Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,104, Jacob Van Etten, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE   
New Jersey 

VanEtten, Jacob
Sarah

NUMBER
W.20.104  

CONTENTS
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Reported
[?] to
Peter Van Ellen
Daniel Van Etten
Jane Van Inwagon
Van Etten
Jacob Van Etten
Margaret Vanderkin
Henry Van Etten
[torn off] children
surviving

10688
New York
Sarah Van Etten Dcd [deceased]
Widow of Jacob Van Etten
who was a pensioner under the Act of ----
and who died on the 16th July, 1825
[?] Wayne Co. in the State of N.Y
who was a Lient [Lieutenant] in the Compy
commanded by Captain ------ of the
Regt commanded by ------- 
in the Revolution ["line" crossed out] for 8 mth.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany [torn off]
at the rate of 106 Dollars 61
Cents per annum, to commence on the [torn off]
March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of
July, 1849 and sent to
Alex Ray, Present
Total amount, ------

[ Act July 7, 1838. ]

Recorded by [signed] Th Lumpkin Clerk
[Book] D Vol. 1 Page 185
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✔ 4156
Sarah VanEtten
widow of Jacob
N. York
Act 4 July 1836.
admitted
St J8 mos, $106.66/100
per an com 4 March
1836 to 5 January 1865

8 mo service as Lieut
Admitted in Clarkson [?]
by Commissioner
will be admitted March [?]
1838 as soon as 
declaration [?] is paid
A. Ray
Prest. [Present]
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836.

State of New York County of Wayne } ss
On this twenty fourth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before William Sisson First Judge of the County Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the peace in and for the said County of Wayne and aforesaid State, Sarah Van Etten, a resident of the town of Lyons in the County of Wayne and State of New York aforesaid, aged seventy four years in the month of July 1838, 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 4, 1836:
That she is the widow of Jacob Van Etten, who was a Lieutenant in the Militia of the State of New Jersey, and who was in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution - that according to the best of her recollection, knowledge and belief, the said Jacob Van Etten, her late husband, served as Lieutenant in Capt. Abraham Shimer's company of Militia in the State of New Jersey, which company belong to Col. Rosecrantz Regiment, in the spring of the year 1777, in or about the month of March, for at least eight days, and served along the Delaware River on the borders of New Jersey and New York.
That in the spring of 1778, the said Jacob Van Etten again went into service as Lieutenant in said Capt Shimers Company, and served as such for three months in said Militia, along the Delaware, under Major Cartwright - this service it is believed
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commenced in March in said year 1778.
That the latter part of June in the same year the said Capt Shimers company aforesaid was called into service again, under Major Westbrook and served on the Western frontiers of New Jersey and along the Delaware River and served three months and that during this three months the said Jacob Van Etten served as a Lieutenant in said company and he and the company were discharged about the first or second week in October of said year 1778 not in the latter part of October in said year 1778, the said Capt Shimers company was again called into service under Col Seward and served along the Deleware River against the Tories & Indians for at least two weeks, and that the said Jacob Van Etten served in the same company during the same time for the said term of two weeks as Lieutenant.
That some time in April 1779, the said Capt. Shimers company was called into service and doing duty, from that time to about the first of November of that year and that during all that time the said Jacob Van Etten was in the said Company doing duty and serving as Lieutenant.
That in October of the same year, 1779, was called into service the said Capt. Shimer's company to the Lockwac [Lacawac] against the Indians and were in service for ten days, and that during said ten days the said Jacob Van Etten served in said company as Lieutenant.
That the said Jacob Van Etten served as Lieutenant in said Capt Shimers Company aforesaid from some time in the month of April in the year 1780, until the first of November of said year - this service was along the Delaware frontier of New Jersey, in Maj. Westbrook's Battalion & Col. Rosecrantz Regt.
That in the month of April in the year 1781,
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the said Jacob Van Etten went into service as Lieutenant in said Capt. Shimer's said Company and served therein as such, until the last of October in that year - this service was performed along the Delaware frontier of New Jersey, and watching up and down the Delaware & gaurding the fording places and frontiers from the Indians and was done in the Battalion under Major Westbrook and Col Rosecrantz
That in the spring of the year 1782, the said Jacob Van Etten served in the Company of said Captain Shimer, for at least the term of three months, as Lieutenant, said service was performed along the frontier of New Jersey and along the frontiers of the Delaware bordering on New York, under the command of Major Westbrook and in the Regiment commanded by Col. Rosecrantz.
She further declares that the said Jacob Van Etten resided in Montague Sessex County State of New Jersey during the time all the before mentioned services were performed, when not in actual service out of said town, that she was brought in the same town & within two miles of where the said Jacob Van Etten then resided before their marriage - that she was well acquainted with him for several years before their marriage and knew that he was a Lieutenant in Capt Shimers Company of Militia and that he was much of the time in the service, in said Company and that he served as Lieutenant - that at the time of their marriage as herein after stated, he was in actual service, that he continued in the service after the marriage for a considerable part of that year, and that in the spring of the year next after their marriage, he went into the service in said Shimer's company and served for the term of at least three months as herein before stated. That she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim,
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She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Van Etten in the month of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, but cannot remember the particular day of the month; that her husband the aforesaid Jacob Van Etten, died on the sixteenth day of July one thousand Eight hundred and twenty five; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed
[right] her
[right] Sarah   X   Van Etten [X being her mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the dayand year above written before
[signed] Wm. Sisson First Judge of Wayne County Courts
[signed] Daniel Van Etten Witness

I hereby certify that on page 2. the words "October in" & "Westbrooks" interlined & "Westfall oblituated &" on " 4th page obliterated before Execution.
And I do hereby further certify that Sarah Van Etten the applicant above named cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court.
[signed] Wm. Sisson First Judge of Wayne County Courts
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State of New York Wayne County } ss: 
John Bullard of Lyons in the County of Wayne aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Jacob Van Etten who formerly resided in the town of Lyons in the County of Wayne aforesaid, and now deceased, and also with Sarah Van Etten his wife, and had known and been acquainted with them for several years before the death of the said Jacob Van Etten - that the said Jacob Van Etten died at the town of Lyons in the County of Wayne aforesaid some time in the month of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty five, at which time this deponent resided only about one mile from said Jacob Van Etten and was present at his funeral, and this deponent further deposeth and saith, that he has been ever since the death of the said Jacob Van Etten, well acquainted with the said Sarah Van Etten his widow, that she now resides in the town of Lyons in the County of Wayne aforesaid, and has resided there for the most of the time since her husbands death, that she has not been married since the death of the said Jacob Van Etten, but has remained a widow ever since that period - And this deponent further deposeth and saith that the said Sarah Van Etten above mentioned is the [rest of line obscured] subscribed and made the declaration hereto annexed
[signed Sara Van Etten

Subscribed and sworn this 26th day of November 1838 Before me and I do certify that I am well acquainted with said deponent, that he sustains a fair reputation & that his statement & testimony is entitled to full credit
[signed] Wm. Sisson First Judge of Wayne County Courts
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State of New York County of Wayne ss }
I Daniel Chapman, Deputy Clerk of the Court of record of said County, do hereby certify
that William Sisson Esquire, wherefore whom  the the preceding and annexed declaration of Sarah Van Ellen purports  to have been sworn, and also before whom the preceding
and annexed affidavit of John Bullard purports to have been sworn, was, at the time of taking said depositions respectively, first Judge of said Court of Record, duly authorized to
take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge, and verily believe his respective signatures to the Jurats of said Declaration and affidavit and to the certificate subjoined to said declaration to be genuine. Witness my hand, and the seal of the Court of Common pleas of said County Nov 28. 1838.
[signed] D. Chapman
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State of New York Orange County } ss
Thomas Decker of the town of Deerpark in the said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was born in the State of New York and that when a small boy he removed to the town of Montague Sussex County New Jersey. That he well remember the war of the Revolution and many of the [?]nes that transpired on the Delaware frontier during the said war.
He further saith that he was well acquainted with Jacob Van Etten who was a Lieutenant in a company commanded by Captain Abraham Shimer and served in the war on the western frontier of New Jersey along the Delaware River and that he was well acquainted with Sarah Decker of Montague in the said county and he further deposeth and saith that sometime in the latter part of May one thousand Seven hundred and eighty one he was present at the house of the father of the above named Sarah Decker and their saw the above named Jacob Van Etten lawfully Married to the said Sarah Decker by Samuel Westbrook who was then an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Sussex in the State of New Jersey and who was duly authorised by the oath of his office to solemnize the marriage ceremony but from old age and loss of memory he is unable to state the day of the month but that he did actualy see the above named Jacob Van Etten married to Sarah Decker as above stated
[right] his
[right] Thomas   X   Decker [X being his mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark

Sworn and subscribed the 22d of October 1838 by making his mark, because he was not taught to write before me
[signed] Peter E. Gumaer Commissioner of Deeds of the said County of Orange
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I certify that Thomas Decker who made and subscribed the within affidavit is a man of truth and veracity and his statements herein made are entitled to full credit and belief
[signed] Peter E. Gumaer Commissioner of Deeds &c.

