Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1128, Joshua Townley, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Townley, Joshua
S. 1128.
CONTENTS
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28189 New Jersey
Joshua Townley
of Elizabeth B o in the State of New Jersey who was a Corp d & S gt in the Comp y commanded by Captain Morrison of the Reg t commanded by Col Ogden in the N. Jersey line for 6 months Corp d 18 months S gt .
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 112 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of April 1834 and sent to Hon. J. Frelinghuysen U.S. Senate
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 34 - $336.00 Pension allowance ending 4 Sep 34 56.00 $392.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo Cromwell Clerk Book E Vol. 3 Page 133.
let. to Hon J Frelinghuysen 3 April 1834
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1833 from the March to 15 May 1840. Age notified 26. May 1841.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
May 19 th 1841.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Joshua Townley a Pensioner on the Roll of the New Jersey Agency, at the rate of One hundred & twelve Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 4 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 15 th May 1840.
Respectfully yours,
William H. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

J. S. Edwards Esq

Elizabeth Town N. J. March 21. 1834
J. L. Edwards Esqr Commissioner of Pensions Sir
Herewith I transmit my Pension certificate, also the affidavits of James Wilcock and Jesse Baldwin to my services as a Sergeant, in the three years Continental service - which documents are transmitted for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832. Please forward my certificate under the act 7th June 1832 to The Honorable Theodore Frelinghuysen Senator & if at Washington, or in his absence to F. B. Chetwood at Eliz. Town N. J. J. L. Edwards Esqr

State of New Jersey Borough of Elizabeth } ss
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the Borough of Elizabeth in the State aforesaid, Joshua Forney of the said Borough aged seventy seven years, who being duly sworn on his oath says, that his name is enrolled upon the Pension Roll under the act of the 18th of March 1818 and that since his enrollment under the said act he has continued therein and has regularly received his pension up to the 4th of March instant, - That on the first of January 1777 he enlisted as a Sergeant in the three years services of the Continental Army, in the First Jersey Regiment, in the Company of Captain Isaac Morrison, under the Command of Colonel Matthias Ogden and served three years as a sergeant in said Company; that he now resides in the Borough aforesaid and has resided in said Borough ever since the Revolutionary War -
Subscribed and sworn this 21st day of March AD 1834 before me
Joshua Forney
Elijah Kellogg
State of New Jersey Borough of Elizabeth } ss
I Francis B. Chetwood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the Borough of Elizabeth, hereby certify that Elijah Kellogg before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn at the time of taking the same was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said Borough, duly commissioned and sworn, residing therein and as such is authorized to take affidavits, and I further certify that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge, and that the signature "Elijah Kellogg" to the said affidavit subscribed is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this twenty first day of March AD 1834
F. B. Chetwood. Clerk

Joshua Linsley Marion Me. Gainsboro N. Milford Lucy Linsley in the of the of the
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On this tenth - day of April eighteen hundred & eighteen before me Shephard Thollack one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Essex in the State of New Jersey personally appears Joshua Townley aged Sixty years resident in Elizabeth town in the County & State aforesaid 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 revolu- tionary war". That he the said Joshua Townley enlisted in Essex County aforesaid in the Conti- nental service for three years on the first of Jan- uary one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven in Captain Morrison's Company of the First New Jersey Regiment commanded by Col. Matthias Ogden & that he continued to serve therein during the whole of the said term & was regularly discharged in the month of January one thousand seven hundred & eighty. That he was in the battle of Germantown. - & is now in reduced circumstances - and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services on account of the loss of his dis-

-charge
Sworn to & declared the day & year aforesaid before me —
Joshua Townley
Richard H. North, Judge of the Pleas for said county
I Shephard Kollock one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Essex in the State of New Jersey, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joshua Townley and some in the revo- lutionary war as stated in the preceding decla- ration against the Common enemy, & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the de- partment of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress — Given at Elizabeth Town this tenth day of April eighteen hundred & eighteen —
Shephard Kollock.
Seal of the Court in —
New Jersey } ss. Essex County } ss.
I Elias Whipple clerk of the court of common pleas for said county, do certify that Shephard Kollock Esqr

before whom the foregoing testimony and proceedings were taken and had, is a page of said court, and that the name of Shepard Khollock subscribed to the said proceedings is the proper signature of the said Shepard Khollock Esquire.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court this tenth day of April A. D. 1810.
Giles Whitehead, Atty
att

