Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3567, Nathaniel Willson, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Willson, Nathaniel Wilson
S. 3567
CONTENTS
carded
b. Dec 23 1750. m. 1832 in Morris Co. N.J.

5598
New Jersey
Nathaniel Wilson
of Morris Co in the State of N. J — who was a Pri — in the Com commanded by Captain Crane of the Reg commanded by Col Cook in the N. Jer — line for Militia
120 per
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of March 1833 and sent per S Leondis Morristown N. J
Arrears to the 4th of March 33: $ 80.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept: 33 " 20.00 $100.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded By E. D. Bullock Clerk, Book 18 Vol. 4 — Page 183

Kathl Wilson No 4666.
New Jersey
Susp. Jan. 1833
Obj. S. 16
Non L. bondict-
28 Jan'y 1833
Obj. S. 16.
P 198.
Admitted P 223.
6 months
Sergeant
$30. -
E

BRIEF in the case of Nathl Wilson of Morris  county of Morris in the State of New Jersey  (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? 82.  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.     In 1777 2 D. Sergt Gen.   1778 2 Capt. Crane. Habsy &   1779 1 Baldwin, Col.   1780 — Cook, Froelighman   Healy. but Windy  
"Other times he served but from loss of memory cannot state them. He believes he has faithfully served his country for a period of 18 full months."
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Morris County New Jersey 
 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional Living 
 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective Service not stated as required 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Jas M'Henry Examining Clerk.

Nathl. Wilson.
No 4.666
Claims for 18 months as ordinary dividend Good Attorney

Caleb Tuttle's Deposition for Nathl. Wilson.
John N. Tuttle Caleb Tuttle Nathl. Wilson
John N. Tuttle

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Bonyf passed June 7 th 1832. —
State of New Jersey } Personally appeared on this 14 th day of August, 1832, Morris County } before Stephen Vail Esq r one of the Judges of the Supe- rior Court of Common Pleas of said County, Nathaniel Wilson, a resident of said County & of the Township of Morris & State aforesaid, aged 82 years last December, & who being first duly sworn according to Law, at his own dwelling house, on account of bodily indisposition & the infirmities of age, which prevent his attendance at the Court house, doth on his oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Bon- yfy, passed June 7 th 1832. — He was born on the 23 rd December 1750, according to a record of the age of his family, kept in his family Bible. He was in ill health at the beginning of the war in 1776, & not able to perform Military duty. — In the spring season of 1777, he was drafted on a tour of Militia duty for one month, & served under Captain Josiah Crane. He was stationed at Elizabeth town, guarding the lines & landing places, & protecting the inhabitants from the depredations of the enemy. He served out his month — was discharged on bally & went home. — His 2 nd tour of Militia service was performed in the same year, under Captain Isaac Halsey as he believes, — the month nor season, he cannot remember. — He was stationed at Springfield & Elizabeth town upon guard duty as before, protecting the inhabitants from plunder by the enemy who were then in force, & in possession of New York & Staten Island. — He served a 3 rd tour of a month in the winter of 1778 as he believes, in January, was stationed a month near Piscataway, a part of the Continental troops being there at the time. Col. Scott commanded a Virginia Regiment & Colonel Hughes  Ward a Regiment of New England troops. Jonathan Hathaway was Lieut t . of the company, & Isaac Halsey Captain. — He served a 4 th monthly tour in the following summer (78) being called out on an alarm under Captain Stephen Batdorff, to second river (now Belleville) to which place the British had made an excursion, & where the Militia had a severe skirmish with them. — The enemy retreated across the Raritan river into Bergen County through Hackensack, to which place the Militia with the Deponants company followed them, where they were stationed for a month, & the Deponant being dismissed, went home. — In the following summer (79) he served another monthly tour under the same company officers & was stationed at Elizabeth town guarding the lines & points of landing against the incursions of the enemy. In the fall of the same year, his company was ordered to Red Bank, below Philadelphia, & Deponant ordered with them. His wife being then sick, he

