Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 760, for Isaac Stag, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey Stag, Isaac. 
NUMBER
S760

Carded
CONTENTS
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9.781.
New Jersey
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Isaac Stag
os Sussex in the State of N Jersey, 
who was a Serg., Ensg & Lt. in the Comp.y commanded by Captain Leonard of the Reg.t commanded by [illegible] Martin in the N. Jersey line for 9 mo.s & 6 days.

Serg't.      2.0     _10.00
Ensign      4.0     _40.00
Lieut't      3.0.     _42.66
                          $92.66
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Inscribed on the Roll of N Jersey
at the rate of 92 Dollars 66 Cents per annum.
commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of June 1833 and sent to I. E. Edsall. 
clk. Newton N Jersey.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833.         _185.32
Semi-ant, allowance ending 4 Sept. 33 _  46.33
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                                                              $231.65 
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{Revolutionary Claim,
 Act June 7, 1832.}

ded by Wm R Palmer, Clerk,
E. Vol. 3 Page 30.
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8065
Isaac Stag
Sussex C N Jersey

Adm   2 Months           Sergeant
           4   do                 Ensign
           3   do & 6 days  Lieut
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Mo      9.   6 days

-120         10
                 40
                 40
                   5.33
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                 95.33

In 8/32.0
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         40

of 26.66
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      5.33
J E Edsall, clk

J E Edsall
Newton
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Brief in the case of Isaac Stag
County of Sussex in the state of New Jersey
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 85
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.                    Duration of Service.
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                            Years,   Months,    Days,
March In 1776                       1-    
fall of the year 76                  1-
Winter of 76                          1-
Summer of 77                       1-   
77                                          1
78                                          1
78                                          1 

Rank.         Names of General and Field Officers
                        under whom he served.       
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As a                Gen.
Sergt.            Capt. Seward, Col. Martin
"                    Col. Martin
Ensign           Capt. Holbert.-
"                    [illegible] Capt   Col Martin
"                    Capt. Holbert.
"                    Capt. Cole      Col Seward
Lieut.             Capt. Holbert      Col Martin
"                    Capt.              Col Seward
"                    Capt. Holland         Col Seward

5. In what battles was he engaged?  [illegible]
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Sussex Co New Jersey
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct.
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Cutter
Examing Clerk.
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2. Months   Serg
4      "          Ensign
3      "        6. Lieut
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Isaac Stag-
No. 8065.
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Sussex County}
State of New Jersey}

on the 27th day of August 1832
personally appeared in open
Court before the Judges of the inferior court of  common pleas now sitting Isaac Stag a resident of the township of Vernon County of Sussex and State of New Jersey aged eighty five years 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 7th 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herin stated. I entered the Service for one month in the year 1776 about the month of March under John  Seward Captain Edmund Martin, Lieutenant John Post, Ensign Ephraim Martin Col. we lay at New York and served the month out as a Sergeant, one other month in the fall of the year of 1776 under Ephraim Martin, Col. John Holbert Capt. as Sergeant I served this month and at Springfield in New Jersey. I served one other month as Ensign under Captain John Holbert of the commencement of the winter of the year 1776 at Westfield, New Jersey. I served one other month in the year 1777 in the Summer under Capt Cartright a part of the the time at Paramus and Pompton Bergen County New Jersey as an Ensign. Ephraim Martin our Col. I served one other month under Captain John Holbert at Springfield of the year 1777. one other at the Same and at Elizabeth Town under Captain Cole John Seward was our Col. I acted as Ensign; one other month I served under Captain John Holbert at Scotch Plains Ephraim Martin was our Col. in the winter of 1778 I served as a Lieutenant; also one other month under Captain Edmund Col. Seward at Newbergh Smiths Clove Morristown and Red Bank in the year 1778. I served as a Lieutenant;  also I done a half months service as a Lieutenant under Capt. John Holbert and Col. John Seward we lay at Smithtown Sussex County New Jersey and kept a guard against the tories of the year 1778 in additions to the duty ass'd; and did duty in addition to the above on  Alarm of two weeks at Aquackan docks of October in the year 1777 also on an Alarm against
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the Indians on the deleware River of the year 1779 of about ten days - as a Lieutenant under Col. Seward and Major Westbrook, I resided in the township of Vernon county of Sussex when I entered the services afo'd. and State of New Jersey and was in the battle of Springfield. I have no documentary evidence and know of no person who can testify to my service. I was born on the 7th day of July 1747 in Bergen county, Franklin Township. I have a record of my age at home in a family bible I now live in the township of Vernon County of Sussex and State of New Jersey where I lived when I entered the Service and have lived since the Revolutionary War about four years in New York City and the remainder of the time in the State of New Jersey. I never received any discharge from the  Service. I held a Commission as Ensign signed by Governor William Livingston and Chas. Petit Secty. which I now have and held one as Lieutenant signed by the afo'd. Gov. and Secty. which I have lost. I am known to Major William Simonson of my neighborhood and Genl. Benjamin Hamilton who can testify to my character for veracity & good behaviour & I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any States. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesd
his
Isaac + Stag
mark
Benj Halsey Judge

