Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6520, Isaac Williamson, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Williamson, Isaac Anna
W. 6520
CONTENTS

New Jersey 286
Anna Williamson widow of Isaac Williamson of Middlesex in the State of N.J.
who was a  in the  commanded by Captain R.F. of the  commanded
by  in the  line for widow of Isaac Williamson Son of late a Sergeant in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 120 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Compt. to 31 Dec. 35. when deceased
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Nov. 1836 and sent to J. F. Randolph New Brunswick
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $660.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4th March 60.00
$720.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N.H. Addison Clerk, Book 4 Vol. 1 Page 156
She lets to Pen  J. F. Randolph (Decr 22 1836)

No 11183 Mrs Isaac Williamson N.Y.
Return e i f -
adm.
James F. Randolph - Staten Island  Staten Island New Brunswick N.J.
1841

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
3. June 1833
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Isaac Williamson of Middlesex Co. N. H.
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Country through which he marched. Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. Evidence by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     At the commencement about 1 Sergeant Asst. William Williamson. Lieut. Col. Simon Davis Long's Island & Park's Army North Brunswick - In the County of Middlesex State of New Jersey - Aged 79 Traditionary & Living witness   Alleged to have served several Monthly tours also often called on occasion of alarms   When the British army invaded New Brunswick Past the whole Vol. 8 miles In troops of Horse Artillery & Infantry Capt Robert Dixon - Lieut Joseph Stout Cambridge, Monmouth then to Haddonfield - Monmouth   Resided his 1778 Sergeant Cole Trailing - Lieut. Col. Nelson - Genl. Heard Monmouth through New Jersey to New York - Mount Kelly   Again called to protect the frontier - from this period to the end of the war he performed very frequent duties & declares that he believes he has performed more than 2000 Years active service Springfield Bethlehem - Danville - Hook Mountain - The State of New Jersey  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.
* each roll command of a regiment

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this day of personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 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.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
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 A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person.

will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 
6. { To a Soldier. } Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? { To an Officer. } Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[k] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[l] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[m] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[n] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

11.183
Grace Williamson
admiral 24 mo. Sergt.
120 $
James F. M. Mace N. Brunswick N. J.

11.183
Isaac Williamson's Declaration Township of North Brunswick County of Middlesex New Jersey

State of New Jersey Middlesex County } On this Eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before Thomas Hance Robert M. Chemey Nicholas Bonarum Josiah Ford and others, judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Middlesex, now sitting. Isaac Williamson, a resident of the township of North Brunswick in the county aforesaid, aged twenty three years on the twenty third day of August last who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath and in answer to the interrogatory, directed to be propounded to him make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed on the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty two. This Deponent states that he was born on the twenty third day of August in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and fifty nine in the township of Franklin in the county of Somerset, and since he was a child has always lived in North Brunswick in the county of Middlesex where he now resides, that at the commencement of the Revolution he joined a militia company commanded by his father William Williamson in which John Ellesmere was Lieutenant and Simon Addis, Ensign, and that he was a Sergeant of the Company. That before the British Army arrived, a force was sent to Long Island to disarm the Tories, and that the Company to which he was attached went on that service, and that they were on duty about three weeks. That when the enemy arrived at Sandy Hook, and landed on Staten Island, the militia were called out, that he went to Perth Amboy with his com- pany, and was there while they were landing at which time.

Some cannonading took place, that the Company he thinks were on duty about one month - After the enemy were in pos- session of New York a line of posts, was formed from Perth Amboy to Powles Hook, along the eastern shore of New Jersey and that the militia along the frontier were called out, in turn to guard that line, and while the enemy were in possession of New York he remembers of having served several monthly tours, at Perth Amboy, Woodbridge, Elizabeth Town and Bugus Point, under different Captains, who were attached to perform, a monthly tour, and in addition to this service the company to which he belonged were frequently called out upon sudden alarms and expeditions - When the British Army arrived in New Brunswick he voluntarily joined a troop of Horse commanded by the brave Capt Robert Nixon in which troop Joseph Stout was Lieutenant, and a person from a distant part of the State was Cornet, whose name he cannot now recollect, that they were posted at Cranbury and lay there the whole winter, during which time they made many expeditions into the country of Monmouth along the Sea board, defending the inhabitants against the depredations of the tories and refugees who were numerous and infested that part of the State, and that in one of those expeditions they captured at Shrewsbury and Black Point a large quantity of Merchandise and Army Store belonging to the British - This deponent further states that when the British Army left New Brunswick and while they were in possession of Philadelphia, Lieutenant Stout, and himself were appointed to carry confidential dispatches, and during that period he and Joseph Stout were held in requisition, and were always in a state of readiness to convey dispatches to different and distant parts of the State, and often times in great haste, and in the night that he several times took letter from New Brunswick to

