Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6,256, for Job Throckmorton, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey.
Throckmorton, Job Mary
NUMBER
W 6256
CONTENTS
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New Jersey - 2,571.
Mary Throckmorton widow of Job Throckmorton
who died on the 19 th November 1800, of Morristown in the State of N. Jersey who was a P er in the County commanded by Captain Fleming of the Reg t commanded by Colonel Dickson in the N. Jersey line for 16 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of $3 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of March 39, and signed Hon. G. D. Wall, Barnegat, N. J.
  Arrears to the 4 th of March -  $ 37 3 31    Semi-annual allowance ending  26 66         $ 39 99  
{ Revolutionary Claim. Act July 4, 1836 Section the }
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk, Book A Vol. 2 Page 132

V 2457
Mary Knockmorton widow of Job
n. f.
at 4 July 30
adm 7
16 m p r i
$53.33
No deduction
Hon. G. D. Wall Burlington N. J.

State of Jersey } Monmouth County } ss:
On this Twenty ninth day of July Eighteen hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared before the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Mary Throckmorton a resident of the Township of Shrewsbury in the County and State aforesaid aged Eighty Six years upwards, who is unable from bodily infirmity to attend the Court, and who being sworn according to Law, upon her oath, doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 - That she is the widow of Job Throckmorton, who was a private in the war of the Revolution - that the said Job Throckmorton entered the service, in the militia of the County of Monmouth under Captain Stephen Fleming, in the summer of the year 1776, about the time the British Fleet first arrived at Sandy Hook, and that he continued to serve in the said Company regularly when occasion required or when called upon, during the remainder of the year 1776, and during the whole of the year 1777 - In the beginning of the year 1778 (though she cannot be positive as to the exact time) her husband the said Job Throckmorton moved into the Capt. James Green's district, and that he served in the said Captain James Green's Company, at least every other month, in town of one month each, during the years 1778, 1779, and until the the latter part  summer of the year 1780. During the above stated service the said Job Throckmorton lived almost immediately upon the lines, with his family, and his duties were to guard the shores and to watch the motions of the enemy who were continually landing in small parties for the purpose of plundering, robbing and murdering the inhabitants - That Daniel Bendrickton she thinks was the Col-

of the Regiment to which Capt. Fleming & Green's companies belonged, and David Forman was the General - the other Officers she cannot now recollect - That in the  early part of the year 1780, the said Job Shrockmorton removed his family from the lines into the interior of the country at a place called Englishtown upwards of twenty miles distant, and the reason of his doing so was that he was afraid that himself and his family would be murdered by the enemy - that the said Job Shrockmorton in September 1780 entered a company of volunteers commanded by Lieut. Elihu Chadwick and served therein a continued tour of four months, until the month of January 1781 - that immediately after that tour the said Job Shrockmorton entered a company commanded by Capt. Thomas Chadwick & Lieut. Elihu Chadwick, and served therein a continued tour of one year, from January 1781 - to January 1782. during the above service the said company was stationed at she believes  at  the  Shore  Shorebrook in said County, and their duties were to guard the shore and frontier as aforesaid - that after the expiration of the last mentioned tour the said Job Shrockmorton entered a troop of Horse under Captain John Walton and served therein a continued tour of nine months at least, beginning in the winter of 1782 and ending in the fall following of the same year - They were stationed at Freehold as headquarters under General David Forman who commanded the forces of Monmouth County - that the said Job Shrockmorton resided in the Township of Shrewsbury in said County of Monmouth when he entered the service - that he was engaged in a number of skirmishes and combats on the frontiers, one in particular a short distance from his dwelling where six of the enemy were killed the rest taking  retreating  on  their  way That his marches were principally confined to the said County of Monmouth - that she has no documentary evidence whatever in support of her claims - the above declaration and statement she makes from her own knowledge & recollection and from informa-

tion received from her said husband.
She further declares that she was married to the said Job Throckmorton on the fifteenth day of October in the year Seventeen hundred and Sixty nine that her husband the aforesaid Job Throckmorton died on the nineteenth day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herunto annexed - that she has no records either public or private of her marriage and there is no person now living who was present at the ceremony which was performed by Josiah Holmes a justice of the peace whose papers were burnt and destroyed by the British or Tories in the Revolutionary war - as she has been informed & verily believes - that she raised a family of Eleven Children by the said Job Throckmorton - the Eldest of whom was born in the year 1770. Sworn to & subscribed the day of Mary Throckmorton and year above written before me Judge as aforesaid.
Joseph Barclay

State of Kentucky Monmouth County ss. Personally came and appeared before me Judge as aforesaid Peter Slocum & John Simmons - - - who being duly sworn say that they are well acquainted with Job Shockmorton and Mary his wife, the annexed applicant, in the Revo- lutionary War - that the said Job and Mary Shock- morton lived together as man and wife, and were reputed and believed in their neighborhood, to have been legally married previous to the year 1776 and during the said Revolutionary War, and that they fully concur in that opinion; and they further say that the said Job Shockmorton was always reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a good and faithful soldier of the Revolution, and that they also concur in that opinion - that this deponent Peter Slocum is Seventy years of age, and upwards, and this deponent John Simmons is Seventy Seven years of age & upwards.
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 29 th day of July A.D. 1837 by Peter Slocum and John Simmons who are credible persons & whose statement is entitled to credit
Peter Slocum
his John Simmons mark
Joseph Barclay
Notary Public My Comm. Exp.

State of New Jersey } Personally appeared before me Monmouth County } Judge as aforesaid. Obadiah
Sains of the Township of Shrewsbury in the said County of Monmouth. Who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is Seventy Years of age and upwards that he was well acquainted with Job Throckmorton and Mary his wife the annexed affidavit affirms to be  after the Revolutionary War that the said Job and Mary Throckmorton lived together as man and wife Subsequently and previous to the said War and until the death of the said Job upwards of thirty years ago that the said Job and Mary Throckmorton were always reputed and believed to have been legally married in the neighbourhood where they resided previous to the year 1776. And as long as this deponent has known them and that the said Mary Throckmorton has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband and this deponent further saith that the said Job & Mary Throckmorton raised a family of Children that I fully concur in that opinion
sworn and subscribed before me by the said Obadiah Sains Who is a person entitled to credit Dated 29 th July 1837
Obadiah Sains
Joseph Barclay
State of New Jersey } Monmouth County } ss: I Daniel H. Ellis clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Joseph

Barclay Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings were sworn & subscribed, is now and was at the taking thereof a Judge of the said Court duly Commissioned and sworn in office as such that all his official acts are entitled to credit and that his signatures above written are genuine
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court at Freehold this eleventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven
W. H. Willis

Very WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6256
Mary Throckmorton
Wid. of
Job Throckmorton
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Act: July 4/86,
Index:—Vol. 86 , Page 269
[Arrangement of 1870.]

V Lapsed. See let. to J. M. Hartshorne Nov. 8, 1837

Fruchola N. S. Feb 10th 5
W. G. D. Wall Pres.
Inst.
Hon. Garet D. Wall. U.S. Senate. Washington City. D.C.
Inst.

Freehold Feby 9 th 1889.
Dear Sir
I beg leave to request your assistance in behalf of a poor old lady Mrs. Mary Shockmorton for a pension - She made application in the year 1887 - Her husband no doubt performed a great deal of service, but from the evidence the claim is narrowed down to 16 months service - In relation to that service Mr. Edwards in a letter to me of the 8 Nov. 1887 says, "The evidence of the 4 months & 12 months terms is Lieut. E. Chadwick himself who alleges that he commanded him in the first term, and was his lieutenant in the other - but the deponent also asserts that Shockmorton served in Walton's Company in 1782. His testimony therefore cannot be safely relied upon to establish other service when his recollection of the facts in this term is shown to be altogether fallacious."
In Lieut. Elisha Chadwick's affidavit which he drew himself he states that Job Shockmorton served 4 mos. under himself acting as Capt. & 12 mos. under Capt. Shad Chadwick he being Lieut. in the same term - and also that he served under Capt. Walton -
In the terms of 4 mos & 12 mos. the witness states how he obtained the knowledge of such service - In the term under Walton he only states his knowledge I presume from hearsay, because the witness did not serve under Walton, and that he was mistaken in that stating that which he obtained from hearsay. Should not discredit his evidence upon facts which he had the positive means of knowing - And the absence of Shockmorton's name upon Walton roll may be accounted for by the fact, that Shockmorton may have served as Substitute, in which case his name would not appear. No claim is nor

made for service in Walton's Company -
Lieut. Chadwick's testimony is strongly corroborated by documents now in the pension office - I refer to an order given by Peter Correnhoven paymaster on John Stevens Treasurer to pay to Capt. Thomas Chadwick, for his company of state troops for the year 1781 - A certified copy of that order will be found in the pension office filed with the papers of William Walling or James Bone - they were sent to the department about 1 year ago -
You were personally acquainted with Lieut. Chadwick before his death, and I think with these facts that you can satisfy Mr. Edwards that this claim for 16 mos. at least ought to be allowed -
I rec d a letter from Mr. Chadwick's son requesting me to obtain an affidavit proving the marriage of Lieut. Chadwick & send it to you - I have sent the affidavit to be executed and as soon as I receive it, will send it to you -
Will you be good enough to give your personal attendance, for this old lady who is very poor, and whose case I think is a very meritorious one - She is one of the Ruppel family, two or three of whom were killed in the time of the War -
Yours Respectfully &c J. M. Witherspoon
Rev. Samuel D. Wall.

Freehold August 11 th 1837
Sir
I herewith transmit to you the papers on the application of Mary Throckmorton widow of Job Throckmorton for a pension -
You will perceive that two of the affidavits were taken in the State of Pennsylvania, attached to which are the clerk's seal & certificate -
The services are partly monthly tours, but I have not adduced any evidence to prove that kind of service, relying mostly upon the service proved by Col. Elihu Chadwick to wit: 4 months in 1780 - one year 1781 - 9 months in 1782 and which the applicant has expressly sworn to -
The traditional evidence is strong & witnesses having sworn to it.
The proof of the marriage I consider beyond a doubt - she has no record of it - no person living who was present & the justices papers who married them were destroyed, but 4 respectable witnesses have sworn that they knew them as man & wife previous to the Revolution, that they were so reputed & lived together as such. They were married in 1769 -
Yours Respectfully &c
J. M. Hailstone
L. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions

State of Pennsylvania
McKean County
Personally appeared before us three of the Justices of the peace in and for said
County Col. Elizer Chadwick who was a Lieutenant in the War of the Revolution and is now a pensioner of the United States who being duly sworn on the holy Gospel Deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Mary Thrackmorton Widow of Job Thrackmorton that the last time he seen her a few years past she was living in the Township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey where he knew the said Job and Mary living together as man and wife before the war of the Revolution and during said war and after the said war they lived Neighbors to this Deponent till the death of the said Job which was by drowning on the 19 day of November 1800 that they have a numerous family of children that he well knew the services of the said Job Thrackmorton in the war of the Revolution for more than two years as a private soldier he being part of the time under my immediate command and a part of the said war under the command of Captains Thomas Chadwick and forries Green and others and that the said Mary Thrackmorton is the oldest woman that this Deponent knows living
Sworn and subscribed to by the said Col Elizer Chadwick this 21st day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven
John Geo. Cox
Elizer Chadwick
Alma R. Brumbaugh Justices of the peace
John E. Miles
We the subscribers three of the Justices of the peace for said County of McKean in the State of Pennsylvania do certify that we have been well acquainted for a number of years past with the said Col Elizer Chadwick the above named Deponent and believe his testimony is entitled to full credit
John Geo. Cox
Alma R. Brumbaugh
John E. Miles

State of Pennsylvania McKean County
Personally appeared before us three of the Justices of the peace in and for said County Joseph Throckmorton a Soldier, prisoner of the War of the Revolution. Who being Duly Sworn on the holy Gospel Deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Mary Throckmorton Widow of Job Throckmorton that she lives in the Township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey the last he knew of her some years past and the said Job and Mary lived together as man and wife and raised a numerous family of children and that he was well acquainted with the services of the said Job in the war of the Revolution as a Soldier under the command of sundry officers and believes that he was in actual service for more than two years.
Oshea R. Bennett John E. Niles John Hobbs
Justices of the peace
Joseph Throckmorton
State of Pennsylvania Monmouth County
I, Michael Chadwick, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Monmouth County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that Oshea R. Bennett, John E. Niles and John Hobbs Esquires, whose names are subscribed to the deposition above and foregoing, are all acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn; and that the foregoing signature purporting to be theirs is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Smithfield the 22 nd day of February, A. D. 1837.
M. Chadwick, Proth.

State of Pennsylvania Lehigh County
Personally appeared before the Hon. Nathaniel B. Eldred Presidential Judge and his associates in open court of Common Pleas in and for Lehigh County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on Monday, the fourth day of May A.D. 1837.
Colonel Ephraim Chadwick who was a lieutenant in the War of the Revolution and now a pensioner of the United States who being duly sworn according to Law Depaseth and saith in addition to his former oath on the occasion that he was well acquainted with Job Shrackmorton and Mary his Wife since the year 1773 till the time of his death which was on the 19 day of November 1800 that in the beginning of the Revolutionary War the said Job belonged to the company of Captain Stephen Fleming in the third Regiment of the Militia in the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania and some time in the first three years of the War said Job marched within the bounds of Captain James Green's Company of Militia at Long Branch as to the services he performed in the Militia from 1775 to 1778 this Deponent is not particularly acquainted with but knows that often the whole Militia was called into actual service at some times half the militia was called and at some times only one or two classes was called being one eighth or one fourth as a rotation served. This Deponent services being performed in the more Northern part of Pennsylvania and in Pennsylvania therefore this Deponent had but little knowledge of the services of the said Job but soon after the Battle of Monmouth which was on the 28 day of June 1778 found the said Job living at Long Branch and in August or September 1780 this Deponent had been for more than one year in actual service as lieutenant commanding a company of Volunteers by a special order from Col. Ashmun Holmes the Commandant of Berks County now comes the knowledge of this Deponent to the services of the said Job Shrackmorton. This Deponent received information that a party of the enemy had come and gone into the pines which this Deponent expected they had gone back in the country for horse stealing or plunder and murder. This Deponent here had his cor- psary sworn to Long Branch in order to intercept them or their

Return Return to the Green Lines and calling on Job Mackenston to obtain information for me when said Job give this deponent information that the Enemy had been to Burlington County and stole a number of horses and had them secreted in William Larkins Cedar Swamp. Six miles of that the Enemy had got information from their long friends that Job was laying in Wait for them. From the information received from the said Job this deponent proceeded to said Cedar Swamp and Retook the said horses and drove them three miles after driving them and beating them in said Swamp and in about three hours said Job told this deponent that a friend of his told him he was judged of giving me the information and that he wants to be killed the first chance that opens. When said Job promised to make of him the Lines which he did Immediately and moved his family to Englishtown six miles Northwest of Marlinton Court house. When the said Job was out of all kind of business to support his family he determined to enter the service of his country as a Soldier which he did by entering into my Company of Volunteers that from September 1780 to the 10 day of January 1781 he served under my command until the 10 day of January 1781 he entered with me and the rest of my company into the Service in the winter of 1781 under the command of Captain Thomas Chadwick Berry The Lieutenant of the said Company for one year from the 10 day of January 1781 to the 10 day of January 1782 when said Company was Relieved by a Company of horse under the command of Captain John Walton when the said Job the said John Walton was  which was in actual service for one year from the 10 day of January 1782 till the 10 day of January 1783 the said Job served also after January 10 1783 with Captain James Green & others till the close of the Revolutionary War which was on the 11 day of April 1783 as to the Colonel that said Job was known served under if ever he did since under my it must have been in the years 1785-1786-1787 or before the Battle of Monmouth in 1778 as there was not a Colonel commanded in the Militia in Monmouth County after the Battle of Monmouth only at the time the Enemy would come for foraging or plunder which was not often in any large numbers Col John Holmes being the Commandant of the Country his orders in writing was always considered good. Col When 920 men was raised in the year 1781 for the defense of the frontiers of the State of New Jersey there was no field officer allowed... as to the credibility of the testimony of Joseph Mackenston I must assent to my former disposition I considerably related to credit the reason the Justice Certificate was not awarded because he was a total stranger to them he living more than sixty miles from this place. The said Mary Mackenston Job's wife informed is yet living in Monmouth County her age
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court the 10th day of May A.D. 1837.
Michl Chadwick Smith
Elizer Chadwick