Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 11653, John Truax, New Jersey
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New Jersey   Truax, John.     W11653
                              Mary       B.L.Wt.31728-160-55
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Let. to P. Agent 3 Sept '35
do to Hon. J.F. Randolph (of
Freehold) Sept. 8. 1838

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9748
NEW JERSEY

JOHN TRUAX
of ------ in the State of ------
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Forman  (?) I the reg't commanded
by Col. ----- in the N. Jersey
line for 12 months private

Reduced from $80-
___________
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 40 Dollars ---Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of Sept.
1835 and sent to J.F.
Randolph Freehold


Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk
Book E2 Vol. 3 Page 165
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52089
John Truax
Declaration

PU (V ?)



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  -?- River - E7.P.O.
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State of new Jersey
Monmouth County
    On this thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two - Personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County now sitting, John TRUAX - a resident of Shrewsbury in the said County and states aforesaid aged seventy two years old having first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 -
     That he entered the service of the United States and served under the following officers as follows viz: he was born in Middletown March 3rd 1762 - that sometime in 1777 or 1778 he entered the service of the militia under Capt. Joseph Stilwell and Col. David Forman - that he was first a substitute and afterwards he was drafted, then afterward volunteered.  Served as a volunteer or substitute to the end go the war - he was in no general battle but in several skirmishes along shores - he at one time listed for three (?) months - Served the time out - he was robbed when the army passed through this County - he was discharged at Middletown  at the end of the war - he cannot recollect dates or particularize his services but is very confident that his service at different periods during the revolution amounted to more than two years - his colonels were Holmes and Forman.
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... He hereby relinquishes every claim related to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension tolls of the agency of any state.
John Truax

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
  John Patterson
      We Anthony Holmes and John Eldrith - surviving soldiers of the revolution  do hereby certify under oath that we are well acquainted with the within named John Truax and were acquainted with him in the time of the Revolution and we do severally certify that the said John Truax was to our knowledge a soldier in the militia of New Jersey at the time of the revolution and we believe that the preceeding declaration which he has made under oath was to his service is entitled to full credit;
Anthony Holmes
John Eldrith

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in one Court
    John Patterson
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residing in the township of -(blank)- in the neighborhood of the above named -(blank)-
do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said -(blank)- who  has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be -(bank)- years of age that is is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the revolution and a man whose declaration under oath or within oath is entitled to implicit credit and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinions after the investigations of the matter and after putting the interrogatories  prescribed by the war department that the named applicant was a revolutionary soldier served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears that...(numerous lines crossed out here).....the statement of the surviving soldiers of the revolution herein contained is entitled to full credit.

John Patterson
William Lloyd.         Judges
John M. Davison
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    I Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Monmouth do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Truax for a pension.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this third day of August AD 1832 -
   W.H. Ellis CLK
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5001
New Jersey
Mary Truax
   Widow of 
    NJ John Truax
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of $40 dollars 00 -----
cents per annum, to commence on
the 3rd February 1853

Certificate of Pension issued
6th day of March 1853
and sent to
   A.R. Throckmorton
      Freehold
      N. Jersey

(written vertically upper right):

Let. to A.R. Throckmorton
    Feb 8, 1855
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State of new Jersey
Monmouth County
      On this third day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas holden at Freehold in and for the County and State aforesaid, being a Court of record, personally appeared Mary Truax of the Township of Ocean (formerly Shrewsbury) in the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law on her oath says that she is the widow of John Truax deceased who was a private, as she has been informed and believes, in the New Jersey Continental Line in the Revolutionary War and was inscribed on the Pension Roll of New Jersey under the act of June 1833 at the rate of eighty dollars per annum and that for proof of her said husbands services she begs leave to refer to his papers on file in the War Department.
    That her husband the said John Truax died in the township of Shrewsbury (now Ocean) in the County of Monmouth and State aforesaid  on the third day of January in the year eighteen hundred and forty but she has no family or other record of the time of his death -
     She further states that she was married.....
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...to the said John Truax in the township of Shrewsbury (now Ocean) in the County and state aforesaid on the eighth day of January AD eighteen hundred and three by the Reverend  Jonathon Eldridge an ordained and regular minister of the Gospel of the Methodist Episcopal Church duly authorized and empowered by the law of the State of solemnize marriages and that she has caused an examination to be made to ascertain if there exists any public or county record of said marriage and has been informed and believes that there is none.  That her said Husband John Truax deceased kept a private or family record in which her marriage with the said John Truax was duly recorded by her said husband.  That the Bible in which it is recorded upon the death of her husband passed into the hand of her stepson Elias Truax who has since had it in his possession a copy of the entry of the said marriage from the said family records being hereunto annexed.
     She further says that her name before her said marriage was Mary Sutton and that she had but one child by said John Truax deceased and that  the name of said child is Goodenough Truax and that he is now living.