State of New York Orange County ss }
Albert J. Benton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange, Do hereby cCertify that Peter E Gumaer before whom the foregoing affidavit was Subscribed and Sworn and who Subscribed the foregoing Certificate, was at the time thereof a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County: And further that I am well acquainted with
the hand writing of the said Commissioner and verily believe that the Signature to the said affidavit and Certificate purporting to be his is genuine-
In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my name and affixed the seal of
the said County, the 25th day of October 1838
[signed] A. S. Benton
Clerk

[illegible Court Seal attached lower left]
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State of New Jersey Sussex County }
Evert Van Auken of the town of Montague in said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is in the seventy eighth year of his age and that he was a soldier in the Militia of the war of the Revolution and that he was enroled in a company commanded by Captain Abraham Shimer and Lieutenant Jacob Van Etten Peter Vanoy was Ensign part of the time and Benjamin Hornbeck the rest of the time during the war he further saith that the said company belonged to Col Rosecrantz Regiment and in the battalion commanded by Major Westbrook.
He further saith that in the spring of the year of 1777 in this month March as he think in the latter part of March Captain Shimers company was called out in pursuit of the tories and was out at least eight days along the Delaware River on the borders of New Jersey and New York and said Van Etten was Lieutenant in said service - that in the spring of 1778 Captain Shimerd company was called into service along the Delsware under the charge of Major Cartwright and served three months up and down the Delaware in different places under Jacob Van Etten served  during the said tour as Lieutenant the service commenced in the month of March. He further saith that in the latter part of June following Captain Shimers company was again called into service under Major Westbrook along the western frontiers of New Jersey and along the Delaware River and served again served three months and Jacob Van Etten served in the said company and in the said service three months as a Lieutenant
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and were discharged some time about the first or second week in October the said company commanded by Captain Shimers was again called into service under Col Seward in the latter part of October of the said year and served along the Delaware River against the Indians and tories at least two weeks and Jacob Van Allen served in the said company as the Lieutenant for at least two weeks He further saith that in the spring of 1779 the Indians commit so many depredations that it was thought advisable to keep some companies continually in readiness along the Delaware frontier from Spring until fall and Captain Shimers company was one of the said companies and was called into service sometime in April and was held in readiness and was doing duty untill the Indians retired which was about the first of November of the said year and that during this time Jacob Van Etten acted as Lieutenant
He further saith that in October in the said year the said company was called to the Lackwac [Lacawac]  against the Indians and were out at least ten days under Captain Shimer and Lieutenant Jacob Van Etten He further saith that in April 1780 Captain Shimers company was again organized and commenced service and continued to do duty untill the first of November of the said year this was along the Delaware frontier of New Jersey
He further saith that in the month of April Captain Shimers Company was again called into service along the Delaware frontier of New Jersey
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and served untill the Indians again returned to winter quarters which was about the last of October this company was on duly watching up and down the Delaware guarding the fording places and the frontiers from the Indians and he further saith that Jacob Van Etten acted and sered as a Lieutenant during the two last above mentioned services. He further saith that in the spring of the year of 1782 the Indians again made their appearance on the Delaware frontier and remained lurking along the Delaware during the fore part of the season and Capt Shimers Company was held in readiness and was on duty for at least three or four months and Jacob Van Etten acted and done duty as a lieutenant in the said company at least three months during the said year along the frontier of New Jersey and along the frontiers of the Delaware bordering on New York those services were from under the command of Major Westbrook and in the Regiment commanded by Col Rosecrantz He further saith that he belonged to the said company during the said war begining in the year of 1777 and in all the time of the war he knew the said Jacob Van Ettten was a Lieutenant in Capt Shimer company in this he is not mistaken
Sworn and Subscribed this 30th day of October 1836.[?]
[right] his
[right] Evert   X   Vanaken [X being his mark in lieu of a signature]
[right] mark

Before me by making his mark [signed] James Cole Justice of the Peace.
Witness [signed] John Wharton
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I James R Cole before whom the foregoing deposition was taken do certify that Evert Van Auken is a man that has long been known to me and I know him to be a man correct in all his statements between man and man and I verily believe that his statements herein made are correct and entitled to full credit and belief
[signed] James R Cole Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey Sussex County ss }
I Joseph E Edsall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Sussex  do hereby Certify that James R Cole Esquire  before whom the foregoing deposition appears to have been taken was at the time of the taking of the Said deposition and still is a Justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that his Signature thereto written is Genuine --
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court at Newton this tenth day of November in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty eight
[signed] Jos. E Edsall

[illegible Court Seal attached lower left]
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State of New Jersey Sussex County }
Aaron Fradenburgh being duly  Sworn deposeth and saith that he was 76 years of age on the first day of September last that he was born in the town of Montague in the said county bordering on the Delaware River and on the western frontier of New Jersey and that in the summer of the year of 1779 he was enrolled in company of Militia commanded by Abraham Shimer as Captain Jacob Van Etten was Lieutenant and Peter Vannoy was Ensign Part of the time and Benjamin Hornbeck the rest of the time during the war He further saith that the said company belonged to Col Resecranze Regiment and to the Battalion commanded by Major Samuel Westbrook and that the frontier of New Jersey along the Delaware required men continually to be on duty and Captain Shimers company was seleced as one that should remain on duty along the frontier from spring untill fall. This deponent further saith that the  first year of his enrolment he must have done at least two months duty on the Delaware frontier against the Indians and was discharged about the first of November of the above named year and that Jacob Van Etten was Lieutenant in the said company and served the same amount of time which must have been at least two months He further saith that this service was done in the batallion commanded by Major Westbrook He further saith that in April of the year 1780 the Indians again made their appearance on the frontiers of New Jersey and Capt Shimers company were called in to serve and remained in service during
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the summer and fall untill the Indians retired from the frontiers and returned to winter quarters which according to the best of his recolection was about the first of November of the same year and he further saith that Jacob Van Etten service as a Lieutenant in the aforesaid company and must have served from the first of April to November at least six months in Major Westfalls battallion and Col Rosecrantz Reg He further saith that Capt Shimers Company was again called in to actual service on the Deleware frontier and were stationed along the said River during the summer of 1781 from the first of April untill about the last of October of the same year to guard the same against the Indians who infested the Delaware frontier and often laid fields of grain in waste and slew many of the inhabitants and that Jacob Van Etten served as a Lieutenant from the first of April untill the last of Octobern in the said company this service was done in the Battallion under Major Westbrook and Col Rosecrantz  
He further saith that in the spring of 1782 the company of Capt Shimer was again called in to service on the appearance of the Indians on the Delaware frontier of New Jersey which was about the first of April and remained in service about four months when the border war began to subeside and the dawn of peace began to appear and the people began to return to their farms which had been almost neglected for four years in this four months service Jacob Van Etten acted as a Lieutenant and done duty in Captain Shimers Company
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and in Major Westfalls Battallion and in Col Rosecrantz Regiment
This deponent further saith that he makes this affidavit from his actual nowledge of the frontier war and from his services done
in the company of Captain Shimers in which Jacob Van Etten acted as Lieutenant as before stated [signed] Aaron Fredenburgh

Sworn and subscribed this 23rd day of October 1838 before me. [signed] James R Cole Justice of the Peace

I certify that I have been acquanted with Aaron Fradenburg, who made and subscribed the foregoing affidavit for more than thirty years and know him to be a man reputed for truth and honesty in the neighbourhood where he lives and his word has never been doubted whether under oath or otherwise and I fully believe that his statements herein made he being a man of sound mind are certainly entitled to full credit and belief
[signed] James R Cole Justice of the Peace. State of New for

