Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1127, for Caleb Tichenor, New Jersey
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 New Jersey 
Tichenor, Caleb 
S. 1127 
carded
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28097
Caleb Tichenor
of Essex Co. in the State of New Jersey
who was a Private in the Compy command
by Captain Lyon of the Regt. command
by Col. Van Cortlandt in the N. Jersey 
line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 80 Dollars [bland] Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Geo. Cromwell, Clerk,
Book 8. Vol. 3 page 133
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Caleb Tichenor
Essex Co. N. Jersey

aoma
24 mapri
80$

Hon. J. Freelinghuyson
Return to Lewis Condi
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State of New Jersey County of Essex ss. 5 Essex Common Pleas On this 22d day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of common Pleas in & for said County of Essex, now sitting, Caleb Tichenor as resident of the township of Livingston in the County of Essex & State of New Jersey aged 76 years nearly who being first duly sworn according to law, makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress pased June 7th 1832 I was born in the township of Newark Essex Co in the tenth day of April A D. 1758, as appears by the record in my Father's family bible where I resided until the year 1812 when I removed to Livingston where I have resided ever since. I entered the service of the United States , & served under the following officers & served as herein after states Early in June 1776, I enlisted at Newark in which township I then resi did for five months under Capt Abraham Lyon in Col Van Courtlandt's regiment from Newark I was first marched to New York from there to Long Island where I was when the British landed on said Island was engaged in the battle on Long Island & was among the last who left the Island, from there he went to New York & marched to Fort Washington & had an engagement there with the enemy from there. I marched to the White Plains. where we had several engagements with the enemy. From the Plains I marched to Kingsbridge & crossed the Hudson, & then retreated back to Fort Lee & was in several engagements there. From Fort Lee we situated before the British army below New Brunswick in New Jersey. this was about the first of November my term of service having expired I was discharged verbally & went home. I stayed at home until January 1777 when I was called out again to keep guard in
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& about Newark Capt. John Peck commanded.  I served out two months viz January & February when I was discharged.  In the spring following, I was again ordered into service & performed two months militia duty, the first is season of early plowing, embracing us nearly as I can recollect, the latter part of March, & for part of April.  I was again commanded by Capt. Peck - was stationed at Newark & at the Farms, between Newark & Elizabeth town, guarding the lines, & protecting the inhabitants against the {illegible] of Tories & Refugees.  My second spring tour of a month in 77, was performed in the latter part of May & early in June.  I was commanded by Capt. Williams, upon the farm station & performing the same duty as before mentioned.  In the fall of 1777, I performed two months of service under the command of Captain Elijah Squire, & was stationed in the town of Newark.  The first month embraces part of September & part of August.  During this time, we had a fever skirmish with a Refugee party from Staten Island in which two of my neighbors were severely wounded - viz Samuel Lindsley & Stephen Ward.  Ward died of his wounds the next day.  Samuel Crane, also my near neighbor, was shot dead in that engagement & was buried next day in the churchyard at Orange.  The dates of this tour and engagement, I learn more particularly from the inscription on Crane's gravestone yet standing in the graveyard showing his death to be on Sept. 14th , 1777.  My 2d monthly tour in the fall of 77, under Captain squire, was in November and we were again [illegible] at Newark, performing the farm duty.  In 1778, I was drafted into the militia service in January & performed a month duty under Captain Josiah Pierson, was again stationed at Newark, performing guard duty & another month duty under this same officer at the farm plow in October following.  In March, I was drafted and performed  month service in Captain John Ogden's company - was stationed between Newark & Eliz. town on guard duty. In May & June, I performed a month's duty under Captain Thos. Williams - was stationed at Newark & [illegible] with a [illegible] militia force under Genl. Winds, and was marched under his order Eliz. town & Woodbridge, some distance
