Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,313, for James Kent, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Kent, James Hink
N. 20,313
Catharine
CONTENTS
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Rep:
Payable to James, Abraham, Jeremiah and Catharine Kent, Sarah Cozine & Susan Dutton, only children.
Letter to C.A. Lay March 21-1847-
New York No. 4274.
Catharine Kent, deceased widow of James Kent, deceased, who died on the 16 th July, 1805 of N. York in the State of N. York who was a Daughter in the Co commanded by Captain Blanchard of the — commanded by ————— in the N. Jersey line for 12 mo. Piv & 3 mo. Fugl
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 55 Dollars ————— Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831, & end 18 th April 1845, when she died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Nov. 1846 ————— and sent to C.A. Lay, Present
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
Payable to children.
Increased from $30. per ann.
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d
Recorded by D.A. Maud Book C. Vol. 1. Page

State of New York
City and County of New York } ss.
Be it remembered That before me the subscriber personally appeared Catharine Kent, of said City, who being by me duly sworn, says, that she is the daughter of Catharine Kent late of the said City of New York deceased, who was the widow of James Kent, and executing on the estate of her said deceased mother, who after her death was allowed a pension of Thirty dollars per annum, under the act of Congress of July 4th 1836.
And this deponent further says that since her said Mothers death and since her claim to a pension was allowed additional documentary evidence of the revolutionary services of her said deceased father, the late husband of her deceased Mother, the said Catharine Kent, has been discovered, which she is informed and believes fully verifies the alleged time of six months service of her said father in a Detachment of the New Jersey State Regiment, at Hackensack, in the year 1779, and for which service it appears manifestly certain from the official correspondence, and facts that entered into the merits of her said Mothers claim, that her said Mother could not have been allowed for, as will more fully appear by reference to the correspondence, and the accompanying arguments of Mr C A Lay this deponents Attorney. She therefore in behalf of her self and the other surviving children of the said deceased Catharine Kent claim to be allowed a pension for the above recited service, which was in right due her deceased mother, but which was withheld from her for want of the very proof that has since her death been discovered, and that the evidence referred to in the communication of the Commissioner of Pensions of the 19 August 1846, is the evidence relied on to establish fully the said term claimed for.
And this deponent further says, that she is informed and believes that her said fathers Militia service, such as the laws of New Jersey require of every able bodied man to render, was satisfactorily made out, but was not claimed for in the manner required by the regulations, by her mother in her declaration. She therefore in behalf of her self and the other surviving children of the said deceased claim to be allowed for such Militia service as the Department may determine is satisfactorily made out, by the evidence on file, such evidence

and the Official reason assigned by the Department, for not allowing for that service is relied to establish the fact that nine or less Militia service was satisfactorily established, and that her mother's mental infirmities prevented her from claiming for after such decision, was made.
And this deponent further says, that she is informed and believes that there has lately been found an original Roll of Captain Patapsco Company, of three months men in 1780, which she is informed is now in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, and which she is informed establishes the fact, that her said father did hold the rank of Sergeant in that company, and inasmuch as she is informed and believes that her said mother was only allowed as private for that service, she therefore claims to be allowed a pension for that service equal to the difference between a private and Sergeant, relying on the said Roll to establish the fact.
And this deponent further says, that the vouchers upon which her said deceased mother's pension was paid is relied on to establish the period of her death, and the names of her surviving children all of which is yet living and that this deponent is yet the Executrix on the Estate of the said deceased and is duly authorized to act in that capacity.
Sworn to and subscribed this
5 day of November 1846 before me
J. R. Lee Commissioner of Deeds
See of Catharine Kent mark
STATE OF NEW-YORK, CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
I, James Conner, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That A. N. Lee deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by the laws of this State to take the same; and that I believe the Signature of said Commissioner of Deeds thereto subscribed is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 6 day of Nov 1846
James Conner
Clerk.

Payment to be made at N. York City by J. A. Stevens Agent for paying Pen- sioners, in the Agency of
New York
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book C Vol. 1, Page 12, by _____
N. H. Ward Clerk.
Duplicate.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July, 1836, Catharine Kent, dec d . late _____ of New York _____ widow of James Kent, dec d . _____ who was a Private and pensioned at $30. per an m . is now increased as Private and Sergeant is entitled to receive Fifty Five _____ dollars and _____ cents per annum during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, ending 18 th April 1845, when she died.
The difference is payable to James, Abraham, Jeremiah, & Catharine Kent, Sarah Cozine and Susan Dalton, only children. } Given at the War Office of the United States, this 17 th day of Nov. one thousand eight hundred and forty Six.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
Secretary of War.
Commissioner of Pensions.
Duplicate.

6339
Catharine Kent.
N.Y.
act 4 July '36.
acom d
9 mo ri
$30.
C. A. Lay Esv.
New York

State of New York
City and County of New York } ss.
I James Corner, Clerk of the City and County aforesaid do hereby certify that Calvin Williams Esq. before whom the annexed declaration of Catharine Kent and the annexed deposition of a person of the same name and the affidavits of Frederick F. Cornell and John F. Cornell and whose name is subscribed to the annexed Certificates thereto appended, was on the day of the date thereof, and now is, Alderman of the 11 th Ward of the City of New York, and a Judge of the County Court of said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized to take the same. Said Court being a Court of Record. And I do further certify that James Palmer Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit of John Campbell purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date thereof a Special Justice of the Peace for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized to take the same. And I do further certify that S. R. Flanagan Esq. before whom the annexed deposition of William Logier purports to have been sworn, was on the day of the date thereof a Commissioner of Deeds, for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized to take the same. And also that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the aforesaid Alderman , Special Justice and Commissioner , and do hereby believe that their signatures, subscribed to the jurats of the said instruments, purporting to be theirs, are their own proper signatures and genuine hand writing -