State of New Jersey Essex County ss } 
I Joseph H. Case Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Essex do  hereby Certify James R Cole Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition appears to have been taken was at the time of taking the same and still is an acting Justice of the peace in andfor said County and  that his signature above written is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name  and affixed the seal of said Court at Newton in said County this twenty seventh  day of October one hundred and thirty eight
[signed] Jos. E Edsall

[illegible Court Seal attached lower left]
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State of New York County of Wayne ss: 
I Alexander R. Williams Clerk of the County Court of said County holden at Newark in and for said County, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence was produced in said Court that Sarah Van Etten late of Arcadia in said County died on the 5th day of January 1845. that she was the widow of Jacob Van Etten late of Lyons in said County who was a Leiutenant in the Revolutionary war, and who died in Lyons aforesaid sometime in the month of July 1845. and that she left Peter Van Etten, Daniel Van Etten, Jane Van Inwagen, Jacob Van Etten Margaret Vanderkarr & Henry Van Etten children of herself and the said Jacob Van Etten, and that at the time of her death she was an applicant for a pension for services of the said Jacob Van Etten as Lieutenant aforesaid in the New Jersey Militia.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set [?] my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Lyons this twenty fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord 1849. 
[signed] Alex B. Williams Clerk
[sighed] By S B  Gavitt Deacon,
(Cluralsenh.) [sp?]
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State of New York. County of Wayne } ss
On this 5th day of May 1849 personally appeared before the subscriber
Justice of the Peace in and for said County Jacob Van Etten one of the surviving children of Sarah Van Etten deceased and who died on the fifth day of January 1845 leaving sundry manner[?]  children as more fully expressed under seal of the court of Wayne County on the 24th March 1849
The said Sarah Van Etten in her life time having made a declaration under act of Congress 4th July 1836 for pension on account of his deceased husband Lieutenant Jacob Van Ettens services
The object of the application now being made in right of said Sarah and this is to relinquish the claim to a pension under act of 4 July 1836 and hereby assert a claim to the act of 7th July 1838 in right of their deceased mother Sarah Van Etten 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me [signed] Edwin Pully J.P.
[signed] Jacob Waltonin behalf of the surviving children

State of New York Wayne County Clerks Office ss. 
I Alexander B William Clerk of Wayne County do hereby certify that Edwin Pultz Esq. before whom the above affidavit and declaration was made was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly qualified & authorized to take the same. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the durats of said affidavit or declaration is his genuine signature.
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal of said County at Lyons this Seventh day of May in the year One thousand Eight hundred and forty nine. 
[signed] S B Garitt Dep. Clk
Wyne Co.
[illegible]
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Peter Van Etten
Affidavit
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State of New York Wayne County } ss:
Peter Van Etten of Sodus in said County being duly sworn, before Clark Mason a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Says; that the Record hereunto annexed, is a true copy of the record of his age as recorded by his Father, and that it is a true record of his age, and that he had a brother John Van Etten about two years older than himself, and that he distinctly recollects that the original record stated that his brother John was born in the year 1782, But does not recollect what month, and further this deponent saith not.
Subscribed and Sworn this 13th day of April 1849 before me, [signed] Clark Mason J. P.

State of New York Wayne County Clerks Office ss:
I Alexander Williams Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Clark Mason Esq and Edwin Pultz Esq. whose name are subrented [sp] to the durats of the annexed affidavits, and before whom the same purports to have been taken were each at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly elected, qualified and authorized to take the same Further that I am well acquainted with their hand writing and verily believe their names subscribed to said jurats of affidavits are respectively genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County and of the Courts of Record thereof at Lyons this thirteenth day of April 1849.
By
[signed] AA B Williams Clerk
[signed] S B Garitt Dep Clerk

[illegible Court Seal attached lower left]
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FAMILY RECORD.

Deaths.
Jacob Van Etten Died July 6 1825 Aged 85 years and 17 Days
F][illegible] 26 - 1835 Was our Fourth Daughter Born and Died the eighth [rest cut off]
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FAMILY RECORD.
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MARRIAGES.

Peter Van Etten and Poley Pitcher was married December 25 1813 
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Peter Van Etten was Born February 17 1784

births.
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State of Michigan Wayne County } ss
On this 13th day of June 1849 personally appeared before the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Sarah McNutty a resident of the town of Plymouth in the County of Wayne and State of Michigan aged Sixty five years a woman of truth and veracity who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath depose and say that the record hereunto attached is taken from the  family bible of this deponent and that the record of the birth of John Van Etten thereon made is a true record of his birth and that he was born on the 20th day of February 1782 as is there stated that the said John Van Etten was the oldest child of Jacob Van Etten & Sarah Van Etten formerly Sarah Decker That at the time of his birth his father Jacob Van Etten lived in the township of Montague in the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey That she was formerly the wife of the aforesaid John Van Etten and that they were married in the town County and State aforesaid That they afterward moved into the western part of New York near to a place now called Lyons in the County of Wayne where, on the 18th day of November 1812 the said John Van Etten died and that she afterwards married a man by the name of Peter McNulty and has moved to the State of Michigan where she now resides That the record of the birth of Sarah Vanoy is the record of her own birth and the record of the births of James Peter Daniel and Hannah Van Etten are true records of the birth of the children of the said John and Sarah Van Etten That the record of the birth of John Van Etten is in the hand writing of a person by the name of Peter McNulty That the record hereunto attached is a record of the death of the said John Van Etten That the record
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of the birth of Mary and William McNuly is a record of
the birth of children by her last husband Peter McNulty She further deposeth and saith that Jacob Van Etten and Sarah his wife moved from Sussex County in New Jersey many years since and settled near Lyons Wayne County New York where the said Jacob Van Etter afterwards died leaving a widow who as she has been informed died sometime in the beginning of the year 1845 and who she believes was at the time of her death an applicant for a pension from the United States for services rendered by the said Jacob Van Etten in the Revolutionary war
She further deposeth and saith that the Brothers of the said John Van Etten whose name is recorded on the attached bible record and who was the oldest child of the aforesaid Jacob and Sarah Van Etten were named Peter Jacob Daniel and Samuel who died in, Lyons aforesaid and Henry that Peter and Jacob Now live in Wayne County New York that Daniel is dead and that Henry lives in the State of Ohio - She further saith that she new  the father and mother of John Van Etten Viz Jacob and Sarah Van Etten living together as husband and wife when she was a very young girl and that they were neighbors to her parents and that she is satisfied that her husband John Van Etten who as she has before stated was the son of Jacob and Sarah Van Etten was more than one year older than herself That she never heard the marriage of the said Jacob Van Etten and Sarah Decker doubted
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year before written
[signed] Sarah McMcNulty
Before me ( The words, and Samuel who died in Lyons aforesaid, made in 16th line before signing. as also the remarks in the margin)
[signed] B. Holbrook [?]
Justice of the Peace

[left margin on edge]
And the deponent further saith that her Husband went into the service of the United States on the first day of July 1872 & was drafted for six months, but was taken sick of measles and came home and died the 18th day of November 1872.
[/left margin on edge]
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[printed form, blanks filled in by hand]

State of Michigan, COUNTY OF WAYNE, } ss.
I, SILAS A. BAGG, Clerk of said County of Wayne, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that B. Holbrook Jr whose name is subscribed to the certificate or proof of acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and therein written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace for said county, duly Elected and qualified, and duly authorized to take the same:
AND FURTHER, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such [said?] Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate or proof of acknowledgment, is genuine:  I FURTHER CERTIFY,that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of this State.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said county, at the City of Detroit this Fifteenth day of June A. D. 1849.
[signed] Silas A. Bagg Clerk.
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Mary McNulty was born april 10 1816

Arnold McNulty was born January 18 [?] 1819

Anna Chamberland [?] July 12th 182?
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Jacab Van Etten
born Febuary 4 1758
Sarah Corey has
July 1785
James Van Etten was
born March 13 1801




Hugh Van Etten 
was born March16 1821
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Addl case
of Sarah Van Etten
Dec 
widow of Jacob.
W.G. Wade
Present
Triplett

J.E. Heath Esq
Com of Pensions
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Important
Index, not duplicated elsewhere
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Sarah Van Etten N.Y.
to same 28 June 1833


same May 26 the same
Nov 18. 1842
W. S. S. Ellsonth June 1826
wid of Jacob
Act July 1838
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Sarah Van Etten
N.Y. admitted, 1836,
SAP.
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20104
Sarah Van Etten
Wid of 
Jacob Van Etten
Lieut Rev War
Act: March 3d /43
Index:-- Vol. M,  Page 294
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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July 28
N.Y. City

