Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1004, Hendrick Van Pelt, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Van Pelt, Hendrick Sarah
W. 1004
CONTENTS

Lets. T. M. Hartshorn July 7 + 12, 1837
Letter to J. M. Hartshorn 1. Dec. 1838
Same person. . . . 15 Jan'y 1841.
Duplicate Certificate issued 13 d April 1841. and sent to J. M. Hartshorn, Freehold N. J.
New Jersey 1217
Sarah Van Pelt widow of Hendrick Van Pelt
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 13. May 1822 of Monmouth Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hume of the R. G. V. commanded by _____ in the N. Jersey line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28. day of Nov. 1838 and sent to J. M. Hartshorn, Freehold, N.J.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '38 200.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4. Oct. '39. 40.00
$ 240.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Book A. Vol. 2
Clerk, Page 139

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Left Barkul after lunch in 179-180

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 24th July 1836.
State of New Jersey Monmouth County } ss:
On this third day of December Eighteen hundred and thirty six, personally appeared before me one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, Sarah VanPett a resident of the Township of Freehold in the County and State aforesaid aged seventy four years who cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court and who being first duly sworn, 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 24th 1836: That she is the widow of Hendrick VanPett who was a private in the militia of Monmouth County during the Revolutionary War. That she has always been informed by her husband and verily believes that he entered the service about the first of July 1776 about the time the British Fleet came in and landed on Staten Island, under Captain Thomas Hunn and served every other month in said Company during the years 1776 & 1777, and she has heard her husband say that during about the year 1778 Samuel Carhart became the Captain of the said Company in the place of Thomas Hunn, and that he continued to serve in said Company under the said Captain Samuel Carhart every other month during the year 1778, and part of year 1779 until the month of June 1779 - that she has heard her husband say that during this time above mentioned he served in tours of one month every other month as above stated, and while in the service he performed the duty with the other militia, of guarding the shores from Bromes Point around to Sandy Hook and the Highlands of Middletown - Marching along said shores and standing guard at different places along the same, principally at Sandy Hook & the Highlands - That she has often heard her husband say and knows the fact herself that the

6- Tories and British were continually invading the County along the Bay Shore as aforesaid, for the purpose of plundering and robbing the inhabitants of what little provisions and necessaries they could raise in those times of danger & peril, and she knows farther the militia were obliged to protect and defend the inhabitants of the shores from such depredations. That she has been informed by her husband that Asahel Holmes was the Colonel of the Regiment to which his company belonged, and that David Forman was Brigadier General. That she has heard her husband say that in the month of June 1779 he enlisted in a company of militia or State troops, under Captain Samuel Carhart for a tour of six months, and that he served out his full tour of enlistment and was discharged therefrom in the month of December following, but never heard that he received any written discharge - that their duties in this tour of service were the same as have been mentioned above to guard the shores, as she has been told by her husband - that after this time her said husband (as he has often informed her), enrolled himself in the militia again and served therein whenever and as often as the militia were called out and performed service, which was at least three months in each of the years 1780, 1781, & 1782, doing his duty in marching along and guarding the shores from the depredations of the British and Tories as aforesaid - that she has always understood from her husband that he served still in Captain Samuel Carhart's Company, at least three months in each of the years 1780, 1781, & 1782 in tours of one month each, and she knows that in the year 1782 he was absent from home on such service, at least three months, and one month at a time: That her husband was called out upon alarm a great number of times when not on his regular monthly tour, and served 2, 3 or 4 days and sometimes a week until the enemy were driven off - at these times the militia were all called out -