Sworn to and subscribed.....
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at Freehold in open
Court the day and year aforesaid before me who have no interest in the claim.
Thos. C. Throckmorton Judge

Mary Truax her X mark

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
   I  Daniel Christopher Clerk of the County of Monmouth and State aforesaid do certify that Thomas C. Throckmorton whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavits and certificate is now and was at the time of signing the same a Judge of the Inferior Curt of Common Pleas of the aforesaid County duly commissioned sworn and enrolled in office and that his signature to the aforesaid declaration certificate.....
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    I Elias Truax of the township of Ocean County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey do certify that the following is a true copy of the record of the marriage of John Truax deceased with Mary Sutton (as taken from the family record in my possession) with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record  in fair legible figures as follows:
     "John Truax was married to Mary Sutton on the (8) Eighth day of January (1803) eighteen hundred and three"
     The above is a true extract from the family record of said marriage with the exception above named as certified by me.
     Elias Truax

    I Thomas C. Throckmorton a Judge of theCourt of Common Pleas of the County of Monmouthsk and State of New Jersey do certify that the above extract is a true extract from an ancient bible represented to be the family record of the late John Truax, now in the possession of Elias Truax and this day exhibited before me and compared.
      Witness my hand this third day of February AD 1855.
           Thos. C. Throckmorton Judge
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
     On this third day of February AD eighteen hundred and fifty five before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County holden at Freehold Personally appeared Elias Truax of said county aged sixty five years past who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that that Mary Truax the applicant for a pension under the Act of February 1st 1853 as set forth in the annexed declaration is his step mother and that the husband of said Mary Truax viz the said John Truax deceased was his father that the said John Truax deceased died at his residence in the township of Shrewsbury (now Ocean) in the County and State aforesaid on the third day of January eighteen hundred and forty - that this deponent was present at his death and at his funeral and that he left the aforesaid Mary Truax his widow him surviving - Deponent further saith that his father the said John Truax deceased at the time of his death gave the deponent as his oldest and only son by a former marriage the family records being an ancient family bible - that said record has been in the possession of deponent since the death of said John Truax de--.........
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...-ceased and is now in his possession and that there is an entry in said bible in the hand writing of said deponents father the said John Truax deceased of his marriage written that said Mary Truax former Mary Sutton - and that the foregoing extract certified to by deponent is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the family record in fair legible figures -
     Deponent further saith that he was present at the marriage of his father the said John Truax  with the said Mary Sutton the applicant as aforesaid - that he was then fourteen years of age past and remembers distinctly that they were married by the Reverend Jonathon Eldridge a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and that the date of said marriage as contained in said  record corresponds with the recollection of deponent as near as he can remember - although he cannot specify the time by reason of his youth at the time and the length of time that has elapsed since -
Elias Truax

Sworn to and subscribed at Freehold the day and year aforesaid in open Court before me (who have no interest in the claim) the word "John" on the second page above erased.
Thos. C. Throckmorton Judge
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
     On this third day of February AD eighteen hundred and fifty five before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas holden at Freehold in and for the County and State aforesaid.  Personally appeared Goodenough Truax of said County and State aged forty three years, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he is the son John Truax and Mary Truax formerly MarySutton - That his father the said John Truax deceased died at his residence in the then township of Shrewsbury (now Ocean) in the County and State aforesaid on the third day of January eighteen hundred and forty (1840) - and that this deponent was present at his death - deponent living at the time with his father on the homestead - Deponent further saith his father the said John Truax decreased and his mother the said Mary Truax the applicant for a pension as aforesaid always lived together as man and wife since the recollection of deponent up to the time of his father's death in 1840 and that his mother the said Mary survived him and is still a widow.

Sworn to and scribed......
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...at Freehold the day and year aforesaid in Open Court - the word "third (?)" and "forty" on the last  page written over erased before sworn to.
Thos. C. Throckmorton Judge

State New Jersey
Monmouth County
     I Daniel Christopher Clerk of the County of Monmouth and State aforesaid do certify that Thomas C. Throckmorton whose signature appears  to the foregoing affidavits and Certificate is now and was at the time of signing the same a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the aforesaid County duly commissioned sworn and enrolled in office - and that his signature to the aforesaid declaration, Certificate, and two affidavits are genuine, and that he is entitled to full faith and credit for all acts done in his official capacity. 
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office and of the said Court at Freehold in the County and State aforesaid this third day of February AD eighteen hundred and fifty five (1855).
    Daniel Christopher Clerk
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---53

Mary -----
widow of John Truax
Revolutionary Priv
Mary --- John Truax
Priv
N.J Line

Revol. War 1776
(illegible)

Feby 53 - 5001
????
(signature - Boynton?)

AH Throckmorton
Freehold'N. Jersey

to right:  Vol. T page 139
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left side:
179,436

right side:

Claim of
Mary Truax widow
of John Truax dec'd
a Revolutonary Pensioner
top Bounty Land

