Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6477, Anthony Walton White, Continental New Jersey & U.S.A.

SERVICE
Continental New Jersey & U.S.A.
CONTENTS
NUMBER
White, Anthony Walton Margaret
No. 6477
{ B.L.W. 2420-500. Col. Issued Sept. 18, 1789. No papers.

New Jersey 254 Margaret White of Somerset in the State of N.J. who was a Va in the commanded by Captain of the  commanded by in the widow of Anthony W. White de late a Colonel in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 600 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Nov 1836 and sent to Kirkpatrick New Brunswick
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $3.300.00 Semi-ant. allowances ending Mar 37 300.00 $3.600.00
Revolutionary Claim, 3 Act June 7, 1836. 3 Recorded by H. H. Adkins Clerk Book Vol. 1 st Page 156
Let to Hon. G. D. Wall Sept 29 1837 1839 April 3 Dr. S. B. Park - history - Prior

The Declaration of Mrs Margaret White widow of Colonel Anthony Walton White
State of New Jersey
Somerset County ss On this twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Somerset Margaret White a resident in the township of Franklin in the said County, aged sixty nine years upwards She having been born on the 22nd day of June 1767 who being first duly sworn, according to law, with on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 -
That she is the widow of Colonel Anthony Walton White who was a Colonel in the Virginia Line - That her said husband entered the service at the beginning of the War of the Revolution and served until the end of the War and until the army was disbanded - That during the latter part of the War in the beginning of the year 1783 & for some time previous to their marriage, Colonel White served in the Southern Army in South Carolina and with this Regiment until the rest of the army he took possession of Charleston where that City was evacuated by the British - That the said Colonel White having held a commission and service throughout the whole of the war of the Revolution the declarant presumes that there is sufficient record testimony of his service
She further declares that she was married to the said Colonel Anthony Walton White in the City of Charleston on the eighth day of May in the year

of one hundred and Seventy  Eighty hundred and Eighty Three by the Reverend M c Hurst (familiar- ly called the High Priest from his extraordinary knights) who was a chaplain in the army, that she has not now nor has she ever had a certificate of her marriage - That her husband the aforesaid Colonel Anthony Wacton White died on the thirteenth day of February eighteen hundred and Three and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me
Margaret White
John P. Doherty Judge of Common Pleas
State of New Jersey Somerset County ss. I John P. Doherty one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Somerset before whom the foregoing Declaration was made do certify that the said Declarant Margaret White cannot from lively infirmity attend the court that I am informed and believe that she has not and has not been able to leave her house for a long time past and I do further certify that the said affiant is a credible person and that she is fully to be believed -
John P. Doherty Judge of Common Pleas

In the matter of the Declaration of Margaret White Eliza M c Ilwain, being duly sworn according to law before me the sub- scriber on her oath saith that she is the daughter of the said Margaret White the widow of the late Anthony Walton White. That she is now in the forty second year of her age. That she distinctly recollects having seen the family Bible which she always understood belonged to William Ellis her maternal grandfather. That the said Bible has been worn out and destroyed within a few years. That she distinctly recollects seeing in the said Bible the entry of the date of the birth of her mother the said Margaret White (then Ellis) and also the time of her Baptism. That according to this entry the said Margaret White was born on the 22nd June 1767 & Baptized by the Rev. John Thomas on the 20th November 1767. That she has been informed and believes that her said grandfather died in the year 1772. That she distinctly re- collects that in the same family Bible there was an entry made by her Aunt, Mary Ellis, (who was the sister of the Declarant and many years older than she) that the said Margaret White (then Ellis) was married to the said Anthony Walton White on the eighth day of May Seventeen hundred and eighty three by Reverend Mr Hurst. That she is informed and believes that the entry of the birth and baptism of her mother the said Margaret White is in the handwriting of her grandfather the said William Ellis, That the entry of the marriage

