Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 993, Linton Doughty, New Jersey

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SERVICE
New Jersey
CONTENTS
Doughty, Linton
NUMBER
S. 993
carded

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[  ] Agent [super]
payment 26 July
[at ]Hon J Parker 26
"    "  "    "            [26]
[pay & review] 8th May 1835
[  ] J Patterson 8 May


[  ]
1835
[ July 35]
[  ]

9478
New Jersey
Linton Doughty
-
Monmouth in the State of N Jersey
was a Private in the Company commanded
Captain Stillwell of the Regt commanded
Col Holmes in the N. J. Militia
for 2 years

[scribed] on the Roll of N Jersey
[  ] rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of May 1833
and sent clerk Monmonth NJ

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $160.00 
[  ] allowance ending 4 Sep 33  $  40.00
                                                   $200.00
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Geo. B. Whiting Clerk,
Volume B Page 1088

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State of New Jersey 
County of Monmouth 

on this 18th day of July 1832 Personally appeared before one John Patterson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth Linton Doughty who cannot from bodily infirmity attend at court a resident of the township of Middletown in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey aged 74 years on the 22d day of September. Last [Pep] - who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that he entered the
services of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated.

1 [I] -- Where and in what year was you born
I was born on [Longeland] in the State of New York [hemsted] Township on the 22d day of September 1757.

2 [I] have you any Record of your age and if so is it?
A [I] the Bible that belonged and grandfather in his life time contains his Name and the time of his Birth.

3 [I] Where were you living living when called into service where have lived since the revolutionary war and where do you live now?

[A] he was living in the Township of Middletown with his father when he was called into service and has [centioned] to live in said Township ever since.
 
[  ] he was you called into service - was you drafted - did you volunteer or was you a substitute and if a substitute where?
 
[A] he volunteer or [  ] under Capt John Smock as a gard on the highland of navesink and served under his command three months -- then Capt Joseph Stillwell took the command. This was same time in the first of the war he was out he thinks about two months he was engage for three months but was take with the [  ] [and ages] and [  ] home before his time expired.

state the the names of the Regular officers or sum of them who were with the Troops where you served [such centenint].

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Time and was discharged by him-- he was out under the command of deponent [Hendreshon ]this Was [services] that they entered into for for there own protection and that of the [Nebourhood] they did not receive any pay but
they [Orui Reskens] he was in this services about 7 or 8 months -- this was before he inlisted in Gordon Company in March 26th 1780 he was taken [again] by a Company
of Refugees and [lorred] to New York a  [present] therein close confinement-- some part of the Time is [iron] untill the 5th day of November he was then [exchanged] at
Elizabeth Town Point he then returned home.
Sworn and  subscribed before me
the day and year above [with]
Linton Doughty
John Patterson
and the said Linton Doughty further maketh oath that his name is not on the pension role of any agency of any State and  that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or [annuity] except the present that he has no document any evidence as he knows of [but] there is state [   } Capt. home John [    ] under whom he served Thomas Green Joseph John [   ] John [Maxon] who will testify to his service.
Linton Doughty

Sworn and subscribed before me
August 8th 1832
John Patterson

State of New Jersey Before me John Patterson
one of the Judges Monmouth of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth personally appeared the under Subscriber and they being duly sworn on the
[Haley Eiconyler of almity] [no] did depose and say that that they [   ] Linton Doughty in the time of the Revolutionary War Soldier how long he was out they [can't] say but from his [Barrister ] as a soldier they believe the declaration he has sworn to is entitled to full credit.
John Schanck
Thomas [Geray]