And she knows that her husband the said Hendrick Van Pett was out from home in the service under Captain Samuel Carhart, in the latter of the winter towards the spring of 1782, for one month (and she thinks a little longer) it being a short time after she was married to him, and she recollects that he had served a month which had just expired at that time before the marriage and she knows farther that her said husband was absent from home and out in the service, at least two other months, one month at a time in the summer and fall of the year 1782 under the said Captain Carhart but the particular time when each term of service commenced and ended it is impossible for her to ascertain or to state: that her husband the said Hendrick Van Pett resided in the Township of Freehold aforesaid when he entered the service: that he was a volunteer: that he was engaged in the Battle of Monmouth & some skirmishes: that his marches were principally confined to the County of Monmouth as the Militia of said County were kept at home to guard and defend their own shores and frontiers: all which she has heard from her said husband: that she has no documentary evidence whatever in support of her claim: that the said Hendrick Van Pett was born on the 25th day of April 1760: that his age is recorded in a bible now in her possession. She further declares that she was married to the said Hendrick Van Pett on the twenty fifth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one: that her husband the aforesaid Hendrick Van Pett died on the thirteenth day of May eighteen hundred and twenty two: and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Judge as aforesaid
William Lloyd
Sarah her X Van Pett Mark

State of New Jersey } Monmouth County } ss Be it remembered that on this seventh day of December 1836, personally appeared before me, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State afore- said, James Otterdon who being duly sworn de- poseth and saith that he is the Pastor of the first Dutch Reformed Church of Freehold in said County that he has in his possession the register of the said Church containing among other things a record of the marriages solemnized by the respective min- isters of the said Church. that he finds recorded in the said register the marriage of Hendrick Van Pelt and Sarah Robberts in the hand writing of the Rev d Benjamin Dubout who was then the minister of said Church, in the following words and figures to wit: "Hendrick Van Pelt was getrouwt met Sarah Robberts November den 25 1781"
Sworn to & subscribed before } me Judge as aforesaid Dec } A.D. 1836 John Null }
James Otterdon
I the said Judge do hereby certify that I have Examined the Church register mentioned in the affidavit above, and am perfectly satisfied of its truth and antiquity - from which the marriage set forth in the affidavit of the Rev d Mr Otterdon is truly copied, And I do further certify that James Otterdon who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.
John Null

State of New Jersey § Monmouth County § ss: Be it remembered that on this third day of December, Eighteen hundred and thirty six personally appeared before me, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County, Matthias Kulle. Sometime called Matthias Kulsehart, who being duly sworn deposed and saith that he is a surviving soldier of the Revolution aged eighty — years: that he was well acquainted with Hendrick Van Pett in his lifetime, the husband the husband of the above mentioned Sarah Van Pett: that he knew the said Hendrick Van Pett in the Revolutionary war and knows that when this deponent returned from his imprisonment in May 1778, he found the said Hendrick Van Pett, a member private in Captain Samuel Garhat's Company of Militia belonging to Col: Peter Holmes regiment of Monmouth Militia, and knows that the said Hendrick Van Pett served in said Company under the said Captain, at least every other month alternately in tours of one month each for the space of one year, from June 1778. to June 1779, making at least six months actual service. that this deponent belonged to the same Company, and served therein with the said Hendrick Van Pett the tours above mentioned but it is impossible from the nature of the service to state at this distance of time, the beginning and ending of each tour of service, or the particular place where each tour was performed — But the said Company held their head-quarters at Mount Pleasant in the Township of Middletown, and the above stated service was performed, principally in guarding the shore and frontier of the said Township of Middletown being stationed on said shore as guard, defending the inhabitants thereof, from the depredations of small parties of the enemy who were at that time, continually landing upon the said shore to seek provisions and prisoners  recreations for their army, which laid in New York — And this deponent farther states that the said Hendrick Van Pett served a tour of six months service in a company of militia

