Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5368, John Duryee, New Jersey

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SERVICE | | NUMBER
New Jersey | Duryee, John | S.5368
carded
CONTENTS

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5698 5698
New Jersey
John Duryee
of [crossed out] the State of New Jersey
who was a Private in the Comp commanded
by Captain Outwater of the Reg commanded
by Col Day in the N. Jersey
line for [illegible] Private - $20.00

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 20 Dollars [crossed out] per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Feb.
1833 and sent to Hon T. Frelingheysen
[illegible]

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 - $30.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 - 10.00
$40.00
 | Revolutionary Claim, | 
 | Act June 7, 1832. | 

Recorded by Vinal Luce Clerk,
Book D Vol. 4 Page 146

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No 17104
John Duryee
Jan'y 31, 1833
obj. 5.14.16
Hon. Theo. Frelingheysen
U.S. Senate
Admitted
p 229

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BRIEF in the case of John Duryee
of Essex Co.
in the State of N. Jersey
(Declaration made in Bergen Co.) (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge ? Common Pleas
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity ?
3. How old is he? 80 years,
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Office.
 | | | under whom he served.
 | Years, Months, Days. | As a | Gen.
December [illegible] of the War | time not stated | Private | Capt. Outwater, Col Day [illegible]
In 17 1781 March | was taken prisoner while | " | "  "
 | in an engagement with the | |
 | enemy [illegible] in N.Y. | |
 | [illegible] | |
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hackensack N.J.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls ? Traditionary & living
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Improperly attached
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.
D Brown
Examining Clerk

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New Jersey
Bergen County
John Duryee's | Militia
Application for | 
a pension | Service
7109
$20 per ann
Certificate for 6 months
service [illegible]
sent to T Frelingheysen
of the senate
Honorable Theo Frelingheysen
27 Jan 1833

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DECLARATION
State of New Jersey | 
Bergen County | ss.
On this thirty first day of October 1832, personally appeared in
open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior court of
Common pleas in and for the county of Bergen
now sitting John Duryee - a resident of Caldwell
in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, aged eighty
years, 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named
Officers, and served as herein stated.  [illegible] after the
commencement of the war he entered and volunteer
as a soldier in the company of militia under the
command of Captain Outwater in the regiment of
Colonel Day of the New Jersey militia that [illegible]
after he enlisted he was with the regiment ordered
to New York where he continued in actual [illegible]
with the regiment until the enemy [illegible]
at New York and Long Island and they were
evacuated by the American troops.  After the
retreat, the company of Captain Outwater was [illegible]
on the line at [illegible] in Bergen county in
the State of New Jersey while these they [illegible]
in covering the retreat of the American [illegible]
New York across to Hackensack.  [illegible] was once
sent to escort Mrs Washington the wife of General
Washington from Newark through Hackensack
to Tappan.  The [illegible] when he entered [illegible]
left this service he cannot recollect.  He was
engaged in it the thinks about
months; He was afterwards in actual service as
a volunteer in the same company in March 1781
in the 23 of which month while in an [illegible]
with the enemy at [illegible] he was
taken prisoner and [illegible] to the Sugar House
in New York where he remained until the [illegible]

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of September following having been kept as a
prisoner of war for six months when he was
released by an exchange of prisoners.  The same
of his [illegible] was first at New York and afterwards
at Hackensack in New Jersey [illegible] the [illegible]
Sylvester Marines whose affidavit is hereto [illegible]
is a living witness of his service and Abraham
Vanderbeck & Wilhelmus Ettinge are neighbors to
whom he can refer for his character for veracity
and for their belief of his services as a soldier of
the revolution.  He was born in the first of August
1752 at Long Island in Kings county from thence
he removed to Hackensack in the year 1776 and
resides at Hackensack during the war; at the
time of his capture in 1781 March 23 he still
resided there and had property [illegible] and
plundered by the enemy to the value of five
thousand dollars,  Since the war he has [illegible]
for fifteen years as a [illegible] at [illegible]
in Somerset county New Jersey for ten years as [illegible]
in Essex co. N. Jersey and the remainder of the time he has been a 
[illegible] he has no [illegible] of his [illegible] except his family
Bible and the Bible of his father which [illegible]
with the [illegible] above stated - he never received
any discharge from the service [crossed out]