he deemed it improper to leave him, he hired John Newton to go in his stead, giving him ten Dollars over & above his wages, with some small articles as an outfit. — Newton was accepted by the company officers & performed the tour of monthly duty in place of the Deponent.
In the following year (80) he performed a tour of militia duty under Captain Baldwin. — He was again stationed at & near Elizabeth town, performing the same round of guard duties as before mentioned. —
He was out & performed other tours of regular monthly duty, beside those before mentioned, but from his advanced age & the consequent frailty of his memory, he cannot now specify nor call to his remembrance with any accuracy, the places where the services were rendered — the times when, — nor the officers who commanded. — He acted as orderly sergeant of his company at all times when on duty, & performed the service of ordering out the men, whenever occasions required. — And beside his regular monthly tours of duty, he was very often called by alarms suddenly, to perform duty at Springfield, Connecticut farms, Elizabeth town & other places, to repel the British, & protect the inhabitants from sudden incursions by the Ringers & Tories. These sudden alarms were very frequent in those years when the enemy possessed New York, Staten Island, & New Brunswick, often sending out foraging parties to scour the country & keep up a perpetual terror & alarm.
There may be error in his statement of dates, & in some instances, mistake in the name of his officer. He has narrated the facts according to the best of his remembrance & belief, hoping for all proper & charitable allowance that is due to four score years, & to the frailty of human memory. — He never failed, from 1777, to the close of the war, to attend whenever, & wherever his country called for his services, except at Red Bank as before stated. — And he believes, that he has faithfully served his country upon militia duty during the war, for a period of eighteen full months, for which he claims the bounty of his government.
There was an engagement with the enemy at Piscataway, near New Brunswick, in which the Deponent & his company were personally engaged. He recollects that Col. Scott of the Virginia troops, left nine men on the field. The enemy being vastly superior in force, & having several pieces of cannon, the Americans retreated. — Col. Cook, commanded the Militia & Col. Scott the regulars. — The snow was half leg deep. —
He was called out on alarm at the burning of Springfield, & with his company, followed the enemy on their retreat to Elizabeth town. Was in the skirmish with them at the forks of the roads, between the two points.
Two of the Continental troops were killed with a cannon shot, — saw their dead bodies lying on the ground. —
claiming for 18 mos Orderly Sergeant

Was in the skirmish at Second river, now Bellville, in which Benjamin Salter was shot thro' the groin, & died on the following day. Deponent was near him when he was wounded. — He recollects Colonels, Cook, Fulinghuysen, & Suly — Genl. Wind, — Col. Hathaway, Genl. Heard, & Colonel Bott. He is well known to Lewis Condict, & Abner Condict who have known him for many years, & to them he refers for his general character, & belief of his revolutionary services. —
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the Agency of any state. —
Sworn & subscribed, the date aforesaid. — Nathaniel Wilson
Stephen Vail See affidavits
We, Lewis Condict & Abner Condict Esqrs. residing in Morris County, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Wilson, who has subscribed & sworn to the above Declaration, — that we believe him to be 82 years of age; — that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he lives, to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid.
Stephen Vail
J. C. Fergusson
And the said Stephen Vail Esqrs. one of the Judges of the Court aforesaid, before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, & the Declaration made & subscribed, doth hereby declare it as his opinion, that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states. The said Abner Condict is so blind, that he cannot see the letters which compose his name, nor the place where it should be written. The Court saw him affix his signature as above, which has almost obliterated the name of Lewis Condict, previously written above.
Stephen Vail

I, David Day, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Morris in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before Stephen Vail Esq. in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Wilson for a Pension, which proceedings were had & held at the dwelling house of said Wilson, he being too helpless & infirm to attend at the Court house, without great difficulty & personal inconvenience. — And I do further certify — that said Stephen Vail Esq. is one of the Judges of said Court, duly commissioned & qualified to act as such, & that the signature of his name to the proceedings is in his own proper hand writing. —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed my seal of Office, this Eighteenth day of August, A. 1832 —
David Day Clerk
I hereby certify to the Hon ble the Secretary of War, that I have been personally well acquainted with Nathaniel Wilson, the within Declarant, for 30 years, & have lived near him during the whole period. — That for many years I was his family Physician. That he is a man of truth & of fair character & good standing in society. — I have full confidence in the truth of the facts stated in his Declaration, & believe that he was a firm & active Whig, as well as a brave & faithful soldier during the war of the revolution.
Morris town, New Jersey. August 23 d . 1832 —
Lewis Bondict, one of the Representatives from New Jersey.

