Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2567, William Trout, New Jersey Privateer

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey Privateer
Trout William
S 2567
CONTENTS
Carded

in to by April Philip Let.
Hon J. R. Thompson Jan 12/56.
cont'd cont'd 8. 18 3/4 Dickinson June 17/53
17. 5-13  New Jersey
William Trout- of Borden Town in the State of New Jersey who was a private in the company com- by Captain Vandyske of the regt. commanded by Col. Hoyelund in the New Jersey mil- for Eleven months and two days
New Jersey and Private Records etc. Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey January 15th at the rate of 36 Dollars 88 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of August 1873 and sent to Hon. J. H. Hopkins Rison Phila Pa
  Arrears to the 14th of March '33  73.76    Remnant allowance ending 4. Sept. '33  18.44     92.20  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. M. Cuffield Book 5 Vol. 3 Page 94

[REDACTED] Declarations of William Trout in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832.
State of New Jersey Burlington County
On this Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas held at Mount Holly in and for the said county of Burlington William Trout a resident of the Borough of Bordentown in the township of Chesterfield, county of Burlington State of New Jersey aged to the best of his belief twenty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth in his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he was born in the township of Chesterfield aforesaid about six miles from Bordentown on or about the twelfth day of August in the year Seventeen hundred and fifty. That his father moved himself and family into Bordentown when this deponent was about eighteen months old as he has been informed, and this deponent has continued to reside there ever since - That the date of this deponent's birth was, at the time, entered in the family bible. That his mother moved from Bordentown about the year 1778 or 1779 taking with her the said bible. That he saw the bible in his mother's possession several times afterwards, but now since his decade which was about thirty years ago, nor does he know what has now become of it. That there is not to his knowledge any other record of his age, and that the above he has always believed to be the period of his birth as entered in the bible at the time. That this deponent was called out as a private in a company of militia raised in Bordentown by Captain Joseph Vanderkile in January in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven, for one month. Benjamin Osborne was ensign. The Lieutenants name he does not recollect. They joined several companies of militia from neighboring places. One from Nottingham under Captain Robert Quigley; one from Mill Hill from Newton under Capt. Abraham Collins - with others he does not

you remember. All these militia were under the command of Colonel John Hoagland (he is not certain about the spelling of the name) and was marched to Newtown. He believes they were subject to the orders of General Putnam. They lived at Newtown & the vicinity, standing guard, and other military duties for one month, when they were discharged and went home. In July of same year (1777) his deponent went out as substitute for a man who was drafted from Morrisville, Penns. County, on the west bank of the Delaware a few miles above Bordentown - the name of the man for whom the deponent was a substitute, he has forgotten as he was a stranger to him - he was drafted for two months, under Captain James Thomson. They were marched to a place called the Gap in the upper part of Bucks County, Penns. where they were joined by several companies of Bucks County militia, and were under the command of Colonel John Lacey. After laging there some time, they were marched from thence to Brandywine in Delaware, crossing the Schuylkill some miles above Philadelphia - he does not recollect what regi- ment they belonged to, nor the name of other officers, as they were all Pennsylvanians & strangers to him - the company to which deponent was attached was drawn up on the Northeast side of the Brandywine, & was not crossed over the stream nor called into action - they were placed by Colonel Lacey four or five hundred yards from where the battle raged. Why they were not called into the heat of action, his depo- nent cannot tell, but they obeyed the commands of their officers - after the battle they retreated to Wilmington and thence by land to Philadelphia, marching all night - as it was dark he cannot say certainly, but thinks they were in company with the whole Army. At Philadelphia this deponent was discharged and went home having served a few days over his time which was two months - he did not at this time nor at any other receive a written discharge - Shortly afterwards a party of British came from Philada to Bordentown & burnt a part of it, committing considerable damage. The deponent was then again called out by Captain Bradly, who raised