Act of March 3, 1855

War of 1776


A.H. Throckmorton
Attorney
Freehold
NJ
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State of New Jersey 
County of Monmouth
     On this seventh day of June AD eighteen hundred and fifty five before me Charles T. Fleming a Justice of the Peace duly authorized to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid Personally appeared Mary Truax aged seventy four and a resident at Monmouth County in the State aforesaid  who being duly sworn according to law on her oath declares that she is the widow of John Truax deceased who was a private in the New Jersey Continental line in the Army of the Revolution in the war of 1776 with Great Britain that she believes her said husband continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days and upwards but she is unable to state the names of officers under whom served or the time or length of the service performed by him and that her said husband was a pensioner of the United States and was placed on the pension Rolls as she has been informed on the fifteenth days of June AD 1833 at the rate of eighty dollars per annum and for evidence of her husbands services she begs leave to refer to his declaration and the proofs accompanying the same on file in the Department.
     She further states that she was married to the said John Truax in the County ad State aforesaid on the eighth day of January AD eighteen hundred and three by the Reverend Jonathon.....
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.....Eldridge a stated and ordained minister of the Gospel and authorized by the laws of New Jersey to solemnize  marriages; that her name before her said marriage was Mary Sutton; that her said husband died in the County and State aforesaid on third day of January AD eighteen hundred and forty - and that she is now a widow and has remained a widow ever since her said husbands death.
      She further states that she now receives a pension from the United States under the act of Congress of February 3rd 1853 as the widow of the said John Truax at the rate of forty dollars per annum for services rendered by her said husband in the Revolutionary War aforesaid and was inscribed on the Pensions List on the sixth day of March eighteen hundred fifty five - and for for the evidence of her said marriage and of the death of her said husband she refers to her declaration and the proofs accompanying the same on file with her application in the Department.
     She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the "act appoved March 3 1855". She further declares that she has never received nor applied for Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress.
Mary Truax her X mark
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     We Wm. W. Stout and John Shafto residents of the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by the said Mary Truax in our presence; that we are personally acquainted with her and believe that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.  We further state that we have known the said Mary Truax for many years, and during the life time of her husband the aforesaid John Truax who was a pensioner as set forth in the foregoing declaration and that there said Mary Truax is now a widow and has remained a widow since the death of her said husband the aforesaid John Truax and further that we have no interest in this claim.
William W. Stout (word crossed out)
John Shafto (words crossed out)

   The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written; and I certify that I know the afficiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in the claim.
     Charles T. Fleming. Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
     I Daniel Christopher Clerk of the County of Monmouth in said State do hereby certify that Charles T. Fleming before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned sworn and enrolled in my office and authorized by law to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid, that his signature thereto is genuine and that he is entitled to full credit for all acts done in his official capacity.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office and of the said Court this ninth day of June AD eighteen hundred and fifty five.
     Daniel Christopher Clerk
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No 2089
New Jersey
-?-  Nov 27 1832

   4.5.

Admitted
   Private 2 years

to J. Randolph
Freehold
N.J.

E     P 115
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BRIEF in the case of John Truax
County of Monmouth State of New Jersey 

1. Court

2.

3. 71

4. Period 1777or in 1778
     Duration of Service:  to the end of the War, he cannot particularize but is very confident(?) that his services at different periods during the Revolution amounted to more than 2 years.
     Names:  Capt. Stilwell and Holmes  / Col. Forman

5. No battles but in several skirmishes

6. Monmouth, New Jersey 

7. Traditionary

8. Defective Duration of serviced no given, and no dates of service 

                 Jas. Wilson Examining clerk
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New Jersey
Monmouth County

     John Truax being duly sworn on this oath says that he is in his seventy fourth year of age - that consequently his memory is imperfect and frail; he made application for a pension in the year 1832 and  succeeded in his application having regularly drawn his pension even since till within a short time - During the last summer deponent had a severe fit of sickness which had much impaired his memory but he will state his services in the revolution according to the best of his recollection at this time, unassisted by a copy of the statement which he made under oath previous to his late sickness -
    In May 1777 being shortly after he entered on his sixteenth year, being fifteen years past, he first enlisted the Militia of the Revolution at Middletown, under Capt. Joseph Stilwell and Major Walton and Col. Holmes, that when he first entered the company he amongst others was drafted into the nine months service which deponent thinks continued for a year - Deponent did not go into the drafted service in consequent of his youth and remonstrances of this mother who assisted him to hire a substitute to serve in his place but he was still required to do duty every other month in the Militia under Capt. Stilwell and as it was perilous to remind at home on account of the refugees yes and others and as this deponent felt desirous to serve in the good cause he served the rest of the times as a volunteer and continued according to the best of his recollection for nine months, in actual service in the field serving every other month in his...
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...tour of duty every other month as a volunteer - he recollects distinctly being engaged during this time in a skirmish with Tories and refugees and came near being shot - deponent thinks that Holmes was his Colonel, but is not certain whether it was he or Col. Forman - the services was performed on the bay shore and at various places in Middletown township on the shore and Shrewsbury River - In May 1778 deponent entered the service again at Middletown under Lieutenant Garret Hendrickson, the Captains name is not now recollected, he served under Hendrickson continuously  for nine months and upwards, every other month as a volunteer and  the month in turn as a militia man, he volunteered this year for the same reason he did last and the service was performed in the same places - recollects of being in one skirmish during this year viz when Lieut. Hendrickson was shot in the hand and two soldiers by the name of Hill and Vandereck were shot and that they died soon after - (smudged word) was not in the battle of Monmouth in consequence of he and ten others having been cut off by the British outpost before they could join the army to avoid being taken deponent and his companions were compelled to hide in a swamp close by the British where they continued for two days and upward without provisions - During the year 1779 and 1780 deponent cannot distinctly recollect his service but he feels confident that he ser- .......
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... -vice his regular monthly tours every other month - all deponents service was performed in the County of Monmouth generally in and about the shores in Middletown township but sometimes over in Shrewsbury - in the forepart of the year of 1781 deponent entered the service again under Capt. Moses  Shepherd under an engagement to serve for a year and exponent continued in this service under Capt. Shepherd till his time was out, having served the whole year - Capt. Shepherd was commissioned by the governor to raise a company of volunteers to serve as a guard in and about Middletown on the highland at Sandy Hook and on the shore and on both sides of Shrewsbury river and protect the persons and property of the citizens from the refugees  and incursions of the enemy - the company was on constant duty marching to and from various places and guarding different places - this company served the whole time whilst the others served half the time by turns - Deponent served as he states the whole time with this company performing regular duty - After deponent's year had expired he continued to serve in the same company under Capt. Shepherd to the end of the war when the company broke up -  This is a correct statement of deponents services according to the best of his recollection and belief his former deposition was taken in haste amid several applications and may not exactly correspond in all matters with this, tho he believes it will...
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..... and it is utterly impossible for deponent or any other honest man with his age and infirmities to recollect at all times in precisely the same way, transactions which took place half a century ago - Deponent knows that he served and is honestly entitled under the Law to a continuance of his pension, which he prays may be continued accordingly -
John Truax

