Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2452, Abner Condit, New Jersey

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New Jersey | Condit. Abner | S. 2452
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No. 3462
New Jersey
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Abner Condit
of Morris Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain  Howell of the Regt. commanded by Lord Sterling in the N. Jersey line for 15months
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey
at the rate of 50 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22d day of Decr 1832 and sent to Pens care of the Clk of Morris Co. N. J.
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Arrears to 4th of September 1832   75.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833 25.00
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$100.00
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{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book D. Vol. 4  Page 145

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Abner Condit

Admitted
Private
15 months
$50.00
came with 2837

Pensioner
Care of the Clk of Morris Co.
Morris-town
N. J.

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of  Congress passed June 7th 1832_____

Morris Com. Phar , July & Augt special term, 1832.

State of New Jersey}
County of Morris}  ss

Personally appears on this 14th day of August before Stephen Vail Esq. one of the Judge dict Esq a resident of Mendham township in the county of Morris aforesaid, aged 83 years, who by reason of age & bodily infirmity is unable to attend the sittings of this Court at the Court house, has requested as a favor, that his declaration might be taken at a private dwelling
And Stephen Vail Esq. one of the aforesaid Judges, having for this purpose met the aforesaid Abner Condit at the house of Nathanial Wilson in the township of Morris, & said Abner Condict having been 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._  He was born on the 7th of August 1749 [illegible] to a record of his age in his family bible made by his father, in the township of Morris, in the County of Morris & State of New Jersey.__  That he lived in Morris township when he first entered the service of his county:- that he now lives in the township of Mendham & County aforesaid where he has lived since the year 1800 or thereabouts.  He entered the Service.  He entered the Service by enlistment at Morristown on the 5th of December 1775, in Captain Silas Howell's company.  Lieutenant Mercer & Richard Johnson.  He believes there was no Ensign commissioned, but thinks   that one Kemper, performed duty as Ensign.___
William, Earl of Stirling, commonly calle "Lord Stirling" he believes was Colonel & William William Winds Lieut. Colonel.__ Lord Stirling was afterward promoted to the rank of Brigadier General & Winds commanded the Regiment.__  This Regiment was raised before the Declaration of Independence probably under authority from the Provincial Congress of New Jersey & as this Deponent understood when enlisted, was intended to aid in the proposed reduction of Canada at that early day.  & which failed by the defeat of Genl Montgomery under the walls of Quebec.  He also believes, but is not confident, that this same Regiment was afterward considered as in the Unites States Service, upon the Continental establishment forming a part of the regular army, in the New Jersey line, altho' commanded by different officer.__  In about one week after enlistment this Deponent marched with his company fro Morristown to Elizabeth town, & thence to Perth Amboy  where they were quartered at the barracks, until about March,