a company of Militias, and had one field piece, endeavoring to defend the vicinity from the British & Haggars - this deponent's company however was obliged to retreat & fell back upon Trenton, leaving up the bridge there after they had crossed it - but the enemy made no further attempts, & returned to Philad a - the militia were dismissed & went home having been out ten days - In October of the same year (1776) this deponent entered a company of militia raised in Bur- rington by Captain Albinus Collins, who was afterwards sergeant & then Colonel in the Burlington county militia, and was marched to Red Bank below Philad a . They there joined the Nottingham company under Captain Pringle, & other companies of state militia, the name of the captain the deponent cannot now recollect - he thinks William Shewen was Colonel of the militia & other Genl. Bloomfield or Genl. Ward - they were stationed in the fort at Red Bank and had three pieces of cannon, and kept up a fire upon the English ships & men who were then attempting to storm Mud Fort, which fire the English returned, but none of deponent's company in the fort were killed, being protected by the fortification, but they lost one man by the bursting of a new iron cannon. When the enemy took Mud Fort, we spiked our guns & left, and were marched up country the month for which de- ponent and his company had been drafted being expired, they were discharged and went home. In the last of May or beginning of June in the year following, that is to say seventeen hundred and seventy eight, this deponent was drafted out in a company of Militia raised in Burden town by Capt n Robert Douglass - John Douglass was Lieutenant - they were marched to Princeton & there joined ten other companies, one from Nottingham under Captain Robert Pringle, & one from East Windsor in the county of Middlesex, the captain's name he does not remember - their Colonel was Col n Kingland. They remained at Princeton nearly or about two weeks - they

were then marched to a place called Brandywine, near Wilmington in Pennsylvania County. I then joined the Army under General Washington. The British had evacuated Philadelphia & were marching to New York - Our Army fell in with them west of Brandywine Creek here or there held and had a battle. This deponent's company and the others from Burlington County came together, & were placed on the left wing of the Army. We had a heavy skirmish with the English dragoons & were driven back & forced to retreat on the flank of the Army where we were ordered to remain. Just then arriving supplies in place I might put an end to the contest. The English during the night having retreated to Red Bank, the deponent's company & the other militia the next day on the next but one after the battle were discharged the month for which they had been drafted being expired, & they went home. The next month after the battle, in July 1778 as he thinks this deponent shipped on board of a private Schooner called the Livingston, Captain Gifford bound from Philadelphia on a cruise to the West Indies. The vessel had six guns and about thirty men. When off the Capes of the Delaware they captured a sloop loaded with prov- isions and stores for the English. They put a prize master and one man on board of her, and ordered her to Philadelphia but she was captured in the Delaware by some refugee boats & pillaged & then burnt on banks - then the deponent became after his return, after the capture of this sloop, the deponent proceeded in the private to the Bahamas. Stopped at Port au- Prince Cape Nichol, Nassau & other places, and returned to Philadelphia having been out about three months, & taken no other prize. About two weeks afterwards, as this deponent thinks in the month of October 1778, the said private Schooner Livingston Captain Gifford being refitted and prepared for sea, this deponent again shipped on board of her bound upon a cruise. They went out of the Capes of the Delaware under a pretty heavy gale of wind, and in the morning about ten o'clock fell in with the British Frigate Amphion (Amphytrion or some such name) of thirty six guns - the Commander, name this deponent can not recollect - they were brought to by the ship of war, all hands taken on board prisoners and put below in the hold. They
Private Schooner Livingston

were not confined by irons or otherwise, but only allowed to go upon deck one at a time - Deponent says the last voyage carried to New York and then put on board of the Jersey prison ship at the Wallabout near Brooklyn, and being confined as prisoners on board of that and other ships there about eighteen months, - the prisoners were continually dying, by disease, by starvation and want of proper food & clothing, & their places were supplied by others continually brought in. Deponent thinks there was as many as thirteen or fourteen hundred prisoners there at a time, besides either three or four hospital ships - the deponent with others was used to carry the dead from the ships on shore to bury them, & they have buried some times forty or fifty or even more corpses in a day. The deponent never had any clothes given him when there, and was forced to make out with the few he had which soon became ragged - the provisions furnished them were very miserable & but small in quantity - After suffering the extreme of wretchedness and misery for very nearly eighteen months, the deponent was about the last of March in the year seventeen hundred and eighty exchanged with from ninety to a hundred of his fellow prisoners - they were taken to a landing place on the Jersey shore above Hoboken, and exchanged there. Captain Gifford with whom this deponent shipped as a foreman who was taken prisoner with him to the Jersey prison ship had been ex- changed shortly after the Gifford then again went out in a privateer, was again captured & put in the prison ship, and was after some length of imprisonment a second time exchanged when this deponent was, on the Jersey shore. Gifford & deponent travelled together as far as deponent's home in Bordentown; Gifford went Southward, & deponent had never seen or heard of him since on about two years months after deponent returned from the prison ship as a foreman, & to the best of his recollection in April, seventeen hundred and eighty two this deponent enlisted for six months, in Bordentown, with orderly sergeant Samuel Bell, in a company of militia raised there by Captain

