Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2878, for Burnet Montgomery, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey

Montgomery, Burnet

NUMBER
S.2878
carded
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CONTENTS
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No [lined out: 18468] 17.632
New Jersey
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Burnet Montgomery of Monmouth Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Grover of the Regt commanded by Col. Freeman in the N. Jersey Militia line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars [lined out: Cents] per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of Sept'r. 1833 and sent to Dan'l B. Ryall Esq'r. Freehold N. J.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 160.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sep. 1833 40.00
[total] $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 3 Page 121
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Monmouth Pleas of July Term 1832
Declaration of Burnet Montgomery
No 4070
PO
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State of New Jersey County of Monmouth ss.

On this thirty first day of July, Anno Domini 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Monmouth now sitting at Freehold in said County Burnet Montgomery a resident of the township of Upper Freehold County and State aforesaid, aged seventy nine years on the Seventh day of December last past, 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 herein stated.

That when he was between eighteen and nineteen years of age he entered said service as a volunteer in Captain Barzillai Grovers Company being the first troops that marched out of the County of Monmouth, they marched to Elizabeth town and returned again in about ten days, the British not having then landed, in about two months after as near as he recollects he entered the monthly service for four or five months, doing duty every other month, after the expiration of this time he enlisted for three months in Captain Joseph Borden's Company of Dragoons and served his time out within a month after his time was out, he joined Captain Robert Rhea's
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and served therein until the close of the Revolutionary war and until peace was proclaimed doing duty and out in service every other month during that period beside being out several months under the general alarms, that the whole time he was out in actual service was between three and four years at least, that the captains under whom he served during said service that he now recollects besides those above named were Captain Alexander Montgomery Captain Robert Rhea and Captain James Brewer ^& Alexander Montgomery the field officers under whom he served that he now recollects where General David Forman and Col Samuel Forman, that he was born in Allentown, and resided in the said township of Upper Freehold when he entered said service and where he has lived ever since, that he was born on the 7th December 1752 and that he has no other record of his age than his own family bible now in his possession in which he entered it upwards of fifty years ago taken from his fathers, that he was in the service as above stated as a volunteer, in the monthly service and enlisted and that he never received other than a verbal discharge from the service that he now recollects that he was in the Battle of Germantown thinks under Captain Borden and also at the defence of Red Bank where Count Donop was killed
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under Captain Borden he thinks, that his marches were principally in the County of Monmouth from Toms River to Amboy in Middleton County guarding and protecting the intermediate points and places he was also at Elizabethtown Germantown and at Red Bank as before stated in his marches, cant recollect the names of any continental regiments or companies or the names of any of the regular officers of the army with whom he served, that he has no documentary evidence of his services, and that he thinks he can prove his services by Col David Hay and William Lloyd Esq; He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity [annuity] except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

[signed] Burnet ^mont gomery

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Patterson

New Jersey Monmouth County ss: We Col David Hay William Haight Esq [lined out: and William Hay Esq] of the County of Monmouth Do hereby certify that are well acquainted with Burnet Montgomery who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age and that we know him to have been a soldier of the revolution in the service of the United States, and that we have no doubt from our knowledge of his services that he was out in said service
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between three and four years, that he is not only reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a soldier of the revolution but they these deponents respectively know him to have been such, having served with him in said service, that he is a credible person and that his declaration and statement is entitled to credit.

[signed] David Hay
[signed] W'm Haight

Sworn to & subscribed the day &year aforesaid -
John Patterson

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 applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states: and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that the said Col David Hay and William Haight who have signed the preceeding Certificate are residents of the said County of Monmouth and were both in the service of the United States during the revolutionary War, the first as a Lieutenant and the second as a sailor and Midshipman during a period of the contest and afterwards a soldier, and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to full credit.

By Order of the Court,
W. J. Bowne
Judge &c
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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 Burnet Montgomery for a Pension

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Freehold, this thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two

D. H. Ellis Clk
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I Daniel H. Ellis, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & 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 Burnet Montgomery, for a pension, made before the said Court on the thirty first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

D. H. Ellis Clk
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Rev War
2878
INVALID.
File No. 2878
Burnet Montgomery
Privt Rev War
Act: June 7. 1832
Index:-- Vol. A, Page 262
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Second [underlined] Amended Declaration of Burnet Montgomery His original declaration marked No. 4070.
4070
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Second amended declaration of Burnet Montgomery for a pension under act of June 7th 1832.