Sworn and duly subscribed before me
August 8th 1832
John Patterson

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and Militia regiment as you can recollect and the General Circumstances of your services
when he went home with the [foregor] he remained there untill the laying Dawn armes in New Jersey at the time that [Corne]l Morris who at New Jersey we War under the
British authority General Washing Crossed the Delaware [tack] the [heshiens] drove the Toreys and British from Trenton General [Fermiano] Brigade. We again called out the Regiment under the command of Corl Asher Holmes & I Believe he was [Cornel], but whether he was [Cornel] or Major& cant say certain, but I know that Capt Stillwell Company was called out and was under the command of said Asher Holmes.
With which Company I [turned out], that they were taken at the house of John [Stants] as a gard for the highlands of Navesoml he Cant say how long they had been on this Station but it was but a short time on the [six] day of February in the morning about [4} oclock-- they were taken by a British Regiment of 600 men and a Company of [Peter] from [Sandy Hook]- at the said time they surprised the
[Lower] Gard and killed 5 of our men had some of [theres] called and made [prisoners] of 73. [We] were marched in Sandy Hook at this time in the possession of the British and from them
put on [bord] the hardship [Siren] Capt [Asque]-- they remained there six day and then they were taken to New York  just in the [Charter] house as prisoner of War  -- in which [  ] he was confined for 19 months and same day for this time on his return home he received pay he [moved] a affidavit.
Then before James [Frost] one of the Judges of the County Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth Signed by Capt David Gordon on the 6th of November 1848 in which he on [hiseth] says Linton Doughty duly enlisted in his company on the 15th day of June 1779 for six month served and his

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Linton Doughty

State of New Jersey
Monmouth
Be it remembered that on this 3 day
of August 1832 before me John Patterson
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth he personally appeared Joseph Johnson
James Maxson who on there other say that they know Linton Doughty within Named Soldier of the Revolutionary war and was sent with them and the said Joseph Johnson further sayeth that at the time he was prisoner in New York the said Doughty was a prisoner with him

Sworn and subscribed
before me this day and
year above written
John Patterson
John Johnson
John Maxson

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And the said John Patterson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the the County of Monmouth doth hereby certify that the said Linton Doughty the within
appellant t is not able to attend [   ] by reason of bodily infirmity and I am of the opinion  after the investigation of the Matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and I do further certify, that it appears to one that Capt John Seranek, Thomas Geeren, Joseph Johnson and John Maxon who have signed the above certificates are all old soldiers of the Revolutionary War were residents in the County of Monmouth Creditable persons and that there statement is intitled to credit.
John Patterson

Linton Doughty
I, the Subscriber, Clerk of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Monmouth, in the state of New Jersey, do hereby certify that John Patterson to whom the above application of Linton Doughty was made and before whom the foregoing affidavit
taken at the dates thereof and now is one of the ages of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas  of the County of Monmouth duly enrolled in my office and that full faith and credit is due & ought to be given that the name of John Patterson to all his official acts as such and Subscriber there is the proper handwriting of said Judge.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Freehold, this fifteenth day of March in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
[W. A. Will]

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State of New Jersey
County of Mermonth
on this 18th day of July 1832 Personally
appeared before one John Patterson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth Linton Doughty who cannot from bodily infirmity attend at court a resident of the township of Middletown in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey aged 74 years on the 22nd day of September Last [Pep] who being first
duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that he entered the services of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated

1 Where and in what year was you born?
I was born on Long Island in the State of New York Township on the 22nd day of September 1757

2 Have you any Record your age and if so where is it?
[A] The Bible that belonged to his grandfather in his lifetime contains his name and the time of his birth

3 Where were you living living when called into service? Where have lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you live now? 
He was living in the Township of Middletown with his father when he was called into service and has continued to live in said Township ever since

4 How were you called into service - were  you drafted -- did you volunteer or were a substitute and if a substitute for
whom?
He volunteered for duty under Capt John Smock as a guard on the highlands of Navesink and served under his
Command three months then Capt Joseph Stillwell took the command, this was some time in the first of the war. He was out he thinks about two months, he was engaged for
3 months but was then with the [ ] and [ages] and went home before his Time Expired.