Haddonfield opposite to Philadelphia, where the Governor and Council then were. These dispatches were forwarded generally from Col. Neilson at New Brunswick. When the British Army broke up at Philadelphia in 1778 and passed through New Jersey to New York, the whole body of the Militia were called out, he then joined his father's Company and proceeded on as far as Mount Holly where they met the advance of the British Army. That Colonels Frelinghuysen, Neilson, and Webster each had the command of a Regiment under General Howe, and that they came on in flank of the enemy to the brooks of Monmouth, where a general engagement took place and that he was there during the whole battle. After this period the enemy being again in possession of New York, he continued in his father's company, and the militia were again called upon to guard and protect the frontier of the State, and were called as before and stationed at the different points above mentioned, be- tween Perth Amboy and Pauls Hook. That he still acted as an orderly sergeant in the Company and is confident that he performed at least four regular monthly tours of duty from the time of the battle of Monmouth, in June 1778, to the time of the battle of Springfield, in June 1780, exclusive of many other excursions and expeditions to South Amboy, Spotswood, and into the county of Monmouth - and that he was present at the battle of Springfield and the burning of that place. From this period to the conclusion of the war, he remained in his father's Company, performing very frequent duties along the frontier of the State & on Staten Island. - He has no docu- mentary proof of service, never to his knowledge having received a written discharge, neither can he produce witnesses to prove in detail all his particular services, but would refer

to Simon Addis, Ryke Gnydam, Andrew M Dowell Winant Dicht David Provost John Van Dinter Abraham Mynde, Abraham Burnet & John Van Gant who can testify as to his character for veracity and all of whom were at different times his companions in arms This deponent declares and truly believes that he has per- formed more than two years of active service as a soldier of the Revolution, under different Captains who were de- tached at different times viz Captain Taylor, Williamson Pyatt, Addis, Dey, Guleck, Chambers, Wagnun and others He hereby relinquishes every claim 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 Sworn and Subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid Joseph McElroy } Judge Isaac Williamson
We James Cannon, a Clergyman residing in the City of New Brunswick, and Staats Van Dusen in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Williamson who has sworn and subscribed to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy three years of age, that he is respected and believed, in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid Joseph McElroy } Judge Staats Van Dusen, James Cannon

We Simon Addis and Ryke Suydam of the township of North Brunswick in the County aforesaid do declare and testify. That Isaac Williamson who has signed the above declaration was a Soldier of the Revolution, and that he performed many tours of military duty with us, and knowing the Companies to which he belonged, and his character for veracity, we have good reason to believe, what he has above declared is true.
Sworn & Subscribed in Open Court the day and year aforesaid
Joseph Morrison } N. Woodruff } Judges
his Simon X Addis mark
Ryke Suydam
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after hearing the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that James S. Cannon who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the City of New Brunswick and that Staats Van Dusen who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
N. Woodruff
B. Ford
Simon Murray } Judges
I do hereby certify that Simon Addis & Ryke Suydam the witnesses in the foregoing affidavit named are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit
B. Ford
Judge of Middlesex Pleas

J. Ferdinand S. Van Arsdale Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the application of Grace Williamson for a pension — In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of Office this 17 th day of September A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty two — J. D. Van Arsdale Clerk

State of New Jersey 3  rd  dist . Be it known that on this seventeenth day of July 1833, before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared before me Simon Addis, & Abraham Mercoll, surviving soldiers of the Revolution, who receiving pensions as such who being sworn doth on their oaths respectively say: The said Simon Addis for himself says that he is in the 87 th year of his age, that he well knows Isaac Williamson, the applicant for a Pension named in the foregoing declaration, has known him from a boy - knows him to have been a soldier of the Revolution, to have been out in 1776 under Capt Williamson, in 1778, at least one hour a month under himself, and in '78, '79 & '80, under different  other  captains - knows him from being a neighbor to him and seeing him go out - knows of said Williamson serving as sergeant, served around under him (the de- ponent) and under Capt Williamson, & believes he always served as such when in the Infantry, to the best of his understanding. And the said Abraham Mercoll for himself says, he is in the 74 th year of his age, knows well Isaac Williamson, named in the foregoing declaration, has known him from his boyhood, knows him to have been a good soldier in the Revolution, and out during the whole period of the war - was out with him at Woodbridge under Capt Williamson in 1778, and at Cheesquaker in 1781 under Capt Gustin. Knows of said Williamson's service also in the Troops of Shore, but don't know how long he served. Knows that said Williamson acted in the capacity of sergeant. And the said Addis & Mercoll, each for himself, says that said Williamson is a man of veracity & that his statement in relation to his Revolutionary services

