Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7,696, Richard Handley, New Jersey
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New Jersey   Handley Richard  W7696
                                  Sarah
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New Jersey 1803
Sarah Handley widow of Richard Handley Jr
who died on the 4 Feb 1808     Date of widows death not on a.B.
in the State of New Jersey who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Tattufon of the brgit commanded by Col Dayton in the N Jersey line 
for more than 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars / Cents, per annum,
to commence on the 4th of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension enforced the 24 day of Feb 1838 and sent to  Dr. C.G. M  Cheney.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 37 -                       $520
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar 38 -       40
                                                                   _______________________
                                                                        $560
                                {Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3rd}
Recorded by Geo. Wm Grumper  Clerk Vol .2   Page 127
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Declaration of Sarah Handley 
State of New Jersey Ysg(?) 
Meiddlesex {Middlesex} County 
On this day of May Eighteen hundred and thirsty seven Personally appeared before the Subscriber. Presiding Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex Sarah Handley known to me as a member of the Presbyterian church in the village of Cranberry for more than thirty years past a person of strict veracity and entitled to credit and belief being infirm and unable to appear in open court a Resident in the village of Cranberry, South Amboy Middlesex County. N.S, aged Seventy Seven years past who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the provission [provision] made by the act of congress passed "July 4-1836" 
That she is the widow of Richard Handley who enlisted in the year 1775 in the autumn under Capt. Peat for one year and immediately left Middlesex Co for the north was in Canada when the year expired or somewhere near the lines, and then the said Richard Handley again enlisted for Three years and the recruiting officer it appears added for Three years or during the war - he was soon afterwards in the Spring of 1778 Elected and appointed a Sargeant in the Company of Captain Patterson in the 3rd Jersey Regiment of Infantry under the Command of Col. Dayton and Lieut. Col. Barber the said Richard Handley this declarants husband was in many battles in the State of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey &c- and to the best of this Deponents recollection the said Richard Handley remained in the army as Sargeant untill Sometime in the year 1781 after the siege of Yorktown in Va. either autumn
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or beginning of winter of that year when he rec'd  (received) his discharge but which has since been lost or destroyed many years, has often heard her said husband speak of being in the Battle of Trenton Brandywine, Monmouth and was generally under the command of General Maxwell

She further declared that she was married to the said Richard Handley on the eighteenth day of May seventeen hundred and seventy nine (18 May 1779) in Elizabethtown by the rev'd (Reverend) Dr. Hunter then chaplain to the army and since died in Washington city. 

That her husband the aforesaid Richard Handley died on the fourth day of February Eighteen Hundred and Eight (2 February 1808) in the village of Cranbery and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.

Sarah Handley

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written before

Joseph M Chesney
Judge
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State of New Jersey
County of Morris

Personally appeared before me Rhue Nicholas, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Jonathan Nicholas of Roxbury in said County and State of New Jersey who on oath saith that he was a Sargent in the Revolutionary war in the New Jersey line and now is a pensioner of the United States and is Eighty one years of age in March next - that he is well acquainted with Mrs. Sarah Handley, the widow of Richard Handley deceased, and has been from his infancy. Mrs. Handley was the daughter of Mr. Nathaniel Price of E. town, N.J. and was married to Richard Handley now deceased at E. town, N.J. on the 18th (of) May 1779 by Doctor Hunter, Chaplain, in the July since, this deponent knows this fact for that he was present at their marriage as a guest. His recollection is clear and distinct from the further fact that said Richard Handley and Miss Sarah Prince, now the widow of said R. Handley, dec(eased), was present as guests at this deponent's marriage at E. town aforesaid by Doctor Hunter only two days previous to wit on the 16th of May '79, and that at the time of the Handley's marriage the Miss Sarah Prince aforesaid he, Handley, belonged to the N.J. line  of the army of the Revolution then under marching orders under General Maxwell to said General Sullivan in the Campaign of '79 called the "Indian Expedition" through Pennsylvania to Seneca Castle in the State of New York, which campaign said Handley performed, to the deponents knowledge, for this deponent was in the same Expedition and acted as Quarter Master Sargent on the wing of the army under Col. Matthias Ogden throughout the campaign this deponent further knows and distinctly recollects that said Handley was in the service in the Jersey line at and during the siege and capture of Cornwallis at York Town in Virginia in the fall of the year 1781 once further saith that.

