Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33818, Absalom Trowbridge, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Trowbridge, Absalom or Absalom
S. 33818
CONTENTS
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(2987) New Jersey Roll
Absalom Trowbridge Colo Livingston (private) New York line '78 - 9 months In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of Sept r 1818 and sent to Levis Condict Esq r Morristown New Jersey
Arrears to 4th of Sept r - 1818  37.60 Semi-ann. all ee ending 4 th Mar 1819  48.00 Arrears 4 Mo 21/30 $ 85.60
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 19th March, 1818. }
Randolph & Morris Esq r
Inspection sent September 1818 Levis Condict Esq r Morristown New Jersey

33818 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33818
Abraham Freeling
Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 325
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Stephen Trowbridge Priv.
14 April 1818
Conflict &c.
Suspended for 1 Y.
Reinstated
Admitted

State of New Jersey County of Morris ss.
I personally came before me Lewis Condick one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Morris, Absalom Trowbridge, who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that he served as a private soldier in the service of the United States against the common enemy in the Revolutionary war; That he enlisted some time in the month of May of the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight, at Little Nine Partners in the State of New York, in Livingston Company of the Second Regiment of the New York line commanded by Col. Courtlandt; Frederick Weissenfels being the Lieut. Col., that he continued in the said Regiment on the Continental establishment the full term of nine months; that he was discharged by a regular discharge at Warwasing in the State of New York; That he is the same Absalom Trowbridge, who received the annexed discharge signed by Fred: Weissenfels Lt. Col.
This Deponent further saith that he resides in the Township of Randolph in the County of Morris and State of New Jersey; That he is about sixty seven years of age; that he has never heretofore received any pension from the United States, and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support, and prays to have his name placed on the pension List under the Act of Congress passed the 18 March 1818. Entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war"
Sworn & subscribed before me at } Absalom Trowbridge Morristown the 14 th day of April A D 1818
This Deponent further declares on oath, that he was annually present & participated in storming the fort on Valentines Isle, near Kingsbridge in New York Island, & also in several skirmishes on the White Plains.
Sworn & subscribed before me 14 th April 1818.
Absalom Trowbridge
Lewis Condick.

I, Lewis Condick, a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Morris, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that Absalom Trowbridge did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the foregoing deposition, against the common enemy: — and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had and taken before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress of the 18 th March, A.D. 1818. Morris Town, N. Jersey Apr. 14 th 1818.
Lewis Condick
State of New Jersey County of Morris ss } I Robert H. McCarty Clerk of the said County of Morris do Certify that Lewis Condick Esquire before whom the foregoing Affidavit is made, is and was at the time thereof duly enrolled One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County of Morris the second day of May A.D. 1818.
Robert H. McCarty

T HE Bearer Abraham  Providence one of the Nine Months men in the Second New-York Regiment, having finished the Time of Service for which he engaged, is hereby discharged and permitted to return Home to Chambers Town in the County of Chambers New Given under my Hand at Wawarsing this tenth Day of February 1779.
Fred: Weisencamp J. H. [unclear]

Absalom D. Tridgell
2587 Randolph
Con
26 Sept 1818
Mar 19
Ex

District of New-Jersey, } ss. Morris Countp, }
On this eighth day of July, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July, in the year aforesaid. [The said court being a court of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings, and its Judgments being removeable by writ of error only]
Absalom Snowbridge — — — aged Sixty-eight — — — years, resident in the township of Randolph — — — in said county, who being sworn — — — according to law doth on his oath — — — declare, that he served in the war of the revolution in the second New York Regiment Commanded by Col. Cortland in a Company generally Commanded by Lieutenant Livingston captain's name not recollected by reason of his not being often with the Company —
And I do solemnly swear — — — that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18 th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18 th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. That my original declaration was made for a pension on the 12 th day of April 1818, and that my pension certificate is numbered 2987 - that my occupation is that of a common labourer, that I have a wife upwards of Fifty years of age at times is troubled with Rheumatism
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 8 th day of July 1820 Col. A. Ford
Absalom Snowbridge

SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing deposition of
Salom Snowbridge Brg.
 1 Black bow - $15.00  1 Brindle bow - 12.50  1 Cow Bell - 30  3 Chairs - 25  1 Chest with drawers - 2.50  1 pair of drawers - 1.00  1 Dinner pot - 75  1 pail - 20  1 Looking glass - 1.00  8 earthen plates - 25  3 earthen platters - 15  1 Pewter platter - 12  3 cups & saucers - 06  1 coffee pot - 75  1 iron kettle - 06  1 lot of tin - 30  1 plate - 12  1 tea kettle - 50  1 Basket - 12  1 Lantern - 12  1 narrow ax - 25 
He is indebted to Sunday Parsons $10.00
Sworn and Subscribed before me on the 8 th day of July 1820 Gab. H. Ford
$ 36.36
Salom Snowbridge

State of New Jersey, } ss. County of Morris. }
I, Robert H. McCarter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do hereby further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is thirty six dollars and thirty six cents — $36.36
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty.
Robert H. McCarter Clerk of the Court for the County of Morris