or State troops raised and Commanded by Captain Samuel Carhart under enlistments, Commencing in June 6- 1779. and ending in December same year, the particular day he cannot recollect; this Deponent enlisted in the same Company under the same Captain and served the same term of six months with the said Hendrick Van Pett - that during the last period of service above named, the headquarters of the said Company were at Mount Pleasant aforesaid, and the service was performed in guarding and defending the shore and frontier of Middletown as aforesaid, the Company being raised for that purpose - that immediately after the last named period of service, the said Hendrick Van Pett enrolled himself in the militia again, under the said Captain Samuel Carhart, and served in said Company at least three months actual service 3- in the year 1780 - at least three months actual service 3- in the year 1781, and at least three months actual service actual service in the year 1782 in terms of one month each, in guarding and defending the shore and frontier of Middletown as aforesaid - that the head quarters of said Company were at Mount Pleasant aforesaid, from whence they marched to the shore, and were stationed as guard at some place on the same - the principal guard posts were at Highlands, Sandy Hook, Shoal Harbor, Wakake, Conankunk, and Brown's Point - that some times upon alarms in other parts of the County, they were called, and marched out of the Township of Middletown, but the regular and principal service was performed in Middletown on the shore aforesaid - that from the nature of the service it is impossible to state the particular time of Beginning and ending of each term of service, but he knows that the above mentioned service was performed by the said Hendrick Van Pett, for this deponent lived in the same neighborhood, and served in the same Company with him - That David Forman was General - Peter Kolones

Colonel, and Thomas Hunn major - That in the latter part of December 1779, a British Brig named Britannia came on shore at Wakake aforesaid, and was captured by Col: Hahnies and his men, and her crew taken prisoners; the said Hendrick Van Pett, and this deponent being present, under Capt. Carhart and helped to capture her; that she was condemned as a prize, and sold for the benefit of the captors - that no discharge in writing was given to any of the men in the above stated service. That the said Hendrick Van Pett performed the above service in an embodied Corps called into service by the Laws of New Jersey, that he served in field and not in garrison: and for the time during which his service was performed he was not employed in any civil pursuit. that all their marches were principally confined to the County of Monmouth.
Sworn to & subscribed before me } Judge as aforesaid William Lloyd
his Matthias Hulde Mark
And I the said Judge do hereby certify that it appears to me, that Matthias Hulde, who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, is a surviving soldier of the Revolution, is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit -
William Lloyd

State of New Jersey Monmouth County S ss: Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in for said County - Thomas Van Pelt who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Hendrick Van Pelt in his lifetime that the said Hendrick Van Pelt died on the thirteenth day of May Eighteen hundred and twenty two, and that Sarah Van Pelt the applicant named in the foregoing proceedings has remained his widow ever since that period and further saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed before me } Thomas Van Pelt Judge as aforesaid by the said Thomas Van Pelt who is a credible person and whose statement is entitled to credit William Lloyd
Van Pelt

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County ss. Personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace assisted by in and for the County of aforesaid Matthias Smith who being duly sworn saith that he is a surviving soldier of the Revolution aged seventy  in August last  one years that he was well acquainted with Hendrick Van Pelt the husband of the annexed applicant during the Revolutionary War, and knows that the said Hendrick Van Pelt served in the Militia of said County under Captain Thomas Hunn in a regiment Commanded by Col: Asher Holmes from about the month of July 1776, every other month alternately in tours of one month each, during the remainder of that year, and the whole of the year 1777. That Samuel Carhart was lieutenant of said Company That about the latter part of the year 1777. or the beginning of the year 1778, Samuel Carhart was appointed Captain of the said Company in the place of Captain Hunn who was appointed Major; That the said Hendrick Van Pelt continued to serve in the said Company under the said Samuel Carhart as captain every other month alternately during the year 1778, and a part of the year 1779 until June of the last named year, in tours of one month each: that this deponent belonged to and served in the same Company with the said Hendrick Van Pelt, who was a good soldier and a friend to his Country: that he lived in the same neighborhood with the said Hendrick Van Pelt and he never knew or heard of his failing to perform a single tour of duty during the whole War: that the services of the militia of Monmouth County were peculiarly hard during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, & 1779, for the British who had possession of New York, Long Island and Staten Island were continually landing upon our shores and routing to the outposts in small parties

