Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1140, Rynier Veghte, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Veghte Rynier
S. 1140
Left widsiv-Catharine
CONTENTS
Banded.

28.054 New Insur
Bymer Weight of Somerset in the State of N. H. who was a Lieut. of Cav. in the Com commanded by Captain Tenny M. of the by _____ in the N.Y. line for
21 mo Special Report
Inscribed on the Roll of N. H. at the rate of 300 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of Feb 1834 - and Lieut. Hon. S. Trelun Shurton Serall v. S.
Arrears to the 4th day of his death Semi-ant. allowance ending
Certificate for Widow - $692.71
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by OTB Wellark Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 13 Page 137
Died 27- February 18
Buy. am? Hon Mr. Schenk June 4 th 1834

3596 Application of Ryner Vought of Somerset County New Jersey for a Patent
Forward Certificate to Commissioner Lauria for copy
James P. Randolph Agent

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832.
State of New Jersey Somerset County fs! On this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two Personally appeared before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Bridgewater in for said County Rynier Veyhtes: — a resident of the Township of Hillsborough in said County of Somerset aged seventy eight years — who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 7 th June 1832. That in the year 1776 he volunteered as a Link in said Township of Hillsborough in a Company commanded by Capt Conrad Ten Eyck & served as a Link two years or near as he can recollect — Marched to New York under Col. Stryker — remained there some time. The Troops returned. Some time the latter part of 1777 or the beginning of 1778, he went to Gov. Livingston & got the privilege of raising a Troop of Cavalry returned home — raised the Company — he was elected Link of the Company — & commissioned accordingly — John Stryker was the Captain — Marched to Trenton — English Town — broke out by Genl. Mawrath to reconquer the British Lines — was in the Battle of Monmouth. During this Campaign he was attached to Genl. Mawrath's Brigade, — Troops — Mawrath had the command — Deponent returned with his Company — deponent was ordered to Pennsylvania a short time before the Battle of German Town — Marched with his men as far as the Delaware River — there received news that one of his children was dead

Came home & buried his child & then returned & joined his company - got there the day after the Battle - Returned - After the Battle of Monmouth (as near as he can recollect) he was stationed about a month at Newark - was at Pompton - Was also stationed some time at Elizabeth Town, a little before the Battle of Springfield - All his services were with the British except from Lamen's - The good cause of liberty alone prompted him to the services he rendered - By reason of the loss of memory, he cannot more particularly speci- fy his services - I present believes Conrad Smyth Conrad Van Wagener & Abm Voorhies three of his troops are now living in the State of New- York - I present has no documentary evi- dence of his said services - He was born in the Township of Bridgewater in said County of Somerset in 1754 , & has ever since resided in said county excepting about eighteen months he lived in Middlesex County N. Jersey, a little after the war - Knows his age from a list taken from his father's bible, which list he now has - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State -
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid J. M. Gorton
Rynier Veghte

State of New Jersey } Personally appeared in open Somerset County ss } Court on this fifteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty two. William Wilson, Henry Schenk and Julius Hoagland all of the county of Somerset who being sworn on their oaths say that they are well acquainted with Rineer Bechtel who has made the above declaration and that these deponents were attached to the troops of horse of which the above named Rineer Bechtel was Lieutenant during the revolution and that they were frequently at in actual service during the said war with the said Bechtel: and that the said Rineer Bechtel has always been sustained a good character for veracity and truth
Sworn & subscribed this day of August aforesaid J. M. Gaston
Henry H. Schenk Julius Hoagland his Wm X Wilson mark

We John L. Zabriskie a clergyman residing in the Township of Hillsborough in the County of Somerset & John Farington residing at Bridgewater in said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Pyreus Fayett who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be seventy eight years of age. That he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
W. H. Gaston
John L. Zabriskie J. Farington
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories proposed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it ap- pears to them that John L. Zabriskie who has signed the foregoing cer- tificate is a clergyman, resident in the Township of Hillsborough County of Somerset and that John Farington, who has also signed the same is a resident in the Township of Bridgewater & County aforesaid and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
W. H. Gaston
Herb d Vanderwerker
H. J. Roovers
Dan l H. Disbrough
Wm. Kirkpatrick

State of New Jersey Somerset County ss I John M. Mann Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the Application of Rynear Veighte for a divorce.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office This seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty two - J. M. Mann
I Peter D. Vroom do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Rynear Veighte who has made the above declaration That he is a man of truth & veracity, & I believe his statement to be correct. but from my own personal knowledge, but because I am satisfied that the said the applicant, from his known and long established good character, is incapable of testifying to anything any matter in relation to his Rev- olutionary services, that he does not believe to be strictly true.
P. D. Vroom
New Jersey. Somerset ss I William B. Gorton prothonotary of the court of common pleas of said County do hereby certify that Henry H. Schmidt Tunis Hoagland & William Wilson the witnesses above named to prove the services of the said Rynear Veighte, are all persons of creditability & entitled to full credit & belief Given under my hand this 23 d of February 1833.

New Jersey Com. mth p. personally appeared before me the undersigned presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Raymond Vestal who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the period length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below & in the following years - For

3596
Application of the Mitre of Byneal Regia to the Pursum due to said Regia.
James F. H. ... Agent

State of New Jersey 25.
Widow's Claim. On this fourteenth day of January eighteen hundred thirty four, before me a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, Catharine Keight, who being duly sworn according to law, on her oath saith that she is in the 86 th year of her age, and the widow and representa- tive of Ryneer Keight, the applicant for a Pen- sion named in paper marked 3596, late of the County of Somerset deceased, that the said Ryneer Keight departed this life on the twenty seventh of February eighteen hundred thirty three in the 79 th year of his age. And the said Catharine Keight further saith that she knows that her deceased husband husband the said Ryneer Keight, was a Lieutenant in the company of Horse commanded by Capt. Stryker, and that he served a great deal during the war in that ca- pacity - that he continued in service to the close of the war, always, as she believes, answering every call made upon him, and doing his duty faithfully. The said Catharine says that she knows that her husband had a commission, often saw it, but that she is not able now to say what became of it. In consequence of the death of her husband, the said Ryneer, the said Catharine, his widow and legal representative now applies for the pension which would have been awarded to her said husband, had he lived. The proofs of his services will accompany this applica- tion, and, she trusts, prove sufficiently to estab- lish her claim.
Subscribed to me the day of her Catharine Keight year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four before me
Peter P. Runyon Judge
I hereby certify that Catharine Keight, the above named re- spondent, from extreme old age & from sickness, is unable to ap- pear in open Court.
Peter P. Runyon Judge

State of New Jersey } County of Somerset } Nicholas Brown, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of so hereby certify that it satisfactorily appears to said Court that Catharine Wright, the property de- ponent is the widow & legal Representative of Ry- ner Wright, late of the County of Somerset, deceased; and that said Reynier Wright departed this life on the twenty seventh day of February eighteen hundred & thirty three, as said Catharine has stated.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand & the seal of said Court, this fifteenth day of Janu- ary eighteen hundred & thirty four.
N Brown clerk

State of New Jersey
State of New Jersey 31. Hick County 3 On this fifteenth day of January 1834, before me a notice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Thoms Hoag- land, who being duly man, on his oath, saith, that he is in the 84 th year of his age, a soldier of the Revo- lution - That he belonged to the company of cavalry commanded by Capt John Stuyvesant, of which Stuyvesant Keightle, the applicant for a pension named in papers marked 3.5 Gb, was a Lieutenant - That said company was raised in the early part of the war, he thinks in 1776, but certainly in the early part of 1777, that he served in said company from the time it was raised to the close of the war - That he well remembers that said Stuyvesant Keightle also served faithfully in said company for the same time, and always in the capacity of Lieutenant - deponent was not always out at the same time with said Keightle, but living in the same neighborhood with him, and being perfectly acquainted with all the movements of the company, knows when they were out on their regular tours, or on special calls - from his observation & from the fact that he was very often out under said Keightle, he is enabled to say with as much certainty as can be felt after the lapse of nearly fifty years, that said Keightle did at least three tours of duty of a month each, in 1777, after the com- pany was raised. One of these tours was partly in Penn- sylvania, in occasion of the movement which eventuated in the battle of Germantown. The other two were in the eastern part of New Jersey on the lines, in the neigh- borhood of Elizabethtown. In 1778, he is confident said Keightle performed at least four regular tours of a month each, besides a great deal of extra service on scouting detachments against massacring parties, & in riding capers. These tours were all in the neighborhood of Elizabethtown, extending out to Pompton, Newark, &c. except one in West Jersey, and at Monmouth, at the time of the

battle there. In 1779 said Keight performed not less than four tours of a month each, in the ordinary service of guarding the lines. His head quarters were at Elizabethtown, and his scouts extended to some ten or twelve miles in all directions round. In 1780 said Keight, in deponent knows from his own service, as well as from recollection, performed four tours of a month, on the same station, in the same service. This was the year of the battle of Springfield, but depo- nent thinks said Keight was not there. In 1781, de- ponent can say with perfect safety that said Keight did at least three tours of duty of a month each at  the what was called the Elizabethtown station, though the services were not confined to Elizabeth- town. In 1782, also, said Keight did not less than three tours of a month each, on the same station and in the usual service. The deponent can speak with entire confidence as to this statement, as well from the recurrent demands upon the militia on the eastern boundary of New Jersey, and especially such a corps as Keight's, as from his particular recollection of the events, incidents of those never-to-be-forgotten times. He has aimed to give only the regular tours, (and only a part of them, as he really believes) of said Keight, and which all the company performed, leav- ing out of view a great deal of extra duty upon spe- cial occasions; for they were very often called upon to carry despatches, to manage, to other such duties. Subscribed Simon the day }
Simon as before me } his Thomas Hoagland  Mark Peter P. Rumsey Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named deponent Thomas Hoagland is known to me to be a credible person, and that his state- ment is entitled to full credit Peter P. Rumsey Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey ss On this fifteenth day of January A.D. 1834, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally ap- peared Henry H. Schenck, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is in the 74 th year of his age, did serve in the war of the Revolution, and is now receiv- ing a Pension as Major & Assistant Paymaster for such services - that he was attached to the 2 d Regt of Penn- sylvania militia, commanded by Col. Van Dyke & Lieut. Col. Boon, that to this regiment was attached a troop of Horse commanded by Capt. John Stryker & Lieut. Reynar Booth (the same Reg'ts mentioned in the application marked 3596 Application for a Pension) that from his official si- tuation & professional services he became intimately acquainted with all the military movements of said company of Horse, that he remembers particu- larly the said Reynar Booth as the Lieut. of that com- pany - that said company was called upon certainly quite as often as the companies of Infantry belonging to the Regiment - he thinks often, because they often had express service to perform - that he can with perfect confidence say that the said Reynar Booth did his full share of duty from the time the company was raised in 1777 until he (the deponent) left the Regiment in 1780, the latter part of it - deponent therefore states that said Booth did at least three times of duty for a month each as Lieutenant of said Troop of Horse in each of the years 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780; nor do he has no doubt he continued to do like duty to the end of the war, but deponent joining the regular army at this time is not enabled to speak from personal obser- vation beyond the year 1780.
Subscribed from the day means Henry H. Schenck aforesaid before me
Peter P. Hargrave Justice of the Peace I certify that the above named deponent Henry H. Schenck is a credible person and that his statements are entitled to full credit - Peter P. Hargrave Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey } ss: On this fifteenth day of January Middlesex County } 1834, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared William Wilson, known to me to be a credible person, whose statement is entitled to credit, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is in the 81 st year of his age, and a soldier of the Revolution - That he well knew Rynear Vought, late of the County of Somerset, dec. Knows that said Vought was a Serjeant in a company of a troop of horse commanded by Capt. John Stryker, that he served in said troop from the time it was raised in 1777 until the close of the war. Deponent belonged to said company from the beginning of 1778 until the end of the war, and is therefore en- abled to say from personal observation that said Vought performed his regular tours from 1778 to 82. These tours were certainly not less than four in each of the years 1778, 1779, & 1780, and three in each of the years 1781 & 1782. He has no doubt they were more, but he chooses to put them at the lowest estimate. The Head Quarters of the troop was almost the whole time mentioned, at Elizabethtown, though their services were in various neighborhoods, and frequent excursions in a pretty wide circuit round the county, and several of the corps were employed in keeping up the communication with the troops throughout the State, and carrying advises of the enemy's movements, as well as our own. They were always under the command of their own captain Stryker, though occasionally under the direc- tion of Gov. Livingston, and always, of course, under the orders of the superior officers of the Regiment or Brigade.
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid: before me
Peter P. Runyan
William his Wilson Mark

State of New Jersey Middlesex County The Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that Peter P. Ruryon before whom the foregoing affidavits of James Wong- Chang, Henry H. Schenck, & William Wilson were taken is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signature of said Ruryon there- affixed is true and genuine.
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court, this seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty four. J. Nicholas Brissac Clerk

The State of New Jersey.
To Preyneir Veyhte Gentleman Greeting.
Whereas it hath been certified to his Excellency William Livingston Esq r Governor & Commander in Chief of this State that you have been duly chosen Lieutenant of a Company of Light Horse in the County of Somerset you are therefore to take the said company of Light Horse into your Charge and Care as Lieutenant thereof and duly to exercise both the Officers & Soldiers of the said Company in Arms: And as they are hereby directed to obey you as their Lieutenant you are likewise to follow & obey such Orders & directions from time to time as you shall receive from your superior Officer or Officers; and for so doing this shall be your Commission. In Testimony whereof the Great Seal of the said State is hereunto affixed: Witness William Livingston Esq r Governor Captain General & Commander in Chief in & over the State of New Jersey and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the same at Princeton — the sixth — day of November — in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred & Seventy seven.
By his Excellency's Command — William Livingston Jun D. Sec y
W. Livingston

State of New Jersey, Somerset County ss Be it known that on this 10th day of August 1843, before me the subscriber an officer of the Court of Sessions for said County personally appeared Catharine Wright of full age who being by me duly sworn on her oath, deposes that she is a daughter of the within named Reynar Wright That after her father's death which occurred on the 10th day of February A.D. 1833 she found this Commission among her father's papers and believes that he acted under it as an officer in the Revolutionary Army.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above written before me
James Taylor, Judge
Catharine Wright
I certify that the above named Catharine Wright is well known to me to be a person of good report for truth & veracity,
James Taylor
James Taylor S. 1140 New Jersey
on Catharine Wright's estate -2-2

INVALID.
File No.
1140
Rev War.
Rymer Wright, Lt. Rev. War.
Act
June 7, 1830.
Index:—Vol.
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

3596
Ryrie Vought
21 m o
Lieutenant of Cavalry
died
27 Febry 1833
certificate to widow
Hon. The o Fulung- huyson Senate US
James D. Smith Agent

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Rynier Weyhte which require further proof or explanation.
1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
No. See Query 5. We should state, as nearly as possible, the length of each tour.
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? No, see Quere 14.
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
† QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡ QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.