Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,900, Samuel Van Fleet, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
New Jersey
Vanfleek, Samuel Van Vleet
₺ 10.900
CONTENTS

Samuel Van Keet Application
Suspended let S Fowler 11 th Dec 1837 to be indred
Hon. S. Fowler

State of New Jersey Super County ss }
- On this twenty seventh day of November in the Year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty four, personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Super aforesaid Samuel Van Fleet, a resident of the Township of Wantage in said County and State of New Jersey aforesaid, aged Seventy five 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832, that he entered the Army of the United States in the Year 1778 in the Second New Jersey Regiment, under the following named Officers, and served as hereinafter stated - Colonel John Seward - in the Company of Capt. Samuel Meeker, who was soon promoted to major of said Regiment, and Captain John Davis was appointed in his place - Solomon Middaugh was Lieutenant - Joseph Elston, ensign, and this Declarant, 1 st Sergeant that he resided in the Township of Wantage aforesaid at the time he entered the service - that he entered as a volunteer and served as Sergeant in the said Company under Capt. Meeker and under the 2 d Captain Davis for the space of two years - that the said Capt. Davis then moved out of the State, and out of the bounds of said Company - And Capt. Josiah Cole, was elected in his place - and that he continued to serve in said Company as Sergeant under the 2 d Capt. Cole and the aforesaid Officers until the close of the war in 1783 - that he marched under the 2 d Capt. Davis from Wantage Sussex County aforesaid, to Newark Elizabeth Town point Scotch Plains, Westfield, and other places, on the eastern border of said State of New Jersey - at which places he was stationed, and served most of the term under said Capt. Davis - and in the said Regiment commanded by col. Seward as aforesaid - That he also served upon the north western frontier of the State - upon the borders of Delaware and Lack

=awack Rivers - that he marched with his company under Capt. Cole towards Lackawack at the time of the Battle of that place, but became so lame as to be unable to proceed on, to the place of the Battle, - that he was out after the Indians when they burnt Peapack, and also at another time when Col. Ebb. and Lewis and Solomon Westbrooks were killed by the Indians - he says that the frontier of the State was almost constantly invaded - by the Indians, and that it was necessary to keep an armed force in that section of the country continually to prevent their savage depredations - he says that he was born in the Township of Wantage aforesaid, on the 5th of January 1759 - that there is a record of his age in his family bible which was transcribed from his Grand Father's Bible - that at the time he entered the service he resided in Wantage as before stated where he has lived since the Revolutionary War - that he entered as a volunteer, that he never received a Commission and has no docu- mentary evidence, but that he knows the Lieu- tenant of the P. Company in which he served, to wit Solomon Middaugh - and also Elias Clark and Moses Dewitt - who were members of said Company and who can testify to his services - he says he is acquainted with the Rev. Abraham Kitcham and William Cole Esquire and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a Revolutionary Soldier - he 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 the day & year aforesaid
Jos. Gelliller Residing Judge
Samuel Vanleet

We Abraham Ketoham a Clergyman residing in the neighbourhood of the said Samuel Vanclief, and William Cole Esquire residing in the same do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Vanclief who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 73 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court — Jos. Gellibr Judge etc.      H. H. Hildreth William Cole
On the same day and year first aforesaid personally appeared in open Court before the same Court Moses Dewitt aged 73 years, of Mantua in the County of Super aforesaid who being first duly sworn on his oath doth depose and say that he is and has been acquainted with the said Samuel Vanclief who has sworn to the above Declaration for sixty years past; that he knows the said Samuel Vanclief was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Capt. Asias Cole as by him stated in his declaration, and that he served in the Company under the Capt. Cole in the service of the United States as by him stated in his Declaration, and further this deponent saith not. Sworn and subscribed in open Court the day first above written. Jos. Gellibr Judge etc.      Moses Dewitt
The Court hereby certifies that Moses Dewitt who has signed the above affidavit is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit — done as above — Jos. Gellibr Judge etc.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories pre- scribed by the War Department, that the above named Applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. — And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Abraham Ketcham who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the neighbourhood of said Samuel Vanleet and that William Cole Esquire who has also signed the same is a resident in the same neighbourhood and is a credible person and that their statements is entitled to credit — Done the day aforesaid Jos. Merrill Presiding Judge Sc
I Joseph G Edsall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Super- ior State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Samuel Vanleet for a pension —
four A D 1834.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office at Newton this twenty seventh day of November A D Eighteen Hundred and thirty
J G Edsall Clerk

