Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 777, Caleb Gilbert Bonnel, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

Number  W777

Service
New Jersey

Bonnell, Caleb Gilbert
or
Gilbert

Joanna
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19796
New Jersey

Gilbert Bonnel
Private
of Essex County in the State of N. Jersey
who was a private in the Compy [company] commanded by Captain Meads Co of the regiment commanded by Colonel Ogden in the N. Jersey, line, for the term of nine months.
from May 1778 to 17

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30th day of July, 1827.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of Augt 1827
and sent to Hon. L. Condict
Morristown N.J.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1827 $9.57
Semi-anl. all'ce ending
$9.57
Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March, 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.
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Recd Partington Augt 16/53
 1791 New Jersey .

Joanna Bonnel
Caleb G. Bonnel or
Widow of Gilbert Bonnel  Bon who was a Private in the N. Jersey line for 9 months.

 Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence the 4th day of March, 1843. 

 Certificate of Pension issued the ( ) day of Sept 1843 and  sent to Wm Stiles 
Springfield
 New Jersey 
Act of March 3, 1843
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1 Page 119
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This the same has [as] taken
from the Bible in the
hand of Joanna Bonnel
widow of Gilbert Bonnel
dec..

Oct 25th 1838

Jonathan M. Meeker
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Moments swiftly fly away nothing [illegible] of a new day
Whither [illegible] on leading [illegible] Eternity

FAMILY
[column headings]. Name Births Marriages Deaths

[Column text] Gilbert Bonnel , 4th Nov. 1758, 4th Febry 1787,   2nd May 1834
Joanah Woodruff,  10th May 1759
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Children
Charlotte Bonnel   21 June 1787,[no marriage],21st Sept 1787
Caleb Bonnel, 3d June 1788, - 13th Decembr 1823, [no death listed]
Elijah Bonnell, 3d Octr 1789, -26th August 1815, 18th Decemr 1821 [or 1827]
Lewis Bonnel, 15th Jany 1792, [no marriage], 22 April 1792
Mary Bonnel, 10th July 1793, -24th Sept 1814, [no death listed]┃
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Gilbert Bonnels
Declaration
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Piatts Co.
17th New Jersey Regt. & line
Compan[y]
Apl 14th [illegible]
GB

Not to be found [illegible]
Farther evidence necessary
to show he served the
9 months required by the
law in the Continental
Army
War Dept
Pens. offce
13 May 1818
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District of New Jersey
On this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me the subscriber one of the judges of the circuit court [text crossed out] of the United States for the said district personally appeared Gilbert Bonnel aged Fifty nine years, resident in the Township of New providence in Essex County in the said district, who being by
me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision of the late act of congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" that he the said Gilbert Bonnel enlisted in Morris
County in New Jersey in the company commanded by Captain Piatt of the first Regiment of the Jersey line commanded by Colonel Matthias Ogden some time in the early part of the year of our Lord 1778- That he continued to serve in the said corps for nine months being the term of his enlistment at some place in the state of New Jersey, when he was discharged, but at what particular time, or at what particular place he saith he cannot at this time recollect, that he was in the Battle of Monmouth, & that he is reduced in circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and
that he has no other evidence now in his power
of his said services--

Gilbert Bonnel

Sworn to & declared before me
the day year aforesaid
William Pennington
District Judge

Last Declaration
executed 18th April 1827
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I, William Pennington Judge & as aforesaid
do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Gilbert Bonnel did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and
testimony taken and had before me, to the
Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant
to the directions of the aforementioned act
of Congress - done at Newark in said district this ninth day of April A.D. 1818-

William S Pennington
I William Pennington Clerk of the District of
New Jersey do certify that the
signatures to this instrument are
the proper hand writing of Wm S. Pennington Esqr Judge of the United States, District Court for the District of New Jersey

As witness my hand & the Seal of the
said District Court at New Ark this tenth
day of April A.D. 1818.
Wm S Pennington
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Essex County N. Jersey Decemr 12th 1821

We whose names are under written being acquainted with Gilbert Bonnel do know him to be an insolvent person reduced to low circumstances being now far advanced in years unable to provide for himself and wife and he as we belive [believe] being a faithful soldier during the greater part of the Revolutionary war being at the Battle of Monmouth as an enlisted soldier in the first Jersey Regiment commanded by Col Matthias Ogden and as he served in sd Regiment the nine months through is hereby entitled to a pension and does hereby earnestly beg for his wright [right].

Thomas Parrot-
Isaac Simpson
Simeon Hanford
Daniel Hart
Amos Potter Jun
David Salleman or
Richard Swain and for
Daniel Ireland

We the Subscriber, resident in the Township of 
New Providence, County of Essex, do hereby certify that the above named Gilbert Bonnel is reduced to very low circumstances in life, and is justly entitled in that respect to the benefit of
the act of the Congress of the United States in providing for the Benefit of Revolutionary Pensions

Daniel S. Clark
David C. Clark
Abner Stiles
John M. Potter
John Osborn
Simeon Morehouse
Mos G. Elmer
Philemon Elmer Jun
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Capt Cyrus D Hart, resides in Elizabeth Town
he was paymaster to the first Jersey Regt

I am well acquainted with the within named Gilbert Bunnel [Bonnel] & have been for many years and am fully satisfied that he is entitled to full confidence as a man of truth in his conversation & that under oath I believe him to be incapable of making a false representation of his poverty also I am but too fully satisfied and of his need of assistance from some charitable hand and that I should be highly gratified if
that charity might be bestowed by his Country which I am convinced he has served according to the representation which he makes.

