Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 114, for Jared Kelley, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Kelley, Jared or Kelly, Mary
W. 114.
CONTENTS

THE NEW TESTAMENT
Of our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST,
Translated out of the ORIGINAL GREEK;
And with the former TRANSLATIONS
Diligently Compare By His Majesty'
Appointed

Jered Kelley was born April 27 th 1764
Mary Hall was born January 17 th 1769. Jered Kelley and Mary Hall was married September 19 th 1786
Bella Jehiel Hall was born Novem. ber 13 th 1788 P.T. was born -
as all

(2701) New Jersey.
Jared Kelley, private, New Jersey line - 1787. 1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey , at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of Sept. 1818, and sent to the care of Lewis Con- dict, Esq; Morristown, N. Jersey.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. $: 37.33. Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. March, 48 - p 20 1819. 3/ $: 85.33. Amo: 30
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Residence of Hanover Morris County

New Jersey 1341
Mary Kelly widow of Jared Kelly
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18, March 1818 and who died on the 3, September 1822 of Morris Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Pr. Artil. in the company commanded by Captain Little of the Regt. commanded by Col. Ogden in the N. Jersey line for 12 —
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 50 Dollars — Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Dec r . 1838 and sent to Hon. Lewis Condict, Morristown, N.J.
  Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '38  125.00    Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Mar. '39.  25.00     $150.00  
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Book 4, Vol. 2
Clerk.
Page 127
Let Her et. C. Minn.
Dec. 30/95.

Jared Kelley's
Not admitted D.W.
15. April, 1818.
N. J. line
Admitted

State of New Jersey, Morris County, ss.
Personally appeared before me Lewis Conditt one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Morris aforesaid. Kelley who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he served as a private soldier in the American Revolutionary War under the continental establishment; that he enlisted at Springfield, in the County of Essex and State aforesaid in Capt. Abraham Little's Company, in the first Regiment of the Jersey line commanded by Col. Matthias Ogden some time in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy-eight; as near as he can recollect that he continued in said Regiment about six months during which time he was engaged in the Battle of the Short Hills, in the County of Essex aforesaid; and was discharged at Mendham, in Morris County; that he re-enlisted in said service some time in the month of January or February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one, at Springfield aforesaid, in Capt. Robert Neill's Company, in the third Regiment of the Jersey line commanded by Col. Samuel Stryker, and continued in said Regiment one full year, when he was honorably discharged at Second River, in Essex County aforesaid.
This Deponent further saith that he resides in the township of Hanover, in the County of Morris aforesaid. That he is fifty four years of age in reduced circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for support; that he has never heretofore received any pension from the government of the United States, and prays to have his name placed on the Pension list, under the acts of Congress of the 18th March.
Yane Kelley
1818
Sworn and subscribed before me, at Morris Town, the 13 th day of April, A.D. 1818
[The interlineations in the eleventh line and in the 20 th line also the erasure in the 25 th , being made before signing.]
Lewis Conditt.

State of New Jersey, Morris County ss:
Personally came before me Lewis Condick, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County of Morris, Nathaniel Looker, who being duly sworn according to law, deposes and saith, that he is well acquainted with Jared Kelley, the person in the foregoing deposition named, that he knew him as a private Soldier in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, and of his having served one year in the same; and that the times and places set forth by the said Jared Kelley in the said deposition, of his entering and leaving the said service, are, as the Deponent believes, correct and true.
Sworn and subscribed before me, at Morris Town, the 13 th day of April, A.D. 1818.
Lewis Condick.
Nathaniel Looker
I, Lewis Condick, a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Morris, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jared Kelley did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the foregoing deposition, against the common enemy; - and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had and taken before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the Act of Congress of the 18 th March, A.D. 1818.
Morris Town 13 th Ap r 1818.
Lewis Condick.

State of New Jersey County of Morris ss. I Robert H. M c Cartor Clerk of the said County of Morris do Certify that Lewis Condick Esquire before whom the foregoing Affidavits are made, is, and was at the doing thereof duly enrolled One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County the second day of May A D Eighteen hundred and eighteen.
Rob t H. M c Cartor
State of New Jersey ss County of Morris ss On this 19 th day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and eighteen, personally before me Lewis Condick one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, came, John Russell, who being duly sworn according to law deposes and saith that he is well acquainted with Jared Kelley the person in the foregoing deposition named: That he knew him to have served in the Revolutionary war: That deponent was a Sargeant belonging to Capt Neal's Company of Col d Seely's Regiment of the Jersey line, and as near as he recollects some time early in the Spring of the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one, at Springfield in the County of Essex & State of New Jersey enlisted the said Jared Kelly into the afo d Company and Regiment, to serve One year: That he served out the year, and was honorably discharged at Second river in Essex County: That it was the Continental service in which they both served.
Sworn & subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid.
John his Russell mark.
Lewis Condick.

