Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3574, Aaron Wilkison, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Wilkison, Aaron
S. 3574
CONTENTS
carded

4570
New Jersey
Aaron Wilkinson
in the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Young of the Regt. commanded by Col Hathaway in the New Jersey for 8 Mo. Private $24.66
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 24 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 d day of January 1833 and paid to Hon. L. Candia Honor Refs
Arrears to 14th of Sept. 1832 $39.99
Pension allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 13.33
$53.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Virul Luce Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 4 Page 183
Col G. Dr. S. Smith, Cr. March, Mar 26, 1834

N o 3115. New Jersey. Aren Wilkinson.
Law p. 24 Dec. 1882 Obj. 4. 5. 14. 16
Honble L. Condick Ho. of Reps.
Admitted 8 months $ 26.66
P-175.
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BRIEF in the case of  Orion Wilkinson.  of  Randolph Township  in the State of  New Jersey.  Morris County.  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court.  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Seventy one years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of Generals and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 17 " 10 or 12 m. (uncertain) Militia Gen. Hinds & Heard. (He thinks) Col. Pomeroy & Mathews, a. (He thinks)  Deer Capt. Robert Young } Ancertain. Lieut. Howell Osborn }    Believes he performed Militia duty at least 4 months.
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Morris County N.J.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional & Witness.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? (See the Brief of Objection) 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
H. Dumas
Examining Clerk.

Aaron Wilson
No 3115

DECLARATION, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS, PASSED JUNE 7, 1832.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY, Morris Com. Pleas. July & August special term, 1832. County of Morris } ss.
On this fourth day of August , 1832 personally appeared, in open court, before the Judges of the Inferior the court of Com pleas
now sitting, Aaron Wilkinson , a resident of Randolph Township in the County of Morris and State of New-Jersey , aged in Octo. next, 71 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: —
His service has been in the Militia only. He lived within the bounds of Capt. Robert Young's company, & believes that Capt. Young always commanded when this Deponent was on service. He believes Howell Osborn was his Lieutenant. The company was divided into companies, sometimes one half going out for one month, the other half for another month; & at other times when the service & calls were urgent, the whole company were ordered out. His brother James & this Deponent living with their father, were in different companies of the same company, & sometimes performed their duty in separate tours & in alternate months, & at other times when the whole company were ordered out, both went together. The tour of duty of which he has the most distinct remembrance, was under Colonel Benoni Hathaway, at the time of the battle & burning of Springfield. He saw the Church fired distinctly. Believes he performed two months duty at this period, without going home. He was quartered at Springfield, & doing duty on the lines, upon guard, - protecting the inhabitants, & standing sentry. Thinks Genl. Windes & Genl. Heard were both present at the Springfield battle. It was in warm weather. The Rhode Island troops under Col. Angel were present he thinks, & suffered much.
Upon one tour of duty, (he cannot tell when,) he followed the enemy on their retreat thro. Connecticut farms, to Elizt. town, the Militia hanging on their rear & annoying them whenever & wherever opportunity served.
He served one tour of one month or two months uncertain which, when he was stationed at Connecticut farms, performing guard duty on the lines, at various places. - Remembers when Mr. Catskill was shot thro' a window at Connecticut farms, - heard the report of the gun, & saw his dead body before the burial on the following day.
Performed one tour at Elizabeth town on guard duty, at the landing places & points - was quartered in the town, at a private dwelling. Was on a tour of duty when a large body of Militia assembled probably at Springfield & Connecticut farms, marched down & drove the enemy out of Elizt. town. Thinks Col. Hathaway & Col. Suly were both present. The enemy retreated across to Staten Island.

Robert Young's affidavit in case of Aaron Wilkinson.

5 He performed one other tour of one month as he believes, at Elizabethton, & upon reflection he thinks he was probably commanded by Capt. Ezekiel Crane, of Morris County - either when upon this tour, or some other tour. - He was at Elizabethton on another tour of duty, when Genl. Washington with the main army passed thro' Elizabethton on a march toward New Brunswick. - Suppose this was called the "Mid-roads" march. - His memory is very frail, & he cannot connect events & dates in the order of time, nor can he recollect with any certainty the names of Genl. Officers under whom he has served. He states only according to his best recollection & belief. - He remembers performing one tour of guard duty at Morristown, guarding stores, & prisoners at the jail, but knows not the time. He was also called out on alarms for the period of a week or more at a time. - He verily believes, that during the whole of the war, he faithfully performed duty Militia for a period of at least eight months, & probably more.
He was born in 1761, on the 26 th October at Boath Hill, Hanover township, Morris County, N. Jersey - as taken from a family record kept by his father, now in possession of a sister. He lived when he entered the service at Mendham, now Randolph township Morris County, & has lived there during the last 60 years of his life, & now lives there. He never rec d . a commission or a discharge except a verbal one. He is known to Lewis Condict & to Aaron Bounel, who have known him 30 years, to whom he refers for his character for veracity.

New Jersey Morris County
Before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County personally appeared, in open Court Morris Aber of said County, aged 74 years who being duly sworn, saith that about the year 1777 this deponent, was on a tour of Militia duty in the neighborhood of Elizabeth Town & Connecticut Farms, Springfield, that he was engaged at that time in many skirmishes with the enemy, that he was then serving in a Company commanded by Captain Robert Young, Howard Osborn being Lieutenant, that he well remembers Aaron Wilkinson, whom he was at that time well acquainted with, and that the said Aaron Wilkinson was at that time upon a tour of Militia duty for the period of one month in the same Company with this deponent, and that the said Wilkinson actually did duty for the term of one or perhaps two months. That after this in the year '79 or '80 as this deponent believes, he well remembers having again seen the said Aaron Wilkinson at Elizabeth town, at Connecticut Farms, at Springfield, under arms and doing duty against the enemy, and he believes that the said Aaron Wilkinson was engaged with in the battle of Springfield. This deponent is persuaded that the said Aaron Wilkinson did other tours of Militia duty during the Revolutionary War, but from defect of memory he is unable to specify them particularly.
Morris Aber
Sworn and Subscribed in Open Court the 4 th day of Augt 1832
William Britton
Morris Aber, the above deponent is personally well known to me, & is fully entitled to belief.
Subscribed one of the Rpts. from New Jersey.
Augt 17 th 1833.

Morris Abner's affidavit in case of Aaron Wilkinson

Nov Mon
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 State, is only on that of the Agency of the State of New Jersey.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
William Britton
We Lewis Conduit , & Aaron Bannet , Aaron Wilkinson the first living in Newtown, & the other residing in the County of Essex hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Aaron Wilkinson , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be forty one 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 and year aforesaid.
William Britton
Lewis Conduit Aaron Bannet
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 Lewis Conduit
who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the Township of Morris in the County aforesaid, and that Aaron Bannet who has also signed the same, is a resident in the County of Essex & State of New Jersey - and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
William Britton Stephen Dail
I David Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Aaron Wilkinson for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fourth day of August in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
David Day

Rev War
3574. INVALID.
File No. 3574
Aaron Wilkinson
First Rev War
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: —Vol. 8 , Page 407
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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