Sworn and subscribed this 19th of June AD 1835 before me
William Lloyd Justice
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...and it is utterly impossible for deponent or any other honest man with his age and infirmities to recollect at all times in precisely the same way, transactions which took place half a century ago - Deponent knows that he served and is honestly entitled under the Law to a continuance of his pension, which he prays may be continued accordingly - 
John Truax

Sworn and Subscribed this 19th of June AD 1835 before me
William Lloyd Justice
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
     Be it remembered that on the 19th day of June 1835 before me John Hull one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared Thomas Geeran (Geeron?) he being -?- and sworn to tell the truth and nothing but the truth did depose and say that  he is now in the seventy sixth year of his age and that he is well acquainted with John Truax and was well acquainted with him before the Revolutionary war and that he served with him the deponent one year in the company of Capt. Moses Shepherd in the State Regiment commanded by Col. Forman and that they were on the -?- and present when John Mount the Refugee was killed on Shrewsbury river and that they with the rest of the company were in the service the whole of the year 1781 and that this deponent and the said John Truax were on the lines the remaining parts of the war and likewise recollects that Ezekiel Hilton and Clayton Hilton were taken that winter.
Thomas Geeron

    I John Hull one of the Judges of theCourt of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth do hereby certify that Thomas Geeron is well know to me for thirty years past and haas always supported aa good moral character (?) -    John Hull
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Witness for
John Truax

John Truax
(of Shrewsbury)
Deposition and affi-
davits for -?-
of pension
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State of New jersey
Monmouth County
     Be it remembered that on this 10th day of June 1835 before me John Patterson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth personally appeared Rebecka Shepherd the widow of Moses Shepherd. she being cau---nd and sworn to tell the truth and nothing but the truth did depose and say that she is now in her ninety second year of age that she is well acquainted with John Truax that she knew him well in the time of the Revolutionary War - that they were near Nabaurn at that tie - witness says her husband was a Capt. he had the command of the men that used to "rondeview" at their home and she has frequently seen the said John Truax with the with his gun and accoutrement with him - She was informed that the enemy intended to hake her off this information caused her to leave her home at night - Witness sued to go and sleep at the said John Truax mother's at which place the said John Truax -?- with his mother one night - whilst she was in bed the said John Truax came home with his gun in his hand and told them that a refugee by theme of John Mount had that night been shot - and that two other refugees that were with him were taken -  those men were at that time under the command of her husband Capt. Moses Shepherd - Witness says her husband raised a company  for one year in the Revolutionary War she thinks it was in the year 1781 and that the said John Truax belonged to that company  for Mount was killed by the company commanded by her husband in the year service - Witness says she recollects well that Samuel Carmen came and informed her husband that Clayton Tilton a refugee of notoriety  was off and at home her husband with the said John true and several more of his Men went and took him and brought the -?- to their house this was in the time of the year services - witness says the Refugees took there -?- and horses and drove them off to Sandy Hook as she believes and has been informed her husband with his company.....
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...the said John Truax being one of them set of for the purpose  to going on the back (?) and catching them She has been informed they went near where the horses were they were -?- the above green (?) and they were forced to retreat and leave the horses this information Witness has received from her husband at the time the -?- took place.  Witness say she recollect that the said John Truax was ----ed (disabled?) at the time the army went through New Jersey after the Battle of Monmouth.
Rebecca Shepherd her X mark

Sworn and subscribed before me the tea and year above written
     Johnn Patterson