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widow of Jacob
was a year
in the Revolution
Harbied 16 July 1818
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of
106 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.
---
landing 5th Jany 1845
Certificate of Pension issued
the
and sent to
12th day of July
Alex Ray
Esq
R
of March 3, 1843 & June
17, 1844.
Cook
Present
Page 89
Page 40

Certificate Jackets
much torn
Page 41

To the Commission
Auburn N.Y
Aug. 18, 1838.
of Pensions-
Dear In
I have a power of Attorney to draw
or some part of the same,
other the pension of Jacob Van Etten
late of the State of New York and
officer in the Revolutionary War,
which I will forward of your
regulations require before any
information can be given.
I wish to enquire whether
his pension has been drawn,
& if to - who by at what
time & to what amount &
whether they drew the wholethat
he was entitled to-- I reply
B.S.
will oblige
is important
your Respectfully
that are early answer be
to protect the rights
Geo. Humphreys
time of his heirs
Page 42

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Page 43


J. L.
Edwards Esq. Court Pensions
Dear sir:
At the request of Sarah Van Etten, I
send you her declaration and accompanying decree
ments made under the act of Congress of July 4, 1836,
claiming a Pension as widow of Jacob Van Etten, who
served as a Lieutenant in the revolutionary warshe
hopes that her case will be considered as satisfactorily
established, by her declaration and proofs
thereto attached. She wishes the decision commu
nicated to me and certificate sent to me. Have
the goodness to let me hear from you at as early
a day as your convenience will admit of, and
much oblige your
Obt. Sent Wm Sisson
Lyons Wayne Co. N.Y. Nov. 28 1838
Page 44


Copied
From Major Westbrook
Mach 7th June 1832
Page 45

Service
Copied
14
1
11 ┃
11 ┃
to
18
11
11
11
From Major Westbrook's
declaration under act of 7th June 1832
claimed as Major.
1776 as Major I months
77
10
16
78
79
10
80
81
82
S
9
Page 46

J. L.
Edwards Esquire
Comissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
Page 47

J.L. Edwards Esq
Court of Pensions
●
Dear Sir
In your letter of June 10. 1839
you state that the papers of Mrs Sarah Van Etten
widow of Jacob Van Etten, have been examined &
filed. The claims that her husband rendered various
services during the Revolutionary war, as Lieutenant
in Capt. Abraham Shire's Company, Col. Rosecrantz
Regiment, as will appear by reference to her Declara
tion & the proof accompanying it. Her husband
was proved by parol to be a Lieutenant and to have
acted & performed a great many tours of service as
such, and she verily thought the proofs full and
abundant to entitle her to a full pension as a
widow of a Lieutenant, but you decided otherwise.
since that time she and her friends, have endeavored
to strengthen her case by additional proofs and
or accompanying this
enclosed I send an additional affidavit made by
Declarent, & the depositions of John Van Aben, Levi
Van Auken, Thos Ducker Wilhelmus Keydendall,
Dinah Cuddeback & Wilhelmus Banet-all tending
to prove her husband a Lieutenant & to show
that he served as such, there is no record even
dence of her her husbands commission found, but
there is abundant evidence of his having been a
Lieutenant & of his saving as such during the
Revolutionary War, or most of it and of his have
ing rendered a great many tours of service in
that capacity in different periods of the War
Page 48

I see no provision in the Law of Congress, or in the
regulations delopted by the War Department to carry
into effect the provisions of the act of 4. July 1836, under
which the applicant claims, which makes the Commission
or the record of it indispensible or the only
evidence, all that is, or, can be reasonably required
is the best evidence the case is capable of, and you
now have the very but the present declarant can
produce, as to her husband being & serving as a
Lieutenant, a good deal of service is proved by the
depositions. It is barely possible that more
depositions of the same kind might be produced
1
though it is not known that there can be. The
is no doubt, sufficient to satisfy you of the
fact, if this kind of proof can do it & it does
appear to me that it ought to, especially at
this great distance of time. Her husband and
herself were brought up and resided during the
war, in Montague, Sussex Co. New Jersey were
well acquainted before the War.
The Persons who
resided there at the time and who would be likely to
know the most respecting the business, are, no
doubt, dead, otherwise, some might, perhaps be
found who may have seen his Commission
or knew that he had one, or who might and the
widow in obtaining proof in her case.
she is a poor, old, feeble & helpless female, with
no means to help herself with & wholly dependent
Page 49

on her friends for protection & subsistence. she
knows that her husband was a Lieutenant that he
served in the war revolutionary war as such, both
before and after their marriage that her claim to a
Pension is just & believes her proof, legally sufficient
, and the hope & trust confidently, that
her application will be granted, although it
has been long delayed. will you please to exe
amine her case with the additional proof & if you
shall deem it consistent with your duty, please
to send to me a certificate for her. I am
with great respect
your Obt Sert
Wm Sisson
yous February 14. 1842
Wayne Co. N.Y
3
Page 50


J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, City , DC
June 26
Page 51

J. L.
Edwards Esquire
Comr of Pensions
Dear Sir
Your letter of the 10th instant has
been received, respecting the application of Sarah
Van Etten, for a pension. By which it appears that
you have mistaken, the name of the Captain of the
Company in which the alledges her husband served
she states the name in her Declaration, & so it is
stated in all the papers accompanying the Declaration ┃
to be Capt Abraham Shimer, & not Skinner, as
you call him She called the name SIMER, but
you call it SKINNERY. Have the goodness to re-exam
in the papers & review the case, with as little delay
as possible & let me hear from you again, if you please
I hope you will do it immediately as there has
been already nearly seven months delay
& oblige your Obt. Servt
 Wm Sisson
Lynn  June 21, 1839
Page 52


Sarah Van Etten


Washington City, D.C. 
Comr of Pensions
J.L.  Edwards Esquire
Page 53

J L. Edwards Esq.
 Com of Pensions

Dear Sir
In February last I sent
to you several additional depositions in the
case of Sarah Van Etten, widow of Jacob
Van Etten, deceased, for a pension underlin
act of Congress of 4th July 1836. Since
which time I have not heard any thing from
you on the subject, & not having heard, I take
the liberty to inquire whether they were received

& if so, to request that you will refer to them &
the letter inclosing them & let me hear from
you on the subject & much oblige
Your Obt. Servt
Wm Sisson
Yours  November 14. 1842
Page 54

431
Apl 18. 1843.
NY
May 3d
1843
Bethiah Recd
J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington, City
Page 55


Roberter April 11th 1843
Sir;
I enclose the Pension papers of Mr Reed, to
have her pension under the act 7 March
she was a pention under the act of
July 1838 and her bed was a
pension under the act of 1832
It is therefore, pension that if any
informality should be discoused in the present
paper, abundant evidence rests in this
dependment to baffly any defect
same may unto you

Edward
Gilbert
Page 56

Sir
Washington Feby 8 49
I have received the enclosed evidence in the
of Mrs Sarah Van Etten or New York who asserted a
claim to act July 4, 1836.
for letter of Feby 1842 in her case directed to
William Sepon E. is before me, in which you
suggest an examination of the records or Trenton
for the service of Capt Shiners Company
I do not know the tour of service stated in the
widows declaration, but is seen by your letter
that no service is shown after 1778
or is shown by the enclosed evidence from the Rectory
of the State of New Jersey that Jacob Van Etten was
appointed a Liew or Captain Abraham
-
Thomas Company 3 Bat. N Jersey Militia
March 1. 1776
the examination of the alleged service in
the declaration, will show how far the applicants
statement is sustained by the evidence now sub
mitted, being the month and year service as
will in the conclusion of the certificate the
ordinance under which the troops were raised the

two affidavit enclosed will I presence
be deemed sufficient to establish the marriage
J. L.
Edwards and
I remain
Com of Pensions
most respects
Alex Ray
Page 57

Comm. J. L. Edwards,

           Feb 8, 49
Sir:

I and Smith additional
Evidence  in the case of Sarah Van Etten born
then of New York under Act 1836
May I request your early attention
I remain 
H. Purman
Page 58


