Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 880, John Grove, New Jersey
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New Jersey   Grove, John    S880

Carded
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New Jersey  9843
John Grove
Brunswick in the State of N.J.
who was a pr: in the Comp:  commanded 
by Captain Longstreet of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Tyse in the N.J. Troops
line for
11. Mo: Private

Inscribed on the roll of N.J. at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the sixth day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21. day of June and delivered to Ch___ McChesney, Present

Arrears to the 4th day of March 1833     73.32.
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. " 18.33.
                                                                 91.65

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by FFranciori clerk, book 6 vol. 3d page 113.
to Hightstown NJ
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John, grove
State of New Jersey declaration in order to obtain the benefit of Middlesex County
Act of Congress the 7 day of June 1832, 

On this __ of July 1832, formally appeared before me Robert ___ judge of the court common pleas in and for the said county of Middlesex John grove a resident of the Township of South Brunswick in the said County of Meddlesex age Eighty
three years the 25. day of November 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 June 7 1832
That he entered the service of the United States as a private in the Militia of New Jersey under the following named officers
and serves as herein stated __. that in the year 1776. he first entered the service under Captain Aaron Longstreet under Colonel Jacob Hyre, and was ordered out as one of the Company commanded by the said captain, and marched on a tour to
Elizabeth Town, Newark and Woodbridge, and after the tour he was ordered out again under the named officers to New Brunswick
a short time previous to the British army took possession of that place, and in the 1777 after the British took posession of the city of New Brunswick he was again called out in the service under the command of the same officers to the village of Branbary early in the month January, and was out all the time the militia lay at that place which was somewhere
about the finst of June as he believes, being relieved part of the time by other parts of the militia and while there was out on numerous scouting parties harrassing the enemy and protecting the inhabitants from their excursions, and depredation which
were neither small nor few, after the town expired he was ordered out again about the time the British army marched to Somerset Court House, from New Brunswick, he then marched under the same officers to a place called Lux Town in Hunterdon County, and from there marched to Sourland Mountain
and from there to Steeli__ where part of General Washington's army lay and on the retreat of the British from Somerset
marched to the north of New Brunswick to Perth Amboy and continued on that tour until the British army left New Jersey. After that he was called out in the company commanded by Jacob Snook under Colonel Chamberlain, and crosssed over the Deleware River into Pennsylvania was engaged in the Battle of
German Town where the Colonel's son was killed,
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in the year 1770 he was again ordered out by the the aforementioned Captain Aaron Longstreet under the command he thinks
of Colonel William Scudder, at the time the British crossed the Delaware into New Jersey and marched to ___ Town Black house
 _____, the draw bridge and ___
other places and retreated before the British army until the Battle of Monmouth, and in the time of the Battle he was placed as a guard over the baggage, before that tour he was ordered out on two different tours in 1777 to Elizabeth Town under the same officers, and lay at that place from one to two months guarding the inhabitants of the surrounding country, and in the year 1779 or 1780 he was called out again to Springfield in Essex County under the same officers as he believes when the Pennsylvania line ____ was ordered out under the same officers to a place called Mount Pleasant to guard the homes to prevent any assistance being given unto them, and their department further declares that he was out from the first of his entering the service until the conclusion of the Revolutionary war and attended every call made when ___, and further declares he verily believes that he was out in the said service at different times to the best of his remembrance as long as one year and nine months, or two years in the whole but owing to bodily infirmities he would not like under his oath to declare further, and this informant also declares that he has no documentary evidence relating to his services and hereby relinquishes ever claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and  declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State and this informant also declares that as far as he knows all officers under who he served are now dead.

Sworn and subscribed before me
Robert Mchenney one of the judges of
the court of common pleas and for
the County of Middlesex this 20 day of
July 1832
Robert Mchenney             John Grove
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We Symmon C. Henry Pastor of the first Presbyterian Church in the village of Cranbury in the County of Middlesex and David Chambers of the same place --

Do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Grove who has subscribed and sworn to the above and forgoing declaration, and believe him to be eighty three years of age, that
he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood
where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur that opinion.
sworn to and subscribed before one Robert McHenny one of the judges of the Court of Common pleas on and for said county this 20 day of July 1832

Interrogation put by Robert McHenny one of the judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Middlesex ___ wrote the before named applicant
1. When and in what year were you born, 

Answer the 25 November 17__ in the Township of South Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and have resided there ever since.

2.  Have you any record of your age, and where is it.  
Answer it was entered in a book by my father, and it is now in my possession.