Prob Keeper. John Douglass was lieutenant. There was no other his ensigns. We joined another company of Gloucester county mil- itia under Captain John Davis at a place called Chestnut neck on Great Egg Harbor bay in Gloucester county. and encamped together. We had no Colonel or other commanding officer, there were captains who acted as colonel. The eastern divisions of the county of Gloucester, Burlington & Monmouth on the sea coast of New Jersey, are covered by thick growth of pines. these pines afforded shelter to a considerable number of Refugees & Tories and other lawless persons, who infesting the country with the country, with burning robbery, and murder. detachments of English troops at times availed themselves of these men's know- ledge of the country, some landing from their boats of vessels and made incursions upon the inhabitants of their country. The object of the three companies of militia, was to secure the said country & protect the people. they had quarters at Chestnut neck a part of the way out in all directions in detachments, and had frequent skirmishes with the Refugees & Tories. Among other prisoners we took a notorious fellow named Bill Gibbons near Tuckerton. the pines being very thick he escaped. deponent and other persons, & coming in sight of him, & he refusing to stop he was shot in the thigh by a man named Bates of the Gloucester county company. when sufficiently recovered of his wounds, he was placed in irons in the custody of deponent who conveyed him to Burlington city & delivered him at the Fort there. where he soon after escaped disguised as a woman. deponent re- turned to his company, and after an active and very arduous service of six months attended with considerable danger from am- bushes and way-layings, deponent and the rest were dis- charged and returned home. The deponent never received any written discharge or commission - he served as a private in the state militia of New Jersey during the Revolutionary war, as above stated in all eleven months and ten days - and as a private on board of the privateer three months. I suffered imprisonment seventeen and a half months. for all which he claims such pension as

by law he may be entitled to.
The names of the persons by whom this deponent is known in his present neighborhood (where he has always resided) and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief in his services as a soldier of the Revolution are John Graham Esquire Robert Priggy and Allan Thompson and many others, as the deponent has always lived where he now does, (in Bordentown) and is well known. And he offers the testimony of Enoch Jones & Joshua Newman taken before Justice of the Peace, they  are infirm & unable to attend court as otherwise intended to prove a part of his said services. He knows of no living witnesses, who can prove their own knowledge from the remainder, except only from general report of his services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pensions roll of any Agency in any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year first above in open Court at S.A.
William Forrest
W. Swain
Jno. Haywood
Jno. Haywood
State of New Jersey } Burlington County } ss.
Personally appeared before the subscribers one of the subscribers of the foregoing first above mentioned

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Burlington upon oath in this Seventh day of July A. D. 1833. Joshua Garman aged sixty eight years a resident of Bordentown in said county who being duly affirmed  sworn deposeth and saith that he has been acquainted with William Frost who has sworn to the annexed declarations for a pension ever since the Revolutionary war - that he will remember the said William Frost having been a member of time, out as a soldier during the said war. that this deponent knows the said William Frost went as a substitute for some one from Bucks County in Pennsylvania just before the battle of Brandywine (as this deponent thinks) was then out for two months. that this deponent from lapse of time cannot pretend to state when and where the said William Frost performed his various services, but having been brought up in the same town with Bordentown, and having known him for more than fifty years, he says he fully believes the statements made by the said Frost in the Declarations by him sworn to before the Court of Common Pleas of this County on the Seventh day of June ultimo (he thinks) to be true - that the said William Frost has always to this deponent's knowledge been reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution by the neighborhood where he now lives and since the recollection of the deponent had resided, and that the shrewdness of the deponent has been double -

that the said Joshua has always been a good character for honesty & veracity, & that his statements are entitled to credit — That this deponent is so infirm from age, that he feels himself entirely incompetent to get to the Court of this County, a distance of thirteen miles from his residence —
Aspirant & subscribed before me this day and year first above written
Joshua Carrman
John Graham
I John Graham the Justice of the Peace above named do hereby certify that I am well & personally acquainted with Joshua Carrman above named. That I believe him to be sixty eight years of age that he is a resident of Bridgetown wherein I reside. That he is infirm of of body so much so that in my opinion & in that of his neighbours, he could not travel to Mount Holly where the Courts for the County are held, a distance of thirteen miles without great inconvenience & perhaps danger to his health.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the 13 day of July A D 1833
John Graham