William Stiles
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Gilbert Bonnel of Essex County New Jersey, having heretofore applied to the War Department for a pension for Revolutionary services, under an act of Congress of the
18th March 1818, as by his declaration made on the 18th April 1827 will appear & having been required by the Department to "give his reasons for not having applied before for a pension " respectfully answers, that he did make application for a pension, on the 9th day of April, AD. 1818, before William S. Pennington Esq. then Judge of the District Court of N. Jersey as will more fully appear by said Declaration, accompanying these papers.-- The said Declaration having been returned from the War office, endorsed there, "Not to be found on the New Jersey Register", with a call for further evidence to shew that he served the 9 months" &c. he the said Bonnel, after diligent but fruitless enquiry, was obliged to abandon the hope of further testimony, his old associates & comrades being most of them dead, & some removed to distant places where he could not follow them. So long as he could provide his bread for himself & family by his daily labor, he endeavoured to content himself, whilst he saw others not better entitled than himself, enjoying the bounty which government has provided for the veteran soldiers of the revolution. His sole reason however, for not furnishing the evidence
asked for, & thus obtaining a pension, was his inability to find a living witness, who had served
in the same company with him, & could recollect his services. Finally-- not many months ago, he fell accidentally in company with James Rodgers, formerly a fifer in Col Ogdens Regt who well remembered this applicant at Mount Holly, at the field of Monmouth & elsewhere, as a fellow soldier, associated in the same Company & regiment. It was during this conversation with said James Rodgers, that this applicant was fully convinced, that in his first declaration
he had mistaken the name of his Captain, supposing he had enlisted & served in Captain Piatts company, when in fact & in truth his Captain was Yellis Mead. Further reflection convinces him of his first error, & he is now satisfied, that if Captain Meads papers & muster rolls can be found in the War Department, the name of Gilbert Bonnel will be found therein, which, with the testimony of Capt James Rodgers, he hopes will be considered as sufficient proof of his service. He also hopes, that the foregoing statement of facts will sufficiently explain the delay in his application, from April 1818 to April 1827. In regard to his poverty, he has never entertained the last rumple [?]. He feels again, that he has honestly acquired it. & that it is sufficiently ample, to warrant his present importunity. He respectfully refers the Secretary to the evidence of many of his neighbours, annexed to his first declaration herein contained, & submits the following
depositions, to "account for any property he may have disposed of, since the 18th March, 1818".

Morris County 
New Jersey⎬ Personally came before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the peace
in & for said County, Gilbert Bonnel, who being duly sworn saith that on or about the 18th of March 1810, he purchased of Isaac Meeker a dwelling house & lot of land in the Township of New Providence, Essex County N. Jersey
containing three acres for the sum of five hundred dollars, of which sum, about two hundred & fifty dollars were paid down, & the remaining
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balance of two hundred & fifty dollars, was secured to be paid, by a mortgage given by this deponent, to said Isaac Meeker, bearing the same date, viz: March 15th 1810. The deed was marked in the County Clerks office, on the 9th of August 1810, in Book R. of Deeds, Pages 225, 226 & 227. The Mortgage was recorded in the same office January 8th 1811, in Book I of Mortgages, pages 398, 399, & 400 as appears by indorsement on these papers, by the then Clerk of Essex County. 

This deponent further states that some time afterward, viz: in the year 1813, the mortgage being by Isaac Meeker, assigned to Thomas Crowell of Elizabeth town & he demanding payment, this deponent borrowed from Caleb Meeker in money, one hundred & eighty dollars, & gave another Mortgage to Caleb Meeker
upon the same premises, for two hundred dollars. - with this money, he paid & cancelled the first mortgage, then in Crowell hands. In the year 1819, & about the 7th January, the interest having accumulated upon said Mortgage,
& this deponent being unable to pay it, he borrowed Seventy dollars of Mrs Charity Meeker, the widow of Caleb Meeker, then decd & gave to her, & in her own name, a mortgage for the sum of three hundred & thirty six dollars
including the principal & arrears of interest due upon the mortgage to Caleb Meeker, & the Seventy dollars of money borrowed of Mrs. Charity Meeker.  This last mortgage bears date as last recited, viz: Jany 7th 1819 & the mortgage to Caleb Meeker, is dated March 17th 1813, & both recorded in the record of mortgages in Essex County.

This deponent further states that the expenses of his family, & his own advanced age, rendered him unable to pay any of the principal, & but
a part of the interest due upon the mortgage, & thus the debt was yearly accumulating. He further states that he had become pledged as security to his son in law Samuel G. Sisco, to the amount of sixty dollars, which he was compelled to pay in the year 1818, with considerable costs. Under these embarassments, this deponent finding himself totally unable to pay off the debt, which on the 7th day of March 1825 amounted to the sum
of three hundred & seventy three dollars, he proposed to Mr Charity Meeker
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to convey the mortgaged premises by deed to her, as the buildings & fences were now much in need of repair & he destitute of any means for
the purpose. Mrs.  Maker at first declined taking the premises, but on further consideration consented, & a deed covering all the mortgaged premises, was accordingly executed by this deponent to Mrs. Charity Meeker, dated March 7th 18, the consideration money being what was due on the mortgage, viz: three hundred & seventy three dollars.  This deponent further declares that this sale and transfer to Mrs. Meeker is a bona fide sale, made in good faith, for the sole purpose of satisfying the debt thus fairly due to her, & that he has not then, nor at any other tine since, the least expectation of recovering from Mrs. Meeker, or from any other person, any other consideration or equivalent, that that which is contained in the deed,, viz:  three hundred & seventy three dollars, being the sum due on the mortgage, upon a fair calculation, made to the satisfaction of all concerned. It was stipulated by the parties at
the time of executing the deed that this deponent should remain upon the
premises one year, free of rent, which agreement was fulfilled, & afterward,
viz: on the expiration of the year, peaceable possession was given by this deponent to Mrs. Meeker, who has since sold the same premises to Thomas Parrot for the same consideration money. The deed from this deponent to Charity Meeker, is on record in the Essex Records, as by the Clerks endorsement will appear.

This deponent further states on oath, that he learned from his parents, that in his infancy he was baptized by the names of Caleb Gilbert, & that during his early life, being always called Gilbert, he was in the habit of writing his name Gilbert Bonnel, & verily believes he was enlisted in 1778 under the name, Gilbert Bonnel. It is about thirty years, since he commenced writing his baptismal name, Caleb Gilbert Bonnel,
since which period, the greater part & perhaps the whole of his papers in which his name is used, the whole name Caleb Gilbert is inserted.
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& in all the deeds & mortgages before referred to, his name is thus expressed, & he continues thus to write his name, excepting probably the declaration & papers forwarded to the War Department, in which he signed his name
as when he signed it upon the original papers of enlistment.  And this deponent further declares on oath, that he is the same person who enlisted in Capt Meads Company in Col. Ogdens Regiment, by the name of Gilbert Bonnel & the same person referred to in the deeds & Mortgages accompanying this deposition, by the name of Caleb G. Bonnel.
This deponent further states, that the several mortgages & deeds accompanying this deposition, are original papers, actually executed at their respective dates, for the purpose of conveying & reconveying & securing the sums due upon the premises refer to, & whereon this deponent has resided for several years, being the last real estate to which he has had any claim.

Caleb G. Bonnel
Formerly wrote by him, Gilbert Bonnel

Sworn & subscribed before me
this 30th of June 1827
David Day Justice of the peace

New Jersey
Morris County}
Personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the Justices of peace in said County,  Isaac Meeker of Essex County, & Mrs Charity Meeker of the same place, & being both duly sworn, do
on their respective oaths declare as follows, viz: Isaac Meeker declares that he is the same Isaac Meeker, who sold three acres of land with a house to Caleb G. Bonnell by deed dated March 15th 1810, & that the deed which accompanies this deposition, subscribed by him & his wife Jane, is the original & genuine deed of conveyance for those premises, & that the Mortgage accompanying the same, of the same date, given by Caleb G. Bonnell to this deponent, is also the genuine & original Mortgage referred to in said Bonels deposition.