Washington
Decr 17th 1837
Sir,
On the 5th day of July last I wrote to the com
of Pensions in the claim of Sarah Van Etten, who claimed
the benefits of the 3d Section of Act of Congress of 4th July 1836
but was allowed the benefits of act of 7th July 1838, and
for reasons stated in such letter asked, a reexamination of
her claim.-- I again request such reexamination, and
,
enclose herewith some additional evidence in support of the
claim under act of 4th July 1836
Enclosed is the life of the Secy of State of
N.J. showing that Samuel Westbrook, was a Justice of the
Peace in May 1781, & that his term of Office expired on
the 13th day of Sept 1781
The enclosed copy of Major Westbrooks
statement, as sworn to by him, in his application for the benefit
of the act of 7th June 1832, and for which he was pensioned
at $600 per Annum. -- In 1779, 1780 + 1781. the widow claims
7 mo service as having been performed by her husband
in each year, under Major Westbrook, Major Westbrook upon
& swears he served, in 1779, 10 mo. 1780, 11. Mo. 1781, 11 mos and
11 Mo. in 1782, the claim out about only 3 mo in 1782, as having been
performed by her husband,
With this additional proof it is believed
the claim is fully established under the act of 4th July 1836.
Page 59

J E Heath Esq
Com Pensions

I am, respectfully
Your Obt Sert
W. G. Wade
Page 60

Sarah Van Etten
widow of Jacob
Pens act 38 New York,
Benefits of 8 Section of
Act of 4th July 1836 is
claimed, and an
of the pension.
Page 61

State of New York
County of Wayne
Surrogate Office,

I Leander S. Ketchum
County Judge of the County aforesaid, duly and
thorized to do the duties of Surrogate in and for said
County do hereby certify that Peter Van Etten
of the Town of Sodus in said County, is the
administrator of Sarah Van Etten decd late of and
County who was the widow of Jacob Van Etten
duly appointed and authorized to act as such
Sarah
Vitton was an
applicant for a pension
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & ungessed
the seal of said Court this 9th day of Jany 1852
Leander S. Ketcham
County Judge
Page 62

In the claim of
Sarah VanEtten
[Illegible] ast 38- N.Y. claimed act 36
For P Office 5th July 51
Page 63

Rose, New York
5th July 1851.
Sir,
Sarah VanEtten, asserted a claim under act 4th July 1836, for 30 months, and 22 days service of her said husband Jacob Van Etten, as Lieutenant.
From memorandum of proofs filed
Page 64

that if there is any truth in the statements of the widow
and half a dozen witnesses, each and all of whom
are certified to be credible persons, this is a just
claim under act of 4th July 1836, and also, for at
least
two years service of her husband as Lieut.
upon what grounds, just eight months service
was admitted, is not readily conceived,
If upon the principle that she claims for eight
tours of service, and allowing one month each, it
cannot be doing justice to the claimant or to
the Department, as in two different tours the
claims less three half a month each, and in three tours
months each, and thee, each three months, and
further more if admitted upon such principle
it must have been satisfactorily even that one
or move town was performed, after their mining
and even after the date of the birth of one of their
children as shown by the old record with the
papers filed,
The foregoing are some of the reasons
for believing injustice has been done the claiment
in adjusting her claim, and for such reasons
reexamination of the papers is respectfully.
requested,
I am
Respectfully
J E Heath Esq
Com Pens
Page 65

Sarah Van Etten
Pensd act 26 N.Y.
58 -8573
Ex by M Wade
Feb 51
Page 66

Sir
Rose New York
October 5th 1850,
This is the request that you will
company with W. G. Wade of Rose
relation to my mothers pension. Sarah
Van Etten, he was pensioned under
act of Congress of 4th July 1836 or 7th July 1833
who died about
1846,
I am Respectfully,
Norm Abe  Dent
Peter Van Eatten
Comm Pensions
Washington
Page 67

James
L. Edwards

Esq
commissioner of Pensions
Page 68

Washington
July 24 /49
James L. Edwards Esq
Sir
the pension certificate in the case
of Sarah Van Etten de late of New York Albany
agency. I forwarded it to one of the surving heirs
the informs me that Daniel Van Etten name
is inserted in the body of the certificate as one of the
children now living, when in fact he is dead
and that evilliner of his death is on file with
the paper in the case
I must, therefore, request that the
pay agent at Albany be instructed to
pay the amount to the other heirs that none
line as named in the certificate, and omit
or was, the name of Daniel as you may think
best.
I remain your
in respectfully
Alex Ray
Page 69

James L. Edward Esq
Washington
Commission
Sir
May 11./49
In the case of Sarah
Van Etten decd late of New York the aperted a
claim to at 1836. and which is admitted for
no servis but no certificate opned until further
proof of the time of her death, and the
names of her serving children may protes
I herewith, nor enclose,
record proof of death, marriage, death, and
the names of the surving children
as this case has been a very
long time before the department.
have now respectfully to request the farm
of daily action.
I remain
or more of
Alex Ray
Page 70

State of New York
Wayne County
On this 12th day of May
Edwin Pultz
personally appeared before
undersigned a Justice of
the Peace in and for said County Came Polly M
Harwood resident of Arcadia in the County and State aforesaid
person of truth and veracity who being first duly
sworn according to law doth on their oath depose
and say that they were acquainted with Sarah Van
Etten widow of Jacob Van Etten and that the
said Sarah Pratt died at the residence of
her son Jacob Van Etten in the town of Arcadia
County of Wayne and State of New York on
the fifth day of January Eighteen hundred
and forty five that this deponent was present
where she died and that the said Sarah Van
Etten at the time of her death was an applicant
for a Pension for the services of her husband Jacob
Van Etten as a Lieutenant in the New Jersey
late in the Revolutionary war Sworn to and
subscribed the day and year last above mentioned
Before me
Polly Harwood
Sworn this 22nd day of May 1849
before me
Edwin Pultz Justice of the Peace
Page 71

STATE OF NEW YORK,
WAYNE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, } ss.
M
ALExANDER B. WILLIAMS, Clerk of said County,
and of the Court of Record thereof, do hereby certify that this
Pultz
Esquire, before whom the annexed affect
was taken, was, at the time of taking such Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly
elected and sworn, and authorized by the laws of said State to administer oaths and affirmations.
Further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe his
name subscribed to the Jurat of the annexed affects to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County
and of the Court of Record thereof, at Lyons, this
me
1849
day of
A B Williams.
Clerk.
Ford
Page 72

Sarah Van Etten
Pens act 7th July 1
New York
1838
Claim now asserted under
act 4th July 1836, and
an increase of the pension
is claimed.-
W. S. Wade,
Rose W.
at
Page 73

State of New York
County of Wayne
Peter Van Etten
Loders
---
in said County & state being
duly sworn according to law saith that he is one of the
children of Sarah Van Etten decd widow of Jacob
Van Etten- the identical person to whom was allowed
a pension as the widow of said Jacob Van
Etten at the rate of $106 in whose name
the pension certificate was issued after herdecease

under act of Congress of 7th July 1838
that this deponent makes this declaration for
the purpose of claiming the benefits of the act of
Congress of 4th July 1836, and claiming the full
amount of pension due her two years service
as Lietenant. He further states that
W G Wade of Rose New York is the attorney
duly authorized to investigate said claim
for and in behalf of the surviving children
Sworn & Subscribed before
me this
15th day of May 1831
Nathaniel Kellogg
Peter Van Etten

.
.
Justice of the peace
Page 74

State of New York
Wayne County Clerk's Office
I have I
-
-
Deputy
Clerk of the County Court,
in and for the county and state above mentioned, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that
Nathaniel Kellogg when genuine signature appears to the asnexed
jurat
was, at the time of signing the same
a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, duly elected and
sworn; that all his official acts, as such, are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the
aforesaid County Court is a court of Record, having general Jurisdiction, a Clerk and Seal.
hereunto set my hand and my more, the seal of said Court and County, at Lyons.
day of July
Sam Hart John
Page 75

affidavit for
Peter Van Etten
administrator
of
Sarah Van Etten
deceased
N.Y. W. 43
A. H. Markland
Present
Page 76

CERTIFICATE.
Printed by Lee, Mann & Co.,
ily American Office, Rochester.
The people of the State of New York,
To all to whom these Presents shall come, or may concern, send Greeting
the now De, That at a County of Wayne
and
 12 day of January one thousand eight hundred
and fifty two letters of Administration of the personal
estate of Sarah Van Etten
late of Arcadia in said County, deceased
duly granted by the Surrogate
were
of said County, is
Peter Van Etten of Sodus in said County
and that the same are still valid and in full force.
In Testimony Whereof, We have caused the Seal of the
Surrogate's Court of the County of Wayne to
be hereunto affixed.
Witness L.S. Ketchum Surrogate
said County, at
this
of
2d
Clyde in said County
day of November 1859
,
Surrogate
Page 77