3.  Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since, and where 
do you now live---

Answer in the Township of South Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and have lived there ever since with the exception of one year

4.  How were you called into service

Answer as a volunteer when called upon

5.  State the names of some of the regular officers who were with this troop where you served, such Continental and militia requirements you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service

Answer I do not recollect that I was out under any any officer of the standing army, nor of the militia regiments ___ the Colonels and Captains that I have named in my foregoing declaration, and as to the general circumstances of my service, they are above related in my declaration as far as I can at present recollect.

6.  Did you receive a discharge from the service

Answer I never received any regular written discharge when the tour expired for which I was called out.  I was verbally discharged for that tour, and believe this was the practice generally with the militia
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7. State the names of persons to whom you have known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution

Answer  Colonel David Chambers, Major Andrew McDowell, Robert McHenney Esq, John Day Esq, George Morris, Nathaniel Britton, Doctor R.P. Lott and many others that I could name
did I believe it necessary---         John Grove
sworm and subscribed before me    

Robert McHenney one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex N. Jersey
this __ day of July 1832
       Robert McHenney
and be the said Robert McHenney one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare his opinion after the Investigation of the matter and after (illegible) the above Interogatories prescribe by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, and he further certifies that it is known to him that the said Symmer C. Henry who has signed the preceding certifcate is a Clergyman
resident residing in the said village of Cranberry in the County of Middlesex, and that David Chambers who has signed his name to the same is a resident in the said County and is a creditable person , and that their statement is entitled to credit, and he further certifies that in his opinion he said John Grove is so infirm and diseased that it would be with great difficulty and might be attended with serious consequences to him to attend at the regular Court of the County being fifteen miles from his residence, in (illegible) whereof I have (illegible) subscribe my name this 20 day of July 1832 Robert McHenney Judge
State of New Jersey-Middlesex County
(illegible) Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Grove for a pension

In testimony whereof I have here--
unto set my hand and seal of office this thirty first day of July 1832
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State of New Jersey | 
Middlesex County ss. | I F S Vanarsdalen
Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
of the said County do hereby certify that Robert
McChesney before whom the within proceeding
were had, was at the date thereof and still is
[illegible] Court [illegible] , and that the
Signature of the said Robert McChesney as thereunto
in several places signed is the proper hand
writing of the said Robert McChesney, and also
that the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the
County of Middlesex aforesaid is a court officer
In witness whereof I have here
[seal applied] | unto set my hand and caused
my seal of office to be affixed at
this City of New Brunswick this
thirty first day of July AD 1832
F. S. Vanarsdalen
Clerk
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adm d
11 mo pii
$36.66
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Supplementary Declaration
State of N. Jersey | Be it Known that on the 4 day of June 1833
Middlesex County ss. | before me Robert McChesney one of the Judges of the
Court of Common pleas in and for said County
personally appeared John Grove an applicant for a pension under
the Act of Congress passed June the 7 1832 who being duly sworn
according to Law did on his Oath declare, depose, and say in addition
to his original declaration, and for the purpose of amending the same
agreeably to the instructions of the war department and more
particularly to the length of the different tours that he served during
the same, and also as to the proof of actual service during the
Revolutionary war, that to the best of this applicants memory
(now became exceeding frail) and to the best of his belief, and upon
mature reflection he under Oath states as follows by way of
amendment, and that in the order of time he has related them
in his original declaration, and which are as follows Vizi
that in the year 1776 he was called out into service as a private
in the Militia of New Jersey in the company commanded by
Captain Aaron Longstreet under Colonel Jacob Hyre and marched
to Elizabeth Town, New Ark and Woodbridge this tour lasted | 1 [illegible]
in the same year was ordered out again under the same
Officers and marched to New Brunswick this tour lasted
In the year 1777 was again ordered out under the same
Officers and was stationed at the village of Cranberry
this tour lasted in the whole | 2 " 2
in the same directly afterwards was ordered out again
under the same Officers he believes, and marched to [illegible]
Town, Sourland mountain [illegible] other place this
tour lasted | 1 " 00
in the same year was ordered out again and
marched into Pennsylvania under Captain Jacob Sneck
and Colonel Chamberlain to German Town and was in
the battle, this tour lasted | 1 " 00
in the year 1778 was ordered out into service again
under Captain Jason Longstreet and he thinks Colonel
William Scudder and marched to Slab Town Black
[illegible] in the County of Burlington and from
[illegible] to Monmouth and was at the Battle this tour lasted | 1 " 00
carried over Months | 6 " 2
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ino. Weeks
6 " 00
previous to this and which he had omitted in its
proper place in his original declaration he was
called out in the year 1777 into service and under
the same Officers and marched to Elizabeth Town
on two different tours succeeding each other, and was
out as much in both | 1 " 2 
in the year 1779 or 1780 is not certain which was
ordered out into service under the same Officers he
believes and marched to Springfield was out this tour | 1 " 00
in the year 1781 he thinks and again ordered into service under
the same Officers and marched to mount pleasant
was out on this tour | 1 "
and this deponent and applicant under his oath
further declares that during the Revolutionary war
there was very numerous & sudden alarms made
upon the inhabitants by the enemy especially the
Tories when the Militia were called out, and often
lasted three, four days and sometimes a week before
they could be drove off, and that during the continuance
of those alarms he this applicant was out in
[illegible] whole during Revolutionary war as much as  | 1 " 2
Total Months | 11 " 00
sworn to, and subscribed before |
me this day and year above said | 
Robert McChesney | Judge | John Grove
State of New Jersey | I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the
Middlesex County ss | County of Middlesex aforesaid
do certify that Robert McChesney before me
whom the foregoing & [illegible] depositions were taken was at
the time a Justice of the peace in and for the
County aforesaid duly commissioned and
Sworn and that the Signature Robert M Chesney
is his proper signature.
[[seal and ribbon affixed] | In testimony Whereof I have hereunto
 | Set my hand & Seal of office this
 | 17th day of June AD 1833
 | N Booraem Clerk
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[Date Stamp]
Pension
JUN
20
US
1896
OFFICE