Sworn and subscribed before me this Second day of February 1838.
s/ Jonathan Nicholas
s/ Rhue Nicholas, Justice of the Peace

New Jersey, County of Morris // I, Rhue Nicholas, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Morris aforesaid, do hereby certify that Mr. Jonathan Nicho-
las, who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit before me is a person of respectable character and of hist(orical) truth and honesty and that 
his statements whether on oath can otherwise is entitled to credit in witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this Second
day of February Eighteen hundred and Thirty eight.
s/ Rhue Nicholas, Justice of the Peace
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September 8, 1932

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Mr. George B. Stanley
Heber
Utah

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of August 2, in which you request further information in regard to Richard Handley and Jacob Stults, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, whose records were furnished you, also the records of five other soldiers of that war.

Because of the very large number of requests similar to ours and the lack of clerical force available for furnishing Revolutionary War data, it has not been possible to make a series of investigations and reports pertaining to soldiers of the Revolution, for one person.

Kindly designate the particular ancestor in whom you are most interested, give his full name and as much as possible of the following data: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.

Upon receipt of this information, a careful search of the records will be made in your behalf and his record furnished, if on file.

In the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, W. 1796, based upon the military service of Richard Handley in that war, the names of his parents and the date and place of soldier's birth are not stated. 

In the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, W. 1508, based upon the military service of Jacob Sults, in that war, the place of birth of soldier's wife, Margaret Outoalt Stults is not given nor do the names of her parents appear. The name, Frederick Outcalt, appears; no relationship to Margaret was shown.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.
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1932 - Jan. 7. Hist. to George 
B Stanley (Rev Ltr in case of 
Jacob Stults or Stolts, N. 1508) Mo

1932 - Sept 8 - Ad Geo B
Stanley - that names of 
parents and date and place
of sol's forth do not
appear in claim- EEJ

Rev'y WIDOW, &c.

File No. 7696
Sarah Handley
Wed of 
Richard Handley
Pvt, N.J. line
Act: July 4736, Sec. 3d
Index:--Vol. A, Page 305
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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January 7, 1932
BA-J/MLB

Mr. George B. Stanley
Weber
Utah

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request of recent date, for the record of Richard Handley, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 7696, based upon his military service in that war.

Richard Handley enlisted in the fall of 1775, served one year as private in Captain Pear's New Jersey company. He again enlisted and in the spring of 1778 was elected sergeant in Captain Patterson's company, Colonel Dayton's New Jersey regiment. He was in many battles in the States of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, but the only ones mentioned were Trenton, Brandywine, and Monmouth. During this campaign he was in Sullivan's Indian expedition in 1779, was in the siege of Yorktown and served until the fall of 1781.

He died February 4, 1808, in the village of Cranberry, Middlesex County, New Jersey.

Soldier married May 18, 1779, in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Miss Sarah Price, daughter of Nathaniel Price, of said 
Elizabethtown.

She was allowed pension on her application executed May 3, [illegible], at which time she was living in the village of Cranberry, South Amboy, New Jersey, aged seventy-seven years.

There was no reference made to children.

Very truly yours,
A.D. Miller
Assistant to Administrator
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County

On this Twenty fifth day of January 1838, Personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Sergeant Thomas Cobbs of the Revolutionary army, a resident of Harrison City near Jersey City aged Seventy eight years past a pensioner of the United States and a person of credibility and truth, who being duly sworn according to Law on his oath saith, that he was well acquainted with Sergeant Richard Handley of the Revolutionary army in the third Jersey regiments under the command of Colonel Dayton, and to the best of this deponent's knowledge in Captain Patterson's company. This deponent was well acquainted with the said Sergeant Handley and Sarah Price before their marriage and afterwards, and this deponent further remembers that the newspaper published at that time noticed the marriage of the said parties as, "Sergeant Handley married to Sarah Price of Elizabeth Town and that the regiments will never wait for recruits," or words to that effect and the said Handley after his marriage was in the said regiment in the campaign of '79, but for what length of time this deponent cannot say.

Sworn and subscribed this 
25th of January 1838 before me.
s/ Thomas Cobbs
s/ Jos. Clark, Justice (of the) Peace
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County
On this twenty sixth day of January, 1838 Personally appeared before the subscriber [illegible] Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Major James Cook a Resident of East Windsor in the County of Middlesex, a Person of tenacity and entitled to credit and Belief, who being duly [illegible] according to law on his oath saith that he was well aquainted with Col Richard Handley who commanded the 3rd Reg. of Cavalry in the New Jersey Brigade in the year 1808, and that this [illegible] was Capt of a troop of Cavalry in said Reg. at the time of his death and that said Richard Handley did some time in the month of February Eighteen Hundred and Eight and this [illegible] commanded the military procession at his burial with the "Honors of [illegible]" and this [illegible] further says that the said Richard Handley often spoke of his being a Sargeant in the Continental army of the Revolution and this [illegible] verily believes he was as the said Handley was a man of the [illegible] tenacity and truth and one of the most [illegible] and [illegible] citizens of the State of New Jersey and that Sarah Handley remains his widow and has not again been married.
Sworn and Subscribed this 26th day of January 1838 Before one
John Hutchinson [illegible]
James Cook
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State of New Jersey
County of Morris | ss  I Rhue Nicholas a Justice of the peace
in and for the county of Morris NJ
do hereby certify that Jonathan Nichols
the witness who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing 
Deposition before me as to my knowledge a
person of truth and veracity and that his statements
are entitled to the highest confidence, as a Witness
or otherwise Given under my hand this 29th day
of December 1837
[signature Rhue Nicholas] Just of the peace