State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss: Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey Barnet Montgomery who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he made his original declaration numbered 4070 by the War Department on the thirty first day of July 1832 that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively 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; that he cannot state more particularly than he has in his first and second declaration his services mentioned therein; in the services rendered in the years 1777, 78, 79, & 80, in his first amended declaration their head quarters were at Freehold in Monmouth County from whence they marched to Middletown Point the High Lands Long Branch Deal and to Manasquan and the intermediate points and places, their duties were to guard the coasts and shores of the County of Monmouth from the inroads of the British and tories, their duties were confined to said County, and it would be impossible for him to state the particular times and places he was at in said periods
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as they were kept marching and patroling from their head quarters to the before named places and the intermediate points guarding the coasts and shores and protecting the same from the inroads of the British and tories, the services during said period were performed under Captains Rhea Brewer and Montgomery but he cannot from lapse of time particularly state the order of times he served under them during said period or the particular services under each but he says the whole time there mentioned was served under them, Asher Holmes was their Colonel during this service he thinks, I was born in Upper Freehold township Monmouth County on the 7th of December 1748 where he lived when called into the service and where he has since resided; that he has in his possession the record of his age being his fathers family bible, that his services were all under his own calls or drafts under the laws & ordinances of New Jersey except in his enlistment mentioned in his former declaration, he never being a substitute for another that I never received any other than a verbal discharge, that during the time he was in service he was in the field & not in Garrison and during said time he was not engaged in any civil pursuit

Sworn & subscribed before } Burnet Montgomery
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me this 27th day of August AD 1833 -
Tho's. C Throckmorton Justice

State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss: David Hay of the township of upper Freehold Monmouth County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is Eighty years of age & upwards that he is well acquainted with Burnet Montgomery who has sworn to and subscribed the forgoing affidavit that he was well acquainted with him during the revolutionary war and has been intimately so ever since, that the said Burnet Montgomery served at least six months in the company of Capt Barzillai Grover I being Lieutenant of said Company Robert Rhea being Captain a part of the time, he the said Burnet joined the company in the spring or summer of 1776 and ended in the winter of said year, that said Burnet with this deponent and Company marched from Allentown to South Amboy & crossed to Perth Amboy from there to Elizabethtown & after being there some time they were marched back to Monmouth, that the British were in possession of Staten Island when they arrived at Amboy, that he this deponent understood at the time that said Burnet enlisted in Captain Joseph Borden's Company of Dragoons and he also understood he was in the Battles of Germantown
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and in the defence of Red Bank under Borden, that he frequently saw said Montgomery in the service under Captains Rhea Brewer and Montgomery he thinks and others but he cannot state the particular times and places, that he believes he served the periods of time he has stated, the duties of the militia of the County of Monmouth being to guard the coasts and shores from the British and tories, that the Head Quarters of the Militia from Upper Freehold during most of the war was at Freehold from whence they frequently marched to Middletown Point the Highlands, Shrewsbury Tinton Falls Long Branch Deal and Manasquan that he frequently saw said Montgomery in the service at the Head Quarters and other places before named, and he has no doubt he served his share of duty during the war, that he is a man of good character and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit

David Hay

Sworn & subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace in Monmouth County this 27th day of August AD 1833 -

Tho's C Throckmorton Justice
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And I the above Thomas C. Throckmorton Justice above named Do hereby Certify that it appears to me and that I know the fact that David Hay who has Sworn & subscribed the forgoing affidavit before me is a highly respectable Citizen of our County and that he is a Credible person and his statement is entitled to full credit
Dated Freehold Monmouth County New Jersey August 27, 1833 -

Tho's. C Throckmorton

I Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey Do Hereby Certify that Thomas C. Throckmorton whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of the two above affidavits of Burnet Montgomery and David Hay and also to the Certificate of the said Thomas C Throckmorton himself was at the respective dates thereof & now is a Justice of the Peace of the said County of Monmouth duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit ought & should be attached to all his official acts as such, and also that the name signed Thos C. Throckmorton to said Jurats and to the said Certificate are respectively the proper hand writings and signatures of the said Thomas C Throckmorton Justice as aforesaid. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Freehold this twenty eighth day of August Anno Domini Eighteen hundred & thirty three.

D. H. Ellis Clk
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Supplemental affidavit of Burnet Montgomery for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832.