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when they were moved to New York, where they remained about one month.
They were transported from the City in sloops to Albany, in April or May - thence
to Fort Edward & Fort George, across Lake George, & to Lake Champlain-- thence
to Crown Point, where they drew provision-- crossed Lake Champlain to St. John's fort, where they landed, & proceeded by land to Chamble?-- thence to the mouth of Lord? river, where they encamped. All the effective troops (amounting to about 1500.) excepting Winds Regiment, were detailed to go to the 3 rivers to meet the enemy, then in force there to the amount of about 7000. as was said
Deponent believes that a Col. Thompson of Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded troops
destined to the river. This was probably early in June. On the following day, a heavy firing was heard, & it was concluded that a battle had begun. Col. Wind's Regiment was soon got in readiness, & proceeded in battans down the Lord? to its junction with the St Lawrence, thence down to the Three Rivers where the battle was fought, & which was made on before Winds arrived. The whole American force retreated by the same route to Ticonderoga, when they arrived about the beginning of July as he believes. Here they commenced fortifying, & remained till December following when this Deponent with several others his comrades, being sick of what was called the Camp disorder (Dysentry) & his time of enlistment having expired, he was verbally discharged by order of Doctor Barnett, Surgeon of the Regt & reached home about the 20th December 1776, a few days before the news was rec'd of the capture of the Hessions at Trenton. -
This deponent refers for some further particulars & proof of service to a Declaration & testimony made & taken under the act of Congress of March 18th 1818 now on file as he presumes in the War Department. under that Declaration & that's why he was placed on the Pension roll agency of the State of New Jersey, but was stricken therefrom for want of the poverty qualification, not being a pauper, & charge to the town. He has long since been totally unable from bodily infirmities, to labor
expended the whole of his little worldly estate, & is entirely dependent on his children for
his bread & clothing.-- He now claims to be restored to his pension, or rather that his
pension be restored to him, if consistent, under the the former law of 1818, if not
under the act of June 7th 1832.-
Beside the services already stated, he
performed several tours of Militia duty in defence of his Country after his discharge in
the winter of 1775.6. But the impressed state of his memory, & the entire want of
evidence from the death of his associates, renders proof almost hopeless. He does not now know a single living witness on whom he can call.  --  The winter of his return home, he was sick the whole time not recovering from the effects of Dysentery.
In the summer preding Burgoynes capture, probably in 1777, he was drafted on a tour of militia duty of two months, under Captain Austin (or Augustin) Baily & Lieutenant
George Bockover. Marched from Morris town to Succaranny?, with the expectation of striking his Hadfor river at Newburg or New Windsor, to act against Burgoyne. No ?
 was informed that the Hudson was blocked up by British vessels, & the company continued thro' Essex county to Elizabeth town, when they come stationed under command of Genl Wind, to guard the shores & landing places, & protect the inhabitants from being ? by the enemy, continued on this duty till the two months expired

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then discharged verbally & returned home.__
In the fall of the same year as he thinks, he was again drafted for one month's militia duty, under Captain Artemus Day, -John Carnes being Lieu. or Ensign .__  Was marched to Elizabeth town, where the company was stationed for a month, to guard the lines & shores, & protect the inhabitants against the incursions of the enemy.__Lived out the month was dismissed, & went home.__

Was called out to another month, probably in May 1778, under Captain Artemus Day & was marched to Elizabeth town to perform guard duty.__ Just before the Monmouth battle, the company was marched from Elizabeth town to New Brunswick & having been married just before leaving home on this tour, his Captain gave him permission to return, & he went home.__

In June, 1779, he was impressed with his two horses, to transport artillery to the Short hills near Springfield at the time when Springfield & Connecticut farms were burned.__ His horses were kept harnessed steadily for a period of two weeks, moving artillery backward & forward agreeably to order, when he was dismissed & went home. __

He verily believes, that besides his service under his enlistment for the year, first mentioned, he has served his Country for a period of three months.

He has never recd a written discharge nor a commission.  He remembers Col. Hathaway, Col. Fulinghuysen, Genl Winds.

He is well known to Nathanial Wilson  & Lewis Condict, who have known him more than 30 years; & to them he refers for his general character. & their belief of his revolutionary services.__

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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, or to be restored to his former pension under the act of Congress of March 18th 1818, & declares, that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State.
Abner Condict
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Stephen Vail (N.B. Condict is blind, & attempts his name without any aid from his sight)
We, Nathaniel Wilson & Lewis Condict, residing in Morris County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abner Condict Esqr who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Eighty three years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.-
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid, Lewis Condict
Nathaniel Willson

Stephen Vail
And the said Stephen Vail Esqr one of the Judges of the Court aforesaid before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, & the Declaration made & subscribed doth hereby declare it as his opinion, that the above named applicant, was a Revolutionary soldier,  & served as he states.-
Stephen Vail

I David Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Morris in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings, before Stephen Vail Esqr in the matter of the application of Abner Condict Esqr for a Pension, & I do further certify that said
Stephen Vail is one of the Judges of said Court, duly qualified & commissioned & that the above signature of his name, is in his own proper hand writing
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office, this eighteenth day of August, AD 1832.
David Day Clk