State of New Jersey } Burlington County } ss:
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the subscribers of the Peace for the county of Burlington in the State of New Jersey on this 24th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three Enock Jones who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with William Trout in the Revolutionary War and that they both served together at least six months in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two in the Militia of said State, this deponent in a company commanded by Captain John Davis and raised in the County of Gloucester in the State aforesaid and the said William Trout in a company raised in the County of Burlington in said State commanded by Captain Jacob Cooper and both the said companies of militia encamped together at a place called Chestnut Neck on Great Egg Harbor Bay in Gloucester County aforesaid. That the said companies remained there encamped for the space of six months that being the time for which they enlisted. And that they were there for the purposes and performed the services to the best of this deponent's recollection in the manner set forth by the said William Trout in his Declaration hereto annexed and by him sworn to on the Seventh of June eighteen hundred and thirty three (1833) before the Inferior Court of common Pleas of the county of Burlington aforesaid, in order to obtain the benefit of the act

of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832. That this deponent from his knowledge of the said William Trout and from his recollection of what he heard in the Revolutionary war believes that said William Trout served as he has set forth in his said declaration hereto annexed and that this deponent would believe the said William Trout under oath. That this deponent is now aged seventy four years and is very infirm to that extent that he is unable to reach the courthouse of Burlington County at Mount Holly a distance of about twenty two miles from the residence of this deponent —
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year first above written
Ebenezer Jones
Amos Wright
I Amos Wright the Justice of the peace before whom the foregoing affidavit of Ebenezer Jones to sustain the application of William Trout a soldier of the revolution for a pension do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the said Ebenezer Jones and believe him to be of the age that he has stated that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit that he is infirm of body and in my opinion could not travel to Mount Holly without great inconvenience or perhaps danger to his health. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twenty fourth day of July A.D. 1833. Amos Wright

State of New Jersey Burlington County
In the Superior Court of Common Pleas, held at Mount Holly, in and for the said County of Burlington on this 19 th .
day of August in the term of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three. Personally appeared Allen Thompson - a clergyman of the Methodist Church residing in Bordentown in said county of Robert Quigley, residing in the township of Hottenham in said county, the said Allen being duly affirmed & the said Robert being duly sworn, each of them do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Trout who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration. that we believe him to be seventy three years of age, that to the best of our knowledge he has resided in Bordentown afore- said since his childhood - that he is universally reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, & always has been by every one we have heard speak upon the subject to have been a soldier of the revolution. Your entire concern in that opinion - that to the best of our knowledge he has always borne & still bears the reputation of a man of honesty & veracity, and we fully believe his relations as above stated and the said Robert Quigley for himself further deposes that he is the nephew of the captain Robert Quigley named in the declarations of the said William Trout and avers that his said uncle served at times throughout the revolutionary war and that the deponent who has lived with him has frequently heard his said Uncle Robert Quigley say that the said William Trout was frequently out during the revolutionary war as a soldier, and a part of the time under the command of him the said Robert Quigley - that the said captain Robert Quigley is now deceased.
Allen Thompson Robert Quigley
Affirmed & subscribed in open court aforesaid the day & year aforesaid
Thos Swain - Jno Sparhawk Geo Hayswood

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinions after the investigation of the matter And after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant William Frost was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states, and that the traditional belief that he did so is universal in his neighbourhood. And now has been doubted. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Joshua Crum & Enock Jones whose affidavits before Justice of the peace are hereto annexed are aged & infirm persons & unable without much inconvenience to attend the Court and that the said Joshua Crum & Enock Jones are credible persons & worthy of belief - & the Court further certify that it appears to them that Allen Thompson who had signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman of the Methodist Church resident in the Borough of Bordentown at the time stated and that Robert Driggy who has also signed the said certificate is likewise resident in the township of Trottingham in said county, and that they the said Allen Thompson & Robert Driggy are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Done in open Court as follows on the fourteenth of August A D 1833 in the Year of August
Thos Swaim J. P. Hartwood Geo. Haywood
I Samuel J. Read Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Burlington in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Frost for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier and that Thomas Swaim, George Haywood and John