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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or Annuity except 
the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the
Agency of any of the United States
Sworn to, and subscribed, in open | John Duryee
Court, the day and year first aforesaid. | 
Abr Westervelt [illegible]
WE Willhelmus Ettinge a Clergyman, residing in the Township of Saddle River
County of Bergen and State of New Jersey, and Abraham Van Derbeck
residing in the Township of County of Bergen and State aforesaid, do
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Duryea who has subscribed
and sworn to the above declaration, - that we believe him to be eighty - years of age ;
that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution,
and that we concur in that opinion.
SWORN AND SUBSCRIBED THE DAY | Willhelmus Ettinge A.M.
AND YEAR FIRST AFORESAID. | Abraham Van Derbeek
Abr Westervelt clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting 
the interrogatories 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 of Wilhelmus
Ettinge - who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the
Township of Saddle River County of Bergen and State aforesaid. and that
Abraham VanDerbeek who has also signed the same, is a resident of the Township of
New [illegible] County of Bergen and State aforesaid, and is a credible 
person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. [illegible]
I, Abraham Westervelt Clerk: of the Inferior Court of Common
Pleas in and for the county of Bergen
do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of
the application of John Duryee for a Pension.
[seal applied] IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my Hand and
Seal of Office, this Thirty first day of October
in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Abraham Westervelt Clerk

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October 12, 1939
am
BA-J/MCS
John Duryee, S.5368
Mrs. W. Harvey Johnson
3528 North Eighteenth Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to
Revolutionary War soldiers, John Duryea, Sr.. of Dutchess County. New
York, and John Duryea, Jr.. of that county and John Duryea of New
Jersey.
The data which follow were taken from papers on file in pension
claim, S.5368, based on the military service of the only soldier named
John Duryee (personal signature) that is found in the Revolutionary War
records of this office, searched under all spellings of the surname.
John Duryee was born August 1, 1752, in Kings County. Long
Island. The names of his parents are not shown.
He moved to Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1776, and soon afterward
enlisted and served as private in Captain John Outwater's company in
Colonel Dey's New Jersey regiment, length of this enlistment not given.
He enlisted in March, 1781, in Captain John Outwater's New Jersey company, 
was taken prisoner March 23, 1781, and confined in the Sugar
House in New York until September, 1781, when he was exchanged.
After the Revolution, he lived in Linvale (?), Somerset County,
New Jersey. and Fairfield, Essex County. New Jersey, and was a minister
of the "Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of North America."
John Duryee was allowed pension on his application executed October
31, 1932, at which time he was a resident of Caldwell, Essex County, New
Jersey

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The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the family
of John Duryee.
If you desire the date of last payment of pension of John
Duryee, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and
possibly the date of death of this soldier, it is suggested that you
address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records
Division, Washington, D. C., giving the following data:
John Duryee, Certificate 5698, issued February 14, 1833, rate
$20 per annum. commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, New Jersey
Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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1929 Mar 9 - hist to
Mrs Sarah J Cross
MCS
1939 Oct 12 hist to
Mrs W Harvey Johnson
MCS
Rev War | 5368
INVALID
File No. 5368
John Duryea
[illegible] Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. M, Page 104
[check mark]

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In the matter of the
Reverend John Duryea
who petitions for a pension
for services rendered as a soldier
in the service of the United States
of America during the Revolutionary
War.
State of New York City and County of New York ss:
Sylvester Marius of the city of New York
[illegible] being duly sworn doth depose
and say that he is well acquainted
with the above named John Duryea
a minister of the Gospel in connection
with the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church
of North America now here presents and
named in the [illegible] for
a pension for services rendered to his country
during the War between the United
States af America and Great Britain
and which [illegible] in the establishment
of the independence of the [illegible]
and the deponent further saith that he
first became acquainted with the above
named John Duryea at Hackensack in