New Jersey Monmouth County ss: Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey Burnet Montgomery who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively 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 ten days I served as a private in a volunteer company commanded by Captain Barzillai Grover, David Hay being the Leutenant [Lieutenant], this was some time in the Spring of 1776 before the British landed at Staten Island, the company marched to Elizabeth town from Upper Freehold and returned in ten days after they left Upper Freehold as it was ascertained the British had not landed. Col David Forman was their Colonel at that time I cannot now recollect the month the tour of duty was done but believe it was the latter part of April of that year. For two months and an half I served as a private in a Company commanded by Captain Robert Rhea this service commenced about the tenth of May 1776 and the first month ended about the tenth of June of same year. the second month commenced about the tenth of July and ended about the tenth of August of same year, the half month commenced about the tenth of August and closed about the first of September of same year during this monthly service they were stationed at Manasquan in Monmouth County guarding the coast and shores, and were out under the authorities of the State; For three months I served as a private enlisted soldier under Captain Joseph Borden in a company of Dragoons and served my time out, this enlistment to the best of my recollection commenced about the first day of September 1776 and ended about the first of January 1777, I never
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had any discharge at the expiration of my time of service, I served my full three months out under this enlistment, while in Captain Borden's company was at the Battle of Germantown and there engaged with the enemy, and after the battle the retreated to a place called Allentown in Pennsylvania, he thinks General David Forman had the command over their company at the time, being a field officer, afterwards they returned to the Jersey side of the Delaware and marched to Red Bank and was engaged in its defence when Count Donop was mortally wounded, their company were all dismounted and their horses left under a Guard about a half mile from the works, he was in the fort with [crossed out: said] my company & their orders were not to fire until they could see the number of the Hessians Coat buttons. For two years I served as a private in a company of infantry commanded by Captains Robert Rhea James Brewer and Alexander Montgomery being to the best of my recollection the month of February April June August October and December in the year 1777 and the months of January March May July September and November in the year 1778 and the month of January March May July September & November in the year 1779 and the same months in the year 1780 each tour of a month commencing on the first and ending on the first of the following month, these periods of time where [were] under the months Calls or drafts called out under the legal authorities of the State, the field officers were during this period of time General David Forman and Col Sam'l Forman, during this service their duties were to guard the shores from the British and tories, that he does not know of any surviving witness of his services which can be found except David Hay and William Haight who have testified to his original declaration, that he was in the service in the field & not in Garrison and that during the time
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We William Foster a Clergyman residing within about three miles of Burnet Montgomery in the neighboring and adjoining township in the County of Middlesex and Asher Borden residing in the township of Upper Freehold in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey Do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with the said Burnet Montgomery who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty two 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.

[signed] Wm Foster
[signed] Asher Borden

Sworn and subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth this first day of June AD 1833

[signed] R'D L Beatty

I the above Justice before whom the above William Foster and Asher Borden have been sworn and who have subscribed the foregoing Certificate Do hereby certify that the said William Foster who has sworn to and subscribed to the preceeding certificate is a Clergyman residing in the County of Middlesex in the neighboring & adjoining township to Upper Freehold in the County of Monmouth in which the above named Burnet Montgomery resides, and that Asher Borden who has sworn and subscribed the same Certificate is a resident in the township of Upper Freehold and is a credible person, that their statement is entitled to credit. Dated June 1st 1833.

R'D L Beatty
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he was in the service, he was not engaged in any civil pursuit, that I am known in my present neighborhood by the Reverent William Foster and Asher Borden who can testify to my character for veracity and their belief of my service as a soldier of the Revolution.

[signed] Burnet Montgomery

Sworn & subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Monmouth this 2d day of May 1833.

The words "I" "me" & "my" & "Infantry" "Robert Rhea James Brown and Alexander Montgomery" on the 2nd page and the name "Asher Borden on this page first interlined before sworn to.

William Lloyd

I William Lloyd, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Monmouth, in the State of New Jersey, and one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County, do hereby certify, that I was a Judge of the said Court at the time the original Declaration of the foregoing named Burnet Montgomery was made in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that the said Burnet Montgomery swore to & subscribed the foregoing supplemental affidavit before me as such Justice, that I am well acquainted with the said Burnet Montgomery, knew ^him at the time of the Revolutionary War, know that he was out in actual service during the said war, that he is a very aged man, & very infirm, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that I know
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such to be the fact, having seen him out in actual service during the Revolutionary War, that he is a credible person & that his statement is intitled to credit. Dated June 6 A.D. 1833.

[signed] William Lloyd

I Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey, Do hereby Certify that William Lloyd Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit of Burnet Montgomery was made was at the date of the Jurat to said affidavit & still is a Judge of the said Court & a Justice of the Peace of the said County, & that Richard L. Beatty Esquire before whom the foregoing certificate of Wm Foster & Asher Borden, was sworn to was at the date of the Jurat to said certificate & still is, a Justice of the Peace of said County, both commissioned & sworn in office, the one as such Judge & Justice, the other as such Justice, & that both are entitled to full faith & credit to all of their official acts, & that the name signed "William Lloyd" to the Jurat of the foregoing affidavit of Burnet Montgomery; & above to the certificate of the said William Lloyd, & the name signed "R'd. L. Beatty" to the Jurat to the foregoing certificate of Wm. Foster & Asher Borden, & to the certificate of the said Richard L. Beatty, are respectively the genuine signatures of the said William Lloyd and Richard L. Beatty Esquires.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

[signed] D. H. Ellis Clk