[Date Stamp]
OLD WAR & NAVY
JUN 23 1896
FILES
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cy 1743
USS Richmond
League Island
Navy Yard Phila PA
June 19th /.96
Sir wishing to Join the
Sons of the American
Revolution I take the liberty
of writing to the "Pension Bureau"
for information concerning
one "John Grace" of Seaville
New Jersey who was a scout
under "Washington" I think
he was my Great Grandfather
on my mothers side
Hopint to hear from you
soon I have the honor
to remain yours truly
A.B. Irelan
Gunners Mate 1st class
U S Navy
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Asheville N.C.
Nov. 10th 1903
Chief Clerk of Pension Dept.
Washington.
D.C.
Will you please examine
and see if John Grove was
on the pay roll of the
Revolutionary soldiers
Respectfully,
Mary E Evans
Asheville
(R.Y.D. No 3) N.C.
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[rear panel]
June '25 96 sold
plusd [illegible]
AB Irelan
League Island NY
Phila [crossed out] PA LWB
Nov. 18, 1903 - Histy [illegible]
Mary E Evans Ashville N.C.
[Front Panel]
Rev War INVALID
File No. 880
John Grove
Priv. NJ Mil
Act: June 7 1832
Index:-Vol. a, Page 148
[arrangement of 1870.]
[check mark]
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State of N. Jersey | Be it Known that on the 5 day of June A.D. 1833
Middlesex County ss | before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the
peace in and for said County personally appears
John Applegate who being sworn according to Law did on his
Oath depose and say that he was acquainted with John Grove
an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress dated June
the 7 1832 previous to the Revolution War and that he served
with him in the Militia of New Jersey on several occasions
as a private in the Company commanded by Captain Aaron
Longstreet But cannot exactly remember the years, and he recollects
of seeing him to the best of his memory at Newark,
Elizabeth Town, Woodbridge, Euy Town, Sourland mountain
Cranberry and he has no doubt at many other places also
as they were under the same Captain a great part of
the Revolutionary War.
sworn to, and subscribed before | 
me the day and year above said | John Appelgate
Robert McChesney | Justice of | I the subscriber do hereby certify that
 | the peace | John Applegate who has subscribed
 | the above affidavit is a credible
 | person.  Robert McChesney | Justice of 
 | the peace
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State of N Jersey | Be it Known that of the 4 day of June 1833
Middlesex County ss. | before me the subscriber one of the Justices of
 | the peace in and for said County personally
appeared Nathaniel Dean who being duly sworn according to Law
did under his Oath depose, and say that he was well acquainted
with John Grove an applicant for a pension to the Revolutionary
war, he well remembers being out with him in Captain Aaron
Longstreets company, at Cranberry, at Sourland mountain, at
the Battle of Monmouth, at Elizabeth Town at Springfield, and
he believes at several other places during the Revolutionary war
But owing to great laps of memory he cannot specify
them particularly, nor to any certainty the years, But this
he is certain of that they were out together in the service
very frequently, and he verily believes that he the said
John Grove was engaged in the service of the Revolutionary
war from first to last as much as Eleven months, and 
further saith not
Sworn to, and subscribed before | 
on the day and year above said | Nathaniel Dean
Robert McChesney | Justice of | I the subscriber do hereby certify
 | the Peace | that Nathienal Dean who has
 | | subscribed the above affidavit is
a credible person
Robert McChensey | Justice of
 | the Peace