mutilated from bein sent to Washington City some years  since and remitted back to him.  That in the early part of July 1776 he was first Lieut in Capt. Rhea's company, volunteered in the service and marched to Amboy where they continued for some time and then marched to Elizabeth Town, Barrellon Groves was then his captain, Capt. Rhea having declined serving - there were then two other volunteer companies at the time marched from the County of Monmouth commanded by Captain Henry Waddell and the other by Captain Abraham Wooley - Major Thomas Teahook had the command.  They remained at Elizabeth town when Col. Thomas took the command and remained there until we were discharged in the winter recollects on his return there was snow on the ground, but cannot state precisely   the time.  After this upon a detachment of the British leaving Philadelphia for Bordentown & Trenton, and upon deponent hearing the cannon firing - he collected a part of his company and joined Gen. Dickerson at Trenton and followed the British with his party below Bur-
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lington, they in the gunboats his party on the Jersey shore.  That from that time till the close of the war, he was almost all the time in actual service acting as Lieutenant under his said commission untill the close of the war - that he was out in the service as a volunteer and under the regular calls at least two years in actual service - that he cannot recollect the names of the officers under whom he served, further than he has above states - that he was at the Battle of Monmouth under Col. Lawrence - that his marches were principally in the county of Monmouth except when he marched to __ mountain where Washingtons army lay at Steels Gap and remained there untill after the British left New Brunswick, when they followed them to Wood Bridge - that he never served with continental regiments of companies.
Mutiliated scraps of commission to david Hay as first Lieutenant (D)
Lieutenand David Hay in his declaration alledged that he served 2 mo. in 1775 - 7 mo in 1776. 5 mo. 8n 1777- 3 mo. in 1778 - 3 mo. in 1779 3 mo. in 1780- 3 mo in 1781 and 3 mo in 1782, in month by tours in the New Jersey Militia as a Lieutenant.  He did not specify the time of his entering and the time of his leaving the service in each tour as required by the regulations.  In the adjustments of his claim no particular tour or tours of service were designated, but the allowance was made upon what was believed to be a liberal estimate, based upon a knowledge of the services rendered by the New Jersey Militia for 12 months, which was a fair average of the amount of service of the militia of that state during the Revolutionary War.
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State of New Jersey
I Charles G McChesney Register of the Perogative Court of the State of New Jersey holden at Trenton in and for said State do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court that Margaret Hay (the widow of David Hay_ was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of One hundred and sixty dollars in annum was a resident of the county of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey and died in the county of Monmouth in the said State of New Jersey in the year Eighteen hundred and forty three on the fourth day of December and that she left two children whose names are James N Hay and Sarah Hay only her suviving. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Trenton this seventh day of May Eighteen hundred and fifty.
Charles G McChesney
Register
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Extract
Hon: W.A. Nowell
House of Reps
Pension Office
September 25th 1850
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th inst, and in reply to your request to be informed as to "the particular tours of service alleged by Lieut David Hay in his life time to have been performed and the amount of service actually allowed," to State that in his declaration Lieut Hay alleged that he served 2 mo: in 1775- 7 mo in 1776= 5 mo in 1777 - 3 mo in 1778 - 3 mo in 1779 - 3 mo in 1780 - 3 mo in 1781 and 3 mo in 1782 in monthly tours in the New Jersey militia as a Lieutenant.  He did not specify the time of his entering and the period of his leaving the service in each tour, as required by the regulations.  In the adjustment of his claim, we no particular tour or tours of service were designated, but the allowance was made upon what was believed to be a liberal estimate, based upon a knowledge of the service rendered by the New Jersey militia for 12 months, which was a fair average of the amount of service of the militia of that State during the Revolutionary War.
I have the honor to be 
Signed
J.L. Edwards Comm
by L.D. Wilson
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Hay Rep's ast 1850
18 Sep 1850
Dear Sir
In your letter to me of the 20 of Mar last in the case of David Hay, dec'd, date of 29 you informed me "He was a militia officer of N.J. and rec'd a pension at the rate of $160 per annum, which amount was allowed to his widow, and unless it can be shown that he performed [illegible] a claim for a larger amount for his pension cannot be made.  The question I now ask is, will you be pleased to designate the particular tours of service alleged by Lieut Hay in his life time to have been performed and the amount of service actually allowed for.  And in the case of James Hedden, late of N.J. allow me to enquire if there is any further evidence required by his
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revolutionary services as a Lieut and [illegible][illebile] his seconds of your office affords to woman his half of pension allowed him in his life time and further ask for Mrs. Halsey of NJ if she and her sisters the only [illegible] surviving children are not entitled to receive any [illegible] of pension w which there be hers [illegible] entitled [illegible]. In his case of Mary Mershaw died also late of N.J. I enclose herewith further evidence in her case.  The certificate of the Sec'y of State shews {Illegible} payment was made to Andrew Mershaw (her husband) with interest commencing Jan'y 15th 1779 of $185 1/4 which indicates that her [illegible] was paid for his services up 13 [illegible] which [illegible] his [illegible] service for [illegible] of his years.  By giving early attention which [illegible] you will much [illegible}.
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W A Newell [signature]
Col Edwards
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