Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8461, for Benjamin Price, New Jersey
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SERVICE

New Jersey

Price, Benjamin 

NUMBER

R. 8461


CONTENTS
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Application of
Benjamin Price
for a pension


Peter I. Clark
Agent
Flemington 
N. Jersey
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State of New Jersey
County of Hunterdon  ss

On this fourth day of February AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas now sitting Benjamin Price a resident of the Township of Hopewell in the county of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey aforesaid, aged sixty-nine 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 was born in the Township of Hopewell aforesaid on the eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty four.  That he had seen his birth recorded in his father's family bible from which it has been transferred to his own.  

And this declarant sets forth the following as a true narative of his services in the Revolutionary war, to wit. He entered the Teaming service on the first of March 1778 under waggon _Master Alexander Thompson and continued under him for the period of six months during which period he carted stores, provisions &c from Trenton to Morris Town, New Windsor and Kings ferry

That he then engaed Teaming under Stephen Moore who commanded a Brigade of Teams. That he teamed in this brigade for the period of one year & during said period carted stores provisions &c to Pluckamin_ Dobbs_ferry, Paramus, and Chatham 
That he then engaged in the same service and carted to the places last before mentioned under Waggon_Master Moses Moore and continued therein one year

That he then engaged in the same service as before under Waggon_Master Palmer Phillips and continued
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under him for the period of three months, which was up to the last of November 1780 when he then quit the Teaming service in which he had been regularly and exclusively engaged for the period of two years and nine months. That during the whole of this
period he drew his rations from the  Commissary, and his provender from the forage masters wherever the American army happened to be stationed in that he was exposed as others to all the hardships of the
service, growing out of severe toil and inclement weather, and all the compensation he has ever received for these services was in worthless continental money.

And this declarant further states that he
entered the three months service on the sixteenth day of July 1781 at Pennington in the Township of Hopewell aforesaid under Captain Ralph Guild, and marched from thence to Morris Town where he joined the rest of the company

That of this company William Herrenton was
Lieutenant and William Henn Ensign. That the
company organized as stated marched from
Morris Town to Dobbs_ferry on the North River
where it was joined to a Regiment commanded
by Col ___Seely and George Ely Lieutenant Col.  That he continued at this place nearly one month when the company marched to
Connecticut_farms in the County of Essex and
State of New Jersey and continued there
until the sixteenth day of October, when he
was discharged, having completed his tour of
three months. That he has no documentary Evidence of his revolutionary services, and that he
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never received a written discharge_

That since the revolutionary war he has resided principally in the Township of Hopewell aforesaid where he now resides.

That the affidavits of his witnesses have been heretofore sent on to the War Department upon an informal declaration made before David Stout Esquire one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hunterdon aforesaid.

That the certifcate fo the Revd. Christopher Suydam being the Clergyman nearest the residence of this declarant was taken before a single Judge of the said County of Hunterdon, in as much as he insisted that it was not compatible with the duties of his profession to attend before a regular court of said County.

That George Henry and Nathan Price citizens and residents of the County of Hunterdon aforesaid can testify to this declarants reputation as a man of truth and veracity.

And this declarant thinks it proper to state that he is encouraged in his present application from the fact that John Abbott senior and George Bake residents of the said county of Hunterdon have received certificates from the War Department upon applications like this Declarants.

And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state_

Benjamin Price

Sworn to and subscribed}
the day & year aforesaid_}
in open court}
Jacob J. Young
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We George Henry and Nathan Price residing in the Township of Amwell and County of Hunterdon aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Price who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: That we believe him to be sixty nine years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Geo. Henry
Nathan Price

Sworn and subscribed}
the day & year aforesaid}
in open court_}
Jacob J. Young

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that the Revd. Christopher Suydam mentioned in the declaration of this declarant could not without great inconvenience attend before this court and that it further appears to the court that George Henry and Nathan Price residents in the Township of Amwell aforesaid, and who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit   
Jacob J Young
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I Isaac G. Farlee Clerk of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas in and for the County of Hunterdon aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Price for a pention.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office this
second day of April AD. One thousand 
eight hundred and thirty four

Isaac G Farlee Clk
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Benjamin Price.
N. J. Act 1832, suspended.

CC version
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[Crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.]
8461
P. O.___________
Benjamin Price
Service: _____________________________________
Enlisted: NJ________, 18  .
Discharged:_________________, 18  .
REJECTED
Application filed:___________, 18  .
Alleges:_______________________
Re-enlisted:______________________________
Attorney:_____________________

_______Recognized.  ________Contract.
____Cert of Dis____ Searched for____X__, 18  .
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No. 228
Act 7. June 1832
Suspended
See letter to
Peter J. Clark 
Flemington
N. J.
8461
10th April 1834

Act 7th June, 1832
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30. 228
Benjamin Price
New Jersey

Peter J. Clark
Flemington
N. J.
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[Standard Printed Form: WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office. Form has no handwriting.]
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[Standard Printed Form: REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832, p. 2. Form has no handwriting.]
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[Standard Printed Form: REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832, p. 3.  Form has no handwriting.}
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Price, Burdot  
GRADE  Private
LINE  Virginia

WARRANT NUMBER  12454
ACREAGE  100
ISSUED  October 6, 1792
To Thomas Newton, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.