Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,956, Aaron Young, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
Young, Aaron
NUMBER _____
L 33,956
CONTENTS

33 956 Ray INVALID.
File No. 88956
Aaron Young Si Re wa
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 497
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Aaron Young's office —
9/133
100 Oct. 10/19

SCHEDULE.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY, } ss. Hunterdon county,
ON this fourth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared, in open court of common pleas, being a court of record Sixty three years the 19th October years, resident in the township of Amwell 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: that this deponent obtained a pension under the law of the United States passed 18th March 1818 that he enlisted in the continental troops in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six in the company commanded by Capt. Thomas Dickerson in the third Jersey Regiment commanded by Col Elias Dayton served during the war in said company was in the battles of Brandywine, White Marsh, Germantown Monmouth and at the taking of Cornwallis in Virginia, was discharged at Mendham in the county of Morris in the state of New Jersey - honorably discharged.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, dis- posed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my- self 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.
that this deponent is possessed of one chest, one axe, one rake and one threshing flail Value $ 100.00  S Aaron   Young marks
Sworn to, and declared, on the fourth day of August 1820 before me one of the judges of said court Thomas Capner  S Aaron X Young marks
I JOHN T. BLACKWELL, Clerk of Hunterdon Pleas, 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 proper- ty exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is three dollars and 00 cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fourth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty
J Blackwell Clerk of the Court for the county of Hunterdon.

9133
L New Jersey Aaron Young
of Princeton in the state of who was a Private the regiment commanded by Colonel Doughty of the N Jersey line, for the term of 7 1/2 years
inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 of April 1818 and left to Sarah Thompson
Arrears to 4th of March 1818  72 50 semi-ann. all'ce ending Feb 1818 8 30 35  8 120 75
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Mr. Thompson sent to the...

Alaron Young 2 June 1818 private Dayton N.J. New Jersey 76 War Wanted the judge's certificate of the re- duced circumstances of the claimant.
A. M. M.

State of New Jersey Hunterdon County
Be it known that on the Second Day of June Anno Domini 1918 before me Jonathan Stevenson one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personal- ly appeared Aaron Young of the Township of Amwell in said County of Hunterdon aged about sixty one years who being duly sworn according to law did declare that sometime in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six he enlisted in the American ar- my for three years or during the war in Captain The- rickson's company in the third Regiment under the Com- mand of Colonel Dayton in the Jersey line, says he was in the battle of Brandywine, Trenton and Monmouth, says he continued in the army till the end of the war, when he was regularly discharged by his officers at West Point but has lost his discharge, says he has resided in Amwell since the greater part of his time since the Revolution- ary war, and says he has been helped by the said Gov- ernment several years, and that he is now in such reduced and distressed circumstances that he needs the assistan- ce of his country for his support, and further saith not. Sworn and subscribed the day and year above before me,
Aaron his Young mark
Jonathan Stevenson
I Jonathan Stevenson one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hunterdon do certify that I have long been acquainted with the above named Aaron Young and it ap- pears to my satisfaction that the facts set forth in his decl- aration are true, and I now transmit the proceedings had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War.
Amwell, June 2 nd 1918
Jonathan Stevenson

New Jersey, Hunterdon Co:
I John T. Blackwell, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Hunterdon County Do certify that Nathaniel Stevenson, Esq. before whom the within Affidavit was taken then was and now is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that full credit is due to all his official acts as such.
Witness my hand and Seal of said Court the 23 rd day of June A.D. 1818.
J Blackwell, Clerk