State of New York
County of Wayne
On this 2nd day of November, in the year A D 1854 personally came
before the undersigned a Justice of the
Peace, duly authorized as such, for and
in said County and State, Peter Van Etten
of Sodus, who being by me duly sworn
states that he is the administrator of
the estate of Sarah Van Etten who was a
pensioner of the United States. & that
there are the following children of the
aforesaid Sarah now living viz
Peter Van Etten, Jane Vanderwagan
Jacob Van Etten Margaret Vandinker
---
Henry Van Etten
& that they are the only children of the
Sarah now living. He hereby constitutes
& appoint J. E. Hassler of Washington City
D.C. his attorney to prosecute any claim
there may exist for the revolutionary services
of his father & his mothers pension under
any & all laws granting pensions that
she may be entitled to the benefits of
W. M. Knapp
Notice of the peace in & or Wayne County N.Y.
Page 78

State of New York,
Wayne County Clerk's Office,
 I, Clerk of the County Court in and for the County aforesaid, do hereby
certify that A. M. Knapp whose genuine signature
appears to the annexed Certificate-is
and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace, in and
for the County and State aforesaid; duly elected and sworn, that all his
official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the
aforesaid County Court is a Court of record, having general jurisdiction.
Given under my Hand and Seal of Office (the seal of said Court and County, at Lyons,
this 3 day of November, 1854.
Saxon B Garitt
Clerk.
Page 79

I spoke to the widow conversing her
I asked her the cause of her was
And why there was nothing to give her rely
Or soothe her deep sorrows below

She looked at her children then looked upon me
That look I can never forget
More dequent far than a scrap can be
I spoke of the trials she met

The hand of affliction falls heavily now
I am left with my children to mourn
The friend of my youth his silent and low
In yonder cold graveyard alone
man

But why should I murmur or feel to complain
or think that my portion is hard
Have I met with affliction is surely his gain
He enters the joys of his Lord
Page 80

New Jersey                                W.20.104

Van Etten, Jacob
                 Sarah
Page 81

Jane Van Inwag
Abram Dubois
Affidavits
Page 82

Abraham Duboise being duly sworn says that he is
acquainted with the hand writing of Aaron Vanderhan and
believes that the above record is in his hand writing and
believe that Records of the death of Sarah Van Etten to be corect
and says the said Aaron Vanderk is infirmed and not capable of making
an affidavid
Sworn this 13th day of April
Abraham Dubois
E. Pully Justice of the Peace
1849 before me
Jane Vaninwager being duly sworn says that she is
acquainted with Aaron Vanderhan and is acquainted with
his hand writing and saw him write the Record of the death
of Sarah Vanitter at his house and the above is the same
that she saw him write and says that the record is come
Sworn this 13th day of April
1849 before me Edwin Pulty Justice of the Peace
her
Jane Van Inwagin
Mark
Page 83

No
72
285
Date
8
Apl
1777
July 16. 1778
Regimt or Batt
Rosinkauz, Sussex
Officer's names
Capt Shimer's
Cap: Shimer
wheresoever
Comp.
after Tories
Delaware
under whom
Guards
Major Cortrecht
State of New Jersey
L.
21
72
S.
8
to
D.
8
6
James D. Westcott, Secretary of State of
the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that ┃ the
foregoing is a true extract from an account
headed. Abstract of pay rolls discharged by
Joseph Lewis as contained in book
.
A.
of Auditors accounts during the revolutionary ┃ war
, folies 62 & 64 now remaining in my
Office
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal of office at Kenton in said State, this
twenty seventh day of October Anno Domini, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty eight (1838)
James D. Westcott
Page 84


Mar. 1776
3d Battation Sussex
Col. Rosekrants
Major Cuthright
Major Westbrook
1st Company
Capt Manuel Hover
Sent Daniel Defune
2d Sicit Jacob Rosekrants
Ens Thos. Brink
2d Company
Capt Abraham Shimer
1st Lieut Danl Varelton
2d Lieut. Jacob Vanellen
Ensign Benj. Hornbeck
S. Company
Capt Peter Westbrook
St Peter Vannest
2d Lieut Honsever Westbrook
Ens Daniel Ennis
4th Company
Capt. Henry W. Cortright
1st Lieut James Brink
2d Lieut. Ann Rose Westhook
Ens. Sufferine Westbrook
the
Commissions filled out to the 2nd
Sussex Regiment
Capt Jacob Bockover
1st Lieut Mathias Strowder
2d Lieut. Gilbert Smith
Cus. Uriah Adams
Capt. Benj. Kirkendal
1st Lieut. William McClaren
2d St. William Cregar
End Saml Kirkendal
Page 85

No of
Abs.
No
2
30
1
by
be
72 ┃
281
282
285 ┃
13
31.
511
The United States
No of
such:
8
189
When paid
July 10. 1776
Decr 9, 1778
Dec. 26 "
No D
To the State of New Jer
By whom paid
211
212
Dales
Benjn Halsey
Joseph Lewis
Do
Do
To whom paid
to
Do
to
Capt. Abrm Shimers
Do
Dr
Amount in
Specie
162.0.0
10.16.0
28.10.0
┃ Apr. 10.171
┃ Ap. 1. 1777
" 12 "
Oct 12-
April "
July 1777
Dec.
July 16 "
Oct 18 "
Nov 14.
Oct. 20
No S
Abstract of Pay Rolls discharged by Joseph Lewis
Regt or at
Adelack
Sussex
Westbrook's
┃ Rosinkunty
Do
Do
Officers names
Where served
entafter Tories in
May Cortrecht.
Dupped Part of Sesser
1
Samines
Col. Jnr Reink
Pennsylvania
┃ Cap. Shimers
Compd after Towns
┃ May West
┃ field & Staff
Do
Do
10
Cap Shimer
Do
Do
D
┃ Maj. Westbrock
23 men for
under whom
2.16.0
┃ Rosenkranty
Do
Do
Do
after Tories
Do
Delaware
Do
Frontiers
Maj. Corticht
April 1. do . .
Big Forman
& Guard
┃ Maj. Cortrecht
Maj. Westbrook
Col. Seward
Maj. Westbrook
┃ June 20. to July 16.72
Amount
64.8.88
28.13.6
49.3.0
86.7.0
21.8.6
22.0.0
56.0.0
72.6.6
85.13.0
16.10 ┃
134.1.0
34
Benjamin Halsey one of the Commissioners for paying the County &
to the 3300 Militia raised for 3 months by ordinance of conventine June 1, 1776
1776 J
by By Bounty paid 54 men of Cap Shimers Compan $162.
Page 86

W
Cole
No 5
Abstract of Payrolls discharged by Joseph Gaston Pay.
Master of the Militia in the County of Sussex
Time of
service
┃ Ap. 1. 1780
┃ July 4. 1781
26
1776
1777
1778
1779
1780 & 81
Regt
3d Sussex
Do
┃ 30
┃ 27
Officers names
Cap Simer
Do
there served
Minisink
Guard
under whom
Col Rosehintz
Ant
1908.
7.4
5 mo service by ordinance of convention June 14. 1776
4 Mos Service by act of Jany 31. 1777.
Mos Service by act of May 1778.
6 Mos Service by Act of June 2d 1779
82. 6 mo service in 1780 - 12 Mo. Service each in 1780 & 1782.
State of New Jersey
Charles G. McChesney
to
I Charles G. McChesney Secretary of
State of the State of New Jersey do hereby
certify that the foregoing marked No 1.
is a true copy of a paper headed as
therein mentioned, that No 2 is a true
extract from Book C of Auditors at
and that No 3. & 7 are true extracts
from Book B of Auditors Accounts as
taken from and compared with the originals on file in
my office
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Trenton this
eleventh day of December One thousand eight hundred
and forty eight.
Charles G. R. Chesney
Say of State
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Certificate of Appt of
Samuel Westbrook
Justice of the peace
from 13th day of 1876 to 18 Sept
in support of the claim of Sarah
Van Ettin of N Y. Pursac S.
but claims benefit of Act 4th July 1836
widow of Saint Jacob Van
Etten.
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State of New Jersey