Blackwood was at the time of making the said declaration and still an Judge of the said Court duly appointed & commissioned. And that the signature, "Thomas Warren George Hayman & John Blackwood" to the said declaration & to the preceding certificate of the Court are the true and proper hands writing & genuine signature of the said Judges. — And I do further certify that John Graham and Amos Wright before whom the several Affidavits of Joshua Caemans & Enock Sone here to annexed were taken, were at the respective times of taking the same, & still are Justices of the peace of the said County of Burlington duly appointed, commissioned & authorized to administer oaths of affirmation. and that the signature of the said John Graham to the affidavit of Joshua Caemans & to the Certificate thereunder written, & that the signature of Amos Wright to the affidavit of Enock Sone, and to the Certificate thereunder written are the true and proper hands writing of the said respective Justices of the peace and their genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this Fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
J. M. READ

Application for Increase-kins of William Trout of New Jersey Act. Jan. 7. 1832

State of New Jersey Mercer County
on this fifteenth day of February in the year one thousand eight- hundred and fifty three personally appeared Ann Jefferies of New Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey. who being duly sworn according to law on her oath saith that she makes the following declaration - in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832, That she is the daughter of William Trout deceased late of Burlington County in said State, and who was a pensioner of the United States - at the rate of thirty six, 88 100 dollars per annum - That she has often heard her said father say that his pension was not equal to his services in the Revolutionary war that besides being in the militia and State troops - he was also for a long time as a driver or carted in a Brigade of teams about the year 1780 for nine months as she has heard and believes - and makes this declaration in behalf of herself. Lucretia Pease, and Hannah Pond - only surviving children of the said William Trout - who left no widow. for such increase of pension as may be due or was due their said father at his death.
Respectfully refers to his papers on file in the pension office to aid in said application.
She further declares that the said William Trout died on the Eleventh day of November A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty five - leaving the above named children. She also forwards the Certificate of pension of her father - and

further saith not. In said Ann Jefferies Subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration before the subscribed one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County the day and year first above mentioned.
Chas. Burroughs Judge } Ann Jefferies
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Mrs. Ann Jefferies the above declarant to me well known as a person of credibility and truth, and that I have no interest in the foregoing application
Chas. Burroughs Judge
State of New-Jersey.
I, THOMAS S. ALLISON, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that
Charles Burroughs Esquire, before whom the within affidavit  taken , declaration was taken
was, at the time of the doing thereof, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Mercer in said state, duly commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attesta- tions, and that the signature thereto is in the proper handwriting of the said
Charles Burroughs Esq.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said state, this Second day of March A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
Thos. S. Allison
Secretary of State.

State of New Jersey
on this 15 th day of February
A.D. 1853 personally appeared before the Subscribed (a Master in the Court of Chancery of said State duly authorized by law to administer oaths)
Lucretia Pearce to me known as a person of credibility and truth - who being duly sworn - according law on her oath saith, That she is the daughter of William Frost deceased late of Dorrentown in Burlington County and State aforesaid That he was a pensioner of the United States, has often heard him say that he should have received more pension for the services he performed in the Revolution That That he was a teamer in the service of the United States - but how long she cannot remember. That he died on the Eleventh day of November A.D. 1845. leaving this daughter and her two sisters - Ann Jeffries, and Hannah Frost - him surviving and further saith not Sworn to and subscribed
the day & year above mentioned
Lucretia Pearce
Before Charles Wm. Chesney No. 66.
I have read the foregoing affidavit of Mrs Lucretia Pearce - and know the same to be true - having heard my father-in-law the above said William Frost in his life time make - similar expressions of his services in the war of the Revolution and that he was justly entitled to an increase of Pension for said

Services - That he died on the 11 th day of Novem- ber A.D. 1845. leaving three daughters viz - Mrs Lucinda Pearce, Hannah Pond and Ann Jeffries. Sworn to and Subscribed the 15 th day of February A.D. 1853. before me Charles G. M c Cluskey State Secretary M.C.C.
State of New Jersey § I certify that I was well acquainted with William Trout now deceased and that he was a pensioner of the United States Said William Trout called upon the Subscriber in the year 1842 or 1843, for the purpose of procuring an increase of pension. The Subscriber was then Secretary of State of N.J. and took a memoranda um of his services which is still in my possession and which is attached hereto. Trenton N.J. Feb 15-1853. Charles G. M c Cluskey M.C.C.
I hereby certify that I have no interest in the foregoing claim or in its prosecution Charles G. M c Cluskey M.C.C.