with Tories for their guides for the purpose of carrying off to the Army what provisions and necessaries they could find, and this County being a rich agricultural district offered to them many inducements, and these invasions were frequent during the years aforesaid, and to guard against them and to defend the inhabitants and their property from the attacks of the enemy, it was necessary to keep up a continual guard along the shores and frontiers, and the Militia were one half called out in service at a time and continued for one month, this was the regular monthly service, besides which the whole of the Militia were liable to be called whenever there was an invasion by a party of the enemy and they remained out in service until the enemy were driven off - That in the year 1779 he has always understood and believes that the said Hendrick Van Pett enlisted in a company of Militia or State Troops for six months under Captain Samuel Garhart, and believes that he served out his full term of six months commencing in June 1779, and ending in December the same year. That after the year 1779, he thinks the Militia were not called out in the service so frequently as before, yet he knows that the said Hendrick Van Pett, enrolled himself in the Militia immediately after his term of six months was out, and served therein under the said Samuel Garhart at east three months in each of the years 1780, 1781, and 1782, in terms of one month each, that it is impossible for him at this distance of time to tell when each monthly term of service commenced and ended but he knows perfectly well that the service above mentioned in the Militia was performed by the said Hendrick Van Pett, for this deponent lived the same neighborhood, and belonged to the same

Company, and served with the said Hendrick VanPett during the time aforesaid: That the duties of the militia in the above service, were to guard and defend the inhabitants of the frontiers from the depredations of the British and Tories: That the head quarters of Captain Hume's & Carhart's Company were at the Highlands, and at Mount Pleasant both in the Township of Middletown: that the said Hendrick VanPett while in said service was stationed, with others of the Company on guard at different places along the Bay Shore of Middletown, as the necessities of the time required, at Brown's Point, Conesunk, Bay Lake Sandy Hook & the Highlands, and often times they were marched to other places in the County in cases of alarm but his regular and principal service was performed at the places aforesaid along said Bay Shore, being the most exposed part of the frontier, and being nearer to Captain Carhart's district, than any other part of the frontier - that the head quarters of said Company were at a house called the Calf house on the Highlands of Middletown, when the company happened to be stationed there on guard - that he recollects the time that the said Hendrick VanPett was married to the present applicant, and knows that the said Hendrick VanPett was out in the service after his said marriage, for this Deponent served at least three tours of service of one month each, with him in the year 1782 in guarding the shores of aforesaid in the said Company, the particular times he cannot recollect, though he thinks that one tour was in the latter part of winter, another along in the summer, and the third in the fall of that year -
Sworn to & subscribed, before me, Justice of the Peace of said County, by the said Matthias Smith who is a credible person whose statement is entitled to credit Jan'y 16. 1837 Thomas Beek Justice his mark Matthias Smith

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County } ss: I Daniel H. Ellis, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in Hoxie County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Sarah Van Pelt for a pension: that William Lloyd and John Hall are respectively judges of the said Court duly commissioned and sworn in office as such, and that their several signatures are genuine And also that Thomas Bedle before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn & subscribed is a justice of the peace of said County duly commissioned sworn in office as such, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty eighth day of January A.D. Eighteen hundred thirty seven
D.H. Ellis Clk

Rev Way
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1004
Sarah Van Pelt Widow Hendrich Van Pelt Priv. Riv. War.
Act: March 3. 1843.
Index:—Vol. M. , Page 294
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sarah Van Pelt abt 4 July 1836 N. Jersey. See letters to J. M. Hartshorne July 7. & 12. 1837

3154
New Jersey
Sarah Van Pelt
widow of Hendrick Van Pelt,
who was a Private
in the Revolution
N. J. Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum; to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of December 1843 and sent to
J. M. Hartshorne, Treasury N. J.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1 Page 127

121) Sarah van Pelt 1531/1 widow of Hendrick van Pelt
In Marginal record Hendrick Van Pelt Paid £ 22. 13. 5
Admitted Paid 2 years
J. M. Harts horn Esq., Fruitland N.Y.