Revolutionary services (which they have heard read) is entitled to full credit and belief.
Also appeared before the the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid, and was duly sworn, Rike Sedam, a surviving soldier of the Revolution, who on his oath saith, that he is a neighbor of Isaac Williamson, the applicant for a pension named in the foregoing paper, that he knew him from the time they were school boys together - knew that said Williamson was out after very often during the Revolutionary war, was out with him frequently - in 1777 & 1778, and at other times. Said Williamson always acted as Sergeant. Benier said Williamson is a man of strict veracity, that no doubt of the truth of his entire statement as to his services in the Revolution.
Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid Peter P. Runyon Justice of the peace
Simon Addis Abraham Meyerhoff Ryke Sedam
Thereby certify that Simon Addis, Abraham Meyerhoff, & Ryke Sedam, the witnesses in the foregoing affidavit named, are credible persons, and that their testimony is entitled to full belief.
Peter P. Runyon Justice of the peace
I Nicholas Brunsen Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the supplementary proceedings in the case of Isaac Williamson, an applicant for a pension, that Peter P. Runyon before whom the affidavits of Simon Addis, Abraham Meyerhoff & Ryke Sedam were taken is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County - that his official acts as such are entitled to full credit, and that the signature Peter P. Runyon is in his own proper hand.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of this Court this eighteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred thirty three.
N Brunsen Clerk

Supplemental affidavit of Isaac Williamson an applicant for a pension numbered in paper number 11. 183 - State of New Jersey
Middlesex county ss. Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for this said county of Middlesex. Isaac Williamson who being duly sworn deponeth & saith that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively to the precise length of all his service but to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below in the following grades - He entered the service in the latter part of the year 1775 & served one month as a volunteer & acted as orduly sergeant under Captain Dyate Smith & Sery. Glover. He discharged the latter In the summer of 1776 he was ordered out again & served one month as orduly sergeant under Capt. Dyate Smith & was stationed at Amboy on the Jersey shore. From this period until December of this year he was out nearly if not quite the whole time and served not less than three months in three towns of a month each as orduly sergeant under Captain William Williamson & was stationed on the east side of the Raritan Bay aged all along from South Amboy to Elizabeth Town - the enemy then being on the Island making perpetual incursions & committing depredations. In December 1776 he volunteered & joined a troop of horse & served in that troop as a volunteer & private furnishing his own horse without interruption not less than three months under Captain Robert Nixon & his Head Quarters were at Cranberry & Col. Neilson was the Col of Saylor's Light Art. Artillery Battery. They remained at New Brunswick & Genl. Putnam & their part of the time at Piscataway with a portion of the army. They were engaged in guarding - in scouts in watching the move- ments of parties of the enemy through the country - In the spring of 1777 after the expiration of the service in the volunteers he was enrolled in the militia & was ordered out and

1 st served one month as a duty sergeant under Capt. Gullick at Millstone. That neighborhood I encountered a party of the enemy from Brunswick & engaged protecting the families & property of his fellow citizens. In July 1777 was ordered out again & served this year after the above services four times of 4 th a month each as a duty sergeant - all under Capt. Taylor Col. Neilson being his Colonel. During these four times was stationed for the middle of New Jersey, I was repeatedly ordered by Col. Neilson as a part of his duty to carry con- fidential dispatches from New Brunswick to Haddonfield in West Jersey when the Governor Howe was near filling a In the early part of the year 1778 he was ordered out and 3 rd served as before as a duty sergeant three times of a month each under Captain Williamson & Col. Neilson at the Woodbridge Station guarding the lines from Amboy to Elizabeth Town - In June 1778 at the time of the enemy's attempt to occupy New Jersey, he was ordered out 1 st again served one month as a duty sergeant under Capt. Williamson was marched to Red Bank & then to Monmouth but not engaged in the main battle although actively engaged in that vicinity in guarding & watching the movements of the enemy. He was not out any more this year in consequence as he was ill of sickness during some portion of the season. In 1779 he was able to do his duty, was ordered out & served three times of a month 3 rd each as a duty sergeant under Capt. Williamson engaged in guarding along the lines from Amboy to Middlesex & in watching the foraging parties of the enemy. During the year 1780 he was ordered out again 2 nd & performed two times of a month each as a duty sergeant at the Woodbridge Station under Capt. Williamson - the latter of which times ran into June & was at the battle of Springfield. Afterwards during this same year was 1 st ordered out again & served a time of one month as a duty