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at the City Hall in the City of New York this 14 th Day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four, Samuel Connery, Clerk.

to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed Feb. 4. 1836.
That she is the widow of James Kent, or as he sometimes spelt his name "Kint," who was a private and sergeant in the Revolutionary war in the Militia and other Troops of Bergen County New Jersey. That her husband the aforesaid James Kent, was a native of Sussex County New Jersey, and was at the time of the breaking out of the revolutionary war, an apprentice to John Fernald, at the Blacksmithing business, at a place called the "Ponds" in Franklin Township, in Bergen County in the same state. That the said John Fernald upon the breaking out of the war gave up the blacksmithing business, and her said husband having no employment entered the service in the Militia, and served as a substitute for persons residing in that part of the County, that she was but little acquainted with him before July of the year 1779, but recollects before that time he served a monthly tour in Captain Romines Company at the Liberty Pole in the English Neighborhood, and a tour of six or seven weeks, under a Captain whose name she does not recollect Stationed down at Amboy in both of which periods she believes he served as a substitute, and was either Corporal or sergeant, and in addition to which she believes he served not only as is stated in the accompanying affidavit of John H. Post, but many other monthly tours, not spoken of in that affidavit, before the above stated time.
That in the Wheat House in the month of July 1779, she became intimately acquainted with her said husband, as it was at that time that their Courtship commenced, and at that time she distinctly recollects he was in service as a sergeant, in a Company of Troops, that was then Stationed in the Village of Hackensack, and was quartered in Willsons old School House, and was Commanded by a Captain from the lower part of the State, whose name she has forgotten, but the Lieutenants name as she distinctly recollects was, Post.

That said Company had, as she understood, been raised in the different Counties by enlistment for an Campaign, and that it continued so stationed, until on or about the first of January coming when their term expired and they were there discharged as she well remembers, That said Company kept a picket guard at New Bridge of which guard she distinctly recollects her said husband was, every other day the officer, and that she distinctly recollects he continued to serve in said Company until it was discharged, That it is her impression that said Company's term for which it had been raised to serve was six months, and she distinctly recollects that it was in what was called the Hard winter that said Company was discharged, and she also recollects that her said husband received his pay in paper money about the time he was discharged, and that said Company drew their regular rations and cooked them in the farm houses, and lived in the school house, six soldiers being in a mess, That she lived during the time said Company laid there between the village of Hackensack and New Bridge, where said Company's picket guard was kept, on the main road and that she distinctly recollects seeing the said picket, pass and repass every night and morning during the whole time it laid there, and that she does not know to what Regt said Company belonged if it belonged to any, nor did she know the names of any of his comrades, as they were all strangers in these parts, having come as she understood from the lower Counties of the State.
That immediately after the above stated discharge of her said husband, he went up to the Ponds, and failing to get any employment there, he came back to Hackensack again while yet it was Winter, and she thinks it was Captain Outwater, was then enlisting a Company for three months service into whose Company her said husband enlisted as Sergeant for the term, and whether it was before, or just after said Company had been embodied in to service she cannot remember, he was taken prisoner, and was taken to New York City, where he was kept a prisoner of War, until in June, when he, as he, and others that was prisoners with him, afterwards informed her, despairing of being soon exchanged, he enlisted with the enemy, and he was with the British Army sent down to Staten Island, where he deserted, and as she distinctly recollects he came to Hackensack in that same month dressed in a full suit of British regimentals, That he said he had been enlisted about one week when he deserted, and that his exchange had been effected, by Capt. Willis,

a day or two before he came back, at which time the Company in which he had enlisted had some time before served out their time and was discharged,
That immediately, after his above stated return home in the month of June, 1782, he enlisted, as sergeant with the Bare Men, in the Standing Army, for six months. She believes he enlisted in the Regiment to which Major Gouchus, belonged for he came along a day or two after he had enlisted, and asked him why he was not at his post. That at the time he enlisted with the war men, for six months, Captain Blanch of the said County of Berks was enlisting a Company of Troops for a like period of six months, and a sergeant that had enlisted, in Captain Blanches Company, whose name she does not recollect, and her said husband made an exchange and her said husband instead of serving with the war men , entered Captain Blanches Company which was embodied into service at Closter, on or about the first day of July. She knows it must have been the first day of July for she well remembers that the period was for six months and that it, as she well remembers terminated on the first day of January, ensuing. That Captain James Christie of the said County of Berks paid her said husband his bounty for his enlistment, in Gold in September, after his enlistment. That he served his full term of enlistment in Capt. Blanches Company as sergeant. That said Company of Captain Blanches when they were first embodied into service, laid for a short time in Closter Mountain, and was afterwards, stationed at Closter, and the men were billeted in the Farm houses in that place, and they drew their regular rations, and lived in the Farm houses. That soon after he entered upon his service in Blanches Company he went up in Closter Mountains as a guide to show General Wayne the way to a block house, occupied by the Refugees, which Gen Wayne with his Army attempted to take but did not succeed. That on Saturday the 23 d day of September, he got a furlough and came down to Hackensack, and on Monday they were married, and on Tuesday he returned to his duty again, in Capt. Blanches Company, and did not come down but once afterwards, until the first of January when he was discharged. That she recollects that he received his pay for that service but who paid him, or when, or in what kind of money she does not recollect. That immediately after the termination of his service in