State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss:
On this twenty fourth day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County, Sarah Van Pelt a resident of the Township of Freehold in the said County of Monmouth aged twenty six years who cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court and who being duly sworn deposed and said according to Law, on her oath doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Hendrick Van Pelt who was a private in the Revolutionary War as will appear by the evidence attached to the papers of this applicant upon her claim for a pension under the Act July 4, 1836, and also to the papers of Margaret Allen Sarah Dies, to which she refers being now on file in the Pension Office.
She further declared that she was married to the said Hendrick Van Pelt on the twenty fifth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, that her husband the aforesaid Hendrick Van Pelt died on the thirteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty two that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz: at the time above stated. In witness whereof she has subscribed on the day and year above written before me Judge as aforesaid Francis Murphy Sarah Van Pelt Mark

State of Kentucky } Monmouth County } ss
I Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Francis Murphy Esquire is a Judge of the said Court and was such at the date of the foregoing declaration duly Commissioned and sworn in Office, and that his Signature to the foregoing is genuine -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this eleventh day of September A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty eight
D. H. Ellis Clerk

Archolap n.p. May 2nd 1883
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James L Edwards Esq Govt of Pensions. War Department. Washington City D.C.

Freehold May 23 d . 1837
Sir
About 2 months since I forwarded to your Office some additional evidence & papers in the cases of Sarah Bier widow of Henrick Bier & Margaret Allen widow of Jacob Allen -
I also requested your attention to the claims of Sarah Van Pelt, and Phebe Lewis particularly mentioned in my letter, - but I have not been advised as to the decision of the Department in relation to them -
I do not wish to be thought unnecessarily troublesome to the Department, but I think in justice to the applicants as well as to yourself as a public officer, a decision should not be longer delayed.
I am well aware of the difficulty of your situation and that it is necessary to establish rigid rules in the examination of claims, but supposing from the length of time, that mine may have been accidentally passed in the multitude of cases, I have ventured to call your attention to them - and if there any which deserve to be allowed, I do not hesitate to say that those referred to, call equally loud upon the justice and magnanimity of their country -
I have understood that a Supplement to the act

of July 2 d 1836 was passed at the last Session of Congress, bringing those widows who have married a second time, within the provisions of that act —
Will you be kind enough to inform me as to that fact, and if it did pass, what are its provisions?
Most Respectfully
Your Obt Serv t —
J. M. Matthews
J. L. Edwards Esq r
Govt. of Pensylvania —

apls 1841.
M rs Evans
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr. of Pensions War Department Washington City.

Sir
Frechoed N.Y. April 2 d 1841
I herewith enclose the evidence on the application of Sarah Van Pelt for a new Certificate in the place of the Original which is lost
Yours Respectfully &c M c Cartthorne
J. L. Edwards Esq Com r of Pensions

Mar 15. 1841
In at Norfolk
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions War Department Washington City.

Freehold March 11. 1841
Sir
The Certificate of Mrs. Sarah VanPelt, widow of Kendrick VanPelt issued under the act of July 1838, has been lost, and I with the instructions of the Department in what manner I shall proceed to draw the money - I had her Certificate on the 24 th of Sept. last and I acted as her attorney in receiving the money, and I supposed until lately that I had it still among other certificates in my keeping, but after a thorough search I cannot find it - I supposed that perhaps it might by accident have been left at the office of the agent in Trenton, in Sept. but it cannot be found there. I must have lost it in some way (and I cannot account for it) when I drew her pension in Sept. last or else some one must have taken it from my papers - for when I returned I put the certificates all up together where I usually keep them, and so far as I know they have not been disturbed until the 4 th of March inst.
Is it necessary to make application for a new certificate, or will the Department order the pension paid without producing the certificate under the circumstances of the case, her pension having now ceased under the act?
A certificate will be of no use to her hereafter
Yours Respectfully &c J. M. Harkness
J. L. Edwards Esq.

Franchise No. 6 July 6 1833
July 6
James L. Edwards Esq. Comr. of Pensions War Department Washington City D.C.