the time when, and by whom the ceremony was performed, is in the hand writing of her said Aunt Mary Ellis the sister of her mother —
That the said Mary Ellis finding the family Bible of said was much worn out and defaced, made a copy in her own hand writing of the various entries relating to the births and deaths, Baptisms & marriages of the family, which said copy the deponent now has in her possession & which corresponds exactly with what is herein before stated — That her aunt the said Mary Ellis has long since departed this life, that she died on the _____ day of _____ Eighteen hundred and twenty seven — 1827 —
That the deponent ever since her birth has always lived with said Margaret White her mother — That the said Margaret White never married after the death of her husband the said Colonel J. W. White who died in 1803, and that she still remains his widow and unmarried —
That she now has in her possession a notice of the marriage of her said parents which was taken from a paper called "The Chronicle of Liberty and Republican Intelligencer" the same being then printed & published in the city of New Brunswick, which notice bears date May 10th 1783, the day the premises on which the paper was issued, and also another number of the same paper bearing date the 28th of May 1783 which contains an "Epithalamium" as it is called in the said paper on the marriage of her said parents —
wherein said notice and paper are herunto annexed — Sworn and published before me
This 12 th day of October 1836.
Eliza M. Evans
John P. Warner
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Somerset & State of New Jersey

In the matter of the Declaration of y. M r . Margaret White
Jane Philipatuck widow of the Honorable Andrew Philipatuck late Chief Justice of the State of New Jersey being duly sworn according to law on her oath saith - That she is intimately ac- quainted with M r Richard White the Declarant's son-in- law and was well acquainted with Colonel Antho- ny Wackon White her late husband -
That early in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty four, she thinks in the month of June of that year, the said Colonel White brought the said Margaret White to the house of the father of this depo- nent (the late Colonel John Bayard) in both then resi- ding in the City of Philadelphia - That she understood at that time, and believes it to be true, that the said Colonel White & his said wife had at that time been married about one year or fourteen months -
That in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty four this deponent with her father removed to the City of New Brunswick where she has always since resided, that in Seventeen hundred and Eighty one, the said Colo- nel White & Margaret his wife also removed to the City of New Brunswick - That they continued to live there and lived together always as man and wife until the death of Colonel White in Eighteen hun- dred and three, That the said Margaret White still continued to reside in the said City of New Brunswick and does now reside there & has resided there ever since the death of her husband, that after the death of the said Colonel White the said Margaret White did not, nor has not, again married, and she still remains the widow of the said Colonel White -
This deponent further says that she has seen and

examined the paper purporting to be the copy of the family Bible of the said William Ellis, that the entries as sworn to by Eliza Mirwanz, are in that copy, as by her mention set out and That she is well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Mary Ellis and the paper purporting to be the copy of the entries of said is in the proper hand writing of the said Mary Ellis —
Sworn & subscribed the 12 th
Jane Kirkpatrick.
day of October A.D. 1836.
before me John Terhune, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Somerset & State of New Jersey.
Somerset ss. I John Terhune before whom the depositions of Eliza Mirwanz and Jane Kirkpatrick were taken & subscribed do certify that the said affiants are credible persons and that they are fully to be believed —
John Terhune
Judge of Somerset Pleas —

State of New Jersey Somerset County
I John M Mann clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Somerset do certify that John Terhune the person before whom the annexed Declaration and depositions were taken, was at the time of taking the same and is now a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Somerset, which said Court is a Court of Record, and that the signature of the said John Terhune to the said Declaration and depositions is his genuine signature -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this Seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty six.
J. M. Mann

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6477 Margaret White Wid. of Anthony White Col. Rev. War
Act: June 7, 1836
Index:—Vol. 16 , Page 329
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Burlington Oct 24/1896
Dear Sir,
I have been requested to forward the Papers of Mrs Margaret White, which I believe prove her claim to a pension Col. White was in the Cavalry of the Continental Army & I presume you will require no other evidence of his services than such as exists in the War Department.
Yrs Resp'y
Garreld D. Wall
H. Edwards Esq
You will please to send the Certificate of Pension to me.

Dec. 2 o
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4 July '36
adepth
187 2 3/4
FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq r Com r of Pensions Washington D.C.
Job the will the copy of Maryland to the 1 st of

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N.Y.
4 July '36
accept
187 2 54
FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq r Comm ee of Pensions Washington D.C.
for the will the paper of Margaret White 1 st of

New Manchester Nov. 29. 1836
Sir,
I enclose the affidavit of Col. Aaron Ogden, a person I presume well known at the Department, in relation to the pension of Col. Anthony Walton White.
There is no doubt of the service of Col. White up to the time of the disbanding of the army & the records must show it. - I sincerely hope for the sake of the widow of one who so gallantly risked his life in the service of his Country as did Col. White, that sufficient evidence has been produced, or may without too much trouble to the Department, be found, to satisfy the requirements of the Department, & to establish her claim to the payment of the pension.
Respectfully Yours Affectionately Gerrit Smith

