Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 900, for Gabriel Mundy, New Jersey

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New Jersey   Mundy, Gabriel   S.900

                                             carded

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State of New Jersey   )
Middlesex County     )  Ss

Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for said County Michael Mundy being duly sworn according to Law, upon his oath sayeth that Gabriel Mundy is a brother to him & that he knows that the said Gabriel Mundy served as a private soldier in the revolutionary War during nearly the whole war & that he always understood he served in the five months service with Mr John Martin (who is since dead) & often heard them conversing upon the subject of their duties during said War & has no doubt of the fact of their having served together, never heard it doubted to the best of his knowledge & belief & further sayeth not
     Michael Mundy
Sworn & subscribed         )
before me June 22, 1836  )
  Wm. B Manning
   [mark]

House of Representatives Washington 25 June 1836
  I am well acquainted with Michael Mundy the above deponent and know him to be a person upon whose attestation full credit may be placed.                   James Parker

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State of New Jersey     )
Middlesex County   Ss )
     On this first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey in Open Court and now sitting the same being a Court of Record Patrick Mundy a resident in the township of Piscataway in said county of Middlesex aged seventy three years who being duly sworn according to law and examined and interrogated according to the instructions of the War department, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
   That is to say - That he was born on the tenth day of January in the year 1760 in the township of Piscataway & County of Middlesex & State aforesaid and will be seventy four years of age on the 10th day of January next if he lives so long - Has a record of his age in his family bible - Has always resided in the township of Piscataway aforesaid since his birth and never any where else -
   He in the seventh of June 1776 enlisted in the five months service in the company commanded by Capt John Webster and Lieutenant Jacob Martin & Hugh Dunn & Col David Forman  He was immediately marched to New York where the company was for a short time, when they were ordered to Hoboken on the Jersey side of the Hudson - From this they marched to

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Bergen Point when they fired upon a British vessel of war there lying in New York bay - The fire was returned & he & his company returned to New York & thence to Long Island where the company were put under the command of General Green - Continued on the Island untill the american Army left it after the battle - The company to which he belonged was not fully engaged in that battle but were only in a skirmish with the Brittish - after the battle was in New York a short time, where he was ordered to fort Washington where he remained with his company for two weeks, or thereabouts, and from thence marched to White plains, where he remained till the battle of the White plains.  Was in that battle - and from the White plains marched to Haverstraw & thence to Hackensack in Bergen County New Jersey & thence his company marched to the Hudson opposite Fort Washington
Shortly after this his term of five months expired & he returned home -
Shortly after this to wit in the month of March 1777 he entered in the service of the United States as a volunteer militiaman in the company commanded by Capt. House and Lieutenant John Pane & Maj. Reuben Potter.  In this service which continued for about one month he served his regular tour, after that he joined as a volunteer the company of Militia commanded by Capt. William Manning in that service he was out generally every other month & at a month at a time & whenever there was any alarm was always called out - This company was then

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[illegible] Col. (?) & part under Col. Webster and Col. Soley - toward the close of the War Capt Manning resigned and the company was then commanded by Capt David Dunham.  In this company this declarant served from the time he entered it till the end of the war serving almost every month - He served at Elizabethtown Woodbridge & in the vicinity of those places was at Freehold in Monmouth County & at Springfield - was at Monmouth at the time of the battle of that place, but was not in the actual engagement as his company was not called on  Was at the battle of Elizabethtown, Westfield, and in various skirmishes during the War - The county through which he marched lay between the places above mentioned - Served as a soldier during the war more than eighteen months except one month as a substitute but always in his own behalf.
   He has no documentary evidence of his service nor any written dishcharge therefrom, but is well known to John Martin & James T. Dunn the former of whom served with him in the five months service & the latter in the other service & both of whom are still living & can testify to his service as a soldier of the revolution - He is also well known to the Rev. Halloway Hunt - a Clergyman who resides in his neighbourhood and also to William B. Manning who resides in the same place and both of whom can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution -
   And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on

