Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7472, for Timothy Mount, New Jersey
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County.

        On this eighteenth day of May,1837.
Personally appeared before me the John Patterson one of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County. Debraough
Mount a resident of the Township of Howell in the County
of Monmouth and State of New Jersey aged 78 years.  Who
being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
pension made by the act of Congress passed July 4th, 1834. That
she is the widow of Timothy Mount, who was a private in Militia
of the Revolution.  He was called out in his monthly tour under the
Command of Capt Joseph Stillwell, this was in the year 1776.  They were
station at the highlands of Nevisink.   He was there takin by the British
and refugees at the time the guard was taken and carried to New York a
prisoner.  She say he had been out near a month before he was taken
but he was exchanged.  She believes in about three week.  She remember
that he was not presence for more then that time.  The first time, he was a prisoner after he was exchanged and come home.  He was out in his
monthly tours, under the command of the said Capt. Joseph Stillwell
six months in the year 1777.  This deponent further sayeth in the year
1778, her late husband the said Timothy Mount was out 5 months in
actual service in Capt. Stillwell company.  And in 1779 and 1780 she
can't say how many months he, her late husband was in actual service.
For they lived so near the Tories that he was afraid to stay at home.
And was with Capt. Stillwell company the whole time she
say to the best of her knowledge and belief that he was in actual
service for at least one whole year in 79 and 80.  In January 1781
her late husband the said Timothy Mount enlisted in Capt.
Moses Shepherd company for one year and served out his time faithfully
She remembers that Colonel Asher Holmes was one of the field officers.
But she does not recollect any of the other field officers except
General David Furman whom she will remembers her late husband
was in the War of the Revolution.  Made prisoner three times she
remember that all the time her late husband was under the command
of Capt. Joseph Stillwell.  Moses Shephard was the Lieutenant but, the
other officer of the Company she does not recollect her late husband
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was in several scrimmages with the British and refugees as she has
heard him say.  The services of her late husband was all preformed
on the lines in the Township of Middleton and State of New Jersey.
    They were stationed in the Village of Middletown after the first tour
was taken and the duty was in marching from thence along the shores
a nights to guard the inhabitants from the depredations of the enemy.
This deponent further sayeth he has no documentary evidence of the
armies of her late husband.  She further sayeth and declares that she
was married to the said Timothy Mount on the first day of September,
1775.  According to the last of her recollection as she has a record of her marriage.  The court speak certain as to the day of the month but she will knew it was in Sep. 1775.  That her husband the fore said Timothy Mount died on the 8th day of February 1803 and that she remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference.

To the proof hereunto annexed
Sworn to and subscribed on the day           Deboraugh Mount
and year written before.
John Patterson

Ann Herbert

State of New Jersey
Monmouth Co.

       On this 3d day of June 1837, before me John Patterson
one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and
for the County of Monmouth. Personally appeared the under subscribers
inhabitants of the County and State aforesaid.  And they being duly
sworn according to have did depose and say that they have been
acquainted with Deboraugh Mount formerly, Deboraugh Winter for many
years and some of us from the days of the Revolution and before.
She was married to Timothy Mount, her late husband, now dec'd.
We did not see them marred but, have no part but that they
were lawfully married.   We know that they dined together as man and wife
and had one child who name is Mary and is still living.   We are
satisfied that it is impossible for two young people to grow up in the same
neighborhood together, and live as man and wife in that same
neighborhood and not be or contrary talk if they were not married.
this can't be.   We do believe from the knowledge we have of the
correlation of the said Deborah Mount, wife of the late Timothy Mount.
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   Decreed and from what knowledge we have of the facts she has stated in her affidavit herunto applied is substantially true and that she is
the widow of her late husband, the said Timothy Mount dec.
That full credit is due to the statement she has made.