Freehold July 1 st 1837
Sir
Some two or three weeks since I sent to the Department some additional papers in the cases of Mrs Margaret Allen, Mrs Sarah Hyer and Mrs Sarah VanPett -
I wish to know the decision of the Department in relation to those claims, for I feel unwilling to abandon them as I am satisfied that they are clearly proved - Much more so than many cases that have been allowed -
I am sorry to perceive a disposition of the Department to defeat the provisions of law of Congress, manifested at this late hour, when there are but few of the soldiers or their widows now remaining, who can claim the benefit thereof -
It is true that the Country is in a deplorable state, and the Government may be short in funds, but this can be no reason for resorting to such a course - I may be mistaken in my conception of the matter but there certainly is a great change manifest in the letters from your office operating against the applicants under the act of July 2 nd 1836 - You state in regulations issued under the act of June 7, 1832 that traditional evidence is deemed important and in militia cases indispensable, and from the reading of those regulations, any one must be convinced that the Department contemplated granting some pensions at least upon that kind of evidence - yet you now refuse to take any notice whatever of such evidence, and require direct and positive proof in every case - I do not intend to apply these remarks to any particular case, but they are made generally - I rec d some two weeks since a letter for John W. Holmes inclosed in a letter to me from your office, but I have as yet had no opportunity to send it to him as he lives

about 8 miles in the country, and there is no post-Office near him - but I shall send it to him by the first opportunity, I have no doubt but that he will comply with your request and send to you the papers requested.
But he would have some reluctance in sending them I think, in case he supposed that the Department intended to make a re-examination of cases already allowed, and suspend all such as were not sustained by those papers, for he says that he thinks at least \frac{2}{3} of them have been destroyed by himself in former times, and that the few which now remain form the very imperfect proof of the service of the Militia during those times. But if they are only intended to be used to aid those who have not yet obtained their pensions I think he would willingly send them -
Respectfully Yours &c J. M. Hootshome.

Freehold June 12 th 1837
Sir
I herewith transmit some further evidence in the cases of Mrs. Sarah Hies, Margaret Allen & Sarah Van Pelt -
It is presumed that the affidavit of W. J. Borne Esq. will remove the objection mentioned in your letter of the 27 th May last, that Hendrick Hies in his declaration of 1818, had set forth no service after 1776. The simple fact is that all his services after 1776 were in the Militia as the papers show, & that is the reason for not stating them in that declaration, which was for a pension for Continental Services .
There are 2 witnesses proving the services of Hendrick Hies in Capt. Carhart's Company after the year 1776, and after the marriage.
One witness proves the services of Jacob Allen in the same company, for at least one year, one being six monthly terms & a continued term of 6 months besides other service after that period - as a sergeant.
The papers which I send, though incomplete and scattering as they are (for Mr. Holmes testifies that many of them have been destroyed) prove that Capt. Carhart's Company was in service 7 months in 1778 - 9 months in 1779 including the term of six months & 8 months in the year 1780 - Proving more service than the witnesses have known to, during those years, & showing that those witnesses are entitled to full credit.
In addition to this, the Margins of Thomas Vanderkay shows a small balance due to each of them at the close of the war, which was for service after marriage, of course.
The claim of Mrs. Sarah Van Pelt is not exactly similar to the above, yet proved by testimony equally conclusive.
There are two witnesses proving eighteen months service

in the years 1776. 1777. 1778. & 1779, including a term of six months and at least 9 months service in 1780. 1781. & 1782.
To corroborate this testimony we have the pay abstracts before mentioned - and the Margin of Thomas Henderson which shows a balance due Hendrick VanPett at the close of the war, of $44.66 at the rate of 7/6 to the dollar.
This I should suppose is sufficient to give full credit to the statements of the applicant & those 2 witnesses who swear positively that he was in the service after marriage.
In addition to the above remarks I refer you to my letter of the 31 st ult o .
I am with respect Your ob t . Serv t G. M. Daitchman
J. S. Edwards Commr. of Pensions -