Captain Blanches Company in that same Winter, they moved up to the Ponds in the said County of Bergen, and hired a house of John Vice, and went to housekeeping, and in March, it came his turn, to serve his month, but she expecting daily to be confined, with her first Child, he was excused, and did not go, he was then at work at his trade, soon after which there was an alarm, and he went down to Hackensack, as a private in Captain Willis Company he was only out two or three days. That she thinks it was in the fall of that year, "1781," there was a refugee, confined in the Log jail, at the place where they lived, by the name of Paul Callagan, and a jail guard was called out, to guard the jail, said jail guard was commanded by Captain Willis, and that her husband served as a private in the said jail guard from the time it was raised until the day the said Paul Callagan was hung which was she thinks a few days short of a month, but it was understood that such service should be counted as a monthly tour. That he rendered no service of a Military character after the day that the said Paul Callagan was hung. That she and her said husband, is the identical persons referred to in the accompanying affidavit made by John Campbell, who has now been dead some years, who she will know in the war, and will remember, that he and her said husband was together in the same Companies, at the time he was taken prisoner, as before stated, and they were together in Captain Blanches Company in the six month service. That she should have made an application for a pension but she was informed, that her husbands enlistment with the enemy cut her off. That her maiden name was Catharine Parlaman, and that she was brought up in the family of Abraham Brower, who lived near New Bridge, with whom she continued to reside after her marriage, until the expiration of her said husbands above stated service under Captain Blanch, That they were married by the Rev. Mr. Romine of Hackensack at his house. That she is now aged eighty six years and upwards, That they lived at the Ponds as above stated, until about the year 1800, when they moved to the City of New York, where he soon after died, and she has ever since continued to reside, in said City. That she has no documentary evidence of the Revolutionary services of her said late husband nor does she know of the existence of any.

She further declares that the annexed register, of the births of her children was made by her request by the Rev. John Demanest, the Clergyman, of the Dutch Reformed Church at the Ponds, a great many years ago, and that the same has been kept by her in her family Bible as her original family register, until the present time, and that she believes said register exhibits the true dates of the births of all her children. She further declares that she was married to the said James Kent on the twenty fifth day of September, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty, and that her husband the aforesaid James Kent died July, the 16 th A. D. 1805, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith annexed,  Catharine Her Kent  Mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me }
Joby Williams Atty at Law
City and County of New York, S.S. Be it known That before me the undersigned, personally appeared Catharine Kent, and and made oath in due form of law, that she is the daughter of Catharine Kent, who has sworn and subscribed the foregoing declaration, that she is aged 49 years and knows that her mother the said Catharine Kent, is the widow of the said James Kent, who she has always understood was a revolutionary soldier, and served as is stated, and that her father the said James Kent died, at the period as is stated and since which time her said mother has not been again married, but still continues, the widow of the said James Kent, Sworn to and subscribed this 23 day } Catharine Her Kent of October, A. D. 1844 before me } Mark Joby Williams

This is to certify that it has been Satisfactorily proved to me that Catherine Kent the applicant making the foregoing substantiation Declaration and her daughter by the same name making the above substantiation are respectable persons And I believe their statements are entitled to credit and also that it speaks to my satisfaction that the Applicant cannot by reason of infirmity attend the Court Gaby Williams Aldn 11 Ward
City of New York. ss. I F F Cornell - a clergyman residing at No. 209 Fifth Street in the City of New York. Do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Catherine Kent, residing at No 153 Houston Street in the City of New York, who is by the within papers claiming a pension. I have been in the habit of frequently calling and conversing with her for several years. She is a very respectable and pious woman, and is in the full possession of her mental faculties, and is in my opinion capable of mak- ing clear and accurate statements, and I believe any statements that she has made may be fully relied on -
Sworn to before me this 14 day of November 1844 - } Geo. F. Cornell Gaby Williams } Minister of the Aldn 11 Ward } Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan. New York City
City of New York ss. I John F Cornell a Physician re- siding at No 39 Avenue D - in the City of New York Do hereby certify that I have attended the said Catherine Kent referred to in the above certificate as her physician for several years and I fully concur in the the opinion that she is capable of mak- ing clear and accurate statements, notwithstanding her old age and bodily infirmity, and I believe full faith and credit may be given to any statements that she may have made -
Sworn to before me this 14 day of November 1844 } John F. Cornell M.D. Gaby Williams } Aldn 11 Ward }

I certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the persons making the above certificate are the persons they represent themselves to be and that I believe them fully entitled to credit - Jabez Williams
James, or Jacobus Kent Catharine Kent, Their Children were born as follows, viz
Jacobus, was born 15 th March, 1781 Sanna, was born 25 th October, 1784 Sarah, was born 6 th March, 1788 Abraham, was born 20 th May, 1790 Nathaniel, was born 30 th September, 1792 Catharine, was born 2 nd January, 1795 Jemima, or (as I suppose) George, was born 12 th December 1799
N. B. Sanna, or as I suppose the name must be Susan, is supposed to have been born in October, 1784, because she is registered to have been the 25 th of without stating the month in which, & she was baptized the 20 th of November of that year.
The above is taken from the Book of Records for registering Infants that have been baptized in the Reformed Dutch Church at the Ponds. Witness John Demarest, V. D. M. Pastor.
Loci