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to the South & East of New Brunswick, toward the battle ground of Monmouth.  We did not reach that spot however -- our orders being countermanded as we understood, & Genl. Winds with his militia force marched back to Eliz.th [Elizabeth] town, & from there our company returned to Newark, when my monthly tour was completed when I returned home. -- In the latter part of the farm summer, probably in August & September, I was again drafted into the militia service & performed a month's tour of duty under Capt. Williams, at Newark & Lyon’s farms, guarding the lines & protecting the inhabitants against Tory depredation. -- In 1779, I performed two months Militia duty under Captain Robert Nichols -- the first month in March -- the second in October: -- & two months under command of Capt. Isaac Reeves -- the 1st month in June & the 2d [2nd] in the latter part of November & forepart of December; -- & two other months under Capt. Thomas Williams -- the 1st in May & the 2d [2nd] in August.  Our station was in Newark & the adjoining County between Newark & Eliz.th [Elizabeth] town, guarding the lines & the inhabitants from the incursion of the enemy then in possession of New York & Staten Island, frequently sending out foraging parties, conducted by Tories and Refugees, who greatly annoyed the people on the lines.  I was again drafted for a month's duty in the Militia & placed under command of Capt. Elias Baldwin, in cold weather, probably in December of this  year. -- We were stationed this month at Woodbridge, Middlesex Co. under command of Colonel Benoni Hathaway & Colonel Frelinghuysen.  In 1780, I performed two months Militia service under Captain Thomas Williams, viz: from 8th May to 8th July -- stationed at Newark, performing guard duty.  This date I am able to ascertain from some scraps of an old pay roll of Capt. Thos. [Thomas] Williams of that year, accidentally found among his old papers by his son & Executor, Col. Wm. Williams.  I also performed in 1780, one month & 23 days Militia duty under said Capt. Williams from 20th Nov. to 13th Jan. '81, as appears also by his pay rolls, to which I would respectfully refer.  — I also performed one month's duty under Capt. Jos..a [Josiah] Condict in September, stationed at Newark, on guard duty.
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In one of my monthly tours under Captain Williams, an excursion was planned against a fort which the enemy occupied on the South East side of Staten Island, at a village called Cuckold’s town.  It was conducted as I believe by Lord Sterling in the winter.  Part of our militia crossed over to the Island at Eliz.th [Elizabeth] town point upon the ice in the night and another part at the {illegible] and proceeding by different routes attacked the fort.  We took a number of prisoners & a considerable amount of military stores which we brought off.  The garrison was reinforced by the enemy from the City of New York, who crossed also on the ice, taking with them a few light field pieces.  Beside the skirmish last mentioned, & the engagements at Elizabeth town I was in a skirmish with the enemy at Belleville & another at Hackensack in Bergen County, in which a considerable number were killed & wounded on both sides.  I think General Winds commanded the militia on both occasions.  I was also in the battle of Springfield & Connecticut farms in the summer of 1780, under Capt. Williams, when those villages with three churches were burned & the wife of the Rev. Mr. Caldwell was shot.  Major Samuel Hays of Newark generally had the command of the militia stationed at & near that town, I was under him, with our company when there, except when the army came out in large bodies, as they often were, and the whole  militia of the County ordered out to repel them.  In these cases, which happened very often, General Winds & General Dickinson had command, under whose orders Col. Van Cortland, Col Frelinghuyser, Col. Hathaway and Colonel Seely also acted.  My residence, altho' in Newark township, was at which is now called Orange, and distant from 4 to 6 & 8 miles from our stations in and about Newark.  The enemy had possession of Staten Island, New York, and of the Jersey shore along the Hudson for many miles, during nearly the whole period of the war.  There were no regular troops of the U. [United] States stationed near as for the defense and protection of the County -- it relied on the militia alone, & hence in that border, the militia was in continuous service, sometimes in larger & sometimes in smaller bodies from 1776 to the end of the war.  In the winter of 1780-81, either in December or January, I was regularly enlisted in the Wagon service, at Orange, under Capt. John Tichenor for the term of 3 months, and performed duty under his Quarter Master's Department through the months of January, February & March, carting stores, provisions, and for the army, from Newark, Morristown, and wheresoever I was ordered.
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Beside my monthly tours of service before stated, I was in the course of the war very often ordered out upon alarms, occasioned by sudden incursions of the enemy.  This species of duty continued sometimes for one week, sometimes for two weeks or longer.  I cannot particularize them, nor estimate their duration.  Yet I [illegible] believe they amount to several months of active service.  I am confident I have not mentioned nearly all of my monthly tours of duty, altho I have endeavoured to bring them to my recollection as much as possible.  I may in some instances have mistaken the month, or year, in which some particular duty was performed & possibly I have sometimes mistaken the name of my captain, but I have honestly and faithfully endeavoured to give a correct narrative of my revoluntionary services.  Exclusive of my wagon service in the winter of 1780, 81, I only believe I have served my country to the full extent of 28 months in militia duty, as a private, in the war of the revolution, for which I claim a pension.  During those months of duty, my services were faithful, constant, and unremitted -- I was not engaged or employed in any civil pursuit, but was constantly acting in obedience to the orders of my commanding officers.