State the names of the Regular officers or some of them who were with the troops where you served [such] [Continent]

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and Militia regiment as you can recollect and the General Circumstances of your services.
when he went home with the [   ] he remained there until the laying down arms in New Jersey at the time that Colonel Morris was at New Jersey. We were under the British authority.  General Washington crossed the Delaware took the [Hessians] drove the Toreys and British from Trenton. General {Forman} Brigade was again called out. The Regiment under the command of Colonel Asher Holmes (I believe he was Colonel, but whether he was Colonel or Major I can't say for certain), but I know that Capt. Stillwell Company was called out and was under the command of said Asher Holmes with which Company I [turned] out -- they were [stacked] at the house of John (Stewarts) as a guard for the highland of Navesink. He can't say [harsleng] they had been on this station but it was but a short time on the six day of February in the morning about [4] oclock-- they were taken by a British Regiment of 600 men and a Company of [refugees] from [Sandy Hook] at the said time they [surprised] the [larson] guard and killed 5 of our men had some of theirs called and made prisoners of 73 - We were marched on  Sandy Hook at this time in the possession of the British and from there put on board the guardship Siren.  Capt [Asque]-- there remained there six days and then they were taken to New York & [  ] in the [Shugen} house as prisoners of war -- in which [prison] he was confined for 19 months and same day for this time on his return home he received pay - he [Made] affidavit taken before James Frost one of the Judges of the Court of
Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth Signed by Capt David Gordon on the 6th of November 1878 in what he on [hisaeth] says Linton Doughty enlisted in his company on the 15th day of June 1779 for six months served and his

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Captain David Gordon
Deposited on

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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County S.S.

Be it remembered that on the 6th day of November 1818 before me James Frost one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth Personally appeared, Captain David Gordon, who being duly sworn on the holy evangelist of almighty God saith that Linton Doughty enlisted in his company in the six months service in the County of Monmouth & State of New Jersey on the 15th day of June 1779 and he served in said Company as a private until 15th of December 1779 and at that time
he discharged the said Linton Doughty in the Township of Middletown in this County aforesaid
Sworn before me the
day and year above written
David Gordon
James Frost

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Middletown NJ
May 4th

Mason Dickeson Esquire
Secretary of the Navy  
Washington City

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Linton Doughty

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Washington February 14 1835

Sir,
I forward both the affidavit of David Gordan
taken before James Frost 6 Nov 1818 required by you [in a lot all] to support the Pension of Linton Doughty of New Jersey the payment of whose pension you had [stand] [   ]
I hope it will [remand] the objection

Yours respectfully,
James [Parker]

James L. Edwards, Esq.

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Washington February 27, 1835

Sir

In your letter of the 26 [in] you state to me that
upon examination of the papers of Linton Doughty it appears that his claim was prematurely admitted and requires more
particular proof.

Will you allow me to take the paper for Examination and at the same time point out more particularly those parts of his former testimony which require additional proof?

Yours very respectfully,

James Parker

James L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

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J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

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Pension Office
Trenton, N.J.
May 11 1835

Sir,

Agreeably to your directions contained in
Your favor of 8th [June] Linton Doughty has been reinstated upon the Roll of this agency, and John [Eldridge] Suspended both under the act of June 7 1832.

I remain very respectfully,
J. L. Edwards
Your Obedient Servant
for P Dickinson [age]
Westley Hunt

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington DC

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May 1835
Pension office
[   ]

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[Rec'd 9] May

Navy Department
7th May 1835.

Sir,

The enclosed communication from
[   ] is respectfully referred to the War Department.