For Value Received I Promise to pay Charles Golden Order Nine Dollars and thirty four Cents Interest March the 11 th 1805
Witness James his Plant William Golden mark
Received New York November the 30 th 1805 of the Widow Catherine Plant the Content of the above Charles Golden
9 34 5-00 14-34
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State of New Jersey } ss. Essex County }
Brigitte Demariste being duly sworn deposes and saith that she resides in in Newark in the said and County of Essex and is aged 80 years and upwards, that during the revolutionary war she resided at New Bridge in the County of Bergen New Jersey, and was well acquainted with a girl by the name of Catherine Parlaman who resided in the family of her uncle, Abraham Brower at the same place where she resided, and that she distinctly recollects, of having been present at the time of the marriage of the said Catherine Parlaman to James Kent, who was by occupation a Blacksmith, and then resided in the County of Bergen That the said marriage took place, as she well remembers in the latter of the summer, or the first of the fall, about three years before the close of the Revolutionary war, That they were married by the Rev. Mr. Romine of Hackensack, and that she this deponent was bridesmaid on the occasion. And this deponent further says that, she recollects that, the said James Kent, was a soldier in the said war in the Bergen County Troops, and that soon after their marriage they moved up to the Ponds in the County of Bergen, where in the Spring after their above stated marriage their eldest child James was born, That the said James Kent has now been dead many years many years and that the said Catherine is yet living as she understands in the City of New York And this deponent further says that the Rev. Mr. Romine, who married the said Catherine Parlaman and the said James Kent, as above stated was the regular clergyman of the Dutch Reformed Church, in the village of Hackensack.
Sworn to and subscribed this 23 rd day of October 1844 before me } Brigitte Demariste
Stephen O. Davies
Notary of the peace

I certify that Bridget Demarest the person who made the within deposition is a person well known to me and is in my opinion worthy of credit
Stephen P. Haines
Just of the peace
State of New Jersey
Essex County } ss.
I John P. Jackson - Clerk of the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Stephen P. Haines before whom the foregoing deposition of Bridget Demarest was to him known to have been sworn, was on the day of the date thereof, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, duly commis- sioned and sworn, and authorized to take the same. And fur- ther that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said judge and do verily believe, his signature, subscrib- ed to the jurat of the foregoing deposition, and certificate to be his own genuine signature and proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Newark this 23 d day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four.
J. P. Jackson Clerk

State of New Jersey Passaic County } S. John. The Port of said County being duly sworn. Depo- eth and saith, that he is aged 84 years and upwards, that during the Revolu- tionary War he resided at a place called the Ponds in the County of Bergen in the State of New Jersey, and that at that place lived a man by the name of James Kent, with whom he was well acquainted, and that he and the said James Kent, served together in the same Company in the Revolutionary numerous tours, in the Militia, that he recollects that the said James Kent served with him, a period of Nine months as private, in Captain John Hoagland's Company stationed at the Liberty Pole in the English Neighborhood, and a period of three months at the same place under a Captain whose name he cannot now remember, as private, and a tour of one month as a private under Captain Outwater, and a tour of one month under Captain Willis, stationed at the same place, and a tour of five weeks as Sergeant, in Captain Van Houten's Company, stationed at Millstone. That the above is all the service that he can now distinctly recollect that the said James Kent rendered with him in the same Company, but that he recollects that the said James Kent rendered many monthly tours other than the ones above mentioned, and that he recollects that he, the said James Kent near the close of the War, served a period in a Company, which he thinks was commanded by Captain Willis, stationed at the Falls at the "Ponds," that the above stated period in which they were in the service together was during the later periods of the War, and that in the later part of the War, the said James Kent was in service under enlistment at Hackensack and Closter, and that he well recollects the circumstances of the marriage of the said James Kent to Catharine his wife, and that he recollects that it took place long before the close of the War, and before he left the service, and that he also recollects of having heard that he was taken prisoner at Hackensack, and that the said James Kent was by occupation a blacksmith and died many years ago in the City of New York, and further this Deponent saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed this 18 th day
of September 1844 before me
Then and there one of the justices of the peace of Passaic County -
John H. his mark

I Thomas Gould am well acquainted with John B Forster the within mentioned deponent and have been a near neighbour for more than thirty years and consider him a man of good character and whose testimony can be fully relied on. . .
Thos. Gould Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey } Passaic County ss }
I John Keenan Clark of the County of Passaic aforesaid Do hereby certify that Thomas Gould is a duly appointed and commissioned justice of the peace in and for said County and now legally qualified to act as such justice of the peace. Also that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Thomas Gould and verily believe that the signatures attached to the foregoing jurat and certificate are his own proper signatures and genuine hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal at Paterson this eighteenth day of September A.D. 1844 John Keenan Clark

State of New York City and County of New York } ss.
William Logsdon of said City being duly sworn deposes and saith that he is aged 88 years and upwards, and that during the revolutionary war he resided just east of New Bridge, about three miles from the Village of Hackensack, in the County of Bergen New Jersey - and that he was well acquainted with a man at that period by the name of James Kent, who was a blacksmith by occupation and at that period resided at a place in the said County of Bergen called the "Ponds." And this deponent further says, that he distinctly recollects that the said James Kent, was the officer of a piquet guard that was kept at said New Bridge, in the said County of Bergen, in it was he thinks the year 1779, and that he distinctly recollects that said piquet guard belonged to a Company that was quartered in the Village of Hackensack and was when it first came there he thinks commanded by Capt. Jerobam, and afterwards by its Lieutenant, Post . That he now recollects of having at that time understood that said Company was a Company of enlisted men, and to the best of his recollection said Company laid there several months. That he being acquainted with the said James Kent, could cross the Bridge in the night, by giving the said James Kent something to drink, which he recollects of having often done. And this deponent further says that he now recollects of having often seen the said James Kent in service in the said war in this County, at different times and in different places, but under what officers other than those above stated he does not now recollect, nor does he now recollect of having seen the said James Kent after the close of the war and further this deponent saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 20 th day
of October 1844, and that
I believe him to be a credible witness.
William Logsdon
J. R. Haverigan