I have mentioned the names of the officers as nearly as I recollect them under whose command I was generally placed.  There were others whom I often saw, viz:  Lad Stirling, General Sullivan, General Williamson, Colonel Shreve, Colonel Ogden, and Colonel Thomas.  Major [illegible] was our more immediate commander, and was best known by me and my privates.  I never rec'd. any written discharge, nor have I any documentary proof of my services, except for a few pages of Captain Thomas Williams pay roll, to whose Militia company I was attached for a considerable time, and under whose immediate command I performed much Militia duty. -- I have taken much pain to find some living witnesses of my services, but can find none except those whose depositions are hereunto annexed, viz:  of Samuel Perry, Nathanial Crane, Cyrus Freeman, Honorable John Condit, formerly of the U.S. Senate, & David Munn, all of them my neighbors, and some of the Revolution.  These depositions are all of a date anterior to this Declaration & this fact may perhaps require some explanation.  The reason is, that the testimony was intended to accompany a Declaration which was about to be completed before this court in August 1832
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and which was by the writer thereof mislaid or lost for several months, and in the meantime became so worn and defaced as to be unfit for the purpose when found, and it became necessary to prepare another for the occasion.  Two of this deposition were taken in October last.  That of the Honorable John Condit was taken at his own dwelling, in consequence his bodily indisposition, being confined t his room, and most of the time to his bed, by a paralytic affliction, disabling his body and limbs on his right side, and from which he has not recovered.  David Munn's deposition was also taken at the same time and place, it being unknown to me that their testimony would be relevant to my case when that of the other was taken.  I have also myself had a fever illness which has confined me to my house for a long period, and rendered me unable to go out and attend to business.  I am still very feeble and scarcely able to travel to the court known to make out my papers, and hope the Commissioner of Pensions will be able to decide upon my application and afford me such relief as my service may merit, with as little delay as may be practicable.

I hereby relinquish all claim to any pension, except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any state.

For my general character and standing in society, as a man of truth, I can refer to any of my neighbors and acquaintances in Essex County who know me, among whom I could name Hon. Silas Condit, William Pennington, & William Halley, Esq., & Amyl Dodd, Esq.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid in open court.
E. Van Arsdale, Jr.                                                                                          Caleb Tichenor

And the said court do hereby certify the declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant Caleb Tichenor was a Revolutionary soldier and served as here states.  And the court further certify that it appears to them that the Rev. Asa Hillyer
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who has subscribed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Orange in Essex County.  And that Silas Condit [crossed out] David D. Crane who has also signed the same, is also a resident of Newark, in said County, and is a credible person, and that this statement is entitled to credit.  And the Court do further certify that Major Nathaniel Crane & Samuel Perry, now deceased, were persons of fair character and fully entitled to belief, as witnesses.  And also , that Cyrus Freeman , Honorable John Condit, later a senator of the United States, and David Munn, all of Essex County, whose depositions, with those of Major Nathaniel Crane and Samuel Perry dead, are annexed to this Declaration, are persons of fair and unblemished reputation, and entitled to full credit and belief as witnesses.  The court are well satisfied that they were of them active and zealous whigs in the cause of American liberty.

By order of the court                                                               E. Van Arsdale, Jr., Clerk

Essex County ss:     I, Elias Van Arsdale, Junior, Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing, and amended affidavits, contain the proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Caleb Tichenor for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 24th day of January 1834.  I also hereby certify that Stephen D. Day, Esq., before whom the deposition of John Condit and David Munn were taken on the 3rd and 4th day of October 1833 and which are known to attached, is now, and was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in said County, duly commissioned and authorized, and that the signature of his name thereto, is genuine, as I verily believe.  Witness my hand, and seal of office, this 24th day of January 1834.

                                                                                             E. Van Arsdale, Jr., Clerk
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State of New Jersey
Essex County

Be it remembered that on the 20th day of September, 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas now sitting, Nathaniel Crane, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath sayeth that he is now seventy-four years of age on [illegible] that he resides in the Township of Bloomfield in the said County of Essex.  That he is well acquainted with this above named applicant, Caleb Tichenor, and has known him as long as he can recollect.  That he recollects perfectly well that this said Caleb Tichenor performed the five months service mentioned by him in his above declaration under Captain Abraham Lyon as this deponent was with him in the same company during the whole of said five months service.  That they were at Long Island an at White Plains and at the other places mentioned by him in his said application.
                                                                                                       Nathaniel Crane
Subscribed and
sworn to in open court 
the day and year aforesaid

A. Reynolds, Judge
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State of New Jersey
Essex County
Be it remembered that on the twentieth day of September A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Essex.  Now sitting Samuel Perry, who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is well acquainted with the above named applicant, Caleb Tichenor, and that he has known him as long as he can recollect.  And this deponent further saith that he was in actual service with the said Caleb Tichenor during the whole of the time mentioned by him in his above declaration (except for the five months service when this deponent was not out with [illegible] ) he recollects perfectly well serving with the said Caleb Tichenor under Captain John Peck for two months.  He also recollects serving with him under Captain Elijah Squire -- recollects that they were at Elizabeth Town together and that they were  [illegible] any [illegible] there -- he also states that he [illegible] said Caleb Tichenor always served their tours of duty together and in the same company as they happened to be in the same class.  He recollects them serving under Captain Thomas
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Williams, Captain Robert Nichols, Captain Elias Baldwin and Captain Reeve under some of the above named officers this deponent recollects that they served more than one month's tour of duty and this deponent further saith that he is satisfied and verily believes that the said Caleb Tichenor served and performed actual duty during the Revolutionary War in company with this deponent for  period of at least two years -- in this the deponent says he is very clear.

                                                                                                              Samuel Perry
Sworn and subscribed
in open court
the day and year above written

A. Reynolds,, Judge

Essex County Common Pleas -- Cyrus Freeman being duly sworn in o pen court on his oath saith that he is acquainted with Caleb Tichenor, the above applicant, that he knew him during the revolution, that he was with him and knows that he performed three months wagon service under Captain John Tichenor as by him above stated in his declaration -- and the deponent
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further sayeth from his knowledge of the said applicant and of the circumstances, he is  perfectly satisfied that his above declaration is correct and true.

                                       Cyrus Freeman

Sworn and subscribed
in open court
this 20th day of September
A.D. 1832.

A Reynolds, Judge


Caleb Tichenor
Application for Pension
Essex County, New Jersey
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State of New Jersey
Essex County

Before the subscriber, a Justice of Peace in said County, personally appears Doctor John Condit, of said county, in the 79th year of his age, for many years  member of the House of Representatives, and also for many years a member of the Senate in the Congress of the United States, and being first duly sworn on his oath saith as follows, viz:  I served in the army of the Revolution from the commencement thereof to the termination in the five months service in 1776 in Col. Van Cortlandt's regiment, and afterward as a surgeon of N. Jersey Militia, at various places and times as the urgency of the service required.  I was upon Long Island in the summer of '76 and at the battle fought between the American and British troops in August of that year at Flatbush.  I recollect perfectly well that Captain Abraham Lyon, with his company of men, was in that engagement and belonged also to Van Cortlandt's Regiment of five months [illegible].  I am and have been personally well acquainted with Caleb Tichenor of this County, now an applicant for a pension, can since the beginning of the Revolutionary war.  And altho I have not a clear and distinct remembrance of him at the battle of Long Island, yet I verily believe, and am fully persuaded that he was then and there personally present on duty in Captain Lyon's company as stated in his declaration.  Said Caleb Tichenor lived within a mile of me in time of the war and altho my duty as Surgeon and his as a private, [illegible] placed ;us together, yet, from the then trying circumstances of this Section of the County, and Tichenor's known attachment to Whig principles, as well as from the general neighborhood belief of his performance of duty, I am free to say that I verily believe he performed active Militia duty more or less in every year, during the continuance of the war.  Caleb Tichenor was then, and is now, a man of fair and unblemished character, and has always sustained a fair reputation for honesty, truth, and attachment to the cause of his County during the perilous struggle for liberty.   I was also well acquainted  with Captain Nathaniel Cream, whose deposition of Mr. Tichnor's service I have heard made.  I knew him before and during the war, and till the time of his death.  He was a man of unblemished character, an active Whig,  and is well known to me to have done much active Militia duty throughout the war.   The facts spoken of by Mr. Tichenor, of the death of Sam'l Crane and Stephen Ward, are known to me to be true.  Crane was killed on the spot -- Ward died of his wounds the next day, and Sam'l Lindsly was under my professional care till his recovery, a musket ball having been left in his ankle, and the limb mortified and nearly cost him his life.  He has been on the Inactive pension list from his recovery till his death some 15 or 16 years since.  