Sworn and subscribed before me                  John Chasey
Day and year above written                           Henry Johnson                
John Patterson                                               Rachel Johnson


State of New Jersey 
Monmouth County

       On this ninth day of August, personally
 appeared before the subscriber one of the
Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County
of Monmouth.  Andrew Winter, aged about sixty seven years. Brother
of the said Deboraugh Mount.  He being sworn according to law
did depose and say that the said Timothy Mount after and
before he was married to his Sister Deborough Mount.  Lived in the same
house with this deponent and with his father and mother
in the month of December, 1776.   A French vessel was run on shore
near the highlands of Nevesink.  Later was sunken as he understand.
And remember well the morning he left home as one of the solders
belonging to Capt Joseph Stillwells, militia company.   The said
Timothy Mount with a considerable part of the company, if not all.
Proceeded to said vessel for the purpose of unloading her and keeping
the English from landing.  He thinks they were there two days.  And
on the second night they ware chased by the English and were made
prisoners.  Have long the said Timothy Mount remained a prisoner he
can't say.  He recollects will that he was taken in 1776 in December.
As his this deponent father was taken the February, following 1777.
But a short time after the said Timothy Mount was then but, he
never returned to his family.  More it was said that the prisoners
were poisoned by the keeper of the jail or some other of the enemy.
But be that as it may, he died in the month following.  The said
Timothy Mount was taken twice after this during the war of the
Revolution.
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Revolution.  
       Once he came home and concluded to stay all night but,
before morning, a party of Tories captured him and carried him off to
New York.  This deponent sayeth he now has the barrel of the musket
that was taken with he said Timothy Mount.  These refugees broke in[ill]
[ill] and left it as much as three quarters of a mile from the house.
It was found by some one and brought to there house.  He then said
Timothy Mount remained a prisoner for some time, but by the
influence of some friends.   He got his parole and was permitted
to come home.  He remained on parole for some time but at last.
was exchanged for a referee by the name of John Lufbery.  This despondent
further saith.   He remember well of his coming home one day
and had not been in the house more than an halfway when he
went to bring in a log from the woodpile he heard the shut
of the gate shut.  He ran round the end of the house jumped down
the brook and escaped.   It was very seldom that he attempted to stay
at home but, the time he was on parole.  This deponent further
sayeth that in these day of trial and treble he was but a boy
but by the oath of his father who died is a [ill]Sum [ill] with
no person hand to I his Pill in the hand of a savage enemy.
yea west them the most cruel savage, this said Timothy Mount.
    Being his brother in law, the husband of his only sister that his
acts in the War of the Revolution are fresh in his memory living in
the same house.  And he is well satisfied that the said Timothy
Mount was in actual services in the direct company commanded
by Capt. Joseph Stillwell.  Every other month from December 1776 to
the first day of January 1781 but, what time he was a presence
and while on parole this deponent further sayth that he believes
from the experience he endured by confinement in those dreadful
prisons.  And his saying out a right in the war of the Revolution
a consumption was brought on, of which he died in early life.  This 
despondent further sayeth that the said Deboraugh Mount has remand
the widow of the said Timothy Mount from the day of his death
to the present time.

Sworn and subscribed the day
and year above written                                   Andrew Winter
John Patterson
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County.
    
          
     On this 9th Day of August, 1837 before
me, John Patterson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in
and for the County of Monmouth aforesaid.  Personally appeared
Deboraugh Carman.  A resident of the Township of Middletown, County and
State aforesaid.  She being duly sworn according to have did
depose and say that she that she is in her 64 yr of age
on the 11th day of June, last pass.  That she has known Deboraugh 
Mount formally Deboraugh Winter, from the time she was
a small girl to the present day.  That her Mother and this
deponent were own [ill].   That she remembers well the night
on which the said Deboraugh Mount, the above applicant, was
married to Timothy Mount.  They went from the house of Capt Moses
Shepherds to Middleton and were marred by a Justice of the
peace by the name of John Taylor.  They come back to Capt.
Shephard and stayed there all night.  This deponent did not see
them married but, she has no more doubt but, that they were
married.  Then she has of her own marriage, they always were
for man and wife.  Not a whisper to the contrary was ever herd
by her from any one.  She remembers well the said Timothy
Mount the husband of the said Deboraugh, now his widow in the
Revolutionary War.   He was once taken by three Refugees from their
house.  He saw them coming, he took the house in managed to
run.   They being on horseback, soon [ill] hold and took him prisoner.
She has frequently seen him out with the Tories but, cant say
whom he was under.  She remember that the said Timothy Marsh
often came to their house.  And he and her brother would take there
guns and go out to some place of safety to sleep this was then
they are not out in the monthly tours.