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the pension roll of the agency of any State -
        Gabriel Mundy
Sworn & Subscribed in  )
Open Court the day       )
& year aforesaid             )
       Thos Hance, Judge

   We John  Martin and James T. Dunn of the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Gabriel Mundy the foregoing applicant, that we believe him to be of the age he represents himself in said declaration & we further certify that we know him to have been a Revolutionary soldier, having at different times served with him in the war of the revolution - We also cerfity that he is a man of veracity & we have the most entire confidence in the whole Statement made by him in relation to his said services -
   John Martin
   James T Dunn
Sworn & subscribed in  )
open Court the day       )
& year aforesaid -         )
   Thos Hance, Judge

  We Halloway Hunt - a Clergyman residing in the township of Piscataway  [interlineated: & Woodridge] in the County of Middlesex New Jersey & William B Manning residing in the same place hereby certify that they are well acquainted with Gabriel Mundy who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be seventy three years of age & upwards, that he is a man of veracity and is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of

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The revolution and that we concur in that opinion -
    Revd Holloway W Hunt
    Wm B Manning
Sworn & Subscribed   )
in open Court the day )
& year aforesaid          )
   JP Ford
and the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he States - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Holloway W Hunt who has Signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in said County of Middlesex and that William B Manning James T Dunn & John Martin who have respectively Signed the preceding certificates are resident in Said county & are credible persons and that their Statements are entitled to credit -
February 1st 1833  
Thos Hance
Jno Autrett
JP Ford

I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the Court of common pleas in & for the Said County of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of Said court in the matter of the application of Gabriel Mundy for a pension  -
[seal affixed]
In Testimony whereof I have herein
set my hand and affixed the Seal
of office this ninth day of February
in the year of our Lord one Thou
sand eight hundred & thirty three
   N Booraem Clk

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Central Bridge, N.Y.
Aug 16, 1911.

Com. S. Stillwell,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:

   I beg to inquire if you can find upon the Revolutionary War pension records the name given below:
   Gabriel Mundy, b. Jan. 10, 1760.
                             d. Aug. 25, 1842 
   Served in the battle of Song Island.

Date Stamp:
U. S. Pension Office
Aug 17 1911

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   Any information of his record would be gratefully received by the writer.
   Respectfully,
   (Miss) Martha C. Moffett
   Central Bridge
   Scho. Co.,
    N.Y.

Date Stamp:
U. S. Pension Office
Aug 17 1911

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Perth Amboy 11 April 1835

Sirs

   I was requested to inquire of you last winter into the case of Moses Dunn of Sussex County in this State who claims a Pension under the Act of 1832, and do not recollect that I did so or not.  At any rate the person who made the request has called on me for the Information and I recollect nothing about it.
   Will you do me the favor to inform me what is the situation of this Claim and the objections which exist to it, and what is to be done to entitle it to a favorable (?)

Yours very respectfully
James Parker

James L Edwards Esqr
Commr. of Pensions

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State of New Jersey  )
Middlesex County     ) ss   Personally appeared before me Wm. B Manning one of the Judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Middlesex Gabriel Mundy being duly Sworn according to Law, upon his oath sayeth that in addition to his five months service in the Revolutionary War, he served as a volunteer (as a private) in the Militia under the following officers & terms, to wit,  in the month of March 1777 - under Major Reuben Potter & Captn. John Shaw he served one month - under Colns. Taylor & John Webster & Capt. Wm Manning in the years 77 & 78 four months under Coln. Seely, Major Clarkson Edgars, Captains David Dunham, Hugh Dunn &  Adress four months - & in the years 79 & 80 he served four months under Col. Samuel Craw Captains John Gulick & Robert Ross & one month as a substitute for Joshua Martin he being sick & unable to do duty, all which he states to the best of his Knowledge & Belief, and further saith not

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New Brunswick July 11th 1836
Dr Sir,
   I received James Parker Esqrs. letter of the 30th June enclosing yours of the same date, relative to Gabriel Mundys Pension.  I am sorry he has been put to so much trouble to obtain his rights.  Mr Mundy states to me that he never received your letter referred to in yours - the part of his services in the revolution can not be doubted.  I thought under all the circumstances I would transmit to the War department his affidavit as it appears his declaration of service was not definite: to prove his service at this day would be dificult as most of his fellows are dead.  I hope he will not be defeated as I believe his claim is Just -
   Respectfully yours &c
   Wm B. Manning

