Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2895, Joseph Van Note, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Van Note, Joseph
S. 2895
Carded
CONTENTS

Ohio No 7240
Joseph Van Note
of Mansfield in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Mc Knight of the Regt commanded by Col Scudder in the N. J. Militia for 2 years from 1776.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of March 1833 and sent to Stephen Whitcher for Dayton Ohio
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 33. — 40.00 $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by F. J. Evans Clerk. Book E Vol. 8 Page 27

The State of Ohio Montgomery County } Ps:
On this 4 th day of September A.D. 1832. personally appeared in open Court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Montgomery in the State of Ohio now sitting Joseph Van Note a resident of Miami Township in said county of Montgomery and State of Ohio aged about eighty 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 act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. - He volunteered in a company commanded by Captain John Forman, Lieutenant Thomas Little, in the Grenadier Company attached to a regiment under the command of Samuel Breese - the brigade or division was under General David Forman, he believes in the spring or summer of 1776. - That he marched under command as above stated from

Monmouth Court house in the county of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey to Amboy in the same State where we lay some days when the British fleet came in to Sandy Hook - we were ordered back to guard the sea shore and was out on this tour of duty one month - The next month I went out as a substitute in the place of Thomas Clayton under Capt. Richard McKnight or McKnight in the same regiment - The third month I went on my own account under the same Capt. McKnight - The fourth month I went under the same Capt. as a substitute for Cornelius Van Brunt - The fifth month on my own account under Capt. Thomas Chadwick - The sixth month as a substitute for John Little under Capt. Chadwick - The seventh month on my own account under Capt. Nicholas Van Brunt. In 1777, I was under Capt. Autry Mykoff one month on my own account. I then volunteered and served four months on my own account under Captain Joseph Bishop. During all this time we were stationed in and about Monmouth County.
In May or June of 1777, the the militia of Monmouth (and perhaps other counties in the state) was called out in which I marched through Middlesex County to join the Army.

on Fourland mountain in Somerset County - thence to Steele's Gap, - lay there some days and thence we marched to Woodbridge - thence to New Brunswick where I was discharged, - during these marches and in my service we were commanded by Gen. David Forman, and Col. Nathaniel Scudder - Capt. not recollected. About this time the British Army was leaving New Jersey & returning to New York. During all this time I was a private.
In the year 1778. I went out as a volunteer to guard the sea shore in Monmouth Co and continued during the war, in which time we had no regular commanding officer, - was about two years of this service a sergeant - was sometimes under Capt. John Dennis who was shot by the Tories in South river Shrewsbury  Salisbury N.J. - Sometimes under Captain Vandervier. During During the battle of Monmouth I was under Captain Joseph Stillwell & was during the battle in a flanking party which attacked the baggage wagons of the British from whom we were driven by the British light horse into a bag. - Was in a skirmish at Juniper point in Monmouth Co. with a party of Tories, (blacks and whites,) some of our party was killed in this affair among whom was Lieut. Jerry Chad- -wick. At Black Point was in an action or skirmish with the enemy (blacks, whites, Tories & British) in which

Col Nathaniel Scudder was killed. In 1781 as is believed by this applicant he was marched with the militia against about 1500. British who had landed in the township of Middleton Monmouth County. Col. Asker Holmes was our Commandant. His residence was in Monmouth County in the state of New Jersey. — That he has no documentary evidence of his service enlistment or discharge
We hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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 to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
Subscribed & sworn to in open Court-Sept. 4 th 1832. Joseph Van is Note mark
C. K. Greene Clerk
Mr Adrian Aton a clergyman residing in the County of Warren Montgomery and John H Schenck residing in the same County of Montgomery and in the same neighborhood with the applicant hereby certify that we are well.

acquainted with Joseph Van Note who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be at least eighty years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed to in open Court
Adrian Stur John B. Schenck W. P. Greene Cks

The State of Ohio montgomery county Court of Common Pleas } fs.
Personally appeared in Open Court John Lake aged about seventy two years who being sworn the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth to speak in the case of Joseph Van Note's application for a pension on his said oath deposeth and saith that he has been acquainted with the said Joseph Van Note from his early youth hitherto - that he knows that the said Joseph Van Note volunteered in the service of the United States in the State of New Jersey under the command of Captain John Forman in Col. Samuel Breeze Regiment sometime in the year 1775. - that said Van Note was afterwards in the Company commanded by Captain John Schenck in in the regiment commanded by Col. Holmes and General David Forman - That to his certain knowledge

the said Van Note served during the whole war - That he was often with this deponent detailed on guard to keep prisoners that were tried for robberies &c by civil authority, and guarded uniformly by the military authority. That said Van Note was engaged in divers skirmishes one of which was at a place called " black point " in New Jersey where Col Nathaniel Scudder commanded. - He was also with the militia that marched against a party of British and Tories in 1781. (as he believes, but is as to time not certain) which landed in Monmouth Co. called the " fifteen hundred "
Subscribed & sworn to in open Court -
John Lake mark
C. P. Greene Clerk
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 above named Joseph Van Note the applicant aforesaid was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the court further certify

that it appears to them that Adrian Atou who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the county of Warren in the neighborhood of the said applicant, and that John V. Schenck who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Montgomery in the neighborhood of the said applicant and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
I Charles R. Greene Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Montgomery in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Van Note for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 12 th day of September A. D. 1839!
C. R. Greene C. L.
to my certain knowledge

9571
Joseph Van Note Ohio
Adm 2 years
From 1776
2 years—
Stephen Whicker jr Dayton Ohio

BRIEF in the case of  Joseph Van Note  of Montgomery Co. in the State of Ohio  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? about 80  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Vol In 17 th B. Col. Oliver " 1 " Private Gen. Forman   Sub . . . . . " 1 " Col: Scudder   Vol . . . . . " 1 " Capt: McKnight   Sub . . . . . " 1 "   Vol . . . . . " 1 "   Sub . . . . . " 1 "   Vol . . . . . " 1 " Capt Mykoff   Vol 1777 . . . . . " 1 " Capt Bishop   4 Col: Holmes  
15. In what battles was he engaged? about 2 years Monmouth
 6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? not stated  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living witness & tradition.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? not properly attested 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
John W. Forrest Examining Clerk.

Rev Mar ✓
2895
INVALID.
File No. 2895
Joseph Wanrite Dis. S. J. No.
Act: June 7, '32
Index: —Vol. 8 , Page 386
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Joseph Van Rote which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned 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? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? witness XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? no . Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? Yes, in open Court XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 1. 2. 7
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. 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 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 shewn 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.
QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
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 claimants 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.
QUERE XVI.  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 paper 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.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, 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.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Van Orden, Albert GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7928 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 20, 1790 to Samuel Murray, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.