State of New York Town of Kings County ss Solomon Meddaugh of the Town of Danby in the County of Tompkins in the State of New York being duly sworn deposes and says, that he was Seventy nine years old on the nineteenth day of August 1834. That this deponent was born in the Town of Wantage in the County of Sussex in the State of New Jersey and resided there until he was of the age of Fifty years, That while he resided in Wantage as aforesaid he became acquaint- ed with Samuel Van Vleet, who then resided at Wantage and knew him there about fifty years, That this deponent was in the Army of the Revolution from the commence- ment of hostilities to the declaration of peace in the year 1783, and was while in the Service a Lieutenant in Captain Joseph Harkai's Company, also in Captain Samuel Meeker's Company and in Captain John Davis Company, in the Second New Jersey Regiment, That while he was in the Service he frequently saw said Samuel Van Vleet in the Service doing duty as a Sergeant, in Captain John Davis Company, in which this deponent was a Lieutenant, and he afterwards held the same post under Captain Josias Cole, in which Company this deponent was also a Lieutenant and served as such until the close of the war. That said Service of the

Said Second War Vet Commenced in the year 1778 and Continued until the close of the war in the year 1783, and was performed in the Second New Jersey Regiment under Colonel John Seward - Solomon Middaugh Subscribed and sworn before me October 4. 1834
Frederick G. Stanley a Commissioner of the State
I do certify that I am well acquainted with Solomon Middaugh above named, who made the above affidavit, that he is a man of good Moral Character, and full faith and Credit ought to be, and should be given to his statements
Frederick G. Stanley, a Commissioner of the State
State of New York Tompkins County } Clerks office }
I certify that Frederick G. Stanley Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a commissioner of oaths in and for the said County duly qualified and that his signatures above written are genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal at Ithaca October 4. 1834.
Samuel Love Clerk of Tompkins County

State of New York
Tioga County ss
Elias Clark of the Town of Veteran in the County of Tioga and State of New York being duly sworn Deposes and says that he was Eighty years old on the Thirtieth day of January 1834 That this deponent was born in the town of Morris town County of Morris in the State of New Jersey, and that at the age of about fifteen years he moved in the town of Wantage County of Sussex and State of New Jersey That while he resided in the town of Wantage aforesaid he became acquainted with Samuel Van Vleet who then resided at Wantage and knew him then until six or seven years after the Revolutionary war that this deponent at the commencement of Hostilities enlisted for the term of five months and went to Long Island And after his term of service expired he returned to the town of Wantage aforesaid and that shortly afterwards went in the service under Captain Samuel Meeker with the said Samuel Van Vleet and that during the term of service the said Samuel Van Vleet served as Sergeant which said company was attached to the Second New Jersey Regiment and that after the promotion of Captain Samuel Meeker to the office of Major of the aforesaid Regiment Captain John Davis was elected in his place and that this deponent served under the said Captain John Davis for the space of two years or thereabouts when the said Captain John Davis removed from the head of the said company and that during the aforesaid term of two years the said Samuel Van Vleet served as Sergeant in said company and that after the said Captain John Davis removed as aforesaid Captain Josias Cole was elected in his place and that this deponent and the said Samuel Van Vleet served in the Company of the said Captain Josias Cole during the term of the war and that the said Samuel Van Vleet served as Sergeant

under the said Capt Josias Cole during the whole term which said service has performed up the Second New Jersey Regiment under Colonel John Leacock
Subscribed and sworn before me Oct 6 th 1834
Elias his Clark mark
John W Wisner J.P.
I do certify that I am well acquainted with Elias Clark above named who made the above affidavit - that he is a man of good Moral Character and full faith and credit ought to be given to his statements John W Wisner J.P.
State of New York
Tioga County Clerks Office ss I certify that John W Wisner Esq before whom the foregoing Affidavit purports to have been sworn cross the date of of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn and that his signatures above written are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 8 th day of October A.D 1834
Edward Sufferer Deputy in the absence of Greenall Fithell Clerk

New Jersey Samuel van Keett sentenced let Hon. S. Fowler 11 Dec 1874 10,900

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
10,900
P. O. Sam Vanfleet
Service: _____
Enlisted: 27 _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____, Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18