Personally appear in open Court this day, before the judges thereof, John Ball, Stephen Cook, & Jeremiah Howell, all of Hancorn in the County aforesaid, & well known, all of them, to this Court, as men of good standing & character for truth. - Said Ball, being duly affirmed, doth on his affirmation declare, that he was duly elected an Ensign in Captain Isaac Haller's company of Militia, & duly commissioned as such by the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, as will appear by the Commission itself, as attached to his own Declaration made under the Act of Congress of June 7 th 1832, & sent on to the Department of War. As Ensign aforesaid, he was often called out upon tours of Militia duty in the Revolutionary War at various places & times, from early in 1776, to nearly the close of the War, as often as demands were made for Militia duty. - Stephen Cook & Jeremiah Howell aforesaid, being first duly sworn, declare that they both lived in the bounds of said Capt. Haller's company, & that they also performed many tours of Militia duty in the war of the Revolution in said company & under said Ensign Ball. - And all three of said witnesses unite in declaring further, that Nathaniel Wilson, now of Morristown, & an applicant for a pension under the law of Congress of June 7 th 1832, lived a neighbour to these Deponents, & within the bounds of Capt. Isaac Haller's company, & belonged to the same. That they all knew him well, in the war of the revolution - that he often performed tours of Militia service with them in Capt. Haller's company aforesaid. That they all have a distinct remembrance of his being on duty at Elizabethtown, at Springfield, Hackensack Bridge, Newark, Acquackanonk, Connecticut Farms, (on the march called "Barefooted," with General Washington, when his Army was retreating through New Jersey in 1776). That they were out on duty under Capt. Haller nearly as much as half the time from 1776 to the close of the Militia calls  the war , & believe that said Wilson was on duty with them upon all, or the most of these occasions, except in the early part of the service, probably in 1776, when as they understood, he was prevented by sickness from joining his company. They believe, that said Wilson performed tours of duty at different times which summed up together, probably will amount to nine months or a year, & perhaps more. - Further they say not.
Sworn & affirmed & subscribed in open Court before me, this 8 th of August, 1832. -
Stephen Cook " "
John Ball Stephen Cook Jeremiah Howell

John Ball, Stephen Cook + Jeremiah Howle, Deponit, n is the cap of Nathaniel Wilson. ~

New Jersey, Morris Com. Phear, July & August special term 1832.
Personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the judges of the said Court, Caleb Tuttle, aged 74 years, well known as a credible witness in said County, who being duly sworn, saith, that he was often out on tours of Militia duty during the war of the Revolution, at various places & on different occasions. That in the fall of  winter of  January the year 1777, or 1778 as he believes, during cold weather, probably in December , whilst the British lay in New Brunswick, he was called to perform a tour of duty under Capt. George Bockoven, & Lieut. Jon s Hathaway, he marched from Morris town, thro' Parkersbridge to Scoble town, performing guard duty, & protecting the inhabitants from plunder. —
On this tour, he well recollects that Nathaniel Wilson, was serving in the same company, under Capt. Bockoven, & joined out the monthly tour. — A considerable Militia force was stationed at & near Scoble town, under Colonel Ebenezer Condict & General Wards. — He had been well acquainted with Mr. Wilson at home, living in the same neighbourhood, & doing duty in the same company, is confident he was doing duty as aforesaid. — There was a snow storm whilst they lay there, the snow being almost knee deep on the ground.
Sworn & subscribed before me this 18 th August, 1832. Stephen Lail
Further faith not. Caleb Tuttle

Rev War ✓
3567. INVALID.
File No. 3567
Nathaniel Wilson
Brit. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 18 , Page 467
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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N o 5598 New Jersey
Nathaniel Wilson of Morris Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Crane of the Regt. commanded by Col. Cook in the N. Jersey Mil. line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 30 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Feby. 1833 and sent to Hon. L. Condict, H. R.
Arrears to 4th of Sep r . 1832 45.00 Pension allowance ending 4 th March 1833 15.00 $ 60.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book D. Vol. 4 Page 183

Nathaniel Wilson. —
N. Jany.
12 mos. service to be allowed as private
$40:
make certificate same No 2 alter roll
sent to Genl Council
Newbern
N.J.

I do hereby certify to the Secretary of War, that I have been personally & intimately acquainted with Nathaniel Wilson, to whom the annual certificate was granted for revolutionary services, for more than 30 years last past - that his memory is greatly impaired by age & disease, - so much so, that he often weeps like a child - & in relating some of the incidents of the war in which he was engaged, his tears flowed freely - that it seemed extremely difficult for him to particularize dates & names - that he frequently stated in his narration, his inability to tell the various years & months of his militia tours - or the names of his officers - he repeated & declared he had not & could not specify half the occasions in which he was called out - but spoke with entire confidence & belief, that he had actually served his Country, at the least, eighteen months. - I also certify, that said Nathl. Wilson, is, & has always been esteemed to be, a man of strict veracity, & that I always have placed full confidence in his word. - I am fully satisfied of the truth of the facts stated in his Declaration. -
Feb. 28 th 1833.
Lewis Condict a Representative from N. Jersey

Nathl. Wilson — $30.00
Febr. 12 th 1833.
Payments to be made
at Trenton
by the Pres t . Trenton Pkg. Comp. & Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of New Jersey
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, in Book D. Vol. 4 page 183

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Nathaniel Wilson of the State of New Jersey who was a Sergeant in the army of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Thirty dollars and cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twelfth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
Lewis Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. Edwards