Jan'y 2 nd 1877, Capt Jos. Vandike - Jan'y - 1. m. m. R m m
2 Mrs. Suedfort
Robt. Day the day Went to Bordentown Cap. W. H. 178, 1. mo
Leah R. Dugay June 11 1. Mrs.
before. Daughter of Benjamin 1, Mrs.
2,000,000,000 shown to Capt. David Cooper Hunt 60 1782, 6, mo? — Recd 6, mo? 14
Mr. Frit Carted while Washington lay at Annapolis 1780-1781, was - I must under Dechow's hand in Larry Bragg

State of New-Jersey.
I, THOMAS S. ALLISON, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that Charles G. M c Chesney Esquire, before whom the within affidavits were taken,
was, at the time of the doing thereof, a Master in Chancery (duly authorized by law to administer oaths) in and for the county of  State of New Jersey in said state, duly commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signatures thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said
Charles G. M c Chesney Esq r .
In testimony whereof , I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said state, this Second day of March A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three .
Thos. S. Allison
Secretary of State.

9-12-20 The Route
Payments to be made at Trenton, N. J. - by the Presd. T. B. by Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of New Jersey
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E Vol. 3
Page 94 by
J. M. Cuffield Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, William Trout of the State of New Jersey who was a private during the war of the Revolution is entitled to receive Thirty six dollars and eighty eight cents per annum, during its 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 23 rd day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three
Lewis Cass Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

Rev War
256 4 INVALID.
File No. 2567
William Trent.
Brvt Rev War
Act: June 7.  1832
Index:—Vol. 4. , Page 378.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Trenton N.J. Dec r 21, 1855
Hon
John B. Thomson
U S Senate
Dear Sir
I enclose to you some papers in behalf of the heirs of William Trout late a pensioner, of Burlington Co. N.J. Act of June 7, 1832; for increase or arrearage due at the time of his death. Mr Staten Jeffries of St Brunswick - married one of W m Trout's daughters. He is in your employ and you can endorse his character & veracity. W m Trout about the year 1842 or 43 called upon me to draw a supplemental Declaration for increase of pension - stating distinctly that he was 8 months in Militia tours. 9 months as enlisted Teamster under W m Shaster Joseph Dishrow in 1780 and in 1782, 6 months enlistment in the State Troops. He was allowed $36.88. per annum. I have record evidence of the 6 mos service and the Department has the papers on file showing that W m Trout was a Teamster 9 mos (record evidence) but not allowed for want of identity. I attached - the pencil remarks taken by me at the time he called for me to make the application for him. I was then Secretary of State. He told me clearly that he would have applied for the 9 mos as

in his original declaration but he supposed he could only apply for militia service. You will perceive that he told Mr. Jeffries repeatedly the same thing - The Affirmation of Mrs. Agnes Rockhill now 93 years of age a very intelligent old lady - who walked to Church last winter even Sabbaths but one, she informed me - has born & has lived all her days at Columbus (Black Horse) near Bordentown. She knew William Trout before the Rev - saw him carting or driving team in Continental service passed right by her door knew he was a pensioner of the U.S. She said he came to the army from John Papis who was the Commissary at Black Horse where she lived. This will identify W m Trout as the Pensioner and Teamster. with what Mr. Trout told me and Mr. Jeffries. I hope will be satisfactory to the Commissioner
Please to enclose these papers to Hon. J. Moinot with this letter if you please and ask the report to be enclosed to you and oblige the heirs as well as
Yours O bt Serv t Charles G. M c Cluskey
Note You enclosed some papers for P. Dickinson in this case to the Secy E. last year.
You can afford to spare a moment or two of time this session as Miss Stafford has no bill to pass.