We William Simonson and Benjamin Hamilton Resideing in the township of Vernon county of Sussex and State of New Jersey hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Stag who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that Opinion.-
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid-}
William Simonson
Benjn Hamilton
Benj. Halsey Judge
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigating of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that William Simonson and Benjamin Hamilton who signed the preceeding certificate is resident in the township of Vernon county of Sussex and are credible persons and that their Statement is entitled to credit.
Benjn Halsey
Rston Carter
Aar Hazen
I Joseph E Edsall Clerk of the said court of common pleas do hereby certify the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Stag for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court of Common Pleas this 27th day of August AD 1832
J E Edsall Clk
Sussex County as James Edsall being sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he believes Isaac Stag above named to be a man of veracity that he has known him for a good many years. Says he was out with him at Acquackenock in Bergen and on Delaware River against the Indians - at the times and under the Officers by the said Stag mentioned, that he is reputed to be revolutionary soldier in which opinion he concurs - and further saith not sworn & subscribed in open Court at Newton
August 28th 1832_    James Edsall
Benjn Halsey Judge
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The STATE OF NEW-JERSEY,
TO Isaac Stag Gent.________GREETING:
WHEREAS it hath been certified to His Excellency William Livingston, 
Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief of this State, that you have been duly chosen by the __________________Company of Militia in ___________
in the County of Sussex____________________ (being the __________ Company in the Second Regiment of th esaid County, whereof Aaron Hankinson Esqr. is Coloonel) to be Ensign of the said Company; you are therefore to take the said Company of Militia into your Charge and Care as Ensign thereof, and duly to exercise both Officers and Soldiers of the said Company in Arms: And as they are hereby directed to obey you as their Ensign you are likewise to obey and follow such Orders and Directions, from Time to Time, as you shall receive from your Colonel or other your superior Officer or Officers; and for your so doing this shall be your Commission.
IN TESTIMONY whereof the Great Seal of the said State is hereunto affixed: Witness
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Esquire, Governor, Captain-General and Commander
in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey and Territories thereunto
belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the same, at Haddonfield the sixteenth Day of May in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven. 
By His Excellency's Command, 
Chas Pettit Secry.
Wilm Livingston
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Rev War
INVALID.
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File No. 760
Isaac Stag,
Sgt, Ensg. and Lt. N.J. Line
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Act: June 7, 1832.
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 355
(Arrangement of 1870.}
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Isaac Stag
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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
Isaac Stag Sussex Ct New Jersey which require further proof or explanation.
1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
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? yes
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 amout of pension he is entitled? yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of
June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
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? yes
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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? no
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no
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? yes
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? yes
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? yes
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? yes
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?
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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-
-- months, and --- days, I served as a -. For ___year_____months, and ____days, I served as a____  For _____months and ____days, I served as a ________; 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 shewn 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 the 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.