Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33856, Simon Vanhorn, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Vanhorn, Simon or Vanhorne
833856
CONTENTS
[Faint handwritten text, possibly "H" or "N"]
[Faint handwritten text, possibly "H" or "N"]

New Jersey Rolls.
1731
Simon Vanhorne Capt Voorhees Private Jersey Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 d of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818, and sent to Jn c Johnson, Esq r , Newton, New Jersey.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
Service after admission
4 months 32/30. $40.53
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
3 years 157.50
Wofolkston 14. 1820. to Greenfield New Jersey

Copy of Simon Vanhorn
Affidavit Hardwick township, Sussex County, New-Jersey.
72 of
3 pages series
Property $200
1731
June 18
Sep 1818

District of New Jersey ss
On this fifth day of June Eighteen Hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open Court being the Inferior Court of common pleas of the County of Sussex and a court of Record by reason of their proceeding according to the course of the common Law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount having a seal and keeping a Record of their proceedings - Simon Van Horn aged seventy two years resident in the Township of Mendham in the said County of Sussex in the said District of New Jersey, who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows - He enlisted with Lieutenant Piall in Captain Longstreet's Company Col Mathias Ogden's Regiment Jersey Line in which Regiment he served for three years and was discharged at Elizabeth Town in New Jersey in the year 1779 having served out his said term of three years faith- fully, having enlisted for that time And the declarant further saith that he has a certifi- cate of his claim under his original application obtained from the war Department which is dated on the thirtieth day of June 1818 by which it appears that his name is inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the New Jersey agency at the rate of Eight dollars per month to commence on the third day of April 1818 and that he has received his pension up to the fourth of March 1820 and that the number of his said pension certificate is 1731
And I the said Simon Van Horn do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish the same 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 paid on the Eighteenth 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, The deponent under his oath also saith that he has no occupation or trade and that he is incapable of any kind of labour by reason of his age and infirmities being lame in one knee by reason of a wound received in the war during the time he served as above mentioned that he has a wife and two children living with him his wife is aged sixty eight years and is a weakly woman not capable of doing much labour, his children are two sons one aged twelve years and the other aged eighteen years that the younger is of delicate health and can't labour much the elder one is healthy and upon his exertions with what little the deponent and his other son can the deponent and his family have been enabled to live, That the deponent thinks himself in such indigent circumstances that he can not support himself without the aid of the Government except by private or public charity Sworn to and declared on the 5 th day of June 1820 before John Ogden
Simon Vanhorn

Schedule of this deponents property necessary cloathing and bedding excepted
Real estate none of any kind
Personal estate
Two looms
5 Plush
1 Horse
2 Hags
2 Knives
1 frying pan - six knives and forks - five chairs - one table 2 old sheets - 8 plates 5 odd cups and saucers with carpet and milk cup
Sworn and subscribed in open court this 5 th day of June 1820
Simon Van Horn
John Ogden
It is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Eighty dollars June 5 th 1820
John Ogden
I Ephraim Green Jr. clerk of the before mentioned court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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 Sche- =dule is. Eighty dollars. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said court on this thirteenth day of July A.D. 1820 -
E Green Jr. clerk of the said court of the County of Superi

33 856 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33 856
Simon Banhorne
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 494
[Arrangement of 1870.] ✓

Simon V. Horn Longitudinal bo. 705 P.G. reg. in list d Subj. 77. for up Disch. Subj. 21. 80.
E. H. G.
Adm d -
J. Johnson &c

New Jersey Superiour Ct. Personally appeared before me Jno. Johnson one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of common pleas of said County, Simon B. Roan, an old Revolutionary soldier, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was enlisted in the Continental army for three years or during the War by Lieut. Jacob Pyatt, and that he served under Captain Voorhies in the first Jersey Regiment, commanded by Col. Matthias Ogden in Genl. Maxwell's Brigade, and that he served about three years, and was honorable discharged by Maj. Pyatt, a little before the army was disbanded This deponent further saith he is now seventy six years of age, and is infirm and unable to work, and that he is poor and has little or no property & has an infirm & aged wife to support, - and that he has no income dif- ferent from his own means -
Taken and subscribed before me This 3 d day of April 1818. -
Jno. Johnson
New Jersey Superiour Ct. Personally appeared before me Jno. Johnson Judge as aforesaid. Jno. J. Earl and being duly sworn, according to law deposeth and saith that, during his living in the Continental service he was acquainted with the above named Simon B. Roan, and knows that he was and acted as as a soldier in the said service -
John J Earl
Taken and subscribed before me The 3 d April 1818. -
Jno. Johnson

To the Honorable the Secretary of War. —
I do hereby certify that the within affidavits were taken before me, and that I am satisfied that Simon Van Horn served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War as by him set forth in his affidavit — and that he comes within the provi- sions of the act of Congress — for relief — he lives in New Jersey Sussex County — Witness my hand this 4 th day of April 1818.
J. Johnson Judge etc.