                                        John Condit

Sworn and subscribed before me at Orange, this 3d day of October, 1833.

 Stephen D. Day

I hereby certify that the above John Condit was for many years a member of the House of Reps. and also a Senator of the U. S. from N. Jersey and one of the most  respected and reputable citizens of the State.  Stephen D. Day , Esq., is well known to  me as a Magistrate in the County of Essex, and the signature of his name is genuine.  

Lewis Condit..
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[in upper left]
New Jersey 
County of Essex
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[illegible character]: Before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in said County, personally appears David Munn of said County, aged man 73 years & being first duly sworn, on his oath saith.-- I was a soldier in the war of the revolution & have submitted my Declaration to the Commissioner of Pensions under the law of Congress of June 1832. I have been well acquainted with Caleb Tichenor from our boyhood, having grown up together in the same neighbourhood. I knew him when he engaged in the five months service in 76, in Van Cortland's regiment, & altho [although] I was not a solder in that Regiment, yet, living near Mr. Tichenor, I knew he was out upon duty in that Regiment as was generally believed, & I knew also the time of his return from that service, after the expiration of the period. -- I remember his service in Capt. John Peck's company in the winter of 1777 in January & February as I then belonged also to the same company & performed the same duty keeping guard at Newark. I also remember the tour of duty of a month performed by him in November 1779, at Woodbridge, in Capt. Elias Baldwin's Company, under Colonel Hatheway's command. -- I remember him also on two tours at Newark on guard duty, at Newark, in Capt. Josiah Pierson's company -- one month in the season of husking corn, & another month in winter weather, probably in 78. I remember him as performing two months duty at Newark in 79, in Capt. Robt. Nichols' Company, the months I cannot recollect. I served with him, in the same company, on all these occasions. -- I served under Capt. Reeves two or three months at Newark & I believe Mr. Tichenor served with me in the same service. The sear [year] [illegible] I do not remember, but I think it was partly in warm & partly in cold weather. I performed Militia duty under Captain Thomas Williams very often, & Mr. Tichenor belonged also to the same company & to the same class with me, & I remember performing duty several times with him at Newark, under Capt. Williams, but do not recollect the months. -- I performed Militia service in Captain Jona. Condit's company also, with Mr. Tichenor at Newark, in the year of the cold winter (80) - the month not recollected. I also served in Capt. Thos. Williams company in 1780 & 81, with Mr. Tichenor, for proof which I refer to the pay rolls of said Capt Williams. -- In 1780, in the Summer, I served in Capt. Williams' company with Mr. Tichenor at Connect farm & Springfield- but do not recollect how long. -- I performed duty with Mr. Tichenor under Capt. Elijah Squire at Newark, not less than two months- & at the time when Stephen Ward & Saml. Lindsly were wounded & Saml. Crane killed. Mr. Crane I knew well, saw him dead in the street where he was shot, & his grave stone now stands in the graveyard in this town, dating his death Septr. 14th. 77.
Sworn & subscribed before me at Orange, Octr. 26. 1833. 
Stephen D Day 
David Maron

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I certify that this deponent is well known to me as a man of fair character & fully entitled to belief. -- 
Stephen D. Day Esqr. is known to me to be a magistrate of Essex County, & the signature of his name herewith, is genuine.
Oct. 4th. 1833. Lewis Condict
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Feby 27 '96
Will. Hist to
Mrs. D. D. Aitken

INVALID.
Rev War
File No. 1127
Caleb Tichenor
Priv. N.J. Line
Act: June 7 1832.
Index: -- Vol. N, Page 375
Arrangement of 1870.}
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Declaration of
Caleb Tichenor of
Essex Co N. Jersey
admd
3 pay rolls of Capt Thos
William Co. enclosed 
which
it is particularly desired [denied?] may be
returned to Lewis Condict
Morristown, N. Jersey
Hon T. Freeling hyson