I Thomas S Allison Secretary of
State of the State of New Jersey do
hereby certify that Samuel Westbrook
Esquire was duly appointed a Justice
of the Peace in and for the County of
Sussex in said State on the thirteenth
day of September, One thousand seven hundred and seventy six
for the term of five years from that date.
In Testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Chester
this eighth day of December Eighteen hundred and fifty one
pos
Thos S. Allison
Secretary of State
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Revolutionary
Power of Attorney
heirs of
Sarah Van Etten
N. York adm. at 1


1838


Oct. 4 1854
F. E. Hassler
Washington
Sarah Van Etten
New York
1838
Page 90


POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Relationary
STATE OF New York
Pensioners, &c.
COUNTY of Wayne
Edward Pultz
Be it known that before the undersigned,
a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally
appeared Jacob Van Etton and Jane Van Inwagen aged 61 &  64 years,
who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that they the son daught
Jacob Van Etten decd who was a revolutionary soldier
in the State of New Jersey
Wendine
and that he died on the sixth day of July
1825 and
that our mother, named Sarah Van Etten died on the fifth day of January
1845 and they were married on the day of
in the year 17
and that
they were residents of
resided there
in the State of New Jersey
and that they
years, and that they resider
that furthermore We do BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoint and fully empowers and
authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F. E. HASSLER, of Washington City, D. C., as our true and
lawful Attorney for us and in our name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from
the U. S. Government and State officers our rights in all and in any manner of claim for arrears of pay, half pay, or
commutation pay, for pension, increase of arrears of Pension or land that are or may be due us as the
heirs
of Jacob Van Etten in right of law
he may be entitled; and I furthermore revoke all and any powers of attorney heretofore executed in favor
of any person or persons.
In witness whereof, the home on this 25 day of September
hereunto signed our name, and affixed our seal
Jacob  Van Etten
Witness: L.M. Cross
her
Jane Vaninwagen
SEAL.
mark
Witness: Edwin, Pultz
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify, that Jacob Vanette and
Jane Van Wagen
has always by the community been known as the heirs of Jacob Vanette de
and I am not interested in the result of this claim.
Dated on this 23
day of September
1854
Edwin Pully J.P.
STATE OF New York
COUNTY of
I hereby certify, That Edward Pultz
Esq.,
before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has hereunto subscribed his name, was
at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that
his signature above written is genuine.
County Court the Twenty fifth day of September
hundred and fifty four
one thousand eight
Lyman Lyon Cap
Clerk.
If a Widow applies, state the date of marriage, and death of her husband."
Widow, son or daughter.
Give the name of the State in which he lived when he went into the Revolution. If a pensioner, so state -- and the amount
of pension, and under what act, and whether an officer or private soldier.
Page 91

Evidence under the act
of July 4 1836
In the case of Sarah
Van Etten widow of
Lieutenant Jacob Van Etten
deceased
Page 92

State of New Jersey
County of Sussex ⎬ SS On this 17th day of January
AD 1849 personally appeared before the undersigned a
Justice of the Peace in and for said County of
Sussex Elizabeth Kortright aged Eighty three years a
resident of Montague in the County and State
aforesaid to me known to be a woman of truth and
veracity and of sound mind and good memory who
being first duly sworn according to law doth on her
oath depose and say that in the Revolutionary war
she resided on the frontier of Sussex County along
the Delaware River that at that time she was acquainted with
many of the inhabitants residing on said frontier
amongst whom was Jacob Van Etten who was a leuteniut
in Capt Shinner Company of Militia in Col
Rosecrantz Regiment and she further deposed that
she was also acquainted with Sarah Decker who
was the daughter of Peter Decker who lived about one
mile from where this deponent lived that she (this
deponent) was present at the House of Peter Decker in the
Town of Montague in the County and State aforesaid
on the third Saturday in may one thousand seven
Hundred and Eighty one and that she then and
there saw the said Lintenant Jacob Van Etten maniel
to the aforesaid Sarah Decker by Samuel Westbrook then
and then are acting Justice of the Peace in and for the
said County and according to the best of her recollection
and belief it was on the twentieth day of the said month
and this deponent further said that she distinctly recol
lect the above from the circumstance of the Massacre
of Joseph Jobs and William and Lewis Westbrook which
said Massacre took place on the sixteenth day of April
a little over a month previous and that the said
Massacre was a topic of conversation at the above
stated wedding - this deponent further says that he
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recollects that she was engaged in assisting her
father in planting corn in the forenoon of the day
on which said marriage took place and that in the
after noon she went in company with the parcels
to the said wedding and that at that time the
soldiers were stationed along the fronting and that
a company of Soldiers was then stationed at Capt ┃
Shinie House
her
Swoarn to and subscribed by
iMake n her mark the day and
Elizabeth Kortright
Mark
aforesaid before me
Daniel D Decker Justice of Peace
Page 94

State of New Jersey
Sussex
County
 On this 17th day of January 1849 personally
appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in
and for the County aforesaid Benjamin Hornbeck agree
Eighty years a resident of Montague County and State
aforesaid to me Known to be a man of truth and veracity
who being first duly sworn according to law deposes and
says that during the Revolutionary war he resident on
the portion of the said County of Sussex on the Delaware river
that at that time there was a fort at his fathers house to
which the inhabitants of the frontier often resorted for
safety that amongst those he saw then was Jacob
Van Etten with whom this deponent was well acquainted
and who was at that time a Lieutenant in Capt Shines
Company of Militia Col Rosecranly Regiment. Deponent
further say that he was also well acquainted with Jacob
Decker the daughter of Peter Decker who resided in the same
neighbourhood with this deponent. That this deponent
 was present at the House of Peter Dicken in the Town of
Montague in County and State aforesaid and saw the said
Leutenant Jacob Van Etten maind to the said Sachercke-
y Samuel Westbrook then an acting Justice of the peace
in and for the aforesaid County of Sussex that the said
Marriage took place some time in the latter part of the
month of May in the year one thousand
Seven Hundred and Eighty one that this deponent
recollects that the said Marriage took place about five
or six weeks after the massacre of Joseph Jobs and
William and Lewis Westbrook which said massacre
was on the sixteenth day of April one thousand seven
Hundred and Eighty one that this deponent is distinctly
recollect the aforesaid marriage and about the time the same
took place from the circumstance of the said
all being a topic of conversation among those
present at the said marriage deponent further
Page 95

say that he distinctly recollects the year from the
fact that at the time of the said marriage a portion
of Capt Bonnets company was stationed at the House
of this deponents father
Sworn to and subscribed
Benjamin Horteak
before
the day and year aforesaid
me
Daniel D Decker Justice of Peace
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
eight hundred and forty-nine.
I, CHARLES G. McCRESEY, Secretary of State of the
State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that Daniel
D. Decker Esquire, before whom
the within affidavits were taken.
was, at the time of the doing thereof, a Justice of peace
the seal
in and for the county of Sussex
in said
state, duly commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit
are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signature
thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said
Daniel D. Decker
testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton
ton, in said state, this nineteenth day of January A.D. one thousand
Charles G. McChesney
Secry of State
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William Sisson, Esq
Lyons
1883
Wayne County
New York
[postmark NEWTON N.J. JAN 21}
Page 97


State of Pennsylvania
Pike County
ss. Dinah Cuddeback
of Westfall Township in
said county being sworn before me according to law
Benjamin Van Legen a Justice of the peace in said
County deposeth and saith that she was acquainted with
Jacob Van Etten while living in the Revolution
any war in the town of Montague Sussex County and
State of New Jersey that he was a Lieutenant in
the Militia in the State of New Jersey and also saith
that there was a small garrison kept at the house of the
said Jacob Van Etten with soldiers and farther saith not
Sworn and subscribed
before me the 29th day
of October 1841
Sinah Cuddeback
Benjamin Van Inwegen Justice of the Peace
I believe deponent to be a credible witness
Benjamin Van Inwegen J.P.
Pike County S.S.
I Henry F Mott Recorder
of Deeds &c in and for the
County of Pike certify that
Benjamin Varinwegen before
whom the above affidavit was
taken was at the time of taking the same of
Justice of the peace in and for the County of Pike
And further that I am well acquainted with
the signature of the said Benjamin Van Ingenand
verily believe the above to be his own proper
signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said
office this 11th day of January 1842
H S Mott Rev
Page 98

Orange County
NY
Page 99

Orange
County Ss. Wilhelmus Cuykendall of the town of
Mamacating in the County of Sullivan beingduly
sworn doth depose and say, that he was acquaited with Jacob Van Etten while living in thetownship
of Montague in the State of New Jersey. says that
Jacob Van Etten was as he believes a Lieutenant in the eve
lution was in the company of Captain Abraham
Shimer, in the State of New Jersey
Willet Wykehall
Sworn and subjected before me the 26th day of
October 1841 -
and I further certify that I am acquainted with
Wilhelmus Cuykendall and and believe him to be
a man of truth and veracity
William Cuddeback Justice of the piece of Orangr county
Page 100

Orange County ss Thomas Decker of the town of Forestburg
in the County of Sullivan being duly sworn before me
William Cuddleback a Justice of the peace of the said County
deposeth and saith, that he was acquainted with Jacob
Van Etten while living in the Revelation was in the
town of Montague Sussex County & State of New Jersey
that he was a Lieutenant in the Militia in the State of
New Jersey in the company commanded by Capt
Abraham Shines that he has a perfect recollection
of seeing him drill the said company of Capt.
Abraham Shire as a Lieutenant in the militia
of that State then called on the frontiers on the
Delaware River also say that there was a small
Garison left at the house of Jacob Van Etten
Sworn and subcribed
his
this 22 day October 1841
Thomas Decker
before me
mark
William Cuddleback Justice of the him
I know deponent to be a credible witness
William Cuddleback
Page 101

State of New York
Orange County 

Levi Van Etten
Durpark Orange County & State aforesaid
being duly sworn doth depose and say that
he was well acquainted with Jacob
Van Etten in the time of the revolution
that the said Jacob Van Etten Live at the
time in the State of New Jersey town of
Montague & Sussex County, and that the
said Jacob Van Etten was in the service
of the Militia in the time of the Revolution
and further saith that the said services
were performed by him as a tenant
in A. Company of Militia in the State of
New Jersey Commanded by Capt
Abraham Shimer, and father saith that
in this Deponant was well acquainted with
the said Jacob Van Etten and with
the Now widow of the said Jacob Van-
Etten Sarah Van Ether before the Marriage
of the said Jacob Van Etten to the said Siat
Van Ether Now the widdow of the said
Jacob Van Etten that the said Sarah
Van Etten is a full course to this Deponant
and that this Deponant now
is Eighty fore years old. that this Deponant
has at several times done duty
as a soldier in the same Company of
with Abraham Shiner was Capt and
the said Jacob an other was Lieutenant
that he thinks it was Colonel Rosecrantz
 who acted at the time as Colonel.
that the said Jacob Van Ether was five
months in the aforesaid servis a
tower to New York that the said Jacob
Van Etten was in the services as above stated
at different times during the whole
Page 102

time of the Revolution war. that the
said Jacob Van Etten was a Leutenant ┃
in the Company aforesaid at the time of his ┃
Marriage to the said Sarah Van Etten Now
his widow that the aforesaid services were
performed both before and after the timeof

the marriage aforesaid
Sworn to and
Subscribed before Levi and the
Abraham J. Cuddeback

back Justice of peace
because he cannot
the 27th 1841 se to it.
I certify that I am well acquainted with
the aforesaid Levi Van Etten and now
him to be a man intitled to full credit
and belief. Oct 27th 1844
Abraham J. Cuddeback
Justice of the peace of the County of Orange
.
the words (was first intertine in two
different places and the words of Orange
Co N. Yalou first enterlined.
Abraham J. Cuddeback Justice
TATE
OR
OF NEW YORK.
ANGE COUNTY, SS. LEBBEUS L. VAIL, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County
of Orange, DO HEREBY CERTIT Abraham W. Cuddeback
the foregoing affidavit
same, a Justice
before whom
was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the
in and for said county; and further,
that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice
said affidavits & certificates
and verily believe that the signature to the
is genuine.
WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of
the said County, the
1841
14th day of December
Lebbeus L. Vail Clerk
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tate of
New York
Wayne County ss: John Van Auken of Junius County
of Seneca and State aforesaid being duly sworn
doth depose and say that he is a Pensioner of the
United States, that during the Revolutionary war
he was well acquainted with Capt Abraham
Shires who then resided in the State of New Jersey
and deponent knew him to be a Captain in the
Militia of said State of New Jersey. That this
deponent was also well acquainted with Jacob
Van Etten during said revolutionary war, who
lived in the State of New Jersey & within two or three
miles of said Shires, that deponent then under
stood informed, and then believed that said Jacob
Van Etten was a Lieutenant under and in the
Company of said Captain Shimer in said Militia
deponent cannot now say that he positively knew
said Vanetton to be a Lieutenant, but he does
know that he then understood & believed that he
was, and do verily believe he was a Lieutenant
and in said Shimers Company of Militia that
this deponent resided during said were part of the
time on the Pennsylvania side of the Deleware
River & not more than two miles distant from
the residence of said Van Etten who resided on the
New Jersey side of said River, and part of the
time deponent resided in New Jusey near to
Captain Shiner and for one Season in the
1
house with said Shimer. that said Jacob Van
Etten was then the husband of the widow
Sarah Van Etten who has applied for a Pension
"was "new" interlined before
Execution
John Van Auker
Subscribed
day of ┃
bed and sworn this 8th
March 1841 before me &
& I certify that the above deponent is well known to me
& is a credible witness Wm Sisson a Court of Deed
of Wayne County
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mark
State of New York
Wayne County ⎬ ss Sarah Van Etten of Lyons in said County
being duly sworn doth depose and say, that she is the
widow of Jacob Van Etten formerly of the same place
deceased, and the same person who made a declaration
for a Pension under the act of Congress of July 4, 1836
before William Sisson then First Judge of the County Courts
of Common Pleas and General Sessions in and for the
said County of Wayne on the twenty fourth day
of November 1838. And this deponent further faith
that her late husband the said Jacob Van Etten served
in the war of the Revolution at the times and in the
manner stated by her in her said declaration as therein
stated; that the said services were performed by him as a
Lieutenant in a company of Militia in the State of
New Jersey Commanded by Capt. Abraham Shimer
that during the war, he resided in Montague Sussex
County, State of New Jersey, & that she was brought up in
the same neighborhood & was well acquainted with
for him for several years before their marriage; that
she knew he was a Lieutenant and served as such in
Captain Abraham Shimers Company, and was a good
deal of the time in service before their marriage:
and she knows that he was such Lieutenant and
served as such in said Shires Company after
their marriage & was in actual service for a con
siderable part of the year after the marriage and also
a considerable part of the following year
Subscribed & sworn this 10th day
Sarah Van Etten
of March 1841, before me. I know
deponent to be a credible witness ⎬
Wm Sisson Court of Deeds
of Wayne County
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State of New York
Wayne County Clerks Office ⎬ I James Hawley Clerk of said County
do hereby certify that William Sisson Esq before whom the within
affidavits were taken was at the time said affidavits were taken
a Commissioner of deeds in & for said County duly Commissioned
and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with his
hand writing and his signature as subscribed to the within &
annexed affidavit is Genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of the Court of
Common Pleas of said County this 11th day of
February AD 1842 James Hanly Clerk
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JAN
21
NEWTON

William Sisson Esq
Lyons
Wayne County
New York
Page 107


State of New Jersey
-
Sussex County ss Wilhelmus Bennet of Sandyston
In said County being duly Sworn doth depose and
say that he was well acquainted with Jacob Parretter while
living in the township Montague in the
County and State afforesaid and that he the said
Banette was in the Service of the Militia in time
of the Revolution and further saith that the
said services were performed by him as a Lieutenant
Company of Militia in the State of New Jersey
commanded by Capt Abrahan Shiner and further
saith that he was brought up in the same place
and was well acquainted for several years before
his Marriage to his now widow Sarah Van Etten
and that the said part written was out on the
frontiers in said services at different times
til the close of the Revolutionary war
Subscribed & Sworn this Killhames Bount
8th day of October 1841
before me Joshua they
Justice of the Peace in
and for said County
State of New Jersey
Sussex County ss. I, John H. Hall, Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas of said county, do
hereby Certify, that I am acquainted with the signature
of Joshua Shay Esq. and verily believe the above to be his
And that he was at the date of the taking of the above
Deposition of William Bennet, duly Commissioned and
sworn, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for said County
and that full faith and credit is due to his offical acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed the seal of said Court, at Newton
this twenty -first day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and forty-two. John H. Hall