Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6538, John Willet, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
or Willet, John Willit
No. 6538
Euphania
CONTENTS

Reported Jan 4/49
2798 New Jersey Euphania Willet widow of John Willet NJ who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4, day of Jan 1849 and sent to
P. Dickerson Trenton N.J.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 325 Vol. 4

1952 Euphemia Willet
In Marginal record of Calificatys - John Willett - paid £ 22.4.7
Admitted Private 2 years
J. M. Hartshorn Esq., Freehold N. J.

State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss:
On this twenty second day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County Euphamia Willet a resident of the Township of Middletown in the County aforesaid aged Seventy four years and upwards, who is unable from bodily infirmity to appear in court, and who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of John Willet who was a private in the War of the Revolution. That her husband the said John Willet entered the service of his country in the militia of the County of Monmouth in Col. John Holmes' regiment, in the beginning of the said War and served therein at least every other month during the years 1776, 1777, & 1778 - that she cannot now recollect the name of Capt n under whom he served during the years above named, but she knows that it was the Captain of the district in which he resided, and Samuel Dennis was an officer in said Company - That in the year 1779 her said husband served in said Company under the said Samuel Dennis acting as Captain at least every other month - That in the year 1780 her said husband John Willet served in the same Company under Capt n Samuel Dennis a continued term of five months to wit: the months of January, February, March, April & May, and also a term of 3 months and better in the same year to wit: the

months of July, August, September & part of October in the same year - that she has heard her husband say that he performed all the above service and a great deal more which she cannot now recollect for she believes that he was out in the service constantly during the whole war - that she believes that Lambert Johnston was ensign or lieutenant in said company - that the head quarters of said company were at Capt Dennis house as she believes near Middletown, and that their duties were to guard the shores of Middletown aforesaid from the depredations of the British and Tories, who were continually landing on said shores and robbing & plundering the inhabitants - That her said husband John Willet enlisted in a company of state troops under Captain Motes Shepherd and served therein for one year as a private commencing in January 1781. and ending in January 1782 - that the head quarters of the said company were at or near Middletown aforesaid, and their duties were the same as above mentioned - Lambert Johnston was Lieut. in said com- pany - that David Forman was general as she believes and Asahel Holmes Col. that her said husband resided in the Township of Middletown aforesaid when he entered the service, where he continued to reside until his death - that he was called out in the service by the law of the state in his monthly tours, and was a volunteer in his other service - He was engaged in the Battles of Germantown, & Red Bank, _____ and a number of other skirmishes with the enemy in the County: That his marches were principally confined to his native county

in guarding the shores aforesaid except his march to Germantown. - She further declares that she was married to the said John Willet on the nineteenth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six : that her said husband the aforesaid John Willet died on the fourteenth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and twenty three : that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz. at the time above stated -
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before me } Euphamia Willet Judge as aforesaid John Wood } mark
State of Kentucky Monmouth County ss:
On this 22 nd day of August A.D. 1838 personally appeared before me, Judge aforesaid, John Chasey who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is a surviving soldier of the revolution aged eighty three years and upwards - that he was well acquainted with John Willet in the Revolutionary War, the husband of Euphamia Willet now applying for a pension - That the said John Willet resided in Capt. Samuel Dennis district in Middletown aforesaid, and served under the said Capt. Samuel Dennis as a militia man in the war of the Revolution - That this deponent belonged to & served in the same company with

the said John Willet during the year 1780, from the first Month of March until the fall or winter of said that year, that the said Company was in service during the whole of that year after March aforesaid when this deponent joined the said Company, having a short time previous left the Army - that he knows that the said John Willet served in said Company during the time aforesaid - that the said John Willet lived in said district during said War, and served therein previous to this deponent's joining said Company. That he knows that the said John Willet enlisted in a Company of State troops under Captain Moses Shepherd and served a term of one year under said Captain as a private beginning in January 1781. and ending in January 1782 for this deponent enlisted at the same time under the said Captain and served the said term of one year together with the said John Willet - that Lambert Johnston was Lieut. of said Company - that the head quarters of Capt. Dennis' Company were at his own his own house near the village of Middletown near the shore, that the head quarters of Capt. Shepherd's Company were at the house of Cornelius Vandubett near Middletown aforesaid - That their duties in said Companies were to guard the shores aforesaid from the depredations of the British and Tories - That this deponent was in the battle at Conesquene with the said John Willet under Captain Dennis - that the said John Willet died some years ago, and that the said Euphemia Willet has remained his widow ever since that period - I now to subscribe before me Judge as aforesaid
said by the said John Chasey who is a credible person and whose statement is entitled to credit
John Hull
John Chasey

Monmouth County SS
William Anderson being duly sworn deposes and saith that he is a surviving soldier of the Revolution aged eighty years and upwards - that he was well acquainted with John Willet, the husband of Euphamia Willet within mentioned: that he very frequently saw the said John Willet in the service militia of said County and served with him often therein, but this deponent cannot now tell the times and places nor the officers under whom he served, yet from his knowledge of his services, and from his character as a good Whig and soldier, he has no doubt but that the said John Willet served at least two years during the War of the Revolution -
Sworn to & subscribed before me Judge as aforesaid by the said William Anderson who is a credible person and whose state- ment is entitled to credit - August 22 d A.D. 1835. John Mull
his William Anderson mark