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State of New Jersey
Morris County Ss
Before the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County, personally appears Ezekiel Whitehead & John Smith of said County, well known to the subscriber as men of integrity & veracity, who being sworn, do on their oaths declare, that they have for many years, (probably more than thirty or forty) been intimately & personally acquainted with Abner Condict Esqr now applying for a pension from the United States, that we have long been his near neighbours, & have always entertained & still do entertain the highest respect for him, as a man of unspotted integrity & piety- of unsullied reputation for truth & honesty in all his dealings, & in whom all his neighbours & acquaintances have the highest confidence. We have known him for some five or six years, in the discharge of his official duties as one of the Justices of the Peace of this County & verily believe that he performed his duty to
the general satisfaction of all concerned.-- We have often heard him narrate some of the incidents of the revolutionary war, as connected with his own personal services in that struggle, & have the most perfect confidence in the truth & correctness of all his statements; believing fully, that the narration
contained in his Declaration which we have heard read this day is true, & is fully entitled to belief.-- We add with pleasure, that we verily believe, there is not a person who has known him in the course of his long & virtuous
life, who has ever doubted his truth or his honesty.  -- Sworn & subscribed before me, this 14th day of August, 1832.
Ezekiel Whitehead
John Smith

Stephen Vail

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Abner Condit, New Jersey roll, act June 7, 1832 at $50 pr ann pd to 4 March 1837
Robert Young, New Jersey roll, act June 7, 1832 at $56.66 --
Died 29 Jan 1840 p to that period
Martin Munday, New Jersey Roll. Act June 7 1832, at $40 - pd. 4 March 1842
J H
Be pleased to say to what time they last paid, respectively

Pension Office,                      
Aug 2 1842.

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Abner Condict $55.00
Feb 22d , 32
Payments to be made at Trenton by the First Trenton Bankg. Compy. Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of New Jersey

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, in Book D. Vol. 4 page 145

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Abner Condit of Morris County of the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the army of the Revolution

is entitled to receive  Fifty dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1834, and payable semi-annulally, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty second day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two

Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and}
Countersigned.}
J L Edwards [signature]

[round stamp]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

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Mar 21, 1833 Paid to 4 Mar 1833
Sept 13, 1833 Paid to 4 Sept 1833
Apr 8, 1834 Paid to 4 Mar 1834
Sept 25 1834 Paid to 4 Sept 1834
Mar 14 1835 Paid to 4 Mar 1835
Sep 12 1835 paid to Sept 4, 1835
Mar 22 1836 paid to Mar 4 1836
Sept 6 paid Sep 4 1836
Ap 19 Paid to 4 Mar 1837

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Aug 2, 1842
Martin Monday
Robt. Young
Abner Condict
N.J.
[Postmark] Morristown Jul 30

J. L. Edwards
Commisr of Pensions
Washington City

FREE

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Morris Town July 29. 1842
To the Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm of Pensions
I thank you for your former politeness to me
I am called upon by the friends of 
Martin Monday 
Robert Young &
Abner Condit, (Died about 4 or 5 years ago)
Please inform me when they were put on the
pension list, and what sum was allowed
them, and time they received their last pay
By Conferring this favor you will oblige
Your humble servant
Charles Freeman

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Payable semi-annually -- the first payment
on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, by the Prest. Trenton Banking Company-
Trenton New Jersey
-
Abner Condict Warrant
#2452

Recorded
J.L. Edward

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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I  CERTIFYThat, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,

Abner Condict late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Jersey Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 27th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this seventeenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

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March 8, 1819 Paid to March 4, 1819
Sept 13 1819 Paid to Sept 4, 1819
May 6th 1820 Paid to Mar 4 1820

4495

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New Jersey
4,495
Abner Condict
Private
New Jersey line, 1775. 9 months in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of Nov 1818 and sent Hon Mr Southard
House of Representatives
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818  $34. 13
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 $48.-
 $74.13
{ Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Morris Cy.