Mrs. Charity Meeker on her oath declares, that she is the widow of Caleb Meeker decd & was married & living with said Caleb Meeker, when Caleb G. Bonnel borrowed money of her said husband & gave to him a mortgage upon his house & three acre lot in N. Providence, as
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security for the money & that the mortgage accompanying this deposition, given by said Bonnel to said Meeker, is a genuine, & original paper, as well as a mortgage afterward given to this deponent by said Bonnel on the same lot for the sum of three hundred & thirty six dollars.-- A deed also accompanys the same, from said Bonnel to this deponent, for the same premises & dated March 7th 1825 is also a genuine & original paper, all communicated
for the purpose of showing all the facts & transactions in this case, so far as they are within the knowledge of this deponent.

And these deponents both say on their respective oaths, that they have been personally present & heard the deposition subscribed by said Caleb G Bonnel, repeatedly read over & from their personal knowledge of most of the facts referred to therein, they are perfectly satisfied, that said deposition contains a full, a fair & true statement agreeably to the best of their knowledge & belief.-
And these deponent further declare on oath, that they have known said Caleb G. Bonnell for thirty years or thereabouts, as a neighbour - that he has always sustained the character of an industrious honest & temperate man, of good standing as to veracity - that he has since our acquaintance with him, always been known to be in needy & destitute circumstances, but striving diligently to make an honest living, & that both he & his aged wife, an infirm, & unable to procure by their daily labor, or by any known means, many of the comforts & conveniences, which are absolutely necessary, & for which they are to the knowledge of these deponents often indebted to the charity & kindness of their neighbours.

Isaac Meeker
Charity Maker

Sworn & subscribed before me
this 30th June 1827

David Hay Justice of the peace

I do hereby certify to the Honble Secy of War, that David Day Esq. before whom the
foregoing depositions were made, is well known to me, to be one of the Justices of the peace of this County, duly commissioned to take depositions, & that the signatures of said David Day, are in his own proper hand writing. I do also certify, that Isaac Meeker, & Charity Meeker, whose names are affixed to the foregoing depositions, are persons well known to me - of inreproachable character, & fully entitled to belief.

Morristown, N.J. July 2d 1827. 
Lewis Condict, one of the Repres.
from N. Jersey, in the Congress of the U S
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At an inferior Court of Common Pleas holden at Newark in and for the County of Essex of the term of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty seven

Presents-
Aaron Munn [or Murrus], Amos ⎬ Esquires
Harrison & David D Crane            }Judges

State of N Jersey
Essex County fs ⎬ On this eighteenth day of April 1827, personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said County, Gilbert Bunnel [Bonnel], aged Sixty eight years, resident in New providence in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: that he enlisted for the period of nine months, some time in the Spring of the year probably in May 1778, in Capt Mead's company, Col Matthias Ogden Regiment of the Jersey line, and joined his regiment at Mount Holly that Spring, from whence he was marched & joined the main army before the battle of Monmouth, in which battle he was personally engaged, besides several skirmishes of less importance and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent  thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that
I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto
annexed, and by me subscribed,  This deponent further states that in a former declaration made by him on the 9th April 1818, before the Honorable William S Pennington then one of the Judges of the circuit court of the United States for the district of New Jersey, he stated that he enlisted and served in Captn Piatts company; he has since that time, conversed with James
Rogers
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and others who served with him, and who knew him well, & is well satisfied, that from the treachery of his own memory he committed a mistake in the name of his captain, which
was not Piatt, but Mead; with whom he did duty until his discharge, after his time of service expired, and that he never Received any other than a verbal discharge.

Gilbert Bonnel 

Sworn to & declared on the 18th
day of April 1827. before me ⎬
in open court- D.O. Crane.

This deponant has two children viz. Mary married to Samuel Sisco, and removed with her husband to Ohio, Seven or eight years since, is poor and has a family of children. His son (only Son,) Caleb, aged about 38 years, is married,
has two children, is a shoemaker, is poor, & has no residence, except as a tenant;, his health is infirm, and incapable of doing any thing for the support of his father. This deponent occupies a room in the same dwelling with his son, & sometimes keeps a separate table; he is by trade, a weaver, but has not followed his trade within the last year or two, in consequence
of lameness and defeat of eye sight; he occasionally works a little in a garden, & sometimes follows the plough for an hour or two; he is sixty eight years old on the 4th November last, & feels himself unable longer to maintain himself by his own exertions, & hopes to obtain the bounty of his country in shape of a pension, during the remainder of his life,
The following list is a true inventory of all my goods and chattels and personal property
of every description viz: one corner Cupboard, old & much worn, containing about half dozen old plates, & as many old Cups & Saucers, several of them Cracked & broken; one old wooden desk probably of gum 70 or so years in use; one old pair of dressers in use 60 or 70 years; 3 or 4 knives & forks, 3 spoons,
1 or two pewter plates, one old wooden clock, without case, One old bed, with bed stead and some old bedding, one old gum table, one old liquor case, 6 or 8 old chairs, most of them with no bottoms, one small looking glass, one small book shelf with 8 or 10 old books, as an old bible, hymn book, Psalm Book & one small old gum table, one pair
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hand bellows, one old chest of drawers of gum, in use 40 years & upwards;, one low chest one crane, trammel & irons, Shovel & tongs, one old weavers loom & tackel, old when I bought
it, which is about twenty five years ago since, now very Shackey [shaky] & scarcely worth setting up; three cider barrels, one old wash tub & water pail, one old box - basket & Soap tub, one wash pot, one dinner pot, one dish Kettle & tea Kettle, one Woolen Wheel, two old flax wheels, one half bushel, one meat barrel, one iron shovel two meal bags, two flour casks, one hay fork, one steel yard, are candle stand, one old Sheet iron fire stove, one griddle, one frying pan, two earthen pots-

This deponent has no land, no house, no horse, no cow, no sheep, no hog or pig, no waggon or cart-No plow nor sled, no notes, no bonds, no debts due to him in any form or shape.  He owes to several individuals in his neighborhood
Sundry Small debts, contracted for family necessaries, provisions & amounting probably to ten or twelve dollars, which he expects & hopes to pay in some way, he has a wife
with whom he has lived about 50 years or nearly, her name is Joanna, aged about 68 years, is very infirm & scarcely competant to take charge of the little affairs of her house,
and altogether unable to perform any hand labor. 