New Jersey Morris County }
I do hereby further certify, that the indigence & poverty of the aforesaid Jared Kelly, are proven to my satisfaction. And I have no doubt of his service in the Revolutionary war, for the full term of one year.
Morris Town, N. Jersey, 25 th Aug t 1818.
Lewis Condict, a Judge of the Supr. Court, Com. Pleas for Morris County N. Jersey

Sarah Kelley
Leon
Mar 19
Ex 2

District of New-Jersey, } ss. Morris County, }
On this tenth day of July, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July, in the year aforesaid. [The said court being a court of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings, and its Judgments being removeable by writ of error only]
Saml Kelley aged about fifty seven years years, resident in the township of Hanover in said county, who being sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Army line in the Regiment commanded by Col. Colton in Capt. Little and Capt. Stearns companies. That he made his original application for a pension on the 13 th of April 1818, that he has received a pension certificate which is numbered 2785 -
And I do solemnly swear - that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. That I am about fifty seven years
of age, by occupation a millwright, but am unable to pursue my occupation, by reason of lameness, that for more than a year past I have been unable to walk without assistance; that I have been unable to do any labor, by reason of my lameness for more than four years; that I have a wife named Mary aged about fifty one years , who is in good health and able to perform the ordinary labor of a woman of her years. I have five children who do not reside in my family nor are they dependent on me for support.
Sworn to and declared this 10 th day of July 1820 before Col. A. Lord
Saml Kelley

SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing deposition of
Sarah Kelly
1 Corner cupboard 1 Table 3 Chairs 3 Flower Bams 1 Small Spinning wheel 2 Stone pots 1 Hand S. 6 Sitting chairs 1 Griddle 1 Iron pot. 1 Barrel. 1 Frying pan 1 Set Cups & saucers teapot sugar dish 16 plates 1 Milk pot Set of old earthen cups and saucers 1 Set baking dishes Set of tin ware pail, coffee pot, bread basket tumid and some small articles 2 Earthen pots 3 Jugs, 2 Lamps, 1 Kettle, Testament, Psalm book and others 1 Pail, 1 Cooking Glass, 1 Basket, 1 Wandbox, Umbrella, Shovel long and andiron, Teakettle, Candle sticks 1 Hog, 1 Dog pail, 1 Frying pan 2 1/2 half barrel tubs, 1 Pick basket, 5 Pewter Spoons, 2 Iron Spoons, 1 Set of old Knives and Forks, 1 Case of Razors 1 Rule, 1 Peirner, 1 Compass
This deponent has no notes no bonds or other securities for money No houses nor lands
Sworn to and declared the 10th day of July 1820 before Gret H Ford
Sarah Kelly

State of New Jersey, } ss. County of Morris. }
I, Robert H. McCarter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court the total amount in value of the property exhibited on the aforesaid List is thirty nine dollars and forty one cents $39.41
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty.
Robert H. McCarter Clerk of the Court for the County of Morris