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in the State of New Jersey some time in the
year one thousand [crossed out] Seven hundred and
seventy Six or Seventy Seven when the said
John Duryea resided at Hackensack in
the State of New Jersey and was prosecuting
his studies preparatory to the Ministry of
the Gospel.  And deponents further saith
that he himself was in the Service of the United
States during almost all the war
and a considerable portion of the time on
the Continental establishment and always
a Sergeant or Orderly Sergeant in
the several corps to which he has belonged
and he well recollects that the [illegible]
named John Duryea did duty as a volunteer
in a Company of men on the lines
at Hackensack in the State of New Jersey commanded
by John Outwater [illegible] continental
establishment in whose company
deponent was an Orderly Sergeant
and the said John Duryea sis such
duty for at least a year to the knowledge
of deponent and how much longer deponent
doth not know as deponent left
Hackensack when he went to Morristown in

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in the said State [illegible] about Twenty of his
companions to join Col. Peter Fell [illegible]
him in the American Service - [illegible]
further saith that the said John conducted
himself as a brave man and
foot Soldier while deponents knew him
and had been always [illegible]
and honest man, a good citizen
and a man of truth and deponents believes
his statements made of his services
hereunto annexed.  Deponents saith he
the said John Duryea [illegible] always [illegible]
esteemed and beloved as a minister of
the Gospel and is now [crossed out] Infirm and
needs the aid of his Country deponents
[illegible] for his [illegible] and [illegible] also
thinks he deserves it [illegible] he well [illegible]
at the time the British entered Hackensack
in the night time and fired the
courthouse and burnt several other
houses [crossed out] he thinks in the year 1776
That the said John Duryea was taken prisoner
by the British and carried to New 
York and there imprisoned in the Sugar
house, but for how long a time deponent
saith he doth not know, but the Sugar house

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Name [illegible] was reputed to
be a place of dreadful suffering [illegible]
[illegible] - Deponent saith that
on the [illegible] the said John Duryea was
taken prisoner there was a considerable
deal of Skirmishing between the British
and Americans Hackensack aforesaid
in which Skirmishing said John
[illegible] have [illegible] & further saith not
Sworn before me this | Silvester Marius
17th day of March 1832 | 
Marine Court of the City of New York ss.
Sylvester Marius of the City of
New York Coordivainer personally appeared
in open Court & proved to the satisfaction of the
Court, that the above named John Duryea
is the person described as above.
In Witness, whereof I have hereunto
affixed the Seal of the said Marine Court
of the City of New York this
[seal affixed] | Seventeenth day of March
in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred
and thirty two
John Barberie
Clerk

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[margin printing]
That Pa was a true friend to his country, carried a Musket & was 
in the Service of the U.S. in perilous situations often - taken prisoner to N.Y.
where he suffered about 6 months is a [illegible]

State of New Jersey Bergen County ss: Be it [illegible]
that on the 23rd day of October in this year
of our Lord A.D. 1832 Personally appeared
before me David J Christie one of the Justices
of the Peace in & for said County [crossed out]
the Rev'd Peter J Van Pelt of Staten Island
who being duly sworn on this Holy
Evangelist of Almighty God upon his
faith deposeth & saith - he is well acquainted
with the Rev'd John Duryee & has
been for the last forty years - & that [crossed out] he
sustains a Character unexceptionable for truth so so that
any assertions or declaration he makes may be verily relied
upon.  That as a Citizen of out beloved Country he is true
peaceable & faithful to the Constitutions of the Laws and 
that as a Minister of the Gospels.  He is sound in the faith
& zealous in the cause of humanity, charity of religion and
has labored for many years in promoting the welfare of
his fellow men - as well for this life, as [illegible] especially [illegible]
their eternal happenings in the world to some.  That
is aged upwards of fourscore years - and in destitute
circumstances - and accordingly in need of pecuniary aid
And further this deponent saith not.
Sworn & subscribed to before me | 
the day & years above said | P. J. Vanpelt
David J Christie Justice | 
of the Peace in & for this | 
County of Bergen | 
State of New Jersey | 
County of Bergen | ss I Abraham Westervelt Clerk
 | of the Inferior court of [illegible]
Pleas in and for said county of Bergen I clerk of said county
Do hereby certify that David J Christie before whom the foregoing
affidavit of Rev'd Peter J Van Pelt was made [illegible]
of taking the same was and still is a Justice of the peace in and for
said county duly commissioned and Sworn and residing therein.