Senate Chamber Sept 29 1837
Sir
The Margaret White requesting whom I enquired if the widow of Genl Anthony W White of the Continental Army. She now lives in New Jersey -
The Margaret White mentioned in your note must be a different person.
Yr Respny
Garfield D. Moore
Report Case to Genl Wall
The Honable
J. S. Pomeroy Esq.
Comr of Pensions

James G. Edwards Esq

New Brunswick
November 21. 1836
Sir
You have before you the papers of Mrs Margaret White widow of Col Anthony W. White claiming pension under the late act of Congress.
In a letter addressed by you to the Hon Genl Wall in which he forwarded to me, you state that there is no evidence of service after 1780. This must apply certainly to the records of her service alone.
Early in the year 1780 Col White was appointed to the command of (1 st Bland) Regiment of Light Dragoons in the Virginia line, and I have now before me a letter signed by Thomas Jefferson then Governor of Virginia authorizing Col White "to draw clothing and other supplies from the stores of this State (Virginia) as any officer in the Virginia line appointed by that State" dated Richmond May 13 th 1780.
The records of the Virginia line will certainly prove to the satisfaction of the proper officer that Col White served in the army until it was disbanded.
Col White has in his possession many letters from Genl Washington, Genl Green, Gates, & Lafayette bearing date in 1780 & 81.
In Ramsay's History of the Revolution in South Carolina p. 365. you will see mention made of Col White as being injured in 1782.
In page 367, an account of a gallant exploit of the Colonel. In other parts of the book you will see his name mentioned with honor.
There is no doubt of his service until the end of the War & the proper Virginia records must show that fact.
I annex a paper which Mrs White has found among the papers of her late husband which in a bout of justice would

At this matter at rest - I have caused the paper to be duly authenticated before the same from which I have taken the original dispositions -
I can add nothing more but that Mrs White is fully & fairly entitled to her pension & that if it be speedily attended to the gratitude of Country will be too slow for her. -
Respectfully
Yr obed Servt Littleton Philip Patrick
P.S. You had better direct your answer to me at New Ross as Mrs W. will probably receive it sooner in that way than if sent di- rectly to her -

In the matter of the Declaration of Mrs Margaret White -
Rev B. Johnson
Littleton Rurh habuim

Aaron Ogden of Jersey City in the county of Bergen in the State of New Jersey maketh Oath, That he was a Captain Lieutenant - a Captain, an Adjt de Camp, a Major of Brigade and a Brigade Inspector in New Jersey Brigade and line of the Revolu- ary Army of the United States; That he was well acquainted Anthony Weldon White, being a resident of New Jersey, before the war of the revolution and after the Termination of that war and that, in the time of the war, he knew Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Weldon White or Lieu- tenant Colonel in regiment of Dragoons or Cavalry in the line of the Army of the United States. That the deponent never heard that Lieutenant Colonel White ever resigned his commission, but from the deponent, from a document in his possession early believes and has no doubt of the fact that Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Weldon White continued in the service of the United States with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of Cavalry in the revolutionary war until the termination of that war
Aaron Ogden
Sworn and Subscribed to before me this 26 th day of November A D 1836
William N. Taylor Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Bergen

Jersey City N.J. November 25. 1836.
Littleton Rudolph Esquire
Dear Sir,
I have lately been abroad at Trenton and did not receive your letter until a day or two since; Col White, if I remember rightly was in the Southern Army under General Green in the latter part of the war while I was serving in the Southern Army under General Washington. So that I cannot speak with absolute certainty as to his having been in the Army after May 1783, but it appears to me that so it must appear to the proper department from documents in the War Office. That he was a Lieutenant Colonel of Cavalry in the last time of the revolutionary army of the United States, at his with the department to show that he then that he resigned his commission or was dismissed from the service, for otherwise, he must have been in the service when the Army was disbanded, which I think was about all until December 1783.
I am Dear Sir
Yours very truly & respectfully
Samuel H. H.