State of New Jersey } Monmouth County ss: James Otterson being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he is the pastor of the first Dutch Reformed Church of Freehold that he has in possession the church register of said Church in which is recorded all the marriages performed by the respective ministers of the said Church - that he finds therein recorded in the hand writing of the Rev d . Benjamin Dubois the marriage of John Willet and Euphamia Covenhoven on the nineteenth day of January seventeen hundred and eighty six : that the following extract from the said register is a true copy from the record of the said marriage which is expressed on the said record in fair legible figures as follows to wit: "John Willet and Euphame Covenhoven was married January y d 19 th 1786."
Sworn to & subscribed before me { Judge of the Court of Common { Pleas of said County, by the said { James Otterson who is a credible { person and whose statement is entitled { to credit - Aug t . 22 d 1838 {
John Hull }
Ja Otterson

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County ss: I Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Hall before whom the foregoing proceeding were taken from subscribed is now and was at the date thereof a Judge of the said Court duly Commissioned and sworn in office as such and that his four signatures to the foregoing are genuine -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this 22 d day of September Eigh- teen hundred and thirty eight.
D. H. Ellis

New Jersey 977
Euphamia Willet widow of John Willet
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 14 th March 1823 at Monmouth Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Dennis of the Reg't. commanded by Col. Holmes in the N. J. militia time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of Nov. 1838 and sent to J. C. C. Hartshorn, Freehold, N. J.
Arrears to the 14th of Sept. '38 200 00 Semi-annual allowance ending Dec. '39. 40 00
$ 240 00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book A. Vol. 2 Page 140

Reputed
New Jersey. 2379 Euphania Miller
widow of John Miller who was a Private in the New Jersey Militia for two years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Eight, - Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the twenty third day of October 1843 and sent to J. M. Hawthorne Freehold, New Jersey.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 128

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. _____
6538
Euphania Miller
Wid.
John Willet
Pvt. Resi' War
Act: _____
Feby. 24/68
Index:—Vol. _____
16
, Page _____
339
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Freehold Sept. 22. 1838
Sir
Herewith are enclosed the papers of the following claimants for pensions under the act of July 7. 1838
x Jane Van Serbett widow of Hendrick Vanderbitt who served as Sergeant & private
The service relied upon proved is 6 mo. in 1779 - proved by the evidence of John Chasey & Col: Holmes abstract No. 4 & 5 herewith sent - 8 1/2 months in 1780. proved by Chasey & Henderson, the abstracts No. 6 & 7 as it will appear that Dennis Company was in service at least those periods -
1 year under Capt. Shepherd as Sergeant - proof John Chasey Survivor - I also refer you to the declaration of Thomas Gearn who states him to have been Sergeant. I refer you also to Henderson's Margin herewith sent by which it appears there was $22.15.5 due him at the close of the war -
Euphemia Willet widow of John Willet -
He lived in the same neighborhood with Vanderbitt and served in the same Companies the proof is the same as that above referred to in Mrs Vanderbitt's case - the marriage in both cases is proved by the record.
Mary Carhart widow of Thomas Carhart.
Thomas Henderson's Margin proves better than 14 months service - $35.6.8. being equal to $94 - which was all performed after the 14 May 1780, as Capt. Thomas Walling was paid up to that date. See abstract No. 6. & receipt enclosed - He belonged to Capt. Thos. Walling's Company see a list thereof attached to the paper of Saml. Walling John Carhart Joseph Walling - for his services in that Company previous to 14. May 1780, see affidavit attached to her papers & Col Holmes abstracts No. 4, 46,

She has no record of her marriage either public or private. She proves it by witnesses who were present Daniel Walling, Gershon Walling and by the record of the births of her children made in the hand writing of her husband. see afft. of Saml. Carhart -
The abstracts of Col: Holmes herewith sent have been in my possession for some time past and they are identified & proved by the affidavits of John W. Holmes attached to the papers of Margaret blunt Sarah Pin - and also to the papers of Daniel Walling John Carhart Jos: Walling
I wish you to file these abstracts with the papers of Jane Vanderhett so that I may refer to them here after
Yours Most Respectfully &c J. M. Hartshorne
J. L. Edwards Esq Court of Pensions

State of New Jersey Monmouth County } ss:
On this eighteenth day of May eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before me the subscriber a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Euphemia Willet, aged seventy nine years and upwards co resident of the Township of Middletown in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, who is personally known to me, and being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 d March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War: That she is the widow of John Willet who was a private of Militia and State troops of Col: Asker Holmes Regiment of Monmouth County New Jersey. And that she received a pension of eighty dollars per annum under the Act of July 9 th 1838 - She further declared that she is still a widow -
Sworn to & subscribed on the } Euphemia her Willet day and year aforesaid before } mark
William Morford
(Witness James Morford)
State of New Jersey Monmouth County to wit:
I Samuel Mairs clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County do hereby certify that William Morford Esq before whom the above affidavit was executed

is now and was at the date thereof a Judge of the said Court, duly Commissioned qualified and sworn, and that his signature thereto is genuine
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this tenth day of July Eighteen hun- dred and forty three
Samuel Mairs C.M.

Euphemia Willis
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2 d February 1848, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
State of New Jersey Monmouth Co. } }
On this fourth day of September 1848, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Euphania Willet, a Resident of Middletown in the County of Monmouth, aged eightyfour years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2 d February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of John Willet, who was a private during the War of the Revolution, and that she drew a pension of Eighty Dollars per annum, under the act of 1 7 th June 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed } on the day and year } above written, before } Thomas Shepherd Justice of the Peace }
Euphania her Willet mark
Mary H. Willet
Certify, that the above named affiant is personally known to me, and that she is the identical individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit Thomas Shepherd Justice of the Peace