Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33865, James Voris, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Voris, James
S 33865
CONTENTS
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33 865
Rev. INVALID.
File No. 33,865
James Louis Rev. W. S. D.
Act: 16 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 49 1/2
[Arrangement of 1870.]

76) New Jersey James Norris, // Capt } private, N J line Morns } Army U. S.
At $ 8. per mo. com d 1 st April, 1818.
Cert. issued 5 th April, 1818. sent to Gen l Bloomfield. House of Representatives U. S.
Am t to 4 th Sep r . 1818. 5 4 / 28 mo s . $111.03.
(Rev d Claims) (Act 18 th March, 1818)
Cross Line 1 year
Application for Pension, Eng d M c Burney

James Voris
New Brunswick

In the case of James Morris of the Township of South Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey claiming to be entitled to a Pension under the Act of Congress of the United States entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war."
State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

Spring of the year Seventeen hundred and seventy six proceeded with his company to Ticonderoga - that he enlisted for one year and having returned to New Jersey about the time of the expiration of his enlistment he again enlisted at Trenton in the company commanded by Capt. Matthew Henderson in the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col. Richard Butler on the continental establishment - that he enlisted for three years or during the war and continued to serve in said Regiments against the common enemy until the third day of February in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty when he was discharged near Morris Town on account of disability; - And the deponent further saith that he lost his discharge some few years since - and that he hath ever continued a resident citizen of the United States and that he is now by reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of assistance from his country for support. —
Sworn to and subscribed to the day & year above before me. — Thos. Jones
James Voss
State of New Jersey, Middlesex =

County of Middlesex ss I Thomas Hance one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Middlesex in the State afo d . certify that the foregoing affidavit is to the best of my knowledge true that James Kavis the applicant did serve in the Revolutionary War as a Soldier on the continental establishments against the common enemy for the Term of Nine months and longer. —
Thos Hance
To the Secretary of the Department of War. —
State of New Jersey ss Middlesex County ss I William P Deane clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex in the State afo d . certify that Thomas Hance Esq. who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing attestation is one of the Judges of said Court duly commissioned therefor and to his official acts full credit is to be given. —
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Wm P Deane Clerk

James Voris
76
Sept 1878

SCHEDULE.
State of New-Jersey, } Middlesex County, ss. }
On this Twentieth day of June — 1820, personally appeared, in open court, in the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex — in said state, being a Court of Record, proceeding according to the course of the common law with jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, James Voorhees — aged Sixty eight years, resident in South Brunswick 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: to wit, in the first Jersey Regiment Com- -manded by Col. Wijnants, and in the Ninth Pennsyl- -vania Regiment, commanded by Col. Butler, that he made a Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of March 18, 1818 in April of same year his pension Certificate is no 76
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself 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. .
Schedule
One Loaf, 1 Hog, 2 Barrels, 1 Churn, 1 Table, 1 Stand, some earthen ware, 1 looking Glass, 8 chains, Andirons, tongs and shovel, 2 pots, tea kettle & spider, 1 Small Brass Kettle, 2 Old Books, 4 old Boxes, 3 Stone Jugs, 2 tubs, 2 pails, 1 frying pan, candle-sticks, Smoking Irons & Baker Iron, a Promissory Note of Twenty dollars.
And I do further declare that my family consists of my wife aged fifty seven years and a grand child aged thirteen years, that my wife is infirm, and that I am and have been for many years a cripple incapable of work, that for several years previous to obtaining my Pension, I received assistance from the Overseer of the poor of the township of Montgomery, that I now receive at the rate of One hundred and twenty five dollars per year for attending a Toll gate but that will cease to be at an end in about Ninety days, - and that I have no other
Sworn to, and declared and subscribed on the day aforesaid.
Robert McHenry
Presiding Judge.
James Voorhees
I, William P. Dear — clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Middlesex — 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Thirty Six dollars and forty two — cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.
Wm. P. Dear