Edin. Town. Mar. 7. 3
Feb. 18.
Hon. the J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War. Washington
Arthur H. Smith 23 West 42nd St New York City

I Joshua Townley a citizen of the United States, residing in Elizabeth town, in the county of Essex & State of New Jersey, do solemnly depose & declare that I enlisted in the Continental service for three years on the first of January One Thousand seven hundred & seventy seven in Capt. Morrison's company of the first New Jersey Reg t commanded by Colo. Matthias Ogden, & that I continued to serve therein, during the whole of said term, & was regularly discharged in the month of January One Thousand seven hundred & eighty, after three years service in the New Jersey line upon Continental establishment, during the revolutionary war, against the common enemy. And I do further solemnly depose & declare, that from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for support. That he received a regular discharge
Joshua Townley
Sworn before me this 5 th day of April 1818
William Pennycuick District Judge
I William Pennycuick District Judge of the United States in and for the New Jersey District, being satisfied that the before recited application of Joshua Townley served in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy on the continental establishment for nine months and upwards, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration on oath was taken before me as therein set forth, and which is respectfully transmitted to the Secretary of war
William Pennycuick
A. Wm Pennycuick Clerk of the District of New Jersey do certify that the signature to this

instrument is the proper hand writing of Mr. J. Pennin- -ton Esq re Judge of the United States District Court for the district of New Jersey. —
As witness my hand and the Seal of the said District Court at New Ark this 6 th day of April Anno Domini 1818. —
Jm Penninston B

Josephine Cronley Elizabethtown New Jersey
(486)
(Sept 1818)
Send to George C. Barbou Elizabethtown New Jersey.

State of New Jersey - fs:
On this sixth day of June
Eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court in the Court of Common Pleas of the Borough of Elizabeth, in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey, being a court of record for the said Borough, and constituted such by an act of the legislature of the State of New Jersey passed the twenty eighth day of December One thousand seven hundred and eighty nine, Joshua Bromley aged sixty-two years, resident in Elizabeth-Town, in the Borough, County and State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Proclamation War as follows, namely in the Company commanded by Captain Morrison, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Matthias Ogden in the line of the State of New Jersey, that he has received a pension at the rate of eight dollars a month, which commenced on the tenth day of April Eighteen hundred and eighteen. That the number of his pension certificate is 486.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March Eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it, as to being myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the war"

dictationary wear" I signed on the Eighteenth Day of March Eighteen hundred and Eigh- teen; and that I have not, nor has any per- son in trust for me, any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me sub- scribed -
Schedule of Real and Personal Estate clocking and yielding expected.
Real Estate none -
Personal Estate as follows. One dozen chairs one bureau, one looking glass, one pair of andi- cons, one shovel and tongs, two tables, one silver watch, half a dozen cups and saucers, two teapots ten plates eleven knives and forks five tea-spoons, a horsehair carpet, two spin- ning wheels, one reel, one pike-pole, four candle- sticks, one bake-oven, two tin pans, three dish- es, three smoothing irons, two pots two kettles two tubs two barrels. a bible and half a do- zen other books -
That the said Joshua is by trade a tailor but that he is unable to pursue his trade by reason of the palsy in his hands. That he has no family except his wife Charlotte, who is aged sixty three years, and unable to sup- port the family.
Sworn to and declared on the sixth day of June Eighteen hundred and Eighteen in open Court, in the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Elizabeth aforesaid before me
Caleb Hoalsted Jr. Mayor -
Joshua Forster

New Jersey Borough of Elizabeth } p
I George C. Bunker Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the Borough of Elizabeth do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhi- bited in the aforesaid Schedule is forty two dollars —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this ninth day of June eighteen hundred and twenty —
Geo C Bunker Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the Borough of Elizabeth

... received for a statement of the military history of Joshua Townley a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. File 1128
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan. 1. 1777 3 years Sergeant Isaac Morrison Matthias Ogden N.J.                                     
Battles engaged in, Germantown Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enl. in Essex Co., N.J. Date of application for pension, Apr. 10, 1818. Residence at date of application, Elizabethtown, Essex Co., N.J. Age at date of application, 60
Remarks: In 1820 he married to his wife Charlotte at 63 yrs. The arrears of his pens. from Mch 4 to May 15, 1840 were paid to his widow.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Payable on the 4. March & 4. Sept. of each year at Trenton, N. Jersey, by the President of the Trenton & Banking Company.
This man on the pension Roll already - Here is an at- tempt at fraud.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18. March 1818, Joshua Townley , 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 in cents per month, to commence on the sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and 18.
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this 30. day of June one thousand eight hundred and 18.
J. C. Calhoun Sec y of War.

New Jersey
Joshua Townley 11
Private Jersey Line
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 10 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th of May 1818 and sent to the Pensioner, care of Stephens Hollock Esq. Judge the Circuit Court, New Jersey
Arrearages to 4 Sept 1818 $ 38.66 Also 25 dys $ 38.66
{Revolutionary claims,} {Act 18th March, 1818,}
3 years to 1780
Witness my hand Elizabethtown, June
Notification sent the 17 th June 1820, to George C. Barber Esq. Esq. Elizabeth Town N. Jersey

New Jersey Roll.
Duplicate of file 1128
Joshua Townley. Capt Morrison N. J. Private,
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 th of April 1818
ertificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818 and sent to the Pensioner at Elizabeth town, N. Jersey.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
4 months 29/30. $ 39.73
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }

National Indian War Veterans
(INCORPORATED)
ST. LOUIS CAMP.
HEADQUARTERS 3504 FRANKLIN AVE.
CORNELIUS J. BOLAND Commander
JOHN P. SLOUGH Secretary & Treasurer
St. Louis, Mo., June 20 th 1913.
Honorable Commissioner of Pensions Washington W. C.
Sir
As I am filing an application for membership in the Society of Sons of the Revolution it is necessary that I furnish the Military Record of an ancestor to assist me in this will you kindly furnish me with the Military Record of Joshua Townley a Revolutionary Soldier
The said Joshua Townley Enlisted in 1777. in the 1 st N.J. Regt. Col Matthias Ogden Commanding.
any advice you can give me regarding the Date of his Enlistment and Discharge. Promotions if any. the Place of his Enlistment and Discharge any Battles which he was Engaged in when serving in the 1 st N.J. Regt will be appreciated as I am a Descendant from him by reason of marriage he being G. Grandfather to my Wife
Thanking you for the same I Beg to Remain
2 nd + Arsenal Streets
Respectfully yours. Thineas Town.

STATE OF NEW JERSEY. OFFICE OF ADJUTANT GENERAL.
G W Trenton, December 18, 1905.
The Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Sir:
For the information of the Chief of the Old War and Navy Division, I would invite your attention to the Revolutionary cases of Joshua Townley, Invalid No. 1128, and Invalid No. 33814, for the reason that they unquestionably relate to the same soldier.
Very respectfully,
R. Hober Baenthall Adjutant-General.

33 814 See INVALID. File 1128 Reg
File No. 33,814
Joshua Crowley Pri Rev Mas
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 321
[Arrangement of 1870.]

June 20. 1908. His 6. C.C. Gardner - Newark N.J. 1913 June 27. History to Mr. Phineas Town. P
INVALID.
Rev. Har.
File No. 1128
Joshua Townley Coop. Ex. Mt. Gide
Act: June 7, 1892
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 376
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Payable on the 4 th March & 4 th Sept. in each year by the Agents, President Trenton Bank Co. Trenton, New Jersey
Recorded

WAR DEPARTMENT.
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES,
of the 18 th March 1818 — Joshua Townley 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 eighty — dollars an per month, to commence on the 10 th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen —
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES,
this 13 th — day of May — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen —
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War