Gilbert Bonnel

Sworn & declared in open court this
18th day of April 1827
before me

D.O. Crane
State of New Jersey
County of Essex ⎬ 
I Asa Whitehead Clerk of the inferior court of common pleas in and for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule
is thirty five dollars and seventy cents-
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In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
Subscribed my name and affixed
the Seal of said court the tenth day
of May in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred & twenty seven

Asa Whitehead, Esq of
the inferior Court of Common
pleas for the County of
Essex aforesaid.
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838,  Entitled an act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows.

State of New Jersey
Essex County ⎬ On this Twenty fifth day of October
In the year of our Lord one thousand Eight
hundred and thirty eight. Personally appeared, Before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas, In and for said County, Joanna Bonnel a Resident of the County of Essex and State of New Jersey, Seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn According to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the Benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838. Entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows. That she is the widow of Gilbert Bonnel, Deceased who was a private Soldier in the New Jersey line, in the war of the Revolution, And a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed March 10th 1818 at the Rate of Ninety six dollars per annum. And the said Joanna Bonnel, further declares that she was Married to the said Gilbert Bonnel, on the Fourth day of February One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty seven
By the Revd Jacob Van Arsdale, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Springfield in said County of Essex. That her husband the aforesaid Gilbert Bonnel died on the second day day of May Eighteen hundred and Thirty four, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the Marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety four Viz at the time above stated. And that she has no documentary evidence except the family record hereunto Annexed, and that she has remained a Widow and unmarried ever since the death of her said husband.

Joanna Bonnel

Sworn to and subscribed on the
day and year above Written
Before the said Court
E Van Arsdale Clk
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I Elias Van Arsdale Jun. Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for said County of Essex in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of said Court in the Matter of the application of the Widow, Joanna Bonnel for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office
this Twenty fifth day of October In
the year of our Lord one Thousand
Eight hundred and thirty eight.-

E Van Arsdale Clk
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May 24/[illegible]
Heirs of
Caleb Gilbert Bonnell
decd
Reviz


Richd Partington
Xenia
Ohio
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Xenia Ohio May 19th 1853

Hon Sir

I am requested to write to you by the heirs of Caleb Gilbert Bonnell who was a soldier of the Revolution and who served during the war in the State of New Jersey Said C G Bonnell now applied for a pension of his County land but after his death his wife Joana Bonnell applied and drew a pension for two or three years The heirs think in the year of 1833 or 34 that the last payment of said Joana's pension has not been received The heirs being now poor want to obtain what is due them in right of their parents
You will please send me the names of the officers and other information necessary to make out the claim for the balance of Pension due and also inform me whether the name of Caleb G. Bonnell has been returned with those entitled to County land for services in the war of the Revolution

I am very respectfully 
Richard Partington
Atty at Law

Hon L P Waldo Com
of Pensions
Washington DC
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.

3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,       19.....

In reply to your request of _________-
received ___________ for a statement of the military history of Caleb Gilbert Bonnel a
soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on
file in this Bureau.
Received as Gilbert Bonnet

[Column Headings:]
[1] DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
[2] LENGTH OF SERVICE.
[3] RANK.
[45] OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. [2 subcolumns:] CAPTAIN. COLONEL.
[5] STATE.

[Data under Columns:]
Spring 1778
9 mos.
Pvt
Yellis Mead
Matthias Ogden
N. J.
---
Battles engaged in, Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted in Morris County N. J.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 9, 1818 This cl was al
Residence at date of application, New Providence Essex Co. N.J
Age at date of application, born Nov. 4. 1758 died May 2, 1834 in . Morris County, N.J.

Remarks:
He mar Feby 4, 1787, at Springfield, N.J. Joanah Woodruff born  May 10, 1759. She was al pension  on app. ex. Oct 25, 1838 while a resident of Essex Co. N.J.  Children Charlotte b. June 21. 1787, died Sept. 21, 1787. Caleb 
W. b. June 3, 1788, Mar Dec 13. 1823. Elijah b. Oct. 3 1789 Mar August 26, 1815 d. Dec. 18, 1821.  Lewis b. Jany 15, 1792 d. Apr. 22, 1792.  Mary b. July 12, 1793 mar Sept. 24. 1814. In 1827 referred to as wife of Samuel G. Sisco.

6 -- 2856
Commissioner.
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1920 Mch. 8 Hist. to W. J.
Conkling

Rev. War WIDOW, &c.
File No. 777
Joanna Bonnel
Widow
Caleb G Bonnel [inserted between lines]
Gilbert Bonnel
Priv. New Jersey Line
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March 3 1843
Index:-- Vol. A [or H],   Page 91 [or 71]

Arrangement of 1870.]

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to L. Condict Oct. 22, '42

New Jersey 2672
------------------
Joanna Bonnel
widow of Gilbert Bounnel
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818
and who died on the 2. May 1834
of Essex Co. in the State of N. Jersey
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Mead of the Regt commanded
by Col. Ogden in the N. Jersey
line for 9 months
-------------------------------
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 30 Dollars ---- Cents per annu
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
-------------------------------
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of May
1839 and sent to S. B. Miller
Newark, N.J.
-------------------------------
Arrears to the 4th of March 39.               90.00
Semi=annual allowance ending to Sep"  15.00
                                                                   _______
                                                                  $105.00

{Act July 7,
1838.}

Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk,  
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 117

New Jersey
Gilbert Bunnel [Bonnel] on sole act 1818 to what time paid?
John Henry Esq

Died 2d May 1834
pd that piece
118
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[Envelope, postal stamp in upper left:}. Xenia O May 19

[stamped on upper right:]. FREE

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

[Note:]
Bonnell's pension
to commence
July 30. 1827

For the Pension office

[at far right:  "The"]
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James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Newark New Jeney November 10th, 1831

J. S. Edwards Esq

Sir I herewith enclose to you the Declaration and Evidence of the Widow Joanna Bunnel [Bonnel] for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th, July 1838. and Respecfully solicit your attention to the same.

 And remain with all do [due] Respect

Yours AC,
Saml B. Miller
J
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Pension Office
August 12, 1853

Sir,

Joanna Bonnell - N. Jersey Rolls - 1838 & 1843 pensioned at $30- per annum.