I am very respectfully [&c],
John Boyle,
Acting Secretary of the Navy

Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War

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1915. Jan 25: [Turtory] to Mr. Chester N. Jones
[   ]

Rev War
Invalid
File No. 993
Linton Doughty
Priv. NJ Mil
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 987
[Arrangement of 1870.}

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John Lefferts
Daniel Bowne
Cornelius S Mount
Thomas Bowne
Richard W. Stout
John Bowne
Robert Bowne
William Bowne
Elias Bowne
Utriah Sutton
Thomas Johnson
Samuel [Silsworth]
Robert Johnson
Joseph Davis
[And] Winter

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Middletown, Monmouth County, State of Newjersey. To the honorable J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions at Washington City-

Dear Sir

We the under subscribers inhabitants of the said Township of Middletown County and State
aforesaid having been informed that the pension of Linton Doughty has been stopped until further orders shall be record from you at Trenton Bank believing as we do that many
impositions have been practiced on the war department and that unworthy men have succeeded in obtaining a pension, are not surprised that you are [bankers] but still respected sir -- this art not to [apperate] against the faithful soldier and Veteran of the revolution Linton Doughty has been known to me of us from the commencement of that war to the present day.
We knew him as a soldier -- have frequently seen him with those brave men at that time guarding our homes and firesides when many of us were but children from the depredations of the Enemy, but at this length of time, we are not able to point  out the years or the month he served or how or in [  ] he was called out or by Whom he was commanded. All we can say is we know he was out and that very frequently and many of us who are still younger and Do not remember the day of the revolution have heard it said by our fathers who have since gone down to the [Grave] that Linton Doughty was a soldier of the Revolutionary War --was taken with the guards at the highlands of Navesink and was a long time a prisoner in New York -- we pray most respectable Sir that you will not deprive this old Soldier of his pensions in these [Gleemey] moments when he is almost bowed down to the grace because others have  done [wrong] we now declare to you sir that if we know of any that had practiced [fraud]on the Government we would be the first to make it known and expose the culprit. 

Yours Respectfully,
March 9th 1835
John Patterson
Edmund Woodward
Henry Johnson
John Maxon
David Gordon
[Rice Hattull]
Joshua Robbins

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Middletown Monmouth May 1st 1835

Dear Sir

I have no other friend but you at Washington that  I can call on yourself for anything in which I am concerned there. I therefore am under the [necessity] of Requesting the favour of you to interfere with [William Edwards] in favour of the old Revolutionary soldier the [first] is Linton Doughty -- Soon after the Law of the 7th of June 1832 was passed he was placed on the Pension Roll and [true] his pension up to the 4th of March Last [Prices] to which time a command of his in the War Returned to this Township from the State of [Pennsylvania] to to which place he had received in the year 1825 he called on this Linton Doughty for the purpose of proving his services in taking the testimony of Doughty in favour of this soldier whos name is James Bernard Doughty swears that [Benn] enlisted with him in Capt. David Gordon Company for six months in his affidavit Doughty set out the precise day month and year that they enlisted and the day of their Discharge and says he has Capt. Gordon affidavit by which he is able to [ascertain] those day taken before Judge [Frost] in the year 1818 he thinking at that time this enlistment was [Continental] [   ] and that he was entitled to a pension under the law of 1818- but finding his mistake he had retained the affidavit of Capt. Gordon until the present time. William Edwards [evidently] stopped his pay and demanded the affidavit of Capt. Gordon to be sent on as the best evidence. When I received this information I wrote home being at that time in Trenton for this affidavit and sent it on Properly [authenticated] under the Seal of the State.
When this arrived at Washington then [William] Edwards made several other objections, one was that he Doughty had not set out the [particular] time that he who taking [prisoner] - on looking over the old papers at Trenton in the [Sectors] office I found this paper that
I have included on which the name of Linton Doughty is and that he received 8 months of pay on his return home, it being part of the time that he was prisoner. I should suppose that the appearance of the Paper would of itself be sufficient proof of its authenticity -but it [seems] to me that the [fact] that have been [practiced] on the war  department has induced the offers to reject all claims be they ever so well [precise]

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however this art not so to be this Worthy Class of our Citizens have their Rights and they art to be fairly Dealt out to them-- I also
enclose a petition signed by a [few] of our most respectable citizens living in the immediate neighborhood of Doughty who have known him ever since they have known themselves.  You will make such use of that as you may think proper. I pray sir that you will
look into the case of James Bowne he I think [braves] everything that is [Nery] to entitle him to be placed on the Pension List.