City of New York
I have been here at No 67 Norfolk Street wherein since death have deposited my will. That the the deposited and James Kent the said John Macdonald were soldiers in the War of the Revolution served together in the Battle of Bunker Hill. That since the death of the said James Kent provision has been made by Congress for the relief of the surviving Officers & soldiers and that he this deposited obtained a pension has been received under the act of Congress. And the depositor further says that Catherine Kent now residing at No 65 Norfolk Street is the widow of the said James Kent and is now destitute of the means of supporting herself and is in want of relief
Given this 17 day of March 1855
Before James Palmer John Campbell So Justice

The within affiant John Campbell has been dead many years. He is represented to me to have been a man of known respectability. His affidavit was taken for the purpose of showing the facts contained in it, not for the purpose of sustaining this or any other claim on the Government. His own declaration will show whether the Claimant is correct in her assertion that she was with her husband in Blanche's Company six months in 1880 - or not.
76 D. A. Lay Dept.
for the Catherine Hunt Affiant of Campbell

State of New Jersey Bergen County } ss.
Henry Berdan being duly sworn deposes and saith that during the Revolutionary war, he resided in Hackensack in the County of Bergen New Jersey, and served in said war as a Lieutenant, and assistant Commissary, and that he was well acquainted with James Kent, who also then resided in the same County, who he well remembers was almost the whole time in service as a soldier, during the war, that he was one of those men who had no employment, and he wants serve as a substitute for any one who would employ him, and that he recollects that the said James Kent, was in Captain Pitcairn's Company and was taken prisoner, in the year 1780.
Sworn to and subscribed this 9 th day of September 1844 before me } Henry X Berdan his mark Sam l H. Berg a Judge of Bergen Co. Pleas
I certify that the above named affiant Henry Berdan is personally known to me and has been, for a great number of years, and is a man of the most undoubted character for truth and veracity, and in my opinion his statements are entitled to full credit.
Sam l H. Berg Judge of Bergen Co. Pleas

State of New Jersey Bergen County, ss. } I John H. Berry Clerk of the County of Bergen aforesaid Do hereby Certify that, Sam l H. Berry is a duly appointed and Commissioned Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and now legally qualified to act as such, and was upon the day of the date of the taking of the foregoing instruments duly qualified to act in that capacity Also that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and sincerely believe that the signatures attached to the foregoing jurats and cer- tificates are his own proper signatures and genuine hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hands and affixed my official seal at Hackensack this seventh day of October A.D. 1844. John H. Berry Clerk

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.
James Kent } Catharine Kent, } Their Children were Born as follows viz
James Kent was born 15 March 1781 Susan Kent — 25 October 1784 Sarah Kent — 6 March 1788 Abraham Kent — 20 May 1790 Nathaniel Kent — 30 Sept 1792 Catharine Kent — 2 Jany 1795 George Kent — 12 Dec 1799
James Kent Died July 16 th 1805 Aged 50 years Nathaniel Kent Died 26 June 1836 Aged 43 years

The annexed family register is found in another branch of the family and from what I can learn it appears to have been copied from the providing abstract of the births of Children from the Church Books at the Ponds, but I deem it of importance inasmuch as it shews the age of the Claimants husband, the said James Rents .
A. A. Lay Wgt for Claimant

Rev.
WIDOW, &c.
No. 20313
Catherine Kent
Widow of
James Kent
Sergt. Rev. War
Act July 4, 1836
Box: Vol. DA , Page 393
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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  79. Capt Romaine -    1 mo    "  Lt Post -  Hackensack -  6 -    80 " Dutwalen   " Prison  3 -    80 " Blanch with the Wasmens -   Closter -  6 -    81. " Willis  guards jail -    
J.H. Post wit.
9 mo under Capt. Huger Liberty Pole 3 - officer forgotten same place -
Logan - saw him in service 79. as officer on guard at Hackensack - Capt. Jerusalem & Lt. Post Berdan - was in Dutwalen County 1780 & taken prisoner

4274.
N. York.
Catharine Kent, widow of James Kent,
who died on the 16 July 1805 of N. York in the State of N. York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Blanchard of the — commanded by — in the N. Jersey line for 9 months
Col. C. A. Ray April 11. '46 same June 22, '46.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 30 Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Oct 45, and sent to C. A. Ray N. York
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 115 $1135 00 Semi-annual allowance ending 11 15 00
450 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 34 }
Recorded by Will Stearns Clerk. Book 6 — Vol. 1 — Page 126.

Catharine Kent - N.Y. City date of her death died 18 th April 1845. & names of her children?
G. W. Sump
James Kent Abraham Kent Jeremiah Kent Sarah Logins Susan Dabton Catharine Kent
Children

Catharine Kent die d
NY
Act 4 July 30
increase
6 mo pri. in 79-
12 mo pri 3. Sept
55 $ deduct what was paid.
Also act 4 J. 1844
55 $ to 18 apt 1845 when she died - deduct as above
To James - Abraham Jeremiah - Catha rine Kent - Sarah Coyne & Susan Hutton only chil dren -
Oct 1845 Eng Present

Hackensack 20 th July 1779
Sir
On demand be pleased to pay unto the following persons or their order, the sums assigned to their respective names being so much due to them for a bounty and subsistence allowed by an Act of Assembly passed at Trenton on the second of June Anno Dom 1779.
Theunis Dey Cole Peter R Teller Lt. Col.
To Mr. Cornelius Haring appointed by law to pay the above orders.
   Names of men entitled to receive the Bounty and Subsistence. Bounty due Subsistence due Total of Bounty and Subsistence due. Hackensack July 1779.   We whose names are hereunto subscribed do certify that we have received of Cornelius Haring the bounty & subsistence due to us as per the annexed being in full     James Kent 50 6 3 / 4 56 3 / 4 James his Kent mark  
State of New Jersey I Charles G. McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from a paper headed as above as taken from and compared with the original now on file in my Office. In Testimony whereof

I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Trento this twenty seventh day of June A.D. 1846 eight hundred and forty six.
Charles G. M. Chesney Seal of Office

No. 1.
An act to embody for a limited time, one thousand of the militia of this State for the defence of the frontiers thereof.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and General Assembly of this State and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That for the defence of this State, one thousand of the militia thereof, exclusive of field officers, be immediately embodied and properly officered and equipped, to continue in the service until the fifteenth day of December next unless sooner discharged.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Quotas or proportion of the said one thousand men be enlisted or raised from the militia of the several Counties of this State as follows. that is to say — From the County of Bergen, one Lieutenant, one Ensign, two Sergeants, two Corporals and thirty nine Privates — 36 — 50
Passed June 2, 1779.