Please state to what time paid

Very Respectfully
L P Waldo
Commissioner

F. Burt Esq
3rd Auditor 

Paid to 4th Sept. 1846
F. Burt
3d Auditor
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James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington
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Dear Sir,

The widow of Gilbert Bonnel, who is extremely poor, called on me this morning, in the hope, (as she expressed herself) of obtaining an enlargement of her late pension. She is confident that he served as an enlisted soldier
thoughout the revolution; & desire that the rolls & records or your office, which relate to the Jersey line, may be examined in support of her claim & for her benefit.  In my memorandum, I find him entered as of Capt Mead's Co. 1st Regt commanded by Col. Ogden. She says she believes he also belonged to Capt Seely's co.afterward Col. Seely.  Her application is in the form of an affidavit, but I presume, a letter would be as well as a more formal application. For this reason, & to same in her expression of the Clerk's certificate of the official character of
the Magistrate, it is omitted.  If in your judgment it is required, please return it to me for that purpose.-  If he is found as a sergeant, will it
not entitle her to more than $8 per month?

Very respectfully
Your obt servt,

Lewis Condict
Morristown, N J. Oct 12th '42

Col. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions

P.S.  As the law of 1818, required but 9 mo. service it is probable Gilbert Bonnel alleged no more than was required. Will you please inform me the extent of his allegation, if it be not improper?
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2165
Springfield, N.J
June 17, 1843

William Stiles
Forwards declaration of Joanna Bonnel
and further testimony in the case of Phebe
Hand for a further pension for one year

S. 198
21 June 1843
Pension Office.
NJ
Mar 5 1843
Joanna Bonnell

[illegible]
Phebe Hand
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Springfield N.J. June 17th 1843

Dear Sir

Enclosed you will remove the papers of Joanna Bonnel relative to her application for a further pension for one year under the act of the last Congress 

Also further testimony in the case of Phebe Hand on her application for a five years pension under the former act and if she is entitled to that the further pension for one year under the act of last Session 

The affidavit of the Reverend John C Hart proved that there are no Church records & that of Joseph P Hand the fact of there being any family record of marriage,  he also passes that both of four children of Aaron & Phebe Hand born under wedlock prior to the fourth of June 1774 and will I think be satisfactory - Will you have the kindness to take up both cased at your earliest convenience & transmit the result to me immediately thereafter

Most respectfully
your obd servant William Stites
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J.L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office
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Dr Sir

I return you the mortgage of Bonnel & the deed, both given by him to Charity Meeker, authenticated by the Clerk of the County in the mode you proposed. 

The more I have enquired into this case of Gilbert Bonnel, the stronger are my convictions-- not only of his services, but of his moral integrity, modesty, & pressing poverty. His services in the revolution, were by no means limited to this one period of enlistment, altho it was the longest of any one. He was on many tours of Militia duty & of 6 mos. service during the struggle in N. Jersey, & was throughout, a firm & most substantial Whig. He has uniformly led a temperate & industrious life, & nothing but his real wants, which I know, are now pressing & urgent, could have driven him to this appeal. These considerations, I know, add nothing to his legal claim for a pension, but they appeal to the equitable feelings of the officers who execute the pension laws, to extend to him all the relief in their power, & I hope will induce them to carry back the date of his claim, as far as the date of his first declaration.

Very respectfully &c.

L. Condict
Morristown, N.J. July 31st, 27

J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Pension Office.
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New Jersey Morris County
Application of Joanna Bonnel
widow of Gilbert Bonnel dec.
for an enlargement of Pension,
under the act of 1838.

Return to Lewis Condict
Morristown, New Jersey
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New Jersey, Morris County

Before the subscriber, a Justice of peace in & for said County, personally came Joanna W. Bonnel, aged 83 years & some months, a woman of fair & irreproachable character who being first duly sworn by me according to law on her oath saith as follows viz   I am the widow of Gilbert Bonnel decd who was, as I believe, an enlisted soldier in the army of the United States as served as such in Col. Mathias Ogdens Regiment, & in Captain Meads company & probably in the company of other Captains throughout the war, from to beginning to its end, as I have understood from him, & as I verily believe. my said husband was pensioned for his service, under the first pension law of 1818, & obtained his certified about the year 1827, which was paid to the time of his death, which was as I believe, on or about May 2d, 1834 (8 years ago last May).  

I applied through Samuel B. Miller Esq as the widow of said Gilbert Bonnel for a pension, & was allowed a five years half pay pension, at the rate of thirty dollars per annum, which terminated in March 1841. The object of this application is to ask respectfully of the Commissioner of Pensions & Secretary of war for an enlargement of my pension, on the ground of my said husbands service throughout the war, as an enlisted soldier & I would request as a special favor, the benefit of whatever rolls or other records of the journeys of the New Jersey line, there may be in the War Department, to prove the continuous service of my said husband for a period at least of two years. I have no evidence in my possession of his services, nor do I know that it will be in my power to obtain any & this is the reason of asking the benefit of whatever evidence may be found on the Department.

I would also state it is my belief that my husband acted for a long time as a
orderly sergeant; & if the evidence of it is to be found in the office, I would respectfully
ask for whatever additional allowance said service may entitle me to receive.

The proof of my marriage & of the death of my said husband are distinctly set forth as I presume, in my first Declaration.

I have, since the stoppage of my 5 years pension, no support whatever, except from the charity of my friends; & if the law & evidence of my husbands Revolutionary services, can extend any relief to me as his widow, I shall accept it with gratitude.  I further state that I was 83 years old on the 10th of May 1842.

Joanna Bonnel

Sworn & subscribed at Morris town, N Jersey, October 12th 1842
Before me
Silas L. Condict
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Jon'n. M. Meeker Esq
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Relative to the claim of the
Widow Joanna Bunnel [Bonnel] for A Pension

State of New-Jersey,
Essex County ⎬ Personally appeared before me
Samuel B. Miller a Justice of the peace in
and for said County, Jonathan M. Meeker Esq of
New Providence In the County and State aforesaid known to me to be a respectable person and Entitled to Credit as a Witness, and being by me duly sworn on his oath saith that he is sixty two years of age, and has been Well acquainted with Gilbert Bunnel {Bonnel] and Joanna Bunnel [Bonnel] his Wife, formerly Joanna Woodruff ,for as much Forty five years Lost post, and have also been well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Gilbert Bunnel [Bonnel] by seeing him write. And that the seal which is hereunto annexed purporting to be a Record of Names Births Marriages & deaths of the said Gilbert Bunnel, Joanna Woodruff and
their children was taken from an old Family Bible which has been long in the possession of the family and is now the property of the said Widow Joanna Bunnel [Bonnel] and is In the hand writing of the said Gilbert Bunnel [Bonnel], Except that entered on said Leaf as to the time of the death of the said Gilbert Bunnell Decd which the said Deponent saith he verily believes to be a True Record of Births Marriages or deaths as thereon stated. And the said Deponent further saith that the said Joanna Bunnel is still living and at this time Resides with this deponent in the said County of Essex and has remained a Widow and unmarried ever since the death of her husband the said Gilbert
Bunnell [Bonnel] deceased who died in the month of May Eighteen hundred and Thirty four.

