Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1111, for John Stout, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Stout, John
S. 1111
CONTENTS
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28,220- Jno Dacey John Stout
of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Dawes of the Left commanded by Col ... in the ... Brigade
$ 80.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Rev War at the rate of 80 Dollars 80 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of April and sent to 131 Rev J. Parker
Arrears to the 4th of March - 240.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 10.00
$ 281.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. Sprague Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 3 Page 131

Monmouth Pleas July Term 1832 Declaration of John Stout
In order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress "passed 7 th June 1832"
117900. Hon. J. Paker

State of New Jersey } Js Monmouth County
On this thirty first day of July in the Year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County now Sitting. John Stout a Resident of the Township of Howell in the County and State aforesaid aged near eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain thereby the Benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832, That he entered into the service of the United States under the following named Officers & served as herein stated viz t , That Early in the Revolutionary war this applicant Entered into the Service as a Militia man under Captain Hendrick Groock of the County of Monmouth and served at Middletown and Shrewsbury on the Sea board at different Calls & times for the space of two years. This applicant further served as a Soldier under Captain David Hampton in the Township of Shrewsbury for six months and upwards. That he served under Captain Benjamin Vanclief in Freehold, and under Captain William Vanclief one year or more. This applicant was born December 25 th 1747 and his age entered in the family Bible.
He hereby relinquishing every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
John Patterson
John Stout,

I Captain Benjamin Vanderveer residing in the Township of Freehold in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey in the neighbourhood of the above named John Stout do hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with the said John Stout who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that I believe the the said applicant to be about Eighty five Years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he now resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution & a man whose declaration under oath or without oath is entitled to credit. I further State that I am in the Eighty Sixth year of my age, and that the Applicant John Stout did meet military duty under me during the Revolutionary war a Considerable time } Benjamin Vanderveer
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid John Patterson
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the Investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories presented by the War Depart- ments, that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he States, and the Court further Certifies that the said Captain Benjamin Vanderveer who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Resident of the Township of Freehold in the County of Monmouth & is a Creditable person & that his Statements as well as the Statements of the surviving Soldiers of the Revolution herein Contained is entitled to

credit c c c
John Patterson John Hull John R. Davison
I, the Subscriber, Clerk of the Inferi-
or Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Monmouth, in the state of New-Jer-
sey, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original Proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Stout for a Paus.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Freehold, this Thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
J. H. Ellis

November 7, 1939
BA-J/MCS John Stout, R.10243
Mr. W. F. Hathaway Division of Graves Registration Office of the Adjutant General Des Moines, Iowa
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Lucius Kiffie, and John Stout.
The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to afford any information relative to Lucius Kiffie.
The data which follow were taken from papers on file in the pension claim, R.10243, based on the military service of the only John Stout who served from Pennsylvania that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
John Stout was born October 4, 1762, in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The names of his parents are not shown.
John Stout applied for pension February 20, 1843, while living at 39 Dillwyn Street, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. He alleged that he enlisted in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in September, 1781 or 1783, and served until the end of November of the year of enlistment, in Captain Dungan's company in Colonel McGaw's Pennsylvania regiment. The claim was not allowed as, in order to be entitled to pension, the law required that the soldier render at least six months military service.
For several years after the Revolution, John Stout lived with his father in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. From there he moved to Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, where he died, date not shown.

In 1844 reference was made to sons and grandsons of John Stout, no names given.
One Frank Stout was living in 1856 and his address was Office of United States Coast Survey, Washington, D.C. In that year reference was made to A. G. Stout. It is not shown whether they were related to the soldier.
There are no further data relative to the family of John Stout.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