No. 2.
At a Council held at Mount Holly — December 21. 1779.
Council advised his Excellency to authorize Capt. Outwater to raise a Company of Volunteers of one hundred men to be commanded by — himself as Captain, and of which the said David Demarest is to be Lieut and the said Cadmus Hoogeland Ensign for the defence of the Frontiers of the County of Bergen upon the pay of the militia of this State, to continue in Service until the first day of March next or less sooner discharged
Elizabeth town January 28. 1780.
Council advised the Governor to continue the Guard Stationed in Bergen County under the Command of Capt. Outwater from the first day of March to the Sixteenth day of March next
Trenton February 22 d 1780
Council advised His Excellency to prolong the time of the Guard Stationed in — Bergen County, under the Command of Capt. Outwater from the Sixteenth day of March to the first day of May next

State of New Jersey.
I Charles G. McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that N o 1. is a true extract of the law passed by the legislature of this State on the 2 d June 1779. and N o 2. is a true extract from the Minutes of the Council of Safety, as taken from and compared with the originals now of record in my office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at Trenton this Second day of July A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and forty five.
Charles G. McChesney Secy of State.

J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions. Washington D.C.

New York June 30. 1846.
Sir
I have received your letter of the 22 d Inst. by which I am informed that the service for which Mrs. Catharine Kent, widow of James Kent was allowed, was for Nine months service as private in Captain Blanchards Company of the New Jersey Line . I now enclose you a Certificate of the Secretary of State of New Jersey, of the service of James Kent, at Hackensack in a Detachment of the New Jersey State Regiment, in the year 1779, which period will be found to be definitely set out, and claimed for, in the declaration, with the rank as sergeant . The Department will now find by reference to the affidavits of John L. Post, and William Lozier, on file, and a former Certificate of the Secretary of State, showing the authority to raise Troops for six months in that year, also on file, that the requisition contained in your letter of 20 th January, 1845, is fully complied with, and I can see no reason now why an allowance should not now be made for that period of service and with the rank of Sergeant, as that rank will be found to be sustained by reference to the affidavit of William Lozier.
I would also respectfully call your attention to the alleged term of three months service in Captain Dulwats Company of Volunteers in the Spring of 1780, and ask the Dept to review the evidence in support of that term, as I am constrained to believe that the Dept will find that the evidence satisfactory; for by reference to a Certificate of the Secretary of New Jersey, on file, it will be found that Captain Dulwats was authorized to raise and continue in service a Company of Volunteers for a longer term than three months , and to establish the fact that her husband was in that service as a sergeant , as was alleged by his widow, and definitely claimed for, I have to refer you to the affidavit of Henry Bardau and the original

Pay Roll of Captain Outwater, an file, which Mr. David Pye, informs me bears the name of "James Kent," as Sergeant, which I suppose was inadvertently overlooked in the former examination, If it does bear his name and rank I am constrained to think it will be found to be satisfactorily made out,
I would also most respectfully call your attention to the fact, that a militia service was claimed for by Mrs Kent from the commencement of the war to June 1779, and by reference to the affidavits of John H Pest, and Henry Burdau it will be found that her husband not only done all the Militia service he was by law required to do, during these three years, as private and Sergeant, but that he done a good deal of service as a substitute for others. It is true his term of service in the Militia is not set out and proven in the manner required by the rules, nor is it possible to do it in any widows case at this late day, and I am aware that the Department has many properly waived that rule in almost every widows claim for Militia service and in a great number of cases also where the soldiers themselves applied, as the terms were of such short duration, There is a higher grade of the evidence of the service of a Militia Man in this case than in a number of cases that I have presented, and which has been allowed, for similar service. The Dept estimated the service, I take it for granted that the Department will be satisfied that he was a Militiaman in these years, viz 1776, 77 & 78, if it is it must be satisfied that his service extended six months in the Militia, for the law of 1776 and 1777, required every militiaman to serve every alternate month, and in 1778, every third month. In asking the Department to admit for six months as a Militia Man we do not ask for so much as the Department has in cases similar, "to numerous to mention."

allowed for a longer term, and upon a less higher grade of proof than is furnished in this case, We do hope the Department will feel warranted and admit for six months as a Militia Man, which will including the 7 months already allowed for amount to two years, service. That his service greatly exceeded two years there cannot be the least doubt, I hope the Dept will be liberal.
I have also to inform you that Mrs Catharine Kent, widow of the said James Kent, is dead. She died before the former allowance was made, and by reference to the vouchers in the 3 d Auditor's office, you will find the required proof of the period of her death, and the names of the children, one that is now surviving, also the name of her executor J. C. John. I am aware of the rule where children claim a pension due their parent, "which was not claimed by such parent during his lifetime in due form", to make a formal declaration claiming, the same, but inasmuch as in numerous cases that I have presented for children where their deceased parent had made a declaration in due form, and no declaration or affidavit claiming was asked for, from either of the children, (Of course this rule now will be required in this case, as all the service we ask to be allowed for was claimed for in due form by the widow,) in her original declaration.
Very respectfully
Yours Obet Servt.
C. A. Lay
J. G. Edwards Esquire } Comr of Pensions - }