Sept. 9. 1818. paid to Sept. 4. 1818 March 9. 1819 paid to March 4. 1819 Sept. 10. 1819 to Sept. 4. 1819 May 2. 1820 Paid to March 4. 1820 Oct. 5. 1820 Paid to Sept. 4. 1820 Mar 21. 1821 paid to Mar 4. 1821 Mar 29. 1822 paid to Mar 4. 1822 Sept 9 1822 to Sept 4. 1822 Mar 17. 1823 to Mar 4. 1823 Sept 2. 1823 Paid to Sept 4. 1823 Mar 10. 1824 to Mar 4. 1824 Sept 5. 1824 to Sept 4. 1824 Mar 10. 1825 to Mar 4. 1825 Sept 4. 1825 to Sept 4. 1825 Mar 6. 1826 to Mar 4. 1826 Sept 9 1826 to Sept 4. 1826 Mar 8. 1827 to Mar 4. 1827 Sept 12. 1827 Paid Sept 4. 1827 Mar 6. 1828 to Mar 4. 1828
Mar 4. 1829 paid to Mar 4. 1829 Sept 15. 1829 to Sept 4. 1829 March 6. 1830 to Mar 4. 1830 Sept 7. 1830 to Sept 4. 1830 Mar 5. 1831 paid to Mar 4. 1831 Sept 12. 1831 paid to Sept 4. 1831 Mar 6. 1832 paid to Mar 4. 1832 Sept 6. 1832 paid to Sept 4. 1832 Mar 5. 1833 paid to Mar 4. 1833

Jose Baldini - affinaise

New Jersey, Essex County, ss: Personally appeared before me J. R. Groom a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Essex Jesse Baldwin who being duly sworn, on his oath deposeth and saith - That he is personally acquainted with Joshua Townley a resident of Elizabeth Town in the County aforesaid that he has known the said Townley, since the Revolutionary war, and was during that period in actual service with him - The deponent was in the First Jersey Regiment of the Continental service and is now drawing a Pension for his Revolutionary services - that when acting as Lieutenant in the said regiment, the said Joshua Townley was in the same service, and a Sergeant in Isaac Mor- rison's Company in said Regiment - When the said deponent left the service which was in the winter of 1778-9 - That deponent recollects the said Townley still as Sergeant in the company to which depo- nent was attached for several months previous to his leaving the service as before stated - but how long before he cannot certainly tell - but thinks it was more than six months, and believes it to be as much as or longer than a year; not having any memorandums to refer to, he is however uncertain as to the period, but feels safe in designating the time as long as is before specified: and further saith that -
Sworn & subscribed before me the 12 th day of March AD
1834
J. R. Groom Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey County of Essex
ss I Elias Van Arsdale Junior Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Essex do hereby certify That Stephen R. Groom before whom the foregoing Affidavit of Jesse Baldwin was made & taken, at the time of taking the same was and still is one of the Justices of the Peace for said County, reading therein duly commissioned and sworn: that I am acquainted with

his hand writing and know that the signature "S. R. Groom" subscribed to the Jurat of said affidavit is genuine
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Newark in said County the Twenty Ninth day of March A.D. Eighteen hundred thirty four E Van Arsdale J. Clerk

to be drop d from act 1818.
Adm d 18 mo length 6 mo - (grpe)
Ken Mr. Fulinghamsen

State of New Jersey Borough of Elizabeth } ss.
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the Borough of Elizabeth, James Willcock of the township of Union in the County of Essex and State aforesaid, aged seventy years, who is a man of veracity and his statements are entitled to credit, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath says, that he is acquainted with Joshua Townley of Elizabeth Town in the County and State aforesaid, and was acquainted with him in the Revolutionary War. That this deponent was an enlisted soldier in the Three years Continental Service in the company of Captain Isaac Morrison in the First Jersey Regiment, and that the said Joshua Townley enlisted as a Sergeant in the same company in the year 1777, and continued a Sergeant in the said company for the space of Three years, under Colonel Matthias Ogden.
Sworn and subscribed this Eighteenth day of March - A.D. 1834. S. P. Brittan
James Willcock
State of New Jersey Borough of Elizabeth } ss
I Francis B. Chetwood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the Borough of Elizabeth hereby certify that Stephen P. Brittan before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn, at the time of taking the same was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said Borough duly Commissioned and sworn, residing therein, and as such is authorized to take affidavits; and I further certify that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge and that the signature "S. P. Brittan" to the foregoing affidavit subscribed is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office at Elizabeth Town in the Borough aforesaid, this Eighteenth day of March A.D. 1834.
F. B. Chetwood Clerk