Sergeant at Spotswood In sent to Amboy under Capt Addis & immediately afterwards another term of one month at the same place under Captain Day - In the year 1781 was out repeatedly, again as orduly Sergeant I served as he now recollects being ordered out a term of one month under Capt Chambers at Cranberry as orduly Sergeant and also one term of one month at Chequamegon under Capt Myers at the same place Quits and another term of one month under Capt Morgan at the same place all as orduly Sergeant engaged in watching the enemy protecting the inhabitants & their property. Was one also he is sure as orduly Sergeant under various officers afterwards I recollect the British evacuated the city of New York in 1783 serving not less than six months more Was always ready & willing to go when his duty called him I can with truth say he was a faithful soldier In their services claims a pension
From Subscribed the 17 th July AD 1833 Your Son
Isaac Williamson
Peter R. Dumond Justice of the Peace

N: 690. 3. Su. New Jersey Jane Williamson's Application under the Law of July 1835
Admitted Sergeant 2 years -
James M. Randolph, agent New Brunswick N.J.

Declaration of Anna Williamson, of Middlesex County, New Jersey, in order to obtain the benefit of the 3 d Section of the act of Congress of 4 th July, 1836.
State of New Jersey Middlesex County, ss. On this ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five, before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, personally appeared Anna Williamson of said County, aged seventy eight years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4. 1836: That she is the widow of Isaac Williamson, late of the Township of North Brunswick, County of Middlesex, New Jersey, deceased, who was a Sergeant of Militia in the service of the Revolution, not duty as such, and was in the receipt of Pension for said service: that the application for said Pension, and the proofs sustaining it, are now, she presumes, in the files of the Pension Office, & to them she refers for all that is considered necessary in support of the present application.
She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Williamson on the twenty sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight seven hundred and eighty (26 th Sept 1780) by the Rev Mr H. H. Harington, long since deceased; that her husband, the aforesaid Isaac Williamson died on the thirty first day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty five, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as well more

fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. She refers particularly to the Marriage License herewith for proof of marriage. Given to & subscribed on the day & 3 year above written, before Peter P. Prunoyas judge Anna her Williamson in mark
Whereupon, after propounding such questions as were calculated to elicit the truth, the said Court is of opinion that the said Anna Williamson, the applicant aforesaid, is the widow & legal representative of Isaac Williamson, late a Pensioner of the United States; that she was married to the said William on the 26th day of November, 1780; that said Williamson died on the 31 st of December 1835, and that said Anna has ever since remained his widow.
I Nicholas Booraen, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Linn-Iowa, do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Anna Williamson to be placed on the Pension list in right of her late husband, Isaac Williamson, deceased.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this ninth day of November eighteen hundred and thirty six.
N Booraen Clk

me 19 By His Excellency William Livingston Esquire, Governor, Captain-General and Com- mander in Chief in and over the State of NEW- JERSEY, and Territories thereunto belonging in America , Chancellor and Ordinary in the same.
***** To any Protestant Minister, or Justice of the Peace. *****
W HEREAS there is a mutual Purpose of Marriage between Isaac Williamson ——— of the one Party, and Amy Vanharling ——— of the other Party, for which they have desired my License, and have given Bond pursuant to the Directions of an Act of the General Assembly of New-Jersey, made in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Nineteen, intitled, An Act to prevent clandestine Marriages ; and otherwise com- plied with the Directions of the said Act: These are therefore to authorize and empower you to join the said Isaac Williamson & Amy Vanharling ————— in the Holy Bands of Matrimony, and them to pronounce Man and Wife.
GIVEN under my Hand and the Prerogative Seal of New-Jersey, at Princetown the twenty fourth Day of September — in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and 80
W. Livingston