(2629)
New Jersey
Mary Kelly, widow of Sarah Kelly, a Pensioner of 1818.
July 1838. Capt. Starks Company Adams Private of Artillery. 12 mos
Return to Miss Bondit Morris town, New Jersey.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7 th July 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows".
State of New Jersey, County of Morris, p:
On this 30 th day of August, Domini 1838, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Morris, Mary Kelly, a resident of Hanover, in the County of Morris, aged 69 years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on an oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed July 7 th 1838, entitled, "an act, granting half pay & pensions to certain widows": - viz. I am the widow of Jacob Kelly, who was a private soldier, as I believe, in the Continental Army of the Revolution, but having no memoranda of his services, nor of the names of his officers, nor of the line, or the Regiment to which he belonged, I cannot specify his service with any certainty, but will refer the Commission of pensions & the Secretary of War to my husband's, the said Jacob Kelly's Declaration & accompanying testimonials of his services, upon which a pension was allowed to him under the pension law of March 1818, & which was regularly paid to him at the New Jersey Agency, to the time of his death. This Declaration, will be found, as I presume, upon the files of the Pension Office, & must furnish the only proof of his service, unless his name is to be found upon the Army records, as I trust it will, if those records are in being. —
I was married to the said Jacob Kelly, at Springfield, Essex County, New Jersey, on the 19 th day of September, 1786, by the Rev. Mr. Van Artsdalen, or Van Arsdale, then Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Springfield. I am informed & believe, that there is no Parish record in Springfield Congregation, of the marriages solemnized there, at that period. — I have an old small bible, formerly my husband's, in which was recorded in his life time, the age of my husband & myself - the time of our marriage, & the birth of our children. It has been torn - but it contains the time of our marriage, & I herewith transmit to the pension office, the leaf in its present condition, as it was cut from the bible for the purpose.
My husband, the aforesaid Jacob Kelly, died, at his residence in Hanover, Morris County, on the 3 rd day of September, 1822. I was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, nineteen hundred & ninety four: viz: at the time above stated, & I have remained a widow since that period.
Sworn & subscribed, the date above mentioned.
Before me
William Babbitt
---
for Mary X Kelly mark.

State of New Jersey } Personally appeared before me John Essex County } Wade one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County. The Reverend John C. Hart Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield who being sworn and on his oath saith that the records of said Church are in his hands and after diligent search there has none been found prior to the date of Eighteen hundred and two that there are no records of Marriages prior to that date in existence. to the best of his knowledge and belief and. further saith not. August 21 st 1838
Sworn and subscribed to this date above written
John C. Hart
John Wade Justice of the Peace
I, Joseph Dalrymple Esq. Clerk of Morris County hereby certify, that William Rabbit Esq. before whom the foregoing Declaration of Mary Kelley, was taken, is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in & for said County, duly commissioned and authorized; & that the signature of his name thereto, "William Rabbit" is genuine. And I hereby further certify, that Elijah Ward Esq. before whom the annexed deposition of Lewis Condict, was taken, is a Justice of peace in said County, & that the signature of his name thereto, "Elijah Ward", is genuine. Witness my hand, & the seal of my office at Morristown, this first day of September, Domini, 1838.
J. Dalrymple Clerk

State of New Jersey Essex County
I, Elias Van Andel, Juv. Clerk of said County hereby certify that John Wade Esq. before whom the within deposition of Rev. John B. Hart, purports to have been taken, is a justice of peace in & for the County of Essex, duly commissioned & authorized, & the signature of his name thereto, "John Wade", is genuine.
Witness my signature & seal of my office at Newark, this Twenty ninth of September, Domini 1838
E. Van Andel Juv. Clerk

State of New Jersey, Morris County ss:
I hereby certify to the Commissioner of Pensions & to the Secretary of War that I have known the widow of Jared
Kelly, whom Declaration is hereto annexed, since the year 1818:
that they then lived in the township of Hanover & within 4 miles of me, where said Jared Kelly the husband died many years since; & she the declarant, remains his widow as I verily believe, to this day. Her circumstances are very indigent.
The annexed fragment of a leaf, purporting on its face, to be a record of the time of the birth of Jared Kelly & of Mary Hull (the present Declarant) & of their marriage, was by me also separated from an old bible in the possession of said Mary Kelly, & attached by wafer to this paper, in its present torn condition containing the name of but one son, viz: Jehiel Hull Kelly. — I verily believe it to be the family bible of the said Jared & Mary Kelly, & their original family record.
Morristown, N. J. August 31 st . 1838.
State of N. Jersey Morris County ss:
Lewis Bondict.
Lewis Bondict above named, being by me duly sworn according to law, on his oath declares, that the above statement of facts is true, to the best of his knowledge & belief. Sworn & subscribed before me Elihu Ward S.P.  Lewis Bondict.
31 st August, 1838, at Morristown

Dec 20, 1895
Dear C. Brew

Hall of Rep Dec 29. 1845
H. Edwards Esq Court of Pensions
Will you do me the favor to inform me what amount of pension annually was rec d by Mary Kelly, widow of James Kelly, late of New Jersey? I am requested to ascertain for some of my constituents.
Yr ob t Serv t
A. C. Nixon

114 Reory  WIDOW, &c.
File No. _____
Mary Kelly, Widow James Kelly, Priv. artil. Rev. War.
Act: _____
July 7, 1838.
Index:—Vol. _____
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[Arrangement of 1870.]