1913 Mch. 26 Hist. to Mrs. Lukas. E. Ulmer. V.L.M. Letter in N.Y. 203 Daniel Stout 1916 June 21 Hist. to W.J. Conkling. 1920, July 2 Hist. to W.J. Conkling — — — — — E.W.
INVALID.
File No. 11111.
John Stout Miss M.J. Miller
Act: June 7, 1882.
Index: — Vol. a , Page 355-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Yes Rec THE NEW JERSEY SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT WASHINGTON IRVING LINCOLN ADAMS FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT SAMUEL CRAIG COWART SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT CHESTER NEVILLE JONES SECRETARY JOHN RANDEL WEEKS TREASURER E. ALLEN SMITH REGISTRAR GEORGE H. RICHARDS HISTORIAN WILLIAM CLINTON ARMSTRONG CHAPLAIN RT. REV. EDWIN STEVENS LINES, D. D.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WILLIAM JOHNSON CONKLING ✓ AUGUSTUS S. CRANE HERBERT ROYAL CRANE FREDERIC DEGARMAR HAHN FREDERICK MARTIN HAVILAND SAMUEL CHUDLEIGH HICKS NEHEMIAH PERRY HOWELL WILLIAM JAMES OSBORN DAVID LAWRENCE PIERSON RICHARD TIMBROOK WILSON
PAST PRESIDENTS
JOHN FRANKLIN FORT JOHN LENORD MERRILL
HEADQUARTERS: 756 BROAD STREET, NEWARK, N. J. (ENTRANCE 1 CLINTON ST.) TELEPHONE 3085 MARKET
Newark, N. J., June 14, 1916.
Hon. G. M. Sulzberger, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly furnish certificate of the military history of John Stout, Private, N. J. Militia?
In Vol 2, 1st Sess., 23rd Congress, I find under Monmouth Co., N. J., Pension List the following:
"John Stout, Private, N. J. Militia. Placed on pension roll, April 14, 1834. Commencement of pension, Mar. 4, 1831. Age at date of application, 87 years."
The information is desired to prove eligibility of an applicant to membership in this Society.
Very truly yours,

THE NEW JERSEY SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT CARL MONTAIGNE VAIL FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT HON. ADRIAN LYON SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT FRANK HENRY PRESBY SECRETARY SAMUEL ALBERT CLARK TREASURER EDWIN ALLEN SMITH REGISTRAR WILLIAM JOHNSON CONKLING HISTORIAN DAVID LAWRENCE PIERSON GENEALOGIST JOHN THORNLEY NEFF CHAPLAIN RT. REV. EDWIN STEVENS LINES, D.D. CHANCELLOR HARRY FRANK BREWER VICE-PRESIDENT GENERAL THOMAS WRIGHT WILLIAMS TRUSTEE OF NATIONAL SOCIETY CHARLES SYMMES KIGGINS
Headquarters
756 BROAD STREET, NEWARK, N. J. (Entrance 1 Clinton Street) Telephone 3085 Market
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
ALFRED WILLIAM ALESBURY REV. LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN, D.D. BRIDGEWATER MEREDITH ARNOLD ALFRED E. ASHFIELD FREDERICK BURTON BASSETT JOHN WILLIAM CLIFT SAMUEL CRAIG COWART HERBERT ROYAL CRANE WILLIAM SIMONSON EDDY CHARLES ALFRED GRUMMON JOHN FRANKLIN HAAS FREDERIC DeGARMER HAHN FREDERICK MARTIN HAVILAND HORACE HOLDEN EARLE ANDERSON MILLER GEORGE VAIL MUCHMORE MERRITT GREENWOOD PERKINS REV. FRANK AUSTIN SMITH ALBERT CROLIUS VAN NEST JOHN BREWER WIGHT
PAST PRESIDENTS
HON. JOHN FRANKLIN FORT JOHN LENORD MERRILL WASHINGTON IRVING LINCOLN ADAMS CHESTER NEVILLE JONES
Newark, N. J.,
June 7, 1920.
Hon. G. M. Saltzgaber, Commissioner Pension Bureau, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly furnish certificate showing military history of JOHN STOUT who served as a private during the REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
His name appears in pension list under
MONMOUTH CO., N. J. Placed April 14, 1834, and was 87 years
of age at time.
The information is desired to prove eligibility of an applicant to membership in this Society; also to establish his family line. your courtesy will be greatly appreciated.
Very truly yours,
Registrar N. J. S. A. R.

John Rout
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DB Ryall

Sir
House of Representatives Jan y . 9. 1833
The letter to you herewith from Lieut. B: Ryall Esq. containing the Papers of John Stout claiming a pension under the act of June 7. 1832 came to my hand this morning. - As it is an old application I hope you will be able to examine the additional proof now exhibited immediately and that it will be found sufficient.
Yrs respectfully James Parker
Dame A. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Pensions

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of _____ a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan 1775 Six months Private James M'Clure John M'Clure N. H.   at various times, in all over 2 years James M'Clure John M'Clure   James M'Clure John M'Clure   James M'Clure John M'Clure  
Battles engaged in, _____  Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____  Date of application for pension, _____  Residence at date of application, _____  Age at date of application, _____
Remarks: _____  _____  _____  _____
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm r of Pensions Washington D. C.