Sworn and Subscribed before
me the day and year above written.                          Deborangh Carmen
John Patterson
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County.
   
       I, John Patterson, the Judge before whom the for-only
declaration of Deborah Mount was
made.  Do hereby certify, that the said Deborah
Mount was at the time of making her said declaration
Still is unable from bodily infirmity
to attend Court. I do further certify that she
is a credible person & her statements entitled
to belief & confidence.  And I do further
certify that John Chasey, Henry Johnson, Rachel
Johnson, Andrew Winter & Deborah Carman
are well known to me.  Who have signed
the foregoing affidavits are well known to me
& that they rail of them are credible persons
& their statements entitled to belief & confidence.
                                   John Patterson

State of New Jersey, Monmouth County.
    I the [ill] clerk of the Inferior Court of Common
Pleas in & for said County.  Do hereby certify
that John Patterson, who has signed the foregoing affidavits
& certificate, was at the time of the doing thereof
still is a Judge of the said County. Duly commissioned
soon enrolled in my office & that full faith & credit are
due ought to be given to all his official acts as such.
That I am personally acquainted with the hand writing
of said Judge & that his name signed to the foregoing affidavits
certificate is genuine - In Testimony whereof
   I have hereto set my hand at
fixed the Seal of said Court at Freehold
in said County. This twenty sixth
of day of September, Eighteen hundred
& thirty seven
       D. H. Ellis Clk.
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                                                                       Washington, May 4, 1838
Sir,

Please to inform me whether the claim
of Deborah Mount, widow of Timothy Mount
has been allowed?  If not, to state the objections
to the allowance.

Yours resp.
Garret D. Wall
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                                                                        Middletown, Monmonth
                                                                        County, New Jersey

Honaral Sir,
When I transmitted the clams of Mrs. Walling
and Mrs. Mount, I did not think it necessary to give
the department the trouble of reading any letter from
me upon the subject of there clams.  I have just
received a [ill] heler from you which teaches me I was
mistaken.  As to the clam of Mrs. Mount it is a new one.
I know her and her husband for many years. I know her
brother Andrew Winter whose testimony you have before
you.  He is a member of the Baptist Church of Middleton
and one of it main pillars.  I knew the mother, she was
also a member of the same Church for more than sixty
years.  The father, I did not know personally, he was taken
in the early part of the war of the Revolution and
died in prison.  Mrs. Mount and the whole family are as
respectable as any other family in the place. I know all
these person will whose testimony you have before you
in her case.  They are all credible persons for variety.
And truth for I would not send in testimony to the
Department or take such as I had the last taken to Doutas
to Mrs. Walling.  Her husband Joseph Walling was one of
our earliest pensioners.  His pay was stopped for two years but,
was renewed again.  He is now deceased.  This Mrs. Walling is his
widow.  The testimony you have before you as to her
being so. I have known Joseph Walling and Margret his
Wife now his widow for more than 50 years. They are
[ill] but respectable. I do not know that I can say any
thing more on the subject of any thing here by way
of proof is wanting.  You will let me [ill] by the [ill]
opportunity.

J. L. Edward Esqr.

I have the honor to be
[ill] your friend and 
humble Servant                         John Patterson


W. B. Direct to Middletown
Monmouth County Post
office part master
William W. Merry
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J. L. Edward Esq.
         Dear Sir,
                       My friend John
Patterson Esq. of Middletown N.J.
requested me to obtain for him
copies of the papers filed in the
application of Deborah Mount,
widow of Timothy Mount for a
pension [ill] information as to
any further evidence in this case.
                          Yours Respectfully
                           Jos. F. Randolph
                           G. R. June 4. 1838