Feb. 26 1845.
Rev. Dr. W. B.  C.  W.
St. Thomas Jamaica
Washington

New York Feby 24. 1845
J. L. Edwards Esquire
My Dear Sir:
I have received your late letter in the case of Bathsheba Kent, and what to do to aid her any further I know not, for you say Detached Rolls, which were relied on to afford some proof of the service, fails to afford any satisfactory proof, as does also the other Revolutionary records in your office, and how she can make out the proof of his service in Blanche Company of six months men in 1780, I cannot see, for there is not now one of the men of that company now living, altho there is several persons receiving pensions for that service, but from what they say it is certain that they were not in his company in that service, as enlisted men, and there is not any of his original Rolls in existence, That there is some old persons at Chester who will recollect that Mr Kent was in service there in Blanche Company in some part of the war I don't doubt, but that any of them would be able at this distant day, to swear that he was engaged in that particular service is more than could be expected particularly so when it is well known that Blanche commanded at that place in every year of the war. Past testimony that Kent served at Chester under enlistment, in the latter part of the war, and all in addition to that would be shown would be that he belonged to Blanche's Company. My experience teaches me that that would not be sufficient, and it is respectfully desired that you will suggest the most advisable course for her to pursue -
Very respectfully Yours -
C. A. Gay

Aug 28 1896
Recd. of Col. H. T.
Edwards Esq. Commr. of Pensions Washington D.C.

New York August 26. 1846.
Sir,
I have received your letter of the 19 th inst. informing me that your letter to me of the 22 d of June last, was drawn up by a new clerk, and was erroneous in all important particulars. You now say that the claim of Catharine Kent was adjusted for six months service under Blanch and three months under Outwater, which you say is all the service established by the exhibits, including those enclosed in mine of the 30 th of June last; and that her husband's name is not found on the Sail Guards, and the proof of the rank of sergeant is not sufficient. Now by reference to Mrs. Kent's declarations it will be seen that she claimed to be allowed for a Militia service, "such as the law requires of a Militia man to perform" from the commencement of the war to its close, and to sustain which it was shown by the family records that he was, at the commencement of the war above the age to be enrolled, and by the testimony several witnesses that had a knowledge of the fact that he performed such service. In all similar cases the Department has allowed for 9 months service. It will also be seen that Mrs. Kent claimed for six months service in 1779, under Lieutenant Post at Hackensack, as sergeant, which the evidence enclosed in mine of the 30 th of June verifies, and for none of which service has she been allowed for. The six months service, under Blanch at Closter for which she was allowed was rendered in the following year, 1780, as was also the 3 months service under Outwater. You will see by reference to your first report that it was indispensably necessary to establish the six months service under Blanch at Closter in the year 1780, to sustain her claim under the act of 1836, the 3. months service under Outwater having been rendered previous to the marriage. Hence it follows of course that the proof enclosed in mine of the 30 th of June, had no reference to the service under Blanch, as it shows service in a different year. His grade as sergeant is sustained by Outwater's rolls in your office and by the testimony of Post who was with him in the service of its sufficiency you must judge. By reference to your first report it will be seen to make no difference whether his name is found on the Sail Guard or not. The parties interested claim to be allowed for his Militia service, and for the 6 months service in 1779, and the grade of sergeant in Outwater's Company in 1780.
Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
C. A. Lay
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comt. of Pensions

Jan 25. 48
Ms.
20
J. L. Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

New York January 23. 1845
Sir
I have received your letter of 20 th inst in relation to the case of Mrs Catherine Kent, widow of James, and I would respectfully inform you that she has made no such allegation as you charge her with, that her husband served six months in 1780 under Captain Blanch with the Wars men . Her allegation is, that he served six months under Captain Blanch in place of another man, who had enlisted in Blanches Company, and that other man served in her husbands place in accordance with an enlistment that he had entered into to serve six months as sergeant with the Wars men . The alleged service, under Lieut. Post in 1779, and his alleged enlistment in June 1780, with the Wars men is, understood, to have been with the New Jersey Levies, and the records in the Department is relied upon to afford proof of these two periods of service. In relation to the alleged service in Captain Detwater's Company, that officers original Rolls is relied upon to afford the requisite proof. It is understood that Capt Detwater served the period in which it is alleged that Mr Kent was under him pursuant to a Resolution of the Governor and Council of Safety of New Jersey of December 1779, which authorized the said Captain John Detwater, to raise by enlistment a Company of Troop for three, or four months service. The claimant declared that she believed her husband received the service that John H Post testified to, which was relied upon as being all that she was required to state to claim a pension for. Claimant in her declaration has given a detailed statement of all her husbands service that she performed from the time she became acquainted with him in 1778, until the close of the war, and has produced the best proof that could be found in support of her claim, and if the records in the Dept show his enlistment in June 1780, and if that is deemed satisfactory proof of that period of service you will please to inform me, and also for what other service the Department will allow her for. That her husband served as she states and somewhat mentally towards besides there is no reason whatever to doubt.
I am very respectfully Your obedient Servant C. A. Lay
J. L. Edwards Esquire } Commrs of Pensions }

Nov. 11. 1896
to Catharine Kent, esq. K vicar
A. L. Edwards, Esq. Commrs. of Pensions. Present

Washington Nov. 11 th 1846.
Sir.
Enclosed is a formal affidavit made by Catharine Kent claiming for herself and the other surviving children of Catharine Kent, widow of Isaac Kent, a balance of pension that was due her deceased mother who was a pensioner per act of July 4 th 1836.
The evidence in support of this claim is all on file and is referred to in yours of 19 th August last and 20 th Jan y 1845. The grounds upon which this case is claimed is set out in the Affidavit and in my letter to you of 23 rd of June last and I think need no further arguments from me.
Very respectfully your obed servt C. A. Lay
J. L. Edwards Esq r . present

Sir,
New York March 10 th 1847.
In your letter of 16 th ult o in the Case of Mrs. Sarah Rattan you say, "that in Cases where when it may be plausibly shown, that a pensioner has not been allowed enough as in the Case of Mrs. Kent, a review is promptly made, &c." Now I would most respectfully call your attention to the Case of Mrs. Catharine Kent referred to, where it will be found that a term of 9 months service was not included in the estimate when her claim was lately re-adjusted. It will be seen by reference to your letters of 22 d June, 19 th of August, and 13 th of November last, and the Certificate lately issued by the Secretary of War, that two years service is admitted to be satisfactorily proven, which would give her a pension of $85. per annum as three months of the service was admitted as sergeant. Now she has only been allowed at the rate of $55. per annum, which is $30. less than the pension admitted to be due. I suppose the matter was overlooked when the adjustment of her pension was lately made, as her husband's terms of service were so various and numerous. It is expected that the Department will correct the error.
Very respectfully
Your obed Servt
C. A. Gay
C. L. Edwards Esq r Comm te of Pension
P.S. The service admitted to be allowed for, is, 9 Months as private in Blanchards Co. 6 Months as private in Lieut. Parks Co. 3 Months as sergeant in Calhoun Co. and 6 months as private under Blanche, and in addition to which at least 9 months more service is made out by satisfactory proof for service in the militia, which I suppose has never been considered as it would ovally her nothing when she is allowed for the other service admitted to be proven.
C. A. Gay

Sept 4. 1845
Abel P. Hemenway Colt's Hill, R.I.
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

New York Sept 2 d 1845.
Sir
In the case of Catherine Kent, widow of James, per act of July 1836 I have the honor to enclose to you the authority pursuant to which her late husband served in 1779. & 80, as required by your letter of 20 th of January last. It is proven by a witness that Kent was in the pay master's service in 1779, and in Putnam's Company in 1780. It is understood by your letter of 10 th Feby that there is evidence in the Dept. of his enlistment in June 1780, but that it was not satisfactory, for reasons that were not made known. No explanation of her allegation was given say that she needs, that her husband served under Capt. Blauk with the [unclear] was now will be made because she does not say so; he enlisted to serve in one of the Regts of the Line, for six months, but he made an exchange and served in Blauk's Company in the State Regt.
It is respectfully desired that you will make a careful examination of the whole case and say for what service you will allow
I am very respectfully Your Obed Servt C. A. Lay
To S. L. Edwards Esq r } Comm r of Pensions }
The Nine months Service as testified to by John H. Post was not Military, and is not claimable for by claimant
C. A. Lay

New York April 2 d 1846.
Sir,
You will confer a favor by informing me for what service Catharine Kent, widow of Laurens Kent was allowed under the act of July 4 1836. This information is asked for, for the reason that additional documentary evidence has been discovered of her husband's service, for which if she has not been allowed , she of course has a right to claim an increase for,
I am very respectfully,
Your obed servt,
C. A. Gay
L. L. Edwards Esq. } Pension Office, }

April 16, 1846
Ms. B. 1. 6 v. 12 p. 73
Recd Calhoun Kent.
To Edwards Esq. Commisr of Pensions Washington D.C.

New York April 13. 1846.
Sir
I have received yours of the 11th inst informing me that if Mrs. Catherine Kent wishes to assert a claim for increase, she must make a deposition stating the grounds upon which the increase is asked with the necessary Proof. &c. You cannot fail to see that your letter wholly fails to afford the information asked for. The claim is for much more service than she was allowed, and in a different grade from what she was allowed. And by reference to the correspondence you will see that we cannot have the remotest idea as to what service she was allowed. Consequently we don't know but the newly discovered proof of service may be for the same service for which she has already been allowed, and in which case say it would afford no ground of claim. I ask to be informed for what service she was allowed is a reasonable question, and I cannot see no good reason why it should not be answered. I therefore respectfully renew my request to be informed for what service she was allowed.
Respectfully
W. A. Gay.
James L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office

New York Nov 14-1844-
Sir
I have the honor to herewith enclose to you for the examination of the Department the application of Catharine Kent widow of James Kent, claiming a pension under the act of Congress of July 4. 1836. I suppose the alleged service in 1779. was in the New Jersey Levies, and if it was it is supposed that the records of the Dept will afford some proof. The Rolls of Captain Outwater it is supposed will also afford some proof. I deem any further comment from me unnecessary, further than to say that I have assisted her to make her case and I have the fullest confidence in the matter contained in the papers - I cannot find any further proof of the service than is contained in the papers - altho I doubt not some proof of his service in Blankens Co - at Closter, in 1780 - might be found at that place, but as this service was rendered under an enlistment in the War Dept, I do not think it at all necessary as the Rolls in the Department will show the enlistment, if he entered into such enlistment, of which I think there is no doubt.
Respectfully
Your Most Servt
C. A. Lay

See C. A. Lay. chg 18/86

6389
10. C. A. Layson New York City

Office of Secy of State Nashville Aug 2 15, 1824
Dear Sir
I am sorry to inform you that we have examined all the intitled pay Books without finding the name of Jacobus or James Kent known therein - will have the pleasure according to your letter of seeing you next mo.
In the mean while I remain Sir your obed Servt Chas. F. M c Cluskey
C. A. Layton