Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 934, Nicholas Worrell, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Worrell, Nicholas
S. 934.
carded.
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174814 New Jersey 17.4
Nicholas Worren
of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Holmes. of the _____ commanded by _____ in the _____ line for _____ N.J.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Augt 1833 and sent to
D. B. Randall. Freehold
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. $140.00
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept - 40.00
$200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim } { Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 3 Page 135

Declaration of Nicholas Worrell in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. -
State of New Jersey County of Monmouth ss:
On this tenth thirtyfirst day of July - Anno Domini 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the inferior court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Monmouth now sitting at Freehold Nicholas Worrell a resident of the township of Middletown in the said County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey aged seventy six years in May last past, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated;
That he entered the service as a Militia man in the Company commanded by Captain John Holmes sometimes in the early part of the year 1776 before the British troops landed at Staten Island, and was under his command about one year guarding the shore from Sandy Hook to Bonaskunk in Middletown township in said County of Monmouth, being out in actual service every other month, that the next captain under whom he served was Captain Gahart and was under his command about six months engaged every other month in actual service performing the duties before mentioned at the expiration of that time he joined

a troop of Horse commanded by captain Randle and continued in the service in said troop for about one year during which time captain Randle left Remus and capt Jacob Lovensho was commanded said troop and James J Smock was Bombor Lieutenants in said troop, he cannot now recollect which that while he was in the troop he was in actual service every other month under the drafts or calls as they were then termed, and in one instance was out for between two and three months from the danger he incurred at home from the Tories who had threatened his life, that after the expiration of this time he joined the Artillery Company commanded by capt James Smock and was continued in his Company until the close of the war doing duty and in actual service every other month during that period, that from the commencement close to the conclusion of the war he was out in actual service doing his duty as a good soldier for at least four years altogether, that he always attended his monthly call during that period and done his duty, he attended all the general alarms, and from the insecurity of his home and the threats of the Tories to take his life on several occa- sions after his monthly duty had expired he remained in the service in three or four instances, three and four months at a time, that Colonel Ashe Holmes was the field officer

and Major Walton during the time he was in the service, that he resided in the township of Middletown in said County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey where he entered the service where he was born and brought up & where he yet resides; that under the Regulations of the Militia of that part of Monmouth County in which he resided one half were out alternately, and under these calls or drafts he was in the service, except in the instances before stated when he remained after the monthly review he was then a volunteer, that he was in the following skirmishes during the war, one at Bonashank in Middletown with the Tories, one at Sandy Hook with the Tories in said township, one other at or near the town of Middletown where this deponent killed two British soldiers at one shot on their retreat from the Battle of Monmouth, they being a part of a party engaged in robbing the farm. However on their retreat, that at the time of the Battle of Monmouth he was with the Militia under Colonel Asher Holmes stationed at the Scotch Meeting House about six miles from the field of Battle, that the Country through which he marched during the time he was in the service was from South Amboy in Middlesex County to Little Egg Harbor on the Sea Road of New Jersey Coast guarding the intermediate points and protecting the Country from the inroads of the British and Tories, that he never served with any Continental Regiments or Companies

during the time that he recollects, that he was not acquainted with any of the regular officers personally other than those attached to the Militia, he was well acquainted with the Militia General David Forman who commanded in said County of Monmouth, and that he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure except Col. Barnes L. Mock and Capt. John Schenck under each of whom he served during a part of that period, other who can testify to his service - And He hereby relinquishes every claim what ever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State. He herewith admits that in the New York vicinity of 1831 and 1832 the Legislature passed a private Bill in consideration of his Revolutionary services and his as being a cripple granted him thereby a pension of five dollars per month during his life or until Congress should make provision for the old soldiers, which by the provisions of that act he must relinquish whenever he receives his pension under the act of Congress. Given to Subscribed this his day of June aforesaid John Patterson Nicholas X Monell mark