I wish my dear Sir you would interest yourself yourself [  ] of those two men they are old and very poor and everybody that knows any thing about these times must know have they suffered to obtain the liberty that you and myself are now enjoying.

I know your official duty is claim your time but sir do let me know the determination in these two cases [because] the liberty I have taken and believe me to be sincerely yours

John Patterson

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State of New Jersey
Monmouth SS
Supplementary affidavit of Linton Doughty

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth this 7th day of March 1833 Linton Doughty who being duly sworn deposes and [saith] that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of
memory he cannot sware positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less then the periods mentioned below and in the following [grades] he first served three months under Capt. Smock as private  - he then served two months  under Capt. Stillwell -- after New Jersey had taken up arms and the British was driven out  of the County -- was out under Capt. Stilllwell about one week they were taken prisoners and  and he remained a prisoner in close confinement for thirteen months -- he was out under Capt. Gordon for six months all the above time he served as a private -- he was out under [Leftenent] [hinorchren] for at [Listy] [Monts] this was before he inlisted under Gordon he was taken prisoner the second
time and confined for 7 months as is stated in his first affidavit and was exchanged at Elizabeth [    ] Point in all the grades he served as a private.
Sworn and subscribed the
day and year above written
Linton Doughty
John Patterson

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John Patterson Esq.
Trenton N.J.

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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County ⎬

Before me James Hopping one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County,
personally appeared Benjamin Frost, Joseph Frost & James Frost who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that the said Benjamin Frost and Joseph Frost are in the thirty eighth year of their age (they being twins) and that the said James Frost is in the thirty sixth year of his age. and that they are reputed to be the sons of James Frost Esq.
now deceased, and that they are well acquainted with the hand writing of their father and that the affidavit marked A purporting to be the affidavit of David Gordon, bearing date the 6th day of November 1818, the signature of which said affidavit together with the body thereof is in the proper hand writing of their father the said James Frost.

Sworn and Subscribed before me on the 9th day of February 1835
James Hopping Justice

Benjamin Frost
Joseph Frost
James Frost

State of New Jersey
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that James Frost Esquire before whom the affidavit of David Gordon, hereto annexed, was taken
on the 6th day of November 1818, was at that time one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth in said State duly appointed
commissioned and sworn; and also that James Hopping Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit of Benjamin Frost, Joseph Frost and James Frost were taken, was at the time thereof and now is Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth duly appointed commissioned & sworn & that full faith credit
ought to be given his official acts. Given under my hand & seal of office at Trenton this eleventh day of February A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.

James D. Westcott

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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County ⎬

Before me James Hopping one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County,
personally appeared Benjamin Frost, Joseph Frost & James Frost who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith  that the said Benjamin Frost and Joseph Frost are in the thirty eighth year of their age (they being twins) and that the said James Frost is in the thirty sixth year of his age. and that they are reputed to be the sons of James Frost Esq.
now deceased, and that they are well acquainted with the hand writing of their father and that the affidavit marked A purporting to be the affidavit of David Gordon, bearing date the 6th day of November 1818, the signature of which said affidavit together with the body thereof is in the proper hand writing of their father the said James Frost.

Sworn and Subscribed before me on the 9th day of February 1835
James Hopping Justice

Benjamin Frost
Joseph Frost
James Frost

State of New Jersey
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that James Frost Esquire before whom the affidavit of David Gordon, hereto annexed, was taken
on the 6th day of November 1818, was at that time one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth in said State duly appointed
commissioned and sworn; and also that James Hopping Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit of Benjamin Frost, Joseph Frost and James Frost were taken, was at the time thereof and now is Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth duly appointed commissioned & sworn & that full faith credit
ought to be given his official acts. Given under my hand & seal of office at Trenton this eleventh day of February A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.

James D. Westcott