Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,914, John Williams, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Williams, John
S 33914
CONTENTS
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May 2. Baldwin

State of New Jersey } Jesse Baldwin swears Middlesex County - } of Newark. Personally
appeared before me Robert Arnold one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex, and being duly sworn saith that he was acquainted with John Williams. During the revolutionary war, and recollects of the said John Williams being in the Continental Service in Capt. Ceynes Keck's Company attached to the Jersey Battalion - this Respondent personally being Quarters Master in the Service - sworn before me this
30 th day June 1819
Robert Arnold
Jesse Baldwin

State of New Jersey } I William P Deare clerk Middlesex County } of the court of common pleas of the county of Middlesex in the State aforesaid certify that Robert Arnold Esq. within named was on the seventh day of May 1818 yet is one of the judges of said Court duly commissioned and sworn
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. — Wm P Deare Clerk
I believe the within Applicant is poor and in needy circumstance
Robt. Arnold

Middlesex County } State of New Jersey } John Williams of the City of Perth Amboy
Personally appeared before me Robert Arnold, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex, and being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that he served private better than six years in the Army of the Revolution as a soldier that he listed in the year 1777. under Capt. John Cummings and was discharged in the year 1783. by Capt. Matthias Dechant. which discharge has since been lost by this Deponent, and that he was at the taking of Cornwallis, Brandywine, Germantown and other battles - and from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support.
Taken this 8 th day of May 1815 - John Williams
before me
Robt. Arnold

Genl W. Cummings
John Williams
Private
77 to 83
Cummings W. Joney
Aug. 6 th

State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss Gent. John N. Cummings
Personally appeared before me Robert Arnold, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex, and being duly sworn, deposes and saith, that John Williams enlisted into the Continental Service by enlisting in a Company commanded by this Respondent. On or about the Month of February 1777 and served during the War and was discharged at the cantonment of the American Army at its Disolution, in May or June 1783. His last service was in the Company commanded by Capt. Cyrus Peckham in the Jersey Battalion. Then commanded by this Respondent.
Sworn before me this 31 st Day of June 1819 -
J. N. Cummings
Robt. Arnold

33 914 Pay INVALID.
File No. 33,914
John Williams Dis Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.] ✓

14 633 R New Jersey
John Williams 20
of Perth Amboy in the state of New Jersey who was a Private in the regiment commanded Colonel Cummings of the New Jersey line, for the term of Six Years
Inscribed on the roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 8 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of Sep 18 and to Robert Arnold Perth Amboy N. Jersey
  Arrears to 4th of  Sep. 1819  127. 25    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Mar. 1820  48. 00    15 Mo. 24 4      31 30   $175. 25  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Combined

Notification sent the 7 th July 1922 to Wm P. Dean, Esq.
A. Brunswick - No. 9

John Williams 2 nd
(14.633)
March 1820

SCHEDULE.
State of New-Jersey, } Middlesex County, ss. }
On this twentieth day of June — 1820, personally appeared, in open court, in the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex in said state, being a Court of Record, proceeding according to the course of the common law with jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, John Williams — aged Seventy eight years, resident in — in said county, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: Sgt.
in the Second Jersey Regiment under the Command of Capt John St Curning of the Second Company. That he made his Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of March 18. 1818. on the eighth day of May 1818. and that his Pension Certificate is No 14433.
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th 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 thereby 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 18th 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.
Schedule
One loom, One axe, one shovel, One table, four chairs, One chest, one pot, one kettle, one pie pan and frying pan. That I have no occupation: That my wife is Sixty eight years of age, and that from age and infirmity, I am not able to earn my subsistence.
Sworn to, and declared and subscribed on the day aforesaid. Robert M c Henry — Presiding Judge.
his John X Williams Mark
I, William P. Deane — clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Middlesex , do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Thirty five — dollars and — cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.
W m P. Deane Atty