Jonathan M. Meeker

Sworn to and subscribed at
Newark in said County this
Twenty fifth day of October in
the year of our Lord 1853
Sam B. Miller Justice of the peace
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Mrs. Mary Smith
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In the Matter of the application of the Widow Joanna Bunnel [Bonnel] for a pension under State the act of Congress of July 7th 1838.

State of New Jersey
Essex County
---
Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller a Justice of the peace in and for said County Mary Smith a Resident of the Township of Springfield in the County and State aforesaid  A respectable person and entitled to Credit as a witness and being by me duly sworn on her oath saith that she is seventy seven years of age, that she was well acquainted with Gilbert
Bunnel [Bonnel] and Joanna his wife, Formerly Joanna Woodruff at and after the war of the revolution, the said Joanna Woodruff being Sister to [''me'crossed out] the said deponent. And the said deponent further saith that she was present and saw the said Gilbert Bunnel [Bonnel] Married to the said Joanna Woodruff by the Revd Jacob Van Arsdale then Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Springfield in said County of Essex on the Fourth day of February One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty seven at Springfield aforesaid, which this deponent saith she knows from the age of her oldest daughter who was born on the eighth of February the ['same' crossed out] year before.  And this deponent further saith, that the said Gilbert Bunnel [Bonnel] & Joanna his wife always resided together as husband and wife and Reputed so to be until the death of the said Gilbert Bunnel [Bonnel] which took place in the month of May Eighteen hundred and Thirty four at his residence in the County of Morris in said State.-- And that the said Joanna Bunnel [Bonnel] is still Living and has remained a widow and unmarried ever since the death of her said husband and is Seventy nine years of age.-- and further saith not.

Mary Smith
[X] her mark

Sworn to and subscribed at Newark
in said County October 22nd AD
1838, before me
---

Saml B. Miller Justice of the peace
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20.319
Gilbert Bonnel,
Essex County N. Jersey
Act 18 March 1818
----------------------
Name on N. Jersey
Roll as corrected by the
claimant; Mead Co.
instead of Piatt as first
stated.

Hon Lewis Condict
Morristown
N.J.
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State of New Jersey
Morris County ⎬Before the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in said County, personally came James Rodgers of the same place, to me well known & fully entitled to belief, who being duly sworn saith, that he served in the army of the United States, in the Revolutionary war, as a fifer, in Captain Yellis Mead's company, & Col. Matthias Ogdens Regiment of the New Jersey line. That he joined his company & regiment at Mount Holly in New Jersey, some time in April or May, 1778, & served in the same corps for the full period of nine months. That he well remembers Gilbert Bonnel, as a private in the same company, who joined it with him at Mount Holly, in the spring of 1778, & continued to serve therein until the winter following, or longer for aught this deponent know, as he does not recollect the precise time of their discharge. This deponent with his company & regiment, was at the battle of Monmouth, in June 1778, &
states that said Gilbert Bonnel, was considered a faithful & good soldier, & well esteemed by his comrades & officers, as always ready & willing to do his duty. This deponent states further, that his company went into winter quarters, the
winter following the Monmouth battle & well recollects that Bonnel was then with them, & remembers skating with him upon the ice, & other exercises with him during that winter.-
The period of service of those who joined the army at Mount Holly as recruits in the spring of 1778, with this deponent, was understood & believed to be nine months - which he thinks must have been the term of Bonnels engagement & service, but of this he cannot speak with positive certainty.

Sworn Subscribed before me at Morristown this 15th May, 1827.
David  Mills

James Rodgers

I do hereby certify that David Mills Esq. whose signature is annexed to the foregoing affidavit, is one of the Judges of the Common pleas of this County & one of the Justices of peace now in commission, & that said signature is well known to me, as the proper hand writing of said David Mills.  - I also further certify, that James Rodgers, is & has been for many years, well known to me, & that he is a man entitled to belief as a man of truth.

Morristown New Jersey May 15th 1827

Lewis Condict, a member of
the House of Reps of the U.S.
from the State of New Jersey
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3095

3095

Declaration and
Evidence of the Widow
Joanna Bunnel [Bonnel] for
a pension under the
act of Congress of the
7th July 1838

Admitted
Private 9 months

Sam B. Miller
Newark N. Jersey
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Relative to the Widow Joanna Bunnel [Bonnel]
for a pension

State of New Jersey
Essex County--} Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Jane Stewart of the City of Newark in the County and State aforesaid known to me to be a Respectable person and entitled to Credit as a witness and being by me duly sworn on her oath saith that she is Fifty nine years of age that she is the Daughter of the Revd Jacob Van Arsdale deceased who was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Springfield in said County and has always understood that her said Father come to reside at Springfield in said County before the Commencement of the Revolutionary war, and resided there until his death which took place in the year Eighteen hundred and one.-  And the said Deponent Jacob Van Arsdale Deceased kept a Marriage Record in a small Book made by him for that purpose, In which he entered the Names of those he married, the time when and amount of Fees Received for his services,- which Record come into this deponents possession after the
death of her said father, and not thinking the same of any value her children, (or more properly might say her grand children, had it to play with until it got torn and much defaced and then it was Taken and used for Rapping and waste paper and entirely destroyd and is not in being at this time. and further saith not.

Jane Stewart

Sworn to and subscribed at Newark
In said County this Twenty fifth
day of October A.D. 1838 before me

Saml B. Miller Justice of the peace
.
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State of NewJersey
County of Essex}. I Elias Van Arsdale Jun. Clerk  of theCounty of Essex Do hereby certify that Samuel B. Miller before whom the annexed affidavits of Mary Smith, Jonathan M. Meeker & Jane Stewart were severally made & taken
at the time of taking the same was & still is one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County, duly commissioned & sworn: and that the signatures "Saml B. Miller" affixed to the Jurats of said affidavits respectively are genuine-

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at Newark in said County of Essex the Seventh day of November AD. Eighteen hundred and thirty eight -

Eias Van Arsdale Clk
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2165

Mrs Joanna Bonnell
declaration under the
Act of March 3d 1843

$30 per ann

Wm Stites
Springfield,
New Jersey
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Declaration

In order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain Widows, who have Received pensions under the act of July 7th 1838.

State of New Jersey 
Essex County ---}. On this ninth day of May
One Thousand Eight hundred and forty-three
Personally appeared, before the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for said County, Joanna Bonnel, A Resident of the Township of Springfield in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey, Aged Eighty three years who being first duly sworn According to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. -- That she is the widow of Gilbert Bonnell deceased, Who was a private Soldier in the New Jersey Line in the war of the Revolution And the said Joanna Bonnel Further declares that she received a pension from the United States of Thirty dollars per annum, under the act of Congress of July 7th 1838. And that she further declares she is still a widow.