J. L. Edwards Esqr.

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New Jersey Middlesex County.  In the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex in the Term of June Eighteen hundred & thirty six.  The testimony of James Longstaff taken in open court on the application of Gabriel Mundy for a renewal of his Pension under the act of Congress of June 7th A. 1832 taken in open Court this 22d day of June 1836.
   James Longstaff being duly sworn maketh oath and saith that on the 4h day of November next he will be eighty two years of age - that he has lived a neighbour to Gabriel Mundy in the township of Piscataway in the County of Middlesex since they were Boys.  that this Deponent himself served out sufficient periods as a Volunteer in the Militia during the War of the American Revolution, that he recollects specifically since that said Gabriel Mundy served as a Soldier in the Line of the Army [interlineated: serving the pre permitted men] in the year seventeen hundred & seventy six & the Begining of seventeen hundred & seventy seven & that he served out his five months service - that Deponent further saith that he knows that the said Gabriel Mundy served also in the Revolutionary War as a volunteer Militia Man, that since Mundy was out as a volunteer in the same company with this Deponent under Captain William Manning.  That this Deponent cannot at this distance of time swear to the exact time for which said Mundy served but he remembers that said Mundy served as a Soldier in the War action for several months during the War & continued in the service until the close of the War at different periods.
  James Longstaff
Sworn & subscribed          )
in open Court on the day  )
& year aforesaid -              )
John Ortodt   Judges of Middlesex pleas
Wm. B Manning

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Washington 25 June 1836.  I am well acquainted with the within named deponent James Longstaff and know him to be a man of Integrity & truth upon whom full (?) may be placed.  I also know John Ortodt & W B. Manning to be Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Middlesex.
    James Parker
     of the House of Representatives

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Washington 25 June 1836

Sir

   I enclose the affidavits of James Longstaff & Michael Mundy in support of the claim of Gabriel Mundy of New Jersey whose pension has been suspended & hope they will obvicate the existing difficulty.
With great Respect
Yr Obed Servt
James Parker

James L. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions

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Washington 9 June 1836

Sir

  I am requested on the part of Gabriel Mundy of New Jersey whose Pension has been suspended to procure a copy of his papers on file which I understood you a few days since could be dend.
  He states that he has received no letter from you except the copy transmitted to me the other day. 
Your very respectfully
James Parker

James L. Edwards Eqr
Comm of Pensions

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Washington 19 May 1836

Sir

   I enclose a letter recd. from Wm B. Manning Eqr relating to the suspension of the payment of the pension of Gabriel Mundy of New Jersey and will thank you for Information as to the Cause of that measure.  Mr Mundy has not until very lately mentioned the Stoppage.

Your respectfully
James Parker

James L. Edwards Eqr
Commr of Pensions

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Trenton Bank
Pension Office
Novem 17 1837

Sir;

  I enlose the vouchers &c of Gabriel Mundy requiring your Special direction for payment

I am respectfully
Your Obt Serv
John Dickinson Prest

J L Edwards Esq

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N. Jersey, New Brunswick
Nov. 25th 1837


Sir)   Mr. Gabriel Mundy a pensioner called a few days since on the agent at Trenton to receive his dues for one year & received for answer that he ought to have called when it become due & it would have been paid.  That he (the agent) had received instructions from the War department not to pay out any more money to pensioners, if it be true & the whole be stopped Mr Mundy will be content upon receiving what is Justly due him for the last year -
If there be a man in New Jersey intitled to a pension for revolutionary services Mr. Mundy is, as I verily believe from the information received from respectable soldiers serving with him during the War - please to write me on receit of this, the cause of suspension that I may inform him by so doing you'l confer a favour on yours &c
   Wm B Manning

J.L. Edwards Esqr
War Department
Pension Office