8

2.13
23.
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34.13

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Rev War
2452
INVALID
File No. 2452
Abner Condict
Prvt Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index: - Vol. A, Page 72.
[Arrangement of 1870]

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Abner Condict
Denied that his money be received in the City of New York
Admitted
Not on Rolls

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State of New Jersey
County of Morris
Ss
On this 27th day of April in the year of our Lord, 1818. before the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas for the said County of Morris, personally appears Abner Condict, aged sixty eight
years, resident in Morris County, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolution
any war," that he the said Abner Condict, enlisted as a private in Morris Town, in the State of New Jersey, in the company commanded by Captain Silas Howell, of the first Jersey Regiment, on the 5th day of December 1775, for the term of one year; said Regiment being commanded by Colonel William Winds. That he served in said Company & Regiment against the common enemy & in service of the United States, until
some time in November following, when his health being somewhat infirm, he was regularly & honorably discharged at Ticonderoga, having been personally
present in the engagement with the enemy, at the Three Rivers in Canada, & in actual service the full period of eleven months. After his discharge he was very often out, on tours
of Militia duty, against the enemy; at Elizabeth
Town, Hackinsack, Springfield & various other places in New Jersey, until the end of the War.
And deponent on oath further declares, that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his County for support
Abner Condict

Sworn to & subscribed before me
this 27th day of April 1818
Lewis Condict

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State of New Jersy 
County of Morris Ss. Be it known, that on the 4th day of June 1848 the Subscriber, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common
pleas in & for said County, personally appeared Richard Johnson Esquire
who being by me first duly sworn according to law, deposeth & saith, that he served as a Lieutenant in the war of the Revolution against the common enemy, in the company
of Infantry commanded by Captain Silas Howell of the first Jersey Regiment
commanded by Colonel William Winds, of the Jersey line, for the period one year,
viz: from November 1775, to November 1776: that he well remembers Abner Condict, named in the foregoing deposition to have been also a soldier of good repute in the same company & Regiment & for about the same period; that this Deponent & said Condict, were enlisted in said Company about the same time & for the same period, viz: one year, that they were employed on the Northern Campaign, under
command of General Horatio Gates; & verily believes from his own personal knowledge
that all the facts stated in the deposition of said Condict, which he has read of his enlistment, service & discharge, are correct & true
Richa Johnson

Sworn & subscribed before me at Morris Town
New Jersey this 8th day of June 1818- The word "Lieutenant", in 5th line was interlined before signing & taking the oath

Lewis Condict

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State of New Jersey
Morris County Ss
On this 27th day of April Domini 1818, before the subscriber, one of the Judges of the inferior Court of Common pleas for said County personally appears Edward Mills, aged sixty nine years, or thereabouts, resident
in Morris Town, New Jersey, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath declare & say, that he served the United States in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, that he acted as orderly Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Silas Howell, of the 7th Jersey Regiment, under Colonel William Winds; that he well remembers Abner Condict, as a private
Soldier in said Company in the Norther campaign & elsewhere, for the period
of about one year, that he knew said Conduct, as a faithful & brave soldier & verily believe sthe fact of his enlistment, service & discharge, as stated by him in the foregoing deposition, to be correct & true
Edward Mills

Sworn & subscribed before me
this 27th day of April, 1818
Lewis Condict

I Lewis Condict, a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common pleas for the County of Morris do hereby certify, that it appears to my  satisfaction that the said Abner Condict, did serve in the Revolutionary war against
the common enemy as stated in the preceding declaration.-- & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress-
Lewis Condict

Morris Town, New Jersey
27th 1818
The above Abner Condict is well known to me, as a man in indigent circumstances, needing the assistance of his County for support.
Morris Town N. Jersey
June 8th 1818 Lewis Condict

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State of New Jersey
County of Morris ss.
I Robert H. McCarter Clerk of the said County
of Morris, do certify, that Lewis Condict Esqr before whom the foregoing affidavits are made, is, and was, at the doing thereof duly enrolled one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the
County of Morris, and that full faith and credit is due and right to be given to his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County the second day of May Eighteen hundred & eighteen
Robert A. McCarter