Joanna Bonnel

Sworn to and subscribed on the 
day and year above written
Before me
William Stites

And I do hereby certify that the declarant in
the foregoing declaration named is personally known to me to be the Identical person who received the above mentioned pension, from the United States.

William Stites
Judge of Common pleas
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State of New Jersey 
County of Essex ⎬ ss. I John P Jackson Clerk of the County of Essex and of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that William Stites before whom the annexed affidavit of Joanna Bonnel was made and taken at the time of taking the same was and still is one of the Judges of said Court, duly commissioned and sworn; and that the signatures ""William Stites" to the Jurat
of said affidavit & the certificate thereunder written are genuine

In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand
and the Seal of said Court at Newark in the
County aforesaid the Tenth day of May A.D.
Eighteen hundred & forty three

J P Jackson Clk
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Caleb G Bonnel
&
Joanna his wife
to
Mrs Charity Meeker
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Mortgage Deed

seventh of March 1825
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This Indenture made this seventh day of
January in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 nineteen Between Caleb G. Bonnell and Joanna his wife of the Township of New Providence in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey of the first part-- and Charity Meeker Wd of Caleb Meeker deceased of sd Township County & State of the second part -- Whereas the sd Caleb C Bonnel and Joanna his wife by their certain Bond or obligation duly executed bearing even date with these presents to the sd Widow Charity Meeker her heirs Executors Administrators and assigns in the pennel sum of six hundred and seventy two Dollars lawful money of the United States with a condition
under written for the payment of three hundred and thirty six Dollars in two years from the above date as sd Bonds and conditions may more fully appear-- Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the sd Caleb G. Bonnell & Joanna his wife in consideration of the sum Three hundred and thirty six Dollars as afsd owing the sd Charity Meeker as aforesd and for the better sewing [serving?] and recovering the pawnments [payments?] thereof with the Intst arising thereon to the sd Caleb C. Bonnell his Executors adms or assigns according to the conditions of the sd Bonds and also in consideration of the sum of Five Shillings to him in hand paid by the sd Charity Meeker at and before the Ensealing and delivery of these presents whereof the said Caleb G Bonnel and Joanna his wife doth hereby acknowledge the receipts thereof and themselves fully sattisfied therewith, hath given granted bargained sold alliened [aligned?] released enfeoffed conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents doth give grant bargain sell allien [align?]  enfeoff convey and confirm unto the sd Charity Meeker and assigns forever all that certain tract or parcel of Land situate lying and being in the township, County, and state aforesd Beginning at the south west corner of sd Bonnell garden at the side of the road wall the stoney hill road, thence runing [running] south eighty eight degrees
forty minutes east four chains eighty five links to the root of a peach tree at or stake in Daniel S. Clarks line, thence along sd Daniels line north one Degree fifteen minutes East five Chains ninety one links to Isaac Simpsons line thence West joining Simpsons line to the above mentioned road from thence runing [running] a south course joining sd road to the
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Beginning corner Containing Two acres and Ninety five hundredths be the same more or less together with all and singular the improvements pastures orchard fences profits
commodities easements and appurtenances to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining To have and to hold the above receipted premises with all the previledges [privileges] and appurtenances thereunto belonging to the sd Charity Meeker her Heirs and assigns forever to their sole and proper use benefit and behoof and the said Caleb G. Bonnell and Joanna his wife do further covenant to & with her the sd Charity Meeker her heirs and assigns in form and manner following that is to say that at or immediately before the ensealing & delivery of these presents they were the true sole and lawful owners of all the above recited premises & was lawfully seized & possessed of the same in a good & absolute estate of inheritance in fee simple and had good right & lawful authority to
convey the same as above said-- and it now is and forever hereafter shall be and remain unto her the sd Charity Meeker her Heirs and Assigns - Provided Nevertheless not withstanding any thing herein mentioned and it is the true intent and meaning of these presents
and of the sd parties hereunto that if the sd Caleb G. Bonnell his Heirs Executors or Admrs shall & do well & truly pay or cause to be paid
to the sd Charity Meeker her Executors admrs or assigns the full sum of sd Bond or obligations together with thermts of the same on or before the time herein mentioned without defraud or abatement whatsoever by reason of any manner of Taxes rates assignments or charges to whatsoever - Then and from thenceforth these presents and every thing herein contained shall cease be null utterly void and of no effect - Any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise Notwithstanding-- In Witness whereof the said Caleb G. Bonnel and Joanna his wife have hereunto set their hands & Seals the day & year first above written--
Caleb G. Bonnel
Joanna Bonnel

Signed sealed and
Delivered in presence of ⎬
Ames Willcox
Levi Clark
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New Jersey
Essex County}. Be it remembered that on this
Sixth Day of November Eighteen Hundred & Twenty before me Daniel S. Clark one of the Commissioners in and for said County Came
Caleb G. Bonnel & Joanna Bonnel the granters
to the within mortgage Deed and severally acknowledge that they executed ['that they' crossed out] the same of their own Voluntary acts for the uses & purposes therein expressed,
the said Joanna Being examined by me apart from her husband said she signed the same freely not from any fear threats or constraint of her said Husband

Daniel S. Clark
State of New Jersey
County of Essex}  Ss . I, Asa Whitehead Clerk of the inferior Court of Common pleas in and for said County of Essex do hereby certify that Daniel S. Clark Esquire before whom the foregoing acknowledgment was taken was at the time of doing thereof a commission for taking the acknowledgment and proof of deeds for said County duly commissioned and sworn, as appears by the rolls of County Officers now remaining in my office, and that full faith & credit are due & ought to be given to the foregoing and to his other official acts as well
in Courts of law as elsewhere, and I do further certify that by the laws of the State of New Jersey the foregoing certificate of the said
Daniel S Clark commissioner as aforesaid is sufficient evidence of the execution of the within instrument to admit the same to be given in evidence in the courts of said State,

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said court the thirtieth day of July A.D. eighteen hundred and twenty seven -

Asa Whitehead
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Caleb G. Bonnel
To
Charity Meeker}  Deed

Received in the office
the twelfth day of
March A.D. 1825
Recorded in book 52
of deeds for the County
of Essex in pages 242 & 243