State of New Jersey, House of Assembly, February 15th 1838
I hereby certify to the Commission of pension that I am well acquainted with the
hand writing of Rhue Nicholas Esqr a Magistrate in Morris County, & that the
above signature of his name to a certificate of the veracity & credibility
of Jonathan Nicholas, is genuine.  And I do hereby certify that I saw
a deposition of Jonathan Nicholas, taken before said Rhue Nichols Esq
as a magistrate & dated some day late in January, or [crossed out] early in this
present month, testifying to the services of Sergt Richard David Handly in the revolutionary war
& that I recognized the hand writing of said Rhea Nicholas Esq subscribed
as a magistrate thereto, as genuine.
Lewis Condict, formerly a
Representation in the
House of Reps. U.S.
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State of New Jersey

I James D. Wescott Secretary of State of the state of New Jersey do hereby certify that Joseph McChesney Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit of Sarah Handley was taken and who has attested the same was at the time thereof one the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex in said state duly appointed commissioned and sworn: that Joseph Clark Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit of Thomas Cobb was made and who has attested the same was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Bergen in said State duly appointed commissioned and sworn: and that John T. Hutchinson Esq before whom the annexed affidavit of James Cook was made and who has attested the same was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex in said State, duly appointed commissioned and sworn; and that Rhin Nicholas who has signed the annexed certificate was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in for the County of Morris in said state duly appointed, commissioned & sworn; and who that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to their several and respective official acts. Given under my hand and seal of office at the City of Trenton in said state this fifteenth day of February A.D. Eighteen hundred & thirty eight (1838).

James R Westcott
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State of New York
City & County of New York | ss Richard Nixon being
duly sworn deposeth and saith that he resides
in the said City of New York.  That he well knew
Richard Handley late of the Village of Cranberry
County of Middlesex and State of New
Jersey.  That to the knowledge of this deponent
the said Richard Handley served in the
the Revolutionary War as a Sergeant of
one of the Companies in the Third Regiment
of the Jersey Brigade (in 1778) & Commanded by Colonel
Dayton.  That the said Handley was a 
very intimate acquaintance of the deponents
And further saith not.
Sworn to before me | 
this 25th day of October | [signature Richard Nixon]
1837 10 line in 1778
[signature Lambt M Feltus] |
Commissioner of Deeds
State of New York
City & County of New York | ss I hereby certify that
Richard Nixon above named is personally
known to me to be a person of credibility and
truth,  Novr 3rd 1837
[signature Lambt M Feltus]
Commissioner of Deeds
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STATE OF NEW-YORK,
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK,

I, Thomas Jeremiah, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Please for the said City and County, do hereby certify that Sanford M Heltics before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Commission of Dud in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same, and that I believe the signature of said Commission thereto subscribed is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 25 day of October 1837. 
Omar Jermiah Clerk.
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3178
Sarah Handley
widow of Richard
1803 CG McChesney
Hightstown
NH
now Prest
Rolls 3rd Regt (enter)
Jany 13 77 - War omitted any
1780 - final settlemt
adm?
2 years pri
80$
C.G. McChesney Esq
Feb 20, 1838
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private on all the rolls of Capt Patterson
& 2L Col Barber of 3rd Jersey regt
to Dec 79.- & by the general roll is
omitted in Aug 1780
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Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7,696 Richard Handley, New Jersey


The State of New Jersey

To John Stevens from Treasurer 
On account of interest paid on notes for Depreciation on the pay of the officers and privates belonging to the State of New Jersey in the service of the United States. vizt.

Dates | 12 voucher ?  | ?  |        | Principal|Amt in ??  |
1783
October 31|150|1124|Richard Handley 1st years|53 "1"10|3"3"7 3/4

State of New Jersey:
I James  D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from our old Book of Treasurer under the head of an "account of interest paid on notes for depreciation on the pay of the  officers and privates belonging to the state of New Jersey in the service of the United States" are taken from the said Book of accounts now remaining in any office. Given under my hand and seal of office at the city of Trenton in said state. This fifteenth Day of February AD One thousand and eight hundred and thirty eight (1838)    
James D Westcott