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That I am acquainted with the hand writing of said
Justice, and that the signature "David J Christie Justice
of the peace in & for county of Bergen" subscribed to the
Jurat of the within affidavit is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of Office this thirty first
day of October AD 1839
Abr Westervelt [illegible]
7

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the affidavit of
[illegible] Revd Peter J
Van [illegible]

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John Duryea
Payments to be made
at Trenton N.J.
by the [illegible] Trenton [illegible]
Agent for paying Pensioners,
in the Agency of
New Jersey
Recorded by [illegible]
Clerk, in Book D Vol 6
page 46

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May 30, 1833 Paid to September, 1833
June 5, 1833 Rcd forty dollars - my pension
to 4th Mar 1833 hands of T. Folsons [illegible]
John Duryea
Sept 29, 1834 paid to Sept 4 1834
Oct 29 1835 Paid to Sep 4 1835
Mar 12 1836 Paid to [illegible] 4 1836
Sep 7 1836 Paid to Sep 4 [illegible]

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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 John Duryea of the
State of New Jersey
who was a Private in the Army of the
Revolution
is entitled to receive Twenty dollars [crossed out]
 pr. annum, during his natural life, commencing
on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the
4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this
14 day of February
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
[illegible signature]
Secretary of War.
Examined and
Countersigned.
J.L. Edwards

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MRS. W. HARVEY JOHNSON | [Received Stamp SEP 16 1939 MAIL DIV Reader No. 20 VETS ADM]
3528 NORTH EIGHTEENTH STREET
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
September 15,1939
Veterans' Administration Archives,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
If possible, I should like to obtain
information concerning Revolutionary soldiers:
John Duryea, Sr., Dutchess Co., N. Y.
John Duryea, Jr.,    "              "      "
and John Duryea from New Jersey
The name may be spelled Duryee, Duryay or Durie.
At any time were pensions drawn to them
or were they granted "land bounty rights"? I am
trying to identify the home, birthplace, parents,
etc., of Jonn Duryea, born 1757, in order to connect
with the generation preceding him.
Please inform me of any charge connected 
with this.
Yours very truly,
Rhea Duryea Jonnson
Rhea Duryea Johnson

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1112 Rural Street,
Emporia, Kansas,
June 7, 1928.
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I am looking up ancestors and wish you would tell
me whether you have a Rev. John Duryee from either New York
or New Jersey on your pension lists of the Revolutionary
War? Do you have a Peter Vroom also on the Revolutionary
list from either New York or New Jersey.
Thanking you, Iam,
Very truly yours,
Mrs Sarah J. Cross
[received stamp US PENSION OFFICE JUN 11 1928]

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Rev. and 1812:
Wars Section
MCS/eel
March 9,1929.
Mrs. Sarah J. Cross
1112 Rural Street
Emporia, Kansas
Madam:
I advice you from the papers in the Revolutionary
War pension claim, S.5368, it appears that John Duryee
was born, August 11752, in Kings County, Long Island.
While a resident of Hackensack, Bergen County, New
Jersey, he enlisted shortly after the beginning of the
Revolution and served as a private in Captain John Outwater's 
Company in Colonel Dey's New Jersey Regiment,
length of service not stated.
He enlisted in March, 1781, in Captain John Outwater's 
New Jersey Company, was taken prisoner, March 23,
1781, and confined in the Sugar House at New York, until
September,1781, when he was exchanged.
After the Revolution he lived in Linvale (?), Somerset
County, New Jersey, and Fairfield, Essex County, New Jersey, 
and was a minister of the "Reformed Protestant Dutch
Church of North America".

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He was allowed pension on his application executed
October 31, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Caldwell, 
Essex County, New Jersey.
This is the history of the only soldier by the name
of John Duryee that is found on the Revolutionary War records 
of this bureau and said records fail to afford any
information in regard to Peter Vroom.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.