Thomas Mafey's vs United States

Entitled to depreciation as a private of Infantry from 1 st October Eighty to 1 st March Eighty one, & from thence to 31 st December following, as a private of Cavalry - If not settled.
Feb. 13 th 1787.
J. Meriwether

State of New Jersey
Somerset County ss. Charles Smith Doctor of Medicine being duly sworn before me the subscriber on his oath saith That he was well acquainted with Moses Scott Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit of Thomas Massey was taken - That he has frequently seen the said Moses Scott write & that he is well acquainted with his hand writing - That the body of the annexed affidavit and the signature of Moses Scott thereto is in the proper hand writing of the said Moses Scott - That this Depo- nent knows that the said Moses Scott was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset and that he has long since departed this life -
And this deponent on his oath further states that he was well acquainted with Anthony W. White who signed the certificate to the before mentioned affidavit annexed, that he belonged to his staff & served with him in the expedition into Pennsylvania in the year 1794; he the said Anthony W. White then being Brigadier General commanding the New Jersey Cavalry - That he has frequently seen the S d Anth. W. White write & is well acquainted with his hand writing; That the certificate annexed to the said affidavit is in the proper hand writing of the said A. W. White - And this deponent on his oath further states that he is well acquainted with the family of the S d Anth. W. White having been many years family Physician to the said family; that he has always understood & believes that the said Anth. W. White served in the army of the revolution until the end of the war - That he has frequently heard the said Anth. W. White speak of events which occurred in South Carolina & Georgia during the war of the revolution in those states, in which he was an active participant; & that he never heard neither does he believe that he the said Anth. W. White resigned or gave up his commission until the Army of the United States was disbanded after the ratification of peace with Great Britain in the autumn of the year 1783 -
Sworn & subscribed this 21 st
day of November A.D. 1836 before me
Chas. Smith
John W. Hume - Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas in the County of Somerset & State of New Jersey - Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Somerset & State of New Jersey

I John Johnson before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken do certify, Do I hereby certify that the affidavit therein named is a credible person & is fully to be believed
John Pykne Judge of Somerset Pleas -
As on the

State of New Jersey } ss Somerset County }
Be it remembered that on this twenty first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Somerset Joseph Warren Scott Esquire Counsellor at Law who being duly sworn on the holy evangelists of Almighty God on his oath says that he has seen and examined the affidavit to the account of Thomas Massey (hereto annexed) against the United States bearing date the 19 th day of June 1784 and taken before Moses Scott
That the said Moses Scott Esquire whose name is subscribed to the print was the father of this deponent. - That the said Moses Scott departed this life on the 28 th day of December 1821. That the whole of the said affidavit except the signature of Thomas Massey is in the hand writing of the said Moses Scott. That this deponent is well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Moses Scott and has frequently seen him write.
And this deponent further states that he was well acquainted with Anthony Walton White in his lifetime. That the said Anthony W. White has been dead as this deponent is informed and believes a little more than thirty years. That he is well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Anthony W. White. That the certificate and signature written under the affidavit before mentioned this deponent verily believes to be in the handwriting of the said Anthony W. White. Subscribed & sworn the day & year first above written before me John T. Haines Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of State aforesaid. M. Scott

John In hume before whom the foregoing deposition was taken do certify that Joseph Warren Scott the affiant is a credible person and that his affidavit is fully to the belief
John In hume Judge of Common Pleas
In the matter of the application of Mr. Marshall Attorney
affidavit of Mr. Scott re: Dr. Smith

The United States
Do
To Thomas Massey
  To four Months pay from the first of Decem r 1780 dollars 75   to the 31 st of March 1781 as private in Col o Greens   Regiment & Capt s Seldons company at Six   dollars & 2/3 rd p r Month - - - - - 25 30   To thirty one Months & three days pay from   the 1 st of April 1781 to the 3 rd of Novem r 1783 as   private in the 1 st Regiment of Light Drag o   Command d by Anthony W m White at eight   dollars and one third p r Month. - - - - 259 50   To Eighty dollars Gratuity - - - 80   Amount - - - - - 364 45 
State of New Jersey Somerset County To wit
Personally appeared before me Moses Scott one of the Judges of the Inferior Court
Thomas Massey who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the above account as stated is just and true & that the above balance of three hundred & sixty four Dollars is justly due to him from the United States
Sworn & subscribed this 19th day of June 1784 before me
Thomas Massey
Moses Scott
I do hereby certify that I know the above named Tho: Massey account against the state to be just as far as respects the the day due him while a Dragoon in my Reg t Anthony W m White late Col o of the 1 st Reg t