Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,912, John C Willing, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Willing, John C.
S 33912
CONTENTS

651
New Jersey Roll
John C. Willing, Capt Callender of Private Massachusetts Artillery In the arms of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Lewis Conner, Dict. Morristown, N. J.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r 1818 5 months 4/30 $41. 6
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
✓ Fyris & G. mor
✓ Morris co

33912 Rev INVALID.
File No. 88,912
John C. Willing Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 456
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John C. Willings Application for Pension
1 Apr
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State of New Jersey Morris County, ss:
Personally came before me Lewis Condict one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Morris, John Christopher Willing, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he served as a private soldier in the American Revolutionary war; that as near as he recollects he Enlisted some time in the month of November of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven at the City of Boston in the State of Massachusetts in the Artillery Company of Captain John Callender of the third Regiment (of the Massachusetts line) commanded by Colonel John Crane; that he continued in the same, under the Continental establishment, in the service of the United States until the ninth day of June seventeen hundred and eighty three, when he was honorably discharged at West point in the State of New York from the American army; & This Deponent further saith, that from his reduced circumstances in life, he needs the assistance of his County for support; that he is seventy three years of age, & unable to obtain his own subsistence & That he resides in Pompton in the County of Morris & State of New Jersey and that he has never received any pension from the United States heretofore.
This Deponent further saith that he is the same John Christopher Willing mentioned in the discharge herewith annexed marked A. John C Willing
Sworn before me the first day of April A D 1818. Lewis Condict.

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 the said John Christopher Willing did save in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the foregoing Deposition: — 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.Dom: 1818. — Morris Town N. Jersey Apr. 7 th 1818 —
Lewis Condick
State of New Jersey County of Morris ss. I Robert H. McCarter 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 doing 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 Eighteen Hundred and eighteen.
Robert H. McCarter

BY HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
A.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof John Callender in the 1st Artillery Regiment, having faithfull- ly served the United States Three years One month and Six days and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the Smith
Day of June 1783 -
By HIS EXCELLENCY'S
Command,
J. Turnbull Esq
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
John Adjutant.
THE above John Callender has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT Years faithful Service.
John Callender
William Trig Francis

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hilling, John Christopher GRADE Private LINE Crane's Continental Artillery (Massachusetts)
WARRANT NUMBER 5343 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Mar. 10, 1796 or (1790)
to — not shown —
*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.