Tuckahoe N.J. Jan'y 3rd 1834
L. Edwards Esq D Sir
Inclosed are the papers of John Stout with an additional affidavit by Aaron F. Walker proving the alternate monthly service of said Stout -
Mr. Colles Lloyd to whom these papers were last returned for Mr Stout informs me the only objection was the want of evidence at the Department that there was a monthly alternate service in Monmouth County; as the Department have been heretofore satisfied on that point in the other cases I had in charge from the fact that the emergency existed in Monmouth County owing to its contiguity to N York & the ample evidence on that point heretofore submitted now again corroborated by the deposition of Aaron F. Walker herewith sent I hope the department will recant one his certificate. You will perceive from its number 1730 it was early rec d at the Department & the delay has arisen from the careless manner in which the instructions of the Department have been attended to. - As the winter Session of the Legislature of this State commences on the 8th instant, any communications to me on this subject you will please direct to me at Trenton while the Session continues which will probably be two months -
Yours very Resp'y Daniel B. Ryall

On John Stouts app. Aaron F. Walcutt affidavit Nov 22
Adm 2 years $80
Wm J. Paker Ho of Rep

New Jersey Monmouth County ss: Aaron Walker being duly sworn according to law depones and saith that in March last he will be seventy five years of age, that he is one of the surviving soldiers of the Revolution, that he is well acquainted with John Stout who made his original declaration for a pension under the act of June 7 1832 on the 31st day of July 1832 before the judges of the Monmouth Asses- sion, numbered by the Department 1930, that he knew him well, and was acquainted with him during the Revolutionary War in the county of Monmouth, that from the month of June in 1776 until the close of the war this deponent saw the said John Stout out in the service in the companies commanded by Captains Hendrick Mock, Benjamin Banchaf, William Banchaf and Daniel Hampton and that almost every other month during that period, that the Militia of Fifehold Middletown Shrewsbury and the townships bordering on the coast were out at least every other month during the whole war owing to their contiguity to New York and to regard the coasts and shores of the county from the inroads of the British and Tories, that he has frequently seen the said John Stout in said companies at Fifehold Middletown Shrewsbury Long Branch, the Highlands, Tinton Falls Manasquan and other intermediate points and places, the Militia at that time being continually left marching and countermarching from one point to another sometimes a week or a month at one of these places as their headquarters and then at another, and though he cannot pretend to state each particular

time and place when he saw the said John Stout in the service, because they were all the time patrolling and marching from one place to another, yet he has no hesitation in saying the said John Stout is justly and fully entitled to a pension for he has every reason to know and believe he served more than two years in monthly tours under the Laws or ordinances and regulations of New Jersey - that the said John Stout was always esteemed and called while in the service a good and faithful soldier always doing his duty as such, and that his character then with since and now has never been impeached, but that on the contrary all who know him say he is a man of good character and credit which has never been impeached, and this deponent further says that General David Forman had the command of the Militia of said County during the Revolutionary War Ashe Holme being Colonel; and he further says that the said John Stout is very aged and infirm and is much in want of his pension which this deponent knows to be his honest due for his Revolutionary services. - Now subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace for the County of Mon mouth this 3rd day of January A.D. 1834
Aaron F. Walker
Tho's C. Stockmorton Justice
And the said Thomas C. Stockmorton Justice as aforesaid doth hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Aaron F. Walker

who has now and subscribes to the forgoing affidavit that I believe him to be upwards of seventy four years of age and is respected and believed to be a soldier of the Revolu- tion in the neighborhood where he reside- th that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Dated Jan'y 3rd 1834 Thos C. Brockmorton
I Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey Do hereby certify that Thomas C. Brockmorton Esquire whose name is signed to the head of the forgoing affidavit and to the above certificate now is and was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace of the said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the same signed Thos C. Brockmorton to said small certificate respectively are the proper signatures of the said Thomas C. Brockmorton Justice as aforesaid, and that full faith and credit ought to should be attached to all his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused my official seal to hereunto affixed at Newbold this 3rd day of January Anno Domini 1834.
D. H. Ellis Clk

New Jersey } } Monmouth County ss. } Personally appeared before the Subscribed one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County Attest F. Walker of the age of Seventy four years and upwards of said County and being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God deposeth and Saith That he was well acquainted with John Stout in the time of the revolutionary war, who this deponent has understood has applied for a pension, this deponent on like oath further Saith that some time in the early part of the Revolutionary war he knew of the said John Stout's doing duty as a Militia man in the Township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth on the frontiers. That he believes and has understood that the said Stout did his monthly tours of duty during the war. That he knew him well then, and does at this time and he was always reputed to have been a good soldier and friend to his country. This deponent saith that the said John Stout sustains a good character for veracity, and honesty and this deponent verily believes that the declarations of the said John Stout under oath or otherwise is entitled to full credit. Deponent says that he has lived within a few miles of the said John Stout for a number

of years and that he has been refuted and believed in the neighbourhood that he did duty as a soldier during the Revolutionary war
Sworn to and Subscribed before David H. Walker this 17 th July 1833 before me
William Lloyd

Monmouth County N.J. Personally appeared before the Subscribed one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Monmouth. On this Sixth day of February in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty three. John Stout of the said County who being duly sworn according to Law deponeth and saith that he deponeth, did on the thirty first day of July in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty two make his declaration for a pension before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monmouth, and this deponent further on oath saith that he cannot at this late day find any person who is now living that can testify to his revolutionary services except Captain Benjamin Vandeveer, whose testimony has been already taken, and annexed to this Deponent's Declaration.
This Deponent on like oath as aforesaid deponeth and saith before the Subscribed a justice of the peace as aforesaid, 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 before mentioned and in the following grades, In the Year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Six, I did duty as a private in monthly tours of one month each for the space of six months. in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Seven I served six months in monthly tours of one month each, as a private in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy eight I did duty as a private for six months in monthly tours of one month each in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy

nine I did duty as a private for the Space Of six months in Monthly tours of One month each in the Year Seventeen hundred and Eighty I did duty for the Space of six months in Monthly tours of One month each as a private In the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty one I did duty for the Space of six months in Monthly tours of One month each as a private In the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty two I did duty as a private for the Space of six months in Monthly tours of One month each. This deponent further saith that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot state the precise time of the beginning and ending of the different tours of duty, and for such service I claim a pension
Sworn to & subscribed } the day & year aforesaid } before me } William Lloyd
John Stout
State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss.
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of the County of Monmouth John D. Barkalow an ordained Elder of the Methodist Independent Church in said County Who being duly sworn according to Law deposed and saith that he renders in the Township of Howell in said County that he is well acquainted with John Stout who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit and

Annexed Declaration That I believe him to be of Eighty five years of age That he is respected and beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and That I concur in that opinion That deponent has known the said John Street for thirty five years last past having resided in the same neighbourhood with him That he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit  Sworn to & Subscribed } John D. Barkalows this 6 th February 1833 before me  William Lloyd 
I William Lloyd Justice of the peace before whom the two foregoing affidavits have been Subscribed & taken & do hereby Certify That John D. Barkalows who has Sworn to and Subscribed the last above affidavit is an Elder of the Methodist Independent Church in the Township of Howell in said County That he is of good Repute and Credit and a Creditable person and that his statement is entitled to full Credit - Witness my Hand this 6 th February 1833 -  William Lloyd 

I Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the annexed papers contain the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Stout for a pension on the thirty first day of July last past, and also that William Lloyd Esquire whose name is subscribed to the jurats of the affidavits of the said John Stout and John D. Berthelot sworn and submitted to on the sixth day of February instant and to the certificate following the same all of which are hereto annexed was at the same time and now is a justice of the peace of the said County of Monmouth duly commissioned and sworn, and that his said acts are entitled to full faith and credit, and I do hereby further certify that the names William Lloyd signed in the jurats of said affidavits and to the said certificate are respectively the proper hand writing of the said William Lloyd
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Englewood this Eleventh day of February in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty three
D. H. Ellis Clerk

Monmouth County ss } Personally appeared before the Subscribers New Jersey } One of the Justices of the peace of the County of Monmouth, on this Eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three John Stout who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God deposeth and saith that on the thirty first day of July eighteen hundred and thirty two he made his application before the Judges of Monmouth Pleas for a pension, and on the sixth day of February last past he made his Supplemental Affidavit, and this deponent on like oath further saith that he this deponent in the month of June in the Year of our Lord seven hundred and twenty six, he entered into the service as a private in the Militia in the company of Captain Hendrick Smock of Monmouth County and his name enrolled on the said Captain's list, that Head Quarters or place of Rendezvous was at Freehold Monmouth Court house It seems that he marched from Monmouth Courthouse to Middletown where he joined other Troops and proceeded to the Highlands in Middletown when the British fleet was Off Sandy Hook, that General David Forman was the Commanding Officer, that deponent continued doing military duty in that Year for near six months in monthly tours of one month each, in guarding the frontiers & Sea beach &c. prevent the Incursions of the Tories & refugees, that he did duty in the months of June, August, October, December, & probably some other time, that Year. He is certain he was on duty when the British fleet was off the Hook. Thinks it was in June but might have been earlier in the Year ———— That in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven he deponent, did duty as a private under the said Captain Smock in Freehold & Middletown for six months in monthly tours of one month each to the best of his recollection he served in the months of January March, May, July, September November of that Year Commencing in January of that Year,
That in the Year Seventeen hundred & seventy eight this deponent served as a private in the Militia under Captain Benjamin Vanderveer of the County of Monmouth. That Head Quarters was then at the Court House of Monmouth County. He thinks it was in the month of January in that year he began his tour of duty, and served in January, March, May

July. September and November in said year being in monthly tours of one month each for six months - That he this Deponent Marched from Freehold with Captain Vanderveer to the township of Shrewsbury On the sea board and was Employed in Marching Along the Sea Coast and Inlets during his monthly tours - This Deponent further Saith in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy nine he entered as a private in the said Captain Vanderveer's Company and Marched to Middletown where he Joined a detachment of Militia and did duty under them in May, and in monthly tours of one month each for the space of six months, to wit in March May, July, September, November & December of that Year
This Deponent on oath Saith that in the Year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and eighty he entered as a private in the Company of Captain William Vanderveer of Monmouth County. That he did duty under Captain William Vanderveer in Freehold & Middletown that he commenced doing duty that Year in March and did duty every other month for six months in monthly tours of one month each to wit in the month of February, April, June, August, October and December - This Deponent on like oath further Saith that in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty one he served as a private in the Militia in the Company Commanded by Captain Daniel Hampton of Monmouth County that he commenced doing duty under Captain Hampton in the month of February in that Year and Marched from Upon the place of Rendezvous to Shark River Guarding the Sea Coast and Inlets most frequented by the Refugees. he did duty under Captain Hampton that Year for six months in monthly tours of one month each, to wit in February, April, June, August, October & December and on one occasion This Deponent was sent by Captain Hampton to Colo: Duke Wilkoff who was one of the

field Officers on public business.
This Deponent further Saith that in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty two he this Deponent did duty under the said Captain Daniel Hampton for the space of six months in monthly tours of one month each to wit, he commenced in January in the last mentioned year and did duty in January, March, May, July, September and November. Deponent Saith that he did duty under Captain Hampton in the Town & Co. of Shrewsbury, he was stationed at Squan as the place of Rendezvous, and marched from thence along the Sea and Inlets as occasions required with a view of preventing inroads or invasions from the Tories and Refugees. Deponent Saith from the best of his recollection & memory he served according to times & places above stated and that it is not in his power at this late day to furnish any testimony further than is contained in the annexed affidavits for which services he claims a Pension.
John Stout
Sworn to & Subscribed This 8 th day of August
1833
Thos. C. Shuckmorton Justice
I Daniel B. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Manners and State of New Jersey Do hereby Certify that Thomas C. Shuckmorton whose name is subscribed to the jurat of the affidavit of the said John Stout is sworn to & subscribed on the eighth day of August last and that the name of William Lloyd, whose name is subscribed to the jurat of the Affidavit of Aaron F. Walker on the fourteenth day of July last past, all which

are hereunto annexed, were at the same time and now both are parties of the peace of the County of Devonmouth duly Commissioned and sworn and that their acts as such are entitled to full credit. And I do further certify that the names Thomas C. Throckmorton and William Lloyd signed in the firsts of the said Affirmations are respectively the hand writings of the said Thomas C. Throckmorton and William Lloyd.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Exmouth this ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty three
W. H. Ellis Clerk