Application for a new Certificate State of Kentucky County of Monmouth ss: Bee At Rowles That on this Twenty Fifth day of March A.D. 1841 before me the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for the said County personally appeared, Sarah Van Pelt who on her oath declared that she is the widow of Kendrick Van Pelt, who was a private of Militia in the said County of Monmouth during the War of the Revolution; that she is the same person whose name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Kentucky under the act of Congress of July 7 th 1838; that she received a Certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which Certificate she placed in the hands of James M. Hartshorne her agent and attorney at Freehold in said County, who has retained it in his possession ever since she received it - that the said Certificate has been lost by the said James M. Hartshorne as she has been informed and verily believed, either at Trenton, or at Freehold, on or about the 8 th of September 1840, who then had it for the purpose of receiving the money for this defunct, and she hereby applied for a new Certificate to be issued in the place thereof.
Known to & subscribed before me Justice as aforesaid
Jonas Clark Judge
Her Sarah Van Pelt Mark
Witness Pat Field Van Pelt

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County ss:
Be I Remind - that -
On this Twenty fifth day of March A.D. 1841 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Nicholas Cottrell who on his oath saith that he is well acquainted with Sarah Van Pelt the widow of Hendrick Van Pelt mentioned in the foregoing affidavit and who has signed the same, and that he well knows her to be the same person described in the foregoing affidavit and further saith not -
Sworn to & subscribed before me Justice as aforesaid the day and year aforesaid by the said Nicholas Cottrell who is a credible person & whose statement is entitled to credit - Jonas Clark Justice
Jonas Clark Justice Nicholas Cottrell
State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss:
On this Second day of April A.D. 1841 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in said County personally appeared James M. Hartshorne who on his oath saith that he is the agent and attorney of Sarah Van Pelt above named for receiving her pension - that the original pension Certificate of the said Sarah Van Pelt was deposited in the hands of this deponent soon after she received the same for safe keeping and for the purpose of receiving her pension money as the same became due, that on or about the 8 th of Sept A.D. 1840 this deponent had the said Certificate and carried the same to Trenton and there used it for the purpose of receiving the money due her on the 20 th

of that month, and this Deponent has no recollection of seeing the said Certificate after that time, and verily believes that the same was lost by him upon that occasion either at Trenton or upon his return home to Freehold, that he did not miss the said Certificate until on or about the 24 th of March 1841, when upon looking over his file of Certificates he found it was not among them where he supposed he had put it in September previous, that this Deponent has searched among all his papers, most diligently to find the same: and that he has searched at the agent's office in Trenton & caused the agent to search for the same, but that the said Certificate cannot be found.
Sworn to & subscribed before me ( J. M. Hartshorne )
Justice of said County by the said James M. Hartshorne who is a credible person and whose statement is entitled to credit. J. S. C. Shockmorton
James M. Hartshorne Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss.
I Samuel Meairs Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County of Monmouth do hereby certify that Jonas Clark and Thomas C. Shockmorton before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn & subscribed were severally at the date thereof Justices of the peace of the said county duly Commissioned qualified and enrolled in my office as such, and that their signatures & the same are genuine. Witness my hand and Seal of Office this Second day of April in the year eighteen hundred & forty one
Samuel Meairs, Clerk

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Sarah Van Delt.
88 $
J. M. Harshorne Esq. Freehold N. J.

State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss:
On this fifteenth day of August A.D. 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Sarah Van Pelt a resident of the Township of Freehold in said County aged eighty one years and upwards, who is personally known to me and who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 rd of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War That she is the widow of Hendrick Van Pelt who was a private of Militia in Col: Holner's Regiment of Monmouth County New Jersey during the Revolutionary War: and that she received a pension of eighty dollars per annum under the act of July 9 th 1838: and she further declared that she is still a widow.
Sworn to & subscribed before me Judge as aforesaid on the day and year above written.
David Warner
Sarah Van Pelt
State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss:
I Samuel Mairs Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that David Warner Esq. is a judge of the said Court duly Commissioned & known that his signature above is genuine -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Nineteenth day of August eighteen hundred and forty three - Samuel Mairs Clerk