Asa Whitehead
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Deed} Caleb G. Bonnel
to
Charity Meeker
----------------------
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This Indenture made the seventh Day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five Between Caleb G. Bonnell of the Township of New providence County of Essex and State of New jersey of the one part and Charity Meecker Wd of Caleb Meeker decd of sd County and State of the other part . Witnesseth that the sd Caleb G. Bonnel and Joanna his wife for and in consideration of the sum of Three hundred seventy three Dollars lawful money of the state aforesd to them in hand well and truly paid by the sd Charity Meeker at or before the sealing & delivery of these presents the receipt whereof the sd Caleb G. Bonnel and Joanna his wife do hereby acknowledge themselves fully satisfied therewith contented & paid--  Have granted bargained aliened [aligned?] enfeoffed  conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do fully freely and absolutely give grant bargain sell alien [align?] enfeoff convey and confirm unto the said Charity Meeker her heirs and assigns forever - All
that tract or parcel of Land & premises herein after particularly described situate lying and being in the Township of New providence in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey aforesd being a Lot of Land which the said Bonnel purchas'd of Isaac Meeker by Deed bearing date fifteenth of March A.D. 1810 Beginning at the south west corner of said Bonnels garden at the side of the road called the stony hill road, Joining Daniel S. Clarks line, thence runing [running] and bending on sd line south eighty eight Degrees forty minutes east four chains eighty five links
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to the root of a peach tree at a stake in sd Daniels line, thence along Sd Daniels line north one degree fifteen minutes East five chain ninety one links to Isaac Simpsons line, thence along his line runing [running] west
D. to the Road, thence along south binding on sd Road to the beginning corner containing three acres of Land be the same more or less-- Together with all and singular the improvement Fruit trees pastures fences waters commodities hereditaments & appurtenances to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining. To have and to hold the above recited and bargained
premises with the priviledges [privileges] and appurtenances thereunto belonging to her the sd Charity Meeker her heirs and assigns forever - and the sd Caleb G. Bonnel and Joanna his wife for them and their heirs the said tract or lot of Land and premises and every part and parcel thereof against them and their heirs and against all and every other person or persons whatsoever - to the sd Charity Meeker her heirs and assigns shall & will warrant secure and
forever defend by these presents-- In witness whereof the said Caleb G. Bonnel and Joanna his wife party to these presents have hereunto set their hands & seals the day and year above written-

Caleb G. Bonnell
Joanna Bonnel

Signed sealed and
delivered in presence of us}

Thomas Parrot-
David C. Clark
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New Jersey
Essex County⎬ Personly appeared before me David C. Clark one of the Commissioners duly
appointed to take the acknowledgments and proof of Deeds &c in for said County - Caleb G. Bonnel & Joanna his wife and myself being satisfied that they are the grantors of the within Deed and after making known to them the contents of the same they acknowledged that they Signed Sealed and Delivered the same as their voluntary act and Deed for the use and purpose therein expressed and the sd Joanna being by me examined seperate & apart from her sd husband acknowledged that she Signed sealed and Delivered the same without fear threats or compulsion of or from her sd husband- Taken and acknowledged before me this seventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty five--

David C. Clark

State of New Jersey
County of Essex}  I, Asa Whitehead Clerk of the inferior Court of Common pleas in and for said County of Essex do hereby certify that David C Clark Esquire before whom the foregoing acknowledgment was taken was at the time of doing thereof a commissioner for taking the acknowledgment and proof of deeds for said County, duly commissioned & Sworn as appears by the rolls of County officers now remaining in
my office, and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to the foregoing and to his other official acts, as well in Courts of law and elsewhere, and I do further certify that by the laws of the State of New Jersey the foregoing certificate of the said David C Clark Commissioner as aforesaid is sufficient evidence of the execution of the within instrument to admit the same to be given in
evidence in the courts of said State

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court the thirtieth day of July one thousand
eight hundred and twenty seven -

Asa Whitehead
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Dear Sir,

I return herewith, the declaration of Gilbert Bonnel, with some explanatory depositions, relating to some real estate, once in his possession, accompanied by some of the original deeds & mortgage.  I advised him to obtain the originals if practicable, to save the expense of copying & a certificate from the County Clerk.-  He is really, very poor & destitute of the necessaries which are essential to human existence.  He is also, a man of sterling integrity & good morals, & as I think--eminently entitled to the bounty of his Country.  His retiring modesty has restrained him from pressing & urging his claims, until old age with its infirmities & wants, has driven him to this last effort.-- Should this testimony be deemed competent, I hope he may be admitted to draw his pension from the 18th Apl last, the date of his last declaration.--  The persons in whose possession the old titles remained, would be glad, if consistent with the rule of the department to have them returned. They are however recorded & if it is required that they remain on file, I presume it cannot be very material.

Very respectfully,

Your obd servt

Lewis Condict

List of papers enclosedl

2 Declarations -viz: - 1 of Apl 1818
                                     1 of Apl 1827
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Depositions of G. Bonnel, & Ch. Meeker
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Isaac Meeker  }
to
Caleb G. Bonnel}. Deed - 2 tracts = 3 acres, March 13th 1810
--------------
Caleb G. Bonnel}
to
Isaac Meeker     }  Mortgage on "    "    "
---------------
Caleb G. Bonnel}
to
Caleb Meeker     }Mortgage, March 17th 1813, same premises.
By the money loaned on this mortgage, the former was cancelled & paid.
---------------
Caleb G. Bonnel}
to
Mrs Charity Meeker}
Widow of Caleb Meeker decd}. Mortgage Janu 7th 1819 same premises - This mortgage is virtually a renewal of the former, in the widows name, including the amass of Int & same money borrowed of the widow.--
-------------------
Caleb G. Bonnel  }
to
Charity Meeker    }Deed for the same premises March 7th 1825
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[illegible--cut off at top]
to
Gilbert Bonnell ] Deed for about 1/4 acre, dated August 2  1796. [illegible--cut off at top]
31 years since, he was known by the name of Gilbert Bonnel. See the statement of Amos Potter annexed to this old deed,- a man somewhat illiterate, but of excellent character & highly respected for his integrity & veracity.

N.B. This old deed, having been recd after the packet was seated, it was opened, for the purpose of enclosing it.

L. Condict

Jas. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension office
War Department
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February 19, 1920.

Hon. G.M. Saltzgaber, Commissioner,
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-

Will you kindly furnish a certificate showing the military history of GILBERT BONNEL, or Caleb Gilbert Bonnel, a private in the New Jersey Line, during the Revolutionary War.

His name appears as Gilbert Bonnel under Essex County, N. J., list of pensioners placed August 8, 1827.

The information is desired to prove eligibility of an applicant to membership in this Society.
Any information as to family data will also be highly
appreciated.

Very truly yours,
W. J. Conkling
Registrar N. J. S. A. R.

[Stamp on lower left of letter, reading "U.S. PENSION OFFICE
D
FEB
20
1920"]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Bonnel Paul
GRADE Private
LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT 
NUMBER    8998

ACREAGE.  100

ISSUED June 11, 1789
to Matthias Denman,
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.