State of New Jersey } On this 9th day of November 1836, before me Middlesex County } a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Jane Williamson, known to me as a credible person, whose testimony is implicitly to be relied upon, who being duly sworn, on her oath saith, that she resides in the fa- mily of the late Isaac Williamson deceased, knows that he died on the 31 st day of December, 1835; knows that Anna Williamson survives him, and is his widow, and that said Anna Williamson is still a widow, and has been a widow ever since the death of the said Isaac Williamson. She further testifies, on her oath, that the said Isaac Williamson, de- ceased, was the same Isaac Williamson who was a Sergeant in the war of the Revolution, and received a Pension for his services as such. That she knows from seeing his Pension Certificates, and seeing him receive his Pension money, how much he received the day of } June 1836 } hereinafter and before me } Williamson
Peter P. Duryee Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey } On the 9th day of November 1836, before me Middlesex County } the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, per- sonally appeared Ryse Sedam, known to me as a credible person, whose testimony is entirely to be relied upon, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is a soldier of the Re- volution, and is now in the receipt of a Pension as such - that he was well acquainted with Isaac Williamson, late of the Coun- ty of Middlesex, deceased - knows that he was a soldier of the Revolution, held the rank of Sergeant, & received a Pension as such - knows that said Williamson was married to Anna Van Harlingen, sometime previous to the close of the war, in the year 1780 - was not actually present at the wedding, but

was in the neighborhood, saw some of the guests who were there, talked with them on the subject, and knows that the marriage did thus take place. Knows that said Williamson died on the 31 st of December 1835, and left said Anna Williamson, his widow, and knows that said Anna is still his widow, and has so remained ever since the death of said Williamson. Also appeared before me at the same time Rachel Sedam, known to me as a credible person whose testimony may be relied upon, also being duly sworn, on her oath saith, that she is in the 73 rd year of her age, that she is well acquainted with Anna Williamson, the widow of the aforementioned Isaac Williamson, well recollects of her marriage with the said Isaac in the year 1780, was not present at the wedding, but remembers well of the hombrizing, and of all the usual preparations for the wedding, and parade after it, throughout the neighborhood. Knows that said Anna Williamson is now the widow of said Isaac, and has remained his widow ever since the death of said Isaac in 1835. Subscribed & sworn to the day afore said, before me
Ryke Sedam
Peter L. Ruyson Justice of the Peace
Rachel her mark Sedam
State of New Jersey, on the 9 th day of November 1836, before Middlesex County me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Abraham Meserole, known to me as a credible person, whose testimony is to be relied upon implicitly, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is a soldier of the Revolution, and now in the receipt of a Pension as such - that he was well ac-

acquainted with Isaac Williamson, late of the township of North Brunswick, County of Middlesex, N.J. deceased - Know that said Williamson was a Sergeant in the war of the Revolution, and received a Pension as such - recollect well the marriage of said Williamson, with Anna Van Harlingen on the 26th day of September, 1780 - was present at the wedding, and also  in a few days thereafter at the home - Irving his is a brother in law to said Williamson, and was one of the invited guests - Know that said Williamson died on the 31st of December 1835, and left a widow, the said Anna, or Amy as it is sometimes written, and that said Anna is now living the widow of said Isaac, and has not been married since the death of her husband, the said Isaac.
Subscribed from the day of his year aforesaid, before me } Abraham X Meseroll Peter P. Runyan } Mark. Justice of the Peace }
I, Nicholas Booraeu Clerk of the County of Middlesex, New Jersey do hereby certify, that Peter P. Runyan, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Isaac Williamson, Ryke Sedan, Rachel Sedan, and Abraham Meseroll were taken, is and was at the time thereof, a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned therefor, and that his commission thereof is in his own hand existing.
Given under my hand & seal of office, this ninth day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty six.
N Booraeu Clerk

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6520
Anna Williamson Wid. of Isaac Williamson Sergt. Rev. War
Act: June 14/32
Index:—Vol. 16 , Page 338
[Arrangement of 1870.]

New Jersey
Isaac Williams a Sergeant a horseman under the act of June 9 th 1832 at the rate of $120- per Ann - These facts to what time he was paid
Bliss
John Hany Esq. Dist 31 Dec r 1835 paid to that para 3 d Auditor's Office 9 H

New Jersey 178 Isaac Williamson
of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey. who was a Private  Sergeant in the Corps commanded by Captain Williamson of the Arty commanded by Col. Miles on the N. Jersey line for I. M. Segr
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 20 Dollars 60 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Aug. 1831 and with M c Randolph M c Patent
Arrears to the 4th of Ma'31 $240 Comm-ant. allowance ending 1 st Sep'31 60 $300
Recorded by P. C. [unclear] Clerk, Book E Vol. 3 Page 155 { Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }