Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 491, for Joseph Kittle, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Little, Joseph. Sarah.
N. 491
Entitled in N. J.
CONTENTS

6974 New Jersey,
Sarah Kittle, widow of Joseph Kittle, who was a Private, in the Penn a Line,
Rep o
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of June, '45, and sent to
J. W. Martin, W. Hope, Orange Co. N.Y.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book
Vol.
2
Page
97
June 17, 1845

State of New York Orange County
I Cornelius C. Elting, pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Deerpark do certify that the following is a true copy from the records  book of said church.
Joseph Kottke                      Maria 18829 bapt Sarah Van Elter                    yr. June 17 } Aug 24. 1788
said date carried out in full in letters is June the seventeenth, seventeen hundred and eighty eight, baptized August 16 th the twenty fourth seventeen hundred and eighty eight
I Cornelius C. Elting above named, do prove and say that I hold the office of pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Deerpark County town and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said church, with the exception above named as certified by me
Cornelius C. Elting pastor of said Church.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 14 th day of December 1839
and I certify that the above is a reliable extract
Isaac Clark - Judge of Orange County

State of New York Orange County ss I Albert J Newton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County
Do hereby certify that Herlet blank before whom the within affidavit was subscribed and sworn
to the best of the knowledge of taking the same a Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas, and further
that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe that the
signature to the said affidavit is genuine. In wit- ness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County the 17 th day of December 1839
A. J. Newton Clerk
Herlet Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
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State of New Jersey } On this Twentieth day of June Sussex County } Eighteen Hundred and Forty personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Sarah Kittle a resident of the town of Montague in the said County and made the following declaration under oath as an amendment to a former declaration and an amendment in order to obtain the benefit of the act of July 9, 1838 providing for granting half pay and pension to the widows of soldiers of the Revolution. That she is the widow of Joseph Kittle who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and belonged to the German Regiment in the Pennsylvania line and who served more than two years in the German Regiment and in the Pennsylvania line as does more fully appear from the receipt of pay now on file in the office of the Auditor General of the State of Pennsylvania a copy of which has been transmitted and is now supposed to be on file in the Pension Office.
She further declares that her said husband Joseph Kittle as she has been informed and believes enlisted into the German Regiment in the Pennsylvania line in the Spring of the year 1776 or 1777 in the town of Montague in County of Sussex and State of New Jersey and as she has been informed and believes served in the said Regiment until the consolidation of the Penn- = sylvania and Maryland Regiments took place but she is unable to state for a certainty the officers under which he served but she has been informed and believes that the Colonel's name was Houghberger and she has heard the name of a Captain Strowder or Strother

mentioned as a Captain under which her husband served but she is certain that her husband Joseph Kettle enlisted and served in the German Reg- -iment and a Pennsylvania line as before stated and that after the consolidation of the two Regim- ents he served in consolidated Regiment until the end of the war that he was at the taking of Cornwallis at Yorktown and as she has been informed and believes was afterwards discharged at Newburgh. That her husband Joseph Kettle died at the time before stated and that she has ever since his death remained and still is a widow the word Regiment interlined before signing sworn and subscribed by making her mark because she cannot write before me the day and year before mentioned and that Sarah Kettle is a creditable witness
Sarah Kettle mark James Mott Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey
I Joseph C. Cline of the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that James Kettle was at the time of taking the foregoing deposition in the City of New York and for said hereby duly acknowledged and sworn into office pursuant to law and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said James Kettle Esquire and pronounce his signature to the foregoing deposition genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Newton in said County this twentieth day of June A.D. eighteen hundred and forty.
J. C. Cline
Hon. R. Palen H.C.

late of Frederick Co. Abraham Kittle of the town of Superior County / Montague - The said Kittle being duly sworn depones and saith that he is Eighty Six years of age and that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and he belonged to the Maryland line and is now a prisoner of the United States and that he was well acquainted with Joseph Kittle who was a twin brother to this deponent and who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and belonged in the German Regiment Pennsylvania line from the spring of the year 1776 or 1777 That this deponent enlisted in the evening of a certain day not now recollected in the spring of one of the before mentioned years into the German Regiment Maryland line and his brother Joseph Kittle enlisted the next morning into the German Regiment in the Pennsylvania line the Colonel's name from old age and loss of memory he does not recollect but the name of the Captain under which Joseph Kittle enlisted was Peter Bayer in the German Regiment Pennsylvania line in his this deponent's affidavit he is not mistaken in his brother Joseph Kittle belonging to the German Regiment in the Pennsyl- vania line He this deponent well recollects that on the morning that the Pennsylvania line revolted he saw his brother Joseph Kittle in the Pennsylvania line and talked with him there but afterwards in the Maryland and Pennsylvania Regiments were consolidated and his brother Joseph Kittle he thinks belonged to the consolidated Regiment

This deponent further deposes and saith that Joseph Kittle belonged to the army at the time that Cornwallis was taken and was at the siege of Yorktown that after Corn- wallis was taken the army was divided a part went south and a part went north that this deponent went to the south and his brother Joseph Kittle went north and he did not see him again until the war was over This deponent belonged to Col. Wettners Regiment and capt. Michael Bayers company when he first enlisted and he is certain that his brother Joseph Kittle did enlist and in the German Regiment and in the Penn- sylvania line as before stated but he cannot recollect the Colonels name except it be Col. Housager or Harmon but he thinks he is not mistaken in his having enlisted in the company under Capt. Peter Bayer that his brother Joseph Kittle as he has always understood was honorably discharged from the army - That he is well acquainted with the widow Sarah Kittle widow of Joseph Kittle and knows that she has remained a widow for since the death of the said Joseph Kittle Sworn and subscribed by making his mark before me This deponent on the day of June 1840 and I certify that Abraham Kittle is a creditable witness
James Mott Justice of the Peace Abraham Kittle Mark

March 31, 1939
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BA-J/MOS Jacob Kittle, S.13630 Joseph Kittle, W.491
Hattie Starcher Department of Education Office of Indian Affairs U.S. Department of Interior Olympia, Washington
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Revolutionary War soldiers named Jacob and Joseph Kittle.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.13630, based on the military service of the only Jacob Kittle (searched under all spellings) that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Jacob Kittle was born July 26, 1757, in Sussex County, New Jersey. The names of his parents are not shown.
While living in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted and served as private with the Pennsylvania troops as follows: from February 19, 1776, in Captains Thomas L. Byles' and George Tudor's companies in Colonel Cadwalader's regiment, aided in building Fort Washington, was taken sick there and was discharged from the hospital at Hackensack on November 8, 1776; in the fall of 1777, served two months under Captain Lawrence Conkle and Colonel Abraham Miller; from late in February, 1778, two months under Captain Samuel Hoover in Colonel Jacob Stroud's regiment; in September, 1778, about ten days under Captain Anthony Shymer and was engaged in procuring powder from Fort Leckawack in Northampton County; soon afterward served between fifteen and twenty days under Captain John Van Sickler; late in 1778 served about ten days under Lieutenant Nathaniel Washburn.
In 1779 he moved from Northampton County, Pennsylvania, to Tygarts Valley in Augusta (which was later Randolph) County, Virginia, where he continued to live.

It was stated that he was captain of a company of rangers or spys in 1792.
Jacob Kittle was allowed pension on his application executed August 29, 1832, at which time he was living in Randolph County, Virginia.
The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the family of Jacob Kittle.
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Joseph Kittle, W.491
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W.491, based on the military service of the only Joseph Kittle of New Jersey that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Joseph Kittle was the son of Jeremiah Kittle. The date and place of birth of Joseph Kittle and the name of his mother are not shown.
He enlisted in Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey, in the spring of 1776 or 1777, served as private in the German Regiment under Captain Peter Bowyer and Colonels Haussegger and Waltner, was in several battles in New Jersey and elsewhere (names not stated), was at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown and was discharged at the close of the Revolution.
He died July 11, 1816, in Montague, New Jersey.
Joseph Kittle married in June, 1779 or 1785, in Montague, New Jersey, Sarah Van Etten. Said Sarah stated that she was married in Montague at the home of her stepfather, Samuel Kittle.
As the widow of Joseph Kittle, Sarah Kittle, was allowed pension on her application executed January 8, 1839, at which time she was eighty years of age and was living in Montague, New Jersey. She was living there in 1845.
Their daughter, Maria, was born June 17, 1788.

Abraham Kittle, a resident of Montague, New Jersey, in 1840 at which time he stated he was in the eighty-sixth year of his age, stated that his twin brother, Joseph Kittle, enlisted with him in the Revolution and that the next morning after they enlisted their father, mother and sister (names of mother and sister not given) went to the officers' headquarters and demanded that the officers give them up but they refused to do so.
In 1839 one Thomas Van Etten was living in Montague, New Jersey, aged seventy-one years, stated that he was present at the marriage of Joseph Kittle and Sarah Van Etten but it was not shown whether he was related to said Sarah.
The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the family of Joseph Kittle.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

1939 Mar. 31. Inst. to Halle. Slaricher bei letter in Rev. ch. Jacob K'itt D. 1363
Key
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 491
Sarah Little, Widow Joseph Little, Prio. Penn. Line.
Act: Mar. 3, 1843. Le
Index:—Vol. A Page 407
[Arrangement of 1870.]

40411
Sarah Kittle
Act. July 7. 1838
Marr'd June 1779
Husband died 11 July 1876
German Rg't Pennsylvanian Line -
Paid £88. 11. 7
Admitted
Paid 2 years $80-
Hon Nath'l Jones House Reps N.Y.

New Jersey 5572
deposited at 43 West St. Sarah Kettle Newton N.J. Dec. 26. 1843 -
Sarah Kettle widow of Joseph Kettle -
Let to Sol. Math Apr 15. '45 -
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 11. July 1816 of Sussex Co., in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain of the regt. commanded by in the German Regt. Penn. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey as the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of July 1840 and sent to Henry N. Jones House of Representatives
Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 320.00 Semi-annual allowances ending Sept. 40.00 $360.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838 }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 127

V. M. York
Sarah Pettis
mt to John Hill 23 Jan 1839
to David Jones 9 Dec 1839
to John Hill 26 Dec 1839
to John Hill 19 Feb 1840

Washington 23 Jan - 1840
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commr. of Pensions
Sir. I present another supplemental Declaration of Sarah Kittle Widow of Joseph Kittle for relief - Also additional New Evidence of said Joseph's services - I flatter myself with the hope that this Case, which has been so long pending, may be disposed of satisfactorily to the claimant, with the proof now exhibited.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servant Nathl. Jones

Washington Feb 17. 1840
Mr. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
I send herewith an Amended declaration of Sarah Kittle, widow of Joseph Kittle whose papers have been heretofore presented and are now on file in your office. There is a material difference in reference to the time of her Marriage, from her first statement - Also as to the Captain under which said Joseph Kittle served - She was married in 1785 by your doubt, being three years before the birth of her child whose captain is forecited &c - Baird or Bayard was the Captain instead of Holmes under whom his twin brother enlisted. Please give this case a re-examination and oblige
Your Obt. Servant
Nathaniel Jones

7026.
Feb 23, 1845. Sarah Kittle, widow of Joseph Kittle — act 3d March, 1843.
Adm d of 80 per annum from Hullbach  1843 to 11 March, 1844, & 17. June, 1844, — at 60 per
J. W. Martin St. Hooper Orange Co N York

State of New Jersey In this, the day of January 1843 Superior Court personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Sarah Kittle aged eighty four years and upwards a resident of the town of Montague in the County of Sussex in the State of New Jersey and made the following affirmation in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed March 3 1843 extending the act of July 7 1838 to certain widows of Soldiers in the war of the Revolution
That she is the widow of Joseph Kittle who was a Private soldier in the war of the Revolution and served as a regular soldier in the Pennsylvania line of the army That from old age and sickness she has so lost her memory that she is not able to recollect the name of any of her children but would refer the Commission of Pensions to her declaration and the proof of her service accompanying the same now on file in the Pension Office under the act of 1838 that she was a Pensioner under the act of July 7 1838 at the rate of Eighty dollars per year That she has not married but still continues the widow of the above mentioned Joseph Kittle and further she saith was sworn to and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned before me
Joshua Hays Sarah Kittle mark
Justice of the Peace

Sussex County ss I certify that I am well acquainted with Sarah Kittle who made and subscribed the foregoing declaration and believe her to be a woman of truth and that her statements are entitled to full credit and belief. And that she is the same person who draw a Pension under the act of 7 th July 1838 at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum.
Joshua Shay Justice Peace

State of New Jersey
I Charles G. M c Chesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Joshua Shay Esquire before whom the declaration of Sarah Kittle was made and taken was at the time of the doing thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Sussex in said State duly appointed, Commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attes- tations and that the signature thereto is in the proper hand- writing of the said Joshua Shay.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Trenton in said State this first day of February A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty five.
Charles G. M c Chesney Secretary of State

House of Reps.
Dec. 21 st 1839
To the Commissioner of Pensions
On or about the 9 th inst. I had the honor to ask for a Report on Mrs. Sarah Kittle's case, widow of Joseph Kittle, and to send to your office a Certificate of service - And the day following Recd. a Copy of a Report dated Jan. 7 th 23 rd 1839, addressed to John Hall Esq. - being adverse to allowing the widow's claim without further Proof of Marriage &c. I now send a copy of the Record of Marriage and baptism of one of the children of the said Sarah which will as I trust be satisfactory as to that point. The witness in this case is mistaken as to the line in which Joseph Kittle enlisted - and should it be necessary Proof can be procured of his enlistment in the Pennsylvania Line
I Remain with due respect Your Ob t serv t
Nathaniel Ames

See Vols 17-20 Capt Michael Blynn from 1778 & 1780 Red...
Hon. Natalie Jones H 2

State of New Jersey } On the sixth day Sussex County } of February Eighteen Hundred and Forty
personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for Sussex County Sarah Kettle widow of Joseph Kettle who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and served in the German Regiment in the Pennsylvania line and made oath to the following effect that she is in the Eighty first year of her age and as an amendment to a former declaration made by her she makes the following statements in order to correct some mistakes made in her former declaration that in the Spring of the year 1776 or 1777 and she thinks in the spring of the latter year her said husband Joseph Kettle enlisted into the army of the United States of portion of which was then lying in the neighbourhood of the Delaware River on the western frontier of Sussex County in the State of New Jersey that her said husband Joseph Kettle was a twin brother of Abraham Kettle who enlisted about the same time in the German Regiment belonging to the New Jersey line that one of the brothers enlisted in the evening and on the next morning the army broke up their encampment the twin brothers started from home together and when they got to the encampment the other brother enlisted into the army

Abraham Kittle belongs to the New Jersey line and her husband Joseph Kittle belongs to Capt Barr Company in the German Regiment belonging to the Pennsylvania line under Col Kittner the officers she may be mistaken in but the Regiment and line to which her said belongs she is not mistaken in and she has heard her said husband often tell that a great portion of his service was done in the Pennsylvania line that her said husband Joseph Kittle served from the time of his enlistment until the end of the war and was honorably discharged that she has often heard her said speak of being at several battles in New Jersey and other places but is not able from old age and loss of memory to state when or where except that in the year 1781 he was with the army and assisted in the capture of Lord Cornwallis
She further declares that she was mar- ried to the said Joseph Kittle on the last Sunday in June Seventeen Hundred and Eighty five by Samuel Westbrook then an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Sussex in New Jersey at the house of her mother Samuel Kittle then living in what is now called the town of Montague in the County of Sussex and in the State of New Jersey that the statement made in her former declar- ation as to her marriage is entirely a mistake that her daughter Maria was born the seventeenth day of June

Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Eight and was Baptized sometime in the month of August of the same year but she is not able to state the exact day by the Reverend Mr Van Benschoten of the Dutch reformed Church now in the town of Sadsack in Orange County in the State of New York that she has no other evidence of her said marriage to produce but that which is already in the Prison office nor does she know of any that her name before marriage was Sarah Van Etten and that her said husband Joseph Kittle died at the time stated in her former declaration and that she has ever since remained a widow and still is the widow of the said Joseph Kittle doon and subscribe Sarah J. Kittle Kittle before me this day and year above written by making her mark because she never knew how to write
James Bennet Justice of the Peace
I James Bennet do certify that Sarah Kittle who made the foregoing amendment to her former declaration is a woman of respectable character and veracity and her statements herein made are entitled to full credit and belief
James Bennet

State of New Jersey } Abraham Kittle of the Super County } town of Montague in the County of Super and State of New Jersey deponeth and saith that he is in the Eighty sixth year of his age and that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and is now a prisoner of the United States and that he was a twin brother of Joseph Kittle who was also a soldier in the war of the Revolution and who served through the most of the war and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. That the deponent enlisted on night in the Spring of the year of 1776 or 1777 he is unable to state which into the company of Capt Holmes in the New Jersey line and that his brother Joseph Kittle enlisted in the next morning in the Pennsylvania line and according to the best of his recollection his brother Joseph Kittle enlisted into a company commanded by Capt Bayard or Barr in the German Regiment commanded by Col Wellner or Kellner he is not sure which he at one time was under Capt Strother the year that the Penn- sylvania line revolted this deponent saw his brother Joseph Kittle in the army in the Pennsylvania line at a place called Fox hill in New Jersey but this deponent cannot tell who was then his officers but that he knows that his brother was a soldier in the Pennsylvania line.

He further reporteth and saith that he did not see his brother again until the army was engaged in the capturing of Cornwallis when at the time he again met his brother Joseph Hittle who still belonged to the Pennsylvania line and assisted in taking the British Army at Yorktown after the taking of Cornwallis a part of the army went south and part went north and his brother went north while this deponent remained with them in the south and did not again see his brother until after the close of the war
That his brother sometime in June last intermarried and Eighty five was married to Sarah Van Etten in the town of Montague County of Sussex and State of New Jersey by Samuel Westbrooks then an acting Justice of the peace in and for the said County
That his brother Joseph Hittle since in the town County and State aforesaid about twenty four or five years ago and that Sarah Hittle has ever since the death of the said Joseph Hittle remained a widow known and subscribed before me Abraham his Hittle this sixth day of February Eighteen mark Hundred and forty by making his mark because he never knew how to write and certify that Abraham Hittle is a reliable witness
James Bennet Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey Superior Court of Justice
I Joseph E. Edsall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Superior do hereby certify that James Bennet Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition Appears to have been taken was at the time of taking the same and still is a Justice of the Peace of said County duly commissioned and sworn and to whose official acts as Justice of the peace full faith and credit is and ought to be given - and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and pronounce his signature herein written to be his genuine -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and the seal of said Court at Newton in said County this Twelfth day of February A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty
J. E. Edsall
In the presence of Capt. William ... John ... ...
H. ... ...

Certificate Copy of Joseph Kille's Will
John M. Harker
J.H.
P.O.
Frenchville
Maine
March 25th
1874

No 1366 3
Certificate for £88. 11. 7 - Specie
We do certify, that the State of Pennsylvania is indebted to Joseph Kettle late private of the German Pennsylvania Regiment in the sum of Eighty eight pounds eleven Shillings & Seven pence Specie, with lawful interest, from the tenth day of April 1781, being the amount of the residue of the depreciation of his pay, pursuant to two Acts of assembly, passed at Philadelphia, the 18th of December 1780, and the 10th April 1781.
Philad. 30th April 1785
One year Int. paid Mr.
One year Int. paid Mr.
One year Int. paid Mr.
John Nicholson
Auditor Genl's Office
Harrisburg Oct. 26th 1829
I certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the original on file in this Office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and seal of Office the day & year aforesaid
Robt Espy Auditor Genl.

Mount Hope N.Y. (April 25 th ) April 28/52 Amendments Last Will
Free
2655 Hon. James S. Edwards. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Mt Hope Orange County New York April 23 rd 75
Mr Sir
Enclosed is the declaration of Sarah Kittle Please when convenient to examine the same and answer to me
With Respect I am Sir your Obed Servant John M. Mather
Hon S. L. Edwards

Ed. V. HOTH
Steph Sarah Kittle
N.Y. widow of Joseph Kittle
[Faint, illegible handwriting]
John H. Miller P.M.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of July 1838 entitled An act granting half pay and pension to certain Widows.
State of New Jersey
Sussex County ss. On this eighth day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Sussex. Sarah Bennett the widow of Joseph Smith a resident of Montague in the County of Sussex aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law cloth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Joseph Smith who was a private soldier in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary war that the said Joseph Smith entered the service in the said army about the year 1776 and served during the war that she was married to the said Joseph Smith in the month of June seventeen hundred and seventy nine that there never was any record made or kept of her marriage or birth that she knows of, that she was married to the said Joseph Smith by Samuel Westbrook Esquire, that her husband the said Joseph Smith died on the eleventh day of July in the year 1816 and that she has remained a widow ever since.
Sworn and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me Sam l H. Norbach judge &c and notary David Thompson Witness -
Sarah X Smith marks
Certify that the above named deponent cannot from bodily infirmity attend in open court and make the above declaration. Sam l H. Norbach Judge

State of New Jersey Supreme Court
State of New Jersey Supreme Court
I James Stotts one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in & for said County. do hereby Certify that I have long been personally acquainted with Sarah Wittle the soon & Applicant that I knew her before her Husband Joseph Wittle's Death & that she in good Reports for honesty & is still the Widow of Joseph Wittle Dec'd
James Stotts
Montgomery 11 Jan'y 1809

State of New Jersey
Sussex County ss. On this eighth day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas at Newton in and for the county of Sussex Elias Heath aged seventy five years who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he resides in the township of Montague in the County of Sussex that he was present and saw Joseph Keith and his brother Abram enlist in the army and march off in the year 1776. That he was acquainted with the said Joseph Keith at the time of his marriage with Sarah Garretson that he has been acquainted with the said Joseph and Sarah from that time, and they lived together as man and wife reputed to be such until the time of his death in the year 1816 that he has resided in the township of Montague within three miles of where the said Joseph and Sarah resided during all that time until the present time.
This deponent recollects that the latter Mother and sister of the said Joseph Keith and Abram Keith followed them on the morning after their enlistment to the head quarters of the officers who enlisted them and endeavored to get them clear from their enlistment but could not succeed. The names of the officers who enlisted them this deponent does not recollect.
Elias his Heath Mark
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before me John H. Hall
I James Stott one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Elias Heath the above applicant & have known him for about thirty years he is of good reports, honesty, & has been considered by me as one of the dependents of his country during the

State of New Jersey
Sussex County
On this twentieth day of Jan'y 1839 personally appeared before me one of justices of the peace in and for the said County of Sussex Thomas Van Euren aged seventy one years and resident of Montague in said county who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he was present and saw Joseph Kittle and Abraham Kittle twin brothers enlist in the Army of the Revolutionary War, and after serving much off with an on a number of others, and he further says that Jeremiah Kittle Joseph and Abraham's father mother and sister came to the remains which was kept at Henry Cortright's Esq's in Montague in said County and intended to get his boys back and demanded the officers to give them up but they refused one of the officers said he would give them up provided he Joseph's father would let him have his daughter; that it was in the Spring of the year of 1775 or 1776 that he was acquainted with Sarah Van Euren wife of Joseph Kittle was present and saw them married by Saml. Matlack Esq. which was about three years after their enlistment Joseph Kittle returned home on furlough in his uniform and at that time was married and in a short time after they were married Joseph returned to the Army and there remained until the close of the War as this deponent very likely believes and this deponent further says that Joseph Kittle died in the month of July 1816 and Sarah has never been married since and still remains his widow. I sworn and subscribed to the and year above written
Thomas Van Euren
J. M. [unintelligible]

I certify the within document Thoms Van Etten is a creditable person of high respectability,
12 th January 1869
John H. Van Etten

State of New Jersey } B Sussex County } on the Eighth day of Jan y 1839 personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Sussex Abraham Kitter resident of Montague in said County being by me duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that him and his brother Joseph Kitter entered the Service of the Re- volutionary War by enlistment under the com- mand of Capt. James Cummanded by Col o Walters in what was called the German Ridge Regiment in the Northern Line and enlistment was for three years or during the war, we marched from this place (Montague) on the third day of March 1776 or 1777 from the Rancakack which was kept at Henry Cortright's Esq r to Shorekillough and from there to Wilkesborough in Pennsylvania and whilst there his brother Joseph was transferred into the Jersey Line under the command of Capt. Nicholas Bland or Boyd, that he remained in the army for about three years then returned home on a visit to my father on furlough and whilst there my brother Joseph also returned home on a visit to see his parents and whilst there it seemed to Sarah Van Etten by Sam l Westbrooks Esq r that after a short time this Regiment and his brother returned to the Army each to their respective Regiments as the opponent strongly believes, that he the deponent served during the war; this deponent further says that he saw his brother Joseph close- says that his brother died in the month of July 1816 and Sarah Kitter has never seen him, even

been married since but is still living and remains the widow of the late Joseph Kittie and this document further says that
not Given and Subscribed the day and year above
his Abraham Kittie marks
JOHN H. HILL

State of New Jersey ss
I James D. Westcott Secretary of state of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Samuel Roback Esquire before whom the foregoing Declaration of Sarah Kittle was made and who hath attested the same, was at the time thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Sussex in said State, duly appointed Commissioned and sworn: - That John H. Hall Es- quire before whom the foregoing affidavit of Elias Shater was taken and who hath attested the same, was at the time thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Sussex, duly appointed Commissioned and sworn: - That James Stoll Esquire whose certificates appear upon the back of the said Declaration of Sarah Kittle and to the affidavit of the said Elias Shater was at the time thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Sussex, duly appointed Commissioned and sworn: - that John Hull Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavits of Thomas Van Etten and Abraham Kittle were taken and who hath attested the same was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Sussex, duly appointed Commissioned and sworn: that full faith and credit are to be given to the official attestations of the said Samuel Roback John H. Hall and James Stoll as Judges as aforesaid, and to the said John Hull as a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid: that the signatures purporting to be of the said John H. Hall and John Hull are in their own proper hand writing; and that the signatures of the said Samuel Roback and James Stoll I believe to be in their proper hand writing.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Trenton in said State, this nineteenth day of January Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine (1839)
James A. Westcott