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
      Be it remembered that on this 10th day of June 1835 before me John Patterson one of the Judges of the Court Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth personally appeared Thomas Shepherd son of Capt. Moses Shepherd  he being c---ing and sworn to tell the truth and nothing but the truth did depose and say - that his fathers papers came into his hands among others there was several Muster rolls - among them there was one that had dates some time near the date of his fathers commission that he received from the governor he has seen this commission  Not long since  had it is near/new Merlade or last the Court day his heads unit (?) - he had concluded those old papers were of  Naun(?) and had through them out and his children had destroyed them not thinking that they would be of any unto anyone but he perfectly remembers the names of several that were on those Muster rolls particularly the one for the years services.  They were there 1st John Truax 2nd John Cheny 3rd John Eldridge 4th George Parker 5th Joseph Parker 6th John Clarke  7th Thomas Geering - and several other that are now dead - witness further safety he remembers of others hearing his father say that the said John.....
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...Truax was out with him in the years service and a soldier he could trust with any thing - he thinks that Truax was with his father when they went on the -?- in search of his horses as related in the testimony of Rebekah Shepherd above that is he has herd his father in his life time tell that the said John Truax -?- up as is commonly said When a -?- Tiger and  -?- out he had herd his father say that the said John Truax was called out very young and that he continued out pretty much all the War through.
Thomas Shepherd

Sworn and Subscribed before me the day and year above written
   John Patterson

I John Patterson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas I and for the County of Monmouth do hereby certify that Rebekha Shepherd  considering her extreme age  (smudged word) her -?- surprisingly and that her testimony with that of her son Thomas Shepherd are entitled to credit  They are both credible persons.
   John Patterson

   I Daniel H. Ellis clerk of the County of Monmouth New Jersey do hereby certify that John Patterson, William Lloyd and John Hull before who the foregoing affidavits purport to have been taken are and are at the respective times that the several Jurats bear date...
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.... Justices of the Peace and Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of Monmouth County
duly commissioned and sworn in any office and that full faith and credit are due to their official acts - that I am well acquainted with their handwriting and that the respective names of said Justice and Judges affixed to said Jurat and certificates thereto annexed are in the proper hand writing of said Justice and Judges.
   In testimony where of I have hereto set my hand ad affixed the seal of my office this 22nd day ofJune AD 1835.
    DH Ellis
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File NO. 11653
  Mary Truax
   Wid of 
John Truax
   Pri Rev War

Act: Feby 3rd 1853

Index:-Vol. M, Page 280
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Freehold (NJ), June 22 1835

Sir
   I send you the deposition and affidavits of John Truax for the renewal of his pension I presume that they. will be sufficient -
    Yours
       Jos. F. Randolph
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31728

(illegible words below the above)
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Post stamped:  Freehold NJ. June 26

Hon. L.P. Waldo
    Commissioner of Pensions
          Department of the Interior
               Washington
                     DC
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Mary Truax
   Wid of
John


St. to AR Throckmorton(illegible month)18/55


Act / 53
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(Words too faded to correctly transcribe)
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(this apparently written on a Department of the Interior envelope - see bottom right)

Feby 7 1855

Mary Truax
   wid of
  John
   Monmouth NJ

Act / 53

$40 per an:
com: Feby 3rd 1853

Revy

A.R. Throckmorton 
Freehold
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left side:

    8748
New Jersey

John Truax
of Shrews. in the state of NJ
who was a Pri in the Com. commanded
by Captain (blank) if the Regt. commanded
by Col. Forman in the NJ
Militia 2 years

      Should be 12 months

Inscribed on the Roll of NJ
at the rate of $80 Dollars 00 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of June
1833 and sent. J.F.
Randolph Freehold NJ

Arrears to the 4th of March 83.            $160
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sep 4 82.      40
                                                                  $200

Recorded by ED Bullock clerk
Book E Vol. (smudged)  Page 133
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Payments to be made
at Trenton
by Pres. of Tren. Bank Comp.
Agent for paying Pension-
ers in the Agency of New Jersey 


Recorded in the Pension Of-
five, in 133 by ED. Bullock. Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT

Revolutionary Claim

    I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 John Truax
of the State of New Jersey
who was a private during the Revolutionary War
is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and (blank) cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of march, 1831m ad payable semi- annually on the 4th of March , and the 4th of September, in every year.
     Given at the War Office of the United
States, this 15 day of
June one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-three
    Jon Robb
      acting Secretary of War

JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

(**NOTE:  the word "CANCELLED" appears to have been written vertically over this page)
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July 22 1833 paid to Mar 4 1833
Mar  9 1834 Paid to Mar 4 1834
Sept 10 1834 Paid to Sept 6 1834




No 9748
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Freehold Feb. 5th 1855

L.P. Waldo Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
     Sir
        Enclosed I send the declaration of Mary Truax (widow of John Truax) an applicant for a pension under the act of February 3. 1853 - also proof of her marriage and of the death of her said husband to which I invite your attention.
     If proper for you so to do I should be glad to be informed whether a person who was not a widow (these 3 words underlined) at the passage of the act of Feb. 3. 1853. is entitled to its provisions upon making the necessary proof required by the Department.
Very Respectfully
  A.M. Throckmorton
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(Note: LOTS of "bleed through" from other side - very difficult to decipher - apologies)

Freehold NJ Apl. 20 1838

Dear Sir,
     In the case of John Truax suspended if I -?- understand your letter on account of  -?- information and for want of specifics contained to the first, it is impossible to answer it unless possessed of the facts, and as to specifications how is it possible further to specify unless we have the original in our possession, it must  -?- be swearing at run down in the dark.  It is for the moment to be presumed that the old man can recollect  day and date and every circumstance for 50 years and after they have taxed their recollections  and have made a statement recording to the best of their belief.  This statement is to be withheld for insufficiency and the compelled to begin de novo (these 2 words underlined - Latin for begin again) to see if there may not be discrepancy; if this rule had been adopted in the beginning not a man would have gotten a pension - I would respectfully appeal to yourself, whether.....
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...such a course is in accordance with the law or the plain principles of evidence and common sense - all that the Department can reasonably require is the satisfactory evidence that the man served - and that he served the number of months or tours he claims to have served whether he  can recollect on from the pervious day or months, is certainly but is a perplexing immateriality - These remarks will also apply to the cases of John Conk and John Chamberlain whose pensions have to get been granted will you then have the goodness to transmit to me the papers in these three (underlined) cases if we can further specify and prove after examining  the documents well, if not then will be no harm done -
Ours Respectfully
Jos Randolph
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Freehold NJ March 17 18-- (edge of page torn)

JL Edwards Esq.

Sir
    John Truax (underlined) a pensioner from the County informed me that his pension has been stopped, without so far as he knows any cause - will you be so good as to inform me the cause of the suspension - whether any representation had been made and from what quarter - I was instrumental in proving -?-  T's pension and according to the best of my recollection he presented a fair case and I had but little difficulty in proceeding - I am satisfied that he is entitled under the act for a pension and he is poor and needy - Let me know the difficulty and it may be obviated - I requested W. Southern of the Senate to examine for me the papers of John Conk (underlined) and John Chamberlain (underlined), applicants, please let me know what can (underlined) be the difficulty, only -?- has the papers - they are fair cases and I wish to  -?- in them -
Respectfully Yours,
Jos. F. Randolph
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Brief in the case of Mary Truax, widow of John
Monmouth County and State of New Jersey 
Act 3rd July 1853

Calim

Proof

Is it .....
    Husband was pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 at the rate of $40 per an.  Marriage proven by copy of marriage record in family Bible, the affidavit of one witness who testified he saw the parties married and one witness who testified to general information of marriage and cohabitation.  Pensioner died 3rd January 1840 as per the affidavit of two witnesses.
    Number of the Entity established by the affidavits of two credible affiants.

A.R. Throckmorton.              S.C. Boynton
Freehold.                                Examining Clerk
N.J
Name and residence of Agent
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Freehold N.J. February 26 1855

L.P. Waldo Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
    Enclosed I end such additional proof and certificate in theater of the application of Mrs Mary Truax for a Pension, as required by your letter of the 8th last which I trust will prove satisfactory.
     Very Respectfully
          Yours
     A R Throckmorton
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179,436
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Freehold N.J. June 25 1855

L.P. Waldo
Comm. of Pensions

Sir
    Enclosed I send the claims to Bounty Land of the following persons to wit:  Mary Truax widow of John Truax dec'd - Benjamin Van Cleaf, Thomas D. Thompson, Jacob Pittenger, Daniel W. Applegate, William J. Hendrickson, and Alice McTeer widow of Thomas McTeer dec'd.
       Very Respectfully yours
       AR Throckmorton
            Attorney of claimants
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-?- Office
March 1st 1855

Sir
   Please certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid on the date of his death.
LP Waldo
Commissioner

(illegible) 40

Mr. Randolph
R.J. Atkinson Esq.
(illegible poss. Throckmorton) New Jersey
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John Truax died 3 January 1840.
Paid
           Robt. Atkinson
           Auditor
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Freehold NJ
June 4

(written vertically: June 8 NJ)

J L Edwards
Agent for Pensions
Washington City
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Freehold NJ June 2 1835

JL Edwards Esq.
    Sir
     In the pension case of John Truax I am induced again to trouble you - from some parts just related to me I am inclined to support that the suspension may be a mistake (underlined) in the man (underlined - There is or was a John Truax of Middletown (underlined) in this county, a pensioner some way connected with John Heldridge in whose cases I understand there have been difficulties -  This (undelined) John Truax is another man and resides in Shrewsbury (undefined) in this county from the similarity of name and the part that Heldridge was a witness for this man I am inclined to suppose that the department suspended the wrong man by mistake, and this is confirmed by the part that I drew up or amended declaration for this man, which I think was particularly drawn - Truax informed me that John Heldridge and Anthony Holmes (underlined) were his witnesses the latter is a very respectable man of the former I found nothing - if my supposition are correct be so good as to let me now as soon as convenient.
    Yours respectfully
Jos. F. Randolph
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Post marked Trenton NJ 6 Sep (illegible words written over post mark)

Jos. F. Randolph

J L Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington
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Freehold (NJ) Sep 6 1838

JL Edwards Esq.
     Sir
   I enclose you from the Agent for Pensions at Trenton the affidavit and a  suspended voucher of John Truax - the original certificate of J.T. having been returned to the Department and a new one of less amount given him, it cannot be amended here I therefore wish it to be amended at the Department or an order be given to the Pension Agent at Trenton to allows the voucher, otherwise he withholds the amount of it from the pensioner.
Yours
Jos F. Randolph
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John Eldridge Aff't
for John Truax


Hon. Jos. G]F. Randolph
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth Co.
     Before me John Patterson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Sid county of Monmouth personally appeared John Eldridge a soldier of the Revolution aged bout or near 76 years of age depose and says that  he well remembers of seeing John Truax out in the War of the Revolution as a soldier under the command of Capt. Joseph Stillwell how long he Capt. -?- this must have been between the year 1777 and 1778 he remembers that Elisha Walters who at the time he was about  stating ordered the whole regiment to rendezvous  at the gut in the evening this gut was a small river that divided the mainland from Sandy Hook this we erased (?) with an intention of  -?- the same and breaking up the huts where the Tories and Refugees lay concealed  in the thicket in the Expedition  John Truax was with us this was sometime before the year 1781 as he will recollect it was before Moses Shepherd  raised the company for a year this deponent further safety that he lived near nabour to this John Truax and from the (smudged word) he has of him he believes that he was a faithful soldier of theRevolution from 1777 to the close of the year 1784 When the years time expired under the command of Capt. Moses Shepherd.  
John Eldridge his x mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 17th day of April 1837
   John Patterson
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Freehold (NJ) July 21 1835

Sir
    I send you back the certificate of John Truax - in your later of the 2nd July last you say the years service under Shepherd may be allowed - Truax has endeavored to procure satisfactory evidence of his other service but has to as yet succeeded owing in a great measure to an impression that the old pensioners have got, that if they give evidence for another they will loss their own -  leaving then his other service till some future time when he may be able to prove it, you will be so good as to send me the certificate of the pension for the present.
Yours
Jos. F. Randolph
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Richard Crawford
AFfidavit in favor (?)
of John Truax
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State of new jersey
Monmouth. Co.
     Before me John Patterson one of the Judges of theCourt of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Monmouth personally appeared Richard Crawford a soldier of the Revolutionary War he being duly sworn according to law  did deposed and say - that in the year 1780 Coronel Asher Holmes sent a Sargeant to warn this deponent  with -?- other Militia to be in the village of Middletown by the sun one our (hour?) high in the afternoon,  The troops meet and were marched for Sandyhook then in possession of the enemy the passage being frozen over the from the Mane Land to the  -?- they were marched over on the ice.  After they had got some distance on the -?- this deponent with a man by name of Johnson were placed on -?- and when (while?) they were done then they discovered a flock (?) of Cattel and men driving them - they find on those men and took the Cattel and drove them back home - he  saw(?) John Truax who had taken a jug of rum, which handed to the Soldiers - they drank it - he had seen the said John Truax among the soldiers prior to this - that night several times on the return home as the came through the gate before John Stillwells home  he called and asked what they were doing with his cattle or where they were driving his Cattel - the Cattel had been Stillwells taken by the enemy that night from the farm of Mr Stillwell - he thinks there was 13 of them - they were delivered by them to Mr Stillwell - Throughout the (smudge mark) were he has frequently seen John Truax and with the soldiers under arms - from what knowledge he has of the said Truax in and during the Revolutionary War he believe he was a faithful soldier and a true friend to theCause.
Richard Crawford

Sworn and subscribed before me the 18th day of August 1835
   John Patterson
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Jno. Truax
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(State of New Jersey)
Monmouth Co.
     Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County John Truax the person named in the pension papers No. 2089 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 the3 following grades -
  For Four months I served as a private under Capt. Stilwell in 1777 - for six months I served as a private in 1778 under Capt. Stilwell - For nine moths I served as a private in 1779 under Capt. Moses Shepherd - for nine month I served as a private in 1780 under Lieut. Garret Hendrickson - For six months I served as a private in 1781 under Shepherd, Stilwell, and Hendrickson - for services constantly performed as a private militia man in 1782 to the end of the war, the times cannot be specified - I am confident of having served not less than ten times above specified amounting to two years and ten months actual service in the field and for such service I claim a pension.
John Truax

Sworn and subscribed this 22nd of Dec. 1832 before me
   William Lloyd.
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   Daniel H.Ellis clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of Monmouth County in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that William Lloyd before whom the written affidavit purports to have been taken is and was at the time therein mentioned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such and that the name "William Lloyd" affixed to the affidavit  is the proper handwriting of said Justice.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Freehold this twenty ninth day of Dec. AD 1832.

DH Ellis CLK
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J. Truax

-new affidavit-
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New Jersey
Monmouth County
     John Truax the individual need in previous papers No. 2089 being duly sworn on the oath says that his declaration and the amendment attached to it and the proof thereof annexed did the best evidence. of his service that he can procure - that he cannot state his terms of service more particularly than he has and he knows of no other surviving witnesses by whom his service may be proved than Anthony Homes and John Eldridge who have testified to his services, and that the means of their knowledge was the fact of their and deponents being engaged with each other being each other engaged in the militia of the Revolution - and that they are both respectability and veracity.
John Truax

Sworn and subscribed this 23rd of May 1833 before me.
   William Lloyd

   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 William Lloyd before whom the above affidavit appears to have been taken is and was at the time of during thereof a Justice of the Peace for the county and state aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his official acts as such and that the name "William Lloyd" affixed to this affidavit is the proper handwriting of the said Justice.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 6th day of June AD 1833
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State New Jersey 
Monmouth County
    On this twenty fourth day of February AD eighteen hundred and fifty five before me a Justice of the Peace July authorized by the laws of said State to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid Goodenough Truax aged forty three years a resident of Ocean (formerly Shrewsbury) Township in the aforesaid County and State, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath says that he is the son of John and Mary Truax.  That his father the said John Truax deceased lived in the township of Shrewsbury (now Ocean) in the County and State aforesaid  and died in said township on the third day of January AD 1840 leaving deponents mother the said Mary Truax him surviving.  That this deponent always lived at home with his father up to the time of his death.  That his father the said John Truax deceased was a Revolutionary Pensioner of Monmouth County New Jersey; that his deponent often saw the certificate of Pension of his said father and on number of occasions he accompanied his father to Trenton and was present the he received his semiannual payments of pension from the agent for paying pensions at Trenton in New Jersey......
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...and that after his father's death deponents mother the said Mary Truax who is the widow of the said John, and who is now an applicant for a pension drew that the widow of the said John Truax dec'd the arrears of pension due to the said John Truax her husband at the time of his death, That the said Mary constituted and appointed deponent her agent to receive such arrears of pension and that deponent did as such agent receive such arrears of pension the said Mary from the agent for paying pensions at Trenton aforesaid.
     Deponent furthers says that the said John and Mary Truax his parents lived together as man and wife as long as this deponent can recollect up to the time of the death of the said John Truax.  And that the said Mary Truax, deponents mother, who has already applied and filed her claim for pension is the widow of the identical John Truax deceased whom this knew to be a Revolutionary pensioner of theCounty of Monmouth and State of New Jersey.
     And deponent further says that he makes the affidavit as a supplemental affidavit to and made on this third day of February instant and filed with the claim of the said Mary Truax his mother.

Sworn To and Subscribed before me the day and.....
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....Goodenough Truax

....year first above written
and hereby certify that I
am personally acquainted
with the said Goodenough
Truax who is entitled to
full credit and belief be-
ing a man of veracity and 
character. I also further
certify that I have no inter-
est in the result of the 
case and am not concern-
ed in its prosecution.
   Thos. C. Throckmorton Justice
                                          of the Peace

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
     On this twenty fourth day of February AD eighteen hundred and fifty five before me a Justice of the pPace duly authorized by the laws of this state to administer oaths within and for the county and state aforesaid, Curtis White aged forty five years a resident of Ocean Township in said County and State who being duly sworn according to law on his oath says that he is personally acquainted with Mary Truax of the Township County and State aforesaid who as this deponent is informed and believes is an applicant for a.....
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...pension.  that this deponent was also well acquainted with John Truax deceased, the husband of the said Mary Truax, who lived in the township of Shrewsbury (now Ocean) county and State aforesaid, up to the time of his death.  That said deponent always lived near to the said John Truax and Mary Truax and that they lived together Asian and wife, was far back as this deponent can recollect and were always reputed in the neighborhood in which they lived to be man and wife - that the said John Truax deceased was a Revolutionary Pensioner and that the said Mary Truax an applicant for a pension as this deponent has been informed and believes, is the widow of the identical John Truax deceased whom this deponent knew as a Revolutionary Pensioner in the County and State aforesaid.
Curtis White

Sworn to and subscribed before
me the day and year first above
written. And I do certify that I
am personally acquainted
with the said Curtis White
and that he is entitled to full
faith and credit, being a man
of character and veracity.
   I also further certify that I have
 no interest in the result of the
case and not concerned.....
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... in its prosecution.
    Thos. C. Throckmorton Justice of
                                                 the Peace

        I Thomas C. Throckmorton a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey do certify that I am well acquainted with Elias Truax and Goodenough Truax of the Township of Ocean who appeared before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, at Freehold on the third day of February AD 1855 and were sworn before me as one of the Judges of said Court to separate affidavits which were attached to a declaration made by Mary Truax for the purpose of obtaining a Pension as the widow of John Truax deceased.  And I further certify that the said Elias Truax and Goodenough Truax are men of character and veracity and entitled to full credit and belief.
     Witness my hand at Freehold in the County and State aforesaid this twenty fourth day of February AD 1855.
     Thos. C Throckmorton Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County
      I Daniel Christopher Clerk of the County of Monmouth and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Thomas C. Throckmorton the Justice of the Peace before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn to, is now and was at the time of taking said affidavits, a Justice of the peace, duly commissioned, sworn and enrolled in my office and authorized by the laws of said State to administer oaths.  And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the signature of the said Thomas C. Throckmorton and that his signature to the aforesaid affidavits and certificate are genuine; and further that the said Thomas C. Throckmorton is entitled to full faith and credit and belief for all acts done in his official capacity.
     In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and Seal of Office and of the said County at Freehold this twenty fourth day of February A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty five.
      Daniel Christopher Clerk