Sir
J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
City of Washington
C. H. R.
Nov 28
Private
$36.88

Phila Aug. 16 1833
Dear Sir
I enclose you the papers of Will. Front on his claim for a pension - I have no doubt that you may rely on the truth of her statement, not only on the strength of her own character, but from the respectability of the persons who vouched for him - Mr. Front is one of the oldest inhabitants of Bordentown, and really in want of the affection the pension will afford him.
Yours respectfully
Yours
Wm. H. Harrison

Small Chamber
28th Decr 1855
To the Hon J M c leod
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I beg leave to enclose herewith "additional evidence in the case of the Heirs of William Root and of Burlington County New Jersey, and a letter & statement in reference to the same from Chas E. McChesney a very respectable gentleman of Trenton and formerly Secretary of the State of New Jersey. I hope this evidence may be considered as sufficient to establish the claim of the "Heirs," some of whom I know personally, and may I ask the favor to enclose to me the Report, when it shall be made in this case
Very respectfully
Yours
M c Whorter

Trenton March 21 1853
Sir
I am requested by the heirs of William Trout to transmit their claim for increase of the pension of their late father. The parties claiming are well known to me, and I have to beg that you will acknowledge the receipt of the accompanying documents.
I am Very Respectfully your ob: servant M c Dickinson
J. E. Heath Esquire Comm r of Pensions

Additional Evidence Heirs of William Trout D r of Burlington County, New Jersey Adm June 7. 1832.

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss
On this 3 rd day of March AD 1835 before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Mrs. Agnes Rockhill aged 92, a resident of Columbus in said County a person of creditability and truth who being duly affirmed according to law, says, that she was well ac- quainted with William Trout who was teamster in the Revolution and carried provisions from this place. She was well acquainted with him till his death. The said William Trout died recently at Bordentown. I knew of no other William Trout of the Revolution was also acquainted with his brother Jacob Trout they always resided near this affiant (within a few miles.) Said W m Trout drew a pension from the Government.
Affirmed and Subscribed { Agnes her Rockhill the day and year above written } mark
Montgomery P. Page S. P.
I certify that I am personally well acquainted with the above affiant whose mind is clear and health good. Montgomery P. Page S. P.

State of New Jersey ss
On this twenty first day of December A.D. 1855. before me a Master in the Court of Chancery of said State personally appeared Staten Jefferies a resident of the City of New Brunswick in said State, to me well known as a person of credibility & truth. Who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he married Ann Trout, the daughter of William Trout now deceased. Who was in his life time a pensioner of the United States, act June 7, 1832 at the rate of $36.88 per annum. was well acquainted with him for nearly thirty years before his death, heard him speak of his Revolutionary Services before he rec d a pension and after he received a pension, heard him say he did not receive as much as his services entitled him to. Well remembers his coming to Trenton to make a supplemental declaration for an increase of pension for his services as a Continental Teamster, and also stated that the reason he did not apply at first for the team service, that he thought and believed he could only apply for his militia services. Deponent then resided in Trenton and the said William Trout remained all night at deponents

house. That he came to see Dr M. Chesney to whom he had spoken to do his writing and make the application for his additional services. had heard him speak dozens of times about his service in the militia, State Troops and Team Service under Capt. Disbrow as Wagon Conductor under whom he served. That he was a man of strict integrity and honor and would not make a statement that was not so. Dependent refers to the papers on file in the pension department and what accompanies his affidavit to substantiate the application of the children of the said William Frick, to Womto and subscribed the { day and year above written } Staten Jefferies Charles G. McCheyney No. 6.6.

State of New Jersey
I Thomas S. Allison Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Montgomery P. Page Esq re before whom the affirmation of Agnes Rockhill was taken was at the doing thereof a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Burlington in said State. That Charles G. M c Chesney Esq re before whom the affidavit of Staten Jefferies was taken was at the doing thereof a Master in the Court of Chancery of said State, both of whom are duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by the laws of said State to administer oaths &c & that the signatures thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said Montgomery P. Page and Charles G. M c Chesney Esq res
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Trenton this twenty first day of December A.D. 1855.
Thos S. Allison Secretary of State

(N o 2) List of Teams in Cont t . Service at the post of Trenton March 1. 1780
   Conductors of Brigades Regiments No of Regiments Cont'd   with 4 Horses with 2 Horses No of Men     Joseph Disbrow William Shout 8 - 9  
State of New Jersey
I Thomas S Allison Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing list  list of is a true extract from Book headed as therein mentioned, as taken from and compared with the originals on file in my Office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Trenton this second day of March Eighteen hundred fifty three. Tho. S Allison Sec y of State