Monmouth Phas Of July 8 th 1832
Declaration of Miho. -las Bonell.
No 4078 P

New Jersey Monmouth County ss: We James J. Smock Lewis Cowenhouse and John Bennet of the said County of Monmouth do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nicholas Woull who has made his mark and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be of the age of seventy six years, and that we know him to have been a soldier of the revolution having served with him in the same troops, and that we believe he was out in said service at least four years as he has stated in his declaration, that he is not only reported but known to be a soldier of the revolution in the neighborhood in which he resides, that he is a credible person and his statement is entitled to credit. -
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid John Patterson
James J. Smock Lewis Cowenhouse John J. Bennet
And the said board do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the board further certifies that it appears to them that Col James J. Smock Lewis Cowenhouse and John J. Bennet who have signed the preceding Certificate are residents of the said County of Monmouth and were soldiers of the Revolution and in the service of their Country with the said

applicants, and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. By order of the Court
M c Downe Judge
I Daniel Hollis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nicholas Waple for a pension on the thirty first day of July A D 1832.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Newbold this seventh day of March Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty three.
D. H. Ellis Clerk

Amended declaration of Nicholas Borne for a pension under the act of June 7, 1832
State of New Jersey Monmouth County, Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, Nicholas Borne who being duly sworn, according to law, deponeth and saith that on the thirty first day of July A.D. 1832 he made his original decla- ration for a pension under the act of June 7, 1832 before the judges of the inferior court of common pleas of said county, numbered 4078 by the War Department, that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served a longer time than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades: For six months in the years 1776 and 1777 served as a private in a company of Infantry commanded by Captain John Holmes, being six months' time of one month each, being the months of June August October and December in the year 1776 and the months of February and April in the year 1777, these monthly terms commenced about the first day of the above named months respectively and ended the first day of the next ensuing months respectively, and the services were performed under the laws and ordinances of New Jersey, I have forgotten the names

of the other officers of the company, when Holmes was then Colonel, that a short time after I joined the company at their Head Quarters in Middletown about the first of June 1776, the company marched from there to South Amboy in Middlesex County and were there a few days when they were ordered back to the Highlands to in Middletown Township to guard the coast and shores from the British and Tories, that the duties of the company were to guard the shores as before mentioned, and they were marched from time to time along the coast and through the County of Monmouths border- ing on the coast and rivers but more particularly from the Highlands to Bonarhumble. For six months in the years 1777 and 1778 I served as a private in six monthly tours of one month each in a Company of Infantry commanded by Captain Arment Backhart, being the months of June August October and Decem- ber in the year 1777 and the months of February and April in the year 1778, the beginning of said tours was on the first of the above named months, and ended the first of the next ensuing months, during this service Richard Holmes was then Colonel and David Fowle General, this service was performed in the County of Monmouths, the Head Quarters of the Company being at Middle town during said period and the marches being confined to shores and places bordering on the coast of Monmouths County from Bonarhumble to the Highlands

3 lands more particularly, in one year in the years 1878 and 1879 I served as a private in a Troop of Horse, in twelve monthly tours of one month each, being the months of June August October and December in the year 1878 on his own monthly tours in that year and the months of July and September in the same year as a Col Unit in the same Company of Horse and the months of February April June August and October in the year 1879 on his own monthly tours in that year in the same Troop of Horse, and the months of September in the same year as a private volunteer in the same Troop, the beginnings of said tours was on the first of said months respectively and ending on the first of the next intervening months respectively the Head Quarters of the Troop were at Middletown in said County and their duties were to guard the shores and coasts between Conequhanta to Toms River, and their marches and stations were at the Places and Points between Harboy and Toms River, comprising Richfield Tinton Falls Shrewsbury Middletown Pough and the Highlands, that he with the other troops furnished their own Horses, trappings and uniforms, about the months of the above service was under Captain Randolph or Randolph as he was then called who commanded when I first joined the Company, about one month under Captain Ransom who

4 succeeded Captain Randolph and about eight months under Captain Jacob Covington, James I. Smith being Lieutenant during the period, John Holmes being still then Colonel and Elisha Walton Major, David Forman then General = For six months in the year 1779 and 1780 I served as a private in a Company commanded by Captain Stephen Flannery. John Morris was Lieutenant, being six monthly tours of one month each, namely the months of December in the year 1779, and the months of February April June August and October in the year 1780 said tours commencing about the first of the above named months and ending the first of the next intervening months respectively. The Head quarters of this Company were at Newbury in said County of Monmouth and their duties and Marches were as before stated under Colonel Holmes Major Walton and General Forman. For one year and one month in the year 1781 and 1782 I served as a private in an Artillery Company commanded by Captain James I. Smith being the Uncle of Lieutenant James I. Smith of the troop in which I served as before stated. This service was in the six monthly tours of one month each being the months of December in the year 1781 and the months of February April June August October and Decem- ber in the year 1782 and the months of February April June August October

5 and December in the year 1782, the beginnings of said terms being the first of the said named months respectively and the endings of each term the first of the succeeding months respectively during said period of time, William Schenck was the Lieutenant, and one Louis Ammerick was a Sergeant in the same Company Col. Adriaen Holman was then Colonel, Decha Waltons then Mayor and Genl David Forman then General, the Head Quarters were at Middletown in said County and their duties and marches were as before stated confined to guarding the shores & coasts from the Brits and Tories; and for such services I claim a pension, that binds the above service he was a volunteer under Captain John Schenck and Captain Jonathan Pease during some of the intervening months when not on his own call, as above stated on scouting parties the particular terms of which he came state, that he was born in the Month of May 1756 in the township of Middletown where he resided when he entered the service and understood from his birth and where he still resides, that he has a record of his age being his own family bible in which the entry was made upward of fifty years ago, that all the above services were under the laws and orders of New Jersey and were under the monthly drafts or calls except in the instances above stated when he acted as a volunteer

that he never received any written discharge that he was in the field and not in garrison while in the service, and that during the time the service was performed he was not employed in any civil pursuit, that I am known in my neighborhood by the Reverend Jacob P.B. Bulkman and the John Bray who can testify to my character for veracity and their belief of my service as a soldier of the Revolution.
Sworn and subscribed before me this second day of August 1833- H. C. Northminister.
his Nicholas Horvath mark
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss. Barnes I Smock being duly sworn, according to law, depose and say that he was seventy seven years of age last June that he is well acquainted with Nich- olas Womble who has sworn and subscribed the above amended declaration, that he believes him to be seventy seven years of age, that he knows that he served as a private in Captain Smock's Company during the Revolution any man having frequently seen him in said company in the service, said company was stationed at Middletown in said County, their duties were to protect the coast & shores from the inroads of the British and Tories, and that he has no doubt from his frequently seeing him in said company he served the monthly term stated in his amended declaration, that he believes the said Nicholas Womble served not less than one year in the troops of New Jersey mentioned in his said decla- ration he this deponent being a private in the same troops of New Jersey Captain Randolph or Randolph as he was called when the said Nicholas Womble joined the same and that he this deponent was afterwards under Captain Renne who succeeded Captain Randolph and who promoted him to be corporal of said Company and afterwards was appointed Lieutenant of the same Com- pany under Captain Jacob Covenhoven

who was afterwards made Prisoner and this deponent retained the command of said troop as Lieutenant Commandant thereof until the close of the war, that he will recollect the said Nicholas Morrell served as a private in said troop under Capt Randle Captain Rimner and Captain Covenhoven and himself and has no doubt he served at least one year in monthly terms of one month each, but he cannot pretend to specify each particular term, and he likewise recollects his having volunteered in the same Company and going out two or three monthly terms as such volun- teer, that the said Nicholas Morrell was a good soldier and always done his duty well, that the service he believes was in the years 1778 and 1779 to the best of his recollection but can't state the months certainly though he believes those mentioned by the said Nicholas Morrell are correct, that these duties were as he the said Morrell states to guard the shores and coasts in Monmouth County; that he recollects well after the said Nicholas Morrell left the troop of Horse before mentioned, he served as a private in an Artillery Company commanded by this deponent's uncle Barnes Smith, and that from the frequency of hiring him there in said Company he has no doubt he served at least thirteen monthly

terms of one month each and that to until the close of the war and that he believes the monthly terms he then owed are those mentioned in his original  amended declaration, that from the period of the Revolution until the present day he has never heard but once expression from the contemporaries of the said Nicholas Mowle, that he was one of the best and bravest soldiers in the service, and he well recollects hearing at the time of his having killed two British soldiers alone shot who were engaged in robbing the farm house on the retreat of the British Army after the Battle of Monmouth, that he has no doubt the said Nicholas Mowle lived under the other named officers in his declaration as he states, that he is a Reputable man and his declaration is entitled to credit.
Sworn & subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Monmouth. This second day of August AD 1833. —
Barnes J. Smock
John Holcomb justice
And I the said John Holcomb justice as aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to me and that I know the fact that Barnes J. Smock who has signed the preceding affidavit residing in the

township of Middletown in said County is seventy years of age that he was a soldier and officer in the cavalry during the Revolutionary war. That he resides in the neigh- borhood of the said Nicholas Munk and that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this second day of August A.D. 1833. -
John Bolsart Justice

We Jacob T. B. Dickman and a clergyman residing in the township of Middletown County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey and John Bray residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nicholas Wonell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion - Sworn to before me one of the Justices of the Peace in for the said County of Monmouth this third day of August A.D. 1833 - John Bobsart Jacob T. B. Dickman John Bray
And I the said John Bobsart Justice as aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to me that Jacob T. B. Dickman who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident as above stated and that John Bray who has also signed the same is a resident as above stated and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Third - day of August Anno Domini 1833 - John Bobsart Justice

I Daniel H Ellis clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Mon- mouth and State of New Jersey Do hereby certify that Thomas B Throckmorton before whom the annexed amended declaration of Nicholas Womble was subscribed and sworn, and John Holsart before whom the annexed affidavits of Barnes I Smock and the certificate of Jacob T B Bickman and John Bray were respectively subscribed and sworn to and whose name is signed to the certificates of the said John Holsart accompanying said affidavits last named were respectively at the respective times the said affidavits and certificates bear date upward of restored of the Peace of the said County of Monmouth duly commissioned and sworn respectively, and to all their official acts as such full faith and credit should and right to be attached; and I further certify that the name signed Thos B Throckmorton to the seal of the said amended declaration of the said Nicholas Womble is the proper hand writing of the said Thomas B Throckmorton hitherto as aforesaid; and also that the name signed John Holsart to the seal of the two affidavits of Barnes I Smock and Jacob T B Bickman and John Bray and to the certificate of the said John Holsart annexed to said last named affidavits are the respective hand writings and signatures of the said John Holsart Justice as aforesaid -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Freehold this fifth day

of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
D. H. Ellis
to the Hon. the Hon. John James

Amended Declaration of Nicholas Monell to No 4078.
1. That the within copy is a true copy of the original 2. That the within copy is a true copy of the original 3. That the within copy is a true copy of the original
1. That the within copy is a true copy of the original

Per Mar INVALID.
File No.
934
Nicholas Worrall
Pr. N. J. Line.
Act:
June 7/1832.
Index:—Vol.
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

2 years $1.80.
FREE
J. L. Edwards Esquire Comm ee of Pensions Washington D.C.
J. L. Edwards will pay & Read the enclosed -
See

N. Jersey Freehold August 5 th 1833. J L Edwards Esquire Sir
I enclosed the original and amended declaration of Nicholas No. 1132 - This applicant is a couplet now very inform the early attention of the Department to his claim would oblige him - The original papers were retained at Washington from August 1832 to February 1833 before they were remitted back for correction of Certificate etc. - I sincerely hope the certificate will be remitted without more delay -
The Papers of Capt John Schenck No 4088 were sent to you about the first of July last & those of Alexander Low were sent in March last, by yours of the 23 rd July last it appears they do not appear since they were forwarded, will you ascertain if they have been received or since - That of Mr Schenck contained his Commission as Lieutenant, & the old gentleman cannot account for his pension being so long with held - Please let me hear from David Cooper's Claim No 4088 remitted 9 th July ult. and Stephen Seabrook No 